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So let me get this straight: 55 of the most profitable companies in America paid no federal income taxes, but Republicans in Congress still think corporate taxes are too high?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 4, 2021
Federal income taxes paid last year:
Nike: $0
FedEx: $0
Zoom: $0
Dish Network: $0
Salesforce: $0
Hewlett-Packard: $0
Kinder Morgan: $0
Archer Daniels Midland: $0
Booz Allen: $0
Charter Communications: $0
Edison: $0
Duke Energy: $0
We must #TaxTheRich— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) April 3, 2021
don’t know if this was posted yet. I’m just jumping in.
this
is
huge
The Senate parliamentarian ruled on Monday that Democrats can use special budgetary rules to avoid a GOP filibuster on two more pieces of legislation, setting the stage for President Biden’s infrastructure agenda to pass in two packages with simple-majority votes,” The Hill reports.
“It’s a win for Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) that allows him to pass Biden’s $2.25 trillion package by revising the fiscal year 2021 Budget Resolution. A second budget resolution can be passed this year to do the second half of Biden’s infrastructure agenda. Or the fiscal year 2021 budget could be revised a third time to set up a third reconciliation package.”
Open these events up so others may ask BETTER questions. https://t.co/X480pysXME
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 5, 2021
An organization calling itself “White Lies Matter” has stolen a Confederate monument and is holding it for ransom. The UDC must comply on April 9—the anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.This story is hilarious.https://t.co/I1oS6zmN9b pic.twitter.com/HUKC20jntN
— Kevin M. Levin (@KevinLevin) April 5, 2021
“Instead of cash … the group has asked the United Daughters of the Confederacy to hang a banner outside their headquarters in Virginia for 24 hours, beginning April 9 at 1 p.m., with a quote from Assata Shakur. April 9 is the 156th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender in Appomattox, Virginia,” reported Kirsten Fiscus and Marty Roney.
“Failure to do so will result in the monument, an ornate stone chair, immediately being turned into a toilet,” said the group’s email, as reported by al.com. “If they do display the banner, not only will we return the chair intact, but we will clean it to boot.”
The quote they want to be displayed: “The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.”
Welp, Baylor is handing Gonzaga its ass.
They are just so much faster as a team.
Not even close.
And I hate Baylor, but the team they have put together is killer bee.
re: #5 austin_blue
Welp, Baylor is handing Gonzaga its ass.
They are just so much faster as a team.
Not even close.
And I hate Baylor, but the team they have put together is killer bee.
My parents are all in on Baylor because of their coach.
re: #1 Dangerman
It makes for good political theatre, but I don’t see what is hoping to be accomplished by raising corporate taxes.
Because, unlike for people, taxes are just a business expense that will be paid for by the customers.
So the customers, say of Nike, end up paying more for products.
Dividends paid to stockholders are already taxed.
Making Nike pay net taxes may generate revenue, but then the price of everything also goes up.
My bottom line: it’s people who pay taxes. Fictitious entities like corporations are just structures set up so groups of people can act as one legal entity. But again, it’s people who pay taxes. You pay them either directly to a government, or you pay them through the goods and services you buy. But it is you who pay.
Taxes are a call on your life, a declaration that a portion of each day of your life has to be set aside for the benefit of others. Taxes are a source of emotion because we each have finite lives. But a fictitious entity may be eternal (at least in a human-scaled timeline) if it is managed well.
So Bernie can score points by illustrating how the American tax structure is so convoluted that large corporations appear to pay no tax. But all the owners of a corporation do, or at least most of them do. And the workers also pay taxes.
Regarding corporations - the big problem is that an American corporation can work within American society, but put its cash (or real valued property) outside the US, away from American society.
This flow outside the US has its plusses and minuses, but the biggest minus is that corporations are no longer completely beholden to the society in which they were born and by which they are supposedly governed.
International corporations thus can play one country against another. This is how they pull the political muscle to bend governments to their wills.
Just like within the US, where corporations use their ability to move outside a state to bend the laws of any particular state to their will.
So instead of taxes, I propose the much more meaningful measure of whether a corporation is a good citizen is how they treat their employees.
Apropos of nothing, looks like it’s about to be infrastructure week around here. I had someone out to look at our 30 year old HVAC system with an eye to replacing it before it fails. It works fine right now, but is showing its age, so it seems like early summer is the best time to replace it. We’re not likely to outlive the replacements, so we might just as well do it. The water heater has also outlived its natural life expectancy as well, and is starting to look like it wants to be replaced as well. Whee!
re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Corporate taxation is a tough subject. IMO you can’t get rid of it completely because then the uber-rich will just set up their personal corporations with very large assets and income, and only pay tax on what they draw from their personal corporate piggy bank each year.
But for companies with real products and services, the corporate tax being just a business cost that the customers end up paying for is a legit argument
I mean, not to say the obvious here but the publications wrestling with these issues are also not the ones who are confused about why anyone would vote for Biden.
— Ben Smith (@benyt) April 5, 2021
I think it’s actually worse than “reporters aren’t doing Biden voters sticking with him stories.” They are going out of their way to report out views of his policy proposals specifically through the lens of how GOP leaning voters feel about it https://t.co/XvtsVc3paH
— Max (@aoxamaxoa) April 5, 2021
It’s amazing that they’re still convincing themselves that there was a mass wide demand for ‘Trump Voters in Trump Country Still Love Trump’ stories after the millionth and a half article they did on it, and yet think there’s absolutely no market for ‘Dem Voters in Trump Country Struggling With Retaliatory GOP Policies’
EDIT:
This kinda sums it up one of the main reasons why this entire thing is so toxic, I think:
Ummm, maybe the lack of profiles of real, everyday Biden voters is helping fuel the conspiracies about the election being stolen and not the other way around?
— Kevin Moore (@kmoore8228) April 5, 2021
re: #10 Citizen K
That article made me SO MAD!
re: #11 retired cynic
That article made me SO MAD!
There’s just an honest to god addiction in the press to the idea that the GOP voters are literally the only ones that exist, much less matter.
re: #12 Citizen K
There’s just an honest to god addiction in the press to the idea that the GOP voters are literally the only ones that exist, much less matter.
I suspect there’s a much greater market for stories about Trump true believers than Biden fans. How much excitement is there in thoughtful people coming to a reasonable conclusion?
re: #13 calochortus
Well, you know I could work up some enthusiasm if they wanted to come talk to me, about the relief I feel knowing things are moving in the right direction again, and that Biden seems to have learned from the Republican obstruction to Anything Good over the last twelve years.
re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It makes for good political theatre, but I don’t see what is hoping to be accomplished by raising corporate taxes.
Because, unlike for people, taxes are just a business expense that will be paid for by the customers.
So the customers, say of Nike, end up paying more for products.
Dividends paid to stockholders are already taxed.
Making Nike pay net taxes may generate revenue, but then the price of everything also goes up.
That depends. How elastic is the demand for Nikes? If the price goes up 5%, how many people might buy Chucks instead?
re: #12 Citizen K
There’s just an honest to god addiction in the press to the idea that the GOP voters are literally the only ones that exist, much less matter.
True. They are obviously the decreasing minority, but somehow they have magical qualities.
Kinda reminds you of :
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
The fact is that that *is* their magical quality. The majority of them are well to the left of the IQ Bell Curve.
They are naive and glom on to any theory that makes them feel smarter.
Hello, Q, and hello, Mitch!
re: #3 Dread Pirate Ron
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Weren’t there a whole bunch of corporate inversions going on when the tax rate was 35%? I don’t know that that is evidence that the same thing will happen at 28% but it is clear there is a rate where that becomes attractive to corporations.
re: #15 sagehen
That depends. How elastic is the demand for Nikes? If the price goes up 5%, how many people might buy Chucks instead?
Serious Shoe Heads? None. Chucks are fashion, Nike is gear.
re: #13 calochortus
I suspect there’s a much greater market for stories about Trump true believers than Biden fans. How much excitement is there in thoughtful people coming to a reasonable conclusion?
Like I said, considering how many states are basically retaliating against their own population for voting Dem, not to mention just how many voters are still struggling with the consequences of Trump-era policies, there’s a lot of actual news to try and mine. But that’s the thing, they only seem to care about selling the narrative rather than the actual newsworthy things. And they seem deadset only only privileging the GOP point of view and delegitimizing Dem or liberal points of view to the point of gladly enabling GOP projection at every turn.
Every self-appointed free-speech guardian in mainstream media over the last 4 years has focused exclusively on public reactions to atrocious behavior, policy, and statements, and will have nothing to say about this direct threat of government sanctions against speech.
— A.R. Vaxxin’ (@JuliusGoat) April 6, 2021
The first spring thunderstorms are rolling through, and they are beautiful to behold.
re: #19 Citizen K
Like I said, considering how many states are basically retaliating against their own population for voting Dem, not to mention just how many voters are still struggling with the consequences of Trump-era policies, there’s a lot of actual news to try and mine. But that’s the thing, they only seem to care about selling the narrative rather than the actual newsworthy things. And they seem deadset only only privileging the GOP point of view and delegitimizing Dem or liberal points of view to the point of gladly enabling GOP projection at every turn.
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re: #20 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The first spring thunderstorms are rolling through, and they are beautiful to behold.
Spring T-storms are lovely, they feed the soil before the inevitable summer drought, but we have already had a hailstorm on our street two weeks ago that has had insurance folks out here estimating damages to roofs and cars.
Our roof is steel, our car was covered.
I’m going to say good night.
Hasta mañana, Lizards.
re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This is something like the argument Papa Johns made about the ACA, raising their pizza prices a whole nickel.
Say Nike actually pays taxes of $10,000,000. How many pairs of overpriced shoes do they sell in the United States? How much of that tax is going to show up in the price of a single pair of shoes?
The former Republican governor of my state, Dave Heineman, once suggested that church property and income which is not actually used for a charitable purpose be taxed.
The howl from every last Christian in this state could be heard all the way to the ISS.
The boogyman of “prices will go up” conservatives have used for decades to scare people into supporting keeping taxes on corporations low.
When taxes were cut on corporations, did prices go down? If you answer “no,” you get the Kewpie doll.
re: #6 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
My parents are all in on Baylor because of their coach.
Well, yes, he vowed that none of his players would kill a team mate, hide the body, and have the Baptist University cover up the crime in the future.
He has done that, but those of us who watched the people in charge of the University after that, (Good Babists!) skate, and then watched the rape scandal which got Ken (rim job) Starr get tossed out as President, cannot really see any change in the culture.
re: #18 austin_blue
Serious Shoe Heads? None. Chucks are fashion, Nike is gear.
The idea that Nike’s aren’t fashion is laughable. There are people who will spend a couple hundred bucks on a pair of Nike’s and then never wear them somewhere there is a chance they might get scuffed.
Night all, time for the rack.
The rollout of vaccines, and the logistical effort it has required has been absolutely brilliant by the Biden administration.
There is no doubt that this effort is reflected in the total death numbers that we are seeing today, which are highly encouraging.
re: #20 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The first spring thunderstorms are rolling through, and they are beautiful to behold.
Beautiful light show here tonight.
re: #14 retired cynic
Well, you know I could work up some enthusiasm if they wanted to come talk to me, about the relief I feel knowing things are moving in the right direction again, and that Biden seems to have learned from the Republican obstruction to Anything Good over the last twelve years.
As far as I’m aware, I’m still on the “do not contact” list of a writer from the Philadelphia Inquirer after the 2016 election.
re: #16 austin_blue
True. They are obviously the decreasing minority, but somehow they have magical qualities.
Kinda reminds you of :
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
The fact is that that *is* their magical quality. The majority of them are well to the left of the IQ Bell Curve.
They are naive and glom on to any theory that makes them feel smarter.
Hello, Q, and hello, Mitch!
Only anecdotal of course, but the “simple farmers” in my town all have college degrees. Only two people who are not children do not (me, and my backdoor neighbour). We were two of the three people who voted for Joe Biden (the other being my wife).
re: #26 danarchy
The idea that Nike’s aren’t fashion is laughable. There are people who will spend a couple hundred bucks on a pair of Nike’s and then never wear them somewhere there is a chance they might get scuffed.
The idea that any NBA player would wear a pair of Chuck’s in a game is laughable. Nike is serious gear, seriously engineered to be what the customer wants. Whether golf clubs or running shoes, it’s gear.
If people buy it because it has a swoosh on it, that’s marketing. They are by and large still getting a quality product.
I’m sorry Nike’s success makes you upset.
By the way, I think Nike is one of the worst exploiters of cheap labor in third world countries. But they are playing by the rules, as they exist, and they actually make a good product for our domestic market.
One of the bigger reasons “trickle down” doesn’t work in the modern economy is because productivity was decoupled from manpower and the gap is only growing with each passing decade. The days where the only way to increase a company’s productivity (and thus profits) was to bring in more manpower or to expand operations to do so are long gone, replaced by companies either automating processes to cut back the number of people involved, creating new manufacturing techniques to shave time off production, or just farming out the building of parts to overseas subcontractors where the extra cost in shipping is made up in cheaper wages and materials.
And all this is only going to speed up in the next century, with countries that rely upon older methods of manufacturing fall behind those that embrace new ones because they have the infrastructure to support them. Repairing and maintaining outdated infrastructure, which is the proposal that the GQP insists is “bipartisan,” is only going to leave this nation set up for future failure as the nations investing in things like smart grids and broadband internet eat our lunch.
re: #26 danarchy
The idea that Nike’s aren’t fashion is laughable. There are people who will spend a couple hundred bucks on a pair of Nike’s and then never wear them somewhere there is a chance they might get scuffed.
They’re collectibles. You ever watch Desus & Mero? Since they’ve been broadcasting from home, one of them uses his shoe closet as his backdrop. *Hundreds* of pairs, displayed in custom-built shelving…
Shoes. Dropping God level knowledge darts. Here is your requested rating. 10/10 @desusnice @THEKIDMERO @TheDailyShow pic.twitter.com/ImTYQOhzsK
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) September 25, 2020
I doubt he’s ever worn any of them.
re: #33 sagehen
They’re collectibles. You ever watch Desus & Mero? Since they’ve been broadcasting from home, one of them uses his shoe closet as his backdrop. *Hundreds* of pairs, displayed in custom-built shelving…
I doubt he’s ever worn any of them.
They inherited the Imelda Marcos collection?
re: #31 austin_blue
The idea that any NBA player would wear a pair of Chuck’s in a game is laughable. Nike is serious gear, seriously engineered to be what the customer wants. Whether golf clubs or running shoes, it’s gear.
Actual serious players are the tiniest fraction of Nike’s customers. And the NBA players probably don’t have to buy theirs.
Most of the people going to a shoe store or website for Nikes are people like me, who just want something comfortable to wear with blue jeans. To walk around in. Adidas will also do fine, or New Balance or Reebok or Puma or Skechers or any of the others.
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re: #35 sagehen
Actual serious players are the tiniest fraction of Nike’s customers. And the NBA players probably don’t have to buy theirs.
Most of the people going to a shoe store or website for Nikes are people like me, who just want something comfortable to wear with blue jeans. To walk around in. Adidas will also do fine, or New Balance or Reebok or Puma or Skechers or any of the others.
Or you’re someone like me, who just grabs whatever is cheap because you walk so much on the job that you burn through a pair of sneakers every 6 months.
re: #37 Targetpractice
Or you’re someone like me, who just grabs whatever is cheap because you walk so much on the job that you burn through a pair of sneakers every 6 months.
Well, for me, they’re the second most comfortable brand of shoes (on average), so there’s value for me in looking for the brand.
re: #33 sagehen
They’re collectibles. You ever watch Desus & Mero? Since they’ve been broadcasting from home, one of them uses his shoe closet as his backdrop. *Hundreds* of pairs, displayed in custom-built shelving…
I doubt he’s ever worn any of them.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They inherited the Imelda Marcos collection?
Desus seems cool, he was in a huge chunk of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown’s episode on The Bronx (which also had DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Melle Mel, and Baron Ambrosia) in 2014.
Damn, I miss having Tony around…
Now that Gov. Pete Ricketts bought the referendum to bring back the death penalty to Nebraska, we’re back to killing people.
Arthur Gales died before he could be executed (fixed).
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Fixed, he died before he could be executed.
Pete Ricketts’s hand-picked state senator Julie Slama has introduced LB-76, which would end electoral vote splitting in Nebraska, and is seen as a voter-suppression bill in NE-2 (which went for both Obama and Biden).
By ending electoral vote-splitting, the liberal minority in the state would have its voice erased (vote splitting was introduced when that was a conservative complaint here).
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Now that Gov. Pete Ricketts bought the referendum to bring back the death penalty to Nebraska, we’re back to killing people.
Arthur Gales died before he could be executed (fixed).
Meanwhile, last month saw Virginia become the first Southern state to abolish capital punishment.
Julie Slama has also introduced a state constitutional amendment (LR3CA) which would require mandatory voter ID at polling places.
Text LR3CA, two pages
The amendment if passed would require ID at polling places. Cities in this state use polling places (that is, places which lean Democratic). It does not mention absentee ballots, which are mandatory in many rural areas and lean Republican.
I don’t have Mark Elias’s telephone number, but this seems to violate equal protection of the XIV Amendment.
re: #35 sagehen
Actual serious players are the tiniest fraction of Nike’s customers. And the NBA players probably don’t have to buy theirs.
Most of the people going to a shoe store or website for Nikes are people like me, who just want something comfortable to wear with blue jeans. To walk around in. Adidas will also do fine, or New Balance or Reebok or Puma or Skechers or any of the others.
Reebok Work N Cushion 4.0 - IMHO, best damn shoes on the planet.
if you were sitting around wondering if al yankovic is the biggest mensch on the planet pic.twitter.com/ixGCZrqthx
— Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow) April 5, 2021
WOW 😳 New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials. This is the most effective trial HIV vaccine to date. It is based on the Moderna’s COVID vaccine. COVID tech acceleration could change Rx for cancer & HIV in future. https://t.co/3Nl0UJj6xW
— Dr. Ayoade Alakija (@yodifiji) April 4, 2021
re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Regarding corporations - the big problem is that an American corporation can work within American society, but put its cash (or real valued property) outside the US, away from American society.
This flow outside the US has its plusses and minuses, but the biggest minus is that corporations are no longer completely beholden to the society in which they were born and by which they are supposedly governed.
International corporations thus can play one country against another. This is how they pull the political muscle to bend governments to their wills.
Just like within the US, where corporations use their ability to move outside a state to bend the laws of any particular state to their will.
So instead of taxes, I propose the much more meaningful measure of whether a corporation is a good citizen is how they treat their employees.
And although they are legal persons, they are not people.
Corporations only exist because people have created a body of laws and regulations that allow them to exist.
Too long; didn’t read: Nearly 90% of people who “detransition” do so because of bigots.
Thread, four tweets.
Our latest paper on “detransition”
In summary: 13.1% of currently identified #trans people report that they detransitioned at some point in their lives. Most (82.5%) report that detransition was driven by at least one external factor (e.g., harassment, stigma, etc.) #detrans 🧵 pic.twitter.com/AT2hF5zhx2— Jack Turban MD 🏳️🌈 🧠 (@jack_turban) April 4, 2021
re: #45 Dr Lizardo
Reebok Work N Cushion 4.0 - IMHO, best damn shoes on the planet.
I wear exactly one specific model of Brooks shoe for running, because after a couple of years of experimentation a long time ago it’s the one that I didn’t have to break in and never gave me leg or foot issues. I assume that a lot of people are like this, so the shoe companies never change the model name, but give it a version number like software. So, I started with Brooks whatever 13 and now buy Brooks whatever 21. Whichever color is on sale, I don’t care.
re: #50 ericblair
I wear exactly one specific model of Brooks shoe for running, because after a couple of years of experimentation a long time ago it’s the one that I didn’t have to break in and never gave me leg or foot issues. I assume that a lot of people are like this, so the shoe companies never change the model name, but give it a version number like software. So, I started with Brooks whatever 13 and now buy Brooks whatever 21. Whichever color is on sale, I don’t care.
Amen. Brooks are like walking on clouds.
Ontario.
Thread, nine tweets.
Younger patients, getting sicker, faster. Entire families infected by the virus. Intensive care units close to overflowing. @maywarren11 and I spoke to 7 health workers about the third wave. The conversations were haunting. 1/https://t.co/yxDEaiVjk5
— Megan Ogilvie (@Megan_Ogilvie) April 4, 2021
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Too long; didn’t read: Nearly 90% of people who “detransition” do so because of bigots.
Thread, four tweets.
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And yet we know that the bigots won’t acknowledge their own toxicity and instead put all their focus on the fact that “detransition” is a thing. And likely suggest that since there are those who “detransition,” then this is only further evidence that it’s a “choice” rather than something driven by biology and thus a form of “mental illness.”
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
WOW 😳 New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials. This is the most effective trial HIV vaccine to date. It is based on the Moderna’s COVID vaccine. COVID tech acceleration could change Rx for cancer & HIV in future. https://t.co/3Nl0UJj6xW
— Dr. Ayoade Alakija (@yodifiji) April 4, 2021
“WOW” is an understatement.
new smax:
Ruling Means Dems Could Pass Infrastructure Bill With No GOP Votes
“Democracy Means Majority in Congress Can Pass Legislation”
re: #50 ericblair
Looked up Brooks shoes - I’ve never seen them here in Czech Republic. Looks like a quality, well-made shoe.
I’d be reluctant to order them online though, because I need to try on shoes before I buy ‘em. But if they sold them in Germany, guess I could take a trip when things settle down a bit.
re: #56 Dr Lizardo
Looked up Brooks shoes - I’ve never seen them here in Czech Republic. Looks like a quality, well-made shoe.
I’d be reluctant to order them online though, because I need to try on shoes before I buy ‘em. But if they sold them in Germany, guess I could take a trip when things settle down a bit.
I am overdue for my next pair of Brooks, but alas, finances are too tight for anything beyond rent, bills, gas & groceries right now.
re: #56 Dr Lizardo
Looked up Brooks shoes - I’ve never seen them here in Czech Republic. Looks like a quality, well-made shoe.
I’d be reluctant to order them online though, because I need to try on shoes before I buy ‘em. But if they sold them in Germany, guess I could take a trip when things settle down a bit.
I buy Atheist Shoes from Berlin well because, you know… .
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I took a look online and I could go to Katowice, Poland - there’s a store there that sells Brooks shoes. About 71 km (44 miles) from where I live to Katowice by train, and there’s plenty of train connections.
Maybe when the COVID-19 situation calms down some, I’ll take the trip.
Uh, oh, Winter Storm Warning in the Black Hills just north of us.
Gonna check the local weather …
Overnight
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Breezy, with a north northeast wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tuesday
Rain showers likely before 5pm, then snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 47. Breezy, with a north wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Tuesday Night
A 40 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Blustery, with a north northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Wednesday
A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 11am, then a slight chance of rain showers between 11am and noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 54. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 30. West northwest wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 70. Breezy.
re: #59 Dr Lizardo
I took a look online and I could go to Katowice, Poland - there’s a store there that sells Brooks shoes. About 71 km (44 miles) from where I live to Katowice by train, and there’s plenty of train connections.
Maybe when the COVID-19 situation calms down some, I’ll take the trip.
I’d try them on first. I don’t think Brooks are objectively better than other big manufacturers, just that each one tends to have a different foot model. For example, Mizuno is a good brand, but they were terrible for me: all sorts of shin splints, basically had to abandon them. So Brooks might not work for you.
re: #62 ericblair
I’d try them on first. I don’t think Brooks are objectively better than other big manufacturers, just that each one tends to have a different foot model. For example, Mizuno is a good brand, but they were terrible for me: all sorts of shin splints, basically had to abandon them. So Brooks might not work for you.
I thought foot models were found over at Wikifeet. (ducks)
Scottsbluff’s women’s volleyball team enters the NJCAA tournament (the tournament for community colleges) seeded ninth. Local folks will be paying attention to the tournament.
The WNCC volleyball team heads into the national tournament seeded ninth. The Cougars will take on Blinn College on April 15 in West Plains, Missouri. https://t.co/IifAhG9OZA
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) April 6, 2021
I guess you don’t travel much… https://t.co/h9oWjrNlEz pic.twitter.com/sCm0vlFPia
— Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos (@CAlvarezAranyos) April 5, 2021
So, some humor. Dr Drew, who is very smart, has lived his whole personal and professional life with no clue about vaccination requirements for travel. After this tweet, our Doctor does some frantic googling and goalpost moving, to explain to us that there are three different types of travel vaccine requirements and there aren’t a lot of mandatory ones. Very clever, we haven’t seen that one before.
Local crime.
A Scottsbluff man wanted on seven warrants barricaded himself in a home for nearly two hours before surrendering to police.
Local law enforcement officers including SWAT responded to a home in the 300 block of W. 24th Street, near Lincoln Heights Elementary, at about 5 p.m., Scottsbluff Police Capt. Brian Wasson said. The man, identified as Victor Mata III, 32, had multiple warrants for his arrest, but refused to comply with an officer’s demands to exit the home.
As officers secured the scene and the home was surrounded by uniformed and non-uniformed officers, another man, identified as Rafael Velazquez, 33, of Scottsbluff entered the scene against the commands of law enforcement and ran into the residence.
SWAT officers could be seen entering the residence, being lead by an initial officer carrying a shield. Surrounding officers carried rifles and were at the ready. Officers entering the home and located Mata, taking him into custody on numerous felony and misdemeanor warrants, ending the standoff at about 6:40 p.m. Wasson said Mata had seven arrest warrants, six charging him with failing to appear or failing to comply and the seventh for charges of two counts of forgery. Of the failure to appear warrants one charged him with failing to appear for a trial charging him with felonious theft and for being a habitual criminal. He was booked into the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center.
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Standoff in Lincoln Heights area ends; two taken into custody (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
The other dipshit was arrested for obstruction of justice.
Interestingly, the Scottsbluff Police found no firearms in the home.
re: #65 ericblair
So, some humor. Dr Drew, who is very smart, has lived his whole personal and professional life with no clue about vaccination requirements for travel. After this tweet, our Doctor does some frantic googling and goalpost moving, to explain to us that there are three different types of travel vaccine requirements and there aren’t a lot of mandatory ones. Very clever, we haven’t seen that one before.
I guess he missed the point last year where, because the federal government under Orange Julius refused to take the pandemic seriously, American passports became useless in pretty much every sane country on the planet. And that vaccine “passports” are intended to give foreign governments a universally accepted proof that you’ve been vaccinated, else they will just continue to assume any Americans trying to enter their country have not been vaccinated and bar them entry.
re: #67 Targetpractice
It has nothing to do with anything except promoting an agenda: Government is bad, there should be no restrictions on those who can afford whatever they can afford…
Panhandle Public Health District Covid-19 Dashboard
The risk level is dropped again, into the lower range of “moderate” for transmission, as vaccinations continue.
The total number of people fully vaccinated now stands at 23,219 (nearly one-third)
The positivity rate for tests is now 4.5% (lowest since mid-August, the highest was 64.4% on November 1)
Deaths are 191 (+2 from a week ago)
The first anniversary of the pandemic in the Panhandle was March 29
Towns at no risk (mine in Morrill County, and Lisco and Llewellyn in Garden County), eight towns are at low risk, the remainder are at moderate risk.
Spring is coming though, and Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota is putting on a full-court press for tourists to come to the Black Hills (that’s what caused the spike here last year).
One for Teleskiguy:
Wyoming ski area to retire well-known steep and high lift (Casper, Wyo. Star-Tribune)
JACKSON (AP) — Kristine Harris walked from her home to Snow King recently for a last dash up the Summit Lift. She and her husband, Adam, wanted to pay tribute to the lift one last time.
“It was important to us because it is such an iconic chairlift,” she said. “Not only is Snow King the first ski resort ever in the state of Wyoming, it’s the steep and deep. That is the chairlift not for the weak of heart.”
The only lift from the base of Snow King to the top, the Summit Lift double chair rises — quite slowly, by today’s standards — 1,400 feet through a narrow cut of trees to the summit. Since 1947 it (and its single-chair predecessor) carried Olympians, residents and tourists in winter and summer, the Jackson Hole News & Guide reports.
To say it’s a relic of days gone by is an understatement. Every ski lift in the vicinity has gone higher-tech, with heated sidewalks to melt snow and hydraulic lifts that pick up speed. To load on the Summit Lift means walking or skidding onto a wooden platform where painted feet tell you where to stand. From there the journey has to be part of the destination because it will take you anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes to get to the top. (The lift changes speeds depending on who is riding it. It slows for sightseers and picks up for skiers. Regular King skiers will see people loading without skis and head to another lift, knowing the glacial pace that will ensue to suit tourists on the Summit Lift.) At the top a rope safety net is cobwebbed beneath the chair before the unloading area in case anyone falls while unloading from the wooden platform.
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The federal government reached a $140,000 settlement with a major railway company over a 2019 oil spill in the North Platte River near Guernsey, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday.The incident occurred on Feb. 4, 2019 in remote Wendover Canyon, northwest of Guernsey. Three locomotives and five rail cars owned by BNSF crashed into a train and derailed into the waterway. Two company employees, an engineer and a conductor, sustained non-life threatening injuries.
The accident caused 5,900 gallons of diesel fuels and 800 gallons of lubricating oil to spill into the North Platte River.
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In odd lottery news, North Carolina’s Pick 3 lotto pulled the numbers 1-1-1 three times in two weeks.
According to the American Journal of Managed Care, visits to urgent-care centers increased 47 percent from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, costs at urgent-care centers were the highest of all other visits to healthcare professionals.
Researchers studied the records of 22 million patients over 12 years. The takeaway in the study is urgent health care centres increase patient costs, not reduce them as advert copy would suggest.
They also note that urgent care clinics only save 1 in 37 from an emergency department visit (meaning you pay for both).
Blaze up.
The stereotypical image of pot smokers has long been one of “stoners” parked on the couch, surrounded by snacks and glued to the television, but a new study dispels that notion.
Instead, people who use marijuana may exercise just as much as other people do, and perhaps even a little more, researchers report.
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Study dispels ‘lazy stoner’ myth: Pot users don’t exercise any less (UPI)
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Researchers studied the records of 22 million patients over 12 years. The takeaway in the study is urgent health care centres increase patient costs, not reduce them as advert copy would suggest.
They also note that urgent care clinics only save 1 in 37 from an emergency department visit (meaning you pay for both).
In many cases, an emergency room visit can be avoided with some basic medication, therapy or treatment that would cost a fraction of an operation.
But that could lead to socialized medicine…
re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In many cases, an emergency room visit can be avoided with some basic medication, therapy or treatment that would cost a fraction of an operation.
But that could lead to socialized medicine…
… or dancing.
In the category of “improving military morale” comes this entry from Stars & Stripes:
Navy officer under scrutiny for letter disparaging enlisted sailors as ‘deviants’ and ‘perverts’
TOKYO — An officer at Yokosuka Naval Base is under investigation for purportedly writing a complaint to the base housing office about the “deviant nature” of enlisted sailors who pose a danger to his family.
The letter, allegedly authored by Lt. Nathanael Allison of Naval Hospital Yokosuka, states that living in the Ikego Housing Detachment in an apartment building for enlisted families is “unacceptable.” The message, filled with spelling and grammatical errors, condemns enlisted sailors as “perverts” and accuses them of egregious behavior such as rape, involvement in drug cartels and attacking each other with hatchets.
I’m going to guess this is a wingnut.
“There are often drunk and often hostile sailors hanging around enlisted housing,” the letter states. “Housing with enlisted greatly increases the risk to my family. I have a good-looking family, a wife and two daughters ages 3 and 4. They are prime targets to be victims for these enlisted deviant activities.”
According to screenshots, the letter was sent Feb 8 via a Google email account to housing. It began circulating last week on military community Facebook pages, and a YouTube video about the letter has garnered over 300,000 views as of Monday.
The Yokosuka housing office declined Stars and Stripes’ requests for comment. Allison did not respond to attempts to reach him by email.
re: #65 ericblair
So, some humor. Dr Drew, who is very smart, has lived his whole personal and professional life with no clue about vaccination requirements for travel. After this tweet, our Doctor does some frantic googling and goalpost moving, to explain to us that there are three different types of travel vaccine requirements and there aren’t a lot of mandatory ones. Very clever, we haven’t seen that one before.
I don’t travel much, and even *I* have one of those…
— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) April 6, 2021
re: #81 Teukka
Do conservatives oppose regular passports? You have to give up a copy of your birth certificate or naturalisation papers, provide 2x2 photographs, and most importantly, get a little book with a government registration number to pass any port-of-entry.
My governor continues to embarrass.
For @CocaCola @Delta and @MLB, appeasing far-left liberals apparently matters more than the truth. While @GovKemp is expanding voting options in Georgia, these organizations are promoting Democrat disinformation.https://t.co/tPhfAGBTb8
— Gov. Pete Ricketts (@GovRicketts) April 3, 2021
The message is still “Democrat Disinformation” and “They fail to appreciate the wisdom and necessity of voter law reform in Georgia!”
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Do conservatives oppose regular passports? You have to give up a copy of your birth certificate or naturalisation papers, provide 2x2 photographs, and most importantly, get a little book with a government registration number to pass any port-of-entry.
Where I am, I need a valid ID, photo (though there may be a camera on the location), paper which proves who I am from the tax authority, the money to to pay for the passport and my Finnish SSID.
re: #85 Teukka
In Germany, everybody has to have a personal ID, which is all that is needed to travel within the EU.
It is also valid voter ID, and needed (along with your proof of current registered address) in order to sign a lease, an employment contract, open a bank account, register a car or a mobile phone, enroll children in school, apply for social services, etc…
Makes it a lot harder (although not impossible) for illegal immigrants to establish themselves here.
Oh good, I see we’ve returned to “there is no constitutional right to vote” levels of discourse pic.twitter.com/kGrS0ZtfHg
— Westin Miller (@WestinMiller) April 5, 2021
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Oh good, I see we’ve returned to “there is no constitutional right to vote” levels of discourse
We are dealing with people who think that it has all gone downhill since they expanded the voting franchise beyond white land-owning males.
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In Germany, everybody has to have a personal ID, which is all that is needed to travel within the EU.
It is also valid voter ID, and needed (along with your proof of current registered address) in order to sign a lease, an employment contract, open a bank account, register a car or a mobile phone, enroll children in school, apply for social services, etc…
Makes it a lot harder (although not impossible) for illegal immigrants to establish themselves here.
Same here, tho I would need to get a passport or Finnish national ID to be able to travel freely in the EU.
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In Germany, everybody has to have a personal ID, which is all that is needed to travel within the EU.
It is also valid voter ID, and needed (along with your proof of current registered address) in order to sign a lease, an employment contract, open a bank account, register a car or a mobile phone, enroll children in school, apply for social services, etc…
Makes it a lot harder (although not impossible) for illegal immigrants to establish themselves here.
When we were last in Cheyenne, we went to FE Warren AFB to renew my wife’s dependent’s ID card (hers was expired for some time, which nobody cared about, which also tells you how closely people actually pay attention to the information on the ID card).
They have a new ID card now which is printed directly on plastic. It doesn’t look anything like the old brown ID card.
As for my own ID cards, every one of them ties back to my birth certificate in one way or another (driver’s license, retired military ID, voter registration, passport, car registration)
This astounding autochrome could have been taken this afternoon, yet it captures a moment in time 107 years ago. It is the front of the Hotel du Camelia at 89 Rue Mouffetard, Paris, in 1914, just before the onset of the Great War. It is original colour (not colourised). 😍 pic.twitter.com/OeCXN2yzoj
— BabelColour 🎞 (@StuartHumphryes) April 3, 2021
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Last spring, we were supposed to renew Mrs. Fish’s license. That didn’t happen in a timely fashion, for obvious reasons. Eventually we decided to be brave adults and head down to the DMV, only to find that the state had closed all the branches and passed legislation allowing for online renewal, which we went home and did. But it was a good 2 to 2.5 months that her license went expired, which, to your point, shows how often these things are checked and verified.
re: #92 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Aside from the vivid depictions of his autochrome restorations, I am also amazed by how many autochromes have survived to this day.
re: #93 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Last spring, we were supposed to renew Mrs. Fish’s license. That didn’t happen in a timely fashion, for obvious reasons. Eventually we decided to be brave adults and head down to the DMV, only to find that the state had closed all the branches and passed legislation allowing for online renewal, which we went home and did. But it was a good 2 to 2.5 months that her license went expired, which, to your point, shows how often these things are checked and verified.
My license expires on my birthday in May.
The local DMV is only open two days a month. They also cannot produce new licenses.
The next time I am in the county seat, I’ll go ahead and apply for a new one (after my new glasses arrive in the mail). They will print a temporary paper license with no photograph, and some weeks later I will get my license in the mail from the state capital.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My license expires on my birthday in May.
The local DMV is only open two days a month. They also cannot produce new licenses.
The next time I am in the county seat, I’ll go ahead and apply for a new one (after my new glasses arrive in the mail). They will print a temporary paper license with no photograph, and some weeks later I will get my license in the mail from the state capital.
Yep, that’s what we have to do, as well. It’s been many years since I’ve been to a branch that can print licenses on-site. Getting license plates for a car is easier and quicker than getting the license to drive one.
re: #96 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Yep, that’s what we have to do, as well. It’s been many years since I’ve been to a branch that can print licenses on-site. Getting license plates for a car is easier and quicker than getting the license to drive one.
Prison labor is cheaper than civil servant salaries…
Speaking of Major League Baseball, ESPN reports two stories. One, they are reportedly moving the 2021 All-Star Game to Coors Field in Colorado. That’s a decent and respectable choice. On the flip side of that, continuing the theme of “Republican politicians making asshats of themselves” that seems to be a recurring refrain these days, Texas Governor Greg Abbott refuses to throw out the first pitch in Arlington because he’s throwing a hissy fit over the All-Star Game being moved from Georgia. Sad that these pathetic whiny snowflakes are supposedly the best that the GOP can put up in the political arena.
Thread, four tweets.
For all of your family and friends that demand you “show me the voter suppression” in Georgia’s new law, here is a lawsuit filed in federal court by the @Georgia_NAACP and others that lays it out for you in detail starting on page 21 and cites the relevant sections of the law. https://t.co/C4OYBpKLe5
— Senator Adam Morfeld (@Adam_Morfeld) April 4, 2021
N. Korea Withdraws from Tokyo Summer Olympics Due to COVID-19 Pandemic (Voice of America)
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - North Korea says it will not participate in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
The country’s sports ministry said the decision was made “in order to protect players from the world public health crisis caused by COVID-19,” in a statement dated Monday.
If North Korea follows through with the decision, it would be the first time it has skipped an Olympics since 1988, when the games were in Seoul. It is the first country to pull out of this year’s Tokyo games.
The Tokyo games have been delayed a year due to the coronavirus but are set to begin July 23 with strict virus-prevention measures in place.
North Korea, which is particularly vulnerable to disease outbreaks, has imposed perhaps the world’s most stringent coronavirus prevention measures.
For more than a year, the country has attempted to almost completely seal its borders and has implemented even stricter than usual domestic travel restrictions.
North Korea insists its border restrictions have succeeded in keeping the virus out of the country — a claim largely dismissed by experts.
Some Korea watchers express concern Pyongyang will use the pandemic to extend its draconian restrictions indefinitely to impose greater control on the population.
North Korea has one of the world’s poorest countries, observers say, and does not have adequate health infrastructure. The coronavirus lockdown made things worse, with reports emerging of food and medicine shortages.
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Hennes & Mauritz, the world’s second-biggest fashion chain, used an update on trading in the first quarter to affirm its long-term commitment to China after reports that its stores there have been boycotted.“China is a very important market to us and our long-term commitment to the country remains strong,” the company said on Wednesday. The firm owns H&M, Cos, and Arket.
It and other other Western brands have faced repercussions from China after deciding to avoid cotton, originating from the Xinjiang region, alleged to have been produced using forced labor from minorities such as the Uighurs.
H&M products have been removed from popular Chinese e-commerce sites, and some of its stores—it has 500 in China—have disappeared from online maps, according to media reports. (Goes to the Wall Street Journal)
I’m going to amble off to bed. Catch y’all later.
This remarkable character is Alfred Butler, born in Bow in 1839. Struck by polio as a child, he became an East End celebrity by claiming he slept hanging upside-down by his calipers like a bat! This eccentric photo was posed in 1900 for the press, who dubbed him ‘Polio Alfred’. pic.twitter.com/2NTfgKfl5k
— BabelColour 🎞 (@StuartHumphryes) April 1, 2020
French bulldogs have the cutest little doggie butts on the planet.
Just thought I’d mention that. 😁
It sometimes amazes me how much really has changed in America.
So, I’m at work at the hotel and waiting for our breakfast to start serving and I’m watching the Weather Channel. A pharmaceutical ad comes on with two middle aged couples hanging out and having a great time together - a gay couple and a straight couple. They’re advertising an HIV treatment. “Ask your doctor” !
I can remember the 80’s when AIDS wasn’t even understood, just some disease that killed gay men and the Fundies were all squealing how it was God’s punishment. Yet here we are, a really tiny number of years in the greater scheme of things and it’s just another drug for just another disease to make the drug company money and noone bats an eye.
The right won many of the elections but in the end they lost the culture war when they weren’t looking.
Seeing it reported that Paul Ritter, who played Anatoly Dyatlov in HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries, has died at the age of 55 54 from brain cancer.
re: #105 William Lewis
The right won many of the elections but in the end they lost the culture war when they weren’t looking.
What we’re seeing now - all these voter restriction laws that they are fervently trying to sell as “securing elections” when we all know their true intent - is the last gasp of a dying breed: Rich and powerful white men who remember what it was like to be in absolute control. Their vulnerability is now showing; for possibly the first time in their lives, they’re scared that their grip on the reins of power is slipping, and that there might be a time, in the near future, that they aren’t in power at all. That thought, more than anything else, is what is motivating them to spin these ridiculous yarns in defense of the indefensible, in the fervent hope that it might actually work and they might get to stay in power until the end.
re: #105 William Lewis
I can remember the 80’s when AIDS wasn’t even understood, just some disease that killed gay men and the Fundies were all squealing how it was God’s punishment. Yet here we are, a really tiny number of years in the greater scheme of things and it’s just another drug for just another disease to make the drug company money and noone bats an eye.
The Early 2000’s was the Gettysburg of the Fundamentalist coalition, they had lost but kept at it.
Heck I recall in 2009 when a British film biography of Charles Darwin could not find general release in America because it was just too hot a potato for major chains to want to touch while Twilight was all over the place.
And the Fundies were dumb enough to support Trump, who might have let them restore at least some of their agenda but at the same time robbed them of any moral legitimacy.
OK, that there’s hilarious. Look up out my home office window, and see a lovely mid-sized dog sprinting down the street. As I’m looking away, more motion catches my eye, and I see a man with a mask and backpack sprinting down the street behind the dog. Someone is having a morning.
That somehow, bizarrely, reminds me of this incident from last night. Mrs. Fish and I were enjoying the spring thunderstorm, with the window curtains open. I went into the kitchen to enjoy the view from our glass porch door, and I see motion around the base of the door, where the cat food is. It looks vaguely like our cat in the dark, so I’m talking to it, I go to turn the porch light on…
NOPE. NOT A CAT. A GIANT-ASS TRASH PANDA.
It just stares at me, like, “whatchu gonna do ‘bout it?” I knocked sharply on the door and it shuffled off, not even in a hurry, as if to say, “That’s nice. I’ll just be on my own way now.”
re: #110 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
That somehow, bizarrely, reminds me of this incident from last night. Mrs. Fish and I were enjoying the spring thunderstorm, with the window curtains open. I went into the kitchen to enjoy the view from our glass porch door, and I see motion around the base of the door, where the cat food is. It looks vaguely like our cat in the dark, so I’m talking to it, I go to turn the porch light on…
NOPE. NOT A CAT. A GIANT-ASS TRASH PANDA.
It just stares at me, like, “whatchu gonna do ‘bout it?” I knocked sharply on the door and it shuffled off, not even in a hurry, as if to say, “That’s nice. I’ll just be on my own way now.”
re: #109 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
OK, that there’s hilarious. Look up out my home office window, and see a lovely mid-sized dog sprinting down the street. As I’m looking away, more motion catches my eye, and I see a man with a mask and backpack sprinting down the street behind the dog. Someone is having a morning.
Morning, Katrineholm, Sweden style… Yep. That be a wolf.
re: #93 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Last spring, we were supposed to renew Mrs. Fish’s license. That didn’t happen in a timely fashion, for obvious reasons. Eventually we decided to be brave adults and head down to the DMV, only to find that the state had closed all the branches and passed legislation allowing for online renewal, which we went home and did. But it was a good 2 to 2.5 months that her license went expired, which, to your point, shows how often these things are checked and verified.
when I last went to get an ID, my old one had been expired for so long it was like starting from scratch. I had to present:
birth certificate
social security card
utility bill
bank statement
college transcript
proprietary lease at my co-op
It was a time-consuming, expensive ordeal, and required the assistance of people who 98% of don’t-have-an-ID folks just don’t have in their lives to help them.
Yeah, poll tax.
Raccoons are an invasive species in Europe, having been brought over for fur farms in the 1930’s. Cannot put food waste out in trash bags between them and the other weasels and martens afoot.
re: #107 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
What we’re seeing now - all these voter restriction laws that they are fervently trying to sell as “securing elections” when we all know their true intent - is the last gasp of a dying breed: Rich and powerful white men who remember what it was like to be in absolute control. Their vulnerability is now showing; for possibly the first time in their lives, they’re scared that their grip on the reins of power is slipping, and that there might be a time, in the near future, that they aren’t in power at all. That thought, more than anything else, is what is motivating them to spin these ridiculous yarns in defense of the indefensible, in the fervent hope that it might actually work and they might get to stay in power until the end.
there’s two aspects to this ‘fear’
- the loss of power to do what we want, continue the grift, deliver grift to our cronies, and oppress others
- what those who gain power might do to them (this fear is unfounded imo. yes there would be changes they wouldnt like and would characterize the way we expect, but they wouldnt be overtly ‘reverse oppressed’)
re: #114 sagehen
Mrs. Fish has extended family who don’t have SSN’s or birth certificates because their parents are redneck wingnuts who don’t trust the government and decided to have their babies at home and off the books. We’ve been looking into how to help some of them get that rectified, but I will just tell you now, it is a ridiculous process.
re: #9 EPR-radar
Corporate taxation is a tough subject. IMO you can’t get rid of it completely because then the uber-rich will just set up their personal corporations with very large assets and income, and only pay tax on what they draw from their personal corporate piggy bank each year.
But for companies with real products and services, the corporate tax being just a business cost that the customers end up paying for is a legit argument
Except there’s no evidence that the tax cut resulted in lowering costs to end users. The corporations simply used the windfall to gain even more wealth in the form stock buybacks and other methods to increase shareholder value (stock price is one huge (the) driver of corporate behavior).
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Raccoons are an invasive species in Europe, having been brought over for fur farms in the 1930’s. Cannot put food waste out in trash bags between them and the other weasels and martens afoot.
It’s funny, because for all that we call them “trash pandas”, at least in this part of the country, I never see them in actual garbage cans. Possibly because there is plentiful pet food from outdoor cats and other kindhearted people (feeding the strays/ferals that wander the neighborhood) to eat instead.
re: #117 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Mrs. Fish has extended family who don’t have SSN’s or birth certificates because their parents are redneck wingnuts who don’t trust the government and decided to have their babies at home and off the books. We’ve been looking into how to help some of them get that rectified, but I will just tell you now, it is a ridiculous process.
So how are they supposed to vote?
If taxation without representation is tyranny, then what if you refuse to be represented?
We missed igniting Civil War by a whisker over the last election and the threat of it is still not fully banished.
re: #112 Dangerman
he’s (she’s?) back
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feet dry on the rock border
stretched his neck into the water
a small someone was sacrificed to the cause
now contemplating a second course.
meanwhile painted buntings at the feeder
too small too far and too fast to get pix
re: #119 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It’s funny, because for all that we call them “trash pandas”, at least in this part of the country, I never see them in actual garbage cans. Possibly because there is plentiful pet food from outdoor cats and other kindhearted people (feeding the strays/ferals that wander the neighborhood) to eat instead.
I live on the very edge of the forest, from out behind my house it is five miles as the crow flies to the next village. More like 18 miles if you drive, as there is a 2,000’ hill between us.
combination of snowflakes and cherry blossoms coming down all at once right now
and the sun just came out, too…
re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I live on the very edge of the forest, from out behind my house it is five miles as the crow flies to the next village. More like 18 miles if you drive, as there is a 2,000’ hill between us.
The other part of it is probably the fact that I live in farm country, so when they’re not eating pet food, they can gather up fallen stuff from the fields.
re: #124 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The other part of it is probably the fact that I live in farm country, so when they’re not eating pet food, they can gather up fallen stuff from the fields.
all we got is vineyards and some gardens
Speaking of elections, on the way home from the hotel I stopped by my polling place because today is the Spring “non-partisan” (yeah, right) election. I wanted to make sure to vote for the liberal candidates for State Superintendent of Public Instruction & a judge for the local court of appeals district. Generally lousy voter turn out, even by pathetic US standards, for this election in the cycle, alas.
re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I live on the very edge of the forest, from out behind my house it is five miles as the crow flies to the next village. More like 18 miles if you drive, as there is a 2,000’ hill between us.
Long distance drives in the FRG ;)
When I was in the army in the early 80’s, we referred to the distances between villages in Kilotons rather than Kilometers. Waiting for the Russians on the other side of the Czech boarder, that seemed appropriate though I always expected I’d be more likely to do the dying cockroach from nerve gas.
Here are photos showing a despicable Cuban autocrat with delusions of grandeur and Fidel Castro.https://t.co/Pfc61tmpY3
— JRehling (@JRehling) April 6, 2021
re: #130 DodgerFan1988
It’s kinda eerie how similar Raphael Cruz looks to Fidel Castro when he’s got that ridiculous scruff going.
re: #129 William Lewis
Long distance drives in the FRG ;)
When I was in the army in the early 80’s, we referred to the distances between villages in Kilotons rather than Kilometers. Waiting for the Russians on the other side of the Czech boarder, that seemed appropriate though I always expected I’d be more likely to do the dying cockroach from nerve gas.
There is an enormous wind turbine far up at the top of our valley. Those all used to be Pershing missile silos. Once they were decommissioned, they turned out to be perfect for pouring foundations for the towers.
So yeah, this whole area would’ve plastered over to radioactive glass had the Cold War gone hot.
re: #131 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It’s kinda eerie how similar Raphael Cruz looks to Fidel Castro when he’s got that ridiculous scruff going.
One has to wonder if you put those photos side by side in Texas (or Florida) and only right wingers were polled, who’d realize that the one on the right is Castro.
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is an enormous wind turbine far up at the top of our valley. Those all used to be Pershing missile silos. Once they were decommissioned, they turned out to be perfect for pouring foundations for the towers.
So yeah, this whole area would’ve plastered over to radioactive glass had the Cold War gone hot.
There is a deactivated Nike missile in the city park. Just outside of town, there used to be an anti-aircraft missile base aimed at the Canadian border. The complex has been converted to a storage facility; Mrs. Fish and I drove down past it once last year. I have no doubt the Russians knew where I currently live.
re: #134 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
NYC metro area had at least six Nike bases. One was in Sandy Hook NRA. Another was out in Wayne NJ, and a third was in Rockland Cty NY. Three more were out on Long Island. All were equipped with Hercules nuclear warheads (20kt variety).
So yeah, we would have been toast in war, even if those missiles were successful at intercepting any inbounds.
re: #135 Dr Lizardo
Is….is Rafael Cruz actually Fidel Castro’s unknown love child? Inquiring minds want to know.
Is Castro the real Zodiac killer? /
re: #136 lawhawk
NYC metro area had at least six Nike bases. One was in Sandy Hook NRA. Another was out in Wayne NJ, and a third was in Rockland Cty NY. Three more were out on Long Island. All were equipped with Hercules nuclear warheads (20kt variety).
So yeah, we would have been toast in war, even if those missiles were successful at intercepting any inbounds.
The city says the Air Force didn’t tell them if any of the Hercules missiles stationed here were nukes, but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if they were. I mean, compared to today, in the 1950’s this place would’ve been absolutely bumfuck middle of nowhere. What better place to keep nuclear missiles than a sleepy little German Catholic town in the middle of the frozen wastelands of the north?
re: #137 lawhawk
Is Castro the real Zodiac killer? /
Heh.
I’ve wondered from time to time if we’ll find out the identity of the Zodiac Killer. Or will he go the way of the Jack the Ripper, forever unknown but the subject of intense speculation from armchair sleuths?
re: #116 Dangerman
They tend to project onto the opposition what they would do.
And thus expect to get massively worked over by those they have oppressed once we reach “bottom rail on top” land.
re: #141 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
They tend to project onto the opposition what they would do.
And thus expect to get massively worked over by those they have oppressed once we reach “bottom rail on top” land.
It’s not even “bottom rail on top” it is just “both rails at the same level” that they cannot even accept without screaming about White Genocide or the End of America as We Know It
re: #134 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
There is a deactivated Nike missile in the city park. Just outside of town, there used to be an anti-aircraft missile base aimed at the Canadian border. The complex has been converted to a storage facility; Mrs. Fish and I drove down past it once last year. I have no doubt the Russians knew where I currently live.
I don’t think I’ve ever lived away from where a nuke was going to be delivered if the Cold War went hot.
Father worked for ALCOA, so I grew up near places that would get it due to industrial capacity. Went to school in Pittsburgh in the 80s, and that city would get it. (And “Pittsburgh Magazine” printed an article on what the effects of a multi-kiloton nuke detonating over the city would do while I was in school there.*) And have spent the rest of my life close enough to D.C., Pittsburgh, or Philadelphia to get caught up in anything that drops.
* - Can’t find a link to it. So for all I know I am way off here in my recall. (Therefore, take with grain of salt.)
There was a Nike missile base just across the Chicago & South Bend Railway tracks from us in Gary. It was later abandoned, we used to sneak over there and vandalize it.
re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a Nike missile base just across the Chicago & South Bend Railway tracks from us in Gary. It was later abandoned, we used to sneak over there and vandalize it.
Huh. In “TIL.” I always assumed the area would get nuked due to the steel mills, when I lived there.
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s not even “bottom rail on top” it is just “both rails at the same level” that they cannot even accept without screaming about White Genocide or the End of America as We Know It
+1
In addition to Schumer’s awesome move with the parliamentarian, President Biden getting the country back on track, and @PressSec shooting down Newsmax/OAN/Fox questions like Annie Oakely, I have zero side effects from Pfizer shot #2. #ICantBitchAboutAnything
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 6, 2021
re: #149 darthstar
That’s excellent. And in addition to my own appointment to get Johnson’d on Friday, two of my close friends are also scheduled soon - one on Friday to get Pfizer, and one a week from today; he didn’t specify which shot. I might be able to SOCIALIZE again soon.
re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Oh good, I see we’ve returned to “there is no constitutional right to vote” levels of discourse
We are dealing with people who think that it has all gone downhill since they expanded the voting franchise beyond white land-owning males.
Yeah, let’s get back to the “original intent” of the Founding Fathers…
re: #150 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
That’s excellent. And in addition to my own appointment to get Johnson’d on Friday, two of my close friends are also scheduled soon - one on Friday to get Pfizer, and one a week from today; he didn’t specify which shot. I might be able to SOCIALIZE again soon.
Lucky you. You get to make “Big Johnson” joke with your nurse. When she pulls out the needle say, “Wow, that’s a big Johnson you have there.” or “is one of the side effects a bigger Johnson?”
re: #149 darthstar
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In addition to Schumer’s awesome move with the parliamentarian, President Biden getting the country back on track, and @PressSec shooting down Newsmax/OAN/Fox questions like Annie Oakely, I have zero side effects from Pfizer shot #2. #ICantBitchAboutAnything
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 6, 2021
re: #153 darthstar
Lucky you. You get to make “Big Johnson” joke with your nurse. When she pulls out the needle say, “Wow, that’s a big Johnson you have there.” or “is one of the side effects a bigger Johnson?”
Not to mention joking with my friends during game night last night that I had an appointment to get pricked by a big Johnson…
re: #146 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Huh. In “TIL.” I always assumed the area would get nuked due to the steel mills, when I lived there.
Steel mills, oil refineries, chemical plants, you name it…
Then I moved to Phoenix (Luke Air Force Base) and Tucson (Davis-Mounthan AFB)
re: #152 🌹UOJB!
Yeah, let’s get back to the “original intent” of the Founding Fathers…
White Male Land Owners
re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a Nike missile base just across the Chicago & South Bend Railway tracks from us in Gary. It was later abandoned, we used to sneak over there and vandalize it.
I remember the Nike base by the Pittsburgh Airport.
re: #138 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The city says the Air Force didn’t tell them if any of the Hercules missiles stationed here were nukes, but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if they were. I mean, compared to today, in the 1950’s this place would’ve been absolutely bumfuck middle of nowhere. What better place to keep nuclear missiles than a sleepy little German Catholic town in the middle of the frozen wastelands of the north?
The next town north of me is Danvers, a sleepy place in the 1950’s. Also home to Nikes. Our famous Route 1 would have closed to civilian traffic “In Case Of Enemy Attack”.
The reason why Republicans are now turning against big corporations in a nutshell:
cocacolaunited.com
Image: boad-of-directors-19815.jpg
When Boards of Directors start looking more like real America instead of the 30% exclusively white male club and making decision based on this
actual reality they don’t like it.
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Steel mills, oil refineries, chemical plants, you name it…
Then I moved to Phoenix (Luke Air Force Base) and Tucson (Davis-Mounthan AFB)
GE Aviation is in the next town to my south.
Biden’s team members “have pretty successfully re-positioned the idea of unity to mean a super-majority of the country supports what they are doing — the test is not whether you can get Kevin McCarthy to vote for it,” said John Podesta: https://t.co/i34F1Yr2Dv
— Nancy Cook (@nancook) April 5, 2021
Joe Biden’s master plan: do popular stuff and tell people about ithttps://t.co/T64mN6EHWI
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) April 4, 2021
Republican politicians have proven themselves an admirably selfless bunch. Time and again, they’ve been willing to concede credit to Democrats — and Democrats alone — on all sorts of popular policy initiatives. https://t.co/iSiEs1qNcG
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 5, 2021
The US, which is fast approaching having a quarter of its adult population fully vaccinated against #Covid19, is talking about vaccine diplomacy.
The world is watching.https://t.co/TLJVGaAXAA— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) April 6, 2021
What i especially hate about rich white Americans crying about vaccine passports is how the US requires Africans to jump through hoops to even visit. It’s so invasive…have to show bank statements and other things to “prove” you’re not going to abandon your life and stay 🙄
— Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸 (@wagatwe) April 5, 2021
2019: You people just want open borders. If you don’t have borders, and control over who crosses them, you don’t have a country!
2021: You mean I have to show proof of COVID vaccination to enter another country? This violates my freedom to travel anywhere I want!— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 5, 2021
New research shows masks & a good ventilation system stop SARSCoV2 spread better than social distancing. The research is in the journal Physics of Fluids & arrives as schools & universities are considering more in-person classes https://t.co/UQAqaAM3bI
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) April 5, 2021
re: #166 Belafon
Biden’s team members “have pretty successfully re-positioned the idea of unity to mean a super-majority of the country supports what they are doing — the test is not whether you can get Kevin McCarthy to vote for it,” said
If not for gerrymandering in House districts and the disproportional nature of representation in the Senate, the Democrats would have a much larger majority in Congress.
re: #168 Belafon
That last one is no surprise; I feel like that’s been known informally for a while. It’s just that many places don’t have good ventilation systems, and aren’t in a position to afford upgrading.
re: #165 Sherlock Hound
GE Aviation is in the next town to my south.
We have a GE aviation plant about 1.5 miles from me. It used to be Raytheon.
re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Biden’s team members “have pretty successfully re-positioned the idea of unity to mean a super-majority of the country supports what they are doing — the test is not whether you can get Kevin McCarthy to vote for it,” said
If not for gerrymandering in House districts and the disproportional nature of representation in the Senate, the Democrats would have a much larger majority in Congress.
The idea of preaching directly to the electorate, instead of trying to convince the opposing politicians, is a particularly savvy move when you realize that your opponents are so politically radicalized that they will automatically vote against anything you propose, simply because it’s your idea, even if it’s actually a good idea that people want.
re: #168 Belafon
Also, vaccine passports are nothing new. They’ve been around for ages, like I have one from the early 80’s…Why the sudden antipathy?Bonus content: Vaccine passport PDF!https://t.co/MxDixmqTy1
— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) April 6, 2021
re: #172 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The idea of preaching directly to the electorate, instead of trying to convince the opposing politicians, is a particularly savvy move when you realize that your opponents are so politically radicalized that they will automatically vote against anything you propose, simply because it’s your idea, even if it’s actually a good idea that people want.
Romneycare vs Obamacare.
Different as Black and White.
re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Romneycare vs Obamacare.
Different as Black and White.
Done in one. Nice.
Honestly glad to see Dems taking advantage of billboard space - if you’ve driven around the south you know there are Jesus and Trump billboards all over the place. https://t.co/kwSZHdhTSl
Key Figure In Gaetz’s Iranian Alibi Denies Extortion Attempt
Bob Kent, a retired Air Force captain who has reportedly devoted the past few years of his life to the hunt for missing FBI agent Robert Levinson in Iran, told CNN that he had not contacted the Gaetz family out of any nefarious motive.
He added that Gaetz was “trying to direct attention from himself” because of the sex trafficking probe, which is reportedly examining Gaetz’s finances and his alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year old.
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 6, 2021
As usual, Mitch McConnell gonna Mitch McConnell everything:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell chastized companies speaking out about Georgia’s new voting laws, saying they should “stay out of politics.”
Despite this, McConnell is a regular recipient of corporate donations, and by some measures outstrips any other member of Congress.
During a news conference Monday, he warned CEOs to avoid getting embroiled in public debate over the sweeping measures signed into law in Georgia at the end of March.
Civil rights activists have slammed the Election Integrity Act of 2021 as suppressing voters, particularly Black voters. Many corporations have followed suit, including major Georgia-based companies like Coca-Cola, Delta, and Home Depot.
“My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics. Don’t pick sides in these big fights,” the outlet reported McConnell as saying.
The stance against corporate power in politics appears at odds with McConnell’s own funding record, however.
According to MarketWatch, he outranked all other candidates in 2020’s election cycle for donations from CEOs of companies on the S&P Index.
re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg
As usual, Mitch McConnell gonna Mitch McConnell everything:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell chastized companies speaking out about Georgia’s new voting laws, saying they should “stay out of politics.”
Just give us your money and shut up!
A good but longish diary on the Biden Administration’s response to right wing terrorism: dailykos.com.
The idea that broadband doesn’t count as real infrastructure is something conservatives made up five minutes ago and will be rigid orthodoxy five minutes from now. pic.twitter.com/xI7X2qIThV
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 6, 2021
re: #182 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The idea that
broadbandelectricity doesn’t count as real infrastructure is something conservatives made up five minutes ago and will be rigid orthodoxy five minutes from now.
Probably said 90 years ago.
Oh, sweet Jeebus. Why are Republican politicians SO FUCKING STUPID.
Inbox: @GovAbbott issues executive order banning government-mandated vaccine passports #txlege pic.twitter.com/bkKFAeVlTz
— Alexandra Samuels (@AlexSamuelsx5) April 6, 2021
re: #183 Belafon
Jan. 22, 1947:
“…Senator Kenneth D. McKellar of Tennessee intimated before the Senate Public Works Committee today that three high officials of the Tennessee Valley Authority were Communists. He named J.C. Swidler, general counsel; Arthur Jandrey, assistant general manager, and E.B. Schuttz, director of labor relations, as well as James T. Ramey, a former member of its legal staff.”
nytimes.com
re: #184 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Oh, sweet Jeebus. Why are Republican politicians SO FUCKING STUPID.
Then my governor will have no problems with asylum seekers coming in without any proof of vaccination of not being infected.
just got stab #2
in the same arm as #1.
will that make me lopsided?
will my whole body be protected or just the right half?
re: #184 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Oh, sweet Jeebus. Why are Republican politicians SO FUCKING STUPID.
A lot of it is about grandstanding and showing off their Conservative Street Cred.
They saw how well it worked for Trump and are trying to emulate him.
re: #187 Dangerman
just got stab #2
in the same arm as #1.
will that make me lopsided?
will my whole body be protected or just the right half?
It means your 5G signal will only work from the right side, so make sure you sit with that side facing the tower at all times in order to receive proper programming.
re: #188 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A lot of it is about grandstanding and showing off their Conservative Street Cred.
They saw how well it worked for Trump and are trying to emulate him.
I know. We see this all the time with QAnon “I don’t know what Q is” Marjorie Taylor-Greene.
Matt Gaetz just threw the whole “extortion” story out there so Q would have something to chew on and distract.
re: #190 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I know. We see this all the time with QAnon “I don’t know what Q is” Marjorie Taylor-Greene.
Is she also the one who said she did not know the Rothschilds were Jewish?
Given that she only just got her GED, that is almost believable.
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is she also the one who said she did not know the Rothschilds were Jewish?
Given that she only just got her GED, that is almost believable.
It was either her or the gun-humping fanatic from Colorado, Lauren Boebert. I honestly don’t remember which, and I’ve confused stories about the two of them before, despite their physical distinctiveness, because they’re both so fucking STUPID.
re: #193 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It was either her or the gun-humping fanatic from Colorado, Lauren Boebert. I honestly don’t remember which, and I’ve confused stories about the two of them before, despite their physical distinctiveness, because they’re both so fucking STUPID.
I cannot tell them apart either.
re: #184 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Oh, sweet Jeebus. Why are Republican politicians SO FUCKING STUPID.
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Re: Vaccine Passports
If you go to a another country, unless you are in an American Embassy or consulate or at a U.S. Military base, you are ON FOREIGN SOIL i.e. subject to whatever laws the country you are visiting has in place.
That means if they require a vaccine passport, you HAVE TO SHOW A FUCKING VACCINE PASSPORT.
I don’t doubt for a minute there will be American Tourist “Karens” who will endlessly bitch and moan about this.
So today I have tenderness and puffiness around the injection site. Minor arm pain, that’s about it.
I’ve heard those who’ve had the virus suffer from the vaccine more than those who didn’t. Thought maybe I had it in February last year, but maybe not. It would have been pretty early.
I’ve been scanning comments about Greg Gutfeld’s new late-night show that debuted last night. I’ll never watch it—I don’t watch any of the others either cause old-man syndrome. But there’s really no need for analysis beyond the fact that what passes for conservative humor is really just punching down, and that’s never funny.
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
Re: Vaccine Passports
If you go to a another country, unless you are in an American Embassy or consulate or at a U.S. Military base, you are ON FOREIGN SOIL i.e. subject to whatever laws the country you are visiting has in place.
That means if they require a vaccine passport, you HAVE TO SHOW A FUCKING VACCINE PASSPORT.
I don’t doubt for a minute there will be American Tourist “Karens” who will endlessly bitch and moan about this.
I don’t doubt for a minute there will be American “Tourist” Karens that end up up in forced Quarantine. And yeah, piss and moan about it…
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is she also the one who said she did not know the Rothschilds were Jewish?
Given that she only just got her GED, that is almost believable.
Yes, MTG said she didn’t know the Rothschilds were Jewish…but she still blamed them for the space lasers…
re: #173 Teukka
Contrarian BS as the overall goal of their narrative. It’s essentially obstruction for the sake of obstruction at this point.
I keep playing Groucho Marx singing “I’m against it” in my mind as I read these various screeds.
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They both have that complete vacancy in their eyes. When one opens her mouth, the other always concurs, so they’re sort of twins anyway.
re: #190 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I know. We see this all the time with QAnon “I don’t know what Q is” Marjorie Taylor-Greene.
Didn’t she just roll out some catchall “enemy” called “corporate communism” the other day?
The death of veteran congressman Alcee Hastings will make the narrow Dem majority in the House, 218-212, once Julia Letlow is sworn in, with several vacancies left to be filled. That means Pelosi can’t afford to lose more than two defectors on party-line votes for the time being
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 6, 2021
re: #195 🌹UOJB!
This is what a superspreader event looks like. Zero precautions. Those masking are in short supply. Everyone on top of everyone else? That all but guarantees further covid19 transmission. https://t.co/hrWha9SWml
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 6, 2021
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was this kid at my dorm in the mid-1980s at the University of Arizona who decided he was going to take psilocybin—magic mushrooms —and after he did that he began to run around the desert under a bright full moon
Unfortunately for him, he ran into a missile silo facility near Continental, AZ that was heavily and covertly guarded. The military authorities brought him back several hours later, very sober and very chastened & to the best of my knowledge he never ingested anything harder than a Pepsi again
re: #201 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Contrarian BS as the overall goal of their narrative. It’s essentially obstruction for the sake of obstruction at this point.
I keep playing Groucho Marx singing “I’m against it” in my mind as I read these various screeds.
:chuckles maniacally:
WHO Vaccination Passport, PDF version. Has existed in one form or another for decades.
I’m not asking or telling anyone to bring it up whenever resistance against CoViD vaccination passports rears its ugly head…https://t.co/ET7AKkvQZC— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) April 6, 2021
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Police: Suspect dead, 2 victims in critical condition after shooting in Maryland.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) April 6, 2021
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — US Navy: Suspect in active shooting incident at Fort Detrick was Navy medic; suspect is dead.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) April 6, 2021
… here we go again …
Multiple victims after shooting reported in #Maryland
LIVE: https://t.co/6Gs4KdLu8u#MarylandShooting #FrederickShooting #Maryland #USA pic.twitter.com/Awa3FOmKHb— Ruptly (@Ruptly) April 6, 2021
Three. That makes it a mass shooting, otherwise we would likely not hear about it…
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
NYC just had another mass shooting of the murder/suicide variety. 9-year-old girl calls 911 after shooting. Cops find 4 dead.
I just signed my Dad up for this. Story Corps Interview next Friday.
He traveled all over Europe & was at Guantanamo when Kennedy was killed. Met my South African Mom in Nice. They went on dates in Monte Carlo.
One of his best stories is being at the Acropolis in his whites, meeting Jayne Mansfield & Mickey Hartigay, then going to the Olympics.
I’m going to be his interviewer, gotta start working on our script!!!
The Tiny Penis Club is gloating about all the blood feeding the Tree of Liberty today.
Disgusting…Hoping against hope that Tish James shuts those sickos down!
re: #215 HRH Stanley Sea
I just signed my Dad up for this. Story Corps Interview next Friday.
He traveled all over Europe & was at Guantanamo when Kennedy was killed. Met my South African Mom in Nice. They went on dates in Monte Carlo.
One of his best stories is being at the Acropolis in his whites, meeting Jayne Mansfield & Mickey Hartigay, then going to the Olympics.
I’m going to be his interviewer, gotta start working on our script!!!
Sounds like he’s been working on the script since before you were born!
Have fun!
re: #201 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Contrarian BS as the overall goal of their narrative. It’s essentially obstruction for the sake of obstruction at this point.
I keep playing Groucho Marx singing “I’m against it” in my mind as I read these various screeds.
as i posted yesterday, from new york magazine
“In the meantime, they’re going to oppose any infrastructure bill that’s paid for, and any bill that isn’t.”
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
Re: Vaccine Passports
If you go to a another country, unless you are in an American Embassy or consulate or at a U.S. Military base, you are ON FOREIGN SOIL i.e. subject to whatever laws the country you are visiting has in place.
Not actually true but it’s a common misconception, especially among entitled Americans. Various treaties between nations agree that an embassy has privileged status but it is still part of the nation it is located in. Same with military bases and the like, they need planning permission from the hosting nation to build and change structures, sewage and water feeds etc. but they’re usually given wide-ranging powers to do so.
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
Re: Vaccine Passports
If you go to a another country, unless you are in an American Embassy or consulate or at a U.S. Military base, you are ON FOREIGN SOIL i.e. subject to whatever laws the country you are visiting has in place.
That means if they require a vaccine passport, you HAVE TO SHOW A FUCKING VACCINE PASSPORT.
I don’t doubt for a minute there will be American Tourist “Karens” who will endlessly bitch and moan about this.
it’s sort of obvious but eventually, mostly the only people getting sick (or dying) will be the voluntary and vehement anti-vaxers.
(yes i know those who truly ‘can’t’ will have some trouble protecting themselves.)
Ex-FL Rep. Says Gaetz Fought Against Revenge Porn Ban, Believed Pics Were ‘His To Use As He Wanted’
talkingpointsmemo.com
Former Florida state Rep. Tom Goodson (R) described on Monday how the embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was the primary opponent of his bill outlawing “revenge porn,” aka pornographic images of the victim distributed by a former sex partner without consent, when the now-U.S. congressman served in his home state’s House of Representatives.
“Matt was absolutely against it,” Goodson told the Orlando Sentinel. “He thought the picture was his to do with what he wanted. He thought that any picture was his to use as he wanted to, as an expression of his rights.”
Gaetz was one of the two votes against the legislation once it reached a final vote in the state House in 2015.
so between this and voting against the trafficking bill…
re: #182 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
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— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 6, 2021
seems pretty clear here:
These are the various types of infrastructure construction projects across the nation:
Highways, Streets, and Roads. …
Bridges. …
Mass Transit, Airports, and Airways. …
Water Supply and Resources. …
Waste Management and Waste Water Management. …
Power Generation and Transmission. …
Telecommunications. …
Hazardous Waste Removal and Storage.
re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
WhiteMaleLand Owners
Fixed
Since some of the states took advantage of breaking away from England to abolish slavery, and some of them enfranchised black men.
re: #222 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Western good morning!
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I was expecting a caption like “HELP! I’m stuck!”
:)
re: #184 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Oh, sweet Jeebus. Why are Republican politicians SO FUCKING STUPID.
It’s ok. No Texans want to travel anyway, right?
re: #212 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Black man, then?
Cops kill about twice as many whites as blacks every year*. So on the absence of any other facts, “white” is the way to guess.
* Way out of proportion to their numbers, but being white doesn’t mean a criminal will walk free.
re: #228 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The fact that Abbott hasn’t been struck by lightning after claiming he doesn’t want to “tread on the freedoms” of Texans is proof there is no Jove.
re: #184 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Oh, sweet Jeebus. Why are Republican politicians SO FUCKING STUPID.
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i am looking at all these R governor pronouncements as similar to the first amendment (for now). i.e. government cannot…
private companies are still going to do what they like and what’s good for business.
Inbox: @GovAbbott issues executive order banning government-mandated vaccine passports #txlege pic.twitter.com/bkKFAeVlTz
— Alexandra Samuels (@AlexSamuelsx5) April 6, 2021
re: #229 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Cops kill about twice as many whites as blacks every year*. So on the absence of any other facts, “white” is the way to guess.
* Way out of proportion to their numbers, but being white doesn’t mean a criminal will walk free.
That’s a fair point. Cops just kill people. Truthfully, white people kind of get lost in the outrage because a lot of the time, when a cop kills a white person, that person is doing something wrong that most people are like, “Okay, we can defend that.”
re: #205 lawhawk
The excitement in the stands is … infectious!
— Freddie Freeman Extension Watch Official Account (@Whitey_83) April 5, 2021
It amazes me (and honestly it really shouldn’t at this point) that conservatives STILL think they can act like this virus isn’t a big deal and everything will be totally cool.
Covid DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU THINK YOU STUPID ASSHOLES!
Man, am I fired up this morning.
re: #152 🌹UOJB!
Yeah, let’s get back to the “original intent” of the Founding Fathers…
if i got my dates right:
there were only 9 states when the constitution was ratified on 6/21/1788.
oh wait, there’s the admission clause - the process to add new states.
now there are 50 states.
there were no amendments to the constitution until 12/15/1791.
oh wait, there’s article five outlining the amendment process.
then on 9/25/1789 there were 10.
now there are 27.
every one of the 41 added states are valid.
every one of the amendments is valid, except what was repealed or superseded.
originalism is simplistic, unconstitutional and bullshit
re: #236 jaunte
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Keep talking like that Abbot. Every time that asshole farts out of his mouth he pushes corporations to cut off the GOP.
re: #238 🌹UOJB!
Keep talking like that Abbot. Every time that asshole farts out of his mouth he pushes corporations to cut off the GOP.
Their attitude is truly “Give us money but don’t dare tell us what to do!”
re: #237 Dangerman
Original intent was to allow for a Constitution to be a living breathing document. They knew that they couldn’t address every issue facing the nation in the Constitution. They created process for amendment and modification.
We don’t use that process nearly enough, and the process is so tough that we’ve had only 17 amendments beyond the original bill of rights in over 200 years. Heck, it took almost 200 years for the 27th Amendment to get ratified.
Originalism is cover for right wing judicial activism. Strict constructionism is likewise cover for the same. Scalia was a judicial activist. He just tried to cover his activism by claiming this is what the Founders would do, even though the Founders had a decidedly mixed bag of positions across the board.
re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Their attitude is truly “Give us money but don’t dare tell us what to do!”
Unless you’re telling us to do what we want to do anyways.
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Political Scientist surprised to learn that the January 6 insurrectionists were motivated by racism, not “economic anxiety.”
NEW: When Robert Pape studied those arrested at the Capitol, he thought he’d find they were driven by economic anxiety.
Instead, he found they came from places where residents were worried about immigrants and minorities taking over from white people.https://t.co/mrSWNLRS5G— Alan Feuer (@alanfeuer) April 6, 2021
Today’s LOL, courtesy of trending on twitter:
(Ta-Nehisi Coates using Jordan Peterson “ideas” in Red Skull comic)
holy shit im crying. ta-nehsi coates wrote a captain america comic parodying jordan peterseon’s ideas with red skull. he got so mad about it. pic.twitter.com/HoZNF9SB96
— iceBER (@hidingmytag) April 6, 2021
re: #242 No Malarkey!
Political Scientist surprised to learn that the January 6 insurrectionists were motivated by racism, not “economic anxiety.”
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they flew on private jets
they stayed at hotels
some took days off from work
not a lot of anxiety there
NEW: When Robert Pape studied those arrested at the Capitol, he thought he’d find they were driven by economic anxiety.
Instead, he found they came from places where residents were worried about immigrants and minorities taking over from white people.https://t.co/mrSWNLRS5G— Alan Feuer (@alanfeuer) April 6, 2021
re: #210 Teukka
Mrs. Lapin works at the NCI labs on Fort Detrick. Got a shelter in place waning, but security specifically noted that NCI and the other ‘fun’ stuff at Detrick were never under any threat.
re: #242 No Malarkey!
Political Scientist surprised to learn that the January 6 insurrectionists were motivated by racism, not “economic anxiety.”
Really?
They needed a whole fucking study to figure this out?
Was it sponsored by the University of How the hell did you not know that?
re: #244 Dangerman
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they stayed at hotels
some took days off from work
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I wonder what’s the cost of full battle-rattle they wore, and the comms and bear spray. At least they left their firearms at home; tens of thousands of dollars worth in some cases.
re: #243 BlueSpotinAL
Today’s LOL, courtesy of trending on twitter:
(Ta-Nehisi Coates using Jordan Peterson “ideas” in Red Skull comic)
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The fact that you can paste your culture hero’s words into thought bubbles coming from the Red Skull and they are an exact thematic match is not an indictment of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
— Kevin O ‘Malley (@platitudes_r_us) April 6, 2021
It’s amazing how many folks speaking up have quickly pivoted to stanning for Red Skull because of this, with all the self-awareness necessary to literally claim that this has turned the ‘Villain’ into the ‘Hero’.
re: #246 Eclectic Cyborg
Really?
They needed a whole fucking study to figure this out?
Was it sponsored by the University of How the hell did you not know that?
It sure wasn’t sponsored by Prager U! 😉
re: #242 No Malarkey!
Political Scientist surprised to learn that the January 6 insurrectionists were motivated by racism, not “economic anxiety.”
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Not at all helped by the media continuing to help launder the ideology under that banner and legitimizing them out of pure spite for their liberal readership. Just listen to any Dean Baquet interview and hear his contempt for criticism from his own readership.
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
combination of snowflakes and cherry blossoms coming down all at once right now
and the sun just came out, too…
It snowed here a couple of hours ago, in bright sunlight.
Now I’ve got dark clouds on side of the house and sunlit blue skies on the other. The house is not as big as this makes it sound.
re: #246 Eclectic Cyborg
Really?
They needed a whole fucking study to figure this out?
Was it sponsored by the University of How the hell did you not know that?
Even common wisdom does need to be proved. The common wisdom was that heavier objects fell and accelerated faster, but as we now know, everything falls and accelerates at the same speed, modulo air friction.
re: #251 John Hughes
It snowed here a couple of hours ago, in bright sunlight.
Now I’ve got dark clouds on side of the house and sunlit blue skies on the other. The house is not as big as this makes it sound.
I saw a ‘snowbow’ in New Mexico.
NEW: When Robert Pape studied those arrested at the Capitol, he thought he’d find they were driven by economic anxiety.
Instead, he found they came from places where residents were worried about immigrants and minorities taking over from white people.
Alternative tweet: Robert Pape is an idiot, if that is what he thought he would find.
re: #248 Citizen K
And Red Skull wasn’t just some run-of-the-mill Nazi, either - he was an Übernazi. IIRC, there was a throwaway gag in Captain America: The First Avenger that Hitler himself was terrified of Red Skull, LOL.
re: #254 BlueSpotinAL
From the outset, the punditry and media elites claimed that Trump was bolstered by people driven by economic anxiety.
That was always bulkshit on a stick. It was always about the racism. The TP was dress up racism masquerading as economic anxiety. Those participating in the insurrection were well to do, caught up in the very kinds of scams that Trump operated during his campaign, etc. The one theme permeating everything Trump and the GOP does is bigotry: racism and/or misogyny plus a steaming pile of hate of LGBTQ.
re: #230 jaunte
The fact that Abbott hasn’t been struck by lightning after claiming he doesn’t want to “tread on the freedoms” of Texans is proof there is no Jove.
Or that humanity’s free will is god’s greatest virtue no matter how badly we ratfuck it daily…
re: #255 Dr Lizardo
Red Skull also quipped about how Hitler was looking for trinkets not understanding the need for true science/power like the Tesseract.
The term ‘economic anxiety’ was invented as a cover for racism.
’ he found they came from places where residents were worried about immigrants and minorities taking over from white people.’ = economic anxiety.
re: #243 BlueSpotinAL
Today’s LOL, courtesy of trending on twitter:
(Ta-Nehisi Coates using Jordan Peterson “ideas” in Red Skull comic)
If it keeps even one kid from falling for Peterson’s BS, that will be more good than too many people ever manage in a lifetime.
re: #259 wrenchwench
The term ‘economic anxiety’ was invented as a cover for racism.
’ he found they came from places where residents were worried about immigrants and minorities taking over from white people.’ = economic anxiety.
You know who really has “economic anxiety”?
Black and Hispanic people who can’t pay their fucking bills right now or keep their families fed.
On top of everything it amazes me how they don’t understand how *corrupt* it makes GOP governance look. “Come to Texas, we’ll let you make money as long as you don’t threaten our power structure in any way”
— ATXRambler (@rambler_atx) April 6, 2021
re: #246 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s the NYT. It’s what they do.
Article on how hard it is for Trumpers to find jobs, and what the swamp creatures are doing. It says Stephen Miller is launching an organization to help attorneys general sue President Biden.
grrrrrrr
re: #244 Dangerman
they flew on private jets
they stayed at hotels
some took days off from work
not a lot of anxiety there
But Glenn Greenwald got upset about an intern who wrote an article bringing attention to their crowd-funding their legal fees…..’How dare you take away these poor people’s right to have other people foot the bills for their criminality.’
re: #264 retired cynic
Article on how hard it is for Trumpers to find jobs, and what the swamp creatures are doing. It says Stephen Miller is launching an organization to help attorneys general sue President Biden.
grrrrrrr
If they need help.from miller, they suck at their jobs
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