Mitch McConnell warns corporations to stay out of politics, the U.S. and Iran are talking though European diplomats, and Siri’s voice will no longer be automatically female. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #MitchMcConnell
Looks like an awesome experience.
Dolphins join surfer for amazing ride off Ventura coast
- California - pic.twitter.com/aGpQmpl74j— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) April 7, 2021
Excess deaths in the US usually fluctuate between 1% to 2% a year. In 2020 excess deaths rose by 23%. Probably a coincidence. https://t.co/OqtRxroxhP
— Decoherence (@DecoherenceWave) April 8, 2021
re: #1 No Malarkey!
Looks like an awesome experience.
Very cool! Though I also like the one where the dolphin body-checks the surfer as he comes in.
About an hour ago. They are still not providing any detailed information.
The good folks at the Russian hobby firm ICM Models have a whole line of Chernobyl 1/35 scale models.
Chernobyl #1: Radiation Monitoring Station Diorama $71.99
Kit includes ZIL-131KShM truck, 5 figures, and building.
Chernobyl #2: Fire Fighter Diorama Set $84.99
Set includes AC-40-137A firetruck kit, reactor core fragments, and 4 firefighters.
Chernobyl #3: Rubble Cleaners Diorama Set (5 figures)$28.99
Includes 5 figures and diorama base.
Chernobyl #4: Deactivators Diorama Set (4 figures) $25.99
The set includes 28 parts for assembly of 4 figures, 22 parts for assembly of equipment and diorama base with background.
The DeWalt fairy visited me again today (I love my neighbors).
…so my across the street neighbor upgraded his power tools and has been leaving his collection of 18V DeWalt tools on my doorstep as he replaces them. Plus six batteries and two chargers. pic.twitter.com/xlIXUwg609— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 8, 2021
re: #5 darthstar
So, for those keeping score at home:
1 power drill
1 impact drill
1 sawzall
2 new sawzall blades
1 spotlight
1 vacuum/blower
8 batteries
2 chargers
1 DeWalt tool bag
re: #6 darthstar
You are one lucky sucker. They look like they have been kept very well, too.
re: #2 No Malarkey!
So Asshole Brit thinks the virus isn’t that dangerous?
Tell that to a widower who lost his wife, a coworker of mine, and three days later lost her mother to COVID as well. Now he is on his own raising four daughters…
So many Wingnut Neo-Fascists who want to limit voting and claiming that they just want “better qualified” voters. (Where “better qualified” apparently translates to white GOP voters.) I wonder how many of them actually believe that dreck.
I am reminded of the American Antebellum slavers who claimed that slaves were happier and healthier. Eventually slavery apologists such as George Fitzhugh, carried it to the point of arguing that slavery conferred so many benefits to the enslaved that it should not be solely based on race and that poor whites should also be enslaved.
re: #2 No Malarkey!
I assume he’s no longer working remotely, then. All the Fox folks back to work in open studios, right?
re: #5 darthstar
Way cool!
I have a DeWalt chainsaw (DCCS670X1). It has the power of a lower end gas chainsaw. It requires a lot less maintenance than a gas powered one, doesn’t send out clouds of burning gas and oil (2 stroke engine), is much quieter, and is a lot easier to use. And, it has handled 15” tree trunks. (Took a little longer perhaps than a more powerful chainsaw, but I didn’t feel like dorking around with my larger gas chainsaw.) As a suburban dweller, I find it far more useful than my Echo 590.
Consumer Reports rates DeWalt cordless drills highly, btw.
Sorry, I’m on another deadline with the Chauvin trial in the background, but it’s always been obvious George Floyd said “I ain’t do no drugs” not “I ate too much drugs,” as Nelson kept trying to insist!
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) April 7, 2021
WATCH: After defense asks BCA Agent James Reyerson if he heard George Floyd say “I ate too many drugs” during the arrest, the state plays a longer clip for Reyerson. After that, Reyerson said: “I believe Mr. Floyd was saying ‘I ain’t do no drugs.’” pic.twitter.com/gzcVbErL9W
— WCCO - CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) April 7, 2021
Oh dear.
Don’t text and bike… pic.twitter.com/ejg8DrySSS
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) April 7, 2021
re: #14 plansbandc
Ow. Bet there’s a split lip and a nose bleed. Hope no teeth lost.
re: #15 retired cynic
It’s better not to text while operating a vehicle, even a non-motorized one.
Nashville has achieved Honky Tonk singularity:
@Tennessean:
Alcohol and Taco Bell are now available under one roof in downtown Nashville tennessean.com
re: #16 plansbandc
It’s better not to text while operating a vehicle, even a non-motorized one.
If one must, a full-face helmet would help reduce the consequences..
Governor Mabus on this absurd performance by @MichaelWatsonMS.
Watson’s suggestion—that woke college students want protection from voter registration because they believe they are too uninformed to vote—drips with pretext.pic.twitter.com/r6fkawmXsQ https://t.co/RtGBqrdo2P— ELENA KAGAN STAN ACCOUNT (@jallen1985) April 4, 2021
re: #19 Belafon
don’t think pretext is the word they want there
Dunno if this got mentioned:
Matt Gaetz trip to Bahamas is part of federal probe into sex trafficking, sources say
Federal investigators are looking into a Bahamas trip Matt Gaetz allegedly took in late 2018 or early 2019 as part of an inquiry into whether the Florida representative violated sex trafficking laws, multiple sources told CBS News.
Gaetz was on that trip with a marijuana entrepreneur and hand surgeon named Jason Pirozzolo, who allegedly paid for the travel expenses, accommodations, and female escorts, the sources said.
Investigators are trying to determine if the escorts were illegally trafficked across state or international lines for the purpose of sex with the congressman.
“Traveling across state lines is what creates a federal hook for a prosecution,” Arlo Devlin-Brown, a former prosecutor and partner at Covington & Burling, said in a report that aired on the “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.” “It doesn’t matter that [Gaetz] personally paid them as long as he knows someone is doing that.”
The Justice Department declined to comment. Pirozollo did not respond to repeated attempts to contact him, and declined to comment on his relationship with Gaetz and whether he paid for escorts for him when asked by CBS News on Wednesday outside his office in Orlando.
That bolded part is important—while the Mann Act (aka the “White Slavery Act”) has been severely limited over the 110 years it’s been on the books, it is still illegal to transport a person over state or international lines for the purposes of prostitution. And it does not matter the age for this.
(The Mann Act also includes a portion where taking an underaged person across state lines for sex is a felony. Jack Schaap, a pastor from a huge Independent Fundamental Baptist church in Indiana is serving a 10 year sentence for taking a 16 YO over the state line from Indiana to Michigan.)
ETA: the byline for the article includes four people, starting with Major Garrett, so it’s kind of a big journalism deal.
re: #16 plansbandc
It’s better not to text while operating a vehicle, even a non-motorized one.
Definitely ‘ouch’!
A friend’s youngest daughter stopped for a stop sign in Arlington, Va. And got rear-ended by a guy who was texting and speeding. (In a very urbanized area.) Fortunately, the daughter was not hurt, but the car (Prius) was essentially totaled.
Both Maryland and Virginia have made it a moving violation to use a handheld cell phone while driving. I think that it is also a primary violation. (Police can use that to stop you.)
So far Waze seems legal, though.
Dad Joke of the Day:
A man walks into a hardware store and picks up a can of fly spray.
“Is this good for wasps?” he asks the clerk.
To which she replies “No, it kills them.”
I just discovered that my bank’s mobile app supports Zelle. After you do a few things to set up, you can use it through the bank app without needing a separate Zelle app. It seems that a lot of banks have this support. Mine is a regional bank, so I’m sure the bigger ones do.
re: #22 ckkatz
My dude was hit hard at a light because the lady was texting. Ruined the hind end of our car. Luckily she had great insurance and they paid for the repairs. Texting is Satan when you are operating a vehicle.
re: #24 Belafon
I just discovered that my bank’s mobile app supports Zelle. After you do a few things to set up, you can use it through the bank app without needing a separate Zelle app. It seems that a lot of banks have this support. Mine is a regional bank, so I’m sure the bigger ones do.
I’ve used it a few times to send cash to my partner and others. I find it faster than apps like Venmo or ApplePay if everybody belongs to the same bank. Saves them the extra hassle of having to extract the money from the app to the bank.
Virginia becomes first Southern state to legalize marijuana https://t.co/TQqOCKerMG
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) April 8, 2021
re: #21 mmmirele
Dunno if this got mentioned:
That bolded part is important—while the Mann Act (aka the “White Slavery Act”) has been severely limited over the 110 years it’s been on the books, it is still illegal to transport a person over state or international lines for the purposes of prostitution. And it does not matter the age for this.
(The Mann Act also includes a portion where taking an underaged person across state lines for sex is a felony. Jack Schaap, a pastor from a huge Independent Fundamental Baptist church in Indiana is serving a 10 year sentence for taking a 16 YO over the state line from Indiana to Michigan.)
ETA: the byline for the article includes four people, starting with Major Garrett, so it’s kind of a big journalism deal.
Trivia: In Smokey and the Bandit, the Mann Act was one of the “reasons” Sheriff Buford T. Justice gave to Bandit at the choke-and-puke (when Justice didn’t know what Bandit looked like yet) for his pursuit, insinuating that Bandit kidnapped Carrie/”Frog” when she got into Bandit’s car during her escape from the altar.
I think that is the only time I’ve heard the Mann Act mentioned in a movie…
Well, my hand is still aching like it was tortured (it was earlier this afternoon).
I’m going to go exercise it by trying my straight razor again (attempt #5), which requires moving my fingers around.
Please send a unit of blood, O+.
Sorry to hear about the hand still healing. But it sounds like there is some progress.
You are certainly a braver man than I, playing with a very sharp blade right next to your face and neck.
Was there snow on trip?
Well, it’s still “a Jim Crow law,” so… https://t.co/EmmWODrKX0
— Will Bunch Sign Up For My Newsletter (@Will_Bunch) April 7, 2021
#PopQuiz: You walk into a local convenience store and see this thing. What do you do? pic.twitter.com/BZrI7yqM7j
— Charles T (@ChuckyT3) April 7, 2021
re: #21 mmmirele
Dunno if this got mentioned:
That bolded part is important—while the Mann Act (aka the “White Slavery Act”) has been severely limited over the 110 years it’s been on the books, it is still illegal to transport a person over state or international lines for the purposes of prostitution. And it does not matter the age for this.
(The Mann Act also includes a portion where taking an underaged person across state lines for sex is a felony. Jack Schaap, a pastor from a huge Independent Fundamental Baptist church in Indiana is serving a 10 year sentence for taking a 16 YO over the state line from Indiana to Michigan.)
ETA: the byline for the article includes four people, starting with Major Garrett, so it’s kind of a big journalism deal.
Also, if Gaetz did half the shit he’s alleged to have done here, he’s soooooo fucked.
Good.
re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron
Looks like that guy has his favorite spot there in that (what appears to be a) SE Asian 7-Eleven…
re: #32 Dread Pirate Ron
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I really do get a chuckle out of how wingnuts think all “Jim Crow” era voter suppression laws explicitly said “Ni-clangs can’t vote!”
re: #28 Dread Pirate Ron
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Basically, the VA GQP got hoodwinked. They voted for legalization figuring that it would never happen because between now and 2024 they’d win back power and be able to put the kibosh on the whole thing. But instead the bill got amended to make possession legal in just 3 months, totally undermining any future effort to overturn the whole bill.
re: #29 TedStriker
Trivia: In Smokey and the Bandit, the Mann Act was one of the “reasons” Sheriff Buford T. Justice gave to Bandit at the choke-and-puke (when Justice didn’t know what Bandit looked like yet) for his pursuit, insinuating that Bandit kidnapped Carrie/”Frog” when she got into Bandit’s car during her escape from the altar.
I think that is the only time I’ve heard the Mann Act mentioned in a movie…
The Fortune
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Man that was a mistake.
I do not have sufficient control of my fingers or hand to control the blade. I managed to slash my left wrist, base of the left thumb, and left middle finger because I dropped the blade into my left hand.
I wanna tell ya, a styptic pencil hurts bad enough on the face (where I also have slashes), but on a three-inch slash on the wrist, yow.
Please send that pint now. (There is blood on my computer; I think I’ll quit typing for a while.)
re: #17 BeenHereAwhile
Nashville has achieved Honky Tonk singularity:
@Tennessean:
Alcohol and Taco Bell are now available under one roof in downtown Nashville tennessean.com
We used to play music at a dive bar in Flagstaff Arizona. There were a couple of girls who worked the place, you could see them leave with a fellow and return to pick up another one four or five times over the course of the evening.
I was sitting at the bar at the end of the evening waiting to get paid and one of them sidled up to me and asked if I would drive her to the Taco Bell (which was two doors down on the main road).
From then on, they were known as the “Taco Belles”
About white.
— nobodyonit (@nobodyonit) April 7, 2021
re: #21 mmmirele
Boxer Jack Johnson was done up on Mann Act charges.
We don’t talk enough about why and how Matt Gaetz gets his hair so high
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 8, 2021
The Mary Sue has an interesting essay on one way to assess how you feel when a creator of a property turns out to be a toxic asshole. She cites for example Bill Cosby, Josh Whedon, and JK Rowling, noting that a great deal of effort of both media (film, television, &c) and adults (parents, &c) promoting the creator over the creation can cause a person to become confused and angry when the creator is shown to be toxic.
Coping With the Toxicity of Someone You Called a Fave
Briana Lawrence suggests not letting the toxic person continue to use your feelings; it’s okay to appreciate the movies or books which shaped you as a child, or provided a positive roll model, whilst still understanding that assholes can create good works as well.
re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Boxer Jack Johnson was done up on Mann Act charges.
Specifically for taking a white woman across state lines for immoral purposes (miscegenation).
re: #44 Dread Pirate Ron
Poor Cameron Diaz, she doesn’t deserve this.
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yes, Bill Cosby and Woody Allen both come to mind, I have fond memories of both as a youth and a young adult and still find that they produced some truly genius comedy in their day.
Ditto more recently for Louis C.K., and Kevin Spacey. And yet, I recall the latter’s improvised line from House of Cards, a quote from Oscar Wilde: “Everything is about sex. Except sex itself. Sex is about power!”
Now I understand how he was able to deliver it so convincingly…
I desperately hope law enforcement begins hyping these busts the way they do others. “This seizure includes dozens of cards, each with hertz levels far more potent than the ‘harmless’ ones of decades past. If these fell jnto the wrong hands, countless noobs could have been pwned” https://t.co/jbjlU3r9ND
— Tom Lee (@tjl) April 8, 2021
Joye Hummel, first woman hired to write Wonder Woman comics, dies at 97 - The Washington Post https://t.co/cHpJ0afUu9
— ChapelierFou#TeamPelosi (@GayLibMan) April 8, 2021
12,000 absentee ballots and 300 provisional ballots remain to be counted in the Omaha mayoral non-partisan primary.
Current two-term mayor Jean Stothert (R) had her lead cut slightly to 59% of the vote today. Commercial real estate developer RJ Neary (D) currently leads non-profit leader Jasmine Harris (D) for second place by about 1,700 votes.
There are four Democrats in the race.
The top two vote-getters go on to the general election in May.
Voter turnout for Omaha primary elections for city council typically runs at about 20%. This year it was nearly 30% due to increased use of absentee ballots. (In Nebraska, there is no distinction between “mail in ballot” and “absentee ballot”: In state law they are all absentee ballots.)
One city council member, a Democrat appointed to fill the District 5 seat, has been routed to a distant fourth place. The first three candidates (two Rs and one D) are too close to call.
Omaha expects to call all the races Friday afternoon.
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Mary Sue has an interesting essay on one way to assess how you feel when a creator of a property turns out to be a toxic asshole. She cites for example Bill Cosby, Josh Whedon, and JK Rowling, noting that a great deal of effort of both media (film, television, &c) and adults (parents, &c) promoting the creator over the creation can cause a person to become confused and angry when the creator is shown to be toxic.
Coping With the Toxicity of Someone You Called a Fave
Briana Lawrence suggests not letting the toxic person continue to use your feelings; it’s okay to appreciate the movies or books which shaped you as a child, or provided a positive roll model, whilst still understanding that assholes can create good works as well.
Author and youtuber Lindsey Ellis did a couple of video essays on this as well, or rather more on the ‘Death of the Author’ concept. The second video was specifically about JKR after she came out as a radioactive TERF over the past year or two. These are long videos.
The original
The JKR update
Top breaking area news.
LINCOLN – Alliance will represent the 88th location in the Runza® Restaurant chain. Franchisees Neal and Lora Blomenkamp plan to open the store along Highway 385 this fall. The Blomenkamp’s also own the Runza Restaurant locations in Chadron, Gering and… https://t.co/25mXst6Kyw
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) April 8, 2021
Sixth night of unrest in Northern Ireland over Brexit.
(video, 1:39)
New footage shows moment loyalist rioters hijack bus in west Belfast.
One man can be heard shouting, ‘Tell the driver to drive it down… where’s the driver?’
Another shouts, ‘petrol bomb it’.
Rioter in driver seat releases brake before getting off. Bus seems to have free rolled. pic.twitter.com/FHKBTw59RS— Patricia Devlin (@trishdevlin) April 7, 2021
How tf does this guy still have a YouTube channel?
I got a strike on a video OPPOSING racism, and this dude just rolls on untouched. pic.twitter.com/zjhsZZYfxz— Godless Cranium 1984 (@GodlessCranium) April 7, 2021
Steven Crowder is back on YouTube. They didn’t really kick him off ($$$).
Hello, Lizards. So, yesterday I wrote that Slovakia’s medicines control agency noted that the Sputnik V provided by Russia (some 200,000 doses worth) was different than what Russia submitted to The Lancet for analysis.
Here’s the full article, in a private button so there’s no wall of text, translated into English from the Czech original source.
The batches of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine delivered to Slovakia differ in properties and composition from the substance used in preclinical tests and clinical studies published in The Lancet. This was stated by the Slovak State Institute for Drug Control (ŠÚKL). Bratislava has not yet decided whether to allow the non-approved Sputnik V to be used to vaccinate residents in the EU.
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Original Czech language source: novinky.cz
This raises my suspicion that Russia has produced an “export-only” version of Sputnik V and is distributing that to selected countries - and are probably distributing the clinically-tested version to those countries willing to pony up the extra rubles.
oh thank god. low grade misery seems to have left me. It mostly started to clear last night. I literally had the symptoms from the second pfizer dose hit me at 12 hours after, and then mostly go away almost exactly 24 hours later. It’s like my body read the side-effects on the side of the bottle and said, “Okay, we’ll do it like they say.”
Unbelievable. Russia arrests Alexei Navalny’s personal doctor after she requests permission to examine him in prison. They don’t even pretend to behave reasonably https://t.co/x66ThLtd0f
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) April 7, 2021
re: #59 Barefoot Grin
Unbelievable. Russia arrests Alexei Navalny’s personal doctor after she requests permission to examine him in prison. They don’t even pretend to behave reasonably
They have nobody to answer to and no direct consequences to fear.
re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
About an hour ago. They are still not providing any detailed information.
The good folks at the Russian hobby firm ICM Models have a whole line of Chernobyl 1/35 scale models.
Chernobyl #1: Radiation Monitoring Station Diorama $71.99Chernobyl #2: Fire Fighter Diorama Set $84.99
Not to rattle you, but I’ve seen mentions in various feeds that Qcumbers are considering going after the power grid…
re: #61 Teukka
Not to rattle you, but I’ve seen mentions in various feeds that Qcumbers are considering going after the power grid…
taking “performance art” to a new level
re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
taking “performance art” to a new level
“performance terrorism”
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Art and Revolution by Richard Wagner
Why do I hear “Flight of the Valkyries”?
This is why the GOP doesn’t want everyone to vote. https://t.co/9K2vXlXJhC
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) April 8, 2021
Also, if we’re going to bestow/withhold the franchise based on how well-informed voters are … https://t.co/npCxJq8RKN pic.twitter.com/2XjcU1csN0
— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 8, 2021
re: #32 Dread Pirate Ron
The law curbs time to vote. It limits locations. Worst of all, the GOP controlled legislature can override a local board of election to certify an election. In other words, if an election in Atlanta is up for grabs and the local board certifies the Democrat as the winner, the GA GOP controlled legislature could override that determination and certify the GOPer.
So yeah, it’s Jim Crow. It’s the very kind of law RBG warned us about after Shelby eviscerated preclearance in the VRA.
There’s a reason that the GOP hates the Democrats voting rights bill. They know that these kinds of laws would be struck down.
Fox News: “Constitution destroyed to make a desk for Kamala Harris.”
Love the history behind this desk - fitting for the occasion and the glass ceiling shattering VP. https://t.co/OjrQpi6CtZ
— Elizabeth Wharton (@LawyerLiz) April 6, 2021
Wall Street Journal: “The Trump Organization has hired Ronald Fischetti, an experienced New York criminal-defense attorney, to represent it in Manhattan prosecutors’ investigation into the business dealings of the former president and his company.
Sure is late in the game.
Maybe they heard an indictment is imminent?
Wesselberg has immunity
re: #70 Dangerman
Buried in the last line of the Fox story (half sarc). The desks were ordered under Trumpworld and delivered after 1/20.
Treasonweasel son Andy Giuliani has company running for governor in NY.
Treasonweasel enabler Congressman Lee Zeldin from Long Island is throwing his hat in the ring.
Rep. Lee Zeldin announces he’s running for governor of New York, says ‘Cuomo’s got to go’.
Zeldin was another one of the treasonweasel insurrectionist supporters who backed Trump’s nonstop lies resulting in riot at Capitol and murder of cop. https://t.co/D9rop7duwF via @ABC7NY— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 8, 2021
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Man that was a mistake.
I do not have sufficient control of my fingers or hand to control the blade. I managed to slash my left wrist, base of the left thumb, and left middle finger because I dropped the blade into my left hand.
I wanna tell ya, a styptic pencil hurts bad enough on the face (where I also have slashes), but on a three-inch slash on the wrist, yow.
Please send that pint now. (There is blood on my computer; I think I’ll quit typing for a while.)
Grow a beard till your hand heals.
We need you.
re: #71 Dangerman
For a change, they’ve actually got a quality defense attorney.
The $64,000 question is as you identify - why? Unless they know indictments are on the way or they’re trying to cut a deal before it gets to that point, you don’t retain a criminal defense lawyer on the payroll unless you’re a crime syndicate or a mobster (like having those guys on retainer).
re: #58 steve_davis
oh thank god. low grade misery seems to have left me. It mostly started to clear last night. I literally had the symptoms from the second pfizer dose hit me at 12 hours after, and then mostly go away almost exactly 24 hours later. It’s like my body read the side-effects on the side of the bottle and said, “Okay, we’ll do it like they say.”
my pfizer #2 on tuesday, significant, annoying but not debilitating arm pain lasted 24 hours and is gone.
mrsdm 2nd moderna yesterday. today she is feeling ‘washed out’. not flu-like or bedridden. just out of sorts. “i know it will pass and I’d do it again”
re: #70 Dangerman
Fox News: “Constitution destroyed to make a desk for Kamala Harris.”
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Myself, I think those historic desks are quite cool: though I am somewhat surprised that restorers had removed enough wood from Constitution to make (most of) a desk out of.
Unlike HMS Resolute, where they had a whole ship-worth of it…..
South Carolina mass shooting update:
BREAKING UPDATE: Source tells AP: Gunman in killing of doctor and 4 others was former NFL pro Phillip Adams, who also killed himself https://t.co/eqNMEuF1z2
— FoxNashville (@FOXNashville) April 8, 2021
I’m actually okay at 28%. The level we got to in our tax plan on the corporate side was actually a bit lower than we needed to go… I always thought that a compromise rate in the mid 20’s made sense.”— Former Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn, quoted by Yahoo Finance in June of 2020, on raising the corporate tax rate.
so if the rs are good with it….
re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron
Our toys have gotten so powerful that they’re controlled under the same export rules as weapons.
re: #78 lawhawk
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy?
re: #82 William Lewis
That is my first thought too - CTE - traumatic brain injuries from playing. Alternatively, treatment for some ailment and feeling the doctor was somehow responsible for his condition, whether it was loss of skill/ability due to injury/treatment, or addiction. We’ll have to wait and see what they find.
Because science works and Willie actually did get vaccinated and it’s okay to laugh at jokes like this. #GetTheShot pic.twitter.com/3PjqrmeMuh
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 8, 2021
re: #82 William Lewis
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy?
He was a corner back for the 49ers and Raiders so yeah, he took a beating.
Is Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal fully paid for during its first 15 years, as Pete Buttigieg said? We found it was mostly accurate: https://t.co/Pnvz285Nhi
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) April 8, 2021
Biden’s infrastructure plans are likely to get zero support from GOPers. GOPers will, however, take credit for money coming into their states over their objections and votes against the infrastructure bill.
Biden’s proposals will likely pay for themselves over time - improved efficiencies, higher economic activities, improved output, and more robust infrastructure are all good things that are durable and will help over time.
GOP doesn’t have any counter to this that is legit. They just don’t. They’re a party of obstructionists and saboteurs. Don’t for a moment think that they’re going to negotiate in good faith about any of this. Because even if you strip out the parts of the infrastructure plan that they consider objectionable (elder care), they’ll still vote against it claiming that it is too costly and includes tax hikes.
The public wants and needs infrastructure spending. Biden’s going to give it to them.
This isn’t earmarks or pork. It’s investment in the future of the nation. Biden’s going bigger and bolder because we’ve spent the past four decades ignoring all of this to our own detriment.
re: #77 Jay C
There is a stand of white oak in Crane, IN military base called Constitution Grove where they use wood from those trees specifically to maintain and repair the USS Constitution ship docked near Boston
Beautiful trees in the “wild” and a beautiful desk
I’m okay with this.
Bill Barr’s law firm won’t rehire him. Mike Pompeo can’t find a corporate gig.Headhunters don’t see any interest for Elaine Chao.And no Trump Cabinet officials from the final quarter of his term have been picked to join S&P 500 boards. Oh well. 🤷🏾♂️ https://t.co/m7IBaCAkwD
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 7, 2021
re: #89 darthstar
Bill Barr’s law firm won’t rehire him.
Mike Pompeo can’t find a corporate gig.
Headhunters don’t see any interest for Elaine Chao.
And no Trump Cabinet officials from the final quarter of his term have been picked to join S&P 500 boards.
Violate your NDA, write a book, go on the lecture circuit…
So Joe Manchin wants to be the 2021 version of LIEberman…
Red Flag laws, pistol ‘stabilizers’, annual gun violence reporting…big stuff.
BREAKING: @WhiteHouse has just released details on @POTUS’s executive actions to reduce gun violence.
This. Is. Huge.
These lifesaving reforms represent the boldest action our country has taken to reduce gun violence in 30 years. @bradybuzz https://t.co/ibiEuf7Vox— Kris Brown | President, bradyunited.org (@KrisB_Brown) April 8, 2021
re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Violate your NDA, write a book, go on the lecture circuit…
I’d be happier if all those former guy’s assholes actually NEEDED money and weren’t rich enough to retire comfortably as they are.
Ah I see Alex Jones did a stunt with actors that’s plastered all over Twitter.
Why? Well he has to divert attention from the Supreme Court tossing his sleazy ass under the steamroller…
re: #91 🌹UOJB!
So Joe Manchin wants to be the 2021 version of LIEberman…
They really should be courting Murkowski and Romney on the side. Convince them that voting to change the filibuster would be good for the country in the short term and the Senate in the long term. Once they’re on board, make the small changes - talking filibuster, 40 present to keep it going - and then in 2022 take a few more seats and kill it altogether.
Governor Sununu’s an asshole, just like his dad.
Out-Of-State College Students Not Eligible For COVID Vaccine In New Hampshire
re: #79 Dangerman
so if the rs are good with it….
even Reagan realized his tax cuts had gone too far;; he raised taxes a few years later.
re: #95 darthstar
They really should be courting Murkowski and Romney on the side. Convince them that voting to change the filibuster would be good for the country in the short term and the Senate in the long term. Once they’re on board, make the small changes - talking filibuster, 40 present to keep it going - and then in 2022 take a few more seats and kill it altogether.
You would have to convince Romney that it would be good for his own image. Don’t waste time talking about the Good of the Country. He is still GOP, remember?
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You would have to convince Romney that it would be good for his own image. Don’t waste time talking about the Good of the Country. He is still GOP, remember?
Want to be enshrined in American history, Mitt? Be the guy.
A mass vaccination site temporarily shut down Wednesday in Denver after 18 vaccine recipients suffered adverse side effects.
The clinic administered more than 1,700 shots of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine Wednesday prior to the pause, local CBS affiliate KCNC reported. The reactions occurred at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, home of MLS’ Colorado Rapids, which opened March 22 as a vaccine site.
18 out of more than 1700 works out just a hair over one percent.
President Biden has released his gun responsibility actions, which call on the DOJ to promulgate model red flag law and other steps to reduce gun violence.
Of course, the GOP/NRA will claim that this is just more proof Democrats are coming to get your guns.
Red flag laws are essentially a requirement for law enforcement to intervene when someone becomes a threat to themselves or others. It’s common sense, but to the gun nuts, they think this means they lose their guns.
That’s a tell of course. Because these people worry that they’ll lose their guns because they *ARE* a threat to themselves or others.
re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg
A mass vaccination site temporarily shut down Wednesday in Denver after 18 vaccine recipients suffered adverse side effects.
The clinic administered more than 1,700 shots of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine Wednesday prior to the pause, local CBS affiliate KCNC reported. The reactions occurred at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, home of MLS’ Colorado Rapids, which opened March 22 as a vaccine site.
18 out of more than 1700 works out just a hair over one percent.
It does, but it’s possible that this could be related to the EB issues that resulted in millions of doses having to get thrown out due to contamination and production issues. Or it could be storage/supply chain issues causing a batch to somehow go wrong. Or it was a statistical fluke.
re: #88 So Cal Greek Hippie
There is a stand of white oak in Crane, IN military base called Constitution Grove where they use wood from those trees specifically to maintain and repair the USS Constitution ship docked near Boston
Beautiful trees in the “wild” and a beautiful desk
Very cool bit of trivia. Are the trees curved? I recall reading once (?NatGeo?) about a forest in France that had been a preserve for their Navy: they grew oaks(?) there that were tied back so that the wood grain would follow whatever curves were needed for shipbuilding (definitely long-term sourcing: I think the trees had to be 50-60 years old to get large enough to use). ISTR a picture of one that had never been “drafted”, and still grew in a arc…
Another Florida man going down for child porn. This one attorney to the FL Elections Commission. Feel sorry for the mentions of other people with the same name on social media today.
re: #103 Jay C
Very cool bit of trivia. Are the trees curved? I recall reading once (?NatGeo?) about a forest in France that had been a preserve for their Navy: they grew oaks(?) there that were tied back so that the wood grain would follow whatever curves were needed for shipbuilding (definitely long-tern sourcing: I think the trees had to be 50-60 years old to get large enough to use). ISTR a picture of one that had never been “drafted”, and still grew in a arc…
Forestry in the Middle Ages was a generational thing, foresters would shape and cultivate trees with an eye on their successor (most often their son) eventually using them harvesting them for use as a mast, boom or stay.
Undoing Former Guy’s damage #425
Tonight I heard directly from Tribal leaders from the five Tribes in the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition tonight. I appreciate the important connection they and their people have to this land. pic.twitter.com/3gzLV74XzO
— Secretary Deb Haaland (@SecDebHaaland) April 8, 2021
Pax Bidena is upon us! https://t.co/LyEzySPSvN
— AdotSad (@AdotSad) April 7, 2021
re: #108 darthstar
Tonight I heard directly from Tribal leaders from the five Tribes in the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition tonight. I appreciate the important connection they and their people have to this land.
“Thank you for not making us endure any further mention of ‘Princess Pocahontas’”
WALK OF HONOR: Staff and students line the hallways of an Oklahoma public school to celebrate their cafeteria manager after she passed her U.S. citizenship test. pic.twitter.com/720zPfDVlJ
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 8, 2021
Business Insider has an interview with the 28-year-old Egyptian who, for a brief time, drove the world’s favorite excavator as he worked sleeplessly to free the MV Ever Given from her inadvertent anchorage in the Suez Canal.
I welcome our new non-shit-taking Democratic overlords https://t.co/Yk5o5Qs9i1
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) April 7, 2021
re: #102 lawhawk
It does, but it’s possible that this could be related to the EB issues that resulted in millions of doses having to get thrown out due to contamination and production issues. Or it could be storage/supply chain issues causing a batch to somehow go wrong. Or it was a statistical fluke.
or the hypodermics weren’t properly sterile. or the person who administered the injection didn’t tap it right and there were air bubbles. or the patients ate too many gummies before going for their shot.
re: #101 lawhawk
President Biden has released his gun responsibility actions, which call on the DOJ to promulgate model red flag law and other steps to reduce gun violence.
Of course, the GOP/NRA will claim that this is just more proof Democrats are coming to get your guns.
Red flag laws are essentially a requirement for law enforcement to intervene when someone becomes a threat to themselves or others. It’s common sense, but to the gun nuts, they think this means they lose their guns.
That’s a tell of course. Because these people worry that they’ll lose their guns because they *ARE* a threat to themselves or others.
DING!
i’ve been saying this for years
Draconian enforcement for **demonstrated** irresponsibility.
- Your freedom (jail)
- your finances (criminal fines, civil suit exposure)
- your future (loss of 2A forever)
After a few cases the lazy and merely careless will clean up their act - they will learn to take their personal responsibility more seriously - or else.
The rest of us, who were already mostly responsible, won’t have to do anything at all.
re: #111 darthstar
“Why is that hard working woman taking a job from a lazy natural born American?”
re: #106 darthstar
Another Florida man going down for child porn. This one attorney to the FL Elections Commission. Feel sorry for the mentions of other people with the same name on social media today.
florida man arrested in our little town for participating in 1/6 insurrection.
re: #95 darthstar
They really should be courting Murkowski and Romney on the side. Convince them that voting to change the filibuster would be good for the country in the short term and the Senate in the long term. Once they’re on board, make the small changes - talking filibuster, 40 present to keep it going - and then in 2022 take a few more seats and kill it altogether.
won’t happen. Republicans are hell bent on sabotaging Biden.
re: #103 Jay C
Very cool bit of trivia. Are the trees curved? I recall reading once (?NatGeo?) about a forest in France that had been a preserve for their Navy: they grew oaks(?) there that were tied back so that the wood grain would follow whatever curves were needed for shipbuilding (definitely long-term sourcing: I think the trees had to be 50-60 years old to get large enough to use). ISTR a picture of one that had never been “drafted”, and still grew in a arc…
There’s a preserve in Paris, whose wood is grown for the Notre Dame Church. It’s being used to rebuild the church.
Don’t love the art direction choice for the new “Hipster Psychos” content pack for Borderlands 3 but you take the good with the bad when you get the Season Pass, I guess https://t.co/VdUSNkKpOM
— The Mall Krampus (@cakotz) April 6, 2021
re: #111 darthstar
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kids all wearing masks
doing just fine
hmmm
adults need to learn a thing or two
Milo wants his walk…now. Merle’s waiting for me to sit up then he’ll be all into it. Back in a bit.
re: #120 Belafon
I’d actually consider this for the shop…… Yes I would.
re: #24 Belafon
I just discovered that my bank’s mobile app supports Zelle. After you do a few things to set up, you can use it through the bank app without needing a separate Zelle app. It seems that a lot of banks have this support. Mine is a regional bank, so I’m sure the bigger ones do.
Yes, my evil too big to fail employer is very much involved in Zelle.
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Afghanistan is inoculating millions of children against polio after pandemic lockdowns stalled the effort to eradicate the crippling disease. But the recent killing of 3 female vaccinators points to the dangers facing the campaign as turmoil grows. https://t.co/FonLDfby4K
— AP Middle East (@APMiddleEast) April 8, 2021
please elect fewer insane people, things would probably go a little bit better. let’s give it the old college try and see if it works. https://t.co/ccrKYGrzw6
— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) April 7, 2021
Wait… wut?
Eric Lipman, longtime lawyer for the #Florida Elections Commission, was arrested Wednesday on possession of child porn charges after a search warrant was served at his home in #Tallahassee.
— Jeffrey Burlew (@JeffBurlew) April 8, 2021
re: #126 lawhawk
Eric Lipman, longtime lawyer for the Florida Elections Commission, was arrested Wednesday on possession of child porn charges after a search warrant was served at his home in
Integrity of the vote, indeed
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, my hand is still aching like it was tortured (it was earlier this afternoon).
I’m going to go exercise it by trying my straight razor again (attempt #5), which requires moving my fingers around.
Please send a unit of blood, O+.
I heard a rumor that a programmer died for want of type C++.
re: #70 Dangerman
Fox News: “Constitution destroyed to make a desk for Kamala Harris.”
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re: #126 lawhawk
Wait… wut?
Lipman, general counsel for the Elections Commission, previously worked for the #Florida Department of Children and Families in Leon, Wakulla and Franklin counties. He also was an officer in a youth soccer league for kids 4-17, according to corporate filings.
— Jeffrey Burlew (@JeffBurlew) April 8, 2021
Chilly out and I have a call coming up shortly so…short walk…good thing it’s doggy daycare day. Listening to the Chauvin trial on my phone and the doctor testifying is doing a fantastic job, getting the jurors to feel their chests as they breathe in so they can understand the restriction Floyd experienced…I suspect even the defense attorney was taking a deep breath and feeling his chest expand.
re: #124 mmmirele
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re: #128 🌹UOJB!
Freedom of speech. I guess it’s only for some people.
DOLLY LOOK INNOCENT TO ME ANDY
IF THE TRISCUIT NOT BIT
THEN U MUST AQUIT
CASE CLOSE https://t.co/uBaGUD85O3— darth™ (@darth) April 8, 2021
Now he’s walking the jury through neck anatomy and having them feel their bits. I have to think the defense are just cringing right now.
O_o
McConnell Accuses Dems Of ‘Playing The Race Card’ Amid Furor On GA Voting Law https://t.co/qQT12sYYjz pic.twitter.com/RWps4ynBir
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 8, 2021
re: #139 darthstar
Now he’s walking the jury through neck anatomy and having them feel their bits. I have to think the defense are just cringing right now.
How do I get this doctor, who has 40 years of experience and is testifying right now in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, to be my pulmonologist…
— Amee Vanderpool (@mamasreallyrule) April 8, 2021
re: #113 Belafon
Edge Edge isn’t fazed by the political bullshit. He’s smart, he explains things extremely well, and he will do it in friendly places or hostile places. I really like him. Glad he’s in the administration.
re: #139 darthstar
Now he’s walking the jury through neck anatomy and having them feel their bits. I have to think the defense are just cringing right now.
IIJM, or an artifact of media bias, or what? but Derek Chauvin’s “defense” (scare quotes deliberate) seems to be as half-assed a job as I’ve noticed in a major public trial for a long time. Sadly, I still think it’s at best even-odds that this murdering bastard will skate, but the prosecution has done (at least IMO, and AFAICT) a fabulous job of outlining Chauvin’s fatally-flawed actions wrt to George Floyd - bolstered by sober professional analyses from “respectable” witnesses - and the defense has really offered bupkis in response. I mean “I ate too many drugs!”:.. SRSLY..??
Capitol riot defendant Jeffrey Sabol’s attorney:
“He made mistakes. He broke the law. He shouldn’t have been there. He clearly interfered with the officers in a way that was assaultive conduct.”— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 8, 2021
This sounds like someone who wishes they could make a plea deal, but is instead hoping for the mercy of the courts.
He should have no mercy granted (but likely will).
re: #144 lawhawk
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This sounds like someone who wishes they could make a plea deal, but is instead hoping for the mercy of the courts.
He should have no mercy granted (but likely will).
So much for that “Equal Justice Under Law” shtick…
re: #144 lawhawk
And now.. the rest of that tweet sequence. He was hoping the court would allow him out on bail, despite fact that he tried to flee the country:
Sabol’s attorney, Jon Norris, is arguing that his client shouldn’t be held in prison pending trial. Though Sabol acknowledges his conduct and did attempt to flee to Switzerland initially — and attempted to take his own life — “he’s really come to temrs with the mistakes he made”
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 8, 2021
So, admissions that he knew what he did was wrong, that he is a flight risk and poses a risk to himself, but should still be allowed out on bail.
Gotcha.
Oh, and that’s more of that economic instability we heard so much about.
re: #146 lawhawk
Because people dealing with “economic anxiety” can totally afford plane tickets to Switzerland in a tight crunch.
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Congrats to Pence on his book deal.
Any word on whether the hardcover edition will also be spineless? https://t.co/J7bakSGxtZ— connectpoliticditto. (@cpoliticditto) April 8, 2021
re: #148 darthstar
Too bad “Mother, May I?” is already taken or he’d have a great title.
Just got my second Moderna dose. Now I wait for the side effects or superpowers. My little rural hospital got 500 doses beyond what they had scheduled and they’re begging everyone to call anyone they know who needs them.
The March San Diego real estate data is out.
Prices keep skyrocketing. Supply continues to tighten.
Prices have gone up all during the pandemic, as the volume of house turnover ground down.
I don’t know if, when the pandemic is over, a flood of houses on the market will lower the prices, but with the price rise now going on for quite some time, and elevated the past few months, the market is going to be reticent in ever climbing back down.
Interest rates are very very low. Should rates have to increase sharply (inflation control by the Fed?), I can imagine chaos happening in the real estate market.
Other places in the country may be different, but the so-called affordability index is crashing in these parts. The median household income is no where close to being able to afford the median house (even attached.)
This great disconnect will have repercussions, at least locally. Raising wages seems like a necessity, but that will itself just fuel real estate speculation.
What’s going to happen, I suspect, is the continuing super-premium for living in one of the coastal counties in this country (here on the west that means every county from San Diego up to the Canadian border) is going to be a key driver in politics.
Whining about the “urban elite” is not going to go away. As the coastal population (which is a significant fraction of the population) drives prices and incomes higher and higher, those in the middle of the country will seem more and more detached from what is going on in the coastal cities.
re: #102 lawhawk
It does, but it’s possible that this could be related to the EB issues that resulted in millions of doses having to get thrown out due to contamination and production issues. Or it could be storage/supply chain issues causing a batch to somehow go wrong. Or it was a statistical fluke.
And that it’s one specific location makes me think the former rather than the latter, that there’s a problem with a batch or what’s going on at that site.
re: #152 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Same thing going on in my part of Los Angeles. Housing prices now almost passing the $2 million mark, unchecked gentrification tearing down affordable apartment stock and replacing it with luxury apartment/condos not under rent stabilization.
New apartments just completed across the street from me—monthly rent starts at $2,750 for unfurnished single to $15,000 for the penthouses on the top…while sidewalks are now loaded up with so many tents you have to walk in the street…
re: #151 DesertDenizen
Just got my second Moderna dose. Now I wait for the side effects or superpowers. My little rural hospital got 500 doses beyond what they had scheduled and they’re begging everyone to call anyone they know who needs them.
I took a delivery from our familiar UPS driver yesterday. We chatted a bit - I asked him if he had been vaccinated and he said yes, the Moderna version. He said he woke the next day after the 2d dose with a headache and nausea but it passed. I am assuming he was considered an essential worker. He did say that he worried less about bringing covid home to his wife and kids.
As an example: the push is on by the progressive minded to raise minimum wage to $15/hr.
But out here, $15/hr means you can not even afford to rent an apartment. So the minimum wage means one cannot put a roof over one’s head.
Two people making $15/hr wage could, in these parts, afford a one bedroom apartment for the two of them. For now. But it would be a tight budget with no room for emergencies.
$15/hr is just not much to live in a coastal city.
Now minimum wage is not meant to be a life-long career path. In the past, such a wage was for seasonal and entry level jobs. But we have seen that the old career paths have dried up, and people get stuck in minimum wage jobs.
Anyway, I think the geographic separation of wealth in this country will continue, and following that will be political dynamics that are going to be very difficult.
re: #103 Jay C
Very tall, thin trees for oak
It’s funny sometimes to sit and text with an old friend and compare health issues and weight struggles and all that. Not the kinds of things you thought you’d be talking about in 40 years when you were on a date in high school! LOL!!
re: #156 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
And when we live in an era of 38 hour a week “part-time” jobs…
re: #153 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And that it’s one specific location makes me think the former rather than the latter, that there’s a problem with a batch or what’s going on at that site.
I wonder if contagious hysteria played a role.
re: #158 William Lewis
It’s funny sometimes to sit and text with an old friend and compare health issues and weight struggles and all that. Not the kinds of things you thought you’d be talking about in 40 years when you were on a date in high school! LOL!!
Always had to deal with weight struggles in High School Hell.
re: #162 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I read the other day that it’s basically speculators buying properties at any price which is pricing the average buyers out of the market.
They are buying up old housing stock, tearing them down and replacing them with larger units that aren’t under rent stabilization.
Houses are being torn down and replaced with larger ones or they are being subdivided into luxury bungalows.
re: #156 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Now minimum wage is not meant to be a life-long career path. In the past, such a wage was for seasonal and entry level jobs. But we have seen that the old career paths have dried up, and people get stuck in minimum wage jobs.
Anyway, I think the geographic separation of wealth in this country will continue, and following that will be political dynamics that are going to be very difficult.
You could always find work in a factory, stick at long enough and you could afford to keep your wife at home to raise the family, a modest home, a car and even a vacation. That’s what my father did.
But that option has long since been superseded by the need for both parents to work full time.
re: #143 Jay C
IIJM, or an artifact of media bias, or what? but Derek Chauvin’s “defense” (scare quotes deliberate) seems to be as half-assed a job as I’ve noticed in a major public trial for a long time. Sadly, I still think it’s at best even-odds that this murdering bastard will skate, but the prosecution has done (at least IMO, and AFAICT) a fabulous job of outlining Chauvin’s fatally-flawed actions wrt to George Floyd - bolstered by sober professional analyses from “respectable” witnesses - and the defense has really offered bupkis in response. I mean “I ate too many drugs!”:.. SRSLY..??
In trials like these, the only job of the defense is to find that one white goober on the jury who will refuse to vote “guilty” on a murder charge because he’s been convinced that the victim “was no angel.” I’m expecting their case (once they can present it in full) to be “George Floyd was a very bad man who just up and died.”
re: #158 William Lewis
It’s funny sometimes to sit and text with an old friend and compare health issues and weight struggles and all that. Not the kinds of things you thought you’d be talking about in 40 years when you were on a date in high school! LOL!!
when I talk with my high school friends, there’s a LOT about food. Even before the pandemic, we’re too old for the trips and stunts and sports we used to do, so a good meal is one of the great pleasures worth discussing. We don’t even care about the restaurant’s ambiance. A perfect appetizer, a scrumptious dessert, a fusion entree we wouldn’t have even thought of until we saw it on the menu…
From Laughing in Disbelief
Teen Vogue Cancels Representative Matt Gaetz’s Subscription
Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has somehow managed to get himself deeper in the trouble bubble. The Department of Justice is investigating him for child trafficking. Conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson demonstrated he doesn’t want Gaetz to drag him down with him. And there are rumors swirling that he showed inappropriate pictures of the young women he slept with to other representatives on the floor of the House. Adding to this laundry list of self-inflicted woe the magazine Teen Vogue officially announced it canceled Matt Gaetz’s subscription.
This IS satire (The same crew announced that Pat Robertson will be hosting Jeopardy) but its plausibility shows yet again just how ridiculous the world, especially the GOP consumer niche, has become.
re: #167 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
“I’ll take Jesus for $400, Pat”
“Why Prai$e Gawd, it’s the Daily Double! Now remember that 10% of that goes to my mini$try, dear!”
re: #167 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
From Laughing in Disbelief
Teen Vogue Cancels Representative Matt Gaetz’s SubscriptionThis IS satire (The same crew announced that Pat Robertson will be hosting Jeopardy) but its plausibility shows yet again just how ridiculous the world, especially the GOP consumer niche, has become.
Speaking of hosting jeopardy, anyone else think Aaron Rodgers is really not a very good gameshow host?
re: #169 danarchy
Speaking of hosting jeopardy, anyone else think Aaron Rodgers is really not a very good gameshow host?
He’s not bad, and of the group so far, I would put him third behind Ken and the producer, ahead of Katie. I think they should call Lavar Burton.
re: #169 danarchy
Speaking of hosting jeopardy, anyone else think Aaron Rodgers is really not a very good gameshow host?
He’s beyond bland.
re: #170 Belafon
It also took Ken a few days to get into his groove.
re: #170 Belafon
He’s not bad, and of the group so far, I would put him third behind Ken and the producer, ahead of Katie. I think they should call Lavar Burton.
I think Mike, the EP, was the best. Ken was behind him. The rest go from meh (Katie, Arron) to fuck no (Oz).
re: #169 danarchy
Speaking of hosting jeopardy, anyone else think Aaron Rodgers is really not a very good gameshow host?
I’ll take “Bad Jeopardy! Hosts” for $400, danarchy….
So far, (and it’s REALLY weird to write this), I think the otherwise execrable Dr. Oz has been the best post-Trebek host; with the enthusiastic-if-stage-awkward Mike Richards a close second.
re: #173 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
While I’d like to see LeVar Burton take a shot at it, I’d also like to see David Letterman take ran at it as well.
re: #174 Jay C
I’ll take “Bad Jeopardy! Hosts” for $400, danarchy….
So far, (and it’s REALLY weird to write this), I think the otherwise execrable Dr. Oz has been the best post-Trebek host; with the enthusiastic-if-stage-awkward Mike Richards a close second.
Fuck Oz. If he gets it we’re out. We only watched his last day and he was meh. Because he’s Oz, that puts him in the fuck no category for us. I flatly refuse to give him the ratings.
re: #175 Eric The Fruit Bat
While I’d like to see LeVar Burton take a shot at it, I’d also like to see David Letterman take ran at it as well.
Last night around 9ish my wife asked if we could watch Jeopardy with the rotating hosts. I pulled up an episode on demand and accidentally got an Alex Trebek show from 2019…so we watched that and it was great. Plus it was only 20 minutes as Netflix stripped the commercials.
re: #175 Eric The Fruit Bat
While I’d like to see LeVar Burton take a shot at it, I’d also like to see David Letterman take ran at it as well.
Gah, please, no. I’d never be able to watch the show again.
…and I-will-genuflect-and-the-sight-of-a-butter-knife-in-hopes-of-a-royal-dubbing status to facilitate all of that grift, why yes, we could be like paired oxen under the same yoke. But alas, you afflictive sycophant, I went somewhere to be a journalist and ruined all that.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 8, 2021
lol
A gift expected is never worth the giving, you groveling masochist. The fuck have you done to this point that anyone needs to fashion good verbiage specifically designed to shave your hairless ass?
$25 to Ella Thompson Fund of Balt. Parks & People Foundation. Google, plz. Thx. https://t.co/tXQKQoq69A— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 8, 2021
Have you seen this burn of Piers Morgan. She may have you topped.https://t.co/go7i4ztVlM
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 8, 2021
re: #139 darthstar
Now he’s walking the jury through neck anatomy and having them feel their bits. I have to think the defense are just cringing right now.
- handcuffed
- face down
- a threat to no one
- knee on his neck 8-9 minutes
what the hell more do they need?
(i know but….)
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
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McConnell Accuses Dems Of ‘Playing Pointing out we’re playing The Race Card’ Amid Furor On GA Voting Law
re: #176 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeah, if Oz gets it, I’ll never watch again.
re: #176 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck Oz. If he gets it we’re out. We only watched his last day and he was meh. Because he’s Oz, that puts him in the fuck no category for us. I flatly refuse to give him the ratings.
BTW, I agree with you: I was just trying to rate the replacement hosts on their performance(s): AFAIC, if he needs a media outlet, Oz can go back to peddling his quack vitamins on YouTube or whatever…
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You could always find work in a factory, stick at long enough and you could afford to keep your wife at home to raise the family, a modest home, a car and even a vacation. That’s what my father did.
You know what else usually came with factory work? A union.
re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg
You know what else usually came with factory work? A union.
Not a big fan of Springsteen, but he does nail it in The River
Then I got Mary pregnant
And man, that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday
I got a union card and a wedding coat
re: #167 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
From Laughing in Disbelief
Teen Vogue Cancels Representative Matt Gaetz’s SubscriptionThis IS satire (The same crew announced that Pat Robertson will be hosting Jeopardy) but its plausibility shows yet again just how ridiculous the world, especially the GOP consumer niche, has become.
this part is likely true
And there are rumors swirling that he showed inappropriate pictures of the young women he slept with to other representatives on the floor of the House
meanwhile
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that politicians and judges in the country will no longer be exempt from rules barring workplace sexual harassment.
Bookmarked for people who claim Covid is just a flu you shouldn’t be scared of.
1 in 3 COVID-19 survivors diagnosed with brain or mental health disorder, study finds https://t.co/s0R3q5KwBN
— Courier Journal (@courierjournal) April 8, 2021
re: #174 Jay C
I’ll take “Bad Jeopardy! Hosts” for $400, danarchy….
So far, (and it’s REALLY weird to write this), I think the otherwise execrable Dr. Oz has been the best post-Trebek host; with the enthusiastic-if-stage-awkward Mike Richards a close second.
Yeah, not a fan of Oz but he definitely had better stage presence charisma and contestant interaction than anyone else I think. Having done his own talk show for years probably didn’t hurt in that regard. Maybe if Jeopardy hired him they could do the world a favor and add a clause in his contract forbidding him from doing any other media. They could keep him from spreading his quackery.
re: #188 danarchy
Jennings / Edwards
Rogers
Couric
…
…
Oz.
Couric and Oz grated on every last nerve. Rogers was somewhat endearing, especially after the Final Jeopardy answer that talking about the need for a kicker. He was a good sport.
Edwards and Jennings could do the job without too much drama. Jennings got better as it went on.
re: #144 lawhawk
Sabols attorney:
“He made mistakes. He broke the law. He shouldn’t have been there. He clearly interfered with the officers in a way that was assaultive conduct.”
Judge: let us be clear — are you entering a plea of guilty, and if not, why not.
re: #146 lawhawk
My client is clearly a flight risk but, as you probably noticed, the is also clearly white.
re: #154 🌹UOJB!
monthly rent starts at $2,750 for unfurnished
How many rooms, square feet, because this is getting into prices in fucking Paris, but it’s not in Paris.
re: #162 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Welcome to London.
re: #175 Eric The Fruit Bat
While I’d like to see LeVar Burton take a shot at it, I’d also like to see David Letterman take ran at it as well.
I’d love to see Andy Richter do it. Still have such wonderful memories of him beating Wolf Blitzer on Celebrity Jeopardy!
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
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Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
Joe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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