When Deprogramming Goes Horribly Wrong - Short Horror Film: “The Infiltration”

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The Infiltration premiered in Screamfest 2020.

Directed by:
Flynn Falcone
Produced by:
Flynn Falcone, Dan Wally
Written by:
Flynn Falcone
Main Cast:
Mitchell Edwards, Cathryn Dylan, Lindsay Elston, Jon Briddell, Flynn Falcone

Synopsis:
A professional cult infiltrator is hired to penetrate a mysterious group and extract his client’s mind-controlled daughter. He quickly discovers that the undercover job is much more dark and dangerous than he originally bargained for…

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302 comments
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plansbandc  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:39:41pm

CL’d…

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:41:00pm

Just so everyone knows, the county cops in a poker game I play in have embraced the idea of “Constitutional Carry.”

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:41:15pm

re: #1 plansbandc

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stpaulbear  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:44:37pm

re: #175 lawhawk

There’s a house in the next town who had a Trump 2020 3x5 yard sign that was up until a few weeks ago.

It’s now, “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Trump”.

Um…. what are we blaming you for? An economy on the mend, jobs coming back, a competent vaccine rollout nationally, and Trump facing lawsuits/prosecutions, all while his followers are facing trials and plea deals for their insurrection. And Stone faces tax evasion charges.

Trump killed 500,000+ Americans. That’s the only metric that matters. He wrecked the nation, undermined our natsec, and subverted democracy to try and stay in power despite losing in a landslide.

Fuck the GOP.

Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’

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stpaulbear  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:47:51pm

re: #2 Ace Rothstein

Just so everyone knows, the county cops in a poker game I play in have embraced the idea of “Constitutional Carry.”

So they can just go ahead and shoot first at every non-white person they meet?

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Jay C  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:48:02pm

re: #3 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

re: #1 plansbandc

I saw that downstairs. I hope everything goes well with her surgery. I couldn’t imagine having a relative in the hospital during the pandemic.

Moi aussi…
Hopefully, the hospital may have relaxed its visiting rules a bit (especially if you have your “vaccine passport”) - my wife had to go to the hospital last April (at the peak of the COVID “first wave”) - in addition to the fears of infection (because you know these can happen no matter how conscientious they are), there was also the absolute lockdown, so I couldn’t even visit. Hope you don;t have the same problem…

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austin_blue  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:50:46pm

OK, that was just creepy as hell.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:55:15pm

re: #7 austin_blue

OK, that was just creepy as hell.

Beneath the Sunken Place…

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austin_blue  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:55:16pm

re: #1 plansbandc

CL’d…

[Embedded content]

Good luck with that. I would not let She Who Must Be Obeyed within a mile of a hospital for another two weeks because, ya know, that’s where the sick people are.

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:55:18pm

re: #4 stpaulbear

There was a CBS Sunday Morning where they interviewed Bush at his ranch, and it was in support of his new book celebrating immigrants and immigration. Even now, he can’t give a full-throated rebuttal of the white nationalist GOP base. That would be heretical. He can’t denounce Trump and call him what he truly is.

It’s obscene.

But it’s another day in GOP world, where they continue to mainstream white supremacy and goddamned Nazism while the nation is roiled by right wing domestic terrorism, attacks on immigrants, and all egged on by the GOP leader: Trump.

Trump isn’t the cause. He’s the symptom. White nationalists blocked immigration reform when Bush was in office. They’re still at it now. Fox is all-in. OAN is all in.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:56:42pm

When she spots a hawk outside.

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:58:08pm

re: #1 plansbandc

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2021 • 4:59:28pm

Still on a bit of a high from yesterday’s little music outing…and no, I didn’t smoke any pot or eat any edibles. It was just pure joy seeing people I haven’t seen in ages and listening to good music.

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retired cynic  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:05:31pm

re: #11 Dave In Austin

My cat certainly sat up and took notice of that call.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:06:01pm

That Austin shooter is an ex-cop.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:06:03pm

re: #2 Ace Rothstein

Just so everyone knows, the county cops in a poker game I play in have embraced the idea of “Constitutional Carry.”

If it was me, I would tell them I can’t play poker with them anymore, because I can no longer trust them.

Suppose with a little drinking and a big pot comes along? How do you know if one loses they won’t shoot you?

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:06:08pm

Perhaps our Q-Nut crowd in Congress would love to move right in. You know- traditional Anglo-Saxon architecture and all.

yahoo.com

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nines09  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:07:55pm

re: #2 Ace Rothstein

But of course because, you know right?
My last 20 or so years.

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retired cynic  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:08:41pm

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:09:03pm

re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They’re total fish, so I’ll take my chances. It’s good side income.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:13:56pm

From the previous thread

re: #186 nines09

It stinks. It just fucking stinks. Like rubbing your face on stucco. For what. It’s the people who are not family with me. Family stinks.
And that’s the kindest I can say.
Sorry.

I can relate, though it long predates Trump.

I sort of consider Little Green Footballs and Wonkette to be the two sides of my family now, since my actual family disowned me decades ago (and my wife’s family did the same with her).

Both our families are explicitly named in our wills as prohibited from receiving anything from us in an inheritance.

I’ve joked with my wife we could leave our house with Mrs. Shoenkopf and our Smart car with Mr. Johnson (or the other way round), but I’m not sure either of them would want to come to the Nebraska Panhandle (and what they would do with a house here).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:14:09pm

re: #2 Ace Rothstein

Just so everyone knows, the county cops in a poker game I play in have embraced the idea of “Constitutional Carry.”

same in my general region (squinting at a couple of them…) but suddenly it’s NOT OK when the guns are aimed at them.

Kinda like the Texas cops right now

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:15:30pm

re: #1 plansbandc

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:15:38pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:19:41pm

re: #24 jaunte

JFC. And that’s what they did to a WHITE dude.

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bratwurst  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:20:13pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:22:55pm

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

JFC. And that’s what they did to a WHITE dude.

As I have been aware all my life, Slavs are only honourary whites. That can be revoked at any time.

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Cheechako  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:28:03pm

This is somewhat of a surprise:

Alaska Rep. Don Young advocates for Puerto Rico statehood

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:31:24pm

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

As he says, they designed the system to work this way.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:34:31pm

re: #184 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Panhandle Public Health District lists it as the absolute number who have received the complete vaccination series rather than a percentage.

Dividing the number into the estimated population of the area leaves us with 30.4% fully vaccinated. (That number doesn’t include people who did not get their vaccinations in Nebraska, such as me. When my wife gets her second dose I will take my card from the VA in to be entered, but I imagine there are others who won’t for various reasons.)

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stpaulbear  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:35:03pm

re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If it was me, I would tell them I can’t play poker with them anymore, because I can no longer trust them.

Suppose with a little drinking and a big pot comes along? How do you know if one loses they won’t shoot you?

Well you’ll have to listen to “Saturday Night Special” by Lynyrd Skynyrd for the answer.

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nines09  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:36:39pm

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So I would never do this with my wife in the mix, but…
Imagine telling your Trump gun humping neighbors, who I no longer talk to, that I am selling my house and I know some people who buy homes for use by MC Clubs.
Like, I know a few Pagans who are looking for safe houses to expand enrollment and why would that be a bad thing?
Maybe Warlocks but Pagans are my choice…
But it’s all good.
They white.
I got a big basement with a sump pump with a direct sewer dump and maybe a good spot for a meth lab. Who knows, right?

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:37:46pm

re: #1 plansbandc

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stpaulbear  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:38:24pm

re: #28 Cheechako

This is somewhat of a surprise:

Alaska Rep. Don Young advocates for Puerto Rico statehood

Is he sick of being the last new state?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:49:39pm

re: #28 Cheechako

This is somewhat of a surprise:

Alaska Rep. Don Young advocates for Puerto Rico statehood

That, and the last line says fourteen other Republicans have sponsored the bill.

Quick, we need a “Democrats in Disarray” article.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 5:56:14pm

re: #26 bratwurst

That thread is full of scammers people promoting Dogecoin.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:02:32pm

::: watching Atlantic Crossing :::

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:03:46pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:06:03pm

Safety regulators in the US have urged owners of a Peloton treadmill to stop using the product “immediately” if they have children or pets in the home.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says it is aware of 39 incidents including one death, involving the Peloton Tread+.

Peloton had already confirmed the death last month and said children should stay away from the machines.

On Saturday, Peloton called the CPSC’s warning “inaccurate and misleading”.

(more)

Peloton safety: US regulators warn against using treadmill near children (BBC)

Thread, eighteen tweets, caution for video of a child sucked under a Peleton in the first tweet.

CPSC Warns Consumers: Stop Using the Peloton Tread+ (CPSC Website)

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:06:48pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:08:58pm

re: #40 Belafon

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teleskiguy  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:12:08pm

Today was a bit of a revelation for me. Closing Day at Vail Mountain. It’s always a party, and this one was the first in two years, we didn’t get a proper Closing Day last year on account of pandemic. So I stopped by some of my favorite vistas, skied a few runs (skiing today was just okay, snow wasn’t soft enough up high, it didn’t warm up enough for good mashed potato snow, weather was cloudy) and then milled about on the summit, where throngs of people with loud portable speakers and costumes were smiling, laughing… and drinking. As most of you know, I’m sober now, more than a year and a half. I waited for a bit to see if I’d run into anyone I knew, but after a while it got too crowded and I moved on. And I excluded myself, for the first time in my adult life, from Closing Day revelries. I was back at my car at 1:30. I tweeted…

I felt… out of place. There was feelings of melancholy, like I was on the outside of a good time, looking in. In retrospect, it’s just me coming to grips with the new me, and allowing myself to feel these things. And, I did the right thing. Debaucherous drinking everywhere you look? You probably shouldn’t be hanging out there.

And besides, I’m not done skiing this year. Breckenridge doesn’t close until 31 May (with the snow we’ve got, if they make it to that date I’ll be very surprised), I’ll be meeting my birthday ski buddy on our birthday at Winter Park in a few weeks, and Arapahoe Basin’s closing date is TBD.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:14:33pm

This was expected.

Russia expels Czech diplomats over explosion row (BBC)

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Sufficient unto the day...  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:20:56pm

Hey, when I click a tweet, it should open in a new tab. But most of the time it opens in THREE tabs (it’s ONLY 1 or 3 tabs).

This is the only site that does that.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:23:34pm

Why is Waffle House trending on Twitter...and I see it’s something SMOTI is lying about…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:24:04pm

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

As I have been aware all my life, Slavs are only honourary whites. That can be revoked at any time.

curious, when is the last time that happened?
My grandmother (Slovakian) born 1889 in Pennsylvania lost her citizenship in 1929 or thereabouts because she married my Hungarian immigrant grandfather, but I’ve not heard of any other instances beyond then.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:28:16pm

re: #45 🌹UOJB!

Why is Waffle House trending on Twitter...and I see it’s something SMOTI is lying about…

What stupid take did he come up with now?!

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:31:26pm

re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth

curious, when is the last time that happened?
My grandmother (Slovakian) born 1889 in Pennsylvania lost her citizenship in 1929 or thereabouts because she married my Hungarian immigrant grandfather, but I’ve not heard of any other instances beyond then.

Grandma and Grandpa told me about the Palmer Raids under Wilson where around 600 “leftists” were arrested and deported. Prime example was Emma Goldman.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:35:10pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:37:26pm

re: #48 🌹UOJB!

Grandma and Grandpa told me about the Palmer Raids under Wilson where around 600 “leftists” were arrested and deported. Prime example was Emma Goldman.

my mom was born in 1931.
Kinda makes her a non-citizen also.
OTOH, I have a great-uncle (my paternal gram’s brother, but their father was an illegal from Ireland via Canada and a Fenian to boot!) is buried in Arlington, so there may be a trade off there.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:40:24pm

re: #40 Belafon

I do get tired of the education-shaming. One person gets it.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:41:32pm

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I do get tired of the education-shaming. One person gets it.

Boebert is a fucking moron, but it’s not because she has a GED. I know plenty of self-taught geniuses. She’s a moron because she listens to lies and can’t, or won’t, distinguish them from reality.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:44:12pm

re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth

curious, when is the last time that happened?
My grandmother (Slovakian) born 1889 in Pennsylvania lost her citizenship in 1929 or thereabouts because she married my Hungarian immigrant grandfather, but I’ve not heard of any other instances beyond then.

still trying to figure out how my whiteness can be revoked at anytime.

oh wait…my Irishness is even less white than Slovakian.

and then there is my maternal gramp as Rom.

never mind.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:45:15pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

still trying to figure out how my whiteness can be revokedat anytime.

oh wait…my Irishness is even less white than Slovakian.

and then there is my maternal gramp as Rom.

never mind.

Yeah, those of us of Irish descent know the struggle is real, even for white people. My family had the benefit of a Revolutionary War veteran who received a land grant and commendation directly from the Penn family.

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jamesfirecat  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:47:37pm

re: #54 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Yeah, those of us of Irish descent know the struggle is real, even for white people. My family had the benefit of a Revolutionary War veteran who received a land grant and commendation directly from the Penn family.

Alright, we’ll give some land to the ….. and the …. but we don’t want the Irish!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:52:35pm

re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth

curious, when is the last time that happened?
My grandmother (Slovakian) born 1889 in Pennsylvania lost her citizenship in 1929 or thereabouts because she married my Hungarian immigrant grandfather, but I’ve not heard of any other instances beyond then.

I was frequently referred to in school as a “white ni-CLANG” because of my Polish ethnicity.

Had Trump been reëlected, with his requirements that your grandparents had to be “legal” immigrants, I would have lost my citizenship.

If the GOP ever gains power again in its current form, I expect the same.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:53:29pm

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was frequently referred to in school as a “white ni-CLANG” because of my Polish ethnicity.

Had Trump been reëlected, with his requirements that your grandparents had to be “legal” immigrants, I would have lost my citizenship.

If the GOP ever gains power again in its current form, I expect the same.

I was an Irish Protestant who went to school in a region populated mostly with Polish Catholics. “Ostracized” would be an understatement when it comes to my upbringing.

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Varek Raith  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:53:45pm

Good evening.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:53:59pm

re: #58 Varek Raith

Good evening.

*WHACK!*

Where the FUCK have you been?!

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:54:49pm

re: #58 Varek Raith

Hello there. Long time no see.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:55:18pm

re: #54 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Yeah, those of us of Irish descent know the struggle is real, even for white people. My family had the benefit of a Revolutionary War veteran who received a land grant and commendation directly from the Penn family.

MrBWS’s forebears arrived here in the 1600s from the border counties.
Lots of difficulties sorting out details.
And we think they may have been Border Reivers, which would explain much.

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teleskiguy  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:56:11pm

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

Boebert is a fucking moron, but it’s not because she has a GED. I know plenty of self-taught geniuses. She’s a moron because she listens to lies and can’t, or won’t, distinguish them from reality.

Jake Cinninger, guitarist for Umphrey’s McGee, didn’t finish high school. He’s a musical genius.

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Varek Raith  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:57:57pm

Working at home has made me hate my pc. That’s why long time no see.
:D

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:59:19pm

re: #63 Varek Raith

I understand. Unfortunately I have to head to work tomorrow. Good Night to my fellow Lizards.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 18, 2021 • 6:59:54pm

re: #62 teleskiguy

Dave Grohl dropped out to go get into a beat up van and travel with a punk band before Nirvana. His mom was a teacher and she understood Dave had ADHD and the school system could only do so much. So she let her 17 yr old leave school and become a touring musician. It didn’t turn out too bad…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:00:31pm

re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth

MrBWS’s forebears arrived here in the 1600s from the border counties.
Lots of difficulties sorting out details.
And we think they may have been Border Reivers, which would explain much.

My family went from France, to the Scottish isles, to Northern Ireland, to Philadelphia, in about as many generations. The one mystery that’s still not completely solved is my dad’s mom’s family, who left Kentucky for reasons still unclear during the run-up to the Civil War, and where records were lost. It seems like there was some kind of disowning going on, but nothing concrete has surfaced.

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Jay C  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:00:36pm

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was frequently referred to in school as a “white ni-CLANG” because of my Polish ethnicity.

Had Trump been reëlected, with his requirements that your grandparents had to be “legal” immigrants, I would have lost my citizenship.

If the GOP ever gains power again in its current form, I expect the same.

Yeah that “grandfather clause” would have been a MF: I realize that all four of my grandparents were immigrants (all here by 1910 or so) - but proving their “citizenship” at this point would be kind of difficult…

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teleskiguy  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:00:51pm

re: #65 A Mom Anon

Dave Grohl dropped out to go get into a beat up van and travel with a punk band before Nirvana. His mom was a teacher and she understood Dave had ADHD and the school system could only do so much. So she let her 17 yr old leave school and become a touring musician. It didn’t turn out too bad…

Third wealthiest drummer in history, behind Phil Collins and Ringo Starr.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:01:11pm

re: #63 Varek Raith

Working at home has made me hate my pc. That’s why long time no see.
:D

I can understand that. It’s good to see you.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:03:40pm

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was frequently referred to in school as a “white ni-CLANG” because of my Polish ethnicity.

Had Trump been reëlected, with his requirements that your grandparents had to be “legal” immigrants, I would have lost my citizenship.

If the GOP ever gains power again in its current form, I expect the same.

that is so weird. You have a closer connection to white American citizenship than I do (because I’m half black-Irish and half Slovakian/Rom) and I have never had worries about being called a white ni-CLANG.
I grew up in immigrant communities, so it’s just so weird when you say stuff like that.
Especially since one of my grade schools was St. Florian’s in Buffalo NY where we were taught by Felician Polish nuns. And St Florian’s was a major presence in the community.

Purity people are so fucking weird

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:05:19pm
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Varek Raith  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:06:33pm

So, how have you all been?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:07:18pm

re: #72 Varek Raith

So, how have you all been?

Up and down. It’s been a long, hard road. But I can say that I’m still here, I’m still kicking ass, and the near future looks bright.

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nines09  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:12:42pm

Not as bad as the eventual Led Zeppelin Black Dog on flute on the 25 story elevator ride, but Applebee’s is now using AC-DC Back in Black for tv commercials.
I have to lay down longer now because either I’m having a cardiac episode or my leather jacket was pleather.

But who can blame them? Family and loved ones…After all, sell it, divvy it up, and after you shed this mortal coil, they can just fold paper and argue less than they would pulling the bones off your carcass.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:17:14pm
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A Cranky One  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:18:37pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

Today was a bit of a revelation for me. Closing Day at Vail Mountain. It’s always a party, and this one was the first in two years, we didn’t get a proper Closing Day last year on account of pandemic. So I stopped by some of my favorite vistas, skied a few runs (skiing today was just okay, snow wasn’t soft enough up high, it didn’t warm up enough for good mashed potato snow, weather was cloudy) and then milled about on the summit, where throngs of people with loud portable speakers and costumes were smiling, laughing… and drinking. As most of you know, I’m sober now, more than a year and a half. I waited for a bit to see if I’d run into anyone I knew, but after a while it got too crowded and I moved on. And I excluded myself, for the first time in my adult life, from Closing Day revelries. I was back at my car at 1:30. I tweeted…

I felt… out of place. There was feelings of melancholy, like I was on the outside of a good time, looking in. In retrospect, it’s just me coming to grips with the new me, and allowing myself to feel these things. And, I did the right thing. Debaucherous drinking everywhere you look? You probably shouldn’t be hanging out there.

And besides, I’m not done skiing this year. Breckenridge doesn’t close until 31 May (with the snow we’ve got, if they make it to that date I’ll be very surprised), I’ll be meeting my birthday ski buddy on our birthday at Winter Park in a few weeks, and Arapahoe Basin’s closing date is TBD.

Dude, you rock. Respect.

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plansbandc  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:19:40pm

re: #9 austin_blue

Yeah, she doesn’t want us near the place. Dude is really upset because we can’t really visit.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:22:00pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

that is so weird. You have a closer connection to white American citizenship than I do (because I’m half black-Irish and half Slovakian/Rom) and I have never had worries about being called a white ni-CLANG.
I grew up in immigrant communities, so it’s just so weird when you say stuffl ike that.
Especially since one of my grade schools was St. Florian’s in Buffalo NY where we were taught by Felician Polish nuns. And St Florian’s was a major presence in the community.

Purity people are so fucking weird

My hair grew as an Afro. 3rd grade teacher thought it was so funny to call me “N-Word-Head” and that stuck all thru the day I got out of High School Hell. Bad enough she did it so did the rest of the teachers, the coaches and staff encouraged kids to use that slur.

65+ now and I do not forget and I do not forgive. Assholes made the fatal mistake once of sending “N-Word Head” an invitation to the high school reunion.

I replied in the words of Ricky Nelson with one line alteration…

If you got to play at garden parties
I wish you a lot of luck
But if memories were all I need
I’ll tell you all to get F*$#%d!

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:23:48pm

re: #75 The Pie Overlord!

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:25:41pm

re: #78 🌹UOJB!

My hair grew as an Afro. 3rd grade teacher thought it was so funny to call me “N-Word-Head” and that stuck all thru the day I got out of High School Hell. Bad enough she did it so did the rest of the teachers, the coaches and staff encouraged kids to use that slur.

This was also my “nickname” in elementary and middle school, but thankfully that stopped once our school was integrated in 1964 and I made a bunch of new friends who were all “N-Word-Heads.”

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:27:43pm

re: #78 🌹UOJB!

re: #80 The Pie Overlord!

Geez. I grew up in an era where using the N-word was verboten. Of course, we also had one token Black person in a high school of ~520 students (graduated 3rd in a class of 136).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:28:28pm

re: #72 Varek Raith

So, how have you all been?

I’ve got my first Moderna shot and waiting for county health department to call me for the second jab

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:29:04pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve got my first Moderna shot and waiting for county health department to call me for the second jab

Mrs. Fish had to schedule both of hers in advance. So her appointments are both fully locked in.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:30:34pm

re: #78 🌹UOJB!

My hair grew as an Afro. 3rd grade teacher thought it was so funny to call me “N-Word-Head” and that stuck all thru the day I got out of High School Hell. Bad enough she did it so did the rest of the teachers, the coaches and staff encouraged kids to use that slur.

65+ now and I do not forget and I do not forgive. Assholes made the fatal mistake once of sending “N-Word Head” an invitation to the high school reunion.

I replied in the words of Ricky Nelson with one line alteration…

If you got to play at garden parties
I wish you a lot of luck
But if memories were all I need
I’ll tell you all to get F*$#%d!

well, you aren’t Polish so you must be white enough as long as you aren’t in Nebraska.

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Varek Raith  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:31:14pm

I get my second Phizer shot this Thursday.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:32:41pm

Kid gloves treatment.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:33:35pm

The police listen to this aggressive fool for almost five minutes before cuffing her.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:34:36pm

re: #85 Varek Raith

I get my second Phizer shot this Thursday.

Atta way. I love to see lizards doing the right thing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:35:12pm

re: #83 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Mrs. Fish had to schedule both of hers in advance. So her appointments are both fully locked in.

not sure what is happening here.
My county had 600 J&J doses available and scheduled this past Wednesday…the day after CDC paused those jabs.
They gave out the Moderna jabs on hand instead for those who showed up for the J&J

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:37:26pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

not sure what is happening here.
My county had 600 J&J doses available and scheduled this past Wednesday…the day after CDC paused those jabs.
They gave out the Moderna jabs on hand instead for those who showed up for the J&J

I got the J&J vaccine literally like 2 days before Minnesota paused rollout of that vaccine. That’s probably why Mrs. Fish was designated for the Pfizer vaccine at a different site, instead of being given the option of going downtown.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:40:05pm

re: #86 jaunte

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Kid gloves treatment.

I love happy endings when Karens and Kens get arrested for being assholes.

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Varek Raith  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:41:44pm

Me - Put a mask on!
Moron - NO.
Me - So you’ve chosen taser.
/…?

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:42:55pm

And she’s a School Board candidate, too!

And of course this happened in Texas…

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Jay C  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:43:16pm

The re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

not sure what is happening here.
My county had 600 J&J doses available and scheduled this past Wednesday…the day after CDC paused those jabs.
They gave out the Moderna jabs on hand instead for those who showed up for the J&J

They’re lucky they had an alternative supply. - we are still waiting to hear from the City about Mrs. Jay’s putative appointment for an in-home shot: they were using the J&J vaccine, and apparently the whole program is now on hold.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 7:52:53pm

Within the past hour the Citizen app on my iPhone shows 2 shootings and 2 knife attacks in Los Angeles…

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:02:35pm

re: #93 🌹UOJB!

And she’s a School Board candidate, too!

And of course this happened in Texas…

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I love happy endings. 🤣

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:04:31pm

.

Brand New 3D View of the Iceland Volcanic Eruption | Geldingadalur, Iceland April 18, 2021

See: sketchfab.com

That website won’t load the 3D model for me, saying my browser is not WebGL capable… but my browser is WebGL capable, so I don’t know what is going on. Instead, I get a 360 degree view.

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HypnoToad  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:07:58pm

I’d never met a fox outdoors before, but this morning one wandered by my hangar out at the airport. There were planes taxiing and departing, along with various joggers along a trail outside the perimeter fence—it was completely unfazed by the activity, so must have been a local resident. It was a surprise to see it at 10 AM, as they are normally nocturnal.

I had to go retrieve my camera; when I’d returned it had wandered off between the taxiway and further runway; so was about twice as far away as when I first saw him or her. (Either a well-fed todd, or a preggers vixen)

I gave a shout for it to look at the camera; it complied before going back to nosing around in the grass.
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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:10:28pm
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retired cynic  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:10:44pm

re: #98 HypnoToad

Fox or coyote?

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Dave In Austin  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:12:28pm

re: #98 HypnoToad

Looks like a Yote. Foxes are very rarely seen in daylight. Yotes? They care not.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:12:51pm

sean was always so in over his head

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:13:35pm

re: #100 retired cynic

Fox or coyote?

Yeah, those ears look a little sus to me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:14:03pm

re: #47 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

What stupid take did he come up with now?!

Apparently it’s over this brawl in a Georgia Waffle House (video, 0:45)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:14:21pm

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:14:37pm

re: #2 Ace Rothstein

Just so everyone knows, the county cops in a poker game I play in have embraced the idea of “Constitutional Carry.”

Blunderbuss for all!!!!

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:15:07pm

re: #99 Dangerman

Coming from a clown who dresses up like a pimp on Sesame Street!

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HypnoToad  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:15:26pm

re: #100 retired cynic

Fox or coyote?

Definite red fox, I’d gotten a closer look before taking the pics. I’ve seen several coyotes on my early morning walks so am familiar with them. Addendum: It was also considerably smaller than even a young coyote.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:17:20pm

As if we didn’t figure this out already…

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:18:14pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:24:57pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:25:26pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:39:55pm

re: #112 teleskiguy

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He’s hooked on Wingnut Welfare money just like every other asshole QAPer.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:40:56pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:41:32pm

re: #112 teleskiguy

I’ll be heading to your neck of the woods tomorrow. Wife and I are staying in Estes Park for a few days. Just in time for 4/20 no less. 😛

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:47:16pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:54:27pm

We use Faux News for Fox and I’ve decided to assign Noisemax to Newsmax. Any pithy suggestion for OAN? Obsessive Atrocious Nihilists is way too long.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:54:56pm

Putin’s helpers at the NRA are working overtime.

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teleskiguy  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:55:16pm

re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ll be heading to your neck of the woods tomorrow. Wife and I are staying in Estes Park for a few days. Just in time for 4/20 no less. 😛

If you want to partake in our state’s cannabis economy, you won’t be able to in Estes Park, dispensaries are prohibited there. On the way to Estes Park, in Denver there’s *tons* of weed stores, as well as in Boulder. Closest dispensary to Estes Park is in Lyons, at the mouth of St. Vrain Canyon.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:55:24pm

The Onion:

Police Department To Avoid Future Errors By Replacing All Equipment Officers Carry With Guns

BROOKLYN CENTER, MN— In a swift response to renewed calls for reform following the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, the Brooklyn Center Police Department announced Tuesday that they would avoid future errors by replacing all equipment that officers carry with guns. “Handcuffs, nightsticks, pepper spray—anything an officer could possibly reach for while on duty will now be a semi-automatic pistol to make sure we’re not making any more mistakes,” said acting police chief Tony Greunig, who called former police officer Kim Potter’s lethal mix-up between her gun and Taser a “tragic accident” that could have easily been avoided had she been carrying nothing but dozens of guns in the first place. “This comprehensive citywide initiative will ensure our officers never make the same mistake again. Regardless of the situation they’re responding to, the officer will always be reaching for a gun. Gun shoes, gun badge, gun hat, gun car. Kevlar vests will be placed by a full bandolier of guns covering both sides of our chests.” At press time, dozens of Brooklyn Center residents were dead after an officer had mistakenly reached for his AR-15 rather than his Glock 17.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:56:32pm

re: #119 teleskiguy

If you want to partake in our state’s cannabis economy, you won’t be able to in Estes Park, dispensaries are prohibited there. On the way to Estes Park, in Denver there’s *tons* of weed stores, as well as in Boulder. Closest dispensary to Estes Park is in Lyons, at the mouth of St. Vrain Canyon on the way to Estes Park.

I just asked my wife about a trip to Estes Park (something like an LGF meetup) but she doesn’t want to take a road trip right now (we’ve been on the road too much over the last couple weeks).

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:57:51pm

I discussed this last year. If Minnesota enacts this law, disabled people will not be able to protest.

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:58:16pm

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I haven’t read the other stuff, but learning from other smart people is what smart people do. A lot of people do it in a classroom, but that’s not necessarily what everyone does. The problem i have is with the people who, either at the end of high school, college, or whenever they ended their formal education, decide they are done with learning. I work with far too many that have degrees and have stopped learning.

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plansbandc  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:58:17pm

re: #119 teleskiguy

Boulder to Lyons is a nice bike ride.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2021 • 8:58:51pm
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retired cynic  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:00:32pm

re: #122 Sherlock Hound

I discussed this last year. If Minnesota enacts this law, disabled people will not be able to protest.

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Surely that would be unconstitutional? Naw, probably not.

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teleskiguy  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:01:37pm

re: #124 plansbandc

I know a few folks who have ridden Boulder to Boulder via Nederland > Ward > Allenspark > Estes Park > Lyons > Boulder. Hardcore shit.

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:02:20pm

re: #122 Sherlock Hound

I discussed this last year. If Minnesota enacts this law, disabled people will not be able to protest.

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I see what they’re trying to do - stop people from looting or damaging property - but the law won’t be interpreted that way.

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austin_blue  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:04:09pm

re: #98 HypnoToad

I’d never met a fox outdoors before, but this morning one wandered by my hangar out at the airport. There were planes taxiing and departing, along with various joggers along a trail outside the perimeter fence—it was completely unfazed by the activity, so must have been a local resident. It was a surprise to see it at 10 AM, as they are normally nocturnal.

I had to go retrieve my camera; when I’d returned it had wandered off between the taxiway and further runway; so was about twice as far away as when I first saw him or her. (Either a well-fed todd, or a preggers vixen)

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Or rabid. Red foxes are one of the most common rabies vectors. along with bats and raccoons.

I had to shoot a trash panda in my back yard 5 years ago. Staggering, frothing, yelling at me, stumbling at me, got the shotgun and killed it. Called animal control to test it. Positive.

I felt awful.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:06:05pm

re: #126 retired cynic

Surely that would be unconstitutional? Naw, probably not.

It would seem to be unconstitutional, but that never stopped anyone…
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That said, the bill doesn’t have any cosponsors, so hope it dies in committee.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:06:49pm

re: #119 teleskiguy

If you want to partake in our state’s cannabis economy, you won’t be able to in Estes Park, dispensaries are prohibited there. On the way to Estes Park, in Denver there’s *tons* of weed stores, as well as in Boulder. Closest dispensary to Estes Park is in Lyons, at the mouth of St. Vrain Canyon.

Thanks for the heads up! 👍🏼

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:06:56pm

Decided to search “Shreveport shooting.”

1 dead, several injured in multiple shootings in Shreveport
Oh, wait, that was 2 weeks ago.

Maybe this one:
Shreveport police investigate shooting, detain possible suspect
Closer, but, no, this one was ten days ago.

Oh, here we are, unless there was another mass shooting in Shreveport today, which would not seem to be impossible at this point.
Five people injured at a shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana - KSLA

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Teukka  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:07:19pm

re: #110 Dangerman

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:07:50pm

Another shooting in the Lennox section of Los Angeles leaves 1 dead…

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:09:45pm
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jaunte  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:11:51pm

“According to the Texas Rangers and Travis County court records, Broderick is a former Travis County Sheriff’s detective and was charged with sexual assault of a child in June 2020.

He bonded out of jail days after his arrest, and resigned from the sheriff’s office, according to a spokeswoman.”
kxan.com

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:12:32pm

I’m fucking sick of the Tiny Penis Club.

It’s time for Letitia James to kill the NRA.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:15:40pm

re: #122 Sherlock Hound

I discussed this last year. If Minnesota enacts this law, disabled people will not be able to protest.

Posted as a magic balance fairy. “Minnesota” didn’t propose this, one wingnut Republican proposed this.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:16:19pm
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plansbandc  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:27:43pm

re: #127 teleskiguy

Yeah, that was a bit over my skill level, but I did ride the Morgul Bismark (the route) on a mountain bike without pedal straps. :D

Oh to be in that kind of shape again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:27:51pm

re: #128 Belafon

I see what they’re trying to do - stop people from looting or damaging property - but the law won’t be interpreted that way.

Looting and property damage are already illegal.

They are trying to stop protests. The person who filed the bill is a Republican; all conservatives lie.

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austin_blue  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:28:36pm

re: #134 🌹UOJB!

Another shooting in the Lennox section of Los Angeles leaves 1 dead…

It’s almost not even worth mentioning solo gunshot deaths anymore. Over sixty a day are suicides (I have decided to retire from the well-regulated militia). Oh, that’s called irony, by the way.

We’ve got enough mass shootings to fill up newspaper pages every day. They’re good for business.

Then there’s the old “If I can’t love her, nobody else will” which results in a murder and a suicide or a double-murder and a suicide, or occasionally, like in Austin today, a triple-murder and “I may or may not jack myself, depending on how far my police training can get me away from Central Texas in the next 36 hours”.

The definition of a mass shooting is at least four casualties. I guarantee you that the families of the three dead people today absolutely think it is a mass shooting. If the shooter had jacked himself after executing three people, it would have made the grade.

It makes me sick to my stomach that we make these distinctions when quantifying human pain. Any death lessens me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:31:19pm

re: #142 austin_blue

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:38:04pm

The Voter ID bill would only affect cities (primarily Democratic voters) as rural areas all use mandatory absentee ballots.

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austin_blue  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:42:49pm

re: #135 jaunte

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Godammit. Godammit it to hell to hell and perdition.

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austin_blue  Apr 18, 2021 • 9:48:37pm

Fuck it. I’m off to bed. The world was too terrible today.

I can’t even right now.

Talk atcha tomorrow.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 10:14:08pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2021 • 10:33:05pm

Snow tomorrow. Yay (not).

I’m off to watch “The Empire Strikes Back.” Catch ya after the Rebels kick Empire butt.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 18, 2021 • 11:15:07pm

Video of Tesla Model 3 crashing into a truck on Autopilot goes viral.

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 19, 2021 • 12:10:52am

re: #149 Dread Pirate Ron

Video of Tesla Model 3 crashing into a truck on Autopilot goes viral.

That should buff right out.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 19, 2021 • 12:18:53am

Omaha police arrest brothers in connection with fatal shooting at Westroads Mall (Omaha World-Herald)

Omaha police have arrested two brothers in connection with Saturday’s fatal shooting at Westroads Mall.

Makhi Woolridge-Jones, 16, and Brandon Woolridge-Jones, 18, both of Omaha, have been arrested in connection with the death of Trequez Swift, 21, Deputy Chief Ken Kanger said Sunday. The two are identified as brothers in a petition for a protection order filed by their mother in Douglas County Court.

The younger brother has been charged with first-degree murder in an arrest warrant. Brandon Woolridge-Jones, 18, was arrested on suspicion of being an accessory to a felony. Reached by telephone Sunday, the mother of the two brothers declined to comment.

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 12:23:16am

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

JFC. And that’s what they did to a WHITE dude.

I think that was more a case of inept bureaucrats afraid of arbitrary reprimands for failure to follow incomprehensible guidelines

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 19, 2021 • 12:58:49am

re: #149 Dread Pirate Ron

“… One of the victims was found in the front passenger seat and the other in the backseat….

… Investigators said that based on the evidence at the scene, it seems the car was going very fast when it lost control and landed more than 100 feet off the road. The car then exploded and firefighters spent four hours and over 30,000 gallons of water trying to drown the flames, Herman said. …”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 19, 2021 • 1:08:35am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 1:11:50am

Why do shootings like this have to be more frequent than a DT Presidential dump rage tweet?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 19, 2021 • 1:14:23am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 19, 2021 • 1:20:55am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Let It Snow / Gypsy Jazz - La Bouche Manouche Feat. Irene Serra

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 19, 2021 • 1:37:24am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 19, 2021 • 1:58:40am

Discovered that Youtube Movies has Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds, a Korean movie (that was very popular when it came out, and awarded) that I rather like. Recommended for those who haven’t seen it:

Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds

..

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 19, 2021 • 1:59:43am

My wife and I get our second vaccine dose tomorrow.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 19, 2021 • 2:04:07am
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ericblair  Apr 19, 2021 • 2:20:20am

re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This was expected.

Russia expels Czech diplomats over explosion row (BBC)

Having the Czechs kick out so many Russian spies from the embassy is a Big Deal, since the Czech Republic is/was the Russian base of operations for a lot of Eastern Europe. This is right after the Bulgarians rolled up a bunch of Russian intelligence operations in a pretty public way.

In case anyone wants to know what the spat is about, in 2014 the SAME FUCKING GUYS who tried to kill the Skripals in the UK sabotaged an arms shipment from CZE to Ukraine, and likely fucked it up so it blew up in CZE killing two people.

The Russian government/media borg is taking it well: the Czechs are all lapdogs of their US/UK masters (because dominance and submission are the only concepts the Kremlin understands). So boo hoo everybody is ganging up on poor Russia (who’s a Superpower, doncha know).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 2:22:01am

re: #162 ericblair

The Russian government/media borg is taking it well: the Czechs are all lapdogs of their US/UK masters (because dominance and submission are the only concepts the Kremlin understands). So boo hoo everybody is ganging up on poor Russia (who’s a Superpower, doncha know).

There are plenty of Putinverstehers out there who are ready to buy into that version of events.

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ericblair  Apr 19, 2021 • 2:26:36am

re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are plenty of Putinverstehers out there who are ready to buy into that version of events.

Oh sure, and will continue to parrot whatever nonsense Perviy Kanal pumps out as long as it fulfils their emotional and/or financial needs. You’d also think that after enough German, Austrian, and so on senior government officials just sort of roll right into very well paying Rosneft directorships after leaving office, people might start getting a little suspicious of Putinphiles in European governments.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 2:33:33am

re: #164 ericblair

Oh sure, and will continue to parrot whatever nonsense Perviy Kanal pumps out as long as it fulfils their emotional and/or financial needs. ..

and those who are so virulently anti-Capitalist and anti-Western that they see Putin as some sort of hero and advocate of the Poor and Downtrodden

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William Lewis  Apr 19, 2021 • 3:30:35am

Oh, the joys of working a hotel…

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Nojay UK  Apr 19, 2021 • 3:54:32am

First flight of Ingenuity on Mars confirmed. Safe touchdown.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 19, 2021 • 4:04:26am

re: #167 Nojay UK

First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: Live from Mission Control

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 19, 2021 • 4:06:45am

re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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Space nerds are so freaking cool. Good job, folks.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 19, 2021 • 4:14:01am

Go to 46:28 to watch the short video of the hover of Ingenuity, then landing. Low frame rate.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 19, 2021 • 4:40:33am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 19, 2021 • 4:59:08am

Ugh. My fucking stupid state senator being the best Republican he can possibly be, that is to say, a completely autocratic asshat.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 5:05:53am

re: #172 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Ugh. My fucking stupid state senator being the best Republican he can possibly be, that is to say, a completely autocratic asshat.

Minnesota is becoming China

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 19, 2021 • 5:10:06am

Well, we finished watching the Rebels blow up the second Death Star.

I’m headed to bed … catch y’all later.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 19, 2021 • 5:15:46am

re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Minnesota is becoming China

It doesn’t stand a chance of getting passed. The Minnesota House is controlled by actual adults. That said, I’ll probably end up having to eat my words pretty soon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 5:18:59am

re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, we finished watching the Rebels blow up the second Death Star.

I’m headed to bed … catch y’all later.

Daughter also got Disney channel, we got through episodes 1-3 of The Mandalorian at the weekend, with baby Yoda and Space Ranger Karen.

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ericblair  Apr 19, 2021 • 5:22:37am

So, people who voted for Brexit weren’t generally Economically Anxious per right wing propaganda; many or most were comfortably well off, but wanted to drag the country to an earlier half-mythical age to restore a Sense of Pride and where everyone knew their place. Sounds familiar somehow.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 5:23:51am

re: #177 ericblair

So, people who voted for Brexit weren’t generally Economically Anxious per right wing propaganda; many or most were comfortably well off, but wanted to drag the country to an earlier half-mythical age to restore a Sense of Pride and where everyone knew their place. Sounds familiar somehow.

Returning to their Anglo-Saxon traditions, indeed…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 19, 2021 • 5:29:46am
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 19, 2021 • 5:46:06am

re: #172 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

It’s not going to pass.

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 5:48:44am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Woke up this morning figuring that I’d need to spend hours trying to get myself scheduled for a vaccine and it was the most anti climatic outcome.

First site I checked had available time slots this week. So the Mrs. and I are now both scheduled for our first shots. This means that by the end of May we are going to be imbued with superpowers. Or at least a greater protection against covid19.

Woo.

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jeffreyw  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:21:16am

punk ass blue jay

Good morning!

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:22:27am
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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:23:00am
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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:24:46am
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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:26:00am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:29:11am

Coming up on 630 here on the West Coast.

Any more mass shootings this morning that I missed because I know they are coming…

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:30:37am
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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:32:39am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:35:20am

Alert!

Bimborella strikes out again…

Marjorie Taylor Greene Introducing Resolution to Expel Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress

newsweek.com

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:38:37am

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:40:16am
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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:40:33am
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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:46:24am

The noisy left gets the media attention, but don’t represent Democrats:

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darthstar  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:51:59am

re: #153 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Did not opt for the autopilot on ours. Also don’t use the self steering…cruise, yes, but I control the wheel.

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darthstar  Apr 19, 2021 • 6:59:41am
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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:00:37am

And now… something Marvel-ous:

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:01:02am

re: #196 darthstar

*chef’s kiss* perfection.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:02:36am
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darthstar  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:03:18am
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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:12:25am
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Dangerman  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:15:20am

re: #186 Belafon

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Republicans say less than 6% of Biden’s plan is traditional infrastructure

Call it infrastructure, call it janofsky
The problems are the same still exist and still need to be dealt with

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A Mom Anon  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:15:55am

re: #200 darthstar

For free too. There are a lot of people who still think they have to pay for the vaccines out of pocket or if they don’t have insurance they have to pay full price out of pocket. Nope. Hell they never even asked us about insurance or anything related to payment. The only thing I wasn’t thrilled about is driving a half hour to get to the drive thru place. As of now, there are at least a dozen pharmacies close to here, within 5 miles, that have the shots available. Which is awesome. When I made our appointments there weren’t any pharmacies that had reliable supplies, now that’s not an issue.

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darthstar  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:16:36am

Today is day 14 after dose 2 for me. No doorknobs though.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:18:21am

re: #203 A Mom Anon

For free too. There are a lot of people who still think they have to pay for the vaccines out of pocket or if they don’t have insurance they have to pay full price out of pocket. Nope. Hell they never even asked us about insurance or anything related to payment. The only thing I wasn’t thrilled about is driving a half hour to get to the drive thru place. As of now, there are at least a dozen pharmacies close to here, within 5 miles, that have the shots available. Which is awesome. When I made our appointments there weren’t any pharmacies that had reliable supplies, now that’s not an issue.

They asked about my insurance when I registered and when I got the actual shot; however, they were very explicit that insurance isn’t required and that the shot is free of charge. I didn’t have my new insurance cards from my new job yet, but Mrs. Fish does have now.

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Dangerman  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:19:22am

re: #189 Belafon

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But the capitol…..

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:22:10am

re: #206 Dangerman

But the capitol…..

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I hope the church is locked up so they can’t use the bathrooms.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:28:32am

America is back to normal, and nothing will be done about it.

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Dangerman  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:29:19am
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former Fox News host and Trump campaign adviser, will serve as the national chair of Eric Greitens’s Senate campaign, a move that suggests the disgraced former Missouri governor is deepening his ties to former President Trump’s orbit,” The Hill reports.

Everything you need to know about Rs

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darthstar  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:30:01am

re: #209 Dangerman

Everything you need to know about Rs

She’s not fucking Jr anymore.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:30:44am

re: #204 darthstar

Today is day 14 after dose 2 for me. No doorknobs though.

My wife is back to working normal hours in her office three weeks after her second shot. This is good, because now she doesn’t have to go in on nights and weekends to deal with the paperwork that piles up on her desk.

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Dangerman  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:32:30am

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A Mom Anon  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:33:46am

re: #206 Dangerman

If I was the pastor of that church, I would start making phone calls to people who would take in people in their homes and help. Then I would get myself interviews on local news and hold press conferences. Along with going out into the community and talking about community policing vs warrior cop training, and education about civil rights in the community. And gather other church leaders together and go see the chief of police and other local officials.

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darthstar  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:36:44am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

My wife is back to working normal hours in her office three weeks after her second shot. This is good, because now she doesn’t have to go in on nights and weekends to deal with the paperwork that piles up on her desk.

I’m going to start going in a day or two a week - just for the change of scenery. Actually can get much more done at home but commuting time means people can’t talk to me.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:39:02am

re: #209 Dangerman

Everything you need to know about Rs

Has Grietens tied her up yet and done other naughty things to her?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:39:05am

re: #215 darthstar

I’m going to start going in a day or two a week - just for the change of scenery. Actually can get much more done at home but commuting time means people can’t talk to me.

When the kids are done with school for the summer, I’m going to start going back to the office 2-3 days a week, because I guarantee I won’t be able to handle them being at home all day every day for 3 months.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:42:30am

There are reasons that Trumpers aren’t getting vaccinated.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:43:51am

re: #216 🌹UOJB!

Has Grietens tied her up yet and done other naughty things to her?

A match made in heaven hell.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:45:43am

re: #218 No Malarkey!

There are reasons that Trumpers aren’t getting vaccinated.

If they weren’t getting other people killed in the process, I would seriously have to consider releasing my IDGAF side.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:49:20am

re: #218 No Malarkey!

There are reasons that Trumpers aren’t getting vaccinated.

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You know, they ask you if you’re allergic when you sit down to get the shot. You’re SUPPOSED to say “yes” if you’re actually allergic to something.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:49:54am

re: #216 🌹UOJB!

I’m just going to file that in my “Things I REALLY don’t want to know about” file…

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:51:44am

Media outlets are noting that police are gearing up for protests/riots should the Chauvin verdict come down.

No. They’re not going to riot if the Chauvin verdict is handed down. They’re going to have vigils until the verdict comes down. If Chauvin is somehow not found guilty for murdering George Floyd, there will be protests, and cops will engage in violent responses to even peaceful protests. As it is, they’re pushing curfews and other anti-1A tactics including attacking legitimate journalists covering those protests.

It’s further proof that policing in the country is fucked up beyond all recognition and our priorities are likewise screwed up.

NYC is often a leading indicator of where we are with policing. 30,000+ cops. A budget of over $10 billion a year. And they pay out $200 million a year in settlements/verdicts due to police brutality and excessive force. They consider this a cost of doing business - a rounding error. Who pays that? The very communities that are hardest hit by the disproportionate use of force against persons of color.

So when Eric Garner’s family gets a settlement of $5.9 from NYC, it’s the city’s taxpayers who foot that bill. Not the NYPD. Not the officers or the union involved. The NYPD is unmoved by those settlements. The union is unmoved by those settlements.

They just keep doing what they’ve been doing. They keep engaging in aggressive tactics, including those that violate the 1A when they swarm and escalate violence during peaceful protests using tactics like kettling.

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darthstar  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:52:02am
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:52:43am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:53:53am

re: #224 darthstar

Which is why I ignore the New Republican ever since Andrew Sullivan turned it into another cog in the QAP 24/7 Bullshit Machine.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:53:54am

re: #189 Belafon

Why is everyone allowing this to happen? Where are the politicians to push back on this police thuggery? I thought Minneapolis defunded the police. They definitely need to take away their immunity and start prosecuting them for this overreach. They’re behaving like the Gestapo.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:54:20am

Ah and this is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing…

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Dangerman  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:57:54am

re: #221 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

You know, they ask you if you’re allergic when you sit down to get the shot. You’re SUPPOSED to say “yes” if you’re actually allergic to something.

when i see an ad pushed by a drug company it usually includes disclaimers like “dont take this if you’re allergic”

then i say to mrsdm that i cant believe we live in a country where they have to say this

- dont use a hair dryer in the shower
- dont stand up this ladder in shit

etc

alas we do, because they will

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 19, 2021 • 7:59:26am

re: #227 Patricia Kayden

Why is everyone allowing this to happen? Where are the politicians to push back on this police thuggery? I thought Minneapolis defunded the police. They definitely need to take away their immunity and start prosecuting them for this overreach. They’re behaving like the Gestapo.

They most definitely did not, not yet, at any rate. In addition, this isn’t the Minneapolis Police Department, this is a suburb that is its own city. I’m sure there are some fine state representatives who are pushing back on this, but I’m disappointed to say that the governor - whom I otherwise love, he’s been taking good care of us during the pandemic - is kinda taking the asshole view here and admonishing the protesters about not picking fights with the police. Like, what the fuck, man, are you really that blind to what’s going on in our own neighborhood?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:04:09am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:08:22am
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:09:21am

re: #182 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

If your erect feathers last more than four hours…
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:12:36am

re: #231 No Malarkey!

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I don’t miss seeing the latest shit from Garrison or his pal McNaughton but I’m sure they’re still creating vile shit attacking Joe and Kamala.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:14:57am

re: #234 🌹UOJB!

I don’t miss seeing the latest shit from Garrison or his pal McNaughton but I’m sure they’re still creating vile shit attacking Joe and Kamala.

I like this particular cartoon because it strips away any pretense of caring about life and reveals the brutal savagery of the fascist right.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:15:22am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:21:35am

Just a reminder of what radical Xtians were doing this weekend at another one of their mass spreader events.

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Dangerman  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:22:04am

re: #224 darthstar

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no one can tell by looking at you whether you’ve been vaccinated - or when

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:23:10am
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wrenchwench  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:25:34am

As a worker in a grocery store, I can tell (or ask) customers to pull up (or put on, in the old days) their mask. It would be difficult to do that with any effect if I didn’t have a mask on.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:32:45am

re: #237 🌹UOJB!

Just a reminder of what radical Xtians were doing this weekend at another one of their mass spreader events.

And I bet the vast majority of them aren’t vaccinated, even once.

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:34:49am

re: #238 Dangerman

no one can tell by looking at you whether you’ve been vaccinated - or when

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I didn’t read the article so maybe there is something stupid in there, but I agree with the headline premise. The outdoor all the time mandates never made any sense, and it was never supported by any science. If I am out walking my dog alone in the woods I’ll be damned if I am going to wear a mask. I keep one with me and if I see someone coming my way I will put it on until they are well past me, but even that is just safety theater. The evidence that transmission can happen outdoors in a walk by interaction is basically nil.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:35:59am

re: #238 Dangerman

no one can tell by looking at you whether you’ve been vaccinated - or when

To be honest, unless you are in a crush of people there is little risk of outdoor transmission. The real danger is with the virus accumulating in the air indoors.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:36:44am

re: #241 No Malarkey!

And I bet the vast majority of them aren’t vaccinated, even once.

Why would those Xtian nuts need a vaccine when they done got Jay-Zuss?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:36:57am

re: #243 No Malarkey!

To be honest, unless you are in a crush of people there is little risk of outdoor transmission. The real danger is with the virus accumulating in the air indoors.

I only wear them indoors unless I am going to be in a very crowded outdoor location, which is the very last place I am going to be anytime in the near future.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:38:13am

re: #243 No Malarkey!

To be honest, unless you are in a crush of people there is little risk of outdoor transmission. The real danger is with the virus accumulating in the air indoors.

Except when a Karen coughed in the face of worker outside of my YMCA when he wouldn’t let her in because she said she doesn’t need a mask because she has Jesus shielding her.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:39:33am

re: #243 No Malarkey!

To be honest, unless you are in a crush of people there is little risk of outdoor transmission. The real danger is with the virus accumulating in the air indoors.

Places like NYC and other large cities with a lot of pedestrian traffic.

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wrenchwench  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:39:53am

The most common response I get when I ask for a mask correction is an apology and immediate compliance.

When I’m walking on the sidewalk, my mask is down until someone approaches. Then I pull mine up, and so do they, or they start fishing around in their pockets, or pull up their t-shirt and stay wide. Street-crossing is very common.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:40:01am
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KingKenrod  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:40:13am

re: #231 No Malarkey!

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That thing is more psychotic every time I look at it. I just noticed:

- There’s a machine gun growing out of the tree’s head
- Jupiter and Saturn are shining on Trump??? Why???

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:40:29am

re: #245 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I only wear them indoors unless I am going to be in a very crowded outdoor location, which is the very last place I am going to be anytime in the near future.

Same here. My best friend and I had this discussion on Sunday, talking about how Minnesotans largely being outdoorsy types helped us last summer with managing the pandemic, and we touched on the football game in Alabama with the massive crowd and how that was likely going to make some people sick.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:40:42am

re: #247 Belafon

Places like NYC and other large cities with a lot of pedestrian traffic.

Plenty of cities have them for the downtown area, especial pedestrian precincts, and the supermarket requires them for the parking lot. Which makes sense, as you have to go fetch a cart and all…

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:41:47am

re: #250 KingKenrod

That thing is more psychotic every time I look at it. I just noticed:

- There’s a machine gun growing out of the tree’s head
- Jupiter and Saturn are shining on Trump??? Why???

Asshole Garrison drew that last December when Jupiter and Saturn were in conjunction. Xtians said that was a sign from the Big G that Trump was going to stay on the throne…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:41:56am

re: #250 KingKenrod

That thing is more psychotic every time I look at it. I just noticed:

- There’s a machine gun growing out of the tree’s head
- Jupiter and Saturn are shining on Trump??? Why???

Because Ben Garrison has gone way, way around the bend.

Do you not remember the Jupiter/Saturn convergence at Christmas?

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:43:43am

re: #242 danarchy

I didn’t read the article so maybe there is something stupid in there, but I agree with the headline premise. The outdoor all the time mandates never made any sense, and it was never supported by any science. If I am out walking my dog alone in the woods I’ll be damned if I am going to wear a mask. I keep one with me and if I see someone coming my way I will put it on until they are well past me, but even that is just safety theater. The evidence that transmission can happen outdoors in a walk by interaction is basically nil.

That’s the “protocol” we’ve been using around here since the first shutdown in spring 2020. (Masking when you pass someone is more a courtesy to someone who might be more paranoid than you than a prevention, but courtesy is good.) What’s the problem?

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:47:19am
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KingKenrod  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:48:59am

re: #253 🌹UOJB!

Asshole Garrison drew that last December when Jupiter and Saturn were in conjunction. Xtians said that was a sign from the Big G that Trump was going to stay on the throne…

I missed that one. That’s nuts.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:50:22am

re: #257 KingKenrod

I missed that one. That’s nuts.

I posted it on a blog site with the caption: “This Christmas, don’t forget the mentally ill. Like the artist who drew this cartoon.”

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KingKenrod  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:50:28am

re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because Ben Garrison has gone way, way around the bend.

Do you not remember the Jupiter/Saturn convergence at Christmas?

Barely, I didn’t know the Trump cult had latched onto it. The whole thing is a freak show.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:50:50am

re: #253 🌹UOJB!

Asshole Garrison drew that last December when Jupiter and Saturn were in conjunction. Xtians said that was a sign from the Big G that Trump was going to stay on the throne…

So Nancy was correct in listening to an astrologer. //

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:53:12am

re: #259 KingKenrod

Barely, I didn’t know the Trump cult had latched onto it. The whole thing is a freak show.

Yes…Xtians embracing astrology just like St. Pruneface Ronnie did.

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 8:59:10am

This is huge.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:01:19am

re: #255 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

That’s the “protocol” we’ve been using around here since the first shutdown in spring 2020. (Masking when you pass someone is more a courtesy to someone who might be more paranoid than you than a prevention, but courtesy is good.) What’s the problem?

I live in the Boston area, and I agree with the author. Masking compliance is very high, and it has become a virtue-signaling (and shaming) thing. I’m upset. I am law-abiding, but I should not have to be a right-winger to hold a different opinion from those advocating for full-time masks and lockdowns.

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Acemarilllion  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:03:33am

re: #225 The Pie Overlord!

Yep, he’s doing a “48 hr livestream” and it’s gold. I have it on in the background. So far Ted Nugent and General Q have been on as guests. Comedy gold.

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:03:44am

re: #255 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

That’s the “protocol” we’ve been using around here since the first shutdown in spring 2020. Masking when you pass someone is more a courtesy to someone who might be more paranoid than you than a prevention, but courtesy is good.) What’s the problem?

Just saying public policy shouldn’t cater to the paranoid it should respond to the best understanding of the science. If individuals want to show that courtesy that’s fine. When the state mandates you wear a mask outdoors in public all the time, it probably just makes more people even more paranoid for no good reason.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:04:20am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:05:11am

How they fleece the flock.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:05:57am

health department just called to schedule our second Moderna jab.
8 am next week Thursday.
YAY!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:06:49am

re: #262 lawhawk

This is huge.

Yes, it means that soon no planet with an atmosphere will be safe from some geek and his goddamn drones…

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:07:08am
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wrenchwench  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:08:29am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

health department just called to schedule our second Moderna jab.
8 am next week Thursday.
YAY!

When I got my first one, they told me to come on down to the stadium at approximately the same time in 4 weeks.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:08:29am

re: #265 danarchy

Just saying public policy shouldn’t cater to the paranoid it should respond to the best understanding of the science. If individuals want to show that courtesy that’s fine. When the state mandates you wear a mask outdoors in public all the time, it probably just makes more people even more paranoid for no good reason.

Why do we require people to stop at stop signs even when there are no other cars in the area?

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:09:57am

re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, the first time a right wing extremist gathering occurs and a vehicle slams into that bunch of terrorists, the driver’s got protection?

Yeah, seems legit.

This is an unconstitutional law in effect and purpose, and should be struck down re: protests/gatherings on a street - but this Court and the right wing judiciary may have other things in mind.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:10:09am

re: #272 Belafon

Why do we require people to stop at stop signs even when there are no other cars in the area?

If my view of intersection is unobstructed and there is no traffic in sight, I generally do not stop.

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wrenchwench  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:11:42am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If my view of intersection is unobstructed and there is no traffic in sight, I generally do not stop.

That’s legal, if you’re on a bicycle on Idaho. Stupid, but legal, IMHO.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:12:18am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If my view of intersection is unobstructed and there is no traffic in sight, I generally do not stop.

And I’d write you a ticket.

The reason for this, and the mask mandates that might seem unreasonable to thinking people is that most people don’t think, or they try to take advantage of the situation.

“Everyone else is wearing a mask, I don’t have to.”
“They seemed far enough away to me.”
“The lobby is so huge, it might as well be the same as being outside, especially with all of the doors.”

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DesertDenizen  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:12:28am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If my view of intersection is unobstructed and there is no traffic in sight, I generally do not stop.

It’s not the one you see that kills you, but rather the one you don’t. And human brains are Notorious for filtering out sensory information.

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:13:17am

re: #272 Belafon

Why do we require people to stop at stop signs even when there are no other cars in the area?

Generally stop signs go up where there is a history of traffic accidents or where there is a high probability based on existing knowledge that there will be accidents. In this case the evidence shows there is little to no risk of contracting covid outdoors in a passing interaction.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:13:30am

re: #273 lawhawk

So, the first time a right wing extremist gathering occurs and a vehicle slams into that bunch of terrorists, the driver’s got protection?

Yeah, seems legit.

This is an unconstitutional law in effect and purpose, and should be struck down re: protests/gatherings on a street - but this Court and the right wing judiciary may have other things in mind.

We know that there are now enough Federalist Society assholes on the federal benches that they will give a pass to Rittenhouse wannabes.

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:13:38am
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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:14:26am

re: #279 🌹UOJB!

We know that there are now enough Federalist Society assholes on the court that they will give a pass to Rittenhouse wannabes.

Or drivers like the one that murdered Heather Heyer in Charlottesville.

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wrenchwench  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:14:53am

re: #277 DesertDenizen

It’s not the one you see that kills you, but rather the one you don’t. And human brains are Notorious for filtering out sensory information.

For Wendell’s method to be effective, he’d have to think of pedestrians as ‘traffic’.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:15:41am

re: #278 danarchy

Generally stop signs go up where there is a history of traffic accidents or where there is a high probability based on existing knowledge that there will be accidents. In this case the evidence shows there is little to no risk of contracting covid outdoors in a passing interaction.

Because we have a hundred years of history with driving, and the knowledge that people are idiots, as compared to a year of history with the virus.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:16:15am

re: #276 Belafon

And I’d write you a ticket.

You would be hiding in the bushes?

If there were bushes to hide in then the view would not be unobstructed and I would stop.

I am talking about intersections on the fringes of Phoenix, 90 degrees, flat as a pancake and wide-open scrub desert.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:17:36am

re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You would be hiding in the bushes?

If there were bushes to hide in then the view would not be unobstructed and I would stop.

I am talking about intersections on the fringes of Phoenix, 90 degrees, flat as a pancake and wide-open scrub desert.

So, if a cop was sitting in the parking lot at the corner at 2 am with no other traffic, you would stop?

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wrenchwench  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:18:42am

re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You would be hiding in the bushes?

If there were bushes to hide in then the view would not be unobstructed and I would stop.

I am talking about intersections on the fringes of Phoenix, 90 degrees, flat as a pancake and wide-open scrub desert.

In daylight. No dust in the air. No distractions in the head.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:19:00am

re: #265 danarchy

Just saying public policy shouldn’t cater to the paranoid it should respond to the best understanding of the science. If individuals want to show that courtesy that’s fine. When the state mandates you wear a mask outdoors in public all the time, it probably just makes more people even more paranoid for no good reason.

I guess that’s the problem, then — from the beginning, the outdoor rule was explained to us as “when you come within a six-foot distance of other people.”

Just for my curiosity, where are they saying “at all times?” How is it being enforced?

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rhuarc  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:24:38am

re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So does this mean anti-abortion protesters can be run over with no legal ramifications by the assaulter? If so, who’s ready to go on a road trip to FL? :)

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:26:03am

re: #287 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

I guess that’s the problem, then — from the beginning, the outdoor rule was explained to us as “when you come within a six-foot distance of other people.”

Just for my curiosity, where are they saying “at all times?” How is it being enforced?

Several states have an all the time in public mask policy. Massachusetts being one of them.

Governor Baker issued an Order effective November 6, 2020 requiring face masks or cloth face coverings in all public places, whether indoors or outdoors, even where they are able to maintain 6 feet of distance from others. Masks or face coverings are encouraged but not required for children between the ages of 2 and 5. Read the full DPH Guidance and Frequently Asked Questions.

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Dangerman  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:28:32am

re: #276 Belafon

And I’d write you a ticket.

The reason for this, and the mask mandates that might seem unreasonable to thinking people is that most people don’t think, or they try to take advantage of the situation.

“Everyone else is wearing a mask, I don’t have to.”
“They seemed far enough away to me.”
“The lobby is so huge, it might as well be the same as being outside, especially with all of the doors.”

imo to effect public policy in wrestling a pandemic you need unambiguous, easy to follow and evenly applied rules

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:30:31am

re: #285 Belafon

So, if a cop was sitting in the parking lot at the corner at 2 am with no other traffic, you would stop?

Especially in Arizona…

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:30:31am

re: #287 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

I guess that’s the problem, then — from the beginning, the outdoor rule was explained to us as “when you come within a six-foot distance of other people.”

Just for my curiosity, where are they saying “at all times?” How is it being enforced?

Around here, we don’t have a lot of people together, so there isn’t a need to require it. And if I do end up passing someone, we just make sure to swing wide from each other. But every place is different.

But, if I was some place more packed, I would be wearing my mask even though I am fully vaccinated, because there’s still a chance I could spread it, and would still like to minimize my chances of catching it again. And I still discretely flip the people off running around not wearing masks now, because I know a majority of them haven’t been vaccinated.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:31:52am

re: #280 lawhawk

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Nice to see that Ethan & Joe Fucked Around & Found Out they’re gonna be staying in Uncle Sam’s B&B for a long time—along with my asshole relative who still insists that Trump is going to be put back in the White House next week!

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:32:13am

Just got my daughter’s second dose of vaccine booked. Yay!

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steve_davis  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:32:32am

Just had a friend basically offer to buy a house for me due to my bank being kind of moronic twits about the mortgage loan. Well, that kind of blew me away. I mean, yes, he would have worked it so he was getting his money back in the end, but still, that’s a helluva gesture, considering I haven’t seen him in person in 35 years and only really know him from Facebook anymore.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:33:54am

re: #295 steve_davis

Just had a friend basically offer to buy a house for me due to my bank being kind of moronic twits about the mortgage loan. Well, that kind of blew me away. I mean, yes, he would have worked it so he was getting his money back in the end, but still, that’s a helluva gesture, considering I haven’t seen him in person in 35 years and only really know him from Facebook anymore.

Wow, were you BFFs when you were kids?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:41:38am

re: #295 steve_davis

Just had a friend basically offer to buy a house for me due to my bank being kind of moronic twits about the mortgage loan.

That’s terrific. I would not have been able to afford last Christmas with my kids unless my friends and family had contributed generously towards presents, groceries & party supplies.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:44:31am

This seems like bad news for Bibi.

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steve_davis  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:46:20am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If my view of intersection is unobstructed and there is no traffic in sight, I generally do not stop.

If you’re on a motorcycle, you can, even in this state as I recall, get away with a california pit stop at stop signs. Something about it actually being safer for cyclists to slow down and then move through, rather than coming to a complete stop and getting rear-ended by the texting asshole behind them.

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steve_davis  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:50:11am

re: #296 No Malarkey!

Wow, were you BFFs when you were kids?

He lived across the street from me in a “twin” house to the church rectory, so yeah, we were pretty close when kids, and have always liked each other. I just haven’t seen him in forever, but I gather he has done very, very well after retiring from IBM.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:58:27am

re: #270 🌹UOJB!

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Cultural appropriation sucks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2021 • 9:59:26am

re: #301 The Pie Overlord!

Cultural appropriation sucks.

Unless you are Japan, where it is culturally appropriate to culturally appropriate.


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