Seth takes a closer look at Republicans admitting they’re having a tough time criticizing President Biden after the country’s successful COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
On Saturday afternoon, Walter Mondale sent this note to his former staffers and campaign alumni, saying: “Together we have accomplished so much and I know you will keep up the good fight. Joe in the White House certainly helps.” pic.twitter.com/PdYk42NXtK
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) April 20, 2021
Seeing Devin Nunes on A Closer Look makes me want to see him debate Jen Psaki.
re: #3 jaunte
Seeing Devin Nunes on A Closer Look makes me want to see him debate Jen Psaki.
There wouldn’t be a debate.
They’d be picking bits and gobbets of Nunez from the stage to the back of the auditorium.
re: #4 gwangung
There wouldn’t be a debate.
They’d be picking bits and gobbets of Nunez from the stage to the back of the auditorium.
Yes, and it’d be glorious.
re: #1 jaunte
This is a beautiful and graceful thing to say at the end. RIP.
re: #1 jaunte
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May I be as aware and as elegant at my end as he was at his. Rest in Peace, Mr. Mondale. I knew you not, but I honor you.
Japanese alumni of my college happened to organize an event at the US Ambassador’s residence in Tokyo while I was living there so I was invited. I got to shake Mondale’s hand while he was ambassador. The man who had been Dean of our college was there and greeted me by name (I wasn’t wearing a name tag)—he was freaky like that (he could walk across campus and greet you by name if you had already met him once, even if very briefly).
I feel like Blackwell’s rebuttal to the Chauvin defense could simply be to stand still, silently, for 9 minutes and 46 seconds, Emma Gonzalez style, to let it sink into the jury just how excruciatingly long a time that is.
— Joy-Ann Pro-Democracy & Masks Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) April 19, 2021
What happens when a company is more powerful than the government pic.twitter.com/nnBMrBu6go
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) April 13, 2021
The Tyrell Corporation will spend billions to buy politicians, and nothing to extend the life of replicants.
This is now my favorite Oglaf: oglaf.com. NSFW because Oglaf, but it is funny:
Wella Wella
Well Well
Wella Wella
Well Well
Wella Wellahttps://t.co/Dbb0pPCWAW— John Lurie (@lurie_john) April 20, 2021
Famous plagiarist Ben Domenech is now cribbing themes from a failed early 20th century German landscape painter. https://t.co/QSipsYmfJj
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 19, 2021
BREAKING: Majority of Republicans oppose legislation their own constituents support.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 20, 2021
re: #16 Charles Johnson
I don’t want to be rude, but there is nothing breaking about that.
“Helicopters flying on fucking Mars” - how long until we arm those helicopters with bombs, to free the Martians?
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) April 20, 2021
re: #17 EPR-radar
I don’t want to be rude, but there is nothing breaking about that.
Bet Republican voters will gradually turn and begin oppose the policies….
Helicopters on Mars would be a great band name.
re: #15 gocart mozart
As I noted in my long-winded dissertation last night, many people in this country are looking for an identity.
And that kind of thing opens the doors for all sorts of badness.
re: #19 gwangung
Bet Republican voters will gradually turn and begin oppose the policies….
That’s what Fox News is for, literally. The good news is that the GOP/Fox News is losing control of their base. The bad news is that the GOP base isn’t replacing their Fox News programming with sanity. Instead they are collectively exploring the outer limits of deliberate madness and malice.
re: #13 Belafon
The Dickens (surprisingly SFW)
Honorable mention to Gods of Lies
(also SFW…god what is wrong with me?), but my single favorite panel is:
Milo is not wrong, and I am thoroughly enjoying the right eat its own. https://t.co/QCujpLi1sx
— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@UROCKlive1) April 20, 2021
re: #66 The Pie Overlord!
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
re: #66 The Pie Overlord!
Mr. Adams And Eve
I Married Joan
Tales Of Tomorrow
Suspense
Captain Video
Johnny Jupiter
Mr. I. Magination
Dotto
Guestward Ho
Stoney Burke
The Rogues
Quick As A Flash
Picture This
The Westerner
re: #4 gwangung
There wouldn’t be a debate.
They’d be picking bits and gobbets of Nunez from the stage to the back of the auditorium.
Jen wouldn’t do it. You really don’t want to murder another human in public.
re: #27 austin_blue
Jen wouldn’t do it. You really don’t want to murder another human in public.
She could do it in Florida. Republicans just made it legal.
re: #24 gocart mozart
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re: #28 Belafon
She could do it in Florida. Republicans just made it legal.
“Hello, operator, I’d like to report a murder.”
“Do you live in Florida?”
“I… don’t understand what relevance this has to the issue.”
“Murder is legal in Florida, if they’re Black.”
Watch what happens when a Florida driver plows into a MAGAT rally…
re: #31 🌹UOJB!
we’re just a short step away from Democrats being declared non-citizens and that it’s okay for GOP to be considered above the law.
re: #32 piratedan
we’re just a short step away from Democrats being declared non-citizens and that it’s okay for GOP to be considered above the law.
“Today, Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene introduced a resolution that the Democratic Party should be declared a terrorist organization for the damage they have done to traditional American values and their denial that the true President, Donald J. Trump, won the 2020 election.”
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
Helicopters on Mars would be a great band name.
Spiders from Mars with Helicopters
Look who’s paling around w/ Tucker one week after he espoused white supremacy, replacement theory rhetoric.
these two have a lot in common pic.twitter.com/7BSrSYV8Kb— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) April 20, 2021
re: #35 Dread Pirate Ron
Greenwald looks like he is speaking in Parseltongue, and Tucker like he can’t figure that out.
re: #36 retired cynic
Greenwald looks like he is speaking in Parseltongue, and Tucker like he can’t figure that out.
Greenwald looks like he’s aged 15 years in the last five.
Night all sleep well. Got a lot to do tomorrow.
re: #35 Dread Pirate Ron
The Jan 6 mob were murdering barbarians. WTF is up with Greenwald and his Nazi-level big lies?
Old friend who I haven’t been in contact with since grad school just used Facebook Manager to contact me…And what did she want to discuss…you guessed it folks…QAnon and the storm coming next week to put Trump back on the throne…Bye bye…
re: #38 EPR-radar
The Jan 6 mob were murdering barbarians. WTF is up with Greenwald and his Nazi-level big lies?
Just as I expected. Greenwald defends Chauvin and lies about the coup attempt…
at 8:01 tonight, Tucker called the Chauvin trial a “lynching.” 30 mins later @ggreenwald appeared on the show and voiced no objections. figures
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) April 20, 2021
— Michelle My Belle (@maybebeachbum) April 19, 2021
re: #38 EPR-radar
The Jan 6 mob were murdering barbarians. WTF is up with Greenwald and his Nazi-level big lies?
Kompromat. Gotta’ be. Most guesses about this involve under-age boys but I think that’s a lazy assumption and the real smoking gun is something else entirely. I don’t really know what but involvement in recruiting agents and operatives is one possibility. He could also have crossed the line with Iraqi insurgents during his private war with the Bush administration in 2005-10. In any case, the decline seems to begin after the Chelsea Manning affair in 2010 and has continued steadily ever since. interestingly, this coincides with the big push by the Russian influence machine to exploit white angst over the election of Barack Obama.
COVID-19 denier Ted Nugent has tested positive for COVID-19: https://t.co/qPifplNg5D pic.twitter.com/pes0nJjaNq
— Consequence (@consequence) April 20, 2021
After declined to comment last week, Allen has issued a lengthy statement through a spokesman. “General Allen has never acted as an agent of the Qatari government. He never had an agreement (written or oral) with Qatar or any other Qatar-related individual or entity.” pic.twitter.com/noKd4tao4B
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) April 20, 2021
re: #44 teleskiguy
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May he receive a platinum plated Darwin Award that could be screwed to the top of his pine condo when he does the dirt nap.
re: #44 teleskiguy
Dude is 72 years old, has been eligible for a vaccine since freaking February. But nooo! Virus is a Chinese hoax and no one knows what’s in the vaccine, could be Bill Gates mind control chips for all we know! Besides, I need to keep this schtick up to own the libs, that’s most important thing.
Fuck Ted Nugent.
re: #47 teleskiguy
Dude is 72 years old, has been eligible for a vaccine since freaking February. But nooo! Virus is a Chinese hoax and no one knows what’s in the vaccine, could be Bill Gates mind control chips for all we know! Besides, I need to keep this schtick up to own the libs, that’s most important thing.
Fuck Ted Nugent.
Someday I’ll drink a toast to all the unprincipled chicken-hawk draft-dodgers I’ve managed to outlive.
I got my second Moderna shot 14 hours ago. I’m feeling some discomfort in the arm, more than the typical flu shot this time. The first shot was barely felt. The pain seems to mellow for about 30 minutes after I move the arm around a bit. I experienced the same sleepy feeling as the first shot, resulting in a 2.5 hour afternoon nap.
The Defense Department has confirmed that leaked photos and video of “unidentified aerial phenomena” taken in 2019 are indeed legitimate images of unexplained objects https://t.co/HfBFfZrVyF pic.twitter.com/hTIxboekcc
— CNN (@CNN) April 15, 2021
I’m now thinking that there is really something to this, given the parade of former senior DoD, intelligence and Congressional leadership that have said so publicly. I kinda doubt there are little green men on a slab in a basement of a Nevada military base, but a lot of lifer professionals are taking an inconvenient career-stopping line of thought seriously. What’s funny is that the media, in general, isn’t biting, besides the occasional News of the Weird type piece. We’ll see what the Congressional commission ends up coming out with in June, supposedly.
This whole situation would be totally on-brand for the 2020’s: instead of The Government keeping alien visitations a secret at all costs and plucky reporters and rogue FBI agents tracking down The Truth at great risk, we get The Government saying “hey, we think there is technology beyond human capability out there, and yup these videos are real”, and the plucky reporters tossing out the story since they can’t figure out how it affects Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Hello.
What time is it?
What year is it?
Where am I?
re: #51 ericblair
While legitimately “unidentified” flying objects, at the time of recording, people have worked intensely to illustrate how these objects represent known flying devices under particular situations.
re: #52 Varek Raith
Hello.
It is 12:55AM Pacific Time.
It is 2021 in the Gregorian Calendar.
I suspect you are on Earth, but of course that is only a supposition on my part.
To eplain my comment;
I had the most vivid and long dream. It started with WW3. I see/hear/feel nukes going off in the distance. Me and some random people decide to get to a ‘safer’ place. We head up the Blue Ridge mountains and make our way northish through the sparsely populated parts of MD, PA and finally western NY. We then find some caves and I wake up. It felt like months had passed irl. I was confused as hell for about ten minutes. Freaky. :D
re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
While legitimately “unidentified” flying objects, at the time of recording, people have worked intensely to illustrate how these objects represent known flying devices under particular situations.
True, and these are several that the aerial analysts have not been able to explain with known flying devices or physics. And no matter what the result of the investigations, it’s likely to make things more uncertain and not less.
But instead of media beating down doors about ongoing DoD and Senate investigations and rather sensational video, we get the odd disconnected story and then crickets. I can understand being very careful because of the whole industries of, er, eccentrics and grifters around this, but it seems that any serious interest is Bad For Your Media Career, so it’s better to stick to more conventional science topics like discussions of wifi transmitters in COVID vaccines.
re: #56 Varek Raith
So you’re time-traveling to 2026 in your dreams, eh? Yeah, I had the nukes-going-off dream a little bit after Trump was elected.
All we can do about it is if you win a lottery take the lump sum payment, forego the annuity option.
Add chills to the Moderna second shot symptoms list. I had to put on a coat, it’s 76 inside.
re: #56 Varek Raith
Those are dreams. I had one in which I had gone back to get an adult postgraduate degree but broke it off and I awoke trying to remember if I had actually done so at one point and forgotten about it….
re: #57 ericblair
There are objects that we have observed visually or on instruments.
They appear to be flying
We cannot identify them.
That is all.
As much as I enjoy speculating to fill in the gaps, that is all that it remains without further evidence.
re: #60 Dread Pirate Ron
Moderna for me was mostly some soreness in the arm, and a few hours of light headaches and wooziness about 24 hours later.
Take heart - the more symptoms you show probably indicates you have a more aggressive immune system.
re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There are objects that we have observed visually or on instruments.
They appear to be flying
We cannot identify them.
That is all.
As much as I enjoy speculating to fill in the gaps, that is all that it remains without further evidence.
Well yes, but a number of the people who ran the agencies and organizations to investigate things like this are saying that there is further evidence. If so, it would seem to be a matter of public interest to release it. If it’s human technology, it’s even more important to do so, I think.
In the meantime, there doesn’t seem to be any Hollywood-blockbuster alien invasion in the works, so I wouldn’t exactly quit my day job and start building my laser-proof bunker just yet.
re: #64 ericblair
we don’t know if it is technology or some unexplained natural phenomenon.
re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we don’t know if it is technology or some unexplained natural phenomenon.
And if it is technology, it bears repeating that just like in the 1950’s, the United States Air Force still operates experimental aircraft programs in remote areas of the United States which could very conceivably account for at least some of these sightings.
re: #56 Varek Raith
To eplain my comment;
I had the most vivid and long dream. It started with WW3. I see/hear/feel nukes going off in the distance. Me and some random people decide to get to a ‘safer’ place. We head up the Blue Ridge mountains and make our way northish through the sparsely populated parts of MD, PA and finally western NY. We then find some caves and I wake up. It felt like months had passed irl. I was confused as hell for about ten minutes. Freaky. :D
Prophetic dreams mean you should start a reiigion. I hear it pays pretty well, tax free.
re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we don’t know if it is technology or some unexplained natural phenomenon.
If it is some pretty wild new atmospheric physics and/or chemistry, we’d want to know as much as we can about that, too, particularly considering the looming disaster regarding the Earth’s atmosphere.
re: #66 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
And if it is technology, it bears repeating that just like in the 1950’s, the United States Air Force still operates experimental aircraft programs in remote areas of the United States which could very conceivably account for at least some of these sightings.
In the late 40’s and early 50’s the USAF did not want people to know that their experimental aircraft were often based on Third Reich designs and technology, and thus were quite happy to let rumors of Little Green Men from Mars flourish in rumor mills and popular culture…
re: #67 sagehen
Prophetic dreams mean you should start a reiigion. I hear it pays pretty well, tax free.
Or ends in unimaginable destruction.
The stealth bomber was a UFO for quite some time. A number of commercial pilots saw oddly-shaped craft from their 30,000 ft vantage point, craft that were faster than any known human plane, went up and down in ways that human planes didn’t… and the airline would send the pilot for a psych exam if he insisted on reporting it. Because ABQ ATC (and a number of others) were absolutely vehement that their radar showed no such thing.
re: #66 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
And if it is technology, it bears repeating that just like in the 1950’s, the United States Air Force still operates experimental aircraft programs in remote areas of the United States which could very conceivably account for at least some of these sightings.
Despite repeated attempts to claim it’s a myth, I still am curious about the possibility that the Aurora Project exists and is possibly behind some sightings.
there is no bipartisanship.
never was gonna be.
Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and John Hoeven (R-ND) told President Biden they are opposed to increasing the corporate tax rate to pay for his proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure package, Axios reports
re: #71 sagehen
The stealth bomber was a UFO for quite some time. A number of commercial pilots saw oddly-shaped craft from their 30,000 ft vantage point, craft that were faster than any known human plane, went up and down in ways that human planes didn’t… and the airline would send the pilot for a psych exam if he insisted on reporting it. Because ABQ ATC (and a number of others) were absolutely vehement that their radar showed no such thing.
There’s no big mystery why there are a lot of UFO sightings in Nevada. Although civilian ATC not picking up a military aircraft wouldn’t be unusual, if the aircraft had its transponder off and was in restricted areas or high enough that It’s None Of Your Damn Business.
There were a few funny stories about some research balloons a number of years ago. Scientists would release balloons to the upper atmosphere with GPS units attached to them, and the GPS would stop working and they didn’t know why. They then figured out that civilian GPS chips were programmed to stop responding if they recorded over a certain speed or altitude, since at that point GPS receivers were considered munitions and subject to export and usage restrictions. I think they’ve relaxed this in the last few years to allow more of this type of use.
Bipartisan means doing what the majority of the people want, not navigating the procedural rules of the Senate and kissing up to a few swing votes.
a majority of Americans are fine with this modest corporate tax hike for infrastructure.
Fuck em. Time to move on without them. Can’t raise individual taxes, can’t raise corporate taxes, and can’t raise debt. They’re not interested in working with Biden.
re: #74 ericblair
There’s no big mystery why there are a lot of UFO sightings in Nevada. Although civilian ATC not picking up a military aircraft wouldn’t be unusual, if the aircraft had its transponder off and was in restricted areas or high enough that It’s None Of Your Damn Business.
There were a few funny stories about some research balloons a number of years ago. Scientists would release balloons to the upper atmosphere with GPS units attached to them, and the GPS would stop working and they didn’t know why. They did figure out that civilian GPS chips were programmed to stop responding if they recorded over a certain speed or altitude, since at that point GPS receivers were considered munitions and subject to export and usage restrictions. I think they’ve relaxed this in the last few years to allow more of this type of use.
I was going to say, 20 years ago when we were doing high-altitude research balloons as test flights of our satellite program at our university (testing the data link radios and control/telemetry software), we had no problems with recording altitudes upwards of 70,000 feet.
re: #75 Dangerman
Bipartisan means doing what the majority of the people want, not navigating the procedural rules of the Senate and kissing up to a few swing votes.
Because of gerrymandering and the nature of the Senate, the GOP is over-represented in the number of seats it holds vs. the number of votes cast for GOP candidates overall.
Which is a key consideration in all their legislative initiatives and voter strategy.
Statement from President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on the Passing of Walter Mondale (Goes to the White House Website. Statement behind the hide bar.)
It’s with great sadness that Jill and I learned of the passing of Vice President Walter Mondale, but great gratitude that we were able to call one of our nation’s most dedicated patriots and public servants a dear friend and mentor.
Jill and I had the opportunity to speak to Fritz and his family over the weekend, to reflect on the years of friendship we shared, and how much we learned from and leaned on each other.
When I arrived in the United States Senate in 1973, Walter Mondale was one of the first people to greet me. Through his work as a Senator, he showed me what was possible. He may have been modest and unassuming in manner, but he was unwavering in his pursuit of progress; instrumental in passing laws like the Fair Housing Act to prevent racial discrimination in housing, Title IX to provide more opportunities for women, and laws to protect our environment. There have been few senators, before or since, who commanded such universal respect.
When President Obama asked me to consider being his Vice President, Fritz was my first call and trusted guide. He not only took my call, he wrote me a memo. It was Walter Mondale who defined the vice presidency as a full partnership, and helped provide a model for my service.
And Joan did the same for Jill, helping her carve out a role for herself as our nation’s Second Lady.
He not only created a path for himself, he helped others do the same. Walter Mondale was the first presidential nominee of either party to select a woman as his running mate, and I know how pleased he was to be able to see Kamala Harris become Vice President.
In accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for President, he described the values he was taught to live by: “to play by the rules; to tell the truth; to obey the law; to care for others; to love our country; to cherish our faith.”
As a Senator, an Ambassador, a Vice President, and a candidate for President, he lived and spread those values.
Our hearts go out to the Mondale family. And we take some comfort in the fact that he is with Joan and Eleanor now.
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because of gerrymandering and the nature of the Senate, the GOP is over-represented in the number of seats it holds vs. the number of votes cast for GOP candidates overall.
Which is a key consideration in all their legislative initiatives and voter strategy.
Marc E. Elias, the front man for Democracy Docket and responsible for smacking down much of the Legaltainment (tm) the Quacken team threw at us in the days following the election, had a fantastic article yesterday about how the GOP has transitioned into being anti-majoritarian, discarding centuries of American political tradition, because they would rather upend democracy than admit that they are wrong and change their political stance to support policies that are popular with voters.
My county is included in this map.
Whoa. pic.twitter.com/QVLhUPFDq4
— Erik Bottcher 🗽 (@ebottcher) April 19, 2021
re: #38 EPR-radar
The Jan 6 mob were murdering barbarians. WTF is up with Greenwald and his Nazi-level big lies?
Exactly. They behaved like murdering Barbarians in so many ways. They literally broke into the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of a democratic election and engaged in violence while doing so. So these are the people whom Greenwald is now defending?
Programming note: After my first comment up there, I had to log out and log back in for the second comment to post.
Perhaps the issue is I’m using v87.0 Firefox on my Windows 10 HP laptop. I am downloading the latest version now (v88.0).
Pressing a knee into another human being’s neck for over nine minutes is not a “mistake.”
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) April 19, 2021
If a statement from Maxine Waters can be used as justification to overturn a guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin on appeal, then courts are gonna have to go back and revisit every single case where Donald Trump made a comment about pending trials for 4 years when he was in office.
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 19, 2021
re: #7 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
May I be as aware and as elegant at my end as he was at his. Rest in Peace, Mr. Mondale. I knew you not, but I honor you.
Mr. Mondale was my second chance voting for President (my first being Jimmy Carter for reëlection). While Ronald Reagan was not the worst president (that’s either Trump or Buchanan, and I haven’t made up my mind about that), I knew where the GOP was going before I was an adult.
re: #84 Dangerman
They’re trying to silence Black protesters. Look at all of the laws springing up in red states allowing drivers to plow over protesters and threatening to charge protesters with crimes for violence they didn’t commit during protests. We’re going backwards,
Milo has a sad. Fuck that guy too. He is the GOP.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 20, 2021
re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
(clipped out of the long comment)
Instead, what I think those crying about “marxism!!” really mean is “atheism”, or, at least “anti-religionism”.
The disestablishing of theism from the central framework of society is bothering a lot of people these days, because now it’s become inescapable.
Christians, especially right-wing Christians, have been calling us atheists Marxists (and God-haters, and evil, &c) all my life. This is nothing new.
What is new is now they are a lot more violent as they reject the idea of a secular state which preserves their religious freedom as well as ours. That is why so many children are thrown out of homes of every denomination now when a child says she does not believe or believes something else. It is why we get death threats.
So many religious people mix up “what they believe” with “who they are,” and when a person exists in their space who does not believe as they, they view it not as a different belief (or no belief) but as a personal attack on them.
In some it only triggers casting out the unbeliever. In others it triggers violence.
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I never understood any of this. If you’re so insecure about your religious beliefs that you find it necessary to cast someone out of your life - or worse, physically attack them - for their unbelief, then you should really be taking a hard look at yourself and what you believe, because your faith isn’t as strong as you think it is.
re: #74 ericblair
They then figured out that civilian GPS chips were programmed to stop responding if they recorded over a certain speed or altitude, since at that point GPS receivers were considered munitions and subject to export and usage restrictions.
The restrictions are still in place for over-the-counter GPS chips. I don’t know if the restrictions apply for any GPS systems that use the European Galileo satellites since that system is primarily commercial and not military like all the others (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou).
The knowledge base exists to make a GPS decoder that would actually work at all speeds and altitudes since the details of how they work are all known. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen mention of at least one open-source project to do just that. It’s not a simple single-chip solution that costs five bucks quantity 100,000 though, FPGAs may be involved.
re: #76 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I was going to say, 20 years ago when we were doing high-altitude research balloons as test flights of our satellite program at our university (testing the data link radios and control/telemetry software), we had no problems with recording altitudes upwards of 70,000 feet.
You could use an ITAR-restricted GPS receiver, if you filed the proper paperwork with the State Department and paid the right fees (and were US-based, otherwise there’s much more paperwork). It’s a question of knowing that that would be an issue.
re: #38 EPR-radar
The Jan 6 mob were murdering barbarians. WTF is up with Greenwald and his Nazi-level big lies?
He’s a libertarian. He would have been right at home in Pinochet’s government.
The only reason he’s not in jail now is Bolsonaro finds him useful (he help deliver the libertarian equivalent of Brazil’s younger voters to Bolsonaro in their last national election).
re: #92 ericblair
You could use an ITAR-restricted GPS receiver, if you filed the proper paperwork with the State Department and paid the right fees (and were US-based, otherwise there’s much more paperwork). It’s a question of knowing that that would be an issue.
Gotcha. I assume the university probably arranged that for us. All I did was read the telemetry and try to help our spotter team figure out where it was coming down.
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Mr. Mondale was my second chance voting for President (my first being Jimmy Carter for reëlection). While Ronald Reagan was not the worst president (that’s either Trump or Buchanan, and I haven’t made up my mind about that), I knew where the GOP was going before I was an adult.
I can now respect Mr. Mondale and appreciate the good work he did accomplish. That said, I was never able to vote for him due to his work to gut NASA. Even Raygun, whom I knew to be a corrupt old fool, was insufficient to get me past that bit of anger.
re: #91 Nojay UK
The restrictions are still in place for over-the-counter GPS chips. I don’t know if the restrictions apply for any GPS systems that use the European Galileo satellites since that system is primarily commercial and not military like all the others (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou).
The knowledge base exists to make a GPS decoder that would actually work at all speeds and altitudes since the details of how they work are all known. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen mention of at least one open-source project to do just that. It’s not a simple single-chip solution that costs five bucks quantity 100,000 though, FPGAs may be involved.
I am aware of open-source software-defined GPS radios. Commodity hardware. FPGA’s not necessarily required, but even they are becoming cheap enough for hobby implementation.
re: #88 darthstar
Cut off from the grift, now he thinks he’s doing some big reveal about something we all knew from the get go.
A slightly different take on yesterday’s otherwise aneurysm-inducing story about the judge’s comments in the Chauvin case:
FYI, people shouldn’t read too much into this. Judges make comments like this all the time, and it’s not something an objecting lawyer wants to hear. It’s roughly translated as, “whatever bro, you’ve preserved the issue for appeal, but I’m not going to rule your way.” https://t.co/Pq6o5s96HM
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) April 19, 2021
Fuck this guy too.
COVID-19 denier Ted Nugent says he’s tested positive for the virus pic.twitter.com/d7XsMkZnqc
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) April 20, 2021
re: #91 Nojay UK
The restrictions are still in place for over-the-counter GPS chips. I don’t know if the restrictions apply for any GPS systems that use the European Galileo satellites since that system is primarily commercial and not military like all the others (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou).
The knowledge base exists to make a GPS decoder that would actually work at all speeds and altitudes since the details of how they work are all known. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen mention of at least one open-source project to do just that. It’s not a simple single-chip solution that costs five bucks quantity 100,000 though, FPGAs may be involved.
At least theoretically, you could make a SATNAV receiver chip that bypasses these restrictions, because it’s all in the receiver chip. The satellites have no idea you exist, of course.
For Galileo, there is an encrypted mode like GPS has and, presumably, GLONASS (Russian) and Beidou (Chinese). It’s not called a military mode, but does require a formal agreement between national governments and the EU to obtain access to the hardware and encryption keys. In all these cases, they’re not really any more accurate than the open protocols any more, but have anti-jam features and wouldn’t be disabled during wartime.
The big row over Galileo was because of Brexit. The UK was the main developer of Galileo, and guess what, now they’re not in the EU anymore, so are a third nation and have to apply for access like all the rest of the non-EU schlubs. So Whitehall got pissed off and started to talk about a totally new UK SATNAV constellation, until they got laughed at enough and dropped the idea.
re: #94 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Gotcha. I assume the university probably arranged that for us. All I did was read the telemetry and try to help our spotter team figure out where it was coming down.
Most groups that did this work would carefully shop for GPS units that would only block high altitude AND high velocity at the same time. After all, a balloon would go very high, but not very fast, so the limitation would not be in effect. (Some GPS units would block on high altitude OR high velocity, which was not desirable.)
Dog induced insomnia tonight. Merle and Milo have been bed hogs. Merle at least grumbles and moves if I stick a foot under him. Milo arches his back and flops across both of legs like a bag of sand and goes back to sleep.
re: #100 ericblair
The big row over Galileo was because of Brexit. The UK was the main developer of Galileo, and guess what, now they’re not in the EU anymore, so are a third nation and have to apply for access like all the rest of the non-EU schlubs. So Whitehall got pissed off and started to talk about a totally new UK SATNAV constellation, until they got laughed at enough and dropped the idea.
Perhaps the UK—what is left of it!—could do what Japan does and have a geosynchronous satellite that just covers the island, for their navigational needs.
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Today, Dan Patrick (who I regard as a lunatic) announced that he didn’t have enough votes to pass the Unqualified Carry Law that allows any idiot to openly (or concealed) carry a handgun in public without ANY licensing requirement. He did say that if he got enough votes, he would advance the bill, and was looking for advice from the NRA and other gun advocacy organizations. Swell. Thankfully, law enforcement is opposed to this bill for obvious reasons.
(more at Juanita Jean’s)
Obviously you have a cross to burn. But you be you and take the rest of those racist assholes down with you.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 20, 2021
Today’s the one day in a long time that I could find time to drive to a little boutique rec weed shop, but their online ordering system is all jammed up—“try again later.”
Oh yeah, it’s 4/20. Oh well.
I wonder if ‘cross to burn’ goes over her head.
re: #107 darthstar
I wonder if ‘cross to burn’ goes over her head.
This is Representative Jewish Space Laser we’re talking about here. She probably wears an earbud playing a track reminding her to breathe.
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
El Jefe came up with a bumper sticker retort to so-called Constitutional Carry.
“Unqualified Carry.”
Really, the only people who give a crap about being able to buy a gun and are concerned about passing background checks or such are either unqualified or criminals.
Those are basically the two choices.
In the article, even Texas’s police have come out against deadbeat Lt. Gov. Patrick’s proposal (perhaps the police are starting to get the message that arming every yahoo with enough money really isn’t safe for them).
And as has been mentioned by others here, that’s the way the framing of the II Amendment argument needs to be: Why are Republicans so interested in arming criminals and unqualified people, and endangering the police and citizenry?
re: #100 ericblair
At least theoretically, you could make a SATNAV receiver chip that bypasses these restrictions, because it’s all in the receiver chip. The satellites have no idea you exist, of course.
For Galileo, there is an encrypted mode like GPS has and, presumably, GLONASS (Russian) and Beidou (Chinese). It’s not called a military mode, but does require a formal agreement between national governments and the EU to obtain access to the hardware and encryption keys.
The high-accuracy Galileo mode (down to a few centimetres) is available for mere money, the other constellations reserve that level of accuracy for military purposes. It CAN be used by military forces for warfare but it’s not its primary purpose and Galileo was not funded out of a military budget (GPS is owned, controlled and operated by the US War Department).
The big row over Galileo was because of Brexit. The UK was the main developer of Galileo,
Uh, no. Britain had a big part in its initial development including building the first pathfinder prototype satellites, the GIOVE series (a company I was very peripherally involved with in its very early days, SSTL was the prime contractor) but the work was distributed over the EU in approximate proportions to how much each country contributed to the Galileo budget. US readers may recognise this sort of pork-barrel funding. Thales in Germany is the prime contractor/integrator for the production Galileo satellites (including the 2nd generation satellites which which will start to launch in 2024) but components, software, launch systems etc. will come from all over the EU.
The US Flag Code states the flag shall be flown at half-staff for ten days for a sitting Vice-President, but not a former one (unlike the rule for Presidents, where the flag is placed at half-staff for thirty days for either a sitting or former President).
The rule for a former vice-president can be modified by the President or a governor (or mayors in states where the state legislature has given a city council that authority). Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota has not ordered the flags in that state to half-staff as of yet.
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The US Flag Code states the flag shall be flown at half-staff for ten days for a sitting Vice-President, but not a former one (unlike the rule for Presidents, where the flag is placed at half-staff for thirty days for either a sitting or former President).
The rule for a former vice-president can be modified by the President or a governor (or mayors in states where the state legislature has given a city council that authority). Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota has not ordered the flags in that state to half-staff as of yet.
The good governor has probably been a bit preoccupied trying to keep his state from exploding in violence.
Not sure how witness protection is going to work for a heavy metal front man. Is he going to join a boy band?
Figliuzzi: Why Trump loyalists should fear the first Capitol riot confession @MSNBCDaily https://t.co/Fr5kR808z7
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) April 19, 2021
re: #110 Nojay UK
The high-accuracy Galileo mode (down to a few centimetres) is available for mere money, the other constellations reserve that level of accuracy for military purposes. It CAN be used by military forces for warfare but it’s not its primary purpose and Galileo was not funded out of a military budget (GPS is owned, controlled and operated by the US War Department).
You can get a Galileo PRS license for money, IF your country has a competent PRS authority established per MOU with the EU. This isn’t an automatic thing, and can take a while (I’m not sure whether Norway has gotten it signed or not, but it was at least in the works for years).
Uh, no. Britain had a big part in its initial development including building the first pathfinder prototype satellites, the GIOVE series (a company I was very peripherally involved with in its very early days, SSTL was the prime contractor) but the work was distributed over the EU in approximate proportions to how much each country contributed to the Galileo budget. US readers may recognise this sort of pork-barrel funding. Thales in Germany is the prime contractor/integrator for the production Galileo satellites (including the 2nd generation satellites which which will start to launch in 2024) but components, software, launch systems etc. will come from all over the EU.
Yes, granted, but it is quite the UK government attitude that it’s their baby and they got it taken away from them. Who knew that Brexit would have consequences.
Vice President Kamala Harris Statement on the Passing of Vice President Walter Mondale (Goes to the White House Website, text behind the hide bar)
Vice President Walter Mondale led an extraordinary life of service. He defended our nation as a member of the United States Army during the Korean War, and he protected our Constitution as Minnesota’s Attorney General. As United States Senator, he fought for equal justice—working tirelessly to ban discrimination in housing and to build the Great Society.
Under President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Mondale transformed the Office of the Vice President. He brought the President and the Vice President closer together, re-defining the relationship as a true partnership. Vice President Mondale worked side by side with President Carter as the two endeavored to end the arms race, promote human rights, and establish peace.
When he won the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1984, Vice President Mondale made a bold and historic choice. He selected Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate—the first woman to be nominated as Vice President on a major party ticket in American history. With that nomination, Vice President Mondale opened “a new door to the future,” to borrow his words.
Vice President Mondale was so generous with his wit and wisdom over the years. I was able to speak with him just a few days ago and thank him for his service and his steadfastness. I will miss him dearly, and my heart is with his family today. I hope they find comfort in knowing that he is with his beloved wife, Joan, and daughter, Eleanor, now—and that his legacy will live on in all of us.
Each time I open my desk drawer and see his signature there, alongside the signatures of 11 other Vice Presidents, I will be reminded of and grateful for Vice President Mondale’s life of service.
I woke up humming “Cat Scratch Fever” and I have no idea why.
Vanuatu has banned outward travel after a body washed ashore in Port Vila (the capital), which later tested positive for Covid-19.
A body with Covid washed ashore. Now this Pacific island nation isn’t taking any chances (CNN)
(CNN)A Pacific island country has banned outward travel from its main island for three days after a body washed ashore that later tested positive for Covid-19, Radio New Zealand has reported.
The body of a Filipino fisherman was discovered April 11 on a Vanuatu beach a short drive from the main wharf of the capital, Port Vila, on Efate island, according to the report.
That day, a United Kingdom-flagged tanker found one crew member was not aboard as it sailed out of Port Vila, New Zealand public broadcaster RNZ reported last week. Vanuatu port authorities told the tanker to return to port and a search and rescue operation got underway.After the body of the crew member was found on the beach, authorities detained the tanker. The body was taken to a mortuary and later tested positive for Covid-19, according to RNZ.
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Vanuatu’s opposition leader:
So all outbound travel from Efate island stopped for 3 days to allow contact tracing to be carried out
— Ralph Regenvanu (@RRegenvanu) April 18, 2021
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(clipped out of the long comment)
Christians, especially right-wing Christians, have been calling us atheists Marxists (and God-haters, and evil, &c) all my life. This is nothing new.
What is new is now they are a lot more violent as they reject the idea of a secular state which preserves their religious freedom as well as ours. That is why so many children are thrown out of homes of every denomination now when a child says she does not believe or believes something else. It is why we get death threats.
So many religious people mix up “what they believe” with “who they are,” and when a person exists in their space who does not believe as they, they view it not as a different belief (or no belief) but as a personal attack on them.
In some it only triggers casting out the unbeliever. In others it triggers violence.
if ‘what you believe’ can be threatened, and so easily, it’s not much of a belief
Matthew McConaughey has said he would be a fool not to honestly consider running for governor in his home state of Texas. A poll released Sunday shows that the Academy Award-winning actor isn’t the only one considering the valid possibility of a McConaughey governorship.The star of “The Dallas Buyers Club” and the “Minister of Culture” at the University of Texas garnered more support for governor than Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking a third term next year, in a poll by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler released Sunday.
In a hypothetical contest, McConaughey garners 45% support, with Abbott, a Republican, getting 33% and 22% saying they would vote for someone else, according to the poll.
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Matthew McConaughey leads Gov. Greg Abbott in new Texas gubernatorial poll (Austin American-Statesman)
I’m not sure what qualifications Mr. McConaughey has other than he’s not Greg Abbot. (That might be good enough.)
“They beat the shit out of Sicknick, but he ultimately died of a stroke, so this idea that the insurrectionists were violent and murderous is bullshit” is one helluva defense.
re: #107 darthstar
I wonder if ‘cross to burn’ goes over her head.
More likely she never even reads it. Pretty sure 99.9% of tweets at politicians are just pissing in the wind, unless you have a blue check and say something they can make hay over.
re: #116 Acemarilllion
I woke up humming “Cat Scratch Fever” and I have no idea why.
Dog Bite Chills
re: #43 sagehen
I think it’s something to do with Snowden.
1000 x this. He recruited Snowden for the Russians. Who knows how long he’s been working for them.
re: #120 Dangerman
if ‘what you believe’ can be threatened, and so easily, it’s not much of a belief
The issue is when you wrap up what you believe with who you are, and the two are inseparable. Anything which does not comport with that person’s belief then becomes a repudiation of that person.
It is the flip side of why it seems why whatever God wants so perfectly aligns with what the person wants. They will say they are following God’s will, and if you don’t align with that, then you are opposed to God.
This is why so often Christians and Muslims frame atheism as “rejecting God” rather than “not believing in God.” (It helps that their holy books frames it that way too.)
If you are perceived as rejecting God, then that person perceives it as rejecting her or him.
The Omaha Police Department and 16 other law enforcement agencies in Nebraska didn’t fully report domestic violence statistics from 2014 through 2019.
omaha.com
re: #122 Mike Lamb
“They beat the shit out of Sicknick, but he ultimately died of a stroke, so this idea that the insurrectionists were violent and murderous is bullshit” is one helluva defense.
It just means that they get done for assault and not for murder/manslaughter.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It is the flip side of why it seems why whatever God wants so perfectly aligns with what the person wants. They will say they are following God’s will, and if you don’t align with that, then you are opposed to God.
Sorta like Donald Trump was with the Stock Market Index…
He just won a sixth term in office last week.
Chad’s president Idriss Déby dies ‘on battlefield’, military says (The Guardian)
Idriss Déby, the veteran president of Chad, has died, national radio in the central African state has said.
A statement from the military said the 68-year-old ruler, in power for 30 years, had been killed “on the battlefield” after being injured fighting rebels but gave no further details.
Déby last week won a sixth term in presidential elections. The poll prompted an invasion by a Libya-based rebel group called the Force for Change and Concord in Chad (Fact), which military officials had said was repulsed at the weekend.
Officials had said the veteran politician would not give a victory speech after the polls because he had travelled to the frontlines to take charge of military operations.
“He died as he lived, as a free man, with a weapon in his hand,” Abderrahman Koulamallah, a former rebel and presidential adviser, told French radio network RFI.
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re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He just won a sixth term in office last week.
Chad’s president Idriss Déby dies ‘on battlefield’, military says (The Guardian)
Did they not report that Hitler died fighting to defend Berlin?
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Those reports are required by state law.
Rural Cheyenne County [seat Sidney], located in the Nebraska Panhandle, is listed as having more aggravated domestic assaults that year than Douglas County, which has about 64 times Cheyenne County’s population.
That’s because the Omaha Police Department, the largest law enforcement agency in the state, did not submit any reports that year. Nor did the department in the previous five years.
All of the other police departments (sixteen) which failed to submit reports have populations of 5,000 or less.
The map shows my county (Morrill) submitted no or partial reports for three to five years, and complete reports one or two years.
In the Panhandle, Sioux, Banner, and Garden submitted no reports.
It is awfully hard for the state to keep up with domestic violence cases if police and sheriff’s departments aren’t complying with the law.
re: #134 Dangerman
I recall reading somewhere that Jeff Bezos could afford to give every single Amazon employee a $1,000 bonus and still have more money than he did in 2019…
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall reading somewhere that Jeff Bezos could afford to give every single Amazon employee a $1,000 bonus and still have more money than he did in 2019…
American billionaires’ wealth has soared so much during the pandemic they could pay for most of Biden’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan and still be as rich as they were before the pandemic.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 19, 2021
re: #139 No Malarkey!
As Rep. Ocasio-Cortez noted, billionaires are a failure of economic policy.
The Nuge caught a case of the hoax; is still an anti-vaccer. m.huffpost.com
re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As Rep. Ocasio-Cortez noted, billionaires are a failure of economic policy.
I’ll disagree somewhat, on a technicality. Billionaires are a failure of economic policy if there also exist people in the same country who are at or close to the poverty line. If the poorest person was still a comfortable millionaire, I’d be less concerned about the existence of billionaires. But then we’d be having an entirely different conversation about the value of money.
3 mRNA vaccines in development that aren’t Covid: Immunizations for influenza, malaria and cancer https://t.co/HnKwtVI3f9 via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) April 18, 2021
re: #142 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I’ll disagree somewhat, on a technicality.
Billionaires are a feature of GOP economic policy: job creators.
Excess wealth cannot be entrusted into the hands of working people, they will just blow it on idle amusements…
Someone already did. I’m House J&J. pic.twitter.com/DiO2wQdvSM
— Boston Frenchie 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 (@want2brd) April 9, 2021
re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we don’t know if it is technology or some unexplained natural phenomenon.
Nor do we know if some are merely pranks being pulled by pilots. Reflections from the canopy glass can leave all kinds of strange artifacts. And optical artifacts are also realized by camera lenses, especially high powered lenses.
I think Biden had something to do with this:
China says it will consider Pfizer, Moderna, J&J vaccinations as part of travel applications from the US — a nod to Western vaccines a month after saying it would only facilitate travel for those who got Chinese vaccines https://t.co/8CdtkoFoRZ
— Eva Dou (@evadou) April 20, 2021
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Billionaires are a feature of GOP economic policy: job creators.
Excess wealth cannot be entrusted into the hands of working people, they will just blow it on idle amusements…
Like food.
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Billionaires are a feature of GOP economic policy: job creators.
Excess wealth cannot be entrusted into the hands of working people, they will just blow it on idle amusements…
I’m not seeing a downside here. But then again, I’m just a hard-working person who likes to enjoy life and entertainment in the moment, not someone whose only focus is my own personal enrichment and building an empire that I can’t take into the afterlife.
Today’s issue of Oh, Well. Now what’s for Lunch?https://t.co/IZvYBvvB7F
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) April 20, 2021
In today’s Omaha World-Herald:
Dr. Fred Kader was too young to know that he twice escaped a trip to the dreaded Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
He’s had to piece together the early years of his childhood. Like many Holocaust survivors, once the 82-year-old finally learned his history, he was determined to share it with students, friends, colleagues and now even on school Zoom sessions.
“It’s not just a two-line entry in a history book,” he said. “It was real.”
Belgian-born Fred Kader has no memories before age 7. By then, the rest of his Jewish family of eight had died at Auschwitz.
Kader, a retired pediatric neurologist in Omaha, put together what happened in the early years of his life through calls and meetings with other survivors, information provided with his birth certificate and a trip to his home country of Belgium.
It’s just been in the past seven months that a person from the Netherlands was able to connect him through Skype with a 90-year-old Soviet-born first cousin, who finally told him what happened to his mother’s side of the family.
His memories don’t start until age 7. By then, the rest of his Jewish family of eight had died at Auschwitz, joining a list of more than 1 million.
“I had a space in the back of my head that was locked, and I had to find the key to open it,” Kader said.
Kader discovered that he had been walking with his mother on a street near an Antwerp train station in July 1942 when they were caught in a raid. His mother told the woman next to her that her son could easily pass for an Aryan with his blond hair and blue eyes. For that reason, she told him to walk away quickly and not look back. He was 4.
(more at the paper’s Website)
Retired Omaha doctor learns how he escaped the Holocaust, a story told in new book
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Matthew McConaughey leads Gov. Greg Abbott in new Texas gubernatorial poll (Austin American-Statesman)
I’m not sure what qualifications Mr. McConaughey has other than he’s not Greg Abbot. (That might be good enough.)
He’s got no strong position on anything yet.
When he gets specific his 45 should drop
Meanwhile for abbot it is bad news.
Support of just 33%?
Losing to a non politician who isnt even running
Not good
re: #152 Dangerman
He’s got no strong position on anything yet.
When he gets specific his 45 should dropMeanwhile for abbot it is bad news.
Support of just 33%?
Losing to a non politician who isnt even running
Not good
The problem is, like McConnell, we have to run someone against him, and Texans will choose the R.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The issue is when you wrap up what you believe with who you are, and the two are inseparable. Anything which does not comport with that person’s belief then becomes a repudiation of that person.
It is the flip side of why it seems why whatever God wants so perfectly aligns with what the person wants. They will say they are following God’s will, and if you don’t align with that, then you are opposed to God.
This is why so often Christians and Muslims frame atheism as “rejecting God” rather than “not believing in God.” (It helps that their holy books frames it that way too.)
If you are perceived as rejecting God, then that person perceives it as rejecting her or him.
Theyve done the same with their politics.
Thats why they are so brutal and in fear all the time.
theyve put their worldview and very existence constantly at stake
AP reports that the genocide of America is now being approved by the voters; the Michigan GOP has accumulated enough valid signatures to certify an initiative to repeal the 1945 Emergency Powers Act, the law which Governor Gretchen Whitmer has relied upon to issue pandemic mandates and which was recently declared unconstitutional by the Michigan Supreme Court.
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Billionaires are a feature of GOP economic policy: job creators.
Excess wealth cannot be entrusted into the hands of working people, they will just blow it on idle amusements…
Who owns the amusements?
I wasn’t aware Gov. Ricketts appeared on Ben Shapiro’s show. That’s probably the most desperate cry for help in this whole article.
Governor Ricketts has been engaging in more and more outrageous behavior lately - declaring Nebraska a 2A Sanctuary State while refusing to give sanctuary to migrant children, making a big deal about appearing on Ben Shapiro’s show to talk about guns, claiming weed will make you kill your kids, and so on and so forth. The reason he is doing this is because he wants to distract from his many failures as a Governor. We decided to list some of those many, many failures just so people know what we should be talking about instead of Pete’s distractions.
(more at Seeing Red Nebraska)
Five Basic Governance Failures Ricketts Hopes You Won’t Notice
re: #153 Belafon
The problem is, like McConnell, we have to run someone against him, and Texans will choose the R.
Kentucky elected Beshear. Alabama elected Doug Jones. Never say never.
Ted Nugent has Covid.
I’d say thoughts and prayers…but…
Rock musician Ted Nugent announced he has tested positive for the coronavirus in a Facebook live video in which he repeatedly used racist slurs to refer to COVID-19, spit on the floor and promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
“Everybody told me that I should not announce this,” the conservative rocker said in the video on Monday.
Nugent, a staunch supporter of ex-President Donald Trump, previously called the pandemic a scam and has railed against public health restrictions.
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I misread the World-Herald’s map on my county.
The county sheriff’s office has completed all required reports for domestic violence to the state.
The City of Bridgeport Police missed three reports, and the City of Bayard Police missed two reports.
Of note, Bridgeport disestablished its police department two years ago.
re: #153 Belafon
The problem is, like McConnell, we have to run someone against him, and Texans will choose the R.
Is Mr. McConaughey running outright as a Dem, or as an independent?
re: #161 Teukka
Is Mr. McConaughey running outright as a Dem, or as an independent?
I suspect he won’t actually run, but, if he does, he’ll be an independent. There were some comments he made earlier this year that seemed very libertarian to me.
CASPER - Wyoming is home to the 11 most vaccine-hesitant counties in the nation, according to statistical modeling conducted by an arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Thank goodness I live near the Wyoming line. I wouldn’t want to miss my chance to get Covid-19.
Fortunately my vaccination was completed in February, and my wife’s will be soon.
Wyoming counties top list of most vaccine-hesitant in nation (Cheyenne Wyoming Tribune-Eagle)
Panhandle Public Health District (PPHD) says there have been 26 new cases of the virus confirmed over the past week. No county reported more than eight cases in the past seven days. Banner, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Kimball and Sioux counties all reported zero cases.No deaths related to COVID-19 were reported over the past week in the Panhandle. PPHD has not announced any COVID-related deaths in the area since late March.
On the vaccine front, health officials say 25,253, or about 39 percent, of all adults in the Panhandle have received the COVID-19 vaccine. Everyone 18 and older can self-schedule an appointment to be vaccinated. Panhandle health officials said Monday 16 and 17-year-olds are encouraged to register for a vaccine.
If you have not signed up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and would like to, you can register here. Currently only the Moderna vaccine is available, but health officials said the Pfizer vaccine will soon be available in the Panhandle.
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Over 25,000 Panhandle adults have received vaccine (KSID Radio, Sidney)
Hey, who turned on the sun? It’s past time for me to go to bed.
Unless President Biden orders the flag to half-staff today for the death of former Vice-President Walter Mondale, the flag should be returned to full-staff today at sunset (from the order over the Indianapolis mass-murder).
“Minneapolis A Fortified City As It Anxiously Awaits Derek Chauvin Verdict”
But protecting the Capitol, meh
re: #153 Belafon
The problem is, like McConnell, we have to run someone against him, and Texans will choose the R.
Specifically, Texans who are allowed to vote will choose the R.
re: #166 Dangerman
“Minneapolis A Fortified City As It Anxiously Awaits Derek Chauvin Verdict”
But protecting the Capitol, meh
Governor Walz and Mayor Frey already got roasted once for their inadequate response to the original George Floyd protests/riots. It’s apparent that they are intent on not making the same mistakes twice. I can respect that, even though they seem to be intent on demonizing the protesters, which pisses me off.
Arizona…the school districts are going to protect their own communities.
GOP governor ‘abruptly canceled’ PreK-12 mask rules — but school districts quickly rejected it: report https://t.co/6UUYNA2F2K pic.twitter.com/OPCweqFDz5
— 🌊 R Saddler (@Politics_PR) April 20, 2021
re: #162 Belafon
I suspect he won’t actually run, but, if he does, he’ll be an independent. There were some comments he made earlier this year that seemed very libertarian to me.
Just a thought, but if he runs, and doesn’t run on an outright Dem platform, he might be able to slide in on celebrity. Plus/minus “back with common sense into politics” catchphrase/slogan.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is pushing on tech companies, like Facebook and Twitter, to do something about anti-vaxxers, naming twelve specific accounts identified in a report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate as major influencers of disinformation. (Link goes to Vox.) Among the accounts named is RFK, Jr.
As the Covid-19 vaccine rollout continues across the US, some lawmakers are concerned that ongoing misinformation and disinformation campaigns are exacerbating vaccine hesitancy. Now, two senators are turning their attention to the vaccine misinformation superspreaders that push the bulk of conspiracy theories and lies on social media — and asking the social media giants to take more aggressive action.
“For too long, social media platforms have failed to adequately protect Americans by not taking sufficient action to prevent the spread of vaccine disinformation online,” wrote Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) in a Friday letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, which was viewed by Recode. “Despite your policies intended to prevent vaccine disinformation, many of these accounts continue to post content that reach millions of users, repeatedly violating your policies with impunity.”
In particular, the senators urged the companies to take action against 12 anti-vaccine influencers — 11 individuals and one couple — who spread anti-vaccine content on the internet. These accounts include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has pushed distrust in vaccines, and Joseph Mercola, an online alternative medicine proponent who was recently flagged by the Food and Drug Administration for promoting fake Covid-19 cures, including through his still-active Twitter account.
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(clipped out of the long comment)
Christians, especially right-wing Christians, have been calling us atheists Marxists (and God-haters, and evil, &c) all my life. This is nothing new.
What is new is now they are a lot more violent as they reject the idea of a secular state which preserves their religious freedom as well as ours. That is why so many children are thrown out of homes of every denomination now when a child says she does not believe or believes something else. It is why we get death threats.
So many religious people mix up “what they believe” with “who they are,” and when a person exists in their space who does not believe as they, they view it not as a different belief (or no belief) but as a personal attack on them.
In some it only triggers casting out the unbeliever. In others it triggers violence.
I’m just going to point out that you can be a Christian and still be regarded as an unbeliever by these people. Ask me how I know. Let’s just say that church people are truly surprised when someone like me shows up on their sidewalk. And then they spend time trying to figure out where I’m a heretic so they can disavow me. That’s easy, actually, I’ll drop an F-bomb.
re: #173 mmmirele
I’m just going to point out that you can be a Christian and still be regarded as an unbeliever by these people. Ask me how I know. Let’s just say that church people are truly surprised when someone like me shows up on their sidewalk. And then they spend time trying to figure out where I’m a heretic so they can disavow me. That’s easy, actually, I’ll drop an F-bomb.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt and it’s why I’m still writing that manuscript on why Orthopraxy is more godly than Orthodoxy.
re: #174 William Lewis
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt and it’s why I’m still writing that manuscript on why Orthopraxy is more godly than Orthodoxy.
And today I learned a new word.
re: #175 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
And today I learned a new word.
Orthopraxy? :)
If you really want to experience Xtian love walk thru the gauntlet in front of an abortion clinic with a coworker who was beaten by her boyfriend because she got pregnant. You’ll see just how they are filled with compassion…
Got my second Moderna shot on Monday. No reaction yet.
Orwelling bulkshit from the right wing agitprop chambers:
Democrats have insisted on protecting right to vote and want to reauthorize the VRA. GOP refuses to act, because preclearance provisions would invalidate spate of GOP laws designed to suppress turnout. https://t.co/6YjRbrzP75— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 20, 2021
re: #178 🌹UOJB!
If you really want to experience Xtian love walk thru the gauntlet in front of an abortion clinic with a coworker who was beaten by her boyfriend because she got pregnant. You’ll see just how they are filled with compassion…
Yes, I agree. I’ve been there too, escorting a then pregnant gf. She didn’t/doesn’t know I was carrying that day too and would have happily killed any of them had they crossed that line.
Their failure does not make me less of a christian. It just means I have a harder job at being one.
The European Medicines Agency, the regulatory body in the EU responsible for overseeing drugs, announced today that they are declaring a formal causal link between the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and the blood clots that caused a pause in its rollout. (Link goes to KARE 11, a local news site. YMMV for people outside the US.) Experts in the agency say that the extremely rare and potentially fatal complication is most likely linked to the use of adenovirus as the delivery vehicle for the spike protein, and as such, is related to the AstraZeneca clotting issue, as well as putting Russia’s Sputnik vaccine and an unnamed Chinese vaccine at risk of similar problems. They recommended adding a warning to the label of the vaccine, but stressed that it is extremely rare and that the benefits of getting the shot far outweigh the potential risk.
Anyone check in on Crackhead Mike?
Sure he will throw another fit over this!
Mike Lindell, we grabbed the domain https://t.co/cb5jFnmVRe. Hope that’s okay!
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) April 19, 2021
re: #183 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The European Medicines Agency, the regulatory body in the EU responsible for overseeing drugs, announced today that they are declaring a formal causal link between the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and the blood clots that caused a pause in its rollout. (Link goes to KARE 11, a local news site. YMMV for people outside the US.) Experts in the agency say that the extremely rare and potentially fatal complication is most likely linked to the use of adenovirus as the delivery vehicle for the spike protein, and as such, is related to the AstraZeneca clotting issue, as well as putting Russia’s Sputnik vaccine and an unnamed Chinese vaccine at risk of similar problems. They recommended adding a warning to the label of the vaccine, but stressed that it is extremely rare and that the benefits of getting the shot far outweigh the potential risk.
Since people are really bad at understanding probability, we are going to need a shitload more Pfizer and Moderna doses to get the planet vaccinated. I’ve seen an article indicating a lot of people in the developing world aren’t going to want vaccines perceived as not good enough for Westerners.
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is that some sort of denture cream?
It has to do with wearing corrective insoles, I believe.
OOPS, The GRASSHOLE is fucking up again!
Chuck Grassley claims MLB moving the All-Star Game from Georgia cost the state “100 million jobs” pic.twitter.com/bEHQvTEK25
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) April 20, 2021
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is that some sort of denture cream?
Heh. The meaning is that you best serve “god” by right action/behavior rather than belief. One of the things that we christians should have kept from Jesus’ Judaism. Behavior - keeping kosher for example, the daily rites, sabbath, etc - is the real touchstone between us and the divine. Not if we believe x, y, z. Personally I believe in God, in Jesus teachings but I do not believe that there is an afterlife. That is, rather emphatically, not orthodox teachings. But it does not interfere with, for example, me living by the orthopraxy defined by Jesus in Matthew 25:31-46 among others. I try to concern myself with that - living rightly so that it helps others live well - and not worry about what I or anyone else believes.
Hope that makes sense.
re: #189 🌹UOJB!
OOPS, The GRASSHOLE is fucking up again!
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re: #189 🌹UOJB!
OOPS, The GRASSHOLE is fucking up again!
That should leave Georgia’s 10.6 million residents seriously under employed
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) April 20, 2021
re: #190 William Lewis
Heh. The meaning is that you best serve “god” by right action/behavior rather than belief. One of the things that we christians should have kept from Jesus’ Judaism. Behavior - keeping kosher for example, the daily rites, sabbath, etc - is the real touchstone between us and the divine. Not if we believe x, y, z. Personally I believe in God, in Jesus teachings but I do not believe that there is an afterlife. That is, rather emphatically, not orthodox teachings. But it does not interfere with, for example, me living by the orthopraxy defined by Jesus in Matthew 25:31-46 among others. I try to concern myself with that - living rightly so that it helps others live well - and not worry about what I or anyone else believes.
Hope that makes sense.
all the upvotes
re: #189 🌹UOJB!
OOPS, The GRASSHOLE is fucking up again!
I mean, he meant to say $100M, but even that is a gross exaggeration. You’re taking the mickey if you seriously think the state is going to collect $100M from an All-Star Game. Almost all of the money generated at that event is going into MLB’s system, and you might lose out on a few million at best from fans traveling to the state and fees collected for the event itself.
re: #190 William Lewis
But it does not interfere with, for example, me living by the orthopraxy defined by Jesus in Matthew 25:31-46 among others. I try to concern myself with that - living rightly so that it helps others live well - and not worry about what I or anyone else believes.
Where do you stand on Monophysitism?
They think King Tut was Irish? 🙃🤣🤣🤣
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 20, 2021
re: #198 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Also anti-fashion.
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Four suits, all worn differently.
re: #198 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Also anti-fashion.
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I had a set of leisure suits in neon colors—red, yellow, orange, green, blue and purple. Looked like I should have been in a Dick Tracy Sunday comic…
re: #196 Nojay UK
Where do you stand on Monophysitism?
< smiles > I don’t worry about it too much. I like using the Trinity as a metaphorical concept to explore aspects of the divine but thankfully I was not born during the centuries where people were killing people over those ideas. It really doesn’t matter to me which is “correct”. I’ll argue for universalism but Unitarianism or any of the other Christological theories are less than relevant to my life. Helping the poor, OTOH, is.
#BREAKING: Police responding to reports of multiple people shot at a Long Island grocery store, law enforcement sources sayhttps://t.co/9D40gISXFF
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) April 20, 2021
re: #202 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Damn…
re: #198 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Also anti-fashion.
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My high school graduation photo was taken in a brown corduroy three piece suit that was as ugly as it sounds. It was the best my parents could afford and at the time, 1982, it wasn’t that outré .
Thread, 20 tweets, extremely dense but extremely informative, with a thorough debunking of “Black people are just more violent/criminal and that’s why they get shot more often”.
Actually, they are.
But I’m willing to believe you are right if you can disprove all of the facts. https://t.co/K8hbPcyPgu— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) April 19, 2021
Here, about an hour north of St Louis, we are having “wintry mix” all day. Icy stuff right now. I postponed a dr appt 60 minutes east of here. I’m old, and just don’t care to risk driving in it. Late April. Ah, well. March knocked the heck out of the pear blossoms, and April is working on the late daffodils and crabapple now. Cats are pissed. They figure I should be able to fix it.
re: #202 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Police responding to reports of multiple people shot at a Long Island grocery store, law enforcement sources say
These reports are becoming as frequent as Trump’s rage tweets…
re: #205 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Thread, 20 tweets, extremely dense but extremely informative, with a thorough debunking of “Black people are just more violent/criminal and that’s why they get shot more often”.
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Michael Harriot is just terrific. I admire him so much.
re: #208 retired cynic
Michael Harriot is just terrific. I admire him so much.
I don’t follow him too closely, but every thread of his I’ve read has had tremendously valuable information in it. Guy is smart as a whip and very good at making an argument.
There are a lot of reasons for higher levels of violence and criminality in black communities, but I don’t think the reason for it can be expressed as simply “because they are black”.
re: #197 darthstar
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When we all know he was born in Arizona, then moved to Babylonia.
She’ll accept any humiliation to grab more Wingunt Welfare cash from the Mercers.
WATCH: TN Senate Republicans Honor Candace Owens @RealCandaceO slimed George Floyd, said interesting things about Hitler and per @cgrimey423 told Chattanooga women can’t be CEO’s & raise their kids and should “submit” to husbands… @BrianKelsey & the @tnsenategop honored her. pic.twitter.com/ht0AxKhSGQ
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) April 20, 2021
And look who decided to show up on CNN…and they kiss his ass too…
why is anyone inviting Eric Cantor on their show https://t.co/063GRjyGNM
— Alice Visocchi (@AliceinDCland) April 20, 2021
re: #215 🌹UOJB!
“Giving money to anyone but millionaires is dangerous!”
They have to pretend not to be thrilled by mass shootings, which goose gun sales, gun manufacturers profit margins, and GOP politicians campaign donations.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 20, 2021
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
extremism and craziness in D.C. stems back to Obama’s “so-called stimulus bill.”
“Giving money to anyone but millionaires is dangerous!”
What Cantor really means by “stimulus bill”—Obama was a colored man and that caused the GOP to lose its shit and led them to Birther Trump.
Well, this is gonna make a bunch of useful idiots look bad:
How an Email Sting Operation Unearthed a pro-Assad Conspiracy—and Russia’s Role In It
Attempts to undermine the OPCW’s investigation of the 2018 Douma chemical weapon attack involved Russian diplomats, Russian state media, WikiLeaks, and Julian Assange’s personal lawyer
Re: Long Island shooting, NBC News reports 1 dead, 2 injured after gunman opened fire. Suspect fled and search underway.
re: #213 Amory Blaine
The courtship of eddie’s father.
My first introduction to Bill Bixby. A few years before The Incredible Hulk.
re: #208 retired cynic
Michael Harriot is just terrific. I admire him so much.
He is the world’s foremost expert on wypipology.
re: #223 Dr Lizardo
My first introduction to Bill Bixby. A few years before The Incredible Hulk.
Trivia—Irwin Allen’s first offer to star in The Time Tunnel—Bill Bixby and Dick Van Dyke.
Both turned the roles down.
Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge
Make grinding cinnamon and nutmeg easier for the chef in your life.
Limited edition merch available at https://t.co/UHIRKDlIJ7 pic.twitter.com/ey9HIKQYXX— ACLU (@ACLU) April 20, 2021
re: #226 William Lewis
In this video Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle are 21, Pete Townshend 20 and Keith Moon 19…
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
extremism and craziness in D.C. stems back to Obama’s “so-called stimulus bill.”
“Giving money to anyone but millionaires is dangerous!”
The implied message being “Passing Biden’s bill will just make things worse.”
India experiencing massive surge of Covid-19.
re: #227 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge
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re: #222 lawhawk
Re: Long Island shooting, NBC News reports 1 dead, 2 injured after gunman opened fire. Suspect fled and search underway.
So, it’s technically not a “mass shooting”
re: #227 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Anything used for *cough*Spice preparation and consumption is appropriate on 4/20.
“Joints for Jabs” what a time to be alive https://t.co/r50F3v7p6P
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) April 20, 2021
re: #225 🌹UOJB!
Trivia—Irwin Allen’s first offer to star in The Time Tunnel—Bill Bixby and Dick Van Dyke.
Both turned the roles down.
That would have been quite interesting.
re: #232 Eventual Carrion
This is the one I have, works great.
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I found one on of those on the beach when I was walking my dogs. They do work great. But I haven’t used it in ages. Have some good bud in my wine fridge…just don’t touch it that often.
1/ The story of these gloves will tell you the kind of man Fritz Mondale was and why he meant so much to me. Please take the time to read this thread - and wait for it. Its worth it. pic.twitter.com/0rkPEWX1l2
— Joe Trippi (@JoeTrippi) April 20, 2021
This thread will treat any dry-eye condition you may be dealing with.
Washington Post: “President Biden asked congressional Republicans during a private meeting on Monday to present a counterproposal to his $2 trillion infrastructure plan by the middle of next month.”
random thoughts - not all my own
he’s not like anyone the Rs have “negotiated” with, ever. He’s laying a trap for the crafty to be caught in their craftiness. an over generous deadline to put up or get left behind (they’ll never shut up)
and it should be fun. Even making a counteroffer is dangerous. they would have to actually propose a funding mechanism and they’ve already ruled out anything but unpopular measures.
Biden ends up appearing reasonable and willing to listen to the alternatives. At the same time, he knows they’ll propose some bullshit counteroffer that doesn’t actually help the average American, the economy, or the infrastructure (generally defined) of our nation. And when they do, he can say, “I gave them 1 month and asked them to provide me a real alternative that accomplishes A, B, and C for the American people. They didn’t. I’m pressing ahead now with my plan instead. I was elected to get things done. I am.”
Well, an applicant in the Arizona border city I work for won the lottery for the county’s sole Adult Use Cannabis dispensary. This will make my job interesting for the next few months.
re: #215 🌹UOJB!
And look who decided to show up on CNN…and they kiss his ass too…
why is anyone inviting Eric Cantor on their show https://t.co/063GRjyGNM
— Alice Visocchi (@AliceinDCland) April 20, 2021
Cantor wants to maintain his ties with the GOP establishment, which is now indistinguishable from Trump supporters. Boehner is a more complicated case — he was not a leader; he followed where McConnell and the GOP base led. So, much of his refusal to cooperate with Obama, I place on McConnell who made clear from day one that the goal of the GOP was to obstruct anything proposed by a Democratic administration, to handicap them and bring about their electoral loss, so that the GOP would achieve power at any cost, and not to help this country but to help their donor class and throw red meat to their racist base.
re: #239 wrenchwench
This thread will treat any dry-eye condition you may be dealing with.
I’m not crying, you’re crying. God damn it.
re: #240 Dangerman
Yeah: one of the positives things about electing a veteran politico (like Joe Biden) to high office: he’s been around long enough to know how the game is played. And (more importantly) how the media game is played - I get a feeling Joe is going to string the GOP along on the infrastructure bill just as you outline: the big problem (IMO) is going to be handling/managing/spinning the usual Republican-centric “MSM” coverage: which of course, is going to be slavering for a chance to jump on any “failure” of the Biden Admin…
As covid relief money floods in, pandemic-battered cities see a chance to transform
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You may want to cry after this one, but with relief and joy.
If I ever had the chance to interview the former President I’d keep making up compliments until he balked.
“You seem two inches taller. Did you grow?”
“I notice that where you step grass and flowers grow.”
“When I shook your hand, sight returned to my eye after 20 years.” https://t.co/AZccRh75Sd— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) April 20, 2021
re: #246 Dangerman
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Sean Hannity says Trump’s schedule is as “insane” as it was in the White House except he’s on the golf course more—which, if true would make him a groundskeeper. pic.twitter.com/QuDfz1QHox
— Joe Keenan (@MrJoeKeenan) April 20, 2021
I would venture a guess that trump is basically doing exactly what he did when he was president
pic.twitter.com/t0ned71IPJ— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 20, 2021
Farce? Parody? Oh deary me, I think it’s real… https://t.co/WrDnJlYw7k
— in lindac (@InLindac) April 20, 2021
re: #239 wrenchwench
This thread will treat any dry-eye condition you may be dealing with.
Onion cutting ninjas are the worst…
re: #249 The Pie Overlord!
Oh shit it’s snowing
Had that shit here yesterday, now it’s in your hood, straight east from Wisconsin.
re: #98 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
A slightly different take on yesterday’s otherwise aneurysm-inducing story about the judge’s comments in the Chauvin case:
I worked a federal WMD case, in which the judge’s closing statement was, “may both the prosecution and defense win their appeals.”
Reading an article on Biden’s comments re: the Chauvin trial, I did not know that our favorite Trump asshole William “fuck justice, what’s in it for me” Barr blocked a plea deal from Chauvin that would have him plead guilty to third-degree murder. Fucking assholes, the lot of them. I hope he rots in a federal jail for his crimes and corruption.
WTF? I know there are furry Nazis. This may be the same sort of thing.
However, the Wall Street Journal reported that Hole appears to have been involved in the “Bronies” scene—a subculture fascinated with the animated kids’ series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic that weirdly has some overlap with far-right and white nationalist ideology.
FedEx Shooter in Indianapolis Visited White Supremacist Sites, Cops Say (The Daily Beast)
re: #107 darthstar
I wonder if ‘cross to burn’ goes over her head.
… Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel,
Like I’ve been tied to the whippin’ post.
Tied to the whippin’ post, tied to the whippin’ post.
Good Lord, I feel like I’m dyin’…
-Gregg Allman-
re: #254 Punish Domestic Terrorists
WTF? I know there are furry Nazis. This may be the same sort of thing.
FedEx Shooter in Indianapolis Visited White Supremacist Sites, Cops Say (The Daily Beast)
Nevermind. I’m just repeating what you wrote. Need to read more carefully.
I have no wish for Nugent to die of covid, but I wouldn’t frown if he became a long-hauler and was reminded of his shit positions on a daily basis for several months of incapacitation.
re: #257 Barefoot Grin
I have no wish for Nugent to die of covid, but I wouldn’t frown if he became a long-hauler and was reminded of his shit positions on a daily basis for several months of incapacitation.
A lifelong hacking cough where he couldn’t shoot straight would be karma
“It’s not exactly my vision… but, you know, I’m just an old guy they put out to pasture.”
— Former President George W. Bush, in an interview on the Today Show, lamenting how the Republican Party has become increasingly “isolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent, nativist.”
This one is for Anymouse, and anyone who fears corporate poisoning.
This Is Years of Starving Government and Deregulating Industry at Work
When the pipe bursts, you’ve got a problem. Charlie Pierce
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re: #259 Dangerman
Booker2118 sez
He could have spoken out against Trump in 2016. But he didn’t.
He could have spoken out against Trump in 2020. But he didn’t.
He could have spoken out against Trump on Jan 6, 2021. But he didn’t.
His words are extremely timid and cowardly for someone who was the most powerful man in the world for 8 years.
Biden won. But with Bush’s help, Biden could have crushed Trump and destroyed Trumpism.
You’re either part of the solution or you are part of the problem - there is no gray area
re: #190 William Lewis
Well what do you know, I’ve been a Jewish orthopraxist for years and didn’t even know it!
I used to share these nuggets of wisdom every year with my Hebrew school classes:
Pray as if everything depends on God; act as if everything depends on you.
Talk minus action equals zero.
At this point, I’m agnostic but my approach is this - I don’t need certainty, my intent is to live as if there is something greater than myself to which I’m accountable.
Also as many of you probably know, there is no hell or eternal damnation in Judaism and I figure the afterlife (again, agnostic) can take care of itself.
So Sweaty Teddy got the Corona. I just hope he shit himself. Twice.
In other news, It’s 4/20 and here’s todays PSA.
re: #262 cat-tikvah
Well what do you know, I’ve been a Jewish orthopraxist for years and didn’t even know it!
I used to share these nuggets of wisdom every year with my Hebrew school classes:
Pray as if everything depends on God; act as if everything depends on you.
Talk minus action equals zero.At this point, I’m agnostic but my approach is this - I don’t need certainty, my intent is to live as if there is something greater than myself to which I’m accountable.
Also as many of you probably know, there is no hell or eternal damnation in Judaism and I figure the afterlife (again, agnostic) can take care of itself.
exactly.
As for Nugent Karma finally bit Mr. Poopy Pants and he’s getting what he deserves.
Ted Nugent got Covid-19 after failing to become the legal guardian of Covid-17
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) April 20, 2021
re: #263 nines09
So Sweaty Teddy got the Corona. I just hope he shit himself. Twice.
In other news, It’s 4/20 and here’s todays PSA.
When I was in high school my buddies would sneak off on “Hash Wednesday” to go smoke on the quad of the University of Illinois (I feared getting in trouble for skipping school). This was in the mid to late 1970s. I think it started in the early 70s. There were always so many gathered that the cops just stood back and watched.
ETA: just looked it up. It didn’t start until 1977, so it was a relatively new thing when I was in HS.
re: #269 Barefoot Grin
We would get high at lunch a few times a week. Made the day last about 25 times longer though.
re: #270 nines09
We would get high at lunch a few times a week. Made the day last about 25 times longer though.
Yeah, we had open lunch. I just wanted to sleep by the time I got home from school.
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Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ... Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
