Master Drummer Robert ‘Sput’ Searight: “Stutter”

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Meinl Cymbals artist Robert ‘Sput’ Searight plays an exclusive track by Kaz Rodriguez called “Stutter.”

Sput’s Meinl Cymbals setup from left to right, if sitting behind the kit, is as follows:

16” Byzance Extra Dry Medium Hihats
12” Generation X X-Treme Stack Top (underneath hihats)
22” Byzance Vintage Sand Crash-Ride (left crash top)
12” Classics Custom Trash Splash (left crash bottom)
10” Byzance Vintage Trash Splash (left stack top)
10” Byzance Extra Dry Splash (left stack bottom)
18” Byzance Vintage Pure Crash (right stack top w/ Ching Ring)
14” Generation X X-Treme Stack Bottom (right stack bottom)
20” Byzance Vintage Trash Crash
20” Byzance Vintage Crash (right crash top)
12” Classics Custom Trash Splash (right crash bottom)

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202 comments
1
Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:52:20pm

This is absolutely fucking amazing. Sput is a maestro.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:05:38pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:07:03pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

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If only Chuck Barris’ Gong was in that room…

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A Mom Anon  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:11:14pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

No one loves him enough to do an intervention. Sad! He’s got to be the most unlovable human ever born.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:12:18pm

re: #4 A Mom Anon

The only intervention I want to see for him is a life sentence in Leavenworth.

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stpaulbear  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:13:53pm

re: #4 A Mom Anon

No one loves him enough to do an intervention. Sad! He’s got to be the most unlovable human ever born.

Wonder if Melania even talks to him anymore.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:20:25pm
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jaunte  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:21:09pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Awesome!

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:24:32pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:25:04pm

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:27:35pm
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:29:34pm
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stpaulbear  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:33:04pm

re: #9 Belafon

I hope Manchin isn’t planning on ordering out or walking on the street in DC from now on.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:39:40pm
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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:41:21pm

re: #13 stpaulbear

I hope Manchin isn’t planning on ordering out or walking on the street in DC from now on.

Now there’s be fuss and frothing and everyone will be talking about him. He’ll say he’s interested in bipartisanship, the GOP will act like asses and he’ll “reluctantly” go along with the Democrats and vote for it in the end.

Just like always.

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stpaulbear  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:44:21pm

re: #15 William Lewis

Now there’s be fuss and frothing and everyone will be talking about him. He’ll say he’s interested in bipartisanship, the GOP will act like asses and he’ll “reluctantly” go along with the Democrats and vote for it in the end.

Just like always.

He’s still going to wind up with spit in his take-out for this.

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ipsos  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:45:27pm

re: #15 William Lewis

Now there’s be fuss and frothing and everyone will be talking about him. He’ll say he’s interested in bipartisanship, the GOP will act like asses and he’ll “reluctantly” go along with the Democrats and vote for it in the end.

Just like always.

The worst thing that could possibly happen for Manchin is when he becomes the 51st or 52nd Democratic vote. And the map looks hopeful for that in 2022 - take the open seat in PA, oust Ron Johnson in WI, and maybe dog willing get Burr’s seat in NC and/or Portman in OH, and of course hang on to the Georgia seat. And then maybe Manchin and Sinema will both be a little less relevant.

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:47:19pm

re: #17 ipsos

The worst thing that could possibly happen for Manchin is when he becomes the 51st or 52nd Democratic vote. And the map looks hopeful for that in 2022 - take the open seat in PA, oust Ron Johnson in WI, and maybe dog willing get Burr’s seat in NC and/or Portman in OH, and of course hang on to the Georgia seat. And then maybe Manchin and Sinema will both be a little less relevant.

How will Democrats win any of those seats if they are not allowed to vote?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:55:04pm

Omaha man, 26, recovering from post-COVID inflammatory syndrome (Omaha World-Herald)

This is the same inflammatory syndrome documented in children with Covid-19. The man had asymptomatic Covid-19, but was struck with the syndrome in March. He was in critical care for many days under sedation and on a ventilator (from the inflammation, not Covid-19). He is still in physical therapy … he had to learn how to eat and dress himself; now he’s working on regaining his strength.

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Jay C  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:55:16pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

The evening news tonight had a piece on Giuliani’s legal troubles, and quoted him as saying that the FBI “raid” (which he is now painting as some sort of Gestapo-style atrocity) was “illegal”.

They also noted that Rudy is a former US Attorney who likely ordered numerous operations of this sort during his tenure: IOW, this deal was most fucking definitely legal: and whining about the “politics” of it ain’t gonna bolster his case any…

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:55:37pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:56:30pm

Trump has not been named as a suspect. /s

$50,000 worth of golf carts stolen from Omaha courses (OWH)

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:58:37pm

re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Ideally, golf carts are stored in a shed or garage, but Omaha’s courses were built long ago when most golfers walked and few carts were needed.”

I think I see the solution.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:59:25pm

Well, I guess the vaccine G5 implant didn’t take, because a technician arrived at my home this morning to install my fiber optic upgrade. Crawling around and digging out the old equipment (and by equipment, I mean cords), then finding a place and a plug for the new pieces (which need one more power outlet than the old setup) was exhausting. After thirty years in this place, I had to remove and replace a lot of things to get to the plugs. However, it’s done.

Also, not a single piece of Amazon gear can handle 5G. I forgive them for the 2012 kindles. For the Fire, not so much.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:01:07pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

This thread says one of the Dems already there doesn’t want to fire him, but that there will be more turnover in December.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:03:22pm

re: #25 Punish Domestic Terrorists

This thread says one of the Dems already there doesn’t want to fire him, but that there will be more turnover in December.

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None of the dems now on the board want to fire him — they’re all DT appointees, after all — but three of them have terms ending in 2021. (Possibly one of those ends in 2022.)

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:04:53pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I like the sound of this. I could be very interested in one of them if the bank will go along with it. Hopefully I can save up a decent down payment for when they go on sale here.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:06:24pm

re: #26 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

None of the dems now on the board want to fire him — they’re all DT appointees, after all — but three of them have terms ending in 2021. (Possibly one of those ends in 2022.)

Given they are DT appointees, what is the evidence that they are really Democrats?

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:08:22pm

re: #28 Hecuba’s daughter

Given they are DT appointees, what is the evidence that they are really Democrats?

I have no idea. Generally, the sort of people who get named to those boards have known party affiliations. Does it matter?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:13:01pm

re: #29 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

I have no idea. Generally, the sort of people who get named to those boards have known party affiliations. Does it matter?

Kinda. Yeah.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:16:04pm

re: #30 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Kinda. Yeah.

Such as Jim Justice running as a Democrat for WV governor, then announcing after he won, “surprise, I’m really a Republican.”

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:17:40pm

Welp phase two is complete and the last bridge has been nuked from orbit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:20:21pm

re: #32 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Welp phase two is complete and the last bridge has been nuked from orbit.

Congradumalashuns, Michele!

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:23:02pm
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No Malarkey!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:24:55pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Warms my heart.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:25:29pm

re: #30 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Kinda. Yeah.

They’re already there, terms about to end, and won’t be reappointed. Why should anyone care anything about them?

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:25:34pm
Body cam video of a 68-year-old Georgia librarian’s encounter with police who handcuffed her on the side of the highway was released more than a year after the incident occured. Stephanie Bottom was hauled out of her vehicle by her hair after cops say they suspected she was trying to flee. Bottom, who was on the way to her aunt’s funeral, said she didn’t realize they were trying to pull her over. She sued for excessive force after her pleas for help over her injured shoulder were ignored.

Video at the link: msn.com

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:26:28pm

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Such as Jim Justice running as a Democrat for WV governor, then announcing after he won, “surprise, I’m really a Republican.”

These are appointments to a governing board. That have already been made. That won’t happen again.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:26:44pm

re: #9 Belafon

DC statehood was never going to get 60 votes anyway.

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:31:16pm

re: #20 Jay C

Maybe Giuliani would feel better if they told him his office, home and electronic devices were only “stopped and frisked”

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:32:20pm

re: #40 Deep State SuperElite Satinist

Maybe Giuliani would feel better if they told him his office, home and electronic devices were only “stopped and frisked”

This should be a tweet

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Dave In Austin  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:54:53pm

Covers

The Main Squeeze - “The Ocean”

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:59:04pm

You guys… A star is born.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:34:06pm

Up at my sister’s place as my dad’s on the decline. Pretty place. And the dogs like it.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:34:53pm

re: #44 darthstar

Up at my sister’s place as my dad’s on the decline. Pretty place. And the dogs like it.

It’s like a fucking album cover I know.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:36:24pm

re: #44 darthstar

Sorry to hear about your dad.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:39:38pm

re: #44 darthstar

Sorry to hear. Know how it feels!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:43:23pm

re: #44 darthstar

Sorry to hear that. Know what it feels like.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:49:31pm

Hmmmmm… Naw. Not a thing.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:51:25pm

re: #49 Dave In Austin

Hmmmmm… Naw. Not a thing.

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NO

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:52:24pm

re: #49 Dave In Austin

Hmmmmm… Naw. Not a thing.

Gross. And those colors suck as well.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:05:45pm

re: #49 Dave In Austin

Hmmmmm… Naw. Not a thing.

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Never! Cannot imagine anything more impractical. And ugly.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:09:02pm

Johnny Crawford, original Mouseketeer and Rifleman star, dies at 75

The Rifleman was one of my favorite TV westerns. It is notorious for its frequent gunplay, with hero Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors), supposedly a peaceful rancher and single parent, managing to shoot over a hundred bad guys during the show’s run.
There is another side to it, though: The almost uncanny chemistry between Connors and Crawford, who played his young Mark. It has some of the best and most realistic portrayals of parenting in early TV. Crawford has said that this was real, he saw Connors as a father figure and they remained close until Connors’s death in 1992.

“The Rifleman” circa 1958

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:22:12pm
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:25:13pm

Somehow I think he’s not going to get much of a reception:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is wading into the culture wars Friday morning.

In a letter obtained by CNN, the Republican leader asks Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to abandon curriculum in American schools that McConnell argues tells a revisionist history of America’s founding.

McConnell claims these programs such as The New York Times 1619 Project “re-orient” the view of American History “away from their intended purposes toward a politicized and divisive agenda.” Politico was the first to report on the letter.

amp.cnn.com

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Dave In Austin  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:26:49pm
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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:34:28pm

re: #53 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Dude loves this show. Watches it all the time on ME TV. Told me the kid died.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:37:14pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:40:15pm

Earliest memories of TV are going to my grandparents home to watch it and remember all those western shows on the networks.

We didn’t have a TV until Grandpa and Grandma Bacon left for California in 1959. We had a big Philco radio in the living room and I remember listening to Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel and Johnny Dollar on it.

When we got the TV—Marshall Dillon and Paladin sure sound different on the TV than they do on radio…

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BeachDem  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:42:48pm

re: #53 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Johnny Crawford, original Mouseketeer and Rifleman star, dies at 75

The Rifleman was one of my favorite TV westerns. It is notorious for its frequent gunplay, with hero Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors), supposedly a peaceful rancher and single parent, managing to shoot over a hundred bad guys during the show’s run.
There is another side to it, though: The almost uncanny chemistry between Connors and Crawford, who played his young Mark. It has some of the best and most realistic portrayals of parenting in early TV. Crawford has said that this was real, he saw Connors as a father figure and they remained close until Connors’s death in 1992.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:45:31pm

re: #58 Belafon

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2021 • 11:11:29pm

re: #58 Belafon

About 14 years ago, I was in a suburban Chicago hospital area late at night waiting for open heart surgery the next day when a colleague in one of our California offices emailed me with a problem with our software — so I called him and helped him resolve it!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 11:57:00pm

One downside of life in Germany: today, May 1st is a public holiday. Which means that almost all shops are closed, but most folks don’t have an extra day off.

Germany does not move weekend holidays to the following Monday.

Our local bakery is open, but by law only for three hours, so good thing I was up and out early today.

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2021 • 12:10:05am

re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One downside of life in Germany: today, May 1st is a public holiday. Which means that almost all shops are closed, but most folks don’t have an extra day off.

Germany does not move weekend holidays to the following Monday.

Our local bakery is open, but by law only for three hours, so good thing I was up and out early today.

Here in Czech Republic, everything’s open today - but next Saturday, 8 May, which will be V-E Day, everything will be closed.

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ckkatz  May 1, 2021 • 12:23:43am

re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One downside of life in Germany: today, May 1st is a public holiday. Which means that almost all shops are closed, but most folks don’t have an extra day off.

Germany does not move weekend holidays to the following Monday.

Our local bakery is open, but by law only for three hours, so good thing I was up and out early today.

Thanks for the information on Walpurgis you posted last night! I found it quite interesting.

The closest thing I saw while growing up in Pittsburgh were attempts by kids to prank on the night before Halloween. (So called “Devil’s Night”.) Needless to say, nobody was smart or organized enough to do much beyond smearing some soap on random car windows and in one or two cases “toilet papering” somebodies front yard trees.

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ckkatz  May 1, 2021 • 12:26:18am

Not Walpurgis related, but interesting none the less.

loreena mckennitt - mummers dance

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ckkatz  May 1, 2021 • 12:27:49am

Music thought for the night:

Is “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” a ragtime…

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ckkatz  May 1, 2021 • 12:33:50am

And the obligatory Dad joke

I’ve decided to quit my job as a personal trainer because the weights are too heavy.

/P0oTm4oKK0O2x1e5emSXDLF63umYb5vvF785tmHRDhc+i5uQzPsMN3+Z5hMkinUBD+XSc/6Rto=

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 12:37:40am

re: #65 ckkatz

Thanks for the information on Walpurgis you posted last night! I found it quite interesting.

The closest thing I saw while growing up in Pittsburgh were attempts by kids to prank on the night before Halloween. (So called “Devil’s Night”.) Needless to say, nobody was smart or organized enough to do much beyond smearing some soap on random car windows and in one or two cases “toilet papering” somebodies front yard trees.

Hexennacht is especially big in the villages. We took in everything from the front lawn: our bench, potted plants, etc., but woke up to our three-year old daughter exclaiming: “The wicked witches stole the garden gate!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 12:40:06am

re: #68 ckkatz

What do you call a woman who stands in the middle of a tennis court?

uhAHUcvQ4Iwmsbd8xa5hyw==

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ckkatz  May 1, 2021 • 12:46:43am

re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Hexennacht is especially big in the villages. We took in everything from the fron: our bench, potted plants, etc., but woke up to our three-year old daughter exclaiming: “The wicked witches stole the garden gate!”

Hah!
I hope you did get it back.

Reminds me of Army Inspections.

It was always a bad idea to not leave an obvious but not very serious ‘ding’ for the inspectors. They were under pressure to show that they took their job seriously. And they had to look until they found something.

So we always left an easily correctable thing like a smudge on a window.

The inspector would pretend to be serious, demanding that it be corrected immediately. (So he wouldn’t have to come back and re-inspect us.) And we would also pretend to be serious and jump to immediately correcting it.

Every-bodies’ roles were respected, and life could thus proceed on. And the inspector could go pester somebody else since his job with us was now over and he was one step closer to being able to go home.

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ckkatz  May 1, 2021 • 12:50:12am

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

:)

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ckkatz  May 1, 2021 • 1:04:03am

Well, time for me to head off to bed. G’Night all!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 1:05:53am

re: #71 ckkatz

Hah!
I hope you did get it back.

“Stolen” items were deposited at the village square where you had to carry them back home.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2021 • 1:51:05am

.

Lesley Uggams - I Love You



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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2021 • 2:00:14am

.

Blossom Dearie - Once Upon a Summertime [1958]

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 1, 2021 • 2:07:55am

YouTube

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 1, 2021 • 2:13:28am

YouTube

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2021 • 3:15:16am

Özgür Baba and Gökçe Es invite you on a quest:

NERDEN BİLSİN YOUTUBE

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steve_davis  May 1, 2021 • 3:28:53am

re: #49 Dave In Austin

Hmmmmm… Naw. Not a thing.

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last thing i think anyone wants to discover in one’s bed partner is either a) a discovery of someone else’s class ring during cunnilingus or b)those fugly-assed toenails.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 3:40:43am

Shameless page promotion in the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs:

Flag Observances for May (with History)

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William Lewis  May 1, 2021 • 3:50:55am

Good Morning

As I sit here at the hotel waiting for my shift to be over for the night and finding this, if you need a bit of a WAKE UP :)

BAND-MAID / Warning! (Official Live Video)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 1, 2021 • 3:51:45am

re: #80 steve_davis

last thing i think anyone wants to discover in one’s bed partner is either a) a discovery of someone else’s class ring during cunnilingus or b)those fugly-assed toenails.

I’m going to take a more practical approach. How does one wear shoes with toe claws? I mean, ok, it’s summer. But you still have to wear closed toe shoes sometimes. Right?

How about a nice pic of Jessie?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 4:13:33am

I was looking for a stock image of the Nebraska flag, found endless photos of the Huskers flag.

There were also a lot of articles about the state flag flying upside-down at the state capitol for ten days and no one noticed. (Vexillologists frequently note the state flag is the worst flag of any state or territory. There have been several attempts to pass a bill to change our state flag, but they all die in the Unicameral, frequently under the argument of “heritage.” Apparently that heritage is people all over the state flying the flag upside-down.)

Bills are usually introduced each session to change it, with arguments such as “no child in the state can draw it” or “nobody recognises it.”

Studies have shown flags with simple, easily recoginsable designs are much more often flown from homes and businesses, or incorporated into such uses as sports logos.

I changed our village park flagstaff halyard yesterday, and replaced the US, Nebraska, and POW/MIA flag. When I first took on the job of “flag guy,” I ran the state flag up the staff upside-down and was suitably embarrassed when someone called me at home about it.

Since then I am very careful to check which way I put it up.

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Dangerman  May 1, 2021 • 5:16:37am
“An Oregon lawmaker who let violent far-right demonstrators into the state Capitol during a Dec. 21 special session was criminally charged on Friday with first-degree official misconduct and second-degree criminal trespass,” the Oregonian reports.

“Rep. Mike Nearman (R) was caught on security videos opening a door and allowing demonstrators to enter the building.”

now do DC, 1/6/21

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Dangerman  May 1, 2021 • 5:20:13am

oh dear

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 1, 2021 • 5:56:48am

re: #62 Hecuba’s daughter

About 14 years ago, I was in a suburban Chicago hospital area late at night waiting for open heart surgery the next day when a colleague in one of our California offices emailed me with a problem with our software — so I called him and helped him resolve it!

Us Americans work way too freaking hard. I had a client call me when I was in the hospital with Mrs. Fish after her car crash. I took the meeting for a little bit, but eventually I was just like, “Look, Kevin, I don’t mean to cut you off, but I’m in the hospital getting my wife discharged, I can’t come to the computer, I’ll work it out with you later.” He was like, “Oh, shit, that’s fine” and hung up quicker than anyone I’ve ever seen.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2021 • 5:57:48am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I for one don’t remember the Nebraska state flag at all.

To be honest, state flags are not very memorable.

California’s has a bear on it. Hawaii’s pictorially gives the idea of being an island and something to do with stars, I think (or am I thinking of Alaska?) Your neighbor Iowa’s looks kind of like the French flag but with an eagle on it. One of the states out here in the west, perhaps in the northwest, has a mountain on it (I think.)

One of those southern states, Mississippi has a treason flag embedded in it. And doesn’t Florida’s flag include a palm… or is that the palmetto state (South Carolina?)

Anyway, yeah, try for something memorable.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 1, 2021 • 6:01:21am

re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I for one don’t remember the Nebraska state flag at all.

To be honest, state flags are not very memorable.

California’s has a bear on it. Hawaii’s pictorially gives the idea of being an island and something to do with stars, I think (or am I thinking of Alaska?) Your neighbor Iowa’s looks kind of like the French flag but with an eagle on it. One of the states out here in the west, perhaps in the northwest, has a mountain on it (I think.)

One of those southern states, Mississippi has a treason flag embedded in it. And doesn’t Florida’s flag include a palm… or is that the palmetto state (South Carolina?)

Anyway, yeah, try for something memorable.

Minnesota’s is pretty generic. It’s blue, with a white circle around some stuff that I’ve never really looked at in detail. Now that I’m looking at it, it’s a farmer, with 3 dates of significance to the state, and what looks like the state nickname.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2021 • 6:01:30am

re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Of course wikipedia has the flags overlain on a map:

Image: File:United_States_with_territory_states_and_DC_flags_new2.png

Yeah, it is SC which has the palm on it.

And it is Alaska which has the north star on it, not Hawaii.

But then, wtf, Hawaii has the Union Jack on their flag? And those stripes… ugh. The Hawaii flag looks like something a British soccer team fan would wear to a game.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2021 • 6:05:16am

The SC flag is one of the few that has ever remained with me. Putting a palm on a flag is good marketing.

The Colorado flag looks like a baseball team banner.

The Arizona flag always reminded me of the Rising Sun flag, i.e., the Imperial war flag.

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jeffreyw  May 1, 2021 • 6:08:39am

Bitsy checks on the whipped cream, as is her wont,

Good morning!

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Dangerman  May 1, 2021 • 6:38:45am

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Dangerman  May 1, 2021 • 6:41:50am

“Chris Christie Gives One-Term, Twice-Impeached Trump An ‘A’ For His Presidency”

You’re still not gonna be AG

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PhillyPretzel  May 1, 2021 • 6:43:18am

re: #94 Dangerman

The Jersey Whale opens his mouth again and all the trash comes out. What an embarrassment.

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Dangerman  May 1, 2021 • 6:44:23am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 1, 2021 • 6:45:24am

Sigh. Yep, Minnesota is definitely turning into “THAT state.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 6:46:59am

re: #87 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Us Americans work way too freaking hard. I had a client call me when I was in the hospital with Mrs. Fish after her car crash. I took the meeting for a little bit, but eventually I was just like, “Look, Kevin, I don’t mean to cut you off, but I’m in the hospital getting my wife discharged, I can’t come to the computer, I’ll work it out with you later.” He was like, “Oh, shit, that’s fine” and hung up quicker than anyone I’ve ever seen.

When my wife married her previous husband, Digital Equipment Corporation wanted her to come in for her shift on her honeymoon night.

She was non-plussed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 6:51:01am

re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I for one don’t remember the Nebraska state flag at all.

To be honest, state flags are not very memorable.

California’s has a bear on it. Hawaii’s pictorially gives the idea of being an island and something to do with stars, I think (or am I thinking of Alaska?) Your neighbor Iowa’s looks kind of like the French flag but with an eagle on it. One of the states out here in the west, perhaps in the northwest, has a mountain on it (I think.)

One of those southern states, Mississippi has a treason flag embedded in it. And doesn’t Florida’s flag include a palm… or is that the palmetto state (South Carolina?)

Anyway, yeah, try for something memorable.

Mississippi changed their flag to remove the Dixie Swastika.

Maryland’s is quite memorable with the yellow-and-black arms of Lord Baltimore.

A lot of states admitted in the 1830’s have the state seal on a blue field, making them all look similar.

Hawai’i’s flag is a series of red, white, and blue stripes with the British Union Jack in the canton.

Alaska’s one is with stars: A blue field with the Big Dipper and the North Star.

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 6:54:46am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 6:57:34am

re: #91 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The SC flag is one of the few that has ever remained with me. Putting a palm on a flag is good marketing.

The Colorado flag looks like a baseball team banner.

The Arizona flag always reminded me of the Rising Sun flag, i.e., the Imperial war flag.

Unreconstructed Confederates still fly the old South Carolina flag with the Dixie Swastika to the left of the palmetto and crescent. Contrary to popular belief, the crescent does not represent a moon; it represents a breastplate.

The original flag when South Carolina declared independence from the United Kingdom was an indigo field with a wider breastplate in the canton, inscribed with the word “Liberty.”

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A Mom Anon  May 1, 2021 • 7:00:40am

re: #87 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

We’re taught from an early age that working yourself to death and barely making it as having “a good work ethic”. And expecting anything, like fair pay or treatment is just unrealistic and a sign of being spoiled or weak.

All these assholes talking about how their parents earned good money by being hardworking without complaining leave out important details. Like labor unions insisting on fair pay, pensions, etc for their members. Like inflation making it impossible for at least a third of us to afford decent housing. These same people are mystified why 20 and 30 yr olds can’t afford a basic apartment let alone a starter home. And we’re told constantly it’s our own damned fault for not working hard enough.

I’m to the point where this shit makes me want to punch people.

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 7:00:41am
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steve_davis  May 1, 2021 • 7:03:05am

re: #83 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 7:05:23am

There are links to various organizations and gofundmes to financially help in India about halfway down the article:

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PhillyPretzel  May 1, 2021 • 7:05:56am

re: #104 steve_davis

Pretty cat. She is giving you a look as to what she wants done.

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Dangerman  May 1, 2021 • 7:07:52am

re: #97 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Sigh. Yep, Minnesota is definitely turning into “THAT state.”

[Embedded content]

there’s an inherent problem with search warrants (ianal)
i answer the door
police waving a piece of paper (or guns drawn) tell me to stand aside so they can walk in and search.

they are invading the ‘sacred’ domicile. the castle. the safe space. the stand your ground space. the ‘its ok to protect yourself with a gun here’ space.

and forget the self defense aspect…

i dont get to look at the paper and make them wait before they enter, say no this isnt me or its the wrong house or even how do i know you are actual police - let me verify it with a phone call.

i dont get to say, wait, i need legal counsel to guide me whether this is valid and maybe you’re not even allowed to enter my house…

probably because it was the 70’s, i learned in college the basic rules of being detained by the police:
ask ‘am i under arrest’?
if the answer is no then ask ‘am i free to leave’.
if that answer is no, then i am under arrest and should say absolutely nothing and ask for a lawyer.

i feel like now every single person has to acquaint themselves with enough law because the police are making so many dangerous and sometimes fatal mistakes in peoples homes.

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Dangerman  May 1, 2021 • 7:08:53am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When my wife married her previous husband, Digital Equipment Corporation wanted her to come in for her shift on her honeymoon night.

She was non-plussed.

maybe that was the problem with the computers they needed fixed

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 7:14:53am

I hadn’t realized that the version I received was still considered too experimental:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 7:19:19am
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retired cynic  May 1, 2021 • 7:20:55am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 7:21:01am
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A Cranky One  May 1, 2021 • 7:22:25am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 7:25:50am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 1, 2021 • 7:26:36am

re: #104 steve_davis

She’s so pretty. Now a story. What has she been up to? You have the best stories.

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A Cranky One  May 1, 2021 • 7:27:21am

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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steve_davis  May 1, 2021 • 7:31:29am

re: #106 PhillyPretzel

Pretty cat. She is giving you a look as to what she wants done.

yes, which at the moment is to fuck off and turn the overhead light back off on the way out :-)

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Barefoot Grin  May 1, 2021 • 7:34:46am

re: #108 Dangerman

maybe that was the problem with the computers they needed fixed

Doesn’t add up….

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steve_davis  May 1, 2021 • 7:37:37am

re: #115 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

She’s so pretty. Now a story. What has she been up to? You have the best stories.

LOL! Sadly, she’s done nothing cute since she discovered I was posting her memoirs on facebook and here. She did briefly attack me this morning as I worked through Pimsleur’s lesson 9 of the level 1 German. She really fucking hates me continually asking her at what time she would like to drink beer or wine mit mir.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 7:42:44am

I can’t see anything going wrong with this in a state covered in so much forest.

Proposal would allow outdoor funeral pyres in Maine (Associated Press)

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Legislature is considering a proposal to create a new option for sending off the dead — a flaming funeral pyre.

Anyone who has watched “Game of Thrones” or “The Phantom Menace” has seen a fictional funeral pyre, with bodies cremated outdoors on a flaming bed of timber. It’s currently legal in only two locations in the U.S. — both of them in Colorado, the Sun Journal reported.

A bill before the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee would allow a nonprofit that possesses at least 20 acres to carry out open-air cremations and to scatter the ashes on the property.

(more)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2021 • 7:51:15am

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Anyone who has watched “Game of Thrones” or “The Phantom Menace” has seen a fictional funeral pyre, …

It’s almost as if the AP thinks their readers will not have seen or known about funeral pyres done daily around the world, today.

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Nojay UK  May 1, 2021 • 7:53:52am

re: #119 steve_davis

as I worked through Pimsleur’s lesson 9 of the level 1 German.

After listening to several of the Pimsleur’s courses I finally figured out their target market was sales people travelling internationally who needed to know enough of the local language to get Mademoiselle Dubois/Miss Bauer/Suzuki-san drunk enough for her to come up to your hotel room later.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 8:05:33am

Yay, Team Covid.

Memorial Stadium (home of the University of Nebraska Huskers) re-opens today to visitors to watch a scrimmage. Only 40,000 of the total capacity of 80,000 will be admitted. They expect all 40,000.

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A Mom Anon  May 1, 2021 • 8:05:38am

Am I totally off base here?

I really think that K Street needs to die a horrible and quick death. It’s the source of why money controls politics. So why are there never any protests on the streets in front of all these lobbying firms on K Street? They are not afraid of the American people, they think we’re stupid. I just don’t get why these fucks aren’t targets of any action at all. What am I missing?

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2021 • 8:07:03am

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Mississippi changed their flag to remove the Dixie Swastika.

Maryland’s is quite memorable with the yellow-and-black arms of Lord Baltimore.

A lot of states admitted in the 1830’s have the state seal on a blue field, making them all look similar.

Hawai’i’s flag is a series of red, white, and blue stripes with the British Union Jack in the canton.

Alaska’s one is with stars: A blue field with the Big Dipper and the North Star.

Oregon’s flag has something different on each side.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 1, 2021 • 8:07:16am

re: #92 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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stpaulbear  May 1, 2021 • 8:07:16am

re: #89 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Minnesota’s is pretty generic. It’s blue, with a white circle around some stuff that I’ve never really looked at in detail. Now that I’m looking at it, it’s a farmer, with 3 dates of significance to the state, and what looks like the state nickname.

Well the MN state flag does have a Native American on horseback, but he appears to be riding quickly out of the scene. It also has a tree stump to represent the timber industry. There’s a musket and powder leaning against the stump near the farmer who’s looking at the Native American. Not exactly ‘woke’ by today’s standards. 🙄

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 1, 2021 • 8:14:24am

re: #125 wrenchwench

Oregon’s flag has something different on each side.

Georgia was clever and changed theirs to look like the original CSA flag with the state seal added on while removing the battle flag St Andrew’s cross design that everyone associates with the Confederacy and the KKK.

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darthstar  May 1, 2021 • 8:14:29am

Good morning from my sister’s house up in Gardnerville, NV. Dad seems to be doing okay, but his BP tanks if he tries to stand.

Boys don’t seem to miss the beach. Milo waded in the pond. Will throw the ball in it for Merle later when I get the towel situation figured out. White furniture and white carpet everywhere.

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PhillyPretzel  May 1, 2021 • 8:14:46am

re: #127 stpaulbear

This is Pennsylvania’s State Flag. Please note that PA likes to call itself the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
en.wikipedia.org

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 1, 2021 • 8:16:22am

BTW, isn’t there supposed to be a checkbox option for comments that returns you to the point in the thread that you commented on? I do not see it anymore.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 8:17:41am

re: #125 wrenchwench

Oregon’s flag has something different on each side.

Huh. I didn’t know that.

I looked it up; the only state flag like that. The state seal on one side, a beaver on the other.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 8:20:42am

HAPPY SOCIALIST LABOR DAY!

May your communal mud bath be strewn with roses from the palms of Trudy the Schiksa, the One-Legged Goddess of Overly Long Lingerie!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 8:21:00am

re: #130 PhillyPretzel

This is Pennsylvania’s State Flag. Please note that PA likes to call itself the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
en.wikipedia.org

In 2001, the North American Vexillological Association surveyed its members on the designs of the 72 U.S. state, U.S. territorial and Canadian provincial flags. The survey ranked Pennsylvania’s flag 57th out of the 72.

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 8:22:12am

re: #122 Nojay UK

After listening to several of the Pimsleur’s courses I finally figured out their target market was sales people travelling internationally who needed to know enough of the local language to get Mademoiselle Dubois/Miss Bauer/Suzuki-san drunk enough for her to come up to your hotel room later.

If you see all of the programs offered that have you learn by listening and repeating rather than learning a lot of rules, they’re all based on Pimsleur.

I’ve been using it for Spanish. One of comments I have gotten from the few people I try to speak with is that I pronounce the words correctly.

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2021 • 8:23:20am

re: #131 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

BTW, isn’t there supposed to be a checkbox option for comments that returns you to the point in the thread that you commented on? I do not see it anymore.

It appears for me when I hit ‘reply’ or ‘quote’, then disappears when the comment box is empty. It’s on top of the comment box on the left.

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Jay C  May 1, 2021 • 8:23:39am

re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In 2001, the North American Vexillological Association surveyed its members on the designs of the 72 U.S. state, U.S. territorial and Canadian provincial flags. The survey ranked Pennsylvania’s flag 57th out of the 72.

Just out of curiosity, whose came in #1?

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 1, 2021 • 8:24:02am

re: #131 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

BTW, isn’t there supposed to be a checkbox option for comments that returns you to the point in the thread that you commented on? I do not see it anymore.

If you hit “quote,” you should see it at the upper left of the reply box. It’s not there otherwise. (Also, mine randomly unchecks itself, so keep an eye on it.)

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 8:24:05am

re: #131 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

BTW, isn’t there supposed to be a checkbox option for comments that returns you to the point in the thread that you commented on? I do not see it anymore.

Charles’ site is so cool that it only appears when you reply to a comment.

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2021 • 8:24:43am

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Huh. I didn’t know that.

I looked it up; the only state flag like that. The state seal on one side, a beaver on the other.

The state seal should also be a wet mammal.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 1, 2021 • 8:24:44am

re: #129 darthstar

Good morning from my sister’s house up in Gardnerville, NV. Dad seems to be doing okay, but his BP tanks if he tries to stand.
….

When young — in my 30’s and 40’s, I had problems with postural hypotension. There were several times I almost fainted if I tried to get out of bed in the morning too quickly.

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A Cranky One  May 1, 2021 • 8:28:54am

re: #140 wrenchwench

The state seal should also be a wet mammal.

So Milo and Merle?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2021 • 8:29:16am

re: #137 Jay C

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 8:30:08am

re: #137 Jay C

Just out of curiosity, whose came in #1?

New Mexico.

State and Provincial Survey (North American Vexillogical Association)

Rounding out the top ten:

2 Texas
3 Québec
4 Maryland
5 Alaska
6 Arizona
7 Puerto Rico
8 District of Columbia
9 Marshall Islands
10 South Carolina.

The bottom 5:

72 Georgia
71 Nebraska (we were last until Georgia adopted their new flag)
70 Montana
69 Kansas
68 South Dakota

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darthstar  May 1, 2021 • 8:31:41am

re: #142 A Cranky One

So Milo and Merle?

Often wet mammals, I agree. But I don’t want everyone saluting them and flying them behind their trucks.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2021 • 8:33:54am

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The vexillologists seem to make rankings like brand specialists.

Some images are just easier to identify. The palm on SC’s flag, for example.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 8:34:08am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When my wife married her previous husband, Digital Equipment Corporation wanted her to come in for her shift on her honeymoon night.

She was non-plussed.

This is an anecdote related in a Dilbert book, but one which seems plausible enough in Modern Working America:

A woman was working for a company that required four hours of unpaid overtime per week, when she came back from two weeks’ vacation, her manager demanded that she make up the eight hours of overtime she missed while away…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 8:36:08am

re: #146 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The vexillologists seem to make rankings like brand specialists.

Some images are just easier to identify. The palm on SC’s flag, for example.

That’s sort of the point of a flag, that it is easily recognised.

The Massachusetts flag looks like a flag of surrender, especially when there’s no wind.

All the XIX Century state flags all look the same.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 8:36:16am

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I can’t see anything going wrong with this in a state covered in so much forest.

Proposal would allow outdoor funeral pyres in Maine (Associated Press)

(more)

What about Viking funerals on boats?

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 8:36:47am

re: #146 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The vexillologists seem to make rankings like brand specialists.

Some images are just easier to identify. The palm on SC’s flag, for example.

From what I’ve read, the criteria they put on a flag are simplicity and how distinct it is.

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stpaulbear  May 1, 2021 • 8:37:18am

re: #143 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We’re number 67! The raters really seem to hate state seals on a blue background.

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 8:37:43am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 1, 2021 • 8:38:40am

re: #141 Hecuba’s daughter

When young — in my 30’s and 40’s, I had problems with postural hypotension. There were several times I almost fainted if I tried to get out of bed in the morning too quickly.

I’ve done that once or twice and actually fainted. Essentially jumping out of bed suddenly due to a leg cramp about 4-5am. Came to once lying on the floor next the bed. And then wondering why my one arm was sore for the next few days. (I think I bounced off the dresser while keeling over.)

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Barefoot Grin  May 1, 2021 • 8:39:55am

re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What about Viking funerals on boats?

Or the love between Jim Morrison and “baby.”

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Hecuba's daughter  May 1, 2021 • 8:39:58am

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

New Mexico.

State and Provincial Survey (North American Vexillogical Association)

Rounding out the top five:

2 Texas
3 Québec
4 Maryland
5 Alaska
6 Arizona
7 Puerto Rico
8 District of Columbia
9 Marshall Islands
10 South Carolina.

The bottom 5:

72 Georgia
71 Nebraska (we were last until Georgia adopted their new flag)
70 Montana
69 Kansas
68 South Dakota

I was surprised to see Illinois was at 49, so I looked it up and realized that I was totally unfamiliar with it! It was the Chicago flag that I knew and that flag would have ranked far higher in the list of designs.

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darthstar  May 1, 2021 • 8:40:30am

This made my morning. Because I had to leave on short notice yesterday I wasn’t around when my housekeeper arrived and she couldn’t show me her card.

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2021 • 8:42:30am

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

New Mexico.
…

The state got permission from the Zia nation to use the Zia symbol on the flag, with certain stipulations which have mostly been violated, but not by the flag itself. One of the prohibitions was commercial use, which the nation reserves for itself.

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🌹UOJB!  May 1, 2021 • 8:42:31am

re: #62 Hecuba’s daughter

About 14 years ago, I was in a suburban Chicago hospital area late at night waiting for open heart surgery the next day when a colleague in one of our California offices emailed me with a problem with our software — so I called him and helped him resolve it!

I’m in Kaiser receiving my Humira infusion, phone rings from work with a claimant demanding to speak to me about the status of their payment which I worked on the day before. Caller will not hang up and demands to talk to me and they will go to their Congressman if I don’t talk to them.

Needle in my arm and I still have an hour to go with the infusion so I have to call the person back, tell them I am in the hospital caller says I am a liar and then unleashes all of Carlin’s 7 words you can’t say on TV. Demands I issue their full back payment. So I used the magic of the iPhone, put the video on and show the asshole that there is a needle in my arm and a IV bag of Humira. Caller says it’s a fake says they will call Congressman.

Sure enough who gets a call on their cellphone? Yes, and it’s from Asshole Gym Neighbors Jordan’s office screaming at me.

Just another day at work…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 8:45:20am

re: #158 🌹UOJB!

Did you send Rep. Jordan the same video?

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darthstar  May 1, 2021 • 8:45:54am
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Hecuba's daughter  May 1, 2021 • 8:47:47am

re: #158 🌹UOJB!

I’m in Kaiser receiving my Humira infusion, phone rings from work with a claimant demanding to speak to me about the status of their payment which I worked on the day before. Caller will not hang up and demands to talk to me and they will go to their Congressman if I don’t talk to them.

Needle in my arm and I still have an hour to go with the infusion so I have to call the person back, tell them I am in the hospital caller says I am a liar and then unleashes all of Carlin’s 7 words you can’t say on TV. Demands I issue their full back payment. So I used the magic of the iPhone, put the video on and show the asshole that there is a needle in my arm and a IV bag of Humira. Caller says it’s a fake says they will call Congressman.

Sure enough who gets a call on their cellphone? Yes, and it’s from Asshole Gym Neighbors Jordan’s office screaming at me.

Just another day at work…

Sounds like Jordan really represents his district. No wonder he keeps getting elected. But then that is not surprising — most modern GOP voters are as deplorable as those they elect and most of those they elect are totally deplorable with no ethics, morals, or decency.

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 8:48:18am

Ok, so this form of questioning is annoying:

Asked whether Democrats in Congress should “work across the aisle to get things done in Washington, even if it means losing out on some high-priority policies” or “stand firm on their beliefs without compromise, even if it means not much gets done in Washington,” 74% choose working across the aisle. A similar 72% feel the same way about Republicans in Congress, and 71% say President Joe Biden should try to work across the aisle.

I would love to find out the answer to: what do you want Democrats to do if Republicans don’t want anything to get done.

cnn.com

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2021 • 8:49:26am

So, if any Lizards are anime fans, and you’ve seen Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, you could’ve seen the actual Mugen Train for yourself if you were in Japan…

[鬼滅の刃] Mugen Train actually ran in Japan : Demon Slayer

The train was provided by JR Kyushu. Beautiful old train.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 8:50:12am

re: #162 Belafon

Asked whether Democrats in Congress should “work across the aisle to get things done”

Those concepts are anathema to the GOP approach.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 1, 2021 • 8:50:29am

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

Oh, that would’ve been super cool. I did go and see the movie, actually, as Mrs. Fish and I binge-watched the series a few weeks ago. It was part of my D+14 celebration.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 1, 2021 • 8:52:49am

re: #158 🌹UOJB!

I’m in Kaiser receiving my Humira infusion, phone rings from work with a claimant demanding to speak to me about the status of their payment which I worked on the day before. Caller will not hang up and demands to talk to me and they will go to their Congressman if I don’t talk to them.

Needle in my arm and I still have an hour to go with the infusion so I have to call the person back, tell them I am in the hospital caller says I am a liar and then unleashes all of Carlin’s 7 words you can’t say on TV. Demands I issue their full back payment. So I used the magic of the iPhone, put the video on and show the asshole that there is a needle in my arm and a IV bag of Humira. Caller says it’s a fake says they will call Congressman.

Sure enough who gets a call on their cellphone? Yes, and it’s from Asshole Gym Neighbors Jordan’s office screaming at me.

Just another day at work…

What the actual bejesusing fuck? WHY would you fake that?!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 8:53:28am

re: #166 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

What the actual bejesusing fuck? WHY would you fake that?!

to get out of solving that person’s problems

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2021 • 8:54:40am

re: #165 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Oh, that would’ve been super cool. I did go and see the movie, actually, as Mrs. Fish and I binge-watched the series a few weeks ago. It was part of my D+14 celebration.

I’ll have to look for it; apparently, the film received strong positive reviews and a good deal of praise.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 1, 2021 • 8:54:42am

re: #160 darthstar

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Hilarious

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 1, 2021 • 8:55:10am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

to get out of solving that person’s problems

Look, I’m all in favor of shirking my duties at work (///), but I wouldn’t stick a damn needle in my arm for it! Jesus, some people are just real assholes.

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 8:55:16am

Here’s an interesting stat:

The world’s largest conventional oil field, Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, has the capacity to produce nearly four million barrels of oil per day. If you were to convert Ghawar’s annual oil output into electricity, you’d get almost one petawatt-hour of power per year. (That’s nearly enough to power Japan for a year; the world’s annual electrical energy demand is 27 petawatt-hours.)

The Ghawar oil field takes up a lot of space — about 3,000 square miles, around the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. But it soon might sound crazy to use that much sunny land for drilling oil. Bond estimates that if you put up solar panels on an area the size of Ghawar, you could now generate more than one petawatt-hour per year — more than you’d get from the oil buried under Ghawar.

nytimes.com

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🌹UOJB!  May 1, 2021 • 8:56:51am

re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Did you send Rep. Jordan the same video?

Can’t do that when Gym don’t allow none of them phony phones in his offices…

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Belafon  May 1, 2021 • 8:57:18am

re: #166 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

What the actual bejesusing fuck? WHY would you fake that?!

The other person has decided they should not have to be inconvenienced.

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A Cranky One  May 1, 2021 • 8:58:56am

re: #166 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

What the actual bejesusing fuck? WHY would you fake that?!

I would often get frantic calls from work demanding my immediate attention. After Mrs Cranky warned that she’d kill me if I answered while we were walking on a beach in Puerto Rico, I decided to live and didn’t answer.

Learned to just tell folks that I forgot my cellphone/wasn’t carrying it when I was on vacation.

Got away with it too, since people often call me Professor (I’m not), but I do have the absent minded part down pat.

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Barefoot Grin  May 1, 2021 • 8:59:24am

re: #168 Dr Lizardo

I’ll have to look for it; apparently, the film received strong positive reviews and a good deal of praise.

I had heard that there has been some confusion about how to rate it. Japanese have more tolerance for allowing children to see violence in anime form while the American rating agency wasn’t so sure and gave it an R rating.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 1, 2021 • 8:59:30am

I’m re-upping this article. It was sooo good.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 8:59:46am

re: #173 Belafon

The other person has decided they should not have to be inconvenienced.

You could send them hospital records but they would also insist they were faked.

But their Righteous Outrage was oh so real…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 1, 2021 • 8:59:46am

re: #174 A Cranky One

I would often get frantic calls from work demanding my immediate attention. After Mrs Cranky warned that she’d kill me if I answered while we were walking on a beach in Puerto Rico, I decided to live and didn’t answer.

Learned to just tell folks that I forgot my cellphone/wasn’t carrying it when I was on vacation.

Got away with it too, since people often call me Professor (I’m not), but I do have the absent minded part down pat.

I took a call on my wedding anniversary once. Thankfully, I knew it was going to be a short call, but Mrs. Fish was NOT HAPPY. That was the point at which I learned to say “no” to people from work.

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Barefoot Grin  May 1, 2021 • 9:02:05am

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

So, if any Lizards are anime fans, and you’ve seen Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, you could’ve seen the actual Mugen Train for yourself if you were in Japan…

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Video

The train was provided by JR Kyushu. Beautiful old train.

There’s a neat little Railway Museum outside of Tokyo that has several engines from the late 19th and early 20th century. Is that a D51, I wonder. It looks a little small to be one.

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2021 • 9:02:36am

re: #175 Barefoot Grin

I had heard that there has been some confusion about how to rate it. Japanese have more tolerance for allowing children to see violence in anime form while the American rating agency wasn’t so sure and gave it an R rating.

I looked at the trailer and I noticed the R rating from the MPAA. I’m really not all that surprised as I’m pretty sure the MPAA views anime as “cartoons” and of course, those are only for small kids. In Japan, anime is simply another medium for telling a story.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 9:09:22am

Wyoming is not sending its best to us. This guy was wanted on a Saratoga, Wyo. warrant on the following charges.

Brandon Jessiman, 26, had been arrested on two counts of aggravated assault and battery, strangulation of a household member, sexual assault in the first-degree, kidnapping and three counts of domestic battery stemming from incidents alleged to have occurred between Feb. 27 and March 5. Saratoga Police obtained a Carbon County arrest warrant on March 8 for Jessiman’s arrest after an investigation.

He was arrested by the Scott’s Bluff County Sheriff Department here.

Wyoming man arrested on federal rape, kidnapping charges (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

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Hecuba's daughter  May 1, 2021 • 9:10:14am

This may have already been posted here but, as much as I dislike her, Cheney reflects the old pre-Murdoch GOP attitude on the relationship between the parties.

Good for her.

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mmmirele  May 1, 2021 • 9:10:55am

Everything old is new again.

Some of you may remember how I went out and picketed Mark Driscoll, a notorious dudebro pastor who imploded his Seattle megachurch around 2014. He ended up “reinventing” himself here in Phoenix and I picketed him until just after the election, when it became clear that these cultists, having voted for Trump, were all in for Driscoll too. So I went on to other picketing opportunities.

Driscoll may have ~1000 attendees spread across four services, as his church was one of the few churches that were open for business ( intentional) last summer. Of course they’re maskholes, and so on and so forth.

Well, as I said above, everything old is new again. The two complaints are basically:

1) He’s got no elders in his church and he preached that churches needed to have elders. In fact, some paperwork looks like the church has become a family business, as his eldest daughter is the executive director of his “ministry” and her husband is one of the “church pastors.”

2) His completely nasty behavior has come out again. A family joined his church last summer, there were two teenage boys. One of the boys (aged 15) fell for one of Driscoll’s daughters (aged 17). Anyway, Driscoll is one of those people who doesn’t believe in dating, only in courtship and marriage. Well, the 15 YO and the 17 YO shared a consensual kiss and Driscoll completely and utterly lost his shit, which trickled down to his pastors, who lost their shit at both sons, one for kissing Driscoll’s daughter, and the other for basically saying “fuck this” when his younger brother was thrown out of the church.

The upshot is that this Scottsdale family has been tossed out of the church because of a kiss AND Driscoll called the cops on them and they had to deal with the Scottsdale PD.

wonderingeagle.wordpress.com

Now, I don’t particularly care about the organizational structure of Driscoll’s business because I knew from the beginning it was going to be a one-man show and a cult. HOWEVER, the rest of it is utter bullshit, so I’m hitting the sidewalk, maybe even as early as this afternoon (he now has 4 and 6 pm services). Since the “throwing out the family” took place in late March, I’m actually curious to see if Driscoll has rehired the Scottsdale PD to “protect” him.

ETA: OOH OOHH! There’s a volunteer Non-disclosure Agreement. Now my opinion about NDAs generally is that they’re from Satan, but these volunteer ones are complete and utter trash.

wonderingeagle.wordpress.com

Oh, and this is utter trash, because there’s NO CONSIDERATION.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 1, 2021 • 9:11:30am

Why does Florida hate Free Enterprise?

Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians

A controversial new bill that would stop tech companies from deplatforming politicians has been approved by both houses in Florida’s legislature.

The bill must now be signed off by Trump ally, Governor Ron DeSantis.

The legislation allows platforms to suspend accounts, but only for 14 days, and could fine the platforms as much as $250,000 per day for violating the law.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 9:16:20am

re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Why does Florida hate Free Enterprise?

Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians

A controversial new bill that would stop tech companies from deplatforming politicians has been approved by both houses in Florida’s legislature.

The bill must now be signed off by Trump ally, Governor Ron DeSantis.

The legislation allows platforms to suspend accounts, but only for 14 days, and could fine the platforms as much as $250,000 per day for violating the law.

Why do politicians get special rights in Florida?

I’m not sure that Florida has anything to say in the Constitution about interstate commerce.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 1, 2021 • 9:17:13am

re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

How in the fuck could this ever be enforceable?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 1, 2021 • 9:17:54am

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

How in the fuck could this ever be enforceable?

It’s not, but it’s all about the political theater. Plus, they’re banking on the Supreme Court being packed with Trump allies to try and get away with this.

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Jay C  May 1, 2021 • 9:18:00am

re: #182 Hecuba’s daughter

This may have already been posted here but, as much as I dislike her, Cheney reflects the old pre-Murdoch GOP attitude on the relationship between the parties.

Good for her.

I agree- but I’m sure there’s some response to that tweet somewhere along the lines of:

“Fuck all Democrats,”
“Fuck Joe Biden”
“And fuck Liz Cheney, too!”

“Sworn enemies” is precisely how RW politicians and media have spent many decades hysterically trying to convince their constituents/audiences to view their political opponents. And it’s worked.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 9:19:12am

Aren’t you supposed to run the plates first?

Nebraska State Patrol troopers helped a New Jersey man stopped on the shoulder of Interstate 80, then chased after him, after learning that the Honda Civic he was driving had been reported stolen.

starherald.com

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PhillyPretzel  May 1, 2021 • 9:22:52am

re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I would assume so.

191
Jay C  May 1, 2021 • 9:25:22am

re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Aren’t you supposed to run the plates just shoot first?

starherald.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 9:25:39am

Yesterday’s news:

I WON THE LOTTO!

Click to Reveal

$3 and eight free tickets

193
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 9:27:46am

I broke the Panhandle yesterday.

Since I put up new flags and changed the flagstaff halyard in the park, there’s been no wind. Nada. Zip.

194
darthstar  May 1, 2021 • 9:34:37am

Great Get Vaccinated sign.

195
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 9:36:32am

Ugh.

A Canadian corporation spearheading a controversial uranium mining project near Edgemont is re-initiating the permit process with South Dakota so it can progress with the project, which will be the company’s first.

Powertech Industries Inc., a subsidiary of Azarga Uranium based in British Columbia, Canada, first began applying for permits and licensing for its Dewey Burdock Project in 2013. The project is the company’s initial development priority.

The project will use “in situ leach” mining, a process similar to fracking in which injection wells are used to pump groundwater fortified with oxygen and carbon dioxide into the ore deposits to dissolve uranium. The production wells are then used to pump the uranium-laden fluids to the surface for recovery. For the Dewey Burdock Project, fluids from the production wells will be processed at two separate facilities at the mine site to extract and concentrate the uranium, according to a project description on the DANR website.

(more)

Proposed uranium mine resumes permit process (Rapid City Journal)

Gee, fracking to mine uranium? That’s got to be really good for the groundwater.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 9:43:50am

Weighing in on the school in South Florida banning teachers who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, comes this insight from Juanita Jean’s:

Instead of poking fun at these people I decided to ask a serious question. How can we adapt our science curriculum to help our students and future voters not fall for junk science and alternative facts. The scientist in the house had a very simple answer to the question. The answer seemed simplistic to me and yet I went back to my mantra I mentioned in the first sentence. I should not argue about matters of science.

Her answer was one word. Christianity. Both of us are cradle Catholics and yet we somehow came down on the more liberal end of the Christian world. Mind you, she is more politically conservative than me, but I think she’s more fed up with the interference from the Christian community into science and the natural mistrust that is there.

You can’t paint anti-vaxxers with the same brush, but most come in with a Christian mindset. God will protect them. Of course, the irony is palpable. Much of the Old Testament is a recorded faith history of the Hebrew people. Included in that are the kosher laws. As a general rule we don’t follow those laws anymore, but these people seem to have a lack of historical understanding of the purpose of those laws. They discovered that certain foods or combinations of foods led to more deaths. Kosher laws were meant to protect them.

(more)

Just In Case

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 1, 2021 • 9:49:43am

2010: Free Booze Before Gingrich—Indian Wells, CA

Photo taken while we were consuming mass quantities of everything on our balcony. No one noticed at all except this one bartender in the rear left of the picture who gave us a thumbs up.

Place had valet and we recovered after a couple of hours rest and went to go eat just when the Gingrich crowd left

we kept hearing “Silver Mercedes “ and “White Lexus” and impatient scrums of wealthy seniors would surge forward then go, oh not mine

I got our “White Honda “ (there was no scrum) and as we left a “Silver Honda “ scrum spilled on to the sidewalk. My wife was hangry and yelled “get out of the way you $&@@&$@ &¥£€%# !!”
as I slowly steered around, but it was at that exact moment I figured out the cell phone Bluetooth link to my new car stereo and Led Zeppelin III began to loudly play so the oldsters only saw a pantomime and ere very confused.

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Nojay UK  May 1, 2021 • 10:01:41am

re: #195 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ugh.

(more)

Proposed uranium mine resumes permit process (Rapid City Journal)

Gee, fracking to mine uranium? That’s got to be really good for the groundwater.

It’s not actually like fracking since it doesn’t break up (fracture = frack) the underground strata. It’s removing uranium from underground rather than having it turn up in harmful quantities in people’s wellwater (I think you mentioned you had problems with that?).

There can be other issues with in-situ leaching — I suspect the “fortified with oxygen and carbon dioxide” simplification means the operators are shifting the acid balance of the leachant to better dissolve the uranium they’re after, and the leachant is highly toxic after use although it’s reprocessed and recirculated after the uranium is removed. Usually in-situ leaching is carried out in strata a lot deeper than anything ground water ever penetrates so it’s not expected to cause problems in that region. Things can go wrong though.

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2021 • 10:03:49am

This young fella, from Saskatchewan, is some kinda genius. He dropped a Corvette LS4 into a DeLorean.

1982 LS Powered DeLorean DMC-12: Regular Car Reviews

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jaunte  May 1, 2021 • 10:07:43am
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jaunte  May 1, 2021 • 10:10:36am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 1, 2021 • 10:17:51am

re: #198 Nojay UK

It’s not actually like fracking since it doesn’t break up (fracture = frack) the underground strata. It’s removing uranium from underground rather than having it turn up in harmful quantities in people’s wellwater (I think you mentioned you had problems with that?).

There can be other issues with in-situ leaching — I suspect the “fortified with oxygen and carbon dioxide” simplification means the operators are shifting the acid balance of the leachant to better dissolve the uranium they’re after, and the leachant is highly toxic after use although it’s reprocessed and recirculated after the uranium is removed. Usually in-situ leaching is carried out in strata a lot deeper than anything ground water ever penetrates so it’s not expected to cause problems in that region. Things can go wrong though.

Hm. Not fracking then.

We have problems with uranium in our water, but it is naturally-occuring and leaches out on its own.

Oxygen and carbon dioxide are much safer than the heap leach method to extract gold from low-grade ore though (that uses cyanide). My wife and I got to see an example of that during our wedding trip in Colorado, where a gold mining company used that method to extract millions of dollars of gold in Summitville. (When their leach pad started leaking cyanide into the Alamosa River, the principals declared bankruptcy and left the government holding the bag to clean up the mess, which isn’t done yet).


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