Yes, She Is the Pocket Queen: “WE CAME to MOVE” (Feat. Ryck Jane)

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Yes, she’s really playing those drums. Ouch.

Official music video by The Pocket Queen performing “WE CAME TO MOVE (feat. Ryck Jane)”– available everywhere now: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thepocketqueen/we-came-to-move-feat-ryck-jane

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Directed by : Richard Turrentine
Creative Director: Kharmony Fortune
Executive Producer: Taylor Gordon
Movement/ Choreography: Karma Raines
DP: Adam Episcopo
Editor: Adam Episcopo
Colorist: Lightrix Media
Hair: Bobbi Riley/ Kaori Nik
Make up: Bobbi Riley
Stylist: Kharmony Fortune
Techs: Wayne Matthews
Dancers:
Erica LaRae
Shari Selima Gardner
Arayawna Moore
Suriya McGuire
Sheree Rome

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265 comments
1
Charles Johnson  May 2, 2021 • 5:46:48pm

All I could say was “ouch.”

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nines09  May 2, 2021 • 5:51:42pm

Damn.

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darthstar  May 2, 2021 • 5:53:13pm

This is a real life personal friend of mine. Found her on Twitter not a very long time ago…turns out she’s quite the troll hunter. This is probably the 15th account I’ve seen her get suspended.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2021 • 5:55:28pm

niterz lizardz

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🌹UOJB!  May 2, 2021 • 6:02:14pm
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Belafon  May 2, 2021 • 6:02:24pm
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Dave In Austin  May 2, 2021 • 6:14:50pm

Gun Stuff…….

Click to Reveal

My 50 Cal Exploded

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 2, 2021 • 6:20:38pm


Thread

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jaunte  May 2, 2021 • 6:22:40pm
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gwangung  May 2, 2021 • 6:31:48pm

re: #9 jaunte

Not that amazing. The loudest farting noises about the border comes from states in the exact middle of country, thousands of miles away from the border.

Wonder what you’d call these interfering busy bodies?

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Dave In Austin  May 2, 2021 • 6:33:14pm

I got swats in the 7th and 8th grades. I made it a point of saying calmly. “Is that it?” ” Are you done now?”

Since it was a witnessed event they couldn’t do much.

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🌹UOJB!  May 2, 2021 • 6:35:23pm

re: #11 Dave In Austin

I got swats in the 7th and 8th grades. I made it a point of saying calmly. “Is that it?” ” Are you done now?”

Since it was a witnessed event they couldn’t do much.

Memories of the 8th Grade Algebra Torturer From The 10th Level Of Hell who slapped me in front of the class multiple times, called me Asshole and made fun of my clothes.

Mom and Dad complained to the School BORED and they wouldn’t lift a finger to stop that piece of shit.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 2, 2021 • 6:35:38pm

re: #11 Dave In Austin

I got swats in the 7th and 8th grades. I made it a point of saying calmly. “Is that it?” ” Are you done now?”

Since it was a witnessed event they couldn’t do much.

I never got corporal punishment in school. My parents gave it to me but good when I was a kid, but as a teenager, it was only ever in-school suspensions. I got several of those. The best part? A lot of those were as a bullying victim, because I got attacked and if I dared try to protect myself, I was rung up to the principal’s office. My favorite one was a suspension for a “fight” in which my opponent took several swings at me, but I dodged every (clumsy and extremely telegraphed) blow. I ask you, how is a kid at fault for TRYING TO AVOID his would-be assaulter’s blows?

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🌹UOJB!  May 2, 2021 • 6:37:27pm

re: #13 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I never got corporal punishment in school. My parents gave it to me but good when I was a kid, but as a teenager, it was only ever in-school suspensions. I got several of those. The best part? A lot of those were as a bullying victim, because I got attacked and if I dared try to protect myself, I was rung up to the principal’s office. My favorite one was a suspension for a “fight” in which my opponent took several swings at me, but I dodged every (clumsy and extremely telegraphed) blow. I ask you, how is a kid at fault for TRYING TO AVOID his would-be assaulter’s blows?

Same here. The Football coach loved having his boys beat me.

That’s why I compare High School Hell to a Nazi Concentration Camp. But I got out alive and got a master’s degree despite what those animals did to me.

50 year reunion is coming up in May 2023. Never went to one and never will. Still have “classmates” try to friend me on Facebook and I block them.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 2, 2021 • 6:38:37pm

re: #14 🌹UOJB!

Same here. The Football coach loved having his boys beat me.

That’s why I compare High School Hell to a Nazi Concentration Camp. But I got out alive and got a master’s degree despite what those animals did to me.

I graduated 3rd in a class of 137 and, after a bit of a rough start, ended up as a well-paid and extremely well-respected programmer in a notably tech-centric part of the country. My former bullies? Well, one of them died of a drug overdose about ten years back, that oughta tell you all you need to know.

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🌹UOJB!  May 2, 2021 • 6:42:18pm

re: #15 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I graduated 3rd in a class of 137 and, after a bit of a rough start, ended up as a well-paid and extremely well-respected programmer in a notably tech-centric part of the country. My former bullies? Well, one of them died of a drug overdose about ten years back, that oughta tell you all you need to know.

Well one of the few friends I have from that, Gordon, who got his nose broken when he intervened once let me know that of the 365 that graduated in May 1973, around 50 were still alive. As for the 50 guys who got football scholarships and believed they would be playing in the NFL—None of them made the cut. Lots of folks died from the usual suspects—heart disease, strokes, cancer, diabetes but a big chunk died from crack, booze, opiates & HIV…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 2, 2021 • 6:45:08pm

re: #16 🌹UOJB!

One of my nerd friends from that era actually lives not too far from me. I met up with him about 5 years ago. After graduation, he joined the Army, specialized in logistics support, and moved to Minneapolis with his new wife to work in logistics in the Twin Cities. I was glad to see that some of my nerd friends were able to escape and prove that they were better than that shithole we came from.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 2, 2021 • 6:57:19pm

re: #16 🌹UOJB!

Oh, yeah, I should also mention. The jocks at my school, the ones who abused me, were always in search of the school’s first-ever state championship, the coveted basketball trophy. Want to know who actually brought home the first state championship? It’s ya boi, the nerd squad. In fact, between my junior and senior years, we won five state championships. As far as I know, the sportsball team still has yet to win at state.

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nines09  May 2, 2021 • 6:57:20pm

Almost gone then I thought….
Best guitarist you never heard of and here he is live in a small venue.
Can you dig it?

2019 Koch Marshall Trio - Live (complete gig) @ Café De Noot (NL)

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retired cynic  May 2, 2021 • 7:04:20pm

Opinion: Harris and Pelosi headlined a night for women. Almost.
by Christine Emba, washingtonpost.com

President Biden’s joint address to Congress was always going to be primarily about optics: The emptied chamber and masked audience hopefully tempered by the image of an energetic president with big ideas. And Biden delivered at least one optical triumph: For the first time the two people seated directly behind the president were women — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on his left, Vice President Harris on his right.
Biden pointed out that fact in the first line in his speech, raising it as cause for celebration. “Madame Speaker. Madame Vice President. No president has ever said these words from the podium — no president. And it’s about time!” Of course, he’s right: This is positive change. Representation matters, and the more women we see in the upper echelons of politics, the better. But it’s also a sign of how far we have to go.
After Hillary Clinton’s bruising loss to Donald Trump in 2016, and Trump’s wildly misogynistic term as president, to see women in power feels like a balm. …
…Women held up Biden from the beginning of his campaign through his 100th day as president, and they will most likely do so beyond. His wife, Jill, literally tackled interlopers who rushed him onstage during the electoral season. Harris went from being a primary-season antagonist to his friendly second-in-command, lending him feminist credibility and boatloads of fundraising dollars. And Pelosi deftly held the fractious Democratic caucus together, deflecting fire from Biden to allow him to present himself as the candidate of peace — and, once his term began, to pass a historic stimulus on a party-line vote.
And yet, for their troubles, there the women stood in their nonthreatening pastels: cheering Joe on from the back, masked and silent while he spoke.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 2, 2021 • 7:04:25pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 2, 2021 • 7:10:50pm

re: #21 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Happiness is a
warm, moist gun
bang, bang
shoot, shoot

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Charles Johnson  May 2, 2021 • 7:11:35pm

Check out this Max Ostro kid, rippin’ and actin’ like it ain’t shit.

Max Ostro | Joker

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Sherlock Hound  May 2, 2021 • 7:14:32pm

re: #3 darthstar

I don’t have many victories, but I cheer every message I get from Twitter that gets a troll!

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calochortus  May 2, 2021 • 7:15:25pm

Today’s excitement: A neighbor a couple blocks away had an electrical fire that started in the garage. They apparently also have a gun collection and a bunch of ammunition in the gun safe in that same garage.

Anyway, the fire department had a large and rapid response and all is under control without any explosions. Which is nice because my brother and his wife live next door to them. The family and their cat are all fine, though I have no idea how extensive the damage is.

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jaunte  May 2, 2021 • 7:17:48pm
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mmmirele  May 2, 2021 • 7:31:46pm

re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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I am COMPLETELY not excusing this bullshit, but just pointing out that when we moved to Texas in 1973, the paddle was fully in use. My brother, who was nine years old and had spent his entire life in California, was paddled almost immediately for failing to say “yes, ma’am.”

I am ENRAGED to see kids getting hit, and it happens thousands, if not millions of times a day across this country, because some religions believe that you have to hit children to break their spirits and get them to obey.

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Sherlock Hound  May 2, 2021 • 7:31:49pm

re: #22 Barefoot Grin

Happiness is a
warm, moist gun
bang, bang
shoot, shoot

The only way some people get blown.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 2, 2021 • 7:33:20pm

You really do need the sound on

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jaunte  May 2, 2021 • 7:42:15pm
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A Three Hour Tour  May 2, 2021 • 7:57:05pm

re: #27 mmmirele

I am COMPLETELY not excusing this bullshit, but just pointing out that when we moved to Texas in 1973, the paddle was fully in use. My brother, who was nine years old and had spent his entire life in California, was paddled almost immediately for failing to say “yes, ma’am.”

I am ENRAGED to see kids getting hit, and it happens thousands, if not millions of times a day across this country, because some religions believe that you have to hit children to break their spirits and get them to obey.

Significant portions of Southern Culture - white and black - still believe that beating kids - I’m sorry, “corporal punishment” - is a virtue. It’s something my wife and I rebelled against as Southern-raised parents and why, where possible, we watched authority figures around our children like hawks.

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jaunte  May 2, 2021 • 8:01:47pm

Give It What You Can

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 2, 2021 • 8:18:34pm

LOL

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jaunte  May 2, 2021 • 8:23:54pm

re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron

Finally, I can force Simon and Schuster to publish my manifesto.

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darthstar  May 2, 2021 • 8:27:45pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 2, 2021 • 8:35:38pm

re: #21 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Does Gwyneth Paltrow know about this?

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Dave In Austin  May 2, 2021 • 8:38:45pm
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darthstar  May 2, 2021 • 8:43:45pm

re: #36 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Does Gwyneth Paltrow know about this?

Diagnostic and Correctional Center - she won’t be in the hospital prison for 10 years. She gets to go hang out with the untreated.

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(((Archangel1)))  May 2, 2021 • 8:44:07pm

Cheater’s Digest was already taken…

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mmmirele  May 2, 2021 • 8:45:02pm

re: #36 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

[Embedded content]

Does Gwyneth Paltrow know about this?

Ummm, just the idea of shoving all those edges and such into an orifice…the faces I’m making right now…let’s just say RUN AWAY!!!!!

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 2, 2021 • 8:47:55pm
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🌹UOJB!  May 2, 2021 • 8:48:39pm

re: #39 (((Archangel1)))

Cheater’s Digest was already taken…

[Embedded content]

Tooty Frooty Newty and his Misses want to move to Florida.

Good. Let them be there when it sinks into the sea…

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Dave In Austin  May 2, 2021 • 8:50:07pm

Zildjian LIVE! - Thomas Pridgen

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🌹UOJB!  May 2, 2021 • 8:56:44pm
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darthstar  May 2, 2021 • 8:59:49pm

So my dad’s dying…a lot of you have been through this already so you know what it’s like. But what makes it even less appealing is my mother who is a complete narcissist and thinks everything is about her, her, her, while her husband can’t get out of his wheelchair to pee anymore and has to wear a catheter.

Today I helped him take his first shit in several days (due in part to recent hospital stay and the sedatives they pump into people), then at breakfast he starts criticizing my sister (who has been hosting them and helped them move FOUR fucking times in the last three years) saying she’s being too controlling of mom (in other words, repeating what mom whispers in his ear all night). So she loses her shit and leaves me with the two of them and drives back from her (quite lovely 4,000 sq ft house with views of the Sierras) to the coast to see her sometimes beau until they’re gone. Luckily one of my brothers is at his Lake Tahoe house and can make the 30 minute drive into Carson Valley every day and help me out a bit.

After that, he wants a shower, so my brother and I wheel him into the bathroom, strip him down to nothing but his pee bag, and I lift him into a shower seat and hold the nozzle while my brother shampoos and soaps him. Like washing a fucking dog, except he keeps saying thank you.

Tomorrow I take mom to the assisted living facility near by and have her sign the papers - then hopefully my brother and I can make a WalMart run and buy furniture for their new apartment (her new apartment - dad will go straight to 24/7 nursing and memory care at the community). This will at least ensure he’s properly cared for and within distance of us in his last few weeks.

Mom is already dropping hints about moving back to their place in Palm Desert even though she doesn’t understand what she’s really saying there. It’s a fucking mess and emotionally draining and tonight my wife said, “I understand why you don’t like spending a lot of time with your family.” There’s more I won’t share in an online forum but thanks for letting me rant.

Oh and before my sister said “Fuck everyone, I’m out!(good for her)” she asked me to make duck for dinner.

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retired cynic  May 2, 2021 • 9:03:34pm

re: #46 darthstar

Oh, boy. That is so tough. You are sure in my thoughts, as I know you are in a whole bunch of lizards’ thoughts tonight. Most of us have either been through or are going through something, and that is true of most everyone you meet or work with. Glad you have the dogs and Mrs. darth!

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🌹UOJB!  May 2, 2021 • 9:04:48pm

re: #46 darthstar

Fella, hope everything will work out OK. Sorry that you have to go thru this.

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cat-tikvah  May 2, 2021 • 9:05:29pm

re: #46 darthstar

I’m so sorry.
That is such a trying and painful experience.

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darthstar  May 2, 2021 • 9:06:39pm

re: #47 retired cynic

Oh, boy. That is so tough. You are sure in my thoughts, as I know you are in a whole bunch of lizards’ thoughts tonight. Most of us have either been through or are going through something, and that is true of most everyone you meet or work with. Glad you have the dogs and Mrs. darth!

Thanks. Just read my rant. It’s hard watching a brilliant mind waste away so fast. And my mother, god love her, has a generous spirit in nearly everything she does…but they’ve been married since 1958…and that’s a lot to let go of. And she’s had zero mental health support that is useful to her.

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darthstar  May 2, 2021 • 9:09:38pm

Oh, because I cooked so early we still had two hours to kill before I put them to bed, so I introduced them to the first two episodes of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. My mom started to drift off but soon perked up and laughed out loud probably a half dozen times in the two episodes we watched. First time I’ve seen her laugh in years.

Probably a lot of it has to do with her recognizing the late 50s and, while Catholic, sympathizing with the norms of the families.

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Dave In Austin  May 2, 2021 • 9:23:31pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 9:32:04pm

re: #46 darthstar

I’m sorry you and your family are going through this tough time now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 9:33:46pm

Opinion piece at Yahoo!

It’s time to start shunning the ‘vaccine hesitant.’ They’re blocking COVID herd immunity.

Has-been rock star Ted Nugent told the world last week that he has COVID-19. Nugent’s announcement was an oddity because he previously called the viral pandemic a “leftist scam to destroy” Donald Trump. As I watched Nugent’s Facebook Live post, in which he repeatedly hocked up wads of phlegm and spit them to the ground, I got emotional when he described being so sick he thought he “was dying.” But when he trashed the COVID-19 vaccine and warned people against taking it, I realized that the emotion I was feeling was not empathy, it was anger.

(more)

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 2, 2021 • 9:40:41pm

re: #46 darthstar

My mom has narcissistic tendencies too. I do not envy the situation you’re in.

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ckkatz  May 2, 2021 • 9:41:51pm

re: #7 Dave In Austin

Thanks for posting the video. I had not looked at “kabooms” for quite a while.

A few thoughts below. I suspect that you already are well aware of these issues.

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ckkatz  May 2, 2021 • 9:53:29pm

re: #11 Dave In Austin

I got swats in the 7th and 8th grades. I made it a point of saying calmly. “Is that it?” ” Are you done now?”

Since it was a witnessed event they couldn’t do much.

Your tale immediately reminded me of Revolutionary General Daniel Morgan. Certainly in attitude, although not in severity.

Morgan worked as a teamster for the English Army during the French and Indian War. He was sentenced to 500 lashes for punching and knocking out a British officer. This sentence often proved fatal.

Morgan afterwards said that the drummer responsible for flogging him miscounted the lashes by one, so he ‘only’ received 499. But added: “I did not think it worth while to tell him of his mistake, and let it go so.”

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darthstar  May 2, 2021 • 9:56:19pm

Sleep is coming. Good night everyone, and thank you for your support. It means a lot.

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ckkatz  May 2, 2021 • 10:03:21pm

re: #46 darthstar

I am so sorry to hear all that you are having to go through. It does sound like you, your brother, and your sister all understand and support each other.

When my parents passed, I guess that I was fortunate in that my family did not have any other drama. One of the many things that my father did very well was to have a third party manage the distribution of the estate and publish reports to all the heirs.

I have seen a lot of families fall apart over recriminations on who got a bit more of the parents estate.

One of the most horrible feelings I have ever had, was knowing that my parents were deathly ill and were going to die, and that there was so little I could do beyond insure physical comfort.

For the next two years following their deaths, I do not remember seeing many colors, just black and shades of grey.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 10:07:24pm

Yay, it’s still Winter.

Winter Storm Warnings are in effect for the Snowy Range, with Winter Weather Advisories for the Sierra Madre and Southern Laramie Ranges from noon today through 6 PM Monday. Widespread snow, heavy at times, will fall. Total snowfall accumulations will be up to one foot for elevations above 10000 feet in the Snowy Range, with 4 to 10 inches under 10000 feet. 3 to 5 inches of snow are expected for the Sierra Madre and Southern Laramie Ranges.

weather.gov

We’re more likely to get rain here. We’ll see, a few degrees difference in the temperature is all it will take.

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Belafon  May 2, 2021 • 10:10:35pm

I can’t copy the whole article, but this si the good part. The rest of it will want to make you beat up the white guy:

A former Conway [SC] restaurant manager serving a 10-year prison sentence for forcing a man with intellectual disabilities to work more than 100 hours a week without pay owes the former employee double the amount in restitution — $546,000, a court ruled.

Bobby Paul Edwards was ordered to pay John Christopher Smith $273,000 in back pay as part of the sentencing in pleading guilty to a forced labor charge in 2019.

But the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this month that Smith should get the extra money because of federal labor rules that entitle him to double the pay and overtime he was owed. The final decision about how much to pay Smith was sent back to the district court.

postandcourier.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 10:15:10pm

re: #61 Belafon

I can’t copy the whole article, but this si the good part. The rest of it will want to make you beat up the white guy:

postandcourier.com

We haven’t heard what Senator Tim Scott thinks of this.

I’ll bet the restaurant owner thinks he’s the victim as well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 10:17:56pm

West Lincoln state senator. She proposed the legalise maryjane bill here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 10:28:06pm

Control your dogs at all times.

The husband, who asked not to be identified, said the couple were walking their miniature poodle when two pit bulls charged them from across the street.

When the woman bent over to pick up the poodle, the pit bulls knocked her to the ground and began attacking her and the dog.

The husband was able to grab the poodle and run, he said, which drew the pit bulls’ attention away from the wife.

His wife suffered six bites on her face and hands, and he had three bites on his arm, he said. Their dog was undergoing surgery on one of its legs Sunday evening.

He said the pit bulls weren’t wearing collars, and the gate to their fenced yard was open.

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omaha.com

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Targetpractice  May 2, 2021 • 10:28:25pm

re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron

LOL

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Accurate headline: “Ron DeSantis to sign massive checks to law firms to defend unconstitutional law against scores of legal challenges.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 10:32:32pm

re: #65 Targetpractice

Accurate headline: “Ron DeSantis to sign massive checks to law firms to defend unconstitutional law against scores of legal challenges.”

Then Republicans make adverts on how the courts are tilted against conservatives.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  May 2, 2021 • 10:34:26pm

re: #10 gwangung

Not that amazing. The loudest farting noises about the border comes from states in the exact middle of country, thousands of miles away from the border.

Wonder what you’d call these interfering busy bodies?

NIYBYs?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 10:36:49pm
See, I’m prone to think some sort of regulations are needed for a mammoth company with massive influence — especially one so few users truly understand, especially when it comes to how their own information is being used.

But I also know the last people who should push for regulations are the political hacks who run this state.

While sober-minded defenders of consumer rights are interested in transparency, Florida legislators are more obsessed with getting Donald Trump back on Twitter and making sure their posts are never taken down — even if they contain lies, pornography or defamation.

We need to robust debate about social media in this country. But it should be held by America’s thought-leaders, not Florida’s knuckle-draggers.

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Facebook needs regulation. But not from dimwitted politicians in Florida | Commentary (Orlando Sentinel, paywalled)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 10:39:50pm

re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In another bill where legislators mixed their fury with Facebook with their fury over China, they want to ban every city and county in Florida from buying ads on Facebook, purchasing iPhones or buying any product made in China or sold on Amazon. Police departments couldn’t buy iPhones. Florida ports couldn’t buy cranes.

These are not serious people proposing serious solutions.

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Targetpractice  May 2, 2021 • 10:40:38pm

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Then Republicans make adverts on how the courts are tilted against conservatives.

Nah, what’s going to happen is somebody’s now going to try to make a massive stink on Twitter for the purpose of getting timed out/banned. At which point Ronny makes a big public spectacle of ordering the company to either lift the ban or be penalized by the State of Florida.

Where it goes from there (in light of Jacks’ fickle nature) is up in the air, but their legal dept no doubt is gonna advise telling the State of Florida where to cram their “penalties” and dare them to take the matter to court in order to force Twitter to comply.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 10:43:16pm

re: #70 Targetpractice

Nah, what’s going to happen is somebody’s now going to try to make a massive stink on Twitter for the purpose of getting timed out/banned. At which point Ronny makes a big public spectacle of ordering the company to either lift the ban or be penalized by the State of Florida.

Where it goes from there (in light of Jacks’ fickle nature) is up in the air, but their legal dept no doubt is gonna advise telling the State of Florida where to cram their “penalties” and dare them to take the matter to court in order to force Twitter to comply.

Might be this guy.

One GOP legislator, Brevard County’s Randy Fine, admitted the bill would help “Nazis and child molesters and pedophiles” … right before he voted for it.

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Targetpractice  May 2, 2021 • 10:47:17pm

re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Might be this guy.

Well, you gotta admit, the guy knows his party’s base.

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plansbandc  May 2, 2021 • 10:48:49pm

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 2, 2021 • 10:50:03pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  May 2, 2021 • 10:59:35pm
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Cheechako  May 2, 2021 • 10:59:45pm

re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Facebook needs regulation. But not from dimwitted politicians in Florida | Commentary (Orlando Sentinel, paywalled)

If Florida bans Facebook or Twitter then Twitter and Facebook should ban service for anyone in Florida. What’s that called? Tit for Tat?

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 2, 2021 • 11:03:38pm

re: #76 Cheechako

If Florida bans Facebook or Twitter then Twitter and Facebook should ban service for anyone in Florida. What’s that called? Tit for Tat?

Erase everyone with a Florida postal code from the pages of time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 11:03:49pm

Sometimes the Libertarians get it right. (Reason has an article up panning Joe Biden for calling to re-up the Violence Against Women Act, because it intervenes in such things as sexual assault and domestic violence.)

Tennessee Man Arrested for Posting Picture Mocking Dead Police Officer Files First Amendment Lawsuit (Reason)

A Tennessee man is suing state and local law enforcement officials for violating his First Amendment rights after he was arrested and charged with harassment for posting a meme mocking a dead police officer.

Joshua Garton filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee alleging malicious prosecution, false arrest, and First Amendment retaliation for his January arrest by the Dickson Police Department.

The Dickson Police Department, following an investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), arrested and charged Joshua Garton on January 22 with harassment after Garton posted a picture to Facebook that appeared to show two men urinating on the tombstone of Sgt. Daniel Baker, who was shot and killed on duty in 2018. Garton was held on a $76,000 bond.

Garton’s attorney, Nashville civil rights lawyer Daniel Horwitz, said in a statement that the case against Garton was a “despicable and unconstitutional malicious prosecution.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 2, 2021 • 11:09:29pm

Vice President Harris to give Naval Academy commissioning address (Navy Times)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver the keynote address at the Naval Academy’s commissioning ceremony, a White House official told a Maryland news outlet Friday.

Harris is expected to give the speech May 28 during the in-person, limited capacity ceremony in Annapolis, The Capital reported Friday, citing a White House spokesperson.

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Targetpractice  May 2, 2021 • 11:13:04pm

re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron

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We’re never going to achieve herd immunity in this country. Not without a whole lot more dying.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 2, 2021 • 11:34:12pm

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Targetpractice  May 2, 2021 • 11:58:03pm

The discussion last night about time-travel and scifi series/films involved in such made me realize just how bummed I am that the three series I’ve been watching recently involving such are all on hiatus until either this winter or next spring. GAH!

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 2, 2021 • 11:58:41pm

re: #80 Targetpractice

We’re never going to achieve herd immunity in this country. Not without a whole lot more dying.

You can’t have herd immunity until you get the whole herd. Which means India as well as the US. Vaccinations around here are cutting way back on new infections, but we can’t start to let our guard down until the rest of the world is as far along as we are. So there’s not much point in worrying about the antivaxxers right now. Send the vaccine to India, or anywhere there’s high demand, and let the antivaxxers wait. (Once the vaccines have regular FDA approval, I expect employers, and likely also medical insurers to start requiring it. Probably schools too.)

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Targetpractice  May 3, 2021 • 12:16:41am

re: #83 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

You can’t have herd immunity until you get the whole herd. Which means India as well as the US. Vaccinations around here are cutting way back on new infections, but we can’t start to let our guard down until the rest of the world is as far along as we are. So there’s not much point in worrying about the antivaxxers right now. Send the vaccine to India, or anywhere there’s high demand, and let the antivaxxers wait. (Once the vaccines have regular FDA approval, I expect employers, and likely also medical insurers to start requiring it. Probably schools too.)

The big issue we face with such a strategy is that a viral pandemic doesn’t simply put itself on hold while we get our shit together. We’ve several different strains already due to nations refusing international cooperation in favor of a patchwork quilt of either heavy-handed restrictions or laissez faire “freedom.” We’re not going to be done with pandemic anytime soon so long as we keep playing “catch-up” with the virus.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 3, 2021 • 12:42:53am

re: #84 Targetpractice

The big issue we face with such a strategy is that a viral pandemic doesn’t simply put itself on hold while we get our shit together. We’ve several different strains already due to nations refusing international cooperation in favor of a patchwork quilt of either heavy-handed restrictions or laissez faire “freedom.” We’re not going to be done with pandemic anytime soon so long as we keep playing “catch-up” with the virus.

That would be true whether the supply of vaccine goes to India or stays here — since we don’t yet have enough for everyone, by a long shot. (And it’s uncontrolled in South America and probably Africa too.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 12:45:44am

re: #14 🌹UOJB!

50 year reunion is coming up in May 2023. Never went to one and never will. Still have “classmates” try to friend me on Facebook and I block them.

Our 50th anniversary will be 2026. I am in touch with exactly one former classmate.

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Targetpractice  May 3, 2021 • 12:51:30am

re: #85 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

That would be true whether the supply of vaccine goes to India or stays here — since we don’t yet have enough for everyone, by a long shot. (And it’s uncontrolled in South America and probably Africa too.)

I agree with donating any dosages of the AZ vaccine to other nations, since we not only have three different (and effective) vaccines approved for emergency use but also because it would help those nations combat their own outbreaks.

I remember hearing the experts saying last year that the most optimistic scenario was the pandemic being “over” and life returning to “normal” by 2022 at the earliest but realistically not earlier than 2023. It’s beginning to look more and more like we’re shooting for 2023 at this point.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 3, 2021 • 12:54:14am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 12:54:22am

re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign bill banning social media ‘deplatforming’

None of those guys even started to read the Bill of Rights:

“CONGRESS shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech.”

That does not apply to Social Media platforms.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 12:55:25am

re: #37 Dave In Austin

Oregon GOP Rep. Mike Nearman has just been charged with two crimes after video shows him leaving his seat in the middle of an emergency closed-door session on covid relief in Dec. to let insurrectionists into the building. He then went back in at a different entrance.

Spin: “ANTIFA have infiltrated the GOP!!!”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 3, 2021 • 12:55:46am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 12:56:48am

re: #51 darthstar

Oh, because I cooked so early we still had two hours to kill before I put them to bed, so I introduced them to the first two episodes of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. My mom started to drift off but soon perked up and laughed out loud probably a half dozen times in the two episodes we watched. First time I’ve seen her laugh in years.

Probably a lot of it has to do with her recognizing the late 50s and, while Catholic, sympathizing with the norms of the families.

I liked for much the same reason I liked Mad Men, that is also the era I grew up in.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 12:58:40am

re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Opinion piece at Yahoo!

It’s time to start shunning the ‘vaccine hesitant.’ They’re blocking COVID herd immunity.

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Targetpractice  May 3, 2021 • 1:00:34am

re: #91 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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I love that bit: “In some states.”

Repubs rushing to defend Gaetz showing a disturbing wealth of knowledge about laws regarding sex with minors in their own states.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 1:03:47am

re: #94 Targetpractice

I love that bit: “In some states.”

Repubs rushing to defend Gaetz showing a disturbing wealth of knowledge about laws regarding sex with minors in their own states.

They keep a card in their wallet and one pasted on their car’s sun visor.

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boredtechindenver  May 3, 2021 • 1:04:31am

re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

your private tag has a close at the start, you may want to edit.

Edit:
I see it has been fixed. Your privates are no longer hanging out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 1:06:12am

re: #96 boredtechindenver

your private tag has a close at the start, you may want to edit.

my privates are hanging out again…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 3, 2021 • 1:08:48am

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Targetpractice  May 3, 2021 • 1:10:04am

re: #96 boredtechindenver

your private tag has a close at the start, you may want to edit.

“LGF: After Dark,” ladies and gents.

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Targetpractice  May 3, 2021 • 1:19:41am

It still irritates me over a year later that everybody else in my household got either weeks or months off from their jobs in the initial panic over CV, while the most time I’ve had off was a week in August using my own vacation hours. Especially that whole “will they or won’t they?” period from March to April where it looked like corporate might temporarily shut us down, before it was seemingly decided that squeezing blood from the stone was somehow better for morale (“You still got a job!”)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 1:23:51am

re: #100 Targetpractice

Tourist Season usually kicks off in April. And although last year there were still some limited city tours going on, this year there is nothing at all.

So far 14 tours cancelled…ones already booked, not to mention the ones that did not get booked to begin with.

I am right fucked.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 3, 2021 • 1:30:12am

re: #94 Targetpractice

I love that bit: “In some states.”

Repubs rushing to defend Gaetz showing a disturbing wealth of knowledge about laws regarding sex with minors in their own states.

Good point! It occurred to me that I had no idea what the age of consent is in Texas (where I am now) or California (where I was when I was in the relevant age range).

Turns out:

17: The age of consent in Texas is 17. The minimum age is 14 with an age differential of 3 years; thus, those who are at least 14 years of age can legally have sex with those less than 3 years older.

18: The age of consent in California is 18. It is illegal for anyone to engage in sexual intercourse with a minor (someone under the age of 18), unless they are that person’s spouse.

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Targetpractice  May 3, 2021 • 1:37:31am

re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Tourist Season usually kicks off in April. And although last year there were still some limited city tours going on, this year there is nothing at all.

So far 14 tours cancelled…ones already booked, not to mention the ones that did not get booked to begin with.

I am right fucked.

We’re dealing with the bad choices of the state and local govt here which are both setting us up for another summer of skyrocketing infection rates. While they haven’t gone full “REOPEN!!!”, the restrictions in place are pretty pathetic in a tourist town expecting tens of thousands of tourists passing through between now and October.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 1:38:01am

Billie Eilish is on the cover of British Vogue’s June issue.

She is not dressed in her usual baggy drab clothes.

Makes You Feel Good”: Billie Eilish On New Music, Power Dynamics, And Her Internet-Breaking Transformation

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 1:42:29am

Former Ethics Chief Slams Cruz’s Warning To ‘Woke’ CEOs As ‘Most Openly Corrupt’ Ever (Huffington Post)

Walter Shaub’s castigation came after the Republican said his party will no longer give special treatment to deep-pocket corporate donors if they get too “woke.”

Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) threat to “woke” CEOs was slammed Sunday as likely the “most openly corrupt” message ever from the Senate, declared Walter Shaub, former head of the Government Office of Ethics.

In a Wall Street Journal column last week, Cruz warned that CEOs opposing Republican threats to voting rights will be excluded from his party’s pay-to-play legislative operation — because they’re no longer conservative enough for the GOP.

For example, Republicans will stop accepting donations in exchange for “looking the other way” when corporate bigwigs dodge taxes, Cruz wrote in a stunningly honest admission of his party’s current modus operandi.

“This time,” he wrote, “we won’t look the other way on Coca-Cola’s $12 billion in back taxes owed. This time, when Major League Baseball lobbies to preserve its multibillion-dollar antitrust exception, we’ll say no thank you. This time, when Boeing asks for billions in corporate welfare, we’ll simply let the Export-Import Bank expire.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 1:45:33am
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Targetpractice  May 3, 2021 • 1:47:47am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Former Ethics Chief Slams Cruz’s Warning To ‘Woke’ CEOs As ‘Most Openly Corrupt’ Ever (Huffington Post)

Walter Shaub’s castigation came after the Republican said his party will no longer give special treatment to deep-pocket corporate donors if they get too “woke.”

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So this is what it’s like to watch a political party commit suicide.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 1:56:41am

re: #107 Targetpractice

So this is what it’s like to watch a political party commit suicide.

They still think that they control the narrative. They lost that with Georgia.

Mitt Romney booed at Utah Republican convention

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 3, 2021 • 2:02:11am
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Dread Pirate Ron  May 3, 2021 • 2:19:34am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 2:28:44am

Human-Made Stuff Now Outweighs All Life on Earth (Scientific American, December 9, 2020)

Humanity has reached a new milestone in its dominance of the planet: human-made objects may now outweigh all of the living beings on Earth.

Roads, houses, shopping malls, fishing vessels, printer paper, coffee mugs, smartphones and all the other infrastructure of daily life now weigh in at approximately 1.1 trillion metric tons—equal to the combined dry weight of all plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, archaea and protists on the planet. The creation of this human-made mass has rapidly accelerated over the past 120 years: Artificial objects have gone from just 3 percent of the world’s biomass in 1900 to on par with it today. And the amount of new stuff being produced every week is equivalent to the average body weight of all 7.7 billion people.

The implications of these findings, published on Wednesday in Nature, are staggering. The world’s plastics alone now weigh twice as much as the planet’s marine and terrestrial animals. Buildings and infrastructure outweigh trees and shrubs. “We cannot hide behind the feeling that we’re just a small species, one out of many,” says study co-author Ron Milo, who researches plant and environmental sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. These numbers should be a wake-up call, he adds. They tell us “something about the responsibility that we have, given that we have become a dominant force,” Milo says.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 2:31:19am

re: #107 Targetpractice

So this is what it’s like to watch a political party commit suicide.

Republicans will still take their money, and corporations will still get tax breaks and weakened regulations.

Ted Cruz has to do conservative performative lying to keep the rank-and-file outraged and voting for them.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 3, 2021 • 2:34:39am

So I see that “Critical Race Theory” has triggered a lot of folk on Twitter this morning. It’s being tangentially associated with some Texas elections in which the usual throwbacks won.

America needs help.

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Dave In Austin  May 3, 2021 • 2:44:08am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 2:44:22am

re: #113 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So I see that “Critical Race Theory” has triggered a lot of folk on Twitter this morning. It’s being tangentially associated with some Texas elections in which the usual throwbacks won.

America needs help.

That election was the special election for TX-6, to replace Rep. Ron Wright after he won reëlection then died of Covid-19.

The person who came in first was his wife Susan. She was endorsed by Donald Trump in the election, showing he still has sway over the Republican electorate. Mrs. Wright took 19.2% of the vote.

Second place is Jake Elizey, a former fighter pilot. He defeated Jana Lynn Sanchez by 354 votes.

The national Democratic Party put no effort into the election; the district has long been represented by Republicans, citing primarily disappointment in the General Election for House pickups (you can’t win if you don’t try, Dems). However, Trump’s popularity slid massively in the last election over the previous one.

There were eleven Republicans, ten Democrats, one Libertarian, and one independent on the ballot.

The runoff election for the seat is May 24.

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John Hughes  May 3, 2021 • 2:52:47am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There were eleven Republicans, ten Democrats, one Libertarian, and one independent on the ballot.

Nuclear war planners use the term “fratricide” to describe what happens when you launch too many warheads at the same target and they end up destroying each other.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 2:57:19am

re: #116 John Hughes

Nuclear war planners use the term “fratricide” to describe what happens when you launch too many warheads at the same target and they end up destroying each other.

Democratic candidate Sanchez might have been able to pull out the election and advanced to the runoff if the Democratic Party had bothered to put any effort at all in the vote.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 3:08:05am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 3:08:10am

re: #116 John Hughes

Nuclear war planners use the term “fratricide” to describe what happens when you launch too many warheads at the same target and they end up destroying each other.

“Circular firing squad” or “clusterfuck” also come to mind to describe this situation.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 3, 2021 • 3:08:22am

re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron

LOL

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign bill banning social media ‘deplatforming’ https://

You know Laura Loomer is going to sue Twitter as soon as Ronnie signs that into law.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 3, 2021 • 3:08:56am

Lots of butthurt these days among the religious-right and the general racist-right (which includes a few non-religious folk but frankly religious types still make up the vast majority.)

And it will get worse.

Because America is in flux (like everywhere). The changing of cultures is a shocking event, by which I mean people are shocked to discover what they believe to be true is rejected by others.

We have such a long road ahead of us….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 3:09:06am

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I love to wrestle with multiple women. am I roly-polyamorous?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 3:11:16am

re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Protestant Christianity is no longer the default religion

White is no longer the default majority ethnicity

The nuclear family with the dad out working and the mom at home raising the kids was not destroyed by feminism or liberalism, it was destroyed by an economic model that all but requires two full-time incomes to be able to support a family for most people.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 3, 2021 • 3:15:23am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 3:15:25am

Stephen Karanja: Kenyan anti-vaccine doctor dies from Covid-19 (BBC)

A Kenyan doctor who became a vociferous opponent of Covid-19 vaccines has succumbed to the virus, weeks after saying the jabs were “totally unnecessary”.

Dr Stephen Karanja, chairman of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, advocated steam inhalation and hydroxychloroquine tablets.

He clashed with the Catholic church over the safety of Covid jabs.

Health authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO) rejected his claims.

“[The vaccine] being distributed in Kenya, has been reviewed and found safe not only by the WHO rigorous process but also by several stringent regulatory authorities,” the WHO said in March.

The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops also distanced itself from Dr Karanja’s view on Covid-19 vaccines, saying the vaccines were “licit and ethically acceptable.”

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Dr. Karanja was an obstetrician and gynaecologist.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 3:18:52am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Stephen Karanja: Kenyan anti-vaccine doctor dies from Covid-19 (BBC)

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Dr. Karanja was an obstetrician and gynaecologist.

getyarn.io

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 3:23:31am

re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

LOL

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ericblair  May 3, 2021 • 3:58:31am

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

To America’s watch-me-woke-it-up CEOs I say: When the time comes that you need help with a tax break or a regulatory change, I hope the Democrats take your calls, because we may not.

Starting now, we won’t take your money either.

I, as a libtard, am completely owned and furious that Fled Cruz is saying that the GOP won’t take corporate money, I suppose because said corporations want to sell stuff to other people besides knuckle-dragging Nazis.

I don’t know what I’d do if a lot of corporate America said “fine, be like that” and dried up the money river that keeps the GOP alive.

I would also feel completely destroyed if Mitch the Turtle was in the middle of some sort of cardiac event after hearing Cruz’s effort to crown himself King of the Orcs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 4:17:28am

Martha Huckabay, the leader of the Women’s Republican Club of New Orleans, has doubled-down on defending slavery as promoted by the Bible.

This comes after a debate in the state legislature where state representative Ray Garofalo introduced a bill to ban the teaching of racism and sexism in Louisiana schools.

He originally justified his bill by saying that schools should teach the “good” of slavery, also using the Bible to justify it. Republican state representative Stephanie Hilferty called him out on the legislature floor, noting there is no good to slavery.

Rep. Garofalo has withdrawn his comment about the “good” of slavery. That didn’t stop Ms. Huckabay from continuing to defend the statement, arguing we got things like railroads out of it.

Rep. Hilferty discussed the issue on CNN, where she said she’s upset about the headlines in the media promoting Rep. Garofalo’s “good” statement, when she is working hard to overturn the public’s perception that the Republican Party and Christianity are racist.

Don’t read the comments. Lots of Nazis and conservatives calling her a RINO. She says in the beginning of the clip “he had a lapse of judgement.”

(6:16)

Louisiana lawmaker discusses viral moment: ‘There’s no good to slavery’

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Barefoot Grin  May 3, 2021 • 4:53:22am

This anti-Critical Race Theory movement has clearly been coordinated through the GOP leadership. It’s no coincidence that bills are being brought out in numerous states at the same time that school boards are under attack from right wingers.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 3, 2021 • 4:54:40am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 4:56:05am

re: #131 Barefoot Grin

This anti-Critical Race Theory movement has clearly been coordinated through the GOP leadership. It’s no coincidence that bills are being brought out in numerous states at the same time that school boards are under attack from right wingers.

It is a follow-up on the hissy fit they threw over the 1619 project.

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Florida Panhandler  May 3, 2021 • 4:56:17am

re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron

LOL

In other news, Florida passes legislation authorizing yelling at clouds.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 5:00:27am

re: #134 Florida Panhandler

In other news, Florida passes legislation authorizing yelling at clouds.

There is the issue that FB and Twitter are de facto monopolies when it comes to social media but that is a trade and regulatory issue, not a Free Speech issue.

And unlike broadcast media, the threshold to entry is rather low, the channels are nearly unlimited and politicians and private persons still have alternate ways of expressing themselves, just not as conveniently as with an established messaging site with millions of users.

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Barefoot Grin  May 3, 2021 • 5:01:38am

re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is a follow-up on the hissy fit they threw over the 1619 project.

Yep, but now legislatively. It started here a couple of months ago with intro of HB 544 banning the teaching of “divisive topics” in any schools that receive state funding. There was a backlash, so now they are trying to hide the language in the budget. Ill-informed parents are starting to get worked up, and of course the language is getting mixed together with “socialist” and “marxist.” Economic untruths led to Tea Party movement; white anxiety is being harnessed into something similar.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 3, 2021 • 5:07:27am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is the issue that FB and Twitter are de facto monopolies when it comes to social media but that is a trade and regulatory issue, not a Free Speech issue.

I suspect that on any given day there are more eyes on Youtube, and perhaps even more comments left on Youtube, than eyes and tweets in Twitter.

And since Twitter is mostly an advertising platform, I suspect TikTok has surpassed it in youngster attention.

Instagram (FB) probably draws more eyes on pics than Twitter.

FB is problematic, for the issue of privacy. But its effectiveness seems mostly among old folk (which is why the genealogy hobby is now so FB-centric), which was important to Trump and his gang.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  May 3, 2021 • 5:08:56am

re: #14 🌹UOJB!

Same here. The Football coach loved having his boys beat me.

That’s why I compare High School Hell to a Nazi Concentration Camp. But I got out alive and got a master’s degree despite what those animals did to me.

50 year reunion is coming up in May 2023. Never went to one and never will. Still have “classmates” try to friend me on Facebook and I block them.

I felt the same way about HS. I scored best in my class on the SAT with a 2.36 GPA. When I left I never intended to look back. Ended up with an NSF fellowship (post-Navy) with free rides offered to Harvard, Michigan, and Yale for grad school and graduated from Michigan Law in 1980. (Even got a law school scholarship for the last two years.)

About 6 years ago I kept seeing posts on FB from our former HS QB, John Stephens, whom I barely knew and resented as being in the in crowd of athletes. We bonded and became good virtual friends and I drove to see him once. Great guy, was a helicopter door gunner inVietnam and flew 141 combat missions. Later taught shop in a mostly black Cleveland HS.

Sadly, he died last month of cancer. But through him I have now built up a network of friends from and in my home town that I never could have anticipated. I now wish that I had attended our 50th.

I search for people who seem sane and reach out to them. This has really changed my attitude about my home town and it is great to know people as adults who have become truly nice people.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 3, 2021 • 5:15:06am

re: #138 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

Our 10-year reunion fell apart because my fellow classmates were too cheap/poor to find a good place to hold it, and they discovered that our class president never set up a reunion fund with the school, so we had no pool of money to draw from to help out. I really have very little desire to see, or be seen by, my old classmates; I have had zero interaction with the vast majority of them, and I’m fine keeping it that way. I’m sure I’m missing out on some people who grew up and became good folks, but as I no longer have any ties to the area (my parents moved to their dream house in another part of the state in 2005), as far as I’m concerned, the past can stay in the past.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 5:21:03am

re: #139 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

My High School in Gary Indiana is closed and slated for demolition.

The last reunion was held in neighboring Merrillville.

I did go looking for a buddy of mine from Merrillville HS a while back. We were not really close friends as such. He went off to join the Army in the late 70’s and we lost track.

I had one look at all the anti-Hillary/Obama posts on his feed and decided not to contact him directly.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 3, 2021 • 5:21:53am

Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 5:22:35am

re: #138 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

I finished second of the seventeen people in my graduating class.

I was shunned by my high school class then. I have no desire to meet any of them now (about half of them are dead).

There is one social media site dedicated to school alumni where I have an account. It’s sort of sad to see what the people in my class on that site post.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 3, 2021 • 5:23:21am

re: #141 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Sharp differences at state borders probably reflect the individual states’ willingness to operate programs to outreach to people.

Three cheers for MN, I guess.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 5:24:54am

re: #141 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Here in Nebraska, folks who live in cities who are still having a hard time getting vaccines have been urged to come to the rural areas to get them, since uptake is lower the further west you go.

Unfortunately for us, we’re stuck with Wyoming and South Dakota on our borders in the Panhandle.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 5:26:23am

re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I finished second of the seventeen people in my graduating class.

I was shunned by my high school class then. I have no desire to meet any of them now (about half of them are dead).

There is one social media site dedicated to school alumni where I have an account. It’s sort of sad to see what the people in my class on that site post.

I graduated 46th out of 465 students. But aside from one person, I am not in touch with anyone. There are perhaps a half dozen I would not mind seeing again, but not enough to warrant going to a reunion to do so.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 3, 2021 • 5:27:20am

re: #143 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Sharp differences at state borders probably reflect the individual states’ willingness to operate programs to outreach to people.

Three cheers for MN, I guess.

Minnesota has been doing an outstanding job, current case rates notwithstanding. We’re suffering from COVID fatigue the same as anywhere else, and the governor recently relaxed some restrictions, which I felt was a bit too soon; but the vaccine rollout has been absolutely on point.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 5:27:57am

Well I did not think the girl could be so cruel…

My Old School- Steely Dan- 1973

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 5:30:17am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I graduated 46th out of 465 students. But aside from one person, I am not in touch with anyone. There are perhaps a half dozen I would not mind seeing again, but not enough to warrant going to a reunion to do so.

My class has held reunions, but has never invited me.

Mostly my class could have a reunion in a corner bar.

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Eventual Carrion  May 3, 2021 • 5:41:23am

re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron

LOL

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So they are banning banning

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 5:44:21am

re: #149 Eventual Carrion

So they are banning banning

Because they love Free Enterprise not constrained by government over-reach and regulations

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darthstar  May 3, 2021 • 5:57:02am
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darthstar  May 3, 2021 • 6:00:07am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My class has held reunions, but has never invited me.

Mostly my class could have a reunion in a corner bar.

I went to my 10th - was amazed how many people I didn’t know but knew me.
Was living in the UK for my 20th.
Ignored the 30th.
Have FB friended a bunch of people so next year’s 40th doesn’t seem necessary.

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jeffreyw  May 3, 2021 • 6:01:28am

Good morning!

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 6:07:17am
“If a prerequisite for leading our conference is continuing to lie to our voters, then Liz is not the best fit. Liz isn’t going to lie to people.”

— Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), quoted by The Hill, on Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) future in the House GOP leadership

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 6:10:42am
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors announced Monday they have busted one of the world’s biggest international darknet platforms for child pornography, used by more than 400,000 registered members.

Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement together with the Federal Criminal Police Office that in mid-April three German suspects, said to be the administrators of the “Boystown” platform, were arrested along with a German user. One of the three main suspects was arrested in Paraguay.

They also searched seven buildings in connection with the porn ring in mid-April in Germany.

The authorities said the platform was “one of the world’s biggest child pornography darknet platforms” and had been active at least since 2019. Pedophiles used it to exchange and watch pornography of children and toddlers, most of them boys, from all over the world.

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Germany Busts International Child Porn Site Used By 400,000 (Huffington Post)

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Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 6:19:58am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Protestant Christianity is no longer the default religion

White is no longer the default majority ethnicity

The nuclear family with the dad out working and the mom at home raising the kids was not destroyed by feminism or liberalism, it was destroyed by an economic model that all but requires two full-time incomes to be able to support a family for most people.

Plus, no spouse can afford to have no skills nor recent job experience if something happens to their partner.

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Dr Lizardo  May 3, 2021 • 6:21:41am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Protestant Christianity is no longer the default religion

White is no longer the default majority ethnicity

The nuclear family with the dad out working and the mom at home raising the kids was not destroyed by feminism or liberalism, it was destroyed by an economic model that all but requires two full-time incomes to be able to support a family for most people.

The era of the “dad at work, mom at home as full-time housewife” largely came to an end in the mid-1980s by my calculation. It certainly wasn’t untypical in mid-’70s California as my mother was a stay-at-home mom and my dad worked full-time (union job, BTW).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 6:23:42am
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Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 6:24:04am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is the issue that FB and Twitter are de facto monopolies when it comes to social media but that is a trade and regulatory issue, not a Free Speech issue.

And unlike broadcast media, the threshold to entry is rather low, the channels are nearly unlimited and politicians and private persons still have alternate ways of expressing themselves, just not as conveniently as with an established messaging site with millions of users.

Even back in the day of print only, you were only guaranteed the right to not be thrown in jail. You could stand on the street corner and talk to people. Nothing gave you the right to be published.

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 6:24:46am

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We haven’t heard what Senator Tim Scott thinks of this.

I’ll bet the restaurant owner thinks he’s the victim as well.

Racism and slavery in the same story in his own SC
Whodathunkit?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 6:25:11am

re: #157 Dr Lizardo

The era of the “dad at work, mom at home as full-time housewife” largely came to an end in the mid-1980s by my calculation. It certainly wasn’t untypical in mid-’70s California as my mother was a stay-at-home mom and my dad worked full-time (union job, BTW).

That was my dad, a Union steel worker. But as you said, those days did not survive the 80’s…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 3, 2021 • 6:25:52am

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Radio Signal Gives NASA 1st Look at Venus’ Atmosphere in 30 Years

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 6:26:47am

re: #159 Belafon

Even back in the day of print only, you were only guaranteed the right to not be thrown in jail. You could stand on the street corner and talk to people. Nothing gave you the right to be published.

And the hurdles to establishing a new platform are not that high, just look at the successes of alternate sites like Parler and Frank.

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 6:28:28am

re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron

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Carefuk extrapolating those percentage s.
no kids yet

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 3, 2021 • 6:29:28am

Sort of like standing in front of the gate to Mordor and not expecting something bad to happen:

Lava smashing 💥


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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 6:30:44am

re: #80 Targetpractice

We’re never going to achieve herd immunity in this country. Not without a whole lot more dying.

New York Times:

“Now, more than half of adults in the United States have been inoculated with at least one dose of a vaccine. But daily vaccination rates are slipping, and there is widespread consensus among scientists and public health experts that the herd immunity threshold is not attainable — at least not in the foreseeable future, and perhaps not ever.”

“Instead, they are coming to the conclusion that rather than making a long-promised exit, the virus will most likely become a manageable threat that will continue to circulate in the United States for years to come, still causing hospitalizations and deaths but in much smaller numbers.”

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Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 6:31:12am

re: #151 darthstar

My son is working at Starbucks, and he sent me this reply to that:

“I had to make a drink like this a few weeks ago and there was some left over so we tried it. The syrups all blend together and it just tastes like sugar coffee.”

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Dr Lizardo  May 3, 2021 • 6:35:34am

re: #166 Dangerman

38% of Czech adults have indicated they have no plans to get vaccinated. Similar to the United States.

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Eventual Carrion  May 3, 2021 • 6:36:56am

re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Tourist Season usually kicks off in April. And although last year there were still some limited city tours going on, this year there is nothing at all.

So far 14 tours cancelled…ones already booked, not to mention the ones that did not get booked to begin with.

I am right fucked.

That sucks

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 6:37:12am

re: #87 Targetpractice

I agree with donating any dosages of the AZ vaccine to other nations, since we not only have three different (and effective) vaccines approved for emergency use but also because it would help those nations combat their own outbreaks.

I remember hearing the experts saying last year that the most optimistic scenario was the pandemic being “over” and life returning to “normal” by 2022 at the earliest but realistically not earlier than 2023. It’s beginning to look more and more like we’re shooting for 2023 at this point.

As i keep saying
There is no going back
Only forward
Only what we can create from where we are

reincarnating the Pre-pandemic is a pipe dream

Some will get vaccinated when they are “approved” anf nno longer experimental.

Masks will be a health and political issue forever because enough will remain unvaccinated

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 3, 2021 • 6:38:20am

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

And the hurdles to establishing a new platform are not that high, just look at the successes of alternate sites like Parler and Frank.

As Mrs. Fish pointed out when I told her about this story, “They’re demanding the right to have the huge audience from mainstream social media sites.”

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Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 6:39:45am
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Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 6:43:52am

Copying this because of singlish:

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 6:47:02am

re: #94 Targetpractice

I love that bit: “In some states.”

Repubs rushing to defend Gaetz showing a disturbing wealth of knowledge about laws regarding sex with minors in their own states.

Ok did it occur in one of those states?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 6:54:40am

re: #172 Belafon

Biden just came out and said “Trickle-down doesn’t work!”

To them, he might as well have shouted: “Workers, rise up to violently expropriate the Means of Production and establish the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!”

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 6:58:36am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That election was the special election for TX-6, to replace Rep. Ron Wright after he won reëlection then died of Covid-19.

The person who came in first was his wife Susan. She was endorsed by Donald Trump in the election, showing he still has sway over the Republican electorate. Mrs. Wright took 19.2% of the vote.

Second place is Jake Elizey, a former fighter pilot. He defeated Jana Lynn Sanchez by 354 votes.

The national Democratic Party put no effort into the election; the district has long been represented by Republicans, citing primarily disappointment in the General Election for House pickups (you can’t win if you don’t try, Dems). However, Trump’s popularity slid massively in the last election over the previous one.

There were eleven Republicans, ten Democrats, one Libertarian, and one independent on the ballot.

The runoff election for the seat is May 24.

Look how few people voted.
Wright got 15,052 votes and Ellzey got 10,851 votes. Their totals represent 4.4% and 3.2%, respectively, of the number of voters who voted in the 2020 TX-06 congressional race.
And texas is actively working on new laws that will make voting more difficult

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 7:01:16am

Voting is a privilege

Platforming is a right

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 7:06:49am

re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Lots of butthurt these days among the religious-right and the general racist-right (which includes a few non-religious folk but frankly religious types still make up the vast majority.)

And it will get worse.

Because America is in flux (like everywhere). The changing of cultures is a shocking event, by which I mean people are shocked to discover what they believe to be true is rejected by others.*

We have such a long road ahead of us….

* because it is not in fact true

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 7:14:42am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is the issue that FB and Twitter are de facto monopolies when it comes to social media but that is a trade and regulatory issue, not a Free Speech issue.

And unlike broadcast media, the threshold to entry is rather low, the channels are nearly unlimited and politicians and private persons still have alternate ways of expressing themselves, just not as conveniently as with an established messaging site with millions of users.

I would argue just as convenient and easy to use.

Its the millions of users part.
They’re conflating free speech with listeners

Access to a specific audience is not in the constitution im aware of.
They want access to an audience someone else had created.

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lawhawk  May 3, 2021 • 7:15:40am

Right wing propagandists from Trump on down through the Fox ecosystem have been lying nonstop about covid19, masking, social distancing, and vaccinations. All of that has done incalculable damage to the nation and the world. All that damage is compounding because it’s fed into the vaccine hesitancy that we’re seeing from all corners, and spread across social media platforms that give this crap oxygen to feed.

Mind you, these propagandists are working remotely, got vaccinated in secret, and don’t care how many others die so long as they think that they can profit from others’ misery. They are the ones insisting we reopen schools and businesses and restaurants fast, but without regard for the science. They question the science, when there’s no question at all that covid19 kills and the vaccines save lives. They fixate on the BS claims of propagandists who skew data and lie and misrepresent the facts, all to continue with their brand (yeah, Fucker Carlson, I’m looking at you) - and John Oliver skewed your crap this weekend for good measure.

But hey, Facebook is going to review Trump’s ban from that platform this week, despite the fact that everyone knows that Trump was properly banned for repeat violations of the FB and Twitter and other social media platform TOS. Had anyone else done a fraction of the crap Trump pulled, they too would be banned. We’ve seen that in action.

So much of what’s wrong right now in the fight to contain covid19 and reopen can be traced to Facebook and how it manipulates news and content to feed people what they want to hear, not what they need to hear.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 3, 2021 • 7:17:20am

re: #179 Dangerman

I would argue just as convenient and easy to use.

Its the millions of users part.
They’re conflating free speech with listeners

Access to a specific audience is not in the constitution im aware of.
They want access to an audience someone else had created.

Yep. Their real concern with “cancel culture” is that they will lose access to a captive audience for their bulkshit. It’s hard to retain power if you’re made irrelevant by being relegated to platforms no sane and rational people want any part of.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 7:18:04am

re: #181 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Yep. Their real concern with “cancel culture” is that they will lose access to a captive audience for their bulkshit. It’s hard to retain power if you’re made irrelevant by being relegated to platforms no sane and rational people want any part of.

where there are no libruls to own

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 7:18:48am

re: #151 darthstar

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darthstar  May 3, 2021 • 7:21:02am

Peloton is a far more sophisticated and stable spin bike than the LifeCycle, but if you hadn’t tried the former, the latter would definitely suffice. That said, I’m glad my sister has a LifeCycle in her basement because a 20 minute 70s ride using the phone app for Peloton at 6am was just what my brain needed before today’s tasks.

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 7:22:25am

re: #151 darthstar

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I shoulda gone with “and i want it on a separate plate”

(For the oldsters)

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Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 7:23:45am
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darthstar  May 3, 2021 • 7:24:19am

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Sort of like standing in front of the gate to Mordor and not expecting something bad to happen:

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It just takes one little pressure bubble to pop and someone gets hit in the chest with about an ounce of molten rock…I wonder what would happen then? Oh yeah, it would burn a whole right through their body cavity before it cooled. The autopsy would have to be done with a steak knife.

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Dangerman  May 3, 2021 • 7:25:45am

re: #171 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

As Mrs. Fish pointed out when I told her about this story, “They’re demanding the right to have the huge audience from mainstream social media sites.”

Gmta

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 3, 2021 • 7:25:56am

Public health experts and scientists say they do not believe herd immunity is attainable for the near future due to dropping COVID-19 vaccination rates, The New York Times reports.

According to the experts who spoke with the Times, the coronavirus will more likely become a constant but manageable threat in the U.S. for several more years. New COVID-19 strains are also reportedly developing too quickly for herd immunity to be reasonably expected.

“The virus is unlikely to go away,” Emory University evolutionary biologist Rustom Antia told the newspaper. “But we want to do all we can to check that it’s likely to become a mild infection.”

Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert and President Biden’s chief medical adviser, acknowledged a shift in thinking by experts who had once believed achieving herd immunity by summer was a possibility.

Thanks, conservative assholes!

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Eventual Carrion  May 3, 2021 • 7:32:38am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That was my dad, a Union steel worker. But as you said, those days did not survive the 80’s…

Yep. All the shit blown up during WWII was finally rebuilt (or mostly) and they didn’t have to depend on us for the materials and such as much anymore.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 3, 2021 • 7:32:55am

Also, the NYT and Fox News are currently running “Dems in Disarray” stories because the party lost a congressional election in *checks notes*….Texas.

/

192
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 7:33:59am

re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg

Public health experts and scientists say they do not believe herd immunity is attainable for the near future due to dropping COVID-19 vaccination rates, The New York Times reports.

According to the experts who spoke with the Times, the coronavirus will more likely become a constant but manageable threat in the U.S. for several more years. New COVID-19 strains are also reportedly developing too quickly for herd immunity to be reasonably expected.

“The virus is unlikely to go away,” Emory University evolutionary biologist Rustom Antia told the newspaper. “But we want to do all we can to check that it’s likely to become a mild infection.”

Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert and President Biden’s chief medical adviser, acknowledged a shift in thinking by experts who had once believed achieving herd immunity by summer was a possibility.

Thanks, conservative assholes!

A conservative must grasp more power. That is the only goal of conservatism. Anything at all to drive a wedge through society can be used to grasp more power.

If they could burn a state to get more power, they would do that.

If you look at the nations which seem to be having the worst time with this, the majority are run by conservative parties.

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🌹UOJB!  May 3, 2021 • 7:35:29am

re: #151 darthstar

Did the insulin shot come with that hyper sweet concoction?

194
BigPapa  May 3, 2021 • 7:43:38am

re: #191 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, the NYT and Fox News are currently running “Dems in Disarray” stories because the party lost a congressional election in *checks notes*….Texas.

/

Oh, so a GQP seat lost when a wingnut died of COVID is going to runoff between two Trumphumpers is not the story?

195
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 7:47:21am

re: #190 Eventual Carrion

Yep. All the shit blown up during WWII was finally rebuilt (or mostly) and they didn’t have to depend on us for the materials and such as much anymore.

I recall in the late 70’s when the rail cars running along the Chicago & South Bend Railroad line were purchased from Japan while the US mills were closing down.

196
🌹UOJB!  May 3, 2021 • 7:52:23am

re: #195 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall in the late 70’s when the rail cars running along the Chicago & South Bend Railroad line were purchased from Japan while the US mills were closing down.

The Red and Purple Line Subway cars in Los Angeles were made in Sweden and the Gold, Green and Blue Line cars were made in Japan.

197
William Lewis  May 3, 2021 • 7:56:23am

re: #173 Belafon

Copying this because of singlish:

There’s a youtuber from Hungary who does some of the most excellent hunting and black powder videos under the name Cap and Ball. He refers to his accented English as Hunglish quite often too.

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Eventual Carrion  May 3, 2021 • 8:00:36am

re: #195 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall in the late 70’s when the rail cars running along the Chicago & South Bend Railroad line were purchased from Japan while the US mills were closing down.

Yep. In my hometown one of the largest employers since the 50’s was Steel Car (rail car manufacturing). Up until the 70’s when it all started going downhill.

199
William Lewis  May 3, 2021 • 8:00:41am

re: #190 Eventual Carrion

Yep. All the shit blown up during WWII was finally rebuilt (or mostly) and they didn’t have to depend on us for the materials and such as much anymore.

That and the Reagan era giving the OK to the destruction of unions. The Biden administration’s pro-Union stance is more important than too many people realize in the long term hopes for the economy.

200
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 8:04:00am

re: #199 William Lewis

That and the Reagan era giving the OK to the destruction of unions. The Biden administration’s pro-Union stance is more important than too many people realize in the long term hopes for the economy.

I always wondered why Germany, with its unionized workers and strict labor legislation could remain competitive on the world marketplace, but that has to do with the way that German employees are motivated, productive and rarely go on strike.

201
A Mom Anon  May 3, 2021 • 8:10:24am

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yeah, I’m supposed to believe Republicans aren’t going to take money from anyone offering it. Bullshit. Satan himself could shit in a giant bag of money and they would happily wash and dry it by hand.

202
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 8:14:38am

re: #201 A Mom Anon

Yeah, I’m supposed to believe Republicans aren’t going to take money from anyone offering it. Bullshit. Satan himself could shit in a giant bag of money and they would happily wash and dry it by hand.

It’s all just posturing right now. But they have made the case clear that the only way to get their attention is to contribute generously.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 3, 2021 • 8:19:08am

re: #153 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

Early roses
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Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 8:20:14am

“We’re running our one black friend for president. Surely that will help the party.”

On Thursday morning, asked how he expects Republicans will do in the 2022 midterm elections, Trump told Maria Bartiromo that he thinks they’ll do well but that a leadership change is in order. “Mitch McConnell has not done a great job, I think they should change Mitch McConnell.”

That diss apparently didn’t sit well with McConnell, who did his own little interview later in the day, in which he told Fox News, of Trump’s comments: “We’re looking to the future, not the past. And if you want to see the future of the Republican Party, watch Tim Scott’s response to President [Joe] Biden last night. He’s the future. That’s where we’re headed. We’re not preoccupied with the past, but looking forward.”…

vanityfair.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 3, 2021 • 8:22:38am

re: #204 Belafon

“We’re running our one black friend for president. Surely that will help the party.”

vanityfair.com

Sure. Worked out well for Herman Cain.

//

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A Cranky One  May 3, 2021 • 8:33:51am

re: #134 Florida Panhandler

In other news, Florida passes legislation authorizing yelling at clouds.

I work on cloud based systems. I yell at the clouds a lot.

207
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 8:34:53am

Apparently, South Dakota cattle take the virus more seriously than Gov. Kristi Noem. /s

COVID antibodies produced by South Dakota cattle to be tested in NIH trial (Omaha World-Herald)

Wait, the cows are chimeras. Burn the scientists as witches!

Human antibodies produced by a herd of South Dakota dairy cattle are being tested as a potential treatment for COVID-19.

The cattle, a Holstein mix, have been genetically modified to have a partially human immune system. During a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, two different doses of the cow-produced antibodies are being tested in people with mild to moderate COVID-19.

SAB Biotherapeutics, the Sioux Falls biotech firm that developed the antibody-producing technology, announced late last month that the first patient in the trial already had received a dose of the antibodies, a product called SAB-185.

Eddie Sullivan, SAB’s co-founder, president and CEO, called the trial a “significant milestone” for the company.

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 8:36:54am

re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Apparently, South Dakota cattle take the virus more seriously than Gov. Kristi Noem. /s

COVID antibodies produced by South Dakota cattle to be tested in NIH trial (Omaha World-Herald)

Wait, the cows are chimeras. Burn the scientists as witches!

(more)

Could these cows be the tipping point?

209
Eclectic Cyborg  May 3, 2021 • 8:40:10am

re: #206 A Cranky One

I work on cloud based systems. I yell at the clouds a lot.

Like a drill sergeant.

“Alright, listen up you puffy, white, arrogant SONS OF BITCHES!”

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 3, 2021 • 8:40:34am

re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Could these cows be the tipping point?

Boooooo.

///

211
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 8:41:05am

re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg

Boooooo.

///

Moooo. /s

212
🌹UOJB!  May 3, 2021 • 8:42:38am

re: #205 Eclectic Cyborg

Sure. Worked out well for Herman Cain.

//

Hmmmm…wonder why Herman hasn’t tweeted in a while…

213
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 3, 2021 • 8:43:29am

I’m off to bed.

(video, 1:01)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 8:47:29am

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

During a recent chat entitled “Is Masculinity Really Toxic?,” Jerry Boykin from the Family Research Council told pastor Jack Hibbs, “I cannot imagine that any man or woman can change their gender…and ever really, truly be happy…it is influenced right out of the pits of hell.”

Alcohol in small doses can be pleasurable…in larger doses toxic.

I assume this fellow understands gender as binary and God-given at birth.

215
Eventual Carrion  May 3, 2021 • 8:47:37am

re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Could these cows be the tipping point?

216
Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 8:48:46am

re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Alcohol in small doses can be pleasurable…in larger doses toxic.

I assume this fellow understands gender as binary and God-given at birth.

Once a rib is removed.

217
austin_blue  May 3, 2021 • 8:49:21am

re: #61 Belafon

I can’t copy the whole article, but this si the good part. The rest of it will want to make you beat up the white guy:

postandcourier.com

“Job Creators”

218
jaunte  May 3, 2021 • 8:51:20am

re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He believes in a place where people who disagree with him are tortured for eternity, so factor that in.

219
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 8:56:06am

re: #218 jaunte

He believes in a place where people who disagree with him are tortured for eternity, so factor that in.

And probably believes that Jesus did/does not have a problem with slavery…

220
A Cranky One  May 3, 2021 • 8:56:22am

Saw this and it reminded me of the essay Pie Overlord was asked to complete.

221
Hecuba's daughter  May 3, 2021 • 9:16:32am

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Sort of like standing in front of the gate to Mordor and not expecting something bad to happen:

[Embedded content]

Video

..

Proof that Floriduh man and woman live everywhere!

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lawhawk  May 3, 2021 • 9:16:48am

So, Trump’s publishing pressers that are indistinguishable from his idiotic tweets. The BIG LIE!

Oh, and Caitlyn Jenner opposes SSM.

Who do these people represent? Why should we be listening to either of them?

223
Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 9:18:45am

re: #222 lawhawk

So, Trump’s publishing pressers that are indistinguishable from his idiotic tweets. The BIG LIE!

Oh, and Caitlyn Jenner opposes SSM.

[Embedded content]

Who do these people represent? Why should we be listening to either of them?

I can’t wait for her to come out against trans people.

224
🌹UOJB!  May 3, 2021 • 9:19:09am

re: #222 lawhawk

I’m not surprised since Jenner is on record of being a “born-again Xtian”.

225
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 9:19:14am

re: #222 lawhawk

So, Trump’s publishing pressers that are indistinguishable from his idiotic tweets. The BIG LIE!

Oh, and Caitlyn Jenner opposes SSM.

Who do these people represent? Why should we be listening to either of them?

They are both “celebrities” which is the American equivalent of aristocracy.

226
sagehen  May 3, 2021 • 9:26:43am

re: #216 Belafon

Once a rib is removed.

There’s 2 creation narratives in scripture; Genesis ch 1 and Genesis ch 2.

One of them is Adam’s created first and a rib used to make Eve. The other, they’re made at the same time, sculpted from mud, then God writes a Magic Word on their foreheads and they both become living, breathing flesh.

227
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 9:27:26am

re: #226 sagehen

There’s 2 creation narratives in scripture; Genesis ch 1 and Genesis ch 2.

One of them is Adam’s created first and a rib used to make Eve. The other, they’re made at the same time, sculpted from mud, then God writes a Magic Word on their foreheads and they both become living, breathing flesh.

Which again shows that to be a Biblical Literalist means rejecting not only science and history, but logic itself.

228
sagehen  May 3, 2021 • 9:29:41am

The way my rabbi explained it, the contradictions between the two narratives is our Big Honking Neon Clue that scripture is not to be taken as a literal factual account. Metaphor is not a modern invention.

229
cat-tikvah  May 3, 2021 • 9:31:48am

re: #228 sagehen

I like to share that discrepancy - straight out of the gate in the first chapters of the Bible - with fundamentalists and then watch the wheels spin….

One was not even aware there were two versions. I expect that goes for many.

230
🌹UOJB!  May 3, 2021 • 9:32:02am

One thing you have to say about these Xtian Pulpit Pimps is that they know how to hold a good orgy!

After inviting Liberty University students to the family farm for a “real” graduation party, former university leader Jerry Falwell Jr. has called off the event.

In a statement issued by Becki Falwell, Jerry’s wife, and reported by Lynchburg’s ABC affiliate, the evangelical scion called off the gathering, citing health reasons.

“This is a major disappointment to us since we wanted to celebrate the success of the graduating students and show them our appreciation,” Falwell said in the statement.

Admit it Jerry! You wanted to get your hands on your next Pool Boy Stud!

talkingpointsmemo.com

231
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 9:33:14am

re: #229 cat-tikvah

I like to share that discrepancy - straight out of the gate in the first chapters of the Bible - with fundamentalists and then watch the wheels spin….

One was not even aware there were two versions. I expect that goes for many.

There are two versions of the Ten Commandments.

232
Barefoot Grin  May 3, 2021 • 9:34:39am
233
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 9:38:01am

re: #232 Barefoot Grin

Credit where it’s due; Maria Butina was a brilliant bit of casting. Not so pretty that even an arrogant man would think, “Wait, is she bait?” but long hair, youth, conservative catchphrases…ta-da, her vagina was a CPAC timeshare

After a half-dozen Moscow Mules, she was dazzlingly beautiful to those CCCPACkers

234
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 3, 2021 • 9:38:06am

Oh, Jesus. Gun-Totin’ GED Barbie strikes again.

235
Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 9:39:34am

re: #234 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Oh, Jesus. Gun-Totin’ GED Barbie strikes again.

[Embedded content]

Guess what, Lauren? We are the owners of the federal government. They belong to us.

236
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 9:40:07am

re: #235 Belafon

Guess what, Laura? We are the owners of the federal government. They belong to us.

I am sure she also tried to get all her staff to sign NDAs…

237
jaunte  May 3, 2021 • 9:42:49am
238
jaunte  May 3, 2021 • 9:43:28am

Which decision will result in more eyeballs for Facebook?

239
🌹UOJB!  May 3, 2021 • 9:44:16am

re: #237 jaunte

Marky Mark can’t wait to put Shithead back on Facebook and neither can @jack!

240
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 9:44:23am

re: #238 jaunte

Which decision will result in more eyeballs for Facebook?

I will be quite surprised if he is not reinstated

241
jaunte  May 3, 2021 • 9:44:42am

Facebook, home of the biggest loser.

242
jaunte  May 3, 2021 • 9:48:01am
243
🌹UOJB!  May 3, 2021 • 9:50:16am

LMAO seeing “prophets” now posting that Trump will be reinstated as President on May 5th and he will announce that on Facebook…

244
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 3, 2021 • 9:52:42am

re: #243 🌹UOJB!

LMAO seeing “prophets” now posting that Trump will be reinstated as President on May 5th and he will announce that on Facebook…

The only thing that’s getting reinstated on May 5th is a bottle of tequila.

245
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 9:53:38am

So May 4th is Star Wars Day and May 5th is Rogue One Day?

246
Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 10:00:13am

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

So May 4th is Star Wars Day and May 5th is Rogue One Day?

May 5th is Revenge of the 5th.

247
jaunte  May 3, 2021 • 10:01:03am

re: #246 Belafon

Cinco de Solo.

248
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 10:01:45am

re: #246 Belafon

May 5th is Revenge of the 5th.

Revenge of the Syphilis

249
The Pie Overlord!  May 3, 2021 • 10:02:12am
250
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 10:03:56am

re: #249 The Pie Overlord!

John Christopher Smith, who was enslaved at a South Carolina restaurant for years, should be awarded $546,000, an appellate court said.

That is just going to make him lazy and unwilling to work at another fast-food restaurant ever again…

251
Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 10:06:03am

Wanna know why a lot of Latinos in Texas voted Republican:

So the story ably tracks a genuine political phenomenon, and certainly one that’s worth watching going forward. But this is 2021, and these are Republicans, and sooner or later, there’s a serious bustle in the hedgerow.

Elisa Rivera, 40, said she had voted for Mrs. Clinton in 2016, but did not understand the fierce reaction against Mr. Trump. “I was following along the family tradition, my dad is a hard-core Democrat, my father was really for unions, and I thought the Democrats defended the union,” Ms. Rivera said, before adding: “But then I started to research myself and found out the Democrats are supporting witchcraft and child trafficking and things like that, things that get censored because they get labeled conspiracy theory.”

esquire.com

Edit:

The rest of the Balloon Juice article talks about Abbott speaking Q and some Latinos biting: balloon-juice.com.

252
jaunte  May 3, 2021 • 10:07:38am

re: #249 The Pie Overlord!

Seems like not enough.

253
lawhawk  May 3, 2021 • 10:11:55am

OMG, a high end restaurant that few ever heard of outside of foodie circles and even fewer people could afford to go to is deciding to go vegetarian/vegan?

OMG. What is the world coming to where a restaurant decides to change up its menu to go vegetarian.

254
gocart mozart  May 3, 2021 • 10:13:52am
255
🌹UOJB!  May 3, 2021 • 10:14:27am

re: #251 Belafon

Not surprised to see those allegations documented in Esquire because Right Wing Spanish Talk Radio in Los Angeles recited the same bullshit about QAnon.

256
lawhawk  May 3, 2021 • 10:18:36am

re: #254 gocart mozart

Nabisco (and Mondolez) are dirty words in this part of NJ. We have a Nabisco (now Mondolez) plant nearby and they’re shutting it down claiming costs are too high. There are questions whether they’re outsourcing to Mexico or just to other factories in Virginia. Losing a couple hundred jobs b/c they were hoping NJ would hand them millions to renovate and update their equipment.

When they bake, we can smell the cookies downwind. They produce Animal Crackers and Oreos at this facility.

257
Eric The Fruit Bat  May 3, 2021 • 10:19:01am

re: #237 jaunte

If Trump gets back on Facebook all hell will break loose.

258
Belafon  May 3, 2021 • 10:23:01am

re: #257 Eric The Fruit Bat

If Trump gets back on Facebook all hell will break loose.

The DOJ and the NYAG should announce that they’ve asked Facebook to reinstate him and that his comments will be valuable information into their investigations.

259
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 10:25:48am

re: #257 Eric The Fruit Bat

If Trump gets back on Facebook all hell his 2024 Presidential Campaign will break loose.

260
retired cynic  May 3, 2021 • 10:27:50am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Former Ethics Chief Slams Cruz’s Warning To ‘Woke’ CEOs As ‘Most Openly Corrupt’ Ever (Huffington Post)

Walter Shaub’s castigation came after the Republican said his party will no longer give special treatment to deep-pocket corporate donors if they get too “woke.”

(more)

Judd Legum is on that this morning, too.

Independent accountability journalism is making Senator Ted Cruz crack. As Bloomberg noted, Popular Information’s reporting created a “political reckoning” in corporate America. As a result, dozens of companies suspended donations to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election.

Cruz, who helped lead the effort to throw out millions of votes based on Donald Trump’s lies, was almost completely cut off from corporate cash. In the first quarter of 2021, Cruz, who has received millions in corporate PAC money, collected a grand total of $1500 from one corporate PAC.

So last week, Cruz bravely announced that he would no longer accept money from corporate PACs. Which is fine. But Cruz also said that, as a result, he no longer feels obligated to take “calls” from corporations seeking to influence legislation.

That’s right: Cruz publicly admitted that he was selling access to his Senate office in exchange for PAC donations. Now that he’s not getting their money, he will no longer provide the access.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 3, 2021 • 10:29:25am

re: #251 Belafon

Wanna know why a lot of Latinos in Texas voted Republican:

“We can’t appeal to Latinos on anything that is in their interest so we will start spreading allegations of Satanism and child sacrifice among Democrats and when these CTs get taken down, we will insinuate that it is a cover-up”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 3, 2021 • 10:38:16am

LOL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 3, 2021 • 10:39:31am

heh

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 3, 2021 • 12:53:56pm

re: #190 Eventual Carrion

Yep. All the shit blown up during WWII was finally rebuilt (or mostly) and they didn’t have to depend on us for the materials and such as much anymore.

And they rebuilt their industries with more modern equipment at the time.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 3, 2021 • 12:56:14pm

re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Alcohol in small doses can be pleasurable…in larger doses toxic.

I assume this fellow understands gender as binary and God-given at birth.

My bet is that his viewpoint is that any male wanting to be female is insane, and any female wanting to be male is a satanic threat to the patriarchy.
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