The Bob Cesca Podcast: TV’s Dr. Jody Hamilton

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

TV’s Dr. Jody Hamilton — [Explicit Content] Bob’s embarrassing text to Jody last night; Trump’s new blog is hilarious; Liberals and ignoring Trump; The Former Guy; Isolationism doesn’t work; The Red Hats versus Liz Cheney; Facebook upheld Trump’s ban but it won’t be permanent; Facebook tricks Red Hats into supporting corporate regulations and anti-trust laws; Tucker Carlson’s lies about the COVID vaccines; DeSantis signed the Florida election law; Republican cancel culture; With TV’s Dr. Jody Hamilton and TRex David Ferguson; And music by Astral Summer and Richard Turgeon; and more!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 4:20:13pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 6, 2021 • 4:22:13pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 4:27:41pm
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BeachDem  May 6, 2021 • 4:27:44pm

So, I guess things aren’t nutty enough in the South Carolina Republican party—now Lin Wood and Will Folks are going at it. (brings back thoughts of Todd Kincannon—remember him?)

Famed First Amendment attorney Lin Wood blasted me and my news outlet on Telegram this week, questioning a recent characterization of his surprisingly viable campaign for chairman of the South Carolina Republican party (SCGOP) as a “circus.”

“Will Folks, the ‘objective journalist’ who authored the above article for FITSNews falsely describes my campaign for chair of the SCGOP as a ‘circus,’” Wood wrote on his Telegram page…

Let me be clear on something: When GOP delegates cast their votes later this month, I hope Lin Wood wins.

I do not believe he is going to win … but I sincerely hope he does.

Why? Because the installation of someone like him at the helm of the SCGOP would generate more web traffic than I know what to do with. Seriously … I could put in a swimming pool based on those page views.

fitsnews.com

Just a refresher about Folks:

FitsNews is a “conservative” site that hates almost all SC legislators, but Dems more than most. But they do have the contacts with everyone in the legislature—you just need to be aware of how their “tone” is applied.

The guy who runs it, Will Folks, was the one who came out about an affair with Nikki Haley, complete with text messages, when she was running for governor. But then he endorsed her. He’s kinda nuts. ballotpedia.org

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 6, 2021 • 4:28:15pm

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

This is from Facebook. It’s not my friend’s kid.

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plansbandc  May 6, 2021 • 4:29:25pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 4:31:35pm

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

re: #5 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 6, 2021 • 4:31:43pm

Guy I served with used to call his girlfriend/fiancée/wife Buckwheat. She had rather frizzy hair, and was quite the sight in the NC humidity.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 6, 2021 • 4:32:54pm

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s too soon to talk about gun control. The thing is, it’s always too soon, because it keeps happening EVERY GODDAMN WEEK.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 4:33:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 4:35:46pm
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No Malarkey!  May 6, 2021 • 4:41:24pm

re: #5 Punish Domestic Terrorists

This is from Facebook. It’s not my friend’s kid.

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Adults can’t wear masks because freedumb, but children have to be prepared to sacrifice their lives to the Tree of Liberty. It’s obscene.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 4:45:30pm

heh

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 6, 2021 • 4:46:22pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

I love our governor. I’m not a super huge fan of how he’s been sticking with the police, but he’s done an amazing job of taking care of us during the pandemic, and it shows. I’ll support him for that, at least.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 4:49:38pm

move over Octomom

A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once — after expecting seven, according to Mali’s Minister of Health and the Moroccan clinic where the nonuplets were born.

It appeared to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once.

The five girls and four boys, and their mother, “are all doing well,” Mali’s health minister said in a statement.

The mother, 25-year-old Halima Cisse, gave birth to the babies by cesarean section on Tuesday in Morocco after being sent there for special care, Mali’s top health official announced.

snip

Alaoui, the clinic director, told The AP that as far as he was aware Cisse had not used fertility treatments. The Malian health ministry did not provide any other information about the pregnancy or births.

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William Lewis  May 6, 2021 • 4:55:55pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I almost got excited - a free VAX? What model? I’d love a VAX 4000/106A to run VMS. But, alas, it’s just a shot and not even a tasty one.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 6, 2021 • 4:56:11pm

re: #16 William Lewis

I almost got excited - a free VAX? What model? I’d love a VAX 4000/106A to run VMS. But, alas, it’s just a shot and not even a tasty one.

LOL. Us nerds.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2021 • 4:56:35pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

I really don’t think it is possible to get to nonuplets without fertility treatments.

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PhillyPretzel  May 6, 2021 • 4:58:07pm

re: #16 William Lewis

re: #17 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Guys it is at the Kennedy Center. High class shots.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2021 • 5:01:27pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

I just got my second shot, but no free beer for me here in CA. However, it’s no biggie since I never picked up a taste for beer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 5:02:24pm

re: #20 EPR-radar

I just got my second shot, but no free beer for me here in CA. However, it’s no biggie since I never picked up a taste for beer.

got my second shot last Thursday.
I’m just happy to get the shot.

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gocart mozart  May 6, 2021 • 5:02:48pm

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 6, 2021 • 5:02:52pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

got my second shot last Thursday.
I’m just happy to get the shot.

Wondering what I’m going to ask Mrs. Fish to bring home for food with her second shot..

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PhillyPretzel  May 6, 2021 • 5:03:10pm

And I got a letter from the IRS notifying me that I should have gotten my $1400 by now and if I did not get it please call the number at the bottom. Yes I did get my money and yes I put it to good use.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 5:06:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 5:09:26pm
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PhillyPretzel  May 6, 2021 • 5:14:48pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cool. There is a chance of rain during the day but it is supposed to clear up by evening. I might be able to see it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 5:17:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 5:21:17pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 5:23:08pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 6, 2021 • 5:24:47pm

re: #18 EPR-radar

I really don’t think it is possible to get to nonuplets without fertility treatments.

I agree 100% with you. She received some form of fertility treatment.

As far as I know, the Dionne quintuplets, born in 1934, were the largest number in a single birth without fertility assistance. In that case, they were identical, so from a single egg.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 5:28:47pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 6, 2021 • 5:29:21pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gentle reminder that Fox News said, in a court of law, that no reasonable person could believe that the things Tucker Carlson said are factual.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 5:31:09pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

And I remember it in the Seventies.

And no, Nero did not thrown Christians to the lions for being Christians. (Damnatio ad Beastias was a death penalty imposed by Nero’s regime, and he blamed Christians for the Great Fire in Rome, but they were thrown to the lions as penalty for arson, not Christianity, even if the accusation of arson was false)

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s 1895 novel “Quo Vadis” and its 1951 film adaptation popularized the imagery of Nero feeding these Christians to the beasts.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 5:38:48pm

Small government and privacy rights in action in Nebraska.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 5:53:53pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 5:55:27pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 6, 2021 • 5:56:21pm

re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Small government and privacy rights in action in Nebraska.

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DNA sample is the 21st century version of fingerprints. Maybe it’s my devotion to L&O but it certainly seems that DNA samples were routinely taken from suspects of various crimes, at least in New York.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 5:59:44pm

The four beer store owners in Whiteclay, Nebraska (population 14) who had their licenses revoked by the state for selling five million cans of beer a year across the state line (two miles) to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation have lost their case against their lawyer. The claim was he provided incompetent defence for their case to have their beer licenses restored.

Whiteclay is in the Panhandle, northeast of me in Sheridan County. The county commission offered support to the store owners because a substantial portion of the county tax base came from those four stores. The state withdrew their licenses because Whiteclay has no police department, Sheridan County refused to patrol it with the sheriff’s department, and it was constantly filled with inebriated Native Americans.

The town exists because in 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt withdrew the “Whiteclay Buffer” (a four-mile zone prohibiting anyone from living there) from Nebraska, after consulting no one. He believed this would improve trade with the Ogallala Sioux on the reservation.

Instead, alcohol sellers immediately set up shop in Whiteclay to bootleg across the state line into the reservation. The reservation has been trying to stop the sale of alcohol to the reservation for over one hundred years.

Judge rejects malpractice claim against former lawyer for Whiteclay liquor stores (Omaha World-Herald)

The owners of the stores say they will appeal the case.

Regular jobs are hard to come by in Whiteclay. The only steady work aside from ranches and farms was the beer stores. Since the beer stores closed, Dollar General opened a store there.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 6, 2021 • 6:00:22pm

Night Lizards. See ya all in the A.M.

BOBBY GOLDSBORO =HONEY=

I love you Beckie.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2021 • 6:03:01pm
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Patricia Kayden  May 6, 2021 • 6:04:54pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Patricia Kayden  May 6, 2021 • 6:06:13pm

re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s a mouse!! I’d faint if one of them got into my house.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 6, 2021 • 6:12:45pm

re: #43 Patricia Kayden

Everything in Australia wants to kill you.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 6, 2021 • 6:13:39pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 6, 2021 • 6:15:31pm

re: #40 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

One of the most played songs on radio way back when.

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Patricia Kayden  May 6, 2021 • 6:17:07pm

re: #45 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Not really. She votes with them most of the time.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 6:17:30pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 6, 2021 • 6:17:40pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Not really. She votes with them most of the time.

She’s out of step with the current day Party. She refuses to sell the Big Lie.

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DesertDenizen  May 6, 2021 • 6:18:12pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Not really. She votes with them most of the time.

She’s still a terrible human being. She’s just not a fascist like to bulk of her party.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 6:18:50pm

(audio of 911 calls, 3:52, with photographs, the nine-mile path of destruction by an F-4 tornado in Omaha on this day in 1975)

omaha.com

A huge area was cordoned off after the tornado and patrolled by the National Guard.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 6, 2021 • 6:20:36pm

re: #50 DesertDenizen

She’s still a terrible human being. She’s just not a fascist like to bulk of her party.

That’s how I see it. She’s mostly as bad as the rest, but she still believes in democracy and the Constitution, so they can’t tolerate her in leadership. It’s a fascist party now.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 6, 2021 • 6:21:14pm

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(audio of 911 calls, 3:52, with photographs, the nine-mile path of destruction by an F-4 tornado in Omaha on this day in 1975)

omaha.com

A huge area was cordoned off after the tornado and patrolled by the National Guard.

My parents are survivors of the great Palm Sunday outbreak of 1965. My mom’s house was literally jumped over by the tornado that decimated their small Indiana town. 33 years later, another tornado took an almost identical path through the town. I remember my parents taking us out of school early so we could go be with our grandmothers, and the town’s Barney Fife rolling around blaring from his car’s PA system that residents should seek shelter immediately, as another tornado had been sighted.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 6:21:21pm

re: #48 Dread Pirate Ron

Republicans just gonna launch their anti-Semitic masks right into orbit, aren’t they?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 6, 2021 • 6:21:51pm

re: #50 DesertDenizen

There are always ideologues who are more married to the ideology than their charismatic leader.

The Cult of Trump has a strong fascistic bent to it, but it is also celebrity worship.

Cheney objects to the celebrity worship part.

The purists among the GOP, the few who remain, reject the corruption that Trump embodies. But they still hold dear to the far right ideology.

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DesertDenizen  May 6, 2021 • 6:23:54pm

re: #52 Punish Domestic Terrorists

That’s how I see it. She’s mostly as bad as the rest, but she still believes in democracy and the Constitution, so they can’t tolerate her in leadership. It’s a fascist party now.

And of all the potential dictators they could have chosen they went with a whiny, impotent, incompetent, idiot man-baby. I shudder to think what would have happened if they’d picked a better candidate to rally around. Or were his unique batch of bad qualities the reason the base picked him in the first place? Would they have rallied around a smarter smoother operator who didn’t obviously represent all of their own faults and insecurities?

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🌹UOJB!  May 6, 2021 • 6:26:41pm

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

Guy I served with used to call his girlfriend/fiancée/wife Buckwheat. She had rather frizzy hair, and was quite the sight in the NC humidity.

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My 3rd grade teacher called me “N-Word-Head” and I had to deal with that until I got out of High School Hell. And they still asked “N-Word-Head” would show up at a fucking reunion.

Fuck them all.

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No Malarkey!  May 6, 2021 • 6:27:09pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Not really. She votes with them most of the time.

Out of step on fealty to dear leader, the litmus test for Republicans.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2021 • 6:28:51pm

re: #56 DesertDenizen

And of all the potential dictators they could have chosen they went with a whiny, impotent, incompetent, idiot man-baby. I shudder to think what would have happened if they’d picked a better candidate to rally around. Or were his unique batch of bad qualities the reason the base picked him in the first place? Would they have rallied around a smarter smoother operator who didn’t obviously represent all of their own faults and insecurities?

I think Trump’s obvious defects are a big part of why the base loves him so much. In particular, the GOP base has been marinating in resentment for decades, and Trump is the single most resentful person on the planet. Most of the rest of the GOP contenders are crooks who are on top of the world because they are getting away with their crimes, and it is very difficult for them to be authentically resentful.

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No Malarkey!  May 6, 2021 • 6:31:16pm

re: #56 DesertDenizen

And of all the potential dictators they could have chosen they went with a whiny, impotent, incompetent, idiot man-baby. I shudder to think what would have happened if they’d picked a better candidate to rally around. Or were his unique batch of bad qualities the reason the base picked him in the first place? Would they have rallied around a smarter smoother operator who didn’t obviously represent all of their own faults and insecurities?

Since I can’t warp my mind to worship such a perversion of humanity, I am incapable of understanding what it is about Trump that is so appealing to tens of millions of Americans.

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Patricia Kayden  May 6, 2021 • 6:32:44pm

re: #44 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Everything in Australia wants to kill you.

And is big enough to do so.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 6, 2021 • 6:33:32pm

re: #61 Patricia Kayden

And is big enough to do so.

It’s not necessarily size. Some very tiny things are extremely venomous. In fact, those scare me even more than the large things that want to eat me.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2021 • 6:34:53pm

re: #44 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Everything in Australia wants to kill you.

I had no idea moths could get that big. My heart isn’t what it used to be, so I really wouldn’t want to suddenly see that out the corner of my eye.

I’m sure it’s harmless, but still.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 6:37:10pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 6:39:22pm

A three-times convicted sex offender from Omaha has been arrested by the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Department (seat: Council Bluffs, Iowa) for the thirty-eight year old kidnapping and murder of an Iranian student, Firozeh Dehghanpour, from the University of Omaha in Nebraska.

The cold case was reopened and the sheriff’s department sent clothes and other items to be tested for DNA. Nebraska had recently required convicted sex offenders to submit DNA, which the state also forwards to the FBI.

Fingerprint, DNA led officials to suspect in 1983 slaying of UNO student (OWH)

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  May 6, 2021 • 6:39:32pm

re: #60 No Malarkey!

Since I can’t wrap my mind to worship such a perversion of humanity, I am incapable of understanding what it is about Trump that is so appealing to tens of millions of Americans.

I think it’s because the character he played on TV represents what they all wish they could be. Many MAGAs live vicariously through people like Trump because he’s that no-nonsense, hard-nosed, SOB who is a billionaire as a result and has the guts to put the libs in their place in a way someone like Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, or some other RINO doesn’t. They are as consumed with resentment and hatred as Trump is, and want payback.

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A Mom Anon  May 6, 2021 • 6:40:14pm

re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I used to be part of a charity called One Spirit. They match you with a kid, elder or family on Pine Ridge and you send what they need directly to them. There are no stores except liquor stores and convenience stores anywhere near there. You have to drive to Rapid City to get to a decent grocery store. Not possible if you’re too poor to own a running car. I spent about 5 years running huge boxes of everything from non perishable food, clothes, school supplies, a sewing machine and a ton of fabric, and on and on. I had money then, lol. It was a great experience. But that family fell apart when mom got busted with a pot plant she took from a patch she had tucked away from the house, the oldest dropped out of school and no one could figure out where they all disappeared to. Dad was an alcoholic, I think the oldest boy took the siblings and went to live with relatives. I think about them a lot.

It’s a fucking shame a decent grocery store and assorted other stores aren’t the tax revenue bonanza liquor stores seem to be. It’s disgusting what the government of South Dakota has allowed.

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DesertDenizen  May 6, 2021 • 6:42:57pm

re: #64 Dread Pirate Ron

And Putin and China laugh in glee.

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  May 6, 2021 • 6:45:02pm

re: #66 Secret ANTIFA Operative

and want payback.

And the meaner, crueler, and even sadistic that payback, the better - ie Family Separation, Ignoring Covid, Anti-Transgender laws, laws allowing people to run over protesters blocking freeways under certain circumstances…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2021 • 6:47:52pm

…

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2021 • 6:49:41pm

re: #69 Secret ANTIFA Operative

And the meaner, crueler, and even sadistic that payback, the better - ie Family Separation, Ignoring Covid, Anti-Transgender laws, laws allowing people to run over protesters blocking freeways under certain circumstances…

These people are fascists (no neo- needed any more), and if they end up in control of the GOP they will definitely make a serious attempt at setting up a fascist dictatorship.

I’m no Hitler scholar, but I have the impression he was very good at inciting and exploiting resentments in his voter base.

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A Mom Anon  May 6, 2021 • 6:49:57pm

re: #67 A Mom Anon

I should add that One Spirit has helped with other reservation project. There’s a bison herd now with a place to process the meat. A center for youth to learn computer skills and get help with school work, along with a program to help kids get better educational opportunities. There is still a huge need for mental health care and addiction issues. Progress is slow. It takes the rest of us to get involved just to provide the basics. Some homes have no running water or utilities there.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 6:52:03pm

re: #67 A Mom Anon

onespiritlakota.org

They are currently looking for someone to manage their social media and Website.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 6, 2021 • 7:03:33pm

Hmmm…..I don’t have a mortgage. Maybe he’s right.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 7:03:37pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 7:04:55pm

re: #74 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Hmmm…..I don’t have a mortgage. Maybe he’s right.

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I’ll have mine paid off in a year and a half, then I’ll be a Democrat.

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  May 6, 2021 • 7:05:38pm

WTF?

BREAKING: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won’t run for reelection

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 6, 2021 • 7:07:30pm

re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron

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Oh, well, not like it hasn’t happened before.

Trafalgar 1805
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 6, 2021 • 7:16:57pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 6, 2021 • 7:21:36pm
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Belafon  May 6, 2021 • 7:23:18pm

re: #79 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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You can tell the cat was hoping to rub up against the baby, not realizing it was too strong.

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Belafon  May 6, 2021 • 7:27:23pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 6, 2021 • 7:30:47pm
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A Three Hour Tour  May 6, 2021 • 7:39:40pm

re: #74 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Hmmm…..I don’t have a mortgage. Maybe he’s right.

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We were Democrats the entire period we had a mortgage. Even when I supported Dubya’s and McCain’s presidential runs back when I was a Michael Tottenesque “liberal hawk,” I was still a registered Democrat and voted for Democratic candidates downballot. When we came into some money due to a timely relative death, we used a good chunk of that money to pay off our refinanced mortgage a quarter-century early.

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Belafon  May 6, 2021 • 7:40:08pm

Outside looking north and there’s this long train of objects just appearing high in the sky. We’ve counted over 20 now. Nearly a straight line.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 6, 2021 • 7:41:08pm

re: #85 Belafon

Outside looking north and there’s this long train of objects just appearing high in the sky. We’ve counted over 20 now. Nearly a straight line.

Wonder if the Chinese booster is breaking up.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 7:52:08pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 7:53:29pm

re: #74 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Hmmm…..I don’t have a mortgage. Maybe he’s right.

I don’t have a mortgage either. I think he might be on to something here.

If that is the case, you’d think that Republican voters would be appreciative of Democratic attempts to rein in usurious loans and destruction of the SALT deduction by the Republicans.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 8:01:27pm

re: #74 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 8:05:25pm

re: #86 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Wonder if the Chinese booster is breaking up.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 8:07:00pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 8:07:41pm

Currently the rocket body is crossing the Portuguese-Spanish border.

n2yo.com

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 8:08:54pm

re: #85 Belafon

Outside looking north and there’s this long train of objects just appearing high in the sky. We’ve counted over 20 now. Nearly a straight line.

Starlink satellites.

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Dangerman  May 6, 2021 • 8:23:24pm
“The striking difference is that, this time, Liz Cheney has chosen to fight him on it. If Trump does manage to reinvent ‘the Big Lie’ in service of his own corrupt ends, Cheney will at least have forced members of her party into admitting, on the record, that they are making a choice between truth and Trump’s untruth—and choosing the latter.”

“There is no hope among her supporters and advisers that she will win the fight, when the House Republican Conference votes, likely next week, to boot her. Instead, there is a recognition that Cheney has finally decided to do what most of the Trump skeptics within the Party were reluctant to for four years: publicly challenge not only Trump’s lies but the enablers within the G.O.P. who give his lies such power

newyorker

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Dangerman  May 6, 2021 • 8:25:31pm

trumps new blog is a trap

“The Trump website is essentially a GoFundMe page for the twice-impeached leader of the Republican Party. The one link that does work is the one that says ‘CONTRIBUTE’ and leads to a nice page where you can give the man your money

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Dangerman  May 6, 2021 • 8:33:51pm
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Dangerman  May 6, 2021 • 8:39:45pm

she was on the wrong side of everything for years.

on this one issue she’s on the right side.

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sagehen  May 6, 2021 • 8:41:05pm

re: #96 Dangerman

have I mentioned how much I love the Subaru commercials with dogs?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 8:41:41pm

Right wing grift funded by libertarian organisations is very very good. If I had no scruples, I’d try to horn in on it.

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A Mom Anon  May 6, 2021 • 8:44:56pm

re: #97 Dangerman

Give her a cookie. That’s all she gets. I don’t love her or like her. She got on the right side of this, but IMO conservatives like her did zip, zero, not a damned thing to stop any of this madness from happening to their party. They helped build this and I don’t have a short memory.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 6, 2021 • 8:47:45pm

re: #100 A Mom Anon

Give her a cookie. That’s all she gets. I don’t love her or like her. She got on the right side of this, but IMO conservatives like her did zip, zero, not a damned thing to stop any of this madness from happening to their party. They helped build this and I don’t have a short memory.

She is getting props for showing some integrity and belief in the rule of law that pretty much should be part of the minimum expectations we should be judging all of our elected and appointed leaders by. They are not elected to enrich themselves, but to be public servants.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 8:51:22pm

re: #97 Dangerman

she was on the wrong side of everything for years.

on this one issue she’s on the right side.

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She’s no hero for clearing the bar of “no military coups.”

The article at the Washington Post is worth a re-read though.

Opinion: All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory (January 3, 2021)

Opinion by Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry, and Donald Rumsfeld

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🌹UOJB!  May 6, 2021 • 9:01:20pm

re: #74 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Hmmm…..I don’t have a mortgage. Maybe he’s right.

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Doesn’t Charlie Jerk still live with Mommy and Daddy?

OOPS, I guess his Sugar Daddy bought him a nice little condo.

Must be nice to live on Wingnut Welfare Money!

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sagehen  May 6, 2021 • 9:02:03pm

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She’s no hero for clearing the bar of “no military coups.”

The article at the Washington Post is worth a re-read though.

Opinion by Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry, and Donald Rumsfeld

She’s a bit of a hero for recognizing the likelihood of such a thing happening, and doing the only thing that could dissuade any military officer who would have considered it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 9:03:24pm

re: #104 sagehen

She’s a bit of a hero for recognizing the likelihood of such a thing happening, and doing the only thing that could dissuade any military officer who would have considered it.

Long before that letter, Army General Milley had already weighed in, saying the military had no role in determining the outcome of an election.

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 6, 2021 • 9:08:28pm

Liz Cheney is running for president. Nothing more, nothing less.

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sagehen  May 6, 2021 • 9:10:29pm

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Long before that letter, Army General Milley had already weighed in, saying the military had no role in determining the outcome of an election.

Sure. But those insurrectionists intended a slaughter at the capitol — if the above-and-beyond efforts of the Capitol Police and DCMPD had been unsuccessful in their defense of the premises and its occupants, Miley would have been ordered to bring martial law to the district, removed if he refused, and other flag officers might have felt duty-bound to obey.

That Op-Ed forced the senior officer corps to discuss it with each other, and really think about it not in a heat of battle conditioned response.

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piratedan  May 6, 2021 • 9:18:50pm

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I would agree it’s a pretty damn low fucking bar to clear to actually abide by our Constitution and laws, the fact remains that well over 70% of the current GOP caucus can’t/won’t clear it. It is the fact that isn’t being echoed by our media enough.

Which tells me that there are a few unkind additional truths, namely that our media doesn’t believe in those institutions any more than the GOP does. When it comes to the actual environment that you operate in, you shouldn’t be calling “balls and strikes” as if you’re “above the game”. If the GOP “wins” this game, they’re likely to be amongst the first against the wall. The fact that they “don’t see” that or believe that it couldn’t happen just shows that they are seriously piss poor students of history.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 9:23:03pm

re: #107 sagehen

Sure. But those insurrectionists intended a slaughter at the capitol — if the above-and-beyond efforts of the Capitol Police and DCMPD had been unsuccessful in their defense of the premises and its occupants, Miley would have been ordered to bring martial law to the district, removed if he refused, and other flag officers might have felt duty-bound to obey.

That Op-Ed forced the senior officer corps to discuss it with each other, and really think about it not in a heat of battle conditioned response.

They’re doing the same thing now they did in the 1930’s. Access journalism was a thing then, too.

How Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis (The Guardian, March 30, 2016)

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🌹UOJB!  May 6, 2021 • 9:25:14pm

re: #106 I Would Prefer Not To

Liz Cheney is running for president. Nothing more, nothing less.

She won’t even get past Iowa. If The Tangsnorter isn’t residing in a pine condo after taking a dirt nap the QAP nomination will be his.

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Belafon  May 6, 2021 • 9:30:05pm

re: #101 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

She is getting props for showing some integrity and belief in the rule of law that pretty much should be part of the minimum expectations we should be judging all of our elected and appointed leaders by. They are not elected to enrich themselves, but to be public servants.

I would completely agree with you if we were in a time of peace, but we’re not. We are either watching a party collapse or close to the end of our system of government as we know it.

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 6, 2021 • 9:31:45pm

re: #110 🌹UOJB!

She won’t even get past Iowa. If The Tangsnorter isn’t residing in a pine condo after taking a dirt nap the QAP nomination will be his.

she’s betting that trump will do before 24. It’s her best play.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 9:34:14pm

re: #111 Belafon

I would completely agree with you if we were in a time of peace, but we’re not. We are either watching a party collapse or close to the end of our system of government as we know it.

Political scientists name our current political system the Sixth Party System (the Fifth being the New Deal Coalition).

They are not agreed when the Sixth started, but generally point to the Civil Rights Era, with the current party system being cemented in place by Ronald Reagan.

Political party systems in the USA seem to last about thirty years before there is a realignment or the collapse of a major political party.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 9:41:54pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 9:48:04pm

(video, 0:17)

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 6, 2021 • 9:49:57pm

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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“Tucker Carlson blames Biden administration for his losses on a Nigerian email scam.”

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austin_blue  May 6, 2021 • 10:02:17pm

re: #55 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

There are always ideologues who are more married to the ideology than their charismatic leader.

The Cult of Trump has a strong fascistic bent to it, but it is also celebrity worship.

Cheney objects to the celebrity worship part.

The purists among the GOP, the few who remain, reject the corruption that Trump embodies. But they still hold dear to the far right ideology.

I don’t think Liz Cheney cares about Celebrity Worship. I think that she cares that the Mango Mussolini has lied about the results of the election and is still trying to take over the country, even after he got his ass kicked.

If you have ever seen a bull riding competition, you’ll understand.

Trump is the guy that got shot airborne off the bull 1.2 seconds after the gate opened.

You traditionally got no score if you didn’t ride the bull for 8 seconds. Trump wants us to believe that not one did he ride the bull for 8 seconds, he also got the highest score ever for an eight-second ride.

It’s just bulkshit, with a hat tip to Lawhawk.

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🌹UOJB!  May 6, 2021 • 10:03:33pm

re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When I was in college these were taught as the start of American political realignments:

1776
1789—Ratification of the Constitution
1824—Death of the Federalist Party and collapse of the Democratic-Republican Party
1860—Republicans come to power
1896—Democrats turn Populist
1932—FDR coalition
1968—Nixon’s Southern Strategy
1994—Gingrich Revolution
And probably 2016—Trump Retrograde.

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sagehen  May 6, 2021 • 10:15:00pm

Southern Strategy was an election strategy, but Nixon governed as really not such a right-winger — EPA, OSHA, Title IX, Title X, guaranteed federally funded dialysis, wage & price controls…

I’d date the Reagan Revolution as the realignment of my early adulthood, then the rise of the Obama coalition (which Biden is advancing).

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piratedan  May 6, 2021 • 10:21:11pm

re: #119 sagehen

all those programs were the cost Nixon had to pay for unfettered control over the Military process in Vietnam and foreign policy. The dems got thru a whole lot of social programs to let Nixon do his thing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 10:45:40pm

Twitter Events.

New York Times: The pandemic has changed their shower habits. How about yours?

twitter.com

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ckkatz  May 6, 2021 • 10:49:10pm

Japanese hit song from about 50 years ago:

ナオミの夢

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 10:54:08pm

Fake oxycodone pills are circulating in Lincoln and causing overdoses, police say (Lincoln, Nebr. Journal-Star)

The pills are fentanyl, not oxycodone.

Sen. Adam Morfeld (D-Lincoln) got a bill passed earlier this year that prohibits the police from arresting someone for drug possession who calls in an overdose of alcohol or drugs if they stay on the scene (including the victim).

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ckkatz  May 6, 2021 • 10:55:11pm

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My biggest change during the pandemic was growing and then shaving off a beard about 3 times. Each time I took it off was when I started to look too ‘rustic’ for my own tastes. Some men can sport great beards. Mine makes me look like I am searching for my lost mule.

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austin_blue  May 6, 2021 • 10:55:55pm

re: #74 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Hmmm…..I don’t have a mortgage. Maybe he’s right.

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Me neither. I payed it off a year before I retired in 2016.

Oh, and I got an unsolicited letter this week where a guy offered me a cash bid of $830,000 for my house.

On the one hand, it’s a lot of money. On the other hand, where would I go that is this close to what I love about Austin? The Symphony, Opera, and Ballet performance space is literally three blocks away from our house. I pay +/- $1,100/month in property taxes because we don’t have a State Income Tax here.

Rumor has it that the house next door got a $1.4 million cash offer last week. I think it’s accurate. We really don’t put houses in the inner neighborhoods up for sale. They are put up for auction.

Let’s be clear here about for which someone is willing to put up $1.4 million bongo buckaroos:

It’s a 50’ X 150’ lot. The front house is an updated 3/2, maybe 1,400 sq ft, at most, built in 1950 and clad in transite shingles. It’s in really great shape and though it’s pier and beam, it’s just flat as a strap.

An old greenhouse was converted to a studio living space ten years ago, which maybe has 250 sq ft. The old garage at the back of the property (slab) has been plumbed out and electrified, but is still just a nice 400 sq ft studio.

Downtown/near downtown neighbors are getting priced out of their homes. Hell, if I hadn’t been a smarty pants on a couple of investments after the crash in the late 80’s, I certainly couldn’t afford to buy here in my neighborhood today and would be hard pressed to still be able to live here.

By the way, we bought our house in 1997 for $155,000. At that time, our 50’ X150’ lot was valued at $25,000.

Our most recent property tax bill says the dirt is worth $475,000. This is bullshit. Our house value, in the same time frame, increased by $122,000.

The guy who wants to buy my house for $830,000 is a shill for a Real Estate Investment Trust who want to buy our property, scrape the house, and build a fucking McMansion.

No. Just no fucking no.

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austin_blue  May 6, 2021 • 10:59:04pm

re: #125 austin_blue

Me neither. I payed it off a year before I retired in 2016.

Oh, and I got an unsolicited letter this week where a guy offered me a cash bid of $830,000 for my house.

On the one hand, it’s a lot of money. On the other hand, where would I go that is this close to what I love about Austin? The Symphony, Opera, and Ballet performance space is literally three blocks away from our house. I pay +/- $1,100/month in property taxes because we don’t have a State Income Tax here.

Rumor has it that the house next door got a $1.4 million cash offer last week. I think it’s accurate. We really don’t put houses in the inner neighborhoods up for sale. They are put up for auction.

Let’s be clear here about for which someone is willing to put up $1.4 million bongo buckaroos:

It’s a 50’ X 150’ lot. The front house is an updated 3/2, maybe 1,400 sq ft, at most, built in 1950 and clad in transite shingles. It’s in really great shape and though it’s pier and beam, it’s just flat as a strap.

An old greenhouse was converted to a studio living space ten years ago, which maybe has 250 sq ft. The old garage at the back of the property (slab) has been plumbed out and electrified, but is still just a nice 400 sq ft studio.

Downtown/near downtown neighbors are getting priced out of their homes. Hell, if I hadn’t been a smarty pants on a couple of investments after the crash in the late 80’s, I certainly couldn’t afford to buy here in my neighborhood today and would be hard pressed to still be able to live here.

By the way, we bought our house in 1997 for $155,000. At that time, our 50’ X150’ lot was valued at $25,000.

Our most recent property tax bill says the dirt is worth $475,000. This is bullshit. Our house value, in the same time frame, increased by $122,000.

The guy who wants to buy my house for $830,000 is a shill for a Real Estate Investment Trust who want to buy our property, scrape the house, and build a fucking McMansion.

No. Just no fucking no.

Oh, and night all. Be well, sleep well. We’ll get through this together.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 11:00:14pm

re: #124 ckkatz

My biggest change during the pandemic was growing and then shaving off a beard about 3 times. Each time I took it off was when I started to look too ‘rustic’ for my own tastes. Some men can sport great beards. Mine makes me look like I am searching for my lost mule.

Same here. That was coupled with my wife buying me a straight razor for Valentine’s Day (which makes it easier to shave off a rustic beard, though I’m still having trouble with my right hand after surgery).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 11:04:20pm

re: #125 austin_blue

Yikes. I can never imagine owning or living in a home so valuable. (That, and a bank would laugh me off the premises.)

Your house is worth more than everything we own.

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ckkatz  May 6, 2021 • 11:07:19pm

re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same here. That was coupled with my wife buying me a straight razor for Valentine’s Day (which makes it easier to shave off a rustic beard, though I’m still having trouble with my right hand after surgery).

By the way, how is you hand doing? I was sorry to hear that it has been so problematic.

Regarding shaving - you are braver than I, using that straight razor. And much more clean shaven as well.

I ended up getting this, which seems to work okay when coupled with a followup shave from my electric razor:

Philips Norelco Multigroom Series 7000 23 Piece Mens Grooming Kit, Trimmer for Beard, Head, Body, and Face MG7750/49
amazon.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 11:16:39pm

re: #129 ckkatz

By the way, how is you hand doing? I was sorry to hear that it has been so problematic.

Regarding shaving - you are braver than I, using that straight razor. And much more clean shaven as well.

I ended up getting this, which seems to work okay when coupled with a followup shave from my electric razor:

Philips Norelco Multigroom Series 7000 23 Piece Mens Grooming Kit, Trimmer for Beard, Head, Body, and Face MG7750/49
amazon.com

The wound in my hand is now closed. I am doing exercises to strengthen my hand and fingers.

I can write with a pen again, so that’s good.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 11:25:06pm

re: #129 ckkatz

My wife purchased this one (and the accompanying stand for the razor)
Dovo 6/8” Best Quality Straight Razor, Black Handle (Goes to West Coast Shaving, Seattle, Wash.)

She also bought all sorts of accoutrements such as a shaving brush, oils, soap pucks, &c.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 11:27:55pm
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William Lewis  May 6, 2021 • 11:36:13pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife purchased this one (and the accompanying stand for the razor)
Dovo 6/8” Best Quality Straight Razor, Black Handle (Goes to West Coast Shaving, Seattle, Wash.)

She also bought all sorts of accoutrements such as a shaving brush, oils, soap pucks, &c.

There’s a reason I like my safety razor and it’s double edged German steel blades :D

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 11:37:33pm

The Village of DeWitt, Nebraska (population 500) is back in the manufacturing game.

DeWitt (the company) manufactured their Vise-Grip product there, until their corporate owner (Rubbermaid) moved manufacture to China in 2008.

A company in Minnesota, Malco Products, recently bought the old DeWitt plant and is manufacturing a similar product again now, named Eagle Grip.

The old DeWitt plant employed 350 people. The Malco products are on Amazon now, but the company is working to get the product into stores.

starherald.com

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 6, 2021 • 11:46:09pm

I just use a Gillette ProGlide Power. The vibrations really help the blades glide smoothly through long whiskers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 6, 2021 • 11:51:39pm

How the Right’s War on ‘Critical Race Theory’ Taps into the Powerful Religion of American Innocence (Religion Dispatches)

I would never pick a fight with the formidable Michelle Goldberg, but I must pick a tiny bone in respect to her new take on what the Right is up to in the current public school wars.

After aptly noting how the entire history of the modern Right’s rise could be traced to white Christians’ resistance to school desegregation and anything remotely affirming of queerness in public schools, Goldberg pivots to the new assault on “critical race theory” (I will follow her in using quotation marks, as the Right’s new target of choice is no more than a crude caricature):

Now the Christian right has more or less collapsed as anything but an identity category. There are still lots of religious fundamentalists, but not, post-Donald Trump, a movement confidently asserting itself as the repository of wholesome family values. Instead, with the drive to eradicate the teaching of “critical race theory,” race has moved back to the center of the public-school culture wars.

There is nothing even slightly wrong with Goldberg’s pivot, but she leaves out how religion continues to play a central and decisive role in the new anti-wokeness campaign, which of course is far broader and deeper than its eruption in our schools and colleges. She leaves out how the remaining “identity category”—whiteness—carries profound religious significance in a culture that long ago baptized whiteness and canceled any possible white sin through the blood of the Lamb.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 12:05:47am
(RNS) — The ultraconservative website LifeSiteNews has been removed from Facebook, with the tech giant accusing the group of violating policies regarding COVID-19.

LifeSiteNews, an often faith-themed website that snopes.com describes as “a known purveyor of misleading information,” announced the Facebook ban on its own website Tuesday (May 4).

“Facebook has just permanently banned LifeSiteNews’ Facebook page,” the announcement read. “This apparently is not a temporary measure: It is gone for good.”

The announcement quoted LifeSiteNews marketing director Rebekah Roberts, who framed Facebook’s decision as “another case of Big Tech silencing free speech on their platform.”

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the removal of LifeSiteNews’ page to Religion News Service on Wednesday, saying, “we have removed this page for repeatedly violating our COVID-19 policies.”

(more)

LifeSiteNews removed from Facebook for violating COVID-19 misinformation policies (Religion News Service)

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 7, 2021 • 12:36:32am
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Dread Pirate Ron  May 7, 2021 • 12:50:31am

re: #138 Dread Pirate Ron

I think I’ll need to buy some upside-down cans of marking paint. and start marking some asphalt failures in my town. I’ll use the proper excavation marking color of white, though. I wouldn’t want it to be mistaken for storm drain/sewer green color.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 1:15:53am

Obstruction of the ability to act with impunity.

Think twice before you whip out your phone and record a cop. You could be arrested. (South Florida Sun-Sentinal)

Taking smartphone videos of cops in public could shine a light on police misconduct — but it also could land you behind bars.

A divided Florida appeals court ruling on Wednesday upheld the arrest of a woman who filmed officers outside a movie theater.

The decision in a Boynton Beach case comes amid the nation’s racial justice awakening, after deadly police encounters with Black citizens were caught on camera. And it leaves open the question of whether a person recording George Floyd’s murder could have been arrested in Florida.

Officers had the authority to arrest a young mother named Tasha Ford who recorded them detaining her teenage son in 2009, based on a 2-1 opinion by judges at the 4th District Court of Appeal.

“In short, she obstructed their investigation and processing of her son’s detention — a lawful execution of their duty,” Judges Melanie G. May and Edward L. Artau wrote.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 1:21:12am

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Two students and one adult suffered non-life-threatening injuries during a shooting at Rigby Middle School in Rigby, Idaho. A suspect is in custody, an official says.

If the owner of the gun she used cannot be charged with criminal negligence then our gun laws need to be reformed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 1:24:06am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Two students and one adult suffered non-life-threatening injuries during a shooting at Rigby Middle School in Rigby, Idaho. A suspect is in custody, an official says.

If the owner of the gun she used cannot be charged with criminal negligence then our gun laws need to be reformed.

The child’s parents should have stored the gun safely.

What part of “shall not be infringed” do you not understand????!”£!”>>uno???!!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 1:25:46am

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

Not really. She votes with them most of the time.

Yes, but if not all of the time then she is RINO and might as well just be part of a lesbian threesome with AOC and Ilhad Omar

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 1:28:00am

re: #91 Dread Pirate Ron

No son. They’re just after the seditionists, sex traffickers, pedophiles and assorted creeps…

Which embraces a good share of the GOP…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 1:28:43am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Tucker Carlson blames the Biden Administration for his anti-vax rant

“Fox announcer used Foxitis defense!”

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 7, 2021 • 2:32:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 2:46:18am

re: #146 Dread Pirate Ron

After Nepal eased quarantine rules in an effort to lure back climbers, fears are now growing that Covid may scupper a hoped-for bumper season on the world’s highest mountain

I am suffering from the complete collapse of tourism on the Rhine, but I cannot understand why Nepal just thought they could wish the crisis away.

Even last year there were at least city tours and small private groups, this year is nothing at all so far and probably not until end of summer/early fall at the earliest.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 2:48:14am
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John Hughes  May 7, 2021 • 2:49:20am

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

So for all those claims that shooting people in the legs is hard it turns out that you need a 12 year old girl to be the shooter.

Sorry.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 2:51:35am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

‘I thought it was over:’ Pink says her COVID case was so severe she rewrote her will

I recall reading that the reason she took up singing was because she had weak lungs due to a childhood illness.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 7, 2021 • 2:54:28am

ook!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 2:58:53am

re: #125 austin_blue

re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Property prices inside large cities go through a climbing stage that is quite dramatic, as a city grows.

Your offer of $830k would have been what a house in San Diego would have gone for… a few years ago, before the pandemic. Now the prices have really taken off as supply dwindled down to nil.

This is part of what is driving the socio-political divide in this country, the urban vs. rural division that now is mapped quite well to our two largest political parties.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 2:59:41am

re: #151 Dread Pirate Ron

Never underestimate the power of rain, eh?

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 7, 2021 • 3:05:36am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 3:12:14am

re: #154 Dread Pirate Ron

They could have put a stop to it… if only Iceland had a virgin….

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 7, 2021 • 3:12:25am

This is why nobody likes the Dutch. //

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 3:14:32am

This is as bad as when Switzerland inadvertently invaded Leichtenstein in 2007

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 3:16:40am

re: #152 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Property prices inside large cities go through a climbing stage that is quite dramatic, as a city grows.

Your offer of $830k would have been what a house in San Diego would have gone for… a few years ago, before the pandemic. Now the prices have really taken off as supply dwindled down to nil.

This is part of what is driving the socio-political divide in this country, the urban vs. rural division that now is mapped quite well to our two largest political parties.

Folks who estimate the price a home can sell for at Realtor dot com have the value of our house up over 150% of what we bought it for eleven years ago. (I’m guessing that’s a stretch.)

It is pictured in the entry, though the picture is out of date. (The house has been repainted, wood siding repaired, fence removed, roof completely replaced, garage torn down after the roof collapsed - replaced with a locally constructed 8 x 12 storage shed.)

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Looking NW from the street in front of the church.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 7, 2021 • 3:30:13am

YouTube

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 3:39:40am

re: #159 Dread Pirate Ron

“She sold her soul to … the least honorable person you’ll ever meet in Donald Trump,” Rep. Gallego says of Rep. Stefanik.

She sacrificed her soul. “Sold” implies that she can expect something in return.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 3:45:18am

74 sickened in COVID-19 outbreak at Peoples Church in Salem (Associated Press)

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials say at least 74 people linked to a church in Salem have contracted COVID-19.

The Oregon Health Authority started investigating the outbreak at the Peoples Church on April 6, The Statesman Journal reported. The state did not release information about the outbreak until Wednesday.

The church’s website and Facebook page indicates in-person services and events continue to be held there including Mother’s Day services scheduled for Sunday. Officials at Peoples Church declined to respond to questions from the newspaper or acknowledge their specific outbreak.

“We are concerned about the COVID-19 surge in Oregon. This statewide increase has impacted our entire region, including our church family,” church spokesman Brent Kintz said in an email on behalf of church leadership.

No you’re not or you wouldn’t be having in-person church services in a county that’s been listed as “high” or “extreme” risk for the last several months. You’re concerned about the money in the basket, and you don’t care how many parishioners or other townspeople you kill or sicken to get it. Moving on:

Last year, Peoples Church joined nine other Oregon churches in a legal effort to overturn Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 restrictions. The complaint, filed by California-based Pacific Justice Institute, argued that restrictions on churches violate constitutional protections for religious freedom.

According to the church’s Facebook page, Lead Pastor Scott Erickson and his wife, Bonnie, both were hospitalized with COVID-19 last month.

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John Hughes  May 7, 2021 • 3:48:36am

re: #125 austin_blue

My house, bought for 226,000 EUR in 2003 (15 year loan, now paid off), 4 beds, bath, 2 wc, living, kitchen, 135m2 habitable (2 floors), on 323 m2 terrain.

15 minutes bus + 20 minutes train from central Paris.

Fuck knows what it’s worth now.

(In American 135m2 is 1,450 sq ft, 323m2 is 3,472 sq ft).

(The first time it was sold, in 1954, it went for 1,100,000 ancienne francs, the next time, in 1967 it was 72,000 nouveau francs).

(Ignoring inflation, that means the first sales price was 1,676 EUR, the second was 10,827 EUR)

(When it was built it was part of the largest bidonville (shanty town) in France, largely inhabited by Portuguese economic and political refugees).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 3:49:24am

re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

74 sickened in COVID-19 outbreak at Peoples Church in Salem (Associated Press)

No you’re not or you wouldn’t be having in-person church services in a county that’s been listed as “high” or “extreme” risk for the last several months. You’re concerned about the money in the basket, and you don’t care how many parishioners or other townspeople you kill or sicken to get it. Moving on:

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Especially because that is cash money in the basket, which can easily fall through the cracks when it comes time to declare it…

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 7, 2021 • 3:51:46am

While I’m saving up for an ebike I found a bike trail site, Trailforks that I think I’ll be using. They have maps, pictures, videos, and all sorts of other info. Here’s a video of a local trail.

YouTube

funny they never post a video of the struggle up to the top, just the joyride down.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 3:53:12am

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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It’s a shock to come to a major city on the west coast and see the price differences. Real estate demand and speculation created and entirely different economic realm.

That is why California population growth has slowed. California-hating wingnuts have over the years claimed that people are fleeing California, as if California is some horror. Well, if one is a right-wing atavist California may scare you, but the real reason people leave California is because it becomes too expensive to live here unless one 1) inherited some money, or 2) bought property here decades ago and sold them for giant profits, or 3) have hit it big in success in one’s chosen field of employment.

This same scenario will play out anywhere there is a sustained population boom. That is why our Austin friend now finds people cold-calling with cash, since Austin (like Dallas) has a long run of a population boom.

And to generalize: life on this planet is proceeding down the same path. Resource competition is driving the flow of money, land is being bid up around the world, the remaining old forests are being denuded as our billions and billions of fellow humans need more resources and space.

The timber industry in the US tries to convince people they are able to plant new trees as fast as they cut down old ones. While that may be true for a while, if one looks at say google maps and the satellite images, it is easy to see that “managed” forests look like quilts, with patches and strips of different ages.

What is not discussed is that as the US population grows so will timber demand. This is going to be quite consequential for Canada as well as the US.

Globally, the demand for housing is minimal compared to the demand for agriculture. The latter is why the Amazon is disappearing, not the former, though Manaus is growing quite quickly.

Getting back to American society and politics: the Trump cult will never really accept these kind of realities. When Trump first campaigned part of his schtick was the America and the world had un-depletable oil. In the Trump pretend world, nothing can limit American greatness, not even the realities of the planet.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 3:56:42am

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Getting back to American society and politics: the Trump cult will never really accept these kind of realities. When Trump first campaigned part of his schtick was the America and the world had un-depletable oil. In the Trump pretend world, nothing can limit American greatness, not even the realities of the planet.

Again, the market is at best a mechanism to help balance supply and demand and to direct capital flows to where they can do the most benefit.

The Randy Aynnies of America have made it into an ideology: an unregulated market as some idealized natural state of human existence and interaction to be striven for. It is not.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 3:59:39am

re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Speaking of Liechtenstein, it was in the news this week:

Liechtenstein prince accused of shooting Romania’s largest bear

Environmental groups say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein shot bear, named Arthur, in a protected area

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 4:02:33am

re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of Liechtenstein, it was in the news this week:

Liechtenstein prince accused of shooting Romania’s largest bear

My ex-wife fell in with a German Monarchist (there are really people here who want to reinstate the Hohenzoller Dynasty) and once travelled with him to Liechtenstein Castle to have a private audience with the Grand Duke who seems to be fond of all things monarchical.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 4:02:59am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Again, the market is at best a mechanism to help balance supply and demand and to direct capital flows to where they can do the most benefit.

The Randy Aynnies of America have made it into an ideology: an unregulated market as some idealized natural state of human existence and interaction to be striven for. It is not.

We have proven, time and again, that an unregulated free market is essentially anti-human in its nature. It makes no account of safety or health of the people that participate in it. The only way to have a “free” market that respects the liberty and sanctity of its participants is to regulate it, and quite heavily at that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 4:04:05am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Again, the market is at best a mechanism to help balance supply and demand and to direct capital flows to where they can do the most benefit profit.

The Randy Aynnies of America have made it into an ideology: an unregulated market as some idealized natural state of human existence and interaction to be striven for. It is not.

If supply and demand were balanced by capital flow, we could buy disinfectant and hand sanitiser here (and we wouldn’t still be having runs on toilet paper).

Speaking of which, I need to buy a new squirt bottle of corn liquor from the store, as my last one ran out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 4:05:23am

re: #169 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

We have proven, time and again, that an unregulated free market is essentially anti-human in its nature. It makes no account of safety or health of the people that participate in it. The only way to have a “free” market that respects the liberty and sanctity of its participants is to regulate it, and quite heavily at that.

It needs to be regulated to ensure that it continues to benefit all participants: producers and consumers, employers and employees, creditors and debtors, etc…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 4:08:38am

It will come as no surprise that the Maldives, whose primary international relationship is with India, has its own Covid crisis:

Maldives reports single-day record of Covid-19 deaths, pushing death toll to 81!

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 4:12:58am

re: #106 I Would Prefer Not To

Liz Cheney is running for president. Nothing more, nothing less.

or possibly speaker of the house

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 7, 2021 • 4:14:15am

YouTube

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 4:16:10am

re: #173 Dangerman

or possibly speaker of the house

Possibly, but I suspect more so for President.

Given most of the GQP are now corrupted by Trump, Cheney’s anti-Trump stance means she’ll not be Speaker.

However, I can see her trying to position herself as the reasonable center in a Presidential run. It will be one of the great examples of the Overton Window if she can pull it off.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 4:20:19am

For those with an interest or concern in neuroscience, yesterday’s UC presentation about a possible technique that could lead to a cure, or at least an effective treatment, for ALS or Parkinson’s etc, may be of interest. Link starts at Dr. Fu’s presentation as his breakthrough is at the heart of the matter, but other parts of the presentation are also interesting:


Creating New Neurons: The Potential to Reverse Parkinson’s Disease


..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 4:23:14am
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ericblair  May 7, 2021 • 4:27:21am

Nail his ass to the wall pour encourager les autres.

The cops should have told them that his fakes had bamboo on them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 4:30:59am

Thank you, Dr. Science.

Could dinosaurs have caught COVID-19? (BBC Science Focus Magazine)

After all, how would a Tyrannosaurus Rex put on a facemask?

We can’t know for sure if a dinosaur could be infected with COVID-19, but studies of coronavirus genomes indicate that they originated after the dinosaurs went extinct. There is evidence that dinosaurs were affected by other diseases, however.

Palaeontologists have identified many ‘palaeopathologies’ on dinosaur bones, which indicate various maladies including bone cancer, gout, a bone infection called osteomyelitis and infestation from parasites.

In one famous case, the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Sue’ was found to have many holes in its lower jawbone. The holes are similar to injuries seen in modern-day birds infected with a parasite called Trichomonas, which makes it difficult to swallow and breathe.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 4:37:06am

re: #178 ericblair

Nail his ass to the wall pour encourager les autres.

The cops should have told them that his fakes had bamboo on them.

Falsifying a government document.
Fraud.
Impersonating a medical professional.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 4:45:54am

re: #175 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Possibly, but I suspect more so for President.

Given most of the GQP are now corrupted by Trump, Cheney’s anti-Trump stance means she’ll not be Speaker.

However, I can see her trying to position herself as the reasonable center in a Presidential run. It will be one of the great examples of the Overton Window if she can pull it off.

maybe both

its no sure thing the R’s win the house, but if they did…
the speaker is elected by the entire house
she could make a deal with the dems
then are there say 10 R’s who are still somewhat ‘patriotic’?

long shot? absolutely
political theater at its best

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 5:00:55am

In the legislative and gubernatorial elections in Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin’s DMK Party (a social-democratic party) has won the state elections in a landslide. The DMK formed the Secular Alliance with other left-leaning and centre-leaning parties.

Mr. Stalin became the party president in 2018. In 2019, the party swept most of the seats for the state in the national congress. In 2020, they swept most of the municipal elections.

Mr. Stalin is an atheist; he ran in the election supporting secular governance (as opposed to Hindu Nationalism), opposing the caste system, and supporting science.

India’s Prime Minister Narenda Modi and the opponents in the election have already called to congratulate him.

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Patricia Kayden  May 7, 2021 • 5:04:11am

re: #50 DesertDenizen

She’s still a terrible human being. She’s just not a fascist like to bulk of her party.

Exactly.

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 5:05:12am

Good morning. Apparently you can’t catch pardon from your co conspirator. Bannon probably recruited this guy for his handicapped vet look. Now he’s really fucked.

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Mike Lamb  May 7, 2021 • 5:07:37am

re: #162 John Hughes

My house, bought for 226,000 EUR in 2003 (15 year loan, now paid off), 4 beds, bath, 2 wc, living, kitchen, 135m2 habitable (2 floors), on 323 m2 terrain.

15 minutes bus + 20 minutes train from central Paris.

Fuck knows what it’s worth now.

(In American 135m2 is 1,450 sq ft, 323m2 is 3,472 sq ft).

(The first time it was sold, in 1954, it went for 1,100,000 ancienne francs, the next time, in 1967 it was 72,000 nouveau francs).

(Ignoring inflation, that means the first sales price was 1,676 EUR, the second was 10,827 EUR)

(When it was built it was part of the largest bidonville (shanty town) in France, largely inhabited by Portuguese economic and political refugees).

It was a Bidenville you say? Socialist policies never work.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 5:09:38am

re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ancient land with deep human occupation, Tamil Nadu is very interesting. Also doomed by climate change…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 5:13:44am

Dr. Steven Hobbs, a science communicator, was mass-reported to Twitter and suspended, by anti-vaxxer conservatives and Christians. He has been writing about the various Covid-19 vaccines.

After a concerted effort by atheists, he was restored yesterday.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 5:15:56am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Dr. Steven Hobbs, a science communicator, was mass-reported to Twitter and suspended, by anti-vaxxer conservatives and Christians. He has been writing about the various Covid-19 vaccines.

After a concerted effort by atheists, he was restored yesterday.

But you repeat yourself, sir.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 5:20:40am

Ettd

Newsmax is in some trouble

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 5:22:40am
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John Hughes  May 7, 2021 • 5:26:47am

re: #185 Mike Lamb

It was a Bidenville you say? Socialist policies never work.

Haha.

bidonville
/ˈbɪd(ə)nvɪl/
noun
noun: bidonville; plural noun: bidonvilles

a shanty town built of oil drums or other metal containers, especially on the outskirts of a North African city.

(Or, around the outskirts of Paris in up until the 1970s).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 5:26:57am

re: #184 darthstar

Good morning. Apparently you can’t catch pardon from your co conspirator. Bannon probably recruited this guy for his handicapped vet look. Now he’s really fucked.

Red T Raccoon’s tweet there crashes my desktop and browser every time I click on it.

I think I’ll stop clicking on it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 5:28:37am

re: #190 darthstar

Villages resident Chris Stanley told CNN that she’s “absolutely horrified” that Gaetz will be visiting her community with QAnon-loving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Stanley said that while the accusations against Gaetz are deadly serious, his district is “so red that he could be re-elected if he was in prison.”

Fellow resident Mike Faulk told CNN that Gaetz is touring The Villages with Greene as a way to get Americans to forget that he’s being investigated on potential sex trafficking charges involving an underage girl.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 5:30:55am

re: #188 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

But you repeat yourself, sir.

I have referred it to the Department of redundancy Department

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 5:33:37am
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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 5:35:18am

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A golf cart parade with signs saying, “Go to jail, pedo” would be a great photo op.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 7, 2021 • 5:44:52am

re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Falsifying a government document.
Fraud.
Impersonating a medical professional.

Same school of people who wonder why anyone gets upset about another person claiming doctorates, etc. via diploma mills or outright lying.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 5:47:47am

re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Checking out the guy whose tweet you are commenting upon - he’s another know-nothing. In this case he seems to be a black American of a reactionary bent. Know-nothing-ism is not uniquely a trait of the Trump-humping religious right. Many self-identified groups have their own version of reactionary know-nothing groups.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 5:51:40am
The Biden administration has sought to portray Afghan security forces as well equipped to handle the war on their own, but that view appears starkly different than the reality on the ground. Since May 1, when the United States formally began its withdrawal, the Taliban has taken territory in practically every corner of the country.

Six military bases collapsed in northern Baghlan Province Thursday. On Monday, in the western province of Farah, a military base was overrun. In the south, aside from nearly encircling the capital of Helmand Province, the Taliban seized a key dam in neighboring Kandahar.

At least 139 pro-government forces and 44 civilians were killed in Afghanistan the past week, the highest death toll in a single week since October, according to data gathered by The New York Times. The fighting has displaced thousands of families, and an important hospital in the country’s south has had a fresh influx of wounded and dead.

Pentagon Struggles to Wean Afghan Military Off American Air Support (New York Times, more at the link)

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John Vreeland  May 7, 2021 • 5:53:11am

This has “Tucker Carlson Twinkie Defense” written all over it. Go ahead and google that if you don’t know what I mean.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 5:53:53am

re: #190 darthstar

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Because its oh so Important for a congressman to be concerned about his support in a district he does not represent.

In fact 400 miles away

.

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Eventual Carrion  May 7, 2021 • 5:55:21am

re: #6 plansbandc

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We had one like that. Had a turntable and radio on one side under a lid. Gave out pretty good sound.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 6:00:50am

Public service announcement: The Megamillions jackpot has grown to that size where people start paying attention. So many more people will be playing, more plays, meaning the likelihood of a winner goes up.

Get you Megamillions ticket today.

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John Vreeland  May 7, 2021 • 6:01:52am

Matt Gaetz is currently running for senator or president or something. God help us.

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 6:03:26am

Today, one of the major newspapers published 3 articles about Q’s and Q beliefs (Sadly, all behind paywall):
o Qanon infiltrerar myndigheter (EN: QAnon infiltrates government agencies)
o Qanon har kommit till Sverige - riktar in sig på småbarnsföräldrar (EN: QANon has come to Sweden - targeting parents of small children)
o Protestledaren: “Jag är uppkopplad mot Jesus” (EN: Protest leader: “I am connected to Jesus”
The articles touch superficially on Q beliefs and what the believers are up to in Sweden, but what they write is bad enough. They also have talked to experts as well as MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) and the Swedish Security Service (“SÄPO”), who unanimously describe QAnon as a security threat.
So, I guess it makes it official, the scourge that is QAnon has come to Sweden… 😭😭😭
And when the first article got posted on Twitter, the Q trolls were soon all over it…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:03:44am

My state senator’s bill to turn Nebraska into a libertarian paradise has failed in the Unicameral.

Plan to replace all taxes with consumption tax falls short in Nebraska Legislature (Omaha World-Herald)

It needed 25 votes to pass. The vote was 23 Aye, 19 Nay, 5 Abstain, 2 Absent.

If passed by the Legislature and approved by voters, LR 11CA would eliminate virtually all state and local taxes in Nebraska and instead apply a consumption tax on all services and new goods. The measure would allow local governments to impose their own consumption taxes in addition to the state tax.

Erdman, who introduced the consumption tax idea last year, touted it as a solution to Nebraska’s “high tax” problems. He said people and businesses would be drawn to the state because they would not have to pay income, sales, property or inheritance taxes.

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The same argument in reverse (high taxes) is also used by Republicans here to explain away youth “brain drain” from the state (not crappy conservative policies, because conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed).

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 6:04:42am

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 7, 2021 • 6:05:16am

re: #200 John Vreeland

This has “Tucker Carlson Twinkie Defense” written all over it. Go ahead and google that if you don’t know what I mean.

So this is a variant of the “my client is a deluded idiot” defense?

Edit: Forgot to add “But he is white so you should let him off.” since that seems to be part of it as well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:11:08am

re: #207 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 6:11:17am

re: #206 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My state senator’s bill to turn Nebraska into a libertarian paradise has failed in the Unicameral.

Plan to replace all taxes with consumption tax falls short in Nebraska Legislature (Omaha World-Herald)

It needed 25 votes to pass. The vote was 23 Aye, 19 Nay, 5 Abstain, 2 Absent.

(more)

The same argument in reverse (high taxes) is also used by Republicans here to explain away youth “brain drain” from the state (not crappy conservative policies, because conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed).

Massively regressive, since the poorer you are, the higher percentage of your income you have to spend.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 6:11:34am

re: #210 No Malarkey!

Massively regressive, since the poorer you are, the higher percentage of your income you have to spend.

Feature, not a bug.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:11:52am

More:

He [Sen. Steve Erdman] said the consumption tax would be applied to a much broader base than the current sales tax. It would apply to all new goods — but not used ones — and all services. The current excise tax on fuel would remain, however.

People would pay the tax on many items not now covered by the sales tax, such as food, medicine and new homes. They would pay it also on services such as vehicle repair, legal advice and haircuts. But used cars and existing homes would not be taxed.

Businesses would not have to pay taxes on their inputs, such as farm machinery, raw materials or accounting services.

To relieve the tax burden on low-income Nebraskans, all residents would get monthly checks from the government. The amount of the checks would be based on the consumption tax rate and the federal poverty level for each size of family. The checks would go to families no matter their income level.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 6:13:19am

re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:13:44am

re: #211 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Feature, not a bug.

If I throw my hat in the ring for the legislature, that is one of the things I will run against, since he says he wants to bring it up again in the next session.

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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 6:13:51am

re: #208 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

So this is a variant of the “my client is a deluded idiot” defense?

Edit: Forgot to add “But he is white so you should let him off.” since that seems to be part of it as well.

When you Livestream your crimes, you have to blame somebody. And whites have a pretty good shot at getting light sentences for crimes that poc get locked away for.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 6:14:18am

re: #213 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:15:57am

re: #214 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The kicker is the last paragraph, meaning it is guaranteed to be a failure.

He said he has been working with Arthur Laffer, an economist who was an economic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan, as well as other national and local economic advisers on crafting the plan.

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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 6:17:49am

Jobs report today was way below the 1 million expectation at 266k. March report was revised down 140k as well. I guess people with options really aren’t jumping to go work for $7.25/hour, which of course Republicans think is bad.

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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 6:19:35am

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The kicker is the last paragraph, meaning it is guaranteed to be a failure.

Interesting it includes monthly checks for everyone, but I’m guessing they would be meager.

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Targetpractice  May 7, 2021 • 6:22:43am

re: #218 No Malarkey!

Jobs report today was way below the 1 million expectation at 266k. March report was revised down 140k as well. I guess people with options really aren’t jumping to go work for $7.25/hour, which of course Republicans think is bad.

You don’t even have to look at wingnut media or websites to know how this is going to be spun: “GIVING PEOPLE MONEY TO STAY HOME IS WHY THE ECONOMY ISN’T RECOVERING!!!”

“YEAH! THE ECONOMY WAS GOING GREAT UNTIL DEMOCRATS STARTED GIVING MONEY AWAY!!!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:24:09am

re: #219 No Malarkey!

Interesting it includes monthly checks for everyone, but I’m guessing they would be meager.

He hasn’t said what they would be, but you can bet the first time the state was in a budget crunch (probably the first year of that debacle), those cheques would be ratcheted down to near nothing.

I don’t think a “consumption tax” (sales tax) on vital medications and services like auto maintenance or haircuts would be very popular, particularly when counties and municipalities could also impose “consumption taxes.”

When I was on the village board, I led a defeat to a proposed measure which would impose a 1/8% sales tax in the village. Afterwards, the business owners in town thanked me for that. (It didn’t endear me to my Republican colleagues on the board though.)

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Targetpractice  May 7, 2021 • 6:26:48am

re: #206 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My state senator’s bill to turn Nebraska into a libertarian paradise has failed in the Unicameral.

Plan to replace all taxes with consumption tax falls short in Nebraska Legislature (Omaha World-Herald)

It needed 25 votes to pass. The vote was 23 Aye, 19 Nay, 5 Abstain, 2 Absent.

(more)

The same argument in reverse (high taxes) is also used by Republicans here to explain away youth “brain drain” from the state (not crappy conservative policies, because conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed).

Because Kansas proved to the nation that abolishing taxes leads to budget surpluses high as an elephant’s eye.

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 6:27:15am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:28:53am

As the city council and mayor’s election in Omaha approaches (May 11), the letters in the Omaha World-Herald are getting more strident.

Mayor Jean Stothert (R) is seeking a third term in office. She is opposed by business owner RJ Neary (D).

Republican voters are trying to paint Democratic candidates for city council as “radicals” and “socialists.” (The only socialist in Nebraska government right now is Sen. Megan Hunt, who represents west Omaha in the Unicameral.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:29:12am

re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

omaha.com

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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 6:30:17am

Indiana County to decide if it wants another outbreak of HIV or not.

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 6:39:58am
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Eventual Carrion  May 7, 2021 • 6:40:16am

re: #42 Patricia Kayden

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Twinkie defense for a new generation

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jeffreyw  May 7, 2021 • 6:41:34am

Good morning!

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John Vreeland  May 7, 2021 • 6:43:39am

re: #156 Dread Pirate Ron

That CBS news site has been down all day for me. A few times I got an error page from CBS saying I had no Internet access. Wait, what?

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 6:46:45am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:46:46am

Wingnut Georgetown Law professor gets basic history about the Constitution wrong.

I continue to maintain it was a good thing I didn’t go to college to have my education corrupted. /s

It was not changed twenty-seven times (I assume he refers to the amendments here, where ten of the twelve in the Bill of Rights were adopted at the same time and the XXVII was adopted 212 years after it was proposed).

One of two (there is no two):

Just say you’re a segregationist dude. And you can enforce it.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 6:49:10am

re: #231 Belafon

Noting proudly that Minnesota is in the lowest or second lowest category. We’ve been keeping track of our cases, and people generally aren’t shy about getting tested or going to a hospital/urgent care when they’re sick so there are very few deaths at home that go untested.

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 6:52:01am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:53:00am

re: #230 John Vreeland

That CBS news site has been down all day for me. A few times I got an error page from CBS saying I had no Internet access. Wait, what?

It’s working okay for me.

Texas House of Representatives passes sweeping election bill

Almost one day after Florida signed its own voting law, Texas House Republicans advanced legislation that would impose new voting restrictions in the state. Ed O’Keefe reports. (3h ago)

With video

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Patricia Kayden  May 7, 2021 • 6:54:18am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 6:57:58am

re: #236 Patricia Kayden

Somehow they managed to make the bill awful in a different way than having child genital inspectors.

The legislation was initially stalled before being attached to a charter school bill, which passed smoothly through a Republican controlled state house last Wednesday. Lawmakers stripped a previous clause from the bill that could have allowed schools to inspect the genitals of student athletes to confirm their gender. Now, a birth certificate will determine where a student can play.

Lemme guess, Florida won’t let you change your birth certificate. Plus charter schools.

States really need a single-subject law for bills. Plus charter schools are crap.

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 6:58:12am

re: #205 Teukka

And since I posted summaries elsewhere:

Qanon infiltrerar myndigheter (EN: QAnon infiltrates government agencies)
Apologize for translation issues, but should give you a hint (blame teh Google):

MJ came across a QAnon believer who worked as a coach for the Swedish Public Employment Service. In addition to QAnon, the coach also seemed to spread spiritualism, new age, other conspiracy theories, etc.
The article also superficially touches on which channels QAnon propaganda is spread via, such as GAB, Telegram, 8kun, as well as their involvement in the events at the Capitol in Washington D.C. 2021-01-06.
It goes a little superficially on what are the beliefs of the QAnon (un) faith, such as “cabal”, satanic world elite, “deep state”, mentions the overlap with similar anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, m.m.
The author of the article has also spoken to experts at QAnon and the Security Security Service (“SÄPO”) and MSB about QAnon, where fears are expressed that the QAnon movement can (and has) been used by foreign powers for influence operations, but also that it can instill courage in individuals, or groups of, QAnon believers to commit acts of violence.
The article concludes by describing how Morris got tired of AF and plans to start a company instead, and that he has reported the incident to JO (Justice Ombudsman).

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 6:59:58am
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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 7:00:19am

re: #238 Teukka
Qanon har kommit till Sverige - riktar in sig på småbarnsföräldrar (EN: QANon has come to Sweden - targeting parents of small children)

(…) There is a father from western Sweden who fled to Poland with his son, several mothers who lost custody of their children, an editor-in-chief of a Swedish alternative science journal who nods in agreement, and a former police officer who assures that Swedish authorities infiltrated by Satanists and pedophiles.
The Bali Man lets them in one by one in the video conference. Guests receive spiritual counseling from an American medium who says she is a psychic. She advises that one should not trust society. The Bali Man continues:
- Share this video as much as you can. We really need to get this out, these are serious things.
The video with the Swedish parents was posted online in February 2021 and has today been viewed over 26,000 times on The Bali Mans Facebook account. From there, it has been further divided into 50 other groups that gather close to half a million members around the world.
His productions are spread via social media such as Youtube, Telegram, GAB or Parler. As recently as March this year, he released a similar video about Denmark.
It is largely the message of the American Qanon movement that is spread in The Bali Mans video broadcasts. He has participated in a podcast with the online cult and he has had several guests in his movies online who are supporters of the conspiracy sect. The infamous online cult is convinced that the world is ruled by a devil-worshiping elite who kidnap children and drink their blood to remain young themselves.
(…)
The Bali Mans video shows five Swedish parents that SvD was able to identify. All have fought infected and divisive custody disputes. They have either been sentenced to limited access to their children or the children have been taken into care with the support of LVU. In all cases after final judgments in Swedish courts. The children are thus with the other parent, or they live in a family home.
In despair over the court decisions, several of the disappointed parents have turned to The Bali Man.
(…)
Central Sweden, April 2021. The phone rings and a woman introduces herself on the other end of the line. It’s the woman in tassel from The Bali Mans video. We have tried to get in touch with her on several occasions. (…) The woman seems to be central to The Bali Mans Swedish activities. The Bali Man herself states that she “has the network in Scandinavia”. She is also the one who invited the Swedish parents who can be seen in the video.
At the same time, she is a staunch supporter of Qanon and frequently spreads the group’s worldview to her over 8,000 followers on social media. She is the administrator of a Qanon group on the Telegram app with over 600 members, where she describes herself as “Qanon in Sweden”. Both Swedes and people from other countries frequently post the online cult’s message in the forum.
This is about misinformation about the vaccine and covid-19, so here are some writing in English in posts shared in the group:
“Sick devil-worshiping fucking aliens!”, “The vaccine does not protect against covid, which does not exist either”, and:
“This damn vaccine killing industry, they’ve been trying to kill us for 100 years with their lies and poisons.”
Conspiratorial predictions and misinterpretations of major world events are made, and pedophiles and spiritualism are written about. But sometimes it is about fascism and racism, which is usually seen in right-wing extremist circles.
(…)
Southern Sweden, April 2021. Michael Zazzio is the editor-in-chief of an alternative medicine journal and site called “The Science of the 21st Century”. Like the ex-police and the Qanon woman, he also appears as an expert in The Bali Mans videos.
On a daily basis, Michael Zazzio is the CEO of a company that claims to be involved in education. He is also a member of a company that sells colloidal silver. During the pandemic, a lot of misinformation has spread that the substance would help against covid-19, which is rejected by authorities several times.
In The Bali Mans video, Zazzio talks about alleged child abductions and Satanists.
- We have a system where pedophiles found organizations, it is a hierarchical system. They in turn try to get some to control and decide. That way, they get access to children, he says in the video.
(…)
In the next part of the reportage series “Nätkulten”, we will look at how The Bali Mans organization has established ties to Swedish corona demonstrators and which international celebrities he leans towards in order to market himself. Celebrities who far from always know that they are used in conspiracy theoretical contexts.
- This is the first time I hear about these madnesses, says the world-famous philosopher Noam Chomsky when SvD tells how The Bali Man uses his name in his marketing. “

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:01:21am
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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 7:01:33am

re: #240 Teukka
And the last one:

Protestledaren: “Jag är uppkopplad mot Jesus” (EN: Protest leader: “I am connected to Jesus”)

”(…) I ask if he can really feel at home in all the groups that follow, it’s a great mix. - I do not feel at home with everyone, but I feel a strong empathy with people who have strong opinions and who feel very lonely. Is that loneliness the common denominator for all those gathered, you mean? - Yes, and it is justified. It may be a little rude to claim that the state and the media are the virus, but there is truth behind it. The problem is that we lack leadership. The Swedish leaders are changing all the time, they have lost confidence, we do not have a strong leader in Sweden who shows the way for the people. And it shows in the crowd. (…) What about his own movement, Freedom and Truth, how does it relate to the grouping Freedom Sweden? Those who claim that they are behind the demonstrations and list Filip Sjöström as “vice chairman” on their various sites. I hear in Fililp Sjöström’s voice that this is sensitive. And he emphatically denies that he is part of the movement. - I was a bit involved in Freedom Sweden when we were to start it. But they were not the ones who organized the first demonstration. And I no longer engage in Freedom Sweden at all. (…) Is it a conscious choice that you have so far not spoken publicly about your faith and about God? - Yes, it’s a little charged. There are different vehicles for contacting God, and He may have different names. And I have chosen Christianity as the vehicle. But you can hardly dismiss all science and all it has given? - No absolutely not. But it has lost the universal intelligence of God, all that science cannot explain. When you have contact with God, you know what truth is, but when you are stuck in science, there is no truth. I want to make people feel that there is something bigger than science. Security? Certainty? - Yes, God. I believe this: a great leader in the future must have contact with God. There is a navigation. And so it was in the past. The great leaders had the ability to convey the vision of God, the divine. Today we have leaders who get lost in science, they do not have a clear vision. - I feel that I have a penchant for things like this and have come into the world to be a leader. (…) “

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Targetpractice  May 7, 2021 • 7:01:51am

re: #227 Belafon

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You know the one preppy douche in every group of teen/college student horror film protagonists? The one who gets upset because the cautious guy says they need to go home/find a hiding spot/call the authorities/etc rather than just continuing to have fun? The one who declares that the cautious guy just wants to “go home to mommy” instead of continuing to have fun?

Yeah, that’s who these assholes who accuse the rest of us of “fear of normalcy” sound like. They want to go get drunk at the bar, they want to gorge themselves at the local restaurant, and party at the local club without worry. And because they can’t enjoy themselves without masks and social distancing, they accuse us being the “buzzkills” who are keeping them from having a good time.

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:03:19am
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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 7:03:41am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 7, 2021 • 7:03:50am

My vaccination didn’t hurt at all, but next day, my arm is sore, so it seems to be getting a decent immune response.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 7, 2021 • 7:06:23am

Off to the store to buy a lotto ticket, then back to bed.

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 7:07:27am

The serfs seem to be realizing they have power after all:

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 7:09:00am
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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:09:08am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 7:10:09am

re: #231 Belafon

Here’s the video from IHME to go with the report:

IHME | New COVID-19 Model Methods (May 6, 2021)



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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 7:10:33am

re: #249 Belafon

So the people who can’t get a job are just going to suffer more. Good job, there, guv. You nailed it.

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Patricia Kayden  May 7, 2021 • 7:10:52am

re: #250 darthstar

Why is domestic terrorism in quotation marks? It’s very real.

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Targetpractice  May 7, 2021 • 7:10:58am

re: #248 Belafon

The serfs seem to be realizing they have power after all:

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Apparently telling employees to suck it up and deal with the stress of working in a pandemic because “At least you still have a job” doesn’t work. Who could have guessed?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 7:11:28am

re: #253 Patricia Kayden

Why is domestic terrorism in quotation marks? It’s very real.

It’s not, it’s in asterisks, denoting emphasis.

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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 7:15:56am

re: #249 Belafon

IOW, force black people to work for starvation level wages again.

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Targetpractice  May 7, 2021 • 7:16:02am

re: #249 Belafon

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Because nothing better demonstrates that you’re a party of the “working man” like advocating wage slavery in the middle of a pandemic.

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:16:57am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 7:17:38am

It appears Psaki as set off the twitterbots again.

The Trump-addled are having a real problem dealing with a competent Administration.

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:17:41am

re: #253 Patricia Kayden

Why is domestic terrorism in quotation marks? It’s very real.

Good point.

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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 7:18:47am

Good news!

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 7:19:58am

re: #259 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It appears Psaki as set off the twitterbots again.

The Trump-addled are having a real problem dealing with a competent Administration.

What’s the furor over this time?

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:20:06am

Pfizer submitted its application for full FDA approval. That means the 40% of active military who are vaccine resistant can soon be mandated to get the goddamn shot. And schools can require vaccination for admission.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 7, 2021 • 7:21:33am

re: #263 darthstar

Pfizer submitted its application for full FDA approval. That means the 40% of active military who are vaccine resistant can soon be mandated to get the goddamn shot. And schools can require vaccination for admission.

It’s sad that so many people want to get away with killing themselves and others to stick it to people who do the right thing.

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Patricia Kayden  May 7, 2021 • 7:22:23am

re: #255 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Okay. Thanks. I’m so paranoid. 😂

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Patricia Kayden  May 7, 2021 • 7:22:54am

Repeal the dang tax cuts for the wealthy and we should be okay.

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 7:25:36am

re: #266 Patricia Kayden

Repeal the dang tax cuts for the wealthy and we should be okay.

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Plus, Democrats went to school. We know what comes after a trillion and how slavery built this country.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 7:25:45am

re: #266 Patricia Kayden

Repeal the dang tax cuts for the wealthy and we should be okay.

Yes, Democrats are spending money. Money that needs to be spent, because you and your kind have fucked up literally everything in this country, and it costs money to fix it.

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Patricia Kayden  May 7, 2021 • 7:29:02am

I really do miss the Costco samples.

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🌹UOJB!  May 7, 2021 • 7:29:09am

re: #60 No Malarkey!

Since I can’t warp my mind to worship such a perversion of humanity, I am incapable of understanding what it is about Trump that is so appealing to tens of millions of Americans.

I can tell you why my Jesusbot relatives love Trump.

He kicks the coloreds, queers and Muslims down.

They really got off and had massive orgasms on Facebook whenever he did that. It’s what they live for.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 7, 2021 • 7:30:54am

re: #270 🌹UOJB!

I can tell you why my Jesusbot relatives love Trump.

He kicks the coloreds, queers and Muslims down.

They really got off and had massive orgasms on Facebook whenever he did that. It’s what they live for.

Yep. My parents were thrilled when the travel ban went in. I wrote a Facebook post talking about how the travel ban was antithetical to Christian belief, and my dad sent me an article written by chief asshole Franklin Graham. I died a lot inside that day.

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 7:30:56am

re: #270 🌹UOJB!

I can tell you why my Jesusbot relatives love Trump.

He kicks the coloreds, queers and Muslims down.

They really got off and had massive orgasms on Facebook whenever he did that. It’s what they live for.

Everything happening to my brother is other people’s fault.

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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 7:32:20am

re: #268 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Yes, Democrats are spending money. Money that needs to be spent, because you and your kind have fucked up literally everything in this country, and it costs money to fix it.

Austerity, which became an obsession among policy makers across the US and Europe during the Great Recession, caused unnecessary suffering and unemployment for tens of millions of people. In the US, it took over a decade to get U6 unemployment back down to 8% (2007-2017). U6 unemployment includes people who are involuntarily underemployed, and people marginally attached to the workforce.

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:35:10am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 7, 2021 • 7:35:33am

re: #262 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

What’s the furor over this time?

Biden, of course.

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:36:19am

re: #275 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Biden, of course.

She said she may consider stepping down in the coming year.

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Targetpractice  May 7, 2021 • 7:38:15am

re: #264 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It’s sad that so many people want to get away with killing themselves and others to stick it to people who do the right thing.

There’s a part of me that wants to believe that once the vaccines start getting full approval, a lot of the hesitancy will go away and vaccination rates will improve.

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Jay C  May 7, 2021 • 7:41:26am

re: #249 Belafon

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My first take on this bit was that McMaster’s orders were to “address workplace shootings” - and it didn’t make sense.
Then I went back and re-read it, and (amazingly) it still doesn’t make sense….
(though it’s “Republicans In State Government” - making sense, as always, seems quite optional)

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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 7:41:47am

re: #277 Targetpractice

There’s a part of me that wants to believe that once the vaccines start getting full approval, a lot of the hesitancy will go away and vaccination rates will improve.

Hardcore no people are less than 20%. A lot of people would get vaccinated if it were easy, or are waiting a bit to be sure. Even many hard no people will take it if it’s mandated.

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Patricia Kayden  May 7, 2021 • 7:44:21am
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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:44:32am
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No Malarkey!  May 7, 2021 • 7:47:01am

Stock market has shrugged off the disappointing jobs report this morning and is recording solid gains. If people are spending $, they don’t care if it came from a job or UI.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 7:48:55am

re: #245 Belafon

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try this one weird trick to attract and keep quality employees.

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Targetpractice  May 7, 2021 • 7:51:56am

re: #278 Jay C

My first take on this bit was that McMaster’s orders were to “address workplace shootings” - and it didn;t make sense.
Then I went back and re-read it, and (amazingly) it still doesn’t make sense….
(though it’s “Republicans In State Government” - making sense, as always, seems quite optional)

Business owners are getting scared the longer that the return to “normal” takes because their choices right now are to either raise wages/benefits or restrict services to what can be conducted with the staff they have on-hand. So they’re pushing for the third option that they really want: Force people back to work at existing starvation wages by cutting them off from any government help.

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Barefoot Grin  May 7, 2021 • 7:54:21am

re: #281 darthstar

“Candygram”

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 7:56:24am
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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 7:56:29am
Thanks for making The Tyranny of Big Tech a best seller all week on Amazon!”

— Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), on Twitter, apparently not understanding the irony of who is selling his new book

aaannnddd where he posted his comment

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 7:58:34am

and then it’s “duck season”?

can I say that?

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 8:01:14am

Whatever works, whatever works.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:01:35am
“President Biden took office more than three months ago, but Republicans are not any closer to accepting his victory now than they were then.”

“The latest CNN/SSRS survey, released on April 30, found that 70 percent of Republicans believed the false allegation that Biden did not legitimately defeat former President Trump; just 23 percent said Biden legitimately won. Meanwhile, Democrats (97-3 percent) and independents (69-27 percent) said Biden had won fairly. These numbers are very similar to what CNN/SSRS found in mid-January, just before Biden’s inauguration.”

“And this lack of movement is really the story.”

538

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Targetpractice  May 7, 2021 • 8:01:57am

re: #286 darthstar

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And then we get to hear about how Biden is leaving them “undefended” by “pulling” their SS details.

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 8:02:05am

This scrolled by in my news feeds:
Many QAnon followers report mental health diagnoses (upi.com)

QAnon is often viewed as a group associated with conspiracy, terrorism and radical action, such as the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. But radical extremism and terror may not be the real concern from this group.
QAnon followers, who may number in the millions, appear to believe a baseless and debunked conspiracy theory claiming that a satanic cabal of pedophiles and cannibals controls world governments and the media. They also subscribe to many other outlandish and improbable ideas, such as that the Earth is flat, that the coronavirus is a biological weapon used to gain control over the world’s population, that Bill Gates is somehow trying to use coronavirus vaccinations to implant microchips into people and more.
As a social psychologist, I normally study terrorists. During research for Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon, a forthcoming book I co-authored with security scholar Mia Bloom, I noticed that QAnon followers are different from the radicals I usually study in one key way: They are far more likely to have serious mental illnesses.

Significant conditions

I found that many QAnon followers revealed — in their own words on social media or in interviews — a wide range of mental health diagnoses, including bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and addiction.

[…]

Psychology of conspiracy
Research has long revealed connections between psychological problems and beliefs in conspiracy theories. For example, anxiety increases conspiratorial thinking, as do social isolation and loneliness.
Depressed, narcissistic and emotionally detached people are also prone to have a conspiratorial mindset. Likewise, people who exhibit odd, eccentric, suspicious and paranoid behavior — and who are manipulative, irresponsible and low on empathy — are more likely to believe conspiracy theories.

[…]

More serious problem

It’s possible that people who embrace QAnon ideas may be inadvertently or indirectly expressing deeper psychological problems. This could be similar to when people exhibit self-harming behavior or psychosomatic complaints that are in fact signals of serious psychological issues.
It could be that QAnon is less a problem of terrorism and extremism than it is one of poor mental health.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 7, 2021 • 8:04:51am
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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:05:45am

re: #290 Dangerman

media needs to start quantifying and qualifying “percent of Republicans” with “representing X% of all registered voters”.

dont imply The Big Lie is larger than it actually is.

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 8:07:36am

re: #294 Dangerman

media needs to start quantifying and qualifying “percent of Republicans” with “representing X% of all registered voters”.

dont imply The Big Lie is larger than it actually is.

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The problem with the “70% of 23% means a minority of Americans believe the big lie” argument is that they are one of the major political parties and are running a majority of states.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:07:42am

re: #291 Targetpractice

And then we get to hear about how Biden is leaving them “undefended” by “pulling” their SS details.

they can easily pay for their own damned protection if they think they need it

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darthstar  May 7, 2021 • 8:08:05am

re: #291 Targetpractice

And then we get to hear about how Biden is leaving them “undefended” by “pulling” their SS details.

If he pulled them early (which he can) then they’d do that. Letting them skim taxpayer money for Trump properties for another 90 days is worth the cost of avoiding that political garbage.

Also, Don Jr. better pay off his drug debts before 7/20.

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steve_davis  May 7, 2021 • 8:10:18am

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

move over Octomom

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Jesse is impressed. That’s quite a litter! Now she wants to see the lady do that three times in a year, and they’ll have something to talk about.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 7, 2021 • 8:10:20am

re: #291 Targetpractice

And then we get to hear about how Biden is leaving them “undefended” by “pulling” their SS details.

Why do we defend criminals who attack our democracy? It seems like the opposite would be better.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:13:04am

re: #295 Belafon

The problem with the “70% of 23% means a minority of Americans believe the big lie” argument is that they are one of the major political parties and are running a majority of states.

so if it’s maybe 20% of voters.

and you’re right about the problem because in perspective more people believe elvis is not dead, that uFOs regularly visit the earth and kidnap people, and Mother Theresa was a whore.

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Alephnaught  May 7, 2021 • 8:13:45am

Counting for Thursday’s election for the Scottish Government has started, and some of the results are starting to come in. The elections operate under a sort of hybrid system, where about 2/3s of the members of the parliament are elected into constituencies representing an area using the first-past-the-post system, but there is also an additional vote where you vote for a party rather than a candidate, and the remaining members of the government are selected from party lists using a proportional representation count. The system has been designed so that it’s very hard for any single party to gain an overall majority, and so coalition governments have been the norm. (The outgoing government was a coalition between the SNP and the Greens.) The results that have come in are from the constituency vote, the party list results come tomorrow.

So far, there hasn’t been any surprises, the seats that have been declared have been holds (For the SNP, and one for the Lib Dems.). There’s been some swings of votes (Both to and from the SNP.) that some commentators have been trying to make sense of, but so far there’s been no obvious trend that could be a game-changer.

EDIT- Spoke too soon. The SNP have taken East Lothian from Labour. That’s the first change of seat.

EDIT EDIT- Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon keeps her seat.

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steve_davis  May 7, 2021 • 8:15:45am

re: #18 EPR-radar

I really don’t think it is possible to get to nonuplets without fertility treatments.

Mother Cat (circa 1951) wishes someone had told her this earlier!

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:16:29am
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🌹UOJB!  May 7, 2021 • 8:21:46am

Pulpit Pimp Hank still pushing the “Believe the Xtian Prophets who said Trump is President” bullshit.

Tax the churches.

Hank Kunneman Says God Will Reward Those Who Continue to Believe the Prophets Who Guaranteed Trump’s Reelection

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 7, 2021 • 8:22:49am

re: #229 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

Trumpetvine!

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steve_davis  May 7, 2021 • 8:23:55am

re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Professor: “Due to changes in oxygen levels, the world no longer produces 3 foot long cockroaches, or 6 foot millipedes….”

Moth: “Hold my beer, mate.”

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 8:24:54am

re: #304 🌹UOJB!

Pulpit Pimp Hank still pushing the “Believe the Xtian Prophets who said Trump is President” bullshit.

Tax the churches.

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“What were you doing when I asked for food, for drink, and for shelter?”
“We were waiting for you to put Trump back in office.”

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DodgerFan1988  May 7, 2021 • 8:26:20am

Tucker Carlson will call him a hero tonight on Fox News.

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🌹UOJB!  May 7, 2021 • 8:26:32am

So why is Super Chicken Mo Brooks dodging Swalwell’s subpoena?

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) has been evading efforts to serve him a complaint in Rep. Eric Swalwell’s lawsuit against the Alabama Republican over his role in inciting the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, according to Swalwell’s lawyer.

“We have been attempting to serve our complaint on Mo Brooks for more than a month,” Philip Andonian told Punchbowl on Friday.

“I talked to staffers in his D.C. office who promised a response from someone, which never came,” he continued. “I sent the complaint and a waiver of service form in a detailed email to his chief of staff and counsel, which to date remains unanswered.”

The lawyer said that “[i]t seems clear that Brooks is choosing to make a political stunt out of a part of the process that essentially is a formality, which is unfortunate.”

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 8:29:13am

re: #309 🌹UOJB!

They should place someone near his office and the House chamber. If nothing else, it will keep him from voting.

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 8:30:32am

re: #308 DodgerFan1988

Tucker Carlson will call him a hero tonight on Fox News.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 7, 2021 • 8:33:29am

re: #248 Belafon

The serfs seem to be realizing they have power after all:

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Yeah, call them heroes and essential workers for a year or so and see what it gets you.

But we didn’t really mean it, we just wanted them to stay at their jobs!

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A Cranky One  May 7, 2021 • 8:34:33am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 7, 2021 • 8:34:35am

re: #308 DodgerFan1988

“Let’s go to the lab!”

Yeah. Meth lab that is.

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A Mom Anon  May 7, 2021 • 8:35:06am

re: #311 Teukka

So that’s a crime he admitted to online. The internets will hopefully do its job and turn this asshole in.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:35:24am

In case you need this, you know, ever

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 8:35:38am

re: #200 John Vreeland

This has “Tucker Carlson Twinkie Defense” written all over it. Go ahead and google that if you don’t know what I mean.

Tucker is blaming his rants on Biden

The CIrcle of Lies

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:36:36am

re: #312 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Yeah, call them heroes and essential workers for a year or so and see what it gets you.

But we didn’t really mean it, we just wanted them to stay at their jobs!

..i just wanted my tomato properly sliced

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 7, 2021 • 8:37:44am
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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:37:56am

re: #317 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Tucker is blaming his rants on Biden

The CIrcle of Lies

It’s your fault i hit you

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Eventual Carrion  May 7, 2021 • 8:38:10am

re: #308 DodgerFan1988

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Tucker Carlson will call him a hero tonight on Fox News.

What kind of dumb fuck takes a video of themselves committing theft. and depending on the given price of that vial of vaccine, possibly grand larceny.

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 8:39:12am

re: #315 A Mom Anon

So that’s a crime he admitted to online. The internets will hopefully do its job and turn this asshole in.

Over/under on less than 24h? 🤔 /S

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 7, 2021 • 8:40:48am

re: #321 Eventual Carrion

What kind of dumb fuck takes a video of themselves committing theft. and depending on the given price of that vial of vaccine, possibly grand larceny.

Well there were dozens who filmed themselves trying to overthrow the country on 1/6.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:43:08am

Rando:

The GOP wants corporations to act in a very specific way: stay silent on social issues, do not get involved in culture wars, make no overt actions contrary to the conservative agenda and in return they will get tax breaks and deregulation.

For 40 years that generally worked. But now the conservative agenda is cutting into the bottom line, and big business is starting to hedge their bets.

Rando2: it’s not a split. it’s a lovers spat soon to be followed by animal like make up sex

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 7, 2021 • 8:43:27am

re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg

Well there were dozens who filmed themselves trying to overthrow the country on 1/6.

Stupid people who are right-wingers have no way to know that they’re stupid, because they have propagandists telling them that educated people are stupid, and that idiots are the real smart people. Actual smart people are an outgroup to be distrusted.

They have no friends who will tell them that they’ve lost their minds to propaganda and need to get their shit together.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 7, 2021 • 8:43:55am

re: #243 Targetpractice

You know the one preppy douche in every group of teen/college student horror film protagonists? The one who gets upset because the cautious guy says they need to go home/find a hiding spot/call the authorities/etc rather than just continuing to have fun? The one who declares that the cautious guy just wants to “go home to mommy” instead of continuing to have fun?

Yeah, that’s who these assholes who accuse the rest of us of “fear of normalcy” sound like. They want to go get drunk at the bar, they want to gorge themselves at the local restaurant, and party at the local club without worry. And because they can’t enjoy themselves without masks and social distancing, they accuse us being the “buzzkills” who are keeping them from having a good time.

In other words people who get upset over simply being inconvenienced.

Seeing this on Facebook with the jackasses alternating between “Blue Lives Matter/patriotic flag hugging” and “Thuggish Police State” depending on how they perceive government action affecting their privilege and convenience. Plus I’m seeing very snide comments about the Biden administration from the same folks who said not a peep about Trump or declared their FB posts “non-political” in that time period.

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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 8:44:22am

re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg

Well there were dozens who filmed themselves trying to overthrow the country on 1/6.

And are shocked(!) its being used against them

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🌹UOJB!  May 7, 2021 • 8:46:37am

re: #318 Dangerman

..i just wanted my tomato properly sliced

And I happen to like a thick slice of tomato on a whopper, or better yet a Tommy Chiliburger here in LA!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 8:49:55am

re: #259 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It appears Psaki as set off the twitterbots again.

The Trump-addled are having a real problem dealing with a competent Administration.

A quote taken out of context that indicates that she advised Biden not to speak to reporters because he is so doddery and ill (Italics added by concerned news networks)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 7, 2021 • 8:52:30am
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🌹UOJB!  May 7, 2021 • 8:56:05am

re: #321 Eventual Carrion

What kind of dumb fuck takes a video of themselves committing theft. and depending on the given price of that vial of vaccine, possibly grand larceny.

Well I know one who was stupid enough to do that and he’s got a nice room in Uncle Sam’s B&B.

He should have been indicted for being an asshole along with all the other stupid things he did on Jan 6th ‘cause Jesus told him to go to DC for Gawd’s Anointed King Shithead

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sagehen  May 7, 2021 • 8:57:43am

re: #266 Patricia Kayden

Repeal the dang tax cuts for the wealthy and we should be okay.

Some former IRS commissioners have released a letter saying that with another $80B a year for enforcement (auditors, lawyers, etc), they’d collect another $700B a year in revenue.

That’s not chump change.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 7, 2021 • 9:03:54am

re: #285 Barefoot Grin

“Candygram”

“Piiiiza delivery.”

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 7, 2021 • 9:04:41am

They couldn’t train their kid to not screw with the dog, and had the dog killed instead.

Influencer Nikki Phillippi Drops 10K YouTube Subscribers Amid Dog Controversy (Newsweak via MSN)

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sagehen  May 7, 2021 • 9:06:54am

re: #308 DodgerFan1988

Tucker Carlson will call him a hero tonight on Fox News.

Isn’t that vial he stole 10 doses?

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 9:09:44am

re: #335 sagehen

Isn’t that vial he stole 10 doses?

I’m hearing at least 4 or 5, so at least US$ 200 worth of vaxx. Also, there is the possibility that the lab may turn those who submit samples in…

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 9:10:34am

re: #319 Eclectic Cyborg

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I’m thinking the FBI is about to get involved.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 7, 2021 • 9:11:17am

re: #312 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Yeah, call them heroes and essential workers for a year or so and see what it gets you.

But we didn’t really mean it, we just wanted them to stay at their jobs!

Talk is cheap. Paying heroic essential workers what they’re worth eats into the profits.

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 9:11:20am

re: #337 Belafon

I’m thinking the FBI is about to get involved.

Isn’t there a thing about taking stolen goods across state lines which gives them an excuse?

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KingKenrod  May 7, 2021 • 9:15:00am

Gawd, some dipshit just asked Biden why he still wears a mask.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2021 • 9:17:12am

re: #285 Barefoot Grin

“Candygram”

“Half a gram” (The SNL joke when Louise Lasser was guest host)

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 7, 2021 • 9:18:08am

re: #340 KingKenrod

Gawd, some dipshit just asked Biden why he still wears a mask.

“Because I’m not a moron.”

Although he’s probably too nice to say that.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 7, 2021 • 9:18:59am

re: #340 KingKenrod

Gawd, some dipshit just asked Biden why he still wears a mask.

It’s amazing how clueless people can be, even during a crisis.
When I got vaxxed yesterday, the guy in front of me had to explain to his wife or girlfriend why he has to wait 15 minutes after getting the shot. How do people not know these things?

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 7, 2021 • 9:19:35am

re: #342 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

“Because I’m not a moron.”

Although he’s probably too nice to say that.

I’d expect him to find a classy way to say it.

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 9:21:34am

[Sauce]

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 9:22:22am

re: #344 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I’d expect him to find a classy way to say it.

“Because the American people know that we still have to wear these until we get the virus under control. It’s a no brainer.”

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🌹UOJB!  May 7, 2021 • 9:28:36am

re: #345 Teukka

Dear MAGATS:

Put the KKKraKKK pipe down!

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 9:29:51am

re: #311 Teukka

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 9:30:39am

I figure the way you speak Joe Biden is to take what you want to say, say it like everyone already agrees with you, and then add a little bit of a “Come on, man!” type flourish at the end.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 7, 2021 • 9:32:14am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thank you, Dr. Science.

Could dinosaurs have caught COVID-19? (BBC Science Focus Magazine)

After all, how would a Tyrannosaurus Rex put on a facemask?

I have a question.

We can’t know for sure if a dinosaur could be infected with COVID-19, but studies of coronavirus genomes indicate that they originated after the dinosaurs went extinct. There is evidence that dinosaurs were affected by other diseases, however.

COVID-19? Which millennia of 19 would that be? 👀

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 7, 2021 • 9:32:54am
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Mike Lamb  May 7, 2021 • 9:34:35am

re: #269 Patricia Kayden

I really do miss the Costco samples.

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Minor thing at the Whole Foods I frequent…they had created one spot to wait for an open register, with an employee directing traffic. That’s no longer the case. You can wait in line at any open register. Also, they had been separating the entrance and exit—all one way traffic. Now everything is two ways again.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 7, 2021 • 9:34:35am

re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Falsifying a government document.
Fraud.
Impersonating a medical professional.

Putting lives at risk.

Attempted Manslaughter.

Being general assholes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 7, 2021 • 9:35:18am
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Mike Lamb  May 7, 2021 • 9:36:18am

re: #289 darthstar

Whatever works, whatever works.

I should’ve held out…

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 7, 2021 • 9:37:55am

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 7, 2021 • 9:38:56am

re: #355 Mike Lamb

I should’ve held out…

Some people got food, others got beer. I got some paper and a band-aid like a sucker.

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Mike Lamb  May 7, 2021 • 9:40:47am

re: #357 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Some people got food, others got beer. I got some paper and a band-aid like a sucker.

Indeed. We went to the Costanza School of Negotiating.

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 9:41:28am

In local news…
The interrogation of witnesses on September 11 starts - classified FBI material closes the doors (svt.se) (Swedish)

After several attempts, the interrogation where a person in Sweden is heard for the first time about the 9/11 attacks could begin today. But the special nature of the case quickly closed the courtroom doors.
The hearing, which is conducted on behalf of a court in New York through Södertälje District Court, takes place at Attunda District Court. This according to the court due to the fact that the case received so much attention.
[…]

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Alephnaught  May 7, 2021 • 9:44:54am

Back in the Scottish elections, another gain for the SNP- they’ve taken Ayr from the Conservatives.

This, combined with the SNP gain in East Lothian, is big news, but ironically, it may mean they also lose a seat. The overall regional vote for the list MSPs is weighted towards parties that have popular regional votes, but not less constituency MSPs, so the SNP gaining two constituency MSPs in the same region could mean they lose a list seat or two that they might have otherwise gained when the regional votes are counted up. (If this sounds complex, yes it is.)

EDIT: Here’s someone on BBC explaining this.

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Belafon  May 7, 2021 • 9:55:13am

re: #360 Alephnaught

Back in the Scottish elections, another gain for the SNP- they’ve taken Ayr from the Conservatives.

This, combined with the SNP gain in East Lothian, is big news, but ironically, it may mean they also lose a seat. The overall regional vote for the list MSPs is weighted towards parties that have popular regional votes, but not less constituency MSPs, so the SNP gaining two constituency MSPs in the same region could mean they lose a list seat or two that they might have otherwise gained when the regional votes are counted up. (If this sounds complex, yes it is.)

So you invented the US’s poor representation system, just the long way around.

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Charles Johnson  May 7, 2021 • 9:55:40am
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Dangerman  May 7, 2021 • 10:01:37am

re: #357 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Some people got food, others got beer. I got some paper and a band-aid like a sucker.

i got a rock

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 7, 2021 • 10:04:38am

re: #363 Dangerman

i got a rock

So I take it your last name is Brown and you play 2nd fiddle to your dog.

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Teukka  May 7, 2021 • 10:05:09am

re: #359 Teukka

In local news…
The interrogation of witnesses on September 11 starts - classified FBI material closes the doors (svt.se) (Swedish)

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Addendum:

Holding a hearing in a high-security courtroom, behind closed doors and with gag orders is not something that is easily accomplished in Sweden.

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DesertDenizen  May 7, 2021 • 10:15:38am

re: #294 Dangerman

They also can’t get over losing in 1865 and 1945, so why should we expect them to be different with 2020?

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danarchy  May 7, 2021 • 10:16:33am

re: #251 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Here’s the video from IHME to go with the report:

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Video

..

What I don’t get is they say they are using excess mortality rate as a base to determine total covid deaths, but I haven’t seen any excess mortality count that high. I think the report I saw last month had excess mortality close to 600000 which was definitely more than reported covid deaths but I haven’t seen anything close to 900000 reported for excess mortality.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 7, 2021 • 10:21:58am

re: #246 Punish Domestic Terrorists

My vaccination didn’t hurt at all, but next day, my arm is sore, so it seems to be getting a decent immune response.

Both of us had mild store arms and lethargy the next day. Nothing horrible at all.

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Alephnaught  May 7, 2021 • 12:28:18pm

re: #361 Belafon

So you invented the US’s poor representation system, just the long way around.

Well, perhaps I didn’t explain the situation as clearly, given that the system of elections for the Scottish Government are both deceptively simple and complex. It attempts to balance both the advantages of a first-past-the-post constituency system (Elected members can represent a local area.) with the advantages of a proportional representational regional system. (Parties with a popular vote that would not be represented because they have a significant level of vote within a region, but the votes not concentrated within the specific locality of a constituency, can also be represented in the Scottish Government. For example, the Green Party in Scotland.)

So, what that means in practice is: in the Scottish Government elections, you have two votes:
1) A vote for your local constituency: in my case, it’s the constituency of Glasgow Provan. I would vote for a particular person for a particular party to be the Member of Scottish Parliament (MSP) for that constituency. This vote is first-past-the-post. More than half of the MSPs are elected this way.
2) A regional list vote for a party, this vote is for a party. The votes are calculated in a Proportial Representation basis with relation to which constituency MSPs have been elected, and biases against which party has been most successful on that account versus how popular that party is on the regional list vote. So, if your party didn’t win any constituency MSPs, but the vote was high enough in general in that region, the party will win list MSPs, that is extra MSPs, selected from a list selected by that party. (This list will be on voters’ ballot papers.) MSPs elected on the regional list are equal in power to MSPs elected to a constituency. Indeed, every single leader of every single party in the Scottish Government was initially elected as a regional list MSP. Various “small” parties, such as the Greens, have often been able to enter and be a part of the Scottish Government as a result of the regional list component of the Scottish Government elections.

As you might guess from my description above, there is a question: can you game this system? Well, theoretically, yes, you can potientally game the system. However, given that it’s playing first-past-the-post against proportional representional methods that depend on a quick reaction to a first-past-the-post that might neither be cut and dried nor representative of a trend, the chaotic element of that makes gaming the system a great deal more difficult.

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steve_davis  May 7, 2021 • 2:14:54pm

re: #125 austin_blue

Me neither. I payed it off a year before I retired in 2016.

Oh, and I got an unsolicited letter this week where a guy offered me a cash bid of $830,000 for my house.

On the one hand, it’s a lot of money. On the other hand, where would I go that is this close to what I love about Austin? The Symphony, Opera, and Ballet performance space is literally three blocks away from our house. I pay +/- $1,100/month in property taxes because we don’t have a State Income Tax here.

Rumor has it that the house next door got a $1.4 million cash offer last week. I think it’s accurate. We really don’t put houses in the inner neighborhoods up for sale. They are put up for auction.

Let’s be clear here about for which someone is willing to put up $1.4 million bongo buckaroos:

It’s a 50’ X 150’ lot. The front house is an updated 3/2, maybe 1,400 sq ft, at most, built in 1950 and clad in transite shingles. It’s in really great shape and though it’s pier and beam, it’s just flat as a strap.

An old greenhouse was converted to a studio living space ten years ago, which maybe has 250 sq ft. The old garage at the back of the property (slab) has been plumbed out and electrified, but is still just a nice 400 sq ft studio.

Downtown/near downtown neighbors are getting priced out of their homes. Hell, if I hadn’t been a smarty pants on a couple of investments after the crash in the late 80’s, I certainly couldn’t afford to buy here in my neighborhood today and would be hard pressed to still be able to live here.

By the way, we bought our house in 1997 for $155,000. At that time, our 50’ X150’ lot was valued at $25,000.

Our most recent property tax bill says the dirt is worth $475,000. This is bullshit. Our house value, in the same time frame, increased by $122,000.

The guy who wants to buy my house for $830,000 is a shill for a Real Estate Investment Trust who want to buy our property, scrape the house, and build a fucking McMansion.

No. Just no fucking no.

hell, make him a counteroffer. 1.5 million. for that kind of money, presumably you could buy further out and just drive in once in awhile.


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