Tommy Emmanuel, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley: “Flatt Did It” (Live in the Studio)

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This song “Flatt Did It” featuring Rob Ickes (Dobro) and Trey Hensley (guitar) is on Tommy Emmanuel’s EP Accomplice Series Vol.1 with Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley. It was recoded LIVE at TuneSmith Studios outside of Nashville, TN on March 22, 2021. Brad Benge did the sound and video work. Listen to the EP here: https://tommyemmanuel.lnk.to/AccompliceEPPR

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1
gocart mozart  May 16, 2021 • 7:51:38pm
2
Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2021 • 7:58:29pm

Stolen from FB:

I’m sure you can guess what political party fits this line of thought.

3
BlueSpotinAL  May 16, 2021 • 8:19:37pm

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 16, 2021 • 8:22:42pm

2004: Yosemite National Park, California

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🌹UOJB!  May 16, 2021 • 8:22:56pm

re: #1 gocart mozart

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Posadists—Memories of Pitt in the 70s with the Young Socialist Alliance expelling members who supported this…Now jump 50 years later and there are DSA members uttering the same bullshit…just waiting for them to resurrect Reich’s Orgone box…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 8:27:46pm

Andrea Meza de México es la nueva Miss Universo (Tribuna de la Bahia, Puerto Vallarta)

She becomes the third Mexican woman to win the crown.

La mexicana Andrea Meza fue coronada como Miss Universo en el Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino en Florida.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 8:32:41pm
8
teleskiguy  May 16, 2021 • 8:33:08pm
9
Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 16, 2021 • 8:38:32pm

re: #7 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 8:40:49pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 8:42:44pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 16, 2021 • 8:44:11pm

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Robert Reich
@RBReich

Uber avoided taxes on $6B in revenue by setting up 50 shell companies in the Netherlands.

Don’t believe it for a second when these corporations claim they can’t afford to pay workers a living wage.

But if they pay workers a living wage, their shareholders may get a reduced dividend and/or may not get as rich a return on their investment. The stock price may not demonstrate the explosive growth that so many investors crave.

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mmmirele  May 16, 2021 • 8:46:30pm

I read what Charles had to say down below about the current clusterfuck on the eastern end of the Mediterranean and all I can think is AT LEAST WE DON’T HAVE THE FORMER GUY.

Remember who TFG surrounded himself with? A bunch of some of my coreligionists who want front seats at the Second Coming, and would advise TFG to do things that would send the region up in smoke in the hopes that Jesus would come back.

The current situation is admittedly not good right now. It could be a whole lot worse if TFG were the president. At least under Biden our foreign policy is hopefully more than “Let’s poke the situation with a few sticks and see if we can get Jesus to come back.” And seriously, I’m not joking on this. There are quite a lot of people who are really hoping that this is it and this will set off the Rapture, the Tribulation, and the Second Coming.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 8:53:12pm
LINCOLN — Gov. Pete Ricketts has amended his new media credentialing procedure amid complaints that it may violate the free press guarantees of the U.S. Constitution and serve as a tool to exclude journalists with whom he disagrees.

Taylor Gage, the governor’s communications coordinator, released the new application for credentials last week and encouraged media members to apply via the new process.

“We believe that it is a fair process for all involved,” he said in a letter.

Representatives from Nebraska news outlets, while saying the revised application is an improvement from one released a month ago, continued to express concerns about some of the questions posed by the Governor’s Office.

(more at the Omaha World-Herald)

Nebraska Governor’s Office amends media credentialing form amid press freedom concerns

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gocart mozart  May 16, 2021 • 9:00:33pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 9:06:07pm

Because farmers don’t need infrastructure … oh, wait, the Farm Bureau is actually a corporate lobby group.

Farm Bureau teams with federal delegation opposing Biden infrastructure package (Gering, Nebr. Courier)

The Nebraska federal delegation said they were concerned these changes would adversely impact Nebraskan farmers and small business owners. Smith specifically called out the tax changes to inheritance taxes.

“I would prefer to get rid of the death tax,” Smith said, referring to taxes on inherited wealth.

If passed as is, the AFP would increase tax rates for inherited monies above certain thresholds.

During the Zoom call, the Farm Bureau, Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and federal delegation also announced the formation of the Nebraskans for Tax Truth, an interest group to advocate against the proposed tax reforms.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 9:07:32pm

re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Smith in that article is my representative, Adrian Smith, one of those who voted to overturn the election results.

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retired cynic  May 16, 2021 • 9:08:24pm

re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Farm Bureau is totally corporate, for Agri-Business. Farmers know!

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austin_blue  May 16, 2021 • 9:08:56pm

re: #4 So Cal Greek Hippie

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When I was in California w/ the Air Force, going to Yosemite was like going to church.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 9:12:41pm

re: #15 gocart mozart

That would apparently be the source of Popehat’s latest name.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 9:12:59pm
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retired cynic  May 16, 2021 • 9:15:53pm

My favorite irises are blooming!

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 16, 2021 • 9:17:58pm

John Oliver takes about Israel and Gaza and pulls no punches. It’s no even the main story, (that’s about guns, but I needed a break after the first segment). Worth posting.

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austin_blue  May 16, 2021 • 9:22:38pm

re: #22 retired cynic

My favorite irises are blooming!

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Lovely! Where are you? Ours came up six weeks ago.

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Belafon  May 16, 2021 • 9:26:54pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Andrea Meza de México es la nueva Miss Universo (Tribuna de la Bahia, Puerto Vallarta)

She becomes the third Mexican woman to win the crown.

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She has a degree in software engineering.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 9:30:08pm
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austin_blue  May 16, 2021 • 9:30:36pm

re: #25 Belafon

She has a degree in software engineering.

I was going to say something about hardware engineering, but nope, nope, nope.

Night all!

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Belafon  May 16, 2021 • 9:36:09pm

re: #27 austin_blue

I was going to say something about hardware engineering, but nope, nope, nope.

Night all!

Something along the lines of “I like the hardware and the software running it”?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 9:36:42pm

re: #28 Belafon

Something along the lines of “I like the hardware and the software running it”?

Or the firmware.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 16, 2021 • 9:42:28pm

Pharma Executives Mocked ‘Hillbillies’ Who Got Addicted to Opioids

Executives at one of the country’s biggest drug distributors in the United States regularly made fun of the Americans who became addicted to the opioids they marketed.

This revelation came to light amid Huntington, West Virginia’s suit against three pharmaceutical giants, which is also part of a string of federal cases litigating the industry’s role in the opioid crisis. Among the corporations named in Huntington’s suit is AmerisourceBergen, where senior staff exchanged emails with jokes and rhymes calling people dependent on the drug “hillbillies” and other names.

They’ll sell us the drugs for their lethal injection.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 9:46:03pm
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sagehen  May 16, 2021 • 9:49:30pm

re: #28 Belafon

Something along the lines of “I like the hardware and the software running it”?

My joke would have been something about a fine little laptop…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 9:51:55pm

re: #30 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Pharma Executives Mocked ‘Hillbillies’ Who Got Addicted to Opioids

They’ll sell us the drugs for their lethal injection.

Maybe they need the corporate death penalty.

During the Huntington trial, [Chris] Zimmerman [senior executive responsible for enforcing AmerisourceBergen’s legal obligation to halt opioid deliveries to pharmacies suspected of dispensing suspiciously large amounts of the drugs] said he regretted the emails, but said they were “a reflection of the environment” at AmeriSourceBergen at the time.

I suppose senior executives have no responsibility for the environment of their corporations.

He’s only sorry he got caught.

Give him his $50,000,000 golden parachute and hire someone who is better at keeping his mouth shut.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 10:03:23pm

In the category “conservatism is a cult”:

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🌹UOJB!  May 16, 2021 • 10:25:10pm

Looks like Trump’s Pulpit Pimp Posse has found their next King to anoint in the name of Jay-Zuss!

Trump’s ‘Prayer Warriors’ Are Rallying Around Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Intercessors for America, an “army of prayer warriors” that aggressively promoted former President Donald Trump, is urging conservative Christians to rally around Florida’s Trumpist Gov. Ron DeSantis.

In an email sent Thursday to subscribers of the “prophetic” Elijah List, IFA’s Dave Kubal urges readers to sign a “prayer card” for DeSantis. Kubal says claims that IFA will hand-deliver the cards when they reach their goal of 100,000 prayers. The prayer card reads:

Together as the body of Christ in America, we lift up Governor DeSantis. We stand in agreement with heaven’s purposes concerning our nation. We stand by this governor who has declared his state to be under God’s rule and authority and seeks righteousness and justice.

According to these Xtians it’s OK to bring back the new version of Donald Jim Crow and so what if DeSantis killed thousands of Floridians in cold blood? But don’t worry, Intercessors for America found their scriptural basis for backing DeSantis for President…

rightwingwatch.org

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mmmirele  May 16, 2021 • 10:25:34pm

re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the category “conservatism is a cult”:

I’m hoping that AOC is taking this very seriously and has security. I’d even suggest she might want to wear a bulletproof vest. MTG is that kind of crazy.

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🌹UOJB!  May 16, 2021 • 10:27:44pm

re: #36 mmmirele

I’m hoping that AOC is taking this very seriously and has security. I’d even suggest she might want to wear a bulletproof vest. MTG is that kind of crazy.

Add in Xtians who pray for her death along with 3%ers, Oathkeepers and militia groups who hav threatened to kill her.

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A Cranky One  May 16, 2021 • 10:30:54pm

Okay, fake but amusing (note the fishbowl at the bottom right that appears 3 seconds in)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 10:32:39pm

(video, 3:04, BBC)

Why extroverts have their own extreme language

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 10:46:12pm

re: #35 🌹UOJB!

But we’re the immoral ones. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 11:00:50pm

For classical music lovers.

New season of Chopin piano recitals opens online (Radio Poland)

The concert series is set to open Sunday [today] at noon with a recital by American pianist Kevin Kenner, who is considered one of the world’s most outstanding performers of the works of Fryderyk Chopin.

Due to restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, all concerts have been pre-recorded and will be made available online each Sunday at noon on the YouTube channel of Poland’s National Fryderyk Chopin Institute and on social media.

In the coming weeks, more recitals will be given by prominent pianists such as Łukasz Byrdy, Aleksandra Hortensja-Dąbek, Mateusz Tomica, Viet Trung Nguyen, Maciej Wota and Edward Wolanin.

The Sunday recitals are traditionally held at Żelazowa Wola, where Chopin was born in 1810, as well as at the foot of Chopin’s monument in the Royal Łazienki Park in Warsaw. The first season was held in Żelazowa Wola in 1954.

The season runs until July.

(48:13, released today)

Koncerty Chopinowskie w Łazienkach Królewskich online 2021 - Kevin Kenner - Chopin concerts


EN
The most outstanding pianists perform Chopin concerts on the network. The recitals were recorded in the Ballroom at the Palace on the Isle in the Royal Łazienki Museum. Carefully selected concert programs, the beauty of classicist interiors and their unique acoustics are additional advantages of these exceptional events.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 11:16:54pm

Israel-Gaza: Why is the region blurry on Google Maps? (BBC)

Also Apple.

Short answer: A 1997 US law which required US companies to blur the entire State of Israel to 2m pixels.

Occupied Palestinian territories are not included in the law, but Israel insisted and American companies complied.

Military bases around the world are usually blurred, but Israel is the only nation where the entire country (and territories it occupies) are blurred.

The law was repealed in 2020. Google and Apple have not updated their photographs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2021 • 11:37:20pm

Chopin, Google Maps, extrovert language, yup, I bored the thread into dead.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 16, 2021 • 11:49:38pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 16, 2021 • 11:54:43pm

re: #44 Dread Pirate Ron

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Thanks to Faux News, NoiseMax, and other RW social media, the entire Trumpster GOP is screaming about critical race theory and the Biden efforts to turn us into a Marxist hellhole.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 12:16:10am

re: #44 Dread Pirate Ron

O boy, this article is republishing The Epoch Times, where the article has gems like this:

Critical race theory, which draws heavily upon Marxist and postmodernist theories, denounces American and Western culture as a form of oppression. Critics have said its proponents apply the Marxist tactic of “class struggle” to divide people along lines of race, gender, and ethnicity to label them “oppressors” and the “oppressed.”

and

“What you see happening in the U.S. military at the moment is that if you’re a conservative, then you’re lumped into a group of people who are labeled extremists, if you’re willing to voice your views. And if you’re aligned with the Left, then it’s OK to be an activist online because no one’s gonna hold you accountable,” Lohmeier also said, according to the Washington Examiner.

I imagine it’s more about openly criticising the Defense Secretary on a podcast that earned him the “loss of confidence” from his commanding officer, not “creeping Marxism.”

“I don’t demonize the man [Lloyd Austin], but I want to make it clear to both him and every service member this agenda—it will divide us. It will not unify us,” Lohmeier said, adding that Austin is promoting “diversity, inclusion, and equity,” which he and others have said are “rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 12:18:49am

re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This douchecanoe is fortunate he hasn’t been charged with Contempt for Officials.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 12:22:08am

Locals: A ‘Censorship Resistant’ Content Creation Platform Uniting Crypto Investors and Right-Wing Pundits (Right Wing Watch)

Better headline: Conservatives Invent New Way to Grift from Libertarians

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 12:26:25am

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This was conceived by Dave Rubin, so you know it’s a grift.

Since its inception in 2019, Locals has attracted a range of figures, including former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld, as well as far-right troll Andy Ngo. Consequently, Locals has received attention from Fox News, the Federalist, TheBlaze, the Daily Wire, and The Post Millennial, while Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, invested in Locals and touted it as a platform with “no algorithms, trolls, or Karens,” declaring it the “only platform in which I feel safe expressing my more provocative content in exclusive comics, video lessons, and blog posts.”

The site is a subscription-only service with no moderation, so it shouldn’t take long for Nazis, racists, and child-exploiters to take over the platform.

“I think this will be internet 3.0,” Rubin said announcing its inception.

I think it will be a bonanza for the FBI.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 17, 2021 • 12:26:30am

I’d love to have enough money to buy e-bikes on a whim, just for their looks.

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 12:44:45am

re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron

I’d love to have enough money to buy e-bikes on a whim, just for their looks.

It looks like a 2x8 on wheels. /s

I’d rather have a Workman surrey.

worksmancycles.com

I just need to win the Lotto first.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 17, 2021 • 12:50:28am

Recumbent Quad ebike. Vast funds necessary.

NEW BAFANG ULTRA on a Fat Cat-4 Quad - The Power You Want - UTCustom Catrike Fat Quad Highlight

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 12:51:24am

Bill Mitchell trying to be relevant.

On Friday night’s episode of his “YourVoice America” program, ardent pro-Trump commentator and right-wing conspiracy theorist Bill Mitchell insisted, once again, that racism is not a problem in America while his guest, one time “The Apprentice” contestant Stephanie Myers, declared that Trump supporters are the ones who are really facing discrimination in this country.

After declaring that every Trump supporter should come together for a “National MAGA Hat Day” in which they wear their red “Make America Great Again” hats in public in order to upset liberals, Mitchell complained that MAGA hats are treated as “a symbol of racism” even though actual racism in America is “just not happening.”

(more)

rightwingwatch.org

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 17, 2021 • 12:54:22am

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The nuts think there is no racism issue. The issue is that the minorities are not properly happy and subservient as 2nd class citizens.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 12:54:33am

People pay for this in bottles.

Real Water, Inc., Issues Precautionary Recall of All Sizes of Real Water Brand Drinking Water Due to a Possible Health Risk (FDA)

Real Water, Inc. of Mesa, AZ and Henderson, NV, has issued a voluntary recall of all sizes of its Real Water brand drinking water, because it may be linked to certain instances of non-viral hepatitis which were reported in or about November, 2020 in the Las Vegas, NV area.

Symptoms of all types of hepatitis, including non-viral hepatitis, are similar and can include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine, clay or gray-colored bowel movements, joint pain, yellow eyes, and jaundice. Those experiencing these symptoms should contact their doctor.

All persons who reported illness were put at risk of liver transplants due to liver failure.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 12:58:07am

re: #54 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The nuts think there is no racism issue. The issue is that the minorities are not properly happy and subservient as 2nd class citizens.

Plus “upset liberals by wearing MAGA hats?” All those do is tell me who to avoid.

Speaking of avoidance, my wife has been taking on about a half-dozen anti-vaxxers in YouTube comments.

One claimed that “shunning” will cause death.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 1:02:05am

re: #1 gocart mozart

LOL. So I looked up “Posadist”.

I thought I was just making a silly joke but it turns out I was referencing a whole silly philosophical movement.

Do they believe we should put out paper lanterns in front of our houses at Christmas?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 1:03:45am

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Uber avoided taxes on $6B in revenue by setting up 50 shell companies in the Netherlands.

Don’t believe it for a second when these corporations claim they can’t afford to pay workers a living wage.

They certainly pay their tax lawyers enough…

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sagehen  May 17, 2021 • 1:16:54am

On the question of “critical race theory” and marxism, I give you:

This photo is from 1954; re Brown v Board

And here’s what a sitting VP and presidential candidate had to say about it in 1960:

1960 - Nixon on Civil Rights

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 1:18:18am

Another day, another Christian pervert arrested.

Church director, seminary student set to wed in November arrested for child pornography (Christian Post)

Andrew Shiira, once the director of worship planning at Lake Shore Church, was getting ready to graduate from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary on Saturday. A few months later in November, he was expected to move on to wedded bliss with his fiancée, but his life was upended Thursday when he was arrested on 10 counts of child pornography.

Shiira, whose father is president of the Hawaii Baptist Academy, was being held at the Orleans Parish Prison after his arrest, according to Baptist Press. Officials there told The Christian Post Friday morning that he was no longer in custody.

In a statement released on their website, the NOBTS said they were “made aware of criminal online sexual misconduct allegations against Andrew Shiira” and “were in complete cooperation with law enforcement.”

“We offered any assistance we might provide to complete the investigation. Currently, we have no evidence of any physical harm or sexual harassment pertaining to our campus population by Mr. Shiira,” the seminary said in their statement.

(more)

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Targetpractice  May 17, 2021 • 1:22:58am

Of course there’s no racism in this country. There’s just a whole bunch of white people who want you to know that even though they worship their racist ancestors and think America was “better” back before all that Civil Rights nonsense, there’s not a racist bone in their bodies and you’re the real racist for suggesting that racism is still a problem in this country.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 1:24:10am

re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Another day, another Christian pervert arrested.

Church director, seminary student set to wed in November arrested for child pornography (Christian Post)

(more)

He can repent and God will forgive him and his slate will be wiped clean.

Unlike all those Democrat Planned Parenthood babykillers who will remain sinners as long as they support and facilitate abortions.

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ericblair  May 17, 2021 • 1:25:07am

re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This douchecanoe is fortunate he hasn’t been charged with Contempt for Officials.

The US security clearance process has steadfastly been ignoring what basically anyone would consider anti-government activities for decades. The little people, at least, will get a grilling for associating with foreign officials outside their job, or having bad debt, or having smoked pot a couple of years ago.

However, associating with racists advocating violence to overthrow the legally elected US government is A-OK. I assume it’s because the good ol’ boys wouldn’t be able to get their nice DoD gummint jobs otherwise. Maybe now they’ll start taking this seriously.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 1:29:46am

Meanwhile in Canadian Christian nationalism (video, 1:06, speaking against bill C-6, which would ban so-called conversion therapy nationwide)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 1:56:19am

re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same woman campaigning in 2019:

Cloverdale-Langley City candidate Tamara Jansen has not spoken to the media since photos were circulated of performers in blackface at events held at her family’s greenhouses in recent years.

After photos of people made up in blackface to play Black Peter, or Zwarte Piet, at Sinterklaas celebrations were released online by the comedy persona Ed the Sock, multiple news organizations, including the Langley Advance Times, CBC, and local radio stations, attempted to contact Jansen or her constituency office for comment.

Attempts by the Advance Times to reach Jansen included emailing, texting, and calling her campaign office.

(more)

Conservative candidate mum on ‘Black Peter’ controversy (Aldergrove, British Columbia Star)

The district is in Greater Vancouver. It was created in 2013 and first won by the Liberal Party. It flipped in the 2019 election by less than 1,400 votes for this Conservative bigot, because five parties ran for the seat.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 1:58:56am

re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same woman campaigning in 2019:

Cloverdale-Langley City candidate Tamara Jansen has not spoken to the media since photos were circulated of performers in blackface at events held at her family’s greenhouses in recent years.

Do keep in mind that this party was a private event at her own property.

Social media have really blurred the distinction between the public and private sphere.

I generally ignore what consenting adults do for fun in private on their own time and at their own expense.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 2:02:48am

re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Do keep in mind that this party was a private event at her own property.

Social media has really blurred the distinction between the public and private sphere.

I generally ignore what consenting adults do for fun in private on their own time and at their own expense.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Consenting adults just engaging in a little light racism on their own time.

Social media (cell phone cameras) are catching the racists and homophobes in ways which were not believed before those were invented.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 2:05:41am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I am not justifying or approving in any way, I just would not less of an an issue over her recreational activities and focus more on her public statements.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 2:43:57am

re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am not justifying or approving in any way, I just would not less of an an issue over her recreational activities and focus more on her public statements.

Somehow I’ve never managed to appear at a blackface event.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 2:47:48am

UN Study Links Overwork, Death from Heart Disease, Stroke (Voice of America)

GENEVA - A growing number of people around the world are dying from heart disease and stroke because of overwork, a new World Health Organization-International Labor Organization study says. The study is based on data from more than 2,300 surveys collected in 154 countries from 1970 to 2018.

The study says those working at least 55 hours a week are at higher risk of dying from heart disease and stroke. In 2016, the data show 1 in 10 people around the world, or 450 million, worked excessively long hours, leading to 745,000 heart disease and stroke deaths.

Frank Pega, a technical officer in WHO’s department of environment, climate change and health, says this is a 29% increase since 2000.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 2:51:38am

More VOA:

Dyersburg, Tennessee, USA A few years ago, a gas explosion destroyed Katie Burns’ house. Gone were her wedding photos, although they would have been hard to distinguish from others of her at age 16. She wore a shirt and jeans rather than a wedding dress. There were no flowers.

She was marrying Ben Burns, who at 30 was almost twice her age. She was what is commonly called a child bride.

A few years after the wedding, Katie still doesn’t have physical proof of her marriage to Ben because, she says, “my sister stole my wedding ring.”

To the United Nations and the U.S. State Department, Katie is a victim of human rights abuse. But what she did was perfectly legal and not uncommon in the Midwestern state of Missouri, where the marriage took place, just over the border from Dyersburg in northwest Tennessee, where she lives.

More than 78,000 children in the United States are, or have been, married, according to a new report by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

(more)

‘It is what it is’

Married at 16 to a man nearly as old as her father, a teenager builds a loving relationship that has lasted for eight years.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 3:07:30am

Gretna Green, just across the English border in Scotland made an entire industry out of the age of consent being 16 in Scotland. Couples would elope to marry there.

Reminds me of a joke about a young couple that gets married there and heads off on their honeymoon. They pull over into a layby and the fellow puts his hand on the girl’s knee.

“We’re married now,” she responds, “You can go further than that!”

So he starts the car and drives on to Inverness.

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Dopamine Fish  May 17, 2021 • 4:20:09am

Morning Lizardim from the wild north country. Stopped into the gas station this morning, and, predictable as the sun, not a single mask to be seen on any customer anywhere in the (quite crowded) store. I’m just so done with everything. How go things among the lizardfolk on this beautiful spring day?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 4:40:28am

re: #73 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Morning Lizardim from the wild north country. Stopped into the gas station this morning, and, predictable as the sun, not a single mask to be seen on any customer anywhere in the (quite crowded) store. I’m just so done with everything. How go things among the lizardfolk on this beautiful spring day?

Rainy showery and allergies making my eyes itch and water

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2021 • 4:44:55am

re: #73 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Morning Lizardim from the wild north country. Stopped into the gas station this morning, and, predictable as the sun, not a single mask to be seen on any customer anywhere in the (quite crowded) store. I’m just so done with everything. How go things among the lizardfolk on this beautiful spring day?

Not bad. Rainy weather here in Czech Republic, but fine overall. Got a chance to watch the 60 Minutes segment on unidentified aerial phenomenon last night, and it was actually pretty interesting, though I could’ve lived without seeing Marco Rubio’s face. Quite aside from that, it reminded me of the quote from Arthur C. Clarke….”We are either alone in the universe or we are not alone. Each possibility is terrifying.”

For those who didn’t see it, here it is:

Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs

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ericblair  May 17, 2021 • 5:04:11am

re: #75 Dr Lizardo

There’s also an interesting, long, and IMO pretty balanced article in the latest New Yorker on the same subject. There’s now a more serious official investigation currently underway than in the past. A lot of the history is driven by organizational responses to something that doesn’t fit in a standard box, and both the “pro” and “anti” factions find it easy to get stuck in a trap of confirming their priors.

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jeffreyw  May 17, 2021 • 5:04:17am

Good morning!

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2021 • 5:14:35am

re: #76 ericblair

I’ll have to read that. As I said earlier today to a student, “Unidentified flying object (or UAP) doesn’t automatically mean the Venusians are going to land up at Prague Castle or something. It just means there’s something flying around that we are simply unable to identify or explain.”

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Belafon  May 17, 2021 • 5:34:29am

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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The article doesn’t mention China.

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ericblair  May 17, 2021 • 5:34:55am

re: #78 Dr Lizardo

I’ll have to read that. As I said earlier today to a student, “Unidentified flying object (or UAP) doesn’t automatically mean the Venusians are going to land up at Prague Castle or something. It just means there’s something flying around that we are simply unable to identify or explain.”

Sure, and based on publicly-available information there’s not much we can conclude about it. But science didn’t get us this far by shrugging and wandering off when we detect something we don’t understand, so I would support continued investigation.

Also, most signals intelligence will be classified whatever it contains, because the performance characteristics of advanced sensors are obviously of considerable interest to other countries. So, the fact that detailed sigint isn’t being released neither means they’re covering up the existence of much better evidence, or that there’s nothing there; it’s just that public release is a Big Deal and there will be a lot of internal resistance just because of how it was obtained.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 17, 2021 • 6:00:38am

I don’t think there are aliens. It’s just some super crazy secret development program(s) that hardly anyone knows about. I know. What a buzz kill!

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2021 • 6:04:31am

re: #81 GlutenFreeJesus

I don’t think there are aliens. It’s just some super crazy secret development program(s) that hardly anyone knows about. I know. What a buzz kill!

It could well be some highly experimental - and highly classified/compartmentalized - experimental aircraft. Something that your average flyboy wouldn’t know about…because he doesn’t need to know.

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BlueSpotinAL  May 17, 2021 • 6:12:17am

I was going to criticize my birth state for electing Tom Cotton as a US senator, then thought about how Tuberville makes Cotton seem like Einstein in comparison.

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lawhawk  May 17, 2021 • 6:12:18am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It was a gloriously sunny and warm spring day here in the NYC metro area, and this week looks to be even more of the same with temps rising to perhaps 90 by the end of the week.

NJ has joined the handful of states where at least 70% adult population has gotten at least one shot. NJ has gotten about 43% of all adults fully vaccinated at this point, and we’ll be joining those ranks later this week (though it will be until the start of June before we can say we’re fully protected).

In stark contrast, GOP dominated states all around the Southeast are lagging, and with the predictable consequences.

Those who get vaccinated are not ending up hospitalized or dead.

I’ll continue masking indoors and in crowded situations even after fully vaccinated, but over time we’ll relax that. That’s my personal choice, just as it is businesses choice to continue requiring masking of patrons even if the state drops their requirements (think shirts, shoes, or no service). Except here, there’s a far more rational and grounded public health situation involved and the safety of employees and patrons is involved.

Dropping the masking requirement puts the onus on employees and people to work in an honor system, when the anti-vaxxers and anti-masker GOPers have no honor. They have ignored facts and reality for far too long, and this enables them to push the boundaries even further. I get that the CDC thinks that this might be carrot/stick effort to get more people vaccinated by saying you can go without masks if you’re fully vaccinated, but how do you check that a person has been vaccinated?

Meanwhile, more colleges are requiring students be vaccinated before September classes start, which should get more people vaccinated. Colleges have always required vaccinations before starting classes, given the chances for highly communicable diseases spreading on campus. This is just one more vaccination to require. That’s hardly an infringement on liberty, but one could also say, it’s so that we can be free of worry about covid19 spreading on campus and sickening or killing those around us, or those who come in contact with those around us.

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Belafon  May 17, 2021 • 6:28:40am
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Belafon  May 17, 2021 • 6:29:45am
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🌹UOJB!  May 17, 2021 • 6:30:56am

Nunes continues to push Russian Propaganda.

Why hasn’t he been indicted?

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Belafon  May 17, 2021 • 6:30:58am
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Belafon  May 17, 2021 • 6:37:02am
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Belafon  May 17, 2021 • 6:40:37am
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🌹UOJB!  May 17, 2021 • 6:40:56am

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lawhawk  May 17, 2021 • 6:43:54am

re: #89 Belafon

There’s a reason that Putin got his vaccination in secret and didn’t identify which one he was given. He wasn’t taking chances with Sputnik vaccine, and likely went with either the Pfizer or Moderna versions.

Russia cannot be trusted.

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 6:48:31am

Good morning. Today feels like a good day to submit my taxes.

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🌹UOJB!  May 17, 2021 • 6:51:18am

Washington Post alert—The Corrupted Supreme to rule on Mississippi’s abortion restrictions.

No doubt the radical Catholic majority on the court will use that to kill Roe.

washingtonpost.com

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 6:53:20am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2021 • 6:57:20am

re: #93 darthstar

Good morning. Today feels like a good day to submit my taxes.

I have to go down and sign my return today. Since it’s a joint return, I have to take Beckie’s DC with me so they can make a copy of it. :-( But on the bright side. I getting money (not a lot, but hey.) back from both Fed & State this year.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2021 • 6:59:05am

CBS yougov

electoral-vote.com

If this poll were taken of some third-world country with a shaky track record on governance, most people would say it is not ready for democracy. Now that appears to be true of the U.S. Nearly half the country doesn’t believe in the results of a free election, wants an authoritarian leader, and wants to rig the rules so their side wins in the future. Throw in the role of religion with many voters and you’ve got Turkey rather than Venezuela

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 6:59:45am

re: #94 🌹UOJB!

Washington Post alert—The Corrupted Supreme to rule on Mississippi’s abortion restrictions.

No doubt the radical Catholic majority on the court will use that to kill Roe.

washingtonpost.com

I wouldn’t say “no doubt.” Smart Republicans know that if they ever actually ban abortion to please the rubes whose votes they seek, it’ll bring out the voters who want us to stay in the 21st century, rather than letting backward-Americans drag us back to a dark past. Saying they want to ban abortion and not doing it is in the best interest of the party.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 7:00:54am

re: #97 Dangerman

CBS yougov

electoral-vote.com

It turns out that the 1st amendment is a suicide pact, rather than the 2nd. We’re a nation that breeds mindless cults.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 7:03:10am

re: #75 Dr Lizardo

Not bad. Rainy weather here in Czech Republic, but fine overall. Got a chance to watch the 60 Minutes segment on unidentified aerial phenomenon last night, and it was actually pretty interesting, though I could’ve lived without seeing Marco Rubio’s face. Quite aside from that, it reminded me of the quote from Arthur C. Clarke….”We are either alone in the universe or we are not alone. Each possibility is terrifying.”

For those who didn’t see it, here it is:

We see or detect objects. They appear to be flying. We cannot identify them. That is all I will conclude at this point about these phenomena until we have more conclusive and verifiable data.

I am certain that the US military really pushed the notion of “Little Green Men” back then to distract from all the Nazi hardware we were testing at the time and our culture just picked it up and ran with it.

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 7:04:54am
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No Malarkey!  May 17, 2021 • 7:14:34am

re: #98 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I wouldn’t say “no doubt.” Smart Republicans know that if they ever actually ban abortion to please the rubes whose votes they seek, it’ll bring out the voters who want us to stay in the 21st century, rather than letting backward-Americans drag us back to a dark past. Saying they want to ban abortion and not doing it is in the best interest of the party.

They have decided to take the case. I can only conclude they have 5 votes to significantly roll back Roe. If not, they could’ve just refused to hear it, since the law is blatantly unconstitutional under current law. At least in some circumstances, states will be allowed to restrict pre-viability abortions.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 7:16:45am

re: #102 No Malarkey!

They have decided to take the case. I can only conclude they have 5 votes to significantly roll back Roe. If not, they could’ve just refused to hear it, since the law is blatantly unconstitutional under current law. At least in some circumstances, states will be allowed to restrict pre-viability abortions.

If they do it, It’ll be the death of the party, but unfortunately, they’ll kill some young women along the way.

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nines09  May 17, 2021 • 7:17:18am

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 7:18:15am

Oh deer…

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No Malarkey!  May 17, 2021 • 7:20:05am

re: #103 Punish Domestic Terrorists

If they do it, It’ll be the death of the party, but unfortunately, they’ll kill some young women along the way.

Remember, they intend to rig the system so that they win no matter what the voters want. It may come down to either fascism or civil war, unless there are enough sane Republicans left in positions of power to step back from the brink in 2025.

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wrenchwench  May 17, 2021 • 7:27:39am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 7:31:27am

re: #107 wrenchwench

Terrible form, but you can’t argue with results like that.

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lawhawk  May 17, 2021 • 7:34:19am
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Dangerman  May 17, 2021 • 7:34:32am

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Dangerman  May 17, 2021 • 7:35:55am

re: #96 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I have to go down and sign my return today. Since it’s a joint return, I have to take Beckie’s DC with me so they can make a copy of it. :-( But on the bright side. I getting money (not a lot, but hey.) back from both Fed & State this year.

lets not forget that you getting to file a joint return is huuuge

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Dangerman  May 17, 2021 • 7:36:19am

re: #98 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I wouldn’t say “no doubt.” Smart Republicans know that if they ever actually ban abortion to please the rubes whose votes they seek, it’ll bring out the voters who want us to stay in the 21st century, rather than letting backward-Americans drag us back to a dark past. Saying they want to ban abortion and not doing it is in the best interest of the party.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2021 • 7:38:05am

re: #102 No Malarkey!

They have decided to take the case. I can only conclude they have 5 votes to significantly roll back Roe. If not, they could’ve just refused to hear it, since the law is blatantly unconstitutional under current law. At least in some circumstances, states will be allowed to restrict pre-viability abortions.

As I, not a lawyer, read it, its Casey more then Roe

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 7:40:46am

re: #110 Dangerman

Several years ago, there was a beautiful young woman at the company I work for who has a withered leg thanks to polio. She’s an immigrant from South America, and got it as a young child shortly before it was eradicated.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 7:43:27am

If I were a former crime-President, I’d help defend the people who had the goods on me.

Trump Has Blown Off Rudy Giuliani’s Pleas for Help as Feds Circle (The Daily Beast)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 7:44:18am

re: #112 Dangerman

. Saying they want to ban abortion and not doing it is in the best interest of the party.

Or if they can ban it in their state or locally, it is a big plus, but they want to keep a backdoor open in case their teenage daughter or mistress comes to need one…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 17, 2021 • 7:46:00am

re: #106 No Malarkey!

Remember, they intend to rig the system so that they win no matter what the voters want. It may come down to either fascism or civil war, unless there are enough sane Republicans left in positions of power to step back from the brink in 2025.

This is where the Cheneys are trying to position themselves, not out of any great regard for democracy (LOL) but out of a real certainty that a final, traumatic showdown will mean the comprehensive destruction of the GOP and the American right.
I am really impressed with their defection, though they are obviously acting from pure self-interest since they are fundamentally incapable of anything else. Given the strength and quality of their connections and information, it is very telling that the Cheney clan is willing to sacrifice a share of power to distance itself from Trumpism.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2021 • 7:48:08am

re: #111 Dangerman

lets not forget that you getting to file a joint return is huuuge

Well after 36 years, it’ll be the last one.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2021 • 7:48:26am

re: #114 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Several years ago, there was a beautiful young woman at the company I work for who has a withered leg thanks to polio. She’s an immigrant from South America, and got it as a young child shortly before it was eradicated.

i still dont get these people who wont get the vax (not the true anti- any - vaccine)

the flu wont go away
theres a new vax every year
and a lot of people still die of the flu - maybe 22k in 2019/2020

so with covid, no more masks if youre vaccinated
the anti’s will free ride on this, say they’re vaxed and stop wearing masks etc
hallelujah - everythings ‘back to normal’, pack the bars, restaurants, disney, sports

but based on the attitudes and political sentiment this disease is not going away

so maybe they dont catch it in 2020 - - ha ha libtard see….?
what about next year, or?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 17, 2021 • 7:52:05am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 7:52:29am

re: #117 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Up until he froze up and totally bungled reaction to Covid-19, Trump was a safe gamble for the GOP elite despite all his other shortcomings.

And had it not been for the pandemic, I believe he would have won re-election and the GOP could have gone on to institute laws and other measures to ensure that it would never lose again.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 7:53:37am

re: #119 Dangerman

i still dont get these people who wont get the vax (not the true anti- any - vaccine)

the flu wont go away
theres a new vax every year
and a lot of people still die of the flu - maybe 22k in 2019/2020

so with covid, no more masks if youre vaccinated
the anti’s will free ride on this, say they’re vaxed and stop wearing masks etc
hallelujah - everythings ‘back to normal’, pack the bars, restaurants, disney, sports

but based on the attitudes and political sentiment this disease is not going away

so maybe they dont catch it in 2020 - - ha ha libtard see….?
what about next year, or?

Willfully-stupid people have always done the wrong thing, so having doing the wrong thing make them sick is better than the usual situation.

We just need to get the children of people who choose science over the will of Donald Trump vaccinated. Then the dummies can go ahead and kill or disable themselves with covid.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 17, 2021 • 7:56:19am
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wrenchwench  May 17, 2021 • 7:58:00am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 17, 2021 • 8:00:03am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Up until he froze up and totally bungled reaction to Covid-19, Trump was a safe gamble for the GOP elite despite all his other shortcomings.

And had it not been for the pandemic, I believe he would have won re-election and the GOP could have gone on to institute laws and other measures to ensure that it would never lose again.

Certainly. He did deliver de-regulation and tax cuts, and managed to buttress goober support by going foghorn on the racism and accepting anointment from pulpit pimps, so they had little to complain about.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:01:38am

re: #124 wrenchwench

Social media couldn’t be more perfect for forming mobs and piling on people if it had been designed specifically for that purpose.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:03:11am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Up until he froze up and totally bungled reaction to Covid-19, Trump was a safe gamble for the GOP elite despite all his other shortcomings.

And had it not been for the pandemic, I believe he would have won re-election and the GOP could have gone on to institute laws and other measures to ensure that it would never lose again.

I think that’s true, and the pandemic would have been a gift to him if not for the personality disorder. His personality disorder made him think he should be President, and then took it away from him.

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wrenchwench  May 17, 2021 • 8:03:57am

re: #126 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Social media couldn’t be more perfect for forming mobs and piling on people if it had been designed specifically for that purpose.

I like to poke fun at those people.

////////if I need all these, I should probably delete it

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 8:10:57am

re: #125 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Certainly. He did deliver de-regulation and tax cuts, and managed to buttress goober support by going foghorn on the racism and accepting anointment from pulpit pimps, so they had little to complain about.

and if the economy had been humming along, that would have guaranteed him enough electoral votes to carry the college, or if it had only come down to one disputed state instead of several, his party officials might have been more inclined to help him out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 8:11:45am

re: #126 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Social media couldn’t be more perfect for forming mobs and piling on people if it had been designed specifically for that purpose.

Part of the appeal of the mob is the anonymity it affords us to overcome our hesitance to do things we would never do on our own. And social media help provide that aspect.

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🌹UOJB!  May 17, 2021 • 8:14:55am

Ah he pled guilty

Gaetz associate pleads guilty in sex trafficking case

washingtonpost.com

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No Malarkey!  May 17, 2021 • 8:15:18am

re: #113 Dangerman

As I, not a lawyer, read it, its Casey more then Roe

They specifically are going to address if the state can restrict pre-viability abortions. They are going to decide the states can do so, otherwise, why would they take a case when the law is blatantly unconstitutional under current precedent? True it only takes 4 justices to take a case, but which of the 5 most conservative justices on the Court wouldn’t vote to allow pre-viability restrictions?

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2021 • 8:17:26am

Okay, someone mentioned upthread about how once the FDA fully authorizes the vaccines that military and employers and such can start to require them.

What are the chances that IF this comes to pass a group of conservatives will get a case before SCOTUS demanding some kind of bullshit “religious exemption” to such requirements?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 8:19:03am

re: #127 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I think that’s true, and the pandemic would have been a gift to him if not for the personality disorder. His personality disorder made him think he should be President, and then took it away from him.

The people will rally around a President in times of crisis if he can demonstrate strong and competent leadership. Trump could not begin to show such leadership or at least find & delegate competent people to do it for him, and instead tried to play down the extent of the crisis.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 8:19:49am

re: #131 🌹UOJB!

Ah he pled guilty

Gaetz associate pleads guilty in sex trafficking case

washingtonpost.com

There goes his last friend, I bet even MTG is gonna start keeping her distance from him …

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2021 • 8:21:32am

re: #133 Eclectic Cyborg

Okay, someone mentioned upthread about how once the FDA fully authorizes the vaccines that military and employers and such can start to require them.

What are the chances that IF this comes to pass a group of conservatives will get a case before SCOTUS demanding some kind of bullshit “religious exemption” to such requirements?

I’d say that’s almost a guarantee.

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danarchy  May 17, 2021 • 8:21:45am

re: #133 Eclectic Cyborg

Okay, someone mentioned upthread about how once the FDA fully authorizes the vaccines that military and employers and such can start to require them.

What are the chances that IF this comes to pass a group of conservatives will get a case before SCOTUS demanding some kind of bullshit “religious exemption” to such requirements?

Most states already have religious/personal belief exemptions for other immunizations, guessing those would pretty much apply automatically to covid vaccinations as well.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:22:25am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The people will rally around a President in times of crisis if he can demonstrate strong and competent leadership. Trump could not and instead tried to play down the extent of the crisis.

Yep. It seemed like his strategy was to try to lie his way through this one day at a time, which shows how broken he is, since that would not seem like a viable plan to a healthy adult.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:24:21am

re: #137 danarchy

Most states already have religious/personal belief exemptions for other immunizations, guessing those would pretty much apply automatically to covid vaccinations as well.

We should crank up the demand for flying spaghetti monster religious exemptions, but Republicans still won’t see that exempting people from public health measures based on a delusion they have is bonkers.

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🌹UOJB!  May 17, 2021 • 8:25:03am

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

There goes his last friend, I bet even MTG is gonna start keeping her distance from him …

She’s not that smart. X ray her head and you’ll see that the wheel stopped spinning because the hamster died.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 17, 2021 • 8:25:03am

re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am not justifying or approving in any way, I just would not less of an an issue over her recreational activities and focus more on her public statements.

The recreational activities reveal who they are. Indeed much racism and sexism that harms others can flourish under the cover of these activities. For example, real business that gets conducted at private restricted country clubs that bar certain segments of the population. Any legislation these people propose must be seen through the lens of their real agenda— and you don’t know what it is unless you know how they behave in private among their friends.

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danarchy  May 17, 2021 • 8:30:12am

re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists

We should crank up the demand for flying spaghetti monster religious exemptions, but Republicans still won’t see that exempting people from public health measures based on a delusion they have is bonkers.

OK, I am not religious at all, but knowing there are religious folks on the site would it be possible to argue against public health exemptions for religion without demeaning their beliefs?

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Eventual Carrion  May 17, 2021 • 8:30:48am

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

There goes his last friend, I bet even MTG is gonna start keeping her distance from him …

I don’t know that she is smart enough to do that.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:32:15am

re: #142 danarchy

OK, I am not religious at all, but knowing there are religious folks on the site would it be possible to argue against public health exemptions for religion without demeaning their beliefs?

Talking plainly about how silly religious exemptions are here should be OK. This isn’t Metafilter.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 17, 2021 • 8:33:10am

re: #81 GlutenFreeJesus

I don’t think there are aliens. It’s just some super crazy secret development program(s) that hardly anyone knows about. I know. What a buzz kill!

That is the most likely explanation: either something here or something developed by our adversaries. Only a few members of an administration or agency are aware of the advanced technology that is being hidden at some highly classified government or private industry site.

Of course, some might be an alien Perseverance — automated craft sent centuries ago to explore worlds in other solar systems and send back information to the host civilization(s). Aliens capable of such development would be capable of programming them to respond to local conditions.

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Dopamine Fish  May 17, 2021 • 8:36:28am

re: #142 danarchy

OK, I am not religious at all, but knowing there are religious folks on the site would it be possible to argue against public health exemptions for religion without demeaning their beliefs?

Speaking as someone who is religious and also has been on the Internet for a while, I’m used to people demeaning my beliefs. Sometimes it bothers me a bit, but I also know that at least when I’m not being a proselytizing asshole like I was as a teenager, it’s not personal, which makes it easier to just get past it.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 17, 2021 • 8:36:59am

re: #77 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2021 • 8:37:53am

Hmm. I’m suddenly craving a McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish and I’ll be damned if I know why that is.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:38:28am

Trump supporters are a cult.
Myth of Ballot Watermarks Flushed Out Again (factcheck.org)

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:39:24am

re: #146 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Speaking as someone who is religious and also has been on the Internet for a while, I’m used to people demeaning my beliefs. Sometimes it bothers me a bit, but I also know that at least when I’m not being a proselytizing asshole like I was as a teenager, it’s not personal, which makes it easier to just get past it.

Does making light of the concept of religious exemptions for vaccines demean your beliefs?

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Dopamine Fish  May 17, 2021 • 8:40:21am

re: #150 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Does making light of the concept of religious exemptions for vaccines demean your beliefs?

Me? No. I, personally, think the idea of a religious exemption for vaccines is ridiculous. However, I’m also not a member of a group that believes, as a matter of doctrine, that vaccines are immoral. The anti-vaxxers I know are just fucking nuts, not actually trying to argue in good faith against vaccination on religious grounds.

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danarchy  May 17, 2021 • 8:40:24am

re: #150 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Does making light of the concept of religious exemptions for vaccines demean your beliefs?

Calling them delusional might.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:42:24am

re: #152 danarchy

Calling them delusional might.

You’re the only person who has suggested that the religious people here are delusional.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 17, 2021 • 8:43:52am

re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

LOL. So I looked up “Posadist”.

I thought I was just making a silly joke but it turns out I was referencing a whole silly philosophical movement.

Do they believe we should put out paper lanterns in front of our houses at Christmas?

Ice axes as stocking stuffers.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:48:35am
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Eventual Carrion  May 17, 2021 • 8:49:17am

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

Hmm. I’m suddenly craving a McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish and I’ll be damned if I know why that is.

I’ve still got a half a fish sub from last night. That is going to be lunch.

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danarchy  May 17, 2021 • 8:49:53am

re: #153 Punish Domestic Terrorists

You’re the only person who has suggested that the religious people here are delusional.

Dude, whatever. Your mention of the flying spaghetti monster at the beginning of your statement made it pretty clear the delusional belief you were referring to was a belief in god not just the narrow interpretation that some have that god says you shouldn’t take vaccines.

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🌹UOJB!  May 17, 2021 • 8:51:29am

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

Hmm. I’m suddenly craving a McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish and I’ll be damned if I know why that is.

My aunt Annie Jean made the greatest omelettes with salmon. She used a French omelette pan that made them real large and fluffy!

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2021 • 8:52:01am

re: #158 🌹UOJB!

My aunt Annie Jean made the greatest omelettes with salmon. She used a French omelette pan that made them real large and fluffy!

That sounds seriously good.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 17, 2021 • 8:53:16am

Stream scheduled to go live at around 1:15 PM EDT

May 17 Live Broadcast: Atlas V SBIRS GEO Flight 5

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 17, 2021 • 8:55:34am

re: #160 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:59:06am

People are talking about the possibility of seeing Matt Gaetz crying on TV.
Bombshell Report on Matt Gaetz Is Just the Beginning: ‘This Is the Start of a Long Road’ (Rawstory via NCRM)

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Hecuba's daughter  May 17, 2021 • 8:59:52am

re: #157 danarchy

Dude, whatever. Your mention of the flying spaghetti monster at the beginning of your statement made it pretty clear the delusional belief you were referring to was a belief in god not just the narrow interpretation that some have that god says you shouldn’t take vaccines.

Isn’t the real concern that anti-Covid vaxxers will be lying about their views being shaped by religious beliefs, instead of political beliefs — that it is Tucker Carlson and not a religious leader who is instructing them? The religious leaders who are instructing congregants to avoid the vaccine are doing so because of their allegiance to GOP fanatics and not religion.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 8:59:59am

re: #157 danarchy

Dude, whatever. Your mention of the flying spaghetti monster at the beginning of your statement made it pretty clear the delusional belief you were referring to was a belief in god not just the narrow interpretation that some have that god says you shouldn’t take vaccines.

You lumped LGFs religious people in with creationists and people who avoid vaccines. You did that. This role you’re trying to play is not a good one. I’m done with this.

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gwangung  May 17, 2021 • 9:00:26am

re: #162 Punish Domestic Terrorists

People are talking about the possibility of seeing Matt Gaetz crying on TV.
Bombshell Report on Matt Gaetz Is Just the Beginning: ‘This Is the Start of a Long Road’ (Rawstory via NCRM)

All together now….”AWWWWWWWW…….”

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:00:50am

re: #163 Hecuba’s daughter

Isn’t the real concern that anti-Covid vaxxers will be lying about their views being shaped by religious beliefs, instead of political beliefs — that it is Tucker Carlson and not a religious leader who is instructing them? The religious leaders who are instructing congregants to avoid the vaccine are doing so because of their allegiance to GOP fanatics and not religion.

My favorite religious person covered this, and I think it was posted here. They do it because they worship a dope.

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 9:00:56am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 17, 2021 • 9:02:42am

re: #162 Punish Domestic Terrorists

People are talking about the possibility of seeing Matt Gaetz crying on TV.
Bombshell Report on Matt Gaetz Is Just the Beginning: ‘This Is the Start of a Long Road’ (Rawstory via NCRM)

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 9:03:00am

Our “June gloom” is lifting after a weekend of coastal drizzle (but the flowers loved it)

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wrenchwench  May 17, 2021 • 9:03:12am

Cowboy boots and a bathrobe. Together at last.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 17, 2021 • 9:04:06am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Up until he froze up and totally bungled reaction to Covid-19, Trump was a safe gamble for the GOP elite despite all his other shortcomings.

And had it not been for the pandemic, I believe he would have won re-election and the GOP could have gone on to institute laws and other measures to ensure that it would never lose again.

And I say hogwash. Evidence: the 2018 midterms. DT brought out the dems and dem voters in a big way even without covid. And. there. are. more. of. us.

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 9:05:27am

re: #168 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

“Rawstory via NCRM”

AKA Daily Beast via Raw Story via NCRM. I almost always only open RS to find the link to the original source so I can read that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 9:06:39am

re: #133 Eclectic Cyborg

Okay, someone mentioned upthread about how once the FDA fully authorizes the vaccines that military and employers and such can start to require them.

What are the chances that IF this comes to pass a group of conservatives will get a case before SCOTUS demanding some kind of bullshit “religious exemption” to such requirements?

You know it.

re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists

We should crank up the demand for flying spaghetti monster religious exemptions, but Republicans still won’t see that exempting people from public health measures based on a delusion they have is bonkers.

It worked when the Kansas Board of Education tried to insert (Christian) creationism into classrooms.

The I Amendment says the government may not play favourites with religious beliefs. By its logic, the government must accommodate all religious beliefs, or none.

Besides, Invisible Pink Unicornism says that unvaccinated people are an affront to their religion, and Flying Spaghetti Monsterism says they should have a bowl of marinara sauce dumped down their pants.

re: #142 danarchy

OK, I am not religious at all, but knowing there are religious folks on the site would it be possible to argue against public health exemptions for religion without demeaning their beliefs?

All people deserve respect unless they show themselves unworthy of it.

No belief deserves respect unless it can be supported with evidence.

No respect is required of anyone’s religious views being asserted for public health measures such as vaccines, just as those arguments should not be used for abortion, peeking into my bedroom to see what I’m doing, or anything else.

No religion has the right to impose itself on anyone else; that includes public health (which by its nature includes all of society).

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Dopamine Fish  May 17, 2021 • 9:06:59am

re: #166 Punish Domestic Terrorists

My favorite religious person covered this, and I think it was posted here. They do it because they worship a dope.

I’m being worshiped? Where?!

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🌹UOJB!  May 17, 2021 • 9:09:18am

re: #162 Punish Domestic Terrorists

People are talking about the possibility of seeing Matt Gaetz crying on TV.
Bombshell Report on Matt Gaetz Is Just the Beginning: ‘This Is the Start of a Long Road’ (Rawstory via NCRM)

Oh he’s gonna do the Jimmy Swaggart thing and then say he found Jay-Zuss…

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:10:13am
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 17, 2021 • 9:11:45am

re: #137 danarchy

Most states already have religious/personal belief exemptions for other immunizations, guessing those would pretty much apply automatically to covid vaccinations as well.

The military can require vaccinations now — if you want to stay in the military. CA can’t force anyone to be vaccinated, but the law that keeps the unvaccinated out of schools doesn’t allow “religious exemptions.” Also if you refuse to treat your children medically on religious grounds, they can be taken from you and treated.

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 9:12:26am

re: #176 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It would have been funny if the banner actually read Gertz - would have gotten a lot more media play.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:13:47am

re: #174 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I’m being worshiped? Where?!

Most places, but do not let it go to your head.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:14:36am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 9:15:01am

re: #177 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

The military can require vaccinations now — if you want to stay in the military. CA can’t force anyone to be vaccinated, but the law that keeps the unvaccinated out of schools doesn’t allow “religious exemptions.” Also if you refuse to treat your children medically on religious grounds, they can be taken from you and treated.

In Nebraska you can sign a form for a religious exemption, but not a philosophical (secular) one.

In the hypothetical case of an atheist who is also opposed to vaccines, that person’s children cannot receive an exemption, because religion is privileged in this state.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 17, 2021 • 9:15:39am

re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter

That is the most likely explanation: either something here or something developed by our adversaries. Only a few members of an administration or agency are aware of the advanced technology that is being hidden at some highly classified government or private industry site.

Of course, some might be an alien Perseverance — automated craft sent centuries ago to explore worlds in other solar systems and send back information to the host civilization(s). Aliens capable of such development would be capable of programming them to respond to local conditions.

Unrecognized atmospheric phenomena. Especially to explain “flying saucers” (lenticular clouds). We really don’t know much about visual phenomena up there.

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🌹UOJB!  May 17, 2021 • 9:15:53am

‘Ominous’ Joel Greenberg plea deal includes 60 pages of evidence about the crimes of others: ex-prosecutor

05 17 2021 11 01 19

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:16:16am

re: #178 darthstar

It would have been funny if the banner actually read Gertz - would have gotten a lot more media play.

I feel worse for that guy than I do for Charles, since Chuck’s been deplatformed and Gaetz is constantly in the news.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 9:19:32am

re: #171 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

And I say hogwash. Evidence: the 2018 midterms. DT brought out the dems and dem voters in a big way even without covid. And. there. are. more. of. us.

He still got more votes in 2020 than in 2016. If the economy had been going along well and people were not dying needlessly from a preventable health crisis, I don’t think the Democrats would have turned out in such overwhelming numbers.

He most likely still would have lost the electoral vote as there are more of us, but he probably would have been able to pull of his plan of charging electoral fraud and getting the election decided by the courts or the House.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2021 • 9:24:58am

As this country slowly starts to move away from the worst of the Pandemic, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the last year or so.

And I realize now that in the early stretches of this, I had just as much as anxiety about the virus itself as I did about the guy who was running the country at the time. It still blows my mind how much fucking worse he made things.

Trump Berates Peter Alexander Over Coronavirus Question: ‘You’re A Terrible Reporter’ | NBC News

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 9:25:37am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He still got more votes in 2020 than in 2016. If the economy had been going along well and people were not dying needlessly from a preventable health crisis, I don’t think the Democrats would have turned out in such overwhelming numbers.

He most likely still would have lost the electoral vote as there are more of us, but he probably would have been able to pull of his plan of charging electoral fraud and getting the election decided by the courts or the House.

Even with that record Democratic turn out, it was still too much of an uncomfortably close-run thing

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 9:25:59am

Montana GOP AG Still Wants To Pin ‘Sex Offender’ Label On Man Jailed For Gay Sex (Wonkette)

TL;DR version, at a camp more than twenty years ago, a boy had consensual sex with two other boys.

He was convicted of “crimes against nature” (a religious offence) in Idaho and placed on its sex offender registry for life.

He’s sued in Montana (because they did too) to be removed from the sex offender registry. The federal court ruled that Montana had to remove him from the registry.

But because the Montana AG is a Republican and a Christian, he is appealing to keep the now forty-five year old man on the sex offender registry for life.

The AG is using the power of the state and the taxpayers to enforce his religious views on this man.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:26:30am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2021 • 9:28:25am

re: #188 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You know, I’m pretty sure the Bible has something in it about forgiveness or some such…

/

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 17, 2021 • 9:29:38am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

All people deserve respect unless they show themselves unworthy of it.

Can you support this belief with evidence?

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:30:20am

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Even with that record Democratic turn out, it was still too much of an uncomfortably close-run thing

If the election wasn’t rigged, the record Republican turnout showed how keen the American-right is for living in an autocracy where the leader dictates their reality to them.

It was way too close, and most of them still support the would-be autocrat after the failed coup attempt.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 9:30:46am

re: #180 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:31:03am

re: #191 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Can you support this belief with evidence?

That’s not a belief. It’s a principle. Giving people the benefit of the doubt until they show you what they are.

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Sherlock Hound  May 17, 2021 • 9:31:48am

re: #76 ericblair

The thumbnail image is from Salem Harbor Station, the old power plant in my town. The only military asset we had, was the Coast Guard air station that would be closed ten years after the photo was taken.

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 9:32:16am

re: #183 🌹UOJB!

‘Ominous’ Joel Greenberg plea deal includes 60 pages of evidence about the crimes of others: ex-prosecutor

[Embedded content]

How’s Matt’s fiance handling this news? I noticed he’s spending more time with MTG than he is with his future wife. That seems odd.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2021 • 9:32:18am

re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg

You know, I’m pretty sure the Bible has something in it about forgiveness or some such…

/

It doesn’t say anything about forgetting though.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2021 • 9:33:53am

re: #192 Punish Domestic Terrorists

If the election wasn’t rigged, the record Republican turnout showed how keen the American-right is for living in an autocracy where the leader dictates their reality to them other people.
.

Edited for accuracy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2021 • 9:34:17am

re: #196 darthstar

How’s Matt’s fiance handling this news? I noticed he’s spending more time with MTG than he is with his future wife. That seems odd.

$50 says the two of them will get together at some point.

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 9:34:34am

Back to jail, asshole.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2021 • 9:35:02am

re: #199 Eclectic Cyborg

$50 says the two of them will get together at some point.

at a conjugal visit?

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 17, 2021 • 9:36:05am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He still got more votes in 2020 than in 2016. If the economy had been going along well and people were not dying needlessly from a preventable health crisis, I don’t think the Democrats would have turned out in such overwhelming numbers.

He most likely still would have lost the electoral vote as there are more of us, but he probably would have been able to pull of his plan of charging electoral fraud and getting the election decided by the courts or the House.

Again (sigh) the percentage supporting him increased by less than one percent, the percentage supporting Biden increased by more than three percent — DT’s increase is explained entirely by increased turnout. Also too, look at the midterm numbers.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:36:13am

re: #199 Eclectic Cyborg

$50 says the two of them will get together at some point.

I’ll take that bet. A guy who has a thing for teenagers is not going to go for someone with MTGs body-type. You might win the bet, but drugs will have been involved.

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Mike Lamb  May 17, 2021 • 9:38:53am

re: #203 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I’ll take that bet. A guy who has a thing for teenagers is not going to go for someone with MTGs body-type. You might win the bet, but drugs will have been involved.

You misspelled Date of Birth.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 17, 2021 • 9:39:09am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

at a conjugal visit?

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darthstar  May 17, 2021 • 9:39:32am

re: #203 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I’ll take that bet. A guy who has a thing for teenagers is not going to go for someone with MTGs body-type. You might win the bet, but drugs will have been involved.

She’ll bang anyone who moves, and if they don’t she’ll pinch them.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 17, 2021 • 9:40:20am

re: #194 Punish Domestic Terrorists

That’s not a belief. It’s a principle. Giving people the benefit of the doubt until they show you what they are.

And if someone else’s principle says, say, that people who can earn more should have better treatment? (Yes, I know they are anyway, but we’re talking about principles.)

Unfortunately, I have to go away now, so I have to drop this and go.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 17, 2021 • 9:41:45am

re: #206 darthstar

She’ll bang anyone who moves, and if they don’t she’ll pinch them.

She’ll be the aggressor if it happens, but Matt like skinny little girls, and she is not that.

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cat-tikvah  May 17, 2021 • 9:42:38am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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steve_davis  May 17, 2021 • 9:59:22am

re: #84 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It was a gloriously sunny and warm spring day here in the NYC metro area, and this week looks to be even more of the same with temps rising to perhaps 90 by the end of the week.

NJ has joined the handful of states where at least 70% adult population has gotten at least one shot. NJ has gotten about 43% of all adults fully vaccinated at this point, and we’ll be joining those ranks later this week (though it will be until the start of June before we can say we’re fully protected).

In stark contrast, GOP dominated states all around the Southeast are lagging, and with the predictable consequences.

Those who get vaccinated are not ending up hospitalized or dead.

I’ll continue masking indoors and in crowded situations even after fully vaccinated, but over time we’ll relax that. That’s my personal choice, just as it is businesses choice to continue requiring masking of patrons even if the state drops their requirements (think shirts, shoes, or no service). Except here, there’s a far more rational and grounded public health situation involved and the safety of employees and patrons is involved.

Dropping the masking requirement puts the onus on employees and people to work in an honor system, when the anti-vaxxers and anti-masker GOPers have no honor. They have ignored facts and reality for far too long, and this enables them to push the boundaries even further. I get that the CDC thinks that this might be carrot/stick effort to get more people vaccinated by saying you can go without masks if you’re fully vaccinated, but how do you check that a person has been vaccinated?

Meanwhile, more colleges are requiring students be vaccinated before September classes start, which should get more people vaccinated. Colleges have always required vaccinations before starting classes, given the chances for highly communicable diseases spreading on campus. This is just one more vaccination to require. That’s hardly an infringement on liberty, but one could also say, it’s so that we can be free of worry about covid19 spreading on campus and sickening or killing those around us, or those who come in contact with those around us.

I cannot understand what the issue is. People keep talking about folks being on the “honor system.” I don’t give a rat’s patoot whether anyone else I’m in a store with is vaccinated or not. I am. That’s all that counts. If I had a partner or child who was immune-compromised, then no, we wouldn’t be in a store right now if people were wearing masks or weren’t wearing masks.

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austin_blue  May 17, 2021 • 4:56:56pm

re: #118 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Well after 36 years, it’ll be the last one.

Time heals wounds.


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