You probably don’t want to shop at the same supermarket as this dude.
A guy finds he brought home more than he bargained for from the grocery store.
Thanks to Steve Clark for use of his original song Mirtazapine Dream!
My Contact Email: mccormick.clark@gmail.com
This is a good one, subtle but very effective SFX.
It’s never aliens, but people just assume it’s always aliens.
— Matthew Reichbach (@fbihop) May 19, 2021
These short films are great. Hard to do well. Trust me I tried a couple.
UFO hype is now getting on my last nerve.
Yes, there are unexplained sightings of things in the sky. As there have been throughout human history.
It’s incredibly unlikely that anything will turn out to be alien spacecraft. Like, vanishingly unlikely.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2021
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Atmospheric phenomena are surprisingly poorly understood, and experimental aircraft and/or spacecraft are, well, not understood at all by anyone who doesn’t have top secret clearance.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
We have planes, rockets, missiles and sattelites. Weird lights? Its us. Moves funny? Its us.
re: #6 Rightwingconspirator
We have planes, rockets, missiles and sattelites. Weird lights? Its us. Moves funny? Its us.
But it’s a lot more interesting to imagine that it’s Them, not Us….
When I was a lot younger I really wanted to believe UFOs were extraterrestrial spacecraft, but then I began to really understand how enormous the universe is, and the distances and timespans involved in interstellar travel, and it’s just not possible without some kind of technology that seems impossible with what we know now.
So I’m sticking with, it’s unexplained shit and we may or may not ever know what the fuck it is. But it’s not aliens.
A republic, if you can keep it. https://t.co/FJGoE19yLI
— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) May 18, 2021
He is openly calling for a cover-up.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 19, 2021
re: #12 BlueSpotinAL
We’re just testing for Covid.
Capricorn One was REAL!
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) May 19, 2021
re: #14 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
God save the Queen.
6:56p - Confirmed tornado near Swiss Alp, south of La Grange in Fayette County. Other tornado warnings ongoing between Muldoon and La Grange as well as Hallettsville. pic.twitter.com/ao9KegCAow
— NWS Austin/San Antonio (@NWSSanAntonio) May 18, 2021
We’re having a loud night around here.
Hours after launching his campaign for governor, a Nevada Republican who had not yet received the coronavirus vaccine said he had just tested positive for the virus.John Lee, the mayor of North Las Vegas, launched his campaign to unseat Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak on Monday. His entrance into the 2022 race came weeks after he had switched parties, accusing Democrats of drifting toward socialism and embracing “cancel culture.”
Lee, a 65-year-old cancer survivor and former state lawmaker who was elected mayor in 2013 and reelected in 2017, announced his positive test in a Facebook post on Monday night — without explaining why he had not been vaccinated.
re: #16 jaunte
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We’re having a loud night around here.
That system is just to the south of us.
re: #19 Belafon
We’re up there between Round Top and Industry.
re: #17 Belafon
That guy’s a fucking clown and he hasn’t got a chance here
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2021
re: #11 jaunte
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NEW: The @NewYorkStateAG investigation into the Trump Organization is “no longer purely civil.”
“We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA,” a spokesman told CNN. pic.twitter.com/Ctck7VrYc0— Sonia Moghe (@soniamoghe) May 19, 2021
re: #23 HRH Stanley Sea
And the specter of RICO charges appears.
re: #25 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
A few.
— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) May 19, 2021
re: #4 Charles Johnson
I am going to make a raft out of twine to see if I can sail from Australasia to South America—or the other way, I can’t remember.
This is good. Keep going. https://t.co/hSVpHsyCxB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2021
🚨 🚨 The twice-impeached head of the republican party is now at the center of a sprawling criminal probe into the trump organization. https://t.co/1q7sLaXFJg
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) May 19, 2021
The twice-impeached head of the republican party.
The twice-impeached head of the republican party.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
When I was a lot younger I really wanted to believe UFOs were extraterrestrial spacecraft, but then I began to really understand how enormous the universe is, and the distances and timespans involved in interstellar travel, and it’s just not possible without some kind of technology that seems impossible with what we know now.
So I’m sticking with, it’s unexplained shit and we may or may not ever know what the fuck it is. But it’s not aliens.
I used to want to believe it too. However, what really switched me away from believing was a simple thought I heard somewhere. Aliens utilizing technology beyond our wildest dreams to conquer interstellar space travel at greater than the speed of light came to this planet and need the aid of aircraft lights to navigate the night skies. Because almost every sighting of UFO’s is reliant upon unexplained flashing lights in the sky. Like, seriously?
re: #32 A Three Hour Tour
Presumably enough because Popehat’s already pissed on that tweet.
Yeah, he seems (though without a lot of explication) to assume the NYS announcement is just grandstanding for clicks - which it may be, but who knows…?
Don Jr.(unfortunate name, sorry), Ivanka, Eric…y’all are fucked.
Barron and the other girl get whatever is left. pic.twitter.com/aha7kzrUtg— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 19, 2021
re: #25 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I wonder how many times @Popehat has been pinged on that tweet.
This was my response to that thread:
Sure he’s RICO, but is he Suave? pic.twitter.com/B79xyDRMpV
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 18, 2021
re: #36 prairiefire
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With the news tonight that the State of New York has opened a criminal investigation into Trump, good time to re-up that WE KNOW IS GUILTY OF COMMITTING CRIMES
The NY Times has had the receipts on his tax fraud scheme for over two years.https://t.co/JUpI6pn5JF— Nunca Trumpismo (@NeverTrumpTexan) May 19, 2021
Whenever one of Daddy Trump’s properties needed a repair, he would pay All County—the company created and run by his kids—to fix it.
Only they would falsify the invoices and charge their Dad double and keep the extra money without paying estate taxes.— Nunca Trumpismo (@NeverTrumpTexan) May 19, 2021
re: #24 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And the specter of RICO charges appears.
Russian Influenced Conservative Organizations.
re: #36 prairiefire
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Feds respond to accused Capitol Insurrectionist Chris Worrell’s request to transfer case to Florida, but arguing he has NOT been “vilified” by media in DC.
And then adds — with a strong punch — that prospective jurors have no idea who Chris Worrell is. pic.twitter.com/r3pBX09Sb5— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 19, 2021
!! And - this is perhaps most interesting. Feds say Capitol riot defendant Chris Worrell should NOT have his case transferred to Florida, because Worrell’s concern about anti-Trump jurors isn’t justifiable
They say DC jurors were trusted with…um… Nixon staffers in Watergate pic.twitter.com/KHpUpTDwnu— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 19, 2021
re: #28 Barefoot Grin
I am going to make a raft out of twine to see if I can sail from Australasia to South America—or the other way, I can’t remember.
re: #15 Belafon
God save the Queen.
“The Second Trip to Mars” by Ward Moore.
Until its report was known, the Murphy-Gobiniev-Langois-
Alemeda-Mutsuhara expedition to Mars in 2002 was thought
to be the first successful one. Truth is, the first flight was
achieved, quite accidentally, by a Humphrey Beachy-Cumber-
land in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.
*snip*
The WAC Field Marshal made a beautiful landing not ten
miles from where Humphrey’s projectile had plowed up the
sands. It was now a Planetary Park, kept primitively intact.“Desert,” crowed Doctor Alemeda. “Sterile desert.”
Langois shook his head obstinately, scanning the sands
through field glasses. A dust cloud appeared, resolving into a
crowd of people. “What did I tell you? Men! And, I hope,
women also.”“Those bits of color seem to be flags,” said Matsuhara.
“Impossible,” said Murphy. “Some evolutionary quirk.”
“Union Jacks,” identified Alemeda.
“A plot!” cried Gobiniev. “A trick to discredit the U.S.S.R.!”
An engine on wide iron wheels puffed black smoke ahead
of a multi-doored, enclosed car. It stopped short of the WAC
Field Marshal; the crowd on foot pressed close behind. The
carriage doors opened and Martians came forward, dressed in
tubular trousers and double-breasted coats. One of them, high
hat in left hand, extended his right.“From earth, what?” asked the Martian. “Good show.”
“Oh, no,” said Murphy. “Oh, no.”
“How is it you don’t speak Russian?” growled Gobiniev.
“Are you Russians?” inquired the Martian coldly. “Crimea
and Turkestan? The bear that walks like a man?”
“Only one,” explained Alemeda; “I am myself of Uru-
guay.”
re: #36 prairiefire
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re: #31 rhuarc
I used to want to believe it too. However, what really switched me away from believing was a simple thought I heard somewhere. Aliens utilizing technology beyond our wildest dreams to conquer interstellar space travel at greater than the speed of light came to this planet and need the aid of aircraft lights to navigate the night skies. Because almost every sighting of UFO’s is reliant upon unexplained flashing lights in the sky. Like, seriously?
what made me want to not believe it was… aliens utilizing technology beyond our wildest dreams to conquer interstellar space travel at greater than the speed of light coming to this planet would do to humans what humans did to dodos and passenger pigeons and western black rhinos. What we almost did to whales and condors and timberwolves and…
re: #37 prairiefire
Yes, that is a Cassio wristwatch.
Looks more like an Apple Watch to me… either way, congratulations!
re: #36 prairiefire
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re: #42 jaunte
pretty sure the statue of limitations has run on that particular fraud.
re: #50 Targetpractice
“Monsters from the id.”
When I saw this for the first time on our are color TV set it SCARED me!
re: #36 prairiefire
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Pittsburgh is poised to elect it’s first African-American mayor
re: #57 🌹UOJB!
Pittsburgh is poised to elect it’s first African-American mayor
Been seeing tweets that Pittsburg voters also on verge of passing bunch of progressive referendums
Banning “no-knock” warrants
Banning solitary confinement
re: #36 prairiefire
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They’re baaaccckkk -
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Same Dude with a little more perspective:
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re: #60 ckkatz
When I lived in Japan, one of the summers the little beasts were so thick it was deafening walking through the park, and the sidewalk was littered with them, hard to miss.
You got me to google cicadas in Japan. Fascinating! Looks like they are differently colored.
The 17-year cicadas here are smaller and thinner than the local green periodic cicadas that come out late summer here. Plus they are black with red veins, eyes and accents.
They apparently come out when the ground reaches 64DegF. Some local folks have noted that the cicadas have emerged in some parts of their yard, but not yet in other parts.
And they have not yet commenced ‘singing’ locally. Since the noise can reportedly reach 100 decibels and extend from pre-dawn to after sunset, I am not looking forward to that phase.
And with respect to some of the earlier postings… I am not planning on consuming any cicadas.
re: #36 prairiefire
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Oh god. I’ve been ratioed.
— Hold My PomPoms Bitches (@Scattered211) May 18, 2021
re: #32 A Three Hour Tour
Presumably enough because Popehat’s already pissed on that tweet.
This is roughly as significant as me saying “my intentions towards Jennifer Lawrence are no longer purely platonic”
— EveryKneeShallBowHat (@Popehat) May 19, 2021
If I were a plastic surgeon I would 100 % put a squeaky toy in every breast implant. 🤣😂
— Oma (@Used_to_be_64) May 18, 2021
re: #9 Charles Johnson
When I was a lot younger I really wanted to believe UFOs were extraterrestrial spacecraft, but then I began to really understand how enormous the universe is, and the distances and timespans involved in interstellar travel, and it’s just not possible without some kind of technology that seems impossible with what we know now.
So I’m sticking with, it’s unexplained shit and we may or may not ever know what the fuck it is. But it’s not aliens.
This misses one thing, the universe is huge but it it is also very old. We aren’t likely to be visited by little green men, but where are all of the robotic probes. Assuming a technology not too much more advanced than ours sending probes out at about 20% the speed of light(potentially doable with light sails or fusion if we ever figure it out) I have seen an analysis that says in millions of years that civilization could have probes in just about every solar system in the galaxy, I think this may have required self replicating probes too, while not within our current technological scope it isn’t impossibly out of reach either.
The universe is about 13 billion years old, so where are all the robotic probes?
BREAKING: Facebook calls emergency meeting to decide whether Trump should retain his account from prison; sources indicate executives leaning toward “yes”
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) May 19, 2021
re: #69 danarchy
Here and gone before we had the technology to detect them? Or still on their way now that we are sending out radio waves and therefore potentially interesting.
re: #69 danarchy
This misses one thing, the universe is huge but it it is also very old. We aren’t likely to be visited by little green men, but where are all of the robotic probes. Assuming a technology not too much more advanced than ours sending probes out at about 20% the speed of light(potentially doable with light sails or fusion if we ever figure it out) I have seen an analysis that says in millions of years that civilization could have probes in just about every solar system in the galaxy, I think this may have required self replicating probes too, while not within our current technological scope it isn’t impossibly out of reach either.
The universe is about 13 billion years old, so where are all the robotic probes?
The Fermi paradox, named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations and various high estimates for their probability (such as some optimistic estimates for the Drake equation).
Goes into a long list of hypotheses and explanations.
re: #2 wrenchwench
It’s never aliens, but people just assume it’s always aliens.
Dates back to all that military research of the 40’s and 50’s: better to let the public believe it’s aliens rather than captured Nazi hardware.
re: #30 jaunte
The twice-impeached head of the republican party.
The twice-impeached head of the republican party.
The twice-acquitted-by-the-GOP-majority-Senate-ex-President.
re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jack Woolams [US Test Pilot during World War 2] was known as a bit of a practical joker. While flying the still unknown experimental P-59 jet airplane, he would join formation with unsuspecting pilots flying propeller-driven fighters and to their surprise, wave at them while wearing a gorilla mask, bowler hat, and cigar, and then fly away leaving them behind.
Note: the P-59 was being secretly tested in the 1941-1943 period
The Bell P-59 Airacomet was the first American jet-powered airplane in the United States. It was a top secret project that wasn’t announced to the general public until 1943 and only after it had completed one-hundred flights. However, even before the Airacomet made it onto the drawing board, Europe already had its own jet programs well underway. Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262, Arado Ar 234, and England’s Gloster Meteor would all become operational during the war. In the Pacific, the Japanese also flew the Nakajima Kikka at least once, powered by an Ishikawajima Ne-20, Japan’s first turbojet engine.
re: #75 ckkatz
My ex-GF’s granddad was an aircraft designer for Heinkel who emigrated to the ‘States after WW2…
Did he end up in Los Angeles or Seattle working for the Aviation Industry?
Certainly the Germans did some amazing things with 1930’s technology, including wire-guided missiles.
en.wikipedia.org
Feeling snarky, I am reminded of this song:
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re: #50 Targetpractice
“Monsters from the id.”
Martin Phillips has watched “Forbidden Planet” too.
(Despite the title, it doesn’t seem to be muted now.)
Oops… Forgot the obligatory joke:
Never marry a tennis player!
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Love means nothing to them.
re: #77 ckkatz
Did he end up in Los Angeles or Seattle working for the Aviation Industry?
Certainly the Germans did some amazing things with 1930’s technology, including wire-guided missiles.
He wound up in Pennsylvania as far as I know.
In any case, had the Germans gotten their V-1 and V-2 program up and running six months earlier, they could have wrecked the D-Day landings in their concentration areas.
re: #71 DesertDenizen
Here and gone before we had the technology to detect them? Or still on their way now that we are sending out radio waves and therefore potentially interesting.
Who knows at this point. I find the whole framing of “wanting to believe” and “not wanting to believe” extremely problematic, because the whole point of scientific inquiry is that your prior beliefs shouldn’t matter. And if the US military, who knows something about atmospheric physics and aircraft, has a significant number of recorded observations for which it has no explanation, it’s probably worth tossing 0.01% or so of the defense budget at it for further study considering the possible implications.
As for what technology is possible and not possible, just look at the flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and the moon landing in 1969, only 63 years apart. To the scientists in 1903, the Apollo project would not have been only an impressive feat of engineering: it would have been impossible according to science at the time. The moon landing needed electronics, which needed semiconductors, which require the existence of an energy gap that only quantum physics could explain.
(For pedants, Planck had theorized about a quantum solution to the black-body problem in 1900, but he stated that this was just a mathematical convenience and wasn’t actually real. Yep, it was.)
re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Let justice roll on like a river…
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From the South Bend Tribune:
Fungus full of psychedelic drugs could cause Indiana Brood X cicadas’ butts to fall off
“…A fungus laced with the same chemical as psychedelic mushrooms will invade their bodies and eat away their insides until their abdomens crack, fall off and get replaced with a ball of white spores. Because they’re either bombed on psilocybin or under the control of the fungus in some other way, the cicadas won’t even notice. With missing butts and full hearts, they’ll forge ahead with their only reason for existing: finding a mate and reproducing…”
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
From the South Bend Tribune:
Fungus full of psychedelic drugs could cause Indiana Brood X cicadas’ butts to fall off
Reefer Madness II: I Took Shrooms and My Ass Fell Off
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Psychedelic sex can get weird.
re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s never aliens, but people just assume it’s always aliens.
Dates back to all that military research of the 40’s and 50’s: better to let the public believe it’s aliens rather than captured Nazi hardware.
Or simply our own experimental hardware. It’s not that the USA/UK/etc. were massively behind the Nazis in everything technology. It’s just that they fielded some stuff in desperation at the end of the war that was still firmly in prototype/R&D land in our own.
re: #69 danarchy
The universe is about 13 billion years old, so where are all the robotic probes?
Don’t forget that for the lifetime of the first generation of stars there were no metals to make probes out of (or anything heavier than helium to make living things that could make probes).
It’s possible that before the generation of stars that include our sun there was no life.
re: #91 John Hughes
main thing that is that the Universe is just fuckin’ big and takes a long time to travel any distance across at sub-light speeds, which is what we are limited to for now until we gain a deeper understanding of the nature of matter, energy and time.
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But Denarchy was right in pointing out that the universe is not just big, it’s also old.
If life arose somewhere around the time our sun was born, around 4.6 billion years ago, then even at low fractions of the speed of light it could go quite far. The radius of our galaxy is only 53,000 light years after all.
re: #93 John Hughes
But Denarchy was right in pointing out that the universe is not just big, it’s also old.
If life arose somewhere around the time our sun was born, around 4.6 billion years ago, then even at low fractions of the speed of light it could go quite far. The radius of our galaxy is only 53,000 light years after all.
yes, it’s big, old and generally empty. Finding other intelligent life is also a matter of knowing which direction to head…
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yes, it’s big, old and generally empty. Finding other intelligent life is also a matter of knowing which direction to head…
So maybe we’re the Galactic version of *Florida*….
😜
re: #95 Jay C
So maybe we’re the Galactic version of *Florida*….
😜
They have been receiving our TV signals for the past 90 years, so that should be enough to turn them away…
hi
Wired has a new article up on how Covid-19 has been redefined from an “aerosol” disease to an “airborne” disease.
It is a story of how medicine and epidemiology have been defining the virus in a manner which defies the laws of physics, and those who got WHO and CDC to change the definition of its transmission (without admitting they’ve been wrong for decades about disease transmission, because bureaucracy).
“Aerosol” versus “airborne” matters in public health, because those words have a specific meaning on how disease is transmitted. In this case, the idea is that SARS-CoV-2 is an aerosol (meaning it is transmitted in droplets less than five microns in diameter) and therefore cannot travel more than six feet. (Hence the rules on sanitising surfaces and social distancing.)
Engineers, physicists, historians, industrial scientists, and others worked to find out where this physics-violating definition came from.
Faced with overwhelming evidence, WHO and CDC have now updated their pages to show that the virus is airborne and not an aerosol, and recently Dr. Anthony Fauci also gave a talk noting the definition has changed.
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
In short, you will not be protected by social distancing six feet, sanitising surfaces, or hand washing in an enclosed space. The only thing we currently have to protect ourselves is vaccines.
This has knock-off effects, because this also applies to the flu. This misdefinition has resulted in tens of millions of deaths by flu and tuberculosis over the years over the misunderstanding of how long a flu virus and TB can remain in the air.
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I haven’t read the article, but there must be a minimum radius of distancing because we did slow it down by masks and staying apart, and I was a guinea pig, as I still had to go to work, wear a mask nearly everywhere, and be within about 10 feet of people, and there were very few worker-to-worker transmissions at my company.
re: #100 Belafon
I haven’t read the article, but there must be a minimum radius of distancing because we did slow it down by masks and staying apart, and I was a guinea pig, as I still had to go to work, wear a mask nearly everywhere, and be within about 10 feet of people, and there were very few worker-to-worker transmissions at my company.
Certainly masking helped more than distancing. The wired article is very long but very much worth reading, as it shows how scientists do change their mind, and what it takes (a LOT of work, not just knuckleheads saying nuh-uh). So the whole 5 micron thing is about how only small particles (droplets) can make it deep into the lungs, which is a requirement for tuberculosis infection. It somehow got conflated with all airborne diseases. Larger particles can easily hang in the air, and covid19 certainly does not need to even get in the lungs to infect you.
re: #100 Belafon
I haven’t read the article, but there must be a minimum radius of distancing because we did slow it down by masks and staying apart, and I was a guinea pig, as I still had to go to work, wear a mask nearly everywhere, and be within about 10 feet of people, and there were very few worker-to-worker transmissions at my company.
Much of it depends on how well ventilation in an enclosed space works.
For an airborne disease like measles, ventilation will rapidly remove that virus from the air.
The same applies to any other virus or bacteria.
Interestingly, they traced where the error in medicine and public health crept in to a mechanical engineer’s study of particulates in the air in the 1930’s. His study showed that particles could float in the air up to 100 microns.
The CDC director at the time (who died in the 1980’s) opposed that view because he viewed it as looking back at the old view of disease being caused by “miasma” (bad air). That CDC director spent most of his career attacking the engineer’s papers on aerosols, and somewhere along the line, that became the position of medicine and public health.
It is a fascinating article on how a disparate group of people in several countries collaborated to overturn a medical principle which has stood for over a century.
re: #95 Jay C
So maybe we’re the Galactic version of *Florida*….
😜
We are in the bugs bunny version of Florida - the rest of the galaxy has cut us loose.
Looks like a round of just-asking-questions and concern trolling from the Very Serious Media hasn’t had the desired effect:
1. With Larry Krasner winning by a nearly 2 to 1 margin, I wonder how many of these reporters and editors will do some soul-searching tomorrow about the entirely fantastical backlash they sough to create without any evidence at all? pic.twitter.com/QOpIdFrLl3
— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) May 19, 2021
“Something just kind of broke.” Some American workers aren’t eager to return to their old jobs that had low wages and few, if any, benefits. https://t.co/HpBzqYz8Po ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) May 19, 2021
no shit…
re: #104 ericblair
Looks like a round of just-asking-questions and concern trolling from the Very Serious Media hasn’t had the desired effect:
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And now the response will go one of two ways: They’ll either just step away from the issue and act as if his reelection was never in doubt or they’ll argue he was never in danger because “incumbent advantage.”
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
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no shit…
What changed? Simple: Remove the chains and people realize they don’t like being slaves.
A writer at The Guardian stands forward to be dragged.
I’m told that my argument here is so persuasive that SHREK has been removed from the National Film Registry and re-classified as “culturally insignificant.” I’m sorry this film could not survive my dissent. https://t.co/DdXU4yIM6Y
— Scott Tobias (@scott_tobias) May 18, 2021
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Workers like Mullins are one reason U.S. hiring slowed in April. Employers and business groups argue that the $300-per-week federal unemployment supplement gives recipients less incentive to look for work. Several states have begun requiring those receiving the benefits to show they are actively searching for work, and a few will stop providing the supplement.
It’s not less incentive to look for work, it’s less incentive to settle for work. The ol’ “take it or leave it” attitude isn’t bringing warm bodies in the doors anymore and that’s scaring companies who are used to people being so desperate for work that they’ll take whatever soul-crushing, abusive job they can find.
re: #36 prairiefire
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re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is the worst reply-tweet slander I’ve gotten all morning.
— Scott Tobias (@scott_tobias) May 18, 2021
This fucking guy. pic.twitter.com/KKRZwnGsHq
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) May 19, 2021
re: #111 Dave In Austin
There’s some good comments in there.
The power of the pen, my friend.
— Scott Tobias (@scott_tobias) May 18, 2021
The AZ fraudit has suffered another setback:
Arizona GOP election auditors suffer embarrassing setback after GOP official blows up their latest false claim https://t.co/Spw61kzzMl
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 19, 2021
“Auditors hired by the Arizona state Senate backtracked Tuesday from claims that a key database had been deleted from Maricopa County’s elections servers — admitting in a hearing held by the Senate Republicans overseeing the audit that the data is intact and they’d been looking the wrong way,” reported Eric Bradner. “The blunder was the latest embarrassment for state Senate President Karen Fann and the Republicans who sought the audit, which is being overseen by a company called Cyber Ninjas.”
*snip*
“Ben Cotton, the founder of CyFIR, one of the companies involved in the Arizona Senate’s audit, said in the closed hearing held by Senate Republicans on Tuesday that the county’s explanation was right,” noted the report. “‘All of this, however, may be a moot point because subsequently I’ve been able to recover all of the deleted files and I have access to that data,’ Cotton said. Cotton did not directly acknowledge that auditors had erred and that characterizing the files as having been deleted was false. But his explanation made clear that the database had never been deleted.”
“THE DATA WAS DELETED! DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE!!!”
“It’s right there, numbnuts.”
“Well, that just proves how awesome my skills are that I recovered the data that you tried to delete! So see, we were right about the data being deleted!”
Correcting previous tweet: Eric Trump was on Hannity *just before* news broke that the Trump Organization is under criminal investigation (https://t.co/ajKvdKFa68).
Eric claimed crying people approach him on the street, hug him, and tell him how much they miss his dad. pic.twitter.com/8eKh3dsJo0— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2021
all these crying people…
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
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all these crying people…
And they all address him as “Sir.”
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
Do you have a link to the tweet?
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
Because Eric Trump walks around on the street all the time.
Conservatives can’t help lying even about little crap.
re: #117 Belafon
Do you have a link to the tweet?
TX is prohibiting mask mandates by gov’t entities.
Starting May 21, local govts attempting to impose mask mandates can be fined up to $1K.
We’re also prohibiting public schools from mandating masks after June 4.
Texans, not gov’t, should decide their best health practices. pic.twitter.com/M7iN4sLBJV— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) May 18, 2021
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s as insane as his father is.
re: #117 Belafon
Do you have a link to the tweet?
TX is prohibiting mask mandates by gov’t entities.
Starting May 21, local govts attempting to impose mask mandates can be fined up to $1K.
We’re also prohibiting public schools from mandating masks after June 4.
Texans, not gov’t, should decide their best health practices. pic.twitter.com/M7iN4sLBJV— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) May 18, 2021
But that’s not all. They are also politicizing the certification of elections, so that if voter suppression doesn’t work, they will just cancel urban votes as “fraudulent” and certify Republicans as the winners. Vote suppression, vote cancellation, then violent insurrection.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 19, 2021
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Because Eric Trump walks around on the street all the time.
Conservatives can’t help lying even about little crap.
I was in NYC in the 1990s for a training seminar for work. I was walking down the street with one of the people in the class. He started to get all excited about something. I asked what’s up. He said don’t you know who just walked past. I said no. He shouted with glee Donald Trump. I asked who the fuck is Donald Trump.
Oh, the innocence of youth.
Byron apparently doesn’t know fuckall about what the 425 defendants in Jan 6 have said about why they attacked the Capitol. https://t.co/fl3Aa9V6NS
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 19, 2021
Ah to wake up in the morning and seeing your Xtian relatives throwing fits because Pittsburgh is on the verge of electing a…GASP!…black mayor…
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
Slid in by 2:11. [/victory dance]
A friend was remarking just this morning that Tish James’s office is more often announcing that they’re going after some bad guy than that they’ve just caught some bad guy.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 19, 2021
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This means that localities can restrict what people wear - clothing limitations in every other aspect - but masking during a fucking pandemic.
These people are bugnuts fucking insane.
You can’t just investigate the day without understanding the runup to the insurrection. Who was involved in planning. Communications. All of it.
No investigation would just fixate on the event of the day; you would miss key info otherwise.
The only bad faith here is by GOPers.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) May 19, 2021
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
all these crying people…
I hope they get Trump indicted in time to try and convict him before he secures the GQP nomination for President in 2024. But it will be a complicated case involving huge numbers of documents and complex, shady financial transactions.
re: #128 Belafon
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
🎼😍🤣👍#TwinkleTwinkleLittleImperialMarch https://t.co/2HrcqrZvjG
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) May 19, 2021
How long does #COVID19 #vaccine-induced immunity last? Well, so far there’s no sign mRNA vaccine antibodies are waning, after 6 months. We won’t know the durability of response until it wanes — and with luck, that could be years from now.https://t.co/kgJKnvzatF
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 18, 2021
An estimated 1 in 1000 youngsters experience multi-system inflammatory response in children—MIS-C— about 4 to 6 wks after infection w/ SARSCoV2. Now scientists at Yale have an explanation why children are stricken w/ this rare & sometimes deadly condition https://t.co/I4MAkf6vw0
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) May 18, 2021
White House readout of the latest Biden-Bibi call pic.twitter.com/7CKm2EXgpk
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 19, 2021
re: #130 lawhawk
Someone needs to remind him of Benghazi. How many hours? How many investigations? And what did they find? How many lies did they tell? At what cost to taxpayers?
I’m so weary of this shit.
This is a feature not a bug
— OC and Stiggs (@_Me_Three) May 17, 2021
Oh noes, where will we find room for all these new immigrants after… (checking notes)… Republicans let 640,000 Americans die because they didn’t think Covid was real.
— Jay Louis (@JayLouis) May 17, 2021
this is literally shocking https://t.co/fuAQ9gc04R
— Master Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King (@commiegirl1) May 18, 2021
re: #107 Targetpractice
What changed? Simple: Remove the chains and people realize they don’t like being slaves.
Imagine if the Confederacy had won the Civil War and the North was required as part of the terms of the Peace Treaty to return all the “contraband” slaves who had fled into Northern custody…
re: #114 Targetpractice
“Ben Cotton, the founder of CyFIR, one of the companies involved in the Arizona Senate’s audit, said in the closed hearing held by Senate Republicans on Tuesday that the county’s explanation was right,” noted the report.
Gee, wonder why they’re not keen on having their deliberations in public…..?
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Public Religion Research Institute poll clearly identifies ground zero for Donald Trump’s election lie
was the 2020 election stolen from Trump?
white evangelicals: 61% yes
everyone else: 24% yes— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) May 17, 2021
Dems hold Scranton area seat that had been trending R, Black progressive unseats mayor of Pittsburgh, Krasner looking solid in Philadelphia. Not much sign of voter backlash after lots of speculation that it was coming. https://t.co/iXzB66vxIC
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 19, 2021
re: #135 Belafon
Bookmarking this for the anti-vaxxers who claim vaccination of children is more dangerous than the virus.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 19, 2021
re: #142 Belafon
Their “prophets” correctly prophesized that Trump would win, but the forces of Satan stole his victory!
Plus coke shortage https://t.co/0fsLJgPXJA
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 19, 2021
re: #142 Belafon
A direct corollary to asking whether or not the election was stolen from Trump is “Is America being stolen by non-whites away from us, the rightful white people who should own everything.”
Banner week for the Trump campaign. https://t.co/TQ8wogUxx8
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 19, 2021
re: #147 Florida Panhandler
A direct corollary to asking whether or not the election was stolen from Trump is “Is America being stolen by non-whites away from us, the rightful white people who should own everything.”
You have to be a bit more subtle than that to tease out the racist beliefs of people who insist they are not racists. Not much though. Just ask them who is discriminated against more, whites or nonwhites, and they will say whites suffer more discrimination.
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sad for Cyber Ninjas, who certainly would’ve been hired for the audit after the bang up job they’re doing in Arizona.
re: #149 No Malarkey!
You have to be a bit more subtle than that to tease out the racist beliefs of people who insist they are not racists. Not much though. Just ask them who is discriminated against more, whites or nonwhites, and they will say whites suffer more discrimination.
Like people who claim that the Capitol rioters were just “tourists” but that the people protesting on the streets of Portland or Minneapolis were all “terrorists”?
re: #151 No Malarkey!
Sad for Cyber Ninjas, who certainly would’ve been hired for the audit after the bang up job they’re doing in Arizona.
Big Bamboozle!
.@RepKatiePorter says she won’t support a smaller bill focused only on hard infrastructure like roads and bridges.
“Our economy is not going to fully bounce back … unless we address some of the other issues that workers face.”@MSNBC pic.twitter.com/pnwBOsTG3n— Stephanie Ruhle Reports (@RuhleOnMSNBC) May 19, 2021
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like people who claim that the Capitol rioters were just “tourists” but that the people protesting on the streets of Portland or Minneapolis were all “terrorists”?
The family guy meme in which they hold a color card up to determine if your skin tone matches “terrorist” or “mentally ill” should be updated to “terrorist” or “tourist”.
Man, Fox just going for it this morning. Here’s their headline:
Black Lives Matter ‘stands in solidarity’ with Palestinians, vows to fight for ‘Palestinian liberation
Their source is a couple of tweets by ONE alleged branch of BLM.
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
Today’s dismissal of the last of the lawsuits attempting to undermine democracy in furtherance of the #BigLie affirms that despite incredible scrutiny & an unprecedented effort to deceive, the 2020 election was fair, secure & the results accurately reflect the will of the people https://t.co/CZLQHHz0sL
— Jocelyn Benson (@JocelynBenson) May 18, 2021
re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, Fox just going for it this morning. Here’s their headline:
Black Lives Matter ‘stands in solidarity’ with Palestinians, vows to fight for ‘Palestinian liberation
Their source is a couple of tweets by ONE alleged branch of BLM.
Sort of like the story of the Chinese Citizens’ organization (in Boston) which took money from the Chinese Consulate to hold a reception at their facilities which led to the “bombshell” revelation that “The Chinese Government is funding BLM” after a separate Chinese Citizen’s group (in San Francisco) made a donation to BLM.
The people behind the damning story, “American Thought Leaders” (a blogsite bankrolled by the Heritage Foundation) later issued a “clarification” that the two Chinese Citizens’ organizations were in fact unrelated “but shared common goals and a common history”, which was a nice way of saying “Those people all look the same!”
Democrats handed a defeat in my state as the Republicans continue to advance their genocide.
Opponents push bill protecting meatpacking workers off the agenda (Lincoln, Nebr. Journal-Star)
The Legislature narrowly approved a motion to delay further consideration of a bill requiring meatpacking plants to keep in place basic COVID-19 protections for their employees for the next year.
Opponents of a bill (LB241) sponsored by Omaha Sen. Tony Vargas (D) successfully used a procedural motion to prevent the measure from coming to a vote in second-round debate Tuesday.
LB241 would have enacted “basic guardrails” for meatpacking workers, including re-configuring spaces to allow for 6 feet of distancing, and requiring companies to continue to provide personal protective equipment and hand sanitizer and regularly take temperatures and test for COVID-19.
Vargas, who represents South Omaha, a largely Latino district where many meatpacking employees live, said the bill was pared down to be “more reasonable with what I consider pragmatic aspects.”
Sen. John Lowe of Kearney (R) introduced a bracket motion to delay further consideration of LB241 until June 10 — well after the Legislature is expected to adjourn for the 90-day session — saying lawmakers should wait with the end of the pandemic in sight.
barf alert:
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
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@Trump
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re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My state senator on this bill:
“It’s foreign to me that the government should be the solution to everything,” said Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard.
re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, Fox just going for it this morning. Here’s their headline:
Black Lives Matter ‘stands in solidarity’ with Palestinians, vows to fight for ‘Palestinian liberation
Their source is a couple of tweets by ONE alleged branch of BLM.
These mooks don’t understand a de-centralized movement. All they understand is centralized authority, wielded by a small number people.
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My state senator on this bill:
“It’s foreign to me that the government should be the solution to everything,” said Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard.
How much does Nebraska receive in federal agricultural subsidies?
re: #163 gwangung
These mooks don’t understand a de-centralized movement. All they understand is centralized authority, wielded by a small number people.
Either that, or as conservatives, they are simply lying.
re: #163 gwangung
These mooks don’t understand a de-centralized movement. All they understand is centralized authority, wielded by a small number people.
They understand it: they are just selling BLM as a Big Black Boogeyman out to defund and disband our police and turn our neighborhoods over to armed gangs of vengeance-crazed thugs.
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“It’s foreign to me that the government should be the solution to everything,” said Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard.
How much does Nebraska receive in federal agricultural subsidies?
Nobody is saying that the government should be the solution to everything, only the problems for which government is best suited. Such as, for example, promoting the general welfare by requiring people to do things which improve others’ health and safety.
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“It’s foreign to me that the government should be the solution to everything,” said Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard.
How much does Nebraska receive in federal agricultural subsidies?
Recipients of Subtotal, Farming Subsidies from farms in Nebraska totaled $15,363,000,000 in from 1995-2020
Also lists the top recipient farms of subsidies by payment amount.
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Bayard (Steve Erdman’s hometown):
Recipients in this zipcode received $35,137,226 from 1995-2019
re: #169 Belafon
Then he shouldn’t take a salary.
He doesn’t need one. He’s very wealthy.
Our state legislature is structured so only wealthy people or retirees can afford to run for it.
Ninety-day sessions guarantee that a person with non-governmental work cannot run for the job, and even here no one can live on $12,000 a year.
re: #75 ckkatz
Jack Woolams [US Test Pilot during World War 2] was known as a bit of a practical joker. While flying the still unknown experimental P-59 jet airplane, he would join formation with unsuspecting pilots flying propeller-driven fighters and to their surprise, wave at them while wearing a gorilla mask, bowler hat, and cigar, and then fly away leaving them behind.
Note: the P-59 was being secretly tested in the 1941-1943 period
The Bell P-59 Airacomet was the first American jet-powered airplane in the United States. It was a top secret project that wasn’t announced to the general public until 1943 and only after it had completed one-hundred flights. However, even before the Airacomet made it onto the drawing board, Europe already had its own jet programs well underway. Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262, Arado Ar 234, and England’s Gloster Meteor would all become operational during the war. In the Pacific, the Japanese also flew the Nakajima Kikka at least once, powered by an Ishikawajima Ne-20, Japan’s first turbojet engine.
The Airacomet first flew on October 1, 1942, just 5 months after the Me-262’s first flight under jet power (it had flown in April with piston engines). This was 6 months before the Gloster Meteror, and over a year before the Ar-234. The Lockheed P-80 was operational in the Pacific at the end of the war and would have flown in combat over Japan within 2 weeks if the latter had not surrendered.
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My state senator on this bill:
“We need help with this one thing.”
“Why should the government be the solution to everything?”
“But I just need help in this one case.”
“But all cases?”
re: #170 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Bayard (Steve Erdman’s hometown):
Recipients in this zipcode received $35,137,226 from 1995-2019
The population of the whole Zip Code (not just Bayard, which has 800 people) is 2,351.
Most of that money only goes to a few ranchers and farmers though.
re: #169 Belafon
Then he shouldn’t take a salary.
When you elect people who believe government doesn’t work, don’t be surprised when government doesn’t work.
re: #173 Belafon
I recall when the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was sent to Fukushima to provide tsunami relief. Just imagine the Captain presenting his credentials and saying “We’re from the US Government and we’re here to help!”
re: #173 Belafon
“We need help with this one thing.”
“Why should the government be the solution to everything?”
“But I just need help in this one case.”
“But all cases?”
When the irrigation tunnel collapsed last year in Wyoming which feeds water to the Nebraska Panhandle, he was all over trying to get emergency funds to get that tunnel fixed.
re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
When the irrigation tunnel collapsed last year in Wyoming which feeds water to the Nebraska Panhandle, he was all over trying to get emergency funds to get that tunnel fixed.
You mean this icon of the right couldn’t repair it?
Priorities. GOP out to deny women agency over their own bodies. Many women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that point in time, and by the time they realize they’re pregnant, this law says they can’t do anything about it. https://t.co/BZgKc9FCdj
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) May 19, 2021
re: #179 lawhawk
Many women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that point in time, and by the time they realize they’re pregnant, this law says they can’t do anything about it.
That’s exactly the point. It’s not a “full-on” abortion ban, but it is a de facto one.
re: #179 lawhawk
Priorities. GOP out to deny women agency over their own bodies. Many women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that point in time, and by the time they realize they’re pregnant, this law says they can’t do anything about it.
Then the next trick will be to restrict access to pregnancy tests…
re: #179 lawhawk
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re: #182 🌹UOJB!
I’m sure there’s a loophole in that for the mistresses of God Fearin’ TexAss Republican Rich White Men!
They just fly to the nearest blue state. Only poor women will be brood mares for the state. Blessed be the fruit.
re: #182 🌹UOJB!
I’m sure there’s a loophole in that for the mistresses of God Fearin’ TexAss Republican Rich White Men!
There’s no requirement that women take a pregnancy test before they try to leave the state.
re: #184 Belafon
There’s no requirement that women take a pregnancy test before they try to leave the state.
I’m sure those good TexASS Christian Republicans gonna close that loophole for women…
re: #130 lawhawk
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The GQP want you to know that they’re afraid of the 1/6 Commission overreaching by looking into the period between Election Day and 1/5…but not allowing them to obsess about the “SCARY BLACK PEOPLE!!!” who protested last summer.
re: #182 🌹UOJB!
I’m sure there’s a loophole in that for the mistresses of God Fearin’ TexAss Republican Rich White Men!
There is a built-in loophole for anyone who can afford to send their daughter/mistress out of state…
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a built-in loophole for anyone who can afford to send their daughter/mistress out of state…
Especially if they got a rich white Daddy who is a Pulpit Pimp! 😉
re: #185 🌹UOJB!
I’m sure those good TexASS Christian Republicans gonna close that loophole for women…
I doubt it. That would affect wealthy men’s daughters.
I talked to a pop history consumer last year who assumed that Robert Goddard (inventor of the liquid fueled rocket, gimbaled thrust etc.) was a German who came to the United States under Operation Paperclip. I said, no, he was an American. The consumer responded, oh sure, they were all naturalized later but they came with the Nazis.
In fact, Goddard was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1882, did his research in the United States, and died before the end of World War II.
There is a massive subculture in this country that desperately needs to believe in German, especially Nazi era, technical superiority. Things the Germans did not invent:
Submarine snorkel
Millimeter wave radar (and the cavity magnetron that made it, and large area television broadcasting, possible.)
Proximity fused artillery shell. This could potentially have been decisive in the air war.
And of course, the biggie, the atomic bomb.
Germanophiles will tie themselves in knots trying to make denials and excuses. One common claim is that their jet engines would last only 15-20 hours because “the u-boat program had priority for advanced alloys,” for example. This does not make sense at any level. The amounts required to make any tactically useful difference in submarine performance, which is of dubious tactical value in the first place, would have been massive. They would not trade air superiority for that, especially not at the end of the war.
When they have to admit the facts, they denigrate their significance. The snorkel is an obvious invention, so German superiority was not required for it. If so, why didn’t they invent it, rather than (literally) steal it from the Dutch, who were the real inventors.
Similarly, they will claim that the Germans were working on a much better proximity shell, one using electrostatic principles, they just didn’t have it ready in time. Bullshit. If the radio proximity fuse was so simple as to be skipped, why did they not produce it as a time when allied bombers would pound the Reich to a desert? To this day, nobody has has bothered to produce a successful electrostatic shell.
Quelle Surprise!
McConnell comes out against Jan. 6 commission, imperiling its chances of becoming law
re: #193 🌹UOJB!
Quelle Surprise!
McConnell comes out against Jan. 6 commission, imperiling its chances of becoming law
Don’t worry, I’m sure Joe and Krysten will magic up a bipartisan vote for this bill.
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re: #138 Belafon
Yes, make idiots afraid so they vote for monsters who supported a failed coup. There’s no way that could go wrong.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
re: #193 🌹UOJB!
Quelle Surprise!
McConnell comes out against Jan. 6 commission, imperiling its chances of becoming law
Time for the House Democrats to Benghazi this thing. The GQP didn’t ask Democrats for permission to open umpteen Benghazi investigations.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 19, 2021
re: #191 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
There is a massive subculture in this country that desperately needs to believe in German, especially Nazi era, technical superiority.
Just imagine what they could have come up with if they had not run off all their Jewish scientists, engineers and inventors…
I swear to Zod, I might break something if I hear Joe F’ Manchin go to the cameras and suggest that the party leadership should make even more concessions to the GQP in order to arrive at a “bipartisan” bill.
Breaking News: #formerguy has incontrovertible proof that the Confederacy won the Civil War. https://t.co/OjyEcImxhY
— Robert Picardo (@RobertPicardo) May 19, 2021
I would love to argue the case in the Supreme Court just to bring up the plane flights that occurred to Japan before Roe for young women to get an abortion.
re: #198 Targetpractice
I swear to Zod, I might break something if I hear Joe F’ Manchin go to the cameras and suggest that the party leadership should make even more concessions to the GQP in order to arrive at a “bipartisan” bill.
Will Sinema join him?
re: #201 🌹UOJB!
Will Sinema join him?
Only if she can spare a moment to pull her lips from Mitch’s ass.
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Priorities. GOP out to deny women agency over their own bodies. Many women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that point in time, and by the time they realize they’re pregnant, this law says they can’t do anything about it.
Then the next trick will be to restrict access to pregnancy tests…
Overturning Eisenstadt and Griswold.
re: #202 Targetpractice
Only if she can spare a moment to pull her lips from Mitch’s ass.
But she’s got so many photo shoots to do!
re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just imagine what they could have come up with if they had not run off all their Jewish scientists, engineers and inventors…
It was worse than even that. They didn’t just run the Jews out of the country, they actively denigrated “Jewish science” and advanced men who either had no fucking clue what they were doing or were pursuing technological dead-ends because of (what else?) party loyalty. Atop that, instead of pooling resources and manpower as the Allies did, they engaged in (and encouraged) factional rivalry so that no one service had a monopoly on Hitler’s favor.
re: #205 Targetpractice
It was worse than even that. They didn’t just run the Jews out of the country, they actively denigrated “Jewish science” and advanced men who either had no fucking clue what they were doing or were pursuing technological dead-ends because of (what else?) party loyalty. Atop that, instead of pooling resources and manpower as the Allies did, they engaged in (and encouraged) factional rivalry so that no one service had a monopoly on Hitler’s favor.
Now we have our own movement that denigrates science as a whole, and expects the leader to dictate reality. People don’t change.
re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just imagine what they could have come up with if they had not run off all their Jewish scientists, engineers and inventors…
Who, for example? Einstein was not a technologist. Refugees like Teller and Szilard (both Hungarians) and Fermi (an Italian) made crucial contributions to the nuclear weapons program but German-born Edgar Shmeud, designer of the P-51 Mustang, had come to the United States in the 1920s and was not a refugee by any stretch of the imagination. Other key personnel like Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves were Americans.
Frank Whittle, who indisputably invented the turbojet engine and had a working prototype in 1937, was British. The first practical digital computer was a British wartime invention, and the most closely guarded secret in the world, and allied cryptographic superiority was crucial in winning the war.
re: #207 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Who, for example? Einstein was not a technologist. Refugees like Teller and Szilard (both Hungarians) and Fermi (an Italian) made crucial contributions to the nuclear weapons program but German-born Edgar Shmeud, designer of the P-51 Mustang, had come to the United States in the 1920s and was not a refugee by any stretch of the imagination. Other key personnel like Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves were Americans.
Frank Whittle, who indisputably invented the turbojet engine and had a working prototype in 1937, was British. The first practical digital computer was a British wartime invention, and the most closely guarded secret in the world, and allied cryptographic superiority was crucial in winning the war.
Most advancements in engineering aren’t made by one giant, but a lot of smart people making small improvements. And they chose to wipe out a large chunk of their workforce.
re: #205 Targetpractice
Atop that, instead of pooling resources and manpower as the Allies did, they engaged in (and encouraged) factional rivalry so that no one service had a monopoly on Hitler’s favor.
They built but never commissioned an aircraft carrier, The Graf Zeppelin, partly because Hermann Göring insisted that he personally control everything that had to do with flying, from naval aircraft to paratroops to anti-aircraft units on the ground.
re: #91 John Hughes
Don’t forget that for the lifetime of the first generation of stars there were no metals to make probes out of (or anything heavier than helium to make living things that could make probes).
It’s possible that before the generation of stars that include our sun there was no life.
There’s a YouTube video that suggests that the lack of phosphorus early on kept life from forming.
re: #193 🌹UOJB!
Quelle Surprise!
McConnell comes out against Jan. 6 commission, imperiling its chances of becoming law
.@LeaderMcConnell: “After careful consideration, I’ve made the decision to oppose the House Democrats’ slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January the 6th.” pic.twitter.com/2vPoNmEDwz
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 19, 2021
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They built but never commissioned an aircraft carrier, The Graf Zeppelin, partly because Hermann Göring insisted that he personally control everything that had to do with flying, from naval aircraft to paratroops to anti-aircraft units on the ground.
The British were much the same way before the war, but came to their senses barely in time. When formed in 1918, the Royal Air Force was to have control of all flying and aeronautical activity. This eroded their early advantage in carrier aviation to nothing. Pilots were naval officers, but the RAF controlled all procurement and design. The Admiralty regained control of the air arm only in 1937, 2 years before the war started. Similarly, the RAF insisted on control of all experiments with airborne troops, which predictably got nowhere, given RAF commitment to the invincibility of the bomber. It is also the reason the British were so backward in military transport aviation at the beginning of the war. The Army gained control of this only after the success of German airborne troops in the 1940 Blitzkrieg.
Why did the Germans not introduce all their technological marvels until the latter years of the war? Because it wasn’t until 1943 that they realized that war was neither going to be “short” nor would it be “easy.” What changed? The beginning of round-the-clock strategic bombing on the Western Front and the Soviets breaking out of Stalingrad and beginning to roll up German forces on the Eastern Front. In the first vital years of the war, they ignored or actively rejected any new technologies on the grounds that the war would be “over” before they’d be needed.
Jet engines? All existing fighters were judged as equal or superior to Allied aircraft, so the advantages jets offered were seen as unnecessary.
Snorkels? U-boats operated with relative impunity, so there was no need to invest in a way to make them more stealthy.
All pre-war tank designs (existing or in development) were seen as sufficient to address the tanks the Allied powers could field in large numbers.
Again, the reality is that the Reich only started pursuing such technology in earnest once it became apparent that they were (at best) on equal footing with the Allies. And when your boss wants you to be seen as second-to-none, you either have to start promising him a new “wunderwaffe” that will turn the tide of the war…or start figuring out how to say “I wish to defect” in at least three different languages.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“After careful consideration” translates as “I called Donny and he told me ‘No.’”
“I am a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre. Two weeks ago, I celebrated my 107th birthday. Today, I’m visiting Washington, DC for the first time in my life. I’m here seeking justice, and I’m asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921.”
–Viola Fletcher pic.twitter.com/jlj4xeNgsd— The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) May 19, 2021
“Greenwood represented all the best of what was possible for Black people in America – and for all the people. No one cared about us for almost 100 years. We, and our history, have been forgotten, washed away. This Congress must recognize us and our history.” #Tulsa100
— The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) May 19, 2021
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
We need to start calling it, what it is. pic.twitter.com/0vjEhmXnT2
— Jolie Lucas 🌊🌊💛💚🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@Mooney4me) May 19, 2021
Happy six-month birthday to this tweet, which is still up on the official Republican Party account. https://t.co/vLkDJXZ4H9
— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) May 19, 2021
If you want to learn the secrets of the universe ; think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
~ Nikola Tesla ~ pic.twitter.com/KBdVDkS4r7— Köksal Akın (@newworlddd555) May 19, 2021
Don’t believe the gaslighting.
This is what the so-called “tourist visit” did to my office: pic.twitter.com/Ge8KNwWMXp— Tammy Duckworth (@TammyDuckworth) May 19, 2021
re: #214 Targetpractice
“After careful consideration” translates as “I called Donny and he told me ‘No.’”
I honestly don’t think McConnell operates like that. He’s the Emperor to the GOP’s latest Anakin Skywalker. Fundamentally, he is about power. If his interests in that regard align with Trump’s immediate wishes, so be it, but I highly doubt he says “How high?” when Trump says “Jump”.
Paul Mooney, Comedian and ‘Chappelle’s Show’ Regular, Dies at 79 (TheWrap via MSN)
re: #220 Mike Lamb
I honestly don’t think McConnell operates like that. He’s the Emperor to the GOP’s latest Anakin Skywalker. Fundamentally, he is about power. If his interests in that regard align with Trump’s immediate wishes, so be it, but I highly doubt he says “How high?” when Trump says “Jump”.
Yeah, he isn’t Trump’s lackey in the slightest. If he’s opposing the insurrection commission, it’s because a number of prominent Republicans came to him and told him that there mayyyyy be some shenanigannery involving them that could cause a problem for Republican electability.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
As the GOP did with Benghazi, the Democrats should open multiple House investigations. One for The Big Lie and GOP efforts to reverse the election, one for the planning and instigation of the January 6 insurrection, and one for why preparation for, and response to the insurrection were stymied by the people in charge of defense of the Capitol and in the Pentagon.
re: #223 No Malarkey!
As the GOP did with Benghazi, the Democrats should open multiple House investigations. One for The Big Lie and GOP efforts to reverse the election, one for the planning and instigation of the January 6 insurrection, and one for why preparation for, and response to the insurrection were stymied by the people in charge of defense of the Capitol and in the Pentagon.
Exactly. Be transparent. Be thorough. Be above board in all respects. But fuck the GOP. Useless as tits on a boar for an exercise like this.
For more than a year now, Republicans have encouraged their own voters to go out and get infected by a potentially deadly virus while lying to them about it. Don’t forget: the first victims of Red Hat lies and recklessness are their own people. https://t.co/xXpYHKBboi
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 19, 2021
They’re saying the quiet part out loud again. https://t.co/vp3TWRRe5M
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) May 19, 2021
FYI: They ARE all horrible people.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is “very upset” about the proposed commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol because it’ll be used to “demoralize Trump supporters … and paint them as if they’re horrible people.” pic.twitter.com/3gLkZfCLU1
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 19, 2021
re: #220 Mike Lamb
I honestly don’t think McConnell operates like that. He’s the Emperor to the GOP’s latest Anakin Skywalker. Fundamentally, he is about power. If his interests in that regard align with Trump’s immediate wishes, so be it, but I highly doubt he says “How high?” when Trump says “Jump”.
It’s an error to assume that these things are mutually exclusive. Mitch may hate Trump with a heat greater that than a thousand suns, but he can’t afford the Cheeto-colored douche meddling in Senate races that could decide the balance of power come 2023. So attaining power in this case does involve humoring Needi Amin until the midterms are well and truly over.
re: #219 The Pie Overlord!
According to GOPers like @Rep_Clyde, the following images are part of the Capitol tour: pic.twitter.com/HHy5qUBkUr
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) May 19, 2021
Mitch opposes anything that Democrats say/do/propose.
It’s just that simple.
re: #227 The Pie Overlord!
FYI: They ARE all horrible people.
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Not only are they horrible people. They’re traitors as well!
T & P
“No President has been treated the way I have. With all of the crime and corruption you read about with others, nothing happens, they only go after Donald Trump.”
— Donald J. Trump, 19 May 2021— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 19, 2021
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mitch opposes anything that Democrats say/do/propose.
It’s just that simple.
Yeah. He did the same shit through most of Obamas Presidency.
re: #228 Targetpractice
It’s an error to assume that these things are mutually exclusive. Mitch may hate Trump with a heat greater that than a thousand suns, but he can’t afford the Cheeto-colored douche meddling in Senate races that could decide the balance of power come 2023. So attaining power in this case does involve humoring Needi Amin until the midterms are well and truly over.
I mean, that’s what I said. I think McConnell votes with maintaining/increasing GOP power in mind, that’s it. If that interest happens to align with Trump’s in the short term, so be it. But McConnell isn’t taking a certain stance because of Trump/Trump’s demands.
That wasn’t a random person. It was Maggie Haberman. https://t.co/lb2IQEH1mp
— Stephen Robinson (@SER1897) May 19, 2021
*snerk*
re: #232 The Pie Overlord!
T & P
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Oh Tangsnorter they’re not just going after you.
They’re going after your fellow traitors too!
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh god, the “Sir” stories are going multi-generational now.
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
No one this dumb should be in Congress. This is an actual Q nutjob pretending that working to protect others from our possible infections is like being as nuts as she is. Doing things for others is just too much for our sociopathic-right to handle.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
You don’t ask the Fox to investigate the murder of the chickens.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 19, 2021
GQP: “There’s nothing to hide!”
Dems: “So can we come in and have a look around…?”
GQP: “NOT WITHOUT A WARRANT SIGNED BY AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT JUDGES! AND WE GET TO PICK THE JUDGES!”
Produced by Rick and Morty’s Erica Rosbe, Sarah Carbiener, Dan Harmon, and Justin Roiland, The Vindicators picks up with the knockoff Avengers/Justice League supergroup first introduced in the season 3 episode “Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender.” A logline promises that Supernova, Vance Maxiumus, Alan Rails, Crocubot, and Noob Noob will “fight crime, avert genocides, and yuk it up without Rick and Morty.”
Rick and Morty spinoff series to focus on the most bizarre superhero team (Polygon via MSN)
National Cycling Champ Hit And Killed By Driver While Riding Near Her Home https://t.co/mCUgytcho3 pic.twitter.com/Qc2KQCgYJT
— Jalopnik (@Jalopnik) May 19, 2021
Cars striking and killing cyclists is tragically common, but this death is hitting the cycling community particularly hard. Gwen Inglis, the national road racing champion in her age group and “one of the best cyclists in Colorado” per the Bicycle Racing Association of Colorado, died after being hit by a car Sunday on the roads near her home in Lakewood, Colorado.
The driver, Ryan Scott Montoya, reportedly drifted into the bike lane at 10 a.m. on Sunday and struck Inglis. Montoya stayed at the scene and was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide involving DUI or DUID, according to the Denver Post. Inglis was transported to an area hospital where she later died.
Now that we’ve wasted days on bad faith “bipartisan” negotiations for a bill that’s never going to happen, how’s about AG Garland appoints a special prosecutor with the necessary power to not only investigate but prosecute if sufficient evidence is found?
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
Any time they wanted, GOP politicians could just stop ginning up toxic culture war hysteria and simply talk about the legislation they’d like to pass to improve the lives of their constituents. Of course they won’t do that. But know that it’s a choice they make every day.
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) May 19, 2021
Best Cabinet Secretary’s office we’ve seen. Depth. Wood. Flowers. Not sure what the staffer is up to. 10/10 @SecDebHaaland cc @sethmeyers pic.twitter.com/0t9em3ViUy
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) May 19, 2021
re: #246 Targetpractice
Now that we’ve wasted days on bad faith “bipartisan” negotiations for a bill that’s never going to happen, how’s about AG Garland appoints a special prosecutor with the necessary power to not only investigate but prosecute if sufficient evidence is found?
AND
Convene a Grand Jury to go after these traitors. Force these assholes to testify!
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
God that sucks. This is why I don’t ride as much any more. Too fucking dangerous.
re: #185 🌹UOJB!
I’m sure those good TexASS Christian Republicans gonna close that loophole for women…
And inspections on return from out-of-state. All in the name of religious “pro-life” arguments.
Perhaps what Gov. Abbott needs is the Texas equivalent of Indiana’s “Periods for Pence” campaign.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Then make an unslanted and balanced proposal of your own
We’ll wait.
.@LeaderMcConnell: “After careful consideration, I’ve made the decision to oppose the House Democrats’ slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January the 6th.” pic.twitter.com/2vPoNmEDwz
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 19, 2021
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
Her husband was riding behind her when it happened. I can’t even imagine.
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sad.
Riding on the road is extremely dangerous. Even a motorcycle is dangerous because of cars, and you have an engine to quicky get you out of trouble when someone does something stupid in that case.
I gave it up years ago after too many cars got too close. Both kinds of bike.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the will to make roads for bicycles in most places.
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yes, that’s what happens when someone wins an election.
— Robb Smith (@RobbSmith) May 19, 2021
re: #252 Dangerman
Then make an unslanted and balanced proposal of your own
We’ll wait.
Proposal: We investigate Biden. He agrees to resign. Kamala agrees to appoint Trump as VP. She resigns. Trump becomes president. Also, Pelosi and enough Dems resign, with agreements to appoint Republican successors.
There. Fair. Balanced. Not at all slanted.
Right-wing authoritarians start with a belief dictated by the leader, then try to reach that conclusion by doing what they think is “research.” They don’t have a lot of respect for the scientific method of seeing what tests tell you about your hypothesis.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
re: #254 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Sad.
Riding on the road is extremely dangerous. Even a motorcycle is dangerous because of cars, and you have an engine to quicky get you out of trouble when someone does something stupid in that case.
I gave it up years ago after too many cars got too close. Both kinds of bike.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the will to make roads for bicycles in most places.
It can be dangerous. The Denver Metro (and beyond) is extremely bike friendly though. Riding on a Sunday morning, in a bike lane, isn’t particularly high risk though.
re: #258 Mike Lamb
It can be dangerous. The Denver Metro (and beyond) is extremely bike friendly though. Riding on a Sunday morning, in a bike lane, isn’t particularly high risk though.
Where I am, you have the curb, then sewers that will eat your wheel, and then a little to the left, you have cars.
re: #252 Dangerman
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See, that’s giving him an out. This isn’t a House Dem proposal, this is a bill that was put together with input (read: kneecapping) by House Repubs. What Dems should be hammering is that if this was a bill put together by House Dems, it wouldn’t have included shit that House Repubs demanded in order to gain their approval.
re: #247 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The problem is they would have nothing to say, because they don’t want to pass legislation to improve voters lives. That is why they gin up culture war hysteria.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 19, 2021
DO THE COMMISSION ANYWAY, DEMOCRATS.
Sorry for shouting but this “bipartisan” approach was NEVER going to work because THEY ARE ALL COMPLICIT IN THE INSURRECTION.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2021
re: #252 Dangerman
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Let’s not wait.
re: #261 No Malarkey!
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They don’t put forward legislation because everything they want to actually put into law is electoral poison. Even if they could find the Dems willing to support their bills unaltered (HA!), and could get Biden to sign them (HAHA!), they’d still have to defend them come election time (HAHAHA!).
They don’t want to pass legislation, they want to rule by fiat.
Follow the Leader. (not McConnell) https://t.co/rRfDBobn0r
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 19, 2021
Another #GQPcoward following orders https://t.co/zXapg5MRkE
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) May 19, 2021
re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth
Talking to traitors will either steel your resolve to bring them to justice, or it’ll lead you to join them if you’re already corrupt and they know it.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
Explain to me again why the Democrats need GOP co-operation to do the Commission.
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
Explain to me again why the Democrats need GOP co-operation to do the Commission.
Because it will take a law to create it. Otherwise, it gets changed to a bunch of Congressional hearings.
You wonder how many of the Republicans opposed to the Commission will be implicated in the criminal investigation.
Now that Mitch McConnell has come out against the 1/6 Commission with the comically disingenuous argument that focusing on the insurrection is “slanted,” I’m reupping this. Rs have created a whole permission structure that allows them to let right wing radicalization metastasize: https://t.co/1DOhyfH0vi
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 19, 2021
re: #270 Belafon
Because it will take a law to create it. Otherwise, it gets changed to a bunch of Congressional hearings.
The fact that enough Republicans won’t join to pass that law to investigate a failed coup is not a good sign for the future of our democracy.
— Bradley Whitford (@BradleyWhitford) May 19, 2021
re: #260 Targetpractice
See, that’s giving him an out. This isn’t a House Dem proposal, this is a bill that was put together with input (read: kneecapping) by House Repubs. What Dems should be hammering is that if this was a bill put together by House Dems, it wouldn’t have included shit that House Repubs demanded in order to gain their approval.
You’re right of course
But he’d never make a counter proposal
Too much risk being specific instead of just “no”
Coward
re: #271 jaunte
You wonder how many of the Republicans opposed to the Commission will be implicated in the criminal investigation.
Ding!
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
Explain to me again why the Democrats need GOP co-operation to do the Commission.
A commission, as opposed to committee hearings, has to be created by legislation. The Democrats are still trying to act as though the GQP is a governing partner in a bipartisan governing coalition, instead of a fascist death cult. By now, the GOP would already be holding partisan House hearings, like they did for Benghazi.
yesterday Mrsdm and i took our first trip and plane ride since December 2019
Fully gassed, it was still a little weird
Visiting her folks in NJ. Everybody happy.
re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg
Black Lives Matter ‘stands in solidarity’ with Palestinians, vows to fight for ‘Palestinian liberation — Fox news
“Palestinian Liberation” is official US policy. What do they think “two state solution” means?
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s right, but my balls had to ride shotgun for a week after the procedure due to the swelling.
re: #254 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Sad.
Riding on the road is extremely dangerous. Even a motorcycle is dangerous because of cars, and you have an engine to quicky get you out of trouble when someone does something stupid in that case.
I gave it up years ago after too many cars got too close. Both kinds of bike.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the will to make roads for bicycles in most places.
Walking is more dangerous. More pedestrians than cyclists are killed by drivers of cars. There are also more of them, so complicated math is needed to fine tune my claim that it’s 20 times more dangerous to walk than to bicycle. Pedestrians and drivers should wear the helmets. We live in a car culture.
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
A hundred years ago, when I was physically capable. I rode a bike everywhere in Gainesville, FL. For fun and practical reasons. One day I was taking my usual route home and a car pulled out of a parking lot and hit me. Messed up my bike and got pretty serious road rash. The driver? Captain of the U of F bicycling team. Someone who should have known better. I did get a new bike and a free pass to the gym that the college athletes got to use out of the deal. But you couldn’t pay me to ride a bike around metro Atlanta anymore. I did it for two years when I came back here after my Florida Debacle, but I never felt safe after getting hit. Best shape of my life though, wish I had never stopped but life intervened.
re: #212 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The Army gained control of this only after the success of German airborne troops in the 1940 Blitzkrieg.
German airborne forces took Crete in May of 1941.
Oddly the Germans and the allies learned opposite lessons from this — the Germans were almost destroyed on the first day of the battle, only winning on the second day with extreme difficulty. After this experience they decided to abandon the idea of large scale airborne attacks. The Allies looked at the German success and decided to massively increase airborne forces.
re: #278 Dangerman
yesterday Mrsdm and i took our first trip and plane ride since December 2019
Fully gassed, it was still a little weird
Visiting her folks in NJ. Everybody happy.
I just came back from my first vacation in years. Feels good.
re: #281 wrenchwench
Walking is more dangerous. More pedestrians than cyclists are killed by drivers of cars. There are also more of them, so complicated math is needed to fine tune my claim that it’s 20 times more dangerous to walk than to bicycle. Pedestrians and drivers should wear the helmets. We live in a car culture.
That’s what got you, right? One of my co-workers lost her sister to an elderly driver when her sister was out walking her dog and crossed a street. The dog was killed as well.
Anything you do near heavy fast moving objects without being in one of those objects is going to be dangerous.
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
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Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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