Pino Palladino + Blake Mills: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Nikki Birch | June 17, 2021
The studio backdrop of this Tiny Desk (home) concert is the perfect setting for the dynamic duo headlining this project. Pino Palladino is a prolific bassist whose sound you’re already intimately acquainted with (even if you don’t know it). Blake Mills, a guitarist and two-time Grammy nominee for producer of the year, has an impressive catalog of his own. Together, in the studio, the topshelf sidemen are in their element, distilling the sonic creativity that is the first release under Palladino’s name, Notes With Attachments.

Eight pulsing calls from saxophonist Sam Gendel usher us into “Just Wrong” a melodic meditation that unfolds like a blossom in timelapse. Guitar, bass, sax and Abe Rounds’ colorful dustings of percussion in this song are magical; we soar with the musicians through varied repetitions of the melody before they gently set us back on our feet. The afterimage of our flight is still fading away when Palladino greets the viewers with a short and sweet introduction before opening “Ekuté,” a tune that explores traditional West African music, jazz and rock influences with a few modern touches of technology. “Djurkel,” the final offering in this set, is also experimental in nature. Palladino’s trademark bass sound lies in the cut, the fertile ground on which Mills, Gendel and Rounds dance dreamily around each other. This is session musicianship at its best. Each watch reveals new depths to the mastery.

SET LIST
• “Just Wrong”
• “Ekuté”
• “Djurkel”

MUSICIANS
• Pino Palladino: bass
• Blake Mills: guitar
• Abe Rounds: percussion
• Sam Gendel: saxophone

CREDITS
• Video: Jason Tippet, Carl McLaughlin, Julian Chavez
• Audio: Joseph Lorge

TINY DESK TEAM
• Producer: Nikki Birch
• Video Producer: Kara Frame
• Audio Mastering: Andy Huether
• Associate Producer: Bobby Carter
• Tiny Production Team: Bob Boilen, Maia Stern, Josh Rogosin, Gabrielle Pierre
• Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins
• Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#tinydesk #pinopalladino #blakemills #nprmusic

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:26:29pm
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Dave In Austin  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:28:19pm

One of us

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:28:52pm
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EPR-radar  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:31:52pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

Such willful stupidity should be mocked, not supported or even excused. But calling out willful stupidity as the dangerous nonsense that it is has become deeply unfashionable in the US.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:31:56pm

The sax player in this group, Sam Gendel, also plays with the Louis Cole/Clown Core axis of weirdos.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:35:21pm

Adding to the data showing Covid-19 vaccines work. At this point though, vaccines are now political. The 27% crasification factor of our country is lost.

As for unvaccinated healthcare workers: Unless they have a legitimate medical reason not to get the vaccination at this point, they should be fired just as fast as the staff at Houston Methodist.

On the surface, the news sounds alarming: More than half the residents of a Kearney nursing home recently contracted COVID-19, even after the vast majority already had been vaccinated.

But rather than casting doubt on the effectiveness of vaccines, the unusual outbreak at the central Nebraska care facility stands as proof that shots work.

While 23 residents tested positive for the deadly virus, only two showed any symptoms, which were mild and quickly cleared.

In short, the vaccinations protected the home’s vulnerable residents.

“Overall, the vaccine did what it was supposed to do: It prevented severe disease and prevented people going to the hospital,” said Dr. M. Salman Ashraf, who as medical director of the Nebraska Infection Control Assessment and Promotion Program works with care facilities to prevent and contain virus outbreaks.

The early April outbreak at the Good Samaritan Society-St. Luke’s facility in Kearney is one of only two large nursing home outbreaks documented nationally in the wake of widespread nursing home vaccinations. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on April 21 issued a report on a similar outbreak in Kentucky.

Health officials say the two outbreaks show the importance of convincing hesitant nursing home workers to get vaccinated. It’s believed the Nebraska and Kentucky outbreaks were precipitated by unvaccinated workers bringing the virus into the homes.

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Outbreak in Kearney nursing home proves value of COVID vaccines (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:35:23pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:45:16pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

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William Lewis  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:53:08pm

That would be a funny remake! I went to the theater with my mother when that came out. Aside from being the best scary movie I’ve ever seen, it was notable to me as the first time I saw a woman (Sigourney Weaver) in a movie in a tight t-shirt and panties. But she saved that cat in the end and was the hero to me.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:53:55pm
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A Mom Anon  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:55:04pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If they had a medical reason not to be vaccinated, why would they even be a healthcare worker in the first place? Should a medically compromised person be around people who are sick?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 18, 2021 • 4:55:31pm
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Florida Panhandler  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:01:09pm

re: #12 Dread Pirate Ron

Evidently “foreplay” to Mr. Shapiro is just the Intro track into Boston’s “Long Time.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:01:20pm

Volcano now pumping out massive volumes of lava:

Geldingadalir Volcano, Iceland - LIVE! Overview camera

It was sort of quiet for a day or so.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:03:02pm

re: #12 Dread Pirate Ron

That seems really fake, and I can’t find it in his timeline.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:06:02pm

Quite an advert for the Democratic candidate for Arkansas governor, Dr. Chris Jones. Dr. Jones is a physicist and a minister. (2:37)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:07:10pm

re: #11 A Mom Anon

If they had a medical reason not to be vaccinated, why would they even be a healthcare worker in the first place? Should a medically compromised person be around people who are sick?

There are other things people can do in a healthcare setting, such as administration, mechanic, technician, &c.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:07:13pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:13:43pm

A supplement maker tried to silence a Harvard doctor — and put academic freedom on trial (Business Insider, January 10, 2017)

The dietary supplements had ominous names, like Black Widow and Yellow Scorpion. They contained an illegal and potentially dangerous molecule, similar in structure to amphetamines.

But when a Harvard researcher dared to point that out, in a scientific, peer-reviewed study and in media interviews, the supplement maker sued him for libel and slander.

STAT has conducted the first detailed look at the legal showdown that followed by interviewing key players and reviewing hundreds of pages of trial transcripts and other court documents. The jury trial had momentous implications for the future of research into the safety of weight-loss and muscle-building pills; for the freedom of academics to speak out about matters of public health; and for our ability to learn what’s in the supplements on our kitchen counters.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:14:47pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:24:36pm
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Dangerman  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:25:18pm
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Dangerman  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:30:27pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

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ps
remind me who was the last us ambassador to the holy see?

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Citizen K  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:35:02pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:35:22pm
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Dangerman  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:35:57pm
A man who spent 4 months in hospital with COVID-19 and ended up with
a double-lung transplant said he regrets not getting the vaccine

and now a lifetime of medical expenses and complications

yahoo

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:37:20pm
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A Mom Anon  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:37:39pm

re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You’re right, it takes a whole lot of people doing a whole lot of work to make a hospital run. But those aren’t the folks dealing with the patients one on one. That’s mostly what we’re hearing about, nurses, physician assistant, etc. refusing vaccines.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:39:56pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:43:44pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

I do not understand this mind set. What does he even think a vaccination will do to change his life in any way, other than make him not get COVID?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:45:00pm

re: #30 The Pie Overlord!

I do not understand this mind set. What does he even think a vaccination will do to change his life in any way, other than make him not get COVID?

he’s a professional football player. My guess is it’s all a macho act by a guy who has taken too many hits to the head.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:46:15pm

re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Impressive, yes, but I’m still uncomfortable with the our_preacher-is-better-than-their_preacher type of politics.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:46:20pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:50:41pm

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Citizen K  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:53:54pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Anything that doesn’t say ‘white people are the greatest thing to happen to the planet’ is tantamount to ‘white people are bad’ to them. It’s the most unlimited form of projection, assholes steeped in persecution complex and racism accusing their opponents of the same, and getting away with it because the media is all too happy to launder their happy horseshit at face value. And too many folks are going into the weeds in trying to say what CRT actually is, when it doesn’t matter what it actually is. It matters that it’s a nice little bludgeon to create a chilling effect that will successfully whitewash any attempt to look back at our history and learn from it. Nope, by law you must now peddle the Lost Cause mythos and never once say that our country has ever had any actual issue with race until “reverse racism” invented it.

And again, it feels like they’re winning the day, by just how fast it’s moving and how eminently successful they’ve been at turning “Critical Race Theory” into a boogeyman, and how fast they were able to do it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 5:56:28pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:01:03pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:05:57pm

re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Impressive, yes, but I’m still uncomfortable with the our_preacher-is-better-than-their_preacher type of politics.

I’m not very happy with it either. Sen. Warnock did the same in his campaign.

With Republicans for decades painting Democrats as liberal baby-eating satanists, and sewing up a good chunk of the religious vote of nearly every denomination, along with Democrats refusing to stand up for the secular state (or even bludgeoning atheists in primaries), I’m not sure how to address it.

I lost my reëlection on the single campaign plank of my opponent “do you want an atheist representing you on the village board.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:08:47pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:11:28pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:14:56pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:19:05pm

Oh my Susan Sarandon rises from the crypt and who does she come to the defense of?

OH YOU KNOW WHO!

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sagehen  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:22:58pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

In 1960, Republicans had a different view on such matters.

1960 - Nixon on Civil Rights

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:22:58pm

current watches & warnings

gonna be a fun night

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:23:53pm

I got a card in the mail today from Sen. Rand Paul, asking (for money) if I would do my part to oppose the radical Democratic agenda to bring Critical Race Theory to Nebraska public schools.

I should probably load the return envelope with carriage bolts and send it back.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:25:24pm

re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

current watches & warnings

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gonna be a fun night

Keep your head down from the tornadoes.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:26:21pm

I remember watching the low grade livestream of Camden’s only launch back in 2017.
It was a real “Georgia” production, launching from a trailer in the middle of a backwoods road.

Spaceport Camden
google.com

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The GOP is a terrorist organization  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:26:22pm

Rachel Maddow just played this video on her show.

YouTube

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:28:13pm

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:30:38pm

re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And that is headed to the East Coast and Philly.
weather.gov

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:31:43pm

re: #43 sagehen

The same guy who did the “Southern Strategy” just a few years later.

Yes, the GOP of Ike and Rockefeller were the ones who were for civil rights, contra the southern Democrats who clung to their bigotry.

How the 1960s changed the political parties in this country needs to be taught more.

Ike is long gone, as is Nelson Rockefeller, and Gerald Ford.

Today’s GOP is a cross of George Wallace and Francisco Franco.

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:36:09pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:36:40pm

oh

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:38:08pm

There’s a period of about twelve hours in Spring and Autumn when the temperatures are reasonable here.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:39:44pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I got a card in the mail today from Sen. Rand Paul, asking (for money) if I would do my part to oppose the radical Democratic agenda to bring Critical Race Theory to Nebraska public schools.

I should probably load the return envelope with carriage bolts and send it back.

That’s exactly what you should do. Wrap a brick up and tape the postage paid envelope on to it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:41:12pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:42:53pm

For those interested in my stunning new weight loss plan, see below. According to my electronic scale, I weigh 99#! My wife weighs 130#!

Click to Reveal

Let the batteries go flat in your scale.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:43:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:43:21pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:48:20pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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Does the state of Arizona have a military or foreign policy? Then no, you can’t declare anything you do “top secret” crazy lady.

Her first name is appropriate too.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:48:41pm

re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A supplement maker tried to silence a Harvard doctor — and put academic freedom on trial (Business Insider, January 10, 2017)

(more)

It’s a good article, but it’s from 2017

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mmmirele  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:52:37pm

Anyone who has studied medieval or Renaissance history will get the humor of this.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:56:12pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:56:55pm

re: #52 Belafon

No, not Brownshirts.
When someone says “pipe hitter” I think of Shughart and Gordon
Don’t label good men because of garbage like Gallagher

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:57:08pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 18, 2021 • 6:57:31pm

Lizards. May all of you have a good night & may the the Goddess smile down upon you and you’re families. And yes, each of you, in your own way, gave me the strength to begin this journey. Thank you.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:00:36pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:05:55pm

re: #58 JOE 🥓

Who are the people Mr. Kirk is whinging about?

I see he wants to organise a boycott of Wells Fargo Bank. Good luck with that.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:08:30pm

re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Who are the people Mr. Kirk is whinging about?

I see he wants to organise a boycott of Wells Fargo Bank. Good luck with that.

Frankly I could care less. I am hoping against hope that prick is indicted along with Ginny Thomas for sedition.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:10:54pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

Arrest her.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:11:17pm

and it just gets bumpier

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retired cynic  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:11:45pm

Addiction treatment had failed. Could brain surgery save him?
Experimental surgery has kept Gerod Buckhalter sober for more than 600 days. His success shows what may be possible.
washingtonpost.com

Long, but fascinating. Possibility of the brain stimulation that helps Parkinson’s could help addiction.

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retired cynic  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:13:07pm

And

Ohio Republicans move to ban cheap, fast, and successful municipal broadband programs in the state
dailykos.com

Of course, why not?

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Citizen K  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:16:14pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:16:31pm

Even if that’s true, there is more to the country than Philadelphia, and the ruling applies nationwide.

I’m sure the evangelical organisation from Kansas which has the no-bid contract for adoptions in Nebraska would be peachy keen to allow LGBT, Jewish, Muslim, or atheist couples to adopt.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:16:37pm
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Dangerman  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:22:15pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:23:34pm

re: #77 Dangerman

Texas Republicans don’t care about what Ironside did since they will continue to get their stipends from the Kochs, Mercers and other billionaire pimps.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:30:13pm

this is some noisy rain.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:32:18pm

re: #77 Dangerman

Article X also funds all the staffers at the Pink House, such as legislative aides and janitors.

The cruelty is the point. Abbott will now blame Democrats: Look what you made me do.

Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes funding for Texas Legislature and its staff as punishment for Democrats’ walkout on elections bill (Texas Tribune)

Mark Elias might be able to go after Gov. Abbott over violating the Texas Constitution.

Sec. 24. COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE; DURATION OF REGULAR SESSIONS. (a) Members of the Legislature shall receive from the Public Treasury a salary of Six Hundred Dollars ($600) per month, unless a greater amount is recommended by the Texas Ethics Commission and approved by the voters of this State in which case the salary is that amount. Each member shall also receive a per diem set by the Texas Ethics Commission for each day during each Regular and Special Session of the Legislature.

(b) No Regular Session shall be of longer duration than one hundred and forty (140) days.

(c) In addition to the per diem the Members of each House shall be entitled to mileage at the same rate as prescribed by law for employees of the State of Texas.

ARTICLE 3. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT (Texas Constitution)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:40:11pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:41:46pm

from around the region so far:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:42:19pm

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Strictly, the Texas Legislature is funded under the last budget until August 31. Section X funds the legislature starting September 1.

In the meantime, Gov. Abbott wants a re-do on the voter suppression bill, and a special session to further gerrymander Texas in redistricting post-Census.

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:43:06pm

re: #42 JOE 🥓

Can they ALL lose?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:43:32pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

from around the region so far:

How far from you?

Stay safe.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:45:54pm

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How far from you?

Stay safe.

storm has arrived here.
very noisy, very strong winds (they say up to 70mph) and a ton of rain.

my youngest sister who lives just east of Hidden Valley in that first tweet, said the tornado sirens were blaring everywhere.

great fun…

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KingKenrod  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:49:26pm

I don’t like Don Winslow. He belongs to to a class of TV and Twitter pundit who relentlessly drills every exposed nerve but provides nothing of substance as far as I can tell. I find this tactic self-serving and somewhat disheartening, not motivating. I think people get emotionally addicted to this kind of thing and it makes them more cynical. Maybe it motivates some people, but I don’t need the aggravation. :)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:50:35pm

re: #87 KingKenrod

In other words “Twitter”.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:53:24pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:56:59pm

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

no reason to assume they can’t be both

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 7:57:24pm

The invisible hand of the free market, reaching out to your Internet of Things without telling you.

Texas thermostats adjusted remotely during heat wave residents claim (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

Brandon English said his wife had turned on their home’s air conditioning this week and then she and their daughters took a nap.

When English got home, the house inside was 78, hotter than what the family expected with the air conditioning running.

“They woke up sweating,” English told KHOU.

He said that no one adjusted the thermostat but it was changed as the family slept, making the house potentially too hot for his 3-month-old daughter.

“Was my daughter at the point of overheating? She’s 3 months old. They dehydrate very quickly,” English told KHOU.

(more)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:03:51pm

niters!

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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:05:54pm

Ah but Rick is a Republican who is a charter member of the Cult Of The Fetus! No way Republican Bishops would deny him the wafer ‘n vino!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:07:15pm

re: #93 JOE 🥓

He called victims of the El Paso shooting “soft targets,” and after the Parkland shooting said students would better be served by CPR than gun laws. No regard for human lives.

You and I are the immoral ones, though.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:10:27pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:11:21pm

re: #62 mmmirele

Joe Biden signs E.O. 14035 “Declare Statute in Restraint of Appeals”

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EPR-radar  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:12:31pm

re: #40 Dread Pirate Ron

Republicans are the only real threat to America.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:13:01pm

I knew shit was bad 20 or so years ago when CNN started having Catholic League (?) spokesman Bill Donohue on to tell us what all Catholics believe.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:13:38pm

re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They signed up for a service that allowed ERCOT to adjust their thermostat in exchange for benefits. IOW, its their own damn fault.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:13:52pm

re: #93 JOE 🥓

Ah but Rick is a Republican who is a charter member of the Cult Of The Fetus! No way Republican Bishops would deny him the wafer ‘n vino!

Caring predominantly about souls is loving people in a way that you can choose to ignore all the suffering of people or transubstantiatethat suffering into it into higher order form of love.

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:15:26pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

No, not Brownshirts.
When someone says “pipe hitter” I think of Shughart and Gordon
Don’t label good men because of garbage like Gallagher

They may not be brownshirts but that’s what Pompeo wants.

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gocart mozart  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:16:10pm
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William Lewis  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:16:31pm

re: #62 mmmirele

Anyone who has studied medieval or Renaissance history will get the humor of this.

This Anglican enjoys it…

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Dangerman  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:17:44pm

re: #99 Eric The Fruit Bat

They signed up for a service that allowed ERCOT to adjust their thermostat in exchange for benefits. IOW, its their own damn fault.

fwiw Florida FPL been doing that more than 20 years.

voluntary for a small credit monthy

if necessary they can limit your ac, hot water heater or swimming.pool filter. not adjust your thermostat, just cut the juice to specific devices

I don’t recall noticing if ours ever kicked in

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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:23:12pm

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You and I are the immoral ones, though.

According to John Hagee I get to be tossed in the Lake Of Fire after the Battle Of Armageddon along with all but 144,000 male Jewish virgins who will convert to Xtianity. So I get to be a hunk of fried bacon for all eternity…

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:23:59pm

re: #104 Dangerman

fwiw Florida FPL been doing that more than 20 years.

voluntary for a small credit monthy

if necessary they can limit your ac, hot water heater or swimming.pool filter. not adjust your thermostat, just cut the juice to specific devices

I don’t recall noticing if ours ever kicked in

they had that in California. Saved 150 per year or something. The important point is that they could only disconnect your AC for an hour at a time.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:24:26pm

re: #98 Barefoot Grin

I knew shit was bad 20 or so years ago when CNN started having Catholic League (?) spokesman Bill Donohue on to tell us what all Catholics believe.

The same Bill Donohue who dares to defend child molesting priests…

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plansbandc  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:27:56pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

I can’t handle it.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:29:01pm
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EPR-radar  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:29:31pm

re: #107 JOE 🥓

The same Bill Donohue who dares to defend child molesting priests…

Damn near the entire RCC hierarchy has been defending child molesting priests for centuries. Donohue has a lot of company on this particular road to hell.

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:29:38pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m curious where that video picture was taken.

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BlueSpotinAL  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:31:46pm

re: #105 JOE 🥓

According to John Hagee I get to be tossed in the Lake Of Fire after the Battle Of Armageddon along with all but 144,000 male Jewish virgins who will convert to Xtianity. So I get to be a hunk of fried bacon for all eternity…

What kills me is when someone says there were 144,000 in a perfect square. The square root is not an integer.

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EPR-radar  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:34:11pm

re: #112 BlueSpotinAL

What kills me is when someone says there were 144,000 in a perfect square. The square root is not an integer.

144 is a perfect square, so of course 144,000 is also a perfect square according to an innumerate scribe back in the day trying to make things sound more impressive.

Now Biblical literalists are stuck trying to make sense of this, and their literalism blocks them from having the only sensible response.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:35:00pm

re: #105 JOE 🥓

According to John Hagee I get to be tossed in the Lake Of Fire after the Battle Of Armageddon along with all but 144,000 male Jewish virgins who will convert to Xtianity. So I get to be a hunk of fried bacon for all eternity…

Well, I’m not Jewish but plenty of preachers seem to know the Mind of God (tm) and already have my roasting spit ready.

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A Cranky One  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:36:59pm

re: #111 Belafon

I’m curious where that video was taken.

Appears to be Richmond Virginia.

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Targetpractice  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:50:24pm

Sorry I haven’t been as active today as I normally might be.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:53:10pm

re: #112 BlueSpotinAL

What kills me is when someone says there were 144,000 in a perfect square. The square root is not an integer.

I suppose the Biblical number is part of the US Customary measurement system.

By the way, the survey foot, survey yard, and survey acre will be abandoned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, after which only the international acre will be used. Currently both are in use from a treaty with Commonwealth countries signed in 1959.

The international acre is fixed to the metric system, and is about two parts per million smaller than the survey acre (about 24.8 square inches).

Currently, surveyors use both survey feet and international feet. This doesn’t matter a whole lot when measuring your personal property, but when measuring distances across the country for mapmaking (see self-driving car discussion previously), it makes a great deal of difference. (As such, important maps have to be marked as international feet or survey feet.)

As for a square mile (640 acres), the number of acres on a side is an irrational number of acres (25.298+), meaning square miles are also indirectly either international or survey.

But all this can be worked out with a calculator. It still makes more sense than The Apocalypse (Revelation).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 8:57:36pm

re: #112 BlueSpotinAL

What kills me is when someone says there were 144,000 in a perfect square. The square root is not an integer.

Like this guy (0:16)

Questioning Darwin “If the Bible said 2+2=5”

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mmmirele  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:02:30pm

re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, I’m not Jewish but plenty of preachers seem to know the Mind of God (tm) and already have my roasting spit ready.

I remember when I realized that nobody, and I do mean NOBODY actually believes in hell. And that was when I heard a sermon by a guy who later became the head of the Vineyard USA about getting the reality of hell into our hearts.

I wrote him a letter (this was 1989) and told him that if he truly believed in hell, he would be (and I am dating myself) bugging every supermarket checker and paperboy about it—but he didn’t. Nobody did.

It took a few more years for me to work out that all the Evangelical talk of hell was fairly bogus and owed more to Dante than to what people thought at the time. I do like to raise the hackles of the hellfire and damnation bunch on Twitter by telling them that I decided I’d rather go to hell than worship a god who sent people to hell, ESPECIALLY a god (that’d be the god of John Calvin) who decided from the foundation of the world who was saved and who was damned. That “god” is only worthy of the two hand salute.

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Targetpractice  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:03:38pm

re: #74 Citizen K

[Embedded content]

“Ashli Babbitt-Lied” just doesn’t sound as catchy as “Horst Wessel-Lied.”

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:10:42pm
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ckkatz  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:13:06pm

The discussion from last thread about errors in maps reminded me of this very old XKCD cartoon:

Image: google_maps.png

or

xkcd.com

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:16:49pm
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ckkatz  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:18:11pm

Also this one:

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:19:00pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:27:34pm
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ckkatz  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:29:05pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Reminded me of the ‘Galileo Affair’

en.wikipedia.org

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:30:03pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:34:22pm

Are the Catholic bishops going to pitch Gov. Pete Ricketts out of their club for supporting the death penalty and signing death warrants?

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plansbandc  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:39:52pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:40:07pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:44:54pm

The US Botanic Garden has another “corpse flower” that is blooming. They have a live feed:

USBG Corpse Flower Live Stream 2021

Watch it grow! These things grow so quickly that the flower becomes warmer than the surroundings.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:46:26pm

At 1000 PM CDT (0300 UTC), the disturbance was centered near
latitude 28.9 North, longitude 90.9 West. The system is moving
toward the north near 13 mph (20 km/h). A turn toward the
north-northeast is expected later tonight, with a turn toward the
east-northeast expected by Saturday night or Sunday. On the
forecast track, the system should moved inland over Louisiana
during the next several hours, then move across portions of the
Gulf coast and southeastern states through the weekend.

Maximum sustained winds are near 45 mph (75 km/h) with higher gusts.
There is still a high chance the system will become a tropical or
subtropical storm through Saturday morning while the center is over
or near water. The system is expected to begin weakening Saturday
afternoon as it moves farther inland.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…high…80 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days…high…80 percent.

Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles (335 km)
mainly to the east of the center. Several oil rigs of off the
coast of southeastern Louisiana have recently reported sustained
winds of 40-45 mph (65-70 km/h).

The graphical display shows the storm tracking further east after it goes inland, in the general direction of Virginia Beach (though they predict it will dissipate over North Carolina).

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:48:15pm

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m frustrated by the fact that the world isn’t where we are on vaccines, as well as the millions here who won’t get the vaccine, but:

1. The US is one of the only western countries pushing to wave the patents.
2. Ariana Grande doesn’t own any patents on vaccines.
3. It doesn’t help in other places, like Africa or India, for patents to be waved since they don’t have the resources to produce the vaccine.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:52:09pm

Just watched a short presentation by Adam Frank. It pushed my buttons.

He’s well known and been in the blogging/podcasting world for some time, did the show on NPR, etc.

But like others of his age (I think he’s about my age), his quest to be more than just be a piece of meat has led him to make proclamations which may sway the general public but to me he’s just another physicist who wishes that he had a soul.

He does assert that the problems we see around us today are connected to a worldview problem, but I believe he misinterprets exactly which worldview and which problem is pressing us the most towards dystopia.

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plansbandc  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:53:48pm

re: #133 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This is when we truly need smell-o-vision.

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DodgerFan1988  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:54:48pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:56:16pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:57:21pm

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Are the Catholic bishops going to pitch Gov. Pete Ricketts out of their club for supporting the death penalty and signing death warrants?

What? The Bishops who march lockstep with the GOP deny the wafer & vino to a fellow Republican? Nope. Nope. Nope.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:59:41pm

re: #137 plansbandc

This is when we truly need smell-o-vision.

I have experienced the corpse flower when one bloomed in Pasadena.

No way in hell do you want to experience Odorama® with that flower!

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Targetpractice  Jun 18, 2021 • 9:59:48pm

re: #138 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

Al Franken and Katie Hill were unavailable for comment.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:00:48pm

Maybe I’ll post the video later… it was a Dartmouth get together (virtual) with the usual suspects (Frank, McKibben, Singer). It did have some of the non-usual suspects, including a few women, the most famous being Ayaan Ali. She ponders why she was asked to be there…

My answer is simple - the usual suspects are all old white guys (including the host) and they are desperate to include someone outside their usual circle. It’s not that the likes of Ali are purely tokens - they did have something to share in answer the gathering’s question: what is the future of humanity?

But cynical me can’t help but consider that the McKibben and Singer have failed more than they have succeeded over several decades now.

McKibben still wants to make the oil companies the bad guys. Sure, they are guilty of many things. But in the end blaming Exxon is just looking for a scapegoat - humans (Americans in this particular case) willingly wanted to not take counter measures to climate change.

It’s like blaming Trump for the hate-right in this country. Trump did not create them. He merely profited from them.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:04:21pm

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Every time you think Josh Mandel couldn’t go any lower…he goes even lower…

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plansbandc  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:12:37pm

re: #141 JOE 🥓

I do! I love the science of it, and I really would love to see one in person and smell it too.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:14:59pm

re: #144 JOE 🥓

Every time you think Josh Mandel couldn’t go any lower…he goes even lower…

And yet, he is representative of much of the people in his political party.

Back when I was on my village board, former Rep. Steve King was making noises about legislation to remove birthright citizenship (and lying that only the USA has it when all of the countries in the Western Hemisphere do). The Wingnut Party has been advocating that my whole life. If such a bill was to pass, that would strip me of my citizenship (something something undocumented grandparents).

I asked our (Republican) village attorney/county prosecutor about that. He assured me that King was just grandstanding and no one would really try to pass such a bill.

I know better. Given a chance, the Racist Party would do it in a heartbeat.

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Belafon  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:17:18pm

re: #142 Targetpractice

Al Franken and Katie Hill were unavailable for comment.

“It pisses me off that we live in a world where a POS like Matt Gaetz can just do whatever he wants and remain in good standing in his party while someone like Katie Hill has to be mindful of every thing she does and every thing she says because people are just waiting to pounce.”

Sounds the same.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:25:22pm

Mr. Atheist (Jimmy Snow) breaks down in laughter over Ben Shapiro’s tweet that we should ban crime.

(10:34)

The Ben Shapiro Tweet that BROKE MY BRAIN!

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Targetpractice  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:25:30pm

Meanwhile, McCarthy has already declared that Gaetz has to be convicted before he’ll even consider taking disciplinary action against him. Not accused, not indicted, but convicted. I guess he expects Matt to vote from the courthouse during his trial.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:31:52pm

re: #147 Belafon

“It pisses me off that we live in a world where a POS like Matt Gaetz can just do whatever he wants and remain in good standing in his party while someone like Katie Hill has to be mindful of every thing she does and every thing she says because people are just waiting to pounce.”

Sounds the same.

FWIW and TBF, Matt Gaetz vocally supported Katie Hill. I was surprised by his comments at the time, and figured then that his reaction reflected the likelihood that his personal behavior would not receive the approval of the standard hypocritical evangelical Christian. But at least he was not one who castigated Ms. Hill.

He’s a horrible person but not the worst in Washington.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:41:52pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:45:11pm

re: #149 Targetpractice

Meanwhile, McCarthy has already declared that Gaetz has to be convicted before he’ll even consider taking disciplinary action against him. Not accused, not indicted, but convicted. I guess he expects Matt to vote from the courthouse during his trial.

Fine with me. It means that Gaetz can drag down his fellow republicans.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:47:32pm

re: #149 Targetpractice

Meanwhile, McCarthy has already declared that Gaetz has to be convicted before he’ll even consider taking disciplinary action against him. Not accused, not indicted, but convicted. I guess he expects Matt to vote from the courthouse during his trial.

Well, there is an innocent until proven guilty argument to make, but McCarthy is in the minority.

Two-thirds are required to expel Gaetz if it comes to that, and some Republicans might choose to do that to save their own hides in the next election.

It also might not come to that if he’s turfed out in the next election.

Every day the GOP defends him is another day Democrats can tie an accused child rapist to their party.

How many times in the past have we seen Republicans state their undying support for another, right before sliding the shiv in?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:47:44pm

The Foo Fighters upcoming album is going to be….different.

It’s called “Hail Satin” and it’s a tribute to disco. This photo from a BBC article (bbc.com) says it all.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:49:53pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:52:27pm

re: #149 Targetpractice

Meanwhile, McCarthy has already declared that Gaetz has to be convicted before he’ll even consider taking disciplinary action against him. Not accused, not indicted, but convicted. I guess he expects Matt to vote from the courthouse during his trial.

Never take any statement by a Republican at face value, especially one who supports Trump. It’s not as though McCarthy has any principles; he isn’t stupid and he will definitely support any position that he thinks will be a winner, regardless of its merits. As soon as he thinks Gaetz will harm him or the party, he will, without a second thought, voice the opposite view.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:53:29pm

re: #154 Dr Lizardo

The Foo Fighters upcoming album is going to be….different.

It’s called “Hail Satin” and it’s a tribute to disco. This photo from a BBC article (bbc.com) says it all.

[Embedded content]

Disco lives forever!

(4:16)

You Should Be Dancing

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:59:12pm

(1:40:18)

The Best Disco Music of 70s 80s 90s

The Best Disco Music of 70s 80s 90s - Nonstop Disco Dance Songs 70 80 90s Music Hits

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 10:59:53pm

re: #154 Dr Lizardo

It’s your fault. You got me started.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:00:28pm

re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s your fault. You got me started.

Foo Fighters - Shadow Dancing (Rock-N-Relief)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:03:10pm

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

This is a pretty good take on that song.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:16:40pm

Possibly the worst disco song ever done, “Guilty” by Mike Oldfield (6:43)

Guilty (Long Version)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:21:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:23:08pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:24:34pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:27:19pm

(1:17:00, I have this LP, sue me)

STUDIO 54 - 70’s DISCO CLASSICS MIX 10 - by francescogiovannini2.blogspot.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:35:18pm

Governor Ricketts’s BFF Punches a Woman in the Face (Seeing Red Nebraska)

You may not know Patrick Castle by name, but you are certainly familiar with his “work”. He is the leader of “Life Runners”, an evangelical anti-abortion group that helps Governor Ricketts, Senator Joni Albrecht, Senator Suzanne Geist, and all the other misogynists to get their anti-abortion bills passed. You’ve seen their ridiculous “protect the unborn” signs everywhere. Patrick Castle is also a violent extremist who assaults women at rallies and outside of abortion clinics. This is a case where everyone knows this guy is increasingly violent and out of control, and the cops refusal to put any check on him, despite multiple documented assaults, is inevitably going to lead to tragedy. In his most violent and unhinged attack yet, on September 25, 2020, while outside the CARE Clinic in Bellevue, he asked his wife to start filming, and then he brutally assaulted a CARE Clinic volunteer while loudly saying that she broke his sign. (goes to TikTok) Warning: the video at that link is extremely difficult to watch.

As reported by Marie Claire magazine, Patrick Castle stands outside the CARE Clinic in Bellevue Nebraska every week to harass patrons, staff, and volunteers. He wears a vest he had made to look exactly like the CARE volunteer vests and diverts people trying to get to the clinic for care by telling them he is a doctor and asking what time their appointment is. Sometimes he has someone in scrubs with him to complete the façade. He even goes so far as to climb into clients’ cars. He then takes them to his own anti-abortion clinic nearby and lies to them about a variety of things, including how far along they are in their pregnancy. The Bellevue Police are aware of this and say there’s nothing they can do about it because he really is a doctor so he is not lying.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:46:10pm

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Christian assholes, driving more of the next generation away from religion forever. They do a much better job than atheists ever could.

University of Essex (UK) TedX presentation on why religious belief is in terminal decline in the West (including the United States).

David Voas is a sociologist with a background in demography.

Amongst other things, he notes that people not raised in religious households more and more fear any religion, not just Christianity, and in keeping with the decline in other Western countries, the USA is also now on a terminal decline.

(15:53)

Why there is no way back for religion in the West | David Voas | TEDxUniversityofEssex

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:50:43pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 18, 2021 • 11:57:58pm

I’m going to mosey to bed. G’night y’all.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 19, 2021 • 12:28:10am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 12:30:22am

re: #13 Florida Panhandler

Evidently “foreplay” to Mr. Shapiro is just the Intro track into Boston’s “Long Time.”

Women are there to serve men and men are there to serve the market.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 12:39:48am

re: #120 Targetpractice

“Ashli Babbitt-Lied” just doesn’t sound as catchy as “Horst Wessel-Lied.”

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Or the “Nuclear Wessels-Lied”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 12:45:39am

My grandmother never came to church with us. She stayed home and made Sunday dinner.

I later came to found out it was because she was excommunicated because she had divorced and remarried.

So yeah, fuck those guys.

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Targetpractice  Jun 19, 2021 • 12:48:44am

re: #171 Dread Pirate Ron

[Embedded content]

2001-2016: “Another FBI sting on a terrorist cell! We need to support these fearless men and women protecting us from Islamic terrorism!”

2016-Now: “ZOMG! CAN YOU BELIEVE THE FBI THINKS WHITE PEOPLE ARE TERRORISTS?!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 12:50:34am

re: #175 Targetpractice

2001-2016: “Another FBI sting on a terrorist cell! We need to support these fearless men and women protecting us from Islamic terrorism!”

2016-Now: “ZOMG! CAN YOU BELIEVE THE FBI THINKS WHITE PEOPLE ARE TERRORISTS?!”

Do you not remember how the FBI had to withdraw a 2009 report on how White Supremacists were America’s number one terrorist threat because the RW was throwing such a fit of vapors?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 19, 2021 • 12:53:15am
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Targetpractice  Jun 19, 2021 • 12:57:30am

re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Do you not remember how the FBI had to withdraw a 2009 report on how White Supremacists were America’s number one terrorist threat because the RW was throwing such a fit of vapors?

I do remember. But that was after 8 years of regular reports of FBI “stings” on alleged terrorist cells that turned out to be FBI agents goading guys into orchestrating attacks, and then “catching them in the act” of receiving fake explosives/weapons/etc. But the MAGAts were cool with that because the alleged terrorists all had skin darker than a paper bag.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 1:02:20am

re: #178 Targetpractice

I also recall how the FBI went from being the Darling of the Right for torpedoing Hillary in 2016 to the Embodiment of Liberal Evil for continuing to investigate the GOP/Russia collusion case.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 19, 2021 • 1:03:59am
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Targetpractice  Jun 19, 2021 • 1:04:56am

re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I also recall how the FBI went from being the Darling of the Right for torpedoing Hillary in 2016 to the Embodiment of Liberal Evil for continuing to investigate the GOP/Russia collusion case.

Yeah, but that was after spending most of the year swinging back and forth between active participants in a massive cover-up and “defenders of all that is good and just!” Remember the “leaks” in the early days, when there were supposedly 150+ agents involved in the investigation, and that Comey was facing mass resignations if he didn’t indict her?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 1:07:12am

re: #181 Targetpractice

the point is that that the FBI is now on the Bad Guy Side because the GOP is desperately looking for a fall guy to support their narrative of events regarding January 6th…

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Targetpractice  Jun 19, 2021 • 1:19:20am

re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

the point is that that the FBI is now on the Bad Guy Side because the GOP is desperately looking for a fall guy to support their narrative of events regarding January 6th…

Oh, they’ve been nursing a grudge against the FBI longer than 1/6. When there were no mass resignations or FBI agents rushing to the press to attack Comey, they became convinced that it was part of the “deep state.” Then they became more convinced when it investigated Russiagate even after Comey was fired, something they figured would be dropped quickly in order to focus on Dem “crimes.” But before 1/6, their biggest “crime” in the eyes of MAGAts was supposedly having the goods on Hunter (via his laptop) but not taking action in order to help Joe get elected.

Really, the only federal agency that MAGAts love is ICE, and that’s because those fascist thugs happily goose-stepped along to Hair Furor’s orders.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 1:20:44am

re: #183 Targetpractice

Really, the only federal agency that MAGAts love is ICE, and that’s because those fascist thugs happily goose-stepped along to Hair Furor’s orders.

and because they are packed his his hand-picked thugs

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Targetpractice  Jun 19, 2021 • 1:34:57am

Speaking of Hunter, the weeks and months of screaming about his “crimes” is why I’m not really expecting Gaetz to feel real heat from the GQP leadership when he’s indicted. Hell, I’m willing to believe that someone like MTG will actually stand up in the House and demand a hearing into the allegations that the FBI has and is withholding evidence of those “crimes” in order to protect the Biden admin.

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ericblair  Jun 19, 2021 • 1:52:29am
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EPR-radar  Jun 19, 2021 • 1:59:59am

It’s so funny seeing these Catholic bishops serving as pawns of the GOP.

There’s nothing in it for the RCC to take a hardline anti-abortion position in the US. All that will do is reduce membership and donations, and the Vatican is well aware of that.

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John Hughes  Jun 19, 2021 • 2:21:12am

re: #135 Belafon

3. It doesn’t help in other places, like Africa or India, for patents to be waved since they don’t have the resources to produce the vaccine.

1. ITYM waived.

2. The Serum Institute of India, the largest vaccine producer in the world would like a word.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 2:31:06am

re: #186 ericblair

Another warned that a document targeting Catholic politicians would lead to “the weaponization of the Eucharist.”

Now I have a new goal in life…Host Toasters!!!

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Targetpractice  Jun 19, 2021 • 2:47:46am

So you can be denied the Eucharist based not upon sins you have committed, but giving others the permission to chose to sin or not.

After decades of revelation after revelation of Holy Mother Church not only allowing priests to bugger young boys, but then moving them to new parishes and paying off the victims quietly to avoid negative press, how do any of these assholes have the stones to pull this shit out in broad daylight?

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John Hughes  Jun 19, 2021 • 3:46:02am

re: #21 Charles Johnson

Nobody expects the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith…

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John Hughes  Jun 19, 2021 • 4:32:05am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Steve King:

700,000 white christian men died in the conflict to save the union and end slavery.

Interesting. Per Wikipedia, Union losses were 365,000+ total dead. (Not all of whom were white).

To get to 700,000 you have to count confederate losses. I suppose you could say that they also died to support the Union, in the same sense that Nazis died to defeat fascism.

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steve_davis  Jun 19, 2021 • 4:45:29am

re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s a period of about twelve hours in Spring and Autumn when the temperatures are reasonable here.

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I love the black boxes:

Bad News: You’re going to die.
Good News: It will be mostly sunny.

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Dangerman  Jun 19, 2021 • 4:59:36am

in case it’s not obvious

it’s interesting that this nonsense with the catholic church and communion is not based on whether someone actually committed a sin, but about their thoughts (ok political positions)

we all know there are actual sinners out there - trump, gingrich, etc

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steve_davis  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:01:12am

re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The invisible hand of the free market, reaching out to your Internet of Things without telling you.

Texas thermostats adjusted remotely during heat wave residents claim (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

(more)

oh good grief. “Was my daughter at the point of overheating?” Your daughter comes from a long line of primates who’ve spent millions of years surviving without a/c. pretty sure the kid isn’t going to die of dehydration at 78 fahrenheit. she’s not a slug.

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Belafon  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:13:41am

re: #188 John Hughes

1. ITYM waived.

2. The Serum Institute of India, the largest vaccine producer in the world would like a word.

I know what I’ve read:

The US donates vaccines to india: english.kyodonews.net

The US donates materials to India: nytimes.com

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Belafon  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:19:45am

I am curious why the rate of vaccination is going up:

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:21:37am

re: #197 Belafon

I am curious why the rate of vaccination is going up:

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Vaccinations among teenagers?

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Dangerman  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:21:53am
All members of the crowd control team of Portland police have resigned from their positions in the unit after an officer was indicted on an assault charge stemming from alleged illegal use of force during a protest last year,” Reuters reports.

That’s one way to clean the house

Interesting though indicted not convicted
How dare you even question us!

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Belafon  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:22:10am

When I first read the headline, I thought it was a joke:

But then there’s the actual op ed:

… People simply don’t want to get vaccinated! Still, many have done so, including this author. Generally, the young and educated residents of Russia’s largest cities — the so-called “new middle class” — have been most willing to get the vaccine. They consider themselves world citizens, vacation in Berlin and Paris and watch Netflix and HBO. They don’t need to be convinced that vaccination is a good idea: they volunteer for it and talk their friends and co-workers into it as well…

Putin’s supporters, however, have not been getting vaccinated. These are the older Russians, generally less educated, who travel abroad only rarely, if at all…

People who had said nothing when the authorities rigged election results, forced the courts to find innocent people guilty, shut down independent media outlets, jailed opposition members and tortured prisoners have finally started speaking out. “You are impinging on our freedoms,” they cried as the authorities came after them with a syringe.

They’ll shout for a time, but they’ll stop soon enough. Some will buckle and get the vaccine, but many more will turn to the already flourishing black market for a fake certificate of vaccination. The going price for such documents has already reached $200 in Moscow. And those same people will go home satisfied that they have outsmarted the system…

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Belafon  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:22:30am

re: #198 Hecuba’s daughter

Vaccinations among teenagers?

Good point.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:24:38am

re: #180 Dread Pirate Ron

I would bet that Congressional staff are partially responsible for the signs and they know who is on their side.

And the Congress Critters themselves are being typically two-faced in posting signs they think the people will see will voting against something meaningful for them. A very “thoughts and prayers” type of thing were they proclaim their holiness while doing nothing in reality beyond spouting the words.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:28:53am

re: #190 Targetpractice

So you can be denied the Eucharist based not upon sins you have committed, but giving others the permission to chose to sin or not.

After decades of revelation after revelation of Holy Mother Church not only allowing priests to bugger young boys, but then moving them to new parishes and paying off the victims quietly to avoid negative press, how do any of these assholes have the stones to pull this shit out in broad daylight?

Catholic male privilege.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:31:49am

re: #202 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I would bet that Congressional staff are partially responsible for the signs and they know who is on their side.

And the Congress Critters themselves are being typically two-faced in posting signs they think the people will see will voting against something meaningful for them. A very “thoughts and prayers” type of thing were they proclaim their holiness while doing nothing in reality beyond spouting the words.

It’s worse than that. The refusal of Congressman Clyde to shake the hands of a Capitol police officer demonstrates that many GOP members of Congress believe that their base is anti-police when it comes to those who defended the Capitol from a mob of Trump insurrectionists — that the failure of those officers to switch sides shows that they were the enemy. They are only pro-police when it comes to violating the rights of people of color and whites who are the allies of POC.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:33:45am

re: #204 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s worse than that. The refusal of Congressman Clyde to shake the hands of a Capitol police officer demonstrates that many GOP members of Congress believe that their base is anti-police when it comes to those who defended the Capitol from a mob of Trump insurrectionists — that the failure of those officers to switch sides shows that they were the enemy. They are only pro-police when it comes to violating the rights of people of color and whites who are the allies of POC.

In other words they want police to be their brownshirt thugs.

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Belafon  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:35:54am
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No Malarkey!  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:44:24am
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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:51:00am

re: #206 Belafon

One of my husband’s friends lives there. He works as a building maintenance engineer for a nursing home company so he had to get vaccinated. He’s a wingnut who has battlefield PTSD from the first Gulf War. He also for some fucked up reason loves killing animals with guns. Seriously, that’s his ONLY interest outside of work. He’s part owner of some dump of a hunting camp in southern Georgia where no one is vaccinated because liberals. So he probably won’t die from coronavirus. Some of his buddies might though.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:52:46am

re: #206 Belafon

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One of the responses to that tweet challenged the premise:
“Two were immune compromised. You are cheering the death of people you don’t know for political reasons. Just embarrassing”

When someone questioned that assertion by saying that there was nothing in the article to suggest that, the poster tweeted: “Do some research sweetie”.

My experience has been that if asked to provide supporting evidence of their assertions, members of the Trump cult either are silent, tell you to do your own research, or advise you to get your news from RW media. They never provide actual factual information.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 19, 2021 • 5:56:00am

re: #208 A Mom Anon

One of my husband’s friends lives there. He works as a building maintenance engineer for a nursing home company so he had to get vaccinated. He’s a wingnut who has battlefield PTSD from the first Gulf War. ….

You mean he wasn’t willing to lose his job to stand up for his right to avoid vaccination? /// Well, it does show that he has some level of sense.

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Belafon  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:23:07am

re: #210 Hecuba’s daughter

You mean he wasn’t willing to lose his job to stand up for his right to avoid vaccination? /// Well, it does show that he has some level of sense.

It’s funny at my government contractor job where so many conservatives work that you have those that have gotten the vaccine, probably about 60% and the remainder are truly hard-core conspiracy types. Our company requires that you wear your masks if you haven’t gotten vaccinated. And it’s not dividing on the lines I would not have thought.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:26:05am

So Russia has seen a doubling of daily cases and slow rise in deaths in their official count over the past month. Definitely a very troubling trend in a nation that suppresses bad news. The situation must be truly dire for them to release this information. I assume that this must be due to the spread of the Delta variant.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:27:00am

re: #107 JOE 🥓

In an episode of South Park, they had Bill Donohue on wearing his own mitre.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:29:32am

re: #211 Belafon

It’s funny at my government contractor job where so many conservatives work that you have those that have gotten the vaccine, probably about 60% and the remainder are truly hard-core conspiracy types. Our company requires that you wear your masks if you haven’t gotten vaccinated. And it’s not dividing on the lines I would not have thought.

I would guess that it’s the cautious anti-Trump vaccinated who are continuing to wear masks, especially in an environment where they are exposed to Trump anti-vaxxers.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:34:35am

re: #210 Hecuba’s daughter

Dude never got help with his PTSD either. He was in charge of a small unit(don’t ask me his rank, all I know is that he was in the Army)charged with transporting a prisoner. The prisoner got a hold of someone’s gun and hubby’s friend had to shoot him and he died. This was inside a moving vehicle. For some reason guns comfort this guy. He wasn’t anti vaccine, that part he gets.But damn is he truly dumb about current events and how government works. TBH I don’t like this dude much. Lots going on there, most of it not good at all. But at least he’s not a walking disease vector.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:35:10am

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(1:40:18)

The Best Disco Music of 70s 80s 90s

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Lord Have Mercy! Let me grab that leisure suit that I can’t fit into anymore…

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Dangerman  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:38:46am

green heron’s been back the last two days

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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:39:30am

re: #154 Dr Lizardo

One side is all BeeGees covers, the other side is studio remixes from the newest album, Medicine at Midnight. I’m hoping to score a copy before they sell out.

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jeffreyw  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:39:41am

..lest it gaze back into you

Good morning!

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Belafon  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:46:56am

re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter

I would guess that it’s the cautious anti-Trump vaccinated who are continuing to wear masks, especially in an environment where they are exposed to Trump anti-vaxxers.

My company has fired people for less severe things. In order to not wear a mask you have to provide proof that you got the vaccine and then they send you something you attach to your badge.

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Dangerman  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:47:19am

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:54:15am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:56:58am

re: #220 Belafon

My company has fired people for less severe things. In order to not wear a mask you have to provide proof that you got the vaccine and then they send you something you attach to your badge.

Good policy.

My employer just doesn’t have us in the office at all. We’ve been work from home since the pandemic started, and a manager I was helping with Power BI yesterday mentioned that they’re just going to have us in once a week on a day of our choosing moving forward.

I mentioned in another thread that they also gave us an extra floating holiday for Juneteenth this year, and it will be a company holiday starting in 2022.

We also earn a pension.

I’m VERY lucky to work where I do, but not as lucky as my former jail guard brother who retired with a great pension at 50.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 19, 2021 • 6:57:11am

re: #111 Belafon

I’m curious where that video picture was taken.

Lucky Strike power plant in Richmond, VA

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:01:12am

re: #120 Targetpractice

“Ashli Babbitt-Lied” just doesn’t sound as catchy as “Horst Wessel-Lied.”

////

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:04:19am

re: #218 A Mom Anon

One side is all BeeGees covers, the other side is studio remixes from the newest album, Medicine at Midnight. I’m hoping to score a copy before they sell out.

Same here. Looking forward to it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:05:48am

re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth

Did you survive the storm unscathed?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:12:35am

re: #195 steve_davis

oh good grief. “Was my daughter at the point of overheating?” Your daughter comes from a long line of primates who’ve spent millions of years surviving without a/c. pretty sure the kid isn’t going to die of dehydration at 78 fahrenheit. she’s not a slug.

I keep the AC in my house at 77 deg. Pretty sure that 78 deg. is not particularly warm.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:15:21am

re: #228 Colère Tueur de Lapin

I keep the AC in my house at 77 deg. Pretty sure that 78 deg. is not particularly warm.

it’s unpleasantly warm for sleeping

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:18:51am

re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

it’s unpleasantly warm for sleeping

Not really, humidity is the real problem.

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Belafon  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:21:40am

re: #230 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Not really, humidity is the real problem.

There is no way I could sleep in 77 degree temps.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:21:46am

re: #230 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Not really, humidity is the real problem.

I cannot sleep properly at temps above 78°

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:28:22am

re: #230 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Not really, humidity is the real problem.

I have to disagree. When it gets to 78, it’s uncomfortably hot for me. I’d be miserable sleeping in it, if I could even get to sleep at all.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:39:20am

re: #227 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Did you survive the storm unscathed?

so far, so good.
Round 2 arrived around 2:30 pm am. The goofy coonhound was NOT happy.
Round 3 is closing in now with some light rain and some tiny hail for the last half hour or so, but huge stuff right behind it.

Rounds 2 & 3 dumped 1.17” of rain. Round 3, so far, has contributed 0.33”.

I haven’t been out and about (and won’t until this is finished) but there are lots of reports of floods and wind damage.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:41:28am

re: #233 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Humidity sucks when trying to sleep, but a combo of that and temps above about 76 make me toss and turn and freaking sweat. Having a triple coated GSD who is her own heat source sleeping in the bed isn’t always helpful. She’s a snuggler, but when it’s too hot, Cleo will go sleep on the laminate floor outside our bedroom when it gets too hot for her. I have never seen a dog generate heat like she does. No wonder she loves the pool so much.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:43:47am
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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:44:30am

re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was worried about you guys up there. We’re expecting anywhere from 4 to 8 inches here now according to the weather forecast update this morning. Yay. I know we’re lucky to get this rain, but it’s also a pain in the ass. Especially when I am TRYING to get my yard and gardens in order. It’s been a weird spring weatherwise.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:45:25am

re: #237 A Mom Anon

I was worried about you guys up there. We’re expecting anywhere from 4 to 8 inches here now according to the weather forecast update this morning. Yay. I know we’re lucky to get this rain, but it’s also a pain in the ass. Especially when I am TRYING to get my yard and gardens in order. It’s been a weird spring weatherwise.

CVG (Cincinnati Airport) got about 4”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:48:33am

re: #235 A Mom Anon

Humidity sucks when trying to sleep, but a combo of that and temps above about 76 make me toss and turn and freaking sweat. Having a triple coated GSD who is her own heat source sleeping in the bed isn’t always helpful. She’s a snuggler, but when it’s too hot, Cleo will go sleep on the laminate floor outside our bedroom when it gets too hot for her. I have never seen a dog generate heat like she does. No wonder she loves the pool so much.

Above 75 and humid is my bugaboo as well. A fan blowing across the bed helps since it keeps the air moving there and it is relatively quiet that I get used to the noise.

Floof Cat likes to sleep against my knees. And I’ve discovered that if I shift away slightly while sleeping she snuggles up again. So I wake up with 75% of the bed bare and me against one edge due to the cat claiming all the rest.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:53:44am

re: #99 Eric The Fruit Bat

They signed up for a service that allowed ERCOT to adjust their thermostat in exchange for benefits. IOW, its their own damn fault.

“In Soviet Texas, appliances control you.”

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ericblair  Jun 19, 2021 • 7:59:51am

Long thread: MAGA goes on a date

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No Malarkey!  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:01:18am

re: #233 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have to disagree. When it gets to 78, it’s uncomfortably hot for me. I’d be miserable sleeping in it, if I could even get to sleep at all.

My in-laws didn’t have ac when my wife was a kid. They ran a fan in the hallway, because my MiL thought that if you had moving air touch your skin, you would contract “the chill.”

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:07:33am

re: #219 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Citizen K  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:08:17am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:14:42am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:15:37am

re: #190 Targetpractice

So you can be denied the Eucharist based not upon sins you have committed, but giving others the permission to chose to sin or not.

After decades of revelation after revelation of Holy Mother Church not only allowing priests to bugger young boys, but then moving them to new parishes and paying off the victims quietly to avoid negative press, how do any of these assholes have the stones to pull this shit out in broad daylight?

The Great Book of Multiple Choice.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:15:41am

re: #239 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Above 75 and humid is my bugaboo as well. A fan blowing across the bed helps since it keeps the air moving there and it is relatively quiet that I get used to the noise.

Floof Cat likes to sleep against my knees. And I’ve discovered that if I shift away slightly while sleeping she snuggles up again. So I wake up with 75% of the bed bare and me against one edge due to the cat claiming all the rest.

Lap leach will sleep in the same bed with me, but will not snuggle up while I’m asleep because I kept rolling onto her. Now the minute she knows I am awake, she wants to right back in there next to me.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:18:49am

re: #244 Citizen K

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nines09  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:21:11am

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:21:59am

re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That is why our cat is named Bunny (she didn’t grow up with a rabbit tho’). When she and her siblings were just getting their feet under them and trying to walk/run, she would hop rather than actually walk. So my wife dubbed her Bunny. And now she is all growed up.

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Citizen K  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:22:38am

re: #248 No Malarkey!

It is very strange that the rules of journalism require that this lie be printed simply because the liars are saying it

Those same rules of journalism meanwhile subject any pushback to those lies with the utmost of suspicion and rigor. Because that’s just good journalism, right?!

EDIT:

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:34:11am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:35:57am

re: #252 Eric The Fruit Bat

Meet the new liars. Same as the old liars.

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darthstar  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:42:01am

Nature is healing. Thank you science for the vaccine.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:44:25am

Awwww

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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:46:37am

re: #241 ericblair

Dear God. That’s just a nightmare not even waiting to happen. I wouldn’t have been able to stop laughing.

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mmmirele  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:47:02am

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Are the Catholic bishops going to pitch Gov. Pete Ricketts out of their club for supporting the death penalty and signing death warrants?

Aw hell naw. The USCCB doesn’t give a flying fuck about the death penalty.

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darthstar  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:47:22am
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darthstar  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:47:54am

I always post pics of the boys near fleurs.

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darthstar  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:48:32am

Sad news about Champ Biden. But at least he got to be home with his family.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:57:00am

re: #243 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Western good morning!

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looks like giant hogweed

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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:57:35am

re: #255 HRH Stanley Sea

Damn it. Champ was such a sweet boy. Very sweet. 😢

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 19, 2021 • 8:58:34am

re: #255 HRH Stanley Sea

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:07:31am

re: #253 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Meet the new liars. Same as the old liars.

When has Glenn ever been a truth teller? He received fame for defending Nazi Matthew Hale, he’s a Jew who’s been anti-Jewish and anti-Israel for most of his career, he’s always been pro-Putin and pro-Russia. He refused to listen to Reality Winner because her story contradicted his narrative. He has always been deceitful and a liar.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:08:49am

re: #257 mmmirele

Aw hell naw. The USCCB doesn’t give a flying fuck about the death penalty.

So, atheists are more moral than Catholic bishops.

That said, last week’s Pew Research survey points out every Christian faith in the nation has more supporters of the death penalty than atheists.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:19:00am

Of course trumphumpers are celebrating Biden’s dog dying

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:19:16am

re: #265 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So, atheists are more moral than Catholic bishops.

That said, last week’s Pew Research survey points out every Christian faith in the nation has more supporters of the death penalty than atheists.

Because the Lord God is a vengeful God, remember?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:19:16am

Damn allergies

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:20:51am

re: #266 EstebanTornado1963

Of course trumphumpers are celebrating Biden’s dog dying

WC Fields said that the reason he hated kids and dogs is because no matter how you dressed and deported yourself, they could always smell the bum on you.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:22:58am

re: #241 ericblair

OMG. I was rolling. 😂😂😂😂😂

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mmmirele  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:23:11am

re: #203 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Catholic male privilege.

Catholic male *priest* privilege.

These men honestly believe that when they’re ordained priests, they become something different from the rest of us humans. After all, they have the ability to stand alter Christi and consecrate the elements of the Eucharist. Consequently, they believe that they are above the law. This goes back to medieval Europe, where there were two court systems—one for priests and one for everyone else. You, common dude, could claim you were a priest and get into the priest system if you could read. And yes, guys did it.

Just going to remind people that frequent communion (i.e., once a week, like so many of my Catholic friends growing up) is a relatively new thing. Almost all Catholics took communion once a year, at Easter. In the 19th century, frequent communion was pushed in Europe as a way to keep the faithful in the fold as so many people left their rural communities for the cities and “how you going to keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Paris?”

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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:23:38am

re: #263 Eric The Fruit Bat

Ok, that made me cry. And the rain just started for real outside.

Reminds me of my dog Abby, we lost her about 4 yrs ago and not a day goes by where I don’t miss the hell out of her. Fucking cancer. Best friend I ever had. I held her while she died, it was so awful. But I know she had a good life, she was such a sweetie.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:25:53am

re: #271 mmmirele

Catholic male *priest* privilege.

I will not even begin to take that organization seriously until the College of Cardinals and Cardinelles elects the first Popess.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:27:30am

re: #257 mmmirele

Aw hell naw. The USCCB doesn’t give a flying fuck about the death penalty.

When it comes to those Republican Catholic Bishops it’s all about the Fetus…and they won’t utter a peep about the Death Penalty!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:29:47am

re: #274 JOE 🥓

When it comes to those Republican Catholic Bishops it’s all about the Fetus…and they won’t utter a peep about the Death Penalty!

Even though the Holy See explicitly opposes the death penalty.

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mmmirele  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:30:28am

re: #195 steve_davis

oh good grief. “Was my daughter at the point of overheating?” Your daughter comes from a long line of primates who’ve spent millions of years surviving without a/c. pretty sure the kid isn’t going to die of dehydration at 78 fahrenheit. she’s not a slug.

She’s a baby, three months old, she’s not exactly able to scream that she needs a drink. Plus, humans are best suited at 72 degrees, which was the average temperature in the Olduvai Gorge for millions of years, not 78 degrees. Seriously, be nice.

/signed, the lowest my thermostat goes is 79 at night and 82 during the day, because the summer electric bill is eyewatering if I don’t.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:30:41am

re: #275 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Even though the Holy See explicitly opposes the death penalty.

They just give it lip service. But when it comes to the Fetus…Oh my they go whole hog!!!!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:30:42am

re: #272 A Mom Anon

I remember when I had to put my 16 year old Himalayan seal point Minute down as she had advanced cancer and I was in the process of moving from Illinois to Minnesota - I scratched in between her eyes to close her eyes as the lethal shot was given - I would have been a basket case to have her die with her eyes wide open.

So it was me and Ozzie that made the trip up to the Twin Cities back in 2008.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:32:45am
On Thursday, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a Catholic agency that discriminates against LGBTQ people.

But the thing is … it could have been a lot worse.

[clip]

Philadelphia works with a bunch of private foster care agencies to find homes for foster children. For a long time, CSS was one of those agencies — but it refuses to place children with unmarried couples or same-sex married couples, because it wouldn’t be a religious organization if it didn’t also engage in some discrimination.

Philadelphia has an inclusive non-discrimination ordinance, and in 2018 told CSS that it would only continue to contract with it if it stopped discriminating against same-sex married couples. CSS said that discrimination is an important part of its mission and religion requires it to discriminate.

(more)

Gay Catholic Foster Care Case Stupid, Bad Until You Consider What Supreme Court MIGHT Have Done!
(Wonkette)

What could have happened is weakening all civil rights protections for LGBT people. The narrow ruling only weakens protections and allows discrimination against anyone not Christian from adopting if the Christian organisation paid with tax money says so.

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Belafon  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:33:47am

re: #248 No Malarkey!

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They just want it to be just one political party, not multuple parties.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:34:44am

Congratulations Governor Ironside!

Sickness is spiraling in Texas…and it appears to be not Covid, but the Flu and other assorted sicknesses!

The Road Back To Normal Is Paved in Illness: A Lesson From Texas

As the saying goes, “everything is bigger in Texas!” It comes as no surprise, then, that illness roared back into Texas in a big way after the state rolled back COVID-19 preventative measures.

Since March 2020, when the pandemic began to take hold in the US, Kinsa’s overall illness signal has primarily been composed of COVID. With the easing of pandemic restrictions in Texas, a resurgence of common, everyday illnesses like strep, flu and RSV, drove the rise.

healthweather.us

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:36:43am

re: #280 Belafon

Sounds like they want to turn the US into a later stage People’s Republic of China after all the nukes have been dropped.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:37:06am

re: #278 Eric The Fruit Bat

Where’s that boy been? Isn’t it picture time?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:38:34am

re: #283 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:40:21am

re: #284 Eric The Fruit Bat

((( sigh )))

He’s so beautiful. I’m totally in love with that cat.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:42:14am

re: #284 Eric The Fruit Bat

That face. Good lord, lol. Too damned adorable.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:43:16am

re: #276 mmmirele

She’s a baby, three months old, she’s not exactly able to scream that she needs a drink. Plus, humans are best suited at 72 degrees, which was the average temperature in the Olduvai Gorge for millions of years, not 78 degrees. Seriously, be nice.

/signed, the lowest my thermostat goes is 79 at night and 82 during the day, because the summer electric bill is eyewatering if I don’t.

When my furnace actually works, my thermostat stays at 72.

When my air conditioner works, it stays at “max.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:44:54am

The parade for Broadwater Days is getting ready to start. It will come marching down the street in front of my house.

Normally I am at the head of the parade, marching with the US Flag. Since I will not participate in a parade maskless, they have someone else doing that this year.

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Teddy's Person  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:45:05am

Lizards have the most beautiful and sweetest mammalian/reptilian/avian companions.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:50:55am

re: #289 Teddy’s Person

Cleo, laying on the floor to cool off. It’s 72 degrees in here. I think we need to move farther north, lol. Girlfriend needs snow.
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mmmirele  Jun 19, 2021 • 9:52:10am

re: #273 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I will not even begin to take that organization seriously until the College of Cardinals and Cardinelles elects the first Popess.

It will never happen, because they honest to god believe that you have to be a man in order to consecrate the Eucharist. Oh, and ordained to do it, but the most important thing is that you’ve got a penis.

So many Evangelical Protestant are going this way, where women are considered second class…they’ve even come up with their own theology for it, called “Eternal Subordination of the Son”. Basically, they say they believe Jesus is eternally subordinate to God the Father, and because of that women are supposed to be subordinate to men. This is a really new development among Evangelical Protestants, and is completely a response to feminism in the 1970s and 1980s (why yes, that’s how new it is).

What gets me about this is that these guys will come stark staring unglued if a woman preaches from a pulpit, but this Eternal Subordination of the Son theology is actually a form of Arianism, an ancient heresy that led to the creation of the Nicene Creed. HOWEVER, the guys who promote it still hold their jobs, and in the case of Wayne Grudem, can put out a second edition of his “Systematic Theology” (used all over the place in Evangelical seminaries), even though he promotes and believes this.

If you want to see male privilege at work—there you go. These guys can promote a heresy but let a woman preach and OMG OMG OMG…

(For the record, I won’t recite the Nicene Creed because I think it is sexist garbage that casts God as Eternal Male. Plus I don’t believe in the Virgin Birth. But I have absolutely zero problem poking these hypocrites who hate women about their own stunning heresy.)

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nines09  Jun 19, 2021 • 11:04:57am

On a positive note, Rush Limbaugh has been drug free for 4 months and 2 days.


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