Simply Beautiful: Tommy Emmanuel, “Smokey Mountain Lullaby”

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222 comments
1
gocart mozart  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:30:28pm

Curtis Sliwa has been declared the winner of the GOP mayoral primary LOL

Curtis Sliwa on Trump and the State of Today’s Media

2
Dangerman  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:38:47pm

remains of a pesto bacon foccacia
for mrsdms birthday today

creme caramel for afters

I am quite the husband when im motivated

might look a bit odd
tasted great

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retired cynic  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:39:52pm

re: #2 Dangerman

remains of a pesto bacon foccacia
for mrsdms birthday today

creme caramel for afters

I am quite the husband when im motivated

[Embedded content]

might look a bit odd
tasted great

Oooh, I bet it did!

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gocart mozart  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:40:53pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:43:58pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

What in the purple fuck did I just see???? Now I have to gouge my own eyes out with a pruning shears.

Put that in spoiler tags.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:45:00pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

By the way is McNaughton still painting his usual Kinkade stuff?

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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:45:40pm

re: #5 The Pie Overlord!

What in the purple fuck did I just see???? Now I have to gouge my own eyes out with a pruning shears.

Put that in spoiler tags.

I think it’s Ben’s Sex Fantasy…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:47:21pm

re: #2 Dangerman

remains of a pesto bacon foccacia
for mrsdms birthday today

creme caramel for afters

I am quite the husband when im motivated

[Embedded content]

might look a bit odd
tasted great

You want this? Beckie made it for me but it doesn’t really apply to me anymore and it could use a deserving home.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:48:14pm

I was going to brag that I passed 99k karma tonight and I’m heading for six figures, then I noticed our glorious Pie Overlord is closing in on half a million!

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:48:26pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

The best cartoonists label every character.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:50:32pm

re: #7 JOE 🥓

I think it’s Ben’s Sex Fantasy…

Ben’s Sex Fantasy is:

Click to Reveal
12
A Mom Anon  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:50:36pm

re: #2 Dangerman

I love foccacia, yum!

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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:52:05pm

re: #11 The Pie Overlord!

Ben’s Sex Fantasy is:

[Embedded content]

I forgot about Mr. Olympia Trump in a posing strap…

But the more I look at that cartoon in #4 it looks more and more like a Zombie Bob Ross!

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:54:18pm

re: #13 JOE 🥓

I forgot about Mr. Olympia Trump in a posing strap…

But the more I look at that cartoon in #4 it looks more and more like a Zombie Bob Ross!

just Google “Ben Garrison Trump”

No, don’t Google that. Seriously.

15
The Pie Overlord!  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:55:06pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:03:53pm
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gocart mozart  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:04:00pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:04:02pm

February 2020—Berniebots and Yang Gangers were tearing down each others signs here in Koreatown. And Yang had the most obnoxious people working for his campaign…

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:05:00pm
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BeachDem  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:07:31pm

re: #15 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

Yang—from one trick pony to horse’s ass in less than a year. Quite an accomplishment.

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darthstar  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:09:50pm

The screen on my Pixel 4 just died. The phone still works. If I’m in my car I can make and receive calls using the car controls, but the screen’s fuckin’ dark and I can’t do shit with the phone otherwise.

What does this mean you ask?

It means no MFA, or 2FA, authentication…which means I CAN’T LOG INTO MY FUCKING ACCOUNT AT THE BANK WHERE I WORK…so it looks like I’m going into the office in the city in the morning as I have about 15 hours left on my current VPN connection.

It also means I can’t use my phone for purchases like I do for most shit I do.

It also means the “keep” notes with all my passwords for various accounts is fucking dead which means anything I can’t recall from memory is F U K D fucked.

Also, I had to use my wife’s iPhone to call Google support to order a replacement ($799 pending warranty approval but pay up front motherfucker). God I love good customer support…

Well, at least I can take solace in the moral victory the Democrats scored on voting rights today…that’ll make me feel better about living in the dystopia Republicans are making for us.

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gocart mozart  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:09:51pm

re: #6 JOE 🥓

Here’s his latest
jonmcnaughton.com
His twitter is suspended for some reason

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Ace-o-aces  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:10:34pm
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plansbandc  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:10:52pm

Yang is such an asshole. Good on NYC for seeing right through his absolute bullshit.

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:18:04pm
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wrenchwench  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:18:08pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:21:08pm

re: #26 wrenchwench

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darthstar  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:21:29pm

re: #24 plansbandc

Yang is such an asshole. Good on NYC for seeing right through his absolute bullshit.

Yang had no ying.

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:24:02pm

I’m sorry Maya Wiley didn’t do better.

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wrenchwench  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:24:06pm

re: #27 JOE 🥓

When money talks, those who get paid to listen and write fall all over themselves.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:25:19pm
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Teukka  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:26:17pm

Who wants to tell them about the males role with the babies?

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gwangung  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:27:03pm

re: #24 plansbandc

Yang is such an asshole. Good on NYC for seeing right through his absolute bullshit.

I found him a clown who pissed away any advantage he had.

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:28:46pm

re: #32 Teukka

Mouthbrooder
en.wikipedia.org

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:29:05pm

Lovely. The wind is definitely starting to pickup.

Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 62. Windy, with a west wind 16 to 21 mph increasing to 25 to 30 mph. Winds could gust as high as 49 mph.

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JC1  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:29:07pm

re: #21 darthstar

The screen on my Pixel 4 just died. The phone still works. If I’m in my car I can make and receive calls using the car controls, but the screen’s fuckin’ dark and I can’t do shit with the phone otherwise.

What does this mean you ask?

It means no MFA, or 2FA, authentication…which means I CAN’T LOG INTO MY FUCKING ACCOUNT AT THE BANK WHERE I WORK…so it looks like I’m going into the office in the city in the morning as I have about 15 hours left on my current VPN connection.

It also means I can’t use my phone for purchases like I do for most shit I do.

It also means the “keep” notes with all my passwords for various accounts is fucking dead which means anything I can’t recall from memory is F U K D fucked.

Also, I had to use my wife’s iPhone to call Google support to order a replacement ($799 pending warranty approval but pay up front motherfucker). God I love good customer support…

Well, at least I can take solace in the moral victory the Democrats scored on voting rights today…that’ll make me feel better about living in the dystopia Republicans are making for us.

Could it just be the backlight? Try shining a light on the screen and see if you see anything.

Also, maybe you can do something to activate screen cast.

If that fails, the USB on that phone should support video out with the right cable. Hook it up to an external monitor.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:45:04pm

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN

(just like to say it once in a while)

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Dave In Austin  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:48:50pm
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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:51:09pm

re: #4 gocart mozart
Is that dude sitting and smoking the pipe hitter Mike Pompeo said we should strive to be?
Confusing times.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:54:07pm

Andrew Yang 2020 endorsements

Includes Penn Gillette, Nicholas Cage, and Elon Musk. Actual office holders are few and far between. The highest placed are California assemblyman Evan Low and one Barbara Hopkins, Mayor of Sellers, South Carolina (pop. 219).

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retired cynic  Jun 22, 2021 • 9:03:21pm

re: #40 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Mmm, how the heck did they find Mayor Hopkins?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 22, 2021 • 9:08:43pm

re: #41 retired cynic

Mmm, how the heck did they find Mayor Hopkins?

I think she came to them.

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sagehen  Jun 22, 2021 • 9:11:48pm

Opinion: Republicans just proved critical race theory correct
washingtonpost.com

But Republicans rallied behind Hawley’s demagoguery anyway. They voted unanimously Tuesday against her confirmation, requiring Vice President Harris to break the Senate’s tie. Ahuja was the latest of several non-White Biden nominees to run into Republican opposition.

The irony, of course, is that Republicans are now proving that systemic racism exists — and they, along with Fox News, are the primary offenders. With their united stand against the voting-rights bill and their united votes against Ahuja on the bogus justification of critical race theory, they’re the ones reducing Americans “to their racial identity alone,” as Hawley put it. The Proud Boys who attacked the Capitol must be filled with pride anew.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 9:20:53pm

re: #43 sagehen

Opinion: Republicans just proved critical race theory correct
washingtonpost.com

Yup. The more the hate-right whine about CRT, the more it becomes obvious that CRT proponents are right over target.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 9:26:11pm

Billy and Dom have started reviewing food stuff on their podcast:

Ep. 6 - Condensed Milk Syrup

..

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Targetpractice  Jun 22, 2021 • 9:34:16pm

re: #43 sagehen

Opinion: Republicans just proved critical race theory correct
washingtonpost.com

Much like “cancel culture” is just “political correctness” with the serial numbers filed off, “CRT” is just another way of babbling about things like “affirmative action” and “racial quotas,” a way for white politicians to continue blathering out loud that the white man’s dominance is under attack. Though they’re still sticking with “law & order” (*dun dun*) because it still has the same meaning today in their lexicon as it did when their daddies used it, which is to scare the white suburban folks with images of race riots and mass looting.

Overall message is still the same 14 words as its ever been.

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Citizen K  Jun 22, 2021 • 9:42:41pm

re: #46 Targetpractice

Much like “cancel culture” is just “political correctness” with the serial numbers filed off, “CRT” is just another way of babbling about things like “affirmative action” and “racial quotas,” a way for white politicians to continue blathering out loud that the white man’s dominance is under attack. Though they’re still sticking with “law & order” (*dun dun*) because it still has the same meaning today in their lexicon as it did when their daddies used it, which is to scare the white suburban folks with images of race riots and mass looting.

Overall message is still the same 14 words as its ever been.

The unfortunate thing is that just because a crisis is manufactured and based totally on a bullshit foundation doesn’t mean that it can’t win the day and its promoters can’t win tangible victories based on that BS even in the face of constant debunkings. We’re still basically living in the aftermath of ‘Sharia Law’ panic that we haven’t even fully extracted ourselves as a country from. We’re relitigating the usual ‘political correctness’ wars under guise of anti-‘woke’ and anti-‘identity politics’ BS that even significant numbers in our coalition are falling for in the face of a right wing totally united against those boogeymen. The current CRT panic seems to have already won tangible victories of essentially outlawing non-whitewashed history in several states, all because of one fucking think tank asshole demonstrating just how easily the right-wing noise machine can pump out a new boogeyman and win the day.

We’re still living in an on-line world where Gamergate essentially fucking won, for christ’s sake, and how the newest generation of right-wing monsters have used that pattern to dominate online spaces

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 10:14:57pm

Speaking of CRT, one thing that I find fascinating and disturbing is that if you google something like “essential readings for CRT”, several of google’s top results are from the concerned white-conservative outlets.

Now the list of books offered I don’t find to be too outlandish, but I am careful to note that many top websites on this topic remind me all too much of a well crafted campaign to own the space, so to speak, on this topic.

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Targetpractice  Jun 22, 2021 • 10:20:15pm

re: #47 Citizen K

The unfortunate thing is that just because a crisis is manufactured and based totally on a bullshit foundation doesn’t mean that it can’t win the day and its promoters can’t win tangible victories based on that BS even in the face of constant debunkings. We’re still basically living in the aftermath of ‘Sharia Law’ panic that we haven’t even fully extracted ourselves as a country from. We’re relitigating the usual ‘political correctness’ wars under guise of anti-‘woke’ and anti-‘identity politics’ BS that even significant numbers in our coalition are falling for in the face of a right wing totally united against those boogeymen. The current CRT panic seems to have already won tangible victories of essentially outlawing non-whitewashed history in several states, all because of one fucking think tank asshole demonstrating just how easily the right-wing noise machine can pump out a new boogeyman and win the day.

We’re still living in an on-line world where Gamergate essentially fucking won, for christ’s sake, and how the newest generation of right-wing monsters have used that pattern to dominate online spaces

It’s the same playbook they’ve been running since Donny was in short pants, the pages printed on paper that probably came out of a Jim Crow-era mill. The players change and the terms get updated for each new generation of voters, but the same general theme remains: “White supremacy is under attack and if you don’t fall in line with us, then we’re all gonna burn.” You’ll lose your job, you’ll lose your home, your social standing, your wealth, your privilege, and even your kids will be made to hate you.

And it always plays on the insecurities in people, which have only grown as vulture capitalism has removed many of the securities people once held onto. Didn’t get that promotion you wanted? Probably went to a black guy to fulfill a “quota.” Didn’t get into the university you wanted? “Preference.” Can’t afford food? “Welfare queens/young bucks.” So on and so forth, they’ve found ways to make every pitfall in your life turn into “proof” that there’s a secret system you’re not part of that is boosting racial minorities at your expense.

As for people on our side who are agreeing with this, that’s also older than f’n dirt. Besides the usual pack of contrarians who make bank on selling their disdain for what’s popular as “cutting commentary,” there’s also those soggy shits who live in constant worry of “blowback.” Who fear that any move made out of strength will scare the mundanes and lead to them rushing into the arms of conservatives to maintain the “status quo.” So what’s their solution? Maintain the “status quo” while offering all sorts of excuses for why progress simply isn’t possible unless conservatives agree to it, which they never will because that goes against the very concept of conservatism.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 11:07:51pm

From the little bit of reading I’ve done, from self proclaimed CRT authors, I think it was inevitable that there would be a war emerging over framing the narrative about the subject.

At its heart, CRT is not a “theory” in the sense that science uses the word, and therein is the beginning of the problem. As a collection of concepts that deals with law and society, CRT is really more a school of thought.

But I guess “Critical Race School of Thought” doesn’t abbreviate as well.

The second bit of nature about CRT is that several of its advocates insist that CRT has to be activist, or it’s not CRT.

That’s ok if one is trying to define a political movement, but it also means that CRT is more than just a subject to study and over which to argue.

And it should be noted that some CRT advocates have derisive views of liberals. By which they mean more than the old (18th century) definition of “liberal” used by right wingers to describe themselves as “classical liberals”. These CRT advocates do not like the liberalism of say JFK or other late 20th century and early 21st century Democrats.

So CRT advocates in many cases have set themselves up for ideological war. In this way they are like some of the various clans of marxists that spring up from time to time, who assert anarchy is the only way to push along social change.

While the CRT authors I have read are not anarchists, as far as I can tell, they are still activists who insist that if one is not pushing activism then one is not doing CRT.

The most famous book among this camp I think is Richard Delgado’s Critical Race Theory , now in different versions and some co-authors.

But I think if CRT has lasting positive value it will come from the older (1970’s to 1990’s) critiques of the US legal system.

Look for Kimberle Crenshaw’s Critical Race Theory, The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. It has sections on Critical Legal ideas and how that relates to CRT.

For my definition of what are the major constituents of CRT, I use this list summarized by Gloria Ladson-Billings in Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education (edited by Lynn and Dixson):

• belief that racism is normal or ordinary, not aberrant, in US society;
• interest convergence or material determinism;
• race as a social construction;
• intersectionality and anti-essentialism;
• voice or counter-narrative.

That’s a lot to put under one umbrella. And no doubt there are CRT advocates and researchers who might come up with a different list.

When I look at that list, I wonder which one is truly the casus belli that has the coalition of anti-CRT (which include the usual hate-right, religious-right, but also has enlisted some of the so-called liberal establishment and even more so those wonderfully milquetoast moderates) preparing for a last stand for… for something.

I think what may be offensive to some who want to be “liberal” in this day and age is the CRT assertion that the only reason even the liberal establishment has done things to help blacks is that those actions were in the self-interest of whites.

That one probably stings.

From my reading I have criticisms of some CRT activists on some topics, but I find the biggest weakness of CRT is its provincialism. By which I mean the discussions in CRT literature are only about the US. This is because the authors are living in the US and see their ideas only through American experiences.

Now some (e.g. Delgado) are trying to tie in Latino or other interest groups into CRT, but I find that pretty wanting.

Regardless, this little missive is an attempt to shape our own conversations to make sure “CRT” is defined as its proponents present.

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DodgerFan1988  Jun 22, 2021 • 11:20:05pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 22, 2021 • 11:32:25pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

Going out on a limb and saying this is the best Garrison work that ever was or ever will be.

Right up there with his Christmas Tree of Liberty or Woke Disneyland

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 11:34:29pm

re: #51 DodgerFan1988

Someday they’ll bring the guns.

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Targetpractice  Jun 22, 2021 • 11:35:34pm

re: #51 DodgerFan1988

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White fragility has never been more in your face than it is now.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 22, 2021 • 11:46:34pm

re: #51 DodgerFan1988

Parents protesting against critical race theory broke into the national anthem when the Loudoun Co., Virginia school board ended public comment because the crowd got too out of hand

Did they sing the other verses, too?

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 22, 2021 • 11:50:31pm

re: #51 DodgerFan1988

Two arrests made at the Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting after it was declared an unlawful assembly and some parents here to protest against critical race theory and a transgender policy refused to leave right away

Full Martyrdom has been achieved.

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Targetpractice  Jun 22, 2021 • 11:54:49pm

The thing that makes CRT so successful as a talking point is that it’s not really meant to stand up to scrutiny, not really meant to be looked too deeply into by people. It’s just another part of the culture war gish gallop that you will hear slung around next year, GQP candidates giving word salad responses at debates and in the press about how they’re against it and how it’s an “anti-white” conspiracy meant to brainwash our kids to adopt “socialism.” Why? Because the time spent dissecting everything wrong in those statements and showing how CRT isn’t a threat is time they’ll spend slinging even more bullshit that has to be addressed.

IOW, since they can’t dazzle the public with brilliance, they’ll baffle them with bullshit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 22, 2021 • 11:59:30pm

CRT is said to be about “divisiveness” and “making white people feel bad about themselves and America”.

There is nothing anti-American about admitting that we made mistakes. In fact, the ability to learn from one’s mistakes is one of the things that Makes Amerca Great (or any other country for that matter)

But we are dealing with people who saw no mistake in keeping slaves, in building an entire economic and social system based on exploiting slave labor, in fighting a war over the expansion of slavery or in continuing to discriminate against the freed slaves through legislation or government policy.

And that is the main problem that they have with CRT.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 23, 2021 • 12:23:02am

I faced 20 MPH headwinds crossing the bridge to Benicia today. I explored the old arsenal area and the marina. On the way back across the strait the wind was with me, then I explored more of the Martinez waterfront, practiced off-road in some ditches and dirt ruts along a field at the local airport, and added 27 miles to the odometer. 230 miles in 4 weeks.

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Targetpractice  Jun 23, 2021 • 12:25:17am

re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

CRT is said to be about “divisiveness” and “making white people feel bad about themselves and America”.

There is nothing anti-American about admitting that we made mistakes. In fact, the ability to learn from one’s mistakes is one of the things that Makes Amerca Great (or any other country for that matter)

But we are dealing with people who saw no mistake in keeping slaves, in building an entire economic and social system based on exploiting slave labor, in fighting a war over the expansion of slavery or in continuing to discriminate against the freed slaves through legislation or government policy.

And that is the main problem that they have with CRT.

I’d argue that the main problem they have with CRT is not that it teaches about the past and acknowledges all the problems therein, but that at its core is the idea that racial inequality that those problems created have not simply been erased because the problems were “solved.” Slavery was abolished, but the former slaves only enjoyed a short period of equality before Jim Crow clamped down on them. And even when Jim Crow was eventually ruled unconstitutional bit-by-bit, new laws and policies came into place to maintain the racial inequality.

But the critics of CRT don’t want to hear that, what they want to hear is “slavery is gone, Jim Crow is gone, ya’ll are equal, so stop your bitchin’!” It’s the bootstrap crowd wanting to keep living in this dream land where everybody’s equal, everybody has an equal shot, and anybody who can’t get ahead is guilty of personal failings rather than because society keeps kicking them in the ass on an unequal level.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 12:39:13am

re: #60 Targetpractice

But the critics of CRT don’t want to hear that, what they want to hear is “slavery is gone, Jim Crow is gone, ya’ll are equal, so stop your bitchin’!” It’s the bootstrap crowd wanting to keep living in this dream land where everybody’s equal, everybody has an equal shot, and anybody who can’t get ahead is guilty of personal failings rather than because society keeps kicking them in the ass on an unequal level.

And when Obama was elected, they had the ultimate chance to show him off as an example of how anyone who works hard and applies themselves can achieve the highest office in the land.

But instead they derided him as a Kenyan Muslim Usurper who got in thanks to Affirmative Action and bought the election by promising Free Stuff.

And if Kamala Harris runs for President, expect their reaction to be (Obama + Hillary)²

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ckkatz  Jun 23, 2021 • 12:48:07am

re: #51 DodgerFan1988

Thanks for posting the twitter feed on the Loudoun County School Board meeting.

I just wanted to note that Loudoun County, Virginia is the next county west of Fairfax County. Loudoun County was a very rural county until the 1990’s or 2000’s when it rapidly suburbanized under a very rightwing county board. (Which was rapidly voted out, but not before they issued over 50,000 building permits in a few years.)

The ideology and attitudes you are seeing in this video were also prevalent in Fairfax County until about 10-20 years ago. Some of the conservative folks in Fairfax felt pushed out ideologically and others financially by rapidly rising real estate prices, and moved to Loudoun County.

I suspect that there is a good chance it will moderate in the next few decades and get a lot bluer. But these panicked idiots are not going to go easily or quietly.(What can I say, things move slowly down here in the South.)

And I think that we can thank folks like Happy Warrior who, when he was living in Loudoun, worked to make Loudoun bluer.

Remember that the American Nazi Party was headquartered in Arlington County Virginia until the 1960s. Arlington County, (on the east/other side of Fairfax County from Loudoun County ) is now the most progressive county in Virginia.

Meanwhile, since the 1970’s, Fairfax County has gone from rural to suburban, and parts are now becoming urban. I remember a buffalo farm by Dulles Airport that is now several business parks. The four lane divided road by my house was a dirt road into the 1970’s and a two lane paved road well into the 1990’s.

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2021 • 1:23:53am

re: #59 Dread Pirate Ron

I faced 20 MPH headwinds crossing the bridge to Benicia today. I explored the old arsenal area and the marina. On the way back across the strait the wind was with me, then I explored more of the Martinez waterfront, practiced off-road in some ditches and dirt ruts along a field at the local airport, and added 27 miles to the odometer. 230 miles in 4 weeks.

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So the e-assist is a good feature I take it? What’s the range with the battery on that beast?

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Targetpractice  Jun 23, 2021 • 1:26:01am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And when Obama was elected, they had the ultimate chance to show him off as an example of how anyone who works hard and applies themselves can achieve the highest office in the land.

But instead they derided him as a Kenyan Muslim Usurper who got in thanks to Affirmative Action and bought the election by promising Free Stuff.

And if Kamala Harris runs for President, expect their reaction to be (Obama + Hillary)²

That’s because they don’t want an Obama or a Harris, they want a Carson or a Rice. They don’t want a black candidate who confronts racism on the campaign trail or discusses it openly, they want one that either avoids the subject or (when forced) will assure them that racism is “dead” and any black folks who say otherwise are just “making excuses.” Want a black candidate who only addresses the injustices they faced growing up in terms of “challenges to overcome” rather than deliberate efforts to hold them back.

But really, they just want a black candidates as token, they never actually want to elect them. The party that allegedly opposes racial/diversity “quotas” sure makes a big deal about how they totally are not a lily-white pack of inbreds because “LOOK! TIM SCOTT!!!”

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2021 • 1:36:56am

So my screen went dark on my Pixel tonight when I was getting dinner. First thought, fuck. Second thought, fuckity fuck. No way to authenticate to get on the network for work in the morning, so I’m going to the city. All of my passwords are stored, in abbreviated code, on a flat file on the phone. Google will be sending me a replacement phone ($800 up front) in the next 24 hours…or so.

One bonus though? I’ve learned not to be so dependent on a single piece of technology in a few short hours…I’ll be making some sweeping changes to my IT behavior in the coming days.

I have a major security review for a SaaS solution I’m trying to purchase for the bank where I work on Thursday. Looks like I’ll have the benefit of being in office to keep me focused and off social media until then. Also have an open req I’m trying to steal a former colleague to fill. I hope she isn’t trying to text me for the next two days. But she did apply so I can let HR navigate those waters.

Fuckity fuck fuck…what a shitty time for this to happen.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 23, 2021 • 3:32:20am

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Count Basie & Sextet Feat. Helen Humes - If I Could Be With You



..

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 3:42:35am

re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Two arrests made at the Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting after it was declared an unlawful assembly and some parents here to protest against critical race theory and a transgender policy refused to leave right away

Full Martyrdom has been achieved.

yeah go to jail for something that wasn’t and isn’t taught in the school

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sagehen  Jun 23, 2021 • 4:00:30am

NYT: Khashoggi’s killers had paramilitary training in U.S.
axios.com

Several Saudis who took part in the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi had paramilitary training in the U.S. under a State Department contract a year before his 2018 death, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

Louis Bremer, a senior executive at Tier 1’s parent company Cerberus Capital Management, provided the Times with written answers to lawmakers’ questions as part of his nomination for a Trump administration Pentagon role.

The document showed that four members of the team that killed Khashoggi were trained by Tier 1 Group in 2017, while two previously received training between October 2014 and January 2015.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 4:05:18am

re: #67 Dangerman

yeah go to jail for something that wasn’t and isn’t taught in the school

“The mere thought that it might raise its poisonous head in our schools!”

*fit of vapors*

Just like their explanation of the fact that the Bible records no words from Jesus against homosexuality or abortion

“Because the very mention of such sinfulness rendered him speechless!”

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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 5:44:30am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Round one of the NYC mayoral primary is over, and we get to vote Andrew Yang off the island. Guy who never had any qualifications to be mayor other than being wealthy and running for the WH previously didn’t catch on with the folks of NYC.

This was surprising to no one but a media intent on trying to make him a thing. Their focus on Yang ended up doing everyone a disservice since other candidates didn’t get the full scrutiny they deserved (Adams!). I’m not just talking about where he lived - Brooklyn? New Jersey? but his policies, actions, and behaviors that suggest he doesn’t have the temperament and judgment to be mayor.

So, right now Adams has 32%, Wiley 22%, and Garcia has 20%. Yang had 11%. That’s a total of 85% of the vote spoken for. That means the remaining 15% gets divided up in successive rounds in RCV. It will take reranking for everyone from Garcia and Yang on down to determine the nomination. The odds are that Adams will retain his lead, as it would take people choosing Garcia or Wiley as their 2d/3d options and not ranking Adams first for this to change the top 3 order.

They are saying that we’ll know by end of next week how this will work out. We’ll see.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 5:49:02am

re: #70 lawhawk

I believe that Australia uses this sort of ranked voting system and have had it explained to me a few times but I still cannot get my head around it fully.

But it beats endless run-off elections and is always better than first-through-the-post, I guess.

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 5:52:41am
CNN: “Sometimes the former President complains for several hours about the ‘stolen’ 2020 election. Other times, his frustrations emerge in fits and starts — more likely when he is discussing his hopeful return to national politics. And while he often has a rotating audience of cheering listeners, the gap between Trump and his daughter and son-in-law grows wider by the week.”

“Ivanka Trump has also struggled to undo the entanglements caused by the years at her father’s side in the White House, as she seeks a less complicated life for her family… They described her as having to walk a fine line between embracing her father and distancing herself from his election lies

She sure used the relationship to her benefit for four years….

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 5:53:54am

And the latest from FloriDUMB!

Florida students required to register political views with the state to promote ‘intellectual diversity’

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation requiring students, faculty and staff at Florida’s public universities and colleges to register their political views with the state as a way to encourage “intellectual diversity.”

But gee, what if they…LIE???????

rawstory.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 5:55:00am

re: #73 JOE 🥓

And the latest from FloriDUMB!

Florida students required to register political views with the state to promote ‘intellectual diversity’

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation requiring students, faculty and staff at Florida’s public universities and colleges to register their political views with the state as a way to encourage “intellectual diversity.”

But gee, what if they…LIE???????

rawstory.com

I assume that the state plans to create an agency that checks up on their social media posts and has authority to reclassify them based on evidence…

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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 5:57:57am

re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

First time they’re doing it in NYC. I don’t think it will always make a difference as there’s usually a clear frontrunner or two, and if just a handful of candidates are running, it will probably not come into play.

It is highly unlikely that a large field like the current 2021 batch will see a candidate way down in the rank after the first pass will rise up and overtake a leading candidate who has a significant lead (like say 10 points). We might see other candidates swap spots if they were already close in the ranks after the first pass. That’s the scenario we’re already in.

It would take a whole lot of people to put someone like Garcia or Wiley as their second/third choice for them to overtake Adams as the field gets whittled down.

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:01:32am
National Guard and reserve soldiers are having trouble feeding their families due to a year of record deployments,” the Washington Post reports.

“Hunger among Guard members and reservists is more than double the national rate.”

Appalling

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:03:16am

re: #76 Dangerman

National Guard and reserve soldiers are having trouble feeding their families due to a year of record deployments,” the Washington Post reports.

especially because many of those deployments were just meant as political posturing and grandstanding

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No Malarkey!  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:05:14am

re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I believe that Australia uses this sort of ranked voting system and have had it explained to me a few times but I still cannot get my head around it fully.

But it beats endless run-off elections and is always better than first-through-the-post, I guess.

I like it, because an instant runoff is fairer and cheaper than a delayed runoff, and it gives people the opportunity to vote for a candidate they like better without inadvertently electing the candidate they like least.

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:06:06am

Here’s a passage from the new book, Nightmare Scenario:

Trump had tried to joke about the virus for months, sometimes even mocking people who had become ill… At one meeting several months before Trump got sick, NEC director Larry Kudlow had stifled a cough. The room had frozen… Trump had waved his hands in front of his face, as if to jokingly ward off any flying virus particles, and then cracked a smile. “I was just kidding,” he’d said. “Larry will never get COVID. He will defeat it with his optimism.” … “John Bolton,” he had said … “Hopefully COVID takes out John.”

Not a joke

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No Malarkey!  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:09:35am

Justice Breyer should retire.

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Teukka  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:11:26am

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
— Admiral Josh Painter, “The Hunt for Red October” (1990)

BREAKING: Russian forces ‘drop bombs’ in path of Royal Navy

Not just warning shots, but warning bombs… Sheeeshh….

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:12:34am

re: #79 Dangerman

Here’s a passage from the new book, Nightmare Scenario:

Not a joke

Trump is all gung ho on bolton
Greatest guy, brilliant, making him my nsa
Then decides he’s not loyal (the book)
And wishes him dead

The effing president

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:18:09am

re: #76 Dangerman

Appalling

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No Malarkey!  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:18:20am

Yet another insurrectionist with a history of domestic violence who wants out of jail.

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:18:51am

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jeffreyw  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:19:59am

Good morning!

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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:25:05am

re: #86 jeffreyw

Playing with your food again?

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:26:39am

re: #27 JOE 🥓

This is why a single day presidential primary is a bad idea:

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jeffreyw  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:27:58am

re: #87 lawhawk

Playing with your food again?

It winked at me.

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:32:39am

re: #89 jeffreyw

It winked at me.

I don’t get the yolk

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Teukka  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:33:15am

re: #83 Dangerman

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On some parts of the religio-political spectrum, empathy is seen as a severe character flaw….

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Teukka  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:33:59am

Comic relief:
How to determine peoples alignment by how they handle shopping carts:

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:34:39am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:35:25am

re: #90 Dangerman

I don’t get the yolk

They confuse “empathy” with “taking away their initiative to better themselves”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:36:34am

re: #93 Belafon

Question: Why didn’t he give Putin a list of targets inside of Russia that the US would target if another cyberattack does take place inside the US follow our idiot suggestions?
Psaki: Because we don’t preview our punches aren’t idiots.

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sagehen  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:38:15am

re: #86 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

You’re eating a skull for breakfast? Or worse, feeding your loved ones a skull for breakfast?

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:38:27am
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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:38:53am
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Teukka  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:39:16am

re: #93 Belafon

It takes out the element of surprise when you target the toilet - while it’s unoccupied - of the head of the cyberwarfare unit responsible with a tungsten rod. Bonus point if you do it when (s)he forgot to flush. Semi-/S

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:40:01am

re: #97 darthstar

Where did you get the Hydrox? It’s been years since I’ve seen them!

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:40:55am
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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:41:22am

This is a story of a nation sabotaged—economically, medically, and politically—by its own leader, culminating with a groundbreaking, minute-by-minute account of exactly what went on in the Capitol building on January 6, as Trump’s supporters so easily breached the most sacred halls of American democracy, and how the president reacted. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled—and who foiled—Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power.

Axios re I alone can fix it

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Teukka  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:42:28am

re: #97 darthstar

Ooof. Harsh…

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:44:18am
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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:44:37am

re: #97 darthstar

Hydrox, which was the original sandwich cookie (Oreo riffed on the Hydrox formula and ultimately was more successful with distribution/sales). Hydrox was kosher long before Oreo, so I grew up on Hydrox.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:45:14am

re: #105 lawhawk

Hydrox, which was the original sandwich cookie (Oreo riffed on the Hydrox formula and ultimately was more successful with distribution/sales). Hydrox was kosher long before Oreo, so I grew up on Hydrox.

Same here. Loved Hydrox!

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:46:24am

re: #73 JOE 🥓

And the latest from FloriDUMB!

Florida students required to register political views with the state to promote ‘intellectual diversity’

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation requiring students, faculty and staff at Florida’s public universities and colleges to register their political views with the state as a way to encourage “intellectual diversity.”

But gee, what if they…LIE???????

rawstory.com

If it were me, I’d just fill in “I am a member of the My Political Views Are None Of Your Fucking Business And You Can Take This Questionnaire And Shove It Straight Up Your Ass Sideways Party.”

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:47:14am

re: #105 lawhawk

Hydrox, which was the original sandwich cookie (Oreo riffed on the Hydrox formula and ultimately was more successful with distribution/sales). Hydrox was kosher long before Oreo, so I grew up on Hydrox.

Ditto

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:48:12am

re: #105 lawhawk

Hydrox, which was the original sandwich cookie (Oreo riffed on the Hydrox formula and ultimately was more successful with distribution/sales). Hydrox was kosher long before Oreo, so I grew up on Hydrox.

Lard will do that ;-)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:48:18am

re: #98 Belafon

this is also a political decision, just a really shitty one

Fuck Hungary.

Fuck UEFA.

As a rule, I try to pay attention to soccer every two years for the UEFA Cup and World Cup championships, I might even go to an outdoor viewing or down to the community center to watch a big game with my fellow villagers.

But I am giving it all a hard pass this year and an even harder one again in 2022 when the World Cup is being held in Qatar

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:49:33am

re: #92 Teukka

Comic relief:
How to determine peoples alignment by how they handle shopping carts:

[Embedded content]

Looks like I’m firmly in the “chaotic good” category.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:50:41am

re: #102 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

Axios re I alone can fix it

We learned nothing about Trump that was not already clear, but we learned that a lot of people are so cantankerous, contrarian and cussed that they embraced his incoherent, self-contented toxicity and bravado as a means of expressing their own.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:50:58am
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Teukka  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:51:10am

re: #97 darthstar

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:51:34am

re: #106 JOE 🥓

Same here. Loved Hydrox!

Hail Hydrox

It is the key ingredient in hydoxychloroquinine

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:52:13am

green heron has just now caught one of our comet goldfish

..on mutual of Omaha’s wild kingdom….

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:52:48am

re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

this is also a political decision, just a really shitty one

Fuck Hungary.

Fuck UEFA.

As a rule, I try to pay attention to soccer every two years for the UEFA Cup and World Cup championships, I might even go to an outdoor viewing or down to the community center to watch a big game with my fellow villagers.

But I am giving it all a hard pass this year and an even harder one again in 2022 when the World Cup is being held in Qatar

From what I understand, Munich is gonna do it anyway.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:53:29am

re: #117 Dr Lizardo

From what I understand, Munich is gonna do it anyway.

They are advising fans to show up wearing color-coded clothing based on their seats…

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:54:27am

re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We learned nothing about Trump that was not already clear, but we learned that a lot of people are so cantankerous, contrarian and cussed that they embraced his incoherent, self-contented toxicity and bravado as a means of expressing their own.

I think that’s what a lot of these books will “expose”
The level of enabling and quiet approval

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jeffreyw  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:55:08am

re: #96 sagehen

You’re eating a skull for breakfast? Or worse, feeding your loved ones a skull for breakfast?

“Remember, remember
the First of November!”

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:56:58am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are advising fans to show up wearing color-coded clothing based on their seats…

LOL brilliant. Also, play some Village People.

I remember the Village People being very popular at the tail end of the 1970s, during the heyday of the disco era, and somehow, the gay themes just seemed to fly right over everyone’s heads.

Village People - Macho Man OFFICIAL Music Video (short version) 1978

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:57:34am

re: #119 Dangerman

I think that’s what a lot of these books will “expose”
The level of enabling and quiet approval

I hope they highlight how much the press and broadcast media fawned on him because Trump was such a boon for ratings.

I still recall being in an airport in 2016, watching all the networks cover an empty podium waiting for Trump to show up and deliver excuses about his “charitable organizations” while ignoring Hillary, who was off giving a speech about improved job opportunities for handicapped persons.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:57:52am

re: #108 Dangerman

I just did a search online, both Amazon and Walmart carry Hydrox but are out of stock. Leaf brand products bought the rights/recipe from Kellogg’s who decided to discontinue them,has them on their website, with an article about how they changed the recipe back to the original Kosher recipe with no animal fats or byproducts. I haven’t seen them in the stores for a long time, but I haven’t been looking for them either. On Amazon and Walmart they are sold out with no idea when they would be back in stock. Leaf also filed a lawsuit against the company that owns Oreo cookies accusing them of hiding Hydrox packages on store shelves from consumers. So I don’t know if they will be available again or not.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 6:59:32am

re: #121 Dr Lizardo

LOL brilliant. Also, play some Village People.

I remember the Village People being very popular at the tail end of the 1970s, during the heyday of the disco era, and somehow, the gay themes just seemed to fly right over everyone’s heads.

Because, like with Abortion in the 60’s, the Religious Right had not seized on it as one of the hills it was ready to die on in the Culture Wars.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:01:41am

re: #123 A Mom Anon

Leaf also filed a lawsuit against the company that owns Oreo cookies accusing them of hiding Hydrox packages on store shelves from consumers. So I don’t know if they will be available again or not.

The Cabal of Fauci, Soros and Gates is probably behind a nefarious Masonic plot to suppress access to Hydrox cookies…

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:03:13am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:08:01am

re: #126 Belafon

All this is probably going to end up in front of SCOTUS. And who knows how they’ll rule? One of the reasons we can’t do mandatory vaccination here in Czech Republic (even for kids!) is that about 15 years ago, the Constitutional Court explicitly struck down mandatory vaccinations, with the singular exception of healthcare workers.

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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:08:26am

re: #121 Dr Lizardo

They even got the US Navy to commit to the video - In the Navy - without realizing that the band was leaning heavily into various gay themes. Heh.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:10:34am

re: #128 lawhawk

They even got the US Navy to commit to the video - In the Navy - without realizing that the band was leaning heavily into various gay themes. Heh.

That’s the funniest part. You’d think it was pretty obvious, but that’s probably just the benefit of hindsight, especially as the Village People are now regarded as gay icons.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:11:00am

In the Navy

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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:14:23am

First plea deal to 1/6 insurrection charges coming today.

Mind you, there’s Trumpist/GOP claims that this was just a tourist group still floating about. And the guy wearing suspenders? That’s Roger Stone, who keeps showing up in all of these treasonweasel photos.

This first plea deal will be followed by many others in the weeks and months to come.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:19:39am

Wat is it with Republicans and dogs? Abbott vetoed the Safe Outdoor Dogs Act.

dallasnews.com

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:22:10am

re: #132 GlutenFreeJesus

Wat is it with Republicans and dogs? Abbott vetoed the Safe Outdoor Dogs Act.

dallasnews.com

Republicans cheered when Joe’s dog died. They really got off on that.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:25:35am

re: #127 Dr Lizardo

All this is probably going to end up in front of SCOTUS. And who knows how they’ll rule? One of the reasons we can’t do mandatory vaccination here in Czech Republic (even for kids!) is that about 15 years ago, the Constitutional Court explicitly struck down mandatory vaccinations, with the singular exception of healthcare workers.

Which will be interesting since the Supreme Court ruled decades ago that the US can mandate health measures.

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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:25:41am

SCOTUS decisions:

- Supreme Court rules 8-1 (Breyer opinion with concurrence from Alito/Gorsuch joining - Thomas lone dissent) that schools don’t have right to regulate off-campus speech.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:26:14am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

That’s the funniest part. You’d think it was pretty obvious, but that’s probably just the benefit of hindsight, especially as the Village People are now regarded as gay icons.

Just think of all the song lyrics (I’m a Boy or Pictures of Lily by the Who for example,) that just blew right past people in the 60’s 70’s

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:26:51am

re: #132 GlutenFreeJesus

Wat is it with Republicans and dogs? Abbott vetoed the Safe Outdoor Dogs Act.

dallasnews.com

“No gummint’s gonna tell a Texan what to do with his dawg!”

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:29:48am

re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just think of all the song lyrics (I’m a Boy or Pictures of Lily by the Who for example,) that just blew right past people in the 60’s 70’s

And then there’s Liberace…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:30:34am

re: #138 JOE 🥓

And then there’s Liberace…

and J. Edgar Hoover

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:31:30am

It’s not a high number of cases but this is potentially worrisome:

Israel says it is battling a new outbreak of COVID-19 that struck despite its success vaccinating its population.Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday described a recent surge in infections as a “new outbreak” in the country.

And the director of the Israeli Health Ministry said about 70% of new infections were the Delta variant.

Israel on Wednesday expanded powers meant to control the surge.

It said health officials could quarantine anyone who had been exposed to the variant, even if they had been vaccinated or previously infected, Reuters reported.

Israel has the world’s highest share of its population fully vaccinated, according to Our World in Data.

Its vaccination success means virtually all coronavirus-related restrictions have been removed, apart from requiring some people to quarantine and insisting on measures for international travelers.

The Israeli news outlet Haaretz reported that the 125 new cases the country recorded Monday were the highest daily count in two months.

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Dangerman  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:36:32am

re: #126 Belafon

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as a patient, do i have the right to not have my health threatened by the people treating me? //

let alone not even be warned

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:36:59am

“…Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:39:07am

He was preparing for ‘a coming civil war,’ feds say. Now he faces up to 30 years in prison.

Paul Miller, 32, liked to dress up as Batman and the Joker, and even sometimes threw on a Nazi armband in the videos he uploaded to the chat website Omegle where he flashed a gun and made racist statements. During a raid on his Florida home in March, the FBI found a rifle and almost 850 rounds of ammunition.

Miller pleaded guilty to three felony counts for possession of an unregistered firearm and ammunition and possession of a weapon as a felon. He faces up to 30 years in prison.

“Inside a dryer in Miller’s residence, authorities also discovered a lower receiver for a rifle, attached to a collapsible rifle stock, and disassembled from an upper receiver featuring a 10.5 inch barrel,” the criminal complaint said. “None of these parts bore any manufacturer markings or serial numbers.”

washingtonpost.com

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:40:37am

re: #142 jaunte

“…Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

This fucker stands a fair chance of being President some day. Can you imagine?

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:40:47am

re: #142 jaunte

“…Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

Just waiting for L. Ron DeSadist to install e-meters all over Florida to audit everyone and requiring them to come to Clearwater once a year for a Rundown…

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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:40:49am

Other key decisions issued today (via Scotusblog):

In Lange v. California, the justices held that, under the Fourth Amendment, pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always justify a warrantless entry into a home.
In Collins v. Yellen, the justices held that the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008’s restriction on the president’s power to remove the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is unconstitutional.

Cedar Point v. Hassid: unconstitutional taking by requiring agricultural businesses to allow union workers on to grounds to help organize union among workers. 6-3 (Breyer in dissent joined by Sotomayor and Kagan). This one is going to bite union organizing bigly.

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:41:05am
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jaunte  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:41:31am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:41:32am

By Odin’s beard, I think James Gunn is gonna save DC’s cinematic universe…..

THE SUICIDE SQUAD Trailer 3 (2021)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:42:51am

re: #144 Barefoot Grin

This fucker stands a fair chance of being President some day. Can you imagine?

Yes, and he will immediately establish a Ministry of Fairness and Balance to regulate all aspects of Media, the Internet and Education.

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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:44:02am

re: #135 lawhawk

SCOTUS decisions:

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- Supreme Court rules 8-1 (Breyer opinion with concurrence from Alito/Gorsuch joining - Thomas lone dissent) that schools don’t have right to regulate off-campus speech.

Damn, two correct decisions today. Wonder what happened?

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:48:19am
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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:48:42am

re: #149 Dr Lizardo

By Odin’s beard, I think James Gunn is gonna save DC’s cinematic universe…..

[Embedded content]

Video

Just keep Zack away.

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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:49:44am

re: #151 William Lewis

Damn, two correct decisions today. Wonder what happened?

Now I see. That bad as Plessy decision in Cedar Point.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:50:25am

“In the 2 1/2 years he’s been in office, DeSantis has advanced the Trump brand more successfully than Trump. That’s largely because DeSantis works with a Legislature that’s also in lockstep with his agenda while the former president dealt with the constraints of a deadlocked Congress,” wrote the board. “The 42-year-old governor finished ahead of Trump himself in a straw poll of 30 potential 2024 presidential candidates taken at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver over the weekend.”

DeSantis has, at least on the statewide level, accomplished many goals that Trump himself failed to do on a national level, wrote the board — including passing “anti-riot” legislation that chills freedom of assembly, restricting the right to vote by mail, cracking down on tech platforms that Trump has complained about, and interrogating college campuses about liberal views.

rawstory.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:50:44am

I hope someone challenges that bullshit Florida law.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:52:26am

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

If it were me, I’d just fill in “I am a member of the My Political Views Are None Of Your Fucking Business And You Can Take This Questionnaire And Shove It Straight Up Your Ass Sideways Party.”

I would contact Marc Elias to see if he or a colleague could represent me pro bono in overturning this “should be” unconstitutional law.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:52:57am

re: #142 jaunte

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“…Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

“I would argue that DeSantis read about the Chinese Cultural Revolution and decided it was a good thing, but it’s really obvious he doesn’t read.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:54:24am

re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter

I would contact Marc Elias to see if he or a colleague could represent me pro bono in overturning this “should be” unconstitutional law.

GMTA.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:55:26am

re: #158 Belafon

“I would argue that DeSantis read about the Chinese Cultural Revolution and decided it was a good thing, but it’s really obvious he doesn’t read.”

Coming up next—DeSadist will order the distribution of Little Red, White & Blue Books to every Florida resident…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 23, 2021 • 7:56:36am

re: #92 Teukka

Comic relief:
How to determine peoples alignment by how they handle shopping carts:

[Embedded content]

Neutral good.

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Jay C  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:00:47am

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

I hope someone challenges that bullshit Florida law.

So is there any penalty for non-compliance in that inane FL law? What if a student/teacher/administrator refuses to state? Or answers that “my political orientation is ‘Fuck You, Asshole’”? Jail? Fines? Nasty tweets from Ron DeSantis?

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:00:55am

re: #161 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Neutral good.

I’m Good, but I vary between the three on top depending on the day.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:01:43am
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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:02:35am

re: #162 Jay C

So is there any penalty for non-compliance in that inane FL law? What if a student/teacher/administrator refuses to state? Or answers that “my political orientation is ‘Fuck You, Asshole’”? Jail? Fines? Nasty tweets from Ron DeSantis?

L. Ron DeSadist will send you to Ministry Of Love in Clearwater.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:08:49am

re: #86 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

Growin’ in the wind
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Barefoot Grin  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:09:39am

re: #164 The Pie Overlord!

“NEW: Senate Oversight Committee released its long-awaited report on the Nov. 3 election. It found no evidence of widespread fraud and said voters should be confident in the results.”

Well, that oughta do it. //

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sagehen  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:15:21am

re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just think of all the song lyrics (I’m a Boy or Pictures of Lily by the Who for example,) that just blew right past people in the 60’s 70’s

Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
Lola (Kinks)

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sagehen  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:17:26am

re: #143 JOE 🥓

Miller pleaded guilty to three felony counts for possession of an unregistered firearm and ammunition and possession of a weapon as a felon. He faces up to 30 years in prison.

In Texas that’s legal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:18:01am

re: #162 Jay C

So is there any penalty for non-compliance in that inane FL law? What if a student/teacher/administrator refuses to state? Or answers that “my political orientation is ‘Fuck You, Asshole’”? Jail? Fines? Nasty tweets from Ron DeSantis?

Budget cuts to the university.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:18:08am

re: #168 sagehen

Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
Lola (Kinks)

And then there’s Bowie!

David Bowie – The Jean Genie (Official Video)

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:19:55am

And in a class by himself is…Jobriath…

Jobriath I’maman

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steve_davis  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:20:00am

re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just think of all the song lyrics (I’m a Boy or Pictures of Lily by the Who for example,) that just blew right past people in the 60’s 70’s

or mama’s got a squeezebox, daddy never sleeps at night. Roger Daltry claims with a straight face that the double entendre wasn’t intended, to which I say bullshit.

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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:20:26am

re: #169 sagehen

In Texas that’s legal.

Unregisterd as in no NFA tax stamp for a short barreled rifle. Federal bust and they BATF really doesn’t care what Texas thinks is legal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:20:42am

re: #168 sagehen

Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
Lola (Kinks)

Yeah, people got more upset about unsanctioned use of brand names in Lola (where they had to change “Coca Cola” to “cherry cola” to avoid legal problems and they had to cut a verse from Walk on the Wild Side due to hetero sexual references (“but she never lost her head/even when she was givin’ head”).

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:26:27am

re: #168 sagehen

Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
Lola (Kinks)

The Kinks - Lola (Official Lyrics Video)

One of my Czech co-workers was rather blown away once her English was good enough to fully comprehend the lyrics.

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Jay C  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:30:31am

re: #164 The Pie Overlord!

Like this (or ANY report) is going to sway ANY Election Truthers?

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:32:02am

re: #177 Jay C

Like this (or ANY report) is going to sway ANY Election Truthers?

Rachel’s segment last night about the Fraudit Movie going online this week by a guy who produced films about aliens on Earth…

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:34:27am

re: #161 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Neutral good.

Lawful good. The Rules around here about returning shopping carts during a pandemic (so they can be sanitized) have imposed law and virtue in all of us, and it hasn’t worn off yet).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:41:04am

re: #179 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Lawful good. The Rules around here about returning shopping carts during a pandemic (so they can be sanitized) have imposed law and virtue in all of us, and it hasn’t worn off yet).

Most German supermarkets require a Euro coin or a token to take one out, so people are generally lawfully good about it

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:42:47am

re: #173 steve_davis

or mama’s got a squeezebox, daddy never sleeps at night. Roger Daltry claims with a straight face that the double entendre wasn’t intended, to which I say bullshit.

“In and out and in and out and….”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:43:26am

re: #179 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Lawful good. The Rules around here about returning shopping carts during a pandemic (so they can be sanitized) have imposed law and virtue in all of us, and it hasn’t worn off yet).

Neutral good usually, if corral available. Otherwise, either lawful good or (not listed) left by store door.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:43:28am

re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Most German supermarkets require a Euro coin or a token to take one out, so people are generally lawfully good about it

I guess it could only be lawful good if you’re required to do it.

Also, the German stories in America, Aldi, do that.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:45:13am

re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg

A less hysterical take on the outbreaks:

After a year of COVID-19, it is easy to hit the panic button when it comes to mini-outbreaks. But such brief surges are “completely expected,” and it is not yet time to raise a red flag, health experts told The Jerusalem Post.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:46:27am

re: #179 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Lawful good. The Rules around here about returning shopping carts during a pandemic (so they can be sanitized) have imposed law and virtue in all of us, and it hasn’t worn off yet).

I’ll return it to the store if that’s the closest option. Surprisingly enough, all the big box stores here in town STILL have sanitation centers at their doors for both carts and hands.

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DodgerFan1988  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:47:21am

All this anger & hatred because these people don’t want Slavery, Jim Crow, & Tulsa taught in the classroom.

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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:48:14am

Drudge highlighting rare risk of myocarditis or pericarditis from Pfizer or Moderna shots.

Mind you, those are same kinds of symptoms that occur for getting covid19.

So far, about 1200 cases have been identified, out of more than 300 million doses administered, which means that we’re seeing a %.0004 chance of getting this. It’s fewer than one case per million doses administered

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:48:41am

re: #185 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I’ll return it to the store if that’s the closest option. Surprisingly enough, all the big box sores here in town STILL have sanitation centers at their doors for both carts and hands.

Around here, they didn’t leave that to the customers. And there’s still sanitizer available at the doors of lots of places, I think.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:48:53am

re: #183 Belafon

I guess it could only be lawful good if you’re required to do it.

Also, the German stories in America, Aldi, do that.

So I was at a big shopping center that also had carts with built-in baby seats which did not have a deposit. I was there with my 10-month-old daughter. I wheeled her out to the car and then decided what the heck, I am not going to wheel this back and then carry her all the way back across the parking lot, so I left it there.

A fellow pulled up and reminded me very brusquely of my Duty to ze Vaterland to Return ze Schopping Kart.

I just smiled and asked “Do you work here?” to which he responded in the affirmative.

“Well I don’t,” I replied, and headed off on my neutrally evil way…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:50:09am

re: #186 DodgerFan1988

The scene tonight at a raucous Loudoun County school board hearing where many came to voice opposition to critical race theory. The meeting was stopped when the crowd wouldn’t quiet down and two were arrested.

I am looking for the first “People arrested for voicing opposition to CRT” headlines

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:51:08am

re: #187 lawhawk

Drudge highlighting rare risk of myocarditis or pericarditis from Pfizer or Moderna shots.

Mind you, those are same kinds of symptoms that occur for getting covid19.

So far, about 1200 cases have been identified, out of more than 300 million doses administered, which means that we’re seeing a %.0004 chance of getting this. It’s fewer than one case per million doses administered

Also too, it seems that the cases, despite the VERY scary name (!), resolve themselves quickly.

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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:53:08am
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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:56:05am

sre: #184 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

A less hysterical take on the outbreaks:

In the UK, cases had been on a steady decline until mid May, and have now quadrupled since then. So far deaths have remained low — but we’ll have to see if mortality rises to reflect the increased case count. It’s certainly possible that the vaccinated will experience a much less virulent form of the disease; OTOH have not seen articles on whether the upsurge in UK cases is only among the unvaccinated.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 8:58:59am

This is when I noticed my relatives starting to get infected with the Xtian Right.

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:00:11am

Thread:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:00:58am

re: #194 JOE 🥓

This is when I noticed my relatives starting to get infected with the Xtian Right.

I remember when Secular Humanism was the big bugaboo, about the time they started touting the “America is a Christian Nation” dogma.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:03:47am

re: #51 DodgerFan1988

Gabriella Borter
@gabriellaborter
Parents protesting against critical race theory broke into the national anthem when the Loudoun Co., Virginia school board ended public comment because the crowd got too out of hand

Shades of County-City Council meetings in Florida in the early 2000s descending into chaos due to citizen fears that Agenda 21 will mandate UN take over of the US.

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:05:17am
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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:12:30am

re: #198 jaunte

crazy Republicans

Redundancy alert.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:12:33am

re: #198 jaunte

So when are the Radical Republicans in Missouri going to turn on Catholics and Mormons? It’s coming….

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:27:42am

re: #116 Dangerman

green heron has just now caught one of our comet goldfish

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..on mutual of Omaha’s wild kingdom….

Call Ron Magill at Miami-Dade Zoological Park to wrangle that dastardly green heron, he’s the local Jim Fowler.//

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plansbandc  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:30:55am

re: #116 Dangerman

It’s nice of you folks to build a heron feeder.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:31:04am

re: #21 darthstar

The screen on my Pixel 4 just died. The phone still works. If I’m in my car I can make and receive calls using the car controls, but the screen’s fuckin’ dark and I can’t do shit with the phone otherwise.

What does this mean you ask?

It means no MFA, or 2FA, authentication…which means I CAN’T LOG INTO MY FUCKING ACCOUNT AT THE BANK WHERE I WORK…so it looks like I’m going into the office in the city in the morning as I have about 15 hours left on my current VPN connection.

It also means I can’t use my phone for purchases like I do for most shit I do.

It also means the “keep” notes with all my passwords for various accounts is fucking dead which means anything I can’t recall from memory is F U K D fucked.

Also, I had to use my wife’s iPhone to call Google support to order a replacement ($799 pending warranty approval but pay up front motherfucker). God I love good customer support…

Well, at least I can take solace in the moral victory the Democrats scored on voting rights today…that’ll make me feel better about living in the dystopia Republicans are making for us.

This is pretty much why I have been resisting 2FA as much as possible. I have *one* phone, and *one* laptop and both want the apps and accounts to use 2FA. And I have already been on the road and tried to use something where the app wants me to find an email, get a code, etc. etc… when I don’t have a wireless connection on the phone to access my email and my laptop is 150 miles away.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:32:35am

re: #200 JOE 🥓

So when are the Radical Republicans in Missouri going to turn on Catholics and Mormons? It’s coming….

It appears to be the standard GOP practice: they aren’t banning birth control, only Medicaid funding for it. The poor don’t matter to them and their affluent constituents can still access these services.

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sagehen  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:35:43am

re: #198 jaunte

They want to forbid Medicaid from covering IUD’s.

No, it’s not about churches.

It’s because a woman on an IUD, the man who fucks her might not know. Same for if she’s on the pill, or has an implant. He might not have wanted contraception. If condoms is the only available contraception, he’ll know. And he can refuse to use it, or poke holes in it, or remove it. Because only HE can decide whether or not to let her prevent a pregnancy.

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gocart mozart  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:38:30am
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lawhawk  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:40:34am
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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:42:04am

re: #205 sagehen

They want to forbid Medicaid from covering IUD’s.

No, it’s not about churches.

It’s because a woman on an IUD, the man who fucks her might not know. Same for if she’s on the pill, or has an implant. He might not have wanted contraception. If condoms is the only available contraception, he’ll know. And he can refuse to use it, or poke holes in it, or remove it. Because only HE can decide whether or not to let her prevent a pregnancy.

Yep. Power over women is the first priority. Though most of the churches in America are quite fine with this patriarchal misogyny.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:43:44am

re: #207 lawhawk

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Biden isn’t allowing Republicans to dictate his foreign policy schedule.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:44:25am

re: #81 Teukka

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
— Admiral Josh Painter, “The Hunt for Red October” (1990)

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Not just warning shots, but warning bombs… Sheeeshh….

Russia likes to consider the Black Sea *their* lake. And thus the USN and RN periodically send warships in to remind the Russians that it is not so. And Russia likes to overreact in response and be provocative since it also plays well with their conservative and patriotic blocs.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:51:52am

Can anyone point me to a non-biased overview of what Critical Race Theory actually is?

Thanks in advance.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:53:06am

re: #205 sagehen

They want to forbid Medicaid from covering IUD’s.

No, it’s not about churches.

It’s because a woman on an IUD, the man who fucks her might not know. Same for if she’s on the pill, or has an implant. He might not have wanted contraception. If condoms is the only available contraception, he’ll know. And he can refuse to use it, or poke holes in it, or remove it. Because only HE can decide whether or not to let her prevent a pregnancy.

It is 100% about religion. How many secular groups argue for banning contraception again?

Medicaid in this case is the stalking horse for smuggling religion in.

They have long been clear the goal is to repeal Griswold and then Eisenstadt.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:53:33am

re: #202 plansbandc

It’s nice of you folks to build a heron feeder.

My ex kept chickens in a moveable run in in the back yard, we would let them run about the back yard during the day, but she kept forgetting to close the pen at night, which attracted martens and other critters.

After this had happened the second or third time, I remember explaining to our three-year asking where mommy was. I told her mommy was off buying more chickens. Daughter asked why.

I explained that it was so the fox would not have to go hungry.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:54:27am

re: #160 JOE 🥓

Coming up next—DeSadist will order the distribution of Little Red, White & Blue Books to every Florida resident…

Make sure they get translated from the original Russian beforehand.
/

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:55:54am

re: #169 sagehen

In Texas that’s legal.

Though if the Feds arrest and charge you I think you’re still in trouble.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:58:59am

re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg

Can anyone point me to a non-biased overview of what Critical Race Theory actually is?

Thanks in advance.

A view that there is still discrimination in our society against blacks even after the end of slavery, Jim Crow, desegregation of the military, the enacting of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, Affirmative Action and an end to government practices in granting loans and subsidies to black farmers and homeowners.

Lots of white people want us to believe that the playing field has been levelled and that blacks are using our history as an excuse for their lack of social and economic progress.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 23, 2021 • 9:59:40am

re: #188 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Around here, they didn’t leave that to the customers. And there’s still sanitizer available at the doors of lots of places, I think.

Hopefully they keep doing that. I expect that if they did a study the stores might possibly find a correlation between having it available (perhaps still with a sign recommending use) and fewer sick days taken by employees due to the practice reducing exposure to whatever germs the customers bring into the store.

And combined with continued mask wearing by all involved I expect the effect would be even more pronounced.

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sagehen  Jun 23, 2021 • 10:12:11am

re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg

Can anyone point me to a non-biased overview of what Critical Race Theory actually is?

Thanks in advance.

I don’t know about “non-biased” — how about competing biases?

Here’s The Harvard Gazette”s suggested reading list:
news.harvard.edu

Vanderbilt Law
researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu

and a right-wing, anti-CRT website suggests
americarenewing.com

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sagehen  Jun 23, 2021 • 10:24:03am

ooh ooh ooh! Somebody gave me a thumbnail that I find persuasive:

CRT posits that systemic racism was written into our laws, policies, institutions, traditions and geography generations ago, and set to auto-pilot. It’s become so deeply embedded that it doesn’t take any living person being actively racist, consciously or unconsciously, for those laws, policies, institutions, traditions and geography to continue to yield deeply racist outcomes. People don’t even notice unless they’re actively looking for it.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2021 • 10:35:47am

re: #145 JOE 🥓

Just waiting for L. Ron DeSadist to install e-meters all over Florida to audit everyone and requiring them to come to Clearwater once a year for a Rundown…

And require each Florida cruise line to make available one ship to be used by Sea Org.

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JC1  Jun 23, 2021 • 12:27:52pm

re: #92 Teukka

Comic relief:
How to determine peoples alignment by how they handle shopping carts:

[Embedded content]

The LN one doesn’t make sense.

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JC1  Jun 23, 2021 • 12:38:19pm

re: #158 Belafon

“I would argue that DeSantis read about the Chinese Cultural Revolution and decided it was a good thing, but it’s really obvious he doesn’t read.”

Unfortunately, he’s quite smart, and knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s like a competent Trump. I hope they destroy each other in 24.


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