In a statement denying that he investigated late night comedians who mocked him, our former president criticized Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of him but did not mention our host Stephen Colbert’s famously spot-on impression. Also, he thinks he’ll be back in the White House any day now. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
I don’t wanna even think what things would be like if he had won, and despite a record Democratic voter turnout, it was too close for comfort.
Let it be known that Colbert’s impression helped him garner a Peabody award. So there’s that. Colbert hates that he’s lumped in with other late night hosts who lampooned and criticized Trump and his disastrous admin.
Every day we will continue to learn new and more horrific inside info about how Trump fucked up the nation’s pandemic response adding to the body count.
Trump forced her. Funny. But why isn’t she going to Del Rio or Laredo where most the problems are happening.
— Landon (@Landon59482362) June 24, 2021
If she went there, you’d complain she wasn’t In Brownsville. If she went to Brownsville, you’d whine and. Tool on the floor screaming she wasn’t in El Paso.
So, she’s on the border making you unhappy.
Glad that’s over.#StupidTrumpSupporters— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 24, 2021
Dr. Stack says 49% of all Kentuckians are vaccinated. 7 weeks of declining Covid-19 cases.
Over the last 4 weeks, “functionally 100%” of the people diagnosed w/ Covid in KY were unvaccinated, as were more than 93% of the people who died of coronavirus, he said.— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) June 24, 2021
Yup - we see this in more detail here. “restrictions imposed…as an attorney…in connection with…representation.”
If he’d tried “I was acting as a campaign surrogate, not a lawyer,” it might have gone differently. Looks like he doubled down instead. pic.twitter.com/QUKVkamX4k— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 24, 2021
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I don’t wanna even think what things would be like if he had won, and despite a record Democratic voter turnout, it was too close for comfort.
We’d be near or at a million dead from Covid (officially) right now.
Grain of salt, but if this is legit, this could provide a major clue as to what led to the Champlain Tower South collapse. “Dave” is saying that the initial collapse occurred in the car garage under the building - and it gave him and his family just enough time to evacuate their first-floor condo.
Got an interview with a resident who lives on the first floor of the condo that’s partially collapsed #Surfside pic.twitter.com/kA2zedeNJz
— Joel Franco (@OfficialJoelF) June 24, 2021
Newfie Mosquito trap..
The mosquito lands on the salt, thinking it’s sugar. They get thirsty for water, but the cap has rum in it.
The mosquito gets drunk, trips on the stick and bangs its head on the rock… pic.twitter.com/zCun64ubsH— THE TAO OF NOW (@InTheNoosphere) June 24, 2021
re: #3 Dave In Austin
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Think you meant “roll on the floor”, rather than “Tool on the floor” there, but then again, it works either way…..
It’s just so too obvious, even if it is LavrentiLandon Numbers pointing it out: the whole “Kamala hasn’t gone to the border!” shtick is just so much RW posturing: there is no (and never will be) any “correct” action she (or ANY Democrat) can take; ever. On anything…..
re: #9 Jay C
Think you meant “roll on the floor”, rather than “Tool on the floor” there, but then again, it works either way…..
It’s just so too obvious, even if it is
LavrentiLandon Numbers pointing it out: the whole “Kamala hasn’t gone to the border!” shtick is just so much RW posturing: there is no (and never will be) any “correct” action she (or ANY Democrat) can take; ever. On anything…..
Until there are land mines and free fire machine guns at the border the Right will never be satisfied. I personally know Border Patrol agents who have lamented that they are unable to use more violence in their job. They want to be able to use violence to prevent anyone from crossing the border.
re: #10 DesertDenizen
Until there are land mines and free fire machine guns at the border the Right will never be satisfied. I personally know Border Patrol agents who have lamented that they are unable to use more violence in their job. They want to be able to use violence to prevent anyone from crossing the border.
Career personnel, or Trump-era hires?
Fried Potatoes and Roast Chicken pic.twitter.com/VJJLc1H8kB
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) June 24, 2021
re: #11 Jay C
Career personnel, or Trump-era hires?
Career personnel. That shit was there long before Trump. He just let them fly their fascist flag freely.
re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The vodka has turned into rum since this was last posted.
Associated Press: “Ohio, the state that launched the national movement to offer millions of dollars in incentives to boost vaccination rates, planned to conclude its program Wednesday — still unable to crack the 50% vaccination threshold
re: #14 DesertDenizen
Career personnel. That shit was there long before Trump. He just let them fly their fascist flag freely.
A lot of those career personnel were added in spurts by GWB - in much the way that Trump added them - they lowered requirements just to add body count, without regard to quality of hires or the training.
re: #16 Dangerman
Conservatives wanted to kill their way through the pandemic rather than relying on science. We just need to get everyone else vaccinated, and they can proceed with their plan.
re: #17 lawhawk
A lot of those career personnel were added in spurts by GWB - in much the way that Trump added them - they lowered requirements just to add body count, without regard to quality of hires or the training.
I think there’s something about being a border guard that attracts a certain type of personality. The good guys I’ve known in the agency never last. In general the BP makes most police forces look like flaming left wingers.
Followers of the radical QAnon conspiracy theory have reacted with glee after a One America News Network (OANN) presenter called for the “traitors who meddled” in the 2020 election to be executed while falsely claiming the democratic results were a “coup” against Donald Trump.
OANN Presenter’s Calls for Mass Executions in U.S. Excites QAnon Supporters (Newsweak via MSN)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her caucus that the House will not pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill unless the Senate also sends over a budget reconciliation bill with the “human infrastructure” investments proposed by President Biden, Punchbowl News reports.
Said Pelosi: “There ain’t no infrastructure bill without the reconciliation bill.”
Federal judge Royce Lamberth said the January insurrection at the Capitol was a “disgrace” and forcefully rebuked the “utter nonsense” coming from some Republican lawmakers who are whitewashing what happened, CNN reports.Said Lamberth: “I don’t know what planet they were on.”
Reagan appointee fwiw
And now a fire has broken out at the site of the collapsed condo building.
I’m honestly getting the sense that Rudy’s response to the disciplinary proceeding made things substantially worse, not better. I think the court might have been even more angry with the response than the initial allegations. pic.twitter.com/PHxaK8Xcwn
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 24, 2021
re: #24 Dr Lizardo
Did no one think to shut off the gas and electricity?
re: #26 DesertDenizen
Did no one think to shut off the gas and electricity?
I would imagine the authorities already did so. Unsure how it might’ve started.
Interestingly, right now an inspector is speaking on NBC 6 Miami and he noted that beach sand was often employed in the construction of buildings as a means of cost-cutting back in the day. FFS.
re: #27 Dr Lizardo
I would imagine the authorities already did so. Unsure how it might’ve started.
Interestingly, right now an inspector is speaking on NBC 6 Miami and he noted that beach sand was often employed in the construction of buildings as a means of cost-cutting back in the day. FFS.
I’ll wait for the official investigation to complete of course, but I would not be shocked at all if this was primarily due to cost cutting / cut corners during construction of the building.
Republicans worship military members until one of them says something they don’t like. Then they want to defund the military because they’re all traitors and weaklings.
It’s a whole party full of thin-skinned power-mad narcissists.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 24, 2021
re: #27 Dr Lizardo
I would imagine so too, but unlike my little city, Miami has enough people that everyone can assume someone else did it.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
As has been pointed out before, if you’re planning an insurrection, angering the armed forces and federal law enforcement by insulting them is probably not a wise idea. Jeebus these people are idiots.
re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg
I’ll wait for the official investigation to complete of course, but I would not be shocked at all if this was primarily due to cost cutting / cut corners during construction of the building.
I hate to say it, but I wouldn’t be surprised either. And that’s a damn shame, because some of the condo units for sale in that building were places I certainly wouldn’t mind living - at least once a couple of Hefty bags full of Euro somehow materialize on my balcony, that is.
re: #26 DesertDenizen
Did no one think to shut off the gas and electricity?
Depending on how the collapse happened, you could have significant amounts in the piping…
They’re gonna burn you, Joe. https://t.co/bOT04KtHyo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 24, 2021
re: #33 Teukka
Except there are building shutoffs streetside that can disconnect building and vicinity from grid. They’ll have disconnected power and water as well, to avoid further collapses, explosions, or fires as best as they can manage.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
The party acts like it has borderline personality disorder, and will turn on anyone that doesn’t constantly approve of them.
re: #35 lawhawk
Except there are building shutoffs streetside that can disconnect building and vicinity from grid. They’ll have disconnected power and water as well, to avoid further collapses, explosions, or fires as best as they can manage.
Of course, but those shutoffs won’t bleed what’s already inside the piping after the shutoff (i.e. risers in the building etc). Then we have anything prone to burning such as Li batteries in the debris…
re: #34 Charles Johnson
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They’re gonna burn you, Joe. https://t.co/bOT04KtHyo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 24, 2021
re: #37 Belafon
He knows that. Now the American people can hear it.
…
“My party is divided, but my party is also rational.”
— President Biden, quoted by CNN, on getting Democrats to back the bipartisan infrastructure package.
It will be. https://t.co/1LMxQZ1uXv
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 24, 2021
I saw “white rage” trending so I clicked. Surprised to find (not) that it is filled with angry white guys raging about Black people being the real racists.
File under “We’re not making this shit up, really”:
A Greek priest in danger of being defrocked after hiding cocaine in “the area of his genitals” reportedly injured 10 people — seven of whom were Greek Orthodox bishops — in an acid attack in Athens.https://t.co/Kxi88CNjuz
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 24, 2021
re: #15 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The vodka has turned into rum since this was last posted.
Like virii, jokes mutate…
hi
The furnace guy was here to inspect our house for a new furnace and air conditioner.
Due to the age of our house, there are only certain ways they can do this.
A rough estimate is $24,000 ($10,000 more than the list price of our house when we bought it).
re: #43 Teukka
Cocaine Genitals is the name of my David Lee Roth cover band.
If we ever list our house for sale, it will probably be something like “central heater and air conditioner for sale, two bedroom house attached.”
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #14 DesertDenizen
Career personnel. That shit was there long before Trump. He just let them fly their fascist flag freely.
Yep. It’s been a hot bed of some of the most vile racism and excessive force in the US. Look up such lovely folks as Skeeter Skelton, Bill Jordan, & Charles Askins some time. Askins is a prime example - he enthusiastically claimed to have killed 27 men during his LEO days however he didn’t count blacks or Hispanics so his total was doubtless much higher. A serial killer with a badge and that’s what the Border Patrol still is.
re: #43 Teukka
File under “We’re not making this shit up, really”:
Three Hail Marys and twenty Our Fathers and think about what you’ve done.
re: #41 Charles Johnson
The reconciliation part only needs Democrats. I would think it’s the bipartisan deal that McConnell would block, because he can.
re: #49 William Lewis
Heroes to many on the modern force. Getting away from the BP would be one of the best things about leaving Arizona. And my white privilege is in full view with them. Not only do they leave me alone, but they often assume I’m a kindred spirit.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We’ve used this firm before, for fixing our plumbing problems and redoing our sewer.
They are going to work up a formal estimate later today.
They asked if we would want financing arranged by them, or if we would arrange financing ourselves.
I responded, “how about a suitcase full of twenties?” (We will withdraw the money from savings.)
I realize Biden knows he actually can’t trust Republicans, and yes, I guess you can see this as a good political move because it forces their hand, or so he thinks.
But if this is how we’re going to continue to react to climate change — the most important threat of our time — we are fucked. We’re way past the point where we can continue screwing around with politics as usual.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Well, we’ll be seeing how states like AZ deal with a water crisis as soon as next year as Lake Mead hits the dead pool limits. That’ll also turn down the lights in Vegas and all that “growth” in the Southwest will quickly reverse as people realize you can’t live in a fucking desert without water or power.
Throw in the increased number of tropical storms, and the Gulf Coast and Southeast look worse for wear too - leaving people to reconsider the rust belt and places they left behind for warmer climate.
And one of the most important goals the GOP had with this “bipartisan” compromise was to weaken and sabotage the parts that address climate change.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
I realize Biden knows he actually can’t trust Republicans, and yes, I guess you can see this as a good political move because it forces their hand, or so he thinks.
But if this is how we’re going to continue to react to climate change — the most important threat of our time — we are fucked. We’re way past the point where we can continue screwing around with politics as usual.
Also, there’s this nasty property with anything that displays an exponential curve, such as the global temperature curve… You can go from “okay the change is manageable” to “holy fuck the graph just blew an elephant sized hole in the ceiling” really fast.
Like, if you have a bowl of bacteria that double every 30 seconds. The bowl overflowed at 12:00:00 pm sharp. At which point was the bowl half-full?
There’s a reason why people who do work with exponential curves daily hate the unchecked variety with a vengeance.
re: #57 Charles Johnson
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Expect to set a lot of “CRIME EXPLOSION!” stories. I’ve seen a couple already, dishonestly comparing last year’s low pandemic rates to current rates. So of course, they are going up.
Breaking news: Miami-Dade Police tell our @CBSMiami station that 99 people are still unaccounted for in Surfside condo collapse. @CBSEveningNews
— Norah O’Donnell 🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) June 24, 2021
Ugh.
78-year-old Lincoln woman dies; husband says he shot her because she had Alzheimer’s (Omaha World-Herald)
re: #54 Charles Johnson
I realize Biden knows he actually can’t trust Republicans, and yes, I guess you can see this as a good political move because it forces their hand, or so he thinks.
But if this is how we’re going to continue to react to climate change — the most important threat of our time — we are fucked. We’re way past the point where we can continue screwing around with politics as usual.
First, we have to replace Manchin with a more liberal Democrat…
re: #49 William Lewis
Yep. It’s been a hot bed of some of the most vile racism and excessive force in the US. Look up such lovely folks as Skeeter Skelton, Bill Jordan, & Charles Askins some time. Askins is a prime example - he enthusiastically claimed to have killed 27 men during his LEO days however he didn’t count blacks or Hispanics so his total was doubtless much higher. A serial killer with a badge and that’s what the Border Patrol still is.
Harlan Carter, who was the first NRA president after the radical coup of 1977, was ex-Border Patrol. While he was at NRA, it became public knowledge that he had been convicted of murder in 1931, when he was 18. The verdict was overturned on a technicality (improper jury instructions). The facts are not in dispute though. He was BP commander in 1950-57 and was in charge during Operation Wetback.
re: #57 Charles Johnson
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Yeah, except maybe a grand total of one metro that keeps getting pointed to for this super-massive mega crime explosion actually ‘Defunded” the police? Inconvenient truth, I know, but…
Same. https://t.co/td1SQQ77J7
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 24, 2021
Well the guy from the RV place has come and gone. Took a lot of pictures of the roof as well as the ceiling. Asked how much I wanted to spend. Told him $4K max (includes safety inspection of propane system and appliances). *insert money pit joke here* :-)
re: #62 Belafon
First, we have to replace Manchin with a more liberal Democrat…
In a different state. I really doubt a more liberal Democrat would win in West Virginia unless Roy Moore decided to move there decided to run for Senate again, and actually got the Republican nomination.
re: #58 Teukka
Also, there’s this nasty property with anything that displays an exponential curve, such as the global temperature curve… You can go from “okay the change is manageable” to “holy fuck the graph just blew an elephant sized hole in the ceiling” really fast.
Like, if you have a bowl of bacteria that double every 30 seconds. The bowl overflowed at 12:00:00 pm sharp. At which point was the bowl half-full?
There’s a reason why people who do work with exponential curves daily hate the unchecked variety with a vengeance.
Real-world examples are the SL-1 and Chernobyl Block 4 accidents. First case, a technician jogged a control rod too much when re-attaching it to the controls, resulting in a power excursion that caused the reactor vessel to jump up 2 meters (SIC(!)). In the other, from the first idiot move to the point of no return it was 40 seconds, and a reactor designed for 3000 MWt output 30,000 MWt as its final confirmed reading (it probably went way beyond 30GWt).
The failure to understand exponential functions is the greatest flaw of the human race.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
I realize Biden knows he actually can’t trust Republicans, and yes, I guess you can see this as a good political move because it forces their hand, or so he thinks.
But if this is how we’re going to continue to react to climate change — the most important threat of our time — we are fucked. We’re way past the point where we can continue screwing around with politics as usual.
Cultural change needed in order to address climate change. The tallest of orders.
re: #67 aatharuv
In a different state. I really doubt a more liberal Democrat would win in West Virginia unless Roy Moore decided to move there and run again.
If we can find a way to get the 4 or 5 new liberal Democrats to take the place of dealing with the current ones, that will be a good thing. Just not sure where to find them.
re: #66 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well the guy from the RV place has come and gone. Took a lot of pictures of the roof as well as the ceiling. Asked how much I wanted to spend. Told him $4K max (includes safety inspection of propane system and appliances). *insert money pit joke here* :-)
at least yours isnt surrounded by water - makes it easier to work on
re: #59 KingKenrod
Expect to set a lot of “CRIME EXPLOSION!” stories. I’ve seen a couple already, dishonestly comparing last year’s low pandemic rates to current rates. So of course, they are going up.
Yup. Best look at rates from 2 years ago to today. That’s a better comparison.
It’s the same with everything on the economy too - like gas prices when no one was driving or traveling being lower due to low demand - and now when everyone is itching to travel.
The NYPD provides a bunch of states, comparing year over year, month, year to date, 2 year ago, and more.
Crime is still down overall, while murder is up over past two years.
re: #71 Dangerman
at least yours isnt surrounded by water - makes it easier to work on
That’s why they have dry docks. :-)
re: #27 Dr Lizardo
I would imagine the authorities already did so. Unsure how it might’ve started.
Interestingly, right now an inspector is speaking on NBC 6 Miami and he noted that beach sand was often employed in the construction of buildings as a means of cost-cutting back in the day. FFS.
In the mid 1980s, Miami-Dade indicted a bunch of contractors and building inspectors for payoffs for construction inspections that were never done.
One of the contractors was our client.
It was Miami and the rules were different.
There was no form 8300
Know who can’t be reached for comment on twitter?
Rudy’s client Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/dhabx1F8YU— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) June 24, 2021
Apparently, that’s what we’ve got Haberman for, and she reports Trump still stands behind Rudy (though it isn’t clear if that’s so he can push him out of a plane or not).
re: #72 lawhawk
Yup. Best look at rates from 2 years ago to today. That’s a better comparison.
It’s the same with everything on the economy too - like gas prices when no one was driving or traveling being lower due to low demand - and now when everyone is itching to travel.
The NYPD provides a bunch of states, comparing year over year, month, year to date, 2 year ago, and more.
Crime is still down overall, while murder is up over past two years.
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oh hell, if ‘crime’ is up so much, and it’s because of defund the police, then it should be easy to:
- point to every single police department that has less police on the street
- because they have less money
- that the cause of the less money is that they were ‘defunded’
- and in this short period of time has caused more crime to be committed
re: #75 lawhawk
she reports Trump still stands behind Rudy
Isn’t this always his first reaction, followed quickly by “just a coffee boy”?
re: #76 Dangerman
oh hell, if ‘crime’ is up so much, and it’s because of defund the police, then it should be easy to:
- point to every single police department that has less police on the street
- because they have less money
- that the cause of the less money is that they were ‘defunded’
- and in this short period of time has caused more crime to be committed
They can’t show that, because it didn’t happen.
What’s far more likely is that police have been overwhelmed by more guns on the streets thanks to states that are giving them out like candy, and clearance rates on shootings has dropped.
Another Catholic Church mass-murder site found in Saskatchewan.
Sask. First Nation announces discovery of 751 unmarked graves near former residential school (CBC)
Canada is treating it as a crime scene against the Catholic Church for murder and genocide. The school in question was run in the 1890’s to 1997, but the graves were actually marked. Those markers were removed in the 1960’s.
Some of the graves are those of adults.
The Cowessess First Nation announced a preliminary finding Thursday of 751 unmarked graves at a cemetery near the former Marieval Indian Residential School.
The Marieval Indian Residential School operated from 1899 to 1997 in the area where Cowessess is now located, about 140 kilometres east of Regina. Children from First Nations in southeast Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba were sent to the school.
The First Nation took over the school’s cemetery from the Catholic Church in the 1970s.
Earlier this month Cowessess started using ground-penetrating radar to locate unmarked graves. It was not immediately clear if all the remains are connected to the residential school.
Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme spoke at a virtual news conference Thursday morning.
“This is not a mass grave site. These are unmarked graves,” Delorme said.
Volunteers across Canada are working to identify the murder sites of every church run school (Catholic and Protestant) across the country.
The Cowessess want an apology from Pope Francis (good luck with that).
re: #34 Charles Johnson
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That’s why he’s saying what he’s saying. If they burn him, there will be consequences. They’ll make Joe Manchin look like more of an idiot than he looks when he opens his mouth and demonstrates it. And that could be dangerous for them. He might just say fuck it, we’ll do it through reconciliation.
re: #81 steve_davis
That’s why he’s saying what he’s saying. If they burn him, there will be consequences. They’ll make Joe Manchin look like more of an idiot than he looks when he opens his mouth and demonstrates it. And that could be dangerous for them. He might just say fuck it, we’ll do it through reconciliation.
Reconciliation will still require keeping naive Manchin and nutso Sinema on board, so I wouldn’t call that a sure thing.
re: #73 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
That’s why they have dry docks. :-)
i was trying to help ;-)
The police have not been defunded. It’s extremely obvious that you’re a lying Republican. Part of a failed party that attempted a coup when a madman couldn’t accept his loss.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 24, 2021
The joys of air travel.
Acted out going to and from school 50 times with her doll. Not sure how long we can maintain this without meltdown/cannibalism. pic.twitter.com/xuHk7xcApZ
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) June 24, 2021
And now there’re kicking us off the plane. They did so 2 hours ago and then immediately told us to get right back on. Funtimes. @Allegiant
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) June 24, 2021
Back on board, ready for more disappointment. pic.twitter.com/XTOGlKg810
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) June 24, 2021
re: #85 No Malarkey!
The joys of air travel.
Planes have outlets. Do they not work until the engines are running?
re: #55 lawhawk
Well, we’ll be seeing how states like AZ deal with a water crisis as soon as next year as Lake Mead hits the dead pool limits. That’ll also turn down the lights in Vegas and all that “growth” in the Southwest will quickly reverse as people realize you can’t live in a fucking desert without water or power.
Throw in the increased number of tropical storms, and the Gulf Coast and Southeast look worse for wear too - leaving people to reconsider the rust belt and places they left behind for warmer climate.
lot of folks don’t realize, it isn’t just how much water you have that allows nuclear reactors to stay on, but it’s also the temperature. As I recall, Keowee Toxaway has had a couple of times where water temperature in Keowee was almost too warm for them to draw on it. (Or I may just be remembering this from an episode of MacGyver (macgyver……macgyver….) sorry….shout-out to Simpsons fans there.
re: #84 Punish Domestic Terrorists
My little city is now facing a rumor that we are defunding the police. We aren’t, but if you don’t know how to read a budget and understand that a line item got moved to another category, it looks like a big hit. We are trying to get out in front of it, but it might get ugly.
This is after a bill was introduced in the state legislature this session that would actually prohibit reducing police budgets, withholding an equal amount of tax revenue if a jurisdiction did so. Local control my ass.
re: #86 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I don’t believe so.
One of many insurrectionists with a violent criminal record.
Judge says video shows Schwartz is carrying chemical spray & baton on Jan 6. Calls it “dangerous weapon”
Judge cites “substantial” criminal history (16 prior convictions, including firearms, assault, terroristic threats)
Judge orders Schwartz held in jail— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 24, 2021
re: #62 Belafon
First, we have to replace Manchin with a more liberal Democrat…
First we need to replace West Virginia with a more liberal state.
re: #66 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well the guy from the RV place has come and gone. Took a lot of pictures of the roof as well as the ceiling. Asked how much I wanted to spend. Told him $4K max (includes safety inspection of propane system and appliances). *insert money pit joke here* :-)
Money pit. My house. Wanna trade?
The @courierjournal and @ABC2020 just received a Peabody Award for our joint special report, “Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor.”
You can watch the whole documentary here: https://t.co/MfuT8G9oj4 https://t.co/xditRPzf74— Tessa Duvall (@TessaDuvall) June 24, 2021
re: #65 Charles Johnson
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“Hmmm…..smells like Mcdonald’s changed over to lunch. Can’t go through the drive-thru anymore. They said “no bicycles” so I tried riding through on a unicycle, and they banned me from service….so I guess I could check their dumpster….”
re: #66 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well the guy from the RV place has come and gone. Took a lot of pictures of the roof as well as the ceiling. Asked how much I wanted to spend. Told him $4K max (includes safety inspection of propane system and appliances). *insert money pit joke here* :-)
Had a great uncle—a strange but mostly loveable bird—who went pretty much everywhere in what is North America in a camper van he reconfigured himself. He got well enough known to where people started writing newspaper articles about the kind of crazy guy who spent much of his time driving off to wherever in his camper van. He wound up in Hawaii somehow. I’m assuming the van wasn’t involved.
re: #68 Teukka
Real-world examples are the SL-1 and Chernobyl Block 4 accidents. First case, a technician jogged a control rod too much when re-attaching it to the controls, resulting in a power excursion that caused the reactor vessel to jump up 2 meters (SIC(!)). In the other, from the first idiot move to the point of no return it was 40 seconds, and a reactor designed for 3000 MWt output 30,000 MWt as its final confirmed reading (it probably went way beyond 30GWt).
The failure to understand exponential functions is the greatest flaw of the human race.
Don’t forget the reckless moron who discovered why the two pieces of plutonium were only supposed to get moved using the shims, after his screwdriver slipped and he took something like 200 sieverts by the time he managed to separate them again. In fairness, some reckless moron then did the same damned thing the same damned way months later, as I recall.
re: #76 Dangerman
oh hell, if ‘crime’ is up so much, and it’s because of defund the police, then it should be easy to:
- point to every single police department that has less police on the street
- because they have less money
- that the cause of the less money is that they were ‘defunded’
- and in this short period of time has caused more crime to be committed
That argument was made by a wingnut in the Nebraska Unicameral, on a bill to prohibit reducing police budgets (it was defeated).
It was noted on the floor that three-quarters of cities and villages in Nebraska have no police at all. If this massive crime rate is because of no police, how come we’re not a hellhole of crimes?
About ninety percent of what our county sheriff and two deputies do is wrangle cattle, sheep, and llamas.
Our village marshal mostly spends time inspecting yards for code violations.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Money pit. My house. Wanna trade?
No thanks. Once the repairs are done I can move my money pit around as desired. :-)
re: #95 steve_davis
Had a great uncle—a strange but mostly loveable bird—who went pretty much everywhere in what is North America in a camper van he reconfigured himself. He got well enough known to where people started writing newspaper articles about the kind of crazy guy who spent much of his time driving off to wherever in his camper van. He wound up in Hawaii somehow. I’m assuming the van wasn’t involved.
That’s kinda sort of what I want to do. I want to go visit the places Beckie and I talked about going to during the summer months after I retired.
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That argument was made by a wingnut in the Nebraska Unicameral, on a bill to prohibit reducing police budgets (it was defeated).
It was noted on the floor that three-quarters of cities and villages in Nebraska have no police at all. If this massive crime rate is because of no police, how come we’re not a hellhole of crimes?
About ninety percent of what our county sheriff and two deputies do is wrangle cattle, sheep, and llamas.
Our village marshal mostly spends time inspecting yards for code violations.
i wish we had llamas needing some occasional wrangling
re: #86 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Planes have outlets. Do they not work until the engines are running?
Airliners have APU’S that provide power
Somebody PLEASE sign the commitment papers for Crackhead Mike!
WATCH: Mike Lindell says he’s in charge of the parade for Trump’s 2021 inauguration in latest rant
Bannon looked to Lindell and asked: “So, you’re gonna be the team, you’re gonna do the parade, you’re gonna do all of it?”
“Absolutely,” Lindell replied. “Jim Acosta just called me yesterday. He goes, Mike, are you talking later in the year? I say no, Jim, it’s still August… you know, it might be a little bit later if it has to be.”
At the “Restore America” rally last weekend, Lindell added another update to his long list of unfulfilled predictions of a reckoning regarding the 2020 election, saying that come fall, there will be a worldwide-watched event where mass voter fraud is revealed, leaving the Supreme Court no choice but to reinstate Trump.
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We’ve used this firm before, for fixing our plumbing problems and redoing our sewer.
They are going to work up a formal estimate later today.
They asked if we would want financing arranged by them, or if we would arrange financing ourselves.
I responded, “how about a suitcase full of twenties?” (We will withdraw the money from savings.)
Um… the bank has to file paperwork with Gubmint agencies for any cash deposit or withdrawal over $10K.
Maybe a cashier’s check?
re: #101 EstebanTornado1963
And, if a plane runs out of power, they deploy the RAT…
re: #103 sagehen
Um… the bank has to file paperwork with Gubmint agencies for any cash deposit or withdrawal over $10K.
Maybe a cashier’s check?
If I withdraw it with a cashier’s cheque or money order they would have to do it as well.
I presume they did the same when the Mercedes dealer deposited our money order when we bought our car.
I’m not terribly worried about a report to the IRS.
We get that you hate that other people reject racism. You and the failed party that elevated a garbage-person like you are a cancer on this nation.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 24, 2021
re: #96 steve_davis
Don’t forget the reckless moron who discovered why the two pieces of plutonium were only supposed to get moved using the shims, after his screwdriver slipped and he took something like 200 sieverts by the time he managed to separate them again. In fairness, some reckless moron then did the same damned thing the same damned way months later, as I recall.
Ah, the demon core incidents.
re: #15 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The vodka has turned into rum since this was last posted.
Difference between making fun of Finns and Newfies.
re: #98 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
No thanks. Once the repairs are done I can move my money pit around as desired. :-)
1992 i was motorcycling and tent camping around the country.
i had pitched in a campground, i think a state park.
it was late, dark and quiet.
guy pulls in with a 30+ foot RV making all kinds of noise, for a good few hours or more. banging around, a/c, generator, and general revelry.
no one in the camp was happy, i’m sure.
Being up so late carousing, when the sun came up this guy was nowhere to be seen; probably sacked out.
I and everyone else woke up to a glorious sight:
In the dark he misthreaded his water service connection.
It leaked all night long and left him in his RV surrounded by a lake at least a foot deep stretching at least 15 feet in all directions.
Don’t let your rolling money pit find itself surrounded by water ;-)
re: #103 sagehen
Um… the bank has to file paperwork with Gubmint agencies for any cash deposit or withdrawal over $10K.
Maybe a cashier’s check?
Ummm, actually that is ANY transactions $10K and over. And trying to get around that by doing a $9,999.99 transaction gets you a Suspicious activity report (SAR) instead. Believe me, one of those will send a red flare up faster than a straight up $10K+ transaction.
re: #96 steve_davis
Yep-the ubiqutous Demon Core.
re: #104 Egregious Philbin
…insert mental image of giant rat on a big hamster wheel generator…
Co-pilot: Captain, we’re out of power!
Pilot: Deploy the rat!
EXCLUSIVE - ‘You’re a f***ing a**hole Rudy’: Trump’s top campaign lawyer Justin Clark screamed at Giuliani for accusing him of ‘lying’ about Georgia fraud claims during Oval Office phone call with the president
re: #111 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And trying to get around that by doing a $9,999.99 transaction gets you a Suspicious activity report (SAR) instead.
Bank’s software will pick up smurfing attempts tout suite.
re: #110 Dangerman
1992 i was motorcycling and tent camping around the country.
i had pitched in a campground, i think a state park.
it was late, dark and quiet.guy pulls in with a 30+ foot RV making all kinds of noise, for a good few hours or more. banging around, a/c, generator, and general revelry.
no one in the camp was happy, i’m sure.
Being up so late carousing, when the sun came up this guy was nowhere to be seen; probably sacked out.
I and everyone else woke up to a glorious sight:
In the dark he misthreaded his water service connection.
It leaked all night long and left him in his RV surrounded by a lake at least a foot deep stretching at least 15 feet in all directions.Don’t let your rolling money pit find itself surrounded by water ;-)
LoL. I’ll keep that in mind.
looks like even Mother Nature is celebrating Pride Month
A warm, more humid air mass will develop across our region into the weekend. Some upper level energy will initially bring the threat for showers and storms on Friday. Here is the Weather Prediction Center’s 5 day estimated rainfall amounts for the area. pic.twitter.com/7uQ7emIhph
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) June 24, 2021
re: #75 lawhawk
Apparently, that’s what we’ve got Haberman for, and she reports Trump still stands behind Rudy (though it isn’t clear if that’s so he can push him out of a plane or not).
Or Rudy has some tapes that will blow Trump out of the water.
re: #115 Eric The Fruit Bat
Bank’s software will pick up smurfing attempts tout suite.
Not just Banks. Casinos are also required to file said paperwork as well as paperwork for multiple transactions (MTL) of $3K and up. Said paperwork being used to look for suspicious transactions (money laundering).
Timeline cleanser:
Nothing like a flash mob… pic.twitter.com/bXLiTlovrp— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 24, 2021
Sidney Powell right now…
😳😳😳 pic.twitter.com/WyyizEVaNP— Bryan (@bef2019) June 24, 2021
Thread covering Dominion hearing.
Alan Dershowitz is on the line, Mike Lindell and Sidney Powell are in the courtroom, the Dominion court hearing is getting started.
— Jacqueline Thomsen (@jacq_thomsen) June 24, 2021
re: #96 steve_davis
Don’t forget the reckless moron who discovered why the two pieces of plutonium were only supposed to get moved using the shims, after his screwdriver slipped and he took something like 200 sieverts by the time he managed to separate them again. In fairness, some reckless moron then did the same damned thing the same damned way months later, as I recall.
The cause of the first incident involving the Demon Core was because Daghlian dropped a tungsten brick on it. The cause of the second has been attributed to using a screwdriver instead of the shims, but there are dissenting voices that point to Slotyn’s hand may have altered the characteristics of the Be reflector. Also, it was a single sphere of plutonium. Be reflectors in the second case.
re: #123 Teukka
The cause of the first incident involving the Demon Core was because Daghlian dropped a tungsten brick on it. The cause of the second has been attributed to using a screwdriver instead of the shims, but there are dissenting voices that point to Slotyn’s hand may have altered the characteristics of the Be reflector. Also, it was a single sphere of plutonium. Be reflectors in the second case.
IIRC, Daghlian was the one so dedicated to science that he insisted on spending his last few, dying, hours as a case study in radiation poisoning. Wouldn’t even take painkillers, because that would inhibit his ability to communicate and might compromise the data.
This is better https://t.co/yBujfRg9JE
— Edwin (@EdMix13) June 24, 2021
re: #123 Teukka
The cause of the first incident involving the Demon Core was because Daghlian dropped a tungsten brick on it. The cause of the second has been attributed to using a screwdriver instead of the shims, but there are dissenting voices that point to Slotyn’s hand may have altered the characteristics of the Be reflector. Also, it was a single sphere of plutonium. Be reflectors in the second case.
A fictionalized version was in the movie Fat Man and Little Boy, with John Cusack playing the scientist tickling the dragon with the screwdrivers and getting a lethal dose of radiation. The effects of radiation poisoning were depicted even more horrifically in Chernobyl on HBO.
The infrastructure deal has money for climate change. But will it get 10 GOP Senate votes? Let’s see what McConnell has to say.
Bummer that this bipartisan agreement is all like EV charging and mass transit and electric buses and investments in grid modernization with no climate provisions whatsoever, but I guess that’s what you’ve got to do to make a deal.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 24, 2021
re: #127 No Malarkey!
McConnell will say no. It’s all he wants to say, and he has never reason to say yes.
re: #126 No Malarkey!
A fictionalized version was in the movie Fat Man and Little Boy, with John Cusack playing the scientist tickling the dragon with the screwdrivers and getting a lethal dose of radiation. The effects of radiation poisoning were depicted even more horrifically in Chernobyl on HBO.
They did the ARS makeup for Akimov, and realized it was so horrific that it’d pull attention from the rest of the story, so they nerfed those scenes. And even “Fat Man and Little Boy” doesn’t come close to the real deal…
re: #128 DesertDenizen
McConnell will say no. It’s all he wants to say, and he has never reason to say yes.
Of course, but will he successfully whip his caucus to block it? On the one hand, he hates giving a Democratic President a big victory. OTOH, his caucus might like bringing home some bacon and cutting some ribbons.
re: #99 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
That’s kinda sort of what I want to do. I want to go visit the places Beckie and I talked about going to during the summer months after I retired.
and when I say North America, I mean literally he went up the Alaska Highway and even into lower Mexico (I don’t think he made it into Central America).
Some more chickens coming home to roost.
CNN: White House staffer and former Texas state representative among those suing several participants of a “Trump Train” that harassed a Biden campaign bus last October — alleging they violated the KKK Act.
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 24, 2021
re: #131 steve_davis
and when I say North America, I mean literally he went up the Alaska Highway and even into lower Mexico (I don’t think he made it into Central America).
LoL. That’s quite a bit more than Beckie and I had planned.
Politics is trying to get people’s votes for your candidate. It would be dangerous if the government could label political speech as lies. Rudy’s lies were post election, trying to get courts and legislatures, and ultimately a violent mob, to reverse the election results.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 24, 2021
re: #123 Teukka
The cause of the first incident involving the Demon Core was because Daghlian dropped a tungsten brick on it. The cause of the second has been attributed to using a screwdriver instead of the shims, but there are dissenting voices that point to Slotyn’s hand may have altered the characteristics of the Be reflector. Also, it was a single sphere of plutonium. Be reflectors in the second case.
re: #123 Teukka
The cause of the first incident involving the Demon Core was because Daghlian dropped a tungsten brick on it. The cause of the second has been attributed to using a screwdriver instead of the shims, but there are dissenting voices that point to Slotyn’s hand may have altered the characteristics of the Be reflector. Also, it was a single sphere of plutonium. Be reflectors in the second case.
I can’t remember who, but there was somebody who said, “you’re gonna be dead in a year if you keep doing that shit.”
re: #130 No Malarkey!
Of course, but will he successfully whip his caucus to block it? On the one hand, he hates giving a Democratic President a big victory. OTOH, his caucus might like bringing home some bacon and cutting some ribbons.
I would bet he will. They will bet that in 2024 they’ll win again and can bring home bacon under King Trump. They’ll do anything to prevent a Democratic victory, up to and including murdering their own constituents and even their own families.
re: #100 Dangerman
i wish we had llamas needing some occasional wrangling
llama? someone said llama?
re: #136 DesertDenizen
I would bet he will. They will bet that in 2024 they’ll win again and can bring home bacon under King Trump. They’ll do anything to prevent a Democratic victory, up to and including murdering their own constituents and even their own families.
It would be nice if Manchin and Sinema let their friends in the GOP know that this is the last straw, and if the GOP can’t even support infrastructure spending because of politics, the filibuster will have to be reformed.
St. Louis TV Network Launches Hilarious Reefer Madness Remake (Wonkette)
Parents! Does your kid have tie dye tapestry hanging behind her “bed” thanks some hastily slapped up blue tape? Does she display both a tube of men’s deodorant and a copy of Catch-22 on the bookshelf? Does she have a “Mile 420” sign randomly propped up against a piece of wallboard?
If so, then, friends, it’s time to PANIC, because momma’s little baby is a dang junkie. With a capital J, that rhymes with P, and that stands for FENTANYL. Sorry to burst your bubble, Mom and Dad, but it turns out “420” is cool kid lingo for opiates.
BE VERY AFRAID!
Or laugh your ass off at this living embodiment of that joke about parents misinterpreting LOL and ROFLMAO as internet slang for “I’ll trade you a BJ for an eightball” or some such.
(more)
Looks like a normal teen’s bedroom, right? Think again. Coming up on @KMOV, we’ll show you what parents should be looking for so they can identify signs of drug use. I was shocked at what I found in this room!!! #stl #n4tm pic.twitter.com/Df2yegDPUq
— Paige Hulsey (@paigehulsey) June 24, 2021
re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tie-dye, the gateway fabric.
re: #137 Hecuba’s daughter
llama? someone said llama?
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outstanding!
obligatory: i thought you were taller
though it was only 1994 so…
re: #139 No Malarkey!
It would be nice if Manchin and Sinema let their friends in the GOP know that this is the last straw, and if the GOP can’t even support infrastructure spending because of politics, the filibuster will have to be reformed.
no reason to have to explain politics to the other side
(besides, they know)
re: #59 KingKenrod
Expect to set a lot of “CRIME EXPLOSION!” stories. I’ve seen a couple already, dishonestly comparing last year’s low pandemic rates to current rates. So of course, they are going up.
re: #72 lawhawk
Yup. Best look at rates from 2 years ago to today. That’s a better comparison.
It’s the same with everything on the economy too - like gas prices when no one was driving or traveling being lower due to low demand - and now when everyone is itching to travel.
The NYPD provides a bunch of states, comparing year over year, month, year to date, 2 year ago, and more.
Crime is still down overall, while murder is up over past two years.
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Thanks for this. I noticed those stories popping up as well. I’ve been ignoring them, but it’s good to have some pushback ready for the occasional “BIDEN SOFT ON ALL TEH CRIMEZ!!!!” idiot I’m going to have to deal with.
CNN was running a story like this earlier this morning. Their reporter was riding around with some cops and the pull quote was something like “This is the worst I’ve ever seen”, or something similarly pants-wetting.
The whole damn headline smelled of fear-mongering and bullshit.
re: #139 No Malarkey!
I agree, but Machin is too naive and Sinema too scattered to do so. He still believes the Republicans will come through, and she just wants attention. She doesn’t get that if she’s not being weird and disruptive. You never hear about our other Senator, Mark Kelly, just her attention hungry ass.
re: #141 jaunte
Tie-dye, the gateway fabric.
when I was in summer camp, tie-dye was a staple of our arts & crafts classes. That, and making candles in the sand.
re: #119 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Not just Banks. Casinos are also required to file said paperwork as well as paperwork for multiple transactions (MTL) of $3K and up. Said paperwork being used to look for suspicious transactions (money laundering).
PATRIOT Act: Know Your Customer.
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