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Wut?
The fearless lions and wolves who are already terrified of sex, kissing, touching, close contact, magnets and masks add another mortal fear to their list…Food.#antivaxxers pic.twitter.com/chvqgkrfFd
— AVK (@VaxxersAnti) July 1, 2021
Update! A poster has produced an answer, so it is the same old batshit after all rather than a new strain.
In case you weren’t being sarcastic, danced is their code for vaccinated.
— RCP (@RCPrentice) July 1, 2021
Last thing on the Media Bias Report then I’ll let that go.
They have Bill Kristol’s The Bullwark, NBC, CNN, the Washington Post and New York Times in the “skews left” category.
So the NYT can, in fact, do serious accurate coverage. When they feel like it.
That little old WHINEmaker…she…
Sinema is closer to the internship world than most members of Congress. Just last year, Sinema herself interned at a California winery, and we spoke with her bosses about how she did. https://t.co/8uQ3Pw4R0f
— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) July 1, 2021
So police are playing copyrighted music while being recorded in an attempt to ensure that the footage will get DMCAd when shared on social https://t.co/H0ycASj5No
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) July 1, 2021
re: #2 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Wut?
The fearless lions and wolves who are already terrified of sex, kissing, touching, close contact, magnets and masks add another mortal fear to their list…
Food.
You know, I’m not going to lose much sleep if antivaxxers decide that starvation is the way to avoid the vaccine. Have at it Hoss.
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So, looking around, “dancer” seems to be the latest code word for “sane people, as in get vaccines for serious diseases.”
There are also not an insignificant number of covidiots who [claim] will not get a blood transfusion if needed.
Antivaxxers are turning more and more into a religion every day.
“These are corporate perks” means THEY ARE INCOME YOU HAVE TO DECLARE. Yes! This is widely known! https://t.co/V2VyWLS7NG
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 2, 2021
I watched this entire video. It is terrifying.
re: #11 The Pie Overlord!
I watched this entire video. It is terrifying.
I’m watching it now. Very touristy. Much patriot.
I’m watching Peter Baker on Brian Williams. He’s making good points at first, and then drifts into, “otoh….othoh” territory. Laser focused on the politics and in no way focused on the criminality of the Trump family.
August 21 — WE’RE OPEN AGAIN free concert in Central Park.
Bruce Springsteen
Paul Simon
Jennifer Hudson
more acts TBA
(they have to invite Jay-Z and Beyonce, right? and Alicia Keys. maybe J-Lo. just trying to think of the New Yorkiest acts…. (which J-Hud isn’t, she’s a Chicago girl, but still)
Gee, I wonder why it took soooooooo looooooooonnnnggg??????
Miya Ponsetto, woman who wrongly accused Black teen of stealing phone at NYC hotel, charged with hate crime https://t.co/gNiOjk6Ow9
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 2, 2021
The Boy Scouts of America has $850 million? https://t.co/aVJ3hKJgUg
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 2, 2021
Watched the whole video, scarey stuff. Just unbelievable that the capitol was so lightly defended. The National Guard and every other law enforcement agency should have been on standby that morning. A lot of people in congress and law enforcement were in on this.Maybe Pelosi’s commission can get to the bottom of it. Heads should roll and people should be going to prison.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
I guess I shouldn’t have quit Cubs.
re: #21 marcusgorillius
Watched the whole video, scarey stuff. Just unbelievable that the capitol was so lightly defended. The National Guard and every other law enforcement agency should have been on standby that morning. A lot of people in congress and law enforcement were in on this.Maybe Pelosi’s commission can get to the bottom of it. Heads should roll and people should be going to prison.
It’s unfortunate the technical, legal definition of treason is so much narrower than the vernacular usage. ‘Cause there’s people should hang for this.
re: #11 The Pie Overlord!
I watched this entire video. It is terrifying.
What’s especially frightening is how close they came to actually reaching the legislators. Who knows what they would have done? And these people are still here, waiting for another call to seize control.
re: #25 sagehen
It’s unfortunate the technical, legal definition of treason is so much narrower than the vernacular usage. ‘Cause there’s people should hang for this.
I keep coming back to the images from the BLM protest over the summer. Talk about bias…
re: #24 wrenchwench
Not anymore.
Not enough though; they haven’t been driven into the ground, their headquarters razed and the ground salted.
re: #27 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yeah. Our den-mother couldn’t take it any more, so I think I actually was fired.
The best thing about that clip of Eric Trump ranting on Newsmax is how he goes down a list of hypothetical crimes that the Trump kids “aren’t” committing which includes selling state secrets to foreign nations. Didn’t his bitch sister have national security clearance?
Or when he whines that he and his sibs had been in business (working for their dad) before their dad went into politics… but Hunter only went into business after his dad got involved in politics.
For the record, Biden’s first Senate win was 1972. Hunter was 2 years old.
re: #32 sagehen
For the record, Biden’s first Senate win was 1972. Hunter was 2 years old.
So what was he doing? Just living off his dad?
This plant blooms along southern California trails in the summer. Amazing how much of the natural world evolved without us.
For my part of this image - I found a bloom with a leaf nearby. This makes it easier to identify (many of this species have similar flowers but differing leaves)
re: #35 Dave In Austin
That takes courage. Mojave Greens have a reputation for being mean.
Dude, this video is fucking harrowing. We’re… kind of fucked, huh.
Fuck, man.
Here. I can counter these extremely menacing vibrations. Tenacious D totally just did a thing.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Quite possibly.
In 2016 they had total assets of $1,321,724,358.00 and liabilities of $691,878,123 (per their Form 990). It’s possible they may have some insurance kicking in too.https://t.co/riun3RDNBT
— (((Dee *still a Professional Cat Herder* Holmes))) (@mmmirele) July 2, 2021
The January 6th Truthers have arrived. It was a fake uprising! Ashley Babbitt is alive!https://t.co/zSA8hF4Lhi
— Edwin (@EdMix13) July 2, 2021
— Edwin (@EdMix13) July 2, 2021
Wow. The Times video is a must watch. I avoided most of the footage until now. So much anger, they crushed to death one of their own. I think they should have mentioned how many have been arrested so far.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Perhaps I should be happy I was kicked out over atheism. That many people involved in a settlement seems to indicate the organisation works the same way the Catholic Church does.
I’m a gonna try to be there at some point in August yet to be determined.
One of the greatest Central Park concerts in history is coming. Excited to announce that Paul Simon, Jennifer Hudson, and Bruce Springsteen will be performing at our Homecoming Concert and will help us welcome back our city! It’s going to be an event for the ages. See you there. pic.twitter.com/1FtD5yJvxM
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) July 1, 2021
Never launch fireworks off your body. pic.twitter.com/reimvMtiLE
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) July 1, 2021
re: #44 gocart mozart
It was inevitable.
It was. Their failure to install their God-Emperor has left them with little wiggle room, as there is simply too much visual and audio evidence to buy into the “peaceful protestors” horseshit for any length of time. And since nobody with a lick of intelligence believes for a second that the participants were all “Antifa” or “BLM,” then there’s only one choice left: Gaslight the fuck out of people by telling them that it was all staged and everybody was really an actor (including the people confirmed as being deceased).
Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation (Channel 4 News UK)
A senior ExxonMobil lobbyist has been captured on camera revealing how the oil giant is using its power and influence to water down US climate legislation.
The explosive footage was obtained by Unearthed, Greenpeace UK’s investigative platform, who posed as head-hunters to obtain the information from one of ExxonMobil’s most senior Washington lobbyists.
The recordings appear to reveal the secretive behind-the-scenes activities of a lobbyist for a company that claims in public to support action on climate change, while fighting against legislative attempts to tackle it.
ExxonMobil say they “have supported climate science for decades” and accuse Greenpeace of “waging a multi-decade campaign” against their company and industry.
(more, with video, 8:52)
re: #47 Targetpractice
It was. Their failure to install their God-Emperor has left them with little wiggle room, as there is simply too much visual and audio evidence to buy into the “peaceful protestors” horseshit for any length of time. And since nobody with a lick of intelligence believes for a second that the participants were all “Antifa” or “BLM,” then there’s only one choice left: Gaslight the fuck out of people by telling them that it was all staged and everybody was really an actor (including the people confirmed as being deceased).
Including THE IDIOT RELATIVE in Uncle Sam’s B&B who insists that he will be pardoned by Trump when Mango Mussoweeney is back in the White House on August 15th…problem is THE IDIOT RELATIVE ain’t an actor, but it is a jerk…
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
According to the article, the biggest “fish” that ExxonMobil caught was Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). Other senators include ten other senators Chris Coons, Maggie Hassan, John Tester, Kyrsten Sinema, Mark Kelly, named as “crucial.”
No senator would respond to questions from Channel 4.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
ExxonMobil did respond, saying Mr. McCoy was mischaracterised. In the video, he says he knows those ten senators (including the Democrats listed) do not have the political courage to do what’s needed.
He also notes that delaying electric car technology is critical to ExxonMobil’s shareholders, beyond ten years. Climate scientists generally argue aggressive action is needed in ten years.
During the covert recordings, which have been passed to Channel 4 News, Mr McCoy claims:
the company secretly fought against legislative action on climate change using third-party organisations
he lobbied key senators to remove and/or diminish climate change measures from President Biden’s US $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs bill as it proceeds through the legislative process
he regards trade bodies like the American Petroleum Institute as “whipping boys” in order to avoid public scrutiny on Capitol Hill
Sigh… my old iMac has a recurring problem, where the PRAM seems to get messed up.
So on restart it can’t find the solid-state boot device.
So I have to go through the hassle of powering off, resting a little bit, power on with the command+option+p+r to reset the PRAM.
Then boot from the recovery disk.
Then set the boot device to my SSD.
Then restart again.
It works, but I wonder what is stepping all over the PRAM?
Also noted rebooting this time, the MRT application hung around for longer than expected. I wonder if there was some malware lurking on my Mac?
From a couple of threads ago..
Congratulations! I know that you have been working very hard to get to this point.
re: #46 I Would Prefer Not To
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Christian Preacher Knows Why Oprah And Tom Hanks Won’t Sue Him For Saying They’re Child Molesters (Wonkette, by Robyn Pennacchia)
Last week, noted Trump prophet Greg Locke went on quite the rant, re: his belief that Joe Biden is a “demon-possessed pedophile” like Oprah, Tom Hanks and the pope. He said the aforementioned were involved in child sex trafficking, via the use of tunnels underneath the White House. And as kooky as that sounds, clearly all the members of his congregation were on board.
The rest of the world, however, not so much. The sermon went viral due to the sheer number of people mocking it across the internet, and Locke took notice.
Right-wing pastor Greg Locke confidently predicts that Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks will never sue him for calling them pedophiles because if they did, he’d be able to subpoena witnesses/evidence proving that he’s right. Plus, they’re both probably locked away in Gitmo right now. https://t.co/dXYJkWRtcP pic.twitter.com/7avVu50Xrb
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 1, 2021
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re: #49 JOE 🥓
Including THE IDIOT RELATIVE in Uncle Sam’s B&B who insists that he will be pardoned by Trump when Mango Mussoweeney is back in the White House on August 15th…problem is THE IDIOT RELATIVE ain’t an actor, but it is a jerk…
Oh, everybody who might possibly be a “snitch” is viewed as an “actor” by these goobers. They’re so gripped by paranoia that they’re presently engaged in mental reviews of every email, text message, and video chat they had in the past year with other “patriots” that they haven’t heard from since 1/6. Trying to mentally decide if “TRUMPPATRIOT76” was really Special Agent Mike Smith trying to talk them into a “trap.”
My Surprised Face, etc. etc. etc.
If anyone wants GETTR’s source code, they published with source maps on. Funny, their admin page lets them add and remove trending topics. GETTR, the #FreeSpeech platform! pic.twitter.com/m4pKHlpQ15
— Gonzo (@adgodev) July 1, 2021
How many political arguments in recent memory have followed this exact template?
R: I’m so sick of < fill in blank >
D: But that isn’t happening
R: You only say that because you’ve been brainwashed by the liberal media— Dreamweasel (@Dreamweasel) June 26, 2021
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Christian Preacher Knows Why Oprah And Tom Hanks Won’t Sue Him For Saying They’re Child Molesters (Wonkette, by Robyn Pennacchia)
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I can tell that asshat Greg Locke why they won’t sue…because they don’t want to give him any more notoriety than he already has. Plus, to be blunt, we cut way, way, WAY too much slack to “men of the cloth” in this country. (I still think the Catholic bishops should all be in prison.)
re: #60 teleskiguy
This is from a rightoids channel… JMS (Bless The Great Maker) responded to those who didn’t see the parallels between Trump and Clark with “If you support Trump and like Babylon 5, you didn’t understand the story”…
while I understand that we’re a nation of laws and that a good many of the people who participated in the events of 1/6/21 are idiots who we’ve been having their skulls filled with crap for days/months/years/decades… there are times when I wonder just how many of them could be/would be saved with the shutting down of the RW propaganda machine.
As for other thoughts, I wish every federal judge who gets one of these very fine people into their courtrooms gets a chance to watch this video first because for damn sure, a good many of them haven’t.
and while we’re seeing mostly those trespassers come into play, I surely do want to see those that organized, paid, and planned this go down, be they lawmakers or pastors or pullers of strings, I want them all rounded up and brought to justice. Call it what it was, treason en masse, assault, trespassing, rioting and all at the behest of a bunch of fascists led by a narcissist.
In case you get your Alans mixed up. Dershowitz is the one who is always in his underwear, #Weisselberg is the one about to lose his shirt.
— Buddy Winston (@BuddyWinston) July 1, 2021
re: #63 Teukka
This is from a rightoids channel… JMS (Bless The Great Maker) responded to those who didn’t see the parallels between Trump and Clark with “If you support Trump and like Babylon 5, you didn’t understand the story”…
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From the same people who claim to be Star Trek fans, yet scream any time it’s announced that a character will be a woman or a topic like homosexuality will be addressed that the series is “woke.”
re: #66 Targetpractice
From the same people who claim to be Star Trek fans, yet scream any time it’s announced that a character will be a woman or a topic like homosexuality will be addressed that the series is “woke.”
The series has always been “woke” going back to the 60s. MLK was a huge fan.
re: #64 piratedan
while I understand that we’re a nation of laws and that a good many of the people who participated in the events of 1/6/21 are idiots who we’ve been having their skulls filled with crap for days/months/years/decades… there are times when I wonder just how many of them could be/would be saved with the shutting down of the RW propaganda machine.
As for other thoughts, I wish every federal judge who gets one of these very fine people into their courtrooms gets a chance to watch this video first because for damn sure, a good many of them haven’t.
and while we’re seeing mostly those trespassers come into play, I surely do want to see those that organized, paid, and planned this go down, be they lawmakers or pastors or pullers of strings, I want them all rounded up and brought to justice. Call it what it was, treason en masse, assault, trespassing, rioting and all at the behest of a bunch of fascists led by a narcissist.
PSST! I never showed you this here Wikipedia page: Collective narcissism
Cue wingnut comments of “Luuk ad de Commuenists! They’re trying 2 maek opositionn bonkers!”
re: #66 Targetpractice
From the same people who claim to be Star Trek fans, yet scream any time it’s announced that a character will be a woman or a topic like homosexuality will be addressed that the series is “woke.”
And totally fail to see what the Ferengi are a parody of…
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m the one who doesn’t hang around here much any more.
Snark from Ken White:
Gettr isn’t letting me create an account, probably because I have a chin
— SchemeToDefraudHat (@Popehat) July 2, 2021
re: #69 Teukka
And totally fail to see what the Ferengi are a parody of…
My friend the “reasonable conservative” who I chat with frequently can’t understand how episodes with the Ferengi are still being shown on TV because (wait for it) he’s convinced that they’re a play on stereotypes about Jews. And is confused why those episodes haven’t been banned by “cancel culture.”
re: #71 stpaulbear
I’m the one who doesn’t hang around here much any more.
You should though. You have 47,351 karma points. At 50,000, the LGF rewards catalogue has better gifts, I’m told.
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You should though. You have 47,351 karma points. At 50,000, the LGF rewards catalogue has better gifts, I’m told.
Memories of S&H Green Stamps, Top-Val-U and Plaid stamps given out by the various gas stations and supermarkets when I was a kid. Remember those Sunday afternoons when I’d be licking those stamps and putting them in the booklets. We kept them in 3 separate boxes and when Mom got 50 books filled it was off to the redemption center for a set of glasses, towel or sheet set and then there was the time we had 75 books filled and got a record player…
re: #73 Targetpractice
My friend the “reasonable conservative” who I chat with frequently can’t understand how episodes with the Ferengi are still being shown on TV because (wait for it) he’s convinced that they’re a play on stereotypes about Jews. And is confused why those episodes haven’t been banned by “cancel culture.”
Ever since the Ferengi appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, it has been alleged that they were cast as Jews, from the mediæval and modern stereotypes around them.
This has been repeatedly debunked by producers, writers, and actors on the show (which shows how deep the conspiracy is, because they are all in on it).
Ferengi have also been used in pretty awful memes by Nazis more recently (no link to those for obvious reasons).
See also Watto from “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones.”
Sometimes a greedy hypercapitalist merchant is just a greedy hypercapitalist merchant.
See also Space Jews (Goes to TVTropes, not to be confused with “Jews in Space”)
re: #75 JOE 🥓
Memories of S&H Green Stamps, Top-Val-U and Plaid stamps given out by the various gas stations and supermarkets when I was a kid. Remember those Sunday afternoons when I’d be licking those stamps and putting them in the booklets. We kept them in 3 separate boxes and when Mom got 50 books filled it was off to the redemption center for a set of glasses, towel or sheet set and then there was the time we had 75 books filled and got a record player…
The last time I had anything to do with S&H Green Stamps when I redeemed books when I was stationed in Jacksonville (just before S&H shut down). I got a rolling microwave cart.
When I was a kid, my grandmother collected both Top Value stamps (from the local grocer) and S&H Green Stamps (when we had to go into town).
It was a real pain-in-the-ass to lick the 1 stamps and put them in the books. It was a rare treat to be punished with 50 stamps (which counted for a whole page).
Sperry & Hutchinson was recently purchased and they plan to relaunch the stamp programme.
At one point, S&H boasted they printed three times as many stamps per year as the Post Office.
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ever since the Ferengi appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, it has been alleged that they were cast as Jews, from the mediæval and modern stereotypes around them.
This has been repeatedly debunked by producers, writers, and actors on the show (which shows how deep the conspiracy is, because they are all in on it).
Ferengi have also been used in pretty awful memes by Nazis more recently (no link to those for obvious reasons).
See also Watto from “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones.”
Sometimes a greedy hypercapitalist merchant is just a greedy hypercapitalist merchant.
See also Space Jews (Goes to TVTropes, not to be confused with “Jews in Space”)
Most of the damage done to the Ferengi as a species in Trek was done during the TNG years, when the writers struggled to figure out how to turn their dud of a new “bad guy” species into a viable threat, before finally just settling on presenting them as comic relief. It wasn’t really until DS9 got going that the writers finally figured out that the Ferengi could serve as a great counterpoint to the idealized “humans of the future are perfect” that Gene hamstrung them with when TNG started.
Case in point:
There are advantages of S&H Green Stamps over scannable loyalty cards for supermarkets or gas stations:
a) A loyalty card like Piggly Wiggly can only be used in their stores. Stamps can be issued by any company which signs up for the programme.
b) A loyalty card which is read by a scanner can keep track of your purchasing habits (horror stories abound of things like computers suggesting layettes for teenage girls and such). Stamps are private in the same way currency is private over credit cards.
In the United Kingdom, S&H had to use Pink Stamps and a different logo, because a British company was already using a green shield for a similar stamp redemption scheme.
re: #7 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So police are playing copyrighted music while being recorded in an attempt to ensure that the footage will get DMCAd when shared on social
Again, I recall all those early Star Trek episodes in which we are warned of the dangers of letting computers make decisions that affect our lives.
Seems that this approach can be remedied by charging police departments fees for playing copyrighted music while on duty…
re: #75 JOE 🥓
Memories of S&H Green Stamps, Top-Val-U and Plaid stamps given out by the various gas stations and supermarkets when I was a kid. Remember those Sunday afternoons when I’d be licking those stamps and putting them in the booklets. We kept them in 3 separate boxes and when Mom got 50 books filled it was off to the redemption center for a set of glasses, towel or sheet set and then there was the time we had 75 books filled and got a record player…
Now you have me remembering them. My mother used to go to the S&H showroom on Negley and Center to redeem them.
If I recall correctly, S&H set up a stunt in 1966 where school kids redeemed enough stamps to buy the Pittsburgh Zoo gorilla ‘Lonesome George’ a gorilla bride ‘Ginger’.
Apparently there were never any baby gorillas from the couple, though.
It being Pittsburgh… The autopsy of Lonesome George after he died, found that ‘he’ had ovaries.
re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So police are playing copyrighted music while being recorded in an attempt to ensure that the footage will get DMCAd when shared on social
Again, I recall all those early Star Trek episodes in which we are warned of the dangers of letting computers make decisions that affect our lives.
Seems that this approach can be remedied by charging police departments fees for playing copyrighted music while on duty…
It could be weaponized the other way around too…. Cops arrive, you play…
or
Or you perform it it live…
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ever since the Ferengi appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, it has been alleged that they were cast as Jews, from the mediæval and modern stereotypes around them.
I recall the first time they appeared, they were described as being like “Yankee traders”, in other words, incorporating positive American values of the Free Market and Unregulated Commerce.
re: #83 Teukka
It could be weaponized the other way around too…. Cops arrive, you play…
Or you perform it it live…
Report to receive your George Soros incentive cheque.
re: #59 Teukka
My Surprised Face, etc. etc. etc.
What. The. Fuck. Is. This. Shit.
no no no no no no no pic.twitter.com/P25ZtlgF8l
— NodePoint (@CoolApps45) July 1, 2021
re: #87 Teukka
What. The. Fuck. Is. This. Shit.
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re: #88 Targetpractice
What is it about wingnut “freeze peach!!!” sites and coding that looks like “My First Website” level stupidity?
There are talented coders out their with right-wing leanings, but they are also good capitalists and demand payment up front.
The Imperial March video leads to this one. Guess forty movie themes played over fifteen minutes. Good luck. I blew the first one right out of the gate since I’ve never seen the movie. Got the second one immediately. I’ll figure out my score on this, which should be pretty bad because I’m not much of a movie person.
Re: GETTR code quality controls…https://t.co/iepRe9I03n
/1— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) July 2, 2021
#IAmNotMakingThisShitUpReally #YouHadOneJob
/END— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) July 2, 2021
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Imperial March video leads to this one. Guess forty movie themes played over fifteen minutes. Good luck. I blew the first one right out of the gate since I’ve never seen the movie. Got the second one immediately. I’ll figure out my score on this, which should be pretty bad because I’m not much of a movie person.
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Same here, though it’s not much of an excuse in my case because A) My sister was a big fan of the series and B) that theme has been practically everywhere for years since the first film premiered.
re: #91 Teukka
Other coders are picking it up too…
:spraypaints screen with morning coffee:
Dammit Emily! You owe me a new LCD display!
Also, obligatory hashtags:#IAmNotMakingThisShitUpReally #YouHadOneJob
Textbook case of the perils of pathological levels of group/collective narcissism…https://t.co/GkeZwECj0l— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) July 2, 2021
re: #93 Teukka
Other coders are picking it up too…
The entire threads are full of it. Like, hard-coded passwords in source code? It’s code so hideous you’ll probably have to spoiler it…
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Okay I did better than I thought I would do. I got eleven of the forty.
Back in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Catholic Church and very wealthy aristocracy funded what are now considered the great works of that time.
I wonder if a couple hundred years in the future if iconic soundtracks such as those from the Star Wars franchise will be the classical music of the future, funded by movie production companies.
My sad list of correct guesses (spoiler):
Jaws
Mission Impossible
Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
The Phantom Menace
Schindler’s List
Indiana Jones
Rocky
Pulp Fiction
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
James Bond
I managed to get 33 out of 40 right, which really tells me that I need to get out more. The only ones I managed to miss either were ones I’d never seen (ex: La La Land) or ones I hadn’t seen in ages (ex: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe). Though I admit a few I just took a blind stab at and managed to get it right.
re: #92 Targetpractice
Same here, though it’s not much of an excuse in my case because A) My sister was a big fan of the series and B) that theme has been practically everywhere for years since the first film premiered.
I suck even harder at “easy” television shows since I pretty much never owned a television.
Teaching the onions to hate white bread!
re: #96 Targetpractice
I managed to get 33 out of 40 right, which really tells me that I need to get out more. The only ones I managed to miss either were ones I’d never seen (ex: La La Land) or ones I hadn’t seen in ages (ex: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Though I admit a few I just took a blind stab at and managed to get it right.
If you got that many, it seems you’re getting out to movie theatres a lot (or at least watching them on television or DVD).
Perhaps if someone did a video of someone reading key lines of books I would do better on naming book titles, but not like done at the Website “Hysterical Literature” (very NSFW, this is a family site so I won’t put the link here but you can find them by that name).
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
― Albert A. Bartlett
Climate Change is exponential, not linear…
Guardian front page, Friday 2 July 2021: Nowhere is safe: warning on escalating climate crisis pic.twitter.com/ONAb2iBZUp
— The Guardian (@guardian) July 1, 2021
re: #93 Teukka
Other coders are picking it up too…
It’s projection with conservatives always.
Weren’t they the ones telling everyone a couple years ago to “learn to code?” Perhaps they should take their own advice.
I could design a better Website and I know nothing about Website design.
re: #99 Dread Pirate Ron
A few days ago it switched a mode it seems, from short episodes at quick tempo, to now sitting quiet for part of a day then belching great volumes of lava.
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If you got that many, it seems you’re getting out to movie theatres a lot (or at least watching them on television or DVD).
Perhaps if someone did a video of someone reading key lines of books I would do better on naming book titles, but not like done at the Website “Hysterical Literature” (very NSFW, this is a family site so I won’t put the link here but you can find them by that name).
I’m one of those weirdos that actually likes to sit down and listen to movie soundtracks. A couple of the ones I got on that quiz I managed to guess simply because certain composers carry a “theme” to the music in a film.
This is where the “butter” side of diplomacy might be useful for both the USA and North Korea.
Kim Jong Un’s warning that North Korea faced a “great crisis” over a quarantine breach is raising more questions about what’s going wrong inside his secretive regime.https://t.co/ls6awFXhu9
— BloombergQuint (@BloombergQuint) June 30, 2021
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I suck even harder at “easy” television shows since I pretty much never owned a television.
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Yeah, no. I’m not taking that quiz because I pretty much stopped watching TV regularly sometime in the past 2 decades. And before that, I was tragically uncool, so most of the series other people were talking about just resulted in blank stares from me.
re: #105 Teukka
Earth’s climate is an extremely complicated system, non-linear by nature, chaotic, and doesn’t care about what anyone thinks.
I still object to the use of “crisis” in discussing AGW. We humans just are too limited in our horizon, not living long enough to get a real sense of geologic time, but living just long enough to make messes of things.
The reality is that we are in the process of moving the climate back to the Pliocene temperature range. Seas were higher (much less ice at the poles) back then. The mid-latitudes were warm enough that the growing season in much of the planet was year round.
Our ancestors lived in trees back then.
We can’t return to the trees.
We are on a one-way street.
And it is pretty clear that we don’t care if at the end of this street is a cliff.
This is a cool and good thing to keep in mind for no reason.
pic.twitter.com/BtAkHVlHcn— Franklin💀✨ (@ShartiTheClown) July 1, 2021
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s projection with conservatives always.
Weren’t they the ones telling everyone a couple years ago to “learn to code?” Perhaps they should take their own advice.
I could design a better Website and I know nothing about Website design.
they want things on the cheap, and they get what they pay for
re: #111 Teukka
Good dogs on both sides!
re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Earth’s climate is an extremely complicated system, non-linear by nature, chaotic, and doesn’t care about what anyone thinks.
I still object to the use of “crisis” in discussing AGW. We humans just are too limited in our horizon, not living long enough to get a real sense of geologic time, but living just long enough to make messes of things.
The reality is that we are in the process of moving the climate back to the Pliocene temperature range. Seas were higher (much less ice at the poles) back then. The mid-latitudes were warm enough that the growing season in much of the planet was year round.
Our ancestors lived in trees back then.
We can’t return to the trees.
We are on a one-way street.
And it is pretty clear that we don’t care if at the end of this street is a cliff.
“But it [the truth] is always there, whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not.
The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants.
It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.
It will lie in wait for all time.”
- HBO’s “Chernobyl”, E05 (“Vichnaya Pamyat”)
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they want things on the cheap, and they get what they pay for
Looks like they pulled a Drumpf and omitted to pay their contractors?
re: #117 Teukka
Looks like they pulled a Drumpf and omitted to pay their contractors?
Or got an unpaid intern to do it in exchange for reference in their CV?
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or got an unpaid intern to do it in exchange for reference in their CV?
Plausible.
In this way, gift cards can be thought of as a sort of digital currency, not unlike Bitcoin. The comparison may seem silly, given that gift cards date to the bygone era of Blockbuster Video, but today there are online marketplaces where anyone can trade gift card codes for Bitcoin and then turn the spoils into cash. These markets inevitably attract speculators and, because trades can be conducted anonymously, scammers.
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ROBBING THE XBOX VAULT: INSIDE A $10 MILLION GIFT CARD CHEAT (Bloomberg, July 1, 2021)
It was an inside job at Microsoft.
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they want things on the cheap, and they get what they pay for
Like all the Trump Dating sites that were either hacked or spammed.
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Like all the Trump Dating sites that were either hacked or spammed.
And the sign-up forms for the Tulsa rally that omitted the “I am 18 years or older” box…
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Imperial March video leads to this one. Guess forty movie themes played over fifteen minutes. Good luck. I blew the first one right out of the gate since I’ve never seen the movie. Got the second one immediately. I’ll figure out my score on this, which should be pretty bad because I’m not much of a movie person.
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Speaking of soundtracks, right now I can’t get enough of this one. 11 out of 18 tracks I find increbible:
Papa Blue Shirt is my inspiration for trail riding. I’m slowly catching up to him on bike skills. The last time I rode a bike was before bicycle helmets were invented. I’m practicing in ditches and semi-tractor tire ruts in the dried dirt along the side of roads each ride to learn how to pick my line and to handle changing terrain. I’m still not ready for a single track trail rated for beginners.
re: #99 Dread Pirate Ron
Even the high-perched camera on the long ridge can’t view the lava lake. The lava level must have dropped significantly:
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Much brighter. Almost makes the Empire warm and fluffy. /s
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Much brighter. Almost makes the Empire warm and fluffy. /s
Time to ban Critical Sith Theory!!!
re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Time to ban Critical Sith Theory!!!
Since it’s the Alliance who are oppressed by law and custom, perhaps it’s time to ban Critical Rebel Theory.
The latest track for Tropical Storm Elsa now shows a direct strike on Florida somewhere between Naples and Tampa.
There are Tropical Storm Warnings all over the Caribbean Sea.
The Government of Haiti has issued a Hurricane Watch from Port Au Prince to the southern border with the Dominican Republic.
The Barbados Met Office weather radar shows Elsa organising an eye.
#BREAKING UN confirms 18.3C record heat in Antarctica pic.twitter.com/kyKn5DPMn9
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) July 1, 2021
re: #132 Teukka
Going back to those ExxonMobil items I put up earlier, where they consider the Democratic senators they bought off donated to as their most critical to weaken climate change regulations and delay as long as possible implementing things such as electric vehicles, I would say we’re boned.
re: #132 Teukka
18.3°C. It’s friggin’ supposed to be WINTER there!
re: #135 Teukka
18.3°C. It’s friggin’ supposed to be WINTER there!
They are referring to certification of temperatures recorded last year, during the Antarctic summer.
re: #135 Teukka
The measurement was made last year.
The news is that the temp was verified.
After measurements are taken, later analyses are done to determine how accurate or precise they are.
re: #134 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
On the night of 1 July, before the massive eruptions on 2 July, the volcano changed mode and apparently did a little phreatic eruption:
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Elsewhere…
Authorities in the Philippines started evacuating thousands of people on Thursday after raising the alert status on a restive volcano that spewed a 1-kilometer high plume of gas and steam. https://t.co/kqK41V7EiI
— CNN (@CNN) July 2, 2021
re: #137 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The measurement was made last year.
The news is that the temp was verified.
After measurements are taken, later analyses are done to determine how accurate or precise they are.
Still WAAAY to high a temp.
Philosophy makes no predictions; at best, it explains what has happened. History on the other hand attempts to explain what, who, and sometimes why.
Gresham College has been holding free lectures since the 1300s. A couple years ago, they had history Professor Alec Ryrie, explaining that yes, Virginia, Europe had a large population of atheists (who kept their heads down because the Church would kill you if they found out). Some though were well-known in their day.
He points out the philosophy from the Enlightenment onward building a case for the position of atheism was simply a reaction to a state which existed for hundred of years in Christian Europe. (He includes records of the time from courts, writers, and churches showing atheism was widespread, not non-existent or a niche.)
There was no intellectually sophisticated or articulate ‘atheism’ in the Middle Ages, but there was plenty of raw scepticism and incredulity. Church courts regularly heard blasphemy cases which went as far as outright denial of God.
This lecture will take a tour of medieval unbelief, showing how and why some medieval people defied the powerful orthodoxies of their day: fired not by intellectual or philosophical doubts but by suspicion that ‘God’ was being used to swindle and manipulate them.
(more in the video description box)
He also notes that the crime of blasphemy was by far the most common “crime” tried by the Inquisition (from their own records).
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Not to mention all the “Deists” among our Founding Fathers.
Pappas, who was immediately sent to jail this morning to begin serving his 13 year 3 month sentence, was a top leader in the neo-Nazi group which specialized in beating up immigrants and getting elected to Greek Parliament where they found plenty of friends
— Mitchell Prothero (@mitchprothero) July 2, 2021
Considering his ties to the police and intelligence services and the cozy history in Greece between the police and hard-right, there will be questions how the guy escaped notice for 8 months in downtown Athens at his girlfriend’s apartment. some manhunt.
— Mitchell Prothero (@mitchprothero) July 2, 2021
anyway that’s another runaway nazi sorted. if you or your community have a bellicose nazi problem, bog or otherwise, my DMs are open.
— Mitchell Prothero (@mitchprothero) July 2, 2021
having said that there’s some hilarious irony to Pappas being arrested while he’s mooching off his immigrant girlfriend.
— Mitchell Prothero (@mitchprothero) July 2, 2021
Kevin McCarthy’s new explanation for rooming with GOP pollster Frank Luntz: ‘I wanted to make sure he took his medication’ https://t.co/ggJPBFzDUi
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 2, 2021
Conservatism is a mental disorder best treated with anti-psychotics.
The birds were just switched on outside, so it’s time to go off to bed.
Yesterday the new dulcimer hammers my wife bought for my graduation from occupational therapy arrived in the mail, so later today I’m going to fire up my electronic tuner, dust off the dulcimer, and hit the strings after a very long time of being unable to play at all.
Wish me luck on that.
Catch y’all later.
Fans of Meghan will be holding a vigil in a corner booth at the Cheesecake Factory on Saturday from 2:00 to 2:35pm…or 2:40 if the service is slow.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 2, 2021
re: #147 darthstar
I presume ABC will do a short search and find another conservative apologist to joust with the rest of the crew?
And that Variety article pretty much went that McCain “feuded” with the others since they pretty much ignored her politics and that a lot of the pushback she got was for tossing out the usual conservative lies and dribble.
Morning Lizards. Sunrise in about 15 minutes. Let the fun begin!
re: #149 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Morning Lizards. Sunrise in about 15 minutes. Let the fun begin!
first day in a week we’re gonna get some serious sunshine on the solar cells
re: #148 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Tomi Lohren? Sarah Palin? Ann Coulter? Candace Owens?
They’re all just as awful as McCain so they should work out.
re: #149 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Morning Lizards. Sunrise in about 15 minutes. Let the fun begin!
Sun’s already up here, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Supposed to get to 85 and be sunny here. I’m in the middle of a long stretch of overnight shifts so I’ll be sleeping under the window AC instead of enjoying it.
re: #116 Teukka
Still amazing to consider that was written by Craig Mazin, who - prior to Chernobyl - was better known for silly or lowbrow comedies like Scary Movie 3 (and 4) and The Hangover II and III.
re: #154 William Lewis
Supposed to get to 85 and be sunny here. I’m in the middle of a long stretch of overnight shifts so I’ll be sleeping under the window AC instead of enjoying it.
It’s supposed to be typical summer weather on this side of the St. Croix - sunny, highs in the high 80’s to mid 90’s, humid as fuck, with the threat of summer thunderstorms always looming. Mrs. Fish is going to visit more family this weekend, which always makes me nervous, bunch of anti-vax plague rats that they are.
re: #150 Dangerman
first day in a week we’re gonna get some serious sunshine on the solar cells
Cool. I ran into a mounting issue for the charge controller yesterday (surprise!) so am having to figure out a plan B. Already have something in mind, it’s not optimal, but it will work.
re: #152 Dopamine Fish
Sun’s already up here, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Well as the Mouse likes to put it, I am on mythical standard time. :-)
i’m bringing out the big bear for this
cheapskate Trump did not want to pay Weisselberg more than they agreed to so they kept a spreadsheet that documented the “reported to the IRS” and the “not reported to the IRS” payments.
and now the DA has it.
they kept a spreadsheet!!!
they wrote it down
they wrote down ‘what we didnt report to the government’
before i release the bear, consider this:
anybody - officer, employee, family member, who knew about the s/s, or ever saw it, or worked on it is complicit in the multi year fraud against the federal, state, and city governments (read ongoing criminal conspiracy)
and now, the bear
re: #159 Dangerman
i’m bringing out the big bear for this
cheapskate Trump did not want to pay Weisselberg more than they agreed to so they kept a spreadsheet that documented the “reported to the IRS” and the “not reported to the IRS” payments.
and now the DA has it.
they kept a spreadsheet!!!
they wrote it down
they wrote down ‘what we didnt report to the government’before i release the bear, consider this:
anybody - officer, employee, family member, who knew about the s/s, or ever saw it, or worked on it is complicit in the multi year fraud against the federal, state, and city governments (read ongoing criminal conspiracy)and now, the bear
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re: #159 Dangerman
I wonder if part of the delay was the authorities taking some extra time to track down *who* knew about and had access to the spreadsheet.
Since that’s a piece of data to have on hand when you get the people on the stand or otherwise get information from them under oath. Always good to have facts and then ask questions since you get a grasp on whether they are going to tell you the truth or attempt to get away with perjury.
re: #159 Dangerman
even Frank Burns was smart enough to keep the off the books stuff, off the books.
All profits from my prescription kickbacks are recorded in my red ledger…
not the blue one that I show to the government.
he certainly didnt write a road map connecting all the dots. sheesh.
re: #80 Targetpractice
By contrast, if you want to see the greatest example of how the writers intended the Ferengi as a social commentary on unfettered capitalism, I present Exhibit A:
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One big argument against Ferengi being ST’s “Jews” is that a major part of actual hatred against Jews is the trope that they all are in it for each other as a group and do not “share” with anyone else.
According to the Ferengi’s Rules of Acquisition (their Bible of sorts) there are several passages that directly counter any sort of notion of collective benefit. For example ” Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity” and ” Treat people in your debt like family… exploit them.”
re: #164 Florida Panhandler
One big argument against Ferengi being ST’s “Jews” is that a major part of actual hatred against Jews is the trope that they all are in it for each other as a group and do not “share” with anyone else.
According to the Ferengi’s Rules of Acquisition (their Bible of sorts) there are several passages that directly counter any sort of notion of collective benefit. For example ” Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity” and ” Treat people in your debt like family… exploit them.”
If I were to compare the Ferengi to anything, it would be modern-day Republicans. The Rules of Acquisition make it abundantly clear that they are the epitome of, “Fuck you, I got mine.”
re: #162 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I wonder if part of the delay was the authorities taking some extra time to track down *who* knew about and had access to the spreadsheet.
Since that’s a piece of data to have on hand when you get the people on the stand or otherwise get information from them under oath. Always good to have facts and then ask questions since you get a grasp on whether they are going to tell you the truth or attempt to get away with perjury.
Yup
re: #56 ckkatz
From a couple of threads ago..
Congratulations! I know that you have been working very hard to get to this point.
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re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Much brighter. Almost makes the Empire warm and fluffy. /s
The Star Wars video game TIE Fighter had the same idea: The game intro starts with the Imperial March, and then segues into a patriotic fanfare that sounded a lot like an anthem from the Empire’s point of view.
so the June jobs report…
850,000 jobs added. That’s super-awesome, right?
So a passenger had enough and crawled over us in the exit row and let himself out. They got him by the jet bridge …@wcnc https://t.co/tddHxHvINN pic.twitter.com/NkxCEHS8qc
— Brandon Goldner (@BrandonWCNC) July 2, 2021
McCarthy initially objected in February to the number of GOP and Democratic seats on the proposed panel, and on how subpoenas would be issued, Pelosi agreed to his suggestions, only to have McCarthy change his position and raise a completely different objection over the scope of the investigation.”“When Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the Homeland Security Committee, cut a deal in mid-May with GOP Rep. John Katko (R-NY), ranking member on Homeland, over legislation to create a bipartisan commission, McCarthy ended up publicly repudiating the agreement his own member made. Thirty-five House Republicans voted for the bill anyway, only to see it blocked by Senate Republicans.”
“And now with Cheney on the select committee, Pelosi has once more forced McCarthy into a tough situation. Compared to the proposal that Thompson and Katko hashed out — or the compromise floated by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) — the select committee approved by the House is bad format for McCarthy and the Republicans. There’s no time limit on the investigation, Republicans have no say in who or how many subpoenas can be issued and Pelosi has a veto over McCarthy’s appointments.”
McCarthy’s not very good at this.
You know who is? Pelosi.
re: #159 Dangerman
anybody - officer, employee, family member, who knew about the s/s, or ever saw it, or worked on it is complicit in the multi year fraud against the federal, state, and city governments (read ongoing criminal conspiracy)
Trump is going to plea complete ignorance, that he was just the “big picture” guy and the person who made the public speeches/statements and knew nothing at all of day-to-day operations just like God-Emperor Hirohito in WW2…
re: #171 Dangerman
I had a flight where we were stuck on the plane after we landed because they didn’t have personnel to man the jet bridge. There was a man sitting across the aisle from myself and my boss, and I swear he was going to pull a stunt like this if we had to wait any longer. He was VERY upset. For our part, we were at our destination, didn’t have anywhere to go except get back in our cars and drive home, so we were just chilling and laughing at the dude.
re: #172 Dangerman
McCarthy’s not very good at this.
You know who is? Pelosi.
McCarthy: But the deal was… (that we lied about actually following).
Pelosi: I have changed the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.
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re: #175 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
McCarthy: But the deal was… (that we lied about actually following).
Pelosi: I have changed the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.
//
It’s good to see the Democrats playing hardball now. The whining from the Republican Party over this and the Biden shenanigans is absolutely delicious.
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump is going to plea complete ignorance, that he was just the “big picture” guy and the person who made the public speeches/statements and knew nothing at all of day-to-day operations just like God-Emperor Hirohito in WW2…
Until there is a big fat unreported check with his signature on it. And I bet he has rules about personally approving payments made within his organization above a certain amount.
Of course, you’re also essentially saying that he is going to follow the usual GOP playbook of claiming incompetence instead of admitting criminality. Especially after crowing about how much control he has over his underlings and knowing everything about what is going on.
re: #171 Dangerman
we’re on flight 2396. You all canceled the flight 30 mins ago, but we’re stuck on the plane b/c there’s no one to operate the D-13 jet bridge. Please send someone!!
because that person is at home enjoying generous unemployment benefits
THIS IS BIDEN’S FAULT!!!!
re: #170 sagehen
so the June jobs report…
850,000 jobs added. That’s super-awesome, right?
Stronger-than-expected jobs report. 850K with another 15K upward revision. Good news. Unemployment rate up to 5.9% - due to more people in labor force by 151,000. Participation rate 61.6% Employment/pop ratio unchanged at 58%. Overall good news.
— Kathy Jones (@KathyJones) July 2, 2021
Clearly this is reflects economic optimism related to tfg being reinstated as president soon.//
In local news, the governor made a pronouncement yesterday that based on the CDC’s data (which includes data from federal sources, such as the VA, whereas the state data does not), Minnesota has achieved President Biden’s goal of 70% of adults having at least one shot before July 4. (Link goes to KARE 11, a local news site; European visitors may have some problems.) Because even our Republicans aren’t that stupid.
re: #170 sagehen
so the June jobs report…
850,000 jobs added. That’s super-awesome, right?
Thank you President Biden!! So relieved that you are in our White House!!
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump is going to plea complete ignorance, that he was just the “big picture” guy and the person who made the public speeches/statements and knew nothing at all of day-to-day operations just like God-Emperor Hirohito in WW2…
If this s/s was ever sent to him in an email (yes they’re dumb enough to do that) he’s toast.
And
it appears he signed some of the checks.
only he could have negotiated this deal with wesselberg
If you think the trump org only did this with one employee…
Control freak knew. Had his hand in everything.
And as I understand it the standard is known or should have known
So either way.
re: #172 Dangerman
McCarthy’s not very good at this.
You know who is? Pelosi.
The GOP had to know that Pelosi would create a select committee when they blocked an independent commission. They know the report will be bad for Republicans, so they decided on a strategy of refusing to cooperate and denouncing the results as partisan.
re: #175 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
McCarthy: But the deal was… (that we lied about actually following).
Pelosi: I have changed the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.
//
Please Madam Speaker, alter the deal.
re: #182 Patricia Kayden
Thank you President Biden!! So relieved that you are in our White House!!
Best job numbers since last August! It took six years after unemployment peaked during the Great Recession for employment to recover to this level.
re: #184 Patricia Kayden
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I’m pretty sure the orange part on the left is supposed to be more than half the circle.
re: #172 Dangerman
McCarthy’s not very good at this.
You know who is? Pelosi.
i appreciate that kevin mccarthy has given liz cheney every possible reason to sit on the 1/6 committee and to put his own behavior leading up to and on 1/6 first and foremost on the top of her list to be curious about.
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) July 1, 2021
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I wonder if a couple hundred years in the future if iconic soundtracks such as those from the Star Wars franchise will be the classical music of the future, funded by movie production companies.
Film scores are the classical music of TODAY.
re: #188 Belafon
I’m pretty sure the orange part on the left is supposed to be more than half the circle.
More likely, most Republicans see themselves (and only themselves) as the “working” - and as that red bit from 1:00 to 3:00 o’clock, and everyone else as “takers”…..
re: #183 Dangerman
If this s/s was ever sent to him in an email (yes they’re dumb enough to do that) he’s toast.
And
it appears he signed some of the checks.only he could have negotiated this deal with wesselberg
If you think the trump org only did this with one employee…
Control freak knew. Had his hand in everything.
And as I understand it the standard is known or should have known
So either way.
The head of a company is responsible for everything that happens in the company whether or not they were actually doing it.
For the first time in 25 years, Bill Pullman is back with a new speech to celebrate Independence Day. Watch now and #GoFourthAmerica.
Join us in supporting vaccine access everywhere in partnership with @directrelief pic.twitter.com/yt6CmU9kSP— Budweiser (@budweiserusa) June 30, 2021
COVID has fallen from America’s #1 cause of death to #7 as of June 2021. The infectious disease was the 3rd leading cause of death for much of 2020, but became the leading cause of death in December 2020, reaching a peak of 3,136 deaths per day in January https://t.co/OviGhBQhEN pic.twitter.com/tWRCRpRbhq
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) July 1, 2021
re: #194 Belafon
Again, thank you President Biden for taking the pandemic seriously.
Elsa has been upgraded to a hurricane.
re: #192 Belafon
The head of a company is responsible for everything that happens in the company whether or not they were actually doing it.
Ding
And you thought it was all over! Not the football, the pandemic. This infographic on where the Delta Variant is gaining ground shows you how many miles we have to go before we sleep. It is going to be a long-tailed pandemic #PreventiveMedicine #buff.ly pic.twitter.com/7voGTI5WxP
— Gavin Giovannoni (@GavinGiovannoni) July 1, 2021
As the World Health Organization draws up plans for the next phase of its probe into how the coronavirus pandemic started, an increasing number of scientists say it isn’t up to the task and that the U.N. agency shouldn’t even be the one to investigate. https://t.co/VgxifQEx3g
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 2, 2021
Over 40% of Finland’s new coronavirus cases are linked to football fans returning from Euro 2020 matches in neighboring Russia, the country’s health authority said Thursdayhttps://t.co/H0ijhvLtVe
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) July 2, 2021
re: #192 Belafon
The head of a company is responsible for everything that happens in the company whether or not they were actually doing it.
We all know that, but I can imagine he will try to pull the Hirohito defense.
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Elsa has been upgraded to a hurricane.
I’m noticing a pattern
you post there is a hurricane and we get a hurricane while you’re safe in Nebraska
can’t we do tfg thing.
If there’s no testing there’s no hurricanes…
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We all know that, but I can imagine he will try to pull the Hirohito defense.
And/or opt to throw one of the children (or the son-in-law) under the bus.
Evidence mounting, from multiple countries & researchers, that even mild #COVID19 infections can lead to permanent changes in the brain that affect everything from signaling to muscles & organs to cognition, memory & organization of thoughts & ideas.
(Avoidable w/#vaccination.) https://t.co/wuxBU7XmOD— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 30, 2021
Studies on why this is true will be interesting:
The two mRNA vaccines: Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech apparenty prime T cells to fight SARS-CoV-2 variants, an advantage that ensures long-term protection https://t.co/nVj6iwpscX via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) July 1, 2021
“The findings suggest that Republicans would have been substantially more careful had their media environment encouraged them to do so, plausibly saving many thousands of lives and preventing scores of long-term health problems…” https://t.co/nnwca3Jtwa
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 1, 2021
re: #202 Belafon
“The findings suggest that Republicans would have been substantially more careful had their media environment encouraged them to do so listened to their God-Emperor had he not been a clueless, self-infatuated asshole, plausibly saving many thousands of lives and preventing scores of long-term health problems…”
re: #202 Belafon
It’s really shitty that assholes like Carlson can’t be charged with at least accessory to murder for the lies and fear they have sown. While being vaccinated themselves, along with their families.
We really need an updated version of the Fairness Doctrine, but I don’t think that barn door can be closed now.
re: #190 The Pie Overlord!
Film scores are the classical music of TODAY.
There is modern classical, it has just fallen into irrelevance.
John Cage has been heard of, and a few names like Stockhausen or Lachemann can be found occasionally, but the rest are really only known to other musicians and fans of the genre.
I do not like the notion of equating film scores to modern classical composition.
re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is modern classical, it has just fallen into irrelevance.
John Cage has been heard of, and a few names like Stockhausen or Lachemann can be found occasionally, but the rest are really only known to other musicians and fans of the genre.
I do not like the notion of equating film scores to modern classical composition.
I didn’t mean classical in the sense of the genre. I meant it in the sense of timeless, univerallly-recognised music.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I didn’t mean classical in the sense of the genre. I meant it in the sense of timeless, univerallly-recognised music.
Like Disco.
re: #205 A Mom Anon
It’s really shitty that assholes like Carlson can’t be charged with at least accessory to murder for the lies and fear they have sown. While being vaccinated themselves, along with their families.
We really need an updated version of the Fairness Doctrine, but I don’t think that barn door can be closed now.
Here’s my updated version: Cable fees for news stations must be distributed equally among all of the news stations.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I didn’t mean classical in the sense of the genre. I meant it in the sense of timeless, univerallly-recognised music.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I didn’t mean classical in the sense of the genre. I meant it in the sense of timeless, univerallly-recognised music.
Classical in the sense of a feel, like it’s ok to slur notes and being able to hear the woodwind section was intentional.
Both people on board have been rescued. The pilots had reported engine trouble and were attempting to return to Honolulu when they were forced to land the aircraft in the water around 2:30 a.m. https://t.co/ePQi5SJbea
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 2, 2021
re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is modern classical, it has just fallen into irrelevance.
John Cage has been heard of, and a few names like Stockhausen or Lachemann can be found occasionally, but the rest are really only known to other musicians and fans of the genre.
I do not like the notion of equating film scores to modern classical composition.
I did not come up with the idea that film scores are modern classical music. From the time I was a kid, the local classical radio station had a regular program of “Modern Classics” that was mostly film scores.
re: #150 Dangerman
first day in a week we’re gonna get some serious sunshine on the solar cells
I just signed the contract for solar a week or so ago. Can’t wait until we get kitted up. I know I’ll spend hours in the garage or on my app just staring at the energy filling up the battery back up.
re: #214 The Pie Overlord!
I did not come up with the idea that film scores are modern classical music. From the time I was a kid, the local classical radio station had a regular program of “Modern Classics” that was mostly film scores.
as you know back aways many film scores were “classical” music
re: #211 Dr Lizardo
I didn’t mean classical in the sense of the genre. I meant it in the sense of timeless, univerallly-recognised music.
I would certainly rank John Coltrane among any of the great composers of any century
re: #216 darthstar
I think my in laws got ripped off on their deal. Their house is paid off and they just spent 40K on solar. They live near Ft Lauderdale, so I know they will get plenty of sun, but I think the system they got sucked into will never pay for itself.
Hey, y’all…
Just a drive-by, then I’m back to learning songs and getting gear ready for the weekend. I’ve been working n getting my musical groove back, and it looks like things are finally starting to pick back up.
Hope all is well in all of your respective worlds.
Also…that video, man. People gotta hang for that shit, and that’s no hyperbole.
SCOTUS won’t protect voting rights, but some state courts will. Victory in NH!
🚨BREAKING: New Hampshire Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN restrictive voter registration law that targeted college students. A major victory for @LWV of New Hampshire and @prioritiesUSA.
We are not done fighting for voting rights and we are not done winning.https://t.co/SRvDPBgxek— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) July 2, 2021
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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Well, their insurer does.
Did they identify the perps who diddled the little boys?
Ya know, the fucking Pedophiles who ruined the lives of 60,000 children?
Why isn’t Q all over this?
Did the BSA admit guilt?
Have they vetted their Scout Leaders presently leading troops?
Enquiring minds, &c.
re: #6 JOE 🥓
That little old WHINEmaker…she…
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I think Sinema should be used as examples for liberals: If you want to know what it would be like for the Green party to be in power, here’s your example.
Sinema is closer to the internship world than most members of Congress. Just last year, Sinema herself interned at a California winery, and we spoke with her bosses about how she did. https://t.co/8uQ3Pw4R0f
— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) July 1, 2021
re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I didn’t mean classical in the sense of the genre. I meant it in the sense of timeless, univerallly-recognised music.
I would certainly rank John Coltrane among any of the great composers of any century
Indeed he was. And his circle of fifths is seriously next-level.
re: #200 Dangerman
I’m noticing a pattern
you post there is a hurricane and we get a hurricane while you’re safe in Nebraska
can’t we do tfg thing.
If there’s no testing there’s no hurricanes…
Actually, the “TFG thing” would be to simply take a Sharpie and re-track the hurricane on the map…
No track, no damage!
re: #225 Jay C
Actually, the “TFG thing” would be to simply take a Sharpie and re-track the hurricane on the map…
No track, no damage!
tried that already
mixed results
;-)
All right, I believe I’ve seen posted here that Charles Booker is running for Senate against Aqua Buddha.
Let’s make freedom ring. Real freedom, from the hood to the holler.
We can start by taking our seat back from Rand Paul.
I’m running. pic.twitter.com/Za7JJ1wz0D— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) July 1, 2021
But there is a second candidate, Ruth Gao, and I could have sworn I either received an email or text solicitation from her campaign but I can’t find them right now. But this popped up on my feed this morning (just before I was very rudely reminded that I’m on call all weekend).
the whole thing is even worse lmao pic.twitter.com/rbJHZu1bSo
— portions for foxconn (@anarkidd_0) July 2, 2021
In my opinion, Ruth Gao is a stalking horse. She goes to, and holds a (likely) volunteer position at a non-affirming church. And if you think oh, well, Joe Biden is Catholic and we know how the hierarchy feels about LGBTQIA people, well, Joe Biden isn’t an “Equipping Class Coordinator.”
Also, the way this church talks about LGBTQIA people is just offensive. That second tweet just spells it allll out. And to be extremely blunt, since it’s an evangelical church in Louisville, KY, probably 80 percent of the voting congregation voted for Trump.
This woman is a spoiler and I can’t figure out why she’s running. She’s probably anti-choice too.
re: #144 Dread Pirate Ron
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Conservatism is a mental disorder best treated with anti-psychotics.
Luntz and McCarthy are both perfectly sane, knowledgeable people, neither of whom have any real ideology. Luntz does what he does for money and fame; McCarthy for power. They would both happily switch sides on any issue if they thought it would help them politically; they have no allegiance to anything except their own well being
These people would rather believe, even based on no evidence stronger than their own unreasonable and bigoted assumptions, that they are the victims of injustice than accept that they just didn’t win.
To put it another way:
They’re almost certainly Republicans.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) July 2, 2021
re: #151 Patricia Kayden
Tomi Lohren? Sarah Palin? Ann Coulter? Candace Owens?
They’re all just as awful as McCain so they should work out.
TBF every one of those women (except maybe Sarah) is far worse than Meghan.
re: #230 Dopamine Fish
Yeah, came across that yesterday.
Hey @KWaggonerADF you should be extremely ashamed of this. You picked a girl out and said she was transgender and that was a LIE. If you didn’t work in a soulless office park in Scottsdale, your organization would be worth a picket. APOLOGIZE!!!!!! https://t.co/UGjR3bzkg4
— (((Dee *still a Professional Cat Herder* Holmes))) (@mmmirele) July 1, 2021
Heritage Academy is a public charter school, but the way these schools are run, it’s likely unspoken that being LGBTQIA is awful, don’t come to our school, and we’ll kick you out if we find out. This is why tax dollars shouldn’t go to charter schools.
Reading about Trumpco taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy, I’m reminded of the Studio 54 documentary I watched recently on Netflix. One of the biggest pieces of evidence against the Studio 54 guys was their spreadsheet with a column marked SK for skimming. That and their greed. They were skimming 60-70 percent. The other Trump connection, their lawyer was Roy Cohn.
While I was watching the first half of the doc where they were talking about the rise of Studio 54 and the party atmosphere, I kept thinking to myself about all the young men and women that were most likely exploited there. Then Roy Cohn shows up, and I thought to myself, JFC it was probably worse than I could ever imagine.
re: #187 No Malarkey!
Best job numbers since last August! It took six years after unemployment peaked during the Great Recession for employment to recover to this level.
But that’s because the stimulus package in 2009 was too small. The packages for the pandemic were far larger.
re: #227 mmmirele
All right, I believe I’ve seen posted here that Charles Booker is running for Senate against Aqua Buddha.
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In my opinion, Ruth Gao is a stalking horse. She goes to, and holds a (likely) volunteer position at a non-affirming church. And if you think oh, well, Joe Biden is Catholic and we know how the hierarchy feels about LGBTQIA people, well, Joe Biden isn’t an “Equipping Class Coordinator.”
Also, the way this church talks about LGBTQIA people is just offensive. That second tweet just spells it allll out. And to be extremely blunt, since it’s an evangelical church in Louisville, KY, probably 80 percent of the voting congregation voted for Trump.
This woman is a spoiler and I can’t figure out why she’s running. She’s probably anti-choice too.
She was mentioned here a few days ago when she announced her candidacy. I think she was hoping no one would look into her background.
re: #232 mmmirele
Yeah, came across that yesterday.
Heritage Academy is a public charter school, but the way these schools are run, it’s likely unspoken that being LGBTQIA is awful, don’t come to our school, and we’ll kick you out if we find out. This is why tax dollars shouldn’t go to charter schools.
A new Kentucky school choice law is currently in litigation.
re: #210 Belafon
Here’s my updated version: Cable fees for news stations must be distributed equally among all of the news stations.
Doesn’t that depend on the definition of a news station. Do you really want OANN and Noisemax to be receiving a cent?
re: #228 BlueSpotinAL
It occurs to me that “Let the hate flow through you” would be a perfect slogan for Fox News.
re: #237 Hecuba’s daughter
Doesn’t that depend on the definition of a news station. Do you really want OANN and Noisemax to be receiving a cent?
There would be 3 or 4 stations now, and 10 if it expands. Then the stations would have to go back to relying on advertising.
re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter
But that’s because the stimulus package in 2009 was too small. The packages for the pandemic were far larger.
Yep, the federal government stepped up in a big way this time around, and in a couple of weeks millions of families will start having child tax credits deposited in their accounts!
re: #230 Dopamine Fish
If I was the girl in question here I’d be raising all shades of hell with these assholes. I know she’s a kid, but these people can’t be allowed to drag a kid into their hatred and stupidity. If they get away with this, what’s next?
re: #232 mmmirele
Yeah, came across that yesterday.
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Heritage Academy is a public charter school, but the way these schools are run, it’s likely unspoken that being LGBTQIA is awful, don’t come to our school, and we’ll kick you out if we find out. This is why tax dollars shouldn’t go to charter schools.
Might not be true in Arizona but in Chicago I believe that public charter schools are open to everyone who lives in the neighborhood.
The weather here in central and southern NH: 62F and constant rain. I’m thrilled. We need several days of rain. I’d love it if it rained hard right through the 4th. Maybe we won’t have the long traffic jam we experience every Friday afternoon as people flow up from southern New England and New York.
OTOH, I had to drive my son to his PT job about 20 miles south of here, then drive back to get him a few hours later. Then take him up to Weare to a friend’s house, which is about 20 miles in the other direction—in this rain. If you want to have any kind of social or cultural life for many here, it means driving lots of miles everyday. I need an electric car or Prius soon.
re: #244 Barefoot Grin
If you want to have any kind of social or cultural life for many here, it means driving lots of miles everyday.
That’s actually what it means to live in a major metropolitan area as well.
re: #245 Belafon
That’s actually what it means to live in a major metropolitan area as well.
Yes, that’s true. I lived in Atlanta for four years. It was a decent residential area, but to get to downtown or many of the areas with restaurants and shops was a tremendous hassle and lots of driving.
re: #245 Belafon
That’s actually what it means to live in a major metropolitan area as well.
It’s just the nature of living in a large country like America. There’s lots of space between everything, and very few towns have everything - and the ones that do are so large that it’s a lot of driving to get from one thing to the other.
re: #246 Barefoot Grin
Yes, that’s true. I lived in Atlanta for four years. It was a decent residential area, but to get to downtown or many of the areas with restaurants and shops was a tremendous hassle and lots of driving.
When living in Chicago, I would use public transportation or cabs to get everywhere. Depending on where you reside, parking has been a nightmare for decades. And I never learned to parallel park anyway. Most popular neighborhoods have restaurants and stores within walking distance.
well something’s changed in the last month or two
went to give blood today and my iron was squarely in the green so they took a pint
re: #244 Barefoot Grin
The weather here in central and southern NH: 62F and constant rain. I’m thrilled. We need several days of rain. I’d love it if it rained hard right through the 4th. Maybe we won’t have the long traffic jam we experience every Friday afternoon as people flow up from southern New England and New York.
Anything like this gag from Family Guy?
re: #248 Hecuba’s daughter
When living in Chicago, I would use public transportation or cabs to get everywhere. Depending on where you reside, parking has been a nightmare for decades. And I never learned to parallel park anyway. Most popular neighborhoods have restaurants and stores within walking distance.
My sister drives everywhere in Chicago. I don’t know how she does it.
re: #250 Dr Lizardo
Anything like this gag from Family Guy?
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Hah hah, I hadn’t seen that. I live closer to Manchester, so we’re in the drive-through zone where people try to get off of I-93 to get to the lakes. In eight years I’ve only been to the lakes region a few times, and that was for my kids’ soccer games. The little town I’m taking my son to is out of the way, but it really is beautiful. I want to move there, but my wife doesn’t like the inconvenience.
I kind of am enjoying Ron DeSantis’s signer.
Watching this presser, I can’t stop watching her.
free Kindle book today:
Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change by Mary Beth Pfeiffer
re: #254 plansbandc
Very cool. The opal makes it even cooler if that is possible.
re: #254 plansbandc
Opalized dinosaur bone fossil from Australia.
Can you imagine finding this ridiculously cool and beautiful thing?
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It’s gorgeous. I’d be absolutely speechless if I found something like that. That’s a prize.
re: #236 No Malarkey!
A new Kentucky school choice law is currently in litigation.
“School choice” in Arizona means we have several charter school chains that are devoted to looting the state treasury without the oversight that regular school districts have to go through. And there are “charter schools” which are actually hidden “church schools” for various sects. It irritates me to no end that I have to pay taxes for these generally right-wing outfits where the charter school owners (like you EDDIE FARNSWORTH) have made themselves multi-millionaires on the backs of taxpayers and are not preparing our kids for the future.
My point—if your state doesn’t have charter schools, do everything you can to keep them out.
Anybody else remember W Bush tasked DoJ w finding voter fraud? It was their primary task. After years of investigation costing tens of millions it found, like, 12 votes out of a billion cast were fraudulent.
GOP “election security” laws address problem that doesn’t exist #Scam— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) July 2, 2021
re: #243 Hecuba’s daughter
Might not be true in Arizona but in Chicago I believe that public charter schools are open to everyone who lives in the neighborhood.
Charter schools are open to everyone here, but the schools have the ability to basically kick anyone out who is a “problem.” So kids with an IEP plan, kids who aren’t cis, kids who have undiagnosed issues (like I was, back in the 1960s and 70s), anyone who doesn’t fit in, they find a way to get rid of them, and there is not a damn thing you can do about it.
I had a terrible public school experience in large part because I was an undiagnosed high functioning autistic kid with a very bad grasp of social cues (among other things). But I am flat out opposed to charter schools because they’re used as culture war academies on the taxpayers’ dime. At least kids today are getting diagnosed and getting help, but not at charter schools.
re: #259 jaunte
Now that is a tweet that should be sent to DT and his family constantly.
re: #260 mmmirele
I had a terrible public school experience in large part because I was an undiagnosed high functioning autistic kid with a very bad grasp of social cues (among other things). But I am flat out opposed to charter schools because they’re used as culture war academies on the taxpayers’ dime. At least kids today are getting diagnosed and getting help, but not at charter schools.
I think that is a more common thing than people realize. I had a similar experience in school. As for charter schools, my son was briefly enrolled in one because a friend of ours worked there; that ended VERY quickly, as, despite being one of the premier schools in the area, they were woefully unequipped to handle a high-functioning autistic kid! Who’da thunk?
re: #261 PhillyPretzel
They know they’re lying about it. It’s what they do.
re: #259 jaunte
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Dan Patrick as a True Texan born in Baltimore with the last name Goeb and would certainly never lie or misrepresent anything, knows in his heart of hearts that John Wayne died fighting to the death to defend the Alamo.
— DowntroddenInDC (@DowntroddenInDC) July 2, 2021
This “Forget The Alamo” book has really kicked up some dust.
Charter schools run by R’s with very little oversight. They pocket the taxpayers’ money.
I have a friend who’s an education activist in Denver. She’s been fighting against charter schools for a long time. Total scam.
The Alamo myth is unsustainably racist, as the book lays out. No wonder the reactionaries want to suppress it.
I actually had to do a double-take at this, because it sounds EXACTLY like something the Federalist Society would actually promote.
The Federalist Society presents: Are Voting Rights Unconstitutional? pic.twitter.com/8YjCLjKgak
— Nicholas Wallace (@n1n2w3) July 2, 2021
re: #269 jaunte
The Alamo myth is unsustainably racist, as the book lays out. No wonder the reactionaries want to suppress it.
When I was quite a bit younger and still living in Texas, there was a persistent rumor that the hotels and other buildings on the east side of the Alamo property were built over a Black graveyard / Indian burial ground and the powers that be didn’t want that to get out.
Well, it turns out the rumor is somewhat true but there’s a lot of entrenched resistance to actually finding out the extent of the burials.
1) Cancel Culture.
2) When ARE we gonna talk about the indigenous remains on the Alamo site that you lot want to ignore? https://t.co/7sUMedcOJv— (((Dee *still a Professional Cat Herder* Holmes))) (@mmmirele) July 2, 2021
re: #271 mmmirele
The Cenotaph was put up in 1936, and mistakenly commemorates the names of people who weren’t even at the Alamo battle, so of course its location is sacred and never to be changed.
re: #266 jaunte
This “Forget The Alamo” book has really kicked up some dust.
The Battle of the Alamo is central to the mythology of Texas.
The Alamo massacre was a pointless and stupid tactical blunder on the part of the Texian defenders, so there’s a lot of effort devoted in the myth-making to claiming it was a noble and strategic sacrifice.
re: #272 jaunte
The Cenotaph was put up in 1936, and mistakenly commemorates the names of people who weren’t even at the Alamo battle, so of course its location is sacred and never to be changed.
Do you have a link for the mistaken names on it? I would love to make my first edit on wikipedia be to add that list to the cenotaph’s entry.
Joe Kelly is wearing his new mariachi jacket to the White House. You are a LEGEND, Joseph. 🔥🔥🔥 #Dodgers pic.twitter.com/FObBKDWnot
— Dodgers Nation (@DodgersNation) July 2, 2021
re: #275 Belafon
I don’t have the names themselves, but:
Names of the defenders were carved along the base. But there are 47 historical inaccuracies in the list.
Several defenders’ names are misspelled or have the wrong first names, initials, or last names. The list includes three men who died before or after the battle — and omits 12 people who died during the battle.
expressnews.com
If you can’t call this what it is — a fascist endorsing an anti-democratic insurrection — you are helping fascists pretend they are pro-democracy https://t.co/m8DTtNXzUq
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) July 2, 2021
re: #276 HRH Stanley Sea
Kelly is good eccentric, unlike Bauer, who is bad eccentric. And potentially a violent rapist.
Edited to clarity.
re: #269 jaunte
The Alamo myth is unsustainably racist, as the book lays out. No wonder the reactionaries want to suppress it.
Bought the book on Kindle. Looks excellent. I already knew a big chunk of this thanks to some real history I’ve read but this looks like it’ll get the story much more widely known. Good!
re: #278 No Malarkey!
Seems like it would be great for various people to look through the videos and find just how peaceful Smith was.
I have long had reservations about charter schools; however, after two years of frustration at our local public high school, my academically gifted daughter decided to remove herself from that environment and enroll in an arts-based charter school in Albuquerque.
To its credit, despite whatever reservations I might have had about academic rigor, my daughter’s school had a decent number of out LGBTQ+ students.
After graduating from university, my daughter returned to work there as an aide. Unfortunately, my daughter’s bipolar disorder manifested itself a few days after attending a conference for activist trans youth. After her release from hospitalization, she tried to return to work a bit too early and suffered a relapse requiring a second hospitalization three days after returning to work. (The specifics are complicated to explain, but the lithium in her system hadn’t yet reached a therapeutically effective level before she returned to work.) Her second episode (technically, it was still a continuation of her first) manifested at a school event - an evening art showing before the parents.
After release, she chose to leave that job, not due to pressure from faculty or administration, but the feeling that she needed to avoid certain triggering concepts and/or events until she was well enough to handle them.
Now, she’s in grad school working on a degree in counseling.
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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