Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump and former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly having trouble selling tickets for their arena tour.
pay money to see trump. I’ll pay twice as much to not see him.
Fox hosts have been doing this all day long (except Tucker). Rupert must’ve gotten served with some papers.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 20, 2021
The ginned up hysteria over teaching the truth about slavery and bigotry is not just an attack on the truth, it’s an attempt to drive Black educators from the classroom. Great story by @isabelaalhadeff : https://t.co/vr2tu0yX64
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) July 15, 2021
Mexico’s Cueva de los Cristales contains massive gypsum crystals that dwarf any human who stands next to them. pic.twitter.com/kpW2veh5Np
— Travel (@AmitripsTravel) January 24, 2016
I really don’t want to see President Asshole’s Lonely Farts Club Band!
Wow this Tweet aged like a fine wine.
1. Biden wins decisively
2. There’s a coronavirus vaccine in 2021
3. Trump immediately starts screaming on twitter that no one should get the Deep State Injection
4. 50% of Americans never get vaccinated and the pandemic continues indefinitely
That’s the best case scenario— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) September 2, 2020
re: #284 The Ghost of a Flea
new Epic of Gilgamesh dropped before The Winds of Winter
The Babylonians are nothing if not timely.
As I noted in the last thread (and after reading Canada’s Website on travel), it would appear Canada doesn’t want tourists who don’t have cell phones.
I guess we’ll be spending our summer money elsewhere.
Just a reminder of the sh*t still happening in America. https://t.co/1jzpK8S0Ld
— Rachel Laser (@rachelklaser) July 20, 2021
Fox News has put in place a vaccine passport system for their employees. Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/SmhY62jhA7
I haven’t been able to find proof that this is real, but the page does indicate someone is using the same health software my company does.
I hope you’re proud of yourself.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 20, 2021
On his radio show, Hannity said almost same thing except he added 2 things: 1) He urged listeners to do their own research about vaccines risks; 2) he said vaccines weren’t as essential because hydroxychloroquine is effective.
His radio audience is 4x size of his fox audience. https://t.co/4siZbnZIUu— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) July 20, 2021
Hannity must have one of the idjits who tried to corner the hydroxychloroquine supply.
“Do your own research” = “ignore public health officials and listen to a rando on youtube.”
re: #13 jaunte
“Do your own research” = “ignore public health officials and listen to a rando on youtube.”
Do you want Liberal vaccines or quality Hannity brand snake oil?
re: #13 jaunte
“Do your own research” = “ignore public health officials and listen to a rando on youtube.”
People who frequently say, “Do your own research,” never seem to include that research should be conducted with peer-reviewed materials and known experts in a field, not by looking for popular social media posts amongst the morons.
re: #14 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Which one has the quantum copper dots?
re: #15 Dopamine Fish
People who frequently say, “Do your own research,” never seem to include that research should be conducted with peer-reviewed materials and known experts in a field, not by looking for popular social media posts amongst the morons.
re: #16 jaunte
Which one has the quantum copper dots?
That’s the Liberal vaccine. Doc Hannity’s snake oil has colloidal silver to block the quantum dots in your Liberal neighbors.
re: #19 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s the Liberal vaccine. Doc Hannity’s snake oil has colloidal silver to block the quantum dots in your Liberal neighbors.
RATFARTS!
re: #18 A Three Hour Tour
Today I learned that Bill and Melinda Gates funded the development of a method to record medical data under a patient’s skin at the same time that a vaccine is delivered.
MIT researchers accomplished this using quantum-based copper dots.
So interesting!https://t.co/LWuEFDiBLQ— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 18, 2021
What people miss when they only read the headline.
“It’s possible someday that this ‘invisible’ approach could create new possibilities for data storage, biosensing, and vaccine applications that could improve how medical care is provided, particularly in the developing world,” Langer says.
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As I noted in the last thread (and after reading Canada’s Website on travel), it would appear Canada doesn’t want tourists who don’t have cell phones.
I guess we’ll be spending our summer money elsewhere.
Get a cheap phone and enjoy your trip. Take the batteries out when you get home and put it in a drawer.
Fox News appears to be realizing that with vaccines readily available:
- Dems are getting vaxed
- Delta is spreading
- Their viewers are the ones dying
- Their disinfo could bury them in lawsuits
Too little, too late. https://t.co/mPdyFOffLu— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) July 20, 2021
Huge elevated towers may one day support airports high above the streets of London!
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As I noted in the last thread (and after reading Canada’s Website on travel), it would appear Canada doesn’t want tourists who don’t have cell phones.
I guess we’ll be spending our summer money elsewhere.
You might try Sturgis.
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As I noted in the last thread (and after reading Canada’s Website on travel), it would appear Canada doesn’t want tourists who don’t have cell phones.
I guess we’ll be spending our summer money elsewhere.
Seriously, though, their choice is to keep as many crazy Americans out as they can.
re: #23 retired cynic
Get a cheap phone and enjoy your trip. Take the batteries out when you get home and put it in a drawer.
I should say: I wouldn’t be without my smart phone, but I use it for a limited number of tasks. No twitter, no facebook, just email, calculator, watch, weather, yada. I live alone out in the country and when I fall, I might need help getting up. I’m old and fat and crippled, and that phone is my lifeline. At home or out driving.
re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
After it’s 2011 discovery, the tablet was eventually translated, and summarized here. AFAIK, there’s never been a serious movie adaptation of the Epic:
re: #23 retired cynic
Get a cheap phone and enjoy your trip. Take the batteries out when you get home and put it in a drawer.
I’m going to give a call to the embassy and see if they have an alternative (such as a Canadian government document I can obtain for travel from our vaccination information).
“Cheap” and “smartphone” aren’t really in the same ballpark.
Oh wait. I see what happened. https://t.co/H84XMHF4oz
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) July 20, 2021
re: #33 jaunte
I thought that was a feature, not a bug. Isn’t this Biden’s economy? Don’t Faux News and Co. want it to tank now?
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m going to give a call to the embassy and see if they have an alternative (such as a Canadian government document I can obtain for travel from our vaccination information).
“Cheap” and “smartphone” aren’t really in the same ballpark.
Mine was $60 with minutes.
re: #34 Dopamine Fish
I think the donor class isn’t willing to sacrifice quite so much.
re: #36 jaunte
I think the donor class isn’t willing to sacrifice quite so much.
Oh, I see. The billionaires came calling. They don’t want their investments to go south. That tracks.
re: #27 Belafon
You might try Sturgis.
LOL I want to get as far away as possible from Sturgis. I already live too close.
re: #35 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Mine was $60 with minutes.
Might be worth a call to TracFone (my provider for my flip phone I never use). They do sell smart phones. On the other hand, if Canada does have documentation I could get, that would likely be far cheaper.
I have no objection to showing proper health or police authorities (or businesses, &c) proof-of-vaccination, just not big on the idea I would have to buy a smartphone to do it.
$60 is more than enough money to buy gas all the way to the border.
The virus wasn’t developed in a Chinese lab; it was produced in a Zoom or GitHub lab.
I personally like the idea of the Olympics as a way to get otherwise obscure sports and athletes into the public conversation, but they really just needed to declare that Japan will host the next Olympics in 2024:
Tokyo troubles mounting as positive COVID-19 tests continue to roll in, now topping 60 athletes, including as alternate on the US Olympic gymnastics team. #Olympics #TokyoOlympics #coronavirus #COVID19 #USGymnastics #gymnastics #tennis https://t.co/GzLQLG3RdB
— John Gravois (@Grav1) July 19, 2021
For Anymouse:
Canada is going to let vaccinated US of Americans into their lovely country starting on August 9. Vaccination will be proven by scanning or photographing a vaccination card and uploading it using the ArriveCAN system, either as an app on your smartphone, or via a desktop computer web browser. It appears that Canada will do away with the current requirement to have a recent COVID PCR test in addition to being vaccinated, and they’re going to let kids under 12 enter with their vaccinated parents, no quarantine.
This is all preliminary, but I want to address one thing that comes up in the comments whenever vaccine passports are mentioned: Any of these passport mechanisms work better with a smartphone, but they do work without one. Every time I mention a passport, there are comments from people who don’t have a smartphone — you can log in at your library and print out the passport. That said, how the fuck do you people travel without a smartphone? Do you print out maps from Mapquest? Do you have your Rand McNally on your lap the whole time? As someone who’s old enough to have traveled pre-smart-phone, my God, what a game-changer they are when traveling to a place you’ve never been.
That said, a cheap smartphone with a modest data plan is $109 / $30/month at Cricket Wireless, and the Lifeline program subsidizes data for folks who can’t afford a cell phone. Another point: the passport regimes that I’ve seen are generally coupled with an activity that costs a fair amount of money — tickets to a professional sporting event, international travel, and the like. Nobody has proposed a passport to get into the grocery store.
Anyway, with this act, Canada joins the ranks of other sovereign nations, principally Fox News, who have also developed a vaccine passport (in Fox’s case, for their employees), because the one thing that Tucker Carlson and Justin Trudeau have in common is that neither one of them wants to come in contact with unvaccinated Americans.
@jerk slaps her wrist with a strand of spaghetti…
Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from Twitter for posting ‘misleading’ coronavirus vaccine information
Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours for violating rules on spreading vaccine misinformation.
Greene, who has been vocally opposed to vaccines, mask mandates and other public health measures intended to quell the coronavirus pandemic, crossed a line when she tweeted false information over the weekend, causing them to be labeled “misleading,” CNET reported Monday.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s what mine is. Amazon has one for $29.08.
amazon.com
re: #43 Belafon
Yes, that’s right. I have used the cheap-o iPhone Map App to do directions when driving. Very helpful!
re: #47 retired cynic
Yes, that’s right. I have used the cheap-o iPhone Map App to do directions when driving. Very helpful!
I am really good at traveling by paper map and I will never do it again unless civilization collapses.
re: #43 Belafon
For Anymouse:
Thanks.
Do you print out maps from Mapquest? Do you have your Rand McNally on your lap the whole time? As someone who’s old enough to have traveled pre-smart-phone, my God, what a game-changer they are when traveling to a place you’ve never been.
Why yes we do. We do print out maps from Mapquest. Printers are a real game-changer when you travel to a place where you’ve never been. We also have print maps issued by the states and provinces we travel to.
Sure a smartphone might be a game changer if you lived in a place where a smartphone actually worked. By the way, don’t bring a credit card here either.
re: #48 Belafon
I am really good at traveling by paper map and I will never do it again unless civilization collapses.
I no longer keep up-to-date paper maps in my vehicles. (I remember having to update them every other year or so.) I am a very good map navigator, but like you, I have absolutely no desire to flex that particular muscle.
I have this map in my car, all the roads in Colorado.
re: #50 Dopamine Fish
Road closures, detours, traffic jams, all good. Change of highway number last month to a new system? No problem.
‘mouse’s complaint of no cell phone coverage where he is has no answer, I’m afraid.
re: #43 Belafon
For Anymouse:
Lots of people whinging in the comments “why don’t you just spend the money on a smart phone you can never use at home?”
re: #51 teleskiguy
I LOVE those! I love maps, antique, paper or digital. Love Google Earth, yada yada. Just love maps.
re: #55 Belafon
If you can still buy one of those for the DFW area, it probably gets at least a half a percent more inaccurate each month.
I can believe it. Drove there 3 years ago, and without the little voice from the phone, would have been hopelessly lost after dark, and with a navigator.
What’s fun with Google maps is that while they update within a couple of months of a new set of roads, their street view in some places can be years behind or incomplete.
re: #54 retired cynic
I LOVE those! I love maps, antique, paper or digital. Love Google Earth, yada yada. Just love maps.
I occasionally just get on google maps and street view and look at small towns in random locations. There’s a really small town in Iowa that I forget the name of that has a comic book store but you can’t get to it in street view because the truck has never made it that far.
They already got your money.
Today I destroyed my copy of South Park bigger, longer and uncut, because when i asked my aunt to buy it for me, I didn’t even knew what atheism was, as we all need to remain in Christ, Love the sinner, but hate the sin. #Christianity #Christian #Atheism #atheist #SouthPark #DVD pic.twitter.com/ZpMpvIIhKp
— geeky_gabriel (@LuisgTorres1999) July 20, 2021
re: #58 Belafon
Same here. Street view is pretty cool. If you try to use it for our area, there are a lot of places where they just sort of gave up (including some of the streets in my town).
Street view also doesn’t get updated. My house doesn’t look anything like what Google has.
Mapquest and Google Maps still don’t show our barricaded street to traffic as barricaded (if you tried to use it, you’d run into a Jersey barrier if you weren’t paying attention).
The idea “maps aren’t updated as often as Teh Intertubz” is untrue.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Also that movie is like 20 years old now.
Glorious sunshine today, so lets pop back 93 years to visit the paddling pool for a splash. This is March 1928 and an autochrome by W Tobien, which I’ve cleaned-up for you today 😍 pic.twitter.com/mANX8fq5Xv
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) July 19, 2021
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Owning the Libs”, part MMDCCXIV
re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And still funny.
Yep. Many kids today wouldn’t even get the Saddam Hussein jokes.
re: #9 jaunte
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The scariest thing about this shit is that this is no doubt going to impact what textbooks will end up published in Texas, and what textbooks get published in Texas essentially decides what textbooks get published for half of the rest of the country.
And it’s just…wholly fucking depressing and deflating to know that one of the architects of this CRT histrionic bullshit literally gave the game away about simply using CRT as a toxic stand-in to get rid of all the shit they don’t like, and they’re still winning like fucking gangbusters. Total whitewashing bans are being passed at ridiculously rapid rates with what, only about maybe a month and a half of actual CRT panic discourse? They’re steamrolling this shit through and legitimately chasing educators out on their heels due to threats of actual fucking lynch mobs.
And it’s fucking working like a goddamn charm.
Both Christians and conservatives are tearing themselves apart in this thread, with many people in it arguing Christians must be conservatives.
I’d rather a hardcore conservative who does porn than fake sanctimonious Bible thumpers like Erick Erickson and David French who’ll sell us out every time.
I couldn’t care less who bangs who, and I missed the part of the Constitution that addresses threesomes.— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) July 19, 2021
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Both Christians and conservatives are tearing themselves apart in this thread, with many people in it arguing Christians must be conservatives.
Because Jesus totally taught his followers to be selfish bigoted assholes who hoard money and mistreat the poor.
/
Vapid trust fund baby is upset. Waaaaaa.
maybe they’ll just tweet about how refreshing it is to watch the view without some dumb blond spitting out noun verb my daddy every day. Oh yeah good riddance asshole👋👋— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) July 20, 2021
Imagine a regular comma that goes around blaming women for everything wrong with the world then occasionally touches young boys.
— Richie Cee (@PlanetRichie) July 18, 2021
Too much praise for Sean Hannity going on. If he does this nightly until we hit 80% of adults fully vaccinated, then we pop the champagne.
Until then, it’s nothing but risk management exercise on behalf of Fox News’ lawyers.— Jorge A. Caballero, MD (@DataDrivenMD) July 20, 2021
Yokozuna Hakuho, who is 36 years old, won his 45th Emperor’s Cup on Sunday by beating Terenofuji in the final match of the Nagoya tournament. Both men came in at 14-0, with Terenofuji having won the two previous Emperor’s Cups in May and March.
Here’s Hakuho finally downing Terenofuji:
That Hakuho roar, let them know King 💪#sumo #相撲 pic.twitter.com/qitGfIgzts
— Spirit (@SpiritOfBotan) July 18, 2021
Even though it was a loss for Terenofuji, it’s also a win for him. On Wednesday, he is expected to be confirmed as the sport’s 73rd yokozuna, which is a rank he cannot be demoted from (although he could be forced to resign).
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Mongolian sumo wrestler Terunofuji will be promoted to yokozuna after the Japan Sumo Association’s seven-member Yokozuna Deliberation Council unanimously recommended his ascension to the sport’s highest rank on Monday.
Terunofuji will be officially named the sport’s 73rd yokozuna on Wednesday at an extraordinary meeting of the JSA’s board of directors, a mere formality after the recommendation following his 14-1 record at the Nagoya Grand Sumo tournament that ended Sunday.
Terenofuji is an unlikely comeback story. He had a bunch of injuries in 2017 and at one point had dropped down to the fifth rank (jonidan) in early 2019. But he worked very, very hard, and won the March and May tournaments, in large part because Hakuho had pulled out of both tournaments (and the four previous) due to his injuries. The Yokozuna council had pretty much told Hakuho that if he didn’t complete this tournament, they were REALLY going to push him to retire. So him winning 15-0 is a serious Fuck You to the Japanese sumo establishment.
Terenofuji, like Hakuho, is a native Mongolian, and the Japanese Sumo Association has been bitchy over the last few years that its prize sport has been dominated by Mongolians. Even though Hakuho won the tournament, they still griped.
But the council still had plenty to say about the grand champion, who despite winning his record-extending 45th championship drew flak for his repeated rough use of elbows and slaps as well as fist pumping after the bout, as seen against Terunofuji, deemed not befitting of the exalted rank.
“It’s about the behavior and demeanor (demanded) of yokozuna. I hope he (Terunofuji) will be someone who inspires kids and those wanting to become sumo wrestlers. I don’t want him to be like Hakuho,” said committee member Masayuki Yamauchi, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.
Frankly, I’d like to smack Professor Yamauchi, because I love to see Hakuho wrestle. When he’s in good health, he is simply incredible to watch. Listening to these old dudes grouse is annoying.
One of the biggest problems with sumo is the grueling schedule. There are six tournaments a year, 15 matches over 15 days every two months. In between, there are exhibitions and tours around Japan on top of training. Not being able to recover from their injuries is a serious problem for sumo wrestlers, but the Sumo Association leadership, pretty much made up of old guys who have never wrestled, has insisted that tradition must go on.
Anyway, Terenofuji becomes a yokozuna on Wednesday and you may see Hakuho doing something with the Olympic opening ceremony, so keep your eyes peeled for a big guy in a fancy embroidered apron tied with a twisted white rope covering a black mawashi (loincloth) somewhere in the celebration.
Narrator: Their unique hooves allow them to climb trees to escape facts. pic.twitter.com/AdPllaP67O
— PoppaBear (@APoppaBear) July 18, 2021
Yesterday, someone put up the tweet thread showing all of the people who have needed lung transplants because of Covid. One person’s response to a 43 year old needing it was because he probably would have had heart problems at that age. So I challenged him:
Now do this guy: https://t.co/IuHStZMt6n
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 19, 2021
That person should not be allowed to have kids:
The virus turned their lungs into charred meat. There is nothing breathing exercises will do.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 20, 2021
re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg
Because Jesus totally taught his followers to be selfish bigoted assholes who hoard money and mistreat the poor.
Just look at all those Pulpit Pimps who are so loved by The Big G that he blesses them with permanent tickets to ride the Tax-Exempt Pulpit Pimping Train!
Fucking narcissistic horror show.
re: #76 teleskiguy
When it comes to Trump we know what the word is…AND that word is…Asshole!
I said it and I meant it.
Right now 1 out of 5 new #COVIDcases are coming out of #Florida. #Alabama has an increase of 310% in new #infections w/in the last 2 weeks. Overall #USA is up 140% in #cases, 34% in #hospitalizations, & 33% in #deaths since 4th of July. We need a pause. https://t.co/iTqj22G5hg— Ebony Jade Hilton, MD (@EbonyJHilton_MD) July 19, 2021
This problem will be coming to states which refuse to do anything about covidiots.
The director of the local public hospital of Mateur (NW of #Tunisia) is literally crying. They’re running out of oxygen. There is a nationwide shortage of medical oxygen. The reserves of many hospitals can barely cover the next hours. pic.twitter.com/bnplRg6Fme
— Mohamed-Dhia Hammami - محمد ضياء الهمامي (@MedDhiaH) July 18, 2021
Insane shooting spree in Tucson, tree of liberty well soaked. The suspect shot at firefighters and paramedics and killed a neighbor who was trying to help out with a house fire. A charred body was found inside the house. Two or three children are missing, the suspect’s mother died in a suspicious fire across the street earlier this year. The suspect himself is alive, but barely, after being shot by police. A wounded EMT is in extremely critical condition.
Gunman in Tucson shooting spree had criminal record, ‘mental health issues,’ police say
re: #69 EstebanTornado1963
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Aw, somebody’s throwing a hissy fit because they’re about to be rendered culturally irrelevant…again.
re: #82 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Insane shooting spree in Tucson, tree of liberty well soaked. The suspect shot at firefighters and paramedics and killed a neighbor who was trying to help out with a house fire. A charred body was found inside the house. Two or three children are missing, the suspect’s mother died in a suspicious fire across the street earlier this year. The suspect himself is alive, but barely, after being shot by police. A wounded EMT is in extremely critical condition.
Gunman in Tucson shooting spree had criminal record, ‘mental health issues,’ police say
Oh, and fuck the entire ammosexual culture from Wayne LaPierre on down who made it possible for a gonzo like this to get a gun.
Weekend Covid-19 update.
Panhandle Public Health District is hiring for several positions, if you’d like to live someplace cheap and help me flip this place blue.
In the meantime, the risk dial has been increased again, to the middle of “moderate.”
Panhandle Public Health District Dashboard
Percent vaccinated (fully): 32%
Positivity rate: 21.5% over the last week (continuing to rise)
County case rate per 100,000 (note, 100,000 people do not live in the entire Panhandle)
Kimball (seat Kimball): 136.4
Box Butte (seat Alliance): 72.1
Scott’s Bluff (seat Gering): 63.4
Cheyenne (seat Sidney): 60.9
Dawes (seat Chadron): 56.2
Morrill also known as home (seat Bridgeport): 41.3 (vaccination rate 26%)
Six counties have no cases (Deuel, Sioux, Sheridan, Banner, Garden, Sheridan), the lowest-population counties
In hospital: 4
Highest age group: 30-39
Only two pharmacies are authorised to give vaccines in the Panhandle (both non-corporate owned), One Wal*Mart and one Safeway are authorised (both in Sidney), all other places are hospitals. Banner County and Grant County have no hospitals, clinics, or pharmacies.
In my county, my town remains at no risk, Bridgeport and Bayard remain at moderate risk.
re: #75 JOE 🥓
Just look at all those Pulpit Pimps who are so loved by The Big G that he blesses them with permanent tickets to ride the Tax-Exempt Pulpit Pimping Train!
Although it upsets me the Lutheran Church across the street from my house owns one-eighth of the town property and pays no taxes on that, the pastor of the church is a very nice person.
We have been friends since my wife and I moved here.
Back when we were moving the public library to its new location, she and I worked side-by-side scraping old-ass tile from the floor for days.
re: #87 Dread Pirate Ron
Our county is 80-75% vaccinated and we’ve tripled cases in the past 2 weeks.
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Your county has more people than all of Western Nebraska, and not many more cases.
Capitol Rioter Says We Didn’t Go To ‘Steal Things’ Or ‘Do Damage’: ‘We Were Just There To Overthrow The Government’
re: #89 Dread Pirate Ron
Capitol Rioter Says We Didn’t Go To ‘Steal Things’ Or ‘Do Damage’: ‘We Were Just There To Overthrow The Government’
That ought to help his case. /s
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Your county has more people than all of Western Nebraska, and not many more cases.
20% of our population isn’t vaccinated, about 220,000 people. We’ve had 73,000 cases so far, that’s a lot of headroom for new infections.
re: #89 Dread Pirate Ron
Capitol Rioter Says We Didn’t Go To ‘Steal Things’ Or ‘Do Damage’: ‘We Were Just There To Overthrow The Government’
He was then quoted as saying “Shit, did I say that out loud?!”
re: #91 Dread Pirate Ron
20% of our population isn’t vaccinated, about 220,000 people. We’ve had 73,000 cases so far, that’s a lot of headroom for new infections.
Wholly crap, the number of cases you’ve had in your county is almost the entire population of the Nebraska Panhandle (82,962 over 14,180 square miles, most of those people living in Scottsbluff/Gering, Alliance, Chadron, or Sidney).
Military and archaeology buffs:
Egypt finds ancient military vessel, Greek graves in sunken city (Reuters)
(with photographs)
CAIRO, July 19 (Reuters) - Divers have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion - once Egypt’s largest port on the Mediterranean - and a funerary complex illustrating the presence of Greek merchants, the country said on Monday.
The city, which controlled the entrance to Egypt at the mouth of a western branch of the Nile, dominated the area for centuries before the foundation of Alexandria nearby by Alexander the Great in 331 BC.
Destroyed and sunk along with a wide area of the Nile delta by several earthquakes and tidal waves, Thônis-Heracleion was rediscovered in 2001 in Abu Qir bay near Alexandria, now Egypt’s second largest city.
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Covid-19, oysters attacking rowing venues, cardboard beds to prevent sexytimes, now paperwork snafus:
Olympics: Polish swimmers sent home from Tokyo amid paperwork chaos (Radio Poland)
Six swimmers have returned to Warsaw after being excluded from the Polish team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to what was described as procedural errors in the submission process.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Covid-19, oysters attacking rowing venues, cardboard beds to prevent sexytimes, now paperwork snafus:
Olympics: Polish swimmers sent home from Tokyo amid paperwork chaos (Radio Poland)
IOW, TL;DR is Charlie Foxtrot?
I’ve noticed I’ve found myself wondering more and more if there is a clear and professional way to get across to guests that asking to see the manager when I tell them there is no way their problem can be fixed is not only pointless but rather insulting…without wanting to reach across the desk and gouge out their hearts with a spoon.
re: #97 Targetpractice
I’ve noticed I’ve found myself wondering more and more if there is a clear and professional way to get across to guests that asking to see the manager when I tell them there is no way their problem can be fixed is not only pointless but rather insulting…without wanting to reach across the desk and gouge out their hearts with a spoon.
You could be nice about it and use a grapefruit spoon. /s
I presume you have an understanding manager. If he or she was a micromanager, I would be calling them every time the customer demands it (as in “the customer is always right” crap).
re: #97 Targetpractice
For most of my professional career I was not allowed to talk to customers.
When you put a statement like that in a book, either directly our by interview with the author, you can’t invoke the 5th anymore, right?
This line from Michael C Bender’s book about the January 6th attack disturbs me. pic.twitter.com/e5N2IW1d01
— James R. LeVan, BA in History He/Him (@JamesRLeVan1) July 20, 2021
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You could be nice about it and use a grapefruit spoon. /s
I presume you have an understanding manager. If he or she was a micromanager, I would be calling them every time the customer demands it (as in “the customer is always right” crap).
The one we have now is cool and pretty much is always on the same level as I am when dealing with a guest. Being the night auditor means I qualify as “manager on duty,” which is darkly amusing when the person who thought they were going to get their way realizes that I’m not going to budge.
Now the last one was a micromanager, and we rarely saw eye to eye on anything, no matter how much fake friendliness she tried to force over the two years we worked together. I have found I much prefer an asshole manager to act like an asshole manager than one that tries to be my “friend.”
re: #101 Targetpractice
The one we have now is cool and pretty much is always on the same level as I am when dealing with a guest. Being the night auditor means I qualify as “manager on duty,” which is darkly amusing when the person who thought they were going to get their way realizes that I’m not going to budge.
Now the last one was a micromanager, and we rarely saw eye to eye on anything, no matter how much fake friendliness she tried to force over the two years we worked together. I have found I much prefer an asshole manager to act like an asshole manager than one that tries to be my “friend.”
With an asshole you know where you stand, because they’ll tell you. If they’re an honest asshole, they will also tell you where you stand when things are running well.
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
With an asshole you know where you stand, because they’ll tell you. If they’re an honest asshole, they will also tell you where you stand when things are running well.
Ayep. And if they want you gone, they will make no bones about making it happen. As opposed to the last two passive-aggressive assholes I worked for, both petty little tyrants that would smile while they were scheming ways to destroy your career because they just didn’t like you.
Another respected religious survey is out; Barna confirms what PRRI says, that Christianity is collapsing in the USA.
James A. Haught (editor emeritus of the Charleston, WVa. Gazette-Mail) writes about their findings at Daylight Atheism.
Barna Research defines another group than “nones” (who might be simply religious people with no particular church or denominations) as “don’t” (don’t know, don’t care, or don’t believe).
Sociologists are amazed by the swift disintegration of Christianity in America. It’s a stunning cultural transformation, confirmed by dozens of surveys and studies.
A Gallup Poll found that fewer than half of Americans (47 percent) now belong to a church or mosque or temple – down from seventy percent at the start of the 21st century. Today, more than half of Americans are churchless.
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Barna did not try to sugarcoat the results.
Jon Schwartz is milkin’ this one. He’ll probably be able to go on for years.
The only thing that would ever shame me in front of my wife and children would be missing my monthly quota of destroyed Trump ballots! https://t.co/VakGs3NKju
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) July 19, 2021
It’s awful how so many Americans have turned their back on God
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) July 19, 2021
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
For a second I thought that said: Scientologists are amazed by the swift disintegration of Christianity in America.
I was about to say WTF?…
Hey everyone, @seanhannity is finally whispring “Iceberg!” a year after the Titanic hit the ocean floor. pic.twitter.com/08A8LVi49V
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) July 20, 2021
I threw this shot away 5 years ago and I have no idea why. Sometimes it’s worth going through an old hard drive. Taken in Columbus NE. pic.twitter.com/EYyo3GXSgZ
— Darth Malbec 🍷 (@Jwine05) July 19, 2021
What’s the long-term here plan here, folks? pic.twitter.com/MPMzZjca9j
— 107th NE Leg: The Interim (@107thNeLeg) July 19, 2021
Officials recorded whether Omaha police & firefighters got the COVID shot — & whether they denied it.
A UNMC doc likened the vaccine to a bulletproof vest or fire coat:
“Why wouldn’t you want to have the equivalent of that to protect from an unseen virus?”https://t.co/zPzhE8I7Tq pic.twitter.com/NwF1C4Vvrn— Alia Conley (@aliaconleyOWH) July 19, 2021
Maybe a whole dozen people protested in Omaha demanding the US government overthrow the Cuban government.
Some photos from the small SOS Cuba rally at 72nd and Dodge in Omaha. One demonstrator told me that a main focal point of their message was the call for US military intervention in Cuba - against the current Cuban government pic.twitter.com/o0K9wTks6T
— Mel Buer NOISE (@mel_atNOISE) July 17, 2021
Lot of people pissed here about Texas sticking Nebraska for this bullshyte deployment of our state troopers to Texas.
This charade is ALMOST as good as the time @GovRicketts blew $50K+ to illegally buy and import execution drugs from a guy selling them out of the back of a driving school in India (and which were then immediately confiscated by the federal government).
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) July 17, 2021
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Maybe a whole dozen people protested in Omaha demanding the US government overthrow the Cuban government.
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I’ve heard one of the big reasons for protests in Cuba right now is the government’s handling of COVID.
So when are going to do military intervention in Missouri, Florida, and Texas?
re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lot of people pissed here about Texas sticking Nebraska for this bullshyte deployment of our state troopers to Texas.
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Don’t think of it as burning tax dollars…think of it as helping Ricketts run for higher officer on a platform of being “tough on illegal immigration” as he mugs with a few poor NNG soldiers who’d rather be at home than sitting on the TX/MX border acting like glorified mall cops.
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So the whole story is now out.
Now we know why Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts redirected Lotto funding (which is supposed to go to conservation projects in the state) to purchasing ethanol pumps (claiming that is conservation).
The purpose is so our Lotto funding can support a couple Nebraska companies selling ethanol pumps for gasoline for California gasoline stations.
So if you’re buying ethanol-blended gasoline in California, you’re stealing our conservation funds to support a billionaire conservative’s buddies.
I never knew. That tears it; i should repent right away, throwing myself to my beekeeper wife (wait, she’s an atheist as well).
Bees are evidence against atheism
— Dæg ☦︎ (@Hleowstede) July 20, 2021
Another pastor off to jail for being a pervert.
Escambia County, Fla. (WEAR-TV) — A Pensacola, Fla. children’s director is back in jail facing additional criminal charges for secretly recording people inside a restroom including at a church, a report states.
Escambia County Sheriff’s Office confirms David Patrick Nims was arrested late Friday evening after more victims came forward.
Reports indicate 37-year-old Nims was arrested back in June after a 14-year-old boy found a hidden camera in the men’s restroom at Calvary Baptist Church located on Pine Forest Road in Escambia County.
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Report: Baptist children’s director accused of child porn also used hidden restroom cam (more at the link)
Gaaa. Your religion does not trump society. Catholic donations are paying for this antisocial crap.
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals will take arguments on Wednesday on whether a Michigan mask rule violates the Constitution.
The Resurrection School in Lansing, a Catholic elementary school, argues the mandate is unconstitutional.
“The school says such a rule would violate ‘sincerely held religious beliefs’ because they say humans were made in the image of God, and masks shield that image from being seen,” Michigan Radio reports. “They also allege requiring masks poses a health or learning problem for students who have allergies, difficulty breathing, or trouble being understood when they talk through a face covering.”
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Michigan Catholic school says making students wear masks would be a direct affront to God (Raw Story)
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gaaa. Your religion does not trump society. Catholic donations are paying for this antisocial crap.
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Michigan Catholic school says making students wear masks would be a direct affront to God (Raw Story)
“Sincerely held religious beliefs” is such a fluid concept, as it only ever seems to apply to what Christians want others to obey. Say women should be covered in burlap sacks because your religion says seeing an uncovered female causes men to stray and suddenly that’s “oppression.”
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I never knew. That tears it; i should repent right away, throwing myself to my beekeeper wife (wait, she’s an atheist as well).
Is it just me, or do they be more “out there” than usual?
re: #119 Targetpractice
“Sincerely held religious beliefs” is such a fluid concept, as it only ever seems to apply to what Christians want others to obey. Say women should be covered in burlap sacks because your religion says seeing an uncovered female causes men to stray and suddenly that’s “oppression.”
But Evangelicals requiring the same is not oppression.
re: #120 Teukka
Is it just me, or do they be more “out there” than usual?
The bee thing sounds like a Mormon assertion.
re: #44 JOE 🥓
12 hours. What a joke. I got 10 DAYS in the gulag for calling her a f-ing C**t . Guess twatter felt her potentially hurt feelings were more serious than her possibly getting people actually killed with false covid info.
Op-ed at the New York Times:
Dolly Parton Tried. But Tennessee Is Squandering a Miracle. (July 19, 2021)
The writer puts the blame squarely at the feet of the Republican Party of Tennessee.
Amongst other things, she notes Governor Bill Lee made a big deal about getting photographed for a flu vaccination to promote that, but refused to be photographed getting his Covid-19 vaccination (those vaccines are against the conservative religious faith).
NASHVILLE — When Dolly Parton received her first dose of the Moderna vaccine at Vanderbilt University, where her million-dollar donation helped to fund the research, she sang an updated version of her iconic song “Jolene.” The tongue-in-cheek lyrics were meant to inspire people to get vaccinated:
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
I’m begging of you, please don’t hesitate
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
‘Cause once you’re dead, then that’s a bit too lateShe gave it a good try, a heroic try, but somehow the bonehead politicians running this state managed to overcome even the good will generated by its favorite daughter.
Remember how hopeful we were when the new Covid-19 vaccines arrived so astonishingly quickly, and were so astonishingly effective and safe? As a nation — politically, institutionally, too often personally — we’d botched almost everything about this pandemic, and we did not deserve a miracle. The miracle arrived anyway.
(more, and much darker, at the link)
re: #123 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
12 hours. What a joke. I got 10 DAYS in the gulag for calling her a f-ing C**t . Guess twatter felt her potentially hurt feelings were more serious than her possibly getting people actually killed with false covid info.
She has lots of followers; you don’t.
Never get between libertarians and their money.
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re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
From the beginning, white people in rural Tennessee have been so skeptical of this vaccine that last month state officials returned an allotment of three million doses to the federal stockpile. “We’re sort of grinding to a halt,” the state’s health commissioner, Dr. Lisa Piercey, told News Channel 5 in Nashville. “The people who want it have gotten it.”
re: #30 retired cynic
I should say: I wouldn’t be without my smart phone, but I use it for a limited number of tasks. No twitter, no facebook, just email, calculator, watch, weather, yada. I live alone out in the country and when I fall, I might need help getting up. I’m old and fat and crippled, and that phone is my lifeline. At home or out driving.
I held out getting a cell phone until 1998 when my wife was pregnant and I needed to be immediately available in case of complications or early labor, etc.
I have since come to need it for my work.
re: #42 Belafon
I personally like the idea of the Olympics as a way to get otherwise obscure sports and athletes into the public conversation, but they really just needed to declare that Japan will host the next Olympics in 2024:
agreed. I am paying almost no attention to the Olympics this year other than the headlines that get posted here…
re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg
Because Jesus totally taught his followers to be selfish bigoted assholes who hoard money and mistreat the poor.
/
And he was part of The Big Threesome, otherwise known as the Holy Trinity.
re: #100 Teukka
We weren’t there to steal things. We weren’t there to do damage. We were there to overthrow the government.
Where you failed at the latter, at least you managed to get in a lot of the former.
She did not see “overthrowing the government” as an illegal act but rather a patriotic duty.
Wendell has caught up with the thread. you may resume your regularly scheduled posting.
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Dad practical joke on the front page of Reddit: Bets his young daughter he can dry a water spill on the floor before she can hit him with a fork.
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re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And he was part of The Big Threesome, otherwise known as the Holy Trinity.
Not the Holy Thruple?
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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Further on Rev. Schwarz blames it on “general anti-religion sentiment.” (I’m guessing it’s more the combination of the continued organised coverup of sex crimes against children, and murders and rapes in Canadian residential schools, but sure, call it “anti-religion sentiment.” “Anti-religion” is a frequent intentional mischaracterisation of “atheist.”)
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Police say a woman grabbed two statues, one the Blessed Mother and one of St. Therese the Little Flower, and proceeded to repeatedly smash them and drag them along the ground.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
The church’s pastor, Father Frank Schwarz, said both statues have stood in front of the church since it was built in the 1930s.
“It is heartbreaking, but sadly it is becoming more and more common these days,” Father Schwarz said. “I pray that this recent rash of attacks against Catholic churches and all houses of worship will end, and religious tolerance may become more a part of our society.”
Police released the surveillance video of the woman they are looking for. She is described as wearing all black and in her mid-20s. Police say she used a hammer to break them and they were then dragged to 70th Ave.
Father Schwarz hopes the police find the person behind this so it doesn’t happen to other churches.
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Police search for person who vandalized Catholic church in Queens
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Anti-religion” is a frequent intentional mischaracterisation of “atheist.”
It is a matter of doctrine that atheism is ANTI-religion just as gay marriage is ANTI-heterosexual marriage.
And American spelling is ANTI-British spelling…mischaracteriZation!!!
re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The idea “maps aren’t updated as often as Teh Intertubz” is untrue.
That’s why I use open street map, if it’s wrong I fix it.
(I also use an app that lets me download the vector map I’m interested in, so I don’t need cellphone coverage to navigate).
re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is a matter of doctrine that atheism is ANTI-religion just as gay marriage is ANTI-heterosexual marriage.
And American spelling is ANTI-British spelling…mischaracteriZation!!!
My marriage is cheapened and worthless by all these Geyh weddings.
No wait, it’s not, I don’t give a crap about other people’s weddings.
re: #141 John Hughes
That’s why I use open street map, if it’s wrong I fix it.
(I also use an app that lets me download the vector map I’m interested in, so I don’t need cellphone coverage to navigate).
Huh. Never heard of it.
So I looked up my town. If you would be so kind as to put a barricade on Smith Ave. at the west boundary of the village, that would fix the map.
It’s also missing a street at the north end of town but that’s another story.
All fear, all the time. Vote GOP.
Mo Brooks suggests COVID masks could cause cancer, heat stroke (Advance Publications operating as al.com)
Citing “discrimination,” Rep. Mo Brooks on Monday urged President Biden to overrule Fort Rucker’s decision requiring people to wear masks on the Alabama base if they are not vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Our soldiers should not be intimidated or coerced by the government into taking an experimental shot that has death and other ill-effect risk associated with it,” Brooks, a Republican from Huntsville, wrote to Biden.
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Keep supporting troop readiness, Republicans. Thanks for your support. Don’t call us, we’ll call you.
Molly Jong-Fast at Daily Beast in an opinion piece, yesterday.
Seriously, literally, this is a cult.
Donald Trump, who regrets not ordering the White House flag to be flown at half-staff to mourn Ashli Babbitt, the rioter and Qanon believer killed while storming the U.S. Capitol, is determined to create a narrative that his idiot insurrectionists are in fact part of an army of holy MAGA warriors.
“I would venture to say it was the largest crowd I had ever spoken before… It was a loving crowd too, by the way. Many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. It was too bad, it was too bad that they did that” Trump said in one of his post-presidency interviews from Mar-a-Lago. He didn’t mention the violence, but insisted that, “In all fairness, the Capitol Police were ushering people in… They were hugging and kissing. You don’t see that. There’s plenty of tape of that.”
You don’t see that tape because that didn’t happen, but that’s the point of this cult: Never mind your lying eyes, have faith in your Dear Orange Leader.
“Personally, what I wanted is what they wanted,” he concluded, meaning to overturn the results of the election because he’d said there was fraud and never mind all of the judges appointed by Republicans and Republican state and election officials who said there was no evidence of any of that. Heretics. The GOP is dead, and there’s only the MAGA movement now, as the party’s “leaders” sojourn to his sacred golf clubs to confess their sins.
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Certified Loser Donald Trump Is Rebranding MAGA as a Full-On Cult
re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Around here, we use a lot of forest and agricultural tracks that are not listed on maps as they are not official thoroughfares but all the locals know and use them as shortcuts.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Certified Loser Donald Trump Is Rebranding MAGA as a Full-On Cult
Since it is quick to turn on an vilify anyone who does not believe in its doctrine fully, it is only a wonder that it took so long.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Since it is quick to turn on an vilify anyone who does not believe in its doctrine fully, it is only a wonder that it took so long.
I’m going to paddle off to bed.
Ms. Jong-Fast’s last paragraph pretty much sums up her claim of Trumpism becoming a religion.
So if he’s got a martyr, a golden calf, and worshippers, does that make Trump a religious leader? Nah, in America religions have tax-exempt status and we all know that Trump doesn’t have that. Then again, he didn’t pay any federal taxes for 10 out of the last 15 years so maybe Trumpism really is a religion after all.
re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He is above and exempt from the law.
they might be able to bring down his companies but he will walk and just change his career to a lucrative author and public speaker
re: #58 Belafon
What’s fun with Google maps is that while they update within a couple of months of a new set of roads, their street view in some places can be years behind or incomplete.
I occasionally just get on google maps and street view and look at small towns in random locations. There’s a really small town in Iowa that I forget the name of that has a comic book store but you can’t get to it in street view because the truck has never made it that far.
I looked yesterday at the street view of the house I sold in 2008 after moving east from the Pittsburgh area. (I’ll be back out that way in a few weeks.) The overhead view picture is fairly current. The street view dates to 2007 when I still owned the house.
re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Huh. Never heard of it.
So I looked up my town. If you would be so kind as to put a barricade on Smith Ave. at the west boundary of the village, that would fix the map.
Done. (I put it in at the “administrative boundary”, I couldn’t find it visible on any of the satellite images, let me know if it’s in the wrong place).
It’s also missing a street at the north end of town but that’s another story.
Left of Star St?
I fixed the locations of the Post Office, Library and church which were all in the same place. Someone got lazy.
So, about that “Freedom Phone”…anybody have an idea what their filing number is with the FCC for this piece of kit? re: #30 retired cynic
I live alone out in the country and when I fall, I might need help getting up. I’m old and fat and crippled, and that phone is my lifeline. At home or out driving.
If you have a smartphone, get a smartwatch: they all have fall detection baked into them and can dial for help even if you can’t.
Given the periodic posting of Covid-19 vaccination numbers in the various counties lizards live in I thought I’d check the Chester County, PA numbers.
Pop: 525,000
Eligible for vaccine: 450,000 (rest are children under 12 for the most part)
Number of people vaccinated: 331,000
(73% of eligible; 63% of total population)
Positivity rate: 1.09% (trending upwards slightly over past four weeks)
Deaths in past 4 weeks: 1 (total since Mar 2020: 815)
Delaware County, PA which is adjacent, has a slightly higher population, about 3% less vaccinated, a 1.15% positivity rate, 7 deaths in the past month, and 1,465 deaths since Mar 2020.
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So on the one hand, Republicans are arguing that Trump should be praised for Operation Warp Speed because it got us the vaccinations which are stopping the spread of the Coronavirus. But on the other hand, you have Republicans like MTG and Mo Brooks arguing that the shot causes death and no one should take it (or even have to wear masks).
I’m confused.
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #154 Patricia Kayden
So on the one hand, Republicans are arguing that Trump should be praised for Operation Warp Speed because it got us the vaccinations which are stopping the spread of the Coronavirus. But on the other hand, you have Republicans like MTG and Mo Brooks arguing that the shot causes death and no one should take it (or even have to wear masks).
I’m confused.
These are people who show their “patriotism” by waving a secessionist flag…
re: #58 Belafon
What’s fun with Google maps is that while they update within a couple of months of a new set of roads, their street view in some places can be years behind or incomplete.
Some time back I saw some folks looking around near where I live while consulting their phones. It was August in Edinburgh so BloodyFestivalBloodyBloody and tourists and whatever, so I enquired what they were looking for. They had StreetView up on Google Maps, trying to find a nearby real ale pub.
“Sorry, they demolished that place a few years ago to build the new tram system.”
I sometimes bring up Google Maps when I’m using the tram. The satellite imagery shows the tramline I’m riding as still under construction in quite a few places and the line has been complete and operational since 2015.
re: #113 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
I’ve heard one of the big reasons for protests in Cuba right now is the government’s handling of COVID.
So when are going to do military intervention in Missouri, Florida, and Texas?
We could call it Jade Helm.
re: #24 DodgerFan1988
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re: #113 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
I’ve heard one of the big reasons for protests in Cuba right now is the government’s handling of COVID.
So when are going to do military intervention in Missouri, Florida, and Texas?
as somebody pointed out (I think it was here): In Cuba, they are protesting a lack of vaccinations, in America there are people are threatening to shoot government agents who go door to door offering vaccinations.
re: #30 retired cynic
I should say: I wouldn’t be without my smart phone, but I use it for a limited number of tasks. No twitter, no facebook, just email, calculator, watch, weather, yada. I live alone out in the country and when I fall, I might need help getting up. I’m old and fat and crippled, and that phone is my lifeline. At home or out driving.
When you’ve fallen and need help getting up, that will always be the time you remember with a certain amount of wry irony that your phone is still sitting on the bedside table being warmed up. I speak from experience!
re: #163 steve_davis
When you’ve fallen and need help getting up, that will always be the time you remember with a certain amount of wry irony that your phone is still sitting on the bedside table being warmed up. I speak from experience!
Yes, I still warm mine up over the coals left over from cooking breakfast…
re: #44 JOE 🥓
@jerk slaps her wrist with a strand of spaghetti…
Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from Twitter for posting ‘misleading’ coronavirus vaccine information
Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours for violating rules on spreading vaccine misinformation.
Greene, who has been vocally opposed to vaccines, mask mandates and other public health measures intended to quell the coronavirus pandemic, crossed a line when she tweeted false information over the weekend, causing them to be labeled “misleading,” CNET reported Monday.
so it was over before I woke up
re: #48 Belafon
I am really good at traveling by paper map and I will never do it again unless civilization collapses.
yes, when I drove to Middlebury, VT (1200 miles), the way up was flawless from Garmin. The way down, Garmin decided it would save me 1/10th of a mile a couple of times by taking me up an exit ramp and then immediately back down the other side, which was almost funny until it did it to me in Charlotte at 10 o’clock at night and then lost its bearings when it brought me up onto a series of round abouts. Good times.
re: #166 steve_davis
yes, when I drove to Middlebury, VT (1200 miles), the way up was flawless from Garmin. The way down, Garmin decided it would save me 1/10th of a mile a couple of times by taking me up an exit ramp and then immediately back down the other side, which was almost funny until it did it to me in Charlotte at 10 o’clock at night and then lost its bearings when it brought me up onto a series of round abouts. Good times.
I saw that sort of thing a few times using my iPhone Maps app while in the PNW a few years ago. Was headed south from Seattle on the interstate and it wanted me to exit, make a few odd turns, and then get back on the interstate. I just ignored it and stayed on the interstate.
re: #50 Dopamine Fish
I no longer keep up-to-date paper maps in my vehicles. (I remember having to update them every other year or so.) I am a very good map navigator, but like you, I have absolutely no desire to flex that particular muscle.
I keep a 2018 Rand McNally under a seat. If everything goes to hell and I completely lose service, I want to at least have some idea of where major roads are. As someone told me when I expressed nervousness about taking a long car trip for a job interview, “It is impossible to get lost on the Eastern seaboard. You may lose track of where you are, but you always know the ocean is on one side, and you can probably make a good guess about what state you are in.”
re: #97 Targetpractice
I’ve noticed I’ve found myself wondering more and more if there is a clear and professional way to get across to guests that asking to see the manager when I tell them there is no way their problem can be fixed is not only pointless but rather insulting…without wanting to reach across the desk and gouge out their hearts with a spoon.
gee
why a spoon, he ask oh so innocently as he stepped to the side whistling
something alan Rickman somethjng?
re: #168 steve_davis
I keep a 2018 Rand McNally under a seat. If everything goes to hell and I completely lose service, I want to at least have some idea of where major roads are. As someone told me when I expressed nervousness about taking a long car trip for a job interview, “It is impossible to get lost on the Eastern seaboard. You may lose track of where you are, but you always know the ocean is on one side, and you can probably make a good guess about what state you are in.”
I describe that as the “box” I know I am in. Might not know exactly where, but I have an idea what major landmarks are in each direction (usually a highway or state line.) Though I still am out running around on secondary roads now and then and see a “Entering Maryland” sign. Oops, did not know I was that far south!
fox and the GOP are explicitly trying to create a fifth column of pro-trump dissenters inside the military and a vaccine mandate would be a great way of smoking people susceptible to that out of the service https://t.co/CISdbiazyC
— Lil Brood X 🌋 (@pleizar) July 19, 2021
A COVID vaccine mandate for military servicemembers is a matter of when, not if. Mass-resignation threats by Fox-addicted Colonels are just as bullshit as when they threatened to do so over DADT repeal as Fox-addicted Captains. But I’d hope they follow through anyway. Win-win.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) July 19, 2021
An idea of what would have happened if we had decided that we’d do nothing:
South Korea’s prime minister has offered a public apology over a large-scale coronavirus outbreak on a destroyer on an anti-piracy mission off East Africa. A total of 247 of the destroyer’s 301 crew members have been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19. https://t.co/X1sLklAuyc
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 20, 2021
Well #freedomdayUK sure rolled back fast. https://t.co/ySJ7QurFRB
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 19, 2021
re: #174 Belafon
The same sociopathic SOB who was ready to just let Corona “burn through” the population to save the economy already reeling from Brexit…
a hawk was chasing a squirrel (no this is not the start of a fairy tale)
probably a red shoulder hawk we see around in the trees a lot
the squirrel got away
the hawk landed on the screen cover over the butterfly weed bed
this is a first.
only about 3 feet off the ground, they dont usually land so low to survey
and not on our deck so close to the house
it perched about 30 seconds then flew off.
put a zip in my morning
re: #165 Dangerman
And you just know she’s fully vaccinated.
re: #177 Dangerman
Put a zip in that squirrel’s morning too.
@mayagoldman_ reports the Biden admin is considering expanding Medicare’s definition of medically-necessary dental coverage administratively—-this could reduce the $230b or so cost of adding the new dental benefit to Medicare via legislation.. https://t.co/MnPVaKBFB0
— Amy Lotven (@amylotven) July 19, 2021
re: #180 Belafon
Don’t think that these people don’t know how to play nine-dimensional chess…
Comprehensive research estimates India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official toll, between 3 million to 4.7 million. Most experts already believed India’s official toll of 414,000 dead was a vast undercount. https://t.co/mx00PVnXj4
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 20, 2021
NEW: A key scientist who signed the letter calling for investigation into the lab leak theory now says a natural origin “is the most likely scenario by a long shot.”
It’s based on his own analysis of where the first cases were found. (by @FoodieScience)
https://t.co/BV7lzGR8gg— Geoff Brumfiel (@gbrumfiel) July 19, 2021
But two things have swayed him that the market is (again) the most likely origin.
1. Initial cases clearly radiate out away from the markets, not the lab.
2. A newly published paper shows numerous live animals were being sold in the market…https://t.co/sh3g3dmwQC— Geoff Brumfiel (@gbrumfiel) July 19, 2021
re: #183 Belafon
but still, some virus could have fallen on someone’s shoe and they walked out of the lab
then they went to the market and it spread from there
Lucy Van Pelt - “Snow falls up, Charlie Brown. Snow falls up.”
But two things have swayed him that the market is (again) the most likely origin.
1. Initial cases clearly radiate out away from the markets, not the lab.
2. A newly published paper shows numerous live animals were being sold in the market…https://t.co/sh3g3dmwQC— Geoff Brumfiel (@gbrumfiel) July 19, 2021
Jeff Bezos launched into space in his #NewShepard rocket, a publicity stunt for space tourism for the elite.
Bezos has made $75 billion in 2020 and says he spends $1 billion/year on Blue Origin spacecraft.
He cut Amazon workers’ $2/hour pandemic hazard pay after just 3 months. pic.twitter.com/Gfaa9k4pxd— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 20, 2021
re: #186 JOE 🥓
Jeff Bezos launched into space in his #NewShepard rocket, a publicity stunt for space tourism for the elite.
Bezos has made $75 billion in 2020 and says he spends $1 billion/year on Blue Origin spacecraft.
He cut Amazon workers’ $2/hour pandemic hazard pay after just 3 months.
Charge him a re-entry fee if he wants to land back on Earth.
Our kitchen window faces directly east. I noticed it as I was walking the dog, but my wife said when I got back, “the sun this morning is huge and bright orange—-is this an air quality thing?” I laughed and said that I didn’t think so. Turns out it probably is:
haha the east coast morning sky is the orange color of those camera filters they use in scifi movies to show that the planet is ruined … hmm … is that bad …
— choire sicha (@Choire) July 20, 2021
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Charge him a re-entry fee if he wants to land back on Earth.
Seeing billionaires pull stunts like this only makes me more convinced that we need to impose a maximum wage on them.
re: #189 JOE 🥓
Seeing billionaires pull stunts like this only makes me more convinced that we need to impose a maximum wage on them.
But billionaires don’t have wages.
You need a tax on wealth, not income, to deal with the rich.
And then you run into the problem of trusts…
re: #190 John Hughes
But billionaires don’t have wages.
You need a tax on wealth, not income, to deal with the rich.
And then you run into the problem of trusts…
id settle for them actually paying the ‘fair share’ they already say they’re paying
Prick Scott wants to go to war with Cuba…
I asked Florida Sen. Rick Scott whether the US should consider bombing Cuba and his answer was as horrifying as you’d expect pic.twitter.com/TrNnoxP539
— aída chávez (@aidachavez) July 20, 2021
re: #192 JOE 🥓
Prick Scott wants to go to war with Cuba…
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If Cuba attacked the US, I would expect some sort of retaliation. But they’re not that stupid.
re: #193 Belafon
If Cuba attacked the US, I would expect some sort of retaliation. But they’re not that stupid.
Remember the Maine!
re: #193 Belafon
If Cuba attacked the US, I would expect some sort of retaliation. But they’re not that stupid.
Well, it’s Florida: there’s never much (if any) downside for spouting bellicose bluster about Cuba.
re: #190 John Hughes
But billionaires don’t have wages.
You need a tax on wealth, not income, to deal with the rich.
And then you run into the problem of trusts…
Bring back the 60% inheritance tax.
Now they’re banning teachers saying murderous terrorism by white supremacists cowering under sheets is bad? The only people that’s going to make uncomfortable are white supremacist cowards. I guess that’s who calls the shots in Texas. https://t.co/3EnwUi4w8E
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 20, 2021
The GOP are copying Turkey’s denial of the Armenian Genocide, by erasing the Klan’s lynchings and terror campaigns from the history books.
re: #197 DodgerFan1988
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The GOP are copying Turkey’s denial of the Armenian Genocide, by erasing the Klan’s lynchings and terror campaigns from the history books.
Are they going to ban Superman for having gone after the KKK in The Clan of the Fiery Cross?
re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Are they going to ban Superman for having gone after the Klan?
Superman is an illegal alien.
re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Are they going to ban Superman for having gone after the Klan?
He’ll be replaced by Homelander.
During the 1960s, Americans mostly opposed the Apollo project. It never had above 50% approval all decade.
Then we actually did it, and walked on the moon; and a decade later, it became an icon of American achievement.https://t.co/70N7t5j2bN— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) July 20, 2021
Now a majority of Americans think Apollo was a hoax…
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Now a majority of Americans think Apollo was a hoax…
I doubt it’s a majority.
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Now a majority of Americans think Apollo was a hoax…
Definitely not a majority.
re: #151 John Hughes
Done. (I put it in at the “administrative boundary”, I couldn’t find it visible on any of the satellite images, let me know if it’s in the wrong place).
Left of Star St?
I fixed the locations of the Post Office, Library and church which were all in the same place. Someone got lazy.
I don’t see a change to the Smith Ave. at the administrative boundary (where the permanent barricades are).
The other items are in the correct locations, though the Public Library is not the school any more (the school closed in 2005), The library now shares that building with city hall.
I recall reading that NASA generated more GDP growth in the form of innovations and inventions than it wound up costing.
Whether these benefited the people Gil Scott Heron was singing about is another matter.
re: #206 sagehen
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I took my high schooler to see “Summer of Soul” on Sunday. There’s a scene were people in Harlem are asked about the Apollo moon landing and they say something like ‘cool, now spend some of that money where it’s really needed—our school and infrastructure.’
Afterward, my son said of that section, “reminded me of Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘Whitey on the Moon’.” So today is the second time I’ve heard of this.
The story. https://t.co/jKycf0AuRb
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 20, 2021
Years of planning and they went with the one shaped like a dick.
— 💀DeathMetalViking💀 (@DeathMetalV) July 20, 2021
re: #210 Dave In Austin
The Republican Party of Florida has a zero tolerance policy toward harassment of any kind.”
Assumes facts not in evidence.
re: #210 Dave In Austin
Is there anyone left in the Republican Party who isn’t sneaking Sally thru the Alley?
Comprehensive research estimates India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official toll, between 3 million to 4.7 million. Most experts already believed India’s official toll of 414,000 dead was a vast undercount. https://t.co/mx00PVnXj4
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 20, 2021
To put this in perspective, the official acknowledged WORLDWIDE death toll for Covid currently stands at just over 4 million.
Low Pay, No Benefits, Rude Customers: Restaurant Workers Quit At Record Rate https://t.co/UV4xMUSTj6
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) July 20, 2021
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) July 20, 2021
What is KY state senator Adrienne Southworth going to talk about at an “election integirty” summit in TN, hosted by Patriot Church and the John Birch Society? THAT IS A QUESTION SOMEONE SHOULD ASK HER? https://t.co/su4FNeaD9w
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) July 20, 2021
Normal, normal, normal. pic.twitter.com/JLB7dL8IEs
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) July 20, 2021
sigh
re: #215 Patricia Kayden
Low Pay, No Benefits, Rude Customers: Restaurant Workers Quit At Record Rate
Remember all those snarky “You have minimal education and qualification, why should you expect more than minimum wage” memes?
People love them some unregulated Free Market, but when it starts to affect the market for low-end, high-risk work, they through a hissy fit and blame workers for being lazy.
This guy approves. https://t.co/iESyFgmYrj
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 20, 2021
So much for Faux Noise Corporation having “seen Jesus” with regard to vaccination…
Fox’s Jeanine Pirro claims door-to-door vaccine outreach is about confiscating guns https://t.co/0hzhij0lrd
— Media Matters (@mmfa) July 12, 2021
Sure the vaccine might change your body inside, catching covid surely will
“I convinced my neighbor to get vaccinated with an argument about the next pandemic: “see how it’s those with underlying conditions dying? If you catch covid19 and survive, that will be your underlying condition, you’ll be the one dying next time
.”
(Not me, I’m just quoting)
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember the Maine!
..Plymouth rock and the golden rule!
And in one of my threads, lookie what I found…
1. Vaxx does NOT prevent Covid 2. Death rate of all covid infections is 1.6% while the death rate of the vaxxed is 1.4%…essentially the same. Vaxx does NOTHING 🤷🏾♂️ https://t.co/IC1PEiAjYH
— Michael Foreman (@VAsBigMike) July 20, 2021
re: #222 Teukka
Fox’s Jeanine Pirro claims door-to-door vaccine outreach is about confiscating guns
Yes, those door-to-door people are just there to cause True Patriots to draw a gun on them so it can be confiscated. Brilliant move.
re: #196 sagehen
Bring back the 60% inheritance tax.
Inheritance taxes are a good way to break up dynastic wealth, which is why Republicans hate them.
re: #225 Teukka
1. Vaxx does NOT prevent Covid 2. Death rate of all covid infections is 1.6% while the death rate of the vaxxed is 1.4%…essentially the same. Vaxx does NOTHING
Another man who did his “research” on the big white lab chair in the bathroom.
Dear Merrick Garland:
Rick Wiles has called for Civil War. Could you kindly dispatch a couple agents to pay him a visit in his bunker?
re: #222 Teukka
So much for Faux Noise Corporation having “seen Jesus” with regard to vaccination…
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On a strictly observational level that’s some evil marrying of two totally separate concepts. Two of their biggest “fears”.
Its perversely brilliant. It doesn’t have to be true.
re: #227 No Malarkey!
Inheritance taxes are a good way to break up dynastic wealth, which is why Republicans hate them.
As of yesterday the Rs are against enforcing existing tax law
re: #230 Dangerman
On a strictly observational level that’s some evil marrying of two totally separate concepts. Two of their biggest “fears”.
Its perversely brilliant. It doesn’t have to be true.
Am I cynical in just wondering how to logistically pulling off the mass burial of Faux Noise and other alt media viewers once the ‘rona has burned through that lot?
re: #229 JOE 🥓
Dear Merrick Garland:
Rick Wiles has called for Civil War. Could you kindly dispatch a couple agents to pay him a visit in his bunker?
Under our very expansive free speech protections, Wiles’ comment was vague enough to be constitutionally protected. He would have to be much more explicit and specific to cross the line into illegal conspiracy.
Imagine throwing away a lifeline because it might give you a rope burn….
If they had just named it the trump vaccine every conservative would be vaxxed by now
Fox News host Sean Hannity asks people to ‘please take Covid seriously’
John Pavlovitz
@johnpavlovitz
*10h
Hey everyone,
@seanhannity is finally whispring “Iceberg!” a year after the Titanic hit the ocean floor.
re: #227 No Malarkey!
Inheritance taxes are a good way to break up dynastic wealth, which is why Republicans hate them.
Andrew Carnegie lobbied heavily to get the inheritance tax instituted in the first place. He didn’t expect it to provide ANY federal revenue; his theory was it was a way to get rich people to give away and/or spend it all during their lifetimes, on useful things that would benefit the nation.
In his case it went mostly to libraries and universities; Getty created an awesome museum; Gates is trying to eradicate polio.
The people who are giving everything to their offspring, they’re just selfish greedy shits trying to shove camels through the eye of a needle.
re: #236 sagehen
Andrew Carnegie lobbied heavily to get the inheritance tax instituted in the first place. He didn’t expect it to provide ANY federal revenue; his theory was it was a way to get rich people to give away and/or spend it all during their lifetimes, on useful things that would benefit the nation.
In his case it went mostly to libraries and universities; Getty created an awesome museum; Gates is trying to eradicate polio.
The people who are giving everything to their offspring, they’re just selfish greedy shits trying to shove camels through the eye of a needle.
The estate tax does not even kick in until a certain level, there is always enough there to more than amply provide for one’s offspring…
Every single one of their videos of “emergency trips to see the crisis at the border”, and we never see caravans or anything.
Funny. I don’t see any caravans or “invaders”.
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) July 20, 2021
FOX News lawyers had a little chat with @seanhannity, obviously. https://t.co/u51DGloMCL
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) July 20, 2021
Does this reek of a Fox News class action lawsuit?
re: #239 Dangerman
I imagine being a Fox News lawyer is a pretty stressful job, though I’d think Murdoch pays pretty well.
re: #240 Eclectic Cyborg
I imagine being a Fox News lawyer is a pretty stressful job, though I’d think Murdoch pays pretty well.
Needless to say, you know what you are getting into…
re: #239 Dangerman
Does this reek of a Fox News class action lawsuit?
“They did not shy away from stripping broadcast licenses from purveyors of harmful disinformation and inflammatory rumors. The most famous example is probably sham doctor John R. Brinkley, who advertised on air for questionable cures and sham surgeries.”https://t.co/hm6Vqftn7S
— James (@james_n421) July 12, 2021
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The estate tax does not even kick in until a certain level, there is always enough there to more than amply provide for one’s offspring…
An estate tax return is filed for only about 0.15 percent of estates..ie those who died that year
About 0.07 percent will pay any estate tax.
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The estate tax does not even kick in until a certain level, there is always enough there to more than amply provide for one’s offspring…
The 11 million exclusion is enough for each of your five children to buy a nice home, and never work another day in their lives.
re: #244 sagehen
The 11 million exclusion is enough for each of your five children to buy a nice home, and never work another day in their lives.
I was not sure of the figure, but yes, that is enough to provide for them quite comfortably.
re: #242 Teukka
The FCC only regulates broadcasters; they have no jurisdiction over cable.
A new Annenberg Public Policy Center study finds that people who rely on conservative media have much less confidence in key public health institutions and experts, and are much more likely to believe misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The estate tax does not even kick in until a certain level, there is always enough there to more than amply provide for one’s offspring…
For them, it’s not just about ensuring their children are amply provided for. It’s about building empires of wealth so vast that they can reign over the rest of us like gods.
re: #247 Dangerman
How much of that stems from wanting to distrust the government in having an interest in helping them and thus they seek out media/opinions that support such a position to help with the justification?
Fauci ain’t having Rand Paul this morning. pic.twitter.com/sZYL8qWFzN
— kevin (@NarcTranslator) July 20, 2021
re: #248 No Malarkey!
For them, it’s not just about ensuring their children are amply provided for. It’s about building empires of wealth so vast that they can reign over the rest of us like gods.
Feudalism in modern form
re: #250 Dave In Austin
Talk about a Rand Slam!
re: #244 sagehen
The 11 million exclusion is enough for each of your five children to buy a nice home, and never work another day in their lives.
Further, heirs don’t pay any tax, the estate does.
Over 11m$ all it does is reduce the inheritance a bit
Plan
Create a proper will
Get life insurance or make a trust to pay the projected tax
Lots of solutions unless you’re just greedy and want it all
re: #249 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
How much of that stems from wanting to distrust the government in having an interest in helping them and thus they seek out media/opinions that support such a position to help with the justification?
Not so much chicken/egg but that one feeds on the other, sure
re: #239 Dangerman
Does this reek of a Fox News class action lawsuit?
Not really. Hannity sandwiched this statement between two anti-vaccine segments. I don’t think there is much likelihood of a successful lawsuit against Fox News, since they can always say “we were just reporting what our sources told us.” Or “we were just expressing our opinion, it’s not like we are medical experts or something. No reasonable person would believe what we say.” And Tucker is “just asking questions.”
I just saw this about someone running to be my rep. I did a little digging. It’s clear that she’s being groomed for some role. There are already 4 others from the state’s GOP who have announced and nary a peep from the media, but she’s getting blasted out by all the conservative media outlets. And the thing is, she may win.
23-year-old candidate for Congress… https://t.co/h3qho9OrmA
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 20, 2021
re: #87 Dread Pirate Ron
Our county is 80-75% vaccinated and we’ve tripled cases in the past 2 weeks.
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What site displays that chart? I view several different coronavirus data sites but that particular chart doesn’t appear to be on any of them.
re: #250 Dave In Austin
Fauci calling @RandPaul a liar is how I like to start my Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/8T7JxLHRog
— kevin (@NarcTranslator) July 20, 2021
I am thoroughly enjoying the social media jokes about Bezos’ space penis.
re: #259 Teukka
I guess the only reason Fauci hung on with Trump is the hope that he would get the chance to finally speak out to people like Rand Paul this way
If Rand Paul was working at Starbucks and he called my name to announce my beverage was ready for pickup, I still wouldn’t listen to him.
re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I guess the only reason Fauci hung on with Trump is the hope that he would get the chance to finally speak out to people like Rand Paul this way
I’m sure he also feared a worse replacement
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
I am thoroughly enjoying the social media jokes about Bezos’ space penis.
Reminds me of the Kurt Vonnegut short story…yes the title was…
THE BIG SPACE FUCK
re: #263 Dangerman
I’m sure he also feared a worse replacement
He endured a lot of humiliation and cringing embarrassment to continue to do the best job he could.
re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He endured a lot of humiliation and cringing embarrassment to continue to do the best job he could.
Fauci looks robust and healthy today. He can breath again.
re: #250 Dave In Austin
re: #259 Teukka
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re: #266 Ming5000
Fauci looks robust and healthy today. He can breath again.
Did MTG or Bobert not present a “Fire Dr. Fauci” bill? Not many people can boast of such an “honor”.
re: #262 Dangerman
I’m sure he also feared a worse replacement
I imagine he was just fine with the job he’s had for decades, and planned to continue to do it (which he did — hint: it’s not being a spokesman for the White House).
re: #271 Rightwingconspirator
Rand now needs to get burn treatments.
FINALLY Someone stands up to that asshole. That’s ranks right up there with Joseph Welch blasting Joe McCarthy.
re: #235 Dangerman
Fox News host Sean Hannity asks people to ‘please take Covid seriously’
John Pavlovitz
@johnpavlovitz
*10hHey everyone,
@seanhannity is finally whispring “Iceberg!” a year after the Titanic hit the ocean floor.
Having read up thread I see the original was posted…
I’m going to have to check the local rag and see what case we all got excused from, but it looks like (to me) someone coped a plea.
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Still in the firing line for one more week though. But I’ll tempt the fates here and
re: #270 JOE 🥓
Fauci basically telling Rand Paul, “Now go home and get your fuckin’ shine box.”
re: #277 JOE 🥓
Nice to see the love for Dnar Luap on Twitter.
He came loaded with his usual mix of incomplete and misleading facts topped with a dash of innuendo and walked out with his ass on a platter…
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t see a change to the Smith Ave. at the administrative boundary (where the permanent barricades are).
It takes a while for the changesets to get integrated into the public map.
re: #238 GlutenFreeJesus
I live on the border. I’ve never seen a caravan. I regularly see lines of BP agents sitting g in their trucks on their phones, spaced no more than half a mile apart, collecting six digits after overtime. We don’t need any more of those wannabe brownshirts.
Jeff Bezos was in space for 5 minutes—or as its known at the Amazon warehouse, your allotted break time for a 16-hour day
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 20, 2021
re: #225 Teukka
And in one of my threads, lookie what I found…
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People from the Dark Ages: Holy fuck, these guys are some real dipshits.
Steve Scalise got his first Covid vaccination shot…on Sunday https://t.co/nCueRRpGrT
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 20, 2021
re: #238 GlutenFreeJesus
It’s summer and there is record heat in the southwestern United States
Very difficult to horde swarm the border in those temperatures, but I would have advocated a Republican Congressional Delegation Southwestern border visit to view the crises first hand the day it hit 131 F in Death Valley
Willful stupidity strikes again
re: #278 Dr Lizardo
Fauci basically telling Rand Paul, “Now go home and get your fuckin’ shine box.”
Now, THAT is a Fauci ouchie.
— Helena Montana, House of Pfizer (@HelenaMontana14) July 20, 2021
re: #283 Mike Lamb
People from the Dark Ages: Holy fuck, these guys are some real dipshits.
Does this guy work at the VA? @VAsBigMike
re: #234 Dangerman
Imagine throwing away a lifeline because it might give you a rope burn….
If they had just named it the trump vaccine every conservative would be vaxxed by now
That’s what Geraldo suggested back in November. Whatever else you have to say about him (and he deserves it), he’s always been serious about the dangers of Covid, and he knows the base.
re: #257 Barefoot Grin
I just saw this about someone running to be my rep. I did a little digging. It’s clear that she’s being groomed for some role. There are already 4 others from the state’s GOP who have announced and nary a peep from the media, but she’s getting blasted out by all the conservative media outlets. And the thing is, she may win.
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She’s a 23 year old, blond haired, blue eyed Stepford MAGAt. It isn’t hard to see why they’d be giving her a signal boost.
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So the whole story is now out.
Now we know why Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts redirected Lotto funding (which is supposed to go to conservation projects in the state) to purchasing ethanol pumps (claiming that is conservation).
The purpose is so our Lotto funding can support a couple Nebraska companies selling ethanol pumps for gasoline for California gasoline stations.
So if you’re buying ethanol-blended gasoline in California, you’re stealing our conservation funds to support a billionaire conservative’s buddies.
This would also include Arizona, since we do not refine gasoline, only get it via pipeline from California. That said, I don’t have a choice of whether I get an ethanol blend or not. It’s just what’s at the pumps.
re: #287 Dave In Austin
Does this guy work at the VA? @VAsBigMike
When I click on that, after one tweet I get
Promoted
Don’t miss this chilling new limited series based on the unbelievable true story. Stream the @peacockTV
Original drama now. #DrDeath
re: #292 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A Rand Slam!!!
I feel so sorry for Dnar’s next door neighbor because he didn’t beat that asshole enough.
Jupiter with Io, Europa and Ganymede in broad daylight! Just so cool!!! Imaged from my back yard in Victoria, BC about 90 mins after sunrise… pic.twitter.com/7Jr1yMase5
— Lucky Budd (@lucky_budd) July 20, 2021
Popehat is mostly right, but Fauci did the thing he has to do to beat a demagogue: a “Have you no shame” moment.
I’m not sure Fauci gets that every encounter he has with Rand Paul helps Rand. It doesn’t matter if people who believe Fauci think he pwned Rand; it matters that people who are culturally invested in hating Fauci saw Paul mix it up with him. He’s their Emmanuel Goldstein.
— HatIsNotIntoCoups (@Popehat) July 20, 2021
Your Tuesday doomering:
Terrible #floods also in #Henan, China. 😢#ClimateCrisis. No place is “safe” any more.pic.twitter.com/y1htmYmCVI
— Parents For Future #UprootTheSystem 24 Sept 2021 (@parents4future) July 20, 2021
The chief of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the Olympics, as more athletes tested positive for COVID-19 and major sponsors ditched plans to attend Friday’s opening ceremony.
re: #163 steve_davis
When you’ve fallen and need help getting up, that will always be the time you remember with a certain amount of wry irony that your phone is still sitting on the bedside table being warmed up. I speak from experience!
When I slipped on the last step of the stairs and landed on my azz and the palm of my right hand on the kitchen floor late last year, I realized (a) my phone was upstairs and (b) my cat (who was licking me because I wasn’t objecting) was useless in the matter. I sat there for a long time, then got up, creaking and hurting, and staggered back upstairs. I went and got x-rays the next day and nothing was wrong, but I’m now thinking it may have aggravated my right arm and in particular my elbow, which goes through periods “no, I don’t hurt” to “Jaysis Christ what are you doing to me?” (Right now it’s in the middle: “Yes, I hurt when you do this, but not when you do that.”) This getting old shit is for the birds!
re: #298 mmmirele
You don’t have to tell me about it. I’m in Day 8 of a bad rheumatoid arthritis attack while trying to work…
re: #183 Belafon
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I know what we eat is odd to other cultures, regardless of whatever culture you are part of, but goddamnit, you want to eat a snake, have somebody kill the snake. Want to eat a monkey, bat? Same. I know we keep lobsters alive and even that freaks me out a bit. I’m always standing over at the glass tank wondering if the guy on the bottom is secretly thinking, “Yeah, I’m gonna be dead from old age by the time somebody thinks about throwing me in boiling water.”
re: #295 KingKenrod
Agree with your analysis, but Popehat buries the lede here, IMO:
“…people who are culturally invested in hating Fauci…”
That that demographic is more than just a kookoo fringe is the core of a LOT of this country’s problems.
re: #296 Teukka
Your Tuesday doomering:
Continued…
#China🇨🇳:Moment of explosion at aluminum alloy factory in Dengfeng, Henan. There are currently no casualties.
The cause of the accident is that the flood spread to the factory area and the high temperature solution exploded. #China #Fire #河南登封厂 pic.twitter.com/tdQTVbtCKt— Wᵒˡᵛᵉʳᶤᶰᵉ Uᵖᵈᵃᵗᵉˢ𖤐 (@W0lverineupdate) July 20, 2021
re: #302 Teukka
Continued…
Jesus Hello Kitty Christ!
#China🇨🇳:An aluminum plant in Dengfeng, Henan Province exploded due to continuous heavy rain that caused river water to flow into the electrolysis cell. At present, the entire series of the plant has stopped production and personnel have been evacuated, pic.twitter.com/BExA978bR0
— Wᵒˡᵛᵉʳᶤᶰᵉ Uᵖᵈᵃᵗᵉˢ𖤐 (@W0lverineupdate) July 20, 2021
re: #295 KingKenrod
Popehat is mostly right, but Fauci did the thing he has to do to beat a demagogue: a “Have you no shame” moment.
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Fauci was forced to testify and respond to Paul. There was no way for Fauci not to given him publicity, just by being present as a witness.
re: #298 mmmirele
When I slipped on the last step of the stairs and landed on my azz and the palm of my right hand on the kitchen floor late last year, I realized (a) my phone was upstairs and (b) my cat (who was licking me because I wasn’t objecting) was useless in the matter. I sat there for a long time, then got up, creaking and hurting, and staggered back upstairs. I went and got x-rays the next day and nothing was wrong, but I’m now thinking it may have aggravated my right arm and in particular my elbow, which goes through periods “no, I don’t hurt” to “Jaysis Christ what are you doing to me?” (Right now it’s in the middle: “Yes, I hurt when you do this, but not when you do that.”) This getting old shit is for the birds!
I don’t remember who said it but I thought it was funny.
“As I get older I make the same sounds getting out of a chair as I use to make during sex”
re: #295 KingKenrod
Popehat is mostly right, but Fauci did the thing he has to do to beat a demagogue: a “Have you no shame” moment.
This is largely what I thought watching the clip. I guarantee if I turn on right wing talk radio they will be playing the exact same clip and be ecstatic that Rand took Fauci to the woodshed.
re: #297 Dr Lizardo
Good. Hate to say it. I’m done with it once I heard there were unvaccinated members of the team, I was a firm nope.
re: #274 Dr Lizardo
A trip from Osaka to Tokyo on the Tokaido Shinkansen N700S, the newest class of bullet train.
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*sigh* Makes me want to go back to Japan. Maybe next year. And yes, the trains are really that clean. And, the stations. Since it would only be one train change at Shin-Osaka station, it’s an alternate way to get to Tokyo that doesn’t involve flying into Haneda or Narita and trying to figure it out from there.
BTW, this is why having a smartphone in Japan is so useful. The addresses are, uhm, quirky. But if you know where you’re supposed to be (aka, a hotel) and you wander around and get lost (me, deliberately, Kumamoto), a smartphone will have you back where you need to be rather quickly.
re: #307 danarchy
This is largely what I thought watching the clip. I guarantee if I turn on right wing talk radio they will be playing the exact same clip and be ecstatic that Rand took Fauci to the woodshed.
The only good thing I can say about Paul is that he voted to certify the election. Other than that it’s hard to think of anything he’s done that isn’t damaging to our nation and its future.
re: #311 mmmirele
I heard a story about an adventurous fellow (back in the pre-Smartphone days) who would simply show up at a new city, write down the name of the nearest subway station and set off to see the town and eventually find his way back to it.
He tried this in Moscow and got horribly lost. He finally contacted a policeman who helped him phone the hotel where he was staying. They asked him the name of the station where he got on and he had written down “нет входа” (no entry)
The Olympics will go ahead.
They will be a shitshow, but they will go ahead.
re: #314 Eclectic Cyborg
The Olympics will go ahead.
They will be a shitshow, but they will go ahead.
And I will ignore them like I ignored the clusterf*ck in Brazil in 2016
re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I heard a story about an adventurous fellow (back in the pre-Smartphone days) who would simply show up at a new city, write down the name of the nearest subway station and set off to see the town and eventually find his way back to it.
He tried this in Moscow and got horribly lost. He finally contacted a policeman who helped him phone the hotel where he was staying. They asked him the name of the station where he got on and he had written down “нет входа” (no entry)
In Japan, the tour guides will tell you to pick up the hotel’s card at the front desk if you’re going out exploring. Which I did. That way, if you get lost, you can stop by the local koban (police box, kind of like a mini-police station) and ask the very nice cops in broken JapaEngrish for help. But a smartphone helps too.
Rand Paul, after Dr. Fauci was finished with him. https://t.co/qhxIkfskAq
— Liddle Cherry Pie 🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) July 20, 2021
re: #311 mmmirele
Last time I was in Japan, it was before the smartphone era. Yeah, it’s not that hard to get lost - especially in Tokyo.
LMAO at assholes on Twitter demanding that Fauci be arrested and sent to the World Court for genocide.
The same right wing assholes who say that court has no authority over us…
re: #317 The Pie Overlord!
Anything to own those ribs!
The last time I drove to New York, I let the built-in vehicle GPS do all the navigation. Except it kept changing the route every 5 minutes. I finally figured out how to turn off “active re-route to avoid traffic jams” because in NY THERE ARE TRAFFIC JAMS EVERYWHERE.
re: #319 JOE 🥓
LMAO at assholes on Twitter demanding that Fauci be arrested and sent to the World Court for genocide.
The same right wing assholes who say that court has no authority over us…
It is okay if we send him there to make an international spectacle of him
re: #300 steve_davis
I’m sat outside near a particularly pissed off looking ram that’s pretty sure it knows what’s going to happen next.
Happy Aid el-Kebir everyone (except the ram of course).
re: #214 Eclectic Cyborg
To put this in perspective, the official acknowledged WORLDWIDE death toll for Covid currently stands at just over 4 million.
Another way to look at it, is that it puts the likely real death rate (amongst all residents, not those who caught it) 50% than the (official) American death rate, and a bit higher than Brazil’s death rate.
re: #282 Eclectic Cyborg
Jeff Bezos was in space for 5 minutes—or as its known at the Amazon warehouse, your allotted break time for a 16-hour day
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 20, 2021
ok it’s not nothing
and it is ‘space’ sort of.
just like when i put on my scuba gear and wade into the water at the beach
sure, i am “in the ocean”, fully equipped.
if i swim out 50 yards im not facing anything that happens in the ocean
Sooo, it seems that Buckley Carlson (son of a Tucker) is part of Jim Banks’ staff. The Republican rep from Indiana is one of the GOP members chosen to sit on the committee investigating the insurrection. What are the odds that Tucker doesn’t get any inside info on what’s happening behind closed doors?
Personally, I was hoping they got a bit of an updraft and overshot the orbit by a mile or two and it wound up taking three hours to drift back into the atmosphere…probably would have landed somewhere in Russia.
re: #325 Dangerman
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ok it’s not nothing
and it is ‘space’ sort of.just like when i put on my scuba gear and wade into the water at the beach
sure, i am “in the ocean”, fully equipped.
if i swim out 50 yards im not facing anything that happens in the ocean
When it’s as easy to get to the edge of space as it is to get to 50 yards into the ocean, I will stop being envious.
re: #326 A Mom Anon
Sooo, it seems that Buckley Carlson (son of a Tucker) is part of Jim Banks’ staff. The Republican rep from Indiana is one of the GOP members chosen to sit on the committee investigating the insurrection. What are the odds that Tucker doesn’t get any inside info on what’s happening behind closed doors?
And because we’re absolutely a meritocracy, we can rest assured that young Buckley got this job entirely on his own merits. No nepotism at all, no sirree bob.
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re: #328 Belafon
When it’s as easy to get to the edge of space as it is to get to 50 yards into the ocean, I will stop being envious.
50 yards out yeah
i left out and 40 feet down and stay there for an hour part ;-)
For those who want to spend 9 minutes in Space, and not just the three that Bezos did…volume up.https://t.co/jBGOgzjrZp
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 20, 2021
re: #284 Dave In Austin
At least he didn’t do it in secret.
Lawdhavemercee…
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I just had to explain to some righties and right-curious individuals sputtering in horror that there are more than one mode of transmission.
You have symptomatic transmission, when you’re infected and ill.
You have asymptomatic transmission, where you’re infected without noticing.
And you have indirect transmission, which isn’t an infection, but the pathogen hitching a ride.
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For future reference if you encounter this. Bonus paragraph:
“The ‘rona is like a dragon. In the instant you don’t respect it, it turns on you and grills you at least medium rare. The UK apparently dissed the ‘rona… Textbook example of ‘fuck around and find out’.”
re: #334 darthstar
Funny…this crazy ass woman was shouting at the judge over zoom about not being able to find her passport after the FBI took it. As a sovereign vessel she shouldn’t even need a US passport.
And if she rode into town like a cowgirl she would be a Horsed Vessel and the Nazis could make up a song about her
re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I heard a story about an adventurous fellow (back in the pre-Smartphone days) who would simply show up at a new city, write down the name of the nearest subway station and set off to see the town and eventually find his way back to it.
He tried this in Moscow and got horribly lost. He finally contacted a policeman who helped him phone the hotel where he was staying. They asked him the name of the station where he got on and he had written down “нет входа” (no entry)
Reminds me of the 1970’s stories about newly arrived American 2nd Lieutenants in Germany leading their convoys on the Autobahn, trying to figure out on their maps where the the town of Ausgang was located.
re: #312 Hecuba’s daughter
The only good thing I can say about Paul is that he voted to certify the election. Other than that it’s hard to think of anything he’s done that isn’t damaging to our nation and its future.
It surprised me that almost every Kentucky Congressman did, except Hal Rogers. He represents Eastern Kentucky, the Trumpiest part of the state.
re: #26 Belafon
It’s all in the Eye of the Beholder.
re: #336 b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)
Don’t make me like Tom Brady… Seriously… Don’t make me like him. https://t.co/PyJtQBGnVP
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 20, 2021
Bezos says he thanks every “Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this”
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) July 20, 2021
“Suckers!”
re: #246 sagehen
The FCC only regulates broadcasters; they have no jurisdiction over cable.
A la carte cable would cure this problem quickly.
re: #329 JOE 🥓
You think Asshole Roger Marshall would have learned from seeing Dr. Fauci smack down Dnar Luap…but…he doubles down…
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Republicans are so desperate to prove that covid was manufactured in a lab. Even sadder, they think if they do prove this, it will make trump look better. It won’t. It also won’t make Biden look bad.
re: #305 Hecuba’s daughter
Fauci was forced to testify and respond to Paul. There was no way for Fauci not to given him publicity, just by being present as a witness
Fauci calling Rand Paul a liar wasn’t enough - he needed to do more than call him a lair - he needed to call him a crank.
The scary part is that this may come back to haunt him should the fascists seize control and are looking for a scalp for their collection once they get back in power.
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