It’s a very old low-resolution video and the audio track could be better, but the beauty of this heart-wrenching song is crystal clear.
I just found out the leader of the Proud Boys is named Enrique Tarrio, a Latino man.
And damn, maybe we really are taking white people’s jobs.— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) July 28, 2021
So YouTube now has blog posts? Who knew?
I hope they’re not like the video comments.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
Remember when Senator Duckworth put a tiny blazer on her newborn so she wouldn’t violate Senate floor dress code? Or when female reporters were turned away from the House for sleeveless dresses? What could the difference be… https://t.co/tLCI4s6KVt
— Amanda Deibert🏳️🌈 (@amandadeibert) July 28, 2021
YO Michigan! https://t.co/uhMY7l9XZd
— Alice Dreger, Ph.D. (@AliceDreger) July 29, 2021
[8:42 PM] See the thunderstorms currently developing over Wisconsin? These are the storms we’ll be watching overnight. We’re expecting them to get into our region after 5AM.
These storms may bring a threat of severe weather, with damaging winds the primary concern. pic.twitter.com/gnzT7EDrp2— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) July 29, 2021
re: #3 darthstar
File under things you buy when you’re watching Anderson Cooper and drinking tequila.
Lord Merle
Lady EarthaI’m not an idiot…of course I did my pets.
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Arena wouldn’t name the client and wouldn’t explicitly say that what it “learned” was that the client was looking to perpetrate a hoax. “Dallas Justice Now,” meanwhile, hasn’t responded to my call/emails/text/FB message inquiring about claims that it’s a hoax entity.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 29, 2021
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
referring to this:
Tucker Carlson’s show has gone wild over a Dallas BLM group asking white parents to not send their kids to top colleges.
But the group looks to be a hoax, and its website traces back to a conservative PR firm.
Great story from @stevanzetti https://t.co/TjzrlBCzxo— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 28, 2021
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
What Ted does isn’t basketball.
So YouTube now has blog posts? Who knew?
I hope they’re not like the video comments.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
Looks like this on my YouTube home page. They’re video pages without the videos, basically. pic.twitter.com/d2j7V1tdV3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
And they have polls. pic.twitter.com/6XbNjahJBK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
Jackson Browne is on it. pic.twitter.com/CVGiNXTxst
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
As recently as 2008, the Senate swimming pool was males-only, “because a lot of the senators like to swim naked.”
Kay Hagan complained to Chuck Schumer, then head of the Rules Committee, and he fought to change it. And it was a fight.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thanks. If this turns ugly, that would be three tornado warnings in one week.
Last string:
re: #187 No Malarkey!
If I recall correctly, Germany has very restrictive abortion laws.
I’ve been watching Berlin on Amazon. This is a 3 part German documentary about the capital in 1945, with the biggest emphasis naturally being on the harrowing final days of the Reich in April and early May. It follows accounts by several witnesses, with actors reading their words, interspersed with stills and live action clips. There are many accounts of rape by Russian soldiers during the battle and occupation, and one by an American after US troops arrived in July. One of the interviewees, a female French doctor who had been drafted by the Nazis and had decided to stay on during the occupation, describes the many women who were seeking legal abortions after being raped. These were usually authorized but there was some kind of bureaucratic rigamarole, with government officials involved.
Just spoke with another January 6 defendant. Charged with 4 misdemeanors—fired from her job, will lose insurance for special needs child. Shunned by neighbors and friends. “I have no supports system. I’ll live with this my whole life.” Biden’s America.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) July 26, 2021
No problem! I’m sure she can pull herself up by her bootstraps.
That’s what these people are all about…right?
/
re: #12 sagehen
“because a lot of the senators like to swim naked.”
As seen in the series Billions, it’s a way of imposing your ego on other people.
From The Week’s article “The intellectual right contemplate an American Caesar”
I’m not saying the entire article is bad—it provides a very good description of the footsie being played between conventional rightist “thinkers” and bugnut monarchists—but it’s definitely a choice to describe Reagan courting George Wallace voters as “anodyne.”
I’m posting it, though, because the described discussion between Anton (the ‘Flight 93” guy) and Yarvin demonstrates what we’re up against. It’s fundamentally unserious, magical thinking about a technocrat/monarch saving us all, but attached to deadly serious discussion of what needs to be destroyed and suppressed. We’re so fucking deep in the weeds and the right just keeps being more explicit that they want fascism.
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
No problem! I’m sure she can pull herself up by her bootstraps.
That’s what these people are all about…right?
/
I say, GOOD. As it should be in everyone’s America.
Fox will continue to allow this noxious bullshit until the consequences for doing so are greater than the rewards. https://t.co/svlLc70AGd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
No problem! I’m sure she can pull herself up by her bootstraps.
That’s what these people are all about…right?
/
A responsible parent would have thought long and hard about how the inevitable repercussions would endanger one’s special needs child before engaging in the illegal assault on the nation’s capital to overturn the results of a legal election.
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
Good ol’ Ted “Dignity of the Senate be damned if it inconveniences my personal life” Cruz.
He sets such a sterling example of an employee of the people.
/
Biden meets Belarus opposition leader, backs ‘quest for democracy’ https://t.co/xlnSYdqlIx pic.twitter.com/LdMrYIBPrh
— FRANCE 24 (@FRANCE24) July 28, 2021
re: #20 sagehen
I am jealous. Mac and cheese is my favorite thing I think. With just a bit of very crispy bacon on top. Now I am hungry….
re: #17 The Ghost of a Flea
What the right wants is to embrace and continue to hold power while their demographics continue to shrink. And they are willing to go fascist in order to do so.
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
Shunned by neighbors and friends. “I have no supports system. I’ll live with this my whole life.”
What, no support system from the grifters who turned the whole assault on and are still cheering from the sidelines?
re: #24 A Mom Anon
I am jealous. Mac and cheese is my favorite thing I think. With just a bit of very crispy bacon on top. Now I am hungry….
I ordered a mac and cheese side along with the pulled pork sandwich I got at a BBQ place near where I am staying outside of Pittsburgh. It was pretty darn good. Nice consistency and a slight spicy kick to it as well. Went down well with a beer on a day in the 80s after a 5-hour drive across the state.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Do you mean the “Community” tab in a channel’s page.
I’ve noticed only a few channels (that I regularly watch or to which I am subscribed) post much in their Community section.
Most Youtubers ignore the Community tab.
just got carded for a 16oz bottle of kombucha 🥴
— ACABincalifornia (@ladymisskate) July 29, 2021
Holy shit I’ve never seen this before. @FBI https://t.co/yxUeQtnWW0
— Tracy Falco (@FalcoTracy) July 29, 2021
Lynch tourism.
Just now 205-of-206 House republicans (99.5%) voted against funding the Capitol Police. https://t.co/lMucRFxLB9
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) July 28, 2021
re: #20 sagehen
I had dinner tonight at Sugar Bar (Ashford & Simpson’s place). The mac & cheese… words do not suffice. The fried chicken and garlic mashed potatoes were really good too, but the Mac&cheese was, forgive the blasphemy, even better than Sylvia’s.
I love mac and cheese. But I have only had the kind my mom made with creamette noodles and certain varieties made with gourmet cheeses (more often a miss than a hit with me). I would love to try this.
Do we think a cat would find this inappropriate if a slightly inebriated fellow were to sing this to her while she lay in his arms? I think she’s gotten tired of Lou Rawls’ “You’ll Never Find As Long as you Live…”
re: #10 jaunte
Thank the gods that he was on the “shirts” team and not “skins”.
re: #35 cat-tikvah
Thank the gods that he was on the “shirts” team and not “skins”.
I wonder if he throws an elbow on the court with the same carelessness he did when he set a pick on his wife so that he could hug his dad?
re: #30 jaunte
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Lynch tourism.
That flimsy gallows isn’t high enough to hang a hobbit. Also, someone put a “THIS IS ART” sign on it. I don’t think they were expecting to actually use it.
They were riled up enough to beat people to death.
Proof that Fucker Carlson was working with Andy Ngo to trigger the anti-trans disturbances here in Koreatown!
Violent demonstrations erupt at spa after Fox News hypes misinformation about trans people exposing themselves to kids
HAMM: “Well, I think an audit is the key. That’s why I put a press release out today calling for an official audit to be done in California. I drove up and down the state of California during COVID. My husband was off of work and we had the time to do it, and so we went and saw the state, and guess what I saw, everywhere? Besides the homeless and littering because of liberal policies that have driven the state into the ground. I saw Trump signs. Trump signs even in liberal areas. Trump signs everywhere. And I’m kind of like an empath type, where I kind of feel the vibe of places, if you will, and guess what I felt? I felt an intense energy and force that was going towards Trump from California, and I kept feeling like something has turned, right? There was a poll that was done several years ago and they said that 65% of Californians considered themselves to be moderate-left leaning. That same poll was done eight weeks ago—68% of Californians said they consider themselves moderate-right leaning. There’s been a shift in the state of California, and I want to get to the bottom of what happened in the election, because I believe California is Trump country.”
Mike Lindell believes that when both election fraud and “organic theft” (dead people, illegals, non-residents, minors, multiple ballots) are considered, Donald Trump won the state of California. pic.twitter.com/hLyuz17RnB
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 18, 2021
This is incredibly dangerous. Millions of MAGAt waterheads are completely delusional.
Potential eye sign for #LongCovid: Corneal nerve fiber loss and increased dendritic cell density in people with neurologic symptoms https://t.co/R33Q5Xcm9u pic.twitter.com/KcyfZbx21r
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 26, 2021
This is unsurprising yet still alarming. In the future, we will figure out infectious agents “set the stage” for many neurological diseases. Death is not the only consequence of Covid. How can we emphasize this enough?#LongCovid #Alzheimers https://t.co/9Yw051R9gF
— Elizabeth Weaver II 🧠 (@NeuroWeaverGSU) July 26, 2021
I’m almost 15 months into my long covid journey. I doubt my memory will ever be what it was before and it’s has been devastating and life altering. #LongCovid https://t.co/OipmmDA1KX
— Hannah Herreid 🔥 (@hherreid) July 26, 2021
Finally: some data on whether breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people lead to #LongCOVID.
In this small study out of Israel, 19% of breakthrough infections in a fully vaccinated cohort still had symptoms at 6 weeks. 😩 https://t.co/Mcjas7WLSw
1/— Hannah Davis 🌈🦈 (@ahandvanish) July 28, 2021
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
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No problem! I’m sure she can pull herself up by her bootstraps.
That’s what these people are all about…right?
/
personal responsibility.
consequences.
who forced you?
Just spoke with another January 6 defendant. Charged with 4 misdemeanors—fired from her job, will lose insurance for special needs child. Shunned by neighbors and friends. “I have no supports system. I’ll live with this my whole life.” Biden’s America.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) July 26, 2021
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 29, 2021
re: #47 Dangerman
personal responsibility.
consequences.
who forced you?
— - – —• Kelley •— – - (@andreagail_k) July 27, 2021
re: #43 teleskiguy
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This is incredibly dangerous. Millions of MAGAt waterheads are completely delusional.
It’s fucking scary how many people believe Lindell. And I see that first hand with my brainwashed relatives including the fool in Uncle Sam’s B&B who insists that he will get a pardon from Trump in August.
re: #48 Dread Pirate Ron
53,342 deaths in Texas, and yet, per Greg Abbott:
On Thursday, North East (San Antonio) ISD Superintendent Sean Maika emailed parents about a “safety plan” that really spoke to the constraints on districts, and, in turn, underscored the stress confronting many parents. Here’s how it ends (italics added):
“As we enter the 2021-2022 school year, remember that a mask mandate is prohibited, COVID-19 vaccines are not required, virtual learning will not be offered, and the state will no longer allow school districts to require quarantines for possible COVID-19 exposure. This school year, public schools will treat COVID-19 exposure similar to the flu or strep throat and will not send home COVID-19 letters. As you can see, self-screening your children for symptoms and keeping them home when they are ill is especially important.”Of course, COVID-19 is neither the flu, nor strep throat.
It’s like he’s trying to kill us.
re: #30 jaunte
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Said Brooks: “I was warned on Monday that there might be risks associated with the next few days. And as a consequence of those warnings, I did not go to my condo. Instead, I slept on the floor of my office. And when I gave my speech at the Ellipse, I was wearing body armor.”
then why go to the event?
This is why I damn well do believe Trump absolutely intended to incite the mob he assembled to attack the Capitol. He is ignorant about many things, but he knows how to manipulate people.
This is one of my hottest takes I guess but I’m pretty wedded to it:
Donald Trump’s ability to achieve success in a wide variety of fields including real estate development, reality television, and presidential politics is good evidence that he’s a smart & competent person.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 28, 2021
re: #52 jaunte
53,342 deaths in Texas, and yet, per Greg Abbott:
It’s like he’s trying to kill us.
Abbot is gambling that Covid will kill more people of color than it will whites.
That’s his backup plan since he’s stalled in fucking people out of their right to vote.
It’s that second one that gets real mileage. Like when he stole someone else’s seat of honor at a charity event. No one knew how to react and the fact that no one did anything about it caused everyone present to shrug and say “welp, I guess it’s not a big deal, then.”
— jennifer holton (@jenniferholton7) July 29, 2021
Also, enjoy this evening’s pup loaf. pic.twitter.com/0LPvLcF7oS
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) July 29, 2021
re: #53 Dangerman
then why go to the event?
more
he volunteered this information to a reporter in order to demonstrate how Nancy Pelosi ought to have called for more police protection of Congress that day
heck if he had the foreknowledge enough to wear armor, why didn’t he call for more police?
Covid up date:
My nephew, Jamie, died from Covid-19 this afternoon. It was not an easy death. Just two weeks ago he was a very healthy 46 year old husband and dad. In those two weeks, he went into the ER and was immediately placed into the ICU. He went downhill very fast. First he was intubated followed by being being placed into an induced coma. He struggled so much they had to introduce paralysis to prevent him from tearing out the O2 tube. He survived like this for about a week.
His only chance was to have a lung transplant, which are not available in Alaska. The Doctors believed he would not survive a medical flight to Seattle even if there were a set of lungs available.
The hospital allowed his family to don full PPE and be at his bedside for his last few hours.
Just two weeks from being a healthy human being to dying a horrible death not being able to breath.
FUCK THOSE ANTI-VAXERS!!!!
re: #56 jaunte
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I posted earlier that 70% of his policy initiatives were reversed or blocked, found illegal or not within presidential power etc.
he’s not very good at this
re: #59 Cheechako
Horrible. Just horrible. My deepest sympathies.
re: #59 Cheechako
I’m so very sorry for your loss. 💔
re: #59 Cheechako
Covid up date:
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re: #59 Cheechako
Sorry for your loss.
Do you know if any of the antivaxxers around him learned from this?
re: #60 Dangerman
I posted earlier that 70% of his policy initiatives were reversed or blocked, found illegal or not within presidential power etc.
he’s not very good at this
my mistake
77%
re: #66 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Sorry for your loss.
Do you know if any of the antivaxxers around him learned from this?
I doubt it.
Motherfucker had 52 infrastructure weeks a year while he was president. Every one as fucked up as the one before it.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 29, 2021
re: #59 Cheechako
😢😢 Cheechako, I’m so sorry. Sending a hug with compassion. 😢😢
re: #60 Dangerman
I posted earlier that 70% of his policy initiatives were reversed or blocked, found illegal or not within presidential power etc.
he’s not very good at this
That was the distraction, while he and Mitch very efficiently and effectively transformed the judiciary and the tax code.
re: #59 Cheechako
I’m so sorry for your loss. Peace.
re: #59 Cheechako
My sympathies to you and your family on this tragedy. Absolutely terrible.
Fuck Mercola.
Fuck every one of the Big 12 assholes spreading lies about the vaccine.
Josh Marshall:
So we can see larger problem. Masking is coming back largely because of the actions of the unvaccinated and also largely for the benefit of the unvaccinated. The burden of non-vaccination is being placed on those who are vaccinated. That basic disconnect is our problem.
That disconnect places no effective pressure on the voluntarily unvaccinated while sowing demoralization and frustration and contempt with public authorities among those who’ve gotten the vaccine. No good comes of that combination.
Out of Patience with the CDC? Grow the F Up | Talking Points Memo
I have to start wearing a mask at work tomorrow even though I’m vaccinated, and I don’t mind because, as Dr. Phil would say, “it’s not about me!” Kids under twelve and immunocompromised people need protection, as well as the mislead people who don’t understand they need protection as well.
He has learned he’s no longer a cop and has to obey the law just like any other civilian who isn’t a billionaire.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 29, 2021
I think everyone should read acting St. Louis County health director Faisal Khan’s account of last night’s council meeting. We’ve published his letter in full. https://t.co/jtGiH8WFIK
— Doyle Murphy (@DoyleMurphy) July 29, 2021
“…I have worked to improve public health around the world, working in Australia, Vietnam, Pakistan, South Africa, the People’s Republic of China, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the United States (West Virginia, Massachusetts and Missouri). I have been a proud citizen of the United States since 2013.
In all that time and in all those places, I have never been subjected to the racist, xenophobic, and threatening behavior that greeted me in the County Council meeting last night. My time before the Council began with a dog-whistle question from Councilman Tim Fitch, who said he wanted to emphasize for the assembled crowd that I was not from this country. As you know — and as Mr. Fitch surely knew since he was the crowd’s leader — the great majority of the people in the raucous crowd appeared to be from the “MAGA” movement, as evidenced by their “Trump 2024” chants….”
My former employer has a website on which I used to see my ‘pay stub’ a day before the pmt. hit my acct. I can’t get in any more. I wanted to see whether I was able to collect 3 of my 80 accumulated sick hours. [I went home early one day, dehydrated, mostly. Also, I had to close the Starbucks kiosk one last time, when I thought I was done with them forever. That may have made me feel sick.] I told Mr. w my paychecks will be bigger from the new employer. I also told him they pay every 2 weeks, not every week like the old job.
re: #59 Cheechako
I am so sorry for your loss.
Grandma took us in to see Walking Tall in 1973. My older brothers wanted to see it but it was rated R. So she got us all in…left before it started, then picked us up after it ended. I was 9 years old. If she knew about the guns, hookers, and blood I wouldn’t have gone.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 29, 2021
OK I laughed. (In tags because sexist & mildly NSFW)
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Trumporrhoids are actively trying to get Dr. Fauci assassinated.
Tucker Carlson casually says Dr Fauci “created” Covid (Dr Fauci did not create Covid) pic.twitter.com/QKNH64yiHc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2021
re: #59 Cheechako
I am so so sorry. (((((Cheechako)))))
re: #59 Cheechako
{{{Cheechako and all of your family}}}
Tragic, infuriating, so terribly painful
Children under 12 are unvaccinated. The pediatric hospitals are filling up. Can the unvaccinated adults out there start acting like they GAF about kids? https://t.co/iZ56zm7y3u
— Qondi 💛 🐝 🇺🇸🇿🇦🇿🇼 (@QondiNtini) July 29, 2021
“I Cant Make You Love Me” is the song where I remember a doomed relationship with the great love of my life. He’s gay and he couldn’t love me as a woman. We’re still friends in that wistful way of all the shared experiences we’d had and wishing things could have turned out differently.
This song breaks my heart.
I live in conservative hell.
We just got back from town a little while ago.
Yesterday the state governor put out a proclamation which looked like a Republican talking points memo on how we would not be cowed by big government such as the CDC. (That would be the same governor who ordered the AG to sue to take away your right to vote if you live in places like Pennsylvania or Michigan.)
With that out there in the news this morning, a whole bunch of businesses put up “masks prohibited” signs. At the bank, there was a sign “recommending” no masks.
All day my wife and I were the only persons in masks, except at the hospital.
My county with its very low vax rate has shuttered the vaccination centre. You can not get a vaccine in my county.
If more stores do this, shopping at all could get very difficult.
Today @Judge_wolff & I wrote to the Governor, urging him to afford school districts the opportunity to set their own mask policies.
The COVID-19 landscape is ever-changing, and we need the flexibility to adapt.
Let’s continue to look out for our students, teachers, & families. pic.twitter.com/9pzwbjEJcl— Mayor Ron | Get vax’d! 💪 (@Ron_Nirenberg) July 28, 2021
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
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No problem! I’m sure she can pull herself up by her bootstraps.
That’s what these people are all about…right?
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Am I the only one that thinks she’s totally lying and that this person doesn’t even exist….
re: #98 GlutenFreeJesus
Am I the only one that thinks she’s totally lying and that this person doesn’t even exist….
Nope. She’s a Republican which means that she’s a liar.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I live in conservative hell.
We just got back from town a little while ago.
Yesterday the state governor put out a proclamation which looked like a Republican talking points memo on how we would not be cowed by big government such as the CDC. (That would be the same governor who ordered the AG to sue to take away your right to vote if you live in places like Pennsylvania or Michigan.)
With that out there in the news this morning, a whole bunch of businesses put up “masks prohibited” signs. At the bank, there was a sign “recommending” no masks.
All day my wife and I were the only persons in masks, except at the hospital.
My county with its very low vax rate has shuttered the vaccination centre. You can not get a vaccine in my county.
If more stores do this, shopping at all could get very difficult.
The Right has gone insane.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
……
My county with its very low vax rate has shuttered the vaccination centre. You can not get a vaccine in my county.If more stores do this, shopping at all could get very difficult.
Is it just your county that has shut off access to vaccinations? Is the rest of the state still providing this service to the residents? Most states, even very red ones, still seem to be providing ready access to inoculations.
Hilarious story in this thread.
I’ve told angry judge stories before. This is more of an angry clerk story.
Sometime more than a quarter-century ago I was clerking for a judge and learned very early to respect and learn from the courtroom deputy clerk, the court reporter, and the judge’s secretary. /1— HatInProSe (@Popehat) July 28, 2021
Let me add a few names to the previous thread on place names:
Eek, Alaska,
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg which in Google maps also goes to Lake Chaubunagungamaug and Lake Webster. (Webster Mass.)
Toad Suck, Arkansas (Iirc, about 20 miles from Booger Hollow, Arkansas)
Frog Lick Lane, Virginia
My favorite, though is Frog Level Road, Virginia. Which I often passed by when I was stationed at Ft AP Hill, Virginia.
re: #87 darthstar
THE TINGLER!!!!!
I was 3 years old. Dad took me to the theater. Vincent Price doing LSD, and then the screen went dark. “THE TINGLER IS IN THE THEATER! SCREAM!
Dad sat in one of the chairs with the Percepto shocker. They turned it on and Dad yelped.
I was so embarrassed…— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 29, 2021
re: #103 ckkatz
No Name, CO. I drive by it almost every day.
Two Egg, FL
Boring, OR
Why, AZ
Truth or Consequences, NM
re: #107 teleskiguy
Intercourse & Bird-In-Hand Pennsylvania…
re: #60 Dangerman
I posted earlier that 70% of his policy initiatives were reversed or blocked, found illegal or not within presidential power etc.
he’s not very good at this
I’ve always presumed that tfg was uninterested in whether anything he did achieved anything for the country. He seemed only interested in the media play and how much he could grift from it. If it failed or succeeded as policy was of no concern to him.
re: #108 JOE 🥓
Intercourse & Bird-In-Hand Pennsylvania…
Iiirc, back in the 1970’s some wit bought a small plot land in Intercourse Pa and try to sell it off in 10” sub-divides with the obvious advertising line.
By the way, I just got an email from Faribault Woolen Mill Company that they have their “Pure and Simple” blankets on sale. From what I have seen these are mid-weight pure wool blankets that are well made. They are not inexpensive, but are fairly high quality. I believe that LL Beans sells their Frontier Blanket
Apparently both the satin edged and the stitched edge versions are on sale.
re: #109 ckkatz
I’ve always presumed that tfg was uninterested in whether anything he did achieved anything for the country. He seemed only interested in the media play and how much he could grift from it. If it failed or succeeded as policy was of no concern to him.
Let’s see if Biden succeeds in getting an infrastructure bill through both the House and the Senate. Trump did not have any serious interest in pursuing this type of legislation, and neither did McConnell nor Ryan. I just don’t believe it will ultimately pass.
re: #112 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s see if Biden succeeds in getting an infrastructure bill through both the House and the Senate. Trump did not have any serious interest in pursuing this type of legislation, and neither did McConnell nor Ryan. I just don’t believe it will ultimately pass.
Sinema has effectively killed the reconciliation package. And I have no confidence that McConnell will allow the “compromise” package to pass.
The proposed Nebraska voter restriction amendment language was made public today. Check out what it says and how you can help defeat it below! https://t.co/8uvFQixOE9
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 28, 2021
Good grief.
Steve Black, a 72-year-old from Spokane, was directing cars to the parking lot from the back of a utility vehicle. Saturday’s event was the first time he had been out of the house for about a year after COVID-19 left him with some challenging health issues, he said. He surmised COVID-19 was a “political thing, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they sprayed it out of the air.”
Asked to clarify, he said “chem trails,” a debunked suggestion that condensation trails from aircraft is actually a government ploy to crop-dust citizens with some nefarious substance.
“I’m a conspiracy theorist,” he said. “The way it spread, you know, that’d be the perfect way to do it.”
That article is kind of a horror show. It centers on this guy.
re: #112 Hecuba’s daughter
Last Friday Lawrence O’Donnell, a former Senate staffer and currently host for the MSNBC Last Word went through the strategy behind what Biden, Schumer and Pelosi were trying to do regarding the Infrastructure bills.
My own thoughts are that Biden, having served in the Senate, for what, 30 years, is quite familiar with what does and doesn’t work in there. I do believe that the leadership has a plan and understands what they want to happen. Can it fail? Possibly… But every senator there wants stuff that it is in it. And for the Dems, there is the added opportunity to split the Repubs.
Transcript:
re: #32 jaunte
So the Republicans want to defund the police? Projection, who knew?
re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So the Republicans want to defund the police? Projection, who knew?
Shocked… SHOCKED I SAY!
re: #115 teleskiguy
Good grief.
That article is kind of a horror show. It centers on this guy.
Want to spin up conspiracy nuts? A lot of them have overlapping conspiracies. For example, a chemtrails nut might also be a 9/11 nut.
So when they tell you “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams,” ask them how they could possibly know that, because who the hell knows what temperature the stuff burns at they put in the chemtrail sprayers.
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Want to spin up conspiracy nuts? A lot of them have overlapping conspiracies. For example, a chemtrails nut might also be a 9/11 nut.
So when they tell you “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams,” ask them how they could possibly know that, because who the hell knows what temperature the stuff burns at they put in the chemtrail sprayers.
re: #46 teleskiguy
Huge ‘heat dome’ expected to bring punishing temperatures to the US. Again. | Grist
It was 103 here today while we were out driving about (still no air conditioning in the car).
I’m quite happy to be done with heat domes.
re: #111 ckkatz
By the way, I just got an email from Faribault Woolen Mill Company that they have their “Pure and Simple” blankets on sale. From what I have seen these are mid-weight pure wool blankets that are well made. They are not inexpensive, but are fairly high quality. I believe that LL Beans sells their Frontier Blanket
Apparently both the satin edged and the stitched edge versions are on sale.
We have owned a Faribault wool blanket for some 35 years. It cost something like $110 at the time and I really, really put a lot of thought into that purchase. As it turns out, it was a good decision. I love this blanket.
re: #123 calochortus
One of my husband’s treasures was what he called a “Hudson Bay” blanket. I still have it, and it will cook you without delay.
re: #124 retired cynic
One of my husband’s treasures was what he called a “Hudson Bay” blanket. I still have it, and it will cook you without delay.
Our blanket isn’t quite that warm, but very cozy for winter.
And with that, I’m off to bed, although not to sleep under a wool blanket at this season.
re: #105 sagehen
Old Yeller.
I was traumatized.
Sometimes, you just got to shoot yer own dog. It hurts, but it’s the right thing to do.
re: #124 retired cynic
I think that they are sold by Faribault as “Frontier Wool Blankets”. I believe that LL Bean also sells those Faribaults. Iirc, LLBean used to sell a Hudson Bay branded blanket as the Hudson Bay ?6? point. And yes, they are warm, almost 11lbs of wool blanket for the King. (And expensive!)
re: #127 ckkatz
They would sure work on the frontier, I guar-on-tee!
re: #103 ckkatz
Let me add a few names to the previous thread on place names:
Eek, Alaska,
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg which in Google maps also goes to Lake Chaubunagungamaug and Lake Webster. (Webster Mass.)
Toad Suck, Arkansas (Iirc, about 20 miles from Booger Hollow, Arkansas)
Frog Lick Lane, Virginia
My favorite, though is Frog Level Road, Virginia. Which I often passed by when I was stationed at Ft AP Hill, Virginia.
Place names: Vader, Washington.
re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron
That small study out of Israel doesn’t say what is being implied.
Covid-19 Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated Health Care Workers (New England Journal of Medicine, July 28, 2021)
Noting a couple things here:
Among 1497 fully vaccinated health care workers for whom RT-PCR data were available, 39 SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections were documented.
2.6% were detected having any disease at all post-vaccination.
They note this is the alpha variant of the virus being tested here.
Most breakthrough cases were mild or asymptomatic, although 19% had persistent symptoms (>6 weeks).
“Most” is a weasel-word, particularly bad in a scientific study. What is 19% of “most?” So of the 39 breakthroughs (and those are expected with any vaccine for any number of reasons), some part greater than 50% of the 39 had mild or asymptomatic disease. So less than 19 had symptoms beyond six weeks.
Conclusions
Among fully vaccinated health care workers, the occurrence of breakthrough infections with SARS-CoV-2 was correlated with neutralizing antibody titers during the peri-infection period. Most breakthrough infections were mild or asymptomatic, although persistent symptoms did occur.
We found some cases of persistence beyond six weeks, but no particular numbers.
From the results section:
Breakthrough Infections
Among 11,453 fully vaccinated health care workers, 1497 (13.1%) underwent RT-PCR testing during the study period. Of the tested workers, 39 breakthrough cases were detected. More than 38 persons were tested for every positive case that was detected, for a test positivity of 2.6%. Thus, this percentage was much lower than the test positivity rate in Israel at the time, since the ratio between positive results and the extensive number of tests that were administered in our study was much smaller than that in the national population.
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re: #107 teleskiguy
No Name, CO. I drive by it almost every day.
Two Egg, FL
Boring, OR
Why, AZ
Truth or Consequences, NM
Hygiene, Colorado over by Longmont was the one that caught my attention.
I suspect that there is a story behind it. Not sure if I want to know it, though. :)
re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So the Republicans want to defund the police? Projection, who knew?
I am confused; the House records shows that a single Republican voted for the bill (Young of Alaska) and 2 Democrats voted no (Rashida and Cori Bush) while The Hill claims there were no Republican votes for and 3 Democrats against (AOC, Rashida, and Cori Bush).
re: #52 jaunte
53,342 deaths in Texas, and yet, per Greg Abbott:
It’s like he’s trying to kill us.
He is. So is mine. This is a Republican democide. This is deliberate.
My brother sent me a list of quotes from various sports folks. My favorite is:
“Last year we couldn’t win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure as a coach was that I couldn’t think of anyplace else to play.”
Harry Neale
Head coach at some point for
Minnesota Fighting Saints,
New England Whalers,
Vancouver Canucks,
Detroit Red Wings
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That small study out of Israel doesn’t say what is being implied.
……..
Among 1497 fully vaccinated health care workers for whom RT-PCR data were available, 39 SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections were documented.2.6% were detected having any disease at all post-vaccination.
They note this is the alpha variant of the virus being tested here.
Most breakthrough cases were mild or asymptomatic, although 19% had persistent symptoms (>6 weeks).
……
So 19% of the 39 had persistent symptoms — which means 7 people (rounding to nearest integer)? But 7 people would be 18% not 19%.
A little cockapoo relied on a big heart, wily wits and maybe a little luck to survive four weeks in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness.Bella disappeared June 18 while hiking the Capitol Creek Ditch Trail with Betsy and Jim Chaffin and their extended family, including two other dogs. Bella had gone ahead of the human pack with the Chaffins’ grandson and other dogs when she turned around. Somehow, she got off course and, willingly or not, went on an epic journey.
She was reunited with the Chaffins four weeks to the day she went missing. Bella was found by a worker on a ranch not far from the Capitol Creek Trailhead, which is southwest of Old Snowmass.
“It’s a bit of a miracle,” Betsy said.
The 10-month-old dog lost half of her weight — from 8 to 4 pounds — was impaled with two porcupine quills, had matted hair, was understandably skittish and, of course, was dog tired. She’s recovering nicely at the Chaffins’ home and is once again as friendly as ever.
[…]
The Chaffins can only wonder what their dog experienced.
“How does any dog survive in the White River National Forest for a month, much less an 8-pound, 10-month-old little cockapoo?” the Chaffins wrote in an email letting people know Bella was found. “There was plenty of water between the creek and the rains. Was she eating grasses, cow pies, an occasional varmint? This is a drainage populated by coyotes, fox, mountain lion and bear — how did she manage to hide? What stories Bella could tell but will never be told.”
‘Miracle dog’ survives a month in Maroon Bells wilderness after getting lost | The Aspen Times
re: #59 Cheechako
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Time for me to head to bed, so I’ll leave you with a ‘Dad’ joke:
I just got a job in a factory making plastic Draculas.
There are only two of us on the production line, so I have to make every second count.
re: #21 A Three Hour Tour
A responsible parent would have thought long and hard about how the inevitable repercussions would endanger one’s special needs child before engaging in the illegal assault on the nation’s capital to overturn the results of a legal election.
The whole “woe is me” shtick only ever comes after she has yelled and screamed at anybody within vocal range about how “wrong” it is that she’s facing consequences for her actions when “those people” walk free. And then tried to use her child as a shield, begging and pleading not to be charged because she’d lose her job and insurance and how will she take care of her poor child? Since neither of those tactics worked, now she’s blubbering to anybody who will listen about how much of a “victim” she is because she “did nothing wrong!”
re: #141 ckkatz
Time for me to head to bed, so I’ll leave you with a ‘Dad’ joke:
I just got a job in a factory making plastic Draculas.
There are only two of us on the production line, so I have to make every second count.
AAAAHHHH
re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter
Is it just your county that has shut off access to vaccinations? Is the rest of the state still providing this service to the residents? Most states, even very red ones, still seem to be providing ready access to inoculations.
I think it’s just my county.
I presume you can still get a vaccine at the county hospital. The only pharmacy doesn’t carry them because the county was doing it.
There are three counties in the Panhandle with no hospitals, pharmacies, or clinics at all.
My understanding is you can get them at CVS or Walgreens (those are in Scottsbluff, Sidney, Alliance, and Chadron).
re: #100 No Malarkey!
The Right has gone insane.
They have indeed. They are still as dangerous as rattlesnakes or rabid dogs but there is every indication that the process of self-eradication is irreversible. The rank and file is completely indoctrinated now in conspiracist thinking. This is an infallible system in the sense that any and all objections or inconsistencies can be dealt with simply by enlarging the postulated conspiracy.
Last year, democide advocates like Texas Lt. Governor Patrick and disgraced former Lubbock councilman Todd Klein were insisting that “the elderly, the obese, and smokers” should be sacrificed to covid because saving them would harm the “economic future of young people.”
Now, though, it is covid delta that they have set up to destroy the economic future of young people. Relatively few of the young, perhaps several tens of thousands at the outside, will actually die, but millions could suffer severely debilitating permanent effects, up to and including severe cognitive problems. Thousands of budding athletic careers will be snuffed out. There are still good jobs for the future disabled, thanks to laws these self-same Republicans fought against tooth and nail, but many doors are closed nevertheless. Want to be a firefighter or police officer or commercial pilot? Sorry, permanently disqualified, and military service is out of the question.
Beyond that, many young people will lose their futures when ruinous health care costs eat up their college funds and destroy their inheritances.
Many will rationalize this and refuse to blame the guilty, but many, many others will realize the truth. The backlash may be epic. Since the GOP has indoctrinated the very same people to see violence as a solution, it may also be very violent.
8.2 preliminary magnitude quake off the Alaska peninsula.
WEAK51 PAAQ 290621
TSUAK1BULLETIN
Public Tsunami Message Number 1
NWS National Tsunami Warning Center Palmer AK
1021 PM AKDT Wed Jul 28 2021…A TSUNAMI WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT…
…A TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT…
Tsunami Warning in Effect for;
* SOUTH ALASKA AND THE ALASKA PENINSULA, Pacific coasts from
Hinchinbrook Entrance, Alaska (90 miles E of Seward) to
Unimak Pass, Alaska (80 miles NE of Unalaska)* ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, Unimak Pass, Alaska (80 miles NE of
Unalaska) to Samalga Pass, Alaska (30 miles SW of Nikolski)Tsunami Advisory in Effect for;
* SOUTHEAST ALASKA, The inner and outer coast from Cape
Decision, Alaska (85 miles SE of Sitka) to Cape
Fairweather, Alaska (80 miles SE of Yakutat)* SOUTH ALASKA AND THE ALASKA PENINSULA, Pacific coasts from
Cape Fairweather, Alaska (80 miles SE of Yakutat) to
Hinchinbrook Entrance, Alaska (90 miles E of Seward)* ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, Samalga Pass, Alaska (30 miles SW of
Nikolski) to Amchitka Pass, Alaska (125 miles W of Adak)
including the Pribilof IslandsFor other US and Canadian Pacific coasts in North America,
the level of tsunami danger is being evaluated. Further
information will be provided in supplementary messages.PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
————————————————-* The following parameters are based on a rapid preliminary
assessment of the earthquake and changes may occur.* Magnitude 8.1
* Origin Time 2216 AKDT Jul 28 2021
2316 PDT Jul 28 2021
0616 UTC Jul 29 2021
* Coordinates 55.5 North 157.9 West
* Depth 11 miles
* Location 60 miles SE of Chignik, Alaska
495 miles SW of Anchorage, AlaskaFORECASTS OF TSUNAMI ACTIVITY
——————————————-
* Tsunami activity is forecasted to start at the following
locations at the specified times.FORECAST
START
SITE OF TSUNAMI
—— —————* Alaska
Sand Point 2255 AKDT Jul 28
Unalaska 2350 AKDT Jul 28
Kodiak 2355 AKDT Jul 28
Cold Bay 0010 AKDT Jul 29
Adak 0015 AKDT Jul 29
Seward 0020 AKDT Jul 29
Elfin Cove 0025 AKDT Jul 29
Sitka 0030 AKDT Jul 29
Yakutat 0030 AKDT Jul 29
Valdez 0040 AKDT Jul 29
Cordova 0050 AKDT Jul 29
Homer 0100 AKDT Jul 29
Saint Paul 0110 AKDT Jul 29
re: #149 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Small quibble: When asshats like Patrick and Klein talked about the “economic future of young people,” what they were really talking about was the service and hotel industries being forced to close due to the sudden panic that gripped the nation in the wake of the reality that CV was running wild among the civilian population. Hence why the same sort of dickless wonders have gone on to blame the “labor crisis” on expanded UE benefits which were created to help those same “young people” survive and putting the kibosh on them at the state level with the promise that doing so will force those “young people” to reenter the labor market.
re: #152 Dread Pirate Ron
Now extended to Hawaii, Guam and even Samoa.
Ron Popeil has died at the age of 86.
Ron Popeil, the inventor and infomercial icon whose kitchen and direct-to-consumer products generated billions of dollars in U.S. sales, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 86.
Popeil “lived his life to the fullest and passed in the loving arms of his family,” a statement from his spokesperson said.
No cause of death was provided.
re: #157 Targetpractice
But wait, there’s more…
//
Honestly, if I were in his place, that’s exactly what I’d want on my headstone.
USGS data; 91 km ESE of Perryville, Alaska - depth of 46.7 km.
re: #149 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Many will rationalize this and refuse to blame the guilty, but many, many others will realize the truth. The backlash may be epic. Since the GOP has indoctrinated the very same people to see violence as a solution, it may also be very violent.
I wonder if GOP leaders and their depraved media shills will suddenly start demanding a ban on semi-auto rifles and an immediate door to door confiscation campaign once they realize their marks have turned against them?
It will be as though millions of AR-15s suddenly cried out in anguish, “I’m broke, my kid can barely breathe or read, and you lying assholes caused it!”
Sorry, Repugs, 2A is sacred, Tree of Liberty (and now sanity) and all that.
Inappropriate movies? When I was in 8th grade our youth minister took the youth club to an inner-city church in Chicago for a weekend. I think the purpose was to help out with the kitchen providing meals to homeless folks. He promised to take us to see a movie, but it turned out that the only theater nearby showed second-run films and the film at the time (1973) was Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H. Most of us had seen the TV show, so the difference between the movie and sit-com came as something of a shock to our hapless minister (and some of the kids). I thought it was great.
Estimated released energy on that Alaska quake is 1.3 x 1017 joules, equivalent to 1880.6 atomic bombs.
re: #17 The Ghost of a Flea
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From The Week’s article “The intellectual right contemplate an American Caesar”
I’m posting it, though, because the described discussion between Anton (the ‘Flight 93” guy) and Yarvin demonstrates what we’re up against. It’s fundamentally unserious, magical thinking about a technocrat/monarch saving us all, but attached to deadly serious discussion of what needs to be destroyed and suppressed. We’re so fucking deep in the weeds and the right just keeps being more explicit that they want fascism.
That’s scary as fuck.
If the Supremes allow states that want to ignore will-of-the-voters and send whatever electors their gerrymandered rural state legislature chooses… if they have both houses of Congress… it’s doable.
going to try to get some sleep. I haven’t slept through the night in months.
re: #3 darthstar
File under things you buy when you’re watching Anderson Cooper and drinking tequila.
Lord Merle
Lady EarthaI’m not an idiot…of course I did my pets.
“Rank is but the guinea stamp,
a man’s a man for a’ that!”
re: #14 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
If I recall correctly, Germany has very restrictive abortion laws.
They were until the 90’s. But after reunification, they loosened up a lot. Now a woman simply has to obtain a certificate indicating that she has undergone counseling on her options.
Before that, she had to get a note from a doctor or a social worker indicating that she was not mentally/physically/socio-economically fit to bear and raise a child. In other words, the final decision was not hers.
re: #87 darthstar
What movie did you see at way too young of an age?
Deliverance
I was not ready for banjo music at that tender age.
re: #107 teleskiguy
No Name, CO. I drive by it almost every day.
Two Egg, FL
Boring, OR
Why, AZ
Truth or Consequences, NM
Arizona also has Happy Jack.
Why, AZ used to be written ? or alternately Y
It was founded at a Y junction along two roads
Then AZ passed a law requiring all town names to have at least three letters.
Nearly broke the town budget to buy them, and they still could not afford a vowel…
Gushnayera (Bothriechis aurifer) 🐍🇬🇹 pic.twitter.com/45tmQpSKnM
— Andres Novales Aguirrezabal (@NovalesWildlife) July 28, 2021
re: #87 darthstar
What movie did you see at way too young of an age?
In Cold Blood (I was 11, with my dad)
The town of Fucking, Austria recently changed its name to Fugging because they got tired of their town signs getting stolen.
But there is still an Oberfucking and an Unterfucking.
There is village near here called Badenhard. And Assmannshausen. And Dickscheidt. And Dingolfing in Bavaria.
re: #103 ckkatz
Let me add a few names to the previous thread on place names:
The strangest place name in Nebraska is in my county, Moomaw Corner (goes to Wikipedia with an incredibly detailed description), a small unincorporated community of maybe a dozen people, but there was a town there in the early XX Century. In the past it had a one-room school (still standing but unsafe to enter), a church (not there now), a post office (also gone), and a few stores (also gone).
It is many miles west of the old Sidney-Deadwood Trail stageline (now US-385), and never had a railroad or a river. All-in-all not a good place for a town. (In the Panhandle we have a lot of “not a good place for a town” towns, most of them now ghost towns.)
Moomaw Corner is three miles north of Bayard, at the intersection of US-26 and state highway Link 62A. Mapquest generously refers to it as a city.
re: #107 teleskiguy
No Name, CO. I drive by it almost every day.
Two Egg, FL
Boring, OR
Why, AZ
Truth or Consequences, NM
I like Last Chance, Colo. (Wikipedia, gas stationed pictured looking north toward Kimball, Nebr.) on US-36 and CO-71 (population 23). It is way the hell out in the middle of nowhere and is now a ghost town, but the most direct route from here to Colorado Springs if you want to avoid the toll road around Denver. Lots of lonely high plains.
At one time it had a gas station and motel (now abandoned). There is a public outhouse just south of the town on CO-71. It is famous for being evacuated for a prairie fire, and for being saluted on “Hee Haw.”
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
I am confused; the House records shows that a single Republican voted for the bill (Young of Alaska) and 2 Democrats voted no (Rashida and Cori Bush) while The Hill claims there were no Republican votes for and 3 Democrats against (AOC, Rashida, and Cori Bush).
It would be helpful if The Hill had included the number of the bill or a link. I can’t find the bill on congress.gov because they don’t give enough information in the article.
Dipshit pastor Mike Hibbs of Chino Hills, California, infamous for hosting a thousand-person baptism to protest California’s lockdown orders, and saying trans people don’t exist (it’s demons who convince people they do) is back in the news.
This time he hosted Mike Pompeo on Sunday. When he closed the service with a prayer, he asked God to forgive California for electing people with “Antichrist views.” In his prayer, he specifically referenced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice-President Kamala Harris.
I wish the Johnson Amendment had teeth, so they could put his church out of business.
Pompeo of course did not challenge that claim.
Aside from the Bible’s requirement to obey those God has appointed over you, Christians (especially but not exclusively right-wing ones) love tearing down other Christians. (Left-wing Christians usually dismiss them as “no True Christians.”)
Their own party (since almost everyone younger than forty now views Christianity and Republican as the same thing) candidate for the US Senate, Abraham Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself, cannot stand.”
The only question is how violent Christians will become as they tear themselves apart. They do have a history of that.
A teenager was killed as he joined volunteers battling forest #fires in northern #Lebanon, where firefighters were struggling to protect homes from the #blaze.https://t.co/6yN9xOljwn
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 29, 2021
Firefighters and civil defense authorities are working to put out a massive fire in northern #Lebanon’s Qoubaiyat, the NNA reports, with social media videos showing flames approaching homes in the area.https://t.co/1RAa4QyGU3 pic.twitter.com/R8ffWC3meJ
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 28, 2021
Yeah this is the first time I’ll ever agree with the devil
— Mocha (@AllyFarmer6) July 29, 2021
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
In Biden’s America, treason is punished instead of rewarded.
Sucks to be a traitor, I guess.— David Avallone (@DAvallone) July 26, 2021
Your tax dollars at work in Michigan (Grand Rapids), expending funds by the police to have clergy ride along in police cars to calls. The Grand Rapids Police Department seems to think having clergy members along will be useful in responding to crime.
Multiple concerned Grand Rapids area residents have reported that the Grand Rapids Police Department is launching a new faith based partnership called “Clergy on Patrol.” It is our understanding that the purpose of this program is to “foster relationships between the police and faith based leaders.” We understand this program utilizes GRPD resources, time, and funds to train clergy members who will then be riding along with police officers on a regular basis. We understand that this religious program has been promoted and endorsed on GRPD’s official Facebook page.
The Grand Rapids Police Department must immediately end this unconstitutional religious program that utilizes public funds and resources in order to promote religion and allow clergy members to proselytize and promote their religious beliefs as an official part of the GRPD
(part of a letter from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, the whole letter is at Dropbox)
Before FFRF even sent the letter, GRPD got a metric fuquetonne of complaints about the proposal to give clergy police powers at tax expense, updating their Facebook post multiple times, for example, explaining clergy would not be armed.
“Not armed” means guns. They will be trained in the use of Tasers. Wait for your local clergymember to Tase you for something. That ought to be worth a few million dollars in civil rights claims against Grand Rapids.
re: #103 ckkatz
I drive by Frog Level frequently.
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Photographs on the Grand Rapids Police Department Facebook page showing police training preachers how to use a Taser to bring down suspects with the device.
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Stop in the name of Jesus!”
“Have you accepted our Lord and Saviour Jesus?”
“No”
*Tasered*
(plant some drugs on him and bring him in)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ron Popeil, the quintessential TV pitchman and inventor known to generations of viewers for hawking products including the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone and the Showtime Rotisserie and BBQ, has died, his family said.Popeil died “suddenly and peacefully” Wednesday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his family said in a statement. He was 86. No cause of death was given.
Popeil essentially invented the popular image of the American television pitchman, whose novel products solved frustrating problems viewers didn’t know they had. He popularized much of the vernacular of late-night TV ads and infomercials, with lines like “Now how much would you pay?” and “Set it and forget it.”
Popeil, whose father was also an inventor-salesman, built his ability to sell things as a young man in the open-air markets of Chicago, where he moved as a teen in the 1940s after spending his earliest years in New York and Miami.
(more)
Ron Popeil, inventor and king of TV pitchmen, dies at 86 (Associated Press)
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This looks like an excellent programme for The Satanic Temple to troll.
If they’re going to use tax money to put clergy in police cruisers, they cannot discriminate against religions.
Put a Muslim or a Wiccan in the programme and watch them backpedal real damn quick.
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Photographs on the Grand Rapids Police Department Facebook page showing police training preachers how to use a Taser to bring down suspects with the device.
Ah, the mutaween have come to America.
re: #193 Dr Lizardo
Ah, the mutaween have come to America.
As Christianity fades in this country, they desperately want to subvert the government and employ religious enforcers.
re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As Christianity fades in this country, they desperately want to subvert the government and employ religious enforcers.
And they all forget that the I Amendment wasn’t written to protect them from people like me; it was written to protect them from each other.
The second one religious sect gains control, they seek perfection and drive out, persecute, or murder anyone else.
The history of the American colonies is drenched in persecution and the blood of Christians against each other.
re: #193 Dr Lizardo
Ah, the mutaween have come to America.
In 2009, the CPVPV created and formalized a special “Anti-Witchcraft Unit” to “educate the public about the evils of sorcery, investigate alleged witches, neutralize their cursed paraphernalia, and disarm their spells”. The unit also had a hotline on the CPVPV website for Saudis to report any magic to local officials.
Coming to a Grand Rapids police precinct near you.
Pastor Robin Bullock has proof God is real: A woman once found $300 in three bags of chips she got from a hospital vending machine and… that’s it.
“Everybody I told that to said, ‘What brand of chips was that?’… It was called God Chips!” pic.twitter.com/iQ2ipDkuvk— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) July 28, 2021
I’m headed off to bed. It’s sunrise here.
Catch y’all later.
re: #185 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #188 dharmamark
I drive by Frog Level frequently.
Tortilla Flat, AZ
(What other kind of tortilla is there, anyways?)
Israel is the first country to face a wave of infections despite a high vaccination rate. This creates a series of dilemmas regarding how to continue living with the pandemic post-vaccination, Anshel Pfeffer writes https://t.co/WBPuUydjyH
re: #54 No Malarkey!
He hasn’t succeeded in a wide range of disciplines.
He inherited his wealth and spoiled it in bad investments and bankruptcies shifted his losses to creditors and contractors.
Reading a script? He’s awful at it.— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 29, 2021
Trump is a spectacular con man and grifter. He excels at getting others to pay the price for Trump’s failures.
All #Tsunami alerts for the #Alaska coastline have been cancelled.
Remember, strong and unusual currents may continue for several hours. If you have damage, please report it to your local officials.
Stay safe, get some rest, and we’ll keep the watch for you. Good night. https://t.co/wzUBu4ysK3— NWS Tsunami Alerts (@NWS_NTWC) July 29, 2021
Quake was downgraded to a 7.3 apparently..but the 8.2 raised my eyebrows.
Saw this comment by Kinzinger overnight.
Unless they go public, it is empty sentiment. Put up or your silence is assent to Trump’s madness and complicity in the armed insurrection to overthrow the government. https://t.co/Zz2dEn1hFW
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 29, 2021
I consider it suspect. If you’re too much of a coward to say so publicly and attach your name to the sentiment, you’re a treasonweasel enabler, treasonweasel adjacent, or treasonweasel complicit. There’s no in between there.
These people lack the spine to stand up to Trump, let alone to their misinformed base that they’ve indoctrinated on nonstop misinformation. Spineless complicit treasonweasels have no business in power.
re: #205 lawhawk
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Trump is a spectacular con man and grifter. He excels at getting others to pay the price for Trump’s failures.
We live in a world where fame and infamy are treated as moral equivalents…anyone with a recognizable name automatically has access to an income stream from advertising, public appearances or branding.
re: #142 Targetpractice
The whole “woe is me” shtick only ever comes after she has yelled and screamed at anybody within vocal range about how “wrong” it is that she’s facing consequences for her actions when “those people” walk free. And then tried to use her child as a shield, begging and pleading not to be charged because she’d lose her job and insurance and how will she take care of her poor child? Since neither of those tactics worked, now she’s blubbering to anybody who will listen about how much of a “victim” she is because she “did nothing wrong!”
why did we never hear these nauseatingly regular stories about all the other criminals in jail? what could be different….
re: #210 Dangerman
why did we never hear these nauseatingly regular stories about all the other criminals in jail? what could be different….
Why is it that the right wing lunatics are taking up the insurrectionists’ cause in jail as they await trial or sentencing? They think prison conditions are bad for the insurrectionists?
They’re no different than the conditions for every other common criminal out there.
They’re not concerned about prison conditions. They’re concerned about the insurrectionists and want to be seen as supporting the ongoing effort to overthrow the govt and install GOPers in power permanently.
re: #159 Dr Lizardo
Honestly, if I were in his place, that’s exactly what I’d want on my headstone.
the man was brilliant
Well I’m out. Have a great day Lizards.
re: #211 lawhawk
Why is it that the right wing lunatics are taking up the insurrectionists’ cause in jail as they await trial or sentencing? They think prison conditions are bad for the insurrectionists?
The same people who applauded Sheriff Joe Arpaio for keeping criminals in tent cities out in the desert.
re: #162 Barefoot Grin
Inappropriate movies? ..
sleep away summer camp used to show movies once a week or so
my 10 year old self was traumatized by
- Die! My Darling!
and
- Wait Until Dark
re: #167 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I guess Ride of the Valkyries was an extra option that the US military wasn’t willing to spring for?
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I like Last Chance, Colo. (Wikipedia, gas stationed pictured looking north toward Kimball, Nebr.) on US-36 and CO-71 (population 23). It is way the hell out in the middle of nowhere and is now a ghost town, but the most direct route from here to Colorado Springs if you want to avoid the toll road around Denver. Lots of lonely high plains.
At one time it had a gas station and motel (now abandoned). There is a public outhouse just south of the town on CO-71. It is famous for being evacuated for a prairie fire, and for being saluted on “Hee Haw.”
Notrees, Texas
re: #217 lawhawk
I guess Ride of the Valkyries was an extra option that the US military wasn’t willing to spring for?
Shocking, I know.
Dear @IngrahamAngle: FYI https://t.co/w7mYiOsP0A
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 29, 2021
re: #220 No Malarkey!
Shocking, I know.
Just a liberal elitist scientist plot to make Trump look bad. Fauci is behind this, funded by Gates and Soros.
It’s…. back…
Gawker is making a return to the world of living websites.
They are killing their own children. https://t.co/nmRpsDV8KS
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 29, 2021
Mississippi has yet to crack 40% vaccination rate. Just about 1/3 of the population has been fully vaccinated. It’s the same story all across the South.
These state and local governments are responsible for the sharply rising numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. It was avoidable.
The GOP chose not to avoid it, but to steer directly into the pandemic and act like nothing is wrong.
re: #46 teleskiguy
Huge ‘heat dome’ expected to bring punishing temperatures to the US. Again. | Grist
Or, as we refer to it in South Austin, “August”.
re: #226 austin_blue
What’s particularly dangerous is that the heat domes aren’t just the continental US, but Alaska has its own heat dome to contend with. That’ll melt permafrost, shrink glaciers, and likely harms even the petrochemical industry there because shorter winter seasons and warmer temps means getting gear to-from wellsites and Arctic Circle communities just gets even more difficult (think ice road truckers, without the ice… or the roads).
re: #207 darthstar
Quake was downgraded to a 7.3 apparently..but the 8.2 raised my eyebrows.
Let’s hope it’s not a foreshock for a subduction zone quake.
In the restroom two guys walked in talking about the virus. One said that Fauci admits in private emails that masks don’t work (I’m curious what the actual emails say if they exist). Then he talk about someone he knew who had gotten it earlier in the year, and then got it again and died from it. The person hadn’t gotten the shot. But he was talking about some 90 day window after getting the virus that you had to wait before getting the vaccine. I had not heard that. Anyone else?
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Biden is talking about sending people to your house to give you a free vaccine, and some point you’re going to have to ascribe agency to individuals.
— Reinstated Doorknob Licker (@agraybee) July 28, 2021
My wife read that an Atlanta couple died from the virus. They had cited the Tuskegee experiments as a reason for not taking the vaccine. Considering actually how open the development and testing has been, how many people have received it, and how many black professionals have recommended it, is that excuse among African Americans just the same thing as whites saying it’s untested at this point?
“Research has found that the biggest predictor of whether Americans view Covid-19 as a threat is not their scientific literacy or demographics, but whether they trust Fox News and Breitbart over CNN and The New York Times” https://t.co/c1dRwPButV
— Jorge Guajardo (@jorge_guajardo) July 29, 2021
re: #231 Belafon
Who are the unvaccinated (no particular order):
1) those who can’t get vaccinated - age under 12.
2) those who can’t get vaccinated - immunocompromised.
Those two categories require vaccinations by everyone else to be safe - they’re the ones who benefit from herd immunity most. Masking and vaccinations protect them.
The following are those who are still unvaccinated:
3) those who refuse to vax because they want to pwn the libs.
4) those who have been unable to access vaccinations due to lack of availability/means/etc.
5) those who are antivax or have bought into antivax sentiment.
6) communities of color who are reluctant to vaccinate due to historic discrimination and racism in medical practices, including using POC as guinea pigs for medical tests against their knowledge or consent.
Within this group (3-6), (4) and (4) are the groups that we need to help most. GOPers have done their utmost to undermine vaccination efforts, and more needs to be done to get vaccinations to those who want it. We need still more outreach to communities of color to get them vaccinated and make them understand that this vaccine has been heavily tested and the real world results show that it is safe and effective. It’s far safer to get vaccinated than not. It’s far safer to even get a breakthrough infection with the vaccine than not. Without the vaccine, covid19 can kill. It’s far less likely to do so, let alone require hospitalizations.
Vaccine hesitant groups are those who have bought into a lot of the antivax sentiment, including the “just asking questions” bulkshit about vaccine safety. There’s a bunch of evidence showing the vaccines are safe and effective. They’re an excellent way to avoid death, hospitalization, and the economic harms coming from the death or hospitalization. It can also reduce the spread of covid19 within communities.
Hardcore anti-covid19 vaccine types, like those who want to pwn the libs by dying aren’t only harming themselves, but they’re prolonging the pandemic and threatening everyone else because the more a disease is spread, the more likely new variants emerge and one of them might become more virulent, easy to spread, or do more damage to the body.
Businesses are starting to take it on themselves to require vaccinations among their employees, and masks for their customers. It’s good business sense - you want to keep your employees safe and your customers safe, and the best way to do so is with masks and vaccines.
Masks are the cheapest solution to the pandemic, and yet GOPers are still refusing to do so. It’s the one thing that separates them from the KKK. The KKK were at least willing to mask up.
re: #234 Belafon
And yet, more and more people are getting news from “facebook” and social media, which spreads the misinformation pumped out by Breitbart, Fox, OAN, and Newsmax.
McCarthy on the floor: “The vaccination rate for the members of Congress is over 85%.”Which means roughly 15% of the House isn’t vaccinated, and we know all the Democrats are. That’s 65 Republicans, give or take.
— Kristin Wilson (@kristin__wilson) July 28, 2021
Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC “said that in states with low vaccination rates more than 99 percent of covid-19 deaths over the past six months were among unvaccinated people.”
Opinion | The two numbers that could get people to take the vaccine https://t.co/LL5mWfX5iU— Rodger A. Payne (@RodgerPayne) July 28, 2021
Between Jan. 21 & July 9, 2,471 Virginians died of covid; 18 of them were vaccinated, or 0.7 percent. Between Jan. 1 & June 30, 37,180 Californians died of covid; about 71 — 0.2 percent — were vaccinated….of the 130 Marylanders who died of covid in June, none were vaccinated.
— Rodger A. Payne (@RodgerPayne) July 28, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has become the first major Hollywood studio to implement a blanket policy mandating vaccinations for the casts of all of their U.S. productions, as well as those who come into contact with them on sethttps://t.co/1I9pIf1gUJ
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 28, 2021
Google workers will need Covid jabs to return to office https://t.co/Tv0jQVSGdC
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 29, 2021
The Post joins a growing number of private companies in the US mandating vaccinations https://t.co/7cU7DzP2DY
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) July 27, 2021
According to @ScottGottliebMD on @MorningEdition today the hang-up @US_FDA for full approval of #COVID19 #vaccines is the cold storage requirements & relevant labelling instructions for private MD offices and transport in hot areas. https://t.co/tORk7B06Hh
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 28, 2021
JUST IN: Vermont has become the first state in the nation to surpass the milestone of vaccinating 70% of kids ages 12 to 17 with at lease one dose. @GovPhilScott and his administration has made in-person schooling a priority and thanks to vaccines, schools will be much safer. pic.twitter.com/5XjkpgwcVI
— Benjy Renton (@bhrenton) July 28, 2021
re: #233 Belafon
It could be a little of both. The Black community hasn’t forgotten those experiments, but there is also a LOT of awful information and conspiracies out there, especially in the South. Georgia is inching towards a 50 percent vaccination rate, but we aren’t there yet. Sadly we also have right wing clergy who have an undue influence as well, even in black churches. There is no excuse for not getting vaccinated here. We had two months of huge mass vaccine sites open to the public this past spring. At the end of April, as those sites began closing down, pharmacies, both major chains and locally owned, began offering the shots. Pharmacies in grocery stores and department stores also had them by the beginning of May. Unless you are very stuck in an isolated area here you can get a shot damned near anywhere you get groceries or basic household needs.
Also forbidding schools to require vaccinations has contributed to a sense of everything is ok, why would they let kids go back to school if it wasn’t? We’re in a mess here and it’s going to get worse before/if it gets better.
If this scares any of his fans into vaccinating, he will at least have served as an object lesson.
UPDATE: “Conservative FRANKLIN radio talk show host Phil Valentine, currently hospitalized with COVID-19, has now been placed on a ventilator.” 😷
He has become pro-vaccine since being hospitalized (mere weeks after mocking it, even with a parody song)https://t.co/jZAGt8DrpD— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) July 28, 2021
re: #231 Belafon
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What Southern state is going to mandate vaccines? They’re basically taking every step to prohibit mandatory vaccines. And what federal authority would allow mandatory vaccines? It is 100% the fault of unvaxxed and the GOP enablers.
re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It would be helpful if The Hill had included the number of the bill or a link. I can’t find the bill on congress.gov because they don’t give enough information in the article.
Here’s the link: clerk.house.gov
re: #231 Belafon
…the government that has failed to convince them to get vaccinated through a mandate or minimally stricter requirements
you mean the same government that failed to convince protestors not to storm the Capitol, threaten police, vandalize and steal property?
re: #238 Belafon
Are these mandatory vaccination rules going to wind up in front of the Supreme Court?
re: #241 A Mom Anon
im gonna take what may be a contrarian view
and as a white guy i may not have the right ‘sensitivity’ and if so, apologies in advance
i think using Tuskegee as an excuse is not really valid
- it was almost 100 years ago
- the world and the country have changed - yes not enough, but just enough
- the circumstances are entirely different - no you werent in the development lab, but everyone is getting this same jab (unless you think it’s some conspiracy and we’re getting different drugs than ‘them’)
again, i understand long memories and that i may not have the right to suggest 100 years is ‘long enough’
but you cant just pick a thing out of the past and say ‘this is why’.
if you’re trying to make a connected, rational argument, you have to have some reasoning why that means this.
otherwise it’s a conclusion drawn from feelings/faith.
and that is fine.
but it’s not a justification because what happened then could be happening again.
re: #230 Belafon
In the restroom two guys walked in talking about the virus. One said that Fauci admits in private emails that masks don’t work (I’m curious what the actual emails say if they exist). Then he talk about someone he knew who had gotten it earlier in the year, and then got it again and died from it. The person hadn’t gotten the shot. But he was talking about some 90 day window after getting the virus that you had to wait before getting the vaccine. I had not heard that. Anyone else?
That was the reason that Trump had to delay the shot. Apparently, though, the 90 days is only if you received monoclonal antibody treatment.
re: #242 No Malarkey!
If this scares any of his fans into vaccinating, he will at least have served as an object lesson.
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they all have the revelation when the ventilator is shoved down their throats.
As if they think they can negotiate their way out of it now.
re: #231 Belafon
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Many of the responses to the original tweet were claiming that the problem was that many people could not afford to take time off work if they suffered the more serious side effects of the shot. That would hold water if the stories about the vaccine resistant made that claim. But it certainly appears that the overwhelming number 1 reason people are avoiding vaccination was loyalty to Trump or pulpit pimps or RW media.
ETA: Ooops — corrected typo; Tweet not treat!
The term ‘RINO’ was coined by the North American Review in 1906 to disparage Teddy Roosevelt for his many progressive policies, despite being a Republican president.
Today, it just means any Republican who has ever disagreed with Donald Trump on anything.— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 29, 2021
re: #250 Dangerman
they all have the revelation when the ventilator is shoved down their throats.
As if they think they can negotiate their way out of it now.
They bullshitted their way through life, and tried to bullshit their way through an actual threat, which does not work. You can only bullshit through “threats” that are bullshit like gay marriage or atheism.
re: #252 Dangerman
The term ‘RINO’ was coined by the North American Review in 1906 to disparage Teddy Roosevelt for his many progressive policies, despite being a Republican president.
Today, it just means any Republican who has ever disagreed with Donald Trump on anything.
…even when Trump contradicts himself from one speech to the next.
re: #224 No Malarkey!
Looks like a great place for a Funeral Director to hand out brochures. pic.twitter.com/9iVdTPN6j5
— Michael Essentially (@Essentialworker) July 29, 2021
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
…even when Trump contradicts himself from one speech to the next.
fat third grader (sorry) is mad someone else will make a deal and get the credit
Former President Trump lashed out at Senate Republicans after the upper chamber voted to take up debate on a bipartisan infrastructure package, accusing Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and “RINOs” for surrendering to Democrats, The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “Under the weak leadership of Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans continue to lose. He lost Arizona, he lost Georgia, he ignored Election Fraud and he doesn’t fight.”
He added: “Now he’s giving Democrats everything they want and getting nothing in return. No deal is better than a bad deal. Fight for America, not for special interests and Radical Democrats. RINOs are ruining America, right alongside Communist Democrats.”
67 senators voted to move forward.
maybe his following isnt so large / is cracking
(his pick lost texas. and he’s blaming the club for growth, because it can never be his fault for who he chooses to endorse)
Anti-vaxxer demands that medical professionals should be executed for war crimes. Meanwhile the anti-vaxxers are the ones who are killing people.
I can’t believe I’m tweeting this. As an ICU doctor who has given everything they have trying to save lives this makes me want to cry.
“Get their names, email them to me. At the Nuremberg trial the doctors and nurses stood trial, and they hung”. pic.twitter.com/9tZeqru1Vk— Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden 💙 (@sbattrawden) July 24, 2021
I love mr bean pic.twitter.com/sTimCIgUrI
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 29, 2021
re: #248 Dangerman
im gonna take what may be a contrarian view
and as a white guy i may not have the right ‘sensitivity’ and if so, apologies in advancei think using Tuskegee as an excuse is not really valid
- it was almost 100 years ago
……
again, i understand long memories and that i may not have the right to suggest 100 years is ‘long enough’but you cant just pick a thing out of the past and say ‘this is why’..
Tuskegee was conducted from 1932 to 1972. There are people alive today who grew up knowing first hand victims of this experiment, or whose parents knew these victims. This is not ancient history, especially in the South where racists continue to celebrate the Lost Cause which happened 100 years earlier than Tuskegee. Most Americans are ignorant or uninterested in knowing our history — but when your people have been victimized and are continuing to be victimized by the powerful, it is a lesson you don’t forget. On health metrics, African-Americans are still suffering because they don’t have the resources to get the proper medical care. The past is closer than you think.
If you want to know why America is in such big trouble, look at the findings of a new Gallup poll.
The percentage of Republicans expressing confidence in science has plummeted from 72% in 1972 to just 45% today. https://t.co/iXwoGFWp2y— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 28, 2021
re: #260 DodgerFan1988
Just listen to the callers I and my coworkers deal with every day from the brainwashed Republicans who couldn’t add 2+2 without a calculator.
re: #16 jaunte
As seen in the series Billions, it’s a way of imposing your ego on other people.
Yea.
As in who has the biggest pot belly.
Charlie Kirk, the right wing know nothing propagandist who directs that agitprop at young adults, is spreading antivax propaganda:https://t.co/0VjffmQqsu
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 29, 2021
re: #260 DodgerFan1988
Problem with science is that it is the province of the educated and they are too stupid to follow the latest developments.
re: #264 lawhawk
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The same wimp Charlie Jerk whose minions spread Antivax shit is probably the same wimpy Charlie Jerk who jumped the line to get vaccinated.
re: #264 lawhawk
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If any of his followers are in college and want to keep going they’re almost 100% likely to need proof of vaccination to attend classes.
re: #264 lawhawk
re: #266 JOE 🥓
The same wimp Charlie Jerk whose minions spread Antivax shit is probably the same wimpy Charlie Jerk who jumped the line to get vaccinated.
Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions. Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions. Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions. Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions.
re: #267 Barefoot Grin
If any of his followers are in college and want to keep going they’re almost 100% likely to need proof of vaccination to attend classes.
Indeed.
They’re already required to show proof of vaccination on everything from measles and mumps to polio. Adding covid19 is just another requirement that is within the bounds of colleges to do considering the environment of people in close proximity and the spread of highly communicable diseases.
re: #268 Teukka
Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions. Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions. Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions. Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions.
That line fades the higher you get in the hierarchy
re: #270 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That line fades the higher you get in the hierarchy
The line may fade, but in some places, the ZOMG precipice beyond it remains…
re: #268 Teukka
Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions. Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions. Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions. Please let him have passed the line where he has to face responsibility for his actions.
I want the son of a CENSORED indicted for sedition AND I want his sorry ass plopped down before the 1/6 Committee and have Liz & Adam roast his ass on live TV.
re: #264 lawhawk
Charlie Kirk, the right wing know nothing propagandist who directs that agitprop at young adults, is spreading antivax propaganda:
You can call Fascist Charlie a fascist, since he bussed terrorists to the Capitol, and calls for the arrest of a doctor for caring about public health.
re: #272 JOE 🥓
I want the son of a CENSORED indicted for sedition AND I want his sorry ass plopped down before the 1/6 Committee and have Liz & Adam roast his ass on live TV.
As do I. Preferably after a significant number of people have rolled on him already. Like, orange puddle around table sort of nervous sounds fine, doesn’t it?
Bob Odenkirk ‘Stable’ After a ‘Heart-Related Incident,’ Reps Say
“We can confirm Bob is in stable condition after experiencing a heart-related incident. He and his family would like to express gratitude for the incredible doctors and nurses looking after him, as well as his cast, crew and producers who have stayed by his side. The Odenkirks would also like to thank everyone for the outpouring of well wishes and ask for their privacy at this time as Bob works on his recovery.”
Take it easy Bob! We ❤️You!
New analysis by @TargetSmart shared exclusively with @motherjones finds GOP could pick up 5 seats in FL, 3 in TX, 3 in GA & 2 in NC through gerrymandering, giving them control of House in 2022
Dems could win 50% of vote in Georgia but control only 20% of House seats pic.twitter.com/5FIMLpRAs8— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) July 29, 2021
Watching Dems say “aww shucks, you’ll just have to organize harder I guess” instead of doing anything to prevent Republican minority rule via gerrymandering sure makes it seem like they’d rather lose & fundraise off “those damn Republicans” than do any actual governing
— Comrade Kira Nerys (@Deezovariez) July 29, 2021
Once again, the consensus seems to be ‘The GOP and a handful of Dems are roadblocks to progress, therefore all the Dems must be complicit and are the real enemy that must burn.’
Like…do people understand the whole push for organization isn’t being pushed in lieu of legislative change, it’s literally the only option we have because of those roadblocks, and was ideally on the board in concurrence with legislative change. The fact that we can’t get past the legislative roadblock means that’s literally all we can do, because our options are full on stymied, and the responsible parties are digging in their heels rather than looking amenable to negotiation.
But no, we must believe that because Manchin and Sinema are ‘allowed’ to do this, nearly all the Dems secretly don’t want this and just want Republicans to run roughshod over them because…I don’t fucking know, some masochistic love of being in the minority or some shit, I fucking give up trying to understand this shit anymore.
Fuck the Green Lantern Theory of politics. It’s going to be one of the things that kills us fucking dead as a country.
re: #188 dharmamark
I drive by Frog Level frequently.
Sounds like you live in the Fredricksburg, Virginia area.
I have always found that area fascinating.
As a resident, you know the below. But for other of our esteemed lizards…
For much of the American Civil War, it was the equidistant power point between Washington DC and Richmond, Va. And it was George Washington’s childhood rambling grounds. So there are a lot of historic sites.
For the past 30 years it has been rapidly suburbanizing and a lot has changed there.
Plus, there is a lot of nice touristy stuff in the area. Although the store that caused the most amusement the last time I drove through was the “Sorry Mom Tattoo Shop”.
ETA - Typos… We got lots of typos!
re: #80 teleskiguy
Josh Marshall:
So we can see larger problem. Masking is coming back largely because of the actions of the unvaccinated and also largely for the benefit of the unvaccinated. The burden of non-vaccination is being placed on those who are vaccinated. That basic disconnect is our problem.
That disconnect places no effective pressure on the voluntarily unvaccinated while sowing demoralization and frustration and contempt with public authorities among those who’ve gotten the vaccine. No good comes of that combination.
My take re COVID Delta:
Looks like the consensus among epidemiologists re COVID Delta is you can be
vaccinated, get infected, remain asymptomatic, and infect others, whether they are
vaccinated or not.
Their infection response is a crap shoot, with ~80% or better odds of remaining asymptomatic or slight illness if they themselves have been vaccinated.
They in turn…
I like to think of being vaccinated and wearing a mask for the time being, as riding
in a vehicle equipped with air bags and fastening your seat belt.
Since I killed the thread, here’s another Dad joke:
I saw on the news that atheists are more likely to own cats than Christians.
That makes sense to me, as it’s illegal to own a Christian, let alone buy or sell one.
re: #279 ckkatz
Since I killed the thread, here’s another Dad joke:
I saw on the news that atheists are more likely to own cats than Christians.
That makes sense to me, as it’s illegal to own a Christian, let alone buy or sell one.
Reminds me of one I heard back in my college days:
“We had some excitement today in class; we took a poll, but the cops showed up and made us let him go.”
Apparently, there was a recently released study about where to hide in case of the Apocalypse. The Guardian article on it noted:
New Zealand, Iceland, the UK, Tasmania and Ireland are the places best suited to survive a global collapse of society, according to a study.
Which reminded me of the Robert Frost poem, “Fire and Ice”:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Want to spin up conspiracy nuts? A lot of them have overlapping conspiracies. For example, a chemtrails nut might also be a 9/11 nut.
So when they tell you “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams,” ask them how they could possibly know that, because who the hell knows what temperature the stuff burns at they put in the chemtrail sprayers.
Had a conspiracy theorist tell me in 1996 that TWA Flight 800 could have not possibly exploded from jet fuel fumes and short circuit in its mid-aircraft fuel tank, “because jet fuel is basically kerosene, and kerosene cannot cause explosions.”
I told him to look up grain dust explosions in grain elevators and get back to me.
re: #283 ckkatz
Apparently, there was a recently released study about where to hide in case of the Apocalypse.
Too many factors at play to determine the “best” place, but I would say that in general, the Most Isolated would probably be preferable.
re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Deliverance
I was not ready for banjo music at that tender age.
re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Too many factors at play to determine the “best” place, but I would say that in general, the Most Isolated would probably be preferable.
You raise an interesting question.
I was also thinking about that when I saw the article. Which noted that billionaires were buying up escape hide-aways in New Zealand.
My conclusion was that isolation has its disadvantages and that a major strength strength of humans is in their community and aggregate rather than in the isolated individual.
I keep thinking back to Easter Island. As I understand it, the humans on the island eventually outgrew the resources of the island. They ended up deforesting the island and essentially marooning themselves in a declining situation there. Until outsiders invaded.
Definitely an interesting philosophical question.
re: #259 Hecuba’s daughter
Tuskegee was conducted from 1932 to 1972. There are people alive today who grew up knowing first hand victims of this experiment, or whose parents knew these victims. This is not ancient history, especially in the South where racists continue to celebrate the Lost Cause which happened 100 years earlier than Tuskegee. Most Americans are ignorant or uninterested in knowing our history — but when your people have been victimized and are continuing to be victimized by the powerful, it is a lesson you don’t forget. On health metrics, African-Americans are still suffering because they don’t have the resources to get the proper medical care. The past is closer than you think.
But the Tuskegee experiment involved assembling a group of people and not treating them, while anti-vaxxers are volunteering to be Tuskegee-like subjects.
re: #259 Hecuba’s daughter
Tuskegee was conducted from 1932 to 1972. There are people alive today who grew up knowing first hand victims of this experiment, or whose parents knew these victims. This is not ancient history, especially in the South where racists continue to celebrate the Lost Cause which happened 100 years earlier than Tuskegee. Most Americans are ignorant or uninterested in knowing our history — but when your people have been victimized and are continuing to be victimized by the powerful, it is a lesson you don’t forget. On health metrics, African-Americans are still suffering because they don’t have the resources to get the proper medical care. The past is closer than you think.
and this is how subject matter amateurs get into trouble
i had the idea, so i went looking for justification
goggling got me ” The Tuskegee experiment began in 1932 “
and that’s where i stopped
a complete error on my part.
so you are 100% right on the recency
i’m gonna stay with my general thought:
- it is difficult to objectively use tuskegee to justify not getting vaccinated for covid now.
- given how the vaccines (multiple) were created, by who, the distribution process, and the current pandemic circumstances
viscerally though, absolutely.
and before i make things worse, i think i’ve said enough
re: #288 ckkatz
Ben Elton did a novel Stark about a group of billionaires who secretly built a Star Ark (stark in code) to escape the ecological collapse that their greed had brought about.
But in the end, it turns out that Earth managed to recover and enough humans survived to repopulate and
(spolier alert)
x
x
x
x
The billionaires, all used to doing things their own way and unable to grasp the principles of cooperation necessary to survive in the enclosed environment of a Star Ark, all perished.
Thread. Read, plz. https://t.co/yz6VDCDMMX
— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) July 29, 2021
re: #291 Dangerman
and this is how subject matter amateurs get into trouble
i had the idea, so i went looking for justification
goggling got me ” The Tuskegee experiment began in 1932 “
and that’s where i stopped
a complete error on my part.
so you are 100% right on the recencyi’m gonna stay with my general thought:
- it is difficult to objectively use tuskegee to justify not getting vaccinated for covid now.
- given how the vaccines (multiple) were created, by who, the distribution process, and the current pandemic circumstancesviscerally though, absolutely.
and before i make things worse, i think i’ve said enough
I suspect “Tuskegee” is shorthand for “minorities in general, and blacks in particular often are treated poorly by the medical establishment even when they have access to the system.”
However, considering how the privileged white folks around here scrambled to get the vaccine, adult children driving their parents for 2 or 3 hours to where the vaccines were available and so forth, I think the idea that the doctors want to experiment on the minorities with the vaccine is a bit of a stretch.
re: #277 ckkatz
Sounds like you live in the Fredricksburg, Virginia area.
I have always found that area fascinating.
As a resident, you know the below. But for other of our esteemed lizards…
For much of the American Civil War, it was the equidistant power point between Washington DC and Richmond, Va. And it was George Washington’s childhood rambling grounds. So there are a lot of historic sites.
For the past 30 years it has been rapidly suburbanizing and a lot has changed there.
Plus, there is a lot of nice touristy stuff in the area. Although the store that caused the most amusement the last time I drove through was the “Sorry Mom Tattoo Shop”.
ETA - Typos… We got lots of typos!
I read (most of) Chernow’s bio of Washington this summer (until I left the book at my parents’ home half the country away). I didn’t know anything about GW’s mother and learned that he basically put her up in Fredricksburg from whence she regularly complained of his financial negligence in barely literate letters to Mount Vernon. Kind of funny to think that there is a university named after her. That’s all I know. We stopped there once when we lived outside of Richmond, but we just went to the battlefield, as I recall.
Both Murkowski and Sinema look like they need a visit from Queer Eye:
i have never before in my life seen a picture where the vibes were so supremely off pic.twitter.com/HjJDv4O3Sf
— papi chulo (@notkristiane) July 29, 2021
re: #296 Belafon
Both Murkowski and Sinema look like they need a visit from Queer Eye:
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Sinema looks like a dopey teenager you’d see in a 80’s John Hughes film.
re: #293 Teukka
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experts need to earn trust back by acknowledging misteaks and being transparent about their processes, what’s known, and what’s still being learned. they need to address valid concerns. they need to meat people where they are and deliver tangible benefits to improve their lives
i wonder did they do that on purpose, for any one of several reasons
heh
Marci Rubio needs to learn to read things more carefully. pic.twitter.com/H7fU1YP5Mb
— 👽 McSpocky™ 🌊💉 #PatriotsVoteBlue (@mcspocky) July 29, 2021
re: #295 Barefoot Grin
I read (most of) Chernow’s bio of Washington this summer (until I left the book at my parents’ home half the country away). I didn’t know anything about GW’s mother and learned that he basically put her up in Fredricksburg from whence she regularly complained of his financial negligence in barely literate letters to Mount Vernon. Kind of funny to think that there is a university named after her. That’s all I know. We stopped there once when we lived outside of Richmond, but we just went to the battlefield, as I recall.
You can probably borrow ebook and audiobook versions through your public library (if they’re associated with overdrive .com) using the Libby app. If you want to finish the book…
re: #298 Dangerman
i wonder did they do that on purpose, for any one of several reasons
the same reason they did this:
experts need to earn trust back by acknowledging misteaks and being transparent about their processes, what’s known, and what’s still being learned. they need to address valid concerns. they need to meat people where they are and deliver tangible benefits to improve their lives
re: #298 Dangerman
i wonder did they do that on purpose, for any one of several reasons
Yes. Because later it spells “meet” as “meat”.
Oops. Never mind.
marco continues to be a moron
The Philippine government requires a mask and shield in public places (h/t @janecoaston). @SecDef is being courteous and respectful of his host government. An apology from @marcorubio to @SecDef would be appropriate. https://t.co/AmRdg23for
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 29, 2021
re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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I’m gonna send that tweet to my friends in France who are already convinced that the US has become the laughing stock of the world.
zeroing out my paycheck to no take home pay and giving the US / IRS an interest free loan to own the libs
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) has apparently found a way to evade the House’s mask fines, CNN reports.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who is suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the chamber’s mask penalties, said Clyde changed his tax withholding in a way that makes it nearly impossible for the House to collect the thousands of dollars in fines Clyde has racked up for refusing to mask up on the House floor.
Normally fines are taken out of a member’s congressional salary, but Clyde “went to payroll and had his federal withholding raised to $11,284 a month. So he only gets $1 of pay.”
i guess it also helps to have other income than your ‘job’
re: #298 Dangerman
Yes, yes they did. Steak-umm is one of the most precise social media accounts I’ve ever seen, they rarely make misteaks.
Steak-umm bless
re: #306 Dangerman
Take that asshole to the cleaners for this.
re: #307 Sufficient unto the day…
Yes, yes they did. Steak-umm is one of the most precise social media accounts I’ve ever seen, they rarely make misteaks.
Steak-umm bless
Well played.
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
the same reason they did this:
right.
i missed that one
sometimes the eye just assumes what should be there
re: #298 Dangerman
i wonder did they do that on purpose, for any one of several reasons
re: #307 Sufficient unto the day…
Yes, yes they did. Steak-umm is one of the most precise social media accounts I’ve ever seen, they rarely make misteaks.
Steak-umm bless
Some people PUN-ish until morale improves, ‘sall…
re: #264 lawhawk
And you just know he is fully vaccinated. I can guarantee it.
Thousands of oil and gas wells were abandoned a century ago. Now they’re quietly leaking toxic chemicals into air and water. https://t.co/vQppWYDSG2
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 29, 2021
yikes
re: #312 GlutenFreeJesus
And you just know he is fully vaccinated. I can guarantee it.
Yep. And it wouldn’t surprise me if he owns low-key environmentally friendly stuff, and invests in “green” companies.
re: #277 ckkatz
I actually got my first tattoo at Sorry Mom, because of course I had to.
It seems like a pretty huge deal that House Republican leadership is running interference for domestic terrorists. https://t.co/vOb6BUqD6n
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) July 29, 2021
re: #226 austin_blue
Or, as we refer to it in South Austin, “August”.
Paper fans in sweaty fans
Shooing flies away
Reflections on a porch
A shelter from the scorch
When dog days came around
Babies squalled
As August crawled
Past old folks in the shade
The weather vane was stuck
And white oak creek would drop
When dog days came around
The dog days were scorchers
Southern torture
But we found an
Answer to the plight
It was a dog day’s night…
O_o
GOP Senator to Biden Department of Justice Nominee: “Do You Believe in God?” https://t.co/1TCwYgOcs8 pic.twitter.com/Pbl1yNzTUn
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) July 29, 2021
re: #315 dharmamark
I actually got my first tattoo at Sorry Mom, because of course I had to.
Hah!
I am certainly not an expert, but from what I can see, they appear to have a good reputation.
If I recall correctly, they used to be in a plaza with a motorcycle store and a motorcycle clothing store. The lady with me at the time noted that this was a full service plaza. :)
good grief
Right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton claims that we’ll soon see evidence of “where a single individual has voted several thousand times” in Georgia’s last election. pic.twitter.com/zrMTMROwxx
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 29, 2021
re: #318 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
Nominee: Let me check my constitution: Here it is, it doesn’t matter and you can’t use it to vet me.
re: #317 BeenHereAwhile
From one of my mother’s favorite songs:
Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don’t It
Walter Brennan
I opened the door and the fly’s swarm in
Closed the door and I’m sweating again
And in the process crack my shin
Just one darn thing after another
.
.
.
A mouse been chewin’ on the pantry door
He’s been at it for a month or more
When he gets through he’ll sure be sore
‘Cause there ain’t a darned thing in there
re: #306 Dangerman
zeroing out my paycheck to no take home pay and giving the US / IRS an interest free loan to own the libs
i guess it also helps to have other income than your ‘job’
Nancy can always put a lien on Andy’s tax refund!
Oh. Look.
BREAKING: Racist, misogynistic bigot Ted Nugent has resigned from the @NRA’s Board - allegedly because he accepted a position as the national spokesman for Hunter Nation, and his contract requires exclusivity. https://t.co/jwzrbwhymm
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 29, 2021
re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg
So what was his response?
don’t know, but pretty sure it was a HIPPA violation…
teehee
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was have quoted the “no religious test” portion of the Constitution.
Tough guy woman beater wants out of jail.
I think I’ll go make a sandwich. https://t.co/qiZX5GDO2V— Black Navy Vet 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@Chris4Perkins) July 29, 2021
re: #307 Sufficient unto the day…
Yes, yes they did. Steak-umm is one of the most precise social media accounts I’ve ever seen, they rarely make misteaks.
Steak-umm bless
Don’t have a beef with this assessment.
Know what’s worse than having to wear a mask?
Having to be intubated, put into an ICU, or laid out on a slab in a morgue.
Mask up, vaccinate, and think of your family, community, and more than right wing misinformation/talking points.— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 29, 2021
Meanwhile, fucknuts like Newt Gingrich are attacking Fauci, masking requirements, and vaccination campaigns.
We were warned last year that vaccinations and masking was essential to stopping the pandemic, and all the GOP has done is block and undermine those efforts at every turn. It hasn’t stopped. States with GOP leaders are lagging the rest of the nation on vaccination rates. That has predictable results… a higher body count.
This Capybara just won the gold medal in diving at the Olympics! Congratulations! 🥇 pic.twitter.com/bX2KcC9SXn
— CAPYBARA MAN (@CAPYBARA_MAN) July 29, 2021
Love the Olympics - always inspiring the youngsters to have a go. pic.twitter.com/S18svDXJ7t
— Andrew Cotter (@MrAndrewCotter) July 29, 2021
re: #295 Barefoot Grin
Richmond must have been an interesting place. There is certainly a lot of history there as well.
As an aside, I seem to remember reading an article that mentioned that due to global warming, alligators are slowly making their way up the James River basin. Previously, it was assumed that the North Carolina-Virginia border was the northernmost boundary for them.
Like all American citizens, I am a beneficiary of what George Washington and his generation did to create the United States and the sacrifices they made.
Thanks for reminding me, I do need to read Chernow’s book!
I had not heard about his exiling of his mother to the Fredricksburg region rather than bringing up to Mt Vernon. However, among his many talents, George Washington was a highly skilled social climber. In the process of ingratiating himself to the leadership of Virginia, among other things, he started a World War. I tend to look at his behavior in that light.
“Florida has entered a peak of COVID-19 cases not seen since January’s surge.” Matthew 7:3-5 https://t.co/vQiWlWzNEj https://t.co/ISoSPnRqWi
— Eric Rauchway (@rauchway) July 29, 2021
A German cycling official has been suspended and will be sent home from #TokyoOlympics after using a racist slur during the men’s time trial. The slur was heard on TV broadcasts and widely condemned in Germany. https://t.co/OpRbO8GLFA
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 29, 2021
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yup, Samsel is an abusive idiot. Here are Marcy Wheeler’s (emptywheel) thoughts
Samsel is, by all accounts, a really troubled person and totally abusive to women. But he badly needs a real defense attorney, and John Pierce was not that guy.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 28, 2021
I wonder who politicized the CDC. https://t.co/e21PgBzI0L
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 29, 2021
re: #294 calochortus
However, considering how the privileged white folks around here scrambled to get the vaccine, adult children driving their parents for 2 or 3 hours to where the vaccines were available and so forth, I think the idea that the doctors want to experiment on the minorities with the vaccine is a bit of a stretch.
They’re more likely to fear (especially early on, when the vax sites were inconveniently located and it was hard to get appointments) that racist truck drivers, warehouse workers, etc were paid to steal the vax to use on white people and replacing it with distilled water for batches meant to go to minority neighborhoods.
- portion of time in lockdown, solitary confinement,
-nutritional content—including number of daily meals—compared with the general prison population
-access to communication with family and attorneys— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) July 29, 2021
- Access to exercise
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) July 29, 2021
trying to get jail conditions improved before she becomes a resident there…
re: #331 lawhawk
Meanwhile, fucknuts like Newt Gingrich are attacking Fauci, masking requirements, and vaccination campaigns.
We were warned last year that vaccinations and masking was essential to stopping the pandemic, and all the GOP has done is block and undermine those efforts at every turn. It hasn’t stopped. States with GOP leaders are lagging the rest of the nation on vaccination rates. That has predictable results… a higher body count.
Having had close friends who’ve gotten intubated, even when the anesthesiologist is gentle, your throat and vocal cords are sore for weeks after extubated.
And one of the features of CoViD is that the doc doesn’t always have the time to be gentle.
Just a FYI & PSA. pic.twitter.com/SvzzKbv9Vl— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) July 29, 2021
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
You only care because your friends are there. When it was anyone else you had nothing to say. When it’s border detainees your party applauds hard conditions.
— Manksy (@TheManksy) July 29, 2021
re: #343 cat-tikvah
Name this band: Gohmert, Greene, Gaetz and Gosar….
Gang of 4G?
If we can get one more G can we get Q’s to stay away from them?
re: #300 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
You can probably borrow ebook and audiobook versions through your public library (if they’re associated with overdrive .com) using the Libby app. If you want to finish the book…
I should. TBH, I was losing steam, but I made it to the beginning of his presidency. I live about 2 miles from a small but terrific public library and I know if they don’t have it they’ll get it for me through ILL.
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
RepMTG
whether the prosecution made potentially exculpatory evidence available to the appropriate defense counsels of the accused
In federal court, the rules are different.
Yea - you’ll get what potentially exculpatory evidence the USA’s office wants to give you.
It will be 302s based upon notes taken by a FBI agent, of an interview.
And if you’re lucky, maybe the day before trial.
re: #217 lawhawk
I guess Ride of the Valkyries was an extra option that the US military wasn’t willing to spring for?
Nah, only senior officers liked it. Ordinary GIs might not know the term but their response would be like, “Riding off to Gotterdammerung? Fuck that!”
So MTG is advocating better treatment for terrorists??
/
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
Joining my colleagues Gohmert, Gosar, and Gaetz seeking answers and asking questions at the Deplorable Jail in DC …
- visitation hours
- access to religious texts and reasonable religious service accommodations pic.twitter.com/wdEev3xlTy— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) July 29, 2021
You there for everyone in the jail or just some?
The only chance of a Jodie Whittaker Doctor Who episode made by a competent showrunner is a multiple Doctors special in the future. I’d really hoped Chibnall would leave before she did so she’d have a chance to shine.
Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall to leave Doctor Who in a trio of Specials in 2022 (Doctor Who @ BBC)
House Freedom Caucus calls on GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to introduce motion to force Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her chair following reinforced mask mandate.
Rep. Scott Perry: “Nancy Pelosi is not the law. This is tyranny.” https://t.co/hRTFLrRgyC pic.twitter.com/O8LuN62PXS— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 29, 2021
When we deprive you of your ability to vote without actually revoking your rights, that’s ‘freedom’.
When we’re mildly inconvenienced by something for the sake of curbing a pandemic without actually revoking our rights, that’s ‘tyranny’.
The sad thing is we’re going to get media paeans about how correct McCarthy is and how Pelosi is wrong as always and super evil to boot.
re: #356 Citizen K
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When we deprive you of your ability to vote without actually revoking your rights, that’s ‘freedom’.
When we’re mildly inconvenienced by something for the sake of curbing a pandemic without actually revoking our rights, that’s ‘tyranny’.
The sad thing is we’re going to get media paeans about how correct McCarthy is and how Pelosi is wrong as always and super evil to boot.
Anything you dont like is “tyranny”
re: #355 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The only chance of a Jodie Whittaker Doctor Who episode made by a competent showrunner is a multiple Doctors special in the future. I’d really hoped Chibnall would leave before she did so she’d have a chance to shine.
Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall to leave Doctor Who in a trio of Specials in 2022 (Doctor Who @ BBC)
“Rosa” was an excellent episode. Almost as good as “Blink”.
re: #356 Citizen K
When we deprive you of your ability to vote without actually revoking your rights, that’s ‘freedom’.
When we’re mildly inconvenienced by something for the sake of curbing a pandemic without actually revoking our rights, that’s ‘tyranny’.
The sad thing is we’re going to get media paeans about how correct McCarthy is and how Pelosi is wrong as always and super evil to boot.
Morons have gotten their way for too long already. The Freedumb caucus can sit down and shut up.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) July 29, 2021
re: #356 Citizen K
When we deprive you of your ability to vote without actually revoking your rights, that’s ‘freedom’.
When we’re mildly inconvenienced by something for the sake of curbing a pandemic without actually revoking our rights, that’s ‘tyranny’.
The sad thing is we’re going to get media paeans about how correct McCarthy is and how Pelosi is wrong as always and super evil to boot.
re: #358 Dangerman
Anything you dont like is “tyranny”
Stolen from elsewhere…
re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth
How embarrassing. I guess his apology was sincere but it’s amazing how some people default to racist behavior at the drop of a hat.
re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth
To whom is it embarrassing, Marco? Not to me.
re: #343 cat-tikvah
Name this band: Gohmert, Greene, Gaetz and Gosar….
Gang of 4G?
Oh I prefer The Fucking Traitors That Need To Be Locked Up At Alcatraz For The Rest Of Their Fucking Lives.
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
good grief
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I’m sure that he’s going to expose a “vote-by-mail” scam: thousands of votes (all for Biden/Harris, of course) cast by “Mr. Occupant”, and his wife, “Ms. Resident”…..
The flying mannequin is back to LAX
“Jetpack Man” Spotted Again By Pilots On Approach To LAX Nearly A Year After First Sighting
The latest occurrence, which was first reported by ABC7, happened at around 6:15 PM this evening in its most usual spot, right off the final approach to LAX. The ATC audio was quite lively following the spotting, although it is bizarre how much more familiar the situation seemed than it did a year ago. The exchanges include asking if the pilots saw “the UFO” and what appears to be a new trend of referring to LA’s mystery Jetpack Man as “Iron Man.” You can also tell the pilot who called it in, a 747 pilot, knew he had to, but really didn’t seem too excited about the circus that would go with it.
They see this thing at 5000 feet? Nobody ever gets close? There are no jetpaks that can get that high from the ground and back. Even so it’s a huge mess in the LAX pattern.
re: #354 Dangerman
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You there for everyone in the jail or just some?
Followup:
Reps. Matt Gaetz (FL), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), and Louie Gohmert (TX) complained on Thursday after prison officials refused to allow them to enter a facility housing people who allegedly attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick criminally charged with sexual assault of teenager
Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick was criminally charged Wednesday with allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception at Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1974, according to the Boston Globe. The charges make McCarrick, who is a former archbishop of Washington, D.C., the highest-ranking Catholic official in the country to face criminal charges for sex abuse.
re: #367 Rightwingconspirator
The flying mannequin is back to LAX
They see this thing at 5000 feet? Nobody ever gets close? There are no jetpaks that can get that high from the ground and back. Even so it’s a huge mess in the LAX pattern.
I think it’s real but I don’t think it’s a person in a jetpack. Possibly some kind of sophisticated vertical lift drone.
re: #368 BeachDem
Followup:
Reps. Matt Gaetz (FL), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), and Louie Gohmert (TX) complained on Thursday after prison officials refused to allow them to enter a facility housing people who allegedly attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Freepers are on it. Sort of.
To: DoodleDawg
Why is thread getting so few responses? Americans should be up in arms about this.
I think even the Geneva Convention means that these people have to be able to get visits from their country’s representatives. Even in their own country, I would assume…
23 posted on 7/29/2021, 10:20:26 AM by livius
So apparently this guy thinks this was, in fact, an armed conflict rather than a riot, or an ordinary tour group?
re: #372 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The “company” he’s joining is just another group of gun humpers.
re: #87 darthstar
Texas chainsaw massacre, when it was “banned” in the UK, in an independent cinema. 30 mile ride back from the cinema down dark Cornish single lane roads after nightfall in a VW microbus.
Didn’t sleep for two days.
re: #167 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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I had the improved “H” model, which also had “Run Through the Jungle,” “Bad Moon Rising,” and “Who’ll Stop the Rain?”
not “paint it black”?
re: #176 wrenchwench
Who’s a pretty boy? You are, and you know it.
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Who put the *** in Penistone?
re: #238 Belafon
My, small, company doesn’t have a policy that employees should be vaccinated.
Because, frankly, we never imagined that the wouldn’t want to get vaccinated.
(Ps: the last non fully vaccinated person got their second shot yesterday).
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