Vienna 1988: Joe Pass, “When You Wish Upon a Star”
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One of the all-time greats. Check out those chord inversions, guitar players, and weep.
Vienna 1988. Not the es175 he used to play. But still fine.
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Monkey Cage: “If you rely on Facebook to get news and information about the coronavirus, you are substantially less likely than the average American to say you have been vaccinated.”“In fact, Facebook news consumers are less likely to be vaccinated than people who get their coronavirus information from Fox News
worse than fox is quite a feat
Facebook *is* killing us
Gorgeous. The only similar worlds we occupy: I too have a Music Man amp. Fantastic clean tones.
this business about the cdc not being perfect prescient omniscient etc
this thing is new.
no one’s seen it before.
recommendations keep changing because information and experience keep changing.
no one know anything for sure.
but for amateurs to say do x or y just because, is idiocy
Diver convinces an octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell.. pic.twitter.com/Xl4kOy6mld
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) July 29, 2021
re: #3 Dangerman
this business about the cdc not being perfect prescient omniscient etc
this thing is new.
no one’s seen it before.
recommendations keep changing because information and experience keep changing.
no one know anything for sure.
but for amateurs to say do x or y just because, is idiocy
The amateurs are idiots all the time.
The same amateurs were against stem cell research because “we can’t tell if it’ll do any good.”
Uh, duh? If we knew, we wouldn’t need to research it, would we?
re: #8 Punish Domestic Terrorists
My first really good 2-color 3D print. Made with a Flashforge Creator Pro 2.
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Well done!
re: #9 Dopamine Fish
Well done!
Thanks. The software that creates the gcode to send to the printer prints a shell outside the object to be printed. It catches any nozzle-drip and gets the flow even before getting to printing the object. I just had to get the temperatures right so the different filaments would stick to each other, and align the models, the software does the rest.
You wanna see talking truth to power? ==>#Hero https://t.co/JvkOJxictd
— Tengrain ✂️ 6-feet-away-or-6-feet-under (@Tengrain) July 30, 2021
Detroit clerk Janice Winfrey says she’s been getting death threats since 2020 election https://t.co/9e1KaDSqu1
— ClickOnDetroit (@clickondetroit) July 30, 2021
Wow, pretty cool. One of my high school friends was feature on Bob Boilen’s favorites of the week: Lanterna
With great sadness and heavy hearts, the Levin Family and Levin Center at Wayne Law announce the passing of Senator Carl Levin – a dearly beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle, and life-long public servant.https://t.co/7E8PiA1q7R pic.twitter.com/wNqINaolt4
— Levin Center (@Levin_Center) July 30, 2021
Mindy has been prowling, and was swatting my heel from beneath my recliner for a while.
Mork is still in the hiding spot he found when he left the carrier.
re: #15 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
With great sadness and heavy hearts, the Levin Family and Levin Center at Wayne Law announce the passing of Senator Carl Levin – a dearly beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle, and life-long public servant.https://t.co/7E8PiA1q7R pic.twitter.com/wNqINaolt4
— Levin Center (@Levin_Center) July 30, 2021
Had a total freakout because I couldn’t remember whether he was still in office! So relieved that he had left in 2015. All I could think is that it takes only one death or serious illness to switch control, even if just temporarily, to the GOP.
re: #3 Dangerman
this business about the cdc not being perfect prescient omniscient etc
this thing is new.
no one’s seen it before.
recommendations keep changing because information and experience keep changing.
no one know anything for sure.
but for amateurs to say do x or y just because, is idiocy
While it is true that the CDC responds to changing conditions and isn’t omniscient, I have read that they have also become dangerously risk averse over the last few decades. The surest way to torch your career is to make a prediction based on the available facts, and have it be wrong.
That is why they are dragging out the approval process for kids getting vaccinated. One kid injured by a vaccine is apparently far worse than a bunch dead from Covid, because at least the latter is not directly attributable to the CDC.
re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter
Had a total freakout because I couldn’t remember whether he was still in office! So relieved that he had left in 2015. All I could think is that it takes only one death or serious illness to switch control, even if just temporarily, to the GOP.
He was replaced by Gary Peters, who used to be my congressperson.
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 30, 2021
Trump’s told close aides that the cops who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 and complained to Congress are “pussies.”
A wonderfully decent man. Just loves the blue. Great respect for our law enforcement. https://t.co/04ZUAFvEoW— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 30, 2021
re: #20 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Emergency: tsunami inbound! Beaches are wide open! Surfs up!
re: #134 Charles Johnson
Christian fundamentalism is a death cult.
It always was.
When the culture enforce their religion norms they did not stand out.
Now that our culture is moving in a different direction, they stand out.
Fuck you Karen and fuck you Frontier Airlines
dailykos.com
The GOP. https://t.co/dR0DMQf0Zs
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) July 30, 2021
Don’t be a psychopath that exploits the antisocial tendencies of our “Conservatives” to kill them, you monster.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) July 30, 2021
The data presented are already published, do not include the new Israeli data for age >60 decline in vaccine protection vs severe illness, and the issue of more severe disease is still unsettled due to confounders pic.twitter.com/GCVCTEyKMB
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 30, 2021
We are in a public health emergency, and for that reason, I am reinstating the statewide public health emergency as of today. There will be no statewide mask mandate imposed by me. There’s no discussion about restrictions on business mandates on businesses. We are wide open in Arkansas. We’re going to be doing business in Arkansas… We have to live with the threat of the virus.”— Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), quoted by the Daily Beast.
lunacy
idiocy
-There is a dire public health emergency. To combat this, we are doing absolutely nothing.
-There’s a fire in the theater! Please remain seated!
once we actually fought a war to keep these states in the union. what the hell for?
re: #28 Dangerman
“…We have to live with the threat of the virus.”
Then… WHY is it a public health emergency? If we just have to live with it, if we’re going on with business as usual, why are you reinstating the state of emergency?
They suppressed people lying about Covid. You’re responding to a liar, so maybe you’re into that sort of thing. These lies are killing the paranoid people that call themselves “Conservatives” because they trust monsters and don’t trust scientists.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) July 30, 2021
re: #30 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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As I said in an earlier post, maybe if big-corporate-backed republicans hadn’t spent the last 40 years denying science so that they could continue to pollute the environment and the minds of their followers we would be in a better place to gain unity and compliance in an emergency like we have now. Or, this emergency.
meanwhile at the Olympics pic.twitter.com/OLMTPsv7q4
— ｋｏｃｈｅｎｇ (@twitkocheng) July 28, 2021
Good thread.
How I learned to be a better boss:
I was a bad CEO. 7 years ago, I found a McDonald’s training handbook on the desk of an employee named Rosita. Turns out she was training to become a manager there because she couldn’t survive on the income I paid here. I called her to my office— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) July 29, 2021
WATCH: MyPillow CEO throws epic tantrum after Fox News refuses to air his election conspiracy ads https://t.co/xzqc3gSORo
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 30, 2021
He’s gonna fall of the wagon any second now!
An internal CDC document says “the delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox,” the Washington Post reports.“The document strikes an urgent note, revealing the agency knows it must revamp its public messaging to emphasize vaccination as the best defense against a variant so contagious that it acts almost like a different novel virus, leaping from target to target more swiftly than Ebola or the common cold.”
plus
new York Times: “The recommendation that vaccinated people in some parts of the country dust off their masks was based largely on one troublesome finding, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
“New research showed that vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant carry tremendous amounts of the virus in the nose and throat.”
“The finding contradicts what scientists had observed in vaccinated people infected with previous versions of the virus, who mostly seemed incapable of infecting others.”
and finally
A coronavirus variant discovered in Colombia is showing up among patients in South Florida, increasing infections and putting health officials on alert as calls grow louder for unvaccinated individuals to get inoculated,” the Washington Post reports.
we are deep in some serious deep shit.
the unvaccinated (and R govs and legislators) need to wake the fuck up.
A Fox News spokesperson told me that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s decision was “unfortunate.” https://t.co/IjdAVKcmNW
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) July 30, 2021
re: #6 Barefoot Grin
Rick Beato talks about how a Joe Pass album changed his musical life:
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Was just checking to make sure this was here. Great video, as typical of Mr. Beato.
re: #38 No Malarkey!
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There was no way they could please mad Mike, so now they lose out on some of the batshit insane advertising dollars they depend on.
re: #39 William Lewis
Was just checking to make sure this was here. Great video, as typical of Mr. Beato.
I like his videos. The music theory ones are probably pretty good for younger people whose brains are more receptive to new concepts played quickly than mine seems to be. I plan to take f2f lessons once the pandemic is really mostly over and my kids are out of the house. I have had probably a total of 6 or 7 lessons when I first got started and then spent years trying to play Stones open-tuning songs in standard. What a sap I was.
Edited to add: the word I was looking for in my sclerotic brain was sclerotic.
Teddy did something today that he hasn’t done in a good long while.
The Setup: To jump up on the bed now a days, grandpa Teddy needs a 2-3 step galloping start and an empty bed. He will only lay on the bed if he has it to himself.
Today: I was laying in bed reading, and he was standing by the bed. Next thing I knew, he was up on the bed licking my face. He jumped straight up from standing by the bed; no building up a head of steam. 😍
Hydrotherapy is putting a little spring back in his 14-year-old step (according to a chart at the vets, that’s 78 in dog years).
re: #37 Dangerman
we are deep in some serious deep shit.
the unvaccinated (and R govs and legislators) need to wake the fuck up.
“Wake up” implies they are simply uninformed and they need to see what’s going on around them.
We need to quit absolving Republicans of simply being uninformed.
They are committing a democide, and they know exactly what they’re doing. Jared Kushner gave away the game at the last year when he was hoping the disease would hit blue states harder than red states and was withholding equipment and aid, calling it “our national stockpile.”
They need to be called liars, not asleep.
re: #38 No Malarkey!
Who would advertise his pillows if he pulls them from FOX? My guess is he’s a conservative, therefore he’s lying and trying to get attention.
re: #43 William Lewis
The deep green of the water is very compelling. I would like to jump in.
When responding to wingnuts on social media, people need to practice the words lie and liar (plus they take up fewer characters).
I caught a whole lot of grief at the start of this pandemic for ragging on the press for not using the word lie.
A year and a half of lies have been deadly. We’re up in Civil War battle loss territory now because of liars. They need to be called liars, every time they lie.
On message. Tomorrow heads explode on fox. https://t.co/qqg4zyl5nw
— Beau of The Fifth Column (@BeauTFC) July 30, 2021
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Who would advertise his pillows if he pulls them from FOX? My guess is he’s a conservative, therefore he’s lying and trying to get attention.
Newsmax, oan, every right wing talk radio host in the country…
This WP report on the CDC slides implies that we’re in a new stage of COVID: Vaccination still protects the individual, but the virus has evolved to spread anyway — generally below the level of serious illness, if you’re vaccinated — and coexist with us. https://t.co/OXe9rhTUrz pic.twitter.com/RSgxoCmDAM
— Will Saletan (@saletan) July 30, 2021
re: #46 plansbandc
The deep green of the water is very compelling. I would like to jump in.
Scotland has been experiencing high temperatures recently, up in the low 20s. That sweltering heatwave coupled with relaxations of COVID-19 travel restrictions has resulted in a number of drowning deaths from people swimming in rivers and lochs to cool off. I think the death toll over the past week or so is about six or seven people with a whole bunch more rescued when they got into difficulties.
re: #49 danarchy
Newsmax, oan, every right wing talk radio host in the country…
Maybe, but FOX is the “big show” for wingnuts. Those are sort of like being demoted to the minor leagues (and Newmax appears to be dying).
Cooling and rain trend.
Today through Monday Forecast. #newx #wywx pic.twitter.com/P3cCY2BFJc
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) July 29, 2021
State Senator Tony Vargas (D-District 7, Omaha) has announced he is running to unseat Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE2).
Sen. Vargas is a science teacher.
Amongst other things, he lost his father to Covid-19, and engaged in a sharp shouting match on the floor of the Unicameral (broken up by other senators) when my state senator (Steve Erdman, R-Dist. 47) called Covid-19 a hoax.
Don Bacon is already running attack ads against Tony Vargas in Omaha. Sen. Vargas responded by calling Don Bacon a liar and refuses to engage with lies. (Tony Vargas takes my advice. /s)
NE-2 was a split district in the 2020 election; it went for Joe Biden for President and Don Bacon for reëlection. NE-2 is generally considered a swing district, which is why Mike Pence went to Carter Lake, Iowa for a campaign event for Donald Trump. (Carter Lake is an exclave of Iowa surrounded on three sides by Omaha and the fourth by the Missouri River.) It is close to Eppley Airfield (Omaha Airport) and cheaper to get a motel conference room there.
Join us this Sat. for Campaign Kickoff for #Congress! Walking in the Native Omaha Days Parade, with an event immediately following the parade at Turner Park! More info below, we hope to see you there!Parade: https://t.co/ZGZfrPOPE2Campaign Kickoff: https://t.co/fCmONJnDpr pic.twitter.com/ZSEORhJVii
— Senator Tony Vargas (@TonyVargas) July 28, 2021
The anti-smoking campaign has been successful because it’s been clear, concise and leveraged visceral images that convey fact, not opinion.
We need to double down on these effective tactics and recruit more authentic messengers to give context and meaning to these images. pic.twitter.com/skSHcs8umv— Dr. Vin Gupta (@VinGuptaMD) July 30, 2021
re: #28 Dangerman
lunacy
idiocy-There is a dire public health emergency. To combat this, we are doing absolutely nothing.
-There’s a fire in the theater! Please remain seated!
once we actually fought a war to keep these states in the union. what the hell for?
“All I’m saying is Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars.”
Meanwhile the debate over the state education standards (which would be recommendations, not mandates, but conservatives are acting like the draft proposals are written by all far-left communist Ché Gueverra followers instead of educators and parents) continues.
One side of the debate: Facts about sex education. The other side of the debate: Christians and conservatives denying LGBT people or even sex exist.
Wingnuts are bellyaching that this would be “imposed” by Lincoln, even though every school board in the state determines what it teaches. School boards run by wingnuts are already protesting loudly. (They are all liars. No one is imposing anything. They know however the standards do not uphold their religions—conservatism and Christianity—so they must lie to their local voters to maintain relevance.)
Let’s build a public school curriculum informed by evidence and research that is backed by experts in the American Medical Assn and American Pediatric Assn, instead of on partisan rhetoric from politicians who do not respect science. It’s that simple.https://t.co/JEAG7KU6vw
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 30, 2021
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Dipshyte responds to Sen. Megan Hunt:
If we leave all the education of our children on the school system and the scientists of the world..what’s left to”parent”??…we already ask to much of our teachers..part of the family breakdown..zero accountability and responsibility of parents
Literally everything. Who again votes for school board members? Do they magically appear from the sky?
ARE YOU ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE SIMONE BILES?: A DECISION TREE
by CARLOS GREAVES
Via @mcsweeneys pic.twitter.com/4UShdzxgpG— Sarah Spain (@SarahSpain) July 28, 2021
Ken Paxton, of all people, told those criticizing Biles to shut it:
Of course, many of those who took the opportunity to immediately criticize Biles were conservatives. After a conservative media publisher posted a video of Kerri Strug’s performance from 25 years ago, during which the legendary gymnast battled through a serious ankle injury to help the U.S. women’s team, other conservatives took to criticizing Biles in a less subtle way. “Contrast this with our selfish, childish national embarrassment, Simone Biles,” Aaron Reitz, Texas’ deputy attorney general, wrote in a tweet that included the Strug video.
Other Texans quickly joined Reitz, including a conservative radio host who wrote a column on how Biles’ decision “reveals our softened world,” the Houston Chronicle reported. But of course, not every conservative or Texan agreed with this bigotry. Reitz’s boss, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, called out Reitz’s inappropriate behavior indirectly by noting that he learned “one of our employees” made a “very inappropriate and insensitive tweet.” He added that the matter would be “handled internally.”
Paxton also took the opportunity to show his support for Biles, stating,: “I know Simone Biles—she is a fantastic athlete but an even better person. Mental health is far more important than any athletic competition and I fully support her decision.”
re: #59 Belafon
That from Paxton boggles my mind.
re: #59 Belafon
Ken Paxton, of all people, told those criticizing Biles to shut it:
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point (Clickhole, February 5, 2018)
re: #59 Belafon
That’s nonsense. You can critique anyone’s performance you like. Drawing inferences about a person’s character based on an athletic performance has always been a fool’s errand and this incident has highlighted that fact.
— Cliff Schindler (@cliffschindler) July 29, 2021
re: #59 Belafon
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Ken Paxton, of all people, told those criticizing Biles to shut it:
re: #60 retired cynic
That from Paxton boggles my mind.
Simone Biles has been making America and Houston proud for YEARS.
She has been the woman in the arena, a place that internet trolls know nothing about.
We can be disappointed in her decision, but until you’re the one stepping up to win gold, maybe sit this one out.— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) July 28, 2021
— tabs 〽️💙💛🏈 (@TabsGoBlue) July 28, 2021
Wingnuts are dragging Rep. Crenshaw in that thread.
Kind of like Biden stepping in when Trump failed us?
— Mark Haslett (@mthaslett) July 29, 2021
There’s a house on PCH in Santa Monica that’s painted black. The house next to it is painted pink and purple. Always liked driving past those houses. https://t.co/U5JfgnXI9V
— Alice Radley (@alice_radley) July 29, 2021
re: #60 retired cynic
That from Paxton boggles my mind.
Paxton and Crenshaw as decent people? That, and the pseudo-saintly status assigned to Liz Cheney (Joan of Dark?) are good indicators of just how far through the looking glass we really are in this country. The Republican mainstream is composed of gibbering idiots like McCarthy and MTG, the base of degenerate zombies who think communism failed because they put everyone on welfare and nobody had to work. Paxton, Crenshaw, and Cheney are rational and moderate by comparison but by any reasonable standard they are borderline criminals and psychopaths.
re: #66 Dave In Austin
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re: #63 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Of course, Dan Crenshaw had to negate his support for Simone Biles with his last line, “We can be disappointed in her decision… .”
Lots of people in that thread still don’t understand (or are lying about) what it means both to step back to allow an alternate to come in to compete for the team, or what it means for a gymnast to lose their position in the air (serious injury or death).
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Dipshyte responds to Sen. Megan Hunt:
Literally everything. Who again votes for school board members? Do they magically appear from the sky?
If parents want total dictatorial over what their children learn, such that there is no opportunity at all for teachers to reveal to them lies or sins, then those parents need find the money in their budgets to either hire tutors or home school those kids.
re: #67 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Paxton and Crenshaw as decent people? That, and the pseudo-saintly status assigned to Liz Cheney (Joan of Dark?) are good indicators of just how far through the looking glass we really are in this country. The Republican mainstream is composed of gibbering idiots like McCarthy and MTG, the base of degenerate zombies who think communism failed because they put everyone on welfare and nobody had to work. Paxton, Crenshaw, and Cheney are rational and moderate by comparison but by any reasonable standard they are borderline criminals and psychopaths.
Give the Republican Party credit; they’ve been working hard to train those gibbering idiots ever since Barry Goldwater ran for President. This has been a mult-generational work, and they are proud of it.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Of course, Dan Crenshaw had to negate his support for Simone Biles with his last line, “We can be disappointed in her decision… .”
Lots of people in that thread still don’t understand (or are lying about) what it means both to step back to allow an alternate to come in to compete for the team, or what it means for a gymnast to lose their position in the air (serious injury or death).
I imagine lots of those people also lost their shit when the NFL announced the adoption of concussion protocols, thinking that severe/repetitive brain injuries is “all part of the sport” and if you can’t play with them then you need to get out.
awww that’s cute they’re LARPing as their capitol terrorist heroes https://t.co/XJSH4wexOD
— kilgore trout, terminal hiccups patient (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 29, 2021
re: #73 Targetpractice
I imagine lots of those people also lost their shit when the NFL announced the adoption of concussion protocols, thinking that severe/repetitive brain injuries is “all part of the sport” and if you can’t play with them then you need to get out.
Lots of comparisons in there between Olympic sports and armed combat as “team sports” as well.
Aside from being a comparison between apples and studded snow tires, you know what happens when someone is injured in the military? They step back and someone else takes their place (in other words, the exact goddam same thing).
— Senator Anna Wishart (@NebraskaAnna) July 29, 2021
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Of course, Dan Crenshaw had to negate his support for Simone Biles with his last line, “We can be disappointed in her decision… .”
Lots of people in that thread still don’t understand (or are lying about) what it means both to step back to allow an alternate to come in to compete for the team, or what it means for a gymnast to lose their position in the air (serious injury or death).
I really hate defending Dan but I don’t always find the right word or phrasing, and I suspect he meant it more as “We can be disappointed that she had to make the decision.”
re: #74 Belafon
Why hasn’t Sen. Schumer imposed the same rules as Rep. Pelosi? That would end this oppression olympics tout de suite.
re: #76 Belafon
I really hate defending Dan but I don’t always find the right word or phrasing, and I suspect he meant it more as “We can be disappointed that she had to make the decision.”
You are more generous than I am about the Liar Party. As many times as they’ve hedged apologies or concerns with weasel words, I see no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Is the Critical Race Theory panic still going on, or have Republicans moved onto whatever their next moral panic is going to be?
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 30, 2021
Because we all know how well that works. pic.twitter.com/Tzil5fRHlx
— Senator Adam Morfeld (@Adam_Morfeld) July 30, 2021
re: #79 Dread Pirate Ron
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— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 30, 2021
The governor’s idea of “more work remains” meaning “destroy government schools”:
LGBTQ advocates call health standard revisions ‘sad’; governor says more work remains (Lincoln, Nebr. Journal-Star, twenty minutes ago)
Some LGBTQ advocates say public fear and misunderstanding guided a revised draft of the state’s health education standards that left out controversial sex-education components.
The second draft, officially unveiled Thursday, marked a significant departure, they say, from the first proposal, which featured lessons on gender identity and different family structures under the standards’ human growth and development portion.
While some critics called those lessons age-inappropriate for children, LGBTQ advocates say they are key to making all students feel welcome and would cut down on instances of bullying, hate crimes and suicide.
“The second draft was really a departure from research, decades of research, and if that second draft continues, it will have a negative impact on the young people in Nebraska,” said Jo Giles, executive director of Women’s Fund of Omaha, a nonprofit that seeks to address gender-based inequities.
The revised standards, which if approved would not be mandatory for school districts to adopt (my emphasis on what the Liar Party is lying about), cut back on much of the references to sex education, while still retaining some elements related to puberty and sexual abuse prevention.
Other components left out include definitions of homophobia and transphobia, kindergarten lessons on different family structures and sixth-grade curriculum on the differences between cisgender, transgender, nonbinary and expansive gender.
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re: #79 Dread Pirate Ron
Is the Critical Race Theory panic still going on, or have Republicans moved onto whatever their next moral panic is going to be?
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 30, 2021
Based on the most recent comments from my wingnut FB friend:
1. Ivermectin opinion piece in WSJ. Ivermectin being the new hydroxychloroquine.
2. Mask guidance for adults
3. Barbara Boxer robbery
4. Invasion of illegals who aren’t being tested for Covid
5. Masks for children.
She hasn’t said anything about CRT for over a week! Hasn’t talked about the fraudit recently either. She’s awaiting for her latest orders from Tucker.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Education Commissioner Matt Blomstedt said omissions of much of the gender-based content doesn’t mean students should feel excluded or that those issues aren’t important.
Don’t feel excluded while we explicitly work to exclude you.
Captured it from their angle this morning… pic.twitter.com/lpXXD3S1zp
— Liz Lord (@mslizlord) July 29, 2021
re: #73 Targetpractice
I imagine lots of those people also lost their shit when the NFL announced the adoption of concussion protocols, thinking that severe/repetitive brain injuries is “all part of the sport” and if you can’t play with them then you need to get out.
That’s EXACTLY what they did!
“In MY day, we played without heads or arms, and we liked it!”
(Well, we knew they played without brains or good sense, but…)
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gov. Ricketts, maybe: Physics should be taught at home, criticising the lack of inclusion of Christian miracles in physics classes.
“Physicists’ and teachers’ assertions that miracles do not happen are simply their opinions. Parents should be able to control what their children learn,” he might have added.
At press time, he was allegedly looking for new ways to illegally import death penalty drugs at tax payer expense, while touting his “tough on crime” and “pro-life” chops.
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lots of comparisons in there between Olympic sports and armed combat as “team sports” as well.
Aside from being a comparison between apples and studded snow tires, you know what happens when someone is injured in the military? They step back and someone else takes their place (in other words, the exact goddam same thing).
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Officers and NCOs tend to take a dim view of soldiers hiding injuries or mental illness in order to avoid being pulled from duty, if only because there’s less chance that their asses will end up in a sling if somebody ends up dead. All that “pain is weakness leaving the body” shit where officers and sargs send walking wounded off on suicide missions may make for great drama on the big screen, but IRL it can quickly leads to a lot of coffins and dead careers.
Because you can’t make good decisions without data, and they want a democide.
Fighting the pandemic has always been grounded in data. So why, as we see rising cases and lagging vaccinations, is data being “hidden” in Nebraska.
We talked to health and legal officials to understand why this is happening and what the impact is.https://t.co/W6L9UoS6mI— Chris Bowling (@ChrisMBowling) July 29, 2021
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Medical professionals and community health advocates fear what termination of the state coronavirus dashboard really means: decreased data, increased hospitalizations and more preventable deaths as the Delta variant surges and many communities in the state are still far from having 70% of their adults vaccinated.
“I think it’s ill advised and comes at a bad time, and is not what I would recommend,” Dr. Mark Rupp, professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center said. “The fact of the matter is that the pandemic’s not over, that the state dashboard was a useful source of information for those of us who are caring for patients as well as people in this community who are interested in knowing what the trends are. They’re a trusted source of information.”
Two weeks after the central data hub’s closure, the state did start reporting some weekly statistics every Wednesday. But it pales in comparison to the former dashboard and the lack of visualizations as well as geographic, demographic and historical data makes it harder to analyze.
(The Reader, July 29, 2021)
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Data Disappears as Delta Variant Surges, Health Officials Again Call for Help (more at the link, includes a screenshot of the last day the state Covid-19 dashboard existed)
Nebraska state Covid-19 text summary, July 28, 2021.
The following COVID-19 metrics will be reported by DHHS every Wednesday, unless stated otherwise. These numbers include all vaccinations that took place in Nebraska last week, including through federal entities, such as the Indian Health Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program.
That’s what we get. Politically-vetted numbers at the link.
The state Department of Health and Human Services weekly summary is not much more than a Republican talking points memo, such as:
The state wide COVID death data reflected on this website is based upon unconfirmed COVID deaths as recorded on death certificates filed with the state. It has not been confirmed using cross matched positive COVID tests. This is a change from the previously provided COVID dashboard data. Death certificate data is subject to amendments including the listed cause of death. As a result, the number of COVID related deaths recorded by vital records, will not be considered final until September of the following year. Accordingly, deaths from 2020 will be finalized in September of 2021.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
What that translates to:
If a death certificate lists Covid-19, with the proximate cause of death being pneumonia, they will revise the death numbers to indicate the death was pneumonia, not Covid-19.
On the other hand, if a person dies in a car wreck, they will not revise a death certificate to say they died from extreme physical trauma for no apparent reason. The cause of death will still be “trauma caused by car wreck.”
But sure, Democrats are politicising this.
Around the Panhandle there are already campaign signs for the gubernatorial election next year for the Republican primary, each candidate trying to out-Trump the other.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The state Department of Health and Human Services weekly summary is not much more than a Republican talking points memo, such as:
Translation: “We are slow-walking the numbers for last year to make Trump/Ricketts look good, and slow-walking the numbers for this year to scream at Biden about in time for the midterms.”
They’re trying to kill children, that’s why.
American Academy of Pediatrics puts out a great weekly summary of pediatric COVID data. Troubling to see Nebraska the only state w data not updated since June 30 https://t.co/jtD1nxHsE5 pic.twitter.com/05uSMHABuW
— John J. Lowe, Ph.D. (@Prof_Lowe) July 28, 2021
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lots of comparisons in there between Olympic sports and armed combat as “team sports” as well.
Aside from being a comparison between apples and studded snow tires, you know what happens when someone is injured in the military? They step back and someone else takes their place (in other words, the exact goddam same thing).
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QFT. For example, in flight training it is drummed into your head that you DO NOT fly if you are unfit, mentally or physically. If you do, you are not just a danger to yourself, you are a menace to your crew, your passengers, your mission and anyone who is depending on it, even to the civilians who live near your base. The services have special doctors, flight surgeons, who keep an eye on this.
There have been countless crashes and mission failures that were caused by impaired pilots. I remember a hellish carrier strike, with multiple fatalities and millions of dollars in damage, that was officially attributed to the pilot being impaired by unauthorized meds he had taken for a cold.
The GQP are a cargo cult, one that seems to believe that if they just replicate the circumstances that led to “success” in the past, then said “success” will return.
So they demand that the masks and social distancing go away, the signs and bulletins reminding people about the dangers of COVID taken down, the staff stripped of any protection measures, and all talk of vaccines removed, in the hope that magically all of this will lead to people just going “back to normal” and the economy booming…but only in red states.
While some may think that the virus will only kill “those people” and not people they care about, most just want to vainly chase this belief that dragging us back to “normal” will lead not only to economic but political success when compared to the “perpetual pandemic” they claim Dems want the country to remain in.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They’re trying to kill children, that’s why.
What people who study epidemiology need to do in regards to Nebraska is go to the multitude of local Public Health Districts to collate the data for the state. However, the pressure is on those Public Health Districts to comply with the Faith of Conservatism to shut down their reporting as well.
Hence, my public health district no longer reports the positivity rate. They are still reporting age ranges, though not as granular as paediatricians might like.
They have also removed individual county numbers for cases, deaths, and percentage vaccinated (except Scott’s Bluff County). They are now simply listed as “Panhandle.”
The “community” tab shows the relative risk in individual communities (my county is sucking).
The list of where to get vaccines has been updated to include telephone numbers to make appointments (there are no walk-in appointments anywhere in the Panhandle). It was nice of them to include telephone numbers since most people don’t have Internet service here.
They also tell you at which of the few locations in the area you can pay for a Covid-19 test. That is also by appointment, because viruses keep appointment calendars.
Most cases by age: 30-39, then 20-29
Women and girls remain 2/3 of cases. LGBT are no longer classified as “other.”
re: #97 Targetpractice
The GQP are a cargo cult, one that seems to believe that if they just replicate the circumstances that led to “success” in the past, then said “success” will return.
So they demand that the masks and social distancing go away, the signs and bulletins reminding people about the dangers of COVID taken down, the staff stripped of any protection measures, and all talk of vaccines removed, in the hope that magically all of this will lead to people just going “back to normal” and the economy booming…but only in red states.
While some may think that the virus will only kill “those people” and not people they care about, most just want to vainly chase this belief that dragging us back to “normal” will lead not only to economic but political success when compared to the “perpetual pandemic” they claim Dems want the country to remain in.
They are lied to by GOP politicians that things will go back to normal if you ignore everything going on.
GOP politicians know they are lying. Lying is part of exercising power over others, the actual and only point of conservatism.
But conservative voters are not helpless; they actively seek out the liars who will lie to them.
It is tough, I get it, but people need to tell their friends and family they are being lied to and why. They also need to be prepared to shun liars from their lives.
Like Nebraska, it would appear that Iowa’s governor is now determining who counts as “legitimate media.”
Where have we heard this one before? https://t.co/gPxX4PlqPy
— Seeing Red Nebraska (@SeeingRedNE) July 29, 2021
He is the person who killed James Scurlock during Black Lives Matter protests in Omaha, claiming he feared for his life (we do not have a “stand your ground” law here).
Jake Gardner’s family implying that the county made it seem like he was racist is interesting. You can talk to anyone who ever went to his bar and find out exactly how racist he was.
— Kimara Snipes (@KimaraZSnipes) July 27, 2021
Scurlock was outside the bar resting when Gardner allegedly came out and murdered him.
It took massive protests across Omaha to get the Democratic county prosecutor to charge him with murder.
Once again our state AG meddling in other states on our tax dollars
This year, we have seen an alarming national trend of legislative attacks on our country’s LGBTQIA+ youth. Thankfully, these hateful and harmful legislative campaigns have not been successful in Nebraska thus far.
But nevertheless, Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson continues to use the power of his office and our taxpayer dollars to wage a war on trans youth. His most recent attack on trans youth came as he added his support to a lawsuit to defend one of the most cruel, outrageous and scientifically unsound bills passed this year.
Peterson is defending Arkansas bill HB1570, which bans lifesaving, gender-affirming medical care for Arkansas’ trans youth. It prohibits health care professionals from providing or even referring young people for medically necessary care.
Shortly after it passed, the ACLU and our allies filed a federal lawsuit to prevent this harmful law from taking effect, and a federal court issued an injunction to do just that.
So, while it is good news these harmful laws have not passed in Nebraska and it is good news the federal court has flatly rejected Peterson and his allies’ arguments, the truth is that our attorney general’s actions still have real and harmful consequences.
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Local View: Make state safe for all (Lincoln, Nebr. Journal-Star, July 26, 2021)
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I tried and tried to talk some sense into my brainwashed family but they will not budge. They have cut me off.
I feel helpless seeing them sink further down the QAsshole.
They are absolutely convinced that Joe stole the election and Trump will be back in the Oval Office thanks to Crackhead Mike.
The idiot sits in Uncle Sam’s B&B convinced by a holy prophecy that he’s going to receive a pardon from Trump next month.
Did they get the shots? Hopefully some did. I know others won’t and they won’t mask.
So I am at the point that let them be lemmings and jump off the cliff.
Please stop quoting the people who lied about the election as if they’re good-faith actors when they’ve been repeatedly revealed as transparent manipulators exploiting the media’s self-imposed amnesia for anything that happened more than 24 hours ago https://t.co/JBCBys2QTJ
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) July 28, 2021
Despite hundreds of examples of McCarthy lying, reporters still quote him as if he’s being honest and deserves the benefit of the doubt, carrying his message of misinformation to a wider audience for him and lending him their brand of credibility
This is how misinformation works https://t.co/3Ep4jZ87ZE— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) July 29, 2021
re: #103 JOE 🥓
I tried and tried to talk some sense into my brainwashed family but they will not budge. They have cut me off.
I feel helpless seeing them sink further down the QAsshole.
They are absolutely convinced that Joe stole the election and Trump will be back in the Oval Office thanks to Crackhead Mike.
The idiot sits in Uncle Sam’s B&B convinced by a holy prophecy that he’s going to receive a pardon from Trump next month.
Did they get the shots? Hopefully some did. I know others won’t and they won’t mask.
So I am at the point that let them be lemmings and jump off the cliff.
As they teach in the safety lecture on a passenger airliner, you should first put on your own oxygen mask before trying to help others. You cannot help them if you pass out.
I am saddened by the overwhelming majority of my family disowning me because I do not believe as they, and wish it was different. However, my wishes won’t change their attitudes; only they can do that.
As far as I’m aware, none of them participated in the DC insurrection or protests at the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan, so there’s that.
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They are lied to by GOP politicians that things will go back to normal if you ignore everything going on.
GOP politicians know they are lying. Lying is part of exercising power over others, the actual and only point of conservatism.
But conservative voters are not helpless; they actively seek out the liars who will lie to them.
It is tough, I get it, but people need to tell their friends and family they are being lied to and why. They also need to be prepared to shun liars from their lives.
COVID is becoming another part of the overall culture war that the GQP plan to wage next year, knowing that there’s no real way they can hope to run against a recovering economy or popular legislation. It’s why they’re talking out of both sides of their ass on a daily basis, hailing “low unemployment” in red states one minute and screaming about a “labor crisis” that the Feds are creating by giving away “free” money to stay home the next.
By the time we reach the general elections next year, you’ll see Repub candidates on the stump declaring that red states weathered the storm “better” than blue states, responding to questions about body counts by declaring “there’s no proof” because they know the books have already been cooked. Or using numbers out of context, such as overall deaths to insist that sparsely populated red states had “fewer” deaths than blue states rather than per capita rates that show just how fucked their populations really were.
The picture they want to paint is the usual “Two Americas” one, but in this case they want to sell red states as bastions of “freedom” where “common sense” kept people from losing jobs, kept kids in schools for “quality educations,” kept out “Big Government” from running people’s lives, and where nobody’s afraid of COVID any longer. And then compare that to blue states which they’ll portray as police states where Dems robbed people of their “freedom” with masks and vaccines, where kids fall further and further behind because teacher’s unions don’t want to work, where businesses are struggling to stay afloat in a rising tide of rules and regs, and where “Big Government” is keep everybody constantly afraid of COVID in order to rule their lives.
Yeah, it’s total bullshit, but it’s all they got at this point.
a killer moment at press conference today as @KJP46 responded to question on mandates: “It also is not dissimilar to some of the protocols that you all have put in place in some of the new — news room that you work in — including Fox, Peter [Doocy]”
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 29, 2021
The “you’re confusing everyone!” chorus says more about incapacity of some to process any level of detail or understand simple concepts (science changes, you can transmit virus to an unvaxxed child) than any “messaging” issue. Sorry, no solution for widespread, willful stupidity
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 29, 2021
The Lincoln Nebraska Children’s Museum cancelled a weekend private event booked months in advance for LGBT+ youth, due to violent threats from conservatives against the event.
For a not-good time, the comments section on the fb cross-post is an (expected) dumpster fire.
— Abby Henes 김영화 (@abbyhenes) July 26, 2021
re: #107 Dread Pirate Ron
Doocy must be a socialist, because he sure loves being publicly owned. /s
re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Lincoln Nebraska Children’s Museum cancelled a weekend private event booked months in advance for LGBT+ youth, due to violent threats from conservatives against the event.
It is a matter of conservative faith here that youth leave the state because the property taxes are too high (that would be the property they by-and-large do not own).
Ever since I moved here, the Republican chorus has remained constant: If we want to keep our youth, we need to lower property taxes.
re: #107 Dread Pirate Ron
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“You’re confusing everyone!” is the media trying to pass the buck for their piss-poor handling of the pandemic. Gone are the days of informing the public or educating them, replaced instead by rows of stenographers like Doocy whose only qualification to be in the room is “My daddy works for Faux!” People with limited ability to understand the concepts conveyed to them then tasked to translate such in ways that make sense to the legions of half-wits who are even dumber than they are.
re: #106 Targetpractice
Well, this has got to be the first civil war where one side kills itself.
At this point they are only putting their own voters at risk, which is why states like mine have to hide the numbers.
Wednesday just in: +754K doses reported administered over yesterday’s total, including 498K newly vaccinated. This is the highest daily number of newly vaccinated reported since 7/1. >2/3 of eligible (12+) have received at least one dose. Picking up the pace, let’s do this! 🇺🇸
— Cyrus Shahpar (@cyrusshahpar46) July 28, 2021
Failed Senate candidate Matt Innis is behind it. pic.twitter.com/d4TTEWKKxQ
— Bookstore Corr (@BookstoreCorr) July 27, 2021
Weather radio triggered on an alert.
The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency has issued an emergency alert for all Nebraska Panhandle counties, and counties in north-central Nebraska, due to degraded air quality from western wildfires.
Visibility is expected to be less than one mile in the Nebraska Panhandle.
Well, good. That won’t help anyone here. Fortunately, most people here have weather radios.
Starting July 28, Severe Thunderstorms deemed “destructive” will activate a Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) on smartphones. Criteria for a destructive threat is at least 2.75 inch diameter hail and/or 80 mph thunderstorm winds.
Read more: https://t.co/Vu9HyjsoRw pic.twitter.com/6Qi6s5l8ce— National Weather Service (@NWS) July 22, 2021
you stupid fucks had ONE JOB: to get vaccinated
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) July 29, 2021
Our current AQI has risen from less than 20 a couple days ago to 55 in the last few hours.
The National Weather Service predicts the air mass over South Dakota will drop south and west, dragging their dangerous levels of smoke over us. Some of that is already entering the northeast Panhandle.
Much of Nebraska is not covered by the EPA’s Air Quality measurement system, because the government doesn’t want to spend money here or something. In the west, there is only one detection site (Scottsbluff).
All of them, Katie. But you know, Dave Rubin recently claimed atheists hate America.
How many of these bigots making death threats have “Christian” in their Twitter bios?
— Jeff, the God of Biscuits and Routers (@JNoodlestein) July 27, 2021
Today feels like a good day to remind you that by 2040, white people will be the minority in Omaha.
— Morgann Freeman (@morgann_freeman) July 26, 2021
Our hospital lab reports increasing number and % of positive tests. Nearby @UNMC_ID reports their covid unit full.
But who needs an active state #COVID dashboard to monitor things and make informed decisions? Not us!!! Because @GovRicketts said “It’s time to get back to normal”— David Quimby, MD (@ID_Doc_Quimby) July 26, 2021
Out here in the Old West, we don’t have a hospital with anything resembling a Covid unit. The closest thing to a Covid unit is an air ambulance helipad to take you to a hospital in Lincoln, Omaha, or Denver.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center Covid unit is now full. (UNMC is where they took the MV Diamond Princess passengers who needed hospitalisation and quarantine, because UNMC has a world-class infectious disease hospital our state governor wants to gut as a “government school.”)
This is what it looks like when the culture war (and your own political career) matters significantly more to you than one of the best-known institutions and main economic engines of the state you lead. pic.twitter.com/IE4sBguQB6
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) July 26, 2021
I mean, honestly, what conceivable reason could there be for the Governor of Nebraska to hate the University of Nebraska THIS MUCH?!
It would be like if he kept screaming at people NOT to buy corn, beef or soybeans. It’s like punching yourself in the face.https://t.co/ud3C4HXAuf— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) July 26, 2021
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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From a ground level perspective, do you figure that Ricketts is prepping for a Congressional run next year? Because it sure as fuck looks that way from here.
re: #131 Targetpractice
From a ground level perspective, do you figure that Ricketts is prepping for a Congressional run next year? Because it sure as fuck looks that way from here.
He is term-limited as state governor. He’s out next year.
Sen. Deb Fischer is not up for reëlection until 2024, and Sen. Ben Sasse is not up until 2026.
He could try for the US House. In Nebraska, the law says a resident can run to represent any district. (That’s why in the last election here in NE-3, we had a person from Omaha running against Adrian Smith.)
All three of our representatives voted to overturn election results in states they don’t represent, and each tries to out-Trump the other.
Ricketts also keeps getting entangled with staff members who are open Nazis. There are a whole lot of people here who despise him.
He’s a real billionaire, who earned it the hard way (he inherited it), unlike Donald Trump. I think the only reason he’s actually being so Trumpy is he’s trying to hold the state’s GOP voters together. That would explain why he has to do things like suppress Covid number reporting (they expose him as a liar) to keep the Republigrift going that Covid isn’t serious or is fake or something.
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He is term-limited as state governor. He’s out next year.
Sen. Deb Fischer is not up for reëlection until 2024, and Sen. Ben Sasse is not up until 2026.
He could try for the US House. In Nebraska, the law says a resident can run to represent any district. (That’s why in the last election here in NE-3, we had a person from Omaha running against Adrian Smith.)
All three of our representatives voted to overturn election results in states they don’t represent, and each tries to out-Trump the other.
Ricketts also keeps getting entangled with staff members who are open Nazis. There are a whole lot of people here who despise him.
He’s a real billionaire, who earned it the hard way (he inherited it), unlike Donald Trump. I think the only reason he’s actually being so Trumpy is he’s trying to hold the state’s GOP voters together. That would explain why he has to do things like suppress Covid number reporting (they expose him as a liar) to keep the Republigrift going that Covid isn’t serious or is fake or something.
Lobbying job in his immediate future, mayhaps? With eye towards a run for the WH in ‘24?
“People who have worked for Canada, who therefore absolutely have the right to come to Canada, should be getting on those planes as quickly as possible,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday. https://t.co/GgWONyCsWt
— CBC News (@CBCNews) July 30, 2021
re: #133 Targetpractice
Lobbying job in his immediate future, mayhaps? With eye towards a run for the WH in ‘24?
Maybe, but there are far crazier liars who will run for the GQP nod in 2024, and running for national office requires a national profile. Pete Ricketts isn’t known for much outside this state.
Ah yes, Week Two of the CRT course, “police hate African Americans.” I see you definitely know what you’re talking about, this definitely exists in the exact way you imagine it.
— busting my CRACKERS (@iknownoruths) July 27, 2021
*SIGH*
All Virginians should consider wearing a mask in public indoor settings where there is increased risk of #COVID19 transmission, as the new @CDCgov guidance recommends.
This is not a requirement, but a recommendation.— Governor Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) July 29, 2021
Meanwhile, the state is back to 1000+ new cases per day and positivity rate 5%+. And maps show that the epicenter of all this shit is (surprise, surprise) the coastal cities where “tourist season” is still going strong. Just like last year, when the state’s numbers exploded immediately after Governor Blackface announced that the beaches would be open in time for Memorial Day weekend.
I wish they would list new cases per 100,000 or 10,000 to get some perspective between states.
re: #135 Dread Pirate Ron
San Diego county finally got to 70% fully vaccinated.
Those who have had at least one dose is up to 81.1%.
We’ve had a surge in cases this week, but only a mild bump in hospitalizations and no significant increase in deaths:
re: #140 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Be sure to check out page 13, which has a graph that shows case rate for vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
he should just wear the hood https://t.co/zAkkVkCy2x
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 30, 2021
re: #139 Dread Pirate Ron
I wish they would list new cases per 100,000 or 10,000 to get some perspective between states.
They could just all stop reporting like Nebraska did, and viola! No new cases!
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Worldmeter is reporting counts of cases and deaths but that doesn’t provide much info.
re: #1 Dangerman
Monkey Cage: “If you rely on Facebook to get news and information about the coronavirus, you are substantially less likely than the average American to say you have been vaccinated.”
Then this all hit last spring, the first thing I did was to start filtering out all the “alternative” Covid FB posters.
Social media are there to help us keep in touch with friends and family, find out about local current events and share recipes & food pr0n, memes and cute kid/pet videos/photos.
I do not and never have viewed it as a place to find information about anything more substantial than that.
re: #143 Dread Pirate Ron
People are famous for not being able to pronounce their own names. That’s just conservative science.
re: #37 Dangerman
plus
and finally
we are deep in some serious deep shit.
the unvaccinated (and R govs and legislators) need to wake the fuck up.
We had a window of opportunity to really shut this pandemic down, but between the anti-vaxers and the no-maskers, the one thing I fear most has happened: a new, more virulent and transmissible variant that is going to have us chasing our tails until the end of the decade, erode our economy and leave our society a splintered mess ruled by a minority party.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Social media are there to help us keep in touch with friends and family, find out about local current events and share recipes & food pr0n, memes and cute kid/pet videos/photos.
I do not and never have viewed it as a place to find information about anything more substantial than that.
Social media is there to make profits for rich libertarians like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg. It is there for exactly none of the things you wrote about, all of which can be done through other means.
Some argue that certain civil rights movements like Black Lives Matter depended on social media. If so, how is it that the original Civil Rights Movement got off the ground, magic?
My mom: Can you send me the pictures you took of Nebraska waterfalls last year? I can’t look at your post about them on LGF because I have no Internet service.
Me: Sure thing. (Goes to pharmacy, prints out physical photographs, shoves them in an envelope, she gets them a couple days later, no profiteering libertarians required.)
re: #83 Hecuba’s daughter
Based on the most recent comments from my wingnut FB friend:
1. Ivermectin opinion piece in WSJ. Ivermectin being the new hydroxychloroquine.
2. Mask guidance for adults
3. Barbara Boxer robbery
4. Invasion of illegals who aren’t being tested for Covid
5. Masks for children.
6. Jail conditions for “prisoners of conscience” being held for Capitol riots
Well, I just ran across a terrible video on YouTube.
A Christian apologist blackmailed (with a recording) an atheist who was cheating on his wife to accept Jesus.
Whatever it takes, though.
re: #143 Dread Pirate Ron
Mr Carlson always mispronounces his first name. For some reason he thinks it starts with a “T”, not an “F”.
Around Lake Almanor, people who fled the Paradise fire in 2018 watch as flames close in on their new lives. @marialuisapaulr @KnowlesHannah @FrancesSSellershttps://t.co/5YmVEXNOCf
— Brady Dennis (@brady_dennis) July 29, 2021
re: #116 Dr Lizardo
This looks good - from Ridley Scott, House of Gucci:
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Stars Lady Gaga*, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino.
* personally, I think she should use her real name, Stefani Germanotta, for the acting gig - it’s got a great (and exotic) ring to it
Al Pacino playing Lady Gaga would be interesting.
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A US company has turned a former coal plant into a gas-fired Bitcoin mine (BBC)
The scammers who run cryptocurrency scams want you to believe you could possibly compete with things like this though.
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‘So let’s start with a history lesson and let’s talk about Jim Crow’ — @AOC expertly compared Texas’ new voting law to the Jim Crow Era pic.twitter.com/7KhFH4uOMr
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 29, 2021
Bitcoin mining machines steamrolled by Malaysia police
Police in the Malaysian state of Sarawak recently found themselves saddled with 1,069 Bitcoin mining machines - and found an innovative way to dispose of them.
The cryptocurrency mining rigs, worth an estimated $1.25m (£920,000), had been seized in raids between February and April this year.
According to police, the machines were being powered with stolen electricity.
Bitcoin mining rigs carry out complex computations and in return are rewarded with the cryptocurrency - a process which consumes large amounts of energy.
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re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We had a window of opportunity to really shut this pandemic down, but between the anti-vaxers and the no-maskers, the one thing I fear most has happened: a new, more virulent and transmissible variant that is going to have us chasing our tails until the end of the decade, erode our economy and leave our society a splintered mess ruled by a minority party.
Honestly, I think if it gets to that point, collectively, humans will just say, “Oh, well…fuck it, we tried. Let ‘er rip!” and that’s that.
Avi Loeb’s new Galileo Project aims to develop an artificial-intelligence-powered network of telescopes that can search for evidence of technological alien civilizations on or near Earth. (By @adamspacemann) https://t.co/NRJBcd2AXS
— Scientific American (@sciam) July 27, 2021
cool
If Trump was indeed “elected to the office of president” both in 2016 and in 2020, as he insists he was, then he’s ineligible to run in 2024 under the 22nd Amendment.
He can’t have it both ways. So, Donald, which is it?— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 28, 2021
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Two Colorado police officers were arrested after brutally assaulting a man while responding to a trespassing call (warning: distressing images) pic.twitter.com/bJNbJ6GGkd
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 30, 2021
re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s oft-stated wish that when he died all of his computers with partly-written books, stories, notes etc. would be destroyed to prevent what happened to Tolkien’s shopping lists and notes to the milkman after he passed away.
re: #160 Patricia Kayden
He thinks it’s like golf, he gets a Mulligan. He didn’t get to serve that second term so he gets a do-over.
re: #160 Patricia Kayden
Both. Whichever lie is convenient to sell to conservative voters.
Those voters will adopt whichever lie is more comfortable.
Tokyo’s government inhumanely evicting homeless people so they won’t “taint” the Olympics.
Olympics: The hidden sight of Tokyo’s homeless
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re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The US did it too, in SF and LA.
re: #167 Dread Pirate Ron
The US did it too, in SF and LA.
People really like ignoring we exist. (I’m not homeless now.)
We also make a good foil for things like “why aren’t we helping the homeless rather than X” (whatever X is). That way you don’t really have to promote a solution, and the media doesn’t ask for one.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson after completing Trump University Umbrella 101 class.
I’m convinced Boris Johnson and Trump are related pic.twitter.com/fvccEvwC05
— Wu-Tang Is For The Children (@WUTangKids) July 29, 2021
Kaufmann County, Texas (7:00)
A white cop assaults a Black woman
And his own department — not an independent, unbiased, community-led review board — is investigatingpic.twitter.com/AynrlEbzkF— Anti-Fascist Abolitionist AWK (@AWKWORDrap) July 30, 2021
re: #167 Dread Pirate Ron
The US did it too, in SF and LA.
And Atlanta. I remember being told that when I went to Atlanta for a spring break Habitat for Humanity trip.
re: #160 Patricia Kayden
He wants a do-over on 2016, as he insists it doesn’t really count because the Deep State prevented him from actually being President. (I know, I know, it doesn’t work like that, but try telling him that.)
With video (run at high speed, 0:21)
More on Bryna Makowka, the Los Angeles anti-vaxxer and Capitol riot attendee.
Makowka helped cause a shutdown of the country’s largest vaccination site in January.
She was last seen encouraging an attack on a high school senior by her Proud Boys friends at the Wi Spa protest. https://t.co/A0oRWK4RQy— Chad Loder (@chadloder) July 30, 2021
Here is a video breakdown of Mike Ancheta, professional MMA fighter, punching a high school senior in the face after the teen was blinded by pepper spray.
The teen victim filed a police report with LAPD the same day. The officer asked the teen if they were “a member of antifa”. https://t.co/1RkJDutzGM— Chad Loder (@chadloder) July 30, 2021
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Another angle shows the full context of the attack.
Vishal is walking backwards, away from the screaming antivaxxer mob while filming. Mike Ancheta circles around, plants himself behind Vishal, then shoulder-checks Vishal from the blindside.
When Vishal responds, Mike attacks. pic.twitter.com/wzwvW57Qj0— Chad Loder (@chadloder) July 30, 2021
— Jack Torrance (@y_redrum0376) July 22, 2021
2. It’s “sunshield”! The sunshield is a 5-layer, tennis court-sized structure that will always protect Webb’s sensitive mirrors & instruments from the heat/light of the Sun, Earth and Moon. More: https://t.co/cKIC6Qkz2r pic.twitter.com/KSAi6GDUdT
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) July 16, 2021
A “Missing Man” table is a military display representing military members who are missing-in-action or fallen in service.
The purpose of such tables (usually placed in military or VA dining halls) is to recognise the sacrifice of servicemembers.
In the last few years, Christian denominations of all sects have tried co-opting such displays to include Bibles, to represent the Christian faith of military members (fuque those Muslims, Jews, atheists, Hindus, &c).
A case in Concord, New Hampshire brought against the Department of Veterans Affairs over such a Bible included in a VA hospital, going since 2019, has a proposal by the Christians to settle by putting a “Book of Faith” including prayers from seven religious groups. (Fuque everyone who doesn’t belong to those seven religious groups.)
What will eventually happen is Christians will drive out Missing Man displays, because putting Bibles in them violate both the Constitution and are not part of the original display anyway.
Keep working to drive people out of your religious faith; veterans love it when you take their symbols away from them.
Virtually every Christian sect becomes outraged when groups who stand up for the Constitution go after them marking territory in VA hospitals.
A proper Missing Man display contains the following elements:
A small table set for one (representing the missing member being isolated)
Covers (military hats) representing the service of the member being remembered.
A white tablecloth to represent pure intentions.
A rose in a vase to represent blood shed by members of the Armed Forces.
A red ribbon to represent love of country.
A slice of lemon to represent the bitter fate of the missing.
Salt to symbolise the tears shed by waiting families.
An inverted glass to show the missing member cannot partake.
Lit candles to light the way home.
An empty chair to represent the missing and fallen.
“Bible” is not part of this display. “Bible” does not represent military service, loss, death, or camaraderie. “Bible” does not represent the families of those missing.
However, churches of all denominations try to get a Bible inserted in such displays on government property, because proselytisation won’t do that by itself.
You can make the argument of “what if a Mosque put the Qur’an there,” but Christians don’t care about that. “That’s different.”
What’s going to happen is eventually military commands and VA hospitals will prohibit Missing Man tables, to prevent Christians from trying to subvert them to their religion and causing the command to be sued.
That ought to go over well with military members and veterans. It is imperative though to put the blame if that happens where it belongs: On Christian churches, not the commands.
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s time to bring guns to these situations since the damn police aren’t doing anything.
So, looking around the internet and seeing that James Gunn’s sequel/reboot The Suicide Squad is getting solid reviews and David Lowery’s The Green Knight is receiving universal acclaim, with the cinematography and Dev Patel’s performance being especially praised.
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the most recent filings in Concord, the government is asking the case be dismissed (fuque the Constitution and every non-Christian using the VA).
re: #36 JOE 🥓
He’s gonna fall of the wagon any second now!
Perhaps that explains why he pulled his ads from Tucker’s show.
re: #179 Patricia Kayden
It’s time to bring guns to these situations since the damn police aren’t doing anything.
As much as this is going on, it would appear the police are helping.
Covid-19 has been the number one killer of cops since this started.
re: #183 Dread Pirate Ron
Just wanted to post last night’s ride in case dangerman forgot I had an e-bike. ///
You rode through some deep potholes. /s
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You rode through some deep potholes. /s
Heh. It actually looks like the elevation map of some of the walks I’ve taken around my town. It’s built on top of two tall (relative to the surrounding open flat country) hills, so trying to walk anywhere from my house is, literally, uphill both ways.
re: #180 Dr Lizardo
So, looking around the internet and seeing that James Gunn’s sequel/reboot The Suicide Squad is getting solid reviews and David Lowery’s The Green Knight is receiving universal acclaim, with the cinematography and Dev Patel’s performance being especially praised.
They’re actually both ones I want to see. One of the rare good DCEU movies and even rarer, a good Arthurian movie.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings also looks entertaining:
“What happened to your shirt?” < hero shrugs > just makes me hoot with laughter.
The City of St. Paul and the State of Minnesota are proud to celebrate “Sunisa Lee Day” today. The mayor and the governor both issued a proclamation to honor the young 18-year-old star who won the gold medal in the women’s gymnastics all-around final last night. (Link goes to KARE 11, a local news site; European visitors may have some difficulty.)
Suni Lee is the first Hmong-American to become an Olympian, having placed behind Simone Biles at nationals in 2019 to qualify for the team. Her father was paralyzed from the chest down in a freak accident just before the national finals, but she competed anyway. Yesterday, she proved herself to everybody.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Last night we had multiple extreme weather alerts to our phone as tornado watches and warnings crossed NJ. We were on the northern fringe of the northern-most warning, but the storm was tracking away from us.
This morning weather investigators are crossing the state to see if any of the storm damage can be attributed to tornadoes. So far, 2 are confirmed and there are a total of 12 locations where damage being investigated. That’s a pretty significant swarm of tornadoes in a state that gets a handful a year.
re: #193 lawhawk
Glad you’re all OK out that way. I hope the damage isn’t too bad and especially that people aren’t hurt. In the meantime, we’re dealing with the second straight day of hazy orange skies due to the smoke settling on us from Canada and California.
re: #193 lawhawk
That is a lot for Pennsylvania. We’re having a below-normal year in Nebraska.
The heavy weather is on for today though.
DAY ONE…TODAY AND TONIGHT
Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms will occur, mainly
this afternoon and evening, with the most coverage west of
Interstate 25. A few of the thunderstorms east of a Wheatland to
Cheyenne line, and over the Nebraska Panhandle may become severe,
producing strong winds and some hail. Locally heavy rain will
occur with some storms.
And the smoke alert.
The following message is transmitted in collaboration with the
Nebraska Emergency Management Office through 8 PM Friday.WHAT…Degraded air quality from smoke from western wildfires.
WHERE…All Nebraska Panhandle counties.
WHEN…Through 8 PM ADT Friday evening
IMPACTS…Heavy smoke from western wildfires will continue over the
Nebraska Panhandle through at least Thursday morning.HEALTH INFORMATION…Recommended the elderly, young children, and
individuals with respiratory problems avoid excessive physical
exertion and minimize outdoor activities during this time. Wildfire
smoke is made up of a variety of pollutants, including particulate
matter and ozone, which can cause respiratory health effect.
Although these people are most susceptible to health impacts, we
advise that everyone should avoid prolonged exposure to poor air
quality conditions.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Out here in the Old West, we don’t have a hospital with anything resembling a Covid unit. The closest thing to a Covid unit is an air ambulance helipad to take you to a hospital in Lincoln, Omaha, or Denver.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center Covid unit is now full. (UNMC is where they took the MV Diamond Princess passengers who needed hospitalisation and quarantine, because UNMC has a world-class infectious disease hospital our state governor wants to gut as a “government school.”)
My infectious disease doctor friend came from there. He wants everybody to mask up indoors, doesn’t need to be working more than 70 hours a week.
re: #139 Dread Pirate Ron
I wish they would list new cases per 100,000 or 10,000 to get some perspective between states.
It’s annoying that the worldometer chart shows only accumulated cases/deaths per million, so there is no convenient way to evaluate at a glance the current situation between states. Too many states that suffered at the beginning of the pandemic, before there was serious guidance/protocols about how best to handle the disease, show elevated statistics based on their past handling rather than a reflection of their present status.
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yeah, one of the tornadoes tore through Bucks County PA, and other storms are being investigated here in NJ. Central NJ had the bullseye on it. NJ averages two a year, and I think we’re already well above that.
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
People really like ignoring we exist. (I’m not homeless now.)
We also make a good foil for things like “why aren’t we helping the homeless rather than X” (whatever X is). That way you don’t really have to promote a solution, and the media doesn’t ask for one.
I had to respond to a Trumpster friend (a devout Catholic) who posted the following meme:
I pointed out that foreign aid was only 1% of the budget and his response was, yes but even that was too much because priorities. Am 1000% confident that he is fine with letting all these groups suffer for tax cuts for the wealthy, and he would believe that the homeless should just get a job. Anything that conservatives promote, he will regurgitate.
THE MYPILLOW GUY REALLY COULD DESTROY DEMOCRACY
In the time I spent with Mike Lindell, I came to learn that he is affable, devout, philanthropic—and a clear threat to the nation.
By Anne Applebaum
I met Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, in the recording studio that occupies the basement of Steve Bannon’s stately Capitol Hill townhouse, a few blocks from the Supreme Court—the same Supreme Court that will, according to Lindell, decide “9–0” in favor of reinstating Donald Trump to the presidency sometime in August, or possibly September. I made it through the entirety of the Trump presidency without once having to meet Bannon but here he was, recording his War Room podcast with Lindell. Bannon has been decomposing in front of our eyes for some years now, and I can report that this process continues to take its course. I walked in during a break and the two men immediately gestured to me to join the conversation, sit at the table with them, listen in on headphones. I demurred. “Anne Applebaum … hmm,” Bannon said. “Should’ve stuck to writing books. Gulag was a great book. How long did it take you to write it?”
I thought the bolded sentence was particularly amusing.
re: #179 Patricia Kayden
It’s time to bring guns to these situations since the damn police aren’t doing anything.
I’m really afraid it is getting close to that. It will unleash hell, but we have to protect ourselves if no one else will.
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(26:22, goes to Utah Outcasts)
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I’m sure the Native Americans would agree.
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(26:22, goes to Utah Outcasts)
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Sure, ask any Native American
re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter
I had to respond to a Trumpster friend (a devout Catholic) who posted the following meme:
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I pointed out that foreign aid was only 1% of the budget and his response was, yes but even that was too much because priorities. Am 1000% confident that he is fine with letting all these groups suffer for tax cuts for the wealthy, and he would believe that the homeless should just get a job. Anything that conservatives promote, he will regurgitate.
I’m sorry your friend is so heartless.
I’ve found people who make those arguments are making them from a position of conservative faith.
And even if it was true our minuscule foreign aid in relation to domestic spending could somehow affect those domestic problems, we have enough money to do both.
Having been on the “no food, no job, no home” beat, I tend to give a lot of money to our local secular food bank. Sometimes when they ask for product donations rather than money, I will donate things which usually aren’t thought of (sanitary napkins, toilet paper, baby diapers, cleaning supplies, &c.)
re: #201 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Applebaum trolling Lindell by taking him to a Uyghur restaurant was a nice touch, but he’s to dim to understand. And Dolan Uyghur is a great restaurant.
…Because Lindell is famously worried about Chinese Communist influence, I thought he would like to pay homage to the victims of Chinese oppression. I booked a Uyghur restaurant.
This proved a mistake. For one thing, the restaurant—the excellent Dolan Uyghur, in D.C.’s Cleveland Park neighborhood—was not at all close to Bannon’s townhouse. Getting there required a long and rather uncomfortable drive, in Lindell’s rented black SUV; he talked at me about packet captures the whole way, one hand on the steering wheel, the other holding up a phone showing Google Maps. Once we got there, he didn’t much like the food. He picked at his chicken kebabs and didn’t touch his spicy fried green beans. More to the point, he didn’t understand why we were there. He had never heard of the Uyghurs. I told him they were Muslims who are being persecuted by Chinese Communists. Oh, he said, “like Christians.” Yes, I said. Like Christians.
re: #202 Eventual Carrion
I’m really afraid it is getting close to that. It will unleash hell, but we have to protect ourselves if no one else will.
I’m outnumbered here. As I noted, the last time we went out literally no one was wearing a mask. Businesses are starting to put up signs saying masks are prohibited.
While we don’t have anti-vaccine protests, vaccines have been made so hard to get here anti-vaxxers don’t need to worry about those. They can come to more liberal areas and harass you.
First batch of U.S. donated Pfizer vaccines arrives in Thailand https://t.co/Hr5psl6uJn pic.twitter.com/FUGNt3Nbee
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 30, 2021
Picking up a sandwich (with a mask on)
Customer to me: “Living in fear, huh?”
Me: “Yeah. I work with vulnerable, critically ill, immunocompromised children. So, yeah. I’m afraid of killing a child. Thank you”.— Adam B. Hill, M.D. (@Adamhill1212) July 29, 2021
At least one conservative Republican hasn’t bought into the “Ashli Babbitt is a martyr” theme; here is a clip of Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) on CNN. (Warning: annoying commercial may play at the beginning)
Pfizer is pushing for a third shot, but the data doesn’t really back that up:
You buried the lede @statnews
“Against severe disease, which includes people with low blood oxygen levels or who are hospitalized, the overall efficacy of the vaccine was 97%”
This👇 is the most important part of the preprint imo. Efficacy against severe disease STILL excellent https://t.co/N8P5wT2sQf pic.twitter.com/IDK3kMCBwN— Craig Spencer MD MPH (@Craig_A_Spencer) July 29, 2021
The kittens were both at the top of the cat tree this morning. My last cat ignored her tree, and it’s nice that they like it.
Mork bolted when I came through the door. Mindy stuck around for a little while and I was able to pet her for a moment. He’s back in hiding, and she’s back on the tree after prowling the room for a while.
I haven’t been able to get close enough with my phone while they’re still to get a decent picture yet.
re: #195 jeffreyw
Is that a new kitteh?
re: #209 Belafon
Dipshyte responds:
I’m complaining that he’s endangering his patients while out hunting Trumpers to own instead of placing an online order with the cell phone he’s instead using to inflate his ego.
Is that a good enough reason to complain, comrade?— Pwnusohard Jenkins (@pwnusohard) July 30, 2021
No mention of “hunting Trumpers.” As related, the Trumper (just like a religious missionary) came to him rather than minding his own business.
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m sorry your friend is so heartless.
I’ve found people who make those arguments are making them from a position of conservative faith.
And even if it was true our minuscule foreign aid in relation to domestic spending could somehow affect those domestic problems, we have enough money to do both.
Having been on the “no food, no job, no home” beat, I tend to give a lot of money to our local secular food bank. Sometimes when they ask for product donations rather than money, I will donate things which usually aren’t thought of (sanitary napkins, toilet paper, baby diapers, cleaning supplies, &c.)
These people are the first on board to cut entitlement programs (except those that benefit them) to limit the growth of government and “balance the budget”. He didn’t respond to my suggestion that the issues mentioned with regard to the military were due to a misallocation of funds — that the military does have the resources to provide for proper equipment for troops and benefits for veterans — but they would rather spend the money elsewhere.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to knowingly board a plague ship.
BREAKING: Six passengers on Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas cruise ship (which I am sailing on) have tested positive for COVID-19. Four are vaccinated, two are unvaccinated children. Passengers have not yet been notified. Story to come.
— Morgan Hines (@MorganEmHines) July 30, 2021
re: #210 Hecuba’s daughter
At least one conservative Republican hasn’t bought into the “Ashli Babbitt is a martyr” theme; here is a clip of Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) on CNN. (Warning: annoying commercial may play at the beginning)
CNN has to pay for it somehow.
Kudos on Sen. Cramer. Counting down to calls of RINO and a primary challenger …
re: #217 No Malarkey!
Some people saw the teaser rates to encourage people to go on cruises/vacations, and they wouldn’t pass it up.
I will never go on another cruise after getting norovirus on my first and only one. Until I got sick, we were having a good time but cruising really isn’t our thing because we like more freedom to spend in different locations and don’t want to be tied to specific itineraries ashore - like having to be back at boat by 4pm or else it leaves without you.
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Incoming grift from another Christian apologist.
(16:19, Telltale, now safe from being torched in his home living in New York)
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Rick Wiles is full blown KKKristian Anti-Semite who has said that Hitler should have finished what he started.
First he blamed Covid on Soros and the Jews. Then he blamed Chinese agents who were “dispatched to infect him”. Now he blames immunized people who infected him with shredded RNA.
When you’re cheering on Dershowitz as the reasonable voice in the room, it’s clear how far gone FoxNews is.
— Leslieoo7 ☠️ 🇺🇲 (@Leslieoo7) July 30, 2021
re: #83 Hecuba’s daughter
Based on the most recent comments from my wingnut FB friend:
1. Ivermectin opinion piece in WSJ. Ivermectin being the new hydroxychloroquine.
2. Mask guidance for adults
3. Barbara Boxer robbery
4. Invasion of illegals who aren’t being tested for Covid
5. Masks for children.She hasn’t said anything about CRT for over a week! Hasn’t talked about the fraudit recently either. She’s awaiting for her latest orders from Tucker.
Yes relatives gloated seeing Barbara Boxer robbed. They applauded the thief.
Very typical Xtian behavior!
re: #206 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Like Christians where? Certainly not here in America where the majority of politicians and civic leaders are Christians.
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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And the LAPD along with the Los Angeles County Sheriffs side with the Proud Babies.
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I was asked once and only once to participate in a Missing Man remembrance and I declined due to Xtians.
There’s an endless supply of these stories.
I am clear out of sympathy for the people who can get vaccinated and refuse to do so based on bulkshit reasoning.
My sympathy’s for those who can’t get vaccinated and rely on everyone else for their safety - kids and immunocompromised— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 30, 2021
I am beyond pissed at this point. The GOP is still pushing nonsensical talking points about freedoms and masking/vaccinations, when people are dying in ever growing numbers by the day from a disease that can be mitigated by both masking and vaccinations.
Madison Cawthorne, come on down, you’re the biggest dumbfucker of the day:
Cawthorne and rest of the GOP hacks spewing this crap are know nothing extremists who don’t care how many people die from covid19. He and the rest of GOP are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans and do nothing to prevent further deaths.
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 30, 2021
Cawthorne annoyed that the military will begin requiring vaccinations:
The military fights for us to maintain our freedom, yet they have no freedom to choose whether or not to take the vaccination.
This is unjust!— Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) July 28, 2021
More than that, we already saw what happens when the USS Theodore Roosevelt had a covid19 outbreak. It was forced to return to port to deal with 100s of cases on board. That’s a clear harm to our readiness, force projection, and deterrence effects.
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 30, 2021
re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter
I had to respond to a Trumpster friend (a devout Catholic) who posted the following meme:
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I pointed out that foreign aid was only 1% of the budget and his response was, yes but even that was too much because priorities. Am 1000% confident that he is fine with letting all these groups suffer for tax cuts for the wealthy, and he would believe that the homeless should just get a job. Anything that conservatives promote, he will regurgitate.
Most of the Catholics I work with are just as heartless. All they care about is the Cult Of The Fetus shit.
re: #223 Dangerman
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They don’t get COVID, they get some other ordinary disease but those medical malpracticioners mis-diagnose them in order to rake in the sweet government $$$ //////////////////////////
Texas lunatic GOPer Abbott refuses to protect citizens from pandemic and undermines local authority to do so.
He’s barring localities from instituting masking/vaccination requirements. This guarantees further death, misery, and economic harms.https://t.co/XVZdRNYIug#Freedumb— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 30, 2021
GOP death merchants.
re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter
I had to respond to a Trumpster friend (a devout Catholic) who posted the following meme:
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I pointed out that foreign aid was only 1% of the budget and his response was, yes but even that was too much because priorities. Am 1000% confident that he is fine with letting all these groups suffer for tax cuts for the wealthy, and he would believe that the homeless should just get a job. Anything that conservatives promote, he will regurgitate.
Ask them if the Good Samaritan was in the 1%
re: #230 lawhawk
We’re at that point in the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic where the stern is in the air, the lifeboats are all away, and that creaking, groaning sound you’re hearing is the ship about to break up. The only thing left to do is put on your lifejacket - and get ready for the shock of that cold, cold North Atlantic water.
If you survive that, make your way to the nearest lifeboat. As Captain Smith told the crew, “You’ve done all you can, boys, you’ve done your duty. Now it’s every man for himself; that’s just how it is at this time.”
re: #235 Dr Lizardo
We’re at that point in the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic where the stern is in the air, the lifeboats are all away, and that creaking, groaning sound you’re hearing is the ship about to break up. The only thing left to do is put on your lifejacket - and get ready for the shock of that cold, cold North Atlantic water.
If you survive that, make your way to the nearest lifeboat. As Captain Smith told the crew, “You’ve done all you can, boys, you’ve done your duty. Now it’s every man for himself; that’s just how it is at this time.”
The problem with that analogy is that if you drown, the life lost is only your own.
With a pandemic, if you get sick, you’ve likely infected multiple people around you. It affects far more than you directly.
Where’s the concern about my freedom from exposures to covid19? Where’s the concern about my freedom from having to worry about dependents who can’t get vaccinated getting exposed despite my precautions (I still have to go out into the world for food and other necessities).
Masking is the absolute minimum, and it is such an easy thing to do that the people pitching fits about masking are irredeemably lost to reality. No one likes being masked, but if it keeps you and yours safe, that’s what I’ll do. Vaccination is almost as easy, and again, it will keep me and mine safer.
re: #213 Eric The Fruit Bat
Is that a new kitteh?
He was new when the picture was taken in 2010, here is a photo from this year:
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Welcome to the club, kids! You’re witnessing the full blown decline of the US.
Why Millennials and Gen Z Aren’t Proud to Be American
Polling shows there’s a patriotism gap between older and younger Americans; generation Z and Millennials are less likely to say yes to the question of national pride than those born in the decades preceding them.
Sixty-seven percent of 1,424 U.S. adults in I&I/TIPP polling said they were extremely or very proud to be American when asked between June 30 and July 2, during the build-up to Independence Day.
But among those aged 18 to 24, just 36 percent said the same, with 35 percent in that age bracket stating they were only slightly or not at all proud to be American.
re: #230 lawhawk
I know an immunocompromised guy on FB who was spreading an anti-vaccine conspiracy theory. Dumb fucker doesn’t understand that he needs every healthy person to get vaccinated to protect people like himself.
re: #221 No Malarkey!
Laura Ingraham lied by both omission and red herring on Alan Dershowitz’s statement that Covid-19 is worse than smallpox.
The red herring was “300 million people died in the XX Century from smallpox.” That is worldwide, not the USA. That’s the red herring.
The worst year for smallpox in the United States was 1920, killing about 100,000 people. Therefore we have surpassed by more than five times the number of deaths from smallpox, with five more months to go. That’s the omission.
In terms of numbers of deaths from the disease, Covid-19 has been objectively worse than smallpox.
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I am just waiting for a distraught parent or relative of a Covid victim to sue Ingraham…
re: #241 JOE 🥓
I am just waiting for a distraught parent or relative of a Covid victim to sue Ingraham…
My expectation is there will be violence, but not against liberals.
There will be some against unfortunate healthcare workers (particularly if hospitals have to move to triage—why won’t you treat my mom, I’ll show you! then gets a shotgun and opens fire in an ER).
The bulk of the violence will be against those who lied to them. Liberals did not knowingly lie to anyone; we want everyone to be safe (even if conservatives hate us).
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Some argue that certain civil rights movements like Black Lives Matter depended on social media.
I can see how social movements might gain from sharing information, but when it comes to specialized information about maters of science or technology, social media is at best a place to post links to reputable, established sites run by experts with a solid reputation in their field.
But in our New Media Reality, everybody is entitled to an opinion except those who are most qualified to have one.
re: #164 Dread Pirate Ron
He thinks it’s like golf, he gets a Mulligan. He didn’t get to serve that second term so he gets a do-over.
And he gets a repeat of the first term because they were so mean to him and obstructed him and told mean lies about him and his family and even impeachied him not once but twice, which totally interfered with his ability to tirelessly serve his country from morning til night…
re: #242 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My expectation is there will be violence, but not against liberals.
There will be some against unfortunate healthcare workers (particularly if hospitals have to move to triage—why won’t you treat my mom, I’ll show you! then gets a shotgun and opens fire in an ER).
The bulk of the violence will be against those who lied to them. Liberals did not knowingly lie to anyone; we want everyone to be safe (even if conservatives hate us).
From what I’ve seen here and based on work they are too brainwashed to go after the liars.
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
People really like ignoring we exist. (I’m not homeless now.)
We also make a good foil for things like “why aren’t we helping the homeless rather than X” (whatever X is). That way you don’t really have to promote a solution, and the media doesn’t ask for one.
There was a famous quote from a German leftist politician in response to people who complained that Germany had money to take in Syrian refugees but not enough to tend to its own homeless.
To which he replied “Even without the refugees, there still would not be enough money for the homeless!”
re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And he gets a repeat of the first term because they were so mean to him and obstructed him and told mean lies about him and his family and even impeachied him not once but twice, which totally interfered with his ability to tirelessly serve his country from morning til night…
And this is why the asshole in Uncle Sam’s B&B insists that Trump can serve TWO more terms because he was so disrespected in his first term.
re: #247 JOE 🥓
And this is why the asshole in Uncle Sam’s B&B insists that Trump can serve TWO more terms because he was so disrespected in his first term.
At which point, they’d make up some excuse for why he didn’t really serve his third term, or his fourth, or his fifth… and so on, and so forth, so that he can be de facto president for life. (Although, if he even lives long enough to have served a full third term, I’d be surprised.)
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Our country is an immigrant culture
My grandparents were all immigrants
So fuck you, I love my grandparents and everything they did for our country and for our family.
Right wing stunt is predictable and wrong as when/where the sun rises daily:
There are two jails in DC.
They are at the wrong one. https://t.co/BQCdv5i40x— Deborah Golden (@DebGoldenDC) July 30, 2021
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Our country is an immigrant culture
My grandparents were all immigrants
So fuck you, I love my grandparents and everything they did for our country and for our family.
Suni Lee, the woman who took Simone Biles’s place atop the podium in Tokyo for the individual all-around, is the daughter (or maybe granddaughter; I’d have to check) of immigrants. Wingnuts who are all over Biles for withdrawing from competition should be thankful for immigrants right now.
re: #248 Dopamine Fish
At which point, they’d make up some excuse for why he didn’t really serve his third term, or his fourth, or his fifth… and so on, and so forth, so that he can be de facto president for life. (Although, if he even lives long enough to have served a full third term, I’d be surprised.)
Just cut to the chase and name him President-for-Life with the ability to rule from beyond the grave through the spiritual medium of his choice…
re: #247 JOE 🥓
And this is why the asshole in Uncle Sam’s B&B insists that Trump can serve TWO more terms because he was so disrespected in his first term.
So Bill Clinton could have another shot at it using that “logic”.
re: #253 Eventual Carrion
So Bill Clinton could have another shot at it using that “logic”.
And Barrack Obama as well!
re: #253 Eventual Carrion
So Bill Clinton could have another shot at it using that “logic”.
There is no logic involved here. Things are different for Republicans
re: #250 lawhawk
Right wing stunt is predictable and wrong as when/where the sun rises daily:
The problem was the GOP sent their “G” team.
re: #253 Eventual Carrion
So Bill Clinton could have another shot at it using that “logic”.
And Barack Obama.
GOP Self-Own Of The Day:
Today’s Anniversary of Medicare & Medicaid reminds us to reflect on the critical role these programs have played to protect the healthcare of millions of families. To safeguard our future, we must reject Socialist healthcare schemes. https://t.co/mOdUuX7THT
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) July 30, 2021
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Our country is an immigrant culture
My grandparents were all immigrants
So fuck you, I love my grandparents and everything they did for our country and for our family.
My paternal grandparents and great-grandparents were all “illegal immigrants ELEVENTY!!!2!!uno!!!” and all served in the military in WW2. My father would be by their definition an “anchor baby.”
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The worst year for smallpox in the United States was 1920, killing about 100,000 people. Therefore we have surpassed by more than five times the number of deaths from smallpox, with five more months to go. That’s the omission.
In terms of numbers of deaths from the disease, Covid-19 has been objectively worse than smallpox.
The last smallpox “outbreak” in the US, and first mass vaccination, was 1947. (total death toll: 12)
A tourist came back from Mexico with smallpox; it took a few days to diagnose him, but when 2 other patients on the same floor of the hospital showed pox that clinched it.
On April 4, 1947, New York City Mayor William O’Dwyer and Commissioner of Health Israel Weinstein informed the public about the smallpox outbreak and announced plans to vaccinate everybody in the city. At the time, the New York City Health Department had 250,000 individual doses of vaccine and 400,000 doses in bulk. O’Dwyer called an emergency meeting with the heads of the seven American pharmaceutical companies involved in vaccine production and asked them for a commitment to provide 6 million doses of vaccine. The pharmaceutical companies accomplished the task by putting the vaccine into round-the-clock production. Additional vaccine doses were obtained from the Army and Navy.
Vaccination clinics were set up around the city at hospitals, health department clinics, police and fire stations, and schools. Volunteers drawn from the American Red Cross, the City Health Department, off-duty police and firefighters, and the disbanded, but vast, World War II Air Raid Warden networks located in all of New York’s coastal towns, went door-to-door to urge residents to get vaccinated. A radio and print ad campaign called, “Be sure, be safe, get vaccinated!” advertised the vaccination clinic locations and emphasized that vaccination was free. Within days, long lines formed outside the clinics. More than 600,000 New Yorkers were vaccinated in the first week. The vaccination clinics began closing April 26, with the last closing May 3, 1947.
6.3 million vaccinations in 3 weeks.
re: #222 JOE 🥓
Yes relatives gloated seeing Barbara Boxer robbed. They applauded the thief.
Very typical Xtian behavior!
My FB friend was using this as an example of how Democratic cities are violent hellholes where even the rich and powerful cannot escape attack.
re: #50 jaunte
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unchristian of me i know, but I’m not wearing a goddamned mask again so that slackers who won’t get vaccinated don’t die.
re: #251 Dopamine Fish
Suni Lee, the woman who took Simone Biles’s place atop the podium in Tokyo for the individual all-around, is the daughter (or maybe granddaughter; I’d have to check) of immigrants. Wingnuts who are all over Biles for withdrawing from competition should be thankful for immigrants right now.
Are there any Hmong still in the place they came from? Or do we have them all?
re: #263 sagehen
Are there any Hmong still in the place they came from? Or do we have them all?
The Hmong among us
re: #263 sagehen
Are there any Hmong still in the place they came from? Or do we have them all?
There are lots still in SE Asia (though reduced by being sent to re-education camps); a lot were settled in neighboring countries.
re: #251 Dopamine Fish
Suni Lee, the woman who took Simone Biles’s place atop the podium in Tokyo for the individual all-around, is the daughter (or maybe granddaughter; I’d have to check) of immigrants. Wingnuts who are all over Biles for withdrawing from competition should be thankful for immigrants right now.
🎵 Immigrants, [they] get the job done. 🎵
re: #230 lawhawk
I was specifically told in the military that I gave up some of my freedoms so that the American people could have theirs.
re: #262 steve_davis
unchristian of me i know, but I’m not wearing a goddamned mask again so that slackers who won’t get vaccinated don’t die.
Do it so that kids and other people who can’t get vaccinated don’t die.
re: #56 Targetpractice
“All I’m saying is Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars.”
as somebody pointed out, that asshole gets reelected for Jaws 2.
re: #262 steve_davis
unchristian of me i know, but I’m not wearing a goddamned mask again so that slackers who won’t get vaccinated don’t die.
not unchristian, just totally unaware of the current situation in our country and how the science of disease transmission works
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Of course, Dan Crenshaw had to negate his support for Simone Biles with his last line, “We can be disappointed in her decision… .”
Lots of people in that thread still don’t understand (or are lying about) what it means both to step back to allow an alternate to come in to compete for the team, or what it means for a gymnast to lose their position in the air (serious injury or death).
shit, i lose my position just trying to find the bathroom at 3 in the morning.
Endless hold waiting for the VA … thanks Republicans for outsourcing the telephone system because corporations do everything better than the government.
Also, the Community Care line is disconnected.
I moved up from 5 to 4 in the queue. Probably someone ahead of me died waiting.
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Laura Ingraham lied by both omission and red herring on Alan Dershowitz’s statement that Covid-19 is worse than smallpox.
The red herring was “300 million people died in the XX Century from smallpox.” That is worldwide, not the USA. That’s the red herring.
The worst year for smallpox in the United States was 1920, killing about 100,000 people. Therefore we have surpassed by more than five times the number of deaths from smallpox, with five more months to go. That’s the omission.
In terms of numbers of deaths from the disease, Covid-19 has been objectively worse than smallpox.
Laura did say 300 million died worldwide. Smallpox is far more lethal than Covid-19 — up to a third who contract it die —but it doesn’t spread as easily because you are not contagious until you are symptomatic. So it’s much easier to control and it doesn’t become a pandemic. Therefore it was not as dangerous to society. Dersh could have made the point that children are required to be vaccinated against diseases far less lethal than Covid, such as measles which has 0.1% mortality.
re: #272 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Endless hold waiting for the VA … thanks Republicans for outsourcing the telephone system because corporations do everything better than the government.
Also, the Community Care line is disconnected.
First Dumbya and later Trump tried to outsource my agency’s 800#.
Imagine calling Social Security and having an operator in India, Ireland or the Philippines accessing all your personal information…
I’m from further west Texas, but I had not heard this story: dailykos.com.
re: #277 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Western good morning!
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In my town we have had rain for 26 days out of 30 in July. Well over a foot of rain this month. at this point I’ll take a little drought.
re: #275 JOE 🥓
First Dumbya and later Trump tried to outsource my agency’s 800#.
Imagine calling Social Security and having an operator in India, Ireland or the Philippines accessing all your personal information…
Finally got through. Paperwork snafu solved in about a minute.
re: #276 Belafon
I’m from further west Texas, but I had not heard this story: dailykos.com.
The full story is here:
Dallas police apologize to mother of 12-year-old murdered in 1973 by officer playing Russian roulette (Washington Post, July 26, 2021)
3.32” of rain in less than 2 hours in The Backwoods last night (almost 5” in the county seat).
Also, a power surge around 11pm tripped some of the circuit breakers, so lots of appliance inspection and re-setting to do.
This beyond chilling. A current Republican member of Congress is wearing a bracelet celebrating and commemorating a woman who stormed the Capitol as part of a violent mob armed with various weapons and zip ties to take hostages…in an effort to overturn a democratic election. https://t.co/NfsqyLlDdy
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) July 30, 2021
Happening Now: The President and Vice President meet with Governors to discuss the worsening wildfire season and our work to strengthen wildfire prevention, preparedness, and response efforts. https://t.co/3Id3y7mMuv
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 30, 2021
re: #217 No Malarkey!
You have to be a special kind of stupid to knowingly board a plague ship.
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I’m looking forward to boarding one in a few months. With more to come after that, I hope. It’s different from going out in public in the US — the cruise lines require you to be vaccinated or keep to significant restrictions (and most of them require everyone to be vaccinated).
re: #284 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I’m looking forward to boarding one in a few months. With more to come after that, I hope. It’s different from going out in public in the US — the cruise lines require you to be vaccinated or keep to significant restrictions (and most of them require everyone to be vaccinated).
I expect the market for fake vaccination credentials to be healthy for quite some time now.
re: #238 JOE 🥓
I am reminded of the Oxford incident during the 1930s, when a sweeping majority of students said they were unwilling to die for king and country. Then the war came and they all became soldiers.
re: #262 steve_davis
unchristian of me i know, but I’m not wearing a goddamned mask again so that slackers who won’t get vaccinated don’t die.
What about their children?
Elementary schools start back up in my state next week.
Kids under 12 can’t get the vaccine yet.
Our governor has stated he won’t mandate masks in schools.
Our state has the LOWEST VACCINATION RATE IN THE NATION.
Take one guess how this is going to end.
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
I expect the market for fake vaccination credentials to be healthy for quite some time now.
It’s already happening here, though that’s more down to the utter incompetence of the Czech government. Their much-vaunted QR code based “vaccine passport” can be easily spoofed. There’s zero security. They’ve been warned about it, and their reply was, “Meh, what can you do?”
re: #278 danarchy
In my town we have had rain for 26 days out of 30 in July. Well over a foot of rain this month. at this point I’ll take a little drought.
Send that rain to the west, please!
re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg
Elementary schools start back up in my state next week.
Kids under 12 can’t get the vaccine yet.
Our governor has stated he won’t mandate masks in schools.
Our state has the LOWEST VACCINATION RATE IN THE NATION.
Take one guess how this is going to end.
With the governor saying he made the right decision.
Fact check: 62-mile-wide mega comet unlikely to hit Earth, will just pass by it in 2031 (Yahoo! News)
“A 62-mile wide ‘Mega-Comet’ has just entered our solar system,” reads a graphic shared in a July 22 Instagram post.
Similar posts on Facebook claim “scientists” say the mega comet is “approaching Earth.” Some posts portend a cataclysmic event with hashtags “#endtimes” and “#bibleprophecy.”
The tremendous mass of ice, rock and space dust - named Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein after its discoverers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania - is definitely real. But contrary to what the posts claim, it didn’t just enter our solar system. And it’s no threat to Earth.
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The comet is out by Neptune. It is not expected to get closer than Saturn.
re: #291 Belafon
If one of the kids that’s important to me dies because of this I just might drive to Jackson and kick his ass myself.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Republican voters elected a bunch of damn Internet trolls.
re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg
Elementary schools start back up in my state next week.
Kids under 12 can’t get the vaccine yet.
Our governor has stated he won’t mandate masks in schools.
Our state has the LOWEST VACCINATION RATE IN THE NATION.
Take one guess how this is going to end.
and it’s not like they are making extra funds available for extra staff or expanded facilities to allow for better protection against transmission…
re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg
If one of the kids that’s important to me dies because of this I just might drive to Jackson and kick his ass myself.
Caution—Rabies shots would be required if you actually come into contact with DeSADIST.
re: #294 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Republican voters elected a bunch of damn Internet trolls.
and a bunch of Russian Internet trolls helped elect Donald Trump
re: #296 JOE 🥓
Caution—Rabies shots would be required if you actually come into contact with DeSADIST.
I’m not in Florida. I’m in MS. Although Tate Reeves is almost just as bad.
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
I expect the market for fake vaccination credentials to be healthy for quite some time now.
No doubt. At least I won’t be around any public schools while I’m on the water.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I can’t wait to see Gosar dragged before the 1/6 Committee and have Kinzinger & Liz demand him to reveal why he’s helping Ali Alexander evade arrest.
Coffee futures are already on the rise over this. (Video shows snow falling, pictures show areas covered in snow, five-tweet thread)
Temperatures dropped across Brazil - with rare snowfall overnight in some places - as a polar air mass advanced toward the center-south of the global agricultural powerhouse, threatening coffee, sugarcane and orange crops with frost https://t.co/YbWlHm7B7E 1/5 pic.twitter.com/rPfbTCujC5
— Reuters Science News (@ReutersScience) July 30, 2021
re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg
If one of the kids that’s important to me dies because of this I just might drive to Jackson and kick his ass myself.
Many thousands will be in that exact situation. DeSatan would be well advised to disappear into the wilds of Siberia when this breaks.
re: #226 Patricia Kayden
Ding Ding Ding — she’s pointing out he’s an idiot.
re: #302 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I was just talking to someone in Brazil about that - it came as quite a shock to them. It even displaced COVID as a top story.
re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m not in Florida. I’m in MS. Although Tate Reeves is almost just as bad.
OH NO!
You’d need a double round of shots dealing with that B-Hole.
I call him a B-Hole because he does NOT have what it takes to be an A-Hole!
Amanda Knox called out Matt Damon’s new film Stillwater for fictionalizing elements of her story—including her wrongful conviction and later acquittal—without her consent. https://t.co/vMt5Dxj3F6
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) July 30, 2021
re: #301 JOE 🥓
I certainly want justice done when it comes to those who were complicit and if that means lifetime incarceration, I’m okay with that. I have to be careful and not give in to the very real part of me that screams for retribution instead.
I used to think of myself as a reasonable, pragmatic person and I am NOT happy that these folks have turned me into a left leaning version of themselves, perpetually angry and outraged. An especially sad part is that if I start to turn away and try and find some solace, humor, respite I feel like I’m not taking the issues and risks seriously enough…
very fine line between self-care and that feeling of having to stay informed and up to speed…. cripes its exhausting and I’m shocked at how these idiots maintain this level of intensity over the most inane events and statements and how their bunker mentality even gives the illusion of them feeding off of their own hate.
re: #302 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Coffee futures are already on the rise over this. (Video shows snow falling, pictures show areas covered in snow, five-tweet thread)
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I expect that a certain Lubbock church already has its organized hoarding gangs out buying up coffee as we speak.
Just notified that another coworker has been put on the respirator…
re: #308 piratedan
You have every right to be angry at the Liar Party for lying their supporters into a democide.
Anger can be useful in motivating actions. Staying informed is necessary to be able to counter propaganda (which is why I hate it when people start saying “why are you giving X a platform to spew lies?” I want to know what lies they are spewing. I cannot anticipate them if I do not know what they are. Part of the reason Jen Psaki is so good at her job is she anticipates the lies from right-lying media outlets, so she already has the answer at hand.)
re: #311 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You have every right to be angry at the Liar Party for lying their supporters into a democide.
Anger can be useful in motivating actions. Staying informed is necessary to be able to counter propaganda (which is why I hate it when people start saying “why are you giving X a platform to spew lies?” I want to know what lies they are spewing. I cannot anticipate them if I do not know what they are. Part of the reason Jen Psaki is so good at her job is she anticipates the lies from right-lying media outlets, so she already has the answer at hand.)
There’s a difference between anger and rage.
re: #312 Belafon
There’s a difference between anger and rage.
You have every right to intense anger (rage) at the Liar Party and the way they lied their supporters into a democide.
Rage is simply a human emotion which expresses intense anger at an injustice, in this case intentionally inflicted.
If there was justice in this country, they would go to prison. We can hope they are referred by the ICC so that their movements are restricted to inside our country.
given what they’re saying about delta in general - the transmissability, even if you’re vaccinated
and the new variant in florida from columbia
and the absolute zero that desantis and the R governors are doing
i laid it down with mrsdm and dangermom
we are changing nothing:
masks everywhere
distancing everywhere
sanitizing and hand washing scrupulously, again
groceries once a week only
other limited outings
we are somewhat fortunate
we have always worked from home
we dont frequent bars, theaters, and other crowded places
because of the lives we lead, we’re not giving up much at all
yes, we are lucky
a year
it’s gonna be another year of vigilance
and i don’t care
i wont get infected
i wont infect anyone else
re: #314 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
THIS is all your fault Dangerman. :-)
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re: #315 Dangerman
If other R states do what Montana’s doing, they will force you to get infected. (As Rebecca Shoenkopf noted, Montana has now added vaccination status as a protected class to its civil rights laws. You can now not ban a plumber, electrician, babysitter, &c for a mask or vaccination, on penalty of jail, not even in your own home.)
They will have their democide.
More evidence of Trump’s deranged attempt to destroy American democracy, as if we needed any more. And this is the leader of the GOP.
He should be under arrest right now. But he’s probably going to get away with all of it. https://t.co/ucmYXhtIJW— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 30, 2021
— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) July 30, 2021
re: #317 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If other R states do what Montana’s doing, they will force you to get infected. (As Rebecca Shoenkopf noted, Montana has now added vaccination status as a protected class to its civil rights laws. You can not not ban a plumber, electrician, babysitter, &c for a mask or vaccination, on penalty of jail, not even in your own home.)
They will have their democide.
I had not heard that. I imagine other red states will likely follow suit very soon. Good thing the GOP isn’t in control at the national level, because if they were, they’d make it Federal law.
Kai can do it in a ‘huh’. Spelling it out is good, too.
You mean socialist healthcare schemes like Medicare and Medicaid for instance? https://t.co/n9r09eENl9
— Patrick (@QuadCityPat) July 30, 2021
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gosar is a treasonweasel whose actions incited and encouraged an armed insurrection to overthrow the govt. He wont allow replies.
Ashli died so Gosar could try to keep Trump in power. She committed suicide by cop. She was an insurrection who ignored LEO orders to leave. https://t.co/8APkpApq8h— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 30, 2021
re: #321 wrenchwench
Kai can do it in a ‘huh’. Spelling it out is good, too.
KEEP YOUR GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE!!!
re: #321 wrenchwench
She’s working up quite the ratio
Today’s Anniversary of Medicare & Medicaid reminds us to reflect on the critical role these programs have played to protect the healthcare of millions of families. To safeguard our future, we must reject Socialist healthcare schemes. https://t.co/mOdUuX7THT
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) July 30, 2021
re: #317 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If other R states do what Montana’s doing, they will force you to get infected. (As Rebecca Shoenkopf noted, Montana has now added vaccination status as a protected class to its civil rights laws. You can now not ban a plumber, electrician, babysitter, &c for a mask or vaccination, on penalty of jail, not even in your own home.)
They will have their democide.
i can only do the best i can do.
and i have choices others may not.
many businesses around here have posted their health policies - it steers business.
if someone wont mask up or display basic vigilance at my door, i wont ‘ban’ them.
just a simply, sorry, changed my mind, dont need the service.
re: #318 Charles Johnson
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Trump asked them to “just say that the election was corrupt” and “leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.”
Best line: “You guys may not be following the internet the way I do.”
New York Times: “The demands were an extraordinary instance of a president interfering with an agency that is typically more independent from the White House to advance his personal agenda. They are also the latest example of Mr. Trump’s wide-ranging campaign during his final weeks in office to delegitimize the election results.”
re: #325 lawhawk
She’s working up quite the ratio
I wish pointing out Medicare and Medicaid were both socialist programs that would cause some sort of system failure in Stefanik. https://t.co/fMx1BBkOsc pic.twitter.com/yNYKIVinWe
— Forsetti X (@ForsettisCreed) July 30, 2021
re: #216 Hecuba’s daughter
These people are the first on board to cut entitlement programs (except those that benefit them) to limit the growth of government and “balance the budget”. He didn’t respond to my suggestion that the issues mentioned with regard to the military were due to a misallocation of funds — that the military does have the resources to provide for proper equipment for troops and benefits for veterans — but they would rather spend the money elsewhere.
You could ask him about Trump reallocating military funds to building the border wall.
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Views: 524 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 5- A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...KGxvi
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Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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