John Oliver Digs Into Emergency Medical Services [VIDEO]
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John Oliver explains how emergency medical services function in the U.S., why they can be so expensive, and what we can do to fix things.
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Too many people only see a clinic when they are taken to the Emergency Room for something that could have been treated a lot more cheaply with some basic therapy or prescriptions.
WHAT A SHOCKER!! //
‘Botched’: Arizona GOP’s ballot count ends, troubles persist https://t.co/T8JtQ7OmFI
— Arizona Today (@aztodaynews) August 2, 2021
re: #2 The Pie Overlord!
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Of course, we know the next step: An “official” report will be issued that insists that no fraud could be found outright, but enough “questions” were raised that they can’t rule it out. Which will lead to demands for yet another fraudit so that the grift…er, the “investigation” can continue.
So Ivermectin is the new Hydroxychloroquine? That’s what’s happening here?
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
So Ivermectin is the new Hydroxychloroquine? That’s what’s happening here?
Precisely so.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
So Ivermectin is the new Hydroxychloroquine? That’s what’s happening here?
Yep. MHO? Somebody with a surplus of the shit on his hands started a rumor that it works as a COVID “cure.”
When Oliver reported that 19% of the ambulances in Chicago took over 7 minutes to reach their destination, my sole thought was — not exactly a surprise. My guess is that almost all such delays are due to traffic. Depending on the time of the day and weather, it can be a nightmare navigating Chicago streets.
re: #6 Targetpractice
Yep. MHO? Somebody with a surplus of the shit on his hands started a rumor that it works as a COVID “cure.”
Actually, in this case, there was a study published that said Ivermectin was highly effective at preventing death in serious cases of COVID. Turns out, the study was fundamentally flawed, partially plagiarized, and eventually withdrawn shortly after publication - but that didn’t stop any of the anti-vaxxer idjits from continuing to promote the bogus study as a piece of serious evidence supporting their insane claims.
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
When Oliver reported that 19% of the ambulances in Chicago took over 7 minutes to reach their destination, my sole thought was — not exactly a surprise. My guess is that almost all such delays are due to traffic. Depending on the time of the day and weather, it can be a nightmare navigating Chicago streets.
Up and to the point of getting gridlocked on LSD during a blizzard!
re: #9 Dopamine Fish
Actually, in this case, there was a study published that said Ivermectin was highly effective at preventing death in serious cases of COVID. Turns out, the study was fundamentally flawed, partially plagiarized, and eventually withdrawn shortly after publication - but that didn’t stop any of the anti-vaxxer idjits from continuing to promote the bogus study as a piece of serious evidence supporting their insane claims.
IOW, exactly like every other “study” that has pointed to a “cure.”
re: #11 Targetpractice
IOW, exactly like every other “study” that has pointed to a “cure.”
Yep. I’m trying to find the article I read on this study, because it was really good. Stand by.
Remember how Trump promised that we’d see 3%+ growth during his presidency? And the dumber of his cultists like to point to the one or two “boom” quarters to claim he achieved that? Yeah, not even close…
Last week’s GDP release included revisions back to 1999, so it’s time for a new set of presidential growth comparisons! Starting with the basic version: annualized growth in real GDP from 1st quarter in office to last https://t.co/4fZWXw60RM pic.twitter.com/gpuNOvwIqU
— Justin Fox (@foxjust) August 2, 2021
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
When Oliver reported that 19% of the ambulances in Chicago took over 7 minutes to reach their destination, my sole thought was — not exactly a surprise. My guess is that almost all such delays are due to traffic. Depending on the time of the day and weather, it can be a nightmare navigating Chicago streets.
NYC has similar issues with traffic during rush hour slowing response times. A few minute delay is difference between life and death for a heart attack or stroke victim for instance.
But for the Chicago authorities to indicate wait time is higher because they’re all out of ambulances, that is highly suggestive of something else at work and very wrong.
We make sure to donate to our volunteer ambulance service, because the life that they may save may be our own. It’s nuts that they have essentially had to do gofundmes for ambulance services because no one seems willing to pay for proper funding via govt services.
The biggest problem is that ambulances don’t get reimbursed for calls that don’t transport someone to a hospital. Those other calls are still costly, so they hike the recoup on everything else.
And air transport of sick patients is even more costly.
re: #7 JOE 🥓
That’s the new “miracle drug” these quacks are pushing thanks to Marky Mark and @jerk…with a significant assist from Putin’s Posse in the GRU.
Let’s not forget Faux News and the WSJ — my Trumpster FB friend touted the medication by referencing a WSJ opinion piece written by 2 liars with no medical credentials, but one has a PhD in economics and the other has an M.S. in engineering.
re: #13 Targetpractice
Remember how Trump promised that we’d see 3%+ growth during his presidency? And the dumber of his cultists like to point to the one or two “boom” quarters to claim he achieved that? Yeah, not even close…
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Trump’s economic collapse thanks to his disastrous pandemic response makes all of that look even worse. Trump’s economy was already sliding into recession thanks to his trade war nonsense, and the pandemic pushed it into depression/recesson territory.
re: #6 Targetpractice
Yep. MHO? Somebody with a surplus of the shit on his hands started a rumor that it works as a COVID “cure.”
Hmmmm…..I actually have a small supply of Invermectin here at the Conspiracy Compound. Most people who have horses do. It also works on donkeys like our BLM rescue burros. The burros are MUCH smaller though, so dosage must be adjusted for body weight. The proportions are not a straight-line either but a fairly complex curve. Some idiots are going to die from this.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
So Ivermectin is the new Hydroxychloroquine? That’s what’s happening here?
Because it is the Common Man’s Cure
re: #16 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s not forget Faux News and the WSJ — my Trumpster FB friend touted the medication by referencing a WSJ opinion piece written by 2 liars with no medical credentials, but one has a PhD in economics and the other has an M.S. in engineering.
It’s all about getting back at those smarty-pants egghead doctors who think they know it all. That’s part and parcel of soaking in conspiracy theories 24/7; it’s all about having the secret knowledge that others don’t. Most of the clickbait ads I and everyone else gets are about some rando sticking a household implement or vegetable in some orifice and how DOCTORS are STUNNED or WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
When Oliver reported that 19% of the ambulances in Chicago took over 7 minutes to reach their destination, my sole thought was — not exactly a surprise. My guess is that almost all such delays are due to traffic. Depending on the time of the day and weather, it can be a nightmare navigating Chicago streets.
Wait till winter when the streets aren’t plowed which I learned during that mean-assed winter of 1978-79!
re: #11 Targetpractice
IOW, exactly like every other “study” that has pointed to a “cure.”
But just enough so that somebody doing their Internet research on the toilet can find “irrefutable proof”.
re: #14 lawhawk
NYC has similar issues with traffic during rush hour slowing response times. A few minute delay is difference between life and death for a heart attack or stroke victim for instance.
But for the Chicago authorities to indicate wait time is higher because they’re all out of ambulances, that is highly suggestive of something else at work and very wrong.
I don’t think that was a general comment — but a problem with the delay in one situation.
And air transport of sick patients is even more costly.
When my husband’s situation (about a month before he died) had turn dire, Highland Park hospital arranged a helicopter to transfer him to Billings Hospital on the South Side of Chicago. We never paid any charges related to that transport.
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
When Oliver reported that 19% of the ambulances in Chicago took over 7 minutes to reach their destination, my sole thought was — not exactly a surprise. My guess is that almost all such delays are due to traffic. Depending on the time of the day and weather, it can be a nightmare navigating Chicago streets.
Given the research that Oliver normally does, I’d like to think that’s correct. That said: I don’t think he’s even above gilding the lily to drive a point home. Whenever I’m in Center City Philly and I see an EMS vehicle go by, it’s trying to navigate traffic-choked streets, even into the later hour.
I can’t even imagine being an ambulance driver in NYC. Seven minutes doesn’t sound unreasonable, unless there’s some sort of metric that go omitted in his statement.
re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because it is the Common Man’s Cure
The…KKKommon Man’s KKKure!
re: #9 Dopamine Fish
Actually, in this case, there was a study published that said Ivermectin was highly effective at preventing death in serious cases of COVID. Turns out, the study was fundamentally flawed, partially plagiarized, and eventually withdrawn shortly after publication - but that didn’t stop any of the anti-vaxxer idjits from continuing to promote the bogus study as a piece of serious evidence supporting their insane claims.
But even that doesn’t mean its a preventative
re: #25 JOE 🥓
The…KKKommon Man’s KKKure!
The robes make for a convenient winding sheet when things don’t quite work out the way they think it will.
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re: #26 Dangerman
But even that doesn’t mean its a preventative
It’s not, not even according to the study they cite, but remember, we’re dealing with the common clay here. You know, morons.
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that Joe Flynn got the shots and he’s lying about it just like his fellow traitor brother?
The House Select Committee on 1/6 will send subpoenas soon. Those on the receiving end *should* include Mark Meadows, Bill Barr, Jeff Rosen, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, plus anyone who gave a tour before the insurrection, and of course, Trump.
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) August 2, 2021
Maybe a lawyer can weigh in on this, but haven’t Republicans established that they don’t have to respond to House subpoenas if they don’t feel like it?
re: #17 lawhawk
Trump’s economic collapse thanks to his disastrous pandemic response makes all of that look even worse. Trump’s economy was already sliding into recession thanks to his trade war nonsense, and the pandemic pushed it into depression/recesson territory.
But but but 2017 tax cuts something something 6% growth magic!!!!
re: #31 Dangerman
But but but 2017 tax cuts something something 6% growth magic!!!!
Only thing the TCJA of 2017 did was accelerate the wealth building of billionaires and redistribution of wealth from everyone else.
It did not grow the economy.
re: #20 ericblair
It’s all about getting back at those smarty-pants egghead doctors who think they know it all. That’s part and parcel of soaking in conspiracy theories 24/7; it’s all about having the secret knowledge that others don’t. Most of the clickbait ads I and everyone else gets are about some rando sticking a household implement or vegetable in some orifice and how DOCTORS are STUNNED or WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
STUNNED by the stupidity
re: #20 ericblair
It’s all about getting back at those smarty-pants egghead doctors who think they know it all. That’s part and parcel of soaking in conspiracy theories 24/7; it’s all about having the secret knowledge that others don’t. Most of the clickbait ads I and everyone else gets are about some rando sticking a household implement or vegetable in some orifice and how DOCTORS are STUNNED or WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
It’s the same two words as always: “confirmation bias.” These yahoos largely grew up being told by their parents and grandparents that doctors are all “quacks” who do nothing but take your vitals, scratch off a prescription for a bunch of pills, and then send you outrageously high bills. And that half the stuff they give you doesn’t work, the other half just makes you sicker, so you’re better off look for “home remedies” which are not only cheap but offer that good ol’ placebo effect. So they look for studies that promise cheap “cures” in common products/medicines and reject ones that say that the medically-approved treatment actually works.
re: #20 ericblair
Most of the clickbait ads I and everyone else gets are about some rando sticking a household implement or vegetable in some orifice and how DOCTORS are STUNNED or WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
An emergency room doctor friend of mine was indeed stunned by what people had stuck up there.
re: #34 Targetpractice
It’s the same two words as always: “confirmation bias.” These yahoos largely grew up being told by their parents and grandparents that doctors are all “quacks” who do nothing but take your vitals, scratch off a prescription for a bunch of pills, and then send you outrageously high bills. And that half the stuff they give you doesn’t work, the other half just makes you sicker, so you’re better off look for “home remedies” which are not only cheap but offer that good ol’ placebo effect. So they look for studies that promise cheap “cures” in common products/medicines and reject ones that say that the medically-approved treatment actually works.
Just like the 1960s medical experts telling you that
“One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all.”
// :)
healing crystals!
re: #3 Targetpractice
Of course, we know the next step: An “official” report will be issued that insists that no fraud could be found outright, but enough “questions” were raised that they can’t rule it out. Which will lead to demands for yet another fraudit so that the grift…er, the “investigation” can continue.
You give way too much credit to these liars. They’re going to cite chapter and verse over 100 pages showing exactly how it was stolen. Not a word will be true but that’s the GQP way.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
So Ivermectin is the new Hydroxychloroquine? That’s what’s happening here?
Let em die. They want to die so badly, who are we to stand in the way of their death wishes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
re: #34 Targetpractice
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Seventy percent of U.S. adults have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, a key milestone in the fight against the pandemic that the country hit nearly a month later than President Joe Biden had hoped,” Bloomberg reports.
Less than a month after Biden had wanted
And he only missed by like 3%
re: #41 Dangerman
Less than a month after Biden had wanted
And he only missed by like 3%
With GOP controlled states still significantly lagging in vaccination rates - as if on purpose to stick it to Biden, and their own residents.
Your daily…well, more like hourly…reminder of how everything these assholes say is IMAX-level projection:
AMEX sued him for $20K in unpaid credit card bills in 2019 as well. oops. pic.twitter.com/70NqTSOw7o
— Kathleen O’Nline (@KEONeill20) August 2, 2021
re: #35 jaunte
An emergency room doctor friend of mine was indeed stunned by what people had stuck up there.
Don’t get me started about disability claims I’ve handled…
An official resigned as chairman of a county board in Michigan, the latest fallout from his decision to give himself a $25,000 bonus with federal COVID-19 relief money and reward others in the community,” the Associated Press reports.“Jeremy Root (R) will remain one of seven Shiawassee County commissioners but will no longer lead the board
R. Its always the R.
OH SHIT
As of July 31, 24 counties now fall into the “substantial” community spread category, including Oakland and Macomb counties, and a handful are in the “high” category. https://t.co/nq94trYJlV
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit 🥇 (@Local4News) August 2, 2021
re: #40 JOE 🥓
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re: #35 jaunte
An emergency room doctor friend of mine was indeed stunned by what people had stuck up there.
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re: #48 calochortus
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Germans are big into herbal teas and cures (you can fine one for everything from bronchial congestion to toe warts) but they generally don’t see these as excluding “conventional” medicine, just as an added layer of defense.
You will be able to get birth control over-the-counter in Illinois, thanks to a law signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker!
The law goes into effect on Jan. 1 and requires a brief self-screening and counseling with a pharmacist to obtain birth control. 🥳https://t.co/KM7RjucgKV— Rewire News Group (@RewireNewsGroup) August 2, 2021
(from yesterday)
It’s like Madison Cawthorn is treating his meeting with Trump today like a reality show, while Trump is trying to game-plan getting back in the WH. pic.twitter.com/rIVnDF8TDn
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 2, 2021
re: #6 Targetpractice
Yep. MHO? Somebody with a surplus of the shit on his hands started a rumor that it works as a COVID “cure.”
It’s weird, it is all based on a preprint study that got passed around. I can’t for the life of me figure out why people accept a single study with shaky findings by a single group, but not what is now one of the most studied vaccines in history, that the scientific community almost universally says is safe and effective.
I think this is what got it started:
Nature
So it looks like the code that detects phone numbers is overzealous. Can’t figure out how to get it to accept the link, but if you google:
The mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2: An evidence-based clinical review article
the nature link will pop up.
He literally has a gun on his desk. This is a threat. Can’t get much clearer about Republican intentions. https://t.co/SauEx2yW9O
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 2, 2021
re: #57 danarchy
Confirmation bias and a desire to have hidden knowledge that shows them to be smarter than people who spent years learning about the subject matter.
re: #57 danarchy
It’s weird, it is all based on a preprint study that got passed around. I can’t for the life of me figure out why people accept a single study with shaky findings by a single group, but not what is now one of the most studied vaccines in history, that the scientific community almost universally says is safe and effective.
I think this is what got it started:
nature.com[no phone numbers allowed]0-5
Printed
With footnotes and references
Looks official, like so much other stuff
So it must be true
Just got a call from Rand Paul’s office inviting me to take part in a virtual/telephone townhall.
LOL, very tempting but NOPE!
re: #49 jaunte
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re: #60 Dangerman
Printed
With footnotes and references
Looks official, like so much other stuff
So it must be true
They don’t believe stuff peer reviewed in the JAMA, but this? No problemo.
It’s confusing to say the least.
re: #59 calochortus
Confirmation bias and a desire to have hidden knowledge that shows them to be smarter than people who spent years learning about the subject matter.
This is America: everyone is entitled to express their opinion except experts who have actually studied the subject under discussion.
Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) Tweeted:
NEW: 168 students and 3 teachers in quarantine after first week of school in Marion, Arkansas due to positive cases and possible exposure to Covid-19.— TheSadTruth💙 (@ReportsDaNews) August 2, 2021
If this wasn’t so serious I would think it was written tongue in cheek. Especially the last sentence.
— Sandra Tuttle (@kvegasgrl) August 2, 2021
re: #40 JOE 🥓
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re: #60 Dangerman
Flawed ivermectin preprint highlights challenges of COVID drug studies https://t.co/RO6XtQVppP
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 2, 2021
Cow Pies will be served.
Oh look, Trump just announced his next rally. In a cow pasture in Alabama. pic.twitter.com/sGwyHiRy1Y
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 2, 2021
re: #57 danarchy
It’s weird, it is all based on a preprint study that got passed around. I can’t for the life of me figure out why people accept a single study with shaky findings by a single group, but not what is now one of the most studied vaccines in history, that the scientific community almost universally says is safe and effective.
I think this is what got it started:
NatureSo it looks like the code that detects phone numbers is overzealous. Can’t figure out how to get it to accept the link, but if you google:
The mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2: An evidence-based clinical review articlethe nature link will pop up.
Well, we have to remember that the MAGAt faith in HCQ started with a single French study published in a magazine owned by the doctor who conducted it, made wild claims about not only the effectiveness of the drug as a “cure” but also a prophylactic, refused to release crucial details about how it was conducted, and to this day has been totally impossible to reproduce. So this is actually par for the course.
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #48 calochortus
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re: #68 The Pie Overlord!
Cow Pies will be served.
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re: #70 Targetpractice
Well, we have to remember that the MAGAt faith in HCQ started with a single French study published in a magazine owned by the doctor who conducted it, made wild claims about not only the effectiveness of the drug as a “cure” but also a prophylactic, refused to release crucial details about how it was conducted, and to this day has been totally impossible to reproduce. So this is actually par for the course.
The HCQ thing I can almost understand. It was early in the pandemic, there weren’t any good treatments, nobody really knew anything and people were desperate for some sort of magic bullet that would let things get back to normal. Now we actually have the freaking magic bullet and the same people refuse it!
Unanimous and all-GOP 7th Circuit panel (Reagan, Trump, Trump) makes quick work turning away students who argue Indiana University’s vaccination requirement is unconstitutional https://t.co/GvHAbexg2j pic.twitter.com/SPjOzy1pre
— Mike Sacks (@MikeSacksEsq) August 2, 2021
re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #71 calochortus
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re: #68 The Pie Overlord!
Cow Pies will be served.
This is another example of how cheap Trump is. He doesn’t want to pay for an actual venue, so he found some farmer who was probably happy to host Trump for next to nothing instead.
re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because it is the Common Man’s Cure
A long time friend with connections & cred, told me the Pfizer booster shot being given in Israel is not tweeked for Delta, but the same as Pfizer shots 1 & 2.
re: #80 Eclectic Cyborg
This is another example of how cheap Trump is. He doesn’t want to pay for an actual venue, so he found some farmer who was probably happy to host Trump for next to nothing instead.
They’ll be immortalizing it in song like yazgur’s farm.
DeSantis threatens to withhold funding over school mask mandates
I will not have people doing something effective
re: #76 jaunte
That was a very terse and to-the-point smackdown of the anti-vaxx bulkshit.
re: #83 Dangerman
I will not have people doing something effective
That’s punishing the kids twice over.
What an asshole.
re: #83 Dangerman
I will not have people doing something effective
Okay, riddle me this: Republicans’ big push is that they want to do away with COVID protocols to boost the economy. What does forbidding COVID protocols in schools have to do with the economy? They are not a business; the only economic revenue they generate is from events they hold, and the money is usually reinvested directly back into the school.
The GOP mindset in a nutshell: Don’t do anything to disrupt daily life, a shitload of people will suffer and die, then move on. https://t.co/CL86LfM8ts
— Charles #GetVaxxed! 💉 (@charles_gaba) August 2, 2021
re: #88 Dopamine Fish
Okay, riddle me this: Republicans’ big push is that they want to do away with COVID protocols to boost the economy. What does forbidding COVID protocols in schools have to do with the economy? They are not a business; the only economic revenue they generate is from events they hold, and the money is usually reinvested directly back into the school.
something something muh freedums
if i tried to untangle any of their ‘logic’ my head would explode
They work in healthcare and are protesting healthcare. Perhaps it’s time to find another field? https://t.co/W1mUshBDb4
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 2, 2021
re: #88 Dopamine Fish
They don’t mind killing people in Teachers Unions.
I phoned a friend and her husband answered. We chatted for a few moments and he expressed his view that he didn’t think indoor dining was more dangerous than outdoor dining and also expressed his understanding of those who did not want to vaccinate and were concerned they may be harmed (note: both he and his wife are vaccinated). But then he expressed his total bafflement about those who refuse to mask. He thought it was a ridiculous attitude about a simple action that does not harm anyone.
Newsmax host Greg Kelly gets SUPER frusty if he doesn’t get his fish sandwich 😂
The receipt: pic.twitter.com/7zknua5kiq— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) August 2, 2021
re: #88 Dopamine Fish
Okay, riddle me this: Republicans’ big push is that they want to do away with COVID protocols to boost the economy. What does forbidding COVID protocols in schools have to do with the economy? They are not a business; the only economic revenue they generate is from events they hold, and the money is usually reinvested directly back into the school.
Schools boost the economy by getting kids out of the house, so parents can go to work.
re: #89 jaunte
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re: #89 jaunte
Uh, the Spanish Flu is generally believed to have killed at least 30 million people, if not many more than that.
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
Uh, the Spanish Flu is generally believed to have killed at least 30 million people, if not many more than that.
“Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.”
Is that a map of Australia on his cheek? pic.twitter.com/KcwGWJAun2
— Bill Johnson (@Bill43111) August 2, 2021
re: #93 Hecuba’s daughter
I phoned a friend and her husband answered. We chatted for a few moments and he expressed his view that he didn’t think indoor dining was more dangerous than outdoor dining and also expressed his understanding of those who did not want to vaccinate and were concerned they may be harmed (note: both he and his wife are vaccinated). But then he expressed his total bafflement about those who refuse to mask. He thought it was a ridiculous attitude about a simple action that does not harm anyone.
And not requiring vaccination will be just great. Just as soon as everyone can be vaccinated (which will actually never quite happen, but who cares about the immunocompromised anyway.)
Fast Eddie Vrdolyak sentenced to 18 months for tax evasion.
re: #98 Dopamine Fish
“Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.”
Funny thing about the Spanish Flu: It ripped right the fuck through many royal families in Europe.
re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg
Funny thing about the Spanish Flu: It ripped right the fuck through many royal families in Europe.
All inbred and immunocompromised
The fictional family controls space lasers and most of the world’s fine wine supply.
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie) August 2, 2021
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL maybe Gibson should’ve gone for something more subtle, like, I don’t know, The Rise and Fall of Jewy McJewface.
White House @PressSec just announced new actions Biden is taking on evictions.
Some of this involves re-examining and using his limited administrative powers. A bunch of it touches areas he doesn’t have power over — i.e. “calling on” states, landlords and other entities to help. pic.twitter.com/Td29hD8n1t— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 2, 2021
re: #71 calochortus
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— 🍀🇮🇪☘️Wat_the_duece☘️🇮🇪🍀 (@Wat_the_deuce) July 31, 2021
re: #107 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
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Why are people worried about border crossings of desperate immigrants who aren’t vaccinated, when we already have Florida and Texas there to provide all the delta variant the country could possibly manage?
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 2, 2021
re: #72 JOE 🥓
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A MD friend in ER had a patient with a potato in the wrong end of the alimentary canal.
He removed the potato and sent it up to pathology for testing.
re: #112 BeenHereAwhile
A MD friend in ER had a patient with a potato in the wrong end of the alimentary canal.
He removed the potato and sent it up to pathology for testing.
Testing for what?
Yeah this isn’t going to go the way they want it to. Read the room. https://t.co/IZjAlx1EI1
— Bodak Red 🌷🌼💐💐🌼🌺 (@AFarray) August 2, 2021
Lindsey Graham has Covid-19 - yeah, he’s vaxxed…but at least he’s symptomatic.
re: #35 jaunte
An emergency room doctor friend of mine was indeed stunned by what people had stuck up there.
Million to one shot, Doc. Million to one.
re: #113 calochortus
“A MD friend in ER had a patient with a potato in the wrong end of the alimentary canal.
He removed the potato and sent it up to pathology for testing.”
Testing for what?
To see if the potato was male or female
re: #109 calochortus
I really don’t feel able to judge that — but a large cohort of anti-science morons with facebook to bring them together and twitter to amplify their nonsense might make anyone cautious.
re: #82 Dangerman
They’ll be immortalizing it in song like yazgur’s farm.
Somebody needs to call Hugh Romney AKA Wavy Gravy, and the Hog Farmers.
re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I bet they blame the county for not providing the “routers” or the voting machines and their source code that they had demanded.
On September 2, 2022, a new journey begins. pic.twitter.com/9tnR7WqDoA
— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) August 2, 2021
The gold and silver tree of Valinor.
— Dodsworth (@DodsworthLIVE) August 2, 2021
re: #120 sizzzzlerz
I bet they blame the county for not providing the “routers” or the voting machines and their source code that they had demanded.
Yep, plus there was some password they were convinced the county had that they didn’t, and then they asked the voting machine company for it and they were like, “Fuck no, we aren’t giving you that password, are you stupid?”
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This is not the only union that doesn’t want mandates. I do not understand.
re: #123 calochortus
This is not the only union that doesn’t want mandates. I do not understand.
indeed, postal workers, too
re: #115 darthstar
Lindsey Graham has Covid-19 - yeah, he’s vaxxed…but at least he’s symptomatic.
And how many of your idiot unvaxxed fellow Republicans did you infect before you went to the doctor? https://t.co/80r8fbWg4J
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 2, 2021
Some back of the envelope calculations on vaccine effectiveness on Delta:
Assuming I did this right…
Odds of covid given vaccination: 0.06%
Odds without vax: 0.6%
**Tenfold reduction** pic.twitter.com/nHNjs0MxI3— ☕️ Tynan 🍵 (@TynanPants) August 2, 2021
Vaccinated Americans make up less than 1% of positive COVID cases.
Nonetheless, perhaps one of your unvaccinated colleagues passed the virus on to you recently https://t.co/W2krU62Nip— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) August 2, 2021
Judge cited Greene’s comments about a “fucking rat” in the ranks as well as his statement that “everyone wants to be a patriot until it’s time to do patriot shit.”
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 2, 2021
that’ll do it.
re: #131 steve_davis
Not a Protestant. The mega churches were not part of the reformation. Think of it this way: Methodists, baptists, Episcopalians are all fine giving each other communion. I doubt mega church congregations even practice communion.
By that argument, no Protestant church is part of the Reformation except Lutherans.
Mega-church is somewhat of an imprecise term. Is St. Peter’s Basilica a mega-church?
Mega-church pastors part of the Evangelical tradition are absolutely Protestants. The Evangelical movement itself dates back to XVII Century England.
Anyway, it’s not for me to sort out the internecine fighting between different sects. “Christian” is good enough for me, since the principal requirement of any church is a belief in Christ.
re: #122 Dopamine Fish
Yep, plus there was some password they were convinced the county had that they didn’t, and then they asked the voting machine company for it and they were like, “Fuck no, we aren’t giving you that password, are you stupid?”
you mean the one that would have allowed them to go in and change the vote tallies?
re: #107 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
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re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you mean the one that would have allowed them to go in and change the vote tallies?
I don’t actually remember what it was meant to give them access to, only that the voting machine company was EXTREMELY adamant that they would not get that password, even if Hell itself froze over.
BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham has tested positive for COVID-19.
Still testing negative for spine, tho.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 2, 2021
re: #101 Eric The Fruit Bat
Fast Eddie Vrdolyak sentenced to 18 months for tax evasion.
He’s still around?
Damn I remember him back in the days when Bilandic was mayor!
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
By that argument, no Protestant church is part of the Reformation except Lutherans.
Mega-church is somewhat of an imprecise term. Is St. Peter’s Basilica a mega-church?
Mega-church pastors part of the Evangelical tradition are absolutely Protestants. The Evangelical movement itself dates back to XVII Century England.
Anyway, it’s not for me to sort out the internecine fighting between different sects. “Christian” is good enough for me, since the principal requirement of any church is a belief in Christ.
I also make a big distinction between Biblical literalists and people who understand that the scriptures are allegorical and open to interpretation.
SF Bay Area counties are reinstituting indoor mask mandates.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Too many people only see a clinic when they are taken to the Emergency Room for something that could have been treated a lot more cheaply with some basic therapy or prescriptions.
My mother was not taking the necessary medications for three months from her aneurysm surgery several years ago, for lack of money. She was only able to restart her medications when we sent her several thousand dollars.
Therapy and prescriptions often aren’t cheap, and are a good argument for socialised medicine.
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My mother was not taking the necessary medications for three months from her aneurysm surgery several years ago, for lack of money. She was only able to restart her medications when we sent her several thousand dollars.
Therapy and prescriptions often aren’t cheap, and are a good argument for socialised medicine.
That is exactly the point. ER’s are expensive, and visited by people who often have no means to pay for the life-saving treatment/operation they get…at which point the clinic/hospital has to eat the costs and pass those losses along…to the shrinking pool of people who can still afford insurance .
That is just too much math for a lot of people to grasp.
And speaking of masks, it’s time to slap one on and run some errands.
BBL
re: #141 calochortus
And speaking of masks, it’s time to slap one on and run some errands.
BBL
My county and the county I work in both got bumped up over the past week, so it is now technically time for me to go back to masking again. Dammit, assholes!
This American’s hilarious thread about weird British traits went viral because she knows us so wellhttps://t.co/5k024YOlnN pic.twitter.com/sCGIh5bqp5
— The Poke (@ThePoke) August 2, 2021
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I had a horrible time getting a two antibiotic treatment for H.Pylori. I couldn’t swallow pills at the time because acid reflux from the bacteria created a stricture in my esophagus. I had to go to a second specialist to get liquid antibiotics that would both kill the bacteria and not make the acid worse. Fun times. It took almost 6 weeks to battle that out, time that could have been spent getting better. The GI doc could have prescribed the meds, I even asked him about the two the infectious diseases specialist ended up prescribing and he wouldn’t do it. This whole process has been a nightmare for me, and I honestly do think some of it has to do with not being taken seriously. No one should have to deal with this shit at all, let alone while sick. There has to be a better way to do all of this, and we can’t because “oh no, that’s socialism”. It fucking pisses me off, if you couldn’t guess.
On the subject of EMS Mr. Oliver notes, the structure of my village’s EMS is a part of the rural fire brigade, which is a not-for-profit organisation. It is paid for mostly though donations and partially through transfers from the village budget.
A person who lives within the rural fire district (not just the village) does not pay for ambulance rides (though they can be billed for materials required during that ride).
re: #144 A Mom Anon
I hope you are finally better!
DAMN…
The Metropolitan Police Department said on Monday that a Washington, D.C. officer who responded to the attack on the U.S. Capitol has died of suicide.
Silky Flowers Spring from CJ Hendry’s Enormous Hyperrealistic Drawings in Colored Pencil
thisiscolossal.com
Trust me. Go to the link and see those images embiggened!
When I walk away he goes into action.
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re: #147 JOE 🥓
DAMN…
The Metropolitan Police Department said on Monday that a Washington, D.C. officer who responded to the attack on the U.S. Capitol has died of suicide.
May his memory be a blessing.
On the other side, the entire fucking Trump cult is about to die of suicide.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The hospital closest to us spent over 30 million dollars to build a sparkly new ER with a pediatric ER attached. I ended up there when food got caught in the above mentioned stricture on my throat. I was refused an endoscopy to see if the food could be removed. My treatment in the ER? A small can of ginger ale with the instruction to jump around while drinking it. I spent less than 5 minutes with a doctor. They tried to charge me nearly 3 grand for that. I wasn’t taken seriously because I could still breathe and talk, even though I could barely swallow. I spent a total of 10 hours on urgent care and the ER. They told me they did not have an endoscope in the ER. Bullshit, especially when they have a pediatric ER next door. We have to do better here, the system fails way too many people every damned day.
So Lindsay Graham has Covid.
And this comes one week after the GOP threw a shitfit because Nancy Pelosi dared require masks to be worn in the House of Representatives.
re: #146 retired cynic
I feel lots better now, I have to go get tested for the bacteria again in a couple weeks, that determines what happens next. I can eat again, and actually swallow capsules again, but some things are off limits pretty much forever, like caffeine and NSAIDS. No alcohol either. I hope I can get back to taking vitamins again(I am anemic so I need to take iron), the doc will let me know after my test.
re: #147 JOE 🥓
DAMN…
The Metropolitan Police Department said on Monday that a Washington, D.C. officer who responded to the attack on the U.S. Capitol has died of suicide.
FUCK!
Imagine this was an epidemic of people sticking their dicks in light sockets. Electrical grids are fried. Dick-born electrical fires kill thousands. Hospitals at capacity from penis burns. Businesses shut down. And everyone’s like “Please, don’t talk down to the socket fuckers.”
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 23, 2021
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Think it’s safe to say this is a Valinor flashback, given that the show takes place much later in the Second Age.
Huge Tolkien fan, so really really really hoping this ends up being a good adaptation.
“And silence was over all the world in that hour, nor was there any other sound save for the chanting of Yavanna. Under her song the saplings grew and became fair and tail, and came to flower. And thus there awoke in the world the Two Trees of Valinor.” pic.twitter.com/YRn4BTAxXa
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) August 2, 2021
Catalysts with reactants. XD pic.twitter.com/WLOomYQUFw
— Mel 💉🩹❤️Get Vaccinated! (@ScientistMel) August 2, 2021
I was gone for 5 minutes down to the mailbox. In that time, Jesse had determined how to angle herself so to get outside when I had to briefly reposition the child gate. I could have probably wrangled her back in, but the girl just absolutely loves her outdoors time. I guess I’ll be sleeping with the front door open so she can get back in side if I go to bed later.
re: #154 Dopamine Fish
FUCK!
The Oath Keeper response to learning that another Jan 6 cop took his own life. pic.twitter.com/LvVFuYNho5
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 2, 2021
re: #157 nines09
Wife just told me Lady Gag was on Manchin boat?
Covid isn’t transferred via those bodily fluids.
re: #161 darthstar
And here I thought it was because male escorts don’t do remote gigs….
re: #157 nines09
Wife just told me Lady Gag was on Manchin boat?
“Senator Manchin is fully vaccinated and following the CDC guidelines for those exposed to a COVID-positive individual,” Manchin spokeswoman Sam Runyon said
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 2, 2021
Gov. Edwards institutes statewide mask mandate for Louisiana as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge.
Beshear presser at 4…https://t.co/rijN7CuM0S— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 2, 2021
The positivity rate keeps going up… nearly 10% now. It was under 2% in late June.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 2, 2021
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, to review: boat full of lawmakers. One got covid. All of their votes are necessary to pass the infrastructure bill, which they want to pass this week. Senate doesn’t require masks. Got it. Cool.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) August 2, 2021
I was feeling so happy in June when it seemed like this thing was on the way out.
FUCK anti-vaxxers, man.
re: #133 Hecuba’s daughter
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I don’t recall exactly who approves what, or what the process is. For the rest, yes, that’s what I said too.
Oh God, why is “impeach Biden” trending on Twitter? What are these asshats saying now?
So when @SFGiants had to move their bullpens to the outfield two years ago, they tore part of the garden down to make room…one plant being a passion fruit vine. That vine is still alive and living with us now…flowers…and fruit! pic.twitter.com/QehkljuH0P
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 2, 2021
re: #138 calochortus
I haven’t seen that yet, where did you find it? (although masks are almost universally required here).
re: #169 Dopamine Fish
Oh God, why is “impeach Biden” trending on Twitter? What are these asshats saying now?
Probably that’s he’s responsible for this new surge.
re: #169 Dopamine Fish
Oh God, why is “impeach Biden” trending on Twitter? What are these asshats saying now?
probably the eviction thing
or infrastructure week
or covid
or Hunter
or…
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
Exactly. Spin the fucking conspiracy wheel and take your pick.
Folks, we’ve officially reached our goal of 70% of adults receiving at least one dose of the vaccine. It’s incredible progress, but we still have further to go. If you haven’t already, get vaccinated. Let’s defeat this virus once and for all.
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 2, 2021
Beshear: “We are taking a couple of steps…”
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 2, 2021
that’s twice-a-week testing
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 2, 2021
re: #153 A Mom Anon
I feel lots better now, I have to go get tested for the bacteria again in a couple weeks, that determines what happens next. I can eat again, and actually swallow capsules again, but some things are off limits pretty much forever, like caffeine and NSAIDS. No alcohol either. I hope I can get back to taking vitamins again(I am anemic so I need to take iron), the doc will let me know after my test.
Blackstrap molasses is very rich in iron.
Beshear opens it up to questions. No additional mask mandate today for Kentucky.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 2, 2021
re: #156 (((Archangel1)))
The date kept being pushed back. Was originally supposed to be this fall, then the pandemic happened.
Supposedly principle shooting ended this week. That means Amazon is going to take a full year for post production of a TV series???
Also:
” Please keep modern day politics, agendas out of it.” - because you’re happy with Tokien’s own 19th and early 20th century “politics” and agenda?
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) August 2, 2021
re: #179 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Translation: I don’t want to see any gay characters on this show.
No.
Absolutely not.
Alex Berenson has been wrong at every turn and has encouraged people to get COVID instead of the vaccine.
Ron Johnson is unfit to hold any public office ever again and if he runs again I hope this tweet costs him the election. https://t.co/lIzEwtNaXN— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 2, 2021
re: #179 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Because if you’re doing a period drama (even when the “period” is the Second Age of Middle Earth) you shouldn’t introduce anachronisms.
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
Translation: I don’t want to see any gay characters on this show.
I’ll go you one better. I don’t want to see anything resembling sex in the show. Because that’s not what Tolkien is about.
re: #183 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
One of the better versions of Hamlet I saw, live, was adapting it to a modern city, even with black actors.
Note that Tolkien’s “period” is completely fantasy. While the underlying religiosity and monarchical societies he presents are drawn from medieval European ideas and history, the Second Age of Middle Earth is itself completely fantasy.
It’s all made up.
All of it.
re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One of the better versions of Hamlet I saw, live, was adapting it to a modern city, even with black actors.
Note that Tolkien’s “period” is completely fantasy. While the underlying religiosity and monarchical societies he presents are drawn from medieval European ideas and history, the Second Age of Middle Earth is itself completely fantasy.
It’s all made up.
All of it.
Sure. Your point?
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
Translation: I don’t want to see any gay characters on this show.
Brown people.
The cast has brown people.
And Amazon has a corporate policy for diversity.
Those two things have been glommed onto by the young-ish brigade of the MAGA-universe.
re: #186 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
See above.
re: #184 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I’ll go you one better. I don’t want to see anything resembling sex in the show. Because that’s not what Tolkien is about.
I should probably add that I don’t care what species, sex, gender, color or whatever the actors are. I do care that it stays faithful to the world that Tolkien created. If you don’t like that world, make another one of your own.
re: #68 The Pie Overlord!
Cow Pies will be served.
The MAGAts will gulp them down and beg for seconds.
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
Translation: I don’t want to see any gay characters on this show.
There are hobbits, elves, dwarves, orcs, trolls, wizards, ents, dragons and balrogs in Middle Earth, but no people of color.
re: #169 Dopamine Fish
Oh God, why is “impeach Biden” trending on Twitter? What are these asshats saying now?
The MAGATS are throwing a fit on Twitter.
Meanwhile my batshit brainwashed relatives insist that Crackhead Mike is going to take Joe and Kamala down on the 13th.
re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One of the better versions of Hamlet I saw, live, was adapting it to a modern city, even with black actors.
Note that Tolkien’s “period” is completely fantasy. While the underlying religiosity and monarchical societies he presents are drawn from medieval European ideas and history, the Second Age of Middle Earth is itself completely fantasy.
It’s all made up.
All of it.
I’ve always preferred modern adaptations of Shakespeare as long as the dialogue is strictly Shakespeare, but the setting, the attire, and the verbal intonations and actions are more contemporary. One of my favorite Hamlets (which I’ve seen at least 25 times — both live and on the screen) was performed at a small local theater, where Polonius was taping all his conversations with every character, and seemed more malevolent rather than a fool.
Bullshit.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) August 2, 2021
re: #194 JOE 🥓
Biden did not close the northern border, Trudeau did.
Worst Pixar movie ever. https://t.co/ElCkN7jfwA
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) August 2, 2021
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
So Ivermectin is the new Hydroxychloroquine? That’s what’s happening here?
It is, but hydroxychloroquine is now also a tenet of their religion. Religions never give up tenets, so it might be properly called a new window-dressing for their faith, rather than a replacement window-dressing.
re: #194 JOE 🥓
“It is time to impeach Biden for jeopardizing our national security. Thousands of illegals are being bused all over this country, many of them are Covid positive. Biden refusal to shut down the southern border, even after closing northern border, is grounds for impeachment.”
This is the GOP party line — that the spread of Delta is due to the invasion of illegal immigrants rather than the unvaccinated who are trying to destroy the Biden administration.
re: #189 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I should probably add that I don’t care what species, sex, gender, color or whatever the actors are. I do care that it stays faithful to the world that Tolkien created. If you don’t like that world, make another one of your own.
Here’s the thing about literature, especially the unpublished collected notes of a writer (which was the original source for this Amazon series, even if the Tolkien estate under his son Christopher did publish lots of stuff posthumously), and especially true of Tolkien where his writings were driven by philology as much as anything else:
We make our own image, in our own minds, when reading a story.
What you may think is “Tolkien” is your interpretation of his what he wrote.
Think of it this way: when Shakespeare premiered his plays there were no such thing as electric lights. Yet pretty much every presentation of one of his plays today includes sets that are constructed (sometimes elaborately) and lit electrically (often with theatrical dramatic lighting.) All of that is added to what Shakespeare wrote, and if we could bring him forward via time-travel, he may even be offended by some of the “faithful” renditions of his work.
The Tolkien fandom is split hard currently on this Amazon thing. There are no end of posts whining about the diversity statement that Amazon has across its corporation.
As for sex: nowhere, and I mean nowhere, has Amazon hinted at explicitly erotic scenes. Yet there are also some, and it sounds like you too, who have this fear there will be. But again, there is no reason to believe there will be.
re: #20 ericblair
It’s all about getting back at those smarty-pants egghead doctors who think they know it all. That’s part and parcel of soaking in conspiracy theories 24/7; it’s all about having the secret knowledge that others don’t. Most of the clickbait ads I and everyone else gets are about some rando sticking a household implement or vegetable in some orifice and how DOCTORS are STUNNED or WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
The Republican Party is the direct descendant of the No Nothing Party.
re: #88 Dopamine Fish
Okay, riddle me this: Republicans’ big push is that they want to do away with COVID protocols to boost the economy. What does forbidding COVID protocols in schools have to do with the economy? They are not a business; the only economic revenue they generate is from events they hold, and the money is usually reinvested directly back into the school.
School is governmental day care.
re: #193 Hecuba’s daughter
I’ve always preferred modern adaptations of Shakespeare as long as the dialogue is strictly Shakespeare, but the setting, the attire, and the verbal intonations and actions are more contemporary. One of my favorite Hamlets (which I’ve seen at least 25 times — both live and on the screen) was performed at a small local theater, where Polonius was taping all his conversations with every character, and seemed more malevolent rather than a fool.
The one modern interpretation of a Shakespeare play — 12th Night — that I hated was at Goodman theater where there was a gender reversal: all female characters were played by men and all male characters were played by women. We left at intermission, though have to admit that the last scene before our departure was hysterical.
“The dude doth protest too much, methinks.”
re: #35 jaunte
An emergency room doctor friend of mine was indeed stunned by what people had stuck up there.
I’ll bet the doctor doesn’t kink shame though. Maybe lessons on the shapes and sizes of objects which are safe to insert.
re: #57 danarchy
It’s weird, it is all based on a preprint study that got passed around. I can’t for the life of me figure out why people accept a single study with shaky findings by a single group, but not what is now one of the most studied vaccines in history, that the scientific community almost universally says is safe and effective.
I think this is what got it started:
NatureSo it looks like the code that detects phone numbers is overzealous. Can’t figure out how to get it to accept the link, but if you google:
The mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2: An evidence-based clinical review articlethe nature link will pop up.
The link fails: It puts [no phone numbers allowed] in the link to Nature
re: #193 Hecuba’s daughter
I’ve always preferred modern adaptations of Shakespeare as long as the dialogue is strictly Shakespeare, but the setting, the attire, and the verbal intonations and actions are more contemporary. One of my favorite Hamlets (which I’ve seen at least 25 times — both live and on the screen) was performed at a small local theater, where Polonius was taping all his conversations with every character, and seemed more malevolent rather than a fool.
My favorite Hamlet is Sons of Anarchy.
NEW: Secret Service docs show another $14,658 in charges from the Mar-a-Lago club, for 37 nights in May and June.
Trump charges the Secret Service rent for the rooms they use while protecting him. Since he left office, the total is $86,000 and counting. pic.twitter.com/ygCefVJIe6— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) August 2, 2021
12-year old Julianne Speyer has something to say.
Pass it on if you feel it… https://t.co/6b04Ws39bS— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 2, 2021
re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Republican Party is the direct descendant of the No Nothing Party.
(psst. Know-Nothing.
Because when they were asked about it, they were instructed to respond “I know nothing”)
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
There are times that I wish that the Secret Service would pull a Trump and refuse to pay him what he demands, forcing him to sue them.
Then, I want them to deduct the cost of providing security to Trump plus a healthy markup for time and aggravation, so he ends up owing them more money than he’s charging them for room and board.
This is no longer theoretical… https://t.co/ASJEcoQxbK
— Chris Vanderveen (@chrisvanderveen) August 2, 2021
Maricopa County, AZ, is DONE WITH YOUR SHIT:
NEW Maricopa County Board chair to Senate GOP: ‘Little time to entertain adventure in never-never land.’ Board rejects most of Senate subpoena shortly before 1pm deadline. pic.twitter.com/JdsgUfj46V
— Brahm Resnik (@brahmresnik) August 2, 2021
Oh, I have another option. The Secret Service pays Trump for room and board, BUT at the going room rates for housing the equivalent number of Secret Service agents at a Motel 6.
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am not surprised but also still surprised that in the US in the 21st century we have a pandemic that a critically large fraction of our citizenry thinks is a no-thing.
re: #88 Dopamine Fish
Okay, riddle me this: Republicans’ big push is that they want to do away with COVID protocols to boost the economy. What does forbidding COVID protocols in schools have to do with the economy? They are not a business; the only economic revenue they generate is from events they hold, and the money is usually reinvested directly back into the school.
They want to exercise power over you and your children. That’s all it is. “Opening up the economy” is a lie and they know it’s a lie and they are all liars.
As long as a dangerous disease stalks the land, the economy cannot recover.
UPDATE: The missing shipment was found. But note this point from @sfetter:
“It’s not often, but it does happen because there are so many shipments of radioactive materials, millions every year… it’s inevitable that occasionally one goes missing…” 😬 https://t.co/mgWWj84x6N— Derek Johnson (@derekjGZ) August 2, 2021
re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth
shades of Broken Arrow…
re: #214 Dopamine Fish
DAMN! And these were the jackasses that enabled Sheriff Arpiao for years. They’re no stranger to controversy, but they’re getting angry when they’re being questioned. Let the infighting begin. For those unfamiliar with Arizona’s population distribution, Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, contains about half the state’s population. They wield a big hammer if they get irate.
Wait ‘til this guy learns about William Randolph Hearst. https://t.co/KvKfUcb39w
— Laurie Voss (@seldo) August 2, 2021
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
The governor is holding his head in his hand, supposedly upset about all his constituents dying, but as a Republican, am I safe in assuming that he’s fighting mask mandates and other common sense solutions?
Wait, I thought Trump lost his SS protection a couple of weeks ago.
Or am I thinking of something else?
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait, I thought Trump lost his SS protection a couple of weeks ago.
Or am I thinking of something else?
That is his spawn. He, himself, is entitled to Secret Service protection for the rest of his life, as a former President.
Getting back to Tolkien on Prime:
Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Series Reveals First Look and Premiere Date
[…]
It’s a longer wait than most expected. Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke previously told The Hollywood Reporter the “hope” was to have the show on the air in 2021, but that was before the coronavirus pandemic disrupted filmmaking.
[…] The above photo is from the show’s first episode, but the studio is not identifying the character or actor at this time (so let the speculation begin). […]
JA Bayona directed the first two episodes which may now be shown as one episode, as a stand-alone feature film. The image that was released today suggests, according to many fans on twitter, that this first episode/feature is part prologue of the First Age, in Valinor, where the gods lived and where some elves also lived.
The big thing is the budget of course. This is the most expensive TV show ever made.
I fear it may have too much money behind it. These sort of things can get out of hand quickly. I still remember Waterworld and the fiasco that it became.
re: #222 Mattand
The governor is holding his head in his hand, supposedly upset about all his constituents dying, but as a Republican, am I safe in assuming that he’s fighting mask mandates and other common sense solutions?
He’s a Democrat.
I’m losing my mind over this pic.twitter.com/j7Zpq3qT3s
— Alison Burke (@TiredActor) August 2, 2021
re: #220 DesertDenizen
DAMN! And these were the jackasses that enabled Sheriff Arpiao for years. They’re no stranger to controversy, but they’re getting angry when they’re being questioned. Let the infighting begin. For those unfamiliar with Arizona’s population distribution, Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, contains about half the state’s population. They wield a big hammer if they get irate.
I got the tweet via @AkivaMCohen, who said that this letter ranks alongside Arkell vs. Pressdam and the infamous Cleveland Browns “some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters” reply letter.
re: #222 Mattand
The governor is holding his head in his hand, supposedly upset about all his constituents dying, but as a Republican, am I safe in assuming that he’s fighting mask mandates and other common sense solutions?
Pretty sure he’s a Democrat
re: #230 Dopamine Fish
Being originally from Cleveland, the Browns letter holds a special place in my heart.
re: #153 A Mom Anon
I feel lots better now, I have to go get tested for the bacteria again in a couple weeks, that determines what happens next. I can eat again, and actually swallow capsules again, but some things are off limits pretty much forever, like caffeine and NSAIDS. No alcohol either. I hope I can get back to taking vitamins again(I am anemic so I need to take iron), the doc will let me know after my test.
I’m anemic and was told to take iron. I picked an OTC version with Vit. C, a pill, and it belched back for about a week, and since then I haven’t noticed anything. Good luck!
re: #109 calochortus
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re: #233 DesertDenizen
Being originally from Cleveland, the Browns letter holds a special place in my heart.
One of the replies to the tweet said, “You just know that somewhere there’s a profanity-laced first draft of that.”
They’ve decided they can do this but not extend the eviction moratorium. https://t.co/ePbbVnns5o
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 2, 2021
re: #236 Dopamine Fish
That final version is still amazing. I’m impressed that attorneys let that through. They’re not dicking around.
Dear republicans:
Having to show proof of vaccination to go on a cruise or eat in a restaurant isn’t the same as being marked for death by a government comitting actual genocide of people of one faith.
Stop being delicate spoiled brats and get vaccinated already.#GetVaccinated— Sane Middle American (@MiddleSane) August 2, 2021
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
A lot of teachers’ union member teachers are saying this is being pushed by union reps and not the teachers.
There’s also this:
— Medium Buying (@MediumBuying) March 11, 2021
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
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NEW: Secret Service docs show another $14,658 in charges from the Mar-a-Lago club, for 37 nights in May and June.
Trump charges the Secret Service rent for the rooms they use while protecting him. Since he left office, the total is $86,000 and counting. pic.twitter.com/ygCefVJIe6— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) August 2, 2021
re: #200 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I really don’t have time to go into this, but I will note that before covid I saw at least 50 plays a year, and am familiar with what different productions can do, so there’s no need to talk down to me. A play is not a novel, nor is it a complete imagined world.
I mentioned sex because of the reference to LGBTQ, not because I’m worried about it. (Anyway, I will simply not watch the series if I don’t like it, it’s barely on my radar.)
Peter Jackson, among his many sins, took 30 years off of Frodo’s age and turned him into a weak fool. He turned Gimli into a comic foil, also Merry and Pippin. (Beautiful visuals, though.) That’s one kind of thing I’m talking about.
The movie version of Starship Troopers bears no resemblance to the novel. You can argue about whether the movie is good, bit you cannot argue that it is Heinlein. That’s another.
And all that is what I’m talking about when I talk about remaining faithful to Tolkien’s imagined world.
re: #203 Hecuba’s daughter
The one modern interpretation of a Shakespeare play — 12th Night — that I hated was at Goodman theater where there was a gender reversal: all female characters were played by men and all male characters were played by women. We left at intermission, though have to admit that the last scene before our departure was hysterical.
I saw a similar production of Measure for Measure and loved it. Flipping the sexes showed the power plays in an entirely different light.
re: #244 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I did not intend to “talk down” to you.
What I have seen, all across the internet, creep into the discussion over this Amazon project is a lot of defensiveness by some of the Tolkien fandom.
My fundamental point is this: a TV series is a different type of art than literature. A cinema feature is also different than either of those two.
Tolkien did not publish a novel on the Second Age. There was an appendix in the LoTR published.
Then posthumously the estate, under his son, published a whole lot of material, most of which really were unfinished.
Amazon is thus crafting a series based on the ideas of Tolkien, but are not adapting a novel.
Tolkien’s own work was continually evolving. The important point here is that Amazon is free to introduce characters as they see fit. From what has been allowed to be made public, Amazon is not allowed to substantially change the characters that exist in the published works (thus Galadriel has to be Galadriel), but everything else is open to the Amazon writers.
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) August 2, 2021
re: #222 Mattand
The governor is holding his head in his hand, supposedly upset about all his constituents dying, but as a Republican, am I safe in assuming that he’s fighting mask mandates and other common sense solutions?
Um Isn’t John Bell Edwards a democrat?
re: #248 danarchy
Um Isn’t John Bell Edwards a democrat?
LOL, already apologized a few comments back.
Mary Trump was on The View and Ms Fussybritches left the set.
There is no “good” Trump family member to me.
Continue to wish they would all just leave me and my entire family the fuck alone.— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 2, 2021
I love my Roku streaming box, but I’ll be damned if the Roku app for HBO Max isn’t the most all-around terrible app provided by any major service. The FF/RW function sucks during playback, and because the UI is so laggy it regularly has a brain eclipse and crashes. Even the Amazon Prime Video app works better. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
re: #171 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I haven’t seen that yet, where did you find it? (although masks are almost universally required here).
In case someone else hasn’t linked it before I get caught up in the thread: Mask mandate here
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mary Trump was on The View and Ms Fussybritches left the set.
Is Meghan McCain related to someone famous? I caaaaaaan’t quite put my finger on it.
Maybe she’ll mention it ad nauseum at someone point.
re: #252 calochortus
In case someone else hasn’t linked it before I get caught up in the thread: Mask mandate here
Thanks, it has since then been broadcast all over. And not a moment too soon.
Now this is something. Texas is one of those states that won’t pay you UI if you quit your job. Watch the GOP start changing laws https://t.co/saTkHS2JlF
— Daryl Sturgis✊🏽 (@darylsturgis) August 2, 2021
Peter Doocy tried to label President Obama a super spreader and Jen Psaki replied, “I know the former president to is a huge advocate of getting vaccinated, following the guidance of public health experts would advocate for himself as well.” pic.twitter.com/luR9VtJOr2
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 2, 2021
re: #30 jaunte
Trump should be subpoenaed first.
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
Please excuse me for asking this: Who is this Doocy ding-dong and why hasn’t he been banned from the WH press briefings?
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
President Obama is a superspreader….of Hope!
re: #258 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me for asking this: Who is this Doocy ding-dong and why hasn’t he been banned from the WH press briefings?
Fox News moron.
re: #258 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me for asking this: Who is this Doocy ding-dong and why hasn’t he been banned from the WH press briefings?
He’s Faux News’s White House correspondent and an absolute tool. Jen Psaki has been using him as her personal punching bag since Biden took office, which has been AMAZING to watch.
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
Ahh. That explains it. A Fox network ding-dong.
re: #258 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me for asking this: Who is this Doocy ding-dong and why hasn’t he been banned from the WH press briefings?
Another example of Fox nepotism
Oh look! A dictator, and a dick
H/t @MurphyPeterN pic.twitter.com/yxHwPc4rpH— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 2, 2021
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
You’d think with all the money Tucker makes he could afford a decent haircut.
re: #258 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me for asking this: Who is this Doocy ding-dong and why hasn’t he been banned from the WH press briefings?
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
Fox News moron.
He’s also the son of ventriloquist-dummy-coming-to-life-and-then-stopping-a-third-of-the-way-in Steve Doocy, one of the brain trust on Fox and Friends.
Stupidity is apparently hereditary.
He almost daily gets psmacked down by Psaki. I kinda think it’s his kink at this point.
re: #258 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me for asking this: Who is this Doocy ding-dong and why hasn’t he been banned from the WH press briefings?
I’m also jealous of you that you had no idea who this dipshit is up until this point.
re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg
You’d think with all the money Tucker makes he could afford a decent haircut.
That one’s been working for him since the 4th grade. Why should he change now?
re: #268 Mattand
I watch PBS and read The Washington Post online. I do not watch F&^ news.
re: #270 PhillyPretzel
I watch PBS and read The Washington Post online. I do not watch F&^ news.
Twitter has been regularly lighting up with Psaki’s Psmackdowns when he thinks he’s got a “gotcha” question and she calmly and professionally hands him his ass. Kinda surprised you hadn’t seen any of it here before; I know we’ve linked to more than a few of them.
re: #271 Dopamine Fish
I enjoy watching Jen P almost every day. I just did not realize that F&^ had one if its minions actually go to a WH press briefing.
re: #267 Mattand
He almost daily gets psmacked down by Psaki. I kinda think it’s his kink at this point.
I mean, I can’t really blame him, she’s a beautiful woman and everybody’s got their thing…
re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg
You’d think with all the money Tucker makes he could afford a decent haircut.
That’s not his real hair, that’s a peruke (peruke=bad toupee)
My kids’ school district is only encouraging masks. I told them there will be an outbreak, and kids will get seriously ill.
re: #243 nines09
It’s a good day.
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At one time BC (before covid), Napolitano seemed like a somewhat rational Fox attorney. But his attitude about Covid is the usual libertarian nonsense: shutdowns are an infringement on liberty, how could we become sheep in a nation founded by rugged individuals? Oh no!!! So he lost his job, not for dishonesty about a deadly pandemic, but for the traditional reason for so many powerful men: inability to treat women professionally, rather than subordinates who are there to be sexually harassed if they want to progress on their careers or even retain their job.
re: #243 nines09
It’s a good day.
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From the article:
The lawsuit also alleged that Fox Business host Larry Kudlow repeatedly made racist and sexist comments.
You don’t say.
re: #275 No Malarkey!
Governor Ducey has prohibited requiring masks in schools. A fine example of how sacred local control is in Arizona. A number of districts have already told him to fuck off.
re: #276 Hecuba’s daughter
At one time BC (before covid), Napolitano seemed like a somewhat rational Fox attorney. But his attitude about Covid is the usual libertarian nonsense: shutdowns are an infringement on liberty, how could we become sheep in a nation founded by rugged individuals? Oh no!!! So he lost his job, not for dishonesty about a deadly pandemic, but for the traditional reason for so many powerful men: inability to treat women professionally, rather than subordinates who are there to be sexually harassed if they want to progress on their careers or even retain their job.
ETA: Ooops — he was harassing male subordinates!
re: #279 Hecuba’s daughter
In Republican land being gay, or even appearing so, is a far worse offense than violating women.
re: #277 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From the article:
You don’t say.
Racist and sexist commentary is a required asset to become employed at Fox News. Everyone knows this by now.
You’re never going to be President, beloved. https://t.co/7Nk8W1nEQj
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) August 2, 2021
This recommendation goes to the Regional Director in Atlanta, who has the authority to order a new election. The hearing officer’s recommendation is very rarely ignored. The RD’s order is reviewed by the full Board in Washington, which will have a Democratic majority by September https://t.co/a5QwF0enpA
— Brandon Magner (@BrandonMagner) August 2, 2021
re: #193 Hecuba’s daughter
Richard III from 1995 with Ian McKellen as a fascist Richard in 1930’s England remains my favorite modern version.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
You want to “secure” the border? Make it easy for anyone who wants to work to come here. Readily grant asylum to anyone from one of the many, many countries we have destabilized over the last 50+ years. Decriminalize drugs and neuter the cartels. Try a humane policy and the border secures itself.
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
Fox News moron.
And nepotism hire. He’s the son of Fox and Friends’ couch tumor Steve Doocy.
Rep. Matt Gaetz suggesting his supporters kill his opponents, “We got the native crowd here. That’s probably why we don’t have as many protestors. They know that my supporters are better armed. We’re the Sunshine State, but we’re also the gun-shine state. pic.twitter.com/OuFTiPxlwJ
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 1, 2021
re: #246 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Tolkien did not publish a novel on the Second Age. There was an appendix in the LoTR published.
.
While edited by his son as part of The Silmarillion, its fourth segment (The Akellabeth) about events in the Second Age was originally written by Tolkien in the 1930s as “The Fall of Numenor”.
re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg
You’d think with all the money Tucker makes he could afford a decent haircut.
He could also use a neck tuck.
Cats.. 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/Ug7LLmJft8
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) August 2, 2021
re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth
How to get a drink of water the hard way by Miss Tabby.
Seatbelts undermine trust in brakes https://t.co/RJX3Lbj4w1
— Scott T. (@NHLFlyera) August 2, 2021
re: #207 sagehen
Beau says in the video he thought the quote about “conservatives will abandon democracy, they won’t abandon conservatism” was cute, until he saw it in action with recent polling.
I am afraid he is unfamiliar with the foundation of the conservative movement, which explicitly opposed democracy from its inception (preferring aristocracy), and when aristocrats failed, subverting capitalism to subvert democracy.
Conservatism has always opposed democracy.
Same reason you can’t get Congress to take up legislation addressing sexual assault, campaign finance reform, bribery, insider trading, lobbying… https://t.co/wpzTfmcXJU
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 2, 2021
The “Obama superspreader event” that Doocy is all shook up about is Obama’s 60th birthday party.
I’m sure this is fine.
#NEW: North Texas hospitals have requested more than 600 emergency staff to help with COVIDThe state is denying them and telling hospitals to ask local gov’ts to use federal COVID relief funds planned for items like eviction help or business assistancehttps://t.co/cPb0mwyRkm
— William Joy (@WilliamJoy) August 2, 2021
“North Texas” is generally short-hand for “The DFW Metroplex and Surrounding Areas”, for those unfamiliar. 6+ million residents in DFW alone.
re: #211 sagehen
(psst. Know-Nothing.
Because when they were asked about it, they were instructed to respond “I know nothing”)
Damn spell check. /s
Un-American hyphens.—paraphrasing Woodrow Wilson
@ReverendWarnock @SenatorWarnock is arrested by Capitol Police at a @UniteThePoor protest outside of the Hart Senate Office Building Monday afternoon. #MoralMonday Thank you Senator! pic.twitter.com/q7wgyP3Yc2
— Kelly✨ (@Keljhou) August 2, 2021
This is Patsy. She fell asleep in the rain and is now convinced she’s having an out-of-body experience. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/IBydhfScbp
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) August 2, 2021
lookie who it is!
Watching some show called 18th Century Cooking from @GunstonHall and this man is making sauce for some ribs and I am enthralled y’all pic.twitter.com/OBw7UAZ7BB
— Boomer Bear (@barefootboomer) August 2, 2021
re: #289 (((Archangel1)))
While edited by his son as part of The Silmarillion, its fourth segment (The Akellabeth) about events in the Second Age was originally written by Tolkien in the 1930s as “The Fall of Numenor”.
There isn’t a lot to it, and the history of Númenor is very long; it lasted for 3200 years, according to Tolkien’s reckoning, with only a few key events having names and places associated to them. There’s a lot of room there to explore and invent within the framework of Númenor, and even introducing characters who are named in the Akallabêth would likely not be an issue, if they keep them true to what’s already written. (BIG IF.)
re: #298 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I’m sure this is fine.
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“North Texas” is generally short-hand for “The DFW Metroplex and Surrounding Areas”, for those unfamiliar. 6+ million residents in DFW alone.
For some reason, I remember the Metroplex as North Central Texas and North Texas as around Denton, but my memory is probably playing tricks on me.
If I fits, I swims… 😂
(ember_weenie / TikTok pic.twitter.com/ox2mgKaRW7— Woof Woof® (@WoofWoof_TV) August 2, 2021
Olympic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat is being hailed as a hero for winning Israel’s second-ever gold medal. But back home, he still can’t marry his longtime girlfriend. He isn’t considered Jewish, according to Orthodox law. https://t.co/GBDn3WiS6G
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 2, 2021
re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
i know that the wheels of justice are known to turn slowly, but would someone finally arrest this fucking Pedophile? Hasn’t he made enough treasonous and threatening public statements to yank his ass off his shine box?
re: #305 A Three Hour Tour
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
Israelis who can’t get a religious marriage in Israel… fly to Cypress for the weekend and get married there; Israel recognizes marriages performed in other countries.
Four hour wait to get COVID-19 test in Orlando, Florida today pic.twitter.com/V1AAGFYbhH
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) August 1, 2021
re: #298 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I’m sure this is fine.
“North Texas” is generally short-hand for “The DFW Metroplex and Surrounding Areas”, for those unfamiliar. 6+ million residents in DFW alone.
“Fuck you for voting Democratic, assholes.”
re: #310 sagehen
Israelis who can’t get a religious marriage in Israel… fly to Cypress for the weekend and get married there; Israel recognizes marriages performed in other countries.
the article mentioned that you have to get married in another country
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
The “Obama superspreader event” that Doocy is all shook up about is Obama’s 60th birthday party.
My dads Bday is the 5th. I’ll turn 60 on Sept 7th. Obama is just over a month older than me.
re: #310 sagehen
But why should he have to leave the country to get married? Isn’t that like gay couples who got married in Europe or Canada hoping the US would recognize them? Doesn’t that make him a second class citizen in his own country?
Perilampus hyalinus - a little parasitic wasp created by tiny gnomes with metal working tools. 😂😉 pic.twitter.com/aCSABBhndl
— Nature’s Edge (@edge_nature) August 2, 2021
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
Libertarians are all about the free market and private property rights being sacrosanct until the next-door neighbour wants to open a lead-smelting plant next door in his backyard.
re: #316 DesertDenizen
But why should he have to leave the country to get married? Isn’t that like gay couples who got married in Europe or Canada hoping the US would recognize them? Doesn’t that make him a second class citizen in his own country?
Changing from within.
re: #316 DesertDenizen
But why should he have to leave the country to get married? Isn’t that like gay couples who got married in Europe or Canada hoping the US would recognize them? Doesn’t that make him a second class citizen in his own country?
There is no civil marriage in Israel, and he’s not considered a Jew, therefore he can’t get married. This is a sore point with secular Jews that goes right back to the beginning of the state, but orthodox rabbis keep it from happening (every government in Israel since forever has depended on a few extremely right-wing parties for its ability to form a government, so this continues).
re: #318 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Speaking as an Urban Planner who oversees Zoning, I can 100% verify this statement.
re: #316 DesertDenizen
But why should he have to leave the country to get married? Isn’t that like gay couples who got married in Europe or Canada hoping the US would recognize them? Doesn’t that make him a second class citizen in his own country?
It’s a real outrage. There is no civil marriage in Israel. People can only be married in a religious ceremony and Jewish ceremonies must comply with Orthodox rules. Marriages that are legal in another country are fully recognized in Israel, including same-sex marriages.
re: #320 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
What do the non Jewish Israelis do? Can they do Christian or Muslim marriages? This is news to me and I am genuinely curious.
Blazing fast Internet service today: Ping to LGF is only 90 milliseconds.
re: #316 DesertDenizen
But why should he have to leave the country to get married? Isn’t that like gay couples who got married in Europe or Canada hoping the US would recognize them? Doesn’t that make him a second class citizen in his own country?
Because Israel doesn’t have civil marriage.
There’s a chief rabbi, and whatever they call the top muslim and christian, and religious marriage has to meet what they declare to be the religion’s rules.
But people don’t have to “hope” Israel will recognize foreign marriages; it definitely does. Mixed-faith couples, gay couples, atheists, whatever.
re: #325 sagehen
It still seems to render a great many people as second class citizens. My first wife was Jewish but non practicing. Her parents insisted in a Rabbi, and being an atheist I didn’t really care. But we found a total of three rabbis in the LA area willing to marry us since I wasn’t Jewish. One was a total narcissist, one was a gimmick, but the third was a really good guy.
re: #327 DesertDenizen
It still seems to render a great many people as second class citizens. My first wife was Jewish but non practicing. Her parents insisted in a Rabbi, and being an atheist I didn’t really care. But we found a total of three rabbis in the LA area willing to marry us since I wasn’t Jewish. One was a total narcissist, one was a gimmick, but the third was a really good guy.
In the past most rabbis, even those who were not orthodox, refused to marry interfaith couples. I still recall a situation several years ago where a Reconstructionist rabbi refused to marry a gay couple — not because they were gay, but because one of the women was not Jewish.
re: #303 Dopamine Fish
There isn’t a lot to it, and the history of Númenor is very long; it lasted for 3200 years, according to Tolkien’s reckoning, with only a few key events having names and places associated to them. There’s a lot of room there to explore and invent within the framework of Númenor, and even introducing characters who are named in the Akallabêth would likely not be an issue, if they keep them true to what’s already written. (BIG IF.)
It was revealed (not long ago) that Amazon has rights to the Numenor and Second Age portion of the Silmarillion, and also the Unfinished Tales.
But your point still stands - most of what Tolkien wrote of the Second Age is just a timeline.
And two big plot points: 1) Sauron makes the One Ring after elves make a bunch of magic rings, and 2) Numenor falls into worshipping evil and is thus destroyed.
That latter is how Tolkien combined his own Christian fall-of-man belief with an Atlantean type of story.
The former makes for the McGuffin in his major published work (the three volume LOTR from 1954 and 1955.)
re: #328 Hecuba’s daughter
That’s what we ran into back in 2006. I figured it wouldn’t be that hard, LA being LA, but I was wrong. My second marriage was performed by a friend with a UU clergy license, or whatever you call it.
re: #327 DesertDenizen
It still seems to render a great many people as second class citizens. My first wife was Jewish but non practicing. Her parents insisted in a Rabbi, and being an atheist I didn’t really care. But we found a total of three rabbis in the LA area willing to marry us since I wasn’t Jewish. One was a total narcissist, one was a gimmick, but the third was a really good guy.
One of my brothers married a convert, the other married nominal Christian who didn’t convert. Our rabbi was happy to officiate at both.
But he wasn’t just “a” rabbi, he was OUR rabbi. He officiated me and my sibs’ naming ceremonies, bar mitzvahs, our parents’ and grandparents’ funerals, no way would he refuse whatever ceremony any of us needed.
Anyway, as I wrote the other night, entertainment is now such a big part of our economy that it occupies much discussion.
And Amazon being the worlds largest company (by revenue) has the $$$ to spend on entertainment franchises.
And with them buying MGM, they have even more control over certain intellectual property.
Someday, perhaps long after I am gone and our society degrades in something that is dystopian, we’ll no longer have entertainment playing such a large role in our economy.
But for now, the battles between Amazon and Disney (and Netflix and Comcast, etc.) to own the time and minds of people is front and center in our society.
There’s so much wrong with this story. It’s like the “heartwarming” tales of GoFundMe to pay for healthcare.
“Look at those dumb losers!”
“Where?”
“On the stand!”
“You mean, the winners’ podium?”
“Exactly, the losers on the winners’ podium.”— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 3, 2021
This is seriously messed up.
It was June of 2019, and he had no clue that the vandalism was just the start of a bizarre harassment campaign directed by senior executives at one of the country’s leading Internet companies, @eBay. pic.twitter.com/1Ack5CUq4R
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 2, 2021
The Steiners started @EcommerceBytes in 1999 to help online sellers who use platforms like eBay.
It’s the couple’s full-time occupation. https://t.co/AiamRzCIud— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 2, 2021
Prosecutors said the harassment campaign, starting with the fence spray-painting, was sparked by complaints about articles in EcommerceBytes from CEO @devinwenig to his subordinates.https://t.co/AiamRzCIud
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 2, 2021
Two days later, the phone rang. It was a taxidermy and animal parts shop in Arizona calling to ask about a purported order for the Steiners of a fetal pig.https://t.co/AiamRzCIud pic.twitter.com/Fdn201Qg6p
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 2, 2021
On Aug. 15, the campaign took a darker turn.
Unbeknownst to the Steiners, a group of eBay employees had flown to Boston, rented two vehicles, and checked into the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, according to federal documents. pic.twitter.com/SqkZujSdEh— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 2, 2021
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re: #333 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Thank you for saying that. It never occurs to very many of us that these feel good stories are due to serious flaws in our system and our attitudes towards the working poor, people with disabilities and homeless people. Our society is supposed to give a shit about this and insist we use our governmental resources to prevent these problems from being a common occurrence. Why is this waitress so special? There are millions like her, struggling to navigate an unfair and difficult system just to survive. We should help one another, we must, but we shouldn’t be relying on that as all that can be done.
re: #155 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
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re: #323 DesertDenizen
What do the non Jewish Israelis do? Can they do Christian or Muslim marriages? This is news to me and I am genuinely curious.
They can have the religious marriages of their own faith, or fly to Cyprus, or they’re out of luck.
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