Tucker Carlson gave a speech in Hungary where he railed against US architecture and said, “I could spend all day leveling very accurate accusations against the American foreign policy establishment.” Bizarre stuff. pic.twitter.com/rXM7fFEDes
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 10, 2021
We should never forget that in the 1930s there was support, in the US, for the fascism in Europe, including support for Hitler.
We are a society that have deep roots in the pool from which fascism springs.
three (3) hours apart pic.twitter.com/YLZdz4WXta
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) August 10, 2021
From the previous thread:
Jesus Christ. This pandemic has been the worst group project I’ve ever been a part of. 😤😤😤
— Helga G. Pataki, That Woman From Michigan (@kzoorunningmom) August 10, 2021
watching anti vax people become acquainted with at-will employment in real time pic.twitter.com/pR3p43GtD5
— Being nice, feeling nice (@InternetHippo) August 9, 2021
re: #5 Belafon
Thanks for this—oh hey! I’ve got an awesome printout for you, too! pic.twitter.com/REca1eznpr
— Robert Hill (@Vonotar) August 9, 2021
re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We should never forget that in the 1930s there was support, in the US, for the fascism in Europe, including support for Hitler.
We are a society that have deep roots in the pool from which fascism springs.
Best not to forget what shape the US was in the 30’s. Starving people look to what they think might help them, and that wasn’t Herbert Hoover.
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 10, 2021
re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Alex Jones showing Aubrey Huff around Parler. pic.twitter.com/P2UVrgps1m
— Cyrus CLE 🐶 (@Cyrus_CLE) August 10, 2021
re: #5 Belafon
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EEOC’s already ruled that your employer can require you to get vaccinated, so they’re doubly fucked when they try to take this shit to court.
The erectile dysfunction being caused by COVID-19 is not responsive to our current erectile dysfunction medications. 🤷♀️
— Foul Mouthed Mom 😷 (@IamNurseTrish) August 8, 2021
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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So what we’re being told is there’ll be a lot fewer dickheads running around, causing mayhem and general discontent? I humbly endorse this!
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re: #12 Targetpractice
So what we’re being told is there’ll be a lot fewer dickheads running around, causing mayhem and general discontent? I humbly endorse this!
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It won’t stop them from being horny frustrated dickheads. They’ll be worse.
Big Business: “Our employees shouldn’t be required to pay union dues! If they wish to negotiate on their own behalf, they should be allowed to!”
MAGAts: “Yeah, I don’t want my money going to no pro-Dem unions! I wanna negotiate my own wages and benefits!”
BB: “Hey, congrats on helping us get that ‘Right To Work’ law passed.”
M: “Hey, anything that helps create jobs is a great thing.”
BB: “Cool. Now go get vaccinated.”
M: “WHAT?! BUT I DON’T WANNA! YOU CAN’T MAKE ME! I’LL SUE!”
BB: “Go tell it to your union rep. Oh right, you ain’t got one anymore. HA! Good look finding another job.”
Take this seriously—“There is growing evidence that—for whatever reason (higher viral loads, etc)—children infected by #DeltaVariant may develop a more severe form of the disease compared to illness caused by other forms of the virus.”—it’s true. #COVID19 https://t.co/h0H6hD7vBv
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) August 9, 2021
4) In my opinion, every kid not only needs mask, but needs premium higher filtration grade masks - aka KN95 / FFP2 / KF94. The KF94’s are widely used in South Korea, and they do make kids sized ones with adjustable ear loops for tighter fit. pic.twitter.com/gZxwvRaflF
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) August 9, 2021
Joe fucking Buck hosting Jeopardy? Fuck this show. Giordi got screwed because he’s black.
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Oh, great. Now they’ll need even more giant pickups and scary black guns.
OH HAI SCALY FRIENDS
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most new cars have a smart cruise control which keeps the car in the center of the lane it’s in. this is somehow… much worse than that https://t.co/YPdDX3oxTy
— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) August 10, 2021
re: #14 stpaulbear
Sadly, this is going to cause an uptick in violence and blame shifting that won’t help as we have to deal with the aftermath of what’s left. Maybe after we figure out how to survive all this and the coming pandemics. Because there are more coming. And I don’t think we’re ready or able to deal with how bad it can get. Maybe if some clever people can figure out some good ad campaigns to explain to men that covid can cause a permanent penis disability and why viagra and cialis can’t/won’t help, you might convince enough guys to talk to their buddies about it. This has to come from men to the men they know, I think that’s about the only shot some have of being reached or at least made to think. If we can get some of the more stubborn ass men on board, even if it is to save their own dicks, I am ok with that. Whatever works. And we’re gonna have to sell them on the likely needed boosters or new series of shots. Medicine has to adapt to these variants and we are going to have to follow the science to even have a chance of surviving. Whatever works. If it doesn’t, don’t do that anymore.
re: #16 Dread Pirate Ron
Take this seriously—“There is growing evidence that—for whatever reason (higher viral loads, etc)—children infected by #DeltaVariant may develop a more severe form of the disease compared to illness caused by other forms of the virus.”—it’s true.
……
This may be somewhat reminiscent of the 1918 flu — the first wave was not so devastating but the next wave was especially deadly to the young. Someone would awaken in the morning feeling fine and died by the evening, killed by a cytokine storm. Obviously, delta is not yet that quick and lethal — but the next variant could be, as long as children are not yet eligible for the vaccine. But if those eligible all were vaccinated, we could be at a turning point in vanquishing this disease.
There is another statistic that is puzzling: Illinois and Florida are the same for fully vaccinated (about 50%); the partially vaccinated are 63% vs 59%. While Illinois case numbers have risen significantly since the surge, the number of cases are still 80% below the height and deaths as low as March of 2020; why is Florida doing so much worse with cases at an all time high and deaths at 60% of the height of the last wave? Florida is also doing far worse than Texas which has lower vaccination rates. What is different about Florida?
Speaking of cobras. (Which technically we weren’t.) The North Carolina - Zebra Cobra guy pleaded guilty to 1 misdemeanor.He has to give up his 75 snakes (and, presumably other venomous critters) and pay $13,000 in fines. The other 39 misdemeanor charges were dropped.
re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter
What is different about Florida?
They’ve already been busted long ago cooking their numbers.
Now they are only giving out weekly summaries. They aren’t quite at Nebraska-level data suppression but they’re getting there.
re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter
There is another statistic that is puzzling: Illinois and Florida are the same for fully vaccinated (about 50%); the partially vaccinated are 63% vs 59%. While Illinois case numbers have risen significantly since the surge, the number of cases are still 80% below the height and deaths as low as March of 2020; why is Florida doing so much worse with cases at an all time high and deaths at 60% of the height of the last wave? Florida is also doing far worse than Texas which has lower vaccination rates. What is different about Florida?
Illinois is populated and governed by democrats. Which likely means masking and social distancing are taken seriously, as are reports about the delta variant and its dangers.
It’s also less densely populated than Florida, which may make a difference.
Damn, Rothman is one hard-headed libertarian.
No one is prohibiting you from taking all the necessary mitigation measures that make you comfortable. That’s what we should and, in the before times, did expect of functioning adults.
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) August 9, 2021
Hey Noah, they shot anti-maskers in the 1918 flu.
re: #27 Dave In Austin
Keep him out of the dryer?
re: #27 Dave In Austin
Take a guess…
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*record scratch* “Yup, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.”
re: #30 A Cranky One
Nail clipping time?
I guess this is a fairly common practice.
Light bulb for an obstinate dog.
re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Damn, Rothman is one hard-headed libertarian.
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Hey Noah, they shot anti-maskers in the 1918 flu.
Libertarian MO in a nutshell: “It’s your responsibility to protect yourself from my lack of basic human empathy.”
At 10:14pm last night (8/8), Grady Health System in Atlanta, the largest Level I Trauma Center in Georgia, reached full capacity and went to total diversion, unable to accept any emergency patients.
Several other medical centers in the same position.
We’re in deep trouble.— MarleneJ (@mjaeckel) August 9, 2021
re: #7 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Best not to forget what shape the US was in the 30’s. Starving people look to what they think might help them, and that wasn’t Herbert Hoover.
Yes, my father, who lived through it, said that we were very close to a national and societal collapse.
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They’ve already been busted long ago cooking their numbers.
Now they are only giving out weekly summaries. They aren’t quite at Nebraska-level data suppression but they’re getting there.
Except there are numbers by day — not by week. So they are doing the same as Illinois, filling in the gaps for days that originally did not have a report..
re: #33 Targetpractice
Libertarian MO in a nutshell: “It’s your responsibility to protect yourself from my lack of basic human empathy.”
In 1918, jailing or shooting anti-maskers was rational self-interest (to use a libertarian phrase). Self-defence, as it were.
re: #32 Dave In Austin
I guess this is a fairly common practice.
Light bulb for an obstinate dog.
I have 3 terriers. I know obstinate.
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Basically, we’re seeing now what we were warned could happen if we didn’t get this shit under control last year through masking, social distancing, and preventative measures. Only back then we had no vaccines or concrete understanding of how this virus works and what it does.
All those people who rolled their eyes and declared that this wasn’t a repeat of the Spanish Flu should be roasted in effigy.
re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter
Except there are numbers by day — not by week. So they are doing the same as Illinois, filling in the gaps for days that originally did not have a report..
Nope. They only have weekly summaries.
Any data filled in by groups like IHME are drawn from other sources, not the state.
It’s also why you see a blank for my state, as our local health departments are also being corrupted.
re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We should never forget that in the 1930s there was support, in the US, for the fascism in Europe, including support for Hitler.
We are a society that have deep roots in the pool from which fascism springs.
Mussolini also had many admirers in the US, including such luminaries as Thomas Edison.
In consideration of which, I am still watching the Mussolini soap opera on Amazon Prime (1985 mini-series, Mussolini-the Untold Story). I’m up to episode 4, the early part of World War II.
It’s a pretty good presentation, more than offsetting its portrayal of Il Duce as loving father and family man with an accurate, if brief, presentation of his prolific crimes and bad judgement. There are some errors in chronology, probably for the sake of narrative clarity. The death of Mussolini’s son Bruno in a plane crash is shown happening well before the outbreak of war, though in fact it happened in 1941, well after the war had started.
Sets and production values are quite good for a limited budget TV production of the time. There isn’t much variety to the sets, but some of them, like the Victor Emmanuel Monument, are the actual locations of the events portrayed.
They also have a good selection of accurately selected Italian cars and trucks of the period, apparently provided by a specialized agency. An American M-5 Stuart stands in for the only Italian tank featured in the film though.
American hardware also substitutes for period Italian aircraft, with Stearman trainers mocked up as generic recce/attack biplanes. It is pretty convincing. There is also a Soviet An-2 biplane (actually a postwar aircraft) in fascist markings in many of the airfield scenes. This is fairly convincing as a fascist era bomber/transport. In one scene, Hitler arrives in a genuine Junkers Ju-52 transport, since there were (and still are) a number of these available for movie appearances. The most interesting plane in the movie is a DC-3 mocked up to portray the Piaggio P-108 experimental bomber in which Bruno Mussolini was killed. This has a very unusual grafted-on nose section (probably fiberglass) that duplicates the P-108’s peculiar turreted, shovel-shaped nose. The plane actually flies with this prosthesis in place (CGI was nowhere good enough to fake this in 1985). It is pretty convincing despite having only 2 engines rather than 4 engines like the real P-108.
From last thread:
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
if i ever look up at the night sky and see a space billboard i am becoming a terrorist https://t.co/8wAJ6o69HV
— Lauren L Walker (@ActNormalOrElse) August 9, 2021
We’re not quite there yet. But…
re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Damn, Rothman is one hard-headed libertarian.
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So, I can bring a six foot pole and poke those that get too close to me?
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) August 10, 2021
I originally thought katana but I’d probably get accused of wanting to kill.
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yeah, that’s not good. Shit.
Sen. Johnson is arguing that if not for the pandemic, the Trump tax cuts would have paid for themselves by now.
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) August 9, 2021
now they’re just saying shit that doesn’t even make sense
Coronavirus Lingers in Penis and Could Cause Impotence Men now have one more compelling reason to get a COVID-19 vaccine — doctors suspect the new coronavirus could make it hard to perform in the bedroom.
How? Coronavirus infection is already known to damage blood vessels, and vessels that supply blood to the penis appear to be no exception.
Researchers armed with an electron microscope found coronavirus particles in penile tissue samples taken from two former COVID-19 patients who became impotent following their infection, which had occurred six and eight months earlier.
Further study revealed evidence of blood vessel damage in the penises of the COVID-19 patients, compared to two other men with erectile dysfunction who’d never been infected, the researchers reported May 7 in the World Journal of Men’s Health.
To be fair, though, many pro-Covid dupes are already incels and would have nothing to lose.
Podcast king Joe Rogan says vaccine passports move US “closer to dictatorship” https://t.co/BAFoWYLe4l pic.twitter.com/xXOletzP6B
— The Hill (@thehill) August 9, 2021
Funny considering Biden is trying to stay out of the vaccine passport business
I’m beginning to think that maybe Marcy Wheeler might not like Glenn Greenwald
When will Glenn Greenwald take a break from apologizing for Tucker’s Hungary tour to defend poor Dan Bongino?!?!? https://t.co/bOyMfeR21D
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 9, 2021
re: #48 Dangerman
Aubrey Huff has been suspended but if you were looking for desperately insecure demi-literate performative grifter pseudo-masculinity you are still very well covered here.
— WokeMeansYouLoseHat (@Popehat) August 10, 2021
re: #48 Dangerman
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Remember when this dickhead’s endorsement was touted as a reason why we needed Bernie as the nominee?
re: #46 Dangerman
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now they’re just saying shit that doesn’t even make sense
Everything old is new again. This was the excuse they gave during the Obama admin for why the Bush Tax Cuts had failed to “pay for themselves,” that they were on-course to do so when the Great Recession just appeared from out of nowhere and cracked them over the head with a steel chair.
I’d like to point out it’s August 9th.
Trump is still not “reinstated”. pic.twitter.com/xVklHurebo— Beau of The Fifth Column (@BeauTFC) August 10, 2021
Well, I have to go to Scottsbluff tomorrow, so I took the straight razor to my face for the sixth time, to shave the ZZ Top apprentice beard I have.
Not good. My hand, despite all the occupational therapy I went through, is still not functioning properly (it will sometimes simply open up and seize).
Aside from my face looking like someone took hedge clippers to it, I have a nasty slash across the back of my left hand when I dropped the blade from my right.
Leroy Brown I’m not.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, I have to go to Scottsbluff tomorrow, so I took the straight razor to my face for the sixth time, to shave the ZZ Top apprentice beard I have.
Not good. My hand, despite all the occupational therapy I went through, is still not functioning properly (it will sometimes simply open up and seize).
Aside from my face looking like someone took hedge clippers to it, I have a nasty slash across the back of my left hand when I dropped the blade from my right.
Leroy Brown I’m not.
have you considered returning to safety razors and/or electric?
re: #21 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Artificial stupidity strikes again.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, I have to go to Scottsbluff tomorrow, so I took the straight razor to my face for the sixth time, to shave the ZZ Top apprentice beard I have.
Not good. My hand, despite all the occupational therapy I went through, is still not functioning properly (it will sometimes simply open up and seize).
Aside from my face looking like someone took hedge clippers to it, I have a nasty slash across the back of my left hand when I dropped the blade from my right.
Leroy Brown I’m not.
I cut my whiskers with hair clippers then shave with a Gillette Fusion Power. 5 blades in the head and the vibration really makes a difference. No way I’d use a straight razor. I’d bleed to death.
Rothman’s still going.
Just thuddingly unimaginative. https://t.co/8PzS0jAnDc
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) August 9, 2021
re: #39 A Cranky One
LOL, I’ve had 2 Airedales, and am on my second Irish Terrier. All but the present one were obstinate. My female IT “Veruca” is anti-terrier, I can leave her off a leash (till she gets distracted), and she pretty much does as she is told…all the others were basically insane with individuality and vigor.
re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Rothman’s still going.
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The city said “No” likely because the gym either couldn’t or wouldn’t guarantee that it would get proof of vaccination when allowing people to go without masks, instead insisting that it would work on the honor system of assuming anybody who said they were vaccinated were being honest with staff and not lying their asses off in order to avoid wearing masks.
re: #62 Egregious Philbin
I have a friend who adopted a pup from a friend’s GS. A stray dog had gotten to her. Well. It must have been a small terrier, because this dog was wire haired, colored like a GS, and as long as a GS, but with half the leg. And he is the most stubborn, obstinate, contrary thing. She calls him a terrierist. Terriorist?
It’s not a cult.
This looks like a raging urethritis, so I guess this adds up. https://t.co/PYC77FAcIN
— Daniel Summers, MD (@WFKARS) August 9, 2021
re: #64 retired cynic
I have a little Irish Terrorist…not politically correct…..LOL
re: #61 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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Don’t forget “Bill Clinton is a serial rapist!” versus “Those women accusing President Trump of sexual assault and rape are just trying to destroy a great man with their lies!”
re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter
This may be somewhat reminiscent of the 1918 flu — the first wave was not so devastating but the next wave was especially deadly to the young. Someone would awaken in the morning feeling fine and died by the evening, killed by a cytokine storm. Obviously, delta is not yet that quick and lethal — but the next variant could be, as long as children are not yet eligible for the vaccine. But if those eligible all were vaccinated, we could be at a turning point in vanquishing this disease.
I posted a couple days ago what Grandma told me about the 1918 flu—the first wave was bad but the second wave was far deadlier. And It targeted younger people. Grandma thinks that it didn’t hit her because there was another flu pandemic back in the 1890s that made her bedridden for a couple months.
Heroin addict turned GOP 2020 Delaware Senate Candidate who lost by 20 points turned flat earther QAsshole unable to board a plane to Crackhead Mike’s Assholepalooza!
Former DE GOP Sen candidate, QAnon adherent, and MAGA activist Lauren Witzke, was escorted out of the Chicago airport tonight attempting to board a plane to Lindell’s symposium. It’s unclear whether her prior drug trafficking arrest or ties to extremists put her on No Fly List. pic.twitter.com/Qib7TWTm3z
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 10, 2021
re: #64 retired cynic
I have a friend who adopted a pup from a friend’s GS. A stray dog had gotten to her. Well. It must have been a small terrier, because this dog was wire haired, colored like a GS, and as long as a GS, but with half the leg. And he is the most stubborn, obstinate, contrary thing. She calls him a terrierist. Terriorist?
The correct term is terrierist. 😉
re: #64 retired cynic
One of my favorite messed up ads ever was a person trying to sell Damnation puppies. I think Terrierists fit right in with that motif.
The headline actually undersells how egregious this is. https://t.co/kKq74NRv6r pic.twitter.com/VLUCe2nJY6
— Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. (@clapifyoulikeme) August 10, 2021
re: #66 Egregious Philbin
I have a little Irish Terrorist…not politically correct…..LOL
There’s a woman in Belfast with a famous Twitter cat, perhaps second only to Larry The Cat of 10 Downing St.
His name is Bilbo, and he’s an adorable, roundfaced, orange cat!
A Scottish MP tried to make an issue out of Bilbo, his fur a proxy for sectarianism.
But Bilbo would have none of that: Like all cats, he is content to think only of hugs from us human, not sectarian politics!
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Crackhead Mike is now going to kick off Assholepalooza tomorrow with Bolsonaros asshole son. Crackhead is totally off the rails! Why hasn’t he been arrested?????
In yet another bizarre twist, Lindell announces that he will kick off his big reveal tomorrow with Eduardo Bolsonaro speaking. Apparently, he is interested in how he can sow doubt on his father’s impending 2022 defeat in Brazil. Lindell then says how popular he is now in China. pic.twitter.com/LidGaGZnuc
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 9, 2021
re: #71 plansbandc
One of my favorite messed up ads ever was a person trying to sell Damnation puppies. I think Terrierists fit right in with that motif.
Bob Dornan was a CA Republican who liked to curse a lot. A political cartoonist referred to him as “101 Damnations*.
re: #73 Sherlock Hound
Bilbo, the Good (Orange Cat) Boy:
im warm ,im safe ,im happy ! pic.twitter.com/osdsdFLkLu
— bilbo 🍊 (@thegoodcatboy) May 27, 2021
Today, the 5 most vaccinated states (14M people) had
580 people in hospital, 12 deaths
In the 5 least vaccinated states (16M people)?
6,600 hospitalized, 104 deaths
Per capita , least vaccinated states have
10X hospitalizations and 7X deaths
So yeah, vaccines are working— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) August 10, 2021
re: #68 JOE 🥓
I posted a couple days ago what Grandma told me about the 1918 flu—the first wave was bad but the second wave was far deadlier. And It targeted younger people. Grandma thinks that it didn’t hit her because there was another flu pandemic back in the 1890s that made her bedridden for a couple months.
I remember reading somewhere (I don’t remember) that the older folk were not as affected by the 1918 flu because they’d been exposed to another variety of H1N1 flu when younger. However, I cannot very quickly locate that information, and the only influenza pandemic of note during that period was an 1889-1890 pandemic that scientists first thought was H2N2, then H3N8, and now not ruling out that it could have been a coronavirus, OC43. en.wikipedia.org
ETA: doesn’t look like the 1889-1890 flu made it up to Alaska, where scientists were able to source frozen samples from indigenous villages where the dead were more frozen than decomposed.
re: #75 Sherlock Hound
Bob Dornan was a CA Republican who liked to curse a lot. A political cartoonist referred to him as “101 Damnations*.
So good to see the past tense there.
re: #76 Sherlock Hound
Bilbo, the Good (Orange Cat) Boy:
Bilbo likes that image because he appears to be standing up
re: #76 Sherlock Hound
I wish to cuddle him mercilessly.
re: #75 Sherlock Hound
Bob Dornan was a CA Republican who liked to curse a lot. A political cartoonist referred to him as “101 Damnations*.
Dornan was a world class asshole. I repeatedly had run ins with him and I gladly gave $$$ to his Democratic opponent who knocked him out of Congress in 1984. It was glorious to see him throw a fit on live TV when he lost!
re: #82 plansbandc
I wish to cuddle him mercilessly.
Yeah, I’m liking other cats more than my own right now. She coughed up a hairball on my bed this afternoon. I was so distracted with work (four separate issues) and my hairball radar must have been turned off because it wasn’t until I walked over to the bed after work that I saw her handiwork.
re: #72 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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What personally rankles me is how the white female county clerk got to walk out of the courthouse with 2 years probation because the white female judge decided that the key mitigating factor in knocking down a possible 60 year prison sentence down to 2 years probation was that the clerk cut a check for $100,000 out of the over $238,000 she’d spent decades stealing after she got caught.
re: #84 mmmirele
I can relate somewhat. My chiween has decided he likes to lick the hell out of one of my blankets. We were napping today, and I rolled over on to the stinky dog water soaked blanket. Yes, it sucked.
a record 1,599 US children hospitalized with COVID-19 last week.
the highest ever recorded and no reprieve in sight.
children are innocent bystanders in a debate on easy mitigation measures. pic.twitter.com/PB1qdo7Lvw— Rob Swanda (@ScientistSwanda) August 9, 2021
Yeah, when the @ASMicrobiology canceled the Clinical Virology Symposium set for September, I figured in-person conferences probably weren’t a great idea. I mean, when the experts in virology are staying home….https://t.co/T4HR0zm660
— Matthew Krevat (He/Him) - Get Vaccinated (@MatthewKrevat) August 9, 2021
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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And it’s only going to get worse as red states that haven’t already forced kids back into crowded classrooms with no masks do so because schools in this country are simply glorified daycare centers paid for by taxpayers so that businesses don’t have to shell out the money to provide such benefits to their workers.
re: #89 Targetpractice
And it’s only going to get worse as red states that haven’t already forced kids back into crowded classrooms with no masks do so because schools in this country are simply glorified daycare centers paid for by taxpayers so that businesses don’t have to shell out the money to provide such benefits to their workers.
And conservatives have been undermining public schools ever since the first one in Colonial America.
I have firsthand knowledge that an entire family got on a plane today with flu-like symptoms and that at least one of them tested positive for COVID. You’re crazy if you’re traveling right now in the southeast.
— Attending AF ⚕️ (@AttendingAF) August 9, 2021
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, I have to go to Scottsbluff tomorrow, so I took the straight razor to my face for the sixth time, to shave the ZZ Top apprentice beard I have.
Not good. My hand, despite all the occupational therapy I went through, is still not functioning properly (it will sometimes simply open up and seize).
Aside from my face looking like someone took hedge clippers to it, I have a nasty slash across the back of my left hand when I dropped the blade from my right.
Leroy Brown I’m not.
Consider spending $35 on a full size Wahl clippers (Taper 2000]. I’d rate it much higher than death by misadventure and it will last 30 years.
CTV is trying to imply that being a member of something other than the United Conservative Party is nefarious.
Dr. Joe Vipond, a Calgary emergency room doctor who has been very vocal about the province’s response to COVID-19, is now being criticized over alleged ties to the Alberta NDP. @CTVMFranklin https://t.co/UZuBjL0Pc4
— CTV Calgary (@CTVCalgary) August 8, 2021
Alberta is run by conservatives, ergo, the province’s response to Covid has been just as bad as any American state.
re: #68 JOE 🥓
I posted a couple days ago what Grandma told me about the 1918 flu—the first wave was bad but the second wave was far deadlier. And It targeted younger people. Grandma thinks that it didn’t hit her because there was another flu pandemic back in the 1890s that made her bedridden for a couple months.
Several histories I have read of the Spanish flu pandemic mention the earlier pandemic and discuss the possibility that immunity from that episode might have protected many older people in 1918-21.
1889-1890 pandemic
In 1889-1890, a pandemic, sometimes known as the “Asiatic flu” or “Russian flu”, killed about 1 million people worldwide, out of a population of about 1.5 billion. It was the last great pandemic of the 19th century, and is among the deadliest pandemics in history. The most reported effects of the pandemic took place from October 1889 to December 1890, with recurrences in March to June 1891, November 1891 to June 1892, winter of 1893-1894, and early 1895.
It is not known what agent was responsible for the pandemic. Since the 1950s, it has been conjectured to be influenza A virus subtype H2N2. Later work suggested that the strain was possibly influenza A virus subtype H3N8. A 2005 genomic virological study says that “it is tempting to speculate” that the virus might not have been an influenza virus, but human coronavirus OC43
re: #74 JOE 🥓
Crackhead Mike is now going to kick off Assholepalooza tomorrow with Bolsonaros asshole son. Crackhead is totally off the rails! Why hasn’t he been arrested?????
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Update to my local Mike Lindell issue: The oldies station is taking the MyPillow ads off the air as of today. The woman who let me know kind of snarkily hinted that I should try to steer some advertisers her way, so I sent her back 3 leads that she liked. I wonder how many other listeners complained, although Lindell is bad enough that he shouldn’t have even been considered.
We need to raise pluperfect hell when/if plague rats like Lindell get preferential treatment when they come down with Covid. Let them take their chances in the IC bed lottery with the rest of the poor masses.
I got my Amazon order for KN-95 masks. Nice sexy black ones with spaghetti straps over the ears….
re: #95 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
We need to raise pluperfect hell when/if plague rats like Lindell get preferential treatment when they come down with Covid. Let them take their chances in the IC bed lottery with the rest of the poor masses.
He probably owns his own respirator and travels with a med.
Whenever a Republican tells you how much the GOP cares about “the children” print this out, chew it up, and spit it right in his fucking eye. https://t.co/DfDuYkM8Fw
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 9, 2021
re: #96 Dread Pirate Ron
I got my Amazon order for KN-95 masks. Nice sexy black ones with spaghetti straps over the ears….
I wish mine were a half size larger. They slide up my chin. Not sexy - it looks more like tighty whiteys
re: #96 Dread Pirate Ron
I got my Amazon order for KN-95 masks. Nice sexy black ones with spaghetti straps over the ears….
Sorry, spaghetti straps aren’t allowed in this school. You’ll have to put on a dress over them.
These seem pretty roomy.
KN95 Face Mask Black 5 Layer Cup Dust Safety Masks Filter Efficiency≥95%
11-month-old COVID treated at hospital 150 miles away lack of beds Houston hospital | https://t.co/oZyHKXYn19. Sure I want to live In Texas energy grid that fails;kills more innocent Americans execution than any other state! Blows entire cities to pieces! https://t.co/LdYPXWz0Pu
— Chuck (@RxwtlossChuck) August 9, 2021
re: #75 Sherlock Hound
Bob Dornan was a CA Republican who liked to curse a lot. A political cartoonist referred to him as “101 Damnations*.
Ol’ B-1 Bob…
Listening to a new album by Los Lobos where they cover songs bymusicians associated with LA. Bluebird/Fot What it’s Worth, Jamaica Say You Will (Jackson Browne), Sail On Sailor, The World Is A Ghetto, some spanish language numbers. Cool stuff.
re: #75 Sherlock Hound
Bob Dornan was a CA Republican who liked to curse a lot. A political cartoonist referred to him as “101 Damnations*.
B-1 Bob was an odd one. He had a minor career as an actor before becoming a radio propaganda shill, appearing as Lt. Witkowski in Starfighters in 1958.
The catchline: “The blazing adventure of the men and planes who rocket to the very edge of space” and the poster showing a character with a full-face visor helmet similar to an astronaut belies the film’s very evident “infomercial” look. The majority of The Starfighters deals with the training of F-104 pilots during the period when the aircraft was being introduced in the United States Air Force, and consists predominately of stock footage. The footage was of the F-104s of the 831st Air Division (479th Tactical Fighter Wing), stationed at George AFB from October 1958.
The aircraft featured in The Starfighters included F-104A and C variants, the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, the Lockheed T-33 and the Kaman H-43B Huskie.
The film was given “the treatment” on MST-3000
DNI Avril Haines takes Havana Syndrome coordination to a new level by convening Joint Intelligence Community Council (JICC), a Cabinet Secretary-level group led by the DNI. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/64NunMkhBA
— Hayden Center (@mvhaydencenter) August 9, 2021
Arnold makes some excellent points. pic.twitter.com/QtP9YjC4Da
— Brooke Cain (@brookecain) August 8, 2021
Happy to hear about your retirement Cranky! Congratulations 👍
re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Somehow, I don’t think this message will be taken well by all the MAGAts who once had dreams of Ah-nold being the first foreign-born president.
re: #111 Targetpractice
Somehow, I don’t think this message will be taken well by all the MAGAts who once had dreams of Ah-nold being the first foreign-born president.
Pretty much.
We’re still stuck with the basic problem of the people who are susceptible to his message probably have already heard it or variants of it. Those who have gone down the rabbit hole he describes probably won’t hear it or think he’s been bought off by Big Pharma (tm).
There are numerous people in that thread who are bashing Dr. Fauci, government in general, calling him a shill, &c.
The Governator as I understand was horrible with the California budget, but otherwise tended to defer to experts in their field when making decisions for the state.
re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Pretty much.
We’re still stuck with the basic problem of the people who are susceptible to his message probably have already heard it or variants of it. Those who have gone down the rabbit hole he describes probably won’t hear it or think he’s been bought off by Big Pharma (tm).
There are numerous people in that thread who are bashing Dr. Fauci, government in general, calling him a shill, &c.
The Governator as I understand was horrible with the California budget, but otherwise tended to defer to experts in their field when making decisions for the state.
Everything I’ve seen and heard leads me to believe that Ah-nold was like Dubya in his deferring to experts even when those experts were obviously using him to pursue their own agendas.
You Deadbeats Expect Erick Erickson To Keep Insulting Trans People For Free? Give Him Money! (Wonkette)
Better idea: Give Little Green Footballs and Wonkette money.
Last week, Twitter suspended conservative ignoramus Allie Beth Stuckey when she called New Zealand Olympic weightlifter Laurel Hubbard a “man.” Hubbard is openly trans, and Stuckey is openly a creep.
“Laura Hubbard failing at the event doesn’t make his inclusion fair,” Stuckey wrote. “He’s still a man, and men shouldn’t compete against women in weightlifting.”
Her tweet violated Twitter’s rules against hateful conduct, which prohibit “expressing hate towards a person, group, or protected category.”
Stuckey later whined on Instagram, whose standards are apparently more lax, that “Twitter has suspended me for 12 hours for saying Laurel Hubbard is a man, which is objectively true. What’s that Orwell quote? Something about the further people get from the truth the more people will hate those who say it?”
Stuckey’s bigoted remarks are not objectively true, and I’m too damn old to even bother linking to the readily available data that disputes her. This is the 21st century, y’all. Also, Stuckey should consider hosting the quiz show, “What’s That Orwell Quote?” for conservatives who’ve never actually read any George Orwell.
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Twitter goes ballistic after CNN frames a headline in a way to imply something that AOC didn’t say.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does not rule out 2022 challenge to Chuck Schumer (CNN, August 8, 2021)
She didn’t rule out being the first politician on Mars either. Eagerly awaiting that headline.
People Very Mad About Thing AOC Didn’t Actually Say, As Usual (Wonkette, by Robyn Pennacchia)
Now, I happen to agree with AOC on most things. I like her a lot. I’m not big on politician worship, but she supports things I like and seems pretty nice. I am also generally not a #TeamAnything person, except for when I am on #TeamAnyWomanCriticizedForSupposedlyWantingAttention. I despise that criticism with every bone in my body, because it’s used as a cudgel to get women to shut up and stop taking up so much space and I don’t think women should shut up and stop taking up so much space.
It’s sometimes used against men, but never with the same kind of vitriol. I don’t like it when it’s lobbed at women I dislike, either. It’s not something I want young girls to hear and absorb, I don’t want them to get the message that they should be seen and not heard.
It’s actually unfortunate that CNN chose to use the interview just to troll Democrats who hate Ocasio-Cortez, because there was another portion of it that was a lot more interesting, in which she discussed Fox News’s obsession with hating her.
“So much of what they’re doing is so visceral, right. And their job is to get at this very visceral, reactive place in people, particularly men,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “But also tap these visceral lines along race and tap along this visceral line along gender and youth.”
Ocasio-Cortez is no regular Fox viewer, but did say she will occasionally tune in to get a glimpse at how the network is trying to shape the political debates and storylines.
“I actually find it to be really, really fascinating because it reveals a lot about the subconscious of folks that are crafting these narratives,” she said. “And they very often are speaking to these very subconscious narratives about women or about people of color or about Latinos or Latinas — or about working-class people.”
And that, she added, speaks to something bigger than the outrage du jour.” These caricatures that are developed are not really personal,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “They are societal.”
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Thank you to everyone who came out these past two nights. I’m humbled and grateful. @RedRocksCO 😎👍 pic.twitter.com/gyZKGC9HSH
— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) August 10, 2021
What a Monday!! Thank you!!😎👍 pic.twitter.com/tznc1hUgtG
— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) August 10, 2021
Joe Bonamassa, Red Rocks, 9 August 2021.
Setlist:
1. Evil Mama
2. Love Ain’t A Love Song
3. Midnight Blues (Gary Moore cover)
4. Lookout Man
5. Jockey Full Of Bourbon (Tom Waits cover)
6. I Didn’t Think She Would Do It
7. Just Cuz You Can
8. Wandering Earth
9. Pain And Sorrow
10. Conversation With Alice
11. When One Door Opens
12. Lonely Boy
13. Ballad Of John Henry
Encore:
14. Woke Up Dreaming
15. Crossroads (Eric Clapton cover)
Hackberry Fire (goes to Fire Weather Avalanche)
The satellite map shows the fire in relation to me.
It is now 5,778 acres (2,338 ha), burning in Banner and Morrill Counties.
It is near enough to NE-88 that it could close the highway. As of yet there are no evacuation orders for the nearest town (Redington, population 8).
In a straight line to the fire, it is about twenty-four miles from me.
The fire is believed to have started due to lightning.
More than twenty fire departments from Nebraska, along with additional departments from Colorado and Wyoming, are in Banner and Morrill Counties fighting the fire.
An estimated 6,000 acres is believed to have burned in the Hackberry Fire that started on Thursday, Aug. 5. Over the weekend, the fire that started in Banner County crossed into Morrill County.
“We are looking at 95% containment at this time,” Banner County Fire Chief Tim Grubbs told the Star-Herald Monday afternoon. “We have just a handful of hot spots that we are concerned with. The majority of the fire is looking very good.”
On Friday, Banner County and Region 22 Emergency Management officials submitted an emergency declaration to the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), which allowed for additional firefighting resources from across the state, as well as departments from Colorado and Wyoming. UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters from the Nebraska National Guard, which are equipped with 780-galloon water buckets, a large airtanker out of Colorado requested through the Great Plains Dispatch Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, and the Nebraska single-engine air-tanker (SEAT) from the Nebraska Forest Service and two SEATs from South Dakota are among the equipment used to fight the fire. Grubbs said that heavy equipment from Banner County, Scotts Bluff County Road Departments and Nebraska Department of Transportation has also been utilized to help establish containment lines throughout the fire.
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Banner County fire reported to be ‘95% contained,’ returning to local management (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
re: #121 Dread Pirate Ron
There’s a house I ride by sometimes. It has a massive display of antiques in the front yard. I took lots of pictures but I had a hard time since I couldn’t see my screen in the sunlight. Here’s one.
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I believe that’s a 3 inch M-1903 field gun, the US Army’s first nickel steel QF gun with recoil mechanism. During World War I, there weren’t nearly enough of these, so US troops primarily used the famous French 75mm gun. Some of the ’03s were built with, or converted to, 75mm barrels so they could fire the same ammunition.
With canister shot, it would be ideal for putting the fear of God into ammosexual goober militia. Just a thought.
Omaha Public Schools board gives middle finger to Gov. Ricketts. OPS is the largest school district in the state.
OPS board votes to require masks inside schools (Omaha World-Herald)
The Omaha Public Schools will join a growing number of Nebraska school districts requiring students to wear masks indoors when they return to classrooms next week.
The same for teachers and parents, though there will be some exceptions.
School board members voted Monday to require all people to wear masks indoors at school, effective Tuesday.
Students won’t have to wear them outdoors, so not for recess or activities like marching band. Students will be allowed remove the masks while eating and drinking.
If teachers or staff are alone in their classrooms or offices, they will be allowed to unmask.
The resolution adopted by the board also allows people to go without a mask “when doing so creates a greater health, safety or security risk to the individual or public.”
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The vote was 8-1. One wingnut wanted a sunset provision in it. That was rejected.
“We didn’t think that we would get here,” she said. “We were hopeful that we wouldn’t get here. But, alas, here we are today considering this one week from the start of school.”
Gov. Pete Ricketts has said schools should not require masks.
The OPS resolution made note of the July 27 guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommending universal masking for all teachers staff, students and visitors to K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status.
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Before the mandate was voted on, almost two dozen people testified at the board’s special meeting. Some parents said they worried about sending their children back to school without a mandate. Others said the decision to wear a mask should be left with parents. Several pediatricians testified that masks would be essential to blunting spread of the delta variant.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That made me look up the Dixie fire. It is getting bigger and still only 22% containment. That’s a prime remote campground area. It seems all the really nice remote areas I loved to camp in have been burned down in the last 5 years.
#DixieFire off Above the Cresta Dam, Feather River Canyon in Butte County is 482,047 acres and 22% contained. Change in acreage due to better mapping Unified Command: @CALFIRE_ButteCo, @LassenNF and @NatlParkServicehttps://t.co/vMYsruB5cn pic.twitter.com/a7HDtFznrY
— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) August 10, 2021
#DixieFire Cont. pic.twitter.com/WFOZX9iyid
— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) August 10, 2021
re: #127 Dread Pirate Ron
That made me look up the Dixie fire. It is bigger and still only 22% containment. That’s a prime remote campground area. It seems all the really nice remote areas I loved to camp in have been burned down in the last 5 years.
What’s burning here is ranchland and farms. Prairie fires are scary, because they can move several miles with a stiff wind and dry vegetation.
Last year there was a fire northwest of there, in the Wildcat Hills. It burned through parkland, destroying many trees and camping areas.
That fire was difficult to fight due to the rugged nature of the area. The fire was attributed to a pickup truck dragging a chain over a cattle guard, which sparked in the dry grass.
re: #124 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
There is an elk behind it, too.
The benefit of having Democrats on your school board.
My public school district (Leyton Public School, Dalton, in Cheyenne County) voted in the school board meeting to require masks.
Additionally, they voted all school meals will be free for students.
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The benefit of having Democrats on your school board.
My public school district (Leyton Public School, Dalton, in Cheyenne County) voted in the school board meeting to require masks.
Additionally, they voted all school meals will be free for students.
Will CRT be a mandatory aspect in all subjects from history to home economics?
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My daughter is going to her first teacher’s meeting at the school. I’ll find out what they’re doing in our district tomorrow. I’m sure they will have masks. I handed her a pack of N-95 masks tonight.
re: #133 Dread Pirate Ron
My daughter is going to her first teacher’s meeting at the school. I’ll find out what they’re doing in our district tomorrow. I’m sure they will have masks. I handed her a pack of N-95 masks tonight.
Might as well hand her a pack of birth control pills and condoms…our moral decay is nigh well irreversible at this point…
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re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Might as well hand her a pack of birth control pills and condoms…our moral decay is nigh well irreversible at this point…
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She’s got that covered.
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re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Twitter goes ballistic after CNN frames a headline in a way to imply something that AOC didn’t say.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does not rule out 2022 challenge to Chuck Schumer (CNN, August 8, 2021)
She didn’t rule out being the first politician on Mars either. Eagerly awaiting that headline.
People Very Mad About Thing AOC Didn’t Actually Say, As Usual (Wonkette, by Robyn Pennacchia)
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This is the political equivalent of The Jerry Springer show, with two parties being goaded into a fight so the third can make money selling tickets to the show. AOC is 31, Schumer is 70, even if he serves as long as somebody like Grassley she’ll still only be in her 40s when he retires/dies. And challenging him next year could endanger not only her own seat, but his if she actually succeeded in winning a primary challenge against him. Anybody telling her she needs to challenge his seat is doing not only her, but the entire party a major disservice to promote their own private agenda(s).
I can ride my bike 70 miles a week and my knee has minimal pain. One trip through the grocery store makes it hurt for days. Go figure.
Honestly, AOC would be better off challenging Gillibrand for her seat and contrasting someone who has stood by friends even when they faced “controversy” versus a woman who threw her own colleague under the bus to advance her (vain, hopeless) chances at the presidency.
re: #136 Targetpractice
People love to hate AOC. She is educated, hip, media savvy, urban and ethnic, all things that get their dander up.
In addition, she gets those old geezers hot under the collar and frustrated because they know they cannot just buy her like they do all the other women they have had sex with.
Super 73’s at Coronado #super73 #ebike #bike #bicycle #cycling #cyclinglife #fitness #fitnessmotivation #workoutmotivation #coronadobeach #sandiego #silverstrand https://t.co/i6Dypb2Rgt pic.twitter.com/PaVFL19Xq5
— ZRM Fitness (@ZrmFitness) August 9, 2021
It’s a good thing he does ‘roids, cause that battery is a big nut buster.
re: #131 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Will CRT be a mandatory aspect in all subjects from history to home economics?
Also auto shop and 4-H. /s
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Might as well hand her a pack of birth control pills and condoms…our moral decay is nigh well irreversible at this point…
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Also coupons to the Abortionplex. She can hand them out to the other degenerate liberals. /s
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People love to hate AOC. She is educated, hip, media savvy, urban and ethnic, all things that get their dander up.
In addition, she gets those old geezers hot under the collar and frustrated because they know they cannot just buy her like they do all the other women they have had sex with.
She and “The Squad” are also a constant reminder that the GQP is slowly losing the younger generations. Just over a decade ago they’d elected a slate of “Young Guns” who were hailed as the future of the party and set to lead it into the new century. Of the three founding members, only Kevin McCarthy remains in all his bitter emptiness. Cantor got knocked off by a TP challenger who has since lost his seat to a Dem, while Ryan quit after he found out that being leader wasn’t as fun as being the center of constant fawning attention from the presstitutes.
American Girl Shutters Business After Doing All The Types of Girls (The Onion, August 9, 2021)
MIDDLETON, WI—Having completed what it set out to do when it launched its line of dolls 35 years ago, American Girl announced Monday it had halted all production and shuttered its retail locations after determining it had done all the types of girls. “Rich girl, poor girl, black girl, white girl—as far as I can tell, we’ve done every iteration of girl, so now seems like the right time to call it quits,” CEO Barbarella Coates said of the upscale toy brand, which typically charges $150 or more for dolls that have reportedly included such types as a horseback-riding girl, an aspiring-gymnast girl, a girl who’s into fashion, a girl who uses a wheelchair, a girl who’s an only child, a blue-haired skater girl, an animal-lover girl, and all the other kinds of girls.
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Here’s Jo Dyer - “Shamelessness is the only currency this government knows” @instanterudite https://t.co/YkeYASztfH
— The Shot (@shot_au) August 10, 2021
It can be done. Look at Amsterdam in the 1970s and in the present! pic.twitter.com/2MjQIvGn9i
— Marley (@flanman88) August 9, 2021
Heh, ‘@POTUS’.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, August 6, 2021
Actually, Compared with Earth, Hell’s Climate Policies Are Super Progressive
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #143 Targetpractice
She and “The Squad” are also a constant reminder that the GQP is slowly losing the younger generations. Just over a decade ago they’d elected a slate of “Young Guns” who were hailed as the future of the party and set to lead it into the new century. Of the three founding members, only Kevin McCarthy remains in all his bitter emptiness. Cantor got knocked off by a TP challenger who has since lost his seat to a Dem, while Ryan quit after he found out that being leader wasn’t as fun as being the center of constant fawning attention from the presstitutes.
There is still Matt Gaetz!
Help they are trying to kill us. https://t.co/VlG27ShWs6 pic.twitter.com/ewkau1r2q3
— Seeing Red Nebraska (@SeeingRedNE) August 10, 2021
Millard is an area in western Omaha, originally platted in 1870. It used to be an independent city, but was incorporated into Omaha in 1971. As part of that deal, it retained control over its own school district. So if you live in that part of Omaha, your children do not go to Omaha Public Schools, they go to Millard Public Schools.
Millard operates twenty-five elementary schools, six middle schools, and four high schools.
Millard Public School Board just voted against masking students and teachers going against the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Nebraska Medicine. @jsutfin not protecting students. #Omaha #Nebraska
— John Vann, MD (@Docsocksomaha) August 10, 2021
re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The motion never got a second and didn’t even make it to a vote.
— R. Mac ☘🥃 (@RMac53B) August 10, 2021
In Papillon tonight, the loudest weren’t the smartest. The cowardly board members and superintendent voted to listen to the loud, obnoxious, ignorant parents instead of actual experts.
— Just Chris 🐝🍷🏳️🌈 (@logical_one57) August 10, 2021
It would appear the conservative rural areas of the state are more proactive about this than Omaha and its suburbs.
Bridgeport Public School (the county seat, where part of the people in my town go) is insisting on following CDC guidance on masks and social distancing.
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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It would appear the conservative rural areas of the state are more proactive about this than Omaha and its suburbs.
Bridgeport Public School (the county seat, where part of the people in my town go) is insisting on following CDC guidance on masks and social distancing.
Always amazing how, for all their insistence that they’re not sheep, wingnuts are quick to gather into flocks and bleat out their talking points.
A DUI driver rear-ended a @ConcordPD_CA car whose officer had pulled over another DUI driver on Monument near Detroit. Both arrested pic.twitter.com/k1dw3crv3t
— Henry K. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) August 10, 2021
Some of the other school districts out here in the Panhandle:
Bayard (the other side of the county) is seeking public input or reopening criteria. They have not yet had a board meeting to determine when they will open.
Scottsbluff Public Schools adopted an emergency plan, where face coverings are based on the assessed risk in the city from Panhandle Public Health District. Distance learning was discontinued.
Gering (seat of Scott’s Bluff County) just launched a Website, so it is not updated with information I can access. There is no information in the Gering Courier I can find.
Alliance (seat of Box Butte County) reversed their decision and adopted a mask mandate after a Change dot Org petition was launched and picked up by the local press.
Chadron (Seat of Dawes County) not only adopted a mask mandate, but circulated mail and put on their Website instructions on how to wear, remove, or wash masks.
Banner County Public School (in Harrisburg, pop. 100) was the first school district to give Gov. Ricketts the middle finger last year. Despite the county being on fire, they found the time to do that again this year.
Sidney (seat of Cheyenne County) Public Schools rejected mask mandates for this school year in July. Sidney is full of wingnuts, and the mayor of Sidney has appeared on Tucker Carlson’s White Power Hour in the past.
Sadly all the school districts here in VA have either already voted or are planning to vote to make masks optional when schools return back to in-school lessons next month. So I fully expect to spend another school year hearing about outbreaks left and right, followed closely behind by mass quarantines and “temporary” closures for cleaning/sterilizing.
re: #155 Targetpractice
Always amazing how, for all their insistence that they’re not sheep, wingnuts are quick to gather into flocks and bleat out their talking points.
Wingnuts in the city benefit from infrastructure and the country’s premier infectious disease hospital.
Out here in the west, hospital space is scarce without a pandemic. Conservatives tend to be a bit more pragmatic.
Does it include Louisiana?
— Crosspatch (@VictorB123) August 10, 2021
Fuck off 🖕🏽
— high ass dog (@highassdog) August 10, 2021
re: #161 Dread Pirate Ron
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And in a few weeks, we’ll hear about a bacon “surplus” driving prices down and Big Agra losing their shit because they’re losing so much money on unsold stock.
Extremely local news break: After twenty-four hours, I found my glasses (extreme myopia sux).
re: #163 Targetpractice
And in a few weeks, we’ll hear about a bacon “surplus” driving prices down and Big Agra losing their shit because they’re losing so much money on unsold stock.
We can corner the market on pork bellies!
re: #162 Dread Pirate Ron
‘By Jackie Day’
Ah, that explains it, “About Jackie - My Vegan Journal”
Probably ought to point her at Wonkette’s article on Yodeling Vegan Baby Buttholes.
It’s a go for tomorrow in Scottsbluff.
Weather caused the cancellation of the first day planned flights of the U.S. National Hot Air Balloon Championships, but the competition’s meteorologist says that the forecast is looking good for future planned launches. https://t.co/AAm838vD1U
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) August 10, 2021
re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I was working on the Albuquerque traffic signal system during the 1981 Balloon Festival. It was awesome.
A workaround for Panhandle Public Health District degrading the Covid-19 dashboard.
A change to the way data related to COVID cases is affecting multiple counties in the Panhandle, leading Panhandle Public Health District to cease maintaining a risk dial.
According to a press release from COVID-19 Unified Command, as of July 30, county-specific data about the coronavirus will only be reported in counties with populations of 20,000 or more.
“We understand this is frustrating and disappointing and we are working at alternative ways to inform the public,” said Kim Engel, Panhandle Public Health District Director. “We also understand that many sectors of our communities rely heavily on the risk dial to determine which preventive steps should be taken. Our hope is that plans can still be developed with the new solution.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID Data Tracker still shows some Panhandle counties being at a high risk for community transmission. People may locate the tracker online at covid.cdc.gov.
Covid Data Reporting Changes (Alliance, Nebr. Times-Herald)
re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 10, 2021
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ha. The CDC link PPHD gave does not work.
I found the correct site.
Wouldn’t you know it, Nebraska’s data is corrupted by the state not reporting data since the end of July. If you came here after looking at the CDC county map, you’d believe that Nebraska has the lowest incidence of Covid-19 in the nation.
re: #172 Dread Pirate Ron
WorldMeter is getting some data from them.
I’m not sure where they are getting it.
There are court cases here right now trying to pry the information out of the state.
Perhaps they are using the CDC information, which is suspect.
PPHD notes they are only reporting on counties with 20,000 or more people. That’s one county (Scott’s Bluff).
Our new and unimproved dashboard.
I live in “Greater Panhandle.”
One new death (don’t know where), total 198.
Eighty-four cases in the last two weeks.
Cumulative confirmed cases are bending upwards again.
Most cases by age: 30-39, then 20-29.
In hospital: 8 (+4)
re: #172 Dread Pirate Ron
WorldMeter is getting some data from them.
Mayo Clinic shows our data is corrupt.
This map shows a rolling average of daily cases for the past week. This is the best sign of hot spots. Our experts monitor this 7-day average instead of new cases, especially since local health departments have shifted their focus to vaccine reporting and no longer report case counts every 24 hours.
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The average positive test rate is climbing exponentially for my state, currently at 25.52%.
Tests are now only available if you are suspected of having a case, or if you go to a lab and pay for it yourself (there are no such labs here). All state testing centres were shut down in July.
my friend payden made this nebraska department of education public meeting super cut featuring a man saying in complete seriousness to take all of the budget for sex ed in nebraska and use it to instead hire someone to debate him https://t.co/xc2bCOFMuW
— andrea k (@wigglyyyworm) August 10, 2021
Using government facilities to spread propaganda.
Sadly, communism isn’t something that’s just studied in history books. There’s growing awareness across our state and country that it’s reinventing itself right here at home under the label of Critical Race Theory (CRT).
Read my full weekly column: https://t.co/05yBTsHXN1— Gov. Pete Ricketts (@GovRicketts) August 9, 2021
The dragging in the comments is exquisite.
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Everything I don’t like is communism,” a guide to Republican debate pic.twitter.com/4oF1hATZ1c
— Sky (@huskerfan4life9) August 9, 2021
There will be Legaltainment (tm) today, as apparently some of the lawyers in the (now voluntarily dismissed) In re: Gondor lawsuit are not pleased with the decision to dismiss, and have now decided to go big or go home:
It’s completely insane at every level, yet somehow manages to have less coherence or flair than anything Davis spewed out.
Anyway, I’ll try to figure out more of what’s going on with this nitwittery tomorrow.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) August 10, 2021
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is what we get under conservative governance.
Omaha middle school is ‘extremely sorry’ for displaying Hitler quote (Lincoln Journal-Star, February 3, 2021)
A quote by Adolf Hitler was displayed in a hallway at Westside Middle School on Monday, prompting an apology from the school’s principal.
In an email to students, families and staff, the school addressed the quote, apologizing “for the insensitivity this showed to our Jewish population and to other students.”
“We made a mistake today at WMS,” the email, signed by Westside Middle School Principal Kim Eymann and Superintendent Mike Lucas, began. “We allowed a ‘quote of the day’ from Adolf Hitler to be displayed on a board in one of our hallways.”
The quote, “The man who has no sense of history is like a man with no ears or eyes,” was displayed by a staff member in an eighth-grade hallway on a marker board, said Brandi Paul, a spokeswoman for Westside Community Schools.
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I’m going to drag myself off to bed. I have to go to town later. CU.
re: #181 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is what we get under conservative governance.
Omaha middle school is ‘extremely sorry’ for displaying Hitler quote (Lincoln Journal-Star, February 3, 2021)(more)
We need to ban the teaching of Critical Reich Theory, stop fretting over concentration camps and jackboots trampling occupied countries and focus instead on the positive aspects of National Socialism: the Autobahns, space technology and all those advances in medical research, especially pediatrics…
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Problem is that most of these yahoo’s have probably never read ANY of Marx’s works like “Das Capital” or “Grundrisse” - but somehow, they’re experts….
re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter
This may be somewhat reminiscent of the 1918 flu — the first wave was not so devastating but the next wave was especially deadly to the young. Someone would awaken in the morning feeling fine and died by the evening, killed by a cytokine storm. Obviously, delta is not yet that quick and lethal — but the next variant could be, as long as children are not yet eligible for the vaccine. But if those eligible all were vaccinated, we could be at a turning point in vanquishing this disease.
There is another statistic that is puzzling: Illinois and Florida are the same for fully vaccinated (about 50%); the partially vaccinated are 63% vs 59%. While Illinois case numbers have risen significantly since the surge, the number of cases are still 80% below the height and deaths as low as March of 2020; why is Florida doing so much worse with cases at an all time high and deaths at 60% of the height of the last wave? Florida is also doing far worse than Texas which has lower vaccination rates. What is different about Florida?
Florida filled with old people?
re: #184 Eric The Fruit Bat
Problem is that most of these yahoo’s have probably never read ANY of Marx’s works like “Das Capital” or “Grundrisse” - but somehow, they’re experts….
They haven’t read much of the Bible and certainly even less on Biblical history and scholarship but they’re experts on that subject, too…
The thing overlooked in “personal choice” and “a risk I’m willing to take” is that when ICU beds fill up, the death rate skyrockets and that “personal choice” of yours has come to affect the well-being (and even lives) of others.
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The thing overlooked in “personal choice” and “a risk I’m willing to take” is that when ICU beds fill up, the death rate skyrockets and that “personal choice” of yours has come to affect the well-being (and even lives) of others.
Yeah, but nobody gives a shit about each other anymore. In Republican America, human empathy is dead, treated as “weakness”. You need to ascribe to the Randian ideal of “every man for himself”, and do everything in your power to advance yourself at the expense of your neighbors.
re: #89 Targetpractice
And it’s only going to get worse as red states that haven’t already forced kids back into crowded classrooms with no masks do so because schools in this country are simply glorified daycare centers paid for by taxpayers so that businesses don’t have to shell out the money to provide such benefits to their workers.
My university just sent out boilerplate language stating all students must be masked, properly, in class, and any not properly masked are to be sent off and counted absent for the day. We wouldn’t have to do this if more than 50% of the state was vaccinated and people had worn the damned mask.
So while (insider)
Gov. Ron DeSantis is waging a war on school mask mandates, and is threatening to withhold the paychecks of school board members who defy his mask ban
A grim truth is (daily beast)
Florida’s Death Toll Now Exceeds DeSantis’ Margin of Victory
re: #93 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Several histories I have read of the Spanish flu pandemic mention the earlier pandemic and discuss the possibility that immunity from that episode might have protected many older people in 1918-21.
1889-1890 pandemic
I thought our current influenza outbreaks all stemmed from mutated versions of the 1918 one.
re: #191 steve_davis
I thought our current influenza outbreaks all stemmed from mutated versions of the 1918 one.
No, there’s like 5 or 6 different base strains of influenza virus, and the “seasonal flu” winds up being whichever one mutates in such a way as to beat the existing base immune response in most humans and require a vaccination. Sometimes it’s more than one, which is why we get seasons where the flu shot is less effective. There’s hope that an mRNA flu vaccine might be effective against many variants, which would quash “flu season” as a thing altogether… if we can convince people to take it.
An article about one of the disinformation dirty dozen, Dr. Tenpenny, and how she profits off of spreading anti-vaxxer disinformation. news.yahoo.com
I called the sadists at WISN radio this morning and dragged them for their covid bullshit. Fuckboy on the phone just laughed and laughed when I told him he has blood on his hands. They had a nice laugh on air talking about “leftist bullies” calling and telling them they “have blood on their hands”.
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I live in “Greater Panhandle.”
Something that I’ve wondered about for a while. Nebraska is a rectangular state, why is it called panhandle?
re: #196 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Something that I’ve wondered about for a while. Nebraska is a rectangular state, why is it called panhandle?
Except it’s not. It has a little fiddly bit on the west side that, with some creativity, can be imagined as a panhandle. This is even more true of Oklahoma, where the panhandle is much more like an actual panhandle.
re: #192 Dopamine Fish
No, there’s like 5 or 6 different base strains of influenza virus, and the “seasonal flu” winds up being whichever one mutates in such a way as to beat the existing base immune response in most humans and require a vaccination.
The UK’s epidemiological modellers, the ones trying to mathematically figure out what happens next with COVID-19, are predicting a Flu Season From Hell this winter due in part to the travel restrictions, social distancing and mask-wearing that occurred last year when influenza basically didn’t happen. There’s nothing in theory that would prevent someone being infected with COVID-19 and influenza at the same time, of course. This would be a Bad Thing.
The UK’s NHS is planning to inoculate at least 80% of the population against influenza this year rather than their usual approach of specifically providing inoculations to older folks and specifically vulnerable people via the health services and allowing others to get vaccinated at pharmacies etc. if they wish. We’ll see how it goes.
re: #198 Nojay UK
I am planning on getting the flu shot again this year, as I did last year. I may already be inoculated against COVID, but Delta is a serious disease, and I have no desire to open myself to any more risk than I need to. I have a feeling COVID + influenza is going to be an extremely deadly combo.
re: #100 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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Modern Republican Christianism:
Commandment #1: Thou shalt acquire as much wealth as possible by whatever means necessary.
Commandment #2: Your whiteness and being made male means you fell out of the right vagina and with the correct genitalia.
Commandment #3: All other prior Commandments to these 2 hereby rescinded.
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That article was…poorly…thought out and horribly expressed.
re: #199 Dopamine Fish
I am planning on getting the flu shot again this year, as I did last year.
The flu vaccine should be available any day now - its usually about this time that they’ve cooked up what they believe will hit us based on what happens based on the southern hemisphere.
Good thread from Rick Wilson. The GQP is a fascist grift machine.
1/ Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.
Let’s review the bidding: the governors of two of the largest states are letting COVID burn because muh freedumb plays to an audience of a network owned by a crank Aussie billionaire.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 10, 2021
re: #203 No Malarkey!
Good thread from Rick Wilson. The GQP is a fascist grift machine.
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As the grifters push their lemmings over the cliff, deaths are rocketing upwards on coronavirus.jhu.edu. Over 3,500 have died of Covid in the last week, and deaths in the last month have gone back above ten thousand.
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) — two members of the group that negotiated the bipartisan infrastructure framework — will vote against it, Politico reports.Both men are up for re-election in 2022.
cowards
re: #203 No Malarkey!
@timkazurinsky from @nbcsnl warned us 3 decades ago about Rupert and the New York Post…
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) August 10, 2021
re: #206 Dangerman
cowards
The GOP game is revealed. Didn’t they already invoke cloture on it and avoid a filibuster? So at this point, this is just grandstanding for the sake of the base?
re: #206 Dangerman
cowards
The calculation for GQP Senators is do they have more to fear in the GQP primary from a Trumpist challenger, or in the general from a Democrat? In Kansas and Indiana, it’s the primary.
In the face of such monumental stupidity, vaccine mandates are our only hope.
I’m sorry, what? https://t.co/KGCWsuqDtp pic.twitter.com/CF0qqqCOoG
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) August 9, 2021
I’m just gonna leave this here… pic.twitter.com/JIbsxzqBOt
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 10, 2021
My lone tomato plant got blossom drop so it only grew about 8 tomatos this year.However, I planted a grape vine when I moved in 10 years ago and never did anything to it and it finally has some grapes on it. Think I’ll tie it up now…
re: #199 Dopamine Fish
I am planning on getting the flu shot again this year, as I did last year. I may already be inoculated against COVID, but Delta is a serious disease, and I have no desire to open myself to any more risk than I need to. I have a feeling COVID + influenza is going to be an extremely deadly combo.
I expect going forward that influenza may get a mRNA vaccination that does a better job preventing the annual flu and doesn’t rely on current production practices and guestimates by experts about what variants will be prevalent in a given year. Once that happens, we’d probably see a combo vaccination for covid and influenza.
I’m down for that.
re: #120 teleskiguy
On my way into the amphitheater I saw a doe and her fawns.
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visitors to the apple trees in my backyard this morning:
re: #208 Dopamine Fish
The GOP game is revealed. Didn’t they already invoke cloture on it and avoid a filibuster? So at this point, this is just grandstanding for the sake of the base?
i voted against it after i designed it and voted for it
re: #211 jeffreyw
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Damn you, on the day I have to fast because of scheduled blood tests.
So political hack Patrick Ruffini is poo poohing the worries by those who are vaccinated and remasking mandates affecting everyone.
Um… a guy who is a political hack and isn’t a health expert has thoughts.
Let’s dissect them, shall we?
There’s no way for people to tell difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated. It’s all a honor system, and it’s clear that the unvaccinated have no intention of masking either, so it’s all or nothing. In GOP strongholds, that means no one masking and no masking mandates (even where localities are imposing mandates, GOP governors are trying to stop them by any means necessary).
There’s a reason I’m incandescent with rage at those who aren’t vaccinating and encouraging others not to vaccinate or mask - from Fox on down.
It’s not just that I care that people can avoid getting covid19 and spreading it in the community.
It’s not just that I care that people don’t end up hospitalized in an ICU or die, leaving family members with massive health care bills.
It’s not just that these people are sociopaths who don’t care about anyone else, including their own families.
It’s that their actions directly impact absolutely everyone else, regardless of whether you’re vaccinated or not.
Just watch hospital bed utilization rates. As ICUs get packed with covid19 cases, which usually take more resources and time to clear, there are fewer beds for everyone else.
People don’t just stop having heart attacks, strokes, and all the other ailments that result in need for a hospital bed or ICU. They don’t just stop having car crashes. Where do all the gun violence victims get beds to recover from their grievous injuries if the beds are filled with covid19 patients?
That’s right - they don’t get those beds. All health care is impacted. Quality of care drops, and more people die. There are more complications because people who would go to the hospital for care in emergency situations find themselves in even worse shape. Or once they get to hospitals, they have long waits in ERs or hallways waiting for beds to open - knowing that the bed opens in an ICU often because a covid19 patient dies.
Or, if the hospitals are completely overwhelmed, as many of them are all around the South, you are transported to hospitals in neighboring towns, cities, or even to other states (all at your cost).
So yeah, I’m pissed at these selfish sociopathic know nothings who get their news from Fox and social media and think that their online research about vaccines somehow found that they’re dangerous when actual experts say that they’re safe and knowing that hundreds of millions of doses have been administered in the US with minimal side effects and serious harms, while actual covid19 kills and incapacitates with alarming regularity.
re: #215 Amory Blaine
Yeah, I had something similar. My supersweet 100 cherry tomato plants are doing well, but my regular beefsteak tomato only managed one, despite being rather healthly and good growth right up to the bud.
re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth
visitors to the apple trees in my backyard this morning:
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re: #216 Dangerman
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Severe inflammation damages the walls of blood vessels throughout the body. The comments above got me to looking on the google, and I read an article where they examined samples of tissue from four men getting penile implants - 2 w/Covid and 2 w/out. The two with Covid had major vessel wall damage. It’s only two, but 100% of the sample set versus the control pair.
re: #223 sagehen
Read online:
It’s a wonder that Batman wasn’t a Disney princess given that every major origin story in the Disney cartoon universe (and even some live action) seems to start with killing off the parents:
Bambi: both parents dead/killed
Frozen: Elsa’s parents die/go missing
Dumbo
Lion King
Mary Poppins Returns
Artemis Fowl
Snow White
Little Mermaid..
and on and on…
NEW: For 1st time, average pay for grocery store and restaurant workers in the US has topped $15 an hour.
Overall, 80% of US workers now earn above $15, up from 60% in 2014.
Many job seekers refuse to consider jobs that pay less.https://t.co/OGA1NFl1ew w/@andrewvandam pic.twitter.com/H9598Vp35J— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) August 8, 2021
The overall effect has been one of the fastest periods of rising wages since the early 1980s for rank-and-file workers and a clear spike from pre-pandemic trends.
This higher pay is likely to be permanent as wages rarely fall once they move up. https://t.co/GKbZynL13f— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 9, 2021
we just got a moon shot, once in a century revolution in mrna technology and thirty percent of the population is running from it like it was conjured by a witch.
we got the good luck. we are throwing it in the toilet. it’s a pretty significant bummer. https://t.co/MpAPCVczm5— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) August 10, 2021
I might have gone over the line here…
You know who else liked getting rid of vulnerable populations?
Yeah, those guys. But y’know what, they were at least willing to actually do the evil, you want that evil to occur, but you’re so cowardly that you won’t do anything.— jay (@random__name) August 10, 2021
One of the largest voting-machine compa-nies in the U.S. on Tuesday sued two conservative media net-works and a businessman it said had defamed it by spreading accusations that it rigged the 2020 election for President Biden,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended from tweeting for a week after she claimed on Twitter yesterday that vaccines are “failing.”
— Donie O’Sullivan (@donie) August 10, 2021
I think that’s two strikes
Last week, Desantis didn’t want to “Fauci his Florida,” and didn’t “want to hear a jot” from Biden about covid. This week, he wants them to ship him 300 ventilators ASAP. pic.twitter.com/ZnCPVib93c
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 10, 2021
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and two other House Republicans who are suing Speaker Pelosi over the mask mandate hired a lawyer with a record.https://t.co/dnIosxsPCl via @politicususa
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 10, 2021
Chris Wiest, the lawyer for Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) in their suit against Pelosi over the House’s mask mandate, was previously suspended by the Ohio and Kentucky bar associations over insider trading, according to court and Securities and Exchange Commission documents.
my shocked face…
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
Twitter has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account for one week following another yet violation of the platform’s rules.https://t.co/oKWQ9wmAPc
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) August 10, 2021
re: #230 Dangerman
I think that’s two strikes
the tweet:
A one week suspension for @mtgreenee for literally harming/killing people w/ blatantly false information & a repeat offender as well is not sufficient. This easily merits a permanent ban from Twitter. Retweet if you agree.
cc: @jack @TwitterSafety @TwitterSupport @edgett pic.twitter.com/l7WSgBp8tC— Richard Signorelli (@richsignorelli) August 10, 2021
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Didn’t you say at #126 that Omaha was being proactive?
re: #229 Dangerman
BREAKING: Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6B lawsuit against Newsmax, OANN, and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne for defamation.https://t.co/QKbv2RvOqX
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) August 10, 2021
Cincinnati’s mayor enters Democratic race for governor of Ohio, pitching legal weed https://t.co/Ue4io8L1Ao
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) August 10, 2021
re: #220 Dopamine Fish
Damn you, on the day I have to fast because of scheduled blood tests.
*twists mustache and cackles*
re: #212 No Malarkey!
Well, the screenwriter of “I Am Legend” has weighed in so that should settle it (…) https://t.co/DIwzi2BYjr
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) August 9, 2021
Fuck anti-vaxxers, man.
Health workers in Texas and nearby states have struggled with a lack of intensive-care beds, said Rhiana Ireland, an emergency-room doctor who is herself struggling with what she believes is a breakthrough case.
Ireland described spending hours unsuccessfully trying to find a bed for a 22-year-old southeast Texas patient, hunting as far away as Colorado, North Dakota and Montana. All she could provide him was oxygen and steroids because her hospital lacks remdesivir or monoclonal antibodies.
“I know what he needs, but I can’t do it,” she said.
Ireland said she and her colleagues are not only exhausted, but frustrated by knowing that vaccines could have headed off the new surge. “It feels like this is worse” than December, Ireland said as she coughed and struggled to breathe, using an inhaler.
Nationwide, hospital utilization is expected to rise further in coming weeks, according to projections from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and there are already too few people to care for patients.
i’m reminded of DOI Sec. Deb Haaland’s confirmation hearing, when three GOP senators took offense to an Oct. tweet in which Haaland said “Rs don’t believe in science”
Marshall is among the doctors Barrasso was referring to here…https://t.co/QuNffz6kBC https://t.co/kKs8CYYXhV pic.twitter.com/9iXIELJMgn— Chris D’Angelo (@c_m_dangelo) August 10, 2021
If they invent a cancer vaccine I’m going to take it https://t.co/z6Hgd8q3Ns
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 9, 2021
huh? pic.twitter.com/l0V7cNZb13
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 10, 2021
“today senate democrats want to take their next big step to play russian roulette with our country”
JFC
Go Navy:
74% of the Navy already has least one shot.
65% of active duty Air Force
50% of Army https://t.co/H8UdsGZoFw— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) August 9, 2021
re: #245 lawhawk
They have cancer vaccinations.
The HPV vaccine prevents a bunch of cancers.
Still remember my insane aunt and brainwashed older sister ranting about the Gawdless HPV vaccine because it was “unchristian” and “promoted premarital sex”…
I’ve been a registered Democrat for 30 years. I assure you, the exact opposite is true. We have millions of chefs in the kitchen — it’s partly what keeps us from winning more often. https://t.co/iLraJZG9q1
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 10, 2021
re: #244 Belafon
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re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth
“today senate democrats want to take their next big step to play russian roulette with our country”
JFC
Based on Republican/Conservative/Libertarian evil, our country itself is currently on a ventilator, prognosis is grim.
Walsh is the kind of guy who thinks that getting a preventable disease is a mark of strength or somehow a badge of honor.
Why the fuck would anyone want to get sick? Being sick sucks. Getting covid19 sucks. It sucks even worse if you’re hospitalized, or get intubated, or die.
Because that’s more likely if you’re unvaccinated than if you are. You also reduce spread to others and if enough people are vaccinated, you can eliminate the spread to the point where it’s safe to resume normal activities without masks or distancing.
Other diseases aren’t communicable like covid19, but they suck just as fiercely if you get them.
Vaccination prevents the harms and economic losses for parents caring for kids too - no need to take sick days for chicken pox if you’re vaccinated. Don’t have to worry about measles or polio either. Or smallpox. We can functionally eradicate diseases that used to ravage the population.
We’re even closer to vaccinations that can deal with malaria - one of the big global killers. These are good things that help improve health, safety, and improve economic outputs.
Yeah, I’m framing it as economic benefits, because that’s how these know nothing sociopaths view everything - it’s a cost or a benefit, and the costs of not vaccinating are far higher than vaccinating.
“You who are passing by
I beg you
do something
learn a dance step
something to justify your existence
something that gives you the right
[…]
because it would be too senseless after all
for so many to have died
while you live
doing nothing with your life.”
- Charlotte Delbo https://t.co/o5Asb4XTzX— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) August 10, 2021
The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19. Moderna’s vaccine may be best against Delta variant https://t.co/xQJv6zbVsV
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 10, 2021
“remember when everyone laughed at drumpf ” - remember? I still laugh at Drumpf.
Don’t pretend as if economic geologists have not long wondered about Greenland resource extraction. This is not new news. The joint venture (Bezos et. al.) is just the most visible effort.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) August 10, 2021
re: #249 JOE 🥓
Still remember my insane aunt and brainwashed older sister ranting about the Gawdless HPV vaccine because it was “unchristian” and “promoted premarital sex”…
Whereas I was pushing for my sons to get the vaccine before they were even talking about boys getting it. We switched pediatricians because he refused to talk about it.
re: #257 Dangerman
I’m not gonna listen to Ted.
Who is the one person?
Presumably President Biden, which is peaking the irony meter considering that they’re all slaves to the rule of Donald J. Trump.
re: #211 jeffreyw
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I have done avocado and Sriracha (or Gochugang) on BLT, but not egg. Thanks for that idea.
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
The former guy called Ted a serial killer.
Called his dad a murderer.
Called his wife ugly.
And what did Ted do?
He bent the knee.
He kissed the ring.
He obeyed.
Dutifully & sycophantically.
“Sir, yes sir.”
He even tried to overturn the election.
To appease one “man”.
A madman.— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) August 10, 2021
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
Even Will Rogers knew that nearly 100 years ago.
re: #257 Dangerman
I’m not gonna listen to Ted.
Who is the one person?
I didn’t listen either
I figured it had to be Fauci or Biden
re: #261 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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My kind of day!
Did someone say it was #NationalLazyDay?
This sleeping Eros is already on it. 💤
One of the few bronze statues to have survived from antiquity, this work may have been used as a dedication within a sanctuary or as decoration within a garden.
Learn more: https://t.co/BxB01lnKYB pic.twitter.com/YRNx1Wkja5— The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum) August 10, 2021
re: #259 Dopamine Fish
Presumably President Biden, which is peaking the irony meter considering that they’re all slaves to the rule of Donald J. Trump.
THIS.
re: #214 No Malarkey!
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re: #256 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Greenland resources are more likely to be exploitable if the ice sheet that covers it is greatly reduced by man made global warming. It facilitates further exploration and exploitation.
I’d rather focus on the spoils piles at mines here in the US and around the world that have rare earth elements (which aren’t all that rare), but weren’t considered important when mining for copper or other precious metals at the time.
And by going into those spoils piles, we can also help restore those environments without doing new damage elsewhere.
‘The Vaccination Queen:’ Nurse practitioner takes Covid shots house to house in Puerto Rico. About 57% of the population is fully vaccinated. The one-woman vaccination campaign hopes to raise that percentage higher https://t.co/xDhenk1klW
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) August 10, 2021
re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth
“today senate democrats want to take their next big step to play russian roulette with our country”
JFC
Hey Fuckface McGee, didn’t you yourself personally vote for cloture? Fuck on out of here with this shit, if you’re going to use extreme hyperbole to oppose something, you damn well better be opposing it all the way, not “I voted for it before I voted against it”.
re: #241 Dopamine Fish
You and Mrs. Fish, conspiring together. I swear.
A cackle in two part harmony is just so cool! She needs more practice on the mustache, though.
re: #259 Dopamine Fish
Presumably President Biden, which is peaking the irony meter considering that they’re all slaves to the rule of Donald J. Trump.
While dems don’t lock step anything..how odd we’d listen to the head of the party…
I hope they’re so sad that they get vaccinated https://t.co/Gr4tTVabsZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 10, 2021
Nebraska, the North Korea of the United States:
As of yesterday, Nebraska has stopped requiring reporting of Covid data. Of the state’s 93 counties, 82 are now unknowns. On Friday, we reported our highest one-day total of new cases since January. As cases spread from the Gulf Coast to the Great Plains, we’re blindfolded. pic.twitter.com/9GX2eTmkbM
— Ted Genoways (@TedGenoways) August 9, 2021
re: #274 Belafon
Nebraska, the North Korea of the United States:
They should color in the affected counties with black, instead of white. “Unknown, but almost certain death.”
A Republican hoping Democrats will save him:
docs & nurses are great people but they’d be nuts to rush into a house fire while the governor is still inside spraying down the walls with gasoline https://t.co/0U00FMQz9m
— kilgore trout, terminal hiccups patient (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 9, 2021
NEW: An Open Letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey from a Twitter Shareholder: Trump’s Chief Spokesperson Liz Harrington is Tweeting His Election Lies
“I am concerned about further risk of violence incited by Harrington’s Tweets.”$TWTR #BanLizHarrington
https://t.co/xsrkIoi7Si— Nancy Levine (@nancylevine) August 10, 2021
I had to see this, so now you do as well, because I’m obviously a monster.
Exactly! pic.twitter.com/jiLANOuJNM
— ProfBackUp (@back_prof) August 10, 2021
Memories of 47 years ago at Pitt Summer Sessions when there was a massive party all over the campus due to Tricky Dick resigning.
Never did I imagine then that within 6 years Pruneface would be in the Oval Office presiding over the deindustrialization of Western PA…oh and Trump? He was just a pompous asshole…
Well it’s about damn time!
Breaking: voting machine manufacturer Dominion has sued Newsmax & OANN for $1.6 billion in defamation damages. A separate $1.6 billion lawsuit was also filed by Dominion against Overstack CEO Patrick Byrne, a Trump supporter & election conspiracy theorist.https://t.co/RVsSl8yDUW
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) August 10, 2021
re: #280 (((Archangel1)))
Well it’s about damn time!
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HAPPENING NOW — HAWKINS COUNTY school on lockdown… “active shooter” reported at Volunteer High… @TriCitiesHoller
https://t.co/mrod0bimwO pic.twitter.com/gyv2bNaOHw— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) August 10, 2021
If you have a child at Volunteer High School in Hawkins go to the Mount Carmel National Guard Armory. The students are being evacuated there. pic.twitter.com/mOx0LD7cTt
— Kate Nemarich WJHL (@KateNemNews) August 10, 2021
WJHL still saying a lot unknown about the reported active shooter situation in Hawkins County at Volunteer High… pic.twitter.com/HV56VCqCoe
— The Tri-Cities TN Holler (@TriCitiesHoller) August 10, 2021
re: #282 JOE 🥓
Just in time for the opening of Crackhead Mike’s Assholepalooza!
Oh, that’s right, that’s this week! And then on Saturday, we’re supposed to wake up and magically, Donald J. Trump will be President for life…
re: #284 Dopamine Fish
Oh, that’s right, that’s this week! And then on Saturday, we’re supposed to wake up and magically, Donald J. Trump will be President for life…
The QAssholes have now pushed the date back to September 17th—Constitution Day and they also insist that the Supreme Court will allow Trump to serve 2 additional terms due to the…”illegal impeachment actions”…
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #285 JOE 🥓
The QAssholes have now pushed the date back to September 17th—Constitution Day and they also insist that the Supreme Court will allow Trump to serve 2 additional terms due to the…”illegal impeachment actions”…
As I said, President for life. His first term didn’t count because deep state. His second term, being served now (supposedly), doesn’t count because of having to fight the election and all that. His third term won’t count because obviously the libtards will cry “unconstitutional” and he’ll have to fight that. His fourth term won’t count because someone farted and it put him off his humours. Etc., etc.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed bills passed by the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature that would have imposed new restrictions on absentee ballots in the state. The Democratic governor had been widely expected to turn back the bills. https://t.co/fp7oQ6Hvgj
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 10, 2021
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
If GOP and right wingers refuse to act on gun violence and school shootings, why would any of them give a crap how many kids get sick or die from covid19?
It’s the same fucking mentality. They don’t care. They just want people with tiny hands to keep the Wilfred train running.
re: #188 Dopamine Fish
Yeah, but nobody gives a shit about each other anymore. In Republican America, human empathy is dead, treated as “weakness”. You need to ascribe to the Randian ideal of “every man for himself”, and do everything in your power to advance yourself at the expense of your neighbors.
“The primary tenet of Buddhism is not ‘every man for himself’!”
This sounds like a subplot line from an episode of “The Simpsons”:
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) August 10, 2021
re: #293 JOE 🥓
All of the participants feel like fuckin’ idiots, or should.
Meanwhile in the Georgia Senate Race…
Trump ally Herschel Walker’s wife voted in Georgia in 2022 — but she lives in Texas: report
While her Trump asskissing hubby endlessly tweeted about “voter fraud”…
re: #230 Dangerman
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apparently it’s 4 out of 5 strikes - so still just one more and done
Twitter has a five strike policy on Covid misinformation. It looks like Greene is on her 4th strike. pic.twitter.com/J8di7mXfXF
— Donie O’Sullivan (@donie) August 10, 2021
re: #280 (((Archangel1)))
Well it’s about damn time!
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What’s interesting here is, how often does a company (or person or entity) bowling for defamation dollars get so many pins to strike at once?
It’s not complicated, the filings are cut and paste. “On [paste date], the defendant [Rudy Maria Sidney Onan etc] said [insert quote] during [broadcast]. The defendant knew or should have verified that claim [insert] could not be true because Dominion does not and has not provided voting machines or software to [ity-district-state]….”
…
All these defendant schmucks are sitting ducks. They didn’t try to check their claims because they were fabricated from thin air. They just thought they could put a voting machine company name on their wild conspiracy claims and no one would notice or object. THEN even better, when Dominion started serving papers saying “um we object” most of them kept repeating the bullshit!!
re: #220 Dopamine Fish
Damn you, on the day I have to fast because of scheduled blood tests.
I always stop at the diner for a nice big high calorie and cholesterol breakfast after the poke on days like that at the VA ;)
re: #249 JOE 🥓
Still remember my insane aunt and brainwashed older sister ranting about the Gawdless HPV vaccine because it was “unchristian” and “promoted premarital sex”…
That was the big one that I’ve have against the HPV vaccine — my 13yo daughter doesn’t and isn’t going to have sex, why should she get the vaccine? Uh, because the younger you get it, the stronger the immune reaction.
re: #284 Dopamine Fish
Oh, that’s right, that’s this week! And then on Saturday, we’re supposed to wake up and magically, Donald J. Trump will be President for life…
i had a sad this morning cause they moved it back to some nebulous time later
… MyPillow guy Mike Lindell has run the numbers, and decided that—gasp!—Trump is not likely to return to the White House on August 13 (i.e., on Friday). Instead, he says it will be late August, or possibly September…
re: #296 Dangerman
Five strikes is WAY too fucking lenient IMO.
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
A call about an active shooter inside a Tennessee high school prompted a major response from area law enforcement agencies, but a sheriff’s office says no suspect was found and no shooting injuries have been reported. https://t.co/R8PyYqRF5q
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 10, 2021
re: #303 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
If no injuries were reported, why were people taken to hospital?
re: #304 Eclectic Cyborg
If no injuries were reported, why were people taken to hospital?
I read “no shooting injuries”. Something else must have happened.
re: #300 Dangerman
i had a sad this morning cause they moved it back to some nebulous time later
Our own Joe Bacon says the nutters are claiming September 17th. I sure as hell hope not - don’t spoil my anniversary weekend with this, I have something special planned with Mrs. Fish this year after the clusterfuck that was last year.
re: #307 Dopamine Fish
Our own Joe Bacon says the nutters are claiming September 17th. I sure as hell hope not - don’t spoil my anniversary weekend with this, I have something special planned with Mrs. Fish this year after the clusterfuck that was last year.
Well, it could be a clusterfuck this year too, you know?
re: #307 Dopamine Fish
Our own Joe Bacon says the nutters are claiming September 17th. I sure as hell hope not - don’t spoil my anniversary weekend with this, I have something special planned with Mrs. Fish this year after the clusterfuck that was last year.
September 17th will come and go and the QAssholes will move the goalposts again…will it be Veterans Day…Maybe Thanksgiving…Or Christmas…Or New Years…bet it won’t be moved to Dr. King’s birthday! 😏
Meanwhile X from Utah Outcasts checks in with the Head Mormon
The replies! Oh my god Mormons what are you even doing anymore, your culture is Fox News and patriarchy, why aren’t you following your pope? https://t.co/OSvFwQ8RFt
— Utah Outcast X (@UtahOutcasts) August 9, 2021
Oh, and now that I’m reminded, today’s Legaltainment (tm)…
In re Gondor III dropped last night. A first impressions thread. #inregondorhttps://t.co/2uLN67HbFr
— Mithradates (@MithradatesVI) August 10, 2021
re: #302 Eclectic Cyborg
Five strikes is WAY too fucking lenient IMO.
i’m thinking of it like the legal appeals process - in terms of the time it takes only
she’s inevitably going to get booted because she cant control herself.
i dont know if its actually intentional or not - probably not because it means losing a huge megaphone. tfg certainly didnt foresee when it happened to him and he’s mostly if not totally stifled - shadow people accounts (above) notwithstanding.
meanwhile it’s taking the courts 4 years already and maybe one more to finally declare that ‘shall’ means ‘shall’ w/r/t tfg’s tax returns.
yet another hearing in november
then the inevitable appeal
then scotus
all for an unqualified ‘shall furnish’ any return, no qualifications or reasons necessary.
Meanwhile, in the land of the #QAnonCult: pic.twitter.com/8vByicq1T8
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) August 10, 2021
WTF is the “Rod of God”?
Is that the Big Guy’s giant heaven-schvantz?
US Senate poised to pass $1tn bipartisan infrastructure bill – live https://t.co/YAEuaM4aKu
— The Guardian (@guardian) August 10, 2021
Final passage votes are ones where you have to remind people that it only actually takes a simple majority to pass bills. Right there in Article I.
Cloture is what requires 60 votes.— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) August 10, 2021
See what happens when Fox News says that there is an imminent…BACON SHORTAGE??????
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) August 10, 2021
re: #312 Dopamine Fish
Oh, and now that I’m reminded, today’s Legaltainment (tm)…
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re: #317 Dangerman
bottom of page one: www.thegreendrangon.info ??
Kellye SoRelle is… not the sharpest crayon in the box.
re: #318 Dopamine Fish
Kellye SoRelle is… not the sharpest crayon in the box.
Kellye SoRelle is Kellye SoBrainDead.
re: #316 JOE 🥓
See what happens when Fox News says that there is an imminent…BACON SHORTAGE??????
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) August 10, 2021
It’s tough for them to blames the Jews for that one.
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re: #320 b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)
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They better be nice to us…I got the key to trigger the Space Laser! 😉
re: #320 b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)
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we control it, we just don’t eat it.
control the bacon (not you), control the world!
On Facebook, a former coworker of my wife is asking for prayers for her nephew, who is critically ill with Covid.
Did Mike Lindell say Aubrey Huff will be reinstated to Twitter on August 13?
— Don Lewis (@DonLew87) August 10, 2021
“The Mesa County Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Colorado is under investigation by the Secretary of State’s Office over a “breach in security” in its election system.”“Secretary of State Jena Griswold called on Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to supply surveillance videos and documents showing how the breach occurred, and how security information ended up on a social media post,.”.
“If Peters can’t show proper chain of custody for that security information, which involves certain passwords that are eyes-only for state and county election workers who have passed background checks, all of the county’s election systems could be immediately decertified, meaning the county would be on the hook for an expensive refit of all of its machines.”
“Peters is a fervent Trump supporter “who appears to have executed a self-own of historic proportion.” …
rawstory
And right off the bat, Crackhead Mike goes after George Soros.
We are already on the George Soros conspiracy theory portion of the Mike Lindell “cyber symposium” event. Right out of the gate
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) August 10, 2021
re: #315 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So, all the GOPers who voted to end cloture - securing the 60, can turn around and say that they opposed the bill - all while going back home to claim credit for the money pouring into their states.
That’s the GOP way.
re: #324 JOE 🥓
Aubrey Huff got kicked off Twitter? I can’t believe that bastard lasted longer than I did on that platform.
I have no idea who Aubrey Huff is. I assume I’m better off not knowing?
re: #329 Eclectic Cyborg
I have no idea who Aubrey Huff is. I assume I’m better off not knowing?
Former baseball player who turned out to be a right wing lunatic antivaxxer (among other things).
Owen Strachan, the provost of a strip mall seminary in Conway, Arkansas, and the guy who babbled on about not changing a single comma in the Biblical text (and who had to be told that the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts HAVE no commas), is back babbling again.
I’m blocked by him but apparently Twitter’s blocking mechanism is imperfect, so I got to see this lunacy.
Do you see yet, Christian, the attack on creation order?The sexes are oppressiveThe free market is destructiveThe family is ruinousThe church is poisonousThe bordered nation-state is evilThe police are hatefulHumanity is hopelessly divided by “race”Do you see yet?
— Owen Strachan (@ostrachan) August 9, 2021
Oh yeah, Owen’s a patriarchalist.
Men:
Run toward your wife, not away.
Run toward your children, not away.
Run toward holiness, not away.
Run toward your church, not away.
Run toward the burning public square, not away.
Run toward the altar of repentance, not away.
Run toward the Father, not away.— Owen Strachan (@ostrachan) August 10, 2021
re: #329 Eclectic Cyborg
I have no idea who Aubrey Huff is. I assume I’m better off not knowing?
He was a baseball player - SF Giants - on one of the World Series teams. Then after baseball he outed himself as a wingnut bigoted Trumper gun humper. Said enough offensive shit the Giants didn’t invite him to a World Series players reunion. Now he’s just a bitter has-been.
re: #327 lawhawk
So, all the GOPers who voted to end cloture - securing the 60, can turn around and say that they opposed the bill - all while going back home to claim credit for the money pouring into their states.
That’s the GOP way.
Yep, that looks to be the way of things. How fucking stupid.
re: #314 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
WTF is the “Rod of God”?
Is that the Big Guy’s giant heaven-schvantz?
Actually they were called Rods From God.
re: #314 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
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Is that the Big Guy’s giant heaven-schvantz?
re: #334 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Actually they were called Rods From God.
Oh, is that the hypothetical drop-kinetic-ammunition-from-orbit weapon that right-wing space nuts fantasize about?
welcome to the Land of the Consequences of Your Actions
“I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn” — Gov. Andrew Cuomo pic.twitter.com/mCIxB6zVCi
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 10, 2021
Here’s another bit of crazy from Owen Strachan.
What our world calls evil, God calls good:
The sexes are designed
The free market is transformative
The family is a gift
The church is God’s body
The bordered nation-state is necessary
The police keep order
Humanity is powerfully united by faith in Christ
Do you see yet?— Owen Strachan (@ostrachan) August 9, 2021
His first statement is wrong, because he seems to think there is a binary in sexes, but we know from biology that’s simply untrue.
re: #329 Eclectic Cyborg
I have no idea who Aubrey Huff is. I assume I’m better off not knowing?
A former baseball player and current wingnut.
re: #327 lawhawk
So, all the GOPers who voted to end cloture - securing the 60, can turn around and say that they opposed the bill - all while going back home to claim credit for the money pouring into their states.
That’s the GOP way.
Senate passes the $550B infrastructure bill 69-30;
VP Kamala Harris in the chair— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) August 10, 2021
re: #336 Dopamine Fish
Oh, is that the hypothetical drop-kinetic-ammunition-from-orbit weapon that right-wing space nuts fantasize about?
Yep. Personally, I think it was ripped off from Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress story. Except instead of titanium rods, they threw actual rocks.
re: #338 mmmirele
Here’s another bit of crazy from Owen Strachan.
His first statement is wrong, because he seems to think there is a binary in sexes, but we know from biology that’s simply untrue.
I mean, I can’t say I’ve really read the Bible save for a Children’s Bible about 30 years ago—but where does God say “The bordered nation-state is necessary”? Or the “free market is transformative”?
re: #338 mmmirele
Here’s another bit of crazy from Owen Strachan.
His first statement is wrong, because he seems to think there is a binary in sexes, but we know from biology that’s simply untrue.
When the Bible was written neither police or bordered nation-states existed.
If you own this Mini, you need to move it sharpish. Another 20 mins until high tide. pic.twitter.com/KHj3TdCM6b
— James May (@MrJamesMay) August 10, 2021
re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth
welcome to the Land of the Consequences of Your Actions
cuomo’s going with “nobody told me they ‘changed the rules’”?
Report This turd. He’s dangerous
We will destroy it once back in power
— Tony Collins (@TonyCol42028424) August 10, 2021
re: #345 Dangerman
cuomo’s going with “nobody told me they ‘changed the rules’”?
going with the classics, he is…
re: #340 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
how much was the infrastructure bill? I was hearing $1T, but that’s a lot less.
BREAKING: Governor Andrew Cuomo has just announced that he is resigning effective in 14 days.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 10, 2021
Cuomo’s resignation takes effect in 14 days…
re: #348 Belafon
how much was the infrastructure bill? I was hearing $1T, but that’s a lot less.
I’m seeing 1.5T. When did that change. That’s not even a bandaid. The House won’t accept that. Neither do I.
re: #341 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Yep. Personally, I think it was ripped off from Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress story. Except instead of titanium rods, they threw actual rocks.
Tungsten rods.
Wikipedia:
Project Thor is an idea for a weapons system that launches telephone pole-sized kinetic projectiles made from tungsten from Earth’s orbit to damage targets on the ground. Jerry Pournelle created the concept while working in operations research at Boeing in the 1950s before becoming a science-fiction writer. In the 1980s, a similar idea was conceptualized as a potential part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, there codenamed Brilliant Pebbles.
Turns up in _Footfall_ as a weapon used by the invading aliens IIRC.
For an event that is supposedly about election tech, these folks are absolutely clueless about the most basic functions of the internet, Anyway, very cool that hundreds of thousands of people are watching this live on a Tuesday morning. Great country.
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) August 10, 2021
re: #350 lawhawk
Cuomo’s resignation takes effect in 14 days…
Where I work, when you put in your notice, they pull your Security and show you the door. All on good terms of course.
re: #353 Backwoods_Sleuth
They haven’t shown much of a care about how elections work and how votes are votes regardless of when in the process they are counted. So is it surprising that their ignorance extends to many other areas?
re: #354 Dave In Austin
Where I work, when you put in your notice, they pull your Security and show you the door. All on good terms of course.
14 days does allow for something of a transition though. It’s not like you’re just replacing a clerk here.
No, idiot relative rejoicing because Cuomo resigned…AOC is NOT going to run for Governor of New York…but keep in babbling your stupid shit…
re: #354 Dave In Austin
Where I work, when you put in your notice, they pull your Security and show you the door. All on good terms of course.
Not around here. You put in your notice, you spend your two weeks documenting the ever-loving fuck out of everything so that whatever poor sod they hired to do your job plus two others actually has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting something done before they burn out and quit.
re: #354 Dave In Austin
There’s nothing that he can do in the next 14 days that Gov. Hochul can’t do. He should be gone as of 12:30pm ET today. They can vacate the governor’s mansion at his timeframe, but the office of the Governor should be vacated and transferred to Hochul asap.
re: #359 lawhawk
There’s nothing that he can do in the next 14 days that Gov. Hochul can’t do. He should be gone as of 12:30pm ET today. They can vacate the governor’s mansion at his timeframe, but the office of the Governor should be vacated and transferred to Hochul asap.
He could go full Bibi and refuse to leave the house.
re: #356 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
NY has some experience with governors resigning in disgrace and fast transfer - Spitzer resigned in a sex scandal and replaced with Paterson. 5 days from announcement of resignation and the transfer.
re: #339 No Malarkey!
A former baseball player and current wingnut.
I didn’t either, but I could tell he was a wingnut by his refusal to take responsibility for his own actions that got him a ban. It’s always the fault of better people.
Cuomo’s resignation announcement manages to eclipse the passage by Democrats of a $1.2 TRILLION piece of signature legislation.
Gives you a sense of scale for just how big of a narcissist he is.— Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 (@leahmcelrath) August 10, 2021
When I gave 2 weeks notice, I worked 5 eight hour shifts each week. They paid me for the first one, but lost the check for the ultimate week. Yesterday, I paid a small fee up front to have a half hour on the phone with an attorney, in a week. My ideas about ‘access to the law’ have changed somewhat.
re: #352 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Tungsten rods.
Wikipedia:
Project Thor is an idea for a weapons system that launches telephone pole-sized kinetic projectiles made from tungsten from Earth’s orbit to damage targets on the ground. Jerry Pournelle created the concept while working in operations research at Boeing in the 1950s before becoming a science-fiction writer. In the 1980s, a similar idea was conceptualized as a potential part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, there codenamed Brilliant Pebbles.Turns up in _Footfall_ as a weapon used by the invading aliens IIRC.
Thanks. Don’t know why the hell I did that. I just finished reading the article. *sigh*
Either way, they seem to be a popular SciFi weapon of mass destruction. The Centauri used mass drivers against the Narn Home world, The Kodan used meteors against the Star League, and well you get the point.
re: #358 Dopamine Fish
Not around here. You put in your notice, you spend your two weeks documenting the ever-loving fuck out of everything so that whatever poor sod they hired to do your job plus two others actually has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting something done before they burn out and quit.
That should already be documented. I know incompetent management when I see it, and I’ve seen my share.
re: #364 Eclectic Cyborg
Even Bibi eventually left.
No it will be Guliani as he was the Mayor
— Walter(Owen’s Grandp (@walterowensgrpa) August 10, 2021
re: #359 lawhawk
There’s nothing that he can do in the next 14 days that Gov. Hochul can’t do. He should be gone as of 12:30pm ET today. They can vacate the governor’s mansion at his timeframe, but the office of the Governor should be vacated and transferred to Hochul asap.
Maybe he’s got a bunch of pardons he wants to do?
Or maybe there’s some formula that two more weeks will give him more of a pension than this afternoon?
re: #369 Dave In Austin
Speaking of Giuliani, I fully expect that asshole to use the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 to fundraise off of if he’s not doing it already.
re: #368 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That should already be documented. I know incompetent management when I see it, and I’ve seen my share.
As a developer, “documentation” is a code word for “pointless drudgery because anybody who’s going to touch this should already know it”, and we actively avoid it unless there’s a pending job transition, so it gives us something to do rather than leaving an actual project half-started and forcing our successor to figure out where in the hell our brain was at.
I saw that Andrew Sullivan was trending for a particular reason, and while I should have expected what I saw, I couldn’t help but still be disappointed. This tweet kinda summed it up for me:
In two days I’ve seen Brian Williams interview Andrew Sullivan on his new book and watched CBS promote the immigrants are spreading Covid story, if you’re at all curious why we’re here at this point in history.
— Mark Thompson (@Son_of_a_Thomp) August 10, 2021
Meanwhile, I see that Cuomo resigned. A couple weeks late, but absolutely necessary. At the same time…it’s a reminder that consequences only matter when it comes to Dems. If Cuomo was a Republican, no doubt he’d be allowed to skate on by with zero consequences, and that makes this resignation, as necessary as it is, another bitter reminder of where things lay around this country.
re: #334 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Actually they were called Rods From God.
Used in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
Exaggerated, but one of those imaginative city destruction scenes.
Well, as a longtime resident of the Empire State, I can only proffer one comment regarding Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announced resignation:
GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE!!!!
Though why he is waiting two weeks to leave is ridiculous - Friday the 13th - three days from now - would be much better (and leave Kathy Hochul with the hoodoo). Oh well, better late than never, I guess…
re: #372 Dopamine Fish
As a developer, “documentation” is a code word for “pointless drudgery because anybody who’s going to touch this should already know it”, and we actively avoid it unless there’s a pending job transition, so it gives us something to do rather than leaving an actual project half-started and forcing our successor to figure out where in the hell our brain was at.
I never quite viewed it that way since I discovered that looking at some of my coding six months later it’d take a bit of time to catch back up on why I was doing some things the way I had done them.
So I tended to leave documentation or comments indicating what I was trying to accomplish in that section. Plus generally a file or two describing tricky bits of a support procedure, who to talk to if there was a a problem, and expected maintenance cycles. I wore 4-5 hats at my last job and there was no local expertise for a few of things I did. A year after I was laid off I still got phone calls on my cell from the company that did some of the HVAC maintenance for us.
re: #351 Dave In Austin
I’m seeing 1.5T. When did that change. That’s not even a bandaid. The House won’t accept that. Neither do I.
There are 2 infrastructure bills. This is the smaller one that received bipartisan support. The much larger one can only be passed through reconciliation and requires the support of Ms Airhead. It would be ideal if that larger one also passes and then both become law. I do have to say that if somehow the larger bill fails because it does not get the 50 Democrats for support it would still be wise for the smaller bill to become law. A smaller bill is better than no bill. If not, then Democrats will be dead for 2022 since the argument would be that Democrats can’t get anything through even though they control both houses.
re: #352 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Tungsten rods.
Wikipedia:
Project Thor is an idea for a weapons system that launches telephone pole-sized kinetic projectiles made from tungsten from Earth’s orbit to damage targets on the ground. Jerry Pournelle created the concept while working in operations research at Boeing in the 1950s before becoming a science-fiction writer. In the 1980s, a similar idea was conceptualized as a potential part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, there codenamed Brilliant Pebbles.Turns up in _Footfall_ as a weapon used by the invading aliens IIRC.
re: #367 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Thanks. Don’t know why the hell I did that. I just finished reading the article. *sigh*
Either way, they seem to be a popular SciFi weapon of mass destruction. The Centauri used mass drivers against the Narn Home world, The Kodan used meteors against the Star League, and well you get the point.
Anything could be used as a kinetic weapon, provided it has sufficient mass and shape to make it through the atmosphere intact. There even are at least plans for next-generation kinetic weapons, where you have control surfaces on the kinetic projectile helping it to hit its target.
One reason why militaries like the concept of kinetic weapons is that the area of damage a single kinetic projectile causes is very limited. However, there is the question of getting them to orbit and/or launching them at sufficient speed to be scary things on impact.
re: #378 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s $550B in new spending, apparently; the total size of the smaller bill is $1.2T, according to CNN.
Phi Pham was born in a Philippine refugee camp and came to the US as an infant. He faces deportation to Vietnam, a country he has never visited. https://t.co/gOVWepfrzl
— Nhus (@neweyno) August 9, 2021
re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ultimate litmus test for Vietnamese Trumpers in Orange County and Houston
He was talking some weird stuff about Veterans, then he switched to socialism and communism, then switched to democrats thinking Trumps SCOTUS picks were actually fair. It’s really wild.
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) August 10, 2021
re: #379 Teukka
Anything could be used as a kinetic weapon, provided it has sufficient mass and shape to make it through the atmosphere intact. There even are at least plan for next-generation kinetic weapons, where you have control surfaces on the kinetic projectile helping it to hit its target.
One reason why militaries like the concept of kinetic weapons is that the damage a single kinetic projectile causes is very limited. However, there is the question of getting them to orbit and/or launching them at sufficient speed to be scary things on impact.
A kinetic weapon dropped from orbit would be very energetic; its deceleration through the atmosphere would determine how energetic. The real concern, to me, is guidance; the main reason space re-entry has been so accurate is because it is guided, whether by a cleverly written computer program or by a human hand behind the controls. Without control, entry from orbit is basically an artificial meteor, which is part of the reason why they give such fuzzy targets when space debris that is uncontrolled eventually enters the atmosphere for the final time.
re: #342 Mike Lamb
I mean, I can’t say I’ve really read the Bible save for a Children’s Bible about 30 years ago—but where does God say “The bordered nation-state is necessary”? Or the “free market is transformative”?
It’s not in there. It’s all extrapolated from scriptures that could also be read as defending segregation and racism.
re: #366 wrenchwench
When I gave 2 weeks notice, I worked 5 eight hour shifts each week. They paid me for the first one, but lost the check for the ultimate week. Yesterday, I paid a small fee up front to have a half hour on the phone with an attorney, in a week. My ideas about ‘access to the law’ have changed somewhat.
Did you check your state department of labor to see if they could assist? I haven’t been keeping up with this but man, Kroger sounds incompetent.
Run against him Judge. RUN!!
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 10, 2021
re: #364 Eclectic Cyborg
Even Bibi eventually left.
After they cut off his power and took away his help.
re: #387 Dave In Austin
Illegally as in jail time illegally? Or is Abbott above the law?
A terrible way to get kilt. https://t.co/8D7VRkEvq2
— Donaeld The Unready (@donaeldunready) August 10, 2021
re: #389 darthstar
Illegally as in jail time illegally? Or is Abbott above the law?
He’s a white, conservative guy in Texas. Therefore, above the law.
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re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth
This symposium is sounding more and more like a sublte cultural drumbeat for war with China. This is John Birch shit.
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) August 10, 2021
re: #228 Sufficient unto the day…
I might have gone over the line here…
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No, I don’t think you’re over the line at all. I’ve been telling these fuckers for quite a while to look up Julius Streicher: “Follow his path, share his fate.”
re: #341 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Yep. Personally, I think it was ripped off from Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress story. Except instead of titanium rods, they threw actual rocks.
That’s the earliest reference to the concept I’m familiar with. The book is from 1966.
The other references posted here seem to be from much later.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s scientifiction from much earlier with the concept, before SciFi was a thing.
re: #367 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Thanks. Don’t know why the hell I did that. I just finished reading the article. *sigh*
Either way, they seem to be a popular SciFi weapon of mass destruction. The Centauri used mass drivers against the Narn Home world, The Kodan used meteors against the Star League, and well you get the point.
I don’t think people REALLY took throwing rocks at a planet seriously until Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up into pieces and collided with Jupiter. Granted, Jupiter is a gas giant, but those very small (compared to Jupiter) chunks of comet left visible holes in the gaseous atmosphere.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 also served as a great example of how a good-sized rock (see Chicxulub impactor) could wreak havoc on a planet. *actually old enough to remember when the Alvarez father and son team proposed the demise of the dinos via asteroid and how people thought they were crazy and saying Luis Walter Alvarez, a physicist, was out of his lane.*
Just booked my first flying vacation - going to Kauai for a week and then a few days in Waikiki for shits and giggles - plus it’s a fun surf break there. Managed to shave 2500 off our flight by changing SFO-HNL-LIH-HNL-SFO to OAK-LIH-HNL-SFO. Just have to get a ride to Oakland for the trip out - and the neighbor already offered.
Note that the loudest voices calling for Cuomo’s resignation and prosecution were FROM HIS OWN PARTY.
Meanwhile, there’s Donald Trump and Matt Gaetz and defending silence from enabling Republicans like @RepStefanik. https://t.co/tBDaml1S6r— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 10, 2021
The next Governor of New York. pic.twitter.com/RUC5AkOfvM
— Joe St. George (@JoeStGeorge) August 10, 2021
Can’t wait to join the team of incredible journalists @CNN — I’m so excited to be part of the launch of @CNNplus and the streaming future of news — my new political show coming in 2022! https://t.co/nr2oGZgElE
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) August 10, 2021
re: #397 Backwoods_Sleuth
re-upping today; https://t.co/VC9KzpkCER
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 10, 2021
but a Democrat accused of wrongdoing? it took NYT 24 hrs
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 10, 2021
re: #397 Backwoods_Sleuth
Of course you all know she’s the trash that took the position Cheney had to give up because Cheney rejected fascism.
Focus on your evil master Donald Trump. Democrats are fully capable of cleaning up their own messes, unlike you corrupt clowns.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 10, 2021
Cuomo is out as Governor of New York, effective in 14 days.
re: #120 teleskiguy
On my way into the amphitheater I saw a doe and her fawns.
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I got a shot of a family crossing the river last weekend down at my watering hole.
That rock is not naturally a green color, we paint it that way and use it to gauge how high the river is :-)
“Mr. McConnell, No” on the Senate beginning debate on the Democrats’ $3.5T budget resolution.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) August 10, 2021
This Mike Lindell “Cyber Symposium” … might be the worst political event I’ve ever seen? He’s just ranting and raving endlessly pic.twitter.com/2wPUXBeYZH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 10, 2021
Members of the press aren’t allowed to enter the “mock election kiosk” at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s “cyber symposium” - despite Lindell saying media could partake in the activity ahead of the event. Dominion & Smartmatic machines are said to be in the room - which I don’t see! pic.twitter.com/8r4sKj7xk8
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) August 10, 2021
re: #343 No Malarkey!
When the Bible was written neither police or bordered nation-states existed.
Egypt patrolled its borders. It took miracles to open those borders.
Translation… Donald Trump didn’t like this bill. I want to run for President but I need Trump to like me so to my SC constituents who need better roads, bridges, pipes, and broadband be damned. pic.twitter.com/9ciFdbXAlp
— Jaime Harrison, DNC Chair (@harrisonjaime) August 10, 2021
teehee
Dominion lawsuit: “Rudolph Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City who has more recently found work as a YouTube podcast host” pic.twitter.com/a1lnoNYMEI
— Jacob Shamsian (@JayShams) August 10, 2021
Oath Keeper destroyed evidence from Capitol insurrection in backyard ‘burn pit’: Feds
Thomasville woman charged in Capitol riots accused of destroying evidence in ‘burn pit’
Laura Steele, the ex-cop and member of militia group the Oath Keepers, is facing new charges.
The Thomasville woman now faces additional charges of civil disorder and aiding and abetting for “impeding and interfering” with law enforcement officers who were preventing the rioters from entering the Senate chambers.
Additionally, Steele is now charged with tampering with documents for allegedly using a burn pit in her back yard to destroy evidence of her involvement in the riot, including the clothes she and others were wearing.
re: #391 Eclectic Cyborg
He’s a white, conservative guy in Texas. Therefore, above the law.
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Having now completed Forget the Alamo I’m convinced that there is extremely high tolerance for conservative “tough guy” lies and other bullshit.
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
this has the possibility of being a GOP wet dream in MSM idiocy… what I believe has been stated…
We have the Bipartisan infrastructure Bill (1.5T) supported by the GOP and the Dems in the Senate - Nancy Smash has stated that she will NOT bring this bill up in the House for a vote until……
The Dem only Infrastructure bill which is 3.5T which needs to be passed via reconcilliation and can only be handled that way because of GOP reasons gets to the Senate floor to be voted on, which the GOP has stated that they have every intention of filibustering… so if that does not pass the Senate, it never reaches the House for a vote (which Nancy Smash has stated that she WILL pass THIS bill first if it reaches her).
Biden has indicated a willingness to pass both bills…
the first Bill is what I would call a HARD infrastructure bill, roads, bridges, dams, waste-water management, electrical grid infrastructure
the second Bill is a soft infrastructure bill in that it recognizes that social services upgrades are just as important as building stuff, it involves training programs, education grants, research grants, incentives for urban farming, recycling, clean air and water, and expansion upon the HARD with charging stations, rail improvements, energy integration solutions. All the forward thinking innovative stuff blown up from local to trying to put it in play nationally.
What could happen…. we get one Infrastructure bill passed and the Dems shoot their own feet and nothing gets done in the House due to both bills not passing and the GOP continues claims that government is broken and that WILL be the media framing brought to life.
re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth
A mock election at a wingnut conference?
Gee, I wonder who’s going to win?
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re: #413 piratedan
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What could happen…. we get one Infrastructure bill passed and the Dems shoot their own feet and nothing gets done in the House due to both bills not passing and the GOP continues claims that government is broken and that WILL be the media framing brought to life.
And the Democrats would deserve that framing if they allow the hard infrastructure bill to fail because the other one doesn’t pass.
re: #415 Hecuba’s daughter
agreed, were more or less betting on the Senator from NY knowing what he’s doing or he’s sure that he’s secured the 50 needed to get it to Harris.
and we also get an idea on if Sinema and Manchin were just blowing smoke seeking the spotlight or if they’re on board with what needs to be done.
Very much hoping the latter and if so, the next item is to pivot to the VRA and get that done.
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We need to ban the teaching of Critical Reich Theory, stop fretting over concentration camps and jackboots trampling occupied countries and focus instead on the positive aspects of National Socialism: the Autobahns, space technology and all those advances in medical research, especially pediatrics…
I am soooo gonna steal that.
re: #334 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Actually they were called Rods From God.
And they were a really stupid idea. The energy you need to put the rods into orbit, and drop them out of orbit is vastly superior to the energy needed to just drop a bomb on your target.
They’re also ridiculously vulnerable to attack.
re: #338 mmmirele
Here’s another bit of crazy from Owen Strachan.
His first statement is wrong, because he seems to think there is a binary in sexes, but we know from biology that’s simply untrue.
Scripture trumps reality.
re: #258 Belafon
Whereas I was pushing for my sons to get the vaccine before they were even talking about boys getting it. We switched pediatricians because he refused to talk about it.
My middle son and daughter were part of a study for it when they were developing/testing dosage requirements years ago.
re: #394 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Heinlein’s idea was launching things from a shallow gravity well to a deep gravity well, gaining the difference between them in kinetic energy.
Pournell’s idea is to launch things from a deep gravity well to orbit, then deorbit them. It’s incredibly expensive. Just use artillery, ballistic missiles, or FOBS if you insist.
re: #338 mmmirele
Jesus just spoke to me - he said: “Life is a test. Had this been a real life, you would have been told where to go and what to do”. Looks like you failed the test, Owen.
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) August 10, 2021
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