composed by Nate Smith
(c) Penelope’s Boudoir Music ASCAPfeaturing:
Nate Smith: drums
Michael Mayo: vocals
Joel Ross: vibraphone
Brad Allen Williams: guitar
Fima Ephron: bass
Jon Cowherd: piano
Jaleel Shaw: saxophonerecorded at Bunker Studios, Feb 2020
Just racking up credit for time served
U.S. Judge denies Capitol rioter’s request for temporary release from prison https://t.co/zDcNVSRzbs pic.twitter.com/ggORjyEYbn
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 11, 2021
re: #1 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Just racking up credit for time served
Games and prizes. Games and prizes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
New video: I had people on three planes and both towers. We’ll always grieve. We’ll always be shocked.
But 9/11’s real legacy is the teenager, mourning a grandmother dead of Covid, being laughed at, at a School Masks Hearing…by a nurse.
The real legacy of 9/11 is…cruelty: pic.twitter.com/lomCaSMalB— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 11, 2021
When it became acceptable to torture suspected terrorists, it became acceptable to cage migrant children. And it became acceptable to murder black citizens like Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, etc. because “we’re in a war!”
re: #1 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Just racking up credit for time served
Didn’t that asshole get four years?
Great Brexit is not what it used to be:
Supermarket shortages may last ‘FOREVER’
The DailyFail’s full headline is too long copy, as is the article, but the bottom line is that the shortage of long-haul drivers means not only empty shelves but that small farmers are suffering.
The idea that this is permanent is based around the problems of cheap labor, upon which both farming and distribution depend to make on-demand products year-round affordable.
re: #3 DodgerFan1988
Olbermann had always been one of my favorite political commentators. Sure he can be a bit hyperbolic at times, but he doesn’t hold back.
re: #5 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Sounds like the US in some places and some fields.
Meanwhile in Northern Ireland, the DUP are acting like a mob boss and threatening the very institution of Stormont and the Good Friday Agreement.
DUP threatens to collapse Stormont ‘before November’ amid protocol row
and
DUP threat to bring down institutions ‘creates new challenges’, Taoiseach says
Jeffrey Donaldson announced today his party’s immediate withdrawal from cross-border political institutions established on the island of Ireland under the Good Friday peace agreement.
re: #3 DodgerFan1988
When it became acceptable to torture suspected terrorists, it became acceptable to cage migrant children. And it became acceptable to murder black citizens like Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, etc. because “we’re in a war!”
Unfortunately, private or police murder of black people being acceptable (or even celebrated) in the US long predates 9/11.
IMO the US reaction to 9/11 was a major milestone of the march of the US right to fascism, not its origin story.
re: #7 retired cynic
Sounds like the US in some places and some fields.
Definitely.
The whole idea of anything-we-want-at-any-time-we-want can only exist if there are global markets supported by cheap labor.
Without cheap labor (read: near slavery), we have to live seasonally and pay more (and waste less.)
re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Meanwhile in Northern Ireland, the DUP are acting like a mob boss and threatening the very institution of Stormont and the Good Friday Agreement.
DUP threatens to collapse Stormont ‘before November’ amid protocol row
and
DUP threat to bring down institutions ‘creates new challenges’, Taoiseach says
It’s almost like the DUP wants to blame the Republic for Brexit instead of the Tories who pushed for Brexit. This was all predicted before the DUP formed a Government with the Tories. And they still joined a coalition with the Leopards Eating Your Face Party.
Fuck ‘em. They trusted Boris Fucking Johnson with their economy? Suffer you POMEy bastards. You got played and now your economy is an omnishambles.
re: #12 austin_blue
Except it is likely to get ugly. Uglier. Violent.
re: #13 retired cynic
Except it is likely to get ugly. Uglier. Violent.
Well, yes, of course it will. What covers the skin are still scabs, not scars. The Proddy’s still hate the fucking Papists and the Papists hate the fucking Proddy bastards.
Tribes. But good Christians, every one. God bless ‘em. Now Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
re: #4 darthstar
Didn’t that asshole get four years?
That freak should have gotten 40 with no parole.
re: #15 JOE 🥓
That freak should have gotten 40 with no parole.
They all should. No slaps on wrists. Prison time. Full stop.
4-year-old Texas preschooler dies of COVID within hours of first symptoms https://t.co/JLpLsam3ne
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 11, 2021
re: #5 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Speaking long term, does this ultimately end with the UK rejoining the EU?
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Speaking long term, does this ultimately end with the UK rejoining the EU?
The question there would be if the EU would take them back after all this.
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Speaking long term, does this ultimately end with the UK rejoining the EU?
After all the shit Nigel Farage said in the European Parliament I doubt that the UK will be let back in. But when Scotland divorces the UK they will be gladly welcomed!
re: #17 Belafon
4-year-old Texas preschooler dies of COVID within hours of first symptoms https://t.co/JLpLsam3ne
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 11, 2021
What is truly terrifying is that this is reminiscent of the second wave in 1918: the disease struck the young (young adults — not necessarily this young) and took many in a day. We are not prepared for a variant that moves so quickly. This may be a fluke rather than a harbinger — perhaps this child was particularly susceptible for some undetermined reason.
So… there’s a Mustang that has a plate like this…
I don’t say this often, but I respect this Mustang driver. 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/maoWBc7OC9— ExpectoPetroleum (@GatorPetrol) September 10, 2021
re: #5 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Great Brexit is not what it used to be:
Supermarket shortages may last ‘FOREVER’
The DailyFail’s full headline is too long copy, as is the article, but the bottom line is that the shortage of long-haul drivers means not only empty shelves but that small farmers are suffering.
The idea that this is permanent is based around the problems of cheap labor, upon which both farming and distribution depend to make on-demand products year-round affordable.
It’s permanent in the sense that without a class of “cheap” labor to endlessly exploit, late-stage capitalist societies inevitably begin to break down as all the “big, important jobs” at the top depend upon all the “jobs nobody want” being done. Brexit did to the UK what Trump’s immigration policies did here: Chased off the “cheap” labor, which was patched over for a time before COVID revealed just how hollow the system can be once the “native-born” labor finally does what they’ve been told all their lives and sought out better-paying jobs.
re: #5 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Great Brexit is not what it used to be:
Supermarket shortages may last ‘FOREVER’
The DailyFail’s full headline is too long copy, as is the article, but the bottom line is that the shortage of long-haul drivers means not only empty shelves but that small farmers are suffering.
The idea that this is permanent is based around the problems of cheap labor, upon which both farming and distribution depend to make on-demand products year-round affordable.
Middlemen have this weird ability to convince themselves they don’t need labor.
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Speaking long term, does this ultimately end with the UK rejoining the EU?
Not with a Tory government in charge. Why would the EU even *want* them?
With every day that goes by, the loss of the EU as a trading partner is softened by the realization that they really didn’t supply much of anything that couldn’t be shifted sideways and made by others. Finance is going to Germany. Agriculture can be moved to any number of places on the Continent.
Now, airplane wings for Airbus are a problem. But the Germans and the French are ready to stand in and replace the English within two years.
The UK is going to lose Scotland in two years, and Northern Ireland is looking shaky, because the Unionists in the North, who hate the idea of reuniting with the Republic, are just beginning to realize how fucked they are to be out of the EU. Wales? We’ll see. They have always hated the English, however.
The UK will disappear and England will be a smaller, much poorer country after the inevitable long-term real estate collapse because of the flight of wealth from the country.
Who wants to live in quaint, economically isolated country with thatched-roof cottages?
Here’s my question to all the wingnuts and “moderates” alike about where are all the robots that they said would be brought in to replace workers if we ever raised the minimum wage. I mean that’s been something treated as a “fact” for most of my life, that if you insist on paying people a decent wage, then businesses will just start automating all the work until nobody has a job. So where’s the robotic hamburger flippers or the android housekeepers?
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Speaking long term, does this ultimately end with the UK rejoining the EU?
Define “long term”.
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Speaking long term, does this ultimately end with the UK rejoining the EU?
I doubt it. A scrambled egg cannot be undone.
Now, perhaps some many years in the future, when the cascading disasters of the 21st century really start to cause major international political changes, I suspect that the Northern Ireland arrangement as part of the UK will be untenable.
But they’ve got a ways to go before that. They will need real hardship, not just inconveniences, for the political landscape to change.
I do believe the day will come when Brits will have to make a hard decision on nationhood. The island(s) are just too small for the population to sustain itself, and if the future holds the collapse of international on-demand trade (including currencies), as some expect later in this century, the Brits will be in a corner.
Unlike here in North America, where we can go from crisis to crisis, which will be bad but not existentially threatening, island nations will find themselves moving towards desperation.
The control of food and fresh water is now the name of the game globally. I certainly expect by 2050 that this will all become obvious.
re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I doubt it. A scrambled egg cannot be undone.
Now, perhaps some many years in the future, when the cascading disasters of the 21st century really start to cause major international political changes, I suspect that the Northern Ireland arrangement as part of the UK will be untenable.
But they’ve got a ways to go before that. They will need real hardship, not just inconveniences, for the political landscape to change.
I do believe the day will come when Brits will have to make a hard decision on nationhood. The island(s) are just too small for the population to sustain itself, and if the future holds the collapse of international on-demand trade (including currencies), as some expect later in this century, the Brits will be in a corner.
Unlike here in North America, where we can go from crisis to crisis, which will be bad but not existentially threatening, island nations will find themselves moving towards desperation.
The control of food and fresh water is now the name of the game globally. I certainly expect by 2050 that this will all become obvious.
Excellent points. I think you are spot on. Whiskey’s for drinkin’ and water’s for fightin’.
Here’s my prediction (write it down, hold me accountable if I am still alive):
The next great international war, a “WWIII” if you will, happens because of the need to control the remaining major food production areas of the globe not under US dominance.
That means Africa below the Sahara, and South America, and to a lesser extent south-east Asia. Those are the food production areas outside of North America upon which billions of people will depend.
re: #26 Targetpractice
Here’s my question to all the wingnuts and “moderates” alike about where are all the robots that they said would be brought in to replace workers if we ever raised the minimum wage. I mean that’s been something treated as a “fact” for most of my life, that if you insist on paying people a decent wage, then businesses will just start automating all the work until nobody has a job. So where’s the robotic hamburger flippers or the android housekeepers?
You can’t fuck over a robot by changing the conditions of its service or applying coercion.
When it fails, it fails in ways that require specific fixes that cost understood quantities of cash…which is a disadvantage compared to nearly-infinitely-replaceable unskilled labor distributed around the entire world.
Depending how climate change goes, Siberia could turn out to be a grand agricultural region.
Also you can’t shift liability to the robot when it fucks up and maims somebody.
re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter
What is truly terrifying is that this is reminiscent of the second wave in 1918: the disease struck the young (young adults — not necessarily this young) and took many in a day. We are not prepared for a variant that moves so quickly. This may be a fluke rather than a harbinger — perhaps this child was particularly susceptible for some undetermined reason.
That girl is dead, in part, because of the inaction by Greg Abbott.
re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Here’s my prediction (write it down, hold me accountable if I am still alive):
The next great international war, as “WWIII” if you will, happens because of the need to control the remaining major food production areas of the globe not under US dominance.
That means Africa below the Sahara, and South America, and to a lesser extent south-east Asia. Those are the food production areas outside of North America upon which billions of people will depend.
It’ll be driven by water refugees seeking to slake their thirst. One of the little talked-about causes of the Syrian civil war is a ten year drought. They could not feed themselves and the Government in Damascus was useless and lost the support of the populace.
Bang. Bang. Bang.
Lebanon is in a similar crisis. They have no government. It’s a failed state.
re: #32 sagehen
Depending how climate change goes, Siberia could turn out to be a grand agricultural region.
Lacks the insolation. And while short season crops may be possible, the soils are bad in most places (barely existent in many places.)
re: #29 austin_blue
Excellent points. I think you are spot on. Whiskey’s for drinkin’ and water’s for fightin’.
It is why the great lakes must be defended at all costs against people who would send the water elsewhere.
re: #37 William Lewis
It is why the great lakes must be defended at all costs against people who would send the water elsewhere.
Dam the St. Lawrence seaway!!
re: #6 darthstar
Olbermann had always been one of my favorite political commentators. Sure he can be a bit hyperbolic at times, but he doesn’t hold back.
Keith’s speech at Cornell in 1998 is one of my favorites, when he talks about “moral force.”
It’s such a simple thing, really. It’s an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what’s right instead of what you think you’re supposed to do, you should do it.
He’s done some pretty amazing 9/11 Special Comments as well. From 2006.
Yeah, I really miss a nightly visit with Keith.
On one side you have a responsible leader, and on the other you have lunatics who think they can refuse to vaccinate like toddlers, then force themselves on us like fascists. How did you get this so wrong? “King Biden?” Nonsense. You’re acting like a child.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 11, 2021
re: #37 William Lewis
It is why the great lakes must be defended at all costs against people who would send the water elsewhere.
I lived in Marquette for three years. I am *so* with you on this. The Yoopers were one of the strangest breeds of Americans I have ever known, but I just loved ‘em. The way they live, the melding of the lifestyles of their various ethnic groups, well, you just have to see it to believe it.
Be prepared to drink. A lot.
I received a speeding ticket for going 55 mph in a school zone. The posted speed limit was 25 and full disclosure, I was travelling that fast. Am I correct that I can appeal this before the Supreme Court? Also, does my ticket violate any of our human rights treaty obligations?
— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 11, 2021
It’s in the Geneva Convention Center, in the basement storage room next to the lavatory behind an old file cabinet where they keep the Kenyan birth certificates. You can’t miss it.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 11, 2021
People are weird, man.
are straight people okay? pic.twitter.com/hPnMhQHl76
— Ⓜ️🅰️🌈 (@SeaMacTweet) September 10, 2021
re: #40 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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“King Biden” waited for 9+ months before finally beginning to take action beyond just pleading with people to get vaccinated and mask up. Despite all the scaremongering, no “vaccine passports” exist nor are people being segregated and carted off to camps for refusing to get the jab. And what it took for him to just order OSHA to start requiring businesses to vaccinate their staff…was for things to get even worse than they were a year ago when no vaccines existed.
“Freedom,” my lily white ass.
“World Wars” isn’t a meaningful category anymore, because it’s very unlikely that we’re going to see a world power arise that has to conquer land by overrunning it with soldiers, so the cycle of conquest, defense, and drawing in of allies to increase scale of conflict isn’t going to repeat in an identical form. One and Two were structured by colonialism and empire—the existing empires bashing heads against upstarts that were doing Super Turbo Colonialism (but less skilled at hiding genocide)—and the resources that made it a “World War” were only available because of colonialism.
Our society is now neo-colonial—make the poor people in other countries work for you by controlling their economies and their politics, mostly through debt and aid—and neo-liberal—treat the poor people in your own country like you used to treat your colonial subjects, maxing their output while continuously reducing their share—and wars have reflected this. Now we intervene in broken countries—coincidentally ones that used to be colonies—just enough to keep the raw materials flowing cheap; there’s got to be a ruling class stable enough to sign on the line for massive international loans (where all the money disappears) in return for “free” trade (where the very valuable raw materials immediately enter the international market at a low price, thus allowing for consumers in developed countries to have cheap shit to buy).
Iraq was the Ultimate Neocolonial Bullshit Rodeo—beat the dictator so you can look good and then liberate the non-renewable resources via privatization, then get paid to rebuild the shit you just bombed—but, credit where it’s due, the diamond, the pure example, has got to be what the French pulled in the CAR with Bokassa.
Indeed, what we’ve done is invented a new form of war in which there’s just a continuous drip-feed death toll paired with the titanic economic pressure that means that there’s no reason to take over a country when you can just prop up strong men in the capitol and run armored vehicles along the critical roads that carry cobalt ore or oil.
re: #42 gocart mozart
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It’s located behind the door with the sign saying “Beware of the Leopard.”
re: #34 darthstar
That girl is dead, in part, because of the inaction by Greg Abbott.
And once again tonight, Bill Maher was on his crusade that deaths are primarily among those who are overweight — that Covid is not particularly deadly among healthy people with the appropriate BMI and strong immune systems. At least he isn’t personally discouraging people from being vaccinated. But his attitude doesn’t help persuade the vaccine reluctant of the necessity of vaccination.
re: #43 teleskiguy
People are weird, man.
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In those shoes?
I don’t think he’d survive.
I said baby, let’s do it.
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
And once again tonight, Bill Maher was on his crusade that deaths are primarily among those who are overweight — that Covid is not particularly deadly among healthy people with the appropriate BMI and strong immune systems. At least he isn’t personally discouraging people from being vaccinated. But his attitude doesn’t help persuade the vaccine reluctant of the necessity of vaccination.
It’s about fat people, it’s about people who eat poorly, it’s about people who don’t exercise…. and “no one ever talks about this”, conveniently ignoring that this was Michelle Obama’s signature issue that the conservatives would not fucking shut up stop whining about for eight goddamn years.
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
And once again tonight, Bill Maher was on his crusade that deaths are primarily among those who are overweight — that Covid is not particularly deadly among healthy people with the appropriate BMI and strong immune systems. At least he isn’t personally discouraging people from being vaccinated. But his attitude doesn’t help persuade the vaccine reluctant of the necessity of vaccination.
Maher’s always been a self-righteous asshole, and his attitude towards COVID has only helped reinforce that. When he was asked to either isolate or take precautions like masking, he bitched that it was inconveniencing him that events he wanted to attend were being canceled and businesses he was used to frequenting were either closed or restricted. And when the vaccines became available, he made a big scene of getting the jab, but has since bitched that things didn’t magically go back to “normal” on his time schedule.
When he bitches about the only people dying being the obese and sickly, he’s just engaging in the same sort of social Darwinist claptrap that his ideological opponents did last year to argue that we should just gamble that grandma makes it through the plague so we can all “go back to normal.”
re: #50 Targetpractice
When he bitches about the only people dying being the obese and sickly, he’s just engaging in the same sort of social Darwinist claptrap that his ideological opponents did last year to argue that we should just gamble that grandma makes it through the plague so we can all “go back to normal.”
Also… 70% of the US is medically considered overweight, and close to 40% are obese. So the fat people having a higher mortality rate… they’re not some marginal fringe demographic, it’s pretty much in line with the general population.
Back home. Neighbors told me there’s been bears in the yard.
I’ve never seen bears in my yard.
Of course not. They were waiting for you to get out of their way.
Once again, the overlay of Afghanistan against the eastern United States.
Trump dropped our troops to 2,500 in January. Who thinks that 2,500 troops could have held that territory in any way, shape, or form?
If you answer this, please show your work. Be specific.
re: #46 Targetpractice
It was an homage to Douglas Adams and not plagiarism
Maher’s just doing a libertarian version of America’s fixation on eugenics as the ultimate gameification of life. We like winners so much that we invent forms of winning just to have the feeling. It’s a pretty good cultural adaptation if you need to, as a collective, never talk about how all the land you have isn’t yours, or how much un-free labor was required to make a few people free.
The people who died chose to die and therefore the disease, completely indifferent to human qualities, is actually just another form of point scoring.
The vice being displayed is cultural and more fundamental than ideology.
The trope about black people vaccine hesitancy needs to die.
Whites: 66 %
Blacks: 76 %
Latinos: 71 %
Biden voters: 91 %
Trump voters: 50 %
Urban residents: 79 %
Suburban residents: 67 %
Rural residents: 52 %
Democrats: 88 %
Independents: 60 %
Republicans: 55 %
Non-college grads: 60 %
College grads: 80 %https://t.co/DlPWjsr7Z5— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 11, 2021
hi
I won’t stay long tonight, as we are leaving in the morning for Ashton, Nebr. for the Polish Heritage Festival. I hope to have photographs when I return. There will be much buying of Polish-style meats and cheeses for our return.
Hurricane Larry Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL122021
1150 PM AST Fri Sep 10 2021
…LARRY MAKES LANDFALL ON NEWFOUNDLAND…
Recent satellite, radar and surface data indicate that Larry has
made landfall in Newfoundland near South East Bight at 1145 PM AST
(0345 UTC), with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) and
an estimated minimum pressure of 960 mb (28.35 inches).
SUMMARY OF 1150 PM AST…0350 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…47.4N 54.5W
ABOUT 85 MI…135 KM WSW OF ST JOHNS NEWFOUNDLAND
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…80 MPH…130 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNE OR 030 DEGREES AT 47 MPH…76 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…960 MB…28.35 INCHES
Elsewhere, the tropical wave in the Gulf of Honduras has made landfall in Yucatan. It is expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico and intensify. It is now given an 80% chance of developing into a tropical system in five days, and threatens the NE coast of Mexico and the coast of Texas.
The tropical wave over Ghana has moved out over the ocean. It is moving toward the Cape Verde Islands, with the National Hurricane Center giving the storm a 70% chance of development over five days.
re: #52 teleskiguy
Back home. Neighbors told me there’s been bears in the yard.
I’ve never seen bears in my yard.
“Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski’s candy store.”
re: #50 Targetpractice
Maher’s always been a self-righteous asshole, and his attitude towards COVID has only helped reinforce that. When he was asked to either isolate or take precautions like masking, he bitched that it was inconveniencing him that events he wanted to attend were being canceled and businesses he was used to frequenting were either closed or restricted. And when the vaccines became available, he made a big scene of getting the jab, but has since bitched that things didn’t magically go back to “normal” on his time schedule.
When he bitches about the only people dying being the obese and sickly, he’s just engaging in the same sort of social Darwinist claptrap that his ideological opponents did last year to argue that we should just gamble that grandma makes it through the plague so we can all “go back to normal.”
He was just being his usual asshole Libertarian self and his rant about the Black National Anthem fits right in with his selfish crap.
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
And once again tonight, Bill Maher was on his crusade that deaths are primarily among those who are overweight — that Covid is not particularly deadly among healthy people with the appropriate BMI and strong immune systems. At least he isn’t personally discouraging people from being vaccinated. But his attitude doesn’t help persuade the vaccine reluctant of the necessity of vaccination.
I hate that dick. Ever since he did that Steve Irwin costume. Ugh. Does he realize 1/3rd of America is obese?!
re: #54 austin_blue
Once again, the overlay of Afghanistan against the eastern United States.
Trump dropped our troops to 2,500 in January. Who thinks that 2,500 troops could have held that territory in any way, shape, or form?
If you answer this, please show your work. Be specific.
Realistically, we never really held all that territory even when the number of soldiers numbered in the tens of thousands. Large portions fell under the control of various warlords who were paid off to either support the Kabul government or at least not make any problems for them. And by 2015, the Taliban had not only recovered most of their losses in the previous decade and a half, they’d started regaining control of territory with every passing month. By 2020, the only thing we were doing by maintaining a presence in Afghanistan was delaying the inevitable.
It’s been years since I’ve sat down and watched a full episode of Bill Maher’s show. He sucks.
re: #61 GlutenFreeJesus
I hate that dick. Ever since he did that Steve Irwin costume. Ugh. Does he realize 1/3rd of America is obese?!
There are a lot of people looking for any excuse to get rid of large numbers of people without directly looking like monsters. It’s not just limited to certain members of a certain party.
re: #57 gocart mozart
The trope about black people vaccine hesitancy needs to die.
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It will stay so long as its the final fig leaf that keeps the media from admitting that the bulk of America’s remaining unvaccinated population are old, white, and Trump-loving.
The mother of the 4 year old Texas girl who died from Covid was unvaccinated. So it is likely that the daughter contracted it from her mother, rather than at school. The mother is infected and her 5 month old son has been hospitalized with the disease.
One comment re the Biden plan: what is being done to help those in rural communities or small towns (such as where our Anymouse lives) who do not live close to a facility that offers vaccinations? Everyone in the Chicago area is probably less than 2 miles from a place that has vaccines available on demand; but that’s not true elsewhere
re: #54 austin_blue
Once again, the overlay of Afghanistan against the eastern United States.
Trump dropped our troops to 2,500 in January. Who thinks that 2,500 troops could have held that territory in any way, shape, or form?
If you answer this, please show your work. Be specific.
NYC has 35,000 officers (plus another 15,000 civilian employees). And y’know, when this city gets in a mood, that ain’t enough to hold this territory.
ℹ️ ⚠️ If you see someone refer to a Swedish Doctor named Mikael Nordfors, born 1958, please be advised that individuals medical license was REVOKED the other day by the Swedish Health and Social Care Inspectorate (IVO). ⚠️ ℹ️
Reason given was “obvious unsuitability for the profession”. Sundfors has previously had his medical license revoked by the Danish Health Authority (Sundhedsstyrelsen).
Sundfors was one of the leading figures behind the protests in Sweden against the restrictions due CoViD-19. Sundfors has also spread false information about CoViD-19 vaccines. He’s also pushed HCQ on various YouTube videos (would not surprise me if he’s been pushing Ivermectin too).
expressen.se [Swedish]
Very hard reading, and you may want to pass. but gives a very concrete description of just what dying of COVID entails.
Op-Ed: On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like https://t.co/Bty59vvUTz— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) September 11, 2021
re: #70 Teukka
ℹ️ ⚠️ If you see someone refer to a Swedish Doctor named Mikael Nordfors, born 1958, please be advised that individuals medical license was REVOKED the other day by the Swedish Health and Social Care Inspectorate (IVO). ⚠️ ℹ️
Reason given was “obvious unsuitability for the profession”. Sundfors has previously had his medical license revoked by the Danish Health Authority (Sundhedsstyrelsen).
Sundfors was one of the leading figures behind the protests in Sweden against the restrictions due CoViD-19. Sundfors has also spread false information about CoViD-19 vaccines. He’s also pushed HCQ on various YouTube videos (would not surprise me if he’s been pushing Ivermectin too).
expressen.se [Swedish]
I expect the response to be IT’S A CONSPIRACY TO SILENCE THE TRUTH!!! or some such fatuous nonsense.
re: #72 Dr Lizardo
I expect the response to be IT’S A CONSPIRACY TO SILENCE THE TRUTH!!! or some such fatuous nonsense.
Yep. Without bothering to read the article linked (and yeah, content and trigger warning on that one (twisted quack)), nor the last 10-15 years or so worth of material on Lundfors…
In the days immediately after the Towers fell, I found a few news reports that “something big” was planned for about 18 September, 2001. As we all know, something awful happened a week earlier than that.
Now, 20 years later, we have promises of some sort of re-do of that Jan 6 insurrection in DC to overthrow the US government, “scheduled for 18 September” —according to our news reporting.
Personally, I’m disinclined to trust anyone as to the “scheduling” of insurrection events of any sort.
New wildfires were burning in Northern California following a series of lightning strikes, authorities said Friday. https://t.co/uN8eWzeyqI
— KPIX 5 (@KPIXtv) September 11, 2021
re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron
Pro skier Cody Townsend was afraid of this last night.
I’m not nervous. I’m not nervous. I’m not nervous. I’m not nervous…
😳 https://t.co/lyKfniRKhk— Cody Townsend (@codytownsend) September 10, 2021
re: #65 Targetpractice
It will stay so long as its the final fig leaf that keeps the media from admitting that the bulk of America’s remaining unvaccinated population are old, white, and Trump-loving.
That trope also exists to perpetuate racism. “See, those ni*CLANGS are stupid.”
A thing that I think about every Sept. 11 is that the military now has to give Guantanamo personnel 9/11 history lessons. From 2013: https://t.co/Mub45uE3bJ pic.twitter.com/H1QvoKXKEZ
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 10, 2021
re: #67 Hecuba’s daughter
The mother of the 4 year old Texas girl who died from Covid was unvaccinated. So it is likely that the daughter contracted it from her mother, rather than at school. The mother is infected and her 5 month old son has been hospitalized with the disease.
One comment re the Biden plan: what is being done to help those in rural communities or small towns (such as where our Anymouse lives) who do not live close to a facility that offers vaccinations? Everyone in the Chicago area is probably less than 2 miles from a place that has vaccines available on demand; but that’s not true elsewhere
Biden’s announced plan was to encourage those who are influencers in small towns or rural areas (such as local politicians, business owners, pastors, &c) to talk to their neighbours, as they are people they trust.
The Wingnut Party went ballistic, talking about federal goons forcing their way into your homes to forcibly vaccinate you or whatnot.
The federal government only has limited authority over local health departments. GOP governors are actively working against those sorts of programmes.
Long before Biden’s proposal for local influencers to talk to people, I made a point when I got my vaccine in January to tell everyone I knew, to try to counter some of the derp. I was also honest (I felt like crap for a few days, but I’ve had way worse like the yellow fever vaccine).
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That trope also exists to perpetuate racism. “See, those ni*CLANGS are stupid.”
Yes and no. To the “liberal media,” they’re using the “Black folks are avoiding the vaccine too!” as a way to avoid the (rightful) blame for months of lies and falsehoods dragging out the duration of the pandemic.
To each other, “Those ni-CLANGs are avoiding the vaccine.” does capitalize on their racism, acting more as a confirmation bias that if people so “stupid” are avoiding the vaccine then there has got to be something inherently “wrong” with it.
This viral video is nonsense. It begins with a bonkers claim that the Secretary of Defense sent a text to all active military demanding they get vaccinated by 10 AM the next day. There was no such text. Also, the military’s actual vaccination deadlines begin in November. pic.twitter.com/6eNrhFpCJz
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 10, 2021
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 10, 2021
re: #82 unproven innocence
Maddow reports that some service dogs are so good at “smelling Covid-19” that, if you wanted, they could be trained to alert only on a specific variant.
…
An MP bomb-sniffing dog had our Suburban turned inside-out at the gate to a NATO base in Italy. Finally found the Cheetos under the kids’ seat.
An update to the Sorry Antivaxxer article about a man named Jim Sells, who nearly died of Covid-19.
He has now turned his Facebook page into a mini-version of the antivaxxer site, and he is quite clear the banhammer is out for longtime friends still pushing antivax crap on his Facebook page.
He is quite willing to end in real life any friendships with conservatives who push it in real life as well.
This is Jim Sells, An ex-Anti-vaxxer, he lived through COVID. Now he says “Get Vaccinated!”
He’s still blaming the media, medical personnel, and politicians for not telling anyone how serious the disease is before he got it (he’s still using the conservative blame-shifting technique of “it’s not my fault”).
COVID Anti-Vaxxers Aren’t a MAGA Death Cult — It’s Worse Than That (Tim Wise blog)
Deathbed regrets from vaccine resisters speak volumes about the brokenness of conservatism
Most recently, MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Stephen Colbert agreed with the designation during a discussion on the latter’s program. According to both, refusal to get a vaccine as the Delta variant surges, and the seeming willingness of Trump’s followers to continue risking illness or worse, qualifies such persons as members of a death cult.
There were, of course, the requisite Jim Jones analogies.
But as much as I respect both Reid and Colbert (the former is a friend whose show I’ve been on several times), this position has always been wrong.
The truth is worse — and here I am speaking specifically of those who are resisting obtaining the vaccine, rather than those whose access is limited by location, poverty or issues with mobility to a vaccine center.
and
Few of the 900-plus at Jonestown drank the Kool-Aid only to sputter at the last minute, “Oh wait, you mean it’s cyanide?! Why didn’t anyone tell me?”
The members of Heaven’s Gate didn’t don their black Nikes, take phenobarbital, tie plastic bags over their heads, cover up with shrouds, and then start praying to see another sunrise.
They laid down to die, expecting to be spirited away in a UFO behind the Hale-Bopp comet and have everlasting life.
That is a suicidal death cult.
This is different, something more dangerous, sociopathic, and sadistic — not suicidal but homicidal.
(more)
Rand Paul will have to find a new band.
Rage Against the Machine stands in solidarity with women and people
who can become pregnant who have been targeted by the latest attacks
on reproductive justice in Texas. pic.twitter.com/wSnXAdRACy— Rage Against The Machine (@RATMofficial) September 10, 2021
WEST NILE VIRUS: Two more groups of mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile Virus, according to the Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District. https://t.co/EL6UCsW86E
— KRON4 News (@kron4news) September 11, 2021
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
COVID Anti-Vaxxers Aren’t a MAGA Death Cult — It’s Worse Than That (Tim Wise blog)
…
This is different, something more dangerous, sociopathic, and sadistic — not suicidal but homicidal.
(more)
That was Ghost of a Flea’s argument a few days ago.
My friend and colleague @NebraskaMegan launched her re-election campaign tonight. I’m so grateful to Senator Hunt for her heart, passion, and camaraderie! pic.twitter.com/DHpETPSxko
— Machaela Cavanaugh (@CavanaughforLeg) September 11, 2021
re: #89 Decatur Deb
That was Ghost of a Flea’s argument a few days ago.
It’s a Democrat plot to goad Republicans into killing themselves!!
Coming to a state near me. [0:59]
What’s happening in Texas can happen here unless we act. RT and catch our full conversation with @ppadvocatesne, @NebraskaMegan, and @ibeblackgirl here: https://t.co/p6qhLWdGlw pic.twitter.com/Bhmh3nAO03
— ACLU of Nebraska (@ACLUofNE) September 10, 2021
re: #91 Dread Pirate Ron
It’s a Democrat plot to goad Republicans into killing themselves!!
Republican anti-vaxxers have made me much more aware as a person. For the first time in my life I give a shit about my O2 level. (98%)
My daughter who is now a HS biology teacher bought us a pulse/oximeter at the beginning of the pandemic. Oxygen has always been up but I play with the pulse rate for biofeedback. I’ve found if I manipulate my neck vertebrata back in line (I stood on my head a lot as a kid and now they look like deformed alphabet blocks stacked) I can lower my pulse rate 4-8 bpm.
re: #89 Decatur Deb
That was Ghost of a Flea’s argument a few days ago.
My argument was this one over a year ago: A feral conservative who will not behave other than a barbarian should be pushed out of your life. Family, friend, colleague, doesn’t matter. The are too great a risk to your health.
On a personal level, treating deniers like pariahs means banishing them, metaphorically, to the cornfield.
It means cutting them out of our lives entirely: no invitations to the cocktail party or backyard barbecue, no seat for them at the holiday table, and no invitation to the grandkid’s graduation, Little League game, or dance recital.
Refuse to speak to them, break bread with them or communicate with them in any way until they get their shit together and learn to play by the rules of public health by which rational, decent people agree to play.
Till then, they have made their ICU beds. Now they can lie in them, and sadly, die in them — completely and utterly, alone.
re: #94 Dread Pirate Ron
My daughter who is now a HS biology teacher bought us a pulse/oximeter at the beginning of the pandemic. Oxygen has always been up but I play with the pulse rate for biofeedback. I’ve found if I manipulate my neck vertebrata back in line (I stood on my head a lot as a kid and now they look like deformed alphabet blocks stacked) I can lower my pulse rate 4-8 bpm.
Constant low-level pain?
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s either dumb luck or unconscious policy, but I haven’t had any RW derp in my life since FIL died. Wife had to reach back into KY extended family to find our bug.
(One SIL is hard to keep focused, but most of his shit is put-on.)
re: #96 Decatur Deb
Constant low-level pain?
No pain, I just found if I get the protruding vertebrae back in line my pulse drops, they eventually move back. I used to have a roommate who had a neural biofeedback device back in 1980, so I tried it with the pulse/oximeter because I figured it would possibly work, then I noticed the relationship to me cracking my neck.
re: #38 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Dam the St. Lawrence seaway!!
Just have Bugs Bunny find the valve and turn off Niagara Falls.
Dominoes are falling faster.
Seven more US Capitol riot defendants plead guilty, including armed man who threatened to shoot Pelosi
cnn.com
re: #99 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Just have Bugs Bunny find the valve and turn off Niagara Falls.
He’s busy severing Florida, then he has to complete the Pismo Beach Tunnel.
I’m sure it’s fine, no problem.
“Los Angeles County has paid out at least $55 million in settlements in cases in which sheriff’s deputies have been alleged to belong to a secret society.”https://t.co/aM9MojjC3V
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) September 11, 2021
Both Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers are now operational. On schedule. Fully crewed. With jets when required.@RoyalNavy @HMSQNLZ @HMSPWLS pic.twitter.com/8SGSW7Q0kq
— First Sea Lord (@AdmTonyRadakin) September 5, 2021
In addition to being incredibly important to the public interest it is the most personal and political thing I have ever experienced. I hope next time in 2031 Nebraskans can get it right and make it a nonpartisan commission. #Nebraska #Neleg #redistricting
— State Senator Adam Morfeld (@Adam_Morfeld) September 11, 2021
The New York Times out normalising the Fascist Party again.
The phrase “unborn child” should be removed from the style guide. It’s a fetus.
Abortion is not a failure.
The law is meant to be punitive, how that espouses “love, justice, and mercy” is a spectacular case of mental gymnastics. https://t.co/gB9Y1K4j54— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) September 11, 2021
How many more companies are you going to drive away, Gov. Abbott?
Salesforce offers to relocate employees and their families from Texas after state’s abortion law goes into effect https://t.co/OrWFPjO6n1
— CNBC (@CNBC) September 11, 2021
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He doesn’t give a fuck. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and Apple could boycott him entirely and he’d be just fine so long as Exxon stays loyal.
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The author cited, Karen Swallow Prior, is a professor of English and Christianity at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Amongst other things, searches on her name will recommend articles about Paige Patterson.
re: #107 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
He doesn’t give a fuck. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and Apple could boycott him entirely and he’d be just fine so long as Exxon stays loyal.
It turns out that the entire Texas state government uses Salesforce’s cloud-based systems.
Thread tearing a anti-vax doctor’s pre-print study apart.
This is a deeply problematic pre-print that, as you know, has already caused *immense* vaccine scaremongering. Your work is based on VAERS reports that are—of course—unreliable, biased, & unverified. The reports may be “incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable.” pic.twitter.com/FSTiR4VtwH
— Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH (@GYamey) September 10, 2021
re: #5 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Great Brexit is not what it used to be:
Supermarket shortages may last ‘FOREVER’
The DailyFail’s full headline is too long copy, as is the article, but the bottom line is that the shortage of long-haul drivers means not only empty shelves but that small farmers are suffering.
The idea that this is permanent is based around the problems of cheap labor, upon which both farming and distribution depend to make on-demand products year-round affordable.
This is why nobody really wants to come up with any long-term, comprehensive solution to the issue of immigration: our agriculture and food service industries depend too heavily on a pool of cheap, easily exploited labor.
re: #9 EPR-radar
Unfortunately, private or police murder of black people being acceptable (or even celebrated) in the US long predates 9/11.
IMO the US reaction to 9/11 was a major milestone of the march of the US right to fascism, not its origin story.
I fear that future historians will come to list Sep. 10, 2001 as the high-water-mark of the American Empire.
re: #20 JOE 🥓
After all the shit Nigel Farage said in the European Parliament I doubt that the UK will be let back in. But when Scotland divorces the UK they will be gladly welcomed!
One of the reason that Scotland voted against independence in 2014 was that it would have left them outside the EU with no guarantee of being let back in.
re: #36 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Lacks the insolation. And while short season crops may be possible, the soils are bad in most places (barely existent in many places.)
Much of Canada is barren rock scraped clean by glaciers and dumped in the Midwest…
re: #40 Punish Domestic Terrorists
On one side you have a responsible leader, and on the other you have lunatics who think they can refuse to vaccinate like toddlers, then force themselves on us like fascists. How did you get this so wrong? “King Biden?” Nonsense. You’re acting like a child.
Those who still refuse the vax still have the option of weekly testing.
When are we going to start finding Internet articles on people dying of complications arising from repeated testing?
re: #102 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I’m sure it’s fine, no problem.
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“Los Angeles County has paid out at least $55 million in settlements in cases in which sheriff’s deputies have been alleged to belong to a secret society.”
That’s a tricky way to say they are gang members.
#RatherBeVaccinated (Will it trend?)
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) September 10, 2021
If police officers quit they lose their pensions. They also aren’t likely to get hired by private sector which is requiring vaccines. These polls suggesting massive exodus in light of vaccination rules are rubbish. Call their bluff. They serve to protect public. Time to adult up.
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) September 10, 2021
Thread, four tweets, from Physicians for Reproductive Health. They note these tools for talking about abortion are also useful for anyone, not just journalists.
JOURNALISTS: Today PRH is excited to launch an updated version of our Resource for Journalists Reporting on Abortion. If you’re interested in using medically accurate, inclusive, person-centered language when writing about abortion, please use and share! https://t.co/htOHnZS1Ux pic.twitter.com/abEadlhGNS
— PRH (@prhdocs) September 9, 2021
When does Nate Silver go back to predicting elections?
Soon, hopefully.— Dara Kass, MD (@darakass) September 10, 2021
The power of the algorithm: I posted this to a closed FB group the other week, it was clear to me (and anyone else in that particular group) that it was meant as a parody
but nonetheless, FB pasted it with the following:
“False Information
The same information was checked in another post by independent fact-checkers”
But I guess better safe than stupid or whatever.
A recurring topic in a lot of old Star Trek episodes is that we cannot let computers make decisions that determine how we live or that will be the end of free will and humanity as we know it.
I fear it too late for that…
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A recurring topic in a lot of old Star Trek episodes is that we cannot let computers make decisions that determine how we live or that will be the end of free will and humanity as we know it.
I fear it too late for that…
It’s not that the computers are the issues - it’s that the managers are unwilling to do the proper human supervision and review of the decisions before they are made. An algorithm is going to give you *exactly* what you *tell* it to give you, not what you *expect* it to give you. So you need further processing steps to review the cases it spits out for context (and probably some nuance as well.) Plus review that the algorithm is for some reason ignoring cases that it should be bringing to your attention.
Which gets us back to certain places not doing filters for fascist content since it kept trying to filter Republican politicians.
From Respectful Insolence:
On “reasonable” apologists for the antivaccine movement
I realize that I sound like the proverbial broken record (and that many of the younger people reading this might not even know what that reference means), but I’ve been at this a long time. I was countering quackery and antivaccine pseudoscience on Usenet back in the 1990s into the early 2000s and then have been blogging about it since 2004. I like to think that two decades of combatting antivaccine misinformation have given me some perspective, which is why I sometimes get so frustrated with so many “reasonable” doctors, scientists, and pundits who, before the pandemic, had paid scant, if any attention to the antivaccine movement, and are shocked—shocked, I say!—to discover the conspiracy theories and violent rhetoric that I’ve been documenting for nearly two decades. Some of them who had paid a little attention would sometimes even periodically castigate me for being a “frenzied, self-righteous zealot” who supposedly couldn’t tell the difference between vaccine-hesitant parents and antivaxxers, never mind the number of times I’ve discussed exactly that difference.
The complaints by these oh-so-“reasonable” people continue, a year and a half into the pandemic. What brought this to my attention is the reaction to an op-ed article in the New York Times by Tara Haelle published yesterday and entitled This Is the Moment the Anti-Vaccine Movement Has Been Waiting For. I’ll start with a brief (for me) discussion of the article, and then move on to some reactions on social media that, whether the people expressing such annoyance at Haelle’s message know it or not, follow a tired, well-worn playbook for apologists for the antivaccine movement. It’s a sentiment that has long annoyed me in that it’s apparently based, above all, on the apologist’s desire to be “reasonable” and bend over backwards to consider “both perspectives.”
(more, particularly on the antivaccine movement looking for their “marketing moment,” and finding it in Covid-19, conservatives, and libertarians)
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
One of the reason that Scotland voted against independence in 2014 was that it would have left them outside the EU with no guarantee of being let back in.
I voted no in the Independence referendum in large part for that reason. Other factors were the lack of joined-up thinking on the Yes side regarding things like the currency of an independent Scotland — the idea of becoming part of the Eurozone put off a lot of people (not me but it was a problem for a lot of others), the suggestions of sticking with Sterling without the agreement of the rumpUK government was an ill-thought-out mess. There were other things like pensions, right of abode, military forces etc. and some of those issues really needed to have good answers presented during the campaign even if a lot of the details would be sorted out on the run-up to independence day.
I expect the Yes campaign for IndyRef2 to be more thoroughly organised and answers to such issues nailed down beforehand. I could be wrong though, if there’s an IndyRef2 in the next few years I’ll likely vote Yes this time but I do want to see what they come up with first.
re: #124 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Plus hiring people to do reviews cuts into profits.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Plus hiring people to do reviews cuts into profits.
Cheap, fast, or good. Choose two.
And I’m not a customer for a lot of these social media options in part due to the comments made here about their abusive filtering and ways their algorithms and reporting systems are gamed to censor.
And any public area allowing comments has to be monitored and moderated simply to prevent it turning into a sewer.
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A recurring topic in a lot of old Star Trek episodes is that we cannot let computers make decisions that determine how we live or that will be the end of free will and humanity as we know it.
I fear it too late for that…
Roddenberry was a utopian and believed that people were strong enough and smart enough to make it happen. As Sisko would later say, “On Earth, there is no poverty, no crime, no war. You look out the window of Starfleet Headquarters and you see paradise. Well, it’s easy to be a Saint in paradise…”
re: #124 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
It is just a fuck of a lot cheaper than paying people to do the work and empowering them to make decisions.
And it is so much quicker and just to get an unpaid intern to harvest what is trending on social media sites rather than send reporters out to find out what is really happening.
re: #126 Nojay UK
I voted no in the Independence referendum in large part for that reason. Other factors were the lack of joined-up thinking on the Yes side regarding things like the currency of an independent Scotland.
That was an awful lot of the problem: just like with Brexit, Scotland was voting on an outcome without settling or even addressing the key issues it would engender
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Norway talks a good game:
Norway’s Fossil Fuel Reliance Is Going to the Ballot Box
[…]
By most measures, the country is also at the front of global efforts to combat climate change. Norway devotes substantial resources to combating deforestation in the developing world through its International Climate and Forest Initiative and is a top donor to the Green Climate Fund. […]
But when the bill is asked to be paid:
Indonesia ends deforestation pact with Norway, citing non-payment
Indonesia has ended a deal with Norway on cooperation to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation, due to lack of payment, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
There’s probably more to the story, but it seems that the idea of paying the developing world to not cut down forests is not going according to the marketing blurbs.
Interesting science bit - it seems over thousands of years that people in the east part of Eurasia reproduce at an older age than the people on the west side of Eurasia:
The researchers also support the idea that there was just one admixture event of Neanderthals with modern humans. This is does not cover the later Denisovan admixture event.
re: #133 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Interesting science bit - it seems over thousands of years that people in the east part of Eurasia reproduce at an older age than the people on the west side of Eurasia:
The researchers also support the idea that there was just one admixture event of Neanderthals with modern humans. This is does not cover the later Denisovan admixture event.
The link is broken. I really need to read that paper :)
re: #134 William Lewis
The link is broken. I really need to read that paper :)
Ah, found it easily enough. Saved to my paleoanthropology/hominin evolution folder
Pretty interesting article here from the BBC on why Columbo is still popular half a century after it premiered on American TV - and why it still draws new fans:
Even 50 years since its first season began on 15th September 1971, Columbo remains a TV show like no other. The US series with Peter Falk in the title role - as the ramshackle, eccentric, cigar-chomping, raincoated LAPD homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo - revolutionised what a cop show could be. Here was a murder mystery where the murder was no mystery: audiences saw the deadly deed at the start of each episode, invariably carried out by one of LA’s rich and famous in an attempt to preserve their esteemed reputation.
It left the rest of the show not as a “whodunnit” in the vein of Agatha Christie, but a “howcatchem”, with the unassuming, amiable yet sharp-witted Columbo working to unpick the killer’s “perfect” alibi one seemingly insignificant clue at a time - shoelaces, caviar, air conditioning - before bringing down their arrogant conceit with a final piece of incriminating evidence in a thrilling “gotcha!” moment that Falk himself referred to as the “pop”. Columbo’s methods often involved elaborate set pieces where traps were set for the murderer (planting a false address of a suspect knowing the killer would try to frame him; asking a man to pretend to be his blind brother to break an alibi) that were dramatic, cathartic finales (even if the charges wouldn’t always necessarily stand up in a court of law).
Finally, a bit of archeology:
A man with a metal detector unearths a major gold treasure in Denmark
See the images of the gold pieces in much more detail here:
HUGE GOLD TREASURE FOUND IN VINDELEV NEAR JELLING
The description of the find is a bit muddled in translation. I think the researchers should not use “iron age” for the time of burial but instead use “post-Roman”. The burial appears to have been done after the collapse of Roman empire but before the viking era notables can be identified.
Likely from the start of the migration period, when Jutes (where the horde was found) migrated westward to the British isles, along with the Angles and people from Saxony.
What I find interesting is one of the pieces has both runes and Latin.
So for this totally inappropriate event Jr steps in it
The biggest fight of the year this Saturday. My Dad - President Trump- & I, are commentating and we’re going to have some fun.
I’ll finally pushing him on the burning question.
Are aliens real and what’s up with Area 51? Shoot me some other questions here!
Text “Alien” to 75303 pic.twitter.com/TBzaCVc9Ow— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 11, 2021
The biggest fight of the year this Saturday. My Dad - President Trump- & I, are commentating and we’re going to have some fun.
I’ll finally pushing him on the burning question.
Are aliens real and what’s up with Area 51? Shoot me some other questions here!
Text “Alien” to 75303 pic.twitter.com/TBzaCVc9Ow— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 11, 2021
I’d ask how Biden was to hold the entire country of Afghanistan together after your dad left him only 2500 troops.
There is so much more in the thread
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
Pretty interesting article here from the BBC on why Columbo is still popular half a century after it premiered on American TV - and why it still draws new fans:
I particularly loved the one with Johnny Cash as a bad guy in which Colombo bases his suspicions on the changed harmony parts in one of his recordings…
re: #133 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
re: #135 William Lewis
The hamsters eat the dashes between numbers.
Try this: tinyurl.com
Changed the original to use the tinyurl.
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I particularly loved the one with Johnny Cash as a bad guy in which Colombo bases his suspicions on the changed harmony parts in one of his recordings…
That was one of the best episodes. “Any Old Port in a Storm” and “Murder by the Book” were also real standouts (the latter being a directed by a young up-and-comer named Steven Spielberg).
The VAERS thing always makes me think of a case I worked on that had me read Clinical Trials and I came across this adverse incident report:
Issue: Subject death
Cause: Internal Hemorrhage
Determination: Likely not study drug related
Rationale: Subject stabbed during fight— Dan (@Eodyne1) September 10, 2021
SUMMARY OF 500 AM AST…0900 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…50.7N 51.7W
ABOUT 285 MI…455 KM NNE OF CAPE RACE NEWFOUNDLAND
ABOUT 1420 MI…2285 KM WSW OF REYKJAVIK ICELAND
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…75 MPH…120 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNE OR 30 DEGREES AT 48 MPH…78 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…966 MB…28.53 INCHES
WATCHES AND WARNINGS
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CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:
All warnings for Newfoundland have been discontinued.
SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:
There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.
DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
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At 500 AM AST (0900 UTC), the center of Hurricane Larry was located
near latitude 50.7 North, longitude 51.7 West. Larry is moving
toward the north-northeast near 48 mph (78 km/h), and this motion
is forecast to continue today.
Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 75 mph (120 km/h)
with higher gusts. Larry is forecast to transition into a
post-tropical cyclone later today, and merge with a larger
non-tropical low by tonight.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 105 miles (165 km) from
the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 275
miles (445 km).
re: #135 William Lewis
Ah, found it easily enough. Saved to my paleoanthropology/hominin evolution folder
Hmm. Very interesting. Another similar paper just out is this one Human generation times across the past 250,000 years
Which discusses how the age at which human populations generation times have swung up and down over the past 250ky. The implications when combined with the specific case of the Neanderthal fragments are interesting ;)
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
From Respectful Insolence:
On “reasonable” apologists for the antivaccine movement
(more, particularly on the antivaccine movement looking for their “marketing moment,” and finding it in Covid-19, conservatives, and libertarians)
i wrote a long letter to the Skeptical Inquirer when I cancelled my 40 year old subscription. here it is clipped
i think the skeptical community made a tactical error back then:
Over the last 40 years or so, we have legitimized anything that can be framed as logical and rational. We’ve given every idea the benefit of the doubt, a priori. No matter how zany, we’ve gently explained, argued, debated. This approach has paved, and now lights a path for anyone with a new agenda who wants an *immediate* seat at the discussion table.
The reason there is, and we are in, a war on science is not because of whether we do skepticism right. It’s because we do anti-science wrong.
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After all this time, my evaluation is that the approach taken since the 70’s - to engage, argue, debate, explain, etc. is a loser. Pseudoscience is bigger than ever. UFOs, cryptids, quack medicine, have not gone away. They are now more complex. There are still flat earthers.
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If there’s any point in confronting crackpots with evidence it’s that it would act as a vaccine to ‘inoculate’ others who may not have heard the crackpot’s arguments, from becoming crackpots themselves. And sadly, the 70’s astrologer, palm reader, psychic goer is today’s climate science denier and anti-vaxxer. I am not saying it was the wrong approach to take back then. I am saying that is how we got here and it didn’t work. It didn’t change the historical arc of critical thinking and evaluative skills of the masses.
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The charlatans are not trafficking in “mis” information. They are deliberately lying, twisting, contorting, spinning, saying things they know are not true as a weapon to get what they want. And what they want is something else entirely from what they are even saying. That they are afraid to actually say because it wouldn’t sell if out in the open. (followers, $, a private jet, persuadable voters).
They are deliberate and calculating or they are in fact deluded. Because this is not about “opinion” or “tactics” - they are “mis” representing reality - and yes, there *is* a reality.Racism is a crackpot idea. Pseudoscience is a crackpot idea. Conspiracies are crackpot. Political-cult behavior is crackpot. Yes they are. People who invest in them and traffic in them may be crackpots or PT Barnums. In either case, leave them to themselves and do not engage crackpots.
Anti-vaxxers are afraid of something that’s not in vaccines. You don’t sit down and calmly, rationally “discuss” and explain this to someone, or the world, that they’re afraid of something that has never existed in reality. You say clearly and loudly “that’s crackpot fantasy (dangerous) thinking ” and move on.
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
I had to skip until he came in. I couldn’t stand watching it when I knew the ending - even though most episodes were written with the subtilty of a flashing neon billboard. I could appreciate Falk’s acting and the role but the show itself? Meh.
In addition, there is a significant sub-set of of Flat Earthers/anti-vaxxers/UFOlogists who are just along for the ride; “performance artists” who enjoy getting a rise out of people and watching them react.
Then there are the ones who are sign on because they see their biases confirmed and will not be convinced otherwise.
And then there are the cynical, sociopathic manipulators who know better but promote those ideas because it is in line with their economic , political or ideological/religious agenda.
8) At the same Tuesday WHO meeting, they confirmed that new variants will be named after stars and constellations once Green letters run out. ➡️Note, Andromeda is a constellation… so… “Andromeda Strain” is now technically possible as a name. 👀 https://t.co/qu2UmtUUBA
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 2, 2021
re: #146 Dangerman
i wrote a long letter to the Skeptical Inquirer when I cancelled my 40 year old subscription. here it is clipped
i think the skeptical community made a tactical error back then:
Anti-vaxxers are afraid of something that’s not in vaccines. You don’t sit down and calmly, rationally “discuss” and explain this to someone, or the world, that they’re afraid of something that has never existed in reality. You say clearly and loudly “that’s crackpot fantasy (dangerous) thinking ” and move on.
Yup. Tried the carrot, time for the stick.
For someone who legitimately doesn’t know what’s in a vaccine so they are hesitant about that, an explanation or pointing to good resources should resolve that issue.
Endless explaining followed by goalpost moving is the sign someone doesn’t want to learn, or is trying to misinform. Cut bait and move on.
The “reasonable apologist” argument he makes applies to a lot of things, all of which the apologist (the person trying to persuade) makes the “no true X” argument, or makes the claim there are reasonable alternatives.
Those apologists (don’t shame antivaxxers, for example) perpetuate anti-science thinking.
re: #147 William Lewis
I had to skip until he came in. I couldn’t stand watching it when I knew the ending - even though most episodes were written with the subtilty of a flashing neon billboard. I could appreciate Falk’s acting and the role but the show itself? Meh.
To a degree it was Scooby Doo for adults.
“I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for this scruffy slob of a detective!”
And it was also a different formula from the usual cop show of the time.
Orion is up in the night sky before dawn. Winter is coming.
re: #152 Dread Pirate Ron
Orion is up in the night sky before dawn. Winter is coming.
my favorite constellation
LOL
The secret to avoiding abortions is in the name of this author, Miss Swallow Prior.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) September 11, 2021
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They stick with the “unborn child” designation at all costs.
I see abortion as the least desirable form of birth control.
And I also agree that it is a failure of social justice and human love & mercy to put such a financial and social burden (as well as a moral stigma) on unmarried pregnant women, leading them to choose the option of abortion.
But that does not mean it should ever cease to be their choice.
re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They stick with the “unborn child” designation at all costs.
I see abortion as the least desirable form of birth control.
And I also agree that it is a failure of social justice and human love & mercy to put such a financial, social and moral burden (as well as a moral stigma) on unmarried pregnant women, leading them to choose the option of abortion.
But that does not mean it should ever cease to be their choice.
The best form of “abortion control” is a combination of easily-accessible birth control, education, and economic opportunity for women, all things that both conservatives and many Christians are opposed to.
Considering how expensive the procedure is (never mind the hurdles put in front of it by the Barbarian Party), I don’t think a whole lot of women are thinking of it as “birth control.”
The Guttmacher Institute breaks down the numbers. The overwhelming majority are religious people (in this country that means Christians) and poor (poverty follows religion in every nation). 60% are in their twenties or lower. 59% already have a child.
re: #56 The Ghost of a Flea
All I heard him say was it’s because Fat People with the Sugars.
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Rand Paul will have to find a new band.
Look, can we please stop this bullshit “women and people who can become pregnant”? Without meaning to wander into insensitive territory, is there some class of people other than women (or I guess technically females, to include teen kids) who can become pregnant? Transition surgery can work wonders, but I’m pretty sure even if everything else could be transplanted, trying to give birth through a male pelvis would be fatal.
re: #151 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
To a degree it was Scooby Doo for adults.
“I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for this scruffy slob of a detective!”
And it was also a different formula from the usual cop show of the time.
he was also an ‘everyman’ blue collar cop. lieutenant and detective though he was
and often he’d show a sort of respect for the intellect and/or brilliance of the nonetheless evil killer he was inevitably going to nab
re: #149 Eric The Fruit Bat
There’s something after Omega? I’m not sure if that’s comforting or terrifying.
re: #160 steve_davis
Look, can we please stop this bullshit “women and people who can become pregnant”? Without meaning to wander into insensitive territory, is there some class of people other than women (or I guess technically females, to include teen kids) who can become pregnant? Transition surgery can work wonders, but I’m pretty sure even if everything else could be transplanted, trying to give birth through a male pelvis would be fatal.
There’s been, I think 2 or 3 cases of a born-female-transitioned-to-male who got pregnant. But none of those were accidents; it required stopping hormones, surgically extracting eggs that were fertilized in a petri dish, then implanting the embryos.
Creighton is a private Catholic university in Omaha.
Four Creighton students sue over COVID vaccine mandate (Omaha World-Herald)
A group of students has filed a civil lawsuit against Creighton University in response to the university’s mandate of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The lawsuit filed by four students on Wednesday alleges that Creighton “refused to consider or grant religious exemptions” in mandating the vaccine for all students.
The university announced July 7 that the vaccine would be required for all students attending classes or events on campus. On Aug. 23, a waiver that allowed students to opt out of the vaccine was withdrawn after the Food and Drug Administration approval of the Pfizer vaccine.
Students were required to provide proof of vaccination by Sept. 7 to be allowed on campus.
Lauren Ramaekers, a Creighton student named as a plaintiff in the suit, is the president of Creighton’s anti-abortion group, Students For Life. In a press release, Ramaekers said she is opposed to taking the vaccine “because of the use of abortion-derived fetal cells in the research and development of the vaccines.”
(more)
More:
The lawsuit also points to tuition paid by students, alleging that the university has accepted tuition and other fees from students who enrolled before July 7 and that Creighton intends “to retain a large portion” of the money paid.
Of course. Why would anyone think churches would give refunds?
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who was once a close adviser to former President Trump, told Republicans gathered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Thursday evening that the party must “face the realities of the 2020 election,” discredit the “extremists in our midst” and “renounce the conspiracy theories,” CBS News reports.
Said Christie: “We need to quit wasting our time, our energy, and our credibility on claims that won’t ever convince anyone of anything
re: #162 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
There’s something after Omega? I’m not sure if that’s comforting or terrifying.
There are already lots and lots of variant COVID-19 viruses in existence thanks to evolution and any virus’s crappy error-checking replication strategy. 99.99%-plus of these variants are failures and never go anywhere, never spread and replicate in other hosts if they can replicate at all. Occasionally, maybe one time in 50 million infections a newly evolved variant succeeds by being infectious and stable enough to replicate in other hosts. When we (the scientific community) find it and characterise it we label it a “Variant of Interest”. If it makes the big time like Delta we label it a “Variant of Concern”.
As far as I know new variants like Mu and Epsilon are still at the VOI stage, we know they’re out there but they’re not spreading widely and quickly. If another Delta comes along then we should sit up and take notice.
Viruses are like those bands four friends in high-school put together, played three gigs and then broke up. Every now and then one of those variants is the Rolling Stones, ubiquitous and seemingly immortal.
In a statement, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., asserted lied that the president’s requirements are “constitutionally dubious.”
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., went a bit further, saying lying in a statement: “Nothing in the Constitution gives the president the legal authority to put mandates concerning personal health decisions on the private sector.”
And Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, also a Republican, went on the Fox Business Network on Friday to reiterate that he plans to work with the state attorney general “to explore all our options. waste state tax money”
Fixed it for you, Omaha World-Herald
Nebraska officials slam vaccine mandate, but legal experts say Biden likely within rights
re: #167 Dangerman
Too late Chris. The “sane” people in your party stood by and let this happen and barely batted an eyelash. You were warned, but because those warnings weren’t coming from assholes like yourself, you didn’t listen. You all broke a lot of shit, which you have NO plans to fix, so STFU and STFD. And while Democrats once again have to fix the damage your party caused, I’m sure you’ll develop some kind of cooperative spirit and help out right? Yeah, and then I woke up rich.
Our media has got to change and stop talking to these useless sacs of protoplasm. I don’t know how that happens but it has to.
re: #170 A Mom Anon
Chris Christie didn’t just stand by like some lump on a log, he helped with the insanity.
Bobby Jindal called that out in 2012 when he said “we need to stop being the stupid party.” They promptly deep-sixed Bobby Jindal, because that’s their brand. And cruelty.
re: #170 A Mom Anon
Too late Chris. The “sane” people in your party stood by and let this happen and barely batted an eyelash. You were warned, but because those warnings weren’t coming from assholes like yourself, you didn’t listen. You all broke a lot of shit, which you have NO plans to fix, so STFU and STFD. And while Democrats once again have to fix the damage your party caused, I’m sure you’ll develop some kind of cooperative spirit and help out right? Yeah, and then I woke up rich.
Our media has got to change and stop talking to these useless sacs of protoplasm. I don’t know how that happens but it has to.
I toss the grapefruit and you swat it outta here
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Bobby Jindal called that out in 2012 when he said “we need to stop being the stupid party.” They promptly deep-sixed Bobby Jindal, because that’s their brand. And cruelty.
I am reminded of the fellow in the USSR who got eleven years for calling Brezhnev an idiot:
One year for disparaging Soviet authority and ten years for disclosing a state secret.
re: #107 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
He doesn’t give a fuck. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and Apple could boycott him entirely and he’d be just fine so long as Exxon stays loyal.
Which is fine in the short term, but Exxon is dead in the long term.
Clearwater, Fla.
When a comrade is in trouble..open the door for em😉 pic.twitter.com/Q84TATpeTV
— Black Commie Therapist☭ (@MrBurnItDowN29) September 10, 2021
re: #174 John Hughes
Which is fine in the short term, but Exxon is dead in the long term.
Exxon and the Republican party have a lot of overlap in ideology and goals: namely to shore up their diminishing resources to stay in power as long as they can.
Off for a nap before my drive later this morning. See y’all in a few days.
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is why nobody really wants to come up with any long-term, comprehensive solution to the issue of immigration:
how, exactly is immigration an “issue”?
Racist fear of “strangers” is an issue, immigration is the proof that your country is not as bad as some others, you should be happy that people want to immigrate.
re: #178 John Hughes
how, exactly is immigration an “issue”?
Racist fear of “strangers” is an issue, immigration is the proof that your country is not as bad as some others, you should be happy that people want to immigrate.
It is designed to put immigrants at a disadvantage in the labor market, or at least allows them to be exploited.
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I realize that I sound like the proverbial broken record (and that many of the younger people reading this might not even know what that reference means)
I realized the future was crap the first time I heard a CD skip just like a vinyl.
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
One of the shows that I watched at the same time as my future wife. Me in London, England, her in Abidjan, Cote d’ivoire.
20 years since 9/11.
Damn, where does the time go?
“What is best in life?”
“To crush the horsepaste enthusiasts, to see them driven before you, and to see the vaccinations of their families.”— Scott Cave, Ea-Nasir Customer Care Team (@cuevasflechado) September 10, 2021
re: #163 sagehen
But the point is that it isn’t the transition that makes you the gender you are. Pre transition trans males can become pregnant.
They risked their lives on the covid frontline. Now France has made 12,000 of them citizens. https://t.co/u8CKEi0xsx
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 10, 2021
re: #168 Nojay UK
“This gene was the first drummer for the virus, but left them after Munich, before they became famous”.
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
20 years since 9/11.
Damn, where does the time go?
my oldest daughter was not quite three years old at the time.
I recall her the next day asking, “Are we going to watch that show where they fly planes into buildings again?”
The mainstream media needs to start covering these Indigenous success stories, to show the rest of the country what’s possible when a nation comes together — and puts the health of the community— above divisive partisan politics.
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) September 10, 2021
Seattle’s electric utility had been braced for an “orchestrated” wave of people calling in sick to protest a new COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers, but only two out of 250 actually did, @seattletimes reports: https://t.co/oXTrlLSjBv
— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) September 10, 2021
This is the lady who was crying that there was nothing she could do about the unvaccinated in her state and the COVID wave they were causing.
Now Biden’s doing something about it and she’s like “oh no you don’t.”
The GOP is a #DeathCult https://t.co/OVtxz8scon— Roy Edroso (@edroso) September 11, 2021
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
my oldest daughter was not quite three years old at the time.
I recall her the next day asking, “Are we going to watch that show where they fly planes into buildings again?”
I happened to catch the second plane flying into the WTC on live feed - and my mind instantly thought of the now mostly-forgotten Richard Burton film The Medusa Touch. I caught that on TV one night in the ’80s and the scene where a 747 sails into a skyscraper stuck with me.
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
20 years since 9/11.
Damn, where does the time go?
I was getting on a canal & lock tour in England when I heard the news. As we boarded the boat the Captain’s wife said, “Oh you’re American. Sorry about the attack on New York City.”
Borrowed a small radio from the captain and spent the whole tour below deck listening to the BBC. Didn’t see the images until we got home three hours later.
re: #191 darthstar
I was getting on a canal & lock tour in England when I heard the news. As we boarded the boat the Captain’s wife said, “Oh you’re American. Sorry about the attack on New York City.”
Borrowed a small radio from the captain and spent the whole tour below deck listening to the BBC. Didn’t see the images until we got home three hours later.
We were moving a piano at the time. I initially assumed from what I heard it was somebody trying to fly a Cessna into the buildings as some fellow had tried to do a few years earlier.
Then we switched on the TV…
re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I came across this adverse incident report:
Issue: Subject death
Cause: Internal Hemorrhage
Determination: Likely not study drug related
Rationale: Subject stabbed during fight
I worked for decades in the design of implantable cardiac defibrillators and occasionally would be tasked with finding the root cause of a device failure. One company legendary event was the returned device with a bullet firmly impacted in it. Story was that the patient thought the device was evil and controlling him, so he shot it. The case report has similar bland language as to cause of failure. Something like “damaged from external blunt force”.
re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is designed (or at leased allowed) to put immigrants at a disadvantage in the labor market.
How? You have a minimum wage? How are immigrants at a disadvantage?
re: #194 John Hughes
How? You have a minimum wage? How are immigrants at a disadvantage?
Farms don’t operate under minimum wage laws.
re: #194 John Hughes
How? You have a minimum wage? How are immigrants at a disadvantage?
Illegal immigrants working without papers are not likely to report any labor law, health or safety violations to authorities for fear of being rounded up.
Which is why we need comprehensive reform so that people coming to the ‘States to work are registered and have the same rights as any other employees.
I don’t have an issue with people coming to the USA to work, just with the slapdash “system” we have in place to deal with them.
re: #193 dat_said
I worked for decades in the design of implantable cardiac defibrillators and occasionally would be tasked with finding the root cause of a device failure. One company legendary event was the returned device with a bullet firmly impacted in it. Story was that the patient thought the device was evil and controlling him, so he shot it. The case case report has similar bland language as to cause of failure. Something like “damaged from external blunt force”.
When Wife was a military dependent she turned her ankle on a sky dive. The doc at Ireland Army Hospital logged her as “Fell from moving aircraft.”
re: #185 Belafon
Canada is doing the same thing.
re: #197 Decatur Deb
When Wife was a military dependent she turned her ankle on a sky dive. The doc at Ireland Army Hospital logged her as “Fell from moving aircraft.”
We were camping in the Russian Don Steppes on the River Medvedista when a terrible storm blew up, our canoe on the bank came rolling at us and I had to duck out of the way.
We later joked about how they would have had to explain to the authorities how I was killed in a boating accident:
“Drowned?”
-“No, run over!”
That was a clean block that prevented a touchdown.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 11, 2021
re: #25 austin_blue
Not with a Tory government in charge. Why would the EU even *want* them?
With every day that goes by, the loss of the EU as a trading partner is softened by the realization that they really didn’t supply much of anything that couldn’t be shifted sideways and made by others. Finance is going to Germany. Agriculture can be moved to any number of places on the Continent.
Now, airplane wings for Airbus are a problem. But the Germans and the French are ready to stand in and replace the English within two years.
The UK is going to lose Scotland in two years, and Northern Ireland is looking shaky, because the Unionists in the North, who hate the idea of reuniting with the Republic, are just beginning to realize how fucked they are to be out of the EU. Wales? We’ll see. They have always hated the English, however.
The UK will disappear and England will be a smaller, much poorer country after the inevitable long-term real estate collapse because of the flight of wealth from the country.
Who wants to live in quaint, economically isolated country with thatched-roof cottages?
They chose to shoot themselves in the foot and in doing so the Sun has FINALLY set on the British Empire.
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
20 years since 9/11.
Damn, where does the time go?
20 years ago, I was a senior in high school. I was between classes, grabbing my next set of books from my locker, when my teacher came out from his classroom and asked the teacher next door, “Did you see that? Another one just hit.” Filled with a deep sense of foreboding, I raced into his classroom just in time to see the replay of the second plane striking and the plume of smoke from the first tower. The rest of my day was spent watching the TV, except for fifth period English, who refused to turn his TV on but was willing to talk about what was going on. That night, I worked at the hardware store, my summer job; my dad was very angry with me because I took the time to get dressed for work, when he wanted to get to the gas station and fill up all our pickup trucks. (Sorry, Dad. I didn’t get it then. And no, we did not wind up getting gas that night, nor for a couple of days.) That night at work was the quietest night we ever had. We had a few people stop in asking for American flags; we were all sold out. We had a Radio Shack display at the store, where we turned on one of the TVs for customers and employees alike, and watched the President and the joint members of Congress live.
This happened here for a reason pic.twitter.com/LQ34lqD0Ej
— 🚂 🏳️⚧️ Irma (@1146_goat_north) September 6, 2021
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“The #Environment Ministry had earlier encountered a case where a smuggler attended a workshop on methods to stop smuggling in an attempt to learn the processes of the Ministry to outsmart them.” #WildlifeTrade https://t.co/L1OWomSfkt #endwildlifecrime
— Dr. Jonathan Kolby (@MyFrogCroaked) September 11, 2021
It also kills Aries, Taurus, Sagittarius, etc…
Before you get a tattoo in a language you don’t understand… don’t.
Im assuming this was supposed to be “butterfly”.
What’s written instead is a direct translation of the words fly (the flying insect pest) and butter (the dairy product). pic.twitter.com/4fUGUvt1w0— Rachel Figueroa 😷💉🍈🍎🥕🐝🍄🌷🌻🌸🌱 (@Jewyorican) September 10, 2021
Has the dude been in a coma for the past three years? https://t.co/6uwfuPLOR2
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 11, 2021
re: #206 wrenchwench
In Russian it’s “бабочка” (babotchka), literally “little grandmother”…
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
Has the dude been in a coma for the past three years?
Selective memory is a useful tool.
re: #201 JOE 🥓
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They chose to shoot themselves in the foot and in doing so the Sun has FINALLY set on the British Empire.
England’s re-entry to the EU will be more-or-less automatic when they become a protectorate of The Republic of Ireland.
re: #210 Decatur Deb
England’s re-entry to the EU will be more-or-less automatic when they become a protectorate of the Republic of Ireland.
Norther Ireland will long have since joined Ireland, but perhaps the Republic of Wales or Scotland could sponsor them…
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Norther Ireland will long have since joined Ireland, but perhaps the Republic of Wales or Scotland could sponsor them…
History doesn’t stop, unless it stops all at once.
Who knew you could use a possum for self-care?
Stress Possum https://t.co/4cV22UvzG1 pic.twitter.com/9vtXYQVAYc— Archie McPhee (@ArchieMcPhee) September 11, 2021
re: #52 teleskiguy
Back home. Neighbors told me there’s been bears in the yard.
I’ve never seen bears in my yard.
So you painted an end-zone in your back yard?
I have seen deer grazing in my back yard, but the only bears around here are in the wild animal park in the next town…
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have seen deer grazing in my back yard, but the only bears around here are in the wild animal park in the next town…
We typically don’t get bears in my neighborhood, but my brother-in-law on the far side of the Twin Cities had a bear in his yard once a few years back. We’ve also apparently had moose on the loose around here.
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have seen deer grazing in my back yard, but the only bears around here are in the wild animal park in the next town…
There’s quite a few wild animals in my neighborhood - wild pigs and a herd of deer in the forest behind my apartment block.
One of the most incredible political accomplishments of my lifetime is George W Bush casting himself as a “hero” of 9/11 even though he
1. Ignored intelligence warning him of an attack in the Summer of 2001
2. Responded with the disastrous war in Iraq
3. Never caught Bin Laden— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 11, 2021
re: #93 Decatur Deb
Republican anti-vaxxers have made me much more aware as a person. For the first time in my life I give a shit about my O2 level. (98%)
I use my Apple Watch O2 app a couple times each day. Right now 99%.
re: #219 wrenchwench
Bush paraded on a carrier deck in a flight suit with a “Mission Accomplished” banner behind him…
I broke my Preview window by trying to retweet out of it. I shall refresh the page. (Or is it a Preview pop-up, rather than window?)
Alabama Dems took a shot at Grandma Covid for her rejection of Yankee vax mandates. Calling her “another Wallace” is a nice touch—he was a paleo-Dem, standing in our schoolhouse door..
Alabama Democratic Party leader fires back at Kay Ivey over Biden comments
al.com
re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Bush paraded on a carrier deck in a flight suit with a “Mission Accomplished” banner behind him…
And it didn’t end his career.
9/11 takes Me back to a simpler time when America fought terrorists instead of electing them.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) September 11, 2021
Dang it, forgot to Preview. I never forget to Preview…
It worked.
Twice.
re: #225 wrenchwench
And it didn’t end his career.
I had a mental image of General Santa Ana parading amid the still-smoldering ruins of the Alamo with a “misión cumplida” banner flying from the parapets
(get it, Alamo mission ha ha ha…)
re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In Russian it’s “бабочка” (babotchka), literally “little grandmother”…
I rather like the Japanese word for bumblebee, kumabachi which means “bear bee”.
re: #229 Nojay UK
I rather like the Japanese word for bumblebee, kumabachi which means “bear bee”.
Italian for fireflies is “luciole”, which they use in the North as slang for streetwalkers. That’s kind of nice.
re: #229 Nojay UK
I rather like the Japanese word for bumblebee, kumabachi which means “bear bee”.
One of my sisters called them ‘gumball bees’ before she could say ‘bumble’.
re: #231 wrenchwench
One of my sisters called them ‘gumball bees’ before she could say ‘bumble’.
That’s a good term in itself.
re: #231 wrenchwench
One of my sisters called them ‘gumball bees’ before she could say ‘bumble’.
The German word is Hummel, as in the figurines (with the Bumblebee logo).
I was amused to hear a German colleague refer to one as a “humblebee”
(as opposed to an arrogant wasp, I guess)
re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The German word is Hummel, as in the figurines (with the Bumblebee logo).
I was amused to hear a German colleague refer to one as a “humblebee”
(as opposed to an arrogant wasp, I guess)
One of my grammas collected Hummels. She used to tell her grandchildren to pick which one they wanted when she died. I was bothered by that. She made it to 99, I have no idea where the Hummels went.
re: #229 Nojay UK
I rather like the Japanese word for bumblebee, kumabachi which means “bear bee”.
The Czech word is Čmelák (pronounced “chmelahk”).
re: #234 wrenchwench
One of my grammas collected Hummels. She used to tell her grandchildren to pick which one they wanted when she died. I was bothered by that. She made it to 99, I have no idea where the Hummels went.
There was a sub-plot in Better Call Saul about him doing the will for an aging widow and determining who gets which figure from her Hummel collection (“…but only if he finishes college!”)
Its always about the grift.
Grifting on 9/11.
A Bulwark+ member forwards this from Don Jr.:
“Been waiting years for my dad to tell me the real deal about Area 51 and aliens. I have a feeling he will finally share the details with us during tomorrow’s fight commentary.”
With a link to pay-per-view tickets.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 11, 2021
*sigh* [rant]Trans-men are men. Trans-women are women. Our existence/validity is no longer open for debate. We have been, and always will be, amongst you and no amount of pearl clutching or gnashing of teeth is ever going to change that. We WILL NOT be silenced and shoved back into the closet just to make you feel comfortable.
Though it shouldn’t need to be stated, I am sure someone will probably take offense at the above statement. Rest assured that I am not pointing fingers at any Lizards (you have all been great). The “YOU” used above pertains to society as a whole.[/rant]
re: #234 wrenchwench
One of my great-aunts had a Hummel collection. She was so afraid of anything happening to her Hummels we children weren’t allowed inside the house when we visited.
re: #241 jaunte
One of my great-aunts had a Hummel collection. She was so afraid of anything happening to her Hummels we children weren’t allowed inside the house when we visited.
any self-respecting Hummel collector would have a glass display case…
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Oh, she did. She was a belt, suspenders and multiple insurance policies type.
re: #239 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
whatever gender or term is used, I see them as descriptive, not determinative. And all worthy of the same respect shown to anybody.
I had no idea what a Hummel was, until this conversation, but the collectibles in my family were items made from Greentown glass. Known in the 1890’s for their unique shade of chocolate brown, the Greentown Glass Factory was built near a natural gas source. The factory burned to the ground in 1903; the ruins are publicly accessible, and you can still find chunks of melted glass on the ground in the area.
re: #239 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
*sigh* [rant]Trans-men are men. Trans-women are women. Our existence/validity is no longer open for debate. We have been, and always will be, amongst you and no amount of pearl clutching or gnashing of teeth is ever going to change that. We WILL NOT be silenced and shoved back into the closet just to make you feel comfortable.
Though it shouldn’t need to be stated, I am sure someone will probably take offense at the above statement. Rest assured that I am not pointing fingers at any Lizards (you have all been great). The “YOU” used above pertains to society as a whole.[/rant]
It would be nice if people would just learn to mind their own business, and treat everyone the way they would want to be treated.
re: #230 Decatur Deb
Italian for fireflies is “luciole”, which they use in the North as slang for streetwalkers. That’s kind of nice.
The Japanese word for firefly is “hotaru.” I’ve heard the term “hotaru-zoku” (firefly people/tribe) for those who smoke outside a door at work at break time.
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yup. Tried the carrot, time for the stick.
For someone who legitimately doesn’t know what’s in a vaccine so they are hesitant about that, an explanation or pointing to good resources should resolve that issue.
…..
As has been amply pointed out, most people who claim hesitancy because they don’t know what’s in a vaccine are not trained in biology or chemistry; they don’t have a clue what’s in their soft drinks, or hot dogs, or canned soups, or frozen TV dinners. Or has been shown in that infamous tweet, they don’t know the chemical compounds in a raw apple. They have been persuaded by others that the vaccines are dangerous and directing then to real information is not likely to change their minds since they have no understanding of the issue in the first place.
re: #174 John Hughes
Which is fine in the short term, but Exxon is dead in the long term.
Nope. Exxon will adapt and switch to be a major supplier of green energy. They will do whatever is profitable and survive the elimination of fossil fuel as a major energy source.
re: #248 Hecuba’s daughter
As has been amply pointed out, most people who claim hesitancy because they don’t know what’s in a vaccine are not trained in biology or chemistry; they don’t have a clue what’s in their soft drinks, or hot dogs, or canned soups, or frozen TV dinners. Or has been shown in that infamous tweet, they don’t know the chemical compounds in a raw apple. They have been persuaded by others that the vaccines are dangerous and directing then to real information is not likely to change their minds since they have no understanding of the issue in the first place.
Yep, its time to coerce them. We’ve tried reasoning with them for months, but they are only listening to the antivaccine grifters, who, in a just world, would face justice for crimes against humanity.
Catching up:
On Hummels: see photo for 1980’s wedding gifts, Ravenna 1955, and Paisley Skirt 1988
On LA traffic, went to dodger game last night and was driving home through Thousand Oaks at 2230 at 85 mph. My friend who is simultaneously a crazy driver and a nervous passenger noted my excessive speed and potential for a ticket I noted that all the adjacent cars were pulling away from us and I would be cited for driving too slow
On Red State America: I live at the Edge of the notion, which I define as where the fog line burns off.
Some more light hearted silliness from the Samantha B segment on the TUR.
Meet Kat. She lives on @tenacious_unicorn_ranch. The ranch is a safe haven for trans and queer people but is it also a safe space for Star Wars fans? pic.twitter.com/jnktN7Tpof
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) September 11, 2021
re: #253 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You sleigh me with that one.
re: #234 wrenchwench
Always pick the full bee signature. They are the most valuable. Early stylized bee can be valuable also, but the full bee is what you’re looking for.
I love WHYY. On Wednesdays at 7:30 PM they will have The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross. That will be the perfect time for me with my new schedule of 8-4 and a perfect time to relax from work.
re: #249 Hecuba’s daughter
Nope. Exxon will adapt and switch to be a major supplier of green energy. They will do whatever is profitable and survive the elimination of fossil fuel as a major energy source.
More solar spills to come.
A bit telling that when someone says “violent extremists at home” Jack hears “Trump voters.” https://t.co/wimCt9lWVp pic.twitter.com/JSUVnokCpX
— Dan «Stole MyPillow’s Data With #Antifa Things» (@RelUnrelated) September 11, 2021
re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The German word is Hummel, as in the figurines (with the Bumblebee logo).
I was amused to hear a German colleague refer to one as a “humblebee”
(as opposed to an arrogant wasp, I guess)
Humblebee is another name (archaic or dialectal) for that same insect.
TX Senator Angela Paxton & husband, @TXAG @KenPaxtonTX speaking to the mob on Jan 6 pic.twitter.com/4OPZhZ9RAz
— M_Tex 📀📀💿 (@M23412963) September 11, 2021
re: #6 darthstar
Olbermann had always been one of my favorite political commentators. Sure he can be a bit hyperbolic at times, but he doesn’t hold back.
10 year old hyperbole has become reality.
Never dismiss extreme predictions when they are based on facts and previous behavior and rhetoric by individuals and groups bent on the destruction of civilization itself.
How about discussing the lives saved by Biden’s vaccine mandate with actual doctors? https://t.co/0DxOGmpupn
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 11, 2021
I’m getting ready to leave for Ashton.
Possibly a better of 9/11 stories you’ll read today, from Stephen Robinson at Wonkette, who lived on the Upper West Side when the towers were hit. (As for me, I don’t remember exactly what I was doing that day when I found out, that was part of my homeless period. Probably doing something to try to survive.)
A Former New Yorker Remembers When A Tuesday In September Became 9/11
Post-tropical Hurricane Larry is still flying away to the northeast.
The folks at the High Seas Forecast Center apparently just said “fuck it” and turned their forecasting over to the National Hurricane Center.
…STORM WARNING…
.POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE LARRY NEAR 54.0N 48.2W 963 MB AT 1500 UTC
SEP 11 MOVING NNE OR 030 DEG AT 42 KT. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS
60 KT GUSTS 75 KT. GALE FORCE WINDS WITHIN 210 NM NE
AND SW QUADRANTS…150 NM NW QUADRANT AND 270 NM SE QUADRANT.
SEAS 12 FT OR GREATER WITHIN 180 NM NE QUADRANT…600 NM SE
QUADRANT…840 NM SW QUADRANT…AND 90 NM NW QUADRANT WITH SEAS
TO 33 FT. ELSEWHERE WITHIN 540 NM E…840 NM S…240 NM W…AND
240 NM N QUADRANTS WINDS 20 TO 33 KT. SEAS 12 TO 24 FT.
.12 HOUR FORECAST POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE LARRY NEAR 57.8N 44.9W
975 MB. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS 55 KT GUSTS 65 KT.
.24 HOUR FORECAST…DISSIPATED.
Elsewhere, the wave in Mexico still continues to be a threat, now extended to Louisiana. It is expected to be a tropical depression later today.
The wave off Ghana’s track has been shifted to due west, and is passing the Cape Verde Islands to the south. It will also become a depression today.
A new area of tropical development is further south off the Ivory Coast, from a wave currently inland in Africa.
re: #267 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Quick question: Today is Sept 11th. Do we fly the flag on this day? I thought we did to remember what happened.
re: #265 jaunte
“A roundtable to discuss the political fallout”
because health issues are boring
the science of epidemiology and virology is boring
uninfected people are boring
political disaster is what we want and when we don’t get it, we generate it!
re: #268 PhillyPretzel
Quick question: Today is Sept 11th. Do we fly the flag on this day? I thought we did to remember what happened.
Yes. Today is “Patriot Day” (ugh), designated in the US Flag Code as half-staff all day.
That is not to be confused with the Massachusetts state holiday Patriots Day, in remembrance of the battles of Concord and Lexington.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“The U.S. is now the G7 country with the lowest rate of vaccination. How will this hurt Joe Biden going forward?”
re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The author cited, Karen Swallow Prior, is a professor of English and Christianity at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Amongst other things, searches on her name will recommend articles about Paige Patterson.
KSP taught for 21 years at Liberty U. At some time previous to that she was part of Operation Rescue. Oh, and four years ago she signed the virulently homophobic, transphobic and biologically incoherent “Nashville Statement.” At the time, I chewed her out about it. (I’d forgotten, someone resurrected my tweet today.)
KSP is feeling really put upon right now because she’s being attacked.
Hey @KSPrior way to live in a bubble (restrict comments to people who you follow. I still want to know if you privilege a rapist, his sperm and his violent act as against a woman or girl seeking an abortion as a result of his violent act? Got an answer or gonna ignore? https://t.co/9ZAN4lzm8j
— Dee *Inerrancy is a tool of the patriarchy* Holmes (@mmmirele) September 11, 2021
*snort*
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thanks. My little flag is in my front window.
re: #271 jaunte
“The U.S. is now the G7 country with the lowest rate of vaccination. How will this hurt Joe Biden going forward?”
“When will he stop scolding the recalcitrant, pouty, contrarians who would rather spite themselves and make other sick rather than take advice from anyone who has a higher degree in a relevant field of specialization?”
Let’s face it, the “political fallout” to Biden’s new policies is people who were willing to drown themselves in liberal tears are still willing.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 11, 2021
Hey!
Going to leave this for the #antivaxxers and just wait 👀 pic.twitter.com/kCLm0Ro7DG
— Scott Schulz (@Scott_Schulz96) September 2, 2021
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Clearwater, Fla.
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This is actually Clearwater Beach, which is not Clearwater, Florida.
How do I know? Because at the end of the ’90s, beginning of the ’00s, I went to Clearwater itself several times to protest the space alien cult that has taken over the town. But I never went to Clearwater Beach, because that’s not where the Scientologists were. Recently, it was the 20th anniversary of a court order that supposedly keeps me and dozens of other people from protesting within 50 feet of certain Scientology buildings. It’s probably unconstitutional, but no money/inclination to challenge it.
re: #190 Dr Lizardo
I happened to catch the second plane flying into the WTC on live feed - and my mind instantly thought of the now mostly-forgotten Richard Burton film The Medusa Touch. I caught that on TV one night in the ’80s and the scene where a 747 sails into a skyscraper stuck with me.
I think there are millions of us with a kind of PTSD because we saw the second plane go into the WTC live. I used to listen to NPR news, and had my clock radio set to go off at 05:58 so I could get the top headlines. That day they said a plane had crashed into the WTC, so I bounded out of bed, warmed up my TV and … yeah.
I think the worst part was one of my NYC friends describing how he’d been covered in ash, and breathing in ash, and what was in the ash, and it wasn’t just collapsed building in the ash.
Remember the Mantra “If we don’t fight them (terrorists) over there we’ll have to fight them here”?
They were here all along.
And OBL won in a sense.
Just look at us now.
Just look at us now.
Off to do chores, back from our break at the shore.
Former President Clinton, former first lady Hillary Clinton, former President Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama, President Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend annual 9/11 commemoration ceremony in New York City.https://t.co/kOuY6pnjEK
📷 Chip Somodevilla / Getty pic.twitter.com/SfTtfYtLx7— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 11, 2021
re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A restraining order is for life?
whoa
Well, if you don’t have the money or the inclination to get the order lifted, and you’re not going picketing in CW because the ex-Scientologists are doing a good job on that front (and they’re not under this court order), then it’s just fine to leave it in place. So CW doesn’t get my money, I’m fine with that.
“I saw last night on the football game, Alicia Keys sang ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ which now I hear is called the Black national anthem.” - Bill Maher, who added “going down a road of two anthems leads to segregation.”
It’s only been the Black anthem for more than a century.— Full Dissident (@hbryant42) September 11, 2021
re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
All wearing masks
Means the Terrorists won.
/
The terrorists keep killing their followers off who refuse to wear masks. Oh, you meant al Qaeda.
Former President Trump has just released a video message on 9/11 anniversary which begins with remembrance of that tragedy, and ends with an attack on President Joe Biden
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) September 11, 2021
re: #273 PhillyPretzel
Thanks. My little flag is in my front window.
My wife uses that same phrase when I am unzipped.
re: #287 jeffreyw
I have put a small flag outside in the past and found it stolen. That is why I put a small desk flag in my front window.
Not enough people to form a bowling team. https://t.co/etvvTu9fNg
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) September 11, 2021
re: #206 wrenchwench
About 15 years ago, when pseudo Chinese and Japanese tattoos were very popular here in the US, I used to looks at the blog hanzismatter.blogspot.com over some of the more egregious misuses.
One of my colleagues at the time was a native Formosan. I showed him one of the pictures where a group of Chinese ?Mandarin? characters had been installed in a random alignment. His response was “My eyes hurt”.
Unfortunately, it looks like the photos for the ‘Crazy Diarrhea’ tattoo have been taken down.
BREAKING: Michael Moore calls out the media’s criticism of Biden’s Afghanistan pullout, “I’m STILL flabbergasted that he pulled it off with such grace, precision and safety… but the pundits did nothing but spend weeks criticizing him. I don’t get it.” RT IF YOU’RE WITH MICHAEL!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) September 10, 2021
re: #292 Belafon
I forgot where I saw the cartoon of DT handing Joe a grenade and the caption reading I pulled the pin out for you. That is exactly what Joe had to deal with and we had to get out fast.
re: #292 Belafon
While I agree with Moore 119%, I think the comment of “I don’t get it” to be a tad disingenuous.
Whatever his other flaws, Michael Moore is no dummy: I think he “gets” it just fine.
re: #284 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Morons like Mahler keep ignoring the FACT that things like “the black anthem” are REACTIONS to white racism.
Get to the root of the problem, ya yahoos…stop focussing on the defenses of people who are being oppressed.
re: #291 ckkatz
About 15 years ago, when pseudo Chinese and Japanese tattoos were very popular here in the US, I used to looks at the blog hanzismatter.blogspot.com over some of the more egregious misuses.
One of my colleagues at the time was a native Formosan. I showed him one of the pictures where a group of Chinese ?Mandarin? characters had been installed in a random alignment. His response was “My eyes hurt”.
Unfortunately, it looks like the photos for the ‘Crazy Diarrhea’ tattoo have been taken down.
I was once at a county fair and saw a guy with this tattooed on his calf: 保護者 (hogosha). It means “legal guardian.” I think he probably got “protector” as the definition and it has that sense, but it’s formally used as someone authorized as a child’s guardian by the state in Japanese.
re: #217 Dr Lizardo
There’s quite a few wild animals in my neighborhood - wild pigs and a herd of deer in the forest behind my apartment block.
The Washington DC region occasionally gets young black bears wandering through in the late spring and early summer.
The adolescent bears are chased away by the mother when she is ready to breed again. The young bears are then chased away from good food sources by older stronger bears.
Some of these young bears randomly choose to follow the Potomac River Basin. This brings them into suburbia and contact with cars, fences, dogs and people. None of which are pleasant experiences. The lucky ones are tranque’ed and dumped back into the Appalachians. The rest catch cars or a shotgun from an angry human.
From a last years WashPost article for kids:
…snip..
These furry spring visitors are usually juveniles (yearlings) beginning a new stage of life. When they are 18 months old, mom sends them off to find their own territory.“May and June is the peak dispersal time for those teenagers,” said Harry Spiker of Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources. “They’re just passing through.”
…snip…
Black bears are intelligent. They not only remember where they found food, but Spiker has watched them look both ways before crossing a street. “Years ago, on an [Interstate] 270 ramp in Bethesda, a bear carefully watched traffic from underneath a guard rail before crossing.”
…snip…
“Bears will leave you alone as long as you don’t scare them or get between them and something they want: their cubs, food or a way to get away,” he noted.
‘Teen’ black bears take a spring break in the suburbs
washingtonpost.com
Black bear captured in Bethesda
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re: #296 Barefoot Grin
I was once at a county fair and saw a guy with this tattooed on his calf: 保護者 (hogosha). It means “legal guardian.” I think he probably got “protector” as the definition and it has that sense, but it’s formally used as someone authorized as a child’s guardian by the state in Japanese.
It’s interesting to consider the thought that someone might have had a typo permanently inscribed on their body.
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
my oldest daughter was not quite three years old at the time.
I recall her the next day asking, “Are we going to watch that show where they fly planes into buildings again?”
My older daughter was 23 at the time. It was she who alerted me to the attacks. I was up but the TV was not on and I had not quite gotten around to checking the net, which would have flooded me with news instantly. She had arrived for work at the Sears Tower in Chicago and called to tell me that the building was being evacuated, “because of the plane crashes in New York.” I said, “Huh? What? Crashes, like more than one?” She explained and I turned the TV on to see the first tower collapse. I checked the net and thought, oh shit, this is going to be a big deal. I spent part of the day trying to calm people down and clarify the situation, to the extent that I understood it myself, for them. I knew we had taken a big hit, but nowhere close to fatal, and there would be a big response. My younger daughter asked me if I would be going back into the Army (I had retired the previous year). I told her I might, depending on the requirements of the situation. Osama bin Laden and AQ were not definitely identified as the perpetrators for several days, but they were suspect #1 from the beginning, at least to anyone who knew about recent history. I envisioned a worldwide attack on the Al Qaeda gang itself, perhaps brutally forceful, but not the invasion and occupation of whole countries. I reckoned without the ambition and duplicity of the Bush/Cheney gang and the legion of new-fangled “services contractors” who were waiting in the wings to cash in.
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
my oldest daughter was not quite three years old at the time.
I recall her the next day asking, “Are we going to watch that show where they fly planes into buildings again?”
I was my middle sons 10th birthday. So today he is 30.
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