The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Sad Mall

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

The Sad Mall — [Explicit Content] Bob’s brief exchange with Andrew Yang. The Facebook whistleblower and her 60 Minutes interview. Facebook’s Monday outage. Why Facebook is sinister and must be regulated. Facebook’s Jeffrey Wigand moment. Rudy Giuliani admitted he got his election fraud lies from Facebook. Trump asks court to restore his Twitter account. Fox News is next. A Buzz Burbank Top 10 List. COVID, Fauci, and canceling Christmas. Buzz’s side effects from his Pfizer booster. With music by Matt Springfield and Maddie & Jackie, and more!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2021 • 3:38:41pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 5, 2021 • 3:41:39pm

Nobel prize in physics to a trio, one of whose research was in complexity (in physical systems), the other two in foundational research into atmospheric complexity:

Former NOAA scientist Suki Manabe shares Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering climate prediction

Today, Syukuro “Suki” Manabe, 90, was named among the winners of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking climate science achievements. His pioneering research in the 1960s laid the foundation for how scientists perceive the Earth’s climate and how human actions continue to influence it.

My PhD supervisor just won the Nobel prize in physics - here’s how his research on complex systems changed science

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2021 has been jointly awarded to Italy’s Giorgio Parisi, Japan’s Syukuro Manabe and Germany’s Klaus Hasselmann for their “groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems”.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2021 • 3:45:54pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

That’s sort of interesting to see since I am currently reading an alt-history timeline where France does not fall in mid-1940 and the war essentially goes pear-shaped for Germany from that point. At the point I am at in very early 1942 the western Allies are deep into Germany and Commonwealth troops have crossed the Elbe headed towards Berlin.

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darthstar  Oct 5, 2021 • 3:49:56pm

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2021 • 3:57:47pm

Too much tentacle porn in this guy’s rotation, I guess:

CONCORD, N.H. —

Gov. Chris Sununu has publicly called out a fellow State House Republican who he said is “detached from reality.”

State Rep. Ken Weyler made headlines in September when Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Shibinette confronted him at a hearing for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Now, Sununu has spoken out after continued accusations from Democrats that Weyler had continued to share vaccine misinformation with members of the fiscal committee he chairs.

That misinformation reportedly included stories that the vaccine is full of live creatures with tentacles and contains 5G technology to control peoples’ thoughts.

Sununu blasted Weyler’s “absurd” emails and called on the House Speaker to remove Weyler from chairmanship of the fiscal committee.

wmur.com

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ckkatz  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:03:40pm

Well, Microsoft Windows 11 came out today. Woo…… Hoo….. :\

Windows 11 review: An unnecessary replacement for Windows 10
Windows 11 contains some good ideas. But it also feels like Microsoft made some fundamental changes to Windows for no good reason.

Our Verdict

A decidedly mixed bag of improved features and unnecessary changes. Windows 11 will undoubtedly improve over time, but it’s a very polarizing upgrade that many users will want to forgo for now.

pcworld.com

Reminds me of the old joke…
If Apple were to make a car, what feature would it drop?
Windows

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:06:31pm

re: #6 ckkatz

“Microsoft made some fundamental changes to Windows for no good reason.”

I refuse to believe they would ever do such a thing.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:06:40pm

re: #6 ckkatz

Nice of them to push out this crap that requires newer hardware to use right in the middle of a bunch of tech shortages. Thanks assholes.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:08:18pm

Did changing Windows involve linseed oil?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:15:48pm

re: #8 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Nice of them to push out this crap that requires newer hardware to use right in the middle of a bunch of tech shortages. Thanks assholes.

If I install it I guess I have to worry about it telling me I need a better graphics card.
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They already bloatware memory requirements, they might as well go after graphics next.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:22:13pm

Ok, please don’t read too much into this, but over the pandemic period I would talk to my dog on walks and ask her “can you smell covid?” “Would you tell me if you could?”

And that has recently morphed into what I think would be a funny two-frame cartoon:

Man comes home after getting a diagnosis of terminal cancer and rails at his dog: “I thought you were supposed to be able to sniff this stuff out!!”

Dog in thought bubble: “I didn’t have the heart to tell you.”

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:25:42pm
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:27:08pm

re: #12 jaunte

Also, why should some other kid’s parent get to determine what my kids learn? If I want my kids to learn the curriculum that is recommended by professional educators, then who are you to tell me that my kids can’t learn those lessons, but have to sit through your stupid Bible studies?

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:28:39pm

re: #6 ckkatz

Ars Technica has a similar review. Worth skimming over.

Frankly I think Win11 looks like a load of crap. The only reason I keep Win10 around is because 1) my employer has a weird VPN that allegedly requires a Win-only client, and 2) I still play some Win-only games. I’m more than happy to use just about any Linux distro as a daily driver. I have a Chromebook for screwing around on the web when I’m half-ass watching movies on the couch.

If they weren’t so damned expensive I’d consider going the Macbook route. I am pretty much a noob at Mac OS and I would like to learn enough to be able to use it as a power-user.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:29:44pm

re: #12 jaunte

Gee. My younger sister misread something in the local school curriculum that stated that children who have special needs get a curriculum made for them. She thought that it meant that she could tell the teachers how to teach her children. Thankfully my late dad who had been a teacher for close to forty years straightened her out in that regard.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:32:18pm
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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:32:33pm

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

“Microsoft made some fundamental changes to Windows for no good reason.”

I refuse to believe they would ever do such a thing.

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DOS isn’t done till Lotus won’t run…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:33:39pm

re: #12 jaunte

re: #13 Dopamine Fish

This still all goes back to the religious right and their fear of evolution.

Pompeo is an ass but he’s not stupid. He knows why Trump is popular.

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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:34:21pm

Model A club staying here this week. I liked this hood ornament :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:34:55pm

re: #170 The Pie Overlord!

Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga - Love For Sale (Official Music Video)

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ckkatz  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:39:42pm

re: #14 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Yup, I also think that I will hold off on upgrading.

I still remember the Windows of the past century where every version had random parts that did things differently than the previous version. And, of course, as soon as one figured out how to work the new version, MS created a newer version of Windows that did things, yup, differently.

I have very little experience with Apple’s OS. And many folks here, who I highly respect, have high regard for it.

However, from what little I have seen, it seems to require that you do things exactly their way. Which does not always seem like the best way to do a specified task. Basically it always felt to me like “Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated”.

So, I think that I will stick with Windows and Linux.

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:44:35pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:44:58pm

Among other software, at work I had DR’s GEM and when MS came out with Windows 2.1 many in the office of course switched to that from the first Windows (and many had just been using plain old DOS.)

Never was impressed with Windows. I had switched to using Macs early, but for compatibility I also had a PC. So of necessity I had Windows (original, 2.something, 3.misc). But GEM was just easier to use.

Regardless, the landscape of our first-world society has been affected by Windows and the sprawling suburbs of Seattle have been all the happier as Microsoft employees turned out to be better off than the prior Boeing employees.

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ckkatz  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:45:40pm

Joe -

This book came out today. I ordered a copy. I’ll update you on how it is:

bookshop.org

amazon.com

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JOE 🥓  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:47:23pm

re: #24 ckkatz

Joe -

This book came out today. I ordered a copy. I’ll update you on how it is:

bookshop.org

amazon.com

Thank you!

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:50:02pm

It took a long time and a couple of job changes to end up at a place that would issue to me a Mac for work. Most of my career as a home Mac user has been using a Dell at work. For a time I was pretty good at navigating the small idiosyncrasies between the Microsoft software between them. I don’t really have to do that anymore since most of those differences have been ironed out or are easily overcome in my basic-needs work.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:51:10pm

One reason I had liked the original GEM is that it was like my Mac.

This of course was a problem and Apple saw to it that DR had to change GEM.

This era of personal computing software was much more exciting than today because of the newness of using a computer at home or at your office (which prior had been supported by terminals to a mini-computer or mainframe.)

Small computers these days are vastly more sophisticated as is the software.

YET, there were programs for my MacII that I still miss. All sorts of applications that were powerful and easy to use but today don’t exist. Sure, the same functionality today can be found online or in bloated apps, but for much more money or worse yet much more commitment in time learning how to use.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:51:13pm
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:52:33pm

YES, exactly this:

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BeachDem  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:52:44pm

re: #21 ckkatz

Since you asked yesterday for a Murdaugh update, here’s the latest super sleazy story relating to the housekeeper and the settlement he “arranged” for her sons:

Alex Murdaugh diverted more than $3.5 million in death settlement money meant for the sons of his family’s deceased housekeeper to an account said to be fraudulent, according to new court documents filed Tuesday…

Copies of checks are attached to the filing showing the exact dollar amounts of death settlement money that was approved in court by a circuit judge but never reached its intended recipients. The checks had a false name for its recipient and were sent to a P.O. Box in Hampton…

myrtlebeachonline.com

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:55:03pm

UCHealth employs 26,500 people. Vaccine mandates work.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:55:39pm
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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 4:57:40pm
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DodgerFan1988  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:00:48pm
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retired cynic  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:01:03pm

re: #28 The Pie Overlord!

grrrrrrrrrrrr

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EPR-radar  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:04:11pm

re: #34 DodgerFan1988

Holding CPAC in Hungary was their second choice. Their first choice, Hitler’s Germany, was ruled out by a lack of time travel.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:12:00pm

The Catholic archbishop for the lower half of Alabama has tested positive. He almost certainly was vaxxed.
al.com

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:13:16pm
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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:15:06pm
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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:17:54pm

Idaho’s Lt. Gov grandstanding is out grandstanding our Governors grandstanding down on the TX border. RETHUGS IN DISARRAY!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:22:56pm
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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:28:09pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:29:26pm
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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:30:02pm
We’re not voting in any way to help raise the debt ceiling. As a group we are all together.”

— Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), quoted by Bloomberg, making clear he will filibuster legislation to lift the debt ceiling tomorrow.

No respect for this phoney

None

Collins neither

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:30:13pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:30:19pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

Sinner in the open at 2 o’clock, 800 meters.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:32:17pm

re: #46 Decatur Deb

Sinner in the open at 2 o’clock, 800 meters.

Fire for effect.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:35:38pm

Somehow I’m reminded of this adage I picked up along the way:

Rifleman: I’ve got this bullet with your name on it.
Sniper: …And your address.
SAW man: Bullets for you and the entire neighborhood!
Artilleryman: “To whom it may concern.”

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:36:19pm

Any writing of the personal experiences of black authors or their families is now bannable CRT to conservative snowflakes.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:40:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:41:02pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:41:53pm
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Sherlock Hound  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:43:47pm

Quoi?

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:44:00pm

re: #12 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Ok Mike, I think they should be taught sex education.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:45:00pm

Right out of James Ellroy.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:45:07pm

re: #54 Eventual Carrion

Ok Mike, I think they should be taught sex education.

Got no Sex Ed, all OJT.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:48:14pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:50:25pm

re: #55 jaunte

Right out of James Ellroy.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:50:43pm
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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:50:55pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

UCHealth employs 26,500 people. Vaccine mandates work.

Be gone plague rats

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:51:29pm

re: #49 jaunte

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Any writing of the personal experiences of black authors or their families is now bannable CRT to conservative snowflakes.

Any writing that suggests slavery was evil, segregation was evil, Jim Crow was evil, lynching was evil, or the Civil War was fought over slavery is by definition CRT and must be banned.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:52:02pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

From the union:

“For more than a year throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Kellogg workers around the country have been working long, hard hours, day in and day out, to produce Kellogg ready-to-eat cereals for American families.

“Kellogg’s response to these loyal, hardworking employees has been to demand these workers give up quality health care, retirement benefits, and holiday and vacation pay. The company continues to threaten to send additional jobs to Mexico if workers do not accept outrageous proposals that take away protections that workers have had for decades.

“Kellogg is making these demands as they rake in record profits, without regard for the well-being of the hardworking men and women who make the products that have created the company’s massive profits. “
bctgm.org

(In 2020, Kellogg’s global operating profit amounted to about 1.76 billion U.S. dollars.)

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:52:55pm

re: #61 Hecuba’s daughter

Any writing that suggests slavery was evil, segregation was evil, Jim Crow was evil, lynching was evil, or the Civil War was fought over slavery is by definition CRT and must be banned.

We still good with “The Tiff Between the States”?

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A Three Hour Tour  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:53:50pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

The internet is a series of tubes …

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:53:51pm

re: #63 Decatur Deb

We still good with “The Tiff Between the States”?

Nope, it’s “The War of Northern Aggression” or it gets banninated.

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EPR-radar  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:54:08pm

re: #63 Decatur Deb

We still good with “The Tiff Between the States”?

C’mon, everyone knows that recent unpleasantness was the War of Northern Aggression.

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sagehen  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:54:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:54:42pm
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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:55:08pm

re: #58 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Nobody left here is involved in anything shady, nosirree.”
—Fraternally yours…

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:55:19pm

re: #64 A Three Hour Tour

The internet is a series of tubes …

with white-gloved protocol officials at the borders.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:55:55pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:56:14pm

re: #69 jaunte

“Nobody left here is involved in anything shady, nosirree.”
—Fraternally yours…

also nice to know NYPD is all in favor of presumed innocence…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:58:55pm

O_o

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2021 • 5:59:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:00:00pm

niterz, lizardz!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:02:32pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

Thrown under the police van while the rest say “Nothing to see here. Move along!”

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:03:22pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

People make a valid point about the discrepancy in the Petito mania and the dismissal of un-publicized masses. OTOH, for all the fascination, she still turned up dead.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:03:47pm

re: #76 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Police Unions know that public corruption always stops when you get one man.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:05:34pm
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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:05:40pm

Look at that slim face.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:07:05pm

re: #78 jaunte

Police Unions know that public corruption always stops when you get one man.

I may be unfair here but my suspicion is that almost every police union is tainted with racism and corruption..

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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:08:38pm

re: #81 Hecuba’s daughter

I may be unfair here but my suspicion is that almost every police union is tainted with racism and corruption..

Truth is often unfair…

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bratwurst  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:18:18pm

Who could have guessed?

If you like the idea of gullible people being separated from their cash and Republicans winning elections, the new Andrew Yang party is for you!

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(((Archangel1)))  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:29:22pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:31:55pm

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

To sign up just go the back of that bike shop from Diff’rent Strokes

I wonder how many people actually get that reference and it’s meaning.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:34:32pm

re: #83 bratwurst

Who could have guessed?

If you like the idea of gullible people being separated from their cash and Republicans winning elections, the new Andrew Yang party is for you!

[Embedded content]

Of course that asshole would show up on Fucker C’s White Power Hour!

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JOE 🥓  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:44:55pm
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A Cranky One  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:45:07pm

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:54:10pm

re: #87 JOE 🥓

You know what’s anti-democratic? A senator who has no town halls, no office hours, takes no phone calls or meetings with constituents, and just votes the way she wants with wanton disregard to what the people who elected her actually want, and ducks into a bathroom to avoid talking to them when they’re finally mad enough to confront her. Fuck off with your both-siderism and focus on the real issue, which is that the elected representatives of this country - technically in both parties (here’s looking at you, Boris and Natasha) but far more prevalent in the GQP - are absolutely ignoring the will of the electorate in favor of their own PERSONAL power and financial gain. They care NOTHING for the people they were elected to serve, and THAT is the real problem here.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 5, 2021 • 6:55:35pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:07:09pm
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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:10:43pm

Hey you Pittsburg(h) ;) types, saw this at one of the camera forums I’m on and thought you all might appreciate this skyline and river view…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:13:51pm

re: #92 William Lewis

Hey you Pittsburg types, saw this at one of the camera forums I’m on and thought you all might appreciate this skyline and river view…

[Embedded content]

Don’t forget the “h”.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:14:30pm

re: #93 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Don’t forget the “h”.

Beat me to it! 😉

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:17:23pm

Pitthsburg!

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:18:06pm

re: #93 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Don’t forget the “h”.

We got the H out of there years ago

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:18:59pm

re: #95 jaunte

Pitthsburg!

Because the residents are very pithy!

/I’ll see myself out

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BeachDem  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:22:04pm

re: #67 sagehen

[Embedded content]

Angels of Fenway, from the James Taylor album “Before This World”

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cat-tikvah  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:26:22pm

re: #93 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Picksburgh…n’at.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:27:43pm

Yinz needs to redd up that spelling!

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:30:15pm

I may have finally touched a real nerve with my Trumpster FB “friend” and will probably find that she is defriending me in the near future. She will not appreciate my latest analogy that the parents objecting to teaching CRT are the same as Germans objecting to teaching about the Holocaust.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:31:00pm

re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter

I may have finally touched a real nerve with my Trumpster FB “friend” and will probably find that she is defriending me in the near future. She will not appreciate my latest analogy that the parents objecting to teaching CRT are the same as Germans objecting to teaching about the Holocaust.

That’s a surprisingly accurate analogy. Well done.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:33:38pm

re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter

I may have finally touched a real nerve with my Trumpster FB “friend” and will probably find that she is defriending me in the near future. She will not appreciate my latest analogy that the parents objecting to teaching CRT are the same as Germans objecting to teaching about the Holocaust.

It has taken me a long time to plainly piece together the thought that those most opposed to sex education are those most afraid of kids learning how to complain about adults doing bad things to them.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:35:18pm

Thread: economic impact of inaction on climate change.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:36:00pm
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The GOP is a terrorist organization  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:37:11pm

I don’t know about this.

The only explanation for why AG Garland is moving so slow (if at all) against Trump that makes sense to me is that he knows he’ll have to bring an absolutely bulletproof case against him, as well as his allies, because if he fails, Trump will get worse.

A lot worse.

Consider what Trump did when the Mueller probe fell flat, and then when the first impeachment failed.

He got worse, right?

Maybe he’s hoping one of the state probes will succeed and spare the DOJ the appearance of partisan prosecutions, so soon after Bill Barr. That’s a possibility.

I’d like to think this is what’s going on, but it feels like happy talk.

I’m really worried nothing will happen and Trump and his allies will go free.

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A Cranky One  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:38:55pm

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:39:34pm

re: #103 wrenchwench

It has taken me a long time to plainly piece together the thought that those most opposed to sex education are those most afraid of kids learning how to complain about adults doing bad things to them.

Oof.

Yes.

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Sherlock Hound  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:44:49pm

1 kHz tone not included.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:46:11pm

re: #104 jaunte

Thread: economic impact of inaction on climate change.

[Embedded content]

The people who don’t blink an eye about a 1.7 trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthy certainly don’t care about a 1.9 trillion dollar cost of climate disasters over the past 41 years. It will be only when the cost for a given year is 1 trillion with permanent destruction of large swaths of red states that some of them may wake up. Reminder that Matt Gaetz is one of the few Republicans who apparently care about the issue.

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ckkatz  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:48:54pm

re: #107 A Cranky One

Carroll County Veterinary Clinic in Westminster, Maryland. Northwest of Balmer Mirlan… er Baltimore, Maryland. One of the batteries in my nasty guard battalion was located near there. Of course that battalion no longer exists. :(

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:50:21pm

[…]

The men had fled on foot after a highway traffic stop by Border Patrol agents, according to an arrest affidavit. The migrants later told attorneys that when found near the highway, officers made the migrants walk for about 20 minutes and climb, hands zip-tied, over a nearly 10-foot fence onto a ranch before they were arrested for trespassing by state troopers.

[…]

Ed. to add the next fucking paragraph:

The migrants also said officers cut the Val Verde County landowner’s fence so a police dog could get onto the ranch property, a defense attorney and prosecutor told The Texas Tribune.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:54:43pm

re: #112 wrenchwench

reload

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2021 • 7:54:51pm
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plansbandc  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:00:56pm

re: #103 wrenchwench

This is so dead on.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:05:16pm

re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter

I may have finally touched a real nerve with my Trumpster FB “friend” and will probably find that she is defriending me in the near future. She will not appreciate my latest analogy that the parents objecting to teaching CRT are the same as Germans objecting to teaching about the Holocaust.

THIS THIS THIS THIS
I am so stealing this for Twitter.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:06:30pm
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retired cynic  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:08:44pm

re: #117 The Pie Overlord!

He’s testosterone drunk! Good grief!

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:08:50pm

re: #117 The Pie Overlord!

According to the Levi’s logo he’s doing that backwards.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:11:37pm

re: #49 jaunte

I can’t read the article. What is the name of the book and the author.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:13:36pm

re: #120 Belafon

Here are a couple of paragraphs from the story:

“…Jerry Craft, author of Year 6 graphic novels, was set to speak virtually at a Katy ISD event on Monday morning. His engagement was quietly canceled and his books removed from district libraries after 400 Katy ISD parents demanded that the event be canceled and his books be banned, claiming that Craft’s work promotes critical race theory.

The books are currently under review, said Laura Davis, media relations for Katy ISD, meaning they have been pulled from the curriculum but have not been officially banned. Craft’s graphic novels have been winners of the Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature. His work focuses largely on the culture and experiences of modern day African-American preteens. The graphic novels are based on the actual experiences of Craft’s own two sons.”

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:15:16pm

“…In 2019 New Kid became the first graphic novel to win the Kirkus Prize in the “Young Readers’ Literature” category. A few months later, it won the 2020 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature. It is the first graphic novel in the Newbery’s nearly 100 year history to receive the award. Craft is only the fifth African American author to land the coveted prize. On the same day, New Kid was also awarded the Coretta Scott King award for an outstanding work by an African American writer. Craft is the second person to have simultaneously won both awards in the same year.”
jerrycraft.com

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:16:04pm
“…His middle grade prose novel, which he co-wrote with his two sons Jaylen & Aren Craft, The Offenders: Saving the World While Serving Detention!, is an action/adventure story designed to teach kids about the negative effects of bullying. It was chosen by pacer.org as one of the best middle grade books on bullying.”

Conservatives don’t want this information to circulate.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:21:49pm

re: #123 jaunte

Conservatives don’t want this information to circulate.

Because bullies = conservatives.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:22:13pm

re: #124 wrenchwench

Key to minority rule.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:25:19pm

re: #67 sagehen

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BeachDem  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:30:59pm

re: #126 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Dan Hayes, baseball writer: Despite reaching the postseason nine times in that span, the New York Yankees have gone 12 straight years without winning a World Series. That this season ended at the hands of the Red Sox only has to make that sting a little bit more.

I know everyone here (well, not everyone, but many) hate the Red Sox, but I’m a happy camper tonight.

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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:31:29pm

re: #124 wrenchwench

Because bullies = conservatives.

The Clash - Clampdown (Live at the Lewisham Odeon)

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gocart mozart  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:33:17pm
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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:33:28pm

re: #127 BeachDem

Dan Hayes, baseball writer: Despite reaching the postseason nine times in that span, the New York Yankees have gone 12 straight years without winning a World Series. That this season ended at the hands of the Red Sox only has to make that sting a little bit more.

I know everyone here (well, not everyone, but many) hate the Red Sox, but I’m a happy camper tonight.

Don’t care about the Sox, whatever color. But the Yankee’s being beaten? That’s almost as good as Dallas loosing in American Football.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:34:38pm

re: #127 BeachDem

Dan Hayes, baseball writer: Despite reaching the postseason nine times in that span, the New York Yankees have gone 12 straight years without winning a World Series. That this season ended at the hands of the Red Sox only has to make that sting a little bit more.

I know everyone here (well, not everyone, but many) hate the Red Sox, but I’m a happy camper tonight.

As a lifelong White Sox fan (though I haven’t followed the sport in years), the only team I hate is the Yankees. That was always the enemy for every Chicago Sox fan.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:34:46pm

re: #127 BeachDem

I’m more of a Boston Texan than a New York City Texan.

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BeachDem  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:36:24pm

Strange, because I remember other years there was a lot of smack talking about the Red Sox around these parts.

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sagehen  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:36:53pm

re: #129 gocart mozart

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The Standells - Dirty Water

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sagehen  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:38:15pm

re: #133 BeachDem

Strange, because I remember other years there was a lot of smack talking about the Red Sox around these parts.

The Dodgers are the only baseball team that matters.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:42:35pm
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plansbandc  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:43:22pm

re: #127 BeachDem

Red Sox fans were assholes to my parents at Coors Field. I don’t forgive that.

Not a fan of the Yankees, but my Grandpa, who played semi pro baseball, loved them. So I can give them a nod every now and then.

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BeachDem  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:44:34pm

re: #135 sagehen

The Dodgers are the only baseball team that matters.

Tell that to Bobby Thompson (yeah, I’m going to the wayback machine)

1951 Baseball “The Giants Win The Pennant!”

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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:49:29pm

re: #138 BeachDem

Tell that to Bobby Thompson (yeah, I’m going to the wayback machine)

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Video

The only thing that means to me is a classic MASH episode.

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BeachDem  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:55:57pm

re: #139 William Lewis

The only thing that means to me is a classic MASH episode.

Hey, I’m not THAT old! (Mostly makes me think of a classic “Sports Night” episode.)

imdb.com

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:56:19pm

I think the thing that pissed off Yankee fans the most seems to be Mazeroski’s homerun.

In Ken Burn’s Baseball series Billy Crystal talks about it and how the Yankees were obviously the better team in the 1960 World Series.

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BeachDem  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:57:57pm
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sagehen  Oct 5, 2021 • 8:58:33pm
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Belafon  Oct 5, 2021 • 9:13:02pm

re: #143 sagehen

Science fiction will go to great lengths to justify the science behind its technology. I’ve read one Honor Harrington book, but the detail the author went through to justify gravity sails was kind of amazing.

Along those lines, the MCU, up to Wandavision, is actually some pretty heavy Sci-fi.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2021 • 9:41:13pm
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Targetpractice  Oct 5, 2021 • 9:57:50pm

re: #28 The Pie Overlord!

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If I had any faith that the prosecution seriously intends to put a white kid behind bars, I’d expect them bring in some of the people who were there that night who later told the news that Rittenhouse was playing “Billy Badass” by walking down the street with the illegally obtained rifle, getting into verbal altercations with the very people who later tried to kick his ass for being loud-mouthed punk. In most states, self-defense laws generally end when you’re deliberately provoking a fight to “defend” yourself from.

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Jay C  Oct 5, 2021 • 9:58:32pm

That AZ same-party rule isn’t particularly heartening: if Sinema quit, who knows what sort of godawful hack Democrat a GOP Governor might drag up out of the desert to replace her?

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Targetpractice  Oct 5, 2021 • 9:59:36pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

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I’m so old, I remember when Willard was predicted to be the guy who’d bring “sanity” back the party.

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The GOP is a terrorist organization  Oct 5, 2021 • 9:59:53pm

re: #147 Jay C

That same-party rule isn’t particularly heartening: if Sinema quit, who knows what sort of godawful hack Democrat a GOP Governor might drag up out of the desert to replace her?

Kelli Ward?

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Targetpractice  Oct 5, 2021 • 10:04:23pm

re: #145 Belafon

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She’s not going to leave and she’s not going to change parties. Neither option would get her anywhere, but instead would just leave her a nobody backbencher who would still be gone in 2024. All the suggestions to the contrary are meant to get us to back off because the pity party over her being “bullied” isn’t working.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2021 • 10:05:52pm

re: #149 The GOP is a terrorist organization

Kelli Ward?

Yeh — what’s to prevent a republican claiming they’ve seen the light and are switching parties (temporarily)? Look at the governor of WV — he switched from GOP to Dem right before he ran for election and then a few months later, after the election, he switched back.

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Targetpractice  Oct 5, 2021 • 10:09:57pm

re: #84 (((Archangel1)))

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The union found a guy they’re not willing to immediately circle the wagons around and defend even after he’s been convicted in a court of law?

Yeah, they know he’s guilty and want to stem the damage done to the union itself.

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sagehen  Oct 5, 2021 • 10:12:03pm

re: #146 Targetpractice

If I had any faith that the prosecution seriously intends to put a white kid behind bars, I’d expect them bring in some of the people who were there that night who later told the news that Rittenhouse was playing “Billy Badass” by walking down the street with the illegally obtained rifle, getting into verbal altercations with the very people who later tried to kick his ass for being loud-mouthed punk. In most states, self-defense laws generally end when you’re deliberately provoking a fight to “defend” yourself from.

This wasn’t the trial (which is next month). This is a pre-trial hearing to decide whether this “expert” will be allowed to testify at the trial. He wasn’t an eyewitness to any of the events.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 5, 2021 • 10:20:46pm

I need one last laugh for the night.

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Targetpractice  Oct 5, 2021 • 10:22:44pm

re: #153 sagehen

This wasn’t the trial (which is next month). This is a pre-trial hearing to decide whether this “expert” will be allowed to testify at the trial. He wasn’t an eyewitness to any of the events.

Right, just like this is also pre-trial:

I suppose I could have been clearer that I already knew about this being pre-trial motions since I saw the original story about the self-defense “expert” yesterday.

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plansbandc  Oct 5, 2021 • 10:50:25pm

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2021 • 10:56:39pm

I tweeted this three weeks ago.

*toot toot* You hear that? It’s my own horn.

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2021 • 11:16:14pm

This music is 27 years old. Just an observation mostly for myself, to know the passage of time.

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Cheechako  Oct 5, 2021 • 11:19:59pm

re: #127 BeachDem

Dan Hayes, baseball writer: Despite reaching the postseason nine times in that span, the New York Yankees have gone 12 straight years without winning a World Series. That this season ended at the hands of the Red Sox only has to make that sting a little bit more.

I know everyone here (well, not everyone, but many) hate the Red Sox, but I’m a happy camper tonight.

Me too!!!

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Targetpractice  Oct 5, 2021 • 11:26:48pm

It’s clear to see why Rittenhouse’s lawyers want to bounce the gun possession charge before the trial begins:

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said if the defense wants to tell the jury that Rittenhouse was merely hunting during the August 2020 unrest, they should do so.

“They can submit evidence that the defendant had a certificate to hunt and he was engaged in legal hunting on the streets of Kenosha that night,” Binger said. “I don’t think they really want to do that.”

They really don’t. 17 year old punk stalking the streets of Kenosha during civil unrest with a loaded semiauto rifle is not the narrative they want to sell. They want the question of where and how he got the rifle dealt with before they ever stand in front of a jury because if they have to defend his possession of the rifle by arguing that he’s covered by the state’s hunting laws, the obvious question in the minds of that jury will be “What was he hunting?”

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sagehen  Oct 5, 2021 • 11:51:02pm

I’m a bit worried how the judge might rule on these pre-trial motions; he’s already excluded any discussion of Rittenhouse’s association with the Proud Boys.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 5, 2021 • 11:57:37pm

re: #161 sagehen

I’m a bit worried how the judge might rule on these pre-trial motions; he’s already excluded any discussion of Rittenhouse’s association with the Proud Boys.

Doesn’t that also make it harder for the defense to bring up some character issues for their client? If you can talk about the good stuff we also get to mention the bad. (I’m not a lawyer, but sometimes I make fun of them on stage. In other words I would like some input for lizards of the law. )

ps I’m thing of writing a song called “Lizards of the Law”
Good night good people.

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Targetpractice  Oct 6, 2021 • 12:03:20am

re: #161 sagehen

I’m a bit worried how the judge might rule on these pre-trial motions; he’s already excluded any discussion of Rittenhouse’s association with the Proud Boys.

In cases like these, rulings that look like they’re intended to help the defense could just as well be because the judge is trying his best to avoid being the reason a conviction is overturned on appeal. There was a lot read into decisions to allow George Floyd’s past arrests to be brought up at trial, and that ended up having no real bearing on Chauvin’s conviction.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 1:29:19am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Hitler has ordered a death sentence for any Italian officers who refuse to serve Mussolini’s new Italian Social Republic, a German puppet state. Propaganda poster: “Germany is truly your friend”

Italy suffered more casualties after it surrendered in 1943 than it did before…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 1:31:17am

re: #12 jaunte

I think parents should decide what their children are taught in schools. That is all.

So if your parents insist that 2+2=5, then it should be illegal to teach you anything else?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 1:32:46am

re: #28 The Pie Overlord!

Force expert: Rittenhouse decisions to shoot were reasonable

Taking an open-carry gun across state lines to a riot, however, was not.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 1:34:33am

re: #34 DodgerFan1988

CPAC will be held in Hungary. Surprised it’s not being held in Russia.

The New Warsaw Pact of Conservative Right-Wing Authoritarian Nationalist States

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 6, 2021 • 1:34:50am

Someone is Morro Bay won the big PowerBall jackpot. Never been there, but it is one of coastal California towns that is probably filled with accidentally rich hipsters.

Also, the (annuitized) jackpot had climbed to $699.8M, much higher than anticipated. Seems like more people were in the lottery mood than the wonks at the Multi-state Lottery company realized.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 1:39:56am

re: #53 Sherlock Hound

Bro they got a baguette vending machine in the work break room

You find something like that in most German supermarkets now: press a button and it will deliver you a (relatively) freshly baked product, not just baguettes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 1:41:38am

re: #63 Decatur Deb

We still good with “The Tiff Between the States”?

“The Second War of (Southern) Independence”!!!!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 6, 2021 • 1:44:31am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 6, 2021 • 1:58:56am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Force expert: Rittenhouse decisions to shoot were reasonable

Taking an open-carry gun across state lines to a riot, however, was not.

I can’t see how his decision to shoot could be reasonable if the very act of him possessing the rifle was a crime.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 2:04:31am

re: #172 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I can’t see how his decision to shoot could be reasonable if the very act of him possessing the rifle was a crime.

They are trying to stress the “Innocent white person defending himself against radical leftist hordes” aspect of it.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 6, 2021 • 2:09:31am

re: #80 jaunte

A much better image of 480 Otis, showing his girth

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 2:20:39am

Lizards are our friends!!!

Blue belly lizards found to combat Lyme disease

When a black-legged tick (i. pacificus) in its nymph stage bites into the neck of a favorite host victim, the western fence lizard, something wonderful happens. “The lizard’s blood contains a substance — probably a heat-sensitive protein — that kills the Lyme disease … bacterium,” said Lane back in 1998. In other words, when this common tick nymph carrying Lyme disease bites into this common lizard, the tick nymph can no longer infect a human victim, now as a nymph or in its adult stage. Yes, the western fence lizard can slay Lyme disease bacterium. Studies have shown Lyme disease is lower in areas where the lizards occur.

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Targetpractice  Oct 6, 2021 • 2:30:13am

re: #172 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I can’t see how his decision to shoot could be reasonable if the very act of him possessing the rifle was a crime.

Hence why they’re trying to get the judge to drop the gun possession charge, because then the narrative becomes “Young white kid came to Kenosha to protect the streets of lawless Antifa vandals and took lives in self-defense,” which they figure they’ll have an easier time selling to a jury. If the prosecution can tell the jury that Rittenhouse was already in violation the law by being armed, then “self-defense” becomes that much harder to justify.

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dharmamark  Oct 6, 2021 • 3:40:00am

re: #127 BeachDem

As a Royals fan, I hate the Yankees - so I’m pleased…

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2021 • 3:40:23am

re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You find something like that in most German supermarkets now: press a button and it will deliver you a (relatively) freshly baked product, not just baguettes.

Elves inside?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 3:41:38am

re: #178 Dangerman

Elves inside?

More like gnomes, but yeah…

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 4:25:52am

re: #141 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I think the thing that pissed off Yankee fans the most seems to be Mazeroski’s homerun.

In Ken Burn’s Baseball series Billy Crystal talks about it and how the Yankees were obviously the better team in the 1960 World Series.

Almost.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 6, 2021 • 4:29:47am

re: #136 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

There should be no religious exemptions in regards to vaccinations.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 4:43:28am

There are a couple weird glitches in my FF/Ubuntu face to LGF. Sometimes, when I fire up in the morning, a copy of the last comment made the day before is “stuck” in the composition frame. If I’m not careful it gets kludged to the first comment of the day, as in #180 above.

Also, when starting Master Spy, it displays but does not go active until the screen is refreshed.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Oct 6, 2021 • 4:48:40am

re: #118 retired cynic

He’s testosterone drunk! Good grief!

Or high on roids.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 6, 2021 • 4:48:59am
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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 4:51:10am

re: #183 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

Or high on roids.

Or carefully-choreographed with the brake/gas/transmission action of the drivers. (Not something I would try.)

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 4:57:00am
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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:00:15am

re: #186 Belafon

That would probably work with a chemical breakout of mother’s milk.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:01:58am

re: #187 Decatur Deb

That would probably work with a chemical breakout of mother’s milk.

Realistically, anything more complicated than salt water would look intimidating if the ingredients were fully listed. The world is full of intimidating-sounding chemicals, but in the end, everything is natural.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:05:55am
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Patricia Kayden  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:08:40am
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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:09:07am

re: #188 Dopamine Fish

Realistically, anything more complicated than salt water would look intimidating if the ingredients were fully listed. The world is full of intimidating-sounding chemicals, but in the end, everything is natural.

Asbestos comes out of the ground in a fairly pure state.

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:10:29am

Contradictory sentences:

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:10:40am

re: #190 Patricia Kayden

If they’re from her jurisdiction, they had the chance to vote her in or out.

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:11:00am
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sagehen  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:11:18am

re: #188 Dopamine Fish

Realistically, anything more complicated than salt water would look intimidating if the ingredients were fully listed. The world is full of intimidating-sounding chemicals, but in the end, everything is natural.

Including cyanide, arsenic and strychnine.

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sagehen  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:15:31am

Glenn’s Mask

The school he sends his to, is the same one Gorsuch and Kavenaugh attended.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:21:43am

The largest city in Alabama just had elections for city council and school board seats. Turnout was 8%.

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darthstar  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:29:33am

re: #55 jaunte

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Right out of James Ellroy.

Hang on…police guy resigns just because the FBI raids his house and office? That seems mighty coincidental.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:31:12am

re: #198 darthstar

Hang on…police guy resigns just because the FBI raids his house and office? That seems mighty coincidental.

Sounds like the union “made him an offer he couldn’t refuse”, probably because they were hoping to make him the fall guy and nobody else would get investigated/raided.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:45:17am

Zuckerberg has published a wall of text treating the outage and the whistleblower events. A part stands out:

We’ve spent the past 24 hours debriefing how we can strengthen our systems against this kind of failure. This was also a reminder of how much our work matters to people.

facebook.com

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:48:18am

re: #190 Patricia Kayden

Doesn’t Florida have that law making it “legal” to run down protesters with a vehicle?

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:49:49am

re: #201 GlutenFreeJesus

Doesn’t Florida have that law making it “legal” to run down protesters with a vehicle?

Doesn’t apply to riding mowers.

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darthstar  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:54:38am

re: #199 Dopamine Fish

Sounds like the union “made him an offer he couldn’t refuse”, probably because they were hoping to make him the fall guy and nobody else would get investigated/raided.

You mean there could be another bad apple or two? Shocker.

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jeffreyw  Oct 6, 2021 • 5:54:42am

Resting Grump Face

Good morning!

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:19:20am

My company is mandating everyone be vaccinated by the middle of December. It will be interesting to hear all the grumbling and who won’t comply.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:19:41am

I don’t envy Merrick Garland right now (he was trending briefly). On the one side are bullshit artists trying to stir up anger over his vow to have FBI work with local cops to protect school board members whenever they are threatened (“they are just loving parents trying to protect their children from tyrants imposing mask mandates”); on the other side are those angry that TFG is still free and demanding immediate arrest.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:24:49am

re: #204 jeffreyw

Cat is having none of your shenanigans today.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:25:12am

re: #205 Belafon

My company is mandating everyone be vaccinated by the middle of December. It will be interesting to uear all the grumbling and who won’t comply.

The President’s policy was announced on a Microsoft Teams meeting…and you guessed it there are hard core Xtians who not only refuse to be vaccinated. They refuse to be tested. And that includes the hard core obnoxious Bi-Bull beaters.

It will be a pleasure to see them fired for Jay-Zuss.

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:26:40am
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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:30:42am

re: #190 Patricia Kayden

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early onset indoctrination
those kids are brainwashed
they dont have a clue why they are there

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:31:43am

re: #205 Belafon

My company is mandating everyone be vaccinated by the middle of December. It will be interesting to uear all the grumbling and who won’t comply.

My company still has not mandated vaccination; they are looking at what it will take to set up the mandatory testing infrastructure for people who don’t want to be vaccinated. It’s a bit disappointing, but it sounds like on the manufacturing floors particularly, they are short of job applications. I wonder if they would get more people submitting applications if they mandated vaccination…

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:32:15am

re: #210 Dangerman

early onset indoctrination
those kids are brainwashed
they dont have a clue why they are there

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More proof that there is no difference between right wing Xtians in the US and Communist Party members in the ol’ USSR.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:34:02am

re: #205 Belafon

My company is mandating everyone be vaccinated by the middle of December. It will be interesting to hear all the grumbling and who won’t comply.

my company didnt have to mandate anything
everyone got vaxxed as soon as it was available
we have 100% compliance
(there are two of us. we work from home. in different states.)

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:34:25am

Ah another loving couple is added to the gallery of Stupid Superstars at sorryantivaxxer.com

Dale and Melissa Williams, 52, 54, Georgetown, IL, Against Vaccination, both dead from COVID.

According to this obituary, Melissa died on September 17, and Dale died on September 20. They both died from complications due to COVID infections. Dale was the anti-vaxx social poster of the family. You have to be impressed with this man’s spirit, he went down yelling.

sorryantivaxxer.com

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:35:22am

re: #208 JOE 🥓

The President’s policy was announced on a Microsoft Teams meeting…and you guessed it there are hard core Xtians who not only refuse to be vaccinated. They refuse to be tested. And that includes the hard core obnoxious Bi-Bull beaters.

It will be a pleasure to see them fired for Jay-Zuss.

twisting religion to mean what i want it to mean so i wont have to do what i dont want to do

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:35:47am

re: #210 Dangerman

early onset indoctrination
those kids are brainwashed
they dont have a clue why they are there

Not that big a deal. My first rode in my backpack to 1960s anti-war marches.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:36:35am

re: #209 Belafon

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federal money comes with strings attached
dont like the strings, don’t take the money

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:38:31am

re: #215 Dangerman

twisting religion to mean what i want it to mean so i wont have to do what i dont want to do

Jesus: “Love God, love other people, continually try to be a better person. It’s that simple.”
Wingnuts: “Okay, but what about ME? There’s no point if I don’t get anything out of this.”
Jesus: *disgusted sigh* “Fine, if you can do that successfully, I’ll let you hang with me in heaven.”
Wingnuts: “AWESOME! Here’s a detailed plan for how we’re going to follow your instructions to the letter while not actually doing any of what you just said.”
Jesus: *Picard facepalm*

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:38:41am

re: #216 Decatur Deb

Not that big a deal. My first rode in my backpack to 1960s anti-war marches.

but those protests were right // (1/2)

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makeitstop  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:41:05am

re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter

Yeh — what’s to prevent a republican claiming they’ve seen the light and are switching parties (temporarily)? Look at the governor of WV — he switched from GOP to Dem right before he ran for election and then a few months later, after the election, he switched back.

Hell, I’m of the mind that that’s what Sinema did. Stalking horse.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:41:13am

re: #219 Dangerman

but those protests were right // (1/2)

Youthful brainwashing is wildly over-rated. I was raised by monks and nuns to be a priest.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:44:58am

re: #221 Decatur Deb

Youthful brainwashing is wildly over-rated. I was raised by monks and nuns to be a priest.

The brainwashing took on my son.

Also took on all my nephews and nieces who re full blown racist Xtian Republicans.

And their kids go even further in worshipping Trump.

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:46:48am

re: #16 The Pie Overlord!

S’chug is definitely hot stuff. Haven’t tried that brand, but I know it can get really spicy hot. Now you’ve got me aching for falafel and all the fixings.

I’ve got to rummage through my pantry to see what I’ve got… I have chickpeas and tahini, so making hummus is possible. Za’atar? Check. I have various hot sauces and pastes, so, check.

No falafel though.. Hummus will have to do, once I get through the rest of the meals I’ve made for the week.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:49:33am

re: #222 JOE 🥓

The brainwashing took to my son.

Also took on all my nephews and nieces who re full blown racist Xtian Republicans.

And their kids go even further in worshipping Trump.

It’s hard to find a barrier between “raised to be..” and “brainwashed to be..”. I raised 4 kids to be liberal Democrats. None of them would consider voting for a Republican.

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 6:57:39am

re: #211 Dopamine Fish

My company still has not mandated vaccination; they are looking at what it will take to set up the mandatory testing infrastructure for people who don’t want to be vaccinated. It’s a bit disappointing, but it sounds like on the manufacturing floors particularly, they are short of job applications. I wonder if they would get more people submitting applications if they mandated vaccination…

They don’t have to worry about it because most people are going to comply and for every person they lose because they didn’t want to comply, they could probably recruit from a competitor that doesn’t want to enforce a mandate.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:01:36am

re: #225 Belafon

They don’t have to worry about it because most people are going to comply and for every person they lose because they didn’t want to comply, they could probably recruit from a competitor that doesn’t want to enforce a mandate.

They’ll also wind up with a smarter, less erratic workforce.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:02:10am

“I don’t trust what’s in the vaccines. Now excuse me while I grab a pill from this totally not shady looking bottle of Ivermectin from China.”

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:04:23am

It would be interesting to see a study of the overlap between smokers and hardcore anti-vaxxers. Both are a form of stochastic suicide.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:05:03am

re: #204 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:06:41am

My old stomping ground in Albany had this to say about the Facebook outage:

It’s a very long thread, but well worth the read.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:09:57am
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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:10:59am

re: #230 lawhawk

My old stomping ground in Albany had this to say about the Facebook outage:

It’s a very long thread, but well worth the read.

Continued posts are very good. “Now that FB is back online…”

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:11:10am

re: #223 lawhawk

S’chug is definitely hot stuff. Haven’t tried that brand, but I know it can get really spicy hot. Now you’ve got me aching for falafel and all the fixings.

I’ve got to rummage through my pantry to see what I’ve got… I have chickpeas and tahini, so making hummus is possible. Za’atar? Check. I have various hot sauces and pastes, so, check.

No falafel though.. Hummus will have to do, once I get through the rest of the meals I’ve made for the week.

You can make falafel from chickpeas.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:11:27am
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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:12:02am

re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth

Mullins had leaked details of an arrest of De Blasio’s daughter at a protest march. There’s bad blood there to be sure, but Mullins is a thug and a crook, and needs to be treated accordingly.

His resignation can only improve the SBA.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:12:18am

More or less final California numbers are in

Newsom finishes with 7,903,603 votes to retain (62.0%) and 4,851,941 votes to recall (38.0%).

I estimated he would hit 8m.

What a waste of time and $

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:13:23am

re: #236 Dangerman

More or less final California numbers are in

Newsom finishes with 7,903,603 votes to retain (62.0%) and 4,851,941 votes to recall (38.0%).

I estimated he would hit 8m.

What a waste of time and $

No it wasn’t, it proved that the Democrats can only win by treachery, cheating, and widespread voter fraud. Nobody really believes Newsom got nearly 8 million votes, that’s more votes than there are voters and I can’t keep typing this bullshit because it’s making me feel physical pain.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:13:26am

re: #235 lawhawk

Mullins had leaked details of an arrest of De Blasio’s daughter at a protest march. There’s bad blood there to be sure, but Mullins is a thug and a crook, and needs to be treated accordingly.

His resignation can only improve the SBA.

Won’t some other police union asshole just take his place?

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gocart mozart  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:14:41am
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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:15:30am

re: #224 Decatur Deb

It’s hard to find a barrier between “raised to be..” and “brainwashed to be..”. I raised 4 kids to be liberal Democrats. None of them would consider voting for a Republican.

Fair points
I’m sticking with those kids are props

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:15:32am

re: #233 The Pie Overlord!

You can make falafel from chickpeas.

Canned, or do they have to be dry? Wife uses a grainy “flour” mix.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:18:27am

re: #239 gocart mozart

LMAO.

Someone buy the homeless person a meal for that one.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:18:55am

re: #237 Dopamine Fish

No it wasn’t, it proved that the Democrats can only win by treachery, cheating, and widespread voter fraud. Nobody really believes Newsom got nearly 8 million votes, that’s more votes than there are voters and I can’t keep typing this bullshit because it’s making me feel physical pain.

Even California repugs weren’t stupid enough to attempt that argument, this after giving pre-election press conferences and setting up “California steal” websites to do just that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:19:05am

re: #241 Decatur Deb

Canned, or do they have to be dry? Wife uses a grainy “flour” mix.

I just throw the canned chickpeas into the little food processor and do a coarse chop for falafel

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darthstar  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:19:10am

re: #205 Belafon

My company is mandating everyone be vaccinated by the middle of December. It will be interesting to hear all the grumbling and who won’t comply.

Probably less grumbling than you expect and non-compliance will be less than 2% if your company is anything like all the others mandating vaccines.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:20:18am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

I just throw the canned chickpeas into the little food processor and do a coarse chop for falafel

ETA: I also do the same with dried chickpeas

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:20:19am

re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Did Scavino run into the Russian embassy and ask for asylum?

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:21:02am

re: #238 Eclectic Cyborg

Well, we’ll finally get through all those bad apples… all while realizing the whole bunch is rotten.

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:22:18am

re: #233 The Pie Overlord!

I’ve never tried to do that (always use a mix, because I can’t get the consistency right) as I scream past the rough mix to smooth paste - hummus.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:22:28am

re: #248 lawhawk

Well, we’ll finally get through all those bad apples… all while realizing the whole bunch is rotten.

Hey! They’re benevolent. Says so right on the label.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:23:25am

re: #233 The Pie Overlord!

You can make falafel from chickpeas.

Here is the recipe for anyone who is interested:

If using dry chickpeas, soak in water overnight or for at least 6 hours.

INGREDIENTS
1¼ c. dried chickpeas, or 2 14 oz. cans, drained.
1 yellow onion
4 garlic cloves
1 jalapeno or serrano pepper
¼ c. breadcrumbs or 2 slices of bread, soaked & squeezed out
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cumin
1 tsp. coriander
½ tsp black pepper
½ tsp turmeric
¼ tsp cayenne
2 Tbsp chopped parsley
2 Tbsp chopped cilantro
Vegetable oil

Put all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until mixture is a coarse paste. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Heat vegetable oil in a wok or 3-qt saucepan to 360°

Drop teaspoonfuls or the mixture into the hot oil & fry until golden, about 5 minutes. Remove and drain on paper towels.

Serve in pita bread with chopped tomato & cucumber salad or coleslaw. Top with tahini and your favorite hot sauce (s’hug or harissa)

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:23:49am

re: #250 Decatur Deb

Just like that dictatorship so many of them would like to see (and backed by shilling for Trumpworld).

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:26:19am

re: #251 The Pie Overlord!

Favorited. I miss having a falafel shop/schwarma stand on the corner. There is one 5 hours drive from here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:29:40am
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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:37:37am

Hey Siri!

Who finances OANN?

The conspiracy-mongering cable network continues to spread lies about Donald Trump’s election loss and the Jan. 6 insurrection, and a Reuters review of court records shows the crucial role AT&T executives played in OAN’s launch in 2013.

“They told us they wanted a conservative network,” OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr. testified during a 2019 deposition obtained by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”

The telecommunications giant has poured tens of millions of dollars into OAN, which received 90 percent of its revenue from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including DirecTV, testified an OAN accountant last year.

rawstory.com

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:38:15am
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makeitstop  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:40:46am

Too much free time, maybe…

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:42:58am

re: #228 Decatur Deb

It would be interesting to see a study of the overlap between smokers and hardcore anti-vaxxers. Both are a form of stochastic suicide.

You can count this smoker* out of your study. Antivaxers is either willfully ignorant or grifting bastards trying to make a buck off of the rubes regardless of how many people it endangers.

* yes I know it’s a unhealthy life choice that will contribute to my death. But unlike antivaxers, I don’t refute the science behind why it’s bad for me and I don’t pitch a bitch when people don’t want to be around me when I do it. Hell, I wont smoke or allow smoking inside my home when my SIL is here because of the respiratory problems she has. It’s called simple courtesy/being a good Hostess while she is here.

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:45:11am

re: #251 The Pie Overlord!

Way cool! I’ve saved the recipe. Thanks so much.

Quick somewhat off topic question. (I was just looking this up yesterday in relation to a certain insect.)

I know that the US and Brits use the terms Cilantro-Coriander differently. Does anyway know which form the Canadians use?

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darthstar  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:47:56am

re: #256 The Pie Overlord!

Inherent contempt. Lock them up and when their lawyers say they should be released immediately tell them they have to wait for the other eleven subpoenaed witnesses to finish their testimony before they can revisit the issue.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:48:38am

re: #258 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

Been involved in a 30 Year’s War with Son1. He’s not allowed to smoke in the house, or enter the garden (tobacco mosaic virus).

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:51:19am
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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 7:54:19am

Where’s Waldo Scavino?

Sure, Spicey!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:09:03am

re: #224 Decatur Deb

It’s hard to find a barrier between “raised to be..” and “brainwashed to be..”. I raised 4 kids to be liberal Democrats. None of them would consider voting for a Republican.

My parents weren’t good at brainwashing. My mother in particular was a dyed in the wool Democrat.

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My response was to join the Goldwater campaign when I was 15. My mom was a delegate to the ‘68 Dem convention in Chicago and that is how I got to witness the infamous police riot in person. The folks had thought the trip would win me back from my wayward Republican ways. It did just the opposite, needless to say. I did not fully recover for 40 years, though I started having doubts during the Reagan administration.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:10:40am

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:11:07am

re: #188 Dopamine Fish

Realistically, anything more complicated than salt water would look intimidating if the ingredients were fully listed. The world is full of intimidating-sounding chemicals, but in the end, everything is natural.

Companies combine existing chemicals to create new chemicals with new properties that have never existed in nature. Aspartame is not “natural”; neither is HFCS; or thalidomide or DES or …..

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:12:42am

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Dad was a Humphrey delegate in 1968, McGovern in 1972, Udall in 1976, Kennedy in 1980 and Hart in 1984.

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:13:13am

re: #262 Dopamine Fish

You could argue that this is aggravated harassment and a hate crime. It’s not protected speech when you’re harassing the family incessantly like this.

And yes, the family will likely end up owning both homes at the end of the day. But what a hellscape white nationalism has wrought.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:13:51am

re: #193 Decatur Deb

If they’re from her jurisdiction, they had the chance to vote her in or out.

What’s terrifying is that these are the people that do vote and pay attention to whatever their cult leader tells them — so that the other students suffer from the ignorance imposed by their ideology. Most voters know little about any candidates except those running for major national or state offices — and even then they usually know very little.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:15:02am

re: #201 GlutenFreeJesus

Doesn’t Florida have that law making it “legal” to run down protesters with a vehicle?

Only protesters who are not conservative. It’s illegal to run down those who support Trump or any of his minions.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:15:27am

re: #269 Hecuba’s daughter

What’s terrifying is that these are the people that do vote and pay attention to whatever their cult leader tells them — so that the other students suffer from the ignorance imposed by their ideology. Most voters know little about any candidates except those running for major national or state offices — and even then they usually know very little.

Yup.
8% turnout in Birmingham.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:15:38am

re: #269 Hecuba’s daughter

What’s terrifying is that these are the people that do vote and pay attention to whatever their cult leader tells them — so that the other students suffer from the ignorance imposed by their ideology. Most voters know little about any candidates except those running for major national or state offices — and even then they usually know very little.

This is part of Steve Bannon’s plan to drive people out of office and replace them with MAGATS.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:23:19am

re: #206 Barefoot Grin

I don’t envy Merrick Garland right now (he was trending briefly). On the one side are bullshit artists trying to stir up anger over his vow to have FBI work with local cops to protect school board members whenever they are threatened (“they are just loving parents trying to protect their children from tyrants imposing mask mandates”); on the other side are those angry that TFG is still free and demanding immediate arrest.

My Trumpster friend decided the best way to respond to my comments on her page opposing her screed about how terrible it was that these parents are been persecuted was to double down and create a new post making the same point. She obviously decided that having a new rant meant that her friends would not see my remarks on the topic, unless they scrolled down. They are working to overthrow our democracy and so far little is being done to hinder their efforts.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:27:51am

re: #220 makeitstop

Hell, I’m of the mind that that’s what Sinema did. Stalking horse.

She started out as a member of the Green Party and supported Nader in 2000. She may just be transitioning to someone who is taking advantage of the money that is showered on those who support the messages of the wealthy and has no remaining ideology other than enriching herself.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:29:52am

re: #274 Hecuba’s daughter

She started out as a member of the Green Party and supported Nader in 2000. She may just be transitioning to someone who is taking advantage of the money that is showered on those who support the messages of the wealthy and has no remaining ideology other than enriching herself.

Watch Natasha Sinema side with Republicans to force the US into default.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:33:10am

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:33:16am

re: #196 sagehen

That video certainly does give youngkin a serious ‘Uncle Fester’ vibe.

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:35:27am

re: #276 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Ha! I almost missed that first line.

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:36:10am

I am now caught up… You may proceed. :)

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:39:57am

re: #276 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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Ahem…

Chiffon Margarine - “It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature!” (Commercial, 1977)

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A Cranky One  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:43:06am

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A Cranky One  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:44:08am

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:49:26am
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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:49:48am

re: #263 JOE 🥓

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:50:05am

God’s Anointed King sure has a KINKY WIFE!

Melania Trump forced Easter Bunny to strip naked because she didn’t like his plaid vest: book

So was she dressed in leather with a whip when she did this?

rawstory.com

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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:50:16am

Criminal conspiracy.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:50:50am

re: #284 jaunte

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Just waiting for those assholes to run into the Russian embassy and beg for asylum.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:52:31am

News alert—yet another school shooting going on in…you guessed it…TexASS!

thedailybeast.com

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:53:36am
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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:53:40am
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:54:32am

re: #288 JOE 🥓

News alert—yet another school shooting going on in…you guessed it…TexASS!

thedailybeast.com

God damn it, Texas. YOU FUCKERS ARE WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS.

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:54:51am

re: #283 The Pie Overlord!

We shall call it Manchin’s default even though the Republicans are to blame.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:54:52am

re: #284 jaunte

Okay, so if they ignore the subpoenas, what happens next?

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:55:28am

re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg

Okay, so if they ignore the subpoenas, what happens next?

Garland needs to slap the cuffs on these traitors.

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:55:42am

re: #291 Dopamine Fish

God damn it, Texas. YOU FUCKERS ARE WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS.

Texas does not own the record for the worst school shooting in the country, so it’s not just us.

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piratedan  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:55:52am

re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg

US Marshalls I believe

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:57:02am

Rod Dreher is a sick man.

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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:57:35am

re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg

Okay, so if they ignore the subpoenas, what happens next?

If they get away with it, the force of law is eroded, which means more stochastic terrorism.

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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 8:58:05am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:01:00am

re: #298 jaunte

If they get away with it, the force of law is eroded, which means more stochastic terrorism.

That’s what I’m worried about. The GOP ignored all those House subpoenas last year and got away with it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:01:01am

LOL (it’s a parody account)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:01:51am

re: #299 jaunte

“Nothing to see here folks. He just shot one kid. He wasn’t going after the whole school or anything.”

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darthstar  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:03:28am

re: #262 Dopamine Fish

Be cool if a lawyer offered to take their case on contingency. Sue those racist assholes out of the neighborhood.

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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:04:30am
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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:05:12am

Manchin won’t move on the filibuster.

The default is coming.

Joe Manchin refuses to consider filibuster reform despite debt ceiling emergency

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:07:17am
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makeitstop  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:09:54am

re: #286 jaunte

Criminal conspiracy.

Obstruction of justice at the very least.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:10:44am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:14:23am

Boris Johnson still acts as if the negative impacts of Brexit were both unforeseeable and inevitable instead of them being exactly what they should have expected for leaving the EU and turning down every other trade deal option that the EU offers other countries.

The EU had no interest in letting the UK be any sort of special exception to their basic principle of free movement of goods = free movement of people (you can’t have one without the other)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:16:18am

re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think it was a year or two ago when CNN interrupted coverage of a story about some state wanting to loosen gun laws to report on a school shooting, which was itself interrupted for a report on ANOTHER school shooting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:16:35am

just generally a shit day for Texas

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Nojay UK  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:18:26am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Sir Michael Take” == “taking the mickey”.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:18:56am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:22:27am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:24:28am
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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:25:27am

re: #305 JOE 🥓

Manchin won’t move on the filibuster.

The default is coming.

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Someone should tell him that Reconciliation will not be used on the debt ceiling because that means that both sides aren’t addressing the issue.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:27:53am

re: #316 Belafon

Someone should tell him that Reconciliation will not be used on the debt ceiling because that means that both sides aren’t addressing the issue.

The fix is in. Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema have shorted the markets and they will make a bundle when the default melts Wall Street down.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:28:24am

thread

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:30:15am

re: #311 Backwoods_Sleuth

just generally a shit day for Texas

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Like they care? Texas is a white supremacist state where the GQP is firmly ensconced thanks to their skills at voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression, skills they are spreading throughout our country. The winter power outage was irrelevant to their leadership and the brainwashed masses who support them. This is the future of this nation.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:33:27am
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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:34:03am
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:37:07am

re: #318 Backwoods_Sleuth

thread

……
Lauren King, 39, was confirmed to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Interesting vote on this one. Dems all voted for her, but so did a handful of Republicans. Including Mitch McConnell.

But Sasse and Romney failed to do so. Very disgraceful.

Sigh — this is why it’s crucial for Sinema and Manchin to remain Democrats. Otherwise, do you think any judges would be approved during the Biden administration? McConnell would not allow anyone to be brought up for a vote.

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A Cranky One  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:38:46am

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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:39:01am

Meanwhile the geniuses in the Texas lege are focused on the most pressing problem.

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:39:56am

re: #322 Hecuba’s daughter

But Sasse and Romney failed to do so. Very disgraceful.

Sigh — this is why it’s crucial for Sinema and Manchin to remain Democrats. Otherwise, do you think any judges would be approved during the Biden administration? McConnell would not allow anyone to be brought up for a vote.

Whether or not they remain Democrats is up to them. But they should understand that their power comes from Democrats having a majority, even if only slightly. They should be helping to make sure Democrats get reelected.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:44:28am

re: #321 jaunte

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Looks like more people there than were at TFG’s inauguration.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:45:36am
Police are searching for Timothy George Simpkins, 18, the alleged gunman at Timberview High School in Arlington. He is believed to have fled in a 2018 Silver Dodge Charger with a license plate number PFY6260.

dailymail.co.uk

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:45:58am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:46:57am
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darthstar  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:48:32am

re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth

So he regrets banging under age girls with Greenberg as a witness…got it.

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darthstar  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:51:35am

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darthstar  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:53:03am

Sleia…cute.

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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:54:08am

re: #331 darthstar

Cat is considering who might be future treats source.

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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:58:28am

The GOP likes ‘em ignorant.

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gocart mozart  Oct 6, 2021 • 9:59:09am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:02:59am

re: #334 jaunte

Every instance of gunfire at schools negatively impacts students and teachers, and makes it harder for children to learn. A Texas school study showed students at schools where a shooting occurred are more likely to repeat a grade and be absent, and less likely to go to college.

“We’re not the party of equal outcomes, we are the party of equal chances!”

Equal chances to be a victim.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:04:34am

re: #334 jaunte

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The GOP likes ‘em ignorant.

That’s what TexASS wants. Keep them stupid and brainwashed every Sunday so they continue to vote Republican.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:04:39am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:06:14am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:07:55am

re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth

California man sues psychic for $25,000 after she claimed she could remove a witch’s curse

Don’t all those psychic had have to contain a disclaimer that they are “for entertainment purposes only”?

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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:11:40am

re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ruling: Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:12:43am

re: #340 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

California man sues psychic for $25,000 after she claimed she could remove a witch’s curse

Don’t all those psychic had have to contain a disclaimer that they are “for entertainment purposes only”?

Well that dude certainly wasn’t entertained.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:15:19am

re: #342 Eventual Carrion

Well that dude certainly wasn’t entertained.

but the rest of us are!

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The GOP is a terrorist organization  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:17:58am

McConnell is daring Schumer to try and lift the filibuster, even if it’s just a carve-out to raise - or even eliminate - the debt ceiling.

The latter is what the Dems should do - get rid of the filibuster and the debt ceiling forever.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:19:35am

re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not close to half of deaths — maybe 4 to 5%….realclearscience.com

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ericblair  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:21:55am

re: #317 JOE 🥓

The fix is in. Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema have shorted the markets and they will make a bundle when the default melts Wall Street down.

I doubt this. Both are compromised; Manchin is dumb and Sinema is crazy. Their donors and the GOP are convinced, and have them convinced, that the Dems will blink in this game of chicken and burn reconciliation on the debt ceiling. Then they can have their sweet sweet infrastructure bill without all the other annoying saving the world and feeding the poor and making sure grandpa has his pills and some new glasses and shit.

I doubt the Dems will cave even in the face of default, both because we shouldn’t negotiate with terrorists, and short term it will be very very painful for GOP billionaire backers who are all in on US bills and bonds. So either Manchin/Sinema blink or we have a bumpy ride.

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unproven innocence  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:23:43am

re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think parents should decide what their children are taught in schools. That is all.

So if your parents insist that 2+2=5, then it should be illegal to teach you anything else?

Alternative Math | Short Film

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steve_davis  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:26:33am

re: #331 darthstar

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cat: “….not my tempo.”

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JOE 🥓  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:27:45am

re: #340 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

California man sues psychic for $25,000 after she claimed she could remove a witch’s curse

Don’t all those psychic had have to contain a disclaimer that they are “for entertainment purposes only”?

Didn’t stop Miss Cleo from going to jail on fraud charges. I remember back in the 80s when every has been actor was running a psychic hotline

The Best of Miss Cleo

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jaunte  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:31:40am
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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 6, 2021 • 10:36:11am

re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth

Mayor Bill de Blasio@NYCMayor
Ed Mullins dishonored his uniform, his city and his union more times than I can count. It was just a matter of time before his endless hatred would catch up with him. That day has come.

(wonder what’s the status of Mullin’s pension)

It will interesting to see if the Feds can flip Mullins


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