John Oliver discusses how misinformation spreads among immigrant diaspora communities, how little some platforms have done to stop it, and, most importantly, how to have a very good morning.
Just consider my standard rant about Social Media and its uses as a given right here.
They represent a medium that no lawmaker even 50 years ago might have foreseen.
I see social media as something primarily for business and entertainment purposes.
I will NEVER consider Facebook, Twitter and Youtube as legitimate news sources. Yes, they can provide us crucial information about current events, but these entities have virtually no editorial control so the guy spouting crazy ass conspiracy theories is given just as much validity (in some cases even more) than the people who are actually relating facts.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
I see social media as something primarily for business and entertainment purposes.
I will NEVER consider Facebook, Twitter and Youtube as legitimate news sources. Yes, they can provide us crucial information about current events, but these entities have virtually no editorial control so the guy spouting crazy ass conspiracy theories is given just as much validity (in some cases even more) than the people who are actually relating facts.
They were never designed to be news sources. They are entirely user-driven content. Why would I trust Joe Random on the Internet, even if he is linking an article that agrees with my inherent biases? I might relink it, but fully prepared to go back and remove it if it is demonstrated to be false (and I have done so, when I still used Facebook).
GUYS, they finally did a Biden Voter story!….to get quotes on how disappointed they are in Biden https://t.co/KW9o2aZM76
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 11, 2021
A story simply isn’t a story unless something can either be blamed on the Dems or cast the Dems as the infinite losers they’re supposed to be. This is the guiding principle of political journalism today, utterly and wholly.
Would I be wrong if I said the main factor behind Biden’s falling poll numbers is the relentless hate messaging from right wing media — and the mainstream media’s tendency to repeat it for clicks?
Democrats could do a better job of messaging. But that’s not the cause.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 11, 2021
Looks like putting him in a no-win situation in Afghanistan and trying to act like vaccine mandates are tyranny is not paying off for the far-right like they thought it would.
Biden Policy Approval Rises To 54% In CBS Polling As GOP Flops (Bipartisan report)
re: #4 Citizen K
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A story simply isn’t a story unless something can either be blamed on the Dems or cast the Dems as the infinite losers they’re supposed to be. This is the guiding principle of political journalism today, utterly and wholly.
The journalistically inclined here should consider a “hippie safari,” venturing into darkest Marin County to interview the rich denizens and find out why they vote against their own interest by supporting Biden and the Dems, if not more agreeable candidates like Bernie and Jill. Do they have diners there? Is a nuclear-free artisanal organic eatery a close analog? If not, where do the locals hang out? Is there some kind of public hot tub venue where they might be found?
John Oliver nailed it. I don’t really get misinformation, but I see plenty of people receiving lots of misinformation via whatsapp forwards.
I was looking at Peltier cooling for the automated cat feeder when I realized that I’m over-complicating this, and ordered a couple of ice packs.
I think Manchin’s actions should be seen as an attempt by him to engineer a 2022 Senate where he’s still the 50th vote. That’s why he wants to reduce the number of big things Democrats are pushing from three to one.
I just think he’s doing it without paying attention that what’s happening in the country, and not taking into account how much Sinema is messing that up.
So, a brief update here from Czech Republic: President Zeman is in ARO (which is basically like super-duper ICU). His actual condition is a mystery, as the people around him are desperately trying to conceal it at all costs. In any event, the Czech Senate will convene on 19 October, proceeding with the assumption that President Zeman is now hopelessly incapacitated. They will most likely invoke Article 66, which will strip him of his powers and divvy them up among other constitutional officials.
That Article 66 is a real thing in the Czech Constitution and as some might imagine, it’s led to all sorts of “execute Order 66” jokes among younger Czechs.
Once again, we are reminding everyone that Columbus Day shouldn’t even be a thing. pic.twitter.com/r34RwreNsl
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) October 11, 2021
Oh please. https://t.co/o4Mgm0XHOH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 11, 2021
JFC the media are getting on my last nerve this morning.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Let them try to rehabilitate their images with the madman ranting about them in another of his stupid press releases when he hears about this. The time to attempt to polish their image is after Trump is in prison or in the ground.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
JFC the media are getting on my last nerve this morning.
The most infuriating thing remains how many people remain wedded to the idea that the media is super-duper liberal. Especially since it leads to situations like ‘Even the Hippie CNN says Biden is the worst ever, so he must be even worse!!!’ They literally use the assumption of liberal media as extra validation when they report bad things on Dems, therefore believing they must be on the most right of tracks.
It’s a self-sustaining positive feedback loop they refuse to break out of, even when it doesn’t actually get them the adoration and viewership/readership of the right-wing they so desperately crave.
The monster thought he was going to find the imaginary kind of monsters on his voyage.
Instead he found people, and murdered some of them, showing us what a real monster is.
Columbus believed he would find ‘blemmyes’ and ‘sciapods’ - not people - in the New World (The Conversation)
re: #14 Charles Johnson
JFC the media are getting on my last nerve this morning.
They weren’t there already?
Here is her doing D’yer Maker back in 2006.https://t.co/rSGYrOdImA
— Edwin (@EdMix13) October 11, 2021
DA FUQ
Trump Asked For Probe Into Whether China-Made Thermostats Hacked Election, Book Says https://t.co/Bbg4R1lnYF via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 11, 2021
And it’s not getting better as the day goes on.
Good grief! https://t.co/9shhOgmxSl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 11, 2021
Steve’s no Peter. He’s a Dick.
— David Bolinsky (@BolinskyDavid) October 11, 2021
re: #20 The Pie Overlord!
DA FUQ
I saw a post somewhere - maybe on Twitter, or maybe on the dead thread - that said that Trump’s narcissistic personality disorder puts this in a bizarre realm of sense. He literally cannot believe that he lost, and so any explanation - no matter how wildly improbable it may look to us rational folk - is infinitely more probable than the idea that he wasn’t cheated out of a second term.
re: #17 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The monster thought he was going to find the imaginary kind of monsters on his voyage.
Instead he found people, and murdered some of them, showing us what a real monster is.Columbus believed he would find ‘blemmyes’ and ‘sciapods’ - not people - in the New World (The Conversation)
And Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand - were so shocked and horrified - at Columbus’s abject cruelty and monstrous governance that they clashed with Columbus, stripped him of all his titles and brought him back to Spain in chains.
re: #23 Dopamine Fish
I saw a post somewhere - maybe on Twitter, or maybe on the dead thread - that said that Trump’s narcissistic personality disorder puts this in a bizarre realm of sense. He literally cannot believe that he lost, and so any explanation - no matter how wildly improbable it may look to us rational folk - is infinitely more probable than the idea that he wasn’t cheated out of a second term.
It’s the same for every jackass who found Trump’s narcissistic inner-world to be more comfortable than reality. Pretending you’re a good person while doing bad things takes a lot of energy, and checking out completely when someone offers you their fantasy-world as an alternative to reality is a lot easier.
Well here we are folks, The Ashli Horst Wessel Lied
“She went to Washington to help us see the light, like the millions that also heard the call” sang ‘Texas Loves Ashli Babbit’ organizer Al Manica.
“But the Democrats that took our love away, you know they shot her, they shot her down. Pelosi. Schumer. Harris. Buh buh buh Biden.” pic.twitter.com/PuAwr6Ca0a— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) October 11, 2021
Such charming people making fun of Biden’s stutter. So original, so very adult.
re: #27 plansbandc
Such charming people making fun of Biden’s stutter. So original, so very adult.
You won’t find anyone who successfully developed into a responsible adult associating with the childish Trump cult.
re: #24 BeenHereAwhile
And Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand - were so shocked and horrified - at Columbus’s abject cruelty and monstrous governance that they clashed with Columbus, stripped him of all his titles and brought him back to Spain in chains.
It’s an interesting point that Columbus, and later the conquistadors like Pizarro and Cortez, were in fact subject to severe criticism in their own time. This is because racism apologists like to wag their fingers and hypocritically assert that we should not judge the past by the standards of the present (hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug, to all conservatives). We don’t, and don’t have to, because Columbus and men like him were criminals and brigands by the standards of the time, and only the vast influx of gold and silver (which took decades to get started) managed to assuage this. The English, in particular, were savagely critical of Spanish conduct in the New World, until they gained a profitable foothold of their own and began to emulate Spanish methods, if not worse.
NEW: Trump State Dept political appointees have been accused of walking off in final days of admin with gift bags (and gifts w/ Trump and Melania’s insignias) that had been created with government $ to give foreign leaders at 2020 G7 Summit that was canceled because of pandemic. pic.twitter.com/a3QF66Nwkf
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) October 11, 2021
Other issues: There’s question about whether former 2nd lady Karen Pence wrongly took gold-toned place card holders from Singapore w/out paying for them. State’s accounting shows she should have paid. Pence family lawyer Richard Cullen says State is wrong https://t.co/etsF4wivFa
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) October 11, 2021
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
Literally taking everything that wasn’t nailed down. Grifters to the very end.
Weird how Trump participates in the martyrdom of Ashli Babbitt but never mentions Brian Sicknick, or the two followers who had heart attacks, or the one that died from amphetamines and was trampled. Of course what they have in common is they all died that day because of him.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 11, 2021
A true incredible person.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 11, 2021
re: #31 Dopamine Fish
Literally taking everything that wasn’t nailed down. Grifters to the very end.
And Xtians see nothing wrong with that because Shithead packed the courts with every right wing asshole he could get his hands on!
Dude got lost and coped by setting up a concentration camp.
I’m not clapping.
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
NEW: Trump State Dept political appointees have been accused of walking off in final days of admin with gift bags (and gifts w/ Trump and Melania’s insignias) that had been created with government $ to give foreign leaders at 2020 G7 Summit that was canceled because of pandemic.
He seems to be complaining that they walked off with expensive garbage, assuming those insignias can’t be removed.
Aside from everything else Columbus died more than 200 years before America was a thing https://t.co/rRK3hZvphQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 11, 2021
Eric Braden, of the Southern Patriot Council https://t.co/agQ0dxUZBY
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) October 11, 2021
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
These people literally have no filter. It, along with the rest of their brain, fell out the bottom of their skull years ago, they accidentally digested it and never noticed because they never used it anyway.
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
Waiting to see if Schooley’s account gets censored or is shut down.
re: #40 A Cranky One
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re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
I will not post a link from a fucking Pulpit Pimp who canonized Asshole Ashli.
This seems to me more important and dangerous than a lot of symbolic stuff he does, a thoroughgoing endorsement of the violent vanguard that nearly reached members of Congress, but it’s getting almost zero pickup in mainstream outlets and no condemnation from Republicans. https://t.co/lREDsPALZZ
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 11, 2021
Hi, Senator. I wrote that article. Where did you hear that there is a shortage due to the vaccine mandate?
— Leslie Josephs (@lesliejosephs) October 11, 2021
We’re not supposed to notice that Trump was behind the coup attempt, even when he does something like this. He needs to be brought to justice or we’re going to lose our democracy.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 11, 2021
re: #45 Punish Domestic Terrorists
He replied:
“By the company.”
It’s not Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate, it’s Southwest Airlines.
Biden’s vaccine mandate hasn’t even been implemented yet and is still under review at OSHA. But you’re blaming it?
You’re a horrible liar, and by that, I mean you’re horrible at lying.— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 11, 2021
This is amazing pic.twitter.com/lE9eqD68ml
— SPENCE, TODD (@Todd_Spence) October 8, 2021
re: #49 A Cranky One
Thank you for making me smile.
When established in 2000, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument’s 275 square miles were the country’s most extensive and most archaeologically dense protected cultural landscape, with more than 100 sites per square mile in some areas. https://t.co/TMxYWPTEE8 pic.twitter.com/JIWmh8EGpA
— National Parks Photo (@treasured_lands) October 11, 2021
re: #49 A Cranky One
Now Alexa is playing that song on my tablet.
What’s funny is that back in the day Columbus day was identity politics to elevate the status of Italian Americans…but then Italians became 100% white and that thing that happened just didn’t happen….
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
The “Country of Texas”… well… enjoy that little bit of freedom with…
1. No US Defense spending.
2. No Ft. Hood, no USAF bases, no Navy or Coast Guard.
3. A massive population of Mexican-Americans now under direct siege from the many entitled whites who feel they are now the chosen race and must dominate and diminish everyone else.
4. No US Welfare or any other massive amounts of funding to help a massive poor and near-poverty population. The ongoing myth of it’s “just blacks getting welfare” is about to hit the reality fan.
5. A Putin-style hybrid regime autocracy with white political and law enforcement domination of every city and county no matter the ethnic makeup of the area in question.
It’s coming.
re: #54 Florida Panhandler
They talk a lot but they’ll NEVER give up the money that comes in with 1 and 2.
re: #24 BeenHereAwhile
And Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand - were so shocked and horrified - at Columbus’s abject cruelty and monstrous governance that they clashed with Columbus, stripped him of all his titles and brought him back to Spain in chains.
Not that it really makes much of a difference at this point, but ISTR that Ferdinand and Isabella’s piss-off at Columbus had a lot less to do with that “abject cruelty” (as long as the victims of said cruelty were naked heathen “savages”, the 15th-Century Spanish were - with only a few exceptions - basically indifferent) than with monetary issues: old Chris was, IIRC, less than forthcoming with the loot they thought was due.. And also too quick to exercise the nepotism and cronyism the Royals wanted to preserve for themselves.
oh
I have some notes.
😬 https://t.co/rtaE8r15DF pic.twitter.com/0QJEictTrd— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) October 11, 2021
Also? Come on, man. That’s not how connections work. Especially in Waller. Everybody knows certain names. pic.twitter.com/AqMjMYErQF
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) October 11, 2021
I lived in a banana republic for four years, and didn’t even have to leave America.
Donald Trump’s own treasury secretary blocked Ivanka World Bank role - report (Guardian)
re: #49 A Cranky One
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Cripes! My Alexa went nuts when I played this. Tried to get me to sign up for a music plan, and now I am listening to the song!
A Huge Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface
Deep in the mantle, a branching plume of intensely hot material appears to be the engine powering vast volcanic activity.
wired.com
(Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developments and trends in mathematics and the physical and life sciences.)
If this article does not leave you with the feeling that you are walking around on a mass of boiling rock, you are different than I am. Plus I think I would want to leave South Africa sometime in the next 10 million years. Before it left me!
Amazing science at work!
re: #59 Ming5000
Cripes! My Alexa went nuts when I played this. Tried to get me to sign up for a music plan, and now I am listening to the song!
Whoops…
re: #24 BeenHereAwhile
And Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand - were so shocked and horrified - at Columbus’s abject cruelty and monstrous governance that they clashed with Columbus, stripped him of all his titles and brought him back to Spain in chains.
For perspective about Isabella and Ferdinand’s standards of what’s cruel and monstrous, what they find shocking and horrifying… they were big supporters of the Spanish Inquisition. Thought that was just peachy.
Some people seem to get a pass on Twitter no matter what kind of hateful shit they post. And oddly enough, they’re the ones with millions of followers. Posobiec is one of the absolute worst people on this site and he’s been spewing disinformation and hatred for years. https://t.co/rpE0dtuZpx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 11, 2021
Where did the idea that the sickout was because of anti-vaxxers instead of the longstanding labor dispute come from? https://t.co/gLiuYXkMZt
— messy scarelord (@jesseltaylor) October 11, 2021
I honestly believe I found the creepiest dog in the neighborhood, if not the world.
👇😶 pic.twitter.com/ruQrD5PEif— Amanda Softstar🏹 (@ASoftstar) September 25, 2021
re: #61 A Cranky One
Whoops…
Earlier, Charles mentioned that he sneezed and Alexa woke up. Funny things happen.
I also said he was a ‘dick’ and a ‘bit of a clown’, not my cup of tea and his farm was probably a ‘tax dodge’
I said Boris Johnson was a complete lunatic and unfit to run anything as vital as our food system… & about 16,000 other opinions
Weird what people focus on as news https://t.co/AGp2b4hiK7— James Rebanks (@herdyshepherd1) October 11, 2021
I like to honor Columbus Day by walking into places that are already inhabited and announcing that I just discovered them. Then, if anyone complains, I give them small pox.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 11, 2021
re: #65 A Cranky One
— Robert Century (@RobertCentury) September 25, 2021
Claremont Institute’s defense of John Eastman: “Universally false” accounts say he wanted Pence to overturn the election, when he actually wanted Pence to kick it to the House so the GOP minority there could overturn the election. https://t.co/r2nv7FygML pic.twitter.com/gpyIOHO9hG
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) October 11, 2021
That’s the ruse here: That the ask was just “give time to the state legislatures to assess whether the acknowledged illegal conduct by their state election officials.” That was a rationale developed to get a result: Get legislatures to reconvene and toss ballots in the trash.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) October 11, 2021
Heh…turns out that a bunch of the priceless gifts Trump was hoarding until the end were fakes.
The Times reports that the gifts were eventually (properly) seized by U.S. Fish and Wildlife this summer, and that—good news, everybody!—it turns out they were fake.
Yeah, that’s right. The Saudi royal family, the ultra-wealthy murderous dictators whose lifestyle consists of extravagant spending and a bunch of other things that they consider it illegal for anyone to bring up, gave Donald Trump fake tiger and cheetah pelts. It was a dye job.
And this is perfect. Couldn’t possibly have ended in a better way.
What is Donald Trump, after all, other than a fake rich person?
re: #54 Florida Panhandler
The “Country of Texas”… well… enjoy that little bit of freedom with…
1. No US Defense spending.
2. No Ft. Hood, no USAF bases, no Navy or Coast Guard.
3. A massive population of Mexican-Americans now under direct siege from the many entitled whites who feel they are now the chosen race and must dominate and diminish everyone else.
4. No US Welfare or any other massive amounts of funding to help a massive poor and near-poverty population. The ongoing myth of it’s “just blacks getting welfare” is about to hit the reality fan.
5. A Putin-style hybrid regime autocracy with white political and law enforcement domination of every city and county no matter the ethnic makeup of the area in question.
It’s coming.
No hurricane relief assistance.
re: #56 Jay C
Not that it really makes much of a difference at this point, but ISTR that Ferdinand and Isabella’s piss-off at Columbus had a lot less to do with that “abject cruelty” (as long as the victims of said cruelty were naked heathen “savages”, the 15th-Century Spanish were - with only a few exceptions - basically indifferent) than with monetary issues: old Chris was, IIRC, less than forthcoming with the loot they thought was due.. And also too quick to exercise the nepotism and cronyism the Royals wanted to preserve for themselves.
The church had rules about the proper missionary to soldier ratio; rules about mass baptisms and conversions; and one wasn’t allowed to treat the baptized with the sort of cruelty that was allowed to the unbaptized.
Columbus was deliberately impeding the missionaries in their conversion/baptism efforts, because it would reduce the number of slaves he could commit atrocities against. The Church didn’t like that.
He lost 25 pounds after he had to start paying for his own food. https://t.co/Iur53WYPkx
— 𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐥𝐲 (@VWAimlessly) October 11, 2021
Watching the opening of Nicolle’s show…one thing they need to remind Mike Pence is that he was afraid to get in a car to escape the insurrection because he didn’t trust his security detail.
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
We were told he was the Healthiest President Ever (tm) and weighed, what did they say he weighed, 260 or something ridiculous like that? If you’re telling me that a man that ostensibly has 4 inches on me weighs the same as me, that’s borderline unhealthy.
Trump is a bigger threat to the US than Russia: Former foreign policy expert.https://t.co/bhANG2p9bn
— Republicans against Trumpism (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 11, 2021
“All Eastman The Traitor did was ask the VP to illegally pause the transfer of power. Which is all that the terrorists, the white supremacists, and the mentally ill president wanted.”
Signed,
The Clownshow Institute https://t.co/3p17OkE4XD— tom choad (@tomablogger) October 11, 2021
re: #77 Dopamine Fish
We were told he was the Healthiest President Ever (tm) and weighed, what did they say he weighed, 260 or something ridiculous like that? If you’re telling me that a man that ostensibly has 4 inches on me weighs the same as me, that’s borderline unhealthy.
239 was the claim. There were pictures of him next to athletes who weighed 250 and he was a good 5” wider than they were. I don’t think he weighed an ounce under 290.
This might be the most perfect political ad. pic.twitter.com/vyQf4cmB53
— Anthony Michael Kreis 🎃169 A.D.2d 254 👻 (@AnthonyMKreis) October 11, 2021
I love Columbus Day discourse because it’s entirely on autopilot and it’s hilarious. No one cares about Columbus. No one “celebrates” today. There are mattress sales. But every year Team Own The Libs has to put on a pageant about how this means so much to them
— August J. Pollak, But I Dunno, Spooky (@AugustJPollak) October 11, 2021
Donald Trump’s Politics of White Fear Have Roots in Southern California
“…Last year, [The Claremont Institute] awarded a fellowship to Jack Posobiec, a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist with ties to neo-fascist groups, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The institute teaches and publishes new takes on America’s founding that whitewash history, insisting that the country was never racist and that those who argue otherwise seek to annihilate the United States. The mission statement says it seeks to “restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.” Its scholars launder white supremacist ideas through the language of heritage and the self-aware performance of erudition.”
lamag.com
ROTFLOL.
MAGA QAnon’s 2 Biggest Celebrities Are at War (Vice News)
Former Trump attorney Lin Wood called Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a “communist.” Then things really got nasty.
re: #80 Teddy’s Person
Columbus’s Real Legacy Is Playing Out in Minnesota
Also, why don’t his big fans like Leif Erickson? by Charlie Pierce
esquire.com
I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day than having a native crop sue a greedy multinational invader.
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
“If Ashli Babbitt had only cooperated with police, she would be alive today!”
re: #86 retired cynic
My friend Erick named his son Leif.
re: #54 Florida Panhandler
6. And an electric grid that will leave them in the dark without any outside assistance.
re: #89 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
6. And an electric grid that will leave them in the dark without any outside assistance.
Don’t they have that already?
The main thing I learned from being married to a history writer is that whatever American tradition I think is set in stone and passed down from time immemorial is usually the work of like one businessman in the thirties.
— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith) October 11, 2021
re: #85 Punish Domestic Terrorists
ROTFLOL.
MAGA QAnon’s 2 Biggest Celebrities Are at War (Vice News)
When your whole organization’s raison d’etre is paranoia, you will turn on each other. It’s only a matter of time.
And sooner or later the anti-Semitism always comes forward too:
“I can tell there’s a huge COINTELPRO network infiltrating the Patriot/MAGA/Q movement,” Sather said without evidence. “Might be the CIA’s work, might be Mossad.”
re: #85 Punish Domestic Terrorists
ROTFLOL.
MAGA QAnon’s 2 Biggest Celebrities Are at War (Vice News)
Indeed…and it’s apparently a pretty heated exchange…
Over on Instagram, comments on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s post about Lin Wood reveals that nobody really agrees on, well… anything. Notably, this not the first time that people on the right have questioned Lin Wood’s intentions. pic.twitter.com/UZd2tuNKH4
— Sara (@coolfacejane) October 9, 2021
re: #93 darthstar
Indeed…and it’s apparently a pretty heated exchange…
I think Lin Wood is genuinely deranged, rather than being a grifter, just like most of the QAnon idiots.
re: #95 I Would Prefer Not To
Fuck Ashli Babbitt.
Fuck everybody trying to make her into a martyr to the Cause
A preview of the Kentucky abortion law case being argued Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court. https://t.co/xFuY96BCi7 ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 11, 2021
re: #93 darthstar
Indeed…and it’s apparently a pretty heated exchange…
When crayzees start attacking each other, all it seems to do is to pump up the level of crayzee to a new notch, almost like Hegelian dialectics.
Cuz I’m playing catch up. This is from downstairs.
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Companies also make adult electric tricycles.
Or you could get a really good one here. utahtrikes.com
re: #95 I Would Prefer Not To
Fuck Ashli Babbitt.
Together the username and post make one complete sentence.
re: #100 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Together the username and post make one complete sentence.
Thanks. Bad news. she was trending on twitter. good news. still dead.
re: #84 jaunte
Donald Trump’s Politics of White Fear Have Roots in Southern California
“…Last year, [The Claremont Institute] awarded a fellowship to Jack Posobiec, a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist with ties to neo-fascist groups, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The institute teaches and publishes new takes on America’s founding that whitewash history, insisting that the country was never racist and that those who argue otherwise seek to annihilate the United States. The mission statement says it seeks to “restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.” Its scholars launder white supremacist ideas through the language of heritage and the self-aware performance of erudition.”
lamag.com
To maintain the record, the OTHER Charles Johnson is a fellow of the Claremont Institute and graduate of one of the (not quite associated) Claremont colleges.
re: #95 I Would Prefer Not To
Fuck Ashli Babbitt.
The only thing I wish for her is that she realized what a piece of garbage she was for siding with Trump as she bled out on the floor.
So y’all have probably seen Twitter pushing this blurb by the SF Chronicle:
Days after a COVID diagnosis, one man came to believe a religious rapture was imminent. His case offers a clue to how the virus affects the brain
So now I’m left wondering why the millions of others of Americans have believed in “the rapture”? Was it really a virus?
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Bye, Texas!
It would be so nice to have Cornholio and Rafael Cruz gone from the Senate not to mention a House without Crenshaw, Gohmert Pyle and a bunch of other TexAssHoles!
re: #104 darthstar
The only thing I wish for her is that she realized what a piece of garbage she was for siding with Trump as she bled out on the floor.
She may have realized how stupid it was, but if she could accept that she was garbage, she wouldn’t have needed to pretend to be a hero while betraying her own nation.
Also, the new Superman is gay.
This is of course setting off alarm bells.
But all the people whining about a gay Superman, were they ok with Superman having a girlfriend, Lois Lane? Because right there we’ve got some inter-planetary inter-species sex.
re: #108 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Also, the new Superman is gay.
This is of course setting off alarm bells.
But all the people whining about a gay Superman, were the ok with Superman having a girlfriend, Lois Lane? Because right there we’ve got some inter-planetary inter-species sex.
There was no sex in the ’50s.
And as a bonus, we just found another GOW in the garden.
Productive year for Our Lady of the Orb. I only fed her once. And she kept her web meticulously clean and in repair. At the end she consumed her trap to use for these Alien Orbs and their wall bindings which will hatch in the spring. She’s done good.#Spiders #GoldenOrbWeaver pic.twitter.com/INmmyZtTKA
— David Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) October 11, 2021
re: #109 Decatur Deb
There was no sex in the ’50s.
And husbands and wives on TV slept in separate beds.
re: #111 jaunte
Superman’s sex problem remains the same, straight, gay or bi.
I like Niven, but that’s been obsolete since Superman 2.
“Indigenous Peoples’ Day” is a fake holiday created to sow division. Of course Joe Biden is the first president to pay it any attention. https://t.co/zyP18KJmy5
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) October 11, 2021
A half a millennium ago Columbus used technology developed in Europe to sail across a giant ocean and discover a new continent. Today we celebrate that daring and ingenuity. Happy Columbus Day!
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) October 11, 2021
moron
re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
And husbands and wives on TV slept in separate beds.
If I remember correctly the first TV show that showed a couple in the same bed was Green Acres!
re: #103 Decatur Deb
To maintain the record, the OTHER Charles Johnson is a fellow of the Claremont Institute and graduate of one of the (not quite associated) Claremont colleges.
Most of the Claremont Colleges are great institutions. My spouse is a Harvey Mudd (ranked up with Caltech and MIT for science & engineering) alum, Pitzer is very well regarded among environmental and natural scientists, and Scripps is one of the top “women’s colleges” in the nation. Most of the Five Campus community tries to distance itself from Claremont McKenna (Rage Furby’s “libertarian think tank alma mater” which has its own rich history of pay-for-A scandals and grade inflation) as much as they can.
Harry Jaffa, the Goldwater speechwriter and libertarian “philosopher” who co-founded the Claremont Institute, taught at Claremont McKenna.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
I wonder how much messaging gets lost at the editorial level of the various media groups.
If a group is continually holding protests about a particular social issue - they are attempting to convey a message. If the city’s paper reports about Group A protesting against vaccines at a clinic and doesn’t report about Group B protesting against housing discrimination at a real estate firm’s office is it a messaging failure by Group B, or that the media in question has made the decision for society that Group B’s issue is not important enough to hand on to the rest of the citizenry for attention?
“Superhero” sex has to be problematic. I mean “make the earth shake” could be a literal outcome.
It would seem @WendyRogersAZ is also trying to make Superman gay. https://t.co/s9CLmj0GyP
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) October 11, 2021
The Downing Street resident they all want to meet https://t.co/Wxe7DlmLJi
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 11, 2021
re: #116 Wile E. Wonka
Most of the Claremont Colleges are great institutions. My spouse is a Harvey Mudd (ranked up with Caltech and MIT for science & engineering) alum, Pitzer is very well regarded among environmental and natural scientists, and Scripps is one of the top “women’s colleges” in the nation. Most of the Five Campus community tries to distance itself from Claremont McKenna (Rage Furby’s “libertarian think tank alma mater” which has its own rich history of pay-for-A scandals and grade inflation) as much as they can.
Harry Jaffa, the Goldwater speechwriter and libertarian “philosopher” who co-founded the Claremont Institute, taught at Claremont McKenna.
Is Pomona part of that collective?
I see I have been expelled from the Los Angeles DSA because I supported Warren in the 2020 primary instead of St. Bernie.
So nice of them to wait 20 months after the fact…
re: #122 JOE 🥓
I see I have been expelled from the Los Angeles DSA because I supported Warren in the 2020 primary instead of St. Bernie.
So nice of them to wait 20 months after the fact…
That’s some purity test.
re: #115 JOE 🥓
If I remember correctly the first TV show that showed a couple in the same bed was Green Acres!
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The funny thing is that in the early 20s, when Hollywood was in its infancy, there was plenty of racy and controversial stuff that made it into films, even nudity.
Then, the head of of the MPAA, Will H. Hays, said “no, we’re not doing this anymore” and implemented a strict code of what was and wasn’t allowed. He also had plenty of acolytes to help him enforce it.
The code began to be phased out by the 1960s and in 1968 was ultimately replaced with the movie rating system we all know today.
re: #121 Barefoot Grin
Is Pomona part of that collective?
Pomona is the original. The other four are spinoffs, founded by Pomona alumni who made it big. It’s the more generalist liberal-arts school of the five, as a result.
I don’t know a lot about Pomona’s strengths, but John Cage, Frank Zappa, and Twyla Tharp all went there, and David Foster Wallace taught there, so I’m guessing their fine arts program is top-notch.
re: #125 Wile E. Wonka
Pomona is the original. The other four are spinoffs, founded by Pomona alumni who made it big. It’s the more generalist liberal-arts school of the five, as a result.
I don’t know a lot about Pomona’s strengths, but John Cage, Frank Zappa, and Twyla Tharp all went there, and David Foster Wallace taught there, so I’m guessing their fine arts program is top-notch.
I know that Sam Yamashita is (or was, I haven’t kept track recently) there as professor of modern Japanese history. I’ve always respected his views and work. But that’s all I ever knew. Thanks.
re: #115 JOE 🥓
I thought it was the Brady Bunch.
re: #103 Decatur Deb
To maintain the record, the OTHER Charles Johnson is a fellow of the Claremont Institute and graduate of one of the (not quite associated) Claremont colleges.
OI!! Not not “not quite associated”.
Totally unrelated. Totally. The Institute is using their location and the name of the city to try to bask in the reflected glow of the Claremont Colleges reputation. BUT THERE IS ZERO AFFILIATION OF ANY KIND.
Or when her supporters stormed the Capitol to stop electoral certification, and she tweeted out justifying remarks. Or when she proudly talked about never conceding, and waged political war against anyone who dared to certify the vote in 2016.
I could go on and on ….— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) October 11, 2021
re: #111 jaunte
I have Niven’s Laws, a hardcover I picked up at a convention in the 80’s, and had thought was rare. It’s $80 at collector sites, but I could get another copy in collectable condition for $24 via Amazon.
My most prized possession is a bootleg Dalek Master Plan book I printed back when I worked as a pressman in a print shop and ran a Doctor Who fan club, that’s signed by Nick Courtney. He made his first Doctor Who appearance in that episode as another character before he was cast as Lethbridge-Stewart.
I doubt that a dozen copies of the book still exist, and with the autograph, It’s one of a kind.
re: #127 gocart mozart
I thought it was the Brady Bunch.
Brady Bunch premiered a couple years after Green Acres started.
Columbus Day:
when ppl who think immigrants
are thieves, rapists & murderers
get to celebrate an immigrant
who thieved, raped & murdered.#IndigenousPeoplesDay https://t.co/x6fEVa6SZ3— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 11, 2021
re: #108 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Also, the new Superman is gay.
This is of course setting off alarm bells.
But all the people whining about a gay Superman, were they ok with Superman having a girlfriend, Lois Lane? Because right there we’ve got some inter-planetary inter-species sex.
FBI raids home of Philadelphia Proud Boys’ vice president to gather info about Capitol attack plans https://t.co/locsfqVrZy via @phillyinquirer
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) October 11, 2021
Eratosthenes of Cyrene, chief librarian at Alexandria, established Earth was round in 200BC. St. Augustine reckoned with it in ~411AD. By 1492 only extreme religious zealots still believed earth was flat.
These are the people insisting on deciding what your kids learn in school! https://t.co/LLvIPQNVo3— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) October 11, 2021
re: #116 Wile E. Wonka
Most of the Claremont Colleges are great institutions. My spouse is a Harvey Mudd (ranked up with Caltech and MIT for science & engineering) alum, Pitzer is very well regarded among environmental and natural scientists, and Scripps is one of the top “women’s colleges” in the nation. Most of the Five Campus community tries to distance itself from Claremont McKenna (Rage Furby’s “libertarian think tank alma mater” which has its own rich history of pay-for-A scandals and grade inflation) as much as they can.
Harry Jaffa, the Goldwater speechwriter and libertarian “philosopher” who co-founded the Claremont Institute, taught at Claremont McKenna.
Pomona girl here…
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
No, he’s an educated piece of shit.
Civilized Americans don’t celebrate people who were even considered to be monsters in their own time, but demagogues try to divide us by claiming that being better people is somehow an attack on the rabble they hope will elevate them. You know better than to do this!
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 11, 2021
A small plane crashed into a Southern California neighborhood, killing at least two people, injuring two others and setting two homes ablaze, authorities say. The twin-engine Cessna went down in suburban Santee, about 20 miles northeast of San Diego. https://t.co/JpUzWq4B2t
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 11, 2021
re: #125 Wile E. Wonka
Pomona is the original. The other four are spinoffs, founded by Pomona alumni who made it big. It’s the more generalist liberal-arts school of the five, as a result.
I don’t know a lot about Pomona’s strengths, but John Cage, Frank Zappa, and Twyla Tharp all went there, and David Foster Wallace taught there, so I’m guessing their fine arts program is top-notch.
from wikipedia:
Notable alumni include anthropologist David P. Barrows (1894);[24][288] pioneer of Chinese social science Chen Hansheng (1920);[289] U.S. Circuit judges James Marshall Carter (1924),[290] Stephen Reinhardt (1951),[291] and Richard Taranto (1977);[292][293] actors Joel McCrea (1928)[55][294] and Richard Chamberlain (1956);[295] avant-garde composer John Cage (attended 1928-1930);[296][297] U.S. Senators Alan Cranston (D‑CA; transferred c. 1934)[298][299] and Brian Schatz (D‑HI; 1994);[300][301] Flying Tigers member and Medal of Honor recipient James H. Howard (1937);[302][303] fourteen-time Grammy-winning conductor Robert Shaw (1938);[304] Gumby creator Art Clokey (1943);[65][305] senior Disney executive Roy E. Disney (1951);[306] several Oscar-winning screenwriters, including Robert Towne (1956)[295] and Jim Taylor (1984);[93] writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson (1958);[71] Light and Space artist James Turrell (1965);[172][307] Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairperson Myrlie Evers-Williams (1968);[308][83] The New York Times executive editor Bill Keller (1970);[309][310] self-help author Marianne Williamson (attended 1970-1972);[311] Pulitzer-winning newspaper columnist Mary Schmich (1975);[312] and Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna (1985).[286][313]
Notable Pomona faculty include kabuki expert Leonard Pronko (taught 1957-2014),[314][315] former U.S. ambassadors Michael Armacost (1960s)[316] and Cameron Munter (2013-2015),[317][318] jazz musician Bobby Bradford (1974-present),[319] NBA basketball coach Gregg Popovich (1979-1988),[320] novelists David Foster Wallace (2002-2008)[101] and Jonathan Lethem (2011-present),[321][322] and poet Claudia Rankine (2006-2015).[323]
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
Officials confirmed a UPS driver and a pilot are killed in a small plane crash in Santee.
The UPS truck was incinerated, and two homes were destroyed in the incident.
It is still unknown how many people were on the plane, and if all those inside the homes made it out safely. pic.twitter.com/TyISmejDRb— KUSI News (@KUSINews) October 11, 2021
Here’s the latest on the #planecrash in #Santee that killed at least two people. We have multiple crews on scene and will bring you the latest information live again at 4pm. https://t.co/Xupi5XAxB9
— NBC 7 San Diego (@nbcsandiego) October 11, 2021
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
You have the worst luck in the world if you die in a plane crash while driving a truck.
If science had delivered on flying cars, we’d see a lot more steel dropping out of the sky. It was always a fantasy, because of shit like this.
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
Man….that’s the worst Monday I can imagine.
You think the UPS driver, when he got in the truck this morning, thought for a moment today would be his last day?
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow. Been by there many times.
There’s a small airport between Santee and El Cajon to the south. I wonder if that plane had just taken off or was preparing to land.
This is SLC Utah.
At least one of the protestors has a 9mm pistol sticking out of his pants pocket. https://t.co/BZpeLBQz1P— Witchyrina Vaxxed, #EXTREMEmasker. (@ballerinaX) October 11, 2021
It’s crazy how the pedestal somehow makes him look shorter. https://t.co/l62XIbKqVo
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) October 11, 2021
re: #142 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You have the worst luck in the world if you die in a plane crash while driving a truck.
If science had delivered on flying cars, we’d see a lot more steel dropping out of the sky. It was always a fantasy, because of shit like this.
Wait until all the F-150s can accelerate from 0-60 in 2.5 seconds 😳
re: #147 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Wait until all the F-150s can accelerate from 0-60 in 2.5 seconds 😳
Neither here nor there…ok, actually here…but the biggest asshole drivers in my experience are usually behind the wheel of a Silverado or an F-150. There. I said it.
re: #145 jaunte
Took me a moment to realize that’s meant to be a vaccine swastika. At first I thought they were Uzis.
re: #149 Eclectic Cyborg
They seem confused on the whole flag concept, tbh.
re: #149 Eclectic Cyborg
Took me a moment to realize that’s meant to be a vaccine swastika. At first I thought they were Uzis.
I went through the same process. We were primed by the mention of the gun.
re: #149 Eclectic Cyborg
Took me a moment to realize that’s meant to be a vaccine swastika. At first I thought they were Uzis.
I wonder if they’d be more receptive if the syringes really did look like little Uzis…..
re: #147 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Wait until all the F-150s can accelerate from 0-60 in 2.5 seconds 😳
Still tipping the scales at 275#
— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) October 11, 2021
gaaaaaaaah
Lebanon is the only city in Ohio; Lebanon and Mason do not have abortion clinics within their city limits.https://t.co/S0sdJ2DXjN
— WCPO 9 (@WCPO) October 11, 2021
In addition to prohibiting a person from procuring or performing an abortion of any type and at any stage of pregnancy inside the city limits, the ordinance would also outlaw any person from providing transportation to or from an abortion provider; giving instructions over the telephone, the internet, or any other medium of communication regarding self-administered abortion; providing money with the knowledge that it will be used to pay for an abortion or the costs associated in obtaining an abortion; providing abortion doula services; or coercing or pressuring a pregnant mother to have an abortion against her will. It would also be unlawful for any person to possess or distribute abortion-inducing drugs in the city.
JFC, these people…
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
gaaaaaaaah
JFC, these people…
They’re making their move. The common wisdom has always been that actually outlawing abortion would destroy the Republican party, which we thought was why the politicians talked about it, but never actually did it. I hope that’s true, and having the inmates who don’t know better running the asylum today destroys the party.
You can see why. Handsome and talented. pic.twitter.com/j14rj6EecW
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) October 11, 2021
If the damn fools had bothered to take a second to google “gay” superman they would have quickly learned it was Lois & Clark’s son Jon Kent.
But, that would have meant not raise a spectacle within the right-wing rage bubble
This dog’s face when confronted by the evidence is hilarious and totally adorablehttps://t.co/YoJym2mzCh pic.twitter.com/5jGW3KkkiG
— The Poke (@ThePoke) October 11, 2021
Link here: https://t.co/Cwti5iXy6s
— Zach Wahls (@ZachWahls) October 11, 2021
SIOUX CITY JOURNAL: “Gov. Kim Reynolds has made it abundantly clear she’s not happy with the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill [i.e., the American Rescue Plan] that passed the U.S. House Saturday.”https://t.co/lH5ZDdeCUO
— Zach Wahls (@ZachWahls) October 11, 2021
Developed in Europe? The compass is Chinese, Trigonometry ( for Navigation) is Egyptian. All the calculations done would have used Arabic Numerals ( which are actually Indian). Also, they had guns, Gun Powder is Chinese.
— Brandon (@Amb8819) October 11, 2021
53,000+ dead Floridians dead under DeSantis watch as he fought against common sense health policies and what does he choose to focus on? Defending Columbus day. The governor is truly a toxic and stupid individual. https://t.co/bTxneZnqky
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) October 11, 2021
re: #163 sagehen
What a stoopid jerk Vance is. And he’s better than Josh Mandel, who is stoopid and has some screws loose besides.
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well Columbus did allow a bunch of people to get infected with a deadly disease and not give a shit, so I guess it kind of makes sense?
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re: #56 Jay C
Not that it really makes much of a difference at this point, but ISTR that Ferdinand and Isabella’s piss-off at Columbus had a lot less to do with that “abject cruelty” (as long as the victims of said cruelty were naked heathen “savages”, the 15th-Century Spanish were - with only a few exceptions - basically indifferent) than with monetary issues: old Chris was, IIRC, less than forthcoming with the loot they thought was due.. And also too quick to exercise the nepotism and cronyism the Royals wanted to preserve for themselves.
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
Well Columbus did allow a bunch of people to get infected with a deadly disease and not give a shit, so I guess it kind of makes sense?
/
Oh, it’s even worse: vox.com. The island of Hispaniola had an estimated 300k people when he arrived. His cruelty towards the people caused 50,000 of them to commit suicide rather than deal with his demands to dig for gold. 56 years after he got there, the island’s population was 500.
re: #68 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The Hoarse Whisperer@TheRealHoarse
I like to honor Columbus Day by walking into places that are already inhabited and announcing that I just discovered them. Then, if anyone complains, I give them small pox.
And they return the favor by giving you syphilis.
Ohio resident Alan Perkins has taken the 12 foot skeleton game to an entirely new level, building a MASSIVE skeleton bursting out of his home to grab the 12 footer like a toy. Apparently he’s still going to add a giant skull bursting through the roof. Just phenomenal work. pic.twitter.com/0aTEQhVWvu
— Rob SCARE-idan💀 (@rob_sheridan) October 11, 2021
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
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JFC, these people…
Blatant first amendment violation. You can’t ban people from talking about stuff the government says you can’t talk about.
Yippee, a murderer honoring a murderer pic.twitter.com/g6pymDhXVu
— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) October 11, 2021
There’s not much in this story, but the law firm which has represented the Southern Baptist Convention since 1965 has resigned. Last week, the SBC Executive Committee voted to waive privilege in the investigation over child sexual abuse (and oh, it was quite the divided vote).
“The decision (to waive privilege) causes us to carefully consider the prospect of moving forward as we try to represent the Executive Committee and the Convention in an alien environment,” wrote attorneys Jim Guenther and James Jordan.
I’m thinking the shit is about to hit the fan.
“haunted”…just in time for Halloween
President Biden has agreed to a request from Congress seeking sensitive information on the actions of Republican Donald Trump and his aides during the Jan. 6 insurrection. The move could come back to haunt Biden as well as future presidents. https://t.co/WljKkSrg3I
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 11, 2021
re: #54 Florida Panhandler
The “Country of Texas”… well… enjoy that little bit of freedom with…
1. No US Defense spending.
2. No Ft. Hood, no USAF bases, no Navy or Coast Guard.
3. A massive population of Mexican-Americans now under direct siege from the many entitled whites who feel they are now the chosen race and must dominate and diminish everyone else.
4. No US Welfare or any other massive amounts of funding to help a massive poor and near-poverty population. The ongoing myth of it’s “just blacks getting welfare” is about to hit the reality fan.
5. A Putin-style hybrid regime autocracy with white political and law enforcement domination of every city and county no matter the ethnic makeup of the area in question.
It’s coming.
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Texas wants to Texit?
How many border crossings would it take to move goods in and out of Texas?
It would be a boost to the port of New Orleans.
Brexit is working well for the UK.
re: #175 BeenHereAwhile
It’s almost as if those wacky Texans forget they LOST to Mexico at the Alamo.
re: #173 mmmirele
There’s not much in this story, but the law firm which has represented the Southern Baptist Convention since 1965 has resigned. Last week, the SBC Executive Committee voted to waive privilege in the investigation over child sexual abuse (and oh, it was quite the divided vote).
I’m thinking the shit is about to hit the fan.
Be curious to see whether waiving privilege reveals the lawyers making some spurious or outright illegal advice to their clients.
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
“haunted”…just in time for Halloween
I don’t doubt for a second the GOP will start investigating the fuck out of Biden the moment they regain power. See also: Benghazi and Hillary Clintons emails.
re: #175 BeenHereAwhile
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Texas wants to Texit?
How many border crossings would it take to move goods in and out of Texas?
It would be a boost to the port of New Orleans.
Brexit is working well for the UK.
Also, there’s plenty of companies with their headquarters in Texas who would promptly move the fuck out if secession happened. Also, no more FEMA relief for Hurricanes, power outages, etc.
Life is full of obstacles.. pic.twitter.com/IK7pImiWRy
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) October 11, 2021
Truth 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/19r8IK7yAW
— KeanoTheDog (@judgeyourself99) October 11, 2021
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
“haunted”…just in time for Halloween
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Executive Privileges is meant to stop the “the President needs to explain why he’s about to send helicopters into Pakistan” not “what did the president know about the break-in at Watergate.”
re: #182 Belafon
Executive Privileges is meant to stop the “the President needs to explain why he’s about to send helicopters into Pakistan” not “what did the president know about the break-in at Watergate.”
Executive privilege is also discretionary. The President can choose to exercise it, or not. Him choosing not to use it does not mean he waives executive privilege for everything else for all time.
re: #182 Belafon
Executive Privileges is meant to stop the “the President needs to explain why he’s about to send helicopters into Pakistan” not “what did the president know about the break-in at Watergate.”
It doesn’t even protect against “why did the president send helicopters into Pakistan?”
re: #184 Belafon
It doesn’t even protect against “why did the president send helicopters into Pakistan?”
Congress can’t also come back and say, “Well, President Biden waived executive privilege for his predecessor, so you have to waive it for your predecessor.” Nope - Congress doesn’t make the rules regarding executive privilege. It is an executive (it’s in the damn name!) power.
Got my flu shot today for the first time in probably 10 years…hey, they offered.
The lotteries’ annuity calculations are telling me that long term interest rates are rising.
I do wonder what will happen to the housing markets once interest rates for mortgages start to make serious up moves.
re: #111 jaunte
Superman’s sex problem remains the same, straight, gay or bi.
And in the throes of sexual ecstasy Superman would blow the top of Lois Lanes’ head off with his supersonic sperm and gut her like a trout.
Housing prices in San Diego County keep soaring. While the average price peaked in summer, dipped in August (month to month, though year to year was still severely rising) a bit, in September the prices kept going up.
Somewhere this housing bubble is going to snap. And I wonder what will happen to all those mortgage holders who bought over the last 1.5 years at prices 20-40% higher than 2018 prices.
re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The same thing that happened in 2008/2009?
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Gifts were practical: mother in law points out that Jesus used all three gifts post-crucifixion: gold to pay for the tomb and funeral expenses, frankincense to burn around the dead body, and myrrh to salve his beat down wounds
re: #188 austin_blue
And in the throes of sexual ecstasy Superman would blow the top of Lois Lanes’ head off with his supersonic sperm and gut her like a trout.
I’ve worried about that for 60+ years!
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
The last line of Dante’s Paradiso is: “The love that drives the Sun and other stars.” Our appreciation of medieval astronomy is pop ignorance.
re: #49 A Cranky One
Reminds me of my friend. He had a Teddy Ruxpin that he used as his boombox while prep cooking. Friend mostly had Teddy play punk. The kitchen staff was very amused.
NEW: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announces that he has issued an executive order that bans vaccine mandates “by any entity” in the state. https://t.co/p67gu84Bm6 pic.twitter.com/mQYSNyqsnp
— ABC News (@ABC) October 11, 2021
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
No it won’t haunt President Biden because he’s not a dangerous, racist crook like Trump.
re: #195 plansbandc
Reminds me of my friend. He had a Teddy Ruxpin that he used as his boombox while prep cooking. Friend mostly had Teddy play punk. The kitchen staff was very amused.
Ugh. When my kids had one of those Teddy Ruxpin toys my wife and I called it “Bearly Tolerable.”
ASSHOLE
I issued an Executive Order prohibiting vaccine mandates by ANY entity in Texas.
I also added the issue to the Special Session agenda.
The COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective, & our best defense against the virus, but should always remain voluntary & never forced. pic.twitter.com/8hHHLyebCk— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) October 11, 2021
re: #196 The Pie Overlord!
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The fucking moron still hasn’t a settled a single existing case against the entities he has already sued.
School Boards across the State have already told him to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
Food pron warning.
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— miles reed (@milesjreed) October 11, 2021
re: #200 austin_blue
The fucking moron still hasn’t a settled a single existing case against the entities he has already sued.
School Boards across the State have already told him to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
And what about businesses? Doesn’t this bar them from vaccine mandates?
re: #168 Belafon
Oh, it’s even worse: vox.com. The island of Hispaniola had an estimated 300k people when he arrived. His cruelty towards the people caused 50,000 of them to commit suicide rather than deal with his demands to dig for gold. 56 years after he got there, the island’s population was 500.
A good thread on that topic:
Happy Indigenous People’s Day! Please remember that Columbus landed in the Caribbean, and never set foot on the United States mainland. He interacted with the the Indigenous Kalinago and Taino, and we still exist! (Incoming thread 🧵👇🏾):
— Dr. Keisha Josephs (@iheartlang) October 11, 2021
— David Winter (@DavidWinterTV) October 11, 2021
A few pro life protesters line up opposite about 70 pro-choice demonstrators outside Mason City Hall, where City Council is preparing to vote whether to make Mason a Sanctuary City for the Unborn, making it illegal to get an abortion in Mason. #prolife #prochoice pic.twitter.com/6dK0T4eztc
— David Winter (@DavidWinterTV) October 11, 2021
re: #203 Hecuba’s daughter
And what about businesses? Doesn’t this bar them from vaccine mandates?
Sure! Why not? He’s as dumb as a box of hammers to begin with.
So let’s dictate that Exxon, United Airlines, American Airlines, SW Airlines, Temple Inland, Whole Foods, Dell Computer, HP, Texas Instruments, HEB, and Baylor Scott and White, and St. David’s Healthcare can’t decrease their fiduciary risk by requiring Vaxes for anyone medically able to get one.
And why stop there? Why not require that companies *require* that any one who has been Vaxed have their blood cleansed so that everyone in the Great State doesn’t have any Gate’s microchips or Soros nanos coursing through their veins.
Texas!
Fuck Yeah!
re: #199 The Pie Overlord!
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So by “any entity”, is he including employers? ‘Cause it sorta seems like Texas would be the type to let businesses do whatever they want on their own premises.
re: #207 sagehen
It sounds like Texas wants to include everyone up to the Feds.
re: #207 sagehen
So by “any entity”, is he including employers? ‘Cause it sorta seems like Texas would be the type to let businesses do whatever they want on their own premises.
Yep. Remember, he tried to prohibit private businesses from requiring masks or a vaccine “passport” to enter. He’s just expanding it to employment as well. And as usual, he’ll fail. Hell, even Idaho’s Gov has the brains (but no spine) to know. this.
re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg
The same thing that happened in 2008/2009?
Unknown.
While housing sales in the pandemic have been relatively slow, the collapse of the inventory count has meant housing prices have gone through the roof.
Many people buying at these inflated prices, if they have mortgages, will be upside down if there is a housing market collapse.
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Reference the plane crash in SD today, back my ATC days in Vegas, a single engine plane had to make an emergency landing on a road right by the airport. The plane managed to land safely, but clipped an SUV, and during the interview process, the SUV driver got popped for a DUI. Talk about dumb luck. Not a horrific as the UPS driver, but the odds must me astronomical.
#ImageOfTheDay #ErupciónLaPalma #LaPalma
In recent days, part of the volcanic cone formed during the eruption of #CumbraVieja has collapsed, opening up new roads for the lava@CopernicusEMS is continuing to monitor the events
⬇️#Sentinel2🇪🇺🛰️image of the lava flow on 10 Oct. pic.twitter.com/jEx1jhRMl5— 🇪🇺 DG DEFIS #StrongerTogether (@defis_eu) October 11, 2021
Incredible footage shows lava flowing from La Palma volcano - three weeks after the first eruptions pic.twitter.com/Dr1OarIL6e
— The Sun (@TheSun) October 11, 2021
re: #199 The Pie Overlord!
Fuck you, Hot Wheels.
re: #215 Dread Pirate Ron
I associate volcanoes with the end of the world because I saw this Doctor Who episode as a kid.
re: #214 EstebanTornado1963
Reference the plane crash in SD today, back my ATC days in Vegas, a single engine plane had to make an emergency landing on a road right by the airport. The plane managed to land safely, but clipped an SUV, and during the interview process, the SUV driver got popped for a DUI. Talk about dumb luck. Not a horrific as the UPS driver, but the odds must me astronomical.
Odds? I’d have assumed every SUV driver in Vegas is over the legal alcohol limit.
Marckalada: The First Mention of America in the Mediterranean Area (c. 1340)
The Cronica universalis written by the Milanese friar Galvaneus Flamma (it. Galvano Fiamma, d. c. 1345) contains an astonishing reference to a terra que dicitur Marckalada, situated west from Greenland. This land is recognizable as the Markland mentioned by some Icelandic sources and identified by scholars as some part of the Atlantic coast of North America. Galvaneus’s reference, probably derived by oral sources heard in Genoa, is the first mention of the American continent in the Mediterranean region, and gives evidence of the circulation (out of the Nordic area and 150 years before Columbus) of narratives about lands beyond Greenland.
I’ve always suspected that Columbus had knowledge, or at least a strong suspicion, of lands to the west much closer than Japan. Markland was one of the 3 lands described in the various sagas as having been visited by the Norse beginning in the 10th century. Scholars have usually identified it with Labrador. The Norse settlements in Greenland remained in contact with Iceland until 1410. The western lands would have been common knowledge in Greenland even if they hadn’t been visited in a couple of centuries. By 1410, though, the Greenland settlements themselves had faded to almost nothing because of a colder climate and counter-immigration back to Europe. The latter had increased significantly after the Black Death suddenly made a lot more farm land available in Scandinavia. Whether Columbus had an inkling of lands much further south than those is problematical, but he did steer doggedly due west rather than northwest toward the lands described in the sagas.
68,000 Texas have died from Covid on Abbott’s watch.
More will die as he prevents employers from protecting customers and employees.
Abbott is killing the people of Texas. https://t.co/gIxf055deI— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 12, 2021
re: #222 jaunte
Yes, and Trump crowed about the high number of deaths under Biden, when it’s the victims of Republican propaganda refusing to vaccinate and dying. The Republican party is deeply-sick.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 12, 2021
Happy Indigenous Peoples day. pic.twitter.com/ottuF5vwV9
— Bear Clan Bitch ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ (@TheCourtRules) October 11, 2021
BREAKING: Donald Trump digs up Ashli Babbitt for political photo op.#WeekendAtAshlis pic.twitter.com/BdcoIcqwWm
— Paul Lee Teeks (@PaulLeeTeeks) October 11, 2021
Trumporrhoids:
Super weird. pic.twitter.com/GQhT4Xkv2O
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) October 12, 2021
re: #226 The Pie Overlord!
Trumporrhoids:
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From the same Xtians who have beatified Asshole Ashli Babbit.
Today’s word I wish would stop existing: “influencer.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2021
It’s just a bad word from every angle.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2021
when i see someone described as an influencer it’s almost always some motherfucker with absolutely no influence on me
it’s such a bullshit description
this word is ugly and it wants to die— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2021
Well look who finally surfaces!
It’s the #1 Coup Plotter himself Ali Alexander!
Ali Alexander Responds to House Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena, Blames Violence on ‘Agitators’
And just who was doing the agitating there, Ali?
re: #220 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Marckalada: The First Mention of America in the Mediterranean Area (c. 1340)
I’ve always suspected that Columbus had knowledge, or at least a strong suspicion, of lands to the west much closer than Japan. Markland was one of the 3 lands described in the various sagas as having been visited by the Norse beginning in the 10th century. Scholars have usually identified it with Labrador. The Norse settlements in Greenland remained in contact with Iceland until 1410. The western lands would have been common knowledge in Greenland even if they hadn’t been visited in a couple of centuries. By 1410, though, the Greenland settlements themselves had faded to almost nothing because of a colder climate and counter-immigration back to Europe. The latter had increased significantly after the Black Death suddenly made a lot more farm land available in Scandinavia. Whether Columbus had an inkling of lands much further south than those is problematical, but he did steer doggedly due west rather than northwest toward the lands described in the sagas.
Someone — I think Thor Heyerdahl — wrote an essay developing that thesis lo these many years ago. The argument was that no-one would sail west because we’ve known since Eratosthenes how big the earth is and the crew of a ship sailing west would starve before they reached China/the Indies. Columbus, having heard of new world settlements (which would of course be north of China, etc., since no-one knew anything about another continent), decided that the distance must be much less than everyone thought, and finally found someone who would listen to his arguments and finance the voyage.
Outstanding pic.twitter.com/mDjtPLrAqJ
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) October 12, 2021
This is a crazy crazy crazy guest and the fact that tucker is having him on is not great
pic.twitter.com/v5ahJNKAJN— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 12, 2021
re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t doubt for a second the GOP will start investigating the fuck out of Biden the moment they regain power. See also: Benghazi and Hillary Clintons emails.
Biden will tell them to f*ck off. Obama and HRC couldn’t really do that because they didn’t want to come across as the angry black man or hysterical woman.
Happy Indigenous People’s Day to you, sir!
Dude in Orange County has a meltdown after being kicked out for groping a server pic.twitter.com/RmPU2Fo9X2
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) October 11, 2021
re: #130 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I have Niven’s Laws, a hardcover I picked up at a convention in the 80’s, and had thought was rare. It’s $80 at collector sites, but I could get another copy in collectable condition for $24 via Amazon.
My most prized possession is a bootleg Dalek Master Plan book I printed back when I worked as a pressman in a print shop and ran a Doctor Who fan club, that’s signed by Nick Courtney. He made his first Doctor Who appearance in that episode as another character before he was cast as Lethbridge-Stewart.
I doubt that a dozen copies of the book still exist, and with the autograph, It’s one of a kind.
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Oooh, that’s definitely a prized souvenir! I was pure-D lucky enough to meet Nick Courtney at several cons in the 80’s — favorite memory is watching him messing about on the stage at Red Rocks, trying to see how far he could project his voice without a microphone. What actor could resist?
What Doctor Who fan club did you run? I was founder/prez of the Unofficial Harry Sullivan Fan Club back in the day.
“You want to grab a bite with us?”
“Is Josh coming?”
“Yeah.”
“Then no.” pic.twitter.com/JsOAeEpSAb— Grant Brisbee (@GrantBrisbee) October 10, 2021
maybe the tigers are trying to tell us something
“Even the grounds of Chandrapur’s coal-fired thermal power plant have been overrun by tigers, eight of which have now moved in among the surrounding lush vegetation”
https://t.co/Gk91oKn2Ka— Burrito Justice (@burritojustice) October 12, 2021
Make no mistake: the republican party is the COVID party. https://t.co/brGvjniZHw
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) October 12, 2021
uncritical support for whatever this is pic.twitter.com/JGTq45UIqi
— Join Acorn 📣✊ (@Georgina666_) October 10, 2021
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hell, Aquinas in the 1200’s uses a round earth as a basic axiom in one of this theological theorems. I remember randomly stumbling across that and being rather surprised that it was used in very matter-of-fact manner.
re: #211 Dangerman
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Spinach lasagna with mozz and gruyere
This is what I call stuffed pepper sauce.
re: #245 JOE 🥓
And in New York…it’s Pastrami Queen!
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Pastrami has to be sliced razor-thin or it’s not fit to put on a sandwich.
Raiders Coach Jon Gruden Resigns After Racist, Misogynistic & Homophobic Comments He Made While At ESPN Surface https://t.co/6o4CbKJrEq
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 12, 2021
re: #238 CleverToad
Oooh, that’s definitely a prized souvenir! I was pure-D lucky enough to meet Nick Courtney at several cons in the 80’s — favorite memory is watching him messing about on the stage at Red Rocks, trying to see how far he could project his voice without a microphone. What actor could resist?
What Doctor Who fan club did you run? I was founder/prez of the Unofficial Harry Sullivan Fan Club back in the day.
I love the Harry/Sarah episodes. I watched Ark in Space about a week ago.
We were called The Third Zone, meeting mostly in Lombard and Des Plaines, IL. I probably still have a newsletter or two lying around.
The name is an obscure Doctor Who reference, because Doctor Who was our main show, but we didn’t want to sound obviously Doctor Who specific, since we were showing other British SF like Blake’s 7, Star Cops, Hitchhikers, Sapphire and Steel, etc…
At our peak, we had a PAL TV and VCR paid for via dues, to show tapes from England that we had traded American shows on tape for, and to make camera copies to NTSC, which were horrible. PAL looked beautiful to eyes that had only seen NTSC, but it did give me migraines because the frame-rate is too low and CRTs flicker.
What we have now is so much better. It’s a lot easier for fans today. No shipping tapes, and digital HD video plays everywhere.
re: #247 The Pie Overlord!
Pastrami has to be sliced razor-thin or it’s not fit to put on a sandwich.
Depends on the cook, maybe? LOL!
re: #248 KingKenrod
Wow, a Hat Trick of offenses.
re: #228 Charles Johnson
Righteous rant on “influencer”…
“If we do not challenge critical race theory, young Mississippians will grow up indoctrinated to believe that America’s material achievements have been gained through exploitation.” https://t.co/BjbdVGjR9z
— Lee Sanderlin (@LeeOSanderlin) October 11, 2021
It’s fascinating that while the media treats the GOP attitude toward vaccinating people against @COVID19 as “mixed” or something, EVERY SINGLE GOP fundraising pitch I get now is anti-vaccine. The press pretends they’re reasonable while they literally raise money off mass suicide. pic.twitter.com/N9bOWIMDDV
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 11, 2021
When your enemy is committing mass suicide, let them.
re: #249 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I love the Harry/Sarah episodes. I watched Ark in Space about a week ago.
We were called The Third Zone, meeting mostly in Lombard and Des Plaines, IL. I probably still have a newsletter or two lying around.
The name is an obscure Doctor Who reference, because Doctor Who was our main show, but we didn’t want to sound obviously Doctor Who specific, since we were showing other British SF like Blake’s 7, Star Cops, Hitchhikers, Sapphire and Steel, etc…
At our peak, we had a PAL TV and VCR paid for via dues, to show tapes from England that we had traded American shows on tape for, and to make camera copies to NTSC, which were horrible. PAL looked beautiful to eyes that had only seen NTSC, but it did give me migraines because the frame-rate is too low and CRTs flicker.
What we have now is so much better. It’s a lot easier for fans today. No shipping tapes, and digital HD video plays everywhere.
Sounds like fun! Yeah, I remember those 12th-gen copies of a VCR tape, vague images flickering through the haze. But when it was all you could get… Still remember finally getting our hands on the Harry/Sarah episodes without the gawdawful American intros.
re: #249 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Elisabeth Sladen, RIP.
Tom Baker was my Doctor.
And I watched Blake’s 7, Star Cops and the rest.
re: #257 CleverToad
Sounds like fun! Yeah, I remember those 12th-gen copies of a VCR tape, vague images flickering through the haze. But when it was all you could get… Still remember finally getting our hands on the Harry/Sarah episodes without the gawdawful American intros.
I’d still hear the Lionheart intros in my head when watching the later releases for many years.
Classic walk off sac fly.
NOT DONE YET! pic.twitter.com/IAP4DBwRqD
— Red Sox (@RedSox) October 12, 2021
Opinion | Jon Gruden, who I do not support, taught me more about Cover 2 than all other football announcers combined.
by Glenn Greenwald— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 12, 2021
Blade of Racism gives you +5 racism but -10 Charisma. Really not worth it, ultimately https://t.co/oVL82UP5S9
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) October 12, 2021
re: #256 Dread Pirate Ron
When your enemy is committing mass suicide, let them.
Unfortunately they are killing others too — children who cannot yet be vaccinated, those with impaired immune systems that may suffer from breakthrough infections, or other innocent victims like Lorine Carol Kaylor, the intellectually disabled woman described downstairs. These monsters are also uniformly anti-mask.
re: #234 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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She Who Must Be Obeyed plays with Chris Cross’s drummer, little Tommy Taylor (see Eric Johnson’s “Cliffs of Dover” with Roscoe Beck on bass). Also, Chris Cross’s bassist, Andy Salman.
It’s a tight knit group of professional musicians here in Austin.
re: #220 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Marckalada: The First Mention of America in the Mediterranean Area (c. 1340)
I’ve always suspected that Columbus had knowledge, or at least a strong suspicion, of lands to the west much closer than Japan. Markland was one of the 3 lands described in the various sagas as having been visited by the Norse beginning in the 10th century. Scholars have usually identified it with Labrador. The Norse settlements in Greenland remained in contact with Iceland until 1410. The western lands would have been common knowledge in Greenland even if they hadn’t been visited in a couple of centuries. By 1410, though, the Greenland settlements themselves had faded to almost nothing because of a colder climate and counter-immigration back to Europe. The latter had increased significantly after the Black Death suddenly made a lot more farm land available in Scandinavia. Whether Columbus had an inkling of lands much further south than those is problematical, but he did steer doggedly due west rather than northwest toward the lands described in the sagas.
I recall reading a bio of Columbus many years back, where they noted that - unlike most Genoese navigators, who mainly stuck to the Mediterranean/Black Sea regions - old Chris was thought to have actually made one voyage to (?England ?Ireland ?Iceland) where he was likely to have gotten first-hand information about navigational issues in the North Atlantic: particularly the sea routes to the rich fishing grounds of the Grand Banks (already well-known even in Columbus’s day: for European mariners, about the limit of long-haul fishing voyages), and that that info might have firmed up his belief that there was a continental landmass somewhere “over there” to the West: though whether he sincerely believed it to be “Asia” or not (or just tried convince himself and his backers that it was) is an open (and probably unanswerable) question.
re: #263 Hecuba’s daughter
Yeah but we can just write it off as collateral damage just like we do when we bomb weddings.//
I agree with you, but I’m looking at the reality of living in America. It will be what it will be.
re: #196 The Pie Overlord!
Good luck finding employees.
re: #254 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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Bad news: They were.
Mitigating news: So were all others.
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