Who was behind the Capitol insurrection? Will Trump run in 2024? Has he actually been president this whole year? Jordan Klepper heads to his first Trump rally since January 6th to find out. #DailyShow #JordanKlepper
So 3 years ago my daily driver failed and we’ve been a one car home since. My wife hates this as she has to cart me to work. Well, her campaign of terror against me has paid off and we went and picked out a new car (rav4 hybrid). The sales guy said the car is stuck at the port and gave me December 28 th as a delivery date.
Gorgeous day on the slope. Yes, slope singular, there is one run to ski.
1 Arapahoe Basin pic.twitter.com/HmauureGbd
— ballfootski (@ballfootski) October 18, 2021
Skied for 2 1/2 hours. Half the time on alpine skis half the time on the freeheel setup.
First time alpine *then* freeheel skiing in one day. pic.twitter.com/PQbMCS11pZ
— ballfootski (@ballfootski) October 18, 2021
re: #1 Amory Blaine
So 3 years ago my daily driver failed and we’ve been a one car home since. My wife hates this as she has to cart me to work. Well, her campaign of terror against me has paid off and we went and picked out a new car (rav4 hybrid). The sales guy said the car is stuck at the port and gave me December 28 th as a delivery date.
I’m picking up my new car tomorrow. It was built in Louisville.
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
I’m picking up my new car tomorrow. It was built in Louisville.
I thought the trim I got was from Canada, but I guess not unless they floated it out to LA.
My last new car (2007 Toyota sienna) was built in Kentucky. I have 200k plus miles on it and I will do to it what I do to all my vehicles, drive it into the dirt from whence it came.
Trump came to New York today.
So happy I got to speak to him. pic.twitter.com/hIJEgOt4od— Walter Masterson (@waltermasterson) October 18, 2021
Just say you want a civil war you fucking cowards. pic.twitter.com/WUJIDzfJOa
— ballfootski (@ballfootski) October 19, 2021
Just realized it was 2 years ago today that naked pictures of me were shared with the world. And what a couple of years it’s been.
But thanks to my family and friends, I’m still here, and I know the best is still ahead. ❤️— Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) October 18, 2021
Tom Morey, the creator of the Boogie Board and an influential figure in the surfing world, has died due to complications from a stroke, according to his family. He was 86. https://t.co/3nWfBMv4WN
— CNN (@CNN) October 19, 2021
Plus I “quit” smoking,2 weeks now. I’m on the gum but getting fucking sick of chewing gum all the time so I’m on like 4 pieces a day now.
If you read each line by line (Liar Pothead, etc.) you get a very specific list of sinners
That’s quite a list there. pic.twitter.com/cZjIOf7SIA
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) October 19, 2021
Narcissists gonna narcissist
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) October 19, 2021
re: #14 The Pie Overlord!
If that was a lottery ticket I’d be a billionaire! What do I win?
re: #12 Amory Blaine
It’s hard. I quit almost 20 yrs ago after an oral cancer scare, but it took awhile before I didn’t want a cigarette anymore. My best advice is don’t give yourself shit too badly if you have a smoke. Just start over and quit again. Every cig not smoked is a victory.
re: #7 DodgerFan1988
That was pretty satisfying.
re: #17 A Mom Anon
This is my third time. I quit for ten, then for 14 years. I knew, when I put that first cig in my mouth 3 years ago I’d be back, but I’m stuck on stupid I guess.
re: #12 Amory Blaine
I used a vape whatchyamathingy to quit. Gradually reduced nicotine levels to zero, until I was essentially pretending to smoke. 12 years now since my last cigarette. And 11 years since the vape. This might not be the way for everyone but for this former 3 pack a day guy, it was. Hang in there.
Why does it end up that “remotely heterodox, irreverent or based in any kind of anti-establishment ethos” just means anti-Semitic, pseudo-fascist lunatic 99% of the time?
If you want open fascism in the public square, maybe you should just say that. https://t.co/BxmmbzE50B— MALARKEY HAS FALLEN (@Alex__Katz) October 18, 2021
I quit smoking tobacco for six years. Until about June 2020. Just out of sheer boredom. I smoke about four filtered kretek cigarettes a day. Last month I went almost five days then I caved. Nicotine, it’s a motherfucker.
re: #17 A Mom Anon
It’s hard. I quit almost 20 yrs ago after an oral cancer scare, but it took awhile before I didn’t want a cigarette anymore. My best advice is don’t give yourself shit too badly if you have a smoke. Just start over and quit again. Every cig not smoked is a victory.
Feb 2020 I thought I bit my right cheek and it was tender. Didn’t think anything of it. the lump was always there. A week later went to my dentist for deep cleaning, the hygienist took a look and got my Dentist to look. She finished the cleaning, Dentist came back and said I was going to the Kaiser emergency room right NOW.
Turned out it was cancer of the salivary gland and the oncologist said if I waited another week it would have spread into my lymph nodes.
They cut out the mass and had me go thru a course of radiation therapy. Learned the hard way that smoking 2 packs of Kools or Newports a day for 20 years almost killed me.
re: #21 The Pie Overlord!
Virtually on a daily basis accounts that are remotely heterodox, irreverent or based in any kind of anti-establishment ethos are zapped from existence by unseen social media overlords with no explanation or transparency.
Dont like em?
Don’t use em.
Who’s forcing you?
Or build your own
re: #153 Targetpractice
IOW, by Christmas the backlog will likely be back to manageable levels, by which point the media will have been led by the nose to another GQP-manufactured “scandal.”
That reminds me - Alexa, add bran cereal!
Boston 11 Astros 3 top of the 8th
GRAND SLAM KYLE SCHWARBER!!! pic.twitter.com/k8EVeGBMjQ
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 19, 2021
tempted to buy this because it is funny to me pic.twitter.com/v7HcDTPkxz
— Starfish Who Just Wants To Grill (@IRHotTakes) October 17, 2021
Love it so much how when it’s time to tax the rich, 400k per year is firmly lower middle class but when it’s time to help people 60k per year is wealthy https://t.co/uYqqjolAB0
— Ross A. Lincoln (@Rossalincoln) October 18, 2021
“Who are you?”
“I am the ship captain.”
“You’re telling me a black man is the ship captain?”
“Me? Black?! Are you saying a black man could steal a ship of the Confederate States Navy? Sounds like DAMN YANKEE TALK to me.”— Starfish Who Just Wants To Grill (@IRHotTakes) October 18, 2021
We told you it was good to be home!
FINAL: #RedSox 12, Astros 3#KeepDancing pic.twitter.com/UQoRW2XXLi— Red Sox (@RedSox) October 19, 2021
re: #19 Amory Blaine
Dude started at 8 years old (!) He smoked for decades, then quit for 7 years. Then he started again and smoked for another 20 years. He had a heart attack, was in the hospital, and soon as he got out he smoked a cigarette. I figured he would die smoking.
Then a miracle happened and he just quit cold turkey. Going on 6 years. He won’t smoke again.
I tried quitting once, didn’t take, then after two decades of smoking I quit for good. Just got done with it. 10 plus years now. I will never smoke anything again.
Quitting is a process, but when you truly break through, it’s awesome. And food tastes and smells SO good. So that’s good and bad. But it is so nice not to be hooked anymore.
re: #33 plansbandc
My dad was the same way. Started as a kid, really got hooked hard in the army in WW2. Quit and started a number of times, once stopped for several years.
Then suddenly he was able to stop cold turkey and that was it. Stayed off for decades, the rest of his life.
Dennis Prager claims he deliberately sought to catch Covid in order to get immunity from Covid. He is either lying or insane.
Dennis Prager announces he has COVID-19 while ranting against vaccines and declaring that he was trying to get infected
https://t.co/z12VuK3Wrw pic.twitter.com/0OP0Ge2aYi— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) October 18, 2021
My Uncle smoked 4 packs a day. He was dead at 37. I never knew him. There’s a pic of him holding me as an infant.
re: #8 teleskiguy
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The Sunday column of Stephen Chapman of the Chicago Tribune also took the position that we are so fractured that a dissolution may be the only outcome. But there is no comparison to the last time states tried to depart; most larger states have large population of those on either side of the divide; it’s not as though there is a contiguous territory that can easily be partitioned. California was the state with the largest number of Trump voters in the nation; Florida had the second largest number of Biden voters and Texas the third. There is no way for an amicable partition — and I have no doubt that Putin, with the assistance of his toady Trump, is behind this effort to destroy our nation. He never forgave us for the dissolution of the Soviet Union and he is working assiduously at bring the same end to the United States, but this will have a far more violent outcome.
There’s sort of a big fight in Washington that you may have heard about. It’s about whether we spend ~$62T over a decade or ~$60T
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) October 18, 2021
re: #37 GlutenFreeJesus
My Uncle smoked 4 packs a day. He was dead at 37. I never knew him. There’s a pic of him holding me as an infant.
Same with my sister. Minimum 4 packs a day. Died alone at home just before she turned 50. Hubby and daughter were out. No one knew it was coming.
She was the kind who would stir up trouble against her siblings if dad wouldn’t give her money. I’d occasionally get angry calls from dad asking me why I’m so rotten after he’d talked with her.
Oops pic.twitter.com/7d15BliIqz
— Red State Prisoner (@Samble16) October 19, 2021
Good
— Paulina (@TrefaultPaulina) October 19, 2021
re: #12 Amory Blaine
Plus I “quit” smoking,2 weeks now. I’m on the gum but getting fucking sick of chewing gum all the time so I’m on like 4 pieces a day now.
Maybe try the patch? My mom was, up until early 2019 (? was it 2019, or was it 2018) a two pack a day woman. Her doctor put her on Chantix**, which actually helped her to cut down a lot, but she REALLY didn’t like the mental effects, so she stopped taking it. I remember being hugely disappointed that she would go back to smoking, but she surprised the HELL out of me and my brother. He was put in charge of doling out and changing her patches, and over a few months, she was completely off cigs (but not before smoking every damn butt she could find in the house, garage, etc., down to the nub). It’s been over two years (maybe over three?). I do remember telling my brother how relieved I was she had quit when Covid became a thing in 2020.
**Currently unavailable and on recall for a different reason (high levels of nitrosamines, which can cause cancer). Mom had previously tried Zyban (buproprion) as a cessation aid, which wigged me out, because I’ve been taking Wellbutrin (also buproprion) for depression since the late 1990s. But it didn’t work for her.
— ballfootski (@ballfootski) October 19, 2021
So, the guy that did this, was a legend in Little Cottonwood Canyon…
— 𝕎𝕒𝕤𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕊𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 (@WasatchSnow) October 18, 2021
He passed away. ☹️
Our hearts are heavy with the passing of David Van Dame—The Farmer.
Alta will not be the same place without you. You taught us all how to love every moment in the mountains, how to live a life worth living, with a focus on simple pleasures not material things.Donning your faded red jacket, wool-knit hat and Pocket Rocket skis, you showed us how to effortlessly ski deep powder for 48 years at Alta.
You have inspired our entire mountain community with your calming demeanor, unwavering voice and gentile smile—almost always obscured beneath your frosty ice beard.
Thank you for spending your days farming snow in the upper reaches of Little Cottonwood. We will forever save a spot for you on the Wildcat double chair.
You know why the MAGAts are now talking “divorce” and “balkanization”? Because they tried “revolution” and found out that not only did millions of “patriots” fail to show up in DC to “take back” the country, but there was no mass mutiny in the ranks of the Armed Forces to throw in their lot with the few thousand peckerheads that bothered to show up. All their years of fantasizing about how they’d throw out the “tyrants” and replace them with “real Americans” collapsed into a puddle of piss. Worse, they’ve seen the poll numbers and realized that their Charge of the Light Beer Brigade failed to move public sentiment in their favor.
So now they’re talking as though the choices are between “civil war” or letting them walk away cleanly, when the reality is that they have neither the numbers nor the support to ever be anything more than domestic terrorists. And even that’s a stretch, as we watch all these brave “patriots” blubber and whine before judges about how they were just “tourists” who got lost in the Capital Building, swept along by the crowd that they totally weren’t there to support. All because they lost an election that the majority of America agrees was legit.
re: #50 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Fermilab’s educational channel posted a video yesterday using a different format, to teach about neutrinos, but what makes the video is the crawl at the bottom. It includes both the best and worst of physics jokes:
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You have to watch it twice if you want to read the scroll.
The thing that has stuck out to me about the processing and sentencing of all those Meal Team 6 wannabes for their 1/6 exploits is not the light sentences that people have focused on, it’s how many of them are moaning about how their lives have been “ruined.” The ones who’ve lost jobs, others who’ve become social pariahs, or become estranged from their families to the point that some got turned in by relatives. The “populist revolution” has turned out to be anything but and the cost of a few hours of slinging shit against the walls of the Capital Building has been ruined lives and reputations.
Fun fact: When MacKenzie Scott divorced her husband Jeff Bezos in 2019 she walked away with about $35 billion. She’s given about $10 billion to charity from then until now. Today she’s worth $57 billion due to a 4% stake in Amazon. She can’t give her money away fast enough.
— ballfootski (@ballfootski) October 18, 2021
Hey, we want our violence doubled
(No, but really in a loving way)
Hey, we want our violence doubled
(No, but really want it right away)
Taking my friend, @RepAnnaWilliams on her first #ebike ride last Friday pic.twitter.com/EbzxgrIQFx
— Megan Ramey (@BIKABOUT) October 19, 2021
#NowPlaying The Black Hollies > Crimson Reflections > Crimson Reflections Through Looking Glass Mind https://t.co/USNVsGUxRh
— ballfootski (@ballfootski) October 19, 2021
hi
More Republican corruption, this time from my state.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [NE-1] expects to be indicted for lying to FBI but says charge is false (Omaha World-Herald, four hours ago)
His wife is calling this a political attack.
LINCOLN — Rep. Jeff Fortenberry expects the federal government to charge him with lying to the FBI during its investigation of campaign contributions funneled to him from a Nigerian billionaire.
The nine-term Republican from Lincoln said he is being wrongly accused.
“We will fight these charges. I did not lie to them,” Fortenberry said in a videotaped statement obtained Monday by The World-Herald. “This is wrong on so many levels.”
Knowingly making false statements to a federal agent is a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. A source familiar with the investigation said an indictment could come down as early as Tuesday.
The anticipated indictment grew out of an FBI investigation, launched in California during the Trump administration, regarding $180,000 in illegal “conduit” campaign contributions from Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent. The contributions, funneled through a group of Californians from 2012 through 2016, went to four U.S. politicians, including $30,200 to Fortenberry in 2016 and $10,000 to then-Rep. Lee Terry, who represented the Omaha area, in 2014.
Fortenberry apparently isn’t in trouble for receiving the contributions; his campaign has said he was unaware that the money came from Chagoury. Instead, the congressman faces prosecution because of what he told or did not tell agents during their investigation into Chagoury’s scheme.
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In extremely local news, two items:
a) I WON THE LOTTO!
Twenty dollars and two free tickets
b) We went into the county seat for grocery shopping, which we’re trying to do as little as possible because of the absolute ignorance of the pandemic in the Nebraska Panhandle.
Because the state shut down all testing, the few places which can do tests have moved to provide free tests in the Panhandle. Three of them are Scottsbluff/Gering (the only Walgreens and a hospital and a community health centre), and one is in Chadron (the hospital there).
My wife and I were the only people wearing masks in the store. The checkout clerk noted she isn’t seeing us often now (that’s because of the nonchalance over Covid-19 safety here) and wondered why we would do over $500 shopping in one go. She also says she remembers us as the biggest sale she ever did as a cashier ($680).
It’s kind of pointless to note we’re not going out over the whole Panhandle ignoring health safety.
For the week ending October 10, Panhandle Public Heath District’s Dashboard shows a positivity rate of 10.2%, down from the week before at 17.8%. All Panhandle counties meet the CDC criteria for “high” transmission rate. The case rate is 233/100,000.
re: #8 teleskiguy
“Boogaloo”, “National Divorce”, even MAGA carries tones of casting off whatever does not fit their definition of Great and American…
Same old Sedition.
The American position is trying to collect taxes from American military personnel violates the Status of Forces Agreement. The German position is it’s in line with German law.
German tax collectors in Bavaria get in on the act of going after American base personnel (Stars & Stripes)
STUTTGART, Germany — A U.S. military family in Bavaria is being targeted by German tax investigators, possibly signaling an expansion of a controversial tax collection operation to a state where tens of thousands of Americans are based.
Earlier this month, Sandra Johnson, a German with a U.S. green card, opened her mail to find a letter from the Ansbach finance office demanding information about her husband, a Defense Department civilian.
The questionnaire, which resembled those that have been sent to active-duty military and other DOD personnel based some 160 miles away near Ramstein Air Base, was the first known to have been issued to a military family in Bavaria.
Tax officials wanted to know how long the Johnsons had been in Germany, and they sought proof that the family intended to leave in the future.
The tax office also told Johnson she needed to hand over her husband’s U.S. tax records for inspection. She said the stress is unbelievable.
“And you are basically left to deal with it by yourself,” she added.
Such questionnaires have been used to collect information and eventually open formal tax cases against American military members.
The stakes for families locked in such disputes have been high: threats of imprisonment and property confiscation, yearslong court fights and six-figure tax bills.
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re: #19 Amory Blaine
No, it is just hard, really hard to completely walk away from them. It too a cancer scare for me as well to finally give them up. It was also my third time quitting. That was 17 years ago. Hang in there and don’t beat yourself up if you backslide a bit.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You won ten times as much as I ever have.
re: #19 Amory Blaine
This is my third time. I quit for ten, then for 14 years. I knew, when I put that first cig in my mouth 3 years ago I’d be back, but I’m stuck on stupid I guess.
I quit for nine years during my homeless era, for part of that aided by the VA with Habitrol (prescription) nicotine patches (over-the-counter patches use some sort of glue which causes my skin to break out in a rash).
At the point I fled Omaha for my mother’s home due to “friends” I was staying with diverting my child support payments to themselves and sticking me with a $5,000 cell phone bill in my name, I took up smoking again.
re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You won ten times as much as I ever have.
Well, you do have to buy a ticket (or be given one, or find one).
Rich, but not so rich that they declare residency in the income tax shelter that is Wyoming like @GovRicketts’s billionaire Nebraskan father did https://t.co/82xaLJ92sO
— Senator Megan Haunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) October 19, 2021
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, you do have to buy a ticket (or be given one, or find one).
I was just standing in line at a convenience store in Tucson and suddenly felt lucky, so I bought a lottery ticket for a buck and won two dollars. Which I immediately invested in two more (losing) tickets. I shoulda held on to those two dollars and waited until I had that feeling again…
Why not change it to “The Good Life is Calling All Heteros” @GovRicketts
— Senator Megan Haunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) October 19, 2021
A very in-depth article about the history of meth and how it is currently a scourge for the homeless, and soon to be homeless. Definitely worth a read. It is the Atlantic, and you are limited on articles, unless you are a subscriber.
Hundreds of those bags contained a substance neither Bozenko nor Toske had ever thought could be used to make P2P. Bozenko often consulted a book that outlined chemicals that might serve as precursors to making methamphetamine, but this particular substance wasn’t in it. Well-trained organic chemists were clearly improvising new ways to make the ingredients, expanding potential supply even further.
Working through all the chemicals in the plant, by Bozenko’s estimation, the lab could have produced 900 metric tons of methamphetamine. Against a wall stood three 1,000-liter reactors, two stories tall.
Nothing like this had been achieved with ephedrine, nor could it have been; no one could have imagined the accumulation of 900 metric tons of the chemical. Later, Mexican investigators would report that of the 16 workers arrested at the Querétaro lab, 14 died over the next six months from liver failure—presumably caused by exposure to chemicals at the lab.Methamphetamine was having a cultural moment in the U.S.—“meth mouth” had become an object of can’t-look-away fascination on the internet, and Breaking Bad was big. The switch from ephedrine-based labs to ones using the P2P method was even a plot point in the series. But few people outside the DEA really understood the consequences of this shift. Soon, tons of P2P meth were moving north, without any letup, and the price of meth collapsed. But there was more to the story than higher volume. Ephedrine meth tended to damage people gradually, over years. With the switchover to P2P meth, that damage seemed to accelerate, especially damage to the brain.
update: I am still reading the article, but what stands out is that the new meth is even more toxic to the brain, and instead of wasting away usually over a period of months or years, not weeks. That current meth use goes hand in hand with the increase use of fentanyl. Scary stuff.
and lastly:
The spread of P2P meth is part of a larger narrative—a shift in drug supply from plant-based drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin to synthetic drugs, which can be made anywhere, quickly, cheaply, and year-round. Underground chemists are continually seeking to develop more potent and addictive varieties of them. The use of mind-altering substances by humans is age-old, but we have entered a new era.
Lincoln, Nebr. Journal-Star opinion on our new gerrymandered Unicameral districts:
Sen. Rob Clements introduced himself to his new Lancaster County constituents last week in deeply troubling fashion, signing on to a letter calling for a 50-state audit of the 2020 presidential election results.
The Elmwood Republican, who was gerrymandered into representing eastern Lancaster County, including a slice of east Lincoln, justified his decision to join legislators from other states by saying that his constituents had raised concerns about election security.
That, Senator, would be some of your constituents.
As Nebraska Democratic Party chairwoman Jane Kleeb pointed out: “I know Sen. Clements mostly discusses issues with rural voters, but since he has been gerrymandered into Lancaster County, he might want to consider there are voters who are both Democrats and Republicans.”
The remainder of Clements’ reasoning for joining the effort to undermine the 2020 election is disingenuous at best.
“I’m not wanting to disqualify President Biden,” he told the Omaha World-Herald. In fact, the letter is aimed at just that.
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Editorial, 10/14: Election audit? Gerrymander’s Lincoln impact getting clearer
re: #69 Shropshire Slasher
A very in-depth article about the history of meth and how it is currently a scourge for the homeless, and soon to be homeless. Definitely worth a read. It is the Atlantic, and you are limited on articles, unless you are a subscriber.
I remember as a college freshman in the 70’s that a chemistry grad student told me he could turn out amphetamines by the bucketful if he had access to the university lab equipment.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The city of Lincoln was cracked into six rural Unicameral districts, meaning in the next election it is likely the Democrats who represent the city and suburbs will be replaced with all rural Republican senators.
Omaha did not gain a state Unicameral district as the Census indicated it should, as my own state senator essentially argued land should be represented over people. Gerrymandering ensured rural Nebraska would retain a district it should lose under state law.
In my district, more conservative areas were added to the district, along with the more liberal city of Alliance to dilute the voting power of Alliance voters.
DPRK News Service responds to a perversion of pizza:
Decadent west surrenders to public displays of masochism, and related perversions. https://t.co/NN4jk7BBqy
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 18, 2021
How to find Kentucky on the map pic.twitter.com/O1jJQ8IbuG
— Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) October 17, 2021
Under interrogation, Marxist millionaire Elmer J. Sanders admits to owning a Manchin and a yacht. pic.twitter.com/7Qj6ZP9GpY
— Free Belarus News (Eng.) (@BelarusMiniInfo) October 18, 2021
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Manchinurian candidate
Safi Rauf, who immigrated from a refugee camp in Pakistan in 2010, formed a Nebraska corporation, “Human First,” to aid efforts in evacuating those trapped in Afghanistan. So far, Human First has helped evacuate 6,700 people. https://t.co/JjSNaSr74s
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) October 19, 2021
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Last week, Rauf’s organization helped arrange the escape of an Afghan man who had served as an interpreter for American forces, including once for then-U.S. Sen. Joe Biden in 2008.
The interpreter, Aman Khalili, had helped rescue a group of American dignitaries, which along with Biden included then-U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska after their helicopter was forced to land in a blinding snowstorm in a mountainous area crawling with Taliban.
Khalili helped guide rescuers to their mountaintop location, Hagel said, as fighter jets kept the enemy at bay.
COVID Update: The loss of Colin Powell to complications from COVID provides an overpowering lesson: get vaccinated. 3 million people with compromised immune systems depend on you. 1/
— Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 (@ASlavitt) October 18, 2021
Manchin: “I’m the worst.”
Sinema: “No, I’M the worst.”
M: “No, I’M the worst.”
S: “Ok, fine you’re the worst.”
…
M: “No, YOU’RE the worst.” https://t.co/aRoGndOL9p— 🎃Imani Gandy Corn🎃 (@AngryBlackLady) October 19, 2021
It’s come to my attention thanks to @crampell that the Manchin proposal would make grandparents raising kids orphaned by COVID, opioids, or what have you take jobs to earn the child tax credit — and now, I just want to throw things. https://t.co/Sv1dJ1cY8h
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) October 19, 2021
EVERYONE seems to be out on the road this morning in East DFW.
We’re still in a pandemic so super large gatherings and plane travel is still not recommended — but the vaccines do make gatherings of immediate family much safer than it was last year. Use those rapid tests too.
— abdullah s pumpkins (@AShihipar) October 19, 2021
On Sept 20, the US #Covid death toll was 675,400.
Today it stands at 726,149.
That’s an increase of more than 50,000 deaths in a month.
A month when the country was awash with unclaimed vaccine doses.
Future peoples will struggle to understand this. pic.twitter.com/XKi2cOpYQw— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 19, 2021
re: #87 Belafon
Committing suicide by Covid-19 to own the libs.
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
More Republican corruption, this time from my state.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [NE-1] expects to be indicted for lying to FBI but says charge is false (Omaha World-Herald, four hours ago)
His wife is calling this a political attack.
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??? What? There are real Nigerian billionaires who give people money?? It’s not all a scam? Did Fortenberry give him his PAC checking account number?
re: #29 Belafon
I wonder if Krager knows about this
What’s happening in #Russia?Reported cases have exceeded 8 million, more than 5% of the population, and the daily case toll hit a new record, @AP reports. https://t.co/UFLH7st4aH
— Global Health Strategies (@GHS) October 18, 2021
One of Russia’s most popular newspapers this morning: “Russia is losing the war on Covid.” #ReadingRussia @BBCNews @BBCWorld https://t.co/BqJHO2Vbwn pic.twitter.com/mJS1MtjKAo
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) October 19, 2021
Off topic, but I woke up to the good news this morning that the relief funds are going to pay us back for more than a year’s worth of rent ($11,000) from one of our tenants! Working with the state and the other tenants! 🤗 What a relief, for all of us.
I think i see who should become new police officers:
the streets and san guys know what’s up https://t.co/CMGAZFgnMr
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) October 19, 2021
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The NHL has suspended San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane for 21 games for submitting a fake COVID-19 vaccination card.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 18, 2021
TFG issues a statement on Colin Powell. It’s in spoiler tags because it is just what you would expect from TFG.
Trump on Colin Powell: “He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!” pic.twitter.com/2dPUXi7xRH
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) October 19, 2021
re: #94 Belafon
I’m surprised he isn’t gone for the season.
re: #89 Hecuba’s daughter
??? What? There are real Nigerian billionaires who give people money?? It’s not all a scam? Did Fortenberry give him his PAC checking account number?
According to the FBI complaint, said billionaire did it the old fashioned way.
At an event in California, he just handed him the money.
re: #95 The Pie Overlord!
TFG issues a statement on Colin Powell. It’s in spoiler tags because it is just what you would expect from TFG.
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Wow. That guy is a fucking asshole. What a shitty thing to say.
Good mornin’ Wyoming & Nebraska! Did anyone else catch this beautiful sunrise? #WYwx #NEwx #NEroad pic.twitter.com/jhtpArvDPM
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) October 18, 2021
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Given the chance to be gracious about someone’s death, or say nothing at all, Trump takes a decidedly different route pic.twitter.com/HMgFAiiRcK
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 19, 2021
Also, did I call it or did I call it? I said he’d issue one of these stupid press releases to shit on General Powell, and that his Twitter mouthpieces would take it and run with it. And I wasn’t wrong.
re: #95 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #2 teleskiguy
Gorgeous day on the slope. Yes, slope singular, there is one run to ski.
Heavy snow predicted for the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming today. I don’t know if you go skiing there, but things seem to be looking good for that.
Weather Prediction Center Probabilistic Winter Prediction Guidance Maps
re: #100 Dangerman
You know TFG’s handlers were cringing at that Powell statement trying desperately (to no avail) to convince him not to issue it.
This country, in no way shape or form, can survive another 4 years of this utter crapfest of a human occupying the White House.
re: #100 Dangerman
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My hope is that when he finally departs this earth — and may it be sooner rather than later — may the obituaries treat him like the vile treasonous trash he is. Unfortunately, they will probably be polite, instead of honest
I’m beginning to think that a significant number of LEOs, as evidenced by their refusal to vax, may be sympathetic to Trumpism if not entirely ideologically aligned (is there really an ideology, though?)
re: #109 Barefoot Grin
I’m beginning to think that a significant number of LEOs, as evidenced by their refusal to vax, may be sympathetic to Trumpism if not entirely ideologically aligned (is there really an ideology, though?)
Have we started getting numbers on how many cops are actually quitting?
re: #98 Dopamine Fish
Wow. That guy is a fucking asshole. What a shitty thing to say.
Saying shitty things is his trademark.
re: #109 Barefoot Grin
I’m beginning to think that a significant number of LEOs, as evidenced by their refusal to vax, may be sympathetic to Trumpism if not entirely ideologically aligned (is there really an ideology, though?)
The ideology here is “I am the authority. I am an asshole. Fuck you and your feelings.”
I read on the local news that the FDA is expected to approve mixing and matching vaccines for booster shots this week. Provided I didn’t wind up coming down with the plague (which I am still believing I did not), I am headed straight for a Moderna booster, if I can get one.
re: #109 Barefoot Grin
I’m beginning to think that a significant number of LEOs, as evidenced by their refusal to vax, may be sympathetic to Trumpism if not entirely ideologically aligned (is there really an ideology, though?)
Getting them out of the ranks is a side benefit of the vaccine policy.
re: #112 gwangung
The ideology here is “I am the authority. I am an asshole. Fuck you and your feelings.”
That sounds like many cops, and it sounds like Trump, so that would be 100% ideological alignment.
re: #110 Dopamine Fish
Have we started getting numbers on how many cops are actually quitting?
I am sure they believe that there is safety in numbers and that if a large number stand together, they cannot be forced out. I am totally confident that police departments are infested with white supremacists who support the January 6 insurrection. We will see if this nation can survive this dark period or if we finally have reached our end.
re: #98 Dopamine Fish
Shitty? Yes. Thoroughly predictable? Also yes.
re: #110 Dopamine Fish
Have we started getting numbers on how many cops are actually quitting?
Yeah, I wonder about the actual numbers too. I just don’t see too many of them giving up that job.
Social media allows complete idiots to easily organize and become a menace.
Protesters in London crowded around a car and blocked the road leading to Downing Street, the location of the British prime minister’s residence, on Monday evening, with some shouting “arrest Bill Gates” and holding anti-vaccination placards.
‘Arrest Bill Gates’ Protesters Swarm Car Before Microsoft Founder Attends Private Dinner (Newsweek via MSN)
re: #118 The Squire of Logos
Yeah, I wonder about the actual numbers too. I just don’t see too many of them giving up that job.
It would appear that about 20% of the Chicago police have not turned over their vaccination status by the deadline. Chicago said they would furlough or fire police if they did not.
Twitter wags seem to be in agreement: Good.
re: #118 The Squire of Logos
Yeah, I wonder about the actual numbers too. I just don’t see too many of them giving up that job.
Where would they go? Wingnut private security companies that give their clients COVID?
This is some fucked up dumbassery, right here:
We must put an end to the demonization of the unvaccinated.
Americans shouldn’t be discriminated against because of their personal beliefs.— Rep. Madison Cawthorn (@RepCawthorn) October 19, 2021
re: #113 Dopamine Fish
I read on the local news that the FDA is expected to approve mixing and matching vaccines for booster shots this week. Provided I didn’t wind up coming down with the plague (which I am still believing I did not), I am headed straight for a Moderna booster, if I can get one.
I was listening to the nightly news a few days ago in the background. Admittedly not very intently. I swore I heard them saying that if you got J&J, either of the mRNA vaccines would be great as a booster.
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It would appear that about 20% of the Chicago police have not turned over their vaccination status by the deadline. Chicago said they would furlough or fire police if they did not.
Twitter wags seem to be in agreement: Good.
20% is a lot higher than most other places, but much lower than the 50% they threatened. That seems to speak to the apparent predilection for police officers to be wingnuts.
re: #123 GlutenFreeJesus
I was listening to the nightly news a few days ago in the background. Admittedly not very intently. I swore I heard them saying that if you got J&J, either of the mRNA vaccines would be great as a booster.
Yes, there was a study (admittedly small and not very long-term, but still valid) that indicated that the mRNA vaccines would be better as a booster for J&J-vaccinated folks than the J&J booster itself.
This looks like suicide by cop.
VIDEO: Florida teenager fatally shot by police while pointing airsoft rifle at passing cars (NY Daily News via MSN)
man, ever come across somebody you went to high school with and just say, “god damn, what happened to him?” Perfectly nice brother of a friend, a couple years older than me, who’s just wandering around with no front teeth. I mean literally just nothing apparently in the front half. We both inhabited comfortable middle-class environments growing up, so I know something really tragic had to have happened for this guy to be wandering around like that: meth addiction?
re: #122 The Pie Overlord!
This is some fucked up dumbassery, right here:
What a massive dumbass. Failing to vaccinate is a personal failure, not a belief.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 19, 2021
re: #122 The Pie Overlord!
This is some fucked up dumbassery, right here:
Hey, Madison. You can fix that by getting a vaccine. Your personal beliefs mean diddly to a virus. Your beliefs are a choice.
Or you could become a featured guest on Sorry Antivaxxer.
re: #121 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Where would they go? Wingnut private security companies that give their clients COVID?
Let 100 of em compete for the two job openings on the overnight shift
Okay, something is running around on top of the suspended ceiling in my living room.
Lemme go get my shotgun … should be able to hit it from where I’m sitting. /s
That felt so good 😂 pic.twitter.com/ZsCh1J2R2G
— Jonathan Webers (@JWeber988) October 17, 2021
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Okay, something is running around on top of the suspended ceiling in my living room.
Lemme go get my shotgun … should be able to hit it from where I’m sitting. /s
Mrs. Fish declared war on the fly population yesterday, after we had to open the doors on Sunday to clear out smoke from searing meat and the flies decided this was a perfect opportunity to join us. The score is currently 9-1 her vs. me in the killing fields of the fishbowl.
Jesus H. Christ, but these people are so goddamned STUPID.
Just found a new (to me) phrase being used to describe those who have had Covid: “earned immunity.” Credit where due, that’s @FrankLuntz worthy branding.
Which means that it’s dangerous and nonsensical virtue posturing, but also exactly what you expect from today’s Republicans. https://t.co/ZqZgWmLD9r— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) October 19, 2021
Via the Seattle Times, yesterday:
Nick Rolovich came to Washington State as a fun-loving coach, known nationally for his off-the-wall antics and an ability to win.
After less than two years and only 11 games, Rolovich has been fired, and will be known nationally as one of the highest-profile terminations for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Washington State athletic director Pat Chun said WSU had “initiated the separation process” with Rolovich and four of his assistant coaches for not complying with the state mandate that all state employees be fully vaccinated by Monday.
Defensive coordinator Jake Dickert has been named acting head coach.
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Well, kiss that $3.2 million a year job good-bye. And good luck getting hired by another university.
90% of Washington’s state employees are verified as vaccinated.
Like most states, he was the highest-paid state employee as a football coach.
re: #107 Hecuba’s daughter
My hope is that when he finally departs this earth — and may it be sooner rather than later — may the obituaries treat him like the vile treasonous trash he is. Unfortunately, they will probably be polite, instead of honest
The most unbelievable part of that is that he waited to the second sentence to talk about himself.
re: #95 The Pie Overlord!
TFG issues a statement on Colin Powell. It’s in spoiler tags because it is just what you would expect from TFG.
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*SPIT* They’re going to have to bury him in secret just to keep his grave from being desecrated.
Bannon’s contempt hearing is this evening at 7:30 ET.
c-span.org
Best comment I read so far
Powell was born with two strikes and hit a grand slam with his life. Trump was born on third base and got tagged out at second.
re: #135 Dopamine Fish
Jesus H. Christ, but these people are so goddamned STUPID.
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This is like saying I “earned immunity” from death because I survived a car accident in which I sustained serious injuries due to not wearing a seatbelt.
re: #128 steve_davis
man, ever come across somebody you went to high school with and just say, “god damn, what happened to him?” Perfectly nice brother of a friend, a couple years older than me, who’s just wandering around with no front teeth. I mean literally just nothing apparently in the front half. We both inhabited comfortable middle-class environments growing up, so I know something really tragic had to have happened for this guy to be wandering around like that: meth addiction?
Tell me about it. 365 of us were in the 1973 graduating class of my high school. Now thanks to the usual suspects PLUS others like HIV, booze, meth and opioids only 43 are alive. Probably more will be gone by the time the 50th reunion comes around which I have no intention of going to based on seeing the Trump lust folks back home are obsessed with.
re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg
This is like saying I “earned immunity” from death because I survived a car accident in which I sustained serious injuries.
Right? But it’s not even just that. The quoted tweet regarding Dim Jim Inhofe’s statement on the Department of Defense’s vaccine mandate is just completely divorced from reality. Mandating vaccines makes our military MORE prepared, Jimmy boy, not LESS.
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It would appear that about 20% of the Chicago police have not turned over their vaccination status by the deadline. Chicago said they would furlough or fire police if they did not.
Twitter wags seem to be in agreement: Good.
And I can assure you a lot more than 20% of CPD are dirty.
The Texas ten year-old who’s mother was given the choice of amputating all four of his gangrenous limbs with a 25% survival or refuse with a 0% chance of survival, has died.
The mother believes her son caught the virus at school.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told the Washington Post that he hid in a storage closet with other Republican senators during the January 6 insurrection.
Totally necessary to cower and hide when a bunch of peaceful tourists come to visit
re: #113 Dopamine Fish
I read on the local news that the FDA is expected to approve mixing and matching vaccines for booster shots this week. Provided I didn’t wind up coming down with the plague (which I am still believing I did not), I am headed straight for a Moderna booster, if I can get one.
Same. It can’t come soon enough for me.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Texas ten year-old who’s mother was given the choice of amputating all four of his gangrenous limbs with a 25% survival or refuse with a 0% chance of survival, has died.
The mother believes her son caught the virus at school.
Abbot gets another score on his kill card.
re: #135 Dopamine Fish
Nothing screams “readiness” more than a military being decimated by a highly contagious and deadly virus. Even Washington knew better.
re: #122 The Pie Overlord!
This is some fucked up dumbassery, right here:
Nah. If anything they need to be publicly shunned nightly on the local news. Your personal beliefs to be a plague rat spreading a highly contagious and deadly disease needs to be shown for what it is. A disregard for your fellow mans life and health.
— Michele: Out of the closet. Into the fire (@michele_out) October 19, 2021
re: #152 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
One thing that bugs me is that they’re trying to put “personal beliefs” into a protected class. That’s not how discrimination works, numbnuts. You can discriminate against the mentally ill, but it’s not discrimination if I tell someone they’re stupid because they believe the sky is yellow. I might be an asshole, but it’s not discrimination.
re: #134 Dopamine Fish
Mrs. Fish declared war on the fly population yesterday, after we had to open the doors on Sunday to clear out smoke from searing meat and the flies decided this was a perfect opportunity to join us. The score is currently 9-1 her vs. me in the killing fields of the fishbowl.
I killed seven with one blow.
re: #152 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
This liar is all over Rep. Cawthorne’s tweet, lying about vaccinations and disease spread. Twitterati should report him.
Except we’re not talking polo. You have ADD or something? Tell how The unvaccinated kill others, especially when, and pay attention to this, THE VACCINES DO NOT STOP THE SPREAD!!! THAT’S the science you are choosing to ignore you insipid liar.
— martymfla (@martymfla) October 19, 2021
re: #153 Dopamine Fish
One thing that bugs me is that they’re trying to put “personal beliefs” into a protected class. That’s not how discrimination works, numbnuts. You can discriminate against the mentally ill, but it’s not discrimination if I tell someone they’re stupid because they believe the sky is yellow. I might be an asshole, but it’s not discrimination.
Montana passed a law putting unvaccinated people into their state civil rights law as a protected class. A business, employer, even a homeowner can no longer prohibit people without masks or vaccines.
re: #143 Dopamine Fish
Right? But it’s not even just that. The quoted tweet regarding Dim Jim Inhofe’s statement on the Department of Defense’s vaccine mandate is just completely divorced from reality. Mandating vaccines makes our military MORE prepared, Jimmy boy, not LESS.
Is he too reactionary to understand that unvaccinated troops are a gift to any enemy? I’m so tired of Republicans trying to rationalize their own childish contrarianism.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 19, 2021
re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Montana passed a law putting unvaccinated people into their state civil rights law as a protected class. A business, employer, even a homeowner can no longer prohibit people without masks or vaccines.
Death cult.
re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Montana passed a law putting unvaccinated people into their state civil rights law as a protected class. A business, employer, even a homeowner can no longer prohibit people without masks or vaccines.
It is physically painful to me to live in a time and a place where people are so WILLFULLY FUCKING STUPID.
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This liar is all over Rep. Cawthorne’s tweet, lying about vaccinations and disease spread. Twitterati should report him.
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re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Texas ten year-old who’s mother was given the choice of amputating all four of his gangrenous limbs with a 25% survival or refuse with a 0% chance of survival, has died.
The mother believes her son caught the virus at school.
Greg Abbatoir strikes again.
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This liar is all over Rep. Cawthorne’s tweet, lying about vaccinations and disease spread. Twitterati should report him.
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re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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People with extremely limited minds are insulting people who can think. It’s fine that some people are stupid. It’s the stupid people who pretend to be smart that are the problem, and Republican propaganda encouraged that.
That’s what the childish contrarians who refuse to vaccinate tell themselves to try to not feel like monsters, but vaccination reduces the spread. You’re thinking in black and white, like a lot of right-wingers do.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 19, 2021
Also serving authentic refreshments like salt pork, hardtack (weevils optional), and a variety of grog cocktails.
Perched in the upper deck ‘hump’ of the first Qantas Boeing 747s, the Captain Cook first class inflight lounge/bar is colourful blast from the shagadelic past https://t.co/ZUIldXOhCP #aviation #avgeek pic.twitter.com/f2Zqqw29Kh
— Executive Traveller (@Exec_Traveller) October 19, 2021
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Texas ten year-old who’s mother was given the choice of amputating all four of his gangrenous limbs with a 25% survival or refuse with a 0% chance of survival, has died.
The mother believes her son caught the virus at school.
That is in poor taste. Leave the kid and mom alone.
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It would appear that about 20% of the Chicago police have not turned over their vaccination status by the deadline. Chicago said they would furlough or fire police if they did not.
Twitter wags seem to be in agreement: Good.
If the Chicago cops quit, where will we find change for a $20 bill?
re: #146 Dangerman
Totally necessary to cower and hide when a bunch of peaceful tourists come to visit
He must have thought there were Alabama fans in that crowd.
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Who’s we? The cranks are spreading COVID a lot more than vaccinated people do, and they’re filling up hospitals, causing other preventable deaths. It’s so simple that even a black and white thinker like you should be able to understand.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 19, 2021
re: #153 Dopamine Fish
One thing that bugs me is that they’re trying to put “personal beliefs” into a protected class. That’s not how discrimination works, numbnuts. You can discriminate against the mentally ill, but it’s not discrimination if I tell someone they’re stupid because they believe the sky is yellow. I might be an asshole, but it’s not discrimination.
He’s really upset not about Covid but that he’d get discrimination (blowback) for speaking the racist garbage that he really wants to spout. (And that he was used to be able to spout freely in small groups of acquaintances.)
re: #164 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #152 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
That little fart isn’t content with killing 700,000+ people. He wants to get the kills up to over a million.
re: #128 steve_davis
Or lack of money for dental health. I went without dental care for over a decade and lost all my bottom molars because the amalgam fillings I had pulled away from the teeth and allowed bacteria in which causes abscesses and tooth decay. Dental insurance is a joke if you need anything major done. No matter how good the insurance is. He likely had a choice of expensive work done or just pull the teeth. I was lucky not to lose any front teeth, but I am without insurance for dental again because none of the dentists near me will now accept that plan. And then there’s waiting periods for care too. So yeah, it could be meth, or just lack of money and access.
re: #173 A Mom Anon
Or lack of money for dental health. I went without dental care for over a decade and lost all my bottom molars because the amalgam fillings I had pulled away from the teeth and allowed bacteria in which causes abscesses and tooth decay. Dental insurance is a joke if you need anything major done. No matter how good the insurance is. He likely had a choice of expensive work done or just pull the teeth. I was lucky not to lose any front teeth, but I am without insurance for dental again because none of the dentists near me will now accept that plan. And then there’s waiting periods for care too. So yeah, it could be meth, or just lack of money and access.
Memories of when Dad’s Union finally negotiated a dental insurance plan. It actually covered 90% of the cost of the work. The first day of coverage Dad got an appointment with a participating dentist with excellent ratings. I spent 5 hours in the dentist chair getting fillings removed and crowns prepared. Dad’s copay— $80
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Texas ten year-old who’s mother was given the choice of amputating all four of his gangrenous limbs with a 25% survival or refuse with a 0% chance of survival, has died.
The mother believes her son caught the virus at school.
There’s probably a significant percentage of, if only he didn’t live in Texas, in this sad story.
re: #176 Semper Fi
There’s probably a significant percentage of, if only he didn’t live in Texas, in this sad story.
Being in a state led by a death cult was literally a risk to life and limb for that poor kid.
Well, Karma caught up with the ass who defended Killer Zimmerman!
Attorney who represented George Zimmerman arrested on solicitation to commit perjury charges
Hal Uhrig, known for representing George Zimmerman, was charged with solicitation to commit perjury and tampering with or harassing a witness, victim or informant, according to authorities, third-degree and capital felonies respectively.
According to Florida statute 914.22, witness tampering is considered a third-degree felony unless “the official investigation or official proceeding affected (by the tampering) involves the investigation or prosecution of a life or capital felony.” This elevates witness tampering to a capital felony punishable by a life sentence.
Deputies said the incident occurred several years ago during a case when Uhrig represented a man charged with raping a child. He held a meeting in his office involving his client, the accused rapist, the victim and the victim’s father.
“The point of the meeting was to keep the rapist from going to jail,” Sheriff Marco Lopez said. “The attorney instructed the victim and her father that they should do three things. Write a declination, basically a letter, to the state attorney saying the rape didn’t happen, avoid being served with a subpoena so you don’t have to go to court to testify (and) lie during your deposition and say the rape didn’t happen.”
re: #179 Dopamine Fish
Or at least act stupid.
You have to claim to believe a lot of things that are not true, lies that undermine the nation, and lead dumbasses to an agonizing death.
re: #180 JOE 🥓
Well, Karma caught up with the ass who defended Killer Zimmerman!
Attorney who represented George Zimmerman arrested on solicitation to commit perjury charges
Hal Uhrig, known for representing George Zimmerman, was charged with solicitation to commit perjury and tampering with or harassing a witness, victim or informant, according to authorities, third-degree and capital felonies respectively.
According to Florida statute 914.22, witness tampering is considered a third-degree felony unless “the official investigation or official proceeding affected (by the tampering) involves the investigation or prosecution of a life or capital felony.” This elevates witness tampering to a capital felony punishable by a life sentence.
Deputies said the incident occurred several years ago during a case when Uhrig represented a man charged with raping a child. He held a meeting in his office involving his client, the accused rapist, the victim and the victim’s father.
“The point of the meeting was to keep the rapist from going to jail,” Sheriff Marco Lopez said. “The attorney instructed the victim and her father that they should do three things. Write a declination, basically a letter, to the state attorney saying the rape didn’t happen, avoid being served with a subpoena so you don’t have to go to court to testify (and) lie during your deposition and say the rape didn’t happen.”
Zimmerman deserved defense because everyone does. This is just about a monster who tried to help a rapist.
re: #151 GlutenFreeJesus
Nothing screams “readiness” more than a military being decimated by a highly contagious and deadly virus. Even Washington knew better.
Until WW2, the biggest killer of military personnel in every war was disease. Vaccinations ended that.
re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Bannon’s contempt hearing is this evening at 7:30 ET.
c-span.org
It should be very short. He’s already made it clear that he is not going to participate or cooperate. Ditto other Trumpists. Hold them in contempt and send the Sheriffs to arrest their defiant behinds.
re: #182 Punish Domestic Terrorists
A conscientious attorney would have counseled him to plead guilty and negotiate a lesser penalty. He was guilty as hell.
re: #184 Patricia Kayden
It should be very short. He’s already made it clear that he is not going to participate or cooperate. Ditto other Trumpists. Hold them in contempt and send the Sheriffs to arrest their defiant behinds.
That will increase his conservative creds as a “political prisoner” and persecuted martyr to the cause
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That’s okay.
re: #168 Punish Domestic Terrorists
He’s still going after you. Looking at that guy’s account, he’s a real crank. He needs to be mass-flagged off Twitter for spreading lies about disease and vaccines.
As the FBI conducts a search of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s home, here’s some background on his foreign agents in the U.S. https://t.co/w6EzMgpiCY@4corners’ “Putin’s Angels”episode has some more up-to-date info on his influence operations as well https://t.co/EniZ7w5TiR https://t.co/feCUW8dn8V
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) October 19, 2021
re: #188 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He’s still going after you. Looking at that guy’s account, he’s a real crank. He needs to be mass-flagged off Twitter for spreading lies about disease and vaccines.
That’s a pretty big waste of the idiot’s time, since I’ll never see it.
Just picked up the new car.
New car smell! @LincolnMotorCo pic.twitter.com/Lj0aLV6XT7
— Liddle Pecan Pie 🌈🍁🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) October 19, 2021
Jan. 6 committee chair Thompson: “The only basis for your request is yesterday’s filing of litigation by Trump… no grounds exist for any ‘adjournment’ or other delay and your request is denied.
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) October 19, 2021
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My phone said it was @fred_ckelly calling, and when a journalism heavyweight like Fred Clasen-Kelly calls — you answer. I always pick up when Fred phones me.
— William Ramsey (@wmramsey) October 19, 2021
re: #190 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s a pretty big waste of the idiot’s time, since I’ll never see it.
The thing is they always demand you provide proof of your statement while never providing proof of their obvious lie. They are the worst of the worst that twitter has to offer
re: #191 The Pie Overlord!
Just picked up the new car.
Driving to NY or FL should be no problem in that baby.
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
You may remember Oleg and his aluminum company Rusal from our Braidy Industries coverage https://t.co/vKdSWBpuon
— Joe Sonkenstein 😐 (@joesonka) October 19, 2021
He’s been a police officer since 1996. Repeated bad behavior for 25-years. They just kept suspending him. In no other line of work can you be this this bad at your job and still keep it… https://t.co/6OLPUzo4iO
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 19, 2021
A South Carolina judge has denied bond for attorney Alex Murdaugh on the second set of charges he has faced since finding his wife and son dead last June. The judge issued the decision after attorneys described how Murdaugh used some insurance payments. https://t.co/GhHDY8pvWT
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 19, 2021
re: #164 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Also serving authentic refreshments like salt pork, hardtack (weevils optional), and a variety of grog cocktails.
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And Bosun Bugrum standing by with his cat-o-nine-tails to deal with any complaints from passengers….
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That will increase his conservative creds as a “political prisoner” and persecuted martyr to the cause
I can live with that. Keep tossing his ass into the clink until he either testifies or the Commission expires.
re: #191 The Pie Overlord!
Just picked up the new car.
Curious about Lincoln. Are they still made locally? I think the plant was at Livernois/Warren in Detroit.
re: #200 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I can live with that. Keep tossing his ass into the clink until he either testifies or the Commission expires.
Give him time to write Mein Bannonkampf
re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth
“In no other line of work can you be this bad at your job and still keep it.”
Well, unless you’re the bosses nephew, or something.
As the FBI raids Deripaska’s house today, recall his role in Russiagate and his sweetheart relationship with Mitch McConnell.
Zero tolerance for treason. https://t.co/O1OJyxtDEU— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) October 19, 2021
Remember McConnell is up to his moobs in this shit too.
re: #195 Semper Fi
Driving to NY or FL should be no problem in that baby.
It has the parallel-park assist!
re: #135 Dopamine Fish
Jesus H. Christ, but these people are so goddamned STUPID.
“And you still haven’t earned as much as someone who got the vaccine.”
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Give him time to write Mein Bannonkampf
Only if the withdraw symptoms don’t screw him up even more than he already is.
re: #163 Punish Domestic Terrorists
“Occasionally, people get injured when their gun misfires so we obviously should just be allowed to fire our AR-15’s indiscriminately since people are going to die anyway.”
re: #207 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Only if the withdraw symptoms don’t screw him up even more than he already is.
Just waiting for Bannon’s liver to finally say it’s had enough and it goes on strike.
re: #207 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Only if the withdraw symptoms don’t screw him up even more than he already is.
That’s what I was thinking. The DT’s will get him.
re: #201 Semper Fi
Curious about Lincoln. Are they still made locally? I think the plant was at Livernois/Warren in Detroit.
The Lincoln Corsair is built in Louisville.
Both-siderist media will have to balance this with footage of Bannon and MTG fleeing to wherever with federal marshals in pursuit. Little hope chance of the marshals actually shooting at them though.
Watch the moment a North Korean soldier defected to the South Korea pic.twitter.com/LzA7inntUc
— ًً (@someknew) October 18, 2021
re: #212 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Wow!! I’m glad he’s recovering and free.
Flu shot scheduled. Sure do wish I could get my booster at the same time. Come CDC, get off your butts and approve the booster for J&J vaxed people. :-(
re: #191 The Pie Overlord!
Just picked up the new car.
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I went to the web site of our local Ford/Lincoln dealer and they do not have any new Lincolns on the lot. They have 3 2018 used models that I suspect are Lease returns.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When the Taliban swept into power, they found Afghanistan’s economy fast approaching the brink and were faced with harrowing predictions of growing poverty and hunger. So they ordered the financial managers of the collapsed former government back to work, with an urgent directive: Do your jobs, because we can’t.In the 20 years since the Taliban last ruled, Afghanistan evolved from an economy dealing mostly in illicit enterprise to a sophisticated, multi-billion-dollar system fueled by donor aid and international trade. The Taliban, a movement borne out of the rural clergy, struggled to grasp the extent of the transformation.
The economy on the brink, Taliban rely on former technocrats (AP News)
re: #216 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Maybe they didn’t think things through as well as they should have.
re: #212 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Both-siderist media will have to balance this with footage of Bannon and MTG fleeing to wherever with federal marshals in pursuit. Little
hopechance of the marshals actually shooting at them though.
In both cases I’m sure it would be a very short pursuit.
— cynthia ladd (@psocialbuterfly) October 19, 2021
So Paul Kellogg has published a book that Trump can praise without having read it, in contrast to all the other books that he has criticized and condemned without reading them?
It is getting massive praise over at newsmax and all four Amazon reviews I encountered were nothing but glowing praise (I assume they are from Jared, Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric)
re: #55 teleskiguy
Hey, we want our violence doubled
(No, but really in a loving way)
Hey, we want our violence doubled
(No, but really want it right away)
Marat, we’re poor
And the poor stay poor
Marat, don’t make us wait any more
We want our rights and we don’t care how
We want a revolution now
Marat/Sade
re: #216 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The economy on the brink, Taliban rely on former technocrats (AP News)
Someone should convince them that they have a lot of precious minerals they could sell, but they can’t do it if they are going to oppress women.
re: #217 Eclectic Cyborg
Maybe they didn’t think things through as well as they should have.
They didn’t, just like our own religious Conservatives.
Right-wing assholes are a menace everywhere.
Poles overwhelmingly support being part of the EU, opinion polls suggest, but Poland’s right-wing nationalist government has increasingly been at odds with the union on issues ranging from LGBT rights to judicial independence.
Polish PM accuses EU of blackmail as row over rule of law escalates (BBC)
re: #226 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Right-wing assholes are a menace everywhere.
Polish PM accuses EU of blackmail as row over rule of law escalates (BBC)
Assholes Upset That They Cannot Enjoy all the Benefits of the EU with None of the Obligations
re: #215 jeffreyw
I went to the web site of our local Ford/Lincoln dealer and they do not have any new Lincolns on the lot. They have 3 2018 used models that I suspect are Lease returns.
I ordered this in August. I wanted a 2022 but they haven’t even started to build those yet.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Assholes Upset That They Cannot Enjoy all the Benefits of
the EUAmerican Democracy with None of the Obligations
With some slight changes you can apply it anywhere.
re: #229 Belafon
With some slight changes you can apply it anywhere.
Polish President Duda declared that homosexuality and communism were “foreign ideologies” that had no place in Poland.
But by that metric, democracy is also a “foreign ideology”.
re: #228 The Pie Overlord!
I ordered this in August. I wanted a 2022 but they haven’t even started to build those yet.
I ordered a new Kubota MX6000 tractor in early March, it has yet to arrive. I hope I get it before the snow flies.
re: #158 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I can’t imagine ever going to Montana for any reason.
I wanted to go there to see the scenery, but not anymore.
re: #232 plansbandc
I can’t imagine every going to Montana for any reason.
I wanted to go there to see the scenery, but not anymore.
I’ve no desire to spend my money in any state that has killer-leadership.
re: #232 plansbandc
I can’t imagine every going to Montana for any reason.
I wanted to go there to see the scenery, but not anymore.
It’s the same deal with Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and the Dakotas.
Some beautiful places in those states but they’re all deep red.
re: #232 plansbandc
I can’t imagine every going to Montana for any reason.
I wanted to go there to see the scenery, but not anymore.
Can’t be beat, @Pie_Overlord! Congratulations on bringing home your new Corsair. 😃
— Lincoln (@LincolnMotorCo) October 19, 2021
re: #236 The Squire of Logos
And then he goes on to play Alan Grant who is based out of…Montana.
re: #188 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t know how to report disinformation about vaccines. Don’t have any options for that on the drop down menu.
re: #238 Eclectic Cyborg
So in a weird parallel universe way, he does get to see Montana!
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Assholes Upset That They Cannot Enjoy all the Benefits of the EU with None of the Obligations
Just waiting for PLEXIT to gain momentum…
re: #241 JOE 🥓
Just waiting for PLEXIT to gain momentum…
It is actually highly unpopular among most Poles, they are all too aware of the benefits of Brexit and not as ideologically fixated as their conservative leadership.
re: #239 plansbandc
The three little dots on the right side of the tweet, click them, click report and follow the menu choices. It will give you Covid-19 as a final choice as to what type of health misinformation.
re: #244 EstebanTornado1963
Another DUNT
As it’s the grown up gun lady! Great! Let that ass campaign with all of her family holding assault rifles!
Today, in Target’s parking lot:
GUY: Sign this petition for Voter ID?
ME: Do I have to show ID to sign it?
GUY: No.
ME: So how do you know I’m a voter?
GUY: We verify name, address, and sig via the voter registry.
ME: You just explained why Voter ID is not necessary.— Brian Wetjen (@wetchman) October 18, 2021
re: #247 Citizen K
My brainwashed sister insists that everyone should show a drivers license when they go to vote.
She doesn’t have a driver’s license.
Let that sink in because it ain’t sinking into her cerebrum…
re: #246 JOE 🥓
As it’s the grown up gun lady! Great! Let that ass campaign with all of her family holding assault rifles!
Gonna be a shit show for sure
So @MayorJohnLee announced his gov candidacy by riding his bike into the desert.
Now @VoteFiore: “John Lee can ride his bike into the desert. Well I will f’ing run over John Lee with my pickup truck in the desert.”
What a dream race for NV political journalists. pic.twitter.com/IJjnv5LwWk— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 19, 2021
re: #249 EstebanTornado1963
Gonna be a shit show for sure
Wait till she finds out John Lee has a rocket launcher installed on the back of his bike!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) October 19, 2021
How do you not realize you’re dragging a car under your windshield?! 🤦🏽♂️ pic.twitter.com/NmFWB1Ph9x
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) October 19, 2021
Facebook is upset about misrepresentations.
I just rolled my eyes so hard, I saw my childhood memories. https://t.co/tDtykcbdQf— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 18, 2021
re: #252 Belafon
Facebook has fed too many people complete bullshit for this to have any possibility of being taken seriously. You made your bed.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 19, 2021
Summit Packaging Solutions to locate in Northern Kentucky, create 254 jobs ^JB pic.twitter.com/HaxAElY4WD
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 19, 2021
re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s the same deal with Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and the Dakotas.
Some beautiful places in those states but they’re all deep red.
Many of the beautiful places in Utah can be seen on a day trip from Nevada or Colorado.
re: #255 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Many of the beautiful places in Utah can be seen on a day trip from Nevada or Colorado.
Oh, I know. My dad lives in Vegas. :)
re: #255 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Many of the beautiful places in Utah can be seen on a day trip from Nevada or Colorado.
Similarly, for at least the Dakotas, you could live in Minnesota. I’ve been to North Dakota once, but not to any place scenic.
UPDATE: We’ve moved on from *suggesting* I’m racist. Now I’m engaging in “racist character assassination.” It seems the issue is that I used the term “dark money,” which refers to money that is not disclosed. Like the money funding @DefendingEd pic.twitter.com/0tXIzHwHWc
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 19, 2021
Projection is all they have. Again, sadly, because it’s usually all they need.
.@VoteFiore, described as a true fighter by @McDonaldNV, takes no questions after announcing for gov.
She already has an email out.
What a confederacy of dunces the GOP primary for gov is becoming.
First donation to @VoteFiore’s campaign has come in from…@GovSisolak. pic.twitter.com/wZRMeNbE9e— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 19, 2021
Fat Fucking Donny from Queens
did you expect anything else? honestly. pic.twitter.com/5ivR4BhylD
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 19, 2021
Newark airport is a zoo
The attitude permeates everything and everyone adopts it
(Cept me and Mrsdm)
I wonder if Jen ever gets tired of stomping poor Doocy into paste.
“That’s not exactly an accurate description, so let me help with you an accurate description of what is actually happening here” — Jen Psaki to Peter Doocy pic.twitter.com/iqVetdAhk0
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2021
re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Polish President Duda declared that homosexuality and communism were “foreign ideologies” that had no place in Poland.
But by that metric, democracy is also a “foreign ideology”.
There are still plenty of folks in Poland who’d welcome a dictatorship or monarchy.
‘I just heard people screaming’ — Man dies in house fire after trying to save dog
Ruben Perez said he lived in the house for a month with his girlfriend and her brother, Lincoln Flores. He said he was at work when the fire happened. Perez said it was Lincoln who led his two sisters to safety and went back to get their family dog.
“It’s pretty much a drastic situation for Nadia and her family. You know, losing her brother,” said Perez. “[Lincoln] [was] a good person, worked hard, you know, didn’t bother no one.”
Perez said the house did not have electricity and that they all had to figure out ways to get light and keep warm.
re: #265 JC1
There are still plenty of folks in Poland who’d welcome a dictatorship or monarchy.
and a Roman Catholic Theocracy
I was able to renew my driver’s license online as a “safe driver.”
It doesn’t feel like much of an accomplishment when I’m driving about 50 miles a year during the pandemic.
re: #128 steve_davis
A friend of mine I went to a lot of punk rock shows with when we were younger has lost most of his teeth from a bad opioid addiction. Same thing, super decent middle class upbringing, and was not the kind of guy who you’d think that would happen. Thing is, he got dealt a very shitty hand in life, got hit by a truck and has had a dozen or so surgeries since. He’s been off heroin for three years but he’s still in a lot of pain and takes opiates to this day.
Paris Hilton is right about a very serious topic. Looks like she’s grown up.
‘Basic human rights’: Paris Hilton urges Biden administration to reform ‘troubled teen industry’ (USA Today via MSN)
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