Some Mighty Fancy Bluegrass Picking From Billy Strings and Band on Austin City Limits: “Red Daisy”

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Billy Strings performs “Red Daisy” on Austin City Limits. Sarah Jarosz / Billy Strings premieres October 23, 2021 on PBS. Watch live on your local station or stream later at pbs.org/austincitylimits

About the Episode
Savor the boundary-pushing roots music of Grammy winners Sarah Jarosz and Billy Strings. Texas native Jarosz plays songs from her heralded LP World On the Ground. Midwesterner Strings performs tunes from his album Renewal.

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1
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:10:10pm

San Diego County is up to 80.5% fully vaccinated (12+), which is why our ICUs are not stressed.

However, the rate of newly vaccinated people has slowed tremendously. The holdouts are likely to remain so forever, I guess.

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:12:51pm
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jaunte  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:13:49pm

Bill the Republican party for the repairs.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:14:48pm
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gocart mozart  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:15:51pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:23:32pm

There’s never been a better live music show than ACL.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:24:17pm

Sarah Jarosz got me right in the feels with this one.

Sarah Jarosz on Austin City Limits “Hometown”

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:26:35pm

Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) Sends Historic Legacy Mahogany to Help Restore U.S. Capitol

“…On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol building was the target of an attack that left it ransacked and vandalized. The destruction of many irreplaceable historical wooden artifacts and objects, including doors, intricate millwork, moldings, desks, and podiums, was extensive.”
…….

Tucked in a dark, remote storage stall in FPL’s basement, a stack of priceless historic mahogany lumber had waited under a layer of dust since 1919 for seemingly just this moment. Ross and an FPL crew dug out the treasure and began facilitating the transfer of 78 of the 11.9 inch-by-12 foot mahogany boards.

Starting in June, this wood will be used to aid in the repair of the Capitol.

The 3,000-lb. stack of lumber is incalculably valuable. Today, mahogany has protected international conservation status and the high quality, clear old-growth mahogany originally used in the Capitol building is no longer available.”
fpl.fs.fed.us

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:30:33pm

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stpaulbear  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:31:03pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

San Diego County is up to 80.5% fully vaccinated (12+), which is why our ICUs are not stressed.

However, the rate of newly vaccinated people has slowed tremendously. The holdouts are likely to remain so forever, I guess.

At least until they die.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:34:36pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:36:44pm

re: #9 The Pie Overlord!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:38:16pm
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jaunte  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:40:04pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

Leonardo DiCaprio hanging on to the edge.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:41:28pm
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:42:16pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

They just want everyone to be free to be a Christian, you know, because this is a Christian nation. There’s no freedom in Islam.

That made me hurt just typing it.

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stpaulbear  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:45:30pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

Nah, It was cell phones, stereo gear and major appliances. Wonder how many chips are going down with the goods?

Edit: I’m so old I call them cell phones.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:46:58pm
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:51:25pm

re: #18 The Pie Overlord!

Another reason why I rather watch a movie online.

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:52:02pm

re: #18 The Pie Overlord!

Love it. Just got tickets to see Dune at the Chinese next Saturday.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:52:55pm

So Mrs. Fish texts me a minute ago. “Uhm… that is not our cat.” Apparently, a random strange feral cat just WALTZED IN THE DOOR and decided to camp out on the living room floor!

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:54:21pm

re: #21 Dopamine Fish

So Mrs. Fish texts me a minute ago. “Uhm… that is not our cat.” Apparently, a random strange feral cat just WALTZED IN THE DOOR and decided to camp out on the living room floor!

The cat picks you.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:56:57pm

re: #22 Rightwingconspirator

The cat picks you.

Apparently it’s one of the neighborhood cats that we’ve known hangs around our outdoor cat’s food bowl occasionally. Mrs. Fish is hanging out downstairs, she had the door open for our outdoor cat to come in/go out and this cat must’ve shown up, recognized the scent, and decided to enjoy the warmth.

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stpaulbear  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:57:34pm

re: #21 Dopamine Fish

So Mrs. Fish texts me a minute ago. “Uhm… that is not our cat.” Apparently, a random strange feral cat just WALTZED IN THE DOOR and decided to camp out on the living room floor!

You can become a YouTube sensation if you start making videos right now.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:57:43pm
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jaunte  Oct 23, 2021 • 5:58:29pm

re: #25 Dave In Austin

My wife and I tried for a time, but it was too weird calling her Bob.

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Jay C  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:00:33pm

re: #21 Dopamine Fish

So Mrs. Fish texts me a minute ago. “Uhm… that is not our cat.” Apparently, a random strange feral cat just WALTZED IN THE DOOR and decided to camp out on the living room floor!

Just a guess: it’s going to be YOUR a job to convince it it’s in the wrong house….

reminder: as far as cats are concerned, there is no “wrong house”…

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:01:20pm

re: #27 Jay C

Just a guess: it’s going to be YOUR a job to convince it it’s in the wrong house….

reminder: as far as cats are concerned, the is no “wrong house”…

Nope! I heard her extricate said cat from the premises.

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retired cynic  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:03:52pm

re: #21 Dopamine Fish

So Mrs. Fish texts me a minute ago. “Uhm… that is not our cat.” Apparently, a random strange feral cat just WALTZED IN THE DOOR and decided to camp out on the living room floor!

That is what my Pippi did. She walked up to door in a snowstorm and spoke. I opened the door and asked her if she wanted to come in? She did, strolled into the living room and stretched out, talking all the while.

She now runs my life.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:04:28pm
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Dave In Austin  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:07:37pm

I had to do it

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darthstar  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:07:45pm

re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

DPRK got their account restored?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:08:45pm

welp, I guess “freedom” from racing regulations has a price

The crash occurred Saturday afternoon at an event called “Airport Race Wars 2” at the Kerrville-Kerr County Airport, police said in a news release. The organized event involved drivers speeding down a runway as they competed for cash.

The driver “lost control and left the runway, crashing into parked vehicles and striking spectators who were observing the races,” Kerville police said.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:09:38pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

American Drag Racing and How it Works!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:10:47pm
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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:11:01pm

re: #16 Dopamine Fish

They just want everyone to be free to be a their kind of Christian, you know, because this is a Christian nation. There’s no freedom in Islam.

That made me hurt just typing it.

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gocart mozart  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:11:51pm

Liar, Liar - The Castaways (1965)

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darthstar  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:14:18pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

President Biden also actually works when he’s at the White House and as well as when he’s at home. He doesn’t spend his days watching Fox News and rage tweeting at Bette Midler.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:14:27pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:15:49pm
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stpaulbear  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:16:27pm

re: #37 gocart mozart

A Minneapolis classic!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:16:38pm
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stpaulbear  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:23:18pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Clickbait.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:24:10pm

*snerk*

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bratwurst  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:24:36pm
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darthstar  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:26:00pm

re: #45 bratwurst

Josh Mandel doesn’t understand how crypto works.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:26:01pm
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JOE 🥓  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:29:27pm

re: #25 Dave In Austin

What a crock…I always thought it was stupid that a spouse had to give up their name!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:29:36pm
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sagehen  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:31:26pm

re: #20 Rightwingconspirator

Love it. Just got tickets to see Dune at the Chinese next Saturday.

Are you old enough it hurts that you can’t call it Grauman’s anymore?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:34:53pm

niterz, lizardz!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:34:57pm
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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:35:08pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Away from the white house doesn’t mean not working.

Golfing meant not working

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sagehen  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:37:31pm

re: #25 Dave In Austin

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If she’s got a professional history and reputation under the name she started with, and bank accounts, and a driver’s license that matches her voter registration in a state with ridiculous Voter ID laws… there’s a thousand reasons to keep her name.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:42:34pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:43:26pm

re: #53 Dangerman

You’re asking a lot expecting mainstream media to provide details and proper context.

/

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:54:59pm
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darthstar  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:55:06pm

Snoop Dogg’s Billionaire’s Bacon…1/2 cup brown sugar, tblsp black pepper, shit ton of red chili flakes. bake at 400 on a rack, flip half way through 24ish minutes…

Having it with cauliflower gratin. Shit’s delicious.

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ipsos  Oct 23, 2021 • 6:59:06pm

re: #25 Dave In Austin

Shitposters gonna shitpost. That’s all Walsh ever does. And it’s just boring.

“How can I get Twitter to pay attention to meeeeeee today?”

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:01:34pm

re: #56 Eclectic Cyborg

You’re asking a lot expecting mainstream media to provide details and proper context.

/

Just a cockeyed optimist

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:03:39pm
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darthstar  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:12:41pm

re: #61 jaunte

Yes there are two paths you can go by,
but in the long run.
There’s still time to change the road you’re on…

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darthstar  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:13:58pm

re: #53 Dangerman

Away from the white house doesn’t mean not working.

Golfing meant not working

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I am disturbed by the unclipped helmet.

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:14:00pm
What we know historically is that a failed coup is a trial run for a successful coup. Usually when you fail in a coup, something happens to you— and Mr. Trump, nothing has happened to him.”

— Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, interviewed on MSNBC.

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darthstar  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:15:51pm

re: #64 Dangerman

— Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, interviewed on MSNBC.

Can’t we have one of Trump’s buddies (Bolsinaro, Un, Erdogan, Putin) offer a solution to how we should treat failed coup participants?

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A Cranky One  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:34:15pm

Maybe use a different font…

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:36:40pm

re: #66 A Cranky One

Maybe use a different font…

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They only transport hamsters?

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A Cranky One  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:36:55pm

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:37:12pm

re: #66 A Cranky One

Maybe use a different font…

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Even funnier when high.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:37:13pm

Not letting up

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A Cranky One  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:37:46pm

re: #67 Dangerman

They only transport hamsters?

Where do you think Charles gets the hamsters to run LGF?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:41:14pm

Their competitor, Single Peak, is also suffering from the labor shortage.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:48:35pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:51:16pm

World War II veterans’memories is in Berdorf.

AMERICAN SOLDIERS ADVANCING IN LUXEMBOURG 🇺🇸
▪️Incredible Then & Now photograph of US Jeep of the 329th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division in Berdorf, Luxembourg.
The photograph was taken by female warcorrespondent Lee Miller in October 1944. This area is where my friend SNAFU DOCS
passion for WWII history and research started. I am very thankful to have discover this area with him last week.

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:51:31pm

Oh, there’s the resources!

In 2020, total key executive compensation of Facebook’s leading executive officers amounted over 155 million U.S. dollars. That year, Chief Product Officer (CPO) Christopher Cox was the highest-paid Facebook employee with a total compensation of over 69.68 million U.S. dollars.
statista.com

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darthstar  Oct 23, 2021 • 7:57:10pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson
Resources, desire, interest…what have you….

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gwangung  Oct 23, 2021 • 8:06:12pm

Just remember…some so-called churches consider the mere existence of LGTBQ people to be inappropriate for teens:

Area High School Cancels Play

“She Kills Monsters” was written by Qui Nguyen and premiered in New York in 2011.

Set in Athens, Ohio, it tells the story of a young woman whose 15-year-old sister dies in a car crash.

Attempting to learn more about her dead sister, the woman discovers her Dungeons & Dragons campaign, which alludes to her having a girlfriend and possibly being gay.

It’s become one of the most widely produced plays at the high school and college levels in the last five years.

The cancellation at Hillsboro came a week after some parents confronted the play’s directors in a meeting, which also included local pastor Jeff Lyle of the nearby church Good News Gathering.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2021 • 8:46:37pm

Watched Dune tonight on HBO MAX and loved it! I read the book 40(?) years ago and recalled practically nothing of the plot but was able to follow the film without trouble. My vague recollection is that the book was not as straightforward as this adaptation — but maybe I’m wrong.

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darthstar  Oct 23, 2021 • 8:48:25pm

So, it looks like the Dodgers failed to go to their bullpen for the real Ks…Go Altanta. Fuck Texas.(because of their governor)

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ipsos  Oct 23, 2021 • 8:52:53pm

So if the World Series choices are the cheaters from Cruzville or the racists with the creepy tomahawk chop and Travis Tritt singing the anthem…

… I’ll be over here watching hockey.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2021 • 8:55:20pm

re: #64 Dangerman

What we know historically is that a failed coup is a trial run for a successful coup. Usually when you fail in a coup, something happens to you— and Mr. Trump, nothing has happened to him.”

— Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, interviewed on MSNBC.

Like Trump’s Jan 6 “Beer Hall Putsch”, the original November 1923 one failed and the instigator went to prison. We know how well that worked out for the world.

There have to be consequences for all those involved — not just Trump— and the penalties must be severe, and that must include both John Eastman and Cleta Mitchell; indeed the entire Federalist Society must be declared a criminal organization and disbanded.

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retired cynic  Oct 23, 2021 • 8:56:31pm

re: #81 Hecuba’s daughter

I sure don’t expect that to happen, but you are correct: it should!

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Oct 23, 2021 • 8:56:35pm

re: #78 Hecuba’s daughter

Watched Dune tonight on HBO MAX and loved it! I read the book 40(?) years ago and recalled practically nothing of the plot but was able to follow the film without trouble. My vague recollection is that the book was not as straightforward as this adaptation — but maybe I’m wrong.

I read Dune after seeing both the Lynch and SciFi versions of it, and it was far easier to follow than I assume it would have been without those (imperfect, but OK) guides. I still haven’t had time to watch the new one. I don’t feel that movie theaters are safe enough yet*, and I haven’t had a few hours of free time that matched with the huge TV in the living room being free yet. I’m not watching that on my phone or a PC.

*Basically I’m of the opinion that if it’s still a really good idea to wear masks out in public, then “entertainment” is an unnecessary risk.

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plansbandc  Oct 23, 2021 • 9:01:29pm

re: #83 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

I’ve heard good things about this adaption. Going to have to figure out how to watch.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2021 • 9:05:36pm

re: #79 darthstar

So, it looks like the Dodgers failed to go to their bullpen for the real Ks…Go Altanta. Fuck Texas.(because of their governor)

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Not just the governor, but the Senators, the representatives, every GOP member of the Texas legislature, indeed every GOP elected or appointed official in the state, especially all those who supported any efforts to decertify the election results.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2021 • 9:09:16pm

re: #83 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

I read Dune after seeing both the Lynch and SciFi versions of it, and it was far easier to follow than I assume it would have been without those (imperfect, but OK) guides. I still haven’t had time to watch the new one. I don’t feel that movie theaters are safe enough yet*, and I haven’t had a few hours of free time that matched with the huge TV in the living room being free yet. I’m not watching that on my phone or a PC.

*Basically I’m of the opinion that if it’s still a really good idea to wear masks out in public, then “entertainment” is an unnecessary risk.

I’m one of those who was totally fine watching even this movie on my PC, although it really belongs on the big screen. Going out to the cinema is not on my todo list until the pandemic is really under control.

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stpaulbear  Oct 23, 2021 • 9:33:53pm

re: #83 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

…I don’t feel that movie theaters are safe enough yet*, and I haven’t had a few hours of free time that matched with the huge TV in the living room being free yet. I’m not watching that on my phone or a PC.

*Basically I’m of the opinion that if it’s still a really good idea to wear masks out in public, then “entertainment” is an unnecessary risk.

I’m with you. I made my first foray into a record store last week. Masked, off hours, and tons of sanitizer once I was done flipping titles. No movies, no bars, no lollygagging indoors. Masks outdoors too near strangers.

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plansbandc  Oct 23, 2021 • 9:43:11pm

re: #87 stpaulbear

Singing with my chorus is the first big step for me spending time indoors with other people.

However, we are all vaccinated, we all wear masks, and we socially distance. It’s as safe as we can get doing something that’s not very safe.

I will not do movies, concerts, restaurants, etc. knowing there will be anti vaxx/mask people there.

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stpaulbear  Oct 23, 2021 • 9:46:59pm

re: #88 plansbandc

Singing with my chorus is the first big step for me spending time indoors with other people.

However, we are all vaccinated, we all wear masks, and we socially distance. It’s as safe as we can get doing something that’s not very safe.

I will not do movies, concerts, restaurants, etc. knowing there will be anti vaxx/mask people there.

The anti’s spoil anything and everything.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 23, 2021 • 9:59:23pm

re: #89 stpaulbear

The anti’s spoil anything and everything.

I live in one of the last bastions of epidemic sanity, with new infections down to about five per day (of a population of 120,000). Mask discipline is good. So I feel safe shopping and such, and even dine indoors when there’s minimal crowding (you need to show proof of vaccination to dine indoors). I’m not ready yet to sit in a crowded movie theatre yet, though. (I’ve been to the opera and theatre performances, but somehow a movie is different.)

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ckkatz  Oct 23, 2021 • 10:26:22pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Nope! I heard her extricate said cat from the premises.

As long as it did not end like this post (I don’t remember who posted the original picture here. But thank you!)

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ckkatz  Oct 23, 2021 • 10:37:08pm

re: #25 Dave In Austin

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The huge red flag in the room is the idiot who went to Matt Walsh for marriage advice.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 23, 2021 • 10:42:22pm
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ckkatz  Oct 23, 2021 • 10:44:51pm

re: #64 Dangerman

— Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, interviewed on MSNBC.

Yes Tim Snyder is not optimistic. That is why I found several of his recent videos so useful.

Particularly:

LESSON 1: Do Not Obey In Advance

and

LESSON 8: Stand Out

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 23, 2021 • 10:52:22pm
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ckkatz  Oct 23, 2021 • 11:02:22pm

Now that I am caught up on this thread, it’s time to head to bed. G’night all!

And the obligatory joke:

Someone stole my mood ring.
I don’t know how I feel about that.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2021 • 11:03:59pm

re: #95 Dread Pirate Ron

It does make sense that those who take logical precautions about diseases will benefit in many circumstances.

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sagehen  Oct 23, 2021 • 11:08:16pm

re: #88 plansbandc

Singing with my chorus is the first big step for me spending time indoors with other people.

However, we are all vaccinated, we all wear masks, and we socially distance. It’s as safe as we can get doing something that’s not very safe.

I will not do movies, concerts, restaurants, etc. knowing there will be anti vaxx/mask people there.

If you were rich enough, you could rent out a whole theater to safely watch the movie on the big screen….

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2021 • 11:09:21pm

Noticed that there is a great amount of gnashing of teeth in the reviews of the latest crop of TV offerings.

Invasion has set off many of the incels - why I am not sure but perhaps because there are too many brown people ? As a TV show it is not for the young male looking for bloodsport.

Foundation has some people up in arms. Don’t know why, really. I think those who are in pain over the fact that the series doesn’t follow Asimov’s stories exactly are not that many, though they are making noises.

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plansbandc  Oct 23, 2021 • 11:09:41pm

re: #98 sagehen

Wouldn’t that be cool? I really want to see Dune on the big screen.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 24, 2021 • 12:06:49am

re: #100 plansbandc

Wouldn’t that be cool? I really want to see Dune on the big screen.

Maybe it’s not as expensive as you’d think to rent a theater during off-prime hours, especially now that so many of us are reluctant to attend cinema in person. For the price to be reasonable you may need a group of 20+ friends. Here’s a link discussing the process for AMC: amctheatres.com

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Dave In Austin  Oct 24, 2021 • 12:44:37am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 24, 2021 • 1:14:22am

re: #102 Dave In Austin

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 24, 2021 • 1:16:48am

I HATE, not despise, but actually HATE Microsoft.
Whilst I sit fuming while the desktop upgrades to FUCKING Windows 10.
That’s it. That’s the post.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 24, 2021 • 1:28:29am

Desktop upgrades? From what to what?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 24, 2021 • 1:37:05am

re: #105 Dread Pirate Ron

Desktop upgrades? From what to what?

Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro. Yeah, upgrading an obsolete (but liked) OS to a soon to be obsolete (and despised) OS. I hung on as long as I could, but time finally caught up with me. The writing was writ large on the wall, but I’m a stick in the mud when it comes to things like OS upgrades. The laptop I’m currently using is Win 10 so it’s more of a pain than anything.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 24, 2021 • 1:56:33am

re: #57 jaunte

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Fuck Mike Kelly. And I say that as someone who voted against him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 2:19:10am

re: #25 Dave In Austin

A listener wrote to ask if it’s a “red flag” that his fiancé doesn’t want to take his last name. No it’s not just a red flag. It’s a dealbreaker. Men, don’t marry women who won’t take your name. That’s a wall of separation she wants to keep between you. It won’t be the only one.

Germany allowed double names but did not change the law on the wife being able to keep her name unchanged until the late 1980’s.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 24, 2021 • 2:55:29am

Well we didn’t hit the freezing mark last night here in NW PA, but it is a balmy 38F right now a little before 6 AM.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 24, 2021 • 3:06:31am

We have had 1.5” of rain in my part of the SF bay area. It is supposed to rain through 6 AM Monday. Snow is most important to California’s water issue and we’re getting it. Lets hope it continues.

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Dangerman  Oct 24, 2021 • 3:11:44am

re: #104 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I HATE, not despise, but actually HATE Microsoft.
Whilst I sit fuming while the desktop upgrades to FUCKING Windows 10.
That’s it. That’s the post.

..is why I moved to Linux a few months back.

Zero regrets

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 24, 2021 • 3:23:05am

YouTube

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 24, 2021 • 3:33:18am
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William Lewis  Oct 24, 2021 • 3:49:48am

re: #112 Dangerman

..is why I moved to Linux a few months back.

Zero regrets

Two reasons I can’t at this time:
Steam games I play with my son that will _not_ run in VM or Wine or etc
Capture One photo software

I keep a nice VM with FreeBSD handy and make as much use of the Linux Subsystem (especially now that there is a good X Windows Server for it) as possible but while those two things remain an issue, well, that’s how it is.

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Dangerman  Oct 24, 2021 • 5:14:48am

re: #115 William Lewis

Two reasons I can’t at this time:
Steam games I play with my son that will _not_ run in VM or Wine or etc
Capture One photo software

I keep a nice VM with FreeBSD handy and make as much use of the Linux Subsystem (especially now that there is a good X Windows Server for it) as possible but while those two things remain an issue, well, that’s how it is.

i had the same problem for years.
windows only tax software. not a chance on wine.
two years ago tax software stopped supporting windows 7
i refused to upgrade so i stuck the tax on mrsdm’s win/8 laptop
this year it occurred to me - duh, i can dump my desktop win 7 now.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 24, 2021 • 5:38:55am

re: #96 ckkatz

Now that I am caught up on this thread, it’s time to head to bed. G’night all!

And the obligatory joke:

Someone stole my mood ring.
I don’t know how I feel about that.

I recently developed a severe dread of speedbumps: I’m slowly getting over it.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 24, 2021 • 5:45:05am

re: #15 Charles Johnson

And you have to be a particular kind of Christian. Most Democrats (especially the Black and Brown base) are Christians, after all, including President Biden who is a staunch Catholic.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 24, 2021 • 5:54:40am

re: #111 Dread Pirate Ron

Your “atmospheric river” is supposed to get down here on Monday, but the forecast keeps reducing the expected amount even as the probability goes up. Expected that we’re only going to get like a tenth of an inch or so.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:00:36am

A seemingly endless procession of Job’s messengers…..

Fears are growing among European leaders that the EU’s industrial recovery from the pandemic is about to be undercut by yet another supply shock: a shortage of Chinese magnesium, which is vital to sectors such as cars, planes and electronics.

More than 95 percent of Europe’s magnesium comes from China but the country is slashing back output amid nationwide energy shortages. China is, by far, the world’s biggest producer, meaning it would be hard for smaller producers such as Russia and Israel to step in and fill huge shortfalls.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš — revealingly, leaders from top car-making countries — raised the issue on Thursday during an EU leaders’ summit, according to a diplomat familiar with the discussion.

“Merkel [said] it’s become too costly to produce it [in China] because of the high energy prices,” the diplomat said, adding that the outgoing chancellor also warned about the knock-on effect on car production in Europe.

Babiš was even more direct, saying the auto sector is facing a “disaster.”

politico.eu

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:01:23am
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jeffreyw  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:09:56am

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:09:59am

re: #118 Patricia Kayden

And you have to be a particular kind of Christian. Most Democrats (especially the Black and Brown base) are Christians, after all, including President Biden who is a staunch Catholic.

Yes, Latinos are very Catholic and often rather socially conservative, but the “family values” they support actually involve promoting families and strong schools and community institutions, and not just banning abortion and gay marriage.

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:12:36am
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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:20:46am
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No Malarkey!  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:31:58am

Good thread on vaccinating younger children.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:38:52am

re: #121 Patricia Kayden

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WOW

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:44:43am

re: #127 The Pie Overlord!

I agree. He really let loose on that one.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:50:15am

Missing the connexion here: what does stopping evictions of homeless camps have to do with Anti-Semitism?

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 6:53:51am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Missing the connexion here: what does stopping evictions of homeless camps have to do with Anti-Semitism?

Sunrise Movement bans Jews from participating in their organization’s activities unless they denounce Israel and Zionism.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:02:21am

Evolution is happening before our very eyes!

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:10:52am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:11:06am

re: #130 The Pie Overlord!

Sunrise Movement bans Jews from participating in their organization’s activities unless they denounce Israel and Zionism.

What does that have to do with homelessness in Washington DC?

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:14:08am

re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What does that have to do with homelessness in Washington DC?

Where do you see homelessness in DC mentioned in that thread?

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:17:01am

re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What does that have to do with homelessness in Washington DC?

Here is the article from Washington Post.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:18:21am

Here is the Sunrise statement condemning Teh Juice:

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Citizen K  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:18:29am

I missed this from the previous day, but looks like Texas really is going the full nullification route now and declaring itself supreme law of the land?

The scary thing is that they clearly have a Supreme Court that is sympathetic to all the bullshit it’s spouting. They’re really just aiming for just total judicial repeal of the Supremacy Clause and essentially the totally dissolution of all federal authority. Because if one state can do it…

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:18:46am

Let’s start with the January 6th Terrorists.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:24:03am

re: #134 The Pie Overlord!

Where do you see homelessness in DC mentioned in that thread?

I was looking at some other references to the group about protesting homelessness.

Not about to follow the thread, but thanks for the explanation.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:25:09am

Yes we had an earthquake a little while ago and it woke me up.

M 3.9 - 3km NNW of Maywood, CA

earthquake.usgs.gov

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:29:25am
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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:29:48am

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:31:43am

re: #122 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:33:55am

re: #136 The Pie Overlord!

Here is the Sunrise statement condemning Teh Juice:

the sad thing is I’m not surprised they did that… 😱

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:34:11am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:35:06am

re: #144 JOE 🥓

the sad thing is I’m not surprised they did that… 😱

It reminds us that our designations of “right” and “left” are arbitrary and purely descriptive, there are a lot of odd overlaps in various corners.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:37:08am

We have a triathlon going today in Los Angeles with blocked streets and yep we got gridlocked traffic all around here with those beeping horns…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:46:16am

…and the main reason that our Right Wingers are such a die-hard supporters of Israel has almost nothing to do with Judaism or the Jewish people: it has to do with fulfilling their Biblical End Times prophecies and kick-starting Armageddon so the Lord Jesus can come back down and cast the unbelievers (Jews included) into the Lake of Fire.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:47:07am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It reminds us that our designations of “right” and “left” are arbitrary and purely descriptive, there are a lot of odd overlaps in various corners.

I would expect a designation to be descriptive, actually.

Arbitrary? Really? As it happens, I do perceive characteristic differences between those we designate and describe as right and left. The fact that the extremes of both also share some characteristics doesn’t change that.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:47:43am

Halloween doesn’t come until next Sunday…but here comes Hallmark with the Christmas Movies…and GASP! They put a Hanukkah movie in there…but they still forgot Kwanza! 🤨

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:51:10am

re: #149 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I would expect a designation to be descriptive, actually.

Arbitrary? Really? As it happens, I do perceive characteristic differences between those we designate and describe as right and left. The fact that the extremes of both also share some characteristics doesn’t change that.

Look at the example of those who oppose vaccinations because they don’t trust Western Medicine or Big Pharma, and those oppose vaccinations they hate Big Government and Modern Science.

Result is the same…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:53:33am

re: #150 JOE 🥓

Halloween doesn’t come until next Sunday…but here comes Hallmark with the Christmas Movies…

I recall going to buy Hallowe’en candy with my kids and seeing the Christmas displays already out. I found a clerk and asked why they had not put out the Easter displays already…

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A Mom Anon  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:55:24am

re: #150 JOE 🥓

Hallmark and Lifetime are both very, very white channels in regards to their movie choices. Both the ones they make and the ones they choose to run on their networks. Mostly I think because they really market towards white suburbia. I don’t watch either, never have. My husband has become hooked on Grey’s Anatomy, some of the early seasons play on Lifetime, but that’s seriously the first time the TVs in our house have been turned to that channel. The Hallmark movies seem to follow a particular formula which is boring AF.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:56:59am

re: #153 A Mom Anon

I’m so glad I junked the cable box!

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gwangung  Oct 24, 2021 • 7:57:25am

re: #153 A Mom Anon

Hallmark and Lifetime are both very, very white channels in regards to their movie choices. Both the ones they make and the ones they choose to run on their networks. Mostly I think because they really market towards white suburbia. I don’t watch either, never have. My husband has become hooked on Grey’s Anatomy, some of the early seasons play on Lifetime, but that’s seriously the first time the TVs in our house have been turned to that channel. The Hallmark movies seem to follow a particular formula which is boring AF.

Yeah, that’s why it’s such a breakthrough that one (1!) movie features an Asian American protagonist getting together with a South Asian guy…..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:00:15am

re: #153 A Mom Anon

The Hallmark movies seem to follow a particular formula which is boring AF.

Because it is the Marketing Department that dictates what is to be filmed and how and the “creatives” follow on that lead. That is standard Hollywood/Disney operating procedure…

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Decatur Deb  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:02:40am

re: #124 Belafon

Obama scared the sh*t out of the right but he REALLY frightened the far left. The idea that the Black base would be activated and not just be participants but leaders in the political process was never their preference. They see Kamala in the same vein, which is why they hate her

I think the Far Left is a crypto-creature inspired by rare sightings through dense foliage and occasional scat.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:03:57am

re: #157 Decatur Deb

I think the Far Left is a crypto-creature inspired by rare sightings through dense foliage and occasional scat.

Prime example—Jimmy Dore who has gone full Pizzagate and Q…

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:05:30am

re: #150 JOE 🥓

This is one of many reason why I give to PBS.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:06:31am

re: #158 JOE 🥓

Prime example—Jimmy Dore who has gone full Pizzagate and Q…

Didn’t Alex Jones start out as a left-wing conspiracy theory peddler until he realized he had a bigger and more receptive audience on the right-wing fringes?

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Decatur Deb  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:09:30am

Ultimately we are dealing with a personality type that is more interested in being “Far” than “Left”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:12:01am

re: #161 Decatur Deb

Ultimately we are dealing with a personality type that is more interested in being “Far” than “Left”.

I see that too: a personality type that is querulous, contrarian and more interested in “winning” an argument than having a constructive discussion.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:12:48am

re: #153 A Mom Anon

Hallmark and Lifetime are both very, very white channels in regards to their movie choices. Both the ones they make and the ones they choose to run on their networks. Mostly I think because they really market towards white suburbia. I don’t watch either, never have. My husband has become hooked on Grey’s Anatomy, some of the early seasons play on Lifetime, but that’s seriously the first time the TVs in our house have been turned to that channel. The Hallmark movies seem to follow a particular formula which is boring AF.

Hallmark movies have changed. Lots of diversity in most of the casts now.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:14:59am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A listener wrote to ask if it’s a “red flag” that his fiancé doesn’t want to take his last name. No it’s not just a red flag. It’s a dealbreaker. Men, don’t marry women who won’t take your name. That’s a wall of separation she wants to keep between you. It won’t be the only one.

Germany allowed double names but did not change the law on the wife being able to keep her name unchanged until the late 1980’s.

My sister, my niece, and I all kept our last names when we married, though our policy was to marry men whose last name started with the same initial as ours so that monograms would be unaffected. ////

When we were engaged, my fiance initially insisted that I take his name and I almost broke up with him — and then he finally confessed that he was fine with it — it was just his warped sense of humor.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:15:51am

re: #150 JOE 🥓

Lots of Christmas music has been added to Youtube during the past year. Some of it is kind of good.

But yeah, Hallmark channel is definitely market-oriented to white suburbia. I’m sure the corporation intends to get money from other markets too, but they know their prime customers.

Christmas movies are extremely generic. Other than the original Grinch adaptation, or the original Rudolph presentation, and a few other famous movies from the 50’s and 40’s which pioneered what Hallmark, Disney etc. duplicate over and over ad naseum.

Where’s the Winter Solstice movies with human sacrifices? Or Chinese New Years movies with Confucian metaphors for the rule from heaven? Yeah, give me those instead.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:16:47am

re: #113 Dread Pirate Ron

My nephew told me that the last book in the Expanse series will soon be out; that’s what I am really looking forward to.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:19:40am

Oh, and here is a Christmas movie that you will not see on American TV: a historical movie, set in about 95CE, about how one of Paul’s converts’ own convert invented the Christmas story as he was adapting their common religious tract (“Mark”) in writing a new book for sale (“Luke”.)

That is not a movie you will see on American TV.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:20:09am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A listener wrote to ask if it’s a “red flag” that his fiancé doesn’t want to take his last name. No it’s not just a red flag. It’s a dealbreaker. Men, don’t marry women who won’t take your name. That’s a wall of separation she wants to keep between you. It won’t be the only one.

Germany allowed double names but did not change the law on the wife being able to keep her name unchanged until the late 1980’s.

Robyn and I discussed this at length. It was decide that she would take my name. I was willing to go either way. Michele ******** has a ring to it.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:21:45am

re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth

I admit to being annoyed by that channel, lol. So I haven’t kept up much. I have this thing about tv programming obviously marketed towards women. I have the same basic issues with early morning network “news” programming that is less about information and more about where to get a deal on designer shoes or how to pick the right hair color for you. It’s a very old and tired formula that works my last nerve. And it’s boring, god help me. Not to mention mindless. I also kind of resent that networks, in 2021 are still working this tired formula that all women care about is food, fashion/beauty and kids. I shall shush now, lol. I’ve just never been a “girly girl” and have never had patience for this stuff.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:22:01am

re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Oh, and here is a Christmas movie that you will not see on American TV: a historical movie, set in about 95CE, about how one of Paul’s converts’ own convert invented the Christmas story as he was adapting their common religious tract (“Mark”) in writing a new book for sale (“Luke”.)

That is not a movie you will see on American TV.

How about a film about how the Puritans Banned Christmas in America?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:22:05am

huge rumble of thunder just shook the house and threw things off the shelves in the kitchen.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:22:05am

re: #168 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

My ancestors used patronymics, so a wife kept her father’s name. Makes genealogy easier, if nothing else.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:23:12am

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

How about a film about how the Puritans Banned Christmas in America?

Or of any of the myriad other Christian sects that also don’t like Christmas as a holiday.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:24:40am

re: #169 A Mom Anon

I admit to being annoyed by that channel, lol. So I haven’t kept up much. I have this thing about tv programming obviously marketed towards women. I have the same basic issues with early morning network “news” programming that is less about information and more about where to get a deal on designer shoes or how to pick the right hair color for you. It’s a very old and tired formula that works my last nerve. And it’s boring, god help me. Not to mention mindless. I also kind of resent that networks, in 2021 are still working this tired formula that all women care about is food, fashion/beauty and kids. I shall shush now, lol. I’ve just never been a “girly girl” and have never had patience for this stuff.

MrBWS is the big fan of Hallmark movies. I think he likes yelling at the TV when characters mess up.
:D

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:25:16am

re: #136 The Pie Overlord!

Here is the Sunrise statement condemning Teh Juice:

[Embedded content]

I went to go Google them, and the national organization is like we have no idea what the DC organization is doing and they wouldn’t be.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:25:44am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:26:02am

re: #169 A Mom Anon

I was watching some historical min-series in the 80’s, I think it was one on Marco Polo, sponsored by Proctor and Gamble, and I had to give up watching it for the commercials.

They were all the same cookie-cutter formula: a middle-class family facing a tragic domestic problem (odors, carpet stains, dull colored-laundry, etc…) a friend or family member shows up to recommend the P&G product and cut to…voila, everything is perfect again, thanks to (insert P&G product)!

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A Mom Anon  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:26:52am

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yikes! My dog would be trying to get under the bed(she is too big to fit)or finding somewhere to hide. That’s a serious roll of thunder to knock stuff off a shelf. Wow.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:28:23am

re: #137 Citizen K

I missed this from the previous day, but looks like Texas really is going the full nullification route now and declaring itself supreme law of the land?

[Embedded content]

The scary thing is that they clearly have a Supreme Court that is sympathetic to all the bullshit it’s spouting. They’re really just aiming for just total judicial repeal of the Supremacy Clause and essentially the totally dissolution of all federal authority. Because if one state can do it…

The Texas legislature hasn’t passed a new law. Has Paxton agreed to pursue this issue? Otherwise, it’s just performance art.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:29:11am

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Where’s the Winter Solstice movies with human sacrifices?

Never really thought of The Wicker Man as an Xmas film, to be honest.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:29:13am

re: #173 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Or of any of the myriad other Christian sects that also don’t like Christmas as a holiday.

Memories of the Reformed and Covenanter Presbyterians who would not have a tree in their house and they would not have any gift giving either.

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:29:47am

re: #157 Decatur Deb

I think the Far Left is a crypto-creature inspired by rare sightings through dense foliage and occasional scat.

Sunrise DC, who I had not heard of until this morning.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:31:41am

re: #164 Hecuba’s daughter

My sister, my niece, and I all kept our last names when we married, though our policy was to marry men whose last name started with the same last initial as ours so that monograms would be unaffected. ////

When we were engaged, my fiance initially insisted that I take his name and I almost broke up with him — and then he finally confessed that he was fine with it — it was just his warped sense of humor.

I knew I was had when I found a workbook where Wife-to-Be had practiced writing her first name and my last. It was a different era.

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:37:19am
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dat_said  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:40:10am

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

huge rumble of thunder just shook the house and threw things off the shelves in the kitchen.

I have fond memories of growing up on the edge of a ND city about a little over a block away from the local TV station tower. It was great fun as a child seeing the window rattle and things shake in the house whenever one of those big prairie thunder and lightning storms rolled through. Also would really light up the room sometimes when the tower was hit.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:46:21am
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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:46:50am

OK what else is going to happen today?

FIRST—the earthquake wakes me up.

SECOND—gridlocked traffic from the triathlon

THIRD—It’s Irwin Allen Time across the street. Brand new 7 story apartment building is on fire…

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:47:09am
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darthstar  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:47:16am

re: #184 Belafon

JUST GIVE THEM THE GODDAMN RECIPE.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:48:51am

re: #186 The Pie Overlord!

Gee just like the LAPD snuggles up to Andy Ngo and his thugs and the LA Sheriff deputies kiss up to the Proud Boys.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:53:52am

re: #189 darthstar

JUST GIVE THEM THE GODDAMN RECIPE.

Too much money at stake, methinks. You know how Big Pharma rolls.

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 8:55:58am

re: #189 darthstar

JUST GIVE THEM THE GODDAMN RECIPE.

If it wasn’t for the damn Republicans, I would recommend that we treat the vaccines like land needed for roads and declare emanate domain, pay a reasonable price, and release how the big vaccines are made.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:08:36am

re: #192 Belafon

If it wasn’t for the damn Republicans, I would recommend that we treat the vaccines like land needed for roads and declare emanate domain, pay a reasonable price, and release how the big vaccines are made.

Unless the manufacturing is done under the oversight of the US pharmaceutical firm, I would be concerned that plants in third world or developing countries might not meet the strict processes required to guarantee that their version meets the safety and efficacy standards of the original version. Maybe greatly expanding the capabilities of US plants to make products available for a worldwide customer base would be a better solution for now.

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:08:56am

Had to figure out a way to make the title about those who won’t comply:

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jaunte  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:09:42am
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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:10:42am

re: #195 jaunte

Once again Press The Meat goes out of it’s way to mainstream fascists.

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:11:44am
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jaunte  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:11:46am

re: #196 JOE 🥓

“Who won the presidential election?”
“Well, let’s not focus on the past.”

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mmmirele  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:12:43am

Thinking I’m going to protest Apologia Church this afternoon. Still kicking around sign ideas:

Side 1: “Hey Jeff, why did you encourage THE promoter of the QAnon lie to run for office?”

Side 2: “Hey Jeff, You’re still a disgusting creep who wants to murder women” (and in smaller letters: “Just so we’re clear on who you are.”)

Suggestions welcome. Protest based off the following article.

The Mesa Pastor Who Inspired QAnon Promoter Ron Watkins’ Run For Congress

phoenixnewtimes.com

ETA: Not my first rodeo at Apologia.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:15:43am

Stuff like this in horror movies drives me nuts. I was watching one last night and the villain had one of the heroes at gunpoint. Also, the hero had his hands tied behind his back so he was completely prone. Instead of just shooting his target and being done with it, the bad guy hesitates and lets the hero ramble on and on and on.

Why? Well, the heros sister had just breached the building where the bad guy was and of course she had to show up to make the big save.

You can’t save a dead person so they make the villain look like an incompetent moron by not taking an easy, clean, wide open shot at someone the villain REALLY wants to kill and who cannot defend themselves.

And that just ruins the whole thing for me.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:18:58am

Willard 1

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:19:35am

re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg

I recall the original Scream (1996) rather nicely pointed out that trope.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:20:10am

re: #197 Belafon

JFC. I remember getting several vaccines at my school when I was a kid (mid 80s). Other than a few kids who had exemptions, we all went to the gym and got our shots. There was no bitching and no complaining. It was just something we did because it’s the right thing to do.

I was also required to get a bunch of vaccines to immigrate to the U.S.

Want to travel to Africa? Good fucking luck doing that without getting a few shots.

Vax requirements are NOT a new invention.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:23:01am

re: #202 Dr Lizardo

I recall the original Scream (1996) rather nicely pointed out that trope.

I was thinking the other day it would be interesting to do a horror movie that unfolds in such a way as to make it LOOK like such tropes are being followed to the letter only for there to be a big subversion at the end that shows the villain IS actually competent and kills all the heroes quickly and effectively.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:23:55am

re: #204 Eclectic Cyborg

I was thinking the other day it would be interesting to do a horror movie that unfolds in such a way as to make it LOOK like such tropes are being followed to the letter only for there to be a big subversion at the end that shows the villain IS actually competent and kills all the heroes quickly and effectively.

Heh. Too bad Wes Craven is no longer with us - that sounds like something he’d greatly enjoy directing.

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Nojay UK  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:24:57am

re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg

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Stuff like this in horror movies drives me nuts. I was watching one last night and the villain had one of the heroes at gunpoint. Also, the hero had his hands tied behind his back so he was completely prone. Instead of just shooting his target and being done with it, the bad guy hesitates and let the hero ramble on and on and on.

The Evil Overlord list has something to say about this sort of behaviour (points 6 and 7 among others).

I think it was Lois McMaster Bujold’s book, “Brothers in Arms” which had the situation where the Big Bad Guy is down and presumably dead. This SF world allowed for brain transplants though so the hero very carefully uses a needler pistol to punch twenty or thirty holes in the Big Bad Guy’s skull in two neat rows around the circumference. I recall being very surprised and pleased at the same time when I first read that part. Point 13 in the list, if you’re interested.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:26:27am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Look at the example of those who oppose vaccinations because they don’t trust Western Medicine or Big Pharma, and those oppose vaccinations they hate Big Government and Modern Science.

Result is the same…

Those are the extremes of each party that I pointed out.. Antivaxxers may, these days, represent the right, but they certainly do not represent the left. As to results being the same, compare the progress of covid in Texas to that of California.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:26:50am

re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg

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Stuff like this in horror movies drives me nuts. I was watching one last night and the villain had one of the heroes at gunpoint. Also, the hero had his hands tied behind his back so he was completely prone. Instead of just shooting his target and being done with it, the bad guy hesitates and let the hero ramble on and on and on.

Why? Well, the heros sister had just breached the building where the bad guy was and of course she had to show up to make the big save.

You can’t save a dead person so they make the villain look like an incompetent moron by not taking an easy, clean, wide open shot at someone the villain REALLY wants to kill and who cannot defend themselves.

And that just ruins the whole thing for me.

1. For “realistic” horror movies, you don’t verify the bad guy is dead because then how could you make a sequel? This doesn’t apply when the villain is supernatural (e.g. The Ring or Chucky)
2. An Austin Powers movie mocked the whole standard setup of excessive dialogue or complicated schemes that allowed the good guy to escape.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:27:10am

re: #194 Belafon

Had to figure out a way to make the title about those who won’t comply:

Aren’t a lot of the pundit complaining about mandates also those who often say that if a worker doesn’t like the working conditions they should go find another job?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:29:48am

re: #206 Nojay UK

Hahahaha.

Thanks for that. The rest of the list is quite entertaining too.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:37:00am

re: #208 Hecuba’s daughter

1. For “realistic” horror movies, you don’t verify the bad guy is dead because then how could you make a sequel? This doesn’t apply when the villain is supernatural (e.g. The Ring or Chucky)
2. An Austin Powers movie mocked the whole standard setup of excessive dialogue or complicated schemes that allowed the good guy to escape.

In The Incredibles, Syndrome (the antagonist) made an off-the-cuff remark when he realized he was “monologuing”. I loved it.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:37:59am

The fire has been put out across the street and now there are a bunch of folks yelling that they just moved in and now gotta relocate.

I got a feeling someone did the Richard Chamberlain Towering Inferno thing during construction and slipped some bribes to skirt the building code…

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mmmirele  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:46:38am

I’m thinking the article is fairly useless. There’s nothing in it that hasn’t been said before. So I challenged the writer.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:48:03am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:50:45am

re: #213 mmmirele

There are also folks in the middle. My wife and I left our church in 2020 because the pastor was pretty much refusing to follow any Covid protocols. We have yet to find a new church, but we are still believers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:54:08am
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darthstar  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:54:41am

Just took the boys for a walk…didn’t make it to the jetty. 36mph sustained wins with rain. Watched a few kite surfers in the harbor having fun. One guy popped a little air and the next thing he knew he was 40 feet above the water and headed toward shore…managed to pull one line hard enough to spiral back to the surface then shot across the harbor like a bullet.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:56:37am

re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s uh, quite the side hustle.

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ckkatz  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:57:06am

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I keep wondering if there is any connection between the current attacks on public schooling during public forums and Betsy DeVos’ (and others) interests (financial as well as ideological) in private schooling.

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ckkatz  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:58:45am

re: #184 Belafon

Reminds me of Tom Lehrer’s quip about his friend the medical doctor whose medical specialty was diseases of the rich.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 24, 2021 • 9:59:33am

re: #219 ckkatz

I keep wondering if there is any connection between the current attacks on public schooling during public forums and Betsy DeVos’ (and others) interests (financial as well as ideological) in private schooling.

It’s obvious that the DeVos KKKlan is supporting the Koch instigated school board attacks.

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ckkatz  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:01:25am

re: #117 Barefoot Grin

I recently developed a severe dread of speedbumps: I’m slowly getting over it.

:)

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:05:45am

Blustery

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:07:22am

re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:09:37am

Sunday morning food Pron. :-)

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ckkatz  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:10:27am

re: #186 The Pie Overlord!

I know that I keep harping on this guy, but Timothy Snyder is a very keen and knowledgeable observer. I do think that what he has to say is highly useful.

In this video, he makes the point that when the right wing paramilitaries start mixing with the police and armed forces, we as a democratic society, have lost control of the ability of the Republic to protect itself (and us). (In our case, right-wing paramilitaries include Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three-Percenters.)

To me this is why the Department of Defense and a number of major police organizations have been removing these folks. And why I view the vaccine mandates as a good thing.

When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.

LESSON 6: Be Wary of Paramilitaries

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:17:40am

Obama is king of the one-liners…

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:18:40am

re: #225 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Ooh, I like the patty press.

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mmmirele  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:20:20am

I ended up snoozing a friend on FB who posted this (and not ironically).

I don’t normally picket businesses, but it sure is tempting to want to run by the nearby In-n-Out and protest during this commercial buy a thon.

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ckkatz  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:23:05am

re: #229 mmmirele

Yes, that is quite a bizarre marketing/business development approach.

Good catch!

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:24:18am

re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth

And the driver is still able to make deliveries on time?

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Dave In Austin  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:24:45am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:27:17am

re: #228 darthstar

Ooh, I like the patty press.

It’s actually a 3 piece set. There is a larger ring for doing up to a 1/4 lb burger.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:27:43am

re: #232 Dave In Austin

I rather have a yoga session in Manayunk. They have a bunch of them up there.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:29:31am

WUT? NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE. 🤢🤢🤢🤮

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:32:14am
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darthstar  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:32:40am

re: #229 mmmirele

I ended up snoozing a friend on FB who posted this (and not ironically).

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I don’t normally picket businesses, but it sure is tempting to want to run by the nearby In-n-Out and protest during this commercial buy a thon.

I had a friend post that and I asked her what culture exactly was represented by shitty burgers.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:33:51am

Grr. Amazon was supposed to be one stop away from delivering my packages and now they have “few more packages to deliver before they get to me” That is sooo frustrating.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:34:39am
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darthstar  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:37:01am

re: #238 PhillyPretzel

Grr. Amazon was supposed to be one stop away from delivering my packages and now they have “few more packages to deliver before they get to me” That is sooo frustrating.

First world problems are often the most frustrating…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:43:11am

re: #238 PhillyPretzel

Grr. Amazon was supposed to be one stop away from delivering my packages and now they have “few more packages to deliver before they get to me” That is sooo frustrating.

See #216…..

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:45:53am

re: #241 GlutenFreeJesus

See #216…..

So they’re coming soon then?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2021 • 10:59:10am

re: #238 PhillyPretzel

Grr. Amazon was supposed to be one stop away from delivering my packages and now they have “few more packages to deliver before they get to me” That is sooo frustrating.

These days I am just happy when things actually get to me, nevermind how long they may take to arrive.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 24, 2021 • 12:17:15pm

re: #229 mmmirele

I ended up snoozing a friend on FB who posted this (and not ironically).

[Embedded content]

I don’t normally picket businesses, but it sure is tempting to want to run by the nearby In-n-Out and protest during this commercial buy a thon.

If you do, you need to hit them for cynical opportunism. There aren’t many localities that I know of that require proof of vaccination for indoor dining (two counties in California and Berkeley), so they’re not likely to have another chance to flaunt their “principles.”

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 25, 2021 • 6:50:26am

re: #138 DodgerFan1988

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Let’s start with the January 6th Terrorists.

I agree with him, start with tRump


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