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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 11:50:07am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 11:59:05am
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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2021 • 11:59:45am
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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:00:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:01:51pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:03:01pm

LOfuckinL

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:03:10pm

I notice a distinct lack of diversity in that group of media.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:04:07pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

The contractors cut corners, do subpar work and make huge profits.

That’s not “bad” if you’re a Republican.

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:07:40pm

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

The contractors cut corners, do subpar work and make huge profits.

That’s not “bad” if you’re a Republican.

Having been in road construction for 27 years, I am really going to have to disagree with you on that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:07:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:08:36pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:08:41pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:09:30pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:14:59pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:16:36pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bannon: This is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden. Joe Biden ordered Garland to prosecute me… Nancy Pelosi has taken on Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, she should ask Hillary Clinton how that turned out.

Trump is gone. Nancy is still here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:19:57pm
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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:20:57pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

I would have required that he not get online or do any public speaking.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:21:39pm

re: #9 Shropshire Slasher

Having been in road construction for 27 years, I am really going to have to disagree with you on that.

Okay, I know all contractors are not like that, but I suspect most contractors favored by Republicans are.

Also, I realize there’s a difference between “profits” and “executives personally enriching themselves as much as possible.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:23:44pm

re: #9 Shropshire Slasher

re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:24:35pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bad contractors, no. Bad practices for accepting bids on contracts, very much yes.

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Targetpractice  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:25:36pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It’s a good thing that crazy like Austrian painter is in prison now. I’m sure he won’t be provoking any further insurrections.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:31:23pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:31:54pm
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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:33:17pm
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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:41:06pm
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darthstar  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:41:28pm

I hope the jury finds the little fucker guilty and then the judge loses his shit and shouts, “That’s not the verdict I was paid to deliver!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:43:15pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:43:41pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:46:04pm
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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:46:16pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

Reading some of the poorly written tweets, they are talking about collusion. So either there is collusion going on amongst the contractors in various counties, or the State entity that puts together the paving proposals don’t know what they are doing and they are getting very high bid(s).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:49:12pm

re: #30 Shropshire Slasher

Reading some of the poorly written tweets, they are talking about collusion. So either there is collusion going on amongst the contractors in various counties, or the State entity that puts together the paving proposals don’t know what they are doing and they are getting very high bid(s).

It’s old news in Kentucky how this works. The Commonwealth was divvied up into regions and contractors informally agreed to not compete for bids outside their own regions.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:52:57pm

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:54:43pm
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lawhawk  Nov 15, 2021 • 12:56:24pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

Forks? They’re just all a bunch of vampires and werewolves. No biggie. //////

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:00:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:03:23pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:03:42pm

Religious right keyboard warrior thinks he can bluff his way through a conversation (on abortion):

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retired cynic  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:03:43pm

This is really cool:

Check Out Copenhill, the Snow-Free Ski Hill and Climbing Wall Atop a Copenhagen Power Plant
thisiscolossal.com

A year since its opening, the snow-free ski hill and entertainment hub that sits above a waste-to-energy power plant in Copenhagen is fully open to outdoor enthusiasts. New aerial photographs from Hufton+Crow capture the rooftop complex Copenhill (previously) through a blanket of fog, revealing the now lush landscaping that lines hiking trails and visitors as they peer out over the surrounding water. The multi-use site, which is located at the Amager Resource Centre, even has the world’s tallest climbing wall, an 80-meter-high rock structure that scales the entirety of the building.

Copenhill is the project of Danish architectural firm BIG and is the highest outlook in the capital city. The new complex also boasts multi-faceted energy reuse, with the indoor plant converting waste into heat for residents’ homes, while the biodiverse hill outside absorbs heat, filters the air, and minimizes water runoff.

The climbing wall? I don’t even want to look at it! Otherwise, this is awesome.

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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:09:00pm

How can you not retweet a birb?

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:09:23pm

re: #15 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Trump is gone. Nancy is still here.

Who is bing sued / investigated in multiple states?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:10:41pm
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lawhawk  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:11:01pm

re: #38 retired cynic

Years back, NYC decked over one of its sewage treatment plants and turned it into a state park on the Hudson River. That was a big deal then. This is something else entirely. I’m all for this kind of use and colocations.

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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:15:43pm

re: #41 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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I thought for a sec (before the pic loaded) it said from the Olympia Museum Store room. I was gonna say— they can’t complain about the British Museum any more.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:17:50pm

re: #41 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

All that copper turning green. Hopefully the store room has extra low humidity.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:18:06pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:20:18pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:28:51pm

re: #39 wrenchwench

How can you not retweet a birb?

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Sherlock Hound  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:29:49pm

I didn’t know Chuck Johnson was in jail!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:30:00pm

I noticed I CL’d myself

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:30:36pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:30:43pm

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:36:43pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:42:24pm

JFC

As Schroeder and attorneys from both sides debated the wording of jury instructions on Monday the defense renewed its request to dismiss the possession charge. Assistant District Attorney James Kraus argued that reading the statute to allow minors to carry any weapon except a short-barreled rifle or short-barreled shotgun basically negates the prohibition on minors carrying weapons.

“I believe that this … essentially swallows the entire statute,” Kraus said.

But this time Schroeder dismissed the charge after Kraus acknowledged that Rittenhouse’s rifle wasn’t a short-barreled. The judge noted that prosecutors filed a “very nice brief” laying out their arguments but that it should have been clear he had a “big problem” with the prohibition statute.

He said prosecutors could have asked a state appeals court to rule on whether the charge was valid “all along.” Then he caught himself, noting that he never issued a ruling against the prosecution that might have triggered such a request until just then with closing arguments minutes away.

“I think it ought to have been mighty clear that I had big problems with this statute,” Schroeder said. “I made no bones about that from the beginning. And there always was access to the court of appeals all along here. Well, I guess that’s not fair for me to say because I was sitting on it. So shame on me.”

I got no words that are polite.

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:45:42pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

How do we protect the country against crappy judges? “He was a good judge until he fired off his mouth.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:48:48pm

lol, the ratio

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:48:54pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shooting in Nome Park

So I went to see what state this Aurora was, and had a choice of shootings in Aurora, Illinois, the Aurora Theater and this one (Colorado).

I haz a sad.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:50:47pm

re: #56 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

So I went to see what state this Aurora was, and had a choice of shootings in Aurora, Illinois, the Aurora Theater and this one (Colorado).

I haz a sad.

It worked out better for me. I work in Aurora, Illinois when I go into the office.

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darthstar  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:53:59pm

re: #48 Sherlock Hound

I didn’t know Chuck Johnson was in jail!

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Boom.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 15, 2021 • 1:58:26pm

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:02:11pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:04:13pm

re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I’d seen this sentiment before as this:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:13:18pm
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steve_davis  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:14:45pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wow. that reminds me of the metholated gal from an adjacent apartment complex who finally got thrown into court-ordered detox while her apartment was literally having shit shoveled out of it by those cleaners who come in hazmat suits. She looked to be a badly-vintaged 50 when she was on the rock, but came back looking about 80. apparently she and the meth had a kind of symbiotic understanding: it would eat her alive, but it would do most of it from the inside. Once she betrayed it, it just kind of ate the rest of her down on the way out.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:15:27pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

“How about I rip that mask off and shove it down your throat, pal?”

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:16:14pm

re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg

“How about I rip that mask off and shove it down your throat, pal?”

Jen is not a Conservative.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:16:25pm

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

Republicans keep getting elected so 🤷🏽‍♀️. Vote for politicians who believe in gun control and we will see a change.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:18:00pm

re: #65 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Jen is not a Conservative.

No, but the mask is the nearest available weapon.

/

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:20:03pm
Forty years ago, upon the tenth anniversary of the debut of “Sesame Street,” the New York Times offered an appraisal of the revolutionary children’s television program, reminding readers that the show with universal appeal initially declared its target audience, “the four-year old inner-city black youngster.” This year, as the show commemorates its 50th anniversary and is broadcast in more than 150 countries, it’s worthwhile to take a look back at how since its inception, “Sesame Street” has been rooted in African-American culture, more specifically the historically black community of Harlem. The New York City neighborhood played such an outsized role in the development of the program—from set design to casting and marketing—the answer to the question from the “Sesame Street” opening song, “Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street,” ought to be Duke Ellington’s “Take the A Train.”

The Unmistakable Black Roots of ‘Sesame Street’ (Smithsonian Mag)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:21:12pm

and obviously long before her “kidney procedure”.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:22:12pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:22:57pm

Ah well….

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:23:59pm

re: #66 Patricia Kayden

Republicans keep getting elected so 🤷🏽‍♀️. Vote for politicians who believe in gun control and we will see a change.

my position has been, and remains, what do we have a better chance of achieving:

- banning the manufacture, import, sale or possession of any gun and taking them from those who currently own them

or

- crafting laws that hold gun owners responsible for their own undisputed actions

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sagehen  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:24:07pm

re: #68 Punish Domestic Terrorists

—the answer to the question from the “Sesame Street” opening song, “Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street,” ought to be Duke Ellington’s “Take the A Train.”

The Unmistakable Black Roots of ‘Sesame Street’ (Smithsonian Mag)

You drop that quote but not the track?

1941 HITS ARCHIVE: Take The “A” Train - Duke Ellington

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:25:01pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:25:30pm

The first time I saw Sesame Street was in its first year. We couldn’t get it at our house in Quincy, IL, but the YMCA came up with some way to access it. So there was a b/w TV on a table top in a rec room with a cable-like attachment and a couple of dozen of us on the cold floor. I was not impressed. I preferred Johnny Quest at that particular time of my life. I learned to like it later, as an adult.

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:28:10pm

re: #75 Barefoot Grin

The first time I saw Sesame Street was in its first year. We couldn’t get it at our house in Quincy, IL, but the YMCA came up with some way to access it. So there was a b/w TV on a table top in a rec room with a cable-like attachment and a couple of dozen of us on the cold floor. I was not impressed. I preferred Johnny Quest at that particular time of my life. I learned to like it later, as an adult.

How old were you then?

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:29:14pm

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wow that guy knows how to answer.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:30:24pm

re: #76 Belafon

How old were you then?

I was five or six. We lived in that town from ‘67-‘70. So I know it’s in that range.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:32:49pm

He wants the Trump fascists to reenact the 2000AD comic in South America. I’m for it if they can be prevented from hurting the locals.

Subpoenaed Jan. 6 Leader Loses It After Bannon Indictment: ‘Accept That You Will Die’ (DailyBeast)

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:35:37pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:37:35pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:37:58pm

re: #80 jaunte

I’m sure that shortly the judge will indicate that he has issues with the state and federal statutes regarding shooting people and will simply dismiss all charges.
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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:38:58pm

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:39:14pm

re: #81 jaunte

Can you object during closing arguments?

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:40:38pm

re: #84 Belafon

Apparently so:
natlawreview.com

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:40:51pm

re: #84 Belafon

Can you object during closing arguments?

You can, but only in pretty extreme circumstances. Otherwise, it’s frowned upon.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:41:17pm

This judge would frown on it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:41:52pm

re: #87 jaunte

This judge would frown on it.

this judge frowns upon anything that makes Kyle look bad

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:45:57pm
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The Squire of Logos  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:46:25pm

re: #75 Barefoot Grin

The first time I saw Sesame Street was in its first year. We couldn’t get it at our house in Quincy, IL, but the YMCA came up with some way to access it. So there was a b/w TV on a table top in a rec room with a cable-like attachment and a couple of dozen of us on the cold floor. I was not impressed. I preferred Johnny Quest at that particular time of my life. I learned to like it later, as an adult.

That gets an up-ding for Jonny Quest. I really enjoyed that show. Have you seen this stop-motion version of the opening credits? Was done about 10ish years ago.

Jonny Quest Opening Titles in Stop Motion

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EPR-radar  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:46:31pm

re: #72 Dangerman

my position has been, and remains, what do we have a better chance of achieving:

- banning the manufacture, import, sale or possession of any gun and taking them from those who currently own them

or

- crafting laws that hold gun owners responsible for their own undisputed actions

The first is 100% impossible. The second is only 99 point repeater 9 percent impossible.

I think the regrettable reality of this issue is that talking about doing something sensible about guns is a thing a Democratic candidate should only do if they really feel a pressing need to lose their election.

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EPR-radar  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:48:24pm

re: #77 Rightwingconspirator

Wow that guy knows how to answer.

Buttigieg has mortal political enemies. In most cases, that really improves a politician’s focus on never forgetting who the enemy is.

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:49:49pm

The bias from the judge is crystal clear. Once again white guy that shot someone in the freaking back gets off easy. Probably.

Only because I taught this stuff for years do I know of these things. I paid attorneys and police to come lecture at my classes.

Proper self-defense means the trouble came to you. When you prepare for violence, travel to the location of violence you are a combatant, not a defender. It also does not include stepping out as a minor in illegal possession of a gun to go defend someone else’s property uninvited.

Edit-The possession has been ruled legal. I think it’s nuts.

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dat_said  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:50:44pm

From last thread after I found out I was ridiculously behind in the comments:

re: #9 A Mom Anon

I wonder if it’s possible or if anyone has figured out the numbers on this for companies like Walmart and Amazon or most other large retailers. And then look at companies like Costco who actually raised their starting salary to 17 dollars an hour. I have a feeling it would just be a lot less expensive to just be a decent employer. You don’t have huge turnover, retraining or burned out employees, don’t have to deal with lawsuits and paying even larger groups of attorneys than you already have to as a company. I have to wonder about the same logic applied to what they do to fight taxes, labor laws and fair wages.

I hate lobbyists, that whole system is a huge part of why we’re here. And yet it’s rarely addressed, reported on and nothing is done about it.

You might find some items of interest in the Bloomberg article linked in the tweet. It’s another example of treating employees well (even if it was unions that forced that on you) reduces business risks.

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:50:46pm

re: #92 EPR-radar

A lesson I always wished Obama had learned.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:52:08pm
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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:52:57pm

re: #94 dat_said

I still prefer to give my money to the USPS, but that makes me support UPS more.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:53:00pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

Look at Biden, not elbowing her out of the way to get to the podium.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:54:25pm

re: #93 Rightwingconspirator

It came out that Rittenhouse’s gun was legal, under an insane Wisconsin law that allows kids as young as 12 to carry semi-auto weapons.

Hunting laws allowed Kyle Rittenhouse to carry weapon during fatal shootings in Wisconsin, lawyers say

Attorneys for Kyle Rittenhouse, who is charged with fatally shooting two people during a protest in Wisconsin last year, argued that hunting laws allowed him to carry the assault-style weapon used during the shootings.

Wisconsin law prohibits anyone under age 18 from being armed, but Rittenhouse’s attorneys argued that state laws only forbid minors to carry short-barreled rifles and shotguns. The other prohibitions pertaining to children fall under hunting laws, which say children under age 12 can’t hunt with guns, Rittenhouse’s attorneys said at a hearing Tuesday.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:55:25pm

Unless it’s legal to hunt humans in Wisconsin, he wasn’t hunting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:55:48pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:56:15pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

Right, point taken. But that’s not out hunting! Anyway we agree on this one. SMH

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:56:37pm

re: #90 The Squire of Logos

That gets an up-ding for Jonny Quest. I really enjoyed that show. Have you seen this stop-motion version of the opening credits? Was done about 10ish years ago.

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Video

Holy cow, that’s magnificent. I was terrified by the spider robot as a child. Also, kind of unfortunate that “Race” Bannon is a name and that he looks like Pence.

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EPR-radar  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:57:08pm

re: #93 Rightwingconspirator

… When you prepare for violence, travel to the location of violence you are a combatant, not a defender. …

This is the key point. In my view (unless applicable state law totally ruled this out), this should have been the one and only issue argued by the prosecution.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:57:46pm

re: #100 jaunte

Unless it’s legal to hunt humans in Wisconsin, he wasn’t hunting.

Agree - that’s why I called it an insane law.

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sagehen  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:57:53pm

re: #80 jaunte

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I thought a defense argument of “he needed shooting” only worked in Texas. So now it’s a Wisconsin thing too?

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:58:59pm

I’m not sure I agree with you 100% on your legal work, there, Judge.

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:59:06pm

re: #105 Charles Johnson

Agree - that’s why I called it an insane law.

The Fix was in.

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darthstar  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:59:18pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

It came out that Rittenhouse’s gun was legal, under an insane Wisconsin law that allows kids as young as 12 to carry semi-auto weapons.

Hunting laws allowed Kyle Rittenhouse to carry weapon during fatal shootings in Wisconsin, lawyers say

WHAT. WAS. HE. HUNTING. AT. A. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. RALLY. AT. NIGHT.

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EPR-radar  Nov 15, 2021 • 2:59:42pm

re: #100 jaunte

Unless it’s legal to hunt humans in Wisconsin, he wasn’t hunting.

Of course it’s legal to hunt humans in many parts of the US, subject to applicable white privilege.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:00:04pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:00:10pm

re: #110 EPR-radar

Like magic, it’s 1850 again.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:00:16pm

Man, this really makes me think twice about the Wisconsin taxidermy shops I referenced a couple of days ago.

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sagehen  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:00:45pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

It came out that Rittenhouse’s gun was legal, under an insane Wisconsin law that allows kids as young as 12 to carry semi-auto weapons.

Hunting laws allowed Kyle Rittenhouse to carry weapon during fatal shootings in Wisconsin, lawyers say

So summer is hunting season in Kenosha? Who knew?

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The Squire of Logos  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:00:56pm

re: #103 Barefoot Grin

Holy cow, that’s magnificent. I was terrified by the spider robot as a child. Also, kind of unfortunate that “Race” Bannon is a name and that he looks like Pence.

Inorite? It is literally a shot for shot redo of the opening credits. The spider robot created by the evil Dr. Zinn!

If only Pence had the courage, charisma and good humor of Race Bannon (despite the unfortunate name) he mighta been a contender! Actually strike that. Probably best that he is an impotent weenie.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:01:02pm

re: #111 Charles Johnson

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Next are the asps, I presume.

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EPR-radar  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:01:05pm

re: #107 jaunte

I’m not sure I agree with you 100% on your legal work, there, Judge.

Apparently WI doesn’t have much in the way of requirements needed to practice law, and this judge would appear to be one lamentable result of such a system.

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EPR-radar  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:02:32pm

re: #115 The Squire of Logos

Inorite? It is literally a shot for shot redo of the opening credits. The spider robot created by the evil Dr. Zinn!

If only Pence had the courage, charisma and good humor of Race Bannon (despite the unfortunate name) he mighta been a contender! Actually strike that. Probably best that he is an impotent weenie.

Race Bannon in Pence’s position would have thoroughly dealt with Trump, probably some time in Jan 2017.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:02:51pm

Holy what the fucking goddamnit:

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:03:17pm

re: #115 The Squire of Logos

Inorite? It is literally a shot for shot redo of the opening credits. The spider robot created by the evil Dr. Zinn!

If only Pence had the courage, charisma and good humor of Race Bannon (despite the unfortunate name) he mighta been a contender! Actually strike that. Probably best that he is an impotent weenie.

In my opinion Race Bannon was riffing on the look of Jeff Chandler.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:05:37pm

re: #119 Barefoot Grin

Holy what the fucking goddamnit:

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I don’t know. Maybe the board has no real power. One can hope.

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:06:35pm

re: #119 Barefoot Grin

Holy what the fucking goddamnit:

Who’s making the appointments?

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:07:34pm

Defense just objected on something that seems pretty insignificant and Schroeder didn’t freak out, so they obviously can.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:08:31pm

re: #121 Barefoot Grin

Kill the Election Assistance Commission?

2014:

“…The EAC’s reality, however, is marked by leadership vacuums and little sense of purpose.

It’s endowed with almost no regulatory powers. All four commissioner positions and have been vacant since 2011, and it hasn’t conducted a public meeting since then. It hasn’t had a quorum of three commissioners — what’s needed for the EAC to conduct votes, write policy and issue advisory opinions — since 2010. The commission has no permanent executive director or general counsel. It used to distribute grants to states so they may better administer elections. But today, lacking leaders, the EAC no longer make grants.”

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William Lewis  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:09:35pm

The only real hope for this trial is for a hung jury. That would allow a retrial and presumably a less corrupt judge in charge.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:10:10pm
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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:10:52pm

re: #124 jaunte



Kill the Election Assistance Commission?

2014:

Why would Republicans help voters? That’s why 2011 is significant.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:11:38pm

re: #126 jaunte

Only in America could that kind of argument find legitimacy in a courtroom.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:12:04pm

the little guy is like hey Hey HEY MF’er!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:13:25pm

re: #102 Rightwingconspirator

Right, point taken. But that’s not out hunting! Anyway we agree on this one. SMH

apparently it now *is* legal to hunt humans in Wisconsin, if you are a pasty little Pillsbury dough creature

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:15:31pm

re: #114 sagehen

So summer is hunting season in Kenosha? Who knew?

apparently don’t even need to get a tag for a legal harvest…

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:16:38pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:18:36pm

re: #125 William Lewis

The only real hope for this trial is for a hung jury. That would allow a retrial and presumably a less corrupt judge in charge.

what if the judge decides that a hung jury is a mistrial with prejudice?

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steve_davis  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:20:42pm

re: #78 Barefoot Grin

I was five or six. We lived in that town from ‘67-‘70. So I know it’s in that range.

you would have been watching syndicated jonny quest at that point, because the assholes who ran the networks decided that kids could only handle “let’s pretend” scary stuff, so the monsters were all various carnival barkers trying to run various grifts in various towns. Admittedly, Jonny Quest was racist as hell, but it was also way better than what followed. (Except for that episode where the dog is swimming around with everyone else in scuba gear. That was completely unrealistic. Unlike the completely sympathetic portrayal of Asian villains and African tribespeople).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:20:54pm

re: #126 jaunte

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

(that defense argument required the full flavored JFC)

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:23:48pm
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danarchy  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:23:55pm

re: #125 William Lewis

The only real hope for this trial is for a hung jury. That would allow a retrial and presumably a less corrupt judge in charge.

Corrupt implies he was bought off or something, I don’t think he is corrupt, just extremely biased.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:25:06pm

re: #24 gocart mozart

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So how much of his money has Alex sheltered in offshore accounts?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:25:24pm

re: #132 jaunte

MrBWS is one of those who opted for retirement at beginning of the year 2021 after being laid off at the beginning of May 2020 (and only being called back to work for 4 days over Christmas for a storm in Albany NY).
And he is very happy about that decision.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:26:34pm

re: #91 EPR-radar

The first is 100% impossible. The second is only 99 point repeater 9 percent impossible.

I think the regrettable reality of this issue is that talking about doing something sensible about guns is a thing a Democratic candidate should only do if they really feel a pressing need to lose their election.

schroeder once said to lucy:
“i wouldnt marry you unless you were the last woman on earth”

she asks “did you say ‘if’ or ‘unless’”

he says “I must admit, i said ‘unless’

“HOPE!!!!!”

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steve_davis  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:28:05pm

re: #103 Barefoot Grin

Holy cow, that’s magnificent. I was terrified by the spider robot as a child. Also, kind of unfortunate that “Race” Bannon is a name and that he looks like Pence.

My theory would be that he was from an immensely wealthy family and got given the surname as his given name. It’s the same situation in which if my first name were Davis, I’d be a professional golfer.

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:29:01pm

Black residents in a country in Georgia took control of the country commission and control most things in the county, so the lone Republican has filed bills in the state legislature to add seats to dilute the power:

m.dailykos.com

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steve_davis  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:29:33pm

re: #109 darthstar

WHAT. WAS. HE. HUNTING. AT. A. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. RALLY. AT. NIGHT.

coons, ma boy. (said with a strong mississippi tilt).

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:31:59pm
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Jay C  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:34:25pm

re: #141 steve_davis

re: #103 Barefoot Grin

Holy cow, that’s magnificent. I was terrified by the spider robot as a child. Also, kind of unfortunate that “Race” Bannon is a name and that he looks like Pence.

My theory would be that he was from an immensely wealthy family and got given the surname as his given name. It’s the same situation in which if my first name were Davis, I’d be a professional golfer

.

IIRC, wasn’t Race Bannon’s given name “Roger”??

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:36:12pm

re: #143 steve_davis

coons, ma boy. (said with a strong mississippi tilt).

open season…

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BeachDem  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:37:54pm

In her inimitable satiric style, Alexandra Petri shows the absurdity of the Rittenhouse defense (and of the NYT’s ridiculous take.)

Opinion: Teen who showed up in operating room with scalpel had idolized doctors all his life

The important thing to remember about the decisions that left two people dead and a lot of other people holding loose kidneys with expressions of abject horror is that the teenager who showed up in the operating room with a scalpel he had brought from home was a big fan of doctors and thought that he would be able to help.

washingtonpost.com

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EPR-radar  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:38:00pm

re: #136 Belafon

ND law is now in contradiction with itself, since it demands a factual and objective curriculum that omits the objective fact of US structural racism.

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:38:06pm

re: #144 Dread Pirate Ron

Raw Story@RawStory
Wyoming GOP votes to disown Liz Cheney as a Republican for her criticism of Trump

.  .  .  interesting.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:40:44pm

re: #145 Jay C

.

IIRC, wasn’t Race Bannon’s given name “Roger”??

Yes.
“Race” was his nickname, because of his dedication to the prosperity of the white race at any cost.
/I made that up, and can’t find the real reason.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:41:00pm

re: #144 Dread Pirate Ron

I thought they did that months ago

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:41:01pm

re: #124 jaunte


Kill the Election Assistance Commission?

2014:

Thanks. Unnecessary panic. I should have looked into it further in that very thread.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:41:56pm

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

I thought they did that months ago

I think they’re just making it official now.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:43:50pm

Here in bugfuck gun-crazy Alabama, I can carry a long rifle almost anywhere I please, EXCEPT TO A DEMONSTRATION. It’s a state law dating from the unfortunate times of the Outside Agitator problem.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:46:20pm

This scene from The Terminator where Sarah opens the terminator’s head has Linda Hamilton working on a dummy, with her twin sister Leslie with Arnold on the other side of the table, creating the illusion of a mirror. Leslie died last year.

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Jay C  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:49:08pm

re: #150 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Yes.
“Race” was his nickname, because of his dedication to the prosperity of the white race at any cost.
/I made that up, and can’t find the real reason.

Ummm, not all that sarcastic: from Wikipedia:

Roger T. “Race” Bannon is the special agent from Intelligence One assigned to safeguard Jonny “24 hours a day and 7 days a week as tutor, companion and all-around watchdog”.[13] Race was born in Wilmette, Illinois, to John and Sarah Bannon.[14] He is an expert in judo, having a third-degree black belt as well as the ability to defeat notorious experts in various sporting techniques, including sumo wrestlers. He is also a pilot. The character was voiced by Mike Road, with his design modeled on actor Jeff Chandler.[15] The name is a combination of Race Dunhill and Stretch Bannon from an earlier comic strip.[4] The surname Bannon is Irish (from ‘O’Banain’) meaning “white”.[16][17]

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:52:44pm
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darthstar  Nov 15, 2021 • 3:58:57pm

I like that the prosecutor framed his closing by saying the fact that Rittenhouse murdered two people is not in question, the only question is if the jury wants to let him ‘get away with it.’ Hopefully that sticks in the throats of the strongest people on that jury. Deliberation could be done in an hour.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:04:20pm

This offers some explanatory background about Sinema’s most recent behavior, though not all. It seems she’s working for Big Coin recently.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:05:23pm

re: #156 Jay C

Ummm, not all that sarcastic: from Wikipedia:

The surname Bannon is Irish (from ‘O’Banain’) meaning “white”

Huge sigh of relief that my Irish roots are Black Irish. Great-grandfather and various other male ancestors have the name Keiran/Keyran/Ciarán. It means “little dark one” or “little dark-haired one”, produced by appending a diminutive suffix to ciar (“black”, “dark”).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:07:52pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:09:23pm

re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth

Biden - Infrastructure Week

Trump - Infrastructure Weak

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:11:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:13:11pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:14:58pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:15:59pm

Charles,

Do you think Joe might reconsider his decision to leave if he knew that teleskiguy has been banned from the site? I am unhappy that they both left since previously they each contributed valuable ideas and information, but it was teleskiguy who went off the edge.

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danarchy  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:17:38pm

re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth

While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:19:10pm

re: #167 danarchy

While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.

well, that’s fine if you aren’t in an extreme rural area and can find living wage work or build a business without internet.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:21:11pm

re: #167 danarchy

While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.

It’s what we need to create jobs for educated people in the sparsely populated states where voters have disproportionate influence in the Senate.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:21:55pm

re: #167 danarchy

While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.

In those few days you could enjoy almost 60,000 cat pictures.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:22:36pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, that’s fine if you aren’t in an extreme rural area and can find living wage work or build a business without internet.

I personally have two spring-fed shallow wells, a spring-fed cistern, and backup solar and wind for electricity.
What I do not have is a reliable and affordable broadband internet access. My internet connection is just barely a step up from dialup.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:24:34pm

re: #170 Decatur Deb

In those few days you could enjoy almost 60,000 cat pictures.

You could run a quick GoFundMe to get some water delivered.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:24:54pm

Melania has sadly deteriorated

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:40:07pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:41:55pm

re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth

Huge sigh of relief that my Irish roots are Black Irish. Great-grandfather and various other male ancestors have the name Keiran/Keyran/Ciarán. It means “little dark one” or “little dark-haired one”, produced by appending a diminutive suffix to ciar (“black”, “dark”).

And there are the Korean Irish like the McKim clan.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:46:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:49:36pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:55:26pm

How is this a freedom of speech issue?

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 4:59:17pm

re: #178 I Would Prefer Not To

How is this a freedom of speech issue?

It is most definitely not. He has every chance of speaking. He is not being denied in any way.

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Jay C  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:08:18pm

re: #178 I Would Prefer Not To

How is this a freedom of speech issue?

Because it makes a better tagline for the apologists in RW media than “asshole stonewalls Congress” ?

The sort of apologists who probably think Steve Bannon deserves the Presidental Medal of Freedom.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:08:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:10:06pm

re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:12:43pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:15:23pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:16:04pm

re: #183 gocart mozart

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It takes 10,000 times of being cancelled….

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:21:39pm

Some good news, apologies if this was covered already.
Alex Jones Loses Fourth Lawsuit Over Sandy Hook ‘Hoax’ Conspiracy
A Connecticut judge has found Infowars host Alex Jones liable for damages in lawsuits brought by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
huffpost.com

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:22:38pm

re: #178 I Would Prefer Not To

How is this a freedom of speech issue?

Maybe he’s claiming “persecution” for what he said on and about 1/6???

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:24:18pm

re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:24:51pm
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EPR-radar  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:25:32pm

re: #187 Dangerman

Maybe he’s claiming “persecution” for what he said on and about 1/6???

This freedom of speech crap is just more of the usual right wing bullshit. They all think “freedom of speech” means the freedom for them to say what they want to say, on any platform, no matter how offensive it is. It also includes the freedom to break laws at will (but only for Republicans).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:26:51pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:29:02pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:29:59pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:36:02pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:41:42pm

Keep that conspiracy tight.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:42:11pm

re: #193 Dread Pirate Ron

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Former President Donald Trump dismissed a report that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was going to disinvite him from Joe Biden’s inauguration.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:42:45pm

IANAL, but wasn’t Judge Schroeder’s dismissal of the gun charge equivalent to jury nullification: he didn’t like the literal reading of the law so he threw it out?

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:42:56pm

re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter

Charles,

Do you think Joe might reconsider his decision to leave if he knew that teleskiguy has been banned from the site? I am unhappy that they both left since previously they each contributed valuable ideas and information, but it was teleskiguy who went off the edge.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:47:59pm
Billionaire Peter Thiel anonymously purchased former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s Washington, D.C. home for $13 million, Politico reports.

The purchase of the splashy new Washington residence comes amid a burst of political activity for Thiel.

Definitely not over market price, right? //

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:49:24pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:50:42pm

re: #199 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:51:15pm

Former President Donald Trump endorsed a Republican challenger to Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI), who was one of the 10 House of Representatives Republicans to vote to impeach Trump earlier this year, Reuters reports.

And

The Wyoming Republican Party will no longer recognize Liz Cheney as a member of the GOP in its second formal rebuke for her criticism of former President Donald Trump,” the AP reports.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:54:50pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:55:46pm

re: #200 Dangerman

Wilbur Ross keeps making money like he’s planning to take it with him.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:58:24pm

re: #202 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2021 • 5:59:56pm

re: #199 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:00:17pm

re: #167 danarchy

While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.

You can boil your own water and use firewood that you go cut down yourself. And then, when you get sick, you can burn some leaves hoping it will cure you.

No, you don’t need water from a properly functioning system, and you don’t need electricity since the human race did without it for all except the last hundred years. And you don’t need antibiotics, vaccines, packaged food, clothes, or a house. But, since we live in a world where those things go are available, it is really nice being able to look up how to solve the math problem your kid is struggling with, how to fix the faucet that is leaking, or apply online for that job you wouldn’t even know about otherwise.

Sometimes, your contrarianism is really short sighted.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:02:23pm
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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:02:55pm

re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:03:18pm

re: #209 Charles Johnson

The Day The Recipe Lady Reached The End Of Her Rope.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:04:13pm

One of my aunts was the recipe lady for Riviana Rice back in the 60s, but she never had that bad a day.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:07:46pm

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:08:02pm

re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter

Charles,

Do you think Joe might reconsider his decision to leave if he knew that teleskiguy has been banned from the site? I am unhappy that they both left since previously they each contributed valuable ideas and information, but it was teleskiguy who went off the edge.

I haven’t emailed this info to him, but the main reason he left isn’t just ski - he felt there were others who agreed. This is the core reason he felt unwelcome, I think, and I have to respect that. If he heard from other LGF members who want him to reconsider, maybe it would change his mind. Or maybe not.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:08:08pm

re: #209 Charles Johnson

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MAGA

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:08:14pm

re: #210 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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ipsos  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:10:07pm

re: #210 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:18:33pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:20:58pm

Horror movie scriptwriters alert:

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sagehen  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:21:47pm

re: #204 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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looking for a pick-a-nick basket.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:23:48pm

re: #219 jaunte

Horror movie scriptwriters alert:

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I can so relate.

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A Three Hour Tour  Nov 15, 2021 • 6:49:27pm

re: #206 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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With respect to everyone who wants to chase after Joe and beg him to come back, Joe does not strike me as the kind of person to “get over” things, especially when he feels that he has been wronged or betrayed.

No one asked me, but if one were to do so, I would counsel giving him his space to deal with his feelings in his way.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Nov 15, 2021 • 7:09:08pm

re: #222 A Three Hour Tour

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Sherlock Hound  Nov 15, 2021 • 7:12:48pm

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I dislike talking about other members for just this reason. If I left, and found out everyone wanted me back just because, after I had been alienated, I would’ve felt even more so. (It’s like how I feel about the city I live in, but that’s for another thread.)

I have been online for longer than some of you, and have experienced many of the same emotions in various other settings online. I usually leave quietly, based on long experience.

I have no enemies, and no one I dislike, here, so I’m not likely to flounce. But I always think about it, no matter where I post, and I, and we, must accept that nothing is permanent. (Yahoo killed the disability list I used to run. Then my moderator died of pancreatic cancer.)

I like and respect Charles. If I left, I would still follow him on Twitter.

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A Three Hour Tour  Nov 15, 2021 • 7:58:27pm

re: #223 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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I probably should’ve appended my comment to one of the other posts in the thread, or just posted as a separate comment instead of piggybacking one in a reply. I’m tired and everything’s beginning to run together, now. Sorry.


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