A Truly Creepy Short Horror Film: “PARE”

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After a woman finds a blood stained jacket on a secluded road in the woods, she is haunted by a mysterious presence in a winter not-so-wonderland.

“PARE” by Lauren Sick

Produced by Josh Ruben (‘Werewolves Within’, ‘Scare Me’), shot by Brendan Banks (‘Scare Me’), edited by Brett W. Bachman (‘Pig’, ‘Mandy’, ‘Color Out of Space’, ‘The Vigil’), and starring Dana Drori (‘Freaky’, ‘Tentacles’)

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Connect with the Filmmakers:
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laurensick.com
dreambear.org
joshruben.onfabrik.com

“PARE” Credits:
Writer / Director / Producer: Lauren Sick
Producer: Cassidy Ellis
Producer: Josh Ruben
Executive Producer: Evan Brown
Cinematographer: Brendan Banks
Production Designer: Lauren Crawford
1st AD: Lenny Payan
Editor: Brett W. Bachman
Composer: Robert Allaire
Colorist: Carlos Flores
Gaffer: Dave McCabe
Audio Mixer: Jeff Gaumer
Sound Designer: Owen Granich-Young
Costume Designer: Amit Gajwani

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317 comments
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 9, 2021 • 10:34:11pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 9, 2021 • 10:45:00pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 9, 2021 • 11:28:33pm

Dr. Mehmet Oz’s quixotic US Senate campaign is running into a problem: Evangelicals are coming out swinging against him for the office.

Why Christians Should Be Leery of This Celebrity 2022 Senatorial Candidate (Charisma, December 6, 2021)

They are going after him for everything they can throw at him: Former Muslim, later Sufi, present member of the Swedenborgian Church of North America (Christian sect), practitioner of reiki and transcendental meditation, Turkish by birth, mother was an atheist who supported Ataturk’s ideal for secular governance, father was a strict Muslim fundamentalist, &c.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 9, 2021 • 11:47:00pm
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A Cranky One  Dec 9, 2021 • 11:55:53pm

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 12:40:51am

From an earlier thread:

re: #59 No Malarkey!

A treasure hunter has spent six years in jail for contempt of court rather than reveal the location of gold coins. news.yahoo.com

From the article:

6 years and counting: Ex-treasure hunter still stuck in jail
.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former deep-sea treasure hunter is preparing to mark his sixth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing coins made from gold found in an historic shipwreck.

Research scientist Tommy Thompson has been held in contempt of court since Dec. 15, 2015, for that refusal. He is also incurring a daily fine of $1,000.

Thompson’s case dates to his discovery of the S.S. Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, in 1988. The gold rush-era ship sank in a hurricane off South Carolina in 1857 with thousands of pounds of gold aboard, contributing to an economic panic.
…snip…

from the wiki article:

Commander William Lewis Herndon, a distinguished officer who had served during the Mexican-American War and explored the Amazon Valley, was captain of Central America, and went down with his ship. Two US Navy ships were later named USS Herndon in his honor, as was the town of Herndon, Virginia. Two years after the sinking, his daughter Ellen married Chester Alan Arthur, later the 21st President of the United States.

My post office address is “Herndon, Virginia”.

To describe the area I usually say:
“Herndon is named after a captain who went down with his ship. And that is strangely appropriate.

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 12:44:40am

Speaking of Christmas Trees:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 12:47:20am

Two students call police with tip preventing mass murder at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, God gets credit. (WKMG-TV, Channel 6 Orlando, December 9, 2021)

‘By the grace of God:’ Embry-Riddle student arrested before he could commit mass shooting, police say

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young said police were able to stop a potential mass shooting at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University on Thursday.

Police arrested John Hagins, 19, Thursday morning outside of his home at Andros Isles Apartments, which is about three and a half miles from the university.

Hagins now faces charges of written threats to injure or kill, terrorism and attempted first-degree homicide.

(more)

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 12:47:27am

I found this chart quite interesting:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 12:51:22am

re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Josh and the Duggars were held up as some archetypal Biblical-traditional family (not to mention the adoration and adulation they evoked among the 14 Words community)

And his trial and prosecution were also framed as a form of religious prosecution by amoral, degenerate liberal leftists who want to force us all to use birth control from puberty and/or get abortions while they overwhelm us racially with dark-skinned welfare/anchor babies

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 12:52:52am

One last one before I head to bed…
Ladies’ high fashion from 4 and a half millennia ago:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 12:55:43am

re: #7 ckkatz

A Victorian era candle-lit Christmas tree, late 1800s.

The German tradition (from which this was borrowed via Victoria’s hubby, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg) is to wait until Christmas Eve to put up a freshly-cut tree and decorate it with candles.

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sagehen  Dec 10, 2021 • 12:59:25am

re: #11 ckkatz

One last one before I head to bed…
Ladies’ high fashion from 4 and a half millennia ago:

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that’s very pretty; I could imagine Americans today wearing such a thing. In 14k gold, or in silver…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:03:08am

That’s going to be a lot of dead Christians then.

1 in 10 Americans say the COVID-19 vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs (NPR, December 9, 2021)

Only 10% of Americans believe that getting a COVID-19 vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs, and 59% of Americans say too many people are using religious beliefs as an excuse not to get vaccinated, a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) shows.

A majority of Americans, 60%, also say there is no valid religious reason to refuse a COVID-19 vaccine - but the number changes when it comes to white evangelicals. While a majority of every other major religious group says their faith doesn’t include a valid reason to refuse the vaccine, just 41% of white evangelicals believe the same.

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:05:28am

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s going to be a lot of dead Christians then.

The great thing about “religious beliefs” is that they do not have to be logical or even consistent with themselves in practice: they can be whatever you declare them to be.

And in this case, they are as much an expression of one’s tribal affiliation as they are a case of living any sort of deeply held faith.

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:08:06am

re: #12 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A Victorian era candle-lit Christmas tree, late 1800s.

The German tradition (from which this was borrowed via Victoria’s hubby, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg) is to wait until Christmas Eve to put up a freshly-cut tree and decorate it with candles.

Interesting! Did not realize this.

What are the German traditions these days? I suspect that there is less emphasis on lit candles on dry pine trees.

This local website shows some of the more interesting Christmas light displays in Northern Virginia:
Holly’s Tacky Christmas Lights
fairfaxchristmaslights.com

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:10:32am

re: #13 sagehen

that’s very pretty; I could imagine Americans today wearing such a thing. In 14k gold, or in silver…

Kind of reminded me of the 1920’s ‘Flapper’ stylings.

What was old is new again.

Although I suspect that the flowers might prove a bit obnoxious in doorways , under low hanging lights, etc.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:12:14am

North Carolina tax dollars supporting Christianity and one Republican.

One of the largest allocations for substance use disorder treatment in the recently enacted state budget — $10 million — is going to a new nonprofit set up by a church in Robeson County, home to one of the most powerful Republicans in the state senate.

The nonprofit, called Hope Alive Inc., is a ministry of Greater Hope International Church in Lumberton. Its lead pastor, Ron Barnes, told his congregation during a Sunday service on Nov. 21, which was live streamed on Facebook, that Hope Alive received a grant to open an “82-bed drug addiction rehab facility.”

There’s no evidence on the six-year-old church’s website to suggest it has experience in treating addiction disorders (my emphasis), and the church failed to respond to multiple media requests for details of the nonprofit’s plans.

(more)

Targeting the opioid crisis, NC lawmakers give $10M to new church ministry (North Carolina Health News, December 6, 2021)

The church is in a strip mall. North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Burger (R-Eden) led the budget negotiations to include the $10 million to the church.

“It’s really infuriating to see $10 million going somewhere that doesn’t have any details attached to it,” said Jamie Carter, primary care and addiction medicine physician at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham. At Carter’s facility, which didn’t receive money from the state budget for addiction treatment, patients historically would miss MAT appointments because they struggled to scrounge up the $10 needed for their copay. Currently, her patients’ copays are being covered by a temporary grant set to expire next year, but she said there are patients at other community health centers in the state that still struggle to afford copays.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:12:49am

re: #16 ckkatz

Interesting! Did not realize this.

What are the German traditions these days? I suspect that there is less emphasis on lit candles on dry pine trees.

Traditional rural Germans will go cut a fresh tree on Xmas Eve and decorate it. Children are not supposed to be in the room when the parents do it, then the mother then rings a bell to tell them that the Christkind (a mythical Christmas fairy) has come to deliver the presents. Sometimes they arrange for a Christkind to be there in person

But nowadays, they are tending towards the US/UK standard of putting the tree up early with electric lights although kiddies still get to do their presents on Xmas Eve.

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:20:21am

re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Traditional rural Germans will go cut a fresh tree on Xmas Eve and decorate it. Children are not supposed to be in the room when the parents do it, then the mother then rings a bell to tell them that the Christkind (a mythical Christmas fairy) has come to deliver the presents.

But nowadays, they are tending towards the US/UK standard of putting the tree up early with electric lights although kiddies still get to do their presents on Xmas Eve.

I used to have a lot of friends who get their trees on Christmas Eve, decorate them and keep them around through New Years.

Most gave that up and went to artificial trees. A few keep those up so long that the tree might benefit from a dusting.

If they feel the need for real pine smell as opposed to the artificial sprays on the market, a couple of places sell pine branches to hang up around the room. I do not know what they do if there are pine sap drips.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:21:46am

re: #20 ckkatz

It has to be a real tree. We will be fetching ours this week, but will wait to do the traditional Schmuckfest on Xmas eve as my youngest daughter is not getting in until evening of the 23rd…

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:21:48am

Well, time to head to bed. G’Nite all.

And the obligatory ‘Dad’ joke:

OK, I’ve cleared my cache of cookies.
But I don’t see how eating 300 oreos is going to make my computer work any better.

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:23:13am

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It has to be a real tree. We will be fetching ours this week, but will do the traditional Schmuckfest on Xmas eve as my youngest daughter is not getting in until evening of the 23rd…

Sounds like a wonderful family get-together!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:23:53am

re: #22 ckkatz

Well, time to head to bed. G’Nite all.

And the obligatory ‘Dad’ joke:

OK, I’ve cleared my cache of cookies.
But I don’t see how eating 300 oreos is going to make my computer work any better.

For the holidays, I have been stocking up on Pringles chips (ghastly, but my kids still love them).

I pointed out that if I buy any more, they will reach critical mass and form a Pringularity.

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ckkatz  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:26:08am

re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Hah!

That was pretty good! I’ll have to remember it for “off lgf usage”. :)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:29:01am

re: #23 ckkatz

Sounds like a wonderful family get-together!

My family has those too. Family will come in to various cousins’s homes and have a large extended party/feast/presents, children, grandchildren (and before the Plague Years my mother would also attend).

It’s been a long time since I was welcome at any family event though.

My wife and I will be alone on Christmas Day. We don’t do things like decorate our home (it’s just us here).

The only “Christmasy” thing that happens here is I play Christmas music on my hammered dulcimer.

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sagehen  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:29:03am

re: #12 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A Victorian era candle-lit Christmas tree, late 1800s.

The German tradition (from which this was borrowed via Victoria’s hubby, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg) is to wait until Christmas Eve to put up a freshly-cut tree and decorate it with candles.

I knew this, because I watched the Masterpiece Theater airing of the BBC production of Victoria. All the Currier & Ives crap was in there, it only happened because she so loved her cousin-husband. (white wedding dresses was also a Victoria invention; nobody used to do that before her)

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sagehen  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:32:49am

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It has to be a real tree. We will be fetching ours this week, but will wait to do the traditional Schmuckfest on Xmas eve as my youngest daughter is not getting in until evening of the 23rd…

Does the “schmuck” in schmuckfest carry the same meaning as the Yiddish schmuck? Cause that’s a very rude name for what’s supposed to be festive and enjoyable?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:44:21am

re: #28 sagehen

Does the “schmuck” in schmuckfest carry the same meaning as the Yiddish schmuck? Cause that’s a very rude name for what’s supposed to be festive and enjoyable?

Schmuck is the German word for “decoration” or “jewelry”. I guess that the Yiddish variant refers to the “family jewels”.

The German word for a grave is Grab. There was a florist across from the Frankfurt-South Cemetery that sold grave decorations, or Grabschmuck, a source of endless amusement.

And now ve zingk ze traditional Christmas Karoll:

Schmuck den Saalen mit Schechpalmensträuchern
Falalalala-lalalala
Ist ist die Jahreszeit um fröhlich zu sein
Falalalala-lalalala
Bekleiden wir uns mit schwulen Gewändern
Falalalala-lalalala
Kobold das uralte Weihnachtszeitslied
Falalalala-lalalalallenheimer!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:45:28am

Canada is unlocking its maple syrup vault. Here’s what it looks like (CBC, video, 1:51)

Welcome to the world’s only maple syrup emergency reserve.

It’s run by the organization that governs Quebec’s maple syrup producers who, for 21 years, have been stockpiling gallons of the so-called “liquid gold” in a small town called Laurierville, about 70 kilometres southwest from Quebec City.

The reserve is normally closed to the public, but on Thursday the media were invited to get a rare glimpse into one of the four warehouses where the syrup is housed.

This is where producers dip in if they’ve run out of their own supplies to sell. Worldwide demand for maple syrup has increased by about 20 per cent each year for the past two years, according to Serge Beaulieu, president of the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers.

Experts say the spike was partly fuelled by more people cooking at home during the pandemic. which has strained the supply.

(more)

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Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:53:09am

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It has to be a real tree. We will be fetching ours this week, but will wait to do the traditional Schmuckfest on Xmas eve as my youngest daughter is not getting in until evening of the 23rd…

We do Christmas/Thanksgiving under the Deb calendar—a couple weeks between the ‘official’ feasts. All the kids drive or fly in and out in a few days, leaving them free to attend their in-laws’ celebrations. We almost invented Festivus.

And the tree must be real, or an old brass Christmas tree/menorah made by a confused Korean in the 80’s. This year we went for the real tree, that we finished decorating yesterday.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 1:55:26am

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Worldwide demand for maple syrup has increased by about 20 per cent each year for the past two years, according to Serge Beaulieu, president of the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers.

Maple syrup used to be hard to find in Germany, now it is a regular item in most supermarkets.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 2:07:50am

Weather radio just sounded off.

New snowfall prediction is ten inches in the northern Nebr. Panhandle, about five inches in the southern Panhandle, and eight inches in Goshen County, Wyo.

Winds in excess of thirty-five miles per hour, travel will become impossible.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 2:08:51am

re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Maple syrup used to be hard to find in Germany, now it is a regular item in most supermarkets.

When I was stationed in Spain, I had a cousin mail a gallon of maple syrup from Michigan.

It turns out mailing a whole gallon of maple syrup is rather expensive.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 2:11:24am

The National Weather Service just upgraded the winter weather advisory to a Winter Storm Warning. I think I’ll stay inside.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 2:30:16am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 2:35:40am

Buzzfeed asked readers to share why they turned their backs on religious faith and never looked back. They printed some of the responses.

buzzfeed.com

“A priest told me that the reason I developed an autoimmune condition was because I wasn’t living a life free from sin.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 2:38:01am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Dec 10, 2021 • 2:46:07am

Julian is not going to enjoy his weekend

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 10, 2021 • 2:57:51am

re: #20 ckkatz

I used to have a lot of friends who get their trees on Christmas Eve, decorate them and keep them around through New Years.

Most gave that up and went to artificial trees. A few keep those up so long that the tree might benefit from a dusting.

If they feel the need for real pine smell as opposed to the artificial sprays on the market, a couple of places sell pine branches to hang up around the room. I do not know what they do if there are pine sap drips.

I had a tree precisely once. I had pine needles in my carpet for seven months.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:00:02am

re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

For the holidays, I have been stocking up on Pringles chips (ghastly, but my kids still love them).

I pointed out that if I buy any more, they will reach critical mass and form a Pringularity.

Are they so you can leave them out with a glass of milk for Pris Pringle on Christmas Eve?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:02:07am

Former Senator Robert Dole (R-Kans.) lay in state Thursday in the Capitol Rotunda.

Several Democrats came to speak at this memorial, including President Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and others.

Senator Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to speak at the event.

Former Sen. Bob Dole honored as champion, patriot at Capitol memorial (United Press International, with video of the event)

Sen. Dole’s body was removed Friday morning to the National Cathedral for his funeral service. A service was also held at the National World War Two Monument.

His body then arrived in Kansas Friday night in Salina, met by a delegation led by Democratic Governor Laura Kelly.

A public viewing will between 9 and 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Russell. A service will be held at 11 a.m., with former U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts and current U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall offering remarks. The public can pass by Dole’s casket following the service to pay their respects before it departs at 1 p.m.

Funeral, memorial events for former Sen. Bob Dole planned in D.C., Topeka and Russell (Topeka Capital-Journal)

His body will then lie in state Saturday afternoon in Topeka where several politicians of both parties active and retired will give remarks on the life of former Sen. Dole.

His family and body will then return to Washington in the evening. Details of his burial have not yet been announced.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:07:08am

re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Is the economy too weak or too strong? Yes.

Is everything wrong with the economy Biden’s fault?

Yes!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:08:07am

re: #41 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Are they so you can leave them out with a glass of milk for Pris Pringle on Christmas Eve?

Pringle Bells

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:27:16am

Well, that was quick…

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:40:12am

re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The National Weather Service just upgraded the winter weather advisory to a Winter Storm Warning. I think I’ll stay inside.

We are also under a Winter Storm Warning here. The official NWS warning says 6 to 14 inches throughout south and central Minnesota; Weather Underground, my preferred weather app, predicts roughly 5 inches from noon today through tomorrow morning. I’m not 100% sure I take the over on that; I usually wind up being more correct taking the under. With that said, either way, that’s plenty enough to warrant firing up the snowblower.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:46:05am

re: #45 Targetpractice

Netflix cancels Cowboy Bebop after one season:

I even sat down with my teenage daughter to watch an episode of the original CB anime series, as it seems to be one of the first of its genre. It was quaint and entertaining in its own way but I was not about to touch the Netflix series.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:47:37am

re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I even sat down with my teenage daughter to watch an episode of the original CB anime series, as it seems to be one of the first of its genre. It was quaint and entertaining in its own way but I was not about to touch the Netflix series.

I might watch it at some point - maybe on my own, not sure if it’s a thing Mrs. Fish would get into. With that said, I’m wondering if the extremely mixed reactions it got from the fandom are the reason Netflix ultimately canceled it.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:50:47am

re: #45 Targetpractice

Well, that was quick…

Netflix cancels Cowboy Bebop after one season:

Well, the original Cowboy Bebop series was only one season long too
So, I’m not exactly surprised

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:50:56am

re: #48 Dopamine Fish

Netflix also carries the original series.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 3:52:31am

re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Netflix also carries the original series.

I’m aware. I’ll probably wind up watching both. I’m sure I’ll regret my life choices later.

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William Lewis  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:01:14am

re: #31 Decatur Deb

or an old brass Christmas tree/menorah made by a confused Korean in the 80’s

Ok, photo please :)

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:02:11am

re: #52 William Lewis

or an old brass Christmas tree/menorah made by a confused Korean in the 80’s

Ok, photo please :)

LOL. I was wondering the same thing. Although my parents do have an authentic aluminum Christmas tree from the 1960’s, which my dad found on eBay some years ago to bring back some nostalgia.

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William Lewis  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:03:39am

re: #39 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Julian is not going to enjoy his weekend

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:04:51am

re: #49 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Well, the original Cowboy Bebop series was only one season long too
So, I’m not exactly surprised

Yeah, but that one season was 26 episodes. Faye didn’t show up until the third episode and joined the crew in the fourth, while Vicious and the Red Dragon Syndicate showed up a sum total of one episode in the first 10 episodes, instead of showing up in the first episode and being a constant part of the story.

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William Lewis  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:06:18am

re: #45 Targetpractice

Well, that was quick…

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Not a surprise. Netflix does very little right. If they’re lucky they can get picked up by Amazon Prime.

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:08:26am

re: #39 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Julian is not going to enjoy his weekend

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I get a chuckle out of the suggestion that the only reason not to extradite him is because he might commit suicide. I can’t think of too many people I’ve seen in my life who loves themselves more than Julian Assange.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:13:41am

re: #56 William Lewis

Not a surprise. Netflix does very little right. If they’re lucky they can get picked up by Amazon Prime.

My daughter explains that Netflix only does a second season if the first one has really good resonance and viewership and even then rarely does a third season with a few exceptions like Sex Education

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:14:37am

re: #57 Targetpractice

I get a chuckle out of the suggestion that the only reason not to extradite him is because he might commit suicide. I can’t think of too many people I’ve seen in my life who loves themselves more than Julian Assange.

He might commit suicide by accidentally falling through three plate-glass windows onto an exploding radioactive poison umbrella?

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:16:00am

re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My daughter explains that Netflix only does a second season if the first one has really good resonance and viewership and even then rarely does a third season with a few exceptions like Sex Education

That’s correct. The latter point especially sucks, because there are several really damn good two-season shows on Netflix that I’d love to see more of.

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:17:28am

re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He might commit suicide by accidentally falling through three plate-glass windows onto an exploding radioactive poison umbrella?

Nah, he’ll suddenly come down with a 9mm head cold.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:20:13am

re: #61 Targetpractice

Nah, he’ll suddenly come down with a 9mm head cold.

Or drive off a cliff into incoming traffic

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:22:06am

Reading the episode descriptions of the live-action CB is almost physically painful, probably because I’m cringing so much at how the writers seemed to have an exec mandate to make everything about the Red Dragon Syndicate. So that otherwise good stand-alone episodes get mashed together into something barely recognizable if you’re a fan of the original series. I cannot imagine how they would have managed a second season after burning through 26 episodes of good material like that.

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steve_davis  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:22:50am

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Two students call police with tip preventing mass murder at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, God gets credit. (WKMG-TV, Channel 6 Orlando, December 9, 2021)

‘By the grace of God:’ Embry-Riddle student arrested before he could commit mass shooting, police say

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holy crap. i work for these folks online.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:24:12am

Some new drive time music this very fine morning.

Elvis Costello, The Imposters - Magnificent Hurt (Official Video)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:25:01am

re: #63 Targetpractice

Reviews I got also indicate that this series was dictated by the Marketing department and put in the hands of people with no sense or feeling for the original series or for anime in general.

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steve_davis  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:25:17am

re: #9 ckkatz

I found this chart quite interesting:

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isn’t the chinese word “mama”? I seem to recall from my distant days of larnin’ that this is perhaps less because it’s connected to the indo european word, and more because babies have an easier time making the “m” sound than pretty much any other consonant, so lots of languages have that as the first thing baby can say, because mothers are of course wanting their babies to say something!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:28:11am

re: #67 steve_davis

We were trying to get out daughter to sleep through the night…and when she made noise at 3am I would tell her that she had to wait until it was light outside.

Mistake was, we were doing that in the spring as the days were getting longer.

And her third word after “mama” and “papa”? “Light!”

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:29:00am

re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Reviews I got also indicate that this series was dictated by the Marketing department and put in the hands of people with no sense or feeling for the original series or for anime in general.

As a Trek fan, that sounds all too familiar.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:29:44am

re: #69 Targetpractice

As a Trek fan, that sounds all too familiar.

There is only one department that can overrule Marketing, and that is Legal…

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:33:58am

re: #45 Targetpractice

Well, that was quick…

I was kind of enjoying the campy fun, but it was dumb.

re: #56 William Lewis

Not a surprise. Netflix does very little right. If they’re lucky they can get picked up by Amazon Prime.

It sure as hell beats the alternative…

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:39:10am

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s going to be a lot of dead Christians then.

1 in 10 Americans say the COVID-19 vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs (NPR, December 9, 2021)

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Why would you worship a God who demands that you suffer and die from an easily preventable disease?

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:40:42am

While I get that the ability to stream any episode at any time means the old limitations of syndicated TV series like trying to follow a single storyline over the course of a season is no longer as much of an issue, but it also means that you can pretty quickly burn your audience out if they’re not invested in that storyline at all. It might be time to consider going back to the days of having a season mostly made of stand-alone episodes that people can pick and choose without feeling like if they’re not watching every religiously then they’re missing something.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:44:46am

re: #73 Targetpractice

A lot of my favorite shows are these, and have been for quite a while. I think there’s a specific audience for it, and it’s bigger than a lot of studio execs think it is. This kind of flow lends itself especially well to sci-fi universes, where you can literally reset the entire context for the next episode using time travel or warping to a new destination or whatever sci-fi mechanism suits your fancy.

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jeffreyw  Dec 10, 2021 • 4:58:30am

dawn deer

Good morning!

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:03:17am

re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The great thing about “religious beliefs” is that they do not have to be logical or even consistent with themselves in practice: they can be whatever you declare them to be.

And in this case, they are as much an expression of one’s tribal affiliation as they are a case of living any sort of deeply held faith.

Most of them couldn’t explain with analysis and historical reference exactly and specifically why it “conflicts with their religious beliefs”

And not merely because “someone else said so”

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:07:44am

re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Dr. Mehmet Oz’s quixotic US Senate campaign is running into a problem: Evangelicals are coming out swinging against him for the office.

Why Christians Should Be Leery of This Celebrity 2022 Senatorial Candidate (Charisma, December 6, 2021)

They are going after him for everything they can throw at him: Former Muslim, later Sufi, present member of the Swedenborgian Church of North America (Christian sect), practitioner of reiki and transcendental meditation, Turkish by birth, mother was an atheist who supported Ataturk’s ideal for secular governance, father was a strict Muslim fundamentalist, &c.

The short story: ‘Not White Enough”

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:12:20am

re: #77 Florida Panhandler

The short story: ‘Not White Enough”

They can’t oppose him because he’s a medical quack (outside of his specialist field), or a liar, or because he supports inhumane and anti-Christian policies like all Republicans these days; oh, no, it has to be racist. Because White American Jesus. Fucking hell.

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:13:33am

re: #74 Dopamine Fish

A lot of my favorite shows are these, and have been for quite a while. I think there’s a specific audience for it, and it’s bigger than a lot of studio execs think it is. This kind of flow lends itself especially well to sci-fi universes, where you can literally reset the entire context for the next episode using time travel or warping to a new destination or whatever sci-fi mechanism suits your fancy.

Hell, even scifi series that are not explicitly telling a single story can fall into that bottomless pit. X-Files was loved when it was mostly stand-alone episodes with the occasional myth arc episode that culminated in a “answer some questions, ask a whole lot more” season finale. Then it went up its own ass by being almost nothing by myth-arc episodes and fans started bailing on it because it became obvious that there would never be a pay-off big enough to justify sitting through it all.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:13:58am

re: #5 A Cranky One

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I made a bar graph of my favorite pies, and a pie graph of my favorite bars.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:16:54am

re: #79 Targetpractice

Hell, even scifi series that are not explicitly telling a single story can fall into that bottomless pit. X-Files was loved when it was mostly stand-alone episodes with the occasional myth arc episode that culminated in a “answer some questions, ask a whole lot more” season finale. Then it went up its own ass by being almost nothing by myth-arc episodes and fans started bailing on it because it became obvious that there would never be a pay-off big enough to justify sitting through it all.

Stargate: SG-1 was one of my favorite shows for a long time. Still is, in the early seasons. (We don’t speak of the Ori.) They did the same thing; a few character development arcs that showed up in mostly standalone episodes, and a short story buildup/”the road so far” that led to the epic season finale and next season’s pilot episode.

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:22:36am

re: #81 Dopamine Fish

Stargate: SG-1 was one of my favorite shows for a long time. Still is, in the early seasons. (We don’t speak of the Ori.) They did the same thing; a few character development arcs that showed up in mostly standalone episodes, and a short story buildup/”the road so far” that led to the epic season finale and next season’s pilot episode.

Series like SG-1 are a good medium ground in my mind, with an overall myth arc that doesn’t require you to watch every episode to follow what’s going on, especially in the early seasons when there were various “breather episodes” that took a break from the story-arc to have fun or do a little character development.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:27:28am

re: #82 Targetpractice

Series like SG-1 are a good medium ground in my mind, with an overall myth arc that doesn’t require you to watch every episode to follow what’s going on, especially in the early seasons when there were various “breather episodes” that took a break from the story-arc to have fun or do a little character development.

And let’s admit it: Their fun episodes were amazing. That’s a show that knew how not to take itself seriously when it chose.

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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:28:03am

re: #81 Dopamine Fish

Stargate: SG-1 was one of my favorite shows for a long time. Still is, in the early seasons. (We don’t speak of the Ori.) They did the same thing; a few character development arcs that showed up in mostly standalone episodes, and a short story buildup/”the road so far” that led to the epic season finale and next season’s pilot episode.

What’s an Ori? /Industrial-Grade-Denial
And yes, SG-1 and SG:Atlantis worked will with that formula and writing, be it for the story arcs or the standalone episodes that require little investment. One of my favorite episodes, in its forth season (“Window of Opportunity”), doesn’t need the viewers to know anything other than the show’s basic premise and characters.
Wish the second spin-off “Universe” had followed it - might have endured past its notably-improved-but-still-too-late second season.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:32:24am

re: #84 (((Archangel1)))

I don’t think I made it all the way through season one of Universe, to be honest with you. I was disappointed; it had a great deal of promise, but by that point, SyFy was kinda headed into cloud-cuckoo land across the board, from what it sounded like.

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:48:20am

re: #56 William Lewis

Not a surprise. Netflix does very little right. If they’re lucky they can get picked up by Amazon Prime.

Would you rather a show run too short, or too long?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:49:16am

re: #86 Belafon

Would you rather a show run too short, or too long?

I want the final season of Better Call Saul to finally come out

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 5:55:22am

re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I want the final season of Better Call Saul to finally come out

I’m still waiting for season 3 of For All Mankind to come out.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:08:15am

Comments are precious.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:11:13am

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It has to be a real tree. We will be fetching ours this week, but will wait to do the traditional Schmuckfest on Xmas eve as my youngest daughter is not getting in until evening of the 23rd…

We do Christmas/Thanksgiving under the Deb calendar—a couple weeks between the ‘official’ feasts. All the kids drive or fly in and out in a few days, leaving them free to attend their in-laws’ celebrations. We almost invented Festivus.

And the tree must be real, or an old brass Christmas tree/menorah made by a confused Korean in the 80’s. This year we went for the real tree, that we finished decorating yesterday.re: #52 William Lewis

or an old brass Christmas tree/menorah made by a confused Korean in the 80’s

Ok, photo please :)

Will try to shoot one—we didn’t use the brass fallback this year. It was handy on overseas tours.

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:24:53am

re: #89 Dave In Austin

Comments are precious.

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Obama: “Stocks are up and UE is down, but that just means the rich are profiting off our misery! He’s the worst president ever!”

Trump: “STOCKS ARE UP AND UE IS DOWN, PLUS I GET AN EXTRA $1 IN MY PAYCHECKS!! HE’S THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVAH!!!”

Biden: “Stocks are up and UE is down, but a jug of milk costs more than it did during a global recession! WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!!”

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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:27:53am

Currently in Israeli media headlines. I believe no translation is necessary.
Not pictured: the comments section, where Netanyahu supporters AND bots are dumping on TFG.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:28:15am

re: #90 Decatur Deb

I’ve got one of these packed away somewhere:

German feather tree
It’s made of wire and goose feathers with a wooden base. I got it from my first mother-in-law back in the 70s, and she got it from her mother back in the 20s or 30s.
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:28:28am

Our economic system is based on objective measurements like prices, savings and wages, but in the end it is all a system of belief.

Those who wish to believe that Trump was the Greatest President Ever will continue to do so just as those who insist that Biden is Spawn of the Antichrist will not change their opinion just because the economy is doing better in objective terms.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:29:53am

re: #92 (((Archangel1)))

what is going on with that left eye?

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:32:15am

re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Our economic system is based on objective measurements like prices, savings and wages, but in the end it is all a system of belief.

Those who wish to believe that Trump was the Greatest President Ever will continue to do so just as those who insist that Biden is Spawn of the Antichrist will not change their opinion just because the economy is doing better in objective terms.

What’s more, much of that objective view is colored by things which the president has absolutely no control over. Such as how the price of commodities may drop, but the price you pay will not because the people selling them to you will just pocket the difference as “profit.” So all you ever perceive is (for example) rising food bills that you blame on the guy in office even though the cost of actually putting that food on shelves has fallen due to changes in policies and trade costs.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:36:21am

This is great.

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:41:46am

re: #97 No Malarkey!

This is great.

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The peasants are revolting!

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:41:48am

re: #86 Belafon

Would you rather a show run too short, or too long?

Too long, because I can just quit watching it. If its too short, I don’t have the option of watching the optimal number of shows.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:44:20am

re: #16 ckkatz

Interesting! Did not realize this.

What are the German traditions these days? I suspect that there is less emphasis on lit candles on dry pine trees.

This local website shows some of the more interesting Christmas light displays in Northern Virginia:
Holly’s Tacky Christmas Lights
fairfaxchristmaslights.com

German trees with candles were typically decorated on Christmas eve by the parents, so the children would wake to see the tree in the morning. The tree would still be fresh, with little fire hazard. My folks brought back German tree candle clips from Germany. We put them on the tree with the candles but we didn’t light them.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:47:12am

re: #81 Dopamine Fish

Stargate: SG-1 was one of my favorite shows for a long time. Still is, in the early seasons. (We don’t speak of the Ori.) They did the same thing; a few character development arcs that showed up in mostly standalone episodes, and a short story buildup/”the road so far” that led to the epic season finale and next season’s pilot episode.

AG-Universe died a quick death. I enjoyed AG-Atlantis, I had a defined run and may have ended with to much cheese, but it was fun.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:47:58am

re: #60 Dopamine Fish

That’s correct. The latter point especially sucks, because there are several really damn good two-season shows on Netflix that I’d love to see more of.

Mind Hunters

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:48:28am

Kelloggs is in the same boat as a lot of corporations are, having made promises last year about everything from pay increases to better benefits if employees would just keep plugging away at full steam during a global pandemic, only to now try to reneg on those promises because following through would eat into the higher profits they enjoyed because of months of panic buying.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:51:34am

Live SCOTUSBlog waiting for Court opinions to be issued at 10am scotusblog.com

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:53:05am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:53:18am

re: #103 Targetpractice

Kelloggs is in the same boat as a lot of corporations are, having made promises last year about everything from pay increases to better benefits if employees would just keep plugging away at full steam during a global pandemic, only to now try to reneg on those promises because following through would eat into the higher profits they enjoyed because of months of panic buying.

It’s the American Corporate way: Heads, we win. Tails, workers lose.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:54:17am

re: #101 Colère Tueur de Lapin

AG-Universe died a quick death. I enjoyed AG-Atlantis, I had a defined run and may have ended with to much cheese, but it was fun.

Atlantis was almost as good as SG-1, and had moments that definitely surpassed many moments on the parent show. That’s also where Mrs. Fish developed her crush on Jason Momoa. (Not that I can blame her, really.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:54:37am

re: #100 Scottish Dragon

German trees with candles were typically decorated on Christmas eve by the parents, so the children would wake to see the tree in the morning. The tree would still be fresh, with little fire hazard. My folks brought back German tree candle clips from Germany. We put them on the tree with the candles but we didn’t light them.

Germans do the big celebration with gifts for the kiddies and all on Xmas Eve.

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 6:57:01am

In case no one mentioned it, Fox called the fire department ,right?
Socialists.

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Teukka  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:01:26am

So this was a headline on cnn.com. It’s an omen I tells ya, an omen…

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:02:35am
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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:03:09am

SCOTUS has refused to block enforcement of the Texas abortion law; abortion remains illegal in Texas.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:03:16am

re: #110 Teukka

A cream cheese shortage? Damn…and I love bagels too.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:04:05am

re: #100 Scottish Dragon

German trees with candles were typically decorated on Christmas eve by the parents, so the children would wake to see the tree in the morning. The tree would still be fresh, with little fire hazard. My folks brought back German tree candle clips from Germany. We put them on the tree with the candles but we didn’t light them.

Wife pulled two tours with her tanker father in Germany in the first years of the occupation. A German friend told her how her circle began putting a candle on the tree for each of their men killed on the fronts. It didn’t go on much after 1942.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:04:12am

re: #112 No Malarkey!

SCOTUS has refused to block enforcement of the Texas abortion law; abortion remains illegal in Texas.

Thanks, Jill Stein voters!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:06:02am

re: #112 No Malarkey!

SCOTUS has refused to block enforcement of the Texas abortion law; abortion remains illegal in Texas.

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:06:04am

re: #111 Dangerman

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Because all the media wants to talk about is “RUNAWAY INFLATION!!!”

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:07:29am

re: #111 Dangerman

Workers wages up

Unemployment down

Stock market skyrocketing

Stimulus bill passed

Infrastructure bill passed

200 million vaccines given

America’s longest war ended

Renewed respect from our allies

Trump’s one “accomplishment:” passing a 2 trillion dollar tax scam benefitting America’s wealthiest people.

Biden is getting the job done - cleaning up the Republican mess, and in the middle of a lingering pandemic.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:08:24am

re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg

A cream cheese shortage? Damn…and I love bagels too.

Thanks, Biden!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:08:26am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:08:37am

re: #118 Dangerman

Trump’s one “accomplishment:” passing a 2 trillion dollar tax scam benefitting America’s wealthiest people.

Biden is getting the job done - cleaning up the Republican mess, and in the middle of a lingering pandemic.

Also, his bullshit failure of a border wall.

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:08:44am

re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg

A cream cheese shortage? Damn…and I love bagels too.

Cream cheese is not that hard to make at home
We read how
Haven’t done it yet

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:09:39am

re: #122 Dangerman

Cream cheese is not that hard to make at home
We read how
Haven’t done it yet

I can eat my bagels with butter and jelly on them too if necessary.

:P

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:10:22am

re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth

They are absolutely determined to fuck us all over for generations to come, aren’t they? Sigh. Why is this the America I have to grow old and die in?

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:10:29am

re: #118 Dangerman

Workers wages up

Unemployment down

Stock market skyrocketing

Stimulus bill passed

Infrastructure bill passed

200 million vaccines given

America’s longest war ended

Renewed respect from our allies

Trump’s one “accomplishment:” passing a 2 trillion dollar tax scam benefitting America’s wealthiest people.

Biden is getting the job done - cleaning up the Republican mess, and in the middle of a lingering pandemic.

Biden’s support appears to have hit a floor as he is slightly less unpopular than he was a month ago. We’ll see if the coming Omicron Winter surge causes his support to erode further. fivethirtyeight.com

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:10:51am

I find myself actually sort of surprised that we’re not hearing about the “REAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE!!!” like we did during the Obama years, when every story about UE was accompanied by claims that the “real” rate was actually double or more than the “official” one because there were supposedly millions who’d “given up.”

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:12:02am

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

I can eat my bagels with butter and jelly on them too if necessary.

:P

Indeed but we smoke a fair amount of lox
Butter is just an “ok” substitute in that situation

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:12:28am

re: #126 Targetpractice

I find myself actually sort of surprised that we’re not hearing about the “REAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE!!!” like we did during the Obama years, when every story about UE was accompanied by claims that the “real” rate was actually double or more than the “official” one because there were supposedly millions who’d “given up.”

Hard to make that argument when there are “Help Wanted” signs everywhere.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:13:37am

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

Germans do the big celebration with gifts for the kiddies and all on Xmas Eve.

I’ve seen that done also. Either way the tree is still fresh so you don’t get candles torching a three week old dry tree.

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:14:20am

re: #128 No Malarkey!

Hard to make that argument when there are “Help Wanted” signs everywhere.

True. Now the argument is that there’s millions who could jump into the labor market tomorrow if we’d just “stop paying them not to work!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:14:51am

re: #118 Dangerman

Workers wages up = cheezeburgers gonna cost more!!!

Unemployment down = who’s even gonna flip them burgers?

Stock market skyrocketing = ((cosmopolitans)) cashing in

Stimulus bill passed = inflation motor

Infrastructure bill passed = government waste and pork barrel

200 million vaccines given = Satan’s spunk

America’s longest war ended = shameful!!!

Renewed respect from our allies = who cares what a bunch of foreigners think!!!

Trump’s one “accomplishment: passing a 2 trillion dollar tax scam benefitting America’s wealthiest people = aiding JOB CREATORS

RW Counter-talking points

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:15:06am

re: #124 Dopamine Fish

They are absolutely determined to fuck us all over for generations to come, aren’t they? Sigh. Why is this the America I have to grow old and die in?

I’m thinking our one hope to retain control of Congress is that when abortion is made illegal in half the country next year, it will be the cold slap in the face that hopefully wakes voters up to the threat we face in time for the midterm elections.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:15:34am

re: #124 Dopamine Fish

They are absolutely determined to fuck us all over for generations to come, aren’t they? Sigh. Why is this the America I have to grow old and die in?

Of course. This is why it was so important that Clinton win so that the Republican plot to steal a Supreme Court seat would fail. The voters failed our nation and now we have an alt-Christian version of an Islamic Guardians Council instead of a secular court.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:15:43am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:16:16am

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

I can eat my bagels with butter and jelly on them too if necessary.

Cafeteria at University of Arizona in Tucson used to serve bagels with melted cheese and green chili…one of my favorites.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:17:14am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Cafeteria at University of Arizona in Tucson used to serve bagels with melted cheese and green chili…one of my favorites.

Intriguing…

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:17:21am

re: #132 No Malarkey!

I’m thinking our one hope to retain control of Congress is that when abortion is made illegal in half the country next year, it will be the cold slap in the face that hopefully wakes voters up to the threat we face in time for the midterm elections.

Trying to end our democracy to please a narcissistic sociopath didn’t wake them up, and their subculture has never respected women.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:18:01am

re: #132 No Malarkey!

I’m thinking our one hope to retain control of Congress is that when abortion is made illegal in half the country next year, it will be the cold slap in the face that hopefully wakes voters up to the threat we face in time for the midterm elections.

only if their votes are counted and registered. the whole system is in peril and I must admit that I lack the reserves of optimism to see how that coming clusterfuck is going to be avoided

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:19:03am

re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

only if their votes are counted and registered. the whole system is in peril and I must admit that I lack the reserves of optimism to see how that coming clusterfuck is going to be avoided

Unless a miracle happens and a Federal voting rights law gets passed, I don’t see how it can be.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:19:17am

re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

only if their votes are counted and registered. the whole system is in peril and I must admit that I lack the reserves of optimism to see how that coming clusterfuck is going to be avoided

I go back and forth on the issue. There are some days where I feel encouraged and invigorated and ready to fight, because there’s hope. Then there’s days like today, where all it is is shit and there seems to be literally nothing any of us can to do stop the end of American democracy and the beginning of the reign of Gilead.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:20:46am

re: #140 Dopamine Fish

I go back and forth on the issue. There are some days where I feel encouraged and invigorated and ready to fight, because there’s hope. Then there’s days like today, where all it is is shit and there seems to be literally nothing any of us can to do stop the end of American democracy and the beginning of the reign of Gilead.

There are enough Republicans willing to

a) ignore violations of the law
b) actively violate the law
and
c) not shy away from acts of violence

that I see it as all but inevitable.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:21:34am

re: #137 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Trying to end our democracy to please a narcissistic sociopath didn’t wake them up, and their subculture has never respected women.

Not that subculture; they are in the tank for fascism. I’m talking about the huge numbers of people who barely pay attention to politics and don’t bother voting, especially in the midterms. Young women suddenly faced with the fact that they are no longer seen as fully human, but merely baby incubators, may finally take this shit seriously.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:21:37am
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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:22:17am

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think we know where this is going

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:22:34am

The thing is, the Republicans are playing technically by the rules. They are gaming the system, yes, because the system is built on all players playing by gentleman’s rules. The Republicans ripped those up and threw them out the window decades ago, and now they’re playing only to win. The system wasn’t designed to handle that kind of bad faith, and now the bad-faith actors are entrenched in a position to prevent the kind of reform necessary to frustrate their efforts.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:25:24am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are enough Republicans willing to

a) ignore violations of the law
b) actively violate the law
and
c) not shy away from acts of violence

that I see it as all but inevitable.

I don’t think the US survives this decade in present form. I also think that whatever happens will be bloody.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:26:43am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are enough Republicans willing to

a) ignore violations of the law
b) actively violate the law
and
c) not shy away from acts of violence

that I see it as all but inevitable.

I’m not that pessimistic yet. Remember that the federal courts last year, packed with Trump appointees, gave short shrift to Trump’s attempt to steal the election in the courts, so I still believe that state officials won’t be able to get away with voiding huge numbers of votes based on bogus fraud claims. And so far GOP attempts to suppress the vote have failed as people became more determined to vote. The fuckers can’t install Trump as dictator unless we let them, and I still believe there is a good chance we won’t.

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:27:52am

re: #145 Dopamine Fish

The thing is, the Republicans are playing technically by the rules. They are gaming the system, yes, because the system is built on all players playing by gentleman’s rules. The Republicans ripped those up and threw them out the window decades ago, and now they’re playing only to win. The system wasn’t designed to handle that kind of bad faith, and now the bad-faith actors are entrenched in a position to prevent the kind of reform necessary to frustrate their efforts.

Except they’re playing by the rule that says “Unless someone stops me, I can do it.” Take what Georgia Republicans are doing to black districts.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:29:04am

re: #92 (((Archangel1)))

Currently in Israeli media headlines. I believe no translation is necessary.
Not pictured: the comments section, where Netanyahu supporters AND bots are dumping on TFG.

[Embedded content]

Headline: “TRUMP: They stole the election and Netanyahu ran to bless Biden. Since then I don’t talk to him. FUCK HIM!”

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:30:14am

David Perdue is, apparently, still not giving up hope that the courts will put him back in the Senate:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:30:33am
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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:30:39am

re: #143 Scottish Dragon

So a 25 YO cryptocurrency bro managed to buy one of the fabled Jodorowsky Dune ‘bibles’ from the early 70s at auction and is trying to get it made into an animated film. I admit I really want to get a look at one of those. It’s nearly impossible to see one.

He can’t just put the contents up on the internet because the artwork is still copyrighted by estates and some surviving artists, but he may be able to finally put the Jodorowsky vision on screen.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:31:41am

re: #142 No Malarkey!

Not that subculture; they are in the tank for fascism. I’m talking about the huge numbers of people who barely pay attention to politics and don’t bother voting, especially in the midterms. Young women suddenly faced with the fact that they are no longer seen as fully human, but merely baby incubators, may finally take this shit seriously.

I hope you’re right, and do agree that losing bodily autonomy may reach people who aren’t engaged enough to be reached by less personal topics like losing our democracy.

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Mattand  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:31:51am

re: #149 The Pie Overlord!

Headline: “TRUMP: They stole the election and Netanyahu ran to bless Biden. Since then I don’t talk to him. FUCK HIM!”

I’m guessing the headline was set for as much shock value as possible, but is there an equivalent Hebrew word for “fuck”?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:31:59am

re: #147 No Malarkey!

The fuckers can’t install Trump as dictator unless we let them, and I still believe there is a good chance we won’t.

and that is where it could start to get bloody, and chaos favors those fuckers

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:32:01am

re: #75 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:33:14am

re: #150 Dopamine Fish

David Perdue is, apparently, still not giving up hope that the courts will put him back in the Senate:

It may be more him signaling his support of the Big Lie as he gears up to challenge Kemp for the GOP nomination for Governor. Perdue is basically running on the platform that he will not certify a Biden win in Georgia in 2024.

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:34:39am
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:35:37am

re: #154 Mattand

I’m guessing the headline was set for as much shock value as possible, but is there an equivalent Hebrew word for “fuck”?

Yes there is, it’s פאק (“fuck” spelled in Hebrew letters)

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:36:00am
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Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:36:12am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and that is where it could start to get bloody, and chaos favors those fuckers

Not if it’s done right.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:38:22am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and that is where it could start to get bloody, and chaos favors those fuckers

Not always. The televised violence unleashed by the cops against nonviolent protestors in the early sixties shocked the nation and helped get the Civil Rights Act passed. If the fascists think their militias can shoot their way into power if the GOP can’t steal the election through politics, I believe they will find out they can’t.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:38:28am

Hebrew is לשון הקודש (“the holy tongue”) so all the Israeli swear words come from Yiddish, English, and Arabic.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:41:09am

re: #157 No Malarkey!

It may be more him signaling his support of the Big Lie as he gears up to challenge Kemp for the GOP nomination for Governor. Perdue is basically running on the platform that he will not certify a Biden win in Georgia in 2024.

I wouldn’t certify a Biden win either, given how he’s said he isn’t going to run.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:41:14am

re: #159 The Pie Overlord!

Yes there is, it’s פאק (“fuck” spelled in Hebrew letters)

It seems to lack the shock value of our old ‘fuck’, though. My secretary’s son told her he wasn’t getting loose from the barracks for the weekend because of ‘too many fukim’.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:41:56am

re: #164 Dopamine Fish

I wouldn’t certify a Biden win either, given how he’s said he isn’t going to run.

Do you have a link for that, because the last I heard he said he was running.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:42:52am

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

A train passes a railroad crossing that is surrounded by floodwaters from rain and melting snow in Nidderau near Frankfurt, Germany. The Rhine River flooded the only access road to the community.

Nidderau is nowhere near the Rhine, it is on the banks of the Nidder, which flows into the Nidda, a tributary to the Main, which flows into the Rhine at Mainz.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:42:57am

re: #166 No Malarkey!

Do you have a link for that, because the last I heard he said he was running.

I’m probably way out of date. This was stuff from when he was campaigning, I think.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:48:29am

re: #168 Dopamine Fish

I’m probably way out of date. This was stuff from when he was campaigning, I think.

Even then, Biden never flat out stated he wouldn’t run for reelection.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:48:36am

re: #162 No Malarkey!

Not always. The televised violence unleashed by the cops against nonviolent protestors in the early sixties shocked the nation and helped get the Civil Rights Act passed. If the fascists think their militias can shoot their way into power if the GOP can’t steal the election through politics, I believe they will find out they can’t.

Television was a different medium back then…

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:50:48am

re: #160 Belafon

The other factor that may work in our favor is that hundreds of thousands of Trump voters are going to die of Covid before the midterms.

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:52:41am

re: #89 Dave In Austin

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:56:20am

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

Television was a different medium back then…

Yep. Fox News and OANN didn’t exist.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:56:49am

The PowerPoint of a coup.

Anyone involved, down to the typist should be charged & out of our government.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:57:38am

re: #174 HRH Stanley Sea

The PowerPoint of a coup.

Anyone involved, down to the typist should be charged & out of our government.

They just wanted to blanket declare all electronic voting invalid?!? Holy shit, what did they think was going to be their legal justification for that?

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dat_said  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:57:52am

re: #89 Dave In Austin

Comments are precious.

[Embedded content]

I just learned that there’s no such thing as childhood poverty because it’s the parents that are poor. Therefore, it’s impossible for childhood poverty rates to be down.

My head now hurts.

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nines09  Dec 10, 2021 • 7:57:55am

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:00:23am

re: #175 Dopamine Fish

They just wanted to blanket declare all electronic voting invalid?!? Holy shit, what did they think was going to be their legal justification for that?

“Fraud”

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:01:04am

re: #178 No Malarkey!

“Fraud”

Do… do they realize that “fraud vitiates everything” is a phrase from the LOSING side of a Supreme Court decision?

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:02:53am
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cat-tikvah  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:03:02am

re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Dr. Mehmet Oz’s quixotic US Senate campaign is running into a problem: Evangelicals are coming out swinging against him for the office.

Why Christians Should Be Leery of This Celebrity 2022 Senatorial Candidate (Charisma, December 6, 2021)

They are going after him for everything they can throw at him: Former Muslim, later Sufi, present member of the Swedenborgian Church of North America (Christian sect), practitioner of reiki and transcendental meditation, Turkish by birth, mother was an atheist who supported Ataturk’s ideal for secular governance, father was a strict Muslim fundamentalist, &c.

Zel gornish helfen. Irony meter implodes.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:03:08am

re: #179 Dopamine Fish

Do… do they realize that “fraud vitiates everything” is a phrase from the LOSING side of a Supreme Court decision?

They were going to nationalize the state National Guards to seize control of the ballots, then only count the paper ballots. To paraphrase Stalin, How many divisions does Justice Roberts have?

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:03:58am

re: #182 No Malarkey!

They were going to nationalize the state National Guards to seize control of the ballots, then only count the paper ballots. To paraphrase Stalin, How many divisions does Justice Roberts have?

Ah, so literally a straight-up coup then. This is fine, totally normal behavior.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:04:34am

re: #183 Dopamine Fish

Ah, so literally a straight-up coup then. This is fine, totally normal behavior.

“Patriots out to Save America”

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:05:12am

What’s ironic is, I think that might have backfired spectacularly, since the majority of the late votes were absentee ballots, which are paper, and those are the ones they’re so upset about breaking for Biden. Although I suppose they would have only counted “paper ballots handed in in person on Election Day” at that point.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:06:27am

re: #183 Dopamine Fish

Ah, so literally a straight-up coup then. This is fine, totally normal behavior.

On a similar note, the GOP seems to think that almost none of us average Americans will have any problem with them massively stacking the deck in their favor and basically deciding Federal election outcomes on our behalf.

They’re wrong, of course.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:08:16am

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

On a similar note, the GOP seems to think that almost none of us average Americans will have any problem with them massively stacking the deck in their favor and basically deciding Federal election outcomes on our behalf.

They’re wrong, of course.

There’s a terrible storm a-brewin’, and it’s coming between the Republican elites who are doing everything they can to desperately cling to power and force their will on people, and the disadvantaged people they’re abusing who aren’t going to take it lying down forever. I don’t know what’s going to happen, kinda like Paul Atreides in the midst of the spice-vision, but there aren’t many options that look… well, not good, none of them look good, but “not bad”, let’s say that.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:09:15am

Earlier this week, I posted about Kentucky’s social worker crisis, today its public defenders.

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:10:19am

re: #173 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. Fox News and OANN didn’t exist.

It is quite possible that the new reality of populist digital media along with highly nationalist propaganda outfits like Fox News, RT, Chinese media, and growing European fascist outlets is dominant is the near future. The outdated concept of “responsible journalism” along with actual degrees in Journalism, peer-reviewed evidence, and verified facts is simply not in demand anymore by a significant percentage in just about every country. The US is the prime example but it has been growing in Europe too for a long time with fascists gaining power in France, Germany, England, etc.

What this means for world history and military conflict remains unrealized, but the chess pieces moving into place along the borders of Ukraine and off the coast of China do not bode well. Whether this is a replay of WW1 who knows at this point?

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jeffreyw  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:10:47am

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

Television was a different medium back then…

Back then we still had news anchors that were appalled by the cruelty. Now we have Fox cheering them on, and the rest saying that the protesters may have a point but that the police are just doing their job.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:11:10am

re: #185 Dopamine Fish

In general, absentee or mail-in votes are not game-changers unless it is a terribly close race. But due to the circumstances that Trump had discouraged his voters to use absentee or mail-in ballots, that meant nail-in votes would skew heavily in Biden’s favor.

He also knew that, and that is why he made such a noise about how “We were winning on election night but then…suddenly in the middle of the night…everything turned against us!”

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:11:40am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In general, absentee or mail-in votes are not game-changers unless it is a terribly close race. But due to the circumstances that Trump had discouraged his voters to use absentee or mail-in ballots, that meant nail-in votes would skew heavily in Biden’s favor.

He also knew that, and that is why he made such a noise about how “We were winning on election night but then…suddenly in the middle of the night…everything turned against us!”

Yep, exactly.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:12:00am

re: #188 No Malarkey!

Earlier this week, I posted about Kentucky’s social worker crisis, today its public defenders.

They can make more flipping burgers

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:13:05am

re: #190 jeffreyw

Back then we still had news anchors that were appalled by the cruelty. Now we have Fox cheering them on, and the rest saying that the protesters may have a point but that the police are just doing their job.

Americans still aren’t down with cops just plain murdering people on TV. Case in point, Derek Chauvin was convicted.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:13:31am

re: #67 steve_davis

isn’t the chinese word “mama”? I seem to recall from my distant days of larnin’ that this is perhaps less because it’s connected to the indo european word, and more because babies have an easier time making the “m” sound than pretty much any other consonant, so lots of languages have that as the first thing baby can say, because mothers are of course wanting their babies to say something!

Hebrew word is pronounced ee-ma.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:14:55am
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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:15:20am

re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They can make more flipping burgers

The problem is exacerbated because Kentucky leads the nation in jailing people as the General Assembly keeps passing laws creating new crimes. They’ll have to do something about the public defenders so that prosecutions can proceed.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:16:55am

re: #189 Florida Panhandler

[snip]

What this means for world history and military conflict remains unrealized, but the chess pieces moving into place along the borders of Ukraine and off the coast of China do not bode well. Whether this is a replay of WW1 who knows at this point?

And too many here in the US do not recognize that this will not be like WWI or WWII. Our distance from the conflict won’t buffer us this time. There will be bombs and missiles falling on US cities this time around.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:19:08am

re: #72 No Malarkey!

Why would you worship a God who demands that you suffer and die from an easily preventable disease?

The god they actually worship is Trump. The question is: why are the Trump acolytes so opposed to the vaccine? Is it just that Putin and his minions have been endorsing anti-vaxx propaganda to the West and so much of the GOP is supportive of everything Putin? After all Trump himself, though not sufficiently vocal, was in favor of vaccination.

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:20:05am
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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:20:18am

re: #198 Eventual Carrion

And too many here in the US do not recognize that this will not be like WWI or WWII. Our distance from the conflict won’t buffer us this time. There will be bombs and missiles falling on US cities this time around.

More likely any attack on the US will be cyber in nature.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:25:24am

re: #199 Hecuba’s daughter

The god they actually worship is Trump. The question is: why are the Trump acolytes so opposed to the vaccine? Is it just that Putin and his minions have been endorsing anti-vaxx propaganda to the West and so much of the GOP is supportive of everything Putin? After all Trump himself, though not sufficiently vocal, was in favor of vaccination.

Its an unholy alliance of the already existing anti-vaccine movement, which seized on the pandemic as a fantastic money making opportunity, with the fascist right seeking to undermine the Biden Administration, and Russian Intelligence always looking for opportunities to sow chaos and weaken America.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:27:39am

re: #201 Scottish Dragon

More likely any attack on the US will be cyber in nature.

They just have to disrupt the communications, utilities & services for a large metropolitan area and we will start killing each other - a playbook right out of The Monsters are Coming to Maple Street

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:31:03am
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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:31:18am

The husband of Dr. Judy Mikovitz, the creator of Plandemic, the original source of many Covid conspiracy theories, has died of an unannounced caused, which the Vaxman has on good authority was Covid. If true, she effectively killed her husband. sorryantivaxxer.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:31:45am
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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:31:48am

re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They just have to disrupt the communications, utilities & services for a large metropolitan area and we will start killing each other - a playbook right out of The Monsters are Coming to Maple Street

Screw with financial systems and food/gas delivery, and you can cripple a country real quick.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:32:48am

re: #207 Scottish Dragon

Screw with financial systems and food/gas delivery, and you can cripple a country real quick.

We can cripple them right back, and they know it.

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nines09  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:33:26am

re: #176 dat_said

I just learned that there’s no such thing as childhood poverty because it’s the parents that are poor. Therefore, it’s impossible for childhood poverty rates to be down.

My head now hurts.

“Why don’t them poor people just move?”
That gem was dropped on me many a moon ago. It sums up stupid so well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:33:39am
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Dave In Austin  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:36:05am

Jesus….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:36:22am

re: #208 No Malarkey!

We can cripple them right back, and they know it.

Other societies are more resilient in that respect.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:38:14am
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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:39:16am

re: #171 No Malarkey!

The other factor that may work in our favor is that hundreds of thousands of Trump voters are going to die of Covid before the midterms.

without having done any analysis, imo this wont help
they’re likely mostly in the heavily R districts and states
not the ones that are close and so might swing D

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:39:44am

re: #208 No Malarkey!

We can cripple them right back, and they know it.

Sure. But as long as they are willing to take the hit, they can keep their own populations in line.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:40:48am

I think there’s a chance that antivaxx bullshit will kill 1-2% of the Repug electorate before the midterms. That is actually a lot and I am wondering how significant it will be, especially in close-run swing districts.

(Obviously, I don’t advocate this and will do everything I reasonbly can to keep it from happening. I have two reasons for this: First, I do not believe in hell but it’s best not to take chances, and mega-killers will be at the front of the line if there is such an outcome. Secondly, I do believe in the power of international jurists to institute a special tribunal to try antivaxx mass-killers. Far-fetched? Maybe, but Milosevic and the other Balkan genocidaires were supremely confident they were untouchable too.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:41:10am

Merry Fucking Christmas Hoomans!

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:41:58am

re: #153 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I hope you’re right, and do agree that losing bodily autonomy may reach people who aren’t engaged enough to be reached by less personal topics like losing our democracy.

You mean the affluent red state women who aren’t losing that right because they can just travel to a different state?

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:42:15am

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

Merry Fucking Christmas Hoomans!

Mama teaching baby bear to hunt, just like the end of Jurassic Park.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:42:57am

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

A bear was caught ferociously attacking an inflatable reindeer in Monrovia, while a larger bear watched in the background. The little bear jumped the decoration several times before escaping the scene.

So now the left has enlisted animals as mercenaries in the War on Christmas

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:43:07am

re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter

You mean the affluent red state women who aren’t losing that right because they can just travel to a different state?

They don’t make up the majority of women in those states.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:43:34am

re: #214 Dangerman

without having done any analysis, imo this wont help
they’re likely mostly in the heavily R districts and states
not the ones that are close and so might swing D

Covid is like a heat seeking missile for Trump voters; it can find and incapacitate them where-ever they live.

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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:43:52am

Twitter’s auto-refresh stupidity is unbearable and drove me nuts yesterday.
But no more - because it’s gone all of a sudden today, at least for me. Dunno what was changed, cause it certainly wasn’t on my part, but it’s back to old form on my end and I sure as hell am thankful for that small mercy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:45:12am
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ericblair  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:45:52am

re: #199 Hecuba’s daughter

The god they actually worship is Trump. The question is: why are the Trump acolytes so opposed to the vaccine? Is it just that Putin and his minions have been endorsing anti-vaxx propaganda to the West and so much of the GOP is supportive of everything Putin? After all Trump himself, though not sufficiently vocal, was in favor of vaccination.

The god is white supremacy: Trump is a prophet, and can be discarded if he starts saying too many things the racists don’t like.

I’m sure somebody can and has put together a real study of why antivax is so important to the racists, but it looks like the growing paranoid general anti-vax tendencies plus COVID denialism got sent over the edge because the vaccines got released and promoted by The Enemy.

There was an article in one of the libertoonian screeds about how the nasty Dems were forcing good honest fascist bigots to not take the vaccine by…telling them to take the vaccine. Devious. Because goopers absolutely must do the opposite of what Dems tell them to do because You’re Not The Boss of Me, this was the evil Dems trying to kill them.

Now, of course, all the grifters competing for the fascist bigot marks have to keep one-upping each other with antivax bullshit to draw the clicks and bucks. So all sorts of lurid shit about 5G and shedding and vaccinated people dropping dead left and right get made up and circulated on Faceborg, until the dimwits refuse to go anywhere near vaccines, and of course force their families not to either. And here we are.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:45:56am

re: #216 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I think there’s a chance that antivaxx bullshit will kill 1-2% of the Repug electorate before the midterms. That is actually a lot and I am wondering how significant it will be, especially in close-run swing districts.

(Obviously, I don’t advocate this and will do everything I reasonbly can to keep it from happening. I have two reasons for this: First, I do not believe in hell but it’s best not to take chances, and mega-killers will be at the front of the line if there is such an outcome. Secondly, I do believe in the power of international jurists to institute a special tribunal to try antivaxx mass-killers. Far-fetched? Maybe, but Milosevic and the other Balkan genocidaires were supremely confident they were untouchable too.)

The ironic thing is that they are doing it to themselves while we try to save their lives. It would be wonderful to see all the anti-vaxx grifters on the dock in the Hague for crimes against humanity, not that I expect to see that happen.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:46:12am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:48:00am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:48:58am

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

I feel bad for Sonia. She’s a great justice but she’s pretty much just stuck screaming into the void because of all the conservative assholes on the court.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:49:17am

re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:53:30am

I’m in an online training session this morning. The guy leading the session sounds exactly like Matt Frewer in both the tone and cadence of his speech.

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plansbandc  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:53:36am
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No Malarkey!  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:54:05am
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ericblair  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:54:41am

re: #215 Scottish Dragon

Sure. But as long as they are willing to take the hit, they can keep their own populations in line.

No evidence that they are willing to take the hit. Economic problems are killing Putin’s popularity, which is actually pretty important when you’re a populist. If you’re an authoritarian dictator, you don’t worry about a popular uprising too much, but you do worry about the other oligarchs who see that people won’t be too upset if you have a little accident all of a sudden.

Cyber is now a domain of war, which codifies the US (and NATO in general) doctrine on retaliation and offensive operations. There already have been offensive cyber operations against specific overseas targets. Deliberately hitting civilians with a cyberattack would be against that doctrine.

Russian networks have already been thoroughly penetrated: going back over the Muller indictment of Russian officials is an interesting read about how far and completely they were penetrated. That was a definite warning about capabilities.

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:55:21am

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

On a similar note, the GOP seems to think that almost none of us average Americans will have any problem with them massively stacking the deck in their favor and basically deciding Federal election outcomes on our behalf.

They’re wrong, of course.

they also seemed to think that these pretzel logic declarations and machinations would some how be seen as ‘by the book / legal’ and so nothing anyone could do.

(except for the national guard and all that)

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:57:04am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In general, absentee or mail-in votes are not game-changers unless it is a terribly close race. But due to the circumstances that Trump had discouraged his voters to use absentee or mail-in ballots, that meant nail-in votes would skew heavily in Biden’s favor.

He also knew that, and that is why he made such a noise about how “We were winning on election night but then…suddenly in the middle of the night…everything turned against us!”

the stupidity of “we’re half way through counting the jar of jelly beans and our color is ahead”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:57:24am

re: #233 No Malarkey!

For anyone wondering, 20 of the 50 U.S. states currently ban conversion therapy. I’m sure you can take some pretty accurate guesses and which ones do NOT.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:58:06am

This review of a meal at a Michelin starred restaurant is amaaaaazing….

“These are made with rancid ricotta,” the server said, a tiny fried cheese ball in front of each of us.

“I’m… I’m sorry, did you say rancid? You mean… fermented? Aged?”

“No. Rancid.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:58:07am

re: #234 ericblair

When Covid really started to hit hard, Chinese authorities locked down entire cities and barricaded people inside their apartment buildings…there were no riots or uprisings or any work of protest or widespread open criticism. (at least none that we heard of)

Imagine US authorities trying to enforce such measures during some sort of disaster or terror/cyber attack in the USA

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:59:05am

lol

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 8:59:48am

re: #234 ericblair

No evidence that they are willing to take the hit. Economic problems are killing Putin’s popularity, which is actually pretty important when you’re a populist. If you’re an authoritarian dictator, you don’t worry about a popular uprising too much, but you do worry about the other oligarchs who see that people won’t be too upset if you have a little accident all of a sudden.

Cyber is now a domain of war, which codifies the US (and NATO in general) doctrine on retaliation and offensive operations. There already have been offensive cyber operations against specific overseas targets. Deliberately hitting civilians with a cyberattack would be against that doctrine.

Russian networks have already been thoroughly penetrated: going back over the Muller indictment of Russian officials is an interesting read about how far and completely they were penetrated. That was a definite warning about capabilities.

If we cannot hit their civilian infrastructure while they hit ours, then that is a problem.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:02:17am

re: #236 Dangerman

the stupidity of “we’re half way through counting the jar of jelly beans and our color is ahead”

He knew that enough people would buy it.

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:02:24am

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

Merry Fucking Christmas Hoomans!

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the bear’s going ‘where’s the beef? it was just full of one big fart”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:04:08am

re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth

Former President Donald Trump accuses one-time close ally Benjamin Netanyahu of disloyalty for congratulating Joe Biden after 2020 win

Loyalty means going along with his obsessions and alternate truths…

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:10:39am

re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He knew that enough people would buy it.

i’ll make it worse:

here’s a jar of jelly beans
we need to count how many reds and how many blues
first, separate the two colors into piles
then count the reds
when done there are X number of reds to zero blues
Red wins

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:10:55am

# 11 is the best one.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:13:15am
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ericblair  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:14:02am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

When Covid really started to hit hard, Chinese authorities locked down entire cities and barricaded people inside their apartment buildings…there were no riots or uprisings or any work of protest or widespread open criticism. (at least none that we heard of)

dingdingding

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:14:28am
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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:15:07am
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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:15:49am
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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:18:15am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:21:47am

re: #76 Dangerman

Most of them couldn’t explain with analysis and historical reference exactly and specifically why it “conflicts with their religious beliefs”

And not merely because “someone else said so”

Their only religious belief is that they are their God. They’re worshipping themselves. They’re selfish fuckers who don’t follow the teachings of Jesus in any way, shape or form. There’s no love of neighbor. There’s no concern for anyone else, no brotherly love.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:22:40am

You know how your mom always told you to not lick your knife because you will cut your tongue?!…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:24:47am

re: #223 (((Archangel1)))

Twitter’s auto-refresh stupidity is unbearable and drove me nuts yesterday.
But no more - because it’s gone all of a sudden today, at least for me. Dunno what was changed, cause it certainly wasn’t on my part, but it’s back to old form on my end and I sure as hell am thankful for that small mercy.

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It stopped auto refreshing on me last week. Now give us the F-ing edit button.

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dat_said  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:27:50am

re: #209 nines09

“Why don’t them poor people just move?”
That gem was dropped on me many a moon ago. It sums up stupid so well.

For some reason it is incredibly difficult for moderately well off people to comprehend how something that is not expensive for them can push someone else into bankruptcy.

I recall a story several years ago about a Harvard recruiter lamenting about how difficult it was sometimes to get smart students from the middle of America to attend Havard (apparently she had some quota to meet). One of the anecdotes was of a young woman in Kansas who turned down a full ride at Harvard. The recruiter was all “This is Harvard. That girl is making a horrible mistake. What could she possibly be thinking? We’re offering a scholarship that cover most of her costs, and it not that expensive to fly home or call her mom, and the girl should be thinking about all she’s giv8ing up on her future.”. When they interviewed the girl, the girl talked about how just flying home for Christmas would be too expensive for the family, much less other holidays or even just to move to Havard in the first place. She was from a single parent family, close to her mother, and her mother could use her help on weekends and going to a state college (which also gave her a scholarship) made all that much more doable.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:29:14am
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jaunte  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:30:51am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:31:29am

re: #258 jaunte

JFC.

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nines09  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:33:48am

re: #256 dat_said

Yep. And every time I hear about people wanting to lower the ages of children to work all I know is where I grew up kids were told to drop out and get a job to pull their weigh in poorer families. Expected to. Forced to.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:35:30am

re: #260 nines09

Yep. And every time I hear about people wanting to lower the ages of children to work all I know is where I grew up kids were told to drop out and get a job to pull their weigh in poorer families. Expected to. Forced to.

That is the future Republicans want.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:35:31am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:36:25am

re: #258 jaunte

I didn’t realize the Washington Post
thought of child pornography as a “style.”

They hid it in the Style section because the Sports editor put his foot down…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:36:28am

re: #105 No Malarkey!

And that Kanye associate previously worked for R. Kelly. Real good judgement on her part.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:37:13am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:40:23am

re: #265 Punish Domestic Terrorists

that made me chuckle

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:42:52am

JFC

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:45:37am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Damn, RIP. A friend of mine and I just a coupe weeks ago were talking about the Monkeys (don’t remember why) and we were guessing which ones were still alive. We didn’t look it up at that time because we have an agreement that until we both have decided we have the answer we don’t resort to Google.

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:46:35am

re: #268 Eventual Carrion

Damn, RIP. A friend of mine and I just a coupe weeks ago were talking about the Monkeys (don’t remember why) and we were guessing which ones were still alive. We didn’t look it up at that time because we have an agreement that until we both have decided we have the answer we don’t resort to Google.

Mickey Dolenz is the only one left now.

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A Cranky One  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:50:11am

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nines09  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:52:56am

So that party I’m not going to tonight. His self righteous wife who thinks her farts are lavender and the pearls of wisdom that fall from her lips are diamonds posted this.
Because she smart.

So intelligent it hurts
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:56:46am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 9:59:48am

re: #269 Belafon

Mickey Dolenz is the only one left now.

My Con Dolenzes

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:00:11am

re: #269 Belafon

Mickey Dolenz is the only one left now.

There was a joke on a sitcom I was watching a few years back where two of the older characters went to a 70s music festival featuring such acts as:

Gladys Knight and the Pip, The Jackson Three and Two Dog Night.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:02:30am

re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg

There was a joke on a sitcom I was watching a few years back where two of the older characters went to a 70s music festival featuring such acts as:

Gladys Knight and the Pip, The Jackson Three and Two Dog Night.

Lake and Palmer
The Rolling Stone
The Ramone

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:06:35am

re: #271 nines09

So that party I’m not going to tonight. His self righteous wife who thinks her farts are lavender and the pearls of wisdom that fall from her lips are diamonds posted this.
Because she smart.

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no not from the “pharmaceutical industry”

About 55 percent, or $3.2 billion, of FDA’s budget is provided by federal budget authorization. The remaining 45 percent, or $2.7 billion, is paid for by industry user fees.

as for the WHO

Voluntary contributions come from Member States (in addition to their assessed contribution) or from other partners. In recent years, voluntary contributions have accounted for more than three quarters of the Organization’s financing.

so yes, ‘from other partners’

but wait, if ‘bill gates’ and ‘big pharma’ are giving money, it’s a pitifully small amount.
this is 2018-2019 in US dollars

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 64.7
Sweden 35.4
Norway 27.3
Australia 18.2
Netherlands 10.0
Belgium 8.0
Denmark 7.6
Switzerland 5.1
Luxembourg 3.6
France 0.9
Estate of Mrs Edith Christina Ferguson 0.3
Spain 0.2
Estate of The Late Marjory Miller Thomson 0.1
Monaco 0.1

obvious spin lies
easily nailed in less than 5 minutes

idiots

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:10:29am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Lake and Palmer
The Rolling Stone
The Ramone

The core four Ramones are all gone, but if you count anyone who was in the band, there are still four of them.
Marky Ramone (Marc Bell) - drums (1978-1983, 1987-1996)
Richie Ramone (Richard Reinhardt) - drums, backing vocals (1983-1987)
Elvis Ramone (Clem Burke) - drums (1987)
C. J. Ramone (Christopher Ward) - bass, backing and co-lead vocals (1989-1996)

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nines09  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:11:10am

re: #276 Dangerman

She’s plant life.
And gems like that resonate with them. Because you can’t fix stupid and so many people are so smart.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:13:34am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:23:23am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:25:05am

re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth

A jury Tuesday found Alan Swinney, a self-proclaimed Proud Boy, guilty of assault, menacing and unlawful use of a weapon for pulling out a loaded revolver, firing paintballs and spraying bear Mace at counterprotesters in Portland last year.

Prosecutors called him a “one man police force” and “vigilante cowboy,” while Swinney and his lawyer argued he was just acting in self-defense against “agitators” who wouldn’t stop harassing him.

This sounds familiar…

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:25:07am
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:25:30am

I was today years old when I learned the Critical Race Theory factoid that most Americans believed that the Jews provoked The Holocaust on themselves.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:27:09am

re: #283 The Pie Overlord!

I was today years old when I learned the Critical Race Theory factoid that most Americans believed that the Jews provoked The Holocaust on themselves.

Yep. And then the truth of the Holocaust came out, and we wound up being just as guilty as all those assholes over in Europe who also stood by and did nothing. Moral ground, we has MOST DEFINITELY DO NOT HAVE it.

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:29:38am

I can’t copy the picture over because work, but balloon-juice.com has an image showing that, even in New York City, how you vote highly correlates to Covid positive tests.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:33:20am
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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:36:19am

re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is Army gonna kidnap the Navy mascot again?

Edit///
NM. They already did.
bustedcoverage.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:37:45am
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Jay C  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:37:46am

re: #283 The Pie Overlord!

I was today years old when I learned the Critical Race Theory factoid that most Americans believed that the Jews provoked The Holocaust on themselves.

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I wonder when that Gallup poll was taken in 1938? IIRC, most (non-Jewish) Americans were unsure/indifferent/uninformed about - one presumes - German persecutions up to that point. Indifference and misinformation the Nazi regime made sure to foster though diligent PR efforts. Which generally worked until the rampages of Kristallnacht (9-10 Nov 1938) made the situation unavoidably obvious.

Factoid I remembered reading someplace: German insurance companies faced the prospect of an enormous payout over the Kristallnacht damages; so they prevailed on the Government to hurriedly pass special legislation exempting them from having to pay damages to Jewish policyholders.

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Jay C  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:38:39am

re: #287 Scottish Dragon

Is Army gonna kidnap the Navy mascot again?

Or bomb it?

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:42:01am

That’s terrifying.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:46:57am

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

I want to live in a world more like this.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:47:29am

Dreher is afraid of the WOKE MILITARY and what they might do to his son, who is “educated in the Greek classics”.

Yes, you read that correctly.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:48:37am

re: #290 Jay C

Or bomb it?

Being Army, I’d suspect BBQ it…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:49:01am

re: #293 Scottish Dragon

The military is (and probably has been for some time) a lot more “Woke” than these people think it is.

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wrenchwench  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:51:54am

re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sam Youngman is good. Is he the guy who used to be in AZ?

Also, way up there, you posted an ABL tweet with ‘chicken-fried fuck’ in it. I almost went to look to find out if chicken fried is hyphenated. I gotta steal it right.

Keep ‘em coming.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:53:58am

The snow has begun in earnest. The latest report from NWS shows 8-12”, with my trusty weather app showing a mere 4” here in the fishbowl. I guess we’ll find out tomorrow morning.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:54:45am

re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg

The military is (and probably has been for some time) a lot more “Woke” than these people think it is.

The army is run by professionals. Career professionals. They are not beholden to any particular administration or party, they need to be in a position to operate for the benefit of the entire nation over the long term: they need to ensure that our military will be as effective in 20 years as it is now.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:54:53am

She got vaccinated and boosted just like everyone else at Fox News, but she dared to promote public health, which is not something Republicans are OK with.

Fox News Anchor Fires Back After Being Criticized for Getting Boosted: ‘I Don’t Want to Die of Covid’ (Mediaite)

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Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:55:20am

re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg

The military is (and probably has been for some time) a lot more “Woke” than these people think it is.

Truman’s Army was woke before it was cool.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:57:31am
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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 10:57:38am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:00:43am

It’s currently +273 degrees on my porch right now.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:00:48am

re: #302 Scottish Dragon

I aced the ASVAB and heard from a lot of recruiters who quickly realized that I was not the type of person they were looking for.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:01:54am

re: #303 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

It’s currently +273 degrees on my porch right now.

I see what you did there…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:02:06am
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wrenchwench  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:02:11am

Coming soon: habañero mouthwash. Gargle it at both ends.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:04:13am

re: #303 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

It’s currently +273 degrees on my porch right now.

OK Kelvin.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:05:13am

re: #308 Scottish Dragon

OK Kelvin.

We need to talk about Kelvin.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:05:50am

re: #309 Barefoot Grin

We need to talk about Kelvin.

Kelvin wants to speak with the manager

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Dangerman  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:06:54am

re: #302 Scottish Dragon

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The kid never said that

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:08:30am

re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth

Okay, that was a pretty slick set up.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:11:34am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

RIP.

Nesmith was also the executive producer on the cult film Repo Man.

Repo Man (1984) title sequence

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A Mom Anon  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:12:17am

re: #301 Charles Johnson

But then the GI doctors are going to be overwhelmed with duh stoopid and it will be harder for me to get an appointment, lol. It would be amusing however to hang out at the ER and hear the whining and crying about their…butthurt. Heh.

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cat-tikvah  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:35:39am

re: #307 wrenchwench

There’s a hot sauce brand Ring of Fire with the slogan “So hot it burns you twice”

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Jay C  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:35:47am

re: #293 Scottish Dragon

Whatta putz!

But then, what should we expect? As a commenter in Edroso’s thread put it: “Drehers gotta Dreher”: and Rod’s whole shtick for years has been a lengthy pious whine about what a tragedy it is that modern society doesn’t organize itself (or, more precisely, has moved away from organizing itself) completely around his little stock rota of sexual, social, political and religious prejudices. Of course, all these prejudices are only Good and Righteous because God, so no counter-arguments are (ever) valid….

I feel moderately sorry for Dreher, Jr. though: if he wants to go for a military career, he should just go join up, Dad’s blitherings aside (I’m sure he wouldn’t be the first, or last).

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cat-tikvah  Dec 10, 2021 • 11:36:29am

re: #313 Dr Lizardo

The life of a repo man is always intense.


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