Seth takes a closer look at President Biden and Senate Democrats saying they’ll move quickly to appoint and confirm a successor to retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
DPRK Women’s Issue Conference opens for discussion on women’s issue and how best to help women with said issues. pic.twitter.com/CCvwaObZ8m
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) January 27, 2022
re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To
I’ve already solved my Wordle. You guys sleeping?
Time zones will kill Wordle. Or some random west coaster will….
re: #5 wrenchwench
Did someone say Wordle?
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We’re getting a Black female Supreme Court Justice, and there’s nothing Mitch McConnell can do about it.
re: #6 RinaX
Knock wood that one of our Senators doesn’t die before the deed is done.
A friend finally challenged me to do Wordle. My first two (Jan 26,27) I did in three. Unless I accidentally do a two sometime, I won’t post on here, but I will probably keep doing them, trying to keep my brain limber.
I absolutely love that the legacy media are pretending that the GQP are acting in anything resembling good faith when they bitch endlessly about the race, gender, or political views of the as-yet unnamed nominee. That none of them are asking the obvious question: “Aren’t you just going to vote against the nominee no matter who they are?”
New Marquette Law School Poll Finds Trump And Desantis Drawing Similar Support, But Each Trailing Biden In Possible 2024 Presidential Matchups; Election Confidence, Covid Topics Also Surveyed
law.marquette.edu
In a head-to-head matchup, DeSantis is supported by 33%, while Biden is supported by 41%. A substantial 18% say they would support someone else, and 8% say they would not vote. In a Trump versus Biden rematch, Trump receives 33% to Biden’s 43%, with 16% preferring someone else and 6% saying they would not vote.
The survey was conducted Jan. 10-21, 2022, interviewing 1000 adults nationwide, with a margin of error of +/-4 percentage points.
How to stop your ebike - INSANE 246MM ROTORS - that’ll workhttps://t.co/aVyVNssq2Z#ebike#ElectricBike pic.twitter.com/5ow3smygNb
— Elektric Bikes (@elektricbikes) January 28, 2022
Damn, I thought my 203mm was big, now I feel inadequate.
We’re all the way down to a severe drought, much better than last year.
The U.S. Drought Monitor is released every Thursday to show the location and intensity of drought across the country. Here is last week’s release (January 18, 2022) showing that the western drought continues.https://t.co/yjB42uy67Y pic.twitter.com/69o1SEvfr7
— NOAA climate.gov (@NOAAClimate) January 25, 2022
Maybe they’re going to skip a few hours.
— Possum Every Hour (@PossumEveryHour) January 28, 2022
re: #12 Dread Pirate Ron
Arizona is faring pretty well except up on the Navajo & Hopi Nations.
re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Arizona is faring pretty well except up on the Navajo & Hopi Nations.
What’s happening with CV19 in Arizona? Several weeks ago they started reporting a lot of deaths on Worldometer. They are running 3rd in deaths/million pop.
re: #16 Decatur Deb
What’s happening with CV19 in Arizona? Several weeks ago they started reporting a lot of deaths on Worldometer. They are running 3rd in deaths/million pop.
Something to do with Trump’s visit?
From WaPo:
Here’s why: Last week, state Rep. Walt Blackman introduced legislation to prevent schools from requiring students to be vaccinated against the coronavirus and, for female students, the human papillomavirus, or HPV, even though the vaccine has been shown to significantly reduce a woman’s risk to develop cervical cancer. On Tuesday, state Rep. Neal Carter proposed amending Arizona law to make it illegal to discriminate against anyone based on vaccination status.
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Something to do with Trump’s visit?
From WaPo:
Here’s why: Last week, state Rep. Walt Blackman introduced legislation to prevent schools from requiring students to be vaccinated against the coronavirus and, for female students, the human papillomavirus, or HPV, even though the vaccine has been shown to significantly reduce a woman’s risk to develop cervical cancer. On Tuesday, state Rep. Neal Carter proposed amending Arizona law to make it illegal to discriminate against anyone based on vaccination status.
That’s certainly not going to help, but has it produced effects already? AZ’s bump up looked sudden. I’ll try to backtrack, if it is a strong enough increase to overcome “lumpy” reporting.
AZ deaths took a couple swings up around 5 DEC and 30 DEC. The raw case counts really soared after 30DEC. If the numbers are too small, they become more subject to random causes.
Good for you Neil.
I’ve always been an Apple guy for streaming. No Joe Rogan for me thank you! @neilyoung @SpotifyUSA— Peter Frampton (@peterframpton) January 28, 2022
re: #8 retired cynic
Beginners’ luck.
seriously. wait until he gets “rabbi” and 4 of the 5 letters placed, and his brain shuts down and can only think of “ravioli” and “radii.” Bitch won’t be in here bragging about how he “solved it in three” then, will he? :-)
Barack Obama responds to Supreme Court gossip:
nah I’m good thanks pic.twitter.com/Uz5ymtRUzo— ClockOutWars (@clockoutwars) January 27, 2022
My games this week
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re: #22 sagehen
So it’s true they are going to nominate Michelle?
Patient zero, Sarah Palin https://t.co/Hk4layrcuz pic.twitter.com/Q10tP9Hbbf
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 28, 2022
Just heard from an old ex-GF in New Jersey: she has Covid as does her husband. I did not ask about their vaccination status. I somehow suspect not.
The missus doesn’t like really runny yolks, so I over-medium her eggs…still has some ooze…but I love a good dark yolk…local chickens for the win.
re: #28 darthstar
The missus doesn’t like really runny yolks, so I over-medium her eggs…still has some ooze.
Mrs. Fish is exactly the opposite; if it doesn’t run all over her plate when she breaks it, she doesn’t eat it. The best way I know how to make runny eggs is to cook eggs in the middle of bread; the timing of properly frying the bread seems to work perfectly with frying the egg to a nice runny (but not raw) consistency.
LOL, now I want a breffist at McDonalds, but they are probably out of hash browns.
The value of fake cryptocurrency Grimacecoin has rocketed by as much as 285,000% in a matter of hours in response to a McDonald’s joke tweet about Tesla.
The joke crypto, referencing their purple mascot shaped like a tastebud, parodied an earlier request by Elon Musk during a light-hearted Twitter exchange.
The Tesla founder tweeted on Tuesday that he would “eat a happy meal on TV” if McDonald’s accepted Dogecoin as a payment.
And on Wednesday the fast-food company responded with a picture of their popular mascot with the caption: “Only if Tesla accepts grimacecoin.”
re: #29 Dopamine Fish
Mrs. Fish is exactly the opposite; if it doesn’t run all over her plate when she breaks it, she doesn’t eat it. The best way I know how to make runny eggs is to cook eggs in the middle of bread; the timing of properly frying the bread seems to work perfectly with frying the egg to a nice runny (but not raw) consistency.
My ex refuses to eat a runny yolk, says it goes back to a childhood trauma when her very strict British age-of-austerity-generation parents tried to force her to eat a runny egg. She asked if they could just cook it a bit more so it was solid but they told her that she was to obey her parents, and besides it’s better that way.
She was forced to sit at the dinner table until she finished it. When she had not finished it at bedtime, she was sent to bed and had it served to her cold the next day.
Finally she snuck it out and hid it on the compost heap, where they found it, washed it off and forced her to eat it in their presence.
Another ex-GF had a similar trauma with her morning cereal. She said she did not like having milk poured over it, because by the time she got to the bottom, the milk was warm and the cereal soggy. She would have been fine eating the cereal dry and drinking the milk but no, she had to have the milk poured over because it was better that way, so she was forced to gag on warm milk and soggy cereal every morning.
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That’s why god invented the toilet.
The Florida House of Representatives Professions & Public Health Subcommittee voted 12-6 Tuesday to pass a bill that would allow healthcare providers to refuse care to patients if that care did not align with their consciences. https://t.co/BdVEcc1oaj
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) January 28, 2022
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re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
Setting the stage for Christian-run organizations to refuse to administer abortions.
Tucker Carlson chose the wrong side.
In Opinion
Instead of trapping the U.S., President Vladimir Putin has trapped himself, writes Yulia Latynina, a journalist. “Caught between armed conflict and a humiliating retreat, he is now seeing his room for maneuver dwindling to nothing.”https://t.co/ywMegGDWHv— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 28, 2022
re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That’s not going to go over well with unvaccinated people getting turned away from hospitals.
Spotify didn’t choose wisely either, it appears.
BREAKING: Spotify has shutdown its live customer support due to an unprecedented number of complaints after they doubled-down on their Joe Rogan anti-vax campaign pic.twitter.com/yscw97xTkt
— LeGate (@williamlegate) January 27, 2022
#Spotify is going through some things. #DeleteSpotify pic.twitter.com/1gQRIPLirP
— James Tate (@JamesTate121) January 27, 2022
re: #38 darthstar
That’s not going to go over well with
unvaccinated people getting turned away from hospitals.
It is Florida
re: #40 darthstar
Like, I get that Joe Rogan is popular amongst the neanderthals, and that Spotify was afraid to pull the trigger and get boycotted by the very vocal minority of CHUDs that make up the rabid right wing. But I’m starting to suspect that they’re slowly becoming aware of the fact that sane and rational people are 1) far more numerous than the vocal minority, and 2) starting to realize they don’t have to take it lying down anymore.
re: #42 Dopamine Fish
Like, I get that Joe Rogan is popular amongst the neanderthals, and that Spotify was afraid to pull the trigger and get boycotted by the very vocal minority of CHUDs that make up the rabid right wing. But I’m starting to suspect that they’re slowly becoming aware of the fact that sane and rational people are 1) far more numerous than the vocal minority, and 2) starting to realize they don’t have to take it lying down anymore.
This would be a good time for Pandora to run a promotion.
re: #40 darthstar
There’s a reason the Right is resorting to force: the number of people that can make an impact is too large to ignore.
re: #4 Dread Pirate Ron
Aspirational goal for GOP. They’ve already essentially purged their elected leaders of persons of color except token Senator. They’ve got less than 10% of their caucus as women, so of course it goes without saying that they’re going to go bugnuts racist/misogynist when Biden nominates an African American woman to the Supreme Court.
Of the 56 African American members in the House, just 2 are GOPers. There are two African American Senators, and 1 is a GOP.
That means of all the GOP in Congress, just 3 are African American. GOP does slightly better with Hispanics, but not by much.
This is a white nationalist/white supremacist party, where they really aren’t sending their best: Gosar, Gohmert, Greene, Paul, Scalise, etc.
When you have to deny… https://t.co/hcIyGZclTH
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) January 28, 2022
More than 3,000 American Covid deaths reported today, 7-day average > 2,500, and the sharp continued rise indicates this peak may exceed that before there were vaccines. Which is unfathomable. pic.twitter.com/LVDa0pgCgL
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 28, 2022
— chris dorf (@chrispdorf) January 28, 2022
CDC study finds shorter hospital stays during #omicron wave, even as infections and death toll mount. The variant’s rapid spread has led to large numbers of hospitalizations & more than 2200 deaths daily https://t.co/lvwpsBSMBL
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) January 27, 2022
#Omicron will likely recede more slowly in the U.S. than in other countries, according to at least one expert, who underscores that the continued high coronavirus positivity rate is also concerning https://t.co/1qmiIBNYCX pic.twitter.com/Zr90w8Pfck
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) January 27, 2022
re: #45 lawhawk
This is a white nationalist/white supremacist party, where they really aren’t sending their best: Gosar, Gohmert, Greene, Paul, Scalise, etc.
I beg to differ. They are absolutely sending their best. The problem is, the white supremacist / American nationalist movement is not one that lends itself to attracting the best and brightest. Intelligence tends to be an effective vaccine against knuckle-dragging stupidity.
I’m actually surprised there’s ONLY 3 billion that haven’t received a shot.
10 billion doses in 1 year is really a stunning human achievement
Yet still much work to do in 2022 pic.twitter.com/qgVbjQalDT— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 27, 2022
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
She was forced to sit at the dinner table until she finished it. When she had not finished it at bedtime, she was sent to bed and had it served to her cold the next day.
Finally she snuck it out and hid it on the compost heap, where they found it, washed it off and forced her to eat it in their presence.
this is why we want dogs to sit under the table, so we can sneak them things.
re: #33 darthstar
That’s why god invented the toilet.
I once tried to hide a pork chop I didn’t want to eat by putting it in the lazy Susan and giving it a spin…
We’ve got enough of those, thanks https://t.co/kXqlO0JyLF
— American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist) January 27, 2022
re: #34 darthstar
Think about irregular verbs (mostly Germanic in origin): sit, sat or drink, drank drunk, or sink, sank, sunk, there is a particular “melody” to the way we shift consonants.
I know it’s hardly the silliest thing about the Ark Encounter, but an iron forge on a wooden boat? Really? https://t.co/zVbWKSm5Cl
— Creationist Misconceptions (@_CROPES_) January 28, 2022
Meet Willow!💕 pic.twitter.com/Gl3SnsMnvW
— Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) January 28, 2022
re: #45 lawhawk
That means of all the GOP in Congress, just 3 are African American. GOP does slightly better with Hispanics, but not by much.
This is a white nationalist/white supremacist party, where they really aren’t sending their best: Gosar, Gohmert, Greene, Paul, Scalise, etc.
Ideology and grandstanding trumps qualification and education any day with these people.
A 7-year-old Santa Ana boy who is battling cancer but aspires to be a postal carrier got a mail truck of his own delivered to his house. Watch Jacob Hayward barely contain his excitement! 📬📧 https://t.co/aX2olqxsmz pic.twitter.com/Sf8QKHwQnk
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) January 27, 2022
re: #50 sagehen
this is why we want dogs to sit under the table, so we can sneak them things.
We had an old 60’s chrome dinette with bolts underneath that were perfect for affixing food to for the dog to come snarf off later.
re: #50 sagehen
Unfortunately beagles don’t like brussel sprouts, don’t ask me how I know that.
re: #36 Dopamine Fish
Setting the stage for Christian-run organizations to refuse to administer abortions.
If I were a doctor, I’d refuse to treat the unvaccinated. They’d get rid of the law in a heartbeat.
re: #49 Belafon
Reload. Helps to include the info.
re: #60 JC1
If I were a doctor, I’d refuse to treat the unvaccinated. They’d get rid of the law in a heartbeat.
In a fetal heartbeat?
“…you can’t be both the attorney general of Arizona, in charge of investigating all aspects of the 2020 election, and a Senate candidate who is chasing Trump’s endorsement.
At least, you shouldn’t be. “https://t.co/aSX5TBzMXa— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) January 28, 2022
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In a fetal heartbeat?
It wasn’t an accidental phrasing.
re: #60 JC1
If I were a doctor, I’d refuse to treat the unvaccinated. They’d get rid of the law in a heartbeat.
No, they wouldn’t. They’d write a new law to force you to treat the unvaccinated, and amend the old law so it doesn’t conflict.
re: #43 darthstar
This would be a good time for Pandora to run a promotion.
I randomly settled into Pandora before I ever heard of Spotify. Pandora works well for me. No complaints.
I don’t think Pandora has podcasts…. Wait, let me check.
Pandora does have podcasts… Hmm…. Let’s see..
Dang.
Ben Shapiro
Megyn Kelly
News and Politics category has 2000+ shows
Society and Culture has 10,000+ shows
This is a wormhole.
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’d be satisfied if we had pastors who fear god.
I have Pandora Plus, which is $3.99 per month for me. I was grandfathered in. For new subscribers it might be $4.99. Anyway, with plus you get no commercials, which is what I NEEEEED.
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re: #70 Ming5000
I have Pandora Plus, which is $3.99 per month for me. I was grandfathered in. For new subscribers it might be $4.99. Anyway, with plus you get no commercials, which is what I NEEEEED.
I am checking out TIDAL, which is the other streaming platform Tesla supports. It will take me awhile to duplicate my liked songs etc. from Spotify but I’m going to do it. 30 day free trial.
re: #55 Captain Magic
Finally the White House cat. And Willow is a lovely name.
UPDATE: The McMinn County Tennessee school board defends its decision to ban Maus from the classroom.
“We simply do not believe that this work is an appropriate text for our students to study”
They claim the decision “reflect[s] the values of the community” pic.twitter.com/sBOjF7LXlf— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 28, 2022
BREAKING: A bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh hours before President Biden was scheduled to visit the city to talk about the infrastructure bill. Police reported the span came down around 6 a.m. Authorities said there were no initial reports of injuries. https://t.co/oj3FbnvC5n
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 28, 2022
re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Emergency crews Friday were on the scene of a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh.
Police reported the span, on Forbes Avenue over Fern Hollow Creek in Frick Park, came down around 6 a.m.
A photo from the scene shows a commuter bus upright on a section of the collapsed bridge.
There were no initial reports of injuries, Pittsburgh Public Safety said on Twitter.
A natural gas line was cut and there is a smell of gas in the air, the agency said.
Authorities told motorists to avoid the area.
The collapse comes hours before President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit the city to talk about the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that includes bridge maintenance.
jeebus
re: #28 darthstar
The missus doesn’t like really runny yolks, so I over-medium her eggs…still has some ooze…but I love a good dark yolk…local chickens for the win.
I am constantly on the lookout for good eggs…the eggs I remember from my youth. The eggs where the hens eat bugs. Vegetarian fed hens make bland as heck tasting eggs.
They are very hard to find.
Actual current bridge collapse at Pittsburgh, but the moment I saw it, it looked like a scene from an post apocalypse themed movie or video game https://t.co/XCnfVOhhIn
— Robert Marcano (@robmv) January 28, 2022
BREAKING: A bridge along Forbes Avenue near Frick Park has collapsed. (📷: Jeremy Habowski) https://t.co/tBmXgKOsnM pic.twitter.com/QebLGfSRa9
— KDKA (@KDKA) January 28, 2022
This is Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh before today’s collapse. pic.twitter.com/3U78vRk59t
— atthebeach345 🗽⚖🌎 (@thebeach345) January 28, 2022
re: #48 Dopamine Fish
I beg to differ. They are absolutely sending their best. The problem is,
the white supremacist / American nationalist movement is not one that lends itself to attractingtheir best and brightest. Intelligence tends to be an effective vaccine againstrequire nothing but knuckle-dragging stupidity.
FIFY
ALERT:
Please avoid the area of Forbes and Braddock for a confirmed bridge collapse. Fire, EMS, and Police responding. No reported injuries at this time.
Updates will be provided. pic.twitter.com/ja8YlzkSp7— Pittsburgh Public Safety (@PghPublicSafety) January 28, 2022
UPDATE 2:
Gas line has been cut. Updates on injuries will be provided once PIO is on scene.
Red Cross has been contacted for victim assistance. https://t.co/MPLY9oXOcv— Pittsburgh Public Safety (@PghPublicSafety) January 28, 2022
UPDATE 3:
PIO is on scene. Will advise on when there will be a news conference. https://t.co/l8tQryZwIW pic.twitter.com/OEHkAPJy6N— Pittsburgh Public Safety (@PghPublicSafety) January 28, 2022
— Pittsburgh Public Safety (@PghPublicSafety) January 28, 2022
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I hate it. I found this to boost my ego.
President Biden will be in Pittsburgh today to discuss infrastructure. Coincidentally, a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh is a vivid reminder that the GOP overwhelmingly refused to support last year’s historic infrastructure bill, and they refuse to support the BBB.
All the while, these same GOPers are more than happy to take the money that Democrats passed as part of the infrastructure bill, and claim it as their own effort.
Fuck the GOP.
We’re lucky there weren’t more casualties, and thus far no deaths reported in the collapse.
re: #85 lawhawk
Great timing to boost the message!
re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To
Two wrong guesses that should have been correct
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That is how I am going to look at it. And I hope it helps those bills that Joe wants passed.
Grateful to hear that no one was injured in the bridge collapse this morning in Pittsburgh 🙏🏾 https://t.co/2vhwR1jCjB
— Austin Davis (@AustinDavisPA) January 28, 2022
re: #86 Ming5000
Cue the conspiracy nuts on the “timing”.
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I’ve never been to Russia, I don’t speak Russian. Of course I’m not an agent of Russia.”
The last comment is a non sequitur. After all one does not need to have been to Russia or to speak Russian to be a Russian agent. Or maybe it’s just that Tucker is a Trump agent and speaking according to Trump’s wishes.
re: #91 Hecuba’s daughter
“I’ve never been to Russia, I don’t speak Russian. Of course I’m not an agent of Russia.”
The last comment is a non sequitur. After all one does not need to have been to Russia or to speak Russian to be a Russian agent. Or maybe it’s just that Tucker is a Trump agent and speaking according to Trump’s wishes.
“…I don’t even like Russian dressing!”
At the scene of a bridge collapse near Forbes and South Braddock avenues this morning. #Pittsburgh pic.twitter.com/w9nveJoGCi
— Steven Adams (@fo2grfr) January 28, 2022
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Da Tovarisch.
re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth
I used to commute across that bridge back in the late 80s when I lived just outside the city limits and worked downtown.*
* - pronounced “dawwn-tawwn” if you were a native.
And that is going to snarl things good with traffic in that area. Not a lot of ways to get over that little valley. And those were already pretty darn busy during rush hour.
@POTUS is grateful to the first responders who rushed to assist the drivers who were on the bridge at the time. The President will proceed with trip planned for today and will stay in touch with officials on the ground about additional assistance we can provide.
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) January 28, 2022
There had been 10 “minor injures,” Pittsburgh Fire Chief Darryl Jones said, and three people were transported from the scene. None of the injuries were life-threatening, he said. Three or four vehicles + 1 bus were on the bridge when it fell, Jones said.
— Michael Barthel (@RealMiBaWi) January 28, 2022
I’m wondering if the bridge collapse may have been precipitated by a landslide or ground movement. Pittsburgh has had a lot of landslides in recent years due to weather fluctuations and water movement through the soil, so it’s possible that a shift of the foundations caused the collapse. Alternatively, it could be a failure of a fracture critical element, or a combination of the two.
re: #99 PhillyPretzel
I’ve already got snow here in northern NJ. Everything with a light coating.
re: #71 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Morning!
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re: #99 PhillyPretzel
It is starting to snow in Philly. :(
we got just under 3 inches of snow here in TheBackwoods. More headed this way.
The mayor and County executive say that they’ve received calls from the governor as well as the White House offering help And asking if they need any assistance @KDKA https://t.co/Al4E68dmuK
— Bryant Reed (@Reed_Reports) January 28, 2022
re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth
No injuries? Amazing. It must have been a wild ride though. I wish we could see how it collapsed.
Sorry to hear about the Pittsburgh bridge collapse. After the I-35W bridge collapse here in Minnesota way back in 2007 (15 years, really?), I had hoped that we would put a higher priority on fixing our infrastructure. We did… but a bit late for these folks, it seems.
Rand Paul claims that the government is trying to kill “deplorables” by denying them treatments that don’t work. In other news, a new poll shows that Rand Paul has a big lead over his likely opponent in November.
From @Joe_Gerth: Rand Paul says feds are plotting to kill conservatives. His COVID conspiracies should embarrass all of us https://t.co/knhwV0uBW2 via @courierjournal
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) January 28, 2022
re: #86 Ming5000
Great timing to boost the message!
Walk up to the podium
Say “I told you so”
And leave
re: #98 lawhawk
I’m wondering if the bridge collapse may have been precipitated by a landslide or ground movement. Pittsburgh has had a lot of landslides in recent years due to weather fluctuations and water movement through the soil, so it’s possible that a shift of the foundations caused the collapse. Alternatively, it could be a failure of a fracture critical element, or a combination of the two.
leftist sabotage!
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re: #108 No Malarkey!
My father-in-law disclosed to us, when Mrs. Fish tested positive, that he had found a quack in a nearby city who prescribed him ivermectin. When I ribbed Mrs. Fish about her father being a horse paste consumer, she was like, “No way. That’s what that is? Even your dad isn’t dumb enough to fall for that one.” (Kinda ouch, but also fair.) “I’m absolutely going to make fun of him for that later on in life.” I love my wife.
re: #107 Shropshire Slasher
I think this is the same bridge.
from the link:
Built in 1901, replaced in 1973
From Sorry Antivaxxer. This is a big one.
Carvalho is a major figure on the Brazilian right and, in particular, a major influence on Bolsonaro and the denialist policy toward Covid.
Olavo de Carvalho, 74, Richmond, VA, Brazilian Philosopher, anti-vaxxer, dead from COVID
Samples
re: #55 Captain Magic
Say hello to Willow, the First Cat of the United States. Thank you @FLOTUS and @POTUS for honoring your campaign promise. I think she’s beautiful! pic.twitter.com/Zj5EjfmiOl
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) January 28, 2022
re: #27 darthstar
Made his & hers Croque Madame last night - Coastside loaf from a local bakery, bechamel, ham, Comte cheese, egg…best grilled cheese sandwich I’ve ever made myself.
Beets in vinegar for veg.
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That looks delish! I pan fried a couple of center cut chops in an iron skillet after covering them with some rib roast, then cut the heat back after they’d gotten a nice sear, made up some beef stock from that fancy stuff that comes in the little plastic refrigerated tub, covered it aluminum foil and let it go for another twenty minutes or so. The piece de resistance was turning some leftover green giant veggies out of the bag once the chops were done, and then having two or six glasses of chateau de Thames embankment courtesy of bota box.
Friday is fish and chips at our place.
re: #29 Dopamine Fish
Mrs. Fish is exactly the opposite; if it doesn’t run all over her plate when she breaks it, she doesn’t eat it. The best way I know how to make runny eggs is to cook eggs in the middle of bread; the timing of properly frying the bread seems to work perfectly with frying the egg to a nice runny (but not raw) consistency.
Framed eggs. Love those things and haven’t made one in years.
re: #117 steve_davis
Framed eggs. Love those things and haven’t made one in years.
Mrs. Fish will now only eat them if I make them, because something I do with the butter and the frying apparently makes them better than any other she’s ever had. I wish I knew what I did differently. It seems pretty straightforward to me.
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Say hello to Willow, the First Cat of the United States. Thank you @FLOTUS and @POTUS for honoring your campaign promise. I think she’s beautiful! pic.twitter.com/Zj5EjfmiOl
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) January 28, 2022
Probably:
Reporter: “Why are you going to vote for Rand Paul. All he does is shitpost, spread disinformation in hearings, push racist talking points, and generally just troll liberals without bringing anything back to his constituents?”
Ky voter: “hell, yeah!”
re: #121 Barefoot Grin
Probably:
Reporter: “Why are you going to vote for Rand Paul. All he does is shitpost, spread disinformation in hearings, push racist talking points, and generally just troll liberals without bringing anything back to his constituents?”
Ky voter: “hell, yeah!”
“Government can’t do anything useful, at least they can be entertaining!”
re: #119 Patricia Kayden
Or serve LGBTs
So Florida health care providers can cite this law to refuse ivermectin to their patients?
Sound up
Love Struck Ricky singing the ESO version of “Hey Baby it’s Cold Outside” #Owl @KiKiPosting pic.twitter.com/9MN3FrjsOd
— Dave’s Hiding Out till Jan. (@DaveoutofAustin) January 28, 2022
re: #120 Dangerman
Send it to Justin Ng. He seems to be very close to Larry.
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
from the link:
1973 seems about right with it’s design. No significant moving water underneath or rail or other types of commerce. Steel contracts during winter, it could have contracted off the support bearings. Because it was last inspected in September the defect shout have been caught. A civil engineer is about to lose his license to practice.
re: #118 Dopamine Fish
Mrs. Fish will now only eat them if I make them, because something I do with the butter and the frying apparently makes them better than any other she’s ever had. I wish I knew what I did differently. It seems pretty straightforward to me.
*you* made them
re: #127 Dangerman
*you* made them
Scientific fact, sammiches made by someone else always taste better.
re: #128 Shropshire Slasher
Scientific fact, sammiches made by someone else always taste better.
Sandwiches made by mothers/spouses taste best
re: #119 Patricia Kayden
Or serve LGBTs
“Conscience” cuts both ways
Mine tells me not to waste time on idiots
re: #125 PhillyPretzel
Send it to Justin Ng. He seems to be very close to Larry.
Welcome to the political felines team Willow AKA FCOTUS! https://t.co/Nn85yOTowd
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 28, 2022
Give me a call Willow, I’ll explain how we run this
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 28, 2022
“How YOU doin’?” https://t.co/cyviRzKSLa
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 28, 2022
Prior to WWII, Americans sympathetic to Nazi Ideology if not openly Nazis themselves (called the German-American Bund), preached antisemitism exactly like this. When the war came, some of them moved to Germany and fought for Hitler. https://t.co/iveX7gqMxN
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 28, 2022
re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth
If it were, the bus would have been driven by John cusack and there would be video of the bridge falling away piece by piece as the bus makes it across.
WILD IMAGES of Fern Hollow Bridge Collapse near Frick Park.
Everyone trapped on the bridge is now off… minor injuries (about 10) reported. We have a team on scene @wpxi
Photo courtesy of @ACE_Fitzgerald pic.twitter.com/WvutHWMMvu— Liz Kilmer (@LizKilmerWPXI) January 28, 2022
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am glad no one got killed. That was one scary ride.
re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter
Got Wordle in 4 today; but if I hadn’t changed my first word several days ago, I probably could have guessed in 3.
I have started changing my initial word every day. Just for fun.
HAPPENING NOW
Huge scene at S Braddock & Forbes. Bridge is on Forbes. Mayor Gainey just arrived. Lt Gov Fetterman also on scene, he just told me the scene is “surreal” @wpxi pic.twitter.com/hq7pyF4jki— Liz Kilmer (@LizKilmerWPXI) January 28, 2022
UPDATE 5: Park Rangers are asking that pedestrians avoid Frick Park at this time as emergency crews deal with the bridge collapse. https://t.co/MUeBBTXo9W
— Pittsburgh Public Safety (@PghPublicSafety) January 28, 2022
re: #7 retired cynic
Knock wood that one of our Senators doesn’t die before the deed is done.
A friend finally challenged me to do Wordle. My first two (Jan 26,27) I did in three. Unless I accidentally do a two sometime, I won’t post on here, but I will probably keep doing them, trying to keep my brain limber.
Like this?
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re: #113 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Pre-Covid (12-19)
MEET THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDER OF BRAZIL’S FAR RIGHT
Among other things, Carvalho referred to reporters as “enemies of the people” long before Trump picked up the expression. Not surprisingly, he is also connected with Steve Bannon and other American fascists.
re: #140 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Pre-Covid (12-19)
MEET THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDER OF BRAZIL’S FAR RIGHT
Among other things, Carvalho referred to reporters as “enemies of the people” long before Trump picked up the expression. Not surprisingly, he is also connected with Steve Bannon and other American fascists.
And of course, anything left of the Proud Boys is “progressive”, which is just a synonym for “communist”
“We encourage any New Yorker who came into contact with Sarah Palin to get tested.”— Jonah Allon, spokesman for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, quoted by the New York Daily News.
..which we’ve been saying since 2009
What caused European governments to lose control of the pandemic was exactly this fallacy—that those not yet vaccinated are something akin to an ethnic group, an ontological status to which rights accrue. Rather than people who’ve not yet paid their taxeshttps://t.co/P90QT6Qve4
— Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders) January 28, 2022
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My ex refuses to eat a runny yolk, says it goes back to a childhood trauma when her very strict British age-of-austerity-generation parents tried to force her to eat a runny egg. She asked if they could just cook it a bit more so it was solid but they told her that she was to obey her parents, and besides it’s better that way.
She was forced to sit at the dinner table until she finished it. When she had not finished it at bedtime, she was sent to bed and had it served to her cold the next day.
Finally she snuck it out and hid it on the compost heap, where they found it, washed it off and forced her to eat it in their presence.
Another ex-GF had a similar trauma with her morning cereal. She said she did not like having milk poured over it, because by the time she got to the bottom, the milk was warm and the cereal soggy. She would have been fine eating the cereal dry and drinking the milk but no, she had to have the milk poured over because it was better that way, so she was forced to gag on warm milk and soggy cereal every morning.
Zedushka’s mother would not allow him to leave the table until he cleaned his plate, something something “refugee children are starving!” and as a result he has certain food phobias to this day! He found a way to sneak string beans (back when they had disgusting STRINGS, yuck!) into his pockets and from there to the basement toilet tank.
Decades later, after Z & I were married, my father-in-law went downstairs and used that toilet (which was almost never used—-that’s why Z hid his string beans there), lifted up the tank lid & found 15 years worth of rotting string beans.
re: #7 retired cynic
Knock wood that one of our Senators doesn’t die before the deed is done.
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after all of mitch’s disingenuous bitching yesterday, we all KNOW exactly what he’d do if he took over the majority because a D died
all that shit about 50/50 unity would go out the window
and he’d barely have time for a nice word about whoever just passed
re: #123 Hecuba’s daughter
So Florida health care providers can cite this law to refuse ivermectin to their patients?
Go bigger: No vax, no hospital bed for you. Die at home.
re: #145 The Pie Overlord!
I have…. questions.
Did no one notice the smell? Or the toilet function not work quite right?
re: #144 Belafon
If you wish to be unvaccinated because of “personal freedom”, then be prepared to accept the “personal responsibility ” that comes with your choice: that you may be excluded from crowded public spaces, airline flights, public transportation, concert venues, etc., that you may be asked to cover your own (otherwise avoidable) medical expenses, etc.
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Starting with AEGIS and YOUTH has me reliably solving in five tries.
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
Noah: “Ham, where did you get the wood to burn in the forge?”
Ham: “Ummm…”
Noah: “Curse you!”
re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you wish to be unvaccinated because of “person freedom”, then be prepared to accept the “personal responsibility ” that comes with your choice: that you may be excluded from crowded public spaces, airline flights, public transportation, concert venues, etc., that you may be asked to cover your own (otherwise avoidable) medical expenses, etc.
I agree.
What they want is the 2A system.
All the rights. Zero responsibility. When its obvious you and you alone did it.
Boosters increase protection against death from Omicron in over-50s to 95% - UKHSA https://t.co/EDii2IgwwW pic.twitter.com/dRYsDUOM4z
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 28, 2022
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re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
Occupants of the bus in that last picture gonna need new underwear… 👀
re: #148 lawhawk
I have…. questions.
Did no one notice the smell? Or the toilet function not work quite right?
Z told me that toilet was rarely used and that is why he decided to hide his string beans in there. I asked why he didn’t just flush them and he said he was afraid they would get backed up. (He was a desperate kid)
re: #151 BlueSpotinAL
Noah: “Ham, where did you get the wood to burn in the forge?”
Ham: “Ummm…”
Noah: “Curse you!”
I really like the 12lb rounding hammer in the wall.
re: #157 Mattand
Willow is the White House cat. :)
Absolutely get your booster immediately.
I have a prediction from my Infectious Disease expert - March will be much better in the US.
Economy should still be running strong, hopefully some supply issues will resolve and lower inflation for some items. Big ones like cars and housing will still be high though. We need a strong economy because America is full of idiots who don’t understand economics but vote based on how they think the economy is going.
re: #157 Mattand
Anyone got any good news in general for today?
I’m not thinking about death…..
So far so good.
re: #157 Mattand
Anyone got any good news in general for today?
Ordered 3 copies of Maus this morning and Amazon had this banner on it:
#1 Best Seller in Historical European Biographies
(and they are backordered, won’t get copies until Feb 10-22)
This criminal was trying to hide from cops in his kiwi disguise https://t.co/LnxnyadLkK pic.twitter.com/26BZQ9VTcV
— Illegally Smol Cats (@IllegallySmol) January 28, 2022
When GOPers claim that Democrats are playing politics with nominations, take a damned good look at Scalia and Roberts. Disagree with their philosophy, but they were qualified.
Trump’s picks are hacks and lacked character and judgment to be on the bench. https://t.co/w92VxEI4w2— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) January 28, 2022
re: #166 b.d.
Ordered 3 copies of Maus this morning and Amazon had this banner on it:
#1 Best Seller in Historical European Biographies
(and they are backordered, won’t get copies until Feb 10-22)
Im hoping they really Streisand-ed this
I don’t know why, but I hate sweet potatoes. When I was five my dad forced me to sit at the table until I ate my sweet potato souffle. I took one bite and vomited. He never did that again.
re: #167 Captain Magic
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First glance I thought this was the bodega cats feed
I said, sure coulda happened..cat behind 3 kiwis
Then I looked closer
Still cute, but staged
re: #168 lawhawk
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These were the last SCOTUS noms to get strong bipartisan approval. Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh,Barrett were all confirmed by partisan votes that barely crested 50.
Gee, which party nominated all those “excellent jurists” who just barely eked in?
Eta: yeah I know it said jt. I like to overstate the obvious. Obviously.
re: #70 Ming5000
I have Pandora Plus, which is $3.99 per month for me. I was grandfathered in. For new subscribers it might be $4.99. Anyway, with plus you get no commercials, which is what I NEEEEED.
I got in at $4.99. Hawaiian Island Breeze is awesome.
re: #161 PhillyPretzel
Willow is the White House cat. :)
re: #163 Shropshire Slasher
It’s Friday!
re: #165 Dave In Austin
I’m not thinking about death…..
So far so good.
re: #166 b.d.
Ordered 3 copies of Maus this morning and Amazon had this banner on it:
#1 Best Seller in Historical European Biographies
(and they are backordered, won’t get copies until Feb 10-22)
That’s a start. Thanks.
Unfortunately, I am thinking about death. We just lost someone in our department at work due to cancer.
I didn’t know her long, but long enough to know she was a really good person who didn’t deserve that. Just frustrating to lose genuinely good people like her and know that there’s still some genuinely awful people still trudging this Earth.
Blargh.
Trump passed right by the early voting site multiple times on his way to play golf. He chose to vote by mail anyway.
PS send money pic.twitter.com/agLhclGRUw— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 28, 2022
By BYOBooyah
ARLINGTON, Va. — In a move designed to “roast the libs” and capitalize on an increasingly politicized coffee market, former service members Clint Lorance and Eddie Gallagher are going into business together. Their new brand is called Alleged War Crimes Coffee and, according to the company’s website, it’s for those who want to start the morning ready to murder the day.
re: #157 Mattand
Anyone got any good news in general for today?
It’s not 37 degrees in south Florida.
…yet
For those worried that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent, a report that the Rouble is rebounding from 15 month lows after a Russian foreign ministry spokesman said a war with Ukraine is unacceptable. news.yahoo.com
re: #177 Barefoot Grin
By BYOBooyah
ARLINGTON, Va. — In a move designed to “roast the libs” and capitalize on an increasingly politicized coffee market, former service members Clint Lorance and Eddie Gallagher are going into business together. Their new brand is called Alleged War Crimes Coffee and, according to the company’s website, it’s for those who want to start the morning ready to murder the day.
Announcing that they’re scum doesn’t “roast the libs.” It tells us that this pro-war crime company is run by terrible people.
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump was a longtime NYC resident, who was videotaped while trying to find his polling place. They went to multiple locations, and he couldn’t remember where he had to go vote. He’s been voting by mail for years, and now wants to make it harder for everyone else to do what he did because he’s incapable of remembering where to vote in person.
Gov. Jim Justice (R) used his second State of the State address as a victory lap for economic development and tourism in West Virginia, saying the state had avoided a lot of the partisan bickering that’s taking place in Washington, D.C.,” the Charleston Gazette Mail reports.Then Justice held up his bulldog, Babydog, and turned her around: “They told every bad joke in the world about us. So from that standpoint, Babydog tells Bette Midler and all those out there, kiss her hiney.”
Classy guy.
re: #178 Dangerman
It’s not 37 degrees in south Florida.
…yet
LOL, what counts as freezing for you folks down there? 58°? That’d feel like a heat wave right now.
By this time tomorrow, our dog Boo should be romping through 4-8” of snow.
re: #177 Barefoot Grin
By BYOBooyah
ARLINGTON, Va. — In a move designed to “roast the libs” and capitalize on an increasingly politicized coffee market, former service members Clint Lorance and Eddie Gallagher are going into business together. Their new brand is called Alleged War Crimes Coffee and, according to the company’s website, it’s for those who want to start the morning ready to murder the day.
A lousy business model
You’re supposed to roast the beans
re: #181 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Announcing that they’re scum doesn’t “roast the libs.” It tells us that this pro-war crime company is run by terrible people.
Duffleblog is the Onion for the military.
In the hearing that just kicked off, Gorka’s own legal team referred to the right-wing radio host as “Mr. Gorka” and not “Dr. Gorka.”
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) January 28, 2022
re: #183 Dangerman
Classy guy.
The state that turns down aid to own the libs is exactly what we’re describing it as.
she’s one of the first press secretaries in recent memory who consistently challenges reporters when they use passive voice to try to play gotcha
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) January 26, 2022
re: #181 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Announcing that they’re scum doesn’t “roast the libs.” It tells us that this pro-war crime company is run by terrible people.
It”’s Duffleblog, a parody site. I should have made that clear. Also, it gets funnier.
re: #182 lawhawk
Trump was a longtime NYC resident, who was videotaped while trying to find his polling place. They went to multiple locations, and he couldn’t remember where he had to go vote. He’s been voting by mail for years, and now wants to make it harder for everyone else to do what he did because he’s incapable of remembering where to vote in person.
Christ, on top of that, it’s probably not like he’s ever filled out a goddamn mail-in ballot. Probably had some flunky do it, or handed Eric and Don Jr. a box of crayons and said “Here. Go to town and don’t fuck it up.”
Smash cut to Don Jr. setting his hands and the ballot on fire and Eric with a mouth full of crayons.
I honestly thought that a pandemic would be *end* of the anti-vaccine movement, because sometimes, despite my choleric nature, I actually overestimate the general goodness and intelligence of ordinary human beings. https://t.co/ds3V20UzG8
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 28, 2022
I saw this nonsense floating around a conspiracy nut board, and it made something click for me: These folks are basically operating on cinematic epistemology. They believe what would be true if the news were a Hollywood movie. pic.twitter.com/R9NugOn8F1
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) January 23, 2022
Trial set for April 4, per attorneys
This would be among the first series of US Capitol attack trials. And it would feature a distinctively high-profile defendant…. a retired NYPD officer— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 28, 2022
Back the blue… until the former cop assaults current cops in attempt to overthrow the government.
Even then, the “back the blue” extremists will back the guy carrying out the assault on the current duty cop, because freedumb.
re: #39 darthstar
Money over public safety? Every time.
re: #192 Belafon
Now that vaccine freedumb has become a key plank in the GQP platform, look for red states to make it much easier for parents to send their kids to school completely unvaccinated for any childhood disease, and larger and more frequent outbreaks of measles and other childhood diseases we conquered decades ago.
re: #193 lawhawk
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Even then, the “back the blue” extremists will back the guy carrying out the assault on the current duty cop, because freedumb.
He was just fighting for that other cop’s freedom. //
Bit down on my tongue so hard while eating breakfast I drew blood.
Fuck me…I need to drink coffee before I do this.
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— Jamie Gnuman197… (@JGnuman197) January 28, 2022
Pat Toomey voted “no” on saving roads and bridges less than three months ago. https://t.co/EA2wH87CdO
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) January 28, 2022
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
Runaway tank car. You are right that is something one does not see everyday.
re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth
Of course. That is what DT’s people do.
re: #201 PhillyPretzel
Runaway tank car. You are right that is something one does not see everyday.
Zero emissions though…cheap transport.
I mean this very seriously. This is a defining moment and anyone who fails to see that, feel it and appreciate it has no business being a part of the national conversation at a high-profile level. Best if you sit back, listen to others and learn from us, if your male egos allow. https://t.co/bjkIbYGQ8L
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) January 28, 2022
By the way, I wish Biden hadn’t publicly restricted his list to black women.
I wish he’d said he would pick the best candidate taking many different factors into account, interviewed a varied list, and then…chosen a black woman.
🤷♂️— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 27, 2022
There’s a very good chance your house now has a curse on it. 😾💀 pic.twitter.com/K0SoC7lOWX
— Fred Schultz (@FredSchultz35) January 27, 2022
Trumpland https://t.co/bmzVr2zEM5
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) January 28, 2022
re: #198 darthstar
Fuck me…I need to drink coffee before I do this.
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President Biden is awarding Florida $80 million to Florida despite Republican opposition.
Stop lying you sweaty goon. pic.twitter.com/C3CItRr4PC— Steve Marmel 💉 💉 💉 (@Marmel) January 28, 2022
re: #184 Mattand
LOL, what counts as freezing for you folks down there? 58°? That’d feel like a heat wave right now.
By this time tomorrow, our dog Boo should be romping through 4-8” of snow.
it rarely dips into the upper 30’s this far south
i dont think i can remember below 35 (since 1996)
mrsdm and i are atypical.
we keep the a/c at 81. a little cooler at night.
windows are open when it’s 78-80 indoors
we turn on the heat when inside dips below 73 (don’t hate us).
then we’re in long sleeves, fleece, wool socks. yes we are.
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Jamie Gnuman197… (@JGnuman197) January 28, 2022
Tweet from 4 years ago.#BridgeCollapse #Pittsburgh #BBB
Why the NO vote @SenToomey? https://t.co/F1aqp3HLxH— Loathe 45* (@VoteBlu4animals) January 28, 2022
Some work was done on the bridge about a week or two after I reported it. They removed the rusted beam and presumably did some inspection, but I don’t know the details.
— Dr. G Kochanski (@gpk320) January 28, 2022
Well, yes and no. The cables obviously kept it from falling over sideways adequately. However eventually it did end up falling straight down.
— Dr. G Kochanski (@gpk320) January 28, 2022
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
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when he was campaigning
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and he did pick the best
By the way, I wish Biden hadn’t publicly restricted his list to black women.
I wish he’d said he would pick the best candidate taking many different factors into account, interviewed a varied list, and then…chosen a black woman.
🤷♂️— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 27, 2022
i thought i saw it upthread
now i think it was a disqus comment/tweet through politicalwire.com
the unvaccinated are NOT a protected class
they are more akin to all those people who haven’t paid their taxes
or who drive drunk
you wouldn’t call either of those a protected class
re: #216 Dangerman
he did say that
when he was campaigning
he already knew who it would be (future fundamental political issues aside)
and he did pick the best
The “best”?
Our measurement sticks are CRUDE. They’re basically hand-made, whittled wooden tools. And the chumps talking “picking the best” think they’re precision metal tools.
You’re lucky to narrow it down to just a 1000 “best” people. After that, you may as well draw a name from a hat when it comes to quality.
Picking a black women out of that 1,000 is just as valid criterion as anything else.
re: #157 Mattand
Anyone got any good news in general for today?
Tweaking (notional) fortifications.
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re: #220 Teukka
Digging into new music releases from Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, so I’m all good ahead of tomorrow’s snowstorm.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
Pat Toomey can take his care and concern and shove it up his ass.
Anybody gonna ask Manchin about this or would that be rude? https://t.co/rTRIYn9CAE
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) January 28, 2022
re: #223 nines09
And a few other orifices too. ::: evil grin :::
Here’s my dic pic for the day
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Many pre-conquest English brooches belonged to women. This is my favourite: the Kingston Brooch. Gold, with garnet and enamel cloisonné, this dates to the early 7thC. And while the front’s undeniably spectacular, *look at the back*! pic.twitter.com/4tYcurqtbS
— Elaine Treharne (@ETreharne) January 26, 2022
re: #218 gwangung
The “best”?
Our measurement sticks are CRUDE. They’re basically hand-made, whittled wooden tools. And the chumps talking “picking the best” think they’re precision metal tools.
You’re lucky to narrow it down to just a 1000 “best” people. After that, you may as well draw a name from a hat when it comes to quality.
Picking a black women out of that 1,000 is just as valid criterion as anything else.
partially my point - i implied it, you said it better. there is no one ‘best’
the other part is kristol is arguing biden should do this now.
because the seat only just opened up
i’m suggesting he already did do exactly what kristol said
it’s kristol’s timing that’s off
re: #223 nines09
You voted against the infrastructure spending bill. pic.twitter.com/4Y47YQ4FP4
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) January 28, 2022
Likewise, down in Florida, DeSantis is taking credit for infrastructure funds flowing to his state, when every GOPer in the FL caucus in the House and Senate voted against it:
President Biden is awarding Florida $80 million to Florida despite Republican opposition.
Stop lying you sweaty goon. pic.twitter.com/C3CItRr4PC— Steve Marmel 💉 💉 💉 (@Marmel) January 28, 2022
Not a single Florida GOPer in the House voted for this either - that’s the only 8 GOP votes for this. Here’s the FL delegation: pic.twitter.com/wO032O8m0a
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) January 28, 2022
re: #227 nines09
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This was definitely my fault and definitely not decades of consistently overfunding policing and incarceration instead of crucial infrastructure in our region pic.twitter.com/nj0TCCrzoG
— Bethany Hallam (@bethanyhallam) January 28, 2022
re: #225 PhillyPretzel
And a few other orifices too. ::: evil grin :::
He is one of the few people in this life that if I saw him in public I would do all I could to get close enough to spit on him.
Santorum too.
A plane carrying mostly Mormon missionaries brought #COVID19 to Kiribati — one of the last places without any outbreaks.
Passengers tested positive after arrival on the island nation, which closed borders for 2 years, despite being vaccinated. Cases there are now at least 181. pic.twitter.com/ivhEu8DUHb— AJ+ (@ajplus) January 28, 2022
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
the pin/clasp
It’s probably because I can’t make the thing larger because I cannot click on it at work, but it could also be that I’m just clueless at what I’m supposed to be looking at that’s special.
re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Thanks. There’s definitely a lot of detail put on something that’s going to be hidden most of the time.
re: #238 A Cranky One
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Imagine if we had adopted some of Franklins other suggestions.
How many monkey NFT’s do you suppose Ben owns?
Blow out spending and inflation, then crack down on the asset class to which people have been fleeing. Makes sense.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 28, 2022
re: #242 The Pie Overlord!
How many monkey NFT’s do you suppose Ben owns?
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Once you go after one grift then no grifts are safe……
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
This way triggered the racist right-wing authoritarians into making fools of themselves. Biden is trolling the idiots who gave us the Trump disaster.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 28, 2022
re: #157 Mattand
Anyone got any good news in general for today?
The Covid denying anti-science fascist asshole Olavo de Carvalho DIED OF COVID.
re: #242 The Pie Overlord!
How many monkey NFT’s do you suppose Ben owns?
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KickStarter has decided to get into crypto, and it’s some of the people that have been setting up projects there to go find other locations because they’re worried that the site might either pay more attention to crypto than their projects or start demanding that projects accept crypto. The creator of Epithet Erased, the project my son is paying attention to, this crypto is a scam is is planning on moving as soon as it’s feasible.
re: #246 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
The Covid denying anti-science fascist asshole Olavo de Carvalho DIED OF COVID.
According to this story, Olavo died from COVID on January 24, 2022. I never heard of this guy, but within two minutes of hearing about Olavo I read that he’s a “mentor” of Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, and then that his own family doesn’t seem all that sad that he’s dead. “The family…asks for prayers for the professor’s soul” was an official statement from his relatives. It sounds like they are concerned that soul might be in a bit of trouble. Also, his estranged daughter, Heloísa, says, “He has blood on his hands,” blaming her father’s “denialist ideas” and dissemination of fake news for the Brazilian government’s delay in purchasing Covid vaccines (625,000 Brazilians have died from COVID). She then says, “But I do not celebrate his death.” Yet, on Twitter she wrote, “May God forgive him for all the evils he committed.”
re: #231 Dangerman
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re: #118 Dopamine Fish
Mrs. Fish will now only eat them if I make them, because something I do with the butter and the frying apparently makes them better than any other she’s ever had. I wish I knew what I did differently. It seems pretty straightforward to me.
Sounds to me like you’re not taking into account that one secret ingredient. The one called ….. love. It makes all the difference between it just being food and a meal. Least ways that’s the way I look at it.
Well Regulated Militia rides again! https://t.co/DYdtKsCFhi
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 28, 2022
Republicans continue their efforts to steal the right to vote safely.
they do this because they know they cannot win elections when everyone can vote. In a functioning democracy, this would be the lead story in all papers. https://t.co/y9tVodKxPI— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 28, 2022
re: #180 A Cranky One
Yep.
Would like to see some of the MBA’s out there putting groceries on the shelf instead of devising more time-consuming ‘metrics’ to track worker productivity.
Our local Krogers/King Soopers strike ended with the UFCW reps sounding very happy with the outcome. And a fairly good chance that the Safeway workers who belong to the same union here will not have to strike, because the union has already warned Alberstons/Safeway that yes, they’re ready to hit the picket line too.
My kid at Safeway works in the drive-up-and-go department. During the frantic rush of the Kroger strike, two of that dept’s district/regional managers came in on different days to help out. Both of ‘em had enough experience to be really good at the job, which I’m sure is less and less true as you go up the corporate levels.
re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth
A question for the legal types here: How you would write a law that says, in effect, you must make it as easy as possible for all eligible Americans to vote, while preventing them from using “all eligible Americans” and “as possible” as excuses to make voting harder?
re: #242 The Pie Overlord!
How many monkey NFT’s do you suppose Ben owns?
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I’ve been working up a head of steam all morning and Benny-Boy put me over the top.
The asset class. The asset class is a bunch of fucking moochers and grifters who enrich themselves off of other peoples talent and labor. They have now vacuumed up so much money they’re inventing things to invest in and spend it on. And inflation. Can’t the CEOs and shareholders tighten their belts a little to keep prices down. This is how head end up on pikes. 🤬🤬
re: #170 Dangerman
I ordered mine the other night, it arrives today.
re: #229 Dangerman
partially my point - i implied it, you said it better. there is no one ‘best’
the other part is kristol is arguing biden should do this now.
because the seat only just opened up
i’m suggesting he already did do exactly what kristol said
it’s kristol’s timing that’s off
TBH, I agree with Bill Kristol here: not that it would make any difference regarding the nominee herself (I’m sure the nominee will be quite qualified, and equally sure that she will face the Usual Opposition from the Usual Gang Of Idiots), but that not setting down a “precondition” for a SCOTUS nomination - would enable the Administration to avoid at least SOME of the bullshit criticism which will be coming its way*. Or, hopefully, be able to turn some of the BS against the critics.
Sometimes, I’m not sure exactly how much the Biden Administration really “gets” the level and complexity of the media biases it faces. Not the RWNJ media: everybody knows they’re hopeless - but the nominal “mainstream” media: who are institutionally incapable of reportage supporting any Democratic Admin or program/policy/initiative without a spasm of Pavlovian bothsiderism and whattaboutism: see coverage (where it exists) of the latest economic numbers just released. Good news, but typically framed as:
“Economy Booms in 2021: Voters Still Unsure”. Maybe the Admin does get it, but just IMO, I’d like to see them get just a bit more proactive in fighting the bias.
*e.g. “Affirmative Action Hire” (as a pejorative) - we’re already seeing this.
re: #238 A Cranky One
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Horses race counter-clockwise because American racehorse owners didn’t want to conform to Engish standards and its horse racing establishment. Counter-clockwise running is also more natural for racehorses and is how the Greeks and Romans’ ran their horses at the advent of formal horse racing.
dont know if it’s actually true
i’ve read it a lot
Had a long phone conversation with @POTUS. Discussed recent diplomatic efforts on de-escalation and agreed on joint actions for the future. Thanked President @JoeBiden for the ongoing military assistance. Possibilities for financial support to Ukraine were also discussed. pic.twitter.com/pAsQLYAuig
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 27, 2022
it’s easy for non-russians to forget how much the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan further undermined public trust in the regime. the memory of that blunder is still on the minds of the leaders, not to mention the older generation on whose support putin relies
— Seva (@SevaUT) January 24, 2022
and remember that Putin has already achieved a major goal: being taken seriously by the West and dominating the discussion. for a leader who really cares about great power status that’s no small thinghttps://t.co/CFfkb6bjBo
— Seva (@SevaUT) January 24, 2022
anyway, this is all to say: there are too many off-ramps here, and too many competing incentives, to treat anything as inevitable.//
— Seva (@SevaUT) January 24, 2022
re: #249 nines09
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re: #254 Belafon
A question for the legal types here: How you would write a lot that says, in effect, you must make it as easy as possible for all eligible Americans to vote, while preventing them from using “all eligible Americans” and “as possible” as excuses to make voting harder?
Very carefully, because the 6 GOP Justices on SCOTUS will grab onto any excuse to limit it or strike it down.
Russian billionaires have lost a combined $28 billion in recent days amid drastic falls in the value of Russian companies and the ruble in response to mounting fears of military conflict https://t.co/goGlJjdxmR
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 27, 2022
re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you wish to be unvaccinated because of “personal freedom”, then be prepared to accept the “personal responsibility ” that comes with your choice: that you may be excluded from crowded public spaces, airline flights, public transportation, concert venues, etc., that you may be asked to cover your own (otherwise avoidable) medical expenses, etc.
These stupid fuckers would have a melt down if they were to visit Canada. You HAVE to show a vax status to get into a restaurant, or most other public venues. Masking is also mandatory except when eating/drinking at a socially distanced table.
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The Ukraine media coverage is mirroring last summer’s Afghan withdrawal commentary - the same tropes, hyperventilating, belligerence, and blob writers.
Bleh. The sheer cut-and-paste laziness coupled to endless belligerence is as embarrassing as it is exhausting.
No need
1— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) January 24, 2022
re: #248 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It’s still news today, especially since this is its first appearance at sorryantivaxxer. I had known about him since the 1990s but I pay more than usual attention to goings on in Brazil.
He had been influential in the American right since about 2005, when he moved to Virginia. Besides his long-running friendship with Bannon, he is known to have met with Newt Gingrich and had a fair following in tea party circles. He was frequently cited by Alex Jones and other bat guano conspiracy types. In my opinion, he was a major factor in turning anti-science into a much more specifically right wing phenomenon that it had traditionally been. The crucial factor in this was linking religious extremism, especially creationism, with health care quackery. I am aware of course that there is still a sizable element of leftist anti-science, based mostly on rejection of “western medicine,” but it is a legacy sub-strain and has been declining for years. Covid may finish it off entirely, since professional woo-woos can obviously see where the money is.
re: #233 nines09
In 2018 when the PA Supreme Court redrew the congressional districts, eliminating PA-7 aka “Goofy Kicking Donald Duck” and balancing the districts to be evenly split between Democrats and Republicans (over the proposed 13 R - 5 D) map, Toomey called for the Democratic Supreme Court Justices to be impeached.
Because when you don’t like a ruling, that’s the next reasonable step.
I’ve spent the past five years calling Toomey out. Glad to see him go. Working to flip that seat.
thehill.com
re: #157 Mattand
Anyone got any good news in general for today?
I’m moving to Canada as soon as I can get the paperwork completed?
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
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these people make responsible gun owners look like lunatics
and still the responsible gun owners will do nothing to get these idiots, and only these idiots disarmed and off the streets
it cant only be the imaginary slippery slope that drive this insanity.
re: #255 Teddy’s Person
I’ve been working up a head of steam all morning and Benny-Boy put me over the top.
The asset class. The asset class is a bunch of fucking moochers and grifters who enrich themselves off of other peoples talent and labor. They have now vacuumed up so much money they’re inventing things to invest in and spend it on. And inflation. Can’t the CEOs and shareholders tighten their belts a little to keep prices down. This is how head end up on pikes. 🤬🤬
no one ‘flees’ to the asset class
re: #261 Belafon
The next sentence says they were vaccinated.
my mistake
i misread that as the island folk were vaccinated
re: #218 gwangung
The “best”?
Our measurement sticks are CRUDE. They’re basically hand-made, whittled wooden tools. And the chumps talking “picking the best” think they’re precision metal tools.
You’re lucky to narrow it down to just a 1000 “best” people. After that, you may as well draw a name from a hat when it comes to quality.
Picking a black women out of that 1,000 is just as valid criterion as anything else.
And of course for the GOP the only two criteria for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench were membership in the Federalist Society, and being young so you could spend decades enacting conservative policy from the bench.
re: #275 jeffreyw
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checks nationwide weather map
nope
Who would have thought…. pic.twitter.com/xMezHF82Bc
— Franko Patente (@FrankoPatente) January 28, 2022
Sounds like a PERFECT phone call
— Sherri “pro-choice” Shapiro (@SherriShapiro) January 27, 2022
Amazon gave me a credit so I bought “My Fair Lady”
Hellooooo tomorrow!
Wordle 224 3/6
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re: #242 The Pie Overlord!
NFTs and bitcoins don’t insulate you from inflation.
It does expose you to massive risks and market manipulations that can send the value (which is always rendered in DOLLARS - a currency by which all others are valued) falling or rising by 20% in a day. That’s not currency. That’s speculation.
I picked the wrong Saturday to fly from Seattle to NYC as part of my work relocation. Gaming out how to get from JFK to my Airbnb in Syosett (25 miles) at 6pm Saturday. It’ll all depend on snowfall.
I just sent some money to my son’s 529 with the down market. Kid wants to go to med school!
re: #280 PhillyPretzel
Next: redecorate your home from the cellar to the dome.
re: #283 Ferdinand
Storm should be winding down, but you might find your flight delayed or cancelled due to the conditions here on the East Coast.
re: #283 Ferdinand
Oh dear, safe travels. It looks nuts.
re: #280 PhillyPretzel
Amazon gave me a credit so I bought “My Fair Lady”
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re: #281 Grunthos the Flatulent
Hellooooo tomorrow!
Tomorrow looks better than today! After solving a Wordle, I often try to guess the words others used to get to their solution, once they have 3 or 4 correct letters.
re: #289 Decatur Deb
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re: #242 The Pie Overlord!
How many monkey NFT’s do you suppose Ben owns?
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A perfect example of social media with absolutely no social responsibility. Posing as defenders of free speech while profiting from allowing hatred and disinformation to thrive and spread. https://t.co/QBSdArZ8he
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2022
So Substack plans to “restore trust” by deliberately giving a platform to disinformation peddlers and grifters and extremists? Are you unclear on the definition of “trust?” Why don’t you just admit it’s about the money? https://t.co/nk9NfNfesn
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2022
The worst thing about dangerously irresponsible social media companies like Substack may be the way they pose as enlightened beings acting according to lofty principles, when the plain fact is that they’re doing it for profit and couldn’t care less about the damage.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2022
re: #283 Ferdinand
I picked the wrong Saturday to fly from Seattle to NYC as part of my work relocation. Gaming out how to get from JFK to my Airbnb in Syosett (25 miles) at 6pm Saturday. It’ll all depend on snowfall.
Bad timing, but it sounds like a very exciting time in your life.
re: #295 Charles Johnson
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re: #283 Ferdinand
I picked the wrong Saturday to fly from Seattle to NYC as part of my work relocation. Gaming out how to get from JFK to my Airbnb in Syosett (25 miles) at 6pm Saturday. It’ll all depend on snowfall.
Just don’t pick the same week to quit sniffing glue
Total nutbar, but she doesn’t have the crazy eyes I expect from this kind of person.
A person would have to be totally unaware of the theocratic Republican party to claim that they’re going to bring the name of God back into politics, unless maybe she means an ancient forgotten God back to consume us all.
RIGHT WING EXTREMISMChristian Nationalist Home-Schooling Podcaster Running for Congress to Bring ‘The Name of God’ Back Into Politics (The New Civil Rights Movement)
re: #299 Punish Domestic Terrorists
“We know that we serve the Lord of Heaven’s armies. We serve the creator of the universe, the one who spoke the world into being. He can do anything.”.
But she just doesn’t trust him to get it right unless she jumps in.
re: #295 Charles Johnson
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re: #302 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That should never have gotten past QA. Someone failed to test the validation scenario.
Kid Rock got mentioned on FB so that means I have to share this wonderful song again…
A few days ago, Cruz sent out a fundraising email embracing the right-wing crackpot notion that the insurrectionist January 6 attack on the US Capitol was orchestrated by the FBI or another government agency
re: #304 darthstar
Kid Rock got mentioned on FB so that means I have to share this wonderful song again…
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He ain’t no son of Hank
And if you thought so
Goddamn you’re fuckin’ dumb.”
re: #295 Charles Johnson
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Facebook and Twitter said the same shit whenever they tried to make excuses for not yeeting Trump during his presidency. But as soon as 1/6 hit and the danger to their stock prices hit, suddenly their dedication to “free speech” crumbled like the joke it had always been.
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My first six-guesser (out of 18).
re: #303 lawhawk
That should never have gotten past QA. Someone failed to test the validation scenario.
The person that tested it may think validation should work like this.
It’s really the least of the portal’s problems. Save Search doesn’t actually save, and I can’t get in at all in Chrome, or open two accounts in different tabs in Edge to copy parameters across from someone who is leaving the company.
Fortunately, the parameters in the six saved searches were not complicated, so I can live without saving them.
Having a person who has been around since they were a teenager retire causes a lot of chaos in a company where everyone works in silos because we’re chronically shorthanded.
re: #280 PhillyPretzel
Amazon gave me a credit so I bought “My Fair Lady”
How many times have you seen Guys and Dolls? I suspect you’re in their target audience, it’s certainly one of my go-to cheer-up films.
re: #283 Ferdinand
I picked the wrong Saturday to fly from Seattle to NYC as part of my work relocation. Gaming out how to get from JFK to my Airbnb in Syosett (25 miles) at 6pm Saturday. It’ll all depend on snowfall.
assuming the flight even happens. If the storm is enough, they may close the airport.
re: #310 darthstar
Oh, I need to get me one of these.
re: #286 lawhawk
Storm should be winding down, but you might find your flight delayed or cancelled due to the conditions here on the East Coast.
Yeah I’m curious how that’ll go down since it’s a nonstop so they have to decide 5 hours ahead.
re: #310 darthstar
Gosh darn it…looks like I’m getting yet another t-shirt.
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Do they have those “House AZ”, “House Janssen”, “House Moderna”, and “House Pfizer” things as tees? 🤔
I have to go to the supermarket for my wife right now. There is a good one that is usually pretty sedate, but she needs stuff that only Market Basket has. It’s going to be a zoo—-Friday (always bad anyway) before a major snowstorm at the most popular store in the area. Wish me luck. Ta ta for now.
Trumpanzees don’t care what’s real. They just want to feel important and cause trouble for decent people just like their narcissistic sociopath leader.
Marianne Wright was halfway through a conference call on Jan. 21 when she received a startling message from her son.
Two women were on their property and were demanding her son open a gate so that they could go see “illegals crossing on rafts.” The women, Wright later claimed in an affidavit, said they were a congressional candidate and a Secret Service agent.
“Immediately, we knew what that was about,” Wright told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “It was an echo and reiteration of the lies Steve Bannon’s ‘We Build The Wall’ campaign published and promoted against us for years.”
Wright is the executive director of the National Butterfly Center, a private nature preserve in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. The center is a sanctuary for hundreds of butterfly species—and a frequent target for conspiracy theorists after Wright and her colleagues opposed the Trump administration’s plans to build a border wall through the middle of the property.
But after last week’s bizarre confrontation with longshot congressional candidate Kimberly Lowe, the National Butterfly Center is closing its doors from Jan. 28 through Jan. 30, in order to avoid a far-right conference that promises to take supporters (including Lowe) on a field trip to the border.
MAGA Candidate Caught on Tape Menacing Butterfly Sanctuary (The Daily Beast)
re: #272 Dangerman
no one ‘flees’ to the asset class
An “asset class” is not a group of people, but a form of specie that is counted as “wealth” for example, gold, cash & currency, real estate, stocks & bonds, tulips (oh wait no), monkey cartoons (LOL), Melania’s white hat (LOL)
re: #296 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Bad timing, but it sounds like a very exciting time in your life.
Thanks so much yes it is! I worked on contract for the company (a major European telco) for a few months and they recruited me into a FT role. Remote still, 2 days/week onsite in Manhattan after restrictions lift.
My wife is an Okie who’s always wanted to live in NY, I grew up in north Jersey but haven’t lived in the area in 30 years. We’re empty nesters and my parents in New England aren’t getting any younger so it’s a perfect life shift from our beloved Seattle.
Except for Covid and winter weather, but whatcha gonna do? 😎
re: #312 PhillyPretzel
Nope. Someday I will.
Hyper local story, just for you:
Like 25 years ago, my partner and I were walking past the Forrest Theater on Walnut when Guys and Dolls was doing a run there. The doors were open for intermission and I was like “Hey, no one’s checking tickets, let’s just walk in and grab empty seats when the show starts.”
She wanted no part of my admittedly quasi-immature scheme when another couple approached us, sort of guessed what was going on, and offered us their ticket stubbs. They were leaving early and were like “Here, enjoy the rest of the show on us.”
My partner was cool with that, so we went in and enjoyed the second half of the show. I had never seen it before, and a lot of the “hits” were featured in that section.
re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Damn, we used to go down that way sometimes at lunch time when I worked in Forbes Tower for UPMC. I would bet I have crossed that bridge a couple times.
re: #321 Ferdinand
Thanks so much yes it is! I worked on contract for the company (a major European telco) for a few months and they recruited me into a FT role. Remote still, 2 days/week onsite in Manhattan after restrictions lift.
My wife is an Okie who’s always wanted to live in NY, I grew up in north Jersey but haven’t lived in the area in 30 years. We’re empty nesters and my parents in New England aren’t getting any younger so it’s a perfect life shift from our beloved Seattle.
Except for Covid and winter weather, but whatcha gonna do? 😎
Spent 3 of the best years there. Don’t be surprised if she panics a bit. It took me six months to get used to Manhattan, and I’m from Pittsburgh. Wife, from Elizabethtown KY, never did adapt well. (Didn’t help that she was sick, broke, and pregnant.)
re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter
Got Wordle in 4 today; but if I hadn’t changed my first word several days ago, I probably could have guessed in 3.
I’ve been using “LEAST” quite a bit as my starting word. I may try changing that around in the next one just for kicks.
re: #299 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I can take you down to a half a dozen schools near me and you will see hundreds of Moms who look just like her. And they will be in PTA meetings and school board meetings trying to make it clear that Jesus belongs in the classroom. They petitioned and whined and anonymously threatened the middle school my son attended until they dropped a basic yoga/calm down beginning to each day. After the Pledge and morning announcements. Because it was “focused on non Christian beliefs and practices”. But the harassment and bullying took care of that. I did call the front office and tell them the entire community isn’t ridiculous and that I supported the idea.
I spent a ton of time at school K-12 pretty much daily. I saw a lot. Heard a lot. If you aren’t a member of a church you are immediately, and I do mean immediately ostracized. Which is fine, their club is annoying and mean, but they hold power over resources and have the ears of administrators and some teachers. I was also a mom to a special needs kid, that brought out the charm.
When shitty behavior is accepted and rewarded over and over, you end up with this shit. The women we’re talking about here are perfect actresses and their crazy is well hidden til they feel safe. Our current climate has made it a lot easier for them to form decent sized herds and given them more power. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon without a lot of exhausting conflict.
re: #311 sagehen
How many times have you seen Guys and Dolls? I suspect you’re in their target audience, it’s certainly one of my go-to cheer-up films.
Like the movie, but they left out a pivotal song (“Marry the Man Today”) My kid was one of the ‘guys’ in his middle-school presentation and still has his fedora :)
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
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