Brad Mehldau’s Epic Version of Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”

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Brad Mehldau performs Rush’s “Tom Sawyer,” from his new album, ‘Jacob’s Ladder,’ due March 18 on Nonesuch Records: https://bradmehldau.lnk.to/JacobsLadder

Produced by Brad Mehldau and John Davis
Written by Alex Lifeson / Geddy Lee / Neil Peart / Pye Dubois

Chris Thile: vocals, mandolin
Brad Mehldau: Korg MS-20 synthesizer, Yamaha CP-80, Moog modular synthesizer, Emu Emulator II, Steinway C grand piano, Moog Little Phatty synthesizer, Dave Smith Prophet 08, Roland Juno 60, background vocals
Luca van den Bossche: treble voice
Mark Guiliana: drums
Joel Frahm: soprano and tenor saxophones
John Davis: drum programming

Artwork by Brad Mehldau
Video by Robert Edridge-Waks

#bradmehldau #tomsawyer #rush

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 12:34:59pm

Wow, that was short.

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 12:35:28pm

Aargh! 1st mosquito of the year

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darthstar  Mar 26, 2022 • 12:35:35pm

So this is happening right now…EV6.

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darthstar  Mar 26, 2022 • 12:40:37pm

Perfect storm of then having a dual motor in the color my wife likes fresh off the truck and we arrived before three other people coming to look at it.

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2022 • 12:42:43pm

re: #4 darthstar

Perfect storm of then having a dual motor in the color my wife likes fresh off the truck and we arrived before three other people coming to look at it.

Luck favors the bold quick bidder!

Mazel Tov - drive carefully!

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Teddy's Person  Mar 26, 2022 • 12:43:20pm

I’ll take becoming a more insufferable asshole for 500, Alex.

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ipsos  Mar 26, 2022 • 12:43:23pm

re: #3 darthstar

Oooh! I test drove one of those a few weeks ago. Very impressive at that price point!

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 12:51:06pm

Painter Sergi Cadenas:

Youtube Video

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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:04:24pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:13:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:14:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:16:34pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:17:03pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

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I didn’t set it on ‘hard mode’, yet it keeps giving me these hard ones.

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:29:30pm

re: #6 Teddy’s Person

I’ll take becoming a more insufferable asshole for 500, Alex.

“Wisdom” in right wing land = how to get away with being a vile racist asshole.

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Ming5000  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:38:31pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:43:19pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

These people are absolutely delusional. All of them. Every single Republican is fucking nuts. Between JFK Jr coming back to life to all the Q insanity to these ignorant, bugfuck lunatics are going to be the desk of America.

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Thanos  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:44:48pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Took me all six as well.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:46:28pm

There will never be a photo of Donald Trump like this. Ever.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:48:06pm

re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg

So true.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:51:21pm

Tonight’s dinner. Babyback ribs oh my.

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LadyBehir  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:53:57pm

We have an annual Memorial Day parade in our small borough every year full of the local high school marching band, fire trucks, classic cars, and about eleventy hundred John Deere tractors. I so want to get the motorized kids’ version and also a motorized kids’ tank but paint the tank Russian colors and have the JD “tow” it. My husband doesn’t think that’s funny. I think it’s hysterical.

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:57:02pm

You’re going to paint the JD’s in blue and yellow, right?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 26, 2022 • 1:59:15pm

re: #21 LadyBehir

We have an annual Memorial Day parade in our small borough every year full of the local high school marching band, fire trucks, classic cars, and about eleventy hundred John Deere tractors. I so want to get the motorized kids’ version and also a motorized kids’ tank but paint the tank Russian colors and have the JD “tow” it. My husband doesn’t think that’s funny. I think it’s hysterical.

You husband has no sense of humor.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:00:30pm

Overshadowed BAD news…

Youtube Video

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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:01:00pm

re: #4 darthstar

Perfect storm of then having a dual motor in the color my wife likes fresh off the truck and we arrived before three other people coming to look at it.

Wow, you even get to pick your motor colors? Cool.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:04:31pm

I wonder if AnyMouse is a secret contributor to this account:

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:12:51pm
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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:19:50pm
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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:22:55pm

Speaking of exhuming… Bringing up this post from the cellar where it was CL’ed because I saw more news on this subject after I posted it:

re: #27 sagehen

as long as we were tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan, and all those NATO peeps with us, our actions in Europe were constrained.

Now, we can devote our full attention to these people who are within easy car/train distance.

This is very true.

Additionally, I seem to remember a quote attributed to the Russians that our presence in Afghanistan kept the religious militants from coming into the ‘stans and Russia over the past two decades.

Russia’ 12,600 mile land border is now a lot more exposed. Plus, with half their active duty Army being tied up and trashed in Ukraine, they are a _lot_ more vulnerable.

And a lot of folks are starting to test this. Right now its just little pokes to see what happens. But it could escalate back into the 1990’s again.

Azerbaijan/Armenia, Ossetia/Georgia, Moldova/Transnistria are all stirring publicly. Finland/Sweden warming up to NATO. And who knows what is quietly happening in Central Asia and further East. Plus, for some inane reason, Russia has suddenly decided to troll Japan over the Kuril Islands.

Putin has not only trashed the Russian economy and military, but also its geo-political situation.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:24:10pm

re: #28 ckkatz

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Maybe we should open it. I keep seeing people warning against it but what if they’re meant to take out tyrants and false prophets.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:24:51pm

I mean, we’re due for a return of King Arthur.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:27:52pm

re: #30 Belafon

Maybe we should open it. I keep seeing people warning against it but what if they’re meant to take out tyrants and false prophets.

Probably just lay claim to England again. Old Habits.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:32:27pm

re: #31 Belafon

I mean, we’re due for a return of King Arthur.

I suspect that you are correct about the arc of history.

But, I’m thinking that King Arthur being Celtic/Welsh, his return might not be a good thing for Angles and Saxons.

Remembering from a distant historical lecture..

While historians do not have specific proof of Arthur’s existence, there was a generation where the Germanic invasion of the British Isles was not only stopped, but partially reversed.

And that in the following generation there were a whole series of children named “Arthur”, where there had been few to none previously.

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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:35:34pm

Headline at CNN:

Sean Penn vows to destroy Academy Award if Zelensky isn’t invited to speak at Oscars

US celebrities and media personalities can always make anything more about “ME!” I wish all of the news channels would call their news anchors back to the US. 3/4s of the time they’re talking to people in NY or DC, and they’re not adding value to their local human interest pieces (How do you feel…). They sound like war tourists.

A Ukrainian woman had a great comeback to Ali after he played a news clip and asked her about it. She said “I’m not watching the clip, I’m living it”. Totally went over his head.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:36:13pm

re: #33 ckkatz

I suspect that you are correct about the arc of history.

But, I’m thinking that King Arthur being Celtic/Welsh, his return might not be a good thing for Angles and Saxons.

Remembering from a distant historical lecture..

While historians do not have specific proof of Arthur’s existence, there was a generation where the Germanic invasion of the British Isles was not only stopped, but partially reversed.

And that in the following generation there were a whole series of children named “Arthur”, where there had been few to none previously.

We’re due for a flood of wingnut “Vladimirs”.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:36:16pm

re: #24 Teukka

As noted in our previous post, in the Southern Hemisphere, sea ice reached its record minimum extent for the year on the same day, February 25. For the first time in the satellite record, which began in 1979, extent fell below 2 million square kilometers (772,000 square miles) at 1.92 million square kilometers (741,000 square miles). This year’s minimum extent was 190,000 square kilometers (73,400 square miles) below the previous record set on March 3, 2017. The Antarctic minimum extent is 930,000 square kilometers (359,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average minimum of 2.85 million square kilometers (1.10 million square miles).

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:36:24pm

🎼 Musical break with anime music again… Ending theme 1 from “Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World”, Sora Amamiya: 『氷 の 鳥かご (Koori no Torikago)』[en: Ice Birdcage]

Youtube Video

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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:39:54pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:40:23pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Same here.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:41:17pm

re: #35 Decatur Deb

We’re due for a flood of wingnut “Vladimirs”.

Sadly, I suspect that you are right. I am hoping that as Russian money dries up in the Western political environment, that this thing loses steam.

And more generally, I am hoping that the “Arc of History” deals with that idea by “stomping that sucker flat”. (To steal from a Country-Western song.)

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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:41:42pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

To me, it sounds like something you’d use to get across town.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:47:46pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

CRT, agreed. Another is POS, which I do NOT read as Point Of Sale 🙄

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:50:53pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

And that ever so lovely 20 KV silently residing on the 2nd anode, just waiting to knock you on your ass, if you forgot/neglected to discharge it.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:51:16pm

re: #42 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

I had a career in Sales and that is what POS means to me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:51:42pm

In and right back out.

I turned over a tip to Robyn Pennacchia in the middle of the night, and she put it right up at Wonkette.

Meet the Republican candidate in Oklahoma who wants to kill “godless communist” atheists by shooting us in the face or send us to Gitmo. He even put it in a campaign advert on television.

GOP Senate Candidate Excited To Murder All Us ‘Godless Communists’

He loves guns. He loves militias. He really hates atheists.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:52:15pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:52:28pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Be careful.

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2022 • 2:53:28pm

re: #42 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

CRT, agreed. Another is POS, which I do NOT read as Point Of Sale 🙄

Those of us who are old enough called it Point Of Purchase just for the differentiation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:03:01pm

re: #47 PhillyPretzel

Be careful.

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:03:18pm

re: #43 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

And that ever so lovely 20 KV silently residing on the 2nd anode, just waiting to knock you on your ass, if you forgot/neglected to discharge it.

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Never got bit by the tube but I once grabbed an undischarged monitor power supply capacitor the wrong way. Left me queasy for a couple of days after I got up off the floor.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:04:52pm

re: #50 William Lewis

Never got bit by the tube but I once grabbed an undischarged monitor power supply capacitor the wrong way. Left me queasy for a couple of days after I got up off the floor.

I was bit by one in a piece of ECM gear in the Navy. You do NOT forget what that feels like.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:05:19pm

POC was Point of Contact for Army staff work.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:06:59pm

Looks like Biden, Soros, and Fauci got to the Colombian officials to plant a story that they found drugs in Hawkin’s hotel. The Nwo strikes again.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:08:09pm

…replaced below

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:08:31pm
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jaunte  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:08:40pm
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A Cranky One  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:09:51pm

re: #50 William Lewis

One of my electronics instructors waved the stump of his ring finger in my face while suggesting I don’t wear jewelry if I’m working on electronic equipment.

To this day, I don’t wear any jewelry.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:10:04pm

re: #54 Decatur Deb

A bank of industrial strobe light capacitors will vaporize any path through body parts. They discharge with a “thunk” you can hear in the next studio.

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:10:33pm

re: #53 Dr. Matt

Looks like Biden, Soros, and Fauci got to the Colombian officials to plant a story that they found drugs in Hawkin’s hotel. The Nwo strikes again.

Starting to sound more like John Entwistle’s death than anything. Though the only story I’ve seen with more than the tweet is that a call came in of chest pain and by the time EMS arrived he was unresponsive. Could be drugs, could be damage from past drug use or something utterly unrelated. We will know when we know.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:11:13pm

re: #56 jaunte

And the backward hillbillies in home state that this impact will still for vote for him.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:15:37pm

re: #59 William Lewis

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died of drug overdose: report. nypost.com

The anti-vaxxers are frothing over this.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:16:14pm

re: #58 Decatur Deb

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Then we have HV impulse caps that are like two suitcases on top of each other… Fully charged, you are dead before your body even hits the ground if you touch the electrodes…

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:17:38pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

A win is a win.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:18:21pm

re: #62 Teukka

Then we have HV impulse caps that are like two suitcases on top of each other… Fully charged, you are dead before your body even hits the ground if you touch the electrodes…

Each of the cans in that photo weighs about 20 kilos.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:18:59pm

re: #50 William Lewis

Never got bit by the tube but I once grabbed an undischarged monitor power supply capacitor the wrong way. Left me queasy for a couple of days after I got up off the floor.

Been bitten more times than I like to admit to. My coworkers would know when I fucked up and forgot to discharge the 2nd anode when they heard the very loud bang of me slamming into the metal storage locker in front of my bench followed by a very loud FUCK! If they didn’t hear that FUCK! right after the bang, they came back to E-Shop to make sure I was still breathing.

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:19:02pm

re: #61 Dr. Matt

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died of drug overdose: report. nypost.com

The anti-vaxxers are frothing over this.

I’d wait a bit before believing either the NYPest or the Daily Fail. It’s very likely (see John Entwhistle as I said) but until it’s in better source?

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:19:19pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

The main enemy of good is innumeracy, not evil.

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:29:32pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

I’m sorry but for me, CRT will always mean Cathode Ray Tube.

whereas “critical race theory” is just another way of saying “self evident truth”

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:31:40pm

re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg

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There will never be a photo of Donald Trump like this. Ever.

What, never?

Youtube Video

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Decatur Deb  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:31:42pm

The thread set me to researching our old ASCOR studio strobes. The bank like that in the photo would feed a half-dozen or so strobe heads, each providing 40,000 watt/seconds of flash. That provided enough light to expose 8X10 sheets of ASA 32 film at small f/stops.

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:35:18pm

re: #42 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

CRT, agreed. Another is POS, which I do NOT read as Point Of Sale 🙄

In general the POS terminal is a POS.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:42:19pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

I said the same thing here weeks or months ago

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A Cranky One  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:45:27pm

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:46:36pm
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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:48:13pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

I used it in a text to my brother a week ago and he answered

CRT? You been away for a while?

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:50:04pm

re: #69 John Hughes

It must be admitted, he has a pretty good technique for chucking paper towels.

But why? Where did here did practice, and why?

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:50:14pm

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:51:56pm
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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:54:44pm

Mr. Trump, who had never met Mr. Eastman, saw him on the Fox News talk show of the far-right commentator Mark Levin railing against the Russia investigation. Within two months, Mr. Eastman was sitting in the Oval Office for an hourlong meeting.

Nyt

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:57:02pm

re: #64 Decatur Deb

Each of the cans in that photo weighs about 20 kilos.

These impulse caps are in the 40-50 kg range.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:58:20pm

re: #62 Teukka

Then we have HV impulse caps that are like two suitcases on top of each other… Fully charged, you are dead before your body even hits the ground if you touch the electrodes…

Correction: What’s left of your body…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 3:58:29pm
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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:08:46pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:11:10pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:14:22pm
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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:17:22pm

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

Something they used in Syria.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:19:17pm

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

Looks like 9N510 style magnesium incendiary rounds. They are designed to burn people out of buildings and ‘cover’.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:20:02pm

re: #86 Belafon

Beat me to it.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:20:34pm

He’s not playing:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:22:45pm

meanwhile in Scotland

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:26:46pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, nobody is going to go over there to put it out, are they?

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:29:17pm

She doesn’t know know/care any of this works:

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:30:01pm

re: #86 Belafon

Yay! Not white phosphorus, a different antipersonnel incendiary. So that’s good, yes?

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:31:26pm

re: #93 John Hughes

Yay! Not white phosphorus, a different antipersonnel incendiary. So that’s good, yes?

It’s good for us to know exactly what it is. Kind of like knowing whether you’re actually from England or Wales.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:32:23pm

re: #92 Belafon

to be fair, click though rate is pretty sucking boring shit if you ain’t making money…

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:32:32pm

re: #92 Belafon

Marjorie, Pete is gay. He doesn’t want to mess with your lady bits.

Most of your friends don’t want to either, ‘cos you’re too old for them.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:34:04pm

Politics spilling over into religion… (Again)

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:35:11pm

re: #89 Belafon

He’s not playing:

Since the beginning of Putin’s invasion, I’ve been wondering if Belarus was going to be either:
1. A willing ally.
2. A reluctant ally.
3. A weak-link in the anti-Ukrainian bloc
4. An active roadblock.

I will freely confess to knowing little/next-to-nothing about Belarusian affairs, outside of what I read on the Internet (FW that’s W), but I’m guessing that some sort of scenario of “seriously fucked” is going to be playing out in that country’s near future…

And also, that even if she HAD somehow got elected, at this point in time, Ms Tsikanouskaya would likely be needing a Ouija board to talk to Joe Biden, or anybody else…

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John Hughes  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:35:31pm

re: #94 Belafon

It’s good for us to know exactly what it is. Kind of like knowing whether you’re actually from England or Wales.

Nah, you’d know if I was from wales, I’d have a typically welsh name, like Hughes.

(I’m not from wales.)

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Decatur Deb  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:37:26pm

re: #99 John Hughes

Nah, you’d know if I was from wales, I’d have a typically welsh name, like Hughes.

(I’m not from wales.)

And you’d be tup, but not so tup as not to know you’re tup.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:38:24pm

*snerk*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:41:06pm

re: #92 Belafon

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:44:33pm

missed this one yesterday

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:46:13pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

They should all step down because they have been lying.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:50:53pm

re: #98 Jay C

Since the beginning of Putin’s invasion, I’ve been wondering if Belarus was going to be either:
1. A willing ally.
2. A reluctant ally.
3. A weak-link in the anti-Ukrainian bloc
4. An active roadblock.

I will freely confess to knowing little/next-to-nothing about Belarusian affairs, outside of what I read on the Internet (FW that’s W), but I’m guessing that some sort of scenario of “seriously fucked” is going to be playing out in that country’s near future…

And that even if she HAD somehow got elected, at this point in time, Ms Tsikanousksya would likely be needing a Ouija board to talk to Joe Biden, or anybody else…

My understanding (fwiw) is that Lukashenko, the head of Belarus, is a weak ally of Russia.

By that, I mean that he cannot stay in power without Russia’s help. He does not have the support of most of the population. He does have the support of certain elements in the country, such as the security services and the military.

But, I suspect that even those groups are carefully watching how things go. And if they calculate that the winds have changed, they might consider changing course.

Lukashenko cannot afford to send the military into Ukraine for two major reasons.

First, the military is likely to perform extremely poorly.

In general, a military whose primary mission is to suppress its own people often fares poorly in the very different mission of combat against a determined enemy. Additionally, the enthusiasm and morale of the Belorussian military is reportedly quite low.

Second, the military is a major factor keeping Lukashenko propped up. If it collapses, is destroyed, or is shown to be utterly ineffective, he loses a major part of his support base.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:51:37pm

And dinner is served. Added some mushrooms and onions to the asparagus on a whim. Glad I did.

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:56:33pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

missed this one yesterday

Serious question: if a sitting Representative refuses to voluntarily resign their seat (for whatever reason) what are the existing mechanisms (if there are any) to remove them?
And, presumably, have the vacant seat filled by whatever electoral process the Rep’s State provides?

ISTR a couple of cases from the not-do distant past where the House expelled some blatantly crooked members - by, I think, majority vote on a resolution of expulsion: but in today’s semi-dysfunctional Congress, that doesn’t seem all that likely - Fortenberry’s conviction notwithstanding. (Can he still demand to get all his Congressional workload forwarded to him in jail?)

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2022 • 4:59:07pm

re: #99 John Hughes

Nah, you’d know if I was from wales, I’d have a typically welsh name, like Hughes.

(I’m not from wales.)

If you were Welsh, your last name would have 18 letters. None of them vowels.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:05:15pm

re: #108 sagehen

If you were Welsh, your last name would have 18 letters. None of them vowels.

From walesonline

The most popular surnames in Wales
1. Jones - 170,633
2. Davies - 111,559
3. Williams - 110,404
4. Evans - 74,243
5. Thomas - 71,040
6. Roberts - 46,130
7. Lewis - 40,037
8. Hughes - 37,076
9. Morgan - 34,360
10. Griffiths - 29,461

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:08:29pm

re: #109 Hecuba’s daughter

From walesonline

okay, fine.

It’s his hometown that would have 18 letters. Including bunches of L’s in a row. He’s be from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, and would even know how to pronounce it.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:14:28pm

re: #110 sagehen

Agreed. Also keep in mind that Pennsylvania has a sizable Welsh population and with names like Bryn Mawr they have made their mark.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:22:05pm
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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:26:22pm

re: #110 sagehen

Which leads to the old joke:

An American couple touring the British Isles see a sign for a place called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and decide to head there for something to eat. As they make their way there they debate the pronunciation of the town’s name.

They stop for lunch and one tourist asks the cashier, “Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us?”

The cashier nods.

“Would you please pronounce where we are for us - very slowly?”

The cashier leans over the counter and says, “Buurrrrgerrrrr Kinnnnggg.”

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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:28:31pm
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dat_said  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:29:36pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

missed this one yesterday

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Haven’t seen this anywhere else. Yet.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:30:01pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

The garage is actually being demolished. It had been up over Haymarket Square, near City Hall, for 50 years. New owners are building a tower. The garage can only be demolished gradually because two subway lines run underneath it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:31:03pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:31:45pm

Taylor Hawkins had a well-known history of pretty extreme drug use, so bad it landed him in a coma once. I think the Post’s report is probably true. It’s a damned shame.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:34:27pm

I’ve lost too many friends in similar circumstances.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:35:22pm

re: #115 dat_said

Haven’t seen this anywhere else. Yet.

Fortenberry Announces Resignation (Omaha World-Herald)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:37:27pm

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A special election will be held no later than 90 days after Fortenberry’s seat becomes vacant.

Felons are eligible to run for and serve in Congress, but the vast majority choose to resign under threat of expulsion. Congressional rules also bar members from voting on legislation after a felony conviction unless their constituents reelect them, the Associated Press reported.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:39:08pm

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Which wingnut will Nebraska send next to replace him?

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retired cynic  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:40:10pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:42:28pm

re: #122 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Which wingnut will Nebraska send next to replace him?

Mike Flood is the likely Republican candidate.

The Nebraska Democratic Party thinks the seat is flippable. The last election was very close, though the GOP in the Unicameral gerrymandered more of NE-3 into NE-1.

Wikipedia article on Mike Flood
en.wikipedia.org

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:43:04pm

re: #123 retired cynic

Speaking of cookies, I just checked all my Chrome cookies and discovered weather.gov was storing almost 7 Gigabytes in its cookies! Don’t know why, or if Chrome was just reporting that in error, but Chrome was telling me I had over 9 Gigabytes of cookies.

So I deleted the weather.gov cookies and the total went down to just a bit over 2 GB.

The mysteries of the web.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:43:52pm

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Since when does the GOP care about a felon in their ranks?

Half /

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:45:33pm

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Seems like a long shot to flip that seat.

Flood seems to have kept a relatively low profile in wingnut-land. Will he be swept up into the Trumper brigade?

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darthstar  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:46:16pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:49:29pm

Flood’s campaign site is the typical religious right frothing: mikefloodfornebraska.com

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:52:59pm

re: #34 stpaulbear

A bit more about this:

(Mila Kunis was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union.)

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:57:10pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

Youtube Video

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:57:59pm

re: #127 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Seems like a long shot to flip that seat.

Flood seems to have kept a relatively low profile in wingnut-land. Will he be swept up into the Trumper brigade?

Mike Flood is a Trumper.

Jeff Fortenberry And Mike Flood Are Extreme (Daily Kos, January 31, 2022)

What has been largely overlooked since his announcement is that Flood is a Trumpist extremist. The Norfolk state senator promised to be a so-called “strong conservative.” In his announcement for the CD01 seat, Flood launched a partisan screed using Trump like buzz phrases such as “radical socialist agenda” and contended that the Democrats would allegedly “destroy the country.” These are right wing nut talking points.

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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:59:09pm

re: #123 retired cynic

I bought a candy bar out of a machine at work that had a bite out of it where you could see the tooth marks. Gross. Love the cookie cutter idea though.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2022 • 5:59:46pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:01:31pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

Probably. Keep in mind that Joe has been in politics for close to 50 years. He knows how to play the game.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:05:15pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:07:03pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:07:27pm

re: #135 PhillyPretzel

Probably. Keep in mind that Joe has been in politics for close to 50 years. He knows how to play the game.

Very much so!

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:08:09pm

re: #137 Charles Johnson

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Yarf!

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:08:21pm

Thought(s) for the day:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:10:17pm

re: #129 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Flood’s campaign site is the typical religious right frothing: mikefloodfornebraska.com

A hardcore religious guy named Flood?

Who could have guessed?

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:12:22pm

re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg

A hardcore religious guy named Flood?

Who could have guessed?

/

His last name could have been BurnInHellYouPhillistine.

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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:13:26pm

re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg

A hardcore religious guy named Flood?

Who could have guessed?

/

He changed it because people had too much trouble spelling Plague.

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mmmirele  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:14:58pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In and right back out.

I turned over a tip to Robyn Pennacchia in the middle of the night, and she put it right up at Wonkette.

Meet the Republican candidate in Oklahoma who wants to kill “godless communist” atheists by shooting us in the face or send us to Gitmo. He even put it in a campaign advert on television.

GOP Senate Candidate Excited To Murder All Us ‘Godless Communists’

He loves guns. He loves militias. He really hates atheists.

He probably hates those of us Christians who don’t agree with him on (for example) transgender people. Kind of like that guy who ran for governor in MS a couple of years ago, (he lost) and it just came out that he wants to kill transgender people and their supporters.

I always get terribly amused when someone calls me a communist, because I’ve worked almost a quarter century for an evil too big to fail bank. No communist would do that.

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mmmirele  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:19:07pm

re: #66 William Lewis

I’d wait a bit before believing either the NYPest or the Daily Fail. It’s very likely (see John Entwhistle as I said) but until it’s in better source?

Well, he was 50. I recall that Kevin Smith had a “widowmaker” heart attack at age 47 and survived (because he was taken to the hospital IMMEDIATELY), so it’s entirely possible that Hawkins had a heart attack. That said, my brother did go off about “Colombian marching powder” so you know people are thinking it.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:24:56pm

Not everything in DC is ugly. The Cherry trees (gifts from Tokyo, Japan way back in 1912) along the Tidal Basin are blooming.
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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:26:15pm

re: #131 ckkatz

I wonder how many typewriters they tried until they found a nice, crisp, loud one?

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:34:44pm

I had to break out the Scrabble tiles for this one.

bjdKbGhyQzcyU1VwMyt3aTJhNjViOE1aSmIrZXRVamNzK3Fha2NLTlo2dWU4N25ZV0lPOHNFbEE3NFpsWTR1RmJ1bG80dFVvM1FPbVVDWXowWmJOY1BWcGRtSXRSdmFZQmFFQVRMRFIxdDdneGZuUWRYMzhUUVdDZ1QyZGkveXUyT0RnWTlzR2xxcHd0Y2FKaGpQQndFMmVwYlVDNU9NdzM1QjRZdjVrVHgyWHhzNi9tdS8xRFlxQ1JLVnFyZ3JFOjrWteUG+go3MJ5WGGMXGy9M

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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:37:18pm

re: #146 ckkatz

Not everything in DC is ugly. The Cherry trees (gifts from Tokyo, Japan way back in 1912) along the Tidal Basin are blooming.
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Every now and then, USPS issues Forever commemorative stamps of the DC cherry trees. I’ve got a sheet of these in my stash. Now they’re selling at collector’s prices.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:40:10pm

re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg

Since when does the GOP care about a felon in their ranks?

Half /

Not half.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:43:23pm

From an article dated 3/12/20:

In baseball, some semblance of normalcy continued into Thursday, even as other leagues began shutting down. Six spring training games in Florida began around 1 p.m. ET, all with fans in attendance. That went against the wishes of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who recommended the cancellation or postponement of mass gatherings in his state. MLB later announced that all other spring training games had been canceled, while World Baseball Classic qualifier games in Tucson, Ariz., had been postponed indefinitely.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:45:14pm

re: #149 stpaulbear

Ooops… I have about half a sheet. (I used the rest.) They are very pretty and go well with greeting cards

The other stamps that I find cool are these:

amazon.com

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 6:51:01pm

re: #147 stpaulbear

I wonder how many typewriters they tried until they found a nice, crisp, loud one?

Or even found one available. I was just wondering how many people would even recognize one and how it was used.

Reminds me of when my sister and her family were visiting. My sister pulled out a record/LP from my collection, took it out of the sleeve, handed it to her eldest daughter and said “Could you put this on for me?”. The daughter just kind of stared at it.

Now I am feeling very old.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2022 • 7:00:10pm
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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 7:01:19pm

re: #152 ckkatz

Ooops… I have about half a sheet. (I used the rest.) They are very pretty and go well with greeting cards

The other stamps that I find cool are these:

amazon.com

Ooh. I missed that one.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 7:10:34pm

re: #154 No Malarkey!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2022 • 7:27:22pm

re: #156 Belafon

I hear it also has a database of all the abortion providers in the U.S. , photos of Ronald Reagan in drag and the complete script of “Battlefield Earth 2”.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 7:28:09pm

Retired US General Hertling’s guess as to what the Russian goals and plan were:

Goals:
[CDR -> Commander]

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The thread also goes over his analysis of the plan.

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jeffreyw  Mar 26, 2022 • 7:28:42pm

re: #137 Charles Johnson

They get the pizza bones.

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2022 • 7:35:36pm

BWA-HA-HA-HA!

US Army veteran who has volunteered to fight in Ukraine says he amps himself up for battle by thinking about ‘punchable’ Tucker Carlson

A US Army veteran who has volunteered to fight against Russia in Ukraine said that he prepares for battle by thinking about Tucker Carlson, The Guardian reported.

“When I need to amp myself up for battle, I just think about the most punchable face on the planet … Tucker Carlson,” James Vasquez tweeted last week.

Critics have accused Carlson, a Fox News host, of echoing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s talking points. Mother Jones reported that a leaked Kremlin war memo instructed Russian state media to feature him “as much as possible.”

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Vasquez, a building contractor and former US Army staff sergeant from Connecticut, has gone viral due to his lively tweets on the Ukraine-Russia war.

He’s spent weeks sharing details with his more than 200,000 followers while serving voluntarily with Ukrainian forces. On his Twitter page, he’s described how he has helped to “take out” tanks and has bragged about capturing Russians.

“I kind of feel like I’m on an awesome very dangerous vacation,” said one tweet, summing up his time in Ukraine.

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2022 • 7:55:39pm

re: #158 ckkatz

Retired US General Hertling’s guess as to what the Russian goals and plan were:

Goals:
[CDR -> Commander]

The thread also goes over his analysis of the plan.

It’s an excellent plan unless the Ukes have been trained by the US since 2014 and have built a core of highly trained, motivated NCO’s to lead their troops so the Officer Corps can concentrate on tactics.

Sadly for the Russians, both of those “buts” are true. The Ukes have used their limited resources to build their Army into one based on the American model. And they are just waxing the Russian army.

We used to think the Russian Army was the second best in the world. Now, it’s the second best in Ukraine.

The Russian Army has starved its troops of a professional class of NCO’s. It has crippled itself, and there is no way they they can win without using “alternative weapons”.

That’s CBN, for the curious: Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear.

And if Putin thinks he’s gotta win this war or die of a sudden (instantaneous) case of lead poisoning, he just may reach for the Big Red Button.

And then we will see who really runs Russia.

Hopefully, he’ll back off, declare victory, and retreat, spending his capital on getting whatever he can in the Donbas.

But the Ukes have got their backs up, and don’t want to give them a gotdammed thing. And who can blame them? I’d spit in their collective faces and force them to pay for the rebuilding of everything they have blown up, plus death benefits.

Putin could not have fucked the puppy any worse than he has. It is a total omnishambles, a clusterfuck, a Del Rio dog fight.

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:14:13pm

re: #161 austin_blue

It’s an excellent plan unless the Ukes have been trained by the US since 2014 and have built a core of highly trained, motivated NCO’s to lead their troops so the Officer Corps can concentrate on tactics.

Sadly for the Russians, both of those “buts” are true. The Ukes have used their limited resources to build their Army into one based on the American model. And they are just waxing the Russian army.

We used to think the Russian Army was the second best in the world. Now, it’s the second best in Ukraine.

The Russian Army has starved its troops of a professional class of NCO’s. It has crippled itself, and there is no way they they can win without using “alternative weapons”.

That’s CBN, for the curious: Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear.

And if Putin thinks he’s gotta win this war or die of a sudden (instantaneous) case of lead poisoning, he just may reach for the Big Red Button.

And then we will see who really runs Russia.

Hopefully, he’ll back off, declare victory, and retreat, spending his capital on getting whatever he can in the Donbas.

But the Ukes have got their backs up, and don’t want to give them a gotdammed thing. And who can blame them? I’d spit in their collective faces and force them to pay for the rebuilding of everything they have blown up, plus death benefits.

Putin could not have fucked the puppy any worse than he has. It is a total omnishambles, a clusterfuck, a Del Rio dog fight.

Gotdammit, I’ve killed the thread.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:15:24pm

re: #160 William Lewis

Here’s some tank stuff that you have already pointed out:

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:19:40pm

re: #161 austin_blue

I agree with you. I have been impressed at how Ukraine has stood, fought, and is prevailing.

I do think that the reason Biden said what he said today about Putin was that none of the Western leaders want to give Putin a third chance to destroy Ukraine.

They seem very concerned that just allowing Putin to retreat and lick his wounds would allow him time to rebuild his military, fix the plan and attack Ukraine again.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:22:04pm

re: #162 austin_blue

Gotdammit, I’ve killed the thread.

I’m reviving the old political cartoon I saw during Desert Storm:
View of a sign reading “Iraqi Army: 5th In The World”. It is successively crossed out and replaced with “6th”, “10th”, “20th”, “50th” and so on.

If Ukraine had camels, American veteran volunteers would indeed be walking 6,000 miles to smoke them! /// (I hope Russia has no cigarette brands named after tanks!)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:22:46pm

re: #110 sagehen

okay, fine.

It’s his hometown that would have 18 letters. Including bunches of L’s in a row. He’s be from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, and would even know how to pronounce it.

some people just refuse to recognize a cutting sense of satiric humor

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:25:52pm

re: #165 Sherlock Hound

I’m reviving the old political cartoon I saw during Desert Storm:
View of a sign reading “Iraqi Army: 5th In The World”. It is successively crossed out and replaced with “6th”, “10th”, “20th”, “50th” and so on.

If Ukraine had camels, American veteran volunteers would indeed be walking 6,000 miles to smoke them! /// (I hope Russia has no cigarette brands named after tanks!)

Speaking of Desert Storm, and smoking… Here’s a story from then. (On twitter a couple of days ago.)

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:27:50pm

2022: Free Avocado Streak Continues

Neighbor handed these to me as I walked by. Free backyard citrus and avocado is a Ventura County birthright🥑

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:35:43pm

re: #164 ckkatz

I agree with you. I have been impressed at how Ukraine has stood, fought, and is prevailing.

I do think that the reason Biden said what he said today about Putin was that none of the Western leaders want to give Putin a third chance to destroy Ukraine.

They seem very concerned that just allowing Putin to retreat and lick his wounds would allow him time to rebuild his military, fix the plan and attack Ukraine again.

Putin is a dead Russian Politician walking, isn’t he?

He can’t walk anything back.

He went all in to take out Ukraine and combine it with Byelorussia to reestablish the western buffer that was the old Soviet safety bumper to keep NATO at bay.

Well that’s a complete fuck up, isn’t it?

What’s he going to do, send the Russian Navy out of Vladivostok to retake the Kuril Islands from the Japanese?

(Edited) That would be a really bad idea.

The Japanese would sink every boat that left Vladivostok.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:41:26pm

re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hold on.

How can Clarence not be responsible for Ginni’s actions in GOP world when the women (by GOPer definition) are the property of their father/husband?

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:47:53pm

re: #169 austin_blue

What’s he going to do, send the Russian Navy out of Vladivostok to retake the Kuril Islands from the Japanese?

OOOh, let’s turn this from the nightmare of “Winter War 2: Electric Boogaloo” into a replay of the utterly worst military disaster in Russian history: The Battle of Tsushima!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:48:33pm

re: #170 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

He’s black. A black person cannot hold power over a white one.

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:48:47pm

re: #169 austin_blue

Putin is a dead Russian Politician walking, isn’t he?

He can’t walk anything back.

He went all in to take out Ukraine and combine it with Byelorussia to reestablish the western buffer that was the old Soviet safety bumper to keep NATO at bay.

Well that’s a complete fuck up, isn’t it?

What’s he going to do, send the Russian Navy out of Vladivostok to retake the Kuril Islands from the Japanese?

I thought they were pulling a “1905” in reverse, and sending units from their Pacific fleet to the Ukrainian theater?

Good f—-ing luck to them if they think that will help: the Black Sea is virtually landlocked: With only one inlet/outlet, which Russia does not control. Russian rulers for several centuries have tried to exert power in the region, only to be constrained by the geography. Vladimir Putin is just the latest to run up against the problem. And likely won’t have any more success….

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:49:52pm

re: #171 William Lewis

OOOh, let’s turn this from the nightmare of “Winter War 2: Electric Boogaloo” into a replay of the utterly worst military disaster in Russian history: The Battle of Tsushima!

My original point of how stupid it would be to launch the eastern fleet.

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:52:02pm

re: #174 austin_blue

My original point of how stupid it would be to launch the eastern fleet.

Just agreeing with you ;)

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2022 • 8:52:17pm

re: #171 William Lewis

OOOh, let’s turn this from the nightmare of “Winter War 2: Electric Boogaloo” into a replay of the utterly worst military disaster in Russian history: The Battle of Tsushima!

Or, second runner-up for “worst debacle for Russian arms” - “Tannenberg 2.0”*

*August 26-30, 1914 . With numerous eerie similarities to Ukraine 2022

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:00:09pm

re: #3 darthstar

So this is happening right now…EV6.

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Been looking at that and the Hyundai for my mom. Can you make a page or something and post periodic updates? What trim did you get? Color? :))))

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:00:09pm

re: #175 William Lewis

Just agreeing with you ;)

I know.

This is not high level military woo woo.

This is basic “how do I run a competent Company level military fighting unit?”

“have very well paid, well trained NCO’s, who can run the ABCs and talk the 2nd Looies into not destroying the Company in combat.

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:01:50pm

re: #178 austin_blue

I know.

This is not high level military woo woo.

This is basic “how do I run a competent Company level military fighting unit?”

“have very well paid, well trained NCO’s, who can run the ABCs and talk the 2nd Looies into not destroying the Company in combat.

Which is the exact problem the Russians have had forever - no real NCO’s. Grunts and poorly trained officers with almost nothing in between.

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ckkatz  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:05:51pm

Speaking of the Kuril Islands. (Occupied by Russia at the end of WW2.)

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:08:23pm

re: #179 William Lewis

Which is the exact problem the Russians have had forever - no real NCO’s. Grunts and poorly trained officers with almost nothing in between.

Exactly correct. It came from the Afghanistan debacle. They decided that they couldn’t afford a professional NCO force and that they would have only officers and conscripts, going forward.

What we are looking at today is the result.

And I am off for the rack. Sweet scaly dreams.

Glory to Ukraine!

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:14:07pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:15:49pm
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:16:08pm

re: #168 So Cal Greek Hippie

Those are well over $1 in my local Aldi. I’m shook, as the young people say.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:19:19pm

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:23:43pm

re: #184 Patricia Kayden

I have been eating an avocado everyday since March 10, all free all amazing from several local area trees. These came from a 55 year old Haas in Santa Paula

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:23:49pm

re: #154 No Malarkey!

Reported for misleading information.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:26:52pm

re: #186 So Cal Greek Hippie

Lucky you. That’s one of the perks of living in a warm climate. I’ll have to wait until the prices come down.

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JC1  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:28:14pm

Crazy word today. 5/6

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Wordle 281 5/6

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darthstar  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:33:08pm

Ordered my Ukraine flag today.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:36:26pm

Until Russian forces have left Ukraine and Putin has been deposed, I will not be celebrating Ukraine’s current success. As they say, it’s not over till it’s over and while the nation is being destroyed and its citizens are being slaughtered or huddling in cities under bombardment, it’s premature to assume that all will ultimately end well. I’ve never been an optimist, and Putin is someone who is willing to commit any crimes to achieve his goals; he will level Ukraine and kill all before conceding a defeat. After all, since Putin has gained power, he has never lost a fight; his forces have always emerged victorious.

The GOP is still in this country working to return to full power, obstructing Biden at every turn. Putin can ultimately achieve his victory through his army of traitors within our borders, seeking to destroy our democracy.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:39:41pm

My wife has been watching Roadfood, a show with Misha Collins driving around the country meeting people and eating food. According to him, it’s a continuation of some books written by a man and woman by the same name documenting their discovery of food.

The episode that was on tonight was about Detroit. I’m sorry, as uplifting as it attempted to be, it was rather dystopian to me. He was visiting all of these people in the city that are growing gardens. One guy has taken over a number of old lots around him - the city is charging $100 per lot - and is growing a number of different kinds of vegetables. Another woman had a large greenhouse.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:40:26pm

re: #189 JC1

Crazy word today. 5/6

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Grunthos warned us earlier today! I’ll be seeing it in about 20 minutes.

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:40:33pm

Informative ag thread:

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:42:09pm

re: #180 ckkatz

Speaking of the Kuril Islands. (Occupied by Russia at the end of WW2.)

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correct me if I’m wrong, but… don’t we have some kind of formal military protection agreement with Japan? So if Russia really does attack them, we’re obligated to take it on ourselves to not sit back any longer?

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JC1  Mar 26, 2022 • 9:47:13pm

re: #191 Hecuba’s daughter

Until Russian forces have left Ukraine and Putin has been deposed, I will not be celebrating Ukraine’s current success. As they say, it’s not over till it’s over and while the nation is being destroyed and its citizens are being slaughtered or huddling in cities under bombardment, it’s premature to assume that all will ultimately end well. I’ve never been an optimist, and Putin is someone who is willing to commit any crimes to achieve his goals; he will level Ukraine and kill all before conceding a defeat. After all, since Putin has gained power, he has never lost a fight; his forces have always emerged victorious.

The GOP is still in this country working to return to full power, obstructing Biden at every turn. Putin can ultimately achieve his victory through his army of traitors within our borders, seeking to destroy our democracy.

I will celebrate every day that the Ukrainian flag flies over Kyiv. The deaths are awful, and I am in no way trying to minimize them, but they’re a tiny fraction of what Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, China, etc. Suffered in WW2.

Yes, the GOP are still dicks, but by and large they’ve backed strong actions against Russia, with many GOP Congress critters pushing Biden to do even more. Russian money will become toxic in politics for years; that’s a lot of money missing from the GOP and various right leaning PACs. Europe is largely united in the stand against Russia; I think that even Orban will come around once the elections are over next month.

Finally, although this is Putin’s fault, we (US, NATO, and Germany) allowed this to happen by not seeing the threat that Putin posed with clear eyes and acting aggressively sooner. I think that the world has largely woken up, and I take a bit of solace in that.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:09:27pm

This film is still topical!
Looking forward to the Ukrainian remake! ///

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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:21:39pm

I don’t know if being warned it was a weird word helped, but the third guess kind of sealed the deal.

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weststpaulbear  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:32:49pm

This week I learned that skipping a day of Wordle will reset your winning streak to 0. Life isn’t fair. /

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:35:39pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:36:21pm

re: #193 Hecuba’s daughter

Grunthos warned us earlier today! I’ll be seeing it in about 20 minutes.

Possible clue below — so don’t look until you’ve done it.

Wordle 281 3/6

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:47:09pm

Damn that was maddening.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:48:31pm

re: #196 JC1

I will celebrate every day that the Ukrainian flag flies over Kyiv. The deaths are awful, and I am in no way trying to minimize them, but they’re a tiny fraction of what Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, China, etc. Suffered in WW2.

Yes, the GOP are still dicks, but by and large they’ve backed strong actions against Russia, with many GOP Congress critters pushing Biden to do even more. Russian money will become toxic in politics for years; that’s a lot of money missing from the GOP and various right leaning PACs. Europe is largely united in the stand against Russia; I think that even Orban will come around once the elections are over next month.

Finally, although this is Putin’s fault, we (US, NATO, and Germany) allowed this to happen by not seeing the threat that Putin posed with clear eyes and acting aggressively sooner. I think that the world has largely woken up, and I take a bit of solace in that.

I don’t trust the GOP at all. Trump’s heart remains with Putin and the Trump-supporting news media are all pushing Russian propaganda. The GOP has shown itself to be disloyal to our democracy and I don’t think it would take much for them to change their minds. Our brother remains strongly supportive of Ukraine but he still clings to the fantasy that Trump supports NATO and was a great president and Putin never would have attacked Ukraine if Trump were still in office.

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A Cranky One  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:52:27pm

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:52:44pm

re: #196 JC1

Finally, although this is Putin’s fault, we (US, NATO, and Germany) allowed this to happen by not seeing the threat that Putin posed with clear eyes and acting aggressively sooner. I think that the world has largely woken up, and I take a bit of solace in that.

Let’s not forget who was in the White House 2017-2020. I expect there was plenty of clear thinking happening — and being suppressed by the policy makers at the time. And NATO has always been too eager to let the US take the lead (no matter how much they bitch about it). I hope the tfg experience has shown that they need contingency plans at least, in case another such leader takes power. The military buildup is a good start.

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JC1  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:54:31pm

re: #204 Hecuba’s daughter

I don’t trust the GOP at all. Trump’s heart remains with Putin and the Trump-supporting news media are all pushing Russian propaganda. The GOP has shown itself to be disloyal to our democracy and I don’t think it would take much for them to change their minds. Our brother remains strongly supportive of Ukraine but he still clings to the fantasy that Trump supports NATO and was a great president and Putin never would have attacked Ukraine if Trump were still in office.

If you look at the actual votes and the rhetoric, it’s only half a dozen crazies that support Putin. And Tucker seems to be the only fan he has left on Fox. I think that Trump will distance himself from Putin. Trump doesn’t like losers, and Putin is looking more and more like a giant loser with each passing day. I still don’t trust the GOP in most things, but I think that the majority of them are on the right side of this.

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JC1  Mar 26, 2022 • 10:59:45pm

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

Let’s not forget who was in the White House 2017-2020. I expect there was plenty of clear thinking happening — and being suppressed by the policy makers at the time. And NATO has always been too eager to let the US take the lead (no matter how much they bitch about it). I hope the tfg experience has shown that they need contingency plans at least, in case another such leader takes power. The military buildup is a good start.

For sure, but let’s not forget the reset button (that happened after Georgia), and the very anemic response after 2014 Crimea. Yes, Trump was an absolute disaster between inviting Lebanov to the WH, the Helsinki mess, clear skies, and blackmailing Zelensky, etc. But, the Obama White House did us no favors with regards to Putin; and I voted for the guy twice and donated to his campaign.

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mmmirele  Mar 26, 2022 • 11:18:37pm

re: #208 JC1

For sure, but let’s not forget the reset button (that happened after Georgia), and the very anemic response after 2014 Crimea. Yes, Trump was an absolute disaster between inviting Lebanov to the WH, the Helsinki mess, clear skies, and blackmailing Zelensky, etc. But, the Obama White House did us no favors with regards to Putin; and I voted for the guy twice and donated to his campaign.

Now you’re making me wonder if Biden was just stewing in the background at the Obama White House, trying to get something going but wasn’t able to.

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2022 • 11:42:55pm

re: #209 mmmirele

Now you’re making me wonder if Biden was just stewing in the background at the Obama White House, trying to get something going but wasn’t able to.

and yet he’s always painted himself as the more cautious one; like, he advised against the Bin Laden raid because he didn’t think the odds were good enough. But Obama decided to roll the dice.

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JC1  Mar 26, 2022 • 11:55:10pm

re: #209 mmmirele

Now you’re making me wonder if Biden was just stewing in the background at the Obama White House, trying to get something going but wasn’t able to.

Biden was also supposedly most vocal against regime change in Libya, which turned into a mess as well. Glad he’s the guy at the helm now.

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ericblair  Mar 27, 2022 • 12:30:14am

re: #211 JC1

Biden was also supposedly most vocal against regime change in Libya, which turned into a mess as well. Glad he’s the guy at the helm now.

Yeah, I didn’t vote for Joe in the primaries, but I think we ended up lucking out here.

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JC1  Mar 27, 2022 • 1:06:50am

re: #212 ericblair

Yeah, I didn’t vote for Joe in the primaries, but I think we ended up lucking out here.

Same. He wasn’t in my top 3, though in retrospect, he’s probably the only one that could have beaten Trump.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2022 • 2:29:29am

re: #195 sagehen

correct me if I’m wrong, but… don’t we have some kind of formal military protection agreement with Japan? So if Russia really does attack them, we’re obligated to take it on ourselves to not sit back any longer?

en.wikipedia.org

Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:04:55am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:13:42am

re: #191 Hecuba’s daughter

My belief is that Putin can not back down, he has no where to go “back”.

So if Putin can not give up Ukraine, the only option as long as Putin is in power is for Russia to drag out the war for a long time.

Perhaps years.

Perhaps a great many years.

We may be looking at the first significant departure from the 20th century paradigm of global inter-governmental order (the old but New World Order).

I suspect Putin thinks he can outlast any western foot stomping over Ukraine.

As the wheat thread (posted just up a few posts) pointed out, it is the Ukrainian wheat consumption which is at risk (not the world’s). All of Ukraine’s food production is at risk. The Ukrainians that are left in their country will get hungry. The rest of the world can donate food and supplies (medical, etc.) and that could go on for years too.

But for how long?

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:22:00am

re: #216 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

My belief is that Putin can not back down, he has no where to go “back”.

So if Putin can not give up Ukraine, the only option as long as Putin is in power is for Russia to drag out the war for a long time.

Perhaps years.

Perhaps a great many years.

We may be looking at the first significant departure from the 20th century paradigm of global inter-governmental order (the old but New World Order).

I suspect Putin thinks he can outlast any western foot stomping over Ukraine.

As the wheat thread (posted just up a few posts) pointed out, it is the Ukrainian wheat consumption which is at risk (not the world’s). All of Ukraine’s food production is at risk. The Ukrainians that are left in their country will get hungry. The rest of the world can donate food and supplies (medical, etc.) and that could go on for years too.

But for how long?

Without sullying ourselves with assassination, there are 144 million Russians. We can make 70 million of them want Putin dead. His best chance is a negotiated retirement.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:22:05am

The local NWS is sticking with their rain amount forecast, which I gather is built on the European model. The GFS model still is calling for less rain.

We’ll find out shortly.

We desperately need rain. Poor loquats set a lot of fruit this year (at least for the trees I have seen, which are not many because many of my favorite trees in the neighborhood from years past have been cut down.)

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:26:58am

re: #200 stpaulbear

This week I learned that skipping a day of Wordle will reset your winning streak to 0. Life isn’t fair. /

Leading us by the nose

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:28:25am

Shout out to the ‘70’s:

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:36:50am
Robert Foster (R), a former Mississippi House lawmaker who lost a 2019 bid for governor, called for the execution of those who support the rights of transgender people, the Mississippi Free Press reports.

So he wants to execute a majority of americans:

… two-thirds of Americans are against laws that would limit transgender rights, a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll found. That opposition includes majorities of every political ideology from liberal to conservative and every age group.

Link

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steve_davis  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:37:18am

re: #59 William Lewis

Starting to sound more like John Entwistle’s death than anything. Though the only story I’ve seen with more than the tweet is that a call came in of chest pain and by the time EMS arrived he was unresponsive. Could be drugs, could be damage from past drug use or something utterly unrelated. We will know when we know.

Yeah, I’m entwistle’s case his heart had enlarged to where it was the size of Secretariat’s.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:38:55am

re: #217 Decatur Deb

A negotiated retirement in prison. He’s a war criminal. He doesn’t get to just retire as if nothing happened. I see polonium tea in his future.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:40:53am

re: #221 Dangerman

Of course, in later tweets, he tried to backtrack and claim that he did not want anyone killed. He conflates transgender people with “child groomers” and men who want to force their ways into women’s bathrooms. Twitter should ban him for hate speech.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:43:29am

re: #223 Patricia Kayden

A negotiated retirement in prison. He’s a war criminal. He doesn’t get to just retire as if nothing happened..

That’s the ideal, but it requires some number of Ukrainian dead beyond our dictate. Just get rid of him and he’ll choke on caviar soon enough.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:45:55am

Shout out to the 1960’s:

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steve_davis  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:53:43am

re: #119 Charles Johnson

I’ve lost too many friends in similar circumstances.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:02:57am

Shout out to the ‘50’s, when “digital” really meant digits (0..9) and computers were made with tubes, just like god intended:

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:08:44am

re: #227 steve_davis

Chrissy Hynde did an intense version of this song after loosing half her original band to first coke and then to heroin.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:13:52am

mrsdm came to me with her wordle
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jeffreyw  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:23:17am

Good morning!

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:33:39am

This was a tough one. Going 3 guesses like that had me very concerned. Not Susan Collins concerned, though.

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ericblair  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:46:23am

Somebody is saying that Anonymous has hacked the Bank of Russia (the elite bank) and has posted transaction records. I personally wouldn’t touch these things without using a burner laptop and trashing its disk afterwards, but I’m not yer mom.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:46:49am

Nuttin’ but the Wordle. 4/6 again.

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:47:32am

Cinco de Wordle para mi hoy.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:48:31am

re: #232 Dopamine Fish

This was a tough one. Going 3 guesses like that had me very concerned. Not Susan Collins concerned, though.

Is any real person ever that concerned? Disappointed maybe but never concerned. Collins has a corner on that market.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:53:31am

re: #236 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Is any real person ever that concerned? Disappointed maybe but never concerned. Collins has a corner on that market.

“On a scale from 1 to Susan Collins, how concerned are you?”

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:56:59am

Never forget the Rs let tfg get away with shaking down Ukraine.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 27, 2022 • 5:59:49am

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:01:54am

What the duckfucking…

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:04:02am
I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion. But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”

— Chris Wallace, quoted by the New York Times, on why he left Fox News.

“It says something about the incentives within a system when the people suited to do the work properly leave and those suited to do it improperly or not at all stay.”

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:04:42am

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:05:51am

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:06:17am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:15:13am

re: #200 stpaulbear

This week I learned that skipping a day of Wordle will reset your winning streak to 0. Life isn’t fair. /

Yeah, I’m at 100% but my steak is at 1 *sad face*

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Thanos  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:17:15am

Today’s Wordle — arrgh.

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:18:02am

re: #246 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Yeah, I’m at 100% but my steak is at 1 *sad face*

So the longer my streak gets the more anxiety I will have. I need to carry my computer with me everywhere now.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:18:39am

re: #92 Belafon

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Not a peep, from ANY of them about tfg barging into the dressing rooms of teenage girls. Nothing.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:22:28am

This one was not fun:

Wordle 281 5/6

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:23:36am

re: #249 Dangerman

Not a peep, from NY of them about tfg barging into the dressing rooms of teenage girls. Nothing.

Well, yeah, because that’s just an alpha hetero male doing alpha hetero things. Nothing anyone can do about that///

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:23:46am

It was hard but not as hard as yesterday’s Wordle.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:26:00am

having company
first time in 2 years

BLT sammys on 18 hour no knead bread
mustard roasted potatoes
fresh fruit and mint salad
other stuff

there might be pix

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:27:50am

re: #253 Dangerman

having company
first time in 2 years

BLT sammys on 18 hour no knead bread
mustard roasted potatoes
fresh fruit and mint salad
other stuff

there might be pix

I am at fishfolk this weekend for Spring Break and to celebrate the April birthdays (a bit early). Today’s lunch is ham loaf, the traditional spring holiday/birthday special meal.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:28:04am
“Mr. Wallace also acknowledged that he felt a shift at Fox News in the months after Donald J. Trump’s defeat in 2020 — a period when the channel ended its 7 p.m. newscast, fired the political editor who helped project a Trump loss in Arizona on election night, and promoted hosts like Mr. Carlson who downplayed the Jan. 6 riot,” rawstory.com

He’s either lying or a clueless fuck if he didn’t see a shift before the 2020 election. He must have been asleep during the birther movement, the terrorist fist bump, the Obama hates white people, Soros controls the planet, etc, etc.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:32:17am

re: #118 Charles Johnson

Taylor Hawkins had a well-known history of pretty extreme drug use, so bad it landed him in a coma once. I think the Post’s report is probably true. It’s a damned shame.

“The toxicology test on urine from Taylor Hawkins’ body preliminarily found 10 types of substances, including: THC, tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and opioids,” the Attorney General’s Office of Colombia shared Saturday in a statement (translated from Spanish) on its Twitter account.

“The National Institute of Legal Medicine is continuing medical studies to completely clarify the cause of death for Taylor Hawkins,” continued the statement. The Attorney General’s office will also continue conducting its own investigation.

People via MSN

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:37:06am

re: #241 Dangerman

“It says something about the incentives within a system when the people suited to do the work properly leave and those suited to do it improperly or not at all stay.”

that quote at the bottom was a disqus rando, not wallace

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:39:54am

re: #255 Dr. Matt

He’s either lying or a clueless fuck if he didn’t see a shift before the 2020 election. He must have been asleep during the birther movement, the terrorist fist bump, the Obama hates white people, Soros controls the planet, etc, etc.

Simplistically, going with “He’s Fucking Liar and Don’t Let Him Rehabilitate Himself” is the smartest and most honest approach.

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:42:08am

re: #254 Dopamine Fish

I am at fishfolk this weekend for Spring Break and to celebrate the April birthdays (a bit early). Today’s lunch is ham loaf, the traditional spring holiday/birthday special meal.

Uhm… my sympathy?

(it may well be a good thing but “Ham Loaf” will always be tainted in my mind by 1984’s “Ham and Chicken Loaf” MRE. Not quite at the level of “Ham and Motherfuckers” but beyond the loathsome “Ham and Eggs, chopped.” )

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:42:53am

re: #230 Dangerman

mrsdm came to me with her wordle
(partial spoiler)

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:44:42am
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Thanos  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:48:28am

Netflix recommendation:

Young Wallander - it’s actually a pretty decent series but geared to fans of Nordic Neon Noir.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:49:37am

re: #255 Dr. Matt

He’s either lying or a clueless fuck if he didn’t see a shift before the 2020 election. He must have been asleep during the birther movement, the terrorist fist bump, the Obama hates white people, Soros controls the planet, etc, etc.

+1

(seth rich)

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:50:26am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:50:54am

re: #231 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

Azeleias!

(Not really common around here because young plants can’t stand freezing weather, and before climate change started biting, we generally had a few icy days every winter.)

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:53:40am

It’s the last week in March, and the temps here are all going to be in the ‘30’s except for two days when it will be in the ‘50’s but will rain all day.

I have to clean my car for Passover. 😱😱😱😱

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:54:59am

re: #260 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:55:45am

re: #266 The Pie Overlord!

It’s the last week in March, and the temps here are all going to be in the ‘30’s except for two days when it will be in the ‘50’s but will rain all day.

I have to clean my car for Passover. 😱😱😱😱

you’re not cooking in there are ya?

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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:55:47am

re: #263 Dangerman

+1

(seth rich)

Well played. Fox somehow found a new low with the Seth Rich story yet Chris had nothing to say about the “shift” then.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 27, 2022 • 6:57:17am

re: #268 Dangerman

you’re not cooking in there are ya?

No I don’t cook or eat in the car but I transport food in there.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:01:00am

A hard fought 5.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:03:10am

re: #267 Dangerman

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re: #267 Dangerman

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:05:22am

Crypto/gold/silver bug has ideas that are very stupid

The Biden Administration is considering implementation of digital money.

By: Whitson G. Waldo, III is a capitalist, a venture capitalist, and master and skipper of a 43 foot monohull sloop-rigged sailing vessel.

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garzooma  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:26:47am

re: #208 JC1

For sure, but let’s not forget the reset button (that happened after Georgia), and the very anemic response after 2014 Crimea. Yes, Trump was an absolute disaster between inviting Lebanov to the WH, the Helsinki mess, clear skies, and blackmailing Zelensky, etc. But, the Obama White House did us no favors with regards to Putin; and I voted for the guy twice and donated to his campaign.

I expect you also voted for the Sec’y of State who gave Lavrov the reset button.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:37:17am

re: #273 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Crypto/gold/silver bug has ideas that are very stupid

The Biden Administration is considering implementation of digital money.
By: Whitson G. Waldo, III is a capitalist, a venture capitalist, and master and skipper of a 43 foot monohull sloop-rigged sailing vessel.

a trimaran or nothing

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:37:44am

Really wrestled with that 3rd guess

Wordle 281 3/6

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:40:00am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:40:32am

re: #212 ericblair

Yeah, I didn’t vote for Joe in the primaries, but I think we ended up lucking out here.

Joe wasn’t in my top 10, but I did vote for him in the primaries because at that time the only viable alternative was Bernie, and he was even lower than Joe in my original list. Warren was my favorite but I knew she had no chance at the nomination and, in retrospect, at winning the election.

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:42:58am

re: #276 Eventual Carrion

Really wrestled with that 3rd guess

Wordle 281 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I’ll bet you did.
Actual spoiler in the spoiler if you haven’t wordled.

Click to Reveal
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:50:26am

re: #279 darthstar

Not sure if you saw my post 177. :)))))

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:52:29am

And a Southern Idaho good morning to the Lizard Nation.

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nines09  Mar 27, 2022 • 7:59:34am

Good day all.

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:11:14am

re: #177 GlutenFreeJesus

Been looking at that and the Hyundai for my mom. Can you make a page or something and post periodic updates? What trim did you get? Color? :))))

re: #280 GlutenFreeJesus

Dual motor. Has about the same acceleration as the Model 3 (holy shit, Elon Musk doesn’t get shit from me for this car!)

Color is Glacier (insert global warming joke here)…looking forward to a Sunday drive - wife wants to go north to Sausalito, I want to drive south to Santa Cruz - about 45 minutes in either direction but south is less crowded and we can stop at my favorite Costco and stock up on booze for the week.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:16:33am

18 hour no knead bread

No I did not just repost the picture from last time

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:17:09am

re: #283 darthstar

Awesome! Thank you! :)

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:18:01am

re: #284 Dangerman

We used to make no knead bread…haven’t done it in ages. May have to throw a bit of flour and water in a bowl this morning so it’s ready for tomorrow.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:18:27am

i ran 26.2 miles yesterday
it was a training run for the keys ultra 50k in may

there’s something not quite right with me
no sane person runs 26 miles, not in a race, who doesn’t have to

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:18:28am

washingtonpost.com

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:19:45am

re: #286 darthstar

We used to make no knead bread…haven’t done it in ages. May have to throw a bit of flour and water in a bowl this morning so it’s ready for tomorrow.

it’s a fave around here
4 ingredients. simple and pure

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:20:00am

re: #288 I Would Prefer Not To

washingtonpost.com

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Love the blood on tfg hands

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:20:44am

re: #285 GlutenFreeJesus

Awesome! Thank you! :)

I’ll take some interior pics maybe today. The SiriusXM tuner is cool - digital display but the channels are in old fashioned tubes like you’d find on an amplifier.

We also drove the Niro - it’s their less pricey EV - it doesn’t have the on demand punch that the EV6 has, but if your mom is looking for a comfortable around town car it will definitely do the trick.

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Thanos  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:21:48am

re: #283 darthstar

I recommend a tour of all those hidden cove beaches along the coast between Ano Nuevo Park & North Santa Cruz, you have to do a bit of climbing for some but they are usually uncrowded.

When I was a kid the parent units used to pick us up from school for “dental appointments” and take us there, always a magic day.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:22:13am

re: #288 I Would Prefer Not To

Do you think Trump would allow his caddy to use the same locker room?

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:23:10am

re: #293 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

No. The “peasants” have to use the broom closet. /

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:28:03am

re: #287 Dangerman

i ran 26.2 miles yesterday
it was a training run for the keys ultra 50k in may

there’s something not quite right with me
no sane person runs 26 miles, not in a race, who doesn’t have to

Decades ago my bridge partner was a marathon runner; his best time was 2 hours 20 minutes. He was serious about it but still not a professional. It was his passion, and it is also yours.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:37:24am

re: #295 Hecuba’s daughter

Decades ago my bridge partner was a marathon runner; his best time was 2 hours 20 minutes. He was serious about it but still not a professional. It was his passion, and it is also yours.

2.20 is world class in my book
I’m just a duffer
And yes it is my everything (after Mrsdm)

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:41:58am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:42:39am

2 days 9hrs 49 minutes

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No Malarkey!  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:48:14am

As awful as Brian Kemp is, we have to hope he defeats David Purdue in the Georgia GOP primary for governor. Perdue is totally committed to Trump and the Big Lie. Then we hope Stacey Abrams wins in the Fall.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:55:51am

re: #282 nines09

Good day all.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2022 • 8:57:35am

HAHAHAHA:

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ericblair  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:00:02am
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nines09  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:02:24am

re: #300 Teddy’s Person

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:11:27am
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:13:09am

re: #304 wrenchwench

Cool. I like those small details like the hand holding the bowl.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:14:16am

re: #304 wrenchwench

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:17:37am
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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:21:01am

It’s a cell-eat-cell world in here.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:21:38am

re: #240 Dopamine Fish

“For all eternity on the blockchain”

Yeah, right. NFTs will be forgotten and we’ll be on to some new fad in a decade or two.

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Captain Magic  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:23:15am

re: #309 Eclectic Cyborg

“For all eternity on the blockchain”

Yeah, right. NFTs will be forgotten and we’ll be on to some new fad in a decade or two.

Whose blockchain are they using? Anyone? Bueller?

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:24:36am

Tonigh’s the Oscars, and the only award I care about is best animated, for this movie:

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Jay C  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:24:40am

Wordle 281 4/6

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Tough: but shouldn’t have been, in retrospect, after guess 3.
Still 71/72, though.

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:25:16am

Who couldn’t use a tiny rainbow fucker?

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:27:13am

re: #312 Jay C

Wordle 281 4/6

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🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Tough: but shouldn’t have been, in retrospect, after guess 3.
Still 71/72, though.

Wordle 281 4/6

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⬜🟦⬜🟦⬜
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:33:00am

re: #307 Belafon

Somehow we went from total acceptance in the media (looking at you CBS) for any dumb idea Trump pulled right out of his ass to microscopic scrutiny of every word, every step. every breath.

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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:41:11am

How Putin badly misjudged the West, as explained by a Russia expert
Greg Sargent interviews Timothy Snyder. Good realism for a Sunday morning.
wapo.st (no paywall)

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:48:48am

re: #74 Dangerman

Not a thing will happen to Clarence (should he recover from his mystery illness).

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mmmirele  Mar 27, 2022 • 9:53:36am

Yeah, I’m definitely feeling better.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:00:44am

re: #318 mmmirele

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nines09  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:13:14am

36 degrees and flurries and a steady 12 mph wind with 30mph gusts….and I’m done outside. Lasted 15 minutes.
Nope. Nah uh.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:18:34am

Looks like the suspicions about Hawkins were right. From the LA Times:

Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for multiplatinum rock band Foo Fighters, had an assortment of drugs in his system when he died Friday, Colombian authorities said.

An initial forensic medical examination and urine toxicology report of the musician’s body revealed 10 substances in his system, including THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids, according to a statement from the Colombian attorney general’s office Saturday via Twitter.

Emergency services responded to a call of a patient with chest pains at the Four Seasons Hotel Casa Medina Bogota on Friday. Hawkins was found dead in the hotel room, the authorities said. A spokesman for Foo Fighters was not immediately available for comment.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:20:15am

re: #320 nines09

36 degrees and flurries and a steady 12 mph wind with 30mph gusts….and I’m done outside. Lasted 15 minutes.
Nope. Nah uh.

I would trade you for some of that. It’s already 79 here and the high will get into the upper 80s.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:23:06am

re: #318 mmmirele

Yeah, I’m definitely feeling better.

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I was raised nominally Methodist. We stopped attending church when I was in second grade. Both my parents were teachers, and they went on strike. Needless to say, this wasn’t very popular with most of the town folk. One Sunday morning my mother declared that she was not attending a church where people bad-mouthed her all week and were like “peace be with you” on Sunday. We basically became the Christmas/Easter Christians when we attended church with grandparents.

All of that said, one thing this former-Methodist did learn about was commie Jesus feeding the poor and healing the sick. Although, I suspect the current members of the church my family left oh so long ago would agree with Justin “God loves me and not you” Bull-shits-a- ton.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:26:35am

re: #321 Eclectic Cyborg

Looks like the suspicions about Hawkins were right. From the LA Times:

Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for multiplatinum rock band Foo Fighters, had an assortment of drugs in his system when he died Friday, Colombian authorities said.

An initial forensic medical examination and urine toxicology report of the musician’s body revealed 10 substances in his system, including THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids, according to a statement from the Colombian attorney general’s office Saturday via Twitter.

Emergency services responded to a call of a patient with chest pains at the Four Seasons Hotel Casa Medina Bogota on Friday. Hawkins was found dead in the hotel room, the authorities said. A spokesman for Foo Fighters was not immediately available for comment.

When this was mentioned here yesterday the first thing I thought of was the death of Michael K Williams (aka Omar from the Wire) where his drugs were laced with fentanyl. Fucking addiction (like fucking cancer) robs so many people. And like cancer, there’s a certain about of luck in whether or not a person beats the disease.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:29:08am

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:30:13am

I had to laugh today. My parents’ new church got a new associate pastor. He preached the same sermon I’ve preached for years, speaking directly to the Parable of the Good Samaritan, like: Your neighbor might be a different race. (As an example; he had many similar points, all boiling down to, “Rethink your idea of neighbor to be someone that makes you uncomfortable to help, then help them anyway.”) I have to wonder if any of those people ever heard a sermon like that before. It was thoroughly refreshing. Maybe there’s hope for my folks after all.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:35:17am

Entire town in fear of pair of chihuahua’s so angry a police dog is scared of it .

metro.co.uk

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jeffreyw  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:38:57am

re: #298 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

2 days 9hrs 49 minutes

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:42:28am

‘sup lizards?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:47:57am

re: #328 jeffreyw

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:48:05am

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gwangung  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:55:09am

re: #318 mmmirele

Yeah, I’m definitely feeling better.

“Salvation is gained by keeping the whole law—Faith without works is dead”

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Thanos  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:55:45am

pssst - Nouveau Fil ——->

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JC1  Mar 27, 2022 • 10:57:38am

re: #274 garzooma

I expect you also voted for the Sec’y of State who gave Lavrov the reset button.

At the time I lived in an uncontested state and voted 3rd party. If I had been in a swing state I would have voted for her, while holding my nose.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2022 • 11:02:15am

re: #327 A Cranky One

Entire town in fear of pair of chihuahua’s so angry a police dog is scared of it .

metro.co.uk

Posted by my front gate.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2022 • 11:04:02am

re: #320 nines09

36 degrees and flurries and a steady 12 mph wind with 30mph gusts….and I’m done outside. Lasted 15 minutes.
Nope. Nah uh.

30 F here in western PA and snow for the last day or so appears to be done. About 1-2” accumulation on the car. (Which has been swept off.) Supposed to stay chilly for the next day or two.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2022 • 11:08:49am

re: #327 A Cranky One

Entire town in fear of pair of chihuahua’s so angry a police dog is scared of it .

metro.co.uk

Neighbor’s cat at the former apartment has been accused of attacking a dog that was being walked in the parking lot. This is the same cat that chased Floof Cat.

Including the morning I opened the door and the cat was sitting on the stoop. He raced in, went partway up the stairs and had a hissing match for a few seconds with Floof Cat (who was at the top of the stairs). He turned around and raced out when I yelled at him.

He just doesn’t like other cats, and small dogs apparently. Perfectly sociable and approachable with people.

The terror and his sister sitting on my air conditioner
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John Hughes  Mar 27, 2022 • 4:32:06pm

re: #332 gwangung

“Salvation is gained by keeping the whole law—Faith without works is dead”

You can criticize catholics, but on this they’re way better than protestants.

“I’m saved/born again” is blasphemy. God decides, not you.


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