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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 10:48:15am

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 10:48:38am

Currently, Ben Sasse is lying his ass off.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 10:50:15am
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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 10:50:15am
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Dopamine Fish  May 11, 2022 • 10:51:25am

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Currently, Ben Sasse is lying his ass off.

So, just another day ending in -y, then.

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lawhawk  May 11, 2022 • 10:52:05am

In other words - comply or keep accruing the fines.

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jaunte  May 11, 2022 • 10:54:14am
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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 10:54:14am
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gocart mozart  May 11, 2022 • 10:58:16am

This show is the best thing on YouTube.

Youtube Video

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No Malarkey!  May 11, 2022 • 10:59:05am

Baked Alaska won’t enter into a plea deal today after announcing he is innocent at the start of the hearing.

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jaunte  May 11, 2022 • 10:59:22am

re: #8 Charles Johnson

I heard an NPR White House media person doing a chirpy report on how the abortion issue would create problems for Biden’s campaign. Absolutely no sense that the Republican Party is threatening her status as a full person, and potentially her survival.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 10:59:56am

I *knew* it sounded familiar…

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No Malarkey!  May 11, 2022 • 11:00:35am

re: #10 No Malarkey!

Baked Alaska won’t enter into a plea deal today after announcing he is innocent at the start of the hearing.

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Dopamine Fish  May 11, 2022 • 11:00:58am

re: #10 No Malarkey!

Baked Alaska won’t enter into a plea deal today after announcing he is innocent at the start of the hearing.

Probably something along the lines of, “You dumbass, that’s not the sort of thing you spring on us at your damn plea deal hearing. Now either plead guilty like you agreed, or you’re going to owe us a fuck-ton of money to fix this and you still might end up in jail, probably even more than what you were facing with the plea. Still want to go through with this?”

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Egregious Philbin  May 11, 2022 • 11:01:53am

re: #9 gocart mozart

Dana Gould is amazing. Find the episodes he did on Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast. His stories of working with the very elderly Bob Hope will make you wheeze.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 11:03:11am

I don’t like saying it, but unless Americans take to the streets and start protesting in large numbers, the Republicans are going to force women back into chattel slavery.

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jaunte  May 11, 2022 • 11:03:20am
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No Malarkey!  May 11, 2022 • 11:03:26am

re: #14 Dopamine Fish

Probably something along the lines of, “You dumbass, that’s not the sort of thing you spring on us at your damn plea deal hearing. Now either plead guilty like you agreed, or you’re going to owe us a fuck-ton of money to fix this and you still might end up in jail, probably even more than what you were facing with the plea. Still want to go through with this?”

The DOJ is holding the plea offer open for 60 days, with a trial date set for March 2023.

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No Malarkey!  May 11, 2022 • 11:05:51am

re: #16 Charles Johnson

I don’t like saying it, but unless Americans take to the streets and start protesting in large numbers, the Republicans are going to force women back into chattel slavery.

Dalia Lithwick agrees with you. Requiring women to give birth to provide a domestic supply of babies to adopt is pretty much the definition of chattel slavery.

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lawhawk  May 11, 2022 • 11:07:05am

Baked Alaska is under the salamander, and doesn’t know it:

He is really fucking around to find out. Prosecutors have enough to nail him on more than they are allowing him to plead to. This is stupendously bad move on his part. So, to trial we go unless he goes Alford/nolo contendere.

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Dr Lizardo  May 11, 2022 • 11:08:11am

re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth

Don’t tell her about the fart gun….

Despicable Me - Anti Gravity and Fart Gun [1080p] HD

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2022 • 11:09:20am

Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.

Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 11:10:03am

10% of the covid death count is still a lot of dead Americans.

U.S. surpasses record 100,000 overdose deaths in 2021 (WaPo via MSN)

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 11:10:38am

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.

Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.

They don’t want us to think of them as monsters, but insist on being monsters.

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Dopamine Fish  May 11, 2022 • 11:11:09am

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.

Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.

You know what it’ll change? They’ll be insufferable fuckwits, because they got the victory they’ve been chasing since the 19-fucking-70’s, and they will NEVER let us hear the end of how they “beat Roe.”

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jaunte  May 11, 2022 • 11:11:13am
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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 11:11:22am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:12:49am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:14:16am
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 11:15:35am

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dr Lizardo  May 11, 2022 • 11:16:02am

Looks like someone hasn’t gotten his regular Botox treatments lately if you ask me:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:16:18am
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 11:17:40am

re: #31 Dr Lizardo

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lizardofid  May 11, 2022 • 11:18:34am

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Looks to be at 60 or 70 weeks.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 11:20:13am

It’s 90f here today, after being rainy and cold last week. All I want is some days in the low 70s.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2022 • 11:20:19am

I really hate how they use photos of cute babies to make pro-choice people out to be inhuman monsters.

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No Malarkey!  May 11, 2022 • 11:20:35am

re: #25 Dopamine Fish

You know what it’ll change? They’ll be insufferable fuckwits, because they got the victory they’ve been chasing since the 19-fucking-70’s, and they will NEVER let us hear the end of how they “beat Roe.”

Can you imagine if Roberts somehow works some magic on Kavanaugh and/ or Barrett and preserves the right to abortion access in the first 15 weeks? They would be apoplectic with rage. I’m not really expecting that, but it would be a surprising twist.

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sagehen  May 11, 2022 • 11:21:29am

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.

Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.

For people with enough money for a plane ticket and a hotel room, and enough control over their schedules to not lose a desperately-needed job when they take off for a week or so… for them it won’t change much.

Everyone else, well FYIGM.

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Romantic Heretic  May 11, 2022 • 11:22:14am

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.

Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.

Luckily I don’t have any of those…that I know of. Otherwise my reaction to them would be something along the lines:

Get the fuck out of my house and never speak to me again. (Mumbles) Evil motherfuckers.

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Dopamine Fish  May 11, 2022 • 11:23:16am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:24:26am
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No Malarkey!  May 11, 2022 • 11:25:23am

re: #38 sagehen

For people with enough money for a plane ticket and a hotel room, and enough control over their schedules to not lose a desperately-needed job when they take off for a week or so… for them it won’t change much.

Everyone else, well FYIGM.

Also women tech savvy enough to order abortion pills from overseas.

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darthstar  May 11, 2022 • 11:26:42am

They should be more careful with those 3 ton turrets… they could poke an eye out.

Also, we now can see why they call Russian tracks Jack ink the box.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 11, 2022 • 11:32:07am

re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Our babies”.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:32:21am
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 11:34:33am

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 11:35:54am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:36:35am
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Ming5000  May 11, 2022 • 11:38:54am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:39:03am
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jaunte  May 11, 2022 • 11:39:29am

Just as rape is about power rather than sex, Republican efforts to control women are only about power, not about life.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2022 • 11:40:03am

re: #49 Ming5000

I’m sure Kavanagh, Barrett, Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito all have European vacations scheduled for the first week of July.

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jaunte  May 11, 2022 • 11:40:46am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:41:50am
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 11:42:43am

re: #49 Ming5000

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:42:48am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:48:06am
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Ming5000  May 11, 2022 • 11:50:15am

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

Whew, that is pretty close to the ocean.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:50:53am

re: #58 Ming5000

Whew, that is pretty close to the ocean.

appears that beach erosion is a real problem

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 11:51:41am
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 11:53:41am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 11, 2022 • 11:54:57am

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jaunte  May 11, 2022 • 11:55:07am

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

For some reason this tends not to happen to Gullah Geechee houses.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 11:55:31am
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Hecuba's daughter  May 11, 2022 • 11:57:43am

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.

Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.

Definitely true — the ones who are not theocrats just say that the woman(or child) can always just travel to a different state. No problem — because only affluent women count and the rest don’t matter.

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Dopamine Fish  May 11, 2022 • 11:59:26am

re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter

Definitely true — the ones who are not theocrats just say that the woman(or child) can always just travel to a different state. No problem — because only affluent women count and the rest don’t matter.

“What do you mean, you’re too poor to take two days off of work and drive for 4+ hours to go to another state, stay in a hotel overnight, and drive 4+ hours back? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps if you want to be a slut!”

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lawhawk  May 11, 2022 • 11:59:45am

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ocean view from every room. Unusual because it’s also ocean view through the floor.

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sagehen  May 11, 2022 • 12:00:42pm

I wonder how much those houses will be worth when every insurance company refuses to cover them. At any price.

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Dangerman  May 11, 2022 • 12:00:49pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Now its a houseboat

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 12:00:50pm

re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter

Definitely true — the ones who are not theocrats just say that the woman(or child) can always just travel to a different state. No problem — because only affluent women count and the rest don’t matter.

The rest will produce the unwanted children that will become predators, giving our right-wing authoritarians an excuse to be even more openly authoritarian.

A prosperous America isn’t a comfortable place for the far-right.

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Dangerman  May 11, 2022 • 12:02:45pm

re: #66 Dopamine Fish

“What do you mean, you’re too poor to take two days off of work and drive for 4+ hours to go to another state, stay in a hotel overnight, and drive 4+ hours back? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps if you want to be a slut!”

I’m 11 and was raped by an uncle.
You know, the one who sings in the church choir.

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Dr Lizardo  May 11, 2022 • 12:04:36pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

“We all float down here.”

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Dopamine Fish  May 11, 2022 • 12:05:42pm

re: #71 Dangerman

I’m 11 and was raped by an uncle.
You know, the one who sings in the church choir.

Ugh, I don’t like where my brain went with that one. Continuing the theme of wingnut responses, it started with, “You’re a liar.”

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 12:05:47pm

re: #71 Dangerman

I’m 11 and was raped by an uncle.
You know, the one who sings in the church choir.

Then you should think of this as an “opportunity”, for the theocratic Republicans to destroy your potential.

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Sherlock Hound  May 11, 2022 • 12:07:15pm

re: #72 Dr Lizardo

“We all float down here.”

Waiting for a homeowner to sit astride his drifting house like Slim Pickens riding his bomb!
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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 12:07:24pm

re: #17 jaunte

Where, Janice? You mean the part where Jesus panicked over his upcoming death, and then rescinded that order the next day?

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 12:09:42pm

re: #64 Charles Johnson

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John Hughes  May 11, 2022 • 12:11:17pm

re: #58 Ming5000

Whew, that is pretty close to the ocean.

Doesn’t the Bible say something about building on sand?

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 12:11:25pm
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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 12:13:57pm

I wanted to experiment a little with cryptocurrency, so I bought $100 worth of Ethereum a couple of months ago.

It’s now worth $63.

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BigPapa  May 11, 2022 • 12:14:33pm

(opens door, walks in, tosses on table)

(walks out, shuts door)

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Jay C  May 11, 2022 • 12:14:58pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

I wanted to experiment a little with cryptocurrency, so I bought $100 worth of Ethereum a couple of months ago.

It’s now worth $63.

Not a very positive trend…

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 12:15:13pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

And just cite this vote any time someone talks about why Democrats have the majority but can’t get anything done.

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wrenchwench  May 11, 2022 • 12:15:40pm

Oldie but goodie:

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 12:17:30pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

I wanted to experiment a little with cryptocurrency, so I bought $100 worth of Ethereum a couple of months ago.

It’s now worth $63.

Your life savings!
/

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 12:18:12pm

re: #82 Jay C

Not a very positive trend…

Things are gonna change, I can feel it. We should put more money in now while it’s low.
/

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 12:18:41pm

re: #79 Charles Johnson

Someone go find the Amazing World of Gumball segment where the computer cables get tangled up.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 12:18:56pm
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 12:19:49pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

I did that. Being organized breaks down over time, and now I have a mess.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 12:21:44pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 11, 2022 • 12:22:38pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

I wanted to experiment a little with cryptocurrency, so I bought $100 worth of Ethereum a couple of months ago.

It’s now worth $63.

Playing with money you can afford to lose is fine - like spending spare change buying lottery tickets. But too many have been deceived into believing that there is something magical about crypto.

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No Malarkey!  May 11, 2022 • 12:24:32pm

re: #91 Hecuba’s daughter

Playing with money you can afford to lose is fine - like spending spare change buying lottery tickets. But too many have been deceived into believing that there is something magical about crypto.

A tale as old as money. Grifters will never run out of marks to fleece.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 11, 2022 • 12:27:09pm
Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who has had an outsized influence over President Joe Biden’s agenda, has dramatically impressed voters back home, according to a new poll released Monday.

The centrist lawmaker’s approval rating jumped from 40% to 57% in West Virginia over the past year — the biggest increase of any senator, Morning Consult found.

The double-digit boost largely stems from West Virginia Republicans. At the beginning of Biden’s term, only 35% of GOP voters in the red state approved of Manchin. Now, that figure has nearly doubled, with 69% of Republicans in support of his job performance.

businessinsider.com

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 12:27:25pm

re: #91 Hecuba’s daughter

Playing with money you can afford to lose is fine - like spending spare change buying lottery tickets. But too many have been deceived into believing that there is something magical about crypto.

It’s kind of like playing the stock market, except even more volatile.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 11, 2022 • 12:27:47pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

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I always keep my cables organized and the dusted. /////////

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garzooma  May 11, 2022 • 12:36:28pm

re: #67 lawhawk

Ocean view from every room. Unusual because it’s also ocean view through the floor.

“Motivated Seller!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 12:36:32pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 11, 2022 • 12:39:56pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

It’s kind of like playing the stock market, except even more volatile.

Not quite — the stock market represents publicly trading companies providing goods and services essential to the functioning of our society. There are well-established firms and high flyers in the markets. Appropriate strategy involves investing in a wide range of companies (usually through mutual funds). Crypto is more akin to putting all your eggs in a single company that has a single new product on the market, a product that is not as functional or reliable as existing comparable products. Think of it as being Theranos, but with less intrinsic value.

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Dr Lizardo  May 11, 2022 • 12:41:48pm

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

Crypto is more akin to putting all your eggs in a single company that has a single new product on the market, a product that is not as functional or reliable as existing comparable products. Think of it as being Theranos, but with less intrinsic value.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2022 • 12:42:25pm

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

The stock market is also heavily regulated. Crypto isn’t.

(For some, that’s a selling point)

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 12:42:38pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2022 • 12:43:20pm

re: #101 Charles Johnson

I always find it both funny and sad when dumb people lose everything to a scam.

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lawhawk  May 11, 2022 • 12:44:06pm

re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth

That guy is lucky those lightning strikes didn’t hit him. They didn’t hit the building, but the ground itself.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 12:44:19pm
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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 12:45:08pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

Exactly, Chyron, abortion should be between a woman and the doctor she sees.

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Mike Lamb  May 11, 2022 • 12:45:50pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

Abortion WAS in “the hands of the people.” Oh shit, sorry. Women aren’t people. My b.

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John Hughes  May 11, 2022 • 12:46:06pm

re: #86 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Things are gonna change, I can feel it. We should put more money in now while it’s low.
/

Buy low, sell lower.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 12:46:45pm

It’s ridiculous how much time Congress wastes on these long drawn-out rituals of reading each member’s name and their vote. This could be done in 5 minutes. But I guess they need to justify their inflated salaries somehow.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 11, 2022 • 12:47:09pm

re: #99 Dr Lizardo

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Ran across a Moon landing denier on FB who confused Moon rocks with Pet Rocks. Said he remembered the commercials for Moon rocks and the dumb displays for them in the toy section at K-Mart, and how stupid everyone thought it was. He wondered how many people fell for the scam. He was promptly eviscerated and his liver served up with fava beans and an adequate chianti. My contribution was to tell him that he had just proven that conspiracy dupes are literally dumber than rocks.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 12:51:03pm
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Dr Lizardo  May 11, 2022 • 12:51:40pm

re: #109 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Ran across a Moon landing denier on FB who confused Moon rocks with Pet Rocks. Said he remembered the commercials for Moon rocks and the dumb displays for them in the toy section at K-Mart, and how stupid everyone thought it was

I was wondering how the hell anyone could get that mixed up, then I went and looked it up and saw that the Pet Rock craze was a six-month, one-shot fad in 1975. From about June ‘75 until Xmas of that same year and then the fad was pretty much over.

Damn good marketing, though; classic case of being in the right place at the right time. Made Gary Dahl a millionaire.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 11, 2022 • 12:52:26pm

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lizardofid  May 11, 2022 • 12:56:56pm

re: #111 Dr Lizardo

I was wondering how the hell anyone could get that mixed up, then I went and looked it up and saw that the Pet Rock craze was a six-month, one-shot fad in 1975. From about June ‘75 until Xmas of that same year and then the fad was pretty much over.

Damn good marketing, though; classic case of being in the right place at the right time. Made Gary Dahl a millionaire.

You’re right about how quickly the fad faded. The market crashed right after I bought a breeding pair.

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Sherlock Hound  May 11, 2022 • 12:59:00pm

re: #113 lizardofid

You’re right about how quickly the fad faded. The market crashed right after I bought a breeding pair.

Your head must have been full of….
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 1:01:48pm
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The Pie Overlord!  May 11, 2022 • 1:02:35pm

re: #112 The Pie Overlord!

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wrenchwench  May 11, 2022 • 1:03:33pm

re: #116 The Pie Overlord!

Sorry it is only once a day. My bad.

Can you eat the ones you solve?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 1:06:32pm
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Romantic Heretic  May 11, 2022 • 1:07:14pm

re: #93 Shropshire Slasher

Time for the DNC to kick Manchin out. He’s not a Democrat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 1:13:28pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 11, 2022 • 1:13:35pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

OOPS. LoL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 1:15:25pm
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 1:17:16pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

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steve_davis  May 11, 2022 • 1:17:22pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

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joe manchin is gonna get crushed next time he runs, because he isn’t going to be able to out-crazy some maga republican. and i hope biden calls him and says, “just think, you might well still have lost if you’d supported democratic ideas, but your post-senatorial time would have been glorious and lucrative.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 1:17:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 1:19:53pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 11, 2022 • 1:24:25pm

re: #119 Romantic Heretic

Time for the DNC to kick Manchin out. He’s not a Democrat.

Please stop this. If McConnell becomes Majority Leader, Biden will not get a single appointment approved and will not be able to pass ANY legislation, including that which cannot be filibustered. If you think things are bad now, wait till McConnell takes over. It’s not as though West Virginia is going to elect a progressive or liberal for Senate anytime in the next decade.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2022 • 1:26:29pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

The U.S. Senate, as you know, is currently divided 50-50 along party lines, thanks to the impressive double win in Georgia, and counting the two technically “independent” senators as Democrats, since they caucus with the Democrats.

But, according to the calculation of Ian Millhiser, writing for Vox, if you add up the population of states and assign half to each of their two senators, “the Democratic half of the Senate represents 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.”

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 1:27:08pm
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EPR-radar  May 11, 2022 • 1:28:14pm

re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg

The U.S. Senate, as you know, is currently divided 50-50 along party lines, thanks to the impressive double win in Georgia, and counting the two technically “independent” senators as Democrats, since they caucus with the Democrats.

But, according to the calculation of Ian Millhiser, writing for Vox, if you add up the population of states and assign half to each of their two senators, “the Democratic half of the Senate represents 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.”

Interesting. I was just thinking of doing the math on this the other day.

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BeachDem  May 11, 2022 • 1:28:21pm

re: #124 steve_davis

joe manchin is gonna get crushed next time he runs, because he isn’t going to be able to out-crazy some maga republican. and i hope biden calls him and says, “just think, you might well still have lost if you’d supported democratic ideas, but your post-senatorial time would have been glorious and lucrative.”

Um

Joe Manchin’s approval rating sky-rockets in West Virginia

According to a poll by the Morning Consultant, Manchin now has an approval rating in West Virginia of 57%, which is one of the top 10 highest approval ratings among all senators. That has increased from only 40% in the first quarter of 2021.

wowktv.com

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EPR-radar  May 11, 2022 • 1:29:54pm

re: #131 BeachDem

Um

Joe Manchin’s approval rating sky-rockets in West Virginia

According to a poll by the Morning Consultant, Manchin now has an approval rating in West Virginia of 57%, which is one of the top 10 highest approval ratings among all senators. That has increased from only 40% in the first quarter of 2021.

wowktv.com

Republicans like assholes, and WV is infested with Republicans.

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Florida Panhandler  May 11, 2022 • 1:30:22pm

re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth

Let’s really do something about protecting “the children”

npr.org

These fucking right wing bastards don’t care one little shit stain about babies or children. They only care about their own sense of power and control.

A big priority should be to immediately turn the tables on them after the next Democratic majority. The next Dem majority should stack the SCOTUS with 5 more Justices and overturn the Heller case that essentially re-wrote the Constitution, striking “well-organized militia” phrase right out of it in favor of gun nuts roaming free looking to murder people.

Children, like yours truly, are true victims of bad law and bad court decisions. Like the time I faced down the barrel of a loaded .22 long rifle at age 12 being threatened by a similarly young family member with death. How many other stories like this that don’t result in injury or death never even make it to police reports or news stories? The US gun culture is appalling and if these right wing cretins really care about children, let’s tackle this issue head on.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 11, 2022 • 1:31:53pm

re: #124 steve_davis

joe manchin is gonna get crushed next time he runs, because he isn’t going to be able to out-crazy some maga republican. and i hope biden calls him and says, “just think, you might well still have lost if you’d supported democratic ideas, but your post-senatorial time would have been glorious and lucrative.”

I wouldn’t be to sure about that.

Weird. I can’t copy and paste from the body of the OP. Link below.

wvgazettemail.com

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Hecuba's daughter  May 11, 2022 • 1:32:42pm

re: #112 The Pie Overlord!

If you like Wordle and you like food, try phoodle.net.

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Told my girl friend who was briefly a chef about your recommendation, and she loves it! Thank you!! She also was excited to discover that Martha Stewart plays.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 1:36:11pm

re: #134 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I wouldn’t be to sure about that.

Weird. I can’t copy and paste from the body of the OP. Link below.

wvgazettemail.com

It looks like copying works, but the clipboard does not receive the copy. Some dumbass manager was afraid that someone would steal their content, at a time when sharing content is how you get attention.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 1:36:43pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You’re getting it wrong. The brand of appliance Matt is looking for is named Consuela, not some mechanical device.

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sagehen  May 11, 2022 • 1:36:57pm

re: #119 Romantic Heretic

Time for the DNC to kick Manchin out. He’s not a Democrat.

he’s the closest thing West Virginia has to a Democrat. Which I know seems of very little worth, barely a hairsbreadth different from a Republican, but it’s the difference between Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell being majority leader and deciding what issues and nominees get votes.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 1:39:51pm
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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 1:39:57pm

The most recent confirmation to the Federal Reserve doesn’t happen without Manchin.

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John Hughes  May 11, 2022 • 1:40:11pm

re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg

“the Democratic half of the Senate represents 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.”

more or less exactly the population of Ukraine.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 11, 2022 • 1:41:18pm

re: #133 Florida Panhandler

Let’s really do something about protecting “the children”

npr.org

These fucking right wing bastards don’t care one little shit stain about babies or children. They only care about their own sense of power and control.

A big priority should be to immediately turn the tables on them after the next Democratic majority. The next Dem majority should stack the SCOTUS with 5 more Justices and overturn the Heller case that essentially re-wrote the Constitution, striking “well-organized militia” phrase right out of it in favor of gun nuts roaming free looking to murder people.

Children, like yours truly, are true victims of bad law and bad court decisions. Like the time I faced down the barrel of a loaded .22 long rifle at age 12 being threatened by a similarly young family member with death. How many other stories like this that don’t result in injury or death never even make it to police reports or news stories? The US gun culture is appalling and if these right wing cretins really care about children, let’s tackle this issue head on.

Unfortunately due to the inherent gerrymandering in the Constitution, it’s difficult to see when the Democrats will get a substantial majority in the Senate. Expanding SCOTUS will not necessarily work in our favor. It will be much harder to get a majority if the GOP has 12 out of 16, instead of 6 out of 9. I don’t know if it’s possible to impose term limits on judges.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 1:41:51pm

re: #141 John Hughes

more or less exactly the population of Ukraine.

2 million more than the population of California.

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lizardofid  May 11, 2022 • 1:43:08pm

Idle thought: Do Senate rules prevent Schumer bringing the abortion vote again? If not, maybe make the Republicans block it again tomorrow.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 11, 2022 • 1:44:26pm

What will happen if the red states ban abortion and contraception, and hand the education system over to grifters and quacks? In 20 years there would be 2 Americas, more distinct from each other than East and West Germany were during the Cold War. The blue states will be full participants in the modern world of progress and prosperity. Their residents would seldom venture into the red states. Those red states will be feudal, impoverished enclaves, where corrupt, compliant media and evil religion manipulate superstitious, ignorant voters to keep a vicious male oligarchy in power. All industry will be built around cheap labor. Hordes of unwanted, un-educated children will reach their teens and produce a crime wave the like of which has never been seen anywere in the world. The oligarchs will plead desperately for aid and, most of all, for money to restore order. Deny it. Let them be destroyed, root and branch. Put the surviving oligarchs and pulpit pimps on trial, then pick up the pieces and rebuild from scratch the way it should have been done after the Civil War.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 1:44:35pm

re: #130 EPR-radar

Interesting. I was just thinking of doing the math on this the other day.

I wonder what it would look like if you used the percentage of votes for Biden and Trump in each state, and used those to represent the percentage of representation of the population for each party.

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wrenchwench  May 11, 2022 • 1:46:05pm

re: #137 Belafon

You’re getting it wrong. The brand of appliance Matt is looking for is named Consuela, not some mechanical device.

Her name is Gregoria. Self-repairing, hopefully. She should be back next week.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 1:46:11pm

re: #144 lizardofid

Idle thought: Do Senate rules prevent Schumer bringing the abortion vote again? If not, maybe make the Republicans block it again tomorrow.

Did he vote against it? If not, I don’t think he can bring the same bill again. OTOH, if the House would pass a reinstatement of Roe like Manchin asked, he could put that one to a vote.

If this was just a cloture vote, I don’t think that rule applies.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 11, 2022 • 1:46:51pm

re: #146 Belafon

I wonder what it would look like if you used the percentage of votes for Biden and Trump in each state, and used those to represent the percentage of representation of the population for each party.

Red states have more draconian voting restrictions — Florida would be blue if the new law to allow former felons to vote had not been, in effect, overturned using Jim Crow voting rules.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 1:48:37pm

re: #149 Hecuba’s daughter

Red states have more draconian voting restrictions — Florida would be blue if the new law to allow former felons to vote had not been, in effect, overturned using Jim Crow voting rules.

Understood, but I don’t think we have any Democratic senators from Florida, do we, which means the above count didn’t include any for Democrats from Florida.

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Captain Ron  May 11, 2022 • 1:51:20pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 11, 2022 • 1:56:22pm

re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter

Exactly.

Manchin votes for Biden’s appointees.

Manchin comes from one of the most religious-right dominated states. He can’t be a flaming liberal fighting for progress.

Unless he wants to scuttle any chance of being re-elected.

Now some people perhaps hope that. They wish Manchin chose to go down in flames, voting for abortion, etc.

But I believe if he did that, he’d just be replaced by a worse Republican.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 11, 2022 • 1:56:45pm

re: #151 Captain Ron

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But peaceful protests in front of SCOTUS judges homes is a bridge to far.

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2022 • 1:57:56pm

re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter

Please stop this. If McConnell becomes Majority Leader, Biden will not get a single appointment approved and will not be able to pass ANY legislation, including that which cannot be filibustered. If you think things are bad now, wait till McConnell takes over. It’s not as though West Virginia is going to elect a progressive or liberal for Senate anytime in the next decade.

Considering nothing of note is in any danger of being passed before November anyway, I don’t consider that a great loss.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 11, 2022 • 1:58:24pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

appears that beach erosion is a real problem

My brother runs a lab for one of his geology classes where he has the department’s wave tank set up with a “beach” extending across the tank. He gives each of the students a parcel of beach, a “house” to place, and also some sort of object set representing some of the various beach preservation methods (sea wall, matting, etc.)

Once he students have set up their house and other objects the tank is started.

Besides using it to show sand transporting down the beach you get to see how the various system affect said transport. Some hold sand by disrupting the flow down the beach, which unfortunately for those further down they just lose sand to the wave action. And so forth.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 2:00:34pm
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 2:06:36pm
LEESBURG — Former students and since-deleted videos, coupled with a police report, shed more light on the allegations that a cult was run by Leesburg High School’s longtime band director and an LHS guidance counselor, who later had a sexual relationship with a former student.

The Leesburg Police Department released an incident report Thursday detailing an interview with a former Leesburg High School student who told investigators that he was involved in a “cult-like” “secret society” led by band director Gabriel Fielder.

That secret society — the Elder Council — was dissolved last year.

The report contained other disturbing allegations, including that Lenny Finelli, who has resigned from his position as a guidance counselor, texted the former student and asked him “sexual questions.” It also says Fielder — who, as a school employee, is a mandatory abuse reporter — knew about the messages between the student and Finelli and deleted them.

Former students describe ‘toxic’ environment, astral projection under Leesburg band director

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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 2:07:13pm

re: #132 EPR-radar

Republicans like assholes, and WV is infested with Republicans.

I don’t know WV at all, but I’ve driven through many times. Beautiful scenery in most places. But the towns and cities strike me as not dissimilar from Pennsyltucky and maybe a bit of western Maryland. Listening to local radio, it’s got the range of NPR to local fire and brimstone evangelical. Last time I was through they were banging on and on about reintroducing God and the Bible into public schools (about 5 years ago, I think). Feels like the GOP transformed into them and their brethren in other emerging reactionary states. I sense that Joe Manchin represents Joe Manchin and he just wants to hold onto power. Others here have already said this, but he would be a centrist Republican and would quickly be attacked and defeated by a Trumpist opponent. At least—again, not really knowing WV—that’s my opinion.

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sagehen  May 11, 2022 • 2:10:28pm

re: #144 lizardofid

Idle thought: Do Senate rules prevent Schumer bringing the abortion vote again? If not, maybe make the Republicans block it again tomorrow.

Charlie Sykes at the Bulwark thinks they should bring a narrow bill that just focuses on the R’s weak spots — exceptions for rape and incest (especially very young victims) and woman’s health, treating ectopic pregnancies, D&C’s as after-care for miscarriages, homicide investigations for all miscarriages…

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 2:12:06pm

re: #154 Targetpractice

Considering nothing of note is in any danger of being passed before November anyway, I don’t consider that a great loss.

Alito dies of a heart attack tomorrow…

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2022 • 2:14:16pm

re: #160 Belafon

Alito dies of a heart attack tomorrow…

SCOTUS passes Roberts’ “compromise” on a 5-4 vote. Or deadlocks at 4-4, likely with the case being sent back to the lower court until Alito’s replacement was seated, at which time they pass the “compromise.”

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A Three Hour Tour  May 11, 2022 • 2:14:35pm

re: #132 EPR-radar

Republicans like assholes, and WV is infested with Republicans.

West Virginia democrats like conservative assholes, too.

Rule one: West Virginians hate outsiders.
Rule two: West Virginians particularly hate liberal outsiders looking down their enlightened noses at them.
Rule three: West Virginian democrats are no different from other West Virginians with regard to Rule Two.
Rule four: West Virginia politics does not operate according to your political calculus. What you predict will happen will not happen the way you think it will.

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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 2:18:51pm

re: #162 A Three Hour Tour

West Virginia democrats like conservative assholes, too.

Rule one: West Virginians hate outsiders.
Rule two: West Virginians particularly hate liberal outsiders looking down their enlightened noses at them.
Rule three: West Virginian democrats are no different from other West Virginians with regard to Rule Two.
Rule four: West Virginia politics does not operate according to your political calculus. What you predict will happen will not happen the way you think it will.

Ok, that’s a big help. And I suppose the “but he drives a Mazerati and lives on a yacht” would provoke the “he may be an out of touch asshole, but he’s OUR out of touch asshole.”

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BeachDem  May 11, 2022 • 2:19:59pm
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Grunthos the Flatulent  May 11, 2022 • 2:24:21pm

For Tomorrow’s Wordle, I burnt a guess on line 3. It paid off handsomely and the grid was still all green.

Wordle 327 4/6

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Looking like a par 4. Data: 4,4,4,4,5

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2022 • 2:24:39pm

No offense, but we could sit here all day imagining scenarios where Joe F’ Manchin is the “savior” of the party by providing that vital 50th vote to make something significant happen. And while I like fantasy stories as much as the next person, the reality is that we’re headed into midterms dragging dead weight that is threatening our only real chance to tip the scales back in our favor. Personally, I expect the days after Election Night 2022 to be like Election Night 2010: A whole lot of despair, a whole lot of anger, and a whole lot of screaming about how progressives fucked the party over for failing to show up and how it was a “mistake” to appeal to them when we should have been working to win the suburban white vote.

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lizardofid  May 11, 2022 • 2:27:12pm

Waterman-Duke: The Ambassador of Aloha ran on American Masters on our local PBS station last night. If you have the opportunity to see it, it is so worth your time.

Youtube Video

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 2:28:01pm

re: #166 Targetpractice

No offense, but we could sit here all day imagining scenarios where Joe F’ Manchin is the “savior” of the party by providing that vital 50th vote to make something significant happen. And while I like fantasy stories as much as the next person, the reality is that we’re headed into midterms dragging dead weight that is threatening our only real chance to tip the scales back in our favor. Personally, I expect the days after Election Night 2022 to be like Election Night 2010: A whole lot of despair, a whole lot of anger, and a whole lot of screaming about how progressives fucked the party over for failing to show up and how it was a “mistake” to appeal to them when we should have been working to win the suburban white vote.

We can also already count the number of times Manchin has voted to allow Harris to be the tie breaking vote, as it happened earlier this week.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 2:29:44pm

re: #167 lizardofid

Waterman-Duke: The Ambassador of Aloha ran on American Masters on our local PBS station last night. If you have the opportunity to see it, it is so worth your time.

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Yes, it is. I watched it last night. I didn’t know the guy, because I’m not a surfer, but it was great watching it. Plus you can learn how we turned the entire main island into a concentration camp during WW2.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 2:35:04pm

They suspected her 20 years ago. It doesn’t say why they were able to make an arrest and charge her now when they couldn’t then.

She proved that she’s a psychopath at 21, and has been on the streets for the 20 years since then. People may have been friends with her, or even dated her in that time. They’ll be extremely freaked out now.

Missouri respiratory therapist charged with murder of patient 20 years ago (New York Daily Times via MSN)

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2022 • 2:36:25pm

re: #168 Belafon

We can also already count the number of times Manchin has voted to allow Harris to be the tie breaking vote, as it happened earlier this week.

He also announced this week that he’s basically nuking the BBB by declaring that the party has to totally renegotiate the bill to his satisfaction…but he’s not telling what he opposes in the bill and is expecting the party leadership to spend the last few months before voting season trying to guess.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2022 • 2:37:49pm

re: #170 Punish Domestic Terrorists

They suspected her 20 years ago. It doesn’t say why they were able to make an arrest and charge her now when they couldn’t then.

DNA evidence would be my guess.

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steve_davis  May 11, 2022 • 2:38:01pm

re: #134 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

no prob. i see it. just when I think i’ve gotten out, they fucking pull me back in.

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steve_davis  May 11, 2022 • 2:39:26pm

re: #144 lizardofid

Idle thought: Do Senate rules prevent Schumer bringing the abortion vote again? If not, maybe make the Republicans block it again tomorrow.

not if he ended up voting no at the end. then, he can bring it up as many times as need be.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 2:44:54pm

I don’t consider Manchin a hero when he’s the 50th vote. I hate that we depend on him. But also hate the views of some of the coworkers I have.

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(((Archangel1)))  May 11, 2022 • 2:58:38pm

After several days of continuous Wordle results too embarrassing to share, today saw a marked improvement…

Wordle 326 3/6

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2022 • 3:01:24pm

This is a bit off the wall. Twitter releases a colorful video game to help people understand their privacy policy.

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darthstar  May 11, 2022 • 3:08:30pm

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 3:08:42pm

Funny how GOP maps always happen to disenfranchise black people.

Florida state judge has thrown out the congressional map passed by the Republican legislature and pushed by Governor Ron DeSantis, ruling that it violated state law by drawing Black voters out of a north Florida district.

Circuit Judge Layne Smith ruled Wednesday that the enacted map violates the state’s constitutional amendments on redistricting because “it diminishes African Americans’ ability to elect candidates of their choice” in Florida’s 5th District.

Florida’s GOP-friendly congressional map thrown out by judge (CBS via MSN)

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jeffreyw  May 11, 2022 • 3:09:29pm

re: #136 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It looks like copying works, but the clipboard does not receive the copy. Some dumbass manager was afraid that someone would steal their content, at a time when sharing content is how you get attention.

Go to reader view and copy from there, works for me in FF:
The survey by Morning Consult shows the Democrat’s approval among Republican voters has skyrocketed, up to a whopping 69%, from just 35% a year ago. Manchin’s disapproval among Republicans has dropped from 57% to just 24% over the past year.

Jonathan Kott, a political consultant who formerly worked with Manchin, told Morning Consult, “It turns out that Joe Manchin knows more about West Virginia voters than D.C. strategists. The amount of interactions he has with his voters I don’t think can be paralleled by other members.”

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EPR-radar  May 11, 2022 • 3:14:47pm

re: #180 jeffreyw

Realistically, anything positive we get from Manchin is gift. Any normal senator from WV would be a shitbag Republican indistinguishable from any other shitbag GOP senator.

The problem is the Senate itself, where in a 50-50 Senate, the Republicans represent over 40 million fewer people than the Democrats.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 3:14:50pm

re: #180 jeffreyw

Go to reader view and copy from there, works for me in FF:
The survey by Morning Consult shows the Democrat’s approval among Republican voters has skyrocketed, up to a whopping 69%, from just 35% a year ago. Manchin’s disapproval among Republicans has dropped from 57% to just 24% over the past year.

Jonathan Kott, a political consultant who formerly worked with Manchin, told Morning Consult, “It turns out that Joe Manchin knows more about West Virginia voters than D.C. strategists. The amount of interactions he has with his voters I don’t think can be paralleled by other members.”

Other than that quote by Kott making it really seem that he’s a Republican, what’s his overall approval rating in the state?

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Decatur Deb  May 11, 2022 • 3:18:09pm

re: #181 EPR-radar

Realistically, anything positive we get from Manchin is gift. Any normal senator from WV would be a shitbag Republican indistinguishable from any other shitbag GOP senator.

The problem is the Senate itself, where in a 50-50 Senate, the Republicans represent over 40 million fewer people than the Democrats.

We seem to be working with an Ideal Spherical Voter model. That doesn’t work well for bovine Physics, and even less well for an electorate of 180 million disparate American cusses.

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darthstar  May 11, 2022 • 3:21:15pm

It’s moments like this I’m happy that Putin is using Crypto to get around sanctions…

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A Three Hour Tour  May 11, 2022 • 3:23:49pm

re: #182 Belafon

Other than that quote by Kott making it really seem that he’s a Republican, what’s his overall approval rating in the state?

According to that same poll in late April, his overall approval rating in West Virginia is 57%.

His approval rating among democrats is 44%.

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sagehen  May 11, 2022 • 3:25:34pm

Mostly because they’re delighted that he’s Biden’s brick wall.

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jeffreyw  May 11, 2022 • 3:26:19pm

re: #182 Belafon

Other than that quote by Kott making it really seem that he’s a Republican, what’s his overall approval rating in the state?

“In surveys conducted Jan. 1-March 31, 57% of West Virginia voters approve of Manchin’s job performance, up from 40% during the first quarter of 2021 — the biggest increase of any Senator over that time frame,” according to the Morning Consult poll.

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darthstar  May 11, 2022 • 3:26:25pm

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BeachDem  May 11, 2022 • 3:26:43pm

One more reason to love Patti LuPone:

Patti LuPone Calls Out Theatergoers Wearing Masks Under Noses: ‘Get The F**k Out!’

“Put your mask on over your nose,” LuPone is heard saying in videos posted to Twitter. “That’s why you are in the theater, that is the rule. If you don’t want to follow the rule, get the fuck out!”

huffpost.com

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 3:27:31pm
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Decatur Deb  May 11, 2022 • 3:29:46pm

South Carolina man dies of heart attack while burying body of woman he killed, police say
usatoday.com

If the dude had dug a proper grave before all the killin’, he’d have saved everyone a lot of trouble.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 11, 2022 • 3:35:04pm

ars?re: #191 Decatur Deb

South Carolina man dies of heart attack while burying body of woman he killed, police say
usatoday.com

If the dude had dug a proper grave before all the killin’, he’d have saved everyone a lot of trouble.

He dug a pit to put the body in. He died while filling it back in.

Authorities concluded after McKinnon strangled Dent, he bound and wrapped her in trash bags before putting her into a pit he had already dug. While McKinnon was filling the grave, he had the cardiac event, causing his death, authorities said.

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PhillyPretzel  May 11, 2022 • 3:41:34pm

re: #192 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Serves him right.

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darthstar  May 11, 2022 • 3:44:28pm

I had to go full screen and get a still shot of that turret from earlier…still fuckin’ amazes me.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 3:44:51pm

re: #192 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

ars?

He dug a pit to put the body in. He died while filling it back in.

Authorities concluded after McKinnon strangled Dent, he bound and wrapped her in trash bags before putting her into a pit he had already dug. While McKinnon was filling the grave, he had the cardiac event, causing his death, authorities said.

Digging a hole, murdering someone, then filling that hole is a lot of strain for a guy with a bad ticker.

He had the heart attack at the absolute worst part of the process possible. The alternatives were no murder attempt at all with him face down in the hole, or her laughing in his face as he had a heart attack while trying to strangle her.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 11, 2022 • 3:48:19pm

re: #193 PhillyPretzel

Serves him right.

I can envision a Tales From The Crypt scene were her spirit reached out and grabs his and pulls it into the grave with her. Then cutting to the crypt keeper cackling and commenting that now they were together for eternity.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 3:55:53pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 3:57:01pm

re: #197 Charles Johnson

Um, actually…that’s a grilled peanut butter sandwich.

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jeffreyw  May 11, 2022 • 4:06:29pm

re: #198 Barefoot Grin

Um, actually…that’s a grilled peanut butter sandwich.

I don’t see any banana, not an official grilled peanut butter.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 4:08:15pm

Top headline at Google news:

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 4:09:30pm

I also heard on TV that two Republicans are planning on working on a more restrictive bill.

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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 4:10:04pm

re: #199 jeffreyw

I don’t see any banana, not an official grilled peanut butter.

Elvis has entered the chat.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 4:10:55pm
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 4:11:29pm

re: #198 Barefoot Grin

Um, actually…that’s a grilled peanut butter sandwich.

It’s a photo of a painting of a grilled peanut butter sandwich transmitted around the world, and displayed on several computer screens.

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darthstar  May 11, 2022 • 4:12:57pm

Speaking of yard sales…

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William Lewis  May 11, 2022 • 4:16:05pm

re: #199 jeffreyw

I don’t see any banana, not an official grilled peanut butter.

Doesn’t it need a layer of crushed potato chips too?

_I_ never ate those abominations but there was a guy I knew in the army who did grilled peanut butter, banana and potato chip sandwiches. < shudder > Almost as nasty as a Moonpie & RC lunch.

Of course, he thought much the same of my bologna based delicacies so he lost out there too ;)

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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 4:19:28pm

re: #206 William Lewis

Doesn’t it need a layer of crushed potato chips too?

_I_ never ate those abominations but there was a guy I knew in the army who did grilled peanut butter, banana and potato chip sandwiches. < shudder > Almost as nasty as a Moonpie & RC lunch.

Of course, he thought much the same of my bologna based delicacies so he lost out there too ;)

Why not both?

You’ve given me inspiration for the next time I pick up some edibles.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 4:20:18pm
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PhillyPretzel  May 11, 2022 • 4:23:21pm

re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am happy to hear that someone was able to land that plane.

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darthstar  May 11, 2022 • 4:24:37pm

Apparently that tank turret trying to reach the moon everyone(including myself) has been sharing wasn’t hit near the front. It was hit deep in Russian territory 100km from Mariupol and 13km from the Russian border.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 4:26:37pm

eeeewwwwwwwww

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 4:27:43pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 4:28:44pm

re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth

eeeewwwwwwwww

“I know how to French kiss.”

“Oh yeah, well I do too.”

“Daddy says I’m the best.”

[Paraphrasing National Lampoon’s Vacation.]

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 11, 2022 • 4:30:48pm

re: #203 Charles Johnson

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Been there, done that. Numerous ex-family members made the same claim when I came out. Then they really lost their shit when they also learned the I was a practicing Pagan.

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nines09  May 11, 2022 • 4:31:27pm

Off topic because…
Just found this out. It’s that time of life I suppose. Not sure if anyone knows or likes it.
But anyway, one more on the road…

Charles ‘Little Charlie’ Baty: July 10, 1953-March 6, 2020
He retired quite a while back, was worn out from the non stop touring.

Youtube Video

Later stuff without Charles.

Youtube Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 4:32:12pm
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 4:32:29pm
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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 4:34:54pm

re: #205 darthstar

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 4:36:58pm

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. —

The Boynton Beach Police Department is searching for a group of good Samaritans who stopped a moving car after a woman had a medical emergency while driving.

On May 5, a woman suffered a medical episode and was seen by her co-worker slumped over the steering wheel, according to police. The co-worker then ran into the road to stop traffic as the car slowly moved into the intersection.

The co-worker got the attention of other motorists and they came together to stop the car, use a dumbbell to smash a rear window, and move the car into a nearby parking lot.

A nurse who was in the parking lot had called 911 and provided medical attention until the fire department arrived, police said.

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darthstar  May 11, 2022 • 4:37:16pm

re: #218 Belafon

And one bridge.

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Decatur Deb  May 11, 2022 • 4:43:13pm

re: #205 darthstar

Speaking of yard sales…

No Pasaran.

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jeffreyw  May 11, 2022 • 4:44:02pm

re: #206 William Lewis

Doesn’t it need a layer of crushed potato chips too?

_I_ never ate those abominations but there was a guy I knew in the army who did grilled peanut butter, banana and potato chip sandwiches. < shudder > Almost as nasty as a Moonpie & RC lunch.

Of course, he thought much the same of my bologna based delicacies so he lost out there too ;)

Fritos, crushed - but not powdered!

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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 4:46:32pm

re: #222 jeffreyw

Fritos, crushed - but not powdered!

Also, RC cola can go well with a Moonpie, but is really made better by pouring a bag of salted peanuts into the cola bottle after opening.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 4:47:17pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 4:49:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 4:50:28pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 4:52:55pm

re: #223 Barefoot Grin

Also, RC cola can go well with a Moonpie, but is really made better by pouring a bag of salted peanuts into the cola bottle after opening.

Woops, I think my Georgia-born and raised mom might have preferred boiled peanuts in her RC. Or as they are called there “bowled peanuts.”

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Hecuba's daughter  May 11, 2022 • 4:53:44pm

So — 18 of us at Mother’s Day lunch at my sister’s. Today I get a call from my nephew informing me that this son, who is 9(?) just tested positive for Covid, after becoming symptomatic last evening. A waiting game now for the rest of us to see if we are going to become infected too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 4:55:53pm
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lawhawk  May 11, 2022 • 4:57:12pm

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

They’re thinking that they’re ushering in a Christian fascist govt. They will get to control the Courts for decades to come, and can do as they please. With redistricting, they may have a permanent control with favorable conditions in both the House and WH.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 11, 2022 • 4:57:47pm

re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth

eeeewwwwwwwww

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Creepo-rama! I have a 40 year old daughter. This is not in any way, shape, form or fashion healthy or reasonable behavior. When my daughters were 2 and 6 it was different, but not now, no way.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 4:59:46pm

Hooked up this 2-bay external hard drive that has a USB 3.1 (gen 1) connector, and it’s noticeably faster than the Firewire port. The problem is that something is causing the drives to keep making little access sounds periodically even when I’m not using them and I can’t find the culprit.

This new iMac is totally silent, which really makes this noise stand out.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 5:01:30pm

I added the drives to the Spotlight exclusion list, so it’s not Spotlight indexing the disks. Activity Monitor’s disk tab doesn’t show anything unusual. It’s a damned mystery.

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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 5:02:57pm

re: #233 Charles Johnson

I added the drives to the Spotlight exclusion list, so it’s not Spotlight indexing the disks. Activity Monitor’s disk tab doesn’t show anything unusual. It’s a damned mystery.

I’ve been reliably told that it is Colossus.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 5:07:00pm

Colossus again? That scamp.

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Captain Ron  May 11, 2022 • 5:07:11pm
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Dangerman  May 11, 2022 • 5:10:55pm

re: #231 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Creepo-rama! I have a 40 year old daughter. This is not in any way, shape, form or fashion healthy or reasonable behavior. When my daughters were 2 and 6 it was different, but not now, no way.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 5:12:29pm

Oh, and this inexpensive adapter that was supposed to let me connect my 30” Cinema Display to the iMac?

amazon.com

It does not fucking work. But it was only $15 with tax. I’ll probably return it if I still can.

But I did find another one that has been confirmed to work with the iMac by several sources who wish to remain anonymous. It’s 3x more expensive but hey whatever.

amazon.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 5:14:46pm
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EstebanTornado1963  May 11, 2022 • 5:14:54pm

re: #232 Charles Johnson

Hooked up this 2-bay external hard drive that has a USB 3.1 (gen 1) connector, and it’s noticeably faster than the Firewire port. The problem is that something is causing the drives to keep making little access sounds periodically even when I’m not using them and I can’t find the culprit.

This new iMac is totally silent, which really makes this noise stand out.

Hey Charles, what iMac you get? In the market now. Thanks

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 5:16:39pm

re: #240 EstebanTornado1963

Hey Charles, what iMac you get? In the market now. Thanks

I got the new 24” M1 iMac, in silver because they’re back-ordered in other colors. 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD. It’s fantastic.

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EstebanTornado1963  May 11, 2022 • 5:18:05pm

re: #241 Charles Johnson

Thanks!

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 5:21:33pm

re: #242 EstebanTornado1963

I actually found it on eBay from a Mac store in Florida. You can’t get one from an Apple Store until June.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 11, 2022 • 5:21:52pm

re: #215 nines09

Off topic because…
Just found this out. It’s that time of life I suppose. Not sure if anyone knows or likes it.
But anyway, one more on the road…

Charles ‘Little Charlie’ Baty: July 10, 1953-March 6, 2020
He retired quite a while back, was worn out from the non stop touring.

Dude been listening to some Django Reinhardt

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 11, 2022 • 5:21:58pm
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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 5:24:39pm

I really recommend going with the 8/8 core 16GB model, because it has four Thunderbolt/USB ports, and gigabit Ethernet in addition to the extra RAM. Two ports is really not enough.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 5:25:39pm

You can lift this iMac with one hand. It’s unbelievably thin and light.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 11, 2022 • 5:32:27pm

re: #247 Charles Johnson

Eventually they will turn into iPads.

Currently there is the iPad Pro which is roughly the size of a piece of paper.

Once Apple can make an iPad the size of the standard A2 paper size, will there be a need for an iMac?

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 5:33:00pm

re: #246 Charles Johnson

I really recommend going with the 8/8 core 16GB model, because it has four Thunderbolt/USB ports, and gigabit Ethernet in addition to the extra RAM. Two ports is really not enough.

Gotta link to one?

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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 5:37:53pm

re: #248 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Eventually they will turn into iPads.

Currently there is the iPad Pro which is roughly the size of a piece of paper.

Once Apple can make an iPad the size of the standard A2 paper size, will there be a need for an iMac?

Apparently my screen fracture issues on my Macbook Air had to do with incompatibility between ultra-light screen and a too-tight body it sits in. But I’m sure they’ll work that out. Anyway, I’m happy that Apple replaced my broken screen as if under warranty. I hope it doesn’t happen again. (Still haven’t opted for Apple Care, but, you know, I have about 4 days.)

Sorry, also meant to add that my work-provided Macbook Pro has 4 ports and that is very useful at times at work. My Macbook Air personal computer only has two, but I don’t use it for complicated stuff, so that’s fine.

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Sherlock Hound  May 11, 2022 • 5:42:51pm

If I ever carry, let me die before doing what this dumbass did. Just look at the trigger guard.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 5:47:52pm

re: #251 Sherlock Hound

If I ever carry, let me die before doing what this dumbass did. Just look at the trigger guard.

They went to work with a gun in their pocket. I understand needing a gun for some jobs, but it was not for work. If I still had to work in an office, I’d raise serious hell if a coworker did this and we found out when it discharged.

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Belafon  May 11, 2022 • 5:51:01pm
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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2022 • 5:52:16pm

re: #249 Belafon

Gotta link to one?

This is actually the one I bought…

ebay.com

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 5:55:34pm

re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I guess David French isn’t into fascism.

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mmmirele  May 11, 2022 • 5:56:15pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

I normally don’t throw money at Go Fund Me’s but I did at this one, because it sucks they’re being harassed by anti-abortion fanatics. You know it’s BAD when they’re worse than Scientology.

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DodgerFan1988  May 11, 2022 • 5:58:49pm
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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 6:01:37pm

re: #257 DodgerFan1988

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Barefoot Grin  May 11, 2022 • 6:03:52pm

re: #255 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I guess David French isn’t into fascism.

Thank you. Reading now.

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Decatur Deb  May 11, 2022 • 6:13:01pm

re: #258 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Is Gosar the one some Republican honcho voted “Most Likely To Be On The Payroll”?

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Crush White Nationalism  May 11, 2022 • 6:17:28pm

re: #260 Decatur Deb

Is Gosar the one some Republican honcho voted “Most Likely To Be On The Payroll”?

That was Dana Rohrabacher and someone who’s name does not come to me at the moment. It could be Gozar.

Gozar’s the one whose whole family denounced him.

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mmmirele  May 11, 2022 • 6:21:17pm

re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists


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