Sheer Awesomeness: Buffy Sainte-Marie's Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Sheer Awesomeness: Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Ann Powers | May 12, 2022
“Tiny Desk at home? I kinda live on the road!” the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie exclaims one song into her high-spirited set recorded a few miles outside Toronto at the beginning of the 81-year-old’s umpteenth tour. Sainte-Marie has always been a wandering soul with a fierce sense of direction. The four songs she performs here with her touring band span her nearly 60-year career, connecting her righteous protest songs – including “Universal Soldier,” as relevant today as it was when it became an anthem during the Vietnam War – to the love songs that have soundtracked countless slow dances. This set is a kind of Sainte-Marie primer, touching on her early days as the 1960s folk revival’s brashest innovator and her mid-career turns writing country and pop hits like this set’s smooth closer, “Up Where We Belong,” which won her an Academy Award for best original song in 1983.

Playing a Yamaha “Silent Guitar,” designed for road conditions where playing on headphones might be a requirement on a tour bus, and then switching to a small keyboard, Sainte-Marie is an easeful band leader. This occasion was, in fact, her first reunion with her touring band since the pandemic began, and their joy in playing these songs is palpable. Check out Matt Starr’s rolling drum fills on “It’s My Way” and bassist Mark Olexson’s tender twinning with Sainte-Marie’s guitar on “Until It’s Time for You to Go.” But mostly, revel in Sainte-Marie’s inimitable spirit, one of the greatest sparks popular music has ignited.

SET LIST
“It’s My Way”
“Until It’s Time for You to Go”
“Universal Soldier”
“Up Where We Belong”

MUSICIANS
Buffy Sainte-Marie: vocals, guitar, keys
Matt Starr: drums
Mark Olexson: bass, vocals
Anthony King: guitar, vocals
Kibwe Thomas: keys,vocals

CREDITS
Producer: Stephen Paniccia
Director of Photography: Andy Hourahine
Camera Operator: Blair Johannes
Camera Operator: Jack Hourahine
Camera Assistant: Arani Muthucumarasamy
Sound Engine: Carm Milioto
Sound Mixer: Chris Birkett

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Video Producer: Michael Zamora
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Tiny Production Team: Bobby Carter, Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Ashley Pointer
VP, NPR Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#NPRMusic #TinyDesk #BuffySainteMarie

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306 comments

Backwoods_Sleuth May 12, 2022 • 6:13:18pm

left hanging downstairs:

What discovery?! We’ve always known there was an Original Glazed doughnut at the center of the galaxy😉 No seriously, let’s celebrate the brilliant astronomers! Everyone gets an Original Glazed doughnut FREE Friday 5/13 #Blackhole pic.twitter.com/bY1X2VP3Nh

— Krispy Kreme (@krispykreme) May 12, 2022

Captain Ron May 12, 2022 • 6:17:03pm

Between the stock losses of Tesla and the huge drop in Bitcoin, Elon must be feeling a bit of a pinch on his bid for Twitter.

Ace Rothstein May 12, 2022 • 6:21:05pm

Republicans are a danger to the republic. That’s it, that’s my post.

Ace Rothstein May 12, 2022 • 6:21:14pm

re: #2 Captain Ron

Between the stock losses of Tesla and the huge drop in Bitcoin, Elon must be feeling a bit of a pinch on his bid for Twitter.

Good.

Dopamine Fish May 12, 2022 • 6:24:04pm

David Perdue: paranoid as a matter of law https://t.co/CKEEHQUNX0

— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) May 12, 2022

Jay C May 12, 2022 • 6:25:40pm

re: #3 Ace Rothstein

Republicans are a danger to the republic. That’s it, that’s my post.

So say we all…..

Crush White Nationalism May 12, 2022 • 6:28:58pm

re: #2 Captain Ron

Between the stock losses of Tesla and the huge drop in Bitcoin, Elon must be feeling a bit of a pinch on his bid for Twitter.

Binance may not have their 500 mil to invest anymore.
Binance is backing Elon Musk’s Twitter bid, boosting crypto believers’ vision of a ‘decentralized’ web CNBC

Belafon May 12, 2022 • 6:33:08pm

Protestors in red Handmaid’s Tale robes walked past Amy Coney Barrett’s house with a sign that said “Keep your rosaries off my ovaries.” Perfect.

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 12, 2022

dat_said May 12, 2022 • 6:42:24pm

re: #136 Dopamine Fish

This picture was taken facing southwest, looking towards the tail end of that line of thunderstorms as it approaches. The actual tail is somewhere behind the thick trees to the left of center.

I think we’re getting this storm that started in SD:

Thursday’s powerful storm produced powerful images. Some of the photos look like they belong in a history book about the 1930s Dust Bowl.

See our full gallery here: https://t.co/qK9o51RjeL pic.twitter.com/2EAbNfT0oT

— Dakota News Now (@dakotanews_now) May 13, 2022

Belafon May 12, 2022 • 6:42:29pm

Thread, Russians are moving into homes and setting up shops:

I have a friend in Kherson and the situation is incredibly bad.

They said to me:
“I am reading a lot of shit about Kherson, unfortunately it’s nothing compared to reality. It is much, much worse”

Ukrainians are facing a dire situation, which I’ll lay out in a short thread:

— Joseph / йосиф сташко🇺🇦 (@JosephStash) May 12, 2022

Why Ukraine can’t just accept a ceasefire:

Tonight Russia hit schools in the city of Novhorod-Sivers’kyi, Chernihiv. Governor Viacheslav Chaus reported about the dead and wounded. Bombing civilian objects is a war crime. pic.twitter.com/LpoFz5p2lt

— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) May 12, 2022

Belafon May 12, 2022 • 6:42:49pm

This is 16 y.o. Vlad Buryak. He was abducted by Russians at a checkpoint near Melitopol. They checked his documents and found out that he is the son of the head of the Zaporizhia district state administration. Russians has been holding the child for more than a month in captivity pic.twitter.com/aSzoBXtd8q

— Oleksandra Matviichuk (@avalaina) May 12, 2022

Decatur Deb May 12, 2022 • 6:51:26pm

Buffy Ste-Marie is the music of the best years. (Always liked her message far more than her voice, however.) The Kinzua Dam was 30-40 miles from my school.

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JC1 May 12, 2022 • 6:59:55pm

Just an update on the crypto wreck… Luna coin is now trading at less than a penny, down from over 80 on Monday and an all time high of over 120 earlier this year…

The Luna based UST token, which is supposed to be pegged to the dollar is now trading at 19 cents.

That is all.

Cheechako May 12, 2022 • 7:00:06pm

CL’d in the last thread.

Do you have an opinion on who the final 4 will be for the House race? And who is most likely to win in the final competition?

I have no idea of who the Final Four will be. I have a hunch Santa Clause might make it just for the novelty effect. Otherwise Al Gross (I), who just promised to caucus with the Dems, comes to mind. Sarah Palin is a wild card. People up here either love her or hate her. Right now, I think more people hate her.

Campaigning has barely begun.

Cheechako May 12, 2022 • 7:03:09pm

re: #12 Decatur Deb

Went to college with Buffy (UMass - Amherst). Didn’t know her personally, but she was a regular performer in the Student Union dinning area

Captain Ron May 12, 2022 • 7:05:58pm

According to law enforcement, a Russian pilot fired a missile at the machine. @MrScarce https://t.co/jaaAYi2Xmo

— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) May 12, 2022

Decatur Deb May 12, 2022 • 7:07:55pm

re: #15 Cheechako

Went to college with Buffy (UMass - Amherst). Didn’t know her personally, but she was a regular performer in the Student Union dinning area

There’s fuckn’ irony. Amherst—named for the one guy documented to have distributed smallpox-infected blankets to the Ohio-valley tribes.

jaunte May 12, 2022 • 7:10:08pm

This Cockatoo is a Raver 🥰❤️💟😂 pic.twitter.com/WZIBlU0jKo

— Respect Life 🌎💯☮️🇺🇦🌻BLM Bringing Back Normal (@koan4uu) May 13, 2022

jaunte May 12, 2022 • 7:18:07pm

In other bird news:
This morning we saw three baby wrens being encouraged by the parents to leave their nest for their first flights.
Number three landed on my wife’s head, but she got it down to the tree the others were in without too much trouble.

Decatur Deb May 12, 2022 • 7:19:23pm

re: #19 jaunte

In other bird news:
This morning we saw three baby wrens being encouraged by the parents to leave their nest for their first flights.
Number three landed on my wife’s head, but she got it down to the tree the others were in without too much trouble.

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Dances With Wrens.

wrenchwench May 12, 2022 • 7:21:40pm

re: #19 jaunte

In other bird news:
This morning we saw three baby wrens being encouraged by the parents to leave their nest for their first flights.
Number three landed on my wife’s head, but she got it down to the tree the others were in without too much trouble.

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Hatchling head!

jaunte May 12, 2022 • 7:22:43pm

And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”
And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful wife”

BeachDem May 12, 2022 • 7:23:37pm

re: #15 Cheechako

Went to college with Buffy (UMass - Amherst). Didn’t know her personally, but she was a regular performer in the Student Union dinning area

My brother was at UMass a few years after you, but he was a Buffy worshipper. (Now, he’s a right-wing loon, so Buffy would be sorely disappointed.)

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wrenchwench May 12, 2022 • 7:27:31pm

re: #22 jaunte

And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”
And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful wife”

Amazing how you can set off an ear worm containing no additional lyrics!

Crush White Nationalism May 12, 2022 • 7:30:16pm

re: #13 JC1

Just an update on the crypto wreck… Luna coin is now trading at less than a penny, down from over 80 on Monday and an all time high of over 120 earlier this year…

The Luna based UST token, which is supposed to be pegged to the dollar is now trading at 19 cents.

That is all.

I’m officially a Lunatic!!! Thanks @stablekwon And thank you my friends at Smith Street Tattoos. pic.twitter.com/2wfc00loDs

— Mike Novogratz (@novogratz) January 5, 2022

Jay C May 12, 2022 • 7:34:31pm

re: #25 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Was that a decline from eighty dollars or eighty cents?

Either way, still shows the fundamental problem with crypto….

sagehen May 12, 2022 • 7:41:34pm

re: #3 Ace Rothstein

Republicans are a danger to the republic. That’s it, that’s my post.

Didn’t used to be. Sad how the party has devolved.

ooh! added to my previous list of favorite Republicans… EARL WARREN. We may never see his like again.

wrenchwench May 12, 2022 • 7:43:10pm

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

Oh, wait. There it is:

I’m more there with the whole “global climate catastrophe that threatens to swallow mankind whole into an inferno born of capitalism’s insatiable hunger for conquest and consumption” but sure tech stocks plunging works too https://t.co/N5IeBOXUCh

— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) May 13, 2022

DodgerFan1988 May 12, 2022 • 7:54:37pm

1/ I am convinced the disillusioned young men that will lose everything in the upcoming cryptocrash will turn to fascism, not socialism, as they look for someone to blame.

To them, crypto is a way out of the American trap of nonexistent wages for a generation.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) May 13, 2022

3/ They’ll blame it on media. They’ll blame it on banks run by you know who. They’ll blame it on people like me that pointed out how it was a scam.

And they will support anyone that taps into that anger and promises them the status they feel entitled to.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) May 13, 2022

Romantic Heretic May 12, 2022 • 8:00:39pm

re: #25 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Weren’t the Luna Wolves the ones who kicked off the Horus Heresy? The True Believers who betrayed everything the stood for?

Who knew Warhammer 40K was a commentary on today’s America?

jaunte May 12, 2022 • 8:04:20pm

Officials openly calling for the starvation of detained babies due to their national origin is perhaps a sign that enforcement of anti-discrimination guarantees has gotten a bit lax.

— Matthew Segal (@segalmr) May 12, 2022

Where’s that sarcasm font?

Belafon May 12, 2022 • 8:07:13pm

re: #29 DodgerFan1988

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I agree, but what have they also been doing with their fucking lives that they can’t find a job now?

jaunte May 12, 2022 • 8:08:23pm

Better mask up.

New “community levels” are out

Under the pre-Feb 25th CDC guidance, universal masking would currently be recommended in 63% of US counties. Under current guidance, it’s recommended in 4% of counties.https://t.co/bOHHirOOwr pic.twitter.com/FuC6SaJaeU

— wsbgnl (@wsbgnl) May 13, 2022

wrenchwench May 12, 2022 • 8:11:18pm

re: #32 Belafon

I agree, but what have they also been doing with their fucking lives that they can’t find a job now?

Not working. They know how to not work, they have experience and references.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie May 12, 2022 • 8:19:15pm

re: #27 sagehen

Didn’t used to be. Sad how the party has devolved.

ooh! added to my previous list of favorite Republicans… EARL WARREN. We may never see his like again.

I remember when the John Birch Soviet, er, Society plastered the country with “Impeach Earl Warren!” billboards. I saw a lot of them in California and Texas so there must have been thousands around the country. Warren was Chief Justice at the time and was blamed by the right for a variety of unbearable atrocities, like the abolition of forced prayer, the legalization of interracial marriage, school integration, Miranda warnings, etc.

wrenchwench May 12, 2022 • 8:24:52pm

re: #35 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I remember when the John Birch Soviet, er, Society plastered the country with “Impeach Earl Warren!” billboards. I saw a lot of them in California and Texas so there must have been thousands around the country. Warren was Chief Justice at the time and was blamed by the right for a variety of unbearable atrocities, like the abolition of forced prayer, the legalization of interracial marriage, school integration, Miranda warnings, etc.

When they sent me out to ‘Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF,’ they should have told me to skip the house with the ‘US Out of the UN’ lawn sign.

Belafon May 12, 2022 • 8:28:30pm

William Lewis May 12, 2022 • 8:28:53pm

I see on NPR that Randy Weaver of Ruby Ridge infamy passed away at 74. ‘

What a sad mess that was, all the way around.

sagehen May 12, 2022 • 8:34:36pm

re: #35 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I remember when the John Birch Soviet, er, Society plastered the country with “Impeach Earl Warren!” billboards. I saw a lot of them in California and Texas so there must have been thousands around the country. Warren was Chief Justice at the time and was blamed by the right for a variety of unbearable atrocities, like the abolition of forced prayer, the legalization of interracial marriage, school integration, Miranda warnings, etc.

responsibility fairly assigned. That those things happened was absolutely his doing.

jaunte May 12, 2022 • 8:38:02pm

Ramona (7) designed her own earrings tonight on my iPad and they are better than anything I could ever make. pic.twitter.com/Zr4c8sXJSv

— Jessica Hische (@jessicahische) May 13, 2022

Strong calligraphy genetics.

BigPapa May 12, 2022 • 8:38:26pm

Fun fact of the day: the reason why pregnant people get ultrasounds and not MRIs, is that in an MRI, this is what a fetus looks like. pic.twitter.com/R8HYoqKgEs

— frönk (@dhomochameleon) May 12, 2022

wrenchwench May 12, 2022 • 8:42:56pm

re: #41 BigPapa

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Sugar skulls.

Captain Ron May 12, 2022 • 8:43:34pm

re: #41 BigPapa

She looks just like her mother.

OBEY!

Egregious Philbin May 12, 2022 • 8:44:20pm

re: #38 William Lewis

No great loss.

Captain Ron May 12, 2022 • 8:48:11pm

The 7 day average of Covid deaths in the US are lower than they have been since March 27, 2020, at the start of the pandemic.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 12, 2022 • 8:55:19pm

re: #33 jaunte

Our testing positive rates are going up. So far the hospitalizations are not going up, but the share of the hospitalizations which are in the ICU have gone up.

wrenchwench May 12, 2022 • 9:07:13pm

re: #46 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Our testing positive rates are going up. So far the hospitalizations are not going up, but the share of the hospitalizations which are in the ICU have gone up.

In my county, they’re saying they show so many positive tests because they do so many tests. But all the counties around are the same.

JC1 May 12, 2022 • 9:24:17pm

re: #26 Jay C

Was that a decline from eighty dollars or eighty cents?

Either way, still shows the fundamental problem with crypto….

80 dollars to less than a cent in 4 days. On Monday it was the 4th largest crypto.

JC1 May 12, 2022 • 9:26:19pm

3/6, pretty straightforward.

Click to Reveal

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Missed today’s worldle. Really need to get an atlas and study up.

Sherlock Hound May 12, 2022 • 9:27:30pm

re: #48 JC1

80 dollars to less than a cent in 4 days. On Monday it was the 4th largest crypto.

A “rug pull”.

Teukka May 12, 2022 • 9:31:50pm

⚠️ CW/TW: References to Sexual Violence Against Children ⚠️

Click to Reveal

Ukraine war: ‘Credible evidence’ of sexual violence against children - while attacks on schools also mounting https://t.co/qoGoOelj5g

— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 13, 2022

wrenchwench May 12, 2022 • 9:40:32pm

Las Cafeteras - “Trabajador, Trabajadora”

JC1 May 12, 2022 • 9:42:18pm

re: #50 Sherlock Hound

A “rug pull”.

Not quite, though the effect was similar. A rug pull is when the founders take the money and run. This didn’t happen here. It was most likely an external attack like Soros making a killing off the bank of England in the 90s. Someone made a LOT of money on this mess.

Captain Ron May 12, 2022 • 10:11:28pm

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un orders nationwide lockdown due to first COVID-19 case

— InsideNK (@inside_nk) May 12, 2022

BREAKING | 18,000 more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in North Korea

— InsideNK (@inside_nk) May 12, 2022

North Korea has announced an “explosive” Covid-19 outbreak in the country that has killed six people and infected more than 350,000, according to state media. https://t.co/CWcllxc2Lq

— CNN (@CNN) May 13, 2022

Captain Ron May 12, 2022 • 10:18:41pm

re: #54 Captain Ron

Captain Ron May 12, 2022 • 11:14:53pm

After a week of windy, cold weather the forecast for the next two weeks is a warm 75-82F with 13-17 MPH WSW winds. Nice weather for bike riding.

Captain Ron May 12, 2022 • 11:18:34pm

President Biden orders flags at the White House and federal buildings lowered to half-staff until next Monday to commemorate one million Covid-19 deaths.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 12, 2022

wrenchwench May 12, 2022 • 11:33:51pm

re: #57 Captain Ron

[lowered to half-staff]

Where’s Anymouse?

Captain Ron May 12, 2022 • 11:44:34pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

Where’s Anymouse?

I don’t know. I don’t recall any conflict. I kinda recall him saying he was going up to Scott’s Bluff. I don’t recall if he posted since.

William Lewis May 12, 2022 • 11:46:54pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

Where’s Anymouse?

The same ol’ same ol’

littlegreenfootballs.com

wrenchwench May 13, 2022 • 12:09:48am

re: #60 William Lewis

The same ol’ same ol’

littlegreenfootballs.com

Maybe some flag protocol will bring him back.

What would bring b.d. back?

Cheechako May 13, 2022 • 12:26:19am

ckkatz May 13, 2022 • 12:29:43am

On rumors that Putin is seriously ill:

“As in the bad old days of the Soviet Union, nothing is believed until the state says it’s a malicious falsehood”

I’ve been working on this story — and its implications, whether the allegation is true or false — for several weeks. I ran it by @christogrozev, who came back with the following: pic.twitter.com/Ejl10nvq0V

— Michael Weiss 🌻🇺🇸🇮🇪 (@michaeldweiss) May 12, 2022

Captain Ron May 13, 2022 • 12:34:33am

A few weeks ago we had to put down our dog for cancer. We’re starting to look for a new rescue dog, and noticing a lot of dogs that are under two years old. I suspect a lot of those dogs were purchased during the lock-downs. Lots of GSDs and Huskys.

ckkatz May 13, 2022 • 12:36:22am

I had heard discussions that the Czech Republic might supply Ukraine with some of it’s self propelled howitzers. (Either Suzana 155mm or Dana 152mm) I had not heard that it had happened.

I suspect that for NATO countries, using 152mm artillery is pretty much a dead end these days. Probably best to get them to Ukraine who can still use them. Although it looks like Ukraine is also in the process of moving from Soviet/Russian standard to NATO standard.

📽️152mm Dana self-propelled artillery supplied by Czech Republic on the move to area of operations. #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/gDPJbT72P6

— militaryland.net (@Militarylandnet) May 13, 2022

ckkatz May 13, 2022 • 12:39:16am

re: #64 Captain Ron

A few weeks ago we had to put down our dog for cancer. We’re starting to look for a new rescue dog, and noticing a lot of dogs that are under two years old. I suspect a lot of those dogs were purchased during the lock-downs. Lots of GSDs and Huskys.

So sorry to hear that you lost your pupper.

But it sounds you will be helping rescue an abandoned dog from an irresponsible human.

ckkatz May 13, 2022 • 12:41:32am

The 9th century Byzantines had a LOTR style beacon system to send a warning from the frontier in the Taurus mountains to Constantinople and possibly other places. It could have taken as little as an hour to relay a warning across Anatolia, which is incredible in those times pic.twitter.com/cfuBZMAJzP

— ShadowsOfConstantinople (@RomeInTheEast) May 12, 2022

ckkatz May 13, 2022 • 12:48:50am

Speaking of UFO’s. This happened during WW2:

[Test Pilot] Woolams was known as a bit of a practical joker. While flying the still unknown [aka super secret] experimental P-59 jet airplane, he would join formation with unsuspecting pilots flying propeller-driven fighters and to their surprise, wave at them while wearing a gorilla mask, bowler hat, and cigar, and then fly away leaving them behind.

en.wikipedia.org

[The P-59] was so secret, in fact, that when the P-59 was taxiing, airmen put a fake wooden propeller on her nose so onlookers wouldn’t notice anything odd about the aircraft.

In the air, however, it was a different story. Pilots flying the usual piston-driven aviation engine would report back to base with sightings of a fast-moving plane without a propeller. They also said the plane was flown by a “gorilla, wearing a derby hat, waving a stogie at them.”
*snip*
Other pilots who were exposed to Woolams’ prank were convinced by Air Force psychologists that they hadn’t really seen the gorilla flying the plane, “because everyone knows you can’t fly without a propeller.”

wearethemighty.com

ckkatz May 13, 2022 • 1:21:23am

One of the factors that Military Intelligence gathers are the locations of sim cards/cell phones. It has been a factor in identifying where military personnel are located and in targeting Russian senior leaders.

Russian SIMs roaming in Ukraine. Gives you a good idea of the concentration of their forces. pic.twitter.com/L5gzD10oR3

— Dr Mike Martin ⛵️ (@ThreshedThought) May 12, 2022

ckkatz May 13, 2022 • 1:23:59am

G’nit all!
Off to bed.

and for a final thought:

“I went to the doctor and he said, ‘You’ve got hypochondria.’
I said, ‘Not that as well.’”

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 1:27:56am

re: #63 ckkatz

Some of the higher-ranking FSB officers (such as regional directors) might well be holdovers from the KGB era. They probably saw that memo from FSB HQ and thought to themselves, “Aw shit, Putin’s gonna be dead by the end of the summer!” or something.

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 1:34:14am

re: #54 Captain Ron

Jesus Harold Christ, that’s gonna be a fucking disaster. An unvaccinated population, and with (I’d wager) virtually zero previous exposure and thus no naturally-occurring antibodies whatsoever, already hit by almost perpetual malnutrition and now a highly infectious viral disease is (almost certainly) running rampant.

Yikes. And given the uniquely cruel nature of that regime, I’d bet they’ll go full World War Z if a nationwide lockdown doesn’t get it under control- and by that, I mean they’ll just shoot everyone that tests positive for it.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 1:40:19am

re: #72 Dr Lizardo

Jesus Harold Christ, that’s gonna be a fucking disaster. An unvaccinated population, and with (I’d wager) virtually zero previous exposure and thus no naturally-occurring antibodies whatsoever, already hit by almost perpetual malnutrition and now a highly infectious viral disease is (almost certainly) running rampant.

And a health-care system to match.

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 1:49:50am

re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And a heal-care system to match.

I can just see it now…

(DPRK health official): “Glorious Leader, it looks like the entire town of Sinuiju has been infected! The lockdown seems to have no effect!”

(Kim Jong-un): “Don’t worry, I got this. I just thought of a solution.”

Solution:

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 2:04:15am

I wonder how much of Putin’s motivation for invading Ukraine was to mask the damage done to his country by Covid. Now he can blame it all on Western sanctions.

Captain Ron May 13, 2022 • 2:56:57am

UPDATE: The @mnlogcabin has been removed as an official affiliate of the @MNGOP. All affiliate organizations were also removed. Click here for a complete list of the affiliate organizations that were just removed by the @MNGOP State Central Committee -> https://t.co/68pqSyWrCP https://t.co/esobwLKleo

— Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) May 12, 2022

vote for all the affiliate groups in one block. All of the @MNGOP affiliate groups were voted out, so the @mnlogcabin were not the only group removed. But the only group that was initially targeted for removal was the Minnesota Log Cabin Republicans. This is disgusting.

— Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) May 12, 2022

Keep on purging.

Captain Ron May 13, 2022 • 2:58:54am

damn, ear worm.

YouTube

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 2:58:59am

GOP is positioning itself as the Party of the Bible, and they got no room for Sodomites…

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 3:06:16am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

GOP is positioning itself as the Party of the Bible, and they got no room for Sodomites…

Instead of the “GOP”, they can switch it around to “POG”, or “Party of God”.

They might wanna check with their legal eagles, though, because I’m pretty sure that Hezbollah (حزب الله) might have a trademark on that particular moniker.

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 3:17:22am

Seems that Elon Musk’s much-vaunted deal to buy Twitter is “on hold”:

Shares of the social media company fell 20% in premarket trading. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The company had earlier this month estimated that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users during the first quarter.

It also said it faced several risks until the deal with Musk is closed, including whether advertisers would continue to spend on Twitter.

jpost.com

Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 3:24:24am

re: #79 Dr Lizardo

Instead of the “GOP”, they can switch it around to “POG”, or “Party of God”.

They might wanna check with their legal eagles, though, because I’m pretty sure that Hezbollah (حزب الله) might have a trademark on that particular moniker.

Remember Jihad Barbie?

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 3:24:39am

According to the BBC’s article on the Musk/Twitter deal,

Under the terms of the deal, if either Twitter or Mr Musk walk away they must pay the other side a termination fee of $1bn.

bbc.com

Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 3:28:11am

re: #82 Dr Lizardo

According to the BBC’s article on the Musk/Twitter deal,

bbc.com

Neither side will simply walk away and fork over $1b.

There will be a lawsuit and a settlement in 9 years.

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 3:29:24am

re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Oh yeah, I remember. There’s no significant difference - just hyper-religious control freaks that believe that their iteration of the Supreme Being wants them to tell everyone else what to do.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 3:31:56am

re: #83 Dangerman

Neither side will simply walk away and fork over $1b.

There will be a lawsuit and a settlement in 9 years.

In which each side will pay the other $500 million in fees…

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 3:32:40am

A brief news blurb:

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, state news agency WAM reported on Friday.

The Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced official mourning and flags at half-mast for a period of 40 days, starting Friday.

Work will also be suspended in ministries, departments, federal and local institutions, and the private sector for three days.

arabnews.com

He was 73 years old.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 3:33:00am

re: #84 Dr Lizardo

Oh yeah, I remember. There’s no significant difference - just hyper-religious control freaks that believe that their iteration of the Supreme Being wants them to tell everyone else what to do.

They both harken back to an age when we lived as nomadic goat, sheep and camel herders, in societies run by robed, bearded Patriarchs who held their women and their livestock as chattel.

Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 3:39:22am

Closing out the week on a high note.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 328 3/6

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Shropshire Slasher May 13, 2022 • 3:43:52am

This is America.

Shocking surveillance footage captured part of a deadly ambush attack on a man pumping gas at Philadelphia gas station earlier this week.

Two killers dressed in all black fatally shot the victim in broad daylight at a Gulf Station in North Philly on Monday, authorities said.

Video released by Philadelphia police shows the suspects pulling into the gas station in a maroon Mazda 3 with New Jersey plates at about 2:30 p.m. before parking in the corner of the lot.

The assailants, who were also wearing masks and hoods, then darted out of the car and ran towards their target as one brandished an assault rifle and the other wielded a handgun, video showed.

The suspects fired multiple times at the victim, identified by Fox Philadelphia as 30-year-old Brandon Dixon.

nypost.com

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 3:44:43am

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

They both harken back to an age when we lived as nomadic goat, sheep and camel herders, in societies run by robed, bearded Patriarchs who held their women and their livestock as chattel.

On that subject, the Archbishop of Prague has been replaced. The current Archbishop was a fatuous gasbag, but he had to step down now that he’s 75 years old (some kind of mandatory retirement age, apparently).

The new Archbishop is, at least, not a fatuous gasbag - but the only problem is that he’s 74 years old, which means he’ll have to retire next year. I guess this was a temporary solution until Pope Francis can find a more suitable replacement: Word on the grapevine was that the Pope couldn’t stand the outgoing Archbishop and is glad to see him gone.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 3:48:16am

Ever wondered why the GOP is so full of guys who look like a cross between a Biblical patriarch, a Confederate colonel and a member of ZZ Top?

Dave In Austin May 13, 2022 • 3:50:29am

Nothing but Whip-O-Will’s and Screech Owls.
And sleeping Poods of course.

Shropshire Slasher May 13, 2022 • 3:52:24am

50 years ago today.

The Rolling Stones famously got their rocks off during the making of their classic “Exile on Main St.” album.

In fact, the drug-fueled debauchery had Keith Richards — in the throes of a heroin addiction — going MIA within his French villa where the Stones recorded the sprawling double LP, which was released 50 years ago on May 12, 1972.

“Keith had his son Marlon with him, and he would say, ‘Oh, I’m gonna go put Marlon to bed.’ And then you wouldn’t see him for a day and a half,” said Anthony DeCurtis, who wrote the liner notes for the 2010 reissue of “Exile on Main St.” as well as the 2021 book “The Rolling Stones: Unzipped.” “And I think that that was beginning to create issues in the band. One of your main songwriters and, in many ways, the musical driving force of the band is somebody who’s having drug problems. And I think that comes up in the lyrics.”

Youtube Video

nypost.com

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 3:56:25am

re: #93 Shropshire Slasher

It is a sprawling, sloppy mess, but a beautiful sprawling sloppy mess and still one of my favorite Stones albums.

Rocks Off, Rip This Joint and All Down the Line are the very embodiment of Rock and Roll energy and drive.

Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 3:57:56am

re: #93 Shropshire Slasher

Heh, sort of like the production of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors - a non-stop, hedonistic, booze and cocaine-fueled party in the recording studio that just happened to produce one of their finest albums (arguably, their definitive album) and one of the greatest albums of the 1970s.

William Lewis May 13, 2022 • 3:59:12am

re: #93 Shropshire Slasher

50 years ago today.

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Video

nypost.com

Pity they never made any records after that but what a good record to go out on…

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 4:00:08am

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

Heh, sort of like the production of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors - a non-stop, hedonistic, booze and cocaine-fueled party in the recording studio that just happened to produce one of their finest albums (arguably, their definitive album) and one of the greatest albums of the 1970s.

…and then there was Tusk…the booze and drug intake doubled while creativity bottomed out.

William Lewis May 13, 2022 • 4:01:17am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…and then there was Tusk…the booze and drug intake doubled while creativity bottomed out.

Didn’t have enough cheating going on. THAT’s what fueled the creativity on Rumors.

Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 4:07:19am

re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Ever wondered why the GOP is so full of guys who look like a cross between a Biblical patriarch, a Confederate colonel and a member of ZZ Top?

Shortage of fabulous costume designers? (cf. #78 above.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 4:11:36am

re: #98 William Lewis

Didn’t have enough cheating going on. THAT’s what fueled the creativity on Rumors.

Youtube Video

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TarHellion May 13, 2022 • 4:24:22am

Wordle 328 4/6

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Got tied in knots trying to make sense of the board. Eh, a good way to end the week!

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Captain Magic May 13, 2022 • 4:32:18am

Check out bullet point 4 on Tether’s adverse affect slide:

This is straight from Tether’s whitepaper. #4 is a doozy pic.twitter.com/LBUQetQyVV

— Nick Burwell (@NickBurwell1) May 12, 2022

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 4:35:17am

re: #13 JC1

Just an update on the crypto wreck… Luna coin is now trading at less than a penny, down from over 80 on Monday and an all time high of over 120 earlier this year…

The Luna based UST token, which is supposed to be pegged to the dollar is now trading at 19 cents.

That is all.

So I can now buy over 28,000 Luna for a buck? Will it bounce back to $80 in a week?
0.000035 USD to 1 Luna just now. Wow. Hell, you can buy over 2500 luna for a Dogecoin.

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 4:37:33am

re: #103 darthstar

So I can now buy over 28,000 Luna for a buck? Will it bounce back to $80 in a week?
0.000035 USD to 1 Luna just now. Wow. Hell, you can buy over 2500 luna for a Dogecoin.

Just like Confederate Dollars in 1865, except that you could insulate the cabin with Confederate currency.

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 4:41:58am

re: #104 Decatur Deb

Just like Confederate Dollars in 1865, except that you could insulate the cabin with Confederate currency.

There are so many cryptos to choose from. A recently added one - Metaverse Dao, is 0.0014 - up 600% on the week. Imagine how much money you could lose trying to chase one of these things and not be able to dump it.

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Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 4:45:04am

Uh oh….

A report by the Swedish government on the changed security environment facing the Nordic country after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine says Moscow would react negatively to Sweden joining NATO and launch several counter-measures.

Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that his country is “not favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. As a NATO member, Turkey could veto moves to admit the two countries.

“We are following developments concerning Sweden and Finland carefully but we are not of a favorable opinion,” Erdogan told reporters.

apnews.com

BREAKING — Turkey doesn’t view Finland and Sweden’s NATO bid positively

— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) May 13, 2022

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 4:50:55am

Oh. https://t.co/4kw1kIIad2

— David Gura (@davidgura) May 13, 2022

I hope he thought he’d cover his bets with Luna.

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 4:51:56am

re: #106 Dr Lizardo

Uh oh….

apnews.com

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This disturbs me. I think Putin has been on the phone with Erdogan…the EU and NATO’s autocrat.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 4:52:19am

re: #106 Dr Lizardo

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that his country is “not favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. As a NATO member, Turkey could veto moves to admit the two countries.

Erdogan knows he has a bargaining chip and is going to use it to gain concessions from NATO.

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Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 4:53:35am

re: #108 darthstar

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yep, Erdogan wants something in return.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 4:54:34am

re: #110 Dr Lizardo

Yep, Erdogan wants something in return.

His economy is in the doldrums, a big cash infusion would help him out massively.

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Dr. Matt May 13, 2022 • 4:54:47am

The prevailing theory is he’s looking for a way to get out of this deal, that he never really wanted, without getting penalized the $1 billion.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 13, 2022 • 4:56:26am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…and then there was Tusk…the booze and drug intake doubled while creativity bottomed out.

I was transferring LP songs to cassette tapes for use at parties and in the car.

My brother asked me to put Tusk on a tape with one condition. Drop all the Lindsey Buckingham songs. Which pretty much made a tape about the same length as a regular album. (Though I did include Tusk and one other song on the the tape beyond his request.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 4:57:29am

re: #113 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I was transferring LP songs to cassette tapes for use at parties and in the car.

My brother asked me to put Tusk on a tape with one condition. Drop all the Lindsey Buckingham songs. Which pretty much made a tape about the same length as a regular album. (Though I did include Tusk and one other song on the the tape beyond his request.)

It has a handful of decent songs on it, but not enough to warrant the double album excess…

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Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 4:57:53am

re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

His economy is in the doldrums, a big cash infusion would help him out massively.

Oh yeah, and I think elections are coming up next year in Turkey as well.

However, this seems to be about the PKK - apparently, there’s some PKK members hiding out in Sweden, and Turkey wants them extradited.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 5:01:59am

re: #115 Dr Lizardo

Oh yeah, and I think elections are coming up next year in Turkey as well.

However, this seems to be about the PKK - apparently, there’s some PKK members hiding out in Sweden, and Turkey wants them extradited.

NATO does not need dictatorships in its ranks. NATO is supposed to be standing against dictators.

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Targetpractice May 13, 2022 • 5:02:16am

re: #102 Captain Magic

Check out bullet point 4 on Tether’s adverse affect slide:

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Go on, take the money and run…

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William Lewis May 13, 2022 • 5:03:30am

re: #115 Dr Lizardo

Oh yeah, and I think elections are coming up next year in Turkey as well.

However, this seems to be about the PKK - apparently, there’s some PKK members hiding out in Sweden, and Turkey wants them extradited.

Oops, they slipped away. Darn. Don’t know where they went.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 5:05:47am

re: #106 Dr Lizardo

Uh oh….

apnews.com

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This, the EU, and Rand Paul point out why you don’t do unanimous as a requirement.

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Dr. Matt May 13, 2022 • 5:17:05am

Pence to headline Georgia rally for Kemp in new break with Trump
ajc.com

Donnie is going to issue a raging “press” release any second now. 😐

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 5:24:47am

nope

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 5:31:04am

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 5:33:08am

“Well-placed sources tell us that Cheney — who was booted from her post as No. 3 Republican in the House one year to the day before the subpoenas were issued — was among those pressing hardest for this move, arguing that these GOP members had relevant information and they couldn’t just let them skirt without questioning.”

Link

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 5:35:45am

re: #122 Dangerman

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Is there a hidden joke in the photo? He looks like Selective Service cannonfodder to me.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 13, 2022 • 5:36:08am

re: #67 ckkatz

Should be “LOTR had a Byzantine-like system of beacons…” Although actually the “fire beacons on high places” idea goes back at least to ancient Greece (see the prologue of Aeschylos’s Agamemnon), and was turned into an alphabetic messaging system by the third century b.c.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 13, 2022 • 5:45:44am

re: #110 Dr Lizardo

Yep, Erdogan wants something in return.

I wonder just how far they’re willing to push, as I suspect more than one NATO member would be happy if Turkey were not part of the mix.

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jeffreyw May 13, 2022 • 5:46:41am

Chive Talkin’

Good morning!

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 13, 2022 • 5:47:04am

re: #122 Dangerman

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The draft?

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Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 5:48:05am

re: #126 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I wonder just how far they’re willing to push, as I suspect more than one NATO member would be happy if Turkey were not part of the mix.

Yeah. Sounds like some NATO heads of state are gonna have to rein Erdogan in on this one.

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 5:48:30am

re: #126 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I wonder just how far they’re willing to push, as I suspect more than one NATO member would be happy if Turkey were not part of the mix.

At the moment, Turkey might be the most immediately useful of the NATO nations, if you’re trying to cook Russian armor and keep the Bosphorus closed.

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Dr. Matt May 13, 2022 • 5:50:19am

Still committed to acquisition

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022

Depends on the definition of “committed”.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 5:50:19am

re: #124 Decatur Deb

Is there a hidden joke in the photo? He looks like Selective Service cannonfodder to me.

Not the same. There isn’t any male dodging talking to their doctors or parents because their mustache isn’t growing this month.

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 5:50:41am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

Yeah. Sounds like some NATO heads of state are gonna have to ~~rein Erdogan in~~ bribe Erdogan on this one.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 13, 2022 • 5:51:12am

Western good morning!

Blowing bubbles in Bilbao

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 5:51:51am

re: #132 Belafon

Not the same. There isn’t any male dodging talking to their doctors or parents because their mustache isn’t growing this month.

The sign is wrong and it makes us look stupid. I hate that.

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Captain Magic May 13, 2022 • 5:53:58am

Bravo to those cool Finnish cats who are about to join NATO. pic.twitter.com/L5hwBN0FUu

— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) May 12, 2022

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 5:55:31am

re: #135 Decatur Deb

The sign is wrong and it makes us look stupid. I hate that.

There are probably three people that think that asking someone to register for a non-existent draft is in any way comparable to telling a woman she can’t have an abortion, that that miscarriage is her fault, that she asked for it when she got raped, or God has plans for her.

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 5:56:34am

re: #137 Belafon

There are probably three people that think that asking someone to register for a non-existent draft is in any way comparable to telling a woman she can’t have an abortion, that that miscarriage is her fault, that she asked for it when she got raped, or God has plans for her.

Is there a law requiring men to do something women need not do?

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 5:56:45am

You know what selective service is for males today? A question on the FAFSA, that could prevent you from getting federal aid.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 5:58:14am

And the selective service law could be expanded to include women. How does an abortion ban affect men?

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 6:01:38am

re: #140 Belafon

And the selective service law could be expanded to include women. How does an abortion ban affect men?

Could be expanded, hasn’t been.

We’ve been talking all week about how laws prohibiting abortion affect men.

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Shropshire Slasher May 13, 2022 • 6:02:09am

re: #137 Belafon

There are probably three people that think that asking someone to register for a non-existent draft is in any way comparable to telling a woman she can’t have an abortion, that that miscarriage is her fault, that she asked for it when she got raped, or God has plans for her.

There are a lot of people in their 70’s and 80’s that the draft was a very important part of their life. Those people vote. Those that forget history are condemn to repeat it.

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Captain Magic May 13, 2022 • 6:08:06am

Zelensky in an interview with Italian TV Rai1 has confirmed that Macron had proposed him to make concessions to Ukraine’s sovereignty in order to come up with a face-saving option for Putin. “We are not ready to lose territory to save something for somebody” - added Zelensky

— Daniel Szeligowski (@dszeligowski) May 13, 2022

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 6:08:43am

re: #142 Shropshire Slasher

It changed the lives of millions of men in my generation irrevocably. It is not trivial, and it’s still there for WWIV.

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 6:09:31am

re: #124 Decatur Deb

Is there a hidden joke in the photo? He looks like Selective Service cannonfodder to me.

oops
wrong comment

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 6:11:25am

re: #128 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

The draft?

Roe passed in ‘73
all volunteer army since ‘73

coincidence? ;-)

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 6:14:31am

re: #146 Dangerman

Roe passed in ‘73
all volunteer army since ‘73

coincidence? ;-)

Dunno. Probably some kind of convergence of technology, sociology, and the economy’s hunger for more bodies competing in the workplace.

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 6:17:38am

re: #7 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Binance may not have their 500 mil to invest anymore.
Binance is backing Elon Musk’s Twitter bid, boosting crypto believers’ vision of a ‘decentralized’ web CNBC

A consortium of wealthy vipers out to devour anything in their paths.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 6:18:55am

re: #144 Decatur Deb

It changed the lives of millions of men in my generation irrevocably. It is not trivial, and it’s still there for WWIV.

And still not the same thing.

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 6:20:05am

re: #149 Belafon

And still not the same thing.

Is the sign, and the statement it attributes to the Vice President, correct?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 6:21:10am

re: #125 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Should be “LOTR had a Byzantine-like system of beacons…” Although actually the “fire beacons on high places” idea goes back at least to ancient Greece (see the prologue of Aeschylos’s Agamemnon), and was turned into an alphabetic messaging system by the third century b.c.

And the French and British had semaphore tower systems which could (under favorable weather conditions) send a message from Portsmouth to London or Marseilles to Paris of miles in a matter of hours.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 6:22:23am

re: #131 Dr. Matt

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Depends on the definition of “committed”.

Rule of Acquisition No. 283: “Never let them know when you are planning to weasel out of a deal.”

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dat_said May 13, 2022 • 6:23:05am

UPDATE: I’ve spoken with members of the @MNGOP State Central Committee about the vote. This was all about removing @mnlogcabin. There was a concern expressed about just removing the Minnesota Log Cabin Republicans - so in an attempt to hide the true target, they decided to…

— Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) May 12, 2022

They likely had concerns about a majority of the other affiliates too:

Republican Seniors of MN; MN Young Republicans; MN College Repuplicans; Asian American Republicans of MN; MN Federation of Republican Women; American Indian Republican Affiliate; MN Organization of Republican Veterans; African Republicans of MN; Republican Labor Alliance

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 6:23:28am

re: #137 Belafon

There are probably three people that think that asking someone to register for a non-existent draft is in any way comparable to telling a woman she can’t have an abortion, that that miscarriage is her fault, that she asked for it when she got raped, or God has plans for her.

“I qualify for an abortion because of my bone spurs”

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Eventual Carrion May 13, 2022 • 6:27:49am

re: #88 Dopamine Fish

Closing out the week on a high note.

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3/6 for me too

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 6:30:19am

re: #145 Dangerman

oops
wrong comment

i thought y’all were referring to DeJoy’s picture…

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 6:35:18am

“Donald Trump has found a new way to milk his ex-presidency — and test another — hitting the lucrative motivational speaking circuit with more fervor than any other active U.S. politician in history,” Axios reports.
“It’s a way to build support for a possible 2024 presidential bid while potentially pocketing large speaking fees as many of his iconic properties are struggling.”

“Trump stands to benefit on both ends. He headlines a rally-type event with a third party footing the bill, and stands to gets a hefty payout for his time.”

those are the only 2 reasons a ‘billionaire’ does this

- skirting the rules / ‘unofficially’ running for prez
- he needs the money - ie not really a billionaire

ego, sure
but he can get that fed from all the fawning at mar-a-grifto

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 13, 2022 • 6:36:04am

re: #67 ckkatz

There is something similar at Dover Castle: the faro

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 6:36:46am

re: #60 William Lewis

I really wanted to get his feedback on the Nebraska races.

It would be nice if Joe Bacon and Happy Warrior returned.

Teddy’s Person is still missing; like others, I remain worried about her absence.

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 6:37:03am

re: #157 Dangerman

those are the only 2 reasons a ‘billionaire’ does this

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 6:37:40am

re: #156 Dangerman

i thought y’all were referring to DeJoy’s picture…

The only place I want to see DeJoy’s picture is on a post office wall…and not the way it’s displayed there now.

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 6:38:13am

re: #160 Dangerman

i would definitely pay big bucks to hear this guy’s motivational speech

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Barefoot Grin May 13, 2022 • 6:40:34am

re: #162 Dangerman

i would definitely pay big bucks to hear this guy’s motivational speech

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Christian Nationalists: ordained by God.

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Eventual Carrion May 13, 2022 • 6:50:44am

re: #127 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Ours aren’t quite that far along, but they will be flowering within a few days.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 6:53:22am

I didn’t know we’d given our black hole a name:

Scientists unveil image of ‘gentle giant’ black hole at Milky Way’s center. The black hole, called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, is the second one ever to be imaged https://t.co/acH0eKN7Mb pic.twitter.com/8hXLANacDB

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 13, 2022

I wonder what it calls itself.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 6:55:25am

Louisiana lawmakers withdraw bill declaring abortion homicide https://t.co/3EtduiWfho pic.twitter.com/qmQArrXT9i

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 13, 2022

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 6:55:56am

re: #166 Belafon

Don’t worry. They’ll figure out another way to do it.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 6:56:37am

According to a new Monmouth Poll, abortion (25%) is now tied with the economy (26%) as the most important issue in the midterms. https://t.co/YqDrRCnCzB

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 12, 2022

No, there are not 3 pro-choice Republicans. There are only 49 pro-choice Democrats. When are these guys going to get this isn’t taxes, this is real shit, this is the big one.

— The Substack of Boba Fett (@agraybee) May 12, 2022

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 6:56:41am

re: #165 Belafon

I didn’t know we’d given our black hole a name:

I wonder what it calls itself.

Audrey

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 6:57:52am

Just to drive the same point home but with data.

*taps data* pic.twitter.com/CGyZFiVQKA

— Tweety (@purrypurrydog) May 12, 2022

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 6:59:08am

If your eyes glaze over every time someone tries to explain the Luna/Terra stablecoin collapse, here’s a very concise summary.https://t.co/NMCa00fUYC

From “The Cryptocurrency Crash Is Replaying 2008 as Absurdly as Possible” by @davidgerard

h/t @yvessmith pic.twitter.com/K1sgpwj6zn

— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) May 13, 2022

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 6:59:26am

UPDATE: Got a call from the Press Secretary for the Florida Department of Education, Cassandra Palelis, who told me this tweet was “very misleading.”

We had a nice chat.

🧵 https://t.co/dcXDMlEnPj

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 12, 2022

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KingKenrod May 13, 2022 • 6:59:52am

RWNJ slapfight incoming

If you want to see how abusively @TuckerCarlson and his @FoxNews team deal with people, read this thread. It’s an exchange between me and Tucker’s executive producer @justinbwells

— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 13, 2022

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HRH Stanley Sea May 13, 2022 • 7:06:14am

A field of gold.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 7:06:40am

re: #172 Dopamine Fish

What’s the punchline for those of us who can’t twitter at work?

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Broad With Sass May 13, 2022 • 7:08:37am

re: #175 Belafon

No punch line..just more and more of the state officials that we pay for jumping on Judd and screaming no, not true

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 7:11:45am

re: #175 Belafon

What’s the punchline for those of us who can’t twitter at work?

TL;DR: Judd posted a Tweet that said Florida rejected textbooks for containing CRT, but went through the reviews, and all of them explicitly said “no CRT”. DeathSantis’s spokesbimbo called him and said, retract your tweet, we rejected these textbooks as “containing CRT” if they marked them 4/5 for compliance with FL guidelines instead of 5/5, even if they noted no CRT. Judd pressed for examples, FL Department of Education started tweeting nasty tweets at him. Still no concrete evidence of CRT in textbooks, nothing but nasty name-calling and threats from the FL Department of Education and the FL Press Secretary.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire May 13, 2022 • 7:17:21am

Good morning Lizards. In expensive, but not lethal FAFO news.

FAA revokes certificates of pilots involved in Red Bull plane-swapping stunt

ELOY, Ariz. — The two pilots involved in a Red Bull plane-swapping stunt last month in Arizona had their certificates revoked by the Federal Aviation Administration this week.

In a May 10 emergency order, the FAA cites the two pilots, Luke Aikins and Andrew Farrington, and describes their actions as “careless and reckless.”

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 7:19:29am

re: #178 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

The FAA does not fuck around. When you’re in the air, hundreds of lives are at stake, regardless of whether your plan is well thought-out or not. If you think I’m exaggerating, consider: What if these two idiots miscalculated, and their planes crashed into a moderately populated neighborhood, or an industrial facility?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 7:20:43am

re: #179 Dopamine Fish

The FAA does not fuck around. When you’re in the air, hundreds of lives are at stake, regardless of whether your plan is well thought-out or not. If you think I’m exaggerating, consider: What if these two idiots miscalculated, and their planes crashed into a moderately populated neighborhood, or an industrial facility?

Or crash into an unpopulated area and start a wildfire…

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 7:21:28am

Our green heron is back

Just cooling its feet

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 7:23:31am

Wordle..

Back to my usual 4…

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Teukka May 13, 2022 • 7:26:24am

Shot and Chaser:

In case you missed it, @RandPaul is on Putin’s side.

We ‘e a flawed country. We now have a very flawed democracy because we allowed these corrupt, Pro-Putin officials to infiltrate and attempt to hi-jack our country. They welcome Putin’s assistance. https://t.co/fNqEHKstpa

— Historic Witness to de-Ukrainization 😢💔🇺🇦 (@DramaticSkye) May 13, 2022

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Crush White Nationalism May 13, 2022 • 7:30:11am

Senate today by unanimous consent confirmed Dan Tangherlini (D) and Derek Kan (R), President Biden’s two nominees to serve on the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, which now has a majority of the Senate-confirmed Biden appointees on the USPS board. https://t.co/yDMidpksLF

— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) May 12, 2022

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 7:32:09am

re: #184 Punish Domestic Terrorists

What do we know about Mr. Kan?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire May 13, 2022 • 7:32:17am

re: #179 Dopamine Fish

The FAA does not fuck around. When you’re in the air, hundreds of lives are at stake, regardless of whether your plan is well thought-out or not. If you think I’m exaggerating, consider: What if these two idiots miscalculated, and their planes crashed into a moderately populated neighborhood, or an industrial facility?

What gets me is they applied for an exemption to the rules and the FAA told them no and those two idjits and Red Bull still went ahead a did it.

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Eventual Carrion May 13, 2022 • 7:32:51am

re: #181 Dangerman

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Just cooling its feet

Our blue heron has been showing up at its favorite fishing area in the river lately now that the river is back down after all the rain. Have seen the osprey fly over a few times but it hasn’t perched on its usual perch in the sycamore tree by the river that I have seen this year. Haven’t seen the eagle that usually fishes along my sitting spot along the river, but I have seen a few perched in trees at the reservoir south of here.

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 7:35:36am

The Lancet is fuming. a blistering editorial on the leaked Supreme Court draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade:

“If the U.S. Supreme Court confirms its draft decision, women will die. The Justices who vote to strike down Roe will not succeed in ending abortion, they will only succeed in ending safe abortion. Alito and his supporters will have women’s blood on their hands.”

“What is so shocking, inhuman, and irrational about this draft opinion is that the Court is basing its decision on an 18th-century document ignorant of 21st-century realities for women. The route forward is unclear and perilous. This Court’s argument suggests possible future attacks on a raft of other civil rights, from marriage equality to contraception

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The Pie Overlord! May 13, 2022 • 7:36:09am

re: #169 Decatur Deb

Audrey

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Mean Green Mother From Outer Space

Youtube Video

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Teukka May 13, 2022 • 7:37:27am

Well, that’s gonna leave a mark…

Iframe

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 7:41:36am

re: #190 Teukka

Well, that’s gonna leave a mark…

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Does that mean gay wimmin is ok?

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 7:43:05am

re: #191 Dangerman

Does that mean gay wimmin is ok?

The Bible isn’t against it.

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 7:45:19am

re: #192 Belafon

The Bible isn’t against it.

The range of acceptable F/F affection in expression and PDA was usually a lot broader historically.

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mmmirele May 13, 2022 • 7:48:10am

I’m not going to share the Tweets here, but you know you’ve absolutely hit the jackpot on addresses of Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito when you look those same addresses up in Google Maps and the houses are blurred out. How the hell did these guys get so privileged? /signed picketed by a space alien cult.

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 7:50:01am

BREAKING: Texas Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN a statewide injunction barring child abuse investigations for families that provide gender-affirming care, but AFFIRMS the injunction as it pertains only to the one family that sued.

— Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) May 13, 2022

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 7:50:52am

re: #194 mmmirele

I’m not going to share the Tweets here, but you know you’ve absolutely hit the jackpot on addresses of Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito when you look those same addresses up in Google Maps and the houses are blurred out. How the hell did these guys get so privileged? /signed picketed by a space alien cult.

In the best of times their mission is going to be controversial, and controversy=targeted these days.

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 7:53:05am

re: #195 Dopamine Fish

From this thread: Apparently, the conservatives want to be allowed to take away kids before you can sue them for harm. What the actual fuck, Texas.

Friday’s ruling was limited to enforcing the injunction. The merits of the case — whether state-ordered child abuse investigations into transgender care violate the rights of families — remains before the Austin-based 3rd Court of Appeals.

— Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) May 13, 2022

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 7:55:14am

re: #197 Dopamine Fish

From this thread: Apparently, the conservatives want to be allowed to take away kids before you can sue them for harm. What the actual fuck, Texas.

Brought to you by the Party of Parental Rights.

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dat_said May 13, 2022 • 7:56:42am

re: #194 mmmirele

I’m not going to share the Tweets here, but you know you’ve absolutely hit the jackpot on addresses of Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito when you look those same addresses up in Google Maps and the houses are blurred out. How the hell did these guys get so privileged? /signed picketed by a space alien cult.

Do you mean blurring on street view? All you have to do is request that (I have): support.google.com

Not sure if you can request a satellite view blue though.

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 13, 2022 • 7:57:00am

Press Secretary Jen Psaki sat down for a final Q&A to answer your questions about inflation, infant formula, and more. pic.twitter.com/VaKclFVgNn

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 13, 2022

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The Pie Overlord! May 13, 2022 • 7:58:22am

Wordle 328 3/6

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Phoodle #5 4/6

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Crush White Nationalism May 13, 2022 • 7:59:17am

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steve_davis May 13, 2022 • 8:00:02am

jumped ahead to watch the end of the Sopranos. Excellent ending. No, Tony is not killed. Absolutely nothing in that scene suggests that.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 8:00:24am

re: #193 Decatur Deb

The range of acceptable F/F affection in expression and PDA was usually a lot broader historically.

And still is. I saw two teenage girls with their arms hooked at the outdoor concert I worked last night, and I doubt people thought much of it. Had to guys been doing it, I’m pretty sure it would have gotten plenty of reactions.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 8:03:12am

re: #195 Dopamine Fish

If I’m reading this correctly, and IANAL, the court is basically saying that each family that gets investigated will have to file its own case to get an injunction, right?

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 8:04:38am

re: #203 steve_davis

jumped ahead to watch the end of the Sopranos. Excellent ending. No, Tony is not killed. Absolutely nothing in that scene suggests that.

I really expected the escaped Russian from the Pine Barrens to show up.

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 13, 2022 • 8:05:14am

They found the cause of SIDS
THEY FOUND THE CAUSE OF SIDS

Excuse me while I cry for all the parents, including lead researcher Dr Carmel Harrington, who lived with guilt. And cry happy tears for parents in the future who will have access to screening and prevention. 😭 pic.twitter.com/LCp4A63HXd

— Debbie Mia (@TheDebbieMia) May 12, 2022

Direct link to the study:https://t.co/OR4dbiaCyL

— Debbie Mia (@TheDebbieMia) May 13, 2022

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 8:05:50am

re: #205 Belafon

If I’m reading this correctly, and IANAL, the court is basically saying that each family that gets investigated will have to file its own case to get an injunction, right?

Basically, yes, and that’s the less bad part. The dissent said that the injunction should have been entirely blocked, and that an injunction should only be issued once CPS has tried to remove kids, or taken other actions based on the investigation.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 8:11:33am

re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth

YAY!!

Do we produce more of this on our own the older we get?

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 8:12:02am

re: #204 Belafon

And still is. I saw two teenage girls with their arms hooked at the outdoor concert I worked last night, and I doubt people thought much of it. Had to guys been doing it, I’m pretty sure it would have gotten plenty of reactions.

It used to freak our GIs to see Korean guys holding hands in Seoul. Didn’t mean a thing.

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Mattand May 13, 2022 • 8:14:10am

re: #203 steve_davis

jumped ahead to watch the end of the Sopranos. Excellent ending. No, Tony is not killed. Absolutely nothing in that scene suggests that.

Click to Reveal

think David Chase finally cracked and copped to the fact that the ending does indeed signal Tony’s murder. The whole idea of looking at him for a few seconds and then cutting to a sudden, inexplicable black screen represents how swiftly and suddenly death comes for guys like him.

I don’t have time to look for it now, but IIRC, he was giving an interview for The Many Saints of Newark and kinda tripped up after years of refusing to answer the question.

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HRH Stanley Sea May 13, 2022 • 8:15:33am

re: #201 The Pie Overlord!

Phoodle #5 3/6

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phoodle.net

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 8:21:57am

re: #211 Mattand

SPOILER, because I can’t figure out the code…

I think David Chase finally cracked and copped to the fact that the ending does indeed signal Tony’s murder. The whole idea of looking at him for a few seconds and then cutting to a sudden, inexplicable black screen represents how swiftly and suddenly death comes for guys like him.

I don’t have time to look for it now, but IIRC, he was giving an interview for The Many Saints of Newark and kinda tripped up after years of refusing to answer the question.

Choose either spoiler or hide.

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mmmirele May 13, 2022 • 8:22:38am

re: #199 dat_said

Do you mean blurring on street view? All you have to do is request that (I have): support.google.com

Not sure if you can request a satellite view blue though.

I was being a tease…I live in a townhome community so getting a blurred Street View is serious overkill. But good to know.

Speaking of my evil too big to fail employer:

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Barefoot Grin May 13, 2022 • 8:22:38am

re: #210 Decatur Deb

It used to freak our GIs to see Korean guys holding hands in Seoul. Didn’t mean a thing.

You never know. Up to at least the year 2000 I had Korean grad school friends who insisted that there were no Korean gay people. Sorry, that was poorly expressed: not a single Korean I knew believed that there were gay Koreans.

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Mattand May 13, 2022 • 8:26:41am

re: #213 Belafon

Choose either spoiler or hide.

Thanks. I had a brain fart trying to parse the directions.

Do the carets work or do you have to use brackets?

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 8:30:27am

re: #216 Mattand

Thanks. I had a brain fart trying to parse the directions.

Do the carets work or do you have to use brackets?

Square brackets.

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 8:30:54am

re: #216 Mattand

Thanks. I had a brain fart trying to parse the directions.

Do the carets work or do you have to use brackets?

The brackets. It’s special LGF markup.

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 8:33:29am

re: #211 Mattand

SPOILER, because I can’t figure out the code…

[Embedded content]

I never watched the show and have never had any interest in it but do recall reading the following years ago.

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 8:35:30am

re: #213 Belafon

It’s best for you to hide it too…

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danarchy May 13, 2022 • 8:46:31am

re: #220 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s best for you to hide it too…

I think there is or should be a statute of limitations on spoilers. I mean that episode happened 15 years ago

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sagehen May 13, 2022 • 8:51:16am

re: #203 steve_davis

jumped ahead to watch the end of the Sopranos. Excellent ending. No, Tony is not killed. Absolutely nothing in that scene suggests that.

According to David Chase, the ending is that Tony is killed in this way. Maybe not today, maybe not this time, but sooner or later (probably sooner).

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 8:53:06am

re: #221 danarchy

I think there is or should be a statute of limitations on spoilers. I mean that episode happened 15 years ago

You are right. I still recall having a movie (or was it a play?) ruined over 20 years ago because critics assumed the audience had already seen it. I had religiously avoided reading anything about the storyline but, in an article about a totally different topic, the writer revealed the surprise during the last scene.

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Shropshire Slasher May 13, 2022 • 8:54:04am

Puff piece on Madison Cawthorn in Politico today. I love foreshadowing in a story!

“I miss my life,” he said. “I miss being able to defend myself … being able to dress myself … being able to use the bathroom without someone helping me … I miss not peeing the bed because I have no control over my penis … not having to have pills keep me alive … being able to compete … being checked out by girls … I miss my pride as a man … the pride my father swelled with when he spoke my name … I miss,” he said, “not having to convince myself every day not to pull the trigger and end it all.”

Four and a half years after Cawthorn contemplated suicide, he was running for Congress. Turning a stirring story of conquering adversity into a shocking political victory, he achieved his most ambitious career goal at a staggeringly early age. And within weeks if not days of being sworn in — at 25 years old one of the youngest members in the history of the House — he had put himself on a short list of the chamber’s most known figures. Now, though, heading into his first reelection, Cawthorn is mired in controversy, facing the very real possibility that the end of his electoral career might come as quickly as it began. Emboldened by Cawthorn’s miscues, misdeeds and array of indiscretions, seven Republican challengers have lined up to try to take him out in Tuesday’s primary, party leaders have abandoned him, and other MAGA firebrands are keeping their distance what with the escalating storm of even just the past few months.

I think I know the end of this pill popper’s story, I rather enjoy the reports of his hijinks, shenanigans and tomfoolery.

politico.com

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mmmirele May 13, 2022 • 8:54:10am

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

Heh, sort of like the production of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors - a non-stop, hedonistic, booze and cocaine-fueled party in the recording studio that just happened to produce one of their finest albums (arguably, their definitive album) and one of the greatest albums of the 1970s.

I got in *so much trouble* for using some of the grocery money my parents left behind when they went out of town for a few days on buying “Rumours.” It was a great album and worth the yelling.

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 13, 2022 • 8:57:50am

BREAKING GOOD NEWS ALERT:

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is partnering with Penguin Random House to give free books to refugee children.

The program will provide 200 refugee children in London with a free book every month until they turn five. pic.twitter.com/E6IslTYP6N

— Goodable (@Goodable) May 12, 2022

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Teukka May 13, 2022 • 9:00:31am

Russia to cut electricity to Finland from Saturday, supplier says, as tensions rise over Helsinki’s NATO bid https://t.co/gzqtxfgbEA via @AFP #Russia pic.twitter.com/SahV0ayldA

— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) May 13, 2022

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire May 13, 2022 • 9:01:56am

Damn. Him and Burt (Michael Gross) made the Tremors franchise what it was.

#BREAKING: ‘Tremors’ actor Fred Ward has died at the age of 79. #RIP https://t.co/5KhgdfOche

— TMZ (@TMZ) May 13, 2022

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Teukka May 13, 2022 • 9:05:01am

re: #227 Teukka

“There is no threat to the adequacy of electricity in #Finland,” the grid said, adding that power from #Russia accounted for some 10% of Finland’s total power consumptionhttps://t.co/yt5Tu3eCGf

— marqs (@MarQs__) May 13, 2022

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 13, 2022 • 9:06:30am

re: #227 Teukka

They really know how to show people what’s in their interest, don’t they.

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Captain Ron May 13, 2022 • 9:06:39am

Missouri Bans Pharmacists From Criticizing Horse Paste - https://t.co/dMi0SFzyE0 pic.twitter.com/SXqaO9QGyj

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) May 13, 2022

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 9:08:32am

Friday

Friday https://t.co/zKRQw6qA0g

— Sean (@sean_s_mc) May 13, 2022

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mmmirele May 13, 2022 • 9:15:53am

re: #231 Captain Ron

I’m thinking there’s a freedom of speech issue here with “not criticizing horse paste.” I don’t think the government can tell pharmacists they can’t do this. Do we know if the law indemnifies pharmacists from lawsuits if they’re not permitted to criticize horse paste, a customer buys it and then is adversely affected?

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jaunte May 13, 2022 • 9:17:19am

I’ve said before, Texas is a rogue state that is no longer in compliance with the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/2a32Fu1TN8

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) May 13, 2022

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jaunte May 13, 2022 • 9:18:21am

Forcing all of the families to sue if they want relief.

— MrMark 🇺🇦 🌻 (@MMark98335) May 13, 2022

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jaunte May 13, 2022 • 9:20:12am

It’s a jungle out there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 13, 2022 • 9:20:50am

Join us in just over an hour for a conversation with @MargaretAtwood and @Garossino about Roe v. Wade and how the Handmaid’s Tale is turning into reality. https://t.co/47OEp7H5Dz

— Canada’s National Observer (@NatObserver) May 13, 2022

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 9:25:56am

re: #233 mmmirele

I’m thinking there’s a freedom of speech issue here with “not criticizing horse paste.” I don’t think the government can tell pharmacists they can’t do this. Do we know if the law indemnifies pharmacists from lawsuits if they’re not permitted to criticize horse paste, a customer buys it and then is adversely affected?

That never happens in Missouri!!!

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Teukka May 13, 2022 • 9:28:33am

⚠️ Unconfirmed ⚠️ Sounds insane, but given other behavior sadly plausible.

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 9:31:52am

re: #235 jaunte

I see a class-action suit coming.

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jaunte May 13, 2022 • 9:32:48am

The snake’s ability to cruise through the tall grass while holding its prey up in the clear was pretty impressive.

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Teukka May 13, 2022 • 9:32:56am

Okay, DRINKS DOWN before unspoilering….

Click to Reveal

I don’t think you’ll ever see a bigger weirdness:
Russian Orthodox Church☦️ leaders blessing a rocket called Satan. pic.twitter.com/KcyP49qQ2Z

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (English) (@mbk_center) May 13, 2022

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 9:33:50am

re: #239 Teukka

Narrator: Yes, they are indeed morons.

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Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 9:34:45am

re: #225 mmmirele

I got in *so much trouble* for using some of the grocery money my parents left behind when they went out of town for a few days on buying “Rumours.” It was a great album and worth the yelling.

I’m not a huge fan of Fleetwood Mac, but nonetheless I can sit down, listen to that album, and recognize that’s a work of peak creative genius. There’s a good reason it’s widely considered one of the greatest albums of all time.

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Captain Ron May 13, 2022 • 9:37:58am

Evaluating the latest press secretary on the eve of her departure from the White House.
… as close to normal as we’ve been in the last five years.https://t.co/cUgKX9FnFf

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 12, 2022

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 9:38:18am

re: #242 Teukka

Okay, DRINKS DOWN before unspoilering….

Note that the term “Satan” is one given by the west.

But blessing weapons of mass destruction has a charm of its own.

Although I am sure there have been US Chaplains who have done the same (or at least blessed the people in charge of launching them).

“And the numbers of thy counting down shall be five, four, three, two, one…”

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 9:38:46am

re: #233 mmmirele

I’m thinking there’s a freedom of speech issue here with “not criticizing horse paste.” I don’t think the government can tell pharmacists they can’t do this. Do we know if the law indemnifies pharmacists from lawsuits if they’re not permitted to criticize horse paste, a customer buys it and then is adversely affected?

States have passed similar legislation on other issues; don’t know how they fared but often opponents don’t have the resources to mount a suit. For example, there are food disparagement laws that prevent people from criticizing beef or various other products.

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Teukka May 13, 2022 • 9:40:00am

NEW: Tweets are surfacing from top Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette where she says “banning Muslims is NOT unconstitutional” and “Please PRAY for my babies and me. We are about to board the plane and there’s a homosexual female.”

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 13, 2022

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 9:40:28am

re: #244 Dr Lizardo

I’m not a huge fan of Fleetwood Mac, but nonetheless I can sit down, listen to that album, and recognize that’s a work of peak creative genius. There’s a good reason it’s widely considered one of the greatest albums of all time.

It was just one of those albums you could not escape if you lived in a college dormitory in the late 70’s…along with Hotel California, Leftoverture, Peter Frampton Live, Boston, Animals, Steve Miller Band, Wings Over America, Dreamboat Annie, etc…

250

Teukka May 13, 2022 • 9:41:22am

The Russian occupiers have begun interrogating children in filtration camps during the evacuation from Mariupol, said Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the mayor. #StopRussia

— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) May 13, 2022

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 9:41:22am

re: #248 Teukka

NEW: Tweets are surfacing from top Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette where she says “banning Muslims is NOT unconstitutional” and “Please PRAY for my babies and me. We are about to board the plane and there’s a homosexual female.”

“And she’s the Pilot in Command.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 9:42:26am

re: #248 Teukka

NEW: Tweets are surfacing from top Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette where she says “banning Muslims is NOT unconstitutional” and “Please PRAY for my babies and me. We are about to board the plane and there’s a homosexual female.”

We know that both conditions are transmissible and that masks don’t help.

253

Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 9:43:40am

So I suppose the “American babies first!” folks would say that if some Americans are hungry, we should stop feeding people in prison?

— FreshMouthHat (@Popehat) May 13, 2022

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 9:45:03am

re: #253 Dopamine Fish

Uhhh. I could find three people like that on my street.

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Citizen K May 13, 2022 • 9:45:19am

re: #197 Dopamine Fish

Between this and the Social Media Law, Texas is trying to push Florida out of the ‘largest GOP mini-dictatorship’ role, especially with how much their authoritarianism bleeds into the US at large.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 13, 2022 • 9:46:33am

re: #64 Captain Ron

A few weeks ago we had to put down our dog for cancer. We’re starting to look for a new rescue dog, and noticing a lot of dogs that are under two years old. I suspect a lot of those dogs were purchased during the lock-downs. Lots of GSDs and Huskys.

Neither dogs great for the uninitiated.

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 9:46:49am

re: #254 Decatur Deb

Uhhh. I could find three people like that on my street.

The replies indicate that not only is the answer NO SHIT, SHERLOQUE, but in fact, this is a thing that some of our more evil (read: Republican) sheriffs have actually done.

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Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 9:47:49am

re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It was just one of those albums you could not escape if you lived in a college dormitory in the late 70’s…along with Hotel California, Leftoverture, Peter Frampton Live, Boston, Animals, Steve Miller Band, Wings Over America, Dreamboat Annie, etc…

At one time or another, I’ve had all those albums in my LP collection. Some of the great classics of the 70’s. Had a few from Styx as well; The Grand Illusion, Cornerstone, Pieces of Eight (I still have Paradise Theater, Cornerstone and Kilroy Was Here). Also, still have the eponymous debut album from Van Halen - another legendary 70’s recording.

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Amory Blaine May 13, 2022 • 9:49:27am

re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Reading this makes me want to roll a Doobie on a Houses of the Holy album cover.

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 9:49:37am

re: #255 Citizen K

Between this and the Social Media Law, Texas is trying to push Florida out of the ‘largest GOP mini-dictatorship’ role, especially with how much their authoritarianism bleeds into the US at large.

Texas has the advantage there, in that I believe it is harder for Florida to get away with judge-shopping, whereas Texas has a special district with a Trump-humper judge who will sign literally anything accused felon Ken Paxton puts in front of him, which then goes to the utterly corrupt Calvinball-playing Fifth Circus Court of Appeals. Which means Texas gets a free pass to do whatever the fuck they want, and when people sue, it gets slow-walked in front of the Supreme Court while Texas burns.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 13, 2022 • 9:50:53am

re: #165 Belafon

I didn’t know we’d given our black hole a name:

I wonder what it calls itself.

Scratch Fury: Destroyer of Worlds.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 9:52:05am

re: #258 Dr Lizardo

At one time or another, I’ve had all those albums in my LP collection. Some of the great classics of the 70’s. Had a few from Styx as well; The Grand Illusion, Cornerstone, Pieces of Eight (I still have Paradise Theater, Cornerstone and Kilroy Was Here). Also, still have the eponymous debut album from Van Halen - another legendary 70’s recording.

I didn’t need to, you could walk up and down the halls of McNutt dormitory in Bloomington, Indiana at any time of day or night and hear them coming from behind a towel-stuffed doorway…

263

Amory Blaine May 13, 2022 • 9:52:10am

Hydrogen is our god.

264

Crush White Nationalism May 13, 2022 • 9:52:41am

The late Norm Macdonald has a final gift to deliver to the world as the beloved comedian taped a secret one-hour stand-up comedy special before his passing last September.
Macdonald was working on new material for a Netflix special while undergoing treatment for acute leukemia, a disease he quietly lived with for nine years. In case “things went south,” the SNL alum wanted to get something on tape, so he shot an entire hour’s worth of material in his living room in a single take.

“His test results were not good, so during the heart of COVID-19 pandemic and literally the night before going in for a procedure, he wanted to get this on tape just in case — as he put it — things went south,” said Macdonald’s longtime producing partner Lori Jo Hoekstra (via The Hollywood Reporter). “It was his intention to have a special to share if something happened.”

Norm Macdonald Filmed Secret Netflix Stand-Up Special Shortly Before Death (TV Insider)

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 13, 2022 • 9:53:20am

re: #177 Dopamine Fish

TL;DR: Judd posted a Tweet that said Florida rejected textbooks for containing CRT, but went through the reviews, and all of them explicitly said “no CRT”. DeathSantis’s spokesbimbo called him and said, retract your tweet, we rejected these textbooks as “containing CRT” if they marked them 4/5 for compliance with FL guidelines instead of 5/5, even if they noted no CRT. Judd pressed for examples, FL Department of Education started tweeting nasty tweets at him. Still no concrete evidence of CRT in textbooks, nothing but nasty name-calling and threats from the FL Department of Education and the FL Press Secretary.

CRT claims were the smoke screen for awarding all the school book contracts to a buddy of DeSantis and pals. It’s a grift being paid for by the government of Florida.

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Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 9:56:16am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I always try to listen to new stuff - some of it is pretty good. I discovered Dance With The Dead not long ago, and they’re solid.

Youtube Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 9:59:02am

re: #259 Amory Blaine

Reading this makes me want to roll a Doobie on a Houses of the Holy album cover.

ah yes, you need a fold-out album cover so you can roll the seeds down the middle…I was trying to explain that to my (adult) daughter the other day, who is into classic vinyl.

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 10:00:22am

re: #248 Teukka

Gotta hope she wins the primary…All three GOP candidates are trash…she has the best chance of losing to Fetterman.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 13, 2022 • 10:00:58am

re: #268 darthstar

Gotta hope she wins the primary…All ~~three~~ GOP candidates are trash…she has the best chance of losing to Fetterman.

Edited for accuracy. ;)

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 10:01:08am

Musk is proceeding with this acquisition with all the grace and competence of a Russian river crossing.

— Sean (@sean_s_mc) May 13, 2022

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 10:01:54am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

ah yes, you need a fold-out album cover so you can roll the seeds down the middle…I was trying to explain that to my (adult) daughter the other day, who is into classic vinyl.

That’s some fogy shit, like explaining how to format a 3.5 disk.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 13, 2022 • 10:02:25am

I can’t really think of a downside to this. https://t.co/jHKkrcJ3rs

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 13, 2022

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Crush White Nationalism May 13, 2022 • 10:04:07am

Oh, and happy birthday dad.

Have a banana! pic.twitter.com/TRYrtjUQr1

— Kelly Carlin (@kelly_carlin) May 12, 2022

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 10:04:25am

re: #271 Decatur Deb

That’s some fogy shit, like explaining how to format a 3.5 disk.

or fix a cassette tape that has come unraveled…

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 10:05:17am

re: #270 darthstar

“Musk options:
Pay $1bn fee & walk away or pay it & make a lower bid?

Either way, morale at the company had been rocked & Dorsey has painted Musk as their savior…now what

“

Sounds like Dorsey wanted this to be a pure libertarian enterprise, but was shackled by attorneys, which led to certain content being banned. If Twitter descends further into the RW cesspool it has always been, it will hopefully suffer the same fate as 8 chan, and vanish from polite company and serious conversation.

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Crush White Nationalism May 13, 2022 • 10:05:33am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

or fix a cassette tape that has come unraveled…

I really have no use at all for a pencil these days.

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Dopamine Fish May 13, 2022 • 10:07:04am

re: #265 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

CRT claims were the smoke screen for awarding all the school book contracts to a buddy of DeSantis and pals. It’s a grift being paid for by the government of Florida.

We all know that, but now that Judd is leaning into it and is exposing them for the frauds they are, they haz a mad.

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 10:07:33am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

or fix a cassette tape that has come unraveled…

I sent graduation pictures to Daughter1 last night—17 emails w/ .jpg attachment.

Dau1: “Drop them on the cloud.”

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Eclectic Cyborg May 13, 2022 • 10:08:29am

hello, it has been 8 months since shaun king launched a “private clothing line” that sold $165 hoodies, there hasn’t been an update since October, the entire instagram has been deleted and the last existing comments were people saying they still hadnt gotten their orders

— ashley ray (@theeashleyray) May 12, 2022

Who could have guessed something that Shaun King was involved with was a con?

////

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 10:08:54am

re: #276 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I really have no use at all for a pencil these days.

Now a Russian guy showed me how to turn a papirosy cigarette into a joint using two pencils. Now I feel like assembling one of those…

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Belafon May 13, 2022 • 10:10:16am

re: #275 Hecuba’s daughter

“

Sounds like Dorsey wanted this to be a pure libertarian enterprise, but was shackled by attorneys, which led to certain content being banned. If Twitter descends further into the RW cesspool it has always been, it will hopefully suffer the same fate as 8 chan, and vanish from polite company and serious conversation.

Only if someone gets to work on a scalable replacement.

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Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 10:14:12am

re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I tried one of those once. Took one drag off it and thought to myself, “Welp, that’s instant lung cancer.”

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retired cynic May 13, 2022 • 10:17:39am

NASA’s Mars helicopter was supposed to fly five times. It’s flown 28.
The little helicopter that could has exceeded all expectations. But now, as the Martian winter sets in, its future is uncertain.
wapo.st (gift link)

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mmmirele May 13, 2022 • 10:22:15am

re: #247 Hecuba’s daughter

States have passed similar legislation on other issues; don’t know how they fared but often opponents don’t have the resources to mount a suit. For example, there are food disparagement laws that prevent people from criticizing beef or various other products.

I think this is different, because pharmacy is a profession you have to be licensed in and information about medication interactions or the absolute failure of medications to work is part of the job of being a pharmacist. I can’t see a pharmacist at *scratches head* Sinks Pharmacy in Iberia, MO, filing a lawsuit, but I could see CVS and Walgreens doing so for their pharmacists. It’s just a lawsuit waiting to happen if some irate relative decides ivermectin killed his pappy and gets a hungry lawyer to go for it. (And there are a lot of hungry lawyers out there.)

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darthstar May 13, 2022 • 10:22:58am

re: #281 Belafon

Only if someone gets to work on a scalable replacement.

Paging Charles…though you may have to go to port 443.

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 13, 2022 • 10:23:39am

Awaiting last briefing by ⁦@jrpsaki⁩ pic.twitter.com/GBklkpv4Af

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 13, 2022

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 13, 2022 • 10:24:26am

The beginning of ⁦@jrpsaki⁩ last press briefing pic.twitter.com/AuDoJKkbLE

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 13, 2022

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Eclectic Cyborg May 13, 2022 • 10:25:24am

re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth

I wonder if she’ll turn Steve Doocy into a fine paste one last time.

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steve_davis May 13, 2022 • 10:25:43am

re: #244 Dr Lizardo

I’m not a huge fan of Fleetwood Mac, but nonetheless I can sit down, listen to that album, and recognize that’s a work of peak creative genius. There’s a good reason it’s widely considered one of the greatest albums of all time.

also a work of peak cocaine intoxication. there were sinuses that literally had to be rebuilt after that album.

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jaunte May 13, 2022 • 10:26:02am

re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg

He is what he ate.

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Teukka May 13, 2022 • 10:26:32am

Day 79 of my 3 day war. As Finland is joining NATO, I will move more Russian soldiers to border. Joining the 200,000 buried there from last time we invaded.

I remain a master strategist

— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) May 13, 2022

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Dr Lizardo May 13, 2022 • 10:28:43am

In a bit of local news, two deputy mayors here in Ostrava were arrested today, on suspicion of accepting bribes, influence-peddling and corruption. They should be arraigned Monday morning, so they’ll both get to cool their heels this weekend in the city jail. Needless to say, they’re both claiming ITZ TEH POLITICAL PERSECUTION!! as they’re both members of ANO, the political party headed by former PM Andrej Babiš, which has seen its members continually arrested and convicted for all manner of corrupt acts (IMHO, that whole party is nothing but a front for massive bribery and money laundering).

If convicted, they’re looking at five years in the slammer. Where, presumably, they can catch up with some of their former colleagues, LOL.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 10:32:06am

re: #282 Dr Lizardo

I tried one of those once. Took one drag off it and thought to myself, “Welp, that’s instant lung cancer.”

you need to crumple the cardboard tube to act as a “filter”

But yes, I remember reading in Solzhenitsyn about how over 10,000 prisoners died building the Belomor Canal, so it seemed fitting

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 10:33:36am

re: #291 Teukka

Putin knows that he can trash the entire European economy just by setting off one tactical nuke. Right now, he probably feels that he has little or nothing to lose by doing so.

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 10:34:48am

re: #233 mmmirele

I’m thinking there’s a freedom of speech issue here with “not criticizing horse paste.” I don’t think the government can tell pharmacists they can’t do this. Do we know if the law indemnifies pharmacists from lawsuits if they’re not permitted to criticize horse paste, a customer buys it and then is adversely affected?

did you ask the pharmacist any questions when you dropped off your prescription?

did you ask for or receive counseling about your medication when you picked it up? (these days, usually you have to sign that you accepted or declined)

if the answer is no, then whatever happens is on you.

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 10:35:18am

re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Putin knows that he can trash the entire European economy just by setting off one tactical nuke. Right now, he probably feels that he has little or nothing to lose by doing so.

Little or nothing? Except bring on Armageddon and destroy the world.

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 10:38:22am

re: #242 Teukka

Okay, DRINKS DOWN before unspoilering….

[Embedded content]

if no one’s posted it yet, “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”

otherwise gmta

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 10:39:40am

re: #296 Hecuba’s daughter

Little or nothing? Except bring on Armageddon and destroy the world.

To save it from degeneracy and dissolution.

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Dangerman May 13, 2022 • 10:41:31am

re: #265 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

CRT claims were the smoke screen for awarding all the school book contracts to a buddy of DeSantis and pals. It’s a grift being paid for by the government of Florida.

only as the conduit

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Hecuba's daughter May 13, 2022 • 10:43:36am

re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

To save it from degeneracy and dissolution.

He does have children and grandchildren; he may not want to see them disintegrated in a nuclear holocaust. Even he must know that the actual use of such a weapon, rather than just a threat of using one, will have dire consequences for Russia, as well as the rest of the world.

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Decatur Deb May 13, 2022 • 10:44:12am

re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Putin knows that he can trash the entire European economy just by setting off one tactical nuke. Right now, he probably feels that he has little or nothing to lose by doing so.

That crap would stop as soon as we dropped the hint that we had replaced some of Ukraine’s nukes, and given the PALs to Zelenskyy.

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ericblair May 13, 2022 • 10:44:42am

re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

To save it from degeneracy and dissolution.

Have a look at their mansions and yachts. They’re big fans of degeneracy and dissolution.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 13, 2022 • 10:45:25am

re: #302 ericblair

Have a look at their mansions and yachts. They’re big fans of degeneracy and dissolution.

Just like our Megachurch pastors

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aatharuv May 13, 2022 • 10:46:37am

re: #7 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Binance may not have their 500 mil to invest anymore.
Binance is backing Elon Musk’s Twitter bid, boosting crypto believers’ vision of a ‘decentralized’ web CNBC

Talk about a massive dose of irony. Twitter’s walled garden is the EXACT OPPOSITE of a ‘decentralized’ web.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 13, 2022 • 10:52:14am

re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if she’ll turn Steve Doocy into a fine paste one last time.

She should just ignore him and leave him hanging with that last question for her forever stuck in his mind.

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sagehen May 13, 2022 • 10:53:56am

re: #283 retired cynic

NASA’s Mars helicopter was supposed to fly five times. It’s flown 28.
The little helicopter that could has exceeded all expectations. But now, as the Martian winter sets in, its future is uncertain.
wapo.st (gift link)

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