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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 10:51:45am
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GlutenFreeJesus  May 28, 2022 • 11:05:16am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

When this “deal” is inevitably not reached because of republicans, it will be framed as Dems wanting too many restrictions/Dems want to take ALL OUR GUNS AWAY!

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Dangerman  May 28, 2022 • 11:07:01am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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“Ok, Mitch. What’s your proposal?”

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retired cynic  May 28, 2022 • 11:07:33am

As Long As There Have Been Guns in America, There Have Been Attempts to Regulate Them
The legal history of the United States is strongly on the side of the sensible regulation of firearms, no matter what the gun-fondling political right might say.
esquire.com

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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 11:08:26am

This right here is the shit that drives me crazy (a short drive).

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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 11:09:47am
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Dangerman  May 28, 2022 • 11:13:06am

re: #4 retired cynic

As Long As There Have Been Guns in America, There Have Been Attempts to Regulate Them
The legal history of the United States is strongly on the side of the sensible regulation of firearms, no matter what the gun-fondling political right might say.
esquire.com

“Shall not be infringed” does not mean “without any restrictions”

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 11:13:56am

Sandy Hook should have been a fucking tipping point and that was nearly 10 years ago.

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Dangerman  May 28, 2022 • 11:14:15am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

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And there is *no* “tipping point” for them

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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 11:16:43am
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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 11:18:03am
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Jay C  May 28, 2022 • 11:24:45am

re: #4 retired cynic

As Long As There Have Been Guns in America, There Have Been Attempts to Regulate Them
The legal history of the United States is strongly on the side of the sensible regulation of firearms, no matter what the gun-fondling political right might say.
esquire.com

Of course it is, but we (“we” in general, I.e. most Americans) don’t know that, because of a well-financed, all-pervasive and decades-long effort by the Usual Interests to get the country to either forget our lengthy history of firearms regulation, assume it was a regrettable relic of the past, and paint contemporary attempts to utterly deregulate any trade in deadly armaments as a noble effort in the Sacred. Causes of “self-protection” and “defending Constitutional Rights”, or whatever bullshit rhetoric suits…..

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Rightwingconspirator  May 28, 2022 • 11:25:23am
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retired cynic  May 28, 2022 • 11:25:41am

A long-standing and fundamental question about dinosaurs may finally have an answer
cnn.com

Warm or cold blooded? Yes. Mostly warm, some cold. My grade school self would be so surprised!

No surprise now that most, even t-Rex and the great big long-necked wonders, had metabolisms like a small bird!

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(((Archangel1)))  May 28, 2022 • 11:26:12am
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 28, 2022 • 11:26:29am

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

I mean, it’s almost as if there’s a deep-seated cultural sickness that has been deliberately cultivated by 40+ years of right-wing propaganda and exacerbated by social media and myriad other factors that people either don’t want to consider or can’t even recognize.

Did you ever watch the TV show “House”? It was a medical mystery show. A typical episode consisted of a patient coming into the hospital with a set of symptoms that suggested a relatively simple malady with an obvious treatment. Then when the obvious treatment didn’t work, the patient developed new symptoms and got dramatically worse. Lo and behold the intrepid doctors discovered that the patient had somehow been shoving radioactive fuel rods up their ass for decades, or something.

I exaggerate, (the show was actually better than that), but this kind of feels like how America is going right now.

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Mattand  May 28, 2022 • 11:27:43am

re: #9 Dangerman

And there is *no* “tipping point” for them

If twenty dead white first graders didn’t convince Republicans, elected or otherwise, to do anything, nothing will.

Republicans view school massacres as cost of doing business for the view of the 2nd Amendment.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 28, 2022 • 11:33:24am

re: #17 Mattand

Republicans don’t give a fuck about the 2nd Amendment. They don’t. They only care about that sweet NRA money. They would gut the entire Bill of Rights tomorrow as long as the money didn’t stop rolling in.

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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 11:38:10am
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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 11:51:24am
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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 11:56:59am
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JC1  May 28, 2022 • 11:57:33am

re: #9 Dangerman

And there is *no* “tipping point” for them

The tipping point will be when it becomes a losing position politically. Once that happens, they’ll turn on a dime. Voters need to start seeing NRA approval as disqualifying for candidates. Politicians accepting NRA endorsements should be shamed and ridiculed.

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nines09  May 28, 2022 • 11:57:57am

re: #19 Charles Johnson

Translation: “WOW THAT WAS CLOSE! WHEW! HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY EVERYBODY! USA! USA! USA! USA! YAY!”

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Captain Magic  May 28, 2022 • 12:12:02pm

re: #7 Dangerman

“Shall not be infringed” does not mean “without any restrictions”

Good luck with that….some attorney will eventually crawl out of the woodwork, and with a Trump-friendly judges, may make it open season on owning tactical nukes.
/(half)

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sagehen  May 28, 2022 • 12:14:37pm

re: #24 Captain Magic

Good luck with that….some attorney will eventually crawl out of the woodwork, and with a Trump-friendly judges, may make it open season on owning tactical nukes.
/(half)

I live near an airport; can I have a shoulder-fired ground-to-air missile? Y’know, just for recreation…

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 12:14:43pm

“Colleagues”

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 12:18:57pm
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Crush White Nationalism  May 28, 2022 • 12:21:27pm
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sagehen  May 28, 2022 • 12:28:17pm

from 2016, she reposted it today.

Youtube Video

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 12:31:34pm
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Citizen K  May 28, 2022 • 12:32:26pm

re: #2 GlutenFreeJesus

When this “deal” is inevitably not reached because of republicans, it will be framed as Dems wanting too many restrictions/Dems want to take ALL OUR GUNS AWAY!

I still want to see how ‘better messaging’ or ‘more fight’ is supposed to get past this kind of shit.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 28, 2022 • 12:33:36pm

re: #30 jaunte

The Columbine shooters originally planned to set off bombs in the school cafeteria and then shoot survivors as they ran out of the nearest single exit. The reason they abandoned that plan was that their bombs didn’t work.

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Ace Rothstein  May 28, 2022 • 12:43:02pm

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

Sandy Hook should have been a fucking tipping point and that was nearly 10 years ago.

In Vegas, over 500 people were shot with 60 killed. This was at a redneck country concert full of 2A types, and even them getting their asses shot off didn’t change their minds.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 12:44:19pm

re: #33 Ace Rothstein

Yep. Deadliest shooting in American history and we’ll never even know why the guy did it.

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nines09  May 28, 2022 • 12:44:37pm

Just a song. Or two.

Youtube Video

Youtube Video

bbl care for one another

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 12:47:12pm
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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 12:50:41pm
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Grunthos the Flatulent  May 28, 2022 • 12:53:28pm

The Wordle on Sunday. Mine looks like flaming wreckage falling from the sky, and played like it too.

Wordle 344 5/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Ace Rothstein  May 28, 2022 • 12:54:40pm

450 million firearms in the USA just among the private citizens. It is no accident that there are this many guns in our country. It is by design so that there would be no way in hell any legislation would ever get those guns back. It’s about money, plain and simple, like everything else. The Divided States of Capitalism.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 28, 2022 • 12:55:52pm

re: #37 jaunte

I’ve seen this going around Twitter with no sourcing.

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ckkatz  May 28, 2022 • 12:57:25pm

Quick “post and run”…

On the artillery in Ukraine…

1. The Russians are thought to have deployed ~4700 cannon

2. The Ukrainians are thought to have started with about 1800. Of the same types as the Russians.

3. The US is/has sent 108 M777. Up from 90 a couple of weeks ago.

4. The French have sent 12 ‘Ceaser’ mobile cannon.

5. The Estonians are thought to have provided about 12 Italian made FH70’s.

6. The Italians have about 90 FH70’s and may send some as well.

7. The US has about 415 HIMARS. (375 Army, 40 in Marines). Lockheed produces about 30 per year. The US is planning on announcing sending some to Ukraine. No numbers have been mentioned yet, that I have seen. (This number may include tracked as well as wheeled versions.)

8. Poland has reportedly ordered 500 HIMARS.

9. The US is now talking about sending the M109 Self propelled 155mm howitzer.

10. Czech has reportedly sent their 152mm mobile Dana. They had on the order of 30 iirc. I have not seen any report on how many were sent. To me anyway, ‘All’ would sound quite reasonable.

11. I suspect that most every NATO country is currently cleaning out their storage facilities of former Soviet equipment. It’s all 30-40 years old or more. Less functional than current NATO equipment. And, after watching the Russian’s various problems with it, probably no longer marketable to any ‘real’ military.

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 12:58:56pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 12:59:30pm

re: #37 jaunte

That doesn’t surprise me. You can finance practically any-fucking-thing these days.

My wife recently financed some concert tickets.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2022 • 1:19:08pm

re: #36 jaunte

Throwback to the NRA’s annual meeting in Dallas in 2018

So Maverick is now old enough to attend school (and to shoot one up).

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  May 28, 2022 • 1:21:07pm

re: #7 Dangerman

“Shall not be infringed” does not mean “without any restrictions”

Perfect!

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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 1:21:14pm
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A Cranky One  May 28, 2022 • 1:22:45pm

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2022 • 1:33:11pm

re: #7 Dangerman

“Shall not be infringed” does not mean “without any restrictions”

How can a militia be well regulated without regulations?

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gocart mozart  May 28, 2022 • 1:33:58pm
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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 1:34:31pm
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JC1  May 28, 2022 • 1:43:41pm

re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. Deadliest shooting in American history and we’ll never even know why the guy did it.

I know people who knew that guy. While they can’t be sure, one hypothesis was that he wanted to see if/how he can figure out to carry out the biggest mass shooting in history. Like a fucked up puzzle to be solved.
That he offed himself 10 or 15 minutes into the shooting rather than continuing to try and kill as many as possible maybe means that the full realization of what he was doing hit home.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 28, 2022 • 1:45:55pm

re: #49 gocart mozart

Here’s more on her challenger:

ballotpedia.org

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 1:46:13pm

re: #47 A Cranky One

Watch for drones trailing cable.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 28, 2022 • 1:47:12pm

re: #2 GlutenFreeJesus

Dems want to take ALL OUR GUNS AWAY!

According to my Twitter feed, which of course is ALMOST CERTAINLY the final arbiter of all reality, there is a non-zero contingent of left-leaning people who actually feel this way.

“The Constitution doesn’t contemplate assault rifles,” they say, echoing Alito’s leaked Roe decision.

They’re full of things that “the Founders Never Imagined”, while not stopping to think that “the founders” also never imagined things like the Internet, personally-owned printers, encryption, and black women legally allowed to vote.

They are utterly oblivious to the notion that a “war on guns” would be waged by the same heroes and geniuses who waged the “war on drugs”.

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Moe Avattar  May 28, 2022 • 1:48:09pm

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Eventual Carrion  May 28, 2022 • 1:49:04pm

I love this paragraph in the ‘terms and conditions’ of a site I am about to order something from (yes I read them sometimes. Don’t want to end up the middle processor of a human centipede).

Youtube Video

Thane shall be excused from liability for non-delivery or delay in delivery of products and services available through this Website arising from any event beyond Thane’s reasonable control, whether or not foreseeable by Thane, including but not limited to labor disturbance, war, fire, accident, adverse weather, inability to secure transportation, governmental act or regulation, act of terrorism (actual or threatened), or other causes or events beyond Thane’s reasonable control, whether or not similar to those which are enumerated above.

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gocart mozart  May 28, 2022 • 1:59:10pm

re: #52 GlutenFreeJesus

So bog standard GOP hack as opposed to crazy pants fascist clown.

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Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 2:01:20pm

re: #57 gocart mozart

So bog standard GOP hack as opposed to crazy pants fascist clown.

I like the one about Medicare coverage for horseback riding.

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Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 2:04:56pm

re: #54 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

It’s also pretty obvious the founders didn’t contemplate the Constitution being used to ensure its own destruction or mass killings sanctioned by the government under it either. Not being able to think about the future is neither a think we should think means it’s ok or it’s bad. Our arguments should stand on their own, and theirs should, too.

We have basically banned these types of weapons before, and we can do it again. And no, I’m not talking about the assault weapons band, but how we eliminated the Tommy gun. And we can get there with something similar.

What you’re describing is how a group of people desperate to get rid of these type of guns in a climate where a minority of people are setting the rules for the rest of the country. And I totally understand. But kids are dying, and whining about these attempts to stop the slaughter seems to be focused on the wrong target.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 28, 2022 • 2:06:54pm

Daniel Defense has posted this banner on their website:


Daniel Defense also manufactured 2 of the 15 AR-15s used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
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William Lewis  May 28, 2022 • 2:12:08pm

re: #60 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Hmm.

In a way, I’m rather surprised they show up so much. They’re expensive middle tier rifles. I’d have expected cheap rifles, say PSA or Century Arms, instead. Just a “hmm” point to me, don’t know that it means anything.

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Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 2:13:32pm

re: #60 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Daniel Defense has posted this banner on their website:

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Daniel Defense also manufactured 2 of the 15 AR-15s used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.

Thoughts and Prayers X2 in that one. This is getting serious.

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 2:15:41pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 28, 2022 • 2:15:55pm

I was looking for a DVD to watch in the local library this afternoon and came across Mass. I had heard of it through a film-review podcast, so I knew what I was getting into. In terms of the acting, it’s superb. The parents of a school shooter and the parents of one of the victims come together in a sparse room in an Episcopal church by arrangement of one family’s grief counselor. The only thing that felt off is that it tiptoed past gun availability toward mental health, but it’s a subtle movie and I could be wrong. Highly recommend.

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Rightwingconspirator  May 28, 2022 • 2:20:00pm

re: #55 Moe Avattar

Remember kids, the “Pro-Life” states are exactly where it’s easy to get a gun to shoot somebody.

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 2:20:46pm
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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 2:21:55pm
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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 2:25:34pm
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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 2:26:30pm
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gocart mozart  May 28, 2022 • 2:27:45pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 28, 2022 • 2:29:48pm

re: #70 gocart mozart

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Have you never heard of…foreshadowing!

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Targetpractice  May 28, 2022 • 2:29:59pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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It’s the same scam we’ve seen again and again: Prominent Repub signals they’re “open to compromise” on a bill, so that when they inevitably slag the proposed bill and scream that it’s “partisan,” the media leap to their defense by suggesting that Dems need to be the ones to move further towards the Repub position rather than admitting that Repubs are unreasonable dickheads.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 28, 2022 • 2:30:22pm

re: #70 gocart mozart

As part of a God, he sensed his future, and that was the most badass bling possible under the circumstances. That, or the artist did not think things through.

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Barefoot Grin  May 28, 2022 • 2:33:19pm

You know what? I really love RATT’s song “Round and Round.”

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Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 2:39:20pm

re: #61 William Lewis

Hmm.

In a way, I’m rather surprised they show up so much. They’re expensive middle tier rifles. I’d have expected cheap rifles, say PSA or Century Arms, instead. Just a “hmm” point to me, don’t know that it means anything.

Being able to buy the guns on credit means you get go up a little bit, especially if you don’t expect to pay the bill.

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Targetpractice  May 28, 2022 • 2:41:41pm

Note also that when Repubs say they’re “open to compromise,” it’s because they’re never the ones to actually propose a bill. Either bill is put forward by the Dems and declared “partisan” or it’s the result of “Gang of X” group of “moderates” that shows why the saying that a camel is a horse designed by committee is absolutely accurate.

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Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 2:42:14pm
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austin_blue  May 28, 2022 • 2:44:20pm

re: #61 William Lewis

Hmm.

In a way, I’m rather surprised they show up so much. They’re expensive middle tier rifles. I’d have expected cheap rifles, say PSA or Century Arms, instead. Just a “hmm” point to me, don’t know that it means anything.

He bought them on credit. He knew he was never going to pay.

A blaze of glory. Going out in a Blaze of Glory.

Just like Jeebuzz.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 28, 2022 • 2:45:26pm

re: #77 Belafon

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The boots on the guy in the Bullshit Free Zone do not say “Ohio”

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 28, 2022 • 2:49:06pm

re: #74 Barefoot Grin

Of all the Los Angeles Sunset Strip hair metal bands of that era, Warren DiMartini was one of the most creative guitarists among a sea of wankers. George Lynch was another one.

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austin_blue  May 28, 2022 • 2:50:00pm

re: #74 Barefoot Grin

You know what? I really love RATT’s song “Round and Round.”

Oh, yeah. I love to take the T-tops off my 455 cubic-inch Trans-Camaro, throw that 8-track into the dash and turn the sound up to eleven!

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 28, 2022 • 2:56:17pm

re: #74 Barefoot Grin

Youtube Video

I can smell the AquaNet and cigarettes from here.

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2022 • 3:01:47pm

re: #61 William Lewis

Hmm.

In a way, I’m rather surprised they show up so much. They’re expensive middle tier rifles. I’d have expected cheap rifles, say PSA or Century Arms, instead. Just a “hmm” point to me, don’t know that it means anything.

If you aren’t planning to survive your massacre, might as well use the best weapons you can get.

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Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 3:05:12pm

At Walmart:

My wife said the stores ordered a lot of TVs and monitors, and now they need to get rid of them.

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Eventual Carrion  May 28, 2022 • 3:05:13pm

re: #70 gocart mozart

Yeah like that one painting I saw a while ago (can’t remember its name or the artist). It was a painting of Jesus in the manger, with a crucifix (with him on it) on the stall wall. Talk about foreshadowing.

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2022 • 3:06:42pm

If the killer had been prosecuted for his online threats, the massacre may have been averted.

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2022 • 3:09:41pm

re: #77 Belafon

Back in the eighties, I went to a country western club in England; it was absolutely hilarious.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 3:13:34pm

re: #87 No Malarkey!

Back in the eighties, I went to a country western club in England; it was absolutely hilarious.

This band is Swedish:

Youtube Video

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 28, 2022 • 3:18:39pm

re: #88 Eclectic Cyborg

This band is Swedish:

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Video

Awhile back it became a franchise.

Pay some money and you could be “Rednex” for your European area.

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sagehen  May 28, 2022 • 3:21:29pm

re: #86 No Malarkey!

If the killer had been prosecuted for his online threats, the massacre may have been averted.

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it’s always about misogyny, isn’t it? so predictable.

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mmmirele  May 28, 2022 • 3:21:32pm

re: #24 Captain Magic

Good luck with that….some attorney will eventually crawl out of the woodwork, and with a Trump-friendly judges, may make it open season on owning tactical nukes.
/(half)

Conversation with a guy I know who I used to cross swords with at the church where the elders want to execute women. He’s since moved on to the church of Douglas Wilson, the wannabe Pope of the Palouse, up in Moscow, ID.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 28, 2022 • 3:24:16pm

re: #88 Eclectic Cyborg

This band is not, by Gawd!

Wheeler Walker Jr. “Redneck Shit” (Official Video)

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Dangerman  May 28, 2022 • 3:25:02pm

re: #76 Targetpractice

Note also that when Repubs say they’re “open to compromise,” it’s because they’re never the ones to actually propose a bill. Either bill is put forward by the Dems and declared “partisan” or it’s the result of “Gang of X” group of “moderates” that shows why the saying that a camel is a horse designed by committee is absolutely accurate.

+1

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stpaulbear  May 28, 2022 • 3:25:07pm

re: #75 Belafon

Being able to buy the guns on credit means you get go up a little bit, especially if you don’t expect to pay the bill.

I wonder if the store will try to repossess the stuff he bought?

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Dangerman  May 28, 2022 • 3:26:40pm

re: #82 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

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I can smell the AquaNet and cigarettes from here.

What we used to call a can a day habit

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darthstar  May 28, 2022 • 3:28:20pm

re: #60 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Daniel Defense has posted this banner on their website:

[Embedded content]

Daniel Defense also manufactured 2 of the 15 AR-15s used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.

Daniel Defense, for all your mass shooting needs.

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Jay C  May 28, 2022 • 3:29:20pm

re: #94 stpaulbear

I wonder if the store will try to repossess the stuff he bought?

After it’s released from the evidence locker?

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Crush White Nationalism  May 28, 2022 • 3:31:02pm

re: #82 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

[Embedded content]

Video

I can smell the AquaNet and cigarettes from here.

I have a can of that about ten feet from where I’m sitting. It’s great for sticking 3D prints to the build plate.

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darthstar  May 28, 2022 • 3:32:59pm

re: #98 Crush White Nationalism

I have a can too. My hair is long. But not long enough to stay out of my face so l spray it down on office days.

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Dangerman  May 28, 2022 • 3:33:00pm

Abbott says shooter had a ‘mental health challenge’ (yeah sure)

He said “the state” needed to do a better job with mental health

Last month he cut $211m from Texas mental health programs

Texas ranks last out of all 50 states and DC for overall access to mental health care.. quelle surprise.

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2022 • 3:33:14pm

re: #97 Jay C

After it’s released from the evidence locker?

They should be destroyed, but that probably violates Texas law.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 28, 2022 • 3:35:38pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 28, 2022 • 3:35:44pm

re: #91 mmmirele

His retweeters and allies appear to be a mix of anti-semites and anti-vax loons.

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Dangerman  May 28, 2022 • 3:37:05pm

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Dangerman  May 28, 2022 • 3:37:48pm

2015

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Eventual Carrion  May 28, 2022 • 3:40:55pm

re: #104 Dangerman

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Then the rule is, everyone that owns a gun needs to have a psychic evaluation every 3 years to maintain their license to own the gun(s). By an honest to goodness, licensed psychologist.

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PhillyPretzel  May 28, 2022 • 3:43:31pm

re: #106 Eventual Carrion

Good suggestion. I would like to see that as a requirement.

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mmmirele  May 28, 2022 • 3:44:53pm

re: #103 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

His retweeters and allies appear to be a mix of anti-semites and anti-vax loons.

Why yes, yes they are. He’s a hate follow for me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 3:44:59pm
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mmmirele  May 28, 2022 • 3:46:32pm

re: #106 Eventual Carrion

Then the rule is, everyone that owns a gun needs to have a psychic evaluation every 3 years to maintain their license to own the gun(s). By an honest to goodness, licensed psychologist.

Back in the day (1999), my psychiatrist had to sign off on me continuing to keep a Utah driver’s license after I had a psychotic break and spent 10 days in the hospital. You know they ain’t doing any such thing for gun nuts.

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Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 3:47:50pm

re: #90 sagehen

it’s always about misogyny, isn’t it? so predictable.

These assholes are inkblots. Everyone can find their favorite etiology in them. At this stage we don’t know, so all guesses are arguable. The best guess is that the sources are a lot more complex than we want to entertain.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 28, 2022 • 3:50:31pm
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 28, 2022 • 3:55:45pm

re: #90 sagehen

it’s always about misogyny, isn’t it? so predictable.

All the way to the end. From the pictures, it appears that he murdered five boys. All the others were girls.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 28, 2022 • 4:02:03pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, I know. They could carpool to the defenders of children and democracy meeting in one car.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:03:54pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:06:44pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:08:06pm
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William Lewis  May 28, 2022 • 4:10:46pm

Got a live one here…

119
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:13:27pm

re: #118 William Lewis

(((communists)))

really? REALLY???

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:13:33pm
121
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:14:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:15:41pm
123
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:18:54pm

LOL

STFU ted

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William Lewis  May 28, 2022 • 4:21:40pm

re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth

really? REALLY???

Yeah, I know. Pure John Birch. And if I can get him going with the “pretend you’re a christian” dig, I’ll bet on equally pure Calvinism.

125
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:23:59pm

re: #124 William Lewis

Yeah, I know. Pure John Birch. And if I can get him going with the “pretend you’re a christian” dig, I’ll bet on equally pure Calvinism.

I’m still shaking my head over the deliberate use of ((( ))) meaning “Jewish communists”

good grief

126
Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 4:24:01pm

re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes, Ted. We believe properly trained security personnel should have guns.

Crazy, I know.

/

127
Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 4:24:23pm

re: #118 William Lewis

Dude wouldn’t know a far leftist if I bit him.

128
John Hughes  May 28, 2022 • 4:24:49pm

re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. Deadliest shooting in American history and we’ll never even know why the guy did it.

Because he could.

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William Lewis  May 28, 2022 • 4:25:59pm

re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes, Ted. We believe properly trained security personnel should have guns.

Crazy, I know.

/

Preferably ones that aren’t cowards… (no sarc)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:26:10pm
131
Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 4:30:22pm

re: #128 John Hughes

Because he could.

Because he was an asshole.

132
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:31:19pm
133
Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 4:33:02pm

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump: The persecution of the January 6th political prisoners. You know a lot of them are still in jail… How many people that have killed people are still in jail?

Pretty ballsy (and gutless) for someone who could have pardoned them all.

134
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:33:37pm

wait, whut?

135
JC1  May 28, 2022 • 4:36:42pm

re: #133 Decatur Deb

Pretty ballsy (and gutless) for someone who could have pardoned them all.

How many people that have been killed are still in jail? Hopefully 0. Senility is creeping in.

136
JC1  May 28, 2022 • 4:37:23pm

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

wait, whut?

[Embedded content]

When you’ve lost Jon Voight…

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Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 4:38:38pm

re: #135 JC1

How many people that have been killed are still in jail? Hopefully 0. Senility is creeping in.

Let me help, I speak Fasc-jive: He means that not many people who have killed are still in jail. He’s absurdly wrong, of course.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 28, 2022 • 4:40:38pm

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump: How many people who have killed people are still in jail?

A whole helluva lot of them who have been tried, found guilty, and sentenced are in the midst of serving their sentences.

How many killer cops who the system protects are running around free and lionized by society?
How many killer Trumpers like Kyle Rittenhouse who were let off by the system are still walking free?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:45:01pm
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Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 4:47:27pm

re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another assault on parental discretion.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 28, 2022 • 4:52:41pm

re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth

Looking at the banner at the bottom, we see that Newsmax is pimping a scheme to mislead seniors.

That website is an add for “The Franklin Prosperity Report”, a paid subscription.

All the information it promises is free online, much of it from the SS administration.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:54:01pm
143
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 28, 2022 • 4:54:52pm

re: #141 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The fine print at that website:

IMPORTANT NOTE: Sales tax included where applicable. Your trial subscriptions come with a convenient automatic renewal. At the end of your trial subscription, we will notify you. If you want to keep the publication(s), do nothing and we will renew your subscription using your credit/debit card on file and charge you $49.95 for one year (12 issues) of The Franklin Prosperity Report and $109 for one year (12 issues) of The Dividend Machine. And then every year thereafter at the lowest renewal rates then in effect. There is no risk, you can cancel within the first six months for a full refund of the unused portion of your subscription. 

They are betting the seniors are too senile to cancel, thus getting $160 from them.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 28, 2022 • 4:55:24pm

Everything touched by Trump is a scam.

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Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 4:55:43pm

re: #141 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Looking at the banner at the bottom, we see that Newsmax is pimping a scheme to mislead seniors….

Shurley, they wouldn’t do that.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 4:56:32pm

re: #145 Decatur Deb

Shurley, they wouldn’t do that.

They would…and don’t call me Shirley.

/

147
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 4:59:08pm
148
PhillyPretzel  May 28, 2022 • 5:08:30pm

re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oy. These idiots don’t get it. For their actions against the gov’t they have to pay the price.

149
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:09:22pm

what could possibly go wrong?

150
Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 5:09:24pm

re: #148 PhillyPretzel

Oy. These idiots don’t get it. For their actions against the gov’t they have to pay the price.

They were told there would be no math.

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Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 5:10:39pm

re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth

what could possibly go wrong?

Late book charges with extreme prejudice.

152
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:12:21pm
153
PhillyPretzel  May 28, 2022 • 5:13:05pm

re: #151 Decatur Deb

Or a custodian who makes the kids who threw up clean up the mess they made while a gun is pointed at them.

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stpaulbear  May 28, 2022 • 5:13:35pm

re: #143 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The fine print at that website:

They are betting the seniors are too senile to cancel, thus getting $160 from them.

Seniors rarely forget about when the end date of a free subscription is coming up. Seniors don’t want to pay for anything. They keep in fighting shape with Amazon Prime free trials.

155
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 28, 2022 • 5:15:17pm

re: #154 stpaulbear

Seniors rarely forget about when the end date of a free subscription is coming up. Seniors don’t want to pay for anything. They keep in fighting shape with Amazon Prime free trials.

Heh, I just concluded one of those.

I don’t order much from Amazon, usually once a month, so Prime doesn’t make sense for me.

But I used to be a Prime member, so now every year or so Amazon tries to tempt me back.

156
Romantic Heretic  May 28, 2022 • 5:17:08pm

Yeah. I can tell Sam Bee is Canadian. We get that way when we’re pissed.

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Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 5:18:59pm

re: #156 Romantic Heretic

Yeah. I can tell Sam Bee is Canadian. We get that way when we’re pissed.

Is this whole fukn’ place snowbirds? ‘Cause I can tell you, we know how to handle snowbirds here at the Alabama-Florida border.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:19:14pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:20:29pm
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Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 5:20:42pm

Don’t forget Ted Cruz’ dad was a pulpit pimp from the Benny Hinn camp.

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darthstar  May 28, 2022 • 5:22:15pm

Mobile friendly war map updated by Finnish reservists trying to filter out misinformation. Good link to bookmark.
scribblemaps.com

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stpaulbear  May 28, 2022 • 5:22:48pm

re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Heh, I just concluded one of those.

I don’t order much from Amazon, usually once a month, so Prime doesn’t make sense for me.

But I used to be a Prime member, so now every year or so Amazon tries to tempt me back.

I ordered today and turned down a trial membership offer. I hope it annoys then that I won’t take Prime for free. I don’t pay for shipping anyway because I just wait until I can order over the minimum. I’d like to think that employees don’t have to bust their bladders over picking my slow orders, but Amazon probably just holds my orders back and makes them bust their bladders anyway.

163
darthstar  May 28, 2022 • 5:22:54pm

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Don’t forget Ted Cruz’ dad was a pulpit pimp from the Benny Hinn camp.

I read that as Benny Hill camp… Makes more sense.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:24:54pm

...

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:25:30pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 5:25:44pm

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Don’t forget Ted Cruz’ dad was a pulpit pimp from the Benny Hinn camp.

Benny Hinn - Dark Lord of the Sith

167
retired cynic  May 28, 2022 • 5:27:09pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:29:26pm
169
PhillyPretzel  May 28, 2022 • 5:31:24pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

To paraphrase a saying from many years ago: Don’t fire until you see the white of their skin.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 28, 2022 • 5:31:41pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

Our culture is failing, Ted Cruz, because you assholes won’t put in the work to preserve it and improve it to actually make things better for real people. You would rather have wealth, and power, and the underclass kowtowing to your every debased whim, and Cancun beach vacations in the midst of emergencies.

171
Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 5:34:51pm
172
PhillyPretzel  May 28, 2022 • 5:36:01pm

re: #171 Belafon

I had some of that today. I enjoyed Sense and Sensibility.

173
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:46:19pm
174
Captain Magic  May 28, 2022 • 5:46:30pm

It appears the latest Kindle Fire no longer has a Microsoft port.

Boo, Amazon.

175
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:50:33pm
176
terraincognita  May 28, 2022 • 5:50:55pm

“…librarians carrying firearms on campus.”

I don’t know if that will dissuade any shooters, but it will put a dent in the overdue book problem.

177
PhillyPretzel  May 28, 2022 • 5:52:20pm

re: #176 terraincognita

And it might lead to quieter libraries.

178
Charles Johnson  May 28, 2022 • 5:54:25pm
179
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 5:58:33pm
180
Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 6:00:17pm
181
Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 6:01:30pm

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

What a seriously deluded motherfucker.

182
HRH Stanley Sea  May 28, 2022 • 6:02:53pm

Whoever recommended the movie Mass, thank you.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 6:07:50pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 6:14:25pm
185
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 6:15:31pm
186
Sherlock Hound  May 28, 2022 • 6:15:40pm

re: #177 PhillyPretzel

And it might lead to quieter libraries.

“We use silencers!”
///

187
Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 6:19:17pm

re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth

I tried to find a job that wouldn’t be considered demeaning any other job.

Edit: And then I had to fix a typo.

188
Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 6:21:53pm

re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth

Also:

189
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 6:22:08pm
190
Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 6:22:40pm

How about this:

191
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 6:25:14pm

re: #190 Belafon

How about this:

he probably really hates Vincent

Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you
Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
Like the strangers that you’ve met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they’re not listening still
Perhaps they never will

192
nines09  May 28, 2022 • 6:25:44pm

Just remembering the raw power of NIN at the top of their everything. I played Downward Spiral 500 times.
Woodstock 94 they did this.

Another world. That long ago. Damn. Take you inside crazy and get you to scream along. They could do it.

This is the whole set. But I just wanted to highlight Closer because it just rips.
It will play on after that.
But this is loud and really loud good. NSFW but it’s Saturday, eh?

Youtube Video

have a fine evening

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sagehen  May 28, 2022 • 6:30:39pm

re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I guess “Yellow Rose of Texas” is out of the question? How about “Luckenbach Texas”? Or “All My Exes Live in Texas”? “La Grange”? “Miles and Miles of Texas”?

194
Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 6:31:28pm

re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth

I really hate the “shut up and _______” people.

As if folks in certain professions don’t have the right to express an opinion.

195
stpaulbear  May 28, 2022 • 6:33:35pm

re: #193 sagehen

Youtube Video

196
Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 6:34:17pm

re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg

I really hate the “shut up and _______” people.

As if folks in certain professions don’t have the right to express an opinion.

Jason hated it so much he put it in “Be Afraid.”

197
Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 6:34:45pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 6:38:26pm
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sagehen  May 28, 2022 • 6:39:03pm
200
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 6:41:08pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 28, 2022 • 6:42:50pm

niterz, lizardz!

202
Patricia Kayden  May 28, 2022 • 6:44:42pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

203
Decatur Deb  May 28, 2022 • 6:46:34pm

May 28 is Memorial Day here, the day the Decatur Deb went in.

204
Belafon  May 28, 2022 • 6:48:15pm

A tweet showed up in my feed for an artist named Amythist Kiah (she and her wife/partner got to buy a house, and ice cream after). I hadn’t heard her but went to go listen. She plays guitar and banjo.

Youtube Video

And her cover of Tori Amos’s “Sugar”:

Youtube Video

205
Dangerman  May 28, 2022 • 6:51:10pm
206
Patricia Kayden  May 28, 2022 • 6:55:54pm

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gocart mozart  May 28, 2022 • 6:59:28pm

re: #192 nines09

I’m there somewhere in that crowd of mud people.

208
jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 6:59:49pm

re: #205 Dangerman

Ted Cruz lives a gated existence.

209
Patricia Kayden  May 28, 2022 • 6:59:53pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, they need to stick to country music and Ted Nugent.

210
sagehen  May 28, 2022 • 7:01:33pm

OT: so… anybody watch this week’s Better Call Saul? Comments?

211
No Malarkey!  May 28, 2022 • 7:05:38pm

re: #210 sagehen

OT: so… anybody watch this week’s Better Call Saul? Comments?

Great show. Heckuva ending to the mid season finale.

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2022 • 7:06:48pm
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William Lewis  May 28, 2022 • 7:09:13pm

re: #203 Decatur Deb

May 28 is Memorial Day here, the day the Decatur Deb went in.

[Embedded content]

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Patricia Kayden  May 28, 2022 • 7:11:40pm

re: #212 No Malarkey!

Oh Canada!!! That’s the way you do it. I’m kind of surprised that this ban wasn’t in place in Canada already. Grew up there and guns are not nearly as prolific (and revered) as they are here in the U.S. You have to jump through hoops to even legally own one.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 7:12:12pm

re: #212 No Malarkey!

It’s fucking infuriating how quickly this can happen in other countries vs. nothing ever changing here.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2022 • 7:16:45pm

This is one of the images on DDs home page right now:

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Patricia Kayden  May 28, 2022 • 7:16:46pm
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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 7:46:50pm
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retired cynic  May 28, 2022 • 7:47:46pm

Want Free College? Look to West Virginia.
The Mountaineer State is the first in the nation to waive tuition for AmeriCorps members.
washingtonmonthly.com

Good stuff!

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Captain Ron  May 28, 2022 • 8:10:16pm
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retired cynic  May 28, 2022 • 8:19:01pm

The Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire
From fighting in the army to managing the kingdom, women were key players in every aspect of the Mongol Empire.
atlasobscura.com

Grand Empress Börte (left) and Chinggis Khan
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darthstar  May 28, 2022 • 8:27:13pm

Just watched the first episode of The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix - looks like it could be a fun series. Enjoyed the movie with Matthew McConaughey. This is not quite the same - more character build up of course, but it’s not relying on a single character to drive the plot either.

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 8:32:01pm

re: #222 darthstar

I enjoyed that one.

224
So Cal Greek Hippie  May 28, 2022 • 8:47:57pm

1917: Camp Colt

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jaunte  May 28, 2022 • 8:50:15pm

“The main section of the camp was in the fields made famous 55 years before on July 3, 1863, by Pickett’s Charge”
en.wikipedia.org


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