re: #1 So Cal Greek Hippie
I love the open spaces in that, and the way you framed the breaking surf.
re: #2 jaunte
I was just loving the pensive look on the dog’s face.
re: #2 jaunte
Thanks. I love the area so much and try to capture the essence of the moment. 😎
re: #3 retired cynic
She is the master of the resting bitch face in nearly every photo, but is usually a very happy (rescue) dog
The GQP: The party that tells you how important armed guards are…while also wanting an armed guard tried for murder because he had to make a “split second decision” on whether or not to shoot a crazy white woman on 1/6.
Here’s a thread of all the times media figures claimed that Trump was more liberal than Clinton, thus casting him as a heterodox moderate that swing voters could vote for comfortably. Buckle up; this will be a long one.
First up, Ryan Lizza, Chris Hayes, and Brian Beutler. pic.twitter.com/knUo7bw5AP— Salad Shooter (@PrestoVegetable) May 28, 2022
In case it’s a slow Sunday and you have to polish your media shit list.
re: #9 JC1
5/6 a bit worrisome.
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I’d just like to ask one of these pudknockers screaming that “mental illness” was to blame for Uvalde to name the one behavior displayed other than the shooting that they A) would feel comfortable having someone involuntarily committed for and B) would do so even if the person in question was their own child. Better than even odds that they’d lie to me.
re: #12 Targetpractice
I’d just like to ask one of these pudknockers screaming that “mental illness” was to blame for Uvalde to name the one behavior displayed other than the shooting that they A) would feel comfortable having someone involuntarily committed for and B) would do so even if the person in question was their own child. Better than even odds that they’d lie to me.
Aren’t they talking about have a note on some official record that will ban gun purchases rather than requiring confinement to an institution?
re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter
Aren’t they talking about have a note on some official record that will ban gun purchases rather than requiring confinement to an institution?
Those laws already exist, but they’re pointless if a person is not diagnosed, that diagnosis not communicated to the FBI, and the “red flag” not placed in the National Instant Criminal Search Database that federally licensed gun shops use to verify if a person is cool to purchase a gun.
And since the only ways a person can be diagnosed are either to voluntarily seek treatment or be involuntarily committed for treatment, the weak link remains that you have to actually be diagnosed with a mental illness in order to be denied the ability to purchase a firearm for being mentally ill.
re: #12 Targetpractice
I’d just like to ask one of these pudknockers screaming that “mental illness” was to blame for Uvalde to name the one behavior displayed other than the shooting that they A) would feel comfortable having someone involuntarily committed for and B) would do so even if the person in question was their own child. Better than even odds that they’d lie to me.
Before the massacre:
“Don’t retreat, reload!” -Sarah Palin
“Second Amendment remedies!” - Sharron Angle
“I’m gonna take this gun and shoot up some object symbolizing Government Tyranny!!!” - literally hundreds of GOP campaign ads.
After the massacre:
“…we know the shooter was into cyber gaming…”
re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Before the massacre:
“Don’t retreat, reload!” -Sarah Palin
“Second Amendment remedies!” Sharron Angle
“I’m gonna take this gun and shoot up some object symbolizing Government Tyranny!!!” - literally hundreds of GOP campaign ads.After the massacre:
“…we know the shooter was into cyber gaming…”
Yes, the awful danger of cyber gaming. I know after a long session of Minecraft, I can’t fight the urge to go outside and do some yardwork.
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It was actually the opposite the other day, I found myself watching a car revival channel doing “something a bit different” with a series on using some old abandoned farm equipment to plant corn on their property in Iowa…and I found myself suddenly interested in trying out Farming Simulator 2022. Then again, I had more fun back in the day with Sim Farm than I did with Sim City, so maybe I’m just weird.
Votes seem to be with juvenile lamprey… Watch a Heron long enough and you will soon discover what hides beneath the water.
Heron: Water Scientists. Water Chefs.
ⱽᶦᵃ ᴴᵉʳᵒⁿᵉᵉʳ @intelcymru https://t.co/jnSdyk8rPH— Every Heron 𓅣 𓅻💙💛 (@every_heron) May 29, 2022
It’s 4:09 in Central Time. The Jupiter-Mars conjunction is conjuncting very nicely.
Important but ignored by our politics and news and by everybody else too:
re: #10 ericblair
Great read. So many on the left were horribly wrong. It’s terrifying to see how these journalists and influencers ignored Trump’s own words to position him on the left. He’s a fascist and started off his campaign with a racist, xenophobic anti-Mexican speech. There’s nothing left/liberal about him. Even a Palestinian org claimed he was to the left of Clinton!!
I remain smitten:
Youtube Video
(yes, I have a thing for musicians.)
Know what would’ve saved lives? Elected officials. After Bill Clinton banned assault weapons in 1994,
mass shooting deaths dropped by 43%. After the Republican Congress let
the ban expire in 2004, they shot up by 239%. It’s not cops, teachers, doors… It’s lack of gun safety laws— Raven French (@RavenFrench5) May 29, 2022
re: #21 Patricia Kayden
Great read. So many on the left were horribly wrong. It’s terrifying to see how these journalists and influencers ignored Trump’s own words to position him on the left. He’s a fascist and started off his campaign with a racist, xenophobic anti-Mexican speech. There’s nothing left/liberal about him. Even a Palestinian org claimed he was to the left of Clinton!!
This did it because it had worked in 2008 and they knew it would work again 8 years later. I still remember being told as early as the summer of ‘07 that the “Clinton Campaign Machine” was gonna steamroll Obama and the primaries were a formality before she was crowned at the convention. So from mid-‘07 all the way up to the primaries, the media on both sides of the aisle did everything they could to play Obama up as the “young, charismatic, progressive candidate.”
And then when he won the nomination, they had to rush to suddenly prop up the “rock-ribbed Republican” McCain overnight as the “Maverick of the Senate” who had a long history of going against the party with “moderate” beliefs while they astroturfed the “PUMAs” to try to split the party by declaring that the only way Obama could win is if he put Hillary on the ticket at his VP.
Then came 2016 and, wouldn’t you know it, they managed to once again undermine Hillary by portraying the competition as the true “progressive” in the race versus the old, stale “Clinton Dynasty.”
re: #21 Patricia Kayden
Great read. So many on the left were horribly wrong. It’s terrifying to see how these journalists and influencers ignored Trump’s own words to position him on the left. He’s a fascist and started off his campaign with a racist, xenophobic anti-Mexican speech. There’s nothing left/liberal about him. Even a Palestinian org claimed he was to the left of Clinton!!
They wanted in their bones to see Hillary Clinton as a monster - well, Chris Hayes, anyway - so they projected onto Trump liberal leaning traits he did not possess.
We Democrats had the gall to prefer her over Bernie the Messiah, and since every right thinking leftie hates the Clintons for embracing triangulation after 1994 and “selling out the poor,” she (and we) had to be punished.
re: #23 Patricia Kayden
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I knew eventually there was gonna be some backpeddling and it’s already beginning. The Repubs have bitten the hand that feeds them and now the leash is getting yanked.
The police chief who officials said decided to wait to confront the gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, completed an active shooter training course in December,” NBC News reports.
Took the course
failed the test
So on Tuesday and Wednesday when the only version of events out there was that of the UPD, Repubs were hailing them all as “heroes” for rushing into that school and saving those kids from the shooter who (they’d heard) was everything from a transsexual to a card-carrying antifa soldier.
Then the story began changing on Thursday as parents went to the press with their own accounts as well as video, totally upending the UPD timeline to now show they’d not only stood around for an hour holding their dicks, but they’d gone so far as to mace and hand-cuff parents who demanded they go in to save their children. Suddenly the Repubs who’d been slobbering all over the UPD backed up and began trying to play the victims by insisting they’d been “lied to.”
Now it’s Sunday and they’re in their typical “We need to wait for the investigation” stance which they usually only take when the cops have been caught in a lie but are muscling their way into being portrayed as the “victims.” Which means more than a few have probably gotten some very slimy calls from cop union presidents telling them that endorsements can be pulled and it’s still an awful long way to November…
All those Blue Lives Matter guys who’ve spent the last decade emailing me about how “one day something awful’s gonna happen and we’ll be all you have” have been really silent the last few days…
— Full Dissident (@hbryant42) May 28, 2022
It was a lot worse. https://t.co/MCEaYUUFB3
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) May 27, 2022
Imagine shoveling this horseshit even after all we’ve learned this week. https://t.co/c3GiJQJd4w
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 27, 2022
In his speech at the NRA convention today, @tedcruz actually said, “What stops armed bad guys is armed good guys.” That’s what happens when you write your speech a week in advance and forget to rewrite.
— Al Franken (@alfranken) May 27, 2022
re: #9 JC1
5/6 a bit worrisome.
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A wild second guess helped set up getting it in 3. Have a great day Lizards!
re: #33 Dangerman
In his speech at the NRA convention today, ted cruz
actually said, “What stops armed bad guys is armed good guys.” That’s what happens when you write your speech a week in advance and forget to rewrite.
The NRA just rewrites events to fit the speech
The good ol’ days, with a dash of sarcasm:
“…and hours later, the cops arrived,
but by then the entire glee club had died…”
re: #37 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Fun fact - the first Himalayan cat was named “Debutante”.
a much better and quite a different story from the original “he went in and got his kid”
it’s why we wait to get a fuller story
“An off-duty border patrol agent has told how he evacuated children including his own eight-year-old daughter from Robb Elementary School.”
“Jacob Albarado, a father of three, received a text message from his wife Trisha - a fourth grade math and science teacher at the school - when he was in the barber’s chair…….’There’s an active shooter,’ she said. ‘Help. I love you.’
“Albarado leapt up and grabbed a shotgun the barber lent him, and rushed to the school. His wife and her class were hiding under tables and behind curtains; his daughter was locked in a bathroom.”
Albarado said that, on arriving at the school, a tactical group was forming to take on the gunman, barricaded in another fourth grade class. Albarado then led his colleagues to evacuate as many children and teachers as possible, including his own daughter.”
‘I’m looking for my daughter, but I also know what wing she’s in,’ he said. ‘So I start clearing all the classes in her wing.’ Two officers provided cover, with their guns drawn, while two others guided the children and their teachers out on the sidewalk, many of whom emerged screaming.”
“He said he hugged Jayda, then kept moving the other children along. ‘I did what I was trained to do,’ Albarado said.”
re: #21 Patricia Kayden
Great read. So many on the left were horribly wrong. It’s terrifying to see how these journalists and influencers ignored Trump’s own words to position him on the left. He’s a fascist and started off his campaign with a racist, xenophobic anti-Mexican speech. There’s nothing left/liberal about him. Even a Palestinian org claimed he was to the left of Clinton!!
And also remember the constant dream that Trump was suddenly going to “pivot” into acting like an actual President.
Easy words today.
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Why didn’t they just No Knock Enter since they’re so into that shit???
— Drive-By Truckers (@drivebytruckers) May 27, 2022
re: #47 Dangerman
Yeah, as a dual Canuck/Merican citizen I don’t like these cartoons very much. It’s quite clear from elections and social analyses that the “America” there isn’t us, it’s a minority faction that has captured grossly lopsided power against the rest of our will. Then they hide behind us and call themselves “America”.
Canada is a lot better when it comes to gun control, and it shows in the statistics. But don’t hurt yourself throwing rose petals in front of Canadian cops before you get to know how they have treated minorities and native peoples, or rightwing Canadian politicians who were happy enough to get thousands of Canadian unnecessarily killed with COVID. We all got work to do.
re: #49 ericblair
Yeah, as a dual Canuck/Merican citizen I don’t like these cartoons very much. It’s quite clear from elections and social analyses that the “America” there isn’t us, it’s a minority faction that has captured grossly lopsided power against the rest of our will. Then they hide behind us and call themselves “America”.
Canada is a lot better when it comes to gun control, and it shows in the statistics. But don’t hurt yourself throwing rose petals in front of Canadian cops before you get to know how they have treated minorities and native peoples, or rightwing Canadian politicians who were happy enough to get thousands of Canadian unnecessarily killed with COVID. We all got work to do.
fair points, all
The way they all got shook when he started recording pic.twitter.com/3gPH2t262Q
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) May 29, 2022
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number 6 was suicide just to get me out of there.
I am watching Margaret Atwood being interviewed by Margaret Hoover. I know it is a re-run but well worth it.
re: #52 wrenchwench
I’ve been stuck on my 4th for an hour.
Just popped into me brain.
Cool pattern at least.
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We should have only a single door outside and it should lock from the inside. If we gave every homeless person a gun, this wouldn’t be happening. https://t.co/Ogqgr63dYR
— Gocart Mozart (@EdMix13) May 29, 2022
re: #58 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Those are beautiful.
I just looked out my front windows and I can see that the weed killer that I sprayed on the weeds earlier is working. For me that is a beautiful sight. I hate weeds.
NRA convention is selling #TrumpRally-themed guns with let’s go Brandon engraved on the grip
Daniel Defense uses toddlers handling weapons of war in its ads
This weekend the NRA promoted the SAME AR-15 that the killer used at Uvalde
The GOP is a dumpster fire of death & greed— Lindy Li (@lindyli) May 29, 2022
re: #30 Targetpractice
“An awful long way to November”
“Why, yes it is, isn’t it? That might work both ways, Mr. Roid Cop, excuse me, police union president…”
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If these Texas pols had any brains, they’d call their bluff.
When we were exiting Walmart a man came over to talk to me. I assumed he was going to ask to see my receipt. Instead, he leaned over close to me and quietly said “Thank you for what you do.” I asked, “With my shirts?” “Yes, it is greatly appreciated.” He was a white man.
— Stevie Joe Payne (@StevijoPayne) May 29, 2022
“Sarge, he’s got two bug guns and he ran inside the school. What should we do?”
“We wait.”
“Sarge, there a bunch of angry parents begging us to save their children? What do we do?”
“Arrest then.”— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) May 29, 2022
LOL
A leftist is someone who has student loans.
A democrat is someone who has student loans but also perspective.— LadyGrey 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇦🇲 (@TWLadyGrey) May 29, 2022
I’m on call but I sneaked over to my mother’s house to do some things. My mom is conked on the couch. My brother is watching church from somewhere. I suspect a Calvary Chapel in southern Colorado, which makes me very concerned about what he’s hearing. That guy has been babbling for over 30 minutes already, time for him to sit down and shut up.
Along those lines..
I wrote this piece connecting cases of sexual abuse in the SBC and a church in Indiana for NBC THINK: “Survivors of sexual abuse have had to fight through trauma to be publicly heard. Their courage deserves recognition, and their bravery deserves change.” https://t.co/PuMgK1380P
— Jessica Johnson (@dr_jessjohnson) May 29, 2022
Beth Moore left the SBC in part because church leaders see a woman preacher as a bigger threat than abusers https://t.co/csjGXblRAM
— Bob Smietana (@bobsmietana) May 28, 2022
Along
re: #68 Belafon
YOU. ARE. A. COWARD.
Just like the scum of the Uvalde PD.
As a US Army veteran, I want to spit in your face you goddamn pig.— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) May 29, 2022
re: #70 mmmirele
Along those lines..
Fuckin’ a…
Yet another reason to call Evangelicals what they are: Hypocrits and Blasphemers.
They are everything Christ Jesus is not.— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) May 29, 2022
Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover. pic.twitter.com/qNATj7wRvy
— Heidi Stevens (@HeidiStevens13) May 29, 2022
From Stevie Joe’s feed
re: #73 HRH Stanley Sea
In far too many of these mass shooting incidents, we can see that the perpetrator was a “good guy with a gun” - right up to the moment they opened fire on a crowd of innocent people.
The President is in Uvalde.
Texas Republicans are not happy.
I however an Gleeful at the hand wringing is causing.
re: #76 Dave In Austin
You are not the only one.
re: #76 Dave In Austin
The President is in Uvalde.
Texas Republicans are not happy.
I however an Gleeful at the hand wringing is causing.
Whelp. Fuck their feelings.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) May 28, 2022
re: #35 TarHellion
Wordle 344 3/6
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A wild second guess helped set up getting it in 3. Have a great day Lizards!
Clue below — don’t read if you haven’t done it.
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