FULL SPEECH: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Addresses Joint Session of Congress [VIDEO]

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One of the best speeches I’ve seen any politician give.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy finishes his historic visit to D.C. by addressing a joint session of Congress tonight.

President Zelenskyy receives a standing ovation, cheers, and greetings from both Republican and Democrat members of Congress.

‘I hope my words of respect and gratitude resonate in each American heart’ — At the beginning of his speech to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanks Speaker Nancy Pelosi for ‘bravely’ visiting Ukraine during the war.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:43:58pm

Thanks for posting this. I was gonna do it, but you beat me to it, so you get the promo.

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:44:16pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:44:35pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:48:26pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

My internet ninja skillz at work, yo…

Giphy

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:50:17pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:50:33pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:51:37pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Okay. Dude. That is extra. Oy!

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Dave In Austin  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:54:08pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I’m tryin to figure out how exactly this works in SoCal?

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:54:20pm
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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 6:58:54pm

How long does a senate quorum call take? I’ve been waiting an hour so far. The place is empty.These fuckers need to get off their butts and earn their keep.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:01:33pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:02:55pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

I wonder how the voting would go on a Twitter poll for Elon to not post on Twitter for a week. And make it a weekly event.

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:03:02pm
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Belafon  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:09:39pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Ok, I will never do that.

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Belafon  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:10:51pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

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ckkatz  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:14:55pm

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:15:11pm

I know, childish, juvenile, nasty, etc. Very funny though and you couldn’t imagine a more deserving subject.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:18:16pm

re: #17 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Maybe it’s because I’m a haired male (I’ve sported a long ponytail most of my adult life) but the males in my family (and there’s a lot of them, brothers-in-law, cousins, etc,) have gone bald and just accepted it. I’ve found the whole hair-on-males-heads thing funny and strange for a long time.

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ckkatz  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:19:25pm

And one last one. G’Nite all!

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:20:34pm

re: #17 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Elmo got hair plugs too, but he paid top dollar. Rand here went to “the best in Bowling Green” and he’s been seeing same dude ever since…

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darthstar  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:25:33pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

My internet ninja skillz at work, yo…

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Thanks for posting the full link. Will be putting this on my mastodon page soon.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:28:33pm

Oh yeah, just remembered…

Back in 2003 a few days before my 21st birthday I was supposed to take a flight from Denver to Portland and then Portland to San Fransisco but something happened and I ended up on a direct flight from Denver to San Fransisco… on a 747 jet. That was my last (and only) ride on a 747.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:35:23pm

re: #13 Captain Ron

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Just look at Gosar and he comes off as pure evil.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:35:44pm

re: #22 teleskiguy

And yes, I spent my 21st birthday in Napa Valley wine country with my sister and her husband. That was… I’m having a hard time remembering.

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:36:59pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

I’m going bald on the left side of the top of my head way more than the right side. I keep it short in summer but winter It looks silly with long hair so I do a comb-over from the left side over the bald spot. it balances out pretty well.

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:37:24pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon

Just look at Gosar and he comes off as pure evil.

I was just thinking, I could not believe how anyone allowed him to put his hands in their mouth, or get near enough to touch them. GAH!

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mmmirele  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:39:21pm

re: #26 retired cynic

I was just thinking, I could not believe how anyone allowed him to put his hands in their mouth, or get near enough to touch them. GAH!

AAAAAAGH! I had an endodontist in my mouth for three hours today and the idea of Paul Gosar having his hands in my mouth…AAAAAAGH!

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:39:26pm

re: #25 Captain Ron

Unfortunately for a female, I have gone quite thin on top, much the way a man would. My hair was always very thick, and it still is around the lower part. It’s discouraging, but I decided long ago I wasn’t going to fight aging. Good thing, as it is winning!

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:39:36pm

re: #25 Captain Ron

All the dudes do it to their liking, and I like that! I laughed with a lot of joy seeing Saul Goodman do his combover towards the end of that TV series. I thought “That’s real! That’s countless men!”

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:40:47pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:45:18pm

The scene where Saul Goodman does his combover:

Better Call Saul 6x09 Ending Scene “Saul Goodman arrives” Season 6 Episode 9 HD “Fun and Games”

One of the lovely things about the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe is you can show this one scene to someone who’s never seen ANY of it and it’s just kind of a funny peculiar scene. You can do this with countless scenes in the universe. But once you’re in to it, and you know the context, it’s deep, fucked, entertaining as all hell.

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:50:25pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:57:10pm

re: #32 jaunte

A lot of snow is supposed to fall here on the western side of the Rocky Mountain Cordillera in the next day or two. We’ve had sub-zero temps at night when the skies are clear consistently for a couple weeks. The worst of the polar vortex is all on the east side of the cordillera, what with the heavy snow and high winds on top of an outside temp well below zero. Mercy…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 21, 2022 • 7:59:26pm

Weather here is supposed to be above freezing tomorrow with possible rain and then rapidly getting cold and potentially snowy on Friday. Thus I am doing my holiday drive (~5 hours) tomorrow.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:00:03pm

Yeah, check this.

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Current temp is 24° F with moderate winds from the NW.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:02:55pm

Big tall rocky mountains have a way of blocking massive air masses.

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:05:13pm

re: #33 teleskiguy

Is this recent snowfall going to help the drought conditions much, or is it just not enough?

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:08:20pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:14:46pm

re: #37 jaunte

Too early to tell. The snowfall has been remarkably consistent as opposed to recent years past. To be honest, it reminds me of winters when I was a kid. Enough snow to ski at the ski area at Thanksgiving and everything being open by Christmas. That’s what’s happening now. It’s cold, it’s snowing, the skiing gets better and better. I’m going to Arapahoe Basin on Friday, provided the roads are open when I drive there.

From where I see it, we need four or five 400” total snowfall/year years in a row to maybe bring Powell to 60%. We’re talking epic winter after epic winter for skiers in Colorado, and… bring it?

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:16:48pm

It’s dire. The reservoirs on the Colorado River are nearly drained.

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CleverToad  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:17:40pm

Weather report from the Denver metro here, before I go back and catch up on the last couple of threads.

Husband and I left home for a Hanukkah party at 4:17 pm; the car’s temp sensor said it was 50 degrees. The wind was from the west, gusting now and then but not that cold.

When we got to my semi-adopted sister’s apartment fifteen miles away and half an hour later, the temperature was 14 degrees and a blast of wind was coming straight from the east.

When we left the party at 7:30 the temp was zero and it was snowing.
Home now, -3 degrees, about 2-3” of snow. Going to go set the taps to a trickle and pile an extra quilt on the bed.

The party was a blast — worth the drive. The latkes didn’t turn out pretty, but wottheheck, they tasted good. But definitely one of the days when you watch the blue norther roll down in real time. Just glad to be home.

Stay safe, everyone caught in this!

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:21:26pm

re: #41 CleverToad

Hey girl! I was just tellin’ everyone how I’m still warmer than the other side of the Continental Divide (current temp, no shit, 24°) and how mountains dictate weather.

Stay warm! This one’s a doozy!

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Joe Bacon  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:24:28pm

I thought it was funny but on second thought it’s probably wrong.

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Targetpractice  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:35:38pm

re: #15 Belafon

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Hey Elmo, they’ll act upon your Twitter poll once they find a bill that they approve of. Until then, they’ll just vote on the only bill in front of them.

I mean, that’s the example you’ve set with your “Should I GTFO?” poll, right?

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:38:24pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon

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*parent of bipolar person gaze*

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Targetpractice  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:38:59pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon

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The CGI’s even more fake than the original.

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:40:14pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon

This is funny, and yet sad. I knew a little boy from a troubled home who grew up bipolar, and he fought it every inch of the way. He’d take his meds for a while, and be charming and intelligent, but he said they made him feel “not himself, muffled” and he would stop and go wildly into self-destructive behavior. Eventually he could not live like that and killed himself. And as much as I wanted to just be AWAY from him when he was “loose”, and I still regret that little boy. He had such an unhappy life.

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:45:45pm

re: #47 retired cynic

This is funny, and yet sad. I knew a little boy from a troubled home who grew up bipolar, and he fought it every inch of the way. He’d take his meds for a while, and be charming and intelligent, but he said they made him feel “not himself, muffled” and he would stop and go wildly into self-destructive behavior. Eventually he could not live like that and killed himself. And as much as I wanted to just be AWAY from him when he was “loose”, and I still regret that little boy. He had such an unhappy life.

I wish that the people around Kanye (or Ye, as he prefers to be called these days) could get him the treatment he needs to bring his delusions under control.

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:47:00pm

re: #48 A Three Hour Tour

An adult has to agree, and it can be so difficult. Totally tragic for everyone in their orbit.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:52:11pm

Cold, Cold, Cold

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:59:34pm

re: #49 retired cynic

An adult has to agree, and it can be so difficult. Totally tragic for everyone in their orbit.

Unfortunately, when one is a famous celebrity, one can also adversely affect people outside one’s immediate orbit.

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:02:11pm
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Egregious Philbin  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:09:55pm

Stay warm and safe my friends. Phoenix is a bit chilly, with 65 forecast for tomorrow. That is cold….here….

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:11:46pm
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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:12:16pm
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BigPapa  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:13:16pm

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CleverToad  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:15:29pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

Hey girl! I was just tellin’ everyone how I’m still warmer than the other side of the Continental Divide (current temp, no shit, 24°) and how mountains dictate weather.

Stay warm! This one’s a doozy!

Gloat away, you don’t get too many chances to be on the high side of the temperature gap :)
Glad you’re getting all that lovely white stuff up there!

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BigPapa  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:18:49pm

Mauna Loa has a crap ton of snow. I don’t remember seeing so much up there.
bigislandnow.com

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BigPapa  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:27:42pm

First concert: Earth Wind and Fire at the Alameda County fair. It was Oakland day and I had never seen so many hollering and dancing folks before. It was electric.

First concert without parents: Motorhead and Mercyful Fate. MF was an amazingly tight band, very good. Motohead’s rig blew the breakers a few times a few bars into Ace of Spades. After they go that figured out, some jerkoff was messing with Lemmy’s mike stand and it was moving all around. That was ill advised. Lemmy gave him the boot. Literally.

Welcome to rock and roll, kid.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:30:36pm

Sunset of the winter solstice:

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:31:25pm

re: #60 BeenHereAwhile

Thank you! Beautiful!!

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Targetpractice  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:37:29pm

re: #52 Captain Ron

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They won’t because they can’t. Why? Because the moment a journalist expresses skepticism or asks the “wrong” questions, a Repub cuts off all “access” and tells other Repubs to do the same, effectively locking that journalist out until they either apologize for doing their jobs or until their editor parks them at a desk while a journalist who won’t ask questions gets sent out instead.

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:40:30pm
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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:43:23pm

re: #63 Captain Ron

Did Tucker snatch Kari’s vaseline filters?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:53:43pm

re: #56 BigPapa

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BigPapa  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:58:35pm

So I did my first ham. Wifey Boo didn’t want bone in but she did want spiral sliced so I was able to negotiate a bone it. Did it in my air fryer with a glaze. Pretty good. Next time I will do a roast that isn’t pre cooked or marinated. This one had a touch too much salt for me but it tasted amazing. I used the ham juices to make a white gravy and that was a hit.

I bought a yellow pineapple from the farmer’s market a few weeks ago and we had leftover cranberry sauce from TGiving: this means I have to make chutney two ways.

So with the white gravy and two chutneys the fams was happy. There were meat sweats. I won White Elephant. I always do. It’s my jam.

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 9:59:26pm
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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:13:40pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:14:02pm

4 today .

Click to Reveal

Wordle 551 4/6

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A real challenge today. Glad to get it in 4.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:14:39pm

re: #67 Captain Ron

When somebody finances a coup they ought to be held to account.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:20:02pm

re: #70 Joe Bacon

When somebody finances a coup they ought to be held to account.

Why is Charlie Kirk still free? Certainly looks as though he was intimately involved in the planning and organization of the efforts to overthrow the government.

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:22:45pm

long, but important read:
This little-known bottleneck is blocking clean energy for millions
Energy developers want to build a ton of wind and solar — they just can’t get it connected to the grid
wapo.st (free link)

To achieve America’s goal of shifting 80 percent of the country’s electricity away from fossil fuels by the end of the decade, there will have to be a massive transformation. That means solar farms peppering the landscape from California to New York; offshore wind turbines standing high above the waves off the coast of New Jersey; nuclear power plants emitting steam in rural areas. Together, these projects would have to add around 950 gigawatts of new clean energy and 225 gigawatts of energy storage to the grid.

And right now, projects accounting for at least 930 gigawatts of clean energy capacity and 420 gigawatts of storage are waiting to be built across the country.

They just can’t get connected to the grid.

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:26:50pm

A Ukrainian military captain asked Zelenskyy to give Biden a medal he had won for his service: ‘Give it to a very brave president’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented President Joe Biden with a medal at the request of the soldier it was awarded to.

Biden welcomed the Ukrainian president to the White House on Wednesday. During a meeting in the Oval Office, Zelenskyy said a Ukrainian soldier, who he described as a “real hero, a real captain,” asked him to pass along the award.

Zelenskyy said the soldier is the captain of the HIMARS battery, a unit that uses an advanced long-range weapons system from the US.

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sagehen  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:30:09pm

Two meetings. A World of Difference for Democracy.

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Targetpractice  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:42:32pm

re: #74 sagehen

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Yeah, I’ve been seeing the photos posted side-by-side for hours now of Zelensky’s meeting with Trump versus meeting with Biden. And he could not have looked more uncomfortable sitting across from Trump if he’d tried. Now seeing the context that Trump was basically sounding like a mob enforcer telling him it’d be a “real shame” if he couldn’t make a “deal” with Boss Putin, the discomfort makes a lot more sense.

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:51:26pm

re: #60 BeenHereAwhile

Sunset of the winter solstice:

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Brings to mind this ancient song:

And oh how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon
For fear that daybreak might come too soon

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:52:29pm

re: #76 sizzzzlerz

That’s not one I’ve heard.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:59:14pm

re: #76 sizzzzlerz

re: #77 retired cynic

This is Spinal Tap - Stonehenge scene

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:03:47pm

re: #78 Dr Lizardo

Oh myyyy! I confess my ignorance, and laughed out loud.

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:04:39pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:17:03pm

New video from those wild and crazy Danes:

Dance of the sugar plum fairy // Dreamers’ Circus & DR Pigekoret (LIVE)



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sagehen  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:19:00pm

I haven’t been able to find chocolate-covered marshmallow Santas. Are they not making them this year, or is it just my CVS doing poor stock management?

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Targetpractice  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:21:06pm

re: #80 Captain Ron

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It’s really a Venn Diagram of three circles: “Dumb lawyers,” “Lawyers willing to be sanctioned,” and “Lawyers willing to take an IOU in lieu of a retainer.”

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Varek Raith  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:21:10pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:28:41pm

re: #82 sagehen

I have not seen them at my local grocery store, or if they were there they must have been in such small quantities that they sold out quickly.

Also not found: a great many other Christmas confection specialties.

Local grocery store usually carries a larger variety of Russell Stover candy. While they do have the usual sale of box Russell Stover (half off), I notice that the selection of boxes is reduced. For example, no chocolate covered nuts boxes (though the company still sells them on their website: russellstover.com ).

I’ve noticed my local grocery store has definitely shifted its stocking strategy from a couple of years ago. Used to be there were a whole lot of “seasonal” items, now there are much fewer.

Also reduced are the canned soups, indeed all canned items.

The square footage of the store has not changed so I don’t know what they’ve added.

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:31:52pm
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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:39:29pm
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:39:38pm

re: #79 retired cynic

Oh myyyy! I confess my ignorance, and laughed out loud.

This is Spinal Tap is one of those great and endlessly quotable films. One of Rob Reiner’s best.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:44:47pm

Good news.

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wrenchwench  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:51:16pm

re: #85 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I have not seen them at my local grocery store, or if they were there they must have been in such small quantities that they sold out quickly.

Also not found: a great many other Christmas confection specialties.

Local grocery store usually carries a larger variety of Russell Stover candy. While they do have the usual sale of box Russell Stover (half off), I notice that the selection of boxes is reduced. For example, no chocolate covered nuts boxes (though the company still sells them on their website: russellstover.com ).

I’ve noticed my local grocery store has definitely shifted its stocking strategy from a couple of years ago. Used to be there were a whole lot of “seasonal” items, now there are much fewer.

Also reduced are the canned soups, indeed all canned items.

The square footage of the store has not changed so I don’t know what they’ve added.

Health and Beauty, as they call it, was the growth area where I used to work. They did a remodel that made aisles narrower, shelf units much taller, and took out some big items, put in a lot of Health and Beauty and a little more frozen food.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:53:01pm

re: #56 BigPapa

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:59:53pm

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Silver And Gold (From “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” Soundtrack)





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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:08:24am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:10:15am

My plumbing is starting to object to the cold. It’s -16°F and the toilet line froze. I have to use a bucket to flush it.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:11:16am
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not deliver his annual state of the nation address this year, the Kremlin announced Wednesday.

The statement comes after the Kremlin announced last week that Putin had canceled his traditional year-ending marathon press conference for the first time in his presidency.

According to the Russian constitution, the head of state must address both houses of parliament every year to deliver an update on the management of the state, social and economic programs, and plans for the coming year.

Putin delivered his last state of the nation address in April 2021, after deploying over 100,000 Russian troops to Ukraine’s border, a precursor to the war that erupted in February this year with Moscow’s full blown invasion.

laprensalatina.com

While Putin hides himself in his luxury bunker out of fear from facing his own legislature, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addresses a joint session of the US Congress. The contrast between Putin’s utter cowardice and Zelenskyy’s courage could not be more clear.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:12:49am

re: #93 Captain Ron

I can only imagine that if Trump himself had testified, he’d plead the Fifth when asked his own name, LOL.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:13:12am

re: #93 Captain Ron

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Remember when the party of “Law & Order” used to believe that invoking the Fifth was tantamount to an admission of guilt? And not just simple guilt, but criminal guilt?

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:16:14am

re: #97 Targetpractice

Remember when the party of “Law & Order” used to believe that invoking the Fifth was tantamount to an admission of guilt? And not just simple guilt, but criminal guilt?

“Only criminals take the Fifth.”
- some guy from Queens, N.Y.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:22:41am

Hillary sat for 11 hours of testimony before a very clearly hostile committee that had every reason to catch her in a lie and yet never once invoked the 5A or refused to answer a question.

Meanwhile, Trump’s cronies went as far as invoking the 5A when asked their age (Roger Stone).

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:30:17am

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

He cannot be hiding from his legislature because it’s just an extension of him, marionettes. It’s the image of a president that doesn’t address his failed war that he’s running from.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:57:37am
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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:01:52am

Whirdle.

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Full house, 55166. When you can’t deal with the letters, it’s all about the numbers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:09:15am

re: #102 wrenchwench

Whirdle.

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I failed. One letter jumped to every position.

I got desperate on my fourth guess when I knew what position it would be in, and that didn’t help either.

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I know too many five-letter words. I only got two letters correct.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:17:28am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Sometimes I feel like if I get the wrong letter right, it makes it more difficult.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:18:59am

Kids these days with their weird music “get off my lawn” (shakes fists)

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:22:59am

There’s a creature in the open space behind my fence. I can’t match it’s small voice double bark to anything. I’m assuming it is a mammal. It doesn’t sound like a fox, coyote, raccoon, possum, bobcat, squirrel, dog, cat, or any other local critter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:23:13am

Conservatism is never a survival strategy.

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:24:57am

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fuck ‘em.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:29:05am

re: #106 Captain Ron

There’s a creature in the open space behind my fence. I can’t match it’s small voice double bark to anything. I’m assuming it is a mammal. It doesn’t sound like a fox, coyote, raccoon, possum, bobcat, squirrel, dog, cat, or any other local critter.

Birb?

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:31:06am

re: #109 wrenchwench

It’s a stretch but it could be. I’ve never heard it before. A bird dreaming did cross my mind.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:31:38am

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Conservatism is never a survival strategy.

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Yeah, but they’ll go to their grave satisfied that they “triggered” the liberal doctor.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:31:57am

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ok. Bye. One less ignoramus in the world. Improving the gene pool one step at a time.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:32:44am

re: #111 Targetpractice

Yeah, but they’ll go to their grave satisfied that they “triggered” the liberal doctor.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What are ya gonna do?

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:35:29am

re: #110 Captain Ron

It’s a stretch but it could be. I’ve never heard it before. A bird dreaming did cross my mind.

I keep thinking of you as ‘up there’ but now you’re ‘down there’ because I moved north of you. You don’t get roadrunners there, do you?

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:37:51am

re: #114 wrenchwench

I keep thinking of you as ‘up there’ but now you’re ‘down there’ because I moved north of you. You don’t get roadrunners there, do you?

Nope. We used to have California Quail and pheasants back in the 70s. They seem to be gone now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:40:48am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:42:17am

re: #108 Captain Ron

Fuck ‘em.

If they weren’t sucking up hospital resources and spreading new variants I would agree. I’m for quarantine and prosecuting people for contributing to homicide.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:43:19am

re: #115 Captain Ron

Nope. We used to have California Quail and pheasants back in the 70s. They seem to be gone now.

The human population must have tripled, or more. The town I lived in in NM is the first place I’ve lived that shrank while I was there. And a little more when I left.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:44:40am

re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Cheechako  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:44:50am

re: #106 Captain Ron

There’s a creature in the open space behind my fence. I can’t match it’s small voice double bark to anything. I’m assuming it is a mammal. It doesn’t sound like a fox, coyote, raccoon, possum, bobcat, squirrel, dog, cat, or any other local critter.

Just has to be a Snipe.

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:46:51am

re: #118 wrenchwench

The human population must have tripled, or more. The town I lived in in NM is the first place I’ve lived that shrank while I was there. And a little more when I left.

Yeah, when I moved here in 1964 the big City was 26,000, it’s built up as far as it could and has been ~125,000 for the past 20 years.

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:51:45am

re: #120 Cheechako

Just has to be a Snipe.

I was 7 years old on a YMCA summer overnight camp in the Santa Barbara mountains and we went hunting for snipe after dark. The older kids hid in the bushes and scared the shit out of us.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:53:43am

re: #121 Captain Ron

Yeah, when I moved here in 1964 the big City was 26,000, it’s built up as far as it could and has been ~125,000 for the past 20 years.

My family landed in Orange County in 1963, in a town of (then) 25,000, (now) 140,000.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:57:51am

Sean Hannity Testified He Didn’t Believe Trump’s Election Fraud Lies ‘For 1 Second (December 21, 2022, Huffington Post)

Sean Hannity was apparently willing to promote Donald Trump’s bogus election fraud claims on his Fox News show but unwilling to defend them while under oath.

The New York Times is reporting that when Hannity was deposed earlier this year as a part of a massive defamation lawsuit brought forward by Dominion Voting Systems against the right-wing network, he basically admitted his real thoughts about the 2020 election being stolen.

“I did not believe it for one second,” Hannity testified.

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Conservatism kills.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:02:08am
For the second time, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would ban race-based discrimination of hair, specifically natural, textured hair and protective hairstyles typically worn by African Americans.

The Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act aims to protect individuals from unjust treatment in the workplace, in hiring processes and in schools because of their hair. The legislation failed to get enough support from Senate Republicans to override a filibuster from Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.

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That legislation passed in my state overwhelmingly last year.

Senate Republicans block CROWN legislation again. But advocates aren’t deterred. (Yahoo!, December 21, 2022)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:12:05am

re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

American strategy since WWII is to fight “over there”, i.e., forward deployment.

The Ukrainians are paying a high price to fight Russian nationalism.

We, the US, have reasons to not want Russian nationalism to flourish.

Hence it is in our best interest to support the Ukrainians.

This is not hard for anyone who has a shred of historical knowledge, but in the land of the know-nothings knowledge about the past is rare.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:13:20am

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By The Fireside


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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:15:02am

Seeing breaking news reports on Czech media that the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has caught on fire. Again.

Just found a source in English: newsweek.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:15:21am

-19°F (-28°C) in smoke haze (there’s a prairie fire around here somewhere).

We are well-below the predicted low of -1°F for tonight.

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TarHellion  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:23:04am

Nothing wrong with a par today.

Jeopardy with The Grinch went over well yesterday, though wearing the green pants gets a bit too hot. Always good for a some laughs and brings everyone from the various departments together. Today we have our Christmas party that features the cutthroat Dirty Santa gift battle royale. To folks facing the brunt of this stuff, stay warm and stay safe.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:24:50am

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (Labor) has been appointed as ambassador to Washington.

abcnews.go.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:26:15am
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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:31:46am

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fucking Florida.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:32:04am

re: #130 TarHellion

Nothing wrong with a par today.

I was surprised I managed a four today. I whiffed my first guess.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:32:29am

Covid Disinformation Doctor Wants to Help Elon Musk Do Medical Fact-Checks on Twitter (The Intercept, December 15, 2022)

Convicted U.S. Capitol insurrectionist Simone Gold offered her vaccine disinformation group America’s Frontline Doctors for the job.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:33:10am

re: #133 Captain Ron

Fucking Florida.

That’s the idea. /s

You do get some odd requests in city council meetings.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:34:45am

So, catching up on some news, and I see that Sean Hannity testified that he didn’t believe “for one second” Trump’s claims about the 2020 election being stolen.

Nonetheless, he repeated and amplified it.

First, I hope Dominion takes FNC to the cleaners (along with MyPillow guy and “Kraken” Powell).

Second, I’m sorta looking forward to Trump exploding with some all-caps rant about Hannity. 😄

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:35:01am

re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s the idea. /s

You do get some odd requests in city council meetings.

I don’t remember anything near as weird at a City of Walnut Creek council meeting.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:44:15am

re: #138 Captain Ron

I don’t remember anything near as weird at a City of Walnut Creek council meeting.

We haven’t had anything quite as weird at our city council meetings either. We have had debates about how many chickens you can have in town (6) and whether the village should put up chicken crossing signs on the streets (passed into law, signs are now up).

We’ve also had debates whether goats count as livestock when they are rented to mow lawns (split decision, goats are allowed for that purpose now).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:51:46am

My furnace is no longer able to keep up with the cold. The house temperature is down to 66°F and falling. I have an electric throw over my lap to try to keep warm.

I’m trying to augment with the range burners and oven.

Part of the problem is a house built in 1914. It has some drafts. Larger drafts (back door) are plugged with towels now, but improving the insulation on a 108 year-old house is problematic.

Where once there was a flue for a Franklin stove was plugged back in the Fifties. Insurance companies here will not insure any home with a Franklin or pellet stove.

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:53:37am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When I moved here it was ranches and walnut orchards. They got wiped out in the 70s as houses were built. We haven’t had livestock or chickens in town since the late 70s. Between the 70s and 90s they filled in every little patch of ‘unimproved’ land with houses or apartments/condos.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:58:37am

This probably ought to be on Christian Nightmares.

The Emerging Crazy Christian Trend Of Grave Sucking (World Religion News, April 18, 2018)

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If you see someone lying on a grave, they may be engaged in a controversial form of Christian worship. It is called “grave sucking,” “grave soaking,” or “mantle grabbing.” The practice is angering Christians, confusing others, and probably making Atheists smirk.

Grave sucking involves laying across a grave of a holy figure. That could mean a preacher, evangelist, or saint. By laying across the grave you “suck” up the power of the Holy Spirit that the person had. You know, like the stealing the power of the dead from the Highlander movie/television franchise[.]

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:05:34am

re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Contemporary Christianity is returning to its roots, to the absurd Middle Ages trends.

What’s next, Trump selling indulgences?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:06:30am

Used to be that the bones of saints were sought after.

Is that the next step to this “grave sucking”???

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:08:36am

re: #143 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Contemporary Christianity is returning to its roots, to the absurd Middle Ages trends.

What’s next, Trump selling indulgences?

NFTs are apparently the modern-day indulgence.

Christians are going against the very foundation of the nation now.

Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, [ca. 20 June] 1785 (James Madison, National Archives)

The most striking element in JM’s authorship of the Memorial and Remonstrance was the pains he took to keep the public ignorant of his heavy involvement in this battle over state-subsidized religion. So successful was he in maintaining anonymity that a few libraries still have a printed version with speculative attributions of the work to other public men. Although in 1786 printer Isaiah Thomas used JM’s name in the title when he issued A Memorial and Remonstrance … by his Excellency James Madison (Sabin 43719), JM himself waited until 1826 to make an explicit acknowledgment of his authorship. In reply to a query from George Mason’s grandson, JM recalled that Mason and George Nicholas “and some others, thought it adviseable, that a Remonstrance against the Bill should be prepared for general circulation & signature, and imposed on me the task of drawing up such a paper” (JM to George Mason [of Green Spring], 14 July 1826 [ViHi]). After forty years, the legislative undercurrents moving the General Assessment bill toward passage in 1785 had been forgotten, and the surviving documents standing alone did not tell the whole story.

The importance of formal religion in the 1780s is a concept difficult for a secularistic society to grasp. JM had a decent respect for the opinions of his peers and must have been aware of the intensity with which his Baptist and Presbyterian neighbors approached religious worship. He was also conscious of loyalties held by such patriots as Edmund Pendleton and Patrick Henry for the former established church, and of their conviction that taxes should be offered to all churches through a general assessment lest public morality languish.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:10:05am

re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Used to be that the bones of saints were sought after.

For what? To make tea?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:13:03am

re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Used to be that the bones of saints were sought after.

Is that the next step to this “grave sucking”???

Essentially it’s the same argument.

Most Christians to be fair consider this idolatry. Some however point to weak “evidence” that this is valid practice, citing 2 Kings 13:21

And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha. And when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood up on his feet.

(KJV)

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:14:13am

re: #143 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Contemporary Christianity is returning to its roots, to the absurd Middle Ages trends.

What’s next, Trump selling indulgences?

He’s already done that. What do you think his pardons were about?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:17:55am

re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This essay from the National Archives is well-worth the read. It shows the struggles of Christians to insert religion at the very foundation of the nation, and the endless quest to subsidise Christian churches and schools.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:25:49am

A break for people who purchase EV cars.

How some EV buyers could pocket an extra $3,750 in tax credits (CBS News, December 20, 2022)

Consumers in the market for an electric vehicle in early 2023 could get a bigger-than-expected tax credit come January 1 because of a delay by the Treasury Department in drawing up rules for the tax breaks.

The department late Monday said it won’t finish the rules that govern where battery minerals and parts have to be sourced until sometime in March.

The Inflation Reduction Act stipulates that a full $7,500 tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases are only available to EVs with batteries manufactured in the U.S., Canada or Mexico, while the batteries’ minerals and parts also have to come from North America to qualify.

But the Treasury Department said that rule won’t take effect until it completes its guidelines for component requirements in March — which means more vehicles in early 2023 could qualify for the full $7,500 tax credit than would otherwise. Once the rules are in effect, many vehicles may only qualify for half the credit, or $3,750, because their batteries are made or sourced outside North America.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:35:33am

Warming trend on tap for the next couple days (thank the Invisible Pink Unicorn).

Currently: -16°F
Today’s high: -1°F
Friday’s high: 0­°F
Saturday’s high: +21°F
Sunday’s high (toilet thaws): +43°F.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:39:53am

re: #106 Captain Ron

Owl….

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:40:28am

Health warning. There is no safe level of lead in food or water.

Heavy metals found in dark chocolate including Trader Joe’s and Hershey’s (CBS News, December 19, 2022)

Long viewed as healthier than other sweet treats, some brands of dark chocolate contain potentially dangerous amounts of heavy metals, according to research released on Thursday by Consumer Reports. (link goes to Consumer Reports)

Scientists at the nonprofit advocacy organization recently measured the amount of heavy metals in 28 popular brands of dark chocolate bars and found cadmium and lead in all of them. For 23 of the bars, consuming just an ounce a day would put an adult over a level for at least one of the metals that could be harmful, CR said. Five of the bars were above those levels for both cadmium and lead.

Long-term exposure to even small amounts of heavy metals can lead to a slew of health issues, including developmental problems and brain development in young children, experts say.

“But there are risks for people of any age,” Tunde Akinleye, the CR food safety researcher who led the testing, said in a statement. Frequent exposure to lead in adults can lead to nervous system problems, hypertension, immune system suppression, kidney damage and reproductive issues, he noted.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:58:28am

Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) (Yahoo! Finance)

$137.57 (-0.17%), January 3, 2022 $342.22

One wonders who keeps buying the dips as Tesla’s stock continues to drop. Is this some sort of short-term pump-and-dump? The stock peaked at $381.59 on November 1, 2021 (before Mr. Musk bought Twitter). He bought the company on October 27, 2022, when it closed at $225.29. It was falling well before Musk bought the company.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:04:36am

I’m sure she would. The question is how many lawyers want to set their careers on fire for this dingbat?

Lake Says She’ll ‘Take Anybody’ As Lawyers Drop Out Of Beleaguered Election Suit (Talking Points Memo, December 20, 2022)

Unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who staked much of her 2022 election bid on peddling Donald Trump’s big lie, admitted Tuesday that she’s having trouble retaining lawyers in her quest to get her own election loss overturned.

“We had attorneys who did walk away because the left is threatening them with their ability to make a living and practice law,” she said Tuesday to Charlie Kirk at his Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix. “And some of our attorneys said ‘look, I got mouths to feed, I can’t do this case, I don’t want to be sanctioned.’”

“I got to a point where I said ‘I’ll take anybody,’” she said to laughter. “We’ll take Better Call Saul to come in here.”

Her case likely did not become any more appealing to prospective lawyers after a Superior Court judge in Maricopa County dismissed eight of the 10 claims in her lawsuit this week.

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She’d probably do better with Better Call Saul. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:10:38am

Weather radio: Today’s wind chill -65°F

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:24:39am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Weather radio: Today’s wind chill -65°F

Yikes.

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:25:41am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Weather radio: Today’s wind chill -65°F

Now imagine you’re huddling in the covered wagon (because you were six weeks late leaving St Louis, and thought you’d chance it anyway)….

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:29:09am

re: #56 Dangerman

explain how government spending takes away money that you could personally spend on groceries

i’ll wait

still waiting… ;-)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:33:15am

We’re not close to the record low (-42°F). Heavy snow is now falling here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:44:10am

re: #159 Dangerman

Lots of good answers in there.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:53:06am
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:54:01am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’re not close to the record low (-42°F). Heavy snow is now falling here.

The snow has finally abated here, so later this morning (when the neighbors have all gotten up and gotten going, so as to be polite) I will be wheeling out the snowblower and clearing the driveway. While neither Mrs. Fish nor I have anywhere specific to be today, I do need to get the garbage and recycling cans down to the end of the driveway for the weekly haul-away, and I don’t particularly feel like trying to drag them through 6ish inches of powder to do so.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:54:25am
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:55:10am

Current air temperature: -12 °F (-24.4 C), with a wind chill at a brisk -24 °F (-31.1 C). Winds are supposed to pick up later in the morning, so hopefully people get on their way relatively soon.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:00:53am

When every Russian soldier is off the sovereign territory of Ukraine.

Think of this way, Laurie (if that’s your real name): How would Georgia citizens feel if New York militias were occupying any square inch of Georgia? Do you negotiate for “peace,” and allow them to occupy, say, Savannah? Or do you push them into the sea?

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:03:12am

spy45s 2018 return shows taxable income of more than $24 million.

the only year in the black

most of that income was from the final bit of the huge inheritance that financed much of his business career

$14 million in cap gains from the sale of his father’s 1970s investment in the Brooklyn housing development of Starrett City.

after all, nothing says successful businessman like being supported by your dead dad into your late 70s.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:07:19am

re: #72 retired cynic

long, but important read:
This little-known bottleneck is blocking clean energy for millions
Energy developers want to build a ton of wind and solar — they just can’t get it connected to the grid
wapo.st (free link)

Running power lines is a tough task, especially in urban areas, or where they connect with the existing grid. That’s why some of the lowest hanging fruit is converting existing natgas or coal plants to solar or wind makes sense, since you’ve got the land and the grid is ready-baked for energy production.

The problem is that you run out of that kind of property pretty quick, and not all existing power generation plants are where you need the energy, or where it is most efficiently produced.

The grid was never designed to be fragmented or with so many different generation facilities baked into the calculus (where the ISOs have to manage supply with demand to keep the lights on or else power cycles can fry everyone’s gear).

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:09:28am

re: #167 Dangerman

Think of it this way. Starett City was a working class neighborhood where lower and middle class folks could live. That’s where Trump Sr made his money.

Junior decided to go “luxury” and the reality is that he’s lost money doing it every step of the way, despite giving airs of being a successful businessman. Trump Tower isn’t generating revenues the way you’d think, nor are any of his other properties. But he still manages to funnel everything to himself personally so it looks like he’s filthy rich, when he’s just filthy.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:09:56am

re: #106 Captain Ron

There’s a creature in the open space behind my fence. I can’t match it’s small voice double bark to anything. I’m assuming it is a mammal. It doesn’t sound like a fox, coyote, raccoon, possum, bobcat, squirrel, dog, cat, or any other local critter.

Around my area, the general rule is that if you hear weird noises coming from out of the dark, it is most likely a fox. They have a large array of very unusual calls.

We are just starting to get owls, hawks and even Bald Eagles back to the region, though.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:10:54am

re: #169 lawhawk

Think of it this way. Starett City was a working class neighborhood where lower and middle class folks could live. That’s where Trump Sr made his money.

Junior decided to go “luxury” and the reality is that he’s lost money doing it every step of the way, despite giving airs of being a successful businessman. Trump Tower isn’t generating revenues the way you’d think, nor are any of his other properties. But he still manages to funnel everything to himself personally so it looks like he’s filthy rich, when he’s just filthy.

said well and well said

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:11:29am

Wanna know why GOPers have stopped talking about gas prices?

Because they’ve plummeted, and that has a add-on effect to reducing inflation rates too - as CPI takes fuel costs into effect. Demand is still high so inflation is still above historic levels, but the economy continues chugging along faster than the Fed would like to see, so we’ll likely see even more interest rate hikes in coming months.

The problem for the GOP is that their entire narrative is that the economy sucks, when there’s really no evidence for it and they’re just hoping no one notices that the GOP is actively rooting for the economy to collapse so that the GOP can return to power.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:11:43am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:11:58am

Across the country, China’s hospitals and crematoria are being overwhelmed with sickness and death, after the country went from “full lockdown” to “fully open.” (CNN, 4:00)

China reports few Covid deaths since easing restrictions. What CNN sees tells a different story

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:14:23am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’re not close to the record low (-42°F). Heavy snow is now falling here.

But all your horses are dead, and some of the oxen. You’re running out of food, and a cup of snow isn’t as refreshing as a cup of water would be…

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Dizzy  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:21:14am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My plumbing is starting to object to the cold. It’s -16°F and the toilet line froze. I have to use a bucket to flush it.

If you can, turn the water off to that pipe. Once it thaws, the pipe is likely compromised, and you may have a water leak.

After that, you may want to inspect as much of your plumbing as possible.

*Speaking from experience; I live in cold Canada.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:21:47am

re: #175 sagehen

But all your horses are dead, and some of the oxen. You’re running out of food, and a cup of snow isn’t as refreshing as a cup of water would be…

“You died of measles.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:22:13am
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Dave In Austin  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:26:50am

re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A great Host for the Holidays!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:26:52am
In 2018, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) became the first senator to give birth in office after using in vitro fertilization (IVF) and senators across party lines joined Duckworth in celebrating her child’s birth. Four years later, Duckworth’s Republican colleagues—namely Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MO)—have blocked the Right To Build Families Act, a bill introduced by Duckworth and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) to create a federal right to use IVF and other fertility technologies, and prohibit any restrictions on individuals seeking fertility treatments.

On Tuesday, when Duckworth requested to pass the bill through unanimous consent, Hyde-Smith objected to it. “The same Republicans who claim to ‘defend family values’ just blocked my bill to protect the right to start a family through IVF,” Duckworth said in a tweet shortly after. The Illinois Democrat called right-wing threats to IVF “the ultimate, nightmarish blend of hypocrisy and misogyny.” In a statement shared with Jezebel, Murray called Hyde-Smith’s vote against their “commonsense” bill “outrageous,” and a result of Republicans’ “extreme stance on reproductive rights.”

(more)

‘Pro-Life’ Senators Block Bill to Protect IVF (Jezebel, yesterday)

Without Roe v. Wade, abortion bans with “life begins at conception” language leave IVF with an uncertain—possibly criminal—future.

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I’m headed off to bed. It’s fookin’ cold in my house; perhaps diving under the blankets can help.

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:26:53am

Photographer Marks Winter Solstice With Stunning Solar Halo


petapixel.com
Photo by Göran Strand

In a tiny corner of irony, my solstice “shortest day” was my longest working day of the year. But that’s the jewelry mfg, biz near Christmas. LOL @ me and the crew.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:27:27am

re: #175 sagehen

But all your horses are dead, and some of the oxen. You’re running out of food, and a cup of snow isn’t as refreshing as a cup of water would be…

You died of typhoid fever.

Such is the life (and death) on the Oregon Trail….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:27:52am

re: #152 Dave In Austin

Owl….

definitely an owl

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:28:49am
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:33:19am

re: #175 sagehen

But all your horses are dead, and some of the oxen. You’re running out of food, and a cup of snow isn’t as refreshing as a cup of water would be…

Well, that’s kind of a downer.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:34:23am

re: #167 Dangerman

after all, nothing says successful businessman like being supported by your dead dad into your late 70s.

You know, born on third base, stole second, and will never reach home.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:35:24am

re: #41 CleverToad

*snip*
Stay safe, everyone caught in this!

Yes, please do! And I do appreciate the various weather reports.

Also - Do not get snowed in here:

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jeffreyw  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:43:26am

breakfast pr0n

Good morning!

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:47:34am
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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:49:07am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:50:11am

re: #86 Captain Ron

This whole episode has also pointed out that having a law intended to reduce or stop corruption is meaningless if the officials designated to enforce it refuse to do so.

Which is why the rot goes much deeper than Trump. His Treasury Secretary refused to enforce the law. Shall means shall. And if the supposed only solution for corruption that high up is impeachment and the group that needs to do the impeaching simply looks the other way (repeatedly!) it’s another indication that the problem is more than Trump as well.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:56:41am

re: #162 Dangerman

And then this happened…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:58:01am

re: #192 Joe Bacon

Damn those woke judges.

///

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Egregious Philbin  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:58:30am

re: #192 Joe Bacon

I watched parts of the hearing, pure comedy gold. Over on Krazi Kari’s FB page, her cult somehow thought he did a good job.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:00:53am

re: #191 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Yup, the question of Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

What happens when the people who are supposed to enforce the rule of law are corrupt.

In the end, it falls back onto the responsibility of the people. Which gets extremely messy and bloody at times. Which, I guess, is the penalty for allowing things to get out of control in the first place.

One big problem with creating a new enforcement group and assigning them the responsibility to enforce the rule of law on the political classes is that the enforcement agency can also be corrupted.

Another is that the agency will be expected to be productive. So, they will have an organizational imperative to take actions in every administration. Whether or not there is a real problem.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:02:23am

But Client #3 spewed that lie nonstop 24/7 on the network, alongside all the rest of the Fox personalities who amplified the lie, weaponized it, and incited their listeners to act on their violent impulses as Trump exhorted GOPers to overthrow the govt to install Trump as leader despite clearly and unequivocally losing the election.

Trump, GOPers, and media types like Hannity all sought to end democracy on 1/6, and were doing everything possible to achieve that outcome.

Dominion and Smartmatic should own Hannity’s ass after this. Joint custody.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:05:55am

re: #188 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

You slay me

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:06:10am

re: #187 ckkatz

File that one under “Forbidden Snacks”.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:08:07am

re: #172 lawhawk

Wanna know why GOPers have stopped talking about gas prices?

Because they’ve plummeted, and that has a add-on effect to reducing inflation rates too - as CPI takes fuel costs into effect. Demand is still high so inflation is still above historic levels, but the economy continues chugging along faster than the Fed would like to see, so we’ll likely see even more interest rate hikes in coming months.

The problem for the GOP is that their entire narrative is that the economy sucks, when there’s really no evidence for it and they’re just hoping no one notices that the GOP is actively rooting for the economy to collapse so that the GOP can return to power.

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Filled up yesterday at $2.68/gallon yesterday!

Thank you POTUS Biden! 👍🏻😆😁

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:08:33am

re: #198 Dr Lizardo

File that one under “Forbidden Snacks”.

That reminds me: I love shoestring fries.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:10:32am

Every word out of George Santos’ mouth is a lie.

Even when he farts and belches he lies.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:13:23am

I posted this Private but assume most folks thought it was a Wordle.

I’m thinking of putting together a online poker group if anybody is interested. We can create a league, play with free chips, have yearly standings, etc. I play once a week with my company owner a few of his buddies. Some of us sometimes get on a phone call chat in Google Hangouts, some folks don’t call in. Lies are sometimes told. If interested ping me and I’ll set it up.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:16:31am

re: #202 BigPapa

I’m interested (depending on the time and my work schedule at that time). What do you need from me?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:16:52am

re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Used to be that the bones of saints were sought after.

Is that the next step to this “grave sucking”???

The Black Adder: Relics.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:17:42am

Truly enjoying the GQP in Disarray.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:18:50am

re: #205 BigPapa

Truly enjoying the GQP in Disarray.

That won’t stop the New York Times from continually going to the same rural Ohio diner where the same 12 Republicans recited the “Democrats in Disarray” BS.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:21:53am

re: #203 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m interested (depending on the time and my work schedule at that time). What do you need from me?

Probably a Friday or weekend day (for me) to work in time zones. Not everybody will make it every week but that’s OK. I’ll get an email list soon. You can create an account on Pokerstarts.bet to lock in your name. I’d then create a League and we’d all get invited to each game through email. I have a few folks interested now. Once you have more than 10 folks you’ll probably have at least 5-6 playing on any week.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:21:57am

re: #205 BigPapa

Truly enjoying the GQP in Disarray.

Me too, but I’m rooting for a LOT more disarray than this.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:22:17am

“A member of the rock band Journey has served a fellow bandmate with a cease-and-desist order for performing their hit Don’t Stop Believin’ with several high-profile Republicans for Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago last month, calling the performance ‘harmful’ to the band,” reported Sian Cain. “Keyboardist Jonathan Cain, guitarist Neal Schon and singer Steve Perry co-wrote the 1981 song, which returned to public consciousness 30 years later when it was used in the final episode of The Sopranos.”

According to the report, Cain came to be close to the former president through his wife, televangelist Paula White-Cain, who has acted as Trump’s spiritual adviser.

“In November, Cain performed Don’t Stop Believin’ with Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Kari Lake for Trump at his Florida resort,” said the report. “On Wednesday, it was revealed by Variety that Schon’s attorney had issued a cease-and-desist letter to Cain over the performance.”

rawstory.com

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:23:01am

SBF had his first American court appearance, and today we learn that two of his coconspirators/accomplices have entered guilty pleas and agree to testify against him.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:24:03am

re: #210 lawhawk

Hmmmm. Wondering if that bag is filled with Trump trading cards…

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:25:14am

re: #210 lawhawk

SBF had his first American court appearance, and today we learn that two of his coconspirators/accomplices have entered guilty pleas and agree to testify against him.

I saw a comment on that news article that these two paid attention when the prisoner’s dilemma was taught in school.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:25:18am

re: #67 Captain Ron

Yep, tons of people conspiring and covering tracks for Jan. 6th involvement and asking for pardons. But there is no conspiracy.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:26:05am

The word ‘victims’ is not one I would associate with Greene or Boebert

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:26:10am

re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg

Me too, but I’m rooting for a LOT more disarray than this.

I’m rooting for injuries.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:27:32am

re: #215 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m rooting for injuries.

Career ending injuries that land them in prison, preferably.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:29:36am

re: #216 lawhawk

Career ending injuries that land them in prison, preferably.

I would like to see GQP in Arraignment. So many Arraignments.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:30:38am

re: #214 ckkatz

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:30:43am

A lot of content creators have been moving their content to Substack in order to monetize it. I assume that Substack is back up now.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:31:55am

re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg

Me too, but I’m rooting for a LOT more disarray than this.

conservatives are saying the quiet part out loud

Pause for a moment to think about how remarkable this is. Cramer and Brown are not staff members at The Daily Beast, or professors at Berkeley, or members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The two men are basically on the same page with McCarthy & Co. on policy, and in particular on economic policy. And yet, both Cramer and Brown (and unnamed other Republican officeholders they both allude to) have absolutely zero confidence in the ability of the soon-to-be House Republican majority to govern. And we’re not even talking about “it would be nice” stuff, like legislation on abortion or immigration or taxes, or any other Republican issues. We’re talking about basic and essential functions of government, like adopting a budget.

Barring something of a miracle, the House is going to be a train wreck next year. Insiders think so and non-insiders think so. Democrats think so and Republicans think so. Politicians think so and pundits think so. And, like an actual train wreck, all these folks see what’s coming and can’t do a damn thing to stop it

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:32:27am

re: #214 ckkatz

The word ‘victims’ is not one I would associate with Greene or Boebert

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I’m just waiting for Ku Klux Klannie Oakley and Empty Green to have Linda Evans/Joan Collins fight on the floor of the House.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:32:51am

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:35:32am

re: #201 Joe Bacon

Every word out of George Santos’ mouth is a lie.

Even when he farts and belches he lies.

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The Mary McCarthy quote, about Lillian Hellman..

“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:35:58am

re: #221 Joe Bacon

I’m just waiting for Ku Klux Klannie Oakley and Empty Green to have Linda Evans/Joan Collins fight on the floor of the House.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Dynasty Linda Evans and Joan Collins Fight in the pond

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:38:07am

Mountain Howler Monkey Barbie vs Marjorie Space Laser Greene. LETS GET READY TO RUUUUUUUMBLEEEEEE!

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:38:26am

re: #220 Dangerman

It’s not that they can do a damned thing about it.

It is that the GOP chose to do nothing. The sabotage and obstructionism is the fucking point.

Let me restate - the obstructionists and seditious treasonweasels know that a functioning Congress means that legislation passes and gets enacted into law. What better way of sabotaging Biden and democracy than thwarting basic functions of government, and the GOP elected these people to do just what they are going to do - block functioning government and the chaos is the whole fucking point.

Stochastic terrorism? Insurrectionists pulling the strings on the GOP leadership? Infighting that may elevate a known white supremacist to the seat (Scalise), over craven coward McCarthy? Stefinak doing whatever she gain to gain power for herself, even if it means knifing everyone else? MTG and Boebert fighting amongst each other for the title of worst. Gosar and Jordan doing all they can to distract from their own criminal conduct re: 1/6.

It’s a shit show, and the GOP elected all of them to do what they’re doing right now.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:43:33am

re: #56 BigPapa

Click to Reveal

I am interested
Laneman-42 at verizon dot net

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:44:48am

re: #220 Dangerman

conservatives are saying the quiet part out loud

Gonna be a lot of finger-pointing and scapegoating.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:45:01am

re: #226 lawhawk

They hate government so they joined it to destroy it. This is why they lie, spread conspiracies, act in bad faith, incessantly politicize everything to weaponize it. It’s intellectual vandalism, arson committed on our societal norms. They want to burn it all down so they can rule the ashes.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:47:57am

I am not a doctor, I do not know Dr Frieden’s credentials nor expertise. But this may be something to ask your own Dr’s. Particularly with a large segment of humanity likely to come down with Covid in the next 90 days or so.

[I have seen estimates that as many as 800 million Chinese are expected to come down with Covid in the next 90 days. With Omicron being a highly prevalent variant there. Expectations are that, since most Chinese are reportedly vaccinated, the death rate will be lower than in the US.]

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:49:25am

re: #230 ckkatz

This is why I’m glad I got my booster back in late October.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:51:25am

re: #230 ckkatz

I am not a doctor, I do not know Dr Frieden’s credentials nor expertise. But this may be something to ask your own Dr’s. Particularly with a large segment of humanity likely to come down with Covid in the next 90 days or so.

[I have seen estimates that as many as 800 million Chinese are expected to come down with Covid in the next 90 days. With Omicron being a highly prevalent variant there. Expectations are that, since most Chinese are reportedly vaccinated, the death rate will be lower than in the US.]

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You don’t need to be a doctor to know that if you haven’t had the omicron-specific booster, you have little protection against the current strains. I hope everyone here got theirs.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:52:15am

Has Tucker opposed sending testicle energizers to Ukraine?

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:53:54am

I found this interesting.

Gift link - wapo.st

Visual Forensics
From Jared Kushner to Salt Bae: Here’s who Elon Musk was seen with at the World Cup

On Sunday, Elon Musk was spotted watching the World Cup final live at Lusail Stadium in Qatar, surrounded by a group of high-profile businesspeople and politicians.

Photos taken of Musk during the match show him drinking from a wine glass, standing amid a group that included former president Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Qatari leaders and an Indian steelmaking magnate.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:54:50am

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yes mistress

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:57:00am

re: #86 Captain Ron

“This just proves that the IRS should be disbanded.” - Republicans

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:00:27am
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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:05:38am

Lizard Casino forming. To join the LGF poker league go to:

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:07:10am

re: #230 ckkatz

Chinese vaccines weren’t nearly as effective as some of the others in wide use, like the Pfizer or Moderna, and China didn’t import from elsewhere.

They also haven’t stressed boosters to same degree as elsewhere. China’s vaccines aren’t nearly as good against omicron as others, and the bivalent boosters are not getting to China either.

On top of that, China is suppressing the body counts from covid, as they’ve done all along.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:10:05am

re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Projection

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:11:51am

re: #102 wrenchwench

Borgle here.
Wordle 551 5/6

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:11:56am

re: #146 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

For what? To make tea?

Holy broth

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:12:19am

re: #239 lawhawk

Chinese vaccines weren’t nearly as effective as some of the others in wide use, like the Pfizer or Moderna, and China didn’t import from elsewhere.

They also haven’t stressed boosters to same degree as elsewhere. China’s vaccines aren’t nearly as good against omicron as others, and the bivalent boosters are not getting to China either.

On top of that, China is suppressing the body counts from covid, as they’ve done all along.

From what I understand, that is indeed the consensus of Western experts.

A big frustration, as you note, is that Chinese official Covid statistics are considered generally untrustworthy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:12:25am

re: #238 BigPapa

Question: If I join, would I be expected to play weekly (or bi-weekly or whatever the schedule may be) or can I make appearances at my convenience?

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:14:04am

re: #238 BigPapa

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:15:49am

re: #239 lawhawk

On top of that, China is suppressing the body counts from covid, as they’ve done all along.

But if they lose a million or two in the next few months… there’s plenty more where those came from.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:15:54am

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Warming trend on tap for the next couple days (thank the Invisible Pink Unicorn).

Currently: -16°F
Today’s high: -1°F
Friday’s high: 0­°F
Saturday’s high: +21°F
Sunday’s high (toilet thaws): +43°F.

Forecast almost the same here in NW PA. Dropping down to maybe 2F by tomorrow, cold for couple days and then back up into the 40’s.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:16:37am

re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg

Good question. You would not have to play every week. We’d just run one tourney a week, if you can make it, you make it. Some people play often, some will be occasional.

The group I’m in only has 10 folks. 4 of us play pretty regular, 2 are there most of the time, a few rarely ever play. It’s casual.

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:17:04am
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Nyet  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:17:59am

re: #189 ckkatz

That popup is now dismissable, so there’s that at least. I had to play with the HTML source previously to make it go away.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:18:23am

re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Ok. Bye. One less ignoramus in the world. Improving the gene pool one step at a time.

Had already reproduced. No help there. The only thing the gene pool ‘cares’ about is getting you to the point where you can pass your genes on to the next generation.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:19:00am

re: #158 sagehen

Now imagine you’re huddling in the covered wagon (because you were six weeks late leaving St Louis, and thought you’d chance it anyway)….

Now serving Donner party, seating party of 7 … er 6 … um 5 …

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:20:01am

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Good.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:20:42am

re: #246 sagehen

I suspect that the most severely affected will largely be, as in the rest of the world, the elderly and the infirm.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:21:00am

re: #243 ckkatz

All anyone has to do is look at the hospitals and morgues and cemeteries, and you see a significant uptick in deaths and hospitalizations, and it can be attributed to just one thing:

covid.

They aren’t reporting a new disease causing those outcomes - which means that it’s got to be covid.

I’d worry that with so many getting infected in short order that we’d see a new variant emerge, and that it isn’t covered by the vaccines.

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:26:23am

Good day good people. This is some more detailed information from the January 6th Committee about the GOP and their actions in regards to the coup attempt in Pennsylvania.
Jan. 6 transcripts reveal new details on how Pa. Republicans tried to help Trump stay in the White House

DOJ better be a Department Of JUSTICE.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:26:55am

re: #255 lawhawk

All anyone has to do is look at the hospitals and morgues and cemeteries, and you see a significant uptick in deaths and hospitalizations, and it can be attributed to just one thing:

covid.

They aren’t reporting a new disease causing those outcomes - which means that it’s got to be covid.

I’d worry that with so many getting infected in short order that we’d see a new variant emerge, and that it isn’t covered by the vaccines.

Yes, new variants could be a very big problem.

Another major worry I have read about is what happens to the medical infrastructure when it is overwhelmed by massive numbers of sick people. A lot of the Chinese government claims regarding the size and capabilities of their medical infrastructure are already suspect.

In the US we got a huge wave of people disillusioned with the current system due its failures, and looking for alternatives. And grifters quite willing to support them.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:30:43am

re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Where I live (may outside of DC) we are permitted to have for chickens on lots smaller than 2000 Sq-ft. No roosters.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:32:24am

re: #229 BigPapa

Theocratic Fascism (Dominionism) is what they strive for. From the Christian Front to C Street.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:34:44am

re: #237 darthstar

AGAIN?!?

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:34:51am

Oh my Check out the list of demands Diva Natasha Sinema laid out for her staff!

The Incredible 37-Page Guide for Staffing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema

Aides to the Arizona senator were expected to get her groceries, fix her internet, and learn her very specific preferences for airline seats, according to an internal memo.

One section of the staffer guide explains that the senator’s executive assistant must contact Sinema at the beginning of the work week in Washington to “ask if she needs groceries,” and copy both the scheduler and chief of staff on the message to “make sure this is accomplished.” It specifies Sinema will reimburse the assistant through CashApp. The memo also dictates that if the internet in Sinema’s private apartment fails, the executive assistant “should call Verizon to schedule a repair” and ensure a staffer is present to let a technician inside the property.

The Senate ethics handbook states that “staff are compensated for the purpose of assisting Senators in their official legislative and representational duties, and not for the purpose of performing personal or other non-official activities for themselves or on behalf of others.”

Craig Holman, a congressional ethics expert with the nonprofit group Public Citizen, said Sinema’s apparent demands that staffers conduct personal tasks amount to a clear violation of Senate ethics rules, and would typically warrant a formal reprimand by the Senate Ethics Committee.

thedailybeast.com

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Amory Blaine  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:35:14am

My wife has covid. Confirmed at the doctor yesterday, she was given proxlavid(?) An inhaler and eye drops for conjunctivitis. I’ve given myself 3 home tests since last night and am still negative so I’m at work.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:36:39am

re: #248 BigPapa

Sounds good to me. I’ll send you my info when I get a chance.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:37:12am

re: #262 Amory Blaine

My wife has covid. Confirmed at the doctor yesterday, she was given proxlavid(?) An inhaler and eye drops for conjunctivitis. I’ve given myself 3 home tests since last night and am still negative so I’m at work.

The medicine is called Paxlovid, I think.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:38:44am

re: #262 Amory Blaine

My wife has covid. Confirmed at the doctor yesterday, she was given proxlavid(?) An inhaler and eye drops for conjunctivitis. I’ve given myself 3 home tests since last night and am still negative so I’m at work.

Sorry to hear that. Hope she recovers quickly and no lingering effects.

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Amory Blaine  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:39:14am

For teleskiguy:

Time to ditch the whammy bar but not the vibrato? The RoughGauge Jake Blade might be the answer

An ergonomic curved metal plate, developed with Jake Cinninger of Umphrey’s McGee, the Jake Blade is designed to fit a number of vibratos, and offers a different feel to the bar.

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:39:26am

re: #262 Amory Blaine

My wife has covid. Confirmed at the doctor yesterday, she was given proxlavid(?) An inhaler and eye drops for conjunctivitis. I’ve given myself 3 home tests since last night and am still negative so I’m at work.

When I caught Covid my wife and daughter were exposed and neither contracted it. Both were vaxxed and boosted. My wife and I had slept together the nights before I fell ill.
No rhyme or reason to it.

re: #264 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes. That is what I was prescribed too.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:40:47am

re: #262 Amory Blaine

Paxlovid has some side effects, so watch for those. Mask and wash your hands often to minimize your own chances of getting it. Try to stay hydrated and take it easy.

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Amory Blaine  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:41:42am

re: #267 nines09

We have been sleeping in separate rooms for weeks (she has been sleeping in the room with small children we’ve been watching). Which is curious because the 3 yo was taken ill to emergency days ago and was negative for covid and rsv.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:42:20am

re: #262 Amory Blaine

My wife has covid. Confirmed at the doctor yesterday, she was given proxlavid(?) An inhaler and eye drops for conjunctivitis. I’ve given myself 3 home tests since last night and am still negative so I’m at work.

So sorry to hear this.

Sounds like your lady was able to get treatment at early stage. Best wishes to your lady for a fast and untroubled recovery. And for you to dodge Covid entirely.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:44:21am
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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:44:51am

re: #269 Amory Blaine

I worried that my wife and daughter would contract it and fortunately they did not. And we were in close contact. Hotel room, 3 hour car ride, dropped my daughter off, then my wife and I as we would be.
Like I said we were relieved but curious how both dodged it.

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:47:10am

re: #260 Dopamine Fish

AGAIN?!?

It’s that flammable snow.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:47:15am

re: #272 nines09

I worried that my wife and daughter would contract it and fortunately they did not. And we were in close contact. Hotel room, 3 hour car ride, dropped my daughter off, then my wife and I as we would be.
Like I said we were relieved but curious how both dodged it.

I feel like these later variants are super weird with how they interact with our immune systems. The logic for how some people get sick and some don’t, with seemingly no consistent pattern regarding immunization status, is bizarre.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:48:29am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:50:05am

re: #82 sagehen

I haven’t been able to find chocolate-covered marshmallow Santas. Are they not making them this year, or is it just my CVS doing poor stock management?

Chocolate covered marshmallow Santas are an abomination unto the lord (eewww, marshmallows), but it looks like Amazon still has stock.

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:51:05am

re: #274 Dopamine Fish

Yes. My daughter and wife could not have been any closer to me than they were. For days. I had to be infected before symptoms showed.
Like I said, no rhyme or reason.
And thankful they were not.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:52:00am

re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

FDA and USDA have implemented a Closer to Zero action plan to reduce heavy metal contaminants (esp. lead) in food. The biggest focus is on baby and toddler foods - the group most affected by these contaminants. As detection methods get better, we see more and more contaminant in everything; of course, there is no such thing as zero, but good manufacturers are now on alert that they must try and achieve better.

Press releases for the two agencies — we held public meetings about this and while the Democrats are still in charge, we have a chance of making this better. The next republican administration could wreak havoc, though. Tangerine mussolini’s admin did it’s best to hamstring all food safety initiatives, including prematket aspects which are codified in 21 USC(the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act), and the agencies in general.

FDA

USDA

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:52:14am

re: #3 gocart mozart

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:54:52am

re: #237 darthstar

re: #260 Dopamine Fish

Considering the amount of smoke that rustbucket emits when in normal operation, how could they tell if it was on fire??

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:54:54am
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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:55:45am

Must be nice to have Daddy’s Estate bailing you out.

Trump’s Income as President Was Windfall from Father

“At first glance, the income-tax data released this week by a House committee seems to show a turnaround in 2018 for former President Donald Trump. After a decade in which he declared no taxable income, his 2018 return reported taxable income of more than $24 million. He paid nearly a million dollars in federal income taxes,” the New York Times reports.

“In fact, his year in the black appears to have resulted largely from the final windfall of the vast inheritance that financed much of his business career — more than $14 million in gains from the sale of his father’s 1970s investment in the Brooklyn housing development of Starrett City.”

politicalwire.com

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:55:49am

re: #120 Cheechako

Just has to be a Snipe.

Better put on your waders.

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:56:18am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Broken clock” yada yada yada…

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:58:57am
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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 7:59:30am
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:02:36am

re: #280 Jay C

Considering the amount of smoke that rustbucket emits when in normal operation, how could they tell if it was on fire??

I believe they operate under the assumption that the thing is always on fire, and that the headline should actually read, “Russia’s only aircraft carrier is EVEN MORE on fire.”

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:07:37am

It was 43F about 45 minutes ago. Then then winds started blowing. Now it’s 34.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:09:45am

re: #237 darthstar

That ship has had more fires than anyone can count at this point. The ship is a disaster, and the only reason they’re working on it at all is because the Russian Navy needs a surface ship to be their flagship. This ship is a mess, and has been from the outset.

Its engines are a mess, and it belches black smoke while underway, making it easy to spot from a distance. Poor maintenance has caused all kinds of fires and safety incidents.

Add this to the list, and it isn’t clear if this will delay putting it back to sea. Again. As it is, the ship may not get back to see before 2024 at the earliest.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:19:08am

Now it’s 27F.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:22:17am

re: #290 Belafon

Now it’s 27F.

Aren’t you folks expected to go down to 12degF tonight.

Maybe not AnyMouse temps, but certainly not nothing.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:22:36am

52 right now in Koreatown Los Angeles.

Looks like we’re gonna have a Hot Christmas with 80 and a Rainy New Year on the 1st.

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:23:47am

re: #292 Joe Bacon

52 right now in Koreatown Los Angeles.

Looks like we’re gonna have a Hot Christmas with 80 and a Rainy New Year on the 1st.

Oh noes!!
Rain on the Rose Parade?
How often has that happened??

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:27:52am

re: #291 ckkatz

Aren’t you folks expected to go down to 12degF tonight.

Maybe not AnyMouse temps, but certainly not nothing.

Somewhere around there. I have to go out, and the wind blowing between my house and the neighbor’s is frigid. Easily 20mph, probably closer to 30mph.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:27:55am

re: #199 Dr. Matt

Filled up yesterday at $2.68/gallon yesterday!

Thank you POTUS Biden! 👍🏻😆😁

I filled up the other day before heading down to Pittsburgh to pick up the boy from Amtrak station. There was a TFG sticker pointing to the price display stating “Biden did that!”. I pealed it off the pump.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:28:27am

re: #200 BigPapa

That reminds me: I love shoestring fries.

I’m the opposite, I like “meaty” fries.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:29:22am

re: #296 Eventual Carrion

I’m the opposite, I like “meaty” fries.

That’s why, of all the major chains, Dairy Queen and Wendy’s fries are my favorite.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:29:32am

re: #296 Eventual Carrion

I’m the opposite, I like “meaty” fries.

I’m with you. Steak fries, British chips, much yum.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:31:02am

re: #290 Belafon

Now it’s 27F.

It’s 27F here, supposed to go up to 29, then down to 25 tonight.

In NM, we would usually have a 30 degree swing between high and low. Four degrees is no swing.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:31:03am

Pictures and stuff from China about covid.

dailymail.co.uk

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:31:07am

My kids sent this beautiful flower arrangement for my birthday/Hanukkah

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:33:31am

re: #301 The Pie Overlord!

My kids sent this beautiful flower arrangement for my birthday/Hanukkah

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They must like you.

/I once had the nickname ‘Master of Understatement’

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:38:23am

re: #293 Jay C

Oh noes!!
Rain on the Rose Parade?
How often has that happened??

Looks like there is AM rain on Sunday 1/1. When New Years Day falls on a Sunday the parade is usually held on Monday 1/2. Doesn’t look like it will rain on Monday

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dat_said  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:48:02am

I think I’ve finally completed my transmogrification into my father. Just finished clearing my 100 ft of driveway of 7” of snow in -10 F temperature (-20 F windchill - which is an imaginary realm of reality). When I came inside, I said “that wasn’t so bad”.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:51:02am

wow, just checked the weather, 80s for xmas eve and day then rain all next week

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:52:40am

She still went to work in Trumpworld, so her moral compass was definitely not keen all along.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:54:18am

Here in Hawaii it’s 2000F at Fissure 3, snow snow snow. Everywhere else, same same.

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:56:34am

re: #303 Joe Bacon

Looks like there is AM rain on Sunday 1/1. When New Years Day falls on a Sunday the parade is usually held on Monday 1/2. Doesn’t look like it will rain on Monday

Yep. 1/2/23: weather luck apparently holding again.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 8:58:03am

re: #241 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Borgle here.
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:00:18am

re: #126 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

American strategy since WWII is to fight “over there”, i.e., forward deployment.

The Ukrainians are paying a high price to fight Russian nationalism.

We, the US, have reasons to not want Russian nationalism to flourish.

Hence it is in our best interest to support the Ukrainians.

This is not hard for anyone who has a shred of historical knowledge, but in the land of the know-nothings knowledge about the past is rare.

Unfortunately too many MAGAts are supporters of Putin and Russia these days. They may know history — Putin is a racist oligarch and so is their orange Messiah. Many of these supporters would have objected to our participation in WW2 against Hitler.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:01:00am

re: #307 BigPapa

Here in Hawaii it’s 2000F at Fissure 3, snow snow snow. Everywhere else, same same.

If I could ask if you have any good links to some photos?
This was my best try.

usatoday.com

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:01:52am

Western good morning!

Hunting breakfast
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:04:30am
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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:05:57am

re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Sleazy E is letting anti-Semitism run unchecked on THE BIRD.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:06:09am

21F

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:08:49am

Another bouquet! This one is from my daughters.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:08:49am
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Orange Impostor  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:10:49am

re: #315 Belafon

18 degrees now in Addison (that’s the North Dallas area for you non-locals), and it is now snowing. According to what I’ve heard from our local weathermen its apparently lake-effect snow, a term that I thought I’d never hear in a Dallas weather forecast.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:12:19am

re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m not seeing a lot of customers, let alone happy ones, in that video.

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:12:44am

re: #318 Orange Impostor

18 degrees now in Addison (that’s then North Dallas area for you non-locals), and it is now snowing. According to what I’ve heard from our local weathermen its apparently lake-effect snow, a term that I thought I’d never hear in a Dallas weather forecast.

Yeah: Buffalo or Rochester for sure, but Dallas??

BTW: what lake is it that’s providing such a snow effect?

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:13:31am
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Orange Impostor  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:16:58am

re: #320 Jay C

Yeah: Buffalo or Rochester for sure, but Dallas??

BTW: what lake is it that providing such a snow effect?

Dallas has several decent-sized lakes- both natural and man-made - surrounding the area. This snow is probably coming off of Lewisville Lake but folks over to the east of here will get same from Lake Ray Hubbard.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:17:44am

re: #320 Jay C

Yeah: Buffalo or Rochester for sure, but Dallas??

BTW: what lake is it that providing such a snow effect?

There are at least three modest size lakes in the DFW area that could be triggers for lake effect snow.

More info here: nbcdfw.com

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:18:22am

re: #304 dat_said

I think I’ve finally completed my transmogrification into my father. Just finished clearing my 100 ft of driveway of 7” of snow in -10 F temperature (-20 F windchill - which is an imaginary realm of reality). When I came inside, I said “that wasn’t so bad”.

Do you have a machine, or did you manually shovel?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:19:25am

re: #238 BigPapa

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:19:38am

re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg

There are at least three modest size lakes in the DFW area that could be triggers for lake effect snow.

More info here: nbcdfw.com

Here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, practically all snow is lake effect snow.

/half - there are several lakes here that are large enough to provide lake effect snow, but by no means all. I happen to live in between two of them, but the wind direction very rarely causes true lake effect.

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KGxvi  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:20:02am

re: #4 teleskiguy

one of my all time favorite episodes of south park

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:21:45am

Knock knock.
Who’s there?

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:22:44am

re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth

So who cleans the grill and fryers?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:23:14am

re: #329 Joe Bacon

So who cleans the grill and fryers?

Or who do you talk to if your order gets messed up?

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:24:05am

re: #329 Joe Bacon

Roomba.

re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg

India.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:24:14am

re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg

Or who do you talk to if your order gets messed up?

Probably an answering center in India…

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:25:04am

re: #326 Dopamine Fish

Also, our non-great lakes freeze over completely in the winter, so lake effect snow isn’t a thing in deep winter, only at the start and end of the season or those poor sods on the south shore of Lake Superior.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:25:39am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:26:43am

re: #201 Joe Bacon

Every word out of George Santos’ mouth is a lie.

Even when he farts and belches he lies.

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TBF, there are many people who are now openly gay who concealed their preferences and married someone of the opposite sex. Jim McGreevey, governor of New Jersey, was certainly one high-profile example. In the contemporary world, it’s more challenging for a Republican candidate to admit this. I would not hold that against Santos.

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KGxvi  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:27:01am

re: #329 Joe Bacon

So who cleans the grill and fryers?

Bold of you to assume McDonalds is cleaning grills and fryers.

re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg

Or who do you talk to if your order gets messed up?

Bold of you to assume they would care.

A less snarky answer: there’s probably a cleaning team that cleans multiple stores each night (I know this is how In-n-Out works since I knew a guy that used to work on one of those teams, I’m assuming most of the other corporate chains have something similar). There’s also probably a couple of people who work there in the kitchen and someone that resembles a manager. But the idea is probably “we can have these machines instead of someone at the counter and someone at the drive thru window and save a bit of money in the long run”

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KGxvi  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:29:16am

Also, in that video you can see at least two people working in the kitchen area. And it looks like it’s designed to not be an eat-in location, which is probably part of the “appeal” of an automated system at the point of contact.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:30:52am

re: #337 KGxvi

Also, in that video you can see at least two people working in the kitchen area. And it looks like it’s designed to not be an eat-in location, which is probably part of the “appeal” of an automated system at the point of contact.

At the McDonald’s locations I’ve been inside recently, people still cook the food (and presumably clean the equipment), but the registers are closed; orders are placed at the kiosk, and then it’s cooked to order and the kitchen staff bring it to the counter for you to pick up.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:31:49am

re: #338 Dopamine Fish

I think this is just automating the delivery of the food from the kitchen to the people at the drive-thru.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:33:41am

re: #226 lawhawk

It’s not that they can do a damned thing about it.

It is that the GOP chose to do nothing. The sabotage and obstructionism is the fucking point.

…..
It’s a shit show, and the GOP elected all of them to do what they’re doing right now.

GOP voters are the ones who support this. It’s not the legislators, it is the racist and anti-democracy people voting for them. The party is responding to the vile wishes of their base.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:36:25am

re: #318 Orange Impostor

18 degrees now in Addison (that’s the North Dallas area for you non-locals), and it is now snowing. According to what I’ve heard from our local weathermen its apparently lake-effect snow, a term that I thought I’d never hear in a Dallas weather forecast.

Which lake? White Rock?

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:36:39am

Training exercise to get ready for Saturday night…

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:37:01am

Certainly, a passing of note:

A chef who is believed to have invented the chicken tikka masala, regarded as Britain’s favourite curry, has died aged 77.

Ali Ahmed Aslam’s death on Monday was announced by his Shish Mahal restaurant in Glasgow, which closed for 48 hours as a mark of respect. The eatery announced: “Hey, Shish Snobs … Mr Ali passed away this morning … We are all absolutely devastated and heartbroken.”

His funeral was held at Glasgow Central Mosque on Tuesday. Members of the public were invited to attend.

theguardian.com

RIP. And thanks for the chicken tikka masala.

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dat_said  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:37:22am

re: #324 sagehen

Do you have a machine, or did you manually shovel?

I have a machine, but I couldn’t keep it going - I think the fuel line was frozen. So, I shoveled. Seven inches of fluffy snow is pretty easy - at least easier than the wet two inches of snow I pushed off the driveway last week. I decided to try the snowblower again when I got to the end where the snowplow had piled the snow eighteen inches deep. It took about fifteen minutes of messing around but I finally got the fuel line to flow enough to finish the task. It wasn’t so bad.

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jeffreyw  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:37:22am

The guy who came up with Knock-Knock jokes was awarded the No-Bell Prize.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:37:52am

re: #342 William Lewis

Training exercise to get ready for Saturday night…

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Santa’s sleigh runs on JP-8? That explains so much.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:38:01am

re: #232 Crush White Nationalism

You don’t need to be a doctor to know that if you haven’t had the omicron-specific booster, you have little protection against the current strains. I hope everyone here got theirs.

I just got mine Sunday — but that’s because I had COVID back in early September. The recommendation is that you wait 3 - 6 months (depending on the expert) before getting a booster.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:40:00am

Meanwhile, back in Virginia, Kolby is back home.

.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:41:49am

re: #344 dat_said

I have a machine, but I couldn’t keep it going - I think the fuel line was frozen. So, I shoveled. Seven inches of fluffy snow is pretty easy - at least easier than the wet two inches of snow I pushed off the driveway last week. I decided to try the snowblower again when I got to the end where the snowplow had piled the snow eighteen inches deep. It took about fifteen minutes of messing around but I finally got the fuel line to flow enough to finish the task. It wasn’t so bad.

On very light snow, I have been known to use my leafblower.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:45:24am
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dat_said  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:51:57am

There is a non-mRNA COVID vaccine available but there doesn’t seem like there was much publicity about it. Too bad, though I think the mRNA “bad” group would just come up with another excuse.

yalemedicine.org

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:52:16am

re: #344 dat_said

I have a machine, but I couldn’t keep it going - I think the fuel line was frozen. So, I shoveled. Seven inches of fluffy snow is pretty easy - at least easier than the wet two inches of snow I pushed off the driveway last week. I decided to try the snowblower again when I got to the end where the snowplow had piled the snow eighteen inches deep. It took about fifteen minutes of messing around but I finally got the fuel line to flow enough to finish the task. It wasn’t so bad.

Most snow blowers are pretty easy to service the carbs. I am sure there are youtube videos for your model. Just removing the bowl on the carb and dumping the old fuel out might save you a few head aches. I wish you luck!

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:53:54am

It’s snowing here in Rockwall.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:54:42am

re: #351 dat_said

There is a non-mRNA COVID vaccine available but there doesn’t seem like there was much publicity about it. Too bad, though I think the mRNA “bad” group would just come up with another excuse.

yalemedicine.org

The now-neglected Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine was not an mRNA vaccine. The anti-vaxxers used the excuse that it was temporarily withdrawn from service while they studied some worrying apparent side effects. I believe those fears wound up unfounded, but of course, any excuse to hate the COVID vaccines.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:56:06am

re: #352 Shropshire Slasher

Most snow blowers are pretty easy to service the carbs. I am sure there are youtube videos for your model. Just removing the bowl on the carb and dumping the old fuel out might save you a few head aches. I wish you luck!

This is why, at the end of the appropriate season, I drain the fuel tanks on my seasonal equipment and run the carburetors dry. It’s a short procedure and leads to much less hassle in maintenance. I also put a fuel stabilizer in my small engine gas can when I fill it up.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:58:05am

re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth

You asked for $25 minimum wage

You get: First fully automated McDonalds in Texas

Another reason to not go to McDonalds.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:58:35am

Most likely, this snow is from Lake Lewisville, which is pretty far north, but these wind speeds probably help a lot.

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dat_said  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:59:49am

re: #352 Shropshire Slasher

Most snow blowers are pretty easy to service the carbs. I am sure there are youtube videos for your model. Just removing the bowl on the carb and dumping the old fuel out might save you a few head aches. I wish you luck!

That’s on my task list now. Just not going to do that in my unheated garage while it’s ten below zero. I’ll be fine when it’s ten above.

re: #355 Dopamine Fish

This is why, at the end of the appropriate season, I drain the fuel tanks on my seasonal equipment and run the carburetors dry. It’s a short procedure and leads to much less hassle in maintenance. I also put a fuel stabilizer in my small engine gas can when I fill it up.

I usually do this too but I’m not 100% sure I did that last year on the snowblower.

ETA: My wife did use the snowblower last month so I know it was working fairly well this season. I’m going to blame her instead of my poor maintenance and the cold. I’m certain that will go over well.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 9:59:50am
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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:00:07am

re: #356 BeenHereAwhile

A good number of restaurants around here have automated kiosks. But, as they point out in the video, there are employees making the food.

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danarchy  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:00:30am

re: #347 Hecuba’s daughter

I just got mine Sunday — but that’s because I had COVID back in early September. The recommendation is that you wait 3 - 6 months (depending on the expert) before getting a booster.

After 3 years, Covid finally caught up to me. I did get the bivalent booster in October and I basically feel fine, but it means I can’t go to my parents for Christmas.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:01:25am

re: #360 Belafon

A good number of restaurants around here have automated kiosks. But, as they point out in the video, there are employees making the food.

Most of the fast food chains here, like McDonald’s, KFC and Burger King, have automated sales kiosks, but there’s definitely staff that make the food.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:04:23am

re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, no actual video of this system working? Snork They’ll be paying tech-folx much more to keep their automated food service working than they pay workers at $20-35 per hour. I wish them well. Ok, not really.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:05:22am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:08:48am

re: #128 Dr Lizardo

Seeing breaking news reports on Czech media that the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has caught on fire. Again.

Just found a source in English: newsweek.com

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:09:33am

re: #364 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Egg nog in coffee is wonderful!
You know you are old when you add some soluble benefiber to a mug of nog!

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:12:54am

re: #344 dat_said

I have a machine, but I couldn’t keep it going - I think the fuel line was frozen. So, I shoveled. Seven inches of fluffy snow is pretty easy - at least easier than the wet two inches of snow I pushed off the driveway last week. I decided to try the snowblower again when I got to the end where the snowplow had piled the snow eighteen inches deep. It took about fifteen minutes of messing around but I finally got the fuel line to flow enough to finish the task. It wasn’t so bad.

Water condensation in the gas tank, put some fuel stabilizer in the tank to lower the freezing point of the condensate.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:16:50am

OK, this is a better trailer for Netflix’s upcoming That ’90s Show:

That ’90s Show | Official Trailer | Netflix

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dat_said  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:21:28am

re: #367 BeenHereAwhile

Water condensation in the gas tank, put some fuel stabilizer in the tank to lower the freezing point of the condensate.

That thought crossed my mind too. Below zero temps and sitting unused for a month can be difficult for a small engine.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:25:01am

re: #368 Dr Lizardo

Wasn’t blown away by the teaser, but the trailer looks good. I love that they brought Tommy Chong back.

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:26:24am

There’s a good article about the speech at The Atlantic. It’s by Frum and I still don’t really trust him (maxim 29… ) but it is a good piece.

“So much in the world depends on you.”

Of all the many moving words in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, those eight may have been the most urgent and important.

Zelensky came to Washington to speak for his nation. He came to Washington to ask for assistance. But above all, he came to Washington to recall Americans to themselves. He came to say, My embattled people believe in you. Embedded in his words of trust was a challenge: If we believe in you, perhaps you can again believe in yourselves?

Zelensky Recalled Us to Ourselves

(Opens fine in a Private Tab if you need to ;)

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:28:02am

re: #370 Eclectic Cyborg

Wasn’t blown away by the teaser, but the trailer looks good. I love that they brought Tommy Chong back.

I’ll give it a look when it premiers. Nice to see some of the original cast back, though most likely, they’ll just be guest stars/cameo appearances.

Certainly an improvement over the first teaser trailer that dropped a few weeks back.

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:32:49am

re: #372 Dr Lizardo

I’ll give it a look when it premiers. Nice to see some of the original cast back, though most likely, they’ll just be guest stars/cameo appearances.

Certainly an improvement over the first teaser trailer that dropped a few weeks back.

I hope it’s good for those who like it, but I honestly have never cared for any of the shows. I don’t tend to care for sitcoms anymore and my nostalgia doesn’t fit theirs apparently….

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:33:26am

I’m looking forward to this, while keeping my expectations cautiously low. It’s really the only way to watch movies these days.

Oppenheimer | Official Trailer

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:38:50am

re: #374 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I saw that trailer a few days back. All I can say is, might as well just get that Best Actor Oscar engraved with Cillian Murphy’s name on it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:39:54am

re: #375 Dr Lizardo

Seconded. I’ve loved Cillian Murphy for years. It’s nice to see him getting bigger roles.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:39:55am

re: #345 jeffreyw

The guy who came up with Knock-Knock jokes was awarded the No-Bell Prize.

Two guys talking to each other.
The one says,” My wife’s an angel”.
The other says , ” You’re lucky, mine is still alive.”

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:41:07am

re: #377 Dangerman

Two guys talking to each other.
The one says,” My wife’s an angel”.
The other says , ” You’re lucky, mine is still alive.”

*WHACK!*

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:42:35am
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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:44:46am

re: #378 Dopamine Fish

*WHACK!*

;-)

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:48:07am

re: #359 Eclectic Cyborg

SMH he didn’t even have a Sharpie

That’s OK: he’ll just use his Dark Brandon powers to redirect the storm…..

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:48:31am

re: #379 lawhawk

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:52:23am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:53:42am

re: #383 gocart mozart

Do I even want to know the story behind the photo?

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:54:52am

TSLA crashing hard today, currently down to $127. Elon’s estimated stake is now worth a “ mere” $55 Billion so, a far cry from the $180 Billion from earlier this year. At TSLA $100/share his stake falls to around $44 Billion.

Keep in mind that Elon is on the Twitter hook for $44 Billion and counting with interest on his terrible short term loans at around 15%. Perhaps Tesla’s terrible day in partly because of a panicking Musk selling big chunks of his holdings.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:55:08am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:56:29am

re: #381 Jay C

That’s OK: he’ll just use his Dark Brandon powers to redirect the storm…..

Does that look anything like Force Lightning? Because that’d be hella cool.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:58:38am

Well, well, well…..

A senior German official said on Thursday Twitter should join other tech firms in being directly monitored by the European Commission, saying the company’s erratic behaviour under new owner Elon Musk posed a threat to free speech.

Sven Giegold, the state secretary in charge of competition policy at Germany’s economy ministry, pointed to Twitter’s abrupt suspension of journalists’ accounts and restrictions on the access to some links.

In a letter to two European Commissioners, Giegold called on the EU to launch an investigation and said the Commission should act to prevent what he called Twitter’s “anti-competitive behaviour”.

reuters.com

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 10:58:45am

re: #387 Dr Lizardo

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:00:02am

A while ago, the cops were knocking at my neighbor’s door (not unusual) until they gave up, now the fire alarms are being tested.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:01:00am
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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:01:45am
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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:03:59am
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:05:39am

re: #391 Belafon

Being able to watch TNG (and The Twilight Zone) on demand is about the only reason I would subscribe to Paramount+. I’m curious about some of their other Trek-related offerings, but not curious enough to subscribe (yet). I still have digital copies of almost all the TNG episodes from when I was sailing the seven seas with a yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum, but they are 420p DVD rips.

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jeffreyw  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:05:54am

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:10:15am

re: #102 wrenchwench

Whirdle.

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Click to Reveal

That’s not a full house. I guess I can’t join the poker thing, much as they might appreciate my contributions to the pot.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:14:30am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

Reminds me of something Chris Rock said when he covered the GOP Convention for the Jay Leno show back in 1992.
“I haven’t seen this many white people in one place since the Osmond family guested on Hee-Haw.”

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:22:43am

re: #384 Eclectic Cyborg

Do I even want to know the story behind the photo?

I don’t remember what it was about other than it being rather stupid.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:09:25pm

re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Exactly! Russia can’t be emboldened to invade its neighbors and commit war crimes with no pushback or opposition.


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