Video: Philomena Cunk’s Moments of Wonder: Climate Change
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I fell out at this line: “It has split the scientific community right down the middle—-90/10.”
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Watching her videos I spend some time being bored and a little annoyed by the intentional ignorance, then I wind up laughing out loud.
re: #2 ckkatz
Memories of the candy shop back in my hometown. Mr Anderson knew how to make candy hearts in different flavors like Life Savers.
We can’t believe we’re saying this in 2023, but corporate interests should consider raising wages and improving working conditions to fix a “labor shortage,” NOT sending send children back into meatpacking plants. https://t.co/lQ2zg37O7Z
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) February 13, 2023
re: #3 Joe Bacon
Memories of the candy shop back in my hometown. Mr Anderson knew how to make candy hearts in different flavors like Life Savers.
I got some Bottlecaps and Wacky Wafers from Amazon last week. I don’t know about the Bottlecaps, but Wacky Wafers were discontinued, and someone brought them back. I hadn’t had either since I was a kid.
re: #3 Joe Bacon
Memories of the candy shop back in my hometown. Mr Anderson knew how to make candy hearts in different flavors like Life Savers.
I remember a couple of very impressive candy shops down in the Strip District.
I guess the closest thing in Squirrel Hill was the “Forbes Ave Newstand”. But it and its staff were not candy folks.
Sadly, almost all of the old shops of my childhood and most certainly all the folks who ran them are gone now. :(
re: #4 jaunte
Exploitative Republicans see things differently than we do. To them, child labor is a solution rather than a problem.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
After the issue was studied, the pilots were sent for additional training. The aircraft seems to not have been the problem.
BREAKING
A United 777 entered an unexplained nose dive of 8,700 fpm, coming within 775 feet of contact with the pacific ocean. The pilots pulled 2.7Gs during the recovery.
Source: The Air Current, https://t.co/0hA9fur1xl pic.twitter.com/Jr3AXBoP7Y— Aero Crew News (@AeroCrewNews) February 12, 2023
More information here, including pics and full statement h/t: @barnabychuck https://t.co/XXJ9tU02ht
— Collin Koh 🇸🇬🇺🇦 (@CollinSLKoh) February 13, 2023
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Immediately attracting a sea lion.
re: #8 Crush White Nationalism
Back in the 1980’s, part of my National Guard unit, flying to Ft Chaffee, Arkansas had their plane suddenly lose about 20,000 ft in altitude. There was some lack of enthusiasm to get on the return flight. Fortunately, that flight was uneventful.
re: #12 jaunte
Immediately attracting a sea lion.
You noticed! Oddly enough, repeating the talking points of the GOP to attack Biden over a position he took 50 years ago.
Aug 13, 2022 Motley Fool:
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This is exactly what a disguised alien would say. https://t.co/0aZhYxl3EK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 13, 2023
Working from home this week.
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re: #4 jaunte
Here’s the workplace they want:
In Dunbar, Louisiana, [photographer Lewis] Hine met an 8-year-old oyster shucker named Rosy. He discovered she worked steadily from 3 a.m. to 5 p.m., and she told him that the baby of the family will start shucking as soon as she hold the knife. March 1911.
Source: Library of Congress, National Child Labor Committee Collection
Why going on the offense works:
-reporters focus on the controversy
-attacker’s claims come first
-rebuttals and qualifications come later
-overwhelmingly favors the initial attack, even if it’s not a clean hit
Initial message almost always clearer, spreads further pic.twitter.com/NVd4X6AP1F— Will Stancil (@whstancil) February 13, 2023
re: #6 ckkatz
I remember a couple of very impressive candy shops down in the Strip District.
I guess the closest thing in Squirrel Hill was the “Forbes Ave Newstand”. But it and its staff were not candy folks.
Sadly, almost all of the old shops of my childhood and most certainly all the folks who ran them are gone now. :(
Philly place for candy was any of the “Nuts to You” locations.
re: #18 Teddy’s Person
Here’s the workplace they want:
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Source: Library of Congress, National Child Labor Committee Collection
Look at that, nice wholesome family. The family that slaves together stays together, am I right?
re: #17 No Malarkey!
Working from home this week.
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fuckin dumbass pic.twitter.com/muDHijwWm2
— Timothy Simons (@timothycsimons) February 13, 2023
re: #19 ckkatz
Also, Republicans still love Calvin Coolidge despite how dead wrong his policies have proven to be.
“…The Coolidge cult is now going on 30 years. Ronald Reagan can be said to have launched it back in 1981 when, upon entering the White House, he removed Harry Truman’s portrait from the wall and hung up Coolidge’s.”
“…Perhaps the most important Coolidge booster of the 1980s (besides Reagan) was Jude Wanniski, the Wall Street Journal editorialist who popularized supply-side economics. Wanniski believed that Reagan subscribed to supply-side notions because he hadn’t been schooled in the Keynesian thought that pervaded the academy after World War II. Reagan, in other words, was a child of the Coolidge era. Along with his Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, Coolidge insisted that lower tax rates on the wealthy would yield increased prosperity and revenue.”
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Guys, I’ve heard there are 99 balloons. We’re barely getting started.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) February 13, 2023
re: #23 ckkatz
No one is jealous of phony Stark. We do not want to have stupid people praise us, and he requires it to feel OK.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
More on Moldova.
The Russians tried a coup in 2014 and failed. Reportedly they have plans to try again.
Moldova’s pro-EU President Sandu accuses Russia of coup plot https://t.co/9wPdLHUY4P
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 13, 2023
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Kirby on #Russia’s coup plot in #Moldova: Deeply concerning reports. We absolutely stand with the Moldovan govt and Moldovan people. We haven’t seen independent confirmation, but it’s certainly a page right out of Putin’s playbook. pic.twitter.com/OFuuNYGyto
— 🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) February 13, 2023
The free API is supposed to be discontinued today, but it’s still working so far.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 13, 2023
If your embedded tweets start failing, it’s because they killed the API.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
If your embedded tweets start failing, it’s because they killed the API.
Given the level of competence and caution that has been demonstrated so far under Saint Elno’s reign of terror, I would expect the cutoff to be abrupt, unannounced, and to break all manner of things in all sorts of… interesting ways.
re: #24 jaunte
Also, Republicans still love Calvin Coolidge despite how dead wrong his policies have proven to be.
Just a reminder that Andrew Mellon was the only Secretary Of The Treasury in American History who had 3 Presidents serve under him—Harding, Coolidge & Hoover…
Vladimir Solovyov is a Russian broadcaster and pro-Putin propagandist.
While his dad calls for bombing the decaying West with nuclear weapons and stands up for traditional values, Vladimir #Solovyov’s son Daniel lives in #London and shows off his stylish makeup and manicure. pic.twitter.com/9Yhj0ouEBX
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 13, 2023
re: #1 Crush White Nationalism
Watching her videos I spend some time being bored and a little annoyed by the intentional ignorance, then I wind up laughing out loud.
It’s the little things, like the one on Einstein where she gives him credit for inventing “e=Mc2” (“ee equals mac two”).
What Charles Said.
It’s time to drive a stake in the heart of the “Bothsiders” bullshit.
📜@HouseGOP 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐄📜
Here are the 156 House Republicans that signed on to a plan to slash Social Security⬇️#DontMessWithSocialSecurity pic.twitter.com/mTfO6OouD0— Skyleigh Heinen (@Sky_Lee_1) February 13, 2023
Joe sent a pink slip to a deserved Trumpette.
Biden fires Trump-appointed Architect of the Capitol who avoided the Capitol on Jan. 6
The official had recently come under fire for allegedly misusing federal resources and telling Congress that he avoided Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
Brett Blanton, who manages the Capitol complex, can only be fired by the President of the United States.
“Blanton faced bipartisan heat last week during a hearing where members from both parties on the House Administration Committee called for his resignation,” the Mail’s report stated. “Blanton had already faced allegations of using a government vehicle for personal use and posing as a law enforcement officer, but during the hearing Thursday he admitted that he intentionally avoided the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
There should not be a White Nationalist flag. pic.twitter.com/jqyxySNzXx
— Dave Ball (David Ball back-up account) (@DaveBall77) February 13, 2023
I was just reading comments under the photo of Musk and Satan at the Super Bowl and boy howdy do those Muskies think he’s just modeling good tolerant behavior toward someone whose political beliefs Mush absolutely DOES NOT SHARE. Lots of self-delusion about Musk’s beliefs among his fans.
re: #37 Joe Bacon
Joe sent a pink slip to a deserved Trumpette.
Biden fires Trump-appointed Architect of the Capitol who avoided the Capitol on Jan. 6
The official had recently come under fire for allegedly misusing federal resources and telling Congress that he avoided Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
Brett Blanton, who manages the Capitol complex, can only be fired by the President of the United States.
“Blanton faced bipartisan heat last week during a hearing where members from both parties on the House Administration Committee called for his resignation,” the Mail’s report stated. “Blanton had already faced allegations of using a government vehicle for personal use and posing as a law enforcement officer, but during the hearing Thursday he admitted that he intentionally avoided the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
It sounds like even McCarthy was fed up with Blanton.
The Architect of the Capitol, Brett Blanton, no longer has my confidence to continue in his job. He should resign or President Biden should remove him immediately.
— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) February 13, 2023
re: #38 DodgerFan1988
Racist white people are our largest problem. Why would we need a racist white person who bussed lunatics to a coup attempt to comment on this topic?
Poor Charlie has no idea what’s real, and no idea when to stop running his stupid mouth.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
The Russians have been conducting an offensive around Bakhmut in Luhansk Province using the Wagner mercenaries. And have incurred tens of thousands of casualties in return for a few square miles of territory.
The Russian Army also attempted an offensive in the Vuhledar area of Donetsk Province. Three elite brigades (40th and 155th Naval Infantry aka ‘Marines’ and the 14th Spetsnaz Brigade) were sent in after having been rebuilt from the major casualties during Spring and Summer 2022.
Apparently, in their recent attacks, these brigades took thousands of casualties and lost dozens of armored vehicles and tanks. Many of the vehicles were apparently just abandoned. The commander of the 14th was reportedly killed during the attacks.
For those watching Ukrainian reports of Russian casualties, most of the reported casualties over the past few days have been from this attack.
From the reports, it sounds like those three brigades may no longer be combat effective.
Article on one of the units, the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade -
Russia may have lost an entire elite brigade near a Donetsk coal-mining town https://t.co/hHTxdTt1mN
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) February 13, 2023
re: #32 ckkatz
Vladimir Solovyov is a Russian broadcaster and pro-Putin propagandist.
The children of Russia’s oligarchs ought to be deported back to Russia; shouldn’t he be drafted into the army to fight the glorious war his father has been promoting?
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) February 13, 2023
I can’t vouch for the accuracy of these reports, but would not be surprised at the speed.
The Ukrainian military has already started Leopard 2 training in Poland.
So far, 105 Ukrainian military personnel have arrived in Poland, including 21 tank crews, as well as technical personnel for tank maintenance.https://t.co/LJ57LBzq4f pic.twitter.com/5JKkIuUKCf— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) February 13, 2023
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Ukrainian tankers have started training on the M1 Abrams tank. pic.twitter.com/L1UIlBKx5S
— NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) February 13, 2023
re: #41 Crush White Nationalism
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re: #43 No Malarkey!
You reminded me of this post -
The mind-boggling data on Russian exodus after Feb 24, 2022 in @washingtonpost: https://t.co/OsO2CGgZLh. The numbers are minimum estimates and they are not new. Yet I cannot stop being astonished by the scale. Last time similar exodus happened 100 years ago, during the civil war. pic.twitter.com/mIVzwF36uE
— Konstantin Sonin (@k_sonin) February 13, 2023
Coming from the same people who didn’t want to know anything beyond ‘it was a totally regular tourist visit’ regarding the January 6th attack on our Capitol, this is especially rich.
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) February 13, 2023
re: #32 ckkatz
Vladimir Solovyov is a Russian broadcaster and pro-Putin propagandist.
Sanction his daddy and deport him back to Russia to be conscripted.
re: #48 The Pie Overlord!
And these mendacious shills know that the military has not yet been able to recover the debris. More manufactured nonsense from the GOP outrage factory.
I don’t think people realise that the US hasn’t even got it hands on debris yet—“Kirby also said the U.S. has not been able to gain access to the three objects that were most recently shot down “in large part because of the weather conditions.”” https://t.co/jvIp0kPbTy
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) February 13, 2023
re: #47 ckkatz
That bizarre misinterpretation reflects poorly on you rather than the people you attacked who are smart enough to flee a failed state with a mad leader. Nice going.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
re: #50 ckkatz
And these mendacious shills know that the military has not yet been able to recover the debris. More manufactured nonsense from the GOP outrage factory.
This, BTW, would be a great application of machine learning, replacing the “signals of this size” filter with something that has learned to recognize important stuff.
re: #47 ckkatz
You reminded me of this post -
I totally approve of ordinary Russians fleeing the draft, but the children of Russia’s oligarchs shouldn’t get to live in luxury in the West while their fathers are sending tens of thousands of people to their deaths.
re: #49 darthstar
Sanction his daddy and deport him back to Russia to be conscripted.
Can’t he be of value here in terms of propaganda? Plus, you know, he’s human. And he shouldn’t be convicted of the offenses of his father. If he agrees with his father, I take it all back. I’m judging the book by the cover.
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re: #418 Teukka
Dunno, but there is this pervasive myth that teenage girls are exceptionally horny…
Heard that a lot when I was a teenager but failed to develop any empirical evidence.
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re: #54 wrenchwench
Can’t he be of value here in terms of propaganda? Plus, you know, he’s human. And he shouldn’t be convicted of the offenses of his father. If he agrees with his father, I take it all back. I’m judging the book by the cover.
He looks like he deeply upsets his brittle snowflake father.
re: #56 Crush White Nationalism
He looks like he deeply upsets his brittle snowflake father.
More of that could be good.
This is Maisy. Every day she waits for her friend Richard to walk by and say hello. Even if they both move a little slower sometimes, it’s always worth the wait. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday pic.twitter.com/PBusFTICMS
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) February 11, 2023
re: #58 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That’s one of the GOOD walkers. Let go of those ‘brake’ levers, and it stops and stays. Need to squeeze them to make it go. Much safer.
While there may be more to the story, Rohrabacher was a major patron who helped Musk get started.
The only reason SpaceX exists is Congressman Dana “Putin pays” Rohrabacher pushed through privatization of space exploration. In return, Elon Musk did numerous campaign events for Rohrabacher. https://t.co/fkjaOWgnmD
— Jim Stewartson, Antifascist #RIPQ 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏴☠️ (@jimstewartson) February 9, 2023
I’ve worked on walkers, wheel chairs, motorcycle wheels, and many kinds of bikes. Stopping is more important than going.
re: #61 wrenchwench
I’ve worked on walkers, wheel chairs, motorcycle wheels, and many kinds of bikes. Stopping is more important than going.
The Northern Virginia Region had icy patches on roads overnight. Based upon the accident reports I’ve seen today, a lot of folks relearned that point this morning.
re: #37 Joe Bacon
“Blanton faced bipartisan heat last week during a hearing where members from both parties on the House Administration Committee called for his resignation,” the Mail’s report stated. “Blanton had already faced allegations of using a government vehicle for personal use and posing as a law enforcement officer, but during the hearing Thursday he admitted that he intentionally avoided the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
“Blanton said he did not think it would be “prudent” to come to work that day.”
Is that a blatant admission that he knew what was going to happen?
LOL. GOPs are flailing so hard about this. Steve Scalise says Biden is lying that GOPs want to cut Social Security. They just want to make a work requirement if you get a check! https://t.co/9CYkAd61li pic.twitter.com/p0ywN1JWqq
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 13, 2023
re: #64 Belafon
A work requirement to collect… RETIREMENT BENEFITS??? Does Scalise even have two brain cells to rub together? What the fuck?
re: #67 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Who’s the one in the very back, is that Seb Gorka?
re: #68 Dopamine Fish
Who’s the one in the very back, is that Seb Gorka?
Flag guy from the violent part of the coup attempt?
re: #69 Crush White Nationalism
Flag guy from the violent part of the coup attempt?
I think that’s right. Ze Bastard Dorka is fatter.
Pentagon Confirms UFOs Just Regular Planes And Nation Just High https://t.co/woK6rWUYf9 pic.twitter.com/WYFP5D0ydS
— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 13, 2023
lolwut? “Work requirements?”
I thought the whole point of Social Security is that it’s for people who are retired. Scalise is basically saying he wants people to work until they die. https://t.co/Q85etB066e— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 13, 2023
re: #69 Crush White Nationalism
Flag guy from the violent part of the coup attempt?
Yeah, you’re right, I zoomed in and he’s holding the flag in his hand. I never got a clear look at his face from the FBI photos.
re: #72 Charles Johnson
Here’s the thing: He doesn’t ACTUALLY want people to work until they die. He’s searching for any vaguely plausible excuse he can make stick to defend his reasoning for wanting to defund Social Security. He landed on “work requirement” because, well, it sounds good for every other government entitlement program, even Joe Manchin says so.
re: #72 Charles Johnson
You can’t get rich just exploiting child laborers. We’re going to have to get the elderly into the mines if we want to get the most out of our workers.
Eta - Dang! By the time I verified and posted, the discussion had already happened, was over, and the guy correctly identified. I think I need more sugar and caffeine in my system.
re: #68 Dopamine Fish
Who’s the one in the very back, is that Seb Gorka?
Heh, the guy doesn’t look flabby enough to be Gorka. My first thought was Chuck Todd. But I suspect it is Kevin Seefried who was recently sentenced to 3 years for carrying the Confederate Flag in the Capitol building on Jan 6th.
re: #73 Dopamine Fish
Yeah, you’re right, I zoomed in and he’s holding the flag in his hand. I never got a clear look at his face from the FBI photos.
That was how I reached my conclusion as well.
This must be that quality dialog in the town square that was getting censored by liberals that I’ve been hearing so much about.
Boy, Twitter sure has gotten improved and totally worth paying for now. Yeah. pic.twitter.com/iB7BDfBKYk— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 13, 2023
re: #72 Charles Johnson
Well golly gosh if Republicans want to make people work by reducing their Social Security benefit amounts and those folks do work and pay in more to the trust fund…does that mean their benefits would increase as they pay more in?
Oh silly me! I know that Republicans would never want to do that now would they?????
re: #75 Crush White Nationalism
You can’t get rich just exploiting child laborers. We’re going to have to get the elderly into the mines if we want to get the most out of our workers.
Those shopping carts in the parking lot aren’t going to collect themselves. s//
re: #59 wrenchwench
That’s one of the GOOD walkers. Let go of those ‘brake’ levers, and it stops and stays. Need to squeeze them to make it go. Much safer.
And the chair is comfortable, lifts up to expose a shopping-bag-sized storage compartment.
re: #64 Belafon
LOL. GOPs are flailing so hard about this. Steve Scalise says Biden is lying that GOPs want to cut Social Security. They just want to make a work requirement if you get a check! https://t.co/9CYkAd61li pic.twitter.com/p0ywN1JWqq
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 13, 2023
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who is it EXACTLY who’s staying at home rather than going to work?
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- is it the retirees? (do i have to define who they are?)
- the disabled (who were adjudged disabled/qualified before they got the first dime)
- survivors, who are basically getting a payout of your ss because you died
- maybe it’s the children
cause once you eliminate 73% of the payouts (the retirees), the disabled (12), and whatever percent the children are (say it’s 5), 73+12+5 = 90, so there’s about 10% left and only SOME of them might be able to actually go to work
re: #80 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
1930s.
These would have been unfiltered.
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I was a nicotine addict for about 15 years. I’d even smoke while riding a bicycle or motorcycle. You have to cup it just right on a motorcycle.
Gee, I wonder if Wall Street gonna like this?
‘They don’t speak for your voice or mine’: DeSantis to propose bill that would block ‘woke’ investments
il Duce takes his wokeness battle to another level.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is set to propose legislation that would block any state pension investment banking decisions he and his Republican allies in leadership consider “woke,” Orlando Sentinel reports.
The proposal announced this week “would block all investment decisions based on ‘environmental, social and governance’ standards, known as ESG.”
I’d love to see some stats on how many GOP voters have Social Security as their primary source of income.
I know Israeli’s run the country, but wasn’t there a whole lot of trouble for Jews in another country that did this?
More than 100K Israelis demonstrated today in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem against Netanyahu’s plan to weaken the Supreme Court & other Democratic institutions. The government still refuses to accept President Herzog’s proposal and suspend the legislation (Video: Yair Palti) pic.twitter.com/TtAxdubvA0
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) February 13, 2023
It just seems like a bad idea, even if you’re the one in charge.
Michigan man convicted of threatening to kill President Biden https://t.co/e5pvYqDgRK
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) February 13, 2023
re: #83 Dangerman
I think he’s trying to target those on SDDI, not even considering that it’s a pain to get those benefits.
Edit: you are correct, but he thinks he can make it sound like welfare.
re: #89 Belafon
I think he’s trying to target those on SDDI, not even considering that it’s a pain to get those benefits.
Then he should say what he means, otherwise he looks like a complete dumbass.
Oh, what am I saying? He’s a Republican. He always looks like a complete dumbass.
re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d love to see some stats on how many GOP voters have Social Security as their primary source of income.
They usually talk about starving future retirees so the current ones don’t vote the Republicans out of office. Hurting other people is fine with Republicans.
re: #89 Belafon
I think he’s trying to target those on SDDI, not even considering that it’s a pain to get those benefits.
Maybe, but he didn’t say that. And that wouldn’t make it any better - trying to force disabled people to go to work? WTF?
re: #92 Charles Johnson
Maybe, but he didn’t say that. And that wouldn’t make it any better - trying to force disabled people to go to work? WTF?
I added an edit afterwards, but I think he’s trying to make it sound like welfare.
As if polyvinyl chloride spills aren’t enough, OH Gov Mike DeWine wants more toxins… https://t.co/s4bhm1MgOq
— Derek Cressman (@DerekCressman) February 13, 2023
re: #93 Belafon
I added an edit afterwards, but I think he’s trying to make it sound like welfare.
Exactly, he’s trying to exploit the perpetually aggrieved right wing base with a deliberately vague statement.
But he’s deadly serious about cutting Social Security and Medicare. All the Republicans are, whether they’ll admit it or not.
re: #95 Charles Johnson
Exactly, he’s trying to exploit the perpetually aggrieved right base with a deliberately vague statement.
But he’s deadly serious about cutting Social Security and Medicare. All the Republicans are, whether they’ll admit it or not.
I just don’t understand why they have such a hard-on for making sure only “the worthy” get government benefits. I’m thinking back to the MN state Republican who voted against the funding for free school breakfasts/lunches, and I just… why? Do you hate kids so much that you’re going to say, “No, these kids can’t get a free lunch because of something they have no control over?” If we have the money, does it really matter? And if we don’t, maybe we tax those parents more to pay for it instead of unilaterally deciding they don’t deserve it?
re: #96 Dopamine Fish
They think only “the worthy’ - wealthy white Christian males - should get anything.
Welp, if this was the Bible you claim to love so much, this would be the part where your God was telling pinch-faced tight asses like you “LET MY PEOPLE GO!” pic.twitter.com/SxmydemKdh
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 13, 2023
re: #88 The Pie Overlord!
Five years in jail isn’t enough for an asshole who previously threatened to kill Obama and decided to double down threatening to kill Joe.
re: #97 Belafon
They think only “the worthy’ - wealthy white Christian males - should get anything.
Yes, yes. “If a man does not work, he shall not eat,” and all that jazz. I’m just so fucking sick of it. Instead of trying so hard to be an asshole to literally everybody except the Chosen Few, maybe they should try “be[ing] kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other,” the way Jesus and Paul and the Apostles commanded us to. Maybe then, people wouldn’t be fleeing churches in droves.
re: #96 Dopamine Fish
I just don’t understand why they have such a hard-on for making sure only “the worthy” get government benefits. I’m thinking back to the MN state Republican who voted against the funding for free school breakfasts/lunches, and I just… why? Do you hate kids so much that you’re going to say, “No, these kids can’t get a free lunch because of something they have no control over?” If we have the money, does it really matter? And if we don’t, maybe we tax those parents more to pay for it instead of unilaterally deciding they don’t deserve it?
A lot of them still don’t understand that Reagan was a jackass. He taught them to judge people and deny them benefits, even if that judgement is deeply flawed.
re: #88 The Pie Overlord!
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Timothy Heath Findlay, 49, of Prescott, a small village east of West Branch, is accused of leveling the threat April 28, the day Biden asked Congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine. At the time, Findlay was being held at the Arenac County Jail in an unrelated case when he mailed a letter threatening Biden, his wife, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and others.
Findlay wrote that when he leaves custody, he and others “are going to bomb the White House and kill everyone with cyanide,” according to his plea agreement. “Rape your wife(,) kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer(,) tie her up and leave her on Lake Michigan. Then kill everyone with cyanide.”
And he probably identifies as a “pro-life Christian”.
re: #95 Charles Johnson
Exactly, he’s trying to exploit the perpetually aggrieved right wing base with a deliberately vague statement.
But he’s deadly serious about cutting Social Security and Medicare. All the Republicans are, whether they’ll admit it or not.
You know what would work? A vinyl LP!
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A fragile man with a fantasy-based worldview is cracking up.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
re: #104 Crush White Nationalism
It’s the vaccine. None of this happened before the vaccine was rolled out. The 5G nanobots are interfering with the very fabric of reality itself.
re: #92 Charles Johnson
Maybe, but he didn’t say that. And that wouldn’t make it any better - trying to force disabled people to go to work? WTF?
Yes, supposedly there is a list of “Jobs The Disabled Can Do” that has not been updated since 1964 and includes such professions as “nut inspector” and “data entry”
re: #97 Belafon
They think only “the worthy’ - wealthy white Christian males - should get anything.
In my cousins’ cases, you can shorten it to “White people.”
re: #105 Dopamine Fish
It’s the vaccine. None of this happened before the vaccine was rolled out. The 5G nanobots are interfering with the very fabric of reality itself.
As long as it improves the wifi in the house, I’m cool.
re: #108 Mattand
As long as it improves the wifi in the house, I’m cool.
This person knows where their towel is.
re: #107 Mattand
In my cousins’ cases, you can shorten it to “White people.”
Until your cousin is at the bottom of the remaining pyramid.
re: #103 Mattand
You know what would work? A vinyl LP!
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Memories of going to see our family Dr during the Medicare debate. In his waiting room was a glass case with a big-assed RED X over Pruneface Reagan’s face, broken pieces of Pruneface’s anti-Medicare record scattered around the case and a nice Big-Assed sign that said TELL FRANK CLARK AND OUR SENATORS TO VOTE YES ON MEDICARE!
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Tons of people dropping suddenly.”
Either this is some really dumb anti-vaxxer bullshit or I’ve missed a news report or two.
re: #106 The Pie Overlord!
Yes, supposedly there is a list of “Jobs The Disabled Can Do” that has not been updated since 1964 and includes such professions as “nut inspector” and “data entry”
re: #113 The Pie Overlord!
When I was working disability claims it was a PAIN IN THE YOU KNOW WHERE to look for relevant jobs in an outdated index. Oh don’t get me started about the pneumatic tube operators, nut sizers or comptometer operators…
re: #80 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
1930s.
These would have been unfiltered.
I smoked Camel filters. While I was flying. In Vietnam. It didn’t seem especially dangerous at the time, all things considered. Smoked weed on the ground. It was pretty good, though nothing like today’s scientifically hybridized product. Or so I hear.[Embedded content]
Soldiers smoked because you were probably going to be shot before lung cancer had any chance to take hold. Plus, y’know, 3 minutes of something to do.
re: #106 The Pie Overlord!
Yes, supposedly there is a list of “Jobs The Disabled Can Do” that has not been updated since 1964 and includes such professions as “nut inspector” and “data entry”
It has been a long time since my nuts were inspected, but I thought that was just because I’m not attractive enough anymore. I feel better now that I know it’s obsolete.
/
re: #82 sagehen
And the chair is comfortable, lifts up to expose a shopping-bag-sized storage compartment.
Oh yeah, carrying stuff is also important. I just assembled my bike trailer and I’m gonna go get a 40 pound bag of cat litter.
re: #110 Belafon
Until your cousin is at the bottom of the remaining pyramid.
Most of them have been there their whole lives. They’re too oblivious to realize it. Being union members who vote Trump has that effect.
re: #115 sagehen
Soldiers smoked because you were probably going to be shot before lung cancer had any chance to take hold. Plus, y’know, 3 minutes of something to do.
The nicotine buzz helps too.
re: #114 Joe Bacon
When I was working disability claims it was a PAIN IN THE YOU KNOW WHERE to look for relevant jobs in an outdated index. Oh don’t get me started about the pneumatic tube operators, nut sizers or comptometer operators…
Buttons & notions. Jobs that haven’t existed in the United States since Victoria was Queen of England.
re: #113 The Pie Overlord!
Sounds like someone needs to write Biden (not implying you).
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
Vinyl Chloride only poisons the air and soil. Fracking will contaminate the water table making it a three-fer for DeWhine.
re: #89 Belafon
I think he’s trying to target those on SDDI, not even considering that it’s a pain to get those benefits.
Edit: you are correct, but he thinks he can make it sound like welfare.
and that you as a worker paid in to get those benefits too
Workers contribute to SSDI and earn its protection in case they can no longer support themselves due to a severe and long-lasting disability.
…
The large majority of SSDI beneficiaries have extensive work histories; the average beneficiary had 22 years of work experience
re: #116 Crush White Nationalism
It has been a long time since my nuts were inspected, but I thought that was just because I’m not attractive enough anymore. I feel better now that I know it’s obsolete.
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As someone who had experience with that outdated book at least 2/3 of the occupations listed are now obsolete. Including Department Store Data Tagger, Telephone Booth maintenance worker, Adding machine repair technician, Mimeographer and Keypunch card operator/stacker.
I see a war coming to a parking lot near you when the charging spaces try to oust the handicapped spots.
(aside - I’ve been paying attention - where ever I go here in Kansas, all the charging spaces are used up, is that true other places?)
re: #119 William Lewis
The nicotine buzz helps too.
It reduces anxiety, but the problem is that withdrawal from it causes anxiety.
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
Isn’t this the apocalypse y’all been praying for?
re: #127 sizzzzlerz
Isn’t this the apocalypse y’all been praying for?
Well, yeah, but it wasn’t supposed to affect ME.
re: #111 Joe Bacon
Memories of going to see our family Dr during the Medicare debate. In his waiting room was a glass case with a big-assed RED X over Pruneface Reagan’s face, broken pieces of Pruneface’s anti-Medicare record scattered around the case and a nice Big-Assed sign that said TELL FRANK CLARK AND OUR SENATORS TO VOTE YES ON MEDICARE!
My dad (anesthesiologist, conservative) was originally against Medicare. But within a year or two of it taking effect, he grew to love it. They pay quickly, they pay in full, and there’s no more billing and re-billing and calling and re-billing again to try to collect from impoverished seniors or their heirs…
re: #124 Joe Bacon
As someone who had experience with that outdated book at least 2/3 of the occupations listed are now obsolete. Including Department Store Data Tagger, Telephone Booth maintenance worker, Adding machine repair technician, Mimeographer and Keypunch card operator/stacker.
My father had a multiplying machine on his office desk. It had so many buttons.
re: #125 Thanos
I see a war coming to a parking lot near you when the charging spaces try to oust the handicapped spots.
(aside - I’ve been paying attention - where ever I go here in Kansas, all the charging spaces are used up, is that true other places?)
I don’t see why that should be the case. Some of the charging spots could be located out in the lots, not everyone requires access to a charger AND a handicapped space at the same time.
re: #91 Crush White Nationalism
They usually talk about starving future retirees so the current ones don’t vote the Republicans out of office. Hurting other people is fine with Republicans.
It’s sort of their raison d’etre, is it not?
re: #129 Mattand
LOL, it’s starting to sound like a parade of jobs you’d hear on The Simpsons.
Spittoon Finagler
Monocle Wrangler
Hobo-at- Large
Protractor Inspector
Every time we ask if the DOL Jobs index will be updated…”we’re working on it…” of 40 years plus…the same bullshit…
re: #135 Joe Bacon
Every time we ask if the DOL Jobs index will be updated…”we’re working on it…” of 40 years plus…the same bullshit…
“We’re working on it.” The civil servant’s way of saying, “Ain’t nothin’ gon’ happen, but at least I’ll try to make you feel better about it.”
Dear @RussianEmbassyC: if Canada is such a dangerous country for your compatriots, then perhaps you could set a good example and withdraw all of your personnel. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, eh! 🍁🇨🇦 #NAFO https://t.co/uPKhmza3xK
— Ghost of Petőfi⚔️🛡🌻 (@petofiszelleme) February 13, 2023
re: #125 Thanos
I see a war coming to a parking lot near you when the charging spaces try to oust the handicapped spots.
(aside - I’ve been paying attention - where ever I go here in Kansas, all the charging spaces are used up, is that true other places?)
Are they being used by electric cars, or by other cars batching about an electric car using their space?
Around here, the places that have charging spaces are in different locations than the handicap areas.
re: #137 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s very dangerous. It’s cold. There are moose. You might catch FREEDOM there.
re: #139 Dopamine Fish
It’s very dangerous. It’s cold. There are moose. You might catch FREEDOM there.
And the people! They’re just so polite.
re: #92 Charles Johnson
Maybe, but he didn’t say that. And that wouldn’t make it any better - trying to force disabled people to go to work? WTF?
Disabled people who had to jump through hoops (no funny stuff meant here) few of us could imagine to get approved for SSDI to start with. Most who manage to get it took years to be approved. It’s not like it’s handed out like candy at Halloween.
re: #138 Belafon
Are they being used by electric cars, or by other cars batching about an electric car using their space?
Around here, the places that have charging spaces are in different locations than the handicap areas.
They are definitely all plugged in
re: #100 Dopamine Fish
Yes, yes. “If a man does not work, he shall not eat,” and all that jazz….
which is fine as far as it goes
and then we invented saving for retirement or in other words for when you’re too old to work.
and we invented insurance as a method of savings
that means saving your own money that you can use when you cant work anymore (or get hurt)
you can save on your own - iras, pensions, etc if you’re successful enough. plain old savings and investments if you dont care about the tax effect.
but the govt, no not these particular R’s obviously, also required that you pay into an insurance system. their system. a minimum system. a just in case system.
now the insurance company (the R’s in this case) simply don’t want to pay out your money. they want to break the agreement and just keep your premiums.
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remember the basis of any insurance system (except life insurance) is that some people will pay premiums and not have a claim or won’t collect, over time, more than they paid in. others will do the opposite: collect way more than they paid in premiums.
you may pay for others or others may pay for you.
changing the rules after the premiums have been paid is just…some kind of evil, no matter how you explain or try to dissemble it.
re: #139 Dopamine Fish
It’s very dangerous. It’s cold. There are moose. You might catch FREEDOM there.
Tactical Assault Beavers.
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
“Tons of people dropping suddenly.”
Either this is some really dumb anti-vaxxer bullshit or I’ve missed a news report or two.
Nearly 8000 Americans die everyday. I’m willing to bet that >60% own a pair of blue jeans?, i.e., the real killer.
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re: #139 Dopamine Fish
It’s very dangerous. It’s cold. There are moose. You might catch FREEDOM there.
Whatever you catch, at least you’re guaranteed to see a doctor, regardless of insurance.
re: #145 Dr. Matt
Nearly 8000 Americans die everyday. I’m willing to bet that >60% own a pair of blue jeans?, i.e., the real killer.
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It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
re: #138 Belafon
Are they being used by electric cars, or by other cars batching about an electric car using their space?
Around here, the places that have charging spaces are in different locations than the handicap areas.
Sure is really nice when I see cars and especially big gas guzzling trucks covered with Trump shit occupying spaces for recharging electric vehicles.
re: #135 Joe Bacon
Every time we ask if the DOL Jobs index will be updated…”we’re working on it…” of 40 years plus…the same bullshit…
put em to work doing that then!
re: #132 mmmirele
I don’t see why that should be the case. Some of the charging spots could be located out in the lots, not everyone requires access to a charger AND a handicapped space at the same time.
This was a late afternoon jest friends.
re: #138 Belafon
Are they being used by electric cars, or by other cars batching about an electric car using their space?
Around here, the places that have charging spaces are in different locations than the handicap areas.
More often than not, the chargers in my neck of the woods are usually banished to a distant part of the parking lot. However, the Whole Foods has them right up front, intermingled with the pregnancy spaces.
Of course, some motherfucker in a gas car parked in one of the EV spots the other day. There were other open charging spots, but that really pisses me off.
Meanwhile GOP keeps repeating this stupid horseshit.
Tuberville: A society that allows abortion up to and past the moment of birth after the baby has been born is not progressive, it’s barbaric pic.twitter.com/eWysZIds2g
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 13, 2023
I’d be creeped out too. pic.twitter.com/n11CYUbvUF
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) February 13, 2023
re: #152 The Pie Overlord!
Meanwhile GOP keeps repeating this stupid horseshit.
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Republicans don’t understand that theocratic authoritarians are the fringe. Most of us still believe that women should have control of their own bodies rather than shifting ownership to religious extremists who do not understand that their rules do not apply to non-participants.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
re: #145 Dr. Matt
Nearly 8000 Americans die everyday. I’m willing to bet that >60% own a pair of blue jeans?, i.e., the real killer.
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about 80% would have been breastfed at some point
conincidence?
re: #135 Joe Bacon
Every time we ask if the DOL Jobs index will be updated…”we’re working on it…” of 40 years plus…the same bullshit…
Is “list updater” among the listed jobs?
Finally watched The Flash trailer. Didn’t think I’d get so emotional at seeing Keaton as Batman again but holy crap.
re: #96 Dopamine Fish
I just don’t understand why they have such a hard-on for making sure only “the worthy” get government benefits. I’m thinking back to the MN state Republican who voted against the funding for free school breakfasts/lunches, and I just… why? Do you hate kids so much that you’re going to say, “No, these kids can’t get a free lunch because of something they have no control over?” If we have the money, does it really matter? And if we don’t, maybe we tax those parents more to pay for it instead of unilaterally deciding they don’t deserve it?
Conservatism is about power. That’s it. Holding the power to starve people or put them out on the street sorts the “worthy” (those who should have power) over those who aren’t worthy.
How many wingnut buttons does this joyous celebration push:
Joy to the world! Elizabeth and Alison, my daughter-in-law and daughter, gave birth to beautiful Henry on Thursday, our third grandchild! pic.twitter.com/UR9Ji4atf6
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 13, 2023
The unidentified flying object shot down over Canada appeared to be a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload,” a Pentagon memo says https://t.co/3ZpHLX3Cd5
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) February 13, 2023
Back in the ‘90’s we released a bunch of mylar balloons at my #4 son’s Bar Mitzvah, to which were taped plastic bags that contained stamped, addressed envelopes asking whoever found them to let us know where it was found and wish Jeremy a happy Bar Mitzvah!
We did receive one envelope, one of the balloons floated as far as Sanilac County where it was found in a cornfield.
As far as I know it did not cause any international scrambling of U.S. and Canadian fighter jets.
re: #152 The Pie Overlord!
Meanwhile GOP keeps repeating this stupid horseshit.
Tuberville: A society that allows abortion up to and past the moment of birth after the baby has been born is not progressive, it’s barbaric pic.twitter.com/eWysZIds2g
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 13, 2023
WILL SOMEONE SOMEWHERE PLEASE ASK THIS:
can you name a specific case of an ‘abortion after birth’?
shout it while he’s speaking. they did it at the sotu.
re: #160 The Pie Overlord!
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Back in the ‘90’s we released a bunch of mylar balloons at my #4 son’s Bar Mitzvah, to which were taped plastic bags that contained stamped, addressed envelopes asking whoever found them to let us know where it was found and wish Jeremy a happy Bar Mitzvah!
We did receive one envelope, one of the balloons floated as far as Sanilac County where it was found in a cornfield.
As far as I know it did not cause any international scrambling of U.S. and Canadian fighter jets.
We recognize now that that was littering, but we were not as smart back then as we are now.
re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg
Finally watched The Flash trailer. Didn’t think I’d get so emotional at seeing Keaton as Batman again but holy crap.
Yes I felt the same way seeing Michael. But for Ezra Miller nope will not watch a movie that has that Andrew Tate wannabe in it.
oh
Nearly 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride were on this train. Now, the EPA has confirmed it’s entered the Ohio River basin which is home to 25 million people.
This is one of the deadliest environmental emergencies in decades and no one is talking about it. https://t.co/HTsZhokEo4— Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) February 13, 2023
re: #125 Thanos
I see a war coming to a parking lot near you when the charging spaces try to oust the handicapped spots.
(aside - I’ve been paying attention - where ever I go here in Kansas, all the charging spaces are used up, is that true other places?)
There may be areas here where the charging spots are all taken, but being a liberal hellhole, we have a fair number of chargers around, so people aren’t vying for just a few spots.
They don’t seem to be competing for space with handicapped spaces.
As an aside, I had a handicapped placard for a few years before my knee was replaced. The day I was able to turn in my placard, my whole metric for evaluating a parking spot changed from “Is there a reasonably close space for me that isn’t handicapped in case someone is in worse shape? Do I need to carry things? How do I feel today?” to “How easy is it to get in and out of the parking lot from this space? Is it a nice day to walk just a bit?” I have never been happier to park at a distance from where I’m going. You just don’t realize it until you can’t walk without pain.
re: #164 Joe Bacon
Yes I felt the same way seeing Michael. But for Ezra Miller nope will not watch a movie that has that Andrew Tate wannabe in it.
How is he an Andrew Tate wannabe? Last I heard he accepted that he has a serious problem and is getting help.
re: #163 Crush White Nationalism
We recognize now that that was littering, but we were not as smart back then as we are now.
Our efforts at launching unmanned hot-air balloons (large plastic bags used to package new sails for the local sailing club) had a payload of tin-foil corner-cube radar reflectors. Doing this under the flightpath of the local international airport was probably a bad idea. Probably.
Vivek Ramaswamy (R) “is exploring a run for president, testing, among other things, whether his warnings about the dangers of ‘wokeism’ and socially-responsible investing — in business vernacular what’s called environmental, social and governance investing — has political currency with Republican politicians, business leaders and, yes, farmers,” Politico reports.“Ramaswamy has a theory for how this will all go. He wants to pull off what Donald Trump did in 2016: enter the race with an entrepreneurial spirit, unorthodox ideas, and few expectations, and end up developing a major following that will carry him to the presidency — even if it seems like a long shot at the moment.”
yeah, the blaringly white GOP would vote for a “Ramaswamy” //
re: #159 Belafon
How many wingnut buttons does this joyous celebration push:
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Ahhhh. The besotted grandpa expression. And that little foot escaping!
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
I used to think
that disaster films
were too excessive
but between the plague
and the changing climate
and the sick birds
and the airborne toxic event
and the unidentified flying objects
I am starting to think
that disaster films
are not excessive enough.— Plague Poems (@PlaguePoems) February 13, 2023
I see lots of “go after oligarch’s children” and very little “go after West European institutions that were happy to work with the oligarchs when they were just invading Chechnya and Georgia.”
It’s almost like there’s some kind of predefined pattern in which wealthy countries are some kind of sink in which accumulates wealth from poor states controlled by dictators and corrupt figures that steal both the non-renewable resources, sell their captive citizen’s labor cheap, and wrack up international debt that funds nothing constructive because corruption sponges away the money…but when any given kleptocratic state becomes too obvious in their rapacity and the body pile becomes noisome, the cultural and political leaders of wealthy countries performatively disavow the regime while hurriedly covering their Kama-Sutra-like financial entanglement with this particular mass-murderer.
to say nothing of the all the other corrupt, exploitative financial extraction systems that will eventually lead to similar violence because dictators only have a very limited move set and “start a war to stoke nationalist unity but also kill a bunch of men who otherwise might radicalize against you” is their dedicated special attack.
The rot in Russia is the same rot that’s dissolving all our infrastructure and turning public services into private factory farms of exploitation. Russia’s current trajectory isn’t continuous with it’s Soviet past, it’s continuous with what happens when capitalism’s political operators gets to pick leadership of a poor country that has valuable resources: regular people suffer because it’s just easier for international markets to deal with oligarchs, it makes the commodities and labor cheaper.
Watching my wife carry a healthy baby to term and then through a typically painful natural birth reminded me that the idea of anyone, ever, carrying a baby for 9 months and then at the last minute saying, “Eh, you know what, I’ve changed my mind, kill it” is insane. https://t.co/BSLN3ICSHF
— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) February 13, 2023
re: #175 jaunte
Republicans tell each other these insane stories to help them feel like they’re better than other people, when really they’re so much worse and keep voting for crooks and theocratic lunatics.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
this is fine pic.twitter.com/qYPrq4PaO5
— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) February 13, 2023
re: #176 Crush White Nationalism
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Republicans only know how to do one thing—lie and the more outrageous the lie is the base believes it all the more.
A train has derailed in the Houston area.
Officials report the train was carrying “hazardous materials, prompting Union Pacific to monitor air quality at the site of the crash, according to the Splendora Police Department.” pic.twitter.com/39XEGvTmpZ— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 13, 2023
re: #88 The Pie Overlord!
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He looks like the guy who muttered something like “motherf’g sheeple” as he saw my mask when we crossed paths at the entrance/exit to the grocery store.
re: #166 calochortus
There may be areas here where the charging spots are all taken, but being a liberal hellhole, we have a fair number of chargers around, so people aren’t vying for just a few spots.
They don’t seem to be competing for space with handicapped spaces.As an aside, I had a handicapped placard for a few years before my knee was replaced. The day I was able to turn in my placard, my whole metric for evaluating a parking spot changed from “Is there a reasonably close space for me that isn’t handicapped in case someone is in worse shape? Do I need to carry things? How do I feel today?” to “How easy is it to get in and out of the parking lot from this space? Is it a nice day to walk just a bit?” I have never been happier to park at a distance from where I’m going. You just don’t realize it until you can’t walk without pain.
Yes, it’s day by day with me as well, there are days I do not use my placard, and days I do. (more of them now, hopefully less later) but with the proliferation of privileged parking spaces (handicapped, charging, mother to be, local hero, veteran just to name a few…) at the local marts at some point wingnuts gonna whine about no spaces for normie gas drivers no more!
re: #174 The Ghost of a Flea
The world order works exactly the way “Epstein didn’t kill himself” proposes it does, but nobody in the imperial center cares because the procurers work in foreign countries where suffering and death are just inevitable.
Today’s Kentucky: There are 4,600 coal miners working in the commonwealth, and 6,000 Kentuckians who work at Dollar General. pic.twitter.com/TIjRs0V3xZ
— Jason Bailey (@jbaileyky) February 13, 2023
Ummm, isn’t “abortion past the point of birth” you know….MURDER???
At our local Meijer stores there are numbered spots near the store set up for pickup customers to wait while being delivered to. Last time I was at one, 7 of the 12 spots were occupied by cars with no one in them.
I also have a handicapped parking sticker which I rarely use: congestive heart failure. But I do sometimes take advantage of those little electric riding grocery carts!
Given this government’s record, I wouldn’t recommend hot air ballooning for Valentine’s Day… https://t.co/zjGA9b9iz5
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) February 13, 2023
re: #163 Crush White Nationalism
We recognize now that that was littering, but we were not as smart back then as we are now.
Decades ago, one of those mylar balloons blew in through the doorway of one of our barns, and was light enough to keep bouncing around in there. Really scared the horses, and one of our best young colts tried to jump out of his stall to get away from it, broke his leg, and had to be destroyed. I have bad feelings personally now, seeing any of them outside in the open.
Exclusive: Ex-Russian military bomber engineer seeks asylum at U.S. border, offers Russian military secrets https://t.co/01w771ZSDV
— Jana Winter (@janawinter) February 13, 2023
re: #181 Thanos
Yes, it’s day by day with me as well, there are days I do not use my placard, and days I do. (more of them now, hopefully less later) but with the proliferation of privileged parking spaces (handicapped, charging, mother to be, local hero, veteran just to name a few…) at the local marts at some point wingnuts gonna whine about no spaces for normie gas drivers no more!
Yeah, not really a fan of many of the privileged spaces some places seem to have. Handicapped and charging are obviously there for a reason, and having once had to do things with small kids in tow, I kinda see the point there, but other things like veterans, and so on just asks for expansion into other areas that will devalue them all.
I do make an exception for UC Berkeley having special spaces for Nobel Prize winners because they’ve had that for a long time and I suspect it’s more for purpose of tweaking Stanford’s nose than anything else. Stanford has nearly as many Nobel Laureates, but they’re on their own for parking.
Waiting for the inevitable horror/thriller movie about a spy balloon…
re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg
Waiting for the inevitable horror/thriller movie about a spy balloon…
NOPE.
“Wasn’t us”
NEW: National Weather Service: “All of our weather balloons are accounted for. Our offices confirmed there were no abnormalities to any upper air flights this weekend.”
Susan Buchanan
Director of Public Affairs— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) February 13, 2023
Within 3 months of legacy blue checks being phased out, they’re gonna make a new feature of Twitter Blue being that you can’t get blocked https://t.co/RqvMabbvD3
— Aric Toler (@AricToler) February 13, 2023
re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg
Waiting for the inevitable horror/thriller movie about a spy balloon…
HindenBEES!
Something going on behind the scenes?
Yes, I too was very struck by the language https://t.co/at0CtH5WRQ
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) February 13, 2023
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The USA tells American citizens to leave Russia immediately. Clearly, something is brewing and ready to blow. https://t.co/o9rJ0OnzeW
— Ukraine Front Lines (@EuromaidanPR) February 13, 2023
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Canada and France have ordered all of its citizens to leave Belarus NOW, and we urge all foreign citizens to leave Belarus because it will feel the burn if it allows more enemy attacks on Ukraine. Evil is about to be defeated. https://t.co/noYWSLUdpK
— Ukraine Front Lines (@EuromaidanPR) February 13, 2023
re: #196 ckkatz
Something going on behind the scenes?
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Reagan isn’t in office, so we probably have not outlawed Russia and sent bombers.
re: #196 ckkatz
Something going on behind the scenes?
Either we’re hearing Russia is about to arrest every westerner, or the US is about to declare them state sponsors of terrorism.
MFA - Ministry of Foreign Affairs (or, less likely, Master of Fine Arts)
The French MFA said it “strongly” advised its citizens against going to Belarus giving the“new offensive by Russia in Ukraine”.Earlier,the U.S. told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine & the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by🇷🇺law enforcement
— Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) February 13, 2023
re: #196 ckkatz
Something going on behind the scenes?
Is this different from the guideance that’s been there since the week before the invasion.
Note that during the worst of the pandemic, nearly the entire world was at Level 4.
But I’ve never seen such a detailed page listing all the surrounding countries, and which ones Russian citizens can travel through (because of all the mixed-citizenship families), which 3rd country airlines still have flights through random airports.
re: #198 Belafon
Either we’re hearing Russia is about to arrest every westerner, or the US is about to declare them state sponsors of terrorism.
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re: #198 Belafon
Either we’re hearing Russia is about to arrest every westerner, or the US is about to declare them state sponsors of terrorism.
Other possibilities:
- Russia is going to attempt to overthrow the Moldovan government. People often forget that there are a number of Russian soldiers in the breakaway statelet of Transistria, on the eastern side of Moldova, just west of Ukraine. The Moldovan government has warned of this after getting some intelligence from Ukraine.
- Russia is going to start drafting foreigners
- The Russian government has already kidnapped some US citizens and this fact is just not publicly known yet.
- Some of the balloons were Russian.
A new CEO. https://t.co/jP2a1KLtCC
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️🌈 (@aravosis) February 13, 2023
The faux outrage continues.
Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Joe Manchin, d-w.va., on Feb. 2 introduced the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act to prevent the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) from banning gas stoves.
In statements accompanying the bill’s introduction, the senators struck a brave pose in defense of liberty. “Make no mistake, radical environmentalists want to stop Americans from using natural gas,” Cruz said. “The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner,” Manchin said.
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This is a lot of words to say, “Honestly, I’m not doing much.” https://t.co/cWyUmmvwID
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) February 13, 2023
re: #203 Belafon
The team of one immigrant here on a work visa who can’t quit.
— Verrified (@efuseakay) February 13, 2023
Waiting for a Weather Channel balloon manned by Jim Cantore to sidle up to one of those unmanned babies to give an exclusive on “what goes in to the downing of an unmanned unidentified vehicle.”
Just for perspective:
Number of days between Watergate break-in and Nixon’s resignation: 783
Number of days since Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol while investigations into Trump’s role continue without resolution one way or the other: 768— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) February 13, 2023
Canada tells people to get out of Russia.
Avoid all travel to Russia due to the impacts of the armed conflict with Ukraine, including partial military mobilization, restrictions on financial transactions and increasingly limited flight options.
If you are in Russia, you should leave while commercial means are still available. If you remain in Russia, maintain a low profile. Canadians holding Russian citizenship may be subject to call-up for mandatory military service.
Mexico’s foreign ministry page says it has moved all its alerts to TOR and onion routing, so I can’t see if they’ve issued an alert.
re: #206 GlutenFreeJesus
I do not trust you to fix the radicalization pipeline that fed more and more extreme right-wing propaganda to the weak-minded by presenting the crazies when someone looks at a post from a right-wing politician.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
Corporations that reject bigotry are not going to shift to supporting it just because bigots downvote anyone who rejects them.
Why do you say you’re anti-woke rather than saying you’re a bigot. I think you’re ashamed of what you are.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
re: #211 Crush White Nationalism
Money or downdings? Hmmmm, I wonder which a company will listen to?
Hey, @TTuberville 👇 pic.twitter.com/c93Ms9zyB1
— Missy Hubbard (@Missy_ubermom) February 13, 2023
These two Happy Days outtakes are everything. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Kes3VLhylt
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) February 13, 2023
Actually, no. One of the joys St. Augustine outlined in “City of God” was that the elect would have the joy of seeing unbelievers burn in hell for all eternity.
He is listed as a saint in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. He was also elevated to “Doctor of the Church” by the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church has never repudiated this stance.
Wow, even for a Christian thats very dark
😂😂😂😂#Think #Atheism https://t.co/JX62QEp4iY— Jason 💉💉💉 (RIP Stadia 2019-2022) (@secularist85) February 13, 2023
re: #216 gocart Mozart
Why does everyone in that video look like Kari Lake?
NTSC wasn’t that bad.
Imagine going back to 1989 when Batman and Last Crusade are in theaters & your younger self asks what are you all excited about in 2023 & answering Michael Keaton playing Batman and Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones. pic.twitter.com/zKlSUNWQ1s
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) February 13, 2023
They will investigate the personal, non-violent opinions of former officials if it’s the last thing they do. https://t.co/WJHHAhi3DZ
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) February 13, 2023
I did a double take in the parking lot today pic.twitter.com/YG7DiO6EdH
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 13, 2023
Tomorrow’s Wordle is grateful the weather is just shit here. Hawke’s Bay is really copping it now.
There is one letter you absolutely MUST have. Guess which one.
Wordle 605 5/6
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🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
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SibData: 3,3,4,5,5
New Barney’s so woke he’s gonna teach the kids Critical Rex Theory.
— Lon Harris (@Lons) February 13, 2023
re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Actually, no. One of the joys St. Augustine outlined in “City of God” was that the elect would have the joy of seeing unbelievers burn in hell for all eternity.
He is listed as a saint in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. He was also elevated to “Doctor of the Church” by the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church has never repudiated this stance.
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The Japanese early 20th century writer Akutagawa Ryūnosuke read Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the hands of an angry god” and got the idea for a different kind of story. The Buddha is strolling around a lotus pond and peers over the edge. In the depths he can see sinners struggling and in particular a petty thief named Kandata. He decides that Kandata should have a chance at salvation and so he extends a spider’s web filament down for Kandata to grasp and climb out. But not long after Kandata starts climbing, the others in hell grab the filament and climb after him. Kandata selfishly kicks out at those climbing below. Seeing the struggle, Buddha cuts the web and they all go plunging back down into the darkness.
Also Captain Elon seems to have piloted Tweetdeck onto the rocks
— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 13, 2023
re: #224 DodgerFan1988
Historians looking back on this era will talk about the performative stupidity of the Trump cult. People who embarrass themselves day after day pretending to understand nothing all to be part of the cult.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
re: #104 Crush White Nationalism
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We need to find a safe zone for these people, where self reliance and libertarian principle would govern society, or what there is of it. They could go in but not come out. They would be equipped with hand tools, some seeds and raw materials like cloth and pig iron ingots. Oh, and guns, lots of guns with plenty of ammo. Reloading supplies too. Don’t want them depending on ammo imports from collectivist yankee territories like Connecticutt and Sweden or socialist hellholes like Mexico.
Where should we locate this facility? I nominate Ronny Jackson’s 13th Congressional District of Texas. This is the Panhandle and parts of North Texas. It is mostly a desert covered with scrub grass, the occasional wheat field, and liquor store parking lots. The inhabitants are like Lubbockites only more so, so there is no problem with the lepertarians and bircher weirdos feeling un-welcome.
::: driving the catering truck into the room:::
As promised last night here is the buffet. Enjoy.
re: #226 ckkatz
People like you are so embarrassing, Oscar.
You don’t need to kiss the narcissistic clown’s ass.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
re: #225 Barefoot Grin
Which is one reason why Japan’s premier literary award is named after Akutagawa. That and Rashomon, which was a great story before it was borrowed (along with another Akutagawa story) by Kurosawa for Rashomon the movie.
It’s weird to see how many early modern Japanese literary legends died relatively young, how they’re revered, and how they end up as characters in “Bungou Stray Dogs.”
re: #221 Charles Johnson
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The most brilliant marketer ever. He and Woz did change the world.
Kind of like the way you handled Covid and killed Kentuckians through disinformation… Eat a dck..
— Amy Jean (@AmyJeanTyler) February 13, 2023
re: #228 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
We need to find a safe zone for these people, where self reliance and libertarian principle would govern society, or what there is of it. They could go in but not come out. They would be equipped with hand tools, some seeds and raw materials like cloth and pig iron ingots. Oh, and guns, lots of guns with plenty of ammo. Reloading supplies too. Don’t want them depending on ammo imports from collectivist yankee territories like Connecticutt and Sweden or socialist hellholes like Mexico.
Where should we locate this facility? I nominate Ronny Jackson’s 13th Congressional District of Texas. This is the Panhandle and parts of North Texas. It is mostly a desert covered with scrub grass, the occasional wheat field, and liquor store parking lots. The inhabitants are like Lubbockites only more so, so there is no problem with the lepertarians and bircher weirdos feeling un-welcome.
Heinlein called it Coventry.
Mission accomplished. 40lbs. of cat litter, a mile across town and up 9 steps. The 9 steps were harder than the mile. I took the bike up first, then the trailer, then the bag, 2 steps at a time. We all did the mile together.
I could try riding the computer…
You’re responding to a phony who has repeatedly shown himself to be in way over his head derping on Twitter for idiots to see rather than doing his job. Rand is not a serious person, and if you follow his lead, you’ll wind up completely lost.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 13, 2023
That is a short letter. pic.twitter.com/4H5fCwzfHD
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 13, 2023
re: #240 Charles Johnson
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Fork’s backwards. Looks like they meant it that way though, with the brake like that.
Ultra Joyce may be a character rolling up various wingnut delusions that someone is playing for fun, but she’s probably actually gone.
His personality disorder made accepting his loss impossible for him, even though he failed so badly in every way possible, and you went along with it. What’s your excuse?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 14, 2023
You put a lot too much weight on a number that seems to have given you a false sense of superiority. You’re part of an anti-democratic know-nothing movement that abandoned American values. Those are not the choices of a smart person.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 14, 2023
re: #96 Dopamine Fish
I just don’t understand why they have such a hard-on for making sure only “the worthy” get government benefits. I’m thinking back to the MN state Republican who voted against the funding for free school breakfasts/lunches, and I just… why? Do you hate kids so much that you’re going to say, “No, these kids can’t get a free lunch because of something they have no control over?” If we have the money, does it really matter? And if we don’t, maybe we tax those parents more to pay for it instead of unilaterally deciding they don’t deserve it?
It’s very simple. They want to give more money to the wealthy and Social Security and Medicare are the only pots (other than the DOD — and that’s not going to work for a GOP base or donors) large enough to provide this wealth if you also want to pretend that you care about budget deficits. Instead the wealthy need to be audited and pay a much larger share of taxes — a policy verboten to the GOP donors.
An openly anti-abortion federal judge in Texas could soon end, at least temporarily, access to the abortion pill that Americans have been safely using for more than 20 years. https://t.co/u9FyK93lor
— Kentucky Lantern (@KYLantern) February 13, 2023
A pathologist detailed the close range shots that killed Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son as prosecutors on Monday started winding up their case in the disgraced South Carolina attorney’s double murder trial . https://t.co/1HUJjAh8ma
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 14, 2023
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Can he finally just get ‘er done?
Though his joke was pretty good….
re: #235 wrenchwench
Mission accomplished. 40lbs. of cat litter, a mile across town and up 9 steps. The 9 steps were harder than the mile. I took the bike up first, then the trailer, then the bag, 2 steps at a time. We all did the mile together.
I could try riding the computer…
I hope you have a cat after all that.
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
This pic reminds me of every comedians x girlfriend coming to their show and sitting in the back 6 days after the breakup. pic.twitter.com/BAXCkMQtwt
— Larry The Cable Guy (@GitRDoneLarry) February 9, 2023
re: #260 Crush White Nationalism
Snowflakes can’t take a joke.
Republicans erupted like wild hornets when @POTUS said they’ve been open about targeting Social Security & Medicare
Almost as if to prove him correct—GOP Sen. Ron Johnson then called for annual votes on Social Security before calling it a “Ponzi scheme.”https://t.co/oD9XiRomgl— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 14, 2023
re: #225 Barefoot Grin
The Japanese early 20th century writer Akutagawa Ryūnosuke read Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the hands of an angry god” and got the idea for a different kind of story. The Buddha is strolling around a lotus pond and peers over the edge. In the depths he can see sinners struggling and in particular a petty thief named Kandata. He decides that Kandata should have a chance at salvation and so he extends a spider’s web filament down for Kandata to grasp and climb out. But not long after Kandata starts climbing, the others in hell grab the filament and climb after him. Kandata selfishly kicks out at those climbing below. Seeing the struggle, Buddha cuts the web and they all go plunging back down into the darkness.
it’s basically my view of hell. number one: nobody actually has to be there, but number two: the people that find themselves there do so through an active repudiation of god’s salvation, and the reason they are not salvageable is because by the time they are in hell, there is nothing left to salvage. I think Dante was thinking along the same lines when he had a corrupt cardinal wandering around hell while his body was still alive in the world above. The cardinal (I think it was a cardinal) was so corrupt that his soul had already migrated to the Inferno while the body still kind of chugged along above.
WTAF @SecDef @DoD_IG @SecArmy @ArmyChiefStaff? She is an active duty captain. This is unacceptable. https://t.co/joZ5JZEzPl
— Rachel Vindman 🌻 (@natsechobbyist) February 14, 2023
When Steve Bannon’s daughter gets a platform you know for sure nepotism culture is out of control.
re: #268 jaunte
She may not be active duty. People are saying she’s a former captain.
Speaking of hell, Henry Kissinger will make 100 if he doesn’t croak in the next 3 months and 14 days (born May 27, 1923).
Another Repug SoS, George Schultz, did make it to a hundred and a few weeks.
Nothing if not predictable. https://t.co/eOCkh8E6Jz
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 14, 2023
re: #265 wrenchwench
Two!
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That’s 16 years ago this June.
ah! mine is trying to train me not to just absently pet her while she’s sleeping/trying to sleep. Last night, I just couldn’t resist giving her a little head rub while she was lying in my arms. Immediately her left paw came out and she quite forcefully pushed my hand back down onto my chest. And she did it with the claws out, but without hurting me at all. And then she kept the paw on my hand with the claws out, resting on the top like tiny sewing machine needles that were at rest, for several minutes. And now I know what if feels like to be a recalcitrant kitten pestering mamma while she’s trying to sleep!
re: #231 mmmirele
It’s weird to see how many early modern Japanese literary legends died relatively young, how they’re revered, and how they end up as characters in “Bungou Stray Dogs.”
That would be Osamu Dazai who wrote a famous nihilistic book, “No Longer Human”. It’s been parodied in a recent manga (Isekai Shikkaku) where the main character attempts suicide with his lover and instead gets isekai’d to a fantasy world. It’s actually a comedy of all things. The manga is getting an anime adaptation.
re: #270 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Speaking of hell, Henry Kissinger will make 100 if he doesn’t croak in the next 3 months and 14 days (born May 27, 1923).
Another Repug SoS, George Schultz, did make it to a hundred and a few weeks.
re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nothing if not predictable. https://t.co/eOCkh8E6Jz
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 14, 2023
Gee, wait till he finds out what happened during FDR’s administration. 
re: #267 steve_davis
it’s basically my view of hell. number one: nobody actually has to be there, but number two: the people that find themselves there do so through an active repudiation of god’s salvation, and the reason they are not salvageable is because by the time they are in hell, there is nothing left to salvage. I think Dante was thinking along the same lines when he had a corrupt cardinal wandering around hell while his body was still alive in the world above. The cardinal (I think it was a cardinal) was so corrupt that his soul had already migrated to the Inferno while the body still kind of chugged along above.
Child rapist: Sincerely repents, gains salvation.
Atheist child: Burn in hell, heretic.
That is a moral monster.
I’m off to my village board meeting in a few minutes, where I have to serve on the council with an elected Nazi (but he’s a good Christian).
She’s not in the Army anymore. She didn’t retire from the military. It only takes four years to make Captain (Company grade - a junior grade officer) in the Army. She had a very underwhelming short stint in the military.
— 〽️ike 🌵🌽 (@NoComm_NoBomb) February 14, 2023
I know it’s the place du jour but I am really liking spoutible more than mastodon right now.
Also, I am Dreggas13 over there.
Washington’s ‘Washaway Beach’ Experiment Is Reshaping Ideas About Coastal Erosion
In 2016, a concerned local dropped $400 worth of rock on a vanishing beach to see what would happen. Now engineers are watching, too.
atlasobscura.com
cool article!
re: #272 steve_davis
ah! mine is trying to train me not to just absently pet her while she’s sleeping/trying to sleep. Last night, I just couldn’t resist giving her a little head rub while she was lying in my arms. Immediately her left paw came out and she quite forcefully pushed my hand back down onto my chest. And she did it with the claws out, but without hurting me at all. And then she kept the paw on my hand with the claws out, resting on the top like tiny sewing machine needles that were at rest, for several minutes. And now I know what if feels like to be a recalcitrant kitten pestering mamma while she’s trying to sleep!
What’s worse is that you don’t know if it was that she didn’t want you to do it then or she doesn’t want you to do it ever. The former could become problematic if she wants you to do it but you don’t.
Just sayin’.
re: #273 Nojay UK
That would be Osamu Dazai who wrote a famous nihilistic book, “No Longer Human”. It’s been parodied in a recent manga (Isekai Shikkaku) where the main character attempts suicide with his lover and instead gets isekai’d to a fantasy world. It’s actually a comedy of all things. The manga is getting an anime adaptation.
I have No Longer Human, but I haven’t read it. A Chinese student leaving for home dropped it off at my office. Now I’ll give it a read. Thanks for the reminder. I’ll look for the manga as well.
re: #275 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Gee, wait till he finds out what happened during FDR’s administration. [Embedded content]
Tucker should go for a balloon ride.
Pete Buttigieg is the GOP’s worst nightmare:
- he’s very well educated
- he’s very smart
- he’s factual
- he’s very well informed
- he’s cool & calm
- he’s a elequent simple speaker
- he’s competent
- he’s honest
- he helps people who aren’t rich
- he’s gay
- and he’s a nice guy https://t.co/CZwFrIHBPu— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) February 14, 2023
re: #284 darthstar
Tucker should go for a balloon ride.
“Biden won’t visit the border, so I’m here at 40,000 feet to find out what’s going on!”
Why are Republicans asking Pete Buttigieg to comment in response to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, when Governor Mike DeWine (R) runs the state’s emergency response and public health apparatus???
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) February 13, 2023
There is nothing conservatives fear more than education. pic.twitter.com/PVNRqcG3t4
— Hard Reality (@Universal_Ken) February 14, 2023
re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Some people may see the train derailment and release of tons of toxins into the air creating a disaster for miles around a crisis unparalleled in recent memory, but I see a place where the cost of living will likely fall into our “doable” range for retirement.
re: #286 jaunte
“Biden won’t visit the border, so I’m here at 40,000 feet to find out what’s going on!”
I really need to steal this.
re: #216 gocart mozart
Talk about jumping the shark…
re: #228 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
We need to find a safe zone for these people, where self reliance and libertarian principle would govern society, or what there is of it. They could go in but not come out. They would be equipped with hand tools, some seeds and raw materials like cloth and pig iron ingots. Oh, and guns, lots of guns with plenty of ammo. Reloading supplies too. Don’t want them depending on ammo imports from collectivist yankee territories like Connecticutt and Sweden or socialist hellholes like Mexico.
Where should we locate this facility? I nominate Ronny Jackson’s 13th Congressional District of Texas. This is the Panhandle and parts of North Texas. It is mostly a desert covered with scrub grass, the occasional wheat field, and liquor store parking lots. The inhabitants are like Lubbockites only more so, so there is no problem with the lepertarians and bircher weirdos feeling un-welcome.
Ah! Coventry!
I’m all for it. I nominate the eastern half of Montana.
Good luck, kids!
re: #270 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Speaking of hell, Henry Kissinger will make 100 if he doesn’t croak in the next 3 months and 14 days (born May 27, 1923).
Another Repug SoS, George Schultz, did make it to a hundred and a few weeks.
Kissinger was and still is a fucking foreign policy disaster. Schultz was a guy with at least some nuance. I kind of liked him, actually. He had a Bengal Tiger tatooed on his ass. Skin in the game of SE Asia.
I edited this comment because my memory beckoned.
You can edit comments at LGF. Charles has a wonderful system where you have a limited window to edit your comment. Obvious to the good internet users amongst us and the good sites like this one we Lizards haunt. But to everybody else, and I glare hard as fuck at Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter? I laugh and shake my head.
re: #298 teleskiguy
I had to edit this comment. And I’m allowed to do that here.
I’ve followed Charles’s work for decades now. I know why. He’s incredibly forward thinking when it comes to the Internet.
“At the next Ramstein conference it will be decided to train and send heavy fighting squirrels to Ukraine.
Russia is already threatening escalation”
Auf der nächsten Ramsteinkonferenz wird Training und Entsendung von schweren Kampf-Eichhörnchen in die Ukraine beschlossen werden.
Russland droht bereits mit Eskalation pic.twitter.com/CiPb6BtX3O— Carlo “Realism, Gedankenfetzen and Rants” Masala (@CarloMasala1) February 12, 2023
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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
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Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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