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re: #52 darthstar
The missus asked if we could go eat Tapas and enjoy this eclipse in 2 years since everyone enjoyed the current one so much. I said yes.
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Ho! An excuse to go back to Barcelona!
(was there on leave in the army circa 1983. Talk about the proverbial wine, women & song or at least Disco 😈)
People giving Trump money don’t give a single fuck about America. It’s all about further lining their own pockets.
re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅
If Endora were still alive she’d put a spell on Trump to sink him once and for all…
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this is who we need to deal with Trump:
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re: #5 sagehen
this is who we need to deal with Trump:
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Not bad though I think this fellow might do a good job too…
(Lucifer, season 4)
The Story Behind The XZ Backdoor Is Way More Fascinating Than It Should Be
Almost like a high tech movie.
re: #4 jaunte
It is an addiction fueled by psychopathic energy. All these assholes have more than enough to live a really nice life and provide for whoever else they want to, but it’s not enough. Nope, they have to inflict pain, hate and whatever awful they can come up with next. How do you even deal with humans this fucking broken? They won’t stop destroying the world until they are stopped. And that is where the wheels often begin falling off the wagon when it comes to solutions.
I just spent the better part of a week dealing with far too much ridiculous bullshit that is a direct result of the mean and inhumane system we’ve accepted as normal. Among many other things, I am a survivor of domestic violence before I met a man who actually loved me, and I can tell you this: When someone is hellbent on violence as a means of pretty much everything, they absolutely will not stop, unless their power is removed. And even then, you really can’t just ignore them. They have to be stopped and they won’t go quietly. How we destroy this mess is going to be a key in our survival as a nation, IMO.
Hi Everyone! LOL. Ya’all, it’s been A LOT lately. I have a very sick GSD too, which is why I am awake past midnight.
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social
View Trump favorably
White evangelicals 67%
White Catholics 51%View Trump unfavorably
Atheists 88%
Black Protestants 80%
Jews 79%
Hispanic Catholics 66%
Muslims 64%
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View Trump favorably
White evangelicals 67%
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Atheists 88%
Black Protestants 80%
Jews 79%
Hispanic Catholics 66%
Muslims 64%
White evangelicals, BTW, comprise about 20% of the US population.
I REALLY don’t understand the 35% of Muslims who feel favorably about DJT. Don’t they remember the ban?
re: #10 jaunte
I REALLY don’t understand the 35% of Muslims who feel favorably about DJT. Don’t they remember the ban?
Saudis love him. As do other Muslims in power in the Arab world. Those who support fossil fuels and the well-being of the affluent are enamored of him. Didn’t Dinesh years ago write a book proposing an alliance between evangelicals and Muslims because of their mutual hatred of modern “decadent” Western culture?
re: #7 silverdolphin
The Story Behind The XZ Backdoor Is Way More Fascinating Than It Should Be
Almost like a high tech movie.
A good example of why open source is both more vulnerable but more likely to be fixed. Had this been a typical closed project that was compromised, we could never be certain if it had _really_ been fixed.
Or - in a different vein - with government interference in places like Australia where they can order a back door even in a open source project and jail anyone who talks about it? (Sessions, I’m looking at you… )
re: #9 jaunte
yeah, there are quite a few of those around me. One of the church properties near my house was first a house built in the 60s, on maybe 15 acres, still standing, that was sold and a large church building was built near the house. It was a predominately black church in a very white area, they actually ran shuttle busses from a local mall nearby that had a bus station. How that worked as long as it did was an homage to persistence. They were there maybe 5 yrs and put the place up for sale. Then this new church/school/something combo business has moved in and there will be a religious school and church, expanded parking lot and a home for whoever the head church dude is. I wonder how much the state and federal governments are forking over for this one? It’s annoying, there is zero affordable housing here and it’s needed so badly. But there is only space for church related things and those 55+ “communities” with asshole HoAs and 750K houses on a tenth of an acre and wall around the whole thing. It is short sighted and stupid.
Plane flying through totality in Arkansas! What a picture from Kendall Rust. #arwx pic.twitter.com/ffTR8Y7MWK
— Zach Holder (@ZachHolderWx) April 8, 2024
re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter
Sure, but these are people in the U.S., who I assume have access to the news here.
re: #15 jaunte
Sure, but these are people in the U.S., who I assume have access to the news here.
People read the news they want to see; just like MAGAs getting all their information from Tucker, Faux News, Noise Max. They may have access to other sources but they ignore them or discount them.
re: #14 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
That is just spectacular!
My sister and me at the Highland Park Botanic Gardens — staring at the sun!
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Cleo is snoring so I am going to hopefully join her here in a minute. Goodnight Lizards, I miss you all a lot these days. Hugs to anyone who wants or needs one.
re: #10 jaunte
I REALLY don’t understand the 35% of Muslims who feel favorably about DJT. Don’t they remember the ban?
Right now they are really pissed off at Biden for what’s going on in Gaza and it’s being exploited by the GOP 24/7 Bullshit Machine.
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re: #23 Teukka
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Marjorie Taylor Greene once again does Putin’s bidding:
“This is a war on Christianity. The Ukrainian government is attacking Christians…Russia is not doing that. They are not attacking Christianity. As a matter of fact, they seem to be protecting it.” pic.twitter.com/QEMYN1BLDn— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) April 8, 2024
re: #25 DodgerFan1988
She has no fucking idea what she is talking about but spews it because it fits her narrative.
An interesting ruling today from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
A group of older Swiss women have won a partial victory in their climate case in the European Court of Human Rights.
The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change.
The court said Switzerland’s efforts to meet its emission reduction targets had been woefully inadequate.
It is the first time the powerful court has ruled on global warming.
This little nugget is what makes this ruling interesting…
The ruling is binding and can trickle down to influence the law in 46 countries in Europe including the UK.
As I said
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Twenty miles away. We celebrate astronomical events differently in these parts. (Used an AR-15.)
Woman said God told her to shoot at vehicles on I-10 in Florida during solar eclipse
re: #30 Decatur Deb
littlegreenfootballs.com
Twenty miles away. We celebrate astronomical events differently in these parts. (Used an AR-15.)Woman said God told her to shoot at vehicles on I-10 in Florida during solar eclipse
In our New Media Reality, we are all entitled to our own opinion and they are all equally valid.
If God told her to shoot at people, then preventing her from doing so constitutes governmental infringement on her Freedom of Religion.
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Could’ve had the birb, but thought, nah. Dur.
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An 18-year-old from Idaho was arrested Saturday and accused of plotting to kill churchgoers in his town in the name of ISIS, according to court documents unsealed Monday.Alexander Mercurio was charged in a criminal complaint with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He remains in custody and has not entered a plea, according to court records.
Investigators alleged Mercurio was about to attack at least one church in his area on April 7 — a Sunday — with guns, knives, and flammable chemicals, but they said they foiled his plans before he could carry out his plan.
Mercurio is accused of writing to an unnamed FBI source that he was set to “stop close by the church, equip the weapon(s) and storm the temple, killing as many people as possible.” His goal, according to investigators, was to carry out an act of martyrdom before the end of Ramadan — the holy month observed peacefully by Islam practitioners across the globe that emphasizes prayer and fasting — and pledge his allegiance to the leader of ISIS.
“I am going to perform a martyrdom operation very soon,” he allegedly wrote in one recent message. “The targets will be the various churches in my town.”
re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
She has no fucking idea what she is talking about but spews it because it fits her narrative.
It’s just more of that MAGAt propaganda about Putin being “Defender of the Christian Faith” despite every indication that he thinks of religion as he was taught in Soviet Russia, i.e. the “opiate of the masses.” It allows them the fantasy that there exists some promised land of religious theocracy as the real world immediately outside their doors grows increasingly secular.
re: #37 Targetpractice
It allows them the fantasy that there exists some promised land of religious theocracy as the real world immediately outside their doors grows increasingly secular.
Well, I mean, there is….it’s called Iran. Granted, they’ll have to accept that in Islam, Jesus is a prophet (albeit, one of the major prophets) and not God incarnate, and they’ll just have to get used to the fact that the Arabic word for “God” is Allah (and that’s specifically referring to the Abrahamic deity) but those caveats aside, I strongly encourage them to move to Iran as soon as humanly possible.
re: #34 Shropshire Slasher
Thank goodness that was thwarted!! I hope he gets the maximum penalty for this.
re: #39 Patricia Kayden
Thank goodness that was thwarted!! I hope he gets the maximum penalty for this.
Presuming that, after a real investigation and trial with competent consul for the defense, that it is found to be real threat and not an invention of the FBI, then I’ll agree.
Reminder:
Trump who claims that he generated $50 million in a MAL fundraiser among millionare/billionaires just days after Biden hauled in a record $25 million from a Radio City Music Hall gathering that included former Presidents Obama and Clinton, has not verified that he actually received any money from that fundraising effort.
It’s all on his say so. Why should anyone believe that he got that amount?
And more to the point, every American who isn’t a billionaire should be asking why billionaires want Trump so badly - it’s because Trump will personally benefit all those billionaires with more tax cuts and slash and burn the safety net to “balance the books”. Trump has nothing but contempt for his base, and will lie shamelessly about it. Trump wont give tax cuts for the middle class or poor, or will do anything to help his base (other than feed their xenophobia/racism, which is particularly laughable since most of the places where Trump voters live are hundreds, or thousands of miles, from the nearest southern border and are overwhelmingly homogenously white and Christian - and Trump preys on these folks because of their fear that someone who isn’t white or Christian will somehow end up in their community). Racism is the tie that binds the GOP together, along with misogyny and bigotry.
Trump mastered that trifecta of hate, and his base loves him for allowing them to let their bigotry flags fly.
re: #37 Targetpractice
It’s just more of that MAGAt propaganda about Putin being “Defender of the Christian Faith” despite every indication that he thinks of religion as he was taught in Soviet Russia, i.e. the “opiate of the masses.”
The Three Pillars of Tsarism: Autocracy, Nationalism and Orthodoxy.
The Church is a strong force in supporting his control of culture and popular opinion.
re: #9 jaunte
But why do they see him favorably.
Is it because he’s going to accelerate the End Times and they think they’ll be on the correct side of the Rapture?
Because if that’s what they’re thinking, they’re going to be sorely disappointed.
re: #43 lawhawk
But why do [Evangelicals] see him favorably?
I have heard the argument that “sometimes God chooses imperfect vessels to work His Divine Will on earth”.
And who could be a more imperfect vessel than a thrice-married adulterer, rapist and fraudster?
re: #44 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have heard the argument that “sometimes God chooses imperfect vessels to work His Divine Will on earth”.
And who could be a more imperfect vessel than a thrice-married adulterer, rapist and fraudster?
Iow “whoever we want to”
re: #3 William Lewis
From downstairs:
Ho! An excuse to go back to Barcelona!
(was there on leave in the army circa 1983. Talk about the proverbial wine, women & song or at least Disco 😈)
Started looking at future plans once I realized I wouldn’t be back in the States in time for this year’s eclipse - seems Barcelona and Madrid won’t be in the path of totality in 2026. Palma and Valencia will likely be the go-to totality spots.
Having been there last year, Iceland could be great but the cloud coverage might spoil it.
re: #48 Joe Bacon ✅
I wondered what Crazy Michelle was up to.
Remember: they do not give a shit about Jews or Judaism, they just need a resurgent State of Israel in order to bring about the onset of the End Times Prophecies and fulfill the promises of their Armageddon Death Cult.
As I’ve stated in the past, the Christian fascist/misogynists pushing abortion bans violate the 1st Amendment, and the religious freedom of every other American who doesn’t believe that life starts at conception. This bears out as a lawsuit in Indiana winds its way through state courts, arguing precisely this - that the abortion ban enacted after Trump’s SCOTUS overturned Roe violates the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act because as a Jew, we believe that life begins when you take your first breath - after being born alive.
To receive an exemption under Indiana’s RFRA, the plaintiffs in this case first had to show that Indiana’s abortion ban “substantially burdens” their sincere religious beliefs or practices. This wasn’t hard. As the individual plaintiffs explained, they have stopped trying to become pregnant out of fear that they would not be able to act according to their religious beliefs in circumstances that conflict with Indiana’s abortion ban. For example, several of the Jewish plaintiffs stated that the law would prevent them from acting according to their religious commitments, which would lead them to abort a pregnancy that jeopardizes their mental or physical well-being or when a fetus is diagnosed with severe chromosomal defects that will likely lead to miscarriage or early death, even if those defects are not considered “lethal” within the meaning of state law.
At the start of this litigation, some conservative lawyers floated the deeply dangerous idea that the Jewish plaintiffs in this case were insincere about their religious commitments—in other words, that they are lying to cover for their pro-choice political views. This argument, which the Indiana court rejects in a perfunctory footnote, was preposterous and should never have been made in the first place. Taking criticism (including from us), at least one conservative commentator abandoned his “tentative thoughts” along these lines, acknowledging that liberal and non-Orthodox Jews, like so many other religious believers, can state free exercise claims when they are motivated by their religious ethics, even if they don’t view traditional religious law as binding in the way some others do.
Under Indiana’s RFRA, once the plaintiffs show that the state’s abortion ban substantially burdens their religion, Indiana then has to prove two things: that the ban is justified by a “compelling interest” and that the ban is the “least restrictive means” of achieving that interest. Here, the state’s argument looks simple: It has a compelling interest in protecting life starting at conception, and allowing religious exemptions would undermine that interest. According to the state, an abortion ban is necessary—nothing less would do the job.
But here is where Indiana runs directly into the buzzsaw of current religious exemptions doctrine. In case after case, the U.S. Supreme Court has told us that if the state allows secular exceptions from its law, then it better have a really good explanation for why it doesn’t also allow religious exemptions. The Indiana court, applying its state RFRA—again modeled on federal law—tracks this reasoning to devastating effect for the state.As Judge Weissmann explains, because Indiana’s abortion law has numerous secular exceptions, including for medical emergencies, cases of rape and incest, and when the fetus has a “lethal fetal anomaly,” and because the state’s 2022 abortion ban has an explicit exception for in vitro fertilization, the state interest in protecting life from the moment of fertilization is selectively applied. These exceptions thus raise the question: If the state allows abortion in some cases, why not also allow religious exemptions?
re: #50 lawhawk
My personal view is not religious, but I think that once a fetus has a chance of being viable without its mother, then it has a right to life. But up to that point, the mother’s freedom of choice has precedent.
Meanwhile, our former Prez on the topic:
“Democrats are aggressively pushing late-term abortion allowing children to be ripped from their mother’s womb, right up until the moment of birth. The baby is born and you wrap the baby beautifully and you talk to the mother about the possible execution of the baby.”
re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
DT has cause more problems than any other President. I would to like to see him just shut up. America would be much better off.
re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And my Jesusbot relatives insist that doctors are killing babies once they are born to harvest adrenochrome for the elite. Oh and once Gawd’s Anointed King gets back on the throne he will stop it once and for all…
re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅
And my Jesusbot relatives insist that doctors are killing babies once they are born to harvest adrenochrome for the elite. Oh and once Gawd’s Anointed King gets back on the throne he will stop it once and for all…
…and to drink their blood, remember?
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
…and to drink their blood, remember?
So many memories of Grade School Hell when fine young Catholic kids would endlessly ask if my family drank blood at the Seder table…and yet when right wing Jay-Zuss infected my sisters they started babbling the same shit.
For that I will never forget what right wing Jay-Zuss did to my family.
re: #53 PhillyPretzel ✅
DT has cause more problems than any other EX-President. I would to like to see him just shut up. America would be much better off.
fify
re: #58 PhillyPretzel ✅
Thanks.
It’s easy to slip and call him president. I was in my car the other day and fuming as one commentator kept referring to Trump only as ‘President’ and then would mention ‘Biden’…
re: #53 PhillyPretzel ✅
DT has cause more problems than any other President. I would to like to see him just shut up. America would be much better off.
Six days until jury selection in Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial!
re: #63 No Malarkey!
That will be interesting.
NYC pays $17.5 million after two women (and a further class of people who were affected) whose religious freedoms were violated by the NYPD. The women were forced to remove their hijabs, and were threatened with prosecution.
That’s money that could have better gone to community improvements, not to pay for the NYPD malfeasance. The NYPD and the police union didn’t pay that amount. It’s coming out of taxpayers’ pockets to cover for the NYPD malfeasance (again).
took a few days off at indian rocks beach to decompress
house on the beach
good food, good company
oh, and we’ve dipped below 36.00 I see
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re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅
And my Jesusbot relatives insist that doctors are killing babies once they are born to harvest adrenochrome for the elite. Oh and once Gawd’s Anointed King gets back on the throne he will stop it once and for all…
prove it
just one case
right
so doctors arent just doing this, they’re getting away with it
either everyone knows and no one will prosecute (not even an R DA)
or these doctors are so cunning they can hide this so well.
but not from your relatives. you’d think they’d do something about it…
re: #47 (((Archangel1)))
Started looking at future plans once I realized I wouldn’t be back in the States in time for this year’s eclipse - seems Barcelona and Madrid won’t be in the path of totality in 2026. Palma and Valencia will likely be the go-to totality spots.
Having been there last year, Iceland could be great but the cloud coverage might spoil it.
Sydney Australia in 2028. Totality center passes right over the city.
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I wondered what Crazy Michelle was up to.
Remember: they do not give a shit about Jews or Judaism, they just need a resurgent State of Israel in order to bring about the onset of the End Times Prophecies and fulfill the promises of their Armageddon Death Cult.
tl; dr: “Israel must exist so Jesus can come back.”
re: #65 lawhawk
NYC pays $17.5 million after two women (and a further class of people who were affected) whose religious freedoms were violated by the NYPD. The women were forced to remove their hijabs, and were threatened with prosecution.
That’s money that could have better gone to community improvements, not to pay for the NYPD malfeasance. The NYPD and the police union didn’t pay that amount. It’s coming out of taxpayers’ pockets to cover for the NYPD malfeasance (again).
Sorry, but this is stupid. Having to remove the hijab for a mugshot shouldn’t be viewed as a religious rights violation. What’s next? Someone starts a religion that fingerprints and DNA are sacred and thus can’t be taken or used?
re: #67 Dr Lizardo
Don’t need to watch it live…just give me a number.
re: #73 JC1
Sorry, but this is stupid. Having to remove the hijab for a mugshot shouldn’t be viewed as a religious rights violation. What’s next? Someone starts a religion that fingerprints and DNA are sacred and thus can’t be taken or used?
How are cases like this handled in Muslim countries?
re: #73 JC1
The article makes it clear that as long as you can view the face, there’s no violation. The NYPD forced the full removal of the hijab from the entire head, shoulders, etc., which is where the violation of their rights occurred.
re: #77 goddamnedfrank
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Out-of-state attorney Alex Spiro brazenly engaged in unauthorized practice of law by signing and preparing Musk’s pleadings, showing up unannounced to defend Musk’s deposition with no authority to practice law in Texas, and drafting and serving subsequent legal demands to Plaintiff. Even worse, Spiro’s behavior in deposition was astonishingly unprofessional, as he continually interrupted the deposition with commentary, gave numerous improper instructions not to answer, berated opposing counsel, insulted Plaintiff ‘s claims, mocked counsel’s questions, and generally acted in the most obnoxious manner one could contemplate without crossing into parody. In doing so, he irreparably disrupted the deposition, prevented relevant questioning relating to Plaintiff ‘s TCPA response, and demonstrated his disrespect for the sanctity of these proceedings.
re: #80 darthstar
The opening sentence is a doozy.
Yeah…this guy should represent Trump too.
MR. BANKSTON: Mr. Spiro, please do not interrupt me. I’m asking you on the record to obey Rule 199.5. If you continue to violate Rule 199.5, I will move for sanctions against you. So I please ask you to obey the rules in the remainder of this deposition.12
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MR. SPIRO: Good.13
re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅
So many memories of Grade School Hell when fine young Catholic kids would endlessly ask if my family drank blood at the Seder table…and yet when right wing Jay-Zuss infected my sisters they started babbling the same shit.
For that I will never forget what right wing Jay-Zuss did to my family.
No, that’s what christians ceremonially do at their churches. Body and blood of Christ and all.
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re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
She has no fucking idea what she is talking about but spews it because it fits her narrative.
She knows what she’s doing — lying in service to her master Trump who is a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin.
re: #82 darthstar
That should be grounds for disbarment and sanctions. Willfully disregarding evidenciary rules and code of ethics? Yeah, that’ll get you disbarred.
re: #86 Hecuba’s daughter
She knows what she’s doing — lying in service to her master Trump who is a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin.
Not in an intellectual sense. Marge is an arrogant idiot who follows her emotional urges. She’s easily used by Putin.
re: #73 JC1
Sorry, but this is stupid. Having to remove the hijab for a mugshot shouldn’t be viewed as a religious rights violation. What’s next? Someone starts a religion that fingerprints and DNA are sacred and thus can’t be taken or used?
She got a traffic ticket while taking her daughter to the hospital, then was arrested for missing the court date. Women who miss traffic court dates shouldn’t be strip searched in front of male jailers if that goes against their religion, even if I think their religion is stupid.
Seems that Trump’s CFO Weisselberg no longer has Alina Habba and her law firm representing him. He’s going in a different direction, and his new counsel is a former assistant attorney general from NY, Armen Morian.
Trump still has Habba representing him, for all the good that does him.
re: #91 lawhawk
Seems that Trump’s CFO Weisselberg no longer has Alina Habba and her law firm representing him. He’s going in a different direction, and his new counsel is a former assistant attorney general from NY, Armen Morian.
Trump still has Habba representing him, for all the good that does him.
I wonder if being stripped of his bribe severance has moved him to reconsider his loyalty to the fraudster?
re: #91 lawhawk
Weisselberg is looking for someone who knows their law.
re: #90 Vicious Babushka
All these planes with various issues may be Boeings, but once the plane leaves the factory, it’s up to the airline itself to handle routine maintenance and make sure that various fittings/fasteners are secured before the plane takes off.
This isn’t like the plug door issue - but the maintenance companies that the airlines outsource to aren’t doing their jobs quite right either. They’re not screwing stuff back on properly. So, while the majority of the planes with stuff falling off are Boeings, that’s also a function of that a majority of planes in service today are Boeings.
re: #75 darthstar
Don’t need to watch it live…just give me a number.
Victim impact statements, currently.
re: #94 lawhawk
All these planes with various issues may be Boeings, but once the plane leaves the factory, it’s up to the airline itself to handle routine maintenance and make sure that various fittings/fasteners are secured before the plane takes off.
This isn’t like the plug door issue - but the maintenance companies that the airlines outsource to aren’t doing their jobs quite right either. They’re not screwing stuff back on properly. So, while the majority of the planes with stuff falling off are Boeings, that’s also a function of that a majority of planes in service today are Boeings.
Shoddy maintenance caused the worst air disaster in American history.
re: #94 lawhawk
All these planes with various issues may be Boeings, but once the plane leaves the factory, it’s up to the airline itself to handle routine maintenance and make sure that various fittings/fasteners are secured before the plane takes off.
This isn’t like the plug door issue - but the maintenance companies that the airlines outsource to aren’t doing their jobs quite right either. They’re not screwing stuff back on properly. So, while the majority of the planes with stuff falling off are Boeings, that’s also a function of that a majority of planes in service today are Boeings.
I was on a plane once, still at the gate, but full of passengers and luggage, with a couple of guys walking around on the nearest wing, one with a screwdriver, which he used on a screw on a little ridge fastened to the wing. Then he stood up and kicked it. Just making sure it was tight. You know, a torque-kick. Then we left.
re: #97 wrenchwench
I was on a plane once, still at the gate, but full of passengers and luggage, with a couple of guys walking around on the nearest wing, one with a screwdriver, which he used on a screw on a little ridge fastened to the wing. Then he stood up and kicked it. Just making sure it was tight. You know, a torque-kick. Then we left.
Kicking the tires of a plane is how you know you should buy it.
re: #89 Unabogie
She got a traffic ticket while taking her daughter to the hospital, then was arrested for missing the court date. Women who miss traffic court dates shouldn’t be strip searched in front of male jailers if that goes against their religion, even if I think their religion is stupid.
The article says nothing about a strip search. This was about having to remove the head covering for a mug shot.
re: #84 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #96 Dr Lizardo
Shoddy maintenance caused the worst air disaster in American history.
There was also Japan Airlines 123 in the mid 80s.
Over 500 people died because some
Boeing tech decided to cut corners on this bullshit “repair”:
re: #100 JC1
The article says nothing about a strip search. This was about having to remove the head covering for a mug shot.
You may have missed this one.
re: #79 lawhawk
The article makes it clear that as long as you can view the face, there’s no violation. The NYPD forced the full removal of the hijab from the entire head, shoulders, etc., which is where the violation of their rights occurred.
re: #103 wrenchwench
You may have missed this one.
I saw it. Fair enough. I disagree with the law, but it is what it is.
She wasn’t strip searched as Unabogie claims.
re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg
There was also Japan Airlines 123 in the mid 80s.
Over 500 people died because some
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You also have AS261. It’s not for nothing that one of the Air Crash Investigation series episodes is named “Service and Survive”…
re: #97 wrenchwench
My first plane trip was on a Boeing 747. It was Tower Air. We had multiple hour delay getting in the air, and when they turned the engine on, it backfired something fierce. We had delay for weather, additional fuel, and the engine issue.
No issues once in the air, but that’s my first experience with a plane…
re: #104 JC1
I saw it. Fair enough. I disagree with the law, but it is what it is.
She wasn’t strip searched as Unabogie claims.
Cultural relativity is a thing. As is exaggeration.
What? He’s doing a plain old string replace on URL’s?
In the Samara region (ruzzia), a dam on the Volga burst. The city of Tolyatti and 12 districts are being flooded: Stavropol, Sergievsky, Pestravsky, Bolshechernigovsky, Bolsheglunitsky, Kinel - Cherkasy, Elkhovsky, Volzhsky, Neftegorsky, Krasnoarmeysky, Krasnoyarsk, Borsky districts. (MTL)
“Andrei, you’ve lost another submarine dam?”
Trump says Jews who vote for Biden do ‘not love Israel’ and ‘should be spoken to’
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee repeated an antisemitic trope he has pushed suggesting American Jews have dual loyalties to the U.S. and Israel.
re: #111 Teukka
Trump says Jews who vote for Biden do ‘not love Israel’ and ‘should be spoken to’
that’s a not very well-veiled threat
Rando pitchbot: “The collapse of DJT stock showcases stunning weakness in the Biden economy”
okay, that was completely unexpected. 500 dollar refund check from the treasury, after I’d ended up owing money. The only thing I can imagine is that it was a stimulus check that I somehow missed, based on the suspicious roundness of the amount. Yes, I’ve paid estimated taxes of 500 dollars before, but that wouldn’t explain how that exact amount came back to me, even if I’d somehow overpaid. Well, I’m going to hurry down to the bank before the U.S. government determines it’s done something wrong here.
re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump ditched the veil a long time ago.
What veil?
This has been a standard talking point amongst conservatives, including conservative Jews in both the US and Israel, for two decades if talking about purely political manifestations, and has been a regular part of religious-political discourse entirely in public since the 90s.
The concept that Trump is somehow innovating or amplifying just doesn’t reflect the ubiquity of this talking point.
In entertainment news, Paramount Pictures has named a new Chief Operations Officer:
Missouri corrections officer, Paul Schofield & his wife, Sara Schofield, have been sentenced to 40 and 35 years in prison for recording themselves raping Sara’s 4 year old child and uploading the videos to the internet. pic.twitter.com/kSEG3M0Ghh
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) April 9, 2024
Not a transgender for the umpteenth time.
re: #106 lawhawk
My first plane trip was on a Boeing 747. It was Tower Air. We had multiple hour delay getting in the air, and when they turned the engine on, it backfired something fierce. We had delay for weather, additional fuel, and the engine issue.
No issues once in the air, but that’s my first experience with a plane…
My last flight on a 747 was in 2008. Frankfurt to Tel Aviv. We were seated in the very rear of the aircraft. They were doing food service when we hit some turbulence. Trays and food flying everywhere!
747s are still flying but they are mostly all freighters now.
re: #124 Vicious Babushka
My last flight on a 747 was in 2008. Frankfurt to Tel Aviv. We were seated in the very rear of the aircraft. They were doing food service when we hit some turbulence. Trays and food flying everywhere!
747s are still flying but they are mostly all freighters now.
Last time I flew on a 747 was Air France in 2003. Paris to L.A.
re: #123 DodgerFan1988
I’m always returning to Fred Clark (slactivist blog) and his post about how fundies need to believe everyone else eats babies because it makes whatever they do justifiable.
He was paraphrasing C S Lewis in Mere Christianity, but also Bonhoffer’s Cheap Grace, but these days there’s so many examples where it really seems like reactionary outrage is just a way to make their crimes small-by-comparison.
Donald Trump once again takes credit for overturning Roe v. Wade and promises to allow states to enact even the most extreme abortion bans. He also promises billionaire donors more tax cuts and whiter immigrants. Joe Biden announces a new student debt relief plan for another 23 million people and finally gives Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum. Then, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin stops by the studio to talk to Jon Lovett about her tough re-election campaign, TikTok, and what actually counts as milk.
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My personal view is not religious, but I think that once a fetus has a chance of being viable without its mother, then it has a right to life. But up to that point, the mother’s freedom of choice has precedent.
I choose a similar time, but with different reasoning.
I believe personhood is situated in the cerebral cortex; when that attaches to the brainstem and becomes functional, that’s when fetus becomes a human being. Conveniently enough, that happens at around the same time (22 weeks) that the lungs become capable of processing oxygen.
The all-time record for a surviving premature birth is 23 weeks, which is only possible if the birth happens in a. hospital with a state-of-the-art NICU and sufficient staff. Even then, the odds are 50-50.
re: #104 JC1
I saw it. Fair enough. I disagree with the law, but it is what it is.
She wasn’t strip searched as Unabogie claims.
It wasn’t the law. It is part of the settlement agreement reached in this case. So before this it was just policy that head coverings of any sort had to be removed for mug shots. IMO the police didn’t do anything wrong and the idea that the city agreed to pay 17.5 million dollars for this is stupid even if it was more cost effective than going to trial.
re: #129 sagehen
I choose a similar time, but with different reasoning.
I believe personhood is situated in the cerebral cortex; when that attaches to the brainstem and becomes functional, that’s when fetus becomes a human being. Conveniently enough, that happens at around the same time (22 weeks) that the lungs become capable of processing oxygen.
The all-time record for a surviving premature birth is 23 weeks, which is only possible if the birth happens in a. hospital with a state-of-the-art NICU and sufficient staff. Even then, the odds are 50-50.
I believe it is wrong to give a being human rights so long as an actual born person’s life is involved to the point that it can come down to one or the other, medically speaking. The born person, at an age when pregnancy is possible, takes precedence at all times. No abortion laws are needed. Any can be harmful.
re: #106 lawhawk
My first plane trip was on a Boeing 747. It was Tower Air. We had multiple hour delay getting in the air, and when they turned the engine on, it backfired something fierce. We had delay for weather, additional fuel, and the engine issue.
No issues once in the air, but that’s my first experience with a plane…
My first plane trip was a small corporate jet from Bismarck ND to Watertown SD (whoo hoo!). Highlights: one of the people flying the plane getting up and serving us coffee and doughnuts once reached cruising altitude; pilots trying to fly around a massive thunderhead only to have to eventually go into part of it and subsequently feeling all of a sudden being 20 feet left of where we just were and eventually popping out of the clouds to see Bismarck blanketed by golden light rays filtered through the clouds.
I was more unnerved by the doughnut serving (hey! aren’t you supposed to be flying this thing?) than the brief turbulance (didn’t really last long enough to register fear).
re: #129 sagehen
I choose a similar time, but with different reasoning.
I believe personhood is situated in the cerebral cortex; when that attaches to the brainstem and becomes functional, that’s when fetus becomes a human being. Conveniently enough, that happens at around the same time (22 weeks) that the lungs become capable of processing oxygen.
The all-time record for a surviving premature birth is 23 weeks, which is only possible if the birth happens in a. hospital with a state-of-the-art NICU and sufficient staff. Even then, the odds are 50-50.
Was curious so I looked it up.
21 weeks and one day appears to be the earliest certified premature birth to survive Curtis Means born in Alabama,
re: #129 sagehen
I choose a similar time, but with different reasoning.
I believe personhood is situated in the cerebral cortex; when that attaches to the brainstem and becomes functional, that’s when fetus becomes a human being. Conveniently enough, that happens at around the same time (22 weeks) that the lungs become capable of processing oxygen.
The all-time record for a surviving premature birth is 23 weeks, which is only possible if the birth happens in a. hospital with a state-of-the-art NICU and sufficient staff. Even then, the odds are 50-50.
i dont have time to lay all this out right now
i have always held several complimentary and competing ideas.
- at all points in the gestational process the woman has mostly complete authority over her own self and the exercises of her own rights. she generally also has the decision making authority over her own ‘unborn’.
- at some point in the process, the not yet born should inure *some* right to life protections.
- after that point, a woman’s decisions in exercising her rights or autonomy may conflict with the unborn’s limited protections. those situations should be subject to a timely resolution process. the process must not - a priori - assume anything about either party’s claim or position being superior, automatic, or unquestionable.
- personhood and therefore citizenry begin at the moment of a successful live birth
James and Jennifer Crumbley have been sentenced for involuntary manslaughter.
Both James and Jennifer have been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison. Judge threw the book at ‘em.
re: #111 Teukka
Trump says Jews who vote for Biden do ‘not love Israel’ and ‘should be spoken to’
The last thing I need is an asshole drug addict who breaks all 10 Commandments and lives all of the 7 Deadly Sins to lecture me about morality
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
James and Jennifer Crumbley have been sentenced for involuntary manslaughter.
Both James and Jennifer have been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison. Judge threw the book at ‘em.
Has FAUX chimed in to defend those “political prisoners” yet?
re: #135 Dangerman
p.s.: can you tell i’m a Libra?
re: #104 JC1
I saw it. Fair enough. I disagree with the law, but it is what it is.
She wasn’t strip searched as Unabogie claims.
Being “stripped” has different meanings for different people. For some people, it means taking off your underwear. For others, removing your shoes and socks. It’s about bodily autonomy.
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
James and Jennifer Crumbley have been sentenced for involuntary manslaughter.
Both James and Jennifer have been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison. Judge threw the book at ‘em.
more of this
lots more
for the active and passive facilitators
the lazy, the careless
and that includes sellers, dealers, vendors, etc
if you’re legally transferring a weapon, it’s your weapon. you have total control over it. that includes who you give, lend, or sell it to. it’s your responsibility to be reasonable and prudent; not merely ‘legal’.
By the way, this article says she was stripped.
A Minnesota Muslim woman has received $120,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was forced to strip in jail and remove her hijab for a booking photo over a traffic offense, the woman and her attorneys said Tuesday.
this guy’s giving a master class on how to lose
Appeals Court Denies Another Trump Attempt to Delay Trial
“New York Associate Justice Cynthia Kern denied the application for an interim stay just minutes after hearing arguments on the matter Tuesday.”
“A full appeals court panel will still consider Trump’s petition, though it will not delay the start of the trial.”
re: #143 Unabogie
By the way, this article says she was stripped.
That is a completely different story in another state entirely.
This is the story that was linked above
re: #134 wrenchwench
Where is the constitutional right to privacy in all this?? The Republican lawmakers! In their own communities they are going to be singling people/women out, the whole awful biological, psychological business of ending a pregnancy??
Ha! They are going to be voted out the more time this goes on. The horrific experiences grow in number!
Shame on the Rs!
Is TFG required to be in court every day of this new trial or can he just show up if he wants to as in the civil cases?
re: #144 Dangerman
this guy’s giving a master class on how to lose
Appeals Court Denies Another Trump Attempt to Delay Trial
“New York Associate Justice Cynthia Kern denied the application for an interim stay just minutes after hearing arguments on the matter Tuesday.”
Sounds like the judges are getting tired of his crap.
re: #138 Joe Bacon ✅
Has FAUX chimed in to defend those “political prisoners” yet?
I’m sure Trump will.
re: #146 prairiefire
Where is the constitutional right to privacy in all this?? The Republican lawmakers! In their own communities they are going to be singling people/women out, the whole awful biological, psychological business of ending a pregnancy??
Ha! They are going to be voted out the more time this goes on. The horrific experiences grow in number!
Shame on the Rs!
Also, the business of beginning a pregnancy. They want total control. Women are getting themselves sterilized to avoid a life-threatening pregnancy. Soon, that will be illegal.
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
Is TFG required to be in court every day of this new trial or can he just show up if he wants to as in the civil cases?
Criminal trial - he has to be there every day.
re: #30 Decatur Deb
As I said
littlegreenfootballs.com
Twenty miles away. We celebrate astronomical events differently in these parts. (Used an AR-15.)Woman said God told her to shoot at vehicles on I-10 in Florida during solar eclipse
Turpentine and dandylion wine
I’ve turned the corner and I’m doin’ fine
Shootin’ at the birds on the telephone line
Pickin’ ‘em off with this gun o’ mine
I got a fire in my belly and a fire in my head
Goin’ higher and higher until I’m dead
-Randy Newman-
Conservative hoaxers to pay up to $1.25M under agreement with New York over 2020 robocall scheme
Wohl and Burkman. You love to see it.
re: #146 prairiefire
Where is the constitutional right to privacy in all this?? The Republican lawmakers! In their own communities they are going to be singling people/women out, the whole awful biological, psychological business of ending a pregnancy??
Ha! They are going to be voted out the more time this goes on. The horrific experiences grow in number!
Shame on the Rs!
They don’t believe in a constitutional right to privacy. It’s not unlike Bork saying that the Ninth Amendment has no meaning and is generally unenforceable by the courts.
It’s far worse than how I’ve thought it would be for 42 years, I’ve been telling people!
I’ve been telling people this has been the christo-fascist goal for a long time.
re: #155 BeachDem
Conservative hoaxers to pay up to $1.25M under agreement with New York over 2020 robocall scheme
Wohl and Burkman. You love to see it.
Good start, but these assholes deserve far worse.
re: #155 BeachDem
Conservative hoaxers to pay up to $1.25M under agreement with New York over 2020 robocall scheme
Wohl and Burkman. You love to see it.
Interesting that CNN calls them “conservative activists”; The Hill uses “conservative operatives”;
WaPo and AP, “conservative hoaxers”; and the NY AG’s office “conspiracy theorists.”
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It’s only words…
re: #107 wrenchwench
Cultural relativity is a thing. As is exaggeration.
Is that what we’re calling outright distortions/lying these days?
Arizona steps back to Pre-Statehood
BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court rules to uphold the state’s 1864 near total abortion ban, which will wipe out nearly all access in the state (currently up to 15 weeks). Voters will likely have the chance to override this ban in November via ballot initiative.
— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) April 9, 2024
re: #141 Unabogie
Being “stripped” has different meanings for different people. For some people, it means taking off your underwear. For others, removing your shoes and socks. It’s about bodily autonomy.
Being strip searched has a specific meaning. And it’s not about removing your shoes.
re: #143 Unabogie
By the way, this article says she was stripped.
And this has nothing to do with the 17.5 million settlement. Like 0.
re: #155 BeachDem
Conservative hoaxers to pay up to $1.25M under agreement with New York over 2020 robocall scheme
Wohl and Burkman. You love to see it.
Both of those assholes deserve to be jailed.
re: #155 BeachDem
Conservative hoaxers to pay up to $1.25M under agreement with New York over 2020 robocall scheme
Wohl and Burkman. You love to see it.
Those clowns have $1.25 million dollars? I’m living wrong.
Let’s keep it ecumenical.
A Secret Service officer arrests Sr. Quincy Howard, O.P., and removes her veil, following her protest on behalf of voting rights. (Photo courtesy for the League of Women Voters of the United States)
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re: #167 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Those clowns have $1.25 million dollars? I’m living wrong.
Maybe they have a friend in the sub-prime loan business.
re: #159 BeachDem
Interesting that CNN calls them “conservative activists”; The Hill uses “conservative operatives”;
WaPo and AP, “conservative hoaxers”; and the NY AG’s office “conspiracy theorists.”
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It’s only words…
Criminals. They’re criminals.
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
James and Jennifer Crumbley have been sentenced for involuntary manslaughter.
Both James and Jennifer have been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison. Judge threw the book at ‘em.
Good.
How the hell can a law from 1864 (before Arizona had even become a state in 1912) be enforceable. Fucking stupid.
re: #161 Dave In Austin
Arizona steps back to Pre-Statehood
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