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1
The Pie Overlord!  May 15, 2020 • 10:16:55am

HAPPY NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DAY!

2
Oblongatis  May 15, 2020 • 10:18:32am

Damn I post like once a month and I get CLed

Hi Lizard folks,
I don’t post often but here’s something I posted in the Washington Post a few days back on the procedure if elections were cancelled.
While I’m not a constitutional expert, my understanding of the process if an election doesn’t happen is:
Trump and Pence’s mandate ends Jan 20th
The Houses mandate expires Jan 3rd, so no President Pelosi her term as Speaker ended
Next up is the President Pro Temp of the Senate, currently held by Senator Grassley since he isn’t up for election this cycle his mandate is still valid and is the first in the line of secession to constitutionally qualify.

3
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 10:19:05am

We are now dealing with Trump going weapons-grade stupid and incoherent. And at that, I mean he has killed as many people as the first two atomic bombs…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 10:20:29am

re: #2 Oblongatis

Damn I post like once a month and I get Cled

Hi Lizard folks,
I don’t post often but here’s something I posted in the Washington Post a few days back on the procedure if elections were cancelled.
While I’m not a constitutional expert, my understanding of the process if an election doesn’t happen is:
Trump and Pence’s mandate ends Jan 20th
The Houses mandate expires Jan 3rd, so no President Pelosi her term as Speaker ended
Next up is the President Pro Temp of the Senate, currently held by Senator Grassley since he isn’t up for election this cycle his mandate is still valid and is the first in the line of secession to constitutionally qualify.

Thank you for clearing that up.

In any case, there will be people who insist that DT would get to stay on because “Nuh-uh we ain’t leaving!”

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Belafon  May 15, 2020 • 10:21:21am

re: #2 Oblongatis

Damn I post like once a month and I get CLed

Hi Lizard folks,
I don’t post often but here’s something I posted in the Washington Post a few days back on the procedure if elections were cancelled.
While I’m not a constitutional expert, my understanding of the process if an election doesn’t happen is:
Trump and Pence’s mandate ends Jan 20th
The Houses mandate expires Jan 3rd, so no President Pelosi her term as Speaker ended
Next up is the President Pro Temp of the Senate, currently held by Senator Grassley since he isn’t up for election this cycle his mandate is still valid and is the first in the line of secession to constitutionally qualify.

I think that’s a little off in the last part. There are more Republican Senators whose term would end if there is no election, so Democrats would take over. Otherwise, everything else is correct.

6
Charles Johnson  May 15, 2020 • 10:22:01am
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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2020 • 10:22:27am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2020 • 10:23:50am

“Our country has to get back”

I agree with you, Donnie. But we’ve got to boot your ass out of the White House to make this happen.

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gocart mozart  May 15, 2020 • 10:26:21am

O Don’t ya know
Don’t want to see you any more
Put up or shut up
You spell, you read
D O O are
You got a big mouth and I’m happy to see
Your foot is firmly entrenched where a molar should be
If you talk much louder you could get an award
From the federal communications board
Don’t be cruel
Be a thing-sweet thing as a rule
Don’t be sad
I left you in the street, you’re pre-fab
I had to get away
Don’t go away sad
Don’t go pre-fab
Don’t go be bad
Don’t go away mad
Just go away (go away)
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Dread Pirate  May 15, 2020 • 10:26:33am

I don’t know if anybody else is interested in this series. I find it fascinating.

Coronavirus Pandemic Update 71: New Data on Adding Zinc to Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 10:27:59am

Fuck Twitter and this:

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2020 • 10:28:36am

re: #11 lawhawk

Fuck Twitter and this:

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I don’t normally feel this way, but damn I hope that woman gets Covid-19.

13
jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 10:31:02am

Incontinent, incoherent, and innumerate.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 10:32:30am

Much laughter and loud talk will be had.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2020 • 10:33:38am

re: #14 jaunte

Why are they announcing it like a Radio Station telling everyone who the contest winners were?

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The Pie Overlord!  May 15, 2020 • 10:35:06am

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Belafon  May 15, 2020 • 10:35:58am

re: #14 jaunte

Much laughter and loud talk will be had.

Hopefully within six feet of each other.

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Sinistershade  May 15, 2020 • 10:36:15am

re: #14 jaunte

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Much laughter and loud talk will be had.

I can’t wait to see who falls asleep first and gets his hand put into a bowl of warm water.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 15, 2020 • 10:36:28am

JFC

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 10:36:41am

re: #17 Belafon

I think magical thinking that everything is normal will be guaranteed.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 10:38:29am

re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg

THEY’RE RREADY TO RRRUMBLE!!!

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plansbandc  May 15, 2020 • 10:40:48am

Dude, doggo and I went for a walk this morning, and then went to Costco for gas. Maybe fifty percent of the people getting gas were wearing masks. I was wearing a mask and gloves. Then we drove around a bit and I went to go get us a couple of shots. Shots imbibed, we just drove around a bit and admired the pretty flowers and gardens in the semi-rich part of town.

Dude is working now. So so glad he’s allowed to work from home.

This is our new normal.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 10:43:04am

re: #19 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

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An article I linked to in my Facebook about how the shut-down has saved lives, people getting sick, etc. is already drawing a lively discussion. Couple of my fraternity brothers squaring off about whether the economic cost is worth it. I’ve resisted so far asking one of them to put a price tag on his sons’ lives - mainly since I think he’d lie about it or else simply claim he wouldn’t want other people to pony up their money in order to save their lives.

I presume a secondary talking point already running in conservative circles is that a bunch of people are getting depressed about job loss, isolation, etc. and thus are committing suicide. And “why aren’t we counting and talking about those numbers?”

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Dread Pirate  May 15, 2020 • 10:43:10am

How does a law against not doing business with Israel work exactly?

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 10:44:08am
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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 10:44:58am

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KGxvi  May 15, 2020 • 10:45:23am

re: #2 Oblongatis

Damn I post like once a month and I get CLed

Hi Lizard folks,
I don’t post often but here’s something I posted in the Washington Post a few days back on the procedure if elections were cancelled.
While I’m not a constitutional expert, my understanding of the process if an election doesn’t happen is:
Trump and Pence’s mandate ends Jan 20th
The Houses mandate expires Jan 3rd, so no President Pelosi her term as Speaker ended
Next up is the President Pro Temp of the Senate, currently held by Senator Grassley since he isn’t up for election this cycle his mandate is still valid and is the first in the line of secession to constitutionally qualify.

Regarding the presidency, the state legislatures can simply appoint electors rather than have an election for electors (you don’t actually vote for president, technically you’re voting for a slate of electors). This was something that Florida briefly considered in 2000 when there was a question as to whether or not the vote would be certified in time. So, cancelling the presidential election doesn’t necessarily mean that a new president won’t be elected.

House and Senate elections (and for that matter presidential elections) are still run by the individual states. Congress has the ability to set the date of the election (and insure that people aren’t being denied the right to vote) but that’s pretty much the extent of their power.

Constitutionally speaking, there really isn’t any way to cancel elections. Let’s say some governor tries to cancel the House elections… the seats become vacant on January 3, and then they are required to call a special election to fill the seat. In the Senate, they could, in theory appoint a new Senator, but there would still be a special election requirement.

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!  May 15, 2020 • 10:46:20am

And in related news,

OH HELL YES.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - New Star Trek Series To Follow Captain Pike, Spock, and Number One

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - New Star Trek Series To Follow Captain Pike, Spock, and Number One

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A Mom Anon  May 15, 2020 • 10:46:20am

re: #25 jaunte

Priorities for the WIN!!!!

Fuck these people. All of them. With rusty farm implements. Twice.

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Barefoot Grin  May 15, 2020 • 10:46:50am

re: #14 jaunte

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Much laughter and loud talk will be had.

Calling all asteroids!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 10:46:55am

re: #20 jaunte

I think magical thinking that everything is normal will be guaranteed.

People who do not ignore the fact that Covid-19 is still out there and still contagious and still ten times more deadly than the common flu will be branded as recalcitrant, un-American and just out to harm the President, who, by the way, is doing such an outstanding job…

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  May 15, 2020 • 10:48:43am

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 10:51:04am

Trump is playing with all of our normal desires to escape this planet.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 10:51:59am

re: #26 jaunte

So give you ID card to the border guard
Your alias says you’re Captain John Luke Picard
Of the United Federation of Planets
‘Cause they won’t speak English any ways

“Banditos” The Refreshments

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Oblongatis  May 15, 2020 • 10:53:45am

re: #5 Belafon

I didn’t think of that.

President Schumer, I like the ring of that.

However the Democrats would need to win at least 50 seats to get a quorum because you know under those circumstances the Republicans wouldn’t show up.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 10:55:12am

re: #35 Oblongatis

I didn’t think of that.

President Schumer, I like the ring of that.

However the Democrats would need to win at least 50 seats to get a quorum because you know under those circumstances the Republicans wouldn’t show up.

If there are seats vacant due to there not being an election I am not sure they would count towards what is needed for a quorum.
(Probably a rule about that somewhere.)

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Oblongatis  May 15, 2020 • 10:57:55am

Probable, but that would require I do something to look it up.

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aatharuv  May 15, 2020 • 10:58:38am

re: #24 Dread Pirate

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How does a law against not doing business with Israel work exactly?

Would Starbucks be banned then?

They left Israel not for boycott reasons (they started business there well after the Arab world’s active boycott of companies doing business with Israel ended), but because Starbucks just didn’t succeed in the Israeli market.

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I am that guy  May 15, 2020 • 10:58:57am

Yellow county in Pennsylvania is where I live. They opened up the department stores. I live off the “strip” where most of the shopping is.
Jammed. I’m not going anywhere near them.
Can’t wait for the restaurants to open up.
Only one death via CV19 in my county.
But we can change that…..
Fuck Trump.

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Interesting Times  May 15, 2020 • 10:59:36am

In which Toxic Logorrhea owns herself:

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gocart mozart  May 15, 2020 • 11:05:26am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 11:06:44am

re: #41 gocart mozart

Jesus what narcissists hang a giant picture of themselves outside their house like that?

Really, net thing you know they will put up OBAMA in big golden letters on the front of the house…

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gocart mozart  May 15, 2020 • 11:07:53am
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ericblair  May 15, 2020 • 11:11:53am

re: #36 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If there are seats vacant due to there not being an election I am not sure they would count towards what is needed for a quorum.
(Probably a rule about that somewhere.)

It’s the majority of non-vacant seats: in this case, 34. And as far as I’ve seen it gamed out, it’s President Leahy. So a Vermont senator becomes president after all if this happens (which it won’t).

I’d put cancelling elections way down the list of risks at this point. Even Fucking North Korea finds it necessary to have elections, totally fixed as they may be. You have to give even the worst dictatorship some sort of coat of popular support.

The bigger risk is the possibility of having enough incapacitated Senators to fuck up the quorum. If a Senator is on a respirator and incapable of doing anything, he/she is still a Senator as far as quorum rules go.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 11:12:20am

re: #2 Oblongatis

Damn I post like once a month and I get CLed

Hi Lizard folks,
I don’t post often but here’s something I posted in the Washington Post a few days back on the procedure if elections were cancelled.
While I’m not a constitutional expert, my understanding of the process if an election doesn’t happen is:
Trump and Pence’s mandate ends Jan 20th
The Houses mandate expires Jan 3rd, so no President Pelosi her term as Speaker ended
Next up is the President Pro Temp of the Senate, currently held by Senator Grassley since he isn’t up for election this cycle his mandate is still valid and is the first in the line of secession to constitutionally qualify.

That’s how I read it

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Sherlock Hound  May 15, 2020 • 11:12:46am

re: #23 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

[…]
I presume a secondary talking point already running in conservative circles is that a bunch of people are getting depressed about job loss, isolation, etc. and thus are committing suicide. And “why aren’t we counting and talking about those numbers?”

I LOVE how these same people are whining about “increased poverty”!

Did they care before?

NOPE!

Poverty was always a moral failing. They never cared about the poor, and never will.
Just worried for themselves. They’ll get that call, “the future doesn’t need you!” and it will suck. Boo-hoo.

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Sherlock Hound  May 15, 2020 • 11:15:37am

re: #44 ericblair

Russia holds elections. Putin was complaining about the lack of turnout in his last coronation election.

The pageantry of an election is beloved the world over, even if one’s ballot might literally go down the toilet in many countries.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 11:16:35am

re: #11 lawhawk

Fuck Twitter and this:

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Of course KKKandy is restored to Twitter just like every other right wing asshole that posts because LIEbertarian @jack agrees with them.

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Dread Pirate  May 15, 2020 • 11:19:48am

I’m pretty sure both Trump and Putin are going to give him serious competition. We’re at the 3rd hole of an 18 hole course.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2020 • 11:20:20am

re: #43 gocart mozart

There’s NEVER hard evidence of any of the bullshit they say. EVER.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2020 • 11:21:02am

re: #49 Dread Pirate

Wait. Gone as in fired or Gone as in DEAD?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 11:21:07am

re: #19 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

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Tell that shit to my 38 year old friend who was on a respirator for a couple weeks and as a bonus Covid weakened him to the point that he had a stroke paralyzing the right side of his body.

FUCK YOU TRUMP!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 11:23:46am

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

There’s NEVER hard evidence of any of the bullshit they say. EVER.

No soft evidence either
No evidence of anything at all

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 11:24:03am

Chester County, PA COVID-19 stats as of yesterday:

Confirmed cases: 2102 (+52)
Total tests: 10,117 (+328)
Deaths: 218 (+5)

So, over two months into this here in eastern PA and the total tests have not yet exceeded 2% of the county’s population; (~525,000). A few townships here have confirmed cases over 1% of their population.

And as a I pointed out yesterday since the lethality is running over 10% the odds are very good that the actual infection cases are still heavily undercounted.

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PhillyPretzel  May 15, 2020 • 11:25:10am

OT I have a question about metal straws versus silicon straws. Which one is better? Metal can be sterilized but what about silicon. Does anyone here have experience in this matter?

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 11:25:16am

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

Wait. Gone as in fired or Gone as in DEAD?

First one was fired. The second resigned.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  May 15, 2020 • 11:25:57am

re: #16 The Pie Overlord!

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Belafon  May 15, 2020 • 11:27:12am

re: #19 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

One of my favorite things about this blog is the Jews here typing that.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  May 15, 2020 • 11:27:40am

I won’t hear Trump’s remarks until Sarah Cooper performs them. It’s the only way I can stand to listen to him.

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jeffreyw  May 15, 2020 • 11:28:16am

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Teddy's Person  May 15, 2020 • 11:29:16am

re: #60 jeffreyw

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Those are some gorgeous cookies!

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gocart mozart  May 15, 2020 • 11:29:31am
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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2020 • 11:29:45am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 15, 2020 • 11:30:15am

re: #63 Charles Johnson

Yep. He’s a kook.

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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2020 • 11:31:27am
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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 11:32:04am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2020 • 11:32:21am

re: #65 Charles Johnson

So he’s comparing fighting a pandemic to developing Nuclear weapons.

That’s not disturbing at all…

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 11:33:13am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 11:33:45am

re: #11 lawhawk

Fuck Twitter and this:

Twitter i$ intere$ted in maintaining rationa£ £evel$ of di$¢ourse. As £ibertarian$, they know that rea$on wi££ a£ways win out, and the an$wer to bad $pee¢h is more good $pee¢h.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 11:34:35am

re: #43 gocart mozart

However, it should be noted that NBC management has yet to issue any sort of statement where they reject goat-blowing

A young goat has come forward to report that he was forcibly blown by NBC executives. Will his story be believed?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 11:35:11am

re: #58 Belafon

One of my favorite things about this blog is the Jews here typing that.

I remember when that racist piece of shit Father Coughlin died in 1979.

Grandma called us and she was cheering that antisemites exile to hell. She detested that bigot.

When she had to take in boarders during the depression, one of them tuned the radio to that asshole. Grandma promptly went in the living room, turned the dial and ripped that fool to pieces telling him to never dial in to listen to that trash.

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PhillyPretzel  May 15, 2020 • 11:35:16am

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

lol. I have not seen that old symbol in a long time. Cents that is. :)

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 11:36:41am

re: #72 PhillyPretzel

lol. I have not seen that old symbol in a long time. Cents that is. :)

A$$hole @ja¢k has no “¢ent$” at all ju$t like every other LIEbertarian!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 11:37:29am

re: #72 PhillyPretzel

lol. I have not seen that old symbol in a long time. Cents that is. :)

I believe it has disappeared from most keyboards. I recall it on my old typewriter…

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 11:37:54am

NY sees uptick in cases, even before we’ve started seeing the reopening of parts of the state.

It could be an artifact of more testing, or it could be that people are relaxing their stringent masking/social distancing with predictable outcomes. But more study needs to be done.

It’s also clear that the Trumpists think that what happened in NY can’t happen in their states, or that it was particular to Democratic party controlled states.

Just give Wisconsin a bit of time. We’ll see just how well the GOP handles this. Or Florida. Or Texas, all of which are seeing increases even before their announced relaxation of rules.

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jeffreyw  May 15, 2020 • 11:38:01am

re: #61 Teddy’s Person

Those are some gorgeous cookies!

Mrs J thanks you!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 15, 2020 • 11:38:33am

re: #72 PhillyPretzel

lol. I have not seen that old symbol in a long time. Cents that is. :)

I never remember where it is at on the standard US Mac keyboard.

I guess it is option-4: ¢

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PhillyPretzel  May 15, 2020 • 11:39:02am

re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember it being on an older Smith-Corona (electric) that my dad had.

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Teddy's Person  May 15, 2020 • 11:39:55am

re: #76 jeffreyw

Mrs J thanks you!

Thanks for linking the recipe. Next time I venture out, I’m getting choc. chips and trying it out.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 15, 2020 • 11:41:35am

Thinking of going big on MegaMillions today…

+ck04y1ojTAob8esYSogfFTMdYQbN6Lgj4zcHHo8yaA+mLXnNx6zltdmE7QIuTzX

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 11:41:38am

Memories of the Pitt Economics Department in the 70s when they had to special order typing bulbs from IBM that included the £ and ∞ symbols.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 11:43:33am

re: #81 Joe Bacon 🌹

Memories of the Pitt Economics Department in the 70s when they had to special order typing bulbs from IBM that included the £ and ∞ symbols.

typing bulbs…what a concept.

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PhillyPretzel  May 15, 2020 • 11:45:22am

re: #81 Joe Bacon 🌹

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is this what you are referring to:
en.wikipedia.org

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Belafon  May 15, 2020 • 11:45:47am

re: #65 Charles Johnson

Also, the moon landing was a much bigger project.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 15, 2020 • 11:45:53am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

typing bulbs…what a concept.

The IBM Selectric - one of their better inventions.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 11:46:32am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

typing bulbs…what a concept.

Typing bulbs were high-tech to what I learned on. My mother’s typewriter from the mid-50s and then the cheap portable one I got through college with. Jumped straight from that to printing stuff off of PCs in the 80s other than a few early college programs run off on a teletype.

In five short years I saw things go from cards to PCs. A bit of a whirlwind.

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EPR-radar  May 15, 2020 • 11:46:33am

re: #81 Joe Bacon 🌹

Memories of the Pitt Economics Department in the 70s when they had to special order typing bulbs from IBM that included the £ and ∞ symbols.

I can see an Econ department needing £, but why would they need ∞? Surely Econ departments are allergic to the idea that most of what they do depends on a false assumption of infinite natural resources.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 11:46:36am

re: #85 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The IBM Selectric - one of their better inventions.

my buddy even had a bulb in Cyrillic

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 11:47:58am

re: #83 PhillyPretzel

Is this what you are referring to:
en.wikipedia.org

Yes and they called them “bulbs”. Damn those IBM Selectrics were so CENSORED heavy!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 11:47:59am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

my buddy even had a bulb in Cyrillic

Did he ever forge a set of papers for Putin?
////

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 11:49:10am

re: #90 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Did he ever forge a set of papers for Putin?
////

Used it to type papers for Russian Lit class.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 11:50:08am

re: #87 EPR-radar

I can see an Econ department needing £, but why would they need ∞? Surely Econ departments are allergic to the idea that most of what they do depends on a false assumption of infinite natural resources.

Will Rogers famous quote, “FDR met with six economists and asked for their opinions…he got seven different opinions because one couldn’t make up his mind”!

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PhillyPretzel  May 15, 2020 • 11:51:59am

As I asked upstream: Which is better metal or silicon straws?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 11:52:56am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

my buddy even had a bulb in Cyrillic

Modern equivalent I saw for this when I was still working IT was that we had a couple of spare keyboards labeled and set up for typing Portuguese on. Plus I think one that could handle German. Though our visitors from overseas usually had their own laptops. This did allow for us to let them use one of our network docking stations with a better monitor and keyboard though.

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 11:55:18am

re: #93 PhillyPretzel

Silicone may be slightly better, if only because you don’t have to worry about chipping your teeth? You need to make sure you clean both thoroughly.

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Sinistershade  May 15, 2020 • 11:56:23am

re: #95 lawhawk

Silicone may be slightly better, if only because you don’t have to worry about chipping your teeth? You need to make sure you clean both thoroughly.

I don’t know about straws specifically, but many silicone products can be run through the dishwasher.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 11:57:14am

re: #93 PhillyPretzel

As I asked upstream: Which is better metal or silicon straws?

I don’t use them. But I think it’d vary depending on what you’re drinking? Acidity, hot/cold conduction, etc. For cleaning silicone in particular I’d probably want a narrow brush that could get the interiors as well (though that wouldn’t be bad for metal either.)

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PhillyPretzel  May 15, 2020 • 11:58:11am

re: #95 lawhawk

Okay. I do have a metal straw that I got when I purchased one of those thermal tumblers. It is okay but it is not very portable. I noticed that the silicon straws fold up into small cases and that would be better for travel/work. Thanks.

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Barefoot Grin  May 15, 2020 • 11:59:07am

re: #92 Joe Bacon 🌹

Will Rogers famous quote, “FDR met with six economists and asked for their opinions…he got seven different opinions because one couldn’t make up his mind”!

Didn’t Harry Truman once say, “find me a one-handed economist”?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:01:18pm

re: #16 The Pie Overlord!

iSdbT6zRxU+lasNbN5x5WoJ7E+fTIeF/

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 12:01:24pm

re: #44 ericblair

It’s the majority of non-vacant seats: in this case, 34. And as far as I’ve seen it gamed out, it’s President Leahy. So a Vermont senator becomes president after all if this happens (which it won’t).

I’d put cancelling elections way down the list of risks at this point. Even Fucking North Korea finds it necessary to have elections, totally fixed as they may be. You have to give even the worst dictatorship some sort of coat of popular support.

The bigger risk is the possibility of having enough incapacitated Senators to fuck up the quorum. If a Senator is on a respirator and incapable of doing anything, he/she is still a Senator as far as quorum rules go.

right.

it’s leahy. not grassley

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Barefoot Grin  May 15, 2020 • 12:01:35pm

It wouldn’t be a Friday without:

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A Mom Anon  May 15, 2020 • 12:02:02pm

re: #93 PhillyPretzel

I have both. You can run both through the dishwasher no problem. I suggest buying a little straw cleaning brush too, just for extra cleaning, and some sodas and juice will leave a film on the inside you want to get out of there.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:02:40pm

re: #72 PhillyPretzel

lol. I have not seen that old symbol in a long time. Cents that is. :)

Coming to a gas station advertising sign near you in the future, perhaps?

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PhillyPretzel  May 15, 2020 • 12:04:51pm

re: #104 A Mom Anon

The ones (metal and silicon) I am looking at on amazon have brushes and carry cases. Thanks to all who answered.

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I am that guy  May 15, 2020 • 12:05:23pm

re: #39 Omar Comin’ Yo

Yellow county in Pennsylvania is where I live. They opened up the department stores. I live off the “strip” where most of the shopping is.
Jammed. I’m not going anywhere near them.
Can’t wait for the restaurants to open up.
Only one death via CV19 in my county.
But we can change that…..
Fuck Trump.

Whoops. Two deaths as of today…..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:05:57pm

re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I believe it has disappeared from most keyboards. I recall it on my old typewriter…

¢ is not on my typewriter. You type “c” then “/” to get the cent sign. (My typewriter was made the same year as my house though, 1914. Typewriter scientists had not yet figured out how to put a cent sign on a keyboard.)

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 15, 2020 • 12:06:28pm

re: #81 Joe Bacon 🌹

Memories of the Pitt Economics Department in the 70s when they had to special order typing bulbs from IBM that included the £ and ∞ symbols

Ah yes, the IBM Selectrics with the golfball - can’t remember when the daisy-wheel came out.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:07:15pm
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PhillyPretzel  May 15, 2020 • 12:07:23pm

re: #109 Eric The Fruit Bat

That might have been in the eighties.

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A Mom Anon  May 15, 2020 • 12:07:49pm

re: #106 PhillyPretzel

We have RTIC insulated tumblers and coffee cups. Dumbass me made coffee one morning and took a sip from one of the metal straws. Yeah, dumb and ouch. It was early and I just did not even think. Don’t be me, lol.

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Dread Pirate  May 15, 2020 • 12:08:54pm
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Jay C  May 15, 2020 • 12:09:37pm

re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹

I remember when that racist piece of shit Father Coughlin died in 1979.

Grandma called us and she was cheering that antisemites exile to hell. She detested that bigot.

When she had to take in boarders during the depression, one of them tuned the radio to that asshole. Grandma promptly went in the living room, turned the dial and ripped that fool to pieces telling him to never dial in to listen to that trash.

1979?
That bigoted old bastard lived to be 88??
Did not know that: hope his last 40 or so years were disappointed misery……

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 12:10:37pm

re: #112 A Mom Anon

We have RTIC insulated tumblers and coffee cups. Dumbass me made coffee one morning and took a sip from one of the metal straws. Yeah, dumb and ouch. It was early and I just did not even think. Don’t be me, lol.

Fat Cat tests the coffee with a paw before drinking it. Then again, that’s how she drinks it. Dips a paw in and then licks the coffee off her paw.

Mmmm… coffeeeee
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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:11:25pm

re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

¢ is not on my typewriter. You type “c” then “/” to get the cent sign. (My typewriter was made the same year as my house though, 1914. Typewriter scientists had not yet figured out how to put a cent sign on a keyboard.)

That’s how we were taught to type ¢ in high school. Type c, backspace and put the /.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 15, 2020 • 12:11:30pm

re: #62 gocart mozart

Brian A. Cahn, MD@brian_cahn
“I call it the super duper missile”

Trump explaining how he describes a missile being developed by the Space Force that is travels at a speed 17x faster than current missiles.

Running out of ideas, Boris and Natasha stumble upon a new sound-suppressed explosive named “Hush-a-Boom”, but lose the formula when they foolishly inscribe it on a banana that Bullwinkle promptly devours.

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EPR-radar  May 15, 2020 • 12:11:48pm

re: #114 Jay C

1979?
That bigoted old bastard lived to be 88??
Did not know that: hope his last 40 or so years were disappointed misery……

At least he didn’t live long enough to see the GOP fully embrace his bigotry etc.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:11:51pm

re: #109 Eric The Fruit Bat

Ah yes, the IBM Selectrics with the golfball - can’t remember when the daisy-wheel came out.

I had a Brother typewriter with a Commodore serial port so I could plug it into my C-64 and use it as a printer. It used daisy wheels (and they were friggin’ expensive).

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 12:12:47pm

re: #113 Dread Pirate

If there’s a comprehensive plan, post it online. Otherwise consider this vaporware bulkshit on a stick.

As it is, we knew that Obama had a pandemic prevention playbook (including staffing offices overseas to help get the jump on emerging diseases before they land in the US) and he also had a pandemic response playbook.

Trump ignored both.

What’s worse, Trump gutted the pandemic prevention playbook by shutting down the very team that was out there looking for emerging diseases.

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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2020 • 12:13:31pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 15, 2020 • 12:13:50pm

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I had a Brother typewriter with a Commodore serial port so I could plug it into my C-64 and use it as a printer. It used daisy wheels (and they were friggin’ expensive).

I had a Smith-Corona daisywheel printer that I plugged into my TI 99/4A - had to jury-rig some TTL logic to get it to work with the parallel port.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:14:59pm

I’m sure Putin will sell us only the non-faulty ones.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:15:21pm

re: #114 Jay C

1979?
That bigoted old bastard lived to be 88??
Did not know that: hope his last 40 or so years were disappointed misery……

Fucking piece of shit died on 10/27/79.

en.wikipedia.org

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b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)  May 15, 2020 • 12:15:27pm

re: #121 Charles Johnson

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“You are killing us too slowly” may be the only complaint about Trump that I haven’t heard…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:16:24pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 12:16:25pm

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I had a Brother typewriter with a Commodore serial port so I could plug it into my C-64 and use it as a printer. It used daisy wheels (and they were friggin’ expensive).

According to Wikipedia invented* in 1970 and was the dominant high-speed high-quality printing system by 1980. Looks like the laser printing systems with much broader graphics capabilities took things over rapidly after that.

* - The article notes daisy-wheel style typewriter patents from 1889 and 1939.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 15, 2020 • 12:16:33pm

re: #114 Jay C

1979?
That bigoted old bastard lived to be 88??
Did not know that: hope his last 40 or so years were disappointed misery……

Always bummed me that Jesse Helms died before Obama was elected. So much of his entire life’s work invalidated.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:16:34pm

Super Duper Missile opens Friday night for Russian Ventilator Fire.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 15, 2020 • 12:17:31pm

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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No, you’re the puppet.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 12:18:03pm

re: #129 jaunte

Super Duper Missile opens Friday night for Russian Ventilator Fire.

Odd to have a speed metal band open for an oldies cover group.
//

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 15, 2020 • 12:18:47pm

re: #129 jaunte

Super Duper Missile opens Friday night for Russian Ventilator Fire.

Revolutionary War Airports and Deep State Hoax is next week.

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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2020 • 12:19:18pm
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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:19:48pm

re: #132 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I always get them confused with Revolutionary Luggage Carousel.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:20:46pm

re: #121 Charles Johnson

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He’s having flashbacks of watching Beany and Cecil…

Harecules Hare & Guided Muscle Fist Rocket 1962

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:21:07pm

My wife has a new set of speakers for her computer. They are not working correctly, so call in hub, the hardware guy.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 12:22:32pm

re: #134 jaunte

I always get them confused with Revolutionary Luggage Carousel.

If it was Revolutionary Luggage Carrousel, would they replace any member who aged past 30?
/

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:23:19pm

re: #137 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Fine Corinthian Leather is People!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 12:24:30pm

Now that was weird. YouTube video ad of Lindsey Graham doing a campaign ad for Daines (Montana - R).

It does affect me. Makes me want to donate to Daines opponent.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 15, 2020 • 12:25:10pm

re: #138 jaunte

Fine Corinthian Leather is People!

Doesn’t Horses and Bayonets open for them now?
/

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 15, 2020 • 12:25:32pm

re: #134 jaunte

I always get them confused with Revolutionary Luggage Carousel.

Easy to do, Carousel is the better band though. But don’t sleep on Ten Rated Pandemic Responses.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:25:51pm

re: #139 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Now that was weird. YouTube video ad of Lindsey Graham doing a campaign ad for Daines (Montana - R).

It does affect me. Makes me want to donate to Daines opponent.

Wonder how many Montanans will vote for an ass endorsed by #LeningradLindsay

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:26:36pm

Ken Paxton is a murderous swine.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 12:28:22pm

re: #138 jaunte

Fine Corinthian Leather is People!

Not 2 Corinthians leather?

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 12:28:55pm

re: #141 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Soylent Omega Man is the prog rock face of the future.

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PhillyPretzel  May 15, 2020 • 12:29:11pm

re: #143 jaunte

Oy. This is ridiculous. They want people to go to the polls and possibly get sick from it. This is stupid. Even PA is telling people to use Mail-in ballots.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:30:48pm

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Do I want The Heinous Anus to wear a mask?

HELL NO!

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Dread Pirate  May 15, 2020 • 12:30:50pm
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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:30:50pm
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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2020 • 12:31:27pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:31:44pm

re: #146 PhillyPretzel

Oy. This is ridiculous. They want people to go to the polls and possibly get sick from it. This is stupid. Even PA is telling people to use Mail-in ballots.

Texas is a close state politically.

Republicans are not opposed to mail-in ballots when they have a clear majority, which is why my state’s been using mail-in ballots since before Oregon and Washington.

Wife’s computer problem fixed. She had two cables swapped, causing all sorts of weird feedback in the speakers.

She doesn’t divorce me because she needs a hardware guy around. /s

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:32:42pm

re: #150 Charles Johnson

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@jack didn’t suspend Samantha for being nasty to the Plastic Princess?

I’m shocked!

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Jebediah, RBG  May 15, 2020 • 12:33:56pm

re: #43 gocart mozart

I see Fred’s @ thingy is freeloosedirt and alla sudden something starts playing
in my head

Son Volt - Driving the View

I really really dig this song

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:34:10pm

re: #150 Charles Johnson

LOL “gun gender reveal.”

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:35:03pm

“Viruses do what viruses do.”
This is the Republican pandemic plan.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:38:24pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:38:45pm

re: #149 jaunte

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We know what Ted YooHoo will do when he’s tubed to a respirator.

He’ll blame Obama!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:39:08pm

re: #148 Dread Pirate

Who is Jim M. and why should we believe his photograph is an actual instance “of ballots piling up in recycling bins?”

Why doesn’t Jim M., photographer, want to give his real name for his photo credit?

And why should I believe Chris McDermott, civil engineer and Giants fan, about anything, let alone the mail or voting?

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 12:39:34pm

Woo. Most of the Southern Tier and Central NY are under a tornado watch through this evening as a strong front passes through. Wild weather is already being reported, including hail and damaging winds around the Finger Lakes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:41:15pm

re: #156 jaunte

“Herd immunity” is what you get when you have a vaccine and apply it liberally.

If herd immunity by catching disease conferred total immunity of a population, smallpox and tuberculosis would have been wiped out thousands of years ago.

Conservatives are trying to conflate a medical term with their religion.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:41:16pm

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Who is Jim M. and why should we believe his photograph is an actual instance “of ballots piling up in recycling bins?”

Why doesn’t Jim M., photographer, want to give his real name for his photo credit?

And why should I believe Chris McDermott, civil engineer and Giants fan, about anything, let alone the mail or voting?

Как ты смеешь допросить нас в ГРУ! Мы стремимся держать нашего товарища-коммуниста в Овальном кабинете, и мы сделаем все, чтобы этого добиться!

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 12:41:32pm

re: #156 jaunte

*in the absence of a vaccine.

You can get herd immunity from widespread vaccination efforts or from getting the virus or bacterial infection.

In this case, for the herd immunity to be reached, it would require at least half of Americans to get it, with ~5% dying. Yeah, I’m not willing to go that route, so we slow the spread and hope we can burn it out by getting R below 1.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 15, 2020 • 12:41:48pm

re: #46 Sherlock Hound

I LOVE how these same people are whining about “increased poverty”!

Did they care before?

NOPE!

Poverty was always a moral failing. They never cared about the poor, and never will.
Just worried for themselves. They’ll get that call, “the future doesn’t need you!” and it will suck. Boo-hoo.

My FB comment that led my Trumpster friend to launch personal attacks on me (and my subsequent unfriending of him) mentioned it was evil to open the country on the backs of the poor, without providing them PPE and other protection. He specifically criticized my referring to the poor — and then insulted me, whereas my comment was not personal at all. Conservatives and libertarians really are totally disdainful of those who struggle financially.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:43:33pm

re: #163 Hecuba’s daughter

My FB comment that led my Trumpster friend to launch personal attacks on me (and my subsequent unfriending of him) mentioned it was evil to open the country on the backs of the poor, without providing them PPE and other protection. He specifically criticized my referring to the poor — and then insulted me, whereas my comment was not personal at all. Conservatives and libertarians really are totally disdainful of those who struggle financially.

When it comes to Conservatives and LIEbertarians, it’s all about them looking up for #1…until life kicks them in the ass and whacks them over the head with a 2 X 4.

Then they beg for help

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!  May 15, 2020 • 12:44:52pm

re: #14 jaunte

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Much laughter and loud talk will be had.

Am I a bad person for hoping that at least one of them is a Covid-19 carrier?

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lawhawk  May 15, 2020 • 12:44:57pm

Our local hospital is shutting down the covid19 ward as cases have declined here. That’s a positive sign, as the hospital was one of several overwhelmed by the surge in cases across Northern NJ.

Gov. Murphy is indicating that hospitals can resume elective surgeries beginning May 26, though it’ll probably be weeks before that picks back up to pre-covid19 levels as people here are leery of exposures.

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BeachDem  May 15, 2020 • 12:45:14pm

re: #113 Dread Pirate

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If her fucking fake eyelashes were any longer they’d touch her chin when she blinked.

Sorry—not important, I know, but that “bubble-headed bleached blond” gets on my very last nerve.

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Dread Pirate  May 15, 2020 • 12:45:57pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 12:47:00pm

re: #167 BeachDem

If her fucking fake eyelashes were any longer they’d touch her chin when she blinked.

Sorry—not important, I know, but that “bubble-headed bleached blond” gets on my very last nerve.

Who’s had more plastic surgery…Ivanka, Jared, Tomi, Callista Gingrich or KKKayleigh?

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Targetpractice  May 15, 2020 • 12:47:54pm

re: #110 jaunte

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It’s the CEO who boasts about how “green” his company is…while standing in front of his Hummer whose gas mileage is measured in single digits.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:49:17pm

re: #165 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!

I think with that many it’s almost guaranteed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:51:33pm

Did Kayleigh McEnany borrow Mitt Romney’s binders full of women?

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Hecuba's daughter  May 15, 2020 • 12:52:19pm

re: #49 Dread Pirate

I’m pretty sure both Trump and Putin are going to give him serious competition. We’re at the 3rd hole of an 18 hole course.

Putin doesn’t count because he doesn’t lead a democracy. And Trump has an advantage because he has bedrock support among the GOP base. And obviously Bolsonaro’s health ministers have far more integrity than either Azar or Redfield in the Trump administration.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 12:53:42pm

re: #143 jaunte

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Ken Paxton is a murderous swine.

They all are. Every single Republican.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 12:55:54pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  May 15, 2020 • 12:57:05pm

re: #124 Joe Bacon 🌹

Fucking piece of shit died on 10/27/79.

en.wikipedia.org

Noted POS was pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak MI. The current structure was built between 1931 and 1936 with proceeds from Coughlin’s radio ministry. It is built in the zig-zag Art Deco style and has a distinctly totalitarian vibe to it, especially the nave:


Ironically, the local Ku Klux Klan (then very powerful) had burned a cross on the lawn of the original structure the week after it opened in 1926.
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 12:57:40pm

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Who is Jim M. and why should we believe his photograph is an actual instance “of ballots piling up in recycling bins?”

Why doesn’t Jim M., photographer, want to give his real name for his photo credit?

And why should I believe Chris McDermott, civil engineer and Giants fan, about anything, let alone the mail or voting?

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Jebediah, RBG  May 15, 2020 • 12:57:54pm

re: #165 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!

Am I a bad person for hoping that at least one of them is a Covid-19 carrier?

nope

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 12:58:01pm

Gov. Ricketts, after he paid to put the death penalty on the ballot after it was repealed by the Unicameral, was caught by UPS purchasing with misappropriated tax money drugs to execute people from a supplier in India. The order he authorised said the drugs were for something else, but UPS intercepted the package and turned it over to Customs as an illegal drug importation. Ricketts was not charged even though it was on his order because IOKIYAR.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  May 15, 2020 • 12:58:33pm

re: #174 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

They all are. Every single Republican.

Genocidal Ogre Party

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 12:58:40pm

re: #157 Joe Bacon 🌹

We know what Ted YooHoo will do when he’s tubed to a respirator.

We should be so lucky.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 15, 2020 • 1:00:11pm

re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Did Kayleigh McEnnay borrow Mitt Romney’s binders full of women?

Just returning to what worked for Trump in January 2017 when he presented piles of documents that were apparently blank and that he did not allow anyone to examine. The papers allegedly showed his obviously nonexistent “plans” to disentangle himself from his business.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 1:02:47pm

to Mcenany: “Name the crime”

MCENANY: That is after all the job or reporters — to answer the very questions that I’ve laid out.

REPORTER: It’s the job of the Press Secretary to answer the question.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 1:04:21pm

re: #183 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

to Mcenany: “Name the crime”

Presidenting while Black

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 1:04:54pm

re: #165 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!

Am I a bad person for hoping that at least one of them is a Covid-19 carrier?

More than one please.

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I am that guy  May 15, 2020 • 1:05:09pm

When you are all out of Puppy Juice..

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 1:05:55pm

watch trump vs other world leaders

YouTube

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BeachDem  May 15, 2020 • 1:06:25pm

re: #182 Hecuba’s daughter

Just returning to what worked for Trump in January 2017 when he presented piles of documents that were apparently blank and that he did not allow anyone to examine. The papers allegedly showed his obviously nonexistent “plans” to disentangle himself from his business.

Even had his smiling lawyer, Sheri Dillon, there to back up his bullshit.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 15, 2020 • 1:07:06pm

Republicans have picked up “herd immunity” but like most of their keywords and repeated phrases, the meaning is orthogonal to their purpose.

They simply need a phrase that sounds scientific…and thus intelligent and reasonable…to justify their entirely-without-analysis feeling that (1) the right order of the world is that they shouldn’t ever be inconvenienced, (2) the true injustice is other people inconveniencing them by not wanting to get sick or die.

They are afraid to say outright that they believe themselves to be a of (non-specific, vague) superior type, and most other people only matters in so far as they serve the ends of the superior type. So instead they have to take existing sources of validity—symbols, words, texts—and deliberately replace all of the culturally-accrued meaning—the history, the precedent, the law, the dictionary definition—with their vague feeling that they are a superior kind that deserves everything and cannot be questioned.

“Herd immunity” in this context means the same thing as “Freedom” and “Jesus” and “Family values.”

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 1:09:44pm

well he’s not wrong

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 1:10:52pm

re: #190 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

well he’s not wrong

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damn! he did it twice

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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2020 • 1:11:16pm
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makeitstop  May 15, 2020 • 1:14:03pm

re: #169 Joe Bacon 🌹

Who’s had more plastic surgery…Ivanka, Jared, Tomi, Callista Gingrich or KKKayleigh?

Good question. Tawdry had a bunch, though.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 1:17:20pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 1:17:51pm

On the issue of social media influencers, there’s a reason why they do it.

I’m in the wrong job.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 1:17:54pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 15, 2020 • 1:21:29pm

Get enough of these heartbreaking stories between now and November and maybe the tide can be turned.
In Detroit we had a 5 year old girl die due to COVID-19. Until then…..
AP: Boy, 9, is 1st French death from likely COVID-linked illness

LE PECQ, France (AP) — Medics at a hospital that treated the first child to die in France with a puzzling inflammatory condition seemingly linked to the new coronavirus initially thought the 9-year-old had scarlet fever, and sent him home.

The boy then suffered a heart attack at home that night, resulting in brain damage that later led to his death.

Details of the case were released Friday by the La Timone hospital in the southern French city of Marseille. The child spent six days in intensive care at the hospital after his heart attack in the evening of May 2.

Earlier that afternoon, the boy had been taken to an emergency ward in another of the city’s hospitals. There, an experienced pediatrician examined the child and diagnosed symptoms “similar to scarlet fever,” said Doctor Fabrice Michel, who heads the pediatric intensive care unit at La Timone. Scarlet fever is generally mild, usually beginning with a temperature and a sore throat, and is easily treated with antibiotics.

“The child didn’t have serious signs, justifying his return home,” Michel said.

But the boy suffered a heart attack a few hours later and was rushed to intensive care at La Timone. There, blood tests indicated the boy had been infected with COVID-19 in the previous weeks, although he didn’t have its symptoms and was no longer positive for the virus when admitted to hospital.

Instead, some of the boy’s symptoms resembled those of Kawasaki disease, a rare blood vessel disorder, Michel said. About 125 children in France have developed Kawasaki-like symptoms during the coronavirus outbreak, arousing suspicions of a link.

The death at La Timone was the first fatality in France linked to the syndrome. The boy died on May 8.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 1:21:46pm

re: #196 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Kilroy was here  May 15, 2020 • 1:22:44pm

Totally off Topic… but with all the potential issues with our meat supply….

” KNOW YOUR MEAT ” 1945 BEEF INDUSTRY PROMO FILM CUTTING, PREPARING & SELLING STEAKS XD11654

Yes.. I have the sense of humor of a 10 year old boy..

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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2020 • 1:25:13pm
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gocart mozart  May 15, 2020 • 1:26:39pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 15, 2020 • 1:26:46pm

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! I missed the Stonekettle pen sale. :-(

And I really wanted this pen.

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gocart mozart  May 15, 2020 • 1:27:14pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 1:27:25pm

re: #199 Kilroy was here

Totally off Topic… but with all the potential issues with our meat supply….

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Video

Yes.. I have the sense of humor of a 10 year old boy..

he said ‘rump’ ;-)

oh, and their unprotected hands are all over everything

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  May 15, 2020 • 1:28:04pm

Only 86,607? Gee, I wonder how they would react if Islamo-gay-Antifa terror gangs managed to stage coordinated attacks all over the country and killed 86,607 exposed and un-prepared open-carry activists?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 15, 2020 • 1:28:10pm

re: #200 Charles Johnson

Its not flies that come out of mouths, but toads….

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Belafon  May 15, 2020 • 1:28:19pm

re: #195 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

On the issue of social media influencers, there’s a reason why they do it.

I’m in the wrong job.

The internet will create new jobs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 1:29:03pm

And here’s why Gov. Ricketts wants businesses opened up.

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stpaulbear  May 15, 2020 • 1:32:48pm

I’ve spent a good chunk of the last two days filling out forms (Medicare part B, health insurance, So Sec, pension, etc) for my retirement coming up on July 7. I thought about whether it’s a bad choice to bail during an epidemic, but I can make it to July without having any meetings I’ll have to travel to. I’m burned out and really want out. So close to the finish line - hoping there’s not going to be a cliff or a brick wall on the other side.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 1:32:48pm

re: #205 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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Only 86,607? Gee, I wonder how they would react if Islamo-gay-Antifa terror gangs managed to stage coordinated attacks all over the country and killed 86,607 3 exposed and un-prepared open-carry activists?

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Patricia Kayden  May 15, 2020 • 1:33:55pm
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Targetpractice  May 15, 2020 • 1:34:02pm

re: #183 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

to Mcenany: “Name the crime”

They’re totally confused by the media’s response to their latest “HER EMAILS!!!” ploy. They genuinely believed that the media was going to latch onto this “Obamagate” BS and run with it, nightly news stories about how Obama and Biden had spied on Flynn to destroy him and thus Trump, and didn’t believe they’d actually have to do more than point in a random direction and scream “SQUIRREL!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 1:34:30pm

Well, this isn’t much help. Thanks, GOP.

Five sailors who returned to USS Roosevelt test positive for coronavirus again (The Hill)

At least five sailors who had returned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier after a coronavirus quarantine have tested positive for the virus again, the Navy confirmed Friday.

“This week, five USS Theodore Roosevelt sailors who previously tested COVID positive and met rigorous recovery criteria, exceeding CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines, have retested positive,” the Navy said in a statement.

The sailors, who said the statement said were self-monitoring and adhering to “strict” social distancing protocols, developed flu-like symptoms and “did the right thing reporting to medical for evaluation.”

(more)

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 1:35:46pm

re: #211 Patricia Kayden

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NAME THE CRIME
CITE the statute

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 1:36:05pm

Zuckerberg will gladly allow Trump to lie on Facebook while he censures Joe.

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danarchy  May 15, 2020 • 1:36:35pm

re: #202 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! I missed the Stonekettle pen sale. :-(

And I really wanted this pen.

Isn’t that the one teleskiguy bought?

Nice looking pen, but I could never justify buying a special pen, it would be lost in a week.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 1:37:34pm
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garzooma  May 15, 2020 • 1:39:28pm

re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Every time he lies, a MAGAt gets its wings.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 1:39:34pm

I think it was a 3-4 day scandal when a fly got near Obama.

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jaunte  May 15, 2020 • 1:40:24pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 1:41:30pm

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, this isn’t much help. Thanks, GOP.

Five sailors who returned to USS Roosevelt test positive for coronavirus again (The Hill)

(more)

It’s obvious that the tests are not as good as they need to be. Not sure which way (false positive or false negative), but they’re not terribly good.

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A Mom Anon  May 15, 2020 • 1:41:53pm

re: #220 jaunte

HeeHee… she’s such a pompous asshole.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 1:41:56pm

re: #215 Joe Bacon 🌹

Zuckerberg will gladly allow Trump to lie on Facebook while he censures Joe.

That’s what letters, E-mail, and telephone calls are for. None require Facebook.

Facebook does seem to be good for networking with other people who share your interests, as noted by genealogy folks here. I don’t see another use for it though.

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Belafon  May 15, 2020 • 1:43:12pm

re: #223 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s what letters, E-mail, and telephone calls are for. None require Facebook.

Facebook does seem to be good for networking with other people who share your interests, as noted by genealogy folks here. I don’t see another use for it though.

Yes, but that’s not what it’s being used for. Just because we might wish it to be true, doesn’t mean it is.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 1:43:20pm
226
The Pie Overlord!  May 15, 2020 • 1:43:25pm

re: #200 Charles Johnson

Remember when wingnuts utterly LOST THEIR SHIT when a fly landed on Obama’s face and they thought it was a SIGN FROM SATAN?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 15, 2020 • 1:44:40pm

Off to watch something more sane than Trump. More “Dark Shadows.”

228
Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2020 • 1:44:42pm

Where’s a Murder Hornet when you need one?

/

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 15, 2020 • 1:46:20pm

re: #223 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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That’s what letters, E-mail, and telephone calls are for. None require Facebook.

Facebook does seem to be good for networking with other people who share your interests, as noted by genealogy folks here. I don’t see another use for it though.

support your usps!

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A Mom Anon  May 15, 2020 • 1:51:45pm

re: #223 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Younger people do use it instead of talking on the phone, or use it to set up calls and meet ups. My son would have had a much harder time finding his “tribe” of autistic friends and metal heads without it. They’re a different generation, what worked for us isn’t always going to be the best for them. Facebook is a cesspool, but you can set preferences and options and who you follow to the point that if all you want to see is cute animals and recipes or arts and crafts or music, you can. You don’t even need to have any friends on Facebook to get something positive out of it.

I loathe Zuckerberg with a passion for a host of reasons and more needs to be done to monitor and remove truly disgusting and wrong content. But to write FB off as totally mindless isn’t taking in the whole picture.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 1:51:48pm

re: #195 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Incoming UConn freshman Paige Bueckers, by Opendorse’s estimate, could rake six figures annually from her social media channels under proposed NIL rights.

It is long past time to stop pretending that these are “amateur” athletes and scholars. Just make them university employees and admit that these teams are the Minor Leagues for the NBA and NFL.

Of course they can throw in a free degree as as a perk, but that is not what these students are there for.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 1:52:38pm

re: #229 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

support your usps!

But you can’t show off your cool vacation pics with everyone and their brother (while inviting burglars at the same time), show the world what greatness you are, etc. It’s not good enough to send an email (sorry USPS, that’s just not happening) to your friends and family… You have to show off to your friends friends and your families friends and the world.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 15, 2020 • 1:53:39pm

re: #230 A Mom Anon

Most young people left Facebook for tiktok, Instagram and others. Facebook is mostly for the olds these days.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 15, 2020 • 1:55:15pm

re: #223 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Facebook does seem to be good for networking with other people who share your interests, as noted by genealogy folks here. I don’t see another use for it though.

it is social media that I use to find out what friends and family are up to, not as a source of news or information on any topic beyond how my homies are hanging or cute pet/kid videos, etc…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 15, 2020 • 1:55:26pm

re: #219 jaunte

I think it was a 3-4 day scandal when a fly got near Obama.

I remember when Asshole Alex Jones alleges that flies surrounded Obama because he smelled of burnt sulfur.

Which is why I want Jones to be completely wiped out by the Sandy Hook Parents!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 15, 2020 • 2:02:40pm

re: #216 danarchy

Isn’t that the one teleskiguy bought?

Nice looking pen, but I could never justify buying a special pen, it would be lost in a week.

Close. His has more turquoise I believe. I buy them more for the craftsmanship as well as gifts for those I know will appreciate the quality.

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retired cynic  May 15, 2020 • 2:05:04pm

re: #230 A Mom Anon

Younger people do use it instead of talking on the phone, or use it to set up calls and meet ups. My son would have had a much harder time finding his “tribe” of autistic friends and metal heads without it. They’re a different generation, what worked for us isn’t always going to be the best for them. Facebook is a cesspool, but you can set preferences and options and who you follow to the point that if all you want to see is cute animals and recipes or arts and crafts or music, you can. You don’t even need to have any friends on Facebook to get something positive out of it.

I loathe Zuckerberg with a passion for a host of reasons and more needs to be done to monitor and remove truly disgusting and wrong content. But to write FB off as totally mindless isn’t taking in the whole picture.

Yep. I don’t even go on once a day, but I keep track of a number of people around the world on a joint project we are doing, and that means we are monitoring a lot of different people in addition. I just don’t happen to do it myself. I respond to political posts from friends that agree with me, but don’t post political stuff myself. Just don’t need the grief.

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A Mom Anon  May 15, 2020 • 2:07:30pm

re: #233 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

My son has 2700 friends worldwide on Facebook between the ages of 17 to 35. Maybe some of the very young have left, but I’m not seeing it among my son and his friends.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  May 15, 2020 • 2:31:09pm

re: #215 Joe Bacon 🌹

Zuckerberg will gladly allow Trump to lie on Facebook while he censures Joe.

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These Trump and Pence FB ads are all over, I see one every five minutes. Mostly people are laughing at them, though. When they forget to block photo replies I have fun.

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Decatur Deb  May 15, 2020 • 2:32:55pm

re: #209 stpaulbear

I’ve spent a good chunk of the last two days filling out forms (Medicare part B, health insurance, So Sec, pension, etc) for my retirement coming up on July 7. I thought about whether it’s a bad choice to bail during an epidemic, but I can make it to July without having any meetings I’ll have to travel to. I’m burned out and really want out. So close to the finish line - hoping there’s not going to be a cliff or a brick wall on the other side.

A friend retired a year before I did. When I told him the economics were worrisome, he said: “The week you retire you will think you are going to starve. In six months you’ll wonder why you put in the last couple years.”

He was right.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 15, 2020 • 3:50:22pm

re: #209 stpaulbear

I’ve spent a good chunk of the last two days filling out forms (Medicare part B, health insurance, So Sec, pension, etc) for my retirement coming up on July 7. I thought about whether it’s a bad choice to bail during an epidemic, but I can make it to July without having any meetings I’ll have to travel to. I’m burned out and really want out. So close to the finish line - hoping there’s not going to be a cliff or a brick wall on the other side.

I’ve been retired for a while, and I can tell you it’s vastly underrated. Welcome to the club.

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Eventual Carrion  May 15, 2020 • 6:15:05pm

re: #32 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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Why was he in the oblong orifice doing nothing? We need answers!

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eharris  May 16, 2020 • 8:41:42am

re: #209 stpaulbear

Best wishes. I retired last July from teaching. This year would have been crazy. I’ve told a couple people nearing retirement to wait to closer to their date to process papers as their school system may offer up an incentive as a way to cut down on salaries.

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eharris  May 16, 2020 • 8:44:56am

re: #233 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Mid 20s and up.

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eharris  May 16, 2020 • 8:46:42am

re: #240 Decatur Deb

“The week you retire you will think you are going to starve.

Not for me, but my circumstances were special.

In six months you’ll wonder why you put in the last couple years.”

Hell yes!

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Decatur Deb  May 16, 2020 • 8:49:52am

re: #245 eharris

Not for me, but my circumstances were special.

Hell yes!

Good to see you active, but you are at the end of a very stale thread—you only show up in “Spy” for most people.


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