Seth takes a closer look at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promising a “scorched earth” Senate if Democrats change the filibuster to pass sweeping and urgently needed democracy reforms.
This is fascinating: The Covid-19 pandemic almost didn’t happen, a new genetic dating study shows https://t.co/5d5g1Za4h2
By: @maggiemfox— Ram Ramgopal (@RamCNN) March 19, 2021
I can only hope for a future where Mitch McConnell has to seek sanctuary with the family of his beard, in Communist China, penniless, friendless and with an untreatable case of shingles.
One former diplomat subject to restrictions was Rep. Andy Kim,a Korean-American born in Boston…even though he had“top secret security clearance”..“One day I was told by the State Dept I was banned from working on anything related to the Korean Peninsula” https://t.co/9n5RJjW2rQ
— Li Yuan (@LiYuan6) March 19, 2021
I’ll plug it again since it was left hanging at the end of the last thread.
“uh oh” pic.twitter.com/TU4I1mMmHO
— aliciasadowski (@aliciasadowski6) March 19, 2021
We’re now up to 5.42” of rain for the season. This is like SoCal numbers.
re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron
We’re now up to 5.42” of rain for the season. This is like SoCal numbers.
Well, locally down here we are at 6.4” of rain for the season (since Oct 2020), so yes, you’re in our dilemma now.
How is “Putin is a killer” a controversial statement? pic.twitter.com/z3AdAAgNq0
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) March 19, 2021
re: #2 piratedan
They’re Taiwanese, aren’t they?
“Actress” Louise Linton, wife of Steve Mnuchin, makes her directorial debut with the release of ‘Me You Madness,’ that she also stars in. Financed by “friends and family members,” it probably won’t be mistaken for a Scorsese film. From @LizardRumsfeld pic.twitter.com/zOs1Op6763
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 18, 2021
Meanwhile in Idaho:
Today Rep. Giddings called security on area high school students delivering masks to members of the #idleg pic.twitter.com/L39xz1JEG8
— theidaho97 (@theidaho97) March 18, 2021
Posted from below, since I don’t get to read in real-time (DSCP EF):
re: #153 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That is a toilet, and then a tub/shower
I choose to assume that is in the red shed.
I thought that kitchen toilet was only a feature in NYC studio apartments.
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Research shows that there has been a significant increase of hate crimes against Asian-Canadians since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.https://t.co/tUDn8qLq70
— CTV News (@CTVNews) March 17, 2021
This is an excellent policy if you want to either disqualify talented people from working in the White House or push ambitious people who want to work in the White House to lie during the screening process. https://t.co/jXK2zfAFEg
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 19, 2021
It needs to be decriminalized at the federal level so it’s not a disqualification for federal work.
— Slerfin Poots with magic boots (@HutchMcDonald) March 19, 2021
re: #14 Dread Pirate Ron
I can understand the actions by the Biden admin, because anything that the GQP can use against them, they will, and it will be loud and in the press.
Time for Canada, U.S. to get serious about how, when to reopen border, experts say (CTV)
WASHINGTON — A panel of experts and powerful political luminaries from both Canada and the United States sounded the alarm Thursday about what they consider an urgent need to get serious about reopening the shared border.
A task force assembled by the Washington-based Wilson Center’s Canada Institute gathered several international trade and travel experts to sound off on what needs to happen, and why, and when.
The overwhelming consensus: time is rapidly running out.
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Germany, Italy, Spain to restart AstraZeneca shot; EU regulator says ‘benefits outweigh risks’ (UPI)
March 18 (UPI) — Germany, Italy, Spain and other European nations that had halted administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine over reports of blood clotting announced Thursday the resumption of their inoculation campaigns after the European and British drug regulators said the benefits of the shot far outweigh its risks.
More than a dozen European countries had temporarily suspended administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after Norway announced a small number of cases of clotting and bleeding over the weekend, and said they were awaiting the results of an investigation by the European Medicines Agency before making any further decisions.
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re: #10 Dave In Austin
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LOL that snippet makes Tommy Wiseau’s The Room look like Citizen Kane.
re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Germany, Italy, Spain to restart AstraZeneca shot; EU regulator says ‘benefits outweigh risks’ (UPI)
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This is another case of where Germany’s thoroughness and methodical cautiousness are at loggerheads with their efficiency.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Time for Canada, U.S. to get serious about how, when to reopen border, experts say (CTV)
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Yankee stay home.
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is another case of where Germany’s thoroughness and methodical cautiousness are at loggerheads with their efficiency.
A lot of German fondness for bureaucracy and delay gets mistaken for competence, especially when you don’t see it from up close.
Answer: Yes - his neighbor. https://t.co/bj1soKgoAs
re: #21 Dread Pirate Ron
Yankee stay home.
Why is Parks Canada sending me E-mails to renew my pass, and promotions about stays in Canada’s parks?
re: #22 ericblair
A lot of German fondness for bureaucracy and delay gets mistaken for competence, especially when you don’t see it from up close.
It all looked very promising at the outset, I am still not sure where it is hanging up, but it will be some time before I can get vaccinated, my state (Rhineland-Palatinate) is still only doing people over 70.
re: #14 Dread Pirate Ron
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My dad’s told me on multiple occasions that if it were an option, he’d get off the painkillers that the docs keep throwing at him for his neck pain and smoke medical marijuana. But because he’s a federal employee (civil service), he can’t because it remains illegal at the federal level.
re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It all looked very promising at the outset, I am still not sure where it is hanging up, but it will be some time before I can get vaccinated, my state (Rhineland-Palatinate) is still only doing people over 70.
The “vaccine calculator” the Czech Ministry of Health is running shows I’ll be vaccinated sometime around late winter/early spring of 2022. I’m 51…and I’ll be 52 by then.
Not The Onion
March 18 (UPI) — The Taiwanese government is urging residents not to change their legal names to “salmon” to take advantage of a restaurant’s free sushi promotion.
The Taiwan Ministry of the Interior said nearly 100 people have registered to change their names to “salmon” under the country’s Name Act to take advantage of restaurant chain Sushiro’s promotion, which promises free sushi for customers whose names include the Chinese characters used to spell the name of the fish.
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Taiwan urges residents not to change names to ‘salmon’ for free sushi (UPI)
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Not The Onion
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Taiwan urges residents not to change names to ‘salmon’ for free sushi (UPI)
Kilgore Trout would do well in Taiwan
re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Kilgore Trout would do well in Taiwan
Meanwhile at the actual The Onion:
Hear why PETA is coming to the defense of these over-bread monstrosities that exist for the sole purpose of having fresh tomato paste extracted from their many teat-like protuberances.
(“The Topical,” America’s only daily news podcast)
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Meanwhile at the actual The Onion:
(“The Topical,” America’s only daily news podcast)
Is that what happened to Pizza the Hutt?
*sigh*
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March 18 (UPI) — An Ohio deputy shot Casey Goodson Jr., 23, six times in December, with five of the bullets entering through his back, an autopsy report released by an attorney for Goodson’s family confirmed.
Goodson’s mother, Tamala Payne, previously said the Franklin County Coroner Dr. Anahi Ortiz told her that her son was shot six times, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
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Autopsy report shows Ohio deputy shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five times (UPI)
Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade, who was assigned to a fugitive task force searching for someone else, fatally shot Goodson, a Black man, of Columbus, Ohio, in the doorway of his home.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Guilty of being at home black?
re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Guilty of being
at homeblack?
At this point, I think we can safely say this is the more accurate statement. Cops in this country have been trained to treat all minorities as suspect until proven innocent and dangerous unless properly “restrained.”
re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Guilty of being at home black?
Yes. Further down the article, another Black man’s case in that county is also described. The Columbus police chief agreed to step down (to the position of deputy police chief).
A separate Franklin County autopsy report was released in December on the police killing of Andre Hill, 47, an unarmed Black man. Shortly after responding to a noise disturbance call on Dec. 22, Columbus, Ohio, police officer Adam Coy fatally shot Hill as he emerged from inside a garage holding a cell phone.
Coy, a 19-year veteran of the force, was fired the same month for not turning on his body camera and not rendering aid to Hill as he lay dying. Police hearing officers said he also failed to use trained techniques to de-escalate the situation.
Coy also had a history of complaints of excessive force, The Dispatch previously reported.
Ginther supported the decision to fire Coy.
Last month Coy was charged with murder in the Hill shooting.
re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Kilgore Trout would do well in Taiwan
I went to college with a guy named Brook Trout. At the reunion, he was carrying a young girl whose name tag said “Rainbow.”
re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
More The Onion
New Abortion Law Would Force Women To Leave Choice Up To High Stakes Wheel Of Destiny
I thought they would just go visit the Abortionplex that GOP Congressman John Fleming fell for in 2012.
Meanwhile in dicks for bosses:
March 17 (UPI) — A Georgia man who was expecting his final paycheck from a former employer said the money instead arrived in the form of 500 pounds of oil-covered pennies dumped in his driveway in the middle of the night.
Andreas Flaten said he submitted his two-weeks notice in writing in November, and Miles Walker, the owner of Walker Luxury Autoworks in Peachtree City, had a noticeable negative reaction.
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Last paycheck from ex-employer shows up as oil-covered pennies (UPI)
Flaten, who said he left the job due to a toxic work environment, said he was still owed $915, which the owner told him would be delivered in January.
He said the owner accused him of damages when he called to inquire about the check not arriving at his home, so he contacted Georgia’s Department of Labor.
Flaten said the money then showed up — as 500 pounds of oil-covered pennies that were dumped in his driveway in the middle of the night.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
as I understand, any payment made in pennies of more than 99 cents has to be in the form of signed coin rolls or it can be rejected.
North Korea has severed diplomatic ties with Malaysia, abruptly shutting down a once-close relationship that took a major downturn following the shock assassination of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother in a Kuala Lumpur airport four years agohttps://t.co/aZt7naxIUW pic.twitter.com/HlhleB9BUx
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 19, 2021
re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
as I understand, any payment made in pennies of more than 99 cents has to be in the form of signed coin rolls or it can be rejected.
My banks will not accept coin rolls; they will only accept loose coins which they can put through their coin counters.
I suppose that makes sense for a bank: The last time I took my coin bank in to deposit the money, it spit out several Canadian coins and a couple Euro coins. It turns out that banks in Nebraska don’t like those.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Meanwhile in dicks for bosses:
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Last paycheck from ex-employer shows up as oil-covered pennies (UPI)
This is the sort of pettiness we’ve come to accept as “normal” from employers in America:
Walker said he couldn’t recall if he dumped the pennies at Flaten’s house.
“It doesn’t matter, he got paid, that’s all that matters,” Walker said.
First he tried to withhold the last paycheck, then he tried to claim damages in order to avoid paying out, and now that the DoL is involved he decides to act in the pettiest and yet technically legal way possible. Think about how much effort he put into this just to fuck over a former employee:
- He probably had to clean out at least one bank of over 900 rolls of pennies
- He had to take the time to douse the whole lot in oil
- He then had to transport the entire oily mass to the man’s driveway just to dump it and run
I think we can conclude with a great deal of confidence that calling this workplace “toxic” is an understatement. If your boss is that much of an asshole that he’d expend that level of effort just to spite you for putting in two weeks notice, there’s no telling what he puts the people still working for him through on a daily basis.
“Unfortunately, your card has your full name and birthday on it, as well as information about where you got your vaccine,” said the BBB in a news release. “If your social media privacy settings aren’t set high, you may be giving valuable information away for anyone to use.”
Another issue with sharing your vaccination card on social media is that it makes it easier for scammers to create imitation cards that they can sell, like some did in Great Britain, according to BBB, a non-proft that works to expose fraud and provide information to consumers.
Instead of posting the vaccination card, you can share you vaccine sticker instead, the BBB suggests, and review your social media settings to make sure you know who can see your information.
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re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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People are really that stupid, and something about Social Media just makes ‘em stupider…
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Meanwhile in dicks for bosses:
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Last paycheck from ex-employer shows up as oil-covered pennies (UPI)
Can he not demand that the boss clean the pennies? Nobody is required to accept oil as payment unless you are a commodities trader…
The positivity rate for Covid-19 continues to decrease in the Panhandle, from the high of 64.4% on November 1 to 14.0% on March 7.
Women and girls are still two-thirds of cases here.
The risk of spread is “moderate.” The same three communities are at “no risk” (though we had three deaths in my town). Gordon, Kimball, Sidney, Gering, Scottsbluff, and Hemingford are at “high risk.”
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Can he not demand that the boss clean the pennies? Nobody is required to accept oil as payment unless you are a commodities trader…
I suppose he could make another complaint to the Department of Labor about that (or maybe the EPA over improper disposal of motor oil).
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, a federal energy board is weighing how a proposed natural gas pipeline would affect greenhouse gas emissions, one of several steps taken this week by the Biden administration in its effort to slow climate change.
With a new Democratic chair at the helm, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted 3-2 to approve a pipeline operator’s request to replace 87 miles of natural gas pipelines in South Dakota and Nebraska, finding that the project’s climate-warming carbon emissions would not be significant.
The ruling marked the first time the commission has formally assessed a pipeline’s greenhouse gas emissions and their expected contribution to climate change, a reversal of policies pursued under Republican chairs appointed by former President Donald Trump.
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In a first, US pipeline agency weighs climate change impacts (Rapid City, SD Journal)
Unintended consequences of Windows Exchange updates:
Microsoft security patch locks out Prime Minister’s Office from using email (Windsor, Ont. Star)
The Prime Minister’s Office was not affected by this month’s global hack of Microsoft’s Exchange email software — but it did suffer when a security patch was installed.
The security update installed to guard against the vulnerability revealed by Microsoft locked out users in several departments, including in the PMO, says Shared Services Canada, the department responsible for the federal government’s IT services.
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I’ll bet when the Government of Canada calls Microsoft tech help, they don’t have to go through an endless phone tree and the entire back catalogue of Musak whilst on hold.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In a first, US pipeline agency weighs climate change impacts (Rapid City, SD Journal)
wasn’t that sort of reporting forbidden under Trump?
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Unintended consequences of Windows Exchange updates:
Microsoft security patch locks out Prime Minister’s Office from using email (Windsor, Ont. Star)
“Have you tried switching your country off and then switching it back on again?”
re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
wasn’t that sort of reporting forbidden under Trump?
Yes, including removing the page about climate change from the EPA Website. That page has been restored by the Biden Administration.
At the beginning of Trump’s maladministration, there was concern Trump would have all US government computer systems erased of all climate research. Scientists around the world with access to US government computers organised to download all the information to save the database from destruction.
I’m off to bed, so here’s a bunch of pictures of other people’s babies in the Grand Island, Nebr. Independent.
Most popular baby names in every state
Here’s a look at the most popular names in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C., according to their 2018 Social Security Administration, rankings.
Here they are:
- #1. Olivia (for girls, 128 babies born); Liam (for boys, 127 babies born)
- #2. Emma (for girls, 124 babies born); Henry (for boys, 122 babies born)
- #3. Evelyn (for girls, 114 babies born); Oliver (for boys, 119 babies born)
- #4. Charlotte (for girls, 109 babies born); William (for boys, 104 babies born)
- #5. Harper (for girls, 103 babies born); Jack (for boys, 98 babies born)
re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I went to high school in Kaiserslautern. FWIW
re: #56 dharmamark
I went to high school in Kaiserslautern. FWIW
K-Town
The Germans made fun of how we abbreviated that name.
When they did, I would remind them that Mainz was once called Moguntiacum, Koblenz was once Confluentes, Aachen was Aqua granae and Köln was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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now think about the identity theft possibilities if Georgia absentee voters have to include 2 copies of their driver’s license with the ballot…
re: #58 sagehen
now think about the identity theft possibilities if Georgia absentee voters have to include 2 copies of their driver’s license with the ballot…
Identity theft was not a consideration, just theft of the right to vote…
US @StateDept @SecBlinken issued a press release voicing strong #US opposition to #NordStream2.
Blinker warns firms to “immediately abandon work” on this “Russian geopolitical project” or face sanctions.
As it should be. pic.twitter.com/YZDjxtBSk5— ArianaGic/Аріянॳць (@GicAriana) March 18, 2021
Looks like this corrupt turd of a project may be swirling the drain. The Greens, who just picked up some regional seats, have pledged to kill it if they can. That’s likely the reason why Putin and his minions are looking a little more agitated than usual, and not because Biden won’t be his friend.
re: #60 ericblair
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Looks like this corrupt turd of a project may be swirling the drain. The Greens, who just picked up some regional seats, have pledged to kill it if they can. That’s likely the reason why Putin and his minions are looking a little more agitated than usual, and not because Biden won’t be his friend.
Germany needs Russian gas to heat homes and power their industry. Nord Stream II will provide enough gas to keep the lights on, doubling the capacity of the existing Nord stream 1 pipeline. Germany’s alternative is to burn more dirty lignite which they’re thinking of stopping completely in a few decades time, maybe. They’re losing about 5% of their non-carbon electricity generation soon with their last nuclear power plant being shut down in 2023 and they need to replace that capacity quick.
Nord Stream 2 will also improve the supply of gas to a number of other countries in western Europe, something that will be increasingly important for backstop generation of electricity as more and more intermittent renewables are deployed across the continent. The alternative would be to tanker in LPG and LNG from countries with a surplus like, say, the US but pipelines are a lot cheaper and greener than large ships for transporting stuff like gas.
re: #61 Nojay UK
Germany needs Russian gas to heat homes and power their industry. Nord Stream II will provide enough gas to keep the lights on, doubling the capacity of the existing Nord stream 1 pipeline. Germany’s alternative is to burn more dirty lignite which they’re thinking of stopping completely in a few decades time, maybe. They’re losing about 5% of their non-carbon electricity generation soon with their last nuclear power plant being shut down in 2023 and they need to replace that capacity quick.
The point of Nord Stream was to shut Poland, Ukraine and Belarus out of the negotiations for transit rights. That is what is behind most of the objections on our part, it gives Russia too much leverage.
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
K-Town
The Germans made fun of how we abbreviated that name.
When they did, I would remind them that Mainz was once called Moguntiacum, Koblenz was once Confluentes, Aachen was Aqua granae and Köln was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.
FWIW, Czechs really don’t like it when the former German names for towns here are used….for example Zwittau (for Svitavý), Carlsbad (for Karlovy Varý), Brünn (for Brno), Krummau (for Český Krumlov), etc., etc.
re: #63 Dr Lizardo
FWIW, Czechs really don’t like it when the former German names for towns here are used….for example Zwittau (for Svitavý), Carlsbad (for Karlovy Varý), Brünn (for Brno), Krummau (for Český Krumlov), etc., etc.
Laibach!
re: #39 sagehen
I went to college with a guy named Brook Trout. At the reunion, he was carrying a young girl whose name tag said “Rainbow.”
I went to high school with someone named Robin Hood.
re: #15 boredtechindenver
okay, so the NYC studio kitchen toilet is not the only example:
LOL! The “large closet” couldn’t have maybe incorporated…I don’t know…room for a shitter?
re: #66 steve_davis
LOL! The “large closet” couldn’t have maybe incorporated…I don’t know…room for a shitter?
They call it a “Frankfurter Bath” here in Germany, it harkens back to a time after the war (Frankfurt, like many major cities, was up to 70% destroyed) when people were reconverting any available space into apartments and one often found a bathtub, shower or toilet right in the living room or kitchen because of space or other constraints.
re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The point of Nord Stream was to shut Poland, Ukraine and Belarus out of the negotiations for transit rights. That is what is behind most of the objections on our part, it gives Russia too much leverage.
Ukraine represents a problem for Russian gas supplies to the West — they rely themselves on burning Russian gas especially in winter and they’ve been accused of not paying for the gas they did use. The only sanction the Russians could impose on Ukraine would be to turn off the taps and then Western Europe starts to freeze and the old Operation Barbarossa plans for an armoured push to Moscow get taken out and dusted off…
The British North Sea gas fields are seriously depleted and the “magic money” Groningen gas field in the Netherlands is also petering out while the demand for gas, as a replacement for lignite and coal as well as increasing electricity demand generally across the Continent and that’s not including the flood of electric vehicles still to come. All that’s left natively in Western Europe are the Norwegian North Sea gas fields and fracking which no-one wants to do until they absolutely have to, to avoid freezing to death in the dark (see Texas of recent history).
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Meanwhile in dicks for bosses:
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Last paycheck from ex-employer shows up as oil-covered pennies (UPI)
Unless they showed up with a note indicating where they were from, he’s still owed that 500 dollars. Oh, and pretty sure pennies are not considered legal tender for more than making change anymore. My bank will take penny rolls, but pretty sure I can’t drop 10 penny rolls in a grocery store for a check-out.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Nobody sees anything on my facebook page except friends. Never understood why one would do otherwise.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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When I got my shots that was brought up during our 15 minutes post shot observation in the auditorium. They warned people against posting pics of the card online.
re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It just highlights the standard stylistic elements that they slap on with a trowel to market a particular product.
Very true. Seeing in the Czech news here that Hamburg is going back into lockdown.
So the courts have thrown out all of Donald Trump’s election challenges and the USPS has found no evidence of mail ballot fraud…how much will it take for Trump’s enablers to finally drop the “big lie” of a stolen election? https://t.co/QTQj2EKHLt
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) March 19, 2021
Election fraud is a different story, and we’ve got proof of it with Trump interfering in the election certification process in multiple states, Graham interfering in at least one state, and various GOP schemes to run shill candidates to throw election results.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) March 19, 2021
re: #75 lawhawk
I was gonna say they’ll never admit it was all bullshit because now, it’s GOP gospel truth that whenever they lose, it was because of fraud.
re: #76 Dr Lizardo
I was gonna say they’ll never admit it was all bullshit because now, it’s GOP gospel truth that whenever they lose, it was because of fraud.
Trump was saying that crap as far back as 2017. He was laying groundwork for the attempt to overthrow the government even then. The GOP considers all elections they lose to be suspect because they don’t consider those voting against them legit.
Getting rid of the filibuster is the right and just thing to do.
What’s McConnell and the obstructionist GOP going to do? Obstruct? Yeah, we’re already seeing that, and they obstructed when they were in the majority.
Don’t let McConnell’s threats stop progress. Get this done.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) March 19, 2021
re: #75 lawhawk
So the courts have thrown out all of Donald Trump’s election challenges and the USPS has found no evidence of mail ballot fraud…how much will it take for Trump’s enablers to finally drop the “big lie” of a stolen election?
Trump’s entire business plan involves him being the President-in-Exile calling for justice. And the GOP states are going along to make sure that 2020 does not repeat itself.
re: #74 Dr Lizardo
Very true. Seeing in the Czech news here that Hamburg is going back into lockdown.
BBC says that Paris is also locking down again.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Time for Canada, U.S. to get serious about how, when to reopen border, experts say (CTV)
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The monied people continue to be stupid.
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re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
BBC says that Paris is also locking down again.
re: #82 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I should add that I’m in a border town. We are in lockdown due to high case numbers. One of the worst in the province at the moment. Are we getting vaccines? Way less than the other towns who have way less in cases, so much so that our mayor wrote a nastygram to our premier.
But sure, we want to open the border.
Morons everywhere.
re: #83 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
NYC metro is experiencing a surge in cases, but Cuomo, Lamont, and Murphy are all pushing to reopen faster and sooner than health experts would recommend.
At this point, it’s a political decision, not a public health one. Cuomo’s political precariousness is driving his decisions, while Lamont and Murphy are also making a political calculation to reopen to get revenue flowing and businesses booming again.
It’s a recipe for disaster as we are still not getting enough people vaccinated despite the promising numbers so far.
re: #84 lawhawk
NYC metro is experiencing a surge in cases, but Cuomo, Lamont, and Murphy are all pushing to reopen faster and sooner than health experts would recommend.
At this point, it’s a political decision, not a public health one. Cuomo’s political precariousness is driving his decisions, while Lamont and Murphy are also making a political calculation to reopen to get revenue flowing and businesses booming again.
It’s a recipe for disaster as we are still not getting enough people vaccinated despite the promising numbers so far.
Probably looking at all the good press DeSadist is getting in Florida.
re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People are really that stupid, and something about Social Media just makes ‘em stupider…
In this case it’s not stupidity, just joy at getting the vaccine running into the fact that there are criminals.
re: #86 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Probably looking at all the good press DeSadist is getting in Florida.
He is the Hero of the Spring Break crowd…
re: #87 Belafon
In this case it’s not stupidity, just joy at getting the vaccine running into the fact that there are criminals.
failing to understand how social media work. I post nothing on FB unless I am fine with the notion that the whole world can see it…
re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is the Hero of
the Spring Breakthe dumbass crowd…
FIFY
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
FIFY
much overlap there, but the Spring Break crowd tend to skew upper middle-class and above, making it the demographic they are going for
Good morning Lizards:
Texas museum removes wax Trump figure after visitors kept punching it https://t.co/DoObxOS96p pic.twitter.com/kHbRcuovxU
— The Hill (@thehill) March 19, 2021
re: #92 b.d. (America is Great Again)
I’ve seen this numerous times and it never doesn’t put a huge smile on my face.
I hope to see this every day for a long time.
Pew poll: 69% of Americans said it is important to prosecute the Capitol rioters.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 18, 2021
Two of the most controversial cutbacks to voting in Georgia appear to be no more. (for now)
The Senate’s push to end no-excuse absentee ballots hasn’t resurfaced after GOP leadership opposition.
And now a House committee is poised to actually *expand* early voting days/hours. https://t.co/3t1U0bOcuE— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) March 18, 2021
re: #96 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Whiplash.
I wonder what happened.
Someone remembered that GOPers vote by mail too, and older white people want to be able to vote easier too. If those reliable GOP votes don’t show up, GOP loses.
re: #97 lawhawk
Someone remembered that GOPers vote by mail too, and older white people want to be able to vote easier too. If those reliable GOP votes don’t show up, GOP loses.
That seems much more self-aware than the GOP has, in recent years, shown any such ability.
Couple this story with yesterday’s about the 26+ civil suits and criminal exposure he’s under a mere 2 months out of office
What a consummate professional
What an effective team builder and leader
What a guy
Ah fuck him. An idiot who ruined everything he touched
Ettd
“Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta will be out June 29 with Nightmare Scenario, a scoopy narrative of President Trump’s chaotic response to the pandemic,” Axios reports.
The book will “reveal the numerous times officials tried to dissuade Trump from following his worst impulses… And they show how the petty backstabbing and rivalries amongst cabinet members, staff, and aides, created a toxic cycle of blame, sycophancy, and political pressure
These people…
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) blocked an attempt by Democrats to bring up a bill that would stop debt collectors from garnishing stimulus checks, a provision which had previously been deemed ineligible under budget reconciliation rules, the Huffington Post reports.
However, Toomey and the vast majority of Senate Republicans voted in favor of such a provision in the previous Covid relief that passed in December
This is true! Hitler, in attire that left little to the imagination, danced very suggestively with Goebbels to their joint hit about genital dampness MULTIPLE TIMES. https://t.co/fRDXfTLajm
— Peter Coffin (@petercoffin) March 19, 2021
Now here’s a bluff:
This is exactly why it should be the minimum reform that Dems make. Make Graham, Cruz, Hawley walk in the exact shoes of Strom Thurmond. https://t.co/VNYzRfBchN
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) March 18, 2021
a southern senator talking on the senate floor forever to defeat voting rights legislation would be a tremendous feather in the cap for people that assert the country hasn’t changed as much as it likes to pretend it has. https://t.co/QztNJJKHJq
— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) March 18, 2021
re: #102 DodgerFan1988
It’s certainly well-known that Hitler and Goebbels were masters of the bump and grind at Babylon nightclub.
re: #103 Belafon
Challenge accepted. Make these dumbasses talk on the subject at hand. Any deviation ends debate. It’s clear that they don’t have facts, law, or reality on their side, and continue to stand as obstructionists who don’t care what happens to Americans so long as their millionaire/billionaire backers make their coinage.
Aw man it would really stink for these pharma companies if the US government exercised its march-in rights under 35 U.S.C. §203. That would really suck for them https://t.co/0zEB4qyVqU
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) March 19, 2021
On January 20, just over 14 million people had had at least one shot of vaccine in this country. Today we’re at 116 million.
Reposting from yesterday because it makes me happy.
100 million shots in arms in 100 days he said. It took him 58. President Biden gets an eargasm for that. pic.twitter.com/9ytwBxlKPi
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 18, 2021
BREAKING: Biden administration eyes mid-May to begin relaxing Covid travel restrictions, sources say https://t.co/0F4qfaTvy6
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 18, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Brazilian President @LulaOficial tells me he is urging President Biden to call a G20 meeting to ensure proper vaccine distribution worldwide: “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine!” He adds: “I couldn’t ask that [of] Trump, but Biden is a breath for democracy in the world.” pic.twitter.com/AzVr59MaFw
— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) March 17, 2021
re: #103 Belafon
It will also point out to everyone that the Republican party has taken over the role of segregationists.
Fox and the right wing are openly backing Putin. They make no secret of it. They’re supporting the authoritarian Putin over President Biden.
They didn’t care Trump was a #putinpuppet either. They saw that as a feature, not a bug.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) March 19, 2021
GOP are all in on Putin. They may be patriots, but not for the US. They’re backing our rivals and the Russian efforts to diminish and undermine our democracy to benefit what’s essentially an overpowered 3d world nation (a nation with a crap ton of nukes but a creaky economy).
Russia’s GDP is smaller than NY, TX, or CA. That’s despite a population that is 145 million. That’s as compared to CA population of 39,512,223 or NY 19,453,561.
In per capita terms, Russia is at 11,162, while NY is over 90,000 and CA is over 80,000.
Russia is actually below the world average.
One of my friends posted the picture of the youth pastor at Crabapple First Baptist Church on her Twitter. Now he (and another of my friends, for retweeting) is being attacked for doing so.
I am all for examining teachings that could have contributed to this, such as “purity” culture, etc. But this is going too far. Let the authorities conduct the investigation and don’t promote going after people who may not be involved when we don’t have the facts.
— Sassy Kat - raising Sassy Goats an Sassy Chooks (@katthe7th) March 19, 2021
more behind the button
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I’m of the opinion that if you’re promoting yourself on the Internet, then you’ve given permission for people to share your information around when one of your charges shoots up three massage parlors and kills 8 people.
108 years ago, in the October light of 1912, this stunningly evocative portrait was taken in Nottinghamshire of a young girl named Audrey Green, which I have restored for you today. It was taken by budding amateur photographer Stephen Pegler & is original colour (not colourised). pic.twitter.com/CuTr51hbrb
— BabelColour 🎞 (@StuartHumphryes) September 12, 2020
According to links posted in the string, Audrey lived from 1900 to 1991. Her great niece is among the commenters.
So Mnuchin’s wife is doing porn already?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 19, 2021
Louise Linton, the wife of Steven Mnuchin (former US Secretary of the Treasury), made a movie called #MeYouMadness.
SO MUCH CRINGE pic.twitter.com/X6tirWUoZ9— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) March 19, 2021
Defendant Jennifer Heinl, the feds say, lied to the FBI about entering the Capitol.
Her husband, per to this local news report, is a detective with the Shaler Police Department and “a member of the FBI’s violent crime task force unit in Pittsburgh.” https://t.co/4W3yncrWaO pic.twitter.com/GeaBdzXuFK— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) March 19, 2021
The affidavit against the wife of a member of the FBI Pittsburgh Division’s violent crimes task force unit was written by a FBI special agent on the FBI Pittsburgh Division’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. https://t.co/QmRcOUrgKA pic.twitter.com/sDBhhCQvSR
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) March 19, 2021
re: #45 Targetpractice
This is the sort of pettiness we’ve come to accept as “normal” from employers in America:
- He probably had to clean out at least one bank of over 900 rolls of pennies
- He had to take the time to douse the whole lot in oil
- He then had to transport the entire oily mass to the man’s driveway just to dump it and run
No, he had to plan this, because your average bank branch *might* have 900 rolls of pennies on hand for ALL customers, but not for one customer. The branch would have had to order those pennies in.
The owner of Walker Luxury Autoworks is an asshat!
re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth
She shouldn’t have lied to the FBI. People go to jail for that you know.
re: #118 darthstar
She shouldn’t have lied to the FBI. People go to jail for that you know.
Especially since Trump is no longer available to pardon you for perjury.
re: #118 darthstar
She shouldn’t have lied to the FBI. People go to jail for that you know.
Unless their pal in the White House pardons them…OOPS there’s a new guy in the White House who isn’t gonna put up with their ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream!
re: #119 Hecuba’s daughter
Especially since Trump is no longer available to pardon you for perjury.
She wouldn’t qualify. She doesn’t have anything on him and she’s not a megadonor. No pardon for you.
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You’re really not very good at this are you?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 19, 2021
With over 40 million Americans now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, it’s no secret that the shots can lead to unpleasant side effects such as fever, headache, body aches and fatigue. But while initial research suggested that individuals were more likely to experience these symptoms after the second dose, experts now say that those who previously had COVID-19 — whether knowingly or not — may end up reacting more strongly to the first dose.
One study released in early February from Bar-Ilan University in Israel found that the immune response created after the first dose of vaccine in those who previously had COVID-19 was “so effective” that it “opens the debate as to whether one dose of the vaccine may suffice.” Another study published in the Lancet found a 140-fold increase in antibodies after the first vaccine among those who had previously had a COVID-19 infection versus those who hadn’t.
re: #121 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
She wouldn’t qualify. She doesn’t have anything on him and she’s not a megadonor. No pardon for you.
Joe Arpaio was pardoned. Of course that may also have been because Trump pardoned people who commit evil acts which he approves, especially those that involve harming people of color or Muslims.
re: #125 Hecuba’s daughter
Joe Arpaio was pardoned. Of course that may also have been because Trump pardoned people who commit evil acts which he approves, especially those that involve harming people of color or Muslims.
Old, white, male asshole. Totally Trump’s favorite brand of asshole.
re: #123 darthstar
In a nation of 330 million, the GOP is kvetching because a few thousand nonwhites are somehow going to overwhelm the nation, which remains predominantly white.
GOP racism, xenophobia, and bigotry shines through at every opportunity. This isn’t about safety or security, because the Trump wall didn’t stop people scaling, cutting, or tunneling beneath the border. It doesn’t stop anyone overstaying visas, and doesn’t cut down on the wait times for naturalization or visas or asylum cases. That’s where the crisis is - because the GOP doesn’t prioritize clearing the backlogs and getting a rationalized immigration policy.
re: #128 lawhawk
McCarthy has decided immigration will be his wedge issue to go after President Biden. The problem though, is that people already know immigration is a mess and they’re going to give Biden time to fix it. So he can make noise and do photo ops but it isn’t going to make a scratch.
Trump’s only been gone 58 days and you’re already making Putin the figurehead of the @GOP? Nice patriotism you got there, dipshit.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 19, 2021
I took today off from the temple of capitalism. It’s been A WEEK. More behind the button.
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re: #128 lawhawk
In a nation of 330 million, the GOP is kvetching because a few thousand nonwhites are somehow going to overwhelm the nation, which remains predominantly white.
US industry, agriculture and construction needs a steady supply of cheap below-minimum-wage off-the-books labour to thrive and survive. The people in that picture aren’t criminals, they’re budding hotel room maids, roofing contractor labourers, agricultural field hands and kitchen staff at Mar-a-Lago and other whitebread country clubs. Think of them as self-employed slave labour who actually want to be in the US and I don’t think you’re far off the mark.
Fox News has been talking about Putin challenging Biden to a debate for a day — and they’re rooting for Putin pic.twitter.com/EtKVNekMuw
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 19, 2021
They’re rooting for Putin pic.twitter.com/WcNjxcFkLR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 19, 2021
Lauren Boebert is now downplaying a violent coup attempt as “petitioning your government” https://t.co/x4K0Oa86wl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 19, 2021
re: #132 Nojay UK
There’s also the fact that “tightening the border” ended up creating an entire class of “criminals” who were doing jobs in the US but returning to Mexico seasonally. These migrants got trapped on one side of the border or the other, but needed to travel between both to do the work and repatriate money and see family back home.
Instead of a revolving door, it became a trap door. Security hasn’t measurably improved with the wall, as anyone determined enough to cross the border can do so. Terrorists aren’t getting caught at the Mexico border; you’re more likely to waltz in from Canada. Or come ashore evading Coast Guard on the way in.
But it’s easy to demonize the nonwhites coming here seeking a better life for themselves. It’s easy for GOPers to convince their predominantly white base that the reason that their lives are in jeopardy, their jobs are being lost, is because of a tidal wave of nonwhites coming here, when the reality is far more complex - like automation causing job losses across all industries. What once took 100s of people to mine a coal seam can now take a handful with all kinds of technologies. Efficiencies are the name of the game, and that drives people out of jobs.
re: #111 lawhawk
GOP are all in on Putin. They may be patriots, but not for the US. They’re backing our rivals and the Russian efforts to diminish and undermine our democracy to benefit what’s essentially an overpowered 3d world nation (a nation with a crap ton of nukes but a creaky economy).
Russia’s GDP is smaller than NY, TX, or CA. That’s despite a population that is 145 million. That’s as compared to CA population of 39,512,223 or NY 19,453,561.
In per capita terms, Russia is at 11,162, while NY is over 90,000 and CA is over 80,000.
Russia is actually below the world average.
Irony abounds in our Republican’s Putin-love-fest. Russian Nationalists like Putin are NOT white supremacists- they are specifically Russian Supremacists who elevate the Russian ethnicity separate, implicitly above everyone else and the “Russian Soul”. American White Nationalists naively crave Russian alliance thinking they are on the same side- they are not. Russian Nationalists are much more specific and think more long-term. The true irony is that Russian long term goals are to weaken the US while American Republicans preach American Exceptionalism and (White American) superiority.
re: #132 Nojay UK
US industry, agriculture and construction needs a steady supply of cheap below-minimum-wage off-the-books labour to thrive and survive.
They need the workforce, but they also need to make sure that the legal situation is so patchwork, impenetrable and contradictory as to make them easily exploited and unable/unwilling to report any abuses or exploitation.
re: #137 lawhawk
What once took 100s of people to mine a coal seam can now take a handful with all kinds of technologies. Efficiencies are the name of the game, and that drives people out of jobs.
Cleaning a hotel room can’t easily be automated, it takes a fixed time by a human being to do it to an acceptable standard so the base cost is similarly fixed. This is true for most low-wage jobs like picking certain types of agricultural produce or reroofing a McMansion. No-one wants to pay union rates for that sort of work, never mind even minimum wage so cheap labour it is. Since most Americans won’t sweat ten hours a day in a Colorado summer bending over to pick strawberries or nail shingles to a roof in a Massachussets winter for seventy bucks a day cash-in-hand you really really need those caravans of willing quasi-slaves crossing the border to do those jobs for you.
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lauren Boebert is now downplaying a violent coup attempt as “petitioning your government”
Does the 1A not ensure the right to illegally assemble & violently protest to petition for the redress of perceived grievances?
re: #141 Nojay UK
The pandemic is also changing travel/tourism, with housekeeping doing single cleaning before/after someone stays, and not going into rooms while the same customer is in the room. That reduces costs all the way around since there’s less laundry and turnover of rooms. Expect to see that become the norm as travel rebounds to normal.
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So I should petition her to quit being a fucking idiot by storming her office, threating to kill her and trashing the fucking place. Well I’m off to pack my bags …
re: #143 Eventual Carrion
And I hope Biden’s answer to that shitstain is “Fuck Putin”.
I heard somewhere that the GOP was calling Biden a coward for not debating Putin, or saying that he was afraid because of his dementia or his speaking disability or “he might fall asleep on the stage” - you know, all the tired old Biden memes we’ve seen from these asshats over the last two months. And they call themselves patriots. Apparently that only applies when Republicans are in power, when Democrats are in power, it’s patriotic to shit on your country and leadership.
re: #106 lawhawk
Challenge accepted. Make these dumbasses talk on the subject at hand. Any deviation ends debate.
All legislatures should be run on the same rules at the BBC’s famous Just a Minute.
Speakers would be obliged to talk without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
“Hesitation” is watched very strictly: a momentary pause in speaking can give rise to a successful challenge, as can tripping over one’s words. Even pausing during audience laughter or applause (known as “riding a laugh”) can be challenged.
“Repetition” means the repetition of any word or phrase again and again, although challenges based upon very common words such as “and” are generally rejected except in extreme cases. Words contained in the given subject are now exempt unless repeated many times in quick succession, although this was a later addition to the rules. Skillful players use synonyms to avoid repeating themselves. Even letters may not be repeated; for example, the term “BBC” must be avoided, as it can be successfully challenged for repetition of “B”.
“Deviation” originally meant deviating from the given subject, but gradually evolved to also include “deviating from the English language as we know it”, “deviation from grammar as we understand it”, deviating from the truth, and deviating from logic. Nevertheless, leaps into the surreal are usually allowed.
Sigh. This is why we can’t have nice things.
🚨D.C. Circuit Judge Silberman just released a truly wild dissent calling on the Supreme Court to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, claiming NYT and WaPo are “virtually Democratic Party broadsheets,” and accusing “big tech” of censoring conservatives. https://t.co/NvFli5sEso pic.twitter.com/mTMklTlNfo
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 19, 2021
President Joe Biden trips climbing the stairs to Air Force 1 pic.twitter.com/x8UD7q0a48
— The Hill (@thehill) March 19, 2021
Expect Fox to Zapruder this video to no end.
re: #149 lawhawk
Expect Fox to Zapruder this video to no end.
I’ve done the same on my staircase here at the fishbowl, especially if I haven’t had my caffeine in the morning.
The extreme right wing of the Southern Baptist Convention, as encapsulated in Founders Ministries, is losing their shit over being called out on their racism. Jemar Tisby is Black, and he is no liberal, but he’s had quite enough.
This tweet from @JemarTisby is a lamentable distraction from the grievous murder that has taken place.@FoundersMin teaching on race and sex can be found here: https://t.co/Hi3LGs8R4D and here: https://t.co/PVe1BD7v2H
May God comfort the bereaved. https://t.co/tXRrSg6n5T— Jared Longshore (@JaredLongshore) March 18, 2021
Oh, and in other White Christian Nationalism news, the lead singer of Skillet, with the fashy haircut (not my observation), compared Cardi B to Hitler.
This is complete and utter garbage. Comparing Cardi B to Hitler is completely losing the plot. Hey #Evangelicals come get your guy, he’s crazy. https://t.co/49oQdfzKGe
— Dee *There are “Little Cults Everywhere”* Holmes (@mmmirele) March 19, 2021
re: #147 John Hughes
Of course, if we are talking about “the world’s greatest deliberative body” the rules for I’m Sorry, I haven’t a clue might be more appropriate. As we all know, points mean prizes.
re: #153 John Hughes
Of course, if we are talking about “the world’s greatest deliberative body” the rules for I’m Sorry, I haven’t a clue might be more appropriate. As we all know, points mean prizes.
The US Senate rulebook does seem a bit “Mornington Crescent” at times.
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
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if thats “petitioning” you’re gonna be in for a rude awakening
Lauren Boebert is now downplaying a violent coup attempt as “petitioning your government” https://t.co/x4K0Oa86wl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 19, 2021
My second jab also registered all the Microsoft products I bought over the years and couldn’t be bothered to finalize.
Convenient!— Arch (Jewish Space Laser Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) March 19, 2021
My next door neighbor’s daughter works at the capitol. She said their offices were trashed, floor boards torn up and feces was smeared on the walls.
Yah, that is petitioning the government.
but the seat is still lost!
When incumbent Democrat José Javier Rodríguez lost his Florida state senate seat to Republican challenger Ileana Garcia by just 32 votes in November, the losing party and investigators began asking questions about a suspicious third candidate,” the Washington Post reports.
“Now, the mysterious candidate and a former Republican state senator are facing felony charges for crimes stemming from a plot to ‘confuse voters and siphon votes from the incumbent,’ police said in an affidavit filed this week.”
re: #158 Dangerman
but the seat is still lost!
That’s my thought! If they’re going to charge these guys with election-related crimes, shouldn’t there be, y’know, some sort of remedy?
re: #157 A Cranky One
My next door neighbor’s daughter works at the capitol. She said their offices were trashed, floor boards torn up and feces was smeared on the walls.
Yah, that is petitioning the government.
your “petitioning” mob killed a cop.
Fin.
UPDATE: Medical Examiner’s Office has released the names of the 4 women killed in shootings at two Atlanta spas:
Soon C. Park, 74
Hyun J. Grant, 51
Suncha Kim, 69
Yong A. Yue, 63https://t.co/wSnpxnH6FF— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 19, 2021
#MarjorieTraitorGreene has been suspended from Twitter.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 19, 2021
re: #162 lawhawk
Marjorie Traitor Greene has been suspended from Twitter.
go around equating armed sedition with peaceful protest and petitioning of grievances and that is what you get…
re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
go around equating armed sedition with peaceful protest and petitioning of grievances and that is what you get…
I realize it’s sometimes hard to tell your wingnut GOPers apart without a program, but wasn’t it Lauren Boebert (R-Gunland) who blathered away about “petitioning”, not Greene?
Also: is it actually the Congresswoman booted from Twitter, or is it a “MarjorieTraitorGreene” account?
re: #161 The Pie Overlord!
Yet Andy Ngo is trying to slur them as “sex workers”. As if it matters what they did for a living.
re: #167 Jay C
I realize it’s sometimes hard to tell your wingnut GOPers apart with a program, but wasn’t it Lauren Boebert (R-Gunland) who blathered away about “petitioning”, not Greene?
Also: is it actually the Congresswoman booted from Twitter, or is it a “MarjorieTraitorGreene” account?
Yep, just scrolled upthread, it was Boebert. So many morons, they all look and sound alike.
re: #168 Patricia Kayden
Yet Andy Ngo is trying to slur them as “sex workers”. As if it matters what they did for a living.
ah yes, slut shaming…foul temptresses and all.
re: #167 Jay C
I realize it’s sometimes hard to tell your wingnut GOPers apart without a program, but wasn’t it Lauren Boebert (R-Gunland) who blathered away about “petitioning”, not Greene?
Also: is it actually the Congresswoman booted from Twitter, or is it a “MarjorieTraitorGreene” account?
Was MTG going on about how she did not even know the Rothschilds were Jewish?
Somebody play her a copy of Adam Sandler’s Channukah Song.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This has bugged the shit out of me since this happened.
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
Four people were killed including one police officer who was murdered. What petitioning took place? They broke into the Capitol shouting violent slogans against our Representatives.
re: #172 A Mom Anon
This has bugged the shit out of me since this happened.
It started with the way they immediately dismissed the racial aspect and concentrated on the “sex addiction” angle
despite reports from people who spoke with people present at the shootings and despite Twitter posts from the shooter blaming China for America’s woes…
re: #148 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Sigh. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Every single right wing outrage, from shit’s secular to big tech to liberal media to college bias…except for Fox News and far right wing books all is lost for conservatives.
Unreal. From a fucking judge no less. Unfuckingreal
re: #131 mmmirele
I took today off from the temple of capitalism. It’s been A WEEK. More behind the button.
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What did she say?
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Who wants to bet that Congress will not?— Agolf Twitler Slayer (@bblock29) March 19, 2021
re: #175 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Every single right wing outrage, from shit’s secular to big tech to liberal media to college bias…except for Fox News and far right wing books all is lost for conservatives.
Unreal. From a fucking judge no less. Unfuckingreal
He’s a Reagan appointee, and apparently this is not the first time he’s been on the record saying completely stupid shit. I understand the principle behind setting a high bar for removing lifetime appointees and elected officials, but part of me insists there’s got to be a way we can work out an exception for “this fucker is clearly too stupid/deranged/senile/evil to be allowed to continue to serve, so we can lower the bar.”
re: #178 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
He’s a Reagan appointee, and apparently this is not the first time he’s been on the record saying completely stupid shit. I understand the principle behind setting a high bar for removing lifetime appointees and elected officials, but part of me insists there’s got to be a way we can work out an exception for “this fucker is clearly too stupid/deranged/senile/evil to be allowed to continue to serve, so we can lower the bar.”
If a stained blue dress can be grounds for impeachment so can being an asshole on the Federal bench.
re: #177 darthstar
What did she say?
This one is only 12 hours, but it’s a start. pic.twitter.com/40Boe2odyZ
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 19, 2021
re: #155 Dangerman
I’m sure that she would still feel the same way if someone assaulted her with that flag and trashed her office that it was just a constituent “petitioning” her.
When notoriously poor speller, Jar-Jar-Binks, is put in charge of traffic signs. pic.twitter.com/i36Lyd02vD
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) March 19, 2021
Putin has never debated anyone. If he was a real leader he’d debate navalny.
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) March 19, 2021
Is there any precedent for two heads of state holding a one-on-one debate?
re: #183 lawhawk
They argue that the whole world should be involved in electing the U.S. president.
I’d sooner say that the whole world should be involved in electing the Russian president, considering how much more of the world is in close proximity to Russia and is under their direct or indirect influence.
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is there any precedent for two heads of state holding a one-on-one debate?
I think Nixon debated Khrushchev back in the day, but Nixon was VP at the time.
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is there any precedent for two heads of state holding a one-on-one debate?
Nope. It generally involves the military.
I wouldn’t be opposed to world leaders having candid debates instead of starting wars, but I just don’t think there are enough world leaders who could approach such a situation calmly and rationally. If Trump had gone into a debate with, say, Angela Merkel, we probably would’ve nuked all of Western Europe.
re: #186 Dr Lizardo
I think Nixon debated Khrushchev back in the day, but Nixon was VP at the time.
I don’t think that was a formal event, just the two of them holding a discussion in a public place, the “Kitchen Debates”
re: #161 The Pie Overlord!
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Doesn’t the ages of these victims pretty much blow the whole “sexual frustration” and that this parlor was a front for prostitution excuse completely out of the water? It may come to the surprise of some folks but there are these types of businesses in the Asian community (as well as those offering acupuncture and other traditional therapies) that are 100% legal with licensed employees.
re: #183 lawhawk
The Russians, and our right-wing trash. It would be cool if our trash would self-deport to Russia. We could take some Russian LBGTQ people in exchange.
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I don’t think that was a formal event, just the two of them holding a discussion in a public place, the “Kitchen Debates”
Yeah, you’re right, it wasn’t a formal debate. Nonetheless, pretty interesting to see in any event.
re: #190 Orange Impostor
Doesn’t the ages of these victims pretty much blow the whole “sexual frustration” and that this parlor was a front for prostitution excuse completely out of the water? It may come to the surprise of some folks but there are these types of businesses in the Asian community (as well as those offering acupuncture and other traditional therapies) that are 100% legal with licensed employees.
It seems like at least the spa where a newly married husband lost his wife was a legit spa. You don’t take your wife to your rub & tug joint.
re: #190 Orange Impostor
Doesn’t the ages of these victims pretty much blow the whole “sexual frustration” and that this parlor was a front for prostitution excuse completely out of the water? It may come to the surprise of some folks but there are these types of businesses in the Asian community (as well as those offering acupuncture and other traditional therapies) that are 100% legal with licensed employees.
Which is also what the local authorities said, they were fully licensed establishments and were not the object of any particular police scrutiny or attention.
re: #183 lawhawk
That’s the response the White House should give.
re: #183 lawhawk
Putin doesn’t debate; he poisons.
Son of Atlanta Shooting Victim Calls ‘Bullshit’ on Sex Addiction Claim
I don’t blame him.
re: #198 🌹UOJB!
Son of Atlanta Shooting Victim Calls ‘Bullshit’ on Sex Addiction Claim
I don’t blame him.
There is a practical aspect for the shooter’s claims: he hopes that a “crime of passion/addiction” will be sentenced less harshly than a terrorist hate crime.
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