Shine Over Babylon
I am constantly praying for love to surface in every circumstance, particularly during these challenging times. ❤️
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Drums: Fred Eltringham
Keys: Jen Gunderman
Bass: Robert Kearns
Guitar: Audley Freed
Audio: Alberto Vaz
Video: Chris Hudson, Liz Porter and Cinematic Focus
Just read that a % of people are skipping 2nd vaccine bc they fear side effects. Reading Twitter one would think everyone gets side effects. So for a little balance, hubs & I have ~zero effects from 2nd Pfizer. He’s a little tired. I scrubbed the tub and made muffins today.
— Emily Galvin-Almanza (@GalvinAlmanza) April 25, 2021
Yup! In my case (House of Pfizer) I felt a bit more tired on days 2 and 3 after the second shot. Two naps and two good night sleeps and that was that.
I heard 2nd shot hesitancy was only 8%, which seems pretty good to me.
I’m looking forward to my 2nd shot on Thursday. I will probably get a little sick like I did with my 2nd Shingrix shot but oh well, it’s a modern miracle, I’m not gonna bitch about it.
re: #3 KingKenrod
I heard 2nd shot hesitancy was only 8%, which seems pretty good to me.
I’m looking forward to my 2nd shot on Thursday. I will probably get a little sick like I did with my 2nd Shingrix shot but oh well, it’s a modern miracle, I’m not gonna bitch about it.
If you have gotten the first shot, what’s the problem with the second?
A: Well, the other half of the Gates microchip gets inserted in the second dose;
B: It isn’t necessary because reasons;
C: I really, really want to wave my dick around and own the Libs.
re: #3 KingKenrod
I heard 2nd shot hesitancy was only 8%, which seems pretty good to me.
I’m looking forward to my 2nd shot on Thursday. I will probably get a little sick like I did with my 2nd Shingrix shot but oh well, it’s a modern miracle, I’m not gonna bitch about it.
My second Shingrix shot sat me down hard for a couple of days. Neither Pfizer shot so much as made me sleepy. So don’t expect it to be the same! Necessarily!
re: #3 KingKenrod
I heard 2nd shot hesitancy was only 8%, which seems pretty good to me.
I’m looking forward to my 2nd shot on Thursday. I will probably get a little sick like I did with my 2nd Shingrix shot but oh well, it’s a modern miracle, I’m not gonna bitch about it.
8% is still a few million people.
re: #3 KingKenrod
I heard 2nd shot hesitancy was only 8%, which seems pretty good to me.
I’m looking forward to my 2nd shot on Thursday. I will probably get a little sick like I did with my 2nd Shingrix shot but oh well, it’s a modern miracle, I’m not gonna bitch about it.
Fuck yeah it’s a modern miracle, we got a BUNCH of different vaccines, some of them using new technology, for a virus that was identified less than 18 months ago. And that’s despite The Former Guy. Now if we can just get these vaccines out to poorer countries, we can maybe smash this.
From downstairs:
re: #205 ckkatz
Very true!
Additionally, just having come out of the Great Depression, I suspect that folks were a little less attuned to commercialization.
Also, this was before Ayn Rand infected too many with her toxic philosophy.
Who lives there—Scott Baio, Jon Voight, or Ted Nugent?
This is something straight out of a @StephenKing movie 😳
pic.twitter.com/bfFIKK0vzF— M-A.StayFuckin’Legit🖕🇨🇦☘️🔥 (@BagdMilkSoWhat) April 25, 2021
So, a local newspaper ran an article on a podcast that ran on BBC a coupla years back, “A History of Delusions”, and some of the things in it mentioned in the newspaper article, that one of the solutions to dealing with delusions is to think slowly gave me some thoughts whether this could be a feasible way to deal with the delusions of our time, such as “Q”… It’s 13 episodes in total at about one hour each, but… Just a thought…
to be bluntly honest, getting tired of the same cletus safaris regarding anti-vaccers as I was of Trump voters.
If Florida wants to pass a law that makes it okay to run over protesters, I say we test it out on these people first. Otherwise they are the same idiots posing a health risk to remainder of those of us who are sane, just like your everyday GOP voter. Believing something that reinforces their preciously held biases, that somehow establishes them as being more “knowledgeable” in their own eyes as if there’s some secret that they are privy too… well privy is the right word, but not in the way that they would like us to think.
and while all this shit is going down, I still patiently await the DOJ to rein in these treasonous GOP bastards… it would be nice to see that move along a bit more quickly. I would have to admit to a certain anticipatory glee in seeing the Feds arrest certain members of the GOP for their actions during 1/6/21.
We know what will happen if a driver runs over a bunch of right to lifers blocking a Florida abortion clinic.
The Police will kill the driver on the spot.
re: #7 mmmirele
Fuck yeah it’s a modern miracle, we got a BUNCH of different vaccines, some of them using new technology, for a virus that was identified less than 18 months ago. And that’s despite The Former Guy. Now if we can just get these vaccines out to poorer countries, we can maybe smash this.
Yes, and the most effective shots with the least amount of side affects are the mRNA vaccines.
The research that led to the modern vaccines had genesis in response to the SARS Coronavirus back in the Obama era. A big chunk of research of Fed $’s were pointed at studying Corona viruses, where they discovered that attacking any virus might be more effectively be done not through DNA, but through RNA.
Hence the concentration on ribosomes in each cell, turning them into little virus killing machines.
re: #12 🌹UOJB!
We know what will happen if a driver runs over a bunch of right to lifers blocking a Florida abortion clinic.
The Police will kill the driver on the spot.
Of course. Highly selective enforcement of the “It’s OK to drive a car though a crowd of protestors” laws is certainly the plan.
re: #11 piratedan
and while all this shit is going down, I still patiently await the DOJ to rein in these treasonous GOP bastards… it would be nice to see that move along a bit more quickly. I would have to admit to a certain anticipatory glee in seeing the Feds arrest certain members of the GOP for their actions during 1/6/21.
What needs, to happen, but probably won’t, is the mother of all RICO investigations.
Use 1/6 as a starting point and follow all its leads into the Trump administration, GOP congressional caucus and right wing talking heads.
Edited to add — then follow the trails into the GOP donor class.
re: #10 Teukka
So, a local newspaper ran an article on a podcast that ran on BBC a coupla years back, “A History of Delusions”, and some of the things in it mentioned in the newspaper article, that one of the solutions to dealing with delusions is to think slowly gave me some thoughts whether this could be a feasible way to deal with the delusions of our time, such as “Q”… It’s 13 episodes in total at about one hour each, but… Just a thought…
Correction, up to 15 minutes per episode. Sorry about that, my bad.
re: #10 Teukka
So, a local newspaper ran an article on a podcast that ran on BBC a coupla years back, “A History of Delusions”, and some of the things in it mentioned in the newspaper article, that one of the solutions to dealing with delusions is to think slowly gave me some thoughts whether this could be a feasible way to deal with the delusions of our time, such as “Q”… It’s 13 episodes in total at about one hour each, but… Just a thought…
My pet theory about delusions, conspiracy theories etc. is that their root cause is people simply believing what they want to believe for emotional reasons. IMO they are just like kooky religious cults except with a secular dogma.
Unfortunately that’s a pessimistic take because it means that individual deprogramming is likely the only way to get these people to rejoin civilization.
Pondering this story from Friday, I do wonder what the coming week will bring as far as vaccination activity nationwide.
After months of not having enough COVID-19 vaccines to meet demand, Texas suddenly appears to have plenty of shots but not as many people lining up to receive them.
More than three quarters of the state still isn’t fully vaccinated. https://t.co/aFQGxHCLhC— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) April 23, 2021
Vaccine availability will soon outstrip demand pretty much everywhere, I suppose. That it happened so early in TX does not surprise me.
San Diego county reports 68.4% of their goal (three quarters of the county) with at least one shot. I hope we’ll get to 100% of the goal by the end of the first week of June, since in one week we’ve vaccinated about 5% of the population.
Talking with my mother tonight and she said, “I just don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t get the vaccination.” “Why in the world would you want to risk dying, gasping for breath, and hooked on a ventilator?”
I told her we are living in a profoundly stupid country.
I’m so glad she’s sensible about the vaxx. Hasn’t been real sensible about the disease itself, but I think she got a severe wakeup call when two of her lifelong friends got horribly debilitating cases of Covid. (They’ve had to have a live in nurse for months) They’re doing better but are still in bad shape.
If America were truly a meritocracy, this chunk of human sewage wouldn’t have a career. https://t.co/rGt5frqf8r
— Xavier’s Online (@xaviersonline) April 26, 2021
Re: Texas secession.
What do these delusional goobers think will happen to our internationally respected universities when they lose the First Amendment and crazed Evangelical legislators start requiring them to teach Creationism and Barton fantasy-history?
Most goobers believe in their heart of hearts that “regular people” all over the world see things the same way the goobers do, and they have only to release the constraints of liberalism/Marxism to achieve greatness and acclaim. They have no idea that they are a laughingstock and their ideas are regarded as the deranged ravings of a backwoods cult.
1/ I am so relieved to hear this news:
The U.S. has identified sources of specific raw material urgently required for Indian manufacture of the Covishield vaccine that will immediately be made available for India.https://t.co/FGrzjhLZ0f— Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA (@celinegounder) April 25, 2021
re: #21 plansbandc
Talking with my mother tonight and she said, “I just don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t get the vaccination.” “Why in the world would you want to risk dying, gasping for breath, and hooked on a ventilator?”
I told her we are living in a profoundly stupid country.
I’m so glad she’s sensible about the vaxx. Hasn’t been real sensible about the disease itself, but I think she got a severe wakeup call when two of her lifelong friends got horribly debilitating cases of Covid. (They’ve had to have a live in nurse for months) They’re doing better but are still in bad shape.
“You know my Abigail, my niece that works as a nurse? She said she’s seen more people in the ER for vaccine complications than anything else lately. Says the doctors are actually telling patients not to get vaccinated!”
“That’s nothing. My cousin Mark, the one who works as an EMT? Last week he transported a guy to the ER who’d been vaccinated. Said he was coughing up blood and bleeding from the eyes. But get this, when he asked about the guy later, he got told the guy had died from a heart attack! That don’t sound like no ‘heart attack’ to me!”
“Good Lord, that’s bad. I can’t understand why anybody would dare take those vaccines. It ain’t nothin’ worse than the flu! Hell, Patty at the beauty parlor got the ‘rona last month and she didn’t even have a cough! People are gettin’ too worked up over nothin’.”
Since the pandemic started there has been a significant increase in helicopter rescues in the mountain and hills around here, like at least one a day lately. Right now there is a night rescue going on, at 11:30 PM. It’s a good thing we have have REACH, Sheriff, Fire, CHP, and Regional Parks helicopters available in the area.
50 senators and 212 House members belong to a group that mouthed Russian propaganda; that tried to disenfranchise millions of voters, focusing on major metropolitan areas with large Black populations; that tries to play down the Jan. 6 insurrection, etchttps://t.co/WUKbviUwZ2
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 25, 2021
I am far less concerned about Cruz’s embrace of a small band of extremists in Texas than I am about the party that he and his Republican colleagues belong to. That’s where the most dangerous, anti-democratic and nativist politicians reside.https://t.co/WUKbviUwZ2
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 25, 2021
worst House leader of either party. ever. https://t.co/8DmbBFRsJe
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 26, 2021
Elsewhere on the internet I’ve created a bit of good trouble with a poll asking which was a worse threat to the US, 9/11 or 1/6.
Of course it is 1/6, especially if the US reaction to 9/11 is properly distinguished from 9/11 itself.
Then he made himself throw it all back up, locked himself in a closet and cried until he fell asleep. pic.twitter.com/QjjFGl1p34
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 26, 2021
This tweet has been pinned on my profile since May of last year:
Watching the religious right in America worshipping Trump and proudly refusing to take reasonable precautions in a pandemic should once and for all convince us that many American fundamentalist Christians are just one Kool-Aid™ packet away from going full Jim Jones.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 26, 2020
It’s probably going to remain pinned for a long time, given the way things are going.
re: #22 DodgerFan1988
He obviously found ignorant people to “debate”.
Instead of slavery slavery slavery… let’s remember that during reconstruction, as brief as it was, black people recovered pretty well and achieved near equality in only one generation.
But Jim Crow, especially lasting through the New Deal, that’s another story. That’s where the inequality comes from. GI Bill, FHA policy, redlining, highway construction, massive expansion of well-resourced public schools in red-lined neighborhoods, limited and poorly-resourced schools for black kids, free college that in many states was whites-only…
There were 30 years of policies that elevated white people by 2 or 3 or 4 rungs on the economic ladder, and black people were overtly, by law, excluded from that. Then gosh, golly gee, as soon as courts started ruling that the civil rights act meant these benefits had to be for everyone… that’s when white voters had a sudden epiphany that government shouldn’t help anybody anymore. We all had to make it on our own, starting from whatever our relative positions were before the CRA was passed.
I grew up wealthy because my parents got free college, and a subsidized FHA mortgage in a neighborhood where the tuition-free public schools offered the kind of education that today is only available at top-dollar private schools. The first black family in that neighborhood arrived 1971.
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YouTuber Grappling Ignorance (a former Chicago Public Schools science teacher driven out of teaching in Chicago for being an atheist when he was outed) just put up a video on people with good intentions are often unreliable sources. (This is not a counter-apologetics video.)
He starts by noting his Smart car and the misinformation people have spread, even after seeing what he does with his Smart car.
(5:42)
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Hell is paved with good intentions.”
re: #27 Dread Pirate Ron
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What so exhausts me about the “Good Republicans” like Rubin is that they want everybody to just forget the past 2 decades. As though the country went to bed one night and Dubya was a first-term president who was riding high on the “rally ‘round the flag” effect of 9/11 and woke up the next morning with Trump in the White House and a whole bunch of Klansmen in the Congress and state legislatures. That way they don’t have to own their part in all of it, they can just act as though they walked in one day to find their party hijacked by Nazis and no way to get rid of them.
re: #7 mmmirele
Fuck yeah it’s a modern miracle, we got a BUNCH of different vaccines, some of them using new technology, for a virus that was identified less than 18 months ago. And that’s despite The Former Guy. Now if we can just get these vaccines out to poorer countries, before it mutates into a more virulent, contagious form that is resistant to current vaccines and comes back to bite us on the ass we can maybe smash this.
FTFY
re: #29 Ace-o-aces
100g of lean roast beef is 188 kcal.
2kg is 3760 kcal
Daily recommended calorie intake is 2500 kcal.
He’s gonna get fat. And have some pretty severe digestive problems.
Edit: of course, the more likely explanation is that he’s lying.
re: #21 plansbandc
Talking with my mother tonight and she said, “I just don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t get the vaccination.” “Why in the world would you want to risk dying, gasping for breath, and hooked on a ventilator?”
Why would you risk someone you know and love (or anyone at all) unnecessarily dying, gasping for breath, and hooked on a ventilator?
re: #22 DodgerFan1988
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“WHITE PRIVILEGE DOESN’T EXIST!!!” insist the people who swear that no black man can achieve great wealth or power in America without “affirmative action.”
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife put up a comment to that video noting we’ve gotten the same misinformation.
When we considered buying a Smart, the first person we talked to was the county prosecutor (who owned one).
I distinctly remember people in Alberta telling us we should not drive on the Alaska Highway, because that would be irresponsible. What if you hit a moose? I submit you’re fuqued no matter what you hit a moose with.
re: #36 John Hughes
100g of lean roast beef is 188 kcal.
2kg is 3760 kcalDaily recommended calorie intake is 2500 kcal.
He’s gonna get fat. And have some pretty severe digestive problems.
Either that or he was lying. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
GMTA, I edited my comment to add that he was probably lying mere seconds before reading your comment. Honest.
“I’m such a manly man, I gorged myself on red meat!”
“Oh yeah?! Well, I’m so manly I snorted broken glass!”
“You wimp! I cut off my own balls with a rusty kitchen knife, that’s how manly I am!”
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re: #36 John Hughes
100g of lean roast beef is 188 kcal.
2kg is 3760 kcalDaily recommended calorie intake is 2500 kcal.
He’s gonna get fat. And have some pretty severe digestive problems.
Edit: of course, the more likely explanation is that he’s lying.
Maybe he’s bulimic.
Where to they get this “AOC is gonna take away our cheezburgerz!” talking point?
re: #44 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Where to they get this “AOC is gonna take away our cheezburgerz!” talking point?
It’s a long-running wingnut talking point that since cattle emit methane in their farts and methane is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2, then anybody who wants to address climate change will have to ban/limit beef production. Thus if you’re in favor of combating climate change, then you’re proposing getting rid of red meat.
And since red meat is seen as being as much of a totem to American men as guns and violent sports, the idea of addressing climate change makes you the most unAmerican person alive.
re: #42 Targetpractice
“You wimp! I cut off my own balls with a rusty kitchen knife, that’s how manly I am!”
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Ugh, now having flashbacks to Farmer’s A Feast Unknown.
re: #45 Targetpractice
I don’t know the numbers on it, but I would guess that industry (particularly the petrochemical industry) is a much bigger driver of methane than all the cattle on the planet.
That, and every animal emits methane.
re: #46 John Hughes
“You wimp! I cut off my own balls with a rusty kitchen knife, that’s how manly I am!”
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Ugh, now having flashbacks to Farmer’s A Feast Unknown.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t know the numbers on it, but I would guess that industry (particularly the petrochemical industry) is a much bigger driver of methane than all the cattle on the planet.
That, and every animal emits methane.
Well, this latest bit of reductio ad absurdum started with the Daily Heil misrepresenting a study on the environmental impact of various types of meat production (beef, pork, chicken, etc) as a “plan” to restrict/ban their production. And since beef was found to be the most environmentally damaging, of course they spun it as the target.
re: #45 Targetpractice
It’s a long-running wingnut talking point that since cattle emit methane in their farts and methane is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2, then anybody who wants to address climate change will have to ban/limit beef production.
That part is not a wingnut talking point, it’s mostly true (actually it’s burps, not farts and the methane is not the whole problem, a large part of the problem is that cows are a very inefficient way of making food).
Thus if you’re in favor of combating climate change, then you’re proposing getting rid of red meat.
And that part is just silly.
Yes, it would help if we cut down on beef production. But there is no need to be an absolutist.
It would also probably mean much better beef — intensively reared food is generally pretty shitty.
And if you’re eating 2kg of beef a day I bet you’re not appreciating it as much as you could.
And since red meat is seen as being as much of a totem to American men as guns and violent sports, the idea of addressing climate change makes you the most unAmerican person alive.
No argument there.
re: #49 Targetpractice
Well, this latest bit of reductio ad absurdum started with the Daily Heil misrepresenting a study on the environmental impact of various types of meat production (beef, pork, chicken, etc) as a “plan” to restrict/ban their production. And since beef was found to be the most environmentally damaging, of course they spun it as the target.
And of course both he EPA and FDA will have their powers expanded (at the expense of the police) and be headed by PETA/Vegan extremists.
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And of course both he EPA and FDA will have their powers expanded (at the expense of the police) and be headed by PETA/Vegan extremists.
PETA and vegans will pry my kielbasa from my cold dead sauerkraut.
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
PETA and vegans will pry my kielbasa from my cold dead sauerkraut.
now, now, there are plenty of meat-free substitutes that you will grow used to in the FEMA re-education camp…
Kent Hovind (Christian Young Earth Creation apologist, felon tax evader) is about to have his half-billion dollar lawsuit against the judge in the tax case, the prosecutor, and his own defence attorney thrown out of court.
He is suing pro se, probably because no lawyer would be stupid enough to take this case, even wingnut Christian outfits.
A Creationist’s $536,041,100 Lawsuit Is Getting Laughed Out of the Courtroom (Friendly Atheist)
Republican governors are taking a stand against a Biden policy that does not exist. pic.twitter.com/sl6YqorrHy
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 26, 2021
A wildfire is “raging out of control” in the Hualapai Mountains near Pine Lake, Arizona, according to officials https://t.co/nU2bXUewsa
— CNN (@CNN) April 26, 2021
re: #55 Dread Pirate Ron
Republican governors are taking a stand against a Biden policy that does not exist.
This is the hill that they choose to die on.
re: #55 Dread Pirate Ron
And the governor of Idaho just signed a law that allows for killing 90 percent of the state’s wolf population. To protect livestock at the insistence of farmers. So there’s that.
Humans suck.
$757,527.85
that’s a crazy bill the Mike Pence stuck taxpayers with for his mid-pandemic ski vacationhttps://t.co/UdtpRsuw9j— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 24, 2021
re: #58 A Mom Anon
And the governor of Idaho just signed a law that allows for killing 90 percent of the state’s wolf population. To protect livestock at the insistence of farmers. So there’s that.
Humans suck.
So we can eat grilled wolf?
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I guess. It would be nice if people understood just the basic principles of ecosystems and why we need to keep them functional. Before they get elected as,say, governor of a state or something.
re: #61 A Mom Anon
I guess. It would be nice if people understood just the basic principles of ecosystems and why we need to keep them functional. Before they get elected as,say, governor of a state or something.
Or President…
re: #44 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Where to they get this “AOC is gonna take away our cheezburgerz!” talking point?
They have a political version of the random poetry fridge magnets
re: #1 Belafon
That’s me too. A little arm soreness each shot but no other side effects after two Pfizer vaccinations.
re: #64 Patricia Kayden
I was really tired and achy the next day, but sleeping and making sure I ate and stayed hydrated helped. I get the second dose Friday.
re: #65 A Mom Anon
I’ve heard that some people are hit harder by the second shot. Hope all goes well for you.
re: #66 Patricia Kayden
I’ve heard that some people are hit harder by the second shot. Hope all goes well for you.
I just can’t understand skipping the second shot because there’s a chance you might get hit by stronger side effects. Getting COVID will, generally, lay you out a lot harder than the side effects of the vaccine, and carries with it the distinct possibility of hospitalization or death. I’d be a lot more worried about that.
Got up early to monitor a video meeting for India Philippines tesm members. It’s just past 17:30 there.
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re: #68 mmmirele
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Latest NBC/WSJ poll shows an increase in strong Biden support and a decrease in strong Trump support. As a result, there are now more Americans “very positive” towards Biden (29%) than Trump (21%). Maybe we should start profiling the fervent Biden supporter. pic.twitter.com/zsJCmRKaX1
— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) April 25, 2021
re: #67 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I just can’t understand skipping the second shot because there’s a chance you might get hit by stronger side effects. Getting COVID will, generally, lay you out a lot harder than the side effects of the vaccine, and carries with it the distinct possibility of hospitalization or death. I’d be a lot more worried about that.
have these people never had an actual flu?
because these reactions are just flu-like
and they don’t last
and what’s the big deal?
isn’t covid just like the flu?
re: #70 Belafon
Meet Sally…she’s 42, has three kids, works as a program manager for a software company, and doesn’t feel threatened by migrant children at the border…in fact, she feels they should be reunited with their families ASAP.
That won’t play well with the Fox crowd.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 26, 2021
The mid-May peak translates to estimated need of
•33,77,700+ beds
•3,44,400+ ICU beds
The humanitarian crises in 20ish days can only be mitigated by health systems preparedness & global solidarity. This is an🆘to the world from 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/uoFGrWcZGE— Soumyadeep Bhaumik | সৌম্যদীপ ভৌমিক (@DrSoumyadeepB) April 24, 2021
re: #74 Belafon
This is what I was most afraid of when COVID first hit; that India would fail to get it under control, and it would just explode through the entire country and decimate it, and worst of all, provide a breeding ground for it to spread through the entire region/worldwide.
Iraq Covid hospital fire: At least 23 dead after ‘oxygen tank explodes’ https://t.co/pcSdRDixcO
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 25, 2021
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t know the numbers on it, but I would guess that industry (particularly the petrochemical industry) is a much bigger driver of methane than all the cattle on the planet.
That, and every animal emits methane.
Hey, I don’t. It was the dog.
Alaska Airlines has banned Alaska Senator Lora Reinbold for her “continued refusal” to follow mask rules https://t.co/BDCtmjdTI5
— KTLA (@KTLA) April 25, 2021
The best part:
It wasn’t immediately known how Reinbold, who was in southcentral Alaska this weekend, would be able to get to Juneau where the legislative session resumes Monday. No other airline has scheduled flights between Anchorage and Juneau, and a ferry trip could take several days…
re: #69 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
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re: #76 Belafon
As of a few hours ago, the death toll from that oxygen tank explosion and fire at the Baghdad hospital was 82. The hospital was a major regional hospital taking covid19 patients, and a good number of those who died were being treated for covid19.
re: #78 Belafon
Up next: She’ll be on OANN talking about how she was a victim of cancel culture for her principled stand against the tyranny of the evil liberal government.
Anti-Trump conservative group to grade GOP lawmakers on whether they uphold (or undermine) democracy
An anti-Trump conservative group is launching an effort to track and evaluate whether Republicans in Congress, in the group’s view, have acted to either undermine or uphold democracy and democratic values and what role, if any, they played in attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The Republican Accountability Project has created what it’s calling a “GOP Democracy Report Card,” which assigns grades to Republican members of Congress ranging from an “A,” which the group describes as excellent, to an “F,” which it describes as very poor. The details of the report card were first shared with CNN ahead of its release on Monday.
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Only 14 Republicans in Congress received an “A,” the highest possible grade. In contrast, more than 100 Republicans received an “F,” the lowest possible grade.
re: #66 Patricia Kayden
Me too,lol. My son is worried about this too. I told him he should take the day off work, but he is going to try and get through the day. He had no side effects from his first shot, neither did my hubby. I have snacks and pain relievers in stock, and no plans to do anything beyond the basics.
re: #82 Dangerman
So the people at the bottom of that list are actually closer to decent humans than the award winning assholes at the top. Good to know.
re: #84 A Mom Anon
So the people at the bottom of that list are actually closer to decent humans than the award winning assholes at the top. Good to know.
The A grades are those who voted to certify the election, support the Constitution, and not Trump’s treasonweasel conspiracy theory nonsense to overthrow the government on his say-so. People who got Fs include Gaetz, Gohmert, Biggs, Hice, and Jordan.
As went to people like Cheney.
re: #85 lawhawk
The A grades are those who voted to certify the election, support the Constitution, and not Trump’s treasonweasel conspiracy theory nonsense to overthrow the government on his say-so. People who got Fs include Gaetz, Gohmert, Biggs, Hice, and Jordan.
As went to people like Cheney.
In a fair and just world, anybody with less than an A grade would be primaried out at the earliest opportunity, but we live in a world where blind party loyalty is more important than reason.
Got to see and even hug my 2 oldest grandkids Saturday, the first time in many months. Although I’ve had the J&J vaccine and my son and his wife have also been vaccinated, the kids have been forced back to school and so could get exposed. But we all wore masks (they put on masks when I arrived since I was wearing an N95).
So glad to be comfortable going to see my son and his family after so many months. My grandson had a major growth spurt and is now taller than his mom. You miss so much not seeing them regularly.
Still feeling the joy of hugging the grandkids after so many months.
Edit: saw the grandkids on Saturday, not today. Shouldn’t post before finishing my coffee.
It looks like Marco Rubio left a lovely steaming dump in yesterday’s New York Post:
Does anyone have any idea what Marco Rubio is actually threatening in this fulminating op-ed?https://t.co/cc1BUX9STb pic.twitter.com/wEykHzQ9DG
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) April 26, 2021
Ah, the Post. When your views are too toxic even for the New York Times.
re: #85 lawhawk
I stand corrected, I jumped to conclusions. I don’t trust anything claiming to find morals among Republicans. I need more sleep. Or something.
re: #88 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
GOP has no trouble with companies (who contribute consistently to the GOP) dumping toxic waste, it is called “abolishing pesky government over-regulation”
“Woke”, “Cancel Culture” and “PC” are just the frames they use to set up their straw man arguments to then knock over with their superior rhetorical skills and keen sense of American values, morals and non-eleitist, over-eddicated common sense.
re: #89 A Mom Anon
I had to read the article a few times too. Need more coffee.
re: #85 lawhawk
The cnn page won’t load at all for me. The actual accountability gop page did load though. So they’re using the election as a measuring point. If they’re stupid about it they get a bad grade. That’s a really low bar though.
“I don’t have to think about what Joe Biden is doing every day,” said a North Carolina man who voted for Biden. “The best thing about Joe Biden is I don’t have to think about Joe Biden.” https://t.co/NWtezHRMj1
— Monica Alba (@albamonica) April 25, 2021
re: #93 Belafon
Yep. I can also relax knowing that he’s surrounded himself with smart people who know what they are doing and not so full of themselves that they won’t look for answers if they need to. Imagine that.
re: #74 Belafon
The current COVID deaths in India are no doubt being under-counted. There are too many people living in poverty and outside the modernized major city areas.
.@KFF’s excellent polling shows that the hardest “will never get” group is ~ 13-15%, and has been pretty stable across survey waves https://t.co/CqSbMhBV3U pic.twitter.com/BS5X93rLGc
— Kevin Collins (@kwcollins) April 25, 2021
I’m convinced the former guy will be the GQP nominee in 2024 if he is ambulatory and not in prison, and the GQP intends to make him President regardless of how the people vote. They will suppress the vote, and if that doesn’t work, they will ignore it and award electors to Trump.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 26, 2021
re: #74 Belafon
Daily deaths are best predictor of pandemic course &
@IHME_UW
estimates mid-May peak of 13300 deaths/day. (prepare for worst)
Context we are now at 2800 ish deaths/day !
Seeing as deaths are (likely) underreported by 75%, more realistically, we’d be looking at ~25,000 deaths per day in India.
re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The current COVID deaths in India are no doubt being under-counted. There are too many people living in poverty and outside the modernized major city areas.
Health experts think that they’re capturing only about 20-25% of the actual scope of the pandemic in India. Death tolls are probably 3-4 times higher than the Modi govt is willing to admit. Heck, even if you think that they’re covering about 1/3 of the total scope, that means that India’s got closer to 600,000 dead at this point than 200,000.
What’s far more likely: India at closing on 1 million dead from the pandemic or 200,000 while cases are surging beyond the capacity of the health care systems? Where most people never go to a hospital to die, and crematoria are running 24/7 to deal with the influx of bodies, the signs are grim. This is akin to the morgues overflowing here in the States and needing refrigeration trucks to handle the crush.
re: #78 Belafon
It wasn’t immediately known how Reinbold, who was in southcentral Alaska this weekend, would be able to get to Juneau where the legislative session resumes Monday. No other airline has scheduled flights between Anchorage and Juneau, and a ferry trip could take several days…
I’m sure de Lawd will provide a way!
Census Bureau to release data for states later today. The population totals dictate Congressional apportionment for each state. Will be a big factor in the 2022 midterms
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 26, 2021
And considering that GOP controlled state legislatures are going to draw districts in a good number of states, the gerrymandering will allow the GOP to enhance its advantages despite serving fewer and fewer people overall.
re: #100 🌹UOJB!
It wasn’t immediately known how Reinbold, who was in southcentral Alaska this weekend, would be able to get to Juneau where the legislative session resumes Monday. No other airline has scheduled flights between Anchorage and Juneau, and a ferry trip could take several days…
I’m sure de Lawd will provide a way!
There is always the option of wearing a Mask…heh, heh.
Hi Twitter, I’m Tim Manning, the White House COVID-19 Supply Coordinator. There’s been a lot of confusion around the use of the Defense Production Act as it relates to the global supply chain for COVID-19 treatment. Let me try and break this down simply as possible: 1/8
— Tim Manning (@timmy315) April 26, 2021
— pfire☔Baby I Could Never Steal You From Another (@firefire100) April 26, 2021
Labor shortage pinches, vexes restaurateurs across Nebraska, country (Omaha World-Herald)
TL;DR version: A lot of the restaurateurs they interviewed blamed unemployment benefits as the reason they couldn’t get workers. (Hint, it’s not the unemployment.)
Nebraska has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation.
One restaurateur complained a new factory set up near his restaurant and offered better wages and a hiring bonus, and his entire staff quit the same day. (How does capitalism work? Maybe pay your staff better than the ridiculously low tipped minimum wage.)
The Nebraska Restaurant Association says they’ve tried to get meetings with Nebraska’s three representatives and two senators to make immigration law easier, but only Ben Sasse met with them over that.
We weren’t going to “solve” most of the problems of America in Biden’s first 100 days. Nor were we going to “defeat” Trumpism once and for all. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Our democracy can’t be rebuilt in 100 days—or even a thousand.
So: Patience. Intelligence. Determination.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 25, 2021
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Nebraska Restaurant Association says they’ve tried to get meetings with Nebraska’s three representatives and two senators to make immigration law easier, but only Ben Sasse met with them over that.
BUILD THE WALL BUT PUT A DOOR IN IT SO WE CAN MAINTAIN A STEADY FLOW OF UNSKILLED WORKERS TO UNDERPAY!!!
The fact that they’re taking this kind of unprecedented action tells you all you need to know about what those bodycam videos will show.
It’s going to be grisly and brutal and *entirely predictable.* https://t.co/uN3aUXrksM— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 26, 2021
In the days after Chauvin was found guilty on all charges, cops shot and killed more people, including Andrew Brown Jr in North Carolina. They’re releasing the bodycam footage today, and the state has issued a state of emergency, which tells you all you need to know about what that footage will show.
Every day, cops shoot and kill 3 people. More than 1,000 a year. The disproportionate number of those killed are persons of color.
re: #106 Belafon
It will take decades to recover from the damage Trump did to our country, had he been re-elected, the damage would have been irreparable.
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Labor shortage pinches, vexes restaurateurs across Nebraska, country (Omaha World-Herald)
The Nebraska Restaurant Association says they’ve tried to get meetings with Nebraska’s three representatives and two senators to make immigration law easier, but only Ben Sasse met with them over that.
What? So they won’t pay enough for Americans to live on, to the point where an entire restaurant staff quits to go and work in a factory, but they want to issue visas for restaurant staff that they can lowball? Seriously…
On another subject, just got done with the India monitoring call and after the canned talks there were questions.
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Now I’m going to take a brief nap/lay down and listen to something until I have to work again in an hour.
I think this is probably not going to help matters much…
Our priority is to ensure #COVID19 vaccine deliveries take place to protect the health of 🇪🇺.
This is why @EU_Commission has decided jointly with all Member States to bring legal proceedings against #AstraZeneca.
Every vaccine dose counts. Every vaccine dose saves lives.— Stella Kyriakides (@SKyriakidesEU) April 26, 2021
God-given! I do remember that exact passage in Exodus where Yahweh gave the Israelites assault weapons. Delivered at Sinai along with those two stone tablets. No dancing around golden calves that night, lemme tell you. Not after Moses went to full auto and started spraying. https://t.co/DtO0lDzK73
— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 26, 2021
re: #108 lawhawk
And what’s the justification for shooting and killing so many people who pose no threat to anyone?
The police should be held accountable for these unnecessary killings. The public shouldn’t have to pay any judgments or settlements. Plus, get rid of limited immunity.
There is not likely to be any sort of comprehensive immigration reform anytime soon: too many conflicting interests.
Despite all the calls for America First and cries of “They’re taking our jerbs!”, there are too many industries whose entire business model is based a steady inflow of interchangeable, easily exploited laborers: agriculture, food processing, food service, hotel and domestic services, laundry services, gardening/landscaping, etc…
Heh.
Dear conservatives, Joe Biden said he would CRY and PISS HIS PANTS if you sent bitcoin to this wallet pic.twitter.com/roCoTms943
— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) April 25, 2021
re: #103 No Malarkey!
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Imagine anyone in the last administration being this coherent honest open competent and accurately knowledgeable
Hi Twitter, I’m Tim Manning, the White House COVID-19 Supply Coordinator. There’s been a lot of confusion around the use of the Defense Production Act as it relates to the global supply chain for COVID-19 treatment. Let me try and break this down simply as possible: 1/8
— Tim Manning (@timmy315) April 26, 2021
When you see employers complaining they can’t find people willing to work for them ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/y3jo2gd3j9
— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) April 26, 2021
re: #117 The Pie Overlord!
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Wish I had been paid a starting rate > $15 when I got my MA.
My start was half that in 1977.
re: #120 🌹UOJB!
Wish I had been paid a starting rate > $15 when I got my MA.
My start was half that in 1977.
My first programming job paid $10/hr. This was back in 1986.
re: #121 The Pie Overlord!
My first programming job paid $10/hr. This was back in 1986.
My first programming job paid $15/hr, in 2006.
re: #120 🌹UOJB!
Wish I had been paid a starting rate > $15 when I got my MA.
My start was half that in 1977.
Also, how much debt did you graduate with?
“Overall, the average graduate student debt at graduation for graduate degree recipients is $66,000, with 56% borrowing. This does not include outstanding undergraduate debt, which brings the average debt at graduation to $71,300, with 73% borrowing.”
Try paying that off at $15 per hour…
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Labor shortage pinches, vexes restaurateurs across Nebraska, country (Omaha World-Herald)
TL;DR version: A lot of the restaurateurs they interviewed blamed unemployment benefits as the reason they couldn’t get workers. (Hint, it’s not the unemployment.)
Nebraska has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation.
One restaurateur complained a new factory set up near his restaurant and offered better wages and a hiring bonus, and his entire staff quit the same day. (How does capitalism work? Maybe pay your staff better than the ridiculously low tipped minimum wage.)
The Nebraska Restaurant Association says they’ve tried to get meetings with Nebraska’s three representatives and two senators to make immigration law easier, but only Ben Sasse met with them over that.
Closing small businesses with crippling labor shortages to own the libs.
re: #124 No Malarkey!
Closing small businesses with crippling labor shortages to own the libs.
Letting more immigrants in to own the libs
re: #112 The Pie Overlord!
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If God didn’t want us to have assault weapons, he wouldn’t have given Adam an AR-15. BTW, do you know what “AR” stands for?//
re: #113 Patricia Kayden
And what’s the justification for shooting and killing so many people who pose no threat to anyone?
The police should be held accountable for these unnecessary killings. The public shouldn’t have to pay any judgments or settlements. Plus, get rid of limited immunity.
Newark police reforms resulted in 0 officer shootings in 2020, and crime went down. NEWARK. If they can do it there, it can be done anywhere.
re: #126 No Malarkey!
If God didn’t want us to have assault weapons, he wouldn’t have given Adam an AR-15. BTW, do you know what “AR” stands for?//
Adams Rib?
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Also, how much debt did you graduate with?
“Overall, the average graduate student debt at graduation for graduate degree recipients is $66,000, with 56% borrowing. This does not include outstanding undergraduate debt, which brings the average debt at graduation to $71,300, with 73% borrowing.”
Try paying that off at $15 per hour…
My total debt when I graduated was…$8,250.
Compare that to folks we just hired whose student loan debt is over $150K…
re: #126 No Malarkey!
If God didn’t want us to have assault weapons, he wouldn’t have given Adam an AR-15. BTW, do you know what “AR” stands for?//
Isn’t that a gun that uses clips?
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re: #130 🌹UOJB!
My total debt when I graduated was…$8,250.
Compare that to folks we just hired whose student loan debt is over $150K…
I was terribly lucky: thanks to cheap in-state tuitions, BEOG, social security, student jobs and a TA position during my graduate studies, I manage to graduate debt-free and was not pressured into just finding any job I could and nosing the grindstone to wear down any debts.
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was terribly lucky: thanks to cheap in-state tuitions, BEOG, social security, student jobs and a TA position during my graduate studies, I manage to graduate debt-free and was not pressured into just finding any job I could and nosing the grindstone to wear down any debts.
I was lucky in a white-privilege sense. My dad paid for my college (and my sister’s, as well) so that I could graduate debt-free and not have to struggle with early life finances.
re: #106 Belafon
Who took Bill Kristol and replaced him with this guy?
Just finished watching “The Last Skywalker.” My journey through The Force is complete.
re: #126 No Malarkey!
If God didn’t want us to have assault weapons, he wouldn’t have given Adam an AR-15. BTW, do you know what “AR” stands for?//
Adam’s Revenge?
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Who took Bill Kristol and replaced him with this guy?
Just finished watching “The Last Skywalker.” My journey through The Force is complete.
It wasn’t bad. For all the hate that SW sequel trilogy gets, people need to bear in mind it’s space opera. It’s basically Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe with considerably better VFX.
I was promised jack booted thugs to jab us with vaccines and take away our guns and meat beer.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 26, 2021
re: #2 ckkatz
Yup! In my case (House of Pfizer) I felt a bit more tired on days 2 and 3 after the second shot. Two naps and two good night sleeps and that was that.
Exactly. I had a couple of days where I had almost no appetite, and I did a lot of napping, which the cat was very proud of—assumed she was being a good influence—but my temperature never got above 99.5 and I had maybe 20 minutes of chills the first night. People do get side effects, but they’re generally not crippling.
re: #139 🌹UOJB!
Just a reminder this “prophet” insists that Trump will be put back in the Presidency this week and the military will overthrow Joe…
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Tick-tock, bitches. Clock’s coming.
re: #139 🌹UOJB!
Just a reminder this “prophet” insists that Trump will be put back in the Presidency this week and the military will overthrow Joe…
Is that why there are still 50,000 Chinese soldiers stationed on North American soil ready to intervene on Biden’s side?
(another story that my ex-GF embraced)
Arizona Republic: “Lawyers for Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based company the Arizona Senate hired to lead a recount of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million general election ballots, are asking a judge to keep secret its procedures for the recount and shut out the public as well as the press from a hearing in which the documents might be discussed
Forget transparency
What “procedures”?
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1
re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is that why there are still 50,000 Chinese soldiers stationed on US soil, to intervene on Biden’s side?
(another story that my ex-GF embraced)
Wouldn’t they be noticed somehow?
re: #112 The Pie Overlord!
Note the “Donate Now” button on her tweet. Never miss an opportunity to fleece the marks if you’re a conservative.
This looks like something from Starship Troopers
Our unique, flat organization allows for development, focused on building warfighters with the skills needed to prevail.
Meet 2nd Lt. Levi Ottenbache.
Learn more about being a Warfighter Communications Operations Officer: #SemperSupra #IAMSpaceForce https://t.co/puhAgJRXmM pic.twitter.com/BzeknfPWZp— United States Space Force (@SpaceForceDoD) April 26, 2021
re: #143 Dangerman
Wouldn’t they be noticed somehow?
Articles and social media posts say 50,000 of Beijing’s soldiers were killed in a strike on a bunker in Maine — part of a series of baseless claims about Chinese military action in North America. But local authorities said there was no evidence of either foreign troops or a deadly blast in the northeastern US state.
“Hal Turner: 50,000 Chinese Soldiers Were Bombed and Killed in Maine Which Was Listed as an Earthquake,” says the headline of a December 9, 2020 article shared on Facebook.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Articles and social media posts say 50,000 of Beijing’s soldiers were killed in a strike on a bunker in Maine — part of a series of baseless claims about Chinese military action in North America. But local authorities said there was no evidence of either foreign troops or a deadly blast in the northeastern US state.
“Hal Turner: 50,000 Chinese Soldiers Were Bombed and Killed in Maine Which Was Listed as an Earthquake,” says the headline of a December 9, 2020 article shared on Facebook.
But I got a couple relatives who insist those Chinese soldiers are massed on the MEXICAN border! Yeesh! Can’t the Chinese military make up their minds where the troops are??????
re: #139 🌹UOJB!
Just a reminder this “prophet” insists that Trump will be put back in the Presidency this week and the military will overthrow Joe…
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These fuckers are so pathetic.
re: #147 🌹UOJB!
But I got a couple relatives who insist those Chinese soldiers are massed on the MEXICAN border! Yeesh! Can’t the Chinese military make up their minds where the troops are??????
Wait a minute, I thought they were on the Canadian border, they had overflights over Lake Superior…
This whole meat thing is bonkers
And made up
If you care to have a taxonomy of what happened, Biden announced a goal to cut emissions by 2030. It didn’t include anything about how Americans’ consumption would change, so the Daily Mail more or less made some things up and threw them in an infographic. https://t.co/0eBtjqTBwt pic.twitter.com/PHyoUaz9N2
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 24, 2021
Then that infographic got disseminated throughout the Murdoch sphere as though it was Biden’s plan. But there’s nothing in Biden’s plan about any of it. The Daily Mail p much invented it wholecloth.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 24, 2021
re: #147 🌹UOJB!
But I got a couple relatives who insist those Chinese soldiers are massed on the MEXICAN border! Yeesh! Can’t the Chinese military make up their minds where the troops are??????
Narrator (after ingesting much cocaine): They’re EVERYWHERE!
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Articles and social media posts say 50,000 of Beijing’s soldiers were killed in a strike on a bunker in Maine — part of a series of baseless claims about Chinese military action in North America. But local authorities said there was no evidence of either foreign troops or a deadly blast in the northeastern US state.
“Hal Turner: 50,000 Chinese Soldiers Were Bombed and Killed in Maine Which Was Listed as an Earthquake,” says the headline of a December 9, 2020 article shared on Facebook.
50k people
support logistics
Right
re: #151 Eventual Carrion
Narrator (after ingesting much cocaine): They’re EVERYWHERE!
They seek them here
They seek them there
Those Right Wingers seek them everywhere
Are they in Canada
Or are they in Mexico
Those damned elusive
Chinese Pimpernels….
re: #133 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I was lucky in a white-privilege sense. My dad paid for my college (and my sister’s, as well) so that I could graduate debt-free and not have to struggle with early life finances.
I’m the first person in my family (not counting cousins) in a few generations not to go to college, mostly due to poverty.
My VA benefit was denied when the VA declared me unemployable.
re: #150 Dangerman
If you care to have a taxonomy of what happened, Biden announced a goal to cut emissions by 2030. It didn’t include anything about how Americans’ consumption would change, so the Daily Mail more or less made some things up and threw them in an infographic.
That is what the Murdoch Press did with EU regulations that were supposed to ban English Christmas crackers or cricket bats made of ash wood or require them to use blemish cream to cover up their spotted dick.
re: #121 The Pie Overlord!
In 1986 I was in between engineering jobs and made $11/hr driving an airport limo in Arizona for pilots and flight attendants — and the occasional sexy lawyer 😎
White supremacist Santorum again lives up to name as a verb.
He’d like everyone to ignore the expropriation of the land from Native Americans. White Americans stole lands, took lands, and ignored treaties to get land.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 26, 2021
re: #158 lawhawk
CNN’s Rick Santorum: “We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture”
What a sick fuck.
Does anyone have any idea what Marco Rubio is actually threatening in this fulminating op-ed?https://t.co/cc1BUX9STb pic.twitter.com/wEykHzQ9DG
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) April 26, 2021
Rubio and the GOP relaxed pollution control standards and gave polluters a green light to dump; they did so for coal mine wastes under *Trump*.
GOPers don’t care about facts, or logic. They just want the bottom line for millionaires to rise.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 26, 2021
It’s a race to see who’s the bigger asshole this morning among the GOPers. Who can be the first to the bottom and keep digging.
re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
CNN’s Rick Santorum: “We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture”
What a sick fuck.
Memories of that asshole crashing our farewell party at Pitt in 1977. Rick tried to pick up two girls and both of them slapped that asshole in the face…
re: #158 lawhawk
It’s not like most of the states and many features aren’t Native names or anything.
That said, Chimney Rock in my county is named that because too many people were offended by the Native name (Elk Penis).
re: #149 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Wait a minute, I thought they were on the Canadian border, they had overflights over Lake Superior…
Before Putin became Trump’s ally, I was told that blue helmeted Russian soldiers were stationed in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, awaiting orders to begin the take over.
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s not like most of the states and many features aren’t Native names or anything.
That said, Chimney Rock in my county is named that because too many people were offended by the Native name (Elk Penis).
There was a bit of an uproar here a few years ago, when one of the major lakes in the Twin Cities area was renamed from its white people name back to its Native name. A lot of Republicans were triggered over that.
re: #164 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
There was a bit of an uproar here a few years ago, when one of the major lakes in the Twin Cities area was renamed from its white people name back to its Native name. A lot of Republicans were triggered over that.
Denali as Mt McKinley. Right wingers went batshit over that.
Breaking: Florida Senate just passed Georgia-style voter suppression bill #SB90 criminalizing giving food and water to voters in line, severely restricting mail ballot drop boxes & making it harder to vote by mail
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 26, 2021
re: #117 The Pie Overlord!
This is ridiculous. My evil too big to pay employer pays $16.00/hour for beginning tellers. All you need is a high school diploma and one year customer service experience, which can be obtained at a fast food joint or clothing store. Of course you can’t rent a place on $16/hour here in PHX, much less raise a family, but it is $3.85 more than the AZ minimum wage. And, as much as working for a temple of capitalism is, well, working for a temple of capitalism, you can work part time as a teller and go to school. Lots of bank lifers started as tellers back in the day of “bankers’ hours” (hahaha, those were the days of manual check procesding) and worked their way up. Then again, Will Ferrell worked for the stagecoach and he moved on to comedy and movies…
Watch right-wingers lose their shit & declare a boycott of this one recipe hub out of a zillion other recipe hubs on the Internet.
Today we announced that Epicurious is cutting out beef. It won’t appear in new Epi recipes, articles, newsletters, or on social. This isn’t a vendetta against cows or people who eat them. It’s a shift about sustainability; not anti-beef but pro-planet. https://t.co/yQ8PrtChtE
— epicurious (@epicurious) April 26, 2021
Conservatives replaying the hits
Lindsey Graham says systemic racism isn’t an issue in America because Barack Obama and Kamala Harris were elected pic.twitter.com/PqRdoeWmHW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 25, 2021
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Conservatives replaying the hits
George Floyd was unavailable for comment.
Daunte Wright was unavailable for comment.
Breonna Taylor was unavailable for comment.
Philando Castile was unavailable for comment.
Trayvon Martin was unavailable for comment.
Do I need to continue?
A few months before George Floyd’s murder, but this got little attention.
Angel Zapata Hernandez died on Oct. 15, 2019, in San Diego while handcuffed and restrained at the hands of two Metropolitan Transit Service security workers, one of whom knelt on his neck for 6 minutes and 6 seconds.https://t.co/pDkNYJ4Zps
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 25, 2021
re: #170 Jay C
They’re all hiding in taco trucks….
So that’s why my last burrito had water chestnuts in it.
re: #163 No Malarkey!
Before Putin became Trump’s ally, I was told that blue helmeted Russian soldiers were stationed in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, awaiting orders to begin the take over.
In the late 70’s, I recall hearing stories of Soviet Armored divisions stationed in Nicaragua that could have crossed the US border within 48 hours.
SCOTUS is going to make the entire country the Wild West of Hollywood mythology.
Today’s SCOTUS decision to review the validity of NY’s law requiring a “proper cause” for a citizen to carry a handgun outside the home portends a 6-3 ruling against this kind of law. Sadly it will then be invoked by carriers of military-caliber rifles. Many more people will die.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 26, 2021
re: #172 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
A caller to a local public radio talk show claimed that because the cop didn’t use racial slurs, racism played no role in Floyd’s murder. He was furious that Democrats and liberals are claiming that race plays a role in these cop killings of Black people. The host, Kojo Nnamdi, had to cut him off.
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lindsey Graham says systemic racism isn’t an issue in America because Barack Obama and Kamala Harris were elected
…and remember how they told us how Barack Hussein Obama was a Kenyan secret Muslim Manchurian candidate usurper Affirmative Action poster child who bought the election by promising lazy people free stuff?
And is Lindsey going on record to state that Harris did not steal the election? He is really about to shoot himself in the foot.
re: #133 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I was lucky in a white-privilege sense. My dad paid for my college (and my sister’s, as well) so that I could graduate debt-free and not have to struggle with early life finances.
Same — and my graduate advisor paid for my Ph.D. Admittedly, I left graduate school a bitter, and angry man, but no debt. Mrs. Lapin agrees that graduate school changed me., but I am employed in a job I really like.
re: #176 No Malarkey!
SCOTUS is going to make the entire country the Wild West of Hollywood mythology.
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The corrupted court wants more blood to feed the Tree of Liberty and they’re going to deliver it damn the consequences.
Now watch what happens when the guns are turned on billionaires…
re: #177 Patricia Kayden
A caller to a local public radio talk show claimed that because the cop didn’t use racial slurs, racism played no role in Floyd’s murder. He was furious that Democrats and liberals are claiming that race plays a role in these cop killings of Black people. The host, Kojo Nnamdi, had to cut him off.
So his view of racists is a caricature like his view of blacks…
Yeah, are we supposed to just overlook that?
Since @Caitlyn_Jenner is running for governor of California, here’s a little reminder about her in our episode: Celebs who KILLEDhttps://t.co/nfq1NLnHi7#CaitlynForCalifornia #CaitlynJenner #California pic.twitter.com/8jx9ZvnPSK
— Deep Fat Fried (@Deepfatfriedpod) April 24, 2021
A fool and his money…..
The Kanye West sneakers that sent athletic shoes strutting down fashion runways sold for $1.8m, a new world record price for a pair of sneakers, Sotheby’s announced on Monday.
The American rapper’s 2008 “Grammy Worn” Nike Air Yeezy samples were prototypes for a line developed by West and Mark Smith for Nike. They were revealed during West’s performance at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
The buyer was sneaker investing platform RARES, which paid the highest publicly recorded price for the pair. RARES is a leader in fractional ownership, allowing users to invest in sneakers by buying and trading shares in them.
For $1.8 million, those shoes better have been handmade by Kanye himself, with a certificate of authenticity proving that he handmade them, and then dipped in 24-karat gold.
And personally delivered by Kanye, too.
re: #182 Patricia Kayden
Yeah, are we supposed to just overlook that?
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According to my wacko nephew, yes and he brings up Chappaquiddick.
re: #183 Dr Lizardo
A fool and his money…..
For $1.8 million, those shoes better have been handmade by Kanye himself, with a certificate of authenticity proving that he handmade them, and then dipped in 24-karat gold.
And personally delivered by Kanye, too.
More evidence that the rich are undertaxed.
Indicted MAGA rioter Rachel Powell has formally apologized to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia after making a mockery of its face mask order.
A filing made by Powell’s attorneys on Monday claimed that the pro-Trump rioter “wishes to apologize to this Honorable Court, and to Pre-Trial Services, for her poor choice and her unwise conduct” when it came to following the court’s mask mandate.
LOCK. HER. UP.
A cat named Fisher took a refreshing swim in Key West, Florida while wearing a cat-sized life jacket. pic.twitter.com/RLHTABzfFj
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 26, 2021
re: #177 Patricia Kayden
A caller to a local pub of radio talk show claimed that because the cop didn’t use racial slurs, racism played no role in Floyd’s murder. He was furious that Democrats and liberals are claiming that race plays a role in these cop killing of Black people. The host, Kojo Nnamdi, had to cut him off.
Chauvin’s under federal investigation for kneeling on ANOTHER Black person’s neck, this time for 17 minutes, and it was a 14-year-old kid.
On this date in 1865, the Union cavalry cornered and killed John Wilkes Booth. The actor had been the subject of a massive manhunt after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Read more about this in our historical newspaper archives. #ChronAm #otd https://t.co/1O8roanbbl pic.twitter.com/95Cht0Dug1
— Library of Congress (@librarycongress) April 26, 2021
How many times did Prick Scott take the 5th when he was deposed over Medicare Fraud????
I’m reading Rick Scott Deposition In Health Care Fraud… on Scribd. Check it out: https://t.co/irRuurVxk5
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) April 25, 2021
re: #177 Patricia Kayden
A caller to a local public radio talk show claimed that because the cop didn’t use racial slurs, racism played no role in Floyd’s murder. He was furious that Democrats and liberals are claiming that race plays a role in these cop killings of Black people. The host, Kojo Nnamdi, had to cut him off.
He wasn’t convicted of racism. He was convicted of murder. His racism is what led him to restrain Floyd the way he did, killing him.
re: #189 🌹UOJB!
On this date in 1865, the Union cavalry cornered and killed John Wilkes Booth. The actor had been the subject of a massive manhunt after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Read more about this in our historical newspaper archives.
Trump would have insisted that he did nothing wrong…
re: #191 Belafon
He wasn’t convicted of racism. He was convicted of murder. His racism is what led him to restrain Floyd the way he did, killing him.
This is the tactic they are adopting: lashing out against “woke” and “cancel culture” and “political correctness” as if some violation of them constitutes a crime, and that they are somehow the victims of it.
re: #190 🌹UOJB!
How many times did Prick Scott take the 5th when he was deposed over Medicare Fraud????
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you mean ex-governor scott
current senator scott
that scott?
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yeah
scott and trump: stealing, grifting and voters failing them upwards
re: #191 Belafon
He wasn’t convicted of racism. He was convicted of murder. His racism is what led him to restrain Floyd the way he did, killing him.
i’d slice it thinner and sooner
did they think he was printing bills in his basement?
of course not
chauvin’s racism is what escalated an inconsequential minor nothingburger into a suspect’s death
re: #120 🌹UOJB!
Wish I had been paid a starting rate > $15 when I got my MA.
My start was half that in 1977.
$7 in 1977 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $30.60 today
re: #121 The Pie Overlord!
My first programming job paid $10/hr. This was back in 1986.
$10 in 1986 is worth $24.17 today
re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
On this date in 1865, the Union cavalry cornered and killed John Wilkes Booth. The actor had been the subject of a massive manhunt after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Read more about this in our historical newspaper archives.
Trump would have insisted that he did nothing wrong…
I worked with a hardcore randian-libertarian who claimed the same (Lincoln was a traitor and deserved to die - worst President, evah) and that Wilkes was not killed and lived out his natural life of in a rooming house in SC(?).
Found my car extremely loud today. 2008 Prius. You can probably guess what happened.
My floor-sweeping job at Douglas Aircraft paid $3.35/hr. in 1966, which was a fortune for a 16 year old. Nobody here will be surprised to hear that it was a union shop. I bought my first car, bought my mother a new china cabinet (which I have now), and paid for my flying lessons.
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
According to Google Maps you could get from Café Cinnamon, Ocotal, Nicaragua to Taqueria Kiko’s, 7705 S Cage Blvd, Pharr, TX 78577, United States in 38 hours if the traffic was good.
Verify COVID-19 border restrictions before going.
my first m-f 9-5, not a summer camp counselor job was in the family business.
you can guess how well i was paid
re: #203 John Hughes
According to Google Maps you could get from Café Cinnamon, Ocotal, Nicaragua to Taqueria Kiko’s, 7705 S Cage Blvd, Pharr, TX 78577, United States in 38 hours if the traffic was good.
re: #204 Dangerman
We fed and housed you…. be happy you’re employed?
re: #201 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
$26.76 today.
re: #198 John Hughes
$10 in 1986 is worth $24.17 today
I make about 10% more than that as an experienced professional Planner. I could probably make a bit more in the private sector, but I’d have to be in a major city and my housing costs would skyrocket.
re: #203 John Hughes
According to Google Maps you could get from Café Cinnamon, Ocotal, Nicaragua to Taqueria Kiko’s, 7705 S Cage Blvd, Pharr, TX 78577, United States in 38 hours if the traffic was .
Well, yeah, for tourists driving a passenger car - wouldn’t a Soviet Armored division take a little more time than that?
(Even though they, presumably, wouldn’t have to worry about slowing down for the tolls….)
re: #158 lawhawk
PBS ran a great documentary, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
pbs.org
It was a Sundance winner in 2017.
includes Link Wray, Robbie Robertson, Jimi Hendrix, Randy Castillo, Slash, Steve Salas, Rhiannon Giddens, Charlie Patton, Jesse Ed Davis, Neville Brothers. All of whom are at least partly indigenous.
re: #165 lawhawk
Denali as Mt McKinley. Right wingers went batshit over that.
Trump offered to change the name back. Murkowski was horrified, told him absolutely not.
re: #209 Jay C
Well, yeah, for tourists driving a passenger car - wouldn’t a Soviet Armored division take a little more time than that?
(Even though they, presumably, wouldn’t have to worry about slowing down for the tolls….)
And it’s rather unlikely they wouldn’t be spotted on the way.
It wouldn’t be the tolls that would be slowing them down.
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