Two Acoustic Guitar Maestros: Mike Dawes & Tommy Emmanuel, “Somebody That I Used to Know”

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Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Australian mega-hit, alongside Australia’s guitar hero Tommy Emmanuel CGP! // USA & EU tour dates with Tommy below…
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10 years after Gotye released this global mega-hit, and 9 years after I released my own guitar arrangement, it’s an honour to collaborate with the great one, Tommy Emmanuel, for this special version of Somebody That I Used to Know.

I’ll be on tour opening for Tommy throughout the Western USA in January. Tickets on sale at http://mikedawes.com

7 Jan. – Denver, CO – Soiled Dove
8 Jan. – Denver, CO – Soiled Dove
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14 Jan. – Seattle, WA – Triple Door
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17 Jan. – Red Bluff, CA – State Theatre
18 Jan. – Berkley, CA – Freight & Salvage
19 Jan. – Berkley, CA – Freight & Salvage

17 Feb. – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013
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223 comments
1
Rightwingconspirator  Jun 27, 2021 • 6:37:45pm

Somehow it feels like less than ten years. The last decade has seemingly blown by so fast…

2
Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2021 • 6:39:58pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 27, 2021 • 6:45:26pm

BTW, ranting aside. A Southern Idaho good evening.

Baked Salmon, potatoes and buttered peas. See Mom, I can actually cook/eat a decent meal. :-)

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JOE 🥓  Jun 27, 2021 • 6:51:48pm
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Belafon  Jun 27, 2021 • 6:56:05pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 27, 2021 • 7:04:51pm

Night Lizard. May tomorrow bring you a Blessed Day.

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Belafon  Jun 27, 2021 • 7:05:34pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2021 • 7:11:55pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 27, 2021 • 7:35:22pm

re: #1 Rightwingconspirator

Somehow it feels like less than ten years. The last decade has seemingly blown by so fast…

It gets faster with each passing year.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 27, 2021 • 7:39:07pm

Another loss for authoritarians after Trump and Bibi. I hope we have turned a corner, but the fight is far from over.

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Dangerman  Jun 27, 2021 • 7:53:01pm

real or trolling? (it was really there, but who did it?)

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 27, 2021 • 7:53:18pm

re: #10 No Malarkey!

Le Pen, like her dad, can bullshit a good game but inevitably fails to deliver. Deep down, most French - even her supporters - know this.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 27, 2021 • 7:57:17pm

re: #11 Dangerman

real or trolling? (it was really there, but who did it?)

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If that’s a Poe, it’s fucking brilliant.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:00:11pm

re: #1 Rightwingconspirator

Somehow it feels like less than ten years. The last decade has seemingly blown by so fast…

Each decade goes by faster.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:01:17pm

I went for a bike ride today. I thought I could squeeze 15 miles out of the mostly depleted battery. It only had 9, unfortunately I needed 10 to get home so I had to call the support vehicle for a ride up the hill. 47.1 miles on that battery.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:03:20pm

I guess we got an answer……

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JOE 🥓  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:13:53pm

re: #16 Dave In Austin

I guess we got an answer……

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He couldn’t win. Republicans have a lock on the Deep South.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:16:54pm

hi

In today’s episode of “Nebraska Wingnuts”:

‘A Man Sent From Heaven’: Hank Kunneman Likens Mike Lindell to John the Baptist (Right Wing Watch, June 24, 2021, more at the link)

I am so glad I am not going to this Heaven.

Right-wing pastor Hank Kunneman was a guest on the “Flashpoint” program Tuesday night, where he declared that fellow right-wing election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell had been “sent from Heaven” to overturn the election and put former President Donald Trump back in the White House.

Kunneman, a self-proclaimed “prophet” who guaranteed that Trump would win the election and now adamantly refuses to admit that he was wrong, joined Lindell on the program, which aired live from the National Religious Broadcasters’ convention in Dallas, Texas. Lindell has been waging an endless and heretofore fruitless campaign to prove that the 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud and foreign interference, which he is convinced will, once revealed, return Trump to office “by this fall, for sure.”

Kunneman had nothing but praise for Lindell’s efforts, likening him to John the Baptist.

“There’s a scripture that says, ‘There was a man sent from Heaven, and his name was John,’” Kunneman said, quoting John 1:6. “There’s a man sent from Heaven named Mike Lindell that God is using to wake up America with a different kind of awakening, and it’s called a great awakening to the truth.”

Kunneman claimed that he had prophesied in August 2020 that there would be an effort to steal the election but there would “come a great unmasking” that would result in the “removal of political figures.” (For the record, Kunneman’s current interpretation of his August 2020 “prophecy” is quite different from what he actually “prophesied” at the time.)

I believe that your Bible has a few choice words about false prophets, Rev. Kunneman. It also has quite a bit to say about bearing false witness, Mr. Lindell.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:17:02pm

WTAF

Click to Reveal


It needs Photoshop.

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plansbandc  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:18:50pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Sadly, not for me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:22:27pm

re: #19 The Pie Overlord!

WTAF

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It needs Photoshop.

“The Devil is a master of disguise and takes many forms.”—CL Hall

I’m convinced their Heaven is really the Hell they preach about constantly.

(4:03)

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Video)

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William Lewis  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:25:25pm

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I find it easier to believe in God than in heaven and hell. And no, I don’t believe in either of them.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:26:08pm
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Belafon  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:29:48pm

re: #17 JOE 🥓

He couldn’t win. Republicans now have a lock on the Deep South.

It wasn’t that long ago when Georgia was the deep South.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:31:47pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:33:08pm

re: #24 Belafon

It wasn’t that long ago when Georgia was the deep South.

re: #17 JOE 🥓

He couldn’t win. Republicans have a lock on the Deep South.

Louisiana does have a Democratic governor.

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mmmirele  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:42:16pm

re: #19 The Pie Overlord!

WTAF

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It needs Photoshop.

You might have missed this earlier today. I’ll put it behind the button because it’s repulsive.

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mmmirele  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:50:00pm

Part of Lil Nas X’s performance at the BET Awards tonight.

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plansbandc  Jun 27, 2021 • 8:54:28pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

It gives me some hope.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:03:46pm

re: #29 plansbandc

It gives me some hope.

Now if only Eastern Europe could get it’s shit together.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:08:04pm

Rome’s Colosseum opens its underground for the first time in its history

Now, tourists will be able to walk through the passageways on a wooden platform and admire the corridors and archways which interconnected the hypogea between the rooms where gladiators and animals waited, before entering the elevators which would catapult them onto the arena.
Back then, the hypogea was illuminated by candlelight. But with the arena’s original ground level long destroyed, it is visible from the Colosseum’s upper levels, and the sunlight filters down into its depths.

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A Cranky One  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:22:15pm

Charles:

Thanks for posting that incredibly tasty guitar piece. Two masters really enjoying themselves.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:24:23pm

Low down crazy…. This guy has talent or it’s a huge scam.

呪術廻戦 OP 廻廻奇譚 [ベース]

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:28:26pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

My take is that WandaVision was more creative. The Mandalorian was more a sweet morsel for Star Wars fandom.

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plansbandc  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:28:59pm

So the fatal balloon crash has an even more tragic story.

The flight was a goodbye and good luck gift to an Assistant Principal at an elementary school here. She was moving on to a different school. Seems flying in a balloon was on her bucket list.

Everyone in the balloon had some ties to Albuquerque Public Schools.

I mourn the loss of those people. I also feel terrible for the folks who gave the balloon flight as a gift. JFC

The Universe can be extremely cruel.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:30:51pm

re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

My take is that WandaVision was more creative. The Mandalorian was more a sweet morsel for Star Wars fandom.

I can relate to the character of Wanda Maximoff. I get Wanda’s problems of not fitting in. Not so much a bunch of Boba Fett clones and a mini-Yoda.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:40:04pm

re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I can relate to the character of Wanda Maximoff. I get Wanda’s problems of not fitting in. Not so much a bunch of Boba Fett clones and a mini-Yoda.

Grogu. His name is Grogu.

But I agree with the Boba Fett clones and a great many characters that the SW franchise keeps spitting out. I find them hard to be relatable. However, the plots and action scenes are usually pretty good.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:44:16pm

re: #37 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Grogu. His name is Grogu.

But I agree with the Boba Fett clones and a great many characters that the SW franchise keeps spitting out. I find them hard to be relatable. However, the plots and action scenes are usually pretty good.

I think of him as mini-Yoda as an extension of an inside joke my wife told a local rancher a couple Springs ago.

She noted that there were new calves on his ranch suckling from cows. She did not refer to them as “calves” however, she referred to them as “carnivorous mini-cattle” because they were “eating the cows.” Said rancher howled at that and repeated it all over the area.

Locally now, people frequently refer to calves as “mini-cattle.”

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William Lewis  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:44:51pm

re: #37 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Grogu. His name is Grogu.

But I agree with the Boba Fett clones and a great many characters that the SW franchise keeps spitting out. I find them hard to be relatable. However, the plots and action scenes are usually pretty good.

At least it’s better than the Josey Wales clone of Firefly right down to the Lost Cause mythos baked into it. The Mandalorian has more in common with the Spaghetti westerns than that thankfully. Can be cliche’d but at it’s best the sequences (take the long opening sequence to “Once Upon a Time in the West” for example) are glorious fun.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2021 • 9:48:47pm
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John Hughes  Jun 27, 2021 • 10:27:01pm

re: #10 No Malarkey!

That’s not how it works, they’ve won quite a few seats, but not enough to rule any region.
(The regional elections are for regional councilors, who will then elect the president of the region. They are proportional, with a large top-up for the group that gets the most votes. The RN came first nowhere, getting around 25% at most)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2021 • 10:36:44pm

re: #40 Dave In Austin

Who is this moran?

No.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2021 • 10:44:47pm

re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I found the thread to be rather entertaining.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2021 • 10:57:53pm

re: #43 Dave In Austin

I found the thread to be rather entertaining.

There are a whole lot of people reading him the riot act.

I don’t think I would have survived one hand surgery without Fentanyl after surgery and OxyContin for a couple weeks as needed, much less five.

Opiods aren’t the problem any more than any other potentially addictive drug. The relentless pursuit of profit by capitalism constantly pushing for overprescription of medications is, combined with lack of training for proper safe use by medical personnel.

When I broke my hand, Tramadol was a new drug, marketed as non-addictive (LOL). I was treated in a VA emergency room in Wichita overnight for that, and they pulled a prescription package out of an unlocked stand-up locker of the drug for me to take for pain after setting my broken bones.

They had no drug fact sheet for the drug to give me, so I wouldn’t take it. They could not answer questions about the drug because they didn’t know the answers.

So I waited until I got home to Oklahoma so I could get to the Internet and find out what was up with the drug.

As it turns out, Tramadol impairs liver function, slowing down the processing of other drugs. That means it is contraindicated for any barbiturate, particularly Phenobarbital (for which the therapeutic dose is very close to the lethal dose). Taking Tramadol would have killed me.

I had to suffer two days with no pain relief whatsoever until my wife could schlep me back to Wichita to get Darvocet (now banned for safety reasons).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:09:14pm

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There is also a social/moral attitude that it doesn’t count as drug addiction or drug abuse if you are using prescription drugs.

But the $230 million in damages that Johnson & Johnson is paying constitutes but a patch on the suffering they caused (and on the billions they made from it)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:15:31pm

re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is also a social/moral attitude that it is not drug addiction or drug abuse if you are using prescription drugs.

There was that idiot op-ed in the Los Angeles Times where the writer tried to suggest people should throw out their antidepressants because “they are addicts, and no one should take any addictive drugs.”

The person was dragged for days on the difference between “dependent” and “addictive.” The most common comparisons cited were insulin, for which a diabetic is absolutely dependent but in no way an addict, and Synthroid (same for those with thyroid deficiencies).

The Times doubled down defending their op-ed writer, which got them dragged further.

On the dipshyte who put that question up, his Twitter bio reads:

Sex Advice Blogger Politics, culture, sex and life

A definite authority on pain management there.

There are plenty of people with opinions, and they’re willing to show their immense ignorance to the whole world with hot takes like “should we ban opiates?”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:23:08pm

I’m going to mosey off to bed, I’m tired and it’s cold (57° ‘Murican). Catch y’all another time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:24:02pm

My ex told me a few years back that her cousin, a doctor and “pain management specialist” in Texas, had just bought himself a 14,000-sq. ft. house in Texas.

Basically a legal drug dealer’s crib.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:30:23pm

Hell, codeine alone is a reason for legal opioids. I hate American policies on codeine, it’s over the counter in Canada. My mother gave it to me when I had the flu at 5 years old. APC plus codeine. I grew up with it, it’s just like aspirin but it actually works.

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Teukka  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:31:20pm

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are a whole lot of people reading her the riot act.

I don’t think I would have survived one hand surgery without Fentanyl after surgery and OxyContin for a couple weeks as needed, much less five.

Opiods aren’t the problem any more than any other potentially addictive drug. The relentless pursuit of profit by capitalism constantly pushing for overprescription of medications is, combined with lack of training for proper safe use by medical personnel.

When I broke my hand, Tramadol was a new drug, marketed as non-addictive (LOL). I was treated in a VA emergency room in Wichita overnight for that, and they pulled a prescription package out of an unlocked stand-up locker of the drug for me to take for pain after setting my broken bones.

They had no drug fact sheet for the drug to give me, so I wouldn’t take it. They could not answer questions about the drug because they didn’t know the answers.

So I waited until I got home to Oklahoma so I could get to the Internet and find out what was up with the drug.

As it turns out, Tramadol impairs liver function, slowing down the processing of other drugs. That means it is contraindicated for any barbiturate, particularly Phenobarbital (for which the therapeutic dose is very close to the lethal dose). Taking Tramadol would have killed me.

I had to suffer two days with no pain relief whatsoever until my wife could schlep me back to Wichita to get Darvocet (now banned for safety reasons).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:32:39pm

re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron

Hell, codeine alone is a reason for legal opioids. I hate American policies on codeine, it’s over the counter in Canada. My mother gave it to me when I had the flu at 5 years old. APC plus codeine. I grew up with it, it’s just like aspirin but it actually works.

Used to be available over the counter in UK, although I hear that has changed. But very useful when I have a fever and cannot sleep.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:37:55pm

re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Used to be available over the counter in UK, although I hear that has changed. But very useful when I have a fever and cannot sleep.

I like recreational drugs more than most, codeine was never even remotely ever in my recreational pharmaceuticals column. Now heroin…. I can see why it is addicting. I stay away from it, too tempting.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:43:27pm

Why doesn’t anyone make a bike helmet with a cloth brim for shade, or a cloth brim that attaches to a bike helmet?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:44:00pm

re: #52 Dread Pirate Ron

I like recreational drugs more than most, codeine was never even remotely ever in my recreational pharmaceuticals column. Now heroin…. I can see why it is addicting. I stay away from it, too tempting.

I hate to say it, but I could easily get addicted to opiates in any form.

But I find that two paracetamol and codeine tablets are not enough to get a buzz on but really help me get a good night’s sleep and recover more quickly from a cold and fever.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:50:48pm

In Canada they were Aspirin, Phenacetin, Caffeine, plus Codeine tablets. The aspirin broke the fever and the codeine took the aches and pain, caffeine countered the drowsiness and I have no idea what phenacetin did.

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William Lewis  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:59:05pm

re: #52 Dread Pirate Ron

When I was stationed in Germany in 83 - 84 the Afghan rebels were financing the war against the Russians with hash laced with opium. Black bubblegum we called it. Only tried it once- as you said, way too tempting.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 27, 2021 • 11:59:48pm

...

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:00:02am

I don’t use opioids or anything addicting (unless caffeine counts), but you’ll take my muscle relaxants from my cold, dead hands.

In other news, I spent the day at my computer, catching up on all my financial records — I was almost a year behind. I finished at 11:30 pm, but it’s DONE!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:02:57am

re: #58 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

That’s like my email addresses. I just deleted a few years without looking. It’s like my phone system, “If it’s important, they will call back.”

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Cheechako  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:03:50am

re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron

Hell, codeine alone is a reason for legal opioids. I hate American policies on codeine, it’s over the counter in Canada. My mother gave it to me when I had the flu at 5 years old. APC plus codeine. I grew up with it, it’s just like aspirin but it actually works.

When we return from the lower 48 we always pick up a supply of ACC or, as they’re sometimes called 222’s (aspirin, codeine, and caffeine). Very handy to have some stashed around the house. Also, we’ve never had any trouble “importing” them into the US at the Border.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:04:57am

re: #60 Cheechako

When we return from the lower 48 we always pick up a supply of ACC or, as they’re sometimes called 222’s (aspirin, codeine, and caffeine). Very handy to have some stashed around the house. Also, we’ve never had any trouble “importing” them into the US at the Border.

YES, 222s!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:05:26am

re: #60 Cheechako

When we return from the lower 48 we always pick up a supply of ACC or, as they’re sometimes called 222’s (aspirin, codeine, and caffeine). Very handy to have some stashed around the house. Also, we’ve never had any trouble “importing” them into the US at the Border.

They lie with the gray area of drugs you can possess but cannot buy or sell in the USA, much like the story with many early AIDS medications in The Dallas Buyer’s Club

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:05:41am

re: #55 Dread Pirate Ron

In Canada they were Aspirin, Phenacetin, Caffeine, plus Codeine tablets. The aspirin broke the fever and the codeine took the aches and pain, caffeine countered the drowsiness and I have no idea what phenacetin did.

Greatly increased your chances of liver damage. (Phenacetin is a painkiller like acetaminophen, but it was banned in the ’70s and ’80s.)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:06:08am

“Dr. Frost’s 222s”

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:07:06am

re: #56 William Lewis

When I was stationed in Germany in 83 - 84 the Afghan rebels were financing the war against the Russians with hash laced with opium. Black bubblegum we called it. Only tried it once- as you said, way too tempting.

They were also selling lapis — I know someone who did some dealing in rocks, gemstones, fossils and all that at the time.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:11:32am

HAH, more expensive than my helmet but hey. ($45)

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Cheechako  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:11:33am

On the Mexico/US border I think the boner pills rank in the top 10 of “imported drugs”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:18:35am

re: #63 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Greatly increased your chances of liver damage. (Phenacetin is a painkiller like acetaminophen, but it was banned in the ’70s and ’80s.)

yes, in order to get enough codeine to get a buzz on, you have to wreck your liver.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:19:04am

re: #67 Cheechako

On the Mexico/US border I think the boner pills rank in the top 10 of “imported drugs”.

just because they are cheap and over-the-counter.

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William Lewis  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:30:26am

re: #67 Cheechako

On the Mexico/US border I think the boner pills rank in the top 10 of “imported drugs”.

Huh. VA Pharmacy is cheap and easy for that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:37:56am

re: #70 William Lewis

Huh. VA Pharmacy is cheap and easy for that.

Those who stood for their country…

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Targetpractice  Jun 28, 2021 • 12:50:13am

re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Those who stood for their country…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 28, 2021 • 1:05:18am
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Nojay UK  Jun 28, 2021 • 1:26:04am

re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Re: codeine compounded with ibuprofen or paracetamol.

Used to be available over the counter in UK, although I hear that has changed.

It’s still available OTC in the UK although the dispensing pharmacist will talk to you about it beforehand. It’s not on open sale like aspirin or other NSAIDs on supermarket shelves. I have a small stash in case of migraines because it damps down the worst of the headaches plus a certain amount of I-don’t-care on top. The colours, man!

A typical few-questions-asked OTC formulation is something like 8mg of codeine phosphate in a 500mg paracetamol tablet. Take more than a couple at a time and wave goodbye to your liver because of the paracetamol, so getting high that way is contraindicated although there are internet recipes for harvesting the codeine from crushed tablets which may work. There are commonly prescribed combo pills with up to 30mg of codeine for people with chronic pain, like Co-Codamol and Solpadol

The odd “not sold to men here” NSAID in the UK is naproxen, trade name Aleve. Women can buy it from pharmacies for period pain relief but it’s not on regular sale. I use it myself for general headaches, sprains etc. but I have a pusher who gets it for me through back-channels.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 28, 2021 • 2:21:40am

The first time I rewatched The X-Files I only watched mainly the alien related episodes. I’m watching it again and watching every episode. I’m starting season two. It’s going much slower this time.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 28, 2021 • 2:30:59am

.

Bud Powell - Dance Of The Infidels [1952]



..

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2021 • 2:38:01am

I am ready for the Fulton County prosecutor to indict Trump for election interference anytime. We’ve all heard him try to strongarm Raffensperger.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 2:40:11am

re: #77 No Malarkey!

I am ready for the Fulton County prosecutor to indict Trump for election interference anytime. We’ve all heard him try to strongarm Raffensperger.

Barr was Trump’s main bastion of support in avoiding the consequences of his election tampering.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2021 • 3:52:34am

It’s a damn shame, but it isn’t weird. Toyota and its affiliated suppliers are mostly based in states like Kentucky and Texas. So if one overlooks the trifling inconvenience that recipients of their largess tried to overturn the election, it makes sense.

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steve_davis  Jun 28, 2021 • 4:08:24am

re: #63 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Greatly increased your chances of liver damage. (Phenacetin is a painkiller like acetaminophen, but it was banned in the ’70s and ’80s.)

actually, it apparently wasn’t liver damage. Caused significant cancers of the “renal/ urinary tract.” After they banned it in 79 in Australia, women especially had many fewer instances of renal pelvis cancer. I mean, when it’s not just “this sometimes gives our rats cancer,” but is instead, “yeah, you’re getting cancer from this,” that’s a good ban.

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William Lewis  Jun 28, 2021 • 4:33:55am

re: #80 steve_davis

actually, it apparently wasn’t liver damage. Caused significant cancers of the “renal/ urinary tract.” After they banned it in 79 in Australia, women especially had many fewer instances of renal pelvis cancer. I mean, when it’s not just “this sometimes gives our rats cancer,” but is instead, “yeah, you’re getting cancer from this,” that’s a good ban.

Interesting. I hadn’t heard of this drug previously so I glanced at Wiki. Yeah, good ban. Apparently Howard Hughes abused it due to chronic pain and the autopsy speculated that this caused his renal failure.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:07:27am

Oh jeez, I went and did it.
My mentions are going to be a mess for at least a day.
Doesn’t help that Bodega Cats retweeted me either…LOL
Already over 575 600 likes

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:38:58am
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Dopamine Fish  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:40:28am

re: #83 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I think this is my favorite part so far:

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BlueSpotinAL  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:42:53am

re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Those who stood for their country…

like Newt Gingrich.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:44:34am

re: #85 BlueSpotinAL

like Newt Gingrich.

Yeah…what a great Xtian!

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:45:45am

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BlueSpotinAL  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:50:04am

Tom Tomorrow nailed the Tucker Carlson dumb as a post look.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:50:58am

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BlueSpotinAL  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:52:12am

I’m trying to think, but nothing happens!

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:55:58am

re: #90 BlueSpotinAL

Probably my all-time favorite picture of the Three Stooges:

Curly looks like he’s had quite enough bullshit for today.

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 5:56:19am
Seated in the Situation Room with [Attorney General Bill] Barr, Milley, and [Secretary of Defense Mark] Esper, Trump exaggerated claims about the violence and alarmed officials … by announcing he’d just put Milley “in charge.”
Privately, Milley confronted Trump about his role. He was an adviser, and not in command. But Trump had had enough.
“I said you’re in f—-ing charge!” Trump shouted at him.
“Well, I’m not in charge!” Milley yelled back.
“You can’t f—-ing talk to me like that!” Trump said. …
“Goddamnit,” Milley said to others. “There’s a room full of lawyers here. Will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities?”
“He’s right, Mr. President,” Barr said. “The general is right.”

From that same book

Guy had no clue how our govt works
Just wanted what he wanted like a dictator

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:01:15am

re: #92 Dangerman

Of course Trump denies it ever happened: “If Gen. Milley had yelled at me, I would have fired him”

How many in the room You think independently confirmed it?

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:02:28am

re: #93 Dangerman

Of course Trump denies it ever happened: “If Gen. Milley had yelled at me, I would have fired him”

How many in the room You think independently confirmed it?

We know OANN, Newsmax, Fox and Trump’s Pulpit Pimpin Posse would swear it never happened!

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:05:01am

Relatives posting their thrill of meeting a guy who killed a man in a car accident, er, JFK Jr…and “he” said the Arizona audit shows lots of bamboo fibers in the Biden ballots…and yes on August 15th Trump will be back in the White House…

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:08:16am

Analysis: More Jobs Created in Biden’s 4 Months Than Bushes/Trump Combined

The graph below captures one of the most significant inconvenient truths in American politics - the GOP’s economic track record over the past 30 years has been among the worst in the history of the United States. With the strong May jobs report, over 2m jobs have been created in the first four months of the Biden Presidency. Remarkably this is more than was created over the Presidencies of the last 3 Republican Presidents, combined

Link

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jeffreyw  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:09:20am

Good morning!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:12:05am

re: #97 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Oh oh. Someone is following Cooper. :-)

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:15:18am

re: #95 JOE 🥓

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:15:30am

re: #92 Dangerman

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:16:43am
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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:17:27am
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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:21:15am

re: #102 Dangerman

Apparently he’s also pissed at barr and McConnell

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:23:03am

Whose Birthdays are today?

Mel Brooks and June Lockhart!

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:23:54am

Two more, as the guy loses it in real time

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:28:35am

re: #105 Dangerman

Holy moly. Our utterly deranged most recent Former President just released an absolutely crazed, delusional, lie filled, rambling lengthy attack on William Barr for telling the simple truth about Trump’s insane election fraud lies. The man is unraveling mentally more by the hour.

This is the equivalent of Steiner not being able to mass sufficient forces to stage a counter-attack and relieve Berlin…

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:35:06am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is the equivalent of Steiner not being able to mass sufficient forces to stage a counter-attack and relieve Berlin…

More like that moment when Der Führer realized that Steiner’s forces were nothing more than an illusion, a fever dream of his amphetamine-addled mind.

BTW, I’d say the late Bruno Ganz captured that moment about as well as any actor could’ve possibly hoped to do.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:37:20am

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

More like that moment when Der Führer realized that Steiner’s forces were nothing more than an illusion, a fever dream of his amphetamine-addled mind.

Yet there are 75 million deluded assholes who want Trump back in the White House and 50 million of those are dumb enough to believe he will be put back in on August 15th…

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:37:51am
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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:42:03am

re: #93 Dangerman

Of course Trump denies it ever happened: “If Gen. Milley had yelled at me, I would have fired him”

How many in the room You think independently confirmed it?

No, he wouldn’t have. He has no clue how to handle men that are more forcefully than him. At best, he would have had someone else fire Milley.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:46:45am

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

More like that moment when Der Führer realized that Steiner’s forces were nothing more than an illusion, a fever dream of his amphetamine-addled mind.

BTW, I’d say the late Bruno Ganz captured that moment about as well as any actor could’ve possibly hoped to do.

“Everyone but Jared, Donald Jr. and Ivanka leave the room!”

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Targetpractice  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:47:06am

re: #110 Belafon

No, he wouldn’t have. He has no clue how to handle men that are more forcefully than him. At best, he would have had someone else fire Milley.

He’d have fired him via tweet, so that Milley would have had to call the WH just to get a confirmation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:48:06am

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

More like that moment when Der Führer realized that Steiner’s forces were nothing more than an illusion, a fever dream of his amphetamine-addled mind.

BTW, I’d say the late Bruno Ganz captured that moment about as well as any actor could’ve possibly hoped to do.

By that point, Hitler no longer had access to his personal doctor or his regular “vitamin” injections and was going full cold turkey.

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:48:46am

heron’s back again
eating more of our fish
then our resident snake comes out
they stare each other down

and a second later the snake strikes (what for i dont know)
the bird tosses the snake into the pond
it slithers out and goes into the trees

Good Morning! (for everyone except one eaten fish)

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:50:06am

re: #109 No Malarkey!

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They don’t see it as police misconduct, hence nothing to address

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:52:44am

If I were running the DNC, I would tell them to remove them as contenders, but:

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:53:32am
Nearly three-dozen corporate PACs have donated at least $5,000 to Republicans who objected to certifying the 2020 election, yet Toyota leads by a substantial margin,” Axios reports.

Replied Toyota in a statement: “We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the electoral certification.”

If that’s your attitude, no Toyotas for me then

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:53:50am

re: #115 Dangerman

The GOP has always been about Law And Order writ big and Low Taxes writ even bigger.

The result has been law enforcement officers like the infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio - who wound up costing Maricopa County millions in lawsuits over abuse and malpractice.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 6:59:46am
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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:02:22am
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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:03:11am
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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:07:01am

re: #115 Dangerman

They don’t see it as police misconduct, hence nothing to address

As long as they are killing blah people and not “tourists.”

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:10:30am

What is it about India and these secondary infections?

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:13:15am

You know how people make up hypothetical models where everyone gets infected, and they say that it’s just an extreme model to prove a point, well, they can stop saying that last part:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:15:48am

re: #124 Belafon

You know how people make up hypothetical models where everyone gets infected, and they say that it’s just an extreme model to prove a points, well, they can stop saying that last part:

The highly contagious Delta strain of COVID-19 infected everyone who attended a Sydney birthday party except for the six people who were vaccinated

So I am staying away from crowded indoor events until I am fully vaccinated.

(exactly one month to go before second shot)

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:16:37am

re: #40 Dave In Austin

Fuck no, says a person with arthritis married to another person with diabetic neuropathy.

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:18:22am
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Teukka  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:18:27am

re: #123 Belafon

Not a secondary infection, but an immune response syndrome, MIS-C.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:18:49am

re: #121 Belafon

Very good news!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:19:05am

re: #126 The Pie Overlord!

Fuck no, says a person with arthritis married to another person with diabetic neuropathy.

Should opioids be banned in the US?

On the other hand, we should not have doctors prescribing them en masse to mask pain rather than treat the causes. But then again, that is the American way.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:29:00am
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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:31:46am
Work-force development officials said they had seen virtually no uptick in applicants since the governor’s announcement, which ended a $300 weekly supplement to other benefits. And the online job site Indeed found that in states that have abandoned the federal benefits, clicks on job postings were below the national average.

nytimes.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:33:29am

re: #132 Belafon

nytimes.com

it’s all about the cruelty

or rather the ideology

paying lip service to “the dignity of labor” while treating workers like a disposable commodity

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:50:06am

re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

By that point, Hitler no longer had access to his personal doctor or his regular “vitamin” injections and was going full cold turkey.

Yeah, I forgot, by that point Dr. Morell had left the Führerbunker.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:53:29am

re: #134 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, II forgot, by that point Dr. Morell had left the Führerbunker.

and the factories producing the Eudokal and Pervitin were long bombed out

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 7:59:58am

re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

it’s all about the cruelty

or rather the ideology

paying lip service to “the dignity of labor” while treating workers like a disposable commodity

The governor has decided to reject money that would be spent in the state, thus hindering the ability for the state to get back to a normal economy.

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plansbandc  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:00:05am

re: #114 Dangerman

Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:01:03am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and the factories producing the Eudokal and Pervitin were long bombed out

I recall reading that Hitler was getting up to 20 “vitamin” injections every day - Dr. Morell was using him as a human pincushion. IIRC, some other Nazis privately referred to Dr. Morell as the Reichsspritzenmeister, or “Reich injection master”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:05:39am

re: #138 Dr Lizardo

I recall reading that Hitler was getting up to 20 “vitamin” injections every day - Dr. Morell was using him as a human pincushion. IIRC, some other Nazis privately referred to Dr. Morell as the Reichsspritzenmeister, or “Reich injection master”.

I never heard of anything that extreme, but read that Dr. Morel had to be permanently on call and administered shots on a regular basis, not necessarily daily, but whenever Hitler had an important event and needed a “boost”.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:07:09am

re: #97 jeffreyw

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Western good morning!

Pretty in pink
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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:08:31am

McConnell Insists That Schumer, Pelosi Give Back His Ability To Let Infrastructure Reconciliation Bill Die

Nope.

Go fuck yourself, Mitch!

talkingpointsmemo.com

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plansbandc  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:08:53am

Look at this charming note left on an establishment here. They will never get another dime from us.

Somehow, this doesn’t seem like a way to draw in customers in a very blue city. But hey, I hope he enjoys having his business fail.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:11:59am

re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I never heard of anything that extreme, but read that Dr. Morel had to be permanently on call and administered shots on a regular basis, not necessarily daily, but whenever Hitler had an important event and needed a “boost”.

Another doctor apparently got Hitler hooked on cocaine in the wake of the 20 July assassination attempt (of course, cocaine is well-known as a local anesthetic). And one time, Hitler damn near OD’d on the Bolivian Marching Powder.

vice.com

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:12:24am

Oh my!

Michael Wolff is back with another nuke blaster!

Ivanka Trump called Capitol riot an ‘optics issue’ as it happened while Giuliani drank ‘heavily’: new Michael Wolff book

According to excerpts from Michael Wolff’s new book, “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency”, Donald Trump and his inner circle were stunned by how out of control the march on the U.S. Capitol became as it turned into a riot that had lawmakers running for their lives.

Mark Meadows reportedly said ‘We can’t organize that’ after Trump told supporters he’d march, according to Landslide

Wolff says Trump was confused by “who these people were with their low-rent ‘trailer camp’ bearing and their ‘get-ups’, once joking that he should have invested in a chain of tattoo parlors and shaking his head about ‘the great unwashed’.”

Gee, I wonder what Rudy was drinking—Ripple, Thunderbird or MD20?

theguardian.com

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:12:58am

re: #142 plansbandc

Look at this charming note left on an establishment here. They will never get another dime from us.

[Embedded content]

Somehow, this doesn’t seem like a way to draw in customers in a very blue city. But hey, I hope he enjoys having his business fail.

Seems like that window could use an additional note telling people about businesses that care about their employees.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:14:55am

re: #143 Dr Lizardo

Another doctor apparently got Hitler hooked on cocaine in the wake of the 20 July assassination attempt (of course, cocaine is well-known as a local anesthetic). And one time, Hitler damn near OD’d on the Bolivian Marching Powder.

vice.com

For all the sensationalism, the Third Reich was not awash in drugs, Pervitin use was cut back in the army after its long-term negative effects were made clear and even Doctor Morel had to adhere to strict guidelines about what he was administering and his access was regulated.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:15:56am

re: #132 Belafon

nytimes.com

This is great to have in the bag the next time someone complains to me about the increased unemployment benefits. People aren’t not going back to work because they’re paid too much on unemployment - they’re not going back to work because the work is shit and the pay is even more shit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:17:07am

re: #144 JOE 🥓

Mark Meadows reportedly said ‘We can’t organize that’ after Trump told supporters he’d march, according to Landslide

I recall tuning in the Trump Speech on the 6th and hearing him tell protesters “I’ll be there with you”. That phrase has been largely overlooked in discussions of the event when it should be shoved down his throat.

He admitted that he did not mean it but he clearly understood its power to incite and provoke.

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:18:37am

re: #141 JOE 🥓

McConnell Insists That Schumer, Pelosi Give Back His Ability To Let Infrastructure Reconciliation Bill Die

Nope.

Go fuck yourself, Mitch!

talkingpointsmemo.com

“Republicans have been negotiating in bipartisan good faith to meet the real infrastructure needs of our nation,” he wrote. “The President cannot let congressional Democrats hold a bipartisan bill hostage over a separate and partisan process.”

why not?

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danarchy  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:20:09am

re: #127 Belafon

If there was something like polio or smallpox going around with huge mortality and morbidity rates these people would be lining up for the vaccine. Covid, especially for children, just hasn’t proven to be scary enough.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:21:08am

Heilige Scheiße

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:23:52am

re: #151 The Pie Overlord!

he extreme heat in the Portland has melted power cables in the streetcar system, which caused the agency to cancel streetcar service today & tomorrow. We have a climate crisis fueling cascading health, power, and transportation crises. It’s time to do something.

Texas Republicans are probably gloating now that those liberals in Portland are also having heat-related power supply issues.

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plansbandc  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:24:30am

Look at this pretty creature! It’s a Scarlet Tiger Moth.

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:25:31am

re: #153 plansbandc

Very pretty.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:28:47am

re: #151 The Pie Overlord!

Heilige Scheiße

Damn we’ve been LUCKY here in Los Angeles since it’s only gotten into the 80s here!

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:28:56am

re: #150 danarchy

If there was something like polio or smallpox going around with huge mortality and morbidity rates these people would be lining up for the vaccine. Covid, especially for children, just hasn’t proven to be scary enough.

Hell, if it was EVD, you’d have to deploy the National Guard to quell the vaccine riots - from terrified and desperate people quite literally fighting each other to get vaccinated. You’ve got a good point - the overall mortality rate of COVID-19 isn’t high enough for a lot of people to take it seriously. Personally, I figure once a disease gets a fatality rate over 10%, people start paying attention; 25%+, people are genuinely worried and over 50%, panic sets in.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:29:01am

re: #117 Dangerman

If that’s your attitude, no Toyotas for me then

Yep, it’s a deal breaker. I really like my Camry, trouble free for 120,000 miles, but there are other cars, good ones.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:29:56am

re: #123 Belafon

What is it about India and these secondary infections?

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Reading the article, I don’t think there’s anything out of the norm. The delta variant hit there first, they’re seeing the aftereffects first. Plus the fact that it’s an aftereffect of asymptomatic covid, so it’s blindsided the parents and everyone else.

Also there are just a lot of Indians.

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sagehen  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:30:12am

re: #150 danarchy

If there was something like polio or smallpox going around with huge mortality and morbidity rates these people would be lining up for the vaccine. Covid, especially for children, just hasn’t proven to be scary enough.

In 1947, a New Yorker came home from vacation with smallpox. The city Health Department set up a bunch of vaccination stations and yeah, people were lining up. Eagerly. Six million vaccinations in 3 weeks.

en.wikipedia.org

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:31:21am

re: #157 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Toyota makes incredible cars, I had 2 Corrolas, one Scion Xb, and currently have a Prius (want to upgrade to Prius Prime once the used car market gets normal) GF had Matrix, amazing car that lasted nearly 300k miles (though all Matrix cars had a huge hubcap problem), she replaced last year with a Rav 4.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:32:25am

re: #142 plansbandc

Look at this charming note left on an establishment here. They will never get another dime from us.

[Embedded content]

Somehow, this doesn’t seem like a way to draw in customers in a very blue city. But hey, I hope he enjoys having his business fail.

The forgotten under-class, exploited low-wage workers, are fighting back hard. This amounts to a mass wildcat strike.

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teleskiguy  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:34:35am

Sucks to read that shite about Toyota. My Corolla is the best car I’ve owned, still runs well at 253K miles.

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:35:03am

thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210627 edition ———————->
“Iguanaruption”

Here’s an index of all the postings in #thegreatpoolpondconversion

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:36:02am
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William Lewis  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:39:09am

re: #161 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

The forgotten under-class, exploited low-wage workers, are fighting back hard. This amounts to a mass wildcat strike.

Wages have stagnated for everyone for too long due to GOP greed. The idea of “tipping” wages was in order to exploit the labor of women, blacks and other minorities, originally in the deep south but popular with exploiters nationwide. Raise the minimum and prohibit the use of tips as being considered as part of their wage.

For those whining about the extra unemployment money, this is the reality. People are tired of starvation wages for bad jobs. As happened after the black death when all the serfs moved to the cites the cost of labor is going to become closer to it’s actual value despite the anguished cries of the 1% losing an infinitesimal bit of profit that will be more than made up for by increased productivity.

But that’s basic economics and hence too hard for the GOP to understand.

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teleskiguy  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:39:22am

A couple of weeks ago I saw a mid 90s Toyota Tacoma 4-cylinder manual transmission pickup on FB marketplace, dude wanted $1,500. I’m like, “WHOA,” and look into it. A tree fell on the top of the cab, needs serious body work and a new windshield and windows. I almost bought it.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:40:33am

re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Should opioids be banned in the US?

On the other hand, we should not have doctors prescribing them en masse to mask pain rather than treat the causes. But then again, that is the American way.

For whatever reason, a lot of the people taking them to mask chronic pain have no other options — can’t afford expensive and time-consuming treatment, can’t stop the work that’s causing the pain, etc.

I don’t know about oxycontin, but a heroin addict with access to clean needles can live out a normal lifespan, no problem. If we won’t or can’t manage such cases, they should at least get relief from their pain..

(Also, who do we think we’re kidding. We’ve been fighting the war on drugs for decades with no measurable effects. All that would do is vastly increase demand.)

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:41:25am

David Lynch wishes Mel Brooks a happy birthday in his daily weather report:

David Lynch’s Weather Report 6/28/21

Indeed, Happy Birthday, Mel!

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:43:23am

re: #168 Dr Lizardo

A very happy birthday to Mel Brooks and many more to come. :)

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:44:56am

Google doesn’t like anyone who “slanders” conservatives!

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:45:55am

re: #160 Egregious Philbin

Toyota makes incredible cars, I had 2 Corrolas, one Scion Xb, and currently have a Prius (want to upgrade to Prius Prime once the used car market gets normal) GF had Matrix, amazing car that lasted nearly 300k miles (though all Matrix cars had a huge hubcap problem), she replaced last year with a Rav 4.

re: #162 teleskiguy

Sucks to read that shite about Toyota. My Corolla is the best car I’ve owned, still runs well at 253K miles.

re: #157 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Yep, it’s a deal breaker. I really like my Camry, trouble free for 120,000 miles, but there are other cars, good ones.

my first car ever was a toyota corolla. bought in college ‘76 or so, probably a 72 or 73 model. taught the future mrsdm to drive a stick shift. and those reclining seats.

of course it wouldn’t make any financial sense to dump a car over this.
certainly not a good and reliable one.

finding yourself in the circumstance of having to buy a car, it’s got to be a factor

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:47:05am

re: #165 William Lewis

Wages have stagnated for everyone for too long due to GOP greed.

That pandemic taught us that these neglected, underpaid jobs were often among the most “critical”.

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:47:37am

re: #158 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Reading the article, I don’t think there’s anything out of the norm. The delta variant hit there first, they’re seeing the aftereffects first. Plus the fact that it’s an aftereffect of asymptomatic covid, so it’s blindsided the parents and everyone else.

Also there are just a lot of Indians.

I was thinking also of that other bacterial infection they were having trouble with. But yeah, having nearly a billion people will make small percentages be a large number of people.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:47:45am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Texas Republicans are probably gloating now that those liberals in Portland are also having heat-related power supply issues.

“Because if I have to suffer so should everyone else!”

What a fucked up way to go through life.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:48:07am

re: #142 plansbandc

Look at this charming note left on an establishment here. They will never get another dime from us.

[Embedded content]

Somehow, this doesn’t seem like a way to draw in customers in a very blue city. But hey, I hope he enjoys having his business fail.

Another establishment I won’t be patronizing in Albuquerque.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:48:40am

Today’s episode of Pulpit Pimp Theater that You Tube doesn’t want you to see…

‘Prophet’ Chuck Pierce: God ‘Stopped the Whole World’ With COVID-19 to a Deeper Relationship With Me

God ‘Stopped the Whole World’ Just For Chuck Pierce

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:49:54am

re: #170 JOE 🥓

Google doesn’t like anyone who slanders conservatives!

It’s the fucking algorithms. Conservatives reported RWW en masse for what I’m sure were total bullshit reasons and Youtube saw the spike in flaggings and decided to ban the channel.

Fucking hell.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:50:54am

Can anyone point me to a good explanation of what is causing the heatwave in the Northwest? I’m curious if this is some weird aberration or the beginning of a new normal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:53:55am

re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s the fucking algorithms. Conservatives reported RWW en masse for what I’m sure were total bullshit reasons and Youtube saw the spike in flaggings and decided to ban the channel.

Fucking hell.

I recall all those old Star Trek episodes whose theme was how we cannot let computers make decisions that affect our lives….

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:54:41am

re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That pandemic taught us that these neglected, underpaid jobs were often among the most “critical”.

it’s very hard to change when the pain of the change appears to be worse than the pain of the pain you’re in.

The pandemic gave many low wage earners an opportunity to step back and see the pain of the pain and also to investigate the pain of their change.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:57:02am

Who really needed a survey to figure this out?

An alarming new survey conducted by Morning Consult has found that American conservatives are “uniquely inclined” toward authoritarianism compared to conservatives in other English-speaking nations.

morningconsult.com

26% of the U.S. population qualified as highly right-wing authoritarian, Morning Consult research found, twice the share of the No. 2 countries, Canada and Australia.

The beliefs that voter fraud decided the 2020 election, that Capitol rioters were doing more to protect than undermine the government and that masks and vaccines are not pivotal to stopping COVID-19 were similarly prevalent among right-leaning Americans and those that scored high for right-wing authoritarianism.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 8:59:30am

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

Can anyone point me to a good explanation of what is causing the heatwave in the Northwest? I’m curious if this is some weird aberration or the beginning of a new normal.

Abnormal is the New Normal

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:00:43am
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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:01:19am

another Republican
not a lot of dems

A former political consultant for ex-Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) became the fourth member of the one-term congressman’s staff to be indicted on election fraud charges, the Virginian-Pilot reports.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:01:41am

re: #180 Dangerman

it’s very hard to change when the pain of the change appears to be worse than the pain of the pain you’re in.

The pandemic gave many low wage earners an opportunity to step back and see the pain of the pain and also to investigate the pain of their change.

We were also given a zillion arguments about why low wage earners did not deserve a better wage, how it would damage the economy, how it would only encourage people to replace them with robots (which will happen soon enough, no so much with service workers but with truck, bus, courier and taxi drivers).

But most of all it was just a form of obscene condescending cruelty: “You have minimal skills and education, why do you expect anything more than a minimum wage?”

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:02:10am

re: #170 JOE 🥓

Google doesn’t like anyone who “slanders” conservatives!

Neither does Twitter.

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:02:33am
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Donald Trump’s ongoing lying that he won the 2020 election is “like WWF,” comparing the former president’s return to rally events with the lurid theatrics of staged wrestling entertainment, the HuffPost reports.

Said Romney: “It’s entertaining, but it’s not real. And I know people want to say, yeah, they believe in the ‘Big Lie’ in some cases, but I think people recognize that it’s a lot of show, and bombast. But it’s going nowhere.”

right with the first paragraph
wrong with the second

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:02:50am

It’s so hot in Portland, OR they’ve closed outdoor swimming pools 😮

koin.com

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:07:30am
“A new book from Michael Wolff claims Trump was initially enthusiastic about his supporters storming the Capitol on January 6th — only to turn on them after he realized how terrible they were making him look.”

“This looks terrible,” Trump said. “This is really bad. Who are these people? These aren’t our people, these idiots with these outfits. They look like Democrats.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) dismissed former President Trump’s rally in Ohio over the weekend, characterizing it as a gathering of people to support “a loser president,” The Hill reports.

Said Kinzinger: “It was a rally of a loser president. I mean, he’s the first president to lose reelection in decades. I don’t know why these people would go there and in essence ogle at and in many cases just sort of worship a loser.”

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dat_said  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:08:35am

re: #165 William Lewis

Wages have stagnated for everyone for too long due to GOP greed.

It’s not just wages. It’s that the expectations that any inconvenience to profits should be borne by the employee. It’s especially true in the restaurant industry but exists across all industries. Many service-oriented companies make it real difficult to actually plan a life by having inconsistent schedules changing on a weekly basis and will send you home if business is slow but expect you to immediately accommodate them if an unexpected need arises. It happens in a myriad other ways too - can’t take a vacation because this arbitrary deadline is important and you don’t want to disappoint your “team”; the email sent at 5:05pm Friday labeled “!” must be resolved before work starts on Monday because that’s what everyone else on your team does; and on and on and on.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:09:37am

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

Can anyone point me to a good explanation of what is causing the heatwave in the Northwest? I’m curious if this is some weird aberration or the beginning of a new normal.

It’s an offshore high pressure system holding the heat in over the region. They happen, but this one is unusually strong. (Do a web search on high pressure weather systems and pick your poison.)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:10:52am

re: #191 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

It’s an offshore high pressure system holding the heat in over the region. They happen, but this one is unusually strong. (Do a web search on high pressure weather systems and pick your poison.)

That’ll work. Thanks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:12:12am

re: #190 dat_said

It’s not just wages. It’s that the expectations that any inconvenience to profits should be borne by the employee.

because if we don’t, the entire system will collapse and we will descend into a Socialist Hellhole.

We are slowly starting to understand that does not have to be the case.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:14:26am

re: #187 Dangerman

right with the first paragraph
wrong with the second

Some people want to believe in Trump’s Big Lie more than they want to believe in God or American Democracy.

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:15:00am

re: #190 dat_said

It’s not just wages. It’s that the expectations that any inconvenience to profits should be borne by the employee. It’s especially true in the restaurant industry but exists across all industries. Many service-oriented companies make it real difficult to actually plan a life by having inconsistent schedules changing on a weekly basis and will send you home if business is slow but expect you to immediately accommodate them if an unexpected need arises. It happens in a myriad other ways too - can’t take a vacation because this arbitrary deadline is important and you don’t want to disappoint your “team”; the email sent at 5:05pm Friday labeled “!” must be resolved before work starts on Monday because that’s what everyone else on your team does; and on and on and on.

Education. Companies use to pay to train employees.

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:15:15am

re: #188 Dr Lizardo

It’s so hot in Portland, OR they’ve closed outdoor swimming pools 😮

koin.com

Found at your link:

Drivers pull over, extinguish fire along I-5

One woman offered a case of water, another person had a fire extinguisher

[…]

“I turned to traffic on I-5 and it was basically stopped, so I shook my water bottle and after a few cars, one by one people threw water bottles and another car pulled over and there was like five cars pulled over at that time and a lady jumped out and she had a whole case of water and she just started throwing water bottles at us and we just grabbed them and dumped them on the fire,” Woodford said as she described the incident.

[…]

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Dangerman  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:17:13am

re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

because if we don’t, the entire system will collapse and we will descend into a Socialist Hellhole.

We are slowly starting to understand that does not have to be the case.

Socialism is not a Bugaboo with Young Voters

“So when you remove the labels and ask about one of key policy differences between socialism and capitalism, there is a strong majority for the socialist policy”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:20:45am

re: #197 Dangerman

Socialism is not a Bugaboo with Young Voters

Too much Boy Who Cried Socialist Wolf.

The modern generation tends to understand the distinction between Socialist and social.

They understand that market mechanisms can be useful but are not the ideal solution to every issue.

And they understand that not everything can be treated and traded as just another commodity.

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teleskiguy  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:22:54am

Rudes hanging out with white nationalist Steve Bannon.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:23:12am

re: #196 wrenchwench

One of my friends still lives up in Portland and she said, “We’re being broiled alive like Armie Hammer’s weirdest kink. Send help!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:23:22am

re: #150 danarchy

If there was something like polio or smallpox going around with huge mortality and morbidity rates these people would be lining up for the vaccine. Covid, especially for children, just hasn’t proven to be scary enough.

There were antivaxxers driving up smallpox rates the entire time the smallpox vaccine existed, which, depending on the type of smallpox, could reach nearly 100% death rates.

The Long View: Ye Olde Anti-Vaxxers (Gavi, with particular attention to a smallpox outbreak in Montréal and the anti-vaxxer campaign led against it by physicians and others looking to make a quick Canadian buck).

It is noteworthy when a smallpox outbreak occurred in Boston, then Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor and notorious witch prosecutor Cotton Mather had to order Congregationalist pastors to stop interfering with medical personnel trying to inoculate the colony or he would have them arrested.

As for polio’s paralytic rate, the rate is only 1% of all infections (does that number sound familiar?).

The idea that “Covid 19 patients are hidden away in hospitals if they have serious disease so people don’t see it” is no different than people in hospitals with serious poliomyelitis disease (including building special wards for patients).

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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:23:39am
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JOE 🥓  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:25:02am

Is he going to pass the crack pipe around at this Simpletonposium?

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:25:03am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:25:59am

re: #202 JOE 🥓

Ron Johnson calls for Republicans to run for local office and “take back our culture”

and heritage…

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:26:27am

re: #202 JOE 🥓

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:28:01am

re: #204 The Pie Overlord!

DeSantis: See, I told you it was OK to send local law enforcement to Texas.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:28:29am

re: #206 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It’s time for white nationalists to crawl back under their rocks.

Tiki torches at twilight…

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:28:38am

re: #200 Dr Lizardo

One of my friends still lives up in Portland and she said, “We’re being broiled alive like Armie Hammer’s weirdest kink. Send help!”

Yesterday in the store they started wrapping all the old-fashioned open refrigerated shelf units to keep the cool inside. One customer said that made him uncomfortable and he might never return. No tears were shed.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:34:09am

re: #209 wrenchwench

Yesterday in the store they started wrapping all the old-fashioned open refrigerated shelf units to keep the cool inside. One customer said that made him uncomfortable and he might never return. No tears were shed.

The pandemic showed us that a lot of people will lose their minds when confronted with changes in their routine or environment. Those people will continue to be a danger to us all as we reap what we’ve sown with our CO2 emissions.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:35:54am

re: #190 dat_said

Or being expected to answer the phone 24/7/365 because a vital piece of gaming equipment decided to dump it’s programing and you need to walk the idiots on shift through how to restore it because It’s a busy “weekend” and we need those games up and running now. A singe game making $35.00 a day no biggie. 10 games on a progressive link making over $10K a day, well that is a whole nother story. Crap like this is one of the reason I left. No one wanted to learn how to do it because, “That’s Michele’s job”*.

* Grapevine has it that toward the end of May the Casino suffered some real bad power “bumps” & they lost to two such controllers & they had to call in an IGT Service Tech from Reno to reprogram them because the remaining “techs” didn’t havea clue on what to do. I almost wet myself because I was laughing so hard when THAT mess was passed onto me. What’s that word? Oh yes, Schadenfreude.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:39:09am

re: #209 wrenchwench

Yesterday in the store they started wrapping all the old-fashioned open refrigerated shelf units to keep the cool inside. One customer said that made him uncomfortable and he might never return. No tears were shed.

They’d evaporate immediately, anyway.

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danarchy  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:55:02am

re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There were antivaxxers driving up smallpox rates the entire time the smallpox vaccine existed, which, depending on the type of smallpox, could reach nearly 100% death rates.

The Long View: Ye Olde Anti-Vaxxers (Gavi, with particular attention to a smallpox outbreak in Montréal and the anti-vaxxer campaign led against it by physicians and others looking to make a quick Canadian buck).

It is noteworthy when a smallpox outbreak occurred in Boston, then Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor and notorious witch prosecutor Cotton Mather had to order Congregationalist pastors to stop interfering with medical personnel trying to inoculate the colony or he would have them arrested.

As for polio’s paralytic rate, the rate is only 1% of all infections (does that number sound familiar?).

The idea that “Covid 19 patients are hidden away in hospitals if they have serious disease so people don’t see it” is no different than people in hospitals with serious poliomyelitis disease (including building special wards for patients).

There have always been anti-vaxxers always will be. The question is whether the average parent sees the risk to their children as substantial. Polio was much less age discriminating than Covid. Where that 1% stood for most age ranges for polio, in children the IFR for covid is a fraction of 1%

1 in 100 is a lot scarier than 1 in 100000

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plansbandc  Jun 28, 2021 • 9:57:34am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes. Many of my R “friends” have expressed that view often.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2021 • 10:12:10am

…. moved by me ….

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 28, 2021 • 11:16:23am

re: #83 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I’m dying with laughter. That thread is hilarious!! Great (and effective) British humor.

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John Hughes  Jun 28, 2021 • 3:23:47pm

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

BTW, I’d say the late Bruno Ganz captured that moment about as well as any actor could’ve possibly hoped to do.

Bruno Ganz is dead. Who will play Trump?

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John Hughes  Jun 28, 2021 • 3:25:25pm

re: #110 Belafon

No, he wouldn’t have. He has no clue how to handle men that are more forcefully than him. At best, he would have had someone else fire Milley.

Trump has never fired anyone in his life.

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John Hughes  Jun 28, 2021 • 3:26:34pm

re: #114 Dangerman

Who needs TV.

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John Hughes  Jun 28, 2021 • 3:28:09pm

re: #117 Dangerman

If that’s your attitude, no Toyotas for me then

Toyota, betting it all on hybrid, have screwed the pooch.

(And backing fascists….)

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John Hughes  Jun 28, 2021 • 3:38:41pm

re: #124 Belafon

Everybody who isn’t vaccinated is going to get it.

So far estimates are that around 200,000,000 million people have got it (an underestimate) and about 4,000,000 people have died (also an underestimate).
So about one in fifty people who get it will die and everyone who isn’t vaccinated will get it. Get fucking vaccinated.

(These numbers are obviously wrong, but not very wrong).

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John Hughes  Jun 28, 2021 • 3:41:02pm

re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Stay away from crowded indoor events *after* you are vaccinated.
Because they are full of suicidal idiots, and that is not who you want to hang with.

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John Hughes  Jun 28, 2021 • 3:45:20pm

re: #126 The Pie Overlord!

My mum said that heroin was the best thing she ever had (cough, we’re supposed to call it diamorphine). When she was seriously ill they strapped her up to an automatic syringe and have her button to press for a dose. She said it was so good she’d want just a little bit longer before hitting it…


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