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Just got back from an impromptu tour (thank god the river cruise ships are sailing again) in time for a fresh thread!
In the end I have a bowl of Chicken Curry over rice. Good. Enough. those idiots can F* themselves.
No, thank you. https://t.co/yCFCMWbKTu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 16, 2021
re: #3 Charles Johnson
“Have you tried Jesus?”
“Yes, I have, actually. Found Him kinda bland and flavorless, to be honest. You might want to season Him better the next time you serve Him.”
#MeanwhileInCanada pic.twitter.com/AyMdoc5I1Y
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) August 16, 2021
“Have you seen Jesus?”
Check him out at the YMCA—looks like he’s prepping for a bodybuilding contest! 😏
re: #6 JOE 🥓
“Have you seen Jesus?”
Check him out at the YMCA—looks like he’s prepping for a bodybuilding contest! 😏
Jesus saves! Everyone else roll 3d8 for damage.
re: #7 Dopamine Fish
Jesus saves! Everyone else roll 3d8 for damage.
I think the Canadian version is “Jesus saves! But Richard scores on the rebound!”
re: #9 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I think the Canadian version is “Jesus saves! But Richard scores on the rebound!”
I always saw the sportsball variant as, “Jesus saves, he passes to Messi, and…. GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!”
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
“Have you tried Jesus?”
“Yes, I have, actually. Found Him kinda bland and flavorless, to be honest. You might want to season Him better the next time you serve Him.”
I’m reminded of the first time I read Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s works. If you actually believe in Christ Jesus, Pastor Bonhoeffer’s work will bitch slap you into next year.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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The Atlantic is providing snide remarks, so I don’t have to read the article to make some.
The famous professor has found himself out of step with cancel culture and the search for political purity among progressives.
‘Out of step with cancel culture’, that’s good.
re: #11 William Lewis
I’m reminded of the first time I read Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s works. If you actually believe in Christ Jesus, Pastor Bonhoeffer’s work will bitch slap you into next year.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was big reading at the Christian college I attended. Woof.
re: #11 William Lewis
I’m reminded of the first time I read Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s works. If you actually believe in Christ Jesus, Pastor Bonhoeffer’s work will bitch slap you into next year.
Bonhoeffer and Hans Küng are modern Christian Theologians who have almost nothing to do with the religion you find among Trump supporters.
This is exactly what the founding fathers warned against and wanted to avoid. We need rational science-driven politics, not more religion.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 16, 2021
re: #13 Dopamine Fish
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was big reading at the Christian college I attended. Woof.
Probably gave you the most serious grounding in real Christianity that the place could.
re: #8 Dangerman
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So then, one presumes, that as matter of principle, the County authorities in Aiken County will be refusing any infrastructure projects that said “behemoth bill” might finance???
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re: #16 William Lewis
Probably gave you the most serious grounding in real Christianity that the place could.
That, along with having friends who had seriously different beliefs than my naive and sheltered evangelical crazypants ass. Actually, one of those friends - a theology student, now a pastor and a programmer out in California - was very helpful in the Trump era in confronting Mrs. Fish’s family and friends on Facebook.
re: #18 JOE 🥓
Jesus Saves, J0el 0$teen cashes in…
As a christian, I agree completely. He’s not quite as evil as some but his greed is pretty intense.
The deluge of bad faith takes from the mainstream media blaming Biden alone for the situation in Afghanistan had to have been expected. It took courage to do this, knowing the shitstorm was inevitable.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 16, 2021
1/The collapse of the Government in Afghanistan this past week was so swift and complete - it was disorienting and difficult to comprehend.
This is how the events seemed to proceed from my perspective as Central Bank Governor.— Ajmal Ahmady (@aahmady) August 16, 2021
In short, everything went to hell when Ghani fled the country without telling anyone.
re: #20 William Lewis
As a christian, I agree completely. He’s not quite as evil as some but his greed is pretty intense.
I just think Osteen is shallow and superficial as fuck (and my God, that used car salesman smile). Christianity is not all about being healthy, happy and blessed by God 24/7/365.
There’s like some sacrifices and tough choices and pain that go along with this that Joel seems only to happy to gloss over or ignore completely to keep his prosperity gospel gravy train rolling.
re: #8 Dangerman
When Chris Cillizza roasts your ass you must be a spineless wimp, Right Lindsay?
In a biting column for CNN, political analyst Chris Cillizza used a deep dive by the New York Times on what makes Sen. Lindsey Graham tick to ridicule the South Carolina Republican’s professed belief he can “fix” Donald Trump.
Seems the two options Trump left for the country on Afghanistan were to actually leave on his schedule which would have gone about like this, or renege on his deal and start the war back up. Every other scenario Trump partisans are spinning on cable news are fantasies.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 16, 2021
re: #7 Dopamine Fish
Jesus saves! Everyone else roll 3d8 for damage.
played a lot of ad&d 1st ed. We once had Jesus in a situation. The others didn’t realize who he was, just a crazy brown guy healing the people on the side that their spells hurt. I kept him going for a while till a paladin (!) attacked him for healing “evil” creatures. I had him say “Really?” and he simply faded away and everyone of the party lost 1/2 of their levels. The paladin was stripped of everything and the only atonement possible was that of Anakin in Return of the Jedi.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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Individuals can seek Jesus. A political party should not be associated with any kind of religion, save Girl Scout Cookies.
re: #26 jaunte
Exactly. It was either kick the can down the road (again) or deal with the shitstorm now.
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
“Have you tried Jesus?”
“Yes, I have, actually. Found Him kinda bland and flavorless, to be honest. You might want to season Him better the next time you serve Him.”
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
“Have you tried Jesus?”
“Yes, I have, actually. Found Him kinda bland and flavorless, to be honest. You might want to season Him better the next time you serve Him.”
“I feel tonight one of you will betray me.”
Judas: “errm…separate checks, please, govna’!”
re: #23 ericblair
In short, everything went to hell when Ghani fled the country without telling anyone.
Members of the Taliban have been talking to their cousins and brothers-in-law in the Afghan army and government for months or even years, making deals and quietly arranging a disorderly but peaceful transfer of power (and weapons and money and goats) when the time came. That time has now come.
What I’m not hearing from the rather chaotic Press reports from Afghanistan is news of large military clashes, street-by-street fighting, city blocks being blasted apart by artillery and tanks exchanging fire never mind air attacks and the like. This is sounding more and more like a re-run of the original invasion by NATO supported by the Northern Alliance warlords but just in the opposite direction. Afghanistan same old same old.
I give them six months before there’s more fighting, a slow civil war with occasional truck bombings and some prison or other being over-run as the not-very-united Taliban leaders start to bicker and jockey for power and money. The US will occasionally stick its oar in by launching cruise missile attacks at “terrorist compounds” or bomb some “wedding parties”. Afghanistan same old same old.
Sorry, but it’s ridiculous to claim nobody knew how un-ready Afghan security forces were. US officials absolutely knew for many years, and concealed the truth from the public. https://t.co/pMCz5ozVu6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 16, 2021
re: #26 jaunte
The truth throughout this whole debacle is that the Afghan Government during the past 20 years was never ever a legitimate government in the slightest sense of the word.
It was a shadow of a stack of cards held together by magical thinking and the most expensive duct tape ever bought by humans- meaning US taxpayers and the US Military.
One would think the new Taliban overlords know what will happen if any terrorism against the USA or its allies is allowed sanctuary inside their new caliphate. But one never knows. Better make things clear with the ISI in Pakistan as well.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
You can teach a guy everything there is to know about boxing, but if he doesn’t have the desire to actually throw punches when he gets in the ring, what good will it do?
re: #28 Belafon
Individuals can seek Jesus. A political party should not be associated with any kind of religion, save Girl Scout Cookies.
Now you should know that Girl Scout cookies are the Devil’s treats according to Xtian Pulpit Pimps who urge boycotts against the Girl Scouts! We got several of the Pimps here in Los Angeles who preach that the Girl Scouts is a front for lesbians.
Methinks those Pulpit Pimps are reading too may Penthouse Letters…
re: #27 William Lewis
played a lot of ad&d 1st ed. We once had Jesus in a situation. The others didn’t realize who he was, just a crazy brown guy healing the people on the side that their spells hurt. I kept him going for a while till a paladin (!) attacked him for healing “evil” creatures. I had him say “Really?” and he simply faded away and everyone of the party lost 1/2 of their levels. The paladin was stripped of everything and the only atonement possible was that of Anakin in Return of the Jedi.
That’s amazing. I love that. Too bad it doesn’t fit in the campaign I’m writing now, but I might have to borrow it for later.
re: #37 Dopamine Fish
That’s amazing. I love that. Too bad it doesn’t fit in the campaign I’m writing now, but I might have to borrow it for later.
I’m jealous of those of you who can write their own campaigns. I’m strong running the pre written material, but struggle with ideas for my own.
re: #38 DesertDenizen
I’m jealous of those of you who can write their own campaigns. I’m strong running the pre written material, but struggle with ideas for my own.
To be perfectly honest, I’m taking a basic story line I saw somewhere else that looked like a fun time with my squad, and I’m wrapping my own world and details around it. I like to write, but I’m hardly original.
re: #39 Dopamine Fish
To be perfectly honest, I’m taking a basic story line I saw somewhere else that looked like a fun time with my squad, and I’m wrapping my own world and details around it. I like to write, but I’m hardly original.
That’s a good a starting place as any.
re: #9 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I think the Canadian version is “Jesus saves! But Richard scores on the rebound!”
From an old motd (message of the day) files.
Jesus saves
Mohammed invests
But only Buddha pays dividends.
Are we surprised?
NOPE!
Newly unsealed court transcripts reveal details of the horrific evidence prosecutors have against disgraced reality TV star and anti-LGBT activist Josh Duggar.
Prosecutors revealed the evidence during a pretrial release hearing in May, telling the court how the 33-year-old former star of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” used a work computer at his car lot to download pornographic images from a peer-to-peer network showing children the age of 12 and as young as a toddler and used software intended to hide that activity from view, reported Radar Online.
So why has this freak not been jailed? Instead he’s now in the “custody of his church family”?
Hmmm not a peep from ol Mike Huck Sinn Huckabee about his pal. Wonder why?
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
“Have you tried Jesus?”
“Yes, I have, actually. Found Him kinda bland and flavorless, to be honest. You might want to season Him better the next time you serve Him.”
“Stuck to the roof of my mouth, actually.”
re: #26 jaunte
The largest issue for me is the fact that it was apparent that NO MATTER WHAT Biden had decided to do, the knives were going to be out for him. The 4th estate doesn’t reward competence or any narrative that is set outside their own acceptable understandings of “how things should be”. Naturally, they don’t have solutions, because they’re just “reporting the facts” in a consequence-free from repercussion sanctuary that they’re all just disinterested observers, but they have opinions just don’t ask them for answers.
I guess as long as none of the US soldiers getting killed or maimed in Afghanistan is one of your loved ones, a couple of dozen a year is an acceptable cost.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) August 16, 2021
The US military’s function is to defend the U.S., which has absolutely nothing to do with what it’s been doing in Afghanistan for a very long time.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) August 16, 2021
3500 US Troops have died in Afghanistan since 2001.
Over 20 000 have been injured.
Over 50 000 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed.
re: #44 piratedan
The largest issue for me is the fact that it was apparent that NO MATTER WHAT Biden had decided to do, the knives were going to be out for him. The 4th estate doesn’t reward competence or any narrative that is set outside their own acceptable understandings of “how things should be”. Naturally, they don’t have solutions, because they’re just “reporting the facts” in a consequence-free from repercussion sanctuary that they’re all just disinterested observers, but they have opinions just don’t ask them for answers.
Truth. And see how the Pre$$titute$ are in full Kill Joe mode. They’re out for blood.
I guess we better invade China, Russia, and every other country in the world that might harbor some threat to us which would include every single other country in the world.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) August 16, 2021
Biden had to go through with the withdrawal. We can’t be perceived as a nation that backs out of every deal and accord and what not everytime there’s a change in administrations. We’ll wind up being a nation whose allies are a series of ever shifting opportunistic vultures.
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My favorite was when Sean Hannity claimed Obama’s official portrait included a “hidden sperm.”https://t.co/hDnOxsrW4W
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 16, 2021
re: #48 No Malarkey!
Because it’s absolutely impossible that the next Osama bin Laden (who was a Saudi national, lest we forget) could already be in the works anywhere else in the world: North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, Florida, Texas…
re: #10 Dopamine Fish
I always saw the sportsball variant as, “Jesus saves, he passes to Messi, and…. GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!”
In my neighborhood:
Jesus saves
Moses invests
Gilbert tips it in*
*Rod Gilbert..showing my age
re: #51 Charles Johnson
It’s amazing to see how these fascists out-asshole each other posting even dumber shit than before…
re: #52 Dopamine Fish
Because it’s absolutely impossible that the next Osama bin Laden (who was a Saudi national, lest we forget) couldn’t already be in the works anywhere else in the world: North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, Florida, Texas…
Well the Taliban, er, Proud Babies are continually triggering riots here in Los Angeles with the blessing of the LAPD and County Sheriffs!
I hate the bad rep that schmucks such as Pompeo are giving to the name Mike…
Ah yes, nothing says “halting terrorism” quite like.. *checks records* ..releasing 5000+ imprisoned Taliban terrorists in 2020, including Taliban leader & soon-to-be ruler of Afghanistan, Abdul Baradar.
You know, the guy LITERALLY standing by your side in this Sept 2020 photo-op. pic.twitter.com/3MsKiY8OSm— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) August 16, 2021
re: #44 piratedan
and as a follow up to all of this…. take note on who is being asked to provide commentary and punditry to Biden’s decision…. Bush and Trump people, no Obama folks… so we get 4th estate disdain, lamenting the potential loss of life, the change in moving from a nation in Civil War to an outcome, but not the “desired” outcome and yet, no one asks, how after 20 years of involvement we don’t see more and better evidence of our efforts, really, outside of some women who achieved an education and some folks getting paid while it was easy to do so until there was any heavy lifting to be done…
fine ask those questions… this was essentially a Military operation instead of a national state department gig, soft-sell versus tear it all down and rebuild it… where was the political infrastructure, the actual goddamn infrastructure, the attempted change to move it from a drug based economy into something else? and twenty years is a drop in the bucket, yet look at the evolution of the internet, cell phones, medical advancements, moving from fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly powers sources… and while it can be small, it can also be hugely impactful.
Lots of questions could be and should be asked (and to be sure, some of them will be) but this bullshit about “losing” and and not having ducks in a row is plainly disingenuous.. hardly anyone wants to mentioned who brokered the deal, and who has to honor it and if everyone is pissed off about how crappy this is for our allies who are there, then wtf has the Military been doing for the last six months while Biden has been in office knowing that this was looming and knowing what was going on…
There is also a certain part of me that wants to also note, are those who were benefitting from the US and Western Nations presence completely unaware of what was going on in their own country… While the writing may have been on the wall since last August, it sure seems to have been a shock and surprise to many… and to be even handed, attempting to flee your country while a pandemic is underway around the planet is a shitty hand to be dealt… and maybe that’s all that it is, we would have fled, but where to?
I don’t have an issue with stating that this has gone poorly, that it’s all on Smilin’ Joe is a fucking fallacy. I just want to see the national will exerted as far as this, everyone who wants to leave, gets to leave.
Twitter has been tweaking ways to make lurkers like me need to sign up. Last year they limited the number of people you “might like” to follow or check on with an algorithm what shepherds you to the same cul de sac of three or four related people—click on someone who is frequently a guest on MSNBC and you only get Chris Hayes, Joi, or Rachel as choices (whereas years ago they offered six more diverse choices). Today when I tried to open a thread it shut me down and only offered me the option to sign in. I don’t want to for my own reasons.
re: #39 Dopamine Fish
To be perfectly honest, I’m taking a basic story line I saw somewhere else that looked like a fun time with my squad, and I’m wrapping my own world and details around it. I like to write, but I’m hardly original.
So D&D is like “choose your own adventure” fanfic?
Can someone explain to me what the end game is when a state’s hospitals can’t admit more people but governors still refuse to allow mask mandates? Like, what are they trying to do? Shove people into spending like normal?
— Rabbi Sara Zober BLM (@RebbeSMZ) August 16, 2021
Consume To Death is the plan.
A question for any Philadelphia area lizards
I’m going to be moving to the area within a year or so. I’m doing lots of research, but it can’t hurt to ask here. I’m looking for reasonable neighborhoods. Nothing fancy, but nowhere my wife can’t leave the house alone or where my car will get busted into. Any suggestions?
re: #59 sagehen
So D&D is like “choose your own adventure” fanfic?
It did start out as “What if I’m taking the ring to Mount Doom and want to go look for gold in that abandoned castle?”
re: #58 Barefoot Grin
Twitter has been tweaking ways to make lurkers like me need to sign up. Last year they limited the number of people you “might like” to follow or check on with an algorithm what shepherds you to the same cul de sac of three or four related people—click on someone who is frequently a guest on MSNBC and you only get Chris Hayes, Joi, or Rachel as choices (whereas years ago they offered six more diverse choices). Today when I tried to open a thread it shut me down and only offered me the option to sign in. I don’t want to for my own reasons.
The way their algorithm channels my feed reinforces inherent bias. My follow list is intended to do the opposite.
Bastards.
Red state governors have made it clear they aren’t answerable to the majority of the population in their states.
Gee, I always thought “The Party” in Orwell’s 1984 were some kind of evolved communists. Turns out they were Republicans.
RNC removes page from website touting Trump peace deal with Taliban: report https://t.co/u1rCEDHg4E pic.twitter.com/qEHVVEhja9
— The Hill (@thehill) August 16, 2021
re: #67 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Gee, I always thought “The Party” in Orwell’s 1984 were some kind of evolved communists. Turns out they were Republicans.
We have always been at war with the Taliban
re: #60 jaunte
The Republican Goddess is Ayn Rand. Just like Ayn AS IN MINE, Republicans want the infirm, weak, elderly and sick to die off.
re: #63 wrenchwench
The way their algorithm channels my feed reinforces inherent bias. My follow list is intended to do the opposite.
Bastards.
If I type in Sopan Deb, for example, I’m introduced only to Indian-American journalists. If I input someone like Michael Harriot and I get Black twitter. It’s weird. Anyway, I found out that, for now, I can lurk in incognito mode.
re: #70 Barefoot Grin
If I type in Sopan Deb, for example, I’m introduced only to Indian-American journalists. If I input someone like Michael Harriot and I get Black twitter. It’s weird. Anyway, I found out that, for now, I can lurk in incognito mode.
You internet rebel.
re: #59 sagehen
So D&D is like “choose your own adventure” fanfic?
I have been playing it online with the family (spread out between Central America, UK, France and Germany) but other than the family face time, not really getting much out of it.
re: #52 Dopamine Fish
Because it’s absolutely impossible that the next Osama bin Laden (who was a Saudi national, lest we forget) could already be in the works anywhere else in the world: North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, Florida, Texas…
Better invade them all, just in case.
re: #75 No Malarkey!
Better invade them all, just in case.
Eww. Who would want to invade Florida right now? It’s a festering COVID swamp.
Let us not forget that Afghani women enjoyed a lot of person freedoms under the old regime that the Soviets supported in 1980, and which we helped topple by supporting the rebels.
re: #63 wrenchwench
The way their algorithm channels my feed reinforces inherent bias. My follow list is intended to do the opposite.
Bastards.
Back when I was a twitter user (I’m enjoying my forced independence and not shamed by it in the least) I decided to expand my bubble by selecting specific interests (Grateful Dead, Science, Surfing, etc.) and it improved my feed greatly. I was almost doing no political stuff (by comparison) when I got banned.
re: #61 DesertDenizen
A question for any Philadelphia area lizards
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I probably won’t be of much help. I lived in Center City proper from 2007-2017 between City Hall and the museums. Car was safe in a parking garage and never had an issue with it. I generally felt safe doing jaunts at night, but then again generally was not out late. And am also a male over 6’ tall and thus not an ideal target either.
Since 2017 I’ve been living west of the city on the US-30 corridor. Neighborhood here seems perfectly safe and no issues with the car either in the parking lot it sits in. This location, Paoli, is also convenient to a SEPTA line and I can get into Center City in 40-50 minutes if I need to.
Both locations essentially have allowed me to walk to do almost anything if I want to with shops, grocery, post office, cafes, etc. all within 5-10 minutes walking distance.
re: #76 Dopamine Fish
Eww. Who would want to invade Florida right now? It’s a festering COVID swamp.
Add Texas in where Governor Hot Wheels is letting Delta run wild.
re: #76 Dopamine Fish
Eww. Who would want to invade Florida right now? It’s a festering COVID swamp.
re: #81 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Don’t forget Puerto Riohio and the Ohian Virgin Islands
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Let us not forget that Afghani women enjoyed a lot of person freedoms under the old regime that the Soviets supported in 1980, and which we helped topple by supporting the rebels.
Yeah and that “help” lead to the rising up of one Osama Bin Laden.
re: #78 darthstar
Back when I was a twitter user (I’m enjoying my forced independence and not shamed by it in the least) I decided to expand my bubble by selecting specific interests (Grateful Dead, Science, Surfing, etc.) and it improved my feed greatly. I was almost doing no political stuff (by comparison) when I got banned.
I can watch it change from more birbs and frogs to politics, and back, depending on a few clicks of input.
I will join Twitter should I ever come to need it for some professional purpose. In the meantime, I hear enough about it here and from other sources. Do not feel any need to go there.
re: #44 piratedan
The largest issue for me is the fact that it was apparent that NO MATTER WHAT Biden had decided to do, the knives were going to be out for him. The 4th estate doesn’t reward competence or any narrative that is set outside their own acceptable understandings of “how things should be”. Naturally, they don’t have solutions, because they’re just “reporting the facts” in a consequence-free from repercussion sanctuary that kim all just disinterested observers, but they have opinions just don’t ask them for answers.
Asi said before trump might have been president now
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will join Twitter should I ever come to need it for some professional purpose. IN the meantime, I hear enough about it here and from other sources. Do not feel any need to go there.
I have a Twitter account but I am very lowkey and I don’t give a shit if I get banned.
re: #84 wrenchwench
I can watch it change from more birbs and frogs to politics, and back, depending on a few clicks of input.
I just did a quick search for surf in a private window and found a surfing lizard.
Hooray! Finally got to doodle up my surfing lizard again ;o;!! Been wanting to doodle up a simple pinup of him on a surfboard for ages now, way too happy I finally got to do it! pic.twitter.com/GXFFaBMBNs
— Bod +1 to heeps (@bodbloat) August 16, 2021
Another one bites the dust…
He is Ryan Bartel of NJ. She called his mom!https://t.co/qVM2z6QPSM
— TC (@HeartSmileFarms) August 16, 2021
Kind of a big-bootied androgynous lizard, but a lizard.
I miss Twitter. And I also do not miss Twitter.
Bush couldn’t get us out. Obama couldn’t get us out. Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David, and he couldn’t get us out.
Biden is getting us out.
re: #92 Dangerman
Bush couldn’t get us out. Obama couldn’t get us out. Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David, and he couldn’t get us out.
Biden is getting us out.
And the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine has been cranked up to 12 to attack Joe.
re: #91 teleskiguy
I miss Twitter. And I also do not miss Twitter.
I don’t miss the anxiety I was feeling over the number of assholes in this country. I don’t miss reading about the Q-publicans in congress. I do miss David Lemieux (GD archivist) and his friend Lucky Budd (children’s book illustrator and amateur astro-photographer).
re: #61 DesertDenizen
A question for any Philadelphia area lizards
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re: #79 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I probably won’t be of much help. I lived in Center City proper from 2007-2017 between City Hall and the museums. Car was safe in a parking garage and never had an issue with it. I generally felt safe doing jaunts at night, but then again generally was not out late. And am also a male over 6’ tall and thus not an ideal target either.
Since 2017 I’ve been living west of the city on the US-30 corridor. Neighborhood here seems perfectly safe and no issues with the car either in the parking lot it sits in. This location, Paoli, is also convenient to a SEPTA line and I can get into Center City in 40-50 minutes if I need to.
Both locations essentially have allowed me to walk to do almost anything if I want to with shops, grocery, post office, cafes, etc. all within 5-10 minutes walking distance.
I’m in South Jersey in Camden County, about 12 miles outside of Philly. There’s a high speed rail called PATCO that runs through the country that makes getting in and out of Center City a breeze. Runs 24/7. There’s a lot of towns along that line you can look at.
In addition, if you don’t mind driving a little further, you can look at Burlington and Gloucester Counties, to the north and south of Camden County respectively. As you’ve probably heard, taxes and car insurance can be higher in NJ, but you do get more bang for your buck, real estate wise.
As for Philly, I know one woman who’s renting a 1BR place in West Philly, just beyond Penn, that’s running $1500 a month. I’m guessing Center City is probably a little north of that for 1BR, like $1800 to $2000, maybe?
My brother lives near the stadiums in South Philly. Nice neighborhood, but I don’t think there’s lot of rentals in that particular section. Passyunk Square in South Philly is popular, but I think rents are getting expensive there as it gets more popular.
Fishtown, just north of Center City, has been the big gentrification success story over the last 10 years. There’s an Frankford El stop at Girard Ave there, although SEPTA’s been a little dicey lately.
Fairmount, near the Art Museum, is nice. Old City and Northern Liberties are good, but getting expensive.
I’d talk to Philly Pretzel when she comes on. I think she’s in the Northeast section of the City, which is further from downtown but should be less expensive. I can also ask people I know who live there what their take is.
If there’s a way to direct contact me on this site, feel free to use it. I’m not sure what the policy about loading personal contact info on LGF is here, but given the stalker site issues in the past, I’ve always kinda avoided it.
EDIT: since everyone’s talking about Twitter, screw it: I’m @mattand over there if you have questions,.
Another Republican Covid truther serving the purpose of demonstrating consequences; hopefully someone will learn and get vaccinated.
GOP Manatee (FL) County Commiss Kevin Van Ostenbridge is now on a ventilator with covid. In opposing all restrictions in May, he said, “when govt starts putting its nose into things .. it leads to problems. I would like us to get out of the covid business.”https://t.co/AIAAZRzzYc
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 16, 2021
So it was Biden that was responsible for the Afghan army folding like a cheap suit?
And shall we discuss our relations with the Kurds in the same context? Who abandoned them and let turkey run over them? Rs so easily forget.
It’s the “last person in the room is responsible for cleaning up” theory of Foreign Policy.
re: #96 No Malarkey!
Another Republican Covid truther serving the purpose of demonstrating consequences; hopefully someone will learn and get vaccinated.
They should interview him and ask him if he’s changed his mind yet.
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will join Twitter should I ever come to need it for some professional purpose. IN the meantime, I hear enough about it here and from other sources. Do not feel any need to go there.
I will not join twitter, although there are a few people whose twitterings I enjoy - comics blogger Mike Sterling for one, and a couple of other people I occasionally keep a discreet eye on.
What twitter has been good at is revealing which obsessively compulsive users are utterly deranged assholes who lack internal filters and chronicling their descent into madness in almost realtime.
I can still look at Twitter. And I do. Every day.
re: #99 A Three Hour Tour
I will not join twitter, although there are a few people whose twitterings I enjoy - comics blogger Mike Sterling for one, and a couple of other people I occasionally keep a discreet eye on.
What twitter has been good at is revealing which obsessively compulsive users are utterly deranged assholes who lack internal filters and chronicling their descent into madness in almost realtime.
True.
re: #100 teleskiguy
I can still look at Twitter. And I do. Every day.
I’ve been reading Twitter more lately, but I have no urge to post. I feel like I’m just shouting into the void, and I’ve already pissed off enough people on Facebook.
re: #98 darthstar
They should interview him and ask him if he’s changed his mind yet.
Point a microphone and camera at him while the ventilator does his breathing for him; good idea.
What is getting out of Afghanistan like for Joe?
It’s like cleaning up the bathroom after Orange Foolius took a big dump and whizzed all over the floor.
re: #96 No Malarkey!
Another Republican Covid truther serving the purpose of demonstrating consequences; hopefully someone will learn and get vaccinated.
And you know what? If he somehow survives this, the dude will be back to “Public health is none of the government’s business.”
No empathy for people like this anymore. I do genuinely hope he recovers, but he chose to actively participate in Trump Death Cult and literally risk his life.
The leopards have been eating a lot of faces in FL lately.
re: #96 No Malarkey!
Another Republican Covid truther serving the purpose of demonstrating consequences; hopefully someone will learn and get vaccinated.
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Like a typical disciple of Ayn Rand Mr. Asshole will endlessly yell about his hatred of Government…and even after Medicare pays his hospital bill he’ll still be an asshole whining about Gawdless Socialism.
Really? What was your first clue? https://t.co/xO4rkVCKMC
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 16, 2021
I’m wondering if anything will stop DeSadist from selling his anti-Covid gear?
Aw hell no. Won’t happen…
re: #103 No Malarkey!
Point a microphone and camera at him while the ventilator does his breathing for him; good idea.
So he says he was given the J&J…I call bullshit.
RADENTON, Fla. - A Manatee County commissioner has been hospitalized for COVID-19.
The county released a statement from commissioner Kevin Van Ostenbridge, saying he is currently undergoing treatment at Blake Hospital in Bradenton.
He says he is stable and receiving wonderful care.
Van Ostenbridge says he received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in June.
Manatee County’s Department of Health has already wrapped up contact tracing with the commissioner.
re: #70 Barefoot Grin
If I type in Sopan Deb, for example, I’m introduced only to Indian-American journalists. If I input someone like Michael Harriot and I get Black twitter. It’s weird. Anyway, I found out that, for now, I can lurk in incognito mode.
I discovered very recently that if I click on a *response* to someone who has blocked me, that I will not just see the response, but the original tweet from the guy (usually a guy) who has blocked me. I can’t respond directly to the blocker, but I can respond (if I want) to that person, and it’s copied to the people who don’t want to see what I have to say.
This has come in very handy when trying to see what Owen Strachan, Sean Feucht and Mark Driscoll are doing these days.
Wait a minute.
A few weeks ago you were 1 of only 16 members of Congress who voted against my bill to expand and speed up the visa program to evacuate and save our Afghan partners. https://t.co/TfDsfLioNg— Rep. Jason Crow (@RepJasonCrow) August 16, 2021
re: #109 darthstar
So he says he was given the J&J…I call bullshit.
As far as I know most if not all Covid vaxes in Florida are either Moderna or Pfizer. Mine was Moderna provided at a County facility. But who knows if he received any at all. Modern Conservatives outright lie as easily as they draw breath these days.
re: #99 A Three Hour Tour
I will not join twitter, although there are a few people whose twitterings I enjoy - comics blogger Mike Sterling for one, and a couple of other people I occasionally keep a discreet eye on.
What twitter has been good at is revealing which obsessively compulsive users are utterly deranged assholes who lack internal filters and chronicling their descent into madness in almost realtime.
That’s why I don’t join. I don’t want anyone to witness my flame out. (I know I’d end up saying something that would get me in trouble, probably at work.)
I miss my departed friends too. It’s sad we don’t have them to play, eat, and sleep with. Humans too. The trick is to respect the friends that are gone and treasure those we still have. Be well kind human and maybe just maybe find a new feline friend or two for your home.
— Manksy (@TheManksy) August 16, 2021
Duncan in April: “I try to give credit where credit is due, and in that spirit, if @JoeBiden follows through on his commitment to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan this year, he will do so with my support & appreciation…” https://t.co/QNSFf3Yj99 https://t.co/4t0oSzgqJD
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) August 16, 2021
re: #107 Charles Johnson
The FP people are like “we didn’t train them properly” and the veterans like “they used to literally shoot themselves in the feet because they were on heroin.”
— Esoteric Geoff (@agraybee) August 15, 2021
re: #112 Florida Panhandler
As far as I know most if not all Covid vaxes in Florida are either Moderna or Pfizer. Mine was Moderna provided at a County facility. But who knows if he received any at all. Modern Conservatives outright lie as easily as they draw breath these days.
You said “as easily as they draw breath” - in this case that’s actually funny.
UPDATE: The Washington Monument will be closed today as we repair damage to the electronic access system caused by Sunday morning’s lightning strike. #WashingtonDC https://t.co/HD6U35C66n
— National Mall NPS (@NationalMallNPS) August 16, 2021
***LANDFALL*** Tropical Storm Fred has officially made landfall near Cape San Blas, Florida with max sustained winds at 65 mph. #Fred #flwx pic.twitter.com/6fWtnBt1wv
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) August 16, 2021
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 16, 2021
re: #121 Charles Johnson
Casual reminder that while she may have had one minor moment of rightness in opposing the Big Lie, she’s still a Republican and she still has no loyalty to America.
re: #122 Dopamine Fish
Casual reminder that while she may have had one minor moment of rightness in opposing the Big Lie, she’s still a Republican and she still has no loyalty to America.
As the cartoon said “Not your big lie, Daddy.”
Look at how ABC is presenting this. It’s a graphic endorsement of Cheney’s statement.
Her father engineered this godforsaken war, and she apparently wants it to continue forever.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 16, 2021
re: #112 Florida Panhandler
As far as I know most if not all Covid vaxes in Florida are either Moderna or Pfizer. Mine was Moderna provided at a County facility. But who knows if he received any at all. Modern Conservatives outright lie as easily as they draw breath these days.
Or even when they can’t draw breath.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Raytheon Technologies Corp.
General Dynamics Corp.
Boeing Co.
Northrop Grumman Corp.
Analytic Services Inc.
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.
Humana Inc.
BAE Systems
L3Harris Technologies Inc.
My blog colleague @drfarls eloquently makes the point I haven’t seen anyone else make:
🔥🔥🔥it is difficult to plan for a mass evacuation without inducing the conditions that necessitate a mass evacuation.🔥🔥🔥https://t.co/973RrXUh90— Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) August 16, 2021
Every Afghan refugee coming to America—and it would be great if we could help as many as “a couple hundred thousand” to escape—will have done more to help American troops, and American civilians serving our country, than Charlie Kirk every has. https://t.co/CdKZCCm2BO
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 16, 2021
Hay Zeus…….
According to Crenshaw, the longest conflict in the entire history of the United States is “not a lot of time.” https://t.co/RelnM7Z430
— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) August 16, 2021
In which Jeffrey Toobin begs Merrick Garland to not prosecute Trump.
re: #124 Charles Johnson
No matter how ABC spins that shit I will NEVER forgive Xtians for brainwashing my son and that THE DICK killed him.
Mitch using the word “we” here is funny. https://t.co/8trbzRXIAC
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 16, 2021
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ask the guys who went over there if we’ve been involved in constant combat.
In other “fucked around and found out” news, Phil Valentine has been on a ventilator for over two weeks now.
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
Check Mitch’s investments over the past 20 years and see what that says about who he is.
Mitch wants another 20 years of war.
It ain’t like his kids are the ones fighting. https://t.co/xWcSoq6odp— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 16, 2021
Gotta love the timing of all this Afghanistan stuff happening just weeks ahead of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11.
You don’t think a lot of time has passed? There are people who weren’t born at the time of those attacks who have KIDS now.
This is Muffin. He barely missed pawlifying for this year’s Olympic Games, but he practices daily for Paris in 2024. 14/10 a literal Portuguese water dog pic.twitter.com/cZh33bYkSh
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) August 16, 2021
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
The terrorists were attacking us the whole fucking 20 years, Mitch. What the fuck do you think an IED is?!
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
Two of my kids are disabled vets, and another lost her marriage due to her over-deployed husband’s PTSD. Fuck Mitch.
re: #136 Eclectic Cyborg
In other “fucked around and found out” news, Phil Valentine has been on a ventilator for over two weeks now.
Mush lungs. My money is dead in a week or a privileged transplant.
re: #137 jaunte
Check Mitch’s investments over the past 20 years and see what that says about who he is.
I don’t recall much out of Mitch when “we” left the Kurds in the lurch and allowed Syria to continue as a “terrorist haven”. Oh wait, there was a Republican POTUS at the time. Never mind.
re: #142 jaunte
Two of my kids are disabled vets, and another lost her marriage due to her over-deployed husband’s PTSD. Fuck Mitch.
after seeing that clip of Charlie Jerk…makes me wish the draft was never repealed. Charlie Jerk wouldn’t have lasted an hour in boot camp…
re: #136 Eclectic Cyborg
In other “fucked around and found out” news, Phil Valentine has been on a ventilator for over two weeks now.
Shit. I figured he died weeks ago.
re: #146 JOE 🥓
after seeing that clip of Charlie Jerk…makes me wish the draft was never repealed. Charlie Jerk wouldn’t have lasted an hour in boot camp…
He wouldn’t last one lunch shift at Chik-fil-A.
tfw you started a 20 year war and people are arguing whether to blame Biden or Trump pic.twitter.com/jDwQMkU0vp
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 16, 2021
re: #83 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah and that “help” lead to the rising up of one Osama Bin Laden.
In fact, it was Sadaam’s invasion of Kuwait that led to bin Laden’s attacks on the US, because US troops were on Saudi Arabian territory, which he considered sacred to Muslims.
re: #37 Dopamine Fish
That’s amazing. I love that. Too bad it doesn’t fit in the campaign I’m writing now, but I might have to borrow it for later.
If you like that you should have been around even earlier. We’d had a several “Monty Haul” DM’s and the party was obscenely overpowered and had damn near every magic item you can imagine. I got tired of it and one day they were walking along and found a cavern. They walked in and felt a weird feeling. They came out on the other side and found themselves on a black surfaced trail (a highway) with steel chariots zooming by. A short walk later found them at sign saying “Minot Air Force Base”. They decided to continue on and found this Dungeon entrance guarded by a couple of humans in blue clothing and using magic weapons that spewed forth lots of tiny invisible arrows per second.
Eventually the found their way to the “temple” at the heart of the complex. In trying to destroy the evil they found there ( a Minuteman III with three W62 warheads on it) they detonated said warheads. The silo goes up in the detonation of three 170kt nukes ending the problem with the overpowered characters. As a sop to them, I spun a tale about how the unexpected and unknown detonation of the nuclear weapons caused a serious revival of the SALT talks leading to a real nuclear disarmament in the world they’d come to.
This was during the Reagan presidency; we needed all the fantasy we could get. I left to go into the army soon after because I expected him to start WWIII and wanted to die “cleanly” as a soldier.
Funny how life works out.
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