Intense Pop Noir: Yebba, “Boomerang”

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“Boomerang”

If I shoot him in the stomach
Then he’s hurting on my dime
And if I shoot him in the head, then he’s dead and he’s livin’ on my mind
My reflection in the mirror
Her perfection in his eyes
I’m a danger to myself
I run from twelve
And take my rage across the county line

But I won’t let this go
Not my tomorrow
Don’t forget your pride, it’s laying in her bed of sorrow

What you done to me
I swear to you it’s gonna come back like a boomerang
Wooooo
Wooooo
Woooooooooo

You knew my daddy didn’t like you
From the moment you two met
He knew too well, you would drag me through Hell
And never come back for the baby we’d regret
Oh

But I won’t let this go
Not my tomorrow
Don’t forget your pride
It’s laying in her bed of sorrow

Watcha done to me
I swear to you it’s gonna come back like a boomerang
Woooooo
Wooooo
Woooooooooo

Watcha done to me
I swear to you it’s gonna come back like a boomerang
And knock you to your knees
I swear to you it’s gonna come back like a boomerang

#yebba #boomerang #dawn

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385 comments
1
A Mom Anon  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:10:47pm

Site is still crashing for me after maybe 80 posts. But only on my Apple stuff. I have updated everything I can, not sure what’s up.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:10:58pm

Current mood:

Civil War

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Dave In Austin  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:15:58pm

Trapping a Cooper’s hawk from a warehouse

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:19:35pm

re: #3 Dave In Austin

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Mr. Pigeon gonna have bird PTSD. But amazing anyway

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retired cynic  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:23:55pm

re: #1 A Mom Anon

Site is still crashing for me after maybe 80 posts. But only on my Apple stuff. I have updated everything I can, not sure what’s up.

I’m on a Mac, and having no trouble.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:24:35pm

re: #3 Dave In Austin

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Video

wow

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:25:49pm

Switching back to the custom tweet display. Testing…

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:25:54pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:25:59pm
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Dave In Austin  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:26:11pm

They do great work up there.

Imprint vulture chicks

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:28:11pm

re: #1 A Mom Anon

Site is still crashing for me after maybe 80 posts. But only on my Apple stuff. I have updated everything I can, not sure what’s up.

I thought the Twitter embedding code had improved, and it has gotten faster, but it still apparently has memory issues. So I’m switching back to the custom tweet rendering code in this thread to see if it improves.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:29:20pm

niterz, lizardz!

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ipsos  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:29:53pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

I thought the Twitter embedding code had improved, and it has gotten faster, but it still apparently has memory issues. So I’m switching back to the custom tweet rendering code in this thread to see if it improves.

THANK YOU!!

The site was nearly unusable on longer threads the last couple of days on my slow old Android phone. (And they’re all longer threads these days, aren’t they?)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:30:33pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

I thought the Twitter embedding code had improved, and it has gotten faster, but it still apparently has memory issues. So I’m switching back to the custom tweet rendering code in this thread to see if it improves.

Thank you very much!

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:30:36pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:33:25pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:37:10pm
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JOE 🥓  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:37:56pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Has Alex Jones done an emergency broadcast yet?

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Dave In Austin  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:39:07pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:39:51pm

One explanation for why business like the NYT work so hard to both-sides and cater to the right wing sensibilities - look at the TV ratings.

Here is the Thursday cable finals:

The top 10 are owned by Murdoch. The viewership totals also blow away broadcast networks (on Thursday, not true usually for earlier in the week.)

America is in large part a right-wing nation, with pockets of elite liberalism (big coastal cities) and other pockets of old-fashioned (religious) black anti-white-nationalist polity.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:42:18pm

Being human, I sometimes have an impulse to feel just a bit guilty when I laugh and gloat at the self-inflicted death of yet another covidiot.

I remind myself, and I want to remind you, that these people are not innocent victims. They are (or were, lol) willing participants in the greatest mass murder of Americans in history. They harassed and threatened and assaulted people who were only trying to save themselves by wearing a mask, or to stop mass death by enforcing common sense rules. They tried to overthrow the government for the benefit of a foreign-owned criminal. Their list of crimes and abominable acts is almost endless. It will have historians shaking their heads in wonder a thousand years from now.

To hell with them, and the diseased ideology that has fed them.

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:43:56pm

re: #20 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

One explanation for why business like the NYT work so hard to both-sides and cater to the right wing sensibilities - look at the TV ratings.

Here is the Thursday cable finals:

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The top 10 are owned by Murdoch. The viewership totals also blow away broadcast networks (on Thursday, not true usually for earlier in the week.)

America is in large part a right-wing nation, with pockets of elite liberalism (big coastal cities) and other pockets of old-fashioned (religious) black anti-white-nationalist polity.

Well okay. I get it. But cable viewership is such a small fraction of the population. Low single digit millions. It’s the loud minority

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:47:24pm

The sun had barely set on Ida and it already was developing deep convection:

Image: G16-sector-gm-GEOCOLOR-48fr-20210828-2143.gif

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JC1  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:48:13pm

re: #20 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

One explanation for why business like the NYT work so hard to both-sides and cater to the right wing sensibilities - look at the TV ratings.

Here is the Thursday cable finals:

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The top 10 are owned by Murdoch. The viewership totals also blow away broadcast networks (on Thursday, not true usually for earlier in the week.)

America is in large part a right-wing nation, with pockets of elite liberalism (big coastal cities) and other pockets of old-fashioned (religious) black anti-white-nationalist polity.

Those are tiny numbers, and cable TV political shows are watched by a tiny minority in general.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:48:22pm

Silent Knives…. Silent Knives……

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:50:47pm

re: #22 Rightwingconspirator

The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

For every viewer of those Fox programs there will be 10 others who agree with them.

re: #24 JC1

Those are tiny numbers, and cable TV political shows are watched by a tiny minority in general.

But those “tiny minority” are much larger than audiences for other shows (whether contemporary event or not.)

Again, my comment was in reference to why outlets like the NYT seem to bend over backwards to appeal to Trumping masses.

It’s because NYT is a business, and the biggest markets for “news” are the old white folk.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:53:24pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

I thought the Twitter embedding code had improved, and it has gotten faster, but it still apparently has memory issues. So I’m switching back to the custom tweet rendering code in this thread to see if it improves.

Thanks again Charles. I had no idea what the hell. Appreciate your time and attention on this one.

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JC1  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:56:24pm

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

For every viewer of those Fox programs there will be 10 others who agree with them.

But those “tiny minority” are much larger than audiences for other shows (whether contemporary event or not.)

Again, my comment was in reference to why outlets like the NYT seem to bend over backwards to appeal to Trumping masses.

It’s because NYT is a business, and the biggest markets for “news” are the old white folk.

Compare those numbers to the average NFL game.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:57:43pm

re: #20 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

How many people actually watch cable channels including Fox News? If America was such a rightwing country, we would have President Trump for another term. We don’t because everyone isn’t a Fox News toady.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 28, 2021 • 6:59:37pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:00:39pm

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

For every viewer of those Fox programs there will be 10 others who agree with them.

But those “tiny minority” are much larger than audiences for other shows (whether contemporary event or not.)

Again, my comment was in reference to why outlets like the NYT seem to bend over backwards to appeal to Trumping masses.

It’s because NYT is a business, and the biggest markets for “news” are the old white folk.

Without disagreeing here. It’s weird that about 1% of us have such an impact.

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:06:50pm

re: #30 The Pie Overlord!

My mother and my uncle.

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Renaissance_Man  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:06:57pm

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

For every viewer of those Fox programs there will be 10 others who agree with them.

But those “tiny minority” are much larger than audiences for other shows (whether contemporary event or not.)

Again, my comment was in reference to why outlets like the NYT seem to bend over backwards to appeal to Trumping masses.

It’s because NYT is a business, and the biggest markets for “news” are the old white folk.

I really don’t think this is true. As has been shown in elections, the hardcore right that every major media outlet tries to pander to is a minority. Even if they are a sizable minority, it doesn’t make good business sense for all of these outlets - CNN, NYT, FOX, OANN, Epoch Times, even MSNBC - to try to compete for the same minority, even if that minority is comprised of especially gullible people. Business 101 suggests that it would make more sense to try to capture a market that nobody else is even competing for, especially if that market is a majority.

We must conclude, then, that it’s not about business, money, clicks, page views, or anything like that at all. These media outlets aren’t catering to reactionary white people in order to capture their business. Instead, outlets like CNN and the NYT see themselves as the arbiters of American culture, as the ‘mainstream’. And the people that decide the news narratives don’t see it as their job to follow the trending viewpoints of Americans, but rather to determine them. They are reality shows. And like any reality show, they see it as their job to create a narrative that will resonate with people so that their target audience will internalise it. And the nature of America is that the only ‘target audience’ that has ever mattered in this country is average white people. Their opinions are sacred and cannot be wrong, even if they’re not exactly right. What we call bothsiderism is basically just the arbiters of US culture trying to give credibility to any stupid crap that a large number of white people think, for no other reason than ‘a large number of white people’ cannot be wrong.

Outlets like FOX, on the other hand, aren’t trying to give that same target audience credibility. They know that whatever they say becomes what that target audience thinks. So they make something up and set the story, several million white people chant it in unison, and the NYT then accepts it as automatically valid because average white people think it. No matter what it is, it can’t be wrong, so it becomes part of the narrative, so that the only demographic that matters in America will internalise it.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:07:07pm

re: #25 Dave In Austin

Silent Knives…. Silent Knives……

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Yikes! This is the mach 1 ginsu bundle that I mentioned the other night as a likely reprisal weapon. It is ugly business, to be sure, but it also tends to limit the damage to the targeted shredee, without destroying nearby buildings or killing bystanders with red hot fragments. Republicans who have disparaged this strike should be presented with high resolution color images of the aftermath, if these are available.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:07:57pm

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s because NYT is a business, and the biggest markets for “news” are the old white folk.

Yes, the same old white folks who denounce the Times along with the rest of the so-called “liberal press”.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:08:09pm

re: #30 The Pie Overlord!

Cuckoo Clocks. Both grandparents houses had them. One was handmade in Germany, my uncle brought it home from Germany when he was done serving in the army.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:10:37pm

re: #30 The Pie Overlord!

Grandma Bacon had a beautiful Grandfather clock that sang the Westminster chimes every quarter hour.

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:10:54pm

My grandmother — BOTH my grandmothers — had plastic slipcovers for the “good” couches in the ROOM THAT CHILDREN WERE NEVER TO ENTER.

When they had grown-up company, they’d take the plastic covers off. The upholstery looked new for a very long time.

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:15:27pm

And silly doily things for across the top back of the couch. They were called antimacassars, because they were there to absorb the macasser oil that men put in their hair to slick it back. Keep the oil off the furniture.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:16:42pm

re: #38 sagehen

My grandmother — BOTH my grandmothers — had plastic slipcovers for the “good” couches in the ROOM THAT CHILDREN WERE NEVER TO ENTER.

When they had grown-up company, they’d take the plastic covers off. The upholstery looked new for a very long time.

My parents had plastic covers on everything. They never came off. My dad’s favorite chair was an outdoor wicker rocking chair —- in the formal living room. I think it cost like $45. They plastic’s that, too. 👀

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KingKenrod  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:20:59pm

Someone in the DC reporting crew could ask Biden why Trump hasn’t been indicted, but they’re too busy asking about his dog and why he hasn’t won Afghanistan yet.

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:23:12pm

When my parents got their own first house, mom’s “we’re a new, more liberal generation” signifiers were no plastic slipcovers, and she didn’t own any hats.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:24:41pm

Gack!

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:29:15pm

This is some Bad Crazy right here

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:30:57pm

A gun case that my grandfather built out of wood and glass. Nobody messed with it because 1) no one was that stupid, and 2) guns weren’t worshipped in the house as some cure for a tyrannical government.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:31:05pm

re: #43 Dave In Austin

Gack!

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If they are doing that—there better be chunks of fruit mixed with the cottage cheese!

Memories of when I was so sick with measles as a kid and Mom couldn’t get me to eat anything. So she took a scoop of cottage cheese and mixed fruit cocktail into it. Then mom dusted a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg on top. That was the only thing I could eat for 2 straight weeks…

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:32:16pm

re: #44 The Pie Overlord!

This is some Bad Crazy right here

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I wonder what percentage of these are bots vs people. It’s easier to make a psychopathic text generator than a sane one.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:33:28pm

re: #43 Dave In Austin

Gack!

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When the milk ones go bad, they can just peel off the outer label and call it cottage cheese.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:36:20pm

I just pictured everyone in England walking around with their “racing spoon” sticking out of their shirt pocket.

*** A racing spoon is what we used to call the brown plastic spoons that came with MREs. Usually carried protruding from the pen slot in ones BDU jacket while in the field.
“Racing” because it would usually materialize in ones hand whenever someone else had some type of food prepared. So you could “taste” the dish.
The method of cleaning the spoon usually involve it being rubbed off with a portion of the dirty/sweaty BDU jacket you were wearing

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gocart mozart  Aug 28, 2021 • 7:47:17pm

There was a concert in Rome, Italy in 1994, I think, called Pavaratti and Friends. Most of it is on YouTube.

The perfect mismatch of vocal talents

Perfect Day —- Lou Reed feat Luciano Pavarotti

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:00:46pm
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No Malarkey!  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:01:25pm

Another one bites the dust.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:02:54pm

re: #52 No Malarkey!

Apparently the right wing doesn’t believe in signs from god…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:04:18pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:10:19pm

re: #52 No Malarkey!

Another one bites the dust.

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Damn, I’m gonna need a bigger whiteboard to keep track of these…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:14:46pm
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plansbandc  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:18:45pm

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A Mom Anon  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:20:56pm

re: #56 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Wishes do come true!

This is every fucking shade of awful for no reason there is. I cannot grasp at all how they won’t get vaccinated but they will literally drink injectable ivermectin.!Which will kill them or do huge damage to their bodies. Not that this society couldn’t stand to lose a whole lot of mean idiots, but how damaged do you have to be to do this shit?

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:21:44pm

Trumpster FB friend posted once again about rumors that Biden was going to be subjected to 25th Amendment. The more I thought about these stories — which my brother was spouting even before the election — the more I wonder if these are just an effort at payback for the times that some on our side engaged in similar speculation about Trump.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:32:32pm

Only a so-so movie, but the theme song is great. Also, didn’t one of the Austin Powers movies parody this music?

Main Title (Score Version)

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No Malarkey!  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:34:27pm

re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg

Damn, I’m gonna need a bigger whiteboard to keep track of these…

Most of them show up on sorryantivaxxer.com

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:36:06pm

So… I guess talk radio is going to have a lot of openings? Maybe some of them will go to liberals. Or at least moderate centrists.

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retired cynic  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:37:36pm

re: #62 sagehen

I’m afraid we’ll see/hear more of the Madison Cawthorne types.

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:37:44pm

I’m intrigued by the commercials for Samsung’s folding phones. Anybody here tried them? Whaddya think?

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:39:03pm

re: #60 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That would actually be a good film for a remake. Not the VFX, which were really good, but the story needed a bit of tightening up - much like Event Horizon, which was one screenplay revision away from being one of the greatest sci-fi/horror films ever.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:39:31pm

From my home town:

Mike Sullivan, Rockwall, TX, Chaplain at a pawn shop? Another Anti-vaxxer. Died of COVID.

sorryantivaxxer.com

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:41:48pm

re: #64 sagehen

I’d rather use a 2020 Motorola RAZR than a Samsung in order to have a virtual lustful version of Android than deal with Samsung’s bloatware.

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:44:39pm

re: #49 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I just pictured everyone in England walking around with their “racing spoon” sticking out of their shirt pocket.

*** A racing spoon is what we used to call the brown plastic spoons that came with MREs. Usually carried protruding from the pen slot in ones BDU jacket while in the field.
“Racing” because it would usually materialize in ones hand whenever someone else had some type of food prepared. So you could “taste” the dish.
The method of cleaning the spoon usually involve it being rubbed off with a portion of the dirty/sweaty BDU jacket you were wearing

I have a titanium spork for that. Titanium is aseptic so knock off the crud and it is clean enough.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2021 • 8:51:59pm

re: #65 Dr Lizardo

Without the John Barry score, not sure a remake could be as good.

The ending of the original is designed to appeal to American’s religiosity. Sure, one can invent a “hell” all one wants, in a movie. I was more disappointed in the outcome for the protagonists.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:13:31pm

re: #60 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Only a so-so movie, but the theme song is great. Also, didn’t one of the Austin Powers movies parody this music?

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The Black Hole—Beautiful score by John Barry. Also the last movie designed by the great Peter Ellenshaw.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:14:16pm

re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Without the John Barry score, not sure a remake could be as good.

The ending of the original is designed to appeal to American’s religiosity. Sure, one can invent a “hell” all one wants, in a movie. I was more disappointed in the outcome for the protagonists.

If I was going to do a remake of The Black Hole, I’d just prefer to re-use the John Barry score instead of going with a new soundtrack. Yeah, the ending was….weird. On the other hand, going with a scientifically-accurate ending would be quite the downer and generally speaking, audiences typically prefer an uplifting ending. A good remake would probably have to be something within the sci-fi/horror genre.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:20:45pm

re: #71 Dr Lizardo

If I was going to do a remake of The Black Hole, I’d just prefer to re-use the John Barry score instead of going with a new soundtrack. Yeah, the ending was….weird. On the other hand, going with a scientifically-accurate ending would be quite the downer and generally speaking, audiences typically prefer an uplifting ending. A good remake would probably have to be something within the sci-fi/horror genre.

Alan Dean Foster did the novelization and he ended the book with Kate linking her consciousness with the Charlie, Dan and V.I.N.CENT. Their physical bodies were annihilated but their combined minds exited the Black Hole.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:26:39pm

re: #72 JOE 🥓

Alan Den Foster did the novelization and he ended the book with Kate linking her consciousness with the Charlie, Dan and V.I.N.CENT. Their physical bodies were annihilated but their combined minds exited the Black Hole.

Yeah, that could be an interesting ending.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:27:12pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:32:30pm

re: #74 JOE 🥓

That’s one of the stupidest looking fucking flags I’ve ever seen.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:40:30pm

Something I just posted to Facebook, because I have “friends” I know aren’t vaccinated:

Texas hospitals are near capacity, like most of the southern states. Covid infections among the unvaccinated are taking up almost all of the space, making up 97+ percent of all hospitalizations and deaths due to the virus. Not only are the unvaccinated dying at a high rate, they are infecting others at a high rate, and they are killing people who aren’t sick from the virus.

If you have been paying attention, you will notice that a lot of prominent anti-vaxxers have been catching the virus and dying. sorryantivaxxer.com has been listing those people, and it includes evangelical ministers, coaches, and radio personalities. One of the most recent is Caleb Wallace, kxan.com, a 30 year old who died and has left behind three daughters and a wife who is pregnant with their fourth. He was anti-mask and anti-vax, and refused to go to the hospital when he first started getting sick because he didn’t want to be a statistic.

I keep reading all of the comments and stories about how people’s freedoms are being violated by being required to wear a mask or get vaccinated. Neither of these are violations of your freedoms. A mask does not impede your ability to go to the store, and a vaccine does not impede your ability to petition the government. There is no freedom that either of these take away.

What you don’t have is the freedom to get other people sick or the ability to keep them from receiving medical care.

All freedoms come with responsibilities, which is when you are required to consider how they will affect other people. I have my car, which I have the right to own and drive, but I’m not allowed to drive it on sidewalks or against the flow of traffic. I have the freedom to write and speak about what’s on my mind, but I am not allowed to slander someone. I have the right to put tomato on my grilled cheese, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Freedom without responsibility is what children want, and it’s not a way to run a country.

“Oh, but if I get sick, it’s just me.” No, it isn’t. Look at Caleb. He’s leaving four children behind.

Lisa Steadman ended up in the hospital with the virus, and when she got home, she found her husband dead from it. wptv.com

And you can kill people who aren’t suffering from the disease. Daniel Wilkinson, a US Army vet, died from gallstone pancreatitis even though he lived right near a hospital because there are no free ICU beds. cbsnews.com

And put away your excuses:

“But it’s not been tested.” All of the vaccines have received the largest testing in the history of medicine.

“But I’d rather take Ivermectin.” You’d be willing to take a medicine for animals, based on a debunked scientific study, rather than ones based on actual scientific studies? Are you listening to yourself?

“But I’m healthy.” So was Bill Phillips, who I posted about earlier, facebook.com. He can’t walk 100 meters now and will have issues the rest of his life.

“But vaccinated people are getting sick and dying.” Yeah, no vaccine is perfect. But vaccinated people are representing less than three percent of the total people in the hospital and less than one percent of deaths. If everyone got vaccinated, the rate of hospitalization would be less than two percent of what it is now, and people like Wilkinson wouldn’t have to die. If everyone was vaccinated, the rate of transmission would drop off so fast the virus might disappear.

“Someone else will get it so I don’t have to.” That’s the great thing about the Delta variant. The vaccinated can’t protect you any longer. Remember when they used to say that it would have to be about 15 minutes of close contact to get infected? With Delta, it’s one second. And wait for the next variant based on Delta that all of you unvaccinated people are cooking up in your bodies. Delta already doubles your rate of having to be in the hospital versus the original version. Imagine doubling again.

“But my freedoms.” Grow up. Get the vaccine and wear a mask, or turn in your adult card and all of the privileges you get from it because you’re obviously not one.

facebook.com

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JOE 🥓  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:43:13pm

Pisses me off how Fox lies and gets away with it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:47:19pm

Today’s fraternal conversation.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:49:43pm

re: #78 Hecuba’s daughter

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JOE 🥓  Aug 28, 2021 • 9:54:29pm

And this from Missouri which has become the Show Me How Dumb You Are State

Unvaccinated Man Whose 7 Children Caught COVID Urges People to Get the Shot

newsweek.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:02:47pm

re: #77 JOE 🥓

Pisses me off how Fox lies and gets away with it.

A couple minutes ago response:

Remind me again of when Donald Trump ordered the flag to half-mast for those killed in Niger, or Sen. John McCain?

Across the entire country, all military posts, legations, embassies, and Naval vessels the flag flies at half-mast on the orders of President Biden.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:04:30pm
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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:10:22pm

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A couple minutes ago response:

[Embedded content]

Remind me again of when Donald Trump ordered the flag to half-mast for those killed in Niger, or Sen. John McCain?

Across the entire country, all military posts, legations, embassies, and Naval vessels the flag flies at half-mast on the orders of President Biden.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:12:43pm

re: #76 Belafon

I went to go look to see if anyone had seen it yet, and Bill Phillips himself liked it.

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:18:36pm

re: #84 Belafon

I went to go look to see if anyone had seen it yet, and Bill Phillips himself liked it.

Shared to my profile.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:22:06pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:23:31pm

When conservatives are caught in lies, they don’t apologise, they double down.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:25:38pm

This is one of the most beautiful and evocative paintings ever.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:27:30pm

A minor complaint: I wish folks would quit using “breaking news.” By definition, any newly-reported news item is “breaking.” /pedant

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:29:02pm

re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When conservatives are caught in lies, they don’t apologise, they double down.

[Embedded content]

She also knows what decent people think of her…

“This account owner limits who can view their Tweets.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:30:21pm

re: #90 William Lewis

She also knows what decent people think of her…

“This account owner limits who can view their Tweets.”

I’m not limited, and I’m not on Twitter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:32:01pm

She’s asking the Twitterati to overwhelm her. It would be a shame if that happened. (Ten minutes ago)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:33:29pm

Must be that dry heat. Scrambles the lies.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:37:21pm

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:38:35pm

Another conservaliar adding to the firehose of lies.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:41:52pm

thread

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:56:50pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:57:17pm

.

Nat King Cole - You’re Looking At Me [1956]



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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 10:58:54pm

On “vaccine hesitancy,” WBUR did an episode on May 3, 2019 about that issue throughout history. (Audio, 37:07)

Infectious, Part 1: Scabs, Pus And Puritans

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plansbandc  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:02:38pm

The amount of mean and selfish people in this country makes me sick. The fact that being mean and selfish is celebrated, makes me even sicker.

I’m so tired of it.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:03:19pm

re: #82 Dread Pirate Ron

We’re making progress! In another 90 days, we should be at 40% dewormed!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:08:31pm

Ida acquiring that perfect donut shape:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:12:31pm

Water level rising fast at the very tip of Louisiana:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:19:31pm

re: #97 DodgerFan1988

So it turns out Eric Clapton is a dique.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:19:45pm

BULLETIN
Hurricane Ida Intermediate Advisory Number 11A
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
100 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT FINDS IDA HAS STRENGTHENED
INTO A MAJOR HURRICANE…
…LIFE-THREATENING STORM SURGE, POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC WIND
DAMAGE, AND FLOODING RAINFALL EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE NORTHERN GULF
COAST BEGINNING THIS MORNING…

SUMMARY OF 100 AM CDT…0600 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…27.6N 88.7W
ABOUT 105 MI…170 KM SSE OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
ABOUT 185 MI…295 KM SE OF HOUMA LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…115 MPH…185 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 15 MPH…24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…955 MB…28.20 INCHES

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:21:38pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:28:06pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:31:12pm

Eric Clapton’s racist rant from 1976.

Eric Clapton’s Racist Rant (Still We Rise UK, November 28, 2020)

The first Rock Against Racism gig took place at the Princess Alice pub in Forest Gate in October 1976, with the blues singer Carol Grimes. A second gig followed in December at the Royal College of Art. The RAR performers came largely from black reggae and ska musicians, and white artists from the growing punk scene.

In summer 1977, RAR started its own fanzine, Temporary Hoarding, in which they explained what they stood for. Rock Against Racism wasn’t a single-issue campaign demanding, say, an apology from Clapton: it was against racism in the music scene, which encompassed phenomena as various as the wearing of the swastika by punk bands, the attempt by supporters of the National Front or British Movement to recruit young punks and skinheads, and even the division of musical genres by race (punk, metal, soul and reggae). In its boldest moments, Rock Against Racism grasped that music couldn’t be separated from everything else, and proposed to confront racism in electoral politics and in state institutions.

(more, caution for Clapton’s initial racist rant at the top of the post)

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A Cranky One  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:32:29pm
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Dave In Austin  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:48:14pm
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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:48:38pm

So Empire, Port Sulphur, Buras, and Venice, which are all down da Parish on the west side of the Mississippi Delta are looking at 15 foot + storm surges tomorrow.

Fifteen years ago, as an Emergency Response Coordinator in Texas, I volunteered to be on a strike team to go into New Orleans and document what happened in the City and to look at how Texas coastal cities could be hardened in the days immediately after Karina hit. Got there on September 2nd.

The Feds paid for the trip and the study. I was selected because of my position and because I lived in N.O. for a decade before I moved to Texas.

Port Sulphur, Empire, Buras, and Venice had all taken 15 foot + storm surges before I got there.

We spent two days in N.O. looking at how gas stations and pipelines had their gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel product in underground tanks, above-ground tanks, and pipes displaced by the inundation, (it was a fucking mess, to the point where some areas in east St. Bernard Parish had a foot of raw, unprocessed crude oil sitting on every square foot of land around some spill sites.) and then we headed down the highway on the west side of the river, LA 23, through Belle Chasse, towards Venice, the town farthest south.

Everything smelled liked sour mud and death. South of Belle Chase, an old ante-bellum plantation house was intact. You’ve seen it. It’s on the front of the Southern Comfort bottle. South of that it was just hundreds of reeking, bloated, drowned cattle and dying vegetation coated in mud.

Port Sulphur, where the delta gets skinnier and swampier had significant surge flooding, maybe ten feet.

In Empire, all of the fishing boats were washed into and onto the levee on the west side of Ol’ Muddy.

Buras had a surge (rising tides lift all ships!) that deposited shrimp boats on the roof of the second floor of the high school, so maybe 25’.

Not far below Buras, we couldn’t get any farther on LA 23. The road and in many cases, the roadbed was gone. It was an area that had thousands of old (and new) collection facilities where oil was pumped onshore into storage tanks from offshore platforms and then pumped up to the refineries closer to N.O.

They were almost completely destroyed, crude oil gushing into the marshes. The oil companies were flying teams into the area by helicopter up and down the delta to shut down the leaks like frantic little ants.

That was, after all, black gold (and, oh, an environmental problem).

The reek was amazing, so since we had gotten as far as we could by high-water trucks, we decided to drive back up to Belle Chasse, where at least we could breathe air that was only polluted by shit, piss, and rotting flesh.

Lessons learned about Katrina?

The infrastructure was wholly unprepared for the havoc the storm produced. Basically, not one fucking thing worked as planned. Nothing. FEMA pissed all over its hands and then fainted from the vapors.

Army Corps of Engineer flood walls and levees failed spectacularly and resulted in over a thousand deaths. Another Army Corps project that was hated from the time it was first introduced, the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (Mr.Go) which environmental engineers said was a disaster waiting to happen, was a disastrous source of flood water in East New Orleans because it had no flood control component and killed hundreds.

My drinking buddy John Burnett, an NPR reporter and fantastic mouth harp player, is on his way back to the hellmouth in New Orleans and will be there tomorrow, right where he was when Katrina came onshore and revealed just how fucking clueless the Bush Admin was when faced with the disaster of Katrina.

We have spent billions on the Gulf Coast hardening cities in the way of water and wind. We’ll see, tomorrow, on how well we have done.

Good Luck, Louisiana, I’m rooting for you. I lived in your fetid swamps for 15 years and I hated your casual and overt racism, your deep embrace of castes, both black and white, and yet I love you from the bottom of my heart.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2021 • 11:51:29pm

The National Hurricane Center is now giving hourly updates.

Rapid intensification continues.

Hurricane Ida Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
200 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…MAJOR HURRICANE IDA CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN…
…NOW A DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE…

Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft and NOAA
Doppler weather radars indicate that Hurricane Ida has continued to
rapidly intensify this Sunday morning. Maximum sustained winds are
now estimated to be 130 mph (215 km/h). This makes Ida a category 4
hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Ida’s central pressure has fallen 6 millibars during the past hour.

SUMMARY OF 200 AM CDT…0700 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…27.7N 88.8W
ABOUT 100 MI…160 KM S OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
ABOUT 175 MI…280 KM SE OF HOUMA LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…130 MPH…215 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 15 MPH…24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…949 MB…28.02 INCHES

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:06:55am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The National Hurricane Center is now giving hourly updates.

Rapid intensification continues.

Gaining power at night is a bad sign.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:07:47am

NEXRAD Radar loop from the National Weather Service in New Orleans.

radar.weather.gov

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:09:15am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So it turns out Eric Clapton is a dique.

That, alas, has been known for a long while.

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austin_blue  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:25:30am

re: #113 Dread Pirate Ron

Gaining power at night is a bad sign.

Oh, hell yes. Watch this:

Image: GOES16-GM-13-1000x1000.gif

George Clooney, in an old Tarantino film, would have called this a Mean Motor Scooter.

I think it’s like looking down the barrel of a sixteen inch, fifty caliber barrel on the USS Iowa.

It’s death, courtesy of Nature, high on the Human Methamphetamine of O=C=O addiction.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:26:35am

re: #115 William Lewis

That, alas, has been known for a long while.

More from the article:

The British guitar legend Eric Clapton has told of the self-disgust he felt at seeing old footage of himself chanting racist slogans at a 1976 concert in the British city of Birmingham.

Clapton was speaking at a Q&A in London following the screening of the highly anticipated biographical documentary Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars.

The 18-time Grammy winner said he felt shame about the notorious incident, wherein he praised the racist Tory MP Enoch Powell, declared that Britain must stop itself from becoming a “black colony,” and said “England is for white people, man.”

and

Clapton’s bizarre outburst, which helped spur the Rock Against Racism movement, saw him labeled a racist for many years, and he has subsequently apologized many times, blaming his addiction to drink and drugs for the outburst.

“I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semi-racist, which didn’t make sense. Half of my friends were black, I dated a black woman and I championed black music.”— Thus goes Eric Clapton’s apology.

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austin_blue  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:35:35am

re: #115 William Lewis

That, alas, has been known for a long while.

Yes, but his wealth and whiteness give him privelege, so that he can rail against vaccines!

And, hubbada hubbada let’s ignore my hypocrisy given my heroin addiction when I lost a solid ten years of my creativity and, given my lack of new shit, maybe all of my creativity when I can now blather about shit I’ve heard on the gazpacho Internet gazpacho cookookaroo.

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John Hughes  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:37:52am

re: #43 Dave In Austin

How you make human fois gras.

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:43:02am

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

he has subsequently apologized many times, blaming his addiction to drink and drugs for the outburst.

addiction to drink and drugs never gave anybody racist attitudes, or caused them to think racist thoughts.

it does cause people to say out loud the thoughts that, when they were sober, they knew enough to bite their tongue and keep their thoughts to themself.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:43:48am

Via the Salt Lake Tribune, Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman: The quiet rage of the responsible in a pandemic (August 16, 2021)

The question is whether this entirely justified anger — call it the rage of the responsible — will have a political impact, whether leaders will stand up for the interests of Americans who are trying to do the right thing but whose lives are being disrupted and endangered by those who aren’t.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:47:24am

re: #119 John Hughes

How you make human fois gras.

As noted at Wonkette on Sen. Rand Paul dodging on whether he would condemn usage of Ivermectin for Covid-19 (saying it hasn’t been studied yet, simply to spite Donald Trump, two lies in one):

We haven’t studied whether strips of Rand Paul’s liver would work against Covid-19 (served with fava beans and a nice Chianti).

This disingenuous argument (drug X hasn’t been studied for Covid-19) has been long used by quacks to justify all kinds of crap. There are tens of thousands of drugs; not every drug is tested for every condition.

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teleskiguy  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:52:38am

re: #111 austin_blue

Hey man, it’s good to know *you’re* out there.

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austin_blue  Aug 29, 2021 • 12:59:04am

re: #119 John Hughes

How you make human fois gras.

Well, you just stick a really high-calorie feeding tube down your catatonic family COVID victim and, instead of letting the family turn off the machine to achieve closure, you agree that they should maximize the profit they can make off their family member who can give them a source of funeral expenses.

You can probably get a solid 20 pounds of fois gras off a comatose human Covid victim. It’s only fair for the families to get whatever benefit they need to protect their interests.

I don’t know why this is controversial.

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TedStriker  Aug 29, 2021 • 1:03:03am

re: #124 austin_blue

Well, you just stick a really high-calorie feeding tube down your catatonic family COVID victim and, instead of letting the family turn off the machine to achieve closure, you agree that they should maximize the profit they can make off their family member who can give them a source of funeral expenses.

You can probably get a solid 20 pounds of fois gras off a comatose human Covid victim. It’s only fair for the families to get whatever benefit they need to protect their interests.

I don’t know why this is controversial.

Seems like a modest proposal…

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 29, 2021 • 1:17:07am

re: #120 sagehen

Yeah. You could fill me up with alcohol and I wouldn’t start spouting racist invectives. It’s just not in me. It’s sad that Clapton is ending his legacy on an anti-science binge.

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ericblair  Aug 29, 2021 • 1:20:17am

re: #119 John Hughes

How you make human fois gras.

Don’t pay her?

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teleskiguy  Aug 29, 2021 • 1:20:41am

One of the owners of the ski area died earlier this week. Todd was his name. I never met him.

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austin_blue  Aug 29, 2021 • 1:39:00am

re: #123 teleskiguy

Hey man, it’s good to know *you’re* out there.

I’ve always been a structural geologist by training, who got out of school and flew jets in the Air Force for a few years, then worked internationally as a wellhead geologist. Blew my back out, got it surgically repaired, and got into Environmental Geology. Got a job w/ the State o’ Texas as an Emergency Response Coordinator and Contract Manager.

But then, I retired, and I still worked as a consultant. But mostly for insurance companies, because they know their business models are really fucked up right now and it will be hard as hell to reinvent the concept of risk. They are trying to sell policies in an environment where the Media says what we are experiencing is the “New Normal”. What we are experiencing is the new chaos.

The big insurance companies have made their decisions. They will not insure any construction, anywhere, on the Texas gulf coast, until you promise, as chattel slaves, all of your children, and any future children, as collateral in case of future losses.

Texans, being Texans, are snapping up beach properties as fast as they can.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 1:40:31am

Wingnuts in the future maybe: Well, it doesn’t appear Ivermectin works any better than shoving a UV light up your arse.

Evilly-minded liberal trying to advance Teh Geyh Agenda: People are saying large doses of oestradiol work well against Covid-19, and it’s a natural human hormone to boot, so it won’t hurt you.

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teleskiguy  Aug 29, 2021 • 1:47:26am

re: #129 austin_blue

Humans, man. We’re our own worst enemy.

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Varek Raith  Aug 29, 2021 • 1:52:23am

Good morning.
I take a break from twitter for a month and my account is suspended? Lulz.
How are you all?

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austin_blue  Aug 29, 2021 • 1:57:55am

Good dog it’s late.

Anything I posted tonight is not my fault as I was overly chateaud. This was obviously not my fault.

My neighbors earlier this evening overserved us. This is something we do on the block on a regular basis. But tonight was not our night, and so anything I posted was not my fucking fault.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 29, 2021 • 2:01:21am
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teleskiguy  Aug 29, 2021 • 2:10:59am

re: #132 Varek Raith

I got suspended in late April.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 2:40:10am

re: #132 Varek Raith

Good morning.
I take a break from twitter for a month and my account is suspended? Lulz.
How are you all?

Not using your account enough? /s

We’re doing okay out here in the Old West. How ‘bout you?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 2:44:54am

Unravelling an astroturfing botnet on Twitter (eight tweets):

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Varek Raith  Aug 29, 2021 • 2:45:47am

re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Doing good. Finally got the process of fixing my teeth rolling thanks to Virginia expading medicaid to include adult dental. :)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 2:52:50am

While all eyes look southeast toward Louisiana (all you people live inside my computer), there is a hurricane causing extensive damage on the west coast of Mexico as well.

…NORA VERY NEAR THE COAST OF WEST-CENTRAL MEXICO…
…CONTINUES TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING…

SUMMARY OF 400 AM CDT…0900 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…22.5N 105.9W
ABOUT 60 MI…95 KM SSE OF MAZATLAN MEXICO
ABOUT 255 MI…410 KM E OF CABO SAN LUCAS MEXICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…75 MPH…120 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…N OR 350 DEGREES AT 12 MPH…19 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…985 MB…29.09 INCHES

nhc.noaa.gov

Hurricane Nora will rake along the shore of Mexico up the Gulf of California for hundreds of miles before turning inland toward Arizona.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 2:54:35am

5AM Central update on Hurricane Ida.

Hurricane Ida Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
500 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…NOAA HURRICANE HUNTERS FIND IDA HAS CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN…
…EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE IDA EXPECTED TO MAKE
LANDFALL IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA LATER TODAY…

Reports from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that maximum
sustained winds have increased to 145 mph (230 km/h).

A NOAA C-MAN station at Southwest Pass, Louisiana, recently reported
a sustained wind of 60 mph (96 km/h) and a gust to 74 mph (118
km/h).

SUMMARY OF 500 AM CDT…1000 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…28.2N 89.3W
ABOUT 80 MI…130 KM SSE OF GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA
ABOUT 65 MI…100 KM S OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…145 MPH…230 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 315 DEGREES AT 15 MPH…24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…946 MB…27.93 INCHES

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 29, 2021 • 2:58:08am

A voice rises from the grave. I forgot she existed. Crap.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:00:55am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:04:26am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:06:54am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:11:19am

The world of Christian wingnuts has one less wingnut tonight.

LA man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines dies of virus (BBC)

A California man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines on social media has died after a month-long battle with the virus.

Stephen Harmon, a member of the Hillsong megachurch, had been a vocal opponent of vaccines, making a series of jokes about not having the vaccine.

“Got 99 problems but a vax ain’t one,” the 34-year-old tweeted to his 7,000 followers in June.

He was treated for pneumonia and Covid-19 in a hospital outside Los Angeles, where he died on Wednesday.

In the days leading up to his death, Mr Harmon documented his fight to stay alive, posting pictures of himself in his hospital bed.

“Please pray y’all, they really want to intubate me and put me on a ventilator,” he said.

(more)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:21:07am

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I thought my music taste was weird. Were those band names?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:23:17am

We had a nice jump in vaccinations this week.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:23:19am
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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:23:34am

re: #141 Dread Pirate Ron

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A voice rises from the grave. I forgot she existed. Crap.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:24:59am

re: #146 Dread Pirate Ron

I thought my music taste was weird. Were those band names?

Must be an Iowa thing. Sweetstock is held in Council Bluffs.

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ericblair  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:25:56am

re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the days leading up to his death, Mr Harmon documented his fight to stay alive, posting pictures of himself in his hospital bed.

“Please pray y’all, they really want to intubate me and put me on a ventilator,” he said.

In case it needs any proof, Governor Mississippi Covid’s statement that Christian’s aren’t afraid of death because JEEZUS may not be quite correct. It’s more along the lines of “sure, many of you may die, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay.”

It’s a death cult, but other people’s death, please. And as one of our anonymous MAGAts famously said, “he’s not hurting the people he’s supposed to be hurting.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:26:41am

re: #149 William Lewis

I see she got a job as a contributor to FOX News Channel. Quite the fall from the New York Times.

Perhaps her cheerleading for the Iraq War was her job application.

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Varek Raith  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:27:47am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

God dammit.
:D

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 3:43:54am

How to lie and take the oppositional position, in 1:42

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:01:47am

Hurricane Ida Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
600 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…NOAA PLANE FINDS IDA STRONGER…
…EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE IDA EXPECTED TO MAKE
LANDFALL IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA LATER TODAY…

Reports from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that maximum
sustained winds have increased to near 150 mph (240 km/h) with
higher gusts. The latest minimum central pressure estimated from
reconnaissance aircraft data is 935 mb (27.61 in).

An elevated NOAA C-MAN station at Pilot’s Station East near
Southwest Pass, Louisiana, recently reported a sustained wind of 82
mph (131 km/h) and a gust to 107 mph (172 km/h). Another NOAA
elevated C-MAN station at Southwest Pass recently reported a
sustained wind of 77 mph (124 km/h) and a wind gust of 93 mph (150
km/h).

SUMMARY OF 600 AM CDT…1100 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…28.3N 89.4W
ABOUT 75 MI…120 KM SSE OF GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA
ABOUT 60 MI…95 KM SSW OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…150 MPH…240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 315 DEGREES AT 15 MPH…24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…935 MB…27.61 INCHES

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:11:08am

nhc.noaa.gov

The latest forecast track of Hurricane Ida has it as a tropical storm in west-central Mississippi, a tropical depression in Tennessee and Kentucky, and a post-tropical depression in east West Virginia-northern Virginia-western Maryland.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:19:14am

So, this person started a trend on Twitter.

My answer is really boring: atheist >> forced to go to a United Methodist Church as an atheist >> atheist.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:21:17am

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

As noted at Wonkette

This disingenuous argument (drug X hasn’t been studied for Covid-19) has been long used by quacks to justify all kinds of crap. There are tens of thousands of drugs; not every drug is tested for every condition.

Researchers look at mechanism of action — they’re not going to test a drug unless there is some mechanistic reason to do so; the fact that some drugs at outside of what we expect is simply because we don’t understand everything. When drugs are used off-label, there is a reason, it’s not every drug can cure everything, that’s moronic. It is expensive to get a drug through the FDA approval process — and each new use is a new approval.

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ericblair  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:23:14am

What if…hear me out…the UK signed a customs, border, and regulatory treaty with mainland European countries to get rid of all this nasty new bureaucracy that somehow appeared one day for no reason? We could call it the British Empire! Or something!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:25:27am

re: #159 ericblair

What if…hear me out…the UK signed a customs, border, and regulatory treaty with mainland European countries to get rid of all this nasty new bureaucracy that somehow appeared one day for no reason? We could call it the British Empire! Or something!

This would all be really simple if the EU joined the British Commonwealth.

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:25:51am

OOOhhhh! Fun times!

Museum Quality Fossil Hominid Skull Casts

For example:

Australopithecus afarensis Skull “Lucy” $295

I’d love to be able to afford a set of these!

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:29:18am

re: #161 William Lewis

OOOhhhh! Fun times!

Museum Quality Fossil Hominid Skull Casts

For example:

Australopithecus afarensis Skull “Lucy” $295

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I’d love to be able to afford a set of these!

Good investment—you’d come out ahead.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:30:25am

Anti-Vaxx, Anti-Medicine Nurses (8 Years Ago) (Goes to progressive Christian blog Slacktivist at Patheos)

This is from January of 2013: “Church & state and ‘beliefs’ that believers don’t care about.” (Kudos to ABC News for the link to their story still working all these years later.)

Three nurses no longer work at an Indiana hospital because they refused to get flu shots.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:33:16am
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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:34:40am

re: #162 Decatur Deb

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ericblair  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:35:08am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This would all be really simple if the EU joined the British Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth ain’t what it used to be. If you’re a Canuck, you get a youth working visa for a year for some other Commonwealth country and that’s about it.

A lot of the COVID stupidity tracks Brexit stupidity:

-Conservatives bullshit their way into a grossly stupid policy based on greed, racism, and internal infighting.
-Policy does what opponents said it would do.
-Conservatives show concern over disastrous effects that simply appeared one day for no reason at all, but obviously what we need now is MOAR grossly stupid policy.
-Effects become so blatantly obvious that even Conservatives have trouble not seeing them. Conservatives then blame opponents for opposing the policy, since opposing the policy just made Conservatives implement the policy, because that’s the way it works.
-More Conservative infighting, then general shuffling towards an actual sane policy favored by the opponents with a shiny new name on it. General agreement that it was a good thing the opponents weren’t in charge because God knows how bad they’d fuck it up, yeah. (Not here yet)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:38:11am

re: #166 ericblair

But the Queen is on your money. That’s the important part.

If the United Kingdom could just force the EU to put Queen Elizabeth II on the euro, everything would be fine.

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Renaissance_Man  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:40:11am

re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That story is over a month old, but there’s no shortage of new ones just like it.

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ericblair  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:45:48am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

But the Queen is on your money. That’s the important part.

If the United Kingdom could just force the EU to put Queen Elizabeth II on the euro, everything would be fine.

See? You can date how old a bill or coin is by how droopy Her Nibs looks on it. Very practical.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:48:01am

Marc Bernier, a talk radio host in Daytona Beach for 30 years, died after a three-week battle with COVID-19, the Dayton Beach News-Journal reports.

The Wrap notes Bernier had expressed anti-vaccine sentiment less than a week before his hospitalization.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:48:10am

re: #169 ericblair

See? You can date how old a bill or coin is by how droopy Her Nibs looks on it. Very practical.

When did she start to look like a Puffin?

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:51:29am

re: #149 William Lewis

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“Own up to mistakes”?
You people are eating horse paste
Won’t wear masks
Insist on opening schools then infecting them
Dying in hospitals

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:51:48am

re: #169 ericblair

See? You can date how old a bill or coin is by how droopy Her Nibs looks on it. Very practical.

Nah, just goes to show that it hasn’t been the same since Decimalization. I mean, if the anti-EU people were serious they’d bring back the 240 P = 20 S = 1 L because any country’d be better with LSD as their money…

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:52:48am

re: #146 Dread Pirate Ron

I thought my music taste was weird. Were those band names?

If you were Black, you’d probably recognize those names. I do.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 4:58:20am

re: #169 ericblair

See? You can date how old a bill or coin is by how droopy Her Nibs looks on it. Very practical.

Do they show the nibs in portraits on money?

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Nojay UK  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:00:35am

re: #172 Dangerman

“Own up to mistakes”?
You people are eating horse paste
Won’t wear masks
Insist on opening schools the infecting them
Dying in hospitals

The totally-not-empathetic HermanCainAward on Reddit has someone’s posting as a meme:

It’s a hoax.
Don’t be sheep.
Prayers needed.
Visit our GoFundMe.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:01:23am

The core of Hurricane Ida is very close to the coast. It appears (eyeballing this, I am not a meteorologist) that the eyewall will come very close to New Orleans.

radar.weather.gov (NEXRAD radar)

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Ming5000  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:02:21am

Whoa… Would be a good seller today.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:03:14am

re: #178 Ming5000

Whoa… Would be a good seller today.

I’m lucky if my shoes hold up two thousand hours.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:05:00am

re: #151 ericblair

In case it needs any proof, Governor Mississippi Covid’s statement that Christian’s aren’t afraid of death because JEEZUS may not be quite correct. It’s more along the lines of “sure, many of you may die, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay.”

It’s a death cult, but other people’s death, please. And as one of our anonymous MAGAts famously said, “he’s not hurting the people he’s supposed to be hurting.”

-“When you believe in eternal life—when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of your parents.”

-“When you believe in eternal life—when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of the Police.”

“When you believe in eternal life—when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of abortion, or immigrants or a mask or.a vaccination…”

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:05:41am

re: #170 Dangerman

He has been ant-vaxx for quite a while, actually.

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Nojay UK  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:06:29am

re: #175 Dangerman

Do they show the nibs in portraits on money?

Also on stamps. British postage stamps are, I believe, unique in the world in that they don’t have the name of the country where they’re issued since, well, they were invented here.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:07:09am

re: #175 Dangerman

Do they show the nibs in portraits on money?

Used to.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:07:30am

re: #181 Eric The Fruit Bat

He has had been ant-vaxx for quite a while, actually.

Too soon?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:09:53am

re: #170 Dangerman

Marc Bernier, a talk radio host in Daytona Beach for 30 years, died after a three-week battle with COVID-19, the Dayton Beach News-Journal reports.

The Wrap notes Bernier had expressed anti-vaccine sentiment less than a week before his hospitalization.

Nature’s way of reasserting the Fairness Doctrine, I guess.

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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:10:27am

Yet another high-profile Covidiot bites the dust…

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jeffreyw  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:12:55am

Good morning!

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steve_davis  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:15:19am

re: #3 Dave In Austin

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Video

“Pigeons are not dumb…” probably the first time in history THAT’s ever been said!

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:18:41am

re: #188 steve_davis

“Pigeons are not dumb…” probably the first time in history THAT’s ever been said!

Theyv’e not been observed eating horse de-wormer.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:19:05am

The Fable of the Sick Anti-Vaxxer (Rebecca Onion at Slate, July 30, 2021)

In the early 20th century, a famous anti-vaxxer exposed himself to smallpox. What happened next offers a COVID cautionary tale.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:20:46am

Before covid it was easier to be anti vax

Most adults were already vaxxed .
Sure they could opt out their kids.
But it was more a political statement than an actual health on the line issue

a lot/many/most of those diseases are quite rare because previous efforts were so effective. Yes some kids got measles, the pox, but most wouldn’t. Qed who needs a vax?

Hiv you could avoid.
Other recent bugs…not too common.

Covid is demonstrating what it was like before. And how effective all these other vaccines really are. Because it’s so transmissible and is hitting everybody

no secret, ancient, exotic cures or preventatives. No one weird trick they dont want you to know.

You don’t vax and mask, good chance you’ll die or be permanently health compromised.

That’s your choice. It’s that simple.

And that’s besides who else you’ll infect and take with you.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:22:53am

re: #182 Nojay UK

Also on stamps. British postage stamps are, I believe, unique in the world in that they don’t have the name of the country where they’re issued since, well, they were invented here.

re: #175 Dangerman

Do they show the nibs in portraits on money?

I didn’t mean Her Nibs.
I meant her nibs

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:23:19am

re: #183 Decatur Deb

Used to.

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This!

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steve_davis  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:26:21am

re: #33 Renaissance_Man

I really don’t think this is true. As has been shown in elections, the hardcore right that every major media outlet tries to pander to is a minority. Even if they are a sizable minority, it doesn’t make good business sense for all of these outlets - CNN, NYT, FOX, OANN, Epoch Times, even MSNBC - to try to compete for the same minority, even if that minority is comprised of especially gullible people. Business 101 suggests that it would make more sense to try to capture a market that nobody else is even competing for, especially if that market is a majority.

We must conclude, then, that it’s not about business, money, clicks, page views, or anything like that at all. These media outlets aren’t catering to reactionary white people in order to capture their business. Instead, outlets like CNN and the NYT see themselves as the arbiters of American culture, as the ‘mainstream’. And the people that decide the news narratives don’t see it as their job to follow the trending viewpoints of Americans, but rather to determine them. They are reality shows. And like any reality show, they see it as their job to create a narrative that will resonate with people so that their target audience will internalise it. And the nature of America is that the only ‘target audience’ that has ever mattered in this country is average white people. Their opinions are sacred and cannot be wrong, even if they’re not exactly right. What we call bothsiderism is basically just the arbiters of US culture trying to give credibility to any stupid crap that a large number of white people think, for no other reason than ‘a large number of white people’ cannot be wrong.

Outlets like FOX, on the other hand, aren’t trying to give that same target audience credibility. They know that whatever they say becomes what that target audience thinks. So they make something up and set the story, several million white people chant it in unison, and the NYT then accepts it as automatically valid because average white people think it. No matter what it is, it can’t be wrong, so it becomes part of the narrative, so that the only demographic that matters in America will internalise it.

I just want news. I’ve gotten to where I can barely even stand MSNBC. It’s a bunch of pundits taking softball questions and running with them for 10 minutes at a time. When bad things happen, I don’t need to constantly have the anchors tell me how their hearts are breaking, or how tragic a situation is. I don’t want my news editorialized. If 200 people are killed in a suicide bombing, I’m capable of determining for myself how sad I am about it without editorializing from an anchor.

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Nojay UK  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:27:45am

re: #192 Dangerman

I didn’t mean Her Nibs.
I meant her nibs

Ah, an Americanism I was not aware of. ‘Nips’ is more recognisable, assuming it is disambiguated by context from the now-deprecated racial slur (e.g. the Warner Brothers wartime short, “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips”).

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steve_davis  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:29:43am

re: #43 Dave In Austin

Gack!

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“Lingering taste…” That’s also one of the selling points of vomit.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:32:17am

re: #194 steve_davis

The notion of unbiased news is fairly recent (Early TV/Postwar era). For most of our history the news media was a melange of partisan/economic/ethnic casemaking. We were supposed to be smart enough and educated enough to sort it out.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:32:59am

Pilot station just off shore:

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:34:36am

“We must cultivate our garden.” BBL

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:36:46am

Ida has become that classic major hurricane shape:

Image: G16-sector-gm-band14-24fr-20210829-0831.gif

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steve_davis  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:39:51am

re: #58 A Mom Anon

Wishes do come true!

This is every fucking shade of awful for no reason there is. I cannot grasp at all how they won’t get vaccinated but they will literally drink injectable ivermectin.!Which will kill them or do huge damage to their bodies. Not that this society couldn’t stand to lose a whole lot of mean idiots, but how damaged do you have to be to do this shit?

It’s because, as I was recently saying to the dean, stupid people are stupid because they are stupid, not because they determined somewhere it was an advantageous life choice. They literally lack the capacity to analyze two outcomes, two choices, and to arrive at the decision to take the better one. If I were, god forbid, diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, I would weigh everything up—challenges of treatment, actual extension of a life with quality based on that treatment, etc., and determine if I want to pursue that or maybe just go to a pawn shop, buy a .38 and stick it in my mouth. That’s because like other smart people, I understand how to weigh risk, benefit for the most part. Stupid people just honest to god can’t do that. They’re like watching a dog trying to untangle its tether from around a bush.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:40:52am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:42:23am

Jeff, who can be a bit dramatic, is noting that some people did not evacuate:

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Ming5000  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:46:34am

re: #203 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Seems to be a link to the live feed.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:50:19am

re: #204 Ming5000

Jeff used to do Periscope but since Twitter folded that he now embeds in a tweet.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 5:59:44am

re: #202 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Hurricane Ida Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
800 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…800 AM CDT POSITION UPDATE…
…HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS OCCURING IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN
LOUISIANA…

An elevated NOAA C-MAN station at Southwest Pass, Louisiana,
recently reported a sustained wind of 105 mph (169 km/h) and a wind
gust of 121 mph (194 km/h).

The latest minimum central pressure based on data from an Air Force
Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft is 930 mb (27.46 in).

SUMMARY OF 800 AM CDT…1300 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…28.6N 89.7W
ABOUT 50 MI…80 KM SSE OF GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA
ABOUT 100 MI…160 KM SSE OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…150 MPH…240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 15 MPH…24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…930 MB…27.46 INCHES

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steve_davis  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:05:05am

re: #118 austin_blue

Yes, but his wealth and whiteness give him privelege, so that he can rail against vaccines!

And, hubbada hubbada let’s ignore my hypocrisy given my heroin addiction when I lost a solid ten years of my creativity and, given my lack of new shit, maybe all of my creativity when I can now blather about shit I’ve heard on the gazpacho Internet gazpacho cookookaroo.

the same guy who gave us the best bluesbreakers album in existence, with two time-stopping guitar solos, would also give us “My Father’s Eyes” and the sad dreck of the late80’s/early 90’s.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:05:32am

re: #194 steve_davis

I just want news. I’ve gotten to where I can barely even stand MSNBC. It’s a bunch of pundits taking softball questions and running with them for 10 minutes at a time. When bad things happen, I don’t need to constantly have the anchors tell me how their hearts are breaking, or how tragic a situation is. I don’t want my news editorialized. If 200 people are killed in a suicide bombing, I’m capable of determining for myself how sad I am about it without editorializing from an anchor.

1 - there is way more time than there is news to fill it

2 - do not lose sight of their goal
they are selling ad space. nothing more.
they are not delivering a news ‘service’
their model, their biases, their on air faces all reflect their ability to sell more ads

‘news’ is now something you must cobble together from multiple sources.
you must analyse and distill it on your own.
‘news’ is no longer served to you (if it ever was).
now you have to work for it.

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steve_davis  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:07:20am

re: #120 sagehen

addiction to drink and drugs never gave anybody racist attitudes, or caused them to think racist thoughts.

it does cause people to say out loud the thoughts that, when they were sober, they knew enough to bite their tongue and keep their thoughts to themself.

There’s a myth that drugs/alcohol cause people to say what they really think about stuff. They don’t. The hateful, hurtful things get said, not because they addict believes them, but because that part of the brain that is unleashed at the time knows that those are the things that will typically most hurt the listener. Ginger Baker is a case in point. He didn’t actually believe the hateful shit he said to people that he actually loved.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:07:23am

re: #203 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Jeff, who can be a bit dramatic, is noting that some people did not evacuate:

The video will not play on my computer. I assume something about it is blocked by my ISP.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:07:57am

re: #195 Nojay UK

Ah, an Americanism I was not aware of. ‘Nips’ is more recognisable, assuming it is disambiguated by context from the now-deprecated racial slur (e.g. the Warner Brothers wartime short, “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips”).

not really an americanism
hence the pun (at least i thought so)

of course there are these

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:08:24am

re: #211 Dangerman

AFAIK it is just a normal twitter video embed.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:10:27am

re: #174 Patricia Kayden

If you were Black, you’d probably recognize those names. I do.

I’m so white I’m virtually transparent and I recognize those names. I was into alternative rock so I’m not too familiar with their songs (but let’s be honest, I’m not familiar with most groups songs, really, even the groups I’m very familiar with) but I know all their names.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:13:30am

re: #209 steve_davis

There’s a myth that drugs/alcohol cause people to say what they really think about stuff. They don’t. The hateful, hurtful things get said, not because they addict believes them, but because that part of the brain that is unleashed at the time knows that those are the things that will typically most hurt the listener. Ginger Baker is a case in point. He didn’t actually believe the hateful shit he said to people that he actually loved.

‘alcohol gets blamed for a lot of things it didnt do”
tom selleck - the shadow riders

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:22:52am

Shane Vaughn Claims COVID-19 Vaccines Don’t Work Because The U.S. Is Under God’s Judgment (Right Wing Watch)

TL;DR, too many geyh rights and reproductive freedom.

Radical right-wing pastor Shane Vaughn used his livestream broadcast Monday night to falsely declare that COVID-19 vaccines are not working because, he claimed, the United States is under God’s judgment for tolerating reproductive freedom and LGBTQ rights.

“I’m going to tell you what God told me to tell you,” Vaughn said. “They’ve got variants coming that ain’t no vaccine going to work for. This nation is under the judgment of God. And I want to tell you something right now: They’re already admitting that the vaccine is alarmingly not working. Alarmingly! They’re alarmed at what they’re seeing. Do you know why? Because America, you’re making a huge mistake.”

Vaughn then read from Isaiah 31, in which God told the Israelites not to look to Egypt for help but rather to rely on God. Vaughn said the same principle must apply today.

(more)

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:22:57am
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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:25:38am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Shane Vaughn Claims COVID-19 Vaccines Don’t Work Because The U.S. Is Under God’s Judgment (Right Wing Watch)

TL;DR, too many geyh rights and reproductive freedom.

(more)

i dont mind so much when people say they ‘talk to god’

i mind very much this: “I’m going to tell you what God told me to tell you”

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:27:33am

re: #216 No Malarkey!

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god created 3 vaccines

unless you mean someone has to go up a mountain and come down with the stuff handed to him personally

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:27:59am

re: #217 Dangerman

i dont mind so much when people say they ‘talk to god’

i mind very much this: “I’m going to tell you what God told me to tell you”

Apparently God lies, because he told a whole lot of prophets to tell us that Trump would win the election last year.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:32:25am

Omaha World-Herald, three hours ago:

Nebraska nurses exhausted and frustrated with unvaccinated COVID patients

Like many health care professionals, Heather Elliott believed the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year would put the darkest days of the pandemic behind them.

“The very first day the vaccine went live, we were all on the phone that minute, ‘how fast can we get a shot?’ We thought everyone would be that way, standing in line to get their shot,” Elliott, a discharge nurse at Bryan Health in Lincoln, wrote in a recent Facebook post.

But that hasn’t happened.

After a surge in vaccinations this spring, the push dried up, and everyone considered the pandemic over, she and other health care providers said. Now the virus is back.

“People are running, and they’re tired,” Elliott said. “It’s a constant rat race of getting this thing done so you can move on. I miss the days when you can sit in a patient’s room and just talk to them.”

The recent surge in COVID-19 infections has left Nebraska nurses and doctors exhausted, dismayed about the level of distrust in vaccinations and science, and devastated that even healthy, younger patients are dying.

(more)

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:35:24am

re: #219 No Malarkey!

Apparently God lies, because he told a whole lot of prophets to tell us that Trump would win the election last year.

does god talk to anyone besides you?
no? only you.
that makes you like….wow
and every other religious leader isn’t?…wow wow

oh wait, you meant yes, he does talk to others?
a bit better
they say god said different things than you do, contradictory even
this confusion is all part of god’s plan?
even that’s ok

how do we know who to listen to? which message is ‘the message’?
oh i see, we’re back to you being…’wow’

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Renaissance_Man  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:42:13am

re: #216 No Malarkey!

Education doesn’t do anything to stop this. I’ve said this before - every surgeon’s lounge in the US is full of Trumpers. People can be as educated as you want and they’ll refuse to believe the evidence of their own eyes if they’re in a cult. The only thing that works is deprogramming.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:47:39am

Do I have to overstate the effing obvious that all these high profile people are dying because they ALL GOT IT WRONG

The “smart” ones
The radio and tv ones
The opinion sharers
The leaders..religious and otherwise

Were. All. Wrong.
Every one. 100%.

Sure 99% of the rest are unvaccinated but most of them are followers

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A Mom Anon  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:51:52am

From what I can tell, it looks like professional liar and asshole Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended from Twitter. Took them long enough.

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darthstar  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:52:48am

Mornin’ everyone. Good luck to NOLA and the area today.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:53:40am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Except it’s not killing off those who rely on the vaccine.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:54:45am

re: #224 A Mom Anon

From what I can tell, it looks like professional liar and asshole Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended from Twitter. Took them long enough.

Twitter is finally taking covid misinformation seriously; you can actually report it now. I guess the death toll finally got to Jack.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:57:03am

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 6:58:49am

re: #227 No Malarkey!

Twitter is finally taking covid misinformation seriously; you can actually report it now. I guess the death toll finally got to Jack.

Or the potential liability

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A Mom Anon  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:01:59am

re: #229 Dangerman

Yep, that’s my guess. The legal peeps must have got in his face about liability and very bad publicity effecting the bottom line.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:02:52am

re: #222 Renaissance_Man

Why logic, reason, and explaining the science is pointless

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:04:48am
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gwangung  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:07:39am

re: #232 Belafon

A-fracking-men.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:09:22am
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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:11:37am
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Belafon  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:14:55am
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A Mom Anon  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:15:19am

re: #232 Belafon

That is brilliant. I’m about as white as you can get, I agree with every word. I feel like it’s hopeless, but then I see the faces of the little kids and their families on their way here from Afghanistan, and yes there is fear and exhaustion there, but there’s also hope, and joy. Those are the faces of people who want this to be a place of not just rest, but somewhere to heal and thrive. That’s where all the good stuff, the possibilities that weren’t there before, are now. I want people here who to want to be here, to understand our history and still see all the potential here to do so many amazing things. People who don’t take everything for granted like the spoiled assholes that seem to be winning and getting all the attention and much of the power.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:21:06am

It’s heart shaped waffle day here at the pond

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:22:19am

Dressed

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:22:52am

re: #90 William Lewis

She also knows what decent people think of her…

“This account owner limits who can view their Tweets.”

I blocked that person a long time ago.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:23:21am

re: #231 Dangerman

Why logic, reason, and explaining the science is pointless

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It is going to take mandates. A lot of anti-vaxxers caught the original covid last year and think they are immune now, which they are not. The Delta variant is like a whole new pandemic, much more contagious and deadlier.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:32:34am

Just watched season 8 episode 11 of Futurama—”The Cold Warriors.”

Fry reintroduces the common cold into New New York, which had been eradicated for hundreds of years. A pandemic ensues, with the world concerned there will be billions of deaths.

Hijinks ensue as the plucky crew of Planet Express work to save the world.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:38:22am

The latest entry into sorryantivaxxer.com really didn’t like SHEEP. sorryantivaxxer.com

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:38:25am

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:39:23am

As Kayleigh pointed out the other day, you just didn’t see all these crises during the Trump administration

Hurricanes
Fires
Military deaths
Civic
Fascist gatherings /insurrections

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:39:49am

re: #244 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:41:59am

Hurricane Ida Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
900 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…900 AM CDT POSITION UPDATE…
…NORTHERN EYEWALL OF IDA APPROACHING THE COAST OF SOUTHEASTERN
LOUISIANA…

An elevated NOAA C-MAN station at Southwest Pass, Louisiana,
recently reported a sustained wind of 102 mph (165 km/h) and a wind
gust of 116 mph (187 km/h). Another elevated NOAA C-MAN station at
Pilot’s Station East near Southwest Pass recently reported a
sustained wind of 97 mph (156 km/h) and a gust to 121 mph (194
km/h).

A NOAA National Ocean Service observing site at Pilottown,
Louisiana, recently reported a sustained wind of 52 mph (84 km/h)
and a gust of 77 mph (124 km/h).

SUMMARY OF 900 AM CDT…1400 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…28.7N 89.8W
ABOUT 40 MI…65 KM SSE OF GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA
ABOUT 90 MI…145 KM SSE OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…150 MPH…240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 14 MPH…22 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…930 MB…27.46 INCHES

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:42:08am

re: #235 Dangerman

Basically, the Confederacy.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:43:38am
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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:44:34am

re: #244 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:45:47am

re: #248 No Malarkey!

Basically, the Confederacy.

Paul Krugman tweet yesterday used that map

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:47:42am

re: #249 No Malarkey!

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That sentence is quite a string of words

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:48:22am

re: #238 Dangerman

It’s heart shaped waffle day here at the pond

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That’s not dressed. Where’s the powdered sugar and whipped cream? 🤣

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:49:16am

re: #231 Dangerman

Why logic, reason, and explaining the science is pointless

Which is why I don’t even argue with anti-vaxxers, I just block them.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:49:36am

re: #249 No Malarkey!

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban spokesman says a US airstrike targeted a suicide bomber in a vehicle who wanted to strike Kabul airport.

Saved him the trouble.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:49:43am

re: #253 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s not dressed. Where’s the powdered sugar and whipped cream? 🤣

I’m a minimalist

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:52:39am

re: #252 Dangerman

That sentence is quite a string of words

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:53:49am

I can’t imagine a large segment of any other species feeling so proud of being so ignorant about shit that they’d risk dying for that feeling

Including lemmings

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:54:07am

re: #243 No Malarkey!

The latest entry into sorryantivaxxer.com really didn’t like SHEEP. sorryantivaxxer.com

Wow, what an ass. There is a comment in there saying go to his obit and leave nasty comments, but that probably isn’t a good idea.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:54:41am

re: #187 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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b.d. (War Is Over! Cough Louder Conservatives!)  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:55:43am

re: #257 No Malarkey!

Carpooling? Good for us and the lives saved. Cue the whinging of the anti-droners and the guys who want to use the term homicide-bombers rather than suicide-bombers.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:55:50am

I just got another email from PayPal saying that I have $29 from FTV v Lifelock. I have already sent one back to PayPal via their spoof e-mail. I have also informed Lifelock. Should I contact state and federal officials that I am getting this stuff or should I block PayPal since I have not used them in over ten years?

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:57:04am

re: #257 No Malarkey!

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Taliban reports
U.S. took out a vehicle
Full stop.

one reason why they are “honoring” the deal

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:57:38am

re: #257 No Malarkey!

The only problem is the terrorists can keep trying. They only have to succeed once for their aims, while the US Military has to succeed every time to prevent them.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:58:16am

re: #263 Dangerman

Taliban reports
U.S. took out a vehicle
Full stop.

one reason why they are “honoring” the deal

Sorry, I initially posted the wrong tweet. Refresh it; its now being reported by US officials.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:59:07am

re: #243 No Malarkey!

I can’t but notice most of the people “memorialized” on that site are of the same ethnicity.

/

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 7:59:08am

re: #264 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The only problem is the terrorists can keep trying. They only have to succeed once for their aims, while the US Military has to succeed every time to prevent them.

True, the sooner we are out of Afghanistan, the better.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:01:10am

re: #246 No Malarkey!

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:01:30am

re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg

I can’t but notice most of the people “memorialized” on that site of the same ethnicity.

/

The same dumbasses who died fighting for rich men’s slaves in the 1860s.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:01:53am

The church bell started ringing across the street, reminding me I am up past my bedtime.

That said, I’ve had no rum yet. It’s early, so I’ll break some out.

Plus I wish the VA nurse would turn off her alarm chicken; it’s been going off all morning.

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Dangerman  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:03:30am

Does ivermectin prevent hurricane injuries?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:03:31am

re: #268 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:06:22am

re: #250 Dangerman

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:06:37am

re: #268 Eric The Fruit Bat

I’m not sure how YouTube TV would work with me re: local television channels, since my ISP is in Jefferson City, Mo.

Local television for me would be here: Media in Scottsbluff, Nebraska (Wikipedia)

Note there isn’t a lot of television service here. Lots of radio, almost all religious or right-wing talk.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:08:01am

re: #272 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:10:02am

re: #272 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:11:10am

re: #275 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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John Hughes  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:12:02am

re: #124 austin_blue

A modest proposal.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:13:01am

re: #276 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:14:15am

re: #277 Eric The Fruit Bat

BTW, thanks for the pic of Ozzie the other night. I love that guy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:14:22am

re: #277 Eric The Fruit Bat

I saw it, thanks.

You’d think social media giants could figure out how to prevent an algorithm from taking someone who watches innocuous videos about lower taxes and fiscal responsibility, and keep that sort of viewer from being funneled into video about a failed Austrian painter.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:15:01am

re: #259 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wow, what an ass. There is a comment in there saying go to his obit and leave nasty comments, but that probably isn’t a good idea.

If I wanted to play in soulless cruelty, I’d join the Republican Party.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:16:23am

re: #281 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I saw it, thanks.

You’d think social media giants could figure out how to prevent an algorithm from taking someone who watches innocuous videos about lower taxes and fiscal responsibility, and keep that sort of viewer from being funneled into video about a failed Austrian painter.

They could, but it would eat into the profits they make from funneling people down rabbit holes that keeps them glued to their screens.

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Juan Carlos Mescalero  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:16:38am

YouTube TV is a streaming service of TV stations. We use it. Just like TV with less commercials. It’s not what you think it is. Not like the YouTube of stupid posting stupid for stupid. Just a streaming service of TV stations.

Find out your TV channel lineup (if available)

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BlueSpotinAL  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:23:45am

re: #284 Juan Carlos Mescalero

YouTube TV is a streaming service of TV stations. We use it. Just like TV with less commercials. It’s not what you think it is. Not like the YouTube of stupid posting stupid for stupid. Just a streaming service of TV stations.

Find out your TV channel lineup (if available)

Can confirm. Also YoutubeTV allows watching up to 5 different shows simultaneously with 5 different emails, too. And on an app. I dropped YouTube TV only because they dropped Tennis Channel.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:25:22am

re: #249 No Malarkey!

Hope it was that ninja hellfire with the blades. Chop. Chop.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:28:36am

re: #258 Dangerman

I can’t imagine a large segment of any other species feeling so proud of being so ignorant about shit that they’d risk dying for that feeling

Including lemmings

Snakes: We have poison.
Birds: We can fly.
Sharks: We have teeth.
Humans: We have our intellect.
Snakes/Birds/Sharks: You’re screwed.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:32:35am

re: #258 Dangerman

I can’t imagine a large segment of any other species feeling so proud of being so ignorant about shit that they’d risk dying for that feeling

Unfortunately, it is usually much easier for ignorant humans to continue to sustain themselves than ignorant members of other species.

Covid is working hard to correct that, though.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:32:36am

National Hurricane Center update:

Hurricane Ida Advisory Number 14
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
1000 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…EYE OF EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE IDA NEARING THE
SOUTHEASTERN COAST OF LOUISIANA…
…CATASTROPHIC STORM SURGE AND HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS MOVING
ONSHORE…

SUMMARY OF 1000 AM CDT…1500 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————-
LOCATION…28.8N 90.0W
ABOUT 60 MI…95 KM WSW OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
ABOUT 85 MI…135 KM S OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…150 MPH…240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 13 MPH…20 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…933 MB…27.55 INCHES

WATCHES AND WARNINGS
——————————
CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:

The Storm Surge Warning west of Intracoastal City, Louisiana, has
been discontinued.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:35:04am

re: #289 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Atlantic Ocean is busy at this time of year.
weather.gov

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:35:17am

re: #289 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

National Hurricane Center update:

Hurricane Ida Advisory Number 14
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
1000 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…EYE OF EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE IDA NEARING THE
SOUTHEASTERN COAST OF LOUISIANA…
…CATASTROPHIC STORM SURGE AND HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS MOVING
ONSHORE…

SUMMARY OF 1000 AM CDT…1500 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————-
LOCATION…28.8N 90.0W
ABOUT 60 MI…95 KM WSW OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
ABOUT 85 MI…135 KM S OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…150 MPH…240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 13 MPH…20 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…933 MB…27.55 INCHES

WATCHES AND WARNINGS
——————————
CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:

The Storm Surge Warning west of Intracoastal City, Louisiana, has
been discontinued.

It looks like Ida is going to be Biden’s Katrina. You can be sure that no matter how well the Administration responds, Fox News will report that it was a catastrophic failure, and the mainstream media will play along.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:35:23am

re: #284 Juan Carlos Mescalero

YouTube TV is a streaming service of TV stations. We use it. Just like TV with less commercials. It’s not what you think it is. Not like the YouTube of stupid posting stupid for stupid. Just a streaming service of TV stations.

Find out your TV channel lineup (if available)

Thanks. I tried it … it says it looks like there are no available local channels in my area.

293
Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:38:32am

re: #291 No Malarkey!

It looks like Ida is going to be Biden’s Katrina. You can be sure that no matter how well the Administration responds, Fox News will report that it was a catastrophic failure, and the mainstream media will play along.

It will take 2-3 days even to understand the severity of damage because the commo net is the first thing to get trashed. This always generates complaints:

“Why aren’t you responding immediately?”
“Responding to what?”

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JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:38:45am

re: #141 Dread Pirate Ron

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A voice rises from the grave. I forgot she existed. Crap.

No. it’s still alive. But hell is waiting for the Presstitute who lied us into a 20 year war.

295
PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:38:57am

re: #291 No Malarkey!

Fox? No. NWS Yes. Biden has over 40 years experience in gov’t. He knows what can be done and what cannot be done. He is already preparing FEMA and the rest to be on the ground when this ends.

296
Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:42:51am

re: #279 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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297
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:44:46am

re: #295 PhillyPretzel

Fox? No. NWS Yes. Biden has over 40 years experience in gov’t. He knows what can be done and what cannot be done. He is already preparing FEMA and the rest to be on the ground when this ends.

He issued the federal emergency disaster declaration several days ago, while the storm was still south of Cuba, for every Louisiana parish. That freed up FEMA to start pre-positioning disaster relief equipment, freed up federal funds, and invoked agreements between states (Florida sent electrical teams to Louisiana a couple days ago).

Nebraska has already sent electrical teams and equipment to Louisiana in anticipation of the storm. I imagine other states have as well.

298
PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:45:49am

re: #297 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

No doubt that PECO has sent people too.

299
No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:48:52am
300
Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:49:35am

After dumping gasoline on it for over 10 years, Mcconnell makes a lame, half-hearted attempt to get the fire under control.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:49:46am

The National Hurricane Center discussion page indicates that rapid strengthening of Hurricane Ida has levelled off. They indicate that any more strengthening seems less likely now.

Ida’s rapid strengthening appears to have leveled off within the
past hour or so. NOAA and Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter
aircraft that have been in the storm this morning have reported
peak flight-level winds of 146 to 148 kt between 8000 and
10000 ft, and believable SFMR winds around 130 kt. Based on
these observations, the initial wind speed remains 130 kt for this
advisory. The central pressure appears to have bottomed out around
929 mb, and the latest dropsonde in the eye from the Air Force
plane supports a minimum pressure of 933 mb. Ida’s satellite and
radar presentation is very impressive, as the 15-nm-wide eye is
very well-defined and surrounded by a ring of intense convection.
Within the past hour or so, there is evidence in radar imagery of a
secondary eyewall, and this has likely caused Ida’s intensity to
level off for now. Although Ida’s extreme winds are confined to the
inner eyewall, the aircraft data indicate that hurricane-force winds
extend outward about 45 n mi to the northeast of the center, and
based on buoy data the tropical-storm-force wind field extends
outward about 130 n mi northeast of the center.

(more)

Hurricane Ida Forecast Discussion (10 AM CDT)

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:52:22am

re: #300 Eclectic Cyborg

It is a pity that Chris Wallace cannot bring back his dad to rake B% McConnell over the coals.

303
sagehen  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:56:05am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m so white I’m virtually transparent and I recognize those names. I was into alternative rock so I’m not too familiar with their songs (but let’s be honest, I’m not familiar with most groups songs, really, even the groups I’m very familiar with) but I know all their names.

TLC had a couple of mainstream crossover hits

TLC - Waterfalls (Official HD Video)

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CleverToad  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:57:40am

re: #178 Ming5000

Whoa… Would be a good seller today.

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Somebody should sell reproductions (and give a cut to the archeologists’ org)
Neat design in the leatherwork!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 8:59:14am

This storm will be doing damage far inland, and the copious rain will be flooding downstream on the Mississippi River for a long time after it dissipates.

INIT 29/1500Z 28.8N 90.0W 130 KT 150 MPH
12H 30/0000Z 30.0N 90.8W 90 KT 105 MPH…INLAND
24H 30/1200Z 31.6N 91.0W 50 KT 60 MPH…INLAND
36H 31/0000Z 33.2N 90.3W 30 KT 35 MPH…INLAND
48H 31/1200Z 34.9N 88.5W 25 KT 30 MPH…INLAND
60H 01/0000Z 36.4N 85.9W 20 KT 25 MPH…INLAND
72H 01/1200Z 37.8N 82.5W 20 KT 25 MPH…POST-TROP/INLAND
96H 02/1200Z 40.5N 74.2W 30 KT 35 MPH…POST-TROP/EXTRATROP
120H 03/1200Z 43.5N 67.0W 35 KT 40 MPH…POST-TROP/EXTRATROP

306
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:02:24am

The storm is now projected to blow through the Philadelphia area early Thursday morning.

nhc.noaa.gov

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:02:46am

re: #305 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

True. NWS says that on Wednesday and Thursday Philly will feel the effects of Ida.

308
JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:03:16am

re: #271 Dangerman

Does ivermectin prevent hurricane injuries?

It’s about as effective as Joel 0$teen praying away hurricanes.

309
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:03:52am

re: #307 PhillyPretzel

True. NWS says that on Wednesday and Thursday Philly will feel the effects of Ida.

Hurricane Ida Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
1100 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…1100 AM CDT POSITION UPDATE…
…NORTHERN EYEWALL OF IDA MOVING ONSHORE ALONG THE COAST OF
SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA…

An elevated NOAA C-MAN station at Southwest Pass, Louisiana,
recently reported a sustained wind of 89 mph (143 km/h) and a wind
gust of 104 mph (167 km/h).

Within the past hour, sustained winds of 44 mph (70 km/h) and a
gust to 60 mph (96 km/h) was reported at Lakefront Airport in New
Orleans.

A NOAA National Ocean Service tide gauge in Shell Beach, Louisiana,
recently reported a water level of 6.0 feet above mean higher high
water, which is an approximation of inundation in that area.

A NOAA National Ocean Service tide gauge at Bay Waveland Yatcht
Club, Mississippi, recently reported a water level of 5.4 feet
above mean higher high water, which is an approximation of
inundation in that area.

SUMMARY OF 1100 AM CDT…1600 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————-
LOCATION…28.9N 90.1W
ABOUT 25 MI…40 KM SSW OF GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA
ABOUT 60 MI…95 KM SE OF HOUMA LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…150 MPH…240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 13 MPH…20 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…933 MB…27.55 INCHES

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:10:43am
311
Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:10:43am

Our town is perched over the eastern FL panhandle. We’ll be getting a series of small storms from the Ida backwash for the rest of the day. Spin-off tornadoes are the only threat.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:13:26am

re: #311 Decatur Deb

Our town is perched over the eastern FL panhandle. We’ll be getting a series of small storms from the Ida backwash for the rest of the day. Spin-off tornadoes are the only threat.

Keep your head down.

Meanwhile on the Left Coast, Hurricane Nora continues to move up the Mexican coast, with the eye just offshore. Projections by the National Hurricane Center show it moving into Arizona as a tropical depression, though the discussion page says it’s possible the storm could turn inland sooner.

nhc.noaa.gov

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:13:44am

re: #291 No Malarkey!

It looks like Ida is going to be Biden’s Katrina. You can be sure that no matter how well the Administration responds, Fox News will report that it was a catastrophic failure, and the mainstream media will play along.

When the power goes out, and the generators run out of fuel, the ventilators will stop working.

314
Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:14:45am

re: #312 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Keep your head down.

Meanwhile on the Left Coast, Hurricane Nora continues to move up the Mexican coast, with the eye just off shore. Projections by the National Hurricane Center show it moving into Arizona as a tropical depression, though the discussion page says it’s possible the storm could turn inland sooner.

nhc.noaa.gov

That’s sort of a good thing for the SW, no?

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:16:06am

re: #313 sagehen

When the power goes out, and the generators run out of fuel, the ventilators will stop working.

And that will be spun as Biden’s fault.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:18:04am
317
piratedan  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:20:17am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’re watching this closely here in Tucson… after the 3rd wettest monsoon on record…. heavy rains are not exactly unwelcome in the desert but with the flooding that happened in Nogales there’s a lot of northern Mexico that will have problems (and AZ and NM too)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:22:37am
319
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:23:29am
320
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:24:44am
321
Eventual Carrion  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:25:51am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Been Rick Rolled

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:26:56am

re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth

And a very well defined eye too. I hope everyone gets out of the way of Ida.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:27:36am

re: #161 William Lewis

OOOhhhh! Fun times!

Museum Quality Fossil Hominid Skull Casts

For example:

Australopithecus afarensis Skull “Lucy” $295

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I’d love to be able to afford a set of these!

I’ll wait till they pair it with Ricky!

324
JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:28:54am

What would a Sunday be without another installment of Pulpit Pimp Theater?

325
cat-tikvah  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:31:02am

re: #323 JOE 🥓

I had a student job at the U of Penn Museum prepping plaster models of fossils, way back when.

Including copies of this:
boneroom.com

326
Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:31:32am

re: #324 JOE 🥓

Because no Christian has ever gotten cancer before. 🙄

328
JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:36:11am

re: #100 plansbandc

The amount of mean and selfish people in this country makes me sick. The fact that being mean and selfish is celebrated, makes me even sicker.

I’m so tired of it.

The end result of the Kochs mainstreaming Ayn Rand’s selfishness into every facet of American Society.

329
No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:36:37am

re: #326 Eclectic Cyborg

Because no Christian has ever gotten cancer before. 🙄

The cancer obviously reveals they weren’t trooo christians.

330
Eventual Carrion  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:37:31am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The core of Hurricane Ida is very close to the coast. It appears (eyeballing this, I am not a meteorologist) that the eyewall will come very close to New Orleans.

radar.weather.gov (NEXRAD radar)

Sounds pretty windy in NOLA

331
PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:39:09am

re: #330 Eventual Carrion

I believe you. I was watching the live feed and then a $#@^ pop up of a woman showed up.

332
electrotek  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:40:28am

As if 2021 can’t get any worse:

333
PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:41:25am

re: #332 electrotek

We have 4 more months; anything can happen.

334
steve_davis  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:41:40am

re: #323 JOE 🥓

I’ll wait till they pair it with Ricky!

“Why is the australopithecus skull so small?”

“Well, that was from when he was a child!”

335
mmmirele  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:43:02am

All right, this has been rattling around in my world for the past week, so I thought I would share.

I live in Arizona, but where I live is Mormon country. Every high school in town has a seminary next to the campus or across the street for release time. I have over a dozen church buildings (many housing multiple congregations) within four miles of my house. Oh yeah, and the temple, a little over 2 miles from my house.

So this is the sort of thing that does have ripples through the community.

From last Monday:

On the same day that Brigham Young University announced the creation of an “Office of Belonging” to combat “prejudice of any kind, including that based on race…and sexual orientation,” Latter-day Saint apostle Jeffrey R. Holland sharply criticized faculty members and students who challenge the faith’s teachings on same-sex marriage.

He also questioned why a BYU valedictorian would choose his 2019 commencement address to come out as gay.

During Monday’s annual University Conference for faculty and staff in the Provo school’s Marriott Center, Holland quoted from a recent letter he received, which said that “some faculty are not supportive of the church’s doctrines and policies and choose to criticize them publicly.”

BYU faculty and staff should take up their intellectual “muskets” to defend The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, especially “the doctrine of the family and…marriage as the union of a man and a woman,” the apostle said, but some choose to aim “‘friendly fire’ — and from time to time the church, its leaders and some of our colleagues within the university community have taken such fire on this campus. And sometimes it isn’t friendly — wounding students and the parents of students who are confused about what so much recent flag-waving and parade-holding on this issue means.”

Holland brought up the time a student “commandeer[ed] a graduation podium intended to represent everyone getting diplomas to announce his personal sexual orientation.

“What might commencement come to mean or not mean if we push individual license over institutional dignity for very long?” he asked. “Do we simply end up with more divisiveness in our culture than we already have? And we already have too much everywhere.”

The young man living rent-free in Jeffrey R. Holland’s head is Matt Easton.

Matt Easton, the gay valedictorian, was surprised and disappointed by Holland’s mention of his action.

“I am proud of what I did two years ago,” he responded Monday, “and I stand by what I said.”

His speech, including the mention of his sexual orientation, was approved by his dean two weeks in advance, Easton said from his home in Berkeley, Calif, where he is about to begin graduate school. “I wasn’t trying to grandstand or ‘commandeer’ the event. I drew on my personal experiences because they shaped my time at BYU — authenticity is not the same as ‘agenda pushing.’”

There’s more at the link. sltrib.com

That “muskets” language aroused a LOT of attention. Here is one tweet, there’s lots more on Twitter:

For the record, the guy is spreading water to get rid of the chalk markings on the sidewalk. Not gasoline, not setting it alight. (Why yes, I was waiting for a lighter to come out.)

There’s a high school not far from my house and there’s a seminary across the street. No, not going to protest over there, as there are PLENTY of people in the Mormon community who are aware of this latest incredibly homophobic statement by a high leader in their church. But I ache for the kids who are going to hear this shit over and over and over again as they may be pressured to go to BYU. It doesn’t sound like healthy place if the church leadership is urging professors to spend precious class time on blasting LGBTQ persons.

It just hurts to imagine so many kids in my neighborhood being fed this crap. I want to tell 80 YO Jeffrey R. Holland that he’s not helping and actually hurting people.

336
JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:44:28am

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

337
Belafon  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:45:55am

re: #332 electrotek

As if 2021 can’t get any worse:

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He was 85. A good long life.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:46:13am

re: #308 JOE 🥓

It’s about as effective as Joel 0$teen praying away hurricanes.

But the purpose of Mr. Olsteen’s prayers is not to stop hurricanes. The purpose is to separate marks from their money.

This is always very successful.

339
JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:46:19am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

But the Queen is on your money. That’s the important part.

If the United Kingdom could just force the EU to put Queen Elizabeth II on the euro, everything would be fine.

Canada should dump The Queen and put THE SHAT on their paper currency 😏

340
electrotek  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:46:23am

re: #337 Belafon

He was 85. A good long life.

So glad that I caught him perform at Coachella 2013 in light of his recent passing.

341
JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:48:22am

re: #180 Dangerman

-“When you believe in eternal life—when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of your parents.”

-“When you believe in eternal life—when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of the Police.”

“When you believe in eternal life—when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of abortion, or immigrants or a mask or.a vaccination…”

Eternal Life?

Nope. My life insurance is with Prudential! 🥳

342
PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:49:17am

re: #341 JOE 🥓

My life insurance is with NY Life. :)

343
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:49:20am

re: #314 Decatur Deb

That’s sort of a good thing for the SW, no?

A good chunk of the annual rain in the desert southwest comes from dying tropical storms.

344
No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:50:12am

re: #333 PhillyPretzel

We have 4 more months; anything can happen.

But no matter how bad things get, I can repeatedly watch this and it makes me laugh.

345
Jay C  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:51:18am

re: #291 No Malarkey!

It looks like Ida is going to be Biden’s Katrina. You can be sure that no matter how well the Administration responds, Fox News will report that it was a catastrophic failure, and the mainstream media will play along.

I dunno: I’m sure the RWNM will do their damndest to magnify the slightest misstep or inadequacy in hurricane relief for Ida into THE WORST DISASTER EVER AND IT’S ALL JOE BIDEN’S FAULT!!! - but I have to wonder how well that line is going to play outside the Bubble? Ever since Katrina, every President (even the slacking FG) has been cognizant of the bad press - never mind the damage and casualties - poor emergency preparation can engender, and done (at least something) to avoid or mitigate the effects of another Katrina. And made sure the public was aware of those efforts. Joe aBiden and his people, in general, seem to know what they’re doing: and, just as importantly, make sure The Media know that.
Yeah, the wingers are going to jump on any fault and try to make hay off it, but it’s likely to have little impact outside the goober base.
I hope.

346
JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:52:57am

re: #197 Decatur Deb

The notion of unbiased news is fairly recent (Early TV/Postwar era). For most of our history the news media was a melange of partisan/economic/ethnic casemaking. We were supposed to be smart enough and educated enough to sort it out.

I will always appreciate how professor David Montgomery opened my eyes to how partisan the press has been in US History. He started with examples of the National Gazette (Jefferson) vs. the Gazette Of The United States (Hamilton). and it’s been a constant thread in this country starting there, going to Greeley, Pulitzer, Hearst, Luce, McCormack and the Ochs.

347
No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:54:15am

re: #345 Jay C

I dunno: I’m sure the RWNM will do their damndest to magnify the slightest misstep or inadequacy in hurricane relief for Ida into THE WORST DISASTER EVER AND IT’S ALL JOE BIDEN’S FAULT!!! - but I have to wonder how well that line is going to play outside the Bubble? Ever since Katrina, every President (even the slacking FG) has been cognizant of the bad press - never mind the damage and casualties - poor emergency preparation can engender, and done (at least something) to avoid or mitigate the effects of another Katrina. And made sure the public was aware of those efforts. Joe aBiden and his people, in general, seem to know what they’re doing: and, just as importantly, make sure The Media know that.
Yeah, the wingers are going to jump on any fault and try to make hay off it, but it’s likely to have little impact outside the goober base.
I hope.

With the mainstream media’s help, they have convinced a majority of Americans who overwhelmingly wanted the US out of Afghanistan that our evacuation of well over 100k people from Afghanistan has been an unmitigated disaster.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 9:54:30am

re: #324 JOE 🥓

What would a Sunday be without another installment of Pulpit Pimp Theater?

Pastor David Crank? Well there’s an appropriate name.

349
Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:00:49am

re: #335 mmmirele

What he hasn’t learned in 80 years is not something you’re going to teach him.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:01:23am

re: #347 No Malarkey!

With the mainstream media’s help, they have convinced a majority of Americans who overwhelmingly wanted the US out of Afghanistan that our evacuation of well over 100k people from Afghanistan has been an unmitigated disaster.

…which will fade away as soon as we complete the withdrawal.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:02:57am

re: #219 No Malarkey!

Apparently God lies, because he told a whole lot of prophets to tell us that Trump would win the election last year.

Oh and The Big G keeps telling those PROFITS, er, prophets that Trump is going to be put back in the Presidency…the latest update from The Big G is now New Year’s Day…

352
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:04:01am

re: #344 No Malarkey!

But no matter how bad things get, I can repeatedly watch this and it makes me laugh.

That’s freakin’ hilarious. Awful lot of whinging conservatives in that thread complaining about “degeneracy” (in other words, projection).

353
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:04:32am

California wildfires aren’t just getting bigger. They’re moving higher — to once unthinkable heights
California wildfires are climbing higher up the state’s mountains, putting more forested areas at risk of flames.
twitter.com

354
PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:06:23am

re: #351 JOE 🥓

And as I have asked before Sept 7th or Jan 1st? They have to learn to be specific so people can make plans. /

355
Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:10:28am

Now if only happened to our oligarchs…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:11:44am

re: #347 No Malarkey!

I can only say (from the outside of Christianity looking in) that if God had a message that was vital for every person to know, there would not be ten thousand different varieties of Christianity all preaching different versions of what Christianity is.

There’s a reason the phrase “the Internet is where religion goes to die” exists. I noted Apostle Holland’s hateful comments a couple days ago here, along with the pushback from other Christians.

The harder each denomination tightens its grip, the more people say they’re done with Christianity. Christian apologists do more damage to their faith than atheists ever could.

357
PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:12:13am

re: #355 Eric The Fruit Bat

I would love to show that to my bosses who are constantly insisting that we have to work in thunderstorms.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:13:22am

re: #355 Eric The Fruit Bat

God hates this particular boat.

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mmmirele  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:17:54am

re: #314 Decatur Deb

That’s sort of a good thing for the SW, no?

Yes, I’ve been keeping an eye on it.

We’re supposed to get rain Tuesday night into Wednesday, but it doesn’t exactly match up with the path of Nora. It has to be from Nora, though.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:18:02am

Has anyone tried to combine hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin yet?

Because boy do I have an entrepreneurial opportunity to invest in…

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JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:18:09am

re: #238 Dangerman

It’s heart shaped waffle day here at the pond

[Embedded content]

Aunt Vivian had one of these and Mama goofed on her because she didn’t have one in the shape of South Carolina

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:18:48am
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JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:19:33am

re: #243 No Malarkey!

The latest entry into sorryantivaxxer.com really didn’t like SHEEP. sorryantivaxxer.com

he’s baaaaaaaaaaaad so baaaaaaaaad so very very baaaaaaaaaad…

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:21:23am

re: #362 Belafon

Chef Jose Andres deserves a medal for what he has done.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:23:14am

re: #262 PhillyPretzel

I just got another email from PayPal saying that I have $29 from FTV v Lifelock. I have already sent one back to PayPal via their spoof e-mail. I have also informed Lifelock. Should I contact state and federal officials that I am getting this stuff or should I block PayPal since I have not used them in over ten years?

When we get callers reporting scam e-mails we are required to tell them to visit the FBI Internet page at fbi.gov

The page says

To report potential e-scams, please go the Internet Crime Complaint Center and file a report. Note: The FBI does not send mass e-mails to private citizens about cyber scams, so if you received an e-mail that claims to be from the FBI Director or other top official, it is most likely a scam.

If you receive unsolicited e-mail offers or spam, you can forward the messages to the Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov.

For the the latest e-scams and warnings, visit the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:26:55am
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Belafon  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:27:13am
368
PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:28:26am

re: #365 JOE 🥓

Thank you. But since I already marked them as spam with my gmail account I cannot do anything with them.

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:30:44am

re: #367 Belafon

good tip.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:34:06am

re: #369 sagehen

That doesn’t work so well for front-loading washers, tho…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:37:34am

Hurricane Ida Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
1155 AM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

…EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE IDA MAKES LANDFALL NEAR
PORT FOURCHON LOUISIANA…

NOAA Doppler radar imagery indicates that the eye of Ida made
landfall along the southeastern coast of Louisiana near Port
Fourchon around 1155 AM CDT (1655 UTC). Data from an Air Force
Reserve reconnaissance aircraft and Doppler radar data indicate that
Ida’s maximum sustained winds at landfall were estimated to be 150
mph (240 km/h). The latest minimum central pressure estimated from
reconnaissance aircraft data is 930 mb (27.46 in).

Within the past hour, sustained winds of 43 mph (69 km/h) and a
gust to 67 mph (107 km/h) were reported at Lakefront Airport in New
Orleans.

A NOAA National Ocean Service tide gauge in Shell Beach, Louisiana,
recently reported a water level of 6.4 feet above mean higher high
water, which is an approximation of inundation in that area.

A NOAA National Ocean Service tide gauge at Bay Waveland Yacht Club,
Mississippi, recently reported a water level of 5.5 feet above mean
higher high water, which is an approximation of inundation in that
area.

SUMMARY OF 1155 AM CDT…1655 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————-
LOCATION…29.1N 90.2W
ABOUT 15 MI…25 KM SW OF GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA
ABOUT 45 MI…75 KM SE OF HOUMA LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…150 MPH…240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 13 MPH…20 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…930 MB…27.46 INCHES

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:40:19am

Lovely….

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:42:35am

re: #370 Eric The Fruit Bat

That doesn’t work so well for front-loading washers, tho…

Front-loading washer also aren’t as good as top-loading for having sex on top of (think about the rotation of the innards)… so everybody should have top loading anyway. (also, if you leave it half open, the top loading will close itself. The front loading, your dog will bash his head on the open door.)

Ergo, top-loading washers are superior.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:42:44am

re: #355 Eric The Fruit Bat

Now if only happened to our oligarchs…

Since those tweets appear to have been deleted

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JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:49:05am

re: #310 No Malarkey!

[Embedded content]

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:51:12am

re: #373 sagehen

Front-loading washer also aren’t as good as top-loading for having sex on top of (think about the rotation of the innards)… so everybody should have top loading anyway. (also, if you leave it half open, the top loading will close itself. The front loading, your dog will bash his head on the open door.)

Ergo, top-loading washers are superior.

If you’re looking to better clean your clothes, it’s the front loaders
If you’re more interested in the peripheral washing machine uses, the top loaders get the nod

/s/

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:51:15am

re: #375 JOE 🥓

LmqbMeBydbBw6XgQSV7/MAcWDnabnXKjYkJMdZz4kcfnGVPierFHDehdiwZMBvgmwX5jXPMoLhSJy8XqTXzV6LJi+rRZhKsbPSnY9+mWGANf2Sjo9KehzQ==

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JOE 🥓  Aug 29, 2021 • 10:57:36am

re: #354 PhillyPretzel

And as I have asked before Sept 7th or Jan 1st? They have to learn to be specific so people can make plans. /

It would be a bummer to be in Temple for Rosh Hashanah and find out that Trump is back on the throne…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 29, 2021 • 11:04:10am

re: #373 sagehen

Ergo, top-loading washers are superior.

Of course they are - when I was at Sears, I bought the Kenmore HE3t matching washer/dryer combo using my employee discount - after the Maytag Neptune disaster, turns out this Whirlpool-sourced washer was made in Germany.

Now I have an LG pair on pedestals - most-excellent performers, and Highly rated by Consumer Reports.

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Jay C  Aug 29, 2021 • 11:04:46am

re: #378 JOE 🥓

It would be a bummer to be in Temple for Rosh Hashanah and find out that Trump is back on the throne…

I wouldn’t worry much, Joe: the only throne Donald Trump is going to be on on Sept. 7 (or Jan. 1) is the one with plumbing attached….

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 29, 2021 • 11:06:54am

re: #201 steve_davis

It’s because, as I was recently saying to the dean, stupid people are stupid because they are stupid, not because they determined somewhere it was an advantageous life choice. They literally lack the capacity to analyze two outcomes, two choices, and to arrive at the decision to take the better one. If I were, god forbid, diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, I would weigh everything up—challenges of treatment, actual extension of a life with quality based on that treatment, etc., and determine if I want to pursue that or maybe just go to a pawn shop, buy a .38 and stick it in my mouth. That’s because like other smart people, I understand how to weigh risk, benefit for the most part. Stupid people just honest to god can’t do that. They’re like watching a dog trying to untangle its tether from around a bush.

Anyone can be brainwashed. We all have our own blind spots and prejudices that are difficult to overcome because we often don’t see them. We cannot be experts in everything so we have to rely on those we believe have the knowledge and experience to inform us. And we have all let ourselves be guided by false prophets —different prophets for different people — based on our pre-existing biases. How do people analyze the best choice or the risks associated with decisions when we actually don’t know the probabilities or when our sources give us inaccurate (either deliberately or unknowingly) statistics?

When my husband was diagnosed with kidney cancer, we met with three top experts in the field in the Chicago area, experts associated with different institutions: they each gave us totally different recommendations on the proper course of treatment. No one was trying to lead us astray — but when your life is at stake and you don’t have the technical knowledge, you might as well throw dice to select the best course.

The one thing we do know is that the MSM are out to get Biden — just as they harmed Hillary in 2016 — and there are few sources of information that we can trust.

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John Hughes  Aug 29, 2021 • 11:18:07am

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My irreligious journey: Atheist.

Boring, isn’t it.

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John Hughes  Aug 29, 2021 • 11:23:18am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This would all be really simple if the EU joined the British Commonwealth.

Well, no. There is no freedom of movement in the Commonwealth of nations ( it hasn’t been the “British Commonwealth” for decades more).
No customs union or freedom of movement of people, goods, services or capital.
Just some nice words and a cut price copy of the Olympic games.

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John Hughes  Aug 29, 2021 • 11:26:44am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

But the Queen is on your money. That’s the important part.

If the United Kingdom could just force the EU to put Queen Elizabeth II on the euro, everything would be fine.

That was actually already part of the euro (coins) — every euro has a national side, countries that are monarchies (e.g. Belgium, Spain) already put their monarchs head on their euros.

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John Hughes  Aug 29, 2021 • 11:29:30am

re: #174 Patricia Kayden

If you were Black, you’d probably recognize those names. I do.

You don’t need to be black to know who Shaggy or TLC are. The bone people, never heard of em.


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