The Bob Cesca Podcast: Everything Tastes Better on a Ritz

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Everything Tastes Better On A Ritz — [Explicit Language] Bob’s last visit to NYC before 9/11. Buzz’s news coverage from New York on 9/11. Someone should sue Greg Abbott for the child COVID deaths. George Carlin on Republicans and abortion. Merrick Garland intends to fight back against the Texas abortion ban. Tele-abortions. Former Florida House Speaker calls women “host bodies.” The Lincoln Project’s ivermectin commercial parody. Alex Jones says he has COVID. Those football crowds over the weekend. Fauci on the stadiums. With Buzz Burbank. And music by The Husht and The Bitter Elegance, and more!

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Dangerman  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:11:37pm

re: #232 jaunte

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i know why we do this but pointing out the illogic or hipocrisy, well im not sure what it does

the *why* of the law, the logic, does not matter.
it doesnt have to be logical, scientific or make sense.
it does not have to stand up to scrutiny.

those in power make laws and they made this law.
cart before the horse doesnt matter. why doesn’t matter
especially in this case because they did not have to persuade any sens/reps from the other side to vote. that’s when why matters.

they’ve done it. they passed the law.

when it’s inevitably fought about later, the *justification* for it still wont matter.
only the so called constitutionality of it

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John Hughes  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:11:41pm

Aaargh, French TV has been showing “A Bout de Souffle” almost continuously for over 24 hours now, Jean Seberg was stunningly cute (as was 1960’s Belmondo), but damn, you can have too much of a good thing.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:15:02pm

Ghost of a Flea—lost you in the last thread.

I’m watching the “folksier” RWNJ sites. People are watching their world picture collapse, and some of them are putting on ghost shirts. (They even produced a multi-tribal shaman.) It’s only a matter of time until they find their way to Wounded Knee.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:16:29pm

Having stepped in deep crap, I’m going to head off to bed.

But before I go, if there are people here who enjoy African music, you might enjoy what the Voice of America has done: Digitally-archived their longest-running music programme to Africa from when it was first broadcast on shortwave.

A journey from international shortwave to digital broadcast, the Music Time in Africa Archive takes audiences through an on-line experience of vintage Voice of America radio programs broadcast from 1966. The collaborative project with the University of Michigan digitized nearly 900 audio recordings and associated scripts of the weekly radio program. The archive now features 691 radio programs with a combination of program script and broadcast audio, with an additional 120 radio programs coming soon.

The broadcasts feature show hosts playing a variety of African music and original field recordings by VOA ‘s “Music Man for Africa,” ethnomusicologist Leo Sarkisian. Sarkisian recorded and collected music from the early 1960s through the late 1980s throughout the entire African continent, including pre-independence regions and states such as Balundo, Upper Volta, and Rhodesia. Visitors can play digitized broadcasts with original sounds and scripts, searchable by location or performer. The portraits displayed for each show are Sarkisian’s original artwork, painted and sketched over the years. Listeners can listen to music ranging from iconic urban artists Fela Kuti or Franco to traditional performances by Karanga “Gawo” of Zimbabwe or griot music by kora master Sidiki Diabaté of the Republic of Mali. The site will soon allow the audience to explore 361 reels of Sarkisian’s original field recordings and engage with the music and scripts in a comment section.

Launched in 1965 by Sarkisian, Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running radio broadcast to the African continent. The program continues to feature traditional and contemporary music from musicians throughout Africa.

Digital Archive of Music Time in Africa by VOA (goes to the University of Michigan)

Music Time in Africa Archive (Voice of America article shown above)

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John Hughes  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:16:32pm

re: #1 Dangerman
Elie Mystal sez:

How about we enjoin the Texas anti-abortion law until this whole “eliminating rape” thing has happened?

fuck no.
That is crap.
Nobody gets to ask why a woman doesn’t want to bring a pregnancy to term.
That is her decision.
All talk of rape, incest, health complications, whatever, is shit.
Her body, her choice.

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:26:43pm

Gym Jordan can suck a fart out of my ass.

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John Hughes  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:28:50pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Nate Silver’s tweets about COVID are an unbelievable hot mess of bad takes. One after another.

Have we forgotten how badly he fucked up over global warming?
Turns out that understanding stats is useless if you don’t have a basic understanding of the system the stats describe.
And no, baseball isn’t a useful model for the whole fucking universe.

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KGxvi  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:35:58pm

re: #7 John Hughes

Have we forgotten how badly he fucked up over global warming?
Turns out that understanding stats is useless if you don’t have a basic understanding of the system the stats describe.
And no, baseball isn’t a useful model for the whole fucking universe.

Baseball is barely a useful model for baseball when it comes to analytics/advanced stats.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:39:59pm

re: #8 KGxvi

Baseball is barely a useful model for baseball when it comes to analytics/advanced stats.

IMHO, the main attraction of MLB is that anything can happen.

I also like to listen to MLB when driving distances at at night.

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KGxvi  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:49:05pm

Since the Texas shadow docket decision, I’ve been thinking about something when it comes to our system of government and constitutional protections…

First, the idea that Congress can, in any meaningful way, codify constitutional rights short of an amendment - the problem with passing a law to codify Roe, as is being suggested, is that the next Republican Congress and Republican president can simply repeal that law, because it would only be a statute. It returns us to the idea that constitutional rights are subject to the whims of congressional majorities (majorities that may often, at least in the Senate, but potentially in the House, represent a minority of Americans).

Second thought: Supreme Court term limits don’t help matters much either. All term limits do is give legislatures a chance to time when they will do their fuckery based on when terms come up. In fact, the consistency of having life tenure probably actually helps keep the fuckery at bay in most instances.

Third, the fact that 3 (or 5*) of the Supreme Court Justices were appointed by someone who did not win a majority of the vote for president is another reminder that the Electoral College is incredibly stupid. *Bush’s two appointments were in his second term, where he won an actual majority, so I’m less annoyed by that outcome.

Idea number four: the theme of these first two (and now into our third) decade of the 21st century seems to be the failing of institutions. It happened a bit at the end of the Bush administration, thought it seemed like Obama was turning the tide, but after Trump it seems like Obama may be an anomaly rather than a course correction. The problem with this is that the modern American system is built on institutions, and if they fail, we fail… which is, not good.

I don’t know, maybe I’m just down a bit today, but this is the first time I’ve really been skeptical of the wider system holding, and I don’t really know why that is

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KGxvi  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:50:46pm

re: #9 BeenHereAwhile

IMHO, the main attraction of MLB is that anything can happen.

I also like to listen to MLB when driving distances at at night.

I like sports, generally and to varying degrees, but I have little time/need/desire for analytics or advanced stats or whatever new name they are giving them these days. Sports are for entertainment, not calculus.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:51:53pm

This is an ongoing attack on our democracy.

Fox Host Claims ‘Only Thing’ That Will Save Newsom Is ‘Voter Fraud’ (The Daily Beast)

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Belafon  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:52:04pm

lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

The whole key to understanding the anti-vax pro-horse dewormer mentality is that it’s not just this one thing for these people. Admitting that they’ve been wrong about this isn’t like admitting you were wrong about thinking that Willie Mays hit 700 home runs or that Detroit is the capital of Michigan. To admit you were wrong about this thing in particular would be to pull on a thread that could unravel your entire social and political identity. For those in the right wing bubble/base, admitting error on this point basically requires a literal conversion experience. It would be like a former Christian fundamentalist coming to the view that the Bible isn’t actually the inerrant word of God. In other words, that’s not just some random fact, but THE fact, that holds every other part of the person’s world view together.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:54:48pm

re: #8 KGxvi

Baseball is barely a useful model for baseball when it comes to analytics/advanced stats.

Baseball is a useful model of those who want to run around a square instead of around a circle.

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retired cynic  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:55:44pm

Footage Of The Last-Known Surviving Tasmanian Tiger Colorized And Upscaled To 4K Hits Differently
digg.com
I’ve seen this footage before, and this makes it totally different and immediate. As my friend who sent me the link said, poor lonesome dude.

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We all walks this ways  Sep 7, 2021 • 3:58:59pm

Some kitties are killas.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:06:08pm
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John Hughes  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:07:15pm

re: #16 Juan Carlos Mescalero

Some kitties are killas.

Some?

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We all walks this ways  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:12:29pm

re: #18 John Hughes

Some are more efficient than others.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:12:49pm

re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Same thing Bibi did too.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:16:20pm

re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg

That is the way would be dictators think.

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EPR-radar  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:16:26pm

re: #10 KGxvi

I can’t see a way forward for the US without breaking the power of right wing propaganda, and I can’t see a way to do that.

IMO the central problem is that the right doesn’t have to get to a 50% crazification factor to ‘win’. If they needed to do that, we’d be pretty safe, since that number is unreachable.

But if they are a persistently substantial and crazy minority, they can ‘win’ by making the nation ungovernable until fatigue sets in and some stupid deal gets made, like the deal that got Hitler into power in Germany.

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We all walks this ways  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:17:58pm

“Closer…..a little bit closer…….almost…..that’s the way……”

“I just want to talk….”
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Patricia Kayden  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:30:28pm
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Teddy's Person  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:33:19pm

re: #24 Patricia Kayden

Jim Jordan: Real America is done with #COVID19. God bless!

Covid: Fuck your feelings.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:35:22pm
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darthstar  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:36:26pm

Frigate Birds - one of my favorites…usually only see them hovering on the air about 500 feet above me. These were close enough to hit with a rock (not that I would do that). 7 foot wingspan (big ass blackbirds). Pic of my wife near one for scale. Watching them pick little minnows off the top of the river water is something I could do all day.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:37:48pm
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gocart mozart  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:38:23pm
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BeachDem  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:44:57pm

Murdaugh update—

The Mercedes-Benz GLS sport utility vehicle driven by prominent South Carolina attorney R. Alexander “Alex” Murdaugh on Saturday - the day he sustained a “superficial” gunshot wound to the head while purportedly changing a tire on the side of a rural Hampton county road - was equipped with run-flat tires, sources familiar with the situation have confirmed to this news outlet.

These tires - also known as “extended mobility tires” - allow a vehicle to travel approximately fifty miles with little to no tire pressure due to the presence of a reinforced sidewall.

“Alex was changing a tire when a car passed him,” WCIV TV 4 (ABC - Charleston, S.C.) reported on Saturday, quoting Griffin. “The vehicle turned around and someone in the car shot him.”

Most Mercedes SUVs equipped with run-flat tires do not include spare tires - which would mean there would have been no reason for Murdaugh to pull over to the side of the road to try and change a flat tire.

(He was 7 miles from home when this tragic flat tire incident happened)

fitsnews.com

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:45:22pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:52:37pm

I know people like this:
Traces of Texas

West Texas tenant farmer’s wife.1937. According to Dorothea Lange, who took this photo, she had been farming this plot of land with her husband for 20 years. She’s wearing bib overalls and sitting (I believe) on a tow sack. Such a powerful image!

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gocart mozart  Sep 7, 2021 • 4:59:17pm
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sagehen  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:00:45pm

re: #30 BeachDem

Murdaugh update—

fitsnews.com

Never mind Dateline, this is a whole FX American Crime Story miniseries.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:01:23pm

Today learned of a third recent covid death just one degree of separation from my family. A coworker of my wife was notified this afternoon that her MiL’s death was imminent. She was vaccinated, but she was in her eighties and had COPD.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:06:18pm

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gocart mozart  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:11:20pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:13:17pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:17:00pm

re: #32 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I know people like this:
Traces of Texas

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wooden disc/harrow, too

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Charles Johnson  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:19:23pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:21:51pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:31:13pm
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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:35:45pm

re: #42 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Except Martin Short would get you to laugh.

I love him. No matter who or what he does he always gets me to laugh!

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Sherlock Hound  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:35:58pm

re: #4 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I spent many hours listening to that show, plus Willis Conover!

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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:41:38pm

re: #42 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Belafon  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:42:32pm

re: #43 JOE 🥓

Except Martin Short would get you to laugh.

I love him. No matter who or what he does he always gets me to laugh!

Jack Frost.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:43:43pm

re: #41 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I see lots and lots of dead people

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Teukka  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:46:17pm

Some would hate this being shared, so let’s not share it, mmmkay? /S

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Belafon  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:46:23pm

So my cousin, the one who likes to post memes about how the vaccinated are sheep, and how everyone wants Trump back, and has the “I don’t care about your shot” ring around her Facebook picture, caught the virus. She has a headache and has lost the ability to taste. Her friends are recommending chicken soup, zinc, vitamin D, and talking about how those who are vaccinated are catching the virus at a higher rate than those who haven’t gotten the shot.

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Sherlock Hound  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:47:48pm

re: #5 John Hughes

Elie Mystal sez:

fuck no.
That is crap.
Nobody gets to ask why a woman doesn’t want to bring a pregnancy to term.
That is her decision.
All talk of rape, incest, health complications, whatever, is shit.
Her body, her choice.

If you get into choice, difficulty, “good circumstances” or “bad circumstances”, you’re accepting the Republican framing, and you’ve conceded the argument before you even started! I see that over and over on this site, and it annoys me.

I talked about vegans. Vegan Twitter likes to nag Disabled Twitter, saying that we would be less disabled if we took a vegan diet. Many disabled people, including autistics and others, gave very detailed explanations why they cannot be vegans.

I said “fuck that shit”. I don’t want to be vegan. I don’t need to justify it.

Likewise, giving someone a justification for having or not having an abortion is just giving power to some random asshole, probably male, but still definitely unjustified and incompetent to decide for you in any case.

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Teukka  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:53:00pm

Stole a nice response to Abbott’s bizarre remarks earlier:

By the way, if you can just “eliminate rape”, why haven’t you?
Why have you allowed this horrifying crime to persist up until it became politically inconvenient for you?

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Charles Johnson  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:53:17pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 7, 2021 • 5:57:00pm

And of course it’s “that chicken”

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:01:05pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

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Super Troopers (5/5) Movie CLIP - Shenanigans (2001) HD

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A Mom Anon  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:03:43pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

It looks like you’re going to have to pull the car over. You warned them…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:05:15pm
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Dopamine Fish  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:06:56pm

re: #53 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

And of course it’s “that chicken”

Nothing says “I’m Christian virtue signaling” like sending police officers bags of Chick-Fil-A.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:10:17pm

Hre: #57 Dopamine Fish

Nothing says “I’m Christian virtue signaling” like sending police officers bags of Chick-Fil-A.

He could have sent them cannolis…

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:10:41pm

re: #57 Dopamine Fish

Nothing says “I’m Christian virtue signaling” like sending police officers bags of Chick-Fil-A.

Should’ve put them in Hobby Lobby gift bags for the two-fer.

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retired cynic  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:12:15pm

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:19:26pm

re: #59 Barefoot Grin

Random looted antiquity shards in the waffle fries.

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Teddy's Person  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:21:43pm

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Teddy's Person  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:28:28pm

Not all heroes wear capes.

Story Here

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:30:09pm
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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:34:41pm

re: #63 Teddy’s Person

Good Frankie.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 6:48:00pm

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:00:05pm

M 7.4 quake 30 miles from Acapulco.

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:00:09pm

re: #66 JOE 🥓

They look like these average-looking people:
texasallianceforlife.org

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:00:25pm

re: #56 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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What a dork! I never have understood the peg board display thing. My long guns are standing vertically next to each other in a wooden rack, the handguns are in a drawer beneath, and both are in a safe, just like Jesus intended when he converted that cheap Palestinian wine into the first AR-15.

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:03:55pm
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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:05:18pm
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William Lewis  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:08:47pm

re: #69 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

What a dork! I never have understood the peg board display thing. My long guns are standing vertically next to each other in a wooden rack, the handguns are in a drawer beneath, and both are in a safe, just like Jesus intended when he converted that cheap Palestinian wine into the first AR-15.

I have a safe for all my firearms. And everyone knows that AR’s require expensive California wine so that it’s sanitary enough to prevent jams. Palestinian wine is good for AK’s though, that’s why there’s so many of them there …

(as an aside someday I want an AK in 5.56 - best of both worlds).

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:10:38pm
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gocart mozart  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:13:26pm
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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:15:05pm
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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:20:11pm
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Dave In Austin  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:20:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:20:57pm

Just found a set of my Irish immigrant great-great-grandparents (and my great-grandmother age 5 and her sister age 7) in the 1880 US census.
Great-great-grandfather’s occupation was listed as an iron ore digger in Kirkland, Oneida, NY.

woot!

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:27:03pm

Idiots still talking about “cowering in fear” and “dictatorial tyrants” in response to a virus that doesn’t care about their feelings.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:29:42pm

re: #79 jaunte

Idiots still talking about “cowering in fear” and “dictatorial tyrants” in response to a virus that doesn’t care about their feelings.

A whole lot of those people who decide to let Covid in definitely won’t be living their lives for very long.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:30:11pm
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Teddy's Person  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:31:20pm

re: #79 jaunte

“This is how we win! How does covid ever end? My answer is, when people decide to let covid in and live their lives.” Clay Travis

Someone’s knockin’ at the door
Somebody’s ringin’ the bell
I think it’s ‘rona
Open the door and let ‘em in

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:34:29pm

re: #80 No Malarkey!

It’s just insane.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:35:20pm
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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:35:39pm

I know, “and are you surprised?”
Yes, yes, I continue to be surprised at all this anti-survival thinking.

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:36:14pm

It’s suicidal. And murderous.

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:36:56pm

People who talk like that need to get smacked.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:38:22pm

re: #86 jaunte

It’s suicidal. And murderous.

Fox News outright advocating that its audience contract Covid is a new low, even for them.

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Belafon  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:40:41pm

Funny things seen on Facebook:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:40:46pm
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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:42:09pm
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austin_blue  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:44:55pm

re: #6 Ace Rothstein

Gym Jordan can suck a fart out of my ass.

Jim Jordan can go lick a dog’s ass until it bleeds.

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:45:47pm

re: #92 austin_blue

Frankie says no dogs will be sacrificed.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:47:07pm

re: #30 BeachDem

Murdaugh update—

The Mercedes-Benz GLS sport utility vehicle driven by prominent South Carolina attorney R. Alexander “Alex” Murdaugh on Saturday - the day he sustained a “superficial” gunshot wound to the head while purportedly changing a tire on the side of a rural Hampton county road - was equipped with run-flat tires, sources familiar with the situation have confirmed to this news outlet.

These tires - also known as “extended mobility tires” - allow a vehicle to travel approximately fifty miles with little to no tire pressure due to the presence of a reinforced sidewall.

“Alex was changing a tire when a car passed him,” WCIV TV 4 (ABC - Charleston, S.C.) reported on Saturday, quoting Griffin. “The vehicle turned around and someone in the car shot him.”

Most Mercedes SUVs equipped with run-flat tires do not include spare tires - which would mean there would have been no reason for Murdaugh to pull over to the side of the road to try and change a flat tire.

(He was 7 miles from home when this tragic flat tire incident happened)

fitsnews.com

It’s going to be epic once the whole story comes out. Cuz this is a mountain of bullshit.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:51:16pm

At dinner tonight, I learned about a non-vaxxer — and it came as a surprise. Was this mentioned here? Both Jesse Jackson and his wife were hospitalized for Covid on August 21. He was vaccinated but she was not! Apparently they have now both been released from the hospital.

Talked with a girl friend who moved to Texas pre-Covid to be near to her children who all reside there. For some reason she does not understand, her daughter refuses to be vaccinated, believing it to be unnecessary. There is something about these Republican states that can cause intelligent educated people to lose their sense of reason. OTOH, most Republicans, regardless of their place of residence, also seem to have lost any semblance of logic and understanding when it comes to issues driven by the GOP culture wars, attacks on science, and Trump idolization.

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Teddy's Person  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:52:58pm

re: #95 Hecuba’s daughter

At dinner tonight, I learned about a non-vaxxer — and it came as a surprise. Was this mentioned here? Both Jesse Jackson and his wife were hospitalized for Covid on August 21. He was vaccinated but she was not! Apparently they have now both been released from the hospital.

Good news they’re out of the hospital. IIRC, she has a medical condition that prevented vaccination.

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 7:56:15pm

re: #95 Hecuba’s daughter

My oldest daughter has been around conservative people in the military for 15 years and has marinated in Fox ‘news’ to the point where she is not listening to reason on Covid issues; regards Fauci as a bad guy.

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retired cynic  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:01:56pm

re: #97 jaunte

I am really sorry.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:02:45pm

Hey, I just realized something!

I have not seen a Ben Garrison cartoon or a McNaughton painting for a while.

Would we be lucky enough if they both have Covid?

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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:03:12pm

re: #98 retired cynic

Thanks. We’re working on it!

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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:04:41pm

re: #97 jaunte

My oldest daughter has been around conservative people in the military for 15 years and has marinated in Fox ‘news’ to the point where she is not listening to reason on Covid issues; regards Fauci as a bad guy.

That’s how my nephews and nieces got brainwashed during their military service. Still remember them arguing with me that Dumbya was a decorated fighter pilot and Kerry was a draft dodger because that’s what their officers all said…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:05:42pm

That must have been exciting.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:07:13pm
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jaunte  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:14:18pm

Find five potential Democratic voters and get them registered.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:19:19pm
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austin_blue  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:22:15pm

re: #77 Dave In Austin

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Assumes facts not in evidence…

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No Malarkey!  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:27:53pm

My wife is binging a Hallmark show called “Good Witch.” Its about the whitest town imaginable, and has apparently been a big hit for Hallmark for years. I looked at Wikipedia, and in season 7 they finally added a double token character, a black lesbian.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:29:31pm

re: #107 No Malarkey!

My wife is binging a Hallmark show called “Good Witch.” Its about the whitest town imaginable, and has apparently been a big hit for Hallmark for years. I looked at Wikipedia, and in season 7 they finally added a double token character, a black lesbian.

Yeah, it’s a guilty pleasure for me.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:29:43pm
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Dave In Austin  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:37:17pm
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Teddy's Person  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:40:11pm

re: #109 No Malarkey!

“Former president Donald Trump has signed a contract to provide commentary on a ‘gamecast’ of Saturday’s boxing event headlined by Evander Holyfield vs. Vitor Belfort, Triller told ESPN. His son, Donald Trump Jr., will join him at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida,” ESPN reported Tuesday.

It will only cost you $50 to tune into Trump’s pearls of boxing wisdom whining about the election.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:41:03pm

re: #103 Dave In Austin

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retired cynic  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:41:34pm

re: #105 Dave In Austin

From what I’ve read, it was likely Kavenaugh’s own father who paid off his debts and got him his home.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:44:30pm

re: #113 retired cynic

From what I’ve read, it was likely Kavenaugh’s own father who paid off his debts and got him his home.

That is how Republicans pull themselves up by their bootstraps; with daddy’s money.

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retired cynic  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:47:49pm

re: #114 No Malarkey!

Agree, but I’m afraid if we make a big stink ahead of time, it’ll turn out to be daddy dearest, and it won’t be done illegally. So we’d better find out what happened first, before making any bigger noise that we are now.

And I have been pounding on this table before all the sexual abuse turned up.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:50:11pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:50:14pm

re: #10 KGxvi

…..
First, the idea that Congress can, in any meaningful way, codify constitutional rights short of an amendment - the problem with passing a law to codify Roe, as is being suggested, is that the next Republican Congress and Republican president can simply repeal that law, because it would only be a statute. It returns us to the idea that constitutional rights are subject to the whims of congressional majorities (majorities that may often, at least in the Senate, but potentially in the House, represent a minority of Americans).

Second thought: Supreme Court term limits don’t help matters much either. All term limits do is give legislatures a chance to time when they will do their fuckery based on when terms come up. In fact, the consistency of having life tenure probably actually helps keep the fuckery at bay in most instances.

Third, the fact that 3 (or 5*) of the Supreme Court Justices were appointed by someone who did not win a majority of the vote for president is another reminder that the Electoral College is incredibly stupid. *Bush’s two appointments were in his second term, where he won an actual majority, so I’m less annoyed by that outcome.

Idea number four: the theme of these first two (and now into our third) decade of the 21st century seems to be the failing of institutions. It happened a bit at the end of the Bush administration, thought it seemed like Obama was turning the tide, but after Trump it seems like Obama may be an anomaly rather than a course correction. The problem with this is that the modern American system is built on institutions, and if they fail, we fail… which is, not good.
T skeptical of the wider system holding, and I don’t really know why that is

Some comments here —
1. Yes — a law can be undone with the next administration but it can be very challenging once it’s woven into the fabric of our society. As much as the GOP would like to eliminate them, too many programs are now part of our culture — you think anyone would dare (though they have tried) to eliminate Social Security or Medicare? Courtesy of gerrymandering and voter suppression, we already have the problem that the House majority can represent a minority of Americans.

2-3 In general, it’s the president that’s responsible to what happens to the Supreme Court, not Congress (Garland not withstanding). Right now, we are stuck for at least a generation due to the inability to dislodge the SC 6 GOP majority. And once the Federalist Society reared its ugly head, the court became subject to a malevolent ideology. It was the Bush v Gore decision that has led us down a very dark path.

Our institutions are definitely failing us, with the assistance of a RW propaganda media and a corrupt MSM — and there seems no help in sight.

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Targetpractice  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:56:36pm

re: #91 jaunte

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The media keeps asking “When do we get back to normal?,” but they seem to have accepted that the only answer is “When everybody learns to stop worrying and love COVID,” because the answer “Everybody gets vaccinated” is too “political.”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 8:58:26pm
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Dave In Austin  Sep 7, 2021 • 9:07:38pm
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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 9:16:28pm

Why the fuck does the CCCP allow this traitor to get away with his lies?

Reminder CCCP = Corporate Controlled Conservative Press

Trump argues there were 15 million uncounted ballots as he lays groundwork for 2024 White House bid

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JOE 🥓  Sep 7, 2021 • 9:18:35pm

And that traitor is laying the groundwork for fucking Larry Elder to file court challenge after challenge on the recall.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 7, 2021 • 9:42:13pm

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 9:45:26pm
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ckkatz  Sep 7, 2021 • 9:46:57pm

Interesting article in the WashPost predicting continued global dislocation and spot shortages due to the ongoing pandemic. And yes, apparently paper is expected to be in shorter supply in the next few months.

I have to admit, my being a geezer, and with most of my life lived prior the advent of global supply chains, I am not highly concerned.

…snip…
Mounting challenges — including factory shutdowns, computer chip shortages and clogged ports — are rattling the industry as it prepares for the crucial holiday shopping season, an eight-week window that can account for more than half of a retailer’s annual sales.
…snip…
“Covid has turned supply chains on their head,” said Neel Jones Shah, global head of airfreight for Flexport, a logistics technology company. “We’re seeing an astronomical rise in shipping rates, a dramatic lengthening of transit times and a logjam of cargo at every port. Shippers are scrambling to figure out how to get their goods to market in time for the Christmas selling season.”

Two of the nation’s largest retailers, Walmart and Home Depot, are chartering their own ships to retrieve their products, while Amazon is beefing up its fleet of cargo planes. Urban Outfitters is switching from ocean freight to air in hopes of bypassing clogged ports in the run-up to the holidays. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
…snip…
“We’re telling our customers, ‘September is the new December,’ ” she said. “If you see something that’s important to you, buy it now.”

How the delta variant stole Christmas: Empty shelves, long waits — and yes, higher prices
Supply chain hiccups and materials shortages are hitting retailers heading into the year’s most important shopping season
washingtonpost.com

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Belafon  Sep 7, 2021 • 9:51:08pm

re: #125 ckkatz

One of the GM dealerships in Rockwall only as about 20% of its lot full due to chip shortages.

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ckkatz  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:12:13pm

re: #126 Belafon

Supposedly, the manufacturers are catching up on the car shortage.

So far, for me, my driving requirements have been way down since the pandemic started and my car is only a few years old.

But my parents who grew up in the Great Depression used to always remind me that it is amazing how little of the ‘stuff’ we have is truly necessary.

(Except, perhaps for the parents of small children, when it is needed to temporarily quiet said kids and provide at least a small bit of sanity for the parents.)

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ckkatz  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:14:11pm

re: #123 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Ouch! Someone is getting taken for a ride, saddled with those puns. :)

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Belafon  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:15:17pm

re: #127 ckkatz

Supposedly, the manufacturers are catching up on the car shortage.

So far, for me, my driving requirements have been way down since the pandemic started and my car is only a few years old.

But my parents who grew up in the Great Depression used to always remind me that it is amazing how little of the ‘stuff’ we have is truly necessary.

(Except, perhaps for the parents of small children, when it is needed to temporarily quiet said kids and provide at least a small bit of sanity for the parents.)

My youngest is a junior in high school and will need a car soon, which means I will need to buy a car soon and hand mine down to him.

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Targetpractice  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:17:27pm

re: #123 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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Joking aside, that is pretty much the reason why they moved to guzzling horse paste, that HCQ remains locked behind the pharmacy counter without a prescription while ivermectin is right there on the local Feed & Seed counter. No need to worry about that “Not for human consumption” bit, the “experts” on Facebook and Reddit will guide you on how to take it without anything worse than the occasional blindness or shitting yourself in public.

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ckkatz  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:22:55pm

re: #119 Dread Pirate Ron

This reminds me of the attempted invasion of the South African Bantustan Bophuthatswana by Afrikaner extremist militia Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) in 1994. It did not end well for the AWB.

These idiots were very lucky that they were intercepted before they could get themselves killed.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:41:29pm

re: #131 ckkatz

There was also that Venezuela merc team two years ago.

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Targetpractice  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:42:51pm

Gov. Ironside’s whole bit about “arresting future rapists” is especially insulting when you remember that this is a party that continues to fight at the local and state levels for the “parental rights” of the rapist including the “right” to force his victim to carry the pregnancy to term.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:46:53pm

The air is clear but it’s been hot out for the past week. We should drop below 90 on Friday.

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ckkatz  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:49:42pm

re: #132 Dread Pirate Ron

There was also that Venezuela merc team two years ago.

Very true. Yet another example.

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ckkatz  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:53:42pm

Night all!

And the requisite Dad joke:

Lance is a very uncommon name nowadays.
But back in medieval times, people were called Lance a lot.

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darthstar  Sep 7, 2021 • 10:57:34pm

re: #53 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

And of course it’s “that chicken”

re: #90 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Dog days of summer at the Giants is always a fun game to go to.

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darthstar  Sep 7, 2021 • 11:08:46pm

Oh, looks like I was replying to the McCarthy chicken story as well but never completed the thought. I really am on vacation.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 11:13:42pm

end of a thread.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 11:27:44pm

Patients deemed to have a breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection—ie, the 54 patients who were fully vaccinated—were evaluated for illness severity. Among this cohort, we found that 25 (46%) patients were asymptomatic (admitted to hospital for a non-COVID-19-related diagnosis but with an incidental positive PCR test for SARS-CoV-2), four (7%) had mild disease, 11 (20%) had moderate disease, and 14 (26%) had severe or critical illness. Among those with severe or critical illness, the median age was 80*5 years (IQR 76*5-85*0)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 7, 2021 • 11:33:41pm
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Targetpractice  Sep 7, 2021 • 11:46:13pm

re: #140 Dread Pirate Ron

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Yet if you ask your relative/friend/coworker/etc who gets all their info from wingnut media and social media, they’ll swear that 90%+ of new COVID cases in the last few months have been “breakthrough” cases and that the media won’t tell you about how HCQ/Ivermectin are a miracle drug cocktail saving lives left and right.

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darthstar  Sep 7, 2021 • 11:53:50pm

re: #142 Targetpractice

Yet if you ask your relative/friend/coworker/etc who gets all their info from wingnut media and social media, they’ll swear that 90%+ of new COVID cases in the last few months have been “breakthrough” cases and that the media won’t tell you about how HCQ/Ivermectin are a miracle drug cocktail saving lives left and right.

I’ve got a childhood friend (9th grade, baptist high school - first name’s actually Dallas - dad was a sheriff) who now lives in Texas and says that 27% of their Covid cases are from ‘illegals bringing it over the fence because of Biden’…we just see each other on facebook now and he occasionally asks me how Biden’s doing and I say ‘Great! Love that fucker!’ - and he turns off replies to his comments.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:21:09am

re: #133 Targetpractice

Gov. Ironside’s whole bit about “arresting future rapists” is especially insulting when you remember that this is a party that continues to fight at the local and state levels for the “parental rights” of the rapist including the “right” to force his victim to carry the pregnancy to term.

“Rapist” doesn’t mean the same thing to them, because they’re fine with a lot of forms of coercion that void consent, and they’re fine with people that aren’t “innocent” being coerced or forced into sexual acts, and they are certain that there are superior kinds of people who simply can’t be rapists.

So when Abbott talks about pre-emptively catching all the rapists, it’s this funhouse definition wherein the Real Rapists are guys that catch the conservative imagination as threatening to the womenfolk or threatening to the feelings of the men.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:27:28am

re: #144 The Ghost of a Flea

So when Abbott talks about pre-emptively catching all the rapists, it’s this funhouse definition wherein the Real Rapists are guys that catch the conservative imagination as threatening to the womenfolk or threatening to the feelings of the men.

In other words, brown people.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:32:23am

Meanwhile over in Great Brexit, the unwinding of the country continues, as anyone with a brain could have (and did) guess:

Government says polluters can dump risky sewage into rivers as Brexit disrupts water treatment

The government has given polluters the green light to dump risky sewage that has not been properly cleaned into rivers and the sea as Brexit and Covid disrupt normal water treatment.

In recent weeks some businesses have found it more difficult to get hold of water treatment chemicals because of supply chain disruption at ports blamed primarily on Britain’s departure from the EU.

[…]

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:33:48am

Oh, and BoJo is trying to raise taxes to pay for social services, breaking a Tory party pledge, because the pandemic has drained the coffers.

As to be expected, this is not going over well with the Tory marks.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:34:19am

re: #145 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

In other words, brown people.

Mostly but not exclusively?

In a way the reactionary thing is that all problems are external—done by outsiders or weirdos, and while it’s smoother for then if the guy is part of a designated class…ultimately the dictates of how they view threat and self defense mean there will always be a guy, even if they have to invent him.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:35:54am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:39:19am

re: #149 Ace-o-aces

Hollyfield vs. Belfort is a “freak fight” (that is a fight based only on marketing the brand value of the names, this is WWE type of stuff) even without Trump.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:44:06am

I’m rewatching Lost. Fucking Michael, “Walt!”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:44:07am

Although—fuck it—Abbott may being going full monkey’s-paw when he says Texas will “eliminate rape” and it would be entirely in keeping with the reactionary worldivew.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 8, 2021 • 12:58:57am

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Ben Webster - In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning [1959]



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Targetpractice  Sep 8, 2021 • 1:00:35am

re: #148 The Ghost of a Flea

Mostly but not exclusively?

In a way the reactionary thing is that all problems are external—done by outsiders or weirdos, and while it’s smoother for then if the guy is part of a designated class…ultimately the dictates of how they view threat and self defense mean there will always be a guy, even if they have to invent him.

Basically, wingnuts do as they usually do and play fast and loose with terms (and even invent new ones) in order to avoid acknowledging all those forms other than ones involving a white victim and a minority rapist. Hence the term “forcible rape,” which on its surface would seem to imply any case where the victim was forced (whether through violence, threats, extortion, etc) would qualify as rape, but in Repub terminology really only means translates as “white woman held by black man at knife point.”

Spousal rape? “How can a husband rape his wife? Marriage vows imply consent!”

Date rape? “So what if she was inebriated/drugged/unconscious when the act occurred? He says she consented, so that’s all that matters!”

Rape involving extortion/verbal threats/etc? “If she agreed to have sex, then the threats don’t matter. Consent is consent!”

Rape involving a minority victim? “She’s crying rape to get attention! Probably looking to make some money off the guy! I question her sincerity!”

Rape involving a young white rapist? “Hey, we can’t let this one mistake ruin his life! He comes from a good family and he’s got a sports career ahead of him! Can’t we just let him go with an apology and a bit of counseling?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 1:04:16am

re: #15 retired cynic

Footage Of The Last-Known Surviving Tasmanian Tiger Colorized And Upscaled To 4K Hits Differently
digg.com
I’ve seen this footage before, and this makes it totally different and immediate. As my friend who sent me the link said, poor lonesome dude.

I read that one of the reasons that the Thylacine was eradicated was its tendency to rear up and walk on its hind legs, which scared the piss out of the early settlers in Tasmania, they saw it as the Devil incarnate.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 8, 2021 • 1:06:55am

The Fagradalsfjall volcano is taking a nap, but one of Iceland’s largest and most explosive volcanos if melting some of its icecap and cause a flooding problem:

Glacial Outburst Flood and Volcano News From Iceland

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sagehen  Sep 8, 2021 • 1:11:31am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I read that one of the reasons that the Thylacine was eradicated was its tendency to rear up and walk on its hind legs, which scared the piss out of the early settlers in Tasmania, they saw it as the Devil incarnate.

Also, it’s not cute (koalas!! kangaroos!!) or majestic (puma). It’s just freaky-looking. Sort of ugly, in fact.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 1:13:22am

re: #127 ckkatz

But my parents who grew up in the Great Depression used to always remind me that it is amazing how little of the ‘stuff’ we have is truly necessary.

We have been taught that if we cannot obtain ANYTHING WE WANT immediately (or have it delivered to our door within 24 hours) then our economy will collapse

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 1:13:39am

re: #128 ckkatz

Ouch! Someone is getting taken for a ride, saddled with those puns. :)

but not furlong

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 8, 2021 • 1:15:09am

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Beethoven Piano Sonata No.14 Op.27 No.2 “Moonlight” (Joy) Hyuk Lee 이혁 Хёк Ли



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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 8, 2021 • 1:20:18am

Without an eruption of lava for over 5 days the cone is slowly cooling (and crumbing), and the outgassing deposits sulfur and sulfates on the surface:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 8, 2021 • 1:21:45am

re: #161 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Also, the rain dissolves compounds and then evaporates to leave crystals on the surface of the basalt.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:25:54am

Australian punk band Amyl and The Sniffers dropped a new single from their upcoming new album “Comfort to Me”. What an absolute banger of a song.

Amyl and The Sniffers - Hertz

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:30:06am

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

What an absolute banger of a song.

get down and do the Mash!

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:32:47am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

get down and do the Mash!

From what I’ve heard from this upcoming album, it’s gonna be one of those “all killer, no filler” kinda things. I’m looking forward to it.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:34:25am

YouTube

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:35:36am

re: #165 Dr Lizardo

From what I’ve heard from this upcoming album, it’s gonna be one of those “all killer, no filler” kinda things. I’m looking forward to it.

That singer seems to radiate enough attitude to fill up a 10-CD set…

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:39:18am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That singer seems to radiate enough attitude to fill up a 10-CD set…

LOL indeed she does. She gives me a Wendy O. Williams vibe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:40:20am

re: #168 Dr Lizardo

LOL indeed she does. She gives me a Wendy O. Williams vibe.

all she needs are the black electrician’s tape pasties…

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:45:27am

re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

all she needs are the black electrician’s tape pasties…

We need live shows back - I can only imagine the energy a concert by that group would give off. It’d be glorious wall-to-wall insanity. She’s charismatic as hell, which is what you need for a frontperson.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:51:30am

re: #170 Dr Lizardo

We need live shows back - I can only imagine the energy a concert by that group would give off. It’d be glorious wall-to-wall insanity. She’s charismatic as hell, which is what you need for a frontperson.

Butch Vig said much the same thing about Garbage singer Shirley Manson: that he could be sitting at the drum kit naked and nobody would notice because they were all fixated on her

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:52:28am

This is Amyl and The Sniffers live in Los Angeles about three years back….

Amyl and the Sniffers - I’m Not A Loser (Live at The Echo, Los Angeles)

That’s lit. If they came round to Czech Republic, I’d be there in a heartbeat.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 8, 2021 • 2:58:32am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Butch Vig said much the same thing about Garbage singer Shirley Manson: that he could be sitting at the drum kit naked and nobody would notice because they were all fixated on her

I’ve seen Garbage live, back in the ’90s, and Butch is absolutely right. Shirley Manson has an incredible stage presence.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 3:51:30am

Instead of linking to the original source, I’m linking to @Popehat’s quote tweet because his snark is something I couldn’t outdo on my best day.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 4:08:25am

Something to start your day if you live in California.

The man who started the movement to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom has COVID-19 (Sacramento Bee)

The lead proponent of the effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom has COVID-19.

Orrin Heatlie, the retired Yolo County sheriff’s sergeant who started the recall movement last year, confirmed to The Sacramento Bee that he tested positive for the virus and has been isolating while recovering.

Heatlie said he did not receive the COVID-19 vaccine prior to his infection, and his case was not severe enough to warrant a hospital stay or any extreme measures.

“I was given some medication for a cough, but that was it,” he said.

Heatlie’s infection highlights what has been perhaps the most divisive issue in the recall campaign.

(more)

When Mr. Heatlie started the recall effort, it was over alleged misconduct by Gov. Newsom over crime and immigration. As the pandemic took hold and Newsom instituted a series of measures to slow its progress, Mr. Heatlie seized on that to drive people to sign petitions.

“I am not anti-vaccine. My daughter and my wife are both fully vaccinated, and I’m not against people getting vaccinated, but I am all for personal choice and people’s right to make an informed decision,” he said.

With one week left until the recall election, Newsom and allies are pushing the message that recall proponents will stall California’s progress in fighting the virus.

Yes, you’re anti-vaccine.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 8, 2021 • 4:19:32am

Morning Lizards. So I did a thing last night for dinner. Food pron behind the tag.

Click to Reveal

I made tacos. Yeah, yeah. Big deal. Well not really. I just made them using homemade tortillas for the first time. Yes, I know they are brown. I used whole wheat flour instead of white and I added a teaspoon of (homemade) taco seasoning for a bit of flavor. They are also a bit thicker than commercially made/pressed. I am working on that. Anyhow, here’s some pics.

Whole wheat dough.

First pressing.

A couple of sides.

And done. Yes, they were good.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 4:22:17am

re: #174 Dopamine Fish

Instead of linking to the original source, I’m linking to @Popehat’s quote tweet because his snark is something I couldn’t outdo on my best day.

Trump is already stating that Newsom can only win by cheating, which indicates he has reason to believe Newsom has a good chance of winning…

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 4:25:31am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 4:27:52am

“I found a ten-dollar bill in the supermarket parking lot. I thought ‘What would Jesus do?’ So I turned it into wine.”

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Dave In Austin  Sep 8, 2021 • 4:55:43am

Does anyone know if the Nebraska Cougher has been held accountable for her actions yet? And did Walmart pull the produce she infected?

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steve_davis  Sep 8, 2021 • 4:56:30am

re: #157 sagehen

Also, it’s not cute (koalas!! kangaroos!!) or majestic (puma). It’s just freaky-looking. Sort of ugly, in fact.

awww, he not ugly! he hansom! who’s a good boy?! He is!

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 4:57:01am

So, I’m going to teach myself a new thing. I’m going to learn to use this:

to cut slots for hinges in these:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:17:42am

re: #178 Dangerman

YouTube’s search listing today is full of vitriol against atheists again.

A common saying amongst atheists is “There’s no hate quite like Christian love.”

Of course it’s not just Christians; all religions fear us.

What ATHEIST IDIOTS need to hear about demons

(random Christian apologist)

I’m aware. They cause epilepsy. A Florida divorce court also agreed atheists are possessed by demons and shouldn’t be around children. (I know the guy the judge did that to. /s Fortunately that judge went to jail for corruption unrelated to that case.)

An Empty and Seductive Philosophy

(Catholic priest’s Sunday homily)

Lying for Jesus, since atheism is not a philosophy. (I suppose it could be seductive. We have cookies.)

Atheist ‘Chaplain’ Claims He Can be Good Without God

(Gary DeMar)

Attacking Harvard’s new Humanist chaplain. Makes the same assertion other apologists have made for two millennia. Please don’t give up your religion if you require it to be good.

3 Reason NEVER Marry An Atheist

(rando Christian apologist)

Holds forth for over half an hour on this subject. Reflects what Pew Research’s Religious Landscape Survey notes, that overwhelming numbers of Christians of all sects (and other religions as well) would never consider dating or marrying an atheist.

World’s Most Notorious Atheist Converts: Anthony Flew

(Catholic priest)

Anthony Flew was an English philosopher. He was an open atheist, but famously stated in 2004 that he believed in an intelligent creator. He died in 2010.

Because of the “intelligent creator” shift in position, Christians have ever since lied and said he became a Christian and “accepted Jesus.” He explicitly stated he was a Deist, and constantly refuted Christian claims while he was alive that he had become a Christian. Now that he’s dead, they can lie about him with impunity and he cannot defend himself. His most influential work was the book “The Presumption of Atheism” (1976) in which he laid out the philosophical arguments for the burden of proof of the assertion of any deity lies on the one making the assertion. The book also sought to change the philosophy profession’s old definition of atheism being a denial of the Christian god to a lack of belief in any deities.

Jordan Peterson - I Am Not An Atheist Anymore

(Yes we know, Jordon, and you dragged all your libertarian acolytes right along with you)

Is it ok to be an atheist. God was never on your side

(musician Alan Ready)

Atheists Are Idiots part 2 Hugo Lopes

(rando Christian, yes there’s a part one to this because Christians need long explanations why we are idiots, along with an excessive expounding of Pascal’s Wager and how we can’t be good without God).

Episode 46: My Story: How Not To Date An Atheist: Part 3

(DSW Ministries)

They are doing a whole series on how to convert atheists if you do go on dates with them, or why you should not date an atheist if you are not prepared to try to convert us.

The existence of Heaven & Hell- scientifically and logically proves to an Atheist

(Dr. Zakir Naik, Muslim apologist)

Same tropes Christians use to “prove” Heaven and Hell.

When You Bring Religion To Work And Your Boss Is An Atheist

(random Christian)

Complaining he can’t proselytise at work by acting as a strawman “angry atheist” boss

Phim Tài Liệu | Ảo Tưởng Vô Thần

(Matt Powell translating his “Atheists are Deluded” video into Vietnamese to go after scientists)

কেন বাংলাদেশে নাস্তিকতা ও নারীবাদ দিন দিন বেড়ে চলেছে

(Hinduism apologist explaining why free will causes atheists to promote feminism against a woman’s nature … interesting the poster uses Dr. Zakir the Muslim apologist to promote where Hinduism and Islam agree: Atheists are bad for misleading women to believe they are “created” equally)

This is in the last six hours or so and there are more

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:19:03am

re: #182 Dopamine Fish

So, I’m going to teach myself a new thing. I’m going to learn to use this:

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Now you’re just teasing me.

A girl and her tools.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:20:42am

re: #122 JOE 🥓

And that traitor is laying the groundwork for fucking Larry Elder to file court challenge after challenge on the recall.

That way, Elder can lose over and over again!

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:22:29am

re: #184 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

Now you’re just teasing me.

A girl and her tools.

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Sorry, it’s going to be amateur hour over here. I’m just hoping I don’t mess it up, is all.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:22:56am

re: #180 Dave In Austin

Does anyone know if the Nebraska Cougher has been held accountable for her actions yet? And did Walmart pull the produce she infected?

She has not, and I doubt the Lincoln police will. That was in a Super Saver store. A couple wingnuts tried to claim the Super Saver is owned by Democratic Party chair Jane Raybould (that is not true: The idea was to claim Democrats don’t really care about this and it’s all performance art by Democrats).

The Wal*Mart coughing woman was a different person a year ago in a different state. She was arrested for damaging property, and Wal*Mart threw out $35,000 worth of produce.

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Nojay UK  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:23:44am

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The existence of Heaven & Hell- scientifically and logically proves to an Atheist

It can be scientifically proven (based on Christian Biblical scripture) that Heaven is hotter than Hell. Radiation from the Sun versus the melting point of sulphur, basically.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:27:25am

re: #186 Dopamine Fish

Sorry, it’s going to be amateur hour over here. I’m just hoping I don’t mess it up, is all.

They can be tricky to use (yes, I have one. Used twice). If guides were included, use them. Free hand routing will quickly turn into a disaster. :-/ Whistles as I walk on bye.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:28:22am

re: #189 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

They can be tricky to use (yes, I have one. Used twice). If guides were included, use them. Free hand routing will quickly turn into a disaster. :-/ Whistles as I walk on bye.

Even I’m not stupid enough to try freehand. ;) Not when I’m cutting cabinet hinges. It has an edge guide and I’m going to do some practice runs before cutting into my shiny new doors.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:36:55am

To snark or not to snark? That, is THE question.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:40:08am

re: #191 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

To snark or not to snark? That is THE question.

Like that’s a question. Let me have it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:42:29am

When psychologists go wrong: A 1973 psychological experiment by a Mexican anthropologist (so not trained in psychology), Santiago Genovés into studying violence by having ten people (six men and four women, plus himself and a female pilot because he thought a woman in charge would humiliate the men) sail on a derelict freighter from the Canary Islands to Mexico.

The trip took 101 days. During the voyage, he turned into a tyrant because there wasn’t a big sex party during the voyage.

In one part of the voyage, the ship was travelling toward a tropical storm and the master refused to sail through it, he took over the ship. Another time the ship’s rudder broke and the only qualified diver on the ship was one of the women. He refused to let her make the dive, insisting only men could do that, and did it himself. He nearly drowned.

(14:40)

One Mad Scientist’s Plan for WORLD PEACE through Voyeurism | The Life & Times of Santiago Genoves

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:46:43am

re: #178 Dangerman

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:48:20am

It’s Trans humor, so be warned. It’s also sexist as hell.

re: #190 Dopamine Fish

Even I’m not stupid enough to try freehand. ;) Not when I’m cutting cabinet hinges. It has an edge guide and I’m going to do some practice runs before cutting into my shiny new doors.

Click to Reveal

Might want to get your T levels checked. That sounds like something a woman would say. :-) or Careful, next thing you know, you’ll be reading the instruction manual

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:49:42am

re: #195 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:51:02am

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Speaking of tropical storms:

The tropical wave in the Gulf of Mexico is now south of the Mississippi River delta, moving toward Florida (and a possible threat to Georgia and South Carolina). The National Hurricane Center has upped the risk of the wave becoming a tropical cyclone to 50% within two days.

Hurricane Larry is still moving toward Bermuda. The prognostication has not changed, though the National Hurricane Center has further bumped the track further west in the latter part of the prediction, now predicting a direct strike on Newfoundland. Afterward, the hurricane will go extra-tropical, and be absorbed as a tropical storm into a cold front between Greenland and Iceland.

Five Day Graphical Tropical Outlook

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:51:06am

re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump is already stating that Newsom can only win by cheating, which indicates he has reason to believe Newsom has a good chance of winning…

today’s electoral-vote.com

The bottom line is that Newsom looks awfully safe. The only real hopes for the pro-recall forces: (1) a huge number of people who said they planned to support Newsom were either lying or changed their minds after talking to the pollster, or (2) a huge number of people who said they planned to support Newsom and were likely to vote were too optimistic, and ultimately prove unable to find the 30 seconds it requires to fill out a ballot and drop it in the mail. That sounds like “slim” and “none” to us, with slim about to leave town. Indeed, at this point, it appears more likely that Newsom is sustained by 10+ points than that he is recalled. Heck, it’s possible that he comes out on top by closer to 20; our back-of-the-envelope math above has him up 26 points among the ballots that have been received (63%-37%).

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:56:38am

re: #196 Dopamine Fish

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LoL. Glad you saw the humor in it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 5:57:00am

re: #181 steve_davis

awww, he not ugly! he hansom! who’s a good boy?! He is!

He doesn’t look like a cab to me. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:05:28am

re: #194 Belafon

Whole lot of whinging in that thread from Christians.

One person notes probably the only Christians actually persecuted in the USA are Black Christians (there is a very long history of that).

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jeffreyw  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:09:59am

Good morning!

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Dave In Austin  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:10:38am
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Dave In Austin  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:17:21am

re: #202 jeffreyw

Owl 🦉!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:38:39am

Huh.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:39:02am

re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Told ya we had cookies. /s

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:45:29am

re: #152 The Ghost of a Flea

Although—fuck it—Abbott may being going full monkey’s-paw when he says Texas will “eliminate rape” and it would be entirely in keeping with the reactionary worldivew.

They can’t stop the “testing” (reporting) you know, no tests no pandemic.
they can stop keeping records of the reports. same result

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:47:58am
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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:48:57am
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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:49:36am
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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:50:13am

re: #176 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

Morning Lizards. So I did a thing last night for dinner. Food pron behind the tag.

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+1

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:50:25am

I put this guy in as a potential honoree at SorryAntivaxxer. He’s already gotten the r/HermanCainAward at reddit.

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:50:37am

re: #209 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

That isn’t full. It’s not full until you have to place the next dirty dish on the counter for safety reasons.

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:51:37am
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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:53:05am
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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:53:28am

I think we can all agree on this:

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:53:56am

re: #215 Belafon

And this is despite Florida doing all it can to fudge the numbers. Can you imagine what the *actual* death toll must look like?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:56:09am

re: #212 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I put this guy in as a potential honoree at SorryAntivaxxer. He’s already gotten the r/HermanCainAward at reddit.

LOL

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:59:57am

Honestly, USBP never lets me down…bullshit start to finish.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 8, 2021 • 6:59:58am

re: #213 Belafon

That isn’t full. It’s not full until you have to place the next dirty dish on the counter for safety reasons.

The sink to the right is where I was putting the ones I already washed. The others will go into the washer here in a bit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:00:54am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:03:55am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t think they realize that saying he died in the line of duty makes that much stronger a case of “vaccinate or be fired” because you’re in everyone’s faces.

Honestly, the dumb is stunning.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:06:40am

re: #219 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Honestly, USBP never lets me down…bullshit start to finish.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:11:44am

re: #222 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I don’t think they realize that saying he died in the line of duty makes that much stronger a case of “vaccinate or be fired” because you’re in everyone’s faces.

Honestly, the dumb is stunning.

His wife apparently posted this to announce his death (green puke face emoji, behind the privacy bar, you’ve been warned)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:13:39am

Remember to tie your crap down when you transport it.

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:16:37am
Former President Trump will barnstorm Iowa and Georgia in the coming weeks as he looks to maintain his tight grip on the GOP base.

Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, announced Tuesday evening that the former president will appear in Perry, Ga., on Sept. 25 and then in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 9.

The hill

I dont know why this burns me
“Barnstorming”
In a private jet
2, count em, 2 stops
14 days apart
Home to mar-a-grifto in between

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:17:39am

Ugh. At least it’s on the other side of the state.

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jeffreyw  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:17:46am

re: #204 Dave In Austin

Owl 🦉!

Yep. Not at all uncommon to see a mouse on the critter cams after dark. Hawks love the feeders and the birds that they concentrate during the day. I hope that we see more owls during the night time hours.

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jeffreyw  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:22:56am

re: #222 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I don’t think they realize that saying he died in the line of duty makes that much stronger a case of “vaccinate or be fired” because you’re in everyone’s faces.

Honestly, the dumb is stunning.

They are playing the ‘infected hordes of Mexicans that Biden is letting across the border’ card.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:23:30am

88 Tactical, Militarized Police, and a Looming Coup in Brazil (Goes to Seeing Red Nebraska)

88 Tactical is a huge gun superstore in the west Omaha suburbs with numerous ties to Nazis.

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Brazil is currently on high alert amid signs its fascist leader is planning a “self coup” to despotically seize and retain power. Bolsonaro loyalists have had years of training from Omaha’s 88 Tactical and US law enforcement.

What the actual hell is going on with 88 Tactical in Omaha?

Last year I wrote about the business’s persistent interest in Nazi imagery and white supremacy. Now here is something else alarming: 88 Tactical’s links to a foreign authoritarian leader, Jair Bolsonaro, who many Brazilians fear is planning a dictatorial takeover of Brazil, perhaps as soon as tomorrow, September 7 [it hasn’t happened yet apparently, as today is September 8].

In early 2016, around the time that an infusion of investment funds allowed 88 Tactical to construct the massive fortress that greets all interstate travelers into Omaha from the west with a gigantic Nazi eagle and Nazi code, 88 Tactical also sponsored Eduardo Bolsonaro’s visit to the Shot Show, a massive firearms expo in Las Vegas.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:25:55am

re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

there is more at the link, including how Nazis are infiltrating police training.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:28:40am

re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And guess who else noticed the name? Actual Nazis on Stormfront.

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Teddy's Person  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:29:23am

re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ugh. At least it’s on the other side of the state.

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I bet you’ll still feel the disturbance in the force.

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Jay C  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:29:40am

re: #232 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And guess who else noticed the name? Actual Nazis on Stormfront.

“88 Tactical”??
How could you NOT notice the name…??

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:30:19am

re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ugh. At least it’s on the other side of the state.

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but you saw re: #109 No Malarkey!, right?

that’s 5 minutes from pond central

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:31:09am
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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:31:26am

re: #229 jeffreyw

They are playing the ‘infected hordes of Mexicans that Biden is letting across the border’ card.

so you didnt protect yourself from the horde with a mask and the vax?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:32:35am

re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

He’s already saying he was chosen by god to lead Brazil. It’s already happened.

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mmmirele  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:34:03am

One of my friends with long Covid has been sitting in a waiting room at a Northern Virginia ER for 10 hours. (One guy has been there for 15 hours.) She went in because she was swelling, had chest pain and joint pain. The nurses did get her an ECG which indicates long QT interval but she has yet to be seen by a doctor, because sick unvaccinated Covid patients are taking priority at the moment. She thought about going home and trying to get in at her doctor, but knows her ECG numbers mean she’d be back in that waiting room. As you can imagine, she’s fairly bitter at the unvaxxed.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:35:06am

Remind y’all of anyone….

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Jay C  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:39:33am

re: #240 GlutenFreeJesus

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Remind y’all of anyone….

You beat me to it (though I have no idea how to post the BBC pic in a comment).

What struck me as odd, though was that - even though this was in Brazil - the sign is in English, with the Portuguese text in much smaller type.
Do they hire these clowns from Wingnuts-‘R’-Us (probably out of Florida)??

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:40:14am

re: #234 Jay C

“88 Tactical”??
How could you NOT notice the name…??

Also the topographical map he had as a wall decoration with a peak marked “1488” when the map markings would indicate the elevation is 1520 (metres? feet? that part wasn’t marked).

When called out publicly, he feigned ignorance and removed the map.

He also prominently displayed Black Rifle Coffee Company “SS” branded coffee in his shop.

He claims the “88” is code for the Omaha Police Department “situation secure” (it’s not).

His dog is named Panzer.

It’s funny how he keeps accidentally falling into all this Nazi propaganda.

I’m more interested in which investment fund help him build his paean to fascists, and why he also has a business next door to his gun superstore training centre called 88 Med (which amongst other things gives testosterone shots).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:41:59am

re: #235 Dangerman

but you saw , right?

that’s 5 minutes from pond central

My condolences.

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We all walks this ways  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:45:20am

re: #240 GlutenFreeJesus

Be a scream if a guy named Jesus capped his fascist ass.

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jeffreyw  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:45:22am

re: #237 Dangerman

so you didnt protect yourself from the horde with a mask and the vax?

just leads to CO2 poisoning and magnetism!

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:46:23am

re: #245 jeffreyw

just leads to CO2 poisoning and magnetism!

I still haven’t figured out why magnetism would be a bad thing.

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dat_said  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:46:43am

All the news articles I’ve found have been very careful not to explicitly state the why but a few mention a “Ramsey County judge recently rejected a request by a gun owners group for a temporary injunction to require State Fair officials to allow permit holders to carry their weapons on the fairgrounds.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:46:56am

re: #225 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Remember to tie your crap down when you transport it.

Got a mild scare yesterday on the interstate while driving back south from visiting my brother.

Semi a bit ahead of me had a tire on the trailer break up and suddenly there was a large strip of moving rubber and steel bouncing along my lane at speed. Had to go onto the shoulder to dodge it. (Luckily it had essentially stopped moving by the time I got to it.)

Car ahead of me had to do a much more drastic dodge since he was closer when things happened.

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Jay C  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:47:38am

re: #246 Belafon

I still having figured out why magnetism would be a bad thing.

It helps identify and locate you for the Jewish Space Laser…..

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:48:46am

re: #234 Jay C

“88 Tactical”??
How could you NOT notice the name…??

Easy if you’re a Republican. For them Nazis are the mainstream in their party.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:49:33am

re: #238 GlutenFreeJesus

He’s already saying he was chosen by god to lead Brazil. It’s already happened.

Not yet it hasn’t, though claiming the Mantle of God is normal for fascists.

Bolsonaristas tentam invadir Ministério da Saúde em Brasília; veja vídeo (Folha de S. Paulo, about an hour ago, in Portuguese, headline translates as “Bolsonaro Supporters Try to Invade the Ministry of Health in Brasília; View Video”)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:49:42am

As bizarre as this story is, I honestly have a lot of respect for this guy for stepping down and NOT trying to live a double life.

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jeffreyw  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:50:31am

re: #246 Belafon

I still having figured out why magnetism would be a bad thing.

survival depends on not getting lost, if you can’t trust your analog devices when the 5G chips take down the GPS satellite network - what then?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:52:01am
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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:53:31am

re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Love that Xtian kindness!

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:55:35am

re: #202 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

Did someone say frigate bird? This is (I think) the only picture I have of one not on the wing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:55:43am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 7:56:13am

re: #249 Jay C

It helps identify and locate you for the Jewish Space Laser…..

Apparently there is ferrofluid in the vaccine.

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darthstar  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:00:12am

re: #256 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Western good morning!

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Did someone say frigate bird? This is (I think) the only picture I have of one not on the wing.

That was me. Such cool birds. The trees were full of them but I neglected to take a pic when I was walking under them.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:05:33am

re: #249 Jay C

It helps identify and locate you for the Jewish Space Laser…..

Aw shit, I forgot the activation code…🤬

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:05:55am

re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg

Spanish bishop quits after falling in love with woman who writes Satanic-tinged erotic fiction

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:05:58am

re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:07:28am

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Why does Scott Adams hate the Lingerie Football League?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:07:56am

“feminizing traditionally male spaces”

mean girls trying to get into your secret tree fort?

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:08:18am

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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What team did Scott Adams play for? If he didn’t, his opinion is meaningless.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:09:47am

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not gonna lie, I actually stopped reading Dilbert a few weeks back, when he decided to bring his anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-social-responsibility views into the strip again. I don’t need to see that shit from him, and the strip hasn’t been really funny in a long time.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:10:07am

re: #265 Belafon

What team did Scott Adams play for? If he didn’t, his opinion is meaningless.

He was the 4th string water boy for his Pop Warner team!

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:10:12am

re: #243 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My condolences.

mar-a-grift is an hour from here so we dont care. that’s palm beach’s problem

the hard rock we can see from our house, because of what they built and florida is mostly flat

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:10:59am

re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I’m sure the extremely phallic space gun is a pure coincdence.

///

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:11:04am

I recall the blowup over Mad Max: Fury Road being too “feminized”, which makes you realize what a bunch of dateless wonders some of these Men’s Rights Activists are.

Mad Max was just trying to get more women into to see the release: they already had enough cool chopped up monster trucks, explosions and flaming guitars to draw all the male crowd, so they were looking to broaden their appeal.

If these guys had dates, they would be happy to have an excuse to have her along to the cinema or to watch a football game.

But they want their “no girlz allowed” treehouses instead

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:11:39am

re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m sure the extremely phallic space gun is a pure coincdence.

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I like the pointy boob hat myself…

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Decatur Deb  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:12:00am

re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m sure the extremely phallic space gun is a pure coincdence.

///

Sometimes a blaster is just a blaster.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:12:56am

re: #266 Dopamine Fish

Not gonna lie, I actually stopped reading Dilbert a few weeks back, when he decided to bring his anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-social-responsibility views into the strip again. I don’t need to see that shit from him, and the strip hasn’t been really funny in a long time.

Yeah, he used to keep his views pretty much out of the strip.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:13:40am

re: #272 Decatur Deb

Sometimes a blaster is just a blaster.

But that woman is smoke…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:14:40am

re: #267 JOE 🥓

He was the 4th string water boy for his Pop Warner team!

backup towel boy

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:15:28am

re: #259 darthstar

That was me. Such cool birds. The trees were full of them but I neglected to take a pic when I was walking under them.

They are interesting. Live on the sea but can’t get wet (feathers not waterproofed), and they get most of their food by stealing it from other birds.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:19:00am

re: #263 JOE 🥓

Why does Scott Adams hate the Lingerie Football League?

Moreover, the sweaty spandex of twenty-two large men, piling on each other, slapping each other on the butts, … .

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:20:07am

re: #248 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Got a mild scare yesterday on the interstate while driving back south from visiting my brother.

Semi a bit ahead of me had a tire on the trailer break up and suddenly there was a large strip of moving rubber and steel bouncing along my lane at speed. Had to go onto the shoulder to dodge it. (Luckily it had essentially stopped moving by the time I got to it.)

Car ahead of me had to do a much more drastic dodge since he was closer when things happened.

similar happened to me once on an electra glide with a passenger-du-jour
(years before mrsdm and i reincarnated)

50-60mph
truck in front of us drove over a whole tire lying in the road so i didnt see it till i did
and there was no time. it was I-95 lots of traffic and maybe i was a tad too close
no time to swerve and stay in the lane, and couldnt change lanes
i yelled hold on (cause that’s what you yell after you mutter “shit”)
i thought we were definitely going to hit it and fall

we rode right over it

it was a toy run or a poker run or something
we did some serious thankful drinking that day

another life lesson
expect anything. drive accordingly. fuck the traffic

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:22:58am

re: #278 Dangerman

My pastor told a story this Sunday about being in a road guard on a motorcycle ride when a minivan merged onto the freeway at speed into the middle of his pack. He said he came about 6 inches from hitting a friend with his foot peg, at 60 mph, as the guy rolled down the pavement like a loose sausage. The guy’s OK, thankfully, but as you note, you never really know what’s coming, no matter what you’re riding or driving.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:24:08am
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darthstar  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:25:18am

re: #268 Dangerman

mar-a-grift is an hour from here so we dont care. that’s palm beach’s problem

the hard rock we can see from our house, because of what they built and florida is mostly flat

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Once they had the template for that hotel it was only a matter of time before they tried to put them everywhere. Sorry you have to see that.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:26:07am

A couch once fell off a pickup in front of me. No time to swerve or stop so I blew right through it. Two flat tires (that was a killer, Pirelli is expensive) and a CHP saw the whole thing. Weird it was a Halloween night in the 1980’s.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:26:19am

re: #279 Dopamine Fish

My pastor told a story this Sunday about being in a road guard on a motorcycle ride when a minivan merged onto the freeway at speed into the middle of his pack. He said he came about 6 inches from hitting a friend with his foot peg, at 60 mph, as the guy rolled down the pavement like a loose sausage. The guy’s OK, thankfully, but as you note, you never really know what’s coming, no matter what you’re riding or driving.

I try to keep a careful watch for motorcycles and bicycles. As far as I know, I have not endangered a rider.

Driving a Smart lets you know there are people out there who don’t watch for small vehicles.

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We all walks this ways  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:27:56am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:30:36am

I had an oncoming car swerve out of control and spin across the lane not 50 feet ahead of me, landing on the opposite side of the road. He was unhurt, but had I been a few seconds farther down the road, it would have been an ugly-ass head-on

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:30:48am

re: #279 Dopamine Fish

My pastor told a story this Sunday about being in a road guard on a motorcycle ride when a minivan merged onto the freeway at speed into the middle of his pack. He said he came about 6 inches from hitting a friend with his foot peg, at 60 mph, as the guy rolled down the pavement like a loose sausage. The guy’s OK, thankfully, but as you note, you never really know what’s coming, no matter what you’re riding or driving.

we like to think there will be time
to see, analyze, choose, act
like the movie hero
like the slow motion

and we think we know what it’s going to be - child and ball, left turn in front of me, etc.

in truth there is barely time to automatically react
and even that assumes some level of honed skill and situational awareness
in a car it’s steering, gas, brake - not much else.
most people swerve and brake cause they dont practice anything else (like gun owners)
and they’re reading their phones or eating or talking or….

90 percent of people think they’re an above average driver

mostly they are just competent enough steerers, some of the time

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:31:08am

re: #283 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I try to keep a careful watch for motorcycles and bicycles. As far as I know, I have not endangered a rider.

Driving a Smart lets you know there are people out there who don’t watch for small vehicles.

I’ve been pretty good about it, but I’m sure I’ve angered a few. I know I’ve made a few semi drivers mad. Not intentionally, mind you, but sometimes you misjudge the downhill slope and you can’t always tell how much the guy is carrying. Needless to say, I give a wiiiiiiiiide berth to all semis when I pass them on the freeway these days, to the point where I frequently get passed on the right by impatient assholes because I’m not comfortable merging back in front of a big rig with only a couple of car lengths’ worth of clear space.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:32:17am
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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:32:38am

re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I had an oncoming car swerve out of control and spin across the lane not 50 feet ahead of me, landing on the opposite side of the road. He was unhurt, but had I been a few seconds farther down the road, it would have been an ugly-ass head-on

I had the opposite sort of situation. I lost control of my car on the freeway in a rainstorm (rear tires were too bald) and did a 360 across 3 lanes of traffic, stopped between an exit ramp to my left and I-94 to my right. The guy behind me probably had just as much of a pants-changing moment as I did. (I got new tires that weekend.)

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:33:02am

re: #281 darthstar

Once they had the template for that hotel it was only a matter of time before they tried to put them everywhere. Sorry you have to see that.

fortunately we dont literally ‘see it from the house’
but go up the 70’ hill at the park at the end of the road and yup.

at night they shine lights into the sky sort of simulating guitar strings
we can see the lights

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Dave In Austin  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:35:06am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:36:39am

re: #288 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If you want to honor participants in the Civil War on private property with private funds, I guess that is your good right, and nobody is coming to take it away.

But there is no reason to grant them any cachet of approval by honoring them on public property or with public funds.

The only place a Confederate flag should be displayed in public would be at a museum or historical site and then only with the proper context.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:37:52am
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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:39:43am

re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I had an oncoming car swerve out of control and spin across the lane not 50 feet ahead of me, landing on the opposite side of the road. He was unhurt, but had I been a few seconds farther down the road, it would have been an ugly-ass head-on

back in college - stony brook, NY ‘76 i was driving east on a 3 lanes each direction split road (347)

we were in the left lane. there’s a car on our side (the wrong side) coming at us.
i’m 19 and having trouble processing what im disbelieving. they never taught us this.
by the time i figured out what to do the car swerved onto the median and stopped

my buddy says “you should have let em hit us”
i said yeah, they’d have buried us with the money
(early 70’s toyota corolla. mostly cardboard)

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:40:41am

re: #293 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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This is the future conservatives are afraid of.

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:41:47am

re: #288 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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lee was dead 20 years before that thing went up

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:43:19am

re: #293 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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When I see clips like that, the more I believe Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were right that the losers should have been treated like conquered provinces…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:43:27am

It just occurred to me that some of the people around today who were not alive when 9/11 happened already have kids of their own.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:44:10am

re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg

It just occurred to me that some of the people around today who were not alive when 9/11 happened already have kids of their own.

Hard to believe it’s been 20 damn years. I’ve lost a lot of random memories to the mists of time, but that morning - that day - I won’t ever forget.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:44:16am

Another asshole gets off lightly…

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darthstar  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:47:26am

re: #300 JOE 🥓

Another asshole gets off lightly…

Unlawful picketing and parading - well, the defense attorneys now know what language to use in asking for a plea.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:49:37am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:51:21am

re: #297 JOE 🥓

When I see clips like that, the more I believe Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were right that the losers should have been treated like conquered provinces…

A lot of the Confederate statues put up are made of cheap pot metal.

That one in Richmond, aside from being the largest in the nation, is made of bronze. I’m all for melting it down and recycling it.

Jacksonville, Fla. has finally renamed my son’s high school.

Names removed from Robert E. Lee High, other school signs and buildings (WJXT-TV, Jacksonville, July 21, 2021)

There were years of protests by the usual suspects when the idea of renaming the school came up.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:52:13am

re: #303 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The names of Jefferson Davis Middle School and Joseph Finegan Elementary are also down on Thursday morning.

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Dangerman  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:54:25am

thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210905 edition ———————->
“End of Two Eras”


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

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:55:41am

Several other schools named after traitors are also coming down in Jacksonville.

The cost to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School came in at $366,000. That includes the signage, stationary, band and athletic uniforms, &c. Three-quarters of the cost was paid by donations to the school district.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 8, 2021 • 8:56:03am

re: #82 Teddy’s Person

Someone’s knockin’ at the door
Somebody’s ringin’ the bell
I think it’s ‘rona
Open the door and let ‘em in

Little Richard :::: Keep A-Knockin’.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:05:10am

re: #277 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Moreover, the sweaty spandex of twenty-two large men, piling on each other, slapping each other on the butts, … .

“Airplane! (1980) “Joey, have you ever…”

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:06:27am

re: #247 dat_said

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All the news articles I’ve found have been very careful not to explicitly state the why but a few mention a “Ramsey County judge recently rejected a request by a gun owners group for a temporary injunction to require State Fair officials to allow permit holders to carry their weapons on the fairgrounds.”

Well, all those kids get hopped up on cotton candy and soft drinks need to be controlled somehow.

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Mike Lamb  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:10:11am

re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This shit is so effing weird. Do these guys really get upset if they notice a female is doing the play by play? Do they get equally upset if a woman is doing the sideline reporting?

I watch a lot of football. It doesn’t even register if a female is part of the announcing team. Frankly, I try to ignore any of the announcers, because 99% of what they are saying is just cliched pablum that detracts from the viewing experience. Doesn’t matter the gender.

But I guess it’s just the nature of grievance culture.

(Also, too, if having to have participated in whatever activity you are commenting on is a prerequisite to providing said commentary, then Scott Adams (and Walsh and eleventy billion others) needs STFU regarding a good number of items).

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:10:22am
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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:11:30am

re: #310 Mike Lamb

See, I’m getting accustomed to this, because in e-sports, it’s not uncommon to have a female doing broadcasting. Some of them are quite a bit more talented than their male counterparts, in fact. If I heard a woman doing the play-by-play at a baseball game, I wouldn’t even bat an eyelash.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:11:38am

re: #310 Mike Lamb

This shit is so effing weird. Do these guys really get upset if they notice a female is doing the play by play? Do they get equally upset if a woman is doing the sideline reporting?

I watch a lot of football. It doesn’t even register if a female is part of the announcing team. Frankly, I try to ignore any of the announcers, because 99% of what they are saying is just cliched pablum that detracts from the viewing experience. Doesn’t matter the gender.

But I guess it’s just the nature of grievance culture.

(Also, too, if having to have participated in whatever activity you are commenting on is a prerequisite to providing said commentary, then Scott Adams (and Walsh and eleventy billion others) needs STFU regarding a good number of items).

Yes they do get their fragile fee fees hurt.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:12:36am

Back in the day, Sept. 8, 1964: First day of school for Omaha’s first Black woman principal (Omaha World-Herald)

Edmae Swain started her first day as the first Black woman principal in the Omaha Public Schools 57 years ago today.

In 1964, the Omaha Public School district was still segregated. She was appointed by then-school superintendent Harry Burke, an arch-segregationist. (There is a fight on now to rename a school recently built in North Omaha named after him.) The school she was placed in charge of was fully resegregated in 1965.

The schools were not desegregated until 1976.

In 1969, she was made principal of an all-white elementary school

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Egregious Philbin  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:12:37am

re: #256 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Nice. I am dealing with some fledgling woodpeckers that are in a palm tree behind my house. They land on the hummingbird feeder and tilt it so much that the sugar water drains out. And they are loud little peckers…

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William Lewis  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:13:35am

re: #297 JOE 🥓

When I see clips like that, the more I believe Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were right that the losers should have been treated like conquered provinces…

We should have dealt with them such that they would look at how the English treated the Highlanders and begged for that much mercy. At the minimum, Lee should have been frog marched to the nearest oak tree from the surrender to hang and his army forced to do a legionary decimation.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:15:30am

re: #316 William Lewis

We should have dealt with them such that they would look at how the English treated the Highlanders and begged for that much mercy. At the minimum, Lee should have been frog marched to the nearest oak tree from the surrender to hang and his army forced to do a legionary decimation.

I think the problem suffers from too much hindsight. General Grant and President Lincoln, thinking leniency would preserve the Union by allowing the South to retain their honor and tradition while removing the problematic parts, greatly underestimated the resolve of the racist asshats to do everything they could to stay racist asshats as long as possible.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:16:00am
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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:19:00am

re: #310 Mike Lamb

This shit is so effing weird. Do these guys really get upset if they notice a female is doing the play by play? Do they get equally upset if a woman is doing the sideline reporting?

I watch a lot of football. It doesn’t even register if a female is part of the announcing team. Frankly, I try to ignore any of the announcers, because 99% of what they are saying is just cliched pablum that detracts from the viewing experience. Doesn’t matter the gender.

But I guess it’s just the nature of grievance culture.

(Also, too, if having to have participated in whatever activity you are commenting on is a prerequisite to providing said commentary, then Scott Adams (and Walsh and eleventy billion others) needs STFU regarding a good number of items).

Like child bearing and abortion.

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wrenchwench  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:19:17am

re: #317 Dopamine Fish

I think the problem suffers from too much hindsight. General Grant and President Lincoln, thinking leniency would preserve the Union by allowing the South to retain their honor and tradition while removing the problematic parts, greatly underestimated the resolve of the racist asshats to do everything they could to stay racist asshats as long as possible.

The Northerners were so nice because they were not so different. It’s difficult to assess the problem when you’re a part of it.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:19:51am

re: #320 wrenchwench

The Northerners were so nice because they were not so different. It’s difficult to assess the problem when you’re a part of it.

We were all Americans, once. It’s been a while since then.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:20:00am

re: #293 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So weird that statues paying homage to traitors (who tried to tear the country apart and engaged in a war which killed hundreds of thousands of Americans) were put up in the first place. I can’t think of any other country where that happened. Just plain bizarre.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:20:26am

All the nursing homes were owned by the same person

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:21:07am

President Biden approves Nebraska disaster declaration for July windstorm (OWH)

That is for the storms we had on July 9 and 10.

The only county in the Panhandle approved was Box Butte (seat Alliance, next county to my north).

Winds were in excess of ninety miles per hours at the height of the storm. We had six-inch hail. FEMA estimated over $30 million in damages.

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wrenchwench  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:22:27am

re: #321 Dopamine Fish

We were all Americans, once. It’s been a while since then.

We are all siblings still. Our parents suck, as they always do.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:22:40am

re: #316 William Lewis

We should have dealt with them such that they would look at how the English treated the Highlanders and begged for that much mercy. At the minimum, Lee should have been frog marched to the nearest oak tree from the surrender to hang and his army forced to do a legionary decimation.

Andrew Johnson wanted to execute Lee for treason. Grant begged Johnson to show mercy because he feared there would be a severe backlash in the south.

Johnson should have gone ahead and executed Lee, Davis and Stephens.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:23:51am

re: #266 Dopamine Fish

Stopped reading Dilbert once I learned that he is a full blown Trumper. That was many moons ago.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:25:37am

re: #327 Patricia Kayden

Stopped reading Dilbert once I learned that he is a full blown Trumper. That was many moons ago.

He kept his politics out of it for a long time. But I guess it had to start bleeding through…out of the eyeballs, out of, you, know, whatever….

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:25:58am

re: #322 Patricia Kayden

So weird that statues paying homage to traitors (who tried to tear the country apart and engaged in a war which killed hundreds of thousands of Americans) were put up in the first place. I can’t think of any other country where that happened. Just plain bizarre.

Most of the statues were put up by the Daughters of the Confederacy in two waves: After Reconstruction ended, and during the Civil Rights Era.

The point of the statues was to intimidate African-Americans. Most were put up in places which were very public and they had to pass every day.

The same goes for naming buildings, like my son’s high school. Every day a student passing through the doors had to pass several signs honouring who fought for their enslavement. Every paper. Every school event such as a football game or cheerleaders.

It is also why conservatives are whinging so hard now about removing these things (including the Nazi Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA, which was allegedly about removing a Lee statute there).

They still want slaves and they still want to keep African-Americans in their place.

It is also why the Republican Party is whinging about it: They are today’s conservatives and they want the same thing.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:26:31am

re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“feminizing traditionally male spaces”

mean girls trying to get into your secret tree fort?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:27:28am

re: #329 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not to mention that the Confederate Battle Flag never flew over any government building, they flew the Stars and Bars.

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Teukka  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:28:01am

Well, fuck…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:28:16am

re: #318 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

This thread is helping a little

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Dave In Austin  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:32:19am
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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:32:43am

re: #332 Teukka

Well, fuck…

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All we really know is that it looks different. We don’t actually have a lot of data on how it acts under various conditions. For now, it really just means wear your mask and keep your enemies far away.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:35:16am

re: #331 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not to mention that the Confederate Battle Flag never flew over any government building, they flew the Stars and Bars.

It was used as the Confederate Naval Jack. The Naval Ensign was a white flag with the Battle Flag in the canton.

General Sherman captured a variant Naval Ensign which was white with two stars on the halyard (top blue, bottom red), with a snake wrapped around a fasces laid horizontal.

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A Mom Anon  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:37:20am

re: #322 Patricia Kayden

They went up to intimidate those uppity black people, in case they got to thinking they were more than 3/5 of a person and other such silliness. A lot of them went up after the Civil Rights Act and the desegregation of public schools. Racists being racists.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:37:51am

Bitcoinbros gonna bro…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:40:30am

re: #334 Dave In Austin

Awfully alabaster-looking crowd there.

Plus the sheriff not doing his job. No mask either.

Perhaps we’ll see him on Sorry Antivaxxer with that tightly-packed crowd he was encouraging.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:40:52am

re: #338 Sufficient unto the day…

people are good at figuring out how to protect themselves

SorryAntivaxxer begs to differ. r/HermanCainAward begs to differ.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:41:33am

re: #338 Sufficient unto the day…

Bitcoinbros gonna bro…

Found the libertarian … possibly the only group easier to scam than conservatives.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:42:32am

re: #338 Sufficient unto the day…

No, the classifications aren’t stupid, they’re annoying and may not be perfectly accurate, but they were created for a reason…check early 20th century US history

Check out 2008 for fuck’s sake…some of those “financial products” were just fluff.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:43:24am

re: #332 Teukka

Well, fuck…

Damn. I wonder how Mu fares against the other vaccines.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:45:32am

re: #268 Dangerman

mar-a-grift is an hour from here so we dont care. that’s palm beach’s problem

the hard rock we can see from our house, because of what they built and florida is mostly flat

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The Seminole Tribe of Florida is the big political brother of the two Seminole tribes in Florida. Both the Seminole and the Miccosukee tribes jumped early into gambling under federal license by the the US Department of the Interior.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:46:13am

re: #338 Sufficient unto the day…

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:47:12am

Needed some good news!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:49:53am

Her pre-checked bags were on the plane, flying home without her

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:51:34am

re: #347 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Her pre-checked bags were on the plane, flying home without her

She DOES realize she can just pick them up at baggage claim later, right? Her bags are no more likely to disappear magically into the ether than anyone else’s.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:51:54am

re: #311 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

What’s an Elizabeth Holmes?

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:53:08am

re: #349 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s an Elizabeth Holmes?

She was the CEO of the company that was claiming a whole bunch of medical tests could be done on a little bit of your blood, and it all turned out to be a scam.

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:53:32am

re: #348 Dopamine Fish

She DOES realize she can just pick them up at baggage claim later, right? Her bags are no more likely to disappear magically into the ether than anyone else’s.

She didn’t want to have to get another flight.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:55:34am

re: #350 Belafon

She was the CEO of the company that was claiming a whole bunch of medical tests could be done on a little bit of your blood, and it all turned out to be a scam.

The company was named Theranos and it raised a shit ton of VC before it went under. There’s a documentary about it on Hulu called “Out for Blood”.

Apparently Holmes herself is very much one of those eccentric Elon Musk types.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:55:37am

re: #334 Dave In Austin

Is FOX News bragging about how well they’ve been encouraging the genocide?

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:55:41am

re: #351 Belafon

She didn’t want to have to get another flight.

One word: Layover. Yeah, it sucks, but 15 minutes between flights ain’t enough if you’re traversing an airport like O’Hare, even IF everything arrives on time. My general rule is, an hour for domestic flights, 2 hours transitioning to or from an international flight. If I’m bored, oh well, I can go for a walk.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:55:49am

re: #349 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

She’s the creator of a blood test that would tell you EVERYTHING you’d need to know about your health. And it didn’t take large amounts of blood, just like…a drop, what you’d use for a cholesterol or blood sugar test.

Sounds too good to be true, right?

Yeah, it is, massive multi-bazillion dollar fraud. If she had just marketed to the rubes, nothing much would have happened to her, but instead she got banks to invest millions in her company…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:06:08am

re: #355 Sufficient unto the day…

Remember, those banks and funds which manage your stocks also invest in stuff like this.

Definitely keeps me out of large commercial banks and the stock market.

The next conservative-induced crash will have the same effect on me as the last one: nothing.

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Belafon  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:06:26am

re: #354 Dopamine Fish

One word: Layover. Yeah, it sucks, but 15 minutes between flights ain’t enough if you’re traversing an airport like O’Hare, even IF everything arrives on time. My general rule is, an hour for domestic flights, 2 hours transitioning to or from an international flight. If I’m bored, oh well, I can go for a walk.

Totally agree. But imagine this thinking: “Crap, I missed my flight. I’m out a ticket and will have to buy another, unless I get them to bring the plane back.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:07:53am

re: #350 Belafon

She was the CEO of the company that was claiming a whole bunch of medical tests could be done on a little bit of your blood, and it all turned out to be a scam.

The HBO documentary creeped me the fuck out. I still want to know how she learned not to blink, that shit just ain’t natural

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:08:17am

re: #357 Belafon

Totally agree. But imagine this thinking: “Crap, I missed my flight. I’m out a ticket and will have to buy another, unless I get them to bring the plane back.”

I’m a rule-follower by nature, as well as extremely self-deprecating. I would beat myself up about it badly, then tell myself to just take it in the shorts and get on the next available flight. But I recognize that there are many, MANY people who do not think as I do.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:09:27am
361
A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:10:50am

re: #356 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Remember, those banks and funds which manage your stocks also invest in stuff like this.

Definitely keeps me out of large commercial banks and the stock market.

The next conservative-induced crash will have the same effect on me as the last one: nothing.

A few million is a teeny tiny fraction of what is invested every day. And on this board, we have multiple active lizards reporting “doing just fine” as opposed to the one “all a scam” vote.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:11:26am

Jimmy…

Youtube Video

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Teddy's Person  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:11:37am

Another fact about Elizabeth Homes. Her father was a VP at Enron. The fraudulent apple doesn’t fall far from the fraudulent tree.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:12:48am

re: #350 Belafon

She was the CEO of the company that was claiming a whole bunch of medical tests could be done on a little bit of your blood, and it all turned out to be a scam.

And she has groupies?

Whatever. Humanity is flipping baffling.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:14:00am

Man wanted for two East Coast murders (one in New Jersey, one in DC) was just arrested yesterday a few miles east of me, near Llewellen at Lake McConaughy.

Man suspected in East Coast homicides arrested at Lake McConaughy (North Platte, Nebr. Telegraph)

STERLING, Colo. — Authorities from Colorado and Nebraska joined last week in arresting a suspect in two East Coast homicides near the northwest end of Lake McConaughy.

Luis Carranza-Andrade was arrested without incident at Lake Mac’s Marina Landing based on a tip from federal authorities, the Logan County Sheriff’s Office in Sterling said on its Facebook page.

Marina Landing, five miles east of Lewellen, is a Keith County development along Nebraska Highway 92 near the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s Omaha Beach area.

The U.S. Marshals Service in New Jersey told the department Sept. 1 that Carranza-Andrade was in the Lewellen area and wanted in connection with separate homicides in New Jersey and Washington, D.C.

Some Logan County sheriff’s deputies are assigned to the Marshals Service’s Colorado Violent Offenders Task Force, according to the Colorado department’s Facebook post.

Task force members arrested Carranza-Andrade at a residence he was working on at Marina Landing, the post said.

(more)

Keith County (two counties east) and Garden County (one county east) deputies made the arrest.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:16:21am

re: #357 Belafon

Totally agree. But imagine this thinking: “Crap, I missed my flight. I’m out a ticket and will have to buy another, unless I get them to bring the plane back.”

Except that is not how any of that works. If you miss a flight, you usually just get the next one (even on a purchased non-refundable ticket, it is highly unlikely you have to buy a new ticket) nor do you just get to board the plane if it happens to come back (especially if it was due to a bomb threat. You’d likely be able to walk home faster coz they’re gonna deplane all the folks and take the plan apart. They may attempt to get a new plane to put you on, but, that shit caused a ton of unhappiness and delays for a lot of people. Because she’s dumb and vindictive.

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sagehen  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:16:29am

re: #352 Eclectic Cyborg

The company was named Theranos and it raised a shit ton of VC before it went under. There’s a documentary about it on Hulu called “Out for Blood”.

Apparently Holmes herself is very much one of those eccentric Elon Musk types.

she had an all-star Board before it crashed and burned

Riley Bechtel, former Bechtel Group CEO
David Boies, a founder and the chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner
William Foege, former director CDC
Richard Kovacevich, former Wells Fargo CEO and chairman
Jim Mattis, later U.S. Secretary of Defense
Fabrizio Bonanni, former executive vice president of Amgen
Henry Kissinger
George Schultz
Sam Nunn
Bill Frist

In May 2018 John Carreyrou reported that American business and government leaders lost more than $600 million by privately investing in Theranos. Major investments had been made by the Walton family ($150 million), Rupert Murdoch ($121 million), Betsy DeVos ($100 million), and the Cox family (of Cox Media Group) ($100 million). The final liquidation of the company in September 2018 rendered these investments worthless.

These are not people you can scam without consequence…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:18:00am

re: #361 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

A few million is a teeny tiny fraction of what is invested every day. And on this board, we have multiple active lizards reporting “doing just fine” as opposed to the one “all a scam” vote.

The last crash took $200,000 of my wife’s retirement money (four-fifths).

It took her years to pry the remainder out of Fidelity. She lost it before she met me.

The remainder is now in a privately-owned agricultural bank here.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:18:03am

re: #362 JOE 🥓

Jimmy…

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I stand with Jimmy. 100%!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:19:57am

re: #364 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And she has groupies?

Whatever. Humanity is flipping baffling.

It’s a ‘Steve Jobs’ Elon Musk’ thing. And the whole industry ‘disruptor’ culture

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:24:08am

Elizabeth Holmes exposed: the $9 billion medical ‘miracle’ that never existed | 60 Minutes Australia

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plansbandc  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:25:02am

re: #310 Mike Lamb

As a veteran of many sports talk communities and sports message boards, I can tell you yes. Men hate women announcers. And women sports talk shows (There’s only one national sports talk show host that’s a woman.) They hate the women sideline reporters, unless they’re good looking and then they say all sorts of trash around that. Any woman who dares step on football turf as anything other than a cheerleader is treated like ass.

I will say this too. Men hate men announcers, reporters, talk show hosts, etc. also. But they hate the men because they know they could do a better job. Really. Every guy that posts thinks they could do a better job than any media guy.

Sports “culture” is trash. The only good news is that some of the national sports talk guys aren’t nearly as sexist as they used to be. Some. But none of them cover women’s sports and there is zero respect for women’s sports period.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:26:47am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:27:20am

My state senator, wanting to disenfranchise people in the area where the population grew (the cities).

That would be done by splitting Douglas County’s rural area (seat Omaha) off, so it can be added as an “urban” district. The law limits Nebraska to the smallest legislature in the nation (forty-nine senators in the Unicameral), so growth in the cities means making smaller city districts and periodically combining rural districts.

They would also split part of NE-2 (Omaha) and add it to NE-1 (Lincoln), diluting the liberal district here.

The argument for that bit of fuquery is “I don’t know why Omaha wouldn’t want to be represented by two House members.” (Seriously)

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plansbandc  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:29:31am

re: #358 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I listened to a very intensive podcast about her. She, allegedly, based her professional persona on Steve Jobs.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:32:53am

re: #335 Belafon

All we really know is that it looks different. We don’t actually have a lot of data on how it acts under various conditions. For now, it really just means wear your mask and keep your enemies far away.

Doesn’t Beta look like it also has issues? Is it that Beta was not as contagious so that it wasn’t as problematic that vaccines/treatments were less effective?

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mmmirele  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:32:55am

re: #375 plansbandc

I listened to a very intensive podcast about her. She, allegedly, she based her professional persona on Steve Jobs.

She also practiced keeping her voice at a lower octave when she was speaking.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:35:09am

What is Tablet magazine? Has anyone heard of it?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:37:26am

re: #378 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What is Tablet magazine? Has anyone heard of it?

Tablet is an American Jewish online magazine created in 2009 by renaming Nextbook, the online magazine (launched in 2003) of the non-profit organization Nextbook.

en.wikipedia.org

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:39:33am

You can gerrymander a three-district state.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:43:04am

re: #372 plansbandc

My theory is that sports talk exists in order to make political talk sound somewhat intelligent in comparison.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 8, 2021 • 10:45:11am

re: #380 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You can gerrymander a three-district state.

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The only state you cannot gerrymander is one with a single district.

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darthstar  Sep 8, 2021 • 9:33:45pm

re: #347 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Her pre-checked bags were on the plane, flying home without her

Welcome to the no-fly list, lady.


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