The Bob Cesca Interview: Michael Hiltzik vs Bill Maher

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

Michael Hiltzik vs Bill Maher — Michael is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of a new op/ed in the Los Angeles Times titled “These pundits and pols say they’re ‘done with COVID.’ But COVID’s not done with us.” He’s also the author of seven books including his latest, out now: “Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America.” You can follow his work on Twitter here. Today we talked about the Pretend-COVID-Is-Over take, marketed by Bill Maher, Bari Weiss, and others and why it’s so counterfactual and delusional. Meantime, if you like what you hear today, think about signing up for our bonus content at bobcescashow.com. Music by Luna Blu.

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Captain Magic  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:30:38pm

I hate the term ‘counterfactual’ - it’s just a dodge to deny reality.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:32:17pm
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:34:23pm

Sheesh. I leave for an hour, and now we’re talking about soup Nazis. This is the problem when a major political party is 1) completely bugfuck nuts, and 2) driven by the power of social media and trying to get TikToks and sound bites.

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Captain Magic  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:34:36pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:34:51pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

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IOW, rich people got scared that they’d have to share their neighborhood with poor folks and threatened to pull their money out of the community unless it agreed to keep the poors out.

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BlueSpotinAL  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:35:34pm
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dat_said  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:38:03pm

re: #113 Dangerman

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LGF erupts into a mad brawl arguing which is more authentic:
- vichyssoise or potage Parmentier

total chaos ensued when pineapple was suggested

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:39:02pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:39:15pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:39:39pm

Folks arguing about soups, meanwhile I’m over here, getting ready to dine on a breakfast casserole.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:40:15pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:40:28pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Be on the ready with a cast iron skillet.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:41:16pm

re: #10 Targetpractice

Folks arguing about soups, meanwhile I’m over here, getting ready to dine on a breakfast casserole.

I had breakfast for lunch as well. Scrambled some eggs and ham with cheese and had that on tortillas with some shaved truffle.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:42:50pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

I wonder if Biden will be serving Big Macs?

/

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No Malarkey!  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:42:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:44:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:47:14pm

“Clearance Rack Sarah Palin”…LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:50:33pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Clearance Rack Sarah Palin”…LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

“But we’ve already got Sarah Palin at home”

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:51:16pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Clearance Rack Sarah Palin”…LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

FFS, where does this brain dead bint think the Bill of Rights came from? It’s not in the original text of the damned Constitution, which she’d know if she ever actually read the damned thing.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:51:37pm

Wordle 235 5/6

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Would have had it in four if I didn’t make a brain fart on my third guess.

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mmmirele  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:51:57pm

I dunno about soup, except clear soup, which has been part of my diet since Saturday. But let me share with you the landlady, who consented to being held earlier today.

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gocart mozart  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:54:26pm
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bratwurst  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:55:27pm

My amusement over the dumbest person in America confusing Gestapo and gazpacho is tempered by the reality that a year from right now she is going to be on important committees in Congress.

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:56:02pm

From the bit of Faux I got exposed to today, the new talking point is “WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG ABOUT COVID! END THE MANDATES! WE WANNA GO BACK TO NORMAL!!!”

This included totally ignoring that the Surgeon General mentioned nothing at all about masks when testifying about the psychological challenges children have faced due to the pandemic to declare that the driving force behind those challenges is mask mandates in schools.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:56:58pm

Kaepernick hasn’t played football for over four years.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:58:08pm

My father hates cats, and always said that he thinks they’re sneaky.

I never saw it before, but Mork is a sneaky cat. He walks low to the ground if he thinks he’s being watched, and will freeze to try to not be seen.

He’s also a snuggly cat that will jump into my lap and demand attention, and scratch on me in the night to get some petting.

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dat_said  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:58:56pm
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darthstar  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:59:27pm

re: #25 darthstar

Kaepernick hasn’t played football for over four years.

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President Obama was in the White House last time Kaepernick played in a game.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 2:59:53pm

Twitter scolds already warning people not to fall into MTG’s cunning troll plan to win by inviting all these soup jokes.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:00:30pm
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:00:31pm

re: #27 dat_said

Ironically, that would probably improve the quality of the people doing the serving, as - spoilers - anyone who WANTS to do the job, probably SHOULDN’T.

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:00:37pm

re: #27 dat_said

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GQP: “HOW CAN NANCY PELOSI BE WORTH SO MUCH WHEN SHE SERVES IN CONGRESS?! THIS JUST SHOWS SHE’S ONE OF THE ELITE WHO’S LOST TOUCH WITH THE COMMON WORKING CLASS PEOPLE!!”

Also GQP: “WHY WOULD WE WANT TO BE IN CONGRESS IF WE CAN’T MAKE MONEY FROM IT?!”

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:00:48pm

re: #25 darthstar

Kaepernick hasn’t played football for over four years.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:01:23pm

“She’s famous for saying dumb things.”
“But she made herself famous!!!”

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bratwurst  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:02:42pm

re: #25 darthstar

Kaepernick hasn’t played football for over four years.

Last game was January 1, 2017…so more than FIVE YEARS now and they are still this angry.

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:03:05pm

re: #25 darthstar

Kaepernick hasn’t played football for over four years.

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Citing Kaepernick as an excuse to shut down the Superb Owl.

What fucking year is it?

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Mattand  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:04:39pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Clearance Rack Sarah Palin”…LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

That was literally my reaction as well.

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Captain Magic  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:04:56pm

re: #36 Targetpractice

What fucking year is it?

2525

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:06:56pm
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Mattand  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:07:41pm

re: #25 darthstar

Kaepernick hasn’t played football for over four years.

Also worth noting that when Aaron Rodgers literally endangered family and teammates by fucking lying about his vax status, the overall White person reaction was “Well, that was unfortunate, but cut the guy some slack! Dude had a rough week; he endangered family and teammates by fucking lying about his vax status!”

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:07:55pm

Maybe the truckers would be protesting the lack of Black coaches in the NFL! ///////////////

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:08:23pm

re: #38 Captain Magic

What fucking year is it?

2525

If man is still alive?

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The Squire of Logos  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:10:30pm

re: #42 Targetpractice

If man is still alive?

Yes, but if woman can survive they may find…

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Captain Magic  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:11:11pm

re: #42 Targetpractice

If man is still alive?

If woman can survive they may find….

Youtube Video

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:12:56pm

Youtube Video

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nines09  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:20:50pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:23:08pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:24:04pm

re: #27 dat_said

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:27:08pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:29:09pm
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No Malarkey!  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:29:54pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:32:21pm

lindsey’s spine is still AWOL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:33:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:35:21pm

Texas:

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:38:00pm

Where’s my Gazpacho Police flag and shirt?

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:39:25pm

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:40:15pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Personally, what I love is the portrayal of a person having to work three jobs to support kids without health insurance as anything other than a total failure of this country. As if there’s some nobility in working yourself to death just to survive.

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Captain Ron  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:41:42pm

re: #56 Patricia Kayden

They left out the Infrastructure bill.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:42:49pm

happening for another 4 days:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:43:42pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:44:19pm
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Captain Magic  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:44:24pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

My dear friend works out of Fermilab.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:44:38pm
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BeachDem  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:46:08pm

re: #57 Targetpractice

Personally, what I love is the portrayal of a person having to work three jobs to support kids without health insurance as anything other than a total failure of this country. As if there’s some nobility in working yourself to death just to survive.

“You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn’t it? I mean, that is fantastic that you’re doing that.”

To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005”

― George W. Bush

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:46:16pm

re: #62 Captain Magic

My dear friend works out of Fermilab.

My deer friend runs around on top of it.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:49:19pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

I love Martha Quinn, but MTV has always sucked.

Youtube Video

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:49:24pm

re: #55 GlutenFreeJesus

Where’s my Gazpacho Police flag and shirt?

Really any white shirt with a tomato stain.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:49:50pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

Because there are no working class people in blue states, right? Taibbi is centering White people in his discussion of the working class. It’s like how the media is obsessed with Trump supporters as the “real Americans”.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:50:46pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

$10 says Matt Taibbi has never in his life had 3 jobs at the same time.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:51:49pm

re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg

$10 says Matt Taibbi has never in his life had 3 jobs at the same time.

Three under-aged Russian women, maybe.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:52:16pm

re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg

He hasn’t. His parents are wealthy and “elite”.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:52:47pm

Rolling Stone has a really nice picture heading their Betty Davis obit.

rollingstone.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:55:21pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 3:56:40pm

When I was a kid back in the 90s, all my uncles worked for either one of the major factories in SE KY or were in business for themselves (ex: one of them owned a tree-trimming business). They made good money, had benefits that took care of their families, and even had money to buy stuff that my folks (career Navy) were reluctant to splurge on.

In the decades since, every one of them has ended up basically crippling themselves working whatever jobs they could find once those factories shut down. One ended up nearly dead from a widow-maker heart attack from all the stress he was under doing home renovations, another had to retire early due to his own heart-related issues, another is practically in a wheelchair before 60, and the last developed MS which is slowly making it impossible for him to work.

All just to make enough to survive in a small KY town in which hi-speed internet is a new-fangled innovation.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:02:20pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:04:01pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

She is both dangerous and not very bright.

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sagehen  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:04:42pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Screenwriter’s Union minimum is about 5 times that much.

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sagehen  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:05:51pm

re: #58 Dread Pirate Ron

They left out the Infrastructure bill.

Because more than a dozen voted for it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:13:51pm
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:31:44pm
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:37:24pm

Some of the winter olympics is on the USA channel. My wife gets annoyed with me when I speak into the remote’s voice function: “U!S!A!” like a cheer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:41:21pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:42:39pm

jfc

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:47:41pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cooks Illustrated version (if it does not load sign up for the 14 day free trial):
cooksillustrated.com

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:50:37pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Said in a Ricardo Montalbán voice: “It is very cold… in the space between her ears.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:51:32pm

So I see y’all talking about cold soup.

I for one don’t like cold soup.

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… oh….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:52:32pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:53:00pm

6% RH.

No wonder my sinuses hurt. Hate days like today.

We need rain and soon. Another dry year will be a disaster.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:54:44pm

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:55:51pm
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Captain Ron  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:57:32pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:58:46pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 9, 2022 • 4:58:48pm

re: #91 Dread Pirate Ron

I see some folks have resorted to soup puns.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:06:07pm

re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth

God dammit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:11:23pm
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HRH Stanley Sea  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:17:59pm

ARRRRRRRRGH

I cleared my phone cache today. This was amazingly important to me lol.
(I had 2@2, 2@6, 3@5 & no losses. I remember!!

I need to simmer down now.

Can you get back your Wordle streak?

This depends but in most cases getting back your Wordle streak simply isn’t possible. The local file once deleted, is permanently deleted from your system. The file won’t show up in the recycle bin and most recovery software will identify it as deleted cache and fail to recover it.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:25:24pm

re: #31 Dopamine Fish

Ironically, that would probably improve the quality of the people doing the serving, as - spoilers - anyone who WANTS to do the job, probably SHOULDN’T.

Cut out the people who just see it as a get rich quick scam.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:25:36pm
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retired cynic  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:25:40pm

NY Times loves hyping GOP, ignoring Dems
Gaslighting
Eric Boehlert pressrun.media

More dadgummed examples!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:26:40pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:28:22pm
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Dave In Austin  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:29:10pm

Training Day

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steve_davis  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:35:52pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

I believe the going rate for a first script was 17500, and that was at least 20 years ago, when I was thinking about joining the screenwriter’s guild.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:39:37pm

Youtube Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:47:15pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:48:53pm
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 9, 2022 • 5:59:45pm

re: #36 Targetpractice

Citing Kaepernick as an excuse to shut down the Superb Owl.

What fucking year is it?

They think Hugo Chavez is still alive, and not in some Q-Anon JFK Jr way. They are just stuck in the Obama Administration.

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Jay C  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:00:37pm

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

If nothing else, the Senate Dem Caucus seems to have the better fund of jokes….

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:07:27pm

re: #36 Targetpractice

Citing Kaepernick as an excuse to shut down the Superb Owl.

What fucking year is it?

Also on that note… I’d like to see Magats try to disrupt the Superb Owl. That will really win friends and influence people.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:12:47pm

re: #108 Jay C

If nothing else, the Senate Dem Caucus seems to have the better fund of jokes….

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wrenchwench  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:14:35pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

happening for another 4 days:

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Click to Reveal

I had a tour in the 90s. My brother retired from there last year.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:14:56pm
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:17:03pm

re: #112 Charles Johnson

And this is why we shouldn’t let crazy people vote. Because they elect crazy people who think crazy thoughts out loud.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:20:00pm

re: #112 Charles Johnson

The only thing I can get out of that, is Margorie Trailer Green is still dumb as a box of hair, and apparently she and or Biggs are racist against Italian construction workers or some shit?

Like Mario and Luigi?

Go back to “Biden crack pipes” guys, you aren’t doing yourself any favors here.

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A Cranky One  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:21:58pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:23:36pm

re: #112 Charles Johnson

Is this all tied to what happened in December 2020 when Troy Nehls was apparently participating in the plot to overturn the election? And his office was left open with no one present?

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:23:42pm

This is what I have been doing all day:

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:24:03pm

Tomorrow is Chicken Soup Day.

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Captain Ron  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:29:57pm

Net-zero means 40%?

NewClimate Institute concluded that even though many companies have pledged to reach net-zero emissions, the 25 companies they studied have collectively committed to reduce emissions by about 40 per cent — not the 100 per cent that people might be led to believe from the companies’ net-zero or carbon-neutral pledges.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:40:28pm

This is half of the couple that got caught laundering stolen bitcoin.

Youtube Video

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BlueSpotinAL  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:44:35pm

I made a dual boot Linux Mint system, which resets my Windows 10 clock to Greenwich Mean Time. So I did tomorrow’s wordle.

Wordle 236 3/6
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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:47:55pm
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:48:59pm

re: #122 jaunte

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There *should* be wall to wall coverage. I’m sure the media will be like “oh yeah that, whatever it’s not the Email-Lady”.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:50:04pm

re: #123 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

I wonder what Jared sold to the Saudis and UAE?

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:51:01pm

re: #121 BlueSpotinAL

I made a dual boot Linux Mint system, which resets my Windows 10 clock to Greenwich Mean Time. So I did tomorrow’s wordle.

You can fix that, you know. You can set your Linux box up to assume that the hardware clock is being run by Windows.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:52:28pm

re: #122 jaunte

Wall to wall? Hah!! This is being handled like every other Trump scandal. By the time an outlet reports on it, it will be overtaken by a different scandal. So no time to focus on any individual crime because they are overwhelmed by the Gish Gallop of illegal behavior.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 6:54:29pm
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BlueSpotinAL  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:00:14pm

re: #125 Dopamine Fish

You can fix that, you know. You can set your Linux box up to assume that the hardware clock is being run by Windows.

I thought I had fixed that, to go to local time. It seems the problem persists, and I preferred to travel into the future to do wordle than fix it right away. Priorities!

Did I mention that Windows is a fetid pile of garbage? Microsoft Teams is an abomination? Turbotax won’t run native on Linux, which is why I rebooted to Win-doze. Alas, the AL state forms are still not available.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:03:51pm

My last week at work.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:18:11pm

re: #120 Punish Domestic Terrorists

This is half of the couple that got caught laundering stolen bitcoin.

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This was a diversion.

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Dangerman  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:18:54pm

re: #127 jaunte

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Petraeus

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:19:37pm

re: #122 jaunte

“On this wall, you have high gas prices, and on this wall you have crack pipes.”

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:21:42pm

re: #125 Dopamine Fish

You can fix that, you know. You can set your Linux box up to assume that the hardware clock is being run by Windows.

Thank you, I was wondering how to fix that. This is obviously Windows’ fault.

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BeachDem  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:27:05pm

Talk about your basic overreaction.

Black man runs a stop sign at 1:30 in the morning in east bumfuck. Cop pursues in high speed chase across county line. Unarmed guy drives car into ditch, gets out of car, cop shoots him dead.

Cop arrested on voluntary manslaughter. Worked for a police department that was just created in July, 2021.

myrtlebeachonline.com

Oh, cop is a Black woman. Wonder if the wheels of justice would have turned as fast for a white male cop. Hmmmm.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:28:11pm
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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:29:10pm

Bitten by scorpion while embalming brother AND brewing beer.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:32:08pm

A great many French sailors served as infantry during the Great War. Like the other great powers, France had built a huge battle fleet in the early 1900s, requiring tens of thousands of men to operate. It had not invested so heavily as Britain or Germany, and its ships were not to the same technical standard though. With the coming of war, most of the battleships were basically surplus to requirements and other work was found for their crews.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:32:54pm
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mmmirele  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:34:25pm

re: #128 BlueSpotinAL

I thought I had fixed that, to go to local time. It seems the problem persists, and I preferred to travel into the future to do wordle than fix it right away. Priorities!

Did I mention that Windows is a fetid pile of garbage? Microsoft Teams is an abomination? Turbotax won’t run native on Linux, which is why I rebooted to Win-doze. Alas, the AL state forms are still not available.

I want to underline and star the hell out of that. Microsoft Teams is a fucking abomination, worse than Skype for Business in some key ways. They got rid of the ego filter. THEY GOT RID OF THE EGO FILTER. Which means that either I keep all the little “bong bong bong” notifications on all the time so I’ll remember I’m working, or turn them off and take the risk I’m going to miss a notification. With the ego filter, I could go off and get into something that took a bit of time to do or required more concentration, and I wouldn’t be disturbed until someone actually mentioned me. Now I’m on fucking hyper alert and for someone like me, already dealing with anxiety, it’s bullshit.

I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall at the discussion where MSFT developers discussed removing the ego filter, because I would have done a kamikaze flight into that person’s nostrils, in hopes of killing them. Because Teams without an ego filter is a fucking abomination, very bad for mental health, a constant fucking bong bong bong. I absofuckinglutely do not understand why this happened. There are other bad things about Teams, but this is completely the fucking worst.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:37:13pm
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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:50:03pm

re: #138 jaunte

This fucking tool…

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sagehen  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:51:54pm

re: #134 BeachDem

Oh, cop is a Black woman. Wonder if the wheels of justice would have turned as fast for a white male cop. Hmmmm.

Except you don’t really wonder, do you? ‘Cuz this is Murika.

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garzooma  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:54:51pm

re: #138 jaunte

Folks are ready to give up almost all COVID precautions even as the number of daily deaths is basically at its worst. 2500-3000 every day.

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Senator Whitehouse of RI had a town hall yesterday. He spoke for an hour, answering questions that had been submitted by constituents. They didn’t pick any questions about Covid.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:56:37pm
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Belafon  Feb 9, 2022 • 7:57:00pm
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BlueSpotinAL  Feb 9, 2022 • 8:05:10pm

re: #133 Belafon

Thank you, I was wondering how to fix that. This is obviously Windows’ fault.

and now an hour later the clock corrected itself to local time on Windows, without me doing a damned thing.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 8:08:17pm
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IngisKahn  Feb 9, 2022 • 8:11:11pm

re: #145 Belafon

White Zombie - More Human Than Human maybe?

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Citizen K  Feb 9, 2022 • 8:19:41pm

Just an intensely broken institution, refusing to recognize any sort of self-awareness.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 8:22:56pm
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sizzzzlerz  Feb 9, 2022 • 8:49:02pm

Nobody expects the Spanish liquid dishes!

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 9:18:21pm

re: #138 jaunte

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But it was the case a year ago. Vaccines were starting to become available to the under-65 crowd, the number of new cases was starting to decline from the January peaks, and businesses were “signaling optimism” that they could possibly start rolling back restrictions and mandates by the spring. We were basically told that with the vaccines, we’d be back to “normal” by the summer and the pandemic basically “over” in time for kids to go back to school in the fall.

What changed that? Delta making its way to our shores and eating through the unvaccinated like Skittles. So that we’re now here, over a year later, only the unvaccinated have managed to convince enough of the people they pissed off that the mandates don’t work and we need to just accept thousands of deaths daily as the price of “normal.”

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sagehen  Feb 9, 2022 • 9:20:23pm

I hate Nathan Chen’s costume. He looks like an Enterprise redshirt.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 9, 2022 • 9:22:29pm

And you think it couldn’t get any worse.

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sagehen  Feb 9, 2022 • 9:29:06pm

re: #153 sagehen

I hate Nathan Chen’s costume. He looks like an Enterprise redshirt.

good thing he skated a near-perfect program. Won by a lot.

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wrenchwench  Feb 9, 2022 • 9:31:03pm

re: #154 Dave In Austin

And you think it couldn’t get any worse.

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I was present when that happened to a guy I knew, but his was a single-species event.This guy was ganged up on.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2022 • 9:34:11pm

re: #154 Dave In Austin

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 9, 2022 • 9:47:51pm

re: #157 jaunte

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”

“By the pricking of my bum…”
///

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2022 • 9:51:45pm

re: #149 Citizen K

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Just an intensely broken institution, refusing to recognize any sort of self-awareness.

This is the paper that fired its public editor after that election, insisting that they didn’t need the position anymore because they’d just listen to their Twitter critics…and then proceeded to have their writers scream that people on Twitter are biased and should be ignored for not liking what the paper is publishing.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2022 • 10:35:44pm

Cells

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weststpaulbear  Feb 9, 2022 • 10:42:31pm

re: #109 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Also on that note… I’d like to see Magats try to disrupt the Superb Owl. That will really win friends and influence people.

Their sitting trucks will be sitting ducks.

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Mattand  Feb 9, 2022 • 10:55:47pm

re: #145 Belafon

Christ, the Peanuts theme is raunchier than I remembered.

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 9, 2022 • 11:39:52pm
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sagehen  Feb 9, 2022 • 11:45:36pm

re: #7 dat_said

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isn’t Cilantro the one that half of everybody thinks it tastes like soap and they spit it out?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 1:27:51am

re: #51 No Malarkey!

They have gone beyond defanging the term “fascism”, they have equated Antifa with Antiamerika

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 1:32:22am

re: #91 Dread Pirate Ron

But are the Gazpacho Police members of the United BROTH-erhood of Police?

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 10, 2022 • 1:43:46am

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Targetpractice  Feb 10, 2022 • 2:09:32am

re: #167 Patricia Kayden

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“Mom, this is embarrassing!”

“But honey, you look so cute together!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 2:40:06am

re: #164 sagehen

isn’t Cilantro the one that half of everybody thinks it tastes like soap and they spit it out?

it’s a genetic thing, had a GF who had a similar reaction to parsley.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2022 • 2:45:32am

re: #123 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

There *should* be wall to wall coverage. I’m sure the media will be like “oh yeah that, whatever it’s not the Email-Lady”.

At this point, the press figures that trump already gave away all our national secrets to, well all our adversaries, so what’s the point to make a big deal of this now?

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 10, 2022 • 2:51:39am

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

it’s a genetic thing, had a GF who had a similar reaction to parsley.

There are 3 genes responsible for it, and it is more common in people of east Asian and European descent apparently. South/West Asian, and Native American/Latino seem to have the lowest percentage with these genes. I didn’t see any info of people of African descent.

I only know for sure of one person that thinks it tastes like soap and he is half Pacific Islander, half eastern European descent.

Thankfully I’m not one of these people. I love cilantro.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2022 • 3:05:09am

re: #171 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

There are 3 genes responsible for it, and it is more common in people of east Asian and European descent apparently. South/West Asian, and Native American/Latino seem to have the lowest percentage with these genes. I didn’t see any info of people of African descent.

I only know for sure of one person that thinks it tastes like soap and he is half Pacific Islander, half eastern European descent.

Thankfully I’m not one of these people. I love cilantro.

I know two people, my husband and my now deceased best friend from the 5th grade on.

I like it myself, but I can’t use it. If I put some cilantro in something and cook it, he doesn’t mind that (more like he’ll not complain about it), but he won’t tolerate it raw ever. I just don’t bother because why torture him?

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 3:10:31am

re: #170 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

At this point, the press figures that trump already gave away all our national secrets to, well all our adversaries, so what’s the point to make a big deal of this now?

Half the time its
No harm done so why bother
The rest is
Horse left the barn so why bother

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 3:19:51am

More on this

Greene apparently confused cold Spanish soup with the Gestapo, the Nazi-era secret police in Germany.

-What the pho?
-Who could ceviche that coming?
-Next thing you know, the Democrats will be promoting Sangria law
-MGT better watch herself or Pelosi will call in an airstrike by the Luftwaffle.
—-She’d blame it on Anti-pho
-Lettuce just say, she shouldn’t be casting asparagus

And now apparently The Onion has closed it’s doors. They’ve been in the soup for some time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 3:20:55am

re: #171 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

There are 3 genes responsible for it, and it is more common in people of east Asian and European descent apparently. South/West Asian, and Native American/Latino seem to have the lowest percentage with these genes. I didn’t see any info of people of African descent.

I only know for sure of one person that thinks it tastes like soap and he is half Pacific Islander, half eastern European descent.

Thankfully I’m not one of these people. I love cilantro.

Yes, it is hard to find around where I live, I have to go to the Turkish supermarket most of the time.

Tried growing it last summer but I am simply not a gardener at heart. I can keep (most of ) my houseplants from dying but that is my limit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 3:23:15am

re: #174 Dangerman

And now apparently The Onion has closed it’s doors. They’ve been in the soup for some time.

How can the onion continue to do anything but note that America has become a bad parody of itself?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 3:23:53am

re: #174 Dangerman

More on this

-What the pho?
-Who could ceviche that coming?
-Next thing you know, the Democrats will be promoting Sangria law
-MGT better watch herself or Pelosi will call in an airstrike by the Luftwaffle.
—-She’d blame it on Anti-pho
-Lettuce just say, she shouldn’t be casting asparagus

I’m not in the menudo for any more of this

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 3:30:24am

..as posters are starting to change their account names and avatars…

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 3:34:28am

re: #170 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

At this point, the press figures that trump already gave away all our national secrets to, well all our adversaries, so what’s the point to make a big deal of this now?

The worst thing is no one is surprised.
At all.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 3:50:06am

re: #179 Dangerman

The worst thing is no one is surprised.
At all.

Only thing that would surprise me at this point would be for DT to face consequences for his actions…

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:15:33am

Been in a 4 guess rut for a while

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Teukka  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:31:14am

re: #120 Punish Domestic Terrorists

This is half of the couple that got caught laundering stolen bitcoin.

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And bitcoins, Etherum and NFT’s have serious issues on their own… 2:18:23, but well worth the watch…

Youtube Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:32:36am

People no longer trusted government-backed currencies so they put their faith in a faceless entity with no government regulation at all.

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Teukka  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:35:02am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People no longer trusted government-backed currencies so they put their faith in a faceless entity with no government regulation at all.

Yep. Belief in the magical self-regulation fairy.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:41:51am
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Captain Magic  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:43:35am

re: #185 Dave In Austin

Flying cats are tres kewl.

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lawhawk  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:51:07am

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

Basically, they’re vacuuming up a bunch of ideas from diverse writers, and wont give them credit and hold up their ideas much the way that National Enquirer could spike stories that it paid for and never uses.

It’s a scam, and a bad one at that. No writer should consider submitting to them with those terms unless you as the writer have no intention of using that idea elsewhere - a throwaway concept that you may never think to profit from.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:54:28am
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Florida Panhandler  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:54:42am

re: #149 Citizen K

Just an intensely broken institution, refusing to recognize any sort of self-awareness.

If you are suggesting the the NYT is a “broken institution” it is not. It is functioning exactly as it intends to under the upcoming fascist right wing theocracy. It is an institution built to survive and make as much money as possible for its owners. A right wing NYT will be a valuable asset to the upcoming Republican Party-led hybrid authoritarian state.

The NYT has been busy adjusting to the new reality for years now, its leadership well aware of the Democratic Party base that refuses to actually come out to vote except in extraordinary circumstances, and a minority right wing voter base that will drag itself over broken glass and barbed wire in order to get to the polls.

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lawhawk  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:54:44am

re: #174 Dangerman

I believe stonekettle got this just right…

Pelosi’s revenge is a dish best served cold.

These GOP lunatics are know nothing hacks, pander to like minded know nothing hacks, and are saboteurs, insurrectionists, or adjacent to them and cover for them. And the GOP leaders are a bunch of cravens who refuse to support the Constitution and instead put party over nation every fucking time.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:57:55am
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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:58:50am
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:58:51am

re: #188 Belafon

We will never be back to 2019. NEVER. Even if we had handled the response to the pandemic perfectly and the world was almost completely inoculated against COVID, things would still be different. That was a pipe dream from the moment it came out that COVID was extremely infectious and mutated quickly. The virus will always be with us; now, it’s a question of minimizing the risk and doing the common-sense things to prevent another mutation from coming out and killing us all.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:02:08am
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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:04:35am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:04:58am

ELSEMORN = some other kind of morning…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:07:36am
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b.d  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:07:45am

re: #170 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

At this point, the press figures that trump already gave away all our national secrets to, well all our adversaries, so what’s the point to make a big deal of this now?

Good morning Lizards:

From the New York Times article this morning, their political reporting is terrible:

If Mr. Trump was found to have taken materials with him that were still classified at the time he left the White House, prosecuting him would be extremely difficult and it would pit the Justice Department against Mr. Trump at a time when Attorney General Merrick B. Garland is trying to depoliticize the department.

The department and the F.B.I. also still have significant scars from its investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton mishandled classified information, as the bureau was accused of unfairly tarnishing her and interfering in the 2016 election.

nytimes.com

Not only is the story halfway down the page, it concludes that since everyone was mean to Hillary that they shouldn’t try to enforce the law on Donald at all?

Beyond frustrating

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:10:33am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

ELSEMORN = some other kind of morning…

ELSEMIND.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:12:30am
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steve_davis  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:21:31am

re: #145 Belafon

Nutcracker suite. Second crack of the nuts.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:29:51am

re: #184 Teukka

Yep. Belief in the magical self-regulation fairy.

Hoping for a reach-around from the Invisible Hand…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:32:39am

re: #187 lawhawk

Basically, they’re vacuuming up a bunch of ideas from diverse writers, and wont give them credit and hold up their ideas much the way that National Enquirer could spike stories that it paid for and never uses.

It’s a scam, and a bad one at that. No writer should consider submitting to them with those terms unless you as the writer have no intention of using that idea elsewhere - a throwaway concept that you may never think to profit from.

I read about a publishing house that pulled a scam like that to get a free translation of a novel: they sent each chapter as a “test chapter” to a number of translators with the promise that if their work was satisfactory, they would get the whole work at a favorable rate, and then just compiled everything that the unwitting translators sent in…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:35:59am

my guess:

VXFpbGw1eFpCblh1NVFYaU1ralVtZz09Ojqmz03Y1gbF82hnzhQ2k4ao

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jeffreyw  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:52:58am

Good morning!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:57:28am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:09:03am

re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth

was she a redhead with a whip?

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:16:23am

Of course Trump stole classified information when he left office. Do you have any idea how much that stuff is worth to an oligarch who carries the paper on someone’s property?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:17:58am

re: #205 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Dave In Austin  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:19:53am
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Eventual Carrion  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:23:26am

re: #208 darthstar

Of course Trump stole classified information when he left office. Do you have any idea how much that stuff is worth to an oligarch who carries the paper on someone’s property?

It should be worth 20 years to life

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:29:48am

It would be a mistake not to hang this asshole as a lesson to other would-be crime Presidents.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:35:56am

re: #212 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It would be a mistake not to hang this asshole as a lesson to other would-be crime Presidents.

Force him to unclog the toilets by hand.

BUT HER E-MAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:39:20am

re: #211 Eventual Carrion

It should be worth 20 years to life

a fantasy of mine
tfg did so much illegal stuff
both before he was president and while presidenting.
a lot of the ‘while president’ crimes were official, office or government related.
i assume he committed generic crimes while president too - say through the trump org.
then there’s the civil stuff

so ‘they’ are analyzing and amassing all this stuff that he did, from all quarters.

it’s a gish gallop of criming.

there is no way to prosecute all of it
there’s no way to single just one thing out as somehow representative of it all

so ‘they’ use this huge ball of evil and go for the 14th amendment, the destroying documents reg, etc to make the case ‘that’s why he can never be president again’

sh-boom

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:41:03am

remember this?

Trump claims Americans have to flush the toilet ‘10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once’

Now we know why

While President Trump was in office, staff in the White House residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper, Maggie Haberman scoops in her forthcoming book, “Confidence Man.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:41:06am

re: #214 Dangerman

They need to ban him from public office, after that I really don’t care about the rest. Would be good to see him lose his freedom and fortune but most important is that he should not see the inside of the White House ever again.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:41:48am

re: #212 Punish Domestic Terrorists

gmta - i was busy typing my fantasy treatise…

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:42:26am

Well fuck a duck…that was close.
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:43:16am

ain’t diplomacy great?

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:43:50am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They need to ban him from public office, after that I really don’t care about the rest. Would be good to see him lose his freedom and fortune but most important is that he should not see the inside of the White House ever again.

first president to be disqualified from holding office

it’s kind of what i was fantasizing about

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HRH Stanley Sea  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:44:57am

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:45:00am

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

lindsey’s spine is still AWOL

The GOP is really really interested in “Can’t we just move along here?” aren’t they.

The party of dragging out Benghazi for months. The party still trotting out the chestnut that the Democrats were behind Jim Crow and institutional racism in the South. Etc. Etc.

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Captain Magic  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:48:45am
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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:50:25am

re: #222 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The GOP is really really interested in “Can’t we just move along here?” aren’t they.

The party of dragging out Benghazi for months. The party still trotting out the chestnut that the Democrats were behind Jim Crow and institutional racism in the South. Etc. Etc.

The logic is inescapable.
Drag it out when the spotlight is on dems.
Minimize it when it’ll make Rs look bad.

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lawhawk  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:50:48am

re: #215 Dangerman

remember this?

Trump claims Americans have to flush the toilet ‘10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once’

Now we know why

He was destroying evidence, and Maggie decided to withhold that specific detail for a book, rather than directly in the NYT on A1 as part of destroying evidence and documents that are meant to be preserved under the PRA. That’s felony conduct.

He was destroying government property. And Maggie decided that wasn’t important enough at the time she learned of it to report it.

But her emails….

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:52:32am

re: #154 Dave In Austin

And you think it couldn’t get any worse.

Victory is ours! We rule the desert.
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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:52:43am
Said Trump: “The papers were given easily and without conflict and on a very friendly basis, which is different from the accounts being drawn up by the Fake News Media. In fact, it was viewed as routine and ‘no big deal.’”

I gave back the money I stole so we’re done right?

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:54:56am

re: #227 Dangerman

I gave back the money I stole so we’re done right?

Routine? No big deal? I don’t know about you, but I’ve never heard of an American president being visited by the NARA to reclaim papers he took from the office. That seems like the opposite of “routine, no big deal” to me.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 10, 2022 • 6:57:03am

This pretty much sums up my thoughts on NFTs. As implemented, they don’t really *do* anything. They have the *potential* to serve as a form of licensing mechanism, when they are directly integrated into the work and aren’t just an external token that “rides along” with the work.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:00:00am

mathler.com 9 3/6

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:01:43am

Wordle 236 3/6

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:03:07am

re: #215 Dangerman

remember this?

Trump claims Americans have to flush the toilet ‘10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once’

Now we know why

Think Kohler is working on an ad?

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steve_davis  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:05:28am

re: #210 Dave In Austin

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I want to know if this is actually true. I have to routinely go through my Facebook shell and burn people’s meme bullshit down. I would be a little surprised if a cancer patient was able to donate organs, for instance.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:07:16am
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:09:48am

Wordle 236 3/6

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:09:55am

re: #233 steve_davis

I want to know if this is actually true. I have to routinely go through my Facebook shell and burn people’s meme bullshit down. I would be a little surprised if a cancer patient was able to donate organs, for instance.

Primary brain cancer is sometimes okay because it doesn’t metastasize outside of the brain.

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lawhawk  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:10:46am

re: #234 The Pie Overlord!

I’m a powderasaurus.

I’m a stuckasaurus.

Awesome.

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lawhawk  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:12:09am

re: #233 steve_davis

Seems that it dates back to 2014 and China.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:20:50am

Under his eye.

Blessed be the fruit.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:22:24am

Just sayin’… regarding all this “Biden crack pipes bs”.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:22:34am

re: #239 No Malarkey!

Under his eye.

I really can’t wait for them to go after wealthy women.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:22:58am

re: #240 GlutenFreeJesus

And also…

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:28:00am

Judge I used to work with is hearing a case against gerrymandered congressional and state legislative districts in Frankfort.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:30:59am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:32:41am

oh

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:33:50am

re: #239 No Malarkey!

Under his eye.

Meet them half-way. Create state databases of pregnant women in the same bill that creates a DB of gun owners.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:36:14am
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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:37:36am

Here’s a Susan Collins you can like:

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:42:48am

Expect a lot of hyperventilating on Fox News about the 7.5% inflation report. news.yahoo.com

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:43:54am

re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth

Uhhh: “Trump has told people that since leaving office, he has remained in contact with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un…”

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while TFG keeps writing and texting, you know Un is ghosting him

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:45:26am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:48:48am
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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:50:52am

re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth

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even if that were true, so what?

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:52:47am

Dad Joke Incoming:

I had a date last night.

It was perfect.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:54:51am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:57:07am
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:57:38am

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s a five year old half onion in a bag now, and it’s still a better candidate than Donald Trump.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 7:58:14am

The book Mathematics for Machine Learning starts with this:

Machine learning is the latest in a long line of attempts to distill human knowledge and reasoning into a form that is suitable for constructing machines and engineering automated systems.

And I think that is nearly perfect.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:03:12am

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

from the link:

Protesters have been at the land border for 12 days with on-and-off blockades, making travel between the United States and Canada impossible at times.

The blockades have stranded travellers and cross-border truckers and cost millions of dollars in trade.

But Haggerty argued his client is not responsible for the blockades.

“At no time did [Pawlowski] tell them to block the roads, he told them to remain and protest,” Haggerty in arguing for his client’s release.

weasel words

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:05:52am

Wordle 236 3/6

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First word mojo was working this morning. Unfortunately, it left several candidates and I chose wrongly

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:06:34am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

from the link:

weasel words

“The President didn’t tell them to break into the Capitol, he just told them to go there and protest.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:07:01am

So in today’s dated Vanity Fair is revealed the first character shots and on-scene photos from Amazon’s Rings of Power series:

vanityfair.com

Not a whole lot is revealed but there is some discussion from the show runners on how they are approaching the subject (Tolkien’s Second Age timeline, which spans over three thousand years and thus presents a real problem for TV story telling.)

Oh, and there is a dwarven queen which might have a bit too much melanin for some:

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:08:15am

re: #262 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So in today’s dated Vanity Fair is revealed the first character shots and on-scene photos from Amazon’s Rings of Power series:

vanityfair.com

Not a whole lot is revealed but there is some discussion from the show runners on how they are approaching the subject (Tolkien’s Second Age timeline, which spans over three thousand years and thus presents a real problem for TV story telling.)

Oh, and there is a dwarven queen which might have a bit too much melanin for some:

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And not enough beard for others. :)

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:12:05am

re: #239 No Malarkey!

What was that again about the party of small government?

Oh, yeah. Small enough to fit in your womb. Damn if this isn’t an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale writ large.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:17:17am

re: #263 Belafon

If you open the image in a new tab and zoom in, it appears that there is a kind of fuzz where there could be sideburns. Uncertain it will have to be until we see the actual show.

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Teukka  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:18:20am

Latest Q {shit is too mild for this} going around… Please… Umm.. WTF?

Iframe

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Renaissance_Man  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:19:23am

re: #191 Belafon

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Gotta say, I’m somewhat guilty of this myself. I think the evidence is quite clear that serious Covid is, for the most part, a problem of the unvaccinated. Yes, many people cannot have vaccines or have reduced effectiveness. Yes, vaccinated people are dying every day. What we aren’t saying clearly enough, though, is that unvaccinated people are killing them. Sometimes directly, by transmission, and always indirectly, by refusing to take any preventive measures whatsoever so the pandemic keeps going.

The argument over reducing mask mandates and so forth is a canard. There are no mandates in the US. Nobody cares enough to do anything. We make attempts with federal vaccine mandates and so forth, but any white person who gets upset enough is simply allowed to do whatever he wants, because that is America. Countries that have actual mandates have requirements over who can gather, how many can gather, how many people you can invite to your home, where you have to wear a mask, and so on. America has never had and will never have anything similar. We still talk about it because angry white people cannot stand that anyone might even look at them funny for not wearing a mask or being antisocial, and thus will not stop until everyone is forced to meekly accept their terrible behaviour and praise them for it.

Should we have more mandates and more mitigation measures? Yes, absolutely. That’s what functioning societies do to prevent death and uphold the common good. But America is not a functioning society, it is an armed labour camp where the power of the state is designed to force the lower classes to serve a very wealthy few. Part of that state power is America’s ‘laws’, part is the armed occupation force they call ‘police’ and part of it is the soft power where prevailing US culture is dictated to normalise the experience of average white people and ensure that their worldview is catered to at all costs, so that they feel like they are privileged and everyone else - browns, blacks, gays, foreigners, liberals - are the ‘other’. It’s that last part that is straining right now, because there’s a virus that won’t just infect the blacks and liberals, and white people have to be convinced to just ignore the deaths among their own so they can still feel privileged. They’re doing it, because they always do what their TV tells them to, and they won’t rest until we all do it too so their privilege remains intact.

So we have a situation where the death rate is about 15:1 unvaccinated to vaccinated. It’s not quite that unbalanced, because the clogging of the hospital system is also causing further deaths and health problems, but the death cult that is American conservatism wants it to keep going because their main goal is the death and suffering of the people they hate - us, in other words. To them, 15 of them dying to kill a liberal is fine, because they can pretend really hard that that first number doesn’t exist, and also because they’re bad at maths.

I’m not happy that the pandemic continues unabated. I would be even unhappier if there were actual restrictions that I had to follow, but this being America, there isn’t actually such a thing. I don’t count minor inconveniences like wearing a mask on a plane as a restriction, because it’s not, and it only bothers angry white people for whom taking any action that might benefit someone they hate is an absolute taboo. So given that I and anyone I care about has done the right thing by wearing masks in public and getting their shots, I think I’ll continue to do those things and get together with them.

The Covid fatigue is real. But it’s not fatigue over restrictions, it’s fatigue that I find it harder and harder to care that unvaccinated people are committing murder-suicides daily. And for someone whose main job requirement is to care about people, that’s a very tiring thing.

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Teukka  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:28:11am

re: #266 Teukka

Latest Q {shit is too mild for this} going around… Please… Umm.. WTF?

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Like, I’m wondering when we’ll see a mass of them crawling around on all fours, smeared in their own excrement, talking about shrimpiform road runners (W. E. Coyote fame). Note that I’m not saying piss-drinking because some of them are already doing that… 👀

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:28:35am

re: #267 Renaissance_Man

I’m pretty much there. When I get really dark, the only thing keeping me from welcoming a Delta-Omicron crossover is there would still be plenty of people who did everything they could and would still die from it, even if that number is 2% of the willfully stupid.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:37:05am

Coping mechanism.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 236 3/6

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:40:08am

re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I read about a publishing house that pulled a scam like that to get a free translation of a novel: they sent each chapter as a “test chapter” to a number of translators with the promise that if their work was satisfactory, they would get the whole work at a favorable rate, and then just compiled everything that the unwitting translators sent in…

Doesn’t seem the translation scam would work out. A translation style needs to be consistent between chapters; otherwise the novel would be very jarring to the readers. Or did they then submit the translations to an editor who would rewrite the text in a consistent style.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:41:35am

Lot of whining going on:

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:42:56am
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darthstar  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:43:49am

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:48:41am

re: #274 darthstar

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All the money in the world spent on feeling good.

Fool For A Cigarette/Feelin’ Good - Ry Cooder

(2:17)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:50:44am

re: #249 No Malarkey!

Expect a lot of hyperventilating on Fox News about the 7.5% inflation report. news.yahoo.com

I am surprised that #Bidenflation has not caught on

or has it?

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lawhawk  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:50:59am

Once again, media circles the wagons around journalists who withhold critical information and not reporting as news when they learn it - all to make coin in a book.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:51:18am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They need to ban him from public office, after that I really don’t care about the rest. Would be good to see him lose his freedom and fortune but most important is that he should not see the inside of the White House ever again.

He and his whole criminal family and all those who assisted him need to spend the rest of their lives in a cold dark cell. Unless justice is served, there will be another more competent traitor in the wings to take over.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:52:02am

re: #218 darthstar

Well fuck a duck…that was close.
Wordle 236 4/6

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All depends on your starting words.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:52:12am

re: #266 Teukka

Latest Q {shit is too mild for this} going around… Please… Umm.. WTF?

AIDs?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:52:58am

re: #271 Hecuba’s daughter

Doesn’t seem the translation scam would work out. A translation style needs to be consistent between chapters; otherwise the novel would be very jarring to the readers. Or did they then submit the translations to an editor who would rewrite the text in a consistent style.

I can well imagine that they did not give a fuck, they just wanted it on the cheap and did not care about consistency or quality. They probably had someone look it over but it is clear that their regard for the literature was probably even less than their regard for the translators they scammed.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:53:57am

I got a call notifying me that my power will go out for half an hour sometime between 11:40 and 1:40 today so Com Ed can replace equipment on the lines supplying the area.

If it’s between 11 and 1, I’m going to vanish from a meeting.

Fortunately, most of my computers are on UPS units, so only one will lose power.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:56:14am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:58:40am

Glenn running with the idiot ball again.

1. The pandemic was officially declared on 3/11/20. Most of the U.S. went into a lockdown soon after that lasted until June at the earliest.

2. The official death toll reached 100 000 around 5/25/20. So that means with roughly only seven months remaining in Trumps term, we were just starting to see considerably fatalities from Covid.

3. Biden was President for nearly all of 2021, a year which saw two of the largest Covid case/death spikes of the whole pandemic. It was also the year in which most Republican-led states said “fuck it” and eliminated all covid restrictions.

Simple math will tell you that in the end far more Covid deaths will occur under Biden than Trump because Biden will be a President during Covid way longer than Trump was.

Also, the deadliest of all the variants (Delta) occurred fully under Biden.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2022 • 8:59:55am

It’s 9am and it’s already 71 degrees thanks to warm thermal offshore breezes. Six miles away as the crow flies, in San Mateo, it’s 59.

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Jay C  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:00:41am

Well, bummer!
Wordle 236 X/6

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My first FAIL out of 30. Rats!

Click to Reveal

I guess the starting word does make a difference: inspired by the link to the Vanity Fair piece about Amazon’s new Middle-earth series, I started off with DWARF. Oh well….

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lawhawk  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:01:03am

Significant gaps in WH call logs on 1/6.

Where’d the documents go. Investigators know there were calls made, but who messed with the logs?

This reeks of criminal conspiracy, and again shows just how desperate Trumpworld was to commit crimes to cover up for still other crimes being committed. It was a nonstop crime spree.

The DOJ has to get off the pot and start issuing indictments, because right now there’s no sign that we’re ever going to hold any of these people accountable for felony conduct, which means they’ll be free to try again to end democracy. And yeah, I also know that the DC AUSA is only on the job for a few months, but there’s no higher priority than this. Start issuing indictments against Trump officials. The public record has more than enough to indict from Trump to Meadows to Rudy to Stone on down the line.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:11:49am

re: #286 Jay C

Click to Reveal

I started with COUPE and it still took me 4 tries

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:12:45am

Wordle to the rescue!

A naked man crept into an 80-year-old Chicago woman’s bed and held her hostage for 17 hours — but she was finally rescued after her daughter called the cops because the woman hadn’t texted her the day’s Wordle answers, WBBM-TV reported.

Denyse Holt was asleep on Saturday when the mentally ill man broke into her home in the Windy City’s Lincolnwood neighborhood, according to the outlet.

The intruder — identified as 32-year-old James H. Davis III, who was reportedly bloodied from a broken window — slipped into Holt’s bed while clutching a pair of scissors, the station said.

nypost.com

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:13:11am

re: #287 lawhawk

I’m surprised they kept logs at all in Trump’s White House. They can get that information from the telephone company, though. All calls, times, and numbers are there if they want them.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:15:23am

re: #289 Shropshire Slasher

Wordle to the rescue!

nypost.com

Okay, tomorrow I’m starting with NAKED

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jeffreyw  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:18:23am

A couple of coyotes just ran across the back yard and Gabe is frantic to get after them. We usually don’t see any during the day.

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jeffreyw  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:21:40am

Ten second video of a possum and a pair of coyotes:

Youtube Video

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A Three Hour Tour  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:27:15am

re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg

Glenn running with the idiot ball again.

1. The pandemic was officially declared on 3/11/20. Most of the U.S. went into a lockdown soon after that lasted until June at the earliest.

2. The official death toll reached 100 000 around 5/25/20. So that means with roughly only seven months remaining in Trumps term, we were just starting to see considerably fatalities from Covid.

3. Biden was President for nearly all of 2021, a year which saw two of the largest Covid case/death spikes of the whole pandemic. It was also the year in which most Republican-led states said “fuck it” and eliminated all covid restrictions.

Simple math will tell you that in the end far more Covid deaths will occur under Biden than Trump because Biden will be a President during Covid way longer than Trump was.

It’s not merely a simple matter of taking the idiot ball and running with it; Scum Scumwald is a mendacious propagandist dishonestly selling lies and distorted half-truths to a gullible audience to benefit the political interests of his paymasters.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:27:39am

I have a pretty bad skin condition. It’s called “having cats.”

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:27:51am

re: #283 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

All the truckers have to do is follow the rules most people are.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:27:52am

re: #286 Jay C

There are a whole raft of posts regarding the selection of the first word. Read a few and see if you can find a better one.

Regarding your fail, there are two types of Wordle players: those that have failed on a puzzle and those that will fail.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:29:07am

re: #295 A Three Hour Tour

It’s not merely a simple matter of taking the idiot ball and running with it; Scum Scumwald is a mendacious propagandist dishonestly selling lies and distorted half-truths to a gullible audience to benefit the political interests of his paymasters.

Ignore job growth, concentrate on Covid deaths.

What a fuckwad

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:30:02am

re: #276 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am surprised that #Bidenflation has not caught on

or has it?

695K hits on google, and growing.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:30:18am

re: #298 sizzzzlerz

There are a whole raft of posts regarding the selection of the first word. Read a few and see if you can find a better one.

Regarding your fail, there are two types of Wordle players: those that have failed on a puzzle and those that will fail.

That doesn’t sound right.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:30:56am

Lots and lots of whining…

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:32:14am

re: #296 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I have a pretty bad skin condition. It’s called “having cats.”

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My cats get toenail trims. Yet I have 3 parallel red lines on my tummy. Winters are easier, with the wearing of sweatshirts.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:32:39am

re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg

Glenn running with the idiot ball again.

1. The pandemic was officially declared on 3/11/20. Most of the U.S. went into a lockdown soon after that lasted until June at the earliest.

2. The official death toll reached 100 000 around 5/25/20. So that means with roughly only seven months remaining in Trumps term, we were just starting to see considerably fatalities from Covid.

3. Biden was President for nearly all of 2021, a year which saw two of the largest Covid case/death spikes of the whole pandemic. It was also the year in which most Republican-led states said “fuck it” and eliminated all covid restrictions.

Simple math will tell you that in the end far more Covid deaths will occur under Biden than Trump because Biden will be a President during Covid way longer than Trump was.

Also, the deadliest of all the variants (Delta) occurred fully under Biden.

“Fascinating, Glenn. I’m assuming that, therefore, all of the Covid deaths in Brazil are due to you being there?”

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mmmirele  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:33:20am

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ah, so this guy is involved in the Coutts, Alberta border crossing issue. He calls himself a minister, but it looks like he’s been involved in anti-COVID mitigation protests and now this.

Although the situation is ever-changing, as the bail hearing took place Wednesday afternoon, traffic in both directions was impeded as protesters continue to demand an end to vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers, as well as the lifting of other pandemic-related public health restrictions.

Just going to point out EVEN IF Canada were to end the mandate for cross border truckers to be vaccinated, the US and Mexico are still requiring it. So it’s a huge steaming pile of horse puckey.

That said, this would be amusing as hell, white dude bit in the azz by legislation intending to shut down Indigenous protests.

The RCMP has not yet responded to a request for information on whether Pawlowski is the first person to be charged under the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act in connection with the Coutts protests.

The new legislation is controversial and has been criticized as unfairly targeting Indigenous people.

The legislation was introduced in Alberta in 2020 against the backdrop of protests involving the blockade of rail lines, commuter train routes and roadways in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs’ opposition to the construction of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline through their northern B.C. territory.

cbc.ca

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:36:12am

re: #302 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Lots and lots of whining…

Race relations in the USA were probably the last thing on Tolkein’s mind when he was writing his epics, which are in fact based on Northern European mythology.

The trend in British TV and film production, though has been to have the casts reflect the current racial makeup of the UK, heck there were even black and Indian characters working in the 1938 British Foreign Office in the recent Munich: The Edge of War, which is historically way off the mark.

And don’t even get me started on Bridgerton, for Chrissakes, it is all historical fantasy.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:36:14am

re: #297 Belafon

All the truckers have to do is follow the rules most people are.

And most of them are (about 90%) and they’re pissed off at these ass hats that are blocking border crossings, preventing them from doing their jobs.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:36:53am

re: #304 Belafon

“Fascinating, Glenn. I’m assuming that, therefore, all of the Covid deaths in Brazil are due to you being there?”

No, those would be Hunter Biden’s fault, spread through his laptop.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:37:07am

re: #290 darthstar

I’m surprised they kept logs at all in Trump’s White House. They can get that information from the telephone company, though. All calls, times, and numbers are there if they want them.

You can probably also bet that the NSA or some security group also logs those lines, and probably any electronic emissions from the White House and other secure federal buildings. White House probably has it’s own “cell tower”.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:38:19am

re: #301 Punish Domestic Terrorists

That doesn’t sound right.

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If you play hard mode, it significantly increases the odds of failure; which is why I don’t. Typically, my first 2 starting words are designed to detect all vowels (and sometimes ‘y’ is included also)

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:39:14am

re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Race relations in the USA were probably the last thing on Tolkein’s mind when he was writing his epics, which are in fact based on Northern European mythology.

The trend in British TV and film production, though has been to have the casts reflect the current racial makeup of the UK, heck there were even black and Indian characters working in the 1938 British Foreign Office in the recent Munich: The Edge of War which is historically way off the mark.

And don’t even get me started on Bridgerton, for Chrissakes, it is all historical fantasy.

Have you seen the newest Anne Boleyn?

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:42:08am

re: #302 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Lots and lots of whining…

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:42:26am

re: #261 Belafon

“The President didn’t tell them to break into the Capitol, he just told them to go there and protest.”

i never pulled the cat’s tail.
i just held the tail. The cat ran away.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:48:09am

re: #311 Belafon

Have you seen the newest Anne Boleyn?

Anne Bro Lynne?

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:50:32am

re: #313 Dangerman

i never pulled the cat’s tail.
i just held the tail. The cat ran away.

I ‘pet’ my cat’s tail that way all the time. The one who has a tail.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:50:33am

re: #313 Dangerman

i never pulled the cat’s tail.
i just held the tail. The cat ran away.

“you have to fight like hell, or you won’t have a country anymore”

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:51:10am

re: #266 Teukka

Latest Q {shit is too mild for this} going around… Please… Umm.. WTF?

[Embedded content]

Youtube Video

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Captain Ron  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:51:28am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:51:58am

re: #302 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Lots and lots of whining…

Mary Beard (I think it was) tracked down the record of a black Roman legionnaire who settled in what is now England and he was surely not the only one.

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Mike Lamb  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:55:42am

re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg

Glenn running with the idiot ball again.

1. The pandemic was officially declared on 3/11/20. Most of the U.S. went into a lockdown soon after that lasted until June at the earliest.

2. The official death toll reached 100 000 around 5/25/20. So that means with roughly only seven months remaining in Trumps term, we were just starting to see considerably fatalities from Covid.

3. Biden was President for nearly all of 2021, a year which saw two of the largest Covid case/death spikes of the whole pandemic. It was also the year in which most Republican-led states said “fuck it” and eliminated all covid restrictions.

Simple math will tell you that in the end far more Covid deaths will occur under Biden than Trump because Biden will be a President during Covid way longer than Trump was.

Also, the deadliest of all the variants (Delta) occurred fully under Biden.

The shitty part is that if you called Greenwald on saying Biden has been worse on COVID, he’d stroke out and say he never said any such thing.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:56:39am

re: #318 Dread Pirate Ron

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relying on the postal service, such as it is right now, is an amazing act of faith

imagine if that delay turned out to be what scuttled the entire scheme

322
Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:58:30am

wow

“Fired up by sky-high inflation prices, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he has the political will to do the unpopular thing: lift the cap on income taxed for Social Security to $400,000 in order to sustain that program,” Politico reports.

Said Manchin: “You could raise it to $400,000 overnight… I’ve got the will to do it, that’s all I can tell you because I’ve got grandchildren. Ten grandchildren. We’ve got future generations depending on us to the right thing. I’m willing to do a lot of good things on climate too.”

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2022 • 9:59:57am

Trailer dropped for Jurassic World Dominion.

Not too shabby. And an interesting idea, a world where humans try to coexist with dinosaurs. Personally, I don’t think that would turn out too well for either species.

Youtube Video

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:00:50am

re: #322 Dangerman

wow

That’s a good step. But in my mind there should be no top limit at all. Solvency overnight.

325
Dopamine Fish  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:01:50am

re: #322 Dangerman

wow

Such courage, very brave. Now pass the Build Back Better Act, you shitpile.

326
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:03:46am

re: #309 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

You can probably also bet that the NSA or some security group also logs those lines, and probably any electronic emissions from the White House and other secure federal buildings. White House probably has it’s own “cell tower”.

Putin also knows.

Probably.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:04:36am

I’m going to take this opportunity to retell a tale already lodged in the pages here somewhere…

In 1980, I was driving my mom’s car with my mom and youngest brother as passengers. We were in Montana, and decided to make it an international trip by going to Canada for an afternoon. The plate on the car was from California, so I was unimpressed by the border guard’s first question.

BG: Where you from?
Me: California.
BG: What part?
Me: Southern.
BG: What part?
Me: Orange County.
BG: What part?
Me: Fullerton.
BG: What part?
Me: [gives street address with house number]
BG: Oh, I lived at [street address 3 blocks away from there] for 2 years.
Me: Small world!

328
Belafon  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:04:51am

re: #324 Eventual Carrion

That’s a good step. But in my mind there should be no top limit at all. Solvency overnight.

Especially since almost all of the gains in life expectancy over the last 70 years have been in the upper class.

329
sagehen  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:07:43am

re: #319 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Mary Beard (I think it was) tracked down the record of a black Roman legionnaire who settled in what is now England and he was surely not the only one.

is “Black Irish” just an expression?

330
Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:09:40am

re: #329 sagehen

is “Black Irish” just an expression?

From Wiki:

The term “Black Irish” is sometimes used outside Ireland to refer to Irish people with black hair and dark eyes. One theory is that they are descendants of Spanish traders or of the few sailors of the Spanish Armada who were shipwrecked on Ireland’s west coast, but there is little evidence for this.

331
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:10:48am

re: #329 sagehen

is “Black Irish” just an expression?

No, my father’s family is Black Irish. Dark hair, dark eyes, except for me (I took after my mom’s Rom/eastern European/Balkans side of the family, light eyes, blondish/reddish hair)

332
A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:11:26am

re: #329 sagehen

is “Black Irish” just an expression?

Pretty sure it refers to hair and eye color, thus people who are southern Europe/Mediterranean on origin.

333
Jay C  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:15:23am

re: #319 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Mary Beard (I think it was) tracked down the record of a black Roman legionnaire who settled in what is now England and he was surely not the only one.

Also, there was a Roman-era grave excavated a few years back, and its occupant (a woman of some means, buried with quality jewelry) genetically tested out as Black (I.e sub-Saharan African). It’s theorized she was the wife of some Roman official posted to Britannia from North Africa. Though despite the occasional inmixture, “England” has always been pretty “white”. - no surprise given the climate….

334
Scottish Dragon  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:16:55am

re: #330 Hecuba’s daughter

From Wiki:

Also street slang name for a type of military high explosive in The Running Man novella by Stephen King

335
retired cynic  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:17:37am

Opinion: A Trump adviser’s angry eruption over Jan. 6 bodes badly for democracy
Greg Sargent
washingtonpost.com

One of Trump’s leading Jan. 6 co-conspirators — former adviser Peter Navarro — just doubled down on this notion. He’s not alone: The persistence of this among some top Trumpists — and the refusal of others to unequivocally side with Pence — bodes badly, as Trump’s movement adopts the idea that the only thing wrong with his coup scheme was that it failed.
Navarro’s restatement of the Pence-as-betrayer myth comes in response to a subpoena he received from the House select committee examining Jan. 6. The committee is examining Navarro’s role as a key orchestrator of the effort to get Biden’s electors invalidated in Congress.
Here’s how Navarro responded, in an angry email to the New York Times:
“Pence betrayed Trump. Marc Short is a Koch Network dog. Meadows is a fool and a coward. Cheney and Kinzinger are useful idiots for Nancy Pelosi and the woke Left,” Mr. Navarro wrote in an email.
To Navarro, Pence wasn’t the only traitor: Top White House advisers Mark Meadows and Marc Short have cooperated in a limited way with the Jan. 6 committee. The perfidy of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), both committee members, goes without saying.
It might be easy to dismiss Navarro’s eruption as bluster. Instead, let’s take this seriously: It’s very bad that even as we learn extraordinary new details about the scope and intent of Trump’s plot to overturn our political order, some of his top lieutenants are expressly adopting the stance that the main transgression here was Pence’s failure to carry it to fruition.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:18:47am

re: #332 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Pretty sure it refers to hair and eye color, thus people who are southern Europe/Mediterranean on origin.

The Irish have mythic/historic links to Galicia and pre-Roman Iberia.

337
Scottish Dragon  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:19:18am
338
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:20:21am

Lots of men in my family tree have the name Ciarán/Keyran/Kieren/various other spellings. It means “little dark one” in Gaelic.

339
Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:21:56am

re: #337 Scottish Dragon

The South will rise together, or it will not rise at all.

340
Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:25:33am

re: #339 Decatur Deb

The South will rise together, or it will not rise at all.

The white South has risen — and it’s infecting the rest of the nation with its white supremacy and racism.

341
No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:25:54am

re: #2 No Malarkey!

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:26:06am

re: #277 lawhawk

Once again, media circles the wagons around journalists who withhold critical information and not reporting as news when they learn it - all to make coin in a book.

……..

Former Trump communications director Alyssa Farah told The View that Donald Trump is “terrified” of a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.

Said Farah: “There is quite a bit more to come.”

343
Scottish Dragon  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:28:15am
344
Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:29:00am

re: #340 Hecuba’s daughter

The white South has risen — and it’s infecting the rest of the nation with its white supremacy and racism.

I’m looking around here, and the only Southern rise I see is SEC football, and we know what that’s about.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:30:21am

re: #335 retired cynic

Opinion: A Trump adviser’s angry eruption over Jan. 6 bodes badly for democracy
Greg Sargent
washingtonpost.com

Because the big majority of GOP voters believe the Big Lie that the election was stolen. fivethirtyeight.com

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:30:27am

re: #342 Dangerman

347
Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:33:22am

South, Rising

348
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:34:47am
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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2022 • 10:36:25am
350
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2022 • 4:31:00pm

re: #279 Hecuba’s daughter

All depends on your starting words.

I dunno. My starting word didn’t help much.

Wordle 236 4/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2022 • 5:05:30pm

re: #350 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Holy cow am I behind the times.


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