Great New Music From Michelle Willis and a Stellar Band: “Liberty”

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@Michelle Willis - Liberty
From ‘Just One Voice’ - Available April 2022
Stream/Buy here: https://orcd.co/mw-liberty

Michelle Willis - I wrote “Liberty” on my last trip to New York before I moved there. I was questioning how much my need of change was just green grass chasing. I was falling more and more in love with the city, seeing myself there, while still carrying memory, grudges and hopes deferred from home. I was thinking about all the people for whom the Statue of Liberty was a beacon of hope, new life, new chances, but upon getting here their lives were far from the dream, and yet I couldn’t help but fall for the energy of the city (edit: five years on, I’m still very much in love with NYC). The vocal harmonies here may as well have been taken from a Michael McDonald background vocal arranging class. I’m certain that subconsciously I was writing with his voice and style in mind. In the outro it’s both him and my mentor and friend David Crosby singing “a city takes me by storm”, which is a beautiful beckoning to me of all that was to come. I had no idea I was about to begin a career writing and touring with Croz.

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Facebook: https://facebook.com/boutwillismusic
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Website: https://michellewillis.ca

Lead Vocal, Wurlitzer, Korg MS20, Mellotron, Pump Organ, Arp Omni: Michelle Willis
Nord Stage 3 & FX: Christian Almiron
Background Vocals: David Crosby, Michael McDonald, Louis Cato, Mike “Maz”Maher, Michelle Willis
Organ: Todd Caldwell
Guitar: Thom Gill
Bass: David Cutler
Drums & Percussion: Louis Cato
Produced by Fab Dupont & Michelle Willis
Video by David Bailen

LYRICS
It’s a good thing, me being here
Wading, finding on my own
‘Cause you can make yourself anew anywhere
Then you find you’re the one you can’t let go

And I don’t wanna be that girl
Go where you think I should
See the things you’ve seen,
Live within your dream
Baby I’d have left if it weren’t so good

Like liberty’s beacon in the distance
It could be a false omen after all
Promises of future kings
A space to try again
Finding yourself in her call

‘Cause I don’t wanna change like them
Try to be tough like them
Try to pretend I’ve seen it all
And I’ll see it all again

‘Cause it’s hot as hell and smells like shit in here
I just turn off and wait to arrive (let the rush pass me by)
And it will take the magic from it
Till you see another soul dancing through hollowed eyes

Come over here, plenty of action
You’ll shine like gold when you’re new
The game that you love, your tried and true
Starting to move too fast for you

And every time I’ve held another
I see you

Like liberty’s beacon in the distance
It could be a false omen after all
I think that I’ll let it be
Until I can’t refute it
And that’s just the way it’s gonna be for now

A city takes me by storm, I want everyone and all their warmth

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208 comments
1
Captain Ron  Mar 18, 2022 • 5:40:26pm

It’s a pollen factory out there.

2
PhillyPretzel  Mar 18, 2022 • 5:41:34pm

re: #1 Dread Pirate Ron

Yes it sure is. :(

3
Charles Johnson  Mar 18, 2022 • 5:42:04pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2022 • 5:42:22pm

Ah. A new excuse.

President Vladimir Putin says that what he calls the special military operation in Ukraine was necessary because the United States was using Ukraine to threaten Russia and Russia had to defend against the “genocide” of Russian-speaking people by Ukraine.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2022 • 5:44:27pm

re: #4 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Ah. A new excuse.

I forgot… The best part was the headline:

UPDATE 1-Russia warns United States: we have the might to put you in your place

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2022 • 5:51:39pm

re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I forgot… The best part was the headline:

UPDATE 1-Russia warns United States: we have the might to put you in your place

By getting Trump back in office as President. That would definitely accomplish the end of our nation as anything but subservient to Putin.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 18, 2022 • 5:55:46pm
James Whitney Hill, 67, was killed by Russian artillery fire in Ukraine this week, at least the second American to die there since the invasion began Feb. 24. Before his death, he touched lives around the world through teaching and storytelling, friends and family told USA TODAY.

“He had worked tirelessly to find her treatment and refused to leave her bedside when the invasion began in Ukraine,” his family said in a statement Friday about his life partner, Irina Teslenko, who has multiple sclerosis.

Hill and Teslenko drove the four hours from Khorol to Chernihiv in northeastern Ukraine days before the invasion. There, Hill documented the deteoriating situation in a series of Facebook posts.

Hill died Thursday when he ventured outside the hospital to find food for patients, nurses and neighbors, as well as to find a way to communicate with loved ones abroad, family said.

Jimmy Hill, American killed in Ukraine, was ‘true to his love’ and stayed with sick partner (USA Today via MSN)

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sagehen  Mar 18, 2022 • 5:59:06pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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nowadays, it’s more like throwing water on a grease fire.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:13:51pm

re: #8 sagehen

An apt metaphor.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:23:57pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:25:23pm
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DodgerFan1988  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:27:37pm

Truckers turned into Tankies.

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ipsos  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:29:00pm

Apparently Don Young (R-AK-forever) has died.

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Dangerman  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:30:58pm

re: #4 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Ah. A new excuse.

Word salad

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gocart mozart  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:35:46pm
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EPR-radar  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:36:54pm

re: #15 gocart mozart

Looks at all that macho posturing between two people that are essentially competing to be one of Trump’s crotch lice. It’s completely absurd.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:41:33pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

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EPR-radar  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:42:07pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

It’s not really true that the NYT has no vision. Its vision is the “white moderate” vision so famously called out by MLK, and updated only slightly since then.

Among other things, it privileges being polite to Republican dirtbags over analysis of why Republican dirtbags really are dirtbags.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:42:43pm

re: #13 ipsos

Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young has died, according to former aides
He was 88 and had served in Congress since 1973.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:52:00pm

re: #19 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Wonder what sort of looney will replace him.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 18, 2022 • 6:53:14pm

re: #1 Dread Pirate Ron

Not for long, though. We are desperate for rain, and the western part of the US may be in serious drought by summer.

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mmmirele  Mar 18, 2022 • 7:01:36pm

Brian Houston, leader of the Hillsong church conglomerate, is in more hot water. Currently he’s facing charges of concealing sexual abuse, specifically that of his father, Frank Houston, who sexually assaulted a number of boys. His trial is sometime this year but I can’t be arsed to find out when.

Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston breached code of conduct with inappropriate behaviour towards two women, leaked letter says

Allegedly no sex involved, but prescription drug and alcohol abuse, that’d be a yes.

abc.net.au

And if you think these are the only two people who were so treated, I rather doubt that is the case. When the “pastor” is the close confidant of the current Aussie PM, Scott Morrison, when he’s infamous in his own country, when his church conglomerate provides music for thousands of churches around the world, it’s entirely likely there are additional people who have not come forward.

What I suspect may have pushed Hillsong into making this disclosure now is that the 3-part Discovery Plus Hillsong documentary is dropping on Thursday, March 24. Maybe they’re trying to get ahead of some bad news.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2022 • 7:05:30pm

The Hillsong Church of Fundamentally Inappropriate Behavior

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William Lewis  Mar 18, 2022 • 7:15:59pm

Current Mood:

Youtube Video

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 18, 2022 • 7:17:39pm
Branson comedian Yakov Smirnoff will hold a benefit comedy show this Saturday in Springfield to raise money for Ukrainian refugees.

Although he’s known as being from Russia, Smirnoff is actually from Odesa, Ukraine.

He came to the U.S. in the 1970s.

Smirnoff says he would like to see the U.S. do more to help the Ukrainian refugees.

Comedian Yakov Smirnoff Holds Benefit For Ukrainian Refugees (KTTS)

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A Mom Anon  Mar 18, 2022 • 7:19:02pm

re: #22 mmmirele

You should write a book about your experiences in confronting religious cons, crimes and other bullshit done in the name of Jesus. I never cease to be freaked out that so many people continually follow awful humans into doing awful things in the name of God/Jesus/Your Religion and we don’t learn from all the times it’s happened in the past.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 18, 2022 • 7:44:05pm

re: #22 mmmirele

Hey, since you brought up Anton Petrov recently, in case you didn’t see it, he posted an update and will be going back to new videos soon.

Youtube Video

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austin_blue  Mar 18, 2022 • 7:53:46pm

re: #25 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Comedian Yakov Smirnoff Holds Benefit For Ukrainian Refugees (KTTS)

One of Smirnoff’s best jokes:

I went to a restaurant and asked to be seated. The greeter asked “How many people are in your party?”

I said “Two hundred million.”

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austin_blue  Mar 18, 2022 • 8:02:59pm

CNN has confirmed that Don Young, (Nazi-adjacent, Alaska) has stepped on a rainbow, been judged, and is now roasting in hell.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2022 • 8:07:00pm

Toroidal centipede.

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retired cynic  Mar 18, 2022 • 8:11:24pm

re: #30 jaunte

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austin_blue  Mar 18, 2022 • 8:16:11pm

re: #30 jaunte

Toroidal centipede.

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For those interested, a toroidal centipede is a series of interconnected people with their noses up each other peoples butts in a doughnut that never ends.

It was popularized by my old friend Bruce Sterling.

It can be a simple loop, or an infinity shaped loop.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 18, 2022 • 8:27:29pm
I will never forget the first time I saw him, standing by the front door of Jimmy Day’s bar in Greenwich Village where I waited tables. The sun behind him made him appear almost godly. It was 1977. I was 23 years old and had just moved to New York City to pursue a career in theater. He was a regular at Jimmy Days and worked at Circle Repertory around the corner. As I took his order, he asked me what I did. When I told him I was really an actress he said, “Congratulations,” as if the pursuit of a career in the arts was the highest of honors. He was performing in Lanford Wilson’s “The Fifth of July” at Circle and invited me to come. I remember sitting in the dark theater, watching him on stage and falling deeply in love. For the next three years there would not be a day we would spend apart.

His name was Bill Hurt and soon after we met, he was cast in “Altered States.” He asked me to accompany him to Los Angeles for the filming. We lived in a bungalow on the beach in Malibu. On his days off we swam, read poetry to each other and made love. But our relationship quickly morphed into a different cycle. Bill would snap, physically shove, punch and beat me, followed by tears, apologies and him offering me expensive gifts. When the battering began I sloughed it off. He said he was sorry. Perhaps I instigated it. I only had to visit the ER once. It was only after many, many years I admitted to myself that I was the victim of domestic violence.

I was with Bill at the start of his career. I survived “Altered States,” “Eyewitness” and “Body Heat.” In 1980, at the height of his physical abuse, he dumped me. But we could not let each other go and remained connected, seeing each other a few times a year until 1989. In 1992, while I was living in Los Angeles, I decided to do some volunteer work for the L.A. Rape and Battery Hotline. I actually thought I had chosen this organization randomly. It was during orientation when, for the very first time, I realized I had been abused. As other volunteers were introducing themselves as survivors, it hit me that I was a survivor too.

William Hurt’s Former Partner Donna Kaz on Surviving Abuse and Speaking Her Truth (Variety)

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austin_blue  Mar 18, 2022 • 8:29:35pm

I would also like to mention that there are 100,000 of my closest friends invading my neighborhoods in Central Austin.

I see Badge People.

And Goodnight, all.

Nightmares about Badge People.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2022 • 8:38:27pm

re: #34 austin_blue

I would also like to mention that there are 100,000 of my closest friends invading my neighborhoods in Central Austin.

I see Badge People.

And Goodnight, all.

Nightmares about Badge People.

kxt.org here in DFW was carrying SxSW here on the radio.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 18, 2022 • 8:42:57pm
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Sherlock Hound  Mar 18, 2022 • 8:49:09pm

These anarcho-nihilists sound so familiar.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 18, 2022 • 9:09:56pm
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JC1  Mar 18, 2022 • 9:13:25pm

4/6. Had to work on this one for a while.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 18, 2022 • 9:17:21pm

In 10 minutes:

Youtube Video

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2022 • 9:23:36pm

Victims of War

artstation.com

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EPR-radar  Mar 18, 2022 • 9:28:52pm

re: #38 Rightwingconspirator

There just isn’t enough of a loony left in the US to be worth funding by a foreign power.

More to the point, the USSR fell, and even Republicans eventually noticed that. Once they did, 95+% of the party quickly realized that Putin’s Russia was every dream they ever had, come true.

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William Lewis  Mar 18, 2022 • 9:31:12pm

re: #42 EPR-radar

There just isn’t enough of a loony left in the US to be worth funding by a foreign power.

More to the point, the USSR fell, and even Republicans eventually noticed that. Once they did, 95+% of the party quickly realized that Putin’s Russia was every dream they ever had, come true.

What there is, the Green Party, is financed by Moscow as well though. Jill Stein was at the same July 4 get together with Putin as Ron Johnson and other members of the Treason Caucus.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2022 • 9:41:34pm

re: #43 William Lewis

What there is, the Green Party, is financed by Moscow as well though. Jill Stein was at the same July 4 get together with Putin as Ron Johnson and other members of the Treason Caucus.

She attended an entirely different event, namely the December 2015 Moscow dinner where General Flynn was seated next to Putin.

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William Lewis  Mar 18, 2022 • 9:45:47pm

re: #44 Hecuba’s daughter

She attended an entirely different event, namely the December 2015 Moscow dinner where General Flynn was seated next to Putin.

Perhaps I’m mistaken but I thought I’d seen photos. Well, different day, same result long term I suppose.

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Captain Ron  Mar 18, 2022 • 9:54:45pm

Did I hear SpaceX correctly? The 12th landing of that first stage?

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 18, 2022 • 10:07:09pm

re: #45 William Lewis

Perhaps I’m mistaken but I thought I’d seen photos. Well, different day, same result long term I suppose.

Same shit, different day.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2022 • 10:21:07pm

re: #39 JC1

4/6. Had to work on this one for a while.

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Took me 5 for wordle.

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2022 • 10:24:54pm

….twordles her thumbs for a couple hours….

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BeachDem  Mar 18, 2022 • 10:30:23pm

Republican Senate primary candidates Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel stunned Ohio audiences Friday night when the two got in each other’s faces at a forum and Mandel appeared to call Gibbons a “pussy.”

I do love the Ohio Democratic Party’s response.

“We encourage every voter to watch this forum and see for themselves why these Republicans do not deserve to be in the United States Senate.”

huffpost.com

Come on, Buckeyes.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 18, 2022 • 10:41:37pm

Got my first ever twofer yesterday:

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2022 • 10:45:12pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

Got my first ever twofer yesterday:

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Exactly the same as mine!

ETA: But there may be people in other time zones who haven’t yet done yesterday’s wordle, so it’s best to hide the actual words used.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 18, 2022 • 11:04:45pm

re: #46 Dread Pirate Ron

Did I hear SpaceX correctly? The 12th landing of that first stage?

Yes, it was the 12th landing of that booster. Their design life is 10 trips. SpaceX has not lost a first stage in active flight uphill, ever.

(Though they did lose a second stage once, and had a complete rocket and payload destroy itself on the pad before launch, which has only happened a few times to any rocket operation over the history of space launches.)

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ericblair  Mar 19, 2022 • 1:06:25am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 1:37:19am

re: #54 ericblair

Their very existence is to be perceived as a criticism of the powers-that-be, which pretty much sums up modern Conservativism.

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Captain Ron  Mar 19, 2022 • 1:52:24am

Rain blowing on in on a southern wind for the bay area tomorrow.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 19, 2022 • 3:03:54am

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Captain Ron  Mar 19, 2022 • 3:07:06am

re: #57 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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William Lewis  Mar 19, 2022 • 3:35:34am

The most feared Ukrainian Special Operations unit:

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 19, 2022 • 4:20:52am

Last thread we were talking about tRumpers and their crazy obsession with “decorating” their houses. This person is just across the rail tracks on my street. I pass the house whenever I am walking into town. What a freak he must be.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 19, 2022 • 4:25:31am

re: #60 Eventual Carrion

That’s tame compared to the one I was talking about.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 4:31:54am

5/6 and here’s yesterday’s

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 19, 2022 • 4:32:42am

re: #56 Dread Pirate Ron

NWS promising rain tonight. We need it. The loquats are ripening and the trees are starting to look a bit shabby as the leaves are stressed.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 19, 2022 • 4:36:45am

Rain finally reaching northern California, should be here by nightfall… oh and it seems the onions are demonstrating their remarkable power to fend off clouds and rain:

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 19, 2022 • 4:39:12am

re: #60 Eventual Carrion

Last thread we were talking about tRumpers and their crazy obsession with “decorating” their houses. This person is just across the rail tracks on my street. I pass the house whenever I am walking into town. What a freak he must be.

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There are two of these on a single street I travel for work. I can barely raise my middle finger anymore.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 19, 2022 • 4:49:02am

re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

NWS promising rain tonight. We need it. The loquats are ripening and the trees are starting to look a bit shabby as the leaves are stressed.

I was hoping to get some backyard work done today. But so far this morning it is just clouds and rain. Looks like it will be this way all day. We have had no shortage of rain here in NW PA so far this year.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 4:57:11am

re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

NWS promising rain tonight. We need it. The loquats are ripening and the trees are starting to look a bit shabby as the leaves are stressed.

Downgraded from 4-5 hours of rain to 2-3 hours of rain with light showers on either end of the front. Still, we’re on the coast so we get a lot of drops out of the clouds as they get a good updraft from the Santa Cruz mountain range.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:01:27am

re: #60 Eventual Carrion

Last thread we were talking about tRumpers and their crazy obsession with “decorating” their houses. This person is just across the rail tracks on my street. I pass the house whenever I am walking into town. What a freak he must be.

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That would be enough for me to express concern about militia activity with a letter to the editor.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:07:28am
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Eventual Carrion  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:10:59am

Another 4 morning

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:12:46am

re: #69 Dopamine Fish

Though we could have both if we were willing to tax the wealthy more.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:16:11am

re: #71 Belafon

Though we could have both if we were willing to tax the wealthy more.

Oh, I know, but I appreciate the meme nonetheless. It’s also true that the rabid right wing’s fetishization of the US military is basically their only real reason for opposing many government spending programs.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:17:58am

Alright, time to roust myself from my position on the couch and go get Mrs. Fish’s coffee. Pretty frigid this morning, but it should warm up this afternoon for a nice pleasant day.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:19:41am

How to get your helicopters out of Kherson without getting shot down by stingers…

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:20:47am

re: #73 Dopamine Fish

Alright, time to roust myself from my position on the couch and go get Mrs. Fish’s coffee. Pretty frigid this morning, but it should warm up this afternoon for a nice pleasant day.

Oh, I should go back to sleep for a half hour before I make coffee.

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jeffreyw  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:31:35am

Good morning!

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ericblair  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:48:41am

This is probably making Roskosmos more than a little pissed: I’m wondering where the Russian cosmonauts are scheduled to return to Earth.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2022 • 5:55:31am

re: #77 ericblair

This is probably making Roskosmos more than a little pissed: I’m wondering where the Russian cosmonauts are scheduled to return to Earth.

Roskosmos: “Oops, we accidentally gave them the wrong coordinates for their return to Earth and they flew into the Sun instead. Our bad.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:03:08am

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

Got my first ever twofer yesterday:

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Got my first twofer today!

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:03:41am

re: #77 ericblair

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This is probably making Roskosmos more than a little pissed: I’m wondering where the Russian cosmonauts are scheduled to return to Earth.

That is a pretty big middle finger

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steve_davis  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:12:35am

re: #69 Dopamine Fish

Has there ever been a meme that has managed to spell everything right and demonstrate solid grammar?

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:17:19am

Another congress critter takes a dirt nap:

Young took office in 1973 and has never relinquished Alaska’s sole House seat. He became Dean of the House after Rep. John Conyers resigned from Congress in 2017.

A colorful character, former Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) one claimed Young held a knife to his throat over a disagreement on earmarks. According to Boehner, Young once pinned him against a wall and held a 10-inch knife to his throat. The Speaker told him, “Fuck you.”

He sounds nice….

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:17:34am

re: #76 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

D’oh. A deer

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:19:49am

re: #80 Eventual Carrion

That is a pretty big middle finger

Coordinated by a lot of people

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:23:46am
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Captain Magic  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:29:37am

Interfax:

Moscow. March 19 interfax.ru - The Russian military used hypersonic missiles of the Kinzhal complex to destroy an underground military depot in western Ukraine, Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said.

“On March 18, the Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse of missiles and aviation ammunition of Ukrainian troops in the village of Delyatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region,” he said at a briefing on Saturday.

“Kinzhal” - an aviation complex with a high-precision hypersonic aeroballistic missile. Created on the basis of the modernized long-range fighter-interceptor MiG-31 - MiG-31K. According to the Russian military, it is capable of hitting targets at a range of more than 2,000 km, while being guaranteed to overcome all existing and developed air and missile defense systems.

It was reported that 10 fighter-interceptors in the MiG-31K Kinzhal modification were on experimental combat duty in the Southern Military District. Since April 2018, they have been on duty over the Caspian Sea. In addition, the military announced plans to equip an air regiment in the Krasnoyarsk Territory with these systems by 2024. The head of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov, announced in December 2019 that Russia was expanding the geography of the use of the Kinzhal hypersonic aviation complex and had already tested it in the Arctic.

In February of this year, Russian MiG-31K fighters with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles arrived in Syria for exercises .

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:31:42am

Got covfefe. Also cooked breakfast for the kids; my daughter wanted eggs in the middle of bread, since I haven’t done that for them for a while. It took me a round to get back on the horse, so to speak, but they loved it once I got it. Then I made myself a breakfast burrito with an egg, the last of the leftover corned beef, and some cheese.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:31:58am

ASHLAND, Ky. (WKYT) - A federal judge has ruled that former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis violated the constitutional rights of two same-sex couples when she denied them marriage licenses during the summer of 2015.

In an order published Friday afternoon, United States District Judge David L. Bunning of the Eastern District of Kentucky granted summary judgment in a civil lawsuit that the two couples, David Ermold and David Moore, and James Yates and Will Smith, filed against Davis.

That settles - without a trial - the question of whether Davis violated their constitutional rights, but no decision has been made yet on whether Davis will be on the hook for the likely hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees accrued over the six-and-a-half years of litigation.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:35:18am

re: #88 Dangerman

Wow. That was still going on?!? Kim will now learn that no one from the right will be there for her, like they were 6 years ago, since she is no longer politically useful. She deserves to be homeless.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:39:12am
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces are blockading his country’s largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warned Saturday that the strategy will fail and Moscow will lose in the long run if it doesn’t end its war,” the Associated Press reports.

“Zelenskyy accused the Kremlin of deliberately creating ‘a humanitarian catastrophe ’ and appealed for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet with him, using a huge Moscow stadium rally where Putin lavished praise on Russian forces Friday to illustrate what was at stake.”

Not war
Even an unprovoked one

Targeting civilians to effect change is terrorism

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 19, 2022 • 6:40:50am

Sigh…5

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:10:00am

re: #76 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:13:49am

re: #91 HRH Stanley Sea

Sigh…5

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Me too. For some reason this one took me a long time.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:13:52am

Good thread here on absurdity of the Hunter story:

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:15:18am

re: #75 darthstar

Oh, I should go back to sleep for a half hour before I make coffee.

Or an hour and a half, as the case may be. I blame Merle and Milo, who did some masterful dog cuddles without being heavy.

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steve_davis  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:15:51am

still suffering some PTSD over sautee.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:17:46am

re: #96 steve_davis

still suffering some PTSD over sautee.

You’re only allowed five letters. Everyone misses a word eventually.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:23:38am

There’s little worse than watching Arsenal try to hold a lead.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:27:23am

Bah. Really thought I had it on 3.

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steve_davis  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:28:39am

re: #97 darthstar

You’re only allowed five letters. Everyone misses a word eventually.

no, i got it. i just had to check it both online, and in an actual dictionary, because I assumed online was lying to me.

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jeffreyw  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:31:18am

re: #92 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Western good morning!

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Love the look of those. What are they?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:31:42am

An annoying one
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No Malarkey!  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:43:12am

This took guts. Let’s hope that when they return home, Russia has a new government.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:45:22am

Update on the Sucker Convoy. MPD isn’t fucking around. When a Trucker stopped and got out of his vehicle, Police said it would be treated as an abandoned vehicle, subject to search and impound, and the guy got back in and kept driving.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:45:38am
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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:47:52am

re: #104 darthstar

“What is it you hate about America that you’re giving American truck drivers the finger?”

FFS. These Maga Nazis really are tone deaf…as they wear their “Let’s Go Brandon” shit.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:50:56am

re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Wasn’t Ted and GQPers outraged over M&Ms 3 weeks ago? The latest outrage is on par.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:54:48am

re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:56:39am

Voronehz is about 300km from Kharkiv on the Russian side.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 7:58:44am

re: #106 Dr. Matt

“What is it you hate about America that you’re giving American truck drivers the finger?”

FFS. These Maga Nazis really are tone deaf…as they wear their “Let’s Go Brandon” shit.

I have a friend whose husband wears an LGB hat. Next time I see it I’m going to ask if he’s really siding with Russia or just saying ‘fuck Joe Biden’ because he thinks it’s cute…because it looks like he siding with Russia. See if he stops wearing it.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:03:55am

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:05:44am

This guy is one Markos over at dKos often quotes - his military analysis is pretty good.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:07:43am

re: #112 darthstar

This guy is one Markos over at dKos often quotes - his military analysis is pretty good.

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Okay, so he’s not just a twitter warrior/analyst:

Galina Starovoitova Fellow
@TheWilsonCenter
. MLitt in Early Modern History, St Andrews. MA in China Studies, Peking University

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ericblair  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:08:10am

re: #103 No Malarkey!

This took guts. Let’s hope that when they return home, Russia has a new government.

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From a little poking around, this gets complicated. It’s pretty believable that these suits were chosen and packed months ago, but also it’s clear they weren’t the ones the crew wore for launch. Unless there’s some real technical reason why they would have to change suits, you’d think that gung-ho Russian military would see the political problem and not wear them. But they did.

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Jay C  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:11:56am

re: #113 darthstar

Okay, so he’s not just a twitter warrior/analyst:

So not, as I saw somewhere on the ‘Toobz, “an analysis by an LTG” (LapTop General)?

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No Malarkey!  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:12:56am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:13:00am

re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg

Bah. Really thought I had it on 3.

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That was pretty good. How did you get from 1/2 to 3? Impressive.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:15:47am

re: #115 Jay C

So not, as I saw somewhere on the ‘Toobz, “an analysis by an LTG” (LapTop General)?

It’s a good, albeit long, thread. He looks at Russia’s land and sea forces and explains that Putin chose a land attack because it was more sexy whereas a seabased assault would have been more efficient. Then because Russia didn’t expect resistance, didn’t set up a proper blitzkrieg assault:

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:16:52am

Damn…nice shot.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:19:34am

re: #117 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:22:08am

First raindrops arrived…almost 90 minutes late. But they’re big, coastal drops…my hydrangeas will be happy.

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ericblair  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:24:02am

Looks like Kherson has gone from Russian-occupied to contested; also, Russian forces seem to be digging in with hasty defenses instead of pressing forward.

From all the reports of RU colonels and general officers getting blowed up, and the various destroyed Tor and Buk vehicles, Ukraine has been quite successful targeting Command and Control and Air Defense locations, which is exactly what they want to do.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:29:27am

re: #110 darthstar

I have a friend whose husband wears an LGB hat. Next time I see it I’m going to ask if he’s really siding with Russia or just saying ‘fuck Joe Biden’ because he thinks it’s cute…because it looks like he siding with Russia. See if he stops wearing it.

Tell him your heard it means “lesbian, gay, bi”

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:30:33am

re: #122 ericblair

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Looks like Kherson has gone from Russian-occupied to contested; also, Russian forces seem to be digging in with hasty defenses instead of pressing forward.

From all the reports of RU colonels and general officers getting blowed up, and the various destroyed Tor and Buk vehicles, Ukraine has been quite successful targeting Command and Control and Air Defense locations, which is exactly what they want to do.

“temporarily occupied Kherson” - Push them back across the river and Putin’s going to have to fire someone else - maybe even Tucker Carlson.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:31:18am

re: #123 Dangerman

Tell him your heard it means “lesbian, gay, bi”

Q - I’ll ask if the Q is just implied.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:34:22am

Saw this on FB
Adult merit badges on Amazon

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The Squire of Logos  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:38:17am

re: #126 darthstar

Saw this on FB
Adult merit badges on Amazon

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Nice! I really like those. I might have to get a couple for one of my hats.

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:42:10am

re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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I’m so old, I remember the conservatives being triggered by Kofi Annan doing a cameo on “Sesame Street” in the lead-up to Iraq War II.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:43:29am

DC convoy speaker says Black Lives Matter street will be ‘tarred and feathered’ (The Hill)

Because you can’t lynch a street. It’s a white nationalist protest, and they can’t keep their mouths shut to hide that fact.

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ericblair  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:44:18am

re: #124 darthstar

“temporarily occupied Kherson” - Push them back across the river and Putin’s going to have to fire someone else - maybe even Tucker Carlson.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:45:20am

re: #130 ericblair

Well if he’s going to dress like that in battle…

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:46:40am

Thread.

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ericblair  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:48:21am

re: #131 darthstar

Well if he’s going to dress like that in battle…

I feel a lot better about General Jackass being killed then some 19 year old draftee who didn’t know what he was doing there.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:48:34am

Just got a pic on FB of my mom(right) and her sister Rita getting on a boat from Ireland to Canada. Must be 1958 because that’s when she emigrated and married my dad.

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austin_blue  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:49:56am

re: #35 Belafon

kxt.org here in DFW was carrying SxSW here on the radio.

We opened the backdoor to listen! It was Not Bad.

We live, literally, 1000 feet from the stage.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2022 • 8:59:11am

re: #130 ericblair

I also throw in the warlord/general Magomed Tushaev, he commanded a “special” brigade and was reportedly higher up the Kadyrov food chain. Count him as at least a one-star.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:07:49am

re: #130 ericblair

They have no secure communications and keep getting killed when they contact Moscow.

If Putin started this war to neutralize the threat his generals pose to him, it would look just like what we’re seeing.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:10:19am

re: #129 Punish Domestic Terrorists

DC convoy speaker says Black Lives Matter street will be ‘tarred and feathered’ (The Hill)

Because you can’t lynch a street. It’s a white nationalist protest, and they can’t keep their mouths shut to hide that fact.

It’s pathetic

They got nothing
They’re getting no attention

So it’s this

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ericblair  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:15:11am

re: #137 Punish Domestic Terrorists

They have no secure communications and keep getting killed when they contact Moscow.

If Putin started this war to neutralize the threat his generals pose to him, it would look just like what we’re seeing.

Secure communications need both material and organization, and is not easy. You need to have the actual devices, in the right places to communicate properly, and compatible ones to actually be able to talk to each other securely. You need to be able to receive crypto keys, which should change on a daily basis. Obviously, none of this is happening with Russian forces, who seem also to be using the Ukrainian cellular networks. So, figure out General’s phone number, geolocate phone, tell the drone, artillery, whatever guys to put some metal on this here location, and boom.

Also, I don’t believe it’s totally crazy to think that Putin might not want an intact military, newly pissed off at being abused in a stupid foreign war, back on Russian soil. If you only care about self-preservation and not the security of the country, better to have them ground up and depleted and not a threat.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:21:36am

It’s only been what, 3 or 4 weeks, and the GQPers are falling apart. But it’s on point considering their entire pathetic lives were turned upside down for having to wear a mask to buy milk and eggs.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:24:08am

re: #134 darthstar

Just got a pic on FB of my mom(right) and her sister Rita getting on a boat from Ireland to Canada. Must be 1958 because that’s when she emigrated and married my dad.

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I love old pics of families. My parents, born in the 30s and 40s, did a remarkable job capturing their lives on film even as teenagers. Really is an amazing time capsule.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:25:21am

re: #140 Dr. Matt

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It’s only been what, 3 or 4 weeks, and the GQPers are falling apart. But it’s on point considering their entire pathetic lives were turned upside down for having to wear a mask to buy milk and eggs.

They’re saying whatever they’re told to say. We’re dealing with right-wing authoritarians who get in trouble with their peers if they think for themselves.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:27:35am

So we had wedge salads with our dinner last night…wife likes Blue Cheese dressing, I go with 1,000 Island (sue me). Didn’t feel like defrosting bacon and cooking it so I put a couple of slices of leftover corned beef on the grill to warm them up a bit, then crumbled that over the salads. Did not suck. (Also, corned beef and 1000 Island? Tasted like a fuckin’ Reuben!)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:27:57am

re: #78 Dr Lizardo

Roskosmos: “Oops, we accidentally gave them the wrong coordinates for their return to Earth and they flew into the Sun instead. Our bad.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They will target the American astronauts to land in Donetsk.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:35:37am
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wrenchwench  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:36:52am

I think they’re birbs. I think they’ll tweet someday. That’s why they’re in my twitter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:37:49am

re: #140 Dr. Matt

It’s only been what, 3 or 4 weeks, and the GQPers are falling apart. But it’s on point considering their entire pathetic lives were turned upside down for having to wear a mask to buy milk and eggs.

Keep in mind that people in rural areas are even more impacted by increases in gasoline prices, and that rural areas tend to vote GOP.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:39:02am

re: #139 ericblair

Also, I don’t believe it’s totally crazy to think that Putin might not want an intact military, newly pissed off at being abused in a stupid foreign war, back on Russian soil. If you only care about self-preservation and not the security of the country, better to have them ground up and depleted and not a threat.

He has China on his back door step. He needs to tread carefully.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:41:45am

Guns for Buns sounds like a good program…

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:43:25am

re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He has China on his back door step. He needs to tread carefully.

China may be eyeing territory up to the Urals as part of their sphere of influence, given the dismal performance of the Russian military.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:43:55am

re: #149 darthstar

Guns for Buns sounds like a good program…

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Also…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:46:05am

re: #130 ericblair

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I’m wondering if some under-the-table help with comint might be helping the Ukrainians target these bigwigs. They may be doing it on their own, too, especially since the Russians’ pathetic performance could reasonably be expected to electronic security.

Btw, I don’t particularly like the idea of targeting these guys individually, asshole Putinists though they are. It’s war, though. You aren’t supposed to like it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:47:11am

re: #150 Hecuba’s daughter

China may be eyeing territory up to the Urals as part of their sphere of influence, given the dismal performance of the Russian military.

On the other hand, China is much more interested in Taiwan and they know that Russia is in no position to give them any major trouble if they commit themselves there.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:47:20am

Fuck people bitching about gas prices. Drive less. Get a hybrid.

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jaunte  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:48:10am

re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg

Klaus Schwab? I guess they need to eventually expand beyond Soros for boogeymen.

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sagehen  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:49:17am

re: #150 Hecuba’s daughter

China may be eyeing territory up to the Urals as part of their sphere of influence, given the dismal performance of the Russian military.

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jaunte  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:50:11am

re: #156 sagehen

Siberia is close, and has a lot of resources.

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wrenchwench  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:51:19am

Competitive dancing.

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ericblair  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:52:15am

re: #152 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I’m wondering if some under-the-table help with comint might be helping the Ukrainians target these bigwigs. They may be doing it on their own, too, especially since the Russians’ pathetic performance could reasonably be expected to electronic security.

Btw, I don’t particularly like the idea of targeting these guys individually, asshole Putinists though they are. It’s war, though. You aren’t supposed to like it.

I’m pretty sure Ukrainians are getting all the help the West can give with intel. My understanding is that there’s a one-hour intelligence loop, just enough time to sanitize whatever needs to be sanitized from the data, and then the results passed on to Ukraine.

Those generals are military Command and Control targets. They are far more responsible for the war and its conduct than some conscript in a tank. I don’t see any ethical or legal problem targeting them personally.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:53:49am

re: #159 ericblair

I’m pretty sure Ukrainians are getting all the help the West can give. My understanding is that there’s a one-hour intelligence loop, just enough time to sanitize whatever needs to be sanitized from the data, and then the results passed on to Ukraine.

Those generals are military Command and Control targets. They are far more responsible for the war and its conduct than some conscript in a tank. I don’t see any ethical or legal problem targeting them personally.

I see absolutely no ethical issues concerned with killing enemy combatants or providing intelligence to allies in order to do so.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:55:15am

re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg

Their decades old obsession with Soros is really pathetic.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:56:41am

re: #156 sagehen

China doesn’t want that much territory. They have enough. Maybe a few neighboring areas would be nice…but economic domination doesn’t require managing that much real estate. That’s where Putin’s fucking up. He could have continued to establish puppet governments to “expand” his empire without claiming them as part of Russia. And he could still hold his plywood missile parades in Red Square.

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sagehen  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:57:31am

re: #158 wrenchwench

Competitive dancing.

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I’m so enthralled with the costumes it’s hard to focus on what the feet are doing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2022 • 9:59:22am

re: #159 ericblair

I’m pretty sure Ukrainians are getting all the help the West can give with intel. My understanding is that there’s a one-hour intelligence loop, just enough time to sanitize whatever needs to be sanitized from the data, and then the results passed on to Ukraine.

Those generals are military Command and Control targets. They are far more responsible for the war and its conduct than some conscript in a tank. I don’t see any ethical or legal problem targeting them personally.

And they are enemy military in a war zone; they aren’t back in Moscow.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:01:00am

re: #146 wrenchwench

I think they’re birbs. I think they’ll tweet someday. That’s why they’re in my twitter.

- Sam Stone: You know, Angela’s on that ecology committee, too. Big deal. Last month they saved the condor. You ever see a condor?
- Harvey Holroyd: Not up close.
- Sam Stone: Scare the shit out of you!”
Serial, 1980

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wrenchwench  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:02:49am

re: #163 sagehen

I’m so enthralled with the costumes it’s hard to focus on what the feet are doing.

Garments are part of what they are judged on.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:03:19am

re: #162 darthstar

China doesn’t want that much territory. They have enough. Maybe a few neighboring areas would be nice…but economic domination doesn’t require managing that much real estate. That’s where Putin’s fucking up. He could have continued to establish puppet governments to “expand” his empire without claiming them as part of Russia. And he could still hold his plywood missile parades in Red Square.

As long as they are under his military and economic sphere of influence, it does not matter if they are independent states or not.

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wrenchwench  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:04:52am

I had to go find this. I saw it last night, and I’m trying to remember it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:05:10am

re: #166 wrenchwench

Garments are part of what they are judged on.

And there are band contests, too. (Best bass solo)

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wrenchwench  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:06:07am

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

And there are band contests, too. (Best bass solo)

Drumming circles will move what’s in you.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:10:02am

re: #170 wrenchwench

Drumming circles will move what’s in you.

At the Rally to Preserve Sanity they moved me across the Capitol Mall.

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ericblair  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:14:32am

re: #164 Hecuba’s daughter

And they are enemy military in a war zone; they aren’t back in Moscow.

Russia and Ukraine are at war. A general in Moscow would be a valid target; the Russian Ministry of Defense would be a valid target. Ukraine has already fired missiles at airfields in Russia to destroy their missiles, but it seems Russia doesn’t like to talk about that much.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:16:23am

She treated her office like it was part of her bigoted religious organization, and it looks like she’ll be made to pay for that massive personal failure.

Republicans will call you a “hero” for fucking around, then throw you under the bus when it’s time to find out.

Michael Garltand, one of the attorneys for Ermold and Moore, said “everybody should be treated fairly and equally under the eyes of the law.” He tells Rolling Stone, “My clients are happy they’re finally going to get a day in court after over seven years… The judge rejected all of Davis’ excuses, which were ridiculous.”

Gartland says now a jury will decide how much in compensatory damages Davis will have to pay and whether she should be forced to pay punitive ones.
In 2015, Davis cited “God’s authority” as to why she shouldn’t have to grant marriage licenses to gay couples. She then became a hero to right-wing politicians, including Ted Cruz and Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin. However, four years later, Bevin’s attorneys stated in court that she — and not Kentucky’s taxpayers — must be responsible for the, at the time, more than $220,000 in legal fees.

Clerk Who Denied Marriage Licenses to Gay Couples Violated Constitutional Rights, Finds Federal Judge (Rolling Stone)

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:16:56am

re: #159 ericblair

I’m pretty sure Ukrainians are getting all the help the West can give with intel. My understanding is that there’s a one-hour intelligence loop, just enough time to sanitize whatever needs to be sanitized from the data, and then the results passed on to Ukraine.

Those generals are military Command and Control targets. They are far more responsible for the war and its conduct than some conscript in a tank. I don’t see any ethical or legal problem targeting them personally.

Certainly. They are targets, important ones. There is a huge gulf, though, between thinking something is legal and actually liking it. I feel a little like I did, and do, about my Vietnam service 50 years ago. I am more convinced than ever that everything I did was fully ethical and moral. I didn’t like a lot of it though and I think only a psychopath (Republican militia goof?) would.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:17:23am

re: #159 ericblair

I’m pretty sure Ukrainians are getting all the help the West can give with intel. My understanding is that there’s a one-hour intelligence loop, just enough time to sanitize whatever needs to be sanitized from the data, and then the results passed on to Ukraine.

Those generals are military Command and Control targets. They are far more responsible for the war and its conduct than some conscript in a tank. I don’t see any ethical or legal problem targeting them personally.

Legitimate targets in combat. Its not like assassinating a political leader.

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wrenchwench  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:17:59am

In case anyone’s keeping track, I wordled a three.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 273 3/6

🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟦🟦🟦
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:18:39am
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lizardofid  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:19:06am

re: #161 Dr. Matt

Their decades old obsession with Soros is really pathetic.

It’s the classic rock of rw tropes. An oldie but a goldie!

Oh, hello everyone.

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gocart mozart  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:19:23am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:23:17am

I got lucky. My daughter went shopping for a prom dress, and she liked the $200 dress more than the $800 dresses!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:25:02am
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:27:25am

re: #156 sagehen

[Embedded content]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Brought to you by Laudanum)

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ‘twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:28:01am

In 1943 a security breach allowed the US Navy to launch a long-range ambush of ADM Yamamoto, commander of the Pearl Harbor attack. It was intended as revenge, not a reduction in Japan’s warfighting ability. You can tell from the code name—Operation Vengance.

en.wikipedia.org

There were a few quiet mutterings about “assassination”, but they were based on sportsmanship more than morality.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:29:25am

re: #181 No Malarkey!

[Embedded content]

The Polish leader may be authoritarian but he really, really hates Russia.

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nines09  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:33:24am

I learned this today.

reddit.com

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:35:07am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:37:23am

I may be totally wrong on this, but then Russia has been lying about COVID since Day 1 — I am skeptical about the steep decline in cases there since the invasion started. Certainly possible — but a lot of Europe has shown increases over the past few weeks apparently due to BA.2

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nines09  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:39:21am

re: #146 wrenchwench

Baby dinosaurs.

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wrenchwench  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:39:25am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:39:52am

re: #184 Hecuba’s daughter

The Polish leader may be authoritarian but he really, really hates Russia.

Putin’s ambition to recreate the Russian Empire would encompass Poland.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:42:00am

re: #185 nines09

I learned this today.

reddit.com

Yeah. But now you can’t keep your jacket buttoned up. 😐

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:42:10am

I just got the weirdest phone call over my cell phone. I got a call with a recorded message that said my power was about to be cut off. I pay my electric bill (PECO) online which means they get it directly from my credit union and apply it to my account. I left a warning on Find Who Calls You website and tried to call PECO. Of course the offices are closed on Saturday. Personally I think it is Inspire trying to scare me into getting their service.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:43:26am

re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter

I may be totally wrong on this, but then Russia has been lying about COVID since Day 1 — I am skeptical about the steep decline in cases there since the invasion started. Certainly possible — but a lot of Europe has shown increases over the past few weeks apparently due to BA.2

They may have let it infect a very high percentage of their population by now, which could cause a real drop, but they’re probably lying.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:43:58am

re: #190 No Malarkey!

Putin’s ambition to recreate the Russian Empire would encompass Poland.

Yep. Russia invaded Poland with Germany at the beginning of WW2. And there’s always the personal hatred due to his belief Russia murdered his twin brother by taking down his plane.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:44:24am

re: #192 PhillyPretzel

I just got the weirdest phone call over my cell phone. I got a call with a recorded message that said my power was about to be cut off. I pay my electric bill (PECO) online which means they get it directly from my credit union and apply it to my account. I left a warning on Find Who Calls You website and tried to call PECO. Of course the offices are closed on Saturday. Personally I think it is Inspire trying to scare me into getting their service.

Probably someone who wants you to “pay your bill” with a gift card to avoid this “shutoff.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:46:05am

re: #193 Punish Domestic Terrorists

They may have let it infect a very high percentage of their population by now, which could cause a real drop, but they’re probably lying.

Or thanks to the war, they’re not doing as much testing.

Edited for correction.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:49:07am

re: #195 Punish Domestic Terrorists

That too. I blocked them so if they want to contact me they have to use another number.

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nines09  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:49:14am

re: #191 Dr. Matt

Yeah. But now you can’t keep your jacket buttoned up. 😐

I think I would lose the RAF jacket the moment I could replace it.

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William Lewis  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:51:16am

Got a couple of goodies in the mail today.

First, St. Javelin:

And this is not a good image of it, but I bought a print from a photographer online. It’s a small gem of a print made by one of _his_ friends who is a master printer. It’s a gorgeous piece of work and worth the several weeks of ramen, hot dogs and peanut butter its price left me with.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:55:33am

re: #170 wrenchwench

Drumming circles will move what’s in you.

drumming and chanting

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 10:59:03am

re: #177 DodgerFan1988

There is no cancel culture. None. And no first amendment problem.

again, What part of “Congress shall make no law…” do you not understand? Nobody has the right to access to a media platform.

Granted, there are issues with Internet monopolies and their power over the distribution of information, but that is another issue related to - but independent of - Free Speech.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 19, 2022 • 11:00:44am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2022 • 11:01:56am

re: #184 Hecuba’s daughter

The Polish leader may be authoritarian but he really, really hates Russia.

He recalls that they were once part of the Russian empire until 1917, and but for Trotsky and Stalin squabbling outside the gates of Warsaw in 1920, they would have been part of the USSR.

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William Lewis  Mar 19, 2022 • 11:12:49am

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

May she have much personal growth in prison.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2022 • 11:14:53am

re: #199 William Lewis

If thou hast two loaves of bread, sell one and buy flowers, for bread is food for the body, but flowers are food for the mind.
—Galen of Pergamon

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John Hughes  Mar 19, 2022 • 11:29:30am

re: #164 Hecuba’s daughter

And they are enemy military in a war zone; they aren’t back in Moscow.

Funny how these days the aggressor gets to decide what the “war zone” is.

Imagine if in the second world war the allies decided not to bomb Berlin because it was “outside the war zone”.

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2022 • 11:49:22am

re: #192 PhillyPretzel

The term for that is vishing.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Mar 19, 2022 • 1:00:05pm

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