The Bob Cesca Podcast: Spider Made of Pipe Cleaners

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

Spider Made Of Pipe Cleaners — [Explicit Content] We remember the great Eric Boehlert. History made: Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed to be the next associate justice of the Supreme Court. COVID is back whether we like it or not. Letitia James is asking a judge to hold Trump in contempt. DOJ is allegedly investigating Trump’s document theft. Republican child predators. The party of Josh Duggar. Truth Social continues to crash and burn. 1/6 committee will seek Trump testimony. With Jody Hamilton, David TRex Ferguson, music by Davy Dacy, Keenen Blockson, and more!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 2:51:00pm

Anti-vaxxers cause US life expectancy to fall for the second year in a row.

npr.org

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gocart mozart  Apr 7, 2022 • 2:55:30pm
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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 2:55:49pm

re: #220 Barefoot Grin

Maybe they can make that joke when they do Ironheart.

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JC1  Apr 7, 2022 • 2:59:50pm

re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Anti-vaxxers cause US life expectancy to fall for the second year in a row.

npr.org

On a bright side, since the wide availability of vaccines, most of the deaths are Trump voters.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:01:00pm

re: #2 gocart mozart

What kind of crime would I have to commit to meet this judge?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:04:23pm
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:07:34pm

There are claims of Ukrainian war crimes (of course, Russia), but there are also claims that foreign fighters are committing war crimes while fighting on UA’s behalf. It’s serious stuff, but I just burst out laughing when I saw the tag on this guys vest.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:10:05pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m sure the virus is very concerned for her well being.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:14:03pm

State-run facility (run by Republicans)

DES MOINES — A state facility for Iowans with intellectual and developmental disabilities that has been under scrutiny from federal investigators will be closed in 2024, state leaders announced Thursday.

The Glenwood Resource Center in Glenwood in southwest Iowa will continue to provide care to its residents over the next two years.

The state will relocate residents — around 200 — to another facility or into community-based care and also assist the Glenwood staffers — around 600 — in finding a new job, according to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ office.

The U.S. Department of Justice in 2019 opened an investigation into two state-run facilities that house people with complex behavioral or medical needs: Glenwood Resource Center and Woodward Resource Center.

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Glenwood Resource Center to be closed in 2024, Iowa Republican leaders announce (Omaha World-Herald)

Facility for Iowans with intellectual and developmental disabilities has been under scrutiny from federal justice department

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:14:58pm

re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This part:

Federal officials in 2020 found the Glenwood facility likely violated the constitutional rights of residents by subjecting them to human experiments.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:16:50pm

Today’s Worldle super easy on account of having been there before.
Today’s Wordle on the other hand was not not my finest.

V0FZYlQ2MW1wWUZnbms3QmpVelNMVk1IbStLakxxVkhoM0luRjh2YTVNZzJIQTBpSHh6L1pJRk9ETlF3THA4QWtFKzdJSmNRaUNVOUNia3B6SzFMYWE5M1U0WGh3NjNBZGxBY0FOWCt3ajNWQ3QyZWhLNFZxM0JOTEp4UEhaWkUxSmlwOTdpYmxiOUZySzNFbXE4b3IyT2lCT2pWMFhYZmYyMjJycVdFTEowUTUyZVEzNnRBZmR3VXRSUVhpL0hobkFXVlVZbUZyV1RBZmFwSFdGMXlYZz09OjrvyZtY5AydQw2xHLvYw7Yi

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wrenchwench  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:17:24pm

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This part:

They should refrain from finding new jobs for somebody.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:18:37pm

Because what could possibly go wrong?

Report: Facebook Eyes ‘Zuck Bucks’ And NFTs As It Loses Users To TikTok

Facebook parent company Meta reportedly has plans to launch a new digital currency for the metaverse. Internally, employees at Meta are calling the unannounced currency “Zuck Bucks.” These new digital dollars won’t likely be connected to any kind of blockchain, but don’t worry; Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has plans to integrate NFTs into its social apps too, because we live in 2022 aka Hell.

According to a new report from the Financial Times, Meta has a number of virtual coin- and currency-related projects and plans in various stages of development, as the company looks for more ways to make cash as it loses users to rival social media apps like TikTok and suffers huge losses on Wall Street.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:22:45pm

Leave now or face death, Donbas residents told as Vladimir Putin looks for a victory in the east
Ukraine’s military says Moscow pouring troops into region after abandoning attempt to take Kyiv, with two-pronged offensive developing

(The Telegraph)
twitter.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:25:46pm

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Moran weighs in on that thread.

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EPR-radar  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:27:26pm

re: #15 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The only real threat to the US is from the Republican Party.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:32:59pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:36:08pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:36:47pm

re: #16 EPR-radar

The only real threat to the US is from the Republican Party.

I realise it is hard to form a nationwide party from scratch, but there’s this slew of so-called never-Trumpers who claim they are trying to take back their party. I don’t think they can do it, because their party has always been this, except now more intensely.

The only other nationwide party besides the Dems and the GOP is the Libertarian Party, and they rarely win things beyond a handful of local elections. (Our never-Trumper state senator who jumped ship and joined the Libertarians was defeated by a wingnut Republican in the last election.)

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Charles Johnson  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:38:19pm

And now, 3 minutes and 22 seconds with a total piece of shit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:38:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:40:29pm

But is it a really a crime if you’re a rich libertarian?

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Dangerman  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:40:47pm

re: #15 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Moran weighs in on that thread.

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‘an’ what?


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gwangung  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:42:47pm

re: #23 Dangerman

Didn’t do much good for the Jewish folks when the Nazis came around…

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EPR-radar  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:42:53pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

McConnell is a Republican. His “morality” is seizing power for Republicans by any methods that have a veneer of legality.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:47:36pm

High wind warning here extended to 9PM. Winds are fifty, higher in gusts.

I was really concerned about being blown off the highway driving to the county seat for our booster shots.

All the way there the traction control light was lit on the dashboard.

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Dangerman  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:49:14pm

in one photo, Biden and Jackson show how “person, woman, man, camera, tv” is done

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:50:53pm

re: #27 Dangerman

All of that and Joe is giving a warning to those justices who were put in by DT.

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Dangerman  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:51:49pm
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:52:11pm

Bassist covers Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” on an instrument bigger than she is

Youtube Video

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:53:53pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:54:02pm

re: #29 Dangerman

Who is using that old photo of Graham? Graham isn’t chair of anything.

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Dangerman  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:56:05pm

re: #32 EPR-radar

Who is using that old photo of Graham? Graham isn’t chair of anything.

i think it was just to get that sort of expression on his puss

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 7, 2022 • 3:59:13pm

re: #32 EPR-radar

But he is Trump’s Groom of the Stool

The Groom of the Stool was a male servant in the household of the English monarch who was responsible for assisting the king in his toileting needs. It is a matter of some debate as to whether the duties involved cleaning the king’s bottom, but the groom is known to have been responsible for supplying a bowl, water and towels and also for monitoring the king’s diet and bowel movements

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EPR-radar  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:03:13pm

re: #33 Dangerman

i think it was just to get that sort of expression on his puss

If so, that’s the kind of lie our side doesn’t need to be telling.

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EPR-radar  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:04:18pm

re: #34 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Graham’s innovation in this role was the novelty of removing colon polyps from his host with his teeth.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:07:02pm
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:08:25pm

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is a good thing that I have not taken my masks off at work. I do not wear them at home.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:14:47pm

re: #34 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

But he is Trump’s Groom of the Stool

The job changed during the Great Bowel Shift.

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darthstar  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:19:10pm

So Ketanji Brown Jackson got confirmed today while I was busy at work? Did any other Soviet sympathizers defect or was it just the three ‘moderates’ - Romney, Murkowski and Collins?

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:21:24pm

Dang. Lightning and thunder in the Greater Philly area. :(

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:22:46pm

re: #41 PhillyPretzel

Dang. Lightning and thunder in the Greater Philly area. :(

I think we’re getting the lighter outer bands of rain from your storm system up here. Be well.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:24:00pm

Local Radar from NWS Philadelphia:
radar.weather.gov

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Jay C  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:24:35pm

re: #40 darthstar

So Ketanji Brown Jackson got confirmed today while I was busy at work? Did any other Soviet sympathizers defect or was it just the three ‘moderates’ - Romney, Murkowski and Collins?

AFAICT, nope.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:32:21pm

It was a great victory today, but I think RVAwonk is right about the fact that this isn’t over for the deplorables.

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gocart mozart  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:34:27pm
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prairiefire  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:40:39pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yes, it’s quite something. About blew my mom and I over.

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darthstar  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:42:02pm

So after two years of DuoLingo Spanish (because I love Mexico) I’ve added a new language - Ukrainian. Tato i Mama (dad and mom) - Can’t type Cyrillic characters for shit so that’s all you’re getting right now. Maybe Mama Tam (mom is there) or Tak Mama Tam (Yes, mom is there).

No, I’ll never use it, but it will help with looking at the Ukraine maps to know how to pronounce the letters.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:43:55pm

re: #48 darthstar

So after two years of DuoLingo Spanish (because I love Mexico) I’ve added a new language - Ukrainian. Tato i Mama (dad and mom) - Can’t type Cyrillic characters for shit so that’s all you’re getting right now. Maybe Mama Tam (mom is there) or Tak Mama Tam (Yes, mom is there).

No, I’ll never use it, but it will help with looking at the Ukraine maps to know how to pronounce the letters.

I just bought in last month to try and learn Arabic. I’m liking it but really looking forward to getting to words instead of the alphabet and its sounds.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:44:04pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:53:41pm

Guy bought every Pride flag in town it seems.

Dad Has Epic Response After Neighbor Says He ‘Failed’ As A Parent Because He Has Two Gay Kids (Comic Sands, today)

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:53:47pm

This plane is in my neck of the woods. I operate a private aircraft tracker in Salem. I would love to “catch” an oligarch! I wonder what’s around Bedford that he’s interested in?

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:53:54pm

re: #214 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

No peeking at the Wordle stuff if you haven’t done it yet. There’s a hint in here.

Here is a little Wordle song, full of spoilers:

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:54:48pm

re: #52 Sherlock Hound

This plane is in my neck of the woods. I operate a private aircraft tracker in Salem. I would love to “catch” an oligarch! I wonder what’s around Bedford that he’s interested in?

A Bedford wife?

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:54:56pm

re: #52 Sherlock Hound

This plane is in my neck of the woods. I operate a private aircraft tracker in Salem. I would love to “catch” an oligarch! I wonder what’s around Bedford that he’s interested in?

[Embedded content]

Weed?

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 7, 2022 • 4:58:12pm

re: #55 Barefoot Grin

Bedford would be convenient for weed. Also cheaper landing fees, and no Boston traffic. (Plenty of 128 traffic, though…)

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:00:26pm

re: #56 Sherlock Hound

Bedford would be convenient for weed. Also cheaper landing fees, and no Boston traffic. (Plenty of 128 traffic, though…)

I favor Haverhill myself.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:05:24pm
From Brexit through to the Partygate scandal, Britain’s posturing prat of a prime minister managed to turn the UK into an international laughing stock—and he’s now landed the country in another pickle over the cancellation of an international LGBT+ conference his own administration organized.

Last year, the Conservative government called on businesses and individuals to sponsor the “Safe To Be Me: A Global Equality Conference” due to take place in London between June 29 to July 1 this year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first official London Pride marches.

(more)

Well, Boris Johnson, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten us into! (The Friendly Atheist at OnlySky)

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mmmirele  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:05:46pm

So the Republicans and the Right are completely losing their shit about pedophiles. Here we have John D. Street, the head of the “biblical counseling” department at the Master’s University in Santa Clarita, California.

Oh and he is so fucking unqualified to counsel ANYONE. But because it’s a church, and churches have no responsibility for fucking up the lives of people they “counsel” (also a case from Grace Community Church, which sponsors this “university”), nothing can be done. Except to broadcast from the hilltops that these people don’t give a shit about pedophiles.

B.A., Cedarville University
M.Div. Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
D.Min., Westminster Theological Seminary

The video is 10 years old, you can find it on YouTube.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:06:34pm

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Then the whole thing went to hell in a handbasket when the government said its plan to criminalize conversion therapy in England and Wales would not include trans people. This immediately prompted an outpouring of outrage—and a boycott of the conference that forced the government to pull the plug.

According to ITV, one hundred leading charities and organizations pulled out of the conference.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:06:39pm

Pink Floyd reunites to support Ukraine

A couple of weeks ago, Pink Floyd’s guitarist and singer David Gilmour was asked if he’d seen the Instagram feed of Andriy Khlyvnyuk, frontman of Ukrainian rock band BoomBox. Gilmour had performed live with BoomBox in 2015, at a London benefit gig for the Belarus Free Theatre - they played a brief, endearingly raw set of Pink Floyd songs and Gilmour solo tracks - but events had moved on dramatically since then: at the end of Feburary, Khlyvnyuk had abandoned BoomBox’s US tour in order to fight against the Russian invasion.

On his Instagram, Gilmour found a video of the singer in military fatigues, a rifle slung over his shoulder, standing outside Kyiv’s St Sofia Cathedral, belting out an unaccompanied version of Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow, a 1914 protest song written in honour of the Sich Riflemen who fought both in the first world war and the Ukrainian war of independence. “I thought: that is pretty magical and maybe I can do something with this,” says Gilmour. “I’ve got a big platform that [Pink Floyd] have worked on for all these years. It’s a really difficult and frustrating thing to see this extraordinarily crazy, unjust attack by a major power on an independent, peaceful, democratic nation. The frustration of seeing that and thinking ‘what the fuck can I do?’ is sort of unbearable.”

The result is Hey Hey, Rise Up!, a new single by Pink Floyd that samples Khlyvnyuk’s performance, to be released at midnight on Friday with proceeds going to Ukrainian humanitarian relief.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:07:26pm

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“BREAKING: Ont. is now seeing an estimated 100,000 new #COVID19 infections per day — the highest number of daily infections since the start of the pandemic — prompting experts to warn of increased hospitalizations soon. From
@Megan_Ogilvie
and me:”

These numbers are 6-7 times as high as the cases officially reported in Worldometer or Johns Hopkins. Of course, given that omicron is reputedly milder, many infections may not be reflected in official numbers. I am waiting to see whether there is a corresponding increase in hospitalizations or deaths to confirm a surge.

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JC1  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:08:34pm

re: #48 darthstar

So after two years of DuoLingo Spanish (because I love Mexico) I’ve added a new language - Ukrainian. Tato i Mama (dad and mom) - Can’t type Cyrillic characters for shit so that’s all you’re getting right now. Maybe Mama Tam (mom is there) or Tak Mama Tam (Yes, mom is there).

No, I’ll never use it, but it will help with looking at the Ukraine maps to know how to pronounce the letters.

It’s close enough to other Slavic languages that if you learn it you’ll be able to get by somewhat in Poland, Slovakia, etc as well.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:08:50pm

re: #59 mmmirele

So the Republicans and the Right are completely losing their shit about pedophiles. Here we have John D. Street, the head of the “biblical counseling” department at the Master’s University in Santa Clarita, California.

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Oh and he is so fucking unqualified to counsel ANYONE. But because it’s a church, and churches have no responsibility for fucking up the lives of people they “counsel” (also a case from Grace Community Church, which sponsors this “university”), nothing can be done. Except to broadcast from the hilltops that these people don’t give a shit about pedophiles.

The video is 10 years old, you can find it on YouTube.

Maybe not these people exactly, but their followers are the ones who will quickly shout about how Muhammad took a young girl as a wife when searching for ways to denounce Muslims.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:09:25pm

re: #59 mmmirele

Please excuse me for going local when you wrote John Street.
en.wikipedia.org
A former Mayor of Philadelphia.

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mmmirele  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:09:28pm

re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg

Because what could possibly go wrong?

Report: Facebook Eyes ‘Zuck Bucks’ And NFTs As It Loses Users To TikTok

Facebook parent company Meta reportedly has plans to launch a new digital currency for the metaverse. Internally, employees at Meta are calling the unannounced currency “Zuck Bucks.” These new digital dollars won’t likely be connected to any kind of blockchain, but don’t worry; Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has plans to integrate NFTs into its social apps too, because we live in 2022 aka Hell.

According to a new report from the Financial Times, Meta has a number of virtual coin- and currency-related projects and plans in various stages of development, as the company looks for more ways to make cash as it loses users to rival social media apps like TikTok and suffers huge losses on Wall Street.

Facebook has been there before and tried to introduce a currency called Libra. One of my friends wrote a book called “Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money.” His response:

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:15:26pm

Qanon needs to look in the mirror.

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JC1  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:17:31pm

re: #67 DodgerFan1988

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Qanon needs to look in the mirror.

It’s all projection.

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Jay C  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:19:30pm

re: #67 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

Qanon needs to look in the mirror.

Naaah, they’ll more-likely just bitch about how he should have been up in front of Kentanji Brown Jackson, who would have let him off with a warning….

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:24:42pm

re: #67 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

Qanon needs to look in the mirror.

It’s who they’ve always been.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:24:44pm

re: #62 Hecuba’s daughter

These numbers are 6-7 times as high as the cases officially reported in Worldometer or Johns Hopkins. Of course, given that omicron is reputedly milder, many infections may not be reflected in official numbers. I am waiting to see whether there is a corresponding increase in hospitalizations or deaths to confirm a surge.

The figure was arrived at through sewage testing and hospital counts.

That said, Premier Doug Ford is taking lessons from Govs. DeSantis and Ricketts on how to hide official Covid-19 counts.

And of Covid-19, today in the Panhandle we have 10 people with Covid-19, one in the hospital, and a positivity rate of 1% (but you can only get a test if it’s ordered by a doctor). The fully-vaccinated rate is 45%.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:25:15pm

MOAR PLAIIOS!S!!S!!!

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Charles Johnson  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:25:50pm

Very hostile tortoise.

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gocart mozart  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:26:30pm
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mmmirele  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:29:49pm

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Looks like Yakei won out.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:32:28pm

Daughter1 is reporting in after her debate with the other County Commissioner candidates. First time she met her direct competitor, though the Republican’s husband rewired Dau1’s RV. Small county.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:34:08pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

Very hostile tortoise.

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There’s a metaphor in there somewhere.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:35:52pm

re: #75 mmmirele

Looks like Yakei won out.

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Japanese mytho-history records a handful of female emperors. Looks like they have to add one to the books.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:36:06pm

re: #77 Barefoot Grin

There’s a metaphor in there somewhere.

For today’s SCOTUS vote?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:37:11pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

Very hostile tortoise.

Beware of Guard Tortoise

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:37:12pm

re: #79 Rightwingconspirator

For today’s SCOTUS vote?

Perfect!

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Charles Johnson  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:39:22pm
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mmmirele  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:41:08pm

re: #82 Charles Johnson

Ummmm, you’re beating us out here in South Central Arizona, it’s 93F outside.

ETA: I just had to explain to someone my age what “Wolverines!” means. I mean, I knew this guy lived on another plane, but *wow*.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:41:48pm
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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:43:08pm

re: #49 Rightwingconspirator

I just bought in last month to try and learn Arabic. I’m liking it but really looking forward to getting to words instead of the alphabet and its sounds.

When I make it through Spanish I will be learning Arabic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:43:28pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:45:04pm

re: #72 The Pie Overlord!

MOAR PLAIIOS!S!!S!!!

Yesterday:

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Jay C  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:47:21pm

AAARGH!

Meaningless Milestone Gone By!

Two comments ago was my 12,000th here at LGF

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:48:36pm

My wife, “Betsy” Anymouse, has finished repairing the village flags. When the wind goes back down, I can put the flags up.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:54:07pm

The first of twenty-three pages of documented Republican rapists, child molesters, &c at Daily Kos. (The other pages are linked in the first article.)

Each page has twenty-five Republican perverts.

The diarist says he is not concerned about hypocrites (such as an anti-gay Republican later found to be gay), only criminals.

dailykos.com

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:54:22pm

re: #67 DodgerFan1988

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Qanon needs to look in the mirror.

Another one for the graphic…

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:55:42pm

re: #30 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Bassist covers Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” on an instrument bigger than she is

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Video

Love how she’s getting into the music she is playing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:58:58pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 7, 2022 • 5:59:21pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:00:17pm

re: #91 (((Archangel1)))

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:05:50pm

re: #63 JC1

It’s close enough to other Slavic languages that if you learn it you’ll be able to get by somewhat in Poland, Slovakia, etc as well.

And by “somewhat,” we mean, never let your handy phrasebook leave your hands.(They are kind of similar, but I remember the tale of an acquaintance of mine, trained in British english, whose first exposure to the language in the wild was his landing in Texas. And those variants are of the same language.)

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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:07:27pm

re: #75 mmmirele

Looks like Yakei won out.

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Oh, no, the left has made even the male monkeys weak. What’s the world coming to when a woman can be king.

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EPR-radar  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:08:32pm

re: #95 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Mitt Romney is still a Republican, and as such remains tied to the GOP’s overall pro-Trump, pro-fascism and pro-insurrection stances of his own free will.

The only decent Republican is an ex-Republican.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:12:00pm
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:14:36pm

So the new computer has arrived and I’m getting started at setting it up — and every version of windows is fuglier than the last.

That is all.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:15:18pm

hey, he’s doing yoga poses!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:17:10pm
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wrenchwench  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:17:36pm

re: #53 The Pie Overlord!

Here is a little Wordle song, full of spoilers:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:18:47pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:18:52pm
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mmmirele  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:24:20pm

I got the bills from the endoscopy. I have insurance, but insurance is a crapshoot.

b3JCd05KaFppcVRsbDkrUE1TaEF2WHgrWVNsZjdpbFZwM3NiemthK0FVR0RsSnJLZHZsUWFmRjFlc0FsK25oQmdCdE1uekQxZG93TFhqNTFoMnhqaFkvQWp0cS9RNHdXdjhsbkYvbVJsbDd3bnZIeVBDWXUyQ3lDUHlvNzhlZVMrSkVyOGpBbi9TakszRFJja1QvNUUxakd0cS93MS9XQTNqZ2pNR1lINnhvMVVGUVUvTVptNEx2TDgzd2NsVVN2Ojps2iOeJYGK8lMd3LMQKuUp

And this guy wants me to get a colonoscopy! I put him off—“need to go back to work first.” Yowza.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:27:12pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:27:33pm

re: #106 mmmirele

WC9RZ3lEM2hMa3VvdU1ML3dXVmg1WHZ3SkdKaENidWMySU1MZlVaRmpvaTNIRWRZaUh2TEc4UEJZSXlwZnlndDFRbG9adlhjSVZzVU9ENnJlY1QyaDNNVWdWQlpLTnVGU0dBcC9pc2RPUEgxNjlqMmRUWkg4QnhSSTlPbnNuOUxYUTNXT3VNU3B3NFp1bzdDd2d0MkhkTWhBdEIyQlc3TXVPZXZsblNqOWZLVlJjTWo2QXFud1pGNkUyTlR4MDNXZHBTbmUrT2NES2hUUnpzcWJsUS83bHlmRXFaOXk5Mk93cHYrcnFlc1Zabz06OoDkzl7EpPBp+ZPOsUxrbxE=

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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:30:41pm

re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah, I’m not really opposed to him being grouped with them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:36:12pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:42:05pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:43:33pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:46:44pm

The party of limited government and personal freedom, again worried about people’s junk.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:47:07pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:49:11pm

I have a feeling that Nebr. State Senator Megan Hunt’s “you are not my friends” speech is going to become a Democratic line in state fascist party legislatures.

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EPR-radar  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:52:48pm

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Good. Republicans are the enemies of civilization, and its way past time for D candidates to campaign that way as much as possible.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:55:21pm
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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:58:08pm

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I have a feeling that Nebr. State Senator Megan Hunt’s “you are not my friends” speech is going to become a Democratic line in state fascist party legislatures.

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The dumb thing they pulled is setting the age to 19, that’ll make it an easy target for a lawsuit. The rest of it’s evil.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:58:30pm
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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:59:29pm

re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Makes me think of the dogs in WWZ.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 7, 2022 • 6:59:42pm

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Children are actually in need of special care.”

Shanghai parents will no longer be separated from their kids infected with #Covid19 as long as they “fully comprehend the health risks.” The city reported almost 20,000 new cases Wednesday trib.al

A real disappointment here: the worldometer numbers are way too low; Johns Hopkins is in line with the figures you reported above. Here, I’ve always been relying on worldometer because its presentation is simpler and more useful. Meanwhile, it’s displaying a new count of 1300-1500 for China for the past few days. Per JH, China has a total case count since the pandemic began of about 1.5 million, while worldometer shows 160 thousand. Sigh. Neither figure is right, of course, since China has been dishonest from the beginning, but worldometer is obviously failing big time in accessing real time data.

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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:06:19pm
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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:07:51pm

re: #122 Belafon

Reload, fixed typo.

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jaunte  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:08:54pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:09:34pm

Science and technology for the win (0:58):

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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:11:32pm

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Science and technology for the win (0:58):

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:12:04pm

re: #98 EPR-radar

Mitt Romney is still a Republican, and as such remains tied to the GOP’s overall pro-Trump, pro-fascism and pro-insurrection stances of his own free will.

The only decent Republican is an ex-Republican.

And he’s still so much better than she is that she could besmirch his name. That’s the burn.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:14:37pm

re: #124 jaunte

Mitch passed his Mein Kampf test with flying colors!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:15:31pm

re: #126 Belafon

Landlines? If the government is paying for landlines, why do I get a telephone bill every month?

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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:19:26pm

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Landlines? If the government is paying for landlines, why do I get a telephone bill every month?

She meant landmines and lighter nets. All that research just for fishing is wasted.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:23:04pm
There has been an “unprecedented drop” in the number of Bible users in the United States since last year, according to a report released by the American Bible Society.

The 2022 State of the Bible report, released Wednesday, based its findings on responses collected from a survey of 2,598 U.S. adults conducted in January. The 12th annual report asked Americans a variety of questions about their Bible use and their thoughts on its role in society.

A preface to the report also highlights changes in the percentage of Bible users in the U.S. over time. The American Bible Society defines Bible users as “those who use the Bible at least 3-4 times each year on their own, outside of a church setting.”

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Overall, nearly half of respondents (49%) agreed either “strongly” or “somewhat” that “Bible reading is an important component of a child’s character development,” while an additional 27% disagreed either “strongly” or “somewhat” with that analysis. At 47%, the oldest respondents constituted the largest share of respondents who “strongly agreed” that Bible reading played an important role in a child’s character development.

Thirty-three percent of baby boomers “strongly agreed” that Bible reading was important to a child’s character development, along with 28% of those in Generation X, 19% of millennials and 20% of those in Generation Z.

(more)

American Bible Society survey finds ‘unprecedented drop’ in Bible reading (Christian Post)

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jaunte  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:28:32pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:42:55pm

There is an extensive thread on the hearing between the quoted tweet and the ones I included from the end of the thread

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:49:45pm

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Landlines? If the government is paying for landlines, why do I get a telephone bill every month?

There has been a program, since Reagan I believe, to provide basic phone service to the poor. Though now it’s cell phones. Thus “Obama Phones”

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jaunte  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:51:42pm

Society of Professional Access-seekers preparing for CPAC to return from studying in Hungary.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 7, 2022 • 7:55:53pm

re: #62 Hecuba’s daughter

These numbers are 6-7 times as high as the cases officially reported in Worldometer or Johns Hopkins. Of course, given that omicron is reputedly milder, many infections may not be reflected in official numbers. I am waiting to see whether there is a corresponding increase in hospitalizations or deaths to confirm a surge.

Without doing a thorough deep dive on this, my at a glance opinion is that the areas that are having omicron sub variant surges rather than small bumps are places that are heavily unvaccinated or never had massive exposure to delta or omicron previously. It’s the reason China had to lock down that area where it popped up. The vaccine that China had was crap, and they seem to have dodged Delta so now omicron is facing a population with no exposure to later variants and a vaccine that barely worked in the first place against the initial strain.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:02:55pm

GOP=Grisly Old Perverts: Every accusation is a confession.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:11:51pm
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mmmirele  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:20:04pm

Man, NYC really has itself in the shit with their new mayor.

Mayor Adams invokes apostles to justify policy of clearing NYC homeless encampments

Mayor Adams and dozens of faith leaders held a Christian praise rally in City Hall Park on Thursday — an event that featured Adams invoking the apostles as justification for his policy of removing homeless encampments from city streets.

“We are on the wrong road as a city. We have tolerated homelessness, walked past our brothers and sisters who are living in tents on the street, and we’ve normalized it,” he said. “I can’t help but to believe that if Matthew, Mark, Luke and John was here today, he would be on the streets with me, helping people get out of encampments.”

Adams has come under fire for his removal of encampments since his policy came to light two weeks ago. Since then opponents of his decision have called it inhumane and counterproductive, arguing that it’s no way to persuade people who are fearful of staying in homeless shelters that are often dangerous.

Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn) said Thursday that removing the encampments “without a tangible, safe housing solution is totally unacceptable.”

“I’m a Jew,” he said. “But as I understand it, Jesus was about helping the poor and helping those most in need. Throwing homeless people’s belongings away without providing them a safe place to live seems like the opposite of what Jesus would have done.”

The prayer rally, just steps from City Hall, came a day after Sanitation Department workers cleared homeless encampments in the East Village, throwing tents and other belongings into garbage trucks The NYPD arrested seven people as part of the sweep. It came two days after the City Council’s progressive caucus, which represents a majority of the body’s membership, denounced the sweeps and called on Adams to end the policy.

“By demolishing these street encampments, the mayor is telling people, many of whom have nowhere else to go, that they don’t belong,” the caucus said in a statement put out Tuesday.

More of Adams being a shitheel at the link.

nydailynews.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:20:23pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:26:11pm

re: #137 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

GOP=Grisly Old Perverts: Every accusation is a confession.

When your worldview and governing philosophy is one in which preying upon and exploiting the weak and powerless with impunity is a virtue, it’s just a small step to targeting children.

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wrenchwench  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:28:34pm

re: #139 mmmirele

Man, NYC really has itself in the shit with their new mayor.

More of Adams being a shitheel at the link.

nydailynews.com

From your quote:

that if Matthew, Mark, Luke and John was here today, he would be

Yeah, Matthew Mark Lukenjon. That guy.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:30:56pm
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ckkatz  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:31:24pm

From WashPost on Wednesday:

Record heat to bake California as April snowpack nears 70-year low

It’s only early April but spring’s first substantial bout of hot weather is set to scorch large parts of California on Thursday. The pulse of heat should be fairly short-lived, lasting only a couple of days, but scores of records could fall between Thursday and Friday.
*snip*
The National Weather Service is predicting temperatures 10 to 25 degrees above normal over most of California on Thursday and Friday. The biggest differences from normal are forecast for the central and northern portions of the state.
*snip*
On Friday, the California Department of Water Resources conducted its monthly snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada. It measured only 2.5 inches of snow, 4 percent of the average for the date at that location. January, February and March were the driest period on record for the Sierra.

washingtonpost.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:45:18pm
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jaunte  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:46:27pm

re: #145 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

File under “Conversations that never happened.”

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Captain Ron  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:47:15pm

re: #144 ckkatz

From WashPost on Wednesday:

Record heat to bake California as April snowpack nears 70-year low

washingtonpost.com

Yep, second 90+ degree day in a row. I already have tan lines from my t-shirt, and a racing stripe tan on the top of my head from my helmet vents.

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:57:08pm

I watched another video that gives the story on that young girl playing bass. It is quite endearing.

Youtube Video

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 7, 2022 • 8:58:49pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 7, 2022 • 9:01:20pm

This suggests that the recent statement saying the Manhattan DA is still investigating Trump is bullshit.

‘Gutted’: Inside the Manhattan DA’s Unraveling Trump Probe (The Daily Beast)

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Jay C  Apr 7, 2022 • 9:05:12pm

I was just about to sack out when I realized I hadn’t Wordled today, so I hurriedly did no. 292 (a six-shot), and then :

Wordle 293 5/6

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Streak intact. But I now have another entire day to go.
(Should be my worst worry!)

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gwangung  Apr 7, 2022 • 9:05:57pm

re: #150 Punish Domestic Terrorists

This suggests that the recent statement saying the Manhattan DA is still investigating Trump is bullshit.

‘Gutted’: Inside the Manhattan DA’s Unraveling Trump Probe (The Daily Beast)

Surprise, surprise.

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wrenchwench  Apr 7, 2022 • 9:12:21pm

re: #147 Dread Pirate Ron

Yep, second 90+ degree day in a row. I already have tan lines from my t-shirt, and a racing stripe tan on the top of my head from my helmet vents.

Line your helmet with old masks. Keeps the sun off, plus build-your-own-MIPS!

/sunscreen

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JC1  Apr 7, 2022 • 9:19:21pm

re: #151 Jay C

I was just about to sack out when I realized I hadn’t Wordled today, so I hurriedly did no. 292 (a six-shot), and then :

Wordle 293 5/6

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Streak intact. But I now have another entire day to go.
(Should be my worst worry!)

Better than me.

Wordle 293 6/6

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 7, 2022 • 9:37:53pm

re: #126 Belafon

Here in Czech Republic, there’s universal health care.

Glasses, hearing aids, orthodontia, and dentistry (beyond an annual exam/cleaning) are not covered. Homeopathy, however, is covered.

And glasses are very expensive - it’s cheaper for me to order them online from the USA and have them delivered. Seriously….about 60% cheaper 😲

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JC1  Apr 7, 2022 • 9:43:20pm

Okay, why did the House go on holiday for 2 weeks without passing the lend-lease act that the Senate passed unanimously on Wednesday? WTH?

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 7, 2022 • 9:46:36pm

re: #156 JC1

Okay, why did the House go on holiday for 2 weeks without passing the lend-lease act that the Senate passed unanimously on Wednesday? WTH?

It’s infuriating.

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retired cynic  Apr 7, 2022 • 9:51:21pm

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Belafon  Apr 7, 2022 • 10:22:34pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 7, 2022 • 10:23:32pm

wordles

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ckkatz  Apr 7, 2022 • 10:35:04pm
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ckkatz  Apr 7, 2022 • 10:36:55pm
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ckkatz  Apr 7, 2022 • 10:38:27pm
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DodgerFan1988  Apr 7, 2022 • 11:17:33pm

Tankie Carlson delivering another Pro-Kremlin propaganda piece.

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ckkatz  Apr 7, 2022 • 11:40:25pm

A lot of analysts expect the next big battle (in the form of a major Russian attack) to be in the DonBas.

The name ‘DonBas’ comes from the phrase “Donets Coal Basin” and comprises part of the Donets River Basin in the East of Ukraine. It contains the provinces (Oblasts) of Donetsk and Luhansk. Parts of those two provinces are controlled by Russian backed separatists.

en.wikipedia.org

Some reports are that the Russian attack started Thursday. Others say it will likely start in the next few days. Ukrainian civilian authorities have been asking all civilians to leave the area.

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wrenchwench  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:04:32am

Threedle.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 293 3/6

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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:08:13am

re: #165 ckkatz

A lot of analysts expect the next big battle (in the form of a major Russian attack) to be in the DonBas.

The name ‘DonBas’ comes from the phrase “Donets Coal Basin” and comprises part of the Donets River Basin in the East of Ukraine. It contains the provinces (Oblasts) of Donetsk and Luhansk. Parts of those two provinces are controlled by Russian backed separatists.

en.wikipedia.org

Some reports are that the Russian attack started Thursday. Others say it will likely start in the next few days. Ukrainian civilian authorities have been asking all civilians to leave the area.

Ukraine has more tanks than it has room for in its barns. Not joking—they have captured more serviceable MBTs than they have lost from all causes. —-per Oryx.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:15:26am

re: #165 ckkatz

A lot of analysts expect the next big battle (in the form of a major Russian attack) to be in the DonBas.

Regardless, Russia will declare it a victory so they have something to celebrate on May 9th.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:19:49am

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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(more)

American Bible Society survey finds ‘unprecedented drop’ in Bible reading (Christian Post)

A direct result of teaching CRT (Critical Redemption Theory) in our schools!

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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:21:46am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Regardless, Russia will declare it a victory so they have something to celebrate on May 9th.

May they continue to enjoy the same success.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:23:23am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

On April 4, RD’s Katherine Kelaidis appeared on
BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief program to discuss Patriarch Kirill’s influence and power in Putin’s regime, and the ongoing religious theater in Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Russian Orthodoxy is the best way for Putin to appeal to the millions of ethnic Russians who were left stranded outside Russian territory with the breakup of the USSR.

And they are his built-in casus belli to continue to expand Russia’s sphere of influence.

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JC1  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:36:59am

re: #164 DodgerFan1988

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Tankie Carlson delivering another Pro-Kremlin propaganda piece.

Even the fox comment section is slamming Tucker. When you’ve lost those crazies…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:41:03am

I can well understand the argument that Western Media is making a mess of Ukraine reporting (why should they approach this topic any differently than they do everything else?), but that does not mean that Russian media are doing a more reliable job of it.

The Putinversteher are busy pointing our any inconsistencies or errors in Western reporting and brandishing them as proof that we are hearing nothing but exaggerated Capitalist-Zionist-Nazi-Soros propaganda.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:47:49am

All my *-dles

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:50:06am

So, a bit of local news here from Ostrava:

(via machine translation)

The tragic event took place on Friday morning in Ostrava-Hulváky. During excavation work, one of the workers was killed in an explosion and died. It is possible that the source of the explosion was a bomb from World War II. Police are evacuating residents of nearby houses.

Every year in the Ostrava area, police record several cases where World War II ammunition is found during excavation work. For example, last September, workers encountered a 100-kilogram aerial bomb in Ostrava-Poruba while installing a gas line.

Police ordered an evacuation in a 600 meter radius from the site of the blast. The peripheral part of this area reached as far as the busy Porubská street - Hlavní třída intersection. In total, about a thousand people had to be evacuated.

moravskoslezsky.denik.cz

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 12:58:34am

re: #175 Dr Lizardo

Bit of a follow up: that article got the street wrong. The explosion occurred on Knüpferová street, in Ostrava-Mariánské Hory.

Here’s a link to the map of that street; a lot of people live there in apartment buildings.

en.mapy.cz

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Amory Blaine  Apr 8, 2022 • 1:30:23am

Experience What It’s Like To Be Slapped By Will Smith In VR

Youtube Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 1:32:10am

re: #177 Amory Blaine

Experience What It’s Like To Be Slapped By Will Smith In VR

Do you get to virtually make fun of his wife’s illness first?

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:00:35am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Do you get to virtually make fun of his wife’s illness first?

Maybe we could send Will Smith to UN Headquarters to slap some sense into the Russian Ambassador there.

“Keep Ukraine’s name out of your fuckin’ mouth!”

Might be a redemption arc possibility there.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:06:24am

It’s another day ending in “-y”, so that must mean more Russian atrocities. Add it to the list.

Russian troops launched a missile strike at Kramatorsk station, where thousands of people were awaiting evacuation.

Oleksandr Kamyshin, chairman of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia JSC, said that two rockets had hit the station. 30 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.

In Ukrainian - and caution, there’s some NSFW photos of dead people: babel.ua

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:06:25am

re: #179 Dr Lizardo

Maybe we could send Will Smith to UN Headquarters to slap some sense in the Russian Ambassador there.

“Keep Ukraine’s name out of your fuckin’ mouth!”

Might be a redemption arc possibility there.

Fresh Prince of Belarus?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:08:11am

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:08:46am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Fresh Prince of Belarus?

“The US High Representative of Slappin’ the Shit Outta Folks”.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:14:41am

So, what were you doing when you were around about age 11?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:14:50am

re: #180 Dr Lizardo

It’s another day ending in “-y”, so that must mean more Russian atrocities. Add it to the list.

In Ukrainian - and caution, there’s some NSFW photos of dead people: babel.ua

And as the day ends in “-y”, the Putinverstehers will be explaining how this is another Ukrainian false flag designed to gain Western support and prolong their lost cause.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:18:11am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And as the day ends in “-y”, the Putinverstehers will be explaining how this is another Ukrainian false flag designed to gain Western support and prolong their lost cause.

Maybe it’s my Italian blood talking, but if I were king Caesar, I’d give the Putinverstehers a choice; death or permanent exile to Russia.

Because I’d never want anyone to question my magnanimity, I’d generously give them one minute to decide.

Seriously, fuck those asshats. RWNJ’s and tankies can go fuck themselves with a chainsaw.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:22:28am

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

Maybe it’s my Italian blood talking, but if I were king Caesar, I’d give the Putinverstehers a choice; death or permanent exile to Russia.

Because I’d never want anyone to question my magnanimity, I’d generously give them one minute to decide.

Seriously, fuck those asshats. RWNJ’s and tankies can go fuck themselves with a chainsaw.

And no small share of these Putinverstehers are extreme horseshoe lefties who embrace Putin just for being anathema to everything US, ((Cosmoplitan)) and Capitalist.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:31:39am

re: #184 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So, what were you doing when you were around about age 11?

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The 15 yr old daughter of one of our Anthro grad students couldn’t afford a harpsichord, so she built hers from a kit.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 8, 2022 • 2:56:36am

Just looked at the San Diego County real estate sales data for March.

The crisis is spiraling out of control.

YoY average house prices are up… 29.1% .

Yes, you read that right.

Median sale prices are YoY up 20.4%.

The price curves over time are trying real hard to be exponential:

Soon only the very rich will be able to afford to buy houses in this corner of the country:

It’s because the supply on the market is heading towards nil:

The market is still in pandemic mode. But I think now we have to consider that the market, and the lenders, cannot allow prices to fall. San Diego County has always been more expensive than most places but never was at the NYC or SF level.

Still so many older, retired people here who own their homes… and have been sitting on them for decades. Many decades. Sure, they could make a lot of money by selling but then what? Until someone dies, no one will be moving anywhere.

Use to be only the coastal (as in, can walk to the ocean) properties were expensive. Not any more. Hard pressure on what was once the affordable ‘burbs has pushed housing prices beyond what the job market can support.

Right now housing prices seem to be detached from household income. It’s all being driven by land investment.

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:04:57am

McConnell is like trump

He can’t not lie

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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:06:40am

re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

No one has to die in San Diego. Young people will U-Haul it out of there.

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:15:46am

Anyway not nominated is not blocked.
Garland was blocked.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:17:54am

re: #191 Decatur Deb

California has been home to quite profitable land speculation for a century.

Young people… who may be married and want to start a family, may want to live elsewhere. But as usual, people and jobs go together and right now it seems people still want to live in California.

And I don’t think that will change.

We are entering a kind of stasis, where it will become too difficult to change anything.

I was out and about on Wednesday, and while out was looking at the buildings (commercial mostly) that I came across. Things look tired. Remodeling/re-building has definitely declined around where I live, over the past few years. That bright-and-shiny look is gone. It’s uneven of course, but I get the feeling of age, and it’s not just that my own eyes are getting older.

I am old enough now that I can’t really relate to the young people. I don’t know what I’d do if I was 18 and grew up in this County. Young people need to go where there are opportunities, but a young person starting out from scratch here will never be able to afford to own their own place.

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:22:43am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:22:48am

re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Right now housing prices seem to be detached from household income. It’s all being driven by land investment.

Because we look on real estate and housing as commodities rather than as a basic human need.

But then again, that is our approach to almost everything.

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:24:29am

Truth

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:29:04am

re: #196 Dangerman

It is becoming clear that Truth Social was built to fail, but only after fleecing most of its investors.

And then the failure will somehow be blamed on the liberal media or such like and the rubes will be back with fists full of cash for the next venture.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:33:11am

re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is becoming clear that Truth Social was built to fail, but only after fleecing most of its investors.

And then the failure will somehow be blamed on the liberal media or such like and the rubes will be back with fists full of cash for the next venture.

I would loudly encourage Republicans to invest or donate with Trump. He and his pack will steal at least half of it. That reduces the threat for the GOP to do harm.

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JC1  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:37:13am

re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Just looked at the San Diego County real estate sales data for March.

The crisis is spiraling out of control.

YoY average house prices are up… 29.1% .

Yes, you read that right.

Median sale prices are YoY up 20.4%.

The price curves over time are trying real hard to be exponential:

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The market is still in pandemic mode. But I think now we have to consider that the market, and the lenders, cannot allow prices to fall. San Diego County has always been more expensive than most places but never was at the NYC or SF level.

Still so many older, retired people here who own their homes… and have been sitting on them for decades. Many decades. Sure, they could make a lot of money by selling but then what? Until someone dies, no one will be moving anywhere.

Use to be only the coastal (as in, can walk to the ocean) properties were expensive. Not any more. Hard pressure on what was once the affordable ‘burbs has pushed housing prices beyond what the job market can support.

Right now housing prices seem to be detached from household income. It’s all being driven by land investment.

30 yr fixed rate is above 5% now and I’m we may see. Recession within 18 months. The housing market will take a beating, as will equities and pretty much everything else.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:43:32am

re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and the rubes will be back with fists full of cash for the next venture.

Lather, rinse, repeat. Trump is quite possibly the most successful con-artist in American history. He has an almost perfectly-honed predator’s instinct for identifying his marks, fleecing them, and then being able to go back to those very same hapless rubes…and successfully fleece them again. And again and again.

Shit, he even got elected to the Oval Office. That’s no small feat - easily, his ultimate con.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:53:52am

There are unconfirmed reports in both Slovak and Czech media that Slovakia was sent the S-300 air defense system to Ukraine. The Slovak Minister of Defense will neither confirm nor deny that they’ve done so.

In the wake of Czech Republic sending Ukraine tanks (T-72s), looks like the Czechs and Slovaks are stepping up their game. The Czech PM and FM have both stated, on the record, they’re now in support of NATO intervention in Ukraine, joining their Polish counterparts.

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William Lewis  Apr 8, 2022 • 3:58:16am

re: #201 Dr Lizardo

There are unconfirmed reports in both Slovak and Czech media that Slovakia was sent the S-300 air defense system to Ukraine. The Slovak Minister of Defense will neither confirm nor deny that they’ve done so.

In the wake of Czech Republic sending Ukraine tanks (T-72s), looks like the Czechs and Slovaks are stepping up their game. The Czech PM and FM have both stated, on the record, they’re now in support of NATO intervention in Ukraine, joining their Polish counterparts.

Repayment for Spring 1968… ;)

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:06:32am

Well, that took a very unexpected turn.

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JC1  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:11:26am

re: #201 Dr Lizardo

There are unconfirmed reports in both Slovak and Czech media that Slovakia was sent the S-300 air defense system to Ukraine. The Slovak Minister of Defense will neither confirm nor deny that they’ve done so.

In the wake of Czech Republic sending Ukraine tanks (T-72s), looks like the Czechs and Slovaks are stepping up their game. The Czech PM and FM have both stated, on the record, they’re now in support of NATO intervention in Ukraine, joining their Polish counterparts.

There’s video on Twitter of the systems being transported by rail. Video is from a few days ago.

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:11:29am

Almost had it in 2
Thought I had it in 3
Swore I had it in 4
meh…there wasn’t any way to get to 6
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JC1  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:11:57am

re: #202 William Lewis

Repayment for Spring 1968… ;)

Plus they’re getting patriots in exchange.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:15:43am

re: #204 JC1

LOL the Russians are gonna be apoplectic.

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:16:25am

re: #204 JC1

There’s video on Twitter of the systems being transported by rail. Video is from a few days ago.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:18:22am

re: #208 darthstar

Exactly. If the Russians had gotten wind of that, they almost certainly would’ve tried to prevent it with a missile strike in Ukraine or something.

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:18:33am

Oh, so this is why Trump’s so pissed about AG James…it’s always the money.

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:23:45am

More toys on the way…

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:26:13am

So I walked into my office this morning with my breakfast, expecting to settle down and prep to go to work. Instead, I got frightened half to death. As I approached the desk, all of a sudden, there was a loud fluttering noise and a BIRD came shooting up from behind my screens. Mrs. Fish and I know there is a nest very close to the front door; my suspicion is that it came in when I was leaving the house to get said breakfast. Regardless, it scared the ever-loving bejesus out of me, and I nearly fell flat on my butt. I definitely kinda half-screamed. Mrs. Fish had previously told me she was awake, so I went upstairs, and the exchange went thusly:

ME: “There’s a BIRD in my office.”
HER (groggy, very tired): “A bird? Wait, IN your office?”
ME: “Yes. A bird. IN my office.”
HER: “What the… How did it get in there? Was the door open?”
ME: “Yes, it was, and I dunno. Did you leave the door open for the cat last night?”
HER: “No…”
ME: “Alright, well… Can you help me get it out?”
HER: “Sure, give me a minute.”

Cue a brief Yakety Sax montage of two tired people searching for tools to extricate a bird, and Mrs. Fish managed to trap it in a blanket and carry it out the back, whereupon it promptly fluttered a short distance away. The cat immediately showed up, which caused it to finally flee the premises. And that’s been my morning so far.

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sagehen  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:26:58am

re: #195 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because we look on real estate and housing as commodities rather than as a basic human need.

But then again, that is our approach to almost everything.

Can I remind you that “housing” doesn’t have to be single-family detached homes, with lawns and 2-car garages? It’s all about zoning, about density.

There was a time when NYC had a lot of houses. That time is long since past; my current domicile, there’s 3800 homes on 20 acres.

Black Rock isn’t buying those homes to own a bunch of single-family homes; they’re buying them to have building sites ready to go when the city and/or county realizes they need to build for more people in the same space.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:32:50am

re: #213 sagehen

Can I remind you that “housing” doesn’t have to be single-family detached homes, with lawns and 2-car garages? It’s all about zoning, about density.

Indeed. Behold, perhaps the most common type of housing in my city:

As long as those buildings are properly maintained (mine is, thankfully), they’re not at all bad. I like living in a panelák.

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William Lewis  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:38:17am

re: #211 darthstar

More toys on the way…

155? Not 152mm? (googles) OOohh. That’s from 1998 and is fully compatible with NATO ammo rather than Russian 152 ammo. They’ll have to get western ammo for it but that should be an even better artillery piece than the 2S3 Akatsiya. Perhaps the US can provide them with some M712 Copperhead rounds for it :D

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:41:03am

re: #214 Dr Lizardo

Indeed. Behold, perhaps the most common type of housing in my city:

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As long as those buildings are properly maintained (mine is, thankfully), they’re not at all bad. I like living in a panelák.

Which to a large degree I think is more attractive and efficient than what I see of most development in the US. Apartment buildings get built in the city centers. Otherwise what I see is former farmland in the suburbs or outlying areas getting cleared and then postage stamp lots getting large (for the lot) single-family houses being erected on them that pretty much fill most of the lot with what I expect is minimal clearance to the property lines on each side. I have no idea what the actual quality of the construction is either.

That seems to be what is profitable. No interest at all to me at this age since I would want a much smaller footprint of a house if I was going to buy. And custom building is expensive since it’s a one-off. And will have low resale value due to not being in step with the trends. One reason I am generally happy with renting.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:44:46am

This is what they are teaching as journalistic ethics; reporters should not demonstrate a bias in favor of democracy over authoritarianism.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:48:54am

re: #217 No Malarkey!

This is what they are teaching as journalistic ethics; reporters should not demonstrate a bias in favor of democracy over authoritarianism.

What is that quote? “As journalists, if someone says it’s raining and someone else says it’s sunny, it’s not our job to report both sides. It’s our job to look outside and report the truth.”

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:50:42am

re: #201 Dr Lizardo

This is the thing that armchair generals and couch commandos just don’t get.

Ukraine has always relied heavily on Soviet/post-Soviet Russian military weapon designs. They’ve trained on that gear. T-72 tanks work differently than American M1A2s, British Challengers or German Leopards. They take a different set of skills to maintain due to the tech on those vehicles. Ukraine needs tanks that can fill in now. Getting more T-72s helps more than giving them a handful of M1 tanks that take a team off the line to train for weeks to use properly, get the proper ammo, fuel, and supply chain gear to keep running in the field.

It’s even more pronounced on aircraft. MiG-25s, 27s, and 29s are a completely different animal from F-15s, F-16s, F-18s, or Eurofighters. Ukraine needs gear that their pilots can jump in and fly right now - not weeks and months from now. UAVs are a different story. Javelins and other anti-tank weapons are a different story. Those can be trained quickly, and can become force multipliers as we’ve seen as they’re deployed to great effect.

The US can’t just send tanks and planes - tanks and planes of a design we just don’t have (in any great number - and I know that the US has purchased all of the above via 3d party efforts to study Russian tech, to run red flag schools, etc.) NATO members that were former Warsaw Pact do have these kinds of weapons and aircraft in numbers that would be useful - and that’s why they’re able to deliver them. The US can then backfill those countries with US, British, or German tank and aircraft since the training demands are not as immediate.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:52:10am

re: #216 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

A couple of American friends of mine - one from L.A. and another from Portland, OR - have to come to visit me here. They both liked the apartment blocks, and the level of efficient urban planning (that was perhaps the one good thing the former Communist government did).

Most apartment blocks here are situated within a ten-minute walk to a public transportation line (either tram, bus or trolleybus) and it’s all mixed-use zoning, so you’ve got a diverse mix of residential housing and shops (there used to be a convenience store on the ground floor of my building, which was insanely convenient when you realized you were out of milk at 9:30 pm - alas, it went out of business) and a lot of things have been designed to be within relatively easy walking distance.

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Ming5000  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:56:11am

Thread on the Russian occupation of Chernobyl.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:57:04am

re: #220 Dr Lizardo

A couple of American friends of mine - one from L.A. and another from Portland, OR - have to come to visit me here. They both liked the apartment blocks, and the level of efficient urban planning (that was perhaps the one good thing the former Communist government did).

Most apartment blocks here are situated within a ten-minute walk to a public transportation line (either tram, bus or trolleybus) and it’s all mixed-use zoning, so you’ve got a diverse mix of residential housing and shops (there used to be a convenience store on the ground floor of my building, which was insanely convenient when you realized you were out of milk at 9:30 pm - alas, it went out of business) and a lot of things have been designed to be within relatively easy walking distance.

Stuff in walking distance is something I appreciated a great deal when I was living in the middle of Philadelphia (and there was a convenience store on the ground level of the building I lived in there.) The place I moved to just outside of Philadelphia in 2018 had a good selection of things in walking distance (post office, train station, diner, bar, coffee shop, convenience store, plus a grocery and pharmacy at slightly greater distance.)

Don’t really have that with the new digs just outside of Pittsburgh. A few bars and restaurants near the highway nearby. Plus a Starbucks if I get really desperate for a cup of coffee. Otherwise I pretty much have to use the car. (Public transit by bus in this region is much much less developed and capable than the Philadelphia region and there is no real local rail.)

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William Lewis  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:57:07am

re: #219 lawhawk

A tanker, in the US Army, has a initial training of 4 months. By the end of that you know which end is which on the crow bar, how to read the maint manual and what end of the main gun round goes in the gun tube.

A crew takes a year to be competent and able to put steel on target every time.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:57:16am

GOP delenda est - they are treasonous seditionist fuckers who are out to destroy democracy, undermine Biden and US national security at every opportunity, and their actions align nearly 100% with Putin’s own goals - that includes ending NATO, undermining our European allies, and encouraging goddamned Nazis and white nationalists everywhere to impose their Christian fascist views on their respective countries.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:58:27am

re: #219 lawhawk

Exactly; with Soviet-era weapons systems and materiel from the former Warsaw Pact nations, it helps Ukraine hit the ground running. And yes, they do need fighter jets, old MiG fighter jets, that their pilots can pretty much just hop in, hit the afterburners and start pounding Russian ground forces.

Sure, it’d be nice if they had F16s - but then those pilots would need to be trained on that bird and it sure as hell won’t help them right now.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 4:58:27am

re: #219 lawhawk

Yep, we talked about this when there was the first talk of the deal with Poland sending MIG-29’s to Ukraine. Guns are extremely simple; point this end toward the enemy, press here to make the enemy go away. (Missile launchers are a little more complicated than that, generally, but there are a limited number of variables, which make them easy to train on.) Vehicles - land and air - have a lot more variables involved, many of which are fundamental to the design of the respective vehicle. A simple example: Russian-made aircraft mostly use an attitude indicator, the avionics component that tells the pilot which way is up, where the representation of the plane rotates inside the instrument while the representation of the horizon remains stationary. American equipment does the reverse; the plane representation is fixed, the horizon rotates. Unlearning that difference can take weeks of training, and can be deadly in a dogfight.

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Teukka  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:04:54am

re: #214 Dr Lizardo

Indeed. Behold, perhaps the most common type of housing in my city:

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As long as those buildings are properly maintained (mine is, thankfully), they’re not at all bad. I like living in a panelák.

As well as properly built without the builders cutting corners. Case in point being Ronan Point, when the sister towers were demolished, evidence of the stuff not being built to spec came to light.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:10:14am

Getting ready to go on a mini vacation. Coupla days in Florida, then 3 days in Charleston. We’re doing a dinner crawl in Charleston - different restaurant for appetizer, salad, entree & dessert. There’s just so many good places there. We’re also going crabbing!

Had to get my wordle done early - threedle!

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:16:16am

Start word worked out great. Next 2 guesses not so much.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:18:17am
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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:18:44am

re: #229 Eventual Carrion

Start word worked out great. Next 2 guesses not so much.

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There were a lot of possibilities for that second letter. I got lucky. Mrs. Fish was watching over my shoulder and she was just like, “WTF, HOW DID YOU DO THAT.”

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Teukka  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:21:28am

⚠️ [CW/TW] Bloody aftermath in the first tweet ⚠️

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No Malarkey!  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:24:37am

Arizona AG releases report demonstrating a massive nine cases of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:24:43am

God damn it. I usually like Keith Ellison, but dude… No. Fuck off with this shit.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:26:06am

re: #203 Dopamine Fish

Well, that took a very unexpected turn.

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We might have had the same starting word. Didn’t work out as well for me.

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William Lewis  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:26:10am

re: #234 Dopamine Fish

God damn it. I usually like Keith Ellison, but dude… No. Fuck off with this shit.

Gotta remember - non-whites do not have 2nd amendment rights.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:26:55am

re: #227 Teukka

As well as properly built without the builders cutting corners. Case in point being Ronan Point, when the sister towers were demolished, evidence of the stuff not being built to spec came to light.

Definitely. I harbor no illusions - most of these apartment buildings in my neck of the woods were constructed in the mid-1970s, during the Communist era. Cutting corners was SOP for them. So when these building are re-furbished, they go over them with a fine-tooth comb.

Back later…off to do some stuff.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:27:07am
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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:28:02am

re: #236 William Lewis

Gotta remember - non-whites do not have 2nd amendment rights.

What kills me about this is that KEITH ELLISON IS BLACK. Why he is sticking up for the cops is beyond me - maybe he thinks it’s his job? Because he works for the government? That’s not how this works, Keith. Don’t be a Thin Blue Line douchebro.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:28:18am

re: #172 JC1

Even the fox comment section is slamming Tucker. When you’ve lost those crazies…

Many on the Fox comment section are Fox antagonists. Comment sections on all media outlets are rife with opponents of the outlets.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:28:20am

re: #233 No Malarkey!

Arizona AG releases report demonstrating a massive nine cases of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Ignoring the election fraud committed by the GOP as Trump lost Arizona. Ignored the election fraud relating to interfering in the certification. Ignoring Trump pressuring state officials to deliver votes to Trump.

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William Lewis  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:30:04am

re: #239 Dopamine Fish

What kills me about this is that KEITH ELLISON IS BLACK. Why he is sticking up for the cops is beyond me - maybe he thinks it’s his job? Because he works for the government? That’s not how this works, Keith. Don’t be a Thin Blue Line douchebro.

Yet to meet a black cop/prosecutor who didn’t toe that line.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:31:07am

re: #242 William Lewis

Yet to meet a black cop/prosecutor who didn’t toe that line.

Ugh. I guess there are a lot of self-haters in America, and not all of them are white.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:31:46am

re: #229 Eventual Carrion

Start word worked out great. Next 2 guesses not so much.

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Brutal!

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Teukka  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:33:26am

(Russian airplane suspected to have violated Finnish airspace)

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A Cranky One  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:33:56am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:36:47am

wonderful…

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:37:18am

re: #242 William Lewis

Yet to meet a black cop/prosecutor who didn’t toe that line.

Prosecutors and AGs have to rely heavily on cops to make cases stick. It’s a nationwide problem, even in liberal cities. They have to get cops to make cases against defendants, but when cops are prosecuted, they also need cops to make those cases too - too many conflicts of interest.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:37:31am

re: #205 darthstar

Almost had it in 2
Thought I had it in 3
Swore I had it in 4
meh…there wasn’t any way to get to 6
Wordle 293 5/6

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That second letter had 5 possibilities. Some got it in 2 — took me 4 when I burned a guess to eliminate choices.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:38:47am
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A Cranky One  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:40:07am

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No Malarkey!  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:40:27am

re: #245 Teukka

(Russian airplane suspected to have violated Finnish airspace)

If Putin was trying to get Finland to join NATO, I don’t know what he’d do differently.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:40:28am

re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth

Soft on crime.

Soft on seditious conspiracy and insurrection to overthrow the government.

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William Lewis  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:44:32am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

If Putin was trying to get Finland to join NATO, I don’t know what he’d do differently.

Hell, the way he’s going Putin will get Switzerland to join NATO!)

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:48:11am
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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:49:09am
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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:49:30am

Today’s Wordle, notably better than yesterday’s Wordle…

Wordle 293 3/6

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:51:04am

re: #255 Belafon

When the media frames everything as why hasn’t he done more, or blames him for inflation that is a global phenomenon, or high oil prices (same), they’re out to knock him down any way they can, despite doing more with less than anyone else in history.

He’s also rolling back Trump era regs/policies on the environment, emissions standards, etc.

That’s despite a Supreme Court designed to undermine and end privacy rights, gerrymandering and voter suppression at the state and local level designed to deliver states/Congress to GOP, and continuing efforts to overthrow and end democracy to keep GOPers in power.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:52:10am

BTW - another plea deal incoming on what may be seditious conspiracy. Updated - since he’s not part of that bunch of Oath Keepers. He’s charged with conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of law enforcement and destruction of government property.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:54:39am

re: #258 lawhawk

He’s also rolling back Trump era regs/policies on the environment, emissions standards, etc.

Well, he’s trying to. The Supreme Court, however, is interjecting their advisory opinions into his business, for no apparently logical reason other than, “We’re the Supreme Court and we say so.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:55:27am

heh

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 5:56:53am
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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:02:01am
McConnell (Liar-KY) was asked yesterday if another Biden nominee would be considered by the Senate, should the Republicans reclaim the majority. “I’m not going to answer your question,” McConnell responded. When the question was asked again, he said: “I choose not to answer the question.”

You’d think if it was a yes there’d be no problem answering

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:02:55am
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jeffreyw  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:03:28am

White kitty? No. Haven’t seen one.

Good morning!

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:04:39am

re: #238 lawhawk

Televise it. He wants attention. Let him have it.

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:06:18am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Teukka  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:06:43am

Apparent translation of what she said:
And like I said, everything that was tied to ethnicity, to culture, was targeted in the first instance.
Even culinary books, they were also banned.
Why?
Because you couldn’t share borscht! You couldn’t share it. It had to belong to just one group. Only one group, only one people. Only one nationality.
But for it to be shared… and so that in every town, or in every region every housewife could make it their own way.. No! They didn’t want to compromise.
This is precisely what we’re talking about - xenophobia, Nazism!
Extremism in all its forms.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:07:37am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:07:38am
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sagehen  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:07:41am

re: #256 Belafon

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Most Democrats also don’t think she’s really a Democrat (anymore). If she ever was.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:08:32am

re: #268 Teukka

In fairness to her, I seem to recall more than one poll/study over the years that showed Russia is the #1 most alcoholic country in the world. And if I had to go on Russian state TV and spout lies on pain of having a tragic “accident” near a window or in my morning tea, I’d probably do it whilst shitfaced, also.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:09:38am

re: #255 Belafon

So: Biden cancels billions in student debt, unites the world against Russia, gets the 1st Black woman confirmed as a Scotus, passes the Build back Better, gets millions Covid Checks, and his poll numbers are the lowest in History? WTF? He’s done more in 2 years than most!

Because an awful lot of Americans are convinced that gasoline and bacon cost more nowadays because he gave away all that free money to people who were too lazy to work and cancelled Keystone XL.

And because of what is on Hunter’s laptop.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:10:17am

Mrs. Fish figured out where the bird’s nest is. Apparently, it’s trying to nest in the stick wreath that is hanging on our front door.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:10:51am

re: #266 darthstar

Televise it. He wants attention. Let him have it.

He’d go full Col. Jessup.. You’re damned right I ordered the insurrection. I know I lost the election but refused to accept reality. I urged by footsoldiers to storm the Capitol to stop the process and overthrow the government. I urged my followers to go after VP Pence and Speaker Pelosi and key leaders. They were following the law and I refused to accept any of it.

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:11:26am

re: #274 Dopamine Fish

Mrs. Fish figured out where the bird’s nest is. Apparently, it’s trying to nest in the stick wreath that is hanging on our front door.

Just don’t use the front door until it’s done nesting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:11:37am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

There will be one seat on the Supreme Court with an asterisk - because not every American was considered to fill it.

If that were the case, you would have to go back to Sandra Day O’Connor and add an asterisk to every single Justice

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Teukka  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:12:15am

Awaiting confirmation:

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:12:45am

re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If that were the case, you would have to go back to Sandra Day O’Connor and add an asterisk to every single Justice

Hell, by the very nature of the appointment, not “every American” is considered to fill ANY SCOTUS seat. Do you think Donald Trump considered anyone not from the Federalist Society to fill any of the three vacancies he appointed? Does that matter to you assholes?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:13:43am

re: #279 Dopamine Fish

Hell, by the very nature of the appointment, not “every American” is considered to fill ANY SCOTUS seat. Do you think Donald Trump considered anyone not from the Federalist Society to fill any of the three vacancies he appointed? Does that matter to you assholes?

The point is to discredit her legitimacy and status.

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:13:43am

re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If that were the case, you would have to go back to Sandra Day O’Connor and add an asterisk to every single Justice

His outrage is fake, but the racism is real.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:14:33am

re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The point is to discredit her legitimacy and status.

You know that, and I know that. But the wingnuts don’t know that, because they only consume rabid right-wing media, and the truth will never even reach their ears. Not that they’d believe it, even if it did.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:14:46am

re: #281 darthstar

His outrage is fake, but the racism is real.

and goes clear to the bone

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:16:30am

re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The point is to discredit her legitimacy and status.

The news cycle on SCOTUS justices after they’re confirmed is very short. Nobody really gives a shit that Kavanaugh was a sexual predator and alcoholic with a gambling problem…he got in. It’s over. Nobody cares that Amy Coney Barrett is a fucking Stepford wife with zero conscience…she got int. It’s over.

Their outrage over Justice Jackson can wear itself out.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:17:25am

re: #284 darthstar

Their outrage over Justice Jackson can wear itself out.

It’ll just become another bullet point in their tired list of “why Democrats/liberals are the enemy”.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:20:54am

re: #203 Dopamine Fish

Well, that took a very unexpected turn.

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You and me both. GMTA

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:22:00am

re: #285 Dopamine Fish

It’ll just become another bullet point in their tired list of “why Democrats/liberals are the enemy”.

She’s a bigger reminder of why elections matter and everyone needs to vote.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:23:11am

Kavanaugh was a GOP success because they spun the hearings into a he-said-she-said controversy about whether he once sexually assaulted a classmate, which gave them a chance to get all indignant about how he was not being treated as “innocent until proven guilty”, when it was not a criminal trial (which has a different set of standards) but rather hearings to decide whether this nominee had the qualifications and character to warrant a lifelong appointment to America’s highest judicial body.

And any clear and objective scrutiny of his actions and qualifications clearly indicated that he was not at all qualified to hold such a position.

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:24:48am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Except that’s not at all what happened

And for precedent that was clearly set long ago.
its certainly what happened Up to Marshall and again up to O’Connor

This actually broke a precedent

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:26:40am

The thing that always strikes me is the hate. In general, we don’t hate Republicans to the point of wanting to kill them. We hate what they do, what they stand for, but we don’t treat them as less than human and all we want to do is dismantle their apparatus of perpetual power so that we can advance and enlighten American society. They, on the other hand, treat us as their literal enemies and have openly stated they wish to kill us en masse, for no other reason than we don’t believe in what they believe in. I just don’t GET that. It’s unfathomable to me how they developed such irrational hatred of us, all because we tolerate people who are different. I hate this timeline and I wish things could go back to the way they were, but the Obama-Trump era and COVID have irreparably altered the political landscape in this country. I fear we’ll never really go back to a place where both sides of the aisle are trying to work for the common good of the country, just in different ways.

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:27:28am

re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If that were the case, you would have to go back to Sandra Day O’Connor and add an asterisk to every single Justice

A lot of gmta here

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:31:16am

re: #290 Dopamine Fish

The thing that always strikes me is the hate. In general, we don’t hate Republicans to the point of wanting to kill them. We hate what they do, what they stand for, but we don’t treat them as less than human and all we want to do is dismantle their apparatus of perpetual power so that we can advance and enlighten American society. They, on the other hand, treat us as their literal enemies and have openly stated they wish to kill us en masse, for no other reason than we don’t believe in what they believe in. I just don’t GET that. It’s unfathomable to me how they developed such irrational hatred of us, all because we tolerate people who are different. I hate this timeline and I wish things could go back to the way they were, but the Obama-Trump era and COVID have irreparably altered the political landscape in this country. I fear we’ll never really go back to a place where both sides of the aisle are trying to work for the common good of the country, just in different ways.

Killing people gets them what they want faster and easier
patiently dismantling their (our) apparatus takes skill and time

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:38:01am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:38:05am

re: #292 Dangerman

There is a lot of hyperbole, grandstanding and “performance art” in their outbursts, but they do demonstrate a severe sociopathic streak. And I think that a tally of all the GOP members who would:

a) look the other way and ignore illegal acts to keep them in power
b) actively commit such acts
and
c) not shy from violence in such acts,

would comprise a majority of the GOP.

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lizardofid  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:42:33am

re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is a lot of hyperbole, grandstanding and “performance art” in their outbursts, but they do demonstrate a severe sociopathic streak. And I think that a tally of all the GOP members who would:

a) look the other way and ignore illegal acts to keep them in power
b) actively commit such acts
and
c) not shy from violence in such acts,

would comprise a majority of the GOP.

Even if the majority of them were solely in group “a”, groups “b” and “c” could not flourish without them.

Oh, good morning!

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:42:46am
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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:45:13am

re: #278 Teukka

Awaiting confirmation:

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Something else Right-wing Americans have in Common with the current Russian government.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:47:55am

re: #296 lawhawk

Y’all wanna see a body?
@SenBrianSchatz
totally dismantled Josh Hawley.

It’s a thing of beauty.

Beautiful and true. But what does it accomplish? Nothing! As long as Hawley can continue to block these appointments, all the fine speeches in the world mean nothing. Something has to be done to stop his obstructionism.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:48:36am

re: #269 lawhawk

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Ronny Reagan left half the population out of his promised pick for SCOTUS.

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William Lewis  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:50:59am

re: #61 Rightwingconspirator

Pink Floyd reunites to support Ukraine

$1.29 at Amazon.

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:51:07am
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:51:41am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Teukka  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:54:35am

*sighs*

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:57:31am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:58:44am

re: #265 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

Blossoms everywhere…

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 8, 2022 • 6:59:27am

Lucked out on this one.

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:05:27am
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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:18:36am

Anne Fuckin’ Frank vibes…

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Ming5000  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:20:20am

lighter side:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:23:58am

re: #309 Ming5000

lighter side:

Fresh Prince of Bela-Rus

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:24:46am

Speaking of Nazis…

Never mind - recycled pic from 2015

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:24:58am

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Leave now or face death, Donbas residents told as Vladimir Putin looks for a victory in the east
Ukraine’s military says Moscow pouring troops into region after abandoning attempt to take Kyiv, with two-pronged offensive developing

(The Telegraph)
twitter.com

And then they bomb the train station?

Putin needs to hang in the middle of Red Square.

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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:27:34am

Hit refresh on 311
re: #311 darthstar

Speaking of Nazis…

Never mind - recycled pic from 2015

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:31:11am
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Teukka  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:31:44am

re: #308 darthstar

Anne Fuckin’ Frank vibes…

Lists for people to catch, torture and murder
Mobile crematoriums
“One People, One Russia, One Leader”
Stealing golden teeth
Calls for a great cleansing of a group of people
Calls to repopulate the ravaged lands
Brainwashing generations afterwards
The destruction of an identity
Wholesale slaughter on ethnonationalist lines
Actual Nazi paraphernalia
Mass rapes
Forceful deportations to filtration camps
International funding of fascist parties
“Final solution”
“The Ukrainian Question”

But no, it’s the Azov Battalion that’s the real danger!

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:35:26am

As another tweet said: Endemic doesn’t mean harmless, nor does it mean that it won’t become a pandemic again.

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:37:06am

re: #316 Belafon

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As another tweet said: Endemic doesn’t mean harmless, nor does it mean that it won’t become a pandemic again.

if it’s endemic we didnt need to do all that stuff in the first place ///////

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:37:33am
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darthstar  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:41:21am

Ha!

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:51:03am

re: #316 Belafon

We don’t take influenza seriously enough - and that kills thousands a year and sickens hundreds of thousands. We have vaccines that do a passable job of preventing serious illness or death - but those are limited because they’re based on older technologies and need to be prepared in advance based on best modeling/estimates of what variants will be dominant. If they make the wrong decision, the vaccine does not do as well at preventing illness/death.

Covid was far more deadly and the vaccines developed do a far better job at preventing death or serious illness. Yet people think it’s no more serious than a cold.

A million Americans have died in just over 2 years from covid19.

It’d take a decade or more to see that many influenza deaths. Every wave with covid sees thousands die a day. That’s not normal, even as people wish not to see it. It’s not normal for hospitals to deal with that carnage daily. It’s wrecking health care delivery. Everyone suffers, including those who are vaccinated, because there’s fewer doctors available, ER staffing is short, facilities are limited b/c covid patients suck up resources faster and take longer to recover, and it screws everyone.

There’s a reason our life expectancy as a nation has fallen two years in a row.

Antivaxxers are a huge reason why - coupled with a know nothing GOP that made it an article of faith to oppose masking or vaccinations, when both are cheap and easy solutions to stop covid and to get things opened and back to normal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 7:54:57am

re: #320 lawhawk

Remember: “It’s no worse than the flu, and we don’t shut things down over the flu, do we?”

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:11:26am

rando:

The question isn’t whether McConnell is a moral person (that’s obvious). Its how our political system allows a person like this to have a significant role as a political leader. A country that puts people without a moral compass in charge of itself (he’s not the first) is a country with a moral compass problem.

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gocart mozart  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:14:03am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:14:43am

re: #322 Dangerman

But it’s a not “a country” doing this. It’s a small segment of whackos that has way too much political power relative to its size.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:15:35am

re: #323 gocart mozart

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:15:56am

re: #316 Belafon

“Scientists expect Covid-19 to eventually become endemic, something we learn to live with. But endemic diseases can take many forms, few of them harmless. We explored the possibilities.”

As another tweet said: Endemic doesn’t mean harmless, nor does it mean that it won’t become a pandemic again.

The flu is endemic too, yet the 1918 flu killed 50 million people worldwide and about 670 thousand Americans. So there is reason to be concerned, given that this is a novel virus and its first introduction to us has killed over a million Americans to date, as well as sickening many others through Long Covid.

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John Hughes  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:19:03am

re: #326 Hecuba’s daughter

The flu is endemic too

no, it isn’t.
An endemic disease is one that is always present. The flu is only present during epidemics.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:22:19am

Joe Satriani dropped his latest album… and this was a listening party with Joe:

Youtube Video

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:27:43am

re: #327 John Hughes

no, it isn’t.
An endemic disease is one that is always present. The flu is only present during epidemics.

I hope you’re missing the sarc tag.

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gocart mozart  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:28:31am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:28:59am

re: #323 gocart mozart

Fundamentalist Christians have a workaround when one of their own has a moral lapse and gets caught sinning: They pray to God and are forgiven. And then vow to never (get caught in the act of ) sin again.

But you see, it is different for Democrats, as long as they continue to support ungodliness in the form of abortion, contraception, tolerating gay marriage, etc. God can never forgive them.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:29:56am

re: #226 Dopamine Fish

Yep, we talked about this when there was the first talk of the deal with Poland sending MIG-29’s to Ukraine. Guns are extremely simple; point this end toward the enemy, press here to make the enemy go away. (Missile launchers are a little more complicated than that, generally, but there are a limited number of variables, which make them easy to train on.) Vehicles - land and air - have a lot more variables involved, many of which are fundamental to the design of the respective vehicle. A simple example: Russian-made aircraft mostly use an attitude indicator, the avionics component that tells the pilot which way is up, where the representation of the plane rotates inside the instrument while the representation of the horizon remains stationary. American equipment does the reverse; the plane representation is fixed, the horizon rotates. Unlearning that difference can take weeks of training, and can be deadly in a dogfight.

That difference is the difference between living and controlled flight into the ground.

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John Hughes  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:34:28am

re: #329 Belafon

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:38:46am

re: #330 gocart mozart

Her next concert should feature Lil Naz.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:42:06am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She was born deaf. This is her hearing herself for the first time at 29 years old.

WHO BROUGHT IN THE TRUCKLOAD OF ONIONS? My eyes are watering like mad here.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:43:28am

re: #259 lawhawk

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 8:43:37am

re: #333 John Hughes

I can google as well as wikipedia:

An endemic disease is a disease that is always present in a particular population or region. Every year, the amount of endemic disease is considered a “baseline” of what is expected to persist indefinitely.1 Some of the most recognized endemic diseases include the flu, malaria, HIV, and syphilis. Many experts predict that COVID-19 will become an endemic disease at some point.

verywellhealth.com

Or, if you like a bit more pure laboratory, this talks about the various strains of the flu and how they became endemic: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:00:01am

re: #336 lawhawk

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:02:13am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:05:37am
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gocart mozart  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:10:40am

Check out this weather chart.

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mmmirele  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:10:58am

re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I can’t find good information on where I live (Mesa, AZ) but based on comparable home sales, the price of my townhouse, which only reached my original mortgage purchase price less than 2 years ago, is now apparently worth twice that. On top of that, the rents around me for a similar size place are nearly twice what my 15 YO mortgage is. I could hardly afford to rent here, much less buy, and Mesa is a boring, used to be lower and middle class area. Not any more. This is insane.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:16:55am

re: #322 Dangerman

rando:

The question isn’t whether McConnell is a moral person (that’s obvious). Its how our political system allows a person like this to have a significant role as a political leader. A country that puts people without a moral compass in charge of itself (he’s not the first) is a country with a moral compass problem.

We are increasingly trying to fly without a compass. That can work, but it’s risky. It’s much more certain that using the compasses installed arbitrarily a couple generations ago will get us somewhere. Many of us just don’t want to go there.

Finding a new compass is a task for philosophers yet unborn.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:27:39am

Here we go…

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad.

The clerk of the State Supreme Court has set a April 29 execution date for Richard Bernard Moore, a 57-year-old man who has spent more than two decades on death row after he was convicted of killing convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg.

Moore could face a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad, two options available to death row prisoners after legislators altered the state’s capital punishment law last year in an effort to work around a decade-long pause in executions, attributed to the corrections agency’s inability to procure lethal injection drugs.

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:31:32am

“Brian Kolfage, an Iraq War veteran who launched a multimillion-dollar crowdfunding effort to build a private border wall, has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges after prosecutors say he surreptitiously took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fundraiser,” BuzzFeed News reports.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:44:48am

Morning Lizards. Just your basic breakfast this morning.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:53:50am

re: #346 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

What is that on the eggs?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:54:47am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:56:57am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 8, 2022 • 9:58:08am

re: #347 Eclectic Cyborg

What is that on the eggs?

Sour cream and Salsa Ranchera.

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Ming5000  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:05:09am

I had not seen this before. Stunning reaction.

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gocart mozart  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:06:06am
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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:06:08am

re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth

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the R senate has changed the mechanism of advice and consent from merely weeding out the unqualified to deciding who is qualified based on whatever definition du jour they need for ‘qualified’ to be

they have essentially taken the president’s appointment making power and prerogative and made it their own

when they have the votes it’s obvious - mcconnell’s nuclear option re gorsuch, how he handled garland (and implied he’s ready to do again), also how they ramrodded kavanaugh and barrett as if there were literally no better choices in the entire country, etc.

it’s also clear when they don’t have the votes by the machinations, tricks, twists and hoops they try to jump through to still get what they want. regardless of what the president or the public wants.

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:09:58am

re: #345 Dangerman

Coconspirator to Steve Bannon. Bannon got a pardon for his criminal conduct by Trump on his way out the door leaving this conman to take the hit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:10:21am
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Dopamine Fish  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:12:52am

re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth

They’re just salty because it wasn’t 50/50 and they couldn’t paint Kamala Harris as the villain for breaking the tie.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:13:27am
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sagehen  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:15:38am

re: #356 Dopamine Fish

They’re just salty because it wasn’t 50/50 and they couldn’t paint Kamala Harris as the villain for breaking the tie.

they’re salty because she got more yeses and fewer noes than Kavanaugh or Barrett.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:18:57am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

Those would be pretty old cops. The violence would have been common enough earlier, but the WWII vets were aging out. If it’s worth it, someone can review the personnel records.

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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:19:03am

re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth

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indeed
not really all that ‘narrow’

Gorsuch 54-45 - + 3 dems
Jackson - 53-47 + 3 R’s
barrett 52-48 - minus Collins
kavanaugh 50-48 - Manchin crossed over

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:20:32am
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ckkatz  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:25:52am

-
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Dangerman  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:25:58am

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

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‘the government’ maybe

but ffs read a book

there is lots of labor/employment data (yes some are estimates) going back to the 1800’s

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lawhawk  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:26:43am
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sagehen  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:26:53am

re: #359 Decatur Deb

Those would be pretty old cops. The violence would have been common enough earlier, but the WWII vets were aging out. If it’s worth it, someone can review the personnel records.

The Civil Rights Act was 1965; the biggest marches and beatings were before that. WWII vets who joined the cops after they came home in 1946… and the random civilians deputized at Selma… were still of swing-a-billy-club age.

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2022 • 10:33:48am

re: #365 sagehen

The Civil Rights Act was 1965; the biggest marches and beeatings were before that. WWII vets who joined the cops after they came home in 1946… and the random civilians deputized at Selma… were still of swing-a-billy-club age.

WW2 could have easily been in their mid to late 40s or early 50s around that time. Easily young enough to be cops.


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