Seth takes a closer look at Republicans changing their tune to appease Trump after phone call audio emerged of GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy calling for an investigation into what happened on January 6 just days after the insurrection.
Looks like January 6 organizer Ali Alexander had a meltdown on Truth Social during the #January6thCommitteeHearings pic.twitter.com/S3RQBB5854
— Gabe Sanchez (@iamgabesanchez) June 10, 2022
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
It would be cooler if the lies from Truth Social stayed on Truth Social.
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
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yeah cause that’s what house committees do
conspire and manufacture easily refutable evidence
you’d think the people in these ‘spoof’ videos would be screaming it
Went to see the doc this morning…wound up getting a Tetanus booster and Shingles vaccine. I’m gonna go lick some rusty nails and hang out in an urgent care waiting room.
re: #5 darthstar
Went to see the doc this morning…wound up getting a Tetanus booster and Shingles vaccine. I’m gonna go lick some rusty nails and hang out in an urgent care waiting room.
Strike while the iron is hot.
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ali is screeching this because that’s what they do all the time: deceptively edit videos. Remember the rule: Republicans always accuse the other side of their crimes. Just like the widely documented cases of true voter fraud always seem to be Republicans.
re: #5 darthstar
I get my second shingles vax this weekend. I felt pretty shitty the next day after the first. Be prepared that you may feel like arse tomorrow.
re: #3 Dangerman
yeah cause that’s what house committees do
conspire and manufacture easily refutable evidenceyou’d think the people in these ‘spoof’ videos would be screaming it
To be fair, that’s what they insist all Democrats do, all the time. They’re not being inconsistent here; there’s no cognitive dissonance. They know, deep down, that the Dems are telling the truth, but they can’t very well admit that, as it would break the narrative that the Democrats are the Anti-Christian party, full of nothing but liars, cheats, crooks, and worse.
Bad news pun of the day:
Imagine if Guy Fawkes had his own cable channel broadcasting pro-gunpowder plot propaganda in real time https://t.co/KrLNeCduz1
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 10, 2022
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“Fawkes News”
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 10, 2022
re: #8 Dr. Matt
I get my second shingles vax this weekend. I felt pretty shitty the next day after the first. Be prepared that you may feel like arse tomorrow.
My wife has a farewell lunch for one of her chefs tomorrow so I figured if I feel like crap at least I’ll be able to do so watching The Boys on Netflix/Prime/wherever…I can never keep those services straight.
re: #2 Crush White Nationalism
It would be cooler if the lies from Truth Social stayed on Truth Social.
Ignoring them doesn’t make them go away.
If you have to enter a building via a window, question all the choices you have made that day.
— Rachel Vindman 🌻 (@natsechobbyist) June 10, 2022
The Jan. 6th Committee Starts With “Just the Facts, Ma’am”
The committee rises to the occasion. Will we?
thebulwark.com
by Bill Kristol
I am open to the possibility that the hearings will have little practical effect. Churchill’s great speeches in the 1930s made little difference in the short term.
One can’t guarantee an effect. One can’t control if one makes a difference.
What one can do is act in a way that makes one’s fellow citizens proud. That is what the House January 6th Committee did tonight. And that is what Liz Cheney in particular did tonight.
I tend to classify Dave Troy as an “Idea Puppy”. He seems to have some interesting ideas. Particularly in cutting edge things like the groups behind crypto-currency and their motivations. But I do seem to find that occasionally, he can also be a conspiracy theorist.
I do appreciate that he isn’t dialed up to ‘11’ (on a 1-10) dial like Dr Kendzior can be.
Anyway, this is an interesting observation:
Rudy Giuliani made his career by taking intelligence from the Russian mafia and using it to systematically prosecute the Italian mob, giving control of the NYC construction industry to Russia.
Then he was beholden to them, and became a de-facto asset they could deploy as needed.— Dave Troy 🌻 (@davetroy) June 10, 2022
re: #17 ckkatz
I tend to classify Dave Troy as an “Idea Puppy”. He seems to have some interesting ideas. Particularly in cutting edge things like the groups behind crypto-currency and their motivations. But I do seem to find that occasionally, he can also be a conspiracy theorist.
I do appreciate that he isn’t dialed up to ‘11’ (on a 1-10) dial like Dr Kendzior can be.
Anyway, this is an interesting observation:
And Trump is involved in construction and real estate, no?
In a modern industrial war, ability to produce implements of war is critical.
That is one reason that Russia is attempting to destroy Ukraine’s infra-structure. Meanwhile, the kleptocrats seem to have stolen much of Russia’s.
According to the article, both Ukraine and Russia are running out of some critical munitions. Although the Ukrainian depletion of 152mm artillery ammunition is probably more immediately critical.
An interesting piece of info: according to the Ukrainian deputy head of military intel, Russia has used about 60% of its stockpile of long-range missiles against Ukraine.
If 2600 missiles were launched by Russia as reported, that leaves them with ~1700.https://t.co/VL6NIh1MuE— Jakub Janovsky (@Rebel44CZ) June 10, 2022
re: #20 ckkatz
According to the article, both Ukraine and Russia are running out of some critical munitions. Although the Ukrainian depletion of 152mm artillery ammunition is probably more immediately critical.
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But Ukraine has sources of resupply. Russia does not.
OK.
ASHLI BABBITT was a criminal who was shot trying to break into the Speaker’s Lobby, at the front of a rampaging homicidal mob screaming for the death of elected officials.
The guard who shot ASHLI BABBITT absolutely did the right thing. https://t.co/ap7OhdWMAH— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2022
re: #8 Dr. Matt
I get my second shingles vax this weekend. I felt pretty shitty the next day after the first. Be prepared that you may feel like arse tomorrow.
The second was far worse for me. Knocked me out for a full day.
re: #20 ckkatz
I read elsewhere that with the influx of NATO munitions (155mm) they now have approximately 10% more artillery power than they had when Russia invaded. They also have more tanks.
That doesn’t mean Russia doesn’t still outgun them. Their stockpiles of 152mm are pretty significant.
But the other thing Kos pointed out was that the NATO munitions, being more ‘intelligent’ - some laser guided, some self guided - means the burn rate for Ukraine is much lower than it is for Russia, with greater results. Ukraine’s still launching about 5,000 to 6,000 artillery shells per day, so if we stopped sending them shots they’d run out in about 35-40 days.
re: #18 Teukka
And Trump is involved in construction and real estate, no?
Funny you should mention that.
And his father was an associate of one of the old Italian Mafia families. Until the Russian mob took over and he transferred allegiance.
Plus Michael Cohen’s wife’s family reportedly includes a number of ranking Russian mob folks.
And, reportedly, the Trump Organization was reportedly involved in real estate development projects with Russian mob related projects in Former Soviet Union Republics.
Draw from that what you may…
re: #18 Teukka
And Trump is involved in construction and real estate, no?
IIRC, Rudy’s takedown of Cosa Nostra was in the mid-to-late 1980s, whereas Trump was doing most of his construction work during the twilight years of the Five Families in the mid-to-late 1970s/early ’80s. I forgot if it was the Gambinos or the Lucchese Family that pretty much owned concrete and construction in NYC.
re: #23 Barefoot Grin
The second was far worse for me. Knocked me out for a full day.
The second knocked me out. As did the first. And the first 2 Covid vaccines (though, oddly, not the boosters.) Mr. C., my brother and my sister-in-law sailed through all of the above with barely a reaction at all. It varies.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
It grosses me out that these people borrow the language of activists protesting abuse of power. It’s one of the things that make them fascist: vocally despise the general rhetoric of human rights, but apply that language and rhetoric and energy to enlarging the distinction between the elect and the discarded.
As always, it’s humanity for me, not for thee.
I don’t think she’s going to date you, Greg. She’s kind of busy being dead right now. #FAFO
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) June 10, 2022
Ashley Babbitt was a seditious traitor who got exactly what she deserved. She fucked around and found out. The officer who killed her deserves a medal. Signed: US Army Veteran
— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) June 10, 2022
(yeah, got the naughty language twitter pearl clutch. Happily sent it anyway.)
re: #25 ckkatz
And Trump connections with Russian RE players is longstanding- however much he might yammer “Russia Hoax”. Huge sums of Russian money (of often obscure provenance) have flowed onto the Trump Organization over the years. And, it being TFG, pissed right out again…..
re: #15 sagehen
If you have to enter a building via a window, question all the choices you have made that day.
— Rachel Vindman 🌻 (@natsechobbyist) June 10, 2022
For me, it was always that I locked myself out of my house, usually while doing yard work.
re: #30 William Lewis
Why are we saying the seditionist lunatic’s name? Will it bring our right-wing lunatics back to their senses if they understand that sedition has consequences?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 10, 2022
Before you ever get to “sedition” the Jan 6th riots…were a riot. You’re talking to people who routinely gloat about how protests are riots and should be met with gunfire but also are enraged with the small, controlled amount of gunfire that happened.
You can’t wound them because they live in an entirely different reality than you, one where all offenses against their kind are outrages meriting disproportion violence, and their offenses against other are at minimum necessary but more often both heroic and enjoyable.
ASHLI BABBITT. ASHLI BABBITT. SAY HER NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s a potential reply to this tweet with a Beetlejuice reference that I just can’t come up with.
re: #21 sagehen
But Ukraine has sources of resupply. Russia does not.
I have not seen any information on the Russian manufacturing capacity for 152mm ammunition. I would assume, in theory, that it is fairly large. And that the 40-50 year old Soviet stockpiles are also fairly large.
However, 40 year old explosives, like artillery propellant can be a bit… touchy. And there was a recent report of an old artillery stockpile near Rostov exploding. Also, old ammunition has a higher rate of failure.
On the Ukrainian side… Over 90% of the Ukrainian artillery is from the Soviet era and uses Soviet/Russian ammunition. Prior to the recent Russian invasion, Ukraine had the ability to manufacture it. And it also had some war stocks. Due to the Russian attack on Ukrainian infrastructure, and the ongoing war, there may be little of either left.
Some other NATO and other countries (like India) also had stockpiles and manufacturing capacity. I understand that most market available 152mm has been purchased by Ukraine and its friends, and the current production capability is far too small to support the massive amount of artillery shells being fired.
This may be partially due to these other countries seeing the war and realizing they need to massively increase their war stocks.
The Ukrainians are trying to replace their old Russian artillery with modern NATO models. However, after years of peace there are not much currently available. NATO uses a different artillery shell (155mm).
Ukraine probably started out with about as many artillery pieces (2000) as all of NATO has. NATO has, according to the article, has supplied Ukraine with about 10% of its total artillery. And production at peacetime rates, is fairly slow.
re: #36 ckkatz
Which is why Ukraine has been sending some troops to train on NATO weapons and is stating a real counteroffensive will begin near the end of summer.
This is what happens when one doesn’t do the scoot part of “Shoot and Scoot”.
The M777 (provided by the US) is a highly capable howitzer. But it is not designed for rapid emplacing and displacing (‘scooting’) like more recent artillery such as the French Caesar.
#Ukraine: A destroyed Ukrainian M777A2 155mm howitzer near Lysychansk, #Luhansk Oblast. According to @nytimes, it lost an artillery duel to the Russian army. pic.twitter.com/cVVr1pV8G4
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 10, 2022
Mork had been sick for a week with a few really bad days, and is getting back to normal in recent days.
Both of my cats felt like they had unusually warm paws, and Mork had vomited a lot of bile three times over three days and was lethargic.
Two days ago he was still retching once in the evening but didn’t throw up for the first time. Yesterday, he was back to begging for treats a little bit and ate a lot of Churu, and today he’s aggressively begging for treats, and is his old skittish self, but he still hasn’t climbed the cat tree.
I’m hoping he’ll fully be himself tomorrow.
I took a covid test, since if I had it, they might as well, but tested negative. It’s possible that they have it and I don’t, since I don’t sniff the carpet after I come in.
Apparently only 1 out of the 200-300 Wagner mercenaries survived yesterday’s Ukrainian strike. pic.twitter.com/CV6x23cKV5
— Expat in Kyiv (@expatua) June 10, 2022
re: #24 darthstar
But the other thing Kos pointed out was that the NATO munitions, being more ‘intelligent’ - some laser guided, some self guided
We don’t actually know if the Ukrainians even have the basic base-blead extended range ammo (pat pending Gerald Bull), never mind the laser guided or GPS guided stuff.
Meanwhile the Russians do, and have been using it to some considerable success since 2014 (although they may be running low now).
And of course, quantity has a quality of its own.
Don’t want to be a downer, but:
The US sent the M777s with parts of the aiming packages removed.
France has only sent 6 CAESAR systems so far.
Other promised artillery systems don’t seem to be turning up.
…
re: #37 Belafon
Which is why Ukraine has been sending some troops to train on NATO weapons and is stating a real counteroffensive will begin near the end of summer.
That is my understanding as well.
Chocolate Walnut Brownies & Key Lime Pie #ShabbatShalom pic.twitter.com/LI6wIMsEBn
— Liddle Key Lime Pie 🌻🇺🇦🌈🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) June 10, 2022
re: #32 Crush White Nationalism
For me, it was always that I locked myself out of my house, usually while doing yard work.
You had houses with doors that lock but windows that didn’t? Seems like poor security practices to me.
re: #30 William Lewis
Horst Wessel, Horst Wessel, say his name.
(I refuse to do the all caps thing).
I can’t believe I took this idiot seriously for a minute
(You can virtually slap me if you want😆)
I genuinely think that banning journalists from Twitter would benefit both journalists and the public.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) June 9, 2022
re: #40 Barefoot Grin
Damn, that’s either one really lucky bastard or one really UNlucky bastard.
re: #46 EstebanTornado1963
UBI sounded good for half a minute until I understood it was a way to eliminate all other govt. benefits.
re: #44 John Hughes
You had houses with doors that lock but windows that didn’t? Seems like poor security practices to me.
I didn’t live where you do, so it wasn’t a problem.
Four Score and Seven Years of the End of America: A Bibliography
* Harry Truman: We Dropped the Bomb, by Nathaniel P. Perkins, 1953.
* I Like Ike: We Lead in War and Peace, by L. Christian Berrios, 1961.
* The Patterson-Gimlin Film: Is Bigfoot Real?, by Roger Roberts, 1967.
* Jack Takes Us to the Moon: The Apex of America, by Johnson Lemansky, 1969.
* America Slips in the Mud of Vietnam, by William F. Cartwright, 1970.
* Tricky Dicky: Statesman, Scoundrel, and the Southern Strategy that Split America, by Abraham O. Washington, 1975.
* Mr. Ford Pardons the Bad Guy, by J.J. Williams, 1978.
* A Peanut Farmer Scolds America [But He Was Right], by Joseph M. Wilkerson, 1980.
* The Teflon Trickle-Down President, by Dixie Mae Smith, 1990.
* Poppy Bush Takes Iraq, or Maybe Not, by Rutherford Hussein, 1993.
* Slick Willie: Presidents are Only Human, by Anonymous, 2001.
* I Sold Them the Bigfoot Costume, by Philip Morris, 2002.
* My Feet Aren’t Big!, by Sasquatch, 2003.
* A Brief Outing in the Middle East: Bushed with Bushes, by the Harvard Lampoon, 2009.
* No Drama Obama: The Last and Final Hope, by Jill Featherfield, 2017.
* The Donald Tweets Tonight: How Dad Made America Great, by Ivanka Trump, 2025.
* Amtrak Joe: Even He Can’t Stop the Train Wreck of America, by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein, 2026.
* Freefall of a Nation, by the Editorial Staffs of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, 2027.
* No More Hope, by Barack Obama, 2028.
* Bigfoot and Me: An Unrequited Love Story, by Donald Trump, Jr, 2029.
* The China-Russia Pact of Steel: The Conquest of America, by Wang Yi & Sergey Lavrov, 2030.
* World War III: The Dragon vs. the Bear, by General Lloyd Austin, 2031.
* Stalemate: You Still Can’t Win a Land War in Asia, by General Mark A Milley, 2034 [manuscript smuggled out of Russian Gulag].
* They Dropped the Bomb: A World in Ashes, by Sasha Obama, 2035.
* The Return of Sasquatch: Radiation Awakens the Beast, by Tucker Carlson, 2036.
* Geronimo Gets America Back: Sorry About the Damage, by Scooter Joe, 2038.
* Survivor’s Guide to Surviving the American Wilderness, by Chief Wild Eagle, 2040.
re: #46 EstebanTornado1963
I can’t believe I took this idiot seriously for a minute
(You can virtually slap me if you want😆)
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸
@AndrewYang
I genuinely think that banning journalists from Twitter would benefit both journalists and the public.
Nonsense. The general public would just pick up the slack on calling Yang a troll.
re: #44 John Hughes
You had houses with doors that lock but windows that didn’t? Seems like poor security practices to me.
I once had a young woman knock on my door, frantic because she was babysitting our neighbor’s kids, took them outside and got locked out of the house.
I went over, removed a screen and was able to get the window open.
Put everything back together and all was good.
Did I mention that the house I broke into belonged to a cop?
Jared Kushner wasn’t just involved in Trump’s push to overturn 2020. He helped start it.https://t.co/GsS1i2Urwn
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) June 10, 2022
Jared Kushner knew his father-in-law and boss Donald Trump had lost to Joe Biden. But that didn’t stop Kushner from trying to help his wife’s dad cling to power.
Nowadays, as Kushner seeks investments for his firm and attempts to launder his image, the former senior White House aide would like everyone in the public and the press to believe he had nothing to do with the January 6 insurrection or Team Trump’s most scandalous efforts to overthrow the American democratic order. However, there is one problem: Kushner absolutely was intimately involved with Trump’s scheme to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election. It’s just that he bailed on the mission early to save himself.
According to four people familiar with the matter, in the week following Election Day in early November of that year, Kushner took charge in overseeing the development of plans to keep Trump in office — Kushner just wasn’t publicly ostentatious about it in the way Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others were. During that first week, Kushner repeatedly met with Trump and other high-ranking aides to the then-president to discuss and map out possible strategies for multi-pronged legal battles and a scorched-earth messaging war against the victorious Biden campaign, the knowledgeable sources tell Rolling Stone.
re: #5 darthstar
Went to see the doc this morning…wound up getting a Tetanus booster and Shingles vaccine. I’m gonna go lick some rusty nails and hang out in an urgent care waiting room.
Rumor has it rusty nails make cheap Tequila taste better.
— Meerkat Mob Boss Yitz (@MeerkatYitz) June 9, 2022
No, they talked about the mob chanting “hang Mike Pence” and battered cops slipping in blood and Republican congressmen begging Trump for pardons. https://t.co/hnNqmzRj8w
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 10, 2022
re: #49 Crush White Nationalism
I didn’t live where you do, so it wasn’t a problem.
That’s ok. I promise I’d never try to break into your house.
When the Jan. 6 House panel resumes on Monday, it will outline how then-President Donald Trump knew early on that he had lost the election but engaged “in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information” to convince the public otherwise. https://t.co/0STIkKCo2T
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 10, 2022
starts at 10 am Monday, June 13
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
No, Gym, and they didn’t talk about Ashli Babbitt, either. This isn’t your kind of performative grievance theater, Gym, so shut up and let the adults talk.
If you’re worried about inflation, don’t vote for the party that caused the last 3 recessions.
— SandaBlueDeux esq.ret.🌻 (@SandaBlueDeux) June 10, 2022
re: #52 A Cranky One
I went over, removed a screen and was able to get the window open.
and people wonder why it’s so easy to break into computers.
People don’t understand security.
I’ve not been following Tesla’s new offering, but here is one person’s take:
Yes, I too find excessive tooling marks and wavy steel panels to be “beautiful.” https://t.co/h3CnEQy9qq pic.twitter.com/UUGF5kpq6i
— The Call is Coming from Inside the Nash (@Nash076) June 9, 2022
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The windshield wiper is bolted through a hole in the glass what the fuck pic.twitter.com/tdAJYtYgf6
— The Call is Coming from Inside the Nash (@Nash076) June 9, 2022
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“Do you love that amendment more than you love your kids?”
Please take ten measly minutes… https://t.co/aJKluI8wyO— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 10, 2022
We seem to have accepted that COVID is now an endemic disease which kills annually as least twice as many Americans as the flu. Sigh. Maybe the pharmaceutical firms will eventually develop a vaccine that stops all forms of COVID.
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jim keeps acting insane because he was part of the coup attempt and feels the law closing in. Imagine being so spun by this that you start talking about entirely unrelated things dishonestly as if it made any sense at all. It’s about time this scumbag faced justice.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 10, 2022
A couple of cool cats cruising into the weekend. Eugene Kibets is going to try and find this abandoned cat a new home. @eugenehmg #Ukraine 🇺🇦❤️ pic.twitter.com/kZX8CTCxs7
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) June 10, 2022
Unironically one of the most wholesome stories I’ve seen recently pic.twitter.com/AQNEpPPMPP
— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) June 9, 2022
re: #58 Citizen K
Well played, O’Reilly Auto Parts. Well played.
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re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
THANK YOU. My heart really needed that today.
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
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how dare a court case about X not talk about some other case
No, they talked about the mob chanting “hang Mike Pence” and battered cops slipping in blood and Republican congressmen begging Trump for pardons. https://t.co/hnNqmzRj8w
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 10, 2022
re: #56 ckkatz
And, of course there is the old one of calling up the auto parts store, saying you need a water pump gasket for your 1998 Toyota 4Runner with the 2.7liter engine.
And then, saying that there has been confusion over ordering parts before, ask the parts person to describe it.
Example:
re: #68 Hecuba’s daughter
We seem to have accepted that COVID is now an endemic disease which kills annually as least twice as many Americans as the flu. Sigh. Maybe the pharmaceutical firms will eventually develop a vaccine that stops all forms of COVID.
Well….it is.
COVID-19 is literally never going away. It’s widely present in animal populations, which means innumerable vectors (including household pets) and there are no signs of vaccines that offer sterilizing immunity coming out any time soon.
When all this started, I said that the “new normal” everyone was talking about was going to be radically different than what everyone was imagining, and sadly, I was right.
The “new normal” turned out to be “acceptable losses”.
this is wonderful!
Good morning. This is my new favourite video on the internet. That is all. pic.twitter.com/Zll40XEFED
— Anna Lapwood (@annalapwood) June 9, 2022
I just Googled “sata hard drive life span” and apparently the average is 3 to 5 years.
So I must have some freaky long-lived hard drives here that I pulled out of my old Mac Pro, because the dates on all of them are 2008, and they’ve all been basically running non-stop the whole time.
Freaky deaky HDs.
Geico must pay a Missouri woman $5.2M after she caught HPV from unprotected sex with her then-boyfriend in his insured automobile, a state appellate court rules. https://t.co/SC5xgeZcuW
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 10, 2022
I thought STD meant Standard Plan. Who knew it meant something else.
— Hans Uvtrooth (@TruthHands) June 10, 2022
re: #12 darthstar
My wife has a farewell lunch for one of her chefs tomorrow so I figured if I feel like crap at least I’ll be able to do so watching The Boys on Netflix/Prime/wherever…I can never keep those services straight.
Prime for The Boys
re: #76 Dr Lizardo
Well….it is.
COVID-19 is literally never going away. It’s widely present in animal populations, which means innumerable vectors (including household pets) and there are no signs of vaccines that offer sterilizing immunity coming out any time soon.
When all this started, I said that the “new normal” everyone was talking about was going to be radically different than what everyone was imagining, and sadly, I was right.
The “new normal” turned out to be “acceptable losses”.
We might have been able to basically wipe it out (like polio) if more human beings had been responsible, educated about the issues, and caring about others, instead of selfish entitled jerks.
On the other hand modern society with rapid travel to any point in the world may be the real determining factor. It may no longer be possible to pull off something like the eradication of polio.
Now my musical drop of the day.
Devil Doll.
Went through hell, on the rebound.
Love torch singers.
Even the ones who want to incinerate the ones they carried the torch for.
re: #78 Dr Lizardo
Heh!
Reminds me of the old Boy Scouts one like Left Handed Smoke Shifter, can of elbow grease and snipe hunting. For the snipe hunting the best way to prank back is to catch a chipmunk and return the pillow case the senders and asking if the snipe is black with a white stripe down the back.
And of course, there were the Army ones of telling someone to return with a box or grid squares and a filled out ID-10-T form.
I remember having a confrontation with Mace after what she did. I’m not even going to discuss it right now, but I will never forget that moment for the rest of my life.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 10, 2022
re: #84 ckkatz
Heh!
Reminds me of the old Boy Scouts one like Left Handed Smoke Shifter, can of elbow grease and snipe hunting. For the snipe hunting the best way to prank back is to catch a chipmunk and return the pillow case the senders and asking if the snipe is black with a white stripe down the back.
And of course, there were the Army ones of telling someone to return with a box or grid squares and a filled out ID-10-T form.
that’s an IRS form, I think //
O.O
This looks like if every character from ‘Clerks’ was one person pic.twitter.com/ZK3gd96CG2
— Nat Baimel (@NatBaimel) June 10, 2022
re: #82 Charles Johnson
I agree - at the very outset of the pandemic, there was a brief window of opportunity to contain the spread. Sadly, that window closed very quickly. Sure as hell didn’t help that TFG absolutely bungled the US pandemic response.
And you’re right that in the era of global mass tourism, maybe it’s almost impossible to contain a highly contagious respiratory disease. Hell, I could be Frankfurt in a few hours, and from there, I could be in Nairobi by tomorrow morning. Or Tokyo sometime tomorrow afternoon. Or Los Angeles…or any major metropolitan area.
I’m just an ER doctor here to tell you that the healthcare system is not in a position to deal with the consequences of a waist-high turbosuction device https://t.co/wRpmkQZdGd
— Resus Cric Superstar (@RozehnalMd) June 10, 2022
re: #90 Crush White Nationalism
“WHERE THE HELL DID THE KITTEN GET TO?!!?!!?”
Yesterday as I was approaching the counter at a local store I saw a customer—stars and stripes tattoo on forearm, goatee, etc.—talking to the cashier and heard him say “yeah, he’s got to get dialysis, but the place they sent him won’t take him until he gets vaccinated” and the cashier said, “that’s bullshit; why do they have to mix up politics in everything”; tattoo guy: “his body, his decision, right?”
I don’t think we’re getting this under complete control anytime soon.
re: #90 Crush White Nationalism
And I’m just an attorney here to tell you that personal injury lawyers are ABSOLUTELY ready for this.
Let’s go turbo suction!!!!— Mini Lawyer (@MarcRGrant) June 10, 2022
re: #91 nines09
“WHERE THE HELL DID THE KITTEN GET TO?!!?!!?”
My exact thought when I saw it.
Plus a pet would probably learn how to toss stuff into it for “fun”.
re: #84 ckkatz
I did the blinker fluid prank on a friend of mine years and years ago. I sent her into an AutoZone store with a $10 bill and popped the hood and pretended to be looking at the engine. She came out a couple minutes later, slightly red in the face but laughing, and said, “You fucker, you got me good. I can’t believe I fell for that.”
Apropos of nothing in particular:
— Jakub Janovsky (@Rebel44CZ) June 9, 2022
“Nearly 20 million people watched Thursday night’s first hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol across broadcast and cable news,” The Hill reports.New York Times: “That number will grow in the coming hours, as more networks are tallied and out-of-home viewing is factored in. Nielsen is expected to have a final viewership figure on Friday evening.”
apparently MSNBC averaged 4.161 million total viewers
Fox News 2.957 million
CNN 2.617 million.
re: #92 Barefoot Grin
Yesterday as I was approaching the counter at a local store I saw a customer—stars and stripes tattoo on forearm, goatee, etc.—talking to the cashier and heard him say “yeah, he’s got to get dialysis, but the place they sent him won’t take him until he gets vaccinated” and the cashier said, “that’s bullshit; why do they have to mix up politics in everything”; tattoo guy: “his body, his decision, right?”
I don’t think we’re getting this under complete control anytime soon.
“His body. His decision.” is what the guy did. And the dialysis clinic has the right to think the decision is the wrong one and not worth risking their other patients over.
“It’s politics” is the lame excuse for someone avoiding emotionally and intellectually dealing with consequences.
re: #89 Dr Lizardo
I agree - at the very outset of the pandemic, there was a brief window of opportunity to contain the spread. Sadly, that window closed very quickly. Sure as hell didn’t help that TFG absolutely bungled the US pandemic response.
And you’re right that in the era of global mass tourism, maybe it’s almost impossible to contain a highly contagious respiratory disease. Hell, I could be Frankfurt in a few hours, and from there, I could be in Nairobi by tomorrow morning. Or Tokyo sometime tomorrow afternoon. Or Los Angeles…or any major metropolitan area.
well, you are a doctor…
re: #94 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or a large dog shoves his snout into it and suddenly we are in the closing scenes of
re: #23 Barefoot Grin
The second was far worse for me. Knocked me out for a full day.
Both shingles shots did me in, but I’ve seen shingles in action, and DO NOT WANT.
re: #39 Crush White Nationalism
Mork had been sick for a week with a few really bad days, and is getting back to normal in recent days.
Both of my cats felt like they had unusually warm paws, and Mork had vomited a lot of bile three times over three days and was lethargic.
Two days ago he was still retching once in the evening but didn’t throw up for the first time. Yesterday, he was back to begging for treats a little bit and ate a lot of Churu, and today he’s aggressively begging for treats, and is his old skittish self, but he still hasn’t climbed the cat tree.
I’m hoping he’ll fully be himself tomorrow.
I took a covid test, since if I had it, they might as well, but tested negative. It’s possible that they have it and I don’t, since I don’t sniff the carpet after I come in.
Jesse has only eaten about half a bowl of food since yesterday morning. If her appetite is no better by tomorrow, it will be off to the vets with her. She doesn’t seem to be in discomfort, and she just went outside, so I don’t think she’s getting ready to shuffle off her mortal coil.
re: #46 EstebanTornado1963
I can’t believe I took this idiot seriously for a minute
(You can virtually slap me if you want😆)
I like the idea of a universal basic income, and I liked having an asian-american presidential candidate, but Yang has just gone off the deep end.
I dunno if we talked about this, but I thought I’d mention it anyway. First of all, I’m no fan of golf, I think it’s elitist because of the entry expense. That said, my late father LOVED playing golf. He would take a client golfing and they’d golf, which is what my dad wanted to do. “When you’re golfing, you think about golf. There’s time to think about that other stuff later.”
Apparently Trump buddy Prince Salman “Bonesaw” Al-Saud had decided he’s going to try and hollow out the PGA Tour. So he’s been buying up golf stars who are quite happy to take his very very blood-spattered money.
So far, of the 48 golfers involved, the most high-profile names to join LIV Golf are Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, who were reportedly offered $200 million and $125 million, respectively, to join the new tour. Additionally, LIV Golf is offering larger prize money payouts. In May, Justin Thomas won $2.7 million as the winner of the PGA Championship, while the winner of the LIV Golf tournament, which kicked off this week, will claim $4 million, the second place winner $2.1 million, and $1.5 will go to the golfer who places third.
While “golf” may be torn over the blood soaked Saudi tour, I certainly am not.
You know, I could feel sorry for these guys, but you know, when you cozy up to murderous Prince Salman Bonesaw, I see no reason to feel sorry for them AT ALL. They got their blood money. And yes, IT’S BLOOD MONEY. Please, people, remind them they took blood money!
— Dee Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) June 10, 2022
My brother likes to watch golf. I hope I can get him to continue watching the PGA Tour.
re: #101 retired cynic
Both shingles shots did me in, but I’ve seen shingles in action, and DO NOT WANT.
Yes! When we were first married we went to Tokyo for a year for me to do research with our 7 month-old. The stress of packing, dealing with the child, unpacking in a tiny apartment, etc. caused my wife to get shingles. It was pure hell for her.
re: #95 Dr Lizardo
I did the blinker fluid prank on a friend of mine years and years ago. I sent her into an AutoZone store with a $10 bill and popped the hood and pretended to be looking at the engine. She came out a couple minutes later, slightly red in the face but laughing, and said, “You fucker, you got me good. I can’t believe I fell for that.”
You clearly know better humored folks than I do. :)
re: #66 nines09
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re: #68 Hecuba’s daughter
We seem to have accepted that COVID is now an endemic disease which kills annually as least twice as many Americans as the flu. Sigh. Maybe the pharmaceutical firms will eventually develop a vaccine that stops all forms of COVID.
A third of the public will never get vaccinated against Covid.
re: #105 Barefoot Grin
Yes! When we were first married we went to Tokyo for a year for me to do research with our 7 month-old. The stress of packing, dealing with the child, unpacking in a tiny apartment, etc. caused my wife to get shingles. It was pure hell for her.
A seven-month-old doesn’t seem like the best choice for a research assistant.
I doubt that I could even read their notes.
re: #80 Captain Ron
Damn, I wonder what kind of premium her BF paid to get a $5.2 mil policy limit.
re: #107 Teddy’s Person
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re: #103 No Malarkey!
I like the idea of a universal basic income, and I liked having an asian-american presidential candidate, but Yang has just gone off the deep end.
i looked at his ‘freedom dividend’ in 2019
my LGF page is still there
this is the link to his faq. the one in my page doesnt work any more
Speaking of pranks:
1974 Mount Edgecumbe Volcano Eruption near Sitka, Alaska was a good one:
re: #80 Captain Ron
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i’m going out on a limb and assuming the next level is going to tell the appellate court where to go. How on earth is Geico on the hook for this? Is it collision/comprehensive?
re: #56 ckkatz
Looks like they’re sold out, or it’s out of production. Good thing I bought three of them last week.
re: #95 Dr Lizardo
Very funny, now pass me the board stretcher.
re: #114 steve_davis
i’m going out on a limb and assuming the next level is going to tell the appellate court where to go. How on earth is Geico on the hook for this? Is it collision/comprehensive?
I don’t know, but I don’t think the actuaries accounted for this when setting rates. Do everyone’s rates now go up in case we give someone HPV, the most common STD, in our car?
re: #104 mmmirele
TBF, it could really spice up the game. The losing player gets dismembered on the front lawn of the club.
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re: #87 Teukka
Is ABC resurrecting Lost and are looking at Cruz to play Hurley?
re: #80 Captain Ron
I’m usually all for soaking insurance companies, but this seems absurd.
re: #121 EPR-radar
I’m usually all for soaking insurance companies, but this seems absurd.
fairly good explainer from NPR
the claim is a little thin: She says the man “was insured against his personal liability arising from his negligence in actions involving his automobile”
then geico signed an arbitration agreement and then didnt seem to take it, or the negotiations or subsequent lawsuit seriously
re: #122 Dangerman
fairly good explainer from NPR
the claim is a little thin: She says the man “was insured against his personal liability arising from his negligence in actions involving his automobile”
then geico signed an arbitration agreement and then didnt seem to take it, or the negotiations or subsequent lawsuit seriously
Because they probably felt the claim had little chance of succeeding.
Tomorrow’s Wordle looks like a soft par 4.
Wordle 357 4/6
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Sibling scores: 3,4,4,5
re: #114 steve_davis
i’m going out on a limb and assuming the next level is going to tell the appellate court where to go. How on earth is Geico on the hook for this? Is it collision/comprehensive?
The Missouri Court of Appeals is siding with a woman who won a $5.2 million award against GEICO, in a case that centers on a unique auto injury claim: the woman says she contracted a sexually transmitted disease in a Hyundai sedan whose owner was insured by GEICO.
The woman, identified in court papers as M.O., says a man, identified as M.B., infected her with human papillomavirus, or HPV, when they had unprotected sex in his 2014 Hyundai Genesis.
She says the man was negligent and didn’t tell her about his health diagnosis, despite having a throat cancer tumor that was confirmed to be positive for HPV.
GEICO had told the woman its auto insurance coverage didn’t apply because the “damages claimed did not arise out of the normal use of the vehicle.”
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M.O. has now won three victories in Missouri. But in April of 2021, GEICO sued both M.O. and M.B. in federal court, asking the court to rule that the insurance company isn’t liable for the woman being infected with HPV, and that it doesn’t have a duty to defend the man from her claims against him.
GEICO says the car owner’s claims for coverage should be dismissed because they’re barred by a number of legal doctrines, including “fraud, collusion, illegality, laches, and unclean hands.”
But M.O. says GEICO acted in bad faith, by refusing to defend the man who owns the car, despite multiple requests, and by refusing to settle her claim. She says the man “was insured against his personal liability arising from his negligence in actions involving his automobile,” and that makes GEICO responsible.
The federal case is set for a jury trial, which is currently slated to begin in a Kansas City courtroom in October. Since GEICO filed its federal suit more than a year ago, well over 100 docket entries have been made.
Hannity: “Had they actually listened to President Trump…Jan. 6 never would have happened.”
They did listen to him. That’s why it happened. pic.twitter.com/iWZ3zoxoAo— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) June 10, 2022
re: #127 Crush White Nationalism
What platform is that through?
Though Jared Kushner eventually got tired of Donald Trump’s election lies, Rolling Stone reports he was intimately involved in the initial efforts to keep Trump in power.“During that first week, Kushner repeatedly met with Trump and other high-ranking aides to the then-president to discuss and map out possible strategies for multi-pronged legal battles and a scorched-earth messaging war against the victorious Biden campaign.”
anyone all quelle surprised?
didnt think so
Julee Cruise, whose gorgeous collaborations with David Lynch elevated projects such as “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks,” has died at 65 years old. Her husband, Edward Grinnant, revealed the news on a B-52’s Facebook page, as first reported by The Guardian. Cruise was an occasional touring member of the band, acting as Cindy Wilson’s stand-in on stretches from 1992 to 1999.“For those of you who go back I thought you might want to know that I said goodby to my wife, Julee Cruise, today,” he wrote. “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace. Having had such a varied music career she often said that the time she spent as a B filling in for Cindy while she was having a family was the happiest time of her performing life. She will be forever grateful to them. When she first stepped up to the mic with Fred and Kate she said it was like joining the Beatles. She will love them always and never forget their travels together around the world. I played her Roam during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all.”
Julee Cruise, Singer Who Worked With David Lynch on ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 65 (Variety)
BREAKING: A Texas judge just blocked Greg Abbott from ordering child abuse investigations of the parents of all trans youth in the state.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 10, 2022
re: #129 Crush White Nationalism
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Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO) “covered up” an off-roading accident that could have sunk her political career after she lost control of Jeep ATV and left her son, dog, and sister-in-law to smash into a rock face two weeks before key 2020 primary, the Daily Mail reports.
Greatest prank in history? BBC’s “Spaghetti Harvest in Ticino” April Fool report in 1957.
BBC Spaghetti Hoax at Wikipedia.
Michael Peacock, the segment’s producer, passed on last year at age 90 after an illustrious career. The idea originated with cameraman Charles de Jaeger , who also lived to 90. A sense of humor does seem to contribute to long life, or at least help make what you have bearable.
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ya, I’m missing something here, because on its face, this seems ridiculous. It almost sounds like the insured and M.O. entered an agreement to assign his bad faith claim to her, because otherwise, I don’t see how she has standing to recover on a duty to defend. Even if the bad faith claim was assigned, it still seems absurd.
re: #80 Captain Ron
Wouldn’t a simple universal health care system be easier, cheaper, and less ridiculous?
The major problem with the US is that the judicial branch has become the most powerful, and since it’s based on fake ideas of “logic” and “justice” it’s the least human.
Then one day
He was shootin’ at some food
And up through the ground
Come a-bubblin’ crude https://t.co/lgEwlcYPh0— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2022
re: #82 Charles Johnson
On the other hand modern society with rapid travel to any point in the world may be the real determining factor. It may no longer be possible to pull off something like the eradication of polio.
We did it with SARS. And MERS, and Ebola.
But, of course, none of those got to Europe or the US…
re: #122 Dangerman
fairly good explainer from NPR
the claim is a little thin: She says the man “was insured against his personal liability arising from his negligence in actions involving his automobile”
then geico signed an arbitration agreement and then didnt seem to take it, or the negotiations or subsequent lawsuit seriously
Thanks for the info. It looks like the plaintiff here is getting a lot of mileage out of a frivolous lawsuit.
But a legal expert once told me two things:
1) If you go to court with a 100% case there’s still a 20% chance you lose, and
2) There are no 100% cases.
re: #104 mmmirele
I dunno if we talked about this, but I thought I’d mention it anyway. First of all, I’m no fan of golf, I think it’s elitist because of the entry expense. That said, my late father LOVED playing golf. He would take a client golfing and they’d golf, which is what my dad wanted to do. “When you’re golfing, you think about golf. There’s time to think about that other stuff later.”
Apparently Trump buddy Prince Salman “Bonesaw” Al-Saud had decided he’s going to try and hollow out the PGA Tour. So he’s been buying up golf stars who are quite happy to take his very very blood-spattered money.
While “golf” may be torn over the blood soaked Saudi tour, I certainly am not.
My brother likes to watch golf. I hope I can get him to continue watching the PGA Tour.
The PGA is banning players who sign up to play in any of the LIV tournaments.
PGA Tour Bans All LIV Golf Invitational Series Players
In a strongly worded letter from commissioner Jay Monahan, the Tour says that LIV Golf players are “suspended or otherwise no longer eligible to participate” in PGA Tour events. They will be removed from the FedEx Cup rankings following this week’s RBC Canadian Open and will not be eligible for the FedEx Cup or Presidents Cup.
They are loving this shirt in the Charlotte, NC airport. (did I strike a nerve?? 👀) pic.twitter.com/84gs53F0jj
— Jonathan D. Lovitz (@jdlovitz) June 9, 2022
“Okay, yes, the President said Mike Pence ‘deserved hanging.’ But don’t you think it’s about time we took a look at Mike through the eyes of Donald Trump? Come on, take a little voyage with me…” *silver screen descends* https://t.co/wFUD4cGgXw
— tom choad (@tomablogger) June 10, 2022
re: #137 Dangerman
she got other problems too
Damn. It’s nice that Tori had the sense to divorce Lauren’s brother and get away from that awful family.
And it also doesn’t count C-SPAN. https://t.co/j4Bk5FMgFU
— Jeff Mayers (@TimeLordJeff) June 10, 2022
re: #138 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Greatest prank in history? BBC’s “Spaghetti Harvest in Ticino” April Fool report in 1957.
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Michael Peacock, the segment’s producer, passed on last year at age 90 after an illustrious career. The idea originated with cameraman Charles de Jaeger , who also lived to 90. A sense of humor does seem to contribute to long life, or at least help make what you have bearable.
The funniest thing, and the thing that makes it work, is probably the narration by the classically authoritative Richard Dimbleby, including his trademarks assumption of greater audience knowledge that is actually the case (“Many of you, I’m sure, will have seen pictures of the vast spaghettic plantations of the Po Valley”) . Dimbleby provided his services free of charge and the total budget was £100.
re: #90 Crush White Nationalism
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My house has a laundry chute with an opening on the second floor and an end point dumping its contents on the basement floor. Our laundry room is on the first floor between the kitchen and the garage (it was built that way, back in 1967!) and the “laundry” chute does not empty out anywhere near there! So that’s weird. The house I grew up in had a laundry chute that emptied into the actual laundry room.
We sealed up the second floor opening so the kids wouldn’t throw random shit into the basement. It would be handy to have a chute that actually empties into the laundry room (like we had in the house where I grew up, which was built in 1930!) It would be way more convenient than hauling baskets up and down the stairs.
The January 6th hearing earned over 5x the viewership of Republicans’ sham Benghazi hearing.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) June 10, 2022
You shoulda watched last night.
They even addressed this moronic point from you, Moron. Testimony from other Trump toadies that he and they all DID know they lost.
It was a coup. And they’re all going to go to prison for it. Maybe you too? Again? https://t.co/DWx9wS2641— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 10, 2022
It’s Happy Hour! pic.twitter.com/doizluhJoC
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 10, 2022
More crimes, more crimes, more crimes, and more crimes. https://t.co/7VOMJJkYPL
— Carol Morgan (@CounselorCarol1) June 10, 2022
re: #97 Dangerman
apparently MSNBC averaged 4.161 million total viewers
Fox News 2.957 million
CNN 2.617 million.
for comparison, here’s the top-rated scripted shows this year (sports playoffs often beat them…)
1. “NCIS,” CBS — 10.97 million
2. “FBI,” CBS — 10.35 million
3. “Chicago Fire,” NBC — 9.92 million
4. “Blue Bloods,” CBS — 9.60 million
5. “The Equalizer,” CBS — 9.30 million
6. “Chicago PD,” NBC — 9.25 million
7. “Young Sheldon,” CBS — 9.22 million
8. “Chicago Med,” NBC — 9.20 million
9. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS — 8.85 million
10. “Ghosts,” CBS — 8.41 million
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
It is motherfucking terrifying that this dude was the WH doc.
re: #102 steve_davis
Jesse has only eaten about half a bowl of food since yesterday morning. If her appetite is no better by tomorrow, it will be off to the vets with her. She doesn’t seem to be in discomfort, and she just went outside, so I don’t think she’s getting ready to shuffle off her mortal coil.
Missing any birds, rodents, carrion outside?
re: #48 jaunte
UBI sounded good for half a minute until I understood it was a way to eliminate all other govt. benefits.
UBI would be great, and eliminate a whole lot of government things like “Why do you deserve our help” but there would have to be a better way to index it than “Can grandma eat dirt and it do the same thing as her heart medicine?”
re: #91 nines09
“WHERE THE HELL DID THE KITTEN GET TO?!!?!!?”
“You stuck it WHERE?” was my first thought.
re: #56 ckkatz
I showed that to my coworkers last week. They enjoyed that it’s listed on the O’Reilly website, but they critiqued hooking it up to a car.
Feds buy 500,000 more monkeypox vaccine doses https://t.co/a1d53vltz0 pic.twitter.com/BIz4Zr1DDb
— The Hill (@thehill) June 10, 2022
Kyiv City Council cancels decree by Kyiv Rus Grand Prince Volodymyr of the founding of Moscow in 1147. As of 7 June, Moscow no longer exists pic.twitter.com/glfD8u46XA
— Taras Kuzio 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇹 (@TarasKuzio) June 10, 2022
re: #161 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
“You stuck it WHERE?” was my first thought.
Mine too.
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
Seems more like unhappy hour lol.
re: #166 Crush White Nationalism
Now that is some high level trolling.
🔥BREAKING NEWS ON IVANKA TRUMP
Ivanka, in an effort to distract her dad from her testimony and convince people to vote Republican, launches her new perfume line ad on TRUTH Social.
Clarence Thomas will be buying a bottle for Ginni Thomas before they lock her up.
From #UKR pic.twitter.com/YcGaIzk1Ek
re: #170 Dave In Austin
I have no idea if that’s meant to be a joke or not. Satire is no longer possible post 2016.
Spoilers for this week’s Strange New Worlds.
‘Star Trek’ Keeps Ripping Off A Legendary Sci-Fi Author (Cracked)
re: #144 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The PGA is banning players who sign up to play in any of the LIV tournaments.
PGA Tour Bans All LIV Golf Invitational Series Players
In a strongly worded letter from commissioner Jay Monahan, the Tour says that LIV Golf players are “suspended or otherwise no longer eligible to participate” in PGA Tour events. They will be removed from the FedEx Cup rankings following this week’s RBC Canadian Open and will not be eligible for the FedEx Cup or Presidents Cup.
I’m not unhappy about this. The PGA has worked very hard on creating and marketing its brand and providing benefits to its members. I still think golf is elitist but I’m not gonna fault the PGA for protecting what it’s done over the decades.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that it is alleged the Saudis offered Tiger Woods $1 billion to play in their blood soaked golf tournament. He allegedly turned them down. Dunno how true that is, but still a possibly interesting data point.
As Lizards were talking about CV19 capitulation:
US will end Covid-19 testing requirement for air travelers entering the country
cnn.com
Someone didn’t like “Bullshit.” pic.twitter.com/tdbGoWBDVX
— George Conway🇺🇦 (@gtconway3d) June 10, 2022
re: #172 Crush White Nationalism
Spoilers for this week’s Strange New Worlds.
‘Star Trek’ Keeps Ripping Off A Legendary Sci-Fi Author (Cracked)
I have been reliably informed that the story referenced in the article was based on a terrible situation that existed in science fiction fandom on the West Coast in the 1960s. I’m not at liberty to discuss it further, but JAYSIS I didn’t want to be reminded about it today.
re: #174 Decatur Deb
As Lizards were talking about CV19 capitulation:
US will end Covid-19 testing requirement for air travelers entering the country
cnn.com
A girl friend is celebrating that decision. She and her husband are traveling to France in a few weeks and she’s delighted that she doesn’t have to pay for a test prior to their return flight.
re: #104 mmmirele
I dunno if we talked about this, but I thought I’d mention it anyway. First of all, I’m no fan of golf, I think it’s elitist because of the entry expense. …
re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter
A girl friend is celebrating that decision. She and her husband are traveling to France in a few weeks and she’s delighted that she doesn’t have to pay for a test prior to their return flight.
Neither do the other 300 people on the flight.
re: #175 gocart mozart
Wow. Everyone you hired (the best!) was weak or a loser.
Huh.
Someone didn’t like “Bullshit.” pic.twitter.com/tdbGoWBDVX
— George Conway🇺🇦 (@gtconway3d) June 10, 2022
You’ve seen the Ivanka testimony.
You’ve read the Ginni Thomas texts.
You’ve heard about Trump’s meltdown on Truth Social.
Now watch: “The Coup Cucks Klan”
A brief Ken Burns parody.https://t.co/lHxJUgt2bY… #January6thCommitteeHearings— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 10, 2022
Cat brain land
Wordle 356 4/6*
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2022
Take note of the pundits who said no one would care and then never listen to their arrogant asses again. https://t.co/IkeLU2NzxD
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) June 10, 2022
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2022
re: #184 Charles Johnson
The product of a broken home. Mom is probably out eating dog treats and having sex with other dogs instead of taking care of the pups.
1. Especially people drawing Dick Tracy villains. That’s some cartoonishly stupid hair.
2. Like Paul Manifort showing up for court in a wheel chair. Standard criminal behavior.
3. Isn’t @aoc a little old for you?
Bonus question:
4) Did you beg for a pardon? https://t.co/7zMljTex4s— Steve Marmel 💉💉💉💉 (@Marmel) June 10, 2022
With Roe v. Wade in jeopardy in the United States, activists say El Salvador’s law should serve as a cautionary tale. https://t.co/KtwDhRqoFn
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 10, 2022
After Teodora del Carmen Vásquez lost her nearly full-term fetus, she was prosecuted, convicted and given 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide.
Vásquez was freed in 2018 after her sentence was commuted. https://t.co/HOuQKPeXVd pic.twitter.com/sCFWG3uCzI— The Associated Press (@AP) June 10, 2022
it’s pretty rich Fox News is criticizing other media outlets for covering the January 6 hearing when they were so afraid of viewers seeing a second of it and getting deprogrammed that they didn’t even have commercials! pic.twitter.com/tThXG9zlSE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 10, 2022
In 1864, Lincoln understood that he would likely lose his reelection bid. In anticipation, he wrote a memo detailing the importance of one of our most basic democratic principles: the peaceful transfer of power.
This precedent stood for 220 years— until Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/Nz7ip78jhM— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) June 10, 2022
re: #172 Crush White Nationalism
Spoilers for this week’s Strange New Worlds.
‘Star Trek’ Keeps Ripping Off A Legendary Sci-Fi Author (Cracked)
IMHO, the article greatly overstates the “ripoff.” Yes, they sometimes start with the same concept, like the single-sexed planet (Theodore Sturgeon beat out both Trek and LeGuin), but they don’t take the ideas in the same direction. And SF is not the only genre they borrow from — compare DS9’s Duet with The Man in the Glass Cage.”
(I haven’t seen Strange New Worlds yet — I’m too worried about being disappointed by it.)
re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg
Because they probably felt the claim had little chance of succeeding.
okay, a federal court is going to nuke this. “the man was insured against liabilities involving his automobile.” Unless his automobile infected the woman with herpes, Geico wins this. Yes, Geico should presumably have been more proactive, but they’re a huge damned company. They can probably be excused for assuming this would be thrown out as a frivolous case without them having to bring the boys in from Winkem Blinkem and Nodd.
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re: #145 retired cynic
Found this on Facebook:
Jim Wright (Stonekettle): Wayback Wednesday – Crater Lake, Oregon, circa 1997, shot with a Pentax ME Super/50mm, scanned from film negative.
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fuck, i thought it was a Yes album cover by Ansel Adams.
re: #159 Decatur Deb
Missing any birds, rodents, carrion outside?
Probably. She’s been out there often enough.
re: #194 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Who is that gorgeous doggo?
re: #190 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
IMHO, the article greatly overstates the “ripoff.” Yes, they sometimes start with the same concept, like the single-sexed planet (Theodore Sturgeon beat out both Trek and LeGuin), but they don’t take the ideas in the same direction. And SF is not the only genre they borrow from — compare DS9’s Duet with The Man in the Glass Cage.”
(I haven’t seen Strange New Worlds yet — I’m too worried about being disappointed by it.)
It’s good. I’m not quite as ga-ga as some are (but I never hated Picard, Discovery, Lower Decks either) though I’d say I like Prodigy better. The key is they’ve gotten good scripts and some of the others have had rather weak ones. So far SNW is 6 for 6 at the “good or better” level which is something amazing considering the usual 1st season of a Star Trek series (less said about TNG prior the beard, the better).
Imagine being so stupid that you’re still following this lunatic after none of his insane predictions came true.
It’s been 220 days since more than 1,000 people traveled from across the U.S. to Dallas at the behest of Michael Protzman, a QAnon influencer known as Negative 48, who promised his followers that John F. Kennedy would reappear at Dealey Plaza. JFK didn’t reappear, of course, but the QAnon cult is now returning to Texas.
More than seven months after the group first met in Dallas, it is heading back to the city this weekend after Protzman once again promised that JFK would reveal himself to the group, proving once and for all that he is, in fact, the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Protzman has already checked into the Hyatt Regency, where hundreds of people gathered back in November.
“What started in Dallas ends in Dallas,” one member of a Telegram group linked to the cult wrote on Friday morning.
The JFK QAnon Cult Is Heading Back to Dallas for Another ‘Second Coming (Vice News)
re: #134 Patricia Kayden
😂 That was such a bad movie. The earlier Alien movies are fantastic and they had to wreck it with that stinker.
What, you didn’t like La cité des enfants perdu?
re: #190 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
IMHO, the article greatly overstates the “ripoff.” Yes, they sometimes start with the same concept, like the single-sexed planet (Theodore Sturgeon beat out both Trek and LeGuin), but they don’t take the ideas in the same direction. And SF is not the only genre they borrow from — compare DS9’s Duet with The Man in the Glass Cage.”
(I haven’t seen Strange New Worlds yet — I’m too worried about being disappointed by it.)
Oh, and as for the single sex planet trope, anyone who hasn’t read it owes themselves a quick read of Lois McMasters Bujold’s “Ethan of Athos”.
re: #198 Crush White Nationalism
Imagine being so stupid that you’re still following this lunatic after none of his insane predictions came true.
The JFK QAnon Cult Is Heading Back to Dallas for Another ‘Second Coming (Vice News)
Shrine of the Holy Schoolbook Repository.
re: #196 Teddy’s Person
This is Wilson. When I got him from the shelter he was 38 lbs. According to our vet, his healthy weight is 55 lbs, so that tells you how he was doing. He is terrified of other dogs, and doesn’t love strangers right away, but he warms up to new people soon enough.
re: #171 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I have no idea if that’s meant to be a joke or not. Satire is no longer possible post 2016.
re: #197 William Lewis
Lower Decks and Prodigy for me. Picard may be admirable, but it’s not really engrossing the way I found the earlier series.
Actually, I’d say TNG is the only older series that has a seriously weak first season (I hate the first two seasons of Enterprise so much that I won’t comment on them), and when I’ve gone back to it, I haven’t found it nearly as bad as I remembered. (That said, the lighting, costuming and makeup of the first season are part of the reason people remember it as so bad. And some of the episodes really did suck.)
re: #201 William Lewis
Oh, and as for the single sex planet trope, anyone who hasn’t read it owes themselves a quick read of Lois McMasters Bujold’s “Ethan of Athos”.
Read it. Agree.
re: #173 mmmirele
I’m not unhappy about this. The PGA has worked very hard on creating and marketing its brand and providing benefits to its members. I still think golf is elitist but I’m not gonna fault the PGA for protecting what it’s done over the decades.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that it is alleged the Saudis offered Tiger Woods $1 billion to play in their blood soaked golf tournament. He allegedly turned them down. Dunno how true that is, but still a possibly interesting data point.
In 20 years no one will care about ball golf. If you happen to hear the word “golf” it will be about disc golf.
re: #205 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
DS9 had a very unbalanced first season. It wasn’t until mid to late second season that the show started to find itself.
re: #140 John Hughes
The main problem that there is no “check” against rogue corrupted SCOTUS decisions other than Constitutional Amendment, which by itself is an almost insurmountable barrier in today’s fractured America. Then you get reactionary follow-up decisions by the whacked-out corrupt SCOTUS and Federal Circuits that go out of their way to circumvent Amendments (like the 2nd, “…well regulated militia…” for instance) that can basically ignore or re-write clauses and ignore other corrective Amendments altogether either by scope or intent.
The American system is broken. Republicans just plain broke it on purpose, and with evil intent.
I don’t see a way to fix it. I think despite all its flaws the Parliamentary system of government has proven over time to be the best (or least bad) system of leading a large industrialized country. I hope that that whatever is coming next for us the damage and violence can be limited before a new system of government and a new Constitution can be realized. But whatever the case, we are at one of those points in history that defines the next 50-100 years.
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
DS9 had a very unbalanced first season. It wasn’t until mid to late second season that the show started to find itself.
I’m a big fan of DS9, and I really don’t find it unbalanced. In fact, I just looked at the list, and I can’t find an episode I really didn’t like (I note that Lwaxana Troi was never a favorite.)
June 10 (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Friday blocked, at least for now, Governor Greg Abbott’s directive that child protective services investigate medical providers or parents over gender transition treatments for minors.Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer issued a temporary restraining order at the request of the gay rights organization PFLAG, which sued Abbott and the state over his February mandate to the Texas Department of Family Protective Services.
“That families will be protected from invasive, unnecessary, and unnerving investigations by DFPS simply for helping their transgender children thrive and be themselves is a very good thing,” Brian Bond, PFLAG executive director, said in a statement.
Texas judge suspends governor’s order to investigate transgender procedures (Reuters)
re: #201 William Lewis
Oh, and as for the single sex planet trope, anyone who hasn’t read it owes themselves a quick read of Lois McMasters Bujold’s “Ethan of Athos”.
Which of her novels in that universe I think has aged the least well.
However, Bujold is generally a good read anyways.
re: #205 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Lower Decks and Prodigy for me. Picard may be admirable, but it’s not really engrossing the way I found the earlier series.
Actually, I’d say TNG is the only older series that has a seriously weak first season (I hate the first two seasons of Enterprise so much that I won’t comment on them), and when I’ve gone back to it, I haven’t found it nearly as bad as I remembered. (That said, the lighting, costuming and makeup of the first season are part of the reason people remember it as so bad. And some of the episodes really did suck.)
I’ve been watching Enterprise along with the rewatch on tor.com and I’ve been finding it nowhere near as bad as in memory. The first season was very uneven as with some utter stinkers but a couple were better than average and I like what they did with the Andorians. So much promise just wasted in the end.
re: #190 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
” Yes, they sometimes start with the same concept, like the single-sexed planet (Theodore Sturgeon beat out both Trek and LeGuin)
Anyone who describes Gethen in The left hand of darkness as a “single-sexed planet” has so badly missed the point…
BTW, prepare for the Right-wing outrage when Lightyear comes out. Alisha Hawthorne, Buzz’s partner at the beginning of the movie, and the mother of the young woman he meets later, is a lesbian.
re: #174 Decatur Deb
As Lizards were talking about CV19 capitulation:
US will end Covid-19 testing requirement for air travelers entering the country
cnn.com
I am pretty sure that this is in response to Canada no longer requiring testing for entry. Just a vax record/card proving you have been both vaxed and boosted. And the the usual ArriveCan pre-entry document.
The case, which comes from the disciplinary branch of the D.C. bar, focuses on Giuliani’s efforts to push unsubstantiated fraud accusations for Donald Trump in a Pennsylvania court. The new filing accused Giuliani of violating the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct. The charge was filed with the D.C District of Columbia Court of Appeals.Giuliani “brought a proceeding and asserted issues therein without a non-frivolous basis in law and fact for doing so,” the filing said, in which he “engaged in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.”
The latest action is another blow to Giuliani’s reputation as a lawyer and threatens his ability to practice in the capital in the future. It also comes roughly a year after he was suspended from practicing law in both Washington, D.C., and New York, after the New York State Bar association launched a probe into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
D.C. bar files ethics charges against Rudy Giuliani (Politico via MSN)
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