Exquisite in 4K: Snarky Puppy, “Belmont” (Empire Central)

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Snarky Puppy - Belmont
Stream/Buy: https://orcd.co/sp-belmont
From Snarky Puppy’s new album, Empire Central (September 2022, GroundUP Music)
Pre-Order: https://orcd.co/empirecentral

Written by Michael League
Arranged by Michael League and Snarky Puppy
Bob Lanzetti - Electric guitar
Mark Lettieri - Electric guitar
Chris McQueen - Electric guitar
Justin Stanton - Wurlitzer and Prophet 10
Bobby Sparks - Hammond B3 organ and ARP String Ensemble
Bill Laurance - Yamaha CP70 electric piano and Fender Rhodes Mark 8
Shaun Martin - Mellotron and Korg Kronos
Zach Brock - Violin (Solo)
Mike “Maz” Maher - flugelhorn
Jay Jennings - Flugelhorn
Chris Bullock - Tenor sax and flute
Bob Reynolds - Tenor
Michael League - Electric bass
Nate Werth - Percussion
Keita Ogawa - Percussion
Marcelo Woloski - Percussion
Jason “JT” Thomas - Drum set
Larnell Lewis - Drum set
Jamison Ross - Drum set

Jep Jorba - Director / camera operator
David Bretones - Director of Photography / camera operator
Brad Holt - Line producer / camera operator
Andrew Redd - Gaffer / camera operator
Chris Brian - Camera operator
Ranjani Groth - Camera operator
Jun Kang - Camera operator
Emily Holt - Camera operator
Reid Walker - Dolly operator
Joseph Fisher - Dolly Operator

Produced by Michael League
Co-produced by Snarky Puppy
Engineered by Nic Hard, Matt Recchia, and Michael Harrison
Engineering assisted by Skyler Childress, Michael League, and Shakthi Prasad KT
Mixed by Nic Hard
Mastered by Dave McNair
Recorded and filmed March 3-10, 2022, at Deep Ellum Art Company in Dallas, Texas, USA
Mixed March 15 - April 7, 2022, at Estudi Vint in Els Prats de Rei, Catalonia, Spain
Photography by Brian Friedman and Jep Jorba
Film consulting by Andy LaViolette
Production managed by Rosanna Freedman
Project managed by Jamie Margulies
Stage assembled by Mason Davis, Matt Recchia, Rosanna Freedman, and Michael Harrison
Graphic design by Claire Morales
Managed by Mike Chadwick Management

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Twitter: @realsnarkypuppy
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Website: https://snarkypuppy.com

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1
Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 9, 2022 • 3:48:26pm

OT, family stuff:

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 9, 2022 • 3:53:51pm

re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Sep 9, 2022 • 3:56:38pm

re: #226 austin_blue

Trump has his own airplane. It’s not airworthy right now and might get shot down over Land’s End if it was, but he keeps telling us how filthy rich he is. So, you know, he should be able to rent a Gulfstream 5 and fly nonstop to Luton.

Send him to Stansaid. Of the meme/Twitter profile

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HypnoToad  Sep 9, 2022 • 3:59:52pm

re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg

re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:03:30pm

re: #3 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Send him to Stansaid. Of the meme/Twitter profile

The Essex Constabulary would arrest him and confine him to the plane until the funeral was over.

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:05:49pm
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:08:45pm

re: #6 Crush White Nationalism

I have to ask: That bird on the right that is close to the post. Is that a vulture?

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darthstar  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:09:03pm

Here it’s called the mainland.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:12:51pm

re: #7 PhillyPretzel

I have to ask: That bird on the right that is close to the post. Is that a vulture?

probably a juvenile; they don’t get the white head until they are about 4-5 years old

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:13:29pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

It could be.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:13:30pm
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:18:03pm

re: #6 Crush White Nationalism

Collest vulture ever — BeardedVulture it eats bones

Physiology
The acid concentration in the bearded vulture’s stomach has been estimated to be of pH about 1. Large bones will be digested in about 24 hours, aided by slow mixing or churning of the stomach content. The high fat content of bone marrow makes the net energy value of bone almost as good as that of muscle, even if bone is less completely digested. A skeleton left on a mountain will dehydrate and become protected from bacterial degradation, and the bearded vulture can return to consume the remainder of a carcass even months after the soft parts have been consumed by other animals, larvae, and bacteria.[12]

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:20:49pm

Yeah, everyone in the UK is just NOPE let’s not invite this guy.

Trump breaks royal etiquette, walks in front of Queen

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:21:05pm

Logging off now, see you after Shabbat!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:21:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:37:40pm

a credible source if there ever was…
blech

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:38:56pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

a credible source if there ever was…
blech

I want to believe.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:39:11pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

They’re building a conspiracy, a spider web.

Margarine Tater-Greens is slowly, at long last, starting to get it.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:43:59pm
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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:45:35pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:48:39pm

re: #19 Belafon

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:54:59pm
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Jay C  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:55:16pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

a credible source if there ever was…
blech

Just BTW, neverminding Bannon’s and Empty G’s vaporings about “massive FBI raids”, I read (via diary at dKos) that the grain of truth at the core of their paranoid jabber is the the G did just issue a raft of Grand Jury subpoenas to the usual rabble of Trumpist creatures, mainly re 1/6 stuff, and general election-fraud chicanery. Not exactly a Night Of The Long Knives, though you wouldn’t know it listening to these clowns.

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EPR-radar  Sep 9, 2022 • 4:56:58pm

re: #23 Jay C

Just BTW, neverminding Bannon’s and Empty G’s vaporings about “massive FBI raids”, I read (via diary at dKos) that the grain of truth at the core of their paranoid jabber is the the G did just issue a raft of Grand Jury subpoenas to the usual rabble of Trumpist creatures, mainly re 1/6 stuff, and general election-fraud chicanery. Not exactly a Night Of The Long Knives, though you wouldn’t know it listening to these clowns.

On the other hand, if 35 senior MAGAts really did just get raided, I am 100% in favor of that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:00:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:00:38pm
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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:08:16pm

re: #24 EPR-radar

On the other hand, if 35 senior MAGAts really did just get raided, I am 100% in favor of that.

Me, too!

I’ve got a big ol’ sack of poppycorn right next to the TV, just a waitin’ to be munched.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:12:25pm

re: #24 EPR-radar

On the other hand, if 35 senior MAGAts really did just get raided, I am 100% in favor of that.

seems to me the number should be higher.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:13:01pm

goodfuckinggrief

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:14:10pm

...

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:17:26pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

goodfuckinggrief

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Please turn on each other.

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:22:17pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:25:12pm

Hoo boy, moving to this new server is requiring that I learn to use the DirectAdmin server control panel, and this mutha is confusing as fuck. Finally got a staging server set up today, so I can start testing and fixing shit. Moving from PHP 5 to PHP 8 entails… issues.

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Cheechako  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:25:58pm

MTG:

They’re building a conspiracy, a spider web.”

Ahhh…no…they’re actually finding a conspiracy

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:26:35pm

re: #32 Crush White Nationalism

That was beautiful.

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EPR-radar  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:27:03pm

re: #34 Cheechako

MTG:

Ahhh…no…they’re actually finding a conspiracy

She’s a Republican. They don’t teach cause and effect in Republican-land.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:31:27pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:31:54pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:34:18pm

A blissful 71F outside right now. Sure, the humidity is 94% but that is good at this temp.

We got a third of an inch of rain - not as much as I had hoped. It isn’t enough to seep deeply into the soil. But at least everything seems cleaner.

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:35:04pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:35:19pm

Assembling dinner. Roast vegetables (potato, parsnip, onion, green pepper that have been tossed in a bit of olive oil with salt and pepper); smoked bratwurst heated in a casserole with sauerkraut and pickled garlic; roll with mustard and provolone cheese.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:39:26pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

Hoo boy, moving to this new server is requiring that I learn to use the DirectAdmin server control panel, and this mutha is confusing as fuck. Finally got a staging server set up today, so I can start testing and fixing shit. Moving from PHP 5 to PHP 8 entails… issues.

Major version upgrades will do that to you. I am still dealing with the repercussions of upgrading one of our work systems over 2 years’ worth of 3rd-party library updates.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:42:50pm
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wrenchwench  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:47:57pm

re: #41 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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Assembling dinner. Roast vegetables (potato, parsnip, onion, green pepper that have been tossed in a bit of olive oil with salt and pepper); smoked bratwurst heated in a casserole with sauerkraut and pickled garlic; roll with mustard and provolone cheese.

I love square dishware.

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wrenchwench  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:51:30pm

Translated from Japanese by Google
cute

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jeffreyw  Sep 9, 2022 • 5:56:33pm

Breakfast for Supper

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:00:50pm

For some reason a storm chaser decided to come to San Diego County to try and find something to video given the remnant of Kay.

He spent over 10 hours driving around the county, finally found a surging gully in the desert not far from the Salton Sea. Link should start at the 8:02:xx mark:

Youtube Video

Typical desert gully, floods like crazy with any rain.

The mountains in San Diego County received some good rain, and even in the desert around Borrego Springs they got over an inch.

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Captain Ron  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:20:49pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:28:09pm

re: #40 Crush White Nationalism

Wasn’t apartheid the creation of the National Party which was primarily Afrikaner (i.e. descendants of the Boers), rather than British in origin?

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:29:11pm

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A blissful 71F outside right now. Sure, the humidity is 94% but that is good at this temp.

We got a third of an inch of rain - not as much as I had hoped. It isn’t enough to seep deeply into the soil. But at least everything seems cleaner.

.3” certainly settles the dust for a few days and greens things up a little.

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garzooma  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:30:40pm

Turkish Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has an article in The Atlantic on Salman Rushdie and the plight of writers who are targets of death threats:

Where the Hatred Comes From
What I learned in the space between death threats and bodyguards

By Orhan Pamuk
When I told a few friends that I wanted to write a short piece about the assault on Salman Rushdie, they warned me to be careful—even though, for about 15 years, I have been protected by bodyguards assigned to me by the Turkish government. They are right to be concerned.

It has been depressing to see the way the attack has been received with some approval in Iran and other Muslim countries. Several people told the Associated Press they were pleased to hear that the Indian-born writer—whose 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, they felt insulted the Islamic faith—had been hurt. Some worried about how it would affect Iran’s relationships with other countries. I would not want to make broad conclusions based on social-media comments, but a quick glance at various platforms in Turkey, where I live, shows that many people believe that freedom of expression must not be confused with the freedom to offend or insult. They seem to think that the author had it coming, and they would be glad to see him dead.
[…]
I’ve had many long conversations with writers who have received death threats, especially from “Islamists” or “Islamic extremists,” and with writers and journalists who—for various reasons—live under threat in Muslim countries such as Egypt and Turkey. The threats I face in Turkey are primarily not from Islamic extremists, but rather from nationalists who take issue with my comments on the Armenian genocide and think I am insulting Turkish history—though, in truth, these two groups are not too distant from each other, and Turkey is currently governed by an Islamic-nationalist coalition.
[…]

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:31:44pm

re: #45 wrenchwench

Not skunk, skink!

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Captain Ron  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:32:42pm
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No Malarkey!  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:35:44pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:36:37pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

Dear Senator Graham: There is noting institutional about you wanting to save your treasonous ass from the consequences of your treason.

—— In hopes that this letter finds you dying of a singularly painful and loathsome disease, yours, JQ Public.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:37:04pm

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A blissful 71F outside right now. Sure, the humidity is 94% but that is good at this temp.

We got a third of an inch of rain - not as much as I had hoped. It isn’t enough to seep deeply into the soil. But at least everything seems cleaner.

The house I’m at in Vista has many plants/bushes on their sides from the wind. I woke up from it howling at 4am. Now we’re engulfed in fog. It was an amazing day.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:41:22pm

What a sweet couple! Oh no …

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HRH Stanley Sea  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:42:00pm

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:43:16pm

re: #24 EPR-radar

On the other hand, if 35 senior MAGAts really did just get raided, I am 100% in favor of that.

Certainly a good start.

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:43:32pm

re: #54 No Malarkey!

The Israelis dealt with the same problem. There is nothing in the law that addresses vaccines directly (how could they?), but many of the Jewish Orthodoxy have decided there is. And it is driving the return of polio to this country.

So pointless, so sad, so self-destructive, so callous, and yes, so wrong.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:44:46pm
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No Malarkey!  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:47:00pm

re: #61 No Malarkey!

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EPR-radar  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:49:56pm

re: #61 No Malarkey!

It’s impossible to believe that Trumpco’s special master candidates aren’t somehow part of that corrupt enterprise.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:50:36pm

re: #63 EPR-radar

The Former Deputy Attorney General of the State of Florida seems like a pretty suspicious candidate to me.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:50:37pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:51:58pm

re: #64 Dopamine Fish

The Former Deputy Attorney General of the State of Florida seems like a pretty suspicious candidate to me.

I also have my suspicions about ED NY. Perhaps that was a judge that took Trump’s bribes back in the day.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 9, 2022 • 6:58:08pm

re: #51 garzooma

re: #40 Crush White Nationalism

No. It was the anti-British Afrikaner Nationalists who created Apartheid after they won the 1948 election against pro-British parties who had run the country for 40 years. The first apartheid legislation, prohibiting interracial marriage, took effect in 1949.
en.wikipedia.org
The Nationalists also changed South Africa’s status from dominion to republic, and eventually withdrew entirely from the British Commonwealth.

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:02:21pm

re: #67 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

No. It was the anti-British Afrikaner Nationalists who created Apartheid after they won the 1948 election against pro-British parties who had run the country for 40 years. The first apartheid legislation, prohibiting interracial marriage, took effect in 1949.
en.wikipedia.org
The Nationalists also changed South Africa’s status from dominion to republic, and eventually withdrew entirely from the British Commonwealth.

The Shipload is correct. It didn’t come from Capetown, it came from the Boers, but the Brit’s voting system was a disaster waiting to happen.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:03:49pm

re: #57 No Malarkey!

What a sweet couple! Oh no …

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Somebody asked it it was real, and yes it is, but it happened in 2011.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:04:16pm
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calochortus  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:09:57pm

It’s 77° here. The windows are open. Soon I will turn on the exhaust fan and we can cool the house properly. We got by without A/C today with the judicious use of fans in the late afternoon. The heat wave is over. Hooray.

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Captain Ron  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:19:15pm
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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:19:48pm
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Captain Ron  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:20:28pm

It was 101 here and is now below 90.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:28:00pm
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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:29:19pm
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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:30:08pm
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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:30:49pm

re: #71 calochortus

It’s 77° here. The windows are open. Soon I will turn on the exhaust fan and we can cool the house properly. We got by without A/C today with the judicious use of fans in the late afternoon. The heat wave is over. Hooray.

Good for you! But this was Austin’s July. Have mercy:

forecast.weather.gov

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:34:45pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

…Or more like the institution of Graham desperately trying to keep hidden something that Trump has direct video evidence on him of something really , really,… and I mean really bad.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:34:53pm

re: #78 austin_blue

Good for you! But this was Austin’s July. Have mercy:

forecast.weather.gov

Yeah, I’m glad we’re not doing that now. It’s 75 here in Rockwall.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:36:28pm

I’m only here to post the half-staff notice for the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

My wife and I are in Moncton, New Brunswick tonight. We drove today from Augusta, Maine, so I’m off to bed. Touring tomorrow.

Half-Staff Notice: Death of Queen Elizabeth II

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TarHellion  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:36:45pm

re: #32 Crush White Nationalism

Fuck you! … I’m a cat!

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:37:30pm

re: #80 Belafon

Yeah, I’m glad we’re not doing that now. It’s 75 here in Rockwall.

We were at 71 this morning, which was fucking lovely. It seems like forever since we’ve been in the 60’s.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:38:18pm

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m only here to post the half-staff notice for the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

My wife and I are in Moncton, New Brunswick tonight. We drove today from Augusta, Maine, so I’m off to bed. Touring tomorrow.

Half-Staff Notice: Death of Queen Elizabeth II

Sounds like you got across the border without undue trouble. I hope your luck holds for the various ferry crossings and getting into French territory and back as well.

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calochortus  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:40:40pm

re: #78 austin_blue

Good for you! But this was Austin’s July. Have mercy:

forecast.weather.gov

My condolences. Part of the problem here is that we aren’t set up to deal with this kind of heat for this long. Aside from generation capacity, our transformers aren’t designed for a week of heat around 100° without a chance to cool off at night.

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:46:34pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:50:17pm

re: #84 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Sounds like you got across the border without undue trouble. I hope your luck holds for the various ferry crossings and getting into French territory and back as well.

We did. The printout of the QR code wasn’t really needed. The border agent simply compared our passport names to what was uploaded to ArriveCAN.

The bigger problem (as usual) was my license plate (registration number 87), plus a quiz about driving a Smart from western Nebraska to New Brunswick (the question being “why”).

The ferries are all reserved, so that should be no problem. Traveling back to Canada from St. Pierre hopefully won’t be difficult since several trips a day make that crossing.

I do have to get my car repaired after running into a semi retread which bounced over a Jersey barrier on the Interstate in Raleigh.

Folks here are quite reserved over the death of the Queen of Canada. The Union Jack has been raised at all government buildings and lowered to half-mast, along with the Canadian and provincial flags. CBC Radio One has been recounting coverage of her life since she was coronated back in the Fifties.

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:50:40pm

I need that laugh on repeat to get me through all the Trump legal news.

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 7:55:36pm

re: #85 calochortus

My condolences. Part of the problem here is that we aren’t set up to deal with this kind of heat for this long. Aside from generation capacity, our transformers aren’t designed for a week of heat around 100° without a chance to cool off at night.

Well here’s the little black secret of the Texas Power grid- we aren’t very good at it either. We can take the summer’s, we’ve got lots of natural gas peaker plants that can kick in when it gets hot, but we’ve got a shitpot of naked plants that can’t take freezing weather- they are simply uninsulated. That is what killed over 600 Texans 18 months ago.

And Greg Abbot did…

nothing. He decided that we should just trust those guys to do the right thing. You know, for the common good.

In fact he allowed the Power Companies to Maximize Shareholder Value™ by adding a $60/month add-on so their price gouging little hearts could spread the pain across the State for two years and recover all of their billed costs.

Someone needs to be half-hanged, drawn, and quartered.

When you are running a Big Business Kleptocracy, the grift is always in.

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TarHellion  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:04:02pm

re: #83 austin_blue

Another 2 inches of rain expected through the weekend but the promise of more reasonable temps and LOWER humidity on the horizon. Thank goodness! Had enough of the 74-degree “lows” and 90-plus percent humidity.

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CleverToad  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:04:38pm

From one two threads ago. Was out of town for three days, still trying to catch up on a whole lotion news.

re: #245 wrenchwench

I got a ride to the next town over so I could drop off my application and have my ID scrutinized and copied for a background check so I can be a home care giver for my husband. (I didn’t need a background check to marry him. Should just be a package deal.) Then I need to complete some online classes, and it’s official, and they can pay me, and I can quit my job and stay home.

Then I came home and finished my Wordle that I started last night and fell asleep.

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That’s great news, WW! Good luck with the classes — glad you’ll be able to do this, and get some financial assistance. Caregivers deserve (and need) all the support they can get.

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:09:56pm

re: #90 TarHellion

Another 2 inches of rain expected through the weekend but the promise of more reasonable temps and LOWER humidity on the horizon. Thank goodness! Had enough of the 74-degree “lows” and 90-plus percent humidity.

See, that’s just just killer weather. You are out near Asheville, yes? Gorgeous part of the world, but so fragile. The Appalachian Highlands are reaching tipping points for their flora and fauna. If the plants can’t outrun the heat, the whole biome collapses.

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:12:24pm

By the way, I’m watching the Displaced Ukrainian Orchestra playing at the Kennedy Center on PBS.

It’s just fucking glorious.

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Dangerman  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:12:47pm

Link

“Outrage has steadily lost its power in American politics throughout the past few years. Among Donald Trump’s many political weapons, his ability to brazen his way through scandals that would derail other politicians has long been perhaps his strongest asset. His signature move is to displace talk of one mind-blowing violation by committing yet another mind-blowing violation—a habit that has now produced numerous investigations of him and once again led the former President to dominate our daily discourse. It’s easy to forget about the last controversy because, with Trump, you’re always onto the next one.”

“Even now, nearly two years after he left office, this familiar debilitating dynamic applies. There are currently multiple serious, ongoing inquiries into Trump and his associated entities, ranging from investigations of the former President’s business to his role in fomenting the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol. Trump has so many legal problems that he is employing no fewer than nineteen lawyers to represent him, Politico found—a full law firm’s worth of legal D-listers. There’s the Georgia probe into his efforts to pressure state election officials not to certify Joe Biden’s victory, and, as last month’s F.B.I. search of Mar-a-Lago made public so dramatically, a Justice Department criminal investigation of his refusal to turn over reams of classified information after he left the White House. Which one to focus on?

All.of them, katie..
ALL…of…them

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CleverToad  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:20:11pm

Note from a lovely quick visit to Grand County, Colorado this week, on the western side of the Continental Divide and Rocky Mountain National Park:
— Highest price for gas we saw was $4.19 in the tourist town of Grand Lake, most stations were $3.99; as compared to Denver prices mostly around $3.39.
— At least one gas station in Granby has two EV charging pumps, there are probably more.
— The aspen are just starting to change, should start getting good next week.
— Didn’t see a single moose, sad to say.
— On the other hand, didn’t see a single Trump sign in the mostly-red rural areas we went through. Several for local candidates, but none for Hair Fuhrer. Maybe that’s a hopeful sign.

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Dangerman  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:23:19pm

How damn tacky do you have to be to bury the mother of (some of) your children on a friggin’ golf course?

Reply: How tacky do you have to be for that not to be the tackiest thing you’ve ever done?

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Dangerman  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:25:05pm
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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:27:13pm

re: #96 Dangerman

How damn tacky do you have to be to bury the mother of (some of) your children on a friggin’ golf course?

Reply: How tacky do you have to be for that not to be the tackiest thing you’ve ever done?

Are you arguing over the relative value of flypaper?

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Dangerman  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:27:22pm
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TarHellion  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:31:52pm

re: #92 austin_blue

Indeed, we are noticing the changes that have been taking place. We are on the Eastern side of the mountains from Asheville, but the weather is pretty much the same.

What we have seen is increased rainfall - from multiple t-storms during the day due to the tropical component of the air. We haven’t had a bad heat wave in 15 years. But instead of sunshine and 98-100, we get 93 degrees and brutal humidity/dew points.

We are on pace for 60-plus inches of rain for a 5th straight year. “Normal” would have been 45-50. Also, we went more than 3 years without a true snowfall until this past January. I saw a Vox analysis about a year ago that showed our climate is shifting more toward Savannah, Georgia. I believe it!

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:35:24pm
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calochortus  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:36:05pm

re: #89 austin_blue

It’s more complicated here. Pacific Gas and Electric ran into trouble not of their own making back when electricity was deregulated here (can you say “Enron?” I know you can.) That resulted in their first bankruptcy and they suddenly had no money for maintenance. However, they also had been keeping lousy records and skimping on some maintenance before that. This just mad it worse. Meanwhile, forests became overgrown and unhealthy because of fire suppression policies, climate change accelerated the decline in the health of trees so when PG&E went to cheaper transmission line maintenance practices it opened the door for horrific wildfires. They had to pay damages which meant another bankruptcy, and well, it’s a mess. And that’s without the renewable energy push without a way to provide storage so the energy can be used in the late afternoon to early evening.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:37:21pm
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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:41:30pm

re: #100 TarHellion

Indeed, we are noticing the changes that have been taking place. We are on the Eastern side of the mountains from Asheville, but the weather is pretty much the same.

What we have seen is increased rainfall - from multiple t-storms during the day due to the tropical component of the air. We haven’t had a bad heat wave in 15 years. But instead of sunshine and 98-100, we get 93 degrees and brutal humidity/dew points.

We are on pace for 60-plus inches of rain for a 5th straight year. “Normal” would have been 45-50. Also, we went more than 3 years without a true snowfall until this past January. I saw a Vox analysis about a year ago that showed our climate is shifting more toward Savannah, Georgia. I believe it!

We are all living in the Greenhouse now. Depending on where we are it can be very different, but the singularity that we all share is a fundamental change that will be, for most Americans, pretty fucking sucky. Megadrought from the southern half of California to Central Texas.

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:44:00pm
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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:49:45pm

re: #102 calochortus

It’s more complicated here. Pacific Gas and Electric ran into trouble not of their own making back when electricity was deregulated here (can you say “Enron?” I know you can.) That resulted in their first bankruptcy and they suddenly had no money for maintenance. However, they also had been keeping lousy records and skimping on some maintenance before that. This just mad it worse. Meanwhile, forests became overgrown and unhealthy because of fire suppression policies, climate change accelerated the decline in the health of trees so when PG&E went to cheaper transmission line maintenance practices it opened the door for horrific wildfires. They had to pay damages which meant another bankruptcy, and well, it’s a mess. And that’s without the renewable energy push without a way to provide storage so the energy can be used in the late afternoon to early evening.

But if this so, PG&E had a business plan that just sucked. There are scads of electric generators across the country that make very handsome profits. What was PG&E’s problem? Why did they suck? Why didn’t PG&E push to develop battery storage capacity to make them more efficient?

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TarHellion  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:54:32pm

re: #104 austin_blue

Seeing is truly believing.

And having lived in this region nearly my entire life, the change that has occurred in the last decade is palpable.

But it’s going to take the Florida Keys or Miami Beach or parts of the Eastern Seaboard going under water before the recalcitrant takes what is happening seriously.

For North Carolina, it will not take much for us to lose the entire Outer Banks. In a cataclysmic scenario, Raleigh will be the new home for beachfront property!

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:57:33pm

re: #107 TarHellion

Given what’s happening with the Greenland and Antarctica melts, we may be seeing a 10 foot rise very soon.

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EPR-radar  Sep 9, 2022 • 8:57:58pm

re: #106 austin_blue

But if this so, PG&E had a business plan that just sucked. There are scads of electric generators across the country that make very handsome profits. What was PG&E’s problem? Why did they suck? Why didn’t PG&E push to develop battery storage capacity to make them more efficient?

It’s been a while since this all went down, so I may be off on the details. CA energy deregulation was a clusterfuck for the ages. As I recall it had the following main elements:

1) The existing utilities were forced to sell off their energy generation capacity and become distribution-only outfits.

2) In the resulting “free market” for generation (yes, those are sneer quotes), energy providers would compete to see who got to serve the customers through the utility lines.

So much for the theory. Here’s how it worked out in practice.

1) The generation capacity sold off by the utilities was sold for much higher prices than anyone expected. Naturally, utility executives pocketed the windfalls and told themselves they were all great business geniuses.

2) The reason that capacity sold at a premium is that an oligopoly of the energy suppliers immediately formed to jack the rates through the roof with artificial shortages etc. CA authorities were hamstrung because the energy providers were out of state. That’s when the state had rolling blackouts caused strictly by corporate greed.

3) Eventually the feds stepped in to curb the worst abuses of the system.

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TarHellion  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:01:20pm

re: #108 jaunte

Yes, the report earlier this week certainly has shifted the time scale. Just so glad I talked my wife out of buying a beach condo during distress sales back in 2009. How would one even get insurance outside of the next 10 years?

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calochortus  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:01:41pm

re: #106 austin_blue

But if this so, PG&E had a business plan that just sucked. There are scads of electric generators across the country that make very handsome profits. What was PG&E’s problem? Why did they suck? Why didn’t PG&E push to develop battery storage capacity to make them more efficient?

A lot of it comes from the deregulation debacle. That is on both Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature. Apparently it didn’t occur to anyone that someone would game the system. PG&E had to pay Enron rates for energy, but weren’t permitted to pass the cost along, so they went bankrupt. PG&E is the largest utility in CA and they have apparently been in bed with the regulators for decades so they were fat and happy and not paying much attention.

Developing batteries isn’t really what they do and no one else has developed batteries that will provide sufficient backup either. As much as we support the idea of clean power, peak generation and peak load don’t really coincide. At this point they don’t have a ton of money to innovate with.

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calochortus  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:04:40pm

Anyway, I’m out for the evening. Hasta mañana, Lizards

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Captain Ron  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:08:00pm

U.S. Grid Energy Storage Factsheet

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:08:17pm

Well, Colbert’s opening was a repeat and kinda sucked, so I’m off to bed.

Adios dear friends, we’ll talk atcha tomorrow.

Today I was heading south through down town after getting a registration sticker for the Volvo V70, the best harp hauler in the world. I noticed some ‘Bama fans wearing regalia when I was stopped at a red light and I rolled down my window and yelled a truism to them:

“Sandra Prater was my cousin and a Golden Girl for Bear Bryant in 1964!”

This was true. The boys in the ‘Bama regalia raised their hands and yelled Yoo-Hoo!

I followed it up with a “Good luck tomorrow, I hope you lose!” The y gave ne a horns down sign.

I hope we cover the Minus 20 thing.

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Captain Ron  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:10:27pm

U.S. large-scale battery storage capacity up 35% in 2020, rapid growth set to continue

Grid-Scale Battery Storage In US Tripled In 2021

25 GW of energy storage planned to hit US grid through 2023

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:13:12pm

A rare 2/6 for me this early morning

Click to Reveal

Wordle 448 2/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:13:16pm

re: #115 Captain Ron

U.S. large-scale battery storage capacity up 35% in 2020, rapid growth set to continue

Grid-Scale Battery Storage In US Tripled In 2021

25 GW of energy storage planned to hit US grid through 2023

This is what will change the game and push fossil fuels under the bus.

And night all, adios.

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TarHellion  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:24:56pm

re: #116 Eventual Carrion

Way to go! Nothing like making an eagle!

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TarHellion  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:26:58pm

re: #117 austin_blue

Indeed, it is going to be like the jump from 2.6 kb internet to 100 mb and beyond. And gradually you will notice all of the hybrid-electric/electric cars on the road.

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retired cynic  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:30:25pm

re: #119 TarHellion

I sure hope so.

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:39:45pm

Republican problem-solving.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:48:51pm

re: #121 jaunte

Republican problem-solving.

Never met a problem that they can’t propose a final solution for.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:51:02pm

re: #121 jaunte

According to a reply, this was done last year, but I bet he’s bragging about enforcement it.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 9, 2022 • 9:53:19pm

re: #122 The Ghost of a Flea

Not entirely fair statement.

“…but what if the problem is that those people just shouldn’t exist? Not that we kill them, but how about we just not see them struggle, diminish, and die?” is just built into the bottom of the industrialized world; it’s what makes the global north the global north.

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Captain Ron  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:00:30pm

Oh yeah, Texas is the king of wind power!!!

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:10:18pm

re: #124 The Ghost of a Flea

Not entirely fair statement.

“…but what if the problem is that those people just shouldn’t exist? Not that we kill them, but how about we just not see them struggle, diminish, and die?” is just built into the bottom of the industrialized world; it’s what makes the global north the global north.

Like when Dallas removed homes around Fair Park and replaced them with a giant parking lot.

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retired cynic  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:13:53pm

re: #126 Belafon

Like when Dallas removed homes around Fair Park and replaced them with a giant parking lot.

‘paved paradise, put up a parking lot’

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:15:23pm

re: #125 Captain Ron

Oh yeah, Texas is the king of wind power!!!

We’re fully stocked with blowhards.

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mmmirele  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:33:31pm

re: #99 Dangerman

The reason nobody competent wants to represent Trump is because he has a reputation for stiffing his creditors, including law firms. I mean, I could see people taking a case even when it’s obvious that Trump is guilty as sin, just for the exposure, but only as long as they were getting paid. But nobody is going to foot Donny’s legal bills for him, especially not in a case where billings are likely to go into the seven figures easily because of all the permutations of the case: a former president who claims executive privilege even after leaving office as the reason why he held on to dozens of classified documents and folders. This is going to require more than one attorney, probably a whole crew, plus staff, plus expert witnesses including people with clearances.

I’d actually prefer that he had competent counsel because I don’t want Donny complaining in a year or two, after he’s sentenced, that he had ineffective assistance of counsel. But I’m not going to get that, am I?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:33:40pm

I’m including that reply because that damn meme cracks me up every damn time I see it

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:42:33pm

re: #130 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I’m including that reply because that damn meme cracks me up every damn time I see it

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I wonder if he’s sad that toasters aren’t allowed at Republican rallies.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:45:23pm

re: #68 austin_blue

“Shipload” of what?

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:54:06pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

She was born on June 26, 1922 and died on June 15, 1999.

ancientfaces.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:55:59pm

re: #116 Eventual Carrion

A rare 2/6 for me this early morning

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:58:16pm

re: #132 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

“Shipload” of what?

Typos.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 10:59:56pm
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Captain Ron  Sep 9, 2022 • 11:05:45pm

re: #135 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Typos.

Shitlord or shitload?

what else could it be?

//

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2022 • 11:05:52pm
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Captain Ron  Sep 9, 2022 • 11:12:19pm

re: #138 Belafon

I’d try that but it would look as bad as my handwriting.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 9, 2022 • 11:30:17pm

Good morning, Lizardom.

There are unconfirmed reports that the Ukrainian armed forces are now within 7 kilometers (about 4 miles) from the Russo-Ukrainian border in some sectors. The Russians are also apparently ordering residents near Belgorod who live in close proximity to the border to evacuate (maybe they’re thinking of using that as a staging area or to launch a counteroffensive of their own).

It’s increasingly looking like the Russian military is unable to reinforce any particular area and there are reports (again officially unconfirmed) that significant numbers of Russian POWs have been taken.

Fingers crossed. This is starting to look like a fiasco for the Kremlin.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 9, 2022 • 11:39:27pm

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

Good morning, Lizardom.

There are unconfirmed reports that the Ukrainian armed forces are now within 7 kilometers (about 4 miles) from the Russo-Ukrainian border in some sectors. The Russians are also apparently ordering residents near Belgorod who live in close proximity to the border to evacuate (maybe they’re thinking of using that as a staging area or to launch a counteroffensive of their own).

It’s increasingly looking like the Russian military is unable to reinforce any particular area and there (again officially unconfirmed) that significant numbers of Russian POWs have been taken.

Fingers crossed. This is starting to look like a fiasco for the Kremlin.

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May Ukraine be victorious soon and the bloodshed finally come to an end. And may the instigator of this unnecessary war be forced out, and Russia somehow find a competent leader who believes in democracy. Maybe Zelenskyy could provide pointers? Though Zelenskyy is basically an exceptional wartime leader — not so skilled in managing the complexities of a modern peacetime economy.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 9, 2022 • 11:43:00pm

Meanwhile, over here, it’s feeling a bit… chilly. A sign that it’s time for bed.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 9, 2022 • 11:58:11pm

re: #103 Belafon

Given their problems with movement, the Russians could not escape a sudden pincer offensive that gained any kind of momentum. They could be surrounded and forced to surrender. It’s not impossible. Forty or fifty thousand of them going into the bag at once would finish Putin.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 9, 2022 • 11:58:25pm

re: #141 Hecuba’s daughter

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:07:05am

I still think that when Putin falls the Repugs will fall with him. A successor regime would want to eliminate the whole Putin support network, since the network itself could still be dangerous if it could find a new leader. His foreign accomplices are a big part of that network.
With enough warning, Putin himself might rat them out in return for western assistance in finding asylum, something like the deal with noted scumbag Ferdinand Marcos over 30 years ago.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:11:35am

re: #145 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I still think that when Putin falls the Repugs will fall with him. A successor regime would want to eliminate the whole Putin support network, since the network itself could still be dangerous if it could find a new leader. His foreign accomplices are a big part of that network.
With enough warning, Putin himself might rat them out in return for western assistance in finding asylum, something like the deal with noted scumbag Ferdinand Marcos over 30 years ago.

What would be positively delightful — and will likely not come to pass — is Russia releasing their confidential records on their relationship with Trump, proving that Trump was indeed a Russian asset.

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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:21:00am
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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:28:04am

re: #144 Dr Lizardo

I’ve given up keeping up with Ukraine’s advances. Russia’s full and unadulterated collapse needs to be appreciated in its entirety. May we get similar advances/surrenders/defections in Kherson in the coming days - after Izyum folds, of course.

This will ultimately end the reign of Putin in Russia, and quite possibly the Russian Federation itself over the coming years. Kazakhstan has already indicated they don’t want to be part of the Russian economic group, as has Azerbaijan. Georgia is still pissed about being partially annexed…and Moldova is ready to shit down Transnistria’s neck if they don’t get their shit together and stop being separatists.

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piratedan  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:28:47am

re: #141 Hecuba’s daughter

I was thinking he might look at a prisoner exchange, give Putin his troops back that have surrendered in return for all of those citizens and kids that they’ve “relocated”.

Maybe those Russian adoptive parents could raise a conscript instead.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:29:58am

Take this with a big fuckin’ grain of salt, but….

If this is confirmed, Russia is on the brink of a military disaster.

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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:30:57am

Had dinner with some friends who just moved to the island full time. I ran down to Lihue and picked up two pounds of deep water Ama Ebi this morning and we had them with smoked meats, salad, and rice tonight. The shrimp only eat plankton so there’s no need to devein them. Throw them on a hot iron pan and steam them in their own juices. Fucking fantastic. Best shrimp I’ve ever eaten.

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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:37:17am

re: #150 Dr Lizardo

Take this with a big fuckin’ grain of salt, but….

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If this is confirmed, Russia is on the brink of a military disaster.

Seeing a lot of reporting on this. I have been hoping that a cascade of collapse like this would come. I can see the Chechens saying, “Fuck this shit we’re going home” and the Luhansk factions reconsidering their ‘independence’…

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Captain Ron  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:41:28am

re: #150 Dr Lizardo

It looks like They are past Izyum.

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Captain Ron  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:50:37am

For reference The Ukraine Livemap

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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:54:58am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:55:47am

re: #153 Captain Ron

It looks like They are past Izyum.

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If the Russian garrison has capitulated (or simply fled), then that northeastern front of the Russians is likely going to collapse in relatively short order.

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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 12:57:01am

re: #156 Dr Lizardo

If the Russian garrison has capitulated (or simply fled), then that northeastern front of the Russians is likely going to collapse in relatively short order.

A full collapse would be best because instead of taking POWs Ukraine could frog-march the fuckers back to the border and send them home to be poor with their families.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:04:26am

Yep, an enormous rout is taking shape.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:05:14am

re: #157 darthstar

A full collapse would be best because instead of taking POWs Ukraine could frog-march the fuckers back to the border and send them home to be poor with their families.

All in all, this will be a humiliation that Putin is just gonna have to suck up. And then there’s this:

Russia’s reliance on Airbus and Boeing for new aircraft looks like becoming a thing of the past. The country’s flag carrier, Aeroflot, has finally confirmed it is turning inwards by placing an order for 339 locally built aircraft. The order was signed at the Eastern Economic Forum being held from September 5 - 8 in Vladivostok.

simpleflying.com

Losing access to Western high tech will set Russia back a generation.

“Poor, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Nikolai.” 😄

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Captain Ron  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:11:53am
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Captain Ron  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:16:29am

What’s a little dust in the wounds?

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:19:28am

re: #160 Captain Ron

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Captain Ron  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:19:49am
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Captain Ron  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:26:55am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:35:48am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:51:28am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 1:54:01am

re: #165 Dr Lizardo

re: #166 Dr Lizardo

If these reports turn out to be true, we’re seeing a rout in the making. This is a fiasco for the Russian military, the like of which they haven’t seen since the opening weeks of Barbarossa in 1941.

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Jay C  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:08:20am

re: #167 Dr Lizardo

If these reports turn out to be true, we’re seeing a rout in the making. This is a fiasco for the Russian military, the like of which they haven’t seen since the opening weeks of Barbarossa in 1941.

The second rout in the present war, IMO: the failure of their northern offensive to take Kyiv back in the spring was the first. It didn’t seem that way at the time, though, since the Russians had successes elsewhere to distract from that debacle. Not this time, though.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:10:39am

re: #168 Jay C

The second rout in the present war, IMO: the failure of their northern offensive to take Kyiv back in the spring was the first. It didn’t seem that way at the time, though, since the Russians had successes elsewhere to distract from that debacle. Not this time, though.

Heh, I wonder what new “limited operational goals” Putin will set now.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:22:03am

.

Youtube Video


..

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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:23:33am

re: #159 Dr Lizardo

All in all, this will be a humiliation that Putin is just gonna have to suck up.

Lose?
We didn’t lose, I dont lose nothing.
It was rigged.
Wait two weeks or so and we are to be declared winner!
The biggest * win.

*Eta: most glorious

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:33:21am

Kay now too far off shore to get us much rain. We might get us a passing shower later today:

Youtube Video

..

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Ming5000  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:35:50am

For the Dad Joke Lizidians, I ran across this while checking in on Ukraine’s very good week:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:36:32am

re: #20 Belafon

It seems Republicans can’t help themselves and existing in a hermetically sealed world is not good for your political party

a long time ago, with the rise of the Tea Party, the GOP still had a chance to call out or at least distance themselves from the most extreme rhetoric.

But they failed to do so for fear of alienating their loyal but rabid base, and that started a competition for who could come up with the most bat-shit crazy conspiracy theories and charges against “Democrat” leaders, which wound up making QAnon a major part of the current GOP platform & policy.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:51:32am

re: #129 mmmirele

I’d actually prefer that he had competent counsel because I don’t want Donny complaining in a year or two, after he’s sentenced, that he had ineffective assistance of counsel. But I’m not going to get that, am I?

Why? He could have F. Lee Bailey as an attorney and would still whine about ineffective counsel if he lost.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:15:00am

You love to see it.

This is coming from Russian milbloggers.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:16:47am

But wait! There’s more!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:17:25am

“Ukrops” the derogatory term for the Ukrainians is from the word for “dill” as in the herb.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:18:50am

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

“Ukrops” the derogatory term for the Ukrainians is the word for “dill” as in the herb.

“Kopr” is the word for dill in the Czech language. Usually used in the context of everything going to hell.

Translated, “It’s all going to the dill.”

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:21:36am

re: #176 Dr Lizardo

honey for the ears

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:23:11am

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

“Ukrops” the derogatory term for the Ukrainians is the word for “dill” as in the herb.

Ukrop is, -s is an occasionalist plural (never used for the herb itself).

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:25:27am

re: #180 Nyet

honey for the ears

There’s a rumor floating around online, said to be sourced from an alleged SVR insider, that a general outright told Putin, “You have lost, Vladimir Vladimirovich” in yesterday’s national security meeting - and he was promptly cut off from the conference call.

Grain of salt, to be sure. But I suspect that discontent is mounting rapidly inside the Kremlin.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:25:35am

Girkin:

Если охарактеризовать сложившуюся ситуацию по аналогии с Русско-Японской войной, то в голову приходит только одно слово - “МУКДЕН”. Но сражение еще далеко не завершено… как-бы дело “Каннами” не закончилось

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:26:15am

re: #182 Dr Lizardo

There’s a rumor floating around online, said to be sourced from an alleged SVR insider, that a general outright told Putin, “You have lost, Vladimir Vladimirovich” in yesterday’s national security meeting - and he was promptly cut off from the conference call.

Grain of salt, to be sure. But I suspect that discontent is mounting rapidly inside the Kremlin.

That’s straight up fake bullshit from the “General SVR” telegram channel.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:27:18am

Youtube Video

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sagehen  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:29:38am

re: #146 Hecuba’s daughter

What would be positively delightful — and will likely not come to pass — is Russia releasing their confidential records on their relationship with Trump, proving that Trump was indeed a Russian asset.

Plus the NRA. Plus those Senators who went to Moscow for July 4. Plus Mitch.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:29:52am

re: #184 Nyet

That’s straight up fake bullshit from the “General SVR” telegram channel.

Ah, OK. I saw it mentioned it, unattributed, here in mainstream Czech media.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:34:28am

re: #187 Dr Lizardo

Ah, OK. I saw it mentioned it, unattributed, here in mainstream Czech media.

*facepalm*

I know that wartime is always full of rumors, but do they have to grasp at such obviously rotten low-hanging fruit?

For some background on the “SVR General” see provereno.media

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sagehen  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:39:10am

Youtube Video

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:41:13am

re: #188 Nyet

(long story short: it’s just a Q-like guy from Kharkiv, not any Russian general, esp. SVR)

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:45:32am

re: #190 Nyet

(long story short: it’s just a Q-like guy from Kharkiv, not any Russian general, esp. SVR)

When the history of the 21st century is written, QAnon is almost certainly going to be mentioned as one of the most influential conspiracy theories of all time. It inspired not only the delusional QCumbers themselves, but even copycats around the world.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 3:49:53am

re: #191 Dr Lizardo

When the history of the 21st century is written, QAnon is almost certainly going to be mentioned as one of the most influential conspiracy theories of all time. It inspired not only the delusional QCumbers themselves, but even copycats around the world.

And they will have to mention the massive overlap between QAnon, MAGA and the entire GOP.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:00:20am
Ukraine troops raise flag over railway hub as advance threatens to turn into rout

Ukrainian officials shared photos on Saturday showing troops raising the nation’s flag over the main railway city that has supplied Russian forces in northeastern Ukraine, as a collapse in Russia’s frontline threatened to turn into a rout.

A Reuters journalist inside a vast area recaptured in recent days by the advancing Ukrainian forces saw Ukrainian police patrolling towns and boxes of ammunition lying in heaps at positions abandoned by fleeing Russian soldiers.

With Ukrainians now having reached the city of Kupiansk, where rail lines linking Russia to eastern Ukraine converge, the advance had penetrated all the way to Moscow’s main logistics route, potentially trapping thousands of Russian troops.

reuters.com

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TarHellion  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:07:19am

re: #151 darthstar

Damn that looks tasty!

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TarHellion  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:12:49am

OK, back aboard the Birdie Bus! Been getting lucky with my openers and second guesses of late. Rain, rain and more rain today. Gotta get the ears lowered, then a quick trip to the store before getting home for some thick-cut bacon. And enjoying the rest of the morning with an episode or 2 of The Crown with MrsTarH before watching the Tide eviscerate the Shorthorns. Happy Weekend everyone!

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:25:06am
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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:29:59am

re: #198 Nyet

Christo is having a ball on twitter.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:32:44am

t.me

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:40:27am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:41:06am

all the Putinverstehers over at moonofalabama are having a hard time rationalizing recent events, they still insist on calling Ukraine a Zionist-Fascist-Western Capitalist-puppet state.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:41:58am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:43:05am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

all the Putinverstehers over at moonofalabama are having a hard time rationalizing recent events, they still insist on calling Ukraine a Zionist-Fascist-Western Capitalist-puppet state.

Czech Putinistas are rationalizing that Russia is being defeated not by Ukrainian forces, but by American forces disguised as Ukrainians. 😂

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:44:11am

re: #204 Dr Lizardo

Czech Putinistas are rationalizing that Russia is being defeated not by Ukrainian forces, but by American forces disguised as Ukrainians. 😂

..armed with back-stabbing daggers

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:45:40am

When this is over and settlements have to be made I hope there is some justice for the victims of MH-17.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:46:41am

One of the explanations is that it’s all part of the Plan, no need to worry. Just like Quqolds.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:49:46am

An australian conspiracy theorist: a QokkA

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:50:20am

re: #207 Nyet

One of the explanations is that it’s all part of the Plan, no need to worry. Just like Quqolds.

Pee Wee Herman: “I meant to do that!”

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:56:37am
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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:58:09am

re: #129 mmmirele

The reason nobody competent wants to represent Trump is because he has a reputation for stiffing his creditors, including law firms. I mean, I could see people taking a case even when it’s obvious that Trump is guilty as sin, just for the exposure, but only as long as they were getting paid. But nobody is going to foot Donny’s legal bills for him, especially not in a case where billings are likely to go into the seven figures easily because of all the permutations of the case: a former president who claims executive privilege even after leaving office as the reason why he held on to dozens of classified documents and folders. This is going to require more than one attorney, probably a whole crew, plus staff, plus expert witnesses including people with clearances.

I’d actually prefer that he had competent counsel because I don’t want Donny complaining in a year or two, after he’s sentenced, that he had ineffective assistance of counsel. But I’m not going to get that, am I?

A problem for top flight law firms, even if they wanted to represent Trump pro bono (since he would stiff them on any legal bills the RNC doesn’t pay), is that their young attorneys rebel at representing a degenerate fascist traitor, and they would be reduced to recruiting the dregs of Liberty University Law School instead of the top graduates from Harvard and Yale. Plus they aren’t willing to expose themselves to sanctions and bar discipline that giving Trump the representation he wants entails.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:04:47am

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austin_blue  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:08:54am

re: #121 jaunte

Republican problem-solving.

So much for the Boy Scouts meeting in the local school parking lot before heading for a camping trip in West Texas, eh?

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:11:22am
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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:12:00am
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Barefoot Grin  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:12:46am

re: #214 Nyet

Wish I could c/p into Google Translate (also the “crash course in Russian curse words” posted earlier by Christo).

Oh, I see the translation now. Nevermind.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:14:31am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

A problem for top flight law firms, even if they wanted to represent Trump pro bono (since he would stiff them on any legal bills the RNC doesn’t pay), is that their young attorneys rebel at representing a degenerate fascist traitor, and they would be reduced to recruiting the dregs of Liberty University Law School instead of the top graduates from Harvard and Yale. Plus they aren’t willing to expose themselves to sanctions and bar discipline that giving Trump the representation he wants entails.

Aren’t there top flight Federalist Society firms who would be eager to represent him because they are looking at this as an opportunity to have SCOTUS rewrite all laws in this nation to favor the wealthy and powerful, even more than it already does? There are plenty of fascists graduating top law schools — Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis. I don’t see why this is an issue UNLESS the fact that he won’t pay is the problem. But there are plenty of others such as Peter Thiel who would happily cough up the dough.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:15:43am
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:17:15am

My knowledge of geography (and history and science!) is very weak. How is the apparent collapse of the Russian operations affecting their occupation of Crimea?

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:25:45am

cool spiegel.de

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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:27:20am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

all the Putinverstehers over at moonofalabama are having a hard time rationalizing recent events, they still insist on calling Ukraine a Zionist-Fascist-Western Capitalist-puppet state.

Six months ago they probably never heard of Ukraine

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:28:40am

re: #159 Dr Lizardo

All in all, this will be a humiliation that Putin is just gonna have to suck up. And then there’s this:

simpleflying.com

Losing access to Western high tech will set Russia back a generation.

“Poor, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Nikolai.” 😄

Absolutely necessary. A post-Putin Russian will likely remain fascist.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:30:38am

re: #222 No Malarkey!

I knew that a Dolchstoßlegende was coming. I’m not surprised one bit.

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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:31:29am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

A problem for top flight law firms, even if they wanted to represent Trump pro bono (since he would stiff them on any legal bills the RNC doesn’t pay), is that their young attorneys rebel at representing a degenerate fascist traitor, and they would be reduced to recruiting the dregs of Liberty University Law School instead of the top graduates from Harvard and Yale. Plus they aren’t willing to expose themselves to sanctions and bar discipline that giving Trump the representation he wants entails.

These are other ways of saying there are no hordes of A1 attorneys lining up because no one thinks he didn’t do it

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:32:48am

re: #218 Nyet

Reading a little about Girkin on Wikipedia; he seems very dangerous. Is it possible that the Russians could turn to him to revamp their war effort? Or is it too late to rethink their strategy? Does Russia just lack the resources and technology to compete successfully in a modern conventional war when the opposition is armed with the best of Western weaponry?

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:33:13am

re: #223 Dr Lizardo

t.me

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:33:46am

re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter

He’s a pariah for the regime.

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austin_blue  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:38:35am

re: #222 No Malarkey!

Absolutely necessary. A post-Putin Russian will likely remain fascist.

The Chechens and other Caucuses (Muslim or Christian) people are routinely referred to as “The Blacks”. I learned this from Harry Turtledove.

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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:40:22am

re: #217 Hecuba’s daughter

Aren’t there top flight Federalist Society firms who would be eager to represent him because they are looking at this as an opportunity to have SCOTUS rewrite all laws in this nation to favor the wealthy and powerful, even more than it already does? There are plenty of fascists graduating top law schools — Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis. I don’t see why this is an issue UNLESS the fact that he won’t pay is the problem. But there are plenty of others such as Peter Thiel who would happily cough up the dough.

There are ways to handle the $.
I read Kies got quite a retainer, if true.

Mr trump I believe you didn’t do anything wrong and I can win for you. I’ll need $x up front to be held in escrow against $y an hour billed separately paid on time monthly.

Or else you can go with Ms. OAN, two years out of law school over there.

If it was a winner case, even with an asshole client, they’d be lined up into the street and everyone knows it. Took a lady in her kitchen to make the point.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:41:02am
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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:41:30am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

a long time ago, with the rise of the Tea Party, the GOP still had a chance to call out or at least distance themselves from the most extreme rhetoric.

But they failed to do so for fear of alienating their loyal but rabid base, and that started a competition for who could come up with the most bat-shit crazy conspiracy theories and charges against “Democrat” leaders, which wound up making QAnon a major part of the current GOP platform & policy.

The inevitable result of the GOP being completely corrupted by dark money from its donors, who only want money for themselves from the government and to be relieved of the obligation to obey any law or regulation standing in the way of profit. The GOP can’t offer its voters anything substantive, because that would cost money which could better be used for tax cuts or defense contracts for their donors, so all they can offer their voters are culture wars and conspiracy theories.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:42:21am

re: #228 austin_blue

The Chechens and other Caucuses (Muslim or Christian) people are routinely referred to as “The Blacks”. I learned this from Harry Turtledove.

*Caucasians

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austin_blue  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:47:55am

re: #232 Nyet

*Caucasians

True, true, but it’s funnier the way I did it, given that “Caucasian” means the opposite here.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:48:07am

re: #229 Dangerman

There are ways to handle the $.
I read Kies got quite a retainer, if true.

Mr trump I believe you didn’t do anything wrong and I can win for you. I’ll need $x up front to be held in escrow against $y an hour billed separately paid on time monthly.

Or else you can go with Ms. OAN, two years out of law school over there.

If it was a winner case, even with an asshole client, they’d be lined up into the street and everyone knows it. Took a lady in her kitchen to make the point.

With judges like Aileen Cannon on the bench and a totally corrupt Federalist Society SCOTUS, why can’t they automatically make any losing case a winner?

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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:52:21am

Marlon and Lizzo chilling in the AM among the butterflies and dragon flies

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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:54:14am

re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter

With judges like Aileen Cannon on the bench and a totally corrupt Federalist Society SCOTUS, why can’t they automatically make any losing case a winner?

They’re all really deep state? //

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:54:17am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:54:23am
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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:56:12am

re: #217 Hecuba’s daughter

Aren’t there top flight Federalist Society firms who would be eager to represent him because they are looking at this as an opportunity to have SCOTUS rewrite all laws in this nation to favor the wealthy and powerful, even more than it already does? There are plenty of fascists graduating top law schools — Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis. I don’t see why this is an issue UNLESS the fact that he won’t pay is the problem. But there are plenty of others such as Peter Thiel who would happily cough up the dough.

It tells you something about how bad Trump’s position is that there aren’t, and he has been reduced to hiring lawyers he sees on Newsmax.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 5:57:57am

re: #219 Hecuba’s daughter

My knowledge of geography (and history and science!) is very weak. How is the apparent collapse of the Russian operations affecting their occupation of Crimea?

Russians who moved to Crimea started fleeing weeks ago, but so far Ukrainian ground troops are nowhere near Crimea; they will have to liberate the City of Kherson first.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:00:51am

re: #224 Dangerman

These are other ways of saying there are no hordes of A1 attorneys lining up because no one thinks he didn’t do it

Being guilty as sin usually isn’t a barrier to top legal representation if you have the money to pay for it; just look at the team O.J. had, and he was a mere millionaire.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:03:51am

re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter

Reading a little about Girkin on Wikipedia; he seems very dangerous. Is it possible that the Russians could turn to him to revamp their war effort? Or is it too late to rethink their strategy? Does Russia just lack the resources and technology to compete successfully in a modern conventional war when the opposition is armed with the best of Western weaponry?

Yes. Russia’s advanced weapons were all using computer chips bought from the West, and it appears that the restrictions on transferring high tech to Russia are working. That is why they have been reportedly reduced to getting drones from Iran and military supplies from North Korea.

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jeffreyw  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:04:09am

Say hello to my little friend

Good morning!

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:06:55am

re: #196 Nyet

Yes, but as always, logistics and training are an issue.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:07:59am
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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:08:46am

i laughed so loud i scared mrsdm at the breakfast table

“In June 2020, less than five months before polling day, Donald Trump agreed to a “coup d’état” to remove his son-in-law Jared Kushner from control of his presidential re-election campaign and replace him with the far-right provocateur Steve Bannon,” The Guardian reports.

“The coup had support from Donald Trump Jr but according to a new book by the former Trump aide Peter Navarro it did not work, after Trump refused to give Kushner the bad news himself.”

cant fault a guy for axing his son in law if you dont think they’re up to the job. when you go to work, youre not family. business is business.

But if spy45 thought he could do better with bannon and likely even win, then he ended up losing because he didnt have the balls to confront Jared with the cold hard truth about how he evaluated his work performance.

rather that do what it took to win (in his mind) trump lost the election because he’s a pussy.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:09:06am

re: #244 Belafon

Yes, but as always, logistics and training are an issue.

Had they been given 6 mos. ago, would those still be issues?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:11:02am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:11:50am

re: #235 Dangerman

Have you seen an alligator in your pond? Isn’t that a concern?

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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:13:18am

re: #246 Dangerman

Imagine The Apprentice persona being too scared to fire Jared Kushner.

Now imagine being a member of the modern GQP, and being afraid of the guy who is afraid to fire Jared Kushner.

You can almost hear Rod Serling’s narration in the background.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:13:59am

I am hopeful that the Russian army is completely broken, and the Ukrainian offensive won’t have to stop until they have completely liberated Ukraine. Russia can get all the obsolete Soviet equipment it wants from North Korea, but if no-one is willing to fight anymore, it won’t make any difference.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:14:14am

re: #242 No Malarkey!

Yes. Russia’s advanced weapons were all using computer chips bought from the West, and it appears that the restrictions on transferring high tech to Russia are working. That is why they have been reportedly reduced to getting drones from Iran and military supplies from North Korea.

Wait till the Russians find out those North Korean artillery shells are full of insects and sand.

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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:14:27am

re: #241 No Malarkey!

Being guilty as sin usually isn’t a barrier to top legal representation if you have the money to pay for it; just look at the team O.J. had, and he was a mere millionaire.

Oh no doubt.
Just another mark in the “against” column

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:16:56am

re: #247 Nyet

Had they been given 6 mos. ago, would those still be issues?

From what I remember reading from the military commanders in Ukraine, material had been flowing into the country from the west about as fast as the military could use them. And most training has to occur away from the fighting, which the military has weighed against keeping troops on the front.

I know it’s thrilling to hear “MORE!” and think we can just throw stuff at the problem, but I think they were pretty maxed out. It seems they’re doing well now.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:20:42am

Seems to me like some folks in Moscow are subtly starting to hedge their bets…..

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Dangerman  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:21:05am

re: #249 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Have you seen an alligator in your pond? Isn’t that a concern?

Not really. There’s almost no way for one to get here.
We are near canals and large ponds but not navigable connected waterways.

Were 5 miles from the edge of the everglades. So it would be a long walk, and on roadways, with twists, turns, housing developments, etc to get to our little oasis.

Birds of course have the advantage.
And lizzo, or her family, was likely here all along

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:21:10am

re: #254 Belafon

From what I remember reading from the military commanders in Ukraine, material had been flowing into the country from the west about as fast as the military could use them. And most training has to occur away from the fighting, which the military has weighed against keeping troops on the front.

I know it’s thrilling to hear “MORE!” and think we can just throw stuff at the problem, but I think they were pretty maxed out. It seems they’re doing well now.

Their manpower is not limited to the fighting troops - due to the mobilization, so they did not have to take anyone off the front to train.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:22:26am

All of the credit for execution goes to the troops on the ground goes to Ukraine, but this also points out to countries like China that the American military is still going to be a force. The US military has been helping Ukraine maximize the use of their limited resources. Imagine if China or North Korea did something stupid and the whole of the US military or NATO were to be involved.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:23:45am

re: #257 Nyet

And they were by no means maxed out as they never tired of pointing out. The ball is in the West’s court.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:24:10am

re: #257 Nyet

Their manpower is not limited to the fighting troops - due to the mobilization, so they did not have to take anyone off the front to train.

True, but every soldier being trained is a soldier not fighting.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:25:20am

re: #260 Belafon

True, but every soldier being trained is a soldier not fighting.

But only a small minority is fighting, the rest going on about their everyday lives.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:27:12am

re: #259 Nyet

And they were by no means maxed out as they never tired of pointing out. The ball is in the West’s court.

I just remember reading that, while the civilian leaders were crying for more military supplies, the Ukrainian military was saying that they were getting more stuff than people were hearing.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:29:02am

re: #262 Belafon

I just remember reading that, while the civilian leaders were crying for more military supplies, the Ukrainian military was saying that they were getting more stuff than people were hearing.

More stuff than ppl were hearing does not equal enough, not to mention maxed out. Anyway, I was addressing the “training” excuse.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:31:33am

re: #89 austin_blue

Well here’s the little black secret of the Texas Power grid- we aren’t very good at it either. We can take the summer’s, we’ve got lots of natural gas peaker plants that can kick in when it gets hot, but we’ve got a shitpot of naked plants that can’t take freezing weather- they are simply uninsulated. That is what killed over 600 Texans 18 months ago.

And Greg Abbot did…

nothing. He decided that we should just trust those guys to do the right thing. You know, for the common good.

In fact he allowed the Power Companies to Maximize Shareholder Value™ by adding a $60/month add-on so their price gouging little hearts could spread the pain across the State for two years and recover all of their billed costs.

Someone needs to be half-hanged, drawn, and quartered.

When you are running a Big Business Kleptocracy, the grift is always in.

Unrestrained capitalism is essentially this. The rich and connected squeeze everyone else. If the various attempts at redirecting the resulting class war to other subjects fail you get things like violent revolutions.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:31:34am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:34:00am
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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:37:16am

Very nice.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:37:23am

re: #261 Nyet

But only a small minority is fighting, the rest going on about their everyday lives.

We are definitely on the same side of “Kick Russia’s Ass” so I think we’re arguing over small things, so I don’t want go down too far. But most of a military never sees fighting. It takes a huge amount of support, and it’s why the whole 3% movement here is so stupid.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:38:18am

re: #111 calochortus

A lot of it comes from the deregulation debacle. That is on both Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature. Apparently it didn’t occur to anyone that someone would game the system. PG&E had to pay Enron rates for energy, but weren’t permitted to pass the cost along, so they went bankrupt. PG&E is the largest utility in CA and they have apparently been in bed with the regulators for decades so they were fat and happy and not paying much attention.

Developing batteries isn’t really what they do and no one else has developed batteries that will provide sufficient backup either. As much as we support the idea of clean power, peak generation and peak load don’t really coincide. At this point they don’t have a ton of money to innovate with.

About the best “storage” method I’ve seen is some of the hydroelectric set-ups that essentially can store water in a reservoir to use during peak. (I think Niagara Falls does this; e.g. if they have extra power they pump or hold water for later use.)

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:39:49am

re: #268 Belafon

We are definitely on the same side of “Kick Russia’s Ass” so I think we’re arguing over small things, so I don’t want go down too far. But most of a military never sees fighting. It takes a huge amount of support, and it’s why the whole 3% movement here is so stupid.

Ukraine should get long-range missile systems now, so that they will be able to employ them in 2-3 months like they are doing now with HIMARS, is my point.

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austin_blue  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:40:30am

re: #266 Dr Lizardo

“Is called the Moscow Me”.

“Do you mean the “Moscow Eye”, Oh Glorious Tsar?”

“That’s what I said, Me.”

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:41:55am

What I want to know is what Ukraine will need to do to get their citizens back.

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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:43:28am

re: #177 Dr Lizardo

But wait! There’s more!

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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:47:57am

re: #272 Belafon

What I want to know is what Ukraine will need to do to get their citizens back.

It will take time, but they’ll find them.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:49:07am

ZSU *allegedly* in Lysychansk.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:49:08am

re: #169 Dr Lizardo

Heh, I wonder what new “limited operational goals” Putin will set now.

I expect a lot of yelling about NATO and friends about to violate holy Russian soil and that the Motherland will require a strict and powerful defense. Done as part of a crackdown on any and all dissent.

Putin is going to double-down on all this. And the sycophants and media will play along since if Putin goes and there is a major shakeup they probably go as well - or at least lose all their precious privileges.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:49:11am

re: #272 Belafon

What I want to know is what Ukraine will need to do to get their citizens back.

That will probably take a negotiated peace at the end of the war. Possibly post-Putin. Many of them may never be able to return, especially stolen babies.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:50:52am

re: #273 darthstar

No reason to stop if they aren’t facing any resistance! It looks like the Russians have completely lost the will to fight after over six months of misery.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:53:39am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:53:50am

re: #276 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I expect a lot of yelling about NATO and friends about to violate holy Russian soil and that the Motherland will require a strict and powerful defense. Done as part of a crackdown on any and all dissent.

Putin is going to double-down on all this. And the sycophants and media will play along since if Putin goes and there is a major shakeup they probably go as well - or at least lose all their precious privileges.

I can certainly see a domestic crackdown within Russia proper - going after “enemies” and all that jazz. But I don’t know if he’ll be able to double down militarily.

That might prove to be more difficult for him. He could pull back, and use a few years to try to reorganize and re-equip the Russian Army and then try to take Ukraine again at some point in the not-too-distant future.

Then again, by that point, it might well be too late for him to do pull that off. This could’ve been his one roll of the dice, and if it fails completely, he’s likely not going to get another chance.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:54:57am

What saddens me, besides the human aspects mentioned above, is that many of the cities have been so decimated that there’s no place for human habitation. Block after block in many cities had complexes completely destroyed. Schools, hospitals, gone.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:54:58am

re: #218 Nyet

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:56:00am

re: #280 Dr Lizardo

I can certainly see a domestic crackdown within Russia proper - going after “enemies” and all that jazz. But I don’t know if he’ll be able to double down militarily.

That might prove to be more difficult for him. He could pull back, and use a few years to try to reorganize and re-equip the Russian Army and then try to take Ukraine again at some point in the not-too-distant future.

Then again, by that point, it might well be too late for him to do pull that off. This could’ve been his one roll of the dice, and if it fails completely, he’s likely not going to get another chance.

That is why tough sanctions must remain in place as long as Russia is a fascist state. Russia can’t be allowed to rebuild its military with Western technology. And Ukraine should be granted NATO membership as soon as possible after the war.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:57:16am

re: #283 No Malarkey!

That is why tough sanctions must remain in place as long as Russia is a fascist state. Russia can’t be allowed to rebuild its military with Western technology. And Ukraine should be granted NATO membership as soon as possible after the war.

I agree. What’s needed from the US and its allies - particularly its EU allies - is a new containment policy regarding Russia.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:57:51am

re: #281 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What saddens me, besides the human aspects mentioned above, is that many of the cities have been so decimated that there’s no place for human habitation. Block after block in many cities had complexes completely destroyed. Schools, hospitals, gone.

Russians assets frozen or seized by Western governments should be used to rebuild Ukraine.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 6:58:52am

All your base belong to us:

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:00:50am

re: #286 Dr Lizardo

All your base belong to us:

I’m looking forward to the Downfall parody of Putin’s generals explaining the Russian collapse to him.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:04:51am

re: #279 No Malarkey!

Actually, the other two branches do get to tell you what the law is, as long as it’s constitutional. Like, they can declare the EPA a legitimate agency that can regulate greenhouse gases.

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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:13:08am

re: #137 Captain Ron

Shitlord or shitload?

what else could it be?

//

When I was a very young kid, my grandfather worked in the shipyard. My young ears heard it as “shityard,” so for a few years, there, I thought my grandfather had a very disgusting job working in a field of sewage.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:13:26am

re: #288 Belafon

Autocorrect didn’t recognize gases.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:17:38am

Soon? Adapted from “Old Women Falling Out” by Daniil Kharms.

Excessive curiosity made one Russian general fall out of a window, plummet to the ground and break into pieces.

Another Russian general poked his head out of a window to look at the one who had broken into pieces, but excessive curiosity made him too fall out of the window, plummet to the ground and break into pieces.

Then a third Russian general fell out of a window, then a fourth, then a fifth.

When a sixth Russian general fell out, I felt I’d had enough of watching them and went off to the Maltsev Market where I heard that a blind man had been given a knitted shawl.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:24:57am
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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:27:22am
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gocart mozart  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:29:09am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:30:30am

Morning Lizards. Can I interest anyone is some steak and eggs?

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:34:20am

LOL:

I have to say, they’re propaganda is on point.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:37:25am

re: #212 Nyet

Отгадайте слово на wordle.belousov.one

Словл

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:39:41am

re: #221 Dangerman

Six months ago they probably never heard of Ukraine

They have long been fans of Putin and back during the Crimean annexation and Maidan protests, they were railing against the (((cosmopolian))) and fascist interests supporting Ukraine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:41:45am

re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter

Reading a little about Girkin on Wikipedia; he seems very dangerous. Is it possible that the Russians could turn to him to revamp their war effort? Or is it too late to rethink their strategy? Does Russia just lack the resources and technology to compete successfully in a modern conventional war when the opposition is armed with the best of Western weaponry?

A lot of it is motivation: the Ukrainians could not be more motivated, while Russian soldiers are demoralized by the poor quality of equipment and supplies, poor leadership and constantly being bullied and exploited by their commanders, they are just doing a minimum to follow orders.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:44:54am

re: #241 No Malarkey!

Being guilty as sin usually isn’t a barrier to top legal representation if you have the money to pay for it; just look at the team O.J. had, and he was a mere millionaire.

The lawyers knew that OJ was good for his debts and the publicity would be worth it. Neither is the case with 45py.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:46:59am

re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

DT was always a slow pay.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:51:38am

For those interested, it’s been over 22 hours since I got my Covid booster shot, and my only reaction is a sore arm.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:52:39am

Looks like a Ukrainian recon patrol entering Sievierdonetsk District.

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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:54:34am

re: #275 Nyet

ZSU *allegedly* in Lysychansk.

They defended Severodonetsk and Lysychansk for weeks and weeks, forcing Russia to expend resources and people before giving it up to Russia only a month ago…and now they’re taking it back.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:55:40am

re: #301 PhillyPretzel

DT was always a slow pay.

He was a declare bankruptcy, pay pennies on the dollar and walk away

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:56:25am

re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That too.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:57:07am

Ukrainian forces enter strategic city of Izium after five months of Russian occupation, Kyiv says

Izium, which sits near the border between the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, had been under Russian occupation for more than five months and had become an important hub for the invading military.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:57:56am
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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:58:20am

re: #304 darthstar

They defended Severodonetsk and Lysychansk for weeks and weeks, forcing Russia to expend resources and people before giving it up to Russia only a month ago…and now they’re taking it back.

Damn, it sure looks like the Russians have no fight left in them. And there is nothing Putin can do about it. If he mobilized Russia now to draft men to fight in Ukraine, it would be months before they would be ready to fight, assuming the draft didn’t result in massive resistance.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 7:59:35am
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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:01:30am

re: #308 Belafon

He sure looks like he believes in victory when he said it.//

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:03:36am

“The accusations of betrayal on part of the Russian Army will continue in until morale improves!”

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calochortus  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:07:33am

re: #269 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

About the best “storage” method I’ve seen is some of the hydroelectric set-ups that essentially can store water in a reservoir to use during peak. (I think Niagara Falls does this; e.g. if they have extra power they pump or hold water for later use.)

Yes, they do that here in CA too since we have quite a bit of hydroelectric power. Presumably we could do more. Not sure how the drought affects that though.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:08:18am

Kentucky prosecutor lies under oath to try to avoid being suspended.

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wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:08:27am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:15:06am

re: #310 Belafon

Interesting. Looks like Russia’s Dolchstoßlegende is shaping up to be that it was the military that stabbed them in the back.

The Russian ultranationalists are probably gonna thrown the Russian armed forces under the bus.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:18:03am

re: #316 Dr Lizardo

Interesting. Looks like Russia’s Dolchstoßlegende is shaping up to be that it was the military that stabbed them in the back.

The Russian ultranationalists are probably gonna thrown the Russian armed forces under the bus.

They bully, abuse and rob these underpaid recruits, equip them with substandard weapons, fail to properly supply them as they are sent out on ill-conceived missions, and then blame them when things go south.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:20:14am

re: #317 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They bully, abuse and rob these underpaid recruits, equip them with substandard weapons, fail to properly supply them as they are sent out on ill-conceived missions, and then blame them when things go south.

Fascism isn’t noted for its fairness in doling out blame.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:20:57am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:21:40am

re: #243 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:23:09am

re: #309 No Malarkey!

Damn, it sure looks like the Russians have no fight left in them. And there is nothing Putin can do about it. If he mobilized Russia now to draft men to fight in Ukraine, it would be months before they would be ready to fight, assuming the draft didn’t result in massive resistance.

Yeah, the average Russian, even if they’re lukewarm or negative towards the war, still doesn’t experience most of its effects - the sanctions work in the big picture (industry, planes etc.) but don’t *yet* touch most of the population, who are still able to enjoy the rest of Putin’s “fat times”, which is why if the average Russian wants to ignore the war, they’re able to do it by simply switching off the TV and heading off to their favorite restaurant or to their dacha, to consume some shashlik with beer. Things can change when the Average Ivan is suddenly conscripted.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:27:33am

Well, it’s a result.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:28:03am

70,002 Karma. Wow. Whomever put me over 70,000 karma thank you. Tonight there will be a very nice buffet in honor of the occasion.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:28:52am

re: #319 Belafon

Ukrainian heroes after the victory in Izyum: “We are in the city. We will drive the enemy to Moscow.”

Expect this quote to be used as proof that bloodthirsty Ukrainian Fascist-Zionist Aggressors are crazed with conquest.

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Belafon  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:28:58am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:29:11am

My wife and I popped out to Tim Horton’s for breakfast.

My wife got a “breakfast bagel” which she insists is just wrong in so many ways.

A bagel with about fifteen different seeds, garlic and onions, and inside sausage, eggs, and American cheese. That offends just about every person’s dietary restrictions.

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mmmirele  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:32:27am

re: #224 Dangerman

These are other ways of saying there are no hordes of A1 attorneys lining up because no one thinks he didn’t do it

Well, this is the deal…even if we KNOW he did it, he’s still entitled to competent counsel. You want him to have competent counsel because incompetent counsel makes it look like he’s being railroaded. The problems, however, are multiple: 1) Donny doesn’t have the liquidity to fund a very expensive criminal defense. 2) He can’t admit he’s broke because he’s Donald Trump, billionaire. 3) He would want his attorneys to put forward kooky or just flat-out discredited theories of the case and have them file motions, etc., that could get them sanctioned.

So we get to watch Donny and his clown car of attorneys basically go around trying to get their boss out of trouble, with the assistance of an obviously in the tank Judge Cannon. Blergh.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:33:25am

re: #20 Belafon

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:37:47am

re: #326 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife and I popped out to Tim Horton’s for breakfast.

My wife got a “breakfast bagel” which she insists is just wrong in so many ways.

A bagel with about fifteen different seeds, garlic and onions, and inside sausage, eggs, and American cheese. That offends just about every person’s dietary restrictions.

Tim Hortons is of the devil. Their coffee even sucks.

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jaunte  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:39:16am

re: #325 Belafon

Amazing.

“…The immense surface temperature of Wolf-Rayet stars (up to 210,000ºK) produces intense ultraviolet radiation, enough to make 20 or more layers visible to instrumentation. The distance between the concentric shells of ejected material corresponds to the time between one faltering of the star’s helium burning and another. This period is close to eight years, with new emissions having been observed in 1985, 1993, 2001, and 2009.[19] One estimate places the distance between shells at around 1.4 trillion km, meaning that if the Sun were such a Wolf-Rayet star one shell would be well into the Oort Cloud and around 5% of the way to Alpha Centauri before another shell was cast off.”
en.wikipedia.org

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No Malarkey!  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:40:53am

A Melania grift is being investigated now. There is no end to this family’s crimes.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:43:50am

re: #331 No Malarkey!

The family that grifts together get convicted together.

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austin_blue  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:45:33am

The Russian Army has no trained cadre of NCO’s- Non-commissioned Officers.

It is what makes our military services run smoothly. The Sergeants teach the privates squad tactics in the real world. The Lieutenants trust and rely on their NCOs to take care of their Marines, The Gunny’s run the show.

Russians have recruits and Officers. The simply cannot afford NCOs. How could they? Putin thinks of empire, but has an Economy the size Texas’. It can’t afford a solid middle set of ranks. It’s hollow and the trained leadership cannot do what needs be done in a real army.

So, when the Ukes *push*, the Russians break and run, leaving lots of tanks and ammo behind. Hollow. Ineffective. Leaderless. Dead.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:47:12am

re: #326 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife and I popped out to Tim Horton’s for breakfast.

My wife got a “breakfast bagel” which she insists is just wrong in so many ways.

A bagel with about fifteen different seeds, garlic and onions, and inside sausage, eggs, and American cheese. That offends just about every person’s dietary restrictions.

Next time, get the breakfast biscuit. It’s so good. 100x better than an Egg McMuffin.

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jaunte  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:47:53am

Average star temperatures compared with 210,000 K:
O = 40,000 Kelvin
B = 20,000 Kelvin
A = 9000 Kelvin
F = 7000 Kelvin
G = 5500 Kelvin
K = 4500 Kelvin
M = 3000 Kelvin
astronomy.ohio-state.edu

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:48:30am

re: #327 mmmirele

and they know that DT will not listen to anybody’s advice

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gocart mozart  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:57:43am
338
jaunte  Sep 10, 2022 • 8:58:50am
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wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:08:18am

Dangerman’s pond evolves…

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:08:18am

WaPo Ping: The funeral for HM Queen Elizabeth II will be on Sept 19 at Westminster Abbey.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:09:00am

Allegedly a Russian defeat at Starobielsk.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:10:58am

Looks like the authorities in Belgorod are continuing that glorious Russian tradition of throwing their own straight under the bus…..

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:11:11am

re: #341 Nyet

Allegedly a Russian defeat at Starobielsk.

BTW, Starobielsk (Starobilsk) is where one of the three Polish POW camps had been, out of which the POWs were taken in 1940 for a grand shooting action (a part of which was Katyn).

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:11:50am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:16:42am

One needs to make a distinction between ethnic Russians living in Ukraine and native Ukrainians.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:17:07am

I don’t think this is under orders from Moscow. This seems to be spontaneous - the Russian military looks to be abandoning whole sectors of the battlefield and skedaddling back home.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:17:16am

Girkin’s sarcasm through tears.

vk.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:19:17am

re: #283 No Malarkey!

That is why tough sanctions must remain in place as long as Russia is a fascist state. Russia can’t be allowed to rebuild its military with Western technology. And Ukraine should be granted NATO membership as soon as possible after the war.

We are still teetering on the edge of becoming a fascist state ourselves and a danger to democracies worldwide. If the GOP takes over the House, it may no longer support aid to Ukraine given Trump’s support of Putin. As long as the GOP is aligned with racist and authoritarian politicians, we are in extreme danger — as is the rest of the free world.

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jaunte  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:21:56am

Cobb County GA; MAGA terrorist shot two Sheriff’s deputies attempting to serve a warrant.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:22:50am

re: #349 jaunte

Cobb County GA; MAGA terrorist shot two Sheriff’s deputies attempting to serve a warrant.

“monsters”

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:25:21am

re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The lawyers knew that OJ was good for his debts and the publicity would be worth it. Neither is the case with 45py.

And OJ followed his lawyers’ advice and did not insist on what strategy they must follow.

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austin_blue  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:32:38am

Texas-3, Bama-3. 2:30 left in the first Qtr.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:35:08am

re: #333 austin_blue

….

Russians have recruits and Officers. The simply cannot afford NCOs. How could they? Putin thinks of empire, but has an Economy the size Texas’. It can’t afford a solid middle set of ranks. It’s hollow and the trained leadership cannot do what needs be done in a real army.

So, when the Ukes *push*, the Russians break and run, leaving lots of tanks and ammo behind. Hollow. Ineffective. Leaderless. Dead.

Wasn’t a lot of the problems due to top leadership in the military siphoning funds for their personal use?

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Jay C  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:35:29am

re: #346 Dr Lizardo

[Embedded content]

I don’t think this is under orders from Moscow. This seems to be spontaneous - the Russian military looks to be abandoning whole sectors of the battlefield and skedaddling back home.

Or in milspeak: “Strategic redeployment to secure positions“….

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John Hughes  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:38:30am

re: #345 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One needs to make a distinction between ethnic Russians living in Ukraine and native Ukrainians.

One also needs to understand that this *distinction” is nowhere near as clear cut as you repeatedly imply.

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austin_blue  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:40:24am

re: #353 Hecuba’s daughter

Wasn’t a lot of the problem due to top leadership in the military siphoning funds for their personal use?

Well, it’s a damned Kleptocracy, so yeah, that’s a problem, but the fact remains that despite the criming, they still have only a 1.5 trillion dollar economy and they cannot afford to field a cadre of NCOs

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:40:54am

re: #345 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One needs to make a distinction between ethnic Russians living in Ukraine and native Ukrainians.

At what point does an ethnic Russian become a Ukrainian? Aren’t many Ukrainian citizens of Russian heritage?

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mmmirele  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:42:51am

re: #355 John Hughes

One also needs to understand that this *distinction” is nowhere near as clear cut as you repeatedly imply.

Zelensky’s “Servant of the People” political satire was filmed in both Russian and Ukrainian, which to me just underscores the point that the distinction between Russia and Ukraine is not very clear cut. A huge part of that was the way that the Soviet Union / Russia treated Ukraine as a conquered territory.

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austin_blue  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:43:00am

re: #356 austin_blue

Well, it’s a damned Kleptocracy, so yeah, that’s a problem, but the fact remains that despite the criming, they still have only a 1.5 trillion dollar economy and they cannot afford to field a cadre of NCOs

In addition, there are way too many Generals and way too few Majors.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:46:33am

re: #358 mmmirele

Most Ukrainian refugees I have observed speak Russian with each other. Right now it’s more or less a distinction without a difference. I’ve seen many cases of Ukrainian citizens of Russian culture not only rejecting the aggression, but gaining the sense of “Ukraineness”.

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Nyet  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:49:39am

BTW, here is the full Russian comedy “Rzhevsky vs. Napoleon” with Zelensky.

Youtube Video

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:51:48am

It’s astonishing how quickly this has unfolded.

Yesterday: “A few troops appear to be just outside Izium, the battle for the city might begin in the next several days or so.”

By Tuesday afternoon: “There are rumors of tanks surrounding Moscow.”

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:54:43am

An interesting thread here:

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wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:54:54am
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darthstar  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:56:53am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 9:59:55am

re: #365 darthstar

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wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2022 • 10:03:56am
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Jay C  Sep 10, 2022 • 10:04:22am

re: #357 Hecuba’s daughter

At what point does an ethnic Russian become a Ukrainian? Aren’t many Ukrainian citizens of Russian heritage?

That’s a good question: and (like most real-life problems) one with no easy answer. The “ethnicities” issue in the Donbas/Eastern Ukraine region has always been painted as the main casus belli by the Russian government (i.e. Putin) - as he did in Crimea in 2014: an easier move then, since a large majority of the folks living there considered themselves “Russian”, and the shift in control was little more than replacing some flags. At first…
But the Donbas is different: in my understanding (possibly and probably inadequate as it may be) First: the region was (may still be, who knows since the war) heavily industrialized: and the “proletariat” there was largely (mostly?) recruited/resettled from other areas of Russia - first by the Czars, then the Bolsheviks, then Stalin, etc.; their “Russian” identity wasn’t a big deal when the whole area/country was part of a “Greater Russia” (as under the Soviet Union), but post-1991,
the issue of ethnicity/”national identity” changed with the region becoming part of an independent Ukraine.
Secondly, in his fixed pursuit of a rebuilt Russian Empire, Putin and his creatures have spent decades fostering an “nationalist” movement in the Donbas (think MAGA, but more violent, and more-organized, and quasi-official); they were intended to be the local government, and enforcers (i.e. terroristic goon-squads) for the “independent” republics Putin set up: but what they might do in the wake of a Russian defeat is not a pretty prospect to comtemplate.

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austin_blue  Sep 10, 2022 • 10:10:21am

Bama-10, Tejas-10, 10:00 left in the first half.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2022 • 10:12:10am

re: #368 Jay C

Secondly, in his fixed pursuit of a rebuilt Russian Empire, Putin and his creatures have spent decades fostering an “nationalist” movement in the Donbas (think MAGA, but more violent, and more-organized, and quasi-official); they were intended to be the local government, and enforcers (i.e. terroristic goon-squads) for the “independent” republics Putin set up: but what they might do in the wake of a Russian defeat is not a pretty prospect to comtemplate.

Honestly? I think they’ll try their damnedest to hotfoot it to Mother Russia. They’d know full well that they’re marked men.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 10, 2022 • 10:13:56am

re: #370 Dr Lizardo

Honestly? I think they’ll try their damnedest to hotfoot it to Mother Russia. They’d know full well that they’re marked men.

They’d probably be persona non grata in Russia as well; Putin and his comrades would undoubtedly make them scapegoats.

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JC1  Sep 10, 2022 • 10:29:40am

re: #358 mmmirele

Zelensky’s “Servant of the People” political satire was filmed in both Russian and Ukrainian, which to me just underscores the point that the distinction between Russia and Ukraine is not very clear cut. A huge part of that was the way that the Soviet Union / Russia treated Ukraine as a conquered territory.

Speaking Russian as your primary language doesn’t make you an ethnic Russian anymore than speaking Spanish makes you an ethnic Spaniard or Mexican, etc.

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Jay C  Sep 10, 2022 • 10:52:04am

re: #372 JC1

Speaking Russian as your primary language doesn’t make you an ethnic Russian anymore than speaking Spanish makes you an ethnic Spaniard or Mexican, etc.

Not according to Czar Vladimir: yes, of course “Russian” identity is not merely linguistic; but AFAICT, Putin’s agitations in Eastern Europe (Belarus, the Baltics, Ukraine, Moldova) have been pretty much based on exactly that point.
You think that (if not for NATO standing in his way) he wouldn’t have attempted a military solution to the “oppression of ethnic Russians”, in, say, Estonia by now??

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John Hughes  Sep 10, 2022 • 10:56:31am

re: #365 darthstar

Penis’s real name is Denys “Zelenskyy is my daddy” Pushylin.

(Denys Volodymyrovych Pushylin).

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EPR-radar  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:33:01pm

re: #333 austin_blue

The Russian Army has no trained cadre of NCO’s- Non-commissioned Officers.

It is what makes our military services run smoothly. The Sergeants teach the privates squad tactics in the real world. The Lieutenants trust and rely on their NCOs to take care of their Marines, The Gunny’s run the show.

Russians have recruits and Officers. The simply cannot afford NCOs. How could they? Putin thinks of empire, but has an Economy the size Texas’. It can’t afford a solid middle set of ranks. It’s hollow and the trained leadership cannot do what needs be done in a real army.

So, when the Ukes *push*, the Russians break and run, leaving lots of tanks and ammo behind. Hollow. Ineffective. Leaderless. Dead.

It looks like Putin’s army is only effective against soft targets like Russian civilians and pitifully weak foreign neighbors. It isn’t too surprising, since propping up a dictator by being thugs is a very common use of military forces.

That’s exactly what Trump wanted, but fortunately didn’t get, when he wanted protestors brutally cleared away for his photo-op.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 10, 2022 • 2:47:01pm

re: #323 PhillyPretzel

70,002 Karma. Wow. Whomever put me over 70,000 karma thank you. Tonight there will be a very nice buffet in honor of the occasion.

Jimmy for everyone …

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 10, 2022 • 4:31:31pm

re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“The accusations of betrayal on part of the Russian Army will continue in until morale improves!”

imdb.com

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No Malarkey!  Sep 11, 2022 • 3:11:54am

re: #372 JC1

Speaking Russian as your primary language doesn’t make you an ethnic Russian anymore than speaking Spanish makes you an ethnic Spaniard or Mexican, etc.

Zelensky himself grew up speaking Russian, as did lots of Ukrainians, which doesn’t mean they want to be ruled by a fascist dictator in Moscow. Kind of like how most Irish speak English.


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