You just know this weirdo is gonna have a hit song one of these days; in fact, this might be it.
Song link:dywanethomasjr.bandcamp.com
Written by MonoNeon and Davy Nathan
MonoNeon: vocals, bass
Davy Nathan: keyboards
Jairus Mozee: guitar
Charles Haynes: drums
Should Elon shut up?
— Volodymyr Demchenko (@brokenpixelua) October 3, 2022
I am glad he is keeping his grammy knitting and quilt making.
re: #1 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Charles, is it possible to display Twitter polls?
A boat is just a hole in the water you throw money into.
He’s got that sinking feeling.
SNL star Colin Jost revealed this weekend that the decommissioned Staten Island Ferry he purchased with fellow Staten Islander Pete Davidson will be named “Titanic 2.”
“This is why idiots should not be allowed to do things,” Jost said on Late Night with Seth Meyers Friday night.
“Pete and I bought this boat, and like — there’s so many immediate decisions you have to make,” he said. “You have to create a financial entity to deal with this boat.
“And so we’re on a call and I’m just like, ‘Alright, well how about Titanic 2?’” Jost said to laughs.
“And everyone on the call is ]like, ‘Oh that’s great, let’s do that!’”
Although the comedian had a laugh at taking the moniker of the doomed British Ocean liner that sank into the ocean, the name has not been a hit with insurers.
“We’re looking for insurance — which we have to buy because it’s a giant deathtrap boat,” he said. “And then every insurance company’s like, ‘It’s called Titanic 2?’”
Jost and Davidson, who left ‘SNL’ last year after 8 seasons, purchased the decommissioned ferry in January, winning it at auction from the city for a mere $280,000. The paid hopes to turn the boat into a nightclub.
re: #4 Shropshire Slasher
The insurers would probably have been fine with Vasa, Atlantis, or Yamato.
You know crime is getting out of hand when the criminals are wearing matching outfits. This is surreal.
They’re the Green Goblin Gang — and the furious mom of one of their victims says the fiends were “complete animals,” randomly attacking her daughter on her birthday.
Newly released video captured the bizarre group of female robbers wearing full-body, neon green leotards as they punched and tossed around two 19-year-old women on a Times Square subway train about 2 a.m. Sunday. The victims were robbed of a cellphone and handbag, cops said.
“She said she was attacked by aliens, and I didn’t know what she was talking about,” the mother of one of the victims told The Post on Monday.
“Yesterday was her birthday,” said the distraught mom, who asked that she and the victims remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation. “This is how she spent her 19th birthday. I hope they get what they deserve and then some because it’s disgusting.”
The video posted on social media shows about six females dressed in green tossing around one of the teenagers and punching the other repeatedly in the face. Some of the attackers are also wearing hoods with face masks. They are still in the wind.
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Donald Trump sues CNN, claiming defamation and seeking more than $475 million in damages. Filed in federal court in Florida
Suit: https://t.co/1yZuyYVfrq— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 3, 2022
re: #3 Nyet
Charles, is it possible to display Twitter polls?
Embedded tweets don’t support displaying polls, unfortunately.
re: #7 The Pie Overlord!
If laws applied to everyone, This criminal would be filing his nuisance lawsuits from prison.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 3, 2022
LOL $475 million LOL https://t.co/CHJUMDZ0gK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2022
re: #7 The Pie Overlord!
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I was going to say “why is he wasting his money?”, but since TFG never pays his lawyers, usually, I guess they might as well toss another useless* suit into the Inbox….
*IANAL, but this sounds like the typical Trumpian BS (surprise!) - make a BFD announcement about some dire-sounding lawsuit, which would take years to wend its way through the courts - if they would even accept it - but in the meanwhile, grift the rubes for a “legal defense fund”…
[ADD] (see IANAL disclaimer above): it’s my understanding that (for good or ill), US law sets the bar for “defamation” of “public figures” absurdly high - WAY higher, IMO, that The Orange Anus would ever be able to detail, even if this suit was anything other than a grift. Education on the matter will be appreciated.
re: #11 Jay C
I was going to say “why is he wasting his money?”, but since TFG never pays his lawyers, usually, I guess they might as well toss another useless* suit into the Inbox….
*IANAL, but this sounds like the typical Trumpian BS (surprise!) - make a BFD announcement about some dire-sounding lawsuit, which would take years to wend its way through the courts - if they would even accept it - but in the meanwhile, grift the rubes for a “legal defense fund”…
Grifting is always a safe bet with that guy.
The weirdo would-be dictator really didn’t like Linda Ronstadt comparing him to Hitler.
“No matter how lovely a voice she may have, Ronstadt is a singer, not a historian.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2022
re: #7 The Pie Overlord!
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This will be a hoot. CNN wouldn’t have tweeted/broadcast/published anything without first having the receipts well in hand. The Mango Menace is going to learn (again) the hard way that he’s toast and that even though CNN has tilted hard right, they are not going to be cowed by him. Hell, the NYT editorial board has even tossed him under the bus for his “death wish truth”.
Here’s the PDF, it’s pretty amusing in a super-lame way.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
Here’s the PDF, it’s pretty amusing in a super-lame way.
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JFC: that reads more like some Truth Social tweet than a legal filing…
Litter box hoax:
WAS ALSO KIDNAPPED BY ALIENS, IS CERTIFIED OWNER OF BROOKLYN BRIDGE, AND BELIEVES GRANDPA HAS “GOT HER NOSE.” https://t.co/wyDL1GEQke
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) October 3, 2022
re: #15 Charles Johnson
Here’s the PDF, it’s pretty amusing in a super-lame way.
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So he is claiming defamation for truthfully reporting about him. Sounds about right.
re: #18 jaunte
Litter box hoax:
Seems more and more these days I read something and find myself muttering “These people are fucking insane”.
re: #20 Eventual Carrion
Seems more and more these days I read something and find myself muttering “These people are fucking insane”.
Perhaps it’s a new kind of insanity for Republicans to mindlessly spew anything they think is politically useful, while being militantly indifferent as to whether it’s true or false.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
Embedded tweets don’t support displaying polls, unfortunately.
If I reload the post on my ipad, I can see the poll.
re: #18 jaunte
Litter box hoax:
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Think before you post. This is just another stupid thing that right-wing authoritarians have been telling each other. They don’t care what’s real, and just want to feel superior to normal people, so they choose to believe a lot of nutty things. You don’t have to be part of that.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 3, 2022
re: #22 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
If I reload the post on my ipad, I can see the poll.
Yes, but it doesn’t show the results or let you actually vote.
From downstairs:
re: #102 No Malarkey!
After Arizona began to enforce one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, a 14 y.o. girl was denied a life saving prescription she depends on, because it is also used to end ectopic pregnancies (which are 100% nonviable and fatal to women).
From an LA Times article in July concerning that very drug:
“That’s what was shocking to me,” said Schwarz, a 27-year-old who lives in Tysons Corner, Va. “In a state where I thought I was relatively protected regardless of what the Supreme Court decided, I found out I wasn’t.”
Somehow she failed to understand that this is what happens when you vote in a Republican governor. Of course, that election was prior to the Dobbs decision. But I hope Democrats use this as a constant warning that no modern day Republican can be trusted when it comes to women’s rights.
re: #20 Eventual Carrion
Seems more and more these days I read something and find myself muttering “These people are fucking insane”.
That’s only because these people ARE fucking insane.
re: #21 EPR-radar
Perhaps it’s a new kind of insanity for Republicans to mindlessly spew anything they think is politically useful, while being militantly indifferent as to whether it’s true or false.
Neither “new”, nor “insanity”, because this kind of nonsense IS politically useful. It’s helped to get Republicans elected everywhere in the country.
I just edited a PHP file that’s been working fine for almost 20 years, but now is throwing warnings at me. Last modified date was in 2003. Heh.
11th Circuit says that Laura Loomer has to pay CAIR $124,423.37 in legal fees.https://t.co/QDSrrHcj5G
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) October 3, 2022
“After three appeals to our Court, this matter should be at an end.”
CAIR Trial Attorney Justin Sadowsky said: “Loomer sued CAIR because Twitter banned her for being an Islamophobe, but two pranksters convinced her that the ban was some sort of Muslim conspiracy between CAIR and Twitter. In any event, CAIR is not legally liable for Twitter’s decision to ban her.”
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Well, we know how much money he owes somebody.
re: #29 jaunte
Let me guess: She’s gonna grift the rubes for that money.
The old server is now officially offline. Gone. Like digital dust in the galactic wind.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
Here’s the PDF, it’s pretty amusing in a super-lame way.
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“News is what somebody doesn’t want you to print. All the rest is advertising.”
I’m dreading this week. The fucking social conservatives on the court are on a rampage. https://t.co/gH9ibODv7m
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2022
re: #32 Charles Johnson
The old server is now officially offline. Gone. Like digital dust in the galactic wind.
It’s been a weird week for me. There’s this migration, and then my favorite video game - Overwatch, a game I’ve played with my core group of friends since 2018 - shut down today, as the publisher is doing an in-place upgrade to the new version.
re: #26 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Meow More Than Ever! https://t.co/dagTiIDW7o
— Randy Lorsher (@ballfootski) October 3, 2022
The conspiracy theory that dogwhistles the main ‘joke’ conservatives tell about trans people.
“Our teacher’s hallucinations distract her from the job of teaching us!”
Here’s my peace plan: How about the Russians and their mercenaries stop raping, murdering, pillaging, and torturing innocent Ukrainians, get the f*ck out of their country, and maybe they will stop destroying your incompetent military and making your dictator look like a fool.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 3, 2022
It’s related to this ridiculous case out of Ohio https://t.co/VGsqrm6ZHS
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) October 3, 2022
I am generally against the idea of people filing humorous amicus briefs, but this one from The Onion is outstanding: https://t.co/3D9xvTBKfi
— Christian Schneider (@Schneider_CM) October 3, 2022
That seems a bit cruel—until you realize that you in fact are reading A Modest Proposal. To be clear, The Onion is not trying to compare itself to Jonathan Swift; its writers are far more talented, and their output will be read long after that hack Swift’s has been lost to the sands of time. Still, The Onion and its writers share with Swift the common goal of replicating a form precisely in order to critique it from within.
Before there was Dr. Oz, there was Dr. Nick.
They say the Simpsons always predict the future – and once again, they nailed it. pic.twitter.com/hx5ivJtpdg— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) October 3, 2022
All the Republicans who demanded that Former-President Obama should open up his Martha’s Vineyard private home to displaced migrants seem oddly quiet about Former-President Trump opening up his Mar-a-Lago public hotel to his fellow Floridians displaced by Hurricane Ian. 🤔
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) October 1, 2022
I want to see Fetterman run for all the jobs.
There is only one top comment. Don’t All Comments Matter?
re: #41 dat_said
That really is a good amicus brief. It’s enough to get me to reconsider my opinion that political parody of Republicans ought not to be done, since it is so often indistinguishable from reality and just normalizes their madness.
re: #45 I Would Prefer Not To
There is only one top comment. Don’t All Comments Matter?
Nah, we use Highlander rules around here. There can only be one.
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Tonight, I am taking the debate stage alone because Rand refused to show up.
This is all too common for him. If he won’t show up to work, he needs to be fired.— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) October 3, 2022
Rand Paul declines to debate Charles Booker on KET
Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul did not respond to an invitation to debate Democratic challenger Charles Booker on Kentucky’s statewide public television network, KET.
The forum, scheduled for Oct. 3, was the only scheduled appearance between the two candidates. Paul is running for his third six-year term in the U.S. Senate.
In a statement, a representative from KET said Paul had met candidate criteria and was invited to the debate but his campaign had not responded to the invite by the deadline. Instead, Monday’s episode of Kentucky Tonight will only feature Booker.
Paul was asked by WKYT earlier this week if voters will have a chance to see him debate Booker. In response, Paul said his campaign was “troubled by some of the advocacy for violence coming from the campaign and that’s given us some pause.”
In a statement, Booker responded that Paul’s use of “violence” to characterize Booker’s campaign was a “dog whistle.”
Ouch.
This is one of the most shockingly baseless, bad faith, unethical abuses of the judicial system to suppress speech I’ve ever seen. Absolutely contemptible garbage.https://t.co/7ADoYYTrhD
— BrieflyAsABoatHat (@Popehat) October 3, 2022
hi
It’s been two days since I inflicted photographs on y’all, so here’s a few.
We are in Tadoussac, Québec tonight. We will take the car ferry across the Saguenay River tomorrow.
We were finally able to pick up a tour book near the end of our trip from Labrador City to Tadoussac. Reading the book, it notes you should never take a two-wheel drive passenger car on provincial highway QC-389 north of the Manic-5 dam, because the road is unpaved for about 100km, and the section near the Labrador border is narrow, twisting, and dangerous. “Only the most adventurous should attempt this route.” QC-389 is 567km long, and there are almost no businesses or homes along the route.
That’s the two day route. The dot in the middle (Le Relais Manic Outardes) is not actually a hotel. I gotta hand it to my wife to be able to find places to stay when planning trips (she’s had us in a dockside room, sharing an apartment with someone else, a hunting lodge, a brothel, a hiking base camp, and a country club).
What it is, is an overflow barracks for Hydro-Québec workers at the Manic-5 dam. It is several rooms connected to a common bathroom and shower, with a chow hall (“restaurant”). Hydro-Québec rents this out to deranged Americans on QC-389 when they are not using it.
I could not get a photograph of “the Eye of Québec” impoundment behind the dam: There was no good place for a photograph. (As large as it is, you really need to be above it to get a good picture.)
The end of QC-389. We reached the St. Lawrence Estuary, then turned right to head to Ontario and Michigan.
Perhaps that’s why we got so many looks from people driving a Smart where no Smart has gone before.
Tomorrow’s Wordle finds the office strangely empty.
Curly but not actually evil. Did all right considering the whiff and the lack of distance on the second shot. Nice long putt for par.
Wordle 472 4/6
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SibData: 4,4,4,5,5
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lovely photos. Looks so serene.
OHSWEETHOLYFUCKADUCK….
….did….did he hire Ty Beard?https://t.co/N0cuRUHNbK— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) October 3, 2022
re: #52 Grunthos the Flatulent
Tomorrow’s Wordle finds the office strangely empty.
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it’s a steamboat!
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
Unfortunately, this probably won’t hurt Rand in the least. He doesn’t have to do anything to win in KY.
re: #56 Patricia Kayden
Unfortunately, this probably won’t hurt Rand in the least. He doesn’t have to do anything to win in KY.
it would hurt Rand more to show up for the debate than to blow it off
re: #5 jaunte
The insurers would probably have been fine with Vasa, Atlantis, or Yamato.
Or any of the Russian ships sunk at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905.
Trump is suing CNN because they called him racist, so here’s your reminder that he literally shared one of my tweets to show his support for a man yelling “white power” pic.twitter.com/nMcqH8prxL
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) October 3, 2022
re: #7 The Pie Overlord!
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So this is what Mike Dunford was talking about!
Finished my thousand, got out of the pool, looked at my phone, and immediately knew someone had kicked off a new litigation disaster tourism destination.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) October 3, 2022
Elon, you’re a cool guy and thanks for the Starlink but it’d be so very wonderful if you were to carry out votes on things that you know about. We don’t carry out votes on apartheid and Nelson Mandela.
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) October 3, 2022
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s perfect that Trump is filing a lawsuit to remind Americans why they voted against him in 2020. Democrats should run with it. And I hope CNN deposes the hell out of him.
re: #21 EPR-radar
Perhaps it’s a new kind of insanity for Republicans to mindlessly spew anything they think is politically useful, while being militantly indifferent as to whether it’s true or false.
I am NOT wishing for a time machine to take me back to 1855 so that I could listen to “Know Nothings” talk. Not not not. Because, even though it was 1855, from what I learned in university, they were populists (so anti-immigrant and troublesome) but not first-class crazy whackjobs. Plus, I’m a woman, they wouldn’t talk to ME because “the ladies” weren’t supposed to have opinions on politics.
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s husband, Perry Greene, has moved to withdraw a motion seeking to seal documents in their ongoing divorce case, meaning the matter could remain public.https://t.co/RxQplnuwPG
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 3, 2022
re: #62 Patricia Kayden
It’s perfect that Trump is filing a lawsuit to remind Americans why they voted against him in 2020. Democrats should run with it. And I hope CNN deposes the hell out of him.
It’ll have to get to discovery first, and as entertaining as that would be, it is not in CNN’s best interest to let it get that far. This won’t survive a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, nor should it.
Oh jeez, I just tuned in to NHK’s domestic channel on my phone and they’re telling people to take cover in Hokkaido because North Korea just popped off a missile.
Japan emergency alert: “North Korea appears to have launched a missile. Please evacuate to the inside of a building or go to the basement. Target area: Hokkaido”
— BNO News (@BNONews) October 3, 2022
re: #32 Charles Johnson
The old server is now officially offline. Gone. Like digital dust in the galactic wind.
Curious as to the hardware of old server v new, got specs handy?
re: #67 mmmirele
Why would KJU choose now to escalate things with Japan? (Note: I know historically there is no love lost between the Japanese and Koreans).
re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg
Why would KJU choose now to escalate things with Japan? (Note: I know historically there is no love lost between the Japanese and Koreans).
Little Rocket Man (probably the only thing that Trump has said that I liked) has been frequently shooting missiles at Japan. The most recent one hit in the sea outside Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) sometime late last week.
ETA: NHK said there have been 23 missiles of various types launched by NK at Japan this year.
re: #70 mmmirele
Little Rocket Man (probably the only thing that Trump has said that I liked) has been frequently shooting missiles at Japan. The most recent one hit in the sea outside Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) sometime late last week.
It should also be noted that this is not a failure of targeting. The Little Dictator That Could isn’t stupid enough to actually shoot directly at Japan or Japanese assets. It’s to send a message that Japan is easily within the range and capabilities of North Korea’s weapons.
Per the machine translation on NHK, the missile(s) flew over Hokkaido and apparently landed in the Pacific Ocean at 07:29 JST. They’re now telling people not to pick up any suspicious objects.
That whole “landed in the Pacific Ocean” is going to set the US government & military off.
Many things are closed in Québec today due to the provincial election. There is a whole lot of confusion in the polls here as to whether the Conservatives or a coalition of left-leaning parties will come out on top.
They note that the Parti Quebecois (the separatist party) has the fewest seats in fifty years, and will lose more seats because the party leader was caught not paying his taxes, which tanked what little support for PQ (they hold seventeen seats in the national assembly and they may have none after today).
Additionally, another candidate was caught yesterday stealing campaign materials from another candidate, and that is expected to end the thief’s career.
re: #6 Shropshire Slasher
This is surreal.
it’s the NY post.
You couldn’t get a confirmation from the daily fail?
“(The Satanic Temple) venerates, but does not worship, the allegorical Satan described in the epic poem Paradise Lost - the defender of personal sovereignty against the dictates of religious authority,” the lawsuit states.The group also describes The Satanic Abortion ritual as a “protective rite” for the woman, intended to help them through any “notions of guilt, shame and mental discomfort.” The ritual includes meditations, recitation of the temple’s tenets and the abortion procedure.
In both lawsuits, the temple writes that it is advocating on behalf of female members “who are involuntarily pregnant.” It also states the women “wish to remain anonymous due to the risk of violent retribution from domestic terrorists motivated by animosity to proponents of abortion.”
Salem, Massachusetts-based The Satanic Temple sues Indiana, Idaho over abortion bans (WCVB)
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Whereas in this country we award thieves and tax cheats with Senate Seats, Supreme Court Appointments and, once in a while, the Presidency.
re: #28 Charles Johnson
I just edited a PHP file that’s been working fine for almost 20 years, but now is throwing warnings at me. Last modified date was in 2003. Heh.
Ooh, you’re challenging me. If I remember correctly my oldest file has a first modified date of around 1989. Now my task for tomorrow is to find the oldest last modified date…
re: #77 John Hughes
Ooh, you’re challenging me. If I remember correctly my oldest file has a first modified date of around 1989. Now my task for tomorrow is to find the oldest last modified date…
I think have one from the early aughts floating around one of my hard drives. I haven’t looked in a while.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
It’s been two days since I inflicted photographs on y’all, so here’s a few.
We are in Tadoussac, Québec tonight. We will take the car ferry across the Saguenay River tomorrow.
We were finally able to pick up a tour book near the end of our trip from Labrador City to Tadoussac. Reading the book, it notes you should never take a two-wheel drive passenger car on provincial highway QC-389 north of the Manic-5 dam, because the road is unpaved for about 100km, and the section near the Labrador border is narrow, twisting, and dangerous. “Only the most adventurous should attempt this route.” QC-389 is 567km long, and there are almost no businesses or homes along the route.
That’s the two day route. The dot in the middle (Le Relais Manic Outardes) is not actually a hotel. I gotta hand it to my wife to be able to find places to stay when planning trips (she’s had us in a dockside room, sharing an apartment with someone else, a hunting lodge, a brothel, a hiking base camp, and a country club).
What it is, is an overflow barracks for Hydro-Québec workers at the Manic-5 dam. It is several rooms connected to a common bathroom and shower, with a chow hall (“restaurant”). Hydro-Québec rents this out to deranged Americans on QC-389 when they are not using it.
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The end of QC-389. We reached the St. Lawrence Estuary, then turned right to head to Ontario and Michigan.
Perhaps that’s why we got so many looks from people driving a Smart where no Smart has gone before.
You should really see if you can shop some of these pics to the Smart manufacture for just how endurable their car really is.
re: #21 EPR-radar
Perhaps it’s a new kind of insanity for Republicans to mindlessly spew anything they think is politically useful, while being militantly indifferent as to whether it’s true or false.
It does makes it perfectly clear that the truth or making accurate accusations or claims has nothing to do with their goals. So that leaves stirring up their rabble and keeping the grift donations flowing in.
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
Let me guess: She’s gonna grift the rubes for that money.
The one positive point of her doing that is that it’s donations that won’t go to something worse than paying her legal bills.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s bid to fend off a defamation lawsuit the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems filed over his far-fetched claims about the 2020 presidential election.
MORE: https://t.co/l3Q5bSEoSN— WTVC NewsChannel 9 (@newschannelnine) October 3, 2022
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Please either blank out or blur your license tag. You do not want someone to make a copy of it. And all of the pics look great. :)
re: #42 Patricia Kayden
I’m sure Fox is happy Fetterman got permission to use Dr Nick clips.
re: #27 Jay C
Neither “new”, nor “insanity”, because this kind of nonsense IS politically useful. It’s helped to get Republicans elected everywhere in the country.
There’s a bit more to this Republican nonsense than its political utility. After all, when Lyndon Johnson would have rumors put out that his election opponent was a pigfucker, nobody got all swivel-eyed loon about so and so *really* being a pigfucker.
It’s a strange cultish thing of going all-in on obvious lies, perhaps as a group bonding exercise.
re: #32 Charles Johnson
The old server is now officially offline. Gone. Like digital dust in the galactic wind.
re: #7 The Pie Overlord!
How can the truth be defamation?
Also, the festering, orange anal pustule has no character.
re: #37 jaunte
The conspiracy theory that dogwhistles the main ‘joke’ conservatives tell about trans people.
Do the custodians get paid extra for sifting/changing the litterboxes?
re: #88 Romantic Heretic
How can the truth be defamation?
Also, the festering, orange anal pustule has no character.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. More importantly, a comparison to Hitler - if such a statement was made - fails, because the test is for:
1) A provable statement of fact;
2) That is false;
3) Is definitively damaging to the plaintiff’s reputation or business; and
4) (if the plaintiff is a public figure) was made while knowing it was false, or with “reckless disregard” for whether or not it was true.
Comparing someone to Hitler is not “a provable statement of fact” because no one can LITERALLY BE Hitler. Whatever the implications are of calling someone Hitler, it isn’t defamation, because, as we are so fond of saying, there can be only one.
This just dropped from the Daily Beast, and of course it’s absolutely no surprise.
‘Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion
The woman has receipts—and a “get well” card she says the football star, now a Senate candidate, sent her.
Herschel Walker, the football legend now running for Senate in Georgia, says he wants to completely ban abortion, likening it to murder and claiming there should be “no exception” for rape, incest, or the life of the mother.
But the Republican candidate has supported at least one exception—for himself.
A woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns told The Daily Beast that, after she and Walker conceived a child while they were dating in 2009, he urged her to get an abortion. The woman said she had the procedure and that Walker reimbursed her for it.
She supported these claims with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a “get well” card from Walker, and a bank deposit receipt that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from Walker.
The woman said there was a $125 difference because she “ball-parked” the cost of an abortion after Googling the procedure and added on expenses such as travel and recovery costs.
Additionally, The Daily Beast independently corroborated details of the woman’s claims with a close friend she told at the time and who, according to the woman and the friend, took care of her in the days after the procedure.
More at the link: thedailybeast.com
I know the Sen/Rev Raphael Warnock might be a bit squeamish about going on the warpath with that information, but he really shouldn’t be.
re: #47 Eclectic Cyborg
Nah, we use Highlander rules around here. There can only be one.
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My anecdotal political polling by seeing what political yard signs are out and in what number while driving rural roads in western PA. (Today was north of Pittsburgh in the general region around Kittanning and west towards Butler.)
Most seen:
Doug Mastriano - often by itself.
In comparison Shapiro signs were generally grouped with signs for the other Democratic candidates.
Oz and Fetterman signs seen in roughly equal numbers.
Not many “Trump 2024”, “Don’t Blame Me I voted for Trump”, or “Trump Won” stuff. One business along US-422 with tons of that stuff up. And maybe passed one house with a few Trump signs.
Overall, I’d say there are fewer yard signs out than I’ve seen in the past few elections. Might still be early. Might be from changing residence across the state. Or might just be that the usual enthusiasm the nuts have for coating yards with stuff is not there.
I won’t say there is a lack of outward patriotism* since plenty of homes and businesses are flying US flags. Most of them properly.
* - And I don’t hold at all that patriotism or caring for one’s country requires one to make such displays or such a display makes you automatically a better citizen than another.
re: #78 Eclectic Cyborg
I think have one from the early aughts floating around one of my hard drives. I haven’t looked in a while.
To be clear, the challenge is only for source files being used in production. Old memos need not apply.
Looking at all this code, wondering how to organize it to use with git, now that I have a server that can handle the latest versions of everything. There’s so freakin’ much of it. I don’t know how I ever kept all this shit straight.
re: #96 Charles Johnson
Looking at all this code, wondering how to organize it to use with git, now that I have a server that can handle the latest versions of everything. There’s so freakin’ much of it. I don’t know how I ever kept all this shit straight.
Me every time I look at one of my old repositories.
A Montana judge struck down as unconstitutional three laws that restricted voting in the state, saying there was no evidence of the widespread voter fraud that the 2021 Republican-sponsored laws ostensibly were targeting. https://t.co/4ZIDu9IDPJ
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2022
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
Way to go Montana. Now all we have to do is get the rest of the nation to follow that example.
re: #32 Charles Johnson
The old server is now officially offline. Gone. Like digital dust in the galactic wind.
Don’t cry, Charles. You’ll always have Paris.
re: #94 Eventual Carrion
Hey Rand, just think of them as political tourists ya fucking coward.
He may be afraid of elevating Booker in public sentiment if viewers compare the performances or see both of them on the same stage; this way he figures that the audience will be significantly reduced and far less attention will be paid to his opponent. He won’t be treating him as an equal, but as a minor nuisance who can be ignored.
Kellyanne Conway: “People are afraid to make the sign of a cross before a meal in public, they’re afraid to express their — they actually think their religion could get them canceled now, not just their politics, and think about that.”
I see Christians all the time in Brooklyn! pic.twitter.com/z4YVDQ4I5M— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) October 3, 2022
Where are these people afraid to personally pray before a meal in public? For one thing, everyone else is paying attention to the food they just got for themselves. Nobody would notice you.
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) October 3, 2022
I have been eating at restaurants for nearly 40 years and have never seen someone cross themselves or pray before their meal. Since I was born in 83, I gotta assume Reagan is to blame.
— Lisa (she/her) (@lisa0reider) October 3, 2022
My brother texted me, said that mom wanted him to take her over to JoAnn’s so she can buy elastic so she can sew it into her new bras (that don’t fit) since she hadn’t heard from me about bras.
Well, blergh. She wanted Playtex Cross Your Heart bras, which are not available in the USA and it appears they’re only available in parts of Europe. Her former Playtex bras don’t fit. So that’s out. And she can’t be sewing anything into bras because she’s legally blind. I called my brother up and we (I) came to the conclusion that I just needed to order a bunch of different bras, size 38B, so she can try them on. Which I did, for delivery Wednesday. So we’ll see.
What I wish I could do is buy her the bras I wear, but they don’t have hooks and eyes in the back. And she would probably have difficulty pulling them over her head. In fact they’re the very brand of bras that Rod Dreher was whinging about this weekend, to wit:
I never knew my underwear was going to be the downfall of civilization.
Might want coordinate your messaging, guys. This doesn’t look great. pic.twitter.com/MTqMX96gNL
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) October 3, 2022
“…relatively small death toll…” 😢Honestly, you don’t have a heart. At the time of this tweet, 12:39 PM on October 3, the death toll was 90. The fact you called 90 people dead a “small death toll” is disgusting. Hurricane Ian is the deadliest Florida hurricane since 1935. https://t.co/ifSFpjhpad
— Elijah Joyce Weather (@ElijahWeather) October 3, 2022
Everyone should honestly be appalled and disgusted by this comment. I don’t care if you like @JesseKellyDC or not. Calling 90 people dead a “small death toll” is heartless and deserves backlash. #wxtwitter #flwx #wxfl
— Elijah Joyce Weather (@ElijahWeather) October 3, 2022
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
I can tell you we stand behind every word and feel very solid about the story.https://t.co/ryvGywheAX https://t.co/t8kZaFs1Rc
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) October 3, 2022
Rand Paul is lying. His team put together a loose string of events, totally mischaracterized circumstances and intent. Some of this is made up out of whole cloth. Rand, if all you have is lies then you have nothing, which is exactly what you have done for Kentucky. #RandPaul https://t.co/WgBBrKM7Ju
— Patti Piatt for Campbell County Commission (@PiattPatti) October 3, 2022
“FUCK YOU AND YOUR SHITTY BISCUITS, JANICE” pic.twitter.com/bHZFivaYxH
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) October 3, 2022
Also me every time anyone has ever attempted to get me to eat rice cakes.
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) October 3, 2022
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
Let me guess: She’s gonna grift the rubes for that money.
Some people over-estimate their ability to grift the rubes for their money. Laura Loomer is one such person. She’ll probably start a GoFundMe and make a half dozen anonymous donations to try and stimulate people, but they won’t buy it.
Filing this lawsuit is exactly the type of thing Hitler would have done if he was more litigious.
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) October 3, 2022
If this reporting holds up, “Trump himself eventually packed the boxes that were returned in January,” his conduct would have been so egregious that DOJ will have to indict to maintain the rule of law-anyone else would be indicted, he must be too. https://t.co/6qrC1RaODf
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 3, 2022
So Shitler is going to sue millions of people for fundraising now?
Decent penmanship. He signed the card and put his IQ on it too?
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) October 4, 2022
What is really stupid about Musk’s tweet and conservative support of it is that no way the Russians would agree to it. They, like their Republican friends, would ask for amendment, after amendment, until the agreement became the exact opposite of how it started. The Russians will insist on peace the day before they are defeated. Musk is not tweeting in good faith (and probably never has).
Eight minutes after the polls closed here in Québec, CTV calls an outright majority government for the Conservative Party. The question now is whether the Liberal Party loses its official opposition party status.
The total number of seats required for a majority in the National Assembly is 63. The predicted range of seats for the Conservatives is 76 and 98. Parti Quebecois may be wiped out completely.
re: #114 I Would Prefer Not To
What is really stupid about Musk’s tweet and conservative support of it is that no way the Russians would agree to it. They, like their Republican friends, would ask for amendment, after amendment, until the agreement became the exact opposite of how it started. The Russians will insist on peace the day before they are defeated. Musk is not tweeting in good faith (and probably never has).
That lack of good faith is exactly what to expect. At its core, political conservatism (and Musk is exactly that) is the desire to uphold an unjust status quo in the face of pressure to reform.
All arguments in favor of that are axiomatically dishonest.
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s unfortunate. Let’s hope the conservatives in Quebec aren’t as dogshit as Republicans are in the US.
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Eight minutes after the polls closed here in Québec, CTV calls an outright majority government for the Conservative Party. The question now is whether the Liberal Party loses its official opposition party status.
The total number of seats required for a majority in the National Assembly is 63. The predicted range of seats for the Conservatives is 76 and 98. Parti Quebecois may be wiped out completely.
That’s fucking terrifying with Poilieve as head of the cons now. He’s another trump; populist, hateful. Fuck.
I mean I know there’s no fed election here now but the thought scares me to death.
re: #117 EPR-radar
That’s unfortunate. Let’s hope the conservatives in Quebec aren’t as dogshit as Republicans are in the US.
The cons up here are every bit as bad. They’ve learned from the GOP. I don’t know about Quebec specialty but once a federal election is called then it matters a lot.
re: #117 EPR-radar
That’s unfortunate. Let’s hope the conservatives in Quebec aren’t as dogshit as Republicans are in the US.
The Conservatives were the majority going into this election. It would appear the Liberal Party has retained its official opposition status, though it looks like the party leader is going down in defeat. Parti Quebecois (the separatist party) has won one riding (down from seventeen). Québec Solidaire (the democratic socialist separatist party) has won two seats.
Political analysis seems to indicate the Conservative Party message of “dirty immigrants who don’t speak French and won’t work and pandemic restrictions are crap and should never have been proposed” (the same message as the GOP) resonated with Québec voters. Traditional Liberal Party ridings are being flipped to Conservative.
Relieved to see that phpmyadmin still works with MariaDB. I can work with the MySQL CLI when I have to but it’s much quicker with a GUI.
A lawyer for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked a judge to dismiss a case accusing him of ordering the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, arguing that his new role as prime minister grants him legal immunity https://t.co/lyvBoNxBts
— Bloomberg (@business) October 3, 2022
The weird thing about the Conservative campaign here is the Premier (and party leader) insists on giving all his speeches in both French and English, saying Québec is for everyone (except those dirty lazy immigrants). None of the other party leaders tried to appeal to English speakers at all (78% of respondents in the last census said they were only French speakers). Writing off that big of a section of the electorate by the other parties seems to be a poor decision.
Kentucky’s US Senatorial debate has started on KET and…are you ready for this?…WITHOUT Rand Paul LOL! @Booker4KY is here. Rand couldn’t make it. @KET’s Renee Shaw is an expert at moderating debates. She’s done this for years. Booker’s doing a great job. https://t.co/pcet8scVgS
— Dr. Vicki Hayes (@WonderfulwomanK) October 4, 2022
How refreshing to watch a US Senatorial debate without all the nasty bullsh1t Rand Paul would have spewed. Charles Booker was clear, well-prepared, and called out Paul’s lies. What a great idea, @KET! When candidates refuse to show up, go forward with the debate anyway. Loved it.
— Dr. Vicki Hayes (@WonderfulwomanK) October 4, 2022
blech
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I’ve been gone today, and missed three whole threads! Good grief! Was able to get the Omicron booster (Moderna this time; all my other four shots were Pfizer) and the flu shot. Glad to have that behind me! Almost all of Illinois is now low transmission of Covid, and some of the plexiglass is coming down. Some people still wear masks, and I do most of the time in public, indoors. Flu season hasn’t started yet, and I heard no coughing or sneezing. Thank goodness!
Illinois is doing what it can to respond to the abortion crisis. Illinois clinics are reporting 3x the case load as other states’ (IN, OH, KY, TN, MO) women come here for treatment. Planned Parenthood (St Louis Chapter) is creating a mobile clinic to move from place to place along the southern borders of the state. They are converting a mobile home to a clinic which will begin exams and counseling and abortion by pill by the end of this year, and hope to allow first term surgical abortions in the spring.
I heard an in depth interview with JB Pritzker (gov) while I was driving, and he is so good. He does not look the part, but he would be a superior president. There is a case where being a billionaire has not changed him at all, except increased his feeling of needing to make the world a better place. He was not my choice in the primary four years ago, but he sure is my choice for as far as he wants to go.
re: #127 retired cynic
Got my omicron booster yesterday. Moderna as well. Feeling achy today but I’m just a big baby. Glad I got the shot the day before my day off.
And I totally agree re: Pritzker. But I’m still surprised he’s only leading in the polls by single digits. Bailey is a goon.
I received my mail-in ballot today too. In 2020 I registered for permanent vote-by-mail status.
re: #77 John Hughes
Ooh, you’re challenging me. If I remember correctly my oldest file has a first modified date of around 1989. Now my task for tomorrow is to find the oldest last modified date…
So the oldest files on the system were created on 12 November 1992. The file with the oldest last-modified date was modified on 26 May 1993. It is still used in production.
/*
* Given a segment and its definition free it.
*
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <local.h>
#include "edi_def.h"
EXPORT void seg_free (void *segment, SEGMENT_DEF *def) {
FIELD_DEF *f;
char **seg = (char **) segment;
if (segment == NULL) return;
for (f = def->body; f; f = f->next, ++seg) {
if (*seg) {
if (f->composite) {
SUBFIELD_DEF *s;
char **ss = (char **) *seg;
for (s = f->subfield; s; s = s->next, ++ss) {
if (*ss) free (*ss);
}
}
free (*seg);
}
}
free (segment);
}
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