Seth Meyers: Trump Takes Classified Docs Case to SCOTUS; Rudy’s Gross Toilet Habits

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Dave In Austin  Oct 5, 2022 • 6:48:06pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2022 • 6:57:38pm

hi

It’s been two days since I inflicted photos on you. We are now in Ontario, east of Toronto. We have now travelled 6,510 miles on this trip.

I wrote a message yesterday and sent it out by E-mail, but failed to post it here.

Ipsos offered to take my wife and me out to dinner if we went by his home in New York, as he did last time we made a trip east. We will have to decline, as we are on the wrong side of Lake Ontario. (The last trip we made was to Massachusetts.)

I took no pictures today. It was boring driving on Autoroutes 20 and 30 in Québec, and Ontario 401.

The day before yesterday we finally reached the St. Lawrence Estuary, ending our long trek around “The Loop” (as it is called in Newfoundland and Labrador), or Expedition 51° (as it is called by the tourist bureaus of Québec, and Newfoundland and Labrador). We are now headed west and south toward Michigan, where I will visit family, then home to Nebraska.

St. Lawrence Estuary

At the end of the long road south from Labrador. Here we turned right. This is the estuary of the St. Lawrence River. Provincial Highway QC-138 goes south and west along the estuary and river all the way to New York State. It is called the Whale Route by Québec’s transport department.

We spent the night in Tadoussac, Québec, near the Saguenay River ferry crossing. Tadoussac is where the first known European trading post was set up in Canada, in 1599. It is also a popular spot for whale watching, the hills above the St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers offer a vantage point, as does the ferry.

My wife saw a whale in the Saguenay River while we were crossing on the ferry. I missed it because I was photographing in the opposite direction.

Saguenay River from the Ferry, Looking Upstream
Tadoussac Ferry

The ferry service for QC-138. There are two ferries in constant use (every fifteen minutes during the daytime, every hour at night), as the highway is a significant economic link to the Québec North Shore. There has been a push to build a suspension bridge across the river, but this presents significant engineering challenges.

Autumn is here. The last three pictures were from a side road I had an impulse to turn down. The leaves are changing before falling. There are a lot more different trees in this part of Québec than the road to Labrador.

Changing Colours
More Changing Colours
Yet More Changing Colours

Québec has a lot of trees.

We ran into our first traffic jam since St. Louis, Missouri in Québec City. I haven’t missed those. We are pretty much done with two-lane roads now until we get to Michigan. It will be rather dull freeways all the way to the US Border.

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ipsos  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:05:21pm

re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Safe travels!

(waves from across the lake at the world’s most interesting Smart Car and its occupants…)

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:16:41pm

Watergirl at Balloon Juice is doing a series on the Ukraine-Russian War from the POV of someone who is paying attention but isn’t a military strategist. This was an important observation:

Beginning in July, the UA started taking HIMARS potshots at those three bridges across the Dnipro. Remember that the Russians proved at Severodonetsk that it takes a lot of artillery strikes to drop a bridge, although compared to the accuracy of the M-31 HIMARS munitions, Russian artillery rocket strikes are a bit like playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey while drunk. Nonetheless, the Russians had little trouble repairing holes at this stage, as their forces poured over the Dnipro.

In the first weeks of August, however, the UA put on a masterclass on how to drop bridges using precision artillery rockets. It turns out that with the M-31 munitions’ accuracy of a few meters, repeated strikes directly over support structures are perfectly adequate to the task of destroying highway and railway bridges. The three Dnipro bridges were out of service by the second half of August. It gradually began to dawn on the Russians that they had 25,000 troops on the opposite side of the river from their supply train, and they began to frantically construct pontoon (improvised floating, light-duty) bridges. The UA artillery happily targeted these, and anything moving across them.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:18:42pm

So far today, I have seen three different comments labeled ‘Top 10 Comments’, one at a time, and they’ve each had 17 updings.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:28:18pm
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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:29:32pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:30:14pm

re: #222 austin_blue

She negotiated her pay, as most were per-service orchestras plus cartage.

You planted in my mind images of musicians walking the dusty paths of Texas, each pulling behind them a wooden-wheeled cart holding all their worldly possessions.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:30:51pm

All the tears:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:31:13pm

re: #3 ipsos

Safe travels!

(waves from across the lake at the world’s most interesting Smart Car and its occupants…)

I’ve been doing a running commentary on this trip which I call “The Annals of Bathroom Technology: Observations and Tips for Long Trips.”

My wife says now she wishes she’d taken notes, because she thinks it would make a funny book. I figure it would sell like my long-playing, short-selling record album.

She told an awful joke to a Québec hotel owner which I thought would get us thrown out, but he found funny.

“Why do French people only eat one egg for breakfast?”

Click to Reveal

Because “un oeuf is an oeuf.”

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:42:14pm

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:42:45pm

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

You planted in my mind images of musicians walking the dusty paths of Texas, each pulling behind them a wooden-wheeled cart holding all their worldly possessions.

You know, that’s damned close to reality. Except it was a 1978 Silverado.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:50:17pm

Omygod burn that television set. It just had an advert for pumpkin spice poutine.

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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:51:15pm

Why I like Craig as James Bond… If you have the time, I find it well worth it.

I will miss that man’s take as “Bond. James Bond.”

Why No Time To Die is the PERFECT Ending (feat. Daniel Craig) | Video Essay

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:51:54pm

re: #14 William Lewis

Why I like Craig as James Bond… If you have the time, I find it well worth it.

I will miss that man’s take as “Bond. James Bond.”

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Pierce Brosnan was “my Bond”, but I felt Daniel Craig acquitted himself well in that role, for sure.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 7:55:42pm

I did not know that you can swipe left and right from the edges to switch between threads here. I just discovered it on accident.

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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:01:48pm

re: #15 Dopamine Fish

Pierce Brosnan was “my Bond”, but I felt Daniel Craig acquitted himself well in that role, for sure.

By the usual thinking, Roger Moore should have been mine and I find him entertaining.

But Craig? He was the perfect image of what I read in the books by Fleming. Three out of five movies were near perfect and only one (Quantum of Solace) can be called meh. Didn’t look like the book description physically but psychologically? Only Lazenby came close to Craig.

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Sherlock Hound  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:05:23pm

re: #17 William Lewis

He was Bond right from the start, with that amazing opener in “Casino Royale”
“Your file shows NO kills, and it takes—”
“”Two.”

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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:08:06pm
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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:11:39pm

re: #18 Sherlock Hound

He was Bond right from the start, with that amazing opener.
“Your file shows NO kills, and it takes—”
“”Two.”

And there will always be this…

James Bond and The Queen London 2012 Performance

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:13:03pm
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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:34:39pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:34:50pm

From downstairs:

re: #83 EPR-radar

Which is why they are most unlikely to rule for Trump. Their last remaining shreds of credibility are to be used for finishing the job of gutting the voting rights act and other Heritage Foundation agenda items.

They don’t care about their credibility; they care only about their power. They have decided they can do whatever they please and there is nothing that the other branches can do to stop them UNLESS the Democrats hold the House and expand their majority in the Senate. Without that, the conservative majority on SCOTUS has free rein to overturn any prior rulings; they care nothing about precedent or laws; only about their absolute control of the Court, and the unfettered power it grants them. None can be expelled from the Court since the Republicans in the Senate will never convict a Republican judge for any crime.

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:44:13pm

re: #21 wrenchwench

Well that isn’t an example of frontier gibberish, but it’s a clear example of fucking whack tango berbaleggagonzo.

Proper!

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darthstar  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:47:16pm
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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:52:23pm

re: #25 darthstar

And hundred comments suddenly go poof.

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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:52:58pm
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darthstar  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:54:12pm
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darthstar  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:55:07pm

re: #26 austin_blue

And hundred comments suddenly go poof.

Cassidy is a great song though…one Bobby does well.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2022 • 8:55:28pm

My sister and I were discussing who would be his replacement If somehow Thomas left SCOTUS (maybe a bolt of lightning?). My first guess, as long as the Democrats hold the Senate, was Obama — but that reflects my non-legal background and lack of familiarity with other African-American attorneys, with the star power (Not Corey Booker — since we cannot afford to lose any Democratic Senators). Any other guesses?

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mmmirele  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:00:19pm

On Saturday, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” will go back on display at the University of Arizona in Tucson, ending a 37 year journey for the painting. It had been stolen in 1985, and surfaced in 2017 at an antiques store in Silver City, New Mexico after the owner purchased the contents of the home of the presumed thieves. One of his customers recognized the painting and after doing some research, the antiques store owner called the museum and turned the painting over to his lawyer as he didn’t want to be in possession of a potentially $100 million extremely hot painting.

It’s taken five years to get it back into shape for display, because it had been slashed from its original frame, rolled up (causing the paint to crack) and they put varnish on it at some point. The Getty performed restoration on the painting.

More here:

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ckkatz  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:00:51pm

Well, Oktoberfest ended last Monday.

Which, I guess, will give the grass around ‘Kotzhügel’ time to recover before Frühlingsfest.

Anyway, in honor of Oktoberfests past and future, here is a Bavarian Oompah band doing Guns n’ Roses’ “Sweet Child o’ Mine” in polka time. Because… Well, why not.

Youtube Video

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:01:45pm

re: #28 darthstar

He realizes he has a tiny little dick. Here’s the problem; he has ALWAYS known he has a tiny little dick. This reality is not going to help him in November. It’s a loser of a campaign:

Vote for me! I’ve got a little dick!

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:06:34pm

re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter

My sister and I were discussing who would be his replacement If somehow Thomas left SCOTUS (maybe a bolt of lightning?). My first guess, as long as the Democrats hold the Senate, was Obama — but that reflects my non-legal background and lack of familiarity with other African-American attorneys, with the star power (Not Corey Booker — since we cannot afford to lose any Democratic Senators). Any other guesses?

Who was the person that Clyburn wanted Biden to choose? I would say her.

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mmmirele  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:07:31pm

This is a huge shock: Illustrator Kim Jung Gi died in Paris on Monday. He was 47 years old. He experienced heart pains while waiting to board a plane back to the USA and was taken to hospital, where he died. Kim was an artist who could compose and draw remarkable scenes from memory. He was mesmerizing to watch.

I’m not thrilled with the music behind this, but it gives an idea of how the guy worked:

Ghost In The Shell Timelapse by Kim Jung Gi

What a loss.

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:09:37pm

re: #33 austin_blue

He realizes he has a tiny little dick. Here’s the problem; he has ALWAYS known he has a tiny little dick. This reality is not going to help him in November. It’s a loser of a campaign:

Vote for me! I’ve got a little dick!

Yes, that is half a joke. I have not seen his dick, it may be a giant slab o’ meat, it may also be a little tiny breakfast sausage. Who knows?

But we seem to have gotten to The Who’s Got The Biggest Dick in Politics in many of the areas of the country.

It is, to say the least, improper.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:10:57pm

re: #35 mmmirele

This is a huge shock: Illustrator Kim Jung Gi died in Paris on Monday. He was 47 years old. He experienced heart pains while waiting to board a plane back to the USA and was taken to hospital, where he died. Kim was an artist who could compose and draw remarkable scenes from memory. He was mesmerizing to watch.

I’m not thrilled with the music behind this, but it gives an idea of how the guy worked:

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What a loss.

The show came with its own music, but the artists was cool.

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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:12:05pm
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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:12:15pm

re: #31 mmmirele

On Saturday, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” will go back on display at the University of Arizona in Tucson, ending a 37 year journey for the painting. It had been stolen in 1985, and surfaced in 2017 at an antiques store in Silver City, New Mexico after the owner purchased the contents of the home of the presumed thieves. One of his customers recognized the painting and after doing some research, the antiques store owner called the museum and turned the painting over to his lawyer as he didn’t want to be in possession of a potentially $100 million extremely hot painting.

It’s taken five years to get it back into shape for display, because it had been slashed from its original frame, rolled up (causing the paint to crack) and they put varnish on it at some point. The Getty performed restoration on the painting.

More here:

[Embedded content]

Click to Reveal

That antiques store is three blocks from the bike shop that used to be mine. I have a couple items on a shelf that I bought there: art by a Navajo woman who had an aunt in town who, when the niece was a young apprentice artist, her aunt would sell her stuff up and down the street, and get it into all the galleries. For the prices I paid, I thought I got a steal, but not like that.

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:16:22pm

re: #38 Captain Ron

Yes, that is all true.

And what should be done about it?

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:17:36pm

re: #34 Belafon

Who was the person that Clyburn wanted Biden to choose? I would say her.

I think his replacement has to be a guy.

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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:18:22pm

re: #40 austin_blue

Let them buy Russian weapons. That should be punishment enough.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:19:42pm

re: #42 Captain Ron

Let them buy Russian weapons. That should be punishment enough.

They are trying to restore TFG as President and dictator, since he’s one of them.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:20:32pm

re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter

I think his replacement has to be a guy.

Why? I’m all for an all-woman Supreme Court. The shit-weasel replaced a great Justice so it’s not like there has to be any one-for-one.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:21:08pm

The next smear we will see:

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:23:26pm

I heard about Brady deciding he’s married to football:

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:24:47pm

re: #42 Captain Ron

Let them buy Russian weapons. That should be punishment enough.

They don’t want Russian weapons. They want ours. Do you think we will ban our weapons to the KSA because the titular head of the Government is Crown Prince Bone Saw?

We’ll see.

The Correct response is “Yes”.

The Political response will always be “No”.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:25:42pm

re: #45 Belafon

The next smear we will see:

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Atkins diet of the 70s, except he was pro-oils. Pro-fat in the diet in general, and oils are often better then solid fats.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:28:34pm

A professor was killed at the University of Arizona today:

abcnews.go.com

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darthstar  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:29:14pm

Mind. Blown.

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:29:59pm

re: #47 austin_blue

Charles,

When I respond to a post (see above) I can’t tell when the comment I am responding to ends and when mine begins.

Hmmm.

Safari on an I-Mac.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:33:34pm

re: #51 austin_blue

Charles,

When I respond to a post (see above) I can’t tell when the comment I am responding to ends and when mine begins.

Hmmm.

Safari on an I-Mac.

It looks like your comment got inside the quote of the responded-to.

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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:35:42pm

This happened down the hill from me.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:40:51pm

re: #52 wrenchwench

It looks like your comment got inside the quote of the responded-to.

The same thing happened to me as austin_blue the other day — but maybe, as you suggest, it was simply a matter of typing the response in the wrong spot? Never did that before.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:42:16pm

re: #40 austin_blue

Yes, that is all true.

And what should be done about it?

We are dependent on arms sales to Saudi Arabia, not oil from it.

I’m off to bed. Tomorrow’s target: London, Ontario.

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:44:07pm

re: #49 Belafon

A professor was killed at the University of Kansas today:

abcnews.go.com

First, it was in Arizona. Second, the shooter was a 46 year old grad student, and Third, the professor who was shot was a hydrologist.

Personally, as a geologist who specialized as a shallow groundwater hydrologist later in my career (contaminant fate and transport modeling), I must note that I never got into any mortal fight with any colleague during my career.

It seems like it may have been personal.

Which makes it not much of a story. At least one that has anything to do with Academia.

Lovers quarrel turns into murder.

Yawn.

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:45:03pm

re: #52 wrenchwench

It looks like your comment got inside the quote of the responded-to.

Yes. Which is curious!

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:47:25pm

re: #56 austin_blue

Thanks. I must have garbled Arizona and it autocorrected.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:48:37pm

re: #54 Hecuba’s daughter

The same thing happened to me as austin_blue the other day — but maybe, as you suggest, it was simply a matter of typing the response in the wrong spot? Never did that before.

Happens to various people at random, seemingly. Easy error, or random bug?

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:49:15pm

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We are dependent on arms sales to Saudi Arabia, not oil from it.

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I’m off to bed. Tomorrow’s target: London, Ontario.

If we bought zero oil from Saudi Arabia, our oil prices would still fluctuate based on their production.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:51:44pm

re: #60 Belafon

If we bought zero oil from Saudi Arabia, our oil prices would still fluctuate based on their production.

Ban the internal combustion engine.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:52:42pm

Lots here, but the news part just adds to Cannon’s hackery:

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:53:57pm
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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:55:45pm

re: #59 wrenchwench

Happens to various people at random, seemingly. Easy error, or random bug?

Yes, agreed, but my response to you has your post ending in

which was not the case in the post I alerted to Charles.

It appears to be a random glitch. Coders hate random glitches.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:57:19pm

re: #62 Belafon

Also:

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2022 • 9:58:39pm

re: #64 austin_blue

Yes, agreed, but my response to you has your post ending in

which was not the case in the post I alerted to Charles.

It appears to be a random glitch. Coders hate random glitches.

The only thing worse than a bug is one that doesn’t happen all the time.

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:04:54pm

re: #64 austin_blue

Yes, agreed, but my response to you has your post ending in

which was not the case in the post I alerted to Charles.

It appears to be a random glitch. Coders hate random glitches.

Gah! Even the post to you removed the term

from the phrase above ending in “your post ending in”

There’s a Ghost in the Machine and we are all going to die.

And night all. Off to Kerrville tomorrow to see She Who Must be Obeyed do the harp thang with the Heart of the Hills Symphony.

Sweet dreams to you all.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:08:11pm

re: #43 Hecuba’s daughter

They are trying to restore TFG as President and dictator, since he’s one of them.

One of them? They want tfg back because they know they can get anything from him with flattery. Biden is their equal.

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austin_blue  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:09:33pm

re: #67 austin_blue

Gah! Even the post to you removed the term

from the phrase above ending in “your post ending in”

There’s a Ghost in the Machine and we are all going to die.

And night all. Off to Kerrville tomorrow to see She Who Must be Obeyed do the harp thang with the Heart of the Hills Symphony.

Sweet dreams to you all.

And it did it again! Why the fuck is the term (no crap in front or after the word) blockquote disappearing when you reply to a post?

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:11:15pm

re: #61 wrenchwench

Ban the internal combustion engine.

But the internal combustion engine can be powered by other fuels. Many Brazilian vehicles run on hydrous alcohol which apparently is not as bad in terms of greenhouse gases AND, as its real plus, is not a fossil fuel. The petrostate of Texas would object mightily to our switching away from oil. But it’s something we should have been working on for years.

OT — wording of 4

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sagehen  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:16:32pm

re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter

My sister and I were discussing who would be his replacement If somehow Thomas left SCOTUS (maybe a bolt of lightning?). My first guess, as long as the Democrats hold the Senate, was Obama — but that reflects my non-legal background and lack of familiarity with other African-American attorneys, with the star power (Not Corey Booker — since we cannot afford to lose any Democratic Senators). Any other guesses?

how about Preet Bharara? Not a judge, but a heck of a prosecutor.

en.wikipedia.org

He transferred to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2004 as an assistant U.S. Attorney, launching his career as a federal prosecutor. His office heavily prosecuted the Italian mafia, convicting four out of the Five Families of drug trafficking, racketeering, and conspiracy to commit murder. Bharara similarly headed various counter-terrorism cases, particularly against Al-Qaeda.

His office used a variety of unconventional tactics to close cases such as wiretapping and asset seizure. He prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives for insider trading and securities fraud using these methods. Bharara closed multi-million dollar settlements with the four largest banks in the country, and most notably, shut down multiple high-profile hedge funds.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:16:56pm

re: #69 austin_blue

And it did it again! Why the fuck is the term (no crap in front or after the word) blockquote disappearing when you reply to a post?

Testing… well, not this time.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:23:16pm

re: #68 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

One of them? They want tfg back because they know they can get anything from him with flattery. Biden is their equal.

One of them in the sense of being an amoral autocrat and sociopath who has no loyalty to anything but money, and who is willing to allow them free rein in dispatching anyone they find inconvenient, especially competent journalists.

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Targetpractice  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:26:54pm

re: #70 Hecuba’s daughter

But the internal combustion engine can be powered by other fuels. Many Brazilian vehicles run on hydrous alcohol which apparently is not as bad in terms of greenhouse gases AND, as its real plus, is not a fossil fuel. The petrostate of Texas would object mightily to our switching away from oil. But it’s something we should have been working on for years.

You could convert the internal combustion engine to run on a variety of fuels from numerous feed sources, the twin problems are fuel storage and fuel efficiency. There’s few alternatives to petroleum-based fuels that take up the same space and output the same energy without also carrying the same issues of carbon emissions. Pure hydrogen gas could be burned in an ICE and produce only H2O as a byproduct, but the stuff is notoriously difficult to store for long periods and doesn’t produce the same energy output which means you need more of it to maintain the same range as a full tank of gasoline.

One of my favorite little tidbits about the Model T is that the engine was originally designed with a wide tolerance for fuel quality, which meant it could burn practically anything that would ignite with just a spark. Ford not only believed that alcohol was the fuel America should use, but he believed that the energy needs of the growing car market could be met with America’s corn fields.

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sagehen  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:33:13pm

re: #71 sagehen

how about Preet Bharara? Not a judge, but a heck of a prosecutor.

en.wikipedia.org

or Sri Srinivasan
en.wikipedia.org

He was on Obama’s shortlist that led to Merrick Garland’s nomination.

Stanford undergrad, Stanford law/mba combined program.

On August 26, 2011, Srinivasan was appointed to replace Neal Katyal as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. As of May 2013, Srinivasan had argued 25 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier in his career, he also performed pro bono work for presidential candidate Al Gore during the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election.

In 2013, he was part of the legal team that presented arguments before the Supreme Court against the Defense of Marriage Act in the case of United States v. Windsor.

Michelle Childs is the South Carolina judge that Clyburn was pushing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:39:06pm

re: #75 sagehen

or Sri Srinivasan
en.wikipedia.org

He was on Obama’s shortlist that led to Merrick Garland’s nomination.

If Alito were struck by lightning, either Preet or Sri Srinivasan would be excellent choices. With Thomas, it may be politically desirable for it to remain an African-American seat. Sigh, if only justice prevailed, then both Alito and Thomas would no longer be on the Court.

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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2022 • 10:59:05pm
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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2022 • 11:09:36pm
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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2022 • 11:15:42pm
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ckkatz  Oct 5, 2022 • 11:25:39pm

re: #79 Captain Ron

A list of Iranian supplied drones and ballistic missiles supplied by the Iranians to the Houthis. And used to torment the Saudis. (Most likely these are actually still under the defacto control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.)

[Frankly, nobody in the West would care about a bunch impoverished Yemenis. Except they are successfuly damaging the Saudis. And more importantly, they are successfully damaging Saudi oil production and export.]

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The Houthis are a community/group of tribes in the Southern Arabian Penninsula. They reside in both the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and in Yemen.

The Iranians started to support them as part of Iranian geo-political and religious competition with the Saudis.

The Houthis are Shiites and have been abused by the Sunni Saudis for decades. In the mid 2010’s Yemen again collapsed. With Iranian support, the Houthis gained control over much of Yemen.

This prompted the Saudis to attempt to intervene. Which, while it has killed lots of civilians, has gained little of military value. The US has had to intervene militarily multiple times in order to keep the Saudi effort from collapsing.

From the Brookings Institute article:

“The war costs Tehran a few million dollars per month, while it costs Riyadh $6 billion per month.”

As part of the Iranian effort, the Houthis received numerous drones and ballistic missiles. That have been used successfully in attacking Saudi oil facilities. Several freighters full of Iranian arms have been seized by the US.

(The Ukrainians seemed to have received a lot of the seized weapons. The Ukrainians have also managed to buy a lot of Iranian weapons from third parties in the World arms market.)

brookings.edu

en.wikipedia.org

en.wikipedia.org

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ckkatz  Oct 5, 2022 • 11:35:38pm

This is a 2005 Latin Pop style Cumbia by Columbian singer Jaunes.

Juanes - La Camisa Negra (En Vivo)

The song is a bitter song by a guy whose lover left him. And now he has a black shirt (of mourning).

The lyrics contrast with the upbeat music.

The lyrics also have a lot of double-entrendres as well as phrases that sound like they will end in an obscenity, but then end in a non-obscene word.

I had not realized that the Italian Fascists had tried to appropriate the song because of the phrase “Black Shirt”. Juanes reportedly strongly denounced that attempt.

en.wikipedia.org

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ckkatz  Oct 5, 2022 • 11:48:28pm

G’nite and sweet lizard dreams. I’m heading to bed.

And for the evening ‘Dad’ joke, I refer all to Ms. AnyMouse’s “Mom” joke in comment 10 above. I cannot think of anything that would top that.

I did want to mention that according to ‘Google’, the Ontario maximum fall leaf color is perhaps a week away. So excellent timing for our International travelers!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 5, 2022 • 11:51:49pm

A whiff and a four.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2022 • 11:58:21pm

So, predictably, the “gold” teeth found in the torture cellar belonged to a local dentist. The torturers used it as a psychological prop. In an interview with Bild the dentist said that the teeth were actually made of stainless steel and were gathered over 33 years. So the Ukrainians jumped to conclusions, but the good thing is, it wasn’t an attempt to deceive anyone.

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JC1  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:04:10am

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We are dependent on arms sales to Saudi Arabia, not oil from it.

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Oil is a global market. I hate the Saudi regime with a burning passion. But, if it’s allowed to fall, and their oil output gets disrupted, you’ll see oil at 300+ and a massive global recession. There’s just not enough oil production in the world to make up for a massive disruption of Saudi crude.

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JC1  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:10:48am

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:11:08am

re: #85 JC1

Oil is a global market. I hate the Saudi regime with a burning passion. But, if it’s allowed to fall, and their oil output gets disrupted, you’ll see oil at 300+ and a massive global recession. There’s just not enough oil production in the world to make up for a massive disruption of Saudi crude.

I think people are overreacting to the oil reduction. These are quotas that NO ONE follows. They say they are going to cut by 10% for example. A few months latter we find out that each member of the cartel cut production 4 to 5%. They never do the full amount never. At 87 dollars a barrel, it’s still a great price. They need cash and the cartel needs to look like they are in control. This has been the game for years. The market knows this. I don’t see this as having any effect on the Nov. election.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:28:33am

Pure speculation, but the video with 500 conscripts, one of whom tells about a total chaos, may be a part of Prigozhin’s attempt to discredit Shoigu even further. A Wagner thug is seen in the video.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:39:52am

re: #88 Nyet

Prigozhin may be hoping that one of his close associates replaces Shoigu, with whom P. has a conflict.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:47:15am

re: #88 Nyet

re: #89 Nyet

Shoigu’s probably going to be thrown under the bus for all this.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:48:52am
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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:50:14am

re: #91 Dr Lizardo

In the end, yes. Not clear whether this happens now though.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:52:20am

Putin usually sticks by “his” people, though the disappointment in this case must be huge.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 12:56:09am

re: #93 Nyet

Shoigu has certainly proven his loyalty over the years. Like you said, in the final analysis, he’ll probably end up cashiered and the blame for Russian military failures will be pinned on him (and maybe a couple of subordinates for good measure).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:04:49am

re: #21 wrenchwench

Friend just texted me that he went to Europe for 2 weeks, drank like an animal, ate whatever he wanted and lost 10 lbs.

Europe proves you can be a degenerate and still be healthy…there’s something destroying our metabolism in the USA.

They don’t do corn syrup as much as the USA, and yes, you are compelled to get out and walk 10K steps a day in order to see the sights and visit the places of interest.

My standard Saturday morning outing back in the day was to park at the end of the Bergerstrasse in Frankfurt and walk around 3km towards downtown. The street is lined with shops and cafes and there is a farmer’s market as well.

Once I hit downtown, I would take the subway back to my car with all my shopping so I did not have to carry it back the whole way.

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JC1  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:08:15am

re: #89 Nyet

Prigozhin may be hoping that one of his close associates replaces Shoigu, with whom P. has a conflict.

Definitely looks like a power struggle between the two.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:09:43am

re: #96 JC1

Wow!

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:09:57am

re: #96 JC1

I just came across that myself. I thought, “Well…that’s certainly interesting.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:10:11am

re: #50 darthstar

Mind. Blown.

The bus is from Hamburg, Germany according to the license plates. Pretty good inasmuch as David Copperfield lives in New York, right?

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:14:03am

re: #96 JC1

Definitely looks like a power struggle between the two.

Wait, that was in August.

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JC1  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:20:13am

re: #100 Nyet

Wait, that was in August.

You’re right. Misleading tweet for sure. Did they just release the video of the arrest today, or was it total click bait?

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:21:26am

re: #100 Nyet

Wait, that was in August.

Just curious, but what was he arrested for?

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JC1  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:23:41am

re: #100 Nyet

Wait, that was in August.

Or is it possible that he was released and rearrested? Some articles from August suggested that the court ordered him held until September 25th. Though I’ve no idea if he was actually released then.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:25:11am

JFC:

At least 31 people have been killed after a former police officer opened fire at a pre-school child daycare centre in Thailand, police say.

The gunman is still at large after the attack in Nong Bua Lamphu, in the north-east of the country.

Police say children and adults are among the casualties.

The attacker shot and stabbed children and adults and is now on the run, police said. A motive for the attack is unclear.

Reports in Thailand say the officer had recently been dismissed.

Police say he was last seen driving a white-four door Toyota pick-up truck with Bangkok registration plates.

bbc.com

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:31:49am

re: #104 Dr Lizardo

There are conflicting reports from local Thai media that the gunman is either on the run, or has killed himself along with his wife and child.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:40:38am

re: #84 Nyet

So, predictably, the “gold” teeth found in the torture cellar belonged to a local dentist. The torturers used it as a psychological prop…

Thanks for reminding us to take such news reports with a big grain of salt.

A whole pud of salt

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:41:23am

re: #103 JC1

The group plead guilty back then, so no need for such a showy rearrest, also there was no news about them having been set free. And such a rearrest would gave made a news splash too. So, unfortunately, a misleading tweet.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:42:52am

re: #85 JC1

Oil is a global market. I hate the Saudi regime with a burning passion. But, if it’s allowed to fall, and their oil output gets disrupted, you’ll see oil at 300+ and a massive global recession. There’s just not enough oil production in the world to make up for a massive disruption of Saudi crude.

Until we get our act together and decrease our demand and hence our dependence.

Let me say again

We had a warning shot fired across our bow in 1973 and started to move in the right direction but then we got Dick Cheney as VP for eight years and he made sure that any progress we made was rescinded.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:49:05am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Thanks for reminding us to take such news reports with a big grain of salt.

A whole pud of salt

It has reminded me of the whole Danzig human soap business that was blown out of proportion by the Soviets and Poles and even entered the Nuremberg record, even though it wasn’t an attempt by the Nazis to start a human soap industry, but rather an individual misuse of a corpse maceration byproduct by a Nazi professor. It made for nice headlines though.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:51:00am

re: #109 Nyet

It has reminded me of the whole Danzig human soap business that was blown out of proportion by the Soviets and Poles…

It demonstrated the mentality of those bastards though: waste nothing of use! And keep detailed records of everything!!!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:51:53am

re: #84 Nyet

So, predictably, the “gold” teeth found in the torture cellar belonged to a local dentist. The torturers used it as a psychological prop. In an interview with Bild the dentist said that the teeth were actually made of stainless steel and were gathered over 33 years. So the Ukrainians jumped to conclusions, but the good thing is, it wasn’t an attempt to deceive anyone.

These seem contradictory, no?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:53:22am

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

Shoigu’s probably going to be thrown under the bus for all this.

And in Russia, getting thrown under the bus means literally getting thrown under a bus…or out a 10th story window. :-)

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:54:12am

re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It demonstrated the mentality of those bastards though: waste nothing of use! And keep detailed records of everything!!!

They actually did utilize human bodies (gold teeth, hair, sometimes ashes). In this case there were no records though.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:55:27am

re: #111 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

These seem contradictory, no?

No. After all the Ukrainian liberators and the Russian torturers are two different groups.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 1:58:56am

re: #114 Nyet

No. After all the Ukrainian liberators and the Russian torturers are two different groups.

Ok, I need to stay out of this…there are too many players and I don’t have a scorecard. I will just keep reading. :-)

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:01:21am

re: #115 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The last sentence referenced the group that did not intend to deceive - the Ukrainians 😉

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:08:24am

Regarding the mass shooting in Thailand, the gunman is dead.

A former police officer armed with a gun and a knife stormed a nursery in northeast Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead at least 30 people including children before killing himself and his family, police said.

The attacker, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, opened fire on the childcare center in Nong Bua Lam Phu province at about 12:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) before fleeing the scene in a vehicle, the force said.

“The death toll from the shooting incident… is at least 30 people,” Anucha Burapachaisri, a spokesman for the Thai prime minister’s office, said.

english.alarabiya.net

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No Malarkey!  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:13:48am

re: #11 Dangerman

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:14:42am

Duma deputies woke up and want an investigation regarding the missing army equipment. A bit late for that, bwahaha

meduza.io

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:18:53am

re: #119 Nyet

Duma deputies woke up and want an investigation regarding the missing army equipment. A bit late for that, bwahaha

meduza.io

If they dig deep enough, they’ll likely find there is no “missing equipment” because that equipment only ever existed on purchase orders and invoices. The money for that so-called equipment disappeared into dubious bank accounts in Cyprus and other offshore locales.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:21:29am

re: #120 Dr Lizardo

If they dig deep enough, they’ll likely find there is no “missing equipment” because that equipment only ever existed on purchase orders and invoices. The money for that so-called equipment disappeared into dubious bank accounts in Cyprus and other offshore locales.

Possible, but just as possible is that it was simply sold.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:29:07am

re: #121 Nyet

Possible, but just as possible is that it was simply sold.

Either way, the Russians are screwed, and there is fuck all they can do about it now except lay blame.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:30:47am

re: #121 Nyet

Possible, but just as possible is that it was simply sold.

Oh yeah. I’ve heard lots of tales from Czechs about Red Army personnel selling or trading items. They had a base not far from here, in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, and older locals still have things they got from the soldiers there.

The Red Army pulled out from FpR on 26 February, 1990 and the residents celebrate that day with an informal party at the town hall.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:44:07am

re: #121 Nyet

Possible, but just as possible is that it was simply sold.

I should correct myself: I consider the second option to be more probable due to the fact these deputies, both generals, claim to know the equipment was there in their time. The objection that they’re lying and probably were in on this corruption scheme is not plausible — they wouldn’t have called for an investigation right now, because it could be risky for them, of all people.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 2:49:48am
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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:08:18am

This just in: the MoD claims to provide all the necessary equipment, so anyone buying their own does that on his own initiative and will not be compensated.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:10:19am

Nice that support of Ukraine is still not a partisan issue.

reuters.com

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:11:06am

More info emerging about the gunman in Thailand: according to local Thai media, he was fired from his job as a cop a year ago for drug use (failed a drug test) and he was due to appear in court tomorrow, though what the court appearance was for isn’t stated.

Might’ve been that pending court appearance that made him snap - well, that and being allegedly addicted to ya ba (tablets containing a mix of amphetamine and caffeine which, it seems, are quite popular in Thailand).

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:13:37am

re: #127 Nyet

Nice that support of Ukraine is still not a partisan issue.

reuters.com

There are always that roughly 25-30% of humanity that are right wing nuts and nothing will dissuade them from it. Always, in every poll, no matter the issue.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:14:22am

As much as I sympathize with Kara-Murza, he knew what he was getting into by refusing to leave Russia.

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Targetpractice  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:15:22am

re: #127 Nyet

Nice that support of Ukraine is still not a partisan issue.

reuters.com

Three out of four Americans support Ukraine, the fourth is moaning that the fighting needs to stop while he counts his “campaign contribution” from the nice fellow at the Russian consulate.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:18:50am

re: #129 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wingnuts and moonbats in a horsehoe orgy.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:20:44am

re: #132 Nyet

Wingnuts and moonbats in a horsehoe orgy.

Party like it’s 1939.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:24:26am

This is a big concern (and is what makes me concerned about the rise of Don Bolduc in NH):

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:32:42am

Big, if true:

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:40:53am
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:45:36am

Today’s word is a very fitting word for me.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:45:42am

re: #135 Dr Lizardo

Big, if true:

He injects his interpretation into what the source says.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:48:58am

re: #136 Barefoot Grin

LOL. Even as a kid, watching Saturday morning repeats from the original 1969-1970 run of Scooby-Doo, Where are You!, I always figured that Fred and Daphne were a couple, Velma was a lesbian, and Shaggy and Scooby were big-time stoners and what brought them all together was a mutual love for debunking alleged paranormal phenomena.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 6, 2022 • 3:53:37am

re: #127 Nyet

Last line of the article:

The poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

That is a big no.

“Credibility” is not a statistics concept. For that article writer to use that statement is just someone trying to use a word that has been more popular lately in news articles.

Sampling errors always exist, and while I am certain that popularity polling is so fraught with issues that one should not put a great deal of weight into their actual numbers, the proper term to use is “sampling uncertainty”.

Credibility is a subjective assessment one gives to a claim or a source that one can not actually quantify by measurement.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:01:17am

re: #138 Nyet

He injects his interpretation into what the source says.

Here’s the bare-bones information that is based on other messages as well: it is expected that 5k children from the city of Kherson and some other municipal areas will be spending a few weeks in Crimea, their school break activities there (sport, entertainment etc.) will be financed by Russia. The school break is due to the war.

That’s about it. A quick googling shows that in the city alone there are at least 20k children of school age. There’s also nothing about this trip being involuntary.

Is the guy’s interpretation compatible with the message he links to? Yes. Does it fully follow from it? No. Is it the only interpretation? No. Is it supported by additional information? No.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:03:12am

dana loesch on herschel walker’s abortion has more or less said we should just should all agree with her opinion about solving the trolley problem

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TarHellion  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:07:41am

Solid drive, decent second, then made the 20-footer for the birbie. Somewhat chilly 45 degrees here in Western NC this morning. Yesterday’s 20-mile drive to office was a reminder of how stunningly beautiful this area can be - with the orange and yellow hues breaking over the horizon of the foothills. Enjoy the day/evening everyone!

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:14:24am

re: #139 Dr Lizardo

LOL. Even as a kid, watching Saturday morning repeats from the original 1969-1970 run of Scooby-Doo, Where are You!, I always figured that Fred and Daphne were a couple, Velma was a lesbian, and Shaggy and Scooby were big-time stoners and what brought them all together was a mutual love for debunking alleged paranormal phenomena.

I was a couple of years away from recognizing the stoner part, and Velma was basically just my older sister. It did make sense a few years later as I ate bowls of cereal watching reruns.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:15:49am

Interesting.

‘Maximum amazing’: here’s what we think we know about Elon Musk’s plan for Twitter

Elon Musk has big plans for Twitter, and they include people paying money to tweet, bots getting the boot, and a social media network that doesn’t care what you say as long as it’s legal.

Elon Musk is planning to integrate Twitter into an all-in-one service app modeled after China’s WeChat. WeChat makes money by taking a part of all payments made through the platform.

This article discusses the many changes that Musk has suggested over the last few months. The changes include improvements to direct messages and videos, blockchain integration, stronger authentication to prevent bots, and a reduction in content moderation.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:19:00am

re: #145 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The changes include improvements to direct messages and videos, blockchain integration, stronger authentication to prevent bots, and a reduction in content moderation.

Who actually wants this? Besides the techy douchebros like Elon, that is.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:21:20am

Altın Gün - Yüce Dağ Başında

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:26:05am

re: #118 No Malarkey!

He will, however, lose a sliver of swing voters who can make the difference in a close race.

The notion of Swing voters seems to be disappearing from our political climate. Especially in the South.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:27:28am

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

The notion of Swing voters seems to be disappearing from our political climate. Especially in the South.

The hyper-polarization of our current political climate has had the side effect of forcing the majority of voters to choose firm sides. Saying “I just don’t know” or “both sides are bad” is a surefire way to get you castigated in most social circles these days.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:27:39am

re: #120 Dr Lizardo

If they dig deep enough, they’ll likely find there is no “missing equipment” because that equipment only ever existed on purchase orders and invoices. The money for that so-called equipment disappeared into dubious bank accounts in Cyprus and other offshore locales.

Or as in the case of the Pantsir artillery vehicles, the Russian Army paid for expensive Michelin tires and got cheap Chinese knock-offs delivered instead, the cost difference then being pocketed.

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TarHellion  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:27:48am

re: #140 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A properly conducted random sample will have a margin of error of 3 to 4 percent with a 95 percent confidence interval. Yes, the margin of error dips a bit with a larger sample size - but once you get past 2,000 sampled individuals, there is little to be gained. The key is the 95 percent confidence interval that lends credibility to the survey.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:27:54am

re: #146 Dopamine Fish

Who actually wants this? Besides the techy douchebros like Elon, that is.

karma willing, he’d wake up one day and ask where everybody’s gone

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:28:17am

re: #122 No Malarkey!

Either way, the Russians are screwed, and there is fuck all they can do about it now except lay blame.

And that is the flip side of an authoritarian system: when all power emanates from above, then all blame must ultimately rest there.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:28:49am

re: #152 Dangerman

karma willing, he’d wake up one day and ask where everybody’s gone

“Hey everyone, I turned off content moderation and made Twitter a freeze peach haven, like it always should’ve been. Isn’t it amazing? …Hello? Is this thing on?”

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:31:44am

Lukashenko has just set a price cap. On everything. Love how he is destroying himself.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:32:27am

re: #132 Nyet

Wingnuts and moonbats in a horsehoe orgy.

Oh yes, moonofalabama is full of Putinversteher who see him at once as the scourge of Western Zionist Capitalism, the Anti-Globalist savior and the champion of Masculine Christian Orthodox values, etc.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:33:11am

It’s a harpsichord kind of night (well it’s still night here):

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:34:03am

re: #139 Dr Lizardo

LOL. Even as a kid, watching Saturday morning repeats from the original 1969-1970 run of Scooby-Doo, Where are You!, I always figured that Fred and Daphne were a couple, Velma was a lesbian, and Shaggy and Scooby were big-time stoners and what brought them all together was a mutual love for debunking alleged paranormal phenomena.

Our culture now attaches a great deal of significance to determining the sexual orientation of fictional characters.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:36:06am

re: #152 Dangerman

karma willing, he’d wake up one day and ask where everybody’s gone

I wouldn’t pay to tweet. Nor would my husband. Companies might, so they would need to make the content free at no charge. But just consuming content isn’t going to bring in a lot of people. They need to bitch, whine, complain, rage, etc.

I am not sure this is a viable business plan, but hey, go for it.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:36:14am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Our culture now attaches a great deal of significance to determining the sexual orientation of fictional characters.

Well, it’s important because we need to know if we were subjected to super secret gay propaganda growing up. I must have some explanation for these uncontrollable urges I sometimes feel toward members of the same sex, because I am perfectly straight and I know and understand that these feelings must be wrong.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:38:28am

re: #160 Dopamine Fish

Well, it’s important because we need to know if we were subjected to super secret gay propaganda growing up…

Lots of guys find Velma sexy. I do.

Orange knee socks.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:38:31am

re: #159 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I wouldn’t pay to tweet. Nor would my husband. Companies might, so they would need to make the content free at no charge. But just consuming content isn’t going to bring in a lot of people. They need to bitch, whine, complain, rage, etc.

I am not sure this is a viable business plan, but hey, go for it.

The thing about Truth Social and all these other conservative-snowflake “alternative social media” sites is that they’re failing only because they’re not attracting the majority audience. If Twitter became a douchebro haven tomorrow, there would be an immediate market for a Twitter-like replacement, and it would be far more likely to succeed simply by virtue of not being marketed specifically to aggrieved white males.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:40:00am

re: #149 Dopamine Fish

The hyper-polarization of our current political climate has had the side effect of forcing the majority of voters to choose firm sides. Saying “I just don’t know” or “both sides are bad” is a surefire way to get you castigated in most social circles these days.

personally, i know.
but i will not talk about it outside of my family, who all know as well.
and never outside my house

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:40:19am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Our culture now attaches a great deal of significance to determining the sexual orientation of fictional characters.

And the race of mermaids.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:42:22am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Our culture now attaches a great deal of significance to determining the sexual orientation of fictional characters.

I wonder how they explain Barbie’s Ken doll.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:42:48am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Lots of guys find Velma sexy. I do.

Orange knee socks.

brains

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:43:02am

re: #163 Dangerman

personally, i know.
but i will not talk about it outside of my family, who all know as well.
and never outside my house

I addressed this indirectly with fishspawn earlier this week. I have a habit of grumbling at political ads on YouTube when we are watching our stuff in the evenings during dinner. I made clear to them that the reason why I grumble at these ads, and skip them (or exit the video and come back to it in order to force YouTube to serve a different ad), is because Mrs. Fish and I have already done our research and are aware of what the issues are in the current election, and we don’t want our entertainment time to be spoiled with political bickering. I told them it’s important, when they get to be of voting age, to make sure they know and understand what’s going on and who they’re voting for.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:43:07am

re: #162 Dopamine Fish

The thing about Truth Social and all these other conservative-snowflake “alternative social media” sites is that they’re failing only because they’re not attracting the majority audience. If Twitter became a douchebro haven tomorrow, there would be an immediate market for a Twitter-like replacement, and it would be far more likely to succeed simply by virtue of not being marketed specifically to aggrieved white males.

down in one.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:43:34am

on dangermom

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:44:09am

I’m voting for Bear Force One!

Get ready for a grizzly competition…. because Fat Bear Week is back.

Twelve chunky brown bears that have gorged themselves in preparation for hibernation at Alaska’s Katmai National Park are in the running for the title.

Of more than 2,000 brown bears in the park, these are the heftiest and will be judged by online voters on the weight they gained as they fattened up for winter, feasting on abundant sockeye salmon at Brooks River and Falls - an area famous for its leaping salmon and as a fishing hole for Alaskan bears.

dailymail.co.uk

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:44:36am

re: #163 Dangerman

personally, i know.
but i will not talk about it outside of my family, who all know as well.
and never outside my house

I have gone so far as to say that I did not find Trump qualified in terms of experience or personality, but avoid any prolonged discussion.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:44:58am

re: #166 Dangerman

brains

brains and knee socks

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:45:27am

re: #166 Dangerman

brains

Glasses.

Also, Mary Ann was cuter in Gilligan’s Island.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:46:34am

re: #167 Dopamine Fish

I addressed this indirectly with fishspawn earlier this week. I have a habit of grumbling at political ads on YouTube when we are watching our stuff in the evenings during dinner. I made clear to them that the reason why I grumble at these ads, and skip them (or exit the video and come back to it in order to force YouTube to serve a different ad), is because Mrs. Fish and I have already done our research and are aware of what the issues are in the current election, and we don’t want our entertainment time to be spoiled with political bickering. I told them it’s important, when they get to be of voting age, to make sure they know and understand what’s going on and who they’re voting for.

agreed

I don’t care who anyone votes for or their position on anything. It’s how they develop that position, how they make their evaluations and decisions that matters. The process - the critical thinking, in gathering info, acceptance of what they hear and see, that is more of a window on who they are (and aren’t) than anything else.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:48:32am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have gone so far as to say that I did not find Trump qualified in terms of experience or personality, but avoid any prolonged discussion.

doctors and nurses come in to assess and ask dangermom what day it is, do you know where you are, who is the president, etc.

she says biden.
then she says do you want me to tell you what i think of the last one?

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:50:59am

re: #173 Shropshire Slasher

Glasses.

Also, Mary Ann was cuter in Gilligan’s Island.

ginger’s persona was that adult kind of sexiness
not at all palatable to my young self
totally relatable mary ann

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jeffreyw  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:57:26am

Good morning!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 4:59:16am

re: #176 Dangerman

ginger’s persona was that adult kind of sexiness
not at all palatable to my young self
totally relatable mary ann

Girl next door vs the Hollywood vixen. One was relatable (and possibly obtainable) while the other was eye candy.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:05:04am

Damn, California gas prices or north of $8.00.

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Nyet  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:06:49am

Meanwhile Russians keep dying in conscript camps.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:07:27am

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

The notion of Swing voters seems to be disappearing from our political climate. Especially in the South.

They do exist; otherwise, its difficult to explain why Warnock is leading Walker in the polls, but Kemp is leading Abrams in the governor’s race.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:08:26am

re: #179 Shropshire Slasher

Damn, California gas prices or north of $8.00.

Gasoline prices made the local paper headlines here in San Diego.

California gasoline is set to certain requirements that are not the same nationwide.

Gasoline in the west is higher than most places, often is:

gasprices.aaa.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:08:36am

re: #173 Shropshire Slasher

Glasses.

Also, Mary Ann was cuter in Gilligan’s Island.

apples and oranges.

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John Hughes  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:12:44am

re: #180 Nyet

Meanwhile Russians keep dying in conscript camps.

Saves the transport costs.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:14:13am

According to AAA, yesterday the record high regular gasoline price was set, for San Diego average: $6.435 .

Which is just shy of the all-California-average record high set in June: $6.438 .

And San Diego County is no where nearest the highest in the state currently.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:18:02am

re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

According to AAA, yesterday the record high regular gasoline price was set, for San Diego average: $6.435 .

Which is just shy of the all-California-average record high set in June: $6.438 .

And San Diego County is no where nearest the highest in the state currently.

GMA had a reporter standing in the dark breathlessly reporting the gas prices with the $8+ behind her but I don’t know where they are. Probably next to a car rental place near an airport.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:19:13am

re: #186 Shropshire Slasher

GMA had a reporter standing in the dark breathlessly reporting the gas prices with the $8+ behind her but I don’t know where they are. Probably next to a car rental place near an airport.

That’s the usual tactic whenever the media wants to hyperventilate about gas prices: Find the most expensive station in the area, usually near the airport, and “let viewers connect the dots” (i.e. lie through implication and then disclaim it all since they never actually SAID anything).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:19:35am

My first crush on a fictional character was Karen Valentine from Room 222

Classic TV Theme: Room 222 (Jerry Goldsmith)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:20:26am

re: #186 Shropshire Slasher

GMA had a reporter standing in the dark breathlessly reporting the gas prices with the $8+ behind her but I don’t know where they are. Probably next to a car rental place near an airport.

THIS IS ALL BIDEN’S FAULT!!!!

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:20:44am

re: #136 Barefoot Grin

Actually in one of the post-2000 era Scooby TV series Velma and Shaggy were a thing. My kids would watch it and I always thought it looked just…wrong. I attribute this series as being an alternate universe.

In my head the original series is canon and Velma grew up to crush on Xena and drive a Subaru.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:21:38am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

apples and oranges.

cause one was a ‘toon? ;-)

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John Hughes  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:22:51am

re: #181 No Malarkey!

They do exist; otherwise, its difficult to explain why Warnock is leading Walker in the polls, but Kemp is leading Abrams in the governor’s race.

Warnock is black, Walker is black.

Kemp is white, Abrams is black.

Not proof of the existence of swing voters, just republicans who will sit out an election because their racism trumps their republicanism.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:26:48am

re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And that is the flip side of an authoritarian system: when all power emanates from above, then all blame must ultimately rest there.

Though what you get then is a variation of the standard Republican “lack of agency” argument where suddenly the authoritarian is shocked, shocked, to find out some crony is engaged in corruption or some other crime against the nation and people.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:27:21am

After being a huge fan of Scooby Doo growing up, I was more surprised that Shaggy was voiced by Casey Kasem.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:28:36am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Our culture now attaches a great deal of significance to determining the sexual orientation of fictional characters.

Velma just struck me as being the intellectual nerd of the bunch between the Fred/Daphne fashion plates and the Shaggy/Scoobie slackers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:30:18am

re: #191 Dangerman

cause one was a ‘toon? ;-)

2D vs 3D

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:32:10am

re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

2D vs 3D

Would you rather me post my wordle score?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:37:30am

Brian Cox being proud of his new book, and a vendor happy that there are still physical bookstores which can carry such:

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HRH Stanley Sea  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:41:24am

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:43:42am

re: #83 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

A whiff and a four.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:45:20am

re: #186 Shropshire Slasher

Mono County has the highest gasoline prices in the state. I suspect that the highway to Lake Tahoe has extremely high prices, as do the few desert gasoline stations.

It’s easy to pick those type of stations, or as you note stations near airports, and get the sensational story.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:46:48am

Enter to win free crocs!

crocs.com

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:49:56am

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We have stats on that too. It peaked May 2003.

We’ve been averaging around 500k barrels imported from KSA a day over the past few years. It was averaging 1.5 million barrels per day from early 1990s through 2008.

All the while, US domestic supply has increased significantly, thanks mostly to fracking.

That is far more expensive to do, which means the US actually needs high oil prices to sustain domestic production and to encourage companies to expand supply.

Recall that Trump asked Saudis to cut supply during covid - that was explicitly to protect domestic producers, who’d otherwise lose their shirts as the cost to produce would be far greater than the price on open markets would support.

Now, we’re watching the Saudis and OPEC look to inflate oil prices again, even as the global economy is dealing with high inflation (due to Russia’s invasion and the still lingering covid effects on supply chains). The US is better positioned to weather the inflationary pressures, but it’s not immune.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:55:46am

we think lizzo used to live in the flat part of the top of a palm tree

now it looks like (s)he is actually living in the pond

several times when we scared her, she ran into the pond and scooted into a space behind some vertical slates

yesterday i posted this pic of her just hanging out in the water.

and this morning she just emerged from the same space behind the rocks.

and this is definitely marlon’s daily breakfast spot too.
he’s here every morning around 6 and leaves around 10

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2022 • 5:57:59am

re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

According to AAA, yesterday the record high regular gasoline price was set, for San Diego average: $6.435 .

Which is just shy of the all-California-average record high set in June: $6.438 .

And San Diego County is no where nearest the highest in the state currently.

California prices have completely rebounded back to high levels. Meanwhile, prices in places like NJ have plummeted by a significant margin. What’s driving the price hike in CA that isn’t seen in NJ or TX?

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:02:25am

re: #201 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yesterday a co worker showed a pic of his local big brand gas pricing. A touch over $7 near Pasadena. Last night I paid $5.999 at an Arco in Chatsworth. Its a wide span of prices. A clear indicator of how arbirary the price is.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:05:54am

re: #205 lawhawk

California prices have completely rebounded back to high levels. Meanwhile, prices in places like NJ have plummeted by a significant margin. What’s driving the price hike in CA that isn’t seen in NJ or TX?

The required California blend is made at only a handful of refineries (five I think), and if one goes down for maintenance (the timing of such things are always suspect) that means supply is too tight for demand.

This gives local gasoline stations the freedom to raise prices, and they do. As noted by others, gasoline prices within a county can be all over the place.

The governor waived the requirement for summer blend and allowed the winter blend to be used ahead of schedule, which may help supply.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:08:15am

why musk may have to buy Twitter, why he shouldn’t buy Twitter, and what very likely could happen to both Twitter and truth social if he does.

Today’s electoral-vote.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:11:51am

re: #197 Shropshire Slasher

Would you rather me post my wordle score?

just post it behind a door and I am fine

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:12:01am

re: #208 Dangerman

why musk may have to buy Twitter, why he shouldn’t buy Twitter, and what very likely could happen to both Twitter and truth social if he does.

Today’s electoral-vote.com

Musk’s reported second attempt to buy Twitter came contingent on Twitter dropping their lawsuit. Do we know if that happened? Given the reports that his financers have balked at the purchase, I’m wondering if Twitter essentially called his bluff, and now they’re in a position to recoup some serious coin from Musk’s unilateral breach of contract.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:14:20am

re: #190 Florida Panhandler

Actually in one of the post-2000 era Scooby TV series Velma and Shaggy were a thing. My kids would watch it and I always thought it looked just…wrong. I attribute this series as being an alternate universe.

In my head the original series is canon and Velma grew up to crush on Xena and drive a Subaru.

In knee socks and Birkenstocks to the farmers market…. (sorry for the stereotyping)

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:16:51am

Paging Anymouse, who has been very clear and consistent on this point

Also from today’s e-v.com

Charlie Sykes, a long-time conservative radio host who is now at The Bulwark, said that this incident is a preview of 2024. When any Republican is caught with his pants on fire, lying through his teeth about an issue Republicans care deeply about (abortion in this case), the reaction is always going to be: “No big deal. It doesn’t matter.” The only principle the Republican Party has now is pursuing and holding power. Nothing else matters. Nothing. Sykes said that while a few Republicans might believe Walker is telling the truth (even though his own son says he is lying), for the most part the reaction is: “We just don’t give a sh**, there’s a Senate seat to win here and that’s all that matters.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:16:54am

re: #201 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Mono County has the highest gasoline prices in the state. I suspect that the highway to Lake Tahoe has extremely high prices, as do the few desert gasoline stations.

It’s easy to pick those type of stations, or as you note stations near airports, and get the sensational story.

The real story is that Biden cancelled Keystone XXL, blocked drilling on Federal land and offshore, insists on maintaining all those pesky and invasive environmental, health and safety regulations that stifle jerb creation.

Plus if they did create jerbs, they would have to be union jerbs with all those profit-killing accoutrements like health benefits, pensions and paid time off. No self-respecting jerb creater is gonna wanna create jerbs under such conditions.

On top of that he hates the sight of manly men in big trucks with gun racks because that is not his Liberal Vision of America!!!

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:18:39am

re: #210 Dopamine Fish

Musk’s reported second attempt to buy Twitter came contingent on Twitter dropping their lawsuit. Do we know if that happened? Given the reports that his financers have balked at the purchase, I’m wondering if Twitter essentially called his bluff, and now they’re in a position to recoup some serious coin from Musk’s unilateral breach of contract.

I don’t know for sure but I’d guess they don’t drop the suit before a deal is closed. He’s like spy45. It’s got to be simultaneous

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:19:27am

re: #214 Dangerman

I don’t know for sure but I’d guess they don’t drop the suit before a deal is closed. He’s like spy45. It’s got to be simultaneous

That’s what I’m thinking. I wouldn’t trust him any farther than I could throw him; and I’d much rather do the latter than the former.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:24:18am
Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) discussed allegations he paid for a woman to have an abortion with Hugh Hewitt

Said Walker: “”If that had happened, I would have said it. Cause there’s nothing to be ashamed of there. You know people have done that. But I know nothing about it, and if I knew about it, I would be honest and talk about it.”

And I’m hearing the woman is the mother of one of his other kids?

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steve_davis  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:28:11am

re: #216 Dangerman

And I’m hearing the woman is the mother of one of his other kids?

Hugh Hewitt had an abortion? Lindsey Graham pay for it?

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:31:48am

re: #217 steve_davis

Hugh Hewitt had an abortion? Lindsey Graham pay for it?

+1

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:32:22am

I didn’t need a study for this.

This latest study adds to existing research on the benefits of animal-assisted therapy in medically supervised neural rehabilitation for nervous system conditions, such as strokes, seizure disorders, brain trauma and infections.

“This is an interesting, rigorously conducted study that provides new insight into associations between human-animal interaction and regional prefrontal brain activity in healthy adults,” said Dr. Tiffany Braley, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who has published research on the connection between pet ownership and cognitive health.

cnn.com

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steve_davis  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:33:00am

Having a unique experience for me. My gigs have always been paid based on credit-hour. I’ve had the occasional side-gig where I might get paid by the hour, but it’s always fixed hours where I show up and do something. This is the first gig I’ve had where I pretty much set my own hours, and where I can basically set my hours in real time. It’s becoming difficult for me to leave the house because they’re currently paying a session bonus for my specialty. Every time I think of getting up from the computer I start to feel “there’s money I’m just leaving there.” Imagine you had a money tree growing in your house. Would you ever leave? What if you left and came back to discover it was gone? I’m becoming Howard Hughes, watching a computer screen constantly, having to fill mason jars with my piss and fingernail clippings, just because I don’t have time to go into another room for any reason. And yet, it’s exhilirating!

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:34:57am

Talk about off-roading! Add high explosives to the mix and hold on!

dailymail.co.uk

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:38:24am

re: #14 William Lewis

Why I like Craig as James Bond… If you have the time, I find it well worth it.

I will miss that man’s take as “Bond. James Bond.”

re: #15 Dopamine Fish

Pierce Brosnan was “my Bond”, but I felt Daniel Craig acquitted himself well in that role, for sure.

My favorite Bond was Sean Connery.

However it’s time for a Black Bond. A Black female Bond would be even better.

I nominate Megan, Duchess of Sussex.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:45:16am

re: #217 steve_davis

Hugh Hewitt had an abortion? Lindsey Graham pay for it?

A commenter from political wire

Slightly OT, but am I the only one that thinks that opening paragraph reads like Walker paid for her to have the abortion with Hugh Hewitt? Because that’s be a new and interesting twist. :-)

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:47:52am

re: #220 steve_davis

Having a unique experience for me. My gigs have always been paid based on credit-hour. I’ve had the occasional side-gig where I might get paid by the hour, but it’s always fixed hours where I show up and do something. This is the first gig I’ve had where I pretty much set my own hours, and where I can basically set my hours in real time. It’s becoming difficult for me to leave the house because they’re currently paying a session bonus for my specialty. Every time I think of getting up from the computer I start to feel “there’s money I’m just leaving there.” Imagine you had a money tree growing in your house. Would you ever leave? What if you left and came back to discover it was gone? I’m becoming Howard Hughes, watching a computer screen constantly, having to fill mason jars with my piss and fingernail clippings, just because I don’t have time to go into another room for any reason. And yet, it’s exhilirating!

Welcome to self employed.
There are no vacations. No time off.
Just time “not working”

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:52:01am

re: #222 The Pie Overlord!

My favorite Bond was Sean Connery.

However it’s time for a Black Bond. A Black female Bond would be even better.

I nominate Megan, Duchess of Sussex.

Connery maybe wasn’t “the best” bond
Writing, production, movie making etc has changed a lot since 1962

He was the character fictionalized best
Because he was first (in the movies) he *is* bond to me. The others just play bond.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:52:27am

re: #127 Nyet

Nice that support of Ukraine is still not a partisan issue.

reuters.com

The article said it’s an online poll. If it’s anything like the typical online poll, it’s not worth the pixels that display them

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:54:54am

Good morning lizards

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:55:23am

re: #227 Scottish Dragon

Good morning lizards

Good morning, friend.

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Dangerman  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:57:28am

Trump is reluctant to return to Georgia to campaign for Walker
CNN

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:58:20am
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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 6:58:37am

re: #229 Dangerman

Trump is reluctant to return to Georgia to campaign for Walker
CNN

Ya think?

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:00:03am

Biden wants to govern, DeSantis wants to rule:

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:01:59am
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steve_davis  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:04:00am

re: #224 Dangerman

Welcome to self employed.
There are no vacations. No time off.
Just time “not working”

and then immediately had my first really bad experience with a student. Pharmacologist from a fundie enclave. Took me five minutes to reach the point where I wanted to say “that’s a pretty mouth you got there, boy. Shame if I had to kick it in.” I refrained.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:09:45am

re: #169 Dangerman

on dangermom

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Belafon  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:09:50am

Anne Laurie was nice enough to get the text for the thread:

the denial on the left of ukrainian agency and sovereignty from the very beginning of the war has been unseemly and disgraceful from the jump

like, it is worth restating, again and again and for however long it takes, that russia’s intent from the beginning of the war has been the annihilation of ukraine as a country and a national identity. that he has so badly fucked up the execution at every turn doesn’t change that

it’s not savvy analysis to insist that ukraine should give up and submit because they are better at both throwing and taking punches than russia thought they would be

the ukrainians know better than anyone else in the world right now what this war will cost them, and what they should realistically expect from russia in a negotiation.

any person who refers to this war as a proxy war is lying to themselves about how this war started, why it started, how it is being conducted, and has nothing useful to contribute about how it will end

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:13:28am

3/6

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:14:52am

re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

THIS IS ALL BIDEN’S FAULT!!!!

Of course it is! Biden failed to concede Ukraine to Putin at the beginning of the war, unlike Trump who would have sat back and enjoyed a Ukraine defeat. There would be no oil issue if Putin had won in the week he was expecting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:15:33am

re: #229 Dangerman

Trump is reluctant to return to Georgia to campaign for Walker
CNN

One Abortion provider hesitant to help another?

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:15:51am

re: #236 Belafon

Yes, war is hell. Yes, I want it to end as expeditiously as possible. No, I do NOT think Ukraine should compromise just to end this terrible deadly conflict. It will serve no purpose to do so. I doubt Putin would even compromise in the first place; his starting, and ending, position is, “Ukraine is Russia.” How do you negotiate with that? He’s had multiple off-ramps for this war, and he has chosen to double down instead every time. I do not believe in giving the aggressor everything they want just because war is a bad thing and death is terrible.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:18:50am

re: #240 Dopamine Fish

… I do not believe in giving the aggressor everything they want just because war is a bad thing and death is terrible.

it was none other than Green Party ex-foreign Minister of Germany Joschka Fischer who had to remind all the pacifists in his party that “It’s not just a matter of No More Wars, it is a matter or No More Auschwitzes!”

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:21:18am

One Florida community built to weather hurricanes endured Ian with barely a scratch (NPR)

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:21:33am

re: #227 Scottish Dragon

Good morning lizards

Greetings! Long time no see!

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Dave In Austin  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:26:13am
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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:29:38am

re: #236 Belafon

Lot of tankies and Michael Tracey types who really need to shut up, as well as some old foreign policy writers from the 70s (cough cough John Mearsheimer)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:33:07am

re: #210 Dopamine Fish

Musk’s reported second attempt to buy Twitter came contingent on Twitter dropping their lawsuit. Do we know if that happened? Given the reports that his financers have balked at the purchase, I’m wondering if Twitter essentially called his bluff, and now they’re in a position to recoup some serious coin from Musk’s unilateral breach of contract.

What happens if he cannot get funding? Does the deal go south completely?

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:35:23am

re: #246 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What happens if he cannot get funding? Does the deal go south completely?

I’m not a business expert or a lawyer, so I’m just offering my armchair analysis here: If he can’t get funding, obviously he can’t close the deal. Twitter’s lawsuit for failure to perform is still on the books, as far as I know, so that would then go to trial. The most likely resolution of that trial is that Musk will owe them somewhere between “a metric fuckton of cash” and “literally all the money”, which will have to come from his personal assets unless he can find some rubes to fleece for it.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:39:48am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One Abortion provider hesitant to help another?

Probably a combination of the below:
1. By some Trumpian calculation/logic* Walker is going to lose and Trump won’t publicly back a “loser”.**

2. Part of Item #1 is that Trump is a racist slime and doesn’t want to publicly support a black candidate at this time.

3. As far as I know Walker has not directly kowtowed to the Trump as a person and thus is unworthy of the emperor’s attention. The GOP works for Trump, Trump does not work for the GOP’s interests unless they temporarily coincide with his own by random chance.

* - A quicksand-like and often shifting logic that is essentially in no way logical in the usual sense.

** - Ignore that fact that Trump has already endorsed a lot of candidates who then lost the primary or election. They were unworthy and shall not be mentioned in his presence.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:49:44am

re: #248 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

My money is on #3, with a dash of #2.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:58:28am

re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg

My money is on #3, with a dash of #2.

It does not personally benefit Trump and he does not raise a finger to help anyone who cannot be counted on to benefit him even more.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 6, 2022 • 7:59:25am

re: #177 jeffreyw

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Western good morning!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:00:49am

re: #251 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

OOOOOH! PRETTY! What is that?

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gocart mozart  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:00:54am
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:02:25am

re: #245 Scottish Dragon

Lot of tankies and Michael Tracey types who really need to shut up, as well as some old foreign policy writers from the 70s (cough cough John Mearsheimer)

The beautiful thing about their position is that they can never be wrong: “every one else is a warmonger!”

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:07:06am

Catching up:
On California gas prices: unexpected deferred maintenance is reason oft cited —but it happens every year and how deferred is it really, and why did it get deferred remain unexplainable. Another reason I love to work from home as much as possible

On Donald Trump and Herschel Walker: No need for any contact now. They have a USFL tie in where they can just refer back to photos of better versions of themselves. Btw I knew USFL was doomed early on, when I learned “signature “ franchise would be named after Harlem Globetrotter patsy team

On animals: see photo

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:19:00am

re: #253 gocart mozart

Again, as long as you are a good GOP Christian and oppose abortion for others you can occasionally sin and fall short of the Grace of God and beg for forgiveness and then go forth and promise to sin no more (until the next time around).

But if you are a Democrat who supports abortion rights, then God cannot ever forgive you. You must repent (and change your party affiliation), and then you can sin away. Just try not to get caught, okay?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:20:34am

Summer still voguing in Thailand

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:27:27am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:31:17am

re: #252 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

OOOOOH! PRETTY! What is that?

No idea. A succulent I saw while walking.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:33:13am

re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth

“…these being life, liberty and the right to SPAM!”

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Jay C  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:33:24am

re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:33:59am

re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

Summer still voguing in Thailand

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:34:18am

re: #261 Jay C

Sounds like a variation on the old Max Headroomprinciple: refusing someone’s media message is illegal, as it’s a violation of their “free speech” rights…

These people really need to study the Constitution beyond the second clause of the Second Amendment.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:34:38am

Got the covid booster yesterday! So far, sore arm, and muscles that would ache a bit anyway ache a bit more, otherwise no problem.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:34:53am

re: #261 Jay C

Sounds like a variation on the old Max Headroomprinciple: refusing someone’s media message is illegal, as it’s a violation of their “free speech” rights…

Two thoughts on that:

The right to speak does not include the right to be heard.
“The ability to speak does not make one intelligent.” —Qui-Gon Jinn

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:36:24am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:41:29am
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Dr. Matt  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:47:14am

Seems like a life time ago, but it’s only been 2 years since we lost this legend:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:47:45am

oldie but a goodie

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:55:13am
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:56:45am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 8:58:56am

well, yeah, you gotta get them addicted first, so the first hit is always free…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:02:27am

herb and cheese omelet on bed of onions and peppers

Food pr0n, which was also lunch.

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CleverToad  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:16:13am

re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

Summer still voguing in Thailand

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:17:14am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:19:42am

re: #275 Barefoot Grin

Something else most of us had all assumed from the get.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:20:28am

(Amarillo airport, November 1960. LBJ was triggered by some nearby pilots who had throttled up their engines to drown out JFK’s speech.)

I not only think this comment is true, I think it is the reason we still have several hundred fatal accidents a year in general aviation (ie everything but military and airlines). After a hundred and twenty years and half a million deaths, there should be nothing we don’t know about how to operate an ordinary airplane safely, or at least without splashing oneself all over the landscape. Yet, we still have people stall on take off, land on the wrong runway (or no runway at all), lose control because of bad CG calculations, fly into weather they and their equipment can’t handle, ignore maintenance and repair requirements, and sometimes just run into the ground for no discernible reason. There are genuine random events that could kill anyone, but these are very rare and come nowhere close to accounting for the constant steam of GA (general aviation) accidents.
Truth is, the Dunning Kruger effect is endemic in the GA demographic, only partly mitigated by the loud presence of the FAA and a range of compulsive safety-lecturers ranging from old timers like me to academically trained safety specialists and big companies whose business is aviation safety.
Too many of the GA pilots are used to being king in their world and if they think they can push the envelope on maintenace or CG or weather, who am I or the FAA bureaucrats to tell them they shouldn’t? Now, which political party hates bureaucrats and academics and makes a fetish of individual sovereignty (though only for white male property owners) ?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:26:37am

re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I know a few air traffic controllers and I think a major cause of their burnout is having to deal with airborne idiots all the time.

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:27:09am

re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Arguably, same could be applied to driving. Most accidents are avoidable. They are collisions. We could reduce collisions with more careful driving, better vehicle maintenance, better awareness. Limits on driving hours (max hours per day for a driver, esp. truck drivers). Etc.

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wrenchwench  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:31:11am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:35:57am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:40:00am

re: #281 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Who was the most wildly inappropriate hire Trump made:

Jared by far

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:40:45am

re: #281 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Who is big dick toilet salesman again?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:41:43am

re: #281 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Trump himself as candidate for POTUS.

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:42:38am

re: #252 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

OOOOOH! PRETTY! What is that?

Looks like there is a bunch of stuff happening there.

Maybe some sort of sedum mixed with some sort of crassula (maybe crassula capitella thyrsaflora?).

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:44:02am

re: #283 Eclectic Cyborg

Who is big dick toilet salesman again?

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:44:06am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have gone so far as to say that I did not find Trump qualified in terms of experience or personality, but avoid any prolonged discussion.

When asked what I think of Trump, my response is, “if you wanted Trump to be president of the US, you got what you wanted.”

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BlueSpotinAL  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:44:24am

The secret is out about my youngest grandson:

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:47:23am

re: #272 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Tom Lehrer - The old dope peddler

He gives the kids free samples
Because he knows full well
That today’s young innocent faces
Will be tomorrow’s clientele

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:50:18am

re: #227 Scottish Dragon

Good morning lizards

Welcome back!

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:51:12am

re: #192 John Hughes

Warnock is black, Walker is black.

Kemp is white, Abrams is black.

Not proof of the existence of swing voters, just republicans who will sit out an election because their racism trumps their republicanism.

In person, unlike DeSantis, Kemp projects the personality of a reasonable man.

In a head to head political race, Kemp would squash DeSantis like a bug.

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:56:59am

re: #225 Dangerman

Connery maybe wasn’t “the best” bond
Writing, production, movie making etc has changed a lot since 1962

He was the character fictionalized best
Because he was first (in the movies) he *is* bond to me. The others just play bond.

It seems to me that the ‘James Bond’ series has a lot of very good movies. But at some point they are going to hit the “Ship of Theseus” paradox.

Which is basically the idea that if you have a boat, or Bond movie, and each part is replaced, at what point does it become something else rather than the original object?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:58:34am

re: #287 BeenHereAwhile

When asked what I think of Tump, my response is, “if you wanted Trump to be president of the US, you got what you wanted.”

True: they wanted the ultimate anti-politician & outsider. No record of public service and not even tax returns to tell us how he served himself.

And there were others who represented the “It’s all going to collapse anyways, so let’s elect Trump and get it over with so we can start from scratch and build our own Galt’s Gulch!”

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lawhawk  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:59:07am

re: #281 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Ivanka and Jared, by a country fucking mile.

Both were identified security risks. Both should have been denied clearances. Jared lied/omitted info on his clearance forms, which is a clear felony.

Trump overrode the denials, and granted them access anyways.

Trump then assigned the two nepotism picks to a wide range of “things” to which he had precisely zero understanding, experience, or knowledge, and proceeded to fuck things up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 6, 2022 • 9:59:32am

re: #292 ckkatz

It seems to me that the ‘James Bond’ series has a lot of very good movies. But at some point they are going to hit the “Ship of Theseus” paradox.

Which is basically the idea that if you have a boat, or Bond movie, and each part is replaced, at what point does it become something else rather than the original object?

Sorta like a lot of 60’s rock bands, too…

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:04:08am

News since I the last time I checked by: I found out I have a blood sugar problem.

ugh

So the night before last I tried cooking a pie with sucralose substitute. Actually came out pretty good. It was Turkish Turban squash I cooked and pureed last year.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:04:26am

re: #292 ckkatz

If a woman or a black man were cast as the new James Bond, it would confirm the long-standing fan theory that “James Bond/007” is an interchangeable cover identity and agent number. When an agent retires or is KIA, then that name and number is given to another elite agent.

IIRC, they kinda did partially confirm that recently, when another agent was assigned the 007 number.

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A Cranky One  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:05:36am

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:06:43am

re: #141 Nyet

I’m trying to figure out, if there is pretty much no traffic making it across the Dnipro River, how authorities would be able to move thousands of children across it. Particularly if they also needed to move higher priority military supplies using the limited transportation avenues.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:08:46am

re: #292 ckkatz

It seems to me that the ‘James Bond’ series has a lot of very good movies. But at some point they are going to hit the “Ship of Theseus” paradox.

Which is basically the idea that if you have a boat, or Bond movie, and each part is replaced, at what point does it become something else rather than the original object?

That arguably started happening by the time of “Diamonds are Forever”. The plot was outlandishly beyond the plot of the book. Bond himself seemed to be devolving into an object designed to carry and use the various gadgets. And with Roger Moore that thing went to “11”.

The Bond of the books is something of a flawed sociopath. A lot of problems with how he treats and relates to women. Questions about himself. But an excellent tool of the Secret Service as a blunt instrument, which does wear on him.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:09:35am

re: #299 ckkatz

I’m trying to figure out, if there is pretty much no traffic making it across the Dnipro River, how authorities would be able to move thousands of children across it. Particularly if they also needed to move higher priority military supplies using the limited transportation avenues.

Boats I guess? There can’t be that many high capacity watercraft I would think though.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:11:04am

re: #300 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That arguably started happening by the time of “Diamonds are Forever”. The plot was outlandishly beyond the plot of the book. Bond himself seemed to be devolving into an object designed to carry and use the various gadgets. And with Roger Moore that thing went to “11”.

The Bond of the books is something of a flawed sociopath. A lot of problems with how he treats and relates to women. Questions about himself. But an excellent tool of the Secret Service as a blunt instrument, which does wear on him.

I’d say it was earlier than that: You Only Live Twice. (although is also one of the best Bond opening songs)

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:12:14am

re: #301 Scottish Dragon

Boats I guess? There can’t be that many high capacity watercraft I would think though.

It’s also a propaganda thing. Loads of military supplies moving west. Loads of children moving east. Using the same boats and the same areas to store both.

And if Ukrainian artillery or drones strike the area. “OH GOD, YOU ARE KILLING CHILDREN!” along with the supplied footage of the devastation.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:13:25am

re: #300 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That arguably started happening by the time of “Diamonds are Forever”. The plot was outlandishly beyond the plot of the book. Bond himself seemed to be devolving into an object designed to carry and use the various gadgets. And with Roger Moore that thing went to “11”.

The Bond of the books is something of a flawed sociopath. A lot of problems with how he treats and relates to women. Questions about himself. But an excellent tool of the Secret Service as a blunt instrument, which does wear on him.

There’s often a difference between literary and cinematic representations of a character. Years and years ago, I read a couple of the Perry Mason books - and only knowing Perry Mason through Raymond Burr’s performance, I couldn’t help but think, “Wow, Perry Mason’s kind of a dick”, at least compared to his TV incarnation.

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:13:35am

re: #297 Dr Lizardo

If a woman or a black man were cast as the new James Bond, it would confirm the long-standing fan theory that “James Bond/007” is an interchangeable cover identity and agent number. When an agent retires or is KIA, then that name and number is given to another elite agent.

IIRC, they kinda did partially confirm that recently, when another agent was assigned the 007 number.

That sounds like a reasonable avenue to re-invent and update the series.

I’m not particularly attached to any of the actors playing the role. But I do wonder what is given up when the backstory of a single character with a personal history is given up for a replaceable ‘cog’.

Iirc, some other series tried this. I was not paying much attention at the time, but I seem to remember some discussion on the pro’s and con’s.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:13:44am

re: #302 Scottish Dragon

I’d say it was earlier than that: You Only Live Twice.

True. Another one where a simple plot and mission* got taken way beyond the book and into science fiction territory.

* - Simple in relative terms. Meant a lot more to Bond in more than one way.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:14:55am

re: #304 Dr Lizardo

There’s often a difference between literary and cinematic representations of a character. Years and years ago, I read a couple of the Perry Mason books - and only knowing Perry Mason through Raymond Burr’s performance, I couldn’t help but think, “Wow, Perry Mason’s kind of a dick”, at least compared to his TV incarnation.

The HBO Perry Mason series is outstanding

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:15:28am

re: #305 ckkatz

That sounds like a reasonable avenue to re-invent and update the series.

I’m not particularly attached to any of the actors playing the role. But I do wonder what is given up when the backstory of a single character with a personal history is given up for a replaceable ‘cog’.

Iirc, some other series tried this. I was not paying much attention at the time, but I seem to remember some discussion on the pro’s and con’s.

Craig was to a large degree a return to the much blunter Bond than Moore and Brosnan had taken it. (Timothy Dalton was blunter than Moore as the character, but not well received relatively speaking.)

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wrenchwench  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:16:33am

re: #296 Scottish Dragon

News since I the last time I checked by: I found out I have a blood sugar problem.

ugh

So the night before last I tried cooking a pie with sucralose substitute. Actually came out pretty good. It was Turkish Turban squash I cooked and pureed last year.

Take care! Sounds good. I like squash, but I know chocolate. Here’s my area: dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:18:13am

re: #307 Scottish Dragon

The HBO Perry Mason series is outstanding

I’ve heard good things about it. I’m going to have to sit down and watch it one of these days.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:18:20am
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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:18:49am

re: #309 wrenchwench

Yeah, I can still have dark chocolate! Yay!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:19:51am

re: #305 ckkatz

That sounds like a reasonable avenue to re-invent and update the series.

I’m not particularly attached to any of the actors playing the role. But I do wonder what is given up when the backstory of a single character with a personal history is given up for a replaceable ‘cog’.

Iirc, some other series tried this. I was not paying much attention at the time, but I seem to remember some discussion on the pro’s and con’s.

It can be tricky.

I recall a (1980s?) Robin Hood series done in England where at one point they replaced the actor playing Robin Hood. They did it in the series by essentially having “Robin Hood” being a role - supported by the Old Religion and that another had been chosen to fulfill the role going forward. (IIRC, it was Jason Connery who played the new Robin Hood - tying this back to Bond!) And there were episodes that dealt with the new leader gaining the acceptance of the established band of outlaws and Maid Marian.

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Captain Ron  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:20:11am
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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:20:57am

re: #301 Scottish Dragon

Iirc, the Russians tried to use barges. But it turns out that these craft, filled with people and equipment trying to slowly move across a kilometer wide river make excellent targets with modern precision guided munitions and real time target acquisition. And the same happened with their pontoon style bridges.

There have been a major advances in artillery in the past decade. World War 2 style tactics don’t work as well as they used to, anymore. And that is what I learned when I was in the Army. It’s a bit disorienting.

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wrenchwench  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:25:24am

re: #312 Scottish Dragon

Yeah, I can still have dark chocolate! Yay!

At work they had a small, gluten-free cheesecake that had exceeded its sell-by date. I took it home. Gluten-free just meant no crust, right on the plate. But I figured out where all the profit is: in the air. It was the fluffiest cheesecake I’ve ever seen. No density. I burped after a small piece.

When I was a kid, I made killer cheesecake. Farmer’s cheese through a food mill, plus some cream cheese. No air.

I’m going to have to learn how to cook again.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:25:40am

re: #315 ckkatz

Yep.

I have no idea how they are going to deal with 25000 guys on the wrong side of the Dnipro River. They might get some of them back over, but all the equipment is surely lost.

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:26:27am

re: #313 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Probably speaking heresy here, but I do not watch Dr Who. I understand that they have replaced the lead multiple times and have built a mechanism for it?

I’m guessing that most series will not be able to be as flippant about the concept as the Princess Bride’s “Dread Pirate Roberts”, though.

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dat_said  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:27:45am

re: #305 ckkatz

That sounds like a reasonable avenue to re-invent and update the series.

I’m not particularly attached to any of the actors playing the role. But I do wonder what is given up when the backstory of a single character with a personal history is given up for a replaceable ‘cog’.

Iirc, some other series tried this. I was not paying much attention at the time, but I seem to remember some discussion on the pro’s and con’s.

I’m still trying to get over what Samantha must have done to both Darrin and neighbor Gladys in Bewitched.

Of course, neither actor change actually reinvented or updated the series.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:30:12am

re: #318 ckkatz

Probably speaking heresy here, but I do not watch Dr Who. I understand that they have replaced the lead multiple times and have built a mechanism for it?

They’ve basically built the show around the concept. Originally, they placed an artificial limit on the number of times this could happen, but the show writers wrote in an explanation in the most recent season that basically gives them license to replace the main actor for as long as the series exists.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:30:49am

re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

(Amarillo airport, November 1960. LBJ was triggered by some nearby pilots who had throttled up their engines to drown out JFK’s speech.)

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I not only think this comment is true, I think it is the reason we still have several hundred fatal accidents a year in general aviation (ie everything but military and airlines). After a hundred and twenty years and half a million deaths, there should be nothing we don’t know about how to operate an ordinary airplane safely, or at least without splashing oneself all over the landscape. Yet, we still have people stall on take off, land on the wrong runway (or no runway at all), lose control because of bad CG calculations, fly into weather they and their equipment can’t handle, ignore maintenance and repair requirements, and sometimes just run into the ground for no discernible reason. There are genuine random events that could kill anyone, but these are very rare and come nowhere close to accounting for the constant steam of GA (general aviation) accidents.
……

Many years ago a distant cousin who was instrument rated died in a crash; the story I had heard was that there was a problem with the altimeter and that proved lethal when flying in very stormy weather.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:33:52am

re: #318 ckkatz

Probably speaking heresy here, but I do not watch Dr Who. I understand that they have replaced the lead multiple times and have built a mechanism for it?

I’m guessing that most series will not be able to be as flippant about the concept as the Princess Bride’s “Dread Pirate Roberts”, though.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:36:37am

re: #318 ckkatz

Probably speaking heresy here, but I do not watch Dr Who. I understand that they have replaced the lead multiple times and have built a mechanism for it?

I’m guessing that most series will not be able to be as flippant about the concept as the Princess Bride’s “Dread Pirate Roberts”, though.

It makes sense for a series/franchise with enough forethought to want to have a way to transition leads if they think it is necessary. (I believe for Dr Who it didn’t become a thing until the 2nd or 3rd lead actor in the series and they then developed their cover for it.)

Though “all agents will now be knows as ‘James Bond’” crops up in the 1967 version of “Casino Royale” which was a spy spoof.

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ckkatz  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:37:59am
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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:43:48am

re: #324 ckkatz

So Russian strategy is based on what orcs did to Southlands?

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Jay C  Oct 6, 2022 • 10:44:35am

re: #304 Dr Lizardo

There’s often a difference between literary and cinematic representations of a character. Years and years ago, I read a couple of the Perry Mason books - and only knowing Perry Mason through Raymond Burr’s performance, I couldn’t help but think, “Wow, Perry Mason’s kind of a dick”, at least compared to his TV incarnation.

True: and I’ll second the recc for the HBO series: Mathew Rhys’ Perry Mason is a lot closer to the original character than the rather blander Perry that Raymond Burr portrayed.

Apparently, that was Erle Stanley Gardner’s doing: from what I’ve read, Gardner had been quite unhappy with the potboiler Perry Mason movies which had been made in the 1930s (he had not been directly involved): so when he was approached for the idea of a TV series in 1956, he insisted on complete approval of every story and script: and made sure that, to conform with contemporary TV standards, the plots were toned down to minimize a lot of the original skirt-the-law antics book Perry Mason usually got up to. Classic TV, but (IMO) at the cost of making the main character somewhat, well: characterless.

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CleverToad  Oct 6, 2022 • 11:27:01am

re: #288 BlueSpotinAL

The secret is out about my youngest grandson:

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EstebanTornado1963  Oct 6, 2022 • 11:43:10am

re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I know a few air traffic controllers and I think a major cause of their burnout is having to deal with airborne idiots all the time.

In my case, dealing with my fellow idiot co-workers and incompetent management was 100X worse than dealing with a pilot. You could punish a pilot on the spot and always get support from your supervisor (about the only way you’d get that)


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