The Fearless Flyers Rehearse Backstage at Madison Square Garden Pre-Gig and Bring the Funk

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rehearsal footage from my phone. i just didn’t want it to be lost forever by accident since i’m upgrading to a new iPhone today…so i uploaded it for the internet to hang on to for a while.

if i’m being completely honest, i think these takes are better than the ones from the concert? but that’s the funny thing about music….each performance is different.

The Fearless Flyers are
Nate Smith - drums
Cory Wong - small guitar
Mark Lettieri - medium guitar
Joe Dart - big guitar

0:00 Introducing The Fearless Flyers
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Belafon  Oct 18, 2022 • 6:40:00pm
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Belafon  Oct 18, 2022 • 6:41:10pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 6:53:31pm

An addendum to my complaint to Hilton in the last thread.

I looked up Hampton Inn’s firearms policy. According to Hampton Inn, firearms are strictly prohibited on their property (including concealed carry, even with a permit). The only exception is for authorities like police officers.

So the desk clerk taking the side of the negligent firearms owner at the hotel was defending violating her own employer’s policies.

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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2022 • 6:54:39pm
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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2022 • 6:57:11pm

re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

An addendum to my complaint to Hilton in the last thread.

I looked up Hampton Inn’s firearms policy. According to Hampton Inn, firearms are strictly prohibited on their property (including concealed carry, even with a permit). The only exception is for authorities like police officers.

So the desk clerk taking the side of the negligent firearms owner at the hotel was defending violating her own employer’s policies.

As a hotel person, that may be different between Hilton owned properties and franchise properties. Some things like that may be left to the owner’s preference. Note, I’m in the IHG food chain, not Hilton.

I’d have the idiot on my “do not rent” list but that’s a separate thing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:03:59pm

re: #5 William Lewis

As a hotel person, that may be different between Hilton owned properties and franchise properties. Some things like that may be left to the owner’s preference. Note, I’m in the IHG food chain, not Hilton.

I’d have the idiot on my “do not rent” list but that’s a separate thing.

I just read an article about a couple who stayed in a different Hilton property in Tulsa a couple months ago who had bullets come through the wall of their room.

They got corporate boilerplate about franchise versus corporate-owned. The thing is, the corporation can absolutely require the franchisee to follow their rules if they chose to do so.

The couple points out months later they are still traumatised by the experience, and entirely underwhelmed by the response from Hilton.

The local FOX station sent an investigative reporter to the hotel to stay in the same room. She noted that there is no way to tell if the hotel is a franchise vs. corporate hotel (no signage).

fox23.com

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:14:05pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I just read an article about a couple who stayed in a Hampton Inn in Tulsa a couple months ago who had bullets come through the wall of their room.

They got corporate boilerplate about franchise versus corporate-owned. The thing is, the corporation can absolutely require the franchisee to follow their rules if they chose to do so.

The couple points out months later they are still traumatised by the experience, and entirely underwhelmed by the response.

The local FOX station sent an investigative reporter to the hotel to stay in the same room. She noted that there is no way to tell if the hotel is a franchise vs. corporate hotel (no signage).

fox23.com

Interesting. Signage is Required here at this Franchise owned hotel. Sounds like it’s a company to stay away from as both guest and employee.

Example behind my front desk.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:16:42pm

Florida flesh-eating illness cases spike after Hurricane Ian (BBC, four hours ago)

Standing water left over from Hurricane Ian coupled with overwhelmed sewage systems has led to a sharp rise in one form of so-called flesh-eating bacteria. This particular form kills one-in-five people, and has killed twenty-nine people in Lee County, Florida so far.

Health officials there are warning people of the dangers of wading through standing, brackish, or hurricane-flood waters.

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Captain Ron  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:24:39pm

LOL

The Belarusian MoD said today that Russia plans to transfer 170 tanks to Belarus, but so far we see the opposite process. Without any statement last week alone, Belarus handed over at least 92 T-72A tanks and dozens of trucks to Russia.

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austin_blue  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:40:31pm

re: #9 Captain Ron

LOL

Well, those T-72s were originally made in Russia before the Soviet Union fell apart, so what the hell, give them back and let them get towed away by Uke tractors.

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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:45:58pm

re: #9 Captain Ron

LOL

OT:

Earlier you said you want (or need, I don’t remember) a better bike. Can you specify what you would change?

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Teukka  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:46:46pm

File under “Well, that’s gonna leave a mark”:

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jaunte  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:48:34pm
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Captain Ron  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:50:25pm

re: #11 wrenchwench

OT:

Earlier you said you want (or need, I don’t remember) a better bike. Can you specify what you would change?

A full suspension EMTB with higher quailty shocks, brakes, derailure, and a mid drive motor.

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jaunte  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:51:08pm
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austin_blue  Oct 18, 2022 • 7:55:14pm

re: #12 Teukka

File under “Well, that’s gonna leave a mark”:

Depends on the profits they made from the sale of cement in war torn Syria, doesn’t it?

It reminds me of the Texas Commission On Environmental Quality who would fine a refinery down in Houston $1.5 million dollars for an “upset” release of unpermitted carcinogens and half of it would go to the refinery buying $750,000 worth of cop cars and ambulances for the local community which would result in a tax Credit which would pay off the entire fine from Corporate Taxes.

Nice scam, eh?

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jaunte  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:11:47pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:19:43pm

In honour of the BBC’s hundredth anniversary, they put out a 100-second blooper reel.
bbc.com

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retired cynic  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:21:43pm

re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

An addendum to my complaint to Hilton in the last thread.

I looked up Hampton Inn’s firearms policy. According to Hampton Inn, firearms are strictly prohibited on their property (including concealed carry, even with a permit). The only exception is for authorities like police officers.

So the desk clerk taking the side of the negligent firearms owner at the hotel was defending violating her own employer’s policies.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:24:39pm

re: #17 jaunte

That’s Rubio telling the crazies what to target next.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:25:26pm

Don’t know her, but this sucks:

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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:28:41pm

re: #14 Captain Ron

A full suspension EMTB with higher quailty shocks, brakes, derailure, and a mid drive motor.

Will it give you greater range, endurance, comfort?

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austin_blue  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:30:45pm

So, the ACL crowd has left, all100,000 of our dearest friends, and this weekend is…

Formula One.

Another 120,000 of our dearest friends will invade our fair city, but at least they will travel east to the venue, not wander through my neighborhood. It’s also one of the top weekends for Signature Flight Service, a Fixed Base Operator, who will host a shitpot of private aircraft from all over the world.

And the F1 fans? They range from lovely people to the biggest entitled rich assholes you will ever encounter.

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sagehen  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:31:04pm

Tonight on Frontline, “Michael Flynn’s Holy War”.

Now available on the PBS website.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:35:38pm

TXDOT wants to lower a section of highway that runs through downtown. It would be cheaper than just rebuilding it, and would free up some surface space.

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sagehen  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:35:52pm

re: #23 austin_blue

So, the ACL crowd has left, all100,000 of our dearest friends, and this weekend is…

So do they swoop in and tape a whole season in a few weeks?

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austin_blue  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:36:44pm

re: #24 sagehen

Tonight on Frontline, “Michael Flynn’s Holy War”.

Now available on the PBS website.

A brutal exposé of an Opus Dei Catholic traitor.

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Captain Ron  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:39:24pm

re: #22 wrenchwench

Better hill climbing and better control on descents. Now I have an oem DNM inverted fork, Sram XS derailleur, 9 speed cassette, Tektro Dorado brakes and a hub drive, but at least it has a torque sensor and not a cadence sensor. It peters out on a 30% grade.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:42:32pm

She was to receive the Pulitzer photojournalism award for her coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in India.

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austin_blue  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:45:16pm

re: #26 sagehen

So do they swoop in and tape a whole season in a few weeks?

Two weekends, identical line-ups for both, six stages in Zilker Park, just down the street.

But you knew that. :)

It’s an opportunity to see some of your favorite musical acts in local restaurants because many stay for the week and do local shows.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:48:40pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She was to receive the Pulitzer photojournalism award for her coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in India.

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She doesn’t tweet much, so the last time she was stopped was her last tweet:

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jaunte  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:53:56pm
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jaunte  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:54:29pm
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darthstar  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:56:18pm

This is fucking amazing.

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austin_blue  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:58:02pm

Well, Colbert is a repeat, and I’m for the rack.

I made a nice pot of 2 Alarm Chile and it was really, really good. One # of ground beef, one can each of crushed ‘maters, red kidneys and black beans and a pack of Whit Fowlers and you are good to go. I add two medium yellow onions and a tablespoon of minced garlic during a sauté prep. First cool day of the year, Fritos, cheddar cheese, and sliced jalapeños for garnishing? Nom. Nom. Nom.

Sweet scaly dreams!

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jaunte  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:58:26pm

Allen, TX. Heads up to Dallas area parents.
collintx.mugshots.zone

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 8:59:02pm

Voice of America has a video article on the Jane Collective, including an interview of one of its founders, and a rebuttal from the National Right-to-Life Committee’s president (2:31)

voanews.com

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ckkatz  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:01:07pm

Here’s a ghost story about a relationship that started completely off-the-rails and went… well… you decide…

“King Henry” - Steeleye Span {AUDIO}

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austin_blue  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:04:07pm

re: #32 jaunte

And this is surprising in Texas…how?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:11:12pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:14:03pm

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Florida flesh-eating illness cases spike after Hurricane Ian (BBC, four hours ago)

Standing water left over from Hurricane Ian coupled with overwhelmed sewage systems has led to a sharp rise in one form of so-called flesh-eating bacteria. This particular form kills one-in-five people, and has killed twenty-nine people in Lee County, Florida so far.

Health officials there are warning people of the dangers of wading through standing, brackish, or hurricane-flood waters.

For almost 3 years now I have speculated that an outbreak of contagious butt-rot disease would cause Republicans to suddenly insist on their right to not wear pants. Maybe it’s here.

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Teukka  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:14:48pm

Thread:

WaPo arkle with Paywall removed: washingtonpost.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:23:18pm
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ckkatz  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:28:02pm

re: #42 Teukka

Since 2015 when tfg first appeared, there have been articles on the goals of the very rich and powerful men supporting him.

According to these articles, the goals are anti-institutionalist. Often called libertarian. Basically to destroy the institutions that maintain the guardrails for US democracy in general, and the economy in particular. The objective is to seize even more power and riches.

Basically what Putin has done to Russia.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:29:35pm

Thread, ten tweets.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:33:31pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I saw a commercial earlier that was advertising Plan B and being able to pick it up at CVS without a prescription.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:40:42pm

re: #46 Belafon

I saw a commercial earlier that was advertising Plan B and being able to pick it up at CVS without a prescription.

You’d never see such a commercial here.

According to Wikipedia, that fount of all human ken, a prescription for the medication is not required, but some physicians will prescribe it anyway. The medication is also used for other things, such as IUDs.

Wikipedia also notes it is available in some areas of the USA from vending machines.

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piratedan  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:44:43pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

while I applaud the journalism documenting their bravery, I think it would be better if the WaPo spent their energy getting behind the scenes on who is pulling the strings on this Christian Thoelogical movement to to return us to 1854.

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sagehen  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:45:31pm

new Springsteen video. A cover.

Bruce Springsteen - Nightshift (Official Video)

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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:48:12pm

re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You’d never see such a commercial here.

According to Wikipedia, that fount of all human ken, a prescription for the medication is not required, but some physicians will prescribe it anyway. The medication is also used for other things, such as IUDs.

Wikipedia also notes it is available in some areas of the USA from vending machines.

The way cigarettes used to be.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 9:50:01pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 18, 2022 • 10:11:09pm

Wording - 3

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 10:12:19pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 10:30:45pm

My state senator Steve Erdman (R-Covid denier) is involved in this culture-war bullshyte.

LINCOLN — Three weeks before an election in which concerns about education could motivate Republican turnout, five conservative state senators called Monday for a legislative investigation into the Nebraska Department of Education.

The senators said one of their staffers found a link in June to a New York University center for culturally responsive education on “Launch Nebraska,” a state Department of Education website built for schools reopening during the pandemic. Two or three clicks into the NYU website, they found a document defending critical race theory and discussing racial justice. The document, however, was never directly accessible on the state’s website.
The Nebraska Department of Education website that five state senators objected to Monday. Until June the site had linked to a New York University center where a legislative staffer found the material. (Screenshot)

State Sens. Dave Murman of Glenvil, Steve Erdman of Bayard, Robert Clements of Elmwood, Steve Halloran of Hastings and Myron Dorn of Adams said they want the Legislature’s Education Committee to investigate who shared the link and what else was shared. They also said they want to know who might have promoted a new sex education curriculum.

(more at the Nebraska Examiner)

Five state senators call for investigation of Nebraska Department of Education

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Captain Ron  Oct 18, 2022 • 10:36:47pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 10:43:59pm

My state senator is a moran. Or a liar. Or both.

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JC1  Oct 18, 2022 • 10:44:06pm

6/6. Tough word today.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 10:44:26pm
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sagehen  Oct 18, 2022 • 11:05:07pm

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My state senator is a moran. Or a liar. Or both.

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again with “that’s not what my history teacher told me.”

We were informed that Columbus was looking for a shorter route to the places spices came from, and it was the next wave of conquistadores who went on a gold frenzy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 11:07:27pm

Why do Republicans love pardoning rapists?

Legion members protest pardon for fellow veteran for ‘heinous’ sex assault (Nebraska Examiner, October 14)

The American Legion says they were used by the convicted rapist to gain a pardon from the state pardon board. That board is made up by the state governor, the state AG (who voted to pardon), and the state secretary of state (who voted no).

He was convicted of raping his ex-wife after breaking into her home and tying her to her bed in front of their five and seven year-old children, then kidnapping the children and fleeing to Texas. He completed his sentence in 2008.

The pardon removes him from the sex offender registry and restores his gun rights.

A former state Legion commander said that not all Legion members supported the pardon of a sex offender and that the Legion cap is only supposed to be worn at official or Legion-sponsored functions.

Beth Linn of Scottsbluff, who served as state Legion commander from 2016-17, also said that while Arias has claimed the sexual assault was a “misunderstanding,” it was far from it.

“Raping your wife in front of her kids while she’s tied to a bed is not a misunderstanding,” Linn said.

A group of Legion members, including Linn, have planned a “peaceful protest” of the pardon on Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. at the Nebraska State Capitol.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 18, 2022 • 11:49:56pm

I’m going to stagger off to bed. Catch y’all later.

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Captain Ron  Oct 18, 2022 • 11:59:46pm

re: #22 wrenchwench

Also it’s going to be at least two years or more before I could ever afford an expensive bike. So in the meantime I’ll get an extra battery, new flat pedals with nice grabby pins my pins are rounded on 3 sides and have some edge on one side), a good dropper post (I miss my old one but it was a cheap thing that got replaced when it broke and the replacement broke all in the first 9 months), tubeless tires, or even just a replacement back tire that is almost a slick at 4000 miles. Big mistake not getting the larger nut-busting 26” tire version. I did not know 24x4” tires were impossible to find. Tubes are hard enough.That’s about all I can upgrade on the Blackbird.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 19, 2022 • 12:01:52am

Winter is coming.

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Captain Ron  Oct 19, 2022 • 12:06:43am

Today (yesterday) was 87, tomorrow (today) 92 and Thursday 87, then we cool to the mid to low 70s for 10 days. Nothing higher than a 24% chance of rain on the 26th.

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Captain Ron  Oct 19, 2022 • 12:17:14am

My bike if I had excess money right now would be the Area 13 Falcon.

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Captain Ron  Oct 19, 2022 • 12:29:14am
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Captain Ron  Oct 19, 2022 • 12:31:42am
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Patricia Kayden  Oct 19, 2022 • 1:03:22am

re: #13 jaunte

She is great!! That’s how you turn around a nonsensical question. Abrams and Trump are in no way equivalent when it comes to questioning elections. Abrams’ concerns were based on voter suppression tactics implemented by Kemp and Republicans. Trump’s claims are based on his ego and sense of entitlement.

After all that Trump put Georgia through, it’s alarming that Raffensberger is still supporting him!! What the actual hell?!

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Nyet  Oct 19, 2022 • 1:16:50am

4/5/3
The resulting picture is what I think about today’s wordle.

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Captain Ron  Oct 19, 2022 • 1:36:09am

YouTube

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Nyet  Oct 19, 2022 • 1:43:16am

re: #68 Patricia Kayden

I wonder if he still is… He did say that he was a proud supporter in Nov. 2020, during the debacle. Has he repeated it after Trump endorced his enemy? Would be seemingly self-defeating.

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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 2:39:29am
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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 2:53:04am
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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:01:54am

re: #73 Teukka

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:07:07am

re: #38 ckkatz

Here’s a ghost story about a relationship that started completely off-the-rails and went… well… you decide…

“…A salad green, a salad green, King Henry make for me.

You must pull the watercress and make sure it’s crispy!!!”

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:15:56am

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:21:13am
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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:22:57am

re: #74 Teukka

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:23:49am

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:24:26am
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TarHellion  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:24:59am

There are birbies and then there are BIRBIES! This one felt great. Not quite as cold as expected but still around 38 degrees this morning. Tonight is supposed to be the real chill pill. Be cool Lizardos!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:26:11am

re: #79 Dangerman

again, the Fundamentalist argument is that Herschel Walker may have strayed, but he begged God for forgiveness and God redeemed him. Amen.

Except even that argument does not work, as in order to be redeemed, you have to own up to your actions, which he never did. He denies them to this day, so the GOP is now both accepting his denial and forgiving him for what he ostensibly never did.

Faith is a miraculous thing…

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:29:34am
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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:34:45am

Georgia senate:

✝️ > 🏈

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sagehen  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:37:09am

Do you have emojis for any other senate races? I’m eager to see what you do for Fetterman v Oz.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:38:55am

re: #85 sagehen

Do you have emojis for any other senate races? I’m eager to see what you do for Fetterman v Oz.

Is there a piss-bottle-with-straw emoji?

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sagehen  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:40:44am

or a dead dog emoji?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:40:54am

re: #83 Dangerman

Rubio is still ahead by 4%. And if he loses, the GOP will simply refuse to accept the results.

If they can’t suppress votes any other way, they will do it through sheer frustration.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:52:29am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Sigh. I wish people would just wake up.

At least in Illinois, the polling is looking promising. Pritzker/Raoul/Duckworth all have commanding leads. But I will repeat myself like I do every election season. The only polls that matter are on Election Day with your votes!

nbcchicago.com

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 19, 2022 • 3:59:22am
Workers at Amazon’s Schodack fulfillment center voted 2 to 1 against unionizing, ending a weeks-long campaign and delivering a victory to the company and a blow to a nascent national labor movement.

“We’re glad that our team in Albany was able to have their voices heard, and that they chose to keep the direct relationship with Amazon as we think that this is the best arrangement for both our employees and customers,” Amazon corporate spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a prepared statement shortly after the vote of 406-206 against joining the fledgling Amazon Labor Union.

timesunion.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 4:06:48am

re: #90 Shropshire Slasher

nothing says “level playing field” better than individual workers negotiating terms of employment with a multi-billion-dollar international corporate entity.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 19, 2022 • 4:28:15am

This is really disgusting so I posted behind privacy tags. You. Were. Warned.

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A custodian at a Houston medical office building was arrested after allegedly urinating in a water bottle belonging to a coworker who later contracted an STD.

Since the disgusting ordeal came to light, 11 other victims have come forward and are being tested for STDs, according to court documents obtained by KHOU.

The victim began bringing in her own store-bought water bottles everyday after getting water from a dispenser in the office in August that tasted and smelled funny, she told investigators.

If she didn’t finish her water during the work day, she would leave it on her desk to drink the following day, the woman said.

As the days went by, the woman noticed that the water she had been bringing in herself started to smell nasty as well, but could never figure out what is was, according to court documents.

nypost.com

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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 4:38:16am
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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 4:38:39am

re: #78 Teukka

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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 4:44:33am

re: #72 Teukka
YIKES.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 19, 2022 • 4:52:16am
Fears are growing inside Russia that Vladimir Putin is preparing to declare all-out war on Ukraine, amid speculation the increasingly desperate despot could resort to a nuclear show of force over the Black Sea as his invasion fails.

Putin will today hold an emergency national security meeting, with the Russian senate ordered to sit late so they can rubber-stamp any directives.

At the same time his new commander in Ukraine - Sergei Surovikin, dubbed ‘General Armageddon’ - appears to be preparing the ground for a retreat from the city of Kherson.
General Surovikin on Tuesday said the situation in the southern Ukrainian city is ‘tense’ and that people living there will be ‘resettled’ in order ‘to protect the lives of civilians and our service members’. ‘We are not excluding the most difficult decisions,’ he added.

Evacuations got under way today as Vladimir Saldo, the Russian official overseeing occupied Kherson, said up to 60,000 people will be moved over the next six days - suggesting the city could fall within a week.

The administration is also moving, Saldo added, while vowing Russia would ‘fight to the death’ to regain full control.

dailymail.co.uk

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 4:55:34am

re: #96 Shropshire Slasher

He knows that any use of even tactical nuclear forces will have a large psychological effect on Europe and generally be much more detrimental to their economy that to Russia’s.

Lowering the Nuclear Threshold can never be seen as good news: people are going to be hesitant to invest in a part of the world where nukes are going off.

He is also counting on Russia being able to weather economic downturns longer and more quietly & obediently than Western Europe.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:00:35am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Nuclear show of force?

Yeah, that’ll end exactly as Putin planned it out.

It’ll go precisely as well as his plan to invade Ukraine did.

That’s why this talk is just saber rattling. Even he’s got to know that his military is fubar and he can’t count on his nuclear arsenal to do any better than his regular military forces. They’re as likely to see those nukes launched and fall on Russian territory as it would in Ukraine. The NATO and Western response would be to consider nukes against military targets inside Russia, and US and NATO tech is vastly superior to what we’ve seen out of Russia.

It also is a reminder that Russia’s relying on Iran for cruise missile tech at this point (those UAVs loaded up with small munitions). That’s a tell that Russia’s military is hollowed out and can’t get it done.

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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:03:34am

Do I smell Enabling Act echoes?

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:05:03am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He knows that any use of even tactical nuclear forces will have a large psychological effect on Europe and generally be much more detrimental to their economy that to Russia’s.

Lowering the Nuclear Threshold can never be seen as good news: people are going to be hesitant to invest in a part of the world where nukes are going off.

He is also counting on Russia being able to weather economic downturns longer and more quietly & obediently than Western Europe.

It would almost certainly invite a massive conventional military response that would effectively annihilate the Russian military in the Donetsk Basin (unless they wise up real quick and hastily retreat back to Russia proper) and very likely send his Black Sea Fleet to the bottom.

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Belafon  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:10:38am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It will mobilize Europe in ways he can’t understand. It will do the same here. America had a Nazi problem up until Japan attacked and Germany declared war, but we had no problem kicking Germany’s butt.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:16:52am

re: #101 Belafon

It will mobilize Europe in ways he can’t understand. It will do the same here. America had a Nazi problem up until Japan attacked and Germany declared war, but we had no problem kicking Germany’s butt.

Exactly. It’ll go from “Russia…meh, so what” to “RUSSIA MUST BE DESTROYED” real fucking quick.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:19:42am

re: #101 Belafon

It will mobilize Europe in ways he can’t understand. It will do the same here. America had a Nazi problem up until Japan attacked and Germany declared war, but we had no problem kicking Germany’s butt.

And the GOP seditionists position re: Russia is to appease and give Putin what he wants. They’re willing to serve up Ukraine on a platter.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:23:05am

I just hope Putin doesn’t vote early in our upcoming midterms.

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darthstar  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:26:11am

Really hoping that debate made a difference. Rubio showed himself to be an utter shell of a human. His voice elevated and accelerated as he tried desperately to prove he was too an adult. The only thing Val didn’t do is end the night with a “no wonder he called you ‘little Marco’…”

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:27:00am

I bought a new cologne, and I must say, I smell good.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:30:54am

re: #106 Shropshire Slasher

I bought a new cologne, and I must say, I smell good.

Was it “Sex Panther”?

Anchorman - Sex panther

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jeffreyw  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:35:43am

pie chart - pizza I have eaten

Good morning!

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:55:26am
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Belafon  Oct 19, 2022 • 5:57:21am

re: #109 lawhawk

Better than voting against a bill and then taking credit for the money coming into your district.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 19, 2022 • 6:03:08am

Kara Voght, a writer for Rolling Stone, said the quiet part out loud about John Fetterman.

Then her husband had a stroke four days before the primary for the U.S. Senate. Suddenly, the reluctant political spouse became the de facto candidate. “I just had to survive, I just had to go,” she says of that time. Did she consider asking John to step out of the race? “It wasn’t my decision to make,” she says. “If you have the ability to make lives better, then it’s your duty to do so. And if he has the green light from every doctor, then I support that.”

rollingstone.com

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2022 • 6:03:09am

re: #110 Belafon

Better than voting against a bill and then taking credit for the money coming into your district.

GOPers from Abbott to Stefinak to DeSantis are doing that as we speak.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2022 • 6:32:50am

GOPers projecting like IMAX. They’re the pedophiles, sex predators, and engage in kink shaming who attack the LGBTQ+ community incessantly for their lifestyles.

LGBTQ+ are attacked nonstop who are accused of being sex predators and child molesters. Right wingers push bathroom bills and want govt so small that they fit up in the naughty bits (checking sex/gender, insisting that ppl are identified not as they wish to be) - and they’re the ones who engage in all kinds of malfeasance.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 19, 2022 • 6:47:13am

WHAT.

Click to Reveal

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Dave In Austin  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:00:47am

re: #113 lawhawk

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HRH Stanley Sea  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:04:23am

Lucky Philly

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:07:32am

Wow, my brain failed me on that one.

Wordle 487 6/6

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:16:56am

NEED MOAR COFFEE

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Mattand  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:18:10am

re: #116 HRH Stanley Sea

Lucky Philly

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I was due to make a popcorn run to Nuts to You on Walnut St anyways and my brother lives near there.

Funny, I live across the river from there, but like 25% of my Philly news comes from people on this site who live nowhere near here.

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Mattand  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:19:42am

re: #119 Mattand

I just re-read that post. That’s some janky-ass awkward sentence construction.

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Jay C  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:20:47am

re: #109 lawhawk

Even allowing for the fact that Sen. Blackburn is either a partisan-hack idiot, or determined to play one on the Internet*, WTH does “open more of our nation’s great pipelines” even mean?
Even assuming the intended audience for this hackery has even less of an understanding of the gasoline market (and its industrial underpinnings) than Marsha does - 😱 - this is BS in the extreme.

*I tend towards the former interpretation

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:22:14am

re: #121 Jay C

Even allowing for the fact that Sen. Blackburn is either a partisan-hack idiot, or determined to play one on the Internet*, WTH does “open more of our nation’s great pipelines” even mean?
Even assuming the intended audience for this hackery has even less of an understanding of the gasoline market (and its industrial underpinnings) than Marsha does - 😱 - this is BS in the extreme.

*I tend towards the former interpretation

I think she was trying to sound like Trump.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:25:45am

re: #121 Jay C

Even allowing for the fact that Sen. Blackburn is either a partisan-hack idiot, or determined to play one on the Internet*, WTH does “open more of our nation’s great pipelines” even mean?

I assume some of these people are morons who think that oil pipelines are like faucets where if you just crank ‘em a little higher, more oil comes out.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:26:50am

Yuck

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Jay C  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:35:57am

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

I assume some of these people are morons who think that oil pipelines are like faucets where if you just crank ‘em a little higher, more oil comes out.

I agree about the “morons” part, but to me, Sen. Blackburn’s gibberish is just a variant of the standard GOP rant about how “Democrats” (up to and -especially- including Joe Biden) are beholden to “environmentalist wackos” whose hippie-dippy hatred of prosperity and progress causes them to block invaluable infrastructure projects on specious grounds (like risks to life and health). And that Republicans in office will repudiate all the nonsense, and make sure that Real Americans will again enjoy their God-given right to cheap gasoline….

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:36:10am

re: #108 jeffreyw

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Western good morning!

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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:38:54am

So… Apparently the Estonian FM is outta fucks to give…

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Dave In Austin  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:40:03am

re: #121 Jay C

She’s spewing about the Keystone Asphalt pipeline out of Canada that got shut down.
You can shout from the highest mountain the truth about that spur and never get a foot ahead.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:42:08am

re: #128 Dave In Austin

She also completely fails to mention all those drilling permits that oil companies doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH at the moment.

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:43:17am

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

I assume some of these people are morons who think that oil pipelines are like faucets where if you just crank ‘em a little higher, more oil comes out.

I could add 20 hoses and y valves to my well pump.
Then I’ll get 20x the water //

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:44:16am

DeSantis thinks Socialism is just peachy-great now.

yahoo.com

DeSantis handing out $1000 Socialist checks from the Florida taxpayer. Just this month he has been on the campaign trail spouting off about how he “rejects Socialism outright”.

The modern GOP. What a bunch of fraudsters. Socialism is now being used by Republicans to promote hate and division. This is the very definition of National Socialism.

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:45:04am

re: #125 Jay C

I agree about the “morons” part, but to me, Sen. Blackburn’s gibberish is just a variant of the standard GOP rant about how “Democrats” (up to and -especially- including Joe Biden) are beholden to “environmentalist wackos” whose hippie-dippy hatred of prosperity and progress causes them to block invaluable infrastructure projects on specious grounds (like risks to life and health). And that Republicans in office will repudiate all the nonsense, and make sure that Real Americans will again enjoy their God-given right to cheap gasoline….

Ps what about all those unimproved oil leases?

That’s where the oil is

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:45:50am

re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg

She also completely fails to mention all those drilling permits that oil companies doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH at the moment.

Gmta

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:47:59am

re: #52 Hecuba’s daughter

Wording - 3

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:54:58am

re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg

She also completely fails to mention all those drilling permits that oil companies doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH at the moment.

Nearly 10k leases that oil companies are keeping dormant. They’re doing nothing with them, because they profit from high oil prices. Anything that would reduce price would make it harder for them to start new wells, because there are higher costs domestically to tap into those wells and bring to market.

Saudi oil is cheaper to produce than here in the US. You need a higher oil price for domestic oil to compete with foreign oil.

That’s why Trump went to the Saudis to cut supply in 2020 - to keep domestic production afloat. When prices drop below production costs, the oil companies get shellacked.

Now, they’re raking in record profits.

So what can a president do? They can release from the SPR. And that’s what GOPers are caterwauling about now. They’re complaining that Biden’s going to release from the SPR lowering the costs to consumers.

That’s right folks - the GOP hates American consumers. They hate Americans and hate the American economy because they want the economy to tank so they can benefit politically.

Fuck the GOP.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:57:25am

re: #98 lawhawk

Nuclear show of force?

Yeah, that’ll end exactly as Putin planned it out.

It’ll go precisely as well as his plan to invade Ukraine did.

It will, like the invasion of Ukraine, suck for all involved, directly and indirectly.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 7:58:49am

re: #101 Belafon

It will mobilize Europe in ways he can’t understand. It will do the same here. America had a Nazi problem up until Japan attacked and Germany declared war, but we had no problem kicking Germany’s butt.

It has already doubled Europe’s resolve to wean itself off fossil fuels, even if that means leaving the nuclear plants running longer than originally planned.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:02:12am

re: #121 Jay C

Even allowing for the fact that Sen. Blackburn is either a partisan-hack idiot, or determined to play one on the Internet*, WTH does “open more of our nation’s great pipelines” even mean?

It is a matter of RW doctrine that all the President has to do is build more pipelines, open more public lands and offshore sites to drilling while loosening cumbersome environmental, health and safety legislation, and we will have an abundance of cheap gasoline.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:05:19am

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:07:05am

re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Winter is coming.

We had a little snow on the ground this morning here in NW PA. Enough to cover the windows on the car.

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:08:22am

Catherine Rampell says Kevin McCarthy’s threat to hold the debt ceiling hostage if Republicans win control of the House could lead to a global financial crisis.

Contrary to GOP messaging, the debt ceiling is not about excessive spending. It’s about paying for what’s already been spent.

Rs and the debt ceiling:

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dat_said  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:17:06am

At least the bomb squads are getting some practice.

1500 lbs of explosive. In a garage. In a townhouse complex.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:26:20am

re: #142 dat_said

At least the bomb squads are getting some practice.

1500 lbs of explosive. In a garage. In a townhouse complex.

I remember a term that was popular back in the 90’s: A “Bubba bomb”, for an IED made by a rural white fellow.

It seems to have taken on other meanings: a wrestling move and a type of cannabis.

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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:31:01am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:32:31am

re: #144 Teukka

This is me, wondering why someone would even go to trouble to make something like that.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:34:37am

re: #142 dat_said

Bomb squad claims no one is in danger while they’re disposing of those explosives.

I’d say that’s overstating things quite a bit. There’s a significant risk, especially since these are improvised.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:37:28am

$100k bond for the bomb guy too. How fucked is that.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:39:26am

Look who’s pissed off (as usual)

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:41:18am

re: #148 The Pie Overlord!

Look who’s again overlooking blatant antisemitic crap.

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dat_said  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:43:00am

re: #147 GlutenFreeJesus

$100k bond for the bomb guy too. How fucked is that.

He’s just a harmless good ol’ boy making fireworks as a hobby. /s

Police got the initial search warrant because neighbors thought he might be making drugs.

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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:45:38am

re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg

This is me, wondering why someone would even go to trouble to make something like that.

I think there is something with the ability to make perfectly tasty and edible food in weird shapes…

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2022 • 8:48:38am

re: #108 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

I made a pie chart of my favorite bars
and I made a bar chart of my favorite pies

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:04:22am

re: #149 lawhawk

Look who’s again overlooking blatant antisemitic crap.

Look who doesn’t understand the word small d democratic oversight

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:07:21am

re: #140 Eventual Carrion

We had a little snow on the ground this morning here in NW PA. Enough to cover the windows on the car.

A bit of sleet here a little further south. Mainly one of those cold and miserable rains.

This is actually the weather I dislike the most. Cold and damp. Which just seems to hit you to the bone. I’d prefer it to drop below freezing simply to have the humidity drop appreciably. (Though with that the roads suddenly get nasty.)

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:11:34am
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:12:32am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

again, the Fundamentalist argument is that Herschel Walker may have strayed, but he begged God for forgiveness and God redeemed him. Amen.

Except even that argument does not work, as in order to be redeemed, you have to own up to your actions, which he never did. He denies them to this day, so the GOP is now both accepting his denial and forgiving him for what he ostensibly never did.

Faith is a miraculous thing…

Nothing to do with faith. Everything to do with power. It doesn’t matter how flawed Walker (or Trump) is. It is the election of candidates like him who will bring a theocratic Christian state to America.

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:13:19am

re: #154 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

A bit of sleet here a little further south. Mainly one of those cold and miserable rains.

This is actually the weather I dislike the most. Cold and damp. Which just seems to hit you to the bone. I’d prefer it to drop below freezing simply to have the humidity drop appreciably. (Though with that the roads suddenly get nasty.)

It was 74 when I ran at 6.30.
Now it’s 65 in sofla.
Bit of a surprise to me.
Cloudy and raining

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:14:08am

re: #156 Hecuba’s daughter

Nothing to do with faith. Everything to do with power. It doesn’t matter how flawed Walker (or Trump) is. It is the election of candidates like him who will bring a theocratic Christian state to America.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:15:54am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Rubio is still ahead by 4%. And if he loses, the GOP will simply refuse to accept the results.

If they can’t suppress votes any other way, they will do it through sheer frustration.

Given how they handled felons, with the approval of the corrupt SCOTUS, they have been remarkably successful at voter suppression to lead to the victories they favor.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:16:51am

re: #154 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

A bit of sleet here a little further south. Mainly one of those cold and miserable rains.

This is actually the weather I dislike the most. Cold and damp. Which just seems to hit you to the bone. I’d prefer it to drop below freezing simply to have the humidity drop appreciably. (Though with that the roads suddenly get nasty.)

Yeah, when I lived in Atlanta this was my major complaint in winter. It seemed like January and February had many of these rainy cold-to-the-bone days where the temp was only mid-to-low 30s.

But then in early March flowers start blooming and it’s gorgeous.

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Teukka  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:19:28am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:21:48am

re: #156 Hecuba’s daughter

Nothing to do with faith. Everything to do with power. It doesn’t matter how flawed Walker (or Trump) is. It is the election of candidates like him who will bring a theocratic Christian state to America.

Of course. They told us about Trump that God sometimes sends us “flawed vessels” to fulfill His Divine Will. Or rather, their bigoted, narrow-minded concept of God’s Divine Will.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:24:11am

re: #102 Dr Lizardo

Exactly. It’ll go from “Russia…meh, so what” to “RUSSIA MUST BE DESTROYED” real fucking quick.

Trump and his acolytes have been blaming the West for this potential disastrous turn — don’t count on the Trump cult to support our nation, instead of blaming Biden and the Democrats for “forcing” this action on Putin.

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Belafon  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:26:13am

re: #142 dat_said

28 years old.

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William Lewis  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:27:14am

We were talking the other day about the horror that was Belgian Congo.

Behind the hide is a photo of what that was like:

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:31:40am

re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg

Wow, my brain failed me on that one.

Wordle 487 6/6

………

Hint:

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:32:57am

Looks like the British government is teetering…again.

theguardian.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:39:04am

re: #167 Dr Lizardo

Braverman resigned because she sent one document that was possibly impactful to some economic estimate.

Meanwhile, Trump keeps a treasure trove of TS documents around his property and thinks that is his right.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:40:52am

Republicans are beyond disgusting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:43:13am

re: #167 Dr Lizardo

Looks like the British government is teetering…again.

theguardian.com

And Boris Johnson is poised to return in triumph.

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:43:19am

re: #169 The Pie Overlord!

Republicans are beyond disgusting.

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There are countries they can move to if they want to be under the control of religious extremists.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:43:33am

re: #81 TarHellion

Starting word always matters ; if I’d gone with my first choice, 2 greens odd serious consequence. Got a par.
Wordle 487 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:44:51am

re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

There’s a vote on fracking this evening; The government is saying they’re treating it as a confidence vote.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:50:39am

re: #173 Dr Lizardo

There’s a vote on fracking this evening; The government is saying they’re treating it as a confidence vote.

So the Tories have taken a few months in order to throw some woman and minority MPs under the double-decker bus as scapegoats for further failed policies?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:53:33am

re: #174 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

So the Tories have taken a few months in order to throw some woman and minority MPs under the double-decker bus as scapegoats for further failed policies?

yes, so the same old sorry Eton/Oxbridge old boys can step back in.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:54:22am
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Dr Lizardo  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:57:18am

re: #174 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And the Tories are utterly desperate to cling to power. Recent polling shows they’d be on the receiving end of an absolute electoral drubbing if a general election were held in the near future.

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:58:11am

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And Boris Johnson is poised to return in triumph.

Boris was a disaster
And got booted out because.
Truss is a worse disaster.
Doesn’t make Boris not a disaster.

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steve_davis  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:58:30am

re: #113 lawhawk

GOPers projecting like IMAX. They’re the pedophiles, sex predators, and engage in kink shaming who attack the LGBTQ+ community incessantly for their lifestyles.

LGBTQ+ are attacked nonstop who are accused of being sex predators and child molesters. Right wingers push bathroom bills and want govt so small that they fit up in the naughty bits (checking sex/gender, insisting that ppl are identified not as they wish to be) - and they’re the ones who engage in all kinds of malfeasance.

Nothing against masturbation: I mean, I’m the one who started the rumor it adds an extra 3 minutes to your life for each successful attempt, but what the fuck….in the truck on a campus? “Oh man, hot coed! Maybe I can rub one out in the 10 minutes before I get fingerprinted for the campus security gig….”

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 19, 2022 • 9:58:32am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:00:04am
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:00:19am

re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is a matter of RW doctrine that all the President has to do is build more pipelines, open more public lands and offshore sites to drilling while loosening cumbersome environmental, health and safety legislation, and we will have an abundance of cheap gasoline.

Cheap only because it ignores all the costs associated with the environmental damage inflicted on the planet, including health costs for individuals.

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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:03:04am

re: #182 Hecuba’s daughter

Cheap only because it ignores all the costs associated with the environmental damage inflicted on the planet, including health costs for individuals.

You could start building on every one of those 10000 leases today and the price of oil/gas would shift zero.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:05:29am

re: #182 Hecuba’s daughter

Cheap only because it ignores all the costs associated with the environmental damage inflicted on the planet, including health costs for individuals.

US government (our tax dollars) gives $20 billion every year on direct fossil fuel subsidies. Those should stop at once. Let people see the real cost to all of us, even people without cars are paying the oil industry.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:07:46am

A few days ago I learned the word “Latin” was not in the Wordle database for some strange reason.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:08:26am

re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg

A few days ago I learned the word “Latin” was not in the Wordle database for some strange reason.

Because it’s a proper noun?

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:09:42am

re: #165 William Lewis

We were talking the other day about the horror that was Belgian Congo.

Belgian King Leopold II was forced to cede his private Congo colony to Belgium in 1908.

Leopold went to great lengths to conceal potential evidence of wrongdoing during his time as ruler of his private colony by burning the archives. The burning went on for days.

Leopold told his aide that even though the Congo had been taken from him, “they have no right to know what I did there.”

en.wikipedia.org

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steve_davis  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:16:16am

re: #187 BeenHereAwhile

Belgian King Leopold II was forced to cede his private Congo colony to Belgium in 1908.

Leopold went to great lengths to conceal potential evidence of wrongdoing during his time as ruler of his private colony by burning the archives. The burning went on for days.

Leopold told his aide that even though the Congo had been taken from him, “they have no right to know what I did there.”

en.wikipedia.org

was this before or after they started lopping off hands of “slow” workers?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:16:27am

re: #113 lawhawk

GOPers projecting like IMAX. They’re the pedophiles, sex predators, and engage in kink shaming who attack the LGBTQ+ community incessantly for their lifestyles..

Every conservative / reactionary accusation is a confession.

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William Lewis  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:18:17am

re: #188 steve_davis

was this before or after they started lopping off hands of “slow” workers?

The photo in my post above was taken in 1904.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:20:45am

re: #188 steve_davis

was this before or after they started lopping off hands of “slow” workers?

Leopold began to create a plan to convince other European powers of the legitimacy of his claim to the region, all the while maintaining the guise that his work was for the benefit of the native peoples under the name of a philanthropic “association”.

The king launched a publicity campaign in Britain to distract critics, drawing attention to Portugal’s record of slavery, and offering to drive slave traders from the Congo basin. He also secretly told British merchant houses that if he was given formal control of the Congo for this and other humanitarian purposes, he would then give them the same most favored nation (MFN) status Portugal had offered them. At the same time, Leopold promised Bismarck he would not give any one nation special status, and that German traders would be as welcome as any other.

Leopold then offered France the support of the association for French ownership of the entire northern bank of the Congo, and sweetened the deal by proposing that, if his personal wealth proved insufficient to hold the entire Congo, as seemed utterly inevitable, that it should revert to France. On April 23, 1884, the International Association’s claim on the southern Congo basin was formally recognized by France on condition that the French got the first option to buy the territory if the Association decided to sell. This may also have helped Leopold to gain recognition for his claim by the other major powers, who thus wanted him to succeed instead of selling his claims to France.

He also enlisted the aid of the United States, sending President Chester A. Arthur carefully edited copies of the cloth-and-trinket treaties that Stanley (a Welsh-American) claimed to have negotiated with various local authorities, and proposing that, as an entirely disinterested humanitarian body, the Association would administer the Congo for the good of all, handing over power to the natives as soon as they were ready for that responsibility.

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:23:08am

re: #188 steve_davis

was this before or after they started lopping off hands of “slow” workers?

According to what I’ve read, Leopold began the practice after he started harvesting rubber in the Congo, as punishment for workers not meeting their quota.

Dunno if it continued after the Belgian government took over the colony.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:23:50am

Why is Texas currently doing so well with their handling of COVID? Number of cases is no longer a useful metric, but death rate over the past 2 weeks is less than half of Illinois though their vaccination rate is 62% compared to our 70%? And their hospitalization rate is lower than ours and still declining?

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:26:29am
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Charles Johnson  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:28:00am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:29:19am

Is this essentially Belarus announcing that they are defaulting on their foreign debt? And if so, how deep and long-term is the hole they are putting themselves in. (And I guess this is also tying themselves even closer to Russia?)

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Charles Johnson  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:30:17am
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Dangerman  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:31:54am

Florida Tesla drivers are the worst

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:36:27am

The mailers for the GOP US Rep candidate* in this section of PA started out with the standard dribble. Have now moved to the new buzzwords like “woke” in their dribble.

And today moved to an interesting bit of hypocrisy since they charge to Democratic candidate having just “parachuted in” to run for seat as a sort of carpetbagger.

* - Actually stuff from a PAC and not the candidate’s campaign directly. A pile of money into campaign signs and mail flyers in this race. Very little in the way of mailers from the other campaigns in this region. I am sort of surprised there hasn’t been a mailer from either party with their slate attached so you know who to vote for. (I was getting those from the Democrats in Chester County the past few years regarding their local candidates down to even the school board level.)

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:37:25am

re: #198 Dangerman

Florida Tesla drivers are the worst

Slight correction. 🙃🙃

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:39:36am

re: #197 Charles Johnson

My favorite librul MSM talking point: “The Democrats peaked too early”. ….referring to the “momentum” the Dems gained after the fascist SCOTUS destroyed 50 years of precedence.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Oct 19, 2022 • 10:44:36am

re: #147 GlutenFreeJesus

$100k bond for the bomb guy too. How fucked is that.

He is undoubtedly a Trumpster. No communard bomber would be stupid enough to store it like that.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 19, 2022 • 11:12:24am

re: #193 Hecuba’s daughter

One has to account for many vriables:

Age of population,
population density,
climate,
etc.


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