This Is Amazing: “Hi Ren”

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Creating this song wasn’t easy, but I’m so proud of how it turned out.

Want to say a big thank you for everyones support over the years. During the years trapped inside with chronic health problems the main thing that kept me going was a belief that one day I would come out the other side, and be able to achieve success through music. I don’t have a label, and sometimes pushing these things as hard as I want becomes a massive challenge, and I find myself frustrated that there aren’t enough hours in the day to push it as far as I want to. I would love to ask a favour to anyone who has ever enjoyed my music over the years, and it will only take a few minutes of your day. It would mean the world to me if you shared ‘Hi Ren’ as much as you can, over social media platforms, with friends, over email. Together, and with your help I can hopefully reach people all over the world, and get one step closer to the dream I always had! Thank you so much for the support so far!

Ren

Song written, performed, directed by Ren
Cinamatographer - Samuel Perry-Falvey
First A.C. - Joshua styles
Lighting - Jacob Neller
Location - Will Rumfitt

The lyrics to this incredible, riveting performance are quite long, so I put them behind this little button.

Click to Reveal


Hi there Ren
It’s been a little while,
Did you miss me?
You thought you’d buried me, didn’t you? Risky…
Because I always come back
Deep down you know that…
Deep down you know I’m always in periphery
Ren aren’t you pleased to see me? it’s been weeks since we spoke bro, you know you need me
You’re the sheep, I’m the shepherd
Not your place to lead me
Not your place to be biting off the hand that feeds me

Hi Ren
I’ve been taking some time to be distant
I’ve been taking some time to be still
I’ve been taking some time to be by myself since my therapist told me I’m ill
I’ve been making some progress lately, and I’ve learnt some new coping skills
So I haven’t really needed you much man
I think we need to just step back and chill

Ren, you sound more insane than I do
You think that those doctors are really there to guide you?
Been through this a million times
Your civilian mind is so perfect at always being lied to
Okay, take another pill boy
Drown yourself in the sound of white noise
Follow this 10 step program, rejoice!
All your problems will be gone! Fucking dumb boy

Nah mate, this time it’s different man trust me
I feel like things might be falling in place
And my music’s been kinda doing bits too
Like I actually might do something great
And when I’m gone maybe I’ll be remembered
For doing something special with myself
That’s why I don’t think that we should talk man
Cause when your with me it never seems to help

You think that you can amputate me?
I am you, you are me, you are I, I am we
We are one, split in two that makes one so you see
You got to kill you if you wanna kill me.
I’m not left over dinner, I’m not scraps on the side, oh your music is thriving?
Delusional guy! Where’s your top ten hit? Where’s your interview with Oprah?
Where are your grammes Ren?
Nowhere!

Yeah but, my music’s not commercial like that
I never chased numbers, statistics or stats
I Never write hooks for the radio, they never even play me so why would Iconcernn myself with that?
But my music is really connecting,
And the people who find it respect it ,
And for me that’s enough ‘cause this life’s been tough so it gives me a purpose I can rest in

Man you sound so pretentious !
Ren your music is so self centred,
No one wants to hear another song about how much you hate yourself… trust me
You should be so lucky having me inside you to guide you, remind you to manage expectations,
provide you perspective, that thing you neglected, I get it
You wana be a big deal… Next jimi hendrix? forget it

Man it’s not like that

Man it’s just like that I’m inside you you twat

Nah it’s not man your wrong, when I write I belong

Let me break the fourth wall by acknowledging this song
Ren sits down,
Has a stroke of genius,
He wants to write a song that was not done previous
A battle with his subconscious…
Eminem did it

Played on guitar

Plan B did it
Man your not original you criminal, rip off artist, the pinnacle of your success is stealing other people’s material
Ren mate we’ve heard it all before
Ohh “she sell sea shells on the sea shore”

Fuck you I don’t need you, I don’t need to hear this,
cause I’m fine by myself, I’m a genius!
and I will be great, and I will make waves, and ill shake up the whole world beneath us

That’s right speak your truth, your fucking god complex leaks out of you
It’s refreshing to actually hear you say it!
In stead of down play it…
“Oh the music Is all about the creative process and if people can find something to relate to within that the that’s just a bonus”

Fuck you ima fucking kill you Ren

Well fucking kill me then
let’s fucking have you Ren

I’m a do it, watch me prove it, who are you to doubt my music?
‘Cause I call the shots I choose if you die
Yeah I call the shots and so i who choose who survives
I’ll tie you up in knots then I’ll lock you inside

News flash…

I was created at the dawn of creation,

I am temptation

I am the snake in Eden,

I am the reason for treason

Beheading all Kings,
I am sin with no rhyme or reason,
Sun of the morning, Lucifer,
Antichrist, father of lies,
Mestophilies,
Truth in a blender,
Deceitful pretender,
The Banished avenger,
The righteous surrender
When standing in-front of my solar eclipse,
My name it is stitched to your lips so see
I won’t bow to the will of a mortal, feeble and normal

You wana kill me? I’m enteral, immortal
I live in every decision that catalysed chaos
That causes division
I live inside death, the beginning of ends
I am you, you are me, I am you Ren

Hi Ren… I’ve been taking some time to be distant,
I’ve been taking some time to be still
I’ve been taking some time to be by myself and I’ve spent half my life ill
But just as sure as the tide start turning
Just as sure as the night has dawn
Just as sure as rain fall soon runs dry when you stand in the eye of the storm

I was made to be tested and twisted
I was made to be broken and beat
I was made by his hand, it’s all part of the plan that I stand on my own two feet
And you know me my will is eternal
And you know me you’ve met Me before
Face to with a beast I will rise from the east and I’ll settle on the ocean floor
And I go by many names also
Some people know me as hope
Some people know me as the voice that you hear when u loosen the noose on the rope
And you know how I know how I know that I’ll prosper?
Because I stand here beside you today
I have stood in the flames that cremated my brain
And I didn’t once flinch or shake
So cower at the man I’ve become
When I sing from the top of my lungs
That I won’t retire I’ll stand in your fire inspire the meek to be strong
And when I am gone I will rise
In the music that I left behind
Ferocious persistent, immortal like you
we’re a coin with two different sides

When I was 17 years old I shouted out into an empty room, into a blank canvas, that I would defeat the forces of evil,
and for the next 10 years of my life I suffered the consequences…
With Illness, autoimmunity and psychosis

As I got older I realised that there were no real winners or no real losers in physiological warfare
But there were victims and there were students

It wasn’t David verses Goliath, it’s was a pendulum eternally swaying between the dark and the light,
and the brighter the light shone, the darker the shadow it cast

It was never a battle for me to win, it was an eternal dance,
and like a dance, the more rigid I became the harder it got
The more I cursed my clumsy footsteps the more i suffered
And so I got older and I learned to relax, and I learned to soften, and that dance got easier

It is this eternal waltz that separates human beings from angels, from demons, from gods

And I must not forget, we must not forget, that we are human beings.

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324 comments
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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:47:39pm

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:48:52pm

I’m mesmerized.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:54:03pm
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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:54:04pm

Ren Gill:
themusicman.uk

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:58:14pm

Ren - Sick Boi

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gwangung  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:00:25pm

re: #16 ckkatz

wtf

Apparently the next bubble being stoked by the GOP outrage machine is that ‘DEI’ forces unqualified candidates onto the public.
(DEI - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion)

Yeah, well, they don’t try that bullshit on me (an Asian male). Particularly since I know enough testing methodology to scorch their alleged brain.

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gocart mozart  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:00:28pm
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:02:03pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

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Now you can really drive them without the angst.

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:02:23pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

“There’s no denying that all the viewer of this video feel sad to see these beauties destroyed.”

“Don’t assume.”

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:02:52pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

Two less douche canoes on the road.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:05:40pm

Mastodon

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dat_said  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:09:23pm

Repost from last thread:

re: #43 Thanos

All of them, but let’s start with that pulse ox. The whole time I was in the hospital post surgery I had a lead running from my fingertip to the monitoring machine. Anytime I needed to hit the head it was a call to the nurse’s station and “Hey, I’m unclipping my leads so I can go pee…” and getting it tangled in my blankets, pulling it loose and having the nurse have to run it to see what’s going on etc.

We can easily print flexible circuitry, we can power things via motion, a pulse ox is at heart a light and a sensor that reads a color value. Trivial to blue tooth or wifi, trivial to make in a flexible ring that sits on your finger.

Ooh Ooh Ooh…. Something I can pretend to be an authority on. I have decades of experience, mostly in cardiac resynchronization (CRT-D) and implantable defibs (ICD) but also vagus nerve stim (VNS), spinal cord stim (SCS), deep brain stim (DBS), and a little time on cranial nerve stim for migraine (which doesn’t have an acronym yet). And, you can tell how much an expert I am by my rampant use of acronyms.

Generally the biggest challenge for new technology in the med world is cost followed by a whole bunch of inertia. So, your idea on the pulse oximeter is an excellent one with direct benefits to the patient and indirect benefit to the nursing staff. Unfortunately you’re going to have to make a case of why it’s beneficial to replace something that is approved for use and costs $5 to make with something that costs, at least initially, 10x to make and likely millions of dollars for the approval process and also has more points of failure you need to account for in your hazard analysis. Plus, reimbursement won’t change for something with the same functionality.

I’ve seen a lot of proposals over the years and it’s often costs and reimbursement that kills the idea. Apple Watches should work as a substitute for ECG, right? Actually no, as they don’t match the standard. Could use them on patients where it’s not as critical but there’s no reimbursement for that and no one will pay the costs for additional monitoring without showing benefit. There are wearable sensor patches available and approved that are real good at monitoring heart rate and activity and respiration, battery powered that last a month, have memory and Bluetooth and could easily be used in a hospital setting to free patients from ECG wires but not going to happen any time soon for a number of reasons but mainly because ECG patches cost less than a dollar. Could use ballistograms (tubes of water under the mattress - saw a demo at a Missouri nursing home where a grad student made one using $20 worth of material from Radio Shack - obviously a long time ago) to remotely monitor heart and respiration in nursing homes to a remarkably accurate level. No reimbursement and nobody was willing to foot the bill for staff to monitor. The place also used a Wii to monitor gait and a little garage door sensor to monitor bathroom usage. All those sensors resulted in a lot of papers on detecting everything from apnea and bradycardia to balance issue changes (falls), urinary infections and dementia but no traction whatsoever because of cost and reimbursement (and, in this case, concern over privacy and big brother).

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:10:46pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

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Laughter that turns into tears of anguish once you realize that you can never get a job driving cars ever again, with perhaps the possible exception as a crash test dummy.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:12:14pm

I’ve heard Jimmy Carter speak. I was a student at Emory when he was setting up his Carter Center in Atlanta and had a paid relationship with Emory that required him to give a talk each year for a couple of years to students. I was reading on some steps leading up to where he was going to speak that evening and looked up to see a small scrum coming towards me. I quickly realized that the guy in the center was Carter, but in advance of him was a photographer walking up the stairs backwards taking photos of Jimmy walking up the stairs. The photographer’s equipment that he had slung around his neck hit me in the head as he backed by. Everyone apologized and Jimmy said “hi.”

I went to the speech that evening and I don’t remember a thing.

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nines09  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:13:19pm

Back when my youngest boy was playing soccer at age 9 or so, he was a natural. He was coached by a man who had two sons and loved the game. He put together some very talented teams, his one younger boy was very talented, and he saw my Christopher and wanted him on his team.
They were successful and my son learned the game in a way I could not show him. Was exposed to higher talent. Soaked it in like a sponge.
He got recruited by some travel teams we could not afford.
Very nice family, and he was an ER doctor at our Mecca Hospital.
He got sick.
He developed problems that attacked his body.
Nobody had a clue.
It got so bad with the pain, he underwent back surgery.
He found no true relief from that.
Suffered mightily.
Laid him low.
After I’m not sure how many years of this nightmare, he was finally diagnosed with Lyme Disease.
Him and family camped and hiked and enjoyed the edges of wilderness, and there are many wilderness spots in Pennsylvania and beyond.
He got better. Slowly.
But he regained most of what he lost outside of the time he lost.
Time and family and career and all that demand your attention, we lost touch.
He suffered mightily, was very athletic and a doctor.
And at that massive medical facility he was employed by, they had no clue.
It is a dreadful disease that will cut you in places you would think was other things.
As it says in his Ren’s bio.
I hope he regains what was taken from him.
Harold, that was his name, got most of his life back, but the time lost
Thanks for this. May Ren regain Ren.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:13:55pm

“DEI” is 2023’s “racial quotas” as the white prick’s shorthand for “Everything was great until they let those [insert racial epitaph] through the door.” No need to actually address how the industry currently getting roasted alive in the press has been gradually sacrificing quality/safety/comfort/etc for profits by cutting corners and overworking their skeleton crews to death, just launch a defense that everything was so much better when 90%+ of their workforce was straight white men back in the 50s.

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steve_davis  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:21:09pm

re: #3 Barefoot Grin

God: “Jimmy’s had a good long life and done remarkable stuff even into his last years. Let’s call him home. How do you feel about calling Kissinger home?”

Satan: “I get him for eternity. Let me just savor it for awhile longer.”

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:26:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:26:23pm

a bit more about Ren Gill:

staticdive.com

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(((Archangel1)))  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:30:00pm

From last thread,
re: #86 William Lewis

What is your definition of better?

The background of the upper left is best to me & the tree of the lower right is best to me.

Well “better” for me is “better looking tree”. But one’s being submitted in the next hour for the next NightCafe daily challenge (which is about trees), so the definition of better would be “whichever one will get voters to go ‘ooh, pretty!’ and give it five stars”. :)
Was hoping there’d be more of a preference for one over the rest but A or D were preferred rather equally so far. D is more detailed and seems to me to be better lighted, but it’s also less realistic tree-wise. A seems to have a better looking background, but while the tree seems more realistic branches it isn’t as detailed.
Do I submit the one that’s less realistic but “prettier” or the one that’s more realistic and not as pretty?

Down to two finalists…
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:30:21pm

I have not been in the church of my confirmation as a believer ever. It was just what we did. But it meant so much to my parents. I hope that there are celebrations of Jimmy Carter’s faith, because it so resembles my parents’ investment in their church and faith. My dad probably voted Republican for most of my life, but he switched after GWB.

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dat_said  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:31:36pm

re: #12 dat_said

Speaking of a simple idea using sensors that might change outcomes, here’s a nifty one out of ND: walkwise.com It’s just a little attachment on a walker that keeps track of changes in gait. You can learn a lot from gait and pace. We should all have one in our shoes.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:31:57pm
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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:32:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:32:17pm

re: #18 Barefoot Grin

Jimmy Carter is just one example of the many MANY of all faiths or none, who quietly live their faith and are not genocidal maniacs going after anyone who are not exactly like them or even nothing like them. They are, I believe, representative of their various religions, not what some would prefer to use a broad brush painting them with the outrageous and provoking acts of a few.

One of my favorite people of all time.

FWIW, I say this as an agnostic.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:35:37pm

re: #78 (((Archangel1)))

“Better” is going to be quite subjective here. “D” is more visually engaging but it is also the most unrealistic. A large tree does not grow like that. “A” is the more realistic.

Are these from Midjourney?

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:35:47pm

re: #20 (((Archangel1)))

From last thread,

[snip]
Do I submit the one that’s less realistic but “prettier” or the one that’s more realistic and not as pretty?

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D

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:36:17pm

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nines09  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:37:02pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:37:33pm

re: #20 (((Archangel1)))

I didn’t catch up to your reply.

But you summarize what I concluded anyway.

Good luck on the competition.

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Jebediah, RBG  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:38:16pm

re: #78 (((Archangel1)))

For the challenge, I would enter top left one.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:38:28pm

also, BTW, I see the argument claiming that eruvs are establishing a religious preference or whatever is complete bullshit.

It is in no way shape or form a recognizable “religious symbol”…most people don’t even see them, much less know what they are. They could be extraneous utility lines for what any regular person would guess.

I see whatever local government approval of an eruv is no different from approving a building permit for outdoor covered walkways.

Getting yer tidy widies in a bunch over something like this is truly just looking to be contrarian.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:40:53pm
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(((Archangel1)))  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:41:02pm

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

“Better” is going to be quite subjective here. “D” is more visually engaging but it is also the most unrealistic. A large tree does not grow like that. “A” is the more realistic.

Are these from Midjourney?

Made with NightCafe - you can’t submit to challenges there if it’s not made or modified with their system. I usually upload photos of mine, then modify/evolve the living daylights out of them until i’m satisfied (A went through five previous stages).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:43:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:44:50pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:45:39pm
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:45:41pm

re: #3 Barefoot Grin

Oh no, what did he do now?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:46:13pm

re: #38 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Oh no, what did he do now?

apparently the odds are he will outlive Jimmy Carter

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:48:44pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:49:55pm
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Ace Rothstein  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:51:15pm

re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thanks Biden.
/

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austin_blue  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:51:24pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jimmy Carter is just one example of the many MANY of all faiths or none, who quietly live their faith and are not genocidal maniacs going after anyone who are not exactly like them or even nothing like them. They are, I believe, representative of their various religions, not what some would prefer to use a broad brush painting them with the outrageous and provoking acts of a few.

One of my favorite people of all time.

FWIW, I say this as an agnostic.

THIS!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:54:15pm

Oh boy.

Let’s Hope Marianne Williamson’s Big News Is That She’s Starting A Scented Candle MLM (Wonkette, today)

TL;DR, it appears that Marianne Williamson is going to announce in Washington on March 4 that she is seeking the Democratic nomination for President.

She is very mad that people keep connecting her to New Age woo and antivax stances, and wants you to know she’s just like the abolitionists of old who were told they couldn’t get it done either.

More crazy stuff about her at the link.

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(((Archangel1)))  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:56:31pm

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

“D” is more visually engaging but it is also the most unrealistic. A large tree does not grow like that.

Forgot to mention in the previous reply - good catch. There’s a reason for it too. A went through several stages and is based on a photo of mine of a tree in a forest; D went through as many stages but is based on a photo of a bonsai tree my relative has.

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gocart mozart  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:56:35pm
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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:56:36pm

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The fidget spinner of presidential candidates.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:59:06pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jimmy Carter is just one example of the many MANY of all faiths or none, who quietly live their faith and are not genocidal maniacs going after anyone who are not exactly like them or even nothing like them. They are, I believe, representative of their various religions, not what some would prefer to use a broad brush painting them with the outrageous and provoking acts of a few.

One of my favorite people of all time.

FWIW, I say this as an agnostic.

I agree. Unfortunately it’s not those who quietly live their faith who grab power, even though they are the vast majority.

It was the Evangelical Christians who turned most strongly against him in the 1980 election, after Republican operatives successfully lied about the Bob Jones University segregation case at the Supreme Court (which was decided during the Ford Administration), and claimed Jimmy Carter’s administration had pushed for it.

That propelled their votes straight to Ronald Reagan and his not-so-subtle racism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:59:45pm

re: #47 jaunte

The fidget spinner of presidential candidates.

LOL

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:00:32pm

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oh boy.

Let’s Hope Marianne Williamson’s Big News Is That She’s Starting A Scented Candle MLM (Wonkette, today)

TL;DR, it appears that Marianne Williamson is going to announce in Washington on March 4 that she is seeking the Democratic nomination for President.

She is very mad that people keep connecting her to New Age woo and antivax stances, and wants you to know she’s just like the abolitionists of old who were told they couldn’t get it done either.

More crazy stuff about her at the link.

So hers was the name pulled so the media has somebody they can go to when they want to claim the Dems are blocking all challenges to Biden’s reelection.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:06:26pm

Kissinger doesn’t deserve to live to be 100.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:08:18pm

Ren’s soliloquy at the end…just wow

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:09:15pm

Ugh. I can’t wait until Monday to go to the VA Hospital in Cheyenne. I’ll be going tomorrow. I’ll be getting to bed early tonight so we can make the long drive in the morning. Unknown whether they will keep me there or not.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:10:03pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

“May you live forever” is a curse in more than one culture.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:11:04pm

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:15:34pm

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I hope everything works out for you.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:19:07pm

Case in point about the loud ones who grab power.

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dat_said  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:19:49pm

Extremely local news. A scofflaw in a very misguided effort has been leaving marshmallows and chocolate chips at night along the nature trail in the neighborhood park. The parks department posted signs citing city ordinance against feeding wildlife and the scofflaw responded by destroying the signs (I’m assuming it was the scofflaw). The city park has now set up cameras in an attempt to capture the person in action. Im concerned about further escalation.

Feeding wildlife is generally a bad idea (I despise the people who feed the trail-pooping geese in the summer). However, using chocolate chips is just stupid.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:20:34pm

re: #58 dat_said

Extremely local news. A scofflaw in a very misguided effort has been leaving marshmallows and chocolate chips at night along the nature trail in the neighborhood park. The parks department posted signs citing city ordinance against feeding wildlife and the scofflaw responded by destroying the signs (I’m assuming it was the scofflaw). The city park has now set up cameras in an attempt to capture the person in action. Im concerned about further escalation.

Feeding wildlife is generally a bad idea (I despise the people who feed the trail-pooping geese in the summer). However, using chocolate chips is just stupid.

using chocolate chips can also be fatal

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:20:37pm

re: #56 PhillyPretzel

I hope everything works out for you.

Thanks. I’m just hoping this is an inconvenience. However, the VA nurse in Sidney doesn’t think so, which is why she called me at home to complain why haven’t you gone to the doctor yet.

We’ll see.

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dat_said  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:23:23pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

using chocolate chips can also be fatal

Exactly. I’m certain the person doing it doesn’t understand and would be horrified to learn that.

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steve_davis  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:25:12pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve read about this, I think. Is the theory that we were passing through a part of the galaxy that was just filled with dust? Or an especially large bit of the remains of a comet?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:27:07pm

re: #61 dat_said

Exactly. I’m certain the person doing it doesn’t understand and would be horrified to learn that.

learning new stuff every day: marshmallows can be toxic for squirrels.

also:

Marshmallows with nails, fish hooks discovered in yards of Farmington Hills homes

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (FOX 2) - Farmington Hills police think someone is trying to harm animals by putting nails and fishhooks into marshmallows then leaving them in yards.

Police said the marshmallows have been discovered in the area of Heritage Hills Drive and Hunters Whip Lane, which is near 14 Mile and Farmington roads.

The first report of these marshmallows was received in the 30000 block of Hunters Whip Lane in May 2022.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:28:06pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:28:30pm

“Border Sabotage.”

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dat_said  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:32:16pm

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hmmm … maybe they actually hate the squirrels.

I figured marshmallows and the corn syrup would muck up the poor critters digestion. Didn’t think it would be directly toxic. They’re using miniature marshmallows so likely no fish hooks.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:32:42pm

More evidence (as if Elon Musk was not enough all by himself) that we need a wealth tax in the US:

The One: The Ludicrous Bel Air Home that No One Wants

..

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:33:17pm

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

Carter was destructive?

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:34:39pm

re: #68 Ace Rothstein

Carter was destructive?

He lusted in his heart once after another woman than Rosalyn.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:35:36pm

re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:35:53pm

re: #68 Ace Rothstein

Carter was destructive?

well, we’ve been informed earlier in this thread that he’s directly responsible for the election of Ronald Reagan, so there’s that.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:36:19pm

re: #69 Barefoot Grin

He lusted in his heart once after another woman than Rosalyn.

That just makes him sound like Ned Flanders.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:36:24pm

re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve lived in Texas for all of my 51 years, and I can tell you that I have heard this border shit since I was 10. There is no crisis.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:37:19pm

re: #69 Barefoot Grin

Dude, Linda Carter was blazing hot in 1979.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:37:34pm

re: #73 Ace Rothstein

I’ve lived in Texas for all of my 51 years, and I can tell you that I have heard this border shit since I was 10. There is no crisis.

the border has been a crisis since the Alamo…

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:38:00pm

re: #72 Belafon

That just makes him sound like Ned Flanders.

“Ned’s Confessions to Left-handed ‘Playboy’.”

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Amory Blaine  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:40:17pm

Until I see republicans going after the capitalists that employ the undocumented, I will continue to recognize what the border is, a strawman.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:40:38pm

re: #74 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Dude, Linda Carter was blazing hot in 1979.

I may or may not have rubbed one out to Debbie Harry’s photo on the first Blondie album.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:42:25pm

Terminal trix: a complete weather report in the terminal. Just replace LAX with your location code.

curl wttr.in/LAX
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Tahitinho  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:43:00pm

re: #62 steve_davis

It’s debris from a comet. Next time is in 2031ish.

Here is a good discussion.

The last time was 1999. I happened to have a good friend whose mother lived on a small farm. I fondly remember lying on the ground in the dark, near the farmhouse, snuggled up under blankets and watching the display for a few hours.

It was not as extreme as in that artwork, as there were not as many as 1833, but it was very impressive. The best meteor display I’ve ever seen. There was one streaking by every few minutes, and the streaks were quite bright. The biggest ones left a line across the sky that continued to glow to a few seconds, dim but visible while fading out. Kind of a bluish color, as I recall.

Hadn’t thought about that night in a long while. Nice to be reminded of it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:43:04pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:44:12pm

More terminal trix: if you have a Mac, in the latest MacOS Ventura you can now do an internet speed test in the Terminal.

networkQuality -v
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:46:17pm

re: #82 Charles Johnson

More terminal trix: if you have a Mac, in the latest MacOS Ventura you can now do an internet speed test in the Terminal.

networkQuality -v

I just upgraded to Ventura, but I’ll have to do some self-learning to find out how to do this. Interesting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:48:02pm
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Ace Rothstein  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:52:48pm

Carter was too good and honest a man for the presidency.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:53:57pm

re: #85 Ace Rothstein

True. And he is still a good man.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:54:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:58:36pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 4:59:51pm

Thread, four tweets.

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ckkatz  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:01:43pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:06:19pm
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nines09  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:07:57pm

instagram.com

Woah.

Nite nite lizards

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:08:07pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:08:34pm

Yay (not).

I live on the far left of this map. Kind of like my politics. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:10:33pm

Hot off the press, thirty-five minutes ago.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:12:17pm

Yup, the weather service hates us. We’re still dealing with the snow from the December 23 blizzard here (and subsequent snowstorms of lesser impact).

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:14:09pm

curl wttr.in

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:14:57pm

Weather in My Head

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mmmirele  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:16:51pm

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I agree. Unfortunately it’s not those who quietly live their faith who grab power, even though they are the vast majority.

It was the Evangelical Christians who turned most strongly against him in the 1980 election, after Republican operatives successfully lied about the Bob Jones University segregation case at the Supreme Court (which was decided during the Ford Administration), and claimed Jimmy Carter’s administration had pushed for it.

That propelled their votes straight to Ronald Reagan and his not-so-subtle racism.

I am unaware of a Bob Jones segregation case…I AM aware of a Bob Jones IRS case (Bob Jones University v. United States, 1983). The IRS decided back in the early 1970s that BJU could be denied a federal tax exemption because it discriminated against black people in enrollment. This case bounced back and forth through the federal court system for over a decade before the 1983 decision.

en.wikipedia.org

Because of the back and forth during the middle 1970s, I suspect it was a lower court decision, along with the fact that elite universities were taking an “aw, hell naw” approach to playing Brigham Young University, that the Mormon Church decided it might be a good time to remove its racist teaching that black men could not be priesthood holders.

The mistake that BJU and the Mormon church made was that they didn’t file thousands of lawsuits regarding their tax exemptions in virtually every federal district court in the USA. That’s what Scientology did, and the IRS came up with a secret agreement to give Scientology its tax exemption back.

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darthstar  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:20:23pm

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yup, the weather service hates us. We’re still dealing with the snow from the December 23 blizzard here (and subsequent snowstorms of lesser impact).

What is it with these winter storms always hitting during the winter?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:21:03pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:22:06pm

re: #98 jaunte

curl wttr.in

LOL

It does work for real airports though I found.

KSNY (Sidney, Nebraska Municipal Airport) wttr.in

KBFF (Scottsbluff Regional Airport) wttr.in

I do like the retro ASCII graphics.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:22:45pm

re: #101 darthstar

What is it with these winter storms always hitting during the winter?

As is written in “The Art of War” hit them where they most expect it.

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:25:15pm

re: #101 darthstar

What is it with these winter storms always hitting during the winter?

‘Ha ha Global Warming, LOL!’

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:26:44pm

re: #100 mmmirele

That’s the case in question. Via Politico, May 27, 2014:

This myth of origins is oft repeated by the movement’s leaders. In his 2005 book, Jerry Falwell, the firebrand fundamentalist preacher, recounts his distress upon reading about the ruling in the Jan. 23, 1973, edition of the Lynchburg News: “I sat there staring at the Roe v. Wade story,” Falwell writes, “growing more and more fearful of the consequences of the Supreme Court’s act and wondering why so few voices had been raised against it.” Evangelicals, he decided, needed to organize.

Some of these anti- Roe crusaders even went so far as to call themselves “new abolitionists,” invoking their antebellum predecessors who had fought to eradicate slavery.

But the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny. In fact, it wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools. So much for the new abolitionism.

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:27:59pm

re: #101 darthstar

What do you mean?

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:28:41pm

re: #107 jaunte

lol

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:28:43pm

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oops, I left out the link to the article:

The Real Origins of the Religious Right
They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:29:26pm

re: #107 jaunte

What do you mean?

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:29:53pm

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

lol

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mmmirele  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:36:49pm

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah, the movie “American Graffiti” (1973) had that as its epilogue—one of the characters, Curt Henderson “is a writer living in Canada.” We all knew what that meant. I also remember my uncle Floyd grousing about Carter pardoning the draft dodgers, but hell, I think it quickly closed an open wound. We’d been out of Vietnam not quite two years and if this went on, this was going to fester and become a nightmare. Carter did the unbelievable and pardoned those guys. He never gets enough credit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:37:14pm

Another citation from the Politico article above: Their attack was very reminiscent of those asking why Obama didn’t do anything about Hurricane Katrina.

[Paul] Weyrich saw that he had the beginnings of a conservative political movement, which is why, several years into President Jimmy Carter’s term, he and other leaders of the nascent religious right blamed the Democratic president for the IRS actions against segregated schools—even though the policy was mandated by Nixon, and Bob Jones University had lost its tax exemption a year and a day before Carter was inaugurated as president. Falwell, Weyrich and others were undeterred by the niceties of facts. In their determination to elect a conservative, they would do anything to deny a Democrat, even a fellow evangelical like Carter, another term in the White House.

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:38:19pm
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Ace Rothstein  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:42:46pm

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wow, I never knew that Carter pardoned Trump for dodging the draft.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:46:09pm

Jerry Falwell liked to tout after the 1980 election that a Harris poll showed that Jimmy Carter would have won the election by about 1% if it hadn’t been for the machinations of the right wing on the Bob Jones case.

The Bob Jones University case merits a postscript. When the school’s appeal finally reached the Supreme Court in 1982, the Reagan administration announced that it planned to argue in defense of Bob Jones University and its racial policies. A public outcry forced the administration to reconsider; Reagan backpedaled by saying that the legislature should determine such matters, not the courts. The Supreme Court’s decision in the case, handed down on May 24, 1983, ruled against Bob Jones University in an 8-to-1 decision. Three years later Reagan elevated the sole dissenter, William Rehnquist, to chief justice of the Supreme Court.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:51:46pm

re: #114 jaunte

On The Spotlight, from the Southern Poverty Law Center (August 29, 2001)

The Spotlight, Extinguished

The Spotlight, once the nation’s best-known conspiracy-minded anti-Semitic publication, closes its doors.

Culminating eight years of courtroom battles, America’s best-known anti-Semitic institution and its conspiracy-minded newspaper apparently are closing their doors, ending a chapter in the history of the radical right.

Officials of Washington, D.C.-based Liberty Lobby, founded by anti-Semite Willis Carto in 1955, told reporters in July that the organization was shutting down after a federal bankruptcy judge dismissed the group’s request for Chapter 11 protection.

The July 2 edition of the group’s newspaper, The Spotlight, was apparently its last.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 5:57:13pm

Meanwhile in extremely local news, I just found a jar of cranberry-walnut relish I canned nine years ago. The seal is still fine, I wonder if the relish is still good?

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:01:39pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Proceed with caution. If the seal is intact technically it should be okay.

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nines09  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:05:01pm

Cardinal Black - Tied Up in Blue (Abbey Road Live Session)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:20:52pm

We really have a Nazi problem in police departments (Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch, February 16, 2023)

D.C. Police Fed Proud Boys Leader Info on Antifa, Arrests: Texts

MPD’s IB routinely focused on anti-racist and antifascist protesters during former President Donald Trump’s tenure, according to a cache of 26,000 leaked MPD emails dated from May 2011 to December 2017. The IB monitors demonstrations in Washington, D.C. The emails contain IB surveillance logs concerning demonstrations organized by such groups as antifa and D.C. Black Lives Matter. Lt. Shane Lamond was copied on many of these emails. The texts confirm Lamond gave Tarrio the location of antifascist protesters in the district. The two shared a warm relationship, even meeting for a beer at a D.C. bar on the night of Dec. 15, 2020.

Attorneys entered the messages between Lamond and Tarrio into evidence for the trial of Tarrio and four other Proud Boys. Tarrio and his Proud Boys subordinates face charges of seditious conspiracy for allegedly plotting to stop the peaceful transfer of power from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden on Jan. 6, 2021.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:22:22pm

Wordle sucked today.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 609 6/6

🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:23:00pm

Ren - Violet’s Tale

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jeffreyw  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:31:43pm

Leonids 1833

Saw this repro of a woodcut made after the Leinid meteor shower in 1833 and it rang a little bell. Sure enough:

Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.
The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off. The father never speaks her name, the child does not know it.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:36:45pm

re: #122 The Pie Overlord!

Wordle sucked today.

I guess it depended on the starting word (2/6)

Click to Reveal

Wordle 609 2/6

🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:41:35pm

Two of my favorite movies ever I will never watch again. Saving Private Ryan and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

Nope.

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:44:02pm

Newborn Hertzalopes

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:46:37pm

I have to get up early in the morning for the long drive tomorrow, so I’ll catch y’all later (depending on when they let me go home again).

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:46:53pm
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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 6:47:52pm

“NBC 5 has also learned the arrested individuals include paramedics, firefighters, a teacher and a nurse and that some of the victims targeted young children, including infants.”

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:16:04pm

re: #122 The Pie Overlord!

Wordle sucked today.

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The next one won’t be that much fun either if my experience is anything to go by.

Click to Reveal

Three mediocre approach shots with par only saved by preternaturally accurate use of the wedge.

Wordle 610 4/6

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🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Only one sister with the courage to attempt it so far, and she pulled off a birbie after whiffing the drive.

Wordle 610 3/6

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🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dangerman  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:19:55pm
The basic story of Fox News and the 2020 election is well understood. Fox’s relatively small news operation covered the vote count accurately; this coverage infuriated President Donald Trump, the MAGA base, and Fox’s opinion stars; some viewers temporarily flipped to further-right outlets, such as Newsmax; and Fox panicked…”

“Some of Fox’s top shows began broadcasting a better story, one that its viewers did want to watch: a conspiracy-laden tale about crooked Democrats stealing an election. Dominion is arguing that Fox knew full well that Trumpworld’s voter-fraud allegations were bunk but promoted the lies anyway. Whether or not Dominion prevails in court, and many experts believe it will, the lawsuit is already forcing an ethical reckoning over Fox’s disrespect of its audience. Hour after hour, day after day, Fox stars kept signaling to viewers that Trump might still win the election not because they thought he would, but because they were worried about their ratings. And we all witnessed the consequences on January 6.”

Link

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:21:52pm

My Uvalde graphic is still getting some use.

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Dangerman  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:23:04pm

re: #133 Dangerman

Fox continually insults the intelligence of their viewers.

No, they’re not all idiots.
but it seems they don’t know or don’t care.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:23:43pm

re: #129 jaunte

While the article is correct, we have to satch the speculation on the people. Legate did Google name searches, so the Republican and minister part may not be correct.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:23:49pm

re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:28:32pm

re: #135 Dangerman

Fox continually insults the intelligence of their viewers.

No, they’re not all idiots.
but it seems they don’t know or don’t care.

The key point is that a significant chunk of Fox watchers WANT TO BE LIED TO.

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:28:54pm

re: #136 Belafon

He may have confused the teacher with a minister:

“…Froning joined the school during the 2021-2022 academic year. He is a graduate of Ball State University and was previously named Teacher of the Year. He teaches kindergarten.

Online records indicate that a person with the same name previously taught at Katy ISD in Texas. He also appears to have taught at Acton Elementary in Indianapolis.
anglicanwatch.com

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Jay C  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:33:31pm

re: #138 Joe Bacon

The key point is that a significant chunk of Fox watchers WANT TO BE LIED TO.

And, just as importantly, will react extremely negatively when they don’t get the lies they want/expect….

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aatharuv  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:38:26pm

re: #6 gwangung

Yeah, well, they don’t try that bullshit on me (an Asian male). Particularly since I know enough testing methodology to scorch their alleged brain.

They’re trying to peel off enough Asian American votes in swing states like Georgia and Nevada to flip them Red. Nevada has a fairly large percentage of Asian Americans (8%ish), and though Georgia has fewer, the prize is bigger. None of the other states with large percentages of Asian Americans have any chance of going Red.

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:54:52pm
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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:56:41pm

I wouldn’t post Trump except when he attacks Ron:

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Captain Ron  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:58:56pm

The Air Force is speeding up its hunt for a faulty component on hundreds of KC-135 Stratotankers that, if it failed in flight, could cause an aircraft’s tail to fall off.

Air Force Materiel Command on Tuesday directed maintainers to inspect the entire KC-135 aerial refueling fleet, as well as the RC-135 family of reconnaissance planes and the WC-135 Constant Phoenix radiation‐sensing jet, for potentially faulty tail pins before their next flight.

As of Sunday, 24 of the 90 KC-135s that were inspected had noncompliant pins, the Air Force said. Planes with the proper parts have been cleared to fly.

The components, formally known as “vertical terminal fitting pins,” help attach an aircraft’s tail fin — its “vertical stabilizer” — to the rest of the fuselage. The tail gives pilots control over a plane while turning.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 7:59:43pm

re: #142 DodgerFan1988

OK who is going to tell Matt Taibbi that we know he’s posting a bunch of lies on Twitter?

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piratedan  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:05:31pm

re: #142 DodgerFan1988

it’s kind of amazing that their “revelations” of implied connections regarding Democratic perfidy regarding attempted influence over Twitter and claims of bias are revealed to be the exact opposite to anyone with a clue and yet THEY STILL ARE TRYING TO TELL US THE OPPOSITE. We watched them violate the Twitter TOS over and over again and be given rope each time until it got so egregious that Twitter had to act or lose all trust as a platform. All they’ve done is to make it painfully obvious that all of this bullshit is projection and they expect us to buy it when their own statements and deeds show a blatant disregard of rules, ethics and morals, much less common courtesy.

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Moe Avattar  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:15:46pm

re: #142 DodgerFan1988

“Newsworthy”? More like noseworthy, like the meth Taibbi used to snort while molesting Russian teenagers.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:22:42pm

I keep asking myself who is dumb enough to believe the lies Taibbi, Greenwald and Weiss posted on Twitter.

Unfortunately the answer is easy to discover!

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retired cynic  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:23:55pm

re: #148 Joe Bacon

What. An. Idiot.

to quote Hermione…

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:24:05pm

re: #147 Moe Avattar

“Newsworthy”? More like noseworthy, like the meth Taibbi used to snort while molesting Russian teenagers.

“Molested”. Such a polite, clinical, way to say “raped”. He committed it, and acted as an accessory thereto.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:25:34pm

re: #149 retired cynic

What. An. Idiot.

to quote Hermione…

Yeah. The proof is the HANNITY tattoo on the clown’s arm…

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:33:22pm

Well Gun Violence strikes again.

Los Angeles bishop found shot to death in Hacienda Heights

Authorities are investigating after a man was found shot to death in Hacienda Heights on Saturday afternoon.

The victim was identified as Bishop David O’Connell, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times.

O’Connell was found fatally shot on the 1500 block of Janlu Avenue just before 1 p.m., according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.

When authorities arrived, O’Connell was pronounced dead at the scene. He was found with at least one gunshot wound.

ktla.com

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A Cranky One  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:48:51pm

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gwangung  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:49:33pm

re: #141 aatharuv

If they had the discipline of a sad sack private, they might be successful…but they get too eager for red meat and assay what they really want, like with Covid or land in Texas so they give the game away like they did in the 90s

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 8:49:56pm

Just got back from a two day foray into the San Juan Mountains, Colorado’s greatest mountain range. I got a tiny taste of what a ski bum’s life is like in Silverton, CO and that shit is hardcore. There are literally big lines to ski everywhere around you, as long as you can get up there. Yesterday me and a couple of friends did a 2.5 mile hike up 2,000 vertical feet and skied bottomless snow on a steep, narrow, technical pitch we could see right from my friend’s front door. In fact, we started skinning up the mountain right from my friend’s front door. It was pretty wild, even for me. We got back and my friend who lives in Silverton had to go to the post office… on his snowmobile, which he navigated right on the town streets.

Today I skied with my best friend, a dude I’ve known for almost 35 years (we met in the 2nd grade), I haven’t seen him since before covid. He tried telemark skiing for the first time, he pulled off a few legit tele turns, warmed the gotdam cockles of my heart

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austin_blue  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:04:46pm

Just got back home after seeing the Panama Hats, a band of old farts who happen to be dear friends of ours (including John Burnett, who just retired from NPR and is an amazing mouth harp slinger), at The New World Deli on 41st and Guadalupe on the west edge of Hyde Park in north central Austin. We bussed back down to Barton Springs Road (BSR) and Riverside and hoofed it west about 10 blocks to get home. We noticed that the intersection of Lamar Avenue and BSR was Gumball City, nothing but a wash of red and blue lights. We turned on the news and there was nothing about what was happening.

Then She Who Must Be Obeyed found this video, taken around 9:30 this evening(?):

I gotta tell ya, this is a new one on me. I’ve never seen that much rubber being burned up on a city street, nor have I seen a major intersection in the 11th largest City in the country hijacked like this.

It’s just a fucking hoot and I love it! Oh, this is literally 2 and 1/2 blocks from my house.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:05:21pm

This is Silverton, CO. Population >700. Two of my good friends live there, went skiing with one yesterday, the other is in Alaska skiing right now.

Silverton had the highest mortality rate in the entire nation during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. More than 10% of the town’s population died of the flu in five months time.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:11:51pm

It truly appears the @jack has quit Twitter. Three tweets since the new year and they’re milquetoast self-promotion.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:14:03pm

re: #158 teleskiguy

It truly appears the @jack has quit Twitter. Three tweets since the new year and they’re milquetoast self-promotion.

Well he probably took the money and ran off to his own private abode just like a true Libertarian.

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austin_blue  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:23:15pm

re: #158 teleskiguy

It truly appears the @jack has quit Twitter. Three tweets since the new year and they’re milquetoast self-promotion.

If I’m Jack and someone bought my company for $44 billion (with a B), I’m not going to post on Twitter. I’m going to Vegas and find a chorus girl (in the immortal movie line of Willie Nelson) who can suck a golfball through twenty feet of garden hose and not leave the hotel room for three months, then buy the Owner’s suite on Megacruise ship solely devoted to round-the-world trips and never get off.

I’m kidding about the last part, of course. Nothing to me says “I’m in hell, please, please kill me now”, than being on a cruise ship.

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Tahitinho  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:26:32pm

I’ve watched & listened to “Hi Ren” four times now. This is one reason I hang out here, to be exposed to things I would not have stumbled upon on my own.

“Hi Ren” is… I’m lost for words. I’m, how does this exist? How did someone create this?

It’s Shakespeare with a guitar.

Human beings are amazing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:33:57pm

re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I have to get up early in the morning for the long drive tomorrow, so I’ll catch y’all later (depending on when they let me go home again).

Good luck and hope all goes well!! And that you can return to us soon.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:34:35pm

Facebook pal Cris Shapan just posted this…I busted something laughing at this insanity.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:36:40pm

The tech bro who did it right, Tom from MySpace. He’s been living his best life since he sold MySpace to Rupert Murdoch for a high nine figure deal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:48:19pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:49:30pm

I experienced so much joy today.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:53:35pm

Cue the cries of “murder” in her thread.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:56:18pm

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Cue the cries of “murder” in her thread.

Well when it happens to those who are damning that innocent woman to hell…oh what am I thinking…when it happens to them they will double down on the hate…

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Captain Ron  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:56:58pm

Whoever linked the 4k AI remaster of Farscape, thank you. I wish I knew if he worked from the 35 mm or the PAL broadcast. I have seen interlace artifacts here and there but that may be stuff added that was done on video..

Here is a scene of a rotating shadow of “a fan?” and there are no interlace artifacts.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 9:59:53pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:01:35pm

re: #170 Joe Bacon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:01:41pm
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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:05:34pm

re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Isn’t it nice when a dealer in antiques and art decides to give out medical advice?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:19:11pm

About that Twitter Blue Verified tick ($11 now?) which every libertarian douchebro fanboi of Elno says will keep misinformation off the platform because no one would pay to do that.

@vancemurphy

This guy is a firehose of lies and misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine and random people who’ve died.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:20:35pm

re: #132 Grunthos the Flatulent

The next one won’t be that much fun either if my experience is anything to go by.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:28:13pm
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Cities and counties could soon be on the hook to pay for electric vehicle charging stations if they mandate businesses to install them.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Missouri had more than 10,000 electric vehicles registered in 2021. As more people convert from gas to electric, the goal of some members of the General Assembly is to prevent local governments from requiring charging stations.

The House passed House Bill 184 Thursday with a vote of 105-36. The bill sponsored by Rep. Jim Murphy, a south St. Louis County Republican, would protect businesses as more electric vehicles hit the roadways.

“I don’t think it’s the government’s responsibility to be the marketing department for General Motors, Chrysler, or BMW,” Murphy said. “Unfortunately, my district sits right on Interstate 270 near the JB Bridge going over into Illinois, and we are a prime area for development, and it’s been stagnant because developers don’t want to spend this type of money.”

He said he filed the legislation after St. Louis County and City required businesses to install charging stations if they redo a parking lot, or expand or develop a new building. According to the legislation St. Louis County Council passed, if a business violates this law, it could be fined up to $500 or go to jail.

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More of that local control conservatives are on about (as long as they are the local control).

Missouri House approves changes to electric vehicle charging station mandates (KSN-TV, Wichita)

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:40:10pm

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darthstar  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:43:57pm

So I’m streaming the whole album Straight Up from Badfinger because Charles posted a link to Day After Day….fuck this album is good.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:46:40pm

In Arizona on February 14:

Because the truck driver “died suddenly” (to exposure to two thousand pounds of nitric acid), the antivaxxers are all over the post.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:46:45pm

re: #177 teleskiguy

I’m a poet and I didn’t know it.

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darthstar  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:47:26pm

re: #178 darthstar

So I’m streaming the whole album Straight Up from Badfinger because Charles posted a link to Day After Day….fuck this album is good.

Seriously, listen to the whole fucking album. Do it now.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:47:48pm

re: #180 teleskiguy

I’m a poet and I didn’t know it.

But your big feet show it.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 10:56:44pm

I took this picture on Friday. This is above the town of Silverton, in Colorado.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:02:44pm

re: #182 darthstar

But your big feet show it.

I do have a wide last. Scarpa 75mm boots are too gotdam narrow. You said it somewhere, “foot killing bastards.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:08:55pm

Paid blue tick troll posts picture of Nixon oil embargo gas lines to smear Jimmy Carter and spew hate.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:12:04pm

I had dinner with a 61-year-old Canadian dude named Reed on Friday night in Silverton, CO. He works for the municipal water dept. and is a sewer guy for Silverton. He told us at the dinner table that he’s got big wigs showing up soon, this month, EPA, Bureau of Reclamation. “I’m not showing up on Tuesday,” Reed said. Because the skiing is going to be spectacular that day. On and on. Reed was a heli ski guide up in Revelstoke, BC for 20 years prior to the gig as a water and sewer guy in Silverton, CO.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:15:02pm

You ski long enough, you meet some righteous weirdos. Like me.

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austin_blue  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:19:46pm

re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The medical definition of a “miscarriage” (a Victorian euphemism) is Spontaneous Abortion. Why? Because that is an accurate description of a uterus getting rid of a dead or non-viable fetus.

This is the normal way of human reproduction taking care of itself and the female hosts of the dead and the monsters when things go terribly wrong.

Yes, monsters. See, there are substances that are either natural, or, more often, man-made called teratogens. It’s from the Greek for Monsters.

Sometimes it’s just horrible sperm and egg combinations that are simply non-viable. They can’t implant in the uterus because they are, quite simply, fucked up. Or, they can implant in the uterus despite the fact that are so fucked up genetically that they are non-viable in utero and the uterus rejects them. These are natural miscarriages, and may be responsible for more than 50% of failed pregnancies not terminated by voluntary abortion. Turns out, the Christian God, as personified, is the largest abortionist on the planet, through the simple culling of non-viable fetuses through miscarriage.

But some of the teratogenic fetuses get implanted. And they are often the result of manufactured chemicals that we have introduced to the environment.

Benzene, for example, is a neural tube disruptor that can result in spina bifida (bad) or anencephalia, where no brain above the medulla is formed (fatal). You are exposed to benzene very time you refuel your car.

So this whole argument about abortion is crap.

There is a very good definition of death, which we had to come up with after we started yanking hearts out of brain-dead people to save lives of those that needed a new heart.

No working fore-brain, no human.

We had to do this or we were admitting we were vivisectionists, who were were cutting people to pieces to help rich people live longer.

No, really, that was a thing in the early 20th century. But the acceptance of “brain-death” to allow organ transplants from living corpses made the religious right lose their shit.

And for one simple reason. It directly contraindicated their rock-solid belief that human life begins at conception.

I mean, really, if human death is legally accepted to be at “brain-death” (and it was) then how could human life be a fact at conception if there was no actual brain involved?

Discuss!

I’m off for the rack. Have fun tonight. Be kind to one another.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:34:44pm

This snowflake’s answer to everything, especially the truth.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:43:58pm

Lewiston, Maine’s antivaxxers standing their ground.

Over 100 Lewiston students could be barred from school without required vaccinations (Lewiston Sun-Journal, updated February 10, 2023)

Make childhood death great again.

The 2019 law requires students to be vaccinated against infectious diseases like whooping cough, tetanus, measles, mumps and chickenpox.

LEWISTON — More than 120 Lewiston public school students are missing state-mandated vaccines, which, if not addressed, could prohibit them from attending school.

In 2019, the Maine Legislature banned nonmedical exemptions for vaccines required to attend school. Previously, parents could opt-out of immunizations for their children on philosophic or religious grounds.

The law has been in effect since at least the start of the current school year, but some districts have been slow to implement it due to lingering effects from the pandemic. The Lewiston school district began communicating the requirement to families whose children were not compliant in December, with a deadline of Feb. 1.

When Superintendent Jake Langlais learned how many students had yet to meet the requirement, he decided not to enforce the deadline.

“Let’s figure out what we can do,” he said.

Langlais believes that language barriers and negative views of vaccinations have played a role in the large number of students who have yet to meet the requirement. But even some families who are actively seeking these vaccines have been unable to get them, he added.

“If it’s about access for families, then there is nothing that feels right about telling a kid you can’t come to school,” Langlais said.

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Lewiston is the second-largest city in Maine, and is in the southeast portion of the state.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:55:27pm

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oh boy.

Let’s Hope Marianne Williamson’s Big News Is That She’s Starting A Scented Candle MLM (Wonkette, today)

TL;DR, it appears that Marianne Williamson is going to announce in Washington on March 4 that she is seeking the Democratic nomination for President.

She is very mad that people keep connecting her to New Age woo and antivax stances, and wants you to know she’s just like the abolitionists of old who were told they couldn’t get it done either.

More crazy stuff about her at the link.

Well I look at the good side. That Pulpit Pimp isn’t running for Senator from California.

And are we surprised that sleazy Pulpit Pimp who fleeced innocent people dying from AIDS is gonna run for President again? Nope. She’s just in it to fleece the suckers as she always does.

Oh if she runs will this be her campaign song?

The Who - Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 12:23:15am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 12:30:31am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 19, 2023 • 12:34:18am

re: #159 Joe Bacon

Well he probably took the money and ran off to his own private abode just like a true Libertarian.

He is starting a new (federated, I believe) social media site called Blue Sky (IIRC).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 12:36:26am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 12:48:37am

More bullshyte from my state’s Fascist Party.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 12:52:23am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 12:57:47am

Hard to believe a president would make this speech from the Oval Office (clip, 1:27)

Minimalism | Jimmy Carter’s Speech on Consumerism

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ericblair  Feb 19, 2023 • 1:10:30am

Amazing what being held hostage by a nasty little imperialist crook will do. This has always been an underappreciated feature of a non-fossil-fuel energy system: some shithead dictator thousands of miles away can’t stop the sun or the wind or the sea as an act of political extortion.

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steve_davis  Feb 19, 2023 • 1:12:44am

re: #181 darthstar

Seriously, listen to the whole fucking album. Do it now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 1:17:07am

When the Carter Center took the lead on eradication of Guinea Worm in 1986, WHO estimated there were 3.5 MM cases every year. The parasite was endemic to twenty-one countries at the time.

Last year there were fifteen confirmed cases, down from fifty-seven only two years before. So far this year there are thirteen.

The plan was quite simple (straining water through gauze and guarding community water sources with village patrols, or police or army if necessary, and teaching people to soak limbs in buckets of water instead to relieve the intense itching then dump the water out on the ground). Implementation of that plan was a monumental worldwide effort, on the scale of eradicating smallpox.

Mr. Carter said when he embarked on this endeavour that he hoped to see Guinea Worm eradicated in his lifetime. I hope he gets to see his hope come true.

Regardless, the Carter Center has done an enormous job in eliminating untold human suffering from a parasite which has plagued humankind since antiquity. Even if he does not get his wish, the eradication of the parasite is in view. For nothing else, Mr. Carter’s name should be forever held as a legacy in what human empathy of one person can do for billions of people.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 1:29:27am

The Carter Center also learned from the dismantling of the surveillance and intervention system put in place to eradicate smallpox. They will continue their work as Guinea Worm is eradicated.

They have identified five more diseases that they will work to eliminate: mumps, measles, pork tapeworm, rubella, and elephantiasis. They say the technology already exists to eliminate these diseases, it just needs to be properly implemented.

The only other disease besides smallpox completely eliminated is rinderpest (a cattle disease related to measles).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 1:32:24am
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piratedan  Feb 19, 2023 • 1:37:29am

re: #181 darthstar

their follow up No Dice is pretty damn awesome too.

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TarHellion  Feb 19, 2023 • 1:55:45am

Taking a par and heading to the 19th hole for some tequila shots. Updated forecast shows 84 degrees for Thursday - a temp that would obliterate records throughout North Carolina. Happy Sunday!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 1:58:38am

Damn, Colorado needs to pry this woman out of Congress.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 2:02:05am

Let the hate flow through you. I’m damn glad I was never a conservative.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 2:16:09am

re: #205 TarHellion

Taking a par and heading to the 19th hole for some tequila shots. Updated forecast shows 84 degrees for Thursday - a temp that would obliterate records throughout North Carolina. Happy Sunday!

Let’s split the difference. Tomorrow’s high here will be 40°F.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 19, 2023 • 2:28:58am

I’m out. Catch y’all later. Try to stay warm (or cool if you’re in North Carolina).

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Thanos  Feb 19, 2023 • 3:25:46am

re: #12 dat_said

Cogent observations, thanks for the reply. That inertia will be overcome at some point, if not here then overseas (e.g. there’s a company that makes pulse ox rings in Shanghai, but they are crappy expensive and quit working after six months. ) Over time we will get there I guess. I don’t see why a pulse ox isn’t embedded in my aortic stent, and why it can’t talk to my pacemaker, but there I go dreaming again.

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Nojay UK  Feb 19, 2023 • 4:00:52am

re: #210 Thanos

I don’t see why a pulse ox isn’t embedded in my aortic stent, and why it can’t talk to my pacemaker, but there I go dreaming again.

There was a Black Hat conference a while ago where someone demonstrated live (so to speak) on stage how to hack a wireless-enabled pacemaker from a metre or two away. They could switch it off, make it go into diagnostics mode and I think they even managed to get it to play a MIDI tune by reflashing the software.

They were not forthcoming about how they got hold of the pacemaker. “Sources” was all they’d admit to. My guess was a funeral home or crematorium.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Feb 19, 2023 • 4:32:07am

re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I went through a conservative phase in my late 20s. It’s pretty embarrassing to think about now that I’m creeping up on 50.

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Teukka  Feb 19, 2023 • 4:56:00am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 19, 2023 • 5:15:14am

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Ella Fitzgerald - It Never Entered My Mind [1956]





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Patricia Kayden  Feb 19, 2023 • 5:16:33am

re: #213 Teukka

We’ve known that the entire GOP is in Putin’s pocket. I can’t get over the time a group of them visited Russia on July 4th. Wth?!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 5:17:54am

re: #115 Ace Rothstein

Wow, I never knew that Carter pardoned Trump for dodging the draft.

Trump dodged it “legally” as in by buying his way out of it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 19, 2023 • 5:22:03am

re: #214 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The remastering really has brought the orchestra too forward, almost drowning out Ella’s voice.

Compare to this, also from the 1956 release, but differently mastered:

It Never Entered My Mind


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Patricia Kayden  Feb 19, 2023 • 5:58:11am

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jeffreyw  Feb 19, 2023 • 5:59:47am

Gabe is not a fan of peas

Good morning!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 19, 2023 • 6:22:45am

re: #20 (((Archangel1)))

D is bonsai - A is non-curated tree.

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Thanos  Feb 19, 2023 • 6:26:28am

When AI”s are used to destroy AI”s

The triumph, which has not previously been reported, highlighted a weakness in the best Go computer programs that is shared by most of today’s widely used AI systems, including the ChatGPT chatbot created by San Francisco-based OpenAI.

The tactics that put a human back on top on the Go board were suggested by a computer program that had probed the AI systems looking for weaknesses. The suggested plan was then ruthlessly delivered by Pelrine.

“It was surprisingly easy for us to exploit this system,” said Adam Gleave, chief executive of FAR AI, the Californian research firm that designed the program. The software played more than 1 million games against KataGo, one of the top Go-playing systems, to find a “blind spot” that a human player could take advantage of, he added.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 19, 2023 • 6:38:55am

re: #206 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Damn, Colorado needs to pry this woman out of Congress.

Jesus Fucking Christ, you ignorant twit, he’s 98 years old! He’s already out there on the 5 sigma tail of the curve.

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Belafon  Feb 19, 2023 • 6:45:17am
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(((Archangel1)))  Feb 19, 2023 • 6:48:45am

Good morning folks!

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(((Archangel1)))  Feb 19, 2023 • 6:49:01am

re: #220 Colère Tueur de Lapin

* Points up to post #45 * :)

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Joe Bacon  Feb 19, 2023 • 6:49:07am

re: #215 Patricia Kayden

We’ve known that the entire GOP is in Putin’s pocket. I can’t get over the time a group of them visited Russia on July 4th. Wth?!!

Remember the 8 Assholes who spent July 4th in Moscow getting their marching orders.

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Belafon  Feb 19, 2023 • 6:59:21am

re: #221 Thanos

When AI”s are used to destroy AI”s

“It was so easy for us that the player couldn’t figure it out, we had to have another AI do it.”

And the go AI will learn.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:00:56am

re: #223 Belafon

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:01:12am

re: #225 (((Archangel1)))

* Points up to post #45 * :)

I didn’t see that post. So, I pulled the correct inspiration. :-)

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:06:42am

re: #175 Hecuba’s daughter

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Joe Bacon  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:08:08am

Gee I wonder why Stinkerbelle has “regrets” that he testified before Fani’s Grand Jury?

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday addressed whether he regrets his testimony to Georgia’s special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

During an interview on ABC, host Martha Raddatz noted that portions of the grand jury report released last week indicated jurors believed some witnesses committed perjury.

“Do you accept the grand jury conclusion and do you have any regrets about calling the secretary of state, and any concerns about perjury?” Raddatz asked.

Lindsey Graham addresses possible perjury charges

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Joe Bacon  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:11:02am

“These things inevitably fail to happen, I mean, when Q kind of makes a big splash saying ‘Hillary Clinton’s gonna be arrested in two weeks,’ and people go, ‘wow, okay, great’ and then it doesn’t happen, you have to ask why are we still dealing with QAnon six years later? Well, the reason is because people have all of these ways to square the cognitive dissonance in their heads,” Sommer explains. “It is almost like a mind virus where once it gets into your life, for many QAnon believers, it becomes really all-consuming. And if you think about it from their perspective, they’re hearing that everything in the world they’ve learned is a lie, and that the most powerful people in the world are drinking children’s blood and worshiping the devil. And so suddenly, you know, I think you can understand why that becomes the most important thing for them.”

“There was one poll that I think the Times summed up well is that, QAnon in the United States is more popular than a lot of major religions,” Sommer said. “From the perspective of QAnon believers, Donald Trump is the God figure. I mean, they jokingly call him the God emperor, maybe semi jokingly. He’s their savior figure. So for them, ever since QAnon started, what they wanted was an acknowledgement from Donald Trump.

“And today we have Donald Trump posting QAnon memes himself,” he said.

thedailybeast.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:18:14am

Odd, because one of the things I see as an American triumph and achievement is that we started to overcome racial segregation and discrimination. To the point that a young African-American could be elected President and an African-American woman become VP.

But at the same time I do not see it it as “unpatriotic” to admit that we still have some progress to make.

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Belafon  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:28:45am

I like this curse:

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jaunte  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:33:01am

The Marginalian, (maybe inspired by Jimmy Carter).
How Kindness Became Our Forbidden Pleasure

“…The kind life — the life lived in instinctive sympathetic identification with the vulnerabilities and attractions of others — is the life we are more inclined to live, and indeed is the one we are often living without letting ourselves know that this is what we are doing. People are leading secretly kind lives all the time but without a language in which to express this, or cultural support for it. Living according to our sympathies, we imagine, will weaken or overwhelm us; kindness is the saboteur of the successful life. We need to know how we have come to believe that the best lives we can lead seem to involve sacrificing the best things about ourselves; and how we have come to believe that there are pleasures greater than kindness…”
themarginalian.org

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mmmirele  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:34:26am

re: #223 Belafon

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OK, so I wanted to know the truth about this, and yes, it’s true, with the exception of the colorizing! Basically, these guys were military practicing for a show and went to their weapons without changing while being attacked. The British government suppressed these pictures for decades.

snopes.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:35:01am

Our modern competitive society is about imposing our will on others. Kindness is seen as a form of weakness. Consent and consensus are for the woke.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:35:14am

re: #206 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Damn, Colorado needs to pry this woman out of Congress.

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That is a parody account. Look at the last line.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:35:25am

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:38:03am

re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s patriotic to point out that the U.S. is a great country but has many flaws. It’s unpatriotic to pretend otherwise when there are glaring examples of racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc., in our faces every dang day.

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jaunte  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:40:45am

Mastodon Advanced Search is Here
blog.universeodon.com

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darthstar  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:43:10am

Handy flowchart. Pasting it here so I can find it on Tuesday and copy it to slack.

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:44:07am

re: #223 Belafon

You know, some of those “manly men” from the “greatest generation” liked to wear lipstick and dresses.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:44:43am
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jeffreyw  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:45:14am

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:46:03am

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darthstar  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:46:51am

And one on remote working.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:56:07am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump dodged it “legally” as in by buying his way out of it.

It was an unwise war fought for all the wrong reasons — and Trump’s avoidance of the conflict is one of the few actions he has taken in his life that I do not criticize (even if I do mock him for his imaginary “bone spurs”). Our brother escaped the conflict by having a high draft number but although we were poor, I know that our father would have maneuvered to keep him out of Vietnam (Dad was a major in the Army reserves).

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mmmirele  Feb 19, 2023 • 7:57:19am

I drove over to the office two days this past week,

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:04:24am

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:09:43am

re: #252 Patricia Kayden

There’s a video on that page. And of course the cops have their backs to the proud boys and are only telling those pushing them back to “relax” etc. Spit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:12:02am

re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg

You know, some of those “manly men” from the “greatest generation” liked to wear lipstick and dresses.

Why did San Francisco become the gay capital of the USA?

Because that is where all the soldiers and sailors discharged from the Pacific Theater in WW2 were demobilized.

Many of them, having come from small towns where they felt themselves to be freaks and outcasts, found a number of kindred spirits while serving in their all-male units and decided not to go back to Lodgepole, Nebraska or Boviana, Missouri and opted to stay in as part of a community of the like-minded.

Ditto goes for the troops being demobed in NYC.

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Belafon  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:14:01am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:14:44am

re: #250 Hecuba’s daughter

It was an unwise war fought for all the wrong reasons — and Trump’s avoidance of the conflict is one of the few actions he has taken in his life that I do not criticize (even if I do mock him for his imaginary “bone spurs”).

The point is that poor people only had the option of fleeing or going underground. People like DFT or GW Bush were able to use money and influence to get out without having to violate laws.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:16:29am

re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Odd, because one of the things I see as an American triumph and achievement is that we started to overcome racial segregation and discrimination. To the point that a young African-American could be elected President and an African-American woman become VP.

But at the same time I do not see it it as “unpatriotic” to admit that we still have some progress to make.

We started to make progress but as soon as Obama was elected, our nation began to regress. Under Reconstruction, we also started making amazing progress but in a few years, it was all abandoned. It took 100 years before the nation once again tried to deal with the terrible legacy of slavery and too many want to return to the old days where Southern heritage reigns supreme and legal segregation is back in vogue. Everyone promoting anti-woke policies is part of this vile effort to make white supremacy the law of the land.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:16:40am

re: #255 Belafon

I can understand the necessity of isolating the Japanese community after Pearl Harbor, just not the way it was practiced. But the people who called for them to be treated humanely and fairly were drowned out by cynical hucksters who saw a chance to profit on expropriating the Japanese community and knew that few would care how they were treated, citizens, legal residents or not.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:22:58am

Wordle sucked again but I managed to pull out a par.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:25:15am

re: #228 GlutenFreeJesus

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Thanos  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:30:38am

re: #238 mmmirele

OK, so I wanted to know the truth about this, and yes, it’s true, with the exception of the colorizing! Basically, these guys were military practicing for a show and went to their weapons without changing while being attacked. The British government suppressed these pictures for decades.

snopes.com

Thanks for researching that, now I don’t have to.

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Targetpractice  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:35:21am

re: #257 Hecuba’s daughter

We started to make progress but as soon as Obama was elected, our nation began to regress. Under Reconstruction, we also started making amazing progress but in a few years, it was all abandoned. It took 100 years before the nation once again tried to deal with the terrible legacy of slavery and too many want to return to the old days where Southern heritage reigns supreme and legal segregation is back in vogue. Everyone promoting anti-woke policies is part of this vile effort to make white supremacy the law of the land.

Progress during Reconstruction came largely at the end of a gun, whether it was keeping votes legitimate by preventing deliberate efforts to intimidate black voters away from the polls, or outright putting down violent acts towards said black voters. That progress was largely wiped out once the federal troops were withdrawn, as without their presence Southern whites were free to intimidate and brutalize their black neighbors with little fear of consequence. Jim Crow was largely just a legal pretext to legitimize such acts, which Northern whites accepted as the cost of putting that whole Civil War business behind them and getting back to “normal.”

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:37:30am

How to say you’re a racist without saying you’re a racist.

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Belafon  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:38:53am

re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I can understand the necessity of isolating the Japanese community after Pearl Harbor, just not the way it was practiced. But the people who called for them to be treated humanely and fairly were drowned out by cynical hucksters who saw a chance to profit on expropriating the Japanese community and knew that few would care how they were treated, citizens, legal residents or not.

It was an excuse to steal Japanese-American property, especially farmland.

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Belafon  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:39:57am

re: #263 DodgerFan1988

How to say you’re a racist without saying you’re a racist.

For the quoted party, I completely agree with her.

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Jay C  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:46:41am

re: #263 DodgerFan1988

Marjorie Taylor Greene: “I know a ton of white people that are a lazy and sorry and probably worse than Black people I know.”

“But they all vote for me, so I won’t say shit…..”

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Thanos  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:48:40am

My wife had to count my staples, the official number is 48 & I get them pulled Thursday.

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darthstar  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:50:25am

Mastodon

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:52:13am

Morning Lizards. Have some breakfast.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:55:33am
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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 19, 2023 • 8:58:07am

WTAF

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:00:12am

re: #261 Thanos

Thanks for researching that, now I don’t have to.

There’s also a legitimate photo floating around (I think from WWII) of a naked gunner firing at Nazis. Story is dude was asleep when the enemy showed up and he suddenly had to swing into action without even having the time to get dressed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:01:22am
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teleskiguy  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:01:39am

re: #203 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s not Steve Martin’s account, it’s a fake blue check. *sigh*

Elmu fucking ruined Twitter and I hate him forever for it.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:01:48am

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

Our modern competitive society is about imposing our will on others. Kindness is seen as a form of weakness. Consent and consensus are for the woke.

A society based on competition is a society that consists mostly of losers. - John Ralston Saul

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:03:25am

RIP Mr Belzer. I am starting to hate 2023.

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darthstar  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:04:32am

So TFG is headed to East Palestine in Ohio this week because if there’s one thing that area needs, it’s to be visited by another disaster.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:05:55am

re: #276 PhillyPretzel

RIP Mr Belzer. I am starting to hate 2023.

Some years are rough. Remember how many greats we lost in 2016?

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darthstar  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:09:10am

Wow…a Tesla slammed into a stationary fire truck on 680 yesterday, killing the driver. The passenger survived with major injuries.

The fire truck was on the side of the highway with its lights flashing. You’d think the car would have seen that.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:09:29am

re: #278 Eclectic Cyborg

I do not remember. I am assuming there were many famous people who passed. It is just so sad and hearing about Jimmy Carter yesterday. It is depressing.

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darthstar  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:10:27am

re: #280 PhillyPretzel

I do not remember. I am assuming there were many famous people who passed. It is just so sad and hearing about Jimmy Carter yesterday. It is depressing.

Nothing but respect for the Carter family and how they’re embracing Jimmy’s departure. That’s love.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:11:24am

re: #281 darthstar

True. He has the support of his family.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:11:50am

Distorted image from panorama mode on iPhone 13
My wife makes a cameo

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Belafon  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:12:59am
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:15:00am

re: #274 teleskiguy

That’s not Steve Martin’s account, it’s a fake blue check. *sigh*

Elmu fucking ruined Twitter and I hate him forever for it.

Steve Martin is not an unusual name. There’s no reason to think it’s a fake — just not the Steve Martin we know. It shows he joined in 2012 and that, according to his bio, he’s an attorney. So someone else with the same name.

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teleskiguy  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:15:25am

re: #279 darthstar

Auto-pilot for passenger vehicles is a gotdam fevered Elmu pipe dream that is killing people.

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Targetpractice  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:16:18am

re: #284 Belafon

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Yet for two weeks on Faux, we heard nothing on the subject but “WHAR FEDS?! WHAR MONEY?! BIDEN HATE WHITES!!!”

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teleskiguy  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:16:46am

re: #285 Hecuba’s daughter

Steve Martin is not an unusual name. There’s no reason to think it’s a fake — just not the Steve Martin we know. It shows he joined in 2012 and that, according to his bio, he’s an attorney. So someone else with the same name.

So? It still renders the whole Blue Check thingy moot. The Steve Martin account in question paid $8 to “verify” himself.

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teleskiguy  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:18:30am

You can check if a blue check is real or not (for now). And the fake ones have spread like fucking wildfire.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:19:50am

re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth

RIP Richard

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:22:20am

re: #286 teleskiguy

Auto-pilot for passenger vehicles is a gotdam fevered Elmu pipe dream that is killing people.

It will be a great idea when its time comes, which is quite clearly still off in the future.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:24:14am

Some of the notable deaths in 2016:

David Bowie
Prince
Muhammad Ali
Gene Wilder
Alan Rickman
Glenn Frey
Gordie Howe
Kenny Baker
Arnold Palmer
Leonard Cohen
Florence Henderson
John Glenn
Carrie Fisher

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:26:05am
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Eventual Carrion  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:26:14am

re: #283 So Cal Greek Hippie

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My wife makes a cameo

This is one I took in panoramic view from my Motorola Edge at the Presque Isle Downs & Casino in Erie PA when me and the wife were up there for a weekend

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Targetpractice  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:26:57am

re: #271 The Pie Overlord!

WTAF

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$20 says this is yet another case of a company bribing DeathSantis.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:30:17am

re: #295 Targetpractice

$20 says this is yet another case of a company bribing DeathSantis.

Yes, there will be multi-million dollar bids for the new “Christian” testing system which the state will gladly award to the most Godly.

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Jay C  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:30:56am

re: #284 Belafon

re: #287 Targetpractice

Just in case anyone is confused on how any of this works.

And ISTM that a non-trivial proportion of the “confusion” has been pretty much deliberately ginned up by Ohio officialdom, in cahoots with the RWNM media to- IMHO - try to deflect blame (and liability) for the response to the East Palestine derailment issues onto the Federal Government. FTFNYT ran a piece on this the other day: basically a re-write of their stock “Cletus Safari” BS where, despite a bit of factual backgrounding, the focus of the article was on the locals griping about why “The Government” wasn’t doing enough to deal with the present (and potential) problems caused by the spill.
Sec’y Pete Buttigieg seemed to be a favorite whipping-boy for some reason…..

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:31:33am

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:32:37am

re: #298 Eventual Carrion

lol

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Targetpractice  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:43:28am

re: #297 Jay C

And ISTM that a non-trivial proportion of the “confusion” has been pretty much deliberately ginned up by Ohio officialdom, in cahoots with the RWNM media to- IMHO - try to deflect blame (and liability) for the response to the East Palestine derailment issues onto the Federal Government (FTFNYT ran a piece on this the other day: basically a re-write of their stock “Cletus Safari” BS where, despite a bit of factual backgrounding, the focus of the article was on the locals griping about why “The Government” wasn’t doing enough to deal with the present (and potential) problems caused by the spill.
Sec’y Pete Buttigieg seemed to be a favorite whipping-boy for some reason…..

Simple answer is that the intent is to put the entire blame for the disaster upon the Feds to minimize/eliminate the liability of the companies involved. Think the 737 Max crashes, the visible effort is to try to minimize Norfolk Southern’s cost-cutting measures that compromised safety and instead focus all the blame on federal oversight and safety regulations. The idea is to spread the blame around, saying that even if Norfolk Southern engineered an absolute disaster to save a few dollars, the Feds are equally at fault for not calling them on it and penalizing them.

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Belafon  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:44:08am

re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth

My wife told me that he is Henry Winkler’s cousin.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:45:18am

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:46:02am

re: #296 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, there will be multi-million dollar bids for the new “Christian” testing system which the state will gladly award to the most Godly.

And accredited Colleges* outside of Florida will laugh at and reject anyone submitting such test scores rendering them basically useless.

* I have no doubt that some Colleges in red states like Texas and Idaho will accept them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:53:13am

re: #300 Targetpractice

The idea is to spread the blame around, saying that even if Norfolk Southern engineered an absolute disaster to save a few dollars, the Feds are equally at fault for not calling them on it and penalizing them.

The core philosophy of the modern US post-capitalist economy: privatize the profits, socialize the losses

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:54:20am

re: #303 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

And accredited Colleges* outside of Florida will laugh at and reject anyone submitting such test scores rendering them basically useless.

* I have no doubt that some Colleges in red states like Texas and Idaho will accept them.

There are plenty of Christian Colleges springing up all over and the long-term strategy is to have them take over all state and private non-Christian institutions.

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Targetpractice  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:54:58am

re: #304 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The core philosophy of the modern US post-capitalist economy: privatize the profits, socialize the losses

Ayep. When the lawsuits inevitably are filed, NS’ defense in the courts will be that they may have broken various rules and regs by running crews smaller than needed and for way more hours than they could cope with, but the Feds signed off on all of it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:58:08am

re: #303 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

And accredited Colleges* outside of Florida will laugh at and reject anyone submitting such test scores rendering them basically useless.

* I have no doubt that some Colleges in red states like Texas and Idaho will accept them.

It’s expensive for a system to show that its tests actually correlate with anything meaningful. In this case, the CLT describes their material as covering traditional Western authors and not particularly Christian theology. But the standard SAT doesn’t have a component requiring knowledge of anything more than grammar, vocabulary, and logic. Or are these supposed to substitute for the achievement tests for those who take AP classes?

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retired cynic  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:58:55am

DeSantis is quietly attacking another pillar of democracy: the free press. With receipts.

Ron DeSantis is weaponizing partisan media — and weakening independent sources of news
“Part of what makes DeSantis different is how he has paired his efforts to elevate partisan media with public policies meant to destabilize independent media.”
by Jason Garcia

niemanlab.org

DeSantis is not done. Just this week, the governor hosted a media event where he attacked “legacy media” that engages in “partisan activism” and suggested that he might lobby the Florida Legislature to pass a law this session making it easier for people to sue news organizations on claims of libel or defamation. It’s an idea that DeSantis has been working on since at least late 2021.

The Florida governor and likely presidential candidate made the comments while sitting at a mock TV anchor desk, in front of a backdrop emblazoned with the word “Truth.”

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A Cranky One  Feb 19, 2023 • 9:59:56am

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retired cynic  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:05:58am

re: #308 retired cynic

another quote from the article:

It’s been well-documented how deliberately DeSantis has cultivated an ecosystem of right-wing writers, social-media influencers and other marketers as he prepares for a possible Republican primary showdown against former President Donald Trump.

In a lengthy profile last year, The New Yorker detailed the governor’s staff assiduously courting producers at Fox News. Semafor reported in December that DeSantis is “building his own media,” citing his work with outlets like The Florida Standard. The Daily Beast reported last month that DeSantis’s team has been recruiting “a secret Twitter army of far-right influencers.”

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Joe Bacon  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:15:28am

George Romney weeps in his grave seeing how the GOP has gone full CRAP in Michigan.

Michigan GOP’s New Leader Is a QAnon-Spewing Election Denier

Yeah the QAssholes have full control of the Michigan CRAP now.

(Just a reminder that CRAP stands for Conservative Reactionary Asshole Party)

Michigan Republicans have tapped Kristina Karamo, an election denier who lost her bid to be Secretary of State by 14 percent last November and has yet to concede, to lead the state’s party. Karamo managed to beat out fellow election denier and Trump-endorsed Matthew DePerno, who lost the general election to be Michigan’s attorney general in November. Democrats swept state-wide races and flipped the state’s legislature for the first time in decades in 2022 as voters routinely rebuked Michigan Republicans, with Saturday’s vote affirming the state party’s lurch to the far-right. Karamo has previously spewed baseless QAnon conspiracy theories that elites sell off “freshly harvested organs” after abortions, which she’s called a “child sacrifice” before. She also accused pop stars, such as Ariana Grande, of placing children “under a satanic delusion” and further accused Beyoncé and Jay Z of being Satanists. Karamo also dubbed the LGBTQ community “demonic” and has said “demonic possession” can be transmitted sexually.

thedailybeast.com

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Joe Bacon  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:21:06am

Michigan Republicans just scored a BINGO

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:22:00am

LOL

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:23:43am

re: #307 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s expensive for a system to show that its tests actually correlate with anything meaningful. In this case, the CLT describes their material as covering traditional Western authors and not particularly Christian theology. But the standard SAT doesn’t have a component requiring knowledge of anything more than grammar, vocabulary, and logic. Or are these supposed to substitute for the achievement tests for those who take AP classes?

To be honest, I don’t really know. Call it a knee jerk response on my part as this test is A. Being developed in Florida and is B. Endorsed by Desadist and both of those make it automatically suspect in my book.

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Captain Ron  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:24:21am

re: #279 darthstar

Southbound from the 242/680 split. I know right where that is.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:25:41am

re: #314 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

To be honest, I don’t really know. Call it a knee jerk response on my part as this test is A. Being developed in Florida and is B. Endorsed by Desadist and both of those make it automatically suspect in my book.

And they might not even care if it is effective or accepted as long as it is a method for them to funnel state funds into GOP donor or crony pockets.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:26:01am

Damnit!

First Richard today and now Tom Sizemore.

Actor Tom Sizemore in critical condition after suffering brain aneurysm at L.A. home

Actor Tom Sizemore is hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a brain aneurysm at his home in Los Angeles, several media outlets including TMZ and Fox News are reporting.

Sizemore, 61, collapsed and was found unconscious around 2 a.m. Saturday morning, his manager, Charles Lago, told TMZ.

Someone called 911 and paramedics rushed Sizemore to a hospital where he remained in the intensive care unit Sunday morning.

“He is in the hospital,” Lago told Fox News Digital. “His family is aware of the situation and are hoping for the best. It is too early to know about [a] recovery situation as he is in critical condition and under observation.”

Sizemore has starred in blockbusters including “Saving Private Ryan,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Heat,” and “Blackhawk Down.”

ktla.com

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Joe Bacon  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:28:24am

re: #314 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

To be honest, I don’t really know. Call it a knee jerk response on my part as this test is A. Being developed in Florida and is B. Endorsed by Desadist and both of those make it automatically suspect in my book.

Michele I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that this test is being developed by Hillsdale and Claremont-McKenna to make sure that…students always select the…”right answer”…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:29:42am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 19, 2023 • 10:44:37am

re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL

Damn decimal points.

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Jebediah, RBG  Feb 19, 2023 • 11:26:39am

re: #153 A Cranky One

stollen!

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John Hughes  Feb 19, 2023 • 11:52:13am

re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth

So sad that he had to waste so much of his life on copaganda. But if you’re an actor that’s where the money is.

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John Hughes  Feb 19, 2023 • 12:01:50pm

re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It will be a great idea when its time comes, which is quite clearly still off in the future.

By the time it’s working almost nobody is going to be driving passenger vehicles.

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TedStriker  Feb 19, 2023 • 4:08:37pm

re: #301 Belafon

My wife told me that he is Henry Winkler’s cousin.

He is.


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