Hiromi Uehara, With Anthony Jackson and Steve Smith: “Dancando No Paraiso”

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Hiromi Uehara (p),
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Steve Smith (d)

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1
dharmamark  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:29:14pm

Is that the Steve Smith formerly of Journey?

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Charles Johnson  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:35:07pm

re: #1 dharmamark

I believe so.

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retired cynic  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:46:40pm

From 2011?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:49:50pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:52:31pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:54:15pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

Introducing the newest sensation on the RW entertainment scene…Lady Maga.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:55:56pm

Well, I guess I can cross off piano, bass, and drums from my list of instruments I’d like to try.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:56:06pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

Dan Patrick is a conservative, therefore he lies.

Trump Faces Fallout From Report He Calls Military ‘Losers’ And ‘Suckers’ (NPR, September 4, 2020)

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:58:53pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 25, 2023 • 2:59:01pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:01:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:01:26pm

yeah, it was more than a concussion and a broken rib…

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gocart mozart  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:02:25pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:04:49pm

re: #10 gocart mozart

The replies are terrible. So many nutjobs are going along with that, and even building on it. with very few people gently pushing back. Apparently, there are “replacements” everywhere.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:04:57pm

re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth

yeah, it was more than a concussion and a broken rib…

It was a soul-ectomy. They had to dig really deep to find it, it was so small.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:05:48pm

re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth

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yeah, it was more than a concussion and a broken rib…

He’s 81.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:07:10pm

re: #16 Crush White Nationalism

He’s 81.

yes
doesn’t refute what I said

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:07:39pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:08:14pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

yes
doesn’t refute what I said

These things are extremely serious at 81.

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retired cynic  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:10:37pm

re: #19 Crush White Nationalism

These things are extremely serious at 81.

They are, but it makes me wonder if he had a stroke or seizure that caused him to fall. (Speaking as someone just a few years younger who had some very small strokes several months ago, that are still causing me problems.)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:11:02pm

re: #10 gocart mozart

These stupid motherfuckers.

Each photo is taken from a different angle in different lighting with different facial expressions.

Fetterman looks like he might have gained a slight bit of weight in the newer photo, but it’s definitely the same guy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:11:33pm

re: #19 Crush White Nationalism

These things are extremely serious at 81.

My fil broke a couple of ribs when he fell off the back of our tractor.
He was well into his 80s at the time but, unlike Mitch, my fil was very fit (played tennis and rode a bicycle until he was 90).
It was serious for mitch for reasons other than being 81.
Also, his people keep minimizing what happened and THAT is the biggest bullshit part of this.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:12:32pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:14:24pm

re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg

UPDATE: Turns out the “newer” photo is actually from LAST May and was taken while Fetterman was recovering from his stroke.

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BigPapa  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:15:02pm

Chump in Waco on this day is a message. To his followers, and everybody else. He’s trying to foment violence.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:20:00pm

re: #10 gocart mozart

Republicans will lie any lie to deceive people. Now I have relatives who insist that John Fetterman was killed and replaced by a double.

Do they stop there? Nope.

They double down on trashing Giselle Fetterman alleging she’s a Communist agent taking orders from Brazil’s Lula.

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William Lewis  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:20:15pm

re: #10 gocart mozart

That’s what meth, LSD and a gallon of cheap vodka creates…

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EstebanTornado1963  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:29:57pm
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Broad With Sass  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:30:52pm

re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
It could have been just that..hear me out…I work in ALF/MC
I have seen small breaks totally “ruin” a person sending them in fast trajectory toward dementia
If you want the TL:DR version />

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:30:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:31:55pm

re: #13 gocart mozart

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:33:39pm

re: #29 Broad With Sass

It could have been just that..hear me out…I work in ALF/MC
I have seen small breaks totally “ruin” a person sending them in fast trajectory toward dementia
If you want the TL:DR version />

indeed…thus: more than “just a concussion” and a broken rib found later

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:37:21pm
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sizzzzlerz  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:37:41pm

From previous thread:

re: #15 Charles Johnson

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Website gave me the option to accept or reject the cookies. When I clicked ‘reject’, it gave me this option:

How convenient!

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:37:45pm

Another thing I like about Mastodon…it’s got me taking more pictures of Eartha.

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:39:45pm

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Another “feel good” story that shows how fucked up this country is right now.

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BigPapa  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:41:01pm

I wonder why her teacher bonked it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:42:34pm

re: #37 BigPapa

I wonder why her teacher bonked it.

Apparently the teacher didn’t feel Bessie Coleman was a “hero”

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:44:19pm
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Romantic Heretic  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:46:12pm

re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg

Apparently the teacher didn’t feel Bessie Coleman was a “hero” white.

Teachers”s actual reason.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:48:36pm

re: #40 Romantic Heretic

Teachers”s actual reason.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure if the girl had chosen Sally Ride, there would have been no issue.

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BigPapa  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:49:57pm

The moral panic outrage at CRT proves kids need to taught CRT. Even thought CRT was a graduate level course. I you got mad at CRT then you got played by right wing culture warriors.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:51:27pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:52:06pm

re: #43 darthstar

El Paso should impound his plane.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:55:05pm

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:55:52pm

re: #43 darthstar

DT is what collectors call a “slow pay.” Impounding his plane might get some results.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:56:01pm

re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg

Apparently the teacher didn’t feel Bessie Coleman was a “hero”

The teacher said Bessie Coleman wasn’t famous enough to be a hero…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:59:25pm

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Non-famous people always get their pictures on US coinage.

The Bessie Coleman quarter was just released. The FAA Deputy Director gave the third-grade girl a proof coin of her hero after her presentation to the FAA.

usmint.gov

I really hope her teacher feels like shyte, but she’s probably proud of her racism and ignorance.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:59:42pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 3:59:45pm

FYI, there’s a Bessie Coleman quarter

usmint.gov

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Captain Ron  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:00:38pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:01:20pm

re: #49 jaunte

Reeves is unpopular with both both Democrats and Conservatives right now.

I can’t wait to vote against his ass.

Unfortunately, if the GOP prevails, his successor could be far worse.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:02:38pm
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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:04:44pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

*Florida censors’ antennae rise*

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Jay C  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:06:50pm

re: #49 jaunte

Ummm, while I certainly have to agree with the sentiments about Tate Reeves, I have to wonder just how much “increased funding” would have saved the hospital in Rolling Fork from that kind of damage? Short of rebuilding the whole place to tornado-proof/resistant standards*…

*not a bad idea, though

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:07:30pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:08:53pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

FYI, there’s a Bessie Coleman quarter

usmint.gov

Ha! Beat you by twenty seconds! /s

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Dave In Austin  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:12:20pm

And here we go!!

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Charles Johnson  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:18:22pm

Hiromi really gives that piano a ferocious pounding. Piano tuners turn white with fear when they see her approach the keyboard.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:22:06pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

Hiromi really gives that piano a ferocious pounding. Piano tuners turn white with fear when they see her approach the keyboard.

PianoFORTE

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BigPapa  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:23:55pm

Hiromi is amazing. I’ve watched her many times with Anthony and Simon Philips. Will save this for later when I have the nice speakers.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:26:21pm

Shoppsters are having a lot of fun with the David uproar.

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:36:30pm

Mastodon

Just a tiny boop!

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calochortus  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:37:25pm

re: #62 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Shoppsters are having a lot of fun with the David uproar.

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Let me grab a pencil and make a note of that.

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Captain Ron  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:38:53pm

GOP=RICO

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A Cranky One  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:40:36pm

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BigPapa  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:40:39pm

Gangster Government.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:41:05pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ha! Beat you by twenty seconds! /s

I took some time to answer someone’s legit question about it on Twitter before posting here

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:42:00pm

The Word ‘Homosexual’ Is in the Bible by Mistake: The Explosive Documentary That Is Under Attack (Daily Beast, November 7, 2022)

The documentary “1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture” claims that one human error 75 years ago stoked decades of homophobia and hate. Extremists don’t want you to see it.

The first time the word “homosexual” appeared in the Bible was in 1946. That year, a committee gathered to translate an updated English version of the book from the Greek. Religious scholars, priests, theologists, linguists, anthropologists, and activists have done decades of research and investigation into the instances where the word appears in the book. Their conclusion is that it was a mistranslation.

In other words, the Biblical assertion that homosexuality is a sin—the catalyst for an entire shift in culture, with political repercussions, religious implications, consequences for LGBT rights and acceptance, and, frankly, deadly results—was, they allege, a mistake.

(more)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:42:17pm
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William Lewis  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:42:46pm

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:43:17pm

re: #66 A Cranky One

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Still in the sling?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:43:25pm

oh…what a weird thing to brag about

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:44:19pm
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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:44:25pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

“I picked Waco! All the other venues had been stiffed already.”

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Unabogie  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:45:05pm

re: #65 Captain Ron

GOP=RICO

Would they try to pass laws that say once you’re elected president you are immune from any laws for life?

How would this even work?

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:45:39pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:46:16pm

re: #65 Captain Ron

They are really going to try and legislate Trump out of his legal problems?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:46:46pm

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

kinda explains the budget she has for all those over-the-top cocktail dresses and other high fashion outfits

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:47:16pm

Printed “witch hunt” signs. Much spontaneity.

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:47:33pm

re: #75 jaunte

“I picked Waco! All the other venues had been stiffed already.”

Uvalde was available.

Hey! Fewer children died there. And way fewer adults.

It’s just too recent.

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Teukka  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:48:50pm

Saturday edumacation:

Collective Stupidity — How Can We Avoid It?

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:49:44pm

re: #78 Eclectic Cyborg

They are really going to try and legislate Trump out of his legal problems?

Performance nonsense. Not going to pass the Senate. At least not this year. The real question is: How are they going to be wording this legislation so that it applies only to Republican Presidents?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:50:38pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:51:22pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:51:36pm

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Unabogie  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:53:35pm

re: #78 Eclectic Cyborg

They are really going to try and legislate Trump out of his legal problems?

They want a society in which they are immune from laws and everyone else is bound by totalitarianism.

“Parents rights” except for parents who aren’t white Christians. Then it’s government control.

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:56:36pm

re: #82 Teukka

Saturday edumacation:

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Video

‘…or if it does, maybe cut back on those THC gummies.’

Always good to remind the regulars what they learned last time—particularly for that one.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2023 • 4:59:28pm

lethargic.talkative.fish

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:00:09pm

re: #89 darthstar
I hate it when posts don’t render.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:03:13pm
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A Cranky One  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:03:39pm

re: #72 wrenchwench

Still in the sling?

Got it off last week. And now have permission to drive (short trips only).

Freedom!

Of course, there are still limitations and PT will continue for a while. But the joy of having two hands again is tremendous. I do tend to overdo things and require lots of icing for relief. Makes me chill.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:04:56pm

blah blah blah blah blah…

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Charles Johnson  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:07:33pm

Keeping a large program DRY is not simple.

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Unabogie  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:07:48pm

re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth

So they just leap from “government going after me is evil” to “lock her up!” in the same breath?

Sounds about right.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:07:51pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

According to the bill, “sex” is either female or male “based on the organization of the body of such person for a specific reproductive role.” One’s reproductive role and sex are determined by their “sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, and internal and external genitalia present at birth.”

And further down the article:

The law doubles down on abstinence education, which the state has long promoted, despite evidence that abstinence-only education does not lower adolescent birth rates. According to the law, teaching abstinence from sexual activity is a “certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy.” The law emphasizes that teachers must teach the benefits of monogamous heterosexual marriage.The bill says teachers must teach material that is grade and age appropriate for students but does not offer additional details.

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jeffreyw  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:08:06pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:08:33pm

After the one hour mark is when the crowd usually starts getting a head start out the doors to beat traffic.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:09:03pm
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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:10:48pm

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austin_blue  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:11:46pm

Austin City Limits is Jackson Browne tonight. Dave Lindley is in the band. Gawd he was good.

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William Lewis  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:12:25pm

re: #97 jeffreyw

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So other than being ugly enough to scare your enemies to death, why is this vehicle supposed to be desirable?

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Nojay UK  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:14:55pm

re: #97 jeffreyw

Why does it have a spare off-road motorcycle on the roof rack rather than a spare for the car?

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jeffreyw  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:18:22pm

re: #102 William Lewis

So other than being ugly enough to scare your enemies to death, why is this vehicle supposed to be desirable?

It’s the SKS of Cutlasses!

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jeffreyw  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:20:20pm

re: #103 Nojay UK

Why does it have a spare off-road motorcycle on the roof rack rather than a spare for the car?

I think the AI has troubles with hands, and tires are the hands and feet of cars.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:23:44pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

en.wikipedia.org

Musically, the song is dominated by David Lindley’s lap steel and Craig Doerge’s keyboards, and Rick Marotta guests on the song to add high-hat and toms, according to the album liner notes. Fans recall Lindley quoted in the April 1982 issue of Guitar Player magazine as saying that, playing a Rickenbacker lap steel, he was using a broken Fairchild limiter amplifier “on its last legs.” In addition, producer/recorder Greg Ladanyi has been quoted as noting that “the guitar sound on the track ‘That Girl Could Sing’ required minimal processing, and the tone of the record is pretty true to what came out of Lindley’s amp.”

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Unabogie  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:24:17pm

re: #99 jaunte

Imagine watching someone boast about passing a cognitive test (something the vast majority of people could just do) and hanging on to that fact for *years*?

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:24:22pm

re: #71 William Lewis

In my case, I don’t want my kids protected from it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:25:31pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:26:30pm

That Girl Could Sing

Completely amazing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:26:48pm

re: #65 Captain Ron

So literally putting former presidents above the law. They can go out and shoot supporters on Fifth Avenue and couldn’t be arrested.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:27:04pm

I just noticed he changes the lyric on the last line to “That girl was sane.”

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Charles Johnson  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:31:12pm

Wikipedia says it was a “Fairchild limiter amplifier” but that’s a misnomer - it was a Fairchild 670 compressor.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:31:32pm

Florida Atlantic Owls defeat Kansas State to advance to Final Four.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:31:53pm

re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg

So they want to legislate Christianity, and a particular form of it. I’m sure the Supreme court will … oh wait, they want to legislate Christianity too (and already have).

And since Christian apologists have argued for decades “there is only freedom of religion, there is no freedom from religion,” I can expect to see the day when they start rounding up people who don’t worship as they do.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:32:50pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle found the only tyre shop in the city open on Sunday. Thank fuck for that.

Click to Reveal

Easy putt for birbie.

Wordle 645 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Sib discussion followed about when the “wooden spoon” and “some days you’re the statue” designations apply.

SibData: 3,3,4,4,4

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:33:33pm

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So literally putting former presidents above the law. They can go out and shoot supporters on Fifth Avenue and couldn’t be arrested.

Suppose Obama took advantage of the law and burned down Mar-A-Lago?

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William Lewis  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:33:38pm

re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg

Florida Atlantic Owls defeat Kansas State to advance to Final Four.

Excellent! I always only root for the lower seed. The best day, rare as it is, is when the last #1 goes home.

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Unabogie  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:33:50pm

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Never forget that Ed Henry got schooled by President Obama so hard he never recovered.

It was obvious then that Henry had an agenda and that’s been borne out since then as he’s “moved” to the Right.

cnn.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:34:31pm

re: #119 William Lewis

Excellent! I always only root for the lower seed. The best day, rare as it is, is when the last #1 goes home.

Well that has already happened this year, so…

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Charles Johnson  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:35:01pm

Mastodon

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:37:09pm

re: #65 Captain Ron

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:44:57pm

Wrong. For hundreds of years that has been the exact definition of conservatism: Gathering and maintenance of power. That is what they’re conserving.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:50:10pm

The new I am Spartacus

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2023 • 5:56:33pm

A few months ago, I put all the Pink Floyd CDs and tapes and some solos from members and former members, into a bankers box, which was just over half full (late husband’s collection). Included an 8 cd set with a book and a set of postcards. And newspaper clippings. I kept the parody by Luther Wright and the Wrongs.

Last week, I looked at each item and counted them, and put what I thought I could get for it all on a post-it. Today, I took it into the older of the two used music stores. The owner looked at each item in much more detail than I did. He took each CD out of its case. He looked up the boxed set on his computer, and made sure it was all there. He said, ‘OK, we have $70 here.’ I said, ‘I was hoping to get $85’. He said, ‘OK, $85’. That’s what I wrote on the post-it.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:01:18pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:07:03pm

Guardian opinion piece, today:

My family owned 1,000 slaves and profited from the trade: this is how I am trying to make amends (Laura Trevelyan)

“I left the BBC to fight for restorative justice. The £100,000 we have so far donated to Grenada should be seen only as a first step”

My family owned 1,000 slaves and profited from the trade: this is how I am trying to make amends

I left the BBC to fight for restorative justice. The £100,000 we have so far donated to Grenada should be seen only as a first step
Sat 25 Mar 2023 04.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 25 Mar 2023 07.03 EDT

In 1833, when Britain finally abolished slavery, my ancestors were absentee owners of more than 1,000 enslaved people on the Caribbean island of Grenada. To the best of my knowledge, the Trevelyans never set foot on the island. They enjoyed the profits that came rolling in from sugar harvested by exploited and brutalised enslaved people thousands of miles away across the Atlantic Ocean.

Like much of Britain, my ancestors never had to confront the face of slavery - or its sordid legacy. Generations later, my extended family spent a year debating how we could respond to the horrors of the past. The deafening silence from the descendants of slave owners, from other families like ours, causes unimaginable pain, Sir Hilary Beckles of the Caribbean Community’s Reparations Commission told us. He convinced us of the power of an apology and encouraged us to lead by example.

So we wrote a letter of apology to the people of Grenada and decided to donate more than £100,000 to education projects on the island. After emancipation, most former enslaved people were illiterate. Helping Grenadian students build a brighter future through education seemed like the obvious way to try to repair the damage of the past.

In February, I travelled with six members of the Trevelyan family to Grenada to apologise in person. As we sat in the trade centre of Grenada’s picturesque capital, St George’s, preparing to deliver our apology, I grew anxious. Would we receive a hostile reception? What if this backfired horribly, and put back the very cause we were trying to advance? I could hear the drumming coming from a protest outside by a Rastafarian tribe, whose members felt the amount of money we were donating was wholly inadequate.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:07:58pm

re: #116 Charles Johnson

Recorded music is best with toobs.

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teleskiguy  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:21:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:25:16pm

Nathan Leach, Executive Director of Non-Partisan Nebraska and a field organiser for voting rights, goes after my state senator Steve Erdman (R-Bayard, District 47). Erdman is the head of the Unicameral’s rules committee.

Erdman is trying to change the rules to shut down the filibuster against the anti-trans bill in the Legislature by several Democrats and one Republican using a rules change. Mr. Leach calls him out directly in a letter that no matter how he tries to do this, he is either violating the rules themselves or violating the law.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:29:27pm

Once again the GOP passing laws in my state to get rid of effective legislators who are not Republicans.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:31:43pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:38:23pm

20,000+ steps today according to the ol’ Apple Watch. Schlepping a whole-ass telemark demo tent hither and yon (40 or so yards) at Arapahoe Basin. And boy howdy was it cold and windy! Ambient air temperature didn’t get out of the single digits and the wind blew 25+ mph a few times. Standing outside all day in that weather is fun!

Giphy

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:39:55pm

re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg

Suppose Obama took advantage of the law and burned down Mar-A-Lago?

That would be different.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:52:08pm

Huckomertà sending out the message to co-conspirators and witnesses.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:55:49pm

re: #63 wrenchwench

Ever since a bat got into my house (I assume through my chimney), I’ve been terrified of them. Used to think they were cute.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 6:57:57pm
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:03:32pm

re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Quite the powerful article.

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(((Archangel1)))  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:03:36pm

Approx. 3% of Israel’s total population took to the streets of Tel Aviv at the peak of the protest, with some estimates suggesting 8% nationwide if not higher.

In US terms, that’s equivalent to over 10 million protesting in a single city, & over 26 million protesters nationwide.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:05:41pm

Catching up:
On cult-themed entertainment: Coming Soon: Shen MAGA, a two hour Trump flag waving extravaganza hyped by dupes with a seemingly endless ad budget
On post apocalyptic car: I can fix 1970’s GM 350 in3, 1980’s Iacocca- era Chrysler Le Baron and 2000’s Hondas-so going with those
On Estuary action see photo

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BigPapa  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:10:06pm

re: #136 jaunte

The Law and Order Party. Forealz.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:10:33pm

Okay, that’s objectively funny.

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teleskiguy  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:10:42pm

re: #140 (((Archangel1)))

Makes sense, I hope. Because Netanyahu and his coalition of fanatics and weirdos are biting off more than they can chew.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:11:20pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:20:00pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:22:12pm

re: #137 Patricia Kayden

Ever since a bat got into my house (I assume through my chimney), I’ve been terrified of them. Used to think they were cute.

Sorry. I can cover them.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:30:26pm

Heh.

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austin_blue  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:31:31pm

Damn. UConn is ripping it right now.

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:31:59pm

Blanketed bat:

Click to Reveal

Mastodon

Sorta cute, as bats go.

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teleskiguy  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:33:14pm

re: #148 Rightwingconspirator

I first heard of LGF on Drudge Radio. Remember that? When Matt had his own radio show on Sunday nights. Matt talked to Charles about doctored Reuters photos coming out of Israel.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:34:59pm

re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I would like to argue that the bill itself is more vicious.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:35:08pm

re: #151 teleskiguy

I first heard of LGF on Drudge Radio. Remember that? When Matt had his own radio show on Sunday nights. Matt talked to Charles about doctored Reuters photos coming out of Israel.

I had forgotten all about that.

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teleskiguy  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:35:47pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:40:28pm

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I think we should define woman as anyone cis-white Christian men want to control.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:42:08pm

re: #136 jaunte

Those are hella Christian values. I thought Jesus said, “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Didn’t know that Jesus was okay with lying while claiming to be loyal to trolls like Trump.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:43:20pm

re: #156 Patricia Kayden

Little Rock Mafia values.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:43:37pm

re: #147 wrenchwench

LOL.

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teleskiguy  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:54:07pm

re: #134 teleskiguy

I got to ski Sun Valley *and* Jackson Hole last weekend doing this work. What the fuck am I complaining for?!

Giphy

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:54:24pm

re: #146 The Pie Overlord!

Yes, holding criminals accountable for their crimes is Stalinist. I doubt Trump even knows who Stalin is. Wasn’t he the one who said that cops should rough up arrestees?

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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:55:22pm

re: #136 jaunte

Huckomertà sending out the message to co-conspirators and witnesses.

That’s right HUCK SINN! Show the world just how the Republican Party has mutated into Soviet Bolsheviks.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 7:58:07pm

re: #156 Patricia Kayden

Didn’t know that Jesus was okay with lying while claiming to be loyal to trolls like Trump.

That is the very message that thousands of Pulpit Pimps and Priests will recite tomorrow during their megachurch brainwashing sessions. Trump is God’s Apostle on Earth and he was overthrown by those people.

And we know what those Pulpit Pimps mean by “those people”.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 25, 2023 • 8:00:58pm

re: #41 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, I’m pretty sure if the girl had chosen Sally Ride, there would have been no issue.

Except that Ride was gay.

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austin_blue  Mar 25, 2023 • 8:05:43pm

re: #163 Romantic Heretic

Except that Ride was gay.

It’s a softball lobbed into the plate.

I am not going to go there.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 8:12:41pm

How one Christian homeschooler activity is shaping the future of American politics

The emergence of debate leagues for Evangelical homeschoolers has evolved into a springboard for far-right politicians, according to a report today at Religion Dispatches, a daily non-profit online magazine covering religion, politics and culture.

Citing the example of Republican Alaska state Rep. David Eastman, whose incendiary words have earned him censure from both parties — and thus, stardom on the right — author R.L. Stollar lays out how the “niche milieu” of the leagues have propelled such voices.

“Academic debate leagues have become immensely popular among evangelical homeschoolers,” writes Stollar, a child liberation theologian and an advocate for children and abuse survivors. “Recognizing and grasping the culture of homeschool debate is crucial to our broader understanding of Christian nationalism, as the young people who participated are beginning to have a significant impact on American society.”

The first Evangelical debate leagues were launched in 1997 by Michael Farris, the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), “a far-right lobbying organization for Christian homeschoolers,” writes Stolar. Farris co-founded a national homeschool debate league under HSLDA with his daughter, Christy Shipe, at the time a student at a conservative Baptist university.

And, the report concludes, “With Eastman and the other rising stars in the Christian Right, what we’re essentially seeing are those tools — and the corresponding, highly charged rhetorical style — being effectively used in service of Christian nationalism.

“These young people can be incendiary, yes, but they are also articulate and adept at persuading audiences. Michael Farris’s original vision for the league — to raise an army of communicators for Christ to infiltrate and take over American political and social institutions — appears to be coming to fruition. We underestimate that vision and its adherents at our peril.”

Mastodon

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 8:14:38pm

re: #165 Joe Bacon

“All Your Priors Confirmed, Guaranteed.”

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Captain Ron  Mar 25, 2023 • 8:22:15pm
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 25, 2023 • 8:33:08pm

re: #167 Captain Ron

American Conservatives must be so jealous.

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austin_blue  Mar 25, 2023 • 8:41:01pm

I’m off. Sweet dreams. Be kind to each other.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 25, 2023 • 8:50:09pm

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:10:21pm

re: #136 jaunte

Huckomertà sending out the message to co-conspirators and witnesses.

[Embedded content]

Mike then went on to say “And if you can’t be confidential, we have ways to making sure you are…permanently. Remember, snitches get stitches.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:13:00pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:18:58pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:22:30pm

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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And replace it with…what? Oh, right, devolving that power back to state and local authorities who are easier to pressure into doing what you say.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:26:13pm

re: #175 Targetpractice

And replace it with…what? Oh, right, devolving that power back to state and local authorities who are easier to pressure into doing what you say.

Oh no, no, no!

Justin’s goal is the same as Christopher Rufo’s! Both of them want to turn all education over to the churches.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:26:54pm

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:42:13pm

I’d be willing to bet that if you pressed him, Huck would eventually admit that “loyalty” means “paid.” That if so much as $5 passed between you and a lawyer, you’ve now bought that lawyer’s “loyalty” and they’re now bound to keep your secrets even if it costs them their careers and possibly their freedom.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:47:02pm
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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:47:30pm

re: #178 Targetpractice

I’d be willing to bet that if you pressed him, Huck would eventually admit that “loyalty” means “paid.” That if so much as $5 passed between you and a lawyer, you’ve now bought that lawyer’s “loyalty” and they’re now bound to keep your secrets even if it costs them their careers and possibly their freedom.

Huck Sinn ought to know about that because when he let Wayne Dumond out of prison to rape and kill again he passed the buck and blamed his stooges on the parole board.

Did Huck Sinn learn his lesson from that fiasco? Nope. He doubled down on it when he let Maurice Clemmons out of jail and Clemmons thanked Huck Sinn for letting him out so he could kill 4 cops. And what did Huck Sinn do? Yep, once again he passed the buck and blamed his stooges on the parole board!

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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:50:53pm

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yeah. Samson really loved it when Delilah seduced him and led him into the hands of his enslavers who blinded and whipped him.

Of course Pulpit Pimps like KKKev Grane think that’s “indentured servitude with much better conditions and humanization”

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A Cranky One  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:51:21pm

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:52:56pm

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[Embedded content]

Indentured servitude was under contract, with set time limits and conditions of the servitude. They were not treated as little more than cattle whose humanity was denied, rights and freedoms stripped from them, and they could not be bought or sold like general goods.

But hey, whatever helps them sleep at night, I guess.///////

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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:54:37pm

Lara Logan asks “Why is Walmart selling sex toys”

Well, Laura that’s the Invisible Hand Of The Free Market In Action replying to demand now isn’t it?

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:56:37pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2023 • 9:58:59pm

re: #182 A Cranky One

[Embedded content]

Lara’s right, such items must be bought in the traditional fashion: Purchased in secret and delivered in disguised packages because sex in general and self-pleasure in particular is a dirty and filthy thing that must be hidden away from the public…unless you’re a man, then you can find the Playboys on the back row of the 7-11 magazine rack.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:01:20pm

re: #185 jaunte

Like this, Jon Shields?

William F. Buckley and National Review’s vile race stance: Everything you need to know about conservatives and civil rights

With the challenges of the civil rights movement sparking worldwide discussion about the importance of individual rights and the limitations of tradition, the students of the Cambridge Union Society dreamed up a humdinger of an event to celebrate their one hundred and fiftieth anniversary in February 1965. Coming in the throes of the civil rights movement, when the hopefulness of the early movement had yet to give way to the more violent reactions of the latter half, the students thought a debate between James Baldwin, the most articulate voice emerging from black America, and William F. Buckley, Jr., the most persuasive conservative, would draw a significant amount of attention. They were right. More than seven hundred students showed up, filling every seat. An overflow room set up to pipe in the debate also filled quickly. The only black face in the audience was that of Baldwin’s friend, Sidney Poitier. The rest were white students from Cambridge, sitting alongside numerous reporters, including one from the New York Times, which would print the debate almost in its entirety a few weeks later. The proposition under consideration was “The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.”

For Buckley, who had long opposed the civil rights movement, it seemed to be a perfect venue for him to explain his position. It was a formal affair at tux-and-tails Cambridge, away from the hot emotions in America, and he knew well the rules of collegiate debate: wear formal attire instead of a business suit (as Baldwin wore); answer only the questions from the audience you want to answer and skip over the rest (Baldwin seemed ruffled at being interrupted); and address the president of the Union instead of the entire audience (a deficiency that actually may have helped Baldwin).

But knowing the rules gets you only so far. Sometimes you simply can’t win an argument if your ideas are worse than your opponent’s. And with the help of some tactical nudging from Baldwin, it didn’t take long for Buckley’s shoddy ideas about race to come unmasked.

National Review had come of age alongside the civil rights movement, having published its first issue a year after the Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregation in public schools and two weeks before the arrest of Rosa Parks. From the beginning, National Review could have endorsed the traditionalist notion that changes should come slowly within a society but should happen nonetheless, and that the rule of law need be respected above all else. Or it could have taken a libertarian stance that the state shouldn’t be in the business of segregating people at all.

But it didn’t take either of these paths. Instead, it fomented a direct assault against civil rights, embracing nearly all of the most offensive and discredited arguments against the movement, including the idea that black people were inherently inferior to white people. It routinely dressed up the racist resistance to civil rights with respectable-sounding arguments about states’ rights and constitutional law. As a signal crafter of conservative talking points in the midcentury years, throughout the 1950s and 1960s National Review developed arguments to oppose every motion in favor of civil rights, indiscriminately using sometimes contradictory ideas in order to pursue a single goal: the continued subjugation of America’s black people.

salon.com

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BigPapa  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:04:08pm

That Baldwin vs Buckley debate should be shown in HS. It resonates today.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:04:13pm

re: #182 A Cranky One

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:06:41pm

Let’s see how long this takes:

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Joe Bacon  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:07:31pm

re: #188 BigPapa

That Baldwin vs Buckley debate should be shown in HS. It resonates today.

For those who never saw James Baldwin annihilate Buckley in that debate here it is in all its glory. Savor the longest ever standing ovation given in the Union’s history to James Baldwin after he finishes his historic dissection of white racism.

James Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965

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sagehen  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:14:05pm

re: #188 BigPapa

That Baldwin vs Buckley debate should be shown in HS. It resonates today.

7 minutes… this is what happens when I don’t read ahead.

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Captain Ron  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:25:33pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:30:00pm

Reading through the comments on Lara’s dildo thread is a laugh. Virtually every argument against those being even on display comes back to “Children might see them! Sex is supposed to be a private affair that’s totally hidden away!” I’ve seen a couple try to suggest that if Wal-Mart simply must sell them, then they should be hidden behind the sales shelf and only available upon request.

Zod forbid they take their little girls near the child’s clothing section, they might see skirts short enough that men can see their ankles!/////

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:33:25pm

re: #194 Targetpractice

Reading through the comments on Lara’s dildo thread is a laugh. Virtually every argument against those being even on display comes back to “Children might see them! Sex is supposed to be a private affair that’s totally hidden away!” I’ve seen a couple try to suggest that if Wal-Mart simply must sell them, then they should be hidden behind the sales shelf and only available upon request.

Zod forbid they take their little girls near the child’s clothing section, they might see skirts short enough that men can see their ankles!/////

These same people have no problem with the guns being right beside the toys.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:37:48pm

re: #195 Belafon

These same people have no problem with the guns being right beside the toys.

A couple of people pointed out that the Wal-Marts that still sell guns do so out in the open where kids can see them…and the wingnuts got snippy and argued that that’s perfectly cool because hunting is a “family event.”

To be fair, the majority of the replies seem to be in the vein of “Because people buy them?” and acknowledging that if the product wasn’t in demand then it wouldn’t be on sale, leaving the few wingnuts rising to the top sounding like the sort of prudes that demanded school officials punished for a lesson showing pictures of the statue of David because “IT’S PORN!!!”

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A Cranky One  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:48:49pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 10:59:58pm

re: #185 jaunte

Your option to give your opinion about New York Times opinions, contributors, and podcasts. They are currently running a survey.

They didn’t have an option for “hire Doug J. Balloon” though.

nyt.qualtrics.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2023 • 11:20:23pm
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retired cynic  Mar 25, 2023 • 11:25:44pm

h/t Juanita Jean’s

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retired cynic  Mar 25, 2023 • 11:27:25pm

h/t Juanita Jean’s

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retired cynic  Mar 25, 2023 • 11:28:52pm

h/t Juanita Jean’s

(There, I’ve done my part for the night!)

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retired cynic  Mar 25, 2023 • 11:38:38pm

Oh, some more…

Juanita Jean Herownself has some history with Ben Barnes and John Connally, so I recommend these two posts to you, not with glee, exactly, but with pleasure:

Arrrrghhh

Mastodon

Arrrrghhh Follow Up

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Mar 26, 2023 • 12:38:08am
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BigPapa  Mar 26, 2023 • 12:43:33am

re: #204 Captain Ron

Gotta be a gas explosion. Or dust or something.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 12:44:44am

re: #202 retired cynic

[Embedded content]

h/t Juanita Jean’s

(There, I’ve done my part for the night!)

The reality is that DeSantis is basically just a return to form for the party, the sort of soulless human husk that could show up at county fairs to mime choking down greasy carnival fare before ducking behind a ride to spit it out into the nearest trash can while reaching for premium brand bottled water to get rid of the taste. But also the one who could feel comfortable rubbing shoulders at the local country club, talking up the well-heeled about how a DeSantis administration would see their taxes go down further alongside the regularity “burden.” He didn’t need actual charisma to sell himself, just off-brand charisma-like product that he could slather on his face before campaign gigs.

The problem is that Trump’s sales pitch is just more blunt in its delivery: “I’ve got the meathead vote in my pocket and there’s no way Ron can take it from me. So either vote for me or kiss 2024 goodbye.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 1:23:45am

Philly residents whinging right now on Reddit’s r/Nebraska about I-80 being closed. They’re complaining that “gee, Philly and New Jersey get the roads ploughed right away, what’s the problem Nebraska? You made us cancel our non-refundable hotel stay further down the road.”

Terrible ass ogallala (six hours ago)

My bf and I are driving from Philly and it’s snowing maybe two inches on the ground and the town completely shut down both the highways …. For what where I’m from Philly/jersey they Continuously plow and salt the roads ……..so here u just shut down the road’s every time it snows …all hotels are booked this is dumb … so we’re stranded by force had to cancell our hotel we had already book and paid and get no refund for that thanks ogallala really appreciate it

The comments are brutal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 1:31:21am

Current road conditions.
new.511.nebraska.gov

The weather here sux.

I-80 is closed for two-thirds of the state, from Hastings to Pine Bluffs, Wyo. I-76 is closed from Big Springs to the Colo. Line (all two miles of it). Other routes such as US-30 are also closed.

I’m surprised they got as far as Ogallala before they were booted off the Interstate.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 26, 2023 • 1:42:02am

re: #100 jaunte

I gotta say, I’d probably not remember 5 random words 5 minutes later. I’m not sure I ever would have been able to. I don’t think I’m wired that way. Same with random numbers. Gave me something with meaning (the first 5 numbers in pi or the first line of a famous book, for example), fine, but random, arbitrary stuff? Nope. Very unlikely that’s gonna happen.

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steve_davis  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:07:31am

re: #59 Charles Johnson

Hiromi really gives that piano a ferocious pounding. Piano tuners turn white with fear when they see her approach the keyboard.

The guy who tuned my piano used to work professionally at it, rather than just as a sideline, and mentioned he was responsible for the pianos at some concert hall where the concert grand would get retuned during intermissions.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:09:43am

Local history.

The owner of “The Most Unlikely Place” (a restaurant/art gallery in Llewellyn, Nebr., just down the road from me) gives a short lecture about the most famous grave on the Oregon Trail. There is a cemetery in Ash Hollow State Park (some people from my town are buried there) where she talks about the love story and tragic death of the woman. (5:11)

Rachel Pattison’s Grave

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:09:55am

Well, I never! 3/6

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:22:39am

The most sexist town in the USA (Man, West Virginia).

There are a few women there. Only a few. (6:32)

Man, West Virginia: A Town Filled With Hillbillies and a Few Women, Despite the Name

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:38:49am

re: #14 Crush White Nationalism

The replies are terrible. So many nutjobs are going along with that, and even building on it. with very few people gently pushing back. Apparently, there are “replacements” everywhere.

Including the White House, according to my (ex-)GF

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:41:28am

re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg

Fetterman looks like he might have gained a slight bit of weight in the newer photo, but it’s definitely the same guy lizardoid changeling.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:42:13am

re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth

all these messages from Trump about not loving your kids are warning shots to his own children, in the event they testify against him.

And needless to say, no farms are being “lost to the death tax”.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:42:33am

Yeah, I liked X-Files too, but the whole “body double” storyline is so 90s.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:47:36am

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Especially if you pronounce it Trump Force One

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:53:08am

re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg

Suppose Obama took advantage of the law and burned down Mar-A-Lago?

again, it will have to be framed to only cover white, male GOP former Presidents

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 2:59:57am

re: #176 Joe Bacon

Oh no, no, no!

Justin’s goal is the same as Christopher Rufo’s! Both of them want to turn all education over to the churches.

That has been their game plan. And make sure that any remaining government schools are wo terrified that they will toe the line and teach only what they are allowed to.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:00:43am

re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

again, it will have to be framed to only cover white, male GOP former Presidents

From what I’m hearing, they supposedly plan to write the bill to cover actions conducted during one’s presidency, totally forgetting that the whole pay-off came before the election and thus before he could even be sworn into office.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:02:13am

re: #185 jaunte

Be careful what you wish for! I’m more than happy to walk students through the key debates of early 20th century conservative thought - “Fascism: Positive Good or Necessary Evil?”, “Should Women Be Able To Vote?”, “How Many Races Are There Exactly?” etc

“Why even the poorest black people in America are still better off than if they were in Africa!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:06:22am

Ugh. They changed the clocks in Europe this morning.

The EU Parliament has passed a bill calling for Europe to remain on Endless Summer time but is waiting for the national parliaments to get around to implementing it.

Probably not in my lifetime.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:22:41am

re: #221 Targetpractice

From what I’m hearing, they supposedly plan to write the bill to cover actions conducted during one’s presidency, totally forgetting that the whole pay-off came before the election and thus before he could even be sworn into office.

They can write anything they want. It’s not gonna get past the Senate, and the House GOP knows this full well. It’s 100% DOA.

It’s just performative bullshit.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:23:44am

re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Ugh. They changed the clocks in Europe this morning.

The EU Parliament has passed a bill calling for Europe to remain on Endless Summer time but is waiting for the national parliaments to get around to implementing it.

Probably not in my lifetime.

Here in Czech Republic, we’re waiting for Germany to move first.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:33:28am

re: #225 Dr Lizardo

Here in Czech Republic, we’re waiting for Germany to move first.

Why not just introduce it first in the Sudetenland and then later in the remaining provinces?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:42:27am

Summer is coming for you!

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:43:19am

LOL these people are nuts.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:46:39am

Shukshina and Jiveshina…

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:48:06am

re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Summer is coming for you!

Yes, indeed. You could say that “♪♫Sumer is icumen in♬♪”…

The Wicker Man (1973) sacrifice scene

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 3:48:41am

Waco Wicker Man

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:08:04am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:10:17am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:13:00am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:13:45am

re: #233 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Russian propagandists discussed Putin’s statements about stationing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus and various ways of attacking the West. The host concludes that it’s not about morality or peace: “We need the world — preferably, all of it.”

All this does is to lower the nuclear threshold, which has already been seriously lowered by the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine.

Is he trying to provoke NATO into moving tactical nukes into Poland and the Baltic countries?

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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:14:11am

I just set up a monthly donation to the Chicago abortion fund, which assists women who need abortions. Since Dobbs, its now primarily aiding women who have to travel hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from states which have made their medical care illegal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:30:01am

In Reddit’s r/Nebraska discussion of Sen. Megan Hunt calling out Republicans and saying they are not safe for her trans child to be around, the Christians are really pouring on the hate against her in the comments.

Unusually for Christians here, they aren’t calling for her to be killed for being an atheist, a single mother, or bi-sexual. (That is usual discourse about the senator in this state; she gets regular death threats.) Plenty of out-of-state Christians are in the comments

There are hundreds of hateful comments against her speech on the floor (I read every one: It is worthwhile to know what the people who want to kill you are saying about people like you). They are ignoring what paediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists say about the best care for trans children. They don’t care about any of that, all they care about is Muh Book. Many commentators call her a hateful or depressed woman (because she should just lie down and take hate legislation against her own child I guess).

As for the conservative commentators, it is a litany of parrots squaking out what they’ve been trained to say by right-wing politicians and pundits. They also do not care about what the medical science says is best practice: They only care about power and cruelty.

With video of her speech on the Unicameral floor, 1:48

NE State Sen. Megan Hunt (D) calls out her GOP colleagues for their anti-trans legislation: “This bill harms me in an unforgivable way … Don’t say ‘hi’ to me in the hall … Don’t walk by my desk and ask me anything … No one in a world holds a grudge like me.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:32:49am

re: #236 No Malarkey!

I just set up a monthly donation to the Chicago abortion fund, which assists women who need abortions. Since Dobbs, its now primarily aiding women who have to travel hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from states which have made their medical care illegal.

We still donate mailed cheques to Planned Parenthood of Lincoln, Nebr. (me to their fund to provide care to those who need assistance, my wife to Planned Parenthood Action Fund to fight off anti-abortion legislation here).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:43:28am

Road conditions are getting worse here.

The entirety of Interstate 80 is closed from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Pine Bluffs, Wyoming.

Most major US and state highways are closed (including all of US-26 through my town from Ogallala to Scottsbluff).

I guess the Philly native who was complaining on Reddit I linked above earlier about Nebraska derailing her plans is even less happy now.

new.511.nebraska.gov

In Wyoming, Interstate 80 open west of Archer Blvd (on the east side of town eastbound). Traffic must exit there due to road conditions in the Nebraska Panhandle. Westbound Interstate 80 is open from Pine Bluffs.

Pretty much all traffic is sidelined here now.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:44:42am

re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Philly residents whinging right now on Reddit’s r/Nebraska about I-80 being closed. They’re complaining that “gee, Philly and New Jersey get the roads ploughed right away, what’s the problem Nebraska? You made us cancel our non-refundable hotel stay further down the road.”

Terrible ass ogallala (six hours ago)

The comments are brutal.

My only comment as a former resident of Philadelphia is that these are idiots first and Philadelphians second. Though their understanding of winter weather and snow might also be limited by their lack of experience in dealing with it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:48:26am

Traffic camera in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, looking east. Nebraska is closed.

new.511.nebraska.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:52:31am

re: #240 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

My only comment as a former resident of Philadelphia is that these are idiots first and Philadelphians second. Though their understanding of winter weather and snow might also be limited by their lack of experience in dealing with it.

Their issue was they were forced off Interstate 80 and they didn’t understand because they could only see a few inches of snow. (They also lost a non-refundable hotel fee further along on their trip, which I think is the real complaint here.)

The claim was Philly and New Jersey will quickly get out the ploughs and salt trucks to keep the roads clear there. They didn’t seem to understand that vast empty spaces with no trees and high winds makes for conditions which are hard to keep even the Interstate highway open.

Looking down the street from my house to the south, I see the county barricaded the street entrances to US-26. While this is nothing like the Christmas Eve snowstorm (from which despite several days in the sixties we still have snow), it is enough to snarl the local roads.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 4:56:43am

4 Oklahoma Supreme Court Justices made it clear that they don’t believe pregnant women have a constitutional right to live. Now, the Oklahoma Constitution grants that right to “persons”, so apparently, when you become pregnant in Oklahoma, you lose your personhood to your fetus. Fortunately, there are five sane justices in Oklahoma who overruled them, so that doctors in Oklahoma don’t have to wait until a woman is literally dying (likely to result in some cases waiting too long, and in every case women experiencing unnecessary suffering) to give her the medical care she needs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:03:47am

Wyo. DOT keeps updating their road closure post, but doesn’t change how long Interstate 80 will be closed.

Road Closed Due To Events In Nebraska
As of March 26 at 05:00 a.m., the estimated opening time is in 4 to 6 hours. Parking on the roadway is prohibited and delays opening the road.

wyoroad.info

Local weather (snow for the foreseeable future)

forecast.weather.gov

This is the tail end of the long front which caused the horrible tornadoes in Mississippi. Tropical air is moving in here from the Gulf of Mexico and clashing with Arctic air, causing snow on the lee side of the Rocky Mountains.

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:07:33am

re: #239 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Road conditions are getting worse here.

The entirety of Interstate 80 is closed from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Pine Bluffs, Wyoming.

Most major US and state highways are closed (including all of US-26 through my town from Ogallala to Scottsbluff).

I guess the Philly native who was complaining on Reddit I linked above earlier about Nebraska derailing her plans is even less happy now.

new.511.nebraska.gov

In Wyoming, Interstate 80 open west of Archer Blvd (on the east side of town eastbound). Traffic must exit there due to road conditions in the Nebraska Panhandle. Westbound Interstate 80 is open from Pine Bluffs.

Pretty much all traffic is sidelined here now.

I think you’re bluffing

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:11:13am

re: #228 Dr Lizardo

LOL these people are nuts.

[Embedded content]

So the vaccine that the Russians took so much pride in being the first to invent and mass-produce was actually developed by the US to make Russian soldiers easier to target with missiles in a war that nobody outside of Putin’s inner circle foresaw happening all the way back in 2020?

Forget the Onion, this is some Weekly World News level of insanity.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:12:04am

Well, okay then freedom lovers.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:12:24am

re: #242 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Their issue was they were forced off Interstate 80 and they didn’t understand because they could only see a few inches of snow. (They also lost a non-refundable hotel fee further along on their trip, which I think is the real complaint here.)

The claim was Philly and New Jersey will quickly get out the ploughs and salt trucks to keep the roads clear there. They didn’t seem to understand that vast empty spaces with no trees and high winds makes for conditions which are hard to keep even the Interstate highway open.

Looking down the street from my house to the south, I see the county barricaded the street entrances to US-26. While this is nothing like the Christmas Eve snowstorm (from which despite several days in the sixties we still have snow), it is enough to snarl the local roads.

Yes, they don’t understand the scale required to handle long stretches of highway. Or how wind causes drift conditions and extreme danger to trucks. And they overestimate Philly and NJ’s ability to respond to snow since I’ve seen a nor’easter dump a bit more than 2” down and the city pretty much comes to a standstill. Especially once snow starts to affect the train system.*

I also recall fairly few occasions while I lived in Philly where conditions for black ice development existed. Saw it a bit more growing up in northern New York state in the 1970s. These people I am pretty sure would never know what hit them if they encountered a patch of it.

* - I also had just moved to the D.C. area when the Veteran’s Day storm there in 1988 buried the DC Metro trains in the yards. As well as eventually bringing I-95 to a standstill and closing parts of it for multiple days.

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:12:47am

re: #243 No Malarkey!

4 Oklahoma Supreme Court Justices made it clear that they don’t believe pregnant women have a constitutional right to live. Now, the Oklahoma Constitution grants that right to “persons”, so apparently, when you become pregnant in Oklahoma, you lose your personhood to your fetus. Fortunately, there are five sane justices in Oklahoma who overruled them, so that doctors in Oklahoma don’t have to wait until a woman is literally dying (likely to result in some cases waiting too long, and in every case women experiencing unnecessary suffering) to give her the medical care she needs.

They want to instill in the blastocyst/zygote/embryo/fetus etc the presumptive superior rights/power to compel another actually existing and born human into unquestionable subjugation to it, and have that power enforced by the state without recourse

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:13:26am

*spraypaints monitor with coffee* Iframe

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:14:12am

re: #249 Dangerman

They want to instill in the blastocyst/zygote/embryo/fetus etc the presumptive superior rights/power to compel another actually existing and born human into unquestionable subjugation to it, and have that power enforced by the state without recourse

Which fits perfectly with their desire for women to be in unquestionable subjugation in general.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:15:08am

re: #1 dharmamark

Way late to this party, but he also played with reconstituted Yes if I’m not mistaken.

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TarHellion  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:15:29am

Back-to-back Beagles! If only this could happen in real life on a golf course.

Local golfer update: J.T. Poston had a 2-up lead on No. 1-ranked Scottie Scheffler with 5 holes to play. Scheffler birdied the next 3 holes to pull even, then won on 18. A disappointing end, but Poston still gets back in the top 70 in FedEx Cup points, which is the cutoff for this year’s playoff format.

Gonna tackle my taxes some more. Not too complicated. More lack of motivation. Happy Sunday everyone!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 645 2/6*

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:16:14am

re: #248 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Yes, they don’t understand the scale required to handle long stretches of highway. Or how wind causes drift conditions and extreme danger to trucks. And they overestimate Philly and NJ’s ability to respond to snow since I’ve seen a nor’easter dump a bit more than 2” down and the city pretty much comes to a standstill. Especially once snow starts to affect the train system.*

I also recall fairly few occasions while I lived in Philly where conditions for black ice development existed. Saw it a bit more growing up in northern New York state in the 1970s. These people I am pretty sure would never know what hit them if they encountered a patch of it.

* - I also had just moved to the D.C. area when the Veteran’s Day storm there in 1988 buried the DC Metro trains in the yards. As well as eventually bringing I-95 to a standstill and closing parts of it for multiple days.

What they really don’t understand is personal inconvenience.

And accepting the consequences of their decisions

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:22:49am

re: #254 Dangerman

What they really don’t understand is personal inconvenience.

And accepting the consequences of their decisions

This storm has been predicted for several days. This wasn’t a surprise (to us anyway).

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:27:47am

re: #254 Dangerman

What they really don’t understand is personal inconvenience.

And accepting the consequences of their decisions

That sort of went without saying. :)

And I’ve seen stretches of I-80 closed in PA due to winter storms. The highway in the central part of the state often ends up right on the snow/rain border and is thus subject to getting icy. And there are some “interesting” micro-climate areas and wind gaps as well where conditions will change rapidly and unexpectedly.

I always maintained that driving I-80 was nice in good weather and to be avoided in bad. In the latter if I had to go north I would drive further north via I-81 first and then cut west on I-86 assuming I-86 would be north of the freeze line. My theory there was twofold: (1) NY handled highway snow better than PA. (2) I-86 was generally a flatter route and had smoother hill contours than I-81.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:30:39am

re: #255 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This storm has been predicted for several days. This wasn’t a surprise (to us anyway).

It’s generally worth considering, before setting out on a road trip, looking up the weather in the areas through which you will be passing along the way. This practice has saved me much headache when traversing the distance between my house and my parents’.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:32:20am

re: #255 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This storm has been predicted for several days. This wasn’t a surprise (to us anyway).

I’ve worked through the last three major snowstorms here in Virginia Beach and every time, each one predicted days in advance and predicted to be bad enough to shut the city down for at least a day…and every one, some dumbass showed up during or just after the worst of it to check-in while telling me that they “didn’t think it would be that bad.”

The one in 2018 in particular sticks out in my mind because a couple who’d somehow managed to find the one flight to arrive in conditions just short of white-out got upset with me when told that we had no hotel shuttle that went to the Norfolk airport, then showed up over an hour later after they’d found some crazy bastard still driving out in the mess to tell me that there was a family event that weekend that they simply couldn’t fail to attend.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:32:37am

re: #250 Teukka

*spraypaints monitor with coffee*

That’s a theme.

the hymen=virginity myth is never-ending (Reddit’s r/NotHowGirlsWork)

The final response in the short social media thread in the screenshot from a woman respondent is a hoot.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:33:56am

Minor I-80 fact is that John McPhee’s _Annals of the Former World_ compilation of geology books is essentially a travelogue of I-80 since a great deal of the terrain described is along that highway in different parts of the U.S.

I read my brother’s copy years ago. Since then I’ve found and bought it in used book stores at least twice to then be gifted to other people. I consider it one of the best books trying to explain North American geological development in layman’s terms.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:33:59am

re: #258 Targetpractice

…there was a family event that weekend that they simply couldn’t fail to attend.

No offense to those folks, but that sounds like a them problem. I love how they have no qualms about risking some stranger’s life to get to their “can’t miss” event.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:35:07am

re: #250 Teukka

*spraypaints monitor with coffee* [Embedded content]

I just…can’t. I really can’t. Just how inadequate is this guy that a tampon is bigger and stiffer than he is?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:35:37am

re: #258 Targetpractice

The last time I drove in a blizzard was in Virginia Beach.

My ex-wife and I were returning from Florida, and a snowstorm hit when we were in Emporia.

I dumbly though, “I’m from Michigan, I can drive in snow,” and set out for Virginia Beach on the Suicide Highway.

By the time we got to Indian River Road, the snow was so heavy you could not see the businesses on the side of the street. I spent much of the drive from Emporia to Suffolk driving about twenty miles per hour.

I ain’t doing that again.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:36:54am

re: #262 Targetpractice

I just…can’t. I really can’t. Just how inadequate is this guy that a tampon is bigger and stiffer than he is?

It’s not that, it’s the principle of the thing. Mrs. Fish came from this kind of culture, and it is literally about not putting anything up in there, so as to preserve her virginity for marriage. Yes, these people are deadly serious about this. Yes, it’s embarrassing how little they know about how females work, but they don’t care about that; even if instructed in the ways of women, they will cling to their ancient superstition, because religion > facts.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:37:21am

re: #261 Nerdy Fish

No offense to those folks, but that sounds like a them problem. I love how they have no qualms about risking some stranger’s life to get to their “can’t miss” event.

I can’t remember if it was those dumbasses or the ones the year before who told me that they lived in the western portion of the state (not to be confused with West Virginia though banjos are still involved) who told me that they didn’t think it could be “that bad” because snow gets way worse towards the Appalachians.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:37:29am

re: #259 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s a theme.

the hymen=virginity myth is never-ending (Reddit’s r/NotHowGirlsWork)

The final response in the short social media thread in the screenshot from a woman respondent is a hoot.

*groans* BTW, Sophia Smith Galer’s “Losing It” is inmy reading pipeline, and deals with shit precisely like this.

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jeffreyw  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:38:58am

Good morning!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:39:21am

re: #257 Nerdy Fish

It’s generally worth considering, before setting out on a road trip, looking up the weather in the areas through which you will be passing along the way. This practice has saved me much headache when traversing the distance between my house and my parents’.

My main “mandatory” travel stuff is to/from my brother’s place for the usual family holidays. And I always check the forecasts and then adjust departure dates and times to adjust for expected weather. Especially in the winter since leaving even a few hours sooner can get one clear of a front before it makes the roads much more dangerous to drive on.

My shift back to western PA has put the lake effect snow off of Lake Eire back into play. It also has changed the alternate routes north to a choice between interstates (I-79 and a stretch of I-90*) and 2-lane PA state routes further from the lake, but in more hilly terrain.

* - Which includes what was considered for a time the worst stretch of interstate highway in the entire country. It’s better, but I still don’t like driving it. Doubly so in any sort of snow conditions.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:39:23am

re: #265 Targetpractice

I can’t remember if it was those dumbasses or the ones the year before who told me that they lived in the western portion of the state (not to be confused with West Virginia though banjos are still involved) who told me that they didn’t think it could be “that bad” because snow gets way worse towards the Appalachians.

The latter may be true, but that doesn’t make the former part automatically true. Snowstorms on the open plains can be particularly dangerous, because, as Anymouse noted, high winds and blowing/drifting snow can turn even moderate snowfall into whiteout conditions.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:42:43am

re: #264 Nerdy Fish

It’s not that, it’s the principle of the thing. Mrs. Fish came from this kind of culture, and it is literally about not putting anything up in there, so as to preserve her virginity for marriage. Yes, these people are deadly serious about this. Yes, it’s embarrassing how little they know about how females work, but they don’t care about that; even if instructed in the ways of women, they will cling to their ancient superstition, because religion > facts.

It’s a “manhood” thing, it’s about being the only man she’s ever “known” and thus knowing (or rather believing) that she has no other metric by which to measure him or his performance. So that when he gets his rocks off after banging away for a few minutes and she’s experiencing nothing but pain and shock, he can be convinced that Daddy was right that women aren’t supposed to like sex and it’s supposed to be a bad experience whose only purpose is for producing offspring.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:42:55am

re: #262 Targetpractice

I just…can’t. I really can’t. Just how inadequate is this guy that a tampon is bigger and stiffer than he is?

Yeah, just like what size of delusions of tininess does the guy have? Also, don’t ED shame, it happens to some guys…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:43:26am

re: #265 Targetpractice

I can’t remember if it was those dumbasses or the ones the year before who told me that they lived in the western portion of the state (not to be confused with West Virginia though banjos are still involved) who told me that they didn’t think it could be “that bad” because snow gets way worse towards the Appalachians.

I’ve made the mistake of driving through West Virginia on US-60 from Virginia Beach. Not for the faint-of-heart.

That trip from Emporia to my apartment on Pacific Avenue, I swear the longest time was from Suffolk to the Oceanfront.

Virginia Beach really isn’t equipped for snow removal: It snows so rarely that purchasing snow removal equipment would be insanely expensive. For the rare times they need it, the Commonwealth sends it in from other parts of the state (after they’ve cleared their roads).

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:44:22am

re: #265 Targetpractice

I can’t remember if it was those dumbasses or the ones the year before who told me that they lived in the western portion of the state (not to be confused with West Virginia though banjos are still involved) who told me that they didn’t think it could be “that bad” because snow gets way worse towards the Appalachians.

That sounds like not understanding that the snow events on either end of the state are driven by different weather patterns similar to PA.

Western PA snow was more consistent in happening and driven by fronts coming across the country and snow generally from the southwest as warm air was forced north and cooled.

Eastern PA snow was lesser (or no) amounts from the systems coming from the west. However, a nor’easter coming up the coast would have the various squall lines that were very unpredictable. You could get zero snow, or over a foot of snow, with just a few miles of distance in between.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:46:01am

re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I really hate agree with tweets from any LP account, but this one is correct.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:46:39am

re: #264 Nerdy Fish

It’s not that, it’s the principle of the thing. Mrs. Fish came from this kind of culture, and it is literally about not putting anything up in there, so as to preserve her virginity for marriage. Yes, these people are deadly serious about this. Yes, it’s embarrassing how little they know about how females work, but they don’t care about that; even if instructed in the ways of women, they will cling to their ancient superstition, because religion > facts.

Also, it quite often makes the females first intercourse a painful, and sometimes traumatic event, and going by the rule that the cruelty is intentional, it raises all sorts of uncomfortable questions…

re: #270 Targetpractice

It’s a “manhood” thing, it’s about being the only man she’s ever “known” and thus knowing (or rather believing) that she has no other metric by which to measure him or his performance. So that when he gets his rocks off after banging away for a few minutes and she’s experiencing nothing but pain and shock, he can be convinced that Daddy was right that women aren’t supposed to like sex and it’s supposed to be a bad experience whose only purpose is for producing offspring.

*shakes head* Why is female sexuality such a threat to them? Or the thought of the female liking it? Or making that your goal as her partner?

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:46:54am

re: #272 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve made the mistake of driving through West Virginia on US-60 from Virginia Beach. Not for the faint-of-heart.

That trip from Emporia to my apartment on Pacific Avenue, I swear the longest time was from Suffolk to the Oceanfront.

Virginia Beach really isn’t equipped for snow removal: It snows so rarely that purchasing snow removal equipment would be insanely expensive. For the rare times they need it, the Commonwealth sends it in from other parts of the state (after they’ve cleared their roads).

The biggest issue with snow removal even today in Virginia Beach is that there’s no rhyme or reason to the layout because the city technically started as a shotgun wedding of several different disparate communities who banded together just to prevent Norfolk from gobbling them up. So you can live “in” Virginia Beach but your neighborhood is half an hour down a backroad that plow trucks won’t touch for 1-2 days after the storm hit. The main drags in the city center are clear the next morning, but you’re still waiting days later to leave your house.

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Thanos  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:53:13am

In a pinch a car can be used as a snowplow on a highway, but once started you have to keep it up to speed until you hit a clear space. If you don’t then you lose momentum and will get stuck real hard. I’ve used this method to get through broad pass in Alaska a couple of times, once with a ‘74 Plymouth satellite, once with a ‘65 Dodge Coronet.

At end of the run with the Coronet we had to stop for a bio break when we hit a place the ploughs had already cleared, so we pulled over right into the Snow plough depot - but I made the mistake of shutting the car off.

The ice had packed up around the engine block and had infiltrated the starter through a missing snap-in cover plate.

I had to chisel the ice out from underneath, pull off the starter and remove the pea gravel inside that was keeping it from starting before we could get going again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:55:41am

re: #276 Targetpractice

The biggest issue with snow removal even today in Virginia Beach is that there’s no rhyme or reason to the layout because the city technically started as a shotgun wedding of several different disparate communities who banded together just to prevent Norfolk from gobbling them up. So you can live “in” Virginia Beach but your neighborhood is half an hour down a backroad that plow trucks won’t touch for 1-2 days after the storm hit. The main drags in the city center are clear the next morning, but you’re still waiting days later to leave your house.

Back in the day when my mother was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, it was mostly farmland between Norfolk and what is now the Virginia Beach Borough (the oceanfront).

Where she lived was razed to build Interstate 564.

Meanwhile perusing the asshats over at r/NotHowGirlsWork:

“Women are children you can have legal sex with.”

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:57:38am

re: #277 Thanos

There was a blizzard one time on New Year’s Eve, when Mrs. Fish and I were dating. We spent most of the evening at her parents’ house, then decided to decamp to my place for some alone time. We were driving her 4-wheel-drive truck, so it wasn’t the worst experience, until we rounded the corner of a lake and drove head-on into a serious wind. As we drove at around 30 mph, we saw someone pulled over on the side of the highway. We passed them by, and suddenly, they pulled out behind us! They followed at a distance I thought was entirely too close, but I suppose they were afraid to lose our taillights in the snow. I suppose we helped some poor schmuck get home safely, which is a warming thought.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:59:00am

re: #278 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Back in the day when my mother was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, it was mostly farmland between Norfolk and what is now the Virginia Beach Borough (the oceanfront).

Where she lived was razed to build Interstate 564.

Meanwhile perusing the asshats over at r/NotHowGirlsWork:

“Women are children you can have legal sex with.”

Now, why is child molestation apparently such a problem with people who hold these views???

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 5:59:17am

re: #277 Thanos

My car isn’t big enough for that.

I once stayed overnight at a motel in Cheyenne before a hospital visit at the VA. It snowed overnight and city snowploughs cleared the street.

I stupidly thought “I can get over the snow berm” and gunned the car from the parking lot to the street.

I wound up on top of it with all four tyres in the air. The motel manager had to push our car off so we could get on the way.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:01:12am

re: #277 Thanos

In a pinch a car can be used as a snowplow on a highway, but once started you have to keep it up to speed until you hit a clear space. If you don’t then you lose momentum and will get stuck real hard. I’ve used this method to get through broad pass in Alaska a couple of times, once with a ‘74 Plymouth satellite, once with a ‘65 Dodge Coronet.

At end of the run with the Coronet we had to stop for a bio break when we hit a place the ploughs had already cleared, so we pulled over right into the Snow plough depot - but I made the mistake of shutting the car off.

The ice had packed up around the engine block and had infiltrated the starter through a missing snap-in cover plate.

I had to chisel the ice out from underneath, pull off the starter and remove the pea gravel inside that was keeping it from starting before we could get going again.

I would freeze to death.

also: “it was a Plymouth Satellite, faster than the speed of light.” (thanks for the B-52s brainworm).

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:02:12am

re: #275 Teukka

Also, it quite often makes the females first intercourse a painful, and sometimes traumatic event, and going by the rule that the cruelty is intentional, it raises all sorts of uncomfortable questions…

*shakes head* Why is female sexuality such a threat to them? Or the thought of the female liking it? Or making that your goal as her partner?

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle has this as a question and it’s from the 15th century. The patriarchy seems to be deathly afraid of women being allowed to make meaningful choices.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:04:59am

re: #280 Teukka

Now, why is child molestation apparently such a problem with people who hold these views???

Nah, what will really bake your noodle is when you consider that many of the assholes who hold that view are the same sort of assholes who will (without fail) bring up that Islam allows child brides and buggering young boys.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:07:19am

re: #283 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle has this as a question and it’s from the 15th century. The patriarchy seems to be deathly afraid of women being allowed to make meaningful choices.

For a lot of European and American history women had the legal status of a child. It seems as though a lot of men today miss that.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:09:30am

re: #196 Targetpractice

A couple of people pointed out that the Wal-Marts that still sell guns do so out in the open where kids can see them…and the wingnuts got snippy and argued that that’s perfectly cool because hunting is a “family event.”

Well, sex could also be a family event…

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:10:36am

re: #195 Belafon

Didn’t a red state pass a law okaying CHILDREN OWNING GUNS? They couldn’t care less about children. Several red states have passed laws allowing children to do dangerous work (without their parents’ approval).

Who the hell are they fooling at this point?

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:10:36am

re: #256 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That sort of went without saying. :)
…

i overstate the obvious

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Nojay UK  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:11:03am

re: #283 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle has this as a question and it’s from the 15th century. The patriarchy seems to be deathly afraid of women being allowed to make meaningful choices.

Bloodlines and inheritances. If someone’s son was to inherit all the land in all directions as far as the eye could see from the castle ramparts then the paternity of that son had to be undisputed otherwise armies would march and death and destruction brought to all because land is precious.

Most European societies and many others like some Asian societies were in two almost separate parts - the ninety-percent-plus of the population who grubbed up dirt and grew food and the few real people who owned the land that ninety-percent-plus were bound to. Virginity and purity was not important to that ninety-percent-plus cohort, formal marriage was for the toffs but for the toffs it was literally life and death because marriage meant land and land was important enough to kill and die for.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:13:52am

re: #287 Patricia Kayden

Didn’t a red state pass a law okaying CHILDREN OWNING GUNS? They couldn’t care less about children. Several red states have passed laws allowing children to do dangerous work (without their parents’ approval).

Who the hell are they fooling at this point?

Their voters, who still somehow believe these cretins are the party of “for the children” because they’re in favor of repressing gay people, trans people, and Black people “for the children,” while allowing child brides and child labor and enabling child mass shooters.

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:17:25am

re: #276 Targetpractice

The biggest issue with snow removal even today in Virginia Beach is that there’s no rhyme or reason to the layout because the city technically started as a shotgun wedding of several different disparate communities who banded together just to prevent Norfolk from gobbling them up. So you can live “in” Virginia Beach but your neighborhood is half an hour down a backroad that plow trucks won’t touch for 1-2 days after the storm hit. The main drags in the city center are clear the next morning, but you’re still waiting days later to leave your house.

when i lived on Long Island it was next to an assumed ‘connected’ guy
our cul-de-sac was always quickly plowed out

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:18:04am

re: #286 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Well, sex could also be a family event…

Eww.

No
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:18:50am

re: #287 Patricia Kayden

Didn’t a red state pass a law okaying CHILDREN OWNING GUNS? They couldn’t care less about children. Several red states have passed laws allowing children to do dangerous work (without their parents’ approval).

Who the hell are they fooling at this point?

Yes, Missouri.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:19:29am

re: #283 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle has this as a question and it’s from the 15th century. The patriarchy seems to be deathly afraid of women being allowed to make meaningful choices.

And that idea was expressed by Chaucer even earlier, in the Fourteenth Century, in the “Wife of Bath’s Tale”.

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:19:52am

re: #279 Nerdy Fish

There was a blizzard one time on New Year’s Eve, when Mrs. Fish and I were dating. We spent most of the evening at her parents’ house, then decided to decamp to my place for some alone time. We were driving her 4-wheel-drive truck, so it wasn’t the worst experience, until we rounded the corner of a lake and drove head-on into a serious wind. As we drove at around 30 mph, we saw someone pulled over on the side of the highway. We passed them by, and suddenly, they pulled out behind us! They followed at a distance I thought was entirely too close, but I suppose they were afraid to lose our taillights in the snow. I suppose we helped some poor schmuck get home safely, which is a warming thought.

i once was ‘that guy’ in the car behind
the front car suddenly stopped and a rammed into it
i got out yelling ‘what the hell did you stop for?”
he said “this is my garage’

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:20:30am

re: #289 Nojay UK

Bloodlines and inheritances. If someone’s son was to inherit all the land in all directions as far as the eye could see from the castle ramparts then the paternity of that son had to be undisputed otherwise armies would march and death and destruction brought to all because land is precious.

Most European societies and many others like some Asian societies were in two almost separate parts - the ninety-percent-plus of the population who grubbed up dirt and grew food and the few real people who owned the land that ninety-percent-plus were bound to. Virginity and purity was not important to that ninety-percent-plus cohort, formal marriage was for the toffs but for the toffs it was literally life and death because marriage meant land and land was important enough to kill and die for.

And female offspring were a bargaining chip in the various dynastic and family alliances. And still pretty much treated as property belonging to the father and then the husband while having a few rights. Which pretty much dates back to Roman Law.

Increased trade and a developing merchant class (e.g. wealthy non-nobility) added a complication since the nobility often needed money to pay for wars and keeping their entourages happy.

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Thanos  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:22:01am

re: #279 Nerdy Fish

There was a blizzard one time on New Year’s Eve, when Mrs. Fish and I were dating. We spent most of the evening at her parents’ house, then decided to decamp to my place for some alone time. We were driving her 4-wheel-drive truck, so it wasn’t the worst experience, until we rounded the corner of a lake and drove head-on into a serious wind. As we drove at around 30 mph, we saw someone pulled over on the side of the highway. We passed them by, and suddenly, they pulled out behind us! They followed at a distance I thought was entirely too close, but I suppose they were afraid to lose our taillights in the snow. I suppose we helped some poor schmuck get home safely, which is a warming thought.

Both times I plowed with car I had a line of followers behind me because it was snowing hard for the satellite, and coming down like the slushy machine was leaking for the Coronet. The hardest part in both cases was keeping the road lined up because everything was coated a couple feet deep evenly.

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retired cynic  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:23:45am

March 25, 2023
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

The story of Frances Perkins, beginning the day of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which she witnessed, and how it inspired her life of pushing legislation to help stop all of the things that it represented, culminating in her time as FDR’s labor secretary. I had no idea of the influence she had. My father in law knew her from his time in FDR’s treasury department, and she was considered a hero in the family. Now I know. This is a part of history that should be taught in every school in the country. One person’s effect for good.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:35:39am

I’m going to struggle off to bed: It’s still snowing and I’m cold. Catch y’all later.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:37:59am

re: #298 retired cynic

March 25, 2023
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

The story of Frances Perkins, beginning the day of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which she witnessed, and how it inspired her life of pushing legislation to help stop all of the things that it represented, culminating in her time as FDR’s labor secretary. I had no idea of the influence she had. …

another example of why the GOP wants to repeal the New Deal and everything it engendered.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:44:01am

Someone posted this on Reddit’s Old School Cool subreddit. The woman in the foreground is the poster’s mom, getting her portrait done by a street artist.

Recognize the gents sitting behind her, on those low steps along the fence?

Yeah…that’s definitely some old school cool right there.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:45:02am

re: #301 Dr Lizardo

Someone posted this on Reddit’s Old School Cool subreddit. The woman in the foreground is the poster’s mom, getting her portrait done by a street artist.

Recognize the gents sitting behind her, on those low steps along the fence?

[Embedded content]

Yeah…that’s definitely some old school cool right there.

“never going back”?

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:45:41am

re: #302 Barefoot Grin

“never going back”?

No. Maybe Styx?

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dharmamark  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:46:37am

re: #303 Barefoot Grin

that’s who I thought

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:49:37am

I remember going to see Styx around 1973 at the Hammond Civic Center, a 3,500-seat venue, where we went to see local heroes like Bob Seeger, Johnny Cougar and Kiss when they were first expanding into the Midwest.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:52:19am

The Young and the Restless debuted 50 years ago today.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:52:58am

re: #306 Belafon

The Young and the Restless debuted 50 years ago today.

Now they are The Old and the Cranky

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 26, 2023 • 6:57:06am

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

I remember going to see Styx around 1973 at the Hammond Civic Center, a 3,500-seat venue, where we went to see local heroes like Bob Seeger, Johnny Cougar and Kiss when they were first expanding into the Midwest.

Styx was pretty big in the 70s; I have four of the LPs in my collection (surprised those LPs turned up here in Czech Republic)…The Grand Illusion, Paradise Theater, Cornerstone and Kilroy Was Here.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:00:22am

re: #298 retired cynic

March 25, 2023
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

The story of Frances Perkins, beginning the day of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which she witnessed, and how it inspired her life of pushing legislation to help stop all of the things that it represented, culminating in her time as FDR’s labor secretary. I had no idea of the influence she had. My father in law knew her from his time in FDR’s treasury department, and she was considered a hero in the family. Now I know. This is a part of history that should be taught in every school in the country. One person’s effect for good.

Grandpa and Grandma Bacon knew Ms. Perkins very well. When they were organizing the Steelworkers Union Ms. Perkins was told point-blank by J&L Steel’s President to not show up in Aliquippa because she would be arrested. She did show up guarded by State Police and she spoke on the steps of the Post Office. At that time the State Police were under the command of Pennsylvania’s Lieutenant Governor...who just happened to be the President of the State’s United Mine Workers…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:01:01am

re: #247 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How does one put a union in a prison?

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Joe Bacon  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:03:56am

re: #310 Colère Tueur de Lapin

How does one put a union in a prison?

Oh my grandparents could answer that since they lived thru the strikebreakers in the period 1919-1934. Grandpa Bacon despised the Boy Scouts because they were fully involved with strikebreakers. And yeah. Great Grandpa did some time in Uncle Sam’s B&B during the Palmer Raids because he committed the crime of being a member and organizer for the Wobblies. (IWW).

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:09:48am

re: #248 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

* - I also had just moved to the D.C. area when the Veteran’s Day storm there in 1988 buried the DC Metro trains in the yards. As well as eventually bringing I-95 to a standstill and closing parts of it for multiple days.

The right-whingers (especially from the south) were all over the DMV response to the 2010 storm we got - up to 3’ — nothing was moving

* walk to work — yeah, that’ll get you dead
* why did you go home? Uh, my job is not my life
* 36”+, is not a problem; even though I have never seen snow, I know what it takes to move in it.

These highbrow thoughts coming from areas ( TX, TN, KY, AL, etc.) where a dusting causes drivers to run into telephone poles and the power to go out. Not that DC, MD, or VA drivers are not insane in snow — that storm prevented them from driving at all.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:12:10am

re: #312 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The right-whingers (especially from the south) were all over the DMV response to the 2010 storm we got - up to 3’ — nothing was moving

* walk to work — yeah, that’ll get you dead
* why did you go home? Uh, my job is not my life
* 36”+, is not a problem; even though I have never seen snow, I know what it takes to move in it.

These highbrow thoughts coming from areas ( TX, TN, KY, AL, etc.) where a dusting causes drivers to run into telephone poles and the power to go out. Not that DC, MD, or VA drivers are not insane in snow — that storm prevented them from driving at all.

I had a one-year post doc in the Richmond area that year. When I interviewed the guy said, “I’ve never had to wear a winter hat or gloves in all the years I’ve been here….”

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darthstar  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:13:07am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:13:39am

re: #308 Dr Lizardo

Styx was pretty big in the 70s; I have four of the LPs in my collection (surprised those LPs turned up here in Czech Republic)…The Grand Illusion, Paradise Theater, Cornerstone and Kilroy Was Here.

The Grand Illusion was one of the albums (along with Kansas’ Leftoverture, Peter Frampton Comes Alive!, Hotel California, Fly Like an Eagle from Steve Miller Band, Boston, Heart’s Dreamboat Annie and Pink Floyd’s Animals) that you could not escape in the dorms of Indiana University in 1976: you could wander the halls at any time of day or night and hear one or more of those albums coming from behind a towel-stuffed doorway…

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:15:14am

re: #312 Colère Tueur de Lapin

We’ve had that argument about here in the DFW, dusting here generally meaning it rained and then froze and then we got a “dusting”, but the reason people end up running into poles is because they refuse to believe that they should have to slow down because of nature.

But yeah, people from location A need to shut up about how to drive in location B.

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Oblongatis  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:15:45am

re: #303 Barefoot Grin

No. Maybe Styx?

Steely Dan

Steely Dan - My Old School (HQ Audio)

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:17:20am

re: #308 Dr Lizardo

Styx was pretty big in the 70s; I have four of the LPs in my collection (surprised those LPs turned up here in Czech Republic)…The Grand Illusion, Paradise Theater, Cornerstone and Kilroy Was Here.

Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight were my favorite albums by them growing up (PoE was the first LP I bought myself). To me they were at their peak - decent songs but they hadn’t gotten as full of themselves as they would in the 80’s. Of course that was about the time I discovered Patti Smith and the Ramones so my tastes… changed … slightly ;)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:17:38am

The creme de la creme was the one in Chicago that gave us 4” of sleet, topped with 4” of snow and another 4” of sleet: a shit sandwich (followed by temps down to around -20°F and wind chill down to -60°) that shut the town down for a week

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:17:45am

Delta passenger detained at LAX after opening exit door, activating emergency slide minutes before takeoff

The loon opened the door, slid down and jumped on a baggage cart. The baggage handlers held him down until police arrived.
“He is being taken to a local hospital for a mental mental evaluation,” Sgt. Devin Feldman said.”

Elsewhere on the crazy passenger front:
Frontier Airlines passenger dragged from plane, allegedly biting police

A Texas woman got into an altercation with another passenger on a Frontier Airlines flight from Miami, Florida to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which led to her being forcefully removed from the aircraft allegedly kicking, scratching and biting police officers.

*snip*

Passengers are heard yelling and cheering as the unruly passenger is forced into the police cruiser on the tarmac.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:20:20am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:23:41am

re: #176 Joe Bacon

Oh no, no, no!

Justin’s goal is the same as Christopher Rufo’s! Both of them want to turn all education over to the churches.

Isn’t Justin more of a traditional libertarian — education should be in the hands of the wealthy and not the religious? If you have no money — no food or housing or education for you.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:25:52am

re: #321 No Malarkey!

If being a presidential candidate is enough to end all investigations into a person, then does someone want to explain to me But Her Emails?

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:26:30am

2nd beagle in a row!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 645 2/6

⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:27:01am

re: #258 Targetpractice

…there was a family event that weekend that they simply couldn’t fail to attend.

Sounds like a perfect excuse to me — I hate “unmissable” family events; already all family events.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:27:16am

WTFITS

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:29:19am

re: #326 The Pie Overlord!

Sniffing other people’s body odour may be able to help treat social anxiety, according to new research

Some people have a very calming vibe about them, and a lot of that has to do with their odor. I know that from personal experience.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:30:44am

re: #323 Nerdy Fish

If being a presidential candidate is enough to end all investigations into a person, then does someone want to explain to me But Her Emails?

The rule only applies to Republicans, naturally.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:31:40am

re: #328 No Malarkey!

The rule only applies to white male Republicans, naturally.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:31:41am

re: #327 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Some people have a very calming vibe about them, and a lot of that has to do with their odor. I know that from personal experience.

I wonder what calm smells like?

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:32:39am

re: #321 No Malarkey!

[Embedded content]

Biden hasn’t announced yet. //

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:33:31am

re: #323 Nerdy Fish

If being a presidential candidate is enough to end all investigations into a person, then does someone want to explain to me But Her Emails?

(D) <————

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:33:50am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:34:02am

re: #330 No Malarkey!

I wonder what calm smells like?

like any number of my GFs. And for all I can say about my ex-wife, I cannot say that she ever smelled bad

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:35:05am

re: #329 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The rule only applies to white male Republicans, naturally.

Department of redundancy Department

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:37:00am

It is really starting to look like violence and even bloodshed will break out surrounding the outcome of the 2024 elections, especially if DFT does not win. I hope it can be contained.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:37:23am

re: #328 No Malarkey!

The rule only applies to Republicans, naturally.

Yes, and I know pointing out their blatant hypocrisy is meaningless, because we all know by now how they’re hypocrites, and the vast unwashed will simply refuse to believe it and invent excuses why IOKIYAR.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:38:09am

re: #326 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS

Alternatively;
“Learning to tolerate a little social anxiety can eliminate the compulsion to sniff other people’s body odor, according to new research.”

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:38:37am

re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Same here. And that violence will scare people into not voting.

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:38:38am

Prominent speakers in Trump rally were: Ted Nugent, Matt Gaetz, Mike Lindell, Marjorie Taylor Greene, TX Lt Gov Dan Patrick, and Donald Trump.

Literally all crooks of one stripe or another
Investigations galore
even mtg thought she needed a pardon

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:39:05am

re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Law enforcement better do a better job the next time around. It’s their responsibility to address these kinds of threats. They dropped the ball on January 6th. All the rest of us can do is vote against the fascists like we did in 2020.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:39:57am

re: #339 PhillyPretzel

Same here. And that violence will scare people into not voting.

voter suppression tends to act in the GOP’s favor

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Joe Bacon  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:40:04am

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union’ to make his case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg needs to appear before Republicans and explain why he is investigating Donald Trump, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) painted himself into a corner when he suggested Bragg might be subpoenaed.

With Bragg’s office firing back at GOP House members who have been threatening to interfere in his investigation into the former president paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election, Comer went back and forth with CNN’s Jake Tapper over the propriety of federal interference in a state matter.

Things came to a head when the CNN host asked if the House Republican would subpoena Bragg.

“Let me ask you if he refuses to come in willingly, will you subpoena him?” Tapper pressed.

“Well, that’ll be up to [House Judiciary Chair] Jim Jordans. I mean, he’s the lead investigator in this particular situation. I come in ias oversight because it deals with the unnecessary use of tax dollars. Chairman [Bryan] Steil is head of House administration. He’s in charge of elections. That’s why the three of us were the three that signed the letter. But Jim Jordans is the lead and he would be the one to answer that question.”

“Jordan who refused to comply with the congressional subpoena in the previous Congress?” host Tapper asked with a smirk.

After a pause, Comer replied with a straightface, “Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,” as Tapper continued to smile.

CNN 03 26 2023 09 14 44

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:40:16am

re: #117 Grunthos the Flatulent

Tomorrow’s Wordle found the only tyre shop in the city open on Sunday. Thank fuck for that.

[Embedded content]

Took me to 6/6

Click to Reveal

Wordle 645 6/6

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⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:40:54am

re: #339 PhillyPretzel

Only in red states will the threat of violence stop some people from exercising their right to vote. If we allow them to intimidate them, we’re done. Black people have been voting in the face of violence forever. And yet we still vote.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:41:11am

Well it looks like the Sunday talk shows have stopped fellating the GOP when they appear.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:42:19am

re: #326 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS

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I’m not really surprised. Some people are wired to be around others, and I’m not surprised it has something to do with smell. Why would that sense be any less involved than others?

My son was telling me that they think that one of the ways dogs may know when their human is coming home is that they learn how much smell is remaining from when the person left.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:42:32am

re: #346 The Pie Overlord!

Well it looks like the Sunday talk shows have stopped fellating the GOP when they appear.

I’d prefer they just stop inviting them altogether, but I’m OK with them finally gathering the chutzpah to stand up to them and make them look foolish.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:42:46am

re: #317 Oblongatis

Steely Dan

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I thought the guy in front looked like Fagan a bit. But I couldn’t find Becker, and then realized that the blond guy to the left was the Styx guitar player. “Come Sail Away” was one of the first 45s I ever bought (and one of the last).

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:46:53am

re: #339 PhillyPretzel

Same here. And that violence will scare people into not voting.

Mostly white people.

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:47:10am

He inexplicably called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “homosexual weirdo.”

Scripted or just his Id leaking out,’ If I can’t beat you on the merits, I’ll just call you a f*g’ is a refined high form of conservative go-to argument

Plus he doesn’t get how representative government works.
You don’t get to “authorize” shit

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:48:09am

re: #351 Dangerman

These people have a serious hangup about how they personally should get to make decisions on behalf of all of us.

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Dangerman  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:48:36am

re: #343 Joe Bacon

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union’ to make his case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg needs to appear before Republicans and explain why he is investigating Donald Trump, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) painted himself into a corner when he suggested Bragg might be subpoenaed.

With Bragg’s office firing back at GOP House members who have been threatening to interfere in his investigation into the former president paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election, Comer went back and forth with CNN’s Jake Tapper over the propriety of federal interference in a state matter.

Things came to a head when the CNN host asked if the House Republican would subpoena Bragg.

“Let me ask you if he refuses to come in willingly, will you subpoena him?” Tapper pressed.

“Well, that’ll be up to [House Judiciary Chair] Jim Jordans. I mean, he’s the lead investigator in this particular situation. I come in ias oversight because it deals with the unnecessary use of tax dollars. Chairman [Bryan] Steil is head of House administration. He’s in charge of elections. That’s why the three of us were the three that signed the letter. But Jim Jordans is the lead and he would be the one to answer that question.”

“Jordan who refused to comply with the congressional subpoena in the previous Congress?” host Tapper asked with a smirk.

After a pause, Comer replied with a straightface, “Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,” as Tapper continued to smile.

[Embedded content]

This moment was inevitable long ago

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:50:42am

re: #351 Dangerman

He inexplicably called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “homosexual weirdo.”

Scripted or just his Id leaking out,’ If I can’t beat you on the merits, I’ll just call you a f*g’ is a refined high form of conservative go-to argument

Plus he doesn’t get how representative government works.
You don’t get to “authorize” shit

The guy who called President Obama a “subhuman mongrel” promised us he would be dead or in jail if Obama were reelected. What a turd.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:50:48am

Pretty much the GOP-niks on the Sunday shows arguing that laws should not apply to Trump (and Republicans in general) since they are the authority that should be obeyed without question.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:51:12am

re: #188 BigPapa

That Baldwin vs Buckley debate should be shown in HS. It resonates today.

Probably violates the DeSantis anti-CRT laws.

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:51:38am

Word-game stuff:

Click to Reveal

Today’s Wordle the usual annoyance: just two words for the birdie, and I picked the wrong one….

Wordle 645 4/6

⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Also: for any Spelling Bee fans: I feel absurdly proud of (finally) Queen-Bee-ing all seven of this week’s games:

nytimes.com

Although the “winning” word to complete today’s (Sunday’s) puzzle was weird, even by Spelling Bee standards.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:52:20am

re: #351 Dangerman

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:55:33am
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:56:03am

The Republicans’ entitlement mentality - “I’m the only one who is entitled to make decisions around here, because I’m the only one who knows what’s right” - is what’s driving their descent into fascism. They are so utterly convinced that they, and only they, have the “moral high ground” that they are prepared to disenfranchise everyone who disagrees with them; by force, if necessary.

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gocart mozart  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:58:43am

twitter.com

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 7:59:30am

re: #361 gocart mozart

That asked me to sign in to Twitter, which I’m not going to do. What is it?

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:01:01am

Something that should be in the news:

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:09:03am

re: #362 Nerdy Fish

That asked me to sign in to Twitter, which I’m not going to do. What is it?

Just kill the signin popup. Worked for me.

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Ferdinand  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:09:36am

re: #243 No Malarkey!

4 Oklahoma Supreme Court Justices made it clear that they don’t believe pregnant women have a constitutional right to live. Now, the Oklahoma Constitution grants that right to “persons”, so apparently, when you become pregnant in Oklahoma, you lose your personhood to your fetus. Fortunately, there are five sane justices in Oklahoma who overruled them, so that doctors in Oklahoma don’t have to wait until a woman is literally dying (likely to result in some cases waiting too long, and in every case women experiencing unnecessary suffering) to give her the medical care she needs.

Lol. My wife’s former father in law is an OK SC justice and was 1 of the 5 votes on the winning side. Had to go into the decision to confirm. I’ve never met him, he’s an awful grandfather to my stepson, the stories I’ve heard make my toes curl. But in Oklahoma ya take what ya get on the centrist/left side …

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:14:11am

The local plants continue to make up for the years of drought.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:14:17am

re: #349 Barefoot Grin

I thought the guy in front looked like Fagan a bit. But I couldn’t find Becker, and then realized that the blond guy to the left was the Styx guitar player. “Come Sail Away” was one of the first 45s I ever bought (and one of the last).

Tommy Shaw was the first one I recognized, then James Young. Took me a few seconds to recognize a very youthful Dennis DeYoung rocking a 70s ‘stache.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:15:28am

re: #364 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Just kill the signin popup. Worked for me.

That just took me to the front page of Twitter. I assume it’s something for authenticated Twitter users only, which I no longer am.

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A Cranky One  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:20:22am

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Dr. Matt  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:20:49am
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Teukka  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:22:55am

Sunday cloak & dagger video:

No Wires, No Batteries - Spying Changed FOREVER! - Can I make a working Bug for Hannah Fry?

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:25:11am

re: #370 Dr. Matt

Yet the media is saying the opposite and ginning up large crowds for his hatefests.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:26:51am

Adult Entertainment D&D: www .oglaf .com/spirithands/. NSFW, but it does seem like it would be a great niche market.

Edit: Inserted spaces to override the attempt to format the link..

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:30:39am

re: #372 Patricia Kayden

Yet the media is saying the opposite and ginning up large crowds for his hatefests.

[Embedded content]

Reporter: How many people were there?
Observer: 1
Reporter: “Sources say a few people showed up.”
Acquaintance: How many people were there?
Reader: Probably a half dozen.
Friend: How many did you hear were there.
Acquaintance: It sounded like there were a dozen.
Friend to coworker: I heard there were dozens there.
Coworker: Dozens? Like nearly a hundred?
Friend: Probably.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:31:48am

re: #370 Dr. Matt

Macron and Bibi are getting more crowds than that.

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:31:55am

re: #370 Dr. Matt

Is that an aerial photo of Trump’s Waco rally? ‘Cuz that doesn’t look like the “15-20,000” folks the organizers were claiming. (Disclaimer: I have little/no practical knowledge of crowd-size estimation: but IM(uninformed)O: the trunout seems - at best - to be about 2/3 that size (i.e. MAYBE 9-10,000??)

Also: WTH was it? At an airport?

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:33:07am

re: #375 PhillyPretzel

Macron and Bibi are getting more crowds than that.

Except that those guys probably wish they weren’t….

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2023 • 8:34:09am

re: #377 Jay C

True.

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wrenchwench  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:03:34am

Borb. [Birb plus one.]

Click to Reveal

Wordle 645 4/6*

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⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:15:34am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:18:24am

Disney cannot be happy that the actor they selected to follow in Josh Brolin’s shoes as the star villain in their mega-billions movie franchise just got arrested for domestic violence.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:18:38am
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:19:51am

re: #381 No Malarkey!

Disney cannot be happy that the actor they selected to follow in Josh Brolin’s shoes as the star villain in their mega-billions movie franchise just got arrested for domestic violence.

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Damnit. There goes their entire plan for this phase of the MCU.

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:21:26am

re: #383 Crush White Nationalism

Damnit. There goes their entire plan for this phase of the MCU.

They’ll recast the part and continue on as if nothing had changed. Too much money in play.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:23:37am

re: #383 Crush White Nationalism

Damnit. There goes their entire plan for this phase of the MCU.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:23:43am

re: #384 William Lewis

They’ll recast the part and continue on as if nothing had changed. Too much money in play.

They had female and alligator Loki’s. They can have different-looking Kangs in a multiverse.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:25:28am

re: #385 No Malarkey!

Okay. That made me laugh out loud.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:27:05am

Mastodon

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:27:15am
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:31:50am

re: #385 No Malarkey!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:37:54am

re: #380 Crush White Nationalism

You would think the belief that parents have the right to know what their children are being taught would be bipartisan.

But instead, D.C. Democrats smear involved parents as “terrorizing” schools.

You mean parents who call in bomb threats to school libraries for not removing books they don’t like are being unjustly smeared as “terrorists”?

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mmmirele  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:40:04am

re: #183 Targetpractice

Indentured servitude was under contract, with set time limits and conditions of the servitude. They were not treated as little more than cattle whose humanity was denied, rights and freedoms stripped from them, and they could not be bought or sold like general goods.

But hey, whatever helps them sleep at night, I guess.///////

The first of my ancestors with the Dollarhide name came to Maryland as an indentured servant, but it was apparently a dodge to keep the monies he brought with him from being confiscated. As soon as his indentured servant contract was up, he apparently bought a plantation and got married. (1690s-early 1700s) His descendants (at least in my line) were not landed and moved from state to state in the new United States. It wasn’t until the Dust Bowl, Great Depression and World War II that a significant chunk of his descendants made their way out to California, where the economic conditions for white people generally improved and they were able to buy property and pay for their children to get past high school. Outside of the original dude, it’s unlikely that any of his descendants even had the money to own slaves, for example. Poor whites indeed, backbone of the South, better than *them*. I am their descendant.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:42:17am

re: #381 No Malarkey!

Disney cannot be happy that the actor they selected to follow in Josh Brolin’s shoes as the star villain in their mega-billions movie franchise just got arrested for domestic violence.

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Frustrating, but I’m going to say not surprising. Read his Wikipedia page. Very troubled youth. You would always hope that you would know as an adult that people would know to be better or get help, but we don’t exactly set things up so people recognize that they have issues. Sucks for him because I guarantee that he had a whole bunch of non-Marvel scripts heading his way as well.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:44:11am

re: #389 Crush White Nationalism

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:45:46am

re: #394 Belafon

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Excellent. I thought of that, but didn’t have the energy to dig it up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:46:51am

re: #394 Belafon

“I never supported Trump, but the way they are treating him lately is forcing me to vote for him for a third time!”

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:46:52am

re: #395 Crush White Nationalism

I googled “I had to become a nazi meme”.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:47:41am

re: #393 Belafon

Frustrating, but I’m going to say not surprising. Read his Wikipedia page. Very troubled youth. You would always hope that you would know as an adult that people would know to be better or get help, but we don’t exactly set things up so people recognize that they have issues. Sucks for him because I guarantee that he had a whole bunch of non-Marvel scripts heading his way as well.

Yep; he just co-starred in the latest Creed movie, as well as a big HBO horror series last year. Sky was the limit.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:53:31am

I just got a ping from an unknown saying my Citizens account is locked. I do not have a Citizens account. Watch out for scammers.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:55:16am

re: #399 PhillyPretzel

I just got a ping from an unknown saying my Citizens account is locked. I do not have a Citizens account. Watch out for scammers.

I get phishing attempts all of the time. If someone emails or texts you asking for your account information, IT IS ALWAYS A SCAM.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:56:34am

re: #301 Dr Lizardo

Someone posted this on Reddit’s Old School Cool subreddit. The woman in the foreground is the poster’s mom, getting her portrait done by a street artist.

Recognize the gents sitting behind her, on those low steps along the fence?

[Embedded content]

Yeah…that’s definitely some old school cool right there.

Styx

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 9:58:28am

Gettr has been mainly funded by Chinese billionaire grifter (and possible double agent) Guo Wengui and used for influence and further grifting. Go figure. (Guo—aka Miles Guo) is supposedly an anti-CCP dissident who has used his money, among other things, to create an army of followers from the Chinese diaspora to go after other anti-CCP dissidents supposedly because they are rivals who are somehow suspect.

washingtonpost.com

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:02:07am

re: #401 Eventual Carrion

Styx

Yep. Like I said, it took me a couple seconds to recognize Dennis DeYoung, but for me at least, Tommy Shaw is instantly recognizable.

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:02:37am

re: #400 No Malarkey!

I get phishing attempts all of the time. If someone emails or texts you asking for your account information, IT IS ALWAYS A SCAM.

Also, too: DO NOT CLICK LINKS in suspicious* texts.

*”suspicious”, in this case (unfortunately) being from anyone you do not personally know, and/or been communicating with regularly.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:05:14am

Oh, and Guo paid all the usual suspects—Bannon, Navarro, Posobiec, D’Souza, Kirk, Diamond and Silk, Andy Ngo etc. for their influence.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:07:52am
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Teukka  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:08:52am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:09:19am

re: #372 Patricia Kayden

Age and ethnic diversity were on display at the rally. Young families pushed babies in strollers. Older people arrived using walkers.

Old white people, young white people, young white couples with babies, and one Hispanic couple.

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mmmirele  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:09:37am

re: #280 Teukka

Now, why is child molestation apparently such a problem with people who hold these views???

Because women and girls are seen as male property, and specifically, male property for sex. I’m pretty disgusted I wrote that.

Speaking of disgusting:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:09:38am

re: #406 Backwoods_Sleuth

“I think he just assumed” — Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina on Meet the Press (!) tries to explain Trump’s false claim about getting arrested last week

“When you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME!!!”

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Captain Ron  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:09:54am
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:11:46am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:11:46am

re: #410 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“I think he just assumed” — Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina on Meet the Press (!) tries to explain Trump’s false claim about getting arrested last week

When you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME!!!

Or in Trump’s case, he made $1.5 million grifting his marks.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:12:40am

re: #409 mmmirele

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:16:06am

re: #313 Barefoot Grin

I had a one-year post doc in the Richmond area that year. When I interviewed the guy said, “I’ve never had to wear a winter hat or gloves in all the years I’ve been here….”

I had to wear a winter hat and coat every year growing up down in Tidewater and Richmond would get more snow that we would.

Hell, even in Tidewater, the Peninsula would get more snow than we would down Southside. Hampton and Newport News would have school cancellations up the wazoo, while Norfolk, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach would get rain.

The further inland (and closer to the mountains) you get in Virginia, the colder the winter.

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gocart mozart  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:17:01am

re: #362 Nerdy Fish

That asked me to sign in to Twitter, which I’m not going to do. What is it?

We put a warning message on these Tweets because they might have sensitive content — like nudity, sexual content, violence, gore, or hateful symbols.

We know we don’t always get it right. So if you think we flagged your Tweet by mistake, you can appeal the warning by clicking on each Tweet. Keep in mind, this doesn’t guarantee it’ll be removed.

Nugent lyrics were offensive

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:19:20am

Just got a Public Safety Alert from the City of Philadelphia. Use bottled drinking water from 2 PM on March 26 2023. This is a cautionary statement. There was a spill in the Delaware River. They have not found any contamination so far.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:19:28am

re: #415 A Three Hour Tour

I had to wear a winter hat and coat every year growing up down in Tidewater and Richmond would get more snow that we would.

Hell, even in Tidewater, the Peninsula would get more snow than we would down Southside. Hampton and Newport News would have school cancellations up the wazoo, while Norfolk, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach would get rain.

The further inland (and closer to the mountains) you get in Virginia, the colder the winter.

The house we rented was heated by oil and it cost almost a thousand dollars a month that winter..ok, wrong…it would have cost a thousand dollars if we didn’t keep it at around 60F. But it was lovely in the fall and spring—just beautiful.

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mmmirele  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:20:20am

re: #386 Crush White Nationalism

They had female and alligator Loki’s. They can have different-looking Kangs in a multiverse.

I loved alligator Loki. It was *so* Loki. Why wouldn’t he be an alligator?

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:21:13am

re: #367 Dr Lizardo

Tommy Shaw was the first one I recognized, then James Young. Took me a few seconds to recognize a very youthful Dennis DeYoung rocking a 70s ‘stache.

Yeah, Shaw was who keyed me in.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:25:23am

re: #420 Eventual Carrion

Yeah, Shaw was who keyed me in.

Photo looks like it’s outside the gates of Rosehill Cemetery…on the North Side where prominent Chicagoans like Cyrus McCormack, Oscar Meyer, Montgomery Wards, Richard Sears and countless other Senators, Civil War generals are buried.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:27:43am

The ignorant MAGAt attack on Michelangelo’s David reminded me of an observation I made when I was still fairly young but old enough to have accumulated some experience: Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, which I had seen as a child, is a far more life-like and accurate presentation of what beautiful women are really like than the assorted Playboy Playmate images I started seeing a little later. This is even though the playmates we’re photographs taken from life while the Venus is a painting based on the artist’s impressions of a model.
I wonder what Botticelli would have made of the “torpedo look” (conical bra) that was prevalent when I was a kid? Given what I know now, I think the purpose of the torpedo bra was not to flaunt the breasts by literally trying to put your eyes out with them, but to disguise them beyond recognition.

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Captain Ron  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:28:15am
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:29:58am

re: #421 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Photo looks like it’s outside the gates of Rosehill Cemetery…on the North Side where prominent Chicagoans like Cyrus McCormack, Oscar Meyer, Montgomery Wards, Richard Sears and countless other Senators, Civil War generals are buried.

Oh yeah. I’ve been by there many times when my sister lived just south off of Montrose.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:31:28am

re: #403 Dr Lizardo

Yep. Like I said, it took me a couple seconds to recognize Dennis DeYoung, but for me at least, Tommy Shaw is instantly recognizable.

Tommy and Daryl Hall did a nice set on an episode of Daryl’s House

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 26, 2023 • 10:46:40am

re: #248 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Yes, they don’t understand the scale required to handle long stretches of highway. Or how wind causes drift conditions and extreme danger to trucks. And they overestimate Philly and NJ’s ability to respond to snow since I’ve seen a nor’easter dump a bit more than 2” down and the city pretty much comes to a standstill. Especially once snow starts to affect the train system.*

I also recall fairly few occasions while I lived in Philly where conditions for black ice development existed. Saw it a bit more growing up in northern New York state in the 1970s. These people I am pretty sure would never know what hit them if they encountered a patch of it.

* - I also had just moved to the D.C. area when the Veteran’s Day storm there in 1988 buried the DC Metro trains in the yards. As well as eventually bringing I-95 to a standstill and closing parts of it for multiple days.

I was working in DC proper from October to Christmas, 1988 (and in Greenbelt, MD from August to October ‘88) and had no such memory of a Veteran’s Day 1988 storm that buried DC Metro trains in their yards.

My place of employment wasn’t far from Union Station, and since I didn’t drive, I was reliant on the Metro, so I definitely should have remembered something so disruptive.

So, I checked the Google … that Veteran’s Day storm was actually a year earlier, so before my DC misadventure, so no wonder I couldn’t remember it.

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Dunno if anyone else has posted an open link to this WaPo article:

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