The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Tennessee Three

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

The Tennessee Three — [Explicit Language] A brief word about Dad. The mass shooting in Louisville. Mass shootings interrupted by other mass shootings. How to stigmatize our gun culture by borrowing from the anti-smoking campaigns. Republicans are blaming pronouns. The Tennessee Three proves the Democrats have a deep bench of talent. The impact of the mifepristone ruling. Don Junior confessed to being involved in the hush money scam. Indictments are bad news for Trump. Gen Z is awake and pissed off. With Buzz Burbank, music by Christian Nesmith, Jesse Terry, and more!

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:01:03pm

I got my Irish citizenship a few years back, have the passport as well. My grandma was born there. My nephew is trying to get his, its a bit more complicated if it is great grandparent though.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:02:37pm

heh

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Charles Johnson  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:03:20pm

Of course.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:08:30pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:09:07pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:12:19pm
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BigPapa  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:12:39pm

They’re all yammering about kids getting their genitals cut off now.

Another iteration of today’s Blood Libel: LGBTQ Edition.

Pure fucking evil.

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Belafon  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:13:47pm

re: #7 BigPapa

They’re all yammering about kids getting their genitals cut off now.

Another iteration of today’s Blood Libel: LGBTQ Edition.

Pure fucking evil.

“Yeah, but I thought you all believed in circumcision.”

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:17:34pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

(The headline describes the entirety of the article’s contents. The article itself provides absolutely no further value, btw.)

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:19:49pm

Apparently a case of possible intimidation has already been reported.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:20:06pm
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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:23:57pm

Ilya Shapiro: “Nothing to see here. Move along.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:27:27pm
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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:28:19pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They know that there’s no way to refute a public comment in real time

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:28:49pm

The fuzzy spot on Kamchatka is from Shiveluch, which had a big eruption today (it’s been erupting low-level for a long time). PM1 particulates:

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darthstar  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:29:10pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Of course.

Elon’s the one person on the planet I wouldn’t want to smoke a joint with.

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Teukka  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:29:30pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Of course.

Symbolic date too.

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darthstar  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:31:06pm

re: #12 ckkatz

Ilya Shapiro: “Nothing to see here. Move along.”

Stop connecting the dots…that’s what Q-anon people are supposed to do…and not THOSE dots…imaginary ones.

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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:31:52pm

re: #12 ckkatz

Ilya Shapiro: “Nothing to see here. Move along.”

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Unless Harlan Crow has some business before the Court, the @propublica report about Justice Thomas is a big breathless nothingburger.

No

That is not the only definition of undue influence

It would just be an easy and obvious one

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darthstar  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:37:10pm

Something you like to see…Russian subs as well maintained as their tanks and trucks.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:38:17pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:43:13pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

Who doesn’t like a little bling?

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teleskiguy  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:44:41pm

Lumi The Avalanche Dog at Silver Star Real Estate

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:45:24pm
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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:52:04pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

Franklin TN conservatives being forced to explain butt plugs and dildos to their kids.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:57:25pm

recycling plant on fire

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darthstar  Apr 11, 2023 • 4:58:54pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

recycling plant on fire

Not as impressive as a tire fire, but smoky enough.

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teleskiguy  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:00:50pm

Fuck Andrew Sullivan.

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:02:41pm
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BigPapa  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:04:40pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

Maybe he means more black kids are dying because BLM stopped rioting. I’m sure that’s what he means.

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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:05:58pm

Andrew Sullivan: ‘know your place or die.’

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:06:34pm

re: #25 jaunte

“These are the things Mommy and Daddy take when they go meet their friends at the country club.”

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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:07:03pm

Because of course she did

And no consequences of course too

In the midst of discussions with federal regulatory bodies last month, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) purchased stock in a bank that then took over the assets of the failing Signature Bank — sending the value of her new stocks soaring, Brooklyn Paper reports.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:07:10pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:07:26pm

re: #32 TarHellion

Daddy needs them on the greens for his short game.

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William Lewis  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:07:31pm

re: #29 ckkatz

Misread that as US and was wondering what the IMF was smoking. Unfortunately, UK is believable… :(

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BigPapa  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:09:31pm

We all know when conservatives note black victim statistics it’s because they care so much about black folks. Right? Of course.

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:09:55pm
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BigPapa  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:12:01pm

A phenomenon that is increasing: another client where we were asked to fix a network. My guy called me in because he didn’t know the router OS. I knew it.. or did 10 years ago. Marginally. Client doesn’t want WiFi because she thinks it will melt her brains. Only hard wired internet. I didn’t mention there’s a cell tower about a mile away, not to mention AM radio, FM radio, and the UV radiation.

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:13:53pm

re: #39 BigPapa

A phenomenon that is increasing: another client where we were asked to fix a network. My guy called me in because he didn’t know the router OS. I knew it.. or did 10 years ago. Marginally. Client doesn’t want WiFi because she thinks it will melt her brains. Only hard wired internet. I didn’t mention there’s a cell tower about a mile away, not to mention AM radio, FM radio, and the UV radiation.

And a cell phone right next to her ear and brain?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:14:17pm

re: #39 BigPapa

To say nothing about the CMB - you need to warn her that the universe is trying to melt her brain.

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:15:55pm

re: #35 jaunte

Our local country club was something straight out of Ang Lee’s “The Ice Storm” back in the 1970s and 80s - keychain parties and all. Young furniture reps with money, cocaine, and libidos. A few years back, the now-older community got paranoid about the nearby city annexing them. So they incorporated, only to realize how expensive maintenance of “town” roads can be.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:16:40pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:17:13pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:19:03pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:20:11pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

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BigPapa  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:20:57pm

re: #40 ckkatz

And a cell phone right next to her ear and brain?

House Rules: Airplane Mode only. For safety.

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:21:06pm

I do wonder if the complete disrespect she deals with is worse than that shown to her predecessors. And, if so, whether her gender and race might have something to do with that.

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gocart mozart  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:25:04pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:25:19pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:25:19pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

They’re all perverts. They think of children’s genitals and rectums far too much.

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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:26:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:27:04pm

Breaking extremely local news: We have hot water!

It was late in the day because, according to the plumber, someone at his company swiped a part he needed out of his truck. He had to make the 120-mile round trip to Scottsbluff to get another.

He took away the old water heater, and put the old cabinet water softener we’ve never used on the curb for the village clean-up in a couple days.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:34:08pm

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yay. That is good news. :)

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:35:33pm

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Breaking extremely local news: We have hot water!

It was late in the day because, according to the plumber, someone at his company swiped a part he needed out of his truck. He had to make the 120-mile round trip to Scottsbluff to get another.

He took away the old water heater, and put the old cabinet water softener we’ve never used on the curb for the village clean-up in a couple days.

Le chauffe-eau est mort, vive le chauffe-eau!

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BigPapa  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:35:37pm

I had a dude way up on a ridge, with two buildings well separated, satellite ISP on each. He wanted to tie them together as one network and improve the WiFi inside/around buildings. We walk the job, I see what he had. Ask him if conduit is open/known. He says there’s already wire pulled we can use. I reminded him he told me the project is 15 years old and the two buildings are 300 feet apart: unless the conduit is a direct line of sight intersecting the road between there’s no way it’s close to spec. He said the wire there should be fine. I’m thinking this is probably not a good client and this is why he complained nobody will call him back.

Then his wife comes out.

‘Hi honey, this is the network guy that is going to improve the WiFi’
“That’s great! It’s been horrible for years. Can you make sure there is no WiFi in my bedroom at my bed? We need it everywhere else”

I returned to the office, emailed out a large invoice for all my time/travel accrued then bullet-pointed off demands which included new conduit, fiber, dual enterprise WAN with matching full stack compatibility, and a bunch more words and acronyms that sounded exotic and expensive. He didn’t pay the bill and never called me back. I’ll let it slide.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:38:51pm
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Teukka  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:40:49pm

So, I’m trying to find that Trump campaign diagram which was basically cribbed from Nazi racial purity diagrams, anyone have good google search terms to find it?

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:43:44pm

Quick warning -

A couple of new Russian atrocity on Ukrainians videos have surfaced over the past day.
One is the mutilation of dead Ukrainian soldier’s bodies.

Another the reported Russian beheading of a live Ukrainian prisoner.

You may wish to be extra careful before clicking on war videos.

And, my personal preference would be to not see them here.

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:43:50pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

Repeating a comment I made the other night, Kacsmaryk looks like someone who would have happily donned a Nazi uniform and ratted out his fellow Poles.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:45:22pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

More Lying for Jesus.

It’s trivial to state that no one would hand out free sex toys: They cost too much. Like other lying moral panics such as drugs in children’s Hallowe’en candy, the purpose is to shut down the events they don’t like.

Since the real goal is the exercise of power over others, they cannot just say that in the meeting (we won’t let you have this event because we can do that), so they must lie. They are compelled to lie.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:45:27pm
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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:48:30pm
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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:49:38pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

Saw that with my mom. When the “thing” that George Clooney was building was revealed, I thought my mom was going to fall out of her chair from laughing so hard.

Of course, this is the same lady I took to see Mamma Mia. After we left the theater, I said the movie was great but Pierce Brosnan’s “singing” nearly ruined it.

She said, “I know. But he looked sooooo gooooood!”

Damn, I miss her so much!

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:51:12pm

I sometimes think the best “Exile” song from the Stones is “Hide Your Love” from Goats Head Soup.

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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:52:05pm

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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:53:11pm

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

More Lying for Jesus.

It’s trivial to state that no one would hand out free sex toys: They cost too much. Like other lying moral panics such as drugs in children’s Hallowe’en candy, the purpose is to shut down the events they don’t like.

Since the real goal is the exercise of power over others, they cannot just say that in the meeting (we won’t let you have this event because we can do that), so they must lie. They are compelled to lie.

+1

Also because they can

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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 5:58:14pm
Donald Trump claimed in an interview with Tucker Carlson that people working at the Manhattan courthouse where he was arraigned were crying.

Said Trump: “They were incredible. When I went to the courthouse which is also a prison in a sense, they signed me in and I’ll tell you people were crying. People that work there. Professionally work there that have no problems putting in murderers and they see everybody. It’s tough, tough place and they were crying. They were actually crying. They said, I’m sorry.”

Like the cop who “forgot” to hold the door for him?

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BeachDem  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:02:17pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

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One of my favorites. JK Simmons for the win!

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William Lewis  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:04:13pm

Much honor.

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:04:28pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:09:46pm

re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth

I spent some of my formative years living in Richmond. (1964-73)

Went back through there in 1989 simply to see what had changed. (Mainly me.)

1. All the things I thought of as “hills” growing up were almost barely perceptible changes in elevation. The area is flat. Very flat. Like it is from there to the Rockies.

2. Trees I remember as saplings my father planted were fully grown. I almost did not recognize the front yard of the house I used to live in.

3. I did not realize until later that the grounding I got there in mixed-race classes in elementary school put me in good stead later in life. People are people. And you learn that in school when children are children as well. (And I had some good teachers who promoted and rewarded reading and learning things on your own.)

As a comparison I spent the period from 1973-81 in a town in northern NY state that was 97% white. The race issue doesn’t get discussed since it isn’t there. And despite being adjacent to the Mohawk Indian reservation up there you generally (as a youth) did not have much interaction with them until junior high and high school due to how the elementary schools localized attendence.

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:15:42pm

When in Ireland (thread)

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:16:38pm

re: #64 TarHellion

Getting a thumbs-up from Charles is on a par with drawing a 5 when hitting a 16 in blackjack. Thank you, sir! It’s a feeling that never grows old.

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:19:18pm

re: #70 William Lewis

For all the shit the British get, that gave me chills.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:21:05pm

He’s still at it. I didn’t even challenge him on the dating of “Darwinism” given he thinks the alleged crucifixion story in the NT happened in 1CE and he never corrected himself:

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:23:58pm
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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:26:16pm

re: #76 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Does anyone dare tell him that “The Big Bang Theory” was something originated by a Steady-State Theorist who was trying to disprove universal inflation?

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Joe Bacon  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:27:58pm

re: #77 ckkatz

When it comes to Pulpit Pimp Lance there’s only one thing that should die.

And that’s his tax-exempt lifestyle.

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gwangung  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:30:22pm

re: #78 TarHellion

Does anyone dare tell him that “The Big Bang Theory” was something originated by a Steady-State Theorist who was trying to disprove universal inflation?

I think it would blow his mind to tell him that “theory” is about as high as you get in science…..

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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:30:39pm
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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:32:15pm

“…It had been assumed that all three galaxies, collectively cataloged as Arp 248, are interacting, but more recent investigations reveal that only the brightest two galaxies are sparring gravitationally: the big galaxies at the top and bottom. The spiral galaxy in the middle of the featured image by the Hubble Space Telescope is actually far in the distance, as is the galaxy just below it and all of the other numerous galaxies in the field. A striking result of these giants jousting is a tremendous bridge of stars, gas, and dust that stretches between them — a bridge almost 200,000 light-years long. Light we see today from Wild’s Triplet left about 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. In perhaps a billion years or so, the two interacting galaxies will merge to form a single large spiral galaxy.”
science.nasa.gov

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:36:05pm
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William Lewis  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:36:16pm
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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:36:57pm

The Texas Senate is working on banning the teaching of anything they designate CRT.

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:39:24pm

re: #80 gwangung

And the great thing about science - whether it be hypothesis, theory, proof, law, or fact - there is ALWAYS room for something to be disproven. NOTHING is set in stone - given repeatable evidence that said hypothesis, etc. is false. YEAH SCIENCE, BITCH!

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:41:01pm

re: #81 jaunte

How many galaxies WERE interacting here? This happened a long, long, time ago in galaxies far, far away.

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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:42:33pm
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Grunthos the Flatulent  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:43:31pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle hates pretending to be able to multitask.

Click to Reveal

Solid tee shot and a short iron to the green, leaving a 20-footer to sink for birbie.

Wordle 662 3/6

🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The golf metaphor is taking hold in sib circles.

SibData: 3,4,4

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:44:03pm
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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:44:44pm

re: #88 Captain Ron

Ignorance breeds intolerance which leads to inhumanity.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:53:00pm
Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb filed paperwork to run for U.S. Senate in Arizona, chasing the seat currently held by Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Lamb, who totes a cowboy hat for public appearances, is a staunch conservative heavily aligned with former President Donald Trump, who has promoted a variety of conspiracy theories. He’s made regular appearances on Fox News to spew anti-vaccine talking points, argue for U.S. military intervention against Mexican drug cartels, and claim falsely that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump—before backtracking and saying he’d seen no evidence of voter fraud during the 2020 election. Lamb is the first major Republican candidate to join the race, but he’s expected to be joined by Kari Lake, who ran an unsuccessful 2022 Arizona gubernatorial campaign and floated entering the field in February.

Right-Wing Arizona Sheriff Enters Crowded Senate Race Against Kyrsten Sinema (today, Daily Beast)

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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:53:38pm
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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:54:29pm

Interesting thread on the etymology of synonyms for room from Old English “sala” to Modern English “living room”. With a bonus discussion of why it was curtains for drapes.

Behind private label as a courtesy for those not interested in David Frum’s posts:

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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 6:54:48pm

re: #76 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

He’s still at it. I didn’t even challenge him on the dating of “Darwinism” given he thinks the alleged crucifixion story in the NT happened in 1CE and he never corrected himself:

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Darwinism only started 275 years ago. And the Big Bang Theory only started about 90 years ago.

No

That’s when they were observed and organizationally codified

The processes always existed

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:02:15pm
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Joe Bacon  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:06:06pm

Ex-Fox Producer: There Are Secret Rudy Giuliani Recordings About Dominion

thedailybeast.com

Abby Grossberg, the former Tucker Carlson producer accusing Fox News of pressuring her to give false testimony in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, filed amended legal complaints on Tuesday claiming there are secret Fox audio recordings of Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies.

Grossberg, who is suing the conservative network for harassment and a toxic work environment, claims that the behind-the-scenes conversations with Giuliani, former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and Trump campaign officials featured them admitting they had no evidence to support their Dominion election fraud lies.

Additionally, she says an adviser of former President Donald Trump pointed out the importance of January 6 weeks before the Capitol attacks, noting that the adviser said there were “no issues” with voting machines and January 6 was now the “backstop” for determining the election.

LETS HEAR THE TAPES!!!!!!!!!

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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:07:10pm
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:07:12pm

re: #97 Joe Bacon

Oh Lordy, there are TAPES. Why are there ALWAYS tapes? Is you taking notes on a criminal fuckin’ conspiracy?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:08:39pm

re: #97 Joe Bacon

Ex-Fox Producer: There Are Secret Rudy Giuliani Recordings About Dominion

thedailybeast.com

Abby Grossberg, the former Tucker Carlson producer accusing Fox News of pressuring her to give false testimony in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, filed amended legal complaints on Tuesday claiming there are secret Fox audio recordings of Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies.

Grossberg, who is suing the conservative network for harassment and a toxic work environment, claims that the behind-the-scenes conversations with Giuliani, former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and Trump campaign officials featured them admitting they had no evidence to support their Dominion election fraud lies.

Additionally, she says an adviser of former President Donald Trump pointed out the importance of January 6 weeks before the Capitol attacks, noting that the adviser said there were “no issues” with voting machines and January 6 was now the “backstop” for determining the election.

LETS HEAR THE TAPES!!!!!!!!!

I remember one video where Rudi said “we don’t have evidence, we have theories.” What more do we need? I think it was one of the January six hearings.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:09:03pm

re: #99 Nerdy Fish

Oh Lordy, there are TAPES. Why are there ALWAYS tapes? Is you taking notes on a criminal fuckin’ conspiracy?

MORE JUICY DETAILS!

During a recording in mid-November 2020, according to Grossberg, Giuliani admitted to Bartiromo that the Trump campaign couldn’t prove some of its Dominion allegations. Asked by Bartiromo what evidence he had implicating Dominion in rigging the election, Giuliani allegedly said “that’s a little harder.” He also conceded that he had no evidence to back up the conspiracy theory that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had an interest in Dominion. “I’ve read that. I can’t prove that,” he said.

On that same recording, Grossberg says that Powell claimed that a “registered agent for Smartmatic” was on President Joe Biden’s “transition team.” However, when pressed by Bartiromo on her most compelling evidence that voting software flipped votes for Biden, Powell merely said the Trump campaign had “a witness who’s given a foreign declaration about how [the voting software] was created, why it was created, and watched it work.”

Perhaps most damning, however, is a December recording between Grossberg, Bartiromo, and someone described as a “high-ranking advisor to and spokesperson for President Trump and the Trump 2020 presidential campaign.” The campaign official, according to the amended complaint, admitted “there were in fact no issues” with any purportedly fraudulent voting machines in Georgia.

“More broadly, however, the Trump advisor stated that the purpose of the call was to highlight the importance of the impending January 6th date as the true ‘backstop’ for determining the validity of the election, as this was ultimately the date when the House and Senate would count the electoral votes,” Grossberg’s complaint reads. “The Trump advisor voiced their concern to Ms. Bartiromo that there had been ‘virtually no pick up of the January 6th date’ in the media.”

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:11:50pm

re: #93 Captain Ron

She has been through so much in her career and served admirably. I will never forget her having to let the world know that Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk had been killed. But IT IS TIME!

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:12:24pm

re: #101 Joe Bacon

Grossberg’s complaint reads. “The Trump advisor voiced their concern to Ms. Bartiromo that there had been ‘virtually no pick up of the January 6th date’ in the media.”

They were plotting a fucking coup, and Faux News played right into their hands by hyping up the “will Mike Pence count the votes or not” angle to draw attention to the importance of 1/6. Fucking bastards.

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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:15:49pm
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mmmirele  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:16:39pm

re: #98 Captain Ron

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Dangerman  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:18:04pm

re: #99 Nerdy Fish

Oh Lordy, there are TAPES. Why are there ALWAYS tapes? Is you taking notes on a criminal fuckin’ conspiracy?

None of them would watch that show

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Joe Bacon  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:19:50pm

re: #105 mmmirele

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Just a reminder that Christopher Rufo is on record saying the Conservative goal is to end all public schools and universities and turn education over to the churches.

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gwangung  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:20:57pm

re: #105 mmmirele

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As always, Republicans in their power lust are hellbent on destroying what made America great and it’s #1 position in science and education.

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:24:56pm

re: #94 ckkatz

Unanswered question - and fuck the curtains!

Does the carpet match the drapes?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:27:35pm
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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:28:24pm

re: #109 TarHellion

Unanswered question - and fuck the curtains!

Does the carpet match the drapes?

Are you calling me on the carpet?

I, sir, am floored!

eta-> ;-)

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:30:38pm

re: #101 Joe Bacon

That’s gotta be Mark Meadows - someone I have met, interviewed, and covered. Too fucking stupid to tie his own shoes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:39:41pm

#NotADragQueen

Anti-‘Groomer’ Republican Accused of ‘Inappropriate Relationship’ With Intern (Vice News, today)

A Texas Republican who has led the charge to ban all-ages drag shows because of his deep concern over “the sexualization of our children” is facing allegations of inviting an intern to his home late on a weekend night and serving her alcohol even though she isn’t old enough to legally drink.

Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton has reportedly had a complaint filed against him with the Texas state legislature that claims he had an “inappropriate relationship” with an intern.

A complaint filed with the House General Investigating Committee by a legislative staffer and obtained by the Texas Tribune, as well as a Tribune source with direct knowledge of the incident, said that Stanton called the intern, who is under age 21, after 10 p.m. on Friday, March 31, and invited her to his apartment, where he served her alcohol.

According to allegations in the complaint obtained by the Tribune, Slaton later showed that intern fake emails that claimed to have information about the incident in an apparent loyalty test, and told her not to tell anyone about the incident.

Slaton’s attorney denied the claims.

(more)

This guy tweets Bible verses like Marco Rubio. He’s been banging on about drag queens for over a year, because Republicans are perverts.

He’s also the guy who filed a bill to give tax breaks to straight married white people with children, whist prohibiting previously divorced people, single parents, or LGBT+ parents.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:39:43pm

Looking at the top picture I think, “When do these people have the time to maintain all these firearms?”

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:39:55pm

Amusing article - The ultra rich libertarian tech bro’s are planning for a civilization destroying event. A problem, how do they keep their comfortable lifestyle and ruling class power while on one hand enjoying the services of the commoners while on the other hand exiling them from the libertarian Garden of Eden.

(And there are lots of other problems.

Such as their smug assumption that they can simply reinvent civilization while having no clue about any of it.

And, of course, having no useful skills beyond lots of money. Which disappeared when they presumably destroyed the financial systems and economy that it was part of.)

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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:40:47pm

I mean Mark is a very amiable guy. And I KNOW he can’t keep his mouth shut. The parenthetical quotes from Ms. Grossberg just seem too spot-on.

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:48:38pm

re: #114 Romantic Heretic

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:53:04pm

(4:05)

MADtv - Pervert Senator

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William Lewis  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:53:56pm

re: #114 Romantic Heretic

Looking at the top picture I think, “When do these people have the time to maintain all these firearms?”

Usually they don’t. Either drenched in oil or rusting.

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Belafon  Apr 11, 2023 • 7:53:59pm
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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:02:23pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Who was the actor playing the Senator? He was great.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:02:59pm
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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:05:14pm
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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:07:57pm
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BigPapa  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:10:25pm

re: #120 Belafon

My hero. All three of them.

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darthstar  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:19:47pm

re: #122 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Don’t they have any taller hospitals in Russia where Putin could get fresh air by the window? I know that anything over 8 floors means a red smear on the sidewalk, but I’d like him to have a few more seconds for reflection on the way down.

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darthstar  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:28:54pm

re: #124 jaunte

And in May they’ll ask for a delay until June. The calendar is set. Show up or forfeit.

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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:47:02pm
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TarHellion  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:48:21pm

re: #121 TarHellion

Think it was maybe Will Sasso?

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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:50:43pm

re: #128 Captain Ron

More climate change fun.

“…Streptococcus A, a bacterium that causes necrotizing fasciitis, is often found in warm, brackish water, Warner said. It’s especially dangerous for people with weaker immune systems.

In a 2019 report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers concluded climate change may have brought flesh-eating bacteria to previously unaffected waters.”news.yahoo.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:51:35pm

re: #121 TarHellion

Who was the actor playing the Senator? He was great.

I don’t know.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:51:44pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 8:59:41pm

Setting ever new standards for conservaliars.

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:00:40pm

re: #129 TarHellion

Think it was maybe Will Sasso?

Far too skinny to be Will Sasso. Face and voice are also completely wrong for Sasso.

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wrenchwench  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:01:48pm

I just got back from my first Moms Demand Action meeting. They have ‘em every month, except maybe this June when they’re doing a bunch of tabling events, I mean, having a table at an event. And they show up in red shirts at the legislature when votes are happening. Tonight we heard a practice presentation of their SMART campaign, to get people to lock up their guns at home and in the car.

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:16:46pm

re: #134 A Three Hour Tour

Mad TV Season 1, Episode 15 played March 9, 1996

The artist was played by Orlando Jones

The rest of the cast can be found here. No specific senator part is listed, as far as I can see.

imdb.com

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:19:47pm

re: #135 wrenchwench

Good for you!

And thank you for working on gun control!

By the way, how are you doing?

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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:20:22pm

re: #136 ckkatz

It looks like David Herman.

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jaunte  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:21:13pm

David Herman:
imdb.com

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wrenchwench  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:28:53pm

re: #137 ckkatz

Good for you!

And thank you for working on gun control!

By the way, how are you doing?

Yr wlcm and thx 4 asking.

Movement is returning to my face in an immeasurably slow manner. I got up in front of a room of fellow old ladies and spoke without a mask on, knowing that it will only get better from here. Riding my bike home in the dark was the hardest part. Vision and balance issues. Unfamiliar route, and the streets did weird things. It will only get better.

ed. add.: I just said my name, and a few words, and tried not to smile, ‘cause it looks weirder.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:29:12pm
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retired cynic  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:31:53pm

re: #140 wrenchwench

You are brave to go out after dark on the bike, knowing it will be hard. But as you said, it will get better now. Cheers to you!

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wrenchwench  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:35:43pm

re: #142 retired cynic

You are brave to go out after dark on the bike, knowing it will be hard. But as you said, it will get better now. Cheers to you!

I did have lights on the bike. I’m gonna get a better front one. and I thought I’d been on the streets before, but it was in a car with my sister in daylight, a while ago, and I hadn’t taken all that into account.

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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:39:41pm

re: #140 wrenchwench

Yr wlcm and thx 4 asking.

Movement is returning to my face in an immeasurably slow manner. I got up in front of a room of fellow old ladies and spoke without a mask on, knowing that it will only get better from here. Riding my bike home in the dark was the hardest part. Vision and balance issues. Unfamiliar route, and the streets did weird things. It will only get better.

ed. add.: I just said my name, and a few words, and tried not to smile, ‘cause it looks weirder.

I have a built in headlight and a couple cheap ($30) Rockbros lights on an accessory bar for night riding. I’m thinking of adding two more. Two are fine but four would be better.

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retired cynic  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:42:17pm

re: #143 wrenchwench

When I had to drive up to the state capital after dark for my sleep study, a fairly easy trip in daylight was tougher than i expected in the darkness. I haven’t driven myself after dark for… years? My ‘son’ asked if I needed him, but it would have been nearly a six hour round trip for him, late at night and again early in the morning, and that would have just been stupid. I’ll need to drive around locally after dark and get adjusted.

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ckkatz  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:46:43pm

G’nite all!

Time for me to head off to bed.

And for the carefully curated Dad joke -

I’ve been prescribed anti-gloating cream.
I can’t wait to rub it in.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:49:57pm

LOL

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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:51:05pm
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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:56:15pm
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wrenchwench  Apr 11, 2023 • 9:56:48pm

re: #144 Captain Ron

I have a built in headlight and a couple cheap ($30) Rockbros lights on an accessory bar for night riding. I’m thinking of adding two more. Two are fine but four would be better.

I’m a fan of Nite Rider rechargeable headlights. I snagged a used one here, and somebody stole the light, but not the battery. What a waste. Then a regular battery headlight got swiped. Now I have free ones, and worth the price.

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Belafon  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:08:52pm

My newest bumper sticker on the left:

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Joe Bacon  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:17:50pm

Elon Musk says he’s sleeping on a couch at Twitter and that his dog is in charge

Sleazy E blames his dog…

washingtonpost.com

Nearly six months into his ownership of Twitter, Elon Musk says he’s been sleeping on a couch inside a seventh-floor library of the company he bought for $44 billion.
The Twitter CEO — or rather, its leader (Musk said Twitter’s current CEO is actually his dog Floki) — addressed a range of topics in a spontaneous interview Tuesday night on the site, and unloaded on the interviewer over questions about the purported increase in misinformation on the site since he took over. Musk also addressed his frequent Twitter controversies, allegations of a family-owned emerald mine (which he declared false) and lessons learned from his first six months in charge of the website.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:18:17pm

FREE SLEAZY E’S DOG!

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William Lewis  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:20:43pm

re: #152 Belafon

My newest bumper sticker on the left:

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Haven’t seen that before. What is it’s meaning? I’m sure this will be a Homer moment but…

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Belafon  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:22:04pm

re: #155 William Lewis

Haven’t seen that before. What is it’s meaning? I’m sure this will be a Homer moment but…

It an LGBTQ+ ally flag.

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mmmirele  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:27:02pm

The cats are settling in nicely. Currently, they are playing chase, which involves running up the stairs, around my bedroom, under my bed, out and down the stairs, clattering around on the first floor, wash, rinse, repeat. They also like to lounge on my bed. Fuji-kun (boy kitty) is very friendly now. He will come up to me, rub all over whatever body part is available (usually hands) and insist that both hands can be employed in petting. Sakura-chan (girl kitty) is still a bit skittish, but she will lie down next to my ankles when I’m in bed. She has let me pet her a couple of time. Anyway, they’re very nice in general, yeah they like to claw stuff, but that’s to be expected.

I have to go back into the office starting next week so they will need to entertain themselves a couple days a week, but they appear to conk out for most of the day, becoming more lively before I wake up and in the evening. I’m pretty happy about bringing these kitties into my life.

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William Lewis  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:30:00pm

re: #156 Belafon

It an LGBTQ+ ally flag.

Ah, the +ally is the new bit. Thank you.

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Belafon  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:31:56pm

Being in Texas, my wife and dad are worried about some of the things the wingnuts around us might do as all of these court things catch up to us, and have talked about trying to tone down their support. I am moving in the opposite direction because I want all sorts of people to know they’re not alone.

I also need to get something to indicate my support for all the other groups, though beyond the equality (=) sign, I’m not sure what would cover everyone.

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William Lewis  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:35:56pm

re: #157 mmmirele

Speaking of cats…

First warm weather of the year really. Opening windows and the cat sits up in the window by the screen. Open another one and she jumps up and starts climbing OUT onto the dormer over the downstairs window! EEK! I coax her back in and shut the window behind her. I’d forgotten that was where the previous tenant had their AC unit. She was mad I didn’t let her explore. Thanks, cat, but scraping you up after that drop isn’t my idea of fun.

Turns out only two of six windows have screens. Gonna have to speak to the landlords about that.

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sagehen  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:41:51pm

re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Setting ever new standards for conservaliars.

If Trump says it for sure wasn’t Russia… that means it’s Russia.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 11, 2023 • 10:57:07pm

Today’s previous record high: 80°F
Today’s high: 89°F.

Tomorrow’s record high: 83°F.
Predicted high: 86°F.

When the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health decision was first handed down, this woman formed a church in anticipation of Republican-run states taking women’s rights.

Congregants gathered to worship abortion at the first mass of a new church exalting women’s autonomy (Business Insider>, six hours ago)

Church Website: potentialchurch.com

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William Lewis  Apr 11, 2023 • 11:35:30pm

Current mood…

Sonic Youth - Superstar

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Captain Ron  Apr 11, 2023 • 11:40:52pm

My beard is gone and my hair is now 1/4” long.

Click to Reveal
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:14:01am

re: #23 teleskiguy

Two fellow are buried in a snowdrift. They see a St Bernard coming up to them with a cask of brandy under its collar.

“Ban’s best friend!” exclaims the first.

“Yes, and a dog to bring it!” exclaims the second.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:14:30am

They expect us to respect their beliefs when they say stuff like this:

While they do stuff like this:

Apr. 10—URBANA — A former Champaign church pastor has been sentenced to 10 months in prison after admitting to bankruptcy fraud and misusing more than $50,000 in federal funds and student loans to finance a gambling habit.

The Rev. Lekevie Johnson was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm in federal court in Urbana.

Mihm ordered Johnson to surrender himself to a prison yet to be determined on June 6, and said he would recommend a prison near the Dallas, Texas, area, as requested by Johnson.

Johnson was also ordered to pay $59,358 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Education.

(more)

Former Champaign church pastor gets 10 months for bankruptcy fraud, misusing federal funds (Yahoo!)

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William Lewis  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:18:21am

re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They expect us to respect their beliefs when they say stuff like this:

While they do stuff like this:

(more)

Former Champaign church pastor gets 10 months for bankruptcy fraud, misusing federal funds (Yahoo!)

There are more that some of us who agree with you, you do know?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:20:50am

re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Supreme Court justices are allowed to have friends”

Friends with (financial) benefits.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:21:45am

re: #107 Joe Bacon

Just a reminder that Christopher Rufo is on record saying the Conservative goal is to end all public schools and universities and turn education over to the churches.

Yes, that is definitely their long-term goal, and to bust the teachers’ unions.

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piratedan  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:27:57am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

is positive that they likely met in a WalMart parking lot while returning carts and just struck up a friendship that has lasted decades…..////////////

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:29:48am

Associated Press, yesterday.
#NotADragQueen

Arizona court upholds clergy privilege in child abuse case

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under a state law that exempts religious officials from having to report child sex abuse if they learn of the crime during a confessional setting.

The ruling was issued April 7 but not released to the public until Tuesday. A lawsuit filed by child sex abuse victims accuses the church, widely known as the Mormon church, two of its bishops, and other church members of conspiracy and negligence in not reporting church member Paul Adams for abusing his older daughter as early as 2010. This negligence, the lawsuit argues, allowed Adams to continuing abusing the girl for as many as seven years, a time in which he also abused the girl’s infant sister.

(more)

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sagehen  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:35:23am

re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They expect us to respect their beliefs when they say stuff like this:

While they do stuff like this:

(more)

Former Champaign church pastor gets 10 months for bankruptcy fraud, misusing federal funds (Yahoo!)

It’s weird how many things they admit being super-tempted to do, things that only their fear of god is keeping them from doing…

‘Cause I have *never*, in all my years on this planet, ever met anybody who would admit to thinking this was an appealing idea.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:37:07am

Today we are the Council of the 24

12 Dunkin Donuts and 12 Krispy Kreme.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:37:25am

re: #167 William Lewis

There are more that some of us who agree with you, you do know?

I don’t know. I can’t say as I’m not keeping an accurate count.

Here there are at LGF. In the world where I live that has never been the case.

This explosion of hateful anti-LGBT+, anti-abortion, anti-education laws is all being driven by religious beliefs. You can hear the endless invocations of God and the Bible in statehouse after statehouse, and news interview after the next interview.

I have a state senator who says I should have no rights.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:37:44am

Performative nonsense.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:38:07am

re: #172 sagehen

It’s weird how many things they admit being super-tempted to do, things that only their fear of god is keeping them from doing…

‘Cause I have *never*, in all my years on this planet, ever met anybody who would admit to thinking this was an appealing idea.

Our 45th Prez was ready to date his own daughter…

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Captain Ron  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:40:00am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:40:31am

re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I will attempt to amend [Schumer’s resolution condemning Trump] by adding language that condemns something that actually happened, DOJ & FBI trying to infiltrate Catholic parishes & cultivate “sources” inside Catholic Churches

DOJ and FBI cultivating sources within an organization known to have condoned and tolerated grooming and sexual abuse of minors? Shocking!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:43:57am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

DOJ and FBI cultivating sources within an organization known to have condoned and tolerated grooming and sexual abuse of minors? Shocking!!!

Plus no one forced any so-called source to cooperate with the FBI.

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William Lewis  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:45:09am

re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t know. I can’t say as I’m not keeping an accurate count.

Here there are at LGF. In the world where I live that has never been the case.

This explosion of hateful anti-LGBT+, anti-abortion, anti-education laws is all being driven by religious beliefs. You can hear the endless invocations of God and the Bible in statehouse after statehouse, and news interview after the next interview.

I have a state senator who says I should have no rights.

yeah, you don’t care about honesty. don’t worry, I don’t expect that from you.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:47:34am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Plus no one forced any so-called source to cooperate with the FBI.

He will get enough Catholic bigots to see it as the Atheist State coming to dismantle Religious Freedom.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 12:52:24am

They just make shyte up, part eleventy thousand four hundred ninety-two point eight-six:

Marjorie Taylor Greene warns country about “Transtifa riots” with the goal of men “replacing women”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is sounding the alarm about “Transtifa” - a portmanteau of transgender and Antifa - along with the coming replacement of women by men, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-WA) Trans Bill of Rights.

Jayapal introduced the Trans Bill of Rights - along with Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) - last month as a nonbinding resolution meant to draw attention to transgender rights and show the Democratic party’s solidarity with the transgender community. Jayapal has a nonbinary child.

“I’m sure the left’s base will love it, mostly messaging that reveals that Trans are the new protected class replacing BLM,” Greene wrote about the Trans Bill of Rights. The expression “protected class” refers to categories of identities that are mentioned in anti-discrimination laws that make it illegal for employers, business owners, and others to discriminate on the basis of those identities. Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other political movements are not a protected class under federal law.

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darthstar  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:00:39am

re: #149 Captain Ron

When loitering ammunition is outlawed, only outlaws will have loitering ammunition.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:03:43am

Okay, I can’t completely bash AI image tools.

Rupublicans (Goes to Instagram)

Reimagines Republican legislators as drag queens. Mitch McConnell is still scary.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:07:31am

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Okay, I can’t completely bash AI image tools.

Rupublicans (Goes to Instagram)

Reimagines Republican legislators as drag queens. Mitch McConnell is still scary.

This just proves their agenda: they are out to replace men!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:12:56am

Cancel Lizzo. /s
(0:24)

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darthstar  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:16:21am

Here’s something you never saw on Twitter…a bot that has a human monitoring its content to ensure it doesn’t spread misinformation or share sensitive content.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:19:45am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:20:34am

re: #188 darthstar

Here’s something you never saw on Twitter…a bot that has a human monitoring its content to ensure it doesn’t spread misinformation or share sensitive content.

The @noclador account does not exist on Twitter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:23:08am

re: #190 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The @noclador account does not exist on Twitter.

Oh I see. I confused it with Mastadon, where I don’t know how to find anything (too complicated).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:27:02am
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darthstar  Apr 12, 2023 • 1:29:17am

re: #191 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oh I see. I confused it with Mastadon, where I don’t know how to find anything (too complicated).

Put the handle in the ‘Search or paste URL’ field above your profile pic…also allows you to ‘like’ posts in other servers by loading the URL for the post in your home server…now you know how to use mastodon.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:00:03am

.


Youn Sun Nah “Ghost Riders In The Sky” @Jazz_in_Marciac 2014





..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:03:48am

re: #191 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oh I see. I confused it with Mastadon, where I don’t know how to find anything (too complicated).

Mastodon strikes me as something that sounds really good on paper but when implemented many flaws are exposed.

I won’t bother with it until they make it simpler and , I repeat here often, change the Fediverse so there is a unified way of making sure only one account can have a particular handle.

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William Lewis  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:14:53am

re: #195 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Mastodon strikes me as something that sounds really good on paper but when implemented many flaws are exposed.

I won’t bother with it until they make it simpler and , I repeat here often, change the Fediverse so there is a unified way of making sure only one account can have a particular handle.

Shrug. Haven’t had all that many problems with Mastodon. I can have only one unique address on a mastodon server just as I can only have only one address on any one email sever. X@universeodeon.com is just as unique as X@gmail.com Unless I’m missing something else, I really don’t see the problem.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:16:56am

re: #196 William Lewis

X@universeodeon.com is just as unique as X@gmail.com Unless I’m missing something else, I really don’t see the problem.

What you’re missing: someone else may want to spoof the masses by using your handle. Just because you have “X” does not stop anyone else from having “X” on a different server and pretend to be you.

This is a critical weakness, I think, and why companies should be wary of using Mastodon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:18:16am

re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have called on Indian police to arrest and prosecute the Dalai Lama for child abuse, following a viral video where he kissed a boy on the lips and asked him to “suck his tongue”.

He should simply be reassigned to an obscure third-world monastery until this all blows over SOP for other religions, right?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:19:12am

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hitchens the outspoken atheist struck down with throat cancer. Lol

never happens to true believers in the faith, right?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:20:18am

re: #191 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oh I see. I confused it with Mastadon, where I don’t know how to find anything (too complicated).

I signed up to it and then promptly forgot I was even registered. I guess I should check in there again soon…

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Teukka  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:24:52am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:33:59am

re: #201 Teukka

More people should be discussing Florida’s SB1342, which uses vague language to allow the death penalty for parents and doctors that support trans kids. It only requires 8/12 jurors to agree to sentence the defendant to death.

I think that it should take no more than one parent’s complaints to fire up the bonfire in the town square.

/

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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:53:15am

We can’t discuss the fires you say I set until the smoke from the new fires I’m setting blows away, said the arsonist with the gas can in his hand…….

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:54:00am

re: #193 darthstar

Put the handle in the ‘Search or paste URL’ field above your profile pic…also allows you to ‘like’ posts in other servers by loading the URL for the post in your home server…now you know how to use mastodon.

I understand the individual words, but together they don’t make sense to me. I don’t have a profile pic since I don’t have an account on the service.

Twitter has always been full of fools, but is an easy service for a non-account holder to use who has the computer knowledge of a hamster.

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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:55:51am

re: #203 Dangerman

We can’t discuss the fires you say I set until the smoke from the new fires I’m setting blows away, said the arsonist with the gas can in his hand…….

[Embedded content]

Of course under this asinine theory, commit enough crimes and stay in the news for them, you’d never have to face trial.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 2:56:08am

I took me a couple run throughs of this video from Atheist Republic to see what Armin is talking about. It helps with the sound up. Even though I don’t understand Persian, when the sound is up I can figure it out. (1:15)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 3:27:56am

Well, after I got to take a long soaky bath tonight courtesy of our new hot water heater, and had a nice wasteful hair wash (washing your hair with a pan of water from the stove doesn’t work very well), my wife ran her hand through my hair and said “your hair is skinny.”

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 12, 2023 • 3:43:39am

re: #1 Egregious Philbin

I got my Irish citizenship a few years back, have the passport as well. My grandma was born there. My nephew is trying to get his, its a bit more complicated if it is great grandparent though.

I had seen that mentioned before on this site about grandparents born in Ireland. Both my mother’s parents were born there and married there before immigrating to the US (well into Canada and then down here to PA). My oldest uncle of the 13 kids was born in Canada, my mom was the middle of the pack born here in US.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 3:50:36am

re: #208 Eventual Carrion

I had seen that mentioned before on this site about grandparents born in Ireland. Both my mother’s parents were born there and married there before immigrating to the US (well into Canada and then down here to PA). My oldest uncle of the 13 kids was born in Canada, my mom was the middle of the pack born here in US.

Maybe I should check if I can emigrate to the home country of my immigrant paternal grandparents, the Free City of Danzig (wait …)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 3:55:15am

In regards to big music, some say Mahler’s 2nd symphony is the best. And that Bernstein was the best interpreter of it. And that this performance is the best recording of that (here the last movement only):

Mahler: Symphony. 2 “Resurrection” - Finale [ENGLISH SUBTITLES]


..

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 12, 2023 • 3:56:38am

re: #22 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Who doesn’t like a little bling?

Got the finest rat nest in the city

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:06:18am

re: #197 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What you’re missing: someone else may want to spoof the masses by using your handle. Just because you have “X” does not stop anyone else from having “X” on a different server and pretend to be you.

This is a critical weakness, I think, and why companies should be wary of using Mastodon.

They’re working on that. Our illustrious host boosted a post yesterday from someone who is associated with PossumID, essentially a centralized place for you to verify all the things you are associated with. They took the concept of the Twitter blue check and expanded it to many different kinds of social media and online identity, so that you can go to one place and know if the account(s) you’re looking at are really this person. The post was boosted because it was talking about getting your Mastodon identity verified via the service.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:08:10am

Qanoner Insists Q Is Real, Because if He Is Not, Then Millions Have Ruined Their Lives. Insists Therefore He Must Be Right, Because God Is Never Wrong (Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake)

He almost “gets us” (to steal from the advert campaign to try to make religion seem kewl to Gen Z and Millennials)

Also misspelt “ostrichsized” for the cherry on top.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:10:45am

re: #197 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What you’re missing: someone else may want to spoof the masses by using your handle. Just because you have “X” does not stop anyone else from having “X” on a different server and pretend to be you.

This is a critical weakness, I think, and why companies should be wary of using Mastodon.

I have no choice then to go to every Mastadon server I can and register my name Anymouse (second of my name, the first being a cartoon mouse in Naval Aviation Safety Review), to prevent anyone else from taking my name. /s

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:14:40am

re: #212 Nerdy Fish

The one limitation I see is that I can’t add multiple Mastodon accounts, so that if I were to intentionally register on multiple servers for whatever reason, I can’t add that information. It also doesn’t cover some of the more common use cases, though it does cover pretty much all of the Twitter alternatives out there. There’s also a service somewhere (I can’t remember where) where you can register the more common social media accounts and link them all together.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:18:26am

Reddit’s r/SelfAwareWolves is for people who inadvertently posted a truism through their own ideology (usually conservatives, but sometimes religions or centrists). A Twitter analogue would be AccidentallyLeft

r/conservative realizes that good guys with guns almost never stop bad guys with guns. (199 mocking comments follow)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:21:56am

For some reason “good Wednesday” is trending:

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:25:48am

I have actually gone through the trouble of setting up a WhoSum / PossumID to link my Twitter and Mastodon accounts, even though I am not a verified Twitter user (and never will be), so as to ensure that the people who DO know me can know for sure that an account is me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:26:47am

re: #215 Nerdy Fish

The one limitation I see is that I can’t add multiple Mastodon accounts, so that if I were to intentionally register on multiple servers for whatever reason, I can’t add that information. It also doesn’t cover some of the more common use cases, though it does cover pretty much all of the Twitter alternatives out there. There’s also a service somewhere (I can’t remember where) where you can register the more common social media accounts and link them all together.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:31:23am

re: #217 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

For some reason “good Wednesday” is trending:

Good Wednesday is a meme on Pinterest meant to replace Hump Day. It is meant as a motivational meme.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:34:20am

So Scott wants to run for President.

He can’t be the GOP nominee - I think we all know this.

So he may be aiming at being VP?

Would the GOP deep pockets put him second on a ticket with DeSantis, as the token black Republican to face off with Harris (assuming she stays with Biden?)

American politics as a performative art is getting really wrapped around the axel.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:37:20am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:38:28am

In extremely local plumbing news:

Because the plumber was hospitalised with the flu last week and he was unable to start the water heater / replumbing the washing machine project, it was rescheduled to yesterday.

The project was planned for two days. However, because he was off work for two days last week, that ran into his schedule this week. Thus, he only had yesterday free. As such he installed the water heater, leaving the washing machine plumbing for anther time when they have a day-long opening in the schedule.

Because the project was bid to us as one complete project, he did not charge us yesterday for the installation of the water heater only. The company will only charge us when the job is complete.

That said, he said they would be really interested in getting their money, so they will be on looking for the first available day-long opening to re-plumb our washing machine. They will call us when they have an opening.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:42:45am

LOLWUT?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:46:48am
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:48:48am

Down below because spoilers.

Click to Reveal

Definitely a weird one today. It took quite a bit of thought.

Wordle 662 4/6

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:49:42am

(1:03:51)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:53:11am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:53:14am

Wonderful. Westboro Baptist Church will be protesting at the Unicameral today.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 12, 2023 • 4:55:04am

re: #157 mmmirele

The cats are settling in nicely. Currently, they are playing chase, which involves running up the stairs, around my bedroom, under my bed, out and down the stairs, clattering around on the first floor, wash, rinse, repeat. They also like to lounge on my bed. Fuji-kun (boy kitty) is very friendly now. He will come up to me, rub all over whatever body part is available (usually hands) and insist that both hands can be employed in petting. Sakura-chan (girl kitty) is still a bit skittish, but she will lie down next to my ankles when I’m in bed. She has let me pet her a couple of time. Anyway, they’re very nice in general, yeah they like to claw stuff, but that’s to be expected.

I have to go back into the office starting next week so they will need to entertain themselves a couple days a week, but they appear to conk out for most of the day, becoming more lively before I wake up and in the evening. I’m pretty happy about bringing these kitties into my life.

Kitties being kitties. Dawn and Dusk are major feline activity times.

When I had the two Siamese brothers their “chase routine” started in the basement, tore up the stairs, did a half-lap of the first floor, tore up the stairs to the second floor, and ended when one of them jumped into the “safe zone” of the bathtub in the 2nd floor bathroom. (I could hear the “thwap” as one jumped past the shower curtain. Plus hear them on both sets of stairs.)

After a few minutes they would run the route in reverse. I think they switched chaser/chasee as well.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:00:04am

re: #172 sagehen

It’s weird how many things they admit being super-tempted to do, things that only their fear of god is keeping them from doing…

‘Cause I have *never*, in all my years on this planet, ever met anybody who would admit to thinking this was an appealing idea.

What gets me is that they consider not doing something due to fear of punishment by God as a superior moral position to not doing something since it’s a cruel and unethical thing to do since it’s taking unearned things from other human beings and not because of fear.

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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:01:10am

re: #222 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Biden has no FP experience

unless you include

longtime member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
chair or ranking member: 12 years

VP 8 years
P 2+ years

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:11:13am

re: #232 Dangerman

Trump has no FP experience unless you count being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Saudis and Putin. /half

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:19:11am

Greets and saluts from the unseasonably hot NYC metro area. We’ve got red flag warnings up across the region as we’re in a rain deficit and brush fires have already done significant damage - including the shutdown of the Newark Bay Extension of the NJ Turnpike for a time as part of a 7+ alarm fire. Other fires have been reported around the area.

We could really use a good soaking rain.

In a bit of good news, longtime head of the NYPD PBA is stepping down after 25 years. Pat Lynch is best known for making baseless accusations against Shake Shack “attempting to assassinate cops” and defending indefensible police brutality.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:19:32am

re: #68 Dangerman

Like the cop who “forgot” to hold the door for him?

The tears in his eyes blinded him

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Thanos  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:25:44am
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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:32:44am

re: #234 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the unseasonably hot NYC metro area. We’ve got red flag warnings up across the region as we’re in a rain deficit and brush fires have already done significant damage - including the shutdown of the Newark Bay Extension of the NJ Turnpike for a time as part of a 7+ alarm fire. Other fires have been reported around the area.

We could really use a good soaking rain.

In a bit of good news, longtime head of the NYPD PBA is stepping down after 25 years. Pat Lynch is best known for making baseless accusations against Shake Shack “attempting to assassinate cops” and defending indefensible police brutality.

we got plenty
flood watches everywhere

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:41:30am

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Tomorrow’s Wordle hates pretending to be able to multitask.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:41:33am

CPI report came in under expectations today, with inflation over the last year cooling to 5%. IMHO, the Fed should pause interest rate hikes this month, since the ones they have already instituted are clearly working to cool the economy.

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:44:34am

Congrats Norfolk Southern, you continue to cause environmental damage everywhere - a truck carrying contaminated soil overturns on highway, spreading hazmat.

A truck carrying around 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from the site of a train derailment in Ohio, which saw officials release toxic chemicals into the area to prevent an explosion, overturned on a highway this week, officials said.

The commercial vehicle was headed northbound on State Route 165 when it careened off the roadway and overturned onto its right side, the Ohio Emergency Management Agency said in a statement, citing the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

The incident unfolded Monday in Unity Township, NBC affiliate WFMJ, which is based in Youngstown, Ohio, reported.

The driver sustained minor injuries in the incident and around 20,000 pounds of the contaminated soil spilled onto the roadway and berm, the emergency management agency said.

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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:52:18am

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BigPapa  Apr 12, 2023 • 5:59:57am

I want more indictments. For the lackeys.

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jeffreyw  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:02:38am

Good morning!

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:13:37am
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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:17:21am
More than half, or 58%, of all Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck, according to a CNBC survey.

And even more — roughly 70% — said they feel stressed about their finances, mostly due to inflation, economic uncertainty and rising interest rates.

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:32:00am

re: #245 Dangerman

Inflation continues to ease, as Fed weighs next move (to maximize profits to those who hold the most money).

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darthstar  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:36:22am

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:40:55am

Wait…. what? Another GOPer whose behavior doesn’t match their political agenda to deny LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms?

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:43:11am

re: #164 Captain Ron

My beard is gone and my hair is now 1/4” long.

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You’re still a long-haired hippie from my perspective. I trim my hair to 4.5mm.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:47:17am

re: #164 Captain Ron

During last summer and fall, I had my head shaved, lather and all, 4 different times at a few barbershops to support my wife who was bald due to chemo. Now that it has hit 100 degrees again, and my hair is about an inch long, its time to go there again. Fortunately, I looked good that way, and it felt pretty bad assed about 2-4 days latter when you just have a raspy fuzz.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:47:23am

re: #248 lawhawk

Wait…. what? Another GOPer whose behavior doesn’t match their political agenda to deny LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms?

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Peter Schmidt, eh?

Is this his campaign song?

Karen Young - Bring On The Boys

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Joe Bacon  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:54:38am

re: #250 Egregious Philbin

Welcome to the club. Proud of what you did!

Doses of Methotrexate for RA made my hair fall out leaving me bald for going on 26 years. Took some getting used to and after 3 days of what’s left starting to itch it’s time to shave it again…

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Jay C  Apr 12, 2023 • 6:56:24am

Ore: #164 Captain Ron

My beard is gone and my hair is now 1/4” long.

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Presumably that’s the “Before” picture…..?
😜

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:01:50am

re: #245 Dangerman

unemployment rates are at a record low, seems like this would be a good time for employees to press for better wages and working conditions, but the Free Market in our country does not work that way: if is designed to favor producers over consumers, employers over employees, lenders over borrowers and insurers over the insured.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:05:20am

re: #248 lawhawk

He said this: “I was the victim of a crime, but I’ve put the matter behind me and I’ve focused on my faith,” Schmidt said to WisPolitics, a local news site. “I’m a strong conservative and Christian, but there was a brief moment I struggled with my sexuality.” “No one should be persecuted or smeared for their personal orientation.”

sorry, but we all know that if you do it once, you’re that way for life.

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darthstar  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:06:56am

re: #250 Egregious Philbin

Lovely gesture.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:07:35am
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Joe Bacon  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:10:12am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

re: #248 lawhawk

He said this: “I was the victim of a crime, but I’ve put the matter behind me and I’ve focused on my faith,” Schmidt said to WisPolitics, a local news site. “I’m a strong conservative and Christian, but there was a brief moment I struggled with my sexuality.” “No one should be persecuted or smeared for their personal orientation.”

sorry, but we all know that if you do it once, you’re that way for life.

Yeah it’s the same ol’ Jimmy Swaggart “Ah Have Syynnned Against You My Lawd” bullshit that Republicans lap up like a little kitten with a fresh saucer of milk.

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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:10:54am

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:12:47am

re: #259 Dangerman

Christian theocrats is another option, but ultimately their path is authoritarian kleptocracy and fascism in all the ways that matter.

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mmmirele  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:14:16am

re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Associated Press, yesterday.
#NotADragQueen

Arizona court upholds clergy privilege in child abuse case

(more)

This is completely wicked.

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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:14:18am

re: #164 Captain Ron

My beard is gone and my hair is now 1/4” long.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:19:16am
Support for former President Donald Trump fell rapidly after he was charged with 34 felony counts of business falsification in Manhattan last week, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.

Despite Trump’s repeated claims that the indictment could actually help him by boosting his support in the election, the poll found that a majority of Americans — 53% — believe he did something illegal. The poll also showed that 11% say he acted wrongly but not intentionally, while 20% believe Trump was not culpable at all.

The former president last week pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg related to the hush-money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign.

A CNN poll released last week showed that 62% of independent voters approved of the indictment, indicating a shift in support that could prove damaging for Trump as the 2024 presidential election looms.

“Dropping like a rock”: New poll shows Trump falling into “fringe candidate” territory after arrest (Salon)

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:22:38am

re: #263 Crush White Nationalism

But even with all that, the GOP still backs him easily over the rest of the fringe GOPers arrayed against him thus far (DeSantis, Haley, etc.) all of whom are Trumpist/fascists who agree with Trump on policy but differ only in how overtly fascist and corrupt they are.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:23:51am

re: #256 darthstar

She is kicking ass, the chemo did it job. She had the mastectomy after the chemo, nothing in the nodes or body. She is doing radiation now to make sure they zapped the shit out of everything. She will be done with that in a week.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:24:35am

re: #264 lawhawk

But even with all that, the GOP still backs him easily over the rest of the fringe GOPers arrayed against him thus far (DeSantis, Haley, etc.) all of whom are Trumpist/fascists who agree with Trump on policy but differ only in how overtly fascist and corrupt they are.

The seem to be afraid of their own rabid heavily-armed base.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:25:50am

re: #265 Egregious Philbin

She is kicking ass, the chemo did it job. She had the mastectomy after the chemo, nothing in the nodes or body. She is doing radiation now to make sure they zapped the shit out of everything. She will be done with that in a week.

Blur - Song 2

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Joe Bacon  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:30:57am

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:33:20am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:35:40am

re: #258 Joe Bacon

Yeah it’s the same ol’ Jimmy Swaggart “Ah Have Syynnned Against You My Lawd” bullshit that Republicans lap up like a little kitten with a fresh saucer of milk.

But it doesn’t work for Democrats, because they continue to sin by supporting abortion and LGBTQ rights. They cannot be forgiven until they abandon their sinful ways (along with their party affiliation) and come to join God’s Own Party

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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:36:21am

re: #264 lawhawk

But even with all that, the GOP still backs him easily over the rest of the fringe GOPers arrayed against him thus far (DeSantis, Haley, etc.) all of whom are Trumpist/fascists who agree with Trump on policy but differ only in how overtly fascist and corrupt they are.

indeed

A new Winthrop University poll in South Carolina finds Donald Trump leads a field of 2024 Republican presidential contenders with 41% support, followed by Ron DeSantis at 20% and Nikkey Haley at 18%.

Sen. Tim Scott, who announced an exploratory bid today, is way back at 7%

and

Trump Way Ahead of DeSantis Nationally

FiveThirtyEight launched its national polling average for the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

It shows Donald Trump receiving 49.3% of the national vote and Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has not officially entered the race) receiving 26.2%. Mike Pence, another potential candidate, is at 5.8%, while Nikki Haley is at 4.3%.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:37:51am

The ultimate GOP conundrum: Anyone radical enough to win a primary is too extremist to win the general (unless the GOP makes sure that enough of the “wrong” votes are not cast/counted/certified)

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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:44:26am

re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

unemployment rates are at a record low, seems like this would be a good time for employees to press for better wages and working conditions, but the Free Market in our country does not work that way: if is designed to favor producers over consumers, employers over employees, lenders over borrowers and insurers over the insured.

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:55:34am

re: #273 Dangerman

Pundits like 538’s Nate Silver are expecting a recession just in time for election season.

Why? What exactly is going on in the economy that says a recession is likely given that the economy continues to grow, unemployment is near record lows, and inflation is easing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 12, 2023 • 7:59:50am

re: #238 Eventual Carrion

Took me to 5/6, with much time looking at final answer.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:01:20am

This person is spending millions running commercials like these.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:05:20am

re: #274 lawhawk

Pundits like 538’s Nate Silver are expecting a recession just in time for election season.

Why? What exactly is going on in the economy that says a recession is likely given that the economy continues to grow, unemployment is near record lows, and inflation is easing.

It’s worth noting that Nate Silver, who made his name in refining the practice of aggregating polls for elections, has stepped outside his wheelhouse frequently, vocally, and usually with hilariously wrong results. I wouldn’t believe a prediction of a ham sandwich from that man.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:06:58am

re: #275 Hecuba’s daughter

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Same here. Didn’t even get a green letter until my 4th guess.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:07:42am

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:10:12am

re: #260 lawhawk

Christian theocrats is another option, but ultimately their path is authoritarian kleptocracy and fascism in all the ways that matter.

Christian theocracy is a branch of fascism.

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:13:50am

re: #277 Nerdy Fish

It’s worth noting that Nate Silver, who made his name in refining the practice of aggregating polls for elections, has stepped outside his wheelhouse frequently, vocally, and usually with hilariously wrong results. I wouldn’t believe a prediction of a ham sandwich from that man.

Nate Silver made his name doing sports stats and then managed to get involved in aggregating polling to identify good/bad pollsters and determining outcomes.

He’s now out in the weeds.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:14:40am

re: #280 Hecuba’s daughter

Christian theocracy is a branch of fascism.

Christian theocracy is fascism wearing the cloak of the Church. It’s not even a “branch” of fascism; they’re straight-up fascists, just using religious language to appeal to the common clay of the New West - you know, morons.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:16:35am

re: #281 lawhawk

Nate Silver made his name doing sports stats and then managed to get involved in aggregating polling to identify good/bad pollsters and determining outcomes.

He’s now out in the weeds.

I didn’t know if the sports came first or if it was his work on post-election analysis that gained him notoriety. Either way, we both agree that the guy is way out over his skis at this point.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:17:24am

re: #279 Joe Bacon

Hate didn’t have to be painted on Miller. It was already long in his soul.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:18:40am

re: #284 Sherlock Hound

Hate didn’t have to be painted on Miller. It was already long in his soul.

Yep. We’ve heard about the heinous things he’s said when he was still in school. He’s been a scumbag for a long time.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:19:58am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:20:18am

re: #274 lawhawk

I give no shits what Nate Silver says anymore.

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:21:31am

Those shouting loudest over “grooming” are projecting their own malfeasance on their political enemies to distract from their own actions.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:22:41am

re: #288 lawhawk

Those shouting loudest over “grooming” are projecting their own malfeasance on their political enemies to distract from their own actions.

At this point, I’m halfway convinced these people do illegal stuff like this just so that they can flaunt getting away with it when they inevitably get caught.

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:23:23am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:23:37am

re: #288 lawhawk

Those shouting loudest over “grooming” are projecting their own malfeasance on their political enemies to distract from their own actions.

That’s different, because as a patriarch he is entitled to groom young women so that they will assume their assigned roles as mothers and housekeepers.//

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:23:47am

re: #288 lawhawk

Those shouting loudest over “grooming” are projecting their own malfeasance on their political enemies to distract from their own actions.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:26:11am

re: #52 Dangerman

I haven’t bought Bud product in years, but since the MAGA Nazi poutrage, Bud has been my beer of choice.

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JC1  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:26:52am

re: #274 lawhawk

Pundits like 538’s Nate Silver are expecting a recession just in time for election season.

Why? What exactly is going on in the economy that says a recession is likely given that the economy continues to grow, unemployment is near record lows, and inflation is easing.

Lots of headwinds once people and companies have to refinance at more than double the interest rates we’ve had for a decade. Commodity prices and inverted yield curve are screaming recession. Doesn’t mean it’ll happen, or if it does that it’ll happen before the 24 election, but there is cause for concern.

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TarHellion  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:29:20am

re: #226 Nerdy Fish

Really happy with this birbie. Like you said, it required a bit of studying over. Gorgeous day here today - lower 70s for a high, low humidity, light wind. One of the 10 perfect days we get in year. Cheers!

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lawhawk  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:29:49am

re: #293 Dr. Matt

Dumbasses will be dumbasses, given the reach of AB Inbev products domestically and globally.

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JC1  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:32:02am

re: #293 Dr. Matt

I haven’t bought Bud product in years, but since the MAGA Nazi poutrage, Bud has been my beer for choice.

Bud light lime was my go to for a while. Don’t drink much these days, and when I do, it’s not beer.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:36:27am

re: #297 JC1

Bud light lime was my go to for a while. Don’t drink much these days, and when I do, it’s not beer.

Before I was diagnosed with DVTs and Type 2 I loved a cold Guiness every once in a while. Before that I loved Samuel Smith’s Ale and Anchor Steam.

Now I can’t drink any beer, wine or liquor thanks to Kaiser going my interior decorating.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:38:37am

re: #274 lawhawk

Real Estate business is finding it hard to move houses. The higher mortgage rates means the average person is stuck.

The very rich have no problem buying new houses, which is why the average housing price has stayed so high above the media, at least here in San Diego.

The entire banking system is sort of stuck. I rattled on about this last year, about how skyrocketing housing prices means that a housing crash will be hard on so much of the US because houses are the primary savings for most Americans (who own their residence.)

We’re going to feel the effects of under-taxation. We’ve not taxed enough so the US has been doing the easy-money.

I’m hardly a gold bug or anti-Federal Reserve System type.

Yet we have to reckon with the problem: we’ve tried to so fine tune our entire economy without owning up to the biggest change needed: we need to raise taxes to pay for things. Otherwise the escalating “easing” that has to be done to make the massive public debt operable will drive banking into a corner.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:39:41am

re: #296 lawhawk

Dumbasses will be dumbasses, given the reach of AB Inbev products domestically and globally.

Great list. I had no idea Corona was part of the AB InBev family.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:42:53am

re: #276 No Malarkey!

Their worldview is collapsed. They know it at one level but cannot accept it.

Cognitive dissonance on a massive scale.

Delusions upon delusions, lies upon lines.

All are signs of a crisis.

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gocart mozart  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:51:15am
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Joe Bacon  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:51:41am

re: #301 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Their worldview is collapsed. They know it at one level but cannot accept it.

Cognitive dissonance on a massive scale.

Delusions upon delusions, lies upon lines.

All are signs of a crisis.

Yes on the Cognitive dissonance with millions of deluded people believing that JC and his Sonshine Band are going to turn the Holy Hoover Vacuum Cleaner on any minute now and suck them up into Hay-Venn.

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wrenchwench  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:53:55am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:55:05am

re: #273 Dangerman

Is inflation slowing too quickly?

plenty of people are hoping for a recession to come take the wind out of rising wages and get employees back to clinging to their shitty, underpaid jobs for fear of unemployment…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:56:48am

re: #282 Nerdy Fish

Christian theocracy is fascism wearing the cloak of the Church. It’s not even a “branch” of fascism; they’re straight-up fascists, just using religious language to appeal to the common clay of the New West - you know, morons.

Just look at Franco’s Spain or Putin’s Russia

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 12, 2023 • 8:57:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:01:37am

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

“These are idiots we are dealing with” - Trump calls America’s military leaders that he hand picked and nominated himself.

They refuse to run the Military like a business; namely hire it out to the highest bidder.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:01:46am

re: #288 lawhawk

Those shouting loudest over “grooming” are projecting their own malfeasance on their political enemies to distract from their own actions.

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Every time a Republican is exposed as a massive hypocrite, I wonder what they did to provoke the release of blackmail material someone was holding. We know that Madison Cawthorn, for example, blabbed about Republican coke orgies and the silly “cousin video” came out within days. What have these others done? Besides the intern diddler in Texas, we have the case of Peter Schmidt in Wisconsin, and, a few years ago, Wes Goodman in Ohio. Goodman’s case is interesting in that the party establishment had been aware of his real sexuality for years. It apparently never occurred to them to ask him to tone down the homophobic rhetoric so he wouldn’t look like a fool if the truth did accidentally come out.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:09:41am
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wrenchwench  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:12:34am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Joe Bacon  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:19:21am

re: #311 wrenchwench

Next up from the racists: free abortions for non-citizens.

And add in that every white couple must join the Quiverfull movement with the Duggars as role models.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:19:29am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

“[We have] not grown except those foreigners who have moved here or refugees who have been placed here … because we’ve killed 200,000 people. These are white people we killed.”

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A Cranky One  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:22:11am

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:22:31am

re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Difficulty: If I recall correctly, the majority of women who get abortions are Black.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:31:52am

re: #314 A Cranky One

I was gobsmacked when I came to work in Europe and got a standard contract with 27 days of paid vacation per year.

add to that 10-14 paid holidays per year, (depending on how Catholic your state is).

Only drawback is that they do not move holidays to the following Monday if they fall on a weekend, but for that, many of them fall on a fixed day of the week like Good Friday, Easter Monday or Pentecost Monday.

and yet they manage to grow and prosper as an economy and people actually have time for family, friends and hobbies

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A Cranky One  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:33:02am

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TarHellion  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:45:13am

re: #315 Nerdy Fish

A plurality of Black women obtain abortions.

According to Kaiser Family Foundation data for 2020, 39 percent of abortions were by Blacks, 33 percent by Whites, 21 percent by Hispanics, and 7 percent by Other Races.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:49:27am

Ohio Republicans trying to spend millions to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot of an August special election. The amendment would require a 60% threshold to pass future constitutional amendments. The GOP is trying to get it on the ballot in August, because they expect to lose a referendum in November to provide constitutional protection for abortion.

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Oblongatis  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:50:18am

re: #274 lawhawk

My guess they are thinking the House is going to tank Wall Street quickly followed by the rest of the economy by defaulting on the national debt.
I don’t think they can reach an agreement internally within their caucus never mind reaching a compromise with the Democrats.

It’s going to happen. Will be interesting watching the shift out of stock to safer assets.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:54:39am

re: #320 Oblongatis

My guess they are thinking the House is going to tank Wall Street quickly followed by the rest of the economy by defaulting on the national debt.
I don’t think they can reach an agreement internally within their caucus never mind reaching a compromise with the Democrats.

It’s going to happen. Will be interesting watching the shift out of stock to safer assets.

And it will all be Biden’s Fault

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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:55:38am

re: #320 Oblongatis

My guess they are thinking the House is going to tank Wall Street quickly followed by the rest of the economy by defaulting on the national debt.
I don’t think they can reach an agreement internally within their caucus never mind reaching a compromise with the Democrats.

It’s going to happen. Will be interesting watching the shift out of stock to safer assets.

They don’t want to say it right now because the Congress needs to step up and do its job, but if the GOP really is irresponsible enough to default on the national debt, the Administration needs to declare that it violates the 14th Amendment and take whatever steps are necessary to keep meeting the government’s obligations, whether it’s minting trillion dollar coins or disregarding the debt limit.

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TarHellion  Apr 12, 2023 • 9:58:01am

re: #320 Oblongatis

And even if a debt default does not crater the economy, eventually just the general business cycle results in a recession. Take out the couple of quarters in 2020 due to the pandemic, and the U.S. economy has been on a steady growth path for more than a decade. The difference in the more recent recessions is that they have tended to be deeper and longer in duration, as opposed to the V-shaped recessions of the 1940s or 50s.

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William Lewis  Apr 12, 2023 • 10:05:00am

NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as ‘state-affiliated media’

NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform. In explaining its decision, NPR cited Twitter’s decision to first label the network “state-affiliated media,” the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries.

The decision by Twitter last week took the public radio network off guard. When queried by NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn, Twitter owner Elon Musk asked how NPR functioned. Musk allowed that he might have gotten it wrong.

Twitter then revised its label on NPR’s account to “government-funded media.” The news organization says that is inaccurate and misleading, given that NPR is a private, nonprofit company with editorial independence. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 12, 2023 • 10:05:56am

re: #324 William Lewis

NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as ‘state-affiliated media’

Wow. Consequences for spreading bullshit.

What a concept.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 12, 2023 • 10:06:18am

re: #314 A Cranky One

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I just say I have a migraine whenever I need a mental-health day.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 12, 2023 • 10:10:16am

re: #322 No Malarkey!

They don’t want to say it right now because the Congress needs to step up and do its job, but if the GOP really is irresponsible enough to default on the national debt, the Administration needs to declare that it violates the 14th Amendment and take whatever steps are necessary to keep meeting the government’s obligations, whether it’s minting trillion dollar coins or disregarding the debt limit.

Yep. It will be Biden’s fault if he doesn’t ignore whatever games the GOP is playing.

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Teukka  Apr 12, 2023 • 10:17:16am

re: #269 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 12, 2023 • 10:19:27am

re: #328 Teukka

Cavemen for Trump.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 12, 2023 • 10:22:15am

re: #314 A Cranky One

Not in America, where work is a form of worship.


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