Simply Gorgeous: Zsófia Boros, “Celebração De Núpcias” (Egberto Gismonti)

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Zsófia Boros
Local Objects

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The second album from the Hungarian-born Vienna-based guitarist finds her embracing a broad scope of music, broader even than on her outstanding debut En otra parte. This time the range extends from contemporary composition to jazz etude via music from Brazil, Argentina, Italy and Azerbaijan - all embraced with imagination and creative flair. Pieces played here by Zsófia Boros include Egberto Gismonti’s challenging “Celebração de Núpcias” (made famous on Dança das cabeças), Franghiz Ali-Zadeh’s “Fantasie”, Al Di Meola’s “Vertigo Shadow”, and Carlo Domeniconi’s Turkish-influenced “Koyunbaba”. These Local Objects are rendered universal by Boros’s subtle and sensitive playing in an album recorded at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo in November 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher.

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darthstar  Apr 17, 2023 • 8:29:43pm

Mastodon

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retired cynic  Apr 17, 2023 • 8:33:49pm

Gorgeous indeed. Heavenly!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 17, 2023 • 8:40:17pm
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Captain Ron  Apr 17, 2023 • 8:45:09pm

YouTube

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 17, 2023 • 8:46:55pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2023 • 8:52:24pm

re: #320 The Ghost of a Flea

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A Cranky One  Apr 17, 2023 • 8:57:47pm

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teleskiguy  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:00:01pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:02:34pm

Angry bitter white person being angry and bitter:

“America is tearing down every meritocratic institution on the phony charge of racism,” she said.

“It has to end.”

“The culture in those [Black] communities has to change,” Mac Donald said.

“There’s a very terrible, destructive, self-destructive ideology in black communities that says that academic effort is acting white. So, if you are a black student who is studying, who is paying attention in class, you will be demeaned as somehow betraying your race.”

She insisted that systemic racism no longer exists in America.

“That is not our reality today,” she said.

“Here’s the reality Megyn, Black privilege. It’s not white privilege, it’s Black privilege. The reality is being Black today, in any mainstream institution confers an enormous advantage … There is not a single law firm, a single bank, a single tech lab in Silicon Valley, a single science lab that’s not twisting itself into knots to try to find, hire and promote as many as remotely qualified Blacks as possible.

“White heterosexual males, it’s over for them. They are at the bottom of the heap.”

It’s like she’s just reading down a checklist of “White Grievances.”

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teleskiguy  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:07:13pm

re: #7 A Cranky One

TBF, I handled and shot an H&K MP5 submachine gun when I was 13. I’ve fired a thousand rounds of all kinds of handheld guns. Never shot anyone or any living thing for that matter.

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Belafon  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:21:50pm

re: #10 teleskiguy

TBF, I handled and shot an H&K MP5 submachine gun when I was 13. I’ve fired a thousand rounds of all kinds of handheld guns. Never shot anyone or any living thing for that matter.

Not everyone succumbs to indoctrination, but telling white male kids they deserve to be at the top with everyone else below can appeal to the weaker ones.

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teleskiguy  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:22:26pm

The first time I fired a gun it was a Daisy multi-pump pneumatic BB gun. Boy Scout Camp at Kiwanis Camp on Grand Mesa, Colorado. I was 10 or 11…

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Belafon  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:26:21pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:29:31pm

re: #12 teleskiguy

The first time I fired a gun it was a Daisy multi-pump pneumatic BB gun. Boy Scout Camp at Kiwanis Camp on Grand Mesa, Colorado. I was 10 or 11…

That same camping trip we built a snow cave, big enough to fit two adults and five kids (me being one of the kids) and… we spent the night in that snow cave. It was below zero up and outside of the snow cave we dug, inside the snow cave it was almost 50°

I’ll never forget that. Sleeping in a snow cave I helped dig! Pre-adolescence!

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Joe Bacon  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:30:09pm

It’s obvious that Qevin wants to force a default and throw the financial markets into a meltdown.

And I just wonder who may want to see that happen…something tells me it’s a certain guy in a place called The Kremlin…

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Joe Bacon  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:33:02pm

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Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:40:53pm

re: #15 Joe Bacon

It’s obvious that Qevin wants to force a default and throw the financial markets into a meltdown.

And I just wonder who may want to see that happen…something tells me it’s a certain guy in a place called The Kremlin…

I don’t think Qevin’s being devious, just transparently desperate. If we default on the national debt, it will not be because of foreign scheming or malevolent wishes, it’ll be because a self-deluded shithead would rather keep hold of the gavel than accept reality and put a clean debt ceiling increase to a vote.

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teleskiguy  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:48:50pm

Yes, my Boy Scouts experiences were on the whole positive. My brother-in-law is an Eagle Scout. I achieved Life rank and was pretty far into getting my Eagle until they disapproved of my *final community project* which was to arrange a rock concert on the streets of my town and forward all profits to charity. And that was that. I quit without getting the Eagle Scout. Bewildered is a polite way of describing how I felt, the assholes in the offices in Denver and Dallas didn’t care that I had established a band, had original material, in the meantime had almost an hour of okay cover material and had solid community support. That was a no for Eagle Scout.

Whatever.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 9:57:34pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:07:35pm

re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Democratic Party has been promoting our state legislators all over the country in fundraising appeals, but the DLCC (the state legislative support arm of the Democratic Party) has never sent a single dime to any Nebraska Democrat.

They did the same when Jane KIeeb was leading the successful fight against the Keystone XL Pipeline, using her and the organsation she founded (Bold Nebraska) to fundraise for other candidates in other states.

When Mrs. Kleeb became the state Democratic Party chair, she asked when the DLCC was going to support us, since they were big on talking us up in other Democratic campaigns. The response we’ve gotten is “LOL no” from the DLCC.

You might say a lot of Nebraska Democrats are really bitter about using us for fundraising in New York or Georgia, but ignoring our candidates here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:11:59pm

“Some who work the forces” protect those who aren’t drag queens.

Man Arrested for Protesting Megachurch Pastor Accused of Soliciting Minor (Daily Beast, today)

For the last few months, Jamie Thomas has gone to the Rock Church in Virginia Beach every Sunday. He’s not there to worship. Instead, he stands on the sidewalk outside the megachurch, holding a bullhorn and chanting, “John Blanchard is a pedophile!”

The 43-year-old Thomas, who told The Daily Beast that he is driven by a mission to “stand up for kids,” has in the past devoted his energy towards protesting government overreach and events hosted by drag queens.

This time around, however, his target is John David Blanchard, Rock Church’s lead pastor.

Blanchard, 52, temporarily and “voluntarily stepped back” from his duties last year after he was swept up in an underage prostitution sting in the local area. He was arrested after allegedly driving to a motel to meet up with a 17-year-old sex worker in Oct. 2021. The teenager turned out to be an undercover detective, and Blanchard was summarily charged with felony solicitation of prostitution and use of a vehicle to promote prostitution.

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sagehen  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:12:48pm

Jim Jordan Fights Crime In New York, New York

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teleskiguy  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:18:39pm

Boy Scouts - “Not Today” (Full Album Stream)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:26:55pm

Not a drag queen.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:34:13pm

Elno is still being an asshat.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:37:38pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:42:06pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

I don’t think Qevin’s being devious, just transparently desperate. If we default on the national debt, it will not be because of foreign scheming or malevolent wishes, it’ll be because a self-deluded shithead would rather keep hold of the gavel than accept reality and put a clean debt ceiling increase to a vote.

If McCarthy doesn’t pass a tolerable increase of the debt ceiling, it would be a perfect opportunity for Biden to just get rid of the damn thing. It’s unconstitutional on its face.

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EPR-radar  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:44:07pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Dear MO Attorney General,

You should disappear up your own asshole for pushing this Gestapo shit.

In hopes this letter finds you dying of a singularly painful and loathsome disease, yours, XXX.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:47:36pm

re: #20 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Democratic Party has been promoting our state legislators all over the country in fundraising appeals, but the DLCC (the state legislative support arm of the Democratic Party) has never sent a single dime to any Nebraska Democrat.

They did the same when Jane KIeeb was leading the successful fight against the Keystone XL Pipeline, using her and the organsation she founded (Bold Nebraska) to fundraise for other candidates in other states.

When Mrs. Kleeb became the state Democratic Party chair, she asked when the DLCC was going to support us, since they were big on talking us up in other Democratic campaigns. The response we’ve gotten is “LOL no” from the DLCC.

You might say a lot of Nebraska Democrats are really bitter about using us for fundraising in New York or Georgia, but ignoring our candidates here.

We need the 50 State Strategy put back in place and this is where I really fault those who forced Dean out as Party Chairman. Harrison just continues the downward spiral of the Party. He needs to go as Chairman.

What we really need is a Stacy Abrams in the Party Chair who would push the Every State Every County Every Town Every Vote policy.

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Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:48:22pm

re: #27 EPR-radar

If McCarthy doesn’t pass a tolerable increase of the debt ceiling, it would be a perfect opportunity for Biden to just get rid of the damn thing. It’s unconstitutional on its face.

I do believe that Biden is the sort of guy who would take the unconventional route simply to avoid causing untold damage to the economy, whether that’s by having the infamous “$1T platinum coin” minted or arguing that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional and just ordering the Treasury to keep borrowing to pay the bills that Congress voted for. By the time the GQP succeeded in getting the whole mess through the courts on an argument that their dick is bigger than his, they’d have already spent months arguing to the voters that nuking the economy to settle a score is the best way forward.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:49:49pm

re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not a drag queen.

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But he’s been arrested for molesting kids at church events for THE THIRD FUCKING TIME!

Why the CENSORED is it a THIRD FUCKING TIME??????

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teleskiguy  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:50:33pm

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

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Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2023 • 10:57:58pm

Enforcing the unwritten office refrigerator rule: If the last piece of cheesecake from the office lunch over a week ago is still sitting there when I get hungry in the middle of the night, it now belongs to me and/or my stomach.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:00:15pm

Tennessee, still being fascists.

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EPR-radar  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:00:33pm

re: #30 Targetpractice

I do believe that Biden is the sort of guy who would take the unconventional route simply to avoid causing untold damage to the economy, whether that’s by having the infamous “$1T platinum coin” minted or arguing that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional and just ordering the Treasury to keep borrowing to pay the bills that Congress voted for. By the time the GQP succeeded in getting the whole mess through the courts on an argument that their dick is bigger than his, they’d have already spent months arguing to the voters that nuking the economy to settle a score is the best way forward.

Plus, there’s be a nice little rally in the markets from removal of the risk of near-term US default.

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EPR-radar  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:01:11pm

re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Tennessee, still being fascists.

Fascists are bullies and cowards. Every time, everywhere.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:02:27pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

I don’t think Qevin’s being devious, just transparently desperate. If we default on the national debt, it will not be because of foreign scheming or malevolent wishes, it’ll be because a self-deluded shithead would rather keep hold of the gavel than accept reality and put a clean debt ceiling increase to a vote.

Qevin may not be deliberately genuflecting to the Kremlin, but Trump and many in his caucus are. They will bring this nation down if they can.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:02:56pm

re: #31 Joe Bacon

But he’s been arrested for molesting kids at church events for THE THIRD FUCKING TIME!

Why the CENSORED is it a THIRD FUCKING TIME??????

Christian privilege. See also the paedophile pastor protestor above in Virginia Beach who was arrested on a public sidewalk in front of the church for “stalking.”

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sagehen  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:06:39pm

re: #33 Targetpractice

Enforcing the unwritten office refrigerator rule: If the last piece of cheesecake from the office lunch over a week ago is still sitting there when I get hungry in the middle of the night, it now belongs to me and/or my stomach.

I only give it three days; and even that, somebody needs to have written their name on the wrapping.

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Captain Ron  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:07:16pm

I saw a Turkey Pot Pie in the freezer so I aksed my wife. She said there is no Pot in the Pie. I am disappoint.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:07:33pm

re: #31 Joe Bacon

But he’s been arrested for molesting kids at church events for THE THIRD FUCKING TIME!

Why the CENSORED is it a THIRD FUCKING TIME??????

The Christians are out in force today.

Christopher Link Jones, 55, was arrested late last month in Aiken, South Carolina, the Aiken Standard first reported. An arrest warrant shows Jones charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 14. Jones was previously convicted of battery and lewd acts on children in California.

Jones’ California criminal record created rifts at Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park where Jones is friends with head preacher Kent Hovind, and where Jones has been accused of sexually abusing a boy. Hovind and Jones have blamed the previous conviction on a plot to silence Jones for what he claims was his work with Infowars founder Alex Jones.

Hovind told The Daily Beast that Jones is still welcome at Dinosaur Adventure Land (DAL) despite the new charges.

(more)

msn.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:10:59pm

Not drag queens.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:15:27pm

ABC Denver

Colorado stargazers have something to look forward to this month.

The Lyrid Meteor Shower returns in full swing, and will be visible each night - weather permitting - for about the next two weeks.

It’s an annual event each April, when earth runs into debris from the comet Thatcher.

NASA says the best time to look up is around 9 p.m., away from the city lights. The shower will peak this Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22.

The Lyrid Meteor Shower offers 10 to 15 meteors per hour at its peak on a moonless night, but are known for uncommon surges that can sometimes bring rates of up to 100 per hour.

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Stargazers, rejoice: The Lyrid meteor shower has returned. Here’s when it peaks

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Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:18:36pm

re: #39 sagehen

I only give it three days; and even that, somebody needs to have written their name on the wrapping.

That’s my logic, if it hasn’t been either eaten, thrown away, or taken home within a week then I consider it forfeit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:25:02pm

ABC San Francisco

[NSFW for graphic language for sexism and racism, 3:23]

Activist targeted in California police texting scandal threatens to sue: ‘I feel very violated’

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:32:03pm

Huh.

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Captain Ron  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:46:58pm

Our Changing Population: Nebraska

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Captain Ron  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:51:10pm

5G service could gobble up US military radar bands.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:57:53pm

re: #47 Captain Ron

My county
Our Changing Population: Morrill County, Nebraska

The population is down 9.2% over the period

The most liberal county (and most populous, seat Omaha)
Our Changing Population: Douglas County, Nebraska

The population is up 12.8%

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Captain Ron  Apr 17, 2023 • 11:58:27pm

There was a 7% chance of rain today and tomorrow. It is raining. It hardly every rains if the chance is less than 60%. What a winter. I shaved my beard and hair about 2 weeks too early. I have to bundle up and wear a snow cap over my ears to stay warm the past week, at 145 lbs I have about 1/4” of fat on my body. I can pinch a half an inch on my belly.

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Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:06:55am

This t-shirt is so me. I finally broke down and bought it. Now I need one for a sail boat and one for a 4WD, and one for trekking, and one for rafting, and one for…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:15:09am

Stranger danger.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:20:00am

re: #10 teleskiguy

TBF, I handled and shot an H&K MP5 submachine gun when I was 13. I’ve fired a thousand rounds of all kinds of handheld guns. Never shot anyone or any living thing for that matter.

Were you taught that Guns were a God Given Right which we need to defend our American Manhood against the encroachments of a tyrannical government and against hordes of roving Mau-Mau home-invasion rape gangs who rampage unchecked since police are defunded and demoralized by endless liberal press scrutiny of their practices?

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Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:21:03am

Home-Cured Bacon

Hmmm, I wonder what pecan smoked bacon would be like.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:21:46am

Teaching a child how to be a Pentecostal Christian, since four-year olds don’t do this on their own (1:18)

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Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:27:47am

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Teaching a child how to be a Pentecostal Christian, since four-year olds don’t do this on their own (1:18)

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I almost married a Pentecostal/Assembly of God woman. They are a cult. They rallied around her and made her shun me.

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sagehen  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:31:47am

For which you are eternally grateful, right?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:31:51am

re: #56 Captain Ron

I almost married a Pentecostal/Assembly of God woman. They are a cult. They rallied around her and made her shun me.

The woman I was ready to marry in Tucson (back in the 1980s) has also gone full fundamentalist Baptist. Moved Douglas, Arizona, near the border and married a member of the Minuteman Militia.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:32:17am

re: #57 sagehen

For which you are eternally grateful, right?

Looks like we both dodged a bullet.

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Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:37:55am

re: #57 sagehen

For which you are eternally grateful, right?

Yes. I married another woman a few years later. I think that woman died in 2021 from Covid. She worked in a nursing home. I’ve not seen an internet presence since then.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:52:29am

re: #60 Captain Ron

Yes. I married another woman a few years later. I think that woman died in 2021 from Covid. She worked in a nursing home. I’ve not seen an internet presence since then.

I was married to a woman who went horse bonkers. She currently owns 18 or 19.

We have not spoken to each other for years save to arrange when and where to pick up/drop off our son (who still lives with his mom)

The daughters have all moved away and likewise not spoken with her for years.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:56:21am

In the peer-reviewed neurology magazine Epilepsy & Behavior, a study is published by climate scientists on the effects of global warming on people with epilepsy.

TL;DR, heat increases seizure risks, sudden death in epilepsy syndrome, instability of controlled epilepsy through medication, instability of the medications themselves, &c.

Climate change and epilepsy: Insights from clinical and basic science studies (abstract, February 9, 2021)

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Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:01:29am

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the peer-reviewed neurology magazine Epilepsy & Behavior, a study is published by climate scientists on the effects of global warming on people with epilepsy.

TL;DR, heat increases seizure risks, sudden death in epilepsy syndrome, instability of controlled epilepsy through medication, instability of the medications themselves, &c.

Climate change and epilepsy: Insights from clinical and basic science studies (abstract, February 9, 2021)

So they are saying people in Arizona have worse problems than people in Alaska? I have lots of questions on this paper.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:06:08am

re: #63 Captain Ron

So they are saying people in Arizona have worse problems than people in Alaska? I have lots of questions on this paper.

They might. Like most studies, they note there are few studies on the intersection of climate change and epilepsy.

Investment in research in epilepsy is much less then far less-common neurologic disorders (epilepsy is not sexy enough).

The problems they note are things like higher temperatures make sleep more difficult, break down medications (for example, mine starts breaking down above 86°F), might increase SUDEPS (people die of SUDEPS more often in summer than winter), &c.

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Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:09:33am

re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I worry it’s trendy to blame things on climate change but other than MS I don’t know temperature has much to do with genetic diseases. I can see tick, mosquito and other vector diseases being affected.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:16:26am

re: #65 Captain Ron

I worry it’s trendy to blame things on climate change but other than MS I don’t know temperature has much to do with genetic diseases. I can see tick, mosquito and other vector diseases being affected.

and don’t forget all those dormant viruses locked in the ever-thawing permafrost

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:18:02am

re: #65 Captain Ron

I worry it’s trendy to blame things on climate change but other than MS I don’t know temperature has much to do with genetic diseases. I can see tick, mosquito and other vector diseases being affected.

Epilepsy is not necessarily a genetic disease. Most cases are ideopathic (duh we don’t know).

No one in my family was or is known to have epilepsy besides me.

We do know poor sleep causes seizures, and heat causes higher death rates from SUDEPS.

This is a hypothesis (climate change can have an effect) so they recommend study of the problem.

We know weather has effects on all other conditions (death rates from all conditions are higher in winter).

National and regional seasonal dynamics of all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the USA from 1980 to 2016 (October 30, 2018); Imperial College London, University of Michigan, University of Washington

Abstract, full study at the link

In temperate climates, winter deaths exceed summer ones. However, there is limited information on the timing and the relative magnitudes of maximum and minimum mortality, by local climate, age group, sex and medical cause of death. We used geo-coded mortality data and wavelets to analyse the seasonality of mortality by age group and sex from 1980 to 2016 in the USA and its subnational climatic regions. Death rates in men and women ≥ 45 years peaked in December to February and were lowest in June to August, driven by cardiorespiratory diseases and injuries. In these ages, percent difference in death rates between peak and minimum months did not vary across climate regions, nor changed from 1980 to 2016. Under five years, seasonality of all-cause mortality largely disappeared after the 1990s. In adolescents and young adults, especially in males, death rates peaked in June/July and were lowest in December/January, driven by injury deaths.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:23:21am
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Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:23:35am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So summer is better? I’m not really disputing your hypothesis. I’m more trying to reason a pathway so my brain can link it all together.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:25:44am

re: #69 Captain Ron

So summer is better? I’m not really disputing your hypothesis. I’m more trying to reason a pathway so my brain can link it all together.

Summer is not better for epilepsy. It is better for other conditions. (Obviously true for things like falls due to winter ice and snow.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:31:32am

Hot summers bring on shingles in my case. Last summer was not too bad, but most of the years preceding (especially 2018) it was too warm for me to sleep properly for weeks and it really affected me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:34:17am

A tone-troll lawyer is in this thread complaining about this social worker “mocking” this sovereign citizen nut who follows the Q-anon woman who claims she’s Queen of Canada.

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Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:34:34am

re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That reminds me I need my shingles vaccine. I had pox when I was 2.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:40:01am

re: #73 Captain Ron

That reminds me I need my shingles vaccine. I had pox when I was 2.

I’ve had chickenpox three times; I waited zero seconds to get the Shringrix vax the second I was eligible.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:47:46am

A thread of nineteen conservative parrots.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:53:00am

Google Bard is not great even at generating the history of someone.

This is really bad writing about Paulogia.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:56:06am
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ericblair  Apr 18, 2023 • 1:58:56am

re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oh my fucking god.

Two grown-ass dudes with big boy jobs laughing about a 69 joke while attacking the credibility of one of the main news organizations in Canada.

A reminder that Pierre Poilievre (aka Peter Polyester) is the Tory Leader of the Opposition of the Government of Canada. In case you think this anti-woke grift is unique to the US, nope.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:03:48am

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is getting dragged over fundraising off our politicians, even though they’ve never spent a dime here in their entire existence.

A rather brutal thread they are entirely ignoring.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:10:03am
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Targetpractice  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:13:19am

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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There hasn’t yet been a Dem outed as a secret drag queen, but there seems to be a whole fuckload of groomers in the GQP ranks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:19:15am

re: #73 Captain Ron

That reminds me I need my shingles vaccine. I had pox when I was 2.

I did not get chicken pox until I was 9 or 10 and for that it was a relatively mild case.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:21:01am

re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Summary: critical race theory is fundamentally incompatible with Christianity.

Summary: slavery and genocide are fundamentally compatible with Christianity.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:26:50am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:29:20am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When politcians refer to “parents” having rights over school materials they really mean white Fundamentalist Christian parents.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:35:23am

Washington Post, November 11, 1980

Not even Nancy Reagan can be all THAT perfect.

Can she?

Clearly there are indications that she is not.

There’s her campaign trail faux pas when she looked out over a Republican fund-raising crowd in Chicago and gushed with glee at seeing “all these beautiful white faces,” quickly amended to include “black faces.”

(more)

Behind the Mask: Street Smarts and Sweet Certainty

The bothsiderists at the Post have been at this for a long time. That statement was not a faux pas.

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ericblair  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:35:37am

re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

When politcians refer to “parents” having rights over school materials they really mean white Fundamentalist Christian parents.

I think the “parent” part is optional; from what I remember, a good number of the shit disturbers at school board meetings were professional goopers with no kids in the system.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:37:14am

re: #87 ericblair

I think the “parent” part is optional; from what I remember, a good number of the shit disturbers at school board meetings were professional goopers with no kids in the system.

but they are taxpayers

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:38:01am

re: #87 ericblair

I think the “parent” part is optional; from what I remember, a good number of the shit disturbers at school board meetings were professional goopers with no kids in the system.

I have no school-age children, but I go to school board meetings. I think children’s education is important, and I pay taxes for my school district.

Here, you are required in government meetings to give your name and your address. You can be banned from speaking if you are not from the area covered by the government meeting, unless you have specific business before that government group.

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ericblair  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:39:26am

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

but they are taxpayers, so there…

They’re Republicans, so they probably owe taxes, but I doubt they’ve paid anywhere near that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:40:14am

re: #90 ericblair

They’re Republicans, so they probably owe taxes, but I doubt they’ve paid anywhere near that.

“I don’t have kids, but if I did, I would not want them exposed to such material!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:42:56am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:48:25am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:53:15am

Top of the Beeb now:

The White House has sharply criticised Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for accusing the United States of “encouraging” the war in Ukraine.

Lula said after a visit to China at the weekend that the US needed to start talking about peace in Ukraine.

Visiting Brazil, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Lula and thanked Brazil for its efforts.

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby accused Lula of “parroting Russian and Chinese propaganda”.

Lula, who has pitched himself as a broker for peace talks to end the conflict, said over the weekend that “the United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace”.

His comments came after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. China published a peace plan in February that does not explicitly call for Russia to leave Ukraine.

(more)

Ukraine war: US accuses Lula of parroting propaganda (six hours ago)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:54:34am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I cannot imagine that Bolsonaro’s position would be much different

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Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2023 • 2:56:53am

I’ve gotten used to the hundreds of odd sounds my fridge makes but this is the first time it has chirped.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:00:44am

re: #96 Captain Ron

I’ve gotten used to the hundreds of odd sounds my fridge makes but this is the first time it has chirped.

That’s the refrigerator fire alarm. It needs a new battery.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:02:09am
A US diplomatic convoy came under fire in Sudan on Monday but nobody was hurt, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.

“This action was reckless, it was irresponsible and of course unsafe,” he told reporters in Japan after G7 talks.

Sudan has been gripped for days by deadly fighting between rival forces.

Earlier, it was reported that the EU’s ambassador in Sudan, Aidan O’Hara, has been assaulted at his home in the capital Khartoum.

(more)

Sudan fighting: Blinken says US diplomatic convoy fired upon (BBC, five hours ago)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:12:36am

Maybe Anheuser-Busch will figure out they should quit supporting conservatives, since you never know when they will turn and shiv you in the back.

Despite the GOP trying to stop their boycott, their foot soldiers haven’t gotten the memo. They’re like fire-and-forget parrots.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:22:23am
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Targetpractice  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:26:23am

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Maybe Anheuser-Busch will figure out they should quit supporting conservatives, since you never know when they will turn and shiv you in the back.

Despite the GOP trying to stop their boycott, their foot soldiers haven’t gotten the memo. They’re like fire-and-forget parrots.

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Who else do they want on their cans? Jessica Lynch, aka the “hero” that they loved until they found out that the entire story the Army had fed them was lies and they tried to blame her instead? Maybe Tim McVeigh? Lee Harvey Oswald? What other “heroes” do they want on their cans?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:27:39am

re: #101 Targetpractice

Who else do they want on their cans? Jessica Lynch, aka the “hero” that they loved until they found out that the entire story the Army had fed them was lies and they tried to blame her instead? Maybe Tim McVeigh? Lee Harvey Oswald? What other “heroes” do they want on their cans?

Herschel Walker

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Targetpractice  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:29:00am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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I suppose it depends on which country Abbott claims to speak for, the US or the Confederacy that Texas was so adamant about joining to maintain the institution of slavery that they ran Sam Houston out of office?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:29:18am

re: #101 Targetpractice

The Trump special-edition pardoned war criminal series.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:30:56am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We will not use Texas taxpayer dollars to teach our children to hate our country.

This session, we will remove woke agendas from the classroom and get kids back to the basics of learning.

Criticism of country = hatred of country

My country: right, never wrong!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:33:50am

re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We will not use Texas taxpayer dollars to teach our children to hate our country.

This session, we will remove woke agendas from the classroom and get kids back to the basics of learning.

Criticism of country = hatred of country

My country: right, never wrong!!!

Not even criticism: Recognising failings and working to correct them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:34:09am

Thread, six tweets, Philadelphia PAWS

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:35:52am

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not even criticism: Recognising failings and working to correct them.

That means admitting that we every did anything wrong.

Well, if you catch most of these guys off-guard, they will admit it was a mistake to expand the voting franchise beyond white male land owners.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:37:38am

Wordle doesn’t want to talk about it.

Click to Reveal

The hole goes all the way to the bottom.

Wordle 668 X/6

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Just couldn’t get out of that fucking bunker. Well look how deep it is.

SibData: 3,4,4,5,X (is for Xcruciating)

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:46:37am

re: #109 Grunthos the Flatulent

I’m surprised at your last two, as I thought that was a 50/50. Guess I got lucky.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:49:48am

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thread, six tweets, Philadelphia PAWS

Tuxedo Cat and Chat Noir were adopted from PAWS in Philly.

The Dog did it!

Floof Cat was a stray taken in from the streets of Center City.

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TarHellion  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:52:16am

re: #109 Grunthos the Flatulent

Feel lucky to escape the Matrix and gain a birbie. This one could get a few folks. Taking MrsTarH to the neurologist today to assess her mini-strokes and how they may be causing sudden, uncontrolled crying. Have a great day/evening Lizards!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 3:58:32am

re: #112 TarHellion

Caught the wrong two letters early, leading me into a long list of words which were all wrong (x/6)

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:00:38am

re: #110 Nerdy Fish

And now that I’ve said that, I thought of at least 2 more that fit that pattern, so apparently I managed to make a 50/50 out of a combination that’s at least 4 possibles. Today’s word is tricksy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:00:59am

Libertarians simping for dipshytes, and lying about said dipshyte.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:02:45am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Libertarians simping for dipshytes, and lying about said dipshyte.

You know, it might be worth thinking about if he is actually an “antigovernment Trump-loving right-winger who is undeserving of whistleblower protections.” Because to my mind, at least, throwing around government secrets to impress my juvenile neo-Nazi friends on a random Discord server isn’t “whistleblowing,” it’s being a dumbass. But I guess that makes me a boomer.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:03:24am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There is a difference between a “leaker” and a “whistleblower”.

Posting government secrets to impress friends on a gaming site server definitely disqualifies one from the latter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:13:12am

“An armed society is a polite society”

Woman shot dead in New York state after friend pulled into wrong driveway

A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the US after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old woman as the car she was in mistakenly drove up the man’s driveway.

Christ, they didn’t even get out of the car first.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:14:51am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“An armed society is a polite society”

Battlefields, the most polite places on Earth.

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TarHellion  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:16:28am

...

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:20:44am

re: #120 TarHellion

…

I’ll give that an upvote.

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TarHellion  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:20:51am

re: #114 Nerdy Fish

wicked tricksy false

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:22:43am

In extremely local news, the plumbers are supposed to come back today. The job today is to install new plumbing for our washing machine to replace the old plumbing which blew out in December and flooded our cellar and left us without water.

The new plumbing will go to a different place in the kitchen, so last night we cleaned out the area so we can move our washing machine into that spot when they are done.

After they finish, they will collect the money for that job and the water heater job they already completed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:25:19am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The BBC has a tab for this. The carnage here doesn’t end.

US Gun Violence Tab (BBC)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:27:58am

Live blog at the BBC: US boy gives TV interview after being shot by homeowner

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:31:04am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Live blog at the BBC: US boy gives TV interview after being shot by homeowner

Ringing while black.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:33:32am
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Targetpractice  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:36:45am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Libertarians simping for dipshytes, and lying about said dipshyte.

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Much like the declassification process that involves more than just waving of one’s hand, to be covered by laws covering whistleblowing requires much more than just tossing classified documents out into the aether to win an internet argument. Just because you believe the WH was embarrassed doesn’t mean the asshole responsible is a “whistleblower.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:45:25am

re: #114 Nerdy Fish

And now that I’ve said that, I thought of at least 2 more that fit that pattern, so apparently I managed to make a 50/50 out of a combination that’s at least 4 possibles. Today’s word is tricksy.

At least 8 words — some of which may be eliminated in early tries.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:48:12am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“An armed society is a polite society”

Woman shot dead in New York state after friend pulled into wrong driveway

A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the US after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old woman as the car she was in mistakenly drove up the man’s driveway.

Christ, they didn’t even get out of the car first.

I cannot tell you the number of times I pulled into a random driveway to turn my car around. It never occurred to me that someone would shoot for that act.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:49:16am

re: #130 Hecuba’s daughter

I cannot tell you the number of times I pulled into a random driveway to turn my car around. It never occurred to me that someone would shoot for that act.

I feel like that’s a thing that will be happening more often as the political climate sours. The reactionary right is getting more and more trigger-happy as their worldview continues to collapse.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:52:04am

re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The video starts with the history of Anita Bryant’s ant-gay activity, culminating in the both-siderist media making her out to be a victim. She was simply a well-intentioned Christian mother unfairly cast as a bigot.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 18, 2023 • 4:56:44am

The 35 day streak ended….
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:01:37am

re: #131 Nerdy Fish

I feel like that’s a thing that will be happening more often as the political climate sours. The reactionary right is getting more and more trigger-happy as their worldview continues to collapse.

They have been warned to expect roving CRT-fueled BLM revenge gangs coming for our White Women

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:03:13am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They have been warned to expect roving gangs of CRT-fueled BLM expropriators coming for our White Women

Feral Hogs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:05:47am

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The video continues with Megan Phelps-Roper (the woman who left Westboro Baptist Church) making a seven hour podcast documentary painting JK Rowling as a victim of a witch hunt, using the exact same framing and even phrases used to defend Anita Bryant back in the day.

Natalie Wynn (ContraPoints) admits when she was invited to the podcast by Megan Phelps-Roper to be some sort of peacemaker between the trans community and JK Rowling. Ms. Wynn now admits that she was blinded to the idea that you can change a bigot’s mind with words, and that if you just use the correct words, you can change their mind.

Several trans listeners contacted Ms. Wynn to let her know they felt she was trying to accommodate two bigots (Phelps-Roper is still a bigot) in the name of centrism.

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:12:14am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Rewrote it because I didn’t want to sound like I was pro-stuff white people did.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:25:34am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That means admitting that we every did anything wrong.

Well, if you catch most of these guys off-guard, they will admit it was a mistake to expand the voting franchise beyond white male land owners.

…and if you get them really drunk they’ll finally admit their ultimate goal and suggest a new leadership style…

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:27:00am

re: #31 Joe Bacon

But he’s been arrested for molesting kids at church events for THE THIRD FUCKING TIME!

Why the CENSORED is it a THIRD FUCKING TIME??????

God keeps forgiving him

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:28:01am

And, back to a streak of zero.
Wordle 668 X/6

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:29:08am

So about those racist deputies in Oklahoma who pine for the “good ol’ days” when they could just round up Black men, beat them senseless, and murder them with impunity: They’re the real victims here, because it’s totally illegal to record them saying their racist shit. (Spoilers: Oklahoma is a one-party recording state. It’s not actually illegal.)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:29:14am

re: #139 Eventual Carrion

I hate this timeline.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:29:56am

And yet another paranoid old man with a gun kills someone for making an innocent mistake.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:32:15am

re: #141 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, we said that that shit. But it’s OK because reasons.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:33:21am

re: #143 No Malarkey!

Ibid. re: #142 Colère Tueur de Lapin

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:33:37am

re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter

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OT — Bogey..

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And as you can see, I had a hell of a time finding the first letter.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:34:42am

re: #146 Eventual Carrion

I failed that quest.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:39:41am

re: #144 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Yeah, we said that shit. But it’s OK because reasons.

Oklahoma is not OK. That’s why we left.

As I listen to the ContraPoints podcast comparing Anita Bryant and JK Rowling, I’m reminded how I was flamed by Harry Potter fans when I first called out JK Rowling for the bigot she is.

Since that time, Rowling has only gotten worse.

Megan Phelps-Roper is the worst kind of centrist. Because people were able to converse with her on Twitter and convince her to leave her hateful church, she thinks everyone should just be talked to, to deradicalise them. (This ignores the myriads more people who are victimised by bigots.)

While deradicalisation can be a useful strategy, it cannot be the only strategy. Most transphobes who defend Rowling will try to use motte-and-bailey arguments to defend her (or really any bigot), saying things like “show me where she said anywhere she hates trans people.”

Rowling has said in the past she loves trans people, it’s just they’re misguided and they can change. She’s not opposed to trans people, she just thinks they should keep their lifestyles private. God doesn’t hate trans people, he just hates their sin.

Anita Bryant used exactly the same arguments. Centrists covered for her exactly the same way.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:48:08am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Rowling has said in the past she loves trans people, it’s just they’re misguided and they can change. She’s not opposed to trans people, she just thinks they should keep their lifestyles private. God doesn’t hate trans people, he just hates their sin.

I’m okay with the bolded statement, but the Christofascists treat it very differently than I do. I interpret it as, “I should love these people and treat them like humans, I may disagree with them but that’s between them and God.” (For the record: I do not believe that being gay, or trans, is a sin. I’m referring to the general concept, but using this as a specific example.) The Christofascists take it to mean, “God doesn’t approve of your sinful lifestyle, therefore I am going to take every opportunity to remind you how sinful you are and that you need to repent lest you burn in hell.”

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:57:40am

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That Missouri form takes bad info :)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 5:58:19am

re: #135 Nerdy Fish

Feral Hogs.

woke feral hogs carrying teh Gay Plague

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William Lewis  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:06:32am

re: #143 No Malarkey!

And yet another paranoid old man with a gun kills someone for making an innocent mistake.

Yeah but this time the victim was a cute young white blond so the shooter was arrested and charged immediately.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:07:26am

re: #149 Nerdy Fish

I’m okay with the bolded statement, but the Christofascists treat it very differently than I do. I interpret it as, “I should love these people and treat them like humans, I may disagree with them but that’s between them and God.” (For the record: I do not believe that being gay, or trans, is a sin. I’m referring to the general concept, but using this as a specific example.)

I’m not okay with that framing at all. Substitute the word “sin” with “corruption.” (The Bible defines sin as corruption.)

“I don’t hate trans people, I just hate their corruption.”

How do you deal with corruption? You eliminate it.

The same arguments have been used against every movement demanding rights. Slavery, Jim Crow, suffragettes: All of them have been called “sin” and “corruption of the moral order.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:08:57am

re: #150 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

That Missouri form takes bad info :)

One person said they created a script to wipe their cookies after each submission, generates random E-mails, and is busy uploading the descriptions of various Pokémon.

Others are reporting the author of the bill, using the addresses of various conservative politicians, &c.

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:10:29am

Jordan Klepper Recaps The NRA Convention & Clarence Thomas’s Corruption Scandal | The Daily Show

Noem: My granddaughter already has a shotgun and handgun.

Her granddaughter is 2.

She’s got a gun before she’s toilet trained. Noem thinks that this is normal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:10:46am

re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

and also, GOP guys can have a fling with their intern and even pay for her abortion and god will forgive them and all is right as rain again.

but teh gays/trans people cannot be forgiven until they renounce their sinful lifestyle and find god. the democrats cannot be taken back into the fold until they renounce their support for abortion and ghey rights/marriage.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:10:50am

re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Again, I interpret it very differently than these people. I’m okay with the way I mean it. I’m not okay with the way they mean it. But I’m already an apostate for my views on a number of topics, most notably that I don’t believe Christians should be judging and punishing people for whatever perceived moral failings they may have.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:15:01am

re: #56 Captain Ron

I almost married a Pentecostal/Assembly of God woman. They are a cult. They rallied around her and made her shun me.

My first wife (this was in Texas) left me after the preacher at a new church she had joined said she should leave me (and take our child) because I was a heathen. Granted I am a heathen, but she knew that before we were even married.

Turns out a few months later the preacher took all the money from the church and disappeared. By then she was already pregnant from someone else from the church (and we were not even divorced yet). Fuck those fake religious fucks.

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William Lewis  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:15:37am

re: #157 Nerdy Fish

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:16:37am

re: #159 William Lewis

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William Lewis  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:19:47am

re: #160 Nerdy Fish

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:23:07am

re: #152 William Lewis

Yeah but this time the victim was a cute young white blond so the shooter was arrested and charged immediately.

But also in New York.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:29:20am

re: #152 William Lewis

Yeah but this time the victim was a cute young white blond so the shooter was arrested and charged immediately.

Police in Missouri also finally arrested the guy who shot Ralph Yarl.

In the end, only because he made the mistake of leaving a live witness…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:31:50am

re: #158 Eventual Carrion

My first wife (this was in Texas) left me after the preacher at a new church she had joined said she should leave me (and take our child) because I was a heathen. Granted I am a heathen, but she knew that before we were even married.

Turns out a few months later the preacher took all the money from the church and disappeared. By then she was already pregnant from someone else from the church (and we were not even divorced yet). Fuck those fake religious fucks.

Now you understand why Fundamentalists need such a strict moral corset: they can barely help themselves from whoring, stealing, drinking, fighting, gambling, etc., and the only thing that slows them down is if they are busy working hard or praising the Lord.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:35:49am

Well I wake up check the alerts on my Mac and what do I see?

Gowdy Doody going after Kari Lake on FAUX!?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:39:06am

re: #158 Eventual Carrion

My first wife (this was in Texas) left me after the preacher at a new church she had joined said she should leave me (and take our child) because I was a heathen. Granted I am a heathen, but she knew that before we were even married.

Turns out a few months later the preacher took all the money from the church and disappeared. By then she was already pregnant from someone else from the church (and we were not even divorced yet). Fuck those fake religious fucks.

Sounds like my first wife, though she divorced me before she married a bigamist.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:40:29am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Now you understand why Fundamentalists need such a strict moral corset: they can barely help themselves from whoring, stealing, drinking, fighting, gambling, etc., and the only thing that slows them down is if they are busy working hard or praising the Lord.

“If the only thing that prevents you from raping and murdering is your belief in God, I don’t want you to give up your belief in God.”

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:40:35am

Sure you did, Bimborella. Keep lying!

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:41:09am
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:42:53am

re: #168 Joe Bacon

Sure you did, Bimborella. Keep lying!

The files she was reviewing were anonymized; she was told they were on the Bidens, but they were actually about the Trump crime family.

/ but I can dream

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:43:06am

re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sounds like my first wife, though she divorced me before she married a bigamist.

My wife moved on to a German monarchist. I kid you not: he is a major figure in the movement to reinstate the Kaiser as a Constitutional monarch.

Needless to say, this movement is pretty extreme fringe. Even Germans look on their Kaiser as a pathetically laughable comic-opera figure with his screwed-up moustaches and pointy helmet. And the rest of the world even more so.

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:45:20am

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

I call BS that she could review “documents” at “Treasury” about Biden.

Biden has regularly released his income statements for decades. These records are public. They don’t show any malfeasance at all.

Claiming that there’s a need for whistleblowers is feeding the MAGA conspiracy theory set.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:45:31am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“If the only thing that prevents you from raping and murdering is your belief in God, I don’t want you to give up your belief in God.”

That is fine, but they assume the same of all the rest of us, which is why it is so important that they impose their system of beliefs on everyone.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:46:23am

DOJ identifies Pete Schwartz as the worst Jan. 6 attacker prosecuted to date — and asks for 24 years

rawstory.com

CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane reported Monday evening that the Justice Department is asking for the worst sentence yet of a Jan. 6 defendant.

Citing the sentencing memo, MacFarlane said that Pete Schwartz “stole chemical munitions, including pepper spray.. left behind by the fleeing officers and used that pepper spray as a weapon to attack those same officers as they desperately tried to escape”

He then assaulted a group of police officers in Washington. Then “Schwartz did not back down. He then joined the larger mob inside of the tunnel in attempting to push through the police line and into the Capitol Building…”

“By Schwartz’s own admission, he viewed himself as being at ‘war’ that day, stating in a Facebook post on Jan. 7, 2021, ‘What happened yesterday was the opening of a war. I was there and whether people will acknowledge it or not we are now at war,’” the sentencing memo continued.

Schwartz threw himself on the mercy of the court, begging for leniency, asking for just 54 months in prison (4.5 years).

But just a few weeks ago, Schwartz told MacFarlane that he was only being jailed “just so they can steal an election.”

“I’ve [been] trapped by my own government. They are terrorists,” Schwartz told MacFarlane. He went on to mention the 14,000 hours of video that Fox host Tucker Carlson claimed to make public. Carlson never made the full collection of videos public only a few selected excerpts. He and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) continue to hide the rest of the video on Capitol security videos from the American people.

The DOJ is asking that Schwartz get 24 years prison and pay $71,000+ fine. A fund in which Schwartz has been fundraising has collected $71,541 for “Patriot Pete Political Prisoner in DC.”

Lock this asshole up and toss the key away.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:47:24am

re: #172 lawhawk

Margarine Tater-Greens is not a financial expert, and even if she was allowed to review so-called “incriminating evidence,” someone would have to explain it to her. As you said, this whole thing just reeks of a setup to feed yet another fanciful conspiracy theory, which will become right-wing gospel in a matter of days, in accordance with their alternate reality.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:47:38am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:49:23am

re: #130 Hecuba’s daughter

I cannot tell you the number of times I pulled into a random driveway to turn my car around. It never occurred to me that someone would shoot for that act.

Same. I’m not an expert on “Stand Your Ground” laws, but are some really as broadly written to allow a person to kill another person for merely being on their property without consent, without any consideration as to the intent of the unauthorized party?

I mean, I could understand shooting someone who came on to my property with a gun drawn (since that person probably has intent to harm), but putting several bullets in an unarmed person who just showed up at my door because they had the wrong address? That seems like an excessive response which should be illegal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:50:46am

re: #157 Nerdy Fish

I agree that I interpret sin differently than they do, as I don’t believe there is such a thing.

I do not have the luxury of imposing my interpretation on them. I must use their definition, because their actions are predicated on how they define sin. They define it with eliminationist rhetoric.

When my state senator argues the I Amendment means everyone is free to hold their religious beliefs, I can agree with that. But that is not what he means by it. He explicitly says atheists have no religious rights, because atheism is not a religion.

I am compelled to use his definition when I am defending my rights.

When Michael Knowles says “transgenderism” must be eradicated, I am compelled to use his definition of “transgenderism” (an ideology and lifestyle), and not mine (a made-up bunch of hooey to scare conservatives).

Ideologies cannot be eradicated, because they aren’t “things.” The people who hold ideologies, they can be eradicated. It doesn’t matter that there is no such thing as transgenderism. Millions of conservative voters believe there is, because they’ve been told there is, and it is a great moral threat which must be eradicated. The only way you do that is eradicate the people who promote this ideology.

The same applies to their “groomer” rhetoric, applied to LGBT+ people (and more broadly, to liberals). What I think a groomer is doesn’t matter, because they aren’t using my definition. When they come for libraries, or LGBT+ people, they are using their definition.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:51:15am

re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg

I am pretty sure that there has to be some (perceived) clear and present threat to warrant use of lethal force, in in the most generous interpretation of SYG.

But this is the problem: so much hatred and paranoia cloud their perception of what constitutes a clear and present threat.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:51:15am

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

The trial here is whether Faux News and its hosts engaged in actual malice - a legal doctrine which means they made false statements intentionally, or with “reckless disregard for the truth.” IOW, they either knew the statements were false and made them anyway, or they didn’t care because it was more important to them to say the things than to find out if they were true. The texts and tapes that have leaked thus far seem to make this a rather open-and-shut case.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:51:36am

May I has new timeline, plx.

Satire or not - who can tell anymore?
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Belafon  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:53:34am

re: #168 Joe Bacon

Sure you did, Bimborella. Keep lying!

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“We have all the evidence we need to bust Joe, we just need someone else to release what they have to prove it.”

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:54:38am

re: #181 Colère Tueur de Lapin

They just describe how *heating* food works. They excite the molecules.

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William Lewis  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:55:45am

re: #181 Colère Tueur de Lapin

May I has new timeline, plx.

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My head hurts. Where is this at so I can know to avoid the place?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 6:56:35am

re: #183 lawhawk

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They just describe how *heating* food works. They excite the molecules.

But microwaves do it “unnaturally,” using “radiation,” and not at all like an oven (which also uses radiation to excite molecules, just differently).

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:01:33am

re: #184 William Lewis

My head hurts. Where is this at so I can know to avoid the place?

You’ve been using your microwave too much. Or maybe it’s the 5G in your vaccine’s nanobots.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:01:42am

re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am pretty sure that there has to be some (perceived) clear and present threat to warrant use of lethal force, in in the most generous interpretation of SYG.

But this is the problem: so much hatred and paranoia cloud their perception of what constitutes a clear and present threat.

Stand your ground laws state by definition you can use lethal force anywhere you have a right to be to defend yourself. In the broadest usages, stand your ground laws are vigilantism, as you can use “self-defence” to stop a crime (regardless of how minor or whether it affected you or not).

One thing the Tampa Bay Times noted in a very deeply researched article is how many criminals such as drug dealers have successfully used the stand your ground defence, because someone trying to rob them (a crime) does not relate to the crime they were accused of (drug dealing).

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:04:35am

re: #186 Nerdy Fish

You’ve been using your microwave too much. Or maybe it’s the 5G in your vaccine’s nanobots.

I was promised superpowers. Where are my goddamned superpowers. /

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:04:36am

I use microwaves to reheat food that I have already cooked. I have already learned to use lower settings for high-protein foods like chicken or fish as it really does tend to stiffen up the molecules and make them taste dry and unpleasant.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:05:06am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

As an example, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted under Wisconsin’s stand your ground law. Even though he traveled from out of state for the explicit purpose of disrupting the rally, and put himself in the position where he felt threatened, none of that was relevant to the “stand your ground” defense; all that mattered was that he felt compelled to use lethal force in self-defense.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:05:30am

In the words of Jimmy McNulty and Bunk Moreland, f..k!

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:06:10am

re: #155 lawhawk

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Video

Noem: My granddaughter already has a shotgun and handgun.

Her granddaughter is 2.

She’s got a gun before she’s toilet trained. Noem thinks that this is normal.

My vote goes to Jordan being the permanent replacement host.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:06:16am

re: #181 Colère Tueur de Lapin

May I has new timeline, plx.

The conspiracy theory that microwave ovens destroy the nutrients in food has been around for decades. Variants of the lie claim it makes food radioactive. This has existed as long as microwave ovens have.

It just gets new life because morans have access to the Internet.

The tiny kernel of truth about a microwave being dangerous is if you use certain containers which can leak chemicals into your food when you heat it. That is solved with glass or other microwave-safe containers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:08:29am

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

I use microwaves to reheat food that I have already cooked. I have already learned to use lower settings for high-protein foods like chicken or fish as it really does tend to stiffen up the molecules and make them taste dry and unpleasant.

Reheating food in a microwave and preventing it from drying out (since what microwave ovens actually heat is the water in food) can be accomplished by putting a small amount (1 or 2 tsp) of water in the dish of food you wish to reheat. The water will flash to steam and prevent your food from drying out.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:08:40am
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JC1  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:09:36am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“An armed society is a polite society”

Woman shot dead in New York state after friend pulled into wrong driveway

A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the US after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old woman as the car she was in mistakenly drove up the man’s driveway.

Christ, they didn’t even get out of the car first.

At least they’re charging the good guy with a gun with murder 2.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:10:52am

re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Reheating food in a microwave and preventing it from drying out (since what microwave ovens actually heat is the water in food) can be accomplished by putting a small amount (1 or 2 tsp) of water in the dish of food you wish to reheat. The water will flash to steam and prevent your food from drying out.

I’ve found that this is a particularly good method for reheating rice. Adding a small amount of water to a bowl of refrigerated rice, covering it semi-tightly with a piece of wax paper, and heating it in the microwave results in pleasantly soft rice.

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steve_davis  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:10:55am

re: #157 Nerdy Fish

Again, I interpret it very differently than these people. I’m okay with the way I mean it. I’m not okay with the way they mean it. But I’m already an apostate for my views on a number of topics, most notably that I don’t believe Christians should be judging and punishing people for whatever perceived moral failings they may have.

that doesn’t make you an apostate. that makes you an episcopalian.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:11:27am
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sagehen  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:12:56am

re: #192 Eventual Carrion

My vote goes to Jordan being the permanent replacement host.

Is Samantha Bee getting a guest week?

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JC1  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:14:03am

re: #143 No Malarkey!

And yet another paranoid old man with a gun kills someone for making an innocent mistake.

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What are the odds that he’s a Fox/OAN watcher with a Trump flag on his house?

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:14:21am

re: #197 Nerdy Fish

I’ve found that this is a particularly good method for reheating rice. Adding a small amount of water to a bowl of refrigerated rice, covering it semi-tightly with a piece of wax paper, and heating it in the microwave results in pleasantly soft rice.

I discovered this trick as well but the amount of added water is critical. Too much and the rice turns to mush and “too much” is literally a few drops for a given amount of rice.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:15:21am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:15:41am

re: #186 Nerdy Fish

You’ve been using your microwave too much. Or maybe it’s the 5G in your vaccine’s nanobots.

Wait until they come out with the 6G vaccines. If you get two plus a booster, that will be the 666G vaccine, truly the Mark of the Beast (tm).

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:15:41am

re: #202 sizzzzlerz

I discovered this trick as well but the amount of added water is critical. Too much and the rice turns to mush and “too much” is literally a few drops for a given amount of rice.

Indeed. It’s almost an art form to get the water amount right.

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:16:35am

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

All these conspiracy nuts say that Fauci should be jailed, but not a single one of them can identify a crime that he committed. It’s just an article of faith.

Fauci didn’t handle the policy implementation for covid - that was Trump, Pence, and Jared. Those 3 lunatics ignored everything that experts like Fauci said should be done. Fauci wanted masking and social distancing. Trump refused, and famously infected a bunch of people at his rallies and gatherings at the WH, killing Herman Cain and nearly killing Chris Christie. Trump tried infecting Biden and his family at the debates.

It’s all projection all the time with these fuckers.

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JC1  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:16:42am

re: #155 lawhawk

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Noem: My granddaughter already has a shotgun and handgun.

Her granddaughter is 2.

She’s got a gun before she’s toilet trained. Noem thinks that this is normal.

Or, she’s just lying to the NRA rubes.

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ericblair  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:18:10am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

Plus, Judge has ruled that instances of good factchecking, etc. by Fox are irrelevant. Meaning Fox can’t make its “cherry picking” defense that has been the mainstay of its public statements

“But your Honor, look at all the people my client didn’t murder! Billions!”

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sagehen  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:18:21am

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

okay, kinda got a point.

Also, some of the artists I think of as quintessentially NY are really from Newark (Sinatra, Latifah, Whitney, Frankie Valli….)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:18:31am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:20:03am

re: #197 Nerdy Fish

I’ve found that this is a particularly good method for reheating rice. Adding a small amount of water to a bowl of refrigerated rice, covering it semi-tightly with a piece of wax paper, and heating it in the microwave results in pleasantly soft rice.

One should be very careful with leftover rice.

(Cooks Illustrated)

While it’s one of the most common foods (in some countries providing up to three-quarters of daily energy intake), rice may not be the best choice to eat as leftovers. Why? Rice of all types can be contaminated with the spore-forming bacteria called Bacillus cereus. Present but dormant in all raw brown and white rice varieties, the spores are not killed by the boiling cooking water—instead, they are actually revived and converted into potentially harmful live bacteria as the rice cools. If the rice is consumed shortly after cooking there is no problem, as very few bacteria have had the time to multiply. But if the rice is saved, and even stored in the refrigerator for too long, the amount of bacteria will grow. With enough time, the bacteria, which is responsible for 2 to 5 percent of all reported food-borne illnesses, can form enough heat-stable toxin to make a consumer sick within a few hours. The risk is not high, but has most commonly been observed in cooked rice that has been left out for several hours, then refrigerated, and then fried.

To play it safe, follow these guidelines from the USDA when storing and reheating leftover rice: - Do not leave rice sitting out for more than 1 hour before eating or refrigerating. - Reheat rice to 165 degrees as measured with a food thermometer. - Dispose of refrigerated rice after 3 to 4 days.

How Safe Is Leftover Rice?

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:20:59am

re: #207 JC1

I have no reason to think she’s lying.

She also regaled the audience with a story where her dad abused her by taking her out in the woods and rode away from her camp on horseback one day, and then told her to get back to camp on her own later in that day with nothing but her horse and gun. She said that her dad went off in a different direction, but that he later said that he was following her at a distance while making bear and animal noises.

Yeah, lucky that she didn’t fire that gun at the noises, or else dear old dad would be dead from a gunshot wound.

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JC1  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:23:33am

re: #206 lawhawk

All these conspiracy nuts say that Fauci should be jailed, but not a single one of them can identify a crime that he committed. It’s just an article of faith.

Fauci didn’t handle the policy implementation for covid - that was Trump, Pence, and Jared. Those 3 lunatics ignored everything that experts like Fauci said should be done. Fauci wanted masking and social distancing. Trump refused, and famously infected a bunch of people at his rallies and gatherings at the WH, killing Herman Cain and nearly killing Chris Christie. Trump tried infecting Biden and his family at the debates.

It’s all projection all the time with these fuckers.

They’re sure that he was illegally funding gain of function research in Wuhan with US tax dollars. If he was, it may be jail able.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:23:37am

Prairie fire season has arrived.

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:23:58am

This is precisely why federal law needs to protect abortion rights nationwide. This is why Roe was so important - the fascist/misogynist GOP are intent on destroying reproductive health and women’s rights nationwide, using Dobbs and right wing extremist judges to legislate from the bench when legislatures can’t do it themselves (or some states try to protect women and the GOP can’t abide).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:24:03am

re: #208 ericblair

“But your Honor, look at all the people my client didn’t murder! Billions!”

Saul Goodman at the Nuremberg Trials

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jeffreyw  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:25:18am

Shrimp/Crab Mornay

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:26:00am

Good Mornay!

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:29:27am

re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Good Mornay!

You getting saucy Bearnaise?

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:32:31am

So Fox lied again about settlement negotiations? Shocked!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:32:41am
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:35:27am

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

It should be noted that the actual malice standard which is the subject of this trial is the result of the landmark defamation law case New York Times v. Sullivan, and is directly related to the standard of proof required to successfully sue a news organization for defamation. It is for precisely this reason that the corrupt Calvinball Court and its fervent admirers want to find a pretext to revisit this case.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:37:20am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

WTAFITS?

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:38:19am

re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg

WTAFITS?

Far right wing publication. Treat it like Newsmax or OANN.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:39:10am

Yeesh. Came down to two options. Picked the right one.

Wordle 668 6/6

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⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:40:11am

re: #222 Nerdy Fish

Similar to Trump’s statement he wanted to “open up the libel laws.”

He wants laws similar to the United Kingdom’s.

“Crooks and brigands from around the world come here to launder their reputations, where they couldn’t get exculpation in either their home country or indeed in the United States of America,” says Mark Stephens, a London lawyer who often represents media companies in these cases.

In American courts, the burden of proof rests with the person who brings a claim of libel. In British courts, the author or journalist has the burden of proof, and typically loses.

npr.org

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Jay C  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:41:45am

re: #168 Joe Bacon

Sure you did, Bimborella. Keep lying!

So, one has to wonder: if all that info is (apparently) readily available from “the Treasury”, just how “criminal” said activities are….

Or does MTG think that’s just proof of the “Biden Crime Family’s” ingenious villainy?
Cleverly committing all those frauds in plain sight, complying with legal requirements, and making public records available?

The fiends!

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:42:18am

Trump’s lawyers are awful. He hires just the best people.

His filings against Michael Cohen are filled with references to documents that directly implicate Trump in felony conduct. They claim that Cohen is a liar, using documents from the DOJ sentencing, even though those same documents indicate that Cohen was lying on behalf of… Trump himself.

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Wile E. Wonka  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:42:25am

re: #202 sizzzzlerz

I discovered this trick as well but the amount of added water is critical. Too much and the rice turns to mush and “too much” is literally a few drops for a given amount of rice.

Ha! I actually use a spray bottle of water and spritz the rice before covering it, and that works well.

I remember reading a few years ago about a study from India where some food scientist was working on a method to reduce the Glycemic Index of basmati rice by cooking it with oil/fat, cooling it, and then reheating it. Supposedly it converts enough of the rice starch into oligosaccharides to bring its GI down into the wheat range, which would be a godsend for us diabetics. I wonder what ever happened to that study? *wanders off to do some Googling*

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:43:34am

Is the Dominion case getting broadcast?

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:44:19am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Now you understand why Fundamentalists need such a strict moral corset: they can barely help themselves from whoring, stealing, drinking, fighting, gambling, etc., and the only thing that slows them down is if they are busy working hard or praising the Lord.

That is why you always take 2 Baptists with you when you go fishing. If you only bring one they will drink all your beer.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:44:23am

FYI: Using an oven to reheat Pizza is a much better way than tossing it in the Microwave.

Takes a little longer, but worth it IMO.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:45:45am

re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg

FYI: Using an oven to reheat Pizza is a much better way than tossing it in the Microwave.

Takes a little longer, but worth it IMO.

It depends on what you want. I will use the oven or a stovetop pan if I want the pizza crust to be more crispy upon reheating. Using the microwave to reheat pizza results in a softer crust, which I often favor.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:51:53am

re: #168 Joe Bacon

Sure you did, Bimborella. Keep lying!

So we had to go to court and through many months/years to get TFG’s financial stuff. But these fuckers can just walk in and review all Biden and families shit?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:52:17am

re: #233 Nerdy Fish

Personally, I find the microwave tends to dry food out, which for me isn’t always the best where Pizza is concerned. Heating it up in the oven for a few minutes will bring the texture close to what it was when it was first served, which is what I usually like.

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Thanos  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:54:29am

Overdue charging for the Ralph Yarl shooting, but they got there finally, the DA says he’s not charging hate crimes because the charges he is presenting are higher level felonies and will result in stiffer sentencing:

kctv5.com

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:54:31am
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:56:04am

re: #237 jaunte

Notice how they’re doing these things in the dead of night. They know these policies are broadly unpopular, and they still want to avoid too much scrutiny of their actions. And yet, they will suffer no consequences for their brazen abuses of power.

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Thanos  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:56:57am

re: #237 jaunte

This is the result of several years of bad border policy and anti-immigration hate mongering. The rural Midwest doesn’t have enough immigrant labor for the crops.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2023 • 7:57:40am

re: #239 Thanos

16 year old serving girls for the State Senate lounge. What could go wrong?

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JC1  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:00:00am

re: #233 Nerdy Fish

It depends on what you want. I will use the oven or a stovetop pan if I want the pizza crust to be more crispy upon reheating. Using the microwave to reheat pizza results in a softer crust, which I often favor.

I just eat the pizza cold.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:00:24am

re: #240 jaunte

16 year old serving girls for the State Senate lounge. What could go wrong?

But they’re Good Christian Men (tm), I’m sure they have only the purest of intentions.///

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:00:44am

re: #241 JC1

I just eat the pizza cold.

That’s a hangover breakfast for me.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:01:22am

re: #230 darthstar

Is the Dominion case getting broadcast?

No. Reporters in courtroom are typing their notes.Those in adjacent room are on social media reporting.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:05:01am

Christopher Rufo has said that it is his goal to end public education in the US. What better way to start than bringing back child labor?

And do note how Libertarians are just slobbering over putting kids to work full time!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:05:17am

re: #239 Thanos

This is the result of several years of bad border policy and anti-immigration hate mongering. The rural Midwest doesn’t have enough immigrant labor for the crops.

It’s not just that. Covid and the retiring of baby boomers put a serious dent in the workforce. Not to mention higher paying jobs in other areas make it harder for businesses that traditionally pay little to their frontline (agriculture, fast food, retail) to find enough bodies to keep things moving.

I’ve noticed a lot of the stores and restaurants I frequent have had prolonged staffing shortages and the service quality that is provided is nowhere near what it used to be. Apparently most companies are fine with the lowering of consumer expectations as long as the lowering of profit margins doesn’t follow.

I honestly do believe immigrants are a major potential solution to the labor shortage, especially for jobs Americans either don’t want to do or don’t want to do for the pay offered.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:05:21am

re: #241 JC1

I just eat the pizza cold.

The Breakfast of Champions.

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Wile E. Wonka  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:05:28am

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

It’s funny, I was just reading a while back about the current scion of the Hohenzollerns, Prince Georg Friedrich. This guy:

Apparently he’s some kind of venture-capital schmoozer who specializes in helping universities monetize their research. But that whole family is still obsessed with noble titles and marrying within royal lines and all that muck. He was in the news a couple years ago because he’d lost a court battle to gain possession and residence in the Cecilienhof palace at Potsdam, due to his grandfather’s support of the Nazis.

Weird lives these descendants of long-deposed kings must lead.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:05:29am

re: #245 Joe Bacon

Christopher Rufo has said that it is his goal to end public education in the US. What better way to start than bringing back child labor?

And do note how Libertarians are just slobbering over putting kids to work full time!

“If a man child does not work, he shall not eat.”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:05:48am

re: #188 lawhawk

I was promised superpowers. Where are my goddamned superpowers. /

Needs moar dark matter from a particle accelerator explosion.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:06:08am

re: #230 darthstar

Is the Dominion case getting broadcast?

Nope but I already opened the box and popped the first Orville Reddenbacher packet…this is gonna be good…

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:07:44am

Oh and I’m getting in the mood with James Brown!

James Brown - Mother Popcorn

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:09:41am

Catching up:
On microwave ovens: I don’t own currently one, but bitd I had the tendency to eviscerate or leave food cold. Now I either stove top or toaster oven any reheats and make the coffee fresh. No insets in my 1960 Brady Bunch style tract home so I relish the counter space.

On small kitchen appliances: I like my Ninja coffee pot, blender and toaster oven that flips to store. Nice stuff for the price point at Costco

On Arizona Clouds: See photo

Tucson
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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:10:33am

Birbie.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 668 3/6*

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It flew right in.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:12:18am

re: #254 wrenchwench

Birbie.

[Hidden content]

You either had exceptional letter eliminations, or got exceptionally lucky. Well done.

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Thanos  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:12:44am

re: #253 So Cal Greek Hippie

Catching up:
On microwave ovens: I don’t own currently one, but bitd I had the tendency to eviscerate or leave food cold. Now I either stove top or toaster oven any reheats and make the coffee fresh. No insets in my 1960 Brady Bunch style tract home so I relish the counter space.

On small kitchen appliances: I like my Ninja coffee pot, blender and toaster oven that flips to store. Nice stuff for the price point at Costco

On Arizona Clouds: See photo

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We have the ninja coffee/tea maker and the flippy toaster oven, they are the best, cheesy toast and tea anyone?

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:15:25am

re: #65 Captain Ron

I worry it’s trendy to blame things on climate change but other than MS I don’t know temperature has much to do with genetic diseases. I can see tick, mosquito and other vector diseases being affected.

And Burmese pythons in FL.

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Thanos  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:15:27am

rotten tomatoes review of “Mrs. Davis” a paramount + Peacock series I am really looking forward to. I hope it is at least a quarter as good as the previews make it appear to be.
editorial.rottentomatoes.com

Mrs. Davis Season 1 Trailer

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:17:54am
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Dave In Austin  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:18:35am

Key word here…..
1. Radiation
2. Wingnuts
Outcome:

Joe Biden is making your food Radioactive!
OPEN YOUR EYES!!!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:20:16am

re: #114 Nerdy Fish

And now that I’ve said that, I thought of at least 2 more that fit that pattern, so apparently I managed to make a 50/50 out of a combination that’s at least 4 possibles. Today’s word is tricksy.

There are eight possibilities on the first letter alone (assuming you have the other four) and many more possibilities of you don’t have all off those other four.

Today’s word was a bitch… Pure lucky guess time.

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JC1  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:27:17am

re: #258 Thanos

rotten tomatoes review of “Mrs. Davis” a paramount + Peacock series I am really looking forward to. I hope it is at least a quarter as good as the previews make it appear to be.
editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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I got a kick out of Florida Man. 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but I liked it. 85% audience score. Largest gap I’ve seen.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:30:36am

re: #152 William Lewis

Yeah but this time the victim was a cute young white blond so the shooter was arrested and charged immediately.

Kinda hard to compare New York state to Missouri. Not saying it’s wrong because there’s crackers everywhere. But NY and MO are vastly different states.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:32:00am

He’s Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, part 1

He’s Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, part 2

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:33:41am

re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg

Personally, I find the microwave tends to dry food out, which for me isn’t always the best where Pizza is concerned. Heating it up in the oven for a few minutes will bring the texture close to what it was when it was first served, which is what I usually like.

Even better. The tabletop convection oven aka air fryer. 😏

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Dave In Austin  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:35:50am

re: #252 Joe Bacon

Oh and I’m getting in the mood with James Brown!

[Embedded content]

Thanks.
Had to close the doors so I could bounce off them..
Hey!!!

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:37:03am

So, that GOP circus in Manhattan yesterday? They did damage to city’s African Burial Grounds memorial adjacent to the federal NPS site by parking there instead of on the street (or paying for parking).

The artist was still mourning his master work when lo and behold, Malliotakis drove up and parked right next to it. Pace didn’t recognize her, but immediately asked why she had the temerity to park next to the monument.

“They told us to park here,” she said, indicating no one.

Pace showed her how the monument had been defiled. She told him to call the City Council member for the district, whose name she did not provide. Then she walked off. We ran her plate — not only was she contributing to the defacement by driving on the plaza, she’s contributing to even worse by driving at all; her car has gotten 27 speeding tickets and six red-light tickets, mostly in her Staten Island district, since 2020, according to city records. Thirteen of those speeding tickets have occurred since Jan. 6, 2022.

Speaking of driving, we ran the plates on all the media cars on the plaza and found that the parking entitlement is a gateway drug to other kinds of anti-social entitlement. Of the 27 cars with New York press plates, only two didn’t have any speeding or red-light tickets. And 21 of them — or 78 percent! — had multiple moving violations.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:41:41am

re: #267 lawhawk

13 speeding tickets in a year and change? Holy shit. The entitlement mentality is seriously strong with this one.

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A Cranky One  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:45:06am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:47:45am

re: #219 lawhawk

You getting saucy Bearnaise?

Hollandaised and Confused

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:50:25am

04 18 2023 10 26 43

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:52:15am

The finances of FL are in good hands lol

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 8:55:50am

re: #245 Joe Bacon

Christopher Rufo has said that it is his goal to end public education in the US. What better way to start than bringing back child labor?

And do note how Libertarians are just slobbering over putting kids to work full time!

No doubt: replace it with religious schools, for-profit schools and/or homeschooling.

Don’t think that this is part of the overall plan for Gilead Idiocracy 451

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:00:08am

re: #272 HRH Stanley Sea

I would bet Jimmy Patronis can’t name a Kid Rock song without looking it up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:01:05am

re: #248 Wile E. Wonka

It’s funny, I was just reading a while back about the current scion of the Hohenzollerns, Prince Georg Friedrich. This guy:

Yes, There was a high-profile raid last December involving another branch of the Royal Family planning a Putsch, Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss. He also got wrapped up in a big restitution suit that failed on his end because, it seems, his property was confiscated before 1949 by the USSR, not by the German Democratic Republic, and, due to some “informal” agreement with the Allied Powers, was not subject to reparation..

That drove him into the arms of the Freie Reichsbürger movement, sort of like Germany’s Sovereign Citizens, who do not recognize the legitimacy of the Federal Republic of Germany, claiming it is only a corporation intended to oversee the territories occupied by the Allies after WW2.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:06:41am
Michelle Yeoh is more in demand than ever following her Best Actress Oscar win for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” but she hasn’t forgotten her friends in the 23rd century.

The actress is beaming up to be part of “Star Trek” once again for a “Star Trek: Discovery” spinoff movie event for Paramount+, titled “Section 31.” Yeoh was part of the recurring cast of “Discovery” since the show launched in 2017, first playing the benevolent Capt. Philippa Georgiou, then spending far more time onscreen as her evil Mirror Universe twin, Empress Georgiou of the Terran Empire.

msn.com

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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:09:52am

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:12:05am

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:16:08am

re: #255 Nerdy Fish

You either had exceptional letter eliminations, or got exceptionally lucky. Well done.

Getting the first letter early makes all the difference!

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Teukka  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:16:21am

Anyone else getting unsolicited notifications from accounts you don’t follow? Got my second Empty G tweet…

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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:17:38am

re: #280 Teukka

Anyone else getting unsolicited notifications from accounts you don’t follow? Got my second Empty G tweet…

[Embedded content]

Only here.

/it’s not a bother

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:17:51am

re: #277 wrenchwench

Slightly unrelated:

In ca. 1985, I worked as a flower deliveryman. I had an order on a Friday the Thirteenth. The directions read “Last House on the Left”, I told them that if I saw a chainsaw in the yard, I was just gonna chuck the flowers out the window and gun it out of there.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:20:31am
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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:21:20am

It’s a HAIL SCREWPERT MURDOCH last-ditch pass!

Fox News puts blame on Trump in new defamation trial defense strategy

rawstory.com

In its fight against the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, Fox News has shifted its strategy to blaming former President Donald Trump

Fox News is requesting that the judge overseeing the case allow it to introduce evidence showing that the network’s commentary about mass voter fraud in the 2020 election were just examples of a news organization reporting on the rhetoric Trump was using - not an endorsement of his claims.

“Such a development, if accepted, could play a key role in the development of the case. To successfully win a defamation suit, the allegedly defamed entity would have to prove the person or organization who defamed it did so with harmful intent,” Reynolds writes.

In sum, Fox is arguing that Trump’s rhetoric about a “rigged” election was newsworthy and the network was just covering his comments as news.

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gwangung  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:21:30am

re: #276 Crush White Nationalism

Number one on the call sheet…AS SHE SHOULD BE.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:25:21am
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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:25:49am

re: #255 Nerdy Fish

You either had exceptional letter eliminations, or got exceptionally lucky. Well done.

I went for the 6 again.

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:29:04am

re: #287 wrenchwench

I went for the 6 again.

I got it in three with a little help from my dogs.

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:31:33am

re: #280 Teukka

Block her and mute her and see if you still get her pushed to your feed. If you do, you’ll know it is time to leave.

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jeffreyw  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:35:06am

re: #158 Eventual Carrion

My first wife (this was in Texas) left me after the preacher at a new church she had joined said she should leave me (and take our child) because I was a heathen. Granted I am a heathen, but she knew that before we were even married.

Turns out a few months later the preacher took all the money from the church and disappeared. By then she was already pregnant from someone else from the church (and we were not even divorced yet). Fuck those fake religious fucks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:35:52am

re: #284 Joe Bacon

Fox News is requesting that the judge overseeing the case allow it to introduce evidence showing that the network’s commentary about mass voter fraud in the 2020 election were just examples of a news organization reporting on the rhetoric Trump was using - not an endorsement of his claims.

Except they were not just “reporting on the rhetoric”, they had every talking head from Hannity to Pirro to Napolitano to Carlson also shouting at the top of their lungs in support of Trump’s claims from the rooftops

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:36:10am
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jeffreyw  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:37:10am

re: #265 GlutenFreeJesus

Even better. The tabletop convection oven aka air fryer. 😏

Can confirm

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Thanos  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:41:36am

re: #262 JC1

I got a kick out of Florida Man. 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but I liked it. 85% audience score. Largest gap I’ve seen.

I watched a bit of that, it hasn’t really hard hooked me yet, at least not as much as “Beef” but worth checking out.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:41:49am

(The little blue dot refers to NE-2, which went to Joe Biden, and in 2008 went to Barack Obama).

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:42:32am

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:43:24am

This is a humorous and informative look at a well-known Czech landmark (well-known to people who live here, at least) not far from Liberec:

Czechia’s Incredible 1960s Supervillain-Lair Hotel (And Why Its Architect Got Banned By The Regime)

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:44:57am
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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:45:12am

re: #298 The Pie Overlord!

WOW!

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:47:44am

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

Except they were not just “reporting on the rhetoric”, they had every talking head from Hannity to Pirro to Napolitano to Carlson also shouting at the top of their lungs in support of Trump’s claims from the rooftops

The judge has already ruled that this defense fails on the merits, precisely for that reason.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:51:51am

Well, this doesn’t have anything to do with drag queens, but a Baltimore pastor is upset that the local electric company is denying his right to spread the Gospel.

Church’s power cut-off after unpaid $30,000 bill (WMAR-TV, yesterday)

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:52:36am

I have been reading the coffee postings here with great interest. The cheap Mr Coffee drip coffee maker I had for the past 7 years died recently.

So I need to purchase a new coffee maker.

I see that some folks have recommended a $160 Ninja coffee maker. May I inquire as why you would recommend it?

Another option is another low range drip coffee maker. Mr Coffee, Hamilton-Beach,Black-and-Decker, etc. This is what I generally go with.

And, of course, there are many other options. Most of which likely require the enthusiasm, skills, and coordination beyond what I can muster prior to my first cup of coffee.

But suggestions are appreciated. I will likely head out later this afternoon to forage for a coffeemaker.

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lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:53:02am
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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:55:44am

When you are doing this you know your case is lost!

Fox News submits clips of ‘The Simpsons’ as evidence in Dominion defamation case

rawstory.com

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:55:48am

re: #155 lawhawk

Noem: My granddaughter already has a shotgun and handgun.

Her granddaughter is 2.

She’s got a gun before she’s toilet trained. Noem thinks that this is normal.

It makes perfect sense if guns are not tools, but fetishes. In the sense of magic items that people possess because they imbue powers and are parts of ritual.

(as opposed to paraphilia or commodity fetishism)

The messaging here is that she belongs, she is part of the tribe of reactionary gun-havers and ultimately will embrace their same vision of winnowing society through personal violence. It’s like taking your kid on the fox hunt and letting them be blooded…with the exact same component of class; her grand-daughter will belong to the better kind of people that are permitted to kill, not the lesser kind of people that need killing.

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:56:47am

re: #303 lawhawk

Clearly showing deep understanding on how to make friends and influence people. :/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:57:08am

re: #302 ckkatz

And, of course, there are many other options. Most of which likely require the enthusiasm, skills, and coordination beyond what I can muster prior to my first cup of coffee.

But suggestions are appreciated. I will likely head out later this afternoon to forage for a coffeemaker.

Cafetiere

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:57:10am

re: #301 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Friendship Baptist Church’s bill due earlier this month topped $30,000, but Gwynn says that doesn’t tell the whole story.

“We have been paying the bills. That’s what I’m telling you. We have not been negligent,” said Gwynn, “The only time we got behind was because of the pandemic for three years when the congregation fell off in its attendance and that’s going on across the country.”

In a written statement, the utility says, “BGE works with all customers, including Friendship Baptist Church to help them access various payment options and energy assistance resources.”

BGE readily admits that disconnects happen, but it doesn’t want paying customers picking up the bills for those who do not.

It never occurred to anybody in this church to take out a loan to help cover the light bill? Seems like a pretty critical expense.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:57:42am

Totally not a cult.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:57:56am

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

Except they were not just “reporting on the rhetoric”, they had every talking head from Hannity to Pirro to Napolitano to Carlson also shouting at the top of their lungs in support of Trump’s claims from the rooftops

correct

they never put up disclaimers or distanced themselves from any of it
they never put it in perspective or explained it that way
they never said ‘this is trump talking not us, Biden clearly won fair and square’

never

311
jaunte  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:57:58am
312
Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:58:05am

Add another Pulpit Pimp to the naughty naughty naughty list!

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Jay C  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:59:53am

re: #296 Joe Bacon

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Clever, but the boots should have been white….

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 9:59:55am

re: #308 Eclectic Cyborg

Except the pandemic didn’t affect every church equally. There was a concerted effort in our area to ensure churches obtained the technological upgrades needed to take their services online. Even the Catholic church here in my tiny little town, which I would have pegged previously as the least likely place to find any kind of technological innovation, was able to comply with the state’s protective orders and still maintain their income and membership.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:00:56am

re: #304 Joe Bacon

When you are doing this you know your case is lost!

Fox News submits clips of ‘The Simpsons’ as evidence in Dominion defamation case

rawstory.com

Is Chewbacca going to be called in as an expert witness?

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:01:24am

re: #307 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Cafetiere

seconded

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Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:02:04am

re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is Chewbacca going to be called in as an expert witness?

Just waiting for Mulder & Scully to take the stand…after Al Bundy…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:03:18am

re: #317 Joe Bacon

Just waiting for Mulder & Scully to take the stand…after Al Bundy…

Grogu. But he will only be able answer yes or no questions…

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:03:39am

re: #312 Joe Bacon

Add another Pulpit Pimp to the naughty naughty naughty list!

how many will it take before we can make a sweeping statement like say ‘they all do it’ and not be prejudiced?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:04:29am

re: #312 Joe Bacon

Add another Pulpit Pimp to the naughty naughty naughty list!

[Embedded content]

From the article:

Of note, Hayes’ church is in the city of Franklin, which last week narrowly approved a Pride festival after a viciously anti-LGBTQ push by Christian locals including former SNL cast member Victoria Jackson. How many of Hayes’ flock were at that city council meeting?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:04:44am

re: #314 Nerdy Fish

Except the pandemic didn’t affect every church equally. There was a concerted effort in our area to ensure churches obtained the technological upgrades needed to take their services online. Even the Catholic church here in my tiny little town, which I would have pegged previously as the least likely place to find any kind of technological innovation, was able to comply with the state’s protective orders and still maintain their income and membership.

Same with the church in our tiny village. They somehow managed to pay all their bills even though they were closed for a long time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:04:54am
323
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:05:05am

re: #318 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Grogu. But he will only be able answer yes or no questions…

Next up: “I am Groot”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:05:14am

re: #314 Nerdy Fish

Exactly. Most of the big and midsize churches around here made it through just fine.

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:07:30am

re: #307 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Cafetiere

re: #316 Dangerman

seconded

Would you recommend any particular one?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:07:35am

re: #314 Nerdy Fish

Except the pandemic didn’t affect every church equally. There was a concerted effort in our area to ensure churches obtained the technological upgrades needed to take their services online.

This is just an attempt on the pastor’s part to make the energy company look the anti-religious bad guy for his own failures in managing his church and its finances.

327
Dave In Austin  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:07:54am

re: #302 ckkatz

What ever you decide my choice is ALWAYS chose a maker with a thermal pot. You will never drink burnt coffee again. I personally use a Keurig thermal that drips and I can use pods for single cups. About $150. We like it a lot.

328
Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:08:28am

re: #326 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is just an attempt on the pastor’s part to make the energy company look the anti-religious bad guy for his own failures in managing his church and its finances.

Oh, I’m well aware of that. I’m left wondering where that $30,000 went. I’m willing to bet it wasn’t toward any actual church-related expenses.

329
jaunte  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:08:40am
330
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:11:22am

re: #325 ckkatz

Would you recommend any particular one?

Bodum seems to be the standard.

my daughter got me a nice unbreakable stainless steel one but I have no idea what brand it is

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:14:28am
332
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:15:49am
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:15:57am

re: #331 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

a life-size cardboard cutout of actress Gina Carano

Because THAT’S not creepy as fuck. Ho-lee.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:17:10am

The GOP launched their fire-and-forget parrots against one of their biggest donors, and the party can’t get them to stop.

By the way, Megan, this isn’t the Oppression Olympics.

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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:18:17am

Happy tax day. I got my refunds over the weekend. The vid has real info in it:

Mastodon

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:18:31am

re: #334 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Here’s what her message does on the ground:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:18:37am
338
Shropshire Slasher  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:19:34am

Random bumper sticker sighting: “Hail Sagan”

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:22:36am

re: #327 Dave In Austin

What ever you decide my choice is ALWAYS chose a maker with a thermal pot. You will never drink burnt coffee again. I personally use a Keurig thermal that drips and I can use pods for single cups. About $150. We like it a lot.

The thermal/insulated pot/carafe is an excellent point!

Since most of the drip coffee makers come with glass carafes, I guess that the thermal pot would have to be a compatible accessory for the specific model coffee maker?

340
lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:25:34am

re: #339 ckkatz

Yes. They have to match the dimensions of the maker.

I’ve gone through a couple glass coffee carafe drip makers before getting my current Cuisinart drip thermal carafe. Works great and it has a reminder to clean with vinegar/cleaning solution periodically. It also has a carbon filter to make sure that the water comes thru clean before going into the heater element. The carafe keeps the coffee nice and warm for a couple hours, though I usually finish my 4 cups in one shot (20 oz yeti travel mug is my daily dose).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:26:08am
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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:26:41am

re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg

FYI: Using an oven to reheat Pizza is a much better way than tossing it in the Microwave.

Takes a little longer, but worth it IMO.

Definitely. Microwave makes it so “rubbery”. I just start the oven at 350 and throw the leftover pizza in. When the preheat timer goes off I wait maybe a minute and shut off the oven. then check it every couple minutes until it is reheated enough. Stays crisper that way, not mushy crust.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:27:35am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Now you understand why Fundamentalists need such a strict moral corset: they can barely help themselves from whoring, stealing, drinking, fighting, gambling, etc., and the only thing that slows them down is if they are busy working hard or praising the Lord.

I love “moral corset”

344
Shropshire Slasher  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:27:41am

re: #340 lawhawk

My cuisinart (second one!)has always made good coffee. I load it at night and the automatic timer turns it on for me in the morning. I like the fact it will remind you to clean it.

345
jaunte  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:29:01am

I had thought the armadillos had been digging holes in the yard looking for food, but apparently they enjoy a frequent dirt nap.

346
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:33:48am

O_o

347
Nerdy Fish  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:34:36am

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

He’s made a lot of “misunderstandings” on these forms. I’m starting to suspect that maybe he’s not being forthcoming with the truth.

348
lawhawk  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:38:57am

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s not sure what those check the box requirements are?

Is he obtuse, or just straight up lying to cover up malfeasance in not filing properly?

These are the kinds of claims that the IRS can reject and would find someone engaged in willful fraud in light of the totality of the circumstances here.

The filing requirements aren’t difficult. Thomas is just lying here. He didn’t want to report income. He didn’t want to identify funding sources.

349
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:39:05am

re: #347 Nerdy Fish

He’s made a lot of “misunderstandings” on these forms. I’m starting to suspect that maybe he’s not being forthcoming with the truth.

That or he’s too stupid to be in any position of authority. Either way, he’s a mess.

350
ckkatz  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:39:22am

re: #330 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Bodum seems to be the standard.

my daughter got me a nice unbreakable stainless steel one but I have no idea what brand it is

I was just looking at the Bodum catalog. It seems they do have all metal models. Which is probably more in line with my morning pre-coffee fine motor skills.

I do think that I am going to need to look over this a more before pulling the trigger on one. And do some soul searching as to whether wrt coffee, I am a gourmand or a gourmet.

351
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:39:40am

Hindu fruitcakes.

New Delhi — An Indian couple has allegedly died by suicide by using a guillotine-like mechanism to decapitate themselves in a sacrificial ritual, police said Sunday.

Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife Hansaben, 35, both died by decapitation after using a homemade bladed mechanism in a hut on their farm in the western state of Gujarat, police said.

“The couple first prepared a fire altar before putting their heads under a guillotine-like mechanism held by a rope,” Indrajeetsinh Jadeja, a police sub-inspector, was quoted as saying by Indian news outlets. “As soon as they released the rope, an iron blade fell on them, severing their heads, which rolled into the fire.”

Fire is considered sacred in Hinduism and it plays a significant role in several worship rituals. The couple apparently designed the device used in their beheading in such a way that their heads would roll into the fire altar, completing their sacrificial ritual.

(more)

Couple beheaded themselves with homemade guillotine in ritual sacrifice, police in India say (CBS News, yesterday)

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:41:06am
THE RON DESANTIS megadonor meltdown is accelerating.

On a group chat of wealthy DeSantis donors, images of which were reviewed by Rolling Stone, participants exploded with alarm last week over the Florida governor’s presidential prospects — and his primary chances against Donald Trump.

“What the fuck is wrong with RD?” one participant wrote after DeSantis did not curtail his out-of-state publicity tour to return home amid massive flooding in the Fort Lauderdale area.

Another participant demanded to know who in the group could get in contact with DeSantis most quickly to complain.

The images were shared on the condition that the participants remain anonymous. Rolling Stone verified the identities of the participants, several of whom have donated large sums toward DeSantis and enjoy extensive access in Florida GOP circles.

Over the past few years, the Florida governor has risen to Trump’s top internal rival without even declaring his candidacy. And part of that rise has been fueled by his pull with the GOP’s megadonor class, who prefer him to Trump because, while he brings a similar set of MAGAfied policies, he has not, to date, attempted a coup. That wellspring of financial support has been instrumental in fueling his rise, but the investments are predicated in large part on a belief that he can take down Donald.

That belief seems to be wavering, as the donor revolt has been brewing since at least last month. And it’s not just skittish donors like Richard Uihlein or Thomas Peterffy, who went public with his complaints last week. Several other top donors to DeSantis were livid about the governor referring to the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “territorial dispute,” with at least one major donor calling DeSantis to urge a walk-back, a source with knowledge of the outreach and another person briefed on it say. “My understanding is that the message was: ‘If we wanted a fucking MAGA candidate, we would donate to Donald Trump,’” the second source says.

Key DeSantis Donors Rip Him in Private Chats: ‘What the F-ck Is Wrong With RD?’ (Rolling Stone)

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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:41:22am

re: #350 ckkatz

I was just looking at the Bodum catalog. It seems they do have all metal models. Which is probably more in line with my morning pre-coffee fine motor skills.

I do think that I am going to need to look over this a more before pulling the trigger on one. And do some soul searching as to whether wrt coffee, I am a gourmand or a gourmet.

I drink instant. There, the truth is out.

354
William Lewis  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:43:56am

re: #353 wrenchwench

I drink instant. There, the truth is out.

& and electric kettle. Much easier to deal with.

355
JC1  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:44:55am

re: #294 Thanos

I watched a bit of that, it hasn’t really hard hooked me yet, at least not as much as “Beef” but worth checking out.

Beef was great.

356
wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:44:57am

re: #353 wrenchwench

I drink instant. There, the truth is out.

Or did I already out that truth, I don’t remember. I did Lipton for many years, because coffee would encourage my PMS.

357
Thanos  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:46:35am

re: #336 jaunte

Here’s what her message does on the ground:

a regular hometown hero, n’est ce pas?

358
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:47:02am

re: #354 William Lewis

[Embedded content]

& and electric kettle. Much easier to deal with.

This is even easier, and you can bite through the can then pop the tab for a quick pick-me-up.

359
wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:47:56am

re: #358 Crush White Nationalism

This is even easier, and you can bite through the can then pop the tab for a quick pick-me-up.

[Embedded content]

Coke was way worse than coffee with PMS.

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:49:58am

re: #351 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I seem to remember reading an article about how the financial systems in many parts of rural India have put tremendous pressure on the small farmers. Supposedly this has led to very high suicide rates in some rural areas.

I do not know about the specifics of this case, but I do wonder whether there may be additional context.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:50:22am

Heartwarming Brown on Brown kerfuffle. Will MTG unleash her telephone terrorist gruppe, the one that forced her opponent to quit in 2020?

362
Thanos  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:51:34am

re: #353 wrenchwench

I drink instant. There, the truth is out.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:52:31am

...

364
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2023 • 10:59:15am

Our water is turned off. The plumbing installation for our washing machine is under way.

365
JC1  Apr 18, 2023 • 11:00:01am

re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is Chewbacca going to be called in as an expert witness?

If they resort to the Chewbacca defense then all bets are off…

The Chewbacca Defense is Used in Court - SOUTH PARK

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Dave In Austin  Apr 18, 2023 • 11:03:52am

re: #339 ckkatz

The thermal/insulated pot/carafe is an excellent point!

Since most of the drip coffee makers come with glass carafes, I guess that the thermal pot would have to be a compatible accessory for the specific model coffee maker?

No. Not an accessory. A maker with a thermal pot has no burner. So you you only use energy to make the coffee. My Keurig keeps coffee hot fo a good 8-10 hrs. Some are better than others.

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2023 • 11:07:21am

re: #366 Dave In Austin

No. Not an accessory. A maker with a thermal pot has no burner. So you you only use energy to make the coffee. My Keurig keeps coffee hot for a good 8-10 hrs. Some are better than others.

Interesting!

Thanks!

368
Joe Bacon  Apr 18, 2023 • 11:24:25am

re: #363 The Pie Overlord!

When TF did Milo become a Jew? Last time I checked he was a Greek Orthodox Anti-Semite.

Milo changes his religion as much as Newt changes mistresses.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2023 • 11:28:16am

re: #229 Wile E. Wonka

Ha! I actually use a spray bottle of water and spritz the rice before covering it, and that works well.

I remember reading a few years ago about a study from India where some food scientist was working on a method to reduce the Glycemic Index of basmati rice by cooking it with oil/fat, cooling it, and then reheating it. Supposedly it converts enough of the rice starch into oligosaccharides to bring its GI down into the wheat range, which would be a godsend for us diabetics. I wonder what ever happened to that study? *wanders off to do some Googling*

I seem to recall something similar was discovered about potatoes. Initial cooking and then reheating would convert a bunch of the starch (up to 30% ?).

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2023 • 12:08:18pm

re: #347 Nerdy Fish

He’s made a lot of “misunderstandings” on these forms. I’m starting to suspect that maybe he’s not being forthcoming with the truth.

The most kind assessment of this is that he is not as smart about tax filing requirements and finances as he thinks he is. Along with an apparent ability to seek an expert opinion if he is unsure what to do. Perhaps embarrassed to admit to Ginni that he can’t work out the forms for himself.

Which quickly leads one to question why he is in the position that he is in given these fundamental shortcomings in judgement.

Of course, it could also be that he’s lazy and/or blatantly lying.


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