These Two Brothers Are Very Weird: Sparks. Tiny Desk Concert

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Bob Boilen | July 18, 2023
It’s hard for me to comprehend what a newcomer to Sparks would make of seeing brothers Ron and Russell Mael for the first time. Ron, the mustached one behind the keys, looks like he once was a silent film star and just fell off the silver screen (and is a bit grumpy about it.) On the other hand, Russell, with his upbeat posture, sings about a girl crying in her latte. Hopefully, by the time Russell introduces us to the second tune, about a 22-hour-old child seeing the world and wishing to go back to whence he came, the innocent viewer/listener will understand the twisted humor Sparks has been dispensing for over 50 years across a few dozen albums.

When the duo’s first records came out in the early 1970s, I managed a record store and played the albums on our turntable. Sometimes it would drive away customers (Sparks are an acquired taste), and other times it would kindle new friendships. I’d have never dreamed that Sparks would be making music all these years later, let alone playing at my office desk. And I also could not have imagined that the band’s latest album, The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, would be as good as ever. After three new songs, Sparks takes one dip into the past, “a Sparks golden oldie,” as Russell puts it. With a great band behind them, Ron and Russell played the song “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us,” bringing unimaginable joy to me and hopefully to those just discovering Sparks.

SET LIST
“The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte”
“Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is”
“It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way”
“This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us”

MUSICIANS
Russell Mael: vocals
Ron Mael: keyboards
Evan Weiss: guitar, vocals
Max Whipple: bass
Eli Pearl: guitar, keyboards, vocals
Stevie Nistor: drums

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Creative Director: Bob Boilen
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Sofia Seidel, Alanté Serene
Audio Assistant: Kwesi Lee
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Keren Carrión
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Kara Frame, Hazel Cills
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#nprmusic #tinydesk #sparks

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Captain Ron  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:15:10pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:16:05pm

Mastodon

For the afternoon coffee we will have EMPANASAURIOS!
Translated from Español using deepl.com

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:18:58pm

Mastodon

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retired cynic  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:19:53pm

From Dawn to Dusk and Back Again, Stephen Wilkes Pursues Natural Drama in Remarkably Detailed Panoramas
thisiscolossal.com

These photos are really fascinating: sort of a “where’s Waldo” vibe!

Whether atop a 40-foot lift truck in the center of Paris, in a small house on a far-flung island, or perched beside a Serengeti watering hole, photographer Stephen Wilkes certainly has patience on his side. Sitting in one spot for hours on end, he sets up his camera to capture a single scene over the course of a full day or more, tracking the dramatic movement of weather and the sun over expansive landscapes. Day to Night, a forthcoming book published by Taschen, highlights 60 of the artist’s most compelling images, from U.S. National Parks to iconic international landmarks to remote wildernesses brimming with wildlife.

Wilkes carefully selects his location and takes more than 1,500 exposures from a fixed angle to follow the gradual changes in light and the bustling activity of humans and animals. To get the scene of visitors at the Grand Canyon just right, for example, he slept in a watchtower during a 36-hour shoot. “There was, of course, no artificial light, so I had to wait for the moon to light the canyon. I had only one hour of exposure to get this right,” he says. When he returns to the studio, he painstakingly filters all of the images into a single composition, producing pieces akin to distilled timelapses.

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austin_blue  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:34:19pm

re: #2 wrenchwench

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Kaiju! Run for your lives!

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:47:15pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:51:28pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:54:32pm

re: #7 wrenchwench

They might need to go to balsa for the under 35 lb group.

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jaunte  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:56:28pm

out of context cats @contextcats.bsky.social

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teleskiguy  Jul 18, 2023 • 7:59:50pm

re: #6 DodgerFan1988

From this guy to Toby Keith to Ted Nugent to Kid Rock, it’s fucken schlock for the troglodytes. And it sells. Being witness to the largest civilian massacre in the country’s history won’t stop this cretin from cashing in on his fan’s deepest fears and insecurities. Just a fucken scumbag all around.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:00:17pm

re: #9 jaunte

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teleskiguy  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:05:29pm

Good on Sheryl Crow for calling out Jason Aldean. It’s a disgusting artistic statement to make. Unfortunately this kind of thinking is everywhere. I get weary every time I see a Gadsden Flag in any physical space. Violence is an undercurrent when you see that fucken flag.

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bratwurst  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:08:44pm

Literally just clicked over here to make sure Charles had posted this!

The show they were doing this year was at LEAST as good as the one they toured with last year and featured 11 songs they didn’t play then. The tour ended at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night and now they are going to be working on a movie project to follow up Annette from 2021 for the foreseeable future.

Some have suggested that their ages (Ron turns 78 this year, Russell 75) and the fact they finally played the Hollywood Bowl might mean they are done touring, but there is nothing about their show that seems like a farewell to me.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:09:29pm

Fuck that Jason Aldean, he’s lucky he wasn’t killed on 1 October, and doesn’t show any thankfulness or humility. Just a piece of shit like Steve Scalise.

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Moe Avattar  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:27:55pm

re: #12 teleskiguy

Yeah, like I’m not thrilled by bands still waving the Confederate flag today.
Bands like Molly Hatchet.

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teleskiguy  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:34:41pm

re: #15 Moe Avattar

I see what you did there. 😈

Yes. Molly Hatchet is wrong for their glorification of the CSA. It’s not just the flag at their shows, it’s in their lyrics too. I’m well aware.

They still made a few really good songs that please my ears today. Humans are fucken weird.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:35:17pm

Shot:

Chaser:

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:38:08pm

re: #17 Sherlock Hound

And in case that wasn’t an obvious asshole bluecheck:

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:38:12pm

re: #17 Sherlock Hound

Shot:

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I think they mean too stupid to vaccinate rather than Aryan when they say “pureblood.”

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teleskiguy  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:38:13pm

I love “The Devil Went Down To Georgia.” I was a teenager the first time I heard it, I whooped and hollered and danced!

Charlie Daniels? Well, we know he turned out to be a weirdo conspiracy nut at the end of his life and supported FVC to the bitter end.

I still love “The Devil Went Down To Georgia.”

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jaunte  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:38:37pm

re: #17 Sherlock Hound

Pureblood = hemophiliac with Habsburg jaw.

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jaunte  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:39:45pm

re: #20 teleskiguy

Charlie Daniels bought me a beer once. I’m sorry he turned out stupid.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:39:45pm

re: #19 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I think they mean too stupid to vaccinate rather than Aryan when they say “pureblood.”

Porque no los dos?

///

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:42:03pm

re: #17 Sherlock Hound

Umm…unfortunately “pureblood” does not necessarily ID it’s user as a Nazi/racist POS.
It is commonly used now by the unvaccinated crowd

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Targetpractice  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:44:59pm

re: #6 DodgerFan1988

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So many guys like this fuckwit still feel that compulsion to write “Big, manly men who need to constantly overcompensate for small testicles” music that was wildly popular in the genre after 9/11. The sort of assholes who then turned around and screamed that the Dixie Chicks were “traitors” for criticizing the boy-president for a war that nowadays they treat like the New Vietnam in avoiding ever admitting they supported it.

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teleskiguy  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:46:38pm

re: #22 jaunte

John Wayne bought my Dad several drinks in Ouray, CO. It was pops’ first teaching job, he was teaching classes from grade 7 up to 12 and everything in between, 15 hour days. Then this film crew shows up. J.W. was in town filming True Grit and being the degenerate alcoholic that he was he drank every night in Ouray at the Outlaw (still in operation today). My Dad was there, in his early 20s, and the rest is history. He taught more than a few classes hung the fuck over, he told me not that long ago…

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retired cynic  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:49:25pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

I was not, am not, a fan of John Wayne, but I really loved that movie.

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TedStriker  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:53:36pm

re: #27 retired cynic

I was not, am not, a fan of John Wayne, but I really loved that movie.

I love Hellfighters, but that’s as much because of Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Jay Flippen, and the other supporting players as it is for Wayne himself.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:54:25pm

re: #24 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Umm…unfortunately “pureblood” does not necessarily ID it’s user as a Nazi/racist POS.
It is commonly used now by the unvaccinated crowd

If someone follows up that nonsense with a Pepe The Frog image like they did in that thread, I don’t know what else to say. Got nothing.

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jaunte  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:56:04pm

More Nazis with compromised vagus nerves is a net positive.

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TedStriker  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:56:40pm

re: #29 Sherlock Hound

If someone follows up that nonsense with a Pepe The Frog image like they did in that thread, I don’t know what else to say. Got nothing.

Ain’t nothing left to do except report and block, whatever good that does on the Bird these days.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 18, 2023 • 8:57:15pm

re: #28 TedStriker

I love Hellfighters, but that’s as much because of Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, and Jay Flippen as it is for Wayne himself.

I liked Stagecoach, but I said in sarcasm that John Wayne didn’t need to exert himself acting.
//

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:00:11pm

re: #31 TedStriker

Ain’t nothing left to do except report and block, whatever good that does on the Bird these days.

Those people would have shot and killed all the Native Americans they could get away with killing.

And the Natives HAD guns.

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teleskiguy  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:02:38pm

re: #27 retired cynic

John Wayne is not known as a great actor, but his acting in True Grit was excellent. His only Oscar.

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retired cynic  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:03:07pm

re: #34 teleskiguy

agreed

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retired cynic  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:04:31pm

re: #35 retired cynic

That part could have been written with the “John-Wayne-Stereotype” in mind.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:09:01pm

In Crimea, someone is jamming GNSS signals; in simple terms, blocking GPS and GLONASS.

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teleskiguy  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:09:56pm

Behind The Bastards podcasted about John Wayne a while back, very fun episodes.

podcasts.apple.com

podcasts.apple.com

podcasts.apple.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:14:14pm

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jaunte  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:17:48pm

Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social

Happy Anniversary to ALIENS, 37 years young today. Here’s a photo from the premiere night in Westwood when we were all (seemingly) mere children. And RIP to the late, great Bill Paxton.

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Belafon  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:24:18pm

This looks interesting:

The Creator | Official Trailer

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:29:19pm

The first critic reviews for Barbie are in, and it’s looking like a solid film. 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, and 81% over on Metacritic, indicating “universal acclaim”.

rottentomatoes.com

metacritic.com

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Captain Ron  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:34:11pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:36:20pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:38:04pm

re: #40 jaunte

There’s something about the demeanor of James Cameron. Reminds me of the first time you see Robert De Niro’s character Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas.

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Targetpractice  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:39:08pm

re: #37 Sherlock Hound

In Crimea, someone is jamming GNSS signals; in simple terms, blocking GPS and GLONASS.

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The vatniks are jamming GPS? That’s why the Gods of War saw fit to create laser guidance.

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sagehen  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:44:40pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

Behind The Bastards podcasted about John Wayne a while back, very fun episodes.

podcasts.apple.com

podcasts.apple.com

podcasts.apple.com

Here’s what John Wayne had to say about black people (1971 Playboy interview)

“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people,” he said.

Wayne also said that although he didn’t condone slavery: “I don’t feel guilty about the fact that five or 10 generations ago these people were slaves.”

(not a word about Jim Crow, pogroms and lynchings, redlining, denial of voting rights, etc. Apparently to a right winger, the 13th Amendment was already more than enough and how dare black people want more).

and here’s what he said about the indigenous:

“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that’s what you’re asking,” Wayne said. “Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:46:03pm

Off to work. Back later.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:50:54pm

MTG is making Lauren Boebert sound like she’s the one with a high school diploma.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:53:33pm

Just got home from my orientation meeting at the Elks. Feels good to finally get off my butt and join this org after thinking about it for the last ten years or so. Looking forward to contributing to the Purple Pig, their major project providing therapy and consulting to children in need free of charge in California and Hawaii.

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teleskiguy  Jul 18, 2023 • 9:57:27pm

re: #47 sagehen

all covered in the podcasts

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:00:38pm

JRL Cycles Lucky 7, only one prototype and three production models. Barber Motorsports museum.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:13:01pm

re: #52 BlueSpotinAL ✅

JRL Cycles Lucky 7, only one prototype and three production models. Barber Motorsports museum.

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I’d ride that…and even ride it to Sturgis. Gas tank looks like it’s good for 40-50 miles between filling. So the butt won’t get too sore.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:21:42pm

re: #47 sagehen

Here’s what John Wayne had to say about black people (1971 Playboy interview)

(not a word about Jim Crow, pogroms and lynchings, redlining, denial of voting rights, etc. Apparently to a right winger, the 13th Amendment was already more than enough and how dare black people want more).

and here’s what he said about the indigenous:

Wagner was one of the worst people you could meet — in his public and private life.

And he wrote some of the most sublime music in the canon.

People is complicated.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:23:56pm

re: #50 darthstar

Just got home from my orientation meeting at the Elks. Feels good to finally get off my butt and join this org after thinking about it for the last ten years or so. Looking forward to contributing to the Purple Pig, their major project providing therapy and consulting to children in need free of charge in California and Hawaii.

How times change. My stepfather left the Elks — publicly — over their refusal to admit blacks.

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sagehen  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:29:37pm

re: #54 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Wagner was one of the worst people you could meet — in his public and private life.

And he wrote some of the most sublime music in the canon.

People is complicated.

That’s how I feel about Rudyard Kipling.

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silverdolphin  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:36:06pm

re: #34 teleskiguy

John Wayne is not known as a great actor, but his acting in True Grit was excellent. His only Oscar.

I’ve learned to appreciate Wayne’s acting, even though he seldom had to really do much. I was able to raise my GPA in college by taking movie classes. One term was on directoral styles. We saw and critiqued Red River by Howard Hawks. It was a revelation to see Wayne play a dark character, much like his role in The Searchers. His Tom Dunson is not a likeable character. And the other actors were astounding. Montgomery Clift was perfect and Walter Brennan was the character we would all learn to love in movie after movie.

The ending, shown below, presents the final confrontation between Dunstan, who has fallen into a Captain Ahab obsession on getting the cattle to market that causes him to lose his humanity, and his adopted son, a revelatory Montgomery Clift playing a very different sort of man than Dunston represents. One who succeeded when Dunston fialed.

Man, the music as Wayne walks through the cattle is perfect. By the great Dimitri Tiomkin

Interestingly, the scene begins with a man who is more a force of nature. It ends with John Wayne just being John Wayne. They are two different characters. He could act but he so seldom pushed himself.

Got an A+ in the class. Graduated with honors by 0.2 points. John Wayne helped.

Red River (1948) Ending Sequence

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Egregious Philbin  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:41:16pm

re: #50 darthstar

We thought about joining, but the questionnaire asked if I ever worked to overthrow the government. Fuck them…yeah, I work to overthrow the government every 2 years when I vote.

I’ve passed several government secret background checks, how dare those assholes ask if I ever worked to overthrow the government? I wonder if they let the supporters of 1/6 in their club. I have zero desire to join that group, I hope they changed their silly questions….

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:41:53pm

re: #55 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

How times change. My stepfather left the Elks — publicly — over their refusal to admit blacks.

That was before 1972 I assume as that’s when they lifted the color barrier officially.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:44:51pm

re: #58 Egregious Philbin

We thought about joining, but the questionnaire asked if I ever worked to overthrow the government. Fuck them…yeah, I work to overthrow the government every 2 years when I vote.

I’ve passed several government secret background checks, how dare those assholes ask if I ever worked to overthrow the government? I wonder if they let the supporters of 1/6 in their club. I have zero desire to join that group, I hope they changed their silly questions….

That question used to be are you a communist. Now it’s basically asking if you’re MAGA.
Officially they’re non-political. They said there are members from the far left and far right in the club - they don’t talk politics in the bar. Be your own asshole outside of the club. I’m okay with that, actually. I can still read who I want to know and who I don’t.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:46:08pm

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:48:17pm

Okay - time for bed…but I posted this on mastodon earlier and without any hashtags it’s gotten far more attention than anything I posted on Twitter in the last year before leaving.

Mastodon

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Egregious Philbin  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:48:26pm

re: #60 darthstar

I was alive in 1972. It wasn’t that long ago. Maybe if they let blacks in back in 1902, I could feel enough time has passed. Officially they are non political, but they sure are nosy aren’t they? I’ve been to my local Elks a few times with friends, I didn’t like the vibe one bit. I doubt that 75% of them could pass the background tests that I went though to be a real patriotic American working for the State Department. I passed, and was hired, but, due to circumstances (father dying, buying the house), I was not about to pick up and move to Djibouti or wherever.

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silverdolphin  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:51:08pm

re: #54 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Wagner was one of the worst people you could meet — in his public and private life.

And he wrote some of the most sublime music in the canon.

People is complicated.

Yep. Great art is not always made by great people. Wayne was not unusual at all in his views, similar to most conservatvies of the age (Robert Byrd comes to mind). If he had lived longer, would Wayne have changed his views?

But, the fact that all 3 of his wives were of Spanish descent indicates that his personal life was complex.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:53:26pm

re: #63 Egregious Philbin

I was alive in 1972. It wasn’t that long ago. Maybe if they let blacks in back in 1902, I could feel enough time has passed. Officially they are non political, but they sure are nosy aren’t they? I’ve been to my local Elks a few times with friends, I didn’t like the vibe one bit. I doubt that 75% of them could pass the background tests that I went though to be a real patriotic American working for the State Department. I passed, and was hired, but, due to circumstances (father dying, buying the house), I was not about to pick up and move to Djibouti or wherever.

I was in the second grade in 1972. Nixon was running against McGovern…I broke my leg skiing…American Pie had just come out. Roberta Flack gave me my first erection with “The First Time Ever I saw Your Face” (okay, I was too young to sport wood, but god that voice is still the blue pill of the ages…but I digress.)

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:57:05pm

Looks like the flow of Shahed Drones may begin to slow…though Russia’s now building their own.

Mastodon

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William Lewis  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:58:00pm

re: #57 silverdolphin

I’ve learned to appreciate Wayne’s acting, even though he seldom had to really do much. I was able to raise my GPA in college by taking movie classes. One term was on directoral styles. We saw and critiqued Red River by Howard Hawks. It was a revelation to see Wayne play a dark character, much like his role in The Searchers. His Tom Dunson is not a likeable character. And the other actors were astounding. Montgomery Clift was perfect and Walter Brennan was the character we would all learn to love in movie after movie.

The ending, shown below, presents the final confrontation between Dunstan, who has fallen into a Captain Ahab obsession on getting the cattle to market that causes him to lose his humanity, and his adopted son, a revelatory Montgomery Clift playing a very different sort of man than Dunston represents. One who succeeded when Dunston fialed.

Man, the music as Wayne walks through the cattle is perfect. By the great Dimitri Tiomkin

Interestingly, the scene begins with a man who is more a force of nature. It ends with John Wayne just being John Wayne. They are two different characters. He could act but he so seldom pushed himself.

Got an A+ in the class. Graduated with honors by 0.2 points. John Wayne helped.

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I have a soft spot for “Stagecoach” as well. Hit’s all the tropes, to be sure, but I like it.

Stagecoach (1939) Official Trailer - John Wayne, John Ford Western Movie HD

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Captain Ron  Jul 18, 2023 • 10:58:35pm

re: #65 darthstar

In 1972 I was 16 and terrified of going to Viet Nam in 1974, so I was busy protesting in Berkeley and SF.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:02:50pm

Time for bed, but here’s your moment of Zen…Apparently it’s been cooking off for three hours.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:04:11pm

re: #68 Captain Ron

In 1972 I was 16 and terrified of going to Viet Nam in 1974, so I was busy protesting in Berkeley and SF.

I knew there was something I liked about you, you fucking hippie.

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silverdolphin  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:04:35pm

re: #67 William Lewis

I have a soft spot for “Stagecoach” as well. Hit’s all the tropes, to be sure, but I like it.

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John Wayne being a perfect John Wayne.

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TedStriker  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:05:09pm

Given Russia’s offenses against Ukraine, I know it’s hard to think or speak anything positive about Russians in general; however, Garage 54 is doing the same batshit gonzo automotive madness they’ve always done and, as far as I know, have steered (pun unintended) way clear from anything to do with politics or Ukraine. I’ve subbed to them on YT for years.

That said, here’s something interesting from them: a running, driving cutaway car:

We cut a car in half and drive to town

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Captain Ron  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:07:37pm

I was lamenting to my wife that I hoped the stock market would be down tomorrow, but futures are starting to trend up. I told her I was hoping to buy a stock when it’s price was lower but it looks like I’ll just have to make money instead.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:07:55pm

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

The first critic reviews for Barbie are in, and it’s looking like a solid film. 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, and 81% over on Metacritic, indicating “universal acclaim”.

rottentomatoes.com

metacritic.com

Was thinking about doing a Barbieheimer this weekend, but Oppenheimer is three hours long, so probably not. Just going to get my ticket to Oppenheimer at the Imax theater in Lexington.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:09:07pm

re: #73 Captain Ron

I was lamenting to my wife that I hoped the stock market would be down tomorrow, but futures are starting to trend up. I told her I was hoping to buy a stock when it’s price was lower but it looks like I’ll just have to make money instead.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:11:06pm

re: #74 No Malarkey!

Was thinking about doing a Barbieheimer this weekend, but Oppenheimer is three hours long, so probably not. Just going to get my ticket to Oppenheimer at the Imax theater in Lexington.

My wife and I will be going to see “Barbie” in a couple days at the historic Midwest Theatre in Scottsbluff. (They’re also playing the movie at their drive-in theatre, but we’d rather go for the overpriced theatre popcorn and soda.)

We’ll make dinner and a movie out of it and go out to eat, too. Special trip to Scottsbluff, just for enjoyment and not for a physician or groceries or whatnot.

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silverdolphin  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:13:01pm

A few more daylilys before sleep.

There are a lot of daylilies with a purple center but only Pandora’s box is almost pure white. It really stands out.

Pandora’s Box daylily

Pointed Perfection is a great patterned daylily that hold its color through th day.
Pointed Perfection daylily


And a whole lot of Starlings.
Starling group
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No Malarkey!  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:18:18pm

re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife and I will be going to see “Barbie” in a couple days at the historic Midwest Theatre in Scottsbluff. (They’re also playing the movie at their drive-in theatre, but we’d rather go for the overpriced theatre popcorn and soda.)

We’ll make dinner and a movie out of it and go out to eat, too. Special trip to Scottsbluff, just for enjoyment and not for a physician or groceries or whatnot.

Just did a quick google search. I found out the Imax screen in Lexington is a digital projection. There are very few theaters nationwide which will screen the movie on 70mm film. The closest to me are Indianapolis and Nashville, but I’m not going to drive for hours just to watch a movie.

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Targetpractice  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:20:31pm

re: #75 No Malarkey!

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“Full communism”? Even the Soviets never achieved “full communism.”

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sagehen  Jul 18, 2023 • 11:35:15pm

Israel did. It took them decades after independence to start shifting to a mixed economy. (health care and education are still full commie, though).

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No Malarkey!  Jul 19, 2023 • 12:04:48am

Things are very far from perfect in China.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jul 19, 2023 • 12:20:27am
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Targetpractice  Jul 19, 2023 • 12:21:40am

re: #81 No Malarkey!

Things are very far from perfect in China.

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Frequently holds up dictators as examples of leadership and keeps a copy of the speeches of one of the world’s most infamous dictators by his bedside.

Gee, I can’t imagine what he’s trying to tell us…

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Targetpractice  Jul 19, 2023 • 12:48:43am

Management found itself in a bind because we had two people quit in the same week, one of whom was the part-time auditor that hadn’t been here more than 2 months. So now I’ve spent the past four nights training…well, the me from 10 years ago. Young, friendly, eager to please, interested in all sorts of things, and just all around a cool guy. Too bad they decided to have him train with the cranky old fart who just wants to be left alone to watch Youtube and read political junkie blogs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 1:40:07am

No drag queen found.

East Texas pastor arrested, charged with indecency with a child (Tyler Morning Telegraph, six hours ago)

An East Texas pastor has been arrested on accusations of indecency with a child.

Timothy Nall, 68, of Hollylake Ranch, was booked Monday into the Smith County Jail on a charge of indecency with a child by sexual contact. Charges were brought forth by Wood County, according to online jail records.

Nall is the pastor at Mt. Pigsah Baptist Church in Mineola, according to the church’s website.

According to the Daily Journal in Tupelo, Mississippi, Nall was tried in August 2014 in Alcorn County Circuit Court on a child sexual battery charge, but the judge declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict. The Daily Journal also reported Nall was reindicted one month later on one count of sexual battery and one count of fondling. The Tyler Morning Telegraph is pursuing more information about the outcome of that second trial, which was scheduled for November 2014, according to the Daily Journal.

(more)

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Nojay UK  Jul 19, 2023 • 2:05:18am

re: #46 Targetpractice

The vatniks are jamming GPS? That’s why the Gods of War saw fit to create laser guidance.

Everybody and their little dog too have been jamming GPS from day one of this entire fuckup in Ukraine. Purely GPS-guided weapons have been obsolete for at least twenty years unless the other side’s most valuable assets are goat herds and grass huts.

As for laser guidance good luck getting a LANTIRN-equipped flying platform to illuminate any location you might wish to deliver a suitable billet d’amour. That’s why the Gods of War saw fit to create Igla, Shilka, Buk, TOR, StarStreak etc.

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ericblair  Jul 19, 2023 • 2:07:35am

re: #46 Targetpractice

The vatniks are jamming GPS? That’s why the Gods of War saw fit to create laser guidance.

Laser guidance, inertial guidance, celestial guidance, ground feature recognition, VOR/TACAN/NDB, civilian radio transmitters, lotsa ways to figure out where you are if you’ve got some computing power. Russians have always loved to jam everything, so it pays to be prepared for this. Also, good luck using your car GPS or Strava in Moscow these days because they like to spoof signals too.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 19, 2023 • 2:33:45am

re: #66 darthstar

Looks like the flow of Shahed Drones may begin to slow…though Russia’s now building their own.

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Out of what?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 19, 2023 • 2:40:53am

re: #88 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Out of what?

Shashlik spits

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 19, 2023 • 2:43:38am

Summer cold. Sucks.

It actually cooled off a lot on Sunday and I was up in the hills, must’ve caught a chill in my cargo shorts and T-shirt.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 19, 2023 • 2:55:06am

Misty red rising sun drivetime music

Tacocat - I Love Seattle (Live on KEXP)

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TarHellion  Jul 19, 2023 • 3:24:58am

Like a Birbie. Tweeting for the very first time.

Click to Reveal

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 19, 2023 • 4:15:30am

re: #14 EstebanTornado1963

Fuck that Jason Aldean, he’s lucky he wasn’t killed on 1 October, and doesn’t show any thankfulness or humility. Just a piece of shit like Steve Scalise.

Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town (Official Music Video)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 4:22:13am

re: #67 William Lewis

I have a soft spot for “Stagecoach” as well. Hit’s all the tropes, to be sure, but I like it.

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Heck in 1939 they were defining the tropes

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 4:27:31am

re: #94 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Heck in 1939 they were defining the tropes

Truth = Wayne, Ford, Monument Valley… good combo for a western.

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Thanos  Jul 19, 2023 • 4:34:06am

re: #93 Shropshire Slasher

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Somebody should tell Jason that if he handles his small town gun too much he could go blind.

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 4:48:26am

re: #96 Thanos

Somebody should tell Jason that if he handles his small town gun too much he could go blind.

Hairy palms too.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 4:53:47am

Buried in this stupidity she actually got it right with one word

BIGGS: Maria, we’re talking literally, it’s not $10 million. It’s it’s well over 20, $30 million. And some estimates as high as $100 million flowing through these accounts.

BARTIROMO: Holy moly!

BIGGS: And so, we have to get to the bottom of it. But we’re getting slow-walked ourselves from the administration, obviously, and their partisans and their supporters but this looks more and more sinister every time we look at it…

BARTIROMO: Unbelievable. As much as $100 million taken in by the Biden family is what you just said.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 4:57:01am

Tropical Storm Calvin is passing south of the Big Island now.

Tropical Storm Calvin Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS Central Pacific Hurricane Center Honolulu HI EP032023
0110 AM HST Wed Jul 19 2023

…TROPICAL STORM CALVIN PASSING SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND…

The eye of Tropical Storm Calvin is being tracked by the South
Hawaii WSR-88D radar as it begins to pass south of the Big Island.

SUMMARY OF 0100 AM HST…1100 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…17.8N 155.5W
ABOUT 135 MI…220 KM SSE OF HILO HAWAII
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…50 MPH…85 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR 275 DEGREES AT 20 MPH…31 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1003 MB… 29.62 INCHES
radar.weather.gov (Hilo radar)

Tropical Storm Don is travelling a bit south of west. The storm track has it accelerating toward Newfoundland. It is expected to strengthen more, but turn away from Newfoundland before it reaches the island.
weather.gc.ca (Environment Canada storm track)

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 4:58:56am

Trump’s fellow travelers in Michigan are in the #FAFO phase of finding out that their criminal conduct has consequences. They tried to overthrow the govt and engage in multiple felonies to support Trump’s effort to end democracy in America by stealing the election.

Everything GOPers claim Democrats were doing (all with no evidence of any actual fraud or conspiracy to commit fraud) are things that we have miles of evidence and audio/video proof of criminal conduct from Trump on down, including Eastman, Rudy, and all the rest of Trump’s goon squad. It includes violent efforts to interfere in the certification as well as interfering in federal elections by committing fraud to claim that the election went for Trump when the official certifications went for Biden.

Every last official who went through with Trump’s schemes belongs in prison, including Trump’s fellow GOPers in Congress. None of them are immune, nor should they be.

They tried ending democracy on 1/6, and they’re still at it.

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:00:44am

re: #98 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

It’s unbelievable because there’s literally no evidence of any of this.

Meanwhile, all these fuckers are silent over Trump and Kushner getting *billions* from the Saudis and other sources. Trump repeatedly violated the Emoluments Clause while in office to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Every trip to one of his golf businesses directed federal funds at his companies (which he overcharged for repeatedly).

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:01:15am

Good Morning from West Hills California. I saw this, and I just weep for those clueless enough to be customers.

“Church of Bleach” family goes to trial, representing themselves in court
A Florida family that allegedly formed a faux church and made over $1 million by falsely selling toxic, industrial bleach as a miracle cure for HIV, cancer, COVID-19, and other diseases is now standing trial in Miami.

Florida men charged with selling bleach as COVID-19 cure, threatening “a Waco”
Mark Grenon, 65, his sons Jonathan, 37, Joseph, 35, and Jordan, 29, and their quasi-religious church, Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, based in Bradenton, are all facing federal criminal charges from 2020 of conspiring to defraud the US and selling misbranded drugs. Their trial began Monday.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:01:39am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:04:13am

re: #103 Dave In Austin

Their obese, spray-tanned messiah is going down and all they can do is shed tears of impotent rage.

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:07:40am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:12:13am

re: #92 TarHellion

I gets the birbie, too

Wordle 760 3/6

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Dave In Austin  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:13:26am

re: #104 Dr Lizardo

Their obese, spray-tanned messiah is going down and all they can do is shed tears of impotent rage.

And they are mad today. I’m afraid there will be blood before this is over with.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:13:39am

re: #93 Shropshire Slasher

That is some really shitty poetry.

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:15:32am

re: #107 Dave In Austin

And they are mad today. I’m afraid there will be blood before this is over with.

If they’re mad today, wait until the actual indictments drop, and even more indictments are in the offing. It isn’t over, not by a long shot.

Tears of impotent rage as Trump is being held to account and the GOPers aren’t saying Trump is innocent of the crimes for which he’s indicted. They claim it’s a witch hunt or just straight up lie or distract, deflect, or obfuscate.

They all know Trump did these crimes. They just don’t care. They want Trump in power to further their own white nationalist fascist ambitions.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:18:29am

Looks like Putin will just have to stay in his bunker after all…

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies in South Africa in August “by mutual agreement”, South Africa’s presidency said on Wednesday.

Russia will instead be represented by its Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Johannesburg summit, alongside the leaders of Brazil, India, China and South Africa, the presidency said in a statement.

South Africa faced a dilemma in hosting the summit because, as a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it would theoretically be required to arrest Putin for alleged war crimes if he were to attend.

news.yahoo.com

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:18:53am
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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:24:56am

re: #109 lawhawk

If they’re mad today, wait until the actual indictments drop, and even more indictments are in the offing. It isn’t over, not by a long shot.

Tears of impotent rage as Trump is being held to account and the GOPers aren’t saying Trump is innocent of the crimes for which he’s indicted. They claim it’s a witch hunt or just straight up lie or distract, deflect, or obfuscate.

They all know Trump did these crimes. They just don’t care. They want Trump in power to further their own white nationalist fascist ambitions.

Trump will be in jail by Friday.

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A Cranky One  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:26:43am

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:27:24am

re: #112 Shropshire Slasher

Honest to god, I really want to see Trump held in custody pending trial. If you, or me, or anyone else here on LGF did what Trump did, we’d be cooling our heels in a cell until the trial gets started.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:33:09am

Morning Lizards.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:36:39am

re: #109 lawhawk

If they’re mad today, wait until the actual indictments drop, and even more indictments are in the offing. It isn’t over, not by a long shot.

Tears of impotent rage as Trump is being held to account and the GOPers aren’t saying Trump is innocent of the crimes for which he’s indicted. They claim it’s a witch hunt or just straight up lie or distract, deflect, or obfuscate.

They all know Trump did these crimes. They just don’t care. They want Trump in power to further their own white nationalist fascist ambitions.

a witch hunt should be easy to disprove then

what theyre really mad about is that trump is being investigated at all.
and through those investigations there’s probable cause to indict

it would be one thing to say an innocent man shouldnt have to waste his time and money defending himself in court
(untrue but understandable)

it’s another to imply he has some right to not be investigated at all

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Belafon  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:37:13am

That person who crossed into North Korea and arrested is a US soldier. GMA said he had been in prison before for assault. So my brain immediately went to the idea of him defecting.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:37:43am

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

Honest to god, I really want to see Trump held in custody pending trial. If you, or me, or anyone else here on LGF did what Trump did, we’d be cooling our heels in a cell until the trial gets started.

not if we were running for president // (1/2)

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:42:02am

There’s a birbie hiding among all the work I need to get done today.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:46:52am

Do it….. Do it Lisa… Be a fucking Hero for once!

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BigPapa  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:49:09am

I agree that there will be more blood before this is over. My hope is the right people do most of the bleeding.

In some personal news:

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Dave In Austin  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:49:17am

Coffee and todays chuckle:

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:50:46am

re: #120 Dave In Austin

Do it….. Do it Lisa… Be a fucking Hero for once!

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i believe i read that you voted with TFG and the R’s over 80% of the time.
you caucus with them, you’re endorsing them.

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BigPapa  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:52:12am

re: #122 Dave In Austin

‘Not great, not terrible’

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:56:36am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:58:11am

“he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.” excepting he doesnt - there’s quite a bureaucracy there. but that’s besides the point

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 5:59:48am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:01:26am

Tommy Tuberville pledged to ‘donate every dime’ to veterans. He hasn’t.

“I stand with our veterans and I’m going to donate every dime I make when I’m in Washington, D.C., to the veterans of the state of Alabama. Folks, they deserve it. They deserve it a lot more than most of us.”

— Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), in a Facebook campaign video, March 9, 2020

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:02:03am
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A Cranky One  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:14:28am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:28:58am

Every effing time

Personally i swipe the card as soon as they start scanning. What’s the need to wait?

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:34:21am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:38:48am

re: #67 William Lewis

I have a soft spot for “Stagecoach” as well. Hit’s all the tropes, to be sure, but I like it.

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Stagecoach set a lot of the tropes.

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A Cranky One  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:43:03am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:46:01am

re: #72 TedStriker

Given Russia’s offenses against Ukraine, I know it’s hard to think or speak anything positive about Russians in general; however, Garage 54 is doing the same batshit gonzo automotive madness they’ve always done and, as far as I know, have steered (pun unintended) way clear from anything to do with politics or Ukraine. I’ve subbed to them on YT for years.

That said, here’s something interesting from them: a running, driving cutaway car:

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I remember this stunt from Candid Camera!

Candid Camera Gold: Split Car!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:46:32am

re: #134 A Cranky One

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I don’t think a demon would constantly say “God.”

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:49:27am

re: #131 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I was in a grocery store the other day with my 96-year-old father and an 85 year old woman in line. We were waiting on a woman in her 70s and they rang up a large order for her over $250 as she sat there, chatting happily with the clerk, and when the total came, she decided oh, I think I’m going to now pull out my checkbook, and then she proceeded to write a check in red ink for the wrong amount and then had to do it again in black ink for the right amount. I sat there seething silently, not wanting to make too much of a scene but my dad prides himself to be able to use an ATM card and use it quickly in the store and he and the 85-year-old woman who also had her ATM card ready started ripping the 75 year old a new asshole for trying to write a check:
“who writes a check I’m 96 and I know how to use a card” &the other lady said “and I’m 85 and know how to use a card what’s wrong with you youngster”? 75 year old skulked out of there like a chastised teen —It was hilarious.

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A Cranky One  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:52:12am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:52:32am

re: #136 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I don’t think a demon would constantly say “God.”

“Dad”?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:57:44am

Babylon 5 is coming out on Blu-Ray. Oddly neither the station nor the cast are on the box.
The cast is probably missing so they don’t have to be paid, but I do not know why they’d have a bunch of ships without the station the show is centered around.
It’s the HBO Max remaster at a higher bitrate.

JMS posted about it on facebook.com

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jeffreyw  Jul 19, 2023 • 6:58:40am

Chicken Biscuit

Good morning!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:05:07am

George Santos in danger of losing censure vote as at least 3 Republicans line up against him

Turnabout is fair play after the GOP slimed Adam.

rawstory.com

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:07:05am

re: #142 Joe Bacon ✅

George Santos in danger of losing censure vote as at least 3 Republicans line up against him

Turnabout is fair play after the GOP slimed Adam.

rawstory.com

That implies that this is sliming Santos. I know you didn’t mean to do that.
This is just a psycho facing censure.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:07:14am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:11:29am

re: #137 So Cal Greek Hippie

I was in a grocery store the other day with my 96-year-old father and an 85 year old woman in line. We were waiting on a woman in her 70s and they rang up a large order for her over $250 as she sat there, chatting happily with the clerk, and when the total came, she decided oh, I think I’m going to now pull out my checkbook, and then she proceeded to write a check in red ink for the wrong amount and then had to do it again in black ink for the right amount. I sat there seething silently, not wanting to make too much of a scene but my dad prides himself to be able to use an ATM card and use it quickly in the store and he and the 85-year-old woman who also had her ATM card ready started ripping the 75 year old a new asshole for trying to write a check:
“who writes a check I’m 96 and I know how to use a card” &the other lady said “and I’m 85 and know how to use a card what’s wrong with you youngster”? 75 year old skulked out of there like a chastised teen —It was hilarious.

One of the stores near me instituted a check out lane specifically for people who want to chat (usually lonely, older people). I love that so much!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:14:33am

re: #134 A Cranky One

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I can relate to that.

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:19:09am

re: #121 BigPapa

I agree that there will be more blood before this is over. My hope is the right people do most of the bleeding.

In some personal news:

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Upding from the wench of the wrench.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:19:45am

re: #47 sagehen

I’m always puzzled when Black people talk about watching his movies. My ex got me to watch one where a Black man was called the N word by some White kids and that was enough for me.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:32:37am

re: #126 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

“He talks and people listen.”

Yes, because he will have them SHOT if they don’t listen.

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:34:01am

Mastodon

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steve_davis  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:43:30am

re: #127 lawhawk

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i mean, not a lawyer, but that’s nearly word for word what went through my head when i read the complaint. were trump’s lawyers just looking for billable hours?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:44:22am

And it’s another foggy bogey morning.

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:44:40am

I capitulated for the birbie.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:44:56am

re: #115 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning Lizards.

HA! LOL! ROLF! other stuff!

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:47:15am

re: #153 wrenchwench

I capitulated for the birbie.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:48:10am

Well, this seems like a big deal.

dutchnews.nl

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Dr. Matt  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:48:33am

re: #6 DodgerFan1988

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How many white trash MAGA Nazis that stormed the capital were from a “small town”?

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jeffreyw  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:49:27am

Mastodon

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:50:38am

Pansies from Yokahama.

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steve_davis  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:52:15am

re: #137 So Cal Greek Hippie

I was in a grocery store the other day with my 96-year-old father and an 85 year old woman in line. We were waiting on a woman in her 70s and they rang up a large order for her over $250 as she sat there, chatting happily with the clerk, and when the total came, she decided oh, I think I’m going to now pull out my checkbook, and then she proceeded to write a check in red ink for the wrong amount and then had to do it again in black ink for the right amount. I sat there seething silently, not wanting to make too much of a scene but my dad prides himself to be able to use an ATM card and use it quickly in the store and he and the 85-year-old woman who also had her ATM card ready started ripping the 75 year old a new asshole for trying to write a check:
“who writes a check I’m 96 and I know how to use a card” &the other lady said “and I’m 85 and know how to use a card what’s wrong with you youngster”? 75 year old skulked out of there like a chastised teen —It was hilarious.

having had to live po’ before, I try to be really sensitive to stuff like that. it makes me wonder if someone is writing a check on an account that is controlled by someone else, or some other odd situation, ‘cause yeah, I stopped writing checks when USAA finally figured out how to let me do autopay for my insurance.

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:53:01am


Scraping the bottom of the barrel.

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:55:09am

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:55:38am

re: #161 DodgerFan1988

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Scraping the bottom of the barrel.

“DO SOMETHING!!! Before the walls close in on me and I end up going to jail for the rest of my natural life for crimes I totally committed, but shouldn’t be held accountable for!”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:57:03am

re: #156 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Well, this seems like a big deal.

dutchnews.nl

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The verb to sack is from to give the sack, to dismiss from employment, and to get the sack, to receive one’s dismissal.

Earlier versions used the nouns bag and canvas. To give the bag means to dismiss, but originally had the opposite signification: to leave without warning. For example, in A quip for an vpstart courtier: or, A quaint dispute between veluet breeches and cloth-breeches Wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all estates and trades (1592), the English writer and playwright Robert Greene (1558?-1592) thus addressed the shoemakers:
Well for your knauery, you shall haue those cursses which belongs vnto your craft: you shall bee light footed to trauell far, light witted vpon euery small occation to giue your maister the bag.

It is generally said that the expressions to give/get the sack (or the bag, or the canvas) were taken from the practice of journeymen mechanics who travelled in quest of work carrying their own tools in a bag. When they were discharged, their employers handed them back the bag, where their tools had been packed up preparatory to their removal.

However, nothing seems to corroborate this theory, which anyway does not account for the original meaning of to give the bag, to leave without warning.

IN FRENCH

The verb saquer, or sacquer, attested in 1866, also means to dismiss from employment.

It is apparently from the obsolete phrase donner (à quelqu’un) son sac et ses quilles, literally to give (someone) their bag and their skittles, recorded by Randle Cotgrave in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611):
Donner son sac, & ses quilles à. On luy a donné son sac, &c. [= He has been given his bag, etc.] He hath his pasport giuen him, he is turned out to grazing; (said of a seruant whom his maister hath put away.)

wordhistories.net

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 7:59:59am
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Unabogie  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:01:56am

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:02:56am

re: #92 TarHellion

Like a Birbie. Tweeting for the very first time.

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Birbie here too

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:04:02am

re: #131 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Every effing time

Personally i swipe the card as soon as they start scanning. What’s the need to wait?

Same here, except I have my wallet out already with cash.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:04:11am

Matt Gaetz’ wife.

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:06:32am

Gaetz is projecting like IMAX and is interfering in ongoing investigations into Trump and GOP criminal conduct to overthrow the government and interfere in the election certification process (among other felonies Trump and his coconspirators and accomplices committed).

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:10:45am

re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same here, except I have my wallet out already with cash.

i knew that you would

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:10:52am

Lol.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:16:28am

re: #137 So Cal Greek Hippie

When I write a cheque in the store, I fill in all the parts I can when the order is being rung up. The only part to fill in is the amount.

Debit cards are slower anyway. (Is this the correct amount? X Do you want to add more money for charity? X Take this stylus and scrawl an illegible signature on the screen. Press OK. Register thinks about it. Bank computer’s down or the machine can’t read your card, purchase rejected. Do you have a different card?)

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ericblair  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:17:18am

re: #156 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Well, this seems like a big deal.

dutchnews.nl

I guess if you’re an accountant and want a Big Four job in the Netherlands, there are going to be a shitload of positions opening up.

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ckkatz  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:18:17am

re: #161 DodgerFan1988

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Scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Mining the nuggets from the bottom of the litterbox…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:19:44am

A rhetorical question no doubt.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:22:04am

re: #172 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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A Cranky One  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:23:29am

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:23:57am

Mastodon

Mastodon

He continues…

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darthstar  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:34:22am

Quick question for mac users - friend just called and her husband’s mac had some malware on it - their son was able to run malware bytes and clean it up. But now she’s not sure if his laptop is really clean (he’s got a brain tumor so he’s not super focused hence she reached out to me).

Are there any utilities I can recommend she run to help give her a little peace of mind? She’s already going and changing bank passwords and shit.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:37:03am

re: #174 ericblair

I guess if you’re an accountant and want a Big Four job in the Netherlands, there are going to be a shitload of positions opening up.

being an accountant used to mean ethics, integrity, honesty, objectivity
you know, like a supreme court judge

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Jay C  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:37:34am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When I write a cheque in the store, I fill in all the parts I can when the order is being rung up. The only part to fill in is the amount.

Debit cards are slower anyway. (Is this the correct amount? X Do you want to add more money for charity? X Take this stylus and scrawl an illegible signature on the screen. Press OK. Register thinks about it. Bank computer’s down or the machine can’t read your card, purchase rejected. Do you have a different card?)

Like, I am sure, a substantial number of my fellow ancient veteran Lizards, I well remember the days before universal card-readers in grocery stores (and, astonishingly, the economy worked just fine!), and if I wanted to pay by check -and not hold up the line - I’d simply write one out and sign it before shopping: and only have to fill out the numbers. Not all that hard (though, even given the numerous failpoints, card-readers and self-checkout ARE often quicker/easier).

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:38:38am

re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg

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A rhetorical question no doubt.

1. ken starr was a talkative idiot
2. smith is better at the job

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:40:18am

Most stores I go to use Apple & Google Pay. I just scan my Apple Watch and the payment is made.

Just opened my checkbook and notice the last time I wrote a check was December of 2018. Since then all payments have been made on line…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:41:06am

I don’t use checks much anymore, but still use cash regularly for smaller purchases.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:41:42am

re: #183 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

1. ken starr was a talkative idiot
2. smith is better at the job

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The same Ken Starr who went on the endless hunt of the Clenis covered up sex scandals at Baylor.

Of course Mark Levin sees nothing wrong with what Shithead Starr did at Baylor.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:44:50am

Mastodon

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ericblair  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:44:51am

re: #182 Jay C

Like, I am sure, a substantial number of my fellow ancient veteran Lizards, I well remember the days before universal card-readers in grocery stores (and, astonishingly, the economy worked just fine!), and if I wanted to pay by check -and not hold up the line - I’d simply write one out and sign it before shopping: and only have to fill out the numbers. Not all that hard (though, even given the numerous failpoints, card-readers and self-checkout ARE often quicker/easier).

Europe is mostly contactless now. Plop card on scanner for two seconds, if it’s more than 50 euros enter your PIN, if not you’re on your merry way.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:45:36am

Mastodon

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:46:30am

As a vet, I do believe there are legitimate reasons to fight but there are also many times they push us into illegitimate fights as well.

The Clash - The Call Up (Official Video)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:55:47am
The wheels of justice grind exceeding slow, but it now seems likely that within a few weeks, the twice impeached, defeated ex-president will face four separate criminal indictments.”

“This will be on top of the conviction of the Trump Organizations on 17 felony counts, including tax fraud, and a federal jury finding that the ex-president had raped and defamed E. Jean Carroll.”

“By any rational measure, Trump’s disgrace is absolute, comprehensive, and about to get far worse. As Tom Nichols noted on our podcast yesterday: ‘It is a ghastly reality that the only job left that Donald Trump could get in this country is president of the United States.’”

“And yet, his grip on the GOP seems stronger than ever.”

Link

almost mananged to bold the whole thing

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Dave In Austin  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:56:39am

Something is better than nothing. But this turd needs to live in the bleach bottle the rest of her days.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:57:53am

re: #191 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:58:37am

Mastodon

2:59

Guntown

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:59:14am

re: #191 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 19, 2023 • 8:59:35am

re: #191 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I love the fact that Trump’s spending the rest of his life in prison is almost inevitable — unless a Republican is elected, of course.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:00:06am
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Patricia Kayden  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:01:24am

re: #195 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Or hear me out. Trump is being charged with multiple felonies because he’s a criminal. The fact that Republicans support him says how crooked and corrupt they are.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:03:19am

The GOP needs a new mascot and I suggest they dump the elephant and replace it with a condom.

Why?

Because it protects pricks and gives one a false sense of security when they’re getting screwed…

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:03:25am

re: #193 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Because he’s not special. He’s only more vocal than the rest in his intent to gain authoritarian power and to use it to punish and imprison his political enemies.

The GOP are an authoritarian party and Trump is their standard bearer precisely because he is most vocal in advancing their racist and regressive agenda. There’s nothing conservative about any of it.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:03:59am

re: #195 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:07:01am

One of those mornings. Need more beer & rum :D

Youtube Video

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:07:35am

re: #202 William Lewis

One of those mornings. Need more beer & rum :D

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Now why didn’t that vid show properly? huh…

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Teukka  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:07:38am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:08:47am

re: #196 Patricia Kayden

I love the fact that Trump’s spending the rest of his life in prison is almost inevitable — unless a Republican is elected, of course.

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:09:57am

re: #203 William Lewis

Now why didn’t that vid show properly? huh…

I think it’s dealing with the autoplay. Sometimes they do that only in Master Spy, and render fully here, sometimes not.

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BigPapa  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:11:12am

re: #204 Teukka

The day is still young.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:13:30am

Screw Screwitt turns on Tommy T

Enough, Sen. Tuberville. It isn’t ‘pro-life’ to damage military lives.

washingtonpost.com

At every level, those below depend on the competence of those above. The nation’s political leaders, admittedly, might not have always selected the best generals and admirals to put at the top. But until now, never in my memory have those down in the ranks been given reason to believe that the political leadership is intentionally screwing up the chain of command by ensuring the best people are kept out of the top jobs. Or, rather, that a solitary individual on Capitol Hill is doing this to the U.S. military.

That person is Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.). He has frozen hundreds of nominations and promotions of senior military leaders to express his unhappiness over Defense Department abortion policies.

Tuberville should immediately stop holding the military chain of command hostage. That was also the message delivered by retired U.S. Adm. James Stavridis in a radio interview with me on Monday. Stavridis noted that Tuberville is famed in Alabama for running the Auburn University football program, adding, “but this is not a game.”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:14:06am

;-)

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jeffreyw  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:15:47am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:17:12am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:19:00am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:21:16am

between Trump’s election in 2016 and the 2024 election, the number of Gen Z (born in the late 1990s and early 2010s) voters will have advanced by a net 52 million against older people. That’s about 20 percent of the total 2020 eligible electorate of 258 million Americans.”

“And unlike previous generations, Gen Z votes.”

Link

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:22:21am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:22:28am

re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg

Is that the honourable Ken Starr who covered up rape cases while he was at Baylor? That honourable Ken Starr?

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:24:14am

How do you report a Toot on Mastodon?

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:24:44am

re: #192 Dave In Austin

Something is better than nothing. But this turd needs to live in the bleach bottle the rest of her days.

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The Ginni made us do it! defense is something I’ve dreamed about hearing. Imagine a SCOTUS wife on state felony charges.

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Teukka  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:25:56am

re: #214 lawhawk

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“Deprivation of rights under color of law”!?
Holy fecal matter, that’s serious…

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Dr. Matt  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:28:08am

re: #191 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

re: #192 Dave In Austin

I’m starting to think the GOP are the actual swamp in DC.😐😐😐

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Captain Ron  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:28:58am
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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:29:40am

re: #216 Vicious Babushka

How do you report a Toot on Mastodon?

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If those weren’t screenshots, I would use them to learn how.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:29:51am

re: #214 lawhawk

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conspiracy means other people, right?

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:30:47am

re: #218 Teukka

“Deprivation of rights under color of law”!?
Holy fecal matter, that’s serious…

What laws did Trump break?

All of them.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:31:05am

re: #218 Teukka

“Deprivation of rights under color of law”!?
Holy fecal matter, that’s serious…

i bet it’s getting a lot of google activity today

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:31:21am

re: #220 Captain Ron

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Cornel West chime in yet about Russia bombing the grain ports?

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:31:33am

So my GF lives in Memphis which got slammed yesterday by storms. Her house is without power, probably down for days, not a happy thing. Trying to find info on it I ran into this, though, which was a much more…

Pleasant…

Way to think of her and Memphis :D Can ya’all guess why? :)

John Hiatt - Drive South

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:32:09am

re: #222 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Two or more people. Yes.

There are a lot of people who will be indicted along with Trump. I also expect there to be unindicted coconspirators as well, including any of those who might have turned evidence on Trump.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:32:52am

re: #119 Nerdy Fish

There’s a birbie hiding among all the work I need to get done today.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:33:37am

re: #221 wrenchwench

If those weren’t screenshots, I would use them to learn how.

OK I found the original toot. Reported & blocked now. According to its user profile, it is a tankie who hates the US and Israel.

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lawhawk  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:34:10am

re: #224 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

DOJ has a summary of what that all means:

Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.

The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:34:46am

re: #224 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i bet it’s getting a lot of google activity today

Deprivation of rights - seems pretty obvious
Under color of law - As an official act of the state, i.e. “it is my government responsibility to deprive you of your rights” (no it isn’t)

It’s a civil rights violation, obviously, but my question is what, exactly?

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:35:07am

re: #229 Vicious Babushka

OK I found the original toot. Reported & blocked now. According to its user profile, it is a tankie who hates the US and Israel.

I found how to report the tooter, but not the toot. Or does that come up in the process? (I was using a different toot.)

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:35:32am

re: #229 Vicious Babushka

OK I found the original toot. Reported & blocked now. According to its user profile, it is a tankie who hates the US and Israel.

Good work. Thank you, that’s how we keep the extinct Mammut clean.

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sagehen  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:37:53am

re: #231 Nerdy Fish

Deprivation of rights - seems pretty obvious
Under color of law - As an official act of the state, i.e. “it is my government responsibility to deprive you of your rights” (no it isn’t)

It’s a civil rights violation, obviously, but my question is what, exactly?

beating up the Capitol Police, maybe? 140 of them were injured enough to require medical care; several dozen required hospitalization.

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:43:27am

Just as an aside, I’m watching a bunch of Youtube videos.

Every real decent band has at least one _really_ good song in them. The lucky ones get a hit out of that song. I just watched “Deep Blue Something” sing a medley of their hit …

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany’s

and while it would be nice for them if they’d had more success, that song’s residuals will pay them more than they might realize for decades to come. Not a small thing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:45:28am

re: #200 lawhawk

Because he’s not special. He’s only more vocal than the rest in his intent to gain authoritarian power and to use it to punish and imprison his political enemies.

The GOP are an authoritarian party and Trump is their standard bearer precisely because he is most vocal in advancing their racist and regressive agenda. There’s nothing conservative about any of it.

Again, for hundreds of years, by the principle thinkers of conservatism, the only goal of conservatism is power. Why they should have it and you should not.

It is exactly conservative. “Above the law” is a conservative position.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:51:56am

re: #169 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Matt Gaetz’ wife.

All conservatives lie. Even when they don’t have to, they lie.

She could have just said she liked the fashion presented in the movie.

Instead she tacks on “Barbie represented faith and family.” Since when? I wasn’t aware of “Christian pastor” Barbie or “mother of three kids” Barbie.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 19, 2023 • 9:53:44am

re: #237 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

All conservatives lie. Even when they don’t have to, they lie.

She could have just said she liked the fashion presented in the movie.

Instead she tacks on “Barbie represented faith and family.” Since when? I wasn’t aware of “Christian pastor” Barbie or “mother of three kids” Barbie.

Well, for a good portion of Protestants, and all Catholics, this is a logical contradiction in terms.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:01:09am

re: #231 Nerdy Fish

Deprivation of rights - seems pretty obvious
Under color of law - As an official act of the state, i.e. “it is my government responsibility to deprive you of your rights” (no it isn’t)

It’s a civil rights violation, obviously, but my question is what, exactly?

Just a wild guess but the conspiracy to frame Ruby Freeman seems like it was absolutely intended to deprive her of her 5th amendment right to due process.

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:01:57am

re: #238 Nerdy Fish

Well, for a good portion of Protestants, and all Catholics, this is a logical contradiction in terms.

Shh. Forget it, it’s “chinatown” I suppose. He listens about as well as the LAPD so it makes a good comparison… 😨

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:03:28am

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:07:29am

re: #216 Vicious Babushka

How do you report a Toot on Mastodon?

According to GitHub, the only way to report farts toots is to reach out to the administrator of your “instance” so that person can tell the owner of the other “instance,” or if you can, report it directly to the owner of the originating “instance.”

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:08:21am

re: #220 Captain Ron

Enough.

If we, NATO, are unwilling to bring the Russians to heel, then give Ukraine everything short of WMDs and let ‘em take the gloves off.

IRBMs, Tomahawk cruise missiles, the whole enchilada.

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William Lewis  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:09:47am

This morning I weighed myself. I was quite surprised even though I’ve been on my diet for quiet a while, I am now officially 60 lbs lighter than when I started.

12 lbs away from my big first goal - getting under 300 again.

Getting there folks, getting there.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:10:49am

re: #242 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

According to GitHub, the only way to report farts toots is to reach out to the administrator of your “instance” so that person can tell the owner of the other “instance,” or if you can, report it directly to the owner of the originating “instance.”

There is a “report user” option on the 3-dot menu of the user’s toot.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:10:59am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:11:07am

re: #244 William Lewis

This morning I weighed myself. I was quite surprised even though I’ve been on my diet for quiet a while, I am now officially 60 lbs lighter than when I started.

12 lbs away from my big first goal - getting under 300 again.

Getting there folks, getting there.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:11:23am

re: #238 Nerdy Fish

Well, for a good portion of Protestants, and all Catholics, this is a logical contradiction in terms.

St. Augustine justified Lying for Jesus in a rebuttal to Publius Consentious’s book against lying, saying it was vital to save people from Hell.

No one has ever heard of Consentious, but St. Augustine was elevated to the position “Doctor of the Church.”

In his foundational texts on Protestantism, Martin Luther also justified Lying for Jesus using the same logic.

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ckkatz  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:11:23am

re: #244 William Lewis

This morning I weighed myself. I was quite surprised even though I’ve been on my diet for quiet a while, I am now officially 60 lbs lighter than when I started.

12 lbs away from my big first goal - getting under 300 again.

Getting there folks, getting there.

Congratulations! Wishing you much success in that endeavor!

Although let’s be clear that we do not want to see less of you.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:11:45am

re: #246 Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

Is that last week’s pic? // ;-)

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:13:05am

re: #250 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Is that last week’s pic? // ;-)

I don’t take a photo every day but these are today’s loaves.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:14:08am

Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.

The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

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danarchy  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:16:22am

re: #180 darthstar

Quick question for mac users - friend just called and her husband’s mac had some malware on it - their son was able to run malware bytes and clean it up. But now she’s not sure if his laptop is really clean (he’s got a brain tumor so he’s not super focused hence she reached out to me).

Are there any utilities I can recommend she run to help give her a little peace of mind? She’s already going and changing bank passwords and shit.

My rule of thumb, is once something has been compromised the only way to be sure is to nuke it from orbit and start over. Format and reinstall (unless you have a known good restore image)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:20:03am

re: #244 William Lewis

This morning I weighed myself. I was quite surprised even though I’ve been on my diet for quiet a while, I am now officially 60 lbs lighter than when I started.

12 lbs away from my big first goal - getting under 300 again.

Getting there folks, getting there.

I feel you there. I’m about 3 lbs away from my goal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:21:35am

I have to go to town.

Warning across the weather radio going on now: This radio station is going off the air.

Currently we have a slight chance of severe thunderstorms.

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dat_said  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:22:01am

U of Minnesota Ends Legacy Admissions

I’m good with this (even though it takes away an advantage from my two kids).

Love the drollness of this quote:

“It was not adding additional insight into enrolling academically prepared students,” Risic said.

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Teukka  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:22:14am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:22:28am

re: #252 Dave In Austin

The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

I say go for the gusto!!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:24:11am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:25:30am

re: #251 Vicious Babushka

I don’t take a photo every day but these are today’s loaves.

I knew that
Just a bit of humor ( hopefully)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:27:25am

re: #257 Teukka

[Embedded content]

Start so that i, a non account holder , can see the other 8 tweets

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dat_said  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:32:09am

At New College of Florida, a ‘ridiculously high’ number of faculty are gone

More than one-third of New College of Florida faculty will not be returning in the fall.

That’s according to Provost Bradley Thiessen, who called the 36 departures in a single year a “ridiculously high” number for a school with fewer than 100 full-time teachers.

I know that’s what DeSantis wanted to happen but students, who have invested time and money, are screwed. Not everyone can transfer (though I do wonder how many have).

That leaves students like Alaska Miller, a third-year cognitive science major, with few options. There are no upper-year neuroscience classes offered in the fall, she said. Until the school hires more faculty, it’s impossible for her to move forward with her degree.

“That means either I don’t graduate on time or I’d have to abandon my major,” Miller said. Switching to another field means giving up on her dream of pursuing a graduate degree in neuroscience, and she cannot afford to transfer to another school out of state.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 19, 2023 • 10:40:36am

re: #226 William Lewis

So my GF lives in Memphis which got slammed yesterday by storms. Her house is without power, probably down for days, not a happy thing. Trying to find info on it I ran into this, though, which was a much more…

Pleasant…

Way to think of her and Memphis :D Can ya’all guess why? :)

[Embedded content]

Oh the times I used to have in Memphis. I had a friend there when I lived in Greenville MS. I’d head up after work on a Friday and stay the weekend. Much (as much as I remember) merriment ensued.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 19, 2023 • 11:25:47am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When I write a cheque in the store, I fill in all the parts I can when the order is being rung up. The only part to fill in is the amount.

Debit cards are slower anyway. (Is this the correct amount? X Do you want to add more money for charity? X Take this stylus and scrawl an illegible signature on the screen. Press OK. Register thinks about it. Bank computer’s down or the machine can’t read your card, purchase rejected. Do you have a different card?)

I never have to take a stylus and scrawl an illegible signature on the screen when I use my DEBIT card. I have occasionally had to when I use my credit cards, but even that is increasingly rare these days. And the card reader never asks me if I want to add money for charity: the cashier does when she’s ringing me up, and I politely tell her, “No,” and she continues ringing me up. The only thing the card readers here ask me when I use my debit card outside of my PIN is whether I want cash back or not and, again, I press “No.”

And in almost 30 years of regular debit card use, I can count the number of times the bank computer has been down on the fingers of one hand.

I regularly write only two checks a month (sometimes three) and I generally do not carry more than $60 worth of cash on me. (Usually, I carry only between $20-$40 that I can break in order to do laundry at the laundromat.)

Before 1994, I would write checks at the grocery store and prefill everything but the amount, but it takes me longer to write LEGIBLY something like “One hundred, thirty-seven and 59/100” than to pop in the card and enter my PIN and a simple “No” for the cash back option.

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austin_blue  Jul 19, 2023 • 11:43:56am

re: #212 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

[Embedded content]

Average age:

68.8125 years.

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darthstar  Jul 19, 2023 • 11:48:47am

re: #221 wrenchwench

If those weren’t screenshots, I would use them to learn how.

Three dots,report user.

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 11:57:36am

re: #266 darthstar

Three dots,report user.

Found that, did not find ‘report post’.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 19, 2023 • 12:00:41pm

re: #267 wrenchwench

Found that, did not find ‘report post’.

click the three dots and scroll all the way down the drop list. Report Post is in red type.

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wrenchwench  Jul 19, 2023 • 12:04:46pm

re: #268 Backwoods Sleuth

click the three dots and scroll all the way down the drop list. Report Post is in red type.

I see no red type. Bottom on my list is ‘report domain’. But I’m looking on posts that I don’t actually want to report, so I’m not trying everything.


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