ABC News: Donald Trump Scribbled To-Do Lists on Classified Documents

LawSeptember 2023 • Views: 14,799

It’s not the worst thing Donald Trump has done, but scribbling to-do lists for his assistant on White House documents marked classified is one of those small details that really shows how little respect this thug had for the office.

One of former President Donald Trump’s long-time assistants told federal investigators that Trump repeatedly wrote to-do lists for her on documents from the White House that were marked classified, according to sources familiar with her statements.

As described to ABC News, the aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that — more than once — she received requests or taskings from Trump that were written on the back of notecards, and she later recognized those notecards as sensitive White House materials — with visible classification markings — used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with foreign leaders or other international-related matters.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Sep 18, 2023 • 4:34:28pm

Ah, new thread scent.

Backwoods Sleuth Sep 18, 2023 • 4:40:06pm

Mastodon

wrenchwench Sep 18, 2023 • 4:41:23pm

As ABC News previously reported, Michael is believed to be the person identified in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment as “Trump Employee 2,” described in the indictment as someone who handled many of Trump’s White House-era boxes at Mar-a-Lago and who provided Trump with photos of those boxes that were then included in the indictment.

So she may not have taken the photo, but she may have handled my favorite part of Mar-a-Largate: The background for the Bed, Bath, and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt meme.

sizzzzlerz Sep 18, 2023 • 4:43:18pm

re: #2 Backwoods Sleuth

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No. That was the Constitution.

wrenchwench Sep 18, 2023 • 4:43:43pm

re: #2 Backwoods Sleuth

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The to-do-do list?

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 18, 2023 • 4:53:57pm

re: #5 wrenchwench

The to-do-do list?

to do doo list

jaunte Sep 18, 2023 • 4:55:05pm

“She received requests or taskings from Trump “

Get Peppsi button fix

Charles Johnson Sep 18, 2023 • 4:58:09pm

Updated to iOS 17. Favorite new feature: Stand-By.

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 4:59:19pm

re: #1 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Ah, new thread scent.

The other one smelled of Musk, Boebert’s perfume, and Trump’s flop sweat.

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 4:59:58pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Updated to iOS 17. Favorite new feature: Stand-By.

They stop using national parks to name their releases and move to insurrectionist groups?

wrenchwench Sep 18, 2023 • 5:04:22pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Updated to iOS 17. Favorite new feature: Stand-By.

OK, I’m ready….

Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 18, 2023 • 5:05:02pm

When I first read the headline, I thought he wrote to do lists about the classified dox. Ie what to do with them.

Then I reread.
He wrote to do lists on the classified dox.

Omfg.

She wasn’t cleared right?
Shouldn’t have had access?

So another one who didn’t blow the whistle while it was happening. Job, party, status whatever more important than democracy.

jaunte Sep 18, 2023 • 5:08:11pm

re: #12 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

And kept them ‘securely’ under her desk organizer until the day AFTER the FBI had come through.

Charles Johnson Sep 18, 2023 • 5:08:59pm

Except - I just noticed that Stand-By mode automatically goes dark. Apparently my iPhone 11 is too old and feeble to support “always on” mode.

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 5:13:37pm

Okay - trying out this Ahsoka show. Needs me some lasery splodey shit after a long day.

Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 18, 2023 • 5:15:27pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

OK I want to see if that will work on my iPhoneSE.

Sure is taking a loooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnggggg time to prepare the upgrade…

wrenchwench Sep 18, 2023 • 5:16:35pm

re: #13 jaunte

And kept them ‘securely’ under her desk organizer until the day AFTER the FBI had come through.

That may keep her in the unindicted category. She’s still a co-conspirator.

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 5:25:54pm

re: #15 darthstar

Okay - trying out this Ahsoka show. Needs me some lasery splodey shit after a long day.

Do all the women with pilates instructor bodies in this show have those sexy rubber dreadlocks?

Belafon Sep 18, 2023 • 5:31:43pm

re: #18 darthstar

Do all the women with pilates instructor bodies in this show have those sexy rubber dreadlocks?

Ahsoka has had a rough life. Lot’s of moving about will do that to you.

The other one is just secretly married to Obi-wan.

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 5:33:44pm

re: #19 Belafon

Ahsoka has had a rough life. Lot’s of moving about will do that to you.

The other one is just secretly married to Obi-wan.

And Sabine is a secret Mandalorian? I saw the helmet when she was feeding her cat.

jaunte Sep 18, 2023 • 5:40:27pm

For some reason high riding boots are popular in Ahsoka space.

Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 18, 2023 • 5:48:44pm

I can’t…stop…laughing…

Rudy Giuliani sued by his lawyer for $1.36 million in unpaid legal fees

iapps.courts.state.ny.us

I got to check to see if Mercury is still in retrograde…that guarantees Rudy’s gonna get screwed even more!

Belafon Sep 18, 2023 • 5:49:00pm

Who didn’t expect this:

Whoa – big @mikeallen scoop on the secret campaign by top Trump allies to get Texas AG Ken Paxton acquitted.

“It was made clear to Texas GOP senators that they’d face a very well-funded primary opponent in their next election if they voted to impeach.”https://t.co/OhG6gZe9Lw pic.twitter.com/bR7W04RsCX

— Emma Loop (@LoopEmma) September 17, 2023

Belafon Sep 18, 2023 • 5:51:40pm

A reminder that 49m jobs have been created in America since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.

47m of those, 96%, have been created under Democratic Presidents. Essentially all of them. pic.twitter.com/tyH3xJmbvL

— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) September 14, 2023

Belafon Sep 18, 2023 • 5:52:38pm

That car cost 40% of median family income in 1955. Today, 40% of median family income is $37,000. You can buy a car that is in every aspect (safety, comfort, efficiency) superior to that car for under $30,000 (e.g., a Camry starts at $27K) pic.twitter.com/cxqUKzdjlZ

— Jeremy Horpedahl 🤷‍♂️ (@jmhorp) September 16, 2023

So Cal Greek Hippie Sep 18, 2023 • 5:54:43pm

Catching up:
On classified documents: Did the Trump to do list become classified upon writing it on a classified document? So sloppy and gross
On negative steep slope trend lines:
3 Musketeers, Edmund Muskie, Muskrat Love, Musk by Jovan, Elon Musk
On me: Glorious afternoon off taking my dad to the doctor and a gas and wash on the old car with 241k miles. Best part is my 96 year old dad was impatient for the car wash to finish although he did acknowledge a good job for the $

Decatur Deb Sep 18, 2023 • 5:56:32pm

re: #25 Belafon

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But you can’t get that car for 37,000.

How much is a 1955 Chevy worth today?
1955 Chevrolet Bel Air
STATUS SELLER
FOR SALE $45,000 Hemmings updated Sep 6, 2023
FOR SALE $108,000 Gateway Classic Cars updated Sep 5, 2023
FOR SALE $74,900 Classic Auto Mall updated Sep 3, 2023
FOR SALE $77,000 Classic Auto Mall updated Aug 30, 2023

Belafon Sep 18, 2023 • 6:00:09pm

One of the fun aspects of One Piece is how close they have been able to stay to the appearance of the comic versions of the characters.

Charles Johnson Sep 18, 2023 • 6:17:09pm

re: #28 Belafon

One of the fun aspects of One Piece is how close they have been able to stay to the appearance of the comic versions of the characters.

I’m really looking forward to another season of this off-the-wall series.

GlutenFreeJesus Sep 18, 2023 • 6:25:12pm

re: #20 darthstar

Not really a secret. She was a big part in the Rebels series as a Mando. She was just done with that life… until….

Dave In Austin Sep 18, 2023 • 6:30:52pm

Question to the group.

Keeping in mind it’s a different era. Do you think Rachel Maddow is in the same league as Cronkite and Hunt/Brink?

Just a question for thought.

Florida Panhandler Sep 18, 2023 • 6:32:45pm

re: #25 Belafon

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Except now every red-blooded American male voting Republican by birth is entitled to a $80,000 Bro-Dozer 7.2L turbo Diesel with 8in lift kit.

Vicious Babushka Sep 18, 2023 • 6:34:11pm

re: #31 Dave In Austin

Question to the group.

Keeping in mind it’s a different era. Do you think Rachel Maddow is in the same league as Cronkite and Hunt/Brink?

Just a question for thought.

Cronkite & Hunt/Brink did not have to deal with the tsunami of bullshit that we have today. So I think Maddow surpasses them.

retired cynic Sep 18, 2023 • 6:36:27pm

re: #33 Vicious Babushka

They didn’t do a lot of their on research, did they? I admired the heck out of Cronkite myself, but Maddow does a lot of her expensive.

Dave In Austin Sep 18, 2023 • 6:39:59pm

re: #34 retired cynic

They didn’t do a lot of their on research, did they? I admired the heck out of Cronkite myself, but Maddow does a lot of her expensive.

I think she has staff and may field her own production company. I may be way off base here.

retired cynic Sep 18, 2023 • 6:41:14pm

re: #34 retired cynic

Sorry, but cat attacked me hand for not paying attention and somehow research became expensive. In more ways that one, apparently.

Cheechako Sep 18, 2023 • 6:41:17pm

For your amusement:

Bears raid a Krispy Kreme doughnut van making deliveries on JBER

A Cranky One Sep 18, 2023 • 6:47:04pm

Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 18, 2023 • 6:51:45pm

Say kids! Here’s more ~~Democrats~~ Republicans in Disarray!

Gosh! Will the CCCP take notice of…this in a bright crimson red state?

Infighting erupts as county GOP sues Idaho Republican Party

The Bingham County Republican Central Committee’s executive committee has filed a lawsuit against the Idaho Republican Party to block Idaho GOP Chairwoman Dorothy Moon from stepping in to fill county leadership vacancies.

The lawsuit appears to represent another example of the divide within the Republican Party between Moon and her allies in state leadership and the longtime establishment wing of the GOP.

On Thursday, the Bingham County Republican Central Committee’s executive committee filed the lawsuit in Seventh Judicial District Court in Bingham County. Then, on Friday, District Judge Darren B. Simpson granted a temporary restraining order blocking Moon from conducting her meeting to elect Bingham County Republican officers on Monday.

In the lawsuit, the Bingham County Republican Central Committee’s executive committee and Chairman Matt Thompson allege that Moon invalided the results of the Bingham County Republican Central Committee’s July 20 meeting where Thompson was elected chairman to replace outgoing chairman Dan Cravens, who announced he was resigning because he was moving out of state.

According to court records, Moon announced she would conduct a new meeting to elect county leaders on Monday, when several regular members of the Bingham County Republican Central Committee were known to be out of town.

Thompson filed an appeal of Moon’s decision on Sept. 14 with the Idaho GOP, but Moon declined to cancel Monday’s election meeting, according to the lawsuit.

In the suit, the Bingham County Republican Central Committee’s executive committee alleges that Moon broke party rules by not allowing the appeal to be heard.

“Chairwoman Moon talks about upholding the rules, but she’s breaking the rules by not allowing us to appeal,” Thompson said in a written statement.

Efforts to reach Moon on Friday and Monday were unsuccessful.

In a series of articles reported by the Idaho Capital Sun, several Republicans said Moon and her allies have divided the party by stripping the Federation of Republican Women, Idaho Young Republicans and Idaho College Republicans of their voting power with the Idaho GOP’s state central committee. Republicans also cited the party’s planned move to a presidential nominating caucus and a new rule forcing voters who switch parties to wait two years or more before voting in a Republican primary election as issues that have divided the party.

During a press conference endorsing an open primary ballot initiative last week, former Idaho first lady Lori Otter, a Republican, called out Moon by name and urged women and young people in the Republican Party to take the party back.

“If you don’t pay attention to what’s happening to this party, this party is going to lose its power of everything that the Republican Party stands for,” Otter said Tuesday.

alternet.org

Florida Panhandler Sep 18, 2023 • 6:55:20pm

Take this for what you will.

Vicious Babushka Sep 18, 2023 • 6:57:33pm

re: #40 Florida Panhandler

Take this for what you will.

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I am lux communism.

calochortus Sep 18, 2023 • 6:58:11pm

re: #40 Florida Panhandler

Take this for what you will.

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Hmmm, Classical Liberal looks pretty good, but Eco Anarchism is very tempting too.

William Lewis Sep 18, 2023 • 7:01:46pm

I’ll have an order of lux communisim, please. 😎

The Ghost of a Flea Sep 18, 2023 • 7:09:38pm

re: #21 jaunte

For some reason high riding boots are popular in Ahsoka space.

Kind of makes sense if your shins are just constantly under threat from a mix of dim lights and low metal objects.

silverdolphin Sep 18, 2023 • 7:11:10pm

More than half of Americans plan to get updated COVID shot
More epubliacsn dying - 79% of Democrats say they will get new vaccine. ONly 39% Republicans.

My pharmacy has not gotten the new booster in so it canceled my appointment nexrt week. ope they get it in soon.

mmmirele Sep 18, 2023 • 7:11:16pm

Scandal and fraud at Japan’s largest used car and repair chain. Watch to the end, the splash is taking down others.

Insanely Evil Japanese Company Implodes Overnight

BeenHereAwhile Sep 18, 2023 • 7:12:17pm

Whales, From Above
The photographer Sutton Lynch is documenting a dramatic turning point off the coast of Long Island — a resurgence of sea life after decades of depletion.

(no paywall)

nytimes.com

calochortus Sep 18, 2023 • 7:12:59pm

re: #45 silverdolphin

More than half of Americans plan to get updated COVID shot
More epubliacsn dying - 79% of Democrats say they will get new vaccine. ONly 39% Republicans.

My pharmacy has not gotten the new booster in so it canceled my appointment nexrt week. ope they get it in soon.

Kaiser is saying they’ll have it in early Oct. Fine with me. I can get my flu shot at the same time, since apparently one shouldn’t get the flu shot too early.

Ace Rothstein Sep 18, 2023 • 7:13:56pm

re: #1 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Ah, new thread scent.

Almost as good as the smell of napalm in the morning.

Vicious Babushka Sep 18, 2023 • 7:14:23pm

My left arm is just now starting to ache. I had a flu shot & a COVID booster, it’s been like 10 hours.

Belafon Sep 18, 2023 • 7:16:22pm

re: #40 Florida Panhandler

Take this for what you will.

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Like some people’s Christianity, it depends on the day.

BlueSpotinAL ✅ Sep 18, 2023 • 7:18:24pm

Booster two hours ago. Flying to Germany in two days.

William Lewis Sep 18, 2023 • 7:19:59pm

re: #47 BeenHereAwhile

Whales, From Above
The photographer Sutton Lynch is documenting a dramatic turning point off the coast of Long Island — a resurgence of sea life after decades of depletion.

(no paywall)

nytimes.com

Cool Beanz.

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 7:37:37pm

re: #40 Florida Panhandler

Take this for what you will.

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Give me avocado toast and a couple of fried eggs and a shot of tequila in my coffee and all is good.

William Lewis Sep 18, 2023 • 7:38:21pm

Captain Ron Sep 18, 2023 • 7:38:37pm

/2. Geolocation of strike on two Russian NONA self-propelled 120mm mortars. Donetsk area. https://t.co/9Tvkudn52p pic.twitter.com/bhcWWolv3M

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) September 18, 2023

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 7:43:11pm

re: #56 Captain Ron

Love how the guys in the second NONA are like, ‘Let’s get the fuck out of he—”…too late.

TedStriker Sep 18, 2023 • 7:45:34pm

re: #25 Belafon

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re: #27 Decatur Deb

But you can’t get that car for 37,000.

And to stress the “you can buy a [modern] car that is in every aspect (safety, comfort, efficiency) superior to that car for under $30,000” bit:

1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test

To drive the point home even further, even that Malibu would have been almost fifteen years old by now, had it not been destroyed (the IIHS test video was posted nine years ago). For all of those lunkheads whining “they don’t make cars like they used to”, that IIHS test is Exhibit A on why, on the whole, that’s a good thing; modern cars are explicitly designed to prevent as much crash energy from being transmitted to the fragile meatbags inside.

🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Sep 18, 2023 • 7:53:32pm

Sure, Bill. It’s not that your peers reacted in fury to the move.

“My decision to return to work was made when it seemed nothing was happening and there was no end in sight to this strike,” Maher wrote Monday. “Now that both sides have agreed to go back to the negotiating table, I’m going to delay the return of ‘Real Time,’ for now, and hope they can finally get this done.”

William Lewis Sep 18, 2023 • 7:54:08pm

re: #58 TedStriker

I remember when that first came out. I also remember the massive whining about “destroying a classic car” from the usual suspects, never mind that there were oodles of them made.

sagehen Sep 18, 2023 • 7:56:20pm

re: #59 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Sure, Bill. It’s not that your peers reacted in fury to the move.

He doesn’t give a shit about his “peers”.

If his experience is anything like Drew Barrymore’s, it’s been difficult to book guests. I mean, maybe he could do a whole hour with Russell Brand, that would be about his speed, but.

🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Sep 18, 2023 • 7:56:55pm

re: #58 TedStriker

And to stress the “you can buy a [modern] car that is in every aspect (safety, comfort, efficiency) superior to that car for under $30,000” bit:

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Video

To drive the point home even further, even that Malibu would have been almost fifteen years old by now, had it not been destroyed (the IIHS test video was posted nine years ago).

I love the tail end of that car, but considering the interior, I’m fine with it having been destroyed. The driver would have only felt pain for an instant in a crash like that, which is almost a safety feature.

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 7:57:02pm

iOS 17 you say?

Mastodon

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 18, 2023 • 8:01:26pm

re: #43 William Lewis

I’ll have an order of lux communisim, please. 😎

Looks like the best menu options.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 18, 2023 • 8:10:59pm

re: #58 TedStriker

When Canon and Nikon moved to polycarbonate bodies there were similar outcries.

So people made videos, showing a camera body of polycarbonate held up under force better than a metal body.

Still, some did not believe.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 18, 2023 • 8:17:54pm

re: #46 mmmirele

If only American CEOs were held to the same standards and forced to resign for their shenanigans.

Vicious Babushka Sep 18, 2023 • 8:18:49pm

Highest tier tax was 90% when Eisenhower was President.
mastodon.social

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 8:20:06pm

Watching Monday Night Trauma with the Steelers and Browns…seems like every other play sees another player limping off the field. I’m starting to wonder if NFL players are built for this game. Watch an Aussie Rules football match and guys will get the living fuck bloodied out of them and keep running - no 30 second rest between choreographed motions.

Captain Ron Sep 18, 2023 • 8:22:14pm

Another nice sunrise in Kherson.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 18, 2023 • 8:24:09pm

re: #58 TedStriker

And to stress the “you can buy a [modern] car that is in every aspect (safety, comfort, efficiency) superior to that car for under $30,000” bit:

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Video

To drive the point home even further, even that Malibu would have been almost fifteen years old by now, had it not been destroyed (the IIHS test video was posted nine years ago). For all of those lunkheads whining “they don’t make cars like they used to”, that IIHS test is Exhibit A on why, on the whole, thats a good thing; modern cars are explicitly designed to prevent as much crash energy from being transmitted to the fragile meatbags inside.

Old cars are one of my hobbies, and a life long interest, but I have never been one of those contrarian geezers who tries to tell people that old cars were better. It is amazing how often I hear this when I am out in one of my old cars. I let it go, since people mean it as praise, but I have to bite my lip sometimes.
They weren’t better at all, with the sole exception of service access. The latter is a good thing because they needed servicing much more often than modern cars. When you go really far back, to the Model T, you hear that practically every American boy knew how to grind the valves on one. That isn’t because they were smarter or more industrious, it was because it had to be done so often.
I don’t drive the oldies very often, and almost never in heavy traffic or on the Interstate.
So what is the fascination? It would seem to be a combination of nostalgia and an appreciation for history and style.
It is a special kind of nostalgia, a longing not for what you had years ago, but for what you couldn’t have.
I remember seeing a Rolls Royce glide by when I was a poor kid in the 50s, and thinking of what it would be like to drive it, and of how far out of reach such a thing seemed. Now I have one, though a slightly newer model. It is like I imagined it would be, too. I don’t drive it very often but even my daily driver, a 2014 Toyota Camry, is getting a little long in the tooth and has been eclipsed in many aspects of automotive technology. It may soon be a classic, too.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 18, 2023 • 8:25:48pm

Today’s nightcafe challenge is Things Made of Cheese.

And while most of the entrants look like (based on those popping up for my votes) are the usual, here was someone who directed an image and title that shows some thought:

Trump Made of Cheese - turn up the heat

sagehen Sep 18, 2023 • 8:31:05pm

Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones defend Russell Brand over sexual assault allegations

retired cynic Sep 18, 2023 • 8:34:01pm

Mitch, by Juanita Jean Herownself
juanitajean.com

Because it is so funny, and so short, I’m going to quote the whole thing. So shoot me. (Her comments on the Paxton trial are worth reading, too. Not Molly Ivins great, but good!)

Okay, so it’s official now. The New York Times reports that there’s an official letter —

In the letter, Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the Navy rear admiral who serves as the on-site doctor in the Capitol for members of Congress and the Supreme Court, said his examination of Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky — along with a brain M.R.I., an electroencephalogram study and a neurological consultation — had found no sign of a seizure disorder or stroke.

Well, damn. That’s even worse.

So if it’s not a stroke, that means it either has to be demonic possession or a faulty wifi connection.

I dunno if I’m comfortable with either of those.

Damn, we’ve got troubles if there’s no medical reason for what’s happening to him.

I guess we have to call in the Pope or a representative from AOL look into it. So. here we are.

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 8:37:02pm

re: #69 Captain Ron

Another nice sunrise in Kherson.

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Nice…and no new Russians on the horizon.

darthstar Sep 18, 2023 • 8:38:49pm

re: #72 sagehen

Everyone keeps talking about this Russell Brand guy who’s supposed to be really funny but also a sexual predator, but they keep posting videos and images of a Charles Manson look alike…what gives?

sagehen Sep 18, 2023 • 8:38:54pm

re: #70 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I don’t drive the oldies very often, and almost never in heavy traffic or on the Interstate.
So what is the fascination? It would seem to be a combination of nostalgia and an appreciation for history and style.
It is a special kind of nostalgia, a longing not for what you had years ago, but for what you couldn’t have.

My dad had a 1975 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham.

The gas mileage was appalling, it was a bitch to park, but OH THE INTERIOR!! The backseat was the size of a bed, the firmness of a top-of-the-line mattress… you could live in that car, I’ve had dorm rooms with less square footage.

There’s a reason we used to call it The Land Yacht.

Captain Ron Sep 18, 2023 • 8:40:55pm

re: #74 darthstar

Nice…and no new Russians on the horizon.

They’re on the right shore. Ukraine on the left.

Captain Ron Sep 18, 2023 • 8:42:23pm

re: #77 Captain Ron

Lots of explosions between 2 and 4 AM.

Targetpractice Sep 18, 2023 • 8:52:04pm

re: #70 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

So what is the fascination? It would seem to be a combination of nostalgia and an appreciation for history and style.
It is a special kind of nostalgia, a longing not for what you had years ago, but for what you couldn’t have.

Another part of it is that so many of the classic cars were actually see on the road today are like supermodels, they’ve had so many touch-ups and work under the surface that they bear little resemblance to what they started as. And yeah, part of that is the march of time making certain parts unavailable or certain materials that were common back in the day now dangerous or even illegal to work with. But there’s also things like panel gaps, paint overspray, or other cosmetic issues that were passed by the factory inspectors in 1955 which any restoration shop worth their salt will make sure disappear before handing it over to a customer.

Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 18, 2023 • 8:52:25pm

re: #68 darthstar

Watching Monday Night Trauma with the Steelers and Browns…seems like every other play sees another player limping off the field. I’m starting to wonder if NFL players are built for this game. Watch an Aussie Rules football match and guys will get the living fuck bloodied out of them and keep running - no 30 second rest between choreographed motions.

I’ve lost count of how many disability claims I took from pro athletes…

wrenchwench Sep 18, 2023 • 8:56:59pm

re: #73 retired cynic

If there’s a concern about someone taking offense to a whole thing being posted, you can

Click to Reveal

always hide part of it.

silverdolphin Sep 18, 2023 • 9:00:45pm

re: #80 Joe Bacon ✅

I’ve lost count of how many disability claims I took from pro athletes…

Been watching the Rugby World Cup. They have gone through the same body transformation as football. Guys over 300 pounds, 6 feet and pretty fast (most in the 200 pund range though). Just pounding on each other. With little time to recover. And some tackles are brutal, even though they are taking precautions for anything near the head now. I like it because it has a lot of action (teams like Fiji are competitive) and the refs are all miked.

retired cynic Sep 18, 2023 • 9:06:20pm

re: #81 wrenchwench

True. Live and learn!

wrenchwench Sep 18, 2023 • 9:11:01pm

re: #83 retired cynic

True. Live and learn!

You included a link and a recommendation to go there, so I don’t see a problem. There have been copyright questions on rare occasions.

wrenchwench Sep 18, 2023 • 9:22:11pm

re: #83 retired cynic

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BeenHereAwhile Sep 18, 2023 • 9:44:32pm

re: #68 darthstar

Watching Monday Night Trauma with the Steelers and Browns…seems like every other play sees another player limping off the field. I’m starting to wonder if NFL players are built for this game. Watch an Aussie Rules football match and guys will get the living fuck bloodied out of them and keep running - no 30 second rest between choreographed motions.

You have situations in which players with little or no body fat weighing 250+ are running into each other (at full chat) at 20+ MPH.

When you are down on the field on the sidelines at an NFL game, e.g. the collisions between the running back and linebackers sound like a two car accident. Except this ain’t no accident.

The old NFL stars of yesteryear couldn’t play in today’s game. They didn’t have the body strength and were too slow.

Mattand Sep 18, 2023 • 9:45:15pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Except - I just noticed that Stand-By mode automatically goes dark. Apparently my iPhone 11 is too old and feeble to support “always on” mode.

I’m still on a 11 as well. I’m probably looking at the 15 in the next few months. I try to get out of Dodge before the next iOS update obsoletes the phone, and it’s looking like the 11’s time is coming soon.

Which is a shame, because the 11 has been a champ.

silverdolphin Sep 18, 2023 • 9:53:45pm

People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office

Less commuting was a big reason.

wrenchwench Sep 18, 2023 • 10:00:39pm

re: #88 silverdolphin

People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office

Less commuting was a big reason.

I haven’t read this one. It’s a picture, no link.

Mastodon

BeenHereAwhile Sep 18, 2023 • 10:20:30pm

re: #87 Mattand

I’m still on a 11 as well. I’m probably looking at the 15 in the next few months. I try to get out of Dodge before the next iOS update obsoletes the phone, and it’s looking like the 11’s time is coming soon.

Which is a shame, because the 11 has been a champ.

My practice when I’m forced to upgrade has been to purchase “last years S model with a wad of RAM” when the new model is released.

It’s been my experience, if offered, the S chip upgrade bridges the gap between the previous standard model and the newer release.

FWIW, my current model is an XS. It’s both my T-Mobile personal phone and my Vonage office phone.

(And my hot spot, camera, video recorder, photo editor, txt msg, email, web browser, calendar, GPS navigator, FM radio, iPod, weather forecaster, translator (ever had to communicate with someone who spoke only Urdu?), compass, calculator, etc & etc.

Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 18, 2023 • 10:32:42pm

re: #90 BeenHereAwhile

My practice when I’m forced to upgrade has been to purchase “last years S model with a wad of RAM” when the new model is released.

It’s been my experience, if offered, the S chip upgrade bridges the gap between the previous standard model and the newer release.

FWIW, my current model is an XS. It’s both my T-Mobile personal phone and my Vonage office phone.

(And my hot spot, camera, video recorder, photo editor, txt msg, email, web browser, calendar, GPS navigator, FM radio, iPod, weather forecaster, translator (ever had to communicate with someone who spoke only Urdu?), compass, calculator, etc & etc.

Since I plan to retire next year I downgraded to the iPhoneSE. Budgeting with the estimated pension I will receive after tax, Kaiser and Medicare B I will take a 30% income cut. So I have to start downgrading. My pension will throw me over the limit for the base Medicare B premium so I will have to pay the Pill Bill Tax.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 18, 2023 • 11:23:24pm

re: #58 TedStriker

And to stress the “you can buy a [modern] car that is in every aspect (safety, comfort, efficiency) superior to that car for under $30,000” bit:

To drive the point home even further, even that Malibu would have been almost fifteen years old by now, had it not been destroyed (the IIHS test video was posted nine years ago). For all of those lunkheads whining “they don’t make cars like they used to”, that IIHS test is Exhibit A on why, on the whole, that’s a good thing; modern cars are explicitly designed to prevent as much crash energy from being transmitted to the fragile meatbags inside.

Modern car design is why my wife and I are still alive after hitting an elk with a Smart at sixty miles-per-hour. (And though damaged, the Smart survived.)

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 18, 2023 • 11:26:21pm

re: #40 Florida Panhandler

Take this for what you will.

It looks like Social Democrat would be my breakfast.

mmmirele Sep 18, 2023 • 11:52:52pm

It’s now becoming slightly, very slightly, clearer as to why the church formerly known as Mormon may have chosen to throw one of its members, Tim Ballard, under the bus last Friday. Ballard is the guy that Jim “Jesus” Cavaziel played in the smash QAnon adjacent hit movie “Sound of Freedom” over the summer.

You may remember that the Mormon church issued a statement saying that Ballard’s actions were “morally unacceptable” on Friday. It appeared that the statement was in response to stories that Tim Ballard had been trading on the name of a high Mormon church official (M. Russell Ballard, no relation).

Well, there’s more. It seems that Tim Ballard was separated from the group he founded (Operation Underground Railroad) in the summer after an investigation which found that he may have been involved in sexual misconduct. It is utterly unclear what the sexual misconduct *was*, in part due to the fact that none of the approximately seven women associated with OUR who reported the misconduct don’t want to go public. And with good reason. Tim Ballard has a fan club, and anyone seen as getting in his way might be subject to significant harassment of a “great man who is out ‘saving children.’”

vice.com

Again, this would merely be an amusing sideshow except that it was widely believed as of last Thursday (before all this stuff dropped) that Tim Ballard was going to run for Mitt Romney’s Senate seat. Allegedly, Tim Ballard was going to announce his run on October 10. Given how Donald Trump has been credibly found to have sexually assaulted at least one woman (E. Jean Carroll), it would not surprise me if (a) Tim Ballard decided to go ahead and run for Senate, kiss of death from the largest church in Utah notwithstanding and (b) he’d probably win. Because sexual assault, sexual abuse and sexual misconduct are just not keeping some men from higher office (or from church pulpits, and other high positions). Detect my serious cynicism.

William Lewis Sep 18, 2023 • 11:57:39pm

Just got the ping from FedEx that my Nikon S-2 got picked from the shop in Higashiosaka, Japan and that I can hopefully expect delivery by Wednesday at 8:00 PM 😎 Being a night off this is a very good thing.

Romantic Heretic Sep 19, 2023 • 12:25:05am

re: #68 darthstar

I once was visiting a friend’s place and he was watching an Aussie rules game.

After watching a bit I asked, “What’s the difference between Aussie Rules and rugby?”

He replied, “In rugby uppercuts are not considered standard offensive maneuvers.”

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 12:53:16am

Well, after the dragging I got for two days over responding to a comment about Tara Reade over on BlueSky, including ad hominens, death threats, someone going back over my comment history and finding out I was an atheist and therefore should be banned (or killed), being accused by several of being just as bad as any Republican, being accused of rape apologetics, being accused of fantasising about women being raped, being accused of being a rapist myself:

I maintain my idea that getting on a social media site was a bad idea. I probably should have stayed away.

I’m more cut out for a place like this which is closely moderated, where I might have a sharp disagreement with one or more people but those disagreements will be grounded in facts or prior positions (and no one is going to make libellous statements or threaten to kill me).

I read some of the commentary out to my wife and she asked “how are these people any different than the Christians who tried to burn down our house?”

She absolutely doesn’t want one of my two codes. She doesn’t want anywhere near the place.

If you know anyone who does want a code (on or off social media), I still have two. Please invite someone who is not a chud.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 12:57:37am

re: #15 darthstar

Okay - trying out this Ahsoka show. Needs me some lasery splodey shit after a long day.

It is good as end-of-day eye candy but I am not feeling the Force in it…

Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 12:59:17am

Woes continue in China’s real estate sector, with Sunac - ranked 14th in sales among China’s biggest developers - filing for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in New York.

bloomberg.com

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 1:01:11am

re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Ahsoka is quite good, but Andor set such a high bar in terms of storytelling that pretty much everything else seems almost “meh” in comparison.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 1:02:06am

re: #40 Florida Panhandler

Take this for what you will.

I just had cornflakes with sliced banana, an English muffin and orange juice. Does that make me a social democrat?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 1:07:18am

re: #88 silverdolphin

People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office

Less commuting was a big reason.

and less wear on roads, fewer accidents, less need for traffic police, etc…

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 1:14:56am

Seems like Poland has its own homegrown equivalent of the infamous Josef Fritzl case developing. I’ll just put the whole article behind a spoiler tag, translated from Czech to English.

Click to Reveal

“Fifty-four-year-old Piotr G. fathered two newborns with his twenty-year-old daughter Paulina and a third with another daughter, thereby committing incest and becoming a father and a grandfather at the same time. It was he who was supposed to have murdered all three children shortly after their birth, according to the information of the special investigation team,” the newspaper Fakt reported .

The Polish Prosecutor’s Office said that the bodies of the newborns found will be autopsied at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Gdańsk.

“It is possible that there are several dead bodies on the property in Czerniky. The police are searching not only the basement of the house, but also its surroundings using a 3D scanner,” Polsat television reported. It was also recalled that Piotr G.’s wife died 15 years ago. Together they had 12 children, who were entrusted to the father’s care.

“People in Czernik are in shock, but everyone knew what was happening in the house, what the father and his daughters were doing,” Gazeta Wyborcza wrote in an article titled “Polish Josef Fritzl,” referring to an Austrian case where a father imprisoned his daughter, whom he raped and fathered children with.

The paper cited statements from local residents. “Daughter Paulina was completely in love with her father, whom she called Piotr, she led him by the hand around the village, they did not hide the fact that they were a couple, everyone knew it,” said one of the people.

Piotr G., who was also detained with his daughter Paulina, was charged on Sunday with the murder of three newborns and two cases of incest. “On Saturday, Paulina was charged with double murder and incest, which, unlike her younger sister, she should have committed voluntarily,” gazeta.pl reported.

Original, in Czech: novinky.cz

Crazy old world, ain’t it?

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William Lewis Sep 19, 2023 • 1:16:28am

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s pluses and minuses to all of them. For what it’s worth, Bluesky is still better than any of the others for that kind of problem. Block early, block often and enjoy those worth enjoying.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 19, 2023 • 1:17:07am

51 years ago:

1972: BARRICADE at THE BLOCK | Tuesday Documentary: The Block | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

The UK was a place of awkward disparity between the upper class and the poor.

I suspect it is on the path to return to that time, as Brexit (and everything else) works itself out in full.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 1:21:32am

re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

51 years ago:

The UK was a place of awkward disparity between the upper class and the poor.

I suspect it is on the path to return to that time, as Brexit (and everything else) works itself out in full.

My ex-wife’s dad was a hard-core Tory in coal-mining country in Britain in the 80’s. He was enough of a craven idjit to let the party put him up as a candidate in Labour districts just to have a candidate on the ballot.

She says he used to take her out campaigning door-to-door during the miners’ strike and described how they had dogs sicked on them and things thrown at them as they ran away…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 19, 2023 • 1:26:22am

Abelardo Barroso y La Orquesta Sensación – Yo Ta’ Cansa (Perlas Cubanas)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 19, 2023 • 1:29:30am

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This is the one I wanted:

Abelardo Barroso – La Sitiera (Guajira) (Perlas Cubanas)

..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 1:34:02am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My ex-wife’s dad was a hard-core Tory in coal-mining country in Britain in the 80’s. He was enough of a craven idjit to let the party put him up as a candidate in Labour districts just to have a candidate on the ballot.

She says he used to take her out campaigning door-to-door during the miners’ strike and described how they had dogs sicked on them and things thrown at them as they ran away…

That sounds like what I’m going to face in the state race here. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 1:45:38am

re: #104 William Lewis

There’s pluses and minuses to all of them. For what it’s worth, Bluesky is still better than any of the others for that kind of problem. Block early, block often and enjoy those worth enjoying.

Blocking doesn’t solve the problem, since the person issuing threats can call in flying monkeys.

I might let this go one more day, and if it continues, I will end this experiment with social media secure in the knowledge my opposition to joining a site has been proved with evidence (if BlueSky is better than any of the others).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 2:32:38am

Alleged Chinese cyberespionage attack was uncovered by Trend Micro targetting computers using the Linux operating system.

Bleeping Computer, September 18, 2023

A Chinese espionage-focused hacker tracked as ‘Earth Lusca’ was observed targeting government agencies in multiple countries, using a new Linux backdoor dubbed ‘SprySOCKS.’

Trend Micro’s analysis of the novel backdoor showed that it originates from the Trochilus open-source Windows malware, with many of its functions ported to work on Linux systems.

However, the malware appears to be a mixture of multiple malware as the SprySOCKS’ command and control server (C2) communication protocol is similar to RedLeaves, a Windows backdoor. In contrast, the implementation of the interactive shell appears to have been derived from Derusbi, a Linux malware.

Earth Lusca remained active throughout the first half of the year, targeting key government entities focused on foreign affairs, technology, and telecommunications in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Balkans, and worldwide.

Trend Micro reports seeing exploitation attempts for several n-day unauthenticated remote code execution flaws dated between 2019 and 2022, impacting internet-exposed endpoints.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 2:53:43am

Via BlueSky, where a reporter is checking on the Republican hell-hole of (checks notes) Los Angeles:

Vishal P. Singh 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) * 1h
vpsreports.bsky.social
Activists in Los Angeles are reporting possible sightings of anti-Romani discriminatory signs, referring to Romani people with slurs and banning them from entry. The original poster commented on Instagram saying these were spotted in City of Industry, Los Angeles.
Sep 19, 2023 at 02:35

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TarHellion Sep 19, 2023 • 2:54:53am

If only every day were Birbie Day!

Beautiful morning here. Temps in the lower 50s. Still warming up to around 80, but the humidity level is noticeably lower.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 822 3/6*

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Nerdy Fish Sep 19, 2023 • 3:00:25am

This was a surprise early on a Tuesday morning, as I prepare to run the budget.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 822 2/6

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 3:02:17am

One of my invite codes is gone. I have one left.

There is a neurologist over at BlueSky who’s collecting codes to pass out to scientists and medical personnel, using a login at Google Docs for that person to prove who they say they are. I also posted my codes to the list of waiting scientists and medical personnel.

I don’t know if my code went to a person here, or a person on that list (there is a waiting list there according to its creator).

I was just followed by bsky.app (I don’t know if that is a person from here or the scientific list). As of yet the account has no profile entry.

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William Lewis Sep 19, 2023 • 3:07:28am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One of my invite codes is gone. I have one left.

There is a neurologist over at BlueSky who’s collecting codes to pass out to scientists and medical personnel, using a login at Google Docs for that person to prove who they say they are. I also posted my codes to the list of waiting scientists and medical personnel.

I don’t know if my code went to a person here, or a person on that list (there is a waiting list there according to its creator).

I was just followed by bsky.app (I don’t know if that is a person from here or the scientific list). As of yet the account has no profile entry.

Which person is collecting the invites? I have two unused ones I’d be happy to donate.

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TarHellion Sep 19, 2023 • 3:12:52am

re: #114 Nerdy Fish

Be prepared to come in this weekend to help with the TPS report.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 19, 2023 • 3:22:23am

So damned close to the beagle, but birb it is.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 19, 2023 • 3:24:15am

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Who’s using threats? What thread?

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Nerdy Fish Sep 19, 2023 • 3:33:35am

re: #117 TarHellion

Be prepared to come in this weekend to help with the TPS report.

I wish I had watched that show, to be able to make a properly witty reply to this excellent comment.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 3:33:38am

re: #116 William Lewis

Which person is collecting the invites? I have two unused ones I’d be happy to donate.

Here:
bsky.app

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Nojay UK Sep 19, 2023 • 3:33:39am

re: #96 Romantic Heretic

It’s a bit like the difference between (Scottish) shinty and (Irish) hurling. You can put an edge on the hurling stick while the shinty stick is meant to be blunt.

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Shropshire Slasher Sep 19, 2023 • 3:34:42am

The only good thing about Russell Brand in the news is more Katy Perry music in the mix! Thank you Elvis Duran for a great morning show!

Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl (Official Music Video)

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William Lewis Sep 19, 2023 • 3:36:30am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Here:
bsky.app

Thanks, sent both of them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 3:43:47am

re: #124 William Lewis

Thanks, sent both of them.

The poster wants to build up a science presence on BlueSky. Apparently nearly a thousand scientists and medical personnel signed up on the original poster’s waiting list, trying to find a place to go from Birdchan.

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William Lewis Sep 19, 2023 • 3:56:13am

Remember the article on Covid & Neanderthal genes?

John Hawks, paleoanthropology professor at UW-Madison wrote an article on the topic back in 2020. It’s behind a paywall:

Neanderthals and Covid-19, beyond the hype

Here’s the original research paper though and it’s free:

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 4:01:00am

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Shropshire Slasher Sep 19, 2023 • 4:03:39am

and since it is two for Tuesday, I give you some Airborne Toxic Event for your drivetime music!

The Airborne Toxic Event - Faithless (Official Video)

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William Lewis Sep 19, 2023 • 4:06:12am

Mark Knopfler - Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero (A Night In London) OFFICIAL

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Shropshire Slasher Sep 19, 2023 • 4:07:54am

Those bastards and their pesky private property!

Amid social media-induced traffic jams, the towns of Pomfret and Woodstock plan to close roads this fall leading to a popular foliage photo op.

Pomfret’s picturesque Sleepy Hollow Farm has featured in films and magazines for years. The property’s winding driveway leads downhill past a small pond to a weathered barn and farmhouse, backed by grassland and a wooded hillside. Photographers tend to congregate on the road looking over and above the Disneyworld version of Vermont.

snip

The pilgrimage to Sleepy Hollow has become so popular, a new genre of post has emerged, with people uploading videos contrasting their expectation of the property with the snapshot hungry horde they actually find congregating at the farm. Others have taken to explaining that Sleepy Hollow is private property and will be closed to tourists this fall.

vtdigger.org

bostonglobe.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 4:26:55am

Another one who doesn’t know how the govt (his job,) works

🍿 I’m not bored with this yet. 🍿 pic.twitter.com/WvlGjhhDjp

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 18, 2023

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Shropshire Slasher Sep 19, 2023 • 4:27:44am

Exploring Iconic Battle of Midway Shipwrecks | Nautilus Live

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 4:28:13am

Yeouch

Fetterman just ended DeSantis pic.twitter.com/fEufRBXw9k

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 18, 2023

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 4:29:42am

“Did Republicans run the House of Representatives into the ground because Joe Biden is old? We asked evangelicals at a Branson, MO. dinner theater to weigh in”

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 4:39:33am

re: #130 Shropshire Slasher

The owners of the house on Long Island behind the Amityville Horror story had to remodel the street-facing side of the home and ultimately change the actual address after the Lutz family skedaddled - because in the wake of Jay Anson’s novel and the 1979 film, hordes of macabre tourists kept turning up, and especially around Halloween.

But even to this day, there’s still folks who go out to Amityville and look for it.

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Barefoot Grin Sep 19, 2023 • 4:42:37am

Chris Matthews was on Morning Joe just now. Why.

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Dave In Austin Sep 19, 2023 • 4:49:02am

re: #136 Barefoot Grin

Old guys need money.
It’s like REO Speedwagon playing in Laughlin, NV next month.

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Thanos Sep 19, 2023 • 4:57:58am

re: #129 William Lewis

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I want to hear a Knopfler remake of “On the Border”

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Shropshire Slasher Sep 19, 2023 • 4:59:39am

It is the hambone award! Unique and unusual pet insurance claims, vote for your favorite!

Edit: After reading a few, I determined that this is just kind of a commercial for pet insurance, I am sorry.
petinsurance.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 5:03:35am

so Welker called tfg ‘Mr. President” at least twice in that MTF fiasco.

nope. only the sitting prez is Mr Prez

the correct usage would be “president trump” (gag)

i wonder if she knew that

also interesting that with 5 days (or so) between taping and airing they didnt fact check

NBC MAY HAVE ALREADY LAUNCHED INVESTIGATIONS INTO WELKER-TRUMP “INTERVIEW” FOR NEWS RULES VIOLATIONS
(Olbermann)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 5:04:20am

re: #135 Dr Lizardo

The owners of the house on Long Island behind the Amityville Horror story had to remodel the street-facing side of the home and ultimately change the actual address after the Lutz family skedaddled - because in the wake of Jay Anson’s novel and the 1979 film, hordes of macabre tourists kept turning up, and especially around Halloween.

But even to this day, there’s still folks who go out to Amityville and look for it.

i understand there were some issues with the breaking bad pizza on the roof house for a while. dont know if that’s still a thing

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 5:13:20am

re: #140 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

There’s Only One Way to Interview Donald Trump

On June 3, 2016, CNN aired the last good interview with Donald Trump.

TAPPER: What does this have to do with his [Curiel’s] heritage?

Trump repeatedly tried to redirect the conversation to something unrelated…, but Tapper would not move on. …Trump wasn’t able to roll Tapper the way he has rolled other interviewers. There was no, “Okay, let’s move on” moment. In total, Tapper recentered and restated the question 23 times.

compare:

WELKER: What’s the evidence for that, Mr. President?

TRUMP: Oh, we’ll give you plenty of evidence—

WELKER: Okay. All right, well, let’s stay on track with this question, though. So, just to be very clear, if you were reelected, would you direct your Fed chair to lower interest rates?

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 5:14:03am

re: #141 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i understand there were some issues with the breaking bad pizza on the roof house for a while. dont know if that’s still a thing

Yeah, I heard about that one too. Of course, there’s the house in Studio City, California that was used for exterior shots on The Brady Bunch - apparently, it had a major interior renovation to match the studio set. I honestly don’t know how practical that’d be, though it’d be an interesting thing to see as an example of midcentury modern.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 5:19:47am

re: #127 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

“Work-life blance” is another one of those terms that patches over the basic issue that work and life should be balanced from the very outset: 8 hours/day, 5 days/week.

That was a norm adopted decades ago that was badly eroded starting in the 80’s.

It is *normal* to be overburdened beyond a 40-hour week.

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Decatur Deb Sep 19, 2023 • 5:21:17am

re: #143 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, I heard about that one too. Of course, there’s the house in Studio City, California that was used for exterior shots on The Brady Bunch - apparently, it had a major interior renovation to match the studio set. I honestly don’t know how practical that’d be, though it’d be an interesting thing to see as an example of midcentury modern.

Soon you will have to specify “mid” of what “century”.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Sep 19, 2023 • 5:21:35am

re: #141 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i understand there were some issues with the breaking bad pizza on the roof house for a while. dont know if that’s still a thing

Back in 2018 I was on a DUKW tour in Seattle and one house along Lake Washington they specifically pointed out at one point was apparently featured in “Sleepless in Seattle”.

I also recall being in Baltimore and they had a plaque on the building that was used as the police HQ in the “Homicide: Life on the Street” series.

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 5:25:29am

Trump scribbled to-do notes for staffers to act on. Ok.

On the backs of classified documents? Ummm…

Handing them off to people who did not have any clearances to handle the documents that he scribbled these notes on.

That’s de facto mishandling of classified documents, because he was handing them off to people who have no business handling those documents.

But that’s not even the worst news to come out against Trump yesterday.

Nope. The worst bit is that Trump staffers are turning on Trump and revealing Trump’s criminal conduct to prosecutors. Witnesses with direct evidence of Trump crimes. Trump told one staffer not to tell the FBI about the boxes. The staffer had no clue what Trump was referring to - but it shows a state of mind of Trump that he knew the boxes contained materials that didn’t belong to him, and that the FBI finding them would implicate Trump in criminal conduct. The staffer will testify to this.

It’s little wonder that right wing outfits and media outlets are trying to knock Biden on his age and insist that he drop out because of his age. The criminal cases against Trump are overwhelming and the GOP is fooked for backing Trump and in order to get a horse race, the media will say and do anything to balance the scales, even when Biden’s the most successful president in decades age notwithstanding. Trump’s just 3 years younger and shows the wear and tear of hate, vitriol, and cheeseburgers and no exercise.

Instead of the media continuing to show Trump’s misconduct and lack of fitness for the WH, and how debased the GOP are, they paper over all that in favor of a narrative that is intent on generating a horse race for eyeballs and revenues.

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 5:25:41am

re: #145 Decatur Deb

Soon you will have to specify “mid” of what “century”.

Indeed. The “Brady Bunch” house was built in 1959, so only 36 more years until it hits the century mark (provided it’s still standing by 2059, of course).

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 5:26:45am

“A Texas Sheriff with links to the Oath Keepers has been convicted of “official oppression” for the mistreatment of detainees in his jail in 2021, one of whom allegedly staged a suicide attempt.”https://t.co/ualXIlZqUA

— steven monacelli is posting 🆓 (@stevanzetti) September 19, 2023

Oath Keepers are a fascist terrorist group with clear and open ties in law enforcement.

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 5:29:01am

Rudy’s former lawyer is suing him for $1.36 million in legal bills.

Rudy Giuliani sued by former lawyer, accused of failing to pay $1.36M in legal bills https://t.co/nd0qxthHQW pic.twitter.com/xWJbv2JrwG

— WCBS 880 (@wcbs880) September 19, 2023

Rudy’s stiffing lawyers. Trump stiffs lawyers.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Sep 19, 2023 • 5:31:56am

re: #147 lawhawk

And a whole generation of voters are getting continual lessons that the mainstream media are biased, liars, and do not have the interests of the population and country as any sort of priority.

Journalism as the “4th estate” and a fair arbiter of political discourse is now long off its pedestal. This will be missed since many can’t or won’t do the work of sorting through multiple biased sources to pick up the actual facts contained within. And there is a whole strain of politicians who want the voters ignorant and thus either not voting or pulling levers based on emotion and “their gut”.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 5:32:56am

re: #114 Nerdy Fish

Me, too.
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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 5:35:14am

re: #151 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And a whole generation of voters are getting continual lessons that the mainstream media are biased, liars, and do not have the interests of the population and country as any sort of priority.

Journalism as the “4th estate” and a fair arbiter of political discourse is now long off its pedestal. This will be missed since many can’t or won’t do the work of sorting through multiple biased sources to pick up the actual facts contained within. And there is a whole strain of politicians who want the voters ignorant and thus either not voting or pulling levers based on emotion and “their gut”.

Arguably, the media has always done this kind of crap - yellow journalism anyone? The media pushing narratives that fit what certain political groups or billionaires seek.

The problem is that there’s such a firehose of misinformation out there that outfits claiming to play straight news are pushing this nonsense nonstop.

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The Squire of Logos Sep 19, 2023 • 5:35:46am

Good Morning fellow Lizards! It’s Tuesday and good grief did I have a tough wake-up this morning. Yowza.

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Thanos Sep 19, 2023 • 5:36:58am

High Pulp - “(If You Don’t Leave) The City Will Kill You (feat. Daedelus)”

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The Squire of Logos Sep 19, 2023 • 5:37:29am

re: #149 lawhawk

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Oath Keepers are a fascist terrorist group with clear and open ties in law enforcement.

Lock.Him.Up.

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 5:39:55am

BREAKING: Judge Amit Mehta has rejected a motion by Thomas CALDWELL, one of the first Oath Keepers charged for Jan. 6 actions, to throw out a jury’s obstruction conviction against him.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 19, 2023

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 5:42:02am

re: #20 darthstar

And Sabine is a secret Mandalorian? I saw the helmet when she was feeding her cat.

She was never secret about it. She is a major character in SW: Rebels. She’s also a street artist. Her new paint job on a captured TIE fighter is legendary.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 5:43:33am

re: #150 lawhawk

Rudy’s former lawyer is suing him for $1.36 million in legal bills.

Rudy’s stiffing lawyers. Trump stiffs lawyers.

I cannot have much sympathy for any lawyer who did not have the sense to demand money up front from guys like these.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Sep 19, 2023 • 5:46:13am

re: #153 lawhawk

Arguably, the media has always done this kind of crap - yellow journalism anyone? The media pushing narratives that fit what certain political groups or billionaires seek.

The problem is that there’s such a firehose of misinformation out there that outfits claiming to play straight news are pushing this nonsense nonstop.

Yes, there was yellow journalism and it was noted as such at the time. Plus the general gist of editorial bias written about by the likes of Mark Twain. And many towns and cities had two or more newspapers which then tended to editorialize one way or another.

At this point the major media are corporate and national/international in size. Many cities are down to a single daily newspaper owned by a national collective. So the source points for the lies and bias are fewer and generally pretty obvious. What is also obvious is that the same companies are perfectly happy to lie and continue to lie since they do little or nothing when the lies are publicized. And they continue to play softball with politicians when doing interviews.

Which is one reason that interviews by foreign media like the BBC stick out. Their interviewers are willing to ask hard questions, hold out for answers, and will point out tap-dancing and other distractions when they occur. (That the BBC when doing internal interviewing in the UK are very Tory biased… seems to be the standard media justification that they need access to do their job. And thus don’t do their job to get access since the manipulation is part of getting access.)

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 5:46:39am

re: #18 darthstar

Do all the women with pilates instructor bodies in this show have those sexy rubber dreadlocks?

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Rosario Dawson… mmmm… nice.

Ahsoka is a continuation of Star Wars: Rebels, so much of the lore and backstory is connected to that cartoon show. That includes Ahsoka’s backstory as a go between the rebel alliance and Sabine Wren, Ezra, Chopper, Hera, and Karran (who had relationship with Hera and had kid Jasson).

Sabine is Mandalorian. Ahsoka fought in the Mandalorian civil war. Ahsoka is a child warrior who suffers from PTSD and knowing her actions cost lives of lots of people across the universe.

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The Squire of Logos Sep 19, 2023 • 5:48:00am

re: #95 William Lewis

Just got the ping from FedEx that my Nikon S-2 got picked from the shop in Higashiosaka, Japan and that I can hopefully expect delivery by Wednesday at 8:00 PM 😎 Being a night off this is a very good thing.

Ooooh! New toy! New toy! Hopefully you’ll post photos taken with it?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 5:48:49am

The sun is coming up. It’s time for me to collapse into my bed.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Sep 19, 2023 • 5:49:17am

re: #158 Scottish Dragon

She was never secret about it. She is a major character in SW: Rebels. She’s also a street artist. Her new paint job on a captured TIE fighter is legendary.

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Ah, the TIE Fighter. The Japanese Zero of the Star Wars universe. Lots of zoom, tiny bit of firepower, hit it with anything and it explodes. Sounds like a great way to burn through fighter pilots and waste whatever resources you’ve sunk into training them. (And with poorly trained pilots they’d be just so much exploding special effects debris in space.)

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Eventual Carrion Sep 19, 2023 • 5:51:15am

re: #76 sagehen

My dad had a 1975 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham.

The gas mileage was appalling, it was a bitch to park, but OH THE INTERIOR!! The backseat was the size of a bed, the firmness of a top-of-the-line mattress… you could live in that car, I’ve had dorm rooms with less square footage.

There’s a reason we used to call it The Land Yacht.

I had a ‘68 Newport like that. I am not tall but I could stretch out the whole way in the back seat. Came in handy during my trips back and forth between PA and Mississippi back in ‘79. Mileage was about 8 miles per gallon tho’.

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The Squire of Logos Sep 19, 2023 • 5:53:12am

re: #87 Mattand

I’m still on a 11 as well. I’m probably looking at the 15 in the next few months. I try to get out of Dodge before the next iOS update obsoletes the phone, and it’s looking like the 11’s time is coming soon.

Which is a shame, because the 11 has been a champ.

I recently upgraded to an iPhone 14 from an iPhone X. iOS obsolescence was the main reason. The X was still going strong but it was time for the new. I’ll turn the X into a music server.

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 5:55:29am

re: #164 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The Imperial Navy’s philosophy on that is to simply throw wave after wave of inexpensive and mass-produced TIE fighters into combat to overwhelm the enemy.

Wasteful, to say the least.

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 5:55:59am

re: #164 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Ah, the TIE Fighter. The Japanese Zero of the Star Wars universe. Lots of zoom, tiny bit of firepower, hit it with anything and it explodes. Sounds like a great way to burn through fighter pilots and waste whatever resources you’ve sunk into training them. (And with poorly trained pilots they’d be just so much exploding special effects debris in space.)

ALL I WANNA DO IS A ZOOMA ZOOM ZOOM AND A BOOM BOOM!

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 5:59:49am

re: #167 Dr Lizardo

The Imperial Navy’s philosophy on that is to simply throw wave after wave of inexpensive and mass-produced TIE fighters into combat to overwhelm the enemy.

Wasteful, to say the least.

So much of the Empire’s strategy was wasteful.

Star Destroyers were a wasteful asset - build build stuff and not sufficient to patrol the entire galaxy where they claimed dominion/control. Smaller corvettes would do a better job, less manpower and build more of them to maintain a presence.

TIE fighters were awful and required support ships to get anywhere unlike rebel fighters that could jump with the fleet, were more durable, and whose pilots were more likely to survive engagements.

Then there’s the Death Star, DS2, and Starkiller Base.

Wasteful assets all the way around for the Empire.

And let’s not get started on Palpatine’s strategy for a New Order / Final Order (not the band). Building a metric shitton of star destroyers with death star capabilities in the unknown space and then think they’ll take over the universe that way?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:00:27am

re: #166 The Squire of Logos

I recently upgraded to an iPhone 14 from an iPhone X. iOS obsolescence was the main reason. The X was still going strong but it was time for the new. I’ll turn the X into a music server.

I still have an iPhone 8. It will probably be traded in within a month since I plan on jumping up to a 15 the same time I change providers as well. Verizon has pretty much dropped the ball in terms of supplying proper coverage where I live. To the point that when my brother tries to call me it will not connect to me at all. And when I try to call out the calls often drop as well. Not acceptable.

The degradation in coverage happened over the past year. No idea what they did or if they simply achieved oversaturation without planning for it.

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darthstar Sep 19, 2023 • 6:02:10am

re: #158 Scottish Dragon

She was never secret about it. She is a major character in SW: Rebels. She’s also a street artist. Her new paint job on a captured TIE fighter is legendary.

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Hang on…so the live acted Ashoka is based on a cartoon? And they kill off a main character in the first episode?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:02:40am

re: #167 Dr Lizardo

The Imperial Navy’s philosophy on that is to simply throw wave after wave of inexpensive and mass-produced TIE fighters into combat to overwhelm the enemy.

Wasteful, to say the least.

I guess they learned that from fighting a war against droid armies. Who they beat…

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 6:02:55am

re: #169 lawhawk

Palpatine’s Galactic Empire really does fit the bill of “civilizations too stupid to exist”.

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 6:04:30am

re: #171 darthstar

Hang on…so the live acted Ashoka is based on a cartoon? And they kill off a main character in the first episode?

In the immortal words of Huyang (David Tennant)… *spoilers*

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:05:42am

re: #173 Dr Lizardo

Palpatine’s Galactic Empire really does fit the bill of “civilizations too stupid to exist”.

It is a set up that doesn’t survive any sort of close examination. Economically, militarily, etc. etc.

And then there is the side issue of deciding whether or not droids should be considered sentient.* If so, then the society has a pretty monstrous slavery issue going on as well.

* - And droid characters like R2D2 certainly act like it.

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 6:06:40am

Anyways how was summer for all the lizards? My better half got me a lovely 19th century “spider”, which is a cast iron pan with a very long handle and three feet to use for hearth or camp cooking. It has a pronounced gate mark on the bottom (casting mark) and was only lightly rusted, which was easily cleaned up. The pan is re-seasoned and ready for use. My best guess is it’s pre Civil War, but impossible to say for sure. Absolutely pre 1880.

The lid isn’t original to the pan. It’s a Wagner Dutch oven lid from about 1910 and it was hammered. It has a lovely bell tone when lightly tapped.

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 6:07:25am

re: #172 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I guess they learned that from fighting a war against droid armies. Who they beat…

And what’s worse? Those TIE pilots aren’t just disposable cannon fodder, either. They’re all very highly trained combat pilots, graduates of the Imperial Academy.

It’s like sending your Top Gun pilots into combat in a MiG-23.

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 6:08:18am

re: #175 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

It is a set up that doesn’t survive any sort of close examination. Economically, militarily, etc. etc.

And then there is the side issue of deciding whether or not droids should be considered sentient.* If so, then the society has a pretty monstrous slavery issue going on as well.

* - And droid characters like R2D2 certainly act like it.

R2D2 and C3PO sure as hell came across as sentient, that’s for sure.

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 6:10:14am

re: #178 Dr Lizardo

R2D2 and C3PO sure as hell came across as sentient, that’s for sure.

And Chopper

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 6:10:53am

re: #179 Scottish Dragon

And Chopper

Droids tortured other droids, as seen in various bits of the Original trilogy.

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 6:12:37am

re: #179 Scottish Dragon

And Chopper

Add to that Huyang, not just an architect professor droid, but 25,000 years old. That’s a lot of memories and knowledge.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:14:08am

re: #181 Dr Lizardo

Add to that Huyang, not just an architect professor droid, but 25,000 years old. That’s a lot of memories and knowledge.

Assuming they don’t periodically wipe the memory. I recall seeing that periodic resets are a thing somewhere in the canon.

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 6:15:25am

re: #180 lawhawk

Droids tortured other droids, as seen in various bits of the Original trilogy.

Quite notably in The Empire Strikes Back, where a GNK (Gonk) droid is being tortured.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:15:46am

re: #165 Eventual Carrion

I had a ‘68 Newport like that. I am not tall but I could stretch out the whole way in the back seat. Came in handy during my trips back and forth between PA and Mississippi back in ‘79. Mileage was about 8 miles per gallon tho’.

I had a pre-embargo Newport as well, called it the Laser Pig. Floor the pedal and I swear you could see the gas gauge move…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:16:37am

re: #171 darthstar

Hang on…so the live acted Ashoka is based on a cartoon? And they kill off a main character in the first episode?

I did not miss her at all, which speaks volumes about the series…

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jeffreyw Sep 19, 2023 • 6:16:49am

Good morning!

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Dr Lizardo Sep 19, 2023 • 6:16:53am

re: #182 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Assuming they don’t periodically wipe the memory. I recall seeing that periodic resets are a thing somewhere in the canon.

Yeah, R2D2’s eccentric personality was canonically explained because there’d been no memory wipe in a long, long time.

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 6:17:55am

JFC

HORRIFIC: A 78-year-old man shot and killed 42-year-old Brian Ford in front of his 8-year-old son for trimming trees along his mother’s property line in Florida. https://t.co/3fj4YRI7oL

— Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) September 18, 2023

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Ace Rothstein Sep 19, 2023 • 6:18:58am

If Biden was 60, his approval rating would be 50% and no one would be “concerned” about the economy. It’s not job approval, it’s age approval.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:22:17am

re: #176 Scottish Dragon

Anyways how was summer for all the lizards? My better half got me a lovely 19th century “spider”, which is a cast iron pan with a very long handle and three feet to use for hearth or camp cooking.

damn that’s lovely.

summer has been fine, a bit of a heatwave in June/early July, then it turned rainy and crappy. Things have picked up again and are just fine, 70-ish and breezy and sunny.

Tourism was busy, as was translating, gigs only moderate but still mostly fun and well paid.

DIscovered that the local open-air pool is mostly empty either at opening time or near closing, so I’ve been getting my laps in.

Only downside was a nasty summer cold I got by under-dressing for a gig up in the hills when the weather broke in July and now I got a nasty little staph infection - an erysepialis - in my lower leg (musta picked it up through a cut or crack in the sole of my foot) that has my leg up in cold packs.

Not debilitating, but painful when I stand up after any long period of sitting or laying.

Went to the doc for antibiotics to knock it back as I need to use my legs a lot, especially for tourism.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:22:55am

re: #183 Dr Lizardo

Quite notably in The Empire Strikes Back, where a GNK (Gonk) droid is being tortured.

might’ve been consensual…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 6:22:56am

re: #176 Scottish Dragon

I have three Griswold pans that were cast at the end of the 19th century or in the first decade in the 20th — best cat iron I own.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:25:07am

re: #188 Scottish Dragon

HORRIFIC: A 78-year-old man shot and killed 42-year-old Brian Ford in front of his 8-year-old son for trimming trees along his mother’s property line in Florida.

I cannot begin to grasp the mentality that justifies the need for such an action.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:27:45am

re: #189 Ace Rothstein

If Biden was 60, his approval rating would be 50% and no one would be “concerned” about the economy. It’s not job approval, it’s age approval.

It is a concern for me as well, but one has to put it in the context of the overall race: which candidate is better?

I just hope that his health holds up until November 2024, if he is hospitalized for any reason between now and then, we can expect a major RW media feeding frenzy.

Oh, and if anything happens to Trump, it will be dismissed as the result of all the inhuman strain and burdens placed on him by the RW Witch Hunt.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 6:28:28am

Rachel Maddow interviewed the US Ambassador to the United Nations over the US Christian victory (especially Rev. Scott Lively of Massachusetts) in Uganda with their “kill the gays” law they promoted there.

Uganda has started rounding up LGBT+ people for “aggravated homosexuality,” which carries the death penalty.

The largest portion of Uganda’s budget comes from a US programme called PEPFAR (which is used to combat HIV/AIDS around the world). Uganda funnels that money through the very ministers who promoted and passed the law.

The ambassador says the Biden Administration needs to find a way to hold those responsible this to account (how about arrest all the Evangelicals here who are promoting genocide in another country).

msnbc.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:29:46am

re: #192 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I have three Griswold pans that were cast at the end of the 19th century or in the first decade in the 20th — best cat iron I own.

One needs to keep one’s cats well flattened

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 6:30:34am

re: #192 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I have three Griswold pans that were cast at the end of the 19th century or in the first decade in the 20th — best cat iron I own.

Griswold pans are top of the list for collectors. The spider web marked pans from 1890-91 go for several thousand dollars.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 6:37:16am

We Have Two Medias in This Country, and They’re Going to Elect Donald Trump

If the press doesn’t get involved in the civic health of the nation, there may not be a nation in which a free press might reside.

It’s often asked in my circles: Why isn’t Joe Biden getting more credit for his accomplishments? As with anything, there’s no single reason. Inflation is a factor. His age is as well. Ditto the fact that people aren’t quite yet seeing the infrastructure improvements or the lower prescription drug costs.

There is no one reason. But there is one overwhelming factor in play: the media. Or rather, the two medias. It’s very important that people understand this: We reside in a media environment that promotes—whether it intends to or not—right-wing authoritarian spectacle. At the same time, as a culture, it’s consistently obsessed with who “won the day,” while placing far less value on the fact that the civic and democratic health of the country is nurtured through practices such as deliberation, compromise, and sober governance. The result is bad for Joe Biden. But it’s potentially tragic for democracy.

Let me begin by discussing these two medias. The first, of course, is what we call the mainstream media: The New York Times, The Washington Post, the major (non-Fox) news networks, a handful of other newspapers and magazines. This has also been known as the “agenda-setting media,” because historically, that’s what they did: Whatever was the lead story in The New York Times that day filtered down, through the wire services and other delivery systems, to every newspaper and television and radio station in the United States.

Then there’s an avowedly right-wing propaganda network. This got cranked up in the 1970s, when conservatives, irate over what they (not incorrectly) saw as a strong liberal bias in the mainstream media, decided to build their own. Rupert Murdoch bought the New York Post. In the 1980s, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon started The Washington Times. In the 1990s, right-wing talk radio exploded (enabled, in part, by a 2-1 decision by a judicial panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals making the Fairness Doctrine discretionary; those judges were Antonin Scalia and Robert Bork). Then the Fox News Channel was launched.

newrepublic.com

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 6:40:00am

Musk is looking at charging to use his Nazi frog infested site again.

I will never pay Elon Musk a single penny for anything. Not one of his shitbox cars. Not the app he broke. Nothing. Enjoy your haunted house full of Nazis and billionaire groupies, you dumb fucking asshole. https://t.co/aVzJQwh6GN

— DrewMcWeeny (@DrewMcWeeny) September 18, 2023

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garzooma Sep 19, 2023 • 6:40:35am

re: #183 Dr Lizardo

Quite notably in The Empire Strikes Back, where a GNK (Gonk) droid is being tortured.

There’s a card for that:

YouTube

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:44:28am

re: #198 Joe Bacon ✅

We Have Two Medias in This Country, and They’re Going to Elect Donald Trump

I have not banged on this for a while, but why would our media not want Donal Trump? He gives them a 24/7 political/crime/family scandal/crime reality show starting out with his morning tweets, cycling through some outrageous statement made at some official function or political rally, praising a fellow dictator/butcher, another major cabinet member resigning or being fired, another clear example of his cluelessness and/or incompetence put on display, etc.

They don’t need to investigate, just quote him and the reactions of everyone around him.

That is all ratings gold.

Biden is boring as fuck by comparison.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Sep 19, 2023 • 6:46:50am

pic.twitter.com/8h8Df0sHjj

— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) September 19, 2023

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 6:56:58am

re: #202 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I’m sure Sleazy Slimy Scott will reply that Jay-Zuss forgave his trespasses on that minor.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 6:57:40am

re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I cannot begin to grasp the mentality that justifies the need for such an action.

Without knowledge of the situation, I would guess if he was trimming plants along the property line, he was standing in the alleged shooter’s property.

Without permission, that’s enough under Florida’s so-called stand your ground law to use up to lethal force to deter a crime (misdemeanour trespassing).

The NRA has been very successful in getting these laws passed. The libertarian RAND Corporation notes that in states where these laws are passed, homicides go up.

The opposite of stand-your-ground is “duty to retreat.” (Duty-to-retreat was originally known as the “castle doctrine” but the NRA and right-wingers hijacked the term to mean you have no duty-to-retreat.)

Stand-your-ground law means you cannot be subject to arrest or interrogation unless there is reason to believe the homicide was planned (that is why George Zimmerman was originally not arrested even though he was told by a police dispatcher not to confront Trayvon Martin: Zimmerman’s original claim was he believed Martin was committing a misdemeanour, and the Sanford prosecutor originally would not pursue the alleged crime).

Duty-to-retreat requires a person to withdraw from a place where they are lawfully present and an attacker enters, unless it is unsafe or impossible to do so, or in the case of defending themselves or another from attack.

Mandatory duty-to-retreat jurisdictions: Nebraska, Hawai’i, Delaware, Connecticut.

Mandatory duty-to-retreat jurisdictions (except your home and sometimes your workplace): Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York (unless you’re threatened with sexual assault, robbery, burglary, or kidnapping), New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota.

All territories are stand-your-ground except the US Virgin Islands (there is no case law regarding it).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:58:57am

re: #203 Joe Bacon ✅

I’m sure Sleazy Slimy Scott will reply that Jay-Zuss forgave his trespasses on that minor.

That is open to all who are beholden to God’s Grace.

It is denied to all of us who still support abortion, gay/trans rights, gun control, socialized medicine and all the other things that Jeezus finds abdominable until we abandon such depravities and find the Lord.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 6:59:41am

re: #204 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

tresspassing should carry a death penalty

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 7:01:22am

re: #204 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Without knowledge of the situation, I would guess if he was trimming plants along the property line, he was standing in the alleged shooter’s property.

Without permission, that’s enough under Florida’s so-called stand your ground law to use up to lethal force to deter a crime (misdemeanour trespassing).

The NRA has been very successful in getting these laws passed. The libertarian RAND Corporation notes that in states where these laws are passed, homicides go up.

The opposite of stand-your-ground is “duty to retreat.” (Duty-to-retreat was originally known as the “castle doctrine” but the NRA and right-wingers hijacked the term to mean you have no duty-to-retreat.

Stand-your-ground law means you cannot be subject to arrest or interrogation unless there is reason to believe the homicide was planned (that is why George Zimmerman was originally not arrested even though he was told by a police dispatcher not to confront Trayvon Martin: Zimmerman’s original claim was he believed Martin was committing a misdemeanour, and the Sanford prosecutor originally would not pursue the alleged crime).

Duty-to-retreat requires a person to withdraw from a place where they are lawfully present and an attacker enters, unless it is unsafe or impossible to do so, or in the case of defending themselves or another from attack.

Mandatory duty-to-retreat jurisdictions: Nebraska, Hawai’i, Delaware, Connecticut.

Mandatory duty-to-retreat jurisdictions (except your home and sometimes your workplace): Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York (unless you’re threatened with sexual assault, robbery, burglary, or kidnapping), New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota.

All territories are stand-your-ground except the US Virgin Islands (there is no case law regarding it).

He was on his mother’s property on her side of a fence. SYG isn’t going to fly

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sagehen Sep 19, 2023 • 7:02:01am

re: #175 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And then there is the side issue of deciding whether or not droids should be considered sentient.* If so, then the society has a pretty monstrous slavery issue going on as well.

* - And droid characters like R2D2 certainly act like it.

I just watched Solo. Lando’s sidekick/partner L3-37, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, was undeniably sentient.

Click to Reveal

when her body was shot to pieces in the fighting after she freed all the droids in that mine, and they pulled her processor/database out of her head and uploaded it to the Millennium Falcon, I guess that makes the Millennium Falcon now sentient as well.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 7:03:06am

re: #207 Scottish Dragon

He was on his mother’s property on her side of a fence. SYG isn’t going to fly

Intention to tresspass with a deadly weapon (hedge trimmers)

Death penalty stuff if there ever was

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 7:03:19am

re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

tresspassing should carry a death penalty

Imposed by a vigilante instead of a court.

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 7:03:33am

That isn’t going to buff out…..

***UPDATE***
Thread 1/n

Refined likely damage assessment: this is an ex-submarine

New photos of #Russian navy submarine hit by #Ukrainian cruise missiles in Sevastopol show damage is even worse than previous noted. Photos appear credible. Pressure hull has massive breaches pic.twitter.com/a9doVcmHmk

— H I Sutton (@CovertShores) September 18, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 7:04:02am

re: #207 Scottish Dragon

He was on his mother’s property on her side of a fence. SYG isn’t going to fly

Hedge trimmings fell on his property then (littering).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 7:04:19am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Imposed by a vigilante instead of a court.

quicker and more efficient

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 7:05:42am

re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

quicker and more efficient

/

And if you traumatise a nine year-old forever, well that’s just the price of freedom. [bleah]

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Sherlock Hound Sep 19, 2023 • 7:11:02am

re: #169 lawhawk

So much of the Empire’s strategy was wasteful.

Star Destroyers were a wasteful asset - build build stuff and not sufficient to patrol the entire galaxy where they claimed dominion/control. Smaller corvettes would do a better job, less manpower and build more of them to maintain a presence.

TIE fighters were awful and required support ships to get anywhere unlike rebel fighters that could jump with the fleet, were more durable, and whose pilots were more likely to survive engagements.

Then there’s the Death Star, DS2, and Starkiller Base.

Wasteful assets all the way around for the Empire.

And let’s not get started on Palpatine’s strategy for a New Order / Final Order (not the band). Building a metric shitton of star destroyers with death star capabilities in the unknown space and then think they’ll take over the universe that way?

The Executor, Darth Vader’s flagship. Enough said.

As an aside, there was a mission in the Tie Fighter game that put you second in command of a flight and tested your performance if you had to take command.

You got bonus points for fragging your CO! I suspect that that aspect of the Imperial Navy was very realistic!

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 7:13:08am

re: #215 Sherlock Hound

The Executor, Darth Vader’s flagship. Enough said.

As an aside, there was a mission in the Tie Fighter game that put you second in command of a flight and tested your performance if you had to take command.

You got bonus points for fragging your CO! I suspect that that aspect of the Imperial Navy was very realistic!

Considering that a leadership position was usually gained by killing other officers, or watching leaders killing/choking superior officers, the entire chain of command was based on fear and loathing.

Practically every episode of SW shows some member of the imperial forces dying/choked by Vader or other officers.

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steve_davis Sep 19, 2023 • 7:16:35am

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Modern car design is why my wife and I are still alive after hitting an elk with a Smart at sixty miles-per-hour. (And though damaged, the Smart survived.)

Yeah, walked away after getting t boned by a light runner. The other car was down the street with my engine block sharing a cigarette with the engine block it had just sexy timed with, and all my air bags deployed including the one that leg whipped my feet off what would have been a messy amputation in an older car, but at least I was bitching about it with usaa on the phone rather than going out on a gurney. Now, how long until the baby Mazda 2 that was spawned grows into an suv?

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Markm1960 Sep 19, 2023 • 7:18:26am

re: #211 Scottish Dragon

That isn’t going to buff out…..

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They do make duck tape in those colors. A little duck tape a little bondo and it’s good as new. So it’s fixable.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 7:18:37am

Tree Of Liberty got fed with more fresh blood.

Woman shoots 5 people after being turned away from a Denver bar

A woman who was turned away from a Denver bar pulled out a gun and shot five people outside the establishment, The Denver Post reported.

denverpost.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 7:19:44am

re: #214 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And if you traumatise a nine year-old forever, well that’s just the price of freedom. [bleah]

deterrent effect!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 7:20:38am

re: #219 Joe Bacon ✅

Tree Of Liberty got fed with more fresh blood.

Woman shoots 5 people after being turned away from a Denver bar

A woman who was turned away from a Denver bar pulled out a gun and shot five people outside the establishment, The Denver Post reported.

denverpost.com

Stand your ground. That barstool was her home!!!

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ericblair Sep 19, 2023 • 7:27:13am

re: #216 lawhawk

Considering that a leadership position was usually gained by killing other officers, or watching leaders killing/choking superior officers, the entire chain of command was based on fear and loathing.

Practically every episode of SW shows some member of the imperial forces dying/choked by Vader or other officers.

I suppose if you think about it, having low ranked personnel in crappy weak ships and progressively higher ranked personnel in more powerful ships is stupidly wasteful from a military perspective, but intelligent from an anti-mutiny perspective. If your main threat as a leader is from below you and not some RagTag Rebellion(TM) out there somewhere, then you know what your priorities should be.

Authoritarian countries do this constantly. There’s a reason why the Russian armed forces are fragmented into squabbling pieces and fighting for influence against the spy community and militias and mercenaries, because the minute these guys all get together under one leader the Prez is toast.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 7:27:40am

re: #176 Scottish Dragon

Anyways how was summer for all the lizards? My better half got me a lovely 19th century “spider”, which is a cast iron pan with a very long handle and three feet to use for hearth or camp cooking. It has a pronounced gate mark on the bottom (casting mark) and was only lightly rusted, which was easily cleaned up. The pan is re-seasoned and ready for use. My best guess is it’s pre Civil War, but impossible to say for sure. Absolutely pre 1880.

The lid isn’t original to the pan. It’s a Wagner Dutch oven lid from about 1910 and it was hammered. It has a lovely bell tone when lightly tapped.

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That’s our stove!

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sagehen Sep 19, 2023 • 7:28:00am

American Story

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 7:28:27am

re: #219 Joe Bacon ✅

Tree Of Liberty got fed with more fresh blood.

Woman shoots 5 people after being turned away from a Denver bar

A woman who was turned away from a Denver bar pulled out a gun and shot five people outside the establishment, The Denver Post reported.

denverpost.com

So where were all the macho men who claim they have to pack heat to take out the mass-shooter threat?

Did she run out of ammunition, or was she taken down by unarmed bystanders?

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William Lewis Sep 19, 2023 • 7:30:57am

Same river as the other day, same section even, just the other side :)

Picture a day challenge, day 19 of 30.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 7:32:41am

re: #224 sagehen

“How to ignore the noise” (shows howler monkey Marjorie Taylor-Green)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 7:33:18am

re: #223 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

That’s our stove!

Ok almost our stove

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A Cranky One Sep 19, 2023 • 7:37:12am

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GlutenFreeJesus Sep 19, 2023 • 7:37:53am

Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest: ‘TIE Fighters’ Clip

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 7:39:53am

re: #197 Scottish Dragon

Griswold pans are top of the list for collectors. The spider web marked pans from 1890-91 go for several thousand dollars.

I did not pay that much.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 7:46:29am

The BlueSky post I plastered upthread looking for codes to give to scientists and medical people so they can abandon Birdchan has resulted in a huge influx of those same people abandoning Apartheid Clyde’s home for undersocialised antisemites permanently.

A quick reminder that I made a ‘Welcome, STEM’ feed to introduce ourselves and welcome others joining BlueSky! Check it out, and say hi 👋🏽 Tag: #HiSciSky

Sep 18, 2023 at 11:54

bsky.app

(New BlueSky feed of scientists and medical personnel)

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Sep 19, 2023 • 7:46:32am

re: #114 Nerdy Fish

This was a surprise early on a Tuesday morning, as I prepare to run the budget.

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Me too.

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A Cranky One Sep 19, 2023 • 7:47:49am

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! | The Muppets

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jeffreyw Sep 19, 2023 • 7:49:03am

Mastodon

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 7:50:22am

re: #234 A Cranky One

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What type of socks do pirates like?

ARRRGHYLL!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 7:50:28am

Lauren Boebert says she is done dating Democrats, and her and her special friend are done: “We have peacefully parted at this time.”

x.com

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sizzzzlerz Sep 19, 2023 • 7:51:28am

re: #219 Joe Bacon ✅

Tree Of Liberty got fed with more fresh blood.

Woman shoots 5 people after being turned away from a Denver bar

A woman who was turned away from a Denver bar pulled out a gun and shot five people outside the establishment, The Denver Post reported.

denverpost.com

Little known clause in the 2nd amendment: The right of the people to enter a pub or tavern for purposes of getting drunk on one’s ass shall not be infringed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 7:53:42am

re: #237 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Good for her. The poor man is probably soaking in an acid bath to get the swill off.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 7:55:11am

My second invite code to BlueSky was taken by a scientist. I have none left to distribute.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 7:56:37am

re: #232 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Apartheid Clyde”

Hot Damn I like that!

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mmmirele Sep 19, 2023 • 7:57:50am

First world work problems.

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Vicious Babushka Sep 19, 2023 • 8:04:05am

re: #242 mmmirele

First world work problems.

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Decatur Deb Sep 19, 2023 • 8:04:16am

re: #237 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

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That should improve Democratic voter registrations.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Sep 19, 2023 • 8:08:11am

re: #243 Vicious Babushka

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I keep telling the world that retirement is vastly underrated.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 8:09:57am

Gee how will The New York Times spin this?

As House Republicans began ripping apart their party’s latest spending proposal on a conference call their own leaders held to promote it, the plan’s two main defenders had to hang up the phone. They had flights to catch.

Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), who represented centrists, and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), who negotiated for conservatives, thought they had found a deal that would at least unite the fractious GOP — even if it couldn’t pass the Senate and avert a shutdown. Minutes after Johnson and Donalds left that Sunday night conference call, however, their work imploded, with a half-dozen House conservatives railing against it.

More than a dozen Republicans, mostly Donalds’ colleagues in the conservative Freedom Caucus, are publicly torching the spending plan he brokered. With just a four-seat majority, Speaker Kevin McCarthy can only afford to lose a handful of them given that he can’t count on Democratic votes — leaving the GOP bill effectively dead.

politico.com

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 8:10:53am

re: #245 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I keep telling the world that retirement is vastly underrated.

Counting down…9 months 11 days…each day that light at the end of the tunnel glows brighter…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Sep 19, 2023 • 8:11:43am

Strange flower

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Decatur Deb Sep 19, 2023 • 8:12:15am

re: #246 Joe Bacon ✅

Perhaps TeaParty/FC/MAGA was a phase the nation had to go through to teach us to value sanity. Something like the goldfish-swallowing craze.

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William Lewis Sep 19, 2023 • 8:14:26am

re: #242 mmmirele

First world work problems.

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Your stories remind me why I walked away from IT and, despite some of the weird shit _I_ post, I am much happier as a hotel guy.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 8:15:01am

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Sep 19, 2023 • 8:18:16am

evergreen follow-up to these sorts of videoshttps://t.co/74EzSmf2Zc

— The Armchair Dragoons (@ADragoons) September 18, 2023

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Hecuba's daughter Sep 19, 2023 • 8:18:38am

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Blocking doesn’t solve the problem, since the person issuing threats can call in flying monkeys.

I might let this go one more day, and if it continues, I will end this experiment with social media secure in the knowledge my opposition to joining a site has been proved with evidence (if BlueSky is better than any of the others).

The difference in FB is that most of the time people restrict posts to friends and not to wider audiences; i.e. only your friends can view your posts on your feed. It was more designed to interact with people you know. However, for specific posts, you are free to expand your audience to the entire FB community. Anything you post in response to another’s feed is visible to the audience for that feed.

Of course, anyone running for office or a current office holder would generally want a wide audience.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 8:20:37am

re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My second invite code to BlueSky was taken by a scientist. I have none left to distribute.

The consensus in that thread is that he dumped her. Skuttlebutt says they’re be together for the years.

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Hecuba's daughter Sep 19, 2023 • 8:21:52am

re: #113 TarHellion

If only every day were Birbie Day!

Beautiful morning here. Temps in the lower 50s. Still warming up to around 80, but the humidity level is noticeably lower.

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Par here

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Wordle 822 4/6

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Group: 2,4,4
Both of us who were 4 chose the wrong letter in 3.

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wrenchwench Sep 19, 2023 • 8:23:22am

re: #176 Scottish Dragon

Anyways how was summer for all the lizards? My better half got me a lovely 19th century “spider”, which is a cast iron pan with a very long handle and three feet to use for hearth or camp cooking. It has a pronounced gate mark on the bottom (casting mark) and was only lightly rusted, which was easily cleaned up. The pan is re-seasoned and ready for use. My best guess is it’s pre Civil War, but impossible to say for sure. Absolutely pre 1880.

The lid isn’t original to the pan. It’s a Wagner Dutch oven lid from about 1910 and it was hammered. It has a lovely bell tone when lightly tapped.

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Beautiful pieces. The official term in the business for two pieces that didn’t start out together, but are now working together well, is a ‘marriage’. I’ve seen a gate mark on a piece that old, but it wasn’t that nice.

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BeenHereAwhile Sep 19, 2023 • 8:24:57am

re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I cannot have much sympathy for any lawyer who did not have the sense to demand money up front from guys like these.

And Rudy’s attorneys who got conned get no sympathy from defense attorneys who knew for a client like him, “you have to get the $$retainer$$* before agreeing to represent him.

*Contract to be paid up front for total fees and costs of criminal trial defense, and subsequent appeals.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 8:30:12am

re: #247 Joe Bacon ✅

Counting down…9 months 11 days…each day that light at the end of the tunnel glows brighter…

Some news below the fold - I had planned retiring from the FED when I hit 30 years, that’s 2029. But.

Click to Reveal

So, I just got a request on LinkedIn for an a chat with Intertek (intertek.com) from Ryan Simon, senior director of Safety and Regulatory Food & Nutrition Group. I’m a tad freaked out.

Not sure if you have ever considered consulting, but we have a Director level position open within our group that we believe you would be an amazing fit for

Huge consulting / QA / oversight company. 44k employees. I know Ryan from the other t side of the table in consultations with our office (Office of Food Aditive Safety), he’s a really smart and nice Canadian.

I’m going to respond And talk with them, but do I want to go into consulting and I’ll have to do the whole talk with our ethics lawyers. And what I have now is a known thing. That would be insist with those artificial deadlines and stress.

Gack

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Vicious Babushka Sep 19, 2023 • 8:31:28am

re: #252 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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I did not realize how many of these videos are out there.

ENTIRE NORTH KOREAN ARMY DANCING TO “STAYIN’ ALIVE”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 8:36:48am

Several people are reporting from Twitter if you send a BlueSky invite code via Twitter’s direct messaging, your account is locked out.

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 8:37:12am

re: #260 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Several people are reporting from Twitter if you send a BlueSky invite code via Twitter’s direct messaging, your account is locked out.

damn

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 8:38:42am

re: #261 Scottish Dragon

damn

Elno seems to be scared.

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Vicious Babushka Sep 19, 2023 • 8:39:20am

re: #260 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Several people are reporting from Twitter if you send a BlueSky invite code via Twitter’s direct messaging, your account is locked out.

I sent Michael W. Twitty a Bluesky invite code and my account is locked (well, I locked it myself but not for that reason)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 8:40:15am

re: #259 Vicious Babushka

I did not realize how many of these videos are out there.

Where do you find this stuff, ma’am? This is hilarious.

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Hecuba's daughter Sep 19, 2023 • 8:42:21am

re: #142 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

There’s Only One Way to Interview Donald Trump

compare:

That interview was conducted before Trump was elected and before he fully realized that he could say or do anything and his base would remain loyal to him and that his base was large enough to put him in power. Now he knows that there is no vile crime against this nation he could commit that would lose him voters.

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 8:43:14am

re: #264 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Where do you find this stuff, ma’am? This is hilarious.

There’s a bunch of Russian soldiers dancing videos set to rap and pop music also.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 8:44:04am

re: #258 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 8:44:07am

re: #246 Joe Bacon ✅

Gee how will The New York Times spin this?

As House Republicans began ripping apart their party’s latest spending proposal on a conference call their own leaders held to promote it, the plan’s two main defenders had to hang up the phone. They had flights to catch.

Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), who represented centrists, and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), who negotiated for conservatives, thought they had found a deal that would at least unite the fractious GOP — even if it couldn’t pass the Senate and avert a shutdown. Minutes after Johnson and Donalds left that Sunday night conference call, however, their work imploded, with a half-dozen House conservatives railing against it.

More than a dozen Republicans, mostly Donalds’ colleagues in the conservative Freedom Caucus, are publicly torching the spending plan he brokered. With just a four-seat majority, Speaker Kevin McCarthy can only afford to lose a handful of them given that he can’t count on Democratic votes — leaving the GOP bill effectively dead.

politico.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Sep 19, 2023 • 8:46:30am

re: #257 BeenHereAwhile

And Rudy’s attorneys who got conned get no sympathy from defense attorneys who knew for a client like him, “you have to get the $$retainer$$* before agreeing to represent him.

*Contract to be paid up front for total fees and costs of criminal trial defense, and subsequent appeals.

you chose to work for the guy who worked for the guy who didnt pay him

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A Cranky One Sep 19, 2023 • 8:49:43am

One of the fun things about being retired: things popping into your brain for no apparent reason. Having my coffee this morning and what pops into my head?

Pay toilets.

I’m a sick puppy.

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Vicious Babushka Sep 19, 2023 • 8:52:32am

re: #266 Scottish Dragon

There’s a bunch of Russian soldiers dancing videos set to rap and pop music also.

Here is the video that started it all:

Lambeth Walk: Nazi Style - by Charles A. Ridley (1941)

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Hecuba's daughter Sep 19, 2023 • 8:54:23am

re: #153 lawhawk

Arguably, the media has always done this kind of crap - yellow journalism anyone? The media pushing narratives that fit what certain political groups or billionaires seek.

The problem is that there’s such a firehose of misinformation out there that outfits claiming to play straight news are pushing this nonsense nonstop.

William Hearst helped to start the Spanish-American War. The difference now is that there are far more voices on far more platforms readily available to a much larger percentage of the population — and the voices don’t have to claim to be “straight news” to influence the population. Much easier today to find someone promoting a conspiracy or lies that appeal to your existing biases.

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dat_said Sep 19, 2023 • 8:54:28am

Bionic 3rd thumb: The future of human augmentation | Hard Reset

Augmentation and neuroplasticity - whee!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 19, 2023 • 8:56:55am

I said I was going to bed some time ago, and I ran out of rum. I’m really leaving this time. Catch y’all later.

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Jay C Sep 19, 2023 • 8:57:06am

re: #273 dat_said

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Augmentation and neuroplasticity - whee!

So soon inept home-handymen may have TWO targets for misdirected hammers?

Wow -Progress!!

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 8:57:19am

re: #271 Vicious Babushka

Here is the video that started it all:

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“Gestapo Hep Cats” OMG I’m dying.

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wrenchwench Sep 19, 2023 • 9:01:44am

It’s not a four. I came up short. Wordle 822 3/6*

Click to Reveal

⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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jeffreyw Sep 19, 2023 • 9:07:25am

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg Sep 19, 2023 • 9:10:28am

re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I cannot begin to grasp the mentality that justifies the need for such an action.

He’s a white Florida Republican. He thinks he can get away with it. Stand your Ground and all that.

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calochortus Sep 19, 2023 • 9:10:32am

re: #248 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Strange flower

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Looks Australian. Maybe a Grevillea?

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dat_said Sep 19, 2023 • 9:10:35am

re: #275 Jay C

So soon inept home-handymen may have TWO targets for misdirected hammers?

Wow -Progress!!

Yeah, the third thumb thing is just weird as is the concept of body augmentation (for me anyway). However, the science and engineering behind prosthetics and how the brain is impacted is intriguing. I know some scientists/engineers working on neurostimulation to help enhance neuroplasticity during PT post-stroke.

That said, wouldn’t be surprised if there are a bunch of homemade functioning Doc Oc Halloween costumes out there in five years or so. All you need is a 3-d printer, some mechanical and electrical engineering skills…. What I’m really looking forward to is body augmentation that results in a tail like one that Jason Alexander’s character has in “Shallow Hal”.

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Thanos Sep 19, 2023 • 9:10:44am

I updated IOS, whacked a lot of weeds, and rescued some ingrates from Moonrise towers so now it’s time to go get a blender from Scooter’s.

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lizardofid Sep 19, 2023 • 9:12:05am

re: #280 calochortus

Looks Australian. Maybe a Grevillea?

Grevillea Moonlight I believe.

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calochortus Sep 19, 2023 • 9:12:38am

re: #283 lizardofid

Grevillea Moonlight I believe.

Nice!

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darthstar Sep 19, 2023 • 9:14:09am

Mastodon

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lizardofid Sep 19, 2023 • 9:16:49am

re: #284 calochortus

Nice!

(I googled it)

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Vicious Babushka Sep 19, 2023 • 9:17:46am

Mastodon

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calochortus Sep 19, 2023 • 9:20:58am

re: #286 lizardofid

(I googled it)

Sneaky. Very sneaky.

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Semper Fi Sep 19, 2023 • 9:21:38am

re: #267 Joe Bacon ✅

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jeffreyw Sep 19, 2023 • 9:24:21am

Mastodon

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Nojay UK Sep 19, 2023 • 9:28:01am

re: #290 jeffreyw

I was sort of hoping that would be a GIF and not just a still image.

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 9:28:36am

re: #290 jeffreyw

OMG that’s brilliant

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Backwoods Sleuth Sep 19, 2023 • 9:31:00am

This kindergartener got in trouble for calling his dogs siblings for a school project. When she found out he was talking about his dogs, his teacher struck through his tally of one sister and one brother and changed them to zeroes, but his mom helped him fix it when he got home… pic.twitter.com/pQv8zeGMwb

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) September 19, 2023

“The teacher seems like a nice lady, just maybe a little misguided,” his mom said in a post. “We can’t have more human kiddos, so we just told him he already had one of each. So he came home like wtf?” Even at such a young age, he knows the meaning of family. 14/10 for all pic.twitter.com/ZAqOihMPtd

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) September 19, 2023

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retired cynic Sep 19, 2023 • 9:32:57am

re: #85 wrenchwench

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Hecuba's daughter Sep 19, 2023 • 9:34:37am

re: #214 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And if you traumatise a nine year-old forever, well that’s just the price of freedom. [bleah]

The NRA and its GOP disciples are fine with that. They literally do not care how many children have been killed or harmed either physically or psychologically from these weapons. They actively promote a society where violence is treated as the solution to all problems or conflicts and where truth is the first casualty.

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 9:37:49am

Come to bluesky, folks pic.twitter.com/sR065ah2Y5

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) September 19, 2023

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Thanos Sep 19, 2023 • 9:39:16am

If you get a chance turn on NPR, today’s topic for a while is “Trust” and what happens when it’s broken.

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Hecuba's daughter Sep 19, 2023 • 9:39:46am

re: #225 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So where were all the macho men who claim they have to pack heat to take out the mass-shooter threat?

Did she run out of ammunition, or was she taken down by unarmed bystanders?

She wounded 5 people and fled. Apparently the police have not yet identified her.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 9:40:59am

This disgraced Megachurch evangelical believes his transgressions should be private — so he’s suing

Over the years, countless evangelical Religious Right fundamentalists — from Jimmy Swaggart to Jerry Falwell Jr. to Jim Bakker — have been caught up in major sex scandals.

Another is Johnny Hunt, who headed the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) before taking a “leave of absence” in 2010.

Religion News’ Bob Smietana, in an article published on September 18, explains, “On July 25, 2010, while vacationing in Florida, Hunt had kissed and fondled another pastor’s wife in what his attorneys would later call a ‘brief, consensual extramarital encounter.’ Then, Hunt spent more than a decade covering the incident up.”

Smietana notes that Hunt has filed a civil lawsuit against the SBC’s Executive Committee and Guidepost and argues that they should not have publicly discussed his behavior — and that his privacy was invaded.

But George Freeman, executive director of the Media Law Resource Center, believes that Hunt’s privacy claims in the lawsuit are flawed.

Freeman told Religion News Service, “That’s life. That’s not a lawsuit.”

According to Smietana, “The former SBC president’s defamation claim could have some merit if the allegations against him are proven false. But even then, Freeman said, Hunt, a prominent evangelical leader and speaker, would likely qualify as a public figure — making the defamation claim harder.”

alternet.org

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Captain Ron Sep 19, 2023 • 9:43:44am

Paul Simon says he is unlikely to perform again due to hearing loss after severe bout of COVID

https://t.co/VSwPWWRbXP

— Ben Siegel (@bensiegel) September 19, 2023

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wrenchwench Sep 19, 2023 • 9:44:59am

re: #294 retired cynic

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A Cranky One Sep 19, 2023 • 9:46:01am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 9:46:21am

re: #245 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I keep telling the world that retirement is vastly underrated.

not really an option for me

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EstebanTornado1963 Sep 19, 2023 • 9:51:08am

Both arms still sore today from COVID booster (not dead yet) and flu shots.

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lawhawk Sep 19, 2023 • 9:57:56am

The GOP is going to crash headlong into a govt shutdown, and the clown car is more than happy to go along with it.

McCarthy is hapless, and his caucus is ungovernable (mostly because they don’t want to govern but rather seek to destroy functioning government to get the precious tax cuts that enrich the billionaire class while shifting all the burdens to those least able to endure them by slashing and burning safety net programs, including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid). That includes GOP proposals to hike the retirement age, making it so people would have to work til they’re unable to enjoy retirement and die.

McCarthy Cancels Key Vote On Stopgap Funding Billhttps://t.co/Tskg9XtZoZ pic.twitter.com/K27YJsta2v

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) September 19, 2023

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 9:59:27am

re: #305 lawhawk

The GOP is going to crash headlong into a govt shutdown, and the clown car is more than happy to go along with it.

They have a whole wing of the party that hates Federal Government and wants to drown it in a bathtub.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Sep 19, 2023 • 10:02:51am

re: #280 calochortus

Looks Australian. Maybe a Grevillea?

Looks like it. This is California, where just about anything ~~goes~~ grows.

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Captain Ron Sep 19, 2023 • 10:13:09am

Good to see Kevin is prioritizing the truly important things that need to get done for the American people. Hunter Biden before funding the govt. The 2023 GOP in a nutshell. https://t.co/Nd1bpv5lQo

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 19, 2023

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Eventual Carrion Sep 19, 2023 • 10:13:31am

re: #118 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So damned close to the beagle, but birb it is.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Sep 19, 2023 • 10:14:36am

Hell, she married a guy after he exposed himself to a minor, in front of her and her friends and family members.
She’s definitely Marine Corps Ball date material

— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) September 19, 2023

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calochortus Sep 19, 2023 • 10:14:38am

re: #307 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Looks like it. This is California, where just about anything ~~goes~~ grows.

Depends on your soil. Australian plants are popular here because they often don’t need a lot of water, but many of them don’t grow well at our house. Presumably the soil is wrong, because they grow really well not that far away.

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Captain Magic Sep 19, 2023 • 10:17:13am

re: #236 Scottish Dragon

What’s the 18th letter of the alphabet?

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lizardofid Sep 19, 2023 • 10:20:33am

re: #307 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Looks like it. This is California, where just about anything ~~goes~~ grows.

Not doubt it would make the trip over and thrive. (Eucalyptus sure did,)

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retired cynic Sep 19, 2023 • 10:21:43am

Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter today. We did not just hand $6B to Iran.

Finally, five Americans who have been imprisoned in Iran are home tonight, along with two of their spouses. In exchange, the U.S. freed five Iranian citizens who were imprisoned or were about to stand trial, although three of them declined to return to Iran (two have chosen to stay in the U.S., and another went to a third country). The Republic of Korea has released $6 billion of Iran’s money to Qatar for use for humanitarian aid to Iranian citizens suffering under the sanctions that prevent medicines and food from coming into the country.

Brett McGurk, the National Security Council’s coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, told the Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian that the funds had not previously been frozen; they were held up in South Korea because of that country’s own regulations. Under Trump, Iran spent heavily from similar accounts in China, Turkey, and India. Now that they are released, the funds will have more legal restrictions than they did when they were in South Korea.

The Biden administration has prioritized bringing home wrongfully detained Americans. Today’s events bring the number of those the administration has brought home to 35.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Sep 19, 2023 • 10:23:15am

IoS 10 for the Apple watch made some well need improvements. Both in the interface and methods of showing data.

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calochortus Sep 19, 2023 • 10:26:03am

OK, time to get something done.
BBL

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 19, 2023 • 10:29:29am

re: #307 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Looks like it. This is California, where just about anything ~~goes~~ grows.

I remember the first time a say an (Australian) bottlebrush tree growing in my sister’s garden in Santa Ana, California. In the dead of winter at that…

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Scottish Dragon Sep 19, 2023 • 10:31:05am

re: #316 calochortus

OK, time to get something done.
BBL

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Eventual Carrion Sep 19, 2023 • 10:40:19am

re: #146 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Back in 2018 I was on a DUKW tour in Seattle and one house along Lake Washington they specifically pointed out at one point was apparently featured in “Sleepless in Seattle”.

I also recall being in Baltimore and they had a plaque on the building that was used as the police HQ in the “Homicide: Life on the Street” series.

A movie called Spookt is coming out. It was filmed in and about my hometown.

Click to Reveal

I was born and raised in Greenville, PA. I left for a while but have been back since ‘91. This story has been around as long as I can remember.

SPOOKT Official Red Band Trailer (2023) FrightFest