(How do you ask someone to be the last comment in a thread)
I saw someone with one of those “patriotic t-shirts” and though of making one of the “Land of the Free Because of the Brave” shirt with pictures of:
Ulysses S. Grant
Susan B. Anthony
Richard Winters (Band of Brothers)
Desmond Doss (The medic Andrew Garfield portrayed in Hacksaw Ridge)
MLK Jr.
There are probably some others to put in, but you get the idea.
re: #1 Belafon
(How do you ask someone to be the last comment in a thread)
I saw someone with one of those “patriotic t-shirts” and though of making one of the “Land of the Free Because of the Brave” shirt with pictures of:
Ulysses S. Grant
Susan B. Anthony
Richard Winters (Band of Brothers)
Desmond Doss (The medic Andrew Garfield portrayed in Hacksaw Ridge)
MLK Jr.There are probably some others to put in, but you get the idea.
Was about to bring it upstairs too:
Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr
re: #1 Belafon
On that topic, our pastor’s son came to church today wearing a “Defund the IRS” shirt. Sigh. I was young and stupid, too, once.
re: #2 William Lewis
Was about to bring it upstairs too:
Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr
Was at his very belated award ceremony in the Aviation Museum at Fort NOVOSEL.
Trump’s gang is responding to Jack Smith’s request for a protective order against that orange motherfucker tomorrow, after Trump semi-explicitly called for the death of Gen. Mark Milley. It’s just unbelievable what Trump continues to get away with, even when the whole world has seen what he’s capable of.
He’ll probably get away with this too.
re: #4 Decatur Deb
Was at his very belated award ceremony in the Aviation Museum at Fort NOVOSEL.
Ft Novosel & Ft Moore. Love those two new names most of all.
A different perspective on glacier retreat. We have monitored Sholes Glacier, Mount Baker WA for 40 years. Here is retreat depicted by when each of us first worked on the glacier. Picture from Mariama Dryak-Vallies. Retreat rate in last decade more than first three.
re: #3 Nerdy Fish
On that topic, our pastor’s son came to church today wearing a “Defund the IRS” shirt. Sigh. I was young and stupid, too, once.
So you go to a right wing church.
re: #8 Patricia Kayden
So you go to a right wing church.
Yes and no. What they believe privately and what they preach publicly are not always the same. It’s weird.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Trump’s gang is responding to Jack Smith’s request for a protective order against that orange motherfucker tomorrow, after Trump semi-explicitly called for the death of Gen. Mark Milley. It’s just unbelievable what Trump continues to get away with, even when the whole world has seen what he’s capable of.
He’ll probably get away with this too.
I think Gosar just semi explicitly said it too
Ms. Jewish Space Lasers got her Jewish holidays mixed up (that is a Chanukah menorah). Wildly offensive — especially on the holiest day of the year in Judaism. pic.twitter.com/Wa0WcXitKI
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 24, 2023
Big news!
Hey, hey. pic.twitter.com/WgWNhIoks1
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) September 25, 2023
re: #13 No Malarkey!
I was wondering when the studios would finally cave. Strike has been on nearly 5 months now.
Captain batshit seems unusually scared tonight
All Democrat senators should resign?
Nbc and Comcast are enemies of the people and he’ll “remove” them?
re: #6 William Lewis
Ft Novosel & Ft Moore. Love those two new names most of all.
I thought this was pretty remarkable: The Confederate officer for whom Fort Novosel was originally named, Edmund Rucker, was still alive when the new namesake, Vietnam war hero Michael Novosel, was born. Rucker died, age 88, on April 13, 1924. Michael Novosel was born on September 3, 1922 and died in 2006, age 84.
Alabama still coulda had this guy
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Doug Jones@DougJones
Since news broke of the indictment against Senator Menendez I have searched to find the right words. I am shocked. I am saddened. I am outraged.
It seems that every day - or at least once a week - Americans learn of another indictment of a public official whether it is a former President or sitting member of Congress or a sitting US Senator.
It seems every week we see another example of a sitting Supreme Court justice smugly ignoring legal and ethical obligations knowing there is virtually no repercussions.
Americans see that even one Senator can jeopardize national security and disrupt the lives of thousands of military families - for months on end - simply as means of scoring political points.
They see that extremists in Congress can potentially shut down the US government, causing chaos in the recovering US economy that will adversely impact so many in and out of government, again to just score political points.
It is no wonder that Americans on both sides of the political aisle have so little respect for our political parties and our institutions of government.
The indictment against Senator Menendez is stunning in its detail of corruption. That said, under our rule of law he is entitled to a presumption of innocence and his guilt or innocence will be left for a jury, as it should be. And just as it should be for Donald Trump.
But like I have said about the Trump indictments, the facts as stated against Senator Menendez are damning. So for me, the right words in this situation are simply this: For the sake of the people of New Jersey, for the sake of our Republic, for the sake of the Senate itself, Senator Menendez should resign his seat.
12:23 PM · Sep 24, 2023
re: #3 Nerdy Fish
On that topic, our pastor’s son came to church today wearing a “Defund the IRS” shirt. Sigh. I was young and stupid, too, once.
Wears that shirt inside a building that doesn’t pay anything to the IRS.
re: #101 teleskiguy
The ‘G’ in The Game of GNAR is Gaffney’s. It stands for Gaffney’s Numerical Assessment of Radness and it’s a game Robb Gaffney and Shane McConkey came up with to play while skiing. I play GNAR everyday I’m skiing.
Huge loss…
Haven’t posted as much as usual, but I wanted to chime in with my riff on Jews for Jesus.
feel free to like and comment.
So I watched the Miami game today - good fun even if I don’t give a fuck about the team. Their offense played beutifully.
Then I channel surfed because I hate Fox Sports and found a final round of a LIV Golf tournament. Lasted about five minutes. The announcers sounded like they were making calls for Survivor, there was a giant scoreboard taking up the left side of the screen with various ‘team’ logos in shades of bright neon, and the players on the two teams I saw were wearing hot pink and purple golf shirts and their teams had weird fucking names.
Then, as a player was making a shot, on the side of the screen where one would expect to watch the ball hitting the fairway, a fucking tweet with a black background and the logo X took up a third of the remaining real estate…also, the words ‘Saudi Golf’ was visible everywhere. Between the Saudis sportswashing their image and fucking Elmo getting random plugs on the screen I was done with it.
I hope the golfers like their money…nobody fucking cares about their play anymore.
re: #12 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Finished Zooming our evening service and I see this…
How does she get away with this????
re: #24 I Would Prefer Not To
Haven’t posted as much as usual, but I wanted to chime in with my riff on Jews for Jesus.
feel free to like and comment.
You are getting really comfortable up there! Good job!
re: #23 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
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That doesn’t pass the smell test. Just a quick search shows that the top 10 CEOs average about 30 million a year each. 2% of 300 million is only 6 million. When most blockbusters these days have production/advertising budgets of half a billion dollars if they could make the strike go away with 6 million thy would do it in a second.
Saw this on Facebook:
The red tower in the background is part of Six Flags. If you know anything about the area, even before they built a new baseball stadium, you know how much that area has changed.
I went and looked up Six Flags, which was opened in 1961. The businessman who built it was only going to keep it open a short time so he could make some money before turning the area into an industrial park. But he recouped all of his money in 18 months and so he decided it was worth keeping it open.
As this week’s “debate” draws near, more polls are showing up.
Trump still leads the pack by a mile.
DeSantis is once again doing better while Smarmy is not doing so well in the most recent polls.
The rest of the pack is not changing. Pence+Haley are holding on to their combined <10% total, and Christie and Scott are fighting it out for sixth place.
The “debate” this week is not going to be very revelatory. It will be bash-the-immigrants, bash-the-libruls mostly. Trump will not be a story unless a judge shuts him up between now and Wednesday night.
re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Many things about Trump could be fixed by sewing his thumbs to his lips.
I feel special! I up-dinged a video on YouTube and it changed from 2K to 3K up-dings.
Shameless page promotion of a subject very dear to me.
UN Approves Eradication Plan for Tuberculosis (Goes to the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs)
Crap. The button which opens the door on my microwave gave up the ghost. I can’t open the door.
Always love when somebody calls me for quotes on our cheapest room for 2 or more weeks and is so obvious about their finances being shakier than a paint mixer. People whose finances are in-order tend to ask questions like the size of the room, the number of beds, what appliances do the kitchens come with, and what other amenities we have to offer. People who ask me about payment schedules, the flexibility thereof, and how much they gotta pay upfront usually are the ones with credit histories so checkered that they couldn’t get approval to rent an outhouse.
And yes, this isn’t a hard-set rule because there are people who’ve asked such questions who’ve turned out to be business travelers who needed that info for the finance department, but our hotel’s history over the last 2 years shows that if you’re spending 20-30 minutes on your phone in the lobby either making calls or transferring funds around just to make the first week’s payment…odds are we’re gonna end up before a magistrate within a year to file paperwork to have you evicted for non-payment.
re: #3 Nerdy Fish
On that topic, our pastor’s son came to church today wearing a “Defund the IRS” shirt. Sigh. I was young and stupid, too, once.
The last thing a pastor’s son wants is for his dad to have to pay taxes.
re: #8 Patricia Kayden
So you go to a right wing church.
My Fox News Bro and SiL recently quit their Episcopalian Church because they found it too “woke”, so I assume they have found a place that preaches their sense of Christian Values.
re: #12 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Ms. Jewish Space Lasers got her Jewish holidays mixed up (that is a Chanukah menorah). Wildly offensive — especially on the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
At this point, I can begin to believe her claim that she “did not know that the Rothschilds were Jewish”.
re: #35 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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Ted Nuages!!!
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re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Crap. The button which opens the door on my microwave gave up the ghost. I can’t open the door.
crowbar
Gotta get to work now, the thread is yours again.
re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My Fox News Bro and SiL recently quit their Episcopalian Church because they found it too “woke”, so I assume they have found a place that preaches their sense of Christian Values.
We’re Episcopalians, but it’s the episcopal church.
re: #45 steve_davis
We’re Episcopalians, but it’s the episcopal church.
We’re vegetarians, but they are vegetables.
Archive of the “Amplify Ukraine” Telegram channel, translated into English.
TRANSLATION :
👨⚕️Херсонський The doctor is the winner of a prestigious award dedicated to the fight against tuberculosis.During a high-level meeting on tuberculosis at the 78th UN General Assembly in New York, Ukrainian doctors were awarded the Kochon Prize.
The award was presented to Vyacheslav Musat, acting director of the Kherson Phthisiopulmonary Medical Center, a doctor from Chernihiv Oblast, and the leadership of the Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health.
Viacheslav Musat saves lives of Kherson residents in extremely difficult conditions - first during the Russian occupation, and now under constant enemy fire.
The winners were selected by an independent commission for their efforts, resilience and bravery in providing TB services to the people of Ukraine during the war.
Congratulations on your significant achievement!
(original in Ukrainian at the link)
re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My Fox News Bro and SiL recently quit their Episcopalian Church because they found it too “woke”, so I assume they have found a place that preaches their sense of Christian Values.
Goodness knows some of us have been screaming “WAKE THE FUCK UP” rather loud. Including more than a few of the bishops which has sent the wingnuts walking :)
re: #48 William Lewis
Goodness knows some of us have been screaming “WAKE THE FUCK UP” rather loud. Including more than a few of the bishops which has sent the wingnuts walking :)
and you guys allow gay marriage and female pastors and all that, too, right?
After Azerbaijan’s defeat of the breakaway area of Nogormo-Karabakh, Armenians in the region are fleeing to Armenia.
Reuters, September 24, 2023
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians start to leave en masse for Armenia
STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh began a mass exodus by car on Sunday toward Armenia after Azerbaijan defeated the breakaway region’s fighters in a conflict dating from the Soviet era.
The Nagorno-Karabakh leadership told Reuters the region’s 120,000 Armenians did not want to live as part of Azerbaijan for fear of persecution and ethnic cleansing.
Those with fuel had started to drive down the Lachin corridor toward the border with Armenia, according to a Reuters reporter in the Karabakh capital known as Stepanakert by Armenia and Khankendi by Azerbaijan.
An Armenian government statement said 1,050 people had crossed into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabkah as of 10 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Sunday.
Reuters pictures showed dozens of cars driving out of the capital toward the corridor’s mountainous curves.
The Armenians of Karabakh, a territory internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but previously beyond its control, were forced into a ceasefire last week after a 24-hour military operation by the much-larger Azerbaijani military.
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Yup. Pisses off all the people that need to be pissed off.
edit: don’t get me wrong. Not even close to perfect. Lots of our own scandals but we do own them and try not to hide them under the rug.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
After Azerbaijan’s defeat of the breakaway area of Nogormo-Karabakh, Armenians in the region are fleeing to Armenia.
Reuters, September 24, 2023
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians start to leave en masse for Armenia
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This is really regressive politics. I remember this conflict going on in the early 1990’s, as was the one in Transnistria/Moldavia.
It says a lot about post-Soviet politics that such disputes permanently smoulder and flare up again and again. I can agree with Putin in his statement that the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 was the “Geopolical catastrophe of the century”.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
After Azerbaijan’s defeat of the breakaway area of Nogormo-Karabakh, Armenians in the region are fleeing to Armenia.
Reuters, September 24, 2023
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians start to leave en masse for Armenia
(more)
The region was protected by Russia, but Azerbaijan no longer fears or respects them. Armenia, which had been Russia’s ally, recently held its first military exercises with the U.S.
re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
crowbar
I could try that. It might not shut again, though.
The button is a large plastic doohickey. I assume it works like similar plastic buttons on everything from a computer power switch to a car dashboard button. In electronic devices I’ve taken apart before to troubleshoot similar problems, the plastic button on the back has a plastic pin which pushes into the electrical switch. The pin can either wear or break, rendering the button useless.
The microwave is long past its warranty. Perhaps I should look for an old Amana Radar Range. Those things are built like tanks.
re: #52 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
52 years ago:
And then we wonder why the fools voted for Brexit.
Peak rent-seeking.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Peak rent-seeking.
“Possession is 9/10th of the law”, say those who already possess 9/10th of everything.
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The microwave is long past its warranty. Perhaps I should look for an old Amana Radar Range. Those things are built like tanks.
Built by a religious (Pietist) commune.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Possession is 9/10th of the law”, say those who already possess 9/10th of everything.
I saw in the clip where a homeowner refused to pay the one shilling tax, so British Rail build a shed right next to the property line to block out the sun in the home’s windows.
I’m surprised there wasn’t a suspicious fire in that shed.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I saw in the clip where a homeowner refused to pay the one shilling tax, so British Rail build a shed right next to the property line to block out the sun in the home’s windows.
And British Rail required to planning permission to do so, right?
re: #58 Decatur Deb
Built by a religious (Pietist) commune.
en.wikipedia.org
Hey thanks for that; I didn’t know that about them.
According to Wikipedia, there are seven villages in the colony. Currently, six are larger than mine.
Then there’s this:
n March 1931, in the wake of the Great Depression, the Great Council disclosed to the Amana Society that the villages were in dire financial condition. The Depression was particularly harsh in the Colony because fire had badly damaged the woolen mill and destroyed the flour mill less than ten years earlier. At the same time, Society members were seeking increased secularism so that they could have more personal freedom. The Society agreed to split into two organizations: The non-profit Amana Church Society oversaw the spiritual needs of the community, while the for-profit Amana Society was incorporated as a joint-stock company. The transition was completed in 1932 and came to be known in the community as the Great Change
I currently own two Amana appliances (my refrigerator and my gas range/oven).
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And British Rail required to planning permission to do so, right?
LOL
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Hey thanks for that; I didn’t know that about them.
According to Wikipedia, there are seven villages in the colony. Currently, six are larger than mine.
Then there’s this:
I currently own two Amana appliances (my refrigerator and my gas range/oven).
I remember that in 6th grade we were impressed by one of their first Radar Ranges, bought for a princely sum by Debbie Reynolds. (From the date, it was probably one made by the originators.)
I’ll never understand people who dump half a bag of sugar and half a jug of creamer (especially the sweetened, condensed Coffeemate stuff) into a single cup of coffee. If you have a need for a beverage that is equal parts caffeine and outrageous amounts of sugar, there are a number of energy drinks on the market that fit the bill without wasting otherwise good coffee.
re: #64 Targetpractice
If you have a need for a beverage that is equal parts caffeine and outrageous amounts of sugar, there are a number of energy drinks on the market that fit the bill without wasting otherwise good coffee.
who says it has to be good coffee?
Here’s a good article for pre-Halloween mental framing:
11 Terrifying Urban Legends That Turned Out to Be True
11. The all-too-real corpse decoration
Notorious outlaw Elmer McCurdy took on a second life following his death. In 1911, the embalmed corpse of McCurdy became a grim sideshow attraction throughout Texas, with people eager to see the famed criminal on display in funeral parlors and carnivals. Though it’s hard to document all of his travels, he eventually wound up in Long Beach, California, where someone apparently mistook him for a prop. McCurdy was hung in a funhouse at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park, his humanity discovered only after a crew member on The Six Million-Dollar Man—which was filming there in 1976—tried to adjust him, dislodging his very real arm. The following year, his corpse was put to proper rest.
re: #66 Decatur Deb
Here’s a good article for pre-Halloween mental framing:
11 Terrifying Urban Legends That Turned Out to Be True
Wasn’t that a real corpse used on the set of Rocky Horror PIcture Show?
MAGA Mindset:
- Winning the Super Bowl, getting paid to shill beer and getting it on with the most famous woman in the world: Gay, Beta
- Being a fat slob who tweets his feelings about celebrities: Masculine. Alpha. https://t.co/bF9oSIPRhu— Tim Miller (@Timodc) September 25, 2023
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wasn’t that a real corpse used on the set of Rocky Horror PIcture Show?
McCurdy’s? Dunno, but the production time would allow that.
MAGA Mindset: sick obsession with genitalia
re: #70 Decatur Deb
McCurdy’s? Dunno, but the production time would allow that.
The skeleton-clock coffin
re: #69 DodgerFan1988
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They think you’re “gay” or “woke” if you get paid to shill cheap beer and date one of the most famous women in the world.
Meanwhile, they think symbols of manliness are a conman from Queens who douses shoe-leather steaks in ketchup and a poser rich kid who made millions bullshitting people into believing he was some badass who grew up in a trailer park.
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The skeleton-clock coffin
TV Tropes says “Yes”.
re: #73 Dave In Austin
Rock and roll is much more closely connected to Evangelical Christianity than the latter would like to admit.
re: #74 Targetpractice
They think you’re “gay” or “woke” if you get paid to shill cheap beer and date one of the most famous women in the world.
It’s not really that. They’re going to hate him either way; in any ordinary world, that hate would be envy. He won a Superb Owl, he gets paid to drink beer on TV, he gets to bang a woman they could only have wet dreams about. They can make themselves feel better about their hatred by putting the veneer of right wing culture wars over it. “We don’t hate him because we want to be him; we hate him because he’s a woke cuck librul sheeple.” Because yeah, that sounds SO much better, dudes.
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rock and roll is much more closely connected to Evangelical Christianity than the latter would like to admit.
Since day one. Just ask Sister Rosetta Tharpe. or Little Richard. (or Jerry Lee Lewis and his double-first cousin Jimmy Swaggert)
Gah. Fucking Priceline. Screwed over this guy down from Canada for a week of biz meetings in town for twice what he’d have paid if he’d have called us direct. And tried to tell him breakfast wasn’t included O_o so he was asking me how much he needed to pay each day. Gotta be a Republican company…
re: #78 sagehen
Since day one. Just ask Sister Rosetta Tharpe. or Little Richard. (or Jerry Lee Lewis and his double-first cousin Jimmy Swaggert)
It is about generating that level of frenzied screaming energy, which also goes over into sexual energy.
Great Balls of Fire, indeed!
re: #75 Decatur Deb
TV Tropes says “Yes”.
Nope: More digging and closer reading doesn’t get McCurdy to Rocky Horror, though the skeleton is said to be real. Photos of both are different.
re: #45 steve_davis
We’re Episcopalians, but it’s the episcopal church.
Epsicopal—whatever happened to that guy? Never heard from him again after SNL.
re: #30 danarchy
That doesn’t pass the smell test. Just a quick search shows that the top 10 CEOs average about 30 million a year each. 2% of 300 million is only 6 million. When most blockbusters these days have production/advertising budgets of half a billion dollars if they could make the strike go away with 6 million thy would do it in a second.
Looks like someone might have conflated salaries vs bottom line
I found this quote
If they gave us everything that we asked for, it would make a difference of 2% in the bottom line that the studios currently are paying,” Kaitlin Fontana, a film and TV writer who sits on the WGA East council, told the LA Times. “That’s a rounding error for a lot of these guys.”
re: #79 William Lewis
Gah. Fucking Priceline. Screwed over this guy down from Canada for a week of biz meetings in town for twice what he’d have paid if he’d have called us direct. And tried to tell him breakfast wasn’t included O_o so he was asking me how much he needed to pay each day. Gotta be a Republican company…
If there is one piece of advice I keep repeating again and again, it’s do not believe a single fucking thing you are told by the person on an OTA reservation line because they do not work at whatever hotel you are booking. They’re not paid to help you, they’re not paid to give you good advice, they’re paid to pressure you into making a booking and will tell you whatever it takes to achieve that goal every time.
re: #73 Dave In Austin
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Today you learned, that “Hin” as “Hin Håle” in Swedish is one of the euphemisms for Satan.
That is all.
re: #63 Decatur Deb
I remember that in 6th grade we were impressed by one of their first Radar Ranges, bought for a princely sum by Debbie Reynolds. (From the date, it was probably one made by the originators.)
My wife used to own one. It went to her first hub after their divorce. He still has it and it still works.
A whiff, a rebound, and a wild guess for the Birbie
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re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who says it has to be good coffee?
Really awful coffee (for example, left on a burner or in a carafe for several hours) might be improved by adding sugar or cream.
Me? Man I drank coffee in the Navy, where frequently water cofferdams were accidentally cross-connected to JP-5 aircraft fuel storage, and the fresh water to make coffee had JP-5 in it.
Unless the coffee has poison in it, I can probably drink it.
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
MAGA Mindset: sick obsession with genitalia
Conservatives are perverts. They obsess over what people are doing in their bedrooms and want to write into laws requiring people to look at children’s genitalia.
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Conservatives are perverts. They obsess over what people are doing in their bedrooms and want to write into laws requiring people to look at children’s genitalia.
They are sexually obsessed, they just have weird ways of expressing it.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Really awful coffee (for example, left on a burner or in a carafe for several hours) might be improved by adding sugar or cream.
I put lots of sugar and cream/milk into instant coffee
What would be alien? As in an alien species, or merely individuals with an totally alien set of behavior, beliefs, and thought patterns?
I think that the latter can be confirmed…— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) September 25, 2023
What…the fuck…is this? https://t.co/ERBIXKES1m
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) September 25, 2023
re: #84 Targetpractice
If there is one piece of advice I keep repeating again and again, it’s do not believe a single fucking thing you are told by the person on an OTA reservation line because they do not work at whatever hotel you are booking. They’re not paid to help you, they’re not paid to give you good advice, they’re paid to pressure you into making a booking and will tell you whatever it takes to achieve that goal every time.
It seems to me that booking sites like Priceline or Hotels (dot) com are nothing more than rent-seeking capitalism.
Such services only provide a service to compare prices amongst a range of hotels or motels in a city, do not have to update their services to include current prices or room availability, and put their hands in the income stream to skim money.
My wife used to be a big fan of hotels (dot) com. She regularly booked hotels or motels through them. I convinced her to ignore what hotels (dot) com was pitching regarding a convention we were attending at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. As it turned out, calling the Brown Palace resulted in better accommodations (such as a handicap-accessible room) than hotels (dot) com presented.
Since then, she’s only used the site to get the information about a hotel or motel in question, then directly booked through the hostillier. There is no confusion about price, services, or availability when you directly speak to the hotel or motel rather than a third-party rent-seeker.
re: #95 Teukka
As long as these white supremacist fucks are doing this privately and not using any public facitilites, it is not illegal.
Which does not mean it is not totally reprehensible.
But this is what happens when the media let racism get mainstreamed.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It seems to me that booking sites like Priceline or Hotels (dot) com are nothing more than rent-seeking capitalism.
Such services only provide a service to compare prices amongst a range of hotels or motels in a city, do not have to update their services to include current prices or room availability, and put their hands in the income stream to skim money.
My wife used to be a big fan of hotels (dot) com. She regularly booked hotels or motels through them. I convinced her to ignore what hotels (dot) com was pitching regarding a convention we were attending at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. As it turned out, calling the Brown Palace resulted in better accommodations (such as a handicap-accessible room) than hotels (dot) com presented.
Since then, she’s only used the site to get the information about a hotel or motel in question, then directly booked through the hostillier. There is no confusion about price, services, or availability when you directly speak to the hotel or motel rather than a third-party rent-seeker.
Exactly, use those sites like the yellow pages when looking for a hotel and that’s about it. When we were in our transition process between owners, it still took us literal months to get every outdated fact about the hotel updated or nixed because each company would demand that the owners contact them instead of listening to us and our new owners couldn’t be fucking bothered. People were still showing up in the summer and getting pissed off because we no longer had a pool despite every OTA showing old pictures of the property that included the pool. And it took a good year for Google to finally stop listing us under our old name which confused the fuck out of our repeat guests.
Scheduled vaccine appointments for myself, Mrs. Fish, and elder fishspawn. Junior fishspawn is not old enough to receive updated vaccines yet. I’ll be going in this afternoon, family next week.
re: #84 Targetpractice
If there is one piece of advice I keep repeating again and again, it’s do not believe a single fucking thing you are told by the person on an OTA reservation line because they do not work at whatever hotel you are booking. They’re not paid to help you, they’re not paid to give you good advice, they’re paid to pressure you into making a booking and will tell you whatever it takes to achieve that goal every time.
I used to use third-party booking services and never had trouble. Until I did.
I once booked an evening cruise through Expedia on Lake Michigan as an anniversary present for my mother and late step-father. When we arrived at Navy Pier, the ship owner told me that there was no cruise that night, because the ship had been booked by a company for a private cruise on the lake.
I didn’t give the clerk any grief since it took me zero seconds to figure out who’d screwed me. That turned into a couple-month fight with Expedia to get my money back.
In stead, as it turned out there was a presentation on Navy Pier by the Cirque du Soleil, so we went to that instead.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Really awful coffee (for example, left on a burner or in a carafe for several hours) might be improved by adding sugar or cream.
Me? Man I drank coffee in the Navy, where frequently water cofferdams were accidentally cross-connected to JP-5 aircraft fuel storage, and the fresh water to make coffee had JP-5 in it.
Unless the coffee has poison in it, I can probably drink it.
Heh, both my folks did 20 apiece in Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club, and both have stories about the shipboard coffee and food in general. You know, the kind you can turn over the cup, pull it up, and the coffee stays in a perfect cylinder on the countertop.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Really awful coffee (for example, left on a burner or in a carafe for several hours) might be improved by adding sugar or cream.
Me? Man I drank coffee in the Navy, where frequently water cofferdams were accidentally cross-connected to JP-5 aircraft fuel storage, and the fresh water to make coffee had JP-5 in it.
Unless the coffee has poison in it, I can probably drink it.
when i was in my 20s/30s i figured if i had to adulterate my coffee to mask the taste / change the flavor, maybe i didnt like it all that much and should drink something else. so i drank tea, not coffee for years.
it also led to my purisit / minimalist rule re alcohol:
up to two things in a glass. one can be ice.
still true today
over the years i found better coffee
candy coffee (a la sbux) seem silly (to me)
egg coffee is more sophisticated and is quite nice once or twice a week
this morning is Kauai coffee, black.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Unless the coffee has poison in it, I can probably drink it.
Well, you can drink , it just won’t go well afterwards.
re: #103 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
7th Army HQ in Frankfurt used to park Temporary Duty visitors in a weird little British Petroleum motel. It had a group shower room down an outside walkway, and rooms so small the medics had trouble getting a deceased team-member through the doorway.
Their simple breakfast bar had the best coffee ever.
re: #107 Teukka
Fresh off of the presses: sciencedirect.com
Let’s try that again:
Misperceptions in a post-truth world: Effects of subjectivism and cultural relativism on bullshit receptivity and conspiracist ideation [Journal of Research in Personality]
This research investigated whether belief in truth relativism yields higher receptivity to misinformation. Two studies with representative samples from Sweden (Study 1, N = 1005) and the UK (Study 2, N = 417) disentangled two forms of truth relativism: subjectivism (truth is relative to subjective intuitions) and cultural relativism (truth is relative to cultural context). In Study 1, subjectivism was more strongly associated with receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit and conspiracy theories than cultural relativism was. In Study 2 (preregistered), subjectivism predicted higher receptivity to both forms of misinformation over and above effects of analytical and actively open-minded thinking, profoundness receptivity, ideology, and demographics; the unique effects of cultural relativism were in the opposite direction (Study 1) or non-significant (Study 2).
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As long as these white supremacist fucks are doing this privately and not using any public facitilites, it is not illegal.
Which does not mean it is not totally reprehensible.
But this is what happens when the media let racism get mainstreamed.
Is it legal? Seems like it could still run afoul of interstate commerce rules, which I’m sure our current SC will gut if given the chance, I thought there was case law (heart of Atlanta? Or the hot dog stand case in AL maybe) that broadly defined inter state commerce. I could be wrong though, things may have changed since I originally learned this.
re: #109 Markm1960
Is it legal? Seems like it could still run afoul of interstate commerce rules, which I’m sure our current SC will gut if given the chance, I thought there was case law (heart of Atlanta? Or the hot dog stand case in AL maybe) that broadly defined inter state commerce. I could be wrong though, things may have changed since I originally learned this.
It’s Canada.
re: #109 Markm1960
It’s up in Canada.
ℹ️ The narrative Empty G is pushing is a variation of the Blood Libel.
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) September 25, 2023
re: #77 Nerdy Fish
It’s not really that. They’re going to hate him either way; in any ordinary world, that hate would be envy. He won a Superb Owl, he gets paid to drink beer on TV, he gets to bang a woman they could only have wet dreams about. They can make themselves feel better about their hatred by putting the veneer of right wing culture wars over it. “We don’t hate him because we want to be him; we hate him because he’s a woke cuck librul sheeple.” Because yeah, that sounds SO much better, dudes.
A real man doesn’t play in the NFL and date the hottest pop star on the planet; he lives in his mom’s basement and dates his hand, like Clay.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) September 25, 2023
re: #84 Targetpractice
If there is one piece of advice I keep repeating again and again, it’s do not believe a single fucking thing you are told by the person on an OTA reservation line because they do not work at whatever hotel you are booking. They’re not paid to help you, they’re not paid to give you good advice, they’re paid to pressure you into making a booking and will tell you whatever it takes to achieve that goal every time.
Because of you guys I have entirely stopped using those companies for anything other than identifying hotels and potential flight costs/dates. Always direct now. Thanks.
re: #115 Decatur Deb
But with banduras.
It’s a classic trick among these grifters. Change the (out-)group of the bogeyman/scapegoat or the alleged victims and many won’t recognize it.
I believe many of you are familiar with these claims:
• Democrats use liberalism to weaken church and state,
• Liberals control the press,
• AntiFA works through radicals and revolutionaries,
• Libs replace traditional educational curriculum to discourage independent thinking,
• LGBTQIA+ encourage immorality among Christian youth,
• Scientists use intellectuals to confuse people,
• Activitst judges weaken laws through liberal interpretations,
Which are found in this list, where “they”
• … are behind a plan for global conquest,
• … work through Masonic lodges,
• … use liberalism to weaken church and state,
• … control the press,
• … work through radicals and revolutionaries,
• … manipulate the economy, especially through banking monopolies and the power of gold,
• … encourage issuing paper currency not tied to the gold standard,
• … promote financial speculation and use of credit,
• … replace traditional educational curriculum to discourage independent thinking,
• … encourage immorality among Christian youth,
• … use intellectuals to confuse people,
• … control “puppet” governments both through secret allies and by blackmailing elected officials,
• … weaken laws through liberal interpretations,
• … will suspend civil liberties during an emergency and then make the measures permanent.
And in the original narrative, “they” are the Jews, and the source is The Protocols…
re: #117 darthstar
He’s simply rejoined his flagship.
re: #113 No Malarkey!
Further proof Clay’s an ass:
Outkick founder Clay Travis snapped at a rival Fox News panelist who brought up January 6 as a reason why President Joe Biden shouldn’t just pardon Donald Trump of all his federal charges.
Travis and Ameshia Cross faced off during a MediaBuzz panel where they compared and contrasted the former president’s legal problems to Hunter Biden’s. Even though President Joe Biden’s son was federally charged recently for gun crimes and making false statements, Travis stuck to the talking point that the Justice Department has been weaponized against conservatives.
[six] People in my district are willing to shut the government down for more conservative fiscal policy to put us on a path to balancing our budget at least in ten years.”— Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL), on Fox News.
I added the word I think he left out of the quote
Also I wonder if he (and “they”) would be ok giving up all the fed fund that go to his district to help balance the budget
A must read today over at electoral-vote.com.
The last item: Trump v2.0
re: #109 Markm1960
Is it legal? Seems like it could still run afoul of interstate commerce rules, which I’m sure our current SC will gut if given the chance, I thought there was case law (heart of Atlanta? Or the hot dog stand case in AL maybe) that broadly defined inter state commerce. I could be wrong though, things may have changed since I originally learned this.
Is there any commerce involved? It is a parents and tots group with a couple dozen subscribers, also I assume the tri-cities is in a single state so probably not interstate either?
This brings back a character from 1966.
Doctor Who Transforms Neil Patrick Harris into a Villainous Adversary (Movieweb)
re: #129 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
I bought a 3D printer…
First thing I printed was
A 3D printer…
re: #130 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
First thing I printed was
A 3D printer…
Then I took the first printer back to the store for a full refund
I just ordered 4 more COVID tests. (Thanks for reposting the link at Mastodon, Thanos.) Second time this pandemic. The first 4 fell off the extended expiration dates list. I never used one, but I gave 2 away from the first set.
I was tested once, May 9, 2020. Not sure why I remembered the date. (It is one of the 6 siblings’ birthdays.) It was a home visit by a crew from the local U who had started some research project. They were one of the originators of sewer testing for COVID.
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is really regressive politics. I remember this conflict going on in the early 1990’s, as was the one in Transnistria/Moldavia.
It says a lot about post-Soviet politics that such disputes permanently smoulder and flare up again and again. I can agree with Putin in his statement that the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 was the “Geopolical catastrophe of the century”.
The death of Tito brought on its own geopolitical disaster. He did the best he could, but you don’t always realize in advance that one of your heirs may be a monster.
re: #130 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
First thing I printed was
A 3D printer…
The early printers were like that, but you did need to buy all the electronics, motors, metal rods and belts.
re: #131 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Then I took the first printer back to the store for a full refund
I read a story (Stross, maybe?) where printers were ubiquitous, standard in every home, but the plans for making printers were illegal to possess. Instructions and feedstocks for making the very basic necessities were a type of basic income scheme. Thriving black market in other feedstocks so the UBIers could print things that were not obviously government issue. I don’t remember much more than that.
re: #63 Decatur Deb
I remember that in 6th grade we were impressed by one of their first Radar Ranges, bought for a princely sum by Debbie Reynolds. (From the date, it was probably one made by the originators.)
My cousins had an early microwave and I remember them showing me what happened when you put one of those chili-stuffed hot dogs into it: “It’s like an old wino in the alley, first it shakes, then it sweats then it spews out both ends!”
re: #102 Targetpractice
Heh, both my folks did 20 apiece in Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club, and both have stories about the shipboard coffee and food in general. You know, the kind you can turn over the cup, pull it up, and the coffee stays in a perfect cylinder on the countertop.
Recipe for cowboy coffee: boil coffee grounds for one hour. throw in a horseshoe. If the horseshoe sinks, add more coffee until it floats.
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My cousins had an early microwave and I remember them showing me what happened when you put one of those chili-stuffed hot dogs into it: “It’s like an old wino in the alley, first it shakes, then it sweats then it spews out both ends!”
My uncle had one of the first microwaves and we discovered what happens when you try to cook eggs improperly in them.
re: #129 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
I bought a 3D printer…
I dream of getting one of those some day to print out sets of miniature figures.
Acosta: Are you prepared to take responsibility for a shutdown?
Norman: This will be the Senate’s responsibility and the Democrats who caused this crisis
Acosta: How can you blame Democrats?
Norman: *pushes replacement theory* pic.twitter.com/vbCPcfJRl6— Acyn (@Acyn) September 24, 2023
re: #133 Hecuba’s daughter
The death of Tito brought on its own geopolitical disaster. He did the best he could, but you don’t always realize in advance that one of your heirs may be a monster.
I visited my ancestral homeland of Croatia in the summer of 1989, just before the chivarees started.
I remember visiting a terrace café overlooking Zagreb and noted that almost all the young people there, men and women, were wearing military uniforms and wondered what the hell was happening, I thought that things would calm down with the Cold War ending.
We went for dinner once at a restaurant grill in Bihać, which later went on to be a hotly contested salient that got bombed and shelled to fucking pieces.
re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I dream of getting one of those some day to print out sets of miniature figures.
A friend of ours built one himself a few years ago. The first thing he printed was a small-scale print of his own head.
re: #123 Joe Bacon ✅
I can’t tell anymore, is this an actual transcript of Press the Meat or satire?
More on the racist posters in Port Coquitlam BC:
RCMP notified after ‘whites-only’ posters go up in the Tri-Cities
Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West is stunned this has happened.
“It’s just the sort of vile garbage that isn’t welcomed in our community or anywhere else.”
“It’s disturbing to see anything like this,” an outraged West told CityNews.
West, who has two young children, says this has really struck a chord with him.
“I can’t imagine someone trying to promote that hatefulness, that racism amongst children. It is completely unacceptable. Our city condemns it in the strongest terms and we’re very much focused on promoting a community where everyone feels a part of Port Coquitlam.”
re: #148 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
More on the racist posters in Port Coquitlam BC:
RCMP notified after ‘whites-only’ posters go up in the Tri-Cities
Dudley Doo-White!!!
re: #148 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Why don’t those trolls who want to live in “Whites only” settings move to Eastern Europe which is full of such countries? North America was never White and will never be. Move if you don’t like that.
re: #150 Patricia Kayden
Why don’t those trolls who want to live in “Whites only” settings move to Eastern Europe which is full of such countries? North America was never White and will never be. Move if you don’t like that.
It is a conundrum for them, since racists on this side of the pond also think of Europe as “a dark land of socialism and powerful homosexuals,” as the late un-lamented Pat Robertson (iirc) once described Scotland.
re: #151 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
powerful homosexuals,” as the late un-lamented Pat Robertson (iirc) once described Scotland.
Sounds like something of a personal battle going on there.
re: #152 wrenchwench
Sounds like something of a personal battle going on there.
Sounds like Pat was a Bottom.
here’s a quick story
i missed the 9/17 sunday mailbag edition of electoral-vote.com.
the letters were talking about alabama’s dealth penalty and their interest in hypoxia.
When I read the 9/23 edition, in the gallimaufry section, I smiled and reminisced over my scuba diving career.
About 30 years ago I was a regular participant on several scuba diving message boards. remember those days? write an email. send it. wait…. it gets posted….
anyway
After reading the 9/23 response by R.P. who lives in Hawaii, I’m pretty sure I know who he is. Took about 4 seconds.
We had some interactions on those scuba boards back in the early/mid 90s, though he would not remember me.
I, on the other hand, have quite a trove of his diving wisdom that I cut, pasted and saved from back then.
A lot of it shaped my approach to personal responsibility in diving, and PR in general.
And it shaped how I developed my diving philosophy and my overall approach to teaching scuba and developing lesson plans.
I attribute a lot of my success, becoming an inconspicuous, successful master instructor, to those early days.
electoral-vote.com curates the mail they post. they rarely ask for actual commentary. so the chances of RP showing up on EV to discuss diving are rather slim.
From scuba diving and deep stops, to 30 years later sort of crossing paths on a political web site is a wonderful demonstration how quirky and odd life can be.
re: #150 Patricia Kayden
Why don’t those trolls who want to live in “Whites only” settings move to Eastern Europe which is full of such countries? North America was never White and will never be. Move if you don’t like that.
You can see the divide between West and East Germany: although the West is not necessarily a model of integration, they have been living with foreigners since the first guest workers started arriving (mainly from Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Yugoslavia) in the 1960’s, and generally getting along with them.
Every town of any size has at least one Italian ice café and/or a pizzeria, a Greek restaurant, a Döner kebab shop and nowadays most likely some sort of Asian restaurant as well.
East Germany knew only a handful of guest workers from Socialist Brother Countries like North Vietnam, who lived temporarily in separate barracks housing and were sent home after their contracts expired, and a handful of exchange students, often the scions of African or Asian autocrats who were cozying up to the Socialists.
And former East Germany is where the populist AfD (Allianz für Deutschland) party is the strongest.
re: #132 wrenchwench
Thanks for reminding me! Just ordered some too.
The New Yorker cover
(And the cover story)https://t.co/57ec6U0r6h pic.twitter.com/lIgLt3QhNB— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) September 25, 2023
why pelosi?
shoulda been jeffries
but that wouldnt fit the narrative they’re trying to push
re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg
Thanks for reminding me! Just ordered some too.
I guess I could have included a link…
Well, I’ve been able to narrow down the candidates for the local school board (11 are running for 4 seats). One individual was helpful by including the “reason” he’s running. He buried it under an obscure link but apparently it was an email exchange where he asked “CRT?” and the person essentially replied with “Seriously? CRT?” and then he ranted on about how it’s impossible to work with someone so rigid. He’s part of a group of four running together under the buzzword “transparency” - so they’re all right out.
Another guy has a page talking about how test scores have been declining and he posted a bunch of stats comparing the school district results over the years and to other local suburban school districts. You have to squint really hard to see anything but noise comparing the school’s numbers over the last 10 years (excluding Covid years) and the school district is smack dab in the upper half of test results he posted for the other local school districts for post covid years. No discussion on context as to why numbers aren’t what he wants (could easily be year-to-year noise or related to an increase of english as second language in the student population, or “wokeness /s”) but he’s going to improve those scores by his immense will power. So, he’s right out too.
I set some pretty harsh standards.
ok I cant take credit for the 3D printer joke
i heard it on Sirius, Just for laughs canada
re: #163 jeffreyw
Mine last night decided to revisit one of the problems in the probability book I am reading at 2 in the morning.
re: #31 Belafon
Saw this on Facebook:
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The red tower in the background is part of Six Flags. If you know anything about the area, even before they built a new baseball stadium, you know how much that area has changed.
I went and looked up Six Flags, which was opened in 1961. The businessman who built it was only going to keep it open a short time so he could make some money before turning the area into an industrial park. But he recouped all of his money in 18 months and so he decided it was worth keeping it open.
Reminds me of early photos of Angel Stadium and Disneyland vs today. I’m a bit too young for the early days, but even the difference from my childhood in the 80s to today is remarkable.
re: #167 Shropshire Slasher
Have a trip down under, “under a bit of pressure”.
Not for the squeamish.
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about a year ago i was addicted to his videos
i’d watch 5+ a day
some of it is quite fascinating
Just curious if anyone here has experience with a remote front desk receptionist. Also, curious what thoughts our actual hotel front desk employees have.
I’ve done some self-check in with stumbles but would think it would quickly be a disaster as a main service point.
re: #159 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
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why pelosi?
shoulda been jeffriesbut that wouldnt fit the narrative they’re trying to push
If the story is about older politicians hanging on despite advanced age… Pelosi just announced that she will be running for re-election at 83 years old in one of the safest districts in the country… so it makes sense. Could have also been Feinstein, or Schumer (72) or Bernie (82)… or any of 34 Senators over the age of 70 or any of the 83 Representatives over the age of 70.
re: #173 Backwoods Sleuth
my favorite season is when all the mosquitoes are dead
Mine is when the fruit flies freeze to death.
Here in winemaking country, they take the pressed out grapes and dump them back out into vineyards to serve as fertilizer.
Now back in the old cold days, the first frost usually set in just a few weeks after the end of the grape harvest, but now the harvest has moved up several weeks and the first frost does not hit until several weeks later than was usual.
So they are out there breeding like mad in those piles of rotting, fermenting grape stems and peels and swarming in every crack and swarming on any beverage left out in an open glass.
re: #173 Backwoods Sleuth
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Or, as those of us who are in Texas say, “Those two weeks that happen sometime between mid-January and March 1”.
amazing - during a Fox News interview w/ Brian Kilmeade, former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko denounces Victor Shokin, who plays as a leading role in Kilmeade’s conspiracy theories, as a “completely crazy person” & says “there’s something wrong with him” as Kilmeade melts pic.twitter.com/MXedG1FmrB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 25, 2023
Santos: I don’t think Menendez should resign pic.twitter.com/8g2jQi3SQd
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 24, 2023
re: #172 KGxvi
If the story is about older politicians hanging on despite advanced age… Pelosi just announced that she will be running for re-election at 83 years old in one of the safest districts in the country… so it makes sense. Could have also been Feinstein, or Schumer (72) or Bernie (82)… or any of 34 Senators over the age of 70 or any of the 83 Representatives over the age of 70.
“the irony and absurdity of the advanced-age politicians currently vying for our top offices.”
So whats a top office?
Am I in services this morning?
Nope. At the dentist because a crown broke and Ohio Players Level Of Pain!
re: #95 Teukka
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On the Fraser River, far east end of Vancouver, BC.
Canadians aren’t so nice now, eh?
re: #181 Joe Bacon ✅
Am I in services this morning?
Nope. At the dentist because a crown broke and Ohio Players Level Of Pain!
I broke a tooth last week - getting a crown for it today at 1:30. I’ll be in intense pain for about 5-10 minutes while he grinds away the old tooth, but at least my mouth won’t be numb for an hour after. I hate Novocain more than I hate the sound of my tooth being chipped away.
re: #184 darthstar
I broke a tooth last week - getting a crown for it today at 1:30. I’ll be in intense pain for about 5-10 minutes while he grinds away the old tooth, but at least my mouth won’t be numb for an hour after. I hate Novocain more than I hate the sound of my tooth being chipped away.
Yikes! It is going around. I had an implant structure for an upper incisor slip loose this morning. Nice, sharp (and now throbbing) feelings of pain as it got screwed back in.