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A Cranky One  Dec 1, 2023 • 6:19:45pm

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Belafon  Dec 1, 2023 • 6:25:24pm

Blue Beetle is a standard superhero movie except when grandma gets a gun.

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BigPapa  Dec 1, 2023 • 6:26:10pm

He’s the best loser!

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2023 • 6:37:23pm

re: #1 A Cranky One

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‘Zilla a little low on fuel

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 1, 2023 • 6:38:04pm

re: #4 Eventual Carrion

‘Zilla a little low on fuel

“Mmmrrl crrrrn.”
“I think he’s saying, ‘oil can!’”

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 6:46:15pm

Laffy had some choice quotes from Judge Chutkan indicating that she is entirely out of fucks to give for Trump’s feelings.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2023 • 6:48:21pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Dec 1, 2023 • 6:51:50pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 1, 2023 • 6:52:43pm

My latest page is posted.

Behind the Curtain: Trump Allies Pre-Screen Loyalists for Unprecedented Power Grab

littlegreenfootballs.com

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:00:57pm
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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:02:31pm

Reupping

re: #33 GlutenFreeJesus

I missed it. Did you get a Concept2, or another rower?

Yes concept 2.
And im liking it.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:04:50pm

re: #10 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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Where’d he even pull that chart from? What’s the data set behind it?

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:05:17pm

re: #10 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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So then why is Disney boycotting 𝕏, yet spending millions on other platforms

*You* told them to fuck off

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jaunte  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:06:30pm

“Every President will face difficult decisions; whether to intentionally commit a federal crime should not be one of them.”

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:09:33pm

re: #13 Dangerman

*You* told them to fuck off

I was going to bring that up. So Elon’s reverse psychology didn’t work like he thought it would?

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:09:39pm

“Followers”

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:11:29pm

re: #14 jaunte

“Every President will face difficult decisions; whether to intentionally commit a federal crime should not be one of them.”

“Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens.” DAYUM, GURRRL.

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jaunte  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:12:13pm

Behind the Curtain — Scoop: The Trump job applications revealed

“…The Heritage Foundation told us Project 2025 officials have collected more than 5,000 applications — months before a Republican nominee is locked in.”axios.com

It’s important to the country that this list of tyrants-in-waiting be leaked.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:17:49pm

And as for Kissinger I’ll just comment with the words of Mark Twain.

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.”

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:20:51pm

re: #19 Eventual Carrion

I will say it was considerate of Sandra Day O’Connor to hold Kissinger’s TV coverage to a day and a half.

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:24:29pm
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Captain Ron  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:24:44pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:31:22pm

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:34:57pm

re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

BREAKING: George Santos vows to “expose” key members of the GOP so that they never win another election, in retaliation for his expulsion

It’s not enough to have a monkey wrench, ya gotta know when to use it.

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piratedan  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:37:21pm

re: #24 BeenHereAwhile

I believe the “pics” or it didn’t happen are pretty much a de facto requirement in this instance….

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:41:10pm

Where’d he even pull that chart from? What’s the data set behind it?

This guy:


Who has also posted stuff like this:


He’s also been on top of the kid at a KC Chefs game wearing blackface and a headdress, claiming the kid was merely wearing Chef’s colors, when the Chefs colors are red and gold.

Hence, thusly, and ergo, The Rabbit Hole is a racist shitbag.

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teleskiguy  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:44:16pm

The setlist of the first Grateful Dead show Mom & Dad attended together, seven months before they got married. They were married until Dad died last month.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:51:24pm

re: #26 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

This guy:

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He’s also been on top of the kid at a KC Chefs game wearing blackface and a headdress, claiming the kid was merely wearing Chef’s colors, when the Chefs colors are red and gold.

Hence, thusly, and ergo, The Rabbit Hole is a racist shitbag.

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Belafon  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:58:32pm

re: #15 darthstar

I was going to bring that up. So Elon’s reverse psychology didn’t work like he thought it would?

A child with multiple billions of dollars.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 1, 2023 • 7:59:28pm

re: #25 piratedan

I believe the “pics” or it didn’t happen are pretty much a de facto requirement in this instance….

Even if Santos has a monkey wrench - threatening to use it diminishes its effect.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:02:38pm

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:05:13pm

re: #30 BeenHereAwhile

Even if Santos has a monkey wrench - threatening to use it diminishes its effect.

Use it or don’t. His window to do retaliatory damage is very small. In two weeks he’ll just be another criminal defendant without a platform to raise money and he’ll be looking for plea deals.

Plus he’s got congressmen lining up to testify against him in his criminal trial after he put campaign donations on their credit cards without their knowledge.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:06:09pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:11:07pm
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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:15:50pm

Poor taste meme described in comments below.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:20:49pm

re: #35 darthstar

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I can’t really upding because, as much as Derek Chauvin is a bad guy, he didn’t deserve 22 stab wounds in federal prison. I’m sorry.

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teleskiguy  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:22:03pm

re: #35 darthstar

No one should be celebrating a prisoner being stabbed 22 times by a fellow prisoner.

America is a sick fucking culture.

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teleskiguy  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:23:27pm

re: #35 darthstar

Fuck this shit.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:23:40pm

re: #37 teleskiguy

Great minds, etc., etc.

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:24:35pm

re: #37 teleskiguy

No one should be celebrating a prisoner being stabbed 22 times by a fellow prisoner.

America is a sick fucking culture.

Good point…pulling it down.

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:25:18pm

Everybody hit Ctrl-R

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Captain Ron  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:27:23pm

re: #41 darthstar

Everybody hit Ctrl-R

that brings up a reply dialogue in firefox.

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austin_blue  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:29:25pm

I was very pleased today that John Eastman was disbarred today.

What an ass.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:38:38pm

re: #43 austin_blue

I was very pleased today that John Eastman was disbarred today.

What an ass.

I’m looking for any confirmation that Eastman was disbarred. So far all I see is that he took the stand in his own defense. Still looking…

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:39:34pm

re: #42 Captain Ron

that brings up a reply dialogue in firefox.

Oh yeah…same with Brave. I forgot Charles repurposed some shortcut keys.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:42:29pm

re: #44 Joe Bacon ✅

I’m looking for any confirmation that Eastman was disbarred. So far all I see is that he took the stand in his own defense. Still looking…

Same here. Have not seen anything that affirms that a decision has been reached. I will certainly celebrate such a conclusion to the case.

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Captain Ron  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:44:56pm

My wife is “fluffing” our Christmas tree, something I didn’t know was a thing. We got an artificial tree this year.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:46:32pm

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:47:53pm

re: #47 Captain Ron

My wife is “fluffing” our Christmas tree, something I didn’t know was a thing. We got an artificial tree this year.

Get the flock outta here

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austin_blue  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:50:29pm

re: #46 Hecuba’s daughter

Same here. Have not seen anything that affirms that a decision has been reached. I will certainly celebrate such a conclusion to the case.

Sorry all, I was reading the final filing and thought it was a judgement:

He’s still alive, legally.

He’s still an ass.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:56:11pm

re: #49 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That doesn’t even have any tits, so I’m not surprised that they didn’t love it.

For sure, boobs bring top prizes in AI image generators.

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austin_blue  Dec 1, 2023 • 8:59:34pm

She Who Must Be Obeyed had a gig in San Antonio tonight. She just called and is on the way home. Ninety minutes. I’m going to take a cat nap and then help move a 100 pound full concert harp into the house, and then move a small 23 pound Clarsach into the house (I’ll hold the screen door).

Night all, sweet scaly dreams.

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Captain Ron  Dec 1, 2023 • 9:03:02pm

re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

For sure, boobs bring top prizes in AI image generators.

Beware the AI generated grandma porn. Ain’t no grandmas built like that.

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TedStriker  Dec 1, 2023 • 9:11:26pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

Beware the AI generated grandma porn. Ain’t no grandmas built like that.

Rule 34 is always evergreen…

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retired cynic  Dec 1, 2023 • 9:11:49pm

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Captain Ron  Dec 1, 2023 • 9:13:24pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

So my wife is done with the bottom third. She asked what I thought of our tree. I said, It looks like a shrubbery.

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 1, 2023 • 9:35:19pm

re: #15 darthstar

I was going to bring that up. So Elon’s reverse psychology didn’t work like he thought it would?

And it was just so brilliant. The stuff of true game changers

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2023 • 9:38:55pm

re: #57 sizzzzlerz

And it was just so brilliant. The stuff of true game changers

He really did look proud of himself at that moment…with the head of Disney right there in the audience. He’s already written off his losses from X though. This is just an exercise in self gratification.

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 1, 2023 • 9:48:29pm

Binged a couple of episodes of Picard, Season 3 tonite and I’m really liking what I see. They’re really doing a number on the old “we’re getting the band back together” for one last time. My preliminary rating is a solid 8. If they keep it up, it may be my favorite post-ST:TOS series.

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JC1  Dec 1, 2023 • 9:56:13pm

My wordle streak is at 100.

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EPR-radar  Dec 1, 2023 • 10:18:41pm

re: #58 darthstar

He really did look proud of himself at that moment…with the head of Disney right there in the audience. He’s already written off his losses from X though. This is just an exercise in self gratification.

Just like a toddler that gets a #2 into the toilet instead of on the floor. For the first time.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 1, 2023 • 10:37:33pm

re: #50 austin_blue

Sorry all, I was reading the final filing and thought it was a judgement:

He’s still alive, legally.

He’s still an ass.

Closing arguments were held today, during which Eastman’s lawyer urged that he had a duty to his client to advocate that Pence end American democracy. The hearing officer has 90 days to issue a ruling.

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 1, 2023 • 11:22:35pm
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wrenchwench  Dec 1, 2023 • 11:26:58pm

re: #60 JC1

My wordle streak is at 100.

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The fickle finger of fours. I have one of those.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 1, 2023 • 11:44:42pm

re: #62 No Malarkey!

From the article:

Eastman’s attorney, Randall Miller, however argued at a State Bar Court courtroom in downtown Los Angeles that his client should not be found culpability and should face no discipline or sanctions.

Miller argued that as the courts were not providing any sort of relief for Eastman’s client he turned to “other potential remedies not foreclosed by clearly established precedent.”

Miller added that it was still an “open question” whether the vice president has the authority to delay or halt the certification of the electors. He said Eastman engaged in a “good-faith interpretation of the historical record” that was “not foreclosed by precedent…”

He added that “every lawyer is ethically and by oath obligated to pursue a matter on behalf of a client despite opposition, obstruction or personal inconvenience to the lawyer, and take whatever lawful and ethical measures are required to vindicate a client’s cause or endeavor. And with commitment and dedication to the interests of the client and with zeal in advocacy upon the client’s behalf. That principle, the law for 225 years, teeters under the weight of this Bar proceeding.”

Miller argued that his client has First Amendment protection when he alleged fraud in the election. Miller also discounted the public claims from Barr and others regarding the integrity of the election.

Except they all knew it was bullshit. All of them.

It sounds like Eastman’s attorney should be disbarred as well.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 1, 2023 • 11:48:05pm

A member of the Mexican Mafia and former FBI informant stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times on Black Friday, he said in solidarity with the BLM movement. He was scheduled for release in 2026 at age 55, but I guess he wanted to stay institutionalized, because now he is going to die in prison. I don’t know how to keep high profile inmates like Chauvin safe except to isolate them since the general prison population is full of violent, dangerous men, but solitary confinement is its own form of cruel punishment.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 1, 2023 • 11:51:53pm

re: #65 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

From the article:

Except they all knew it was bullshit. All of them.

It sounds like Eastman’s attorney should be disbarred as well.

Even the guilty are entitled to a defense, and the defense his attorney is presenting, while contemptible, is colorable in a legalistic way, so he won’t face bar discipline, nor should he, imho.

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EPR-radar  Dec 2, 2023 • 12:35:16am

re: #67 No Malarkey!

Even the guilty are entitled to a defense, and the defense his attorney is presenting, while contemptible, is colorable in a legalistic way, so he won’t face bar discipline, nor should he, imho.

I don’t think a bad faith conflation of zealously defending a client and aiding and abetting said client’s treason should be given this level of deference.

But it is fair to say the disbarment of Eastman’s lawyer isn’t as clear-cut a case as Eastman’s case (no brainer for lifetime disbarment).

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 2, 2023 • 12:35:17am

re: #67 No Malarkey!

Even the guilty are entitled to a defense, and the defense his attorney is presenting, while contemptible, is colorable in a legalistic way, so he won’t face bar discipline, nor should he, imho.

This is why I said that.

He added that “every lawyer is ethically and by oath obligated to pursue a matter on behalf of a client despite opposition, obstruction or personal inconvenience to the lawyer, and take whatever lawful and ethical measures are required to vindicate a client’s cause or endeavor.

I don’t feel any of what Eastman did was lawful or ethical and his attorney is doing the same. There’s a difference between rigorous defense and rigorous defense that skirts the boundaries of law and ethics. I think the latter wasn’t skirted but stomped on.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 2, 2023 • 12:39:46am

re: #69 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I don’t feel any of what Eastman did was lawful or ethical and his attorney is doing the same. There’s a difference between rigorous defense and rigorous defense that skirts the boundaries of law and ethics. I think the latter wasn’t skirted but stomped on.

BTW, If you read the article, his attorney says The Big Lie was justification for Eastman doing what he did and it was righteous. THAT’S why I said he deserved the same fate.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 2, 2023 • 12:51:04am

re: #70 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

BTW, If you read the article, his attorney says The Big Lie was justification for Eastman doing what he did and it was righteous. THAT’S why I said he deserved the same fate.

I understand how you feel completely. Attorneys using their legal skills to overthrow democracy in favor of fascism is outrageous. And Eastman’s lawyer’s argument is nonsense; the government officials who told Trump he lost the election were officials in Trump’s own government, appointed by Trump himself, so presenting Trump as a little guy fighting for his rights as big gubmint tries to trample on him is utterly ludicrous. Eastman and Trump working under a joint delusion that there was a massive conspiracy to steal the election from him does not in any way justify an attempted coup. However, I don’t want to go down a slippery slope where a defendant can’t get an attorney to present a defense for him in court for fear that the defense attorney will himself become subject to bar discipline for doing so.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 2, 2023 • 1:05:28am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 2, 2023 • 1:10:53am

So, Colours of Ostrava managed to snag some well-known names for next year’s festival. Next year, we’ll be treated to Sam Smith, Lenny Kravitz and Queens of the Stone Age.

Not bad at all.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 2, 2023 • 1:21:02am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 2, 2023 • 1:23:09am

re: #71 No Malarkey!

I understand how you feel completely. Attorneys using their legal skills to overthrow democracy in favor of fascism is outrageous. And Eastman’s lawyer’s argument is nonsense; the government officials who told Trump he lost the election were officials in Trump’s own government, appointed by Trump himself, so presenting Trump as a little guy fighting for his rights as big gubmint tries to trample on him is utterly ludicrous. Eastman and Trump working under a joint delusion (1) that there was a massive conspiracy to steal the election from him does not in any way justify an attempted coup. However, I don’t want to go down a slippery slope where a defendant can’t get an attorney to present a defense for him (2) in court for fear that the defense attorney will himself become subject to bar discipline for doing so.

1. It wasn’t a joint delusion. They both knew it was a lie. That’s not a delusion.

2. So a lawyer can just make up any bullshit, knowing it’s a lie, knowing it’s bullshit, knowing it’s unethical, knowing that it’s - at best skirting, more likely stomping on - actual laws and that’s ok?

I’m in favor of a rigorous defense. I’m not in favor of beaches in and of law and ethics.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 2, 2023 • 1:49:01am

re: #75 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

1. It wasn’t a joint delusion. They both knew it was a lie. That’s not a delusion.

2. So a lawyer can just make up any bullshit, knowing it’s a lie, knowing it’s bullshit, knowing it’s unethical, knowing that it’s - at best skirting, more likely stomping on - actual laws and that’s ok?

I’m in favor of a rigorous defense. I’m not in favor of beaches in and of law and ethics.

I’ll say this: Eastman and Trump both claim to believe the election was stolen, so I wouldn’t ding Eastman’s attorney for saying in court his client believes the election was stolen; the hearing officer can judge Eastman’s credibility. Technically there is no court precedent on point saying that the VP cannot take the election decision away from the electoral college and make it himself. We know the reason for this is that its a ludicrous assertion that no-one has ever made before, but I wouldn’t disbar a lawyer for pointing out that there is no case law in defense of Eastman. Eastman, otoh, participated in a conspiracy to commit criminal acts, and should be disbarred.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 2, 2023 • 2:15:07am

So, here in Czech Republic, we’re experiencing the snowpocalypse. Storm Ciro has dumped more snow on us than any storm in the 60 years.

This link is from the Czech tabloid Blesk, and it’s in Czech (naturally) but there’s some photos there in the online live coverage, and this storm is causing chaos here from West to East.

blesk.cz

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 2, 2023 • 2:32:48am

re: #47 Captain Ron

My wife is “fluffing” our Christmas tree, something I didn’t know was a thing. We got an artificial tree this year.

I thought that was no longer necessary since they invented treeagra.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 2, 2023 • 2:34:48am

re: #59 sizzzzlerz

Binged a couple of episodes of Picard, Season 3 tonite and I’m really liking what I see. They’re really doing a number on the old “we’re getting the band back together” for one last time. My preliminary rating is a solid 8. If they keep it up, it may be my favorite post-ST:TOS series.

I nearly gave up in the middle of season 1 as it was so slow and boring but the series really picked up by the end and was quite enjoyable.

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silverdolphin  Dec 2, 2023 • 2:40:54am

I am struck that in the same week that one of the greatest war criminals died, so too did one of my favorite singers - Shane McGowen of the Pogues. Because he sang, to my mind, the best rendition of one of the best anti-war Vietnam songs ever written - “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”. Produced by Elvis Costello it demonstrated the power of punk - not just anger but also so god-damned weary.

And while it is ostensibly about WW1, it was written wrt the Vietnam War in 1971.Some covers are very pretty (such as Joan Baez’) Shane’s version is ugly and harsh, sung by someone just sick at heart. More dirge than anything else. Raw.

It is a great rebuttal to Kissinger’s view of the world and I wish it would be sung at his funeral.

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

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William Lewis  Dec 2, 2023 • 2:45:21am

re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I nearly gave up in the middle of season 1 as it was so slow and boring but the series really picked up by the end and was quite enjoyable.

Where I enjoyed one and two and found three just another rehash of the same old same old. At least the first two seasons tried. The last one just phoned it in, to me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 2, 2023 • 2:45:34am

My favorite Kissinger dig was from Doonesbury, in a series of strips that featured students attending a seminar led by Kissinger at Harvard where he puts his 1,521-page memoirs on the reading list, to which a student comments, “Hell, Albert Speer only needed 500 pages!”

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William Lewis  Dec 2, 2023 • 3:13:04am

re: #83 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Also on a horse with no name….
Multiple cars stranded after Google Maps leads them ‘straight into the desert with no road’

I still prefer a nice paper map and a compass to navigate by. I have two very detailed spiral bound map books of Wisconsin for when I go driving around looking for photos.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 2, 2023 • 3:15:59am

re: #84 William Lewis

I still prefer a nice paper map and a compass to navigate by. I have two very detailed spiral bound map books of Wisconsin for when I go driving around looking for photos.

Wisconsin bound, indeed!

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 2, 2023 • 3:23:49am

I know this is from the Daily Mirror, but this is a story I hadn’t heard about until just now.

Five homeless people were shot, leaving two dead, in Las Vegas - just hours after cops revealed they are hunting for a serial killer who murdered another three in Los Angeles.

A lone gunman opened fire on the group of homeless people at 5.30pm near a highway overpass in the northern part of Vegas. Two died and the other three suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

The Vegas bloodbath came on the same day LA officials revealed they are hunting for a serial killer who shot three homeless people dead in their sleep in alleyways during separate attacks on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.

The Californian killings led to an unprecedented warning from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who told the city’s homeless population: “Our message to the unhoused community is clear - do not sleep alone tonight.”

themirror.com

Big yikes - apparently, there’s a serial killer running around between California and Nevada, targeting the homeless in spree shooting attacks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 2, 2023 • 3:30:04am

re: #86 Dr Lizardo

I know this is from the Daily Mirror, but this is a story I hadn’t heard about until just now.

themirror.com

Big yikes - apparently, there’s a serial killer running around between California and Nevada, targeting the homeless in spree shooting attacks.

The logical 2nd Amendment solution would be to arm the homeless, right?

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William Lewis  Dec 2, 2023 • 3:36:25am

re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The logical 2nd Amendment solution would be to arm the homeless, right?

Give them AR’s and body armor. They need it more than food or housing!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 3:56:06am

Took me forever to figure out the word

Wordle 896 4/6

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🟩🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 2, 2023 • 4:36:10am

Fiat Panda vs Range Rover on a snowy/icy incline. 😄

Grande Panda!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:17:25am

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

Saw stuff like this for years in western PA after a snowfall. I live on a cul-de-sac that ran up a hill and thus got lots of practice trying to get up (or down) a snowy road on a slope.

In loose snow on a road the heavier cars did better as I think they could compact the snow easier to a point that they got grip without creating ice under the tires. The lighter cars seemed to ride “on” the loose snow and couldn’t maintain momentum, etc.

Once it was packed snow on the road the lighter cars did better on the slopes since they appeared to have grip without creating the pressure to cause the snow to get icy. The heavier cars caused the snow to convert to ice and then couldn’t maintain momentum and simply spun their tires.

Neighbor had a big Lincoln so I got to see comparison is handling the hill with my Mazda 323. Until the day he was struggling up the hill and had an engine fire right at the top. My boss was a bit disbelieving when I called in and said I’d be late to work due to the road being blocked by my neighbor’s burning car. (Fire was out quickly, but still a fire truck turned up and we had to wait for a tow truck.)

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Decatur Deb  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:19:50am

re: #86 Dr Lizardo

I know this is from the Daily Mirror, but this is a story I hadn’t heard about until just now.

themirror.com

Big yikes - apparently, there’s a serial killer running around between California and Nevada, targeting the homeless in spree shooting attacks.

There is a decades-long story about a serial killer preying on hobos who ride the freight trains, mostly in the western states. I lost track of it some time ago.

Yes—there is still a hobo culture on the rails.
en.wikipedia.org

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Decatur Deb  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:22:53am

Wasn’t hard to recover the trail:

Suspected murderer Robert Silveria has recanted his confession of murdering dozens of fellow drifters creates confusion in the case and sheds light on other violence possibly perpetrated by a train-riding gang.

splcenter.org

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ericblair  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:24:20am

Our fave ex-congresscritter, while taking some time from his busy touring schedule as prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, is going nuclear on his former buds. Since congressional goopers seem to have more skeletons than a medical supply company, this could be most unfortunate. If I were Santos, I’d stay away from windows, electrical outlets, bathtubs, stairs, and perhaps generally everything.

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Randall Gross  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:29:05am

Good morning all, fresh hell for those who locally cache their outlook:

bsky.app

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:29:15am

Some rainy day morning drive time music.

Homecoming Serf

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Decatur Deb  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:35:29am

Of course.

5 Alabama Republicans vote against expelling George Santos from Congress
al.com

We only have 6.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:43:06am

re: #49 Eventual Carrion

Get the flock outta here

Ah, so am I not the only one to remember that famous line in a 6 Million Dollar Man episode?

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Dave In Austin  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:44:19am

Good morning. It’s wood splitting Saturday!

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BeachDem  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:44:36am

re: #97 Decatur Deb

Of course.

5 Alabama Republicans vote against expelling George Santos from Congress
al.com

We only have 6.

All six of our Republicans voted against expelling him. I’m sure they’re all pure as the driven snow.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 5:56:54am

Hey Charlie Pierce! Tell us what you really think of Congressional Republicans!

This is from his Saturday e-mail:

What is this country coming to when even a legendary Baruch College volleyball star can’t hold onto a seat in Congress? Are our standards just a bit too high these days? On Thursday, the House of Representatives, in which still sit Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Clay Higgins, and other undisciplined fauna, expelled Rep. George Santos (D-Fantasy Island) on charges of aggravated mopery. More Republicans voted to keep him than voted to 86 him, but 105 of them bucked their leadership to vote yes on the motion to expel. Speaker Mike Johnson dithered and then offered Santos some tepid support, but he did vote against expelling him, as did Steve Scalise and Elise Stefanik, both members of the Republican leadership team in the House.

Thus ends the saga. Santos burned a remarkable trail through a remarkable political age. He lied about almost everything in his public life. He brought into our political ecology several entertaining species, and all of them him. There was the volleyball star, the stoic child of a 9/11 victim, the good “Jew-ish” boy, the party boy dancing in drag in Brazil, self-described Republican “It Girl,” self-described “Mary Magdalene of the Congress,” and the vengeful victim of selective justice. Back on November 24, Santos took to Xwitter to announce his intention to bring the temple down on his own head.

“I have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyist that they’re gonna screw and pretend like none of us know what’s going on, and sell off the American people, not show up to vote because they’re too hungover or whatever the reason is, or not show up to vote at all and just give their card out like fucking candy for someone else to vote for them. This shit happens every single week. Where are the ethics investigations?”

It was one of the latter that did him in. He’d already dodged expulsion once. Then the House Ethics Committee released its report on his staggering record of corruption. From CNN:

In December 2021, Santos put taxi and hotel charges from Las Vegas on the campaign credit card, even though that was a time when he told his campaign staff he was on his honeymoon and there were no campaign events on his calendar. A Federal Election Commission report listed a July 7, 2022, $3,332.81 Airbnb expenditure as “Hotel stay,” when the campaign’s calendar revealed Santos was “off at [the] Hampton’s for the weekend.” Santos also spent $2,281.52 at resorts in Atlantic City from July 23 to July 24, 2022, a day when his calendar revealed he had one event at 8pm on the 24th entitled “NRCC Candidate.”

Examples in the report include: $1,400 at Virtual Skin Spa in Jericho, New York, in July 2022; $225 at CityMD in Huntington, New York, on August 27, 2022; $1,500 purchase on the campaign debit card in 2020 was made at Mirza Aesthetics, which was not reported to the FEC and was noted as “Botox” in expense spreadsheets; $1,400 charge at Virtual Skin Spa was a campaign debit card purchase that was also described as “Botox” in the spreadsheets; an unreported PayPal payment of $1,029.30 to an esthetician associated with a spa in Rhinebeck, New York[ $4,127.80 purchase at Hermes, Smaller purchases at Only Fans, Sephora, meals, and parking.

The report also cited some of the more egregious of the barefaced non-facts about his biography in which Santos trafficked.

Topping the vulnerability report are Santos’ lies about his education - that he graduated with an MBA from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College. “The registrar offices at both institutions said there was no record of Santos earning any degree from either university,” the report said. The report also detailed “at least three housing eviction lawsuits were filed against Santos and his family in Queens, New York” between 2014 and 2017, and notes that Santos has had “multiple civil judgments filed against him for owing thousands of dollars to creditors.”

In its report, the committee concluded that there “is substantial evidence” that most of the nearly $800,000 that Santos reported making in personal loans to his campaign committee and to an aligned leadership PAC in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles “were not actually made or properly disclosed” to regulators at the Federal Election Commission, known as the FEC. (Santos ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2020 before winning his Long Island seat last year.) Additionally, the investigators found that Santos was improperly “reimbursed” with donors’ money for campaign loans he didn’t make.

The House was not amused. And Thursday’s events inevitably ensued. Santos leaves the House with a 23-count federal indictment hanging over his unemployed head. The Justice Department charged him with using contributors’ credit cards to the tune of $44,000. That, too, failed to amuse the House. Santos now joins five other people on the roster of people declared unfit to work in the same body as Mark Foley or Lauren Boebert. Three of them were expelled for fighting on behalf of the Confederate States of America. One of the others went out for involvement in the ABSCAM scandal in 1980. An attempt to expel several members of Congress entangled in the Congressional page sex scandal in 1983 was short-circuited by a congressional censure of the offending congressmen.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:02:30am

re: #84 William Lewis

I still prefer a nice paper map and a compass to navigate by. I have two very detailed spiral bound map books of Wisconsin for when I go driving around looking for photos.

I look over the route in Google Maps before I leave, to make sure it makes sense to me and that I would more or less be able to navigate it on my own. It’s for precisely this reason, in fact; I’ve heard enough stories about navigation apps (especially Apple Maps, but Google Maps is not immune) to refuse to trust them explicitly.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:05:14am

It took some thought.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:10:20am
The long-delayed reveal of Tesla’s Cybertruck left many critics fuming about the “disappointing range” and “abusive pricing” of Elon Musk’s strange-looking electric pickup.

Tesla finally provided Cybertrucks to a handful of owners — including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian — during a flashy event at the company’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, on Thursday.

The roughly 30-minute presentation was livestreamed on X and hosted by Musk, who described the stealth bomber-esque vehicle as Tesla’s “best product” and the “finest in apocalypse technology.”

Tesla fans, however, were left with sticker shock and another year of delays before the stainless-steel trucks rumbled off assembly lines.

The entry-level, rear-wheel-drive version of the Cybertruck costs $60,990 and is not expected to ship until 2025. The mid-tier Cybertruck with all-wheel drive costs $79,990, and the top-tier “Cyberbeast” costs $99,990.

nypost.com

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A Cranky One  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:26:59am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:29:11am

re: #94 ericblair

We need to bring back Baneposting because my man is crashing this plane with no survivors.

That made me laugh uncontrollably. Like drooling laughing.

Go with God, George. (Not that anyone will believe you.)

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jeffreyw  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:32:05am

Bitsy wishes y’all a happy Caturday

Good morning!

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Randall Gross  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:32:47am

re: #102 Nerdy Fish

I look over the route in Google Maps before I leave, to make sure it makes sense to me and that I would more or less be able to navigate it on my own. It’s for precisely this reason, in fact; I’ve heard enough stories about navigation apps (especially Apple Maps, but Google Maps is not immune) to refuse to trust them explicitly.

I love google maps most of the time, and usually “pre drive” a route via street view when going somewhere new.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:33:46am

re: #103 Nerdy Fish

It took some thought.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:42:14am

re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That made me laugh uncontrollably. Like drooling laughing.

Go with God, George. (Not that anyone will believe you.)

Let him enjoy his fifteen minutes of flame out.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:57:20am

7.7 - that’s biggish.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 6:57:53am
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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:00:39am

Gah… c dot im needs to be embeddable…this one is a set of 12 sunrises from the same location over a year.
c.im

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:05:08am

Morning Lizards.

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Captain Magic  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:07:01am

re: #102 Nerdy Fish

That’s one of the reasons I use HERE app (formerly Nokia maps)

Here is now owned by a consolidation of auto manufacturers.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:08:20am

If you’ve ever driven around the Phillipines, there’s a huge waterfront community of poor people almost everywhere you look. From Manila down the coast there are villages built on docks.

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:09:52am

re: #101 Joe Bacon ✅

santos committed crimes to win the nomination and ultimately to get the job.

we’ve had a lot of crappy, nasty, vile, dangerous politicians. today’s electoral-vote.com has a list in response to a letter under “History”. some of them were just scummy people and used their power when they got it. i dont know the story of each of them or what they did to get elected.

we know all campaigning politicians lie to some extent. it’s the nature of the beast.

even tfg, while campaigning lied brazenly, left, right and center, he didnt try to hide it. most of it was exposed and written about. his newfound base just didnt care.

and except for some ‘light’ FEC violations, his machine was probably not actively criming in furtherance of winning the election in 2015/2016.

that’s why i think santos belongs in a separate category.
he had to commit fraud to win. he didnt belong there.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:11:25am

re: #102 Nerdy Fish

I look at the visual map of the roads and put that image in my mind. The route often changes as I go.

I remember in the Rand McNally days driving off the bottom of a page only to find myself on top of a page several pages away.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:13:41am

re: #117 Dangerman

And he’s not exactly a reliable witness. Congressmen can dismiss his ethics complaints against them with “The lying little bitch said what?” and laugh and that will be good enough for the media (and the committee as they want to put this behind them) especially in the cases where there are actual serious ethical violations.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:14:30am

Life is so hard!

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos was told that his new mega-yacht was too big for the marina in Florida this week.

The third richest man in the world found out this week that his $500million (around £393million) schooner was too big to be moored with the other private yachts in Port Everglades, Florida.

The ship, which stands at a staggering 416ft, had to be moored with oil tankers and other general container ships.

dailymail.co.uk

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Belafon  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:15:42am

re: #115 Captain Magic

That’s one of the reasons I use HERE app (formerly Nokia maps)

Here is now owned by a consolidation of auto manufacturers.

They rerouted a state highway near me, and ended part of the old route in a cul-de-sac. It took about 4 months for Google to update, but four years later I’m still seeing cars and semis fly down that road until they realize it’s a dead end and have to turn around.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:16:08am

re: #99 Dave In Austin

Make connections with like-minded, health-conscious, mRNA-free humans.

Uhn, if you’re mRNA free, you’re dead.

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Belafon  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:19:53am

re: #120 Shropshire Slasher

Life is so hard!

dailymail.co.uk

A big reason I probably don’t have $10 billion to my name is that I would actually build a smaller house than the one I have now, it would just hace a lot of features my current one doesn’t have, my lack of need of trophies that large is a hindrance to going as far as they do.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:19:57am

re: #120 Shropshire Slasher

Life is so hard!

dailymail.co.uk

Didn’t he have a hard time getting that thing out to sea? The mast was too tall to go under a bridge so he asked that the bridge be removed? Rotterdam told him to go pound sand and he had to dis-mast it first.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:22:28am

Fuck…bullet not dodged. Get your Red Cross donations ready.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:25:13am

Funny Trump tidbit from Teri:

Mastodon

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sagehen  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:25:15am

re: #123 Belafon

A big reason I probably don’t have $10 billion to my name is that I would actually build a smaller house than the one I have now, it would just hace a lot of features my current one doesn’t have, my lack of need of trophies that large is a hindrance to going as far as they do.

If I had enough money for the house of my wildest dreams… the house wouldn’t be particularly expansive. But the grounds, OMG the grounds.

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A Cranky One  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:25:52am

re: #123 Belafon

A big reason I probably don’t have $10 billion to my name is that I would actually build a smaller house than the one I have now, it would just hace a lot of features my current one doesn’t have, my lack of need of trophies that large is a hindrance to going as far as they do.

When we bought our house, the real estate agent kept pushing us to look at bigger houses.

I had recently read an article where a person noted they walked into a room in their house and realized they hadn’t been in that room in months. Leading to the question “why am i paying for, heating/cooling and furnishing a room I don’t use?”

Every room in our house is used regularly, so we avoided that pitfall.

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jeffreyw  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:32:38am
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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:34:05am

omfg those cats

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:35:50am

As an armchair Mall Santa, I would take fighting cats and dogs over vomiting kids any day.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:37:44am

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:41:40am

re: #131 Shropshire Slasher

As an armchair Mall Santa, I would take fighting cats and dogs over vomiting kids any day.

One of my stoner buddies from college is now a mall Santa every year - sweetheart of a guy…taking care of his dad (who is 95). Back in the day I took a break from visiting him as he was selling blow (and we’d stay up all night doing it) and I got to his apartment and he was sitting on the couch with several thousand dollars and a gun on the coffee table. I said, “What the fuck?” and he said he wasn’t comfortable moving up to this volume.

He cleaned up his act and now does mall Santa shit every year and is a lovely guy.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:43:17am

Palau looks like it could get hit. Gonna be a bunch of rich Americans whining on TV later.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:48:27am

Pretty good rescue using an inflatable.

Mastodon

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Jay C  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:49:30am

re: #124 darthstar

Didn’t he have a hard time getting that thing out to sea? The mast was too tall to go under a bridge so he asked that the bridge be removed? Rotterdam told him to go pound sand and he had to dis-mast it first.

Basically, yeah. But IIRC, Bezos offered to pay to have the obstructing bridge removed, then re-built after he had towed his behemoth downriver, but they still said no. So they launched the thing mastless, and sent it to another shipyard to have the masts installed.
Which is how I thought sailing ships were built anyway (hull first, masts and rigging last), but not my area of knowledge.

But Jeez, 416 feet?

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:50:32am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:51:21am

re: #136 Jay C

…Bezos … launched the thing mastless, and sent it to another shipyard to have the masts installed.
Which is how I thought sailing ships were built anyway (hull first, masts and rigging last), but not my area of knowledge.

But Jeez, 416 feet?

mast turbation

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:51:38am

Yes, it looks like Asian caricature of tigers.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 2, 2023 • 7:54:37am

Another par day (too many possibilities).

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sagehen  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:03:00am

re: #136 Jay C

But Jeez, 416 feet?

one and a half football fields.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:04:49am

re: #139 darthstar

Yes, it looks like Asian caricature of tigers.

Fuck it…stealing that image so it is easier to see.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:05:23am

Bezos just boat the boat so that he and Lauren can reenact their favorite music video. Don’t thank me for the ear worm.

Duran Duran - Rio (Official Music Video)

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A Cranky One  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:06:49am

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:10:57am

I had a feeling McCarthy would bail. He should quit over Xmas.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:16:42am

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:17:53am

re: #135 darthstar

Pretty good rescue using an inflatable.

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And that is why first responders deserve all the respect in the world. Text book rescue.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:18:00am

re: #146 darthstar

That reminds me. I should put deer whistles on our cars again. I’ve seen a few hit deer headed to our place in Monte Rio.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:20:06am

re: #148 darthstar

That reminds me. I should put deer whistles on our cars again. I’ve seen a few hit deer headed to our place in Monte Rio.

Remember, aim for the ass.

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jeffreyw  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:21:53am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:24:48am

re: #21 darthstar

Spotify pays Weird Al $12 for 80 million streams.

Yet Spotify gave Joe Blowgan $100 million to be the new Rush Limbaugh.

Another reason I avoid Spotify.

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:25:02am

re: #148 darthstar

That reminds me. I should put deer whistles on our cars again. I’ve seen a few hit deer headed to our place in Monte Rio.

Couldn’t you just wrap your car to look like a mountain lion?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:26:56am

re: #124 darthstar

Didn’t he have a hard time getting that thing out to sea? The mast was too tall to go under a bridge so he asked that the bridge be removed? Rotterdam told him to go pound sand and he had to dis-mast it first.

Actually, I was just in Rotterdam and heard the story. They would have lifted the bridge out of the way (that river was used to transport cargo, so a lot of the bridges can be raised), but when they told him what it would cost him, he decided to go with removing the mast.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:31:24am

No matter what he does they will continue to worship The Talking Asshole!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:34:17am

Sinema got $27K from student loan industry after helping GOP kill Biden’s debt forgiveness plan

Earlier this year, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona) voted with Senate Republicans for legislation to kill President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness proposal. In the months following that vote, she was a major recipient of the student loan industry’s largesse.

The bill itself, H.J. Res 45, would have blocked Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt per borrower, though the president promised to veto it if it reached his desk, and the Supreme Court ultimately struck down the proposal at the end of its 2023 session. The bill narrowly passed the Senate in June, with 52 votes in favor and 46 in opposition. Sinema joined forces with all Senate Republicans to give the bill the narrow majority it needed for passage. Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) and Jon Tester (D-Montana) also voted with the GOP to pass the measure.

According to the Phoenix New Times, Sinema proceeded to rake in thousands of dollars in contributions from various donors connected to student loan servicers, for-profit colleges, banks and debt collectors after her vote.

The New Times combed through Sinema’s campaign finance disclosure forms on the Federal Election Commission database and learned that the Arizona senator received approximately $27,000 in PAC donations between June and September of 2023. That includes a $5,000 contribution from NelNet PAC, which is a political action committee representing the interests of the second-largest provider of federally backed loans given by private lenders. Sinema also received $5,000 from a PAC connected to private lender Sallie Mae and $5,000 from a PAC run by the board chair of a for-profit Arizona college.

Smaller donations from the industry during that time period include a $2,500 donation from debt collector Portfolio Recovery Associates, $2,500 from a Washington, DC-based trade association representing the interests of for-profit colleges, and a combined $7,000 in donations from three PACs run by banks.

Despite her fundraising activity, Arizona’s senior US senator has not yet indicated if she plans to run for reelection in 2024. She currently faces opposition from Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona) and failed 2022 Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who campaigned as a vociferous supporter of former President Donald Trump.

Current polls show a virtual dead heat between the three candidates, with Gallego having a slight edge over his two opponents. Gallego brought in more than $3 million in donations during the third quarter of 2023, with an average donation amount of $28.

alternet.org

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:36:01am

re: #154 Joe Bacon ✅

No matter what he does they will continue to worship The Talking Asshole!

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All three of those options in the following order. Disqualified, imprisoned for life and then dead works just fine for me.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:36:40am

re: #156 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

That works too.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:37:10am

re: #66 No Malarkey!

A member of the Mexican Mafia and former FBI informant stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times on Black Friday, he said in solidarity with the BLM movement. He was scheduled for release in 2026 at age 55, but I guess he wanted to stay institutionalized, because now he is going to die in prison. I don’t know how to keep high profile inmates like Chauvin safe except to isolate them since the general prison population is full of violent, dangerous men, but solitary confinement is its own form of cruel punishment.

I recall a “dangerous” criminal put in isolation: Susan McDougal— because she wouldn’t tell Kenneth Starr the story he wanted.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:44:09am

re: #158 Hecuba’s daughter

I recall a “dangerous” criminal put in isolation: Susan McDougal— because she wouldn’t tell Kenneth Starr the story he wanted.

And don’t forget what that evil thug Starr did to Julie Hiatt Steele.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:44:32am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:45:20am

re: #89 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Took me forever to figure out the word

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Par for me too.

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Group: 3,3,3,4

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:55:15am

re: #109 Eventual Carrion

4/6 here

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Perfect Connections here too

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:55:30am

The Boys Season 4 trailer just dropped.

The Boys – Season 4 Official Teaser Trailer | Prime Video

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:57:54am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 8:58:42am

It is a good thing that my local PBS station live streams their shows. I am going to continue to stream their shows for right now. I hope they get their signal back.

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wrenchwench  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:00:15am

re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter

Par for me too.

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There went my streak of 90.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:03:00am

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

This looks amazeballs!

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Video

Fuel for home office days.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:03:37am

re: #167 darthstar

Fuel for home office days.

Indeed. And the next season of The Boys.

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A Cranky One  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:07:17am

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:12:47am

re: #166 wrenchwench

I went all the way. Wordle 896 X/6*

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There went my streak of 90.

Par. Fortunately, my 3rd word left me with only one possibility I could think of. It worked.

Wordle 896 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:19:17am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:19:57am

re: #171 darthstar

lol.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:20:06am

OT:

… In Los Angeles, Dr. Wood soon found, the environmental variability was also based on neighborhoods’ socioeconomic status.

He and others recently surveyed birds across the sprawling metropolis and analyzed the findings against redlining maps. They found that predominantly white neighborhoods, which were often the ones “greenlined” on the HOLC maps, hosted a greater abundance of birds that generally live in forests, such as warblers, wrens and bluebirds.

In contrast, areas that today are predominantly Hispanic and were previously redlined have fewer of those forest birds and more “synanthropic” species, those often found in dense urban areas. (These include pigeons and sparrows but also crows and ravens, mourning doves, house finches and even a type of hummingbird.) In an article last month in the journal Ornithological Applications, the researchers wrote that the distribution of birds in Los Angeles today reflected “patterns of income inequality, both past and present, that carry over to influence urban biodiversity.”

As examples, Dr. Wood compared Beverly Hills, where the average home price is more than $3.6 million, according to Zillow, with Boyle Heights, a largely Hispanic neighborhood where the average home price is $628,000; it shows up as a large red blob on the HOLC map and has far fewer trees and green spaces. “You get loads of these birds that require insects for their life history, and they go to a place like Beverly Hills because there are trees and flowers,” he said.

… The birds were “an indicator of these broader conditions that are effectively bad for people.”

(No Paywall)

nytimes.com

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:20:49am

re: #168 Dr Lizardo

Indeed. And the next season of The Boys.

Yep…having just finished Gen V I’m ready for it. I like this franchise - it’s so much more heartwarming and realistic than the DC MC universe of bad CGI and overwrought sound effects.

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A Cranky One  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:21:40am

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:22:45am

What’s the worst that can happen?

Yanking the post because it’s bullshit. I didn’t think to click through to the Daily Dot until after pasting.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:24:00am

re: #176 darthstar

What’s the worst that can happen?

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TFW your tik-tok video gets used as evidence in a big ass lawsuit.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:26:24am

re: #159 Joe Bacon ✅

And don’t forget what that evil thug Starr did to Julie Hiatt Steele.

Embarrassed here: was unfamiliar with that story.

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Nojay UK  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:26:48am

re: #176 darthstar

What’s the worst that can happen?

My small local pharmacy has only one pharmacist on duty most of the time with a couple more staff doing the retail over-the-counter sales. They have a poster on the door saying they can’t dispense prescriptions when the pharmacist is on lunch break, come back later if you need to.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:28:20am

re: #179 Nojay UK

My small local pharmacy has only one pharmacist on duty most of the time with a couple more staff doing the retail over-the-counter sales. They have a poster on the door saying they can’t dispense prescriptions when the pharmacist is on lunch break, come back later if you need to.

Yeah, I just updated the post to remove the video. It’s clickbait BS.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:32:25am

Removed. Story was untrue.

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A Cranky One  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:44:08am

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:53:31am

re: #182 A Cranky One

I ask Alexa to play the Grateful Dead channel for an hour or so when I leave the dogs at home…mostly for the cat. She likes the Dead.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:55:29am

re: #182 A Cranky One

Minnie and Buddy get to listen to the local 90s rock station when we are gone.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:56:28am

This year’s winter fashion…tardigrade chic.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:57:52am

This was the kind of music my dog liked when he had to leave her at home.

101 Strings Orchestra

Unusual dog.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 9:59:43am

I would expect them to stick to day games and limited capacity…Putin would love to hit a stadium full of people with rockets.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:00:33am

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

This was the kind of music my dog liked when he had to leave her at home.

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Unusual dog.

Did you learn this by leaving a stack of vinyl on the floor and returning to find it playing?

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jeffreyw  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:01:55am

re: #171 darthstar

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:03:21am
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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:06:53am

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jaunte  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:08:57am

re: #185 darthstar

Don’t wear that on the street in LA or the cops might burn your stuff.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:14:15am

re: #188 darthstar

Did you learn this by leaving a stack of vinyl on the floor and returning to find it playing?

LOL no, one day my dad put it on the record player and my dog (a miniature schnauzer) was just absolutely mesmerized by it. So when we had to go somewhere, we’d just put some 101 Strings on the turntable.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:14:22am

re: #66 No Malarkey!

A member of the Mexican Mafia and former FBI informant stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times on Black Friday, he said in solidarity with the BLM movement. He was scheduled for release in 2026 at age 55, but I guess he wanted to stay institutionalized, because now he is going to die in prison. I don’t know how to keep high profile inmates like Chauvin safe except to isolate them since the general prison population is full of violent, dangerous men, but solitary confinement is its own form of cruel punishment.

Any inmate who is serving a lengthy sentence while known as an LEO or DOJ informant by the general population and still alive; is a very bad man.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:16:53am

re: #69 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This is why I said that.

I don’t feel any of what Eastman did was lawful or ethical and his attorney is doing the same. There’s a difference between rigorous defense and rigorous defense that skirts the boundaries of law and ethics. I think the latter wasn’t skirted but stomped on.

The only person under oath to tell the truth in a court of law is the witness on the stand.

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Dangerman  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:18:55am

re: #145 darthstar

I had a feeling McCarthy would bail. He should quit over Xmas.

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Rando:

Macho ‘super-pols’ who can’t take demotion….

Newt quit; Livingston quit; Hastert is in the POKEY; Boehner RAN away; Ryan quit; now McCarthy…

Nancy Pelosi GAVE UP power and it appeared to me she managed NOT to overshadow Hakeem Jeffries and he blossomed.

Nancy Pelosi ON HER OWN is a more complete human person than ANY of these Macho-Pretenders.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:20:07am

re: #193 Dr Lizardo

LOL no, one day my dad put it on the record player and my dog (a miniature schnauzer) was just absolutely mesmerized by it. So when we had to go somewhere, we’d just put some 101 Strings on the turntable.

That’s how I learned cats like the Dead. The cat will come out and lie on the floor in front of the speaker.

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sagehen  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:21:50am

re: #197 darthstar

That’s how I learned cats like the Dead. The cat will come out and lie on the floor in front of the speaker.

My college roommate’s dog LOVED David Letterman’s Stupid Pet Tricks. If David said “after the commercial, we’ll be back with stupid pet tricks, the dog would come tearing through the house and park himself in front of the TV.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:22:28am

re: #196 Dangerman

There’s a chance that a few more Republicans could quit over the holidays - it’s happened before (in both parties)…we could see a Speaker Jeffries in January or February. That would be epic as Congress could punch through a bunch of great policies and Ukraine aid and help solidify President Biden’s reelection.

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Dangerman  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:25:08am

re: #199 darthstar

There’s a chance that a few more Republicans could quit over the holidays - it’s happened before (in both parties)…we could see a Speaker Jeffries in January or February. That would be epic as Congress could punch through a bunch of great policies and Ukraine aid and help solidify President Biden’s reelection.

Imagine being known as the R who caused the house to flip mid-session

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Dangerman  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:27:24am

Ps Trump is past “accused”

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:30:22am

re: #201 Dangerman

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Ps Trump is past “accused”

Civil case; not criminal case.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:31:58am

Ummmm..WOW!

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Dangerman  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:34:43am

re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter

Civil case; not criminal case.

I’m happy with “adjudicated”

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:44:04am

re: #200 Dangerman

Imagine being known as the R who caused the house to flip mid-session

In a saner world, half a dozen would have already switched parties to stop the extremists in their own party.

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:47:04am

re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Ummmm..WOW!

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It should be noted that no man has ever attemped or completed that task.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:48:34am

re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Ummmm..WOW!

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Here is her Wiki entry.

Gladys Ingle (March 28, 1899 - October 27, 1981) was an American pilot, a wing walker and a member of the aerial stunt team the 13 Black Cats.

Ingle was the fourth licensed woman pilot from the United States.[1] She began performing jumps from balloons for the C.P.O. Aerial Circus in 1921. By 1922 she had begun doing stunts involving airplanes. Through her performances in the 1920s and 1930s, she became world-renowned for her aerobatics and wing walking.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:48:40am

re: #206 darthstar

It should be noted that no man has ever attemped or completed that task.

Per the Intertubes, she did it more than once, a barnstorming shtick.

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Belafon  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:54:27am

The Texas-OSU game is on. Texas had 422 yards of offense in the first half.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:55:02am

We are going to see more and more prosecutions of women for miscarriages and abortions.

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Jay C  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:56:04am

re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I was somewhat surprised to learn that Gladys lived to be 82, given her preferred career (also including motorcycle racing). Good for her…..

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darthstar  Dec 2, 2023 • 10:58:15am

re: #209 Belafon

The Texas-OSU game is on. Texas had 422 yards of offense in the first half.

And the field is only 100 yards.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 2, 2023 • 11:00:24am

re: #211 Jay C

I was somewhat surprised to learn that Gladys lived to be 82, given her preferred career (also including motorcycle racing). Good for her…..

She was a pretty amazing Lady. That’s for sure.

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piratedan  Dec 2, 2023 • 11:56:28am

re: #83 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

sounds like the beginning of an awesome Stephen King story….


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