Shaun Martin - Piano
Keith Taylor - Bass
Robert “Sput” Searight - Drums
Frank Moka - PercussionDownload 7 Summers: apple.co
Written by : Shaun Martin
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Directed by : Andy LaVioletteRecorded at Luminous Studios by Tre Nagella
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Sput Searight is incredible in this track. If you focus on the drums, it’s just a stellar performance.
Friday the 13th may be considered an unlucky day, but at 5:45 EDT (11:45 CEST) on Friday, April 13, 2029, it will prove the exact opposite when a massive asteroid passes safely past Earth.Everyone will be watching. Asteroid Apophis is, at about 1,230 feet (375 meters) across, larger than 90% of space rocks.
It will pass just 19,635 miles (31,600 kilometers) from Earth’s surface, the closest approach of an asteroid of this size that humankind has ever experienced. It will pass between Earth’s geostationary satellites and the Atlantic Ocean, just a tenth of the distance between Earth and the moon.
Apophis will be visible to the naked eye. As it crosses the Atlantic, a few billion people in Europe, Africa and Asia can see it for a few hours in the night sky if skies are clear.
Bugatti is building a new $4M Sportscar. It’s still going to have a gas engine, but, rather than turbochargers, it’s using electric motors to provide the additional output. It claims the car will produce 1,800 ft lbs of torque.
re: #4 Belafon
What we really need is an electric $40,000 Bugatti Del Popolo.
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
Today in there’s nothing new under the sun: In 1903 a white hotel worker became a right wing celebrity for being fired after refusing to make booker t washington’s bed because he was black and a bunch of people around the country raised thousands of dollars on her behalf
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
I think one reason the American right is so insane is that the only actual historical conservative tradition in this country is slavery and Jim Crow, but this can’t be admitted
Here is why I think Burgum will be Trump’s VP. The Save America PAC, which has been paying Trump’s legal bills, is nearly broke.
re: #8 No Malarkey!
Here is why I think Burgum will be Trump’s VP. The Save America PAC, which has been paying Trump’s legal bills, is nearly broke.
I know people keep saying Marco Rubio, but isn’t he from Florida? While it’s not impossible for President and VP to be from the same state, it’s a bad idea.
Another day, another pastor criming, Texas edition (KTSX-TV, yesterday):
ABILENE, Texas — An Abilene pastor has been fined $3,500 by the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) for multiple violations of the Election Code.
Scott Beard (R), pastor of FountainGate Fellowship, was the center of several controversies last year regarding his campaign for Abilene City Council.
According to the 26 page report from the TEC, Beard was accused of multiple violations including making and accepting in-kind contributions to his campaign as well as failing to report those contributions.
(more)
Abilene pastor fined $3,500 for ethics violations during 2023 city council campaign
A leaked video obtained by KTXS in March 2023 shows Beard telling the congregation to pick up his campaign signs to place in their yards.
After our interview about the video of Beard campaigning during a sermon at FountainGate, he told KTXS that he reached out to the TEC and was “completely exonerated.” (he lied like a common conservative)
(more)
We drove a Pacifica on our vacation, and I’ve got to say that they somewhat suck compared to my Kia Carnival. The features set in the Pacifica is notably lacking in modern safety features that work well, and the handling was shit. It did have reasonable acceleration but was a gas hog.
re: #9 Nerdy Fish
I know people keep saying Marco Rubio, but isn’t he from Florida? While it’s not impossible for President and VP to be from the same state, it’s a bad idea.
The Constitutional issue is that it says that Presidential/Vice-presidential Electors can’t cast their votes for two candidates from their own state.
This would only come into play if (as in 2000), Florida’s EVs would be the margin of EC victory, so those Electors would have to vote for somebody other than L’il Marco.
This might end up in a scenario with a Presdient Trump and a Vice-President Harris, but I’m not sure….
re: #12 Jay C
The Constitutional issue is that it says that Presidential/Vice-presidential Electors can’t cast their votes for two candidates from their own state.
This would only come into play if (as in 2000), Florida’s EVs would be the margin of EC victory, so those Electors would have to vote for somebody other than L’il Marco.
This might end up in a scenario with a Presdient Trump and a Vice-President Harris, but I’m not sure….
I don’t think this election will be that close, but in theory, it could be.
re: #8 No Malarkey!
Here is why I think Burgum will be Trump’s VP. The Save America PAC, which has been paying Trump’s legal bills, is nearly broke.
I got a bad feeling that Trump will pick Flynn as his running mate based on the latest BS coming from Steve Lenin Bannon and Roger Stone.
re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅
I got a bad feeling that Trump will pick Flynn as his running mate based on the lates BS coming from Steve Lenin Bannon and Roger Stone.
With Flynn on the ticket, Trump would probably get less than 25 % of the Indy vote.
re: #9 Nerdy Fish
I know people keep saying Marco Rubio, but isn’t he from Florida? While it’s not impossible for President and VP to be from the same state, it’s a bad idea.
Both can be from the same state, but the Constitution requires the electoral votes from that state not be counted. The Tangerine Tyrant can’t afford to have Florida go into the “no vote” column, and it would probably piss off a bunch of Florida Republican politicians.
The XII Amendment requirement was first used in the 1804 election.
re: #5 jaunte
What we really need is an electric $40,000 Bugatti Del Popolo.
Or an $80,000 minimum age.
Tornado warning in northeastern Michigan.
…A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN ARENAC AND SOUTHEASTERN OGEMAW COUNTIES…At 448 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located over Skidway Lake, or near Alger, moving east at 30 mph.HAZARD…Tornado.
SOURCE…Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT…Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage
to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is
likely.This dangerous storm will be near…
Maple Ridge around 455 PM EDT.Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include
Prescott.
There a store downtown that only opens 2 days a week to sell the stuff that didn’t sell at all the ‘estate sales’ that they run. There was nobody in the tool room, so I went digging in the bins of tools. There was a $5.00 set of pliers that I set aside. Decent quality, but nothing notable. I dug deeper. Two nice needle nose pliers (I’ve been missing the ones I left in the shop I sold). Two ratcheting double ended box wrenches, a pair of cable cutters that might be better than my old Var ones, and two oddities: a dental mirror cleverly attached to an antenna, and a tripod gizmo, made to hold something about 1” x 2” x cracker thickness. None of them has a price. I spread them out on the counter. Behind the counter, one new person is training the other new person. The trainee holds up an item, looking at the trainer and says, ‘So, like, one dollar?’ Trainer says, ‘yes.’ Trainee says, ‘So like, a dollar for each of them?’ Trainer says, ‘Yes.’ I say, ‘Yes.’ And manage to otherwise keep my mouth shut until I was out the door, and said, ‘I made out like a bandit.’
The mirror/antenna thing has already been fitted to a ball cap as a rearview. I’ve been wanting one since I started using a helmet mirror 35 years ago.
It’s a good thing I passed on the $5 pliers. It might have made everything $5 each. Which I still would have paid.
re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅
I let the CPUC know my opposition to AT&T’s request. Also let them know how ticked off I am that they discontinued landline service to my apartment building because they said the wiring deteriorated.
California is catching up to Nebraska /s
Micro plastics would have to be pretty small to fit inside my dick…wait…did I just say that out loud?
Trump goes into Hunger Games territory…
Donald Trump on Saturday suggested the creation of an ultimate fighting league for immigrants, leading to an outpouring of mockery.
Trump over the weekend gave the keynote address at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” in Washington, D.C. In that same talk, the former president came under fire after he sought to push back against reports that he was “rambling” when he told a story about sharks and electrocution at a recent rally.
The follow-up led some onlookers to say his attempt to defend his remarks were worse than the original telling itself.
But Trump also tackled the issue of immigration, telling a story about the UFC’s Dana White.
“Dana White… he’s a legend, right? UFC, ultimate fighter, ultimate fighting,” Trump said. “I said Dana I have an idea. Why don’t you set up a migrant league of fighters? And have your regular league of fighters. Then you have the champion of your league, these are the greatest fighters in the world, fight the champion of the migrants. I think the migrant guy might win, that’s how tough they are. He didn’t like that idea too much… but not the worst idea I have ever had.”
The comments didn’t land with many social media users.
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Both can be from the same state, but the Constitution requires the electoral votes from that state not be counted. The Tangerine Tyrant can’t afford to have Florida go into the “no vote” column, and it would probably piss off a bunch of Florida Republican politicians.
The XII Amendment requirement was first used in the 1804 election.
Actually, the text of the Constitution (Article II, Section 1) reads:
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves
which same language is used in the 12th Amendment, so it presumably still applies. It has never really been tested much; since most Presidential candidates have run with VP running-mates from differing states for political balance reasons. Until 2000: and even then Dick Cheney “moved” to Wyoming just to be on the safe side….
re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg
I suspect there will come a day when traditional landlines are no more. I know some folks still swear by them but they are getting less and less common as people increasingly use VOIP and cell phones.
Don’t expect the telecoms to stop making requests to kill POTS.
2/3 of the nation has no cell service coverage (by area). They can request all they want. They will still be refused.
Also “the telephone of last resort” means your telephone still works when your power is out for three weeks (provided the lines weren’t destroyed).
Yesterday someone came in the library saying they’d just talked to a guy running a frightfully-expensive drone over the cell tower behind the general store which only covers US-26, to try to figure out why it wasn’t working.
Apparently today it’s still not working. Viero might get around someday to fixing a cell tower in an extremely rural area.
re: #19 wrenchwench
There a store downtown that only opens 2 days a week to sell the stuff that didn’t sell at all the ‘estate sales’ that they run. There was nobody in the tool room, so I went digging in the bins of tools. There was a $5.00 set of pliers that I set aside. Decent quality, but nothing notable. I dug deeper. Two nice needle nose pliers (I’ve been missing the ones I left in the shop I sold). Two ratcheting double ended box wrenches, a pair of cable cutters that might be better than my old Var ones, and two oddities: a dental mirror cleverly attached to an antenna, and a tripod gizmo, made to hold something about 1” x 2” x cracker thickness. None of them has a price. I spread them out on the counter. Behind the counter, one new person is training the other new person. The trainee holds up an item, looking at the trainer and says, ‘So, like, one dollar?’ Trainer says, ‘yes.’ Trainee says, ‘So like, a dollar for each of them?’ Trainer says, ‘Yes.’ I say, ‘Yes.’ And manage to otherwise keep my mouth shut until I was out the door, and said, ‘I made out like a bandit.’
The mirror/antenna thing has already been fitted to a ball cap as a rearview. I’ve been wanting one since I started using a helmet mirror 35 years ago.
It’s a good thing I passed on the $5 pliers. It might have made everything $5 each. Which I still would have paid.
re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅
Trump goes into Hunger Games territory…
Donald Trump on Saturday suggested the creation of an ultimate fighting league for immigrants, leading to an outpouring of mockery.
Trump over the weekend gave the keynote address at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” in Washington, D.C. In that same talk, the former president came under fire after he sought to push back against reports that he was “rambling” when he told a story about sharks and electrocution at a recent rally.
The follow-up led some onlookers to say his attempt to defend his remarks were worse than the original telling itself.
But Trump also tackled the issue of immigration, telling a story about the UFC’s Dana White.
“Dana White… he’s a legend, right? UFC, ultimate fighter, ultimate fighting,” Trump said. “I said Dana I have an idea. Why don’t you set up a migrant league of fighters? And have your regular league of fighters. Then you have the champion of your league, these are the greatest fighters in the world, fight the champion of the migrants. I think the migrant guy might win, that’s how tough they are. He didn’t like that idea too much… but not the worst idea I have ever had.”
The comments didn’t land with many social media users.
re: #68 Eventual Carrion
Like the inline fuel filter on my Nissan I was running down today. I need to move at least 2 hoses and possibly a bracket to get to it. What a crock. Yes it is better than getting to the one in the tank (which I am told is a no maintenance one, just replace the whole fuel pump). All I want to do is change the inline to see if that is the problem I am having with it stalling every once in a while. I already went the fuel line cleaner route which helped a bit.
Same with the low pressure fill valve for the air conditioner on a Smart. Granted in a small car you have to pack things pretty tightly to begin with, but Mercedes designed the air conditioning system so the low pressure fill valve is at the bottom of the car, underneath the air conditioner and fan system.
There is no way you can do this at home without jacks or ramps to get under your car. An a/c shop can do it (we don’t have those here) but they’ll charge extra to put your car on a lift so they can fill the air conditioner.
re: #21 darthstar
Micro plastics would have to be pretty small to fit inside my dick…wait…did I just say that out loud?
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Waiting for the “microplastics are nothing. I’m passing rocks through mine” from the Right.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Audience shifts uncomfortably, wondering if this is really entertainment.
David Simon talks about how being a TV writer has changed over the years — and so have writer’s wages.
npr.org
Michigan Lawmaker Says Arrest Involving Gun and Adult Dancer Was Second Amendment Advocacy
This is like the lathe of heaven grabbing ahold of one of my more sordid bits of hyperbole.
re: #32 jaunte
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David Simon talks about how being a TV writer has changed over the years — and so have writer’s wages.
npr.org
As much as I like Simon, I would kind of have to disagree on this for a few reasons:
1. You’re not required to use any of the output.
2. Since Chat at some level is a random sentence generator with some smoothing, it could put things together to form blocks you might haven’t considered.
3. Substitute that for calling one or more friends/colleagues.
We now have a copy of chat at work to use. I queried it to solve a code problem, and while I didn’t copy the code, or even use most of the structure, I did use the generated structure as a guide.
They don't care what the Ten Commandments actually say. Gov. Jeff Landry doesn't follow them.
In truth, This is a magical practice. It's a ritual act so that the posters, the presence of the words, will cause goodness and protections to happen. That they will prevent misfortune.
That's magic.
— Dr. Holly Walters (@manigarm.bsky.social) 2024-06-21T22:07:44.416Z
Ma Bell is an ugly mother:
(Bumper sticker during telephone union strike in late 1960s)
Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenwei..
***** AT&T is attempting to bypass the
CPUC and abandon their landline obligations, via Assembly Bill AB 2797 in California *****
Despite the CPUC voting unanimously today to reject the AT&T proposal to abandon its carrier of last resort obligations, they are still pushing California Assembly Bill AB 2797 that would effectively bypass the CPUC and screw California subscribers in very much the same way.
The California State Association of Counties, Rural County Representatives of California, and Urban Counties of California a week ago said that they oppose the bill.
re: #37 Targetpractice
It's not harmless. It's not "just an innocent thing" to be fooled by AI. You NEED to be able to discern and differentiate reality. You NEED to know how the world works on a basic level.
Because fooling you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse.
— Dr. Holly Walters (@manigarm.bsky.social) 2024-06-13T16:22:53.215Z
re: #41 BeenHereAwhile
Ma Bell is an ugly mother:
(Bumper sticker during telephone union strike in late 1960s)Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenwei..
***** AT&T is attempting to bypass the
CPUC and abandon their landline obligations, via Assembly Bill AB 2797 in California *****Despite the CPUC voting unanimously today to reject the AT&T proposal to abandon its carrier of last resort obligations, they are still pushing California Assembly Bill AB 2797 that would effectively bypass the CPUC and screw California subscribers in very much the same way.
The California State Association of Counties, Rural County Representatives of California, and Urban Counties of California a week ago said that they oppose the bill.
One major issue with continuing landline service is that the central office switching equipment is very old; companies have actually purchased old equipment (for parts) from eBay because new parts aren’t available. And no one makes large switching systems any longer.
The service will die as the infrastructure deteriorates.
re: #42 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
It’s not harmless. It’s not “just an innocent thing” to be fooled by AI. You NEED to be able to discern and differentiate reality. You NEED to know how the world works on a basic level.
Because fooling you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse.
We will all be able to live in our own personal realities, parallel but separate.
re: #44 darthstar
Not like that!
It has to be the King James version, because that translation was dictated by God
Grateful Dead’s Aoxomoxoa is 55 years old - first studio album to use 16 track recording. Also a palindrome, like this one from the original poster on facebook: “go hang a salami I’m a lasagna hog”
re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We will all be able to live in our own personal realities, parallel but separate.
Except all those realities will emanate from a means of production owned by private industries.
You’ll be free, as long as your freedom doesn’t lower the share value of the dream-providing subscription service.
re: #50 The Ghost of a Flea
Except all those realities will emanate from a means of production owned by private industries.
You’ll be free, as long as your freedom doesn’t lower the share value of the dream-providing subscription service.
The Homeowner’s Association that lives rent-free in your head
I just learned this. 2/5th of Moving Sidewalks = 2/3 of ZZ Top
Moving Sidewalks were an American rock band formed in 1966 from Houston, Texas. They released several singles and an album, before bassist Don Summers and keyboardist Tom Moore were drafted into the army, bringing the band to an end. Guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Dan Mitchell then formed the band ZZ Top.
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It has to be the King James, because that translation was dictated by God
According to the interview given by one of the co-authors, it’s even more archaic than that. They want a version that says (for example) “Don’t covet thy neighbor’s anything” including manservants and cattle.
re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We will all be able to live in our own personal realities, parallel but separate.
We always have. Even people who aren’t narcissists have beliefs that aren’t true.
Most people are much more charitable to themselves than toward others when judging behavior. The same goes for their own cultural beliefs vs the beliefs of an outgroup. This lands us in different realities. AI adds more props to help people lie to themselves and feel good in their reality.
re: #54 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
We always have. Even people who aren’t narcissists have beliefs that aren’t true.
There was a time when we (nearly) all agreed on certain basic facts and realities.
That is no longer the case.
re: #52 gocart mozart
I just learned this. 2/5th of Moving Sidewalks = 2/3 of ZZ Top
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Well, temporarily… Mitchell didn’t stay long and they had a couple of other personnel changes within less than a year which led to Dusty Hill and Frank Beard joining the band to become, along with Gibbons, the “classic” ZZ Top lineup we knew and loved until Hill died in 2021.
re: #56 TedStriker
Well, temporarily… Mitchell didn’t stay long and they had a couple of other personnel changes within less than a year which led to Dusty Hill and Frank Beard joining the band to become, along with Gibbons, the ZZ Top lineup we know and loved.
Didn’t they go on tour as replacement faux Beatles or members of some other band that had broken up?
re: #56 TedStriker
How could forget the clean shaven Beard of ZZ Top
re: #58 gocart mozart
How could forget the clean shaven Beard of ZZ Top
Read an article where the drummer had a long beard and the two guitar players were clean shaven. They spent a year apart then regrouped as a band to find the drummer had shaved and the guitar players had both grown long beards…and that’s how it stayed.
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Didn’t they go on tour as replacement members for some other band that had broken up?
Billy Ethridge, who was bassist for the first several months of ZZ Top’s existence before he quit and Dusty HIll took his place, apparently played with Stevie Ray Vaughan later.
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a time when we (nearly) all agreed on certain basic facts and realities.
That is no longer the case.
We’ve always had extremist Christian sects and movements, but the difference now is that they’ve taken over a major political party. The Republican party needs to be soundly defeated because they’re nuts.
DEMENTIA ALERT- pic.twitter.com/bOBybTUrA5
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) June 22, 2024
re: #60 TedStriker
Also:
In 1978, after almost seven years of touring and a string of successful albums, ZZ Top went on hiatus while Beard dealt with addiction problems. Gibbons traveled to Europe, Beard went to Jamaica, and Hill went to Mexico.[12] Hill also spent 3 months working at DFW Airport, saying he wanted to “feel normal” and “ground himself” after years spent performing.[13] In 1979, ZZ Top returned to record a new album. Gibbons and Hill were now sporting chest-length beards. ZZ Top signed with Warner Bros. Records and released the album Degüello in late 1979.
re: #62 gocart Mozart
The fast-talking salesman who lied his way to the Presidency, and is currently trying to lie his way clear of our justice system, is losing his words.
It doesn’t look good for Donnie.
re: #65 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
The fast-talking salesman who lied his way to the Presidency, and is currently trying to lie his way clear of our justice system, is losing his words.
It doesn’t look good for Donnie.
He’s just using up the ones he still has before the debate.
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a time when we (nearly) all agreed on certain basic facts and realities.
That is no longer the case.
Did we really? Certainly, religious conflicts were based on different realities and perceptions. The issue of slavery which tore our nation apart and is still poisoning it was based on different realities between supporters and opponents of that most vile institution.
re: #43 A Cranky One
One major issue with continuing landline service is that the central office switching equipment is very old; companies have actually purchased old equipment (for parts) from eBay because new parts aren’t available. And no one makes large switching systems any longer.
The service will die as the infrastructure deteriorates.
No more “maximum hot smoke test.” at the CO.
re: #62 gocart mozart
And people laugh like it’s some kind of joke.
.@marceelias: “The authoritarian starts to lie so fabulously that his followers know he’s lying, but they take pride in the fact that he is able to pull it off… They view him as clever for having been able to tell such fantastical lies; it’s a sign of his virtue that he’s able… pic.twitter.com/S2giz9XCn0
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 22, 2024
Today’s cinematic masterpiece: 2021 War of the Worlds: Alien Conquest (0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes)
re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅
He just says crazier and crazier shit.
re: #72 jeffreyw
I was just thinking about him the other day. He could be a good voice against Trump…with the right timing.
I still think it’s a possibility that Trump (or his cronies) will concoct a reason to back out of the debate. The cronies have to be aware by now that the Dear Leader’s brain is failing. It remains to be seen if they’ll still roll the dice and put him up there with Biden.
re: #38 retired cynic
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LOL. So true.
Walking up South Hill street, I saw a very young cat with a mumbling, shaking homeless guy. The cat and I made eye contact, and he (or she?) gave me this head tilt and a wink. I “slow blinked” back.
I suddenly imagined this conversation with the cat, who told me he caught this feral human who was still easily frightened but was getting better each time he fed the cat.
re: #72 jeffreyw
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On one hand, yeah, I would like W to say something, anything, in opposition to Trump, because, with people who are not completely MAGAfied, the fact W was also President still holds (various amounts of) weight.
However, on the other hand, the GOP has made it crystal-clear the past few years that the party is Trump’s to do with as he pleases and that establishment Republicans, more or less, have no real place there anymore, so the people that need to hear W’s words will either ignore him out of spite or out of fear they’ll be excommunicated if they step too far outside the Cult of Trump.
re: #75 darthstar
Here is the video. Warning: contains killing
Keine Rettungskette.
Keine Kultur.
Kein Erbarmen.
Keine Chance.pic.twitter.com/XhFyaS10ae— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) June 22, 2024
re: #77 Charles Johnson
I fear the calculus is more cynical. It’s just another move to satiate his rabid base. The guy has said offensive and false things so many times, how could this hurt? Nothing else has.
But every twitch, pause, or heaven forbid, real faux pas by Biden will be msm headlines, and possibly influence against him.
re: #76 darthstar
I was just thinking about him the other day. He could be a good voice against Trump…with the right timing.
He won’t. He’s not really that much better without someone like Bono kicking him in the metaphorical balls.
re: #72 jeffreyw
Dumbya won’t utter a peep because deep down inside that morally bankrupt asshole sees nothing wrong with Trump.
re: #77 Charles Johnson
I still think it’s a possibility that Trump (or his cronies) will concoct a reason to back out of the debate. The cronies have to be aware by now that the Dear Leader’s brain is failing. It remains to be seen if they’ll still roll the dice and put him up there with Biden.
Trump has one significant advantage over Biden: he doesn’t live on Earth 1 and is not constrained to respond to a question with truth or evidence or anything relevant. He can manufacture false statistics and history on the spot and will merely react to any challenge with a sneer, claiming that any story to the contrary is just more proof of the Deep State’s efforts to keep him from connecting to the population and revealing the truth to the audience.
I don’t think Trump will be rattled by the absence of an in-studio audience. He has given interviews to various people without cheering fans present and can handle this debate the same way.
re: #80 gocart mozart
The wounded soldier seems to be indicating he wants to be shot. But maybe I’m interpreting that wrong.
I must have missed something.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-22T23:45:46.000Z
re: #80 gocart mozart
Here is the video. Warning: contains killing
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Don’t need the video. Don’t even want to see it. That was my point. If I want to see someone get shot in the head I’ll watch The Boys.
re: #87 Charles Johnson
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There’s been a whole like two week long meltdown going on over there that I can really only chalk up to “familiarity breeds contempt.”
re: #89 goddamnedfrank
Not following it at all, and I think I’ll continue that strategy.
re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
2/3 of the nation has no cell service coverage (by area). They can request all they want. They will still be refused.
Also “the telephone of last resort” means your telephone still works when your power is out for three weeks (provided the lines weren’t destroyed).
Yesterday someone came in the library saying they’d just talked to a guy running a frightfully-expensive drone over the cell tower behind the general store which only covers US-26, to try to figure out why it wasn’t working.
Apparently today it’s still not working. Viero might get around someday to fixing a cell tower in an extremely rural area.
Wasn’t there some sort of “broadband initiative” included in Biden’s infrastructure bill to try to improve the communications systems in the rural US?
Not sure why - outside, seemingly, of a general aversion to government spending* - but most Republicans seem to be of the opinion that even something as basic as cell service, never mind fast Internet connections, is some sort of luxury or frippery undeserving of public support.
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I wonder if I can start an AI trend convincing people that gravity doesn’t apply to them, or maybe things like coincidence in space-time?
That should keep the Darwin Award people busy for a while.
re: #87 Charles Johnson
Clicked through to read the inserted post…oh my power is indeed an evil thing
I clicked through this afternoon and then immediately closed the tab after reading the first paragraph.
re: #75 darthstar
They’re not even pretending to be civilized any more.
There are dark corners of the internet where Americans are saying, “We should be doing that.”
re: #79 TedStriker
Soon they’ll be far worse than excommunicated. Fanatics can’t tell the difference between dissent and terrorism.
I won’t miss that labeler, it seemed very twitchy and I was already considering unsubscribing before this shit went down.
Just saw this on facebook. Couple of guys out fishing see a bunch of dogs in the middle of the lake swimming in circles (they were part of a fox hunt and got distracted by a deer which swam them out until they couldn’t see shore). They ended up rescuing all 38 dogs in three trips (last four they had the help of a fox hunter who used the GPS tracker on their collar to help find them before they ran out of energy).
re: #98 BeenHereAwhile
I’ll bet he’s stoked he doesn’t have to do that again this year.
Something tells me we just got an object lesson in the limitations of the composable moderation concept.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-23T00:38:58.000Z
One of my favorite legal writers lost her dog.
Composable moderation is fine as long as thoughtful, responsible people are in charge of it. It’s an idea that can only work if there are clearly defined boundaries, with a team of people you implicitly trust.
LOL
the wikipedia page for the drake-kendrick beef uses the same table that you find on articles about actual wars
— bobby (frociaggine) (@bobbylewis.bsky.social) 2024-06-22T20:44:48.927Z
re: #76 darthstar
I was just thinking about him the other day. He could be a good voice against Trump…with the right timing.
He would be instantly underbused as a RINO.
re: #67 Hecuba’s daughter
Did we really? Certainly, religious conflicts were based on different realities and perceptions. The issue of slavery which tore our nation apart and is still poisoning it was based on different realities between supporters and opponents of that most vile institution.
In the Civil War era, there was no disagreement about the physical reality of slavery. What was in dispute was the moral status of slavery, abomination or commendable.
If race-based chattel slavery were someone a live political issue in the US these days, the Republican defenders of slavery would split their time between denying that slavery exists, blaming Democrats for slavery, and arguing that slavery is commendable — the standard GOP triplethink (since mere doublethink isn’t enough for these turds).
re: #87 Charles Johnson
The part you’re missing is the death threats Kairi has been getting, including physical stalkers.
My new least favorite Spanish word: embotellamiento, which means traffic jam. I can see the word bottle in the middle, but that isn’t really helping me memorize it.
re: #87 Charles Johnson
Recently, a prominent member of the BlueSky community was exposed as having many sexual assault allegations, including a violent non-consensual strangulation incident which resulted in the victim falling unconscious. Chunks of the community knew small/vague details about the allegations, but neither the number of accusers, nor the severity of some of the incidents, nor the sheer extent of the accused’s longstanding campaign (largely done on Twitter) to discredit their accusers who had already gone public was known to any of the Aegis moderators prior to the allegations catching the entire site’s attention on the weekend of 6/14. After spending most of the weekend offline to deal with personal matters, Kairi personally reviewed the evidence at length and ultimately decided there was enough clear misconduct (both onsite and offsite) to apply a “Boundary Violator” label to the accused’s account.
In the aftermath of the accusations, many users came forward to criticize Aegis/Kairi (and other past community moderators) for not digging deeper into the allegations and acting sooner. Furthermore, other users came forward to criticize the methods used to draw attention to the allegations (including claims that the allegations were boosted to distract from another large-scale conflict around asexuality that had already been set into motion several days prior). A small set of users in the former camp had been reported by members of the latter camp for Anti-Social/Trolling behavior over the prior week, and on 6/20 one moderator chose to act unilaterally against these users by applying account-level labels without considering the optics of the situation (or consulting/informing any of the other moderators either before or after the decision was made).
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Notice of Labeler Termination (Goes to Aegis Blue)
This is some “Get Out” shit. https://t.co/SbJuv5wPQd
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) June 23, 2024
re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Asphyxiation usually counts as a boundary violation.
I have a feeling the founding fathers never anticipated a candidate for president who was convicted of multiple felonies by a jury of his peers and still had the backing of a major political party.
I love it. This drone can actually pick up Russian tank mines and place them again in places where the Russians don’t expect them to be. Also, by attaching a magnet to the drone, they flew one into a grey area, picked up a Russian soldier’s gun, and delivered it back to the Ukrainians.
re: #111 Belafon
My new least favorite Spanish word: embotellamiento, which means traffic jam. I can see the word bottle in the middle, but that isn’t really helping me memorize it.
The word is embouteillage in French, more or less “bottling up”. The other term people use for traffic jam is bouchon, which means cork in the bottle-stopper sense.
The French kinda like wine a lot.
Ah Los Angeles where “Sig Alert” means “traffic jam”…
re: #113 darthstar
The cow scene from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Please note: until further notice you should always assume that the shit is crazy out there, and take all reasonable precautions.
re: #121 Charles Johnson
Shit has always been crazy, if you know where to look.
re: #121 Charles Johnson
It’s why I rarely leave my apartment these days. I can’t maintain my poker face when dealing with most humans.
El Tri is playing Jamaica-mon in Houston tonight in the Copa Americana. 0-0 on 34 minutes.
I don’t know why AI needs gigantic amounts of energy to come up with really shitty takes when most of y’all seem to do it just with burritos and tequila
Shitty human take efficiency is constantly challenged, never bested.
re: #122 Decatur Deb
Shit has always been crazy, if you know where to look.
Traditionally shit’s been done by wild & crazy guys not campaigning for national political office.
re: #114 gocart mozart
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JFC…I have no respect for Clarence Thomas at all, but that’s some racist shit right there from his wife’s aunt about him.
Holy shit…
re: #126 BeenHereAwhile
Traditionally shit’s been done by wild & crazy guys not campaigning for national political office.
Gov. George C. Wallace has his name on a lot of stuff ‘round here.
re: #100 darthstar
Just saw this on facebook. Couple of guys out fishing see a bunch of dogs in the middle of the lake swimming in circles (they were part of a fox hunt and got distracted by a deer which swam them out until they couldn’t see shore). They ended up rescuing all 38 dogs in three trips (last four they had the help of a fox hunter who used the GPS tracker on their collar to help find them before they ran out of energy).
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I didn’t realize dogs could potentially ant mill themselves to death but I guess that’s another reason fox hunts are so incredibly unethical.
“…The Tesla Cybertruck’s very stainable stainless steel body has led many owners to treat their EVs as blank canvases for vinyl wraps. From solid colors to video game callbacks and mimicking other pickups, Cybertruck wraps have taken many forms. Perhaps the strangest one yet is the “Cyber Squire,” a tribute to Ford’s classic woody wagons that I just didn’t see coming.”
thedrive.com
re: #130 jaunte
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thedrive.com
I feel that this is like Febreezing a turd.
Like, I get it. It’s fucking awful and absolutely benefits from a wrap.
But, it’s still a gigantic piece of shit.
re: #130 jaunte
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thedrive.com
If you’re not making it look like a police car from Blade Runner you’re doing it wrong.
re: #131 goddamnedfrank
I feel that this is like Febreezing a turd.
Like, I get it. It’s fucking awful and absolutely benefits from a wrap.
But, it’s still a gigantic piece of shit.
Yep, but they can’t sell it the first year of ownership.
re: #131 goddamnedfrank
I feel that this is like Febreezing a turd.
Like, I get it. It’s fucking awful and absolutely benefits from a wrap.
But, it’s still a gigantic piece of shit.
Yeah, but it looks Bitchin’, dude.
El Tri just broke through against Jamaica-mon in the 70th minute on a screamer from just outside the box. The goalie had no chance.
re: #140 Vicious Babushka
It should look more like this:
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Are there 11 commandments, as the actual law demands?
re: #139 austin_blue
El Tri just broke through against Jamaica-mon in the 70th minute on a screamer from just outside the box. The goalie had no chance.
Huh? Is this hockey or something?
re: #144 austin_blue
Penalty area, then, ya danged pedant!
I know more about bloody cricket than about hockey and I could barely tell you what a wicket is so, eh.
re: #131 goddamnedfrank
I feel that this is like Febreezing a turd.
Like, I get it. It’s fucking awful and absolutely benefits from a wrap.
But, it’s still a gigantic piece of shit.
Dunno: oddball and ugly as the “Cyber Squire” may be, it’s still an exponential improvement over the original (IMHO).
This is what far-right radicalization looks like. It doesn’t always involve guns, militias, burnt crosses, banned books, a Confederate flag, a tacky MAGA hat, tax evasion, a standoff with feds at a rural compound or war crimes. Just refusing to accept *any* reporting you dislike. pic.twitter.com/1ZA2NxKNjx
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 23, 2024
Special election coming up Tuesday here for Wheat Belt Public Power District. The election is nominally non-partisan; the election will replace a board member who resigned.
The commissioner for the district is my township (minus my village, which is part of another public power district so you don’t get a ballot if your address is here) and Gilchirst Township to our north (seat, the ghost town of Gilchrist).
The district covers several counties in the southern Panhandle.
Checking out the Secretary of State Website, the last election for Wheat Belt was also a special election; turn-out was 89%.
The seat is being contested between a Republican and Democrat.
re: #145 William Lewis
I know more about bloody cricket than about hockey and I could barely tell you what a wicket is so, eh.
Well, *actually* a wicket has three square wooden posts, called stumps, 28” tall and 9” wide on which sit two horizontal wooden pegs called bails each around 4 1/2’ wide that sit in grooves on top of the stumps. The batter protects the stumps from being hit by the bowler (pitcher).
And that’s *my* pedantry for the evening.
re: #149 austin_blue
Well, *actually* a wicket has three square wooden posts, called stumps, 28” tall and 9” wide on which sit two horizontal wooden pegs called bails each around 4 1/2’ wide that sit in grooves on top of the stumps. The batter protects the stumps from being hit by the bowler (pitcher).
And that’s *my* pedantry for the evening.
Very good description actually. 👍
re: #142 austin_blue
Are there 11 commandments, as the actual law demands?
There are actually 613 commandments. The “10” are just the first.
re: #149 austin_blue
Well, *actually* a wicket has three square wooden posts, called stumps, 28” tall and 9” wide on which sit two horizontal wooden pegs called bails each around 4 1/2’ wide that sit in grooves on top of the stumps. The batter protects the stumps from being hit by the bowler (pitcher).
And that’s *my* pedantry for the evening.
I know the words you wrote but I just can’t make them make sense? Even with that basic tutorial, I still can’t understand why it takes 3 days to play a game? If that is what they call it.
Is beer drinking involved? That could explain a lot, maybe because of its origins, gin?
And….done! El Tri defeats Jamaica-mon in Houston 1-0. Good game. Competitive. Fun. Neither one of these teams will make it to the Finals, I think, but it was easy on the eyes.
re: #151 Vicious Babushka
There are actually 613 commandments. The “10” are just the first.
You can pry my shrimp from my cold dead hands.
re: #128 Decatur Deb
Gov. George C. Wallace has his name on a lot of stuff ‘round here.
And Wallace’s 3rd party presidential campaign scared the shit out of both Democratic and Republican party ops. He was the South’s last great white hope. Then he started hanging out with Johnny Ford.
re: #130 jaunte
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thedrive.com
The 70s woody wagon treatment improves the Cybertruck’s looks tremendously.
re: #131 goddamnedfrank
I feel that this is like Febreezing a turd.
Like, I get it. It’s fucking awful and absolutely benefits from a wrap.
But, it’s still a gigantic piece of shit.
I’m going to steal the phrase “Febreezing a turd” and use it frequently.
re: #141 jaunte
Details on Cannon being told she should recuse by the other judges in her district (about 10:00 in…)
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It’s clear that the fix is in and that she is working overtime to try to help Trump out. She is a puppet, under the control of those like Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow.
Joe Biden also beat Donald Trump twice in debates 4 years ago. But I know Donald’s memory isn’t that good so he probably forgot about it. https://t.co/EWo9l0TaAX
— The Biden Accomplishments Guy (@What46HasDone) June 21, 2024
So (1) it remains very funny to me that people think Biden has a drug that totally fixes cognitive issues but only uses it sometimes, and (2) Miller is slightly smarter than the median fascist creep and clearly realizes that Trump is very likely to faceplant at this debate https://t.co/KpOXJBJ7rD
— vituperativeerb (@vituperativeerb) June 20, 2024
@DougJBalloon https://t.co/eO9fkKP5S3
— Ben Yelin (@byelin) June 20, 2024
Kevin McCarthy: “I’ll give you the truth why I’m not speaker. It’s because one person, a member of Congress [Matt Gaetz] wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old”
pic.twitter.com/LN85Ttm8BS— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 21, 2024
re: #160 Belafon
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The smarter among them have begun to realize two things: They have majorly lowered the bar for Biden and no amount of lowering it for Trump is going to cover for his ranting like a mental patient.
re: #162 Targetpractice
I would love someone to ask one of them, Hannity for example, if there’s a drug that makes you smarter and better prepared, why aren’t the hosts at Fox taking it?
re: #152 b.d.
I know the words you wrote but I just can’t make them make sense? Even with that basic tutorial, I still can’t understand why it takes 3 days to play a game? If that is what they call it.
Is beer drinking involved? That could explain a lot, maybe because of its origins, gin?
Pimm’s Cups, silly, with sliced cucumbers. Actual gin is so 1890’s street whore juice.
Oh, and cucumber sandwiches,
And why do Tests last three days?
Because we’re the idle rich, fantastically wealthy, interbred, and stupid toffs that we are accused of being.
You know, Tories.
We are about to get our comeuppance for the last 14 years of running the Kingdom into the toilet.
re: #165 Joe Bacon ✅
No, Kevin.
You lost your speakership because you are an incompetent asshole.
Por qué no los dos?
Check your cans.
Canned coffee products sold under 128 coffee roaster names recalled over potential Clostridium botulinum contamination
foodsafetynews.com
My best suggestion for Biden at this juncture: Have a press release typed and ready if Trump does back out to the effect of “I called Trump’s bluff, I named a time and a place, and he backed down. As such, I consider the subject of debates over and done with. I will not agree to any debates he offers because I have no guarantee that he will not get scared and back out of those at the last second as he did this one. He can make whatever excuses he likes, call me whatever he likes, but the American people can see that when pressured to perform he duck and ran. We’re done here.”
re: #92 Jay C
Wasn’t there some sort of “broadband initiative” included in Biden’s infrastructure bill to try to improve the communications systems in the rural US?
Not sure why - outside, seemingly, of a general aversion to government spending* - but most Republicans seem to be of the opinion that even something as basic as cell service, never mind fast Internet connections, is some sort of luxury or frippery undeserving of public support.
There’s the spending issue. It also takes quite a bit of time to build out that much infrastructure. Also, if people have more access to information they might form different opinions.
re: #162 Targetpractice
The smarter among them have begun to realize two things: They have majorly lowered the bar for Biden and no amount of lowering it for Trump is going to cover for his ranting like a mental patient.
Trump is not going to rant like a mental patient; he will just lie, insult Biden and his family, and ignore actual questions. He won’t be rambling about sharks and batteries but attacking Biden on a whole range of issues and accusing him of dementia and incompetence. My sister’s friend in Spain was attacking Biden (same attacks as MAGAts here — his family should force him to drop out because it’s cruel to keep someone so impaired in the race) because clearly many of the Spanish news stations are run by Murdoch and other similar actors.
OT: my sister and I are not pleased with our cantor. The services last night were conducted outdoors in a nearby park — something they do maybe once a year. The cantor decided that it was safe to lead the services even though he tested positive for COVID that morning. He thought that as long as he stayed a few feet away from the congregation, he didn’t pose a threat to anyone. OTOH, we dine indoors in restaurants on regular basis, so we are routinely exposed to others who may be infected.
re: #161 Belafon
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So to gain such power, all one needs to do is sleep with a 17-year old?
I had no idea!
re: #172 sizzzzlerz
So to gain such power, all one needs to do is sleep with a 17-year old?
I had no idea!
I wish I’d thought of that…when I was 17.
re: #168 jaunte
Check your cans.
Canned coffee products sold under 128 coffee roaster names recalled over potential Clostridium botulinum contamination
foodsafetynews.com
You say Clostridium Botulinum like it’s a bad thing.
re: #168 jaunte
Check your cans.
Canned coffee products sold under 128 coffee roaster names recalled over potential Clostridium botulinum contamination
foodsafetynews.com
But won’t the caffeine counteract the botulism?
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Time to be like Nancy…good night everyone.
This housing market downturn in Florida is getting crazy.
There’s ZIP codes where inventory has nearly tripled from its level last year.
Like this one north of Tampa, in Port Richey. 248% growth in listings YoY.
That’s the sign of a major selloff. And indicates prices are… pic.twitter.com/sYQl77RVY4— Nick Gerli (@nickgerli1) June 18, 2024
Twenty20 (T-20) is the latest version of cricket. It can be played in about 2.5 hours and it much more active and exciting than the multi-day First-class. The world T20 tournament is happening right now in the US.
re: #172 sizzzzlerz
So to gain such power, all one needs to do is sleep with a 17-year old?
I had no idea!
ARTHUR
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held Excalibur aloft from the bosom of the water to signify by Divine Providence … that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur …That is why I am your king!
OLD WOMAN
Is Frank in? He’d be able to deal with this one.
DENNIS
Look, strange women lying on their backs in ponds handing out swords … that’s no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR
Be quiet!
DENNIS
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR
Shut up!
DENNIS
I mean, if I went around saying I was an Emperor because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, people would put me away!
ARTHUR
(Grabbing him by the collar)
Shut up, will you. Shut up!
DENNIS
Ah! NOW … we see the violence inherent in the system.
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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One of the lines we’ve heard in recent years from climate deniers is that since there’s nothing that can stop/reverse climate change, the only option we have is to “adapt” by spending money and resources to prepare ourselves for wild climate shifts. Somehow, I don’t think the rubes nodding along to this shit realized that heat waves that can kill people and home insurance companies abandoning entire swaths of the country were a part of that “adaptation.”
re: #145 William Lewis
I know more about bloody cricket than about hockey and I could barely tell you what a wicket is so, eh.
I do know that two field positions in cricket have the word ‘silly’ in their names.
This makes it hard to take the game seriously. /
re: #179 silverdolphin
Twenty20 (T-20) is the latest version of cricket. It can be played in about 2.5 hours and it much more active and exciting than the multi-day First-class. The world T20 tournament is happening right now in the US.
To understand the rules of Cricket, the precursor to baseball, in the US is quite literally a TL:DR thing.
re: #168 jaunte
Check your cans.
Canned coffee products sold under 128 coffee roaster names recalled over potential Clostridium botulinum contamination
foodsafetynews.com
I don’t buy canned coffee, so no worries: but I do find it interesting (if unsurprising) that one company makes 128 brands of the stuff…
re: #184 Jay C
I don’t buy canned coffee, so no worries: but I do find it interesting (if unsurprising) that one company makes 128 brands of the stuff…
And I suggest that there will be one roaster, probably in New Orleans, that is responsible for the recall.
(New Orleans roasts more coffee than any other city in the US.)
re: #181 Targetpractice
One of the lines we’ve heard in recent years from climate deniers is that since there’s nothing that can stop/reverse climate change, the only option we have is to “adapt” by spending money and resources to prepare ourselves for wild climate shifts. Somehow, I don’t think the rubes nodding along to this shit realized that heat waves that can kill people and home insurance companies abandoning entire swaths of the country were a part of that “adaptation.”
Or as hbomberguy on YouTube said in a response to Ben Shapiro about climate change: “Who are they going to sell them [houses] to, fucking Aquaman?”
He just used the same clip against Dennis Prager (0:25)
re: #183 austin_blue
To understand the rules of Cricket, the precursor to baseball, in the US is quite literally a TL:DR thing.
I found T20 to be pretty easy. Most runs from 120 ‘pitches’ for each team. 11 players on a team. If tied after regulation, goes to extra time. Games last about 2.5 hours.
Jomboy (known for his baseball breakdowns) has a great video on T20 cricket.
Like baseball, a lot of subtleties and all. But i have found the current T20 world cup very exciting and pretty easy to follow.
Night all, sweet dreams, be kind to each other.
re: #181 Targetpractice
One of the lines we’ve heard in recent years from climate deniers is that since there’s nothing that can stop/reverse climate change, the only option we have is to “adapt” by spending money and resources to prepare ourselves for wild climate shifts. Somehow, I don’t think the rubes nodding along to this shit realized that heat waves that can kill people and home insurance companies abandoning entire swaths of the country were a part of that “adaptation.”
Lots of homes that used to be on a 500 year flood plain (once in 500 years) are now, due to remapping, on 100 year flood plains. So some flood insurance in Texas have gone up from $450 t over $1800 a year. Same in Florida.
Hundreds of thousands of home owners in California are not having their insurance renewed and many cannot h=get insurance at any cost. Wildfires and drought are a problem.
How does one adapt to that?
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
People today are not used to the mortgage rates currently. Americans lived since 2008 with very cheap money, and now are shocked that money costs money.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump told a group of evangelicals they “cannot afford to sit on the sidelines” of the 2024 election, imploring them at one point to “go and vote, Christians, please!”Trump also endorsed displaying the Ten Commandments in schools and elsewhere while speaking to a group of politically influential evangelical Christians in Washington on Saturday. He drew cheers as he invoked a new law signed in Louisiana this week requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom.
“Has anyone read the ‘Thou shalt not steal’? I mean, has anybody read this incredible stuff? It’s just incredible,” Trump said at the gathering of the Faith & Freedom Coalition. “They don’t want it to go up. It’s a crazy world.”
Trump a day earlier posted an endorsement of the new law on his social media network, saying: “I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG???”
The former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee backed the move as he seeks to galvanize his supporters on the religious right, which has fiercely backed him after initially being suspicious of the twice-divorced New York City tabloid celebrity when he first ran for president in 2016.
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This guy gets slimier by the minute.
A Texas megachurch pastor — who admitted to “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a child — warned a victim that she “could be criminally prosecuted” for seeking restitution for the crimes against her.
Gateway Church Pastor Robert Morris, once a spiritual adviser to former President Donald Trump, admitted last weekend to a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl. But nearly 20 years before he would admit to his abusive behavior, he told his accuser that he couldn’t compensate her.
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Salon, today
Pastor Robert Morris tried to scare his sex abuse victim with threat of prosecution
As I’ve noted before, in the UK the Reformed Bigots party are attempting to overcome the traditional Conservatives in the way the MAGA/religious right did to the GOP here.
To whit:
One of the favourites to succeed Rishi Sunak as Tory leader became the first out of the traps for the post-election contest last night by effectively setting out his manifesto in The Mail on Sunday.
Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick heaped praise on Nigel Farage and called for Boris Johnson to return to a prominent role, as he called for a re-booted Tory party to devise radical policies to bring estranged Conservative voters back into the fold - with dramatic cuts to immigration being top of the list.
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Sonia Sotomayor Just Sounded a Dire Warning About Marriage Equality
The conservatives on the court have taken the forst step to nullifying gay marriage, stating that there is no Constitutional support for living with your spouse or for the government to recognize your marriage.
So, if gays get married, that is only legal in the states that make it legal.
That is, Red States can make gay marriage illegal and perhaps even imprison gay people (ie make it a crime like they used to) and this court would say fine. That it is a states rights issue, just like Dobbs.
re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Or as hbomberguy on YouTube said in a response to Ben Shapiro about climate change: “Who are they going to sell them [houses] to, fucking Aquaman?”
He just used the same clip against Dennis Prager (0:25)
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I think we all know who they expect to pay for these homes: Us. Whether some form of “insurance” program, some massive infrastructure project, or just a good ol’ bailout, they’ll expect Uncle Sam to (yet again) foot the bill for their foolishness. And much like the Great Recession, they’ll pretend that it’s about protecting “investments” of elderly voters and not an effort to protect property values of Mr. Techbro’s second summer home.
re: #194 No Malarkey!
re: #196 silverdolphin
Sonia Sotomayor Just Sounded a Dire Warning About Marriage Equality
The conservatives on the court have taken the forst step to nullifying gay marriage, stating that there is no Constitutional support for living with your spouse or for the government to recognize your marriage.
So, if gays get married, that is only legal in the states that make it legal.
That is, Red States can make gay marriage illegal and perhaps even imprison gay people (ie make it a crime like they used to) and this court would say fine. That it is a states rights issue, just like Dobbs.
I can see this court doing that. (And it makes a mockery of all the leftist asses braying about how Democrats coulda codified Roe any time they felt like it).
When considering Russian troop behavior, remember that at this point they’ve moved from just throwing guys from poor, ethnic regions into the grinder to recruiting foreign people that are even poorer and more desperate.
Life is cheap is a literal statement in circumstances like this, because the people making decisions have exactly no solidarity with their mercenaries, and the mercenaries have neither the discipline nor the group morale to take risks for one another.
Russia still functions like an overland empire, and by head count it’s more efficient to find the analogue of peasant levies to just keep the conflict zone full of bodies. In theory you’d do this while you train up qualified soldiers, but the brinkmanship in this war is that the oligarchs can waste human life with less domestic fallout than any supporter nation…or for that matter, Ukraine itself as it tries conscription.
In a way it’s eerily close to Saudi usage of Pakistanis for both oil work and mercenary infantry: technically there’s a transaction but the arbitrage is so bent towards the employer that the result is a basically-feudal workforce that’s treated as disposable.
re: #195 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
As I’ve noted before, in the UK the Reformed Bigots party are attempting to overcome the traditional Conservatives in the way the MAGA/religious right did to the GOP here.
To whit:
Ah, the scent of desperation, which in this case smells of rancid fish fry batter. Boris isn’t an MP, so the list of “prominent roles” that Jenrik could appoint him to within the party are limited. More so if the polling trends continue and the Tories fail to even reach status as the Official Opposition, which means Jenrik couldn’t even offer Boris a job in the Shadow Cabinet. Likewise the predicted size of the party in Westminster after July is small enough that any suggestions of another MP resigning their seat to allow Boris to run in a “safe” by-election would be utter madness.
At this point, I think it’s a safer bet that Farage becomes Party Leader by convincing the rest of the party to toss Jenrik off a tall building than the idea that Boris Johnson is going to make a return to the Conservative Party in the near future.
re: #173 Thor Heyerdahl
So is the goal to knock the thingies off the wicket or for the two players on the field to run back and forth?
re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So is the goal to knock the thingies off the wicket or for the two players on the field to run back and forth?
Yes.
MSNBC, with video, 11:38
After judge tosses Nevada fake electors case, AG says he will appeal ‘immediately’ (today)
A Nevada judge has dismissed charges against six Republicans who falsely declared that Donald Trump won the 2020 election in the battleground state, after ruling that the case was brought in the wrong jurisdiction.
Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus on Friday sided with the defense attorneys’ argument that Las Vegas was the wrong venue for the case. Holthus scrapped the trial, which was slated to begin in January.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford said his office will take up the case with the state Supreme Court. “The judge got it wrong and we’ll be appealing immediately,” he said in a statement.
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The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (the PAC which helps elect state legislators) chairwoman was interviewed on MSNBC about their unprecedented (both earliest and most money) campaign to elect state legislators in this cycle. She notes overturning Roe v Wade was a catalyst to plan for this election.
She said the real battlegrounds will be swing states, so they will focus their spending there. (Once again leaving Nebraska out and not sending a dime for any candidate in this state, the only one left in the tier where abortion is still legal from Canada to Mexico because Democrats fought off the GOP’s ben bill.)
A lot of attention gets paid to Illinois and New Mexico receiving women from other states for reproductive care, whilst no media outlet outside this state focuses on the crush of women coming to Omaha and Lincoln for care as well. Major media outlets treat us like we don’t exist (as does the DLCC).
re: #200 The Ghost of a Flea
Good analysis.
I also think that this is a prime example of the absolute hell of drone warfare. The russians knows there is a spotter drone nearby. Anything that is sent to rescue the guy, will be blown up by other drones guided by the spotter drone. Any gathering of people trying to help or carry him away will likewise be blown up. If you are caught in the open with drones around you have very few options. A bullet to the head might just be best for everybody.
Ive read somewhere that at at least the ukrainians more or less have absolute knowledge of russian units to say a depth of 20 km from the frontline. So hidden movements will be spotted. Gatherings of force will be spotted. In real time, by unit that can act against the threat.
Im thinking that the west is really are playing cathup on this and what it means for how our armies will be built and operated.
re: #206 Greup
Good analysis.
I also think that this is a prime example of the absolute hell of drone warfare. The russians knows there is a spotter drone nearby. Anything that is sent to rescue the guy, will be blown up by other drones guided by the spotter drone. Any gathering of people trying to help or carry him away will likewise be blown up. If you are caught in the open with drones around you have very few options. A bullet to the head might just be best for everybody.Ive read somewhere that at at least the ukrainians more or less have absolute knowledge of russian units to say a depth of 20 km from the frontline. So hidden movements will be spotted. Gatherings of force will be spotted.
Im thinking that the west is really are playing cathup on this and what it means for how our armies will be built and operated.
My presumption is that the US military is heavily studying the jamming and other counter-measures side of the equation. Plus presumably also the applications of the technology they can make themselves, including how they can handle jamming, etc.
It’s also semi-interesting that there is now pretty much a military application for what is essentially video game controller skills without a massive requirement for physical fitness.
Funny how Trump called off the right-wing boycott of Bud Light right after Anheuser-Busch announced a $10,000 a plate fundraiser for Donald Trump’s campaign. Trump announced his flip in the afternoon on February 6 after Busch lobbyists announced that fundraiser in the morning.
Why the circumstances surrounding Trump’s crypto flip seem familiar (Rachel Maddow at MSNBC, 11:45, June 21, 2024)
Donald Trump’s opposition to cryptocurrencies was unambiguous. Over the course of several years, the Republican called them a “disaster waiting to happen,” adding that as far as he was concerned, Bitcoin seemed “like a scam.” As regular readers know, when it came to crypto, the former president said he was “not a fan,” adding, “Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity.”
With this record in mind, it’s only natural to wonder why, exactly, the presumptive GOP nominee completely changed his mind.
In fact, Trump overhauled his position to such a degree that he published a statement last week in which he both touted Bitcoin, condemned President Joe Biden’s crypto skepticism and even pretended to know what a central bank digital currency is.
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re: #208 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Funny how Trump called off the right-wing boycott of Bud Light right after Anheuser-Busch announced a $10,000 a plate fundraiser for Donald Trump’s campaign. Trump announced his flip in the afternoon on February 6 after Busch lobbyists announced that fundraiser in the morning.
Why the circumstances surrounding Trump’s crypto flip seem familiar (Rachel Maddow at MSNBC, 11:45, June 21, 2024)
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It’s already pretty clear that the Trump campaign (and potential administration) will be very policy friendly, at least verbally for a day or two, to anyone willing to grease their palms.
Invest AL93 continues slowly approaching the same area of Mexico where Tropical Storm Alberto made landfall last week. The National Hurricane Center gives it a 40% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone within forty-eight hours.
Heavy rains are forecast for north-east Mexico and south Texas.
A broad area of low pressure located over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico about 150 miles east-northeast of Tampico, Mexico, is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Gradual development of this system is possible, and a short-lived tropical depression could form before it reaches the coast of northeastern Mexico tonight. Regardless of development, heavy rainfall is likely to cause localized flooding across portions of northeastern Mexico and Deep South Texas during the next day or so. An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate the system later today, if necessary.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…medium…40 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days…medium…40 percent.
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (the PAC which helps elect state legislators) chairwoman was interviewed on MSNBC about their unprecedented (both earliest and most money) campaign to elect state legislators in this cycle. She notes overturning Roe v Wade was a catalyst to plan for this election.
She said the real battlegrounds will be swing states, so they will focus their spending there. (Once again leaving Nebraska out and not sending a dime for any candidate in this state, the only one left in the tier where abortion is still legal from Canada to Mexico because Democrats fought off the GOP’s ben bill.)
A lot of attention gets paid to Illinois and New Mexico receiving women from other states for reproductive care, whilst no media outlet outside this state focuses on the crush of women coming to Omaha and Lincoln for care as well. Major media outlets treat us like we don’t exist (as does the DLCC).
Hate to say it but you’re probably better being in the background. Imagine the right wing money that would inundate your state if you were to become a flashpoint of abortion advertisement.
re: #211 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Hate to say it but you’re probably better being in the background. Imagine the right wing money that would inundate your state if you were to become a flashpoint of abortion advertisement.
It already has, with the libertarian Heartland Institute leading the fight in the Unicameral last year to try to pass the abortion ban bill, suing Sen. Megan Hunt claiming she had a conflict-of-interest because of her transgender son, &c.
The only money coming in from out-of-state is right-wing money.
re: #213 Nerdy Fish
That was certainly a word.
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re: #213 Nerdy Fish
That was certainly a word.
I might have lucked out because I picked a different starting word than you. That and the letters which were not correct in the first guess led to only one word, though I really had to think about it.
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Stonekettle at Instagram Threads, thirteen posts, on thoughts about Louisiana passing their Ten Commandments law (he ain’t impressed) and Dan Patrick of Texas contemplating the same.
re: #216 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m surprised Louisiana beat Texas to the post the Ten Commandments in public school race. I expect all red states will do the same. FFRF and other secular legal groups are going to be very busy. With this SCOTUS, rightwingers just might win this battle. Sadly.
The damage survey from the National Weather Service is out from the EF-1 tornado which hit just east of Morrill, Nebraska (about seventy miles WNW of here) on June 20. This is the same storm system which blew down the tree in my back yard.
On June 20th a supercell thunderstorm produced two tornadoes, one near Morrill Nebraska and another in rural Goshen County Wyoming. EF-1 damage was found near Morrill with additional widespread straight-line wind damage throughout Scotts Bluff County. The Goshen County tornado was rated EF-U due to no major damage found. For the official NWS report please see: mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
re: #218 Patricia Kayden
Separation of Church and State is there to keep squabbles over interpreting various Holy Scriptures from spilling over into government policy and legislation.
re: #181 Targetpractice
One of the lines we’ve heard in recent years from climate deniers is that since there’s nothing that can stop/reverse climate change, the only option we have is to “adapt” by spending money and resources to prepare ourselves for wild climate shifts. Somehow, I don’t think the rubes nodding along to this shit realized that heat waves that can kill people and home insurance companies abandoning entire swaths of the country were a part of that “adaptation.”
That is how the Free Market “adapts”. It follows the path of highest returns.
re: #217 Patricia Kayden
I’m surprised Louisiana beat Texas to the post the Ten Commandments in public school race. I expect all red states will do the same. FFRF and other secular legal groups are going to be very busy. With this SCOTUS, rightwingers just might win this battle. Sadly.
On top of that, the state strategy includes the unspoken idea that states passing these laws have unlimited tax money to defend them whilst civil liberties groups are limited in which cases and how much money they can spend.
That’s why last year when the Democratic City of Boston city council prohibited minority religious groups from offering invocations citing “tradition” and were sued, the district court upheld the Boston case, civil liberties groups appealed to the First Circuit, and the case was dropped because they could not afford to continue expensive litigation.
Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu (D) declared after the District Court ruled in the city’s favour that it was the correct decision, upholding tradition in Boston.
re: #217 Patricia Kayden
I’m surprised Louisiana beat Texas to the post the Ten Commandments in public school race. I expect all red states will do the same. FFRF and other secular legal groups are going to be very busy. With this SCOTUS, rightwingers just might win this battle. Sadly.
With the support of left-wing Christians.
“Real men wear diapers”
Wingnut Christian apologist who deigns to teach men in violation of the command in the New Testament (the Christian part) of the Bible has thoughts on conservatives and Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law.
They are hypocritical and self-serving. She needs to put down David Barton’s pseudohistory book and slowly back away.
Putting the Ten Commandments in schools isn’t the same as putting the Quran or a statue of Baphomet in schools for at least a few reasons:
1) The 10 commandments are true,
2) the 10 commandments are good, and
3) America was founded upon uniquely Christian concepts,…— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) June 21, 2024
“True” and “good” are subjective assesments.
as for the third America was founded by deists who believed in separation of Church and State.
Yes, America was predominantly Christian at its founding, but even then there were Jews, and of course the Native American religions that missionaries had not beaten out of the people yet.
re: #222 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wow. Shame on Democrats in Boston for favoring Christians over non-Christians. Outrageous. Just playing into the hands of Christian Nationalists.
re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“True” and “good” are subjective assesments.
as for the third America was founded by deists who believed in separation of Church and State.
Yes, America was predominantly Christian at its founding, but even then there were Jews, and of course the Native American religions that missionaries had not beaten out of the people yet.
Muslims also fought in the American Revolution on the side of the colonials.
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Ten Commandments are most likely revisions and adaptations of earlier Hittite and Mesopotamian laws and treaties, probably dating from the 7th Century BCE.
re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s important to realize, though, that this distorted view of history is exactly why right wing politicians and judges believe it is perfectly acceptable to force Christian fascism down all our throats. In their minds, this is “originalism” - “The Founding Fathers were Christians and founded a Christian nation, therefore, us wanting to explicitly force Christianity into government is just finishing what the Founding Fathers started.”
re: #232 Dr Lizardo
The Ten Commandments are most likely revisions and adaptations of earlier Hittite and Mesopotamian laws and treaties, probably dating from the 7th Century BCE.
I’m not well-versed about that history. I would note the first four commandments are explicitly religious aimed at the Jewish people.
I do see the irony? hypocrisy? of Christians who say they are under a “new Covenant” and then cite the Old Testament for much of their culture wars.
re: #233 Nerdy Fish
I recall when the Campus Crusade for Christ goombahs started pushing their “America is a Christian nation!” talking points in the late 70’s.
re: #234 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m not well-versed about that history. I would note the first four commandments are explicitly religious aimed at the Jewish people.
I do see the irony? hypocrisy? of Christians who say they are under a “new Covenant” and then cite the Old Testament for much of their culture wars.
and again: Openly admonishing us to obey our Hebrew Overlords…
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall when the Campus Crusade for Christ goombahs started pushing their “America is a Christian nation!” talking points in the late 70’s.
Alongside the anti-abortion “pro-life” talking points, I’d imagine, since I read an article many years ago that talked about pro-life as a tenet of Christianity being “younger than the Happy Meal”.
The Catholic church here in town had on their sign, “The greatest love story of all is contained in a tiny white host,” and while I can’t imagine they meant the first thing that sprang into my mind when I read it, I briefly considered stopping by and asking the priest if he realized that Jesus was brown.
Racist woman tries to drown Palestinian American child.
cnn.com
re: #237 Nerdy Fish
Alongside the anti-abortion “pro-life” talking points, I’d imagine, since I read an article many years ago that talked about pro-life as a tenet of Christianity being “younger than the Happy Meal”.
Fred Clark (Slacktivist) outlining the reason for the anti-abortion position for Protestants was a stalking horse for segregation.
November 14, 2022
The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal (Patheos)
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll be a little fuzzy on where, exactly, the Bible says this, but they’ll insist that it does.
That’s new. If you had asked American evangelicals that same question the year I was born you would not have gotten the same answer.
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re: #237 Nerdy Fish
Alongside the anti-abortion “pro-life” talking points, I’d imagine, since I read an article many years ago that talked about pro-life as a tenet of Christianity being “younger than the Happy Meal”.
I remember our Catholic priest giving a sermon shortly after Roe v. Wade calling for the Catholic SCOTUS justice who voted in favor of it (do not recall his name) to be excommunicated.
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you” (Jeremaiah 1:5).” is I believe what they use to justify the whole life-begins-at-conception thing.
And they do not allow any room for interpretation because they are convinced that theirs is true good and based on American Tradition
re: #242 Patricia Kayden
SCOTUS has also find a way to thread the needle so that the ruling applies only to DJT and to no other Democratic President.
re: #111 Belafon
My new least favorite Spanish word: embotellamiento, which means traffic jam. I can see the word bottle in the middle, but that isn’t really helping me memorize it.
Think “embolism”
The sun is up so it’s time for me to trundle off to bed.
re: #169 Targetpractice
My best suggestion for Biden at this juncture: Have a press release typed and ready if Trump does back out to the effect of “I called Trump’s bluff, I named a time and a place, and he backed down. As such, I consider the subject of debates over and done with. I will not agree to any debates he offers because I have no guarantee that he will not get scared and back out of those at the last second as he did this one. He can make whatever excuses he likes, call me whatever he likes, but the American people can see that when pressured to perform he duck and ran. We’re done here.”
Trump won’t back out. If he did, CNN would just have a 2 hour interview with Biden in its place.
re: #251 jeffreyw
Merguecz on the grill for dinner today. North African/French bratwursts.
With home-made potato salad.
re: #75 darthstar
Might be the rational choice. Assuming that the level of medical care available to a wounded Russian soldier is pathetic or nonexistent, the other choice is dying of sepsis.
re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #239 Patricia Kayden
Racist woman tries to drown Palestinian American child.
cnn.com
Really? REALLY?
Texas Rep. Salman Bhojani said he is “shocked and appalled by this alleged racist, Islamophobic occurrence that took place in my town,” according to the news release. “Hate has no place in Euless, District 92, or anywhere in our great state. I want to thank Euless PD for quickly apprehending the alleged provocateur, and I extend my service to the affected family.”
You’re in fucking Texas which just pardoned a murderer because he killed the right kind of victim. What could possibly shock you about that?
re: #169 Targetpractice
My best suggestion for Biden at this juncture: Have a press release typed and ready if Trump does back out to the effect of “I called Trump’s bluff, I named a time and a place, and he backed down. As such, I consider the subject of debates over and done with. I will not agree to any debates he offers because I have no guarantee that he will not get scared and back out of those at the last second as he did this one. He can make whatever excuses he likes, call me whatever he likes, but the American people can see that when pressured to perform he duck and ran. We’re done here.”
another route. Short and simple aimed at the magats
He boasted to you “anywhere, anytime”
You can’t trust anything he says.
He lied to you. again.
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wingnut Christian apologist who deigns to teach men in violation of the command in the New Testament (the Christian part) of the Bible has thoughts on conservatives and Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law.
They are hypocritical and self-serving. She needs to put down David Barton’s pseudohistory book and slowly back away.
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#1 is nonsense. True? Wtf?
re: #233 Nerdy Fish
It’s important to realize, though, that this distorted view of history is exactly why right wing politicians and judges believe it is perfectly acceptable to force Christian fascism down all our throats. In their minds, this is “originalism” - “The Founding Fathers were Christians and founded a Christian nation, therefore, us wanting to explicitly force Christianity into government is just finishing what the Founding Fathers started.”
The real perversion is “originIalism” is whatever I say it is
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It has to be the King James version, because that translation was dictated by God
“If English was good enough for the bible it’s good enough for us!”
Some crazy woman years ago.
re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So is the goal to knock the thingies off the wicket or for the two players on the field to run back and forth?
You can also get an out by hitting the batter with the pitch.
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case grilled special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors Friday on how closely Attorney General Merrick Garland oversees their work.Under persistent questioning from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the prosecutors declined to divulge details and seemed caught off-guard by the inquiries. At one point, Smith deputy James Pearce said he was “not authorized” to discuss the level of communication that occurred between the attorney general and the special counsel.
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Trump has publicly claimed, without evidence, that Smith is essentially a pawn of President Joe Biden. But in court, his lawyers are making a contrary argument: that Smith’s independence means he’s operating beyond the limits of what DOJ employees are permitted to do. Under the Constitution, only an officer appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate can wield the level of power that Smith has, Trump’s lawyers claim. For decades, special counsels have not been presidentially appointed or Senate-confirmed.
Cricket is basically baseball with only two bases and no out-of-bounds.
And you are supposed to run with the bat to touch and count wickets as you run back and forth.
Baseball players used to run with bats but the practice was banned after they started using the to attack the first baseman.
re: #259 Dangerman
The real perversion is “originIalism” is whatever I say it is
like Biblical Literalism
Just came across this on Faceborg:
Link to full article is below if you want to read it, but I’ll save you a click if you don’t want to.
Key reasons mentioned as to why some artists can’t move tickets:
1. A lot of acts are on tour right now due to pandemic bounce back.
2. Ticket prices are ridiculously high (i.e. Fuck Ticketmaster).
3. Artists are trying to play venues larger than their fan base can support.
4. The ticket buying process can be very frustrating (i.e. Fuck Ticketmaster).
5. Online views / streaming plays don’t necessarily translate to ticket sales.
6. There is no competition in the ticket selling space and thus little incentive for anyone to improve things (i.e. Fuck Ticketmaster)
My wife and were thinking about going to see the Eagles at The Sphere because their tour dates line up with when we’ll be visiting Vegas, but we’d be looking at around $1300 for a night out (more than 2/3 of that for the tickets alone).
Not insane at all for Vegas of course but a decent chunk of change for us.
re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg
…artists..are having a harder time selling tickets than expected.
good thing I am too old to care about such things, last big open-air/festival event I attended was in 1997 in Cropredy, England.
Have since attended a few medium-sized venues (up to 1,000) in Frankfurt but generally just don’t find the enjoyment worth the price and the hassle.
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wingnut Christian apologist who deigns to teach men in violation of the command in the New Testament (the Christian part) of the Bible has thoughts on conservatives and Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law.
They are hypocritical and self-serving. She needs to put down David Barton’s pseudohistory book and slowly back away.
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This was the line that sent my eyes skyward:
“Also, the display of the 10 Commandments compels no one to believe or worship anything.”
Horse hockey. I’ve heard at last half a dozen “arguments” since this damned bill dropped from Evangelical Republicans which amount to “This is the basis of all morality, so looking up it will instill moral beliefs in our children!” You assholes can’t even keep your lies straight.
As for the rest, it’s bog standard “Western democracy and law is all based on the Bible” horseshite, the same BS they’ve been selling us since Moby Dick was a minnow. Apparently the Founding Fathers looked at the total sum of Western law to date, including such documents as the Magna Carte and the Bill of Rights (yes, the English called their document the same thing), centuries of English Common Law, and other influences going back to Greece and even Hammurabi…and said “Fuck it, let’s just create a government totally based upon a religious text that has nothing to do with the law whatsoever!”
re: #255 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Really? REALLY?
You’re in fucking Texas which just pardoned a murderer because he killed the right kind of victim. What could possibly shock you about that?
“My town”
re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg
Just came across this on Faceborg:
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(i.e. Fuck Ticketmaster).
(i.e. Fuck Ticketmaster).
(i.e. Fuck Ticketmaster)
My wife and were thinking about going to see the Eagles at The Sphere because their tour dates line up with when we’ll be visiting Vegas, but we’d be looking at around $1300 for a night out (more than 2/3 of that for the tickets alone).
Not insane at all for Vegas of course but a decent chunk of change for us.
Wait until a few days before you go. People will have tickets on Stubhub for a couple hundred bucks. Sections 200,300, are best.
re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Cricket is basically baseball with only two bases and no out-of-bounds.
And you are supposed to run with the bat to touch and count wickets as you run back and forth.
***Baseball players used to run with bats but the practice was banned after they started using the to attack the first baseman.***
Totally american
re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg
Just came across this on Faceborg:
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Link to full article is below if you want to read it, but I’ll save you a click if you don’t want to.
Key reasons mentioned as to why some artists can’t move tickets:
1. A lot of acts are on tour right now due to pandemic bounce back.
2. Ticket prices are ridiculously high (i.e. Fuck Ticketmaster).
3. Artists are trying to play venues larger than their fan base can support.
4. The ticket buying process can be very frustrating (i.e. Fuck Ticketmaster).
5. Online views / streaming plays don’t necessarily translate to ticket sales.
6. There is no competition in the ticket selling space and thus little incentive for anyone to improve things (i.e. Fuck Ticketmaster)
My wife and were thinking about going to see the Eagles at The Sphere because their tour dates line up with when we’ll be visiting Vegas, but we’d be looking at around $1300 for a night out (more than 2/3 of that for the tickets alone).
Not insane at all for Vegas of course but a decent chunk of change for us.
Didnt i read a few days ago a country singer just set a record, like 110k seats for one night
re: #272 Dangerman
Didnt i read a few days ago a country singer just set a record, like 110k seats for one night
Yes, that would be George Strait, one of the most iconic Country singers who has ever lived.
The article does note some major acts (Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Garth Brooks, etc.) can usually put up a string of sellouts without much effort.
A lot of people on the far left are comfortable with Trump winning because they think “after Trump” it’ll be their turn to be in charge; as if the end of American democracy is just a thing they can wait out. pic.twitter.com/1lWphj1nli
— Tim (@trouble_man90) June 20, 2024
re: #276 Dr Lizardo
Some Star Wars-related levity:
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One of the prequel movies (Rogue One) turned this into a plot point: The flaw was put there deliberately by an engineer who was sympathetic to the rebels.
senile, sleepy Joe who is campaigning from his basement is now SuperJoe with exceptional debate acumen.
The whiplash
re: #277 Belafon
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I’m hearing much the same line now as I did in 2016, the whole idea that Trump winning will just hurry along “The Revolution” because he’ll make life so miserable and chaotic that the American public will rise up in protest and remove him by force, thus ushering in the rule of a “true progressive.”
You know, the same prediction they made in 2004…and 2000…and 1988…and 1984…hmm…
re: #279 Dangerman
senile, sleepy Joe who is campaigning from his basement is now SuperJoe with exceptional debate acumen.
The whiplash
no he is hopped up on Hitleresque super-drugs
re: #278 Eclectic Cyborg
One of the prequel movies (Rogue One) turned this into a plot point: The flaw was put there deliberately by an engineer who was sympathetic to the rebels.
Just another form of “original is whatever I say it is”
re: #280 Targetpractice
I’m hearing much the same line now as I did in 2016, the whole idea that Trump winning will just hurry along “The Revolution” because he’ll make life so miserable and chaotic that the American public will rise up in protest and remove him by force, thus ushering in the rule of a “true progressive.”
You know, the same prediction they made in 2004…and 2000…and 1988…and 1984…hmm…
Why don’t they just do that now???
re: #280 Targetpractice
There were Trump supporters who argued that since the system was going to collapse anyways, voting Trump would simply speed up the inevitable.
They were the only ones whose arguments I could understand even if I still disagreed.
re: #278 Eclectic Cyborg
One of the prequel movies (Rogue One) turned this into a plot point: The flaw was put there deliberately by an engineer who was sympathetic to the rebels.
Especially since he was kidnapped to work on the deathstar to protect his daughter, and the only reason they found the flaw was because they knew one existed.
re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There were Trump supporters who argued that since the system was going to collapse anyways, voting Trump would simply speed up the inevitable.
They were the only ones whose arguments I could understand even if I still disagreed.
But they can never explain exactly and in detail how this collapse then rise and rebuild would actually happen. In the real world. With real people. And other countries watching and a world economy and all that
re: #278 Eclectic Cyborg
One of the prequel movies (Rogue One) turned this into a plot point: The flaw was put there deliberately by an engineer who was sympathetic to the rebels.
Yeah, they retconned the design flaw into an act of deliberate sabotage. It works, plot-wise.
re: #286 Dangerman
But they can never explain exactly and in detail how this collapse then rise and rebuild would actually happen. In the real world. With real people. And other countries watching and a world economy and all that
but they knew that they would be cushioned and safe from it and to hell with the people who would suffer through it.
re: #287 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, they retconned the design flaw into an act of deliberate sabotage. It works, plot-wise.
like how Star Trek went back and explained how such diverse races as Klingons, Romulans and Vulcans and humans could interbreed.
that also showed up in the final episodes of Discovery
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes, that would be George Strait, one of the most iconic Country singers who has ever lived.
The article does note some major acts (Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Garth Brooks, etc.) can usually put up a string of sellouts without much effort.
I saw George Strait about 35-40 years ago when I was living in Sacramento. I knew the lyrics to most of his songs and he was my go-to besides Neil Diamond on nights when I drank enough to get up on the karaoke stage.
The rando-mizer
I can’t fucking take it anymore!!!! How does our goddamn media STILL find a way to frame the coming election as if Trump is just another candidate for president? No mention of his two impeachments. The violent coup attempt. His espionage case. His civil business fraud case. His civil sexual assault case. His defamation case. His 10 gag order violations. His being a convicted felon on 34 counts. His 3 other pending criminal trials!!! An espionage case!!!! Yes. Espionage!!!! JFC!!!!!
re: #290 darthstar
I saw George Strait about 35-40 years ago when I was living in Sacramento. I knew the lyrics to most of his songs and he was my go-to besides Neil Diamond on nights when I drank enough to get up on the karaoke stage.
Yes, The Chair, All My Exes Live in Texas and Amarillo by Morning were mandatory standards on the country cover band circuit.
re: #289 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
like how Star Trek went back and explained how such diverse races as Klingons, Romulans and Vulcans and humans could interbreed.
that also showed up in the final episodes of Discovery
One thing I appreciated in the 2009 Star Trek reboot was the introduction of the Kelvin timeline. It freed the series up from decades of canon that had accumulated since the 1960s.
But then, they decided to do an unofficial remake of Wrath of Khan. 😑
re: #291 Dangerman
The rando-mizer
I can’t fucking take it anymore!!!! How does our goddamn media STILL find a way to frame the coming election as if Trump is just another candidate for president?
The same way they treat outright Fascism and White Supremacism simply as viewpoints along the accepted political spectrum and not as anathema and hostile to American values and everything we stand for and have fought and even sent people to die for.
re: #293 Dr Lizardo
One thing I appreciated in the 2009 Star Trek reboot was the introduction of the Kelvin timeline. It freed the series up from decades of canon that had accumulated since the 1960s.
But then, they decided to do an unofficial remake of Wrath of Khan. 😑
They had to find a way to work Benedict Bumbersnatch into it
re: #288 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
but they knew that they would be cushioned and safe from it and to hell with the people who would suffer through it.
Yeah cause they managed covid so well with the realization of who an essential worker is
re: #299 darthstar
I foresee an art exodus from Florida…
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At first I was dubious of @MSNBC for inviting a Heritage Foundation person on to spout lies.
Then I saw this interview and recognized that the best way to highlight the insanity that’s afoot is to put examples of it on television for all to see.
pic.twitter.com/L5KaQ61Sft— Christopher Wiggins (@CWNewser) June 22, 2024
Bizarre mini revolt in Arizona GOP delegation which may have been to put Flynn on Trump’s ticket. washingtonpost.com
re: #292 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, The Chair, All My Exes Live in Texas and Amarillo by Morning were mandatory standards on the country cover band circuit.
I’ve always loved rodeo songs. Bull-rode cows as a kid (never got on a bull but my oldest brother did in a HS rodeo). And his tongue-in-cheek lyrics (Ocean Front Property) were fun.
re: #296 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They had to find a way to work Benedict Bumbersnatch into it
I was just disappointed that they couldn’t come up with an original story instead of rehashing an earlier film (and one that’s considered pretty much the gold standard of Star Trek to boot).
re: #302 No Malarkey!
Bizarre mini revolt in Arizona GOP delegation which may have been to put Flynn on Trump’s ticket. washingtonpost.com
Convicted Felon/Pardoned Felon 2024. That’s the ticket.
re: #302 No Malarkey!
Bizarre mini revolt in Arizona GOP delegation which may have been to put Flynn on Trump’s ticket. washingtonpost.com
Paranoia will destroy ya…
Delegates this year include at least one organizer of the rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as well as individuals who are being prosecuted for participating in a strategy that falsely declared Trump had won their states in 2020.
Even so, suspicions have circulated among Trump’s supporters that covert saboteurs have somehow infiltrated their ranks.
Demand unwavering loyalty and trust nobody. The convention is going to be a shit show.
Todays electoral-vote.com letter
K.F.K. in CleElum, WA, writes: I am in complete agreement with your analysis of what a bad idea posting the Ten Commandments in public classrooms is. I taught elementary school for over 30 years and always welcomed children to speak about their religious traditions. This was with the aim of showing the variety of belief systems in the United States. So, if told I had to post the Ten Commandments, I would do so along with important religious writings from Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism… well, you get the point. With the bill being signed now, I would have all summer to do research for my “religions of the USA” bulletin board. In the words of John Lewis (whose hand I once had the privilege to shake) “Never be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”
So teachers will be required to post the ten commandments.
Will they be explicitly prohibited from doing this?
Right now i truly wonder
re: #291 Dangerman
The rando-mizer
I can’t fucking take it anymore!!!! How does our goddamn media STILL find a way to frame the coming election as if Trump is just another candidate for president? No mention of his two impeachments. The violent coup attempt. His espionage case. His civil business fraud case. His civil sexual assault case. His defamation case. His 10 gag order violations. His being a convicted felon on 34 counts. His 3 other pending criminal trials!!! An espionage case!!!! Yes. Espionage!!!! JFC!!!!!
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
re: #301 Belafon
Then I saw this interview and recognized that the best way to highlight the insanity that’s afoot is to put examples of it on television for all to see.
the point is to push back and not let them pass off their lies as facts
re: #303 darthstar
I’ve always loved rodeo songs. Bull-rode cows as a kid (never got on a bull but my oldest brother did in a HS rodeo). And his tongue-in-cheek lyrics (Ocean Front Property) were fun.
oh yeah, we played that one, too…
A few more gems in that WaPo story - and Flynn appears to be a part of the conspiracy. If they suspend the rules (you know how Republicans feel about rules) then that opens the nomination up for a floor fight.
And the Overstock asshole also believes Trump will get a prison sentence:
On Tuesday, Byrne wrote in a post on X that Trump, based on some of his endorsements, “is still surrounded by DEEP STATE nobodies” who tell the former president to choose a vice president that won’t overshadow him. “In two weeks Trump is going to be either in jail or under house arrest,” Byrne wrote. “His VP needs to be a General.” The post tagged Flynn’s social media profile.
Bonus points for ‘DEEP STATE’ paranoia.
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“America was founded upon uniquely Christian concepts”…
…like Slavery and colored folks are only 3/5 of a person, Right, Allie Beth Stuckey?????
re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
SCOTUS has also find a way to thread the needle so that the ruling applies only to DJT and to no other Democratic President.
They did that with Bush V. Gore and they will do it again when they give Trump absolute immunity.
re: #291 Dangerman
The rando-mizer
I can’t fucking take it anymore!!!! How does our goddamn media STILL find a way to frame the coming election as if Trump is just another candidate for president? No mention of his two impeachments. The violent coup attempt. His espionage case. His civil business fraud case. His civil sexual assault case. His defamation case. His 10 gag order violations. His being a convicted felon on 34 counts. His 3 other pending criminal trials!!! An espionage case!!!! Yes. Espionage!!!! JFC!!!!!
Because the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press is All In For Trump.
Period.
re: #315 Joe Bacon ✅
Because the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press is All In For Trump.
Period.
DJT provides them with a 24/7 live political scandal and crime show. Biden is dead boring.
re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will take dead and boring any day over what DT gives the so-called press.
re: #310 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
the point is to push back and not let them pass off their lies as facts
And it seems the interviewers did a good job. They kept “interrupting” him because he kept trying to not answer the questions.
re: #213 Nerdy Fish
That was certainly a word.
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re: #307 darthstar
Paranoia will destroy ya…
Demand unwavering loyalty and trust nobody. The convention is going to be a shit show.
But it’ll be an epic disaster to watch.
re: #322 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
But it’ll be an epic disaster to watch.
I wanna see if any Never Trumpers dare to take the podium and vent their opinions…
re: #312 darthstar
A few more gems in that WaPo story - and Flynn appears to be a part of the conspiracy. If they suspend the rules (you know how Republicans feel about rules) then that opens the nomination up for a floor fight.
And the Overstock asshole also believes Trump will get a prison sentence:
Bonus points for ‘DEEP STATE’ paranoia.
If I were trump I’d be very wary of Flynn. I don’t think Flynn would hesitate offing trump if he wavered one iota from the Christian mission.
re: #323 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I wanna see if any Never Trumpers dare to take the podium and vent their opinions…
Watching the GOP convention descend into madness that would make the ‘68 Chicago Democratic convention look like Romper Room would be utterly glorious. And all on live TV!
re: #325 Dr Lizardo
Watching the GOP convention descend into madness that would make the ‘68 Chicago Democratic convention look like Romper Room would be utterly glorious. And all on live TV!
Hack the screen and have it flash ‘34 Felonies’ at random times during speeches.
re: #319 Dangerman
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall when the Campus Crusade for Christ goombahs started pushing their “America is a Christian nation!” talking points in the late 70’s.
“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion …”
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you” (Jeremaiah 1:5).” is I believe what they use to justify the whole life-begins-at-conception thing.
And they do not allow any room for interpretation because they are convinced that theirs is true good and based on American Tradition
Reading that it seems life begins even before conception. So I am going to take a child tax credit for the 2,000,000 of my yet unconceived children ( I have the sperm to prove it).
Good Anne Leckie thread on Art
I am begging you to rethink if you find yourself saying any version of "Art should confront/disturb/disrupt/be realistic or plausible/buy me a pony/fill in the blank."
Every artist has their own artistic project. Why do you think YOU get to tell them what it should be?
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re: #213 Nerdy Fish
That was certainly a word.
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More than 1,000 people have died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia - with temperatures having reached a peak of 51.8C in Mecca in recent days.
re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is how the Free Market “adapts”. It follows the path of highest returns.
For the immediate short term. Anything longer term may spell the death of a publicly traded company.
re: #277 Belafon
Encountered one of those on FB the other day. I, somehow, managed to be polite all through the discussion.
But, for all I could tell, she might have been a bot. There was so little actual thought put into their stance.
re: #283 Dangerman
Because if they did it now they’d be the ‘bad guys’. Not everyone is aware how horrible things are.
Plus, actually doing something takes too much work.
Here’s an article about wet bulb temps that I got the article about the Hajj from. Did you know that if it’s 95F with 80% humidity, the wet bulb temp is less than 90F?
re: #307 darthstar
Wondering if there will be Night of The Long Knives levels of violence. Authoritarians often hate each other more that their enemies.
Enemies are not threats to their power.
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall when the Campus Crusade for Christ goombahs started pushing their “America is a Christian nation!” talking points in the late 70’s.
They endlessly pushed that shit at Pitt when I was an undergrad there in the 70s along with Pruneface for President in 1976. They even tried to push that shit in the YMHA/YIKC building and they would mass outside when the YMHA said NO!
re: #299 darthstar
I foresee an art exodus from Florida…
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In 2011, Kansas became the first state in history to completely eliminate funding for the arts. Governor Sam Brownback issued executive orders eliminating the Kansas Arts Commission. (Brownback’s budget report for Fiscal Year 2012 is sub-titled, “Happy New Year, Art Fags.”)
After significant backlash, Gov. Sam Brownback and the Kansas legislature restored some funding to the arts in the 2012 legislative session with the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (CAIC) with less money and a different focus.
Ten years later…
In Kansas, the arts remain grievously underfunded by the state
kansasreflector.com
Chris Coons smacks down a Fox Presstitute.
My goodness! Press The Meat smacks down Killer Kristi!
re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember our Catholic priest giving a sermon shortly after Roe v. Wade calling for the Catholic SCOTUS justice who voted in favor of it (do not recall his name) to be excommunicated.
Catholics have objected to abortion for a long time; for Protestants, the opposition is very recent.
re: #257 Dangerman
another route. Short and simple aimed at the magats
He boasted to you “anywhere, anytime”
You can’t trust anything he says.
He lied to you. again.
If Trump is felled by a stroke or heart attack or other form of divine intervention, then it would be fair to excuse his lack of participation.
re: #354 Joe Bacon ✅
What Trump will do to empower radical Xtians.
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re: #351 Hecuba’s daughter
Catholics have objected to abortion for a long time; for Protestants, the opposition is very recent.
It got pretty firm after Aquinas, but even then there was a lot of local variation throughout Europe. “Life (personhood) at conception” was not universal.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #299 darthstar
I foresee an art exodus from Florida…
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re: #299 darthstar
I foresee an art exodus from Florida…
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2026 can’t get here soon enough. Sadly, Florida will almost certainly just elect another asshole as governor.
re: #357 Decatur Deb
Florida’s dominant art form seems to be tattooing, hence portable.
I got a tattoo from a temporary tattoo parlor. It’s been over a month and the tattoo is still there.
When I went back to complain, the parlor was gone.
Dozens of convictions will be overturned in California after a prosecutor’s notes from the Nineties were released. The notes show the prosecutor worked to exclude Black and Jewish people from juries. (5:39, CNN)
re: #325 Dr Lizardo
Watching the GOP convention descend into madness that would make the ‘68 Chicago Democratic convention look like Romper Room would be utterly glorious. And all on live TV!
It won’t. They will all behave as good little MAGAts when it comes to the actual convention. While Democrats are the ones prone to vocal disagreements in the public forum.
re: #237 Nerdy Fish
Alongside the anti-abortion “pro-life” talking points, I’d imagine, since I read an article many years ago that talked about pro-life as a tenet of Christianity being “younger than the Happy Meal”.
As a tenant of American Evangelical Christianity. The Catholic church has been on the abortion is murder to a greater or less extent forever. The politics of how the alliance came about is as ugly as you might expect and involved getting tuition subsidies for segregated (for the Evangelicals) and religious (for the Catholics) schooling in the wake of the federally enforced school integration.
re: #232 Dr Lizardo
The Ten Commandments are most likely revisions and adaptations of earlier Hittite and Mesopotamian laws and treaties, probably dating from the 7th Century BCE.
And the Jews spent several decades where?
Oh:
The Israelites were in Mesopotamia because they had been captured and carried away by the Babylonians in the sixth century BCE, and they remained in captivity for about 50 years, until Cyrus the Great Persian king overthrew the Babylonians and allowed the Israelites to return to Canaan.
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