Jordan Klepper heads to the battleground state of Wisconsin for Trump’s first campaign rally as an official convict, but of course, even a guilty verdict isn’t gonna stop MAGA heads from MAGA-ing. Klepper asks rally-goers whether Trump’s day in court was less fair than Hunter Biden’s and how much money one should donate for each of Trump’s criminal cases.
There are low information voters, and there are voters who actively avoid engaging with information. Jordan Klepper manages to find all of them at the events that select for them.
Raise a glass. Today is Teddy’s 17th birthday. 🍷
re: #4 jaunte
Pulp Hopper!
Fascinating 2010 urban quest to find the Night Hawks grill:
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
On a trip through N Florida, we encountered a bullet-ridden company car from the “Clean & Sober” tattoo parlor. Like, a 1973 Delta 88. Was not inspired.
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
What fails to kill us makes us only older. Happy BD.
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Happy (belated) Birthday!
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Forgot to mention.
Friday was my birthday.
SEVENTY-FIVE!
One of these means you’re getting older.
Oh, wait. All three of them do.
Congrats. Keep going!
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Happy Birthday.
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Happy trip around the sun. (I originally typed “sin,” I suppose that will work too.)
So we saw the TikTok of people’s minds blown about Idiocracy and Crocs. So now my wife turned on Idiocracy. This should be fun.
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Happy Birthday, youngster!
LMAO the MAGAs are so mad that Trumps Philly rally was a dud they’re now saying the upper level was empty because “the floor had chairs and by fire code they couldn’t use the top section”…..ok morons well here’s Temple’s graduation….have fun explaining this one👇 pic.twitter.com/ckIgNEfntF
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) June 23, 2024
Dear #MAGA
Same Arena.
Same Year.
Totally full Upper Deck.
Did they change the fire code in the last 2 months?
Keep drinking the kool-aid.
Losers. pic.twitter.com/7qghF2mPxS— CoffeyTimeNews (@CoffeyTimeNews) June 23, 2024
LGF statistics. This seems like a lot.
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re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Forgot to mention. Friday was my birthday. SEVENTY-FIVE! Can’t believe I’ve lived this long. When I was young, one of my scuzzball uncles predicted that I would die young. He is long dead and I am still here, LOL.
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75 is the new 60.
re: #17 Dangerman
I had a cousin who went to Temple for her law degree. Her graduation was at the same venue. It was packed.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend had a humiliating meltdown when @adammocklerr told him very simple facts and then he called his goons to try to intimidate him. These people are so weak! pic.twitter.com/9cy9lVlt06
— Brett Meiselas (@BMeiselas) June 23, 2024
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re: #5 Teddy’s Person
Raise a glass. Today is Teddy’s 17th birthday. 🍷
🥂
And lots of pets for my little buddy. Here’s wishing you many more, Teddy! ♥️💋♥️💋
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Forgot to mention. Friday was my birthday. SEVENTY-FIVE! Can’t believe I’ve lived this long. When I was young, one of my scuzzball uncles predicted that I would die young. He is long dead and I am still here, LOL.
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re: #23 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Gee, 60 must have really sucked in the old days.
Antibiotics took all the glory out of getting old.
Yeah the heat has finally arrived here in Los Angeles.
Right now it’s 87 in my part of Los Angeles projected to hit the high of 90 at 1PM
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
A very happy belated birthday to you!
That picture reminds me of something my grandmother once said to me. I was around 18 (and it’s stuck with me all these years): I looked in the mirror one day and wondered “where did that old woman come from?” Now, it’s my time to wonder.
I hope you had a very special day because you’re a pretty special guy!!
This company is trying to get into the air taxi business with an electric aircraft in what I think is an entirely new style. It’s propeller driven, but isn’t a helicopter or a traditional airplane. They make the plane themselves, and are trying to become a short-trip airline.
Full scale aircraft testing has started after previous tests with a scaled down version.
They are more likely to be younger, Hispanic or Black, and women living in larger cities or with no religious affiliation, according to a Washington Post-Schar School Deciders poll in six key states focused on the voters who will likely decide the 2024 presidential election. But voters opposed to both candidates are not monolithic. Some mildly dislike both candidates, but have made peace with voting for the one they prefer.”
Said one such voter: “Both options suck. And it’s going to, I think, boil down to what sucks less.”
Yes, if that’s what it takes. This exactly.
Tornado warning issued for Vermont, including the state capital Montpelier.
re: #23 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Gee, 60 must have really sucked in the old days.
My mom turns 75 next weekend. She was considering doing a skydive to celebrate, but settled for some zip lining instead.
re: #29 Dangerman
Yes, if that’s what it takes. This exactly.
We had this metaphor in 2016
You’re in a restaurant ordering from a menu and you don’t like the selections
Bernie’s not on the menu. Neither is pizza
it really has to go further
You will be served a dinner
Everyone in the place will be served the same thing based on what’s ordered the most
You will have to eat it
Its pretty clear one of the choices will poison or maybe kill you
re: #23 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
70 is the new “hurt my back mowing the lawn in the wrong boots.”
re: #31 JC1
That reminds me my mother’s birthday is coming up in July. She’ll be eighty-four, though you couldn’t get her anywhere near sky diving or ziplines. The idea you do something to intentionally plunge to Earth doesn’t appeal to her much.
Summer has finally arrived.
This Afternoon
Sunny and hot, with a high near 98. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 64. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
Monday
Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 61. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny and hot, with a high near 94. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north northeast in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 62.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 91. Breezy.
Just learned the Spanish version of “righty tighty, lefty loosey” translates as “the right oppresses, the left liberates” and holy shit that goes hard.
Guy waited five years and paid $102k for a Cybertruck, crashed it after four hours of driving, only for Tesla to tell him that “the accelerator may not disengage under braking” and that it will take $30k and one year to repair.
Truly an L of historical proportions.
“Depressing the brake may not disengage the accelerator” - Tesla blames a four hour old Cybertruck customer for expecting the brakes to stop acceleration.
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In the tropics, Invest 93L has slowed down further and is still off-shore near where Tropical Storm Alberto came ashore last week. Otherwise nothing is going on in the tropics.
For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Southwestern Gulf of Mexico (AL93):
Disorganized showers and thunderstorms continue in association with a low pressure area centered about 20 miles southeast of La Pesca, Mexico. The low is expected to move inland within the next few hours, and the chance of tropical cyclone formation is decreasing. Regardless of development, heavy rainfall is likely to continue through tonight across portions of northeastern Mexico, leading to localized flooding.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…20 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days…low…20 percent.
re: #38 jaunte
Instead of making a better thing everybody understood
tesla created and then poorly solved problems that no one had before
I understand they can’t get windshield wipers to work
re: #1 A Cranky One
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re: #40 Dangerman
I’ll bet there was an engineer inside that said “you can’t just scale the wiper up to fit the arbitrary windshield dimension and expect it to work well” and was told to shut up.
Maybe there were all those car chases in the Mad Max movies because they simply couldn’t stop
re: #42 jaunte
I’ll bet there was an engineer inside that said “you can’t just scale the wiper up to fit the arbitrary windshield dimension and expect it to work well” and was told to shut up.
Not on a battery anyway//
“The Führer has demanded we give him the largest, heaviest tank ever, and that is exactly what we will do.”
The keening whinge of the junior senator from Texas can be heard all the way out here on the High Plains. Sen. Cruz voted against the bill, then took credit for it when it passed (like a common Republican).
Ted Cruz says Biden is using $1 trillion infrastructure law to boost re-election bid (MSNBC, today)
TL;DR His specific complaint is signs on construction projects identifying Joe Biden being behind the law. Cruz is complaining this is a violation of campaign finance law.
A White House spokesperson told Politico in response “that the signs ‘promote transparency and inform taxpayers how federal dollars are being spent.’” She added, “If Senator Cruz were half as concerned about Texas kids getting safe drinking water as he is about signs, he might have voted for the Infrastructure Law.”
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Just caught two ants surveying my kitchen and named them Lewis and Clark. Unfortunately, though, these ants won’t be reporting back to President Jefferson.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-23T19:00:18.000Z
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Happy Belated 75th birthday!! Hope you had a good one.
re: #29 Dangerman
Yes, if that’s what it takes. This exactly.
From a blogpost I wrote in 2012 (that time it was about Obama.)
You don’t have to love him. You don’t have to approve of everything he does. You can get mad as hell about the issues that matter to you. And you don’t have to love or admire every Democrat either. Some of them are kind of worthless, but even at their worst, they’re still better than just about every fricking Republican.
But PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU—don’t take it out on the rest of us who are trying to fight the good fight. Do whatever you can to fight your good fight on the issues that matter to you, but please don’t burn down the house while you’re trying to light that candle.
• PLEASE VOTE (FOR DEMOCRATS—EVEN IF THEY’RE FLAWED, THEY’RE STILL GENERALLY AT LEAST 99% BETTER THAN REPUBLICANS
• PLEASE ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO VOTE, AND HELP THEM DO IT
• PLEASE SUPPORT AND WORK FOR CANDIDATES WHO COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE
• AND PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP—STOP PROVIDING FODDER FOR THE RIGHT WING BY BAD-MOUTHING DEMOCRATS AT EVERY TURN
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
re: #41 darthstar
I saw a woman spanking her Chihuahua once and when I posted about it people took it the wrong way…it was a vicious little dog.
“Spanking her Chihuahua” sounds like something that will get you arrested for a lewd public act.
re: #41 darthstar
I think Chihuahuas are the sort who are undeterred by corporal punishment, it just makes them determined on revenge when you least expect it.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The keening whinge of the junior senator from Texas can be heard all the way out her on the High Plains. Sen. Cruz voted against the bill, then took credit for it when it passed (like a common Republican).
Ted Cruz says Biden is using $1 trillion infrastructure law to boost re-election bid (MSNBC, today)
TL;DR His specific complaint is signs on construction projects identifying Joe Biden being behind the law. Cruz is complaining this is a violation of campaign finance law.
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Tfg put his signature on actual checks
re: #54 jaunte
I think Chihuahuas are the sort who are undeterred by corporal punishment, it just makes them determined on revenge when you least expect it.
I don’t think corporal punishment even works on corporals. It doesn’t on corporeals.
When conservatives don’t get their way, they get violent, part eleventy-million four:
Alabama man indicted and charged with threatening Georgia officials in Trump election interference case (NBC News, today)
“A federal grand jury indicted Arthur Ray Hanson II on two counts of transmitting interstate threats to injure Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Sheriff Patrick Labat.”
An Alabama man has been charged in connection with threats against the prosecutor who brought the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his allies in Fulton County, Georgia, according to court documents unsealed Monday.
A federal grand jury in Atlanta on Wednesday indicted Arthur Ray Hanson II of Huntsville, Alabama, on charges of transmitting interstate threats to injure Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her involvement in the election case, the Justice Department said in a news release.
Hanson made an initial appearance in federal court in Huntsville and will be formally arraigned in Atlanta on Nov. 13, the Justice Department said.
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re: #60 wrenchwench
I don’t think corporal punishment even works on corporals. It doesn’t on corporeals.
::P
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Maybe he’s never filled his own gas tank, but Ted Cruz should be aware of all the taxpayer-funded gas pump stickers publicizing Ag Commissioner Sid Miller’s name to every Texan who uses gasoline.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
President Obama has his name on freeway projects. So did Bush. Trump just never got an infrastructure bill passed.
Kid Rock’s dad owned a chain of car dealerships.
He didn’t grow up on the streets of Detroit. pic.twitter.com/grLO04io4r— Edwin Mix (@EdMix13) June 23, 2024
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Forgot to mention. Friday was my birthday. SEVENTY-FIVE! Can’t believe I’ve lived this long. When I was young, one of my scuzzball uncles predicted that I would die young. He is long dead and I am still here, LOL.
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re: #40 Dangerman
Instead of making a better thing everybody understood
tesla created and then poorly solved problems that no one had beforeI understand they can’t get windshield wipers to work
You’re not supposed to have it out in the rain in the first place. I think that voids the warranty.
re: #69 gocart mozart
Being a successful dealer of vehicles may involve a deal of manipulation and lying.
re: #53 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Why yes, there will be (Strawberry) pie today. The crust didn’t turn out the best, but this is also the first time I did one without the filling being already in it. Next time I’ll make darn sure those vent holes are actually vent holes so the darn thing doesn’t bubble up.
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And yes (LoL), I can see VB looking at that pic, shaking her head in disbelief and going, Girl, really? in my mind.
* Edited to add “in disbelief” Trying for some humor here folks.
Ace, I seriously marvel at your skill every time you post your photos.
re: #72 jaunte
Being a successful dealer of vehicles may involve a deal of manipulation and lying.
Many people are saying!
Given its weight and shape, the Incel Camino might make a pretty decent kinetic energy warhead. We could call it the Elonic Bomb.
A millionaire loved the Tesla Cybertruck so much that he airlifted the 6,800-pound truck to Qatar
Ugh. First world problems, but still?
Last weekend the new (Installed last November) AC system blew a circuit breaker and quit. They replaced it, and went away assuming this was the fix. Well yesterday, at peak heat (101F) the breakers popped again, and will not reset.
My complaint is they did not do the diagnostic work on the system to find why the breakers popped.
re: #74 Randall Gross
Ace, I seriously marvel at your skill every time you post your photos.
That guy reminds me why I do something else but photography for a living. Ace, ya really own it.
NBC News, June 10, 2024
A Russian-American woman arrested earlier this year while visiting family in Russia went on trial for alleged treason on Thursday after authorities accused her of raising money to send to the Ukrainian army.
Ksenia Karelina, who was born in Russia but had built a new life as an aesthetician at a Los Angeles spa after immigrating to the United States over a decade ago, faces a sentence of 12 years to life in prison if found guilty.
Her trial will be held behind closed doors, as is customary in such cases in Russia. Treason acquittals are rare there.
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L.A. ballerina goes on trial for treason in Russia after donating funds to Ukraine
re: #77 Rightwingconspirator
Can you call an electrician on your own to do what is needed or are you stuck with the repair guys?
re: #59 Dangerman
Thank you!! This needs to go viral. I’m already hearing leftists complaining about President Biden. As someone else said, we’re not electing a boyfriend. We don’t have to love him. It’s either him or the fascist. Easy decision.
re: #77 Rightwingconspirator
Ugh. First world problems, but still?
Last weekend the new (Installed last November) AC system blew a circuit breaker and quit. They replaced it, and went away assuming this was the fix. Well yesterday, at peak heat (101F) the breakers popped again, and will not reset.
My complaint is they did not do the diagnostic work on the system to find why the breakers popped.
You probably need a hard start kit on your AC … this is basically a beefier capacitor than the AC unit came with. While they sell them at Amazon and are easy installs, it’s not something I recommend you do yourself. It depends on the type of AC unit and the sensors you have on picking the right one for your unit.
re: #38 jaunte
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Second pic reminds me of an old CCR song:
Whoa, it came out of the sky
Landed just a little south of Moline
Jody fell out of his tractor
Couldn’t b’lieve what he seen, oh
Laid on the ground shook
Fearin’ for his life
Then he ran all the way to town
Screamin’, “It came out of the sky”
re: #82 Randall Gross
You probably need a hard start kit on your AC … this is basically a beefier capacitor than the AC unit came with. While they sell them at Amazon and are easy installs, it’s not something I recommend you do yourself. It depends on the type of AC unit and the sensors you have on picking the right one for your unit.
If it’s not solvable with a hard start kit, then they probably have your system overcharged with coolant.
re: #82 Randall Gross
The starting capacitor on my a/c blew a few years back. Good grief, it was 2019! I got overheated and ended up with sepsis from it. Do not recommend. It was over 15 years old, so I hope the replacement lasts that long!
re: #40 Dangerman
Instead of making a better thing everybody understood
tesla created and then poorly solved problems that no one had beforeI understand they can’t get windshield wipers to work
There was a story a couple days ago about the battery dying in a tesla and a woman with a baby in the car, being unable to unlock the door because of said battery. had to call the fire dept. to break the window. Apparently, you need to open a secret door to access a hood release and then get a jump for another car so that you can open your door.
I hope someone is compiling a list of all the stupid shit elon’s poorly designed and built cars have encountered. It would make for a really good book.
National Guard airman paralyzed at Walter Reed petitions Supreme Court to allow him to sue military (Stars & Stripes, June 23, 2024)
Summary: He was in the Air National Guard in Baltimore. He went in for a surgery to fuse vertebrae due to severe pain, and came out a quadriplegic due to a surgical error.
After the surgery failure, the Air National Guard retroactively placed him on active duty, which brings into play the 1950 Feres Doctrine. (Originally decided by the Supreme Court prohibiting active duty military personnel from suing the military for negligence.)
He has been turned away by the courts six times, each citing the Feres Doctrine. They are now petitioning the Supreme Court to revisit his case.
A few years ago, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a case that the Feres Doctrine should be revisited, since no law created or supports this position.
Congress created a law recently to allow in limited circumstances military personnel to make an administrative complaint to their service branch, and if that is ruled against them, they can seek court relief.
The military’s response has been not to review those complaints.
Death toll for this year’s Hajj has soared to over 1300.
re: #80 PhillyPretzel ✅
Can you call an electrician on your own to do what is needed or are you stuck with the repair guys?
Warranty, so repair guys.
re: #82 Randall Gross
I will ask the repair guys. Thank you.
re: #92 Rightwingconspirator
I will ask the repair guys. Thank you.
Check for overcharge of coolant, if that condition doesn’t exist then the hard start kit is easy to do, but you have to make sure you have the right one (it’s three color coded wires with spade lugs and two screws usually.)
“AI” intellectual property theft continues:
Earlier this week, WIRED published a story about the AI-powered search startup Perplexity, which Forbes has accused of plagiarism. In it, my colleague Dhruv Mehrotra and I reported that the company was surreptitiously scraping, using crawlers to visit and download parts of websites from which developers had tried to block it, in violation of its own publicly stated policy of honoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol.
Our findings, as well as those of the developer Robb Knight, identified a specific IP address almost certainly linked to Perplexity and not listed in its public IP range, which we observed scraping test sites in apparent response to prompts given to the company’s public-facing chatbot. According to server logs, that same IP visited properties belonging to Condé Nast, the media company that owns WIRED, at least 822 times in the past three months—likely a significant undercount, because the company retains only a small portion of its records.
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Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (Wired, June 21, 2024)
Just noticed for the first time: the crowd makes a disappointed sound when he only whips out some papers.
re: #68 Eventual Carrion
Americans are so spoiled, expecting brakes to stop a vehicle.
- Elon Musk
Expectations lead to suffering
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It was a wild four hour ride
And that ending, so unexpected!!
All those months of anticipation; so exciting. Well worth it!
re: #73 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And yes (LoL), I can see VB looking at that pic, shaking her head in disbelief and going, Girl, really? in my mind.
* Edited to add “in disbelief” Trying for some humor here folks.
Looks perfectly edible to us
re: #81 Patricia Kayden
Thank you!! This needs to go viral. I’m already hearing leftists complaining about President Biden. As someone else said, we’re not electing a boyfriend. We don’t have to love him. It’s either him or the fascist. Easy decision.
Just making sure you’ve all seen this. Artist Chavis mármol has crushed a Tesla with a giant Olmec head sculpture and I think it is very, very beautiful
— Charlotte 🇵🇸 (@charlottor.bsky.social) 2024-06-23T19:41:47.234Z
re: #86 sizzzzlerz
There was a story a couple days ago about the battery dying in a tesla and a woman with a baby in the car, being unable to unlock the door because of said battery. had to call the fire dept. to break the window. Apparently, you need to open a secret door to access a hood release and then get a jump for another car so that you can open your door.
I hope someone is compiling a list of all the stupid shit elon’s poorly designed and built cars have encountered. It would make for a really good book.
I could see that meeting: who would accidentally lock a kid in a car? How could that even happen?
Ok well make a back door (as it were)
But no ones ever gonna use it
I doubt theyll even read how
Besides no ones gonna remember in an emergency. Its just no biggie
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
National Guard airman paralyzed at Walter Reed petitions Supreme Court to allow him to sue military (Stars & Stripes, June 23, 2024)
Summary: He was in the Air National Guard in Baltimore. He went in for a surgery to fuse vertebrae due to severe pain, and came out a quadriplegic due to a surgical error.
After the surgery failure, the Air National Guard retroactively placed him on active duty, which brings into play the 1950 Feres Doctrine. (Originally decided by the Supreme Court prohibiting active duty military personnel from suing the military for negligence.)
He has been turned away by the courts six times, each citing the Feres Doctrine. They are now petitioning the Supreme Court to revisit his case.
A few years ago, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a case that the Feres Doctrine should be revisited, since no law created or supports this position.
Congress created a law recently to allow in limited circumstances military personnel to make an administrative complaint to their service branch, and if that is ruled against them, they can seek court relief.
The military’s response has been not to review those complaints.
Retroactively??
re: #103 Charles Johnson
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Do we have proof that the giant head actually crushed the car?
It’s a Tesla. It could have spontaneously done that on its own right out the factory door.
re: #105 Dangerman
the Air National Guard retroactively placed him on active duty
Some specific pennypincher made that decision, and he should be outed.
Drueke set on drueke board. I may have mentioned at some point I have the last Drueke set ever made. The son was making them after the dad retired, and he emailed me to say after this one, he was done. It’s not plastic but it’s some pre-plastic era resin that I gather is hard to work with when one is using small molds rather than the commercial molds they were using back when everyone was playing Drueke sets on Drueke boards. Found an appropriate book to use with it. [edit: position here never happened. Tartakower resigned before either ignominiously dropping his queen to Qf2+ or stepping into a mate]
re: #99 Charles Johnson
Just noticed for the first time: the crowd makes a disappointed sound when he only whips out some papers.
I always figured it for “relief”
re: #103 Charles Johnson
I would like to have a large crane in my art toolkit.
Find out how likely you are to be blasted into smithereens by lightning on FEMA’s county-level lightning risk map.
My county is 4 of 5.
re: #106 Mattand
I’m going to call shenanigans on this photo.
Do we have proof that the giant head actually crushed the car?
It’s a Tesla. It could have spontaneously done that on its own right out the factory door.
The head is one of the modern re-creations, but clearly pretty valuable to let someone toss around. This is one of my professors, Phillip Drucker, at the end of an excavation in 1947.
re: #108 steve_davis
Steve that’s a beautiful set! I have a set and board that GM Gufeld willed to me after he passed away. It’s a beautiful Russian set.
I think that’s the Dover edition of Tartakower’s 100 Games Of Master Chess in your picture!
re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Find out how likely you are to be blasted into smithereens by lightning on FEMA’s county-level lightning risk map.
My county is 4 of 5.
97.26% here
Earthquakes aren’t likely
re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Find out how likely you are to be blasted into smithereens by lightning on FEMA’s county-level lightning risk map.
My county is 4 of 5.
For my area Relatively High for lightning. Next highest was landslides
Cowboy State Daily, today.
This fellow sold out Red Rocks in Colorado earlier in the month.
After Playing Red Rocks, Ian Munsick Says Ultimate Dream Is Cheyenne Frontier Days
Wyoming’s own Ian Munsick sold out Red Rocks for a June 6 performance, checking off a bucket-list item for the Sheridan Country-Western star.
Wyoming’s own Ian Munsick sold out Red Rocks for a June 6 performance, checking off a bucket-list item for the Sheridan Country-Western star. (Ian Munsick via X)Playing the legendary Colorado concert venue Red Rocks last week was a big bucket list item for popular singer-songwriter Ian Munsick, born and raised in Sheridan, Wyoming.
At 6,450 feet above sea level, Red Rocks Amphitheater is a visual spectacle. But the red rock walls rising all around the amphitheater are not only visually stunning, they create superb acoustics as well. That’s made it a coveted place for some of the most famous and influential acts in music history.
The Beatles, U2, Diana Ross, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Springsteen have all played Red Rocks. Add Wyoming’s own Ian Munsick to the playbill.
The Colorado amphitheater seats 9,500 or so people, and Munsick sold every seat.
That means he needs a new bucket list, Munsick announced on his Facebook page not long after the concert.
At the top of that new list of big dreams?
Headlining Cheyenne Frontier Days.
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LINDSEY GRAHAM: The world is on fire, folks, and Biden is not gonna fix it
SHANNON BREAM: Okay so why haven’t you guys fixed it? pic.twitter.com/4lcHmplguH— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 23, 2024
re: #115 Joe Bacon ✅
Steve that’s a beautiful set! I have a set and board that GM Gufeld willed to me after he passed away. It’s a beautiful Russian set.
I think that’s the Dover edition of Tartakower’s 100 Games Of Master Chess in your picture!
it is indeed, which is better than the much better known 500 games that the two of them did before it. let’s face it: chess from the late 30’s through very early 50’s just looks better from a modern player’s perspective than some of those hoary old games from the mid 1800s. i remember you mentioning you’d gotten Gufeld’s set. well done!
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We have a very low tsunami risk.
Same here. Having mountains between you and the nearest ocean helps a lot.
It’s Sunday, so it was time for the political shows on every network to invite Republicans again to lie.
CNN was particularly egregious, with former Tucker Carlson Daily Caller employee Kaitlan Collins interviewing North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.
Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) dug in his heels while repeating claims that Americans are living under a “dictatorship” with President Joe Biden.
During an appearance on “State of the Union” Sunday, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed the governor to explain why he thinks his political disagreements with Biden make the Democratic president a despot.
Collins made a mild pushback:
Citing Biden’s use of executive orders, Burgum said, “I just think that there’s again a double standard here. He is bypassing the other two branches of government to push an ideological view of — whether it’s on economics or whether it’s on climate extremism — he’s doing that without using the other branches.”
Collins pushed back, telling the governor, “I don’t think anyone expects the Republican governor to agree with President Biden on that. But it’s not a dictatorship.”
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re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We have a very low tsunami risk.
Ours might be a bit higher. Though we are 15 miles inland…
But no landslide or avalanches to worry about (yet)
Video of the Flat Tesla art project.
re: #122 steve_davis
it is indeed, which is better than the much better known 500 games that the two of them did before it. let’s face it: chess from the late 30’s through very early 50’s just looks better from a modern player’s perspective than some of those hoary old games from the mid 1800s. i remember you mentioning you’d gotten Gufeld’s set. well done!
What’s a shame is Dover let a lot of their classic books go out of print. I loved them and they were critical tools I used to develop my skill as a correspondence player because players weren’t aware of the old lines like Capablanca’s Siesta Variation, The Cambridge Springs Defense, Chigorin’s Queen’s Gambit and The Vienna Game.
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re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We have a very low tsunami risk.
Insufficient data for us. Is say not gonna happen here.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning in progress.
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OH HAI
This afternoon I took my granddaughters to see “Inside Out 2” which was kinda meh, not as good as the first movie but I got to spend quality time with the grands.
We spotted our first Incel Inside at the Aventura Mall. It was covered in some black and gray camo. Did the driver think that it made him invisible.
The vehicle is very very vomitous.
The Walmart here is festooned with “Pride” flags. Where are Trumporrhoids going to shop now?
re: #342 Belafon
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?
Outdoors labor in Wet Bulb temperatures 85F+ should be avoided unless your cardiovadcular system is acclimated to temperatures & humidity that combine to create 85F+ wet bulb temperatures.
How to calculate wet bulb temperature:
re: #132 Vicious Babushka
OH HAI
This afternoon I took my granddaughters to see “Inside Out 2” which was kinda meh, not as good as the first movie but I got to spend quality time with the grands.
We spotted our first Incel Inside at the Aventura Mall. It was covered in some black and gray camo. Did the driver think that it made him invisible.
The vehicle is very very vomitous.
Lot’s of people seem to like it, though this is also a comment about films so far this year, because it’s now the highest grossing film of the year. (A comment on the movie, not on you, as not every movie is for everyone.) The last half hour of the first one makes me tear up every time I watch it.
Spouse and I finally saw our first Elmotruck in the wilds of suburban Denver — some sort of wrap, but it was just blocks of silver and black, not a pattern. Temp license plates, didn’t get a look at the driver so can’t tell if the dork matched the dorkmobile..
Would love to see someone actually trying to carry stuff like it was a functional pickup. Tesla cars are pretty common around here. Going to be interesting to see how many of the “trucks” show up.
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