Acoustic Guitar Maestro Tommy Emmanuel: "Sanitarium Shuffle" (from Endless Road)

Acoustic Guitar Maestro Tommy Emmanuel: “Sanitarium Shuffle” (from Endless Road)

“Sanitarium Shuffle” is a song on Tommy Emmanuel’s album ‘Endless Road,’ which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2024. Stream the remastered 20th Anniversary Edition on all digital outlets, and it’s available for the first-time ever on vinyl here 800pgr.lnk.to
The ‘Endless Road: 20th Anniversary Edition Album’ also contains three never released live tracks.

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Vicious Babushka Jun 23, 2024 • 3:34:48pm

Mastodon

gocart mozart Jun 23, 2024 • 3:36:09pm

Dylan and Baez covered a couple of Zeppelin songs back in the day. Anyone can do it after the fact, but it’s a neat trick to cover Led Zeppelin several years before they existed. At least Bob and Joan never claimed to have written the songs.

Bob Dylan - In My Time of Dyin’ (Official Audio)

Joan Baez - Babe I’m Gonna Leave You

BeenHereAwhile Jun 23, 2024 • 3:37:48pm

re: #15 BigPapa

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.

Check out 1999’s Fight Club as viewed in today’s political climate.

gocart mozart Jun 23, 2024 • 3:41:12pm

Well, there ain’t nothing happening
But people telling me I got to worry.
Hah!
Saying watch that man with his ballpoint pen,
He’ll take your money.
But all I wanna do,
I wanna take things slow, I ain’t in a hurry.
But there’s people talking like me, jiving(?),
Messing about, my, they think it’s funny.
So, hold on, hold on.
Don’t burst my bubble.
Leave my bubble alone, yeah.
There’s kids outside my door,
I don’t know what they’re waiting for, so forget it.
Cos if I let them in,
I know the trouble I’d be in, I’d soon regret it.
So, hold on, hold on.
Don’t burst my bubble.
Leave my bubble alone, yeah.

Don’t Burst My Bubble (2013 Remaster)

Eclectic Cyborg Jun 23, 2024 • 3:50:44pm

re: #3 BeenHereAwhile

Check out 1989’s Fight Club as viewed in today’s political climate.

‘99, not ‘89.

Eclectic Cyborg Jun 23, 2024 • 3:52:14pm

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jun 23, 2024 • 4:01:53pm

Re Mister Wankpanzer-Go-Crunch from the last thread. It looks like:
1. He’s a Trumpanzee.
2. He had feet on both pedals.

In which case, there are no good guys in this farce.

Vicious Babushka Jun 23, 2024 • 4:10:06pm

Cybertruck is uglier than the Edsel. UGLIEST. VEHICLE. EVER.

Eventual Carrion Jun 23, 2024 • 4:13:29pm

From a comment in last thread. I did some checking.

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.”

Reality:

Nerdy Fish Jun 23, 2024 • 4:13:48pm

re: #7 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Re Mister Wankpanzer-Go-Crunch from the last thread. It looks like:
1. He’s a Trumpanzee.
2. He had feet on both pedals.

In which case, there are no good guys in this farce.

I didn’t see any evidence of #2, but it’s a distinct possibility. With that said, if he didn’t have feet on both pedals, it seems like a bit of a problem if the Incel Camino does not disengage the accelerator when the brake is pressed. I’m old enough to remember Toyota getting in seriously deep shit with federal regulators for a very similar issue.

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 4:21:03pm

re: #9 Eventual Carrion

From a comment in last thread. I did some checking.

Reality:

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What are the second and third columns of numbers?

BeenHereAwhile Jun 23, 2024 • 4:22:55pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

‘99, not ‘89.

Corrected it - thanks.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 23, 2024 • 4:27:15pm

re: #1 Vicious Babushka

THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS ARTICLE!

Tree of Life is where my friends and I worshipped when we were undergrads at Pitt. I am glad to see that the building isn’t abandoned but rebuilt.

When I go to East LA I see the abandoned temple that used to be called the “Queen Of the Shuls” fenced up and abandoned and it makes me so sad…but there is hope that the LA Conservancy is raising fund to save it…

Eventual Carrion Jun 23, 2024 • 4:29:46pm

re: #11 Belafon

What are the second and third columns of numbers?

Average per year and years in office

Edited to add link to report.

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 4:31:10pm

re: #8 Vicious Babushka

Cybertruck is uglier than the Edsel. UGLIEST. VEHICLE. EVER.

The AMC Pacer was really ugly too but yet it somehow had this thing where it fell into the “so ugly it’s cute” category. The sort of friendly insect eye headlights, the odd rear glass that cooked everyone and everything, etc.

Cybertruck feels like they actually tried to do that and failed while the Edsel’s designers were just taking 50’s design cues to their logical fails.

Part of me would love a pristine Pacer body on something like a Chevy Bolt frame just to mess with people 😈🤣 Perhaps if I ever win the lotto I can hire the firm that makes the Jaguar XK electric conversions.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 23, 2024 • 4:37:38pm

It’s Not Just AIPAC: How Jamaal Bowman Alienated Voters Who Once Supported Him (Huffington Post, today)

Rep. Bowman blaims AIPAC spending on advertising nine-to-one pro-Bowman super PACs. However, Bowman was way behind before AIPAC spent a dime.

If the polling is accurate, Rep. Jamaal Bowman is the heavy underdog in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District.

The topline story of the race is, understandably, pro-Israel groups’ record-breaking spending against Bowman, a passionate pro-Palestinian advocate who has dubbed Israel’s invasion of Gaza a “genocide.” Super PACs backing Bowman’s challenger, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, have outspent pro-Bowman super PACs on the airwaves by a 9-to-1 margin, helping make it the most expensive House primary in history. The independent spending arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee alone has spent $14.6 million on television, digital and direct-mail advertisements.

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Ace Rothstein Jun 23, 2024 • 4:48:55pm

Royal Street, New Orleans. May 2024.

Patricia Kayden Jun 23, 2024 • 4:49:27pm

And Blacks without felony convictions

Patricia Kayden Jun 23, 2024 • 4:57:20pm

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 5:03:16pm

re: #19 Patricia Kayden

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Should show a preacher chasing a kid out the back door…

(((Archangel1))) Jun 23, 2024 • 5:21:33pm

Maybe a wax Lincoln sculpture wasn’t the best idea during DC’s first week of summer heat pic.twitter.com/qfp0lIGFWo

— Kirk A. Bado (@kirk_bado) June 23, 2024

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jun 23, 2024 • 5:32:49pm

Bleh!

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 5:44:41pm

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Decent weather for a change. Fixed the truck and then was driving home from the family farm and swung by one of my favorite parks for a drive through one of the quieter roads.

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 5:44:54pm

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 23, 2024 • 5:45:00pm

Ah the joy of monopoly. Spectrum is down in my area. No estimate when it comes back up. Sending this via my iPhone…

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 5:45:07pm

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 5:46:37pm

re: #25 Joe Bacon ✅

Ah the joy of monopoly. Spectrum is down in my area. No estimate when it comes back up. Sending this via my iPhone…

We had that yesterday. It took about three hours to return.

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 5:59:13pm

From Face the Nation, or as Mistermix calls them, Face the Republicans:

MARGARET BRENNAN: You have been a very vocal access- advocate, I should say, for Reproductive Health Access. This week marks two years since Roe vs. Wade was struck down. And yet, in 2023, America had the highest abortion number and abortion rate in over a decade. Why do you think there are more abortions happening at a time when there is decreased access?

GOV. LUJAN GRISHAM: Well, I think there are more abortions happening because more women are at risk, which means they can’t get into a provider, they can’t get prenatal care. You’ve got providers who are worried about prosecutions and any number of other issues that interfere with their ability to provide care, less access to contraceptives, less information about public health, less ability to get to your primary care physician. Most families and women live eighty-six miles from a provider- you create a draconian situation; you’re going to increase risk at every single place. And this is a state that’s clear about protecting women and creating equality, but that’s what I believe is the genesis of this situation.

cbsnews.com

Hecuba's daughter Jun 23, 2024 • 6:08:18pm

re: #28 Belafon

From Face the Nation, or as Mistermix calls them, Face the Republicans:

cbsnews.com

In this case, the governor is a Democrat. So maybe they are learning.

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 6:09:39pm

I don’t know if there are any science fiction writers here, but questionablecontent.net

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 23, 2024 • 6:22:30pm

I get why Katy Perry ditched Russell Brand as a hub after only two years. The man went off the conspiratorial end of things some time ago. When he was accused of sexual assault, he suddenly found Catholicism.

So today’s dumb crazy is David Icke attacking him, not over the alleged assault, but promoting a Catholic cell phone application called Haven. Icke took to BirdChan to tie Brand to “globalists,” the Bilderberg Group, British Intelligence, the Pentagon, Peter Theil, and Sen. JD Vance.

Several of my brain cells wanted to commit hari kari after reading that.

David Icke wrote what’s behind the hide bar:

Click to Reveal

Jonathan Roumie is a narrator for the Catholic prayer app Hallow promoted by Russell Brand and was part of the Hallow Super Bowl commercial which caused ‘a huge spike of downloads’. The Hallow app is funded by globalist Bilderberg Steering Committee member, the intelligence and Pentagon to his DNA, Peter Thiel, and his business associate, ‘anti-globalist’ Senator J D Vance. It’s all a coincidence - nothing to worry about.

Icke is a nut and Brand isn’t far behind.

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 6:28:40pm

re: #30 Belafon

I don’t know if there are any science fiction writers here, but questionablecontent.net

Well, that’s certainly ALWAYS been the case with Hollywood SF. Even in the rare case where there is even an attempt at getting the science right (Deep Impact, The Expanse) there are still howlers in the finished products. Heck, the sandstorm that starts The Martian isn’t possible.

As opposed to Moonfall, Lucy, Armageddon (or every Michael Bey crapfest), just go look at bad astronomer’s web site for movies that just don’t GAF about science.

Porn lit that is actually readable as a story and as erotica AND is accurate in terms of what really works with human bodies is even rarer than scientifically accurate SF.

As an aside, the little goblin is turning into an interesting new character.

Nojay UK Jun 23, 2024 • 6:41:53pm

re: #30 Belafon

According to the summary each chapter is about 250 words long on average. That’s kinda… abrupt.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 23, 2024 • 6:47:34pm

Due to heavy rain and flooding in eastern Nebraska and south-east South Dakota is closing Interstate 29 effective immediately from Exit 2 in North Sioux City through 9 to build an emergency levee. There is no timeframe when the Interstate will open.

mmmirele Jun 23, 2024 • 7:00:11pm

Here’s quite the combination—a Tesla parked in Washington, DC with standard Sovereign Citizen license plates. Apparently it got ticketed. IMHO, it should have been impounded & towed with impunity. This is not merely someone with expired tags. This is someone who is driving an expensive car and they think they’re so above the rest of us that they flaunt their fake sovereign citizen license plates.

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 7:05:09pm

re: #35 mmmirele

Here’s quite the combination—a Tesla parked in Washington, DC with standard Sovereign Citizen license plates. Apparently it got ticketed. IMHO, it should have been impounded & towed with impunity. This is not merely someone with expired tags. This is someone who is driving an expensive car and they think they’re so above the rest of us that they flaunt their fake sovereign citizen license plates.

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We should kick the sovereign citizens out of the country and let some migrants that want to be here become actual citizens instead. I hear Somalia doesn’t have any government they have to worry about.

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 7:05:29pm

re: #35 mmmirele

Here’s quite the combination—a Tesla parked in Washington, DC with standard Sovereign Citizen license plates. Apparently it got ticketed. IMHO, it should have been impounded & towed with impunity. This is not merely someone with expired tags. This is someone who is driving an expensive car and they think they’re so above the rest of us that they flaunt their fake sovereign citizen license plates.

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Be a good case for a 10 lb sledge hammer to each window and quarter panel 😈

Who me? Nah. But I’ll bet that a Grant or maybe a Franklin handed to a street kid along with said hammer would get the task accomplished right quick 🤣

Captain Ron Jun 23, 2024 • 7:06:13pm

A video showing Israeli troops driving with a wounded Palestinian man strapped to the hood of a military jeep is under investigation by the Israel Defense Forces for violating military protocol. https://t.co/1FaL2vPsCv

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 23, 2024

It’s the latest in a series of incidents that the Israeli military has characterized as inappropriate and “contrary to the values of the IDF.”

mmmirele Jun 23, 2024 • 7:06:18pm

re: #37 William Lewis

Be a good case for a 10 lb sledge hammer to each window and quarter panel 😈

Who me? Nah. But I’ll bet that a Grant or maybe a Franklin handed to a street kid along with said hammer would get the task accomplished right quick 🤣

Too many cameras around. I don’t want to get a kid in trouble.

Vicious Babushka Jun 23, 2024 • 7:07:56pm

It seems that pro-Palestinian protestors decided to harass a synagogue in LA (but don’t call them antisemitic!) maybe they thought the Elders of Zion meet in the main sanctuary. A HUGE FIGHT broke out.

Video at the link:

Clashes erupt between Israel backers, pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrating outside LA synagogue

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 7:08:31pm

re: #36 Belafon

We should kick the sovereign citizens out of the country and let some migrants that want to be here become actual citizens instead. I hear Somalia doesn’t have any government they have to worry about.

I mean, heck, they don’t consider themselves citizens anyway, and I bet they have some interesting ideas on what to do about immigrants.

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 7:09:15pm

re: #38 Captain Ron

It’s the latest in a series of incidents that the Israeli military has characterized as inappropriate and “contrary to the values of the IDF.”

The problem being “Idiot! You got caught!” ? No sarc tag alas.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 23, 2024 • 7:09:24pm

re: #35 mmmirele

Here’s quite the combination—a Tesla parked in Washington, DC with standard Sovereign Citizen license plates. Apparently it got ticketed. IMHO, it should have been impounded & towed with impunity. This is not merely someone with expired tags. This is someone who is driving an expensive car and they think they’re so above the rest of us that they flaunt their fake sovereign citizen license plates.

Or a wheel boot.

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 7:09:43pm

re: #37 William Lewis

Be a good case for a 10 lb sledge hammer to each window and quarter panel 😈

Who me? Nah. But I’ll bet that a Grant or maybe a Franklin handed to a street kid along with said hammer would get the task accomplished right quick 🤣

I hear there are giant stone heads available.

calochortus Jun 23, 2024 • 7:10:13pm

re: #35 mmmirele

Ummmm, “no driver’s license required”? Since when is a driver’s license associated with the vehicle rather than the driver? He (and I’m pretty sure it’s a guy) may not feel he needs a license, but the plate has nothing to do with that. He probably means no registration required, but then he’s an idiot anyway.

Vicious Babushka Jun 23, 2024 • 7:10:24pm

re: #41 Belafon

I mean, heck, they don’t consider themselves citizens anyway, and I bet they have some interesting ideas on what to do about immigrants.

Other countries have their own version of sov cits. There are flavors of sov cit in Australia, Ireland, and Canada. Not sure about non-English-speaking countries.

Nerdy Fish Jun 23, 2024 • 7:10:45pm

re: #41 Belafon

I mean, heck, they don’t consider themselves citizens anyway, and I bet they have some interesting ideas on what to do about immigrants.

They do consider themselves citizens - citizens of the “real” United States of America, whereas those of us who live in reality are citizens of a corporate state that was set up to enslave the sheeple. So their reply would be that we should all deport ourselves and let them have “their” country back.

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 7:11:19pm

re: #46 Vicious Babushka

Other countries have their own version of sov cits. There are flavors of sov cit in Australia, Ireland, and Canada. Not sure about non-English-speaking countries.

Probably very few vocal ones in China, Russia, North Korea.

Nerdy Fish Jun 23, 2024 • 7:12:14pm

re: #45 calochortus

Ummmm, “no driver’s license required”? Since when is a driver’s license associated with the vehicle rather than the driver? He (and I’m pretty sure it’s a guy) may not feel he needs a license, but the plate has nothing to do with that. He probably means no registration required, but then he’s an idiot anyway.

The answer is both. They believe there is some arcane common law tradition that dictates they have the “free right to travel,” which means that both licenses and registrations are illegal restrictions upon that right and can be ignored.

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 7:13:13pm

re: #47 Nerdy Fish

They do consider themselves citizens - citizens of the “real” United States of America, whereas those of us who live in reality are citizens of a corporate state that was set up to enslave the sheeple. So their reply would be that we should all deport ourselves and let them have “their” country back.

Except since they don’t think that the current law follows them, they are foreigners of the worst kind.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 23, 2024 • 7:13:39pm

re: #45 calochortus

Ummmm, “no driver’s license required”? Since when is a driver’s license associated with the vehicle rather than the driver? He (and I’m pretty sure it’s a guy) may not feel he needs a license, but the plate has nothing to do with that. He probably means no registration required, but then he’s an idiot anyway.

So-called sovereign citizens also believe they do not require a driver’s license to drive on public roads.

It’s sort of an announcement to a police officer that if you pull him over, he won’t comply with the officer’s request to see a license and insurance (which he wouldn’t have either).

Those sorts of confrontations either end up in shoot-outs or the sov-cit being dragged out of the car and hauled off to jail.

calochortus Jun 23, 2024 • 7:14:47pm

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So-called sovereign citizens also believe they do not require a driver’s license to drive on public roads.

It’s sort of an announcement to a police officer that if you pull him over, he won’t comply with the officer’s request to see a license and insurance (which he wouldn’t have either).

Those sorts of confrontations either end up in shoot-outs or the sov-cit being dragged out of the car and hauled off to jail.

Like I said. An idiot.

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 7:16:12pm

re: #39 mmmirele

Too many cameras around. I don’t want to get a kid in trouble.

Any kid living there would pass his streetwise roll I’d bet. Ski mask, gloves, no ones ever held the hammer since the poor stocker at walmart … 😉 Cops will look at that plate, remember all the sovcit shootouts and the case will end up in file 13 instantly.

sizzzzlerz Jun 23, 2024 • 7:20:41pm

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So-called sovereign citizens also believe they do not require a driver’s license to drive on public roads.

It’s sort of an announcement to a police officer that if you pull him over, he won’t comply with the officer’s request to see a license and insurance (which he wouldn’t have either).

Those sorts of confrontations either end up in shoot-outs or the sov-cit being dragged out of the car and hauled off to jail.

There are literally hundreds of youtube videos on just this scenario. A cop pulls a car over for some traffic violation. When asked for his license, the driver says he doesn’t have one nor does he have registration papers nor insurance. He also insists that he was “traveling”, not “driving” which has some commercial/business meaning, supposedly. When asked to exit the car, he refuses. The cop asking multiple times and is refused for each. Finally, the guy’s window get broken and the idiot is dragged from his car and placed in handcuffs. Every damn time. Yet these socalled SovCits continue to insist they are exempt from the state laws. Wrong, Sparky.

mmmirele Jun 23, 2024 • 7:23:45pm

I thought I’d elaborate on the “too many cameras” remark. Should have been more like “too many things that can track us.” I came to this realization as more documents get released in the murder case of Madeline Soto, a 13 YO Kissimmee, Florida girl. The police are accusing mom’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Stephan Sterns as the murderer.

A significant chunk of the police investigative docs are cellphone tower pings. The investigation traced out the pings of Madeline’s, Jennifer’s (mom) and Stephan’s phones over a day. There are times where Stephan has his phone turned off, and times where Madeline’s phone is static at home “because she didn’t take it to school.” (It’s believed that Sterns killed her early in the morning before she would have gone to school.)

At the times Sterns had his phone turned off, police went around and canvassed monitoring cameras in the area. They discovered recordings at the apartment complex of Sterns leaving with Madeline in the car, but she appears asleep (probably was dead at that point). There’s more video of him disposing of a garbage bag which was found to contain Madeline’s backpack and school-issued Chromebook in it. Later that morning, Sterns was spotted by camera at a Holiday Inn parking lot, and he was moving what appeared to be a body from the car into the trunk. Sterns later took her body to another place and dumped it, but at the same time he had to change his tire. He threw the pieces of the old tire into a trash compactor at the apartment complex and these were later recovered and matched to tire tracks at the scene where Madeline’s body was found. Police received a tip about seeing his vehicle there.

mynews13.com

Oh, and if there’s any concern that they might not have this guy dead to rights, when police seized his phone, they found that it linked up to a Google Drive with something like 1,700 pictures of child sexual abuse material. He’d been sexually assaulting Madeline since she was eight years old. As a result, there will be two trials. One for the CSAM and the other for the murder.

And YEAH, I have questions about mom Jennifer as well. She had her child sharing a bed with Sterns the night before her murder, while she slept somewhere else because she needed her sleep. Part of me has been hoping she’s dim and clueless but part of me is also thinking the absolute worst. Jennifer has not yet been arrested.

tl;dr: you can be tracked via cellphone ping, and if not, there are cameras everywhere.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 23, 2024 • 7:40:16pm

Rachel Maddow’s second episode of the second season of Ultra is up. (41:52)

It starts with a 1950 NBC Radio roundtable discussion by physicists about the potential to destroy the world with a cobalt bomb made from a hydrogen bomb. (At the time neither existed.) Shortly afterward an ultra-right figure who worked in the field offered plans for a cobalt bomb on the market: Francis Parker Yockey (promoted a French Holocaust denier and inspiration to Wilis Carto).

The Mole

darthstar Jun 23, 2024 • 7:41:07pm

darthstar Jun 23, 2024 • 7:44:11pm

Neighbor brought us some Sockeye Salmon filets and King Crab legs he got as a gift so we cooked dinner for him and our across the street neighbors…did not suck.

I Would Prefer Not To Jun 23, 2024 • 7:45:26pm

darthstar Jun 23, 2024 • 7:50:43pm

jaunte Jun 23, 2024 • 7:52:01pm

At 7’9”, he’s about to become the tallest college basketball player ever
cnn.com

Dr Lizardo Jun 23, 2024 • 8:00:55pm

re: #46 Vicious Babushka

Other countries have their own version of sov cits. There are flavors of sov cit in Australia, Ireland, and Canada. Not sure about non-English-speaking countries.

Oh, yeah, we have a Sovereign Citizens variant here in Czech Republic as well. They call themselves “Legitimate Creditors of Czechoslovakia” and they blend SovCit wackiness with some homegrown ideas, namely, that Czechoslovakia still exists and that the 1992 Velvet Divorce (the dissolution of Czechoslovakia) never actually happened.

BeachDem Jun 23, 2024 • 8:02:38pm

re: #49 Nerdy Fish

The answer is both. They believe there is some arcane common law tradition that dictates they have the “free right to travel,” which means that both licenses and registrations are illegal restrictions upon that right and can be ignored.

Or, as Alice would say, “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”

Hm, that could be Republicans speaking as well.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 23, 2024 • 8:04:59pm

re: #40 Vicious Babushka

That’s not the only synagogue these thugs have tried that crap here in Los Angeles. Still remember last Christmas Day when I thought I would go get some Chinese food on Pico and there was a confrontation between thugs and Orthodox. I got pulled into it and wound up with a couple bruises and a badly skinned left knee.

Sure would have been nice if the LAPD had done something to shut the thugs down…

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 23, 2024 • 8:08:59pm

Donald Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sought to honor his Christian faith on Sunday, but was swiftly reminded he worked for someone who is known for his sins.

The former official posted the following Bible verse along with a “Sunday scripture” tag.

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28:19

In response to Pompeo’s Bible quote, one user, @Str8OuttaCmptin, quoted Pompeo in November 2020 as saying, “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”

“These bible quotes don’t mean anything if they just serve as wool for your wolf in sheep’s clothing costumes,” they added. “If you don’t already know this, you’ll soon learn.”

Another user responded with a verse of his own. @FrankAmari2 wrote, “Here’s another from Matthew, Mike: For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in Matthew 25:35.”

@mowaqa8 chimed in:

“The aspect of your faith that you r choosing to emphasize are out of line with the letter & spirit of the American principles of secularism & republican government on which America’s foundations are premised. Not to mention running afoul of American & international laws.”

@Jonathan_Winn said, “‘I am the chosen one.’ - Donald Trump convicted felon/serial adulterer/convicted fraudster”

@JenResistedAGN created a Trump-themed Bible verse:

“‘I did try and f—— her. She was married. I moved on her like a b——-. Then all of a sudden I see her. I’m automatically attracted to beautiful. I just start kissing. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. Grab ‘em by the p——. You can do anything.’ (Trump 9:5)”

rawstory.com

darthstar Jun 23, 2024 • 8:15:00pm

re: #65 Joe Bacon ✅

Is it possible Trump may be losing some of the ‘assumed lock’ he has on evangelicals?

sizzzzlerz Jun 23, 2024 • 8:20:41pm

re: #60 darthstar

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So, Sally, how big was the one you caught?

Sally: 50 kees

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 23, 2024 • 8:21:07pm

re: #61 jaunte

He’s up there in Belter territory.

Belafon Jun 23, 2024 • 8:23:01pm

re: #66 darthstar

Is it possible Trump may be losing some of the ‘assumed lock’ he has on evangelicals?

I bet all of those are people on the left, some Christians, some just quoting verses.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 23, 2024 • 8:25:47pm

re: #66 darthstar

Is it possible Trump may be losing some of the ‘assumed lock’ he has on evangelicals?

I doubt it. The brainwashing has been going on for years and if anything radical Xtians will double down on doing whatever it takes to put that asshole back in the Oval Office.

jaunte Jun 23, 2024 • 8:30:07pm

re: #68 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

He’s going to have trouble finding a hat that fits.

Captain Ron Jun 23, 2024 • 8:33:25pm

re: #60 darthstar

Is that really the name of the boat on the railing?

BeenHereAwhile Jun 23, 2024 • 8:41:49pm

re: #60 darthstar

When you take your daughters fishing in Florida and they catch their first cocaine :)

Can’t wait to read that DEA-6.

mmmirele Jun 23, 2024 • 8:43:13pm

I’m sure y’all read that Robert Morris is now the former pastor of Gateway megachurch in DFW. What’s interesting is who this news is flushing out of the woodwork to defend Morris. That would be none other than Lance Wallnau, the guy who dreamed up the Seven Mountains Mandate and wants to take over the country for Jesus.

This first post from Wallnau is him basically defending what the elders did with Morris back in the day. It’s a half-assed defense, basically trying to justify what happened.

He got a lot of pushback, and so he posted this:

Weeeeelllll, fuck that noise, this guy is very clear he thinks he’s hot shit. He got more pushback. I let the people who normally keep a gimlet eye on Wallnau know that he’s now arrogating godlike powers to himself.

jaunte Jun 23, 2024 • 8:45:17pm

re: #74 mmmirele

Exile from a Seven Mountains Utopia sounds like a good thing, actually.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 23, 2024 • 8:47:32pm

re: #74 mmmirele

Inquiring minds want to know what skeletons are hiding in Lance Wallnau’s closet! 🤔

Targetpractice Jun 23, 2024 • 8:53:39pm

re: #54 sizzzzlerz

There are literally hundreds of youtube videos on just this scenario. A cop pulls a car over for some traffic violation. When asked for his license, the driver says he doesn’t have one nor does he have registration papers nor insurance. He also insists that he was “traveling”, not “driving” which has some commercial/business meaning, supposedly. When asked to exit the car, he refuses. The cop asking multiple times and is refused for each. Finally, the guy’s window get broken and the idiot is dragged from his car and placed in handcuffs. Every damn time. Yet these socalled SovCits continue to insist they are exempt from the state laws. Wrong, Sparky.

Found a reddit thread on the subject and the first comment explained it pretty well, but the gist of the “traveling” v. “driving” BS is that they’re relying upon a legal dictionary so old that it still describes “drivers” as individuals in control of a team of oxen or draft horses. That “traveling” falls under “freedom of movement” which is (according to them) an iron-clad right laid out in the Constitution that the government cannot put restrictions upon. And that their car is a “conveyance” in the same way that one might insist that a “computer” is one who calculates numbers because that’s the definition used in the mid-1800s.

The full explanation goes deeper than that and…yeah, this shit makes Libertarians look sane by comparison. At least they’re not trying to argue with straight faces that the government got replaced with a corporate entity over a century ago, mostly because such a scenario would actually tickle them to bits.

Targetpractice Jun 23, 2024 • 8:54:57pm

re: #75 jaunte

Exile from a Seven Mountains Utopia sounds like a good thing, actually.

Sounds like the title of a scifi novel from the 60s.

BeenHereAwhile Jun 23, 2024 • 8:55:13pm

Liz’s rebilitating:

jaunte Jun 23, 2024 • 8:55:55pm

re: #78 Targetpractice

Snake Plissken vs. evil genius Lance Wallnau!

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 23, 2024 • 8:58:02pm

re: #71 jaunte

Sadly, he’ll likely have a short life. If I was in the admin of the college he’s attending I’d be worried about liability for what might happen to him on the court.

I’m not talking about the general belief that taller people live not as long as shorter people - I think that is still much debated.

That student, Olivier, seems to be exhibiting a developmental pattern that is quite abnormal, though that CNN article does not discuss gigantism.

Eclectic Cyborg Jun 23, 2024 • 9:03:07pm

re: #45 calochortus

Ummmm, “no driver’s license required”? Since when is a driver’s license associated with the vehicle rather than the driver? He (and I’m pretty sure it’s a guy) may not feel he needs a license, but the plate has nothing to do with that. He probably means no registration required, but then he’s an idiot anyway.

You can buy the plate for $10:

Targetpractice Jun 23, 2024 • 9:03:25pm

re: #80 jaunte

Snake Plissken vs. evil genius Lance Wallnau!

I was thinking more Stranger in a Strange Land, the plot of which is some exile from a “utopia” who finds himself unceremoniously dumped in the real world only to realize that everything he thought of as “perfect” and “good” was a controlled environment meant to keep him docile and quiet while he was exploited in various and sundry fashion.

Eclectic Cyborg Jun 23, 2024 • 9:07:15pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

Fun fact: “Utopia” actually means “Nowhere”.

sizzzzlerz Jun 23, 2024 • 9:31:14pm

re: #46 Vicious Babushka

Other countries have their own version of sov cits. There are flavors of sov cit in Australia, Ireland, and Canada. Not sure about non-English-speaking countries.

There are some videos that show Canadian cops stopping a Canadian SovCit. Per their script, the idiot was trying to argue legal statutes from the US Constitution. They can’t even be bothered with tailoring their idiot rap so that it applies to the country they’re in. They just download some from the intertubes and use that.

sizzzzlerz Jun 23, 2024 • 9:32:44pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

I was thinking more Stranger in a Strange Land, the plot of which is some exile from a “utopia” who finds himself unceremoniously dumped in the real world only to realize that everything he thought of as “perfect” and “good” was a controlled environment meant to keep him docile and quiet while he was exploited in various and sundry fashion.

Sounds more like The Matrix except the exploitation was to use him as a battery.

William Lewis Jun 23, 2024 • 9:33:45pm

re: #78 Targetpractice

Sounds like the title of a scifi novel from the 60s.

That or a bad disney movie.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 23, 2024 • 9:34:36pm

re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg

You can buy the plate for $10:

The only part of the sov-cit movement which actually makes (some) sense is the incredible amount of money made by grifters.

It’s kind of like the various Gold Rushes: The people who made the most money were merchants.

Cue “If I had no ethics, &c.”

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 23, 2024 • 9:39:25pm

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m familiar with some of William Francis Yockey’s history, but Rachel Maddow brought up more I didn’t know.

That lead me down a rabbit hole of his associates.

What a parade of assholes (or do assholes come in cavalcades).

Targetpractice Jun 23, 2024 • 9:45:34pm

re: #85 sizzzzlerz

There are some videos that show Canadian cops stopping a Canadian SovCit. Per their script, the idiot was trying to argue legal statutes from the US Constitution. They can’t even be bothered with tailoring their idiot rap so that it applies to the country they’re in. They just download some from the intertubes and use that.

It’s the sort of thing that appeals to the same crowd that buy into “miracle” products that are sold to you online anonymously because “experts don’t want you to know…” or MLM schemes where you’re on the verge of being a millionaire overnight if you just fork over $200 for a “starter set” of products to sell. Classes, paraphernalia, even “lawyers” in Sovcit law who will happily offer their services (for a fee) over the phone when you’re arguing with a cop about “driving v. traveling.” All that money spent…just to find out that your local government don’t care what fantasies you buy into, your ass is still responsible for the stack of fees you’ve wracked up breaking the various laws you “don’t consent to.”

JC1 Jun 23, 2024 • 10:20:58pm

6/6 whew. Streak alive at 305

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re: #91 JC1

6/6 whew. Streak alive at 305

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 12:05:09am

So I’m using Microsoft Word for the Mac, for a project I am starting… and damn, I forgot how much I dislike this thing.

If all one wants to do is write some text and stay in Print Layout mode then fine, you can write text, insert boxes, format, etc.

But I’m trying to make use of Outline mode and switch between that and Print Layout and all I end up doing is wondering why I am making this so hard on myself.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 12:17:32am

I’d use the Apple Pages app but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to do line numbering in Pages.

Apple help is notoriously opaque with many questions like this.

And a Google search does not return anything but conflicting information.

Of the Apple apps, only Keynote really seems to be anything I can use. That’s been the case since Apple introduced these apps.

Over the years I’ve wondered if Apple keeps Pages and Numbers limited in scope, to please Microsoft so Redmond doesn’t complain.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 12:19:36am

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 12:30:47am

More Les for the middle of the night:

Les Baxter - Little Girl Blue

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re: #91 JC1

6/6 whew. Streak alive at 305

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 1:21:55am

My heart bleeds for them (no it doesn’t).

“Four years after purchasing a castle in rural West Virginia intended as their headquarters, the white nationalist outlet VDARE has said that an investigation by New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James has ‘crucified’ the site and left it ‘on life support.’”

What We Know About the VDARE Legal Situation That They Say ‘Finished’ Them (Southern Poverty Law Center, June 20, 2024)

Huh. I missed it that the New York Attorney General was going after Peter Brimelow’s racist outfit.

A New York state judge in March found the VDARE Foundation, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates the digital publication VDARE (dot) com, in civil contempt for failing to produce hard copy and electronic files related to an AG investigation into the group’s business practices. The ruling has required VDARE to pay a $250-per-day fine, totaling over $20,000 as of June 17, until the group complies with a subpoena that the AG issued in 2022. Brimelow announced the court’s decision in a March 29 post on VDARE’s website, in which the group’s logo, a white doe, is depicted as wearing a crown of thorns like the one the Bible says Jesus Christ wore when he was crucified.

“To hell with Letitia James,” VDARE’s founder Peter Brimelow, 76, said during the group’s annual conference, where multiple speakers expressed concerns about possible political repression and civilizational collapse. VDARE hosted the event, which took place on April 26-28, at a castle it has owned since 2020 in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, a town located approximately two hours outside Washington, D.C.

The AG has alleged that VDARE “violated New York law” after it purchased the Berkeley Springs castle for $1.4 million without the help of a loan, as Hatewatch previously reported. Among the possible instances of misconduct that the AG identified is the fact that Peter and Lydia Brimelow, 39, who are the married couple behind VDARE, have misused nonprofit resources by residing on castle grounds since March 2020, per court records and multiple people-finding databases.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 1:35:37am

re: #21 (((Archangel1)))

Maybe a wax Lincoln sculpture wasn’t the best idea during DC’s first week of summer heat

just put a wax Monica Lewinski kneeling in front of it

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 1:40:47am

re: #47 Nerdy Fish

They do consider themselves citizens - citizens of the “real” United States of America, whereas those of us who live in reality are citizens of a corporate state that was set up to enslave the sheeple. So their reply would be that we should all deport ourselves and let them have “their” country back.

Germany has its freie Reichsbürger who swear their allegiance to the Second Reich (1871-1918), which they see as the last legitimate government of Germany.

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Lancelot Link Returns! Jun 24, 2024 • 1:45:35am

re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Pretty evocative, actually. I’d be interested to see how it changes over the summer.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 1:49:45am

The Hill, yesterday

Democrats are looking to elevate a controversial candidate in the GOP primary for a House seat set to be vacated by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in the hopes of flipping it in November.

A Democratic-aligned super PAC and Democratic candidate Adam Frisch’s campaign have aired ads in the GOP primary for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District either touting hard-line Republican candidate Ron Hanks as “too conservative” and tying him to former President Trump, or raising scrutiny on the establishment-backed Jeff Hurd.

The moves come as Democrats see Hanks, an election denier, as the weaker of the candidates heading into November and their best chance at flipping a red seat.

“It’s no surprise that the Democrats desperately want Ron Hanks to be the nominee because he would be a certain loser to Adam Frisch. There’s no doubt in my mind,” explained former state GOP Chair Dick Wadhams.

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Colorado Democrats elevate divisive GOP candidate in race for Boebert seat

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Targetpractice Jun 24, 2024 • 1:50:08am

re: #21 (((Archangel1)))

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Wait, I’ve seen this commercial before…

Maxell Hi-Fidelity 1983

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Targetpractice Jun 24, 2024 • 1:54:05am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My heart bleeds for them (no it doesn’t).

“Four years after purchasing a castle in rural West Virginia intended as their headquarters, the white nationalist outlet VDARE has said that an investigation by New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James has ‘crucified’ the site and left it ‘on life support.’”

What We Know About the VDARE Legal Situation That They Say ‘Finished’ Them (Southern Poverty Law Center, June 20, 2024)

Huh. I missed it that the New York Attorney General was going after Peter Brimelow’s racist outfit.

(more)

Hold on…give me a sec…nope, sorry, couldn’t manage a single tear for the corrupt assholes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 2:16:59am

Of these ten restaurant chains, how many have you been to? (Me only three: Arthur Treacher’s, Burger Chef, and Howard Johnson’s. A couple of these I never heard of.)

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Forgotten Restaurants From The 1970s, We Want Back!

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William Lewis Jun 24, 2024 • 2:35:00am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Of these ten restaurant chains, how many have you been to? (Me only three: Arthur Treacher’s, Burger Chef, and Howard Johnson’s. A couple of these I never heard of.)

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I remember Arthur Threacher’s as being ok, Bonanza & Ponderosa as Meh, Ground Round was even worse, Shakey’s was cardboard with tomato sauce and cheese on it. Cheap though so my parents took us there often enough and they had windows so we could watch the unlucky teens cooking the pies.

But HoJo’s… Now that was a freaking loss. I’d be willing to commit many a crime for some of their clam strips and and a bowl of sherbet afterwards.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 2:39:25am

re: #106 William Lewis

My favorite was a non-chain fast food place in Gary called The Lure.

The burgers were so thin that they almost got lost in the bun, which was fine with me, I did not like meat as a kid. Except for Lure burgers and bacon sandwiches for much the same reason, the bacon was thin enough to get lost in the bread.

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Targetpractice Jun 24, 2024 • 2:41:17am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Of these ten restaurant chains, how many have you been to? (Me only three: Arthur Treacher’s, Burger Chef, and Howard Johnson’s. A couple of these I never heard of.)

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Ponderosa was that “once every other week” kinda treat when staying with my grandmother in the summer. And I remember going to a Howard Johnson’s once as part of a family outing and the general opinion around the table seems to be a resounding “It’s alright,” with the exception of my sister who was very unhappy when she took a bite of the mashed potatoes and immediately realized they came powdered out of a box.

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William Lewis Jun 24, 2024 • 2:49:29am

re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My favorite was a non-chain fast food place in Gary called The Lure.

The burgers were so thin that they almost got lost in the bun, which was fine with me, I did not like meat as a kid. Except for Lure burgers and bacon sandwiches for much the same reason, the bacon was thin enough to get lost in the bread.

My son would have probably liked them too! There was a local place called Henry’s like that too. 12 burgers for a $1 in about 1970. The fries & drinks were probably just as cheap but I can’t really remember. Good for 3 little kids 😎

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 3:18:55am

re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg

Fun fact: “Utopia” actually means “Nowhere”.

When I was a kid we were driving in Queens.
I saw a big green sign for Utopia Pkwy and I thought “that’s where it is?”

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William Lewis Jun 24, 2024 • 3:23:20am

Looking for something else on youtube and stumbled upon this little tale of a navy E-3’s woe…

Malicious Compliance: Bouncer Confiscates my Military ID. I Tell My Commanding Officer.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2024 • 3:47:16am

re: #108 Targetpractice

Ponderosa was that “once every other week” kinda treat when staying with my grandmother in the summer. And I remember going to a Howard Johnson’s once as part of a family outing and the general opinion around the table seems to be a resounding “It’s alright,” with the exception of my sister who was very unhappy when she took a bite of the mashed potatoes and immediately realized they came powdered out of a box.

Ponderosa was also a bit of a treat for us early on, when it still existed and when my dad wasn’t as well off as he is now. I barely remember it, but as a kid, it would’ve been “sorta fancy food” and I probably would’ve said it was OK. Bear in mind, at the time, that’s about as high-class as we could afford.

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Shropshire Slasher Jun 24, 2024 • 3:50:01am

Finally a break in the tropical weather here in upstate NY. A little less moist drive time music, I hope you enjoy.

Glenn Frey - Part Of Me, Part Of You (From “Thelma & Louise” Soundtrack)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 3:54:57am

Par.
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Eventual Carrion Jun 24, 2024 • 3:59:07am

re: #97 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

That was definitely a word.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jun 24, 2024 • 4:02:58am

Birb here.

Spoiler (little one) below.

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I actually was going to guess the correct word at 2, but…you know if you’ve already solved if.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2024 • 4:07:36am

Wow. They really do be like that.

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 4:13:45am

re: #103 Targetpractice

Wait, I’ve seen this commercial before…

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I still have a drawer full of Maxell UD XL II gold label 90 minute cassettes with all of my old tunes on them.

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Eventual Carrion Jun 24, 2024 • 4:16:47am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Of these ten restaurant chains, how many have you been to? (Me only three: Arthur Treacher’s, Burger Chef, and Howard Johnson’s. A couple of these I never heard of.)

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When I was in high school my girlfriend worked at the local Burger Chef. She would give me her employee discount when I went there. And my parents loved Howard Johnson’s, we would end up there for dinner at least once a month. Where HJ’s used to be is now an Applebee’s.

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Eventual Carrion Jun 24, 2024 • 4:20:20am

re: #110 Dangerman

When I was a kid we were driving in Queens.
I saw a big green sign for Utopia Pkwy and I thought “that’s where it is?”

On I79 north of Pittsburgh there is an exit for Freedom one way and Mars the other way in Cranberry twp.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 4:41:12am

No one died, so this didn’t get much attention:

1,000 or more were at unpermitted Montgomery party where 13 injured in hail of gunfire
al.com

Most were gunshot injuries. 350 spent casings recovered.

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Shropshire Slasher Jun 24, 2024 • 4:43:37am

Sovereign citizen license plates or just plates that came out of a Capn’ Crunch cereal box, these people ruin it for everyone.

The operation was part of the law-enforcement agencies’ ongoing crackdown on drivers using counterfeit license plates — commonly known as “ghost plates” for their use in evading detection — and recidivist toll violators.

Cops seized a total of 196 vehicles and made 50 arrests at checkpoints along seven bridges across the city during the sweeping operation June 14, 15 and 17, according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

Among the vehicles seized were Mercedes, Teslas, BMWs and tricked-out sports cars.

A red sports car with a license plate reading “NAHHHH,” and a motor scooter with a plate boasting “#1 DAD” were among the suspect rides.

One stop on June 14 turned up a car with plates reported stolen from a dealership in Virginia, resulting in the arrest of a 24-year-old suspect with numerous warrants out for vehicle theft in the southern state.

It is believed the car was stolen as part of a dealership fraud scheme.

nypost.com

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 5:03:58am

Nothing to see here, just conservative extremists compiling and enemies list of government employees who might oppose dictatorship.
apnews.com/article/trum...

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-06-24T12:02:13.026Z

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Shropshire Slasher Jun 24, 2024 • 5:04:35am

At least 19 people were slaughtered by a horde of gunmen who stormed religious sites and a police checkpoint yesterday in southern Russia in a heinous terror attack that some officials tried to blame on the West.
Horrific footage showed how black-clad militants stalked through the streets setting fire to places of worship before unleashing a torrent of bullets at police officers and innocent bystanders from automatic rifles.

The casualties so far include 15 law enforcement officials, three civilians and a priest who reportedly had his throat slit by one attacker, with dozens more victims hospitalised with gunshot wounds and burns.

dailymail.co.uk

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Eventual Carrion Jun 24, 2024 • 5:14:58am

Solid! Connections

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 5:36:50am

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 23, 2024

More abuse claims surface at Gateway Church protest. They don’t involve Robert Morris

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 5:37:22am

The new climate denial is warmism revisited… it’s real, but we can still keep those fossil fuels …

"This new denial acknowledges that climate change is real but still seeks to justify continuing the fossil fuel system." newrepublic.com/article/1821...

— Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) 2024-06-24T12:31:16.783Z

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 5:38:39am

In the two years since Dobbs, providers in Maryland say they have seen an increase in patients, including an influx from states with restrictive laws. Voters will consider an amendment to the Maryland Constitution this fall that would guarantee reproductive rights.

Via Maryland Matters

— States Newsroom (@statesnewsroom.com) 2024-06-24T12:36:11.190Z

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GlutenFreeJesus Jun 24, 2024 • 5:38:45am

re: #66 darthstar

Is it possible Trump may be losing some of the ‘assumed lock’ he has on evangelicals?

Nope!

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jeffreyw Jun 24, 2024 • 5:38:46am

Homerdammit

Good morning!

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Shropshire Slasher Jun 24, 2024 • 5:46:31am

Princess Anne has been rushed to the hospital after suffering head injuries and a concussion following an incident on the Gatcombe Park estate Sunday night.
“The Princess Royal has sustained minor injuries and concussion following an incident on the Gatcombe Park estate yesterday evening,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement Monday.

“Her Royal Highness remains in Southmead Hospital, Bristol, as a precautionary measure for observation and is expected to make a full and swift recovery.”

nypost.com

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Romantic Heretic Jun 24, 2024 • 6:33:59am

re: #48 Belafon

In these places the sov-cits run the place. None of those limits on their power for them.

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 6:35:50am

re: #113 Patricia Kayden

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 6:40:29am

From NBC: The Supreme Court is to look into gender-affirming care this week.

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Vicious Babushka Jun 24, 2024 • 6:42:28am

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 6:43:23am

re: #132 Shropshire Slasher

What is an “incident”?

I presume she fell.

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Vicious Babushka Jun 24, 2024 • 6:44:56am

re: #137 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What is an “incident”?

I presume she fell.

Off of a horse?

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 6:46:13am

re: #137 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What is an “incident”?

I presume she fell.

Horse-involved per WaPo.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 6:46:32am

re: #138 Vicious Babushka

Here is an article from CNN:
cnn.com

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Vicious Babushka Jun 24, 2024 • 6:59:19am

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jun 24, 2024 • 7:07:29am

re: #120 Eventual Carrion

Re: Applebee’s

Food so bad that when I was traveling for work once, I got takeout, got back to the hotel, tasted it, and promptly threw it in the garbage. It was horrible.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 7:12:16am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I remember Fish and Chips but very rarely ever went to eat there.

Applebee’s was popular in the late ’90s. I’d go but only eat the brownie dessert.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2024 • 7:14:23am

re: #142 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Re: Applebee’s

Food so bad that when I was traveling for work once, I got takeout, got back to the hotel, tasted it, and promptly threw it in the garbage. It was horrible.

Interesting. Applebee’s was another treat place we went to frequently, or other restaurants in its class (TGI Friday’s, Chili’s). Their food wasn’t exactly great, but most of the time it was acceptable better-than-fast-food fare for a kid/teenager growing up in Bumfuck, Indiana.

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Vicious Babushka Jun 24, 2024 • 7:15:24am

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 7:16:23am

re: #143 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I remember Fish and Chips but very rarely ever went to eat there.

Applebee’s was popular in the late ’90s. I’d go but only eat the brownie dessert.

Applebee’s still functions in the towns around here. We sometimes used them for political meetups.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 7:17:40am

re: #145 Vicious Babushka

Christian of the POS denomination.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 7:18:29am

re: #146 Decatur Deb

There used to be H A Winston in Philly. They had very good burgers and their potato wedges were yummy.

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William Lewis Jun 24, 2024 • 7:20:17am

re: #142 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Re: Applebee’s

Food so bad that when I was traveling for work once, I got takeout, got back to the hotel, tasted it, and promptly threw it in the garbage. It was horrible.

When I drove for Schneider, I considered an Applebee’s within walking distance a win. They weren’t especially _good_ but they weren’t bad and they were consistent and reasonably priced. A burger, fries, beer & shot at the end of the day was never a bad thing.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 7:21:27am

re: #148 PhillyPretzel ✅

There used to be H A Winston in Philly. They had very good burgers and their potato wedges were yummy.

New to me. The greatest PGH chain was Isaly’s Ice Cream. Their big plant was in PGH, though their center was a bit more into Ohio. Seemed like they invented the Klondike. There is still an online presence, maybe a couple shops.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 7:24:03am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Of these ten restaurant chains, how many have you been to? (Me only three: Arthur Treacher’s, Burger Chef, and Howard Johnson’s. A couple of these I never heard of.)

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Me—Arthur Treacher’s,
Bonanza & Ponderosa—Both places.
I remember when Burger Chef gave McDonald’s a run for its money,
Sizzler’s and Shakey’s used to be all over the place in Los Angeles. A lot of them closed during the plague. Now only a couple are left.
Yes Howard Johnson’s “Tendersweet Fried Clams”
Red Barn has the greatest onion rings-thick and sweet.

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danarchy Jun 24, 2024 • 7:24:32am

re: #144 Nerdy Fish

Interesting. Applebee’s was another treat place we went to frequently, or other restaurants in its class (TGI Friday’s, Chili’s). Their food wasn’t exactly great, but most of the time it was acceptable better-than-fast-food fare for a kid/teenager growing up in Bumfuck, Indiana.

Yeah, I’ve never had a problem with Applebees. The burgers are fine, the jack daniels chicken and shrimp dishes are decent if you like a little bit of a sweet sauce. Of the 3 you mention Aplebees would probably come in 3rd, but not a distant third.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 7:26:08am

Another chain that I miss—Big Boy’s. When I moved to Los Angeles in 1982 Bob’s Big Boy’s were everywhere. Now there are only two left in Downey and Burbank…

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 7:26:25am

re: #144 Nerdy Fish

Interesting. Applebee’s was another treat place we went to frequently, or other restaurants in its class (TGI Friday’s, Chili’s). Their food wasn’t exactly great, but most of the time it was acceptable better-than-fast-food fare for a kid/teenager growing up in Bumfuck, Indiana.

“Fern Joints” in some dialects.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 7:27:15am

Tony Roma’s is another chain that had multiple locations in the 80s and 90s. One by one they closed down.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2024 • 7:30:52am

re: #152 danarchy

Yeah, I’ve never had a problem with Applebees. The burgers are fine, the jack daniels chicken and shrimp dishes are decent if you like a little bit of a sweet sauce. Of the 3 you mention Aplebees would probably come in 3rd, but not a distant third.

When I first started professional work in the early 2000’s, a TGI Friday’s or similar was a common place for recruiters to meet for lunch to discuss my resume and potential employment opportunities.

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 7:33:58am

My casual dining faves in no particular order were Bob’s big boy, Chile’s, Pepper Mill, Sizzler’s, Red Lobster, Robata Grill, Carabba’s, Perkins, Black Angus, Houston’s, longhorn steakhouse, and IHOP.

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sizzzzlerz Jun 24, 2024 • 7:35:54am

An interesting factoid about HoJo’s is that PBS TV chef Jacques Pepin used to work for them back in the 60’s as the chief culinary development chef, developing recipes to be used in their restaurants. He turned down an offer to become JFK’s Whitehouse chef to take that job.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 7:36:13am

re: #157 Randall Gross

My casual dining faves in no particular order were Bob’s big boy, Chile’s, Pepper Mill, Sizzler’s, Red Lobster, Robata Grill, Carabba’s, Perkins, Black Angus, Houston’s, longhorn steakhouse, and IHOP.

Pretty much avoid such eateries now, for health reasons, but when doing Army TDY trips they were handy in the hinterland. Their virtue was relative predictability.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2024 • 7:36:14am

re: #157 Randall Gross

My casual dining faves in no particular order were Bob’s big boy, Chile’s, Pepper Mill, Sizzler’s, Red Lobster, Robata Grill, Carabba’s, Perkins, Black Angus, Houston’s, longhorn steakhouse, and IHOP.

Perkin’s is still a thing around here. There is an infamous family incident involving a Baker’s Square restaurant from the late 1990’s or early 2000’s that we still recount to this day, even though I haven’t seen one of those places in quite a long time. (The incident involved a waitress who decided it would be a good idea to stick her finger in someone’s drink to remove a lemon slice, in front of said person.)

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So Cal Greek Hippie Jun 24, 2024 • 7:37:37am

Catching up:

On fast food of old: 1983-84 I had a relationship with a lady, which in totality involved sex, arguments over the morality of rodeo, and eating Senor Naugles Americanized Mex food. There a still a few OG Foster Freeze drive ins around here each slightly different. And speaking of mid 1980’s I miss the golden age of happy hour at slightly nice chain places like Acapulco, Bennigans and Bobby McGees, where for the price of a couple of beers it allowed access to an amazing food spread for a starving student to graze on

On fake car plates: Sad but predictable. I had a neighbor who had dealer paperwork crammed in the left front window and car dealership ad where regular plate would be, for like 5 years

On animals: see photo

2024: Garage

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 7:38:09am

re: #158 sizzzzlerz

Yes. I have heard that. When he mentioned it on one of his shows and comments that was my American apprenticeship.

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So Cal Greek Hippie Jun 24, 2024 • 7:41:39am

re: #151 Joe Bacon ✅

Sizzler. I went to one in Blythe, California once that had the single nicest and freshest salad bar I ever accessed and one near Orange County Fairgrounds that was sparkling clean and run with an iron and brutally efficient manner by an Asian family All the others, sticky, sleazy gristle joints

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 7:42:04am

Jerry’s was a small local burger chain near Ft Knox in the 60s. It got large enough to get bought by the KFC or Pepsi expansions, then shrunk back to its original location. That Jerry’s is still open, minus its in-car service, and has consciously become a nostalgia joint. Best onion rings in the world.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 7:47:24am

As a child, Wife visited the original Col Sander’s KFC, possibly at a time when it was the only one in the world.

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William Lewis Jun 24, 2024 • 7:53:22am

This talk of restaurants makes me remember a family story…

Back shortly before he was drafted, my father took a motorcycle ride to the west coast and had a burger at this “McDonald’s” out there. By the time he got out, Ray Crock had just started franchising them. But no bank in Wisconsin was going to loan a fresh out of the army 20 something that kind of money without a co-signer and grandpa (farmer & meat packing plant worker) didn’t think there was any money in a drive in restaurant franchise.

Instead he went to work in the hospital laundry and met a clerk in the main office and married her. I should probably be glad 😉

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 7:53:42am

There is a KFC in Kathmandu. There are 7500+ in China.

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So Cal Greek Hippie Jun 24, 2024 • 7:54:38am

I miss the Travelers Special and pastry shop at Pea Soup Anderson’s up and down California The Buellton location shown in photo now closed 2022 photo. RIP to my beautiful boy Luke ❤️

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Jay C Jun 24, 2024 • 7:58:37am

re: #168 So Cal Greek Hippie

Oh no! 😥
Pea Soup Andersen’s closed? Wasn’t the Buellton place the original?

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 7:58:57am

The place I really miss was Dairy Belle Drive in outside Seaside, CA. They had a “5 burgers for a Dollar” special, and it was the only place that ever made me feel like I was really full while growing up. (I was thin person all the way to my mid forties, had twin lasers mounted in my tummy that vaporized everything that entered instantly, or so it seemed.)

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dat_said Jun 24, 2024 • 8:00:03am

Memories of growing up in a reasonably sized town before franchisees discovered it - we did have one McDonalds, one Big Boy, one A&W and no pizza chains. I think the town has 5 McDonalds now.

There was/is a local pizza place that serves fleischkuechle and fry bread. Think I’ve only had pizza there once. Try to go there at least once when I’m in town visiting my sister. Also try go to Frieds Family Restaurant just off the Interstate for some good old fashioned knoephla soup (much better than the paste version they serve at Kroll’s (which also serves fleishkuechle and a few other German from Russia foods)). Oh how I miss my mother’s cooking - her versions were all better than what these places serve.

She also made some pretty good kuchen but Aunt Florence’s and Aunt Bernie’s were even better. Have to head to Linton’s Model Bakery if I want anything close. The Linton Bakery also sells Plachinda but my sister makes a great version of that.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jun 24, 2024 • 8:00:28am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Of these ten restaurant chains, how many have you been to? (Me only three: Arthur Treacher’s, Burger Chef, and Howard Johnson’s. A couple of these I never heard of.)

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I’ve never heard of Burger Chef or Red Barn. Arthur Treacher’s looks and sounds very familiar but I don’t recall ever eating at one.

I’ve eaten at every other one listed.

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 8:01:51am

re: #171 dat_said

In Fairbanks we had A&W’s and King Leo’s for drive ins, when the first McDonald’s opened there was a real long ass line for almost a week.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jun 24, 2024 • 8:02:00am

re: #153 Joe Bacon ✅

Another chain that I miss—Big Boy’s. When I moved to Los Angeles in 1982 Bob’s Big Boy’s were everywhere. Now there are only two left in Downey and Burbank…

We have a Big Boy spitting distance from us.

Remember Shoneys?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jun 24, 2024 • 8:03:41am

re: #155 Joe Bacon ✅

Tony Roma’s is another chain that had multiple locations in the 80s and 90s. One by one they closed down.

There’s a Tony Romas in London, Ontario. We ate there once and it was a huge disappointment. I remember hearing how great their ribs were and these were just Meh. Edible but disappointing.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 8:04:51am

re: #174 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

No. I am sorry I do not remember that one. I do remember Horn and Hardart.
en.wikipedia.org

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jun 24, 2024 • 8:05:35am

re: #157 Randall Gross

My casual dining faves in no particular order were Bob’s big boy, Chile’s, Pepper Mill, Sizzler’s, Red Lobster, Robata Grill, Carabba’s, Perkins, Black Angus, Houston’s, longhorn steakhouse, and IHOP.

I have to say… I’m big time bummed that Red Lobster is dying. They closed the one near me and it almost made me cry.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 8:06:59am

re: #174 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We have a Big Boy spitting distance from us.

Remember Shoneys?

Still have Shoney’s around here. They supported our county Dems until the CV19 shakeup changed their schedule. We often stop at Shoney’s when traveling, because the crippled restaurant near our Joint Task Force Andrew HQ in Miami opened their doors and fed relief workers for free rather than throw away their food (no refrigeration after the hurricane).

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 8:07:03am

When I was growing up we were too poor to go out to restaurants save on rare occasions. I think I went to a steakhouse once, that I can remember. Also to a chicken shack type of restaurant in the part of town where black people lived (yes, a small city can be just as segregated as a major city.)

When I was a teenager there was a Pizza Hut in town, and I remember going there with my cousins.

And occasionally going to A&W drive-in in my pre-teen years.

I think we probably lived a simpler life back then (the 1960s) than even just a decade later (1970s-1980s) when franchises became so dominant in the American diet.

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dat_said Jun 24, 2024 • 8:07:13am

re: #177 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have to say… I’m big time bummed that Red Lobster is dying. They closed the one near me and it almost made me cry.

Yeah - going the highly leveraged private equity route (and unlimited shrimp) can kill a company.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jun 24, 2024 • 8:09:35am

re: #176 PhillyPretzel ✅

No. I am sorry I do not remember that one. I do remember Horn and Hardart.
en.wikipedia.org

Shoneys is Big Boy by another name (basically). I think they’re completely interchangeable.

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 8:11:24am

re: #177 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have to say… I’m big time bummed that Red Lobster is dying. They closed the one near me and it almost made me cry.

I know! I feel like there’s some chain out there waiting to fill that gap soon, but in the meantime there is Joe’s crab shack I guess.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jun 24, 2024 • 8:11:39am

One of the more recent restaurants I really miss is Sweet Tomatoes (Soup Plantation out west).

I lived that place so much.

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danarchy Jun 24, 2024 • 8:12:30am

re: #177 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have to say… I’m big time bummed that Red Lobster is dying. They closed the one near me and it almost made me cry.

Having grown up in a city with one of the largest fishing ports in the world, Red Lobster was always kind of a joke to us. I guess if you live inland good seafood is harder to come by.

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So Cal Greek Hippie Jun 24, 2024 • 8:12:54am

re: #169 Jay C

Supposedly will reopen in 2-3 years under new owners but not sure. All I know is that I drive by earlier this year and it was shut down

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 8:13:02am

re: #176 PhillyPretzel ✅

No. I am sorry I do not remember that one. I do remember Horn and Hardart.
en.wikipedia.org

The Automat across from Grand Central was my kitchen table for a few months. Second best hot chocolate “in the world,” out of shiny dolphin spouts.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 8:13:15am

I do think the American diet will change radically in the middle of this century.

By the 2050s there will be enough global crises that food production will be more precious for Americans.

Meat products grown in vats could be a big thing.

I suspect Americans will take more to vat-beef than they will to eating insects.

Frankly, one could replace the beef and pork in most prepared foods with vat-meat and no one would notice.

All those frozen foods from burritos to pizzas - they don’t need mean from the hoof. A vat-protein will work just as well.

And from the 2060’s to 2100 the landscape of food and commerce will transform into something that bring about a truly different lifestyle, depending upon how dystopic things get.

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BeachDem Jun 24, 2024 • 8:16:14am

re: #165 Decatur Deb

As a child, Wife visited the original Col Sander’s KFC, possibly at a time when it was the only one in the world.

When I lived in Ohio, we would often go “down on the farm” to the original Bob Evans.

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 8:17:27am

re: #187 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m ready for my vat meat tomorrow! As long as they get the flavor and texture right…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jun 24, 2024 • 8:17:29am

re: #150 Decatur Deb

New to me. The greatest PGH chain was Isaly’s Ice Cream. Their big plant was in PGH, though their center was a bit more into Ohio. Seemed like they invented the Klondike. There is still an online presence, maybe a couple shops.

There is a small one in West View on the North Side.

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dat_said Jun 24, 2024 • 8:18:34am

re: #182 Randall Gross

I know! I feel like there’s some chain out there waiting to fill that gap soon, but in the meantime there is Joe’s crab shack I guess.

There was a Joe’s Crab Shack near us. Went once and suffered thru the noise and dancing waiters and said that was enough. Place closed quite a few years ago and a Tipsy Steer is in that location now.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 8:18:52am

re: #189 Randall Gross

What will need to happen, though, is some slick branding to get vat-mean accepted by Americans.

A catchy product name that then becomes a regular noun, like with “kleenex” or “jello”.

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 8:19:29am

The two chains I love / Hate are PF Chang’s and Outback - both have few options for people who don’t like their food spiced nuclear hot.

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sizzzzlerz Jun 24, 2024 • 8:20:16am

re: #183 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

One of the more recent restaurants I really miss is Sweet Tomatoes (Soup Plantation out west).

I lived that place so much.

Diitto! It was my once-a-week lunch place prior to the pandemic. The veggies in the salad bar were fresh, crisp, and plentiful. The muffins and breads were great. But, most of all, their soups were to die for. Even their frozen yogurt was great. I’ve really missed them since they closed and have been unable to find any replacement for a salad bar like theirs was.

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Hecuba's daughter Jun 24, 2024 • 8:21:15am

re: #91 JC1

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 8:22:00am

re: #192 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What will need to happen, though, is some slick branding to get vat-mean accepted by Americans.

A catchy product name that then becomes a regular noun, like with “kleenex” or “jello”.

Call it “CRAM” and market it with Pip boy.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jun 24, 2024 • 8:22:17am

re: #193 Randall Gross

The two chains I love / Hate are PF Chang’s and Outback - both have few options for people who don’t like their food spiced nuclear hot.

I was never a P F Chang’s fan since it was chain Chinese food and I was usually in a city that had family-run local Cantonese or Mandarin cooking that was simply superior and cheaper.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 8:22:48am

Maybe if Hormel comes out with a product named like “Bakon”, that is a vat-bacon, and it tastes like real bacon, and thus much better than the veggie-thing that is sold as fake bacon, Americans will realize that vat-meat is a good choice.

Vat-meat will be a much more efficient way to get protein than managing a vegan diet with the necessary balancing of various plant sources.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 8:23:33am

re: #187 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I do think the American diet will change radically in the middle of this century.
…
And from the 2060’s to 2100 the landscape of food and commerce will transform into something that bring about a truly different lifestyle, depending upon how dystopic things get.

Basie:
Jim, didn’t I teach you anything?

Jim:
Yes! You taught me that people will do anything for a potato.
Empire of the Sun

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 8:24:28am

re: #197 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I was never a P F Chang’s fan since it was chain Chinese food and I was usually in a city that had family-run local Cantonese or Mandarin cooking that was simply superior and cheaper.

When they first opened it was one of the few restaurants in our area that served Calamari, so we had to go at least twice a month.

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dat_said Jun 24, 2024 • 8:24:52am

re: #198 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Wonder if the Hungry Heifer name is available for trademark franchising. Beff and Loobster would be readily available names for the vatmeat.

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darthstar Jun 24, 2024 • 8:25:56am

So I take the wife’s car to the dealership for maintenance and they’re under Cyber attack and can’t do shit. I’m at 16% charge and pretty much booked so I go a few miles down the road to an EV-Go station. 4 out of the six chargers are out of order.

A woman in a Pulsar is asleep in the front seat and she wakes up and says she can leave. She sounds shit faced. She gets out of her car and starts trying to unplug it and is fighting the cable. Last thing I want is for her to fuck up the charger so I say hey, you got to end the session first so it will disengage.

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 8:26:12am

Wait, did someone say “Empire of the Sun?”

Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Sam la More 12” Remix )

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 8:26:19am

Now, new polling from Fox News shows an 11-point swing in President Joe Biden’s favorability among independents: They prefer Biden by 9 points, a reversal from May, when they favored Trump by 2 points.

from politico

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 8:28:51am

re: #203 Randall Gross

Wait, did someone say “Empire of the Sun?”

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Randall Gross Jun 24, 2024 • 8:31:10am

re: #205 Decatur Deb

I knew that :)

but

boots and pants forever…

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Markm1960 Jun 24, 2024 • 8:31:17am

I live near and patronize the original Burger King. The Burger King most people know sued the local place to change their name and lost. The local place had been around much longer than the chain. So the big chain has no stores within 50 miles. Kind of nice for the little guy to win.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 8:32:04am

re: #204 Dangerman

from politico

Good.

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sizzzzlerz Jun 24, 2024 • 8:33:03am

A couple of restaurants I haven’t seen mentioned were favorites of mine back in the 60’s. One was Sambos Pancake restaurant and a Mexican all-you-can-eat place called Oke Frijoles. The former probably went out of business due to their rather non-PC name and artwork inside the store (pictures from the Little Black Sambo books). The latter I have no other info on and don’t even know if it was a national or regional chain or maybe it was just a local store in my hometown in the San Joaquin valley. I loved the food as a kid but I suspect I’d find it to be rather awful and terribly non-authentic today.

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Eventual Carrion Jun 24, 2024 • 8:34:00am

re: #150 Decatur Deb

New to me. The greatest PGH chain was Isaly’s Ice Cream. Their big plant was in PGH, though their center was a bit more into Ohio. Seemed like they invented the Klondike. There is still an online presence, maybe a couple shops.

There used to be one in my small NW PA town. We would go into town with mom on Saturdays for shopping trip and that was us kids favorite stop. A BBQ ham sandwich and ice cream after. My sisters and I lived for that treat.

And yes you can still get some of their products online. My favorite local bar does up a little spread on football Sundays to watch the Steelers. Many time it is Islay’s BBQ chipped-chopped ham sandwiches.

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Mattand Jun 24, 2024 • 8:36:20am

re: #204 Dangerman

Worth noting that in May, Trump was essentially a convicted rapist and our idiot independents didn’t see that as a deal breaker.

Angers me to no end that one of the things we’re counting on to keep democracy going in November is a group of morons who, even after nine years of Trump’s shit, think “Yeah, that guy should be POTUS.”

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Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2024 • 8:40:32am

re: #211 Mattand

Worth noting that in May, Trump was essentially a convicted rapist and our idiot independents didn’t see that as a deal breaker.

Angers me to no end that one of the things we’re counting on to keep democracy going in November is a group of morons who, even after nine years of Trump’s shit, think “Yeah, that guy should be POTUS.”

I had a political conversation with my best friend over the weekend. He’s completely oblivious to all the bad shit Trump has done, and even when I explicitly called it all out, he still said at the end of the conversation, “I hate Trump less than I hate Biden, because Biden is a bumbling idiot.” For the record: He may or may not actually believe that. However, he is set in his pre-conceived notions that because of how he was raised and his religious beliefs, he has to find excuses to vote for Trump.

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dat_said Jun 24, 2024 • 8:40:38am

We’ve pretty much ruined our children when it comes to restaurants. In fact, I think one dropped a friend partly because the friend insisted on a Perkins (they went, food was reportedly worse than mediocre) when there was a perfectly fine D’Amico’s across the street. It’s funny when I hear them complain about Domino’s or Davanni’s pizza being served at a school activity (“why can’t they order from Pizza Luce?!!”) or friends going out for Taco Bell (“I told them Centro was close and they wouldn’t listen”) or having supper at Applebee’s (“We all wanted to go to Ichiddo for Ramen but one of them thought it would be too spicy. Can you believe that?”).

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 8:41:18am

re: #211 Mattand

Another reason why I am retiring—can’t handle coworkers who worship Trump!

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jun 24, 2024 • 8:41:38am

re: #210 Eventual Carrion

And yes you can still get some of their products online. My favorite local bar does up a little spread on football Sundays to watch the Steelers. Many time it is Islay’s BBQ chipped-chopped ham sandwiches.

Same here in my little Ohio River town. We pronounced the name as “ICE-uh-LEEs”.

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Eventual Carrion Jun 24, 2024 • 8:42:52am

re: #174 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We have a Big Boy spitting distance from us.

Remember Shoneys?

Yeah, same company I think. Big Boy’s were more northern and Shoney’s were more southern. When I worked on a dry dock in Mississippi we would go over the bridge to the Arkansas side and go to a Shoney’s there.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 24, 2024 • 8:43:50am

When I was young, there was one of these:

Just up the road from the Children’s Hospital I visited regularly (long story), so we would often stop there for lunch after my appointments were done.

I recall the food being decent. Kenny’s is still around, but mostly just in Asia now. There are also I believe still three Arthur Treachers in existence and a handful of Ponderosa restaurants remain in business as well.

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darthstar Jun 24, 2024 • 8:43:52am

re: #208 Decatur Deb

Good.

Not just good, helpful.

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 8:49:04am

re: #204 Dangerman

I’m hoping this gap will increase as the politically disengaged eventually wake up from the summer and remember there’s a presidential election.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 8:49:41am

re: #124 Randall Gross

Just the reintroduction of political patronage and cronyism in the name of abolishing the “Deep State”.

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wrenchwench Jun 24, 2024 • 8:49:55am

Rabbit. Wordle 1,101 5/6*

Click to Reveal

Double whiff! Did not help like I thought it might.

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Hecuba's daughter Jun 24, 2024 • 8:51:46am

re: #183 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

One of the more recent restaurants I really miss is Sweet Tomatoes (Soup Plantation out west).

I lived that place so much.

We loved that one too. One of my favorites.

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Mattand Jun 24, 2024 • 8:52:23am

re: #212 Nerdy Fish

I had a political conversation with my best friend over the weekend. He’s completely oblivious to all the bad shit Trump has done, and even when I explicitly called it all out, he still said at the end of the conversation, “I hate Trump less than I hate Biden, because Biden is a bumbling idiot.” For the record: He may or may not actually believe that. However, he is set in his pre-conceived notions that because of how he was raised and his religious beliefs, he has to find excuses to vote for Trump.

Ugh. I’m at the point in my life where I’m done with those kinds of people.

I’m trying to thread a needle here, because this guy’s your friend, but it seems like “liable for sexual assault” would be a bigger moral flaw than “bumbling idiot” in a POTUS candidate.

Guy sorta sounds like a regular here who was one of the last of the conservative holdovers, Dark Falcon. IIRC, he was all “Trump is a Republican, I must vote for him no matter what because that’s my family’s way.” Pretty much admitting to valuing party over country.

This was all pre-rape and business fraud convictions, but I can’t imagine those ultimately would have swayed him in any form/fashion.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 8:53:56am

re: #187 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Frankly, one could replace the beef and pork in most prepared foods with vat-meat and no one would notice.

All those frozen foods from burritos to pizzas - they don’t need mean from the hoof. A vat-protein will work just as well.

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 8:54:34am

Not just bananas, criminally insane.

@kevinjkircher.com

I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto

repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining

just bananas misuse of power markets

FACT SHEET: Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets in the United States
“…From 2018 to 2022, annualized electricity usage from global crypto-assets grew rapidly, with estimates of electricity usage doubling to quadrupling. As of August 2022, published estimates of the total global electricity usage for crypto-assets are between 120 and 240 billion kilowatt-hours per year, a range that exceeds the total annual electricity usage of many individual countries, such as Argentina or Australia. This is equivalent to 0.4% to 0.9% of annual global electricity usage, and is comparable to the annual electricity usage of all conventional data centers in the world “
whitehouse.gov

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Hecuba's daughter Jun 24, 2024 • 8:54:44am

re: #193 Randall Gross

The two chains I love / Hate are PF Chang’s and Outback - both have few options for people who don’t like their food spiced nuclear hot.

Hate spicy foods — and have never had problems at PF Chang’s but then when I find a dish I can eat, I tend to order that one and so may not realize there are few alternatives that would be acceptable.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 8:56:53am

re: #225 jaunte

Burning eCoal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 8:57:48am

Another local mini-chain I loved was MIner-Dunn, based in Hammond Indiana. Great giant burgers and deep-fried onion rings. That was our Sunday-after-church default setting.

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 8:58:16am

re: #187 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Food Engineering:

Rediscovering Mycelium-based Foods
Growth of alternative protein products is really only just getting started, and products derived from mycelium prove that these alternatives can have staying power.

foodengineeringmag.com

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 8:59:25am

re: #226 Hecuba’s daughter

Hate spicy foods — and have never had problems at PF Chang’s but then when I find a dish I can eat, I tend to order that one and so may not realize there are few alternatives that would be acceptable.

PF Chang’s proved that you can put enough fat, salt, and flour on green beans to make them taste good.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2024 • 8:59:35am

re: #223 Mattand

Yeah, that’s a pretty apt comparison. It sucks, because like many other Republicans I know, he’s otherwise a good guy in many ways; he’s generous, genuine, funny, and a good friend. But in this one regard, he just absolutely refuses to consider any evidence other than, “But that’s what my dad taught me.”

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Rightwingconspirator Jun 24, 2024 • 9:00:53am

re: #229 jaunte

Food Engineering:

I like food that comes from a farmer, rancher, then store or cook. Engineer? Hmmm. Great for cars, planes, buildings. I might be a tough sell on engineered foods

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 9:00:54am

Maybe mycelium meat will save us from cricket flour.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 9:03:10am

re: #232 Rightwingconspirator

I like food that comes from a farmer, rancher, then store or cook. Engineer? Hmmm. Great for cars, planes, buildings. I might be a tough sell on engineered foods

Love hot food straight from the replicator to the table.

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 9:04:12am

re: #232 Rightwingconspirator

My company used to get Food Engineering magazine on a regular basis, for the articles related to packaging and filling lines. I think everyone would be surprised at how much engineering goes into delivering the food supply we buy in groceries and restaurants.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 9:08:04am

re: #157 Randall Gross

My casual dining faves in no particular order were Bob’s big boy, Chile’s, Pepper Mill, Sizzler’s, Red Lobster, Robata Grill, Carabba’s, Perkins, Black Angus, Houston’s, longhorn steakhouse, and IHOP.

There is a Perkins in Scottsbluff. I think my wife and I have been there once. Sheri’s closed there within the last year.

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wrenchwench Jun 24, 2024 • 9:12:25am

re: #235 jaunte

My company used to get Food Engineering magazine on a regular basis, for the articles related to packaging and filling lines. I think everyone would be surprised at how much engineering goes into delivering the food supply we buy in groceries and restaurants.

Imagine being able to make the microplastic glow so it can be found. Some people get upset about giant bergs of plastic in the ocean, for others, it needs to be a little little, little closer to home.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 9:12:53am

re: #235 jaunte

My company used to get Food Engineering magazine on a regular basis, for the articles related to packaging and filling lines. I think everyone would be surprised at how much engineering goes into delivering the food supply we buy in groceries and restaurants.

FMC (Food Machinery Corp) was a major producer of armored combat vehicles, M2 Bradley and others.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 9:13:16am

re: #235 jaunte

My company used to get Food Engineering magazine on a regular basis, for the articles related to packaging and filling lines. I think everyone would be surprised at how much engineering goes into delivering the food supply we buy in groceries and restaurants.

Jack in the Box used to be owned by Ralston-Purina and I am pretty sure that the same slurry line was used for dog chow, cat chow, monkey chow, goat chow and taco filling, it was just a matter of which levers you pulled at the start of the batch run.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 9:16:01am

re: #237 wrenchwench

Imagine being able to make the microplastic glow so it can be found. Some people get upset about giant bergs of plastic in the ocean, for others, it needs to be a little little, little closer to home.

Considering that study which came out a few days ago about microplastics in penii studying erectile dysfunction, a glow-in-the-dark penis would probably get a lot of people’s attention (as a kink).

Detection of microplastics in the human penis (Nature, June 19, 2024)

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dat_said Jun 24, 2024 • 9:17:44am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Jack in the Box used to be owned by Ralston-Purina and I am pretty sure that the same slurry line was used for dog chow, cat chow, monkey chow, goat chow and taco filling, it was just a matter of which levers you pulled at the start of the batch run.

There was a Purina dog food manufacturing plant next to where I used to work. There were often Nestle trucks there dropping off whatever slurry was left after making milk chocolate bars.

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wrenchwench Jun 24, 2024 • 9:19:08am

My dad worked on promoting the use of concrete mixers (think ‘cement truck’) to tumble hams as they were cured. His promo made it to David Letterman’s show. I don’t have it, sorry.

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Mattand Jun 24, 2024 • 9:19:32am

re: #231 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, that’s a pretty apt comparison. It sucks, because like many other Republicans I know, he’s otherwise a good guy in many ways; he’s generous, genuine, funny, and a good friend. But in this one regard, he just absolutely refuses to consider any evidence other than, “But that’s what my dad taught me.”

I sorta had the opposite experience with my dad. He literally taught us never to be prejudiced to other people because of race, religion, etc. As I got older, I discovered how performative that actually was, particularly when he was hanging out with my uncle and my cousins, or the crew at the bar.

Thing was, he knew he was wrong when he would say that shit, particularly when I would push back. Dad would be generally cool when he was around other people, but when he felt he was with folks who would “understand”, the mask would invariably slip.

Miss him, but goddamn, that was so frustrating.

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retired cynic Jun 24, 2024 • 9:19:52am

re: #242 wrenchwench

industrial gyro meat

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 9:20:07am

re: #242 wrenchwench

I’m surprised that didn’t end with a giant tank of ham paté.

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wrenchwench Jun 24, 2024 • 9:21:25am

re: #244 retired cynic

industrial gyro meat

The line that got it on Letterman was ‘meat on meat’. I don’t know whether my dad wrote that.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 24, 2024 • 9:22:09am

re: #235 jaunte

My company used to get Food Engineering magazine on a regular basis, for the articles related to packaging and filling lines. I think everyone would be surprised at how much engineering goes into delivering the food supply we buy in groceries and restaurants.

The amount of time and energy humans spend overall on food related endeavors is massive.

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 9:24:26am

re: #247 Eclectic Cyborg

The effort to create the perfect addictive crunch/cheese taste of a Dorito was huge.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 24, 2024 • 9:26:09am

Since the Trump surrogates are out whining about the debate network and moderator again, just a reminder that Trump does this before EVERY debate, regardless of who the network or moderator is. Because he’s a whiny, excuse-making crybaby. https://t.co/6kpljLOnji

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 24, 2024

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Dave In Austin Jun 24, 2024 • 9:26:31am

re: #182 Randall Gross

I know! I feel like there’s some chain out there waiting to fill that gap soon, but in the meantime there is Joe’s crab shack I guess.

Grateful to live this close to the coast in this regard.
In Post OConner. The local fish shacks and the bait houses all get their product off the same boat. Flounder and Redfish and by-catch.

You ever had a properly prepared Blackened Redfish (that was properly caught that day)?

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 9:27:17am

re: #247 Eclectic Cyborg

The amount of time and energy humans spend overall on food related endeavors is massive.

The ratio has improved since the Pleistocene.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 9:27:22am

Another reason why I’m getting the hell out…

Conservatives Makin’ A List Of Civil Servants, Checkin’ It Twice, Gonna Fire Your Ass If You’re On It

Imagine it is 1950. Sen. Joe McCarthy has just given a speech to the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he waved around a piece of paper and hollered that it contained a list of 205 communists working in the State Department.

Now imagine it is 2024, and this scenario really is happening. At least it will if a group of Republican nutters backed by the Heritage Foundation get their way:

Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homeland Security. […]

[T]he goal is to post 100 names of government workers to a website this summer to show a potential new administration who might be standing in the way of a second-term Trump agenda — and ripe for scrutiny, reclassifications, reassignments or firings.

Jones is a political operative who worked on Capitol Hill for Jim DeMint and Ted Cruz. He also served as the legislative director for Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a job whose duties probably mostly consisted of explaining to the senator that congressional bills are not sentient creatures capable of song, no matter what he might have seen on “Schoolhouse Rock.”

“We need to understand who these people are and what they do,” said Jones.

Of course one could accomplish this without putting these people’s names on the Internet, where Trump’s legions of syphilitic howler monkeys can find it and inundate them with death threats, but we’re betting Jones thinks of that possibility as a feature and not a bug.

He acknowledges some of the work is often a “gut check” or “instinct” about which federal employees would be suspected of trying to block a conservative agenda.

Ah, well. Our gut tells us Tom Jones is actually a giant cockroach in a human skin-suit. And now that’s out on the Internet. Uh-oh.

wonkette.com

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 9:28:11am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Jack in the Box used to be owned by Ralston-Purina and I am pretty sure that the same slurry line was used for dog chow, cat chow, monkey chow, goat chow and taco filling*, it was just a matter of which levers you pulled at the start of the batch run.

and the packaging, and your change
(Steve Martin way back when, referencing mcnuggets)

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wrenchwench Jun 24, 2024 • 9:29:37am

re: #248 jaunte

The effort to create the perfect addictive crunch/cheese taste of a Dorito was huge.

I had a friend who I visited at work once in Chicago. He was photographing food for magazine ads. There were applications of things to make it shiny, or take away shine. Spray bottle kept handy. Nothing hot, no steam allowed. It was an unappetizing job.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 24, 2024 • 9:30:33am

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jeffreyw Jun 24, 2024 • 9:31:08am

#garden #patio #tomatoes
Patio garden tomatoes are coming along nicely.

— (@jeffreyw.bsky.social) 2024-06-24T13:30:10.059Z

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 9:31:59am

re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]Since the Trump surrogates are out whining about the debate network and moderator again, just a reminder that Trump does this before EVERY debate, regardless of who the network or moderator is. Because he’s a whiny, excuse-making crybaby.

Tfg agreed to the debate. <—- full stop

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goddamnedfrank Jun 24, 2024 • 9:32:21am

Ladies, do not let your man dress himself for an important occasion. Ever.

— 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧 (@bretbatson.bsky.social) 2024-06-24T16:25:29.171Z

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 9:32:25am

re: #252 Joe Bacon ✅

Modern government is a complex apparatus and it requires career specialists whose tasks and assignments go beyond serving any one particular administration.

But this is exactly what the GOP describes when it whines about the “Deep State” and it is hell-bent on throwing out a lot of good people in the name of ideological purity and replacing them with party hacks.

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 9:34:44am

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Modern government is a complex apparatus and it requires career specialists whose tasks and assignments go beyond serving any one particular administration.

But this is exactly what the GOP describes when it whines about the “Deep State” and it is hell-bent on throwing out a lot of good people in the name of ideological purity and replacing them with party hacks.

i wonder how many of ‘those people’ are still voting for him

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 9:35:04am

re: #254 wrenchwench

I have spent days myself watching a food stylist work out the mosaic arrangement of single rice grains into an appetizing plate shot.

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wrenchwench Jun 24, 2024 • 9:37:09am

re: #261 jaunte

I have spent days myself watching a food stylist work out the mosaic arrangement of single rice grains into an appetizing plate shot.

Brain, ‘Don’t play with your food’.

Also Brain, ‘Mouth, that is NOT for you! Not the thought, not the rice, just shut up.’

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 9:39:06am

re: #262 wrenchwench

What requires the most time is having a few people from the client there who feel obligated to have an opinion about each rice grain as the plate is being constructed.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jun 24, 2024 • 9:41:28am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 9:43:04am

bsky.app

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 9:43:13am

“When I was hungry you put up a display of the Ten Commandments and told me to fend for myself”

Ayn Rand 14:88

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 9:43:29am

re: #250 Dave In Austin

Grateful to live this close to the coast in this regard.
In Post OConner. The local fish shacks and the bait houses all get their product off the same boat. Flounder and Redfish and by-catch.

You ever had a properly prepared Blackened Redfish (that was properly caught that day)?

My brother-in-law took us to La Islitas in Clute. Oh man that was good (and I’m not a seafood person).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 9:43:39am

re: #264 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

The Governor would rather see them grow up malnorished than to have their minds and morals corrupted by learining dependence on government handouts.

I mean that ironically but that is their fucking argument for letting kids go hungry.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2024 • 9:44:27am

re: #265 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Because the original poster doesn’t like sharing:

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Shropshire Slasher Jun 24, 2024 • 9:44:31am

The cargo ship that caused the deadly Francis Scott Key bridge collapse has been cleared from the entrance to the Port of Baltimore, officials said.
The Dali, which has remained stuck in the vital shipping lane since the collapse on March 26, is expected to sail to Virginia to undergo repairs and offload its cargo, according to the US Coast Guard Mid-Atlantic Office.

The Coast Guard will be closely monitoring and traveling along with the Dali to ensure it reaches its destination at the Norfolk International Terminal.

nypost.com

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 9:44:43am

re: #266 Joe Bacon ✅

“When I was hungry you put up a display of the Ten Commandments and told me to fend for myself”

Ayn Rand 14:88

i’m only 6 years old

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 9:45:36am

re: #271 Dangerman

i’m only 6 years old

According to Christopher Rufo you need to get your ass to work and earn your lunch.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 9:47:44am

re: #271 Dangerman

i’m only 6 years old

We’re not barbarians. We’ll set a reasonable production quota.

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 9:49:13am

re: #273 Decatur Deb

We’re not barbarians. We’ll set a reasonable production quota.

i can’t reach the levers

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 9:49:51am

re: #274 Dangerman

i can’t reach the levers

Scrub the toilets and mop the floor, rugrat OR YOU’RE FIRED and thanks to Christopher Rufo there is no school where you can goof off!!!!!

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 9:52:10am

he’s delusional.

tfg’s campaign in a Monday fundraising email says he was “tortured” while getting his mug shot at the fulton county jail. Link

Trump: If I took this shirt off, you would see a beautiful beautiful person. But you would see wounds all over. I’ve taken a lot of wounds I can tell you. More than I suspect any president ever pic.twitter.com/ETzIt9jJI0

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 22, 2024

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wrenchwench Jun 24, 2024 • 9:52:27am

re: #242 wrenchwench

My dad worked on promoting the use of concrete mixers (think ‘cement truck’) to tumble hams as they were cured. His promo made it to David Letterman’s show. I don’t have it, sorry.

I looked. I found Peter O’Toole. I’m sure this is much funnier than what I was looking for.

peter o’toole on letterman

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 9:53:03am

re: #276 Dangerman

he’s delusional.

tfg’s campaign in a Monday fundraising email says he was “tortured” while getting his mug shot at the fulton county jail. Link

[Embedded content]

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, JFK and Pruneface would like to have a word with you, Shithead!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 9:53:13am

re: #232 Rightwingconspirator

I like food that comes from a farmer, rancher, then store or cook. Engineer? Hmmm. Great for cars, planes, buildings. I might be a tough sell on engineered foods

Quorn has been in the market for more than 40 years. There are more and more fungal mycelium uses coming through the FDA recently and all foods - except those you prepare at home from unprocessed ingredients - are ‘engineered’. Food tech is big business.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 9:56:02am

The Crime Party has an idea to prevent crime.

Kristi Noem pushes pardoning US Capitol attackers so ‘we don’t see another January 6’ (The Guardian, today)

She appeared yesterday on one of the “Inteview the Republicans and Let Them Lie” shows yesterday.

Kristi Noem, once a contender to be the Republicans’ vice-presidential nominee, has argued that people facing charges over the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol should be individually evaluated for pardons - so as to minimize the chances of a repeat.

“Each of those situations needs to be looked at separately,” Noem said on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “What I have been very clear about is that we don’t want to see another January 6 again.

(more)

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sagehen Jun 24, 2024 • 9:56:14am

re: #233 jaunte

Maybe mycelium meat will save us from cricket flour.

PBS this month has been running a series of documentaries about sea farming. It’s amazing the sustainable harvests they’ve been able to develop.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 9:56:14am

re: #278 Joe Bacon ✅

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, JFK and Pruneface would like to have a word with you, Shithead!

again just proof that he has little concern for what oozes out his piehole other than that he thinks the people he is addressing need/want to hear it

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sizzzzlerz Jun 24, 2024 • 9:58:14am

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Crime Party has an idea to prevent crime.

Kristi Noem pushes pardoning US Capitol attackers so ‘we don’t see another January 6’ (The Guardian, today)
(more)

What? I would of thought tourism would be popular with these people.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 9:58:38am

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Crime Party has an idea to prevent crime.

Kristi Noem pushes pardoning US Capitol attackers so ‘we don’t see another January 6’ (The Guardian, today)

She appeared yesterday on one of the “Inteview the Republicans and Let Them Lie” shows yesterday.

(more)

Killer Kristi sees nothing wrong with another 1/6 coup attempt. She wants more Ashli Babbitts to be martyrs for radical Xtians to canonize.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 24, 2024 • 9:58:52am

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“What I have been very clear about is that we don’t want to see another January 6 again.”

So she plans to achieve this by NOT penalizing the people involved in the first one?

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dat_said Jun 24, 2024 • 9:59:37am

re: #272 Joe Bacon ✅

According to Christopher Rufo you need to get your ass to work and earn your lunch.

I worked in the Catholic grade school cafeteria starting in first grade to get a break on the cost of the meals. I’m certain somebody somewhere thought they were teaching me very valuable life lessons. What I really learned is that I could skip out of classes early and not miss a beat when it came to grades.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 24, 2024 • 10:00:30am

They should have sealed off the Capitol building, given people a deadline to come out and surrender themselves and then tear-gassed those remaining

Had those been BLM or Antifa protestors, they would have done the same except they would have used Zyklon-B

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 10:00:46am

re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg

“What I have been very clear about is that we don’t want to see another January 6 again.”

So she plans to achieve this by NOT penalizing the people involved in the first one?

/

The part she doesn’t want to see is further arrests.

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sizzzzlerz Jun 24, 2024 • 10:01:20am

re: #270 Shropshire Slasher

nypost.com

Has it been worked out who is paying for the salvage of the wreckage and construction of a new bridge. At the time, the ship owners stated they weren’t going to pay for it.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 10:03:31am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They should have sealed off the Capitol building, given people a deadline to come out and surrender themselves and then tear-gassed those remaining

Had those been BLM or Antifa protestors, they would have done the same except they would have used Zyklon-B

If they had been BLM or Antifa Trump would have given orders to shoot and kill.

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sizzzzlerz Jun 24, 2024 • 10:05:14am

re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg

“What I have been very clear about is that we don’t want to see another January 6 again.”

So she plans to achieve this by NOT penalizing the people involved in the first one?

/

Just like we free all jailed bank robbers so as to prevent future bank robberies.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 10:05:51am

This seems like an assertion that claims a bit too much (continuing to add to the food discourse, 28:07)

20 Junk Foods That Were Actually HEALTHY in The 1970s!

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sagehen Jun 24, 2024 • 10:06:50am

re: #276 Dangerman

he’s delusional.

tfg’s campaign in a Monday fundraising email says he was “tortured” while getting his mug shot at the fulton county jail. Link

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his secret service detail just stood there and watched him being tortured. they took bets on how long before one of the torturers cried “I’m so sorry sir they’ll fire me if I don’t do this”

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 10:07:02am

We got another Candace Owens here!

‘There weren’t even that many ovens’: Trump co-defendant’s stunning comments on Holocaust

Trevian Kutti, a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump, denied that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

In a post on the social media platform X last week, Kutti shared her views about what happened in the camps run by Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

“I’ve been to both Dachau and Auschwitz,” she wrote. “They could have NEVER ‘ovened’ that many Jews. There weren’t even that many ovens. The number is not 6M. Jews died but it was NOT 6M. If you take a trip, you’ll know that number is a lie. And no, ovens weren’t destroyed.”

One commenter accused Kutti of going “full Nazi.”

“Oh man she went full Nazi wow,” the person wrote in response to Trump’s co-defendant.

“Reading is fundamental,” Kutti wrote back.

“No you are Ignant,” the commenter replied. “No one has ever claimed six million died in ovens. That’s how I know you dumb as hell. And went full Nazi lying and making excuses.”

“I studied in Germany, speak FLUENT German AND HAVE READ MEIN KAMPF IN GERMAN. please stay in your place,” Kutti fired back.

According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2.7 million Jews were killed in Nazi gas chambers as part of the “final solution.” So-called “ovens” were used to dispose of the bodies after death.

alternet.org

Just remember this anti-Semite is in the mainstream of the RepubliKKKlan Party!

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Vicious Babushka Jun 24, 2024 • 10:07:50am

With all this discussion of defunct restaurants you might think that I have nothing to offer since I only eat kosher. However that was not the case growing up. I remember going to White Castle and Toddle House. McDonald’s did not exist but we went to Big Boy and yes HoJo and their famous fried clams. 🤪

In 1999 we made a family trip to Israel for our son’s wedding and got to eat at all the kosher fast food places, KFC, Burger King, and Sbarro’s (the same pizza place that got bombed 2 years later)

My favorite place was Lafayette Coney Island in downtown Detroit. I loved their chili dogs so much that long after I was married I figured out my own kosher version of their chili dog sauce and made it for my kids. I still make it to this day. The original contained lard and beef heart but my version is all ground beef.

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Eventual Carrion Jun 24, 2024 • 10:11:09am

re: #286 dat_said

I worked in the Catholic grade school cafeteria starting in first grade to get a break on the cost of the meals. I’m certain somebody somewhere thought they were teaching me very valuable life lessons. What I really learned is that I could skip out of classes early and not miss a beat when it came to grades.

I did that at my Catholic high school the last 2 years. I didn’t have to pay for a lunch those last 2 years because whatever was leftover from lunch sessions I would get to pick from. So I would spend lunch out behind the football field smoking dope and acting out with my friends and then go in and get something to eat as I was cleaning up after 2nd lunch period.

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darthstar Jun 24, 2024 • 10:14:34am

re: #202 darthstar

So I take the wife’s car to the dealership for maintenance and they’re under Cyber attack and can’t do shit. I’m at 16% charge and pretty much booked so I go a few miles down the road to an EV-Go station. 4 out of the six chargers are out of order.

A woman in a Pulsar is asleep in the front seat and she wakes up and says she can leave. She sounds shit faced. She gets out of her car and starts trying to unplug it and is fighting the cable. Last thing I want is for her to fuck up the charger so I say hey, you got to end the session first so it will disengage.

Looks like it’ll take several days to resolve the cyber attack. 15,000 dealers impacted - they’re processing car sales by hand…

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 10:15:25am

Tip to this fool!>> Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 10:15:55am

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 10:16:03am

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nines09 Jun 24, 2024 • 10:20:57am

re: #299 Joe Bacon ✅

The promise of the internet has been realized by the corrupt and insane.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 10:21:15am

re: #294 Joe Bacon ✅

She said:

“I studied in Germany, speak FLUENT German AND HAVE READ MEIN KAMPF IN GERMAN. please stay in your place,” Kutti fired back.

This is like shitty religious apologia, which is why I assert conservatism is a religion (and I’m not interested in arguments trying to draw a line between “fascism” and “conservatism”).

Of course that book doesn’t say anything about ovens. Like other religious apologists, she asserts authority (“I speak German and read the book in German”) sounds like the assertion “The Bible should only be read in God’s own Ancient Modern English.”

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Dave In Austin Jun 24, 2024 • 10:21:24am

re: #272 Joe Bacon ✅

According to Christopher Rufo you need to get your ass to work and earn your lunch.

That guy needs to meet a back ally…….

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Mattand Jun 24, 2024 • 10:22:02am

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Crime Party has an idea to prevent crime.

Kristi Noem pushes pardoning US Capitol attackers so ‘we don’t see another January 6’ (The Guardian, today)

She appeared yesterday on one of the “Inteview the Republicans and Let Them Lie” shows yesterday.

(more)

Speaks volumes of the “Meet the Press” host that this was not with an incredulous “That makes absolutely no sense.”

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2024 • 10:26:07am

I posted two clips where this fascist came out and said he wants to burn everything down.

And now this.

Yes, Heritage Foundation Guy, Let’s Talk About ‘Abortion Three Days After Birth’ Supporters

wonkette.com

During a discussion this weekend on MSNBC, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts told Symone Sanders and Michael Steele that his organization is an organization for those conservatives who “know what time it is in America.” This innocuous-sounding phrase is not meant to help anyone make it to an appointment on time or start getting dinner ready.

It actually refers to conservatives who understand, according to John Fonte, a fellow at the Hudson Institute (another conservative think tank) that left-wing ideology “cannot be moderated or reformed. It must be annihilated root and branch from all corners of American life.” Basically, they should feel free to ignore the law, the constitution and common decency as long as it helps them achieve these ends. That is, really, what Project 2025 is all about.

Take a moment and think of all the tears that would flow if we did or said anything like this. After all, these are people who regularly get upset about Democratic politicians “hating half the country” and are still very upset about Hillary Clinton calling (some of) them a “basket of deplorables.”

It’s why Roberts was so open in that discussion about his plan to fire all civil servants who donated or possibly voted for Democrats (which is many of them) and replacing them with workers who will be loyal to Donald Trump. This is one way we can know for sure that all of their faux-free-speech “but what about diversity of thought?” nonsense was always nonsense.

One of the ways Roberts (and others like him) are trying to make things like Project 2025 sound normal and not horrifying is by painting those of us on the Left as being a dangerous (though extremely small, which is why it will always be voter fraud if a Democrat wins) minority that must be stopped at any cost.

Toward the end of the interview, Sanders asked him whether he thought those with possibly dangerous pregnancies should be able to get an abortion if their doctor says it is warranted.

“Abortion’s not healthcare. I find it really interesting, if not worse, that you wouldn’t support the change of the [Health and Human Services] department’s name to the Department of Life. I thought we were all in support of life. Why aren’t we talking about the people who are supporting legislation that abortion can happen until three days after the person’s born? Abortion is not healthcare. Abortion is the murder of a human,” he said, very much not answering the question he was actually asked.

That is a very good question, though! Why aren’t we talking about the people who are supporting legislation that abortion can happen until three days after a person’s born?

I, for one, would absolutely love to have this discussion! Although in order to have that conversation, we would first have to know who those people are and what “legislation” they reportedly support.

I mean, I would just have to think that if there were legislation floating around “New York, California, Virginia” allowing for abortion “three days after birth,” that I would be able to find it. Or I would certainly be able to find an op-ed in favor of it. So, if true, I’m going to need Kevin Roberts to enlighten me.

wonkette.com

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Hecuba's daughter Jun 24, 2024 • 10:27:20am

re: #278 Joe Bacon ✅

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, JFK and Pruneface would like to have a word with you, Shithead!

Yep — Pruneface is another President who, in comparison to Trump, is a towering intellect and a model to be admired. Certainly true that he was a man who displayed grace and did not show cowardice in response to a life-threatening attack.

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Crime Party has an idea to prevent crime.

Kristi Noem pushes pardoning US Capitol attackers so ‘we don’t see another January 6’ (The Guardian, today)

She appeared yesterday on one of the “Inteview the Republicans and Let Them Lie” shows yesterday.

(more)

You want to stop a repeat of January 6? It’s really simple — have Trump withdraw from the campaign and admit publicly he actually lost the election and that he was lying about his victory. And have the Republican Party denounce him for his crimes against our nation. Of course if he did that, the braindead MAGAts would just claim that it was an AI and a fake, or the Deep State was forcing his confession.

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Eventual Carrion Jun 24, 2024 • 10:27:28am

re: #297 darthstar

Looks like it’ll take several days to resolve the cyber attack. 15,000 dealers impacted - they’re processing car sales by hand…

Yes, I work for a Dealership Management System software company. I am an integrations developer, maintaining and coding a distributed system for dealership data delivered to OEMs and 3rd parties. All my jobs that go to CDK have been erroring every night because they have shutdown all their systems. There is going to be a total change of username/password credentials coming up very soon. Luckily, from my systems view at least, nothing comes back to us from them. So whatever happened there, our side isn’t compromised since they have no access to our dealership servers. And CDK had just changed from FTPS (plus PGP file encryption) to SFTP maybe a year ago for security reasons.

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wrenchwench Jun 24, 2024 • 10:32:19am

re: #305 Joe Bacon ✅

If abortion is not health care, then pregnancy is murder. Or attempted, when the mother survives.

Abortion is always safer than birth.

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Dave In Austin Jun 24, 2024 • 10:34:20am

It takes a village…..

Bonnie L. Gingrich, 38, Shalom Christian Academy teacher, has been charged w felony sexual contact w a student, 2 felony counts of unlawful contact w a minor & felony corruption of minors.(no mugshot yet) https://t.co/0mti4ZtuRA pic.twitter.com/s22Rou9Kgy

— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) June 24, 2024

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 10:46:19am

re: #304 Mattand

Speaks volumes of the “Meet the Press” host that this was not with an incredulous “That makes absolutely no sense.”

The notion that because some politicians are mainstream ie governnor, we must take what they say at face value without a fact check or pushback or even just a simple followup “how would this work” and instead leave it to the readers to decipher, is not just lazy, its malpractice

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Dr Lizardo Jun 24, 2024 • 10:47:53am

Trailer dropped for Robert Eggers’ remake of Nosferatu.

Starring Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok. Written and directed by Robert Eggers.

NOSFERATU - Official Teaser Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters December 25

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Vicious Babushka Jun 24, 2024 • 10:48:10am

NY Times doing their BOFSIDES!!!!! BS again.

Mastodon

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darthstar Jun 24, 2024 • 10:48:46am

It’s refreshing to see anchors kick these liars off the show. More of this. https://t.co/VxltjPqICV

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) June 24, 2024

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BeachDem Jun 24, 2024 • 10:54:49am

re: #309 Dave In Austin

It takes a village…..

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They might have to revise their mission statement:

“Shalom Christian Academy is a Pre-K through 12th grade school focused on developing lives of consequence in the world for the kingdom of God. We seek to provide an environment that engages the mind—and the heart—of every student. Our programs are established on the fact that God’s word is the standard of truth—guiding our school’s focus, purpose, and direction. Our Christian culture and education standpoint is simply an extension of what is taught first by parents in the home and through the local church.”

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 10:54:51am

re: #313 darthstar

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“But muh first amendment rights”

Wait for it

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Targetpractice Jun 24, 2024 • 10:57:38am

re: #313 darthstar

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Yet she wasn’t kicked for lying, she was kicked because she was talking shit about Kasie’s coworker. She wasn’t standing up for the truth, she was sticking up for her buddy.

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Decatur Deb Jun 24, 2024 • 10:57:56am

re: #314 BeachDem

They might have to revise their mission statement:

“Shalom Christian Academy is a Pre-K through 12th grade school focused on developing lives of consequence in the world for the kingdom of God. We seek to provide an environment that engages the mind—and the heart—of every student. Our programs are established on the fact that God’s word is the standard of truth—guiding our school’s focus, purpose, and direction. Our Christian culture and education standpoint is simply an extension of what is taught first by parents in the home and through the local church.”

Hang the 10 Commandments in the teachers’ lounge.

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Targetpractice Jun 24, 2024 • 11:04:49am

re: #312 Vicious Babushka

NY Times doing their BOFSIDES!!!!! BS again.

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Beltway already setting up the soft landing for Trump: “Well yes, he came off sounding like your racist uncle ranting at the Thanksgiving table and making everybody around him supremely uncomfortable, BUT Biden did not perform like the second coming of JFK so we have to conclude that both lost.”

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Vicious Babushka Jun 24, 2024 • 11:04:51am

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka Jun 24, 2024 • 11:05:32am

re: #314 BeachDem

They might have to revise their mission statement:

“Shalom Christian Academy is a Pre-K through 12th grade school focused on developing lives of consequence in the world for the kingdom of God. We seek to provide an environment that engages the mind—and the heart—of every student. Our programs are established on the fact that God’s word is the standard of truth—guiding our school’s focus, purpose, and direction. Our Christian culture and education standpoint is simply an extension of what is taught first by parents in the home and through the local church.”

Their misuse of the word Shalom is cultural appropriation.

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Dangerman Jun 24, 2024 • 11:07:00am

re: #320 Vicious Babushka

Their misuse of the word Shalom is cultural appropriation.

My first thought

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 24, 2024 • 11:08:24am

re: #305 Joe Bacon ✅

That three-days-after-birth zombie lie was resurrected after New York passed a palliative care law for infants born who will not survive. Conservative pundits tied it to Sarah Palin’s “death panels” to demonise hospitals, physicians, and women.

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wrenchwench Jun 24, 2024 • 11:14:24am

re: #322 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That three-days-after-birth zombie lie was resurrected after New York passed a palliative care law for infants born who will not survive. Conservative pundits tied it to Sarah Palin’s “death panels” to demonise hospitals, physicians, and women.

They’re gonna go from ‘can’t trust a pregnant woman’ to ‘can’t trust a woman’ and start snatching babies from their families.

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No Malarkey! Jun 24, 2024 • 11:14:51am

SCOTUS will announce decisions Thursday and Friday this week, added to Wednesday.

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A Cranky One Jun 24, 2024 • 11:15:31am

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Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2024 • 11:15:53am

re: #324 No Malarkey!

SCOTUS will announce decisions Thursday and Friday this week, added to Wednesday.

So will we finally see the end of America on Friday? Jesus H. Christ, I wish they’d stop dragging it out and just rip the Band-Aid off.

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jaunte Jun 24, 2024 • 11:18:24am

Washington Post:

Advisers to Biden are pushing him to show himself as a vigorous president at this week’s presidential debate, while advisers to Trump hope he will rein in his excesses.

@mtsw.bsky.social

The media (which wants Trump to win) already setting the framing for the debate. Biden must be “vigorous” - i.e. avoid even a single misspeak or stumble - while the expectations for Trump are merely that he not spend the entire debate screaming incoherently.
….
This sort of pre-debate framing lets them take almost any outcome that doesn’t involve Trump shitting himself on stage or Biden batting 1.000 on never stuttering, and spin it as a win for Trump.
…….
Again, nothing is framed in terms of the reality of the situation or the actual stakes of the election, you just do this view-from-nowhere horse race theater criticism that somehow always gets tilted to make sure the Republican candidate’s fascist views are laundered and normalized.

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A Cranky One Jun 24, 2024 • 11:19:32am

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Mattand Jun 24, 2024 • 11:19:42am

re: #318 Targetpractice

Beltway already setting up the soft landing for Trump: “Well yes, he came off sounding like your racist uncle ranting at the Thanksgiving table and making everybody around him supremely uncomfortable, BUT Biden did not perform like the second coming of JFK so we have to conclude that both lost.”

I was complaining about this last week on here. I called it the George W. Bush treatment; literally all Trump has to do is not obviously shit himself while eating paste, and the press will be fanning themselves with desire.

Biden? All he has to do is be the combination of Washington and Lincoln, while juggling several rusty running chainsaws covered in Ebola.

Even then, Jon Stewart et. al. will be like “Why wasn’t he juggling more Ebola-coated chainsaws?????”

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A Cranky One Jun 24, 2024 • 11:23:16am

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steve_davis Jun 24, 2024 • 11:26:50am

re: #207 Markm1960

I live near and patronize the original Burger King. The Burger King most people know sued the local place to change their name and lost. The local place had been around much longer than the chain. So the big chain has no stores within 50 miles. Kind of nice for the little guy to win.

Hell, when I was in New Orlins I was down the road from the Popeyes flagship restaurant. Sure you could order normal Popeyes stuff, but you could also get prime rib. Just a really strange experience.

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