So Weird: Todd Rundgren & Sparks, “Your Fandango”

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The official video for the collaborative song “Your Fandango” by Todd Rundgren & Sparks, released April 23rd, 2021 on Cleopatra Records.

Stream YOUR FANDANGO: https://orcd.co/todd_rundgren_sparks_your_fandango

As a special treat for both Rundgren and Sparks fans, YOUR FANDANGO will also be released on gorgeous 7” vinyl later this year. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3gzZKGM

Written & Produced by RON MAEL, RUSSELL MAEL and TODD RUNDGREN
Drums: Stevie Nistor
Guitars: Evan Weiss

Video Credits:

Screenplay, Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Animation, Acting: LIISA VÄÄRISKOSKI
https://liisavaariskoski.com
Instagram: @munalissu

Costume, Make-Up and Hair Design: Liisa Vääriskoski
Costume Design, Assistant: Joonika Kaukoranta
Costume Rental: Artistiasu, Finland

“YOUR FANDANGO” (Lyrics):

Everybody likes it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody loves it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody loves it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody loves it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody likes it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody loves it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango

Your fandango, fandango

Everyone loves it when you begin, your fandango fandango
Everyone loves it when you begin, your fandango fandango

Everybody loves it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody loves it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango

All the ladies swoon whenever
You Sarabande
Every Friday ‘til Monday
They would gladly Pasodoble
In a bright pink tuxedo
Or a little tiny speedo
You make everyone’s libido
Stop and say, “Oh Yes Indeed-o”

Everybody likes it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody loves it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, your fandango, fandango

Everyone, everyone, by that I mean everyone, likes it when you begin, your fandango, fandango
Everyone, everyone, by that I mean everyone, loves it when you begin, your fandango, fandango

Whether Tango or Bolero
Or Corrida or Flamenco
We don’t mind a little Zambra
Or a quick Zapateado
They may envy your Farruca
But not so much your Cachucha
And I must say your Bambera
Is no match for my Muiñeira
Not your mother’s Martinetes
Or your father’s Matachines
Nor your sister’s Alborea
Or your cousin’s old Solea
We may not Alegrias
On your style of Bulerias
But we’d all pay to see ya
Dance your famous Seguidilla

Everybody likes it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody likes it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, your fandango, fandango

Everyone loves it when you begin, your fandango, fandango
Everyone loves it when you begin, your fandango, fandango
Everyone loves it when you begin, your fandango, fandango
Everyone loves it when you begin, your fandango, fandango

Everybody likes it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango
Everybody loves it when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango, when you do your fandango

Follow Sparks:
Website: http://allsparks.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sparksofficial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sparks_official
Twitter: @sparksofficial

Follow Todd Rundgren:
Website: http://todd-rundgren.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toddrundgren
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_todd_rundgren
Twitter: @toddrundgren

#Sparks #ToddRundgen #YourFandango

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312 comments
1
HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:45:29pm

#StephenKingRules

Watching the festival. Seal of approval!!

2
Dave In Austin  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:46:46pm

Evening Lizards.

Rush Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart are still dead.

Have a safe and happy Saturday Night. I’ll be in the CommandCenter in the ol Data Center alllllll nite.

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:50:26pm

Todd is the original energizer bunny. And weird was Todd from day one. My wife had a friend who was getting married to a drummer outside Philly long ago and far away. Big shindig. He was friends with Todd and Todd worked as a valet and only a few knew who he was. He had a blast. We sat and smoked Columbian Gold and laughed and laughed.
Update; Not Todd smoked. We did.
Update: Wife told me it was in Flourtown Pa and she lost contact with that crowd long ago.

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b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:57:27pm

The next election cycle will be different if only because folks won’t be promising to get out of Afghanistan and calling the Armenian genocide Armenian genocide.

So nice to have a POTUS do gutsy good stuff. Just doing the right thing is really so shocking that the “news” doesn’t even really know how to cover it.

So happy.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:58:59pm

re: #4 b.d. (The GOP is a Hate Group)

So nice to have a POTUS do gutsy good stuff. Just doing the right thing is really so shocking that the “news” doesn’t even really know how to cover it.

It shouldn’t be ‘gutsy’ but that is the world we live in.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:59:00pm

re: #4 b.d. (The GOP is a Hate Group)

Joe is something else isn’t he. I am happy that he is POTUS.

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Jay C  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:01:43pm

re: #3 nines09

Have you (or any other of us Lizards) been sure to vote for Todd for the Rock&Roll Hall of Fame? That he has been left out so long (especially given his long history in the field) seems a drastic omission.
(Mrs Jay and I signed up on the RRHOF site, and were semi-diligent in pushing his vote totals - that he missed the cut last years was a shame IOHO….)

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b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:02:19pm

re: #5 Colère Tueur de Lapin

It shouldn’t be ‘gutsy’ but that is the world we live in.

Really not in the mood for the contrarian party to try to figure out why this is bad and apparently Joe isn’t either lol.

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:02:24pm

Weird?
I rest my case.
We from Philadelphia home of the tunafish hoagie.
Yes you is. Wit or witout cheese?
THE NAZZ.

Loosen Up

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:03:58pm

re: #8 b.d. (The GOP is a Hate Group)

Really not in the mood for contrarian party to try to figure out why this is bad and apparently Joe isn’t either lol.

It’s bad because Turkey is a NATO ally and how dare Joe piss off the fine upstanding Erdogan, a model leader for his country, we would do well to elect someone like him.

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:04:23pm

re: #7 Jay C

R&R Hall Of Fame is a joke.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:05:15pm

re: #1 HRH Stanley Sea

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b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:08:36pm

re: #10 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

It’s bad because Turkey is a NATO ally and how dare Joe piss off the fine upstanding Erdogan, a model leader for his country, we would do well to elect someone like him.

LOL, I think we did once?

I remember watching that attempted coup with so many mixed emotions and remembering the commitments we had made to the very worst NATO “partner” there is. I guess having them technically on our side is better than not, better salt any state secrets you give to them though.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:10:04pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

I’m so excited to see I am the doorway.

That story was sooo good.

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b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:10:09pm

re: #11 nines09

R&R Hall Of Fame is a joke.

It is one of the better HoFs in Cleveland.

//

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:13:40pm

re: #13 b.d. (The GOP is a Hate Group)

LOL, I think we did once?

If you’re comparing Erdogan to Trump, well, I will say that Erdogan is quite a bit more intelligent than Trump. (Low bar, I know.) Hence how he was able to actually stay in power while Trump had to slink off to Florida to await the wheels of justice.

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piratedan  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:14:46pm

re: #11 nines09

agreed…. I guess the hardest issue I have with it is how some one-hit wonders are welcome, others are not. Depending upon who influenced whom, and the very definition of what comprises Rock and Roll and what it is not. Is it white peeps R&B, Pop Music with a guitar section? I understand that musical lines are blurred, are all instruments created equally?

until you are clear on the definition, people are always going to be upset.

Myself, I’ve always thought for it to be considered Rock and Roll, there needed to be a guitar, a bass and drums.. you could also have a piano or a saxophone… beyond that there be tygers… Obviously, not everyone agrees. Controversy promotes attention.

Gotten to the point in my old age and accepting I like what I like and everyone else is free to do the same and I’m happy to give those artists whose music moves me, my money for their creation.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:16:46pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:16:48pm

re: #13 b.d. (The GOP is a Hate Group)

I guess having them technically on our side is better than not, better salt any state secrets you give to them though.

I normally don’t double-reply, but I had this thought. Turkey really embodies the spirit of Maxim 29: “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more, no less.” It’s better to have them on our side than not, but I would never call them our friend, and I would treat them with a healthy amount of skepticism and distrust.

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:18:21pm

re: #17 piratedan

If you and your band needs to be validated by the R&R Hall Of Fame….But it’s just a shit show.
Face it. The “Hall” is in Cleveland, and every induction is in NYC.
Who determines who is who?
Never please everyone, but please…

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:22:41pm

Todd Rundgren should be in the HOF just by his producer credits. Geeze.

I knew him as a producer way before I heard his voice.

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:26:33pm

re: #21 HRH Stanley Sea

Put earphones, headphones or turn it up. I was 17 and this slapped me in the face.
So much going on it that song.
Incredible yet.

Nazz - Open My Eyes

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piratedan  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:35:23pm

re: #20 nines09

very much agreed… my thing was the power-pop genre, which obviously has its roots in the core of rock and roll in the 60’s, so natch groups the like Beatles, The Kinks, The Hollies, The Dave Clark 5 and The Who; loom large for those that followed in their footsteps (Big Star, Badfinger, Raspberries (Cleveland’s Own)) in the 70’s who helped shape and craft the sounds of Springsteen and Cheap Trick … In a way, I wish they wouldn’t limit themselves to the Rock and Roll labels and just make it Popular Music.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:35:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:38:27pm
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Nojay UK  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:41:14pm

re: #19 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I normally don’t double-reply, but I had this thought. Turkey really embodies the spirit of Maxim 29: “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more, no less.” It’s better to have them on our side than not, but I would never call them our friend, and I would treat them with a healthy amount of skepticism and distrust.

Time was, the US had short-range nuclear missiles in Turkey pointed at Ukraine and other Soviet states. Their existence was part of the lead-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis when JFK refused to withdraw them along with similar missiles in Italy when pressed to do so by the Soviets. When the Soviets responded by planning to position similar missiles in Cuba JFK, rather than concede, threatened to start an all-out nuclear war that would have killed hundreds of millions of people. Later, after the dust died down the missiles in Turkey and Italy were secretly withdrawn, largely because they were functionally obsolete and being replaced by home-based ICBMs and long-range bombers.

During the period when Erdogan was Prime Minister and later President, Turkish troops served in Afghanistan as part of the NATO forces there defending America from the existential threat of three hundred religious nutters armed with boxcutters hiding in caves. From Wikipedia, fourteen Turkish servicemen died, mostly from accidents (a helicopter crash killed 12 of them).

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A Mom Anon  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:41:27pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

Aww, so sad and sweet.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:44:45pm

re: #20 nines09

If you and your band needs to be validated by the R&R Hall Of Fame….But it’s just a shit show.
Face it. The “Hall” is in Cleveland, and every induction is in NYC.
Who determines who is who?
Never please everyone, but please…

At the same time, since it exists, it would be nice to honor those that are truly good. Why do we need a medal of honor or a Nobel peace prize? I sure hope the woman who came up with the mRNA technique used to create the covid vaccine gets a Nobel.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:47:09pm
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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:48:52pm

re: #23 piratedan

It’s a mess as most things are when a special place is opened to a chosen few. The HALL was “awarded” to Cleveland, and it went downhill from there.
“There it is son!!! SEE?!!? That’s ONE of the guitars that was used in a special studio session with…”
Kid goes……”And?”

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:58:10pm

The Case

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:01:32pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:02:41pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

“We need to maintain our National Parks but fuck all the animals that live there.”

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Jay C  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:07:55pm

re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg

“We need to maintain our National Parks but fuck all the animals that live there.”

They’ll be easier to maintain without all those animals making a mess everywhere…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:12:04pm
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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:14:05pm

re: #2 Dave In Austin

Evening Lizards.

Rush Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart are still dead.

Have a safe and happy Saturday Night. I’ll be in the CommandCenter in the ol Data Center alllllll nite.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:19:13pm

Interesting fact—Andrew Breitbart’s father in law was…Orson Bean…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:21:31pm
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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:27:36pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

California has lots of Republicans; Trump got 6 million votes there, more than in any other state. But it has lots more Democrats; Trump’s 6 million votes were only a third of the total cast.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:31:08pm

The Doctor’s Case starting now.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:31:17pm

Barker Street Cinema Live Stream

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:35:31pm
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A Mom Anon  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:38:22pm

re: #42 No Malarkey!

Sometimes the simplest and most obvious answer is the right one…

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piratedan  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:38:28pm

re: #42 No Malarkey!

well Nathan, she mustave been a hellava lay because she’s the VP now. You probably still have to pay for handjobs.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:39:05pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:40:37pm
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A Mom Anon  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:44:26pm

re: #46 gocart mozart

My husband is now threatening to get that entire ensemble Jack is wearing. Thanks a bunch, lol.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:44:37pm

re: #46 gocart mozart

I love this guy.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:45:04pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

They started out against virtue and lowered their standards.

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sagehen  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:50:03pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

so that’s $35 million? Bloomberg, Bezos, or his ex, or really any of the billionaires, could make themselves into heroes by paying for the park upkeep on condition that the elephants don’t get killed.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:51:10pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:53:03pm

All sleep matters.

//

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:05:26pm
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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:06:01pm

Larry Kudlow, once again wrong about everything all of the time. We’ll be drinking plant based beer of the 4th of July!

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:07:53pm

Ride The Lightning. One thing live rock and roll allows you to do is scream at the top of your lungs and not even be noticed.
Let it out.
Bleed off the stress and bullshit.
These guys rode that lightning.

LESLIE WEST Of MOUNTAIN - Mississippi Queen

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:08:53pm

re: #54 No Malarkey!

Larry Ludlow, once again wrong about everything all of the time. We’ll be drinking plant based beer of the 4th of July!

He’s elaborating on the GOP talking points. The idea that red meat consumption will be cut by law in 2030 is popping up all over and is bullshit. It’s really unfortunate that a monster like Liz Cheney is the voice of reason over there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:10:16pm

re: #46 gocart mozart

Jack Black’s mom:

en.wikipedia.org

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:10:37pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

VOTE NO ON THE CALIFORNIA RECALL.

One Ah-Nold was enough

NO ON THE RECALL AND NO TO MAGAT JENNER!

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:10:43pm

re: #56 Barefoot Grin

He’s elaborating on the GOP talking points. The idea that red meat consumption will be cut by law in 2030 is popping up all over and is bullshit. It’s really unfortunate that a monster like Liz Cheney is the voice of reason over there.

When Liz Cheney is the best Republican in Congress, you’ve got a problem.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:14:14pm

re: #58 🌹UOJB!

Jenner really doesn’t have a chance to win, does she?

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:14:21pm

re: #56 Barefoot Grin

It’s ridiculous. Meat will only be denied to people who like their steaks well done.

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Teukka  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:15:42pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jack Black’s mom:

[Embedded content]

en.wikipedia.org

So what you’re saying is that it wouldn’t be unlike him to have material like this if the crowd is from Mom’s old job?

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sagehen  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:18:44pm

re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg

Jenner really doesn’t have a chance to win, does he?

She.

And no, she does not.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:20:00pm

re: #63 sagehen

She.

And no, she does not.

Yeah, that was a typo. I meant to say she.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:20:09pm
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Jay C  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:21:05pm

re: #54 No Malarkey!

Larry Kudlow, once again wrong about everything all of the time. We’ll be drinking plant based beer of the 4th of July!

Even leaving aside the fact that this idiocy is coming from Larry “Mr.Always Wrong About Everything” Kudlow, WTF is it with these wingnuts and their “ban hamburgers” BS?

Is there really anything behind it, or is it just (as I suspect) RW assholes jumping on some weird extremist proposal and trying to convince somebody (? Each other?) that it’s actually some sort of thing…?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:21:06pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:22:53pm

re: #66 Jay C

Even leaving aside the fact that this idiocy is coming from Larry “Mr.Always Wrong About Everything” Kudlow, WTF is it with these wingnuts and their “ban hamburgers” BS?

Is there really anything behind it, or is it just (as I suspect) RW assholes jumping on some weird extremist proposal and trying to convince somebody (? Each other?) that it’s actually some sort of thing…?

It’s a hyperbolic extension of the “cows are the biggest contributors to global warming” trope that’s been rather debated over the last couple of decades. The right-wingers have been taking that and running with it to say that anyone who takes climate change seriously must be anti-red meat, which is obviously anti-American.

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sagehen  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:25:21pm

re: #66 Jay C

Even leaving aside the fact that this idiocy is coming from Larry “Mr.Always Wrong About Everything” Kudlow, WTF is it with these wingnuts and their “ban hamburgers” BS?

Is there really anything behind it, or is it just (as I suspect) RW assholes jumping on some weird extremist proposal and trying to convince somebody (? Each other?) that it’s actually some sort of thing…?

I think environmentalists want to reduce factory farming, hormones and antibiotics in feedlots, make regulations about runoff from slaughterhouses, etc.

It would make beef more expensive, and there’d be somewhat less of it. But it’s not in any way outlawed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:26:27pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:27:25pm

re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg

Jenner really doesn’t have a chance to win, does She?

My fear—Tulsi Gabbard or another Democrat enters the race and splits the Democratic vote letting Jenner get in…

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:27:35pm

Here’s a dandy story for you:

The Arlington Public Library in Arlington TX has a mechanism for playing music in its lobby. Among the selections being played recently were various Schoolhouse Rock numbers such as “The Preamble”, “Unpack Your Adjectives,” and “Three Is a Magic Number”.

As fate would have it, some idiot complained to the management that there was MUSIC WITH WORDS being played in the library lobby.

Rather than do the right thing, the Arlington Public Library in Arlington TX did what it always does, which was capitulate to the first complainer that came in the door, principles be damned. All the Schoolhouse Rock tunes had to be removed forthwith, lest this one lunatic be offended.

And from now on, I will describe the Arlington Public Library with adjectives.

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gwangung  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:28:38pm

re: #68 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

It’s a hyperbolic extension of the “cows are the biggest contributors to global warming” trope that’s been rather debated over the last couple of decades. The right-wingers have been taking that and running with it to say that anyone who takes climate change seriously must be anti-red meat, which is obviously anti-American.

Beef farming, I think, is the most energy intensive and has the most transportation costs of all the livestock animals, and it isn’t even close.

If we just switched to pork and chicken, we’d actually put a real dent into CO2 generation.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:29:38pm

re: #73 gwangung

Beef farming, I think, is the most energy intensive and has the most transportation costs of all the livestock animals, and it isn’t even close.

If we just switched to pork and chicken, we’d actually put a real dent into CO2 generation.

I’m not saying there isn’t something to the trope. I love beef, but I’d give it up to help save the environment. But then again, I have a sense of social responsibility, something the right-wing assholes lack.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:30:06pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

See, that flag indicates they want to keep their gray meat. It’s just wrong.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:31:18pm

re: #72 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

People need to go there and complain that there are no School House Rock songs being played…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:35:18pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:41:33pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:46:29pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

THIS.

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Teukka  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:46:42pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:48:22pm
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Secret ANTIFA Operative  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:53:24pm

re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg

Jenner really doesn’t have a chance to win, does she?

The thing is, I read recently that in California, Republican registrations are third statewide, behind “Decline to State” and the Democrats.

That means that if voters choose to recall Newsome, his replacement might end up being another Democrat.

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:56:43pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

The Republican Party is dominated by bad faith actors right now, who are only serious about ushering in an authoritarian government they would dominate. Nothing else. There are a few voices in the wilderness (Kinzinger, to name one), but they are faint.

I keep saying this, but the Biden Administration, and the congressional Democrats need to take the gloves off. There isn’t room for anything else.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:04:44pm

re: #83 Secret ANTIFA Operative

The Republican Party is dominated by bad faith actors right now, who are only serious about ushering in an authoritarian government they would dominate. Nothing else. There are a few voices in the wilderness (Kinzinger, to name one), but they are faint.

I keep saying this, but the Biden Administration, and the congressional Democrats need to take the gloves off. There isn’t room for anything else.

What exactly do you think they should do?

Edit: And when you say “end the filibuster” you need to provide a way to convince Sinema and Manchin.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:06:34pm

re: #84 Belafon

What exactly do you think they should do?

My question exactly. The Biden Administration has been very adamant that “bipartisan” = “we’re going to do what the voters want, and fuck any Republican who crosses our path.” Biden’s been playing hardball since he took the oath on January 20th. Filibuster aside, Schumer and Pelosi haven’t been making it easy for them either. So far, I’ve been pretty chuffed with how they’ve been playing the game.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:11:48pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:12:37pm
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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:14:16pm

I missed this news: Marey Carey is running in the recall: politico.com. Please let her get more votes than Jenner.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:15:05pm

re: #86 Belafon

Love that not-quite-connected California script that was specifically designed to connect. Graphic designers really paying attention on this one.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:17:17pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

Free speech, mother suckers!! It’s not just for White Supremacists. Black people get to use it too.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:17:18pm

re: #66 Jay C

Even leaving aside the fact that this idiocy is coming from Larry “Mr.Always Wrong About Everything” Kudlow, WTF is it with these wingnuts and their “ban hamburgers” BS?

Is there really anything behind it, or is it just (as I suspect) RW assholes jumping on some weird extremist proposal and trying to convince somebody (? Each other?) that it’s actually some sort of thing…?

It’s pretty much the death panels of the green new deal.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:23:15pm

Could someone here provide the truth about the “hair on fire” rants from RW media and their viewers/readers that Biden is “using your tax dollars to promote critical race theory for 1st grade children in over 50 cities across the United States.
This means children are being taught that white children and their parents are oppressors. They are indoctrinating children to define everything by skin color. It’s Marxism. The federal government is supporting this with our tax dollars.”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:23:22pm

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:23:41pm

The GOP has nothing but conspiracy theories.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:27:00pm

re: #94 No Malarkey!

The GOP has nothing but conspiracy theories.

Bemidji. That tells me just about all I need to know. That’s in the part of the state where all the Sconnies come to spend their summers.

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retired cynic  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:32:00pm

Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life
After decades of not using a huge chunk of the Internet, the Pentagon has given control of millions of computer addresses to a previously unknown company in an effort to identify possible cyber vulnerabilities and threats
washingtonpost.com

A person familiar with the pilot effort, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity because the program isn’t public, said it is important for the Defense Department to have “visibility and transparency” into its various cyber resources, including IP addresses, and manage the addresses properly so they will be available if and when the Pentagon wants to use them.
“If you can’t see it, you can’t defend it,” the person said.

Someone would need to explain this article to me!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:35:59pm

re: #95 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Bemidji.

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:36:45pm

This is some crazy pool tricks

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:37:23pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:39:12pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

Disgusting.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:42:48pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:44:54pm

re: #98 gocart mozart

MAGNETS!

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:49:20pm

Tough choice, but I voted for II.

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retired cynic  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:49:47pm

In the tombs of Saqqara, new discoveries are rewriting ancient Egypt’s history
washingtonpost.com

More on those new discoveries. Great stuff.

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calochortus  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:52:08pm

re: #54 No Malarkey!

Larry Kudlow, once again wrong about everything all of the time. We’ll be drinking plant based beer of the 4th of July!

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My mother in law used to compare beer to “horse piss” so perhaps Larry has been drinking a non-plant based version?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:52:10pm

The other side of the bracket.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:54:10pm

re: #82 Secret ANTIFA Operative

Yes, the California Republican Party is third in registrations statewide and I expect it only to shrink more.

This “recall” effort was funded by and pushed by Republicans. It’s a show, a way to feed the narrative that California is a bad place, etc.

The recall effort, if it is on the ballot, only got there by Republicans signing it along with the usual malcontents.

I’m not a fan of Newsom. But I can’t really say he’s been bad for California.

The recallers of course want to complain about pandemic shutdowns. That is the Republican schtick to appeal to the know-nothing base.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:56:23pm

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:56:28pm

re: #104 retired cynic

“That same month [February], a massive 5,000-year-old brewery — believed to be the world’s oldest — was discovered in the southern city of Sohag. The beer, researchers hypothesize, was used in burial rituals for Egypt’s earliest kings.”

Larry Kudlow, wrong for 5,000 years.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:58:04pm

This story blew my mind so many years ago. Coming up next.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:04:55pm

re: #104 retired cynic

In the tombs of Saqqara, new discoveries are rewriting ancient Egypt’s history
washingtonpost.com

More on those new discoveries. Great stuff.

They found a 5k year old brewery. Beer made civilization possible!

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:05:50pm

Why though? Elon is not even in the entertainment business.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:06:53pm

re: #112 Patricia Kayden

Why though? Elon is not even in the entertainment business.

He’s famous!

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b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:09:38pm

re: #112 Patricia Kayden

Why though? Elon is not even in the entertainment business.

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Wish I had an answer for you rather than rich folks can do anything they want.

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sagehen  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:18:26pm

re: #92 Hecuba’s daughter

Could someone here provide the truth about the “hair on fire” rants from RW media and their viewers/readers that Biden is “using your tax dollars to promote critical race theory for 1st grade children in over 50 cities across the United States.
This means children are being taught that white children and their parents are oppressors. They are indoctrinating children to define everything by skin color. It’s Marxism. The federal government is supporting this with our tax dollars.”

1. 1st grade children in public schools learn whatever the local school board says they should learn; the schools are funded usually by cities and counties, sometimes by states, but NEVER by the federal government (except in DC. but that’s a whole separate matter.)

2. Critical Race Theory is a way of looking at history that doesn’t just do names and dates and places; it says “this happened because…”, which led to this next thing that happened because, and here’s some speeches and documents from the time that explain what the people then believed to be the because…

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:20:49pm

re: #112 Patricia Kayden

Why though? Elon is not even in the entertainment business.

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Although most are in the entertainment business, people famous in other arenas have served as hosts, such as Al Sharpton, John McCain, Giuliani and Steve Forbes.

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danarchy  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:24:07pm

re: #100 Patricia Kayden

Disgusting.

The parks are meant to handle about 55000 elephants and they have over 100000 now. They probably need to do a cull so they don’t end up with starving elephants. If some rich aholes want to pay $70000 for the honor, I say let Zimbabwe fleece them. I don’t think very highly of people who want to spend that kind of money to shoot something, but they fill a niche.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:26:05pm

re: #117 danarchy

How about other African countries step in and take some of those elephants then? Or some millionaires paying to set up more sanctuaries in Zimbabwe or elsewhere. Just sounds unnecessarily cruel to me.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:30:24pm
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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:32:56pm

My brother called my wife to talke about the death of someone the both of them used to work for. Discussions eventually got around to the fact that he, his wife, and her kids are taking vitamins so they are not going to be getting the vaccine. I kind of expect this of my brother but not of my sister-in-law.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:34:50pm

re: #121 Belafon

My brother called my wife to talke about the death of someone the both of them used to work for. Discussions eventually got around to the fact that he, his wife, and her kids are taking vitamins so they are not going to be getting the vaccine. I kind of expect this of my brother but not of my sister-in-law.

We need to ship the vaccines idiots here won’t take to India. They have a desperate need.

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retired cynic  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:39:41pm

re: #122 No Malarkey!

We need to ship the vaccines idiots here won’t take to India. They have a desperate need.

We can’t, unless we buy them from new contracts. Contracts signed for future vaccines under TFG admin deny the ability to transfer them out of the USA.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:46:26pm

re: #123 retired cynic

We can’t, unless we buy them from new contracts. Contracts signed for future vaccines under TFG admin deny the ability to transfer them out of the USA.

We need to find away around those contracts. We won’t be able to use those vaccines.

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retired cynic  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:47:10pm

re: #124 No Malarkey!

We need to find away around those contracts. We won’t be able to use those vaccines.

Totally agree. As I’m sure the Biden admin does.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:51:30pm
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Teukka  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:06:45pm

re: #126 No Malarkey!

INB4 “haha well duhhh more people were born back then 5head” in 4… 3… 2… 1…

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Dave In Austin  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:13:37pm
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retired cynic  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:22:51pm

Ah, the coyotes are singing tonight!

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:24:17pm

re: #72 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Here’s a dandy story for you:

The Arlington Public Library in Arlington TX has a mechanism for playing music in its lobby. Among the selections being played recently were various Schoolhouse Rock numbers such as “The Preamble”, “Unpack Your Adjectives,” and “Three Is a Magic Number”.

As fate would have it, some idiot complained to the management that there was MUSIC WITH WORDS being played in the library lobby.

Rather than do the right thing, the Arlington Public Library in Arlington TX did what it always does, which was capitulate to the first complainer that came in the door, principles be damned. All the Schoolhouse Rock tunes had to be removed forthwith, lest this one lunatic be offended.

And from now on, I will describe the Arlington Public Library with adjectives.

After first uttering some interjections.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:24:31pm

re: #125 retired cynic

Totally agree. As I’m sure the Biden admin does.

The contracts end in April. Anything bought in May and after is under new contracts from what I have read.

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:33:25pm

re: #116 Hecuba’s daughter

Although most are in the entertainment business, people famous in other arenas have served as hosts, such as Al Sharpton, John McCain, Giuliani and Steve Forbes.

Senator Paul Simon, Gerald Ford’s White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen, Jesse Jackson (1984), among others.

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John Hughes  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:40:08pm

re: #11 nines09

Nah, it’s a great song.

Pornophonique - Rock’n’roll Hall Of Fame

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SerialUpDinger  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:45:39pm

Bee on Bush Mallow

Not much blooming in my area (Ventura County) - where there are flowers, there are bees.
B&W achieved through lightroom preset. It feels like cheating to click a preset and take a good color image and turn it into some sort of black & white image.

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retired cynic  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:47:11pm

re: #134 SerialUpDinger

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Not much blooming in my area (Ventura County) - where there are flowers, there are bees.
B&W achieved through lightroom preset. It feels like cheating to click a preset and take a good color image and turn it into some sort of black & white image.

but fun

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:50:04pm

Watched The Doctor’s Case that was part of the view-a-long party. I found it entertaining as a feature, though I am not big into the Holmes-type of mysteries.

I do notice that there was a second production of the same King short story. Produced at about the same time, but it appears to never have been released for public viewing: imdb.com

Regardless, the one we watched today (
imdb.com ) is probably the better of the two. William Davis is a good character actor, though there are enough significant differences between him and the actor who played John Watson that I found cutting between the two a bit harsh.

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teleskiguy  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:51:37pm

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
The Meters
Tool
Grand Funk Railroad
The Allman Brothers Band
Umphrey’s McGee
Foo Fighters
Ween
Wilco
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Talking Heads
Butthole Surfers
Grateful Dead
Queens Of The Stone Age
Van Halen
Bad Religion
The Velvet Underground
Dick Dale & His Deltones
Nirvana
Beastie Boys
Fugazi
Widespread Panic
Creedence Clearwater Revival
ZZ Top
Minutemen

I can keep naming ‘em.

Fruitless exercise. And that’s just in America.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:58:04pm
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John Hughes  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:00:45pm

re: #111 No Malarkey!

They found a 5k year old brewery. Beer made civilization possible!

There are two main theories to explain the simultaneous invention of beer and civilisation.

1. Beer made civilisation possible.

2. Civilisation was necessary to allow large scale production of beer.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:03:56pm

re: #112 Patricia Kayden

Why though? Elon is not even in the entertainment business.

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Memories of R Crumb turning down hosting Saturday Night in 1975. He said it would have been a bad career move…

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William Lewis  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:12:03pm

re: #137 teleskiguy

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
The Meters
Tool
Grand Funk Railroad
The Allman Brothers Band
Umphrey’s McGee
Foo Fighters
Ween
Wilco
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Talking Heads
Butthole Surfers
Grateful Dead
Queens Of The Stone Age
Van Halen
Bad Religion
The Velvet Underground
Dick Dale & His Deltones
Nirvana
Beastie Boys
Fugazi
Widespread Panic
Creedence Clearwater Revival
ZZ Top
Minutemen

I can keep naming ‘em.

Fruitless exercise. And that’s just in America.

The Replacements
Husker Du
The Urban Guerrillas
Soul Asylum
X
Dead Kennedys
The Ramones
Television
The Patti Smith Group

Yeah, we could go on lots longer.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:14:24pm

re: #137 teleskiguy

I wonder if the original questioner even knows of, say, Bill Haley and His Comets?

Shake, Rattle And Roll



..

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teleskiguy  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:18:56pm

re: #142 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

Not Fade Away

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:21:51pm

re: #141 William Lewis

re: #143 teleskiguy

It’s the kind of thing at which Facebook specializes - appeal to nostalgia.

I replied with the Bill Haley recording, because nearly all the responders are recalling what they remember, rather than historically important. Haley and his peers (Holly, Elvis, etc) were instrumental in genre changing in the American landscape. Today’s bands are very, very rarely as transformational in society.

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teleskiguy  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:38:44pm

Li’l temblor in the Bay Area.

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piratedan  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:40:14pm

re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

and until me, no one has mentioned The Beach Boys

Jefferson Airplane
Cheap Trick
Blue Oyster Cult
Toto
The Cars
The Eagles

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sagehen  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:56:05pm

re: #145 teleskiguy

Li’l temblor in the Bay Area.

3.8 is not “notable”.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:02:09pm

re: #139 John Hughes

There are two main theories to explain the simultaneous invention of beer and civilisation.

1. Beer made civilisation possible.

2. Civilisation was necessary to allow large scale production of beer.

Civilization certainly made beer necessary.

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IngisKahn  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:03:38pm

I think “American” band is a meaningless distinction.

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William Lewis  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:09:31pm

re: #148 Belafon

Civilization certainly made beer necessary.

Humans were brewing beer before we made bread much less even grew grain ourselves. The wild grain - whatever kind they could find - was gathered, then germinated in water, drained and dried making malt. Next, they mashed and heated them, before finally adding wild yeast and leaving the mixture to ferment in a bit of water. After fermenting, a straw could be stuck into the bottom of the mildly alcoholic porridge. The grain was probably the first cereal food for human consumption too.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:10:55pm

I love to listen to Cy

Cy Swan: Horses, Jerky, and Clean Water

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Dave In Austin  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:28:19pm

Nothing to be picky about……

Blacksmithing - Forging a pickaxe

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:36:35pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:37:59pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:42:14pm

re: #138 No Malarkey!

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Except the internet isn’t a public utility, at least not in the sense that most of us are familiar with. It may have started out that way at one time, with servers hosted on college campuses and government sites. But the moment that the private sector was factored in, the idea of the internet as being a public utility went out the window.

You want to access that “new public square”? You gotta pay a private company, as government-funded access points are few and far between. You don’t wanna pay Comcast, Verizon, Cox, etc for your internet connection? Then you better hope that the local wifi hotspots are not password protected.

But say you find a way online without paying a service provider. Where is that “new public square” located? That’s right: Privately owned websites. There are still government and college servers, but they’re now treated like gated communities, with access generally limited to students/employees for security purposes. If you want to set up your own soapbox in that “new public square,” then you gotta rent the space either on a private server or spend the money to build your own servers and web pages.

See, the biggest problem with the whole “treat the internet as a public utility” argument is that it stopped being such ages ago. The backbone of the modern internet may be about the only part that the government can still lay claim to. But so long as I’m paying Verizon to use their broadband network to access private websites hosted on private servers…there’s no way to make the argument that the internet is anything other than a private service whose gatekeepers can deny you access whenever they damn well please.

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sagehen  Apr 25, 2021 • 12:23:38am

re: #155 Targetpractice

People who want us to treat the internet as “a public square”, a “utility”… maybe that’s something they should have considered when they so vigorously opposed net neutrality.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2021 • 12:27:29am

re: #10 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

It’s bad because Turkey is a NATO ally and how dare Joe piss off the fine upstanding Erdogan, a model leader for his country, we would do well to elect someone like him.

“Armenian Genocide is just another hoax like the Holocaust!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2021 • 12:28:40am

re: #11 nines09

R&R Hall Of Fame is a joke.

It is not some public institution, it is a private business.

Which is why have have very low expectations for them to do anything but act in their own perceived interests.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2021 • 12:30:19am

re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg

“We need to maintain our National Parks but fuck all the animals that live there.”

If they have no other means of funding, they have to use what is available

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2021 • 12:32:48am

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Conservatives ranting so much about “woke” this and “woke” that lately, you have to wonder what they have against being awake.

It is a term like “politically correct” or “socialist” which they can set up as a straw man to knock down with all the inherent strength of their rhetoric.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2021 • 12:35:14am

re: #68 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

It’s a hyperbolic extension of the “cows are the biggest contributors to global warming” trope that’s been rather debated over the last couple of decades. The right-wingers have been taking that and running with it to say that anyone who takes climate change seriously must be anti-red meat, which is obviously anti-American.

Meat is Manhood. Meat is what made America Great.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2021 • 12:43:29am

I have now caught up with the thread. You may resume your normal posting.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 25, 2021 • 1:18:15am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 25, 2021 • 1:21:39am

The doubling rate is about 11 days.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 25, 2021 • 1:34:27am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2021 • 1:49:14am

re: #165 Dave In Austin

Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s deputy reportedly shot an unarmed black man 10 times while he was on the phone with 911. Cop says he thought the phone was a gun to his head.

so they were trying to prevent a suicide?

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Nojay UK  Apr 25, 2021 • 2:05:08am

re: #119 Patricia Kayden

How about other African countries step in and take some of those elephants then? Or some millionaires paying to set up more sanctuaries in Zimbabwe or elsewhere. Just sounds unnecessarily cruel to me.

Moving a single elephant is a major logistical enterprise for a zoological park. Moving 45,000 of them… just no. They’re territorial and, if moved, may well try to go home or at least move away from the place they’re relocated to because it’s not home, ending up in human-inhabited areas, farms, highways etc. Breaking up a family herd in the wild is a no-no too, it causes all sorts of social problems for the remainers so you’d really need to move twenty or thirty individuals at a time.

An adult elephant eats about half a tonne of green stuff a day. They will knock down trees and dig up roots to get that fuel when food is scarce. Think of them as dusky grey self-propelled bulldozers wrecking grazing land other animals need to feed themselves.

Sure they’re cute and picturesque but there are too many of them in areas we humans have claimed, managing them as parks. Contraceptive implants or similar might work in the long run but that’s iffy and VERY difficult to implement.

Culling elephants has been going on for decades. I remember reading about a South African game warden’s experiences in that regard written back in the 1960s — it wasn’t something he liked doing but it was necessary, in his opinion and in the opinion of the park managers. The cull he described, they killed all the members of the chosen herd, including the youngsters, in a few minutes and at some personal risk to themselves since they had to get in close to ensure clean kills and none of the herd escaped, since the survivors might go rogue and start attacking farms near the park. The meat and hide was recovered and distributed to the local tribes, I’m not sure what happened to any ivory (this was the 1960s after all).

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Apr 25, 2021 • 2:41:08am

The Rock & Roll hall of fame is irrelevant as long as this band isn’t in it

FLAMIN GROOVIES Slow Death Live TV 1972

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2021 • 2:44:08am

re: #168 Deep State SuperElite Satinist

The Rock & Roll hall of fame is irrelevant as long as this band isn’t in it

Along with the Burning Sensations

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Teukka  Apr 25, 2021 • 2:56:30am

re: #147 sagehen

3.8 is not “notable”.

Isn’t the standard rule 5.0?

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2021 • 3:11:06am

re: #156 sagehen

People who want us to treat the internet as “a public square”, a “utility”… maybe that’s something they should have considered when they so vigorously opposed net neutrality.

That’s because it’s just like all those pseudo-intellectuals who had no problem with speakers being booed or chased off campus until the ones being tarred and feathered were wingnuts. It’s someone trying to carry water for those making bad faith arguments, which in this case are wingnuts who were okay with Twitter and Facebook banning/silencing people…up until the pendulum swung back and clobbered them over the head.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 25, 2021 • 3:18:50am

I saw these guys with Steppenwolf at the Berkeley Community Theater. Steppenwolf sounds exactly like a Steppenwolf album. Earthquake sounds better live and they were the better band.

Before the concert we stopped at Bertola’s in Berkeley and while walking to the restaurant my friend and I walking with our dates, the four of us were propositioned by two streetwalkers. That was a first, and so far, only…

YouTube

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 25, 2021 • 3:42:59am

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 3:59:59am

re: #137 teleskiguy

Obvious choice (3:27)

We’re An American Band (Remastered 2002)

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William Lewis  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:03:53am

Jefferson Starship - Hyperdrive (1974)

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:04:46am
The keynote speaker at a Minnesota county Republican Party’s event told members that George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police was “planned since 2016,” the Bemidji Pioneer reports.

He also said more than a hundred Democratic members of Congress deserve to be investigated for espionage for “working with foreign governments and the communist and Islamic movements.”

I wonder if he’s allowed to eat unsupervised, with fork

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:21:53am

The US Flag is at half-staff as a mark of respect for the life and service of former Vice-President Walter Mondale until sunset on the day of his interment. As of yet no date has been announced.

Mr. Mondale’s family has announced a simultaneous memorial service in Minnesota and Washington DC for September.

I don’t imagine that the flag will remain at half-staff until September if Mr. Mondale has not been buried by then; President Biden would likely order it back to full-staff.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:23:58am

re: #168 Deep State SuperElite Satinist

The Rock & Roll hall of fame is irrelevant as long as this band isn’t in it

I never heard of them before.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:25:07am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Meat is Manhood. Meat is what made America Great.

You’ll pry my steer from my cold, dead hands.

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:27:29am

re: #155 Targetpractice

…
You want to access that “new public square”? You gotta pay a private company, as government-funded access points are few and far between. You don’t wanna pay Comcast, Verizon, Cox, etc for your internet connection? Then you better hope that the local wifi hotspots are not password protected.
…

add to that when the ‘aggrieved’ talk about access to the new public square they are really demanding free specific reach. access to where the audience is.

if they’ve been booted off FB and twitter ‘that’s not fair’, even though they have full and free access to dozens of other sites and services that do the same thing*

no one cares about frankensteinpillowtalk because that’s not where everyone anyone is

*TFGs sour grapes response made the point yesterday.
in an actual press release, he said that press releases are better than boring old twitter.

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:38:23am

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:40:48am
A busy section of Donald Trump’s southern border wall — which cost $27 million a mile to build — is being foiled by inexpensive ladders, the Texas Monthly reports.
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:43:12am

“Max Headroom” was promoted as “twenty minutes into the future.”

We get a lot of our news one hour into the future, so we’re ahead of Max. From the Omaha World-Herald:

Nebraskan benefits from less-invasive brain procedures for people with epilepsy

This is about a Panhandle resident from Gordon (northeast of me).

Most epilepsy patients — up to 70% — can be treated with medications. But about one in three cannot. An estimated 1.2% of Americans, or about 3.4 million people, have active epilepsy. About one in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some point during their lifetime.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:43:30am

re: #126 No Malarkey!

Thanks Trump!

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:44:17am
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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:53:59am

yes, this is real

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jeffreyw  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:57:10am

Good morning!

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 25, 2021 • 5:27:16am

re: #85 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

My question exactly. The Biden Administration has been very adamant that “bipartisan” = “we’re going to do what the voters want, and fuck any Republican who crosses our path.” Biden’s been playing hardball since he took the oath on January 20th. Filibuster aside, Schumer and Pelosi haven’t been making it easy for them either. So far, I’ve been pretty chuffed with how they’ve been playing the game.

I hope Biden maintains the existentialist “bipartisan’ MO he has operated on so far- that is, just simply do what is right and what you set to do anyway.

Ignore the Republican assholes as much as possible. Assume they are only going to operate on what is convenient for them short term politically and always in bad faith.

This republic is functioning on an existentialist level right now. Biden seems to know that the next election could mean the end of democracy itself in this country and if we go down, at least go down fighting for what is right.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 25, 2021 • 5:59:29am

Concern trolling from right-wing trolls:

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:05:10am
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds 52% of adults say they approve of the job President Biden is doing, compared with 42% who disapprove.

At this point in his presidency four years ago, Trump’s rating was nearly the reverse, with approval at 42% and disapproval at 53%.

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:07:08am

this here is some contorted spin: if you take out the people who had worse numbers, Biden has the worst numbers ever to this point!

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:07:46am

re: #190 Dangerman

Isn’t wonderful to have a President who does what a President is supposed to do? I think it is great. Go Joe. :)

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:08:09am

re: #190 Dangerman

Trump never went above 50% approval. He was never and never tried to be everyone’s President.

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:09:05am

re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Concern trolling from right-wing trolls:

I just posted this below
Didn’t see you got here first
gmta

Eta: of course when i say below i mean above…

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:09:41am

re: #193 Patricia Kayden

DT was just after the money and the title. He cut is political teeth on the highest office in the land and completely messed up.

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:10:53am

re: #193 Patricia Kayden

Trump never went above 50% approval. He was never and never tried to be everyone’s anyone’s President.

If i may…
Its just all about him

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:22:38am

SHS JROTC hosts flag retirement ceremony (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

So this is odd to me. The JROTC at Scottsbluff High School held a public flag burning for flags no longer suitable for display. The reason given was to show the public how to properly dispose of a flag in accordance with the US Flag Code.

The Flag Code doesn’t specify that the burning be private, only that it be dignified.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:28:56am

Our 7 day average of new cases has declined. I think we’re reaching a point where the vaccines are starting to have an effect on cases:

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:29:37am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:32:07am

re: #199 Belafon

We are damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:41:42am

re: #200 PhillyPretzel

We are damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

Although in this case currently it’s in the we don’t category, which hopefully will change soon.

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:43:16am

Associated Press: “For any new leader, a lingering pandemic that has killed more than a half-million citizens would be plenty for a first 100 days. But it has been far from the sole preoccupation for the now 78-year-old Biden.”

“The oldest person ever elected president is tugging the United States in many new directions at once, right down to its literal foundations — the concrete of its neglected bridges — as well as the racial inequities and partisan poisons tearing at the civil society. Add to that list: a call for dramatic action to combat climate change.”

“He’s doing it without the abrasive noise of the last president or the charisma of the last two. Biden’s spontaneity, once a hallmark and sometimes a headache, is rarely seen. Some say he is a leader for this time: more action, less talk and something for the history books.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:44:12am

re: #200 PhillyPretzel

We are damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

This was predicted some time ago.

Rich countries grab half of projected covid-19 vaccine supply (The Economist, November 12, 2020)

Less-well-off countries may have to wait years to inoculate their people

AS A SECOND wave of coronavirus infections sweeps through Europe, and America continues to break daily records for new covid-19 cases, the need for a vaccine is more urgent than ever. Pharmaceutical companies are racing to bring a viable drug to market. And this week came a bright ray of hope. On November 9th Pfizer and BioNTech, two drug firms, announced that their experimental covid-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective in initial trials. But there is a long way to go before vaccines are available in sufficient quantities to immunise the entire world. Little wonder, then, that countries are scrambling to secure supplies of vaccine candidates, even before their safety and efficacy have been established.

Most of these deals, known as advance market commitments (AMCs), have been struck by rich countries. Data collected by researchers at Duke University’s Global Health Innovation Centre show that high-income countries account for more than half of all such confirmed purchases. America alone is responsible for nearly one-sixth of these AMCs, having pre-ordered more than 1bn doses from half a dozen drugmakers. This amounts to three jabs per person. Canada has purchased ten doses for each of its citizens, the most for any country or alliance on a per person basis (see chart). A group of rich countries has already agreed to buy roughly 600m doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech drug, nearly half of the total the drugmakers say they can produce by the end of 2021.

(more)

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:44:33am

re: #191 Dangerman

In that Washington Post article:

Although his first sizable initiatives enjoy majority support, the poll also finds that by 2 to 1, Americans say that Biden should be willing to make “major changes” to his proposals to win Republican support, rather than trying to enact proposals without making major changes and getting no backing from congressional Republicans.

WTF folks?

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:49:01am
More than five million people, or nearly 8 percent of those who got a first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, have missed their second doses, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is more than double the rate among people who got inoculated in the first several weeks of the nationwide vaccine campaign.

Even as the country wrestles with the problem of millions of people who are wary about getting vaccinated at all, local health authorities are confronting an emerging challenge of ensuring that those who do get inoculated are doing so fully.

The reasons vary for why people are missing their second shots. In interviews, some said they feared the side effects, which can include flulike symptoms. Others said they felt that they were sufficiently protected with a single shot.

nytimes.com

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:50:09am

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:51:10am
“Covid was like a perfect storm on the hemisphere,” Navy Adm. Craig S. Faller, the head of U.S. Southern Command, testified last month. “And more needs to be done. This has opened a door for China and Russia to a lesser extent. We see it in their … heavy-handed vaccine diplomacy.”

In Paraguay, the government is under intense political pressure to drop its diplomatic recognition of Taiwan, Beijing’s price for providing shots. Latin American countries that recently dumped Taiwan are already getting deliveries. The Brazilian government is rescinding its rejection of Chinese telecom giant Huawei as part of its pitch to Beijing for vaccine help. Faller called for a “whole of government effort” to help Latin American countries resist these moves once Americans are vaccinated.

“We’re seeing it play out,” he said. “We need to stay on the field.”

washingtonpost.com

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:54:17am

re: #176 Dangerman

The keynote speaker at a Minnesota county Republican Party’s event told members that George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police was “planned since 2016,” the Bemidji Pioneer reports.
He also said more than a hundred Democratic members of Congress deserve to be investigated for espionage for “working with foreign governments and the communist and Islamic movements.”

From above
And we wonder why they arent getting vaccinated

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2021 • 6:55:45am

re: #205 Belafon

Is it really that difficult to follow the directions of health experts and get two shots? Huge sigh.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:00:21am

re: #209 Patricia Kayden

Is it really that difficult to follow the directions of health experts and get two shots? Huge sigh.

Must be those pesky swing voters… But one shot is better than no shot, and may actually be enough to keep you from getting severely ill and help slow the spread.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:02:42am
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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:02:54am

re: #210 darthstar

Must be those pesky swing voters… But one shot is better than no shot, and may actually be enough to keep you from getting severely ill and help slow the spread.

Unless we end up in a similar situation to the one we have because people don’t take all of their antibiotics.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:05:23am

re: #209 Patricia Kayden

Is it really that difficult to follow the directions of health experts and get two shots? Huge sigh.

I suppose that depends on the individual.

“Boss, can I have time off work to get my second shot?” (No)
Forgetfulness
Shortages
Lack of transportation
Homelessness (one of the reasons epidemiologists strongly recommended using the Johnson + Johnson vaccine for that population)
As noted in the article, concern about side-effects (amplified by antivaxxers and wingnuts)

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:05:33am

re: #205 Belafon

nytimes.com

Im not afraid of covid but a day of flu-like symptoms is too much

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:06:36am

re: #210 darthstar

Must be those pesky swing voters… But one shot is better than no shot, and may actually be enough to keep you from getting severely ill and help slow the spread.

Couldn’t the problem be all the expert discussion about how it was better for more people to get one shot and be partially protected than to follow the two shot regimen? Back when we were not awash in vaccines?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:08:38am

re: #214 Dangerman

Im not afraid of covid but a day of flu-like symptoms is too much

Well, more than one day. (Today is day four for my wife; she is feeling well for her first day. Her sense-of-smell is still improving, too.)

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:10:26am

re: #216 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, more than one day. (Today is day four for my wife; she is feeling well for her first day. Her sense-of-smell is still improving, too.)

For some, point taken

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:12:00am
LAST WEEK, the billionth dose of covid-19 vaccine was made. It is a sign of how greatly capacity has expanded over the past six months that the next billion could be produced by May 27th, according to Airfinity, an analytics firm (see chart). Yet this ambition is at risk from American export controls on raw materials and equipment. Production lines in India, turning out at least 160m doses of covid vaccine a month, will soon grind to a halt unless America supplies 37 critical items.

On April 16th Adar Poonawalla, head of the world’s biggest vaccine-maker, the Serum Institute of India (SII), begged President Joe Biden, in a tweet, to “lift the embargo of raw material exports out of the US…Your administration has the details”. Suresh Jadhav, SII’s executive director, says that in the next four to six weeks manufacturing of two vaccines will be affected: AstraZeneca’s, of which SII makes 100m doses a month, and Novavax’s, of which it expects to make 60m-70m doses a month. SII says it first alerted the American government about this two months ago.

(more)

American export controls threaten to hinder global vaccine production (The Economist)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:15:27am

re: #155 Targetpractice

Except the internet isn’t a public utility, at least not in the sense that most of us are familiar with. It may have started out that way at one time, with servers hosted on college campuses and government sites. But the moment that the private sector was factored in, the idea of the internet as being a public utility went out the window..

Also when it comes to other forms of broadcasting, there are limited channels and bandwidths to work with, the Internet has nearly inexhaustible capacity.

We might want to address how Facebook and Twitter have a de-facto monopoly, but there are very low hurdles to establishing and developing alternate forums for discussion.

Just look at the successes of Frank and Parler, for example…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:16:55am

re: #218 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This is primarily a result of invoking the Defense Production Act.

While that Act directs companies to make products in support of the national interest, it also prohibits those same companies from exporting those products without cumbersome paperwork and governmental review.

That means for foreign vaccine manufacturers, they are hampered by lack of exports from the United States. When coupled with hoarding of the same products made in other countries, this means that foreign vaccine production is going to hit a dramatic wall in a few weeks.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:17:45am

re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Also when it comes to other forms of broadcasting, there are limited channels and bandwidths to work with, the Internet has nearly inexhaustible capacity.

We might want to address how Facebook and Twitter have a de-facto monopoly, but there are very low hurdles to establishing and developing alternate forums for discussion.

Just look at the successes of Frank and Parler, for example…

I’d rather look at the successes of Little Green Footballs and Wonkette.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:20:02am

Getting barred from Alaska and Horizon is going to put a damper on in-state flights.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:21:05am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yeah, but Wonkette and Frank are so very similar…neither one have comment sections.

:-P

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:22:17am

re: #223 Sufficient unto the day…

Yeah, but Wonkette and Frank are so very similar…neither one have comment sections.

:-P

That’s why I’m a “Deep State Operative” rather than a “Moderator” I guess. /s

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:23:16am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’d rather look at the successes of Little Green Footballs and Wonkette.

Frank was a 2 day babblefest for Lindell. Parler is a few Roger Stone tweet threats away from getting pulled off Apple iTunes again.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:23:48am

re: #210 darthstar

If you’re not willing to get two shots as required, will you be willing to get booster shots or annual shots? That’s my worry.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:26:15am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:29:55am

re: #227 darthstar

I do not know much about beer but I thought hops was a plant as are most of the ingredients in beer. This Kudlow person had better go back to school to learn what is a plant amongst other things.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:31:18am

pphd.org

For the first time since since Covid-19 arrived in Wyobraska last April, there are no people hospitalised here from the disease.

The positivity rate has dropped from 10.2% to 7.8%. No new cases have been reported since April 18 (seventeen cases).

Full vaccinations are approaching 40%.

Three towns are at no risk, seven towns are at low risk, the remainder are at moderate risk.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:32:09am

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That is good news. :)

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:33:43am

re: #227 darthstar

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Words of WisDUMB from Señor Snort who toots a lot of plant-based cocaine!

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A Cranky One  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:35:29am

re: #228 PhillyPretzel

I do not know much about beer but I thought hops was a plant as are most of the ingredients in beer. This Kudlow person had better go back to school to learn what is a plant amongst other things.

Next thing you know we’ll have plant based whiskey, plant based pot and plant based hallucinogenics!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:39:59am

re: #228 PhillyPretzel

I do not know much about beer but I thought hops was a plant as are most of the ingredients in beer. This Kudlow person had better go back to school to learn what is a plant amongst other things.

Meatbeers: 12 Beers Brewed With Animal Meat (America Fun Fact of the Day, April 9, 2014)

“The only thing that can make beer even better is the knowledge that a living creature died so I can drink it.”

~American Beer Drinkers

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:41:27am

re: #227 darthstar

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Who’s hoarding all the meat beer?

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:43:22am

re: #233 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Meatbeers: 12 Beers Brewed With Animal Meat (America Fun Fact of the Day, April 9, 2014)

“The only thing that can make beer even better is the knowledge that a living creature died so I can drink it.”

~American Beer Drinkers

Ok I was only kidding

re: #234 Dangerman

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retired cynic  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:47:34am

Opinion: Biden has an opportunity to ensure an FDR-like legacy, and he might blow it
Catherine Rampell, washingtonpost.com

It’s about the sunset on the child allowance cutting the rate of children in poverty in half, and comparing it to social security.

Biden has an opportunity to be fiscally responsible; to permanently lift millions of kids out of poverty, promoting racial equity in the process; and to cement his legacy as the kind of transformational president he aspires to be. He should not waste it.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:51:37am

Beyond stupid. These grifters and their massive profits are the driving force behind anti-science.

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:51:40am

re: #226 Patricia Kayden

If you’re not willing to get two shots as required, will you be willing to get booster shots or annual shots? That’s my worry.

Makes no sense to get so close and then give up.
But then, so little these people say and do makes any sense

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:51:56am

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cat-tikvah  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:51:57am

re: #185 Dangerman

More info: Grove is an ALEC-endorsed “legislator of the year” who objected to PA’s 2020 election results. From the Pennsylvania Capital-Star article:

C-S: You talked about good faith bargaining. So one thing I have to ask you is — You signed on to, and you organized, the letter to Congress that objected to Pennsylvania’s election results in the 2020 election. You’ve been part of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s election integrity committee. And you are one of many lawmakers who met privately with Kris Kobach, who’s just talking a lot about baseless voter fraud conspiracies. There are a lot of people who are going to be looking at you and saying, ‘you’re not going to be negotiating in good faith, and you are not someone who’s actually trying to make the election code better. You’re gonna be focusing more on the harder to cheat than the easier to vote.’ What would you say to people who are very doubtful of your ability to participate in this conversation?

SG: We’ll see.

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Dangerman  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:53:49am

re: #237 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Beyond stupid. These grifters and their massive profits are the driving force behind anti-science.

[Embedded content]

I could sell wood shavings as a “dietary supplement”

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retired cynic  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:56:18am

re: #237 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Beyond stupid. These grifters and their massive profits are the driving force behind anti-science.

[Embedded content]

Good grief! My husband used to subscribe to his newsletter. Fortunately, we never sent him money for anything! And I don’t think his “advice” ever affected anything Mr cynic ever did.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:56:55am

re: #236 retired cynic

Opinion: Biden has an opportunity to ensure an FDR-like legacy, and he might blow it
Catherine Rampell, washingtonpost.com

It’s about the sunset on the child allowance cutting the rate of children in poverty in half, and comparing it to social security.

He might blow getting Republicans who don’t want him to succeed on board with something they don’t want to pass?

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A Cranky One  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:57:11am

We need helpful signage like this!

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:57:55am

re: #237 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Beyond stupid. These grifters and their massive profits are the driving force behind anti-science.

[Embedded content]

Just waiting for someone to sue Mercola because they were

1) dumb enough to buy those Hydrogen tablets and

2) even dumber when they lit their farts!

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:58:32am

re: #244 A Cranky One

Hmm. PNC bank in the background. Where in PA is this street?

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A Cranky One  Apr 25, 2021 • 7:59:21am

re: #246 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. PNC bank in the background. Where in PA is this street?

No clue, sorry.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:00:21am

This could change the game with the “covid is a hoax” nuts if we do this here.

Spanish man charged with infecting 22 people with COVID-19 (Associated Press)

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish man with COVID-19 symptoms who coughed on work colleagues and told them “I’m going to give you all the coronavirus” has been charged with intentionally causing injury after allegedly infecting 22 people.

Spanish police said their investigation began after a COVID-19 outbreak at the company where the 40-year-old man worked on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.

(more)

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:00:40am

re: #246 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. PNC bank in the background. Where in PA is this street?

May not be in Pennsylvania since PNC expanded to a lot of states east of the Mississippi and established footholds in Texas and Colorado!

Gee, I remember when banks could only expand into surrounding counties in Pennsylvania and they couldn’t branch outside the Commonwealth!

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:04:35am

re: #249 🌹UOJB!

I remember that too.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:06:27am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:08:15am

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:12:54am

re: #252 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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Ah seeing the taco picture twice reminded me of this One Hit Wonder.

Taco - Puttin’ On The Ritz (ZDF Silvester-Tanzparty, 31.12.1983)

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retired cynic  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:14:00am

re: #251 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

He even looks like an ass. Piers Morgan should take note.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:15:17am

This asshat (not a doctor, just claims to be one on Twitter) hasn’t been banned yet. Needz moar reports.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:16:05am
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Teukka  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:16:40am

re: #237 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Beyond stupid. These grifters and their massive profits are the driving force behind anti-science.

Giphy

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:17:35am

re: #138 No Malarkey!

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Yes, they can bake their own fucking cake

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:18:29am

re: #252 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Yes there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
there’s still time to change the road you’re on.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:19:10am

re: #255 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This asshat (not a doctor, just claims to be one on Twitter) hasn’t been banned yet. Needz moar reports.

[Embedded content]

Please report that quack for encouraging harm.

@jack blocked me from reporting assholes like this.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:21:20am

re: #259 darthstar

Yes there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
there’s still time to change the road you’re on.

Or, for the Robert Frost fans (I see you out there…yes you in the grey shirt)

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:21:48am

re: #187 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:21:57am

TOOLSI is trending on Twitter.

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A Cranky One  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:23:40am

re: #255 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This asshat (not a doctor, just claims to be one on Twitter) hasn’t been banned yet. Needz moar reports.

[Embedded content]

Why is that misinformation? You don’t see professional athletes getting COVID, right?

Oh wait.

Nevermind.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:23:53am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:25:08am

re: #265 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:25:12am

re: #256 darthstar

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gocart mozart  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:26:48am

re: #138 No Malarkey!

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:27:06am
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jaunte  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:28:05am

It’s a Cult Thread:

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:28:38am

…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:28:53am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:29:23am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:38:13am

re: #268 gocart mozart

I would have thought that if there were one, solitary fact of science that was common knowledge among Republicans, it would be that beer was made from plants. But, no, the art of beer-making has joined biology, virology, astronomy, geodesy, and paleontology in being cast out of the goober-galaxy of alternate facts.

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lizardofid  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:39:34am

re: #246 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. PNC bank in the background. Where in PA is this street?

Love this! Photo from Shadyside. Sign leads to Tocayo Tacqueria.

Posted by Straight Outta Pittsburgh on Sunday, April 4, 2021

Oh, good morning!

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:42:00am

re: #267 Belafon

I like this strip…think I’ll follow it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:45:02am
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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:45:29am

Doonesbury does MTG

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:50:40am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:54:15am

re: #275 lizardofid

Thanks. :)

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:54:48am

Okay…time to walk the dogs…here’s some food for thought. Chicken nuggets come from dinosaurs.

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:57:55am
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jaunte  Apr 25, 2021 • 8:58:25am
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piratedan  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:05:40am

re: #283 jaunte

easy answer, just shut down Faux News….. tough answer, finding a legal justification for doing so. My guess is that they need to find cause somehow via the FCC.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:15:22am

re: #284 piratedan

easy answer, just shut down Faux News….. tough answer, finding a legal justification for doing so. My guess is that they need to find cause somehow via the FCC.

Too late — it’s metastasized.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:28:13am

re: #285 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Too late — it’s metastasized.

If Fox is shut down OANN, The Blaze, Newsmax and Jesus TV will double down on the brainwashing

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:28:24am

re: #284 piratedan

easy answer, just shut down Faux News….. tough answer, finding a legal justification for doing so. My guess is that they need to find cause somehow via the FCC.

If I have to buy a Dominion voting machine to help them with their lawsuit, I will find a way.

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danarchy  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:28:41am

re: #255 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This asshat (not a doctor, just claims to be one on Twitter) hasn’t been banned yet. Needz moar reports.

He is a Doctor of Chiropractic. So basically a fraud.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:30:16am

re: #287 Belafon

If I have to buy a Dominion voting machine to help them with their lawsuit, I will find a way.

Smartmatic machines were only deployed in Los Angeles County and they were very easy to use. I liked the fact that they made a hard copy of your vote that you could double check before depositing in the ballot receptacle.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:31:32am

re: #288 danarchy

He is a Doctor of Chiropractic. So basically a fraud.

Remember the asshole chiropractor my Jesusbot aunt went to and he insisted he could diagnose health conditions by examining a person’s iris…

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:31:52am

I propose we start a cable neutrality law: a provider cannot charge more for one cable channel than they do for others in the same classification.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:32:38am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:33:54am

re: #291 Belafon

I propose we start a cable neutrality law: a provider cannot charge more for one cable channel than they do for others in the same classification.

People should be allowed to pick and choose what individual channels they want to watch from a cable provider. They shouldn’t be forced to buy a package with channels they don’t want.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:37:54am
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:38:20am

re: #285 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Too late — it’s metastasized.

Yep. If you shut down everything associated with Murdoch, there still remain a host of cable stations, newspapers, websites and social media accounts that will continue to propagate lies. The Faux News liars will just relocate to other networks.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:43:19am

re: #289 🌹UOJB!

Smartmatic machines were only deployed in Los Angeles County and they were very easy to use. I liked the fact that they made a hard copy of your vote that you could double check before depositing in the ballot receptacle.

The same was true for my vote for local elections a few weeks ago on a Dominion machine.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:44:11am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:49:32am
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DodgerFan1988  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:51:04am
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lizardofid  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:51:06am

re: #285 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Too late — it’s metastasized.

The next generation must be saved, I fear it’s too late for mine.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:57:00am

re: #279 The Pie Overlord!

There’s a shop in the downtown area of where we live that has a shop that sells that exact photo as a postcard. Along with others. And framed 8x10 photos of the same lynchings. In 2021. But it’s GA and I don’t expect better behavior from people here anymore. I know we have Stacey Abrams and two Democratic senators now, but there are enclaves of racism here that go unchallenged everywhere. Hell, GA’s Forsyth county had laws on the books that barred black families from even living there as late as the 1980s. The only thing that will change things here is demographics, more young people and POC moving here. And lots of spiteful ass white people dying off or leaving.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 25, 2021 • 9:57:04am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 10:07:14am

re: #302 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Got to pay for all those lobbyists, bean counters who deny claims and the pimp CEOs who run the insurance rackets!

Don’t forget the bribes that go to Congressmen to keep the rackets intact!

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No Malarkey!  Apr 25, 2021 • 10:10:35am

Newark did police reform right.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 25, 2021 • 10:11:55am

talkingpointsmemo.com

GOP’s New Anti-Protest Tactic: Protecting Drivers Who Ram Into Demonstrators

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2021 • 10:12:10am
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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 10:12:23am
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Belafon  Apr 25, 2021 • 10:13:11am
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2021 • 10:15:25am

re: #303 🌹UOJB!

Got to pay for all those lobbyists, bean counters who deny claims and the pimp CEOs who run the insurance rackets!

The real problem is that medical costs are uncontrolled in this country; and even if the costs were controlled, there is no way that an average person could afford the costs, absent some form of health insurance that is heavily subsidized by the government. The modern capitalist system is destroying us here — it is one thing to allow Post and Kellogg’s to duke it out for the most popular cereal (with regulations to guarantee products are safe); it’s another thing to expect people to try to find the best medical care at the lowest cost — health care is a right and should be treated as such. Costs should not play any role in services that are involved with maintaining or restoring health.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 25, 2021 • 10:16:15am

The Right is now saying openly that the Left is forcing them to become fascists.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 25, 2021 • 1:13:46pm

re: #288 danarchy

He’s A DO, not a DC - IOW, He’s like A Dr. Oz. - A real Doc who found it more profitable to peddle woo…

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nicdanger  Apr 25, 2021 • 4:22:38pm

How odd…both Charles and Atrios (Eschaton) featuring the same song/same vid on a Saturday evening.


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