The Bob Cesca Podcast: Bootlickers

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Bootlickers — Trump’s bootlickers are helping Trump to violate his gag order. Evidence that Trump colluded with Republicans to attack witnesses. “Bootlickers” sign appears behind Matt Gaetz in New York. The Dow hit 40,000 for the first time in history. The presidential debates are scheduled after Biden baited Trump. Simon Rosenberg on the hidden NYT poll. 12 percent of Democrats think WHAT?! Toxic revisionism about the Trump presidency. Democrats are investigating Trump’s bribery scheme with Big Oil. The Supreme Court did something good for a change. Nikki-mentum continues in Maryland and Nebraska. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by The Husht, Bill Toms, and more! (Image via Acyn)

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2024 • 3:23:50pm

Killing a lib or a commie and getting away with it is a fantasy sold to the right by the gun industry, which also demands the law be shaped to make that fantasy a reality should someone choose to commit murder www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv… bsky.app/profile/adam…

— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2024-05-16T20:45:56.472Z

I guess I’d add:

this is context for every single time conservatives and “centrists” tortuously extrapolate things said by leftists to find a threat so large they are forced to side with the law enforcement agencies in spite of the latter’s open conspiracy to abuse power and evade consequences.

It’s also context for everything done to Muslims and Arabs in the last twenty years.

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 3:25:13pm

Dow dips below 40,000. Biden’s economy…

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 3:27:52pm
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) announced Monday that she has signed a bill into law punishing employers that make it easier for their employees to bargain collectively.

The law, known as Senate Bill 231, bars companies from receiving state economic incentives if they voluntarily recognize their workers’ unions, rather than forcing them to vote on whether to unionize in secret-ballot elections. Affected companies could lose grants, loans and tax credits starting next year.

dailykos.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 16, 2024 • 3:32:56pm

So I’m on macOS Mojave now… at least I can see the BlueSky posts!

Messed up the internal install of Ventura by starting the Mojave installer while it was on the Ventura boot drive… silly me.

Mojave is on an external SSD and that will be my daily driver. I’ll put Ventura on the internal SSD as a way of accessing the latest software that won’t run on Mojave.

I still prefer the older (Mojave to El Capitan) UI. The fonts just look better to me and the brightness controls are not trying to push the LCD display, unlike Ventura which really does not want you to dim this iMac display.

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Dangerman  May 16, 2024 • 3:33:15pm

who run bartertown?

“House Democrats quietly helped propel a GOP-led discharge petition to success, marking the first time in nearly a decade the maneuver has worked,” Axios reports.

“Democratic leaders made a concerted effort to get their members to sign on, according to several senior Democratic sources. It comes after several efforts to force votes on their own bills fell short.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 16, 2024 • 3:34:13pm

re: #1 The Ghost of a Flea

Repeated from above: this is only the tip of the iceberg of evil that is going to collide with American Democracy wherever the GOP is in power.

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 3:34:24pm

All I am doing is guessing, but I would suggest that people fill their gas tanks this weekend. Gas has slowly dropped from a high of $3.45 in early April to about $3.05 in my area, A couple of weeks ago, a lot of gas stations tried to raise prices, but since the Brookshire’s refused to do so, prices fairly rapidly came down. There just seems to be a good likelihood that prices will jump next week.

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KGxvi  May 16, 2024 • 3:34:43pm

re: #5 Dangerman

who run bartertown?

huh, Republicans finally met a tax cut they don’t like?

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 3:35:46pm

re: #8 KGxvi

huh, Republicans finally met a tax cut they don’t like?

It would have helped poor people.

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KGxvi  May 16, 2024 • 3:36:47pm

re: #9 Belafon

It would have helped poor people.

that’s never stopped them before.

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2024 • 3:37:51pm

re: #10 KGxvi

that’s never stopped them before.

That’s not necessarily true. There have been several times when Democrats have proposed reducing lower- and middle-class taxes and raising upper-class taxes. Republicans had a collective freakout every damn time.

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Mattand  May 16, 2024 • 3:41:32pm

re: #4 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So I’m on macOS Mojave now… at least I can see the BlueSky posts!

Messed up the internal install of Ventura by starting the Mojave installer while it was on the Ventura boot drive… silly me.

Mojave is on an external SSD and that will be my daily driver. I’ll put Ventura on the internal SSD as a way of accessing the latest software that won’t run on Mojave.

I still prefer the older (Mojave to El Capitan) UI. The fonts just look better to me and the brightness controls are not trying to push the LCD display, unlike Ventura which really does not want you to dim this iMac display.

I just updated the other week. Haven’t really seen any major difference or any serious bugs. The Adobe apps still function, so that’s like 90% of my worry.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 16, 2024 • 3:41:52pm

An upside-down American flag — a symbol embraced by Donald Trump’s supporters who falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen — flew at Justice Samuel Alito’s home while the Supreme Court was considering an election case in early 2021. nyti.ms/3QP6nGu

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2024-05-16T22:17:58.563Z

Wish this would embed. Go find the photo

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 3:42:57pm

re: #11 Nerdy Fish

That’s not necessarily true. There have been several times when Democrats have proposed reducing lower- and middle-class taxes and raising upper-class taxes. Republicans had a collective freakout every damn time.

Republicans only care about cutting taxes on the filthy rich. Trump’s tax cuts (permanent for the rich, temporary for everyone else) made that perfectly clear.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 16, 2024 • 3:46:49pm

My sister has the NYT sub. Waiting for my gift article to read. But holy shit.

Blamed his wife.

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 3:48:26pm

re: #13 HRH Stanley Sea

That is unfuckingbelievable

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 16, 2024 • 3:52:48pm
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gocart mozart  May 16, 2024 • 3:53:56pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2024 • 3:55:32pm

re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Repeated from above: this is only the tip of the iceberg of evil that is going to collide with American Democracy wherever the GOP is in power.

What I want people to notice is the foot in the door that happened twenty years resulted in the GOP taking these advantages today.

There is an established American cant in which “rights” exist inversely proportional to threat, and we have let cynics and con men define that relationship for two decades in ways that feed into reaction and fascism. It’s not just the GOP…although they are the murderous edge of the issue…it is the general formula that civil liberty must balanced against security where “security” can be constantly re-defined to incorporate more and more abstract calculations of what constitutes, or even is predictive of, “threat.”

You can’t be have civil liberty when your population relishes video clips of unaccountable uniformed goons applying the boottips…or bombs…to random brown people on the assumption that the latter must deserve it somehow.

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2024 • 3:55:57pm

re: #4 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So I’m on macOS Mojave now… at least I can see the BlueSky posts!

Messed up the internal install of Ventura by starting the Mojave installer while it was on the Ventura boot drive… silly me.

Mojave is on an external SSD and that will be my daily driver. I’ll put Ventura on the internal SSD as a way of accessing the latest software that won’t run on Mojave.

I still prefer the older (Mojave to El Capitan) UI. The fonts just look better to me and the brightness controls are not trying to push the LCD display, unlike Ventura which really does not want you to dim this iMac display.

Which model iMac is it?

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2024 • 4:09:55pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

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The Manson girls came from difficult backgrounds, were led into isolation and drug use by a man who love-bombed them…and most of them weren’t even turned into murderers. They were also positioned by media in a way that the only attention they could get was negative attention…and they did it.

Republican politicians are entirely sane political operators signalling their loyalty both to an unstable demagogue and their implacable voter base that don’t believe law applies to their in-group. They do so because they see personal advantage, and it actually doesn’t matter if they’re sincere believers or cynics because the scope of their belief amounts to “it’s true if it’s convenient to my wants.”

The latter are exponentially worse than the former, and it’s a literally a cunning conspiracy conducted over fifty years that has convinced people otherwise. The entire image of the “cult” as moral hazard exists to make alien-and-strange entirely understandable processes of how to wield social meaning to obtain compliance. The status quo is just the biggest cult with the biggest crimes: compare the Catholic Church to the People’s Temple, the difference is scale of ambition not motive. The Pope can never end up cornered in Guyana because there’s centuries of failsafes and a giant money pit both concealing his actions and softening the consequences, not because the Vatican is any less freaky in what it’s internal power structure permits the empowered to do.

Consider that the Manson family was seen as the ne plus ultra of counterculture corruption at a time when the normative culture had simply inured itself to the daily incineration of random Vietnamese villagers, and the occasional rape-murder spree by GIs. The people that found Charles Manson demonic thought Calley did nothing wrong.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 4:11:36pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2024 • 4:14:59pm

WHAT www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/u…

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie.bsky.social) 2024-05-16T22:51:56.927Z

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2024 • 4:15:14pm

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goddamnedfrank  May 16, 2024 • 4:15:30pm

DC_Draino is on BlueSky

Absolutely fucking not, immediate block.

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank.bsky.social) 2024-05-16T23:13:55.138Z

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2024 • 4:15:40pm

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2024 • 4:16:32pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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“objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs” - someone was butthurt that a neighbor put up a Black Lives Matter sign.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 16, 2024 • 4:16:59pm

U.S. governors urge Turks and Caicos to release Americans as Florida woman becomes 5th tourist arrested for ammo in luggage

Three U.S. governors this week asked Turks and Caicos to show mercy to Americans arrested on the islands as a Florida woman became the fifth U.S. tourist to be charged with ammunition possession. Four of the detained Americans have admitted they brought the ammunition — but by mistake.

Pro-tip: When visiting a foreign country, you can greatly improve your chances of a happy and successful stay if you OBEY THE LAW. Turks and Caicos is a British overseas territory. You might as well try to sneak ammo into Heathrow. “Unintentional” or not, it is big trouble. If we had Saudi or Palestinian tourists regularly sneaking in with forgotten ammunition, would Americans be so quick to demand their release?

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2024 • 4:17:57pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Americans think they can just take their guns anywhere they like, even overseas.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 4:20:20pm

Mastodon

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William Lewis  May 16, 2024 • 4:21:33pm

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William Lewis  May 16, 2024 • 4:21:52pm

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William Lewis  May 16, 2024 • 4:22:03pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 4:22:10pm

We’re in a tornado. It’s not great.

— Blue Heron Farm (@blueheronfarm.bsky.social) 2024-05-16T23:14:04.794Z


It has passed us and we have resumed our drive home. I just had to have a yuppie goddamn happy hour.

— Blue Heron Farm (@blueheronfarm.bsky.social) 2024-05-16T23:17:59.881Z

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2024 • 4:22:57pm

So two of the nine most powerful people in our country, who wield outsized power due to the legislative branch’s dysfunction, are married to people who either actively participated in the attempted coup of 2020-2021, or publicly identified as a sympathizer with the same. But I’m sure this is fine.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 4:23:10pm

re: #34 Backwoods Sleuth

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never take shelter under an overpass.

just don’t do that

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 4:26:13pm

Wait. And how is that a response to yard signs? None of this makes sense.

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) 2024-05-16T23:14:48.859Z


mike i am starting to think this guy is not being completely upfront about the flag situation tbh

— darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) 2024-05-16T23:16:31.304Z

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2024 • 4:26:20pm

I’m amazed we actually made it this far, to be honest. The rot goes so deep, and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it.

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2024 • 4:27:25pm

One of my character flaws is that I just don’t have it in me to be obsequious to billionaires. Or even millionaires. It’s gotten me in trouble a few times.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-16T23:26:33.000Z

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Patricia Kayden  May 16, 2024 • 4:31:53pm

re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg

Me too. When does the media call out the so-called Party of Life for its support of murderers? Perry was an open racist and went to a protest to kill someone and he did and is now a free man. How is this different from when White people used to lynch Blacks and walk Scot-free? We have gone backwards in this country. If Trump wins, I’m out of here. I can already see what’s going to happen when he’s in power again to all his “enemies”.

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A Cranky One  May 16, 2024 • 4:35:33pm

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A Cranky One  May 16, 2024 • 4:37:54pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 4:39:06pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 4:42:45pm

CL’d (pbuh)

re: #114 Ace Rothstein

The only person that matters on the Kansas City Chiefs is Butker’s teammate. A quarterback named Patrick Mahomes, and Mahomes comes across as pretty progressive and hates Trump.

I’m sure he loses sleep at night thinking about how Travis and Taylor are having lots of sex outside of a Christian approved marriage.

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 4:44:08pm

re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg

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That’s how I feel, and it’s going up on Facebook after the article I posted about it.

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 4:44:43pm

re: #32 William Lewis

Beautiful!

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wrenchwench  May 16, 2024 • 4:44:53pm

re: #44 teleskiguy

Been on your new bike?

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 4:51:21pm

re: #47 wrenchwench

Rode it today. A mellow two track out in Eagle Ranch. Forgot to track it, but if I had to guess I got almost 10 miles in the saddle.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 4:54:13pm

tonight’s supper was rosemary pork tenderloin, sauteed squash and sweet onion, with homemade macaroni salad

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 4:54:37pm

re: #34 Backwoods Sleuth

PSA: underpasses are not great places to hang out during a tornado. The wind blows much faster through there.

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William Lewis  May 16, 2024 • 4:55:02pm

from downstairs:
re: #116 Mike Lamb

Perhaps he wants to be a “martyr,” but I’d put the odds at better than 50-50 he gets cut. No doubt he’s a good kicker. But he’s a kicker. Perhaps the most fungible position in the league. The Chiefs aren’t going to let a goofy ass kicking bigot tarnish their image.

And five will get you ten they’ll wait. It will be the last cuts to the final team roster size to start the season so that it simply looks like “nope, not good enough” rather than anything controversial and then the other teams in the league can look at the black ball happily 😈

But everyone will know exactly why he pissed away an NFL paycheck.

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 4:55:41pm

re: #38 Nerdy Fish

I’m amazed we actually made it this far, to be honest. The rot goes so deep, and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it.

It’s also the desperate attempts of cornered rats, and we just have to persist a bit longer.

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 4:56:58pm

Such wonderful cooks on LGF!

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 4:57:32pm

re: #51 William Lewis

from downstairs:

And five will get you ten they’ll wait. It will be the last cuts to the final team roster size to start the season so that it simply looks like “nope, not good enough” rather than anything controversial and then the other teams in the league can look at the black ball happily 😈

But everyone will know exactly why he pissed away an NFL paycheck.

Will Fox and Newsmax appearances make up for it?

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 4:58:17pm

re: #53 prairiefire

Why the downding on 48? That comment is innocuous.

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DodgerFan1988  May 16, 2024 • 5:00:48pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 5:01:09pm

trouble at ham radio HQ

Mastodon

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 5:01:35pm

re: #55 teleskiguy

Sorry! Wonk old iPad

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wrenchwench  May 16, 2024 • 5:02:42pm

re: #48 teleskiguy

Rode it today. A mellow two track out in Eagle Ranch. Forgot to track it, but if I had to guess I got almost 10 miles in the saddle.

Do people still put cyclometers on their bike, or just use their phone?

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 5:03:31pm

re: #59 wrenchwench

Do people still put cyclometers on their bike, or just use their phone?

I use my Apple Watch.

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William Lewis  May 16, 2024 • 5:04:10pm

re: #40 Patricia Kayden

Me too. When does the media call out the so-called Party of Life for its support of murderers? Perry was an open racist and went to a protest to kill someone and he did and is now a free man. How is this different from when White people used to lynch Blacks and walk Scot-free? We have gone backwards in this country. If Trump wins, I’m out of here. I can already see what’s going to happen when he’s in power again to all his “enemies”.

In the “hope it’s never needed but just in case” category…

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 5:05:07pm

I couldn’t have tracked my ride today, I wasn’t even wearing my Apple Watch and I left my phone in the car (not a good idea, I need to take it, in case something happens).

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wrenchwench  May 16, 2024 • 5:05:32pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

I use my Apple Watch.

When you ski, too?

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 5:06:23pm

re: #61 William Lewis

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darthstar  May 16, 2024 • 5:06:50pm

re: #62 teleskiguy

I couldn’t have tracked my ride today, I wasn’t even wearing my Apple Watch and I left my phone in the car (not a good idea, I need to take it, in case something happens).

Strava app is cool. Track your climb as well as distance.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 5:08:11pm

re: #63 wrenchwench

When you ski, too?

Nah. Vail Resorts can track your vertical feet skied using your ski pass. It was kind of neat 15 years ago to use the phones to track your skiing, where you went on the mountain, average speed, max speed, etc. I stopped ski tracking with the phone years ago, drains the battery too fast.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 5:10:27pm

re: #65 darthstar

Strava app is cool. Track your climb as well as distance.

I have a friend who’s super into gravel biking, he’s shown me some gonzo gravel rides around here on Strava, like this one.

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darthstar  May 16, 2024 • 5:10:27pm

Dishwasher is leaking. The rubber two drain hose coupler disintegrated. (Fisher Paykal two drawer dishwasher…love it) New unit should be here tomorrow (thank you, Amazon!). But I get to crawl under the sink and spend 20 minutes fucking with small band clamps. Hate those things.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 5:12:50pm

threads.net

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darthstar  May 16, 2024 • 5:13:04pm

re: #66 teleskiguy

Nah. Vail Resorts can track your vertical feet skied using your ski pass. It was kind of neat 15 years ago to use the phones to track your skiing, where you went on the mountain, average speed, max speed, etc. I stopped ski tracking with the phone years ago, drains the battery too fast.

I used to count my rides and multiply by the vertical listed for the chair. 15 laps at ~1800 vert? 27,000 feet.

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gocart mozart  May 16, 2024 • 5:13:25pm
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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 5:14:03pm

re: #70 darthstar

I used to count my rides and multiply by the vertical listed for the chair. 15 laps at ~1800 vert? 27,000 feet.

The high speed chair Chet’s Dream at the Loveland ski area is an even 1,000 vertical feet. Ride it 30 times, get 30,000 feet!

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William Lewis  May 16, 2024 • 5:14:07pm

re: #64 teleskiguy

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 5:15:41pm

re: #72 teleskiguy

The high speed chair Chet’s Dream at the Loveland ski area is an even 1,000 vertical feet. Ride it 30 times, get 30,000 feet!

6-mile high.

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retired cynic  May 16, 2024 • 5:16:57pm

re: #49 Backwoods Sleuth

tonight’s supper was rosemary pork tenderloin, sauteed squash and sweet onion, with homemade macaroni salad

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yum!

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2024 • 5:17:39pm

re: #40 Patricia Kayden

How is this different from when White people used to lynch Blacks and walk Scot-free?

It’s the same thing.

A great deal of time and effort has been put into revising the meaning of historical lynching, to emphasize that it was an act of individual emotionality; “hate.”

And while lynchings were full of high emotion their central premise wasn’t just anger or hate, it was a sense of justice: racial inequality was “true” regardless of written law, and perceived transgression by black people of that inequality…whether that was perceived discourtesy or collective self-defense or just existing independent of white expectations…should be met with not just death, but death as an act of terror inflicted on all other black people.

pour encourager les autres

But lynchings were also an act of white solidarity…whiteness is an almost-empty construct, of no specific place, of no specific culture, instead a quilt of carefully-curated successes from disparate times and disparate peoples, and in the breach it can only define itself in opposition to non-whiteness. Killing nonwhites policed the border, displaying the killing affirmed the in-group as a collective.

The justification of the modern racist shooting—a vague sense that a crime was committed or a threat issued that must be met with lethal and a a media-assisted display of why the killing was justified—has precisely the same logic but also the same emotional texture. The preemptive declaration of intent to do racist violence doesn’t violate the implicit rule that some kinds of people are inherently threatening that permeates whiteness. The full throated supporters see each act as radical solidarity of “Us,” and “Us” is always white even when they use coded language to suggest otherwise. Not even the choice of targets has changed—white people will absolutely cheer the violent disciplining of whites who show solidarity with nonwhites—although the language is now carefully rendered political not racial. The white moderate, not an active racist but uncritical in how racism permeates their environment, can convince themselves that each event is discrete and signifies nothing but individual failing. When the cops kill the same people can be duped by the standard euphemisms that gesture to race but technically cite a transgression that led to the killing; this is easy to do because they can’t conceive that the system’s formal logic of culpability can be subverted by simple semantic tricks.

I frequently talk about this kind of thing with a level of disassociation; partly from being an academic and partly from being a poster…but honestly I’m scared shitless because it seems like the current formula of amorphous, contagious guilt…the modern cultivar owing a lot to the War on Terror…is going to stick for awhile.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 5:21:17pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 5:24:30pm

re: #77 Backwoods Sleuth

At least the age difference isn’t cringe. McCormick is 55, Van Duyne is 53.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2024 • 5:24:37pm

re: #77 Backwoods Sleuth

They thought about the trans too much and ceased to be cis-marital.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 5:25:16pm

Mastodon

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 5:28:06pm

re: #76 The Ghost of a Flea

IMO, old-style lynchings with the whole town turning out for the festival, complete with children and picnic baskets, were the holiest rites of the religion of white supremacy.

Ever since that been mostly suppressed, racists have been seething with the discontent of thwarted religious fanatics.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 5:28:32pm

Mastodon

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 16, 2024 • 5:35:23pm

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 5:37:18pm

re: #83 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Perfect.

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2024 • 5:37:51pm

The sobering thought about Republican legislators showing up to do Trump’s dirty work by violating his gag order for him is that, for all intents and purposes, they are there on official business for the government of the United States. They are basically saying, “Not only does your gag order not apply to us, as external observers, but we’re so powerful you can’t touch us. And we’re dedicated to making a mockery and a sham of your attempts to silence our Dear Leader.”

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 5:38:59pm

re: #82 Backwoods Sleuth

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I want that person as a neighbor.

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 5:40:34pm

re: #77 Backwoods Sleuth

Affairs can produce more children. //

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 5:42:51pm

re: #82 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I’ve watched it a dozen times now.

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2024 • 5:43:03pm

re: #85 Nerdy Fish

It’s so disturbing to see this that I have trouble finding words to describe it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2024 • 5:43:25pm

re: #88 Belafon

I’ve watched it a dozen times now.

me, too…absolutely amazing

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2024 • 5:45:41pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

It’s so disturbing to see this that I have trouble finding words to describe it.

Yeah, I struggled writing that post, and I’m still not happy with it. It doesn’t completely encapsulate the true depth of horror I feel. This is wrong, deeply, terribly wrong, to such an extent that I don’t even know where to start fixing it.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2024 • 5:46:09pm

re: #85 Nerdy Fish

The sobering thought about Republican legislators showing up to do Trump’s dirty work by violating his gag order for him is that, for all intents and purposes, they are there on official business for the government of the United States. They are basically saying, “Not only does your gag order not apply to us, as external observers, but we’re so powerful you can’t touch us. And we’re dedicated to making a mockery and a sham of your attempts to silence our Dear Leader.”

It’s also suggesting that the power of the state is intervening in a matter of the law because the subject of the lawsuit merits this intervention.

This pig is more equal than others, if you will.

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steve_davis  May 16, 2024 • 5:46:45pm

re: #36 Backwoods Sleuth

never take shelter under an overpass.

just don’t do that

yeah. it’s basically a wind tunnel. Same principle I assume as the reason why it can be 95 degrees outside in July, but under that goddamned gas station awning, the wind chill is 35 below zero.

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darthstar  May 16, 2024 • 5:48:28pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  May 16, 2024 • 5:50:00pm

re: #85 Nerdy Fish

Just get one to say casually that Trump asked him to do it and Trump goes to jail for 30 days.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  May 16, 2024 • 5:51:23pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

I haven’t dealt with billionaires up close but I do have fun when I get a chance to poke around the edges of someone with a bit less than that but still way too much. They get so inflexible.

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darthstar  May 16, 2024 • 5:52:43pm

re: #82 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

That takes a shit ton more skill than typing ‘kubectl get pods’ a dozen times in an hour.

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 5:53:30pm

re: #91 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, I struggled writing that post, and I’m still not happy with it. It doesn’t completely encapsulate the true depth of horror I feel. This is wrong, deeply, terribly wrong, to such an extent that I don’t even know where to start fixing it.

It’s interesting how perceptions can vary. I don’t see this particular episode of Republicans being shitbirds as being particularly significant.

After all, the GOP House caucus is full of traitors that voted on J6 to enact Trump’s coup, and the GOP Senate caucus is full of traitors that couldn’t do the only sensible thing after J6 and at least bar Trump from running for office again.

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2024 • 5:54:06pm

re: #95 darthstar

Just get one to say casually that Trump asked him to do it and Trump goes to jail for 30 days.

Will he, though? Because the order is pretty specifically worded. Wait - there it is, the word I was missing earlier. Intimidation. The fact that U.S. Representatives are out here violating Trump’s gag order, at his explicit instruction, is meant to be intimidating. He’s basically saying, “Look, I have high-ranking Congresspeople in my pocket who are willing to abandon the business of governing the country in order to do what I want. You can’t do anything to me.”

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steve_davis  May 16, 2024 • 5:55:22pm

jeffrey toobin currently on cnn. I’m assuming there’s something in his contract about keeping both his hands visible at all times.

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 5:55:41pm

re: #99 Nerdy Fish

Will he, though? Because the order is pretty specifically worded. Wait - there it is, the word I was missing earlier. Intimidation. The fact that U.S. Representatives are out here violating Trump’s gag order, at his explicit instruction, is meant to be intimidating. He’s basically saying, “Look, I have high-ranking Congresspeople in my pocket who are willing to abandon the business of governing the country in order to do what I want. You can’t do anything to me.”

This is why it would be immensely cathartic to lapse into barbarism and have Trump flogged on the courthouse steps, before being sent to jail.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 5:57:03pm

Drudge, rubbing it in Fuckface’s face.

So funny how I stopped going to Drudge altogether soon after the Iraq War started. 20 years later I’m visiting daily once again. He’s actually covering Fuckface properly.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 5:59:45pm

re: #102 teleskiguy

I mean, c’mon. This is funny!

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 6:02:58pm

Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” was shown at Cannes. 10 minute standing ovation when the film concluded.

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Dangerman  May 16, 2024 • 6:03:55pm

After the 2020 presidential election, as some Trump supporters falsely claimed that President Biden had stolen the office, many of them displayed a startling symbol outside their homes, on their cars and in online posts: an upside-down American flag,” the New York Times reports.

“One of the homes flying an inverted flag during that time was the residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in Alexandria, Va., according to photographs and interviews with neighbors.”

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Decatur Deb  May 16, 2024 • 6:08:25pm

re: #105 Dangerman

For precision, the inverted flag shtick is much older than the 2020 election. It has been used by various disaffected Left—Right protestors for years. It has its origin in the real military use as a distress signal.

In this case, it’s almost certainly RW bullshit.

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 6:09:20pm

re: #105 Dangerman

Does anyone actually believe Alito’s excuse that he had no knowledge of it, and it was done by his wife as part of a tiff with neighbors?

It’s really insulting how brazen and low-effort Republican lies are these days.

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 6:11:43pm

re: #107 EPR-radar

Does anyone actually believe Alito’s excuse that he had no knowledge of it, and it was done by his wife as part of a tiff with neighbors?

It’s really insulting how brazen and low-effort Republican lies are these days.

What was the tiff? Did his neighbor have a Biden sign in the yard?

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 6:11:45pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

That’s probably more for FFC than the film. It’s being savaged by critic.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 6:14:08pm

re: #109 prairiefire

All I know is what I’ve seen in the previews. Visually, FFC is swinging at the fences, it looks like a visually dazzling film.

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 6:19:54pm

re: #108 Ace Rothstein

What was the tiff? Did his neighbor have a Biden sign in the yard?

Allegedly (i.e., according to Alito, an untrustworthy source) a neighbor had personally insulting yard signs (not further specified as far as I know).

As you say, these people are such snowflakes that the neighbor’s sign, if real, could have been something as banal as a Biden sign or BLM sign.

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 6:20:17pm

re: #110 teleskiguy

I remember reading about this idea he’s had since the 1990s.
His wife just passed, RIP.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 6:21:40pm

Over a million power outages in and around Houston after a nasty squall line moved through earlier.

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 6:22:24pm

re: #113 teleskiguy

Over a million power outages in and around Houston after a nasty squall line moved through earlier.

My lights flickered for a bit. Looking outside now it’s like nothing even happened.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 16, 2024 • 6:23:54pm

re: #108 Ace Rothstein

What was the tiff? Did his neighbor have a Biden sign in the yard?

I believe from the description, it was Fuck Trump.

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 6:24:04pm
The very first batch of reviews and reactions to “Megalopolis” are coming out of Cannes Film Festival in France, where the film made its world premiere. Given the movie’s troubled production and absolutely wild teaser trailer, it should come as no surprise that the reviews are as intense as they are mixed, though most praise the unique sci-fi epic for its audacity and willingness to fully commit to its ideas and world. Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri called the movie “the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” and that seems to be a common sentiment. For all its weirdness, “Megalopolis” also seems to be a bit of a mess, with critic Robert Daniels tweeting that the “first hour was a disaster” but the second half worked better, praising the film’s “sharp” visual language. Like many other big, goofy, weird science fiction films before it, “Megalopolis” sounds like it was designed to divide because it was created with such a singular vision and no compromise. It also sounds like something messy and audacious, like the criminally-underrated “Southland Tales,” which is great. I love mess.

slashfilm.com

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Decatur Deb  May 16, 2024 • 6:24:58pm

re: #100 steve_davis

jeffrey toobin currently on cnn. I’m assuming there’s something in his contract about keeping both his hands visible at all times.

Had to sign an NDA—No Dicking Around.

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2024 • 6:27:44pm

re: #115 HRH Stanley Sea

I believe from the description, it was Fuck Trump.

So the appropriate response to “Fuck Trump” is, “This country is in distress and I believe it needs to be overthrown.” Yeah, that sounds proportional.

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 6:27:53pm

Associated Press:

“Many reviews were blisteringly bad. Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian called it “megabloated and megaboring.” Tim Grierson for Screen Daily called it a “disaster” “stymied by arbitrary plotting and numbing excess.” Kevin Maher for the Times of London wrote that it’s a “head-wrecking abomination.” Critic Jessica Kiang said “Megalopolis” “is a folly of such gargantuan proportions it’s like observing the actual fall of Rome.”

But some critics responded with admiration for the film’s ambition. With fondness, New York Magazine’s Bilge Ebiri said the film “might be the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.” David Ehrlich for IndieWire praised a “creatively unbound approach” that “may not have resulted in a surplus of dramatically coherent scenes, but it undergirds the entire movie with a looseness that makes it almost impossible to look away.”

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gwangung  May 16, 2024 • 6:28:26pm

re: #110 teleskiguy

All I know is what I’ve seen in the previews. Visually, FFC is swinging at the fences, it looks like a visually dazzling film.

I absolutely respect swinging for the fences. I may not like the end the result, but I generally salute the artist, even if there was parts I hated.

And, at that…it may take the passage of time for people to reflect and the film’s genius to emerge.

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 6:28:39pm

re: #115 HRH Stanley Sea

I believe from the description, it was Fuck Trump.

Sooooo, what’s the problem?

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 6:28:55pm

re: #119 Ace Rothstein

Associated Press:

“Many reviews were blisteringly bad. Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian called it “megabloated and megaboring.” Tim Grierson for Screen Daily called it a “disaster” “stymied by arbitrary plotting and numbing excess.” Kevin Maher for the Times of London wrote that it’s a “head-wrecking abomination.” Critic Jessica Kiang said “Megalopolis” “is a folly of such gargantuan proportions it’s like observing the actual fall of Rome.”

But some critics responded with admiration for the film’s ambition. With fondness, New York Magazine’s Bilge Ebiri said the film “might be the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.” David Ehrlich for IndieWire praised a “creatively unbound approach” that “may not have resulted in a surplus of dramatically coherent scenes, but it undergirds the entire movie with a looseness that makes it almost impossible to look away.”

Definitely sounds like my kind of movie.

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 6:29:08pm

re: #118 Nerdy Fish

So the appropriate response to “Fuck Trump” is, “This country is in distress and I believe it needs to be overthrown.” Yeah, that sounds proportional.

It’s a lie.

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Dangerman  May 16, 2024 • 6:29:10pm

re: #77 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I can’t take credit
I’d like to but I can’t:

Georgia and Texas: always ready to secede
from whatever Union they have joined.

It’s a reflex

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Belafon  May 16, 2024 • 6:29:30pm

re: #121 Ace Rothstein

Sooooo, what’s the problem?

Maybe Alito’s wife thought it was a command?

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 6:29:48pm

re: #121 Ace Rothstein

Sooooo, what’s the problem?

This. Putting up yard signs saying “Fuck Trump” is objectively commendable.

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 6:30:23pm

re: #126 EPR-radar

This. Putting up yard signs saying “Fuck Trump” is objectively commendable.

It’s patriotic.

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 6:30:27pm

IAll the young Christo fascist guys I knew who had such a hard on for FFC’s “Apocalypse Now.”

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 6:30:55pm

re: #128 prairiefire

I remember all the young Christo fascist guys I knew who had such a hard on for FFC’s “Apocalypse Now.”

It is a good movie though.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2024 • 6:31:09pm

Ari Melber clashes with William Brennan on Michael Cohen

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 6:31:31pm

re: #127 Ace Rothstein

It’s patriotic.

Speaking of patriotism, Bill Clinton is still alive, so it’s not too late to give him a medal for lying to Ken Starr.

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Decatur Deb  May 16, 2024 • 6:31:43pm

re: #129 Ace Rothstein

It is a good movie though.

“Who’s in charge here?”

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 6:31:56pm

re: #131 EPR-radar

Speaking of patriotism, Bill Clinton is still alive, so it’s not too late to give him a medal for lying to Ken Starr.

Ken Starr is still dead.

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 6:33:40pm

re: #128 prairiefire

Yes, iconic! It made me want to skiddadle from the theater. S o much WAR

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 6:34:52pm

re: #132 Decatur Deb

“Who’s in charge here?”

Chef: How come all you guys sit on your helmets?
Soldier: So we don’t get our balls blown off.

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EPR-radar  May 16, 2024 • 6:35:16pm

re: #133 Ace Rothstein

Ken Starr is still dead.

I missed that piece of good news at the time.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 16, 2024 • 6:36:55pm

re: #128 prairiefire

I remember all the young Christo fascist guys I knew who had such a hard on for FFC’s “Apocalypse Now.”

15-year-old me was introduced to “The End” by the Doors by the start of that movie in a movie theater in Potsdam, NY.

Chaos, destruction, and people reacting to war in various ways. Few of them want to be there.

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2024 • 6:38:50pm

re: #130 Joe Bacon ✅

I turned this off because he was such a disgusting clown. Ari Melber should have known better than to let him spew this garbage on his show.

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2024 • 6:39:59pm

But as always, pumping up the controversy is the primary objective.

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Decatur Deb  May 16, 2024 • 6:41:13pm

Charlie surfs.

instagram.com

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 6:41:43pm

re: #134 prairiefire

Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite films. One of those rare films where it really sticks in your head long after you’ve watched it. It’s hard to watch, yes, like Cormac McCarthy novels are hard to read.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 6:44:07pm

re: #137 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

15-year-old me was introduced to “The End” by the Doors by the start of that movie in a movie theater in Potsdam, NY.

Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. When I saw it in the theater, the biggest goosebumps I’ve probably ever had.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 6:53:10pm

re: #140 Decatur Deb

Wow! Full fucken circle…

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BeachDem  May 16, 2024 • 6:54:06pm

re: #137 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

15-year-old me was introduced to “The End” by the Doors by the start of that movie in a movie theater in Potsdam, NY.

Chaos, destruction, and people reacting to war in various ways. Few of them want to be there.

Saw it at the Ziegfeld theater in NYC in 1979 with a friend who’d been in Vietnam and never dealt with his feelings about the war until that very moment. He was totally shaken and spent the next several hours telling me many tales of his experiences during the war. Have never forgotten that day.

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Dangerman  May 16, 2024 • 6:54:52pm

re: #126 EPR-radar

This. Putting up yard signs saying “Fuck Trump” is objectively commendable.

Rando2

The meaning of Alito’s stop-the-steal symbol should be quite clear. Frankly, I’m surprised that I’m the only one who sees it.

Obviously, Samuel Alito and Ginni Thomas are having a torrid love affair.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 6:55:57pm

re: #144 BeachDem

Saw it at the Ziegfeld theater in NYC in 1979 with a friend who’d been in Vietnam and never dealt with his feelings about the war until that very moment. He was totally shaken and spent the next several hours telling me many tales of his experiences during the war. Have never forgotten that day.

Shit like this is one of a multitude of reasons why Apocalypse Now is a canonical film, important and worthy of preservation.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 6:57:50pm

re: #134 prairiefire

Yes, iconic! It made me want to skiddadle from the theater. S o much WAR

It’s explicitly a War Film. What did you expect when you went into the theater?

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 7:00:19pm

How about Saving Private Ryan? Orders of magnitude more WAR stuff going on than Apocalypse Now.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 16, 2024 • 7:01:43pm

re: #146 teleskiguy

Shit like this is one of a multitude of reasons why Apocalypse Now is a canonical film, important and worthy of preservation.

“Platoon” was the film that got the husband of my cousin to start talking about his Vietnam experiences.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 16, 2024 • 7:01:57pm

How to get a head in the gig economy….

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 7:02:53pm

re: #149 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

“Platoon” was the film that got the husband of my cousin to start talking about his Vietnam experiences.

Lots of Vietnam vets who saw combat say “Platoon” was the most accurate portrayal of that war on film.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 16, 2024 • 7:10:03pm

re: #140 Decatur Deb

Charlie surfs.

instagram.com

Youtube Video

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William Lewis  May 16, 2024 • 7:18:40pm

re: #148 teleskiguy

How about Saving Private Ryan? Orders of magnitude more WAR stuff going on than Apocalypse Now.

SPR… The beach sequence was insanely great, very possibly the best combat sequence ever filmed by hollywood. The rest slowly drifted into cliche, alas. Not badly but still it was heavy on the tropes.

I remember a lot of other military themed movies. Platoon had impact. Apocalypse Now. possibly my favorite was An Officer and A Gentleman. No combat but possibly some of the best acting I ever saw out of both Lou Gossett Jr & Richard Gere (the moment he turns back to help his teammate through the obstacle course is the real tearjerker for me, not when he goes to collect his lady, romantic as that is).

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 7:23:14pm

re: #153 William Lewis

SPR… The beach sequence was insanely great, very possibly the best combat sequence ever filmed by hollywood. The rest slowly drifted into cliche, alas. Not badly but still it was heavy on the tropes.

May I interest you in this? You will laugh.

Honest Trailers | Saving Private Ryan

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goddamnedfrank  May 16, 2024 • 7:23:37pm

re: #128 prairiefire

IAll the young Christo fascist guys I knew who had such a hard on for FFC’s “Apocalypse Now.”

OK but fascists not getting the point is a distinguishing hallmark of fascism. They also fetishized Full Metal Jacket, Fight Club, and American History X in a determined effort to reverse the intended message of each. And there is probably a valuable lesson to be learned in this that fascists just love seeing earnest and accurate depictions of fascism so much that a kind of reverse context collapse occurs.

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 7:24:31pm

re: #147 teleskiguy

I had no idea.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 16, 2024 • 7:25:05pm

Band of Brothers.

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 7:25:15pm

re: #155 goddamnedfrank

Same with Starship Troopers

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Captain Ron  May 16, 2024 • 7:31:31pm
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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 7:35:47pm

re: #155 goddamnedfrank

OK but fascists not getting the point is a distinguishing hallmark of fascism. They also fetishized Full Metal Jacket, Fight Club, and American History X in a determined effort to reverse the intended message of each. And there is probably a valuable lesson to be learned in this that fascists just love seeing earnest and accurate depictions of fascism so much that a kind of reverse context collapse occurs.

All of this. Explicit fascists misunderstand art constantly, bending the meaning of that art into their worldview. This is all well known about fascists, that they are simple fucking people that have not a scintilla of creativity in their pebbles-and-cottage-cheese brains, that they derive humor from others’ suffering, that they despise all culture that doesn’t hew to western European tropes from the 17th to the 19th centuries, or whatever. Fascists are the most boring and tedious people. It consumes them. Their ideology is all they talk about, TO ANYBODY. They’re pathetic, and we will stop them from achieving great power in the United States.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 7:37:29pm

re: #156 prairiefire

I had no idea.

I find this really hard to believe. I’m sorry, but I do.

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 7:39:47pm

re: #161 teleskiguy

Did you see photos of the big tanker fire on 70 outside of Denver?

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 7:44:58pm

re: #162 prairiefire

Did you see photos of the big tanker fire on 70 outside of Denver?

That’s a way to change the subject!

I-70 in Colorado today has been chaos. The closure in Mt. Vernon Canyon just outside Denver Metro (no I haven’t seen photos of a big tanker fire on 70 today, pretty sure that’s what you’re referring to) and the closure of Glenwood Canyon due to a vehicle fire. The interstate exit in my town was a mess for a few hours today.

I did see this! A detour to get around the Mt. Vernon Canyon closure was… aieee! Lookout Mountain Road, pic taken by the 9News helicopter.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 7:47:24pm

My next door neighbor is a MAGA fascist. His wife sits on the town board.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 7:48:41pm

re: #164 teleskiguy

My next door neighbor is a MAGA fascist. His wife sits on the town board.

He ran for County Commissioner in 2022, campaigning on CRT and “LIBRULS WILL DESTROY YOU.”

He got trounced in the polls.

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Patricia Kayden  May 16, 2024 • 7:52:28pm

re: #165 teleskiguy

👍🏿

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Patricia Kayden  May 16, 2024 • 7:53:01pm

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2024 • 7:59:55pm

re: #155 goddamnedfrank

OK but fascists not getting the point is a distinguishing hallmark of fascism. They also fetishized Full Metal Jacket, Fight Club, and American History X in a determined effort to reverse the intended message of each. And there is probably a valuable lesson to be learned in this that fascists just love seeing earnest and accurate depictions of fascism so much that a kind of reverse context collapse occurs.

It is also nearly impossible to fascist proof your imagery because a shallower, just-the-aesthetics reading is always possible.

I mean, look at The Matrix: it’s a movie with a very obvious messaging, but if you’re a reactionary you can just not-see the second and third movies and not-interpret the imagery in the first one. Stories have a basic language that reactionaries can always hijack because their arguments are lazy and sloppy by design: it’s easy to adopt anything if you deliberately put no effort into understanding it.

Fascism mostly creates shitty art because all it wants from art is a mirror: all things must reflect back the same thing. They’re derivative on a spiritual level, they have photocopiers for souls.

I mean…Wagner was a shit but it’s still an incredible stretch to see his operas, even just The Ring, as some kind of paean to Germanic-ness. You have to be uncritical to not notice the character flaws, the malice…the entire opera about accidental incest or the one that’s just about learning to be a Meistersinger…and the derivativeness. Hitler was a dumbass who liked terrible Westerns by Karl May, and he watched opera with all the perspicacity of that kind of dumbass…and he’s kind of exemplary of how fascism and media work. You cannot create anything that can evade their inability to understand shit that is not their vanity.

Trying to dodge the melodrama-seeking dumbassness of reactionaries is on one hand is how you end up with Brechtian theater, which is pretty much the “superliminal messaging” joke from The Simpsons: literally incorporate into the theater experience that the audience is told what everything means and is constantly reminded of the artificiality of the play. On another, this is how you end up with modern hyperrealist films in which fourth wall breaking and conscious, winking to the audience meta-references are deliberately built into the production because everyone knows how tropes work to such a fine degree that it’s more authentic to actively label them than play them straight. Consciously acknowledging the artificiality of fiction, that depiction is itself persuasion, is the new earnestness…

…and has been immediately appropriated to sell Barbies.

I mean, to yank this back around, look at Matrix: Resurrections, which is paradoxically deeply earnest and constantly reminding the audience of the artificiality of its constructs, in effect an attempt to end-run both the commercial demand for a continuing story and the reactionary capture of the imagery by just…telling the same story again while pointedly inverting the accepted, “normal” tropes of the first film that met reactionary aesthetic needs.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 8:05:38pm

re: #165 teleskiguy

This is a dude I’ve known since we were in elementary school. That was back when this place was truly podunk out-of-the-way very small town. Where my late father was a teacher for 33 years.

They know me around here.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 16, 2024 • 8:09:06pm

re: #119 Ace Rothstein

Associated Press:

“Many reviews were blisteringly bad. Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian called it “megabloated and megaboring.” Tim Grierson for Screen Daily called it a “disaster” “stymied by arbitrary plotting and numbing excess.” Kevin Maher for the Times of London wrote that it’s a “head-wrecking abomination.” Critic Jessica Kiang said “Megalopolis” “is a folly of such gargantuan proportions it’s like observing the actual fall of Rome.”

But some critics responded with admiration for the film’s ambition. With fondness, New York Magazine’s Bilge Ebiri said the film “might be the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.” David Ehrlich for IndieWire praised a “creatively unbound approach” that “may not have resulted in a surplus of dramatically coherent scenes, but it undergirds the entire movie with a looseness that makes it almost impossible to look away.”

The Daily Beast panned it with the headline Megalopolis’: Francis Ford Coppola’s Opus Is the Laughingstock Everyone Feared. But it did suggest that it might become a cult classic. Quirky films usually don’t succeed with mainstream audiences. But this seems more than quirky — very problematical. Given the cost of the film, there is little likelihood of Coppola getting his investment back.

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Captain Ron  May 16, 2024 • 8:10:06pm
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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 8:13:59pm

“Dunkirk” and “Das Boot” are two of my favorite movies that just happen to be war movies.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 8:15:41pm

2021. Not that long ago. We had religious zealots with ties to Moms For Liberty run a slew of candidates for the county school board. I heard all the crap. CRT, woke this and woke that, vaccines (more on that in a minute), LGBTQ bullshit, the works.

They lost badly in the polls. Haven’t heard from them really, since.

The largest evangelical church in the valley, Vail Valley Church, bankrolled a lot of these fringe school board candidates, two of them were members of the church.

They’re loudly anti-science. Anti-mask, anti-vaccine, the works. Well, one of their congregants took all that to heart… and died of COVID at age 32 during the delta variant breakout, which was the deadliest of them. Her occupation? Nurse at Vail Valley Medical Center.

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 8:16:38pm

re: #167 Patricia Kayden

It’s not even a decision I have to think about for a millisecond.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2024 • 8:16:41pm

re: #171 Captain Ron

Admittedly I’m guessing blind, but I’ll put down money that the language removal has some kind of positive consequence for people who own Florida real estate as an investment.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 16, 2024 • 8:19:43pm

re: #120 gwangung

I absolutely respect swinging for the fences. I may not like the end the result, but I generally salute the artist, even if there was parts I hated.

And, at that…it may take the passage of time for people to reflect and the film’s genius to emerge.

ISTR that reviews of Apocalypse Now got similarly mixed reviews when it came out.

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Egregious Philbin  May 16, 2024 • 8:24:32pm

re: #148 teleskiguy

Eh, I’ll take Sam Fuller’s “Big Red One” over Private Ryan any day.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 8:31:47pm

re: #177 Egregious Philbin

Haven’t seen it. On the list.

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Ace Rothstein  May 16, 2024 • 8:34:23pm

I saw the Coen’s first film “Blood Simple” for the first time about a month ago. Easily in their top 5. “Fargo” and “No Country for Old Men” are their two best.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 8:34:41pm

I have commented a fucken bunch tonight! Yee!

YEE BUT IT GETS FASTER EVERYTIME HE SAYS YEE

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darthstar  May 16, 2024 • 8:37:18pm

re: #177 Egregious Philbin

Eh, I’ll take Sam Fuller’s “Big Red One” over Private Ryan any day.

I LOVED the Big Red One when I was a kid…

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Egregious Philbin  May 16, 2024 • 8:39:43pm

re: #178 teleskiguy

Find the extended version. The director, Sam Fuller, is telling his story, he joined the services before he was 18 and he was at Normandy. A fun director, he did a lot of low budget stuff, but it was always interesting and controversial.

Big Red One: Reconstruction Theatrical Movie Trailer (1980)

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wrenchwench  May 16, 2024 • 8:47:03pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  May 16, 2024 • 8:52:36pm

Happy Vyschyvanka day. Slava Ukraini!

Mastodon

Mastodon

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TedStriker  May 16, 2024 • 8:59:15pm

re: #179 Ace Rothstein

I saw the Coen’s first film “Blood Simple” for the first time about a month ago. Easily in their top 5. “Fargo” and “No Country for Old Men” are their two best.

Raising Arizona is my fave Coen Brothers movie… so funny and such a great cast.

TBH, the Coens haven’t really ever had a clinker, just some that didn’t hit as hard at the box office as others in their CV, but even those have tended to gather followings via home video down the road (Blood Simple can be forgiven for a low box-office draw as their freshman effort, but it, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, and The Hudsucker Proxy [each grossing less than $10 million at the box-office] have gained much more favorable critical and popular reputations in the decades after their releases).

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Egregious Philbin  May 16, 2024 • 9:02:56pm

Been watching reruns of “The New Dick Van Dyke Show” on Freevee. Very funny show, mostly forgotten. They filmed the first two seasons up in Carefree Arizona where Dick lived, 3rd season filmed in LA. Carl Reiner created it, him and Dick ended the show after the network refused to air the last episode where the 12 year old daughter accidentally walked in on her parents having sex. It was 1974, and it was a very non offensive, sweet episode. I remember when they filmed it here way back when. I used to work with one of Dick’s daughters who was a flight attendant, and she had a bit part on 2 episodes. Give it a look, good stuff.

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2024 • 9:03:48pm

re: #120 gwangung

I absolutely respect swinging for the fences. I may not like the end the result, but I generally salute the artist, even if there was parts I hated.

And, at that…it may take the passage of time for people to reflect and the film’s genius to emerge.

Both 2001: A Space Odyssey and Coppola’s own Apocalypse Now polarized critics at the time when they were initially released.

Yet both films are regarded today as masterpieces of their respective genres.

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Egregious Philbin  May 16, 2024 • 9:04:05pm

re: #185 TedStriker

We watched “A Serious Man” a few weeks back, absolutely loved it…and, Richard Kind!

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:05:31pm

re: #179 Ace Rothstein

I saw the Coen’s first film “Blood Simple” for the first time about a month ago. Easily in their top 5. “Fargo” and “No Country for Old Men” are their two best.

Blood Simple is a delightfully twisted film! My Dad saw it in a theater in Farmington, NM in 1984 and he was an evangelist for that film, he loved that shit! Got a HBO subscription so he could copy the film on VHS tape.

Blood Simple. It’s in my family.

“HE WAS ALIVE WHEN I BURIED HIM!”

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2024 • 9:06:08pm

My favorite Cohens movie is The Big Lebowski.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:09:33pm

re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg

My favorite Cohens movie is The Big Lebowski.

That’s probably mine too, TBQH.

Fargo is amazing, but it’s super dark. Even some of the shit that they concocted in Burn After Reading (which I love, I love I love Burn After Reading) was just dark, maybe too dark. They’ve filmed scenes of some of the worst humans can do.

Eek! That’s kind of unnerving!

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:10:41pm

I’ve seen No Country For Old Men twice. Great movie. Don’t want to watch it again. It’s too much.

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Vicious Babushka  May 16, 2024 • 9:11:25pm

re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg

My favorite Cohens movie is The Big Lebowski.

That’s Zeddo’s favorite movie.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:13:17pm

The first time I saw No Country For Old Men I walked out of the theater angry, confused, and sad. I’ve only sat though that film twice.

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TedStriker  May 16, 2024 • 9:14:14pm

re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg

My favorite Cohens movie is The Big Lebowski.

“Shut the fuck up, Donny!”

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:15:53pm

re: #194 teleskiguy

The first time I saw No Country For Old Men I walked out of the theater angry, confused, and sad. I’ve only sat though that film twice.

And the Academy Award for Best Picture goes to…

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 16, 2024 • 9:15:57pm

re: #189 teleskiguy

I saw Blood Simple pre-release, introduced by the Coen brothers in person. Don’t remember any details, though (that was 40 years ago)

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TedStriker  May 16, 2024 • 9:20:54pm

re: #194 teleskiguy

The first time I saw No Country For Old Men I walked out of the theater angry, confused, and sad. I’ve only sat though that film twice.

re: #196 teleskiguy

And the Academy Award for Best Picture goes to…

Javier Bardem’s Anton Chigurh is one of the most unnerving villains in film.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:22:04pm

re: #198 TedStriker

Javier Bardem’s Anton Chigurh is one of the most unnerving villains in film.

He portrayed pure evil better than anybody. Pure Evil.

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silverdolphin  May 16, 2024 • 9:24:35pm

Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results

So, Google has now destroyed search. And destroyed even creating a website. It will take the words fromyour site, mix them in theoir AI and display them with nolinks onto your site. If you want to do a normal asearch, you will have to go through several hoops each time.

The ultimate in destroying the usefulness of the web. But how will it work when it has killed all the websites?

Insane.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:25:59pm

re: #199 teleskiguy

Pure Evil.

This is why I’ve seen the film No Country For Old Men twice and only read the novel once. Mental fucken health…

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TedStriker  May 16, 2024 • 9:27:55pm

re: #201 teleskiguy

This is why I’ve seen the film No Country For Old Men twice and only read the novel once. Mental fucken health…

Sticking with the Coens, Raising Arizona’s a good palate cleanser for that.

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William Lewis  May 16, 2024 • 9:29:12pm

Started watching the new Sherlock series. HOLY F*CKING SH*T that’s the good stuff.

Excellent versions of the classic stories with exquisite acting, especially by the two mains, on top of it. Thanks, guys!!!

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 9:29:38pm

re: #201 teleskiguy

I could barely sit through the end.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:31:33pm

Humans in the United States are drafting laws with glee outlawing being gay, outlawing all abortion, outlawing being a non-Christian. My fucking shithead neighbors are talking about this.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:39:14pm

I Gotta Pee

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:48:40pm

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Hecuba's daughter  May 16, 2024 • 9:50:06pm

re: #192 teleskiguy

I’ve seen No Country For Old Men twice. Great movie. Don’t want to watch it again. It’s too much.

Decided not to see either that film or “There Will Be Blood” because of the violence; both were nominated for best picture of 2007. Yes — I have seen my share of violent films but some stories I avoid; there is a limit on what I can tolerate.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 9:52:16pm

The most disturbing film made in the U.S.?

“Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer”

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prairiefire  May 16, 2024 • 9:58:57pm

re: #208 Hecuba’s daughter

Decided not to see either that film or “There Will Be Blood” because of the violence; both were nominated for best picture of 2007. Yes — I have seen my share of violent films but some stories I avoid; there is a limit on what I can tolerate.

Agreed! See “Schindler’s List”.

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mmmirele  May 16, 2024 • 10:01:07pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

U.S. governors urge Turks and Caicos to release Americans as Florida woman becomes 5th tourist arrested for ammo in luggage

Pro-tip: When visiting a foreign country, you can greatly improve your chances of a happy and successful stay if you OBEY THE LAW. Turks and Caicos is a British overseas territory. You might as well try to sneak ammo into Heathrow. “Unintentional” or not, it is big trouble. If we had Saudi or Palestinian tourists regularly sneaking in with forgotten ammunition, would Americans be so quick to demand their release?

I mean, it’s like taking cannabis to Japan. You do that, the cops find it in your belongings, and you will be going straight from the airport to a Japanese jail. They’re very serious about that stuff, and have been for decades. I remember when Paul McCartney tried to smuggle in marijuana in 1980 when going over to play a series of concerts. He spent about two weeks in jail. (McCartney has since gone back to Japan several times and even was a sponsor of one of the Grand Sumo tournaments. But I’m sure he left the cannabis at home.) There’s also a long list of medications you can’t bring into Japan. For example, the following are prohibited:

Tylenol Cold, NyQuil, Actifed, Sudafed, Advil Cold & Sinus, Dristan Sinus, Vicks Inhaler, and Lomotil.

en.japantravel.com

I’m actually glad I looked at the list, because I do use two of the items on the OTC list, although I’m not likely to haul a bottle of NyQuil with me when I go next, because if I need that, I’m planning on spending a day in bed.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 16, 2024 • 10:02:27pm

re: #209 teleskiguy

I was not expecting the star of that to show up in comic book movies

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retired cynic  May 16, 2024 • 10:06:41pm

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:07:03pm

re: #212 Lancelot Link Returns!

Michael Rooker is famous for shallow affect characters, something he honed deeply in “Henry.”

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:11:19pm

Michael Rooker making his acting bones (he was born in Jasper, Alabama).

Mississippi Burning (1988) - We Into It Now, Boys Scene (1/10) | Movieclips

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:14:43pm

Michael Rooker has portrayed so many fucken horrible humans on film.

I wonder about actors that do that work. Getting in the heads of characters who are the worst humans that have ever lived. Heath Ledger did it with a FICTIONAL worst human that ever lived and it destroyed him.

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mmmirele  May 16, 2024 • 10:15:43pm

re: #120 gwangung

I absolutely respect swinging for the fences. I may not like the end the result, but I generally salute the artist, even if there was parts I hated.

And, at that…it may take the passage of time for people to reflect and the film’s genius to emerge.

I’m old enough to remember when people HATED, and I do mean HATED, “Apocalypse Now.” Forty-five years later (OMG, really?) it’s considered one of his great films.

So this might be an overindulgent swan song, or it might be visionary, and recognized for what it is about 2045ish.

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mmmirele  May 16, 2024 • 10:17:20pm

re: #133 Ace Rothstein

Ken Starr is still dead.

Yeah, but let’s dig him up and put him on trial for covering up football player sexual assaults at Baylor. /yeah, that fucking wannabe puritan did that. I’m not forgiving.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:24:01pm

I’m convinced Michael Rooker is a high functioning psychopath, high functioning in that he knows he can’t kill people without getting in a lot of trouble. So glad he took up acting!

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Targetpractice  May 16, 2024 • 10:25:46pm

re: #216 teleskiguy

Michael Rooker has portrayed so many fucken horrible humans on film.

I wonder about actors that do that work. Getting in the heads of characters who are the worst humans that have ever lived. Heath Ledger did it with a FICTIONAL worst human that ever lived and it destroyed him.

There’s all sorts of horror stories about the dangers of method acting, particularly the psychological toll it takes on the actors themselves. DeNiro was reported as going bugfuck insane during the filming of Taxi Driver, while most of the cast and crew that dealt with Martin Sheen during Apocalypse Now stated he was absolutely miserable to work with because he refused to break character.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 16, 2024 • 10:27:07pm

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2024 • 10:29:09pm

re: #219 teleskiguy

I’m convinced Michael Rooker is a high functioning psychopath, high functioning in that he knows he can’t kill people without getting in a lot of trouble. So glad he took up acting!

Like this scene from Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2:

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 - “Super Yaka” | Movie Clip HD

Michael Rooker was great in that film - he brought Yondu to life as a memorable supporting character.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:32:24pm

re: #222 Dr Lizardo

Aww… Damn.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 16, 2024 • 10:33:36pm

I have come to the conclusion that while Putin may be the most evil actor on the current international stage, it is Trump who is the most destructive and dangerous person to the future of our world; if elected, the damage that he will inflict on our nation and the world order will be incalculable. It will be a victory for tyranny and autocracy that will echo everywhere and poison all discourse.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2024 • 10:36:33pm

re: #200 silverdolphin

Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results

So, Google has now destroyed search. And destroyed even creating a website. It will take the words fromyour site, mix them in theoir AI and display them with nolinks onto your site. If you want to do a normal asearch, you will have to go through several hoops each time.

The ultimate in destroying the usefulness of the web. But how will it work when it has killed all the websites?

Insane.

Hopefully you’re not touching the Lathe of Heaven, but I’m pretty sure if you presented to Google the possibility that they could so completely capture user attention via a scraped-data answering service that they effectively made redundant the rest of the web they’d die from the orgasm.

The ideal end point of being a being a corporation is not making a good product, but making a product that is truly unavoidable, not just a monopoly but functionally a utilty, a purchase that cannot be avoided. It’s probably impossible for this to actually happen, but it’s also entire coherent with the Silicon Valley business ethos—burn money until you achieve such ubiquity that competition only exists as a technicality—to try.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:38:07pm

I guess I’m not a fan of sci fi. I watched the first couple of minutes of 225 and it made me disgusted and bored.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:42:29pm

Cool. A bullet that can kill everyone around you by defying all laws of physics.

I’m not interested.

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2024 • 10:47:05pm

re: #228 teleskiguy

Cool. A bullet that can kill everyone around you by defying all laws of physics.

I’m not interested.

It’s a comic book film. Naturally, there’s going to be all kinds of physics-defying silliness.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:49:11pm

Believe me, I’ve tried. I’ve read Greg Bear novels, I’ve read Asimov, Braadbury, Vonnegut. I’ve read fucking novels by Heinlein. OKAY!?!?!??

So spare me your fucking wisdom, okay?!

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:50:11pm

re: #229 Dr Lizardo

I know this, but… people are being weird. See my previous comment.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2024 • 10:52:37pm

Eeek!

I need to log out.

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2024 • 11:01:58pm

re: #231 teleskiguy

I know this, but… people are being weird. See my previous comment.

It’s fine. I grew up on B-movies as a kid, and I can lean into the wacked-out silliness of it all. My dad once noted that a lot of sci-fi films in the last 50 years or so are basically just B-movies with top-notch VFX. Many of them still have the classic B-movie issues: Stilted dialogue, glaring plot holes, characters with excessive plot armor, etc.

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2024 • 11:58:17pm

All righty - it’s 9 a.m. Friday morning in my part of the world, so that means it’s time to go do some real-world things.

Back later.

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Targetpractice  May 17, 2024 • 12:11:50am

re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter

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We all know at least one of those assholes, the ones who:

- Spent 2015 assuring us that Trump was a clown and there was no way the GQP would nominate him (Every one of them confidently predicted it would be Jeb).

- Turned around in 2016 and declared that Trump would win because he “wasn’t afraid to speak his mind” and “told it like it is” but would never define the “it”.

- Went through the following three years waving off all the politically toxic shit that Trump was doing by snidely asking “How’s your retirement account(s)?” because you were supposed to believe that he alone was responsible for the economy.

- Got REALLY uncomfortable talking about Trump in 2020 when the bottom fell out of the economy and suddenly he was actually expected to run on his record, before spending the winter floating the Big Lie because “skepticism.”

- Suddenly acted shocked and outraged that Trump would organize a riot to storm the Capital on Jan 6th and started telling anybody who would still listen that they never would have supported him had they known what he’d do.

- And now, after spending the following four years openly praying for an recession/war/major disaster/etc that totally derailed the Biden admin, they’re trying to pretend that their reason(s) for supporting a second Trump term is about anything other than finishing the job of stripping the country for parts to sell.

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teleskiguy  May 17, 2024 • 1:07:36am

I got off the phone with my Mom not too long ago. She *really* wants to see Dead and Company in Las Vegas. We can make it happen, I just need to, uh, arrange a bunch of shit…

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Nerdy Fish  May 17, 2024 • 3:23:25am

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2024 • 3:31:18am

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2024 • 3:41:30am

Heh. Some American Catholics are gonna blow a gasket when this airs Sunday night.

Pope Francis said his conservative critics within the Roman Catholic Church in the United States are trapped in a “suicidal attitude,” according to an interview with CBS.

During the April 24 interview with “60 Minutes” that will air this Sunday, Pope Francis was asked his thoughts on the conservative backlash against his papacy, with many of his critics being American clergy members.

Pope Francis responded by saying a conservative is someone who “clings to something and does not want to see beyond that.”

“It is a suicidal attitude,” the pontiff said, according to a brief transcript excerpt made available by CBS Thursday.

“Because one thing is to take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed up inside a dogmatic box.”

Pope Francis has clashed with the conservative wing almost since he was elected as head of the church in 2013.

Moves conservatives have opposed include papal attempts to make the church more welcoming to the LGBT community and to give lay people more responsibility in the church.

Francis last year dismissed a conservative U.S. bishop who was a withering critic of his papacy, and said the conservative wing in the U.S. church was “reactionary.” He also stripped a conservative American cardinal of some Vatican privileges.

reuters.com

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Nerdy Fish  May 17, 2024 • 3:44:18am

re: #239 Dr Lizardo

Heh. Some American Catholics are gonna blow a gasket when this airs Sunday night.

reuters.com

They probably already know. The clergy, at least, undoubtedly get wind of these kinds of things before the media snippets appear publicly. It goes back to the whole discussion we had the other day about the wide variety of people and beliefs that make up American Catholicism. He’s basically trying to guide the lost sheep back into the fold.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2024 • 3:51:06am

re: #240 Nerdy Fish

They probably already know. The clergy, at least, undoubtedly get wind of these kinds of things before the media snippets appear publicly. It goes back to the whole discussion we had the other day about the wide variety of people and beliefs that make up American Catholicism. He’s basically trying to guide the lost sheep back into the fold.

The Pope knows his job is to get asses in pews.

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2024 • 3:51:53am

re: #240 Nerdy Fish

They probably already know. The clergy, at least, undoubtedly get wind of these kinds of things before the media snippets appear publicly. It goes back to the whole discussion we had the other day about the wide variety of people and beliefs that make up American Catholicism. He’s basically trying to guide the lost sheep back into the fold.

Quite telling, at least to me, is that he describes them as “reactionaries”. Which pretty much hits the nail on the head.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 17, 2024 • 3:54:33am

re: #237 Nerdy Fish

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Nerdy Fish  May 17, 2024 • 4:03:14am

re: #241 Shropshire Slasher

The Pope knows his job is to get asses in pews.

I mean, yes and no. Yes, that is the fundamental mechanism by which churches grow and make money, and I have no doubt he is cognizant of that. But unlike many evangelical Protestant churches and their pastors (the “pulpit pimps”, as our Joe Bacon so affectionately refers to them), the Catholic clergy, by and large, are truly devout believers. In particular, in order to be seriously considered for the office of the Pope, you pretty much have to be a deeply devout and faithful man. I have little doubt that the Pope takes his charge as the Avatar of Saint Peter very seriously, and is doing what he can to control what he sees as a growing heresy in his Church.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2024 • 4:18:34am

I am glad that she was rescued to tell her story. She will be back in the saddle June 1st!

The semi-truck driver who spent nearly an hour dangling over the Ohio River after a serious crash said it’s still hard to look at the bridge a little over two months after her dramatic rescue.

“This is the closest I’ve been,” Sydney Thomas told WHAS11 in her first interview since the incident that made national headlines.

“Sometimes you pray, and I’m guilty of this, I pray, and I don’t think God is listening,” she said, wiping tears from her face as she recalled the harrowing experience. “But he was that day.”

whas11.com

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jeffreyw  May 17, 2024 • 4:27:58am

Good morning!

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2024 • 4:30:33am

We already know the French want to get involved, and Russia has seized more ground than Ukraine liberated in their counteroffensive.

NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war.

Ukraine’s manpower shortage has reached a critical point, and its position on the battlefield in recent weeks has seriously worsened as Russia has accelerated its advances to take advantage of delays in shipments of American weapons. As a result, Ukrainian officials have asked their American and NATO counterparts to help train 150,000 new recruits closer to the front line for faster deployment.

dnyuz.com

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Nerdy Fish  May 17, 2024 • 4:33:53am

re: #246 jeffreyw

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Teukka  May 17, 2024 • 4:37:51am

re: #249 Nerdy Fish

*WHACK!*

What, it’s a correct statement? 🤔

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 17, 2024 • 4:42:59am

Finally learned what the ‘small black and white bird’ is…

Seems like it should be eviler looking with that name
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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 4:48:44am

Today we will learn if the UAW has succeeded in organizing the Alabama Mercedes plants. Governor MeeMaw has gone all-out to prevent it.

Alabama Mercedes-Benz union vote ends today: Live results, updates; what to know about UAW election
al.com

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  May 17, 2024 • 5:15:18am

re: #252 Decatur Deb

Today we will learn if the UAW has succeeded in organizing the Alabama Mercedes plants. Governor MeeMaw has gone all-out to prevent it.

Alabama Mercedes-Benz union vote ends today: Live results, updates; what to know about UAW election
al.com

Yesterday I heard a radio ad featuring ex-Democratic governor Jim Folsom. He is aw-GIN unions.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 17, 2024 • 5:17:15am

re: #240 Nerdy Fish

They probably already know. The clergy, at least, undoubtedly get wind of these kinds of things before the media snippets appear publicly. It goes back to the whole discussion we had the other day about the wide variety of people and beliefs that make up American Catholicism. He’s basically trying to guide the lost sheep back into the fold.

Unfortunately, they want Benedict back. He’s their type of Pope. And Trump is their type of president.

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Belafon  May 17, 2024 • 5:19:12am

re: #252 Decatur Deb

Today we will learn if the UAW has succeeded in organizing the Alabama Mercedes plants. Governor MeeMaw has gone all-out to prevent it.

Alabama Mercedes-Benz union vote ends today: Live results, updates; what to know about UAW election
al.com

Republicans in Alabama are so desperate to block unions that they passed a law blocking companies from just letting employees form unions.

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 5:20:29am

re: #253 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Yesterday I heard a radio ad featuring ex-Democratic governor Jim Folsom. He is awh-GIN unions.

Daughter1 has given up her ghostwriter/publishing gig and become an organizer for the AEA. (Chatbots have wiped out the trashy romance mills.)

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Dave In Austin  May 17, 2024 • 5:27:03am

Whooo!
So this happened yesterday. I’ll have me some Jasmine pls……
huffpost.com

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Belafon  May 17, 2024 • 5:28:32am

Dallas native, ‘Law & Order’ star Angie Harmon sues Instacart after pet dog fatally shot

In her lawsuit, the actor accused the delivery person — identified as Christopher Anthoney Reid in legal papers but as an elderly woman named Merle in the Instacart app — of getting out of his car at her house in Charlotte, N.C., delivering her groceries and then shooting the dog. Harmon said she “had no idea that she had been communicating with Defendant Reid” ahead of the delivery and shooting, believing him to be the shopper named Merle,” according to the complaint, obtained Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times.

Harmon’s lawsuit alleges that Reid, whose father’s name is Merle, was impersonating Merle on the Instacart app and described him as a “tall and intimidating younger man.” She alleges Reid wasn’t injured or seriously threatened by the German shepherd-beagle mix and that he had “ample opportunity” to leave the property unharmed without shooting the dog. She further alleges she didn’t consent to Reid accessing the property, delivering groceries or accessing her personal information in any way.

Chronicling the incident in her lawsuit, much like she did on social media after the shooting occurred, Harmon alleges she heard what sounded like a gunshot after Reid arrived. While she was upstairs feeding her squirrels, her children were in the backyard, the suit said.

“Terrified for her children’s safety, Ms. Harmon immediately ran downstairs to determine [the] source of what she thought was a gun shot,” the complaint said. “As Ms. Harmon walked outside, she saw [her children] in distress. Ms. Harmon immediately noticed that Defendant Reid was placing a gun in the front of his pants, potentially in his pant pocket. Looking to the side, she saw that her beloved dog, Oliver, was shot.”

The suit accuses Reid of violating local laws by discharging his gun inside city limits and argues that he had “no legal right” to access Harmon’s property.

The police didn’t charge him with anything.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 5:41:09am

re: #233 Dr Lizardo

It’s fine. I grew up on B-movies as a kid, and I can lean into the wacked-out silliness of it all. My dad once noted that a lot of sci-fi films in the last 50 years or so are basically just B-movies with top-notch VFX. Many of them still have the classic B-movie issues: Stilted dialogue, glaring plot holes, characters with excessive plot armor, etc.

I learned a new term

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Belafon  May 17, 2024 • 5:41:44am

re: #82 Backwoods Sleuth

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  May 17, 2024 • 5:44:25am

re: #253 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Yesterday I heard a radio ad featuring ex-Democratic governor Jim Folsom. He is aw-GIN unions.

Kissing Jim Folsom?

Is he still alive?

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lawhawk  May 17, 2024 • 5:45:20am

The Bob Ross of the Borscht Belt, Morris Katz, is finally getting his due, and an art exhibition.

I got to see him in person on a number of occasions, and my folks bought one of his pieces, which now hangs in my brother’s house. We loved watching him put together a piece of art in mere minutes. He’d use oil paints, a spatula, and schmear the colors together and before you knew it, he knocked out a dozen pieces that he’d auction off minutes later.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 17, 2024 • 5:45:31am

opened up durian

Details of a durian from Malaysia.

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lawhawk  May 17, 2024 • 5:46:09am

x.com

Heh…

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2024 • 5:47:05am

re: #260 Belafon

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That looks sped up, but it isn’t. The picker must be 110’ up!

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 5:48:42am

re: #260 Belafon

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If its that hard to harvest, and we know how stinky it is to eat, why aren’t we getting the message?

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 5:50:39am

re: #262 lawhawk

The Bob Ross of the Borscht Belt, Morris Katz, is finally getting his due, and an art exhibition.

I got to see him in person on a number of occasions, and my folks bought one of his pieces, which now hangs in my brother’s house. We loved watching him put together a piece of art in mere minutes. He’d use oil paints, a spatula, and schmear the colors together and before you knew it, he knocked out a dozen pieces that he’d auction off minutes later.

;-)

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  May 17, 2024 • 5:50:42am

re: #261 BeenHereAwhile

Kissing Jim Folsom?

Is he still alive?

He did not say, but it must have been Jim Folsom, Jr

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Eventual Carrion  May 17, 2024 • 6:03:30am

re: #113 teleskiguy

Over a million power outages in and around Houston after a nasty squall line moved through earlier.

Yeah, I still have friends and family in Houston. Got a couple pics of buildings that crumbled. My aunt sent me one of her neighbors back shed that had been blown across 2 yards before breaking apart completely. Hearing 2 people dead on NPR this morning.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 6:05:23am
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Scottish Dragon  May 17, 2024 • 6:07:30am

re: #1 The Ghost of a Flea

I guess I’d add:

this is context for every single time conservatives and “centrists” tortuously extrapolate things said by leftists to find a threat so large they are forced to side with the law enforcement agencies in spite of the latter’s open conspiracy to abuse power and evade consequences.

It’s also context for everything done to Muslims and Arabs in the last twenty years.

This all but forces protesters in Texas to arm themselves. Abbott has basically greenlit lynching. Professor Brendan Nyhan blocked me on blue sky 2 weeks ago when I said that armed community self defense was going to have to become a thing. I absolutely stand by that however. If wingnuts get to shoot at us and run us down on the streets free of consequences, the social compact is broken and the state has abdicated its’ role of sole possessor of armed lethal force. We are on the cusp of entering the Hobbesian state of nature IMHO.

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Scottish Dragon  May 17, 2024 • 6:16:30am

re: #220 Targetpractice

There’s all sorts of horror stories about the dangers of method acting, particularly the psychological toll it takes on the actors themselves. DeNiro was reported as going bugfuck insane during the filming of Taxi Driver, while most of the cast and crew that dealt with Martin Sheen during Apocalypse Now stated he was absolutely miserable to work with because he refused to break character.

Director Villeneuve said Austin Butler was positively psychotic while filming Dune 2 and broke character just enough to not kill the other cast members. Sure he’s exaggerating a bit, but you wonder just how much.

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William Lewis  May 17, 2024 • 6:22:17am

re: #208 Hecuba’s daughter

Decided not to see either that film or “There Will Be Blood” because of the violence; both were nominated for best picture of 2007. Yes — I have seen my share of violent films but some stories I avoid; there is a limit on what I can tolerate.

I haven’t watched either for the same reasons, so I can sympathize.

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lawhawk  May 17, 2024 • 6:24:13am

re: #272 Scottish Dragon

Butler, as some may recall, stayed in the same voice as the character Elvis Presley that he portrayed in the movie even months after the movie premiered.

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 6:26:13am

re: #274 lawhawk

Butler, as some may recall, stayed in the same voice as the character Elvis Presley that he portrayed in the movie even months after the movie premiered.

Gotta wonder what the several films in the “Hannibal” cycle has done to Anthony Hopkins’ diet.

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Belafon  May 17, 2024 • 6:26:16am

re: #271 Scottish Dragon

This all but forces protesters in Texas to arm themselves. Abbott has basically greenlit lynching. Professor Brendan Nyhan blocked me on blue sky 2 weeks ago when I said that armed community self defense was going to have to become a thing. I absolutely stand by that however. If wingnuts get to shoot at us and run us down on the streets free of consequences, the social compact is broken and the state has abdicated its’ role of sole possessor of armed lethal force. We are on the cusp of entering the Hobbesian state of nature IMHO.

And therefore “A liberal has a gun” will become a defense for these fascists.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 17, 2024 • 6:27:08am

D-Day squadron of World War II planes re-creates ‘Blue Spruce’ route to Europe

Remarkably, the plane that will lead the flight of five restored C-47s (“That’s All Brother” AAF 42-92847), is the same aircraft that led the D-Day air assault on the night of June 5-6 1944.
Its survival and restoration is quite a story.

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mmmirele  May 17, 2024 • 6:30:49am

re: #242 Dr Lizardo

Quite telling, at least to me, is that he describes them as “reactionaries”. Which pretty much hits the nail on the head.

When the pope calls someone a reactionary, they’re kinda scary.

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 6:31:20am

re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Day squadron of World War II planes re-creates ‘Blue Spruce’ route to Europe

Read more at: stripes.com
Source - Stars and Stripes

Hope they have a restored PBY to provide search and rescue.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 17, 2024 • 6:32:25am

re: #276 Belafon

And therefore “A liberal has a gun” will become a defense for these fascists.

Michael Reinoehl was murdered by authorities in Oregon; meanwhile Kyle Rittenhouse kills 2 people in Wisconsin and escapes any consequences.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 17, 2024 • 6:33:13am

re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Operation Overlord + 80.

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Scottish Dragon  May 17, 2024 • 6:37:12am

re: #276 Belafon

We’ve already passed the point where they need excuses. Trying to placate Nazis to avoid being killed by them is a fools game. If you can be killed without consequences for being on the street, you either stay off the street, flee the country, or you fight. We are reaching that inflection point.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 17, 2024 • 6:41:57am

re: #271 Scottish Dragon

This all but forces protesters in Texas to arm themselves. Abbott has basically greenlit lynching. Professor Brendan Nyhan blocked me on blue sky 2 weeks ago when I said that armed community self defense was going to have to become a thing. I absolutely stand by that however. If wingnuts get to shoot at us and run us down on the streets free of consequences, the social compact is broken and the state has abdicated its’ role of sole possessor of armed lethal force. We are on the cusp of entering the Hobbesian state of nature IMHO.

We know what police will do with armed protesters—shoot them.

Meanwhile my agency can’t fill vacancies in a whole bunch of Texas offices no matter how they sweeten the relocation pot. There are no takers to replace people quitting or retiring.

And as for me? Nope. I wouldn’t set foot in a state where any nut proclaims he has a small Trumpy wee wee by slinging an assault weapon on his back.

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lawhawk  May 17, 2024 • 6:42:45am

Trump’s trial is off until Monday. Trump is supposedly going to Barron’s graduation ceremony today. We’ll see if he actually does it.

The media keeps missing the fact that despite the claims that cross examination by Blanche somehow wrecked Cohen on the stand yesterday, it doesn’t reflect reality, because prosecutors only expect to spend about an hour on redirect.

You’re not going to clean up matters in that short a time, unless you think that your witness did that good a job on the stand.

BTW, all these other clowns who claim that there was never any charges here, like Lauren Boebert, seem to miss that there was an indictment that specifically identifies the felony conduct alleged. That’s the fucking crime. She was too busy getting handsy to pay attention to facts or the ongoing drama in the courtroom.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 17, 2024 • 6:44:58am

re: #284 lawhawk

BTW, all these other clowns who claim that there was never any charges here, like Lauren Boebert, seem to miss that there was an indictment that specifically identifies the felony conduct alleged. That’s the fucking crime. She was too busy getting handsy to pay attention to facts or the ongoing drama in the courtroom.

I will admit I got a chuckle when protesters kept yelling BEETLEJUICE at the Colorado Crank Yanker!

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 6:46:21am

re: #276 Belafon

And therefore “A liberal has a gun” will become a defense for these fascists.

re: #282 Scottish Dragon

We’ve already passed the point where they need excuses.

If progressives don’t arm up, that’s OK.
If progressives organize, arm up, train up, and develop clear goals, that’s OK.
If progressives do a half-assed job of arming, that’s a fucking disaster.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 17, 2024 • 6:47:26am

“Our media is too damaged and fragmented to make anyone accountable for their lies,” Bai writes. “And Vance represents the new breed of Republican charlatan — willing to see the democracy riven and its institutions reduced to rubble if it means he can be TikTok-famous.”

“I can’t say from experience how you’re supposed to know when you’ve officially become part of an organized crime family,” adds Bai, “but if you feel it necessary for your professional advancement to show up at a courthouse and show respect to a patriarch charged with fraudulent payments to a porn star, chances are you check all the boxes.”

washingtonpost.com

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Scottish Dragon  May 17, 2024 • 6:51:07am

re: #283 Joe Bacon ✅

We know what police will do with armed protesters—shoot them.

Meanwhile my agency can’t fill vacancies in a whole bunch of Texas offices no matter how they sweeten the relocation pot. There are no takers to replace people quitting or retiring.

And as for me? Nope. I wouldn’t set foot in a state where any nut proclaims he has a small Trumpy wee wee by slinging an assault weapon on his back.

Texas hasn’t figured out a way to have the 2nd amendment and open carry only apply to right wing Sturmabteilung yet. When it reaches that point, we are in an openly fascist system anyway and you’d best leave with whatever you can carry if you aren’t planning on joining the resistance.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 17, 2024 • 6:57:58am

re: #237 Nerdy Fish

OH COME ON.

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A Cranky One  May 17, 2024 • 6:58:12am

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BeachDem  May 17, 2024 • 7:18:10am

With a headline and lede like this, you can’t go wrong.

Now playing off-Broadway: Trump’s synchronized sycophants

Sen. Tommy Tuberville knows a great deal about the judiciary. The Alabama Republican is on record asserting that the three branches of government are “the House, the Senate and the executive.” And so this week, the former college football coach took his expertise in jurisprudence to Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York, watched for a few minutes and came out to offer reporters his legal analysis.

wapo.st (gift link)

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William Lewis  May 17, 2024 • 7:21:20am

re: #286 Decatur Deb

If progressives don’t arm up, that’s OK.
If progressives organize, arm up, train up, and develop clear goals, that’s OK.
If progressives do a half-assed job of arming, that’s a fucking disaster.

I’ll take “why I was at the range yesterday” for $1000, Alex…

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 7:30:32am

new rule:

sneeze enough and it counts as an abs workout

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 7:31:15am

re: #282 Scottish Dragon

We’ve already passed the point where they need excuses. Trying to placate Nazis to avoid being killed by them is a fools game. If you can be killed without consequences for being on the street, you either stay off the street, flee the country, or you fight. We are reaching that inflection point.

in your own home
in your own bed

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 7:34:21am

re: #284 lawhawk

Trump’s trial is off until Monday. Trump is supposedly going to Barron’s graduation ceremony today. We’ll see if he actually does it.

The media keeps missing the fact that despite the claims that cross examination by Blanche somehow wrecked Cohen on the stand yesterday, it doesn’t reflect reality, because prosecutors only expect to spend about an hour on redirect.

You’re not going to clean up matters in that short a time, unless you think that your witness did that good a job on the stand.

BTW, all these other clowns who claim that there was never any charges here, like Lauren Boebert, seem to miss that there was an indictment that specifically identifies the felony conduct alleged. That’s the fucking crime. She was too busy getting handsy to pay attention to facts or the ongoing drama in the courtroom.

not remembering every detail of every phone call is a lapse of memory due to a large enough volume of common occurrences

it’s not an indication of ‘memory loss’
nor is it ‘lying’
it certainly does not warrant a sweeping “therefore unreliable as to everything or anything else testified to”

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Mike Lamb  May 17, 2024 • 7:36:15am

re: #220 Targetpractice

There’s all sorts of horror stories about the dangers of method acting, particularly the psychological toll it takes on the actors themselves. DeNiro was reported as going bugfuck insane during the filming of Taxi Driver, while most of the cast and crew that dealt with Martin Sheen during Apocalypse Now stated he was absolutely miserable to work with because he refused to break character.

I think the Joker role in Batman Begins fucked Heath Ledger up bigly.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 17, 2024 • 7:40:08am

Latest Touron score from Yellowstone:
Bison 2
Drunk assholes 0
Man accused of kicking a bison at Yellowstone National Park is injured and arrested

A man accused of kicking a bison in the leg at Yellowstone National Park while under the influence of alcohol was injured by the animal and later arrested, park officials said Monday.

Clarence Yoder of Idaho Falls, Idaho, approached the bison “too closely (within 25 yards)” on the afternoon of Sunday, April 21, on a road about seven miles east of the park’s West Entrance, according to a National Park Service news release.

Clarence was taken to a nearby clinic for treatment of minor injuries, then hauled off to jail. The driver of the car in which Clarence was a passenger, one McKenna Brass, was also arrested, for DUI and disturbing wildlife.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 7:41:08am

no pain in my foot for two weeks and some reasonably intense workouts

today was

fastest 6k in a year
fastest run in 6 months
fastest mile split in 6 months
fastest km split in 6 months
best performance in 6 months
highest avg cadence in 6 months

encouraging though too early to know if it’s a trend

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jeffreyw  May 17, 2024 • 7:41:14am

Getting some sun with Neil Caiman (lizard).

— Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak (@blackmudpuppy.bsky.social) 2024-05-17T14:20:05.903Z

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 17, 2024 • 7:42:26am

Donald Trump’s allies are already working on plans for how to realize the GOP presumptive presidential nominee’s promises of delivering an unprecedented mass deportation if he returns to the White House, according to a report. People involved with the planning told The Wall Street Journal that executive orders and policy memos are currently being drawn up so that Trump can be ready on the first day of his new administration to stop migrants crossing the southern border and begin work on what the Republican has vowed will be “the largest deportation operation in American history.” Among the ideas being considered are finding ways to speed up migrants’ asylum hearings to make them eligible for deportation in a shorter timeframe and stripping deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants that were created by President Joe Biden’s administration, according to the Journal. Advisers are also reportedly hoping to strike new asylum deals with countries in South America after being partly inspired by the U.K.’s deal to send migrants seeking asylum to Rwanda.

wsj.com

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Hecuba's daughter  May 17, 2024 • 7:42:41am

re: #289 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Took me a while too.

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Unabogie  May 17, 2024 • 7:47:06am

re: #303 Joe Bacon ✅

Donald Trump’s allies are already working on plans for how to realize the GOP presumptive presidential nominee’s promises of delivering an unprecedented mass deportation if he returns to the White House, according to a report. People involved with the planning told The Wall Street Journal that executive orders and policy memos are currently being drawn up so that Trump can be ready on the first day of his new administration to stop migrants crossing the southern border and begin work on what the Republican has vowed will be “the largest deportation operation in American history.” Among the ideas being considered are finding ways to speed up migrants’ asylum hearings to make them eligible for deportation in a shorter timeframe and stripping deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants that were created by President Joe Biden’s administration, according to the Journal. Advisers are also reportedly hoping to strike new asylum deals with countries in South America after being partly inspired by the U.K.’s deal to send migrants seeking asylum to Rwanda.

wsj.com

Is it just me, or do other people realize that this “deportation” campaign will be a fig leaf for sending US troops into cities, which is the obvious and real goal here?

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Jay C  May 17, 2024 • 7:48:01am

re: #255 Belafon

Republicans in Alabama are so desperate to block unions that they passed a law blocking companies from just letting employees form unions.

IIRC, the new law *requires* a secret-ballot election, whether the employer is willing to recognize the (any) union or not.
I’m kinda surprised they just haven’t gone ahead and made labor unions illegal in AL.

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 7:54:14am

re: #306 Jay C

IIRC, the new law *requires* a secret-ballot election, whether the employer is willing to recognize the (any) union or not.
I’m kinda surprised they just haven’t gone ahead and made labor unions illegal in AL.

Five states prohibit teachers from collective bargaining: Alabama, Texas, Georgia, N Carolina, S Carolina.

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Dave In Austin  May 17, 2024 • 7:56:45am
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Belafon  May 17, 2024 • 7:57:19am

re: #305 Unabogie

Is it just me, or do other people realize that this “deportation” campaign will be a fig leaf for sending US troops into cities, which is the obvious and real goal here?

It’s just you and people here and possibly a few other liberal sites. Most people don’t even think about the possibility that their Latino friends will be affected. Remember when Trump’s admin deported that Mexican restaurant owner in either Kansas or Iowa and the locals were all like “Why him?”?

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 7:57:33am

re: #303 Joe Bacon ✅

wsj.com

Among the ideas being considered are finding ways to speed up migrants’ asylum hearings to make them eligible for deportation in a shorter timeframe….

Note the assumption
Sure there will be a hearing
They *will* be deported

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Semper Fi  May 17, 2024 • 7:57:54am

re: #305 Unabogie

Is it just me, or do other people realize that this “deportation” campaign will be a fig leaf for sending US troops into cities, which is the obvious and real goal here?

I’m thinking that’s a real possibility. Magats seem to accept anything from dear leader.

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Belafon  May 17, 2024 • 8:00:32am

re: #308 Dave In Austin

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Mike Lamb  May 17, 2024 • 8:02:02am

re: #312 Belafon

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steve_davis  May 17, 2024 • 8:02:33am

re: #141 teleskiguy

Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite films. One of those rare films where it really sticks in your head long after you’ve watched it. It’s hard to watch, yes, like Cormac McCarthy novels are hard to read.

that’s mostly because cormac decided early on that quotation marks were useless. my theory is he decided this because he was typing on an olivetti, which is a great little typewriter but which has a weird placement for single/double quotes. it also has no exclamation mark, but does have a 1/4, 1/2 key.

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Belafon  May 17, 2024 • 8:02:40am

re: #313 Mike Lamb

What’s the ACAB acronym stand for?

All cops are bad.

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wrenchwench  May 17, 2024 • 8:03:59am

re: #302 jeffreyw

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 8:04:50am
LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual.”

Link

Much higher in our families
And with our friends

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Semper Fi  May 17, 2024 • 8:06:14am

Many good movies were mentioned earlier in this thread. For me, It’s Dr Zhivago. It always grabs my attention causing me to reschedule my activities around it. I’m so weak.

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steve_davis  May 17, 2024 • 8:06:24am

re: #144 BeachDem

Saw it at the Ziegfeld theater in NYC in 1979 with a friend who’d been in Vietnam and never dealt with his feelings about the war until that very moment. He was totally shaken and spent the next several hours telling me many tales of his experiences during the war. Have never forgotten that day.

Dad could never talk about most of what he saw in Vietnam. He could never watch “realistic” war movies like Saving Private Ryan. He’d spent way too many hours walking through wards filled with teenaged boys missing limbs or faces.

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Belafon  May 17, 2024 • 8:06:38am

re: #317 Dangerman

Bill Maher: SEE, WE’RE ALL GOING TO BE GAY SOON!

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danarchy  May 17, 2024 • 8:10:39am

re: #315 Belafon

All cops are bad.

All cops are bastards

P.S, This is not a sentiment I agree with, just for informational purposes.

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steve_davis  May 17, 2024 • 8:15:42am

re: #198 TedStriker

Javier Bardem’s Anton Chigurh is one of the most unnerving villains in film.

I love where he stated in an interview that after the haircut, he said something ot the effect of, “well, not getting laid for the next six months now!”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 17, 2024 • 8:16:07am

re: #266 Dangerman

If its that hard to harvest, and we know how stinky it is to eat, why aren’t we getting the message?

My pet theory is that it is a texture thing since it is very creamy and dairy is not something that keeps well in the tropics. Plus lactose intolerance as an issue as well.

Secondly, lots of things are rotting and stink in the tropics. Any place with cultural behaviors in place regarding removal of shoes and/or cleaning of feet before entering houses probably has (or had) issues with animal dung or worse being something commonly trod on.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 17, 2024 • 8:17:39am

I’m now vaccinated for covid, tetanus, and hep b. I expect to feel terrible this weekend.
I had the shingles vax last weekend, and tried to get the covid one at the same time, but my insurance does not cover the covid vaccine at CVS. I went to Walgreens today and it was fully covered.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 17, 2024 • 8:19:52am

re: #305 Unabogie

Is it just me, or do other people realize that this “deportation” campaign will be a fig leaf for sending US troops into cities, which is the obvious and real goal here?

Hint—Shitler ain’t gonna stop with rounding up them there ill-eagles.

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steve_davis  May 17, 2024 • 8:20:31am

re: #220 Targetpractice

There’s all sorts of horror stories about the dangers of method acting, particularly the psychological toll it takes on the actors themselves. DeNiro was reported as going bugfuck insane during the filming of Taxi Driver, while most of the cast and crew that dealt with Martin Sheen during Apocalypse Now stated he was absolutely miserable to work with because he refused to break character.

david suchet reportedly refused to break accent during Poirot. Along these lines, how many of us absolutely hate the “behind the scenes with….” whatever? I want to watch Lord of the Rings without my remembrance of one of the orcs on a break telling some documentarian “well, I think our motivation here was blah blah blah.”

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 8:21:39am

re: #323 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

My pet theory is that it is a texture thing since it is very creamy and dairy is not something that keeps well in the tropics. Plus lactose intolerance as an issue as well.

Secondly, lots of things are rotting and stink in the tropics. Any place with cultural behaviors in place regarding removal of shoes and/or cleaning of feet before entering houses probably has (or had) issues with animal dung or worse being something commonly trod on.

Maybe leaving it to rotting in its natural state is worse.
Our eating it is a coping /survival mechanism. // (1/2)

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 8:21:49am

re: #324 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I’m now vaccinated for covid, tetanus, and hep b. I expect to feel terrible this weekend.
I had the shingles vax last weekend, and tried to get the covid one at the same time, but my insurance does not cover the covid vaccine at CVS. I went to Walgreens today and it was fully covered.

Wife and I got the current Walgreen’s Covid shot on Monday. I had nothing but a sore arm, she had a miserable Tuesday.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 8:22:44am

re: #324 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I’m now vaccinated for covid, tetanus, and hep b. I expect to feel terrible this weekend.
I had the shingles vax last weekend, and tried to get the covid one at the same time, but my insurance does not cover the covid vaccine at CVS. I went to Walgreens today and it was fully covered.

In a day or so you might hear the modem in the microchip trying to connect…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 17, 2024 • 8:22:57am

re: #319 steve_davis

Dad could never talk about most of what he saw in Vietnam. He could never watch “realistic” war movies like Saving Private Ryan. He’d spent way too many hours walking through wards filled with teenaged boys missing limbs or faces.

One of the few books my parents banned me from reading in my teen years was “Johnny Got His Gun”.

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 8:23:33am

re: #329 Dangerman

In a day or so you might hear the modem in the microchip trying to connect…

Mine only gets the Nickelodeon channel.

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calochortus  May 17, 2024 • 8:24:46am

re: #331 Decatur Deb

Mine only gets the Nickelodeon channel.

For your second childhood?

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 17, 2024 • 8:24:54am

re: #329 Dangerman

In a day or so you might hear the modem in the microchip trying to connect…

I’m ready to stop needing to carry a phone.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 8:24:59am

re: #331 Decatur Deb

Mine only gets the Nickelodeon channel.

I got the Moderna, so…

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 8:25:11am

re: #332 calochortus

For your second childhood?

For my sins.

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darthstar  May 17, 2024 • 8:26:36am

Click through for the video. Ukraine’s drone offensive the last twenty four hours has been pretty remarkable.

Mastodon

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 17, 2024 • 8:26:48am

I will mention a book I hated reading for a peculiar reason. Frank McCourt’s memoir _Angela’s Ashes_. By 3/4 of the way through I was angry and frustrated with myself since I wanted characters in it to *DIE* due to how badly they’d screwed up their own lives and those of others. And hated myself since I knew I was wishing death on what had been real, not fictional, people.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 8:28:36am

Link

Scottie Scheffler arrested in alleged assault on police officer outside PGA Championship, then returns to play

Scheffler was charged with felony second-degree assault on a police officer, along with lesser charges of third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding signals from officers directing traffic, according to Jefferson County court records.

Rich-ish
White
Privileged

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Randall Gross  May 17, 2024 • 8:29:37am

don’t look now, but NASA is exploring Uranus

Exploring Planet Uranus

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 17, 2024 • 8:29:38am

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wrenchwench  May 17, 2024 • 8:29:44am

re: #330 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

One of the few books my parents banned me from reading in my teen years was “Johnny Got His Gun”.

I saw the movie. Then I read the book.

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dat_said  May 17, 2024 • 8:29:54am

I don’t know the original source, but I had many similar thoughts reading through what AT&T sent to me earlier this week.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 17, 2024 • 8:30:07am

re: #324 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I’m now vaccinated for covid, tetanus, and hep b. I expect to feel terrible this weekend.
I had the shingles vax last weekend, and tried to get the covid one at the same time, but my insurance does not cover the covid vaccine at CVS. I went to Walgreens today and it was fully covered.

I got the latest covid booster Wednesday (after they told me it was out and I needed to reschedule, I turned up anyway for other things, and it had just come in). Arm is a little sore — and I notice that each booster seems to be a bit more painful), but no biggie. I hope the weekend goes better for you than you expect.

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Randall Gross  May 17, 2024 • 8:30:26am

I know it’s adolescent, but I still get untold amounts of joy joking about Uranus.

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Nerdy Fish  May 17, 2024 • 8:36:35am

re: #344 Randall Gross

I know it’s adolescent, but I still get untold amounts of joy joking about Uranus.

Don’t lose that. We all need to have childish moments. When we stop with those, we lose that inner youth that keeps driving us to learn and grow and improve.

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darthstar  May 17, 2024 • 8:37:59am

re: #344 Randall Gross

I know it’s adolescent, but I still get untold amounts of joy joking about Uranus.

And I yours.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 17, 2024 • 8:42:16am

re: #305 Unabogie

Is it just me, or do other people realize that this “deportation” campaign will be a fig leaf for sending US troops into cities, which is the obvious and real goal here?

And, of course, the mass deportations (removal of stoop labor) won’t affect food prices, shipments of goods, or the US economy.

You’ll be standing in line for more than just toilet paper (‘cause commodity czar Jared found a buyer with a better deal for the item you’re in line for).

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 8:42:41am

re: #337 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Didn’t read it because I lived it. One of the secondary characters even had our unusual family name.

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dat_said  May 17, 2024 • 8:46:18am

With the Dow briefly passing 40,000 yesterday, I just had to check on some publication dates.

Dow 36,000 - 1999
Dow 40,000 - 1999
Dow 100,000 - 1999

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Randall Gross  May 17, 2024 • 8:53:44am

Because you need more cowbell this FRIDAY!!! morning. Little Big Beat Incognito Live Studio session
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtNA…

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-17T15:02:58.858Z

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Randall Gross  May 17, 2024 • 8:54:49am

The idea of a student taking out thousands of dollars in student loans that they will be paying off for decades so they can attend a private university, then having that school call the cops on them and THEN the school making the student do this bullshit is enough to radicalize anyone.

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity.bsky.social) 2024-05-17T15:27:06.917Z

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jaunte  May 17, 2024 • 8:54:53am

re: #330 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

One of the few books my parents banned me from reading in my teen years was “Johnny Got His Gun”.

The day my friends and I got our draft numbers, we decided to go out and see the movie, since we heard it was anti-war, and maybe go out for some beers after. Post movie, we passed on the beers.

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Romantic Heretic  May 17, 2024 • 9:03:49am

re: #324 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Thank you.

Here in Ontario we lost a child to measles. Probably because the poor kid’s parents thought they were heroes.

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Romantic Heretic  May 17, 2024 • 9:07:02am

re: #339 Randall Gross

Without lube?

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jaunte  May 17, 2024 • 9:10:33am

@jesrcerulean.bsky.social

Well, Darn. DCDraino is here; I found that out when he friended me. He was the first person I blocked on the other place, and he’s been blocked here, too.

This Draino person followed me this morning. Blocked after looking at his output. I suggest others on Bluesky do the same.

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jaunte  May 17, 2024 • 9:12:01am

“Politics for Patriots lawyer”
google.com

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darthstar  May 17, 2024 • 9:34:10am

Mastodon

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Randall Gross  May 17, 2024 • 9:35:39am

re: #356 jaunte

@jesrcerulean.bsky.social

This Draino person followed me this morning. Blocked after looking at his output. I suggest others on Bluesky do the same.

Blocked following the tip.

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2024 • 9:38:43am

This is a wild one—the illegal workers were still in DPRK. She was proxying them to US companies.

US woman accused of stealing identities to give North Koreans jobs
bbc.com

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DodgerFan1988  May 17, 2024 • 9:41:48am
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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 9:45:52am

Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) broke her silence on love affair with married Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), confirming that they are “happily engaged in a[n] [immoral] relationship,” the Daily Mail reports.

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 9:49:29am

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 9:51:13am

re: #363 Dangerman

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i downloaded it
and posted it

and didnt even read it

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darthstar  May 17, 2024 • 9:57:40am

re: #363 Dangerman

She looks so happy to be there with him.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 17, 2024 • 10:03:15am

Grammar pedantry. (Dont blame me, I’m just passing it along.)

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2024 • 10:10:04am

re: #353 jaunte

The day my friends and I got our draft numbers, we decided to go out and see the movie, since we heard it was anti-war, and maybe go out for some beers after. Post movie, we passed on the beers.

Metallica owns the film rights to that. They bought it so they could use it in their video for “One”.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2024 • 10:11:39am
Former first son Barron Trump loomed over officials at his South Florida high school Friday morning as he picked up his diploma, while his parents looked on from the bleachers.

Former President Donald Trump, 77, was every bit the proud papa — grinning alongside wife Melania at the graduation exercises for Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach

nypost.com

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William Lewis  May 17, 2024 • 10:15:50am

I think there’s a couple of Halestorm fans here. They dropped a full length concert video at YouTube today. Hour and a half at Wembley so if that’s your thing, here you go:

Halestorm - Live From Wembley (Official Video)

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 10:23:55am

re: #366 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Grammar pedantry. (Dont blame me, I’m just passing it along.)

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so do coconuts

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Dangerman  May 17, 2024 • 10:25:03am

re: #368 Shropshire Slasher

nypost.com

Former President Donald Trump, 77, was every bit the proud papa

who the fuck are they kidding?

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dat_said  May 17, 2024 • 10:30:46am

re: #370 Dangerman

so do coconuts

Night of the Coconut — Official Trailer

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Nerdy Fish  May 17, 2024 • 10:36:48am

re: #371 Dangerman

who the fuck are they kidding?

Forget it, Jake. It’s the NY Post. Which they continue posting here, every single day, for some indescribable reason.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2024 • 10:38:01am

re: #373 Nerdy Fish

Forget it, Jake. It’s the NY Post. Which they continue posting here, every single day, for some indescribable reason.

People expressed doubt that he would go.

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Nerdy Fish  May 17, 2024 • 10:39:21am

re: #374 Shropshire Slasher

People expressed doubt that he would go.

Which you could have done by linking to a different source, but I digress. He went. Good job, he gets a gold star as a parent. Now he’s going to immediately bail on the festivities and come stink up my part of the country.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2024 • 10:40:13am

re: #375 Nerdy Fish

Which you could have done by linking to a different source, but I digress. He went. Good job, he gets a gold star as a parent. Now he’s going to immediately bail on the festivities and come stink up my part of the country.

Crying about my sources is beneath you.

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Nerdy Fish  May 17, 2024 • 10:42:34am

re: #376 Shropshire Slasher

Crying about my sources is beneath you.

It only seems that way to you because I normally hold my tongue, in the interest of avoiding conflict. Congratulations, I’m feeling punchy today.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2024 • 10:46:46am

re: #146 teleskiguy

Shit like this is one of a multitude of reasons why Apocalypse Now is a canonical film, important and worthy of preservation.

The director’s cut, not the cinematic release…

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Charles Johnson  May 17, 2024 • 10:47:00am

George W. Bush initially nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court but had to withdraw her after the conservative and centrist intelligensia deemed her insufficiently serious, and the guy he nominated instead that they all agreed was sufficiently qualified was Sam Alito.

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw.bsky.social) 2024-05-17T02:28:58.166Z

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Charles Johnson  May 17, 2024 • 10:47:10am

Their big objection to Miers was that her JD was from SMU instead of an Ivy League school which, the centrists at least, felt wasn’t prestigious enough for one of our unelected wizards.

Anyway thinking about this Kubrick quote again

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw.bsky.social) 2024-05-17T02:35:21.427Z

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Randall Gross  May 17, 2024 • 10:52:24am

I am still musing about people here recognizing the cognitive dissonance of posting from a known right wing source such as the NY post, but who also still also direct link regularly to a site that pays actual nazis.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2024 • 10:52:44am

re: #148 teleskiguy

How about Saving Private Ryan? Orders of magnitude more WAR stuff going on than Apocalypse Now.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2024 • 10:53:47am

re: #381 Randall Gross

I am still musing about how people here recognizing the cognitive dissonance of posting from a known right wing source such as the NY post, but who also still also direct link regularly to a site that pays actual nazis.

lol

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2024 • 10:53:54am

re: #155 goddamnedfrank

OK but fascists not getting the point is a distinguishing hallmark of fascism.

BORN IN THE USA!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2024 • 10:56:20am

re: #172 Ace Rothstein

“Dunkirk” and “Das Boot” are two of my favorite movies that just happen to be war movies.

1917

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 17, 2024 • 10:59:14am

Ever since my son was killed I cannot handle any movie about war.

And with Memorial Day coming up that will be my annual visit to El Cholo where I order their #1 combo, sit at a table and look at the empty chair across from me…

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2024 • 11:00:01am

re: #385 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

1917

Come and See (Ідзі і глядзі). Considered one of the greatest films ever made.

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Randall Gross  May 17, 2024 • 11:00:32am

re: #386 Joe Bacon ✅

Ever since my son was killed I cannot handle any movie about war.

And with Memorial Day coming up that will be my annual visit to El Cholo where I order their #1 combo, sit at a table and look at the empty chair across from me…

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Sorry for your loss, we are here for you.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2024 • 11:00:56am

re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg

My favorite Cohens movie is The Big Lebowski.

Long before the movie came out, I lived in small rental apartment with an oriental rug on the wall, my best buddy was a big, burly bearded guy who wore Hawaiian shirts and was addressed as “Dude”, and my other best buddy was a Vietnam-era veteran who lived in the back of his camper van.

We did not bowl, but if you went over the 15-minute limit at Open Mic Night, you risked getting a gun drawn on you…

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Dave In Austin  May 17, 2024 • 11:02:43am

...

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steve_davis  May 17, 2024 • 11:10:27am

re: #386 Joe Bacon ✅

Ever since my son was killed I cannot handle any movie about war.

And with Memorial Day coming up that will be my annual visit to El Cholo where I order their #1 combo, sit at a table and look at the empty chair across from me…

[Embedded content]

Oh god, those refried beans remind of how delicious the various piles of what otherwise just looks like brown food is in good Mexican restaurants.

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Jay C  May 17, 2024 • 11:21:55am

re: #379 Charles Johnson

Also: wasn’t at least part of the “conservative intelligentsia“‘s objection to Harriet Miers that she was a Bush family crony? And her nom too-obvious cronyism even for the GOP?


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