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1
SerialUpDinger  Feb 22, 2023 • 4:56:23pm

Some eye candy? This tiny plant grows close to the ground (under 6 inches tall, flowers are about 3/4 in diameter). They usually grow in masses and provide lots of cheerful pink. Santa Monica Mountains

Fringed Linanthus - Linanthus dianthiflorus
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 4:58:53pm
Georgia grand jury forewoman Emily Kohrs’ decision to go on TV and discuss certain aspects of the special grand jury investigating election misconduct in the state has triggered outrage from legal experts, many of whom have argued it could undermine any indictments that investigation ultimately produces.

And according to CBS News’ Robert Costa, lawyers representing some Trump allies involved in the probe are planning to use that interview as a basis of challenging any indictments their clients may face.

But not so fast, argues former federal prosecutor Shan Wu in an article for The Daily Beast. Kohrs’ interview is a potential headache for Georgia prosecutors — but it probably won’t doom upcoming indictments.

“To start with, Kohrs was the foreperson of a special grand jury that will produce only a report and recommendations. The special grand jury cannot issue indictments because the Georgia case precedent set by the Georgia Court of Appeals in Kennerly v. Georgia does not allow special grand juries to indict,” wrote Wu. “This offers insulation from any eventual charging decision, because if Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wants to charge, she must present evidence to a different non-special grand jury that is empowered to indict.”

(more)

Georgia grand juror’s interview won’t derail indictments of Trump allies: prosecutor (Raw Story, today)

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Feb 22, 2023 • 4:59:03pm

2023: Wild Clouds over Palm Desert, California

Just returned from a brief visit. Beautiful weather and then suddenly the wind kicked up in periodic but huge burst and these wild clouds formed at about 1730

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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2023 • 4:59:50pm

CL’d:

re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth

CTEH is a Consulting Toxicology and Environmental Health firm based out of Kemah, TX (west shore of Galveston Bay, with an office in North Little Rock). They specialize in air and water pollution testing, specializing in Environmental Fate and Transport through various media.

In other words, eco-scientist nerds, like me.

RIP, deepest condolences to their families. Terrifying way to step on a rainbow.

5
PhillyPretzel  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:04:03pm

Just popping in to say “hi.” I will try to get here earlier tomorrow. I have too many things going on today.

6
gocart mozart  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:09:12pm
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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:17:26pm
8
Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:17:54pm
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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:20:35pm

Thanks, Charles! Excellent vid! Exogeology is cool beans.

10
Crush White Nationalism  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:24:46pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

I hope they find that it’s not 1954, and they go to prison.

11
jaunte  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:25:25pm

re: #7 Captain Ron

Alert that fraud Rand Paul.

12
Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:30:15pm

The Republican Party is literally trying to unroll all the progressive civil rights advances of the last 70 years. They seem to be convinced this is their time.

13
Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:31:32pm
14
Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:31:45pm

Mastodon

15
Dopamine Fish  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:33:18pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

The Republican Party is literally trying to unroll all the progressive civil rights advances of the last 70 years. They seem to be convinced this is their time.

Are they wrong? They have Alito’s Calvinball Court, and the corrupt FIfth Circuit, and state legislatures and governorships in shithole states like Florida and Texas. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, all because we have institutionalized minority rule in this country.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:38:35pm

re: #13 Captain Ron

Just waiting for Fucker C to get on his knees and babble when Tangsnorter goes to Arby’s.

17
William Lewis  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:46:31pm

Oh, this has just got to gall Putler…

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:50:06pm

re: #17 William Lewis

Oh, this has just got to gall Putler…

“Vasily, I have become concerned about some rumors I have heard regarding our ICBMs. You can schedule a test, da? Put my mind at ease? Perhaps when the US President is in Kyiv, to give him something to worry about.”
*Vasily, sweating noticeably* “Da, comrade. It will be done.”

** THREE DAYS LATER **

“3… 2… 1… FIRE!”
*a missile leaves a silo, promptly fizzles, crashes, and burns spectacularly. Sirens sound all across the base.*
“Well… fuck. I guess I will sleep in bubble wrap for the next 6 months.”

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:55:32pm

That didn’t last long.

Elon Musk announced during a joint press conference with California Gov. Gavin Newsom that Tesla would be returning its global engineering headquarters to California, two years after a dramatic exit that saw the electric car company leave the Golden State for a facility in Austin, Texas.

Tesla will open up shop in the former home of Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto, Musk said. The facility will serve as the company’s engineering headquarters while the corporate headquarters remains in Austin.

The move returns Tesla to the world’s center of technology and innovation, and puts Musk in closer to proximity to the headquarters of Twitter, which the billionaire tech entrepreneur purchased last year in a massive social media shakeup.

Musk called the move into HP’s old building a “poetic transition from the company that founded Silicon Valley to Tesla.”

Newsom applauded the decision to return Tesla to California, saying that the state remains on the forefront of “discovery and new ideas and innovation.”

Tesla HQ to return to California, Musk announces (KTLA)

20
Belafon  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:55:59pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

The Republican Party is literally trying to unroll all the progressive civil rights advances of the last 70 years. They seem to be convinced this is their time.

If they don’t do it now, then the young people who are reacting to them doing it now won’t let then do it in the future.

21
EstebanTornado1963  Feb 22, 2023 • 5:58:00pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Found the racist asshole

22
DodgerFan1988  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:06:29pm
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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:14:30pm
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:15:54pm

re: #23 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Well, it’s not like they can do anything else. They don’t govern; even if they had the power, they wouldn’t use it.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:24:20pm

The killer came back to kill some more.

A Florida man suspected of killing a woman Wednesday returned to the scene hours later and shot four other people, killing a 9-year-old girl and a television news journalist, the Orange County sheriff said.

A Spectrum News 13 crew was in Pine Hills shortly after 4 p.m. covering the slaying of a woman in her 20s who had been found shot in that area around 11 a.m., Sheriff John Mina said.

Keith Melvin Moses, the 19-year-old suspect in the woman’s killing, returned to the scene and fired at the reporter and photographer who were in or near a vehicle, one of whom later died, Mina said.

Moses then went to a nearby home, walked inside and shot a mother and her 9-year-old daughter, the sheriff said. The girl died.

He was arrested in the area and is being charged in the initial slaying, Mina said. Moses will be charged in the four other shootings later, the sheriff said.

9-year-old and TV journalist killed in Florida after suspect returns to scene of earlier fatal shooting, sheriff says (NBC)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:26:32pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:31:49pm

The New York Times still publishing trash opinions.

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:33:29pm

Apollo astronauts brought back a half ton of stuff from the moon’s surface.

There will never be another full moon.

Unless they put it back.

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Mattand  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:35:51pm

re: #28 wrenchwench

Apollo astronauts brought back a half ton of stuff from the moon’s surface.

There will never be another full moon.

Unless they put it back.

God, that joke really cratered.

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:40:32pm

re: #29 Mattand

God, that joke really cratered.

Joke?

/

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:44:46pm

re: #19 Crush White Nationalism

Undoubtedly Elon found out his best talent (a significant percentage from foreign countries) hated living in a racist shithole like Texas that features utterly corrupt political officials and crooked cops.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:48:34pm

Here’s the flyer I made for the shows in Newark this Friday and Saturday night. Let me know what you think.

I can get you in if you want to come

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:50:19pm

Seven Theses on Theocratic Libertarianism (Blog and Mablog I’ll give him that’s a good name, Libertarian, author, Calvinist Presbyterian)

With an audio reading of the text, 16:01

Libertarianism: You’re free to do anything you want, as long as you don’t hurt anyone else, and by the way you’re going to Hell if you don’t exactly follow my particular version of Christianity. Christian Nationalists? Hell. Liberal Christians? Hell. Support the government? You fail the First Commandment. Hell. Supporters of secularism (separation of Church and State)? Well the state shouldn’t exist and neither should the separation, so you’re going to Hell.

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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:52:06pm

re: #19 Crush White Nationalism

That didn’t last long.

Tesla HQ to return to California, Musk announces (KTLA)

Wait, what? Did Cali give the Muskrat some kinda super tax deal to keep his engineering group there, which he abrogated when he announced he was moving it to his truck manufacturing site here?

Hello, Lawhawk!

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:55:33pm

re: #22 DodgerFan1988

Their values are fascist.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:57:48pm

re: #31 Florida Panhandler

Undoubtedly Elon found out his best talent (a significant percentage from foreign countries) hated living in a racist shithole like Texas that features utterly corrupt political officials and crooked cops.

I hope it was that, rather than Texas just being a way to negotiate tax breaks in California.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 22, 2023 • 6:59:07pm

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:01:43pm
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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:09:00pm

Suspect in Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub shooting ran a neo-Nazi site, detective testifies

The 22-year-old accused of carrying out the deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs in November ran a neo-Nazi website and used gay and racial slurs while gaming online, a police detective testified Wednesday.

Anderson Lee Aldrich used racial slurs while gaming, posted an image of a rifle scope trained on a gay pride parade and used a homophobic slur when referring to someone who was gay, Detective Rebecca Joines testified on the first day of a three-day trial to determine if there’s enough evidence to warrant hate crime charges against Aldrich.

Aldrich, who wore an orange jail jumpsuit at the hearing and cried at times, identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them. Joines said another witness told investigators that Aldrich said their mother, Laura Voepel, is nonbinary and forced them to go to LGBTQ clubs.

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ipsos  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:09:15pm

re: #32 I Would Prefer Not To

Here’s the flyer I made for the shows in Newark this Friday and Saturday night. Let me know what you think.

I can get you in if you want to come

[Embedded content]

And then there’s one March 6 that will have another visiting Lizard!!

(It’s me! I’m the visiting Lizard!)

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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:10:46pm

re: #31 Florida Panhandler

Undoubtedly Elon found out his best talent (a significant percentage from foreign countries) hated living in a racist shithole like Texas that features utterly corrupt political officials and crooked cops.

Bullshit. Austin is a breath of breathable Liberal air in a stifling Conservative state. We also have no personal income tax, which makes many engineers’ dicks get hard or vajes get wet. Does your broad brush cover the State? Mostly, by area. Does it relate directly to Austin?

Fuck no.The closest major city to Austin that is as Molly Ivins Liberal as we are is Madison, WI.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:11:12pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Just the type of law enforcement MTG can support in her utopian Red States divorce nation.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:14:32pm

re: #41 austin_blue

Bullshit. Austin is a breath of breathable Liberal air in a stifling Conservative state. We also have no personal income tax, which makes may many engineers’ dicks get hard or vajes get wet. Does your broad brush cover the State? Mostly, by area. Does it relate directly to Austin?

Fuck no.The closest major city to Austin that is as Molly Ivins Liberal as we are is Madison, WI.

If you are a woman, Austin cannot protect your right of choice. It doesn’t matter how liberal Austin is.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:19:16pm

A clip from Little House on the Praire.


Wow. TV in the 70s was raw to the floor when it came to talking race.

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teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:33:37pm

Amazing bit.

The whole special, I think, is his strongest work as a stand-up. So glad I saw him in Salt Lake City in person two summers ago. He was work-shopping the deceased loved one stuff, and I remember laughing very hard.

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HypnoToad  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:34:18pm

I caught tonight’s conjunction of the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus from my apt. I had a gap between rain and sleet earlier in the afternoon, and the big storm to come tomorrow. Two Jovian moons are visible if you look closely. It was a lovely sight in the twilight.

Moon, Jupiter, and Venus (at bottom) 150mm 1 sec. exp.
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:37:37pm

re: #46 HypnoToad

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars Venus…

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teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:39:52pm

re: #46 HypnoToad

Dude that is an awesome photograph!

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 22, 2023 • 7:58:55pm

Dragged up from downstairs:

Why are these domestic terrorists not behind bars? A guy in Michigan who did this same shit in a temple parking lot back in December is facing some serious time.

Maybe my son and a bunch of his friends who were in the IDF 20 years ago should get the band back together.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:10:57pm

re: #49 The Pie Overlord!

Forget DeSantis and the local police. The community of Orlando needs to turn out in force to counter demonstrate. Let the nazis be afraid when they see the rest of society turn on them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:11:47pm

Charlie Kirk Claims GA Jury Forewoman is ‘Witch’ Trying to ‘Put Spell’ on Trump, Cites Her Pinterest Posts About ‘Herbs’ (Mediatite, February 22, 2023)

(video starts at 9:02 of the 2:58:50 “Charlie Kirk Show”)

Political commentator Charlie Kirk apparently believes the Georgia jury forewoman involved in the election crimes case regarding Trump is a practicing witch.

Emily Kohrs — or, as Kirk has affectionately labeled her, “Harry Potter Girl” — appeared on various news outlets Tuesday offering an inside look at the grand jury investigation of Trump’s effort to overturn election results in Georgia.

After her media appearances were circulated far and wide, Kirk suggested that Kohrs was a closeted “witch,” thanks in part to the discovery of her Pinterest page.

On the Wednesday edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, Kirk broke down his findings and even shared a personal story of a witch encounter he claimed to have had in 2021.

(more)

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:12:46pm

IANAL but it was troubling to watch the Georgia grand jury foreperson speak out about the hearings. It would seem preferable that the jury not discuss the hearings at this time.

The statements that she did make about a specific witness - Pat Cipillone - were basically how much she admired him. One of the few people in the Trump team who left without damage to his reputation, at least among sane citizens.

ED: minor clarification

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:13:34pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:25:39pm

Huh. Things I learned. Yesterday it was the Boy Scouts being used as strikebreakers, today it’s Blue Shield covered female genital mutilation in the USA until 1977.

FGM was also a common practice in the UK and USA.

The Ongoing Practice of Female Genital Mutilation (JTSOR, April 27, 2017)

According to the sex researcher Elizabeth Sheehan, “Westerners… view [female circumcision] as being rooted in ideologies totally foreign to those in the West.” Sheehan explains in the Medical Anthropology Newsletter that such surgeries were performed in the U.S. and the U.K. from the 1800s all the way through to the 1970s. As Nagarwala’s arrest (and the subsequent arrest of another doctor) demonstrates, forms of it continue to this day.

As practised in the USA and UK, it was to relieve “irritation” (masturbation) and “hysteria” in girls (similar to the arguments for MGM).

Moreover, some charitable organisations have stopped using “mutilation” for fear of offending Muslims, Christians, and Jews, preferring instead terms like “cutting.”

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:27:46pm

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I know how that is, Charlie, my boy. Once, I had a witch turn me into a newt. Fortunately, I got better.

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Jay C  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:28:15pm

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Did they turn him into a newt?

(He seems to have gotten better…..)

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Jay C  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:28:59pm

re: #55 sizzzzlerz

GMTA acknowledgement…..

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:29:39pm

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Charlie Kirk Claims GA Jury Forewoman is ‘Witch’ Trying to ‘Put Spell’ on Trump, Cites Her Pinterest Posts About ‘Herbs’ (Mediatite, February 22, 2023)

(video starts at 9:02 of the 2:58:50 “Charlie Kirk Show”)

(more)

Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You (Official Video)

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:35:34pm
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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:52:01pm

Witchy Woman (2013 Remaster)

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:54:56pm

This tweet is already 4-5 hours old…

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:56:43pm

re: #60 ckkatz

I hated that song when I was in high school.

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2023 • 8:57:38pm

re: #59 ckkatz

Using GOP/Border logic, this means they should go for a tour of the front.

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:06:13pm

re: #62 wrenchwench

I hated that song when I was in high school.

Yup, there does seem to be those who are less than enthusiastic about that song. And I cannot blame them.

Any suggestions for a good song on witches?

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William Lewis  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:10:43pm

re: #64 ckkatz

Yup, there does seem to be those who are less than enthusiastic about that song. And I cannot blame them.

Any suggestions for a good song on witches?

Rhiannon

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:12:24pm

re: #63 jaunte

Using GOP/Border logic, this means they should go for a tour of the front.

Sending them to the front works for me. :)

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:17:25pm

re: #65 William Lewis

Yup!

Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night
And wouldn’t you love to love her?
Takes to the sky like a bird in flight
And who will be her lover?
…
She is like a cat in the dark
And then she is the darkness

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:19:16pm

re: #64 ckkatz

Yup, there does seem to be those who are less than enthusiastic about that song. And I cannot blame them.

Any suggestions for a good song on witches?

Santana - Black Magic Woman - 8/18/1970 - Tanglewood (Official)

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:28:23pm

This is more of a warlock.

I Put A Spell On You (Rare Original Version)

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:30:14pm

Referencing the topic at the top, I wonder if life existed on earth before the collision.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:32:39pm

re: #59 ckkatz

The wingnuts will get the so-called moderates to come round and stop support. They have McCarthy in their hands. He wants that Speaker’s Gavel too much to risk one Republican calling to vacate the chair.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:34:34pm

re: #64 ckkatz

Yup, there does seem to be those who are less than enthusiastic about that song. And I cannot blame them.

Any suggestions for a good song on witches?

(4:41)

Sisters of the Moon (2002 Remaster)

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:35:29pm

re: #70 wrenchwench

Screaming Jay Hawkins. He used to put on quite a show for the times he was in. It would probably not go over as well in these times though.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:36:36pm

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

No, Charlie Jerk.

I made you sick by making a voodoo doll of you and sticking a pin up its butt.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:38:07pm

re: #74 ckkatz

Screaming Jay Hawkins. He used to put on quite a show for the times he was in. It would probably not go over as well in these times though.

Halloween 1984 seeing Screaming Jay live doing the full coffin routine and ending with his immortal…Constipation Blues…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:40:26pm

re: #64 ckkatz

Yup, there does seem to be those who are less than enthusiastic about that song. And I cannot blame them.

Any suggestions for a good song on witches?

(2:59)

Rasputina- Leechwife

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:45:37pm

re: #44 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

A clip from Little House on the Praire.


Wow. TV in the 70s was raw to the floor when it came to talking race.

And you might recognize the boy.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:45:42pm

re: #64 ckkatz

A bit of an intro to this video: music starts at 1:40.

Ghost - Dance Macabre

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KingKenrod  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:46:50pm

Charlie Kirk better keep on eye on his fingers…

Body Count - Voodoo

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:50:18pm
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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:51:13pm

Another Fleetwood Mac song deals with magic, not specifically witchcraft -

Hypnotized

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Joe Bacon  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:51:16pm

If you always wondered how Panda Express makes it’s famous Orange Chicken!

How Panda Express Makes 110 Million Pounds of Orange Chicken per Year — The Experts

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2023 • 9:54:14pm

re: #64 ckkatz

Yup, there does seem to be those who are less than enthusiastic about that song. And I cannot blame them.

Any suggestions for a good song on witches?

(3:25)

Rob Zombie - American Witch

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 22, 2023 • 10:01:40pm

re: #81 Belafon

Gen Z swimming against the tide.

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 10:06:12pm

re: #83 Joe Bacon

Interesting point that a priority was modifying the cuisine to appeal to US tastes.

IIrc, there was a movie about two Italian brothers who immigrate to the US and start an Italian restaurant. One brother wants to serve dishes just as like in Italy. The second fights to modify the cuisine to match US customers’ expectations.

Anyway, now I’m hungry. So I’m going to head downstairs and make something to eat.

As the old joke goes -
“If I am what I eat; I’m fast, cheap and easy”

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2023 • 10:38:12pm
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Moe Avattar  Feb 22, 2023 • 10:42:11pm

re: #64 ckkatz

Yup, there does seem to be those who are less than enthusiastic about that song. And I cannot blame them.

Any suggestions for a good song on witches?

The October Country - My girlfriend is a witch

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Moe Avattar  Feb 22, 2023 • 10:50:55pm

Witch Craft Works ED Ending HD

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IngisKahn  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:02:53pm

Dogma - Marilyn Manson w/lyrics

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:03:45pm

Apparently another photoshop -

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:04:35pm

Looks like the snowpocalypse has hit Portland, OR:

kgw.com

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IngisKahn  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:07:21pm

Rob Zombie - Dragula

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:09:41pm

re: #92 Dr Lizardo

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:12:43pm
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IngisKahn  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:12:53pm

Ghost - Stand By Him - Lyrics

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:15:14pm

What if you threw an offensive and nobody noticed?

Apparently a lot of Western analysts are now beginning to conclude that the Russian offensive actually started weeks ago…

.

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IngisKahn  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:16:15pm

Cradle Of Filth : To Eve The Art of Witchcraft Lyrics

And like 20 other of their songs

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:24:14pm
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:24:50pm

re: #96 IngisKahn

I like their latest:

Ghost - Spillways (Official Music Video)

Impera is a damn good album.

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:27:04pm
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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:31:35pm

Wilson has been predicting that Trump will intimidate DeSantis allies to return to Trump’s side. Sounds like Fox has some misgivings about straying.

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2023 • 11:42:59pm

Last one and then I need to head to bed -

There has been a lot of concern about how the current Mexican government is making moves towards autocracy.

The Mexican Senate passed a bill Wednesday that overhauls the independent election regulator (INE - Instituto Nacional Electoral), reduces its funding, staffing, and power to oversee elections

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JC1  Feb 23, 2023 • 12:17:10am

re: #31 Florida Panhandler

Undoubtedly Elon found out his best talent (a significant percentage from foreign countries) hated living in a racist shithole like Texas that features utterly corrupt political officials and crooked cops.

The Austin area is becoming a mini silicone valley.
Musk just probably wanted to be in a no income tax state when he was selling 10s of billions worth of TSLA stock.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 12:35:06am

re: #8 Charles Johnson

NEW: Six white Mississippi sheriff’s deputies “tortured” and subjected two handcuffed Black men—Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker—to “waterboarding” before shooting Jenkins in the mouth while he was handcuffed, their attorneys allege.

This makes me feel bad about being white. Shouldn’t it be illegal to teach about this in schools?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 12:41:22am

re: #31 Florida Panhandler

Undoubtedly Elon found out his best talent (a significant percentage from foreign countries) hated living in a racist shithole like Texas that features utterly corrupt political officials and crooked cops.

I had offers to attend grad school in Austin TX and Tucson AZ and chose the latter.

I think that some of it was indeed Elon leveraging some tax breaks but Texas is not the place of choice for many people who have the option of choosing where they work.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 12:43:19am

re: #43 Hecuba’s daughter

If you are a woman, Austin cannot protect your right of choice. It doesn’t matter how liberal Austin is.

I have a friend who left Austin for Dallas just because he said the place was overcrowded and overrun.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 12:44:37am

re: #56 Jay C

Did they turn [Charlie Kirk] into a newt?

(He seems to have gotten better…..)

But not entirely

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 12:45:21am

re: #62 wrenchwench

I hated that song when I was in high school.

a decent song in and of itself but it was terribly overplayed in FM radio

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 12:49:20am

re: #103 ckkatz

For Americans to understand what happened tonight in Mexico …

Through most of the 20th century, Mexican elections were run by officials answerable to the Mexican president. The president told the officials the result he wanted. They delivered it.

That is the America we want!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 12:49:59am

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

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2023 • 1:03:57am

This guy should narrate nature documentaries:

Youtube Video

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2023 • 1:04:42am

re: #112 Dr Lizardo

Refresh that - linked the wrong thing.

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Captain Ron  Feb 23, 2023 • 1:06:14am

We hit 70F for a couple days and now it’s back to the low 50s. I was doing yard-work the nice 70 degree days so I missed out on nice bike weather.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 1:20:12am

He have had sunny balmy weather on the Rhine, pushing 60°F this week but now back into the low 50’s, still much milder than average for this time of year.

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TarHellion  Feb 23, 2023 • 2:07:55am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2023 • 3:35:10am

re: #99 ckkatz

Damn. China sucks at implosions. All off those were the worst I’ve ever seen.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 23, 2023 • 3:37:53am

re: #118 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Damn. China sucks at implosions. All off those were the worst I’ve ever seen.

I have to assume they didn’t care as much, since the whole city was being destroyed, though you’d think they would have a care that they didn’t accidentally kill some of the workers; one of the controlled demolitions in the first half barely looked “controlled,” and you could see guys scrambling to get away from the point of impact of the top half of the building.

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Teukka  Feb 23, 2023 • 3:50:15am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2023 • 3:51:40am

Maddening! 4/6

bjFkMW5TMWc3Wi9FbU9hLzNOWUtlV0NsMWpodEFtM0MxU05CeDlzUU1sdFhDdmdENHdBc2V4aTNCMTMxdXdWZGlROUZ0N1Y0NklHMStjZy9BdzcwbGRjWGl0dmQ5SWtvTGI0UDRQdFV0Tm5HRXVsZHNObHhiOFJ3YW9nZ2ZOVXVHeFM1azNxQlQxN080T1p4LzgrNEF4c01PNWMyZlBMSENzTzI1L2hqY2lJPTo6m3THzhzLajofSYmvfQr01Q==

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2023 • 3:54:21am

re: #119 Dopamine Fish

Humans, trees, nothing mattered. I guess there’s only some things they want to control. 👀

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2023 • 4:00:37am

re: #120 Teukka

That was hysterical. Thanks for sharing. The octopus one had me L’in’OL.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 4:21:38am

re: #120 Teukka

There’s a whole TV series, “Norsemen”, which is set in the Viking era but basically making fun of modern social stereotypes

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 23, 2023 • 4:44:10am

So in reference to this Florida defamation shit. If a white person accuses a person of color of racism against white people, do they get the same consideration in a defamation case. Or does this only apply to a white person getting accused of racism?

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:05:09am

re: #12 Charles Johnson

The Republican Party is literally trying to unroll all the progressive civil rights advances of the last 70 years. They seem to be convinced this is their time.

The GOP has convinced itself that they’re the real minority and that they have to protect their rights above all else. They’re a white nationalist fascist party intent on rolling back rights for women and minorities and LGBTQ+ precisely because they think that somehow undermines the rights of white men (and keeps said white men engaged and enraged to act on their violent fantasies courtesy of GOP also pushing gun sales to detriment of public health and safety).

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:05:14am
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Belafon  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:13:40am

re: #86 ckkatz

The show The Foods That Built America tells how both Chef Boyardee and Taco Bell had to change their original recipes to be less spicy so that Americans would eat them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:13:42am

re: #127 lawhawk

A view of the street outside of the Russian Embassy in London on the first anniversary of Putin’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine.

Just go to any number of tankie websites to find every sort of moral and historical justification for Putin’s invasion of “Little Russia”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:15:56am

re: #128 Belafon

The show The Fast Food That Built America tells how both Chef Boyardee and Taco Bell had to change their original recipes to be less spicy so that Americans would eat them.

Velveeta was originally created as a way of utilizing damaged wheels of cheese that were returned unsold to the dairy. It was once a highly prized delicacy, and was even exported abroad.

But the recipe was later changed so that it no longer had anything to do with what we generally know as cheese.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:17:40am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:20:14am

re: #131 Belafon

there’s no reason for any of these guys to run for president and with answers like this they just make it more likely trump will be the nominee again. clownish.

I think that De Santis is the only potential challenger, the rest are simply positioning themselves for VP, a cabinet post or for 2028

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:22:36am

re: #61 ckkatz

This tweet is already 4-5 hours old…

That would include us, SW of Ann Arbor, Luckily this first test of our whole-house generator is working out fine!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:29:51am

Morning Lizards. Make of this what you will. It hangs on the wall next to my stove.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:36:38am

re: #133 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

That would include us, SW of Ann Arbor, Luckily this first test of our whole-house generator is working out fine!

Isn’t back up power great? We had an outage impacting everyone from Montara to Half Moon Bay on Tuesday and after I got the text alert I went home, turned on the lights, and pulled out my laptop.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:38:56am

re: #134 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning Lizards. Make of this what you will. It hangs on the wall next to my stove.

If you are in a bad mood, you don’t give a shit or pay any more than basic attention. That will in an objective sense, affect the flavor of the food and to most people’s subjective taste, generally for the worse.

Doing anything in a bad mood is a bad idea.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:39:38am

Hey NYT, any idea why?

“No former president has ever confronted the barrage of legal threats that Mr. Trump now faces”

Forget the rest of the story, that’s a scathing lede

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:40:31am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Queens Of The Stone Age - Burn The Witch (Official Music Video)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:41:10am

re: #137 Dangerman

Hey NYT, any idea why?

“No former president has ever confronted the barrage of legal threats that Mr. Trump now faces”

Forget the rest of the story, that’s a scathing lede

No former President has so blatantly or egregiously flouted the law, be it out of hubris, arrogance or just sheer apathy and ignorance.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:43:52am

“…She got a zombie army to serve her well
She got a thousand bloodhounds
From the gates of hell
She got a hundred black horses
With sulfur and coal on their breath
And she rides the unbelievers down,
Mother knows best…”

Richard Thompson - Mother Knows Best

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:45:43am

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Teukka  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:46:02am

re: #64 ckkatz

Yup, there does seem to be those who are less than enthusiastic about that song. And I cannot blame them.

Any suggestions for a good song on witches?

This? And the lyrics match the video. It’s from a TV docu/drama series, “Häxornas Försvarare” (Defender of the Witches), about the witch hunts in Swedens history. Can dig the lyrics up if you want.

Nordman “I lågornas sken”

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:47:52am

re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

there’s no reason for any of these guys to run for president and with answers like this they just make it more likely trump will be the nominee again. clownish.

I think that De Santis is the only potential challenger, the rest are simply positioning themselves for VP, a cabinet post or for 2028

Fundraising grift
Tfg showed the way
And if he hadn’t, Santos would have

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:49:37am

re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

No former President has so blatantly or egregiously flouted the law, be it out of hubris, arrogance or just sheer apathy and ignorance.

Now if only someone would inform the times

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:49:43am

For those of you with Democratic congresspeople:

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:50:49am

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:50:57am

re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

No former President has so blatantly or egregiously flouted the law, be it out of hubris, arrogance or just sheer apathy and ignorance.

He’s spent 50 years perfecting the abuse of the courts.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:51:24am

re: #145 Dangerman

Now if only someone would inform the times

they only profile victims, not perpetrators. except in the case of unarmed black men

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:52:37am

re: #147 Crush White Nationalism

I just happen to love how these people believe in God…who never does anything but work in mysterious ways…but witches and the devil have tangible and immediate power over the world.

especially when it comes to newt transformation and restoration…

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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2023 • 5:58:03am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:00:52am

re: #151 gocart mozart

“I vill tell you zis only once!”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:12:56am

re: #128 Belafon

The show The Foods That Built America tells how both Chef Boyardee and Taco Bell had to change their original recipes to be less spicy so that Americans would eat them.

And now everything has ghost peppers, angry sauce and the like. I’m thinking our taste buds have gone kaput and spice is the only thing we can manage now for “flavor”.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:24:17am

Well look who provides security for Natasha Sinema!

It’s…TOOLSI’S SISTER!

thedailybeast.com

A new report from The Daily Beast is raising questions about an unusual arrangement for personal security between Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and a company owned by the sister of Tulsi Gabbard.

According to the report, Sinema’s campaign finance committees have forked over more than $300,000 to a company called TOA Group LLC whose sole executive is Vrindivan Gabbard Bellord, the sister of the former Hawaii Democratic congresswoman who has since become a far-right Fox News contributor.

“Since fall 2021, Bellord has been employed as the ‘security director’ in Sinema’s Senate office, a role that has paid her over $50,000, according to Senate records,” the publication writes. “Bellord has also apparently been the exclusive security provider to Sinema’s campaign. She appears to have no other clients aside from the Arizona senator.”

The report goes on to document the close relationship that Gabbard and Sinema forged while the two began serving in the House of Representatives in 2013. The two women also share a penchant for being willing to go against their party, although Sinema, unlike Gabbard, has not yet parroted talking points that echo Kremlin propaganda.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:24:59am

Here’s Ben Stein’s Moving Black History Month Tribute To Aunt Jemima. Yes, F*cking Aunt Jemima. (Wonkette, today)

It’s the last week of Black History Month, and conservatives are squeezing in as many indignities as they can before we head into March. Ben Stein — that guy from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off — posted a video on Donald Trump’s designer imposter Twitter site, Truth Social, where he lamented the loss of his beloved fantasy mammy Aunt Jemima.

Stein announced he was about to make “breakfast for dinner,” which is his right. I’ve long argued that “breakfast” and “dinner” are not defined by their menu but the time of day when you have the meal. I don’t care if you’re eating pancakes or eggs and bacon. That’s not breakfast for dinner. It’s dinner for dinner. But that’s a philosophical debate for another time.

In the video that even the New York Post calls “bizarre,” Stein cradled a bottle of syrup and swooned, “Aunt Jemima, yummy, pancake syrup. Now, this used to show a large African American woman chef, but because of the inherent racism of Americans’ corporate culture, they decided to make it a white person, or maybe no person at all.” He went on: “But, I prefer when it was a Black person, showing their incredible skill at making pancakes. So, God bless you all and have a good evening.”

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:27:09am

re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Here’s Ben Stein’s Moving Black History Month Tribute To Aunt Jemima. Yes, F*cking Aunt Jemima. (Wonkette, today)

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I did not know he was still around.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:27:49am

re: #153 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And now everything has ghost peppers, angry sauce and the like. I’m thinking our taste buds have gone kaput and spice is the only thing we can manage now for “flavor”.

In part because “death sauce” is easy. Plus you can market it as “too hot for you to handle!” and other macho BS.

Balancing a hot sauce/spice mix is a delicate thing if you are trying to create a flavor enhancement. And people’s appetite or tolerance for the heat effects varies from person to person and also based upon the meal itself since you can server accompanying dishes that enhance or reduce the spice effects.

My general approach is to create dishes that I would rate “1 or 2- alarm” since I know I can add a shake or additional powder or a bit of liquid hot sauce to take it up a notch. And I also like using an array of spices to get the “heat” since they work and taste differently and can be manipulated to hit one’s taste buds in a sequence instead of simply obliterating them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:31:11am

re: #153 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And now everything has ghost peppers, angry sauce and the like. I’m thinking our taste buds have gone kaput and spice is the only thing we can manage now for “flavor”.

it is again all about marketing and sensation and who can endure the most Scoville units

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mmmirele  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:32:38am

re: #103 ckkatz

Last one and then I need to head to bed -

There has been a lot of concern about how the current Mexican government is making moves towards autocracy.

The Mexican Senate passed a bill Wednesday that overhauls the independent election regulator (INE - Instituto Nacional Electoral), reduces its funding, staffing, and power to oversee elections

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Sounds like AMLO/Morena wants to re-institute the one party state of the PRI. I’m not sure that is going to work today.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:33:08am

re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Here’s Ben Stein’s Moving Black History Month Tribute To Aunt Jemima. Yes, F*cking Aunt Jemima. (Wonkette, today)

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Does Ben Stein also pine for Uncle Ben and the fella on the Cream Of Wheat box, too?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:33:57am

re: #161 Joe Bacon

Does Ben Stein also pine for Uncle Ben and the fella on the Cream Of Wheat box, too?

I understand he had a deep fondness for the Land O’ Lakes lady as well.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:36:40am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:38:18am

re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg

I understand he had a deep fondness for the Land O’ Lakes lady as well.

Don’t forget Little Black Sambo!

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:42:14am

re: #143 gocart mozart

RUSH - Witch Hunt - Live In Toronto 1984 (2021 HD Remaster 60fps)

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:43:11am

Mastodon

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Mattand  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:44:50am

re: #156 Crush White Nationalism

I did not know he was still around.

We were at my in-laws a few Thanksgivings ago, which means forced Fox News viewings. Stein was brought in as a pundit for a segment for whatever ‘news’ show was on at 6:30 or so.

It was really, really sad. The last time I had probably seen him was on Win Ben Stein’s Money on Comedy Central nearly 30 years ago. Age messes up us all to a degree, but Stein was clearly not well. I’m pretty sure he dozed off during the five minute segment, and spent a portion of it complaining about his adult son living with him and his wife.

Swear to God, he basically said “The only reason he’s here is because my wife won’t let me kick him out.” He literally did use the phrase “Happy wife, happy life.”

I know the guy has some really hardcore, out-there views, but man, it was tough to watch.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:46:14am

re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oh Ben. Don’t worry. You may not have Aunt Jemima anymore but Mrs. Butterworths is waiting for you with her open arms and lots of high fructose corn syrup!

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:48:24am

re: #167 Mattand

Ben Stein was always an asshole. Sponsors forced Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin to hire Stein to give “balance” to shows like All In The Family, Sanford & Son, and especially Maude.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:52:05am

What the hail?

Mastodon

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:52:39am

re: #171 darthstar

What the hail?

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jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:52:52am

Good morning!

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mmmirele  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:55:12am

One of the churches the Southern Baptist Convention expelled for having a woman pastor wasn’t even a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Which just goes to show how much fucking research (as in NONE) these GUYS did before they kicked out a church that didn’t belong.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:56:02am

I did not know that Pod Save America has a video version of their podcast.

BREAKING: Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Fox News Knew Donald Trump Lied About the 2020 Election

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 6:56:59am

re: #171 darthstar

What the hail?

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Since 1982 I’ve seen 2 hail storms in Los Angeles. Didn’t last long and the hail stones melted pretty quick. Won’t be surprised if #3 shows up during this storm system.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:02:04am

re: #174 mmmirele

One of the churches the Southern Baptist Convention expelled for having a woman pastor wasn’t even a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Which just goes to show how much fucking research (as in NONE) these GUYS did before they kicked out a church that didn’t belong.

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Are we surprised to see the Southern Fried Baptists do stupid things?

Nope.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:02:49am

re: #116 TarHellion

Regained my pass into Birbie-land. Looks like some clouds will conspire to keep us under 80 today. Still within range of a record high for the date. Get to work from home today and the half-day tomorrow. Happy Friday Eve!

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Wile E. Wonka  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:07:11am

re: #169 Joe Bacon

Ben Stein was always an asshole. Sponsors forced Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin to hire Stein to give “balance” to shows like All In The Family, Sanford & Son, and especially Maude.

Yeah. Didn’t he get his start as a speechwriter for Nixon before pivoting to acting?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:09:23am

re: #179 Wile E. Wonka

Yeah. Didn’t he get his start as a speechwriter for Nixon before pivoting to acting?

Yep, sure did.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:10:52am

re: #171 darthstar

What the hail?

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It’s the end of the world as we know it.
And I feel fine.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:15:17am

re: #179 Wile E. Wonka

Yeah. Didn’t he get his start as a speechwriter for Nixon before pivoting to acting?

Yep Benjy got the Lear/Yorkin job after being a speechwriter for Tricky Dick. And he got that speechwriter job because his Dad Herb Stein was the chairman of Tricky Dick’s Council of Economic Advisors.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:35:02am

They were giggling in a smoke-filled room when they chose that title.

A bill being considered in the state legislature would create an official Connecticut cannabis ombudsman, what Majority Leader Jason Rojas described as a liaison between medical cannabis patients and the state.

“We’re hearing about supply challenges and medical patients not being able to get what they want,” Rojas said. “I think having a dedicated person who’s there to answer questions to medical patients is really the intent of this.”

Rojas, D-East Hartford, acknowledged that it is the responsibility of the state’s licensed growers to provide for the medical market.

Connecticut law requires cannabis growers to submit a “medical cannabis preservation plan,” to “ensure against supply shortages of medical marijuana products, which shall be approved or denied at the commissioner’s discretion.”

With concerns about medical cannabis supply shortage, CT lawmakers look to create ombudsman job (CT Post)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:35:08am

re: #174 mmmirele

One of the churches the Southern Baptist Convention expelled for having a woman pastor wasn’t even a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Which just goes to show how much fucking research (as in NONE) these GUYS did before they kicked out a church that didn’t belong.

My brother and sister-in-law in Valparaiso, Indiana quit their local Episcopalian church for being too progressive.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:52:12am

re: #168 Joe Bacon

Oh Ben. Don’t worry. You may not have Aunt Jemima anymore but Mrs. Butterworths is waiting for you with her open arms and lots of high fructose corn syrup!

My bottle of pancake syrup has a flag of Canada on the label. Pure maple deliciousness, none of that HFCS for me!

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Nojay UK  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:52:51am

re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Anglican Church in Britain is going through a schism where the head of the church is regarded by many conservative priests and congregations as a dangerous lefty radical. Sanctifying same-sex marriages and anointing women priests and bishops is a step too far for them.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:53:23am

This is not going to end well for him. It’s not advisable to take the stand when everything you say can be used against you, and you might walk right into even more trouble depending on how skilled the prosecutors are in asking questions (and the defense attorney might likewise open the door to allowing prosecutors to grill him on the line of questioning).

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:56:29am

re: #187 lawhawk

Don’t most defense attorneys recommend their client not take the stand?

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:57:16am

The National Association of Christian Lawmakers is not yet a household name — but it already wields a growing amount of power and is driving forward with its aim of forcing state-imposed right-wing fundamentalism into law reports Rolling Stone.

“Thanks to (founder Jason) Rapert, the Christian Nationalist movement now commands a burgeoning political powerhouse, the National Association of Christian Lawmakers,” the report says. Rapert is a former Arkansas state senator

“A first-of-its-kind organization in U.S. history, NACL advances ‘biblical’ legislation in America’s statehouses. These bills are not mere stunts or messaging. They’re dark, freedom-limiting bills that, in some cases, have become law.”

The group, founded in 2020, has longtime GOP figures advising it including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Tony Perkins, president of the hate group the Family Research Council. It boasts members in 31 state legislatures.

rollingstone.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2023 • 7:57:28am

re: #185 The Pie Overlord!

My bottle of pancake syrup has a flag of Canada on the label. Pure maple deliciousness, none of that HFCS for me!

This is America! You can’t have Commie condiments around here!

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:00:37am

re: #185 The Pie Overlord!

My bottle of pancake syrup has a flag of Canada on the label. Pure maple deliciousness, none of that HFCS for me!

No way Ben Stein would allow a single drop of Socialist Syrup on his All American Pancakes!

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:05:42am

Had me squirming just a bit…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:06:39am
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:07:24am

Speaking of syrup, conditions in northern New England have been perfect the past few weeks—below freezing at night and in the 30s and 40s during the day. I’m going to try to hit a couple of sugar shacks this year.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:08:46am

re: #194 Barefoot Grin

Speaking of syrup, conditions in northern New England have been perfect the past few weeks—below freezing at night and in the 30s and 40s during the day. I’m going to try to hit a couple of sugar shacks this year.

Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - Sugar Shack (Official Audio)

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:08:46am

Republicans are in ‘intellectual collapse’ as they push bans on everything that scares them

Republicans are facing an “intellectual collapse” — and their turn to increasingly anti-democracy and anti-free speech policies is the result of that, argued MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Wednesday.

Joy Reid says Republicans are facing “intellectual collapse”

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:09:02am

re: #188 Dr Lizardo

Don’t most defense attorneys recommend their client not take the stand?

That’s what I’ve heard. You can’t predict or control what they might say when undergoing cross examination.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:09:56am

re: #196 Joe Bacon

They see threats in anything that diverges from their ideas and would rather demolish America than accept anything else.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:11:02am

re: #189 Joe Bacon

With a national agenda and a state-by-state focus, NACL is emulating the American Legislative Exchange Council. An infamous corporate front group, ALEC pioneered the strategy of pushing for national political goals by advancing carbon-copy bills through state legislatures. But where ALEC serves far-right billionaire masters and polluting special interests, NACL sees itself as serving the Lord on high. Rapert has touted NACL as “basically ALEC from a biblical worldview.”

I’m a Christian, and this shit makes me want to puke.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:12:35am

NACL is just paving the way for a full-on theocracy

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:13:13am

re: #185 The Pie Overlord!

My bottle of pancake syrup has a flag of Canada on the label. Pure maple deliciousness, none of that HFCS for me!

I’ve had both Canadian and American syrup but I guess my palette isn’t sophisticated enough to tell the difference. They’re both delicious. Imitation syrup is nothing more than flavored sugar water.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:13:14am

re: #199 Eclectic Cyborg

“NACL sees itself as serving the Lord on high.”

Who, of course, believes that all power should go to the people we think should have power. That hates the same people we seem to hate. And miraculously agrees with every little thought and desire we have about the material world.
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:14:08am

Should have had it on guess 3. Oh well.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:15:26am

re: #187 lawhawk

This is not going to end well for him. It’s not advisable to take the stand when everything you say can be used against you, and you might walk right into even more trouble depending on how skilled the prosecutors are in asking questions (and the defense attorney might likewise open the door to allowing prosecutors to grill him on the line of questioning).

Speaking of people lying, I watched the first episode of Poker Face last night. Fun show.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:16:11am

I haven’t seen Quantumania, but Wakanda Forever looks great, so I guess the priorities show in both films.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has already cemented itself as one of the lowest performing Marvel Cinematic Universe films of all-time. A report from Vulture reveals a big reason why.

Star-studded MCU sequel films Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania were both in post-production around the same time, leaving the former to be prioritized over the latter.

Even though Ant-Man 3 has done well so far in the box office since its February 17 North American release, the film has suffered when it comes to critical feedback and Rotten Tomato score, especially compared to those of Wakanda Forever. But evidently, the root of the issue stems from the Ant-Man workers’ experiences during post, as highlighted by some of the actual VFX team at hard work behind the scenes.

Marvel Diverted All The “Best” CGI Artists Away From ‘Ant Man 3’ And Onto ‘Wakanda Forever’: Report (Decider)

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:16:23am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:16:53am

re: #204 darthstar

Speaking of people lying, I watched the first episode of Poker Face last night. Fun show.

My wife and I watched the American version of “The Traitors” a couple of weeks ago. Interesting show.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:17:17am

re: #194 Barefoot Grin

Speaking of syrup, conditions in northern New England have been perfect the past few weeks—below freezing at night and in the 30s and 40s during the day. I’m going to try to hit a couple of sugar shacks this year.

I wish my local syrup makers hadn’t had to quit because of medical issues. That stuff was the best and local. I knew everyone who had any hand in making it. Their son and his wife have thought about restarting the business, but I haven’t heard that they have yet.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:17:24am

re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

NACL is just paving the way for a full-on theocracy

I don’t know what blocking inbound or outbound TCP traffic has to do with this.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:23:06am

re: #201 sizzzzlerz

I’ve had both Canadian and American syrup but I guess my palette isn’t sophisticated enough to tell the difference. They’re both delicious. Imitation syrup is nothing more than flavored sugar water.

Being originally from Michigan, I’ve always had maple syrup (usually from Michigan or Ontario) growing up.

Maple syrup is fookin’ expensive here in Nebraska, but that is a luxury I will not give up; you’ll pry my maple syrup from my cold, sticky hands.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:24:53am

re: #205 Crush White Nationalism

I’m guessing that the reason Quantumania isn’t performing as well has nothing to do with CGI and everything to do with the story, while Wakanda Forever has a better and more compelling story, especially everyone who saw the first and wanted to know how they’d handle Chadwick’s untimely death.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:24:56am

re: #205 Crush White Nationalism

One of the criticisms of Black Panther was that the VFX/CGI looked incomplete or somewhat low-budget. That’s probably why Marvel put all their best VFX wonks into Wakanda Forever.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:25:19am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Being originally from Michigan, I’ve always had maple syrup (usually from Michigan or Ontario) growing up.

Maple syrup is fookin’ expensive here in Nebraska, but that is a luxury I will not give up; you’ll pry my maple syrup from my cold, sticky hands.

I wait until it is on sale at the discounter and then buy a year’s supply at once.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:25:25am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:26:06am

re: #214 darthstar

Attack some hurricanes while you’re at it!

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:28:21am

re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Attack some hurricanes while you’re at it!

Clive Cussler evaporated a hurricane in one of his novels when I was a kid…blew a big oil tanker up like a fireball and broke it up into a bunch of harmless little squalls.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:28:43am

re: #216 darthstar

Clive Cussler evaporated a hurricane in one of his novels when I was a kid…blew a big oil tanker up like a fireball and broke it up into a bunch of harmless little squalls.

Spoilers: It doesn’t work like that.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:28:52am

re: #211 lawhawk

I’m guessing that the reason Quantumania isn’t performing as well has nothing to do with CGI and everything to do with the story, while Wakanda Forever has a better and more compelling story, especially everyone who saw the first and wanted to know how they’d handle Chadwick’s untimely death.

The Ant Man movies usually have better stories than the rest of the MCU. Maybe this one is different.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:29:02am

re: #208 Eventual Carrion

I wish my local syrup makers hadn’t had to quit because of medical issues. That stuff was the best and local. I knew everyone who had any hand in making it. Their son and his wife have thought about restarting the business, but I haven’t heard that they have yet.

The husband of a woman my wife cared for sometimes gave some that he tapped from a couple of trees in his front yard (in a Christian Bros. cognac bottle). But his wife passed away last summer and he goes to Florida for winter now. Still, lots of good stuff in the area.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:29:29am

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing arguments on Thursday over whether to allow federal prosecutors to access the cell phone of Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA).

The DOJ wants access to Perry’s phone as part of its investigation into President Trump’s attempt to reverse his loss in the 2020 election.

Perry played a key role in the plot. He helped connect Trump with a DOJ official named Jeffrey Bossert Clark, who launched a failed attempt to become attorney general as part of a broader plot to use the DOJ to intervene in the election outcome. Perry also advanced a series of wild claims about the election, including that an Italian defense contractor used military satellites to zap votes away from Trump in swing states.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:30:23am

re: #218 Crush White Nationalism

The Ant Man movies usually have better stories than the rest of the MCU. Maybe this one is different.

The reviewer I listened to said yes, this one is very clunky—lot’s monologues explaining the plot.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:32:31am

The Southern Poverty Law Center has obtained leaked chat messages purportedly showing avowed neo-Nazi leader Brandon Russell encouraging his followers to attack critical pieces of American infrastructure with the hopes of sparking a race war.

The SPLC says the chats show that Russell, who was indicted earlier this year for a plot to attack a series of substations that serve the city of Baltimore, saw the attacks as crucial for his goal of creating racial Armageddon in the United States.

Among other things, the chats show Russell and his allies sharing infrastructure maps with one another with a particular focus on power substations and railways.

The hope was to begin the attacks and then inspire copycats to take matters into their own hands at other locations.

splcenter.org

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:33:23am

re: #217 Dopamine Fish

Spoilers: It doesn’t work like that.

Are you doubting the wisdom of America’s Greatest President?

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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:34:02am

Consider Yourself (w/Steve Marriott) 1960

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:34:51am

re: #222 Joe Bacon

The Southern Poverty Law Center has obtained leaked chat messages purportedly showing avowed neo-Nazi leader Brandon Russell encouraging his followers to attack critical pieces of American infrastructure with the hopes of sparking a race war.

Isn’t that was Charles Manson was out to incite?

I guess these fellows believe in sticking with the classics.

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Acemarilllion (yes, three 'l's)  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:35:52am

YouTube

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:38:57am

re: #214 darthstar

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Russia nuking Yellowstone has been a fever dream for their war hawks for at least 20 years. I’ve read Russian Military officials state their intent to bomb the region in order to start a continent-wide calamity for awhile now.

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:39:59am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:45:50am

re: #228 DodgerFan1988

t’s not trolling. It’s not street theater. They’re fucking Nazis.

What is the point of a Constitution when we cannot understand or agree on how it and its amendments apply to our interactions and public discourse?

The first clause of the German Constitution reads:

(1) Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.

A clause sadly lacking although it should be so self-evident as to not be needed (Germany’s history made this clause a necessity)

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:49:09am

re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

t’s not trolling. It’s not street theater. They’re fucking Nazis.

What is the point of a Constitution when we cannot understand or agree on how it and its amendments apply to our interactions and public discourse?

The first clause of the German Constitution reads:

(1) Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.

A clause sadly lacking although it should be so self-evident as to not be needed (Germany’s history made this clause a necessity)

So does American history, but you won’t see that here where a major political party is pro-abuse.

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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:49:40am

My brother from Berlin is coming to see me. He flew into Portland yesterday. Portland has had the second snowiest 24 hours since they started keeping track at the airport in 1939. I hope he can get out.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:50:01am

re: #228 DodgerFan1988
Florida is an “Open Carry” “Stand Your Ground” state, is it not?

My son & other IDF vets should get the band back together and show up in force wherever these shitgoblins put on their little street theater.

Hell if I ran into these guys during my continued stay here in Florida I have an aluminum cane that could inflict some damage.

“I am so sorry officer, I am a 4’10” disabled old lady. When these big angry men approached I feared for my life and I had to use the weapon that was already in my hand.”

My hero:

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:51:56am

re: #224 gocart mozart

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That show creeped me tf out. Yes, Witchiepoo too.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:54:02am

re: #233 Barefoot Grin

That show creeped me tf out. Yes, Witchiepoo too.

I showed some students of mine the opening credits to H.R. Pufnstuf once, and the general consensus was that it was nightmare fuel.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:56:36am

Today’s DEEP THOUGHT

What if Nancy Pelosi gave all the 1/6 video footage to Rachel Maddow?

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:58:01am

re: #216 darthstar

Clive Cussler evaporated a hurricane in one of his novels when I was a kid…blew a big oil tanker up like a fireball and broke it up into a bunch of harmless little squalls.

I’m surprised that he didn’t just have Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino fly a NUMA helicopter into the storm, set the blades on counter rotation, and have it feed back on itself, thus saving the world.

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steve_davis  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:58:59am

re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I wait until it is on sale at the discounter and then buy a year’s supply at once.

wait, i’m not sure this guy has a firm grasp of geography in his alternate reality, shocking as that seems. why would taking down Yellowstone take down the east coast? second, why would you want to take down Yellowstone before the whole storyline arc is finished? I’m still working my way through season 2!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2023 • 8:59:53am
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sizzzzlerz  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:01:43am

re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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steve_davis  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:02:36am

re: #224 gocart mozart

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man, nobody was thinking in 1960, “this kid’s gonna be on a stage at Fillmore singing about “mother bitchin’ rock and roll!!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:05:09am

re: #235 Joe Bacon

Today’s DEEP THOUGHT

What if Nancy Pelosi gave all the 1/6 video footage to Rachel Maddow?

I long since stopped thinking about “what if Dem did/said what a Republican just did/said?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:05:48am

re: #237 steve_davis

wait, i’m not sure this guy has a firm grasp of geography in his alternate reality, shocking as that seems. why would taking down Yellowstone take down the east coast? second, why would you want to take down Yellowstone before the whole storyline arc is finished? I’m still working my way through season 2!

The notion is that the ash plume would suffocate most of North America

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William Lewis  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:13:07am

re: #234 Dr Lizardo

I showed some students of mine the opening credits to H.R. Pufnstuf once, and the general consensus was that it was nightmare fuel.

Aw, what’s wrong with this? ///////

H.R. Pufnstuf 1969 Opening and Closing Theme

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:15:14am

re: #228 DodgerFan1988

Boogaloo boys give Hawaiian print shirts a bad name. I like wearing those shirts. I don’t want people thinking I’m a racist asshole because of them.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:16:09am

re: #243 William Lewis

Aw, what’s wrong with this? ///////

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Mr. Show did the ultimate goof on the Krofft Saturday Morning shows

Sam and Criminy Kraffft present Drugachusettes

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:19:20am

re: #243 William Lewis

Aw, what’s wrong with this? ///////

It was 1969. The entire production crew was stoned on a whole bunch of drugs.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:19:39am

re: #243 William Lewis

Aw, what’s wrong with this? ///////

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LOL I watched it when I was a kid - I think it was already in syndication by the mid-1970s. I remember it from Saturday morning. I also remember The Krofft Supershow, with “Dr. Shrinker”, “Electra Woman and DynaGirl” and “Wonderbug”.

I also remember Shazam! and The Secrets of Isis, both live-action superhero programs, and Ark II, which was basically kiddie-friendly post-apocalyptic sci-fi.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:22:52am

(2:53)

Witchcraft (Remastered 2000)

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:29:51am

Watching Detroit TV online. I am so glad that I decided to stay in Florida. 500,000 homes without power. I checked my own block and it is not reported as having any outages. Hopefully by Sunday night everything should be back to normal.

Local 4 News at Noon — Feb. 23, 2023

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:30:14am

re: #228 DodgerFan1988

Didn’t DeSantis make it possible to run over protestors without penalty?

I would take advantage of that if I was in that car.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:30:34am

Catching up:
On maple syrup: 2011 I bought a gallon in an Ottawa Farmers Market & shipped to my home and had amazing breakfasts for years. I also ate the pancake poutine eggs and coffee (or beer) at a 24/7 truck stop off the expressway where every seat had a 350 ml bottle of maple syrup And a mountain of butter

On labels: The Aunt Jemima re-brand reminds me of when Coors beer changed their label in the 1980s from the golden banquet beer label to a more updated look. Barflies were in panic. What happened to the banquet beer? you guys ruined the banquet beer! and finally Coors had to say no numb nuts the beers the same just the label changed. Then they went back to the old label and stylized Coors Light

On dogs, see photo from a couple of weeks ago.

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calochortus  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:32:49am

re: #189 Joe Bacon

The National Association of Christian Lawmakers is not yet a household name — but it already wields a growing amount of power and is driving forward with its aim of forcing state-imposed right-wing fundamentalism into law reports Rolling Stone.

“Thanks to (founder Jason) Rapert, the Christian Nationalist movement now commands a burgeoning political powerhouse, the National Association of Christian Lawmakers,” the report says. Rapert is a former Arkansas state senator

“A first-of-its-kind organization in U.S. history, NACL advances ‘biblical’ legislation in America’s statehouses. These bills are not mere stunts or messaging. They’re dark, freedom-limiting bills that, in some cases, have become law.”

The group, founded in 2020, has longtime GOP figures advising it including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Tony Perkins, president of the hate group the Family Research Council. It boasts members in 31 state legislatures.

rollingstone.com

I’m sorry, NACL? Is that a happy accident, or do they see themselves as the “salt of the earth?” (Na=sodium, Cl=chloride, a.k.a. salt.)

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:33:23am

re: #252 calochortus

I’m sorry, NACL? Is that a happy accident, or do they see themselves as the “salt of the earth?” (Na=sodium, Cl=chloride, a.k.a. salt.)

They didn’t catch that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:33:47am

(4:19)

Waking The Witch

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:35:21am

re: #250 Romantic Heretic

Didn’t DeSantis make it possible to run over protestors without penalty?

I would take advantage of that if I was in that car.

That only applies to Antifa and BLM protesters, not Concerned Citizens Voicing Alternative Views in Public

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calochortus  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:36:22am

re: #253 Joe Bacon

They didn’t catch that.

They probably lack a good science education. But I wouldn’t be surprised if someone there thought it would be clever.

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Teukka  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:37:20am

re: #232 The Pie Overlord!

Florida is an “Open Carry” “Stand Your Ground” state, is it not?

My son & other IDF vets should get the band back together and show up in force wherever these shitgoblins put on their little street theater.

Hell if I ran into these guys during my continued stay here in Florida I have an aluminum cane that could inflict some damage.

“I am so sorry officer, I am a 4’10” disabled old lady. When these big angry men approached I feared for my life and I had to use the weapon that was already in my hand.”

My hero:

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So, ladies bag with a brick? /Semi-S

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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:39:48am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That only applies to Antifa and BLM protesters, not Concerned Citizens Voicing Alternative the Reich Views in Public

Couldn’t resist the edit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:41:06am

re: #258 Teddy’s Person

Couldn’t resist the edit.

GOP: making National Socialism just another point along the accepted political spectrum.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:41:39am

re: #232 The Pie Overlord!

Sad factoid. The man she is clobbering was arrested for torturing and killing a gay Jew within a year of that picture.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:42:13am

re: #189 Joe Bacon

From the same article, a target on both our backs, Joe.

NACL legislators must also agree to a mission statement that inveighs against the “spiritual decay of our culture (including churches).” It blasts the aggression of “atheists and anti-Christian groups” and it blames these “godless” entities for “trampling on the Christian liberty we have enjoyed in this country for centuries.” Despite this decried downfall, it proposes that “the fervent prayer and action of the Christian remnant in America can make a positive difference.”

According to their Website, Dan Patrick of Texas is a current member.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:44:02am

re: #260 Romantic Heretic

Sad factoid. The man she is clobbering was arrested for torturing and killing a gay Jew within a year of that picture.

No wonder, she must have radicalized him by brutalizing him with her toxic, hateful intolerant leftism!!!

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:44:14am

re: #261 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From the same article, a target on both our backs, Joe.

According to their Website, Dan Patrick of Texas is a current member.

Those radical Xtians won’t rest until they get the Armageddon that they lust for.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2023 • 9:56:06am

re: #252 calochortus

Yeah, pushing for the Sodom/Gomorrah solution… /

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Teukka  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:00:44am

File under “I’m not making this shit up, really…”

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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:03:15am

re: #231 wrenchwench

My brother from Berlin is coming to see me. He flew into Portland yesterday. Portland has had the second snowiest 24 hours since they started keeping track at the airport in 1939. I hope he can get out.

As is common lately, I am off by a day. He flies in today. Some flights have already been cancelled. I am reminded of a dad joke I saw yesterday;

We are each going to buy a pair of glasses.
After that?
We’ll see.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:03:15am

re: #250 Romantic Heretic

Didn’t DeSantis make it possible to run over protestors without penalty?

I would take advantage of that if I was in that car.

That law was blocked by a federal judge on September 9, 2021.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:03:38am

re: #265 Teukka

Even funnier is the fact that the (nonexistent) Netflix Zelda series is itself a long running meme.

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Teukka  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:04:29am

re: #196 Joe Bacon

Republicans are in ‘intellectual collapse’ as they push bans on everything that scares them

Republicans are facing an “intellectual collapse” — and their turn to increasingly anti-democracy and anti-free speech policies is the result of that, argued MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Wednesday.

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re: #265 Teukka

File under “I’m not making this shit up, really…”

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Teukka  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:07:37am

re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg

Even funnier is the fact that the (nonexistent) Netflix Zelda series is itself a long running meme.

*unable to make a sound*

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:10:55am

re: #260 Romantic Heretic

Sad factoid. The man she is clobbering was arrested for torturing and killing a gay Jew within a year of that picture.

It also she was a Polish Jew. It does say she died by suicide three years after the photograph by jumping from the town water tower.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:13:04am
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danarchy  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:19:01am

re: #260 Romantic Heretic

Sad factoid. The man she is clobbering was arrested for torturing and killing a gay Jew within a year of that picture.

Few things from the article, first I always thought that was a much older picture probably because it’s black and white and how she is dressed, it really doesn’t have a mid 80’s vibe to it. I also always thought she was a much older lady.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:19:33am

Washington Post alert—R Kelly gets 20 years in Uncle Sam’s B&B.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:22:05am

re: #274 Joe Bacon

Washington Post alert—R Kelly gets 20 years in Uncle Sam’s B&B.

You can’t even commit child sex crimes anymore because of the woke Liberals.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:22:34am

re: #274 Joe Bacon

Washington Post alert—R Kelly gets 20 years in Uncle Sam’s B&B.

Link to KTLA noting he avoided a 30 year sentence.

ktla.com

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:27:17am

re: #276 Joe Bacon

He’s 56 now. Twenty years is a lot when you’re 56.

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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:32:19am

Another fat borb.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:34:31am

Just got in from dealing with the snowfall. I was unable to open my driveway all the way; the drift downstream of the snowplow (e.g. the direction in which it is pushing snow) is so deep, I was having to shovel off the top half of it in order to get the snowblower through it. By the time I got to that cut, I’d had enough. The pile of tailings at the top of the driveway, where it is deepest, is nearly 6’ tall now. That was a pretty good snowfall, despite all my friends and cow-orkers who insist on saying the storm was overblown.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:36:52am

re: #272 jaunte

I’m old enough to remember TFG bragging about all the deregulation that occurred while he was President.

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Moe Avattar  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:37:25am

Kip Tyler - She’s My Witch (1958)

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:42:02am

re: #58 The Pie Overlord!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 23, 2023 • 10:56:40am

re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Here’s Ben Stein’s Moving Black History Month Tribute To Aunt Jemima. Yes, F*cking Aunt Jemima. (Wonkette, today)

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I would suggest that Stein, 78, is senile but, in fact, he has always been this stupid.

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ckkatz  Feb 23, 2023 • 11:44:55am

re: #185 The Pie Overlord!

My bottle of pancake syrup has a flag of Canada on the label. Pure maple deliciousness, none of that HFCS for me!

Years ago, I used to make an annual summer drive up to the Adirondacks, Lake George, Lake Champlain, Rutland, Vermont, etc. I found it interesting to check out various French and Indian War/7 Years War and Revolutionary War sites.

While up there, I found a brand of maple syrup titled “Northern Comfort”. I am not an expert in Maple syrup but, it was good when I had to give a gag gift.

There used to also be tasting kits with samples of all the different grades of maple syrup.

Something I have not yet tried, but have always meant to was “Sap Beer”. Made, iirc, of the last maple sap that was not used for making syrup.

Also of note, a lot of maple syrup used to be farmed in the Pennsylvania Appalachians and then shipped north to bottlers in Vermont and Canada.


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