Video: New Report Says Special Counsel Jack Smith Grilled Witnesses About Rudy Giuliani's Drinking

Video: New Report Says Special Counsel Jack Smith Grilled Witnesses About Rudy Giuliani’s Drinking

LawAugust 2023 • Views: 17,547

Question of the day: was Rudy Giuliani plastered during the whole insurrection? We all saw him on many occasions when he was obviously drunk as a skunk.

Senior Politics reporter for Rolling Stone Asawin Suebsaeng and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner join Ali Velshi – in for Nicolle Wallace to discuss new reporting from Rolling Stone that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors are particularly interested in “Rudy Giuliani’s drinking on and after election day, investigating whether Donald Trump was knowingly relying on an inebriated attorney while trying to overturn a presidential election.”

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Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 29, 2023 • 5:03:37pm

If it comes out that Rudy snorted coke…

Charles Johnson Aug 29, 2023 • 5:06:29pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅

I would bet on that.

Dave In Austin Aug 29, 2023 • 5:06:50pm

You know you want it!

Decatur Deb Aug 29, 2023 • 5:07:00pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅

If it comes out that Rudy snorted coke…

It would be Coke Classic.

Unabogie Aug 29, 2023 • 5:07:38pm

It was Rudy’s cocaine! Case solved!

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 5:13:43pm

There will be witnesses who will say Trump complained about Rudy being so shitfaced he could barely understand the legal advice he was getting from him.

mmmirele Aug 29, 2023 • 5:16:52pm

Lawhawk noted (correctly, I believe) two threads back that there’s no reason for most people to return to office and stated as reasons why RTO is being pushed is:

The bosses that want butts in the seats are those who need headcounts - like for tax credit purposes - or because they’re micromanagers. Or both.

I have a third reason, based on my experience working in commercial real estate for a too big to fail bank back in the day. Most commercial properties have loans on them. And paying back those loans requires that the buildings in question have a rather high rate of occupancy. Back in the day, you couldn’t get a loan unless you could guarantee at least 85% occupancy. These guarantees (at least for office buildings) came in the form of long term leases. Therefore, pushing butts into seats in offices is necessary to keep what has likely been an overheated (for years) market from collapsing.

However, my evil too big to fail employer

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*shakes head*

Nerdy Fish Aug 29, 2023 • 5:18:45pm

re: #7 mmmirele

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jaunte Aug 29, 2023 • 5:21:32pm

I object to Asawin Suebsaeng referring to TFG as “the leader of the free world.”
We had an interregnum.

jaunte Aug 29, 2023 • 5:21:58pm

re: #6 darthstar

Unruly Giuliani.

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 5:23:49pm

I’m not crying, you are.

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silverdolphin Aug 29, 2023 • 5:24:12pm

re: #7 mmmirele

Lawhawk noted (correctly, I believe) two threads back that there’s no reason for most people to return to office and stated as reasons why RTO is being pushed is:

I have a third reason, based on my experience working in commercial real estate for a too big to fail bank back in the day. Most commercial properties have loans on them. And paying back those loans requires that the buildings in question have a rather high rate of occupancy. Back in the day, you couldn’t get a loan unless you could guarantee at least 85% occupancy. These guarantees (at least for office buildings) came in the form of long term leases. Therefore, pushing butts into seats in offices is necessary to keep what has likely been an overheated (for years) market from collapsing.

However, my evil too big to fail employer

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*shakes head*

I’m fully expecting that some cities will have to turn some office buildings into low cost housing in order to find SOME us for them.

Charles Johnson Aug 29, 2023 • 5:24:55pm

The movie I really want to see is “Cocaine Sloth.” Imagine the dramatic tension.

Charles Johnson Aug 29, 2023 • 5:27:35pm

Rudy was living the life for a while. Expensive cigars and booze and probably other substances [cough cocaine cough].

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 5:27:36pm

re: #12 silverdolphin

I’m fully expecting that some cities will have to turn some office buildings into low cost housing in order to find SOME us for them.

San Francisco is one of them. The number of empty floors in high rises is astounding. My company, having been acquired, just basically moved out of two of the three buildings it has and flattened to four floors in one of them.

Backwoods Sleuth Aug 29, 2023 • 5:28:35pm

I am explaining wild fires to him. pic.twitter.com/S8q5X52AiR

— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) August 30, 2023

nines09 Aug 29, 2023 • 5:28:44pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Rudy was living the life for a while. Expensive cigars and booze and probably other substances [cough cocaine cough].

You can enjoy more single malt with key bumps…

BigPapa Aug 29, 2023 • 5:29:05pm

A few days ago, I wanted to make RICO Slobby a thing. After today, I’m going to work on RICO Sloppy.

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 5:29:09pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Rudy was living the life for a while. Expensive cigars and booze and probably other substances [cough cocaine cough].

Hookers…don’t forget the ‘free’ hookers he was treated to. That’s why he was so easily conned in that Ali G flick and they had to stop him before he whipped his dick out.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 29, 2023 • 5:29:39pm

I’m hating coders today.

Don’t tell me what you do with DOM or Shadow DOM without telling me what it is first.

None of this makes any goddamn sense. FML!

/Rant

Jay C Aug 29, 2023 • 5:32:16pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

The movie I really want to see is “Cocaine Sloth.” Imagine the dramatic tension.

Though a lot of it is likely to be slow-placed…

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 5:32:34pm

re: #18 BigPapa

A few days ago, I wanted to make RICO Slobby a thing. After today, I’m going to work on RICO Sloppy.

RICO….Sloppy

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 5:33:38pm

re: #22 darthstar

RICO….Sloppy

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My favorite passed out wookie photo…from about 17 years ago. He’s probably a hedge fund manager now.

Charles Johnson Aug 29, 2023 • 5:35:29pm

re: #19 darthstar

Hookers…don’t forget the ‘free’ hookers he was treated to. That’s why he was so easily conned in that Ali G flick and they had to stop him before he whipped his dick out.

Oh, definitely. Alla that shit. It goes with the mindset.

In my experience, lawyers (and I DO NOT mean to include our pal lawhawk in this!) tend to be the kind of people who get heavily into drugs like cocaine. Not sure what that says about the US legal system.

Me, I tried it enough to know I didn’t like the shit.

Decatur Deb Aug 29, 2023 • 5:35:45pm

re: #23 darthstar

My favorite passed out wookie photo…from about 17 years ago. He’s probably a hedge fund manager now.

Probably shot on 231South, heading to Panama City Beach.

Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 29, 2023 • 5:40:03pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Charles…memories of the big brain in high school who couldn’t do anything wrong. Got a full scholarship to Princeton…and he couldn’t handle being with all the big brains. He got introduced to nose candy and he flunked out in the first semester.

Now I find out from folks contacting me about our 50th reunion that he wound up homeless in Pittsburgh…And what is so sad is that there are do few of us that got to the 50 year mark. Other classes have been invited to the reunion…

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 5:40:19pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Me, I tried it enough to know I didn’t like the shit.

Tried it, liked it, spent an extra five years getting my BA because of it. No interest in ever re-experiencing it.

Charles Johnson Aug 29, 2023 • 5:42:43pm

re: #27 darthstar

Tried it, liked it, spent an extra five years getting my BA because of it. No interest in ever re-experiencing it.

I can’t deny it took a little bit of convincing.

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 5:43:54pm

re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅

We had two valedictorians in my high school. One was driving a beer truck in our home town six years later and hadn’t spent a day at even community college. The other was doing a 20+ year sentence for taking out his pent up aggression and resentment on a woman who wasn’t his mother (in both cases, high school was their escape from shitty family situations it turned out…once that safety net went away they lost their shit)

mmmirele Aug 29, 2023 • 5:44:23pm

I recognized one of the medications (Januvia) from the previous thread that the Federal government can now negotiate for. I took it at the beginning of 2009 to control my blood sugar but it had the distinctly unpleasant side effect that I could keep nothing (and I do mean NOTHING) down. It was at that point, after I begged the doctor, that she put me on Byetta. Yeah, I dropped 35 pounds in the three months I was on Januvia, but it was hell on earth.

Oh yeah, another thing about these drugs is that they should be coming out from under patent, but there are no generics available. Premarin has been out from under patent for decades, but generic makers have been unable to get a generic estrogen replacement approved EVER. It’s a fucking joke.

EstebanTornado1963 Aug 29, 2023 • 5:46:20pm

My brother got on bluesky
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Thanks again @retired cynic.

And here’s another code if some needs.

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William Lewis Aug 29, 2023 • 5:47:04pm

Never tried coke. I do remember the black bubble gum (as we referred to hash laced with opium sold in Europe by the Taliban to finance their war against the Soviets in 1983-84). The first time I tried it, I liked it so much that it scared the piss out of me and I never touched it again. Took me several years before I even did plain weed again. Given the Peepee testing in the army at the time, it was probably good I decided to be a drunk instead.

William Lewis Aug 29, 2023 • 5:49:15pm

re: #29 darthstar

We had two valedictorians in my high school. One was driving a beer truck in our home town six years later and hadn’t spent a day at even community college. The other was doing a 20+ year sentence for taking out his pent up aggression and resentment on a woman who wasn’t his mother (in both cases, high school was their escape from shitty family situations it turned out…once that safety net went away they lost their shit)

Similar to a guy I knew here at the catholic HS. Only without the safety net, he ate a shotgun at 18. His father was a right bastard who beat the boys and raped the girls.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 29, 2023 • 5:54:56pm

re: #29 darthstar

We had two valedictorians in my high school. One was driving a beer truck in our home town six years later and hadn’t spent a day at even community college. The other was doing a 20+ year sentence for taking out his pent up aggression and resentment on a woman who wasn’t his mother (in both cases, high school was their escape from shitty family situations it turned out…once that safety net went away they lost their shit)

The valedictorian from my high school class died a long time ago. He went to college (I don’t know for what) and came back to run a bar.

I was the salutatorian. We all know how well that turned out. /s

DodgerFan1988 Aug 29, 2023 • 5:57:27pm

“A lesson focused on how Europeans benefited from enslaved people…The state objected ‘to a viewpoint of an “oppressor vs. oppressed” based solely on race or ethnicity.’”

American chattel slavery was based on race.

It’s a fact.https://t.co/YGP9x4ITWr https://t.co/NX8Py0yv2k

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 30, 2023

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 29, 2023 • 5:58:53pm

Since I named our 2013 Smart “Max,” my wife named our 2009 Smart “99.”

Instead of a vanity plate which reads “Get,” we’re going to go with one that reads “9TY9.”

jaunte Aug 29, 2023 • 5:59:07pm

re: #35 DodgerFan1988

These Florida state reviewers ought to have to come out in public and defend their position.

TedStriker Aug 29, 2023 • 6:00:34pm

re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Since I named our 2013 Smart “Max,” my wife named our 2009 Smart “99.”

Instead of a vanity plate which reads “Get,” we’re going to go with one that reads “9TY9.”

Ace Rothstein Aug 29, 2023 • 6:01:13pm

He had his hands in his pants on a hotel bed with a 20-year-old in the room with him. I’d say Rudy has been on a bender since he ceased being mayor.

TedStriker Aug 29, 2023 • 6:02:15pm

re: #38 TedStriker

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If you ever decide to retire the Gold Star plate on Smart #1, you could do “8TY6” for that one.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 29, 2023 • 6:04:19pm

re: #27 darthstar

Tried it, liked it, spent an extra five years getting my BA because of it. No interest in ever re-experiencing it.

All these people talking about their drug experiences, I feel like a prude.

When I was first signing up for the Navy, the recruiter wanted to know how many times I’d used maryjane or other drugs. I said “never.”

He took that as if I was lying to him, trying to shame me or scare me into admitting it (since certain drug use could be waived in the late Seventies).

It just never seemed to be anything I was interested in.

Decatur Deb Aug 29, 2023 • 6:04:52pm

re: #35 DodgerFan1988

American chattel slavery was based on race.

It was a series of unfortunate coincidences.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 29, 2023 • 6:08:20pm

re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Since I named our 2013 Smart “Max,” my wife named our 2009 Smart “99.”

Instead of a vanity plate which reads “Get,” we’re going to go with one that reads “9TY9.”

That combination isn’t allowed in Illinois. You can’t mix them like that. Numbers up front or at the end, but not both

I wanted 3M TA3 but was told the combo was a no no.

(Eat Me when you’re looking at it in your rear view mirror would have cracked me up. Alas….)

retired cynic Aug 29, 2023 • 6:08:38pm

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Me, either. I was always painfully straight.

Unabogie Aug 29, 2023 • 6:09:19pm

re: #20 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m hating coders today.

Don’t tell me what you do with DOM or Shadow DOM without telling me what it is first.

None of this makes any goddamn sense. FML!

/Rant

Ha, it’s not quite so difficult, but jargon is annoying. The DOM (Document Object Model) is how you reference stuff on a webpage, like this paragraph. For sites that update content frequently, it’s much faster to hold a model of this page in memory and look for differences before swapping out content (like adding a new Tweet, for example, when you hit a refresh button)

That reference kept in memory was coined a “Shadow DOM” and the term stuck.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 29, 2023 • 6:09:26pm

re: #39 Ace Rothstein

He had his hands in his pants on a hotel bed with a 20-year-old in the room with him. I’d say Rudy has been on a bender since he ceased being mayor.

I’m surprised he wasn’t hanging with Epstein.

Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 29, 2023 • 6:12:06pm

I posted before about the time a college friend decided to add LSD to my breakfast without me knowing it and I was on my way to play in a chess tournament…when it kicked in the pieces were talking to me…and that f’n scared the #2 out of me. Never again…even though I won every game but lost the tournament win on tiebreak. It was a miracle that I was able to get back to my dorm room but those visions…never again…never again…

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 29, 2023 • 6:14:50pm

re: #45 Unabogie

Ha, it’s not quite so difficult, but jargon is annoying. The DOM (Document Object Model) is how you reference stuff on a webpage, like this paragraph. For sites that update content frequently, it’s much faster to hold a model of this page in memory and look for differences before swapping out content (like adding a new Tweet, for example, when you hit a refresh button)

That reference kept in memory was coined a “Shadow DOM” and the term stuck.

That’s a better explanation than anything I got off Google. Thank you!

This whole chapter on Design Systems is killing me. I spent more time on Google then reading their materials just so I could understand what they were taking about because none of them are defined (patterns, tokens, blah de blah). So I get to use not Dr. Google but Systems Engineer Google. Yeee haaa.

Where’s that endless screaming gif?

Vicious Babushka Aug 29, 2023 • 6:16:07pm

DON’T BUY FROM THOSE OTHER GRIFTERS!! BUY ONLY FROM ME, THE #1 CHIEF BOSS GRIFTER! OTHER GRIFTERS STEAL FROM US WHEN THEY SELL OUR MERCH!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 29, 2023 • 6:16:48pm

re: #40 TedStriker

If you ever decide to retire the Gold Star plate on Smart #1, you could do “8TY6” for that one.

Gold Star plates can be vanity plates too. (They can only have five characters.) I should see if I can get a different plate.

Vicious Babushka Aug 29, 2023 • 6:18:26pm

Another reason to delete X from every device and launch Onle Skum directly into the sun.

Mastodon

Decatur Deb Aug 29, 2023 • 6:21:02pm

re: #47 Joe Bacon ✅

I posted before about the time a college friend decided to add LSD to my breakfast without me knowing it and I was on my way to play in a chess tournament…when it kicked in the pieces were talking to me…and that f’n scared the #2 out of me. Never again…even though I won every game but lost the tournament win on tiebreak. It was a miracle that I was able to get back to my dorm room but those visions…never again…never again…

Kanopy is carrying Magic Trip. That’s a documentary boiled from the 30 hours of 16mm shot on the Ken Kesey bus trip to the 1964 World’s Fair. It made me consider that I might try for a controlled dose of acid or a similar compound if I find myself strapped to a bed in hospice care.

jaunte Aug 29, 2023 • 6:24:54pm

re: #49 Vicious Babushka

None authentic without this mug.

Belafon Aug 29, 2023 • 6:33:54pm

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

All these people talking about their drug experiences, I feel like a prude.

When I was first signing up for the Navy, the recruiter wanted to know how many times I’d used maryjane or other drugs. I said “never.”

He took that as if I was lying to him, trying to shame me or scare me into admitting it (since certain drug use could be waived in the late Seventies).

It just never seemed to be anything I was interested in.

I have never done drugs, I don’t smoke, I didn’t have my first alcoholic drink until I was 21, I don’t have any tattoos, and I like math.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Aug 29, 2023 • 6:34:21pm

My eyesight had gotten significantly worse over he last 3 years, to the point that I cannot pass the FAA eye exam even with my glasses and I have stopped flying. I have also stopped driving at night.
Saw the ophthamalogist today. He recommended cataract surgery, the sooner the better, in both eyes.
Pre-op evaluation is October 11 with the procedure in two rounds after that.
I kind of wonder if this might be connected to either my radiation treatment for cancer or to covid. It came up very fast, there was no sign of it at my eye exam 3 years ago, then a little, a little more, and a lot. In any case, I hear all kinds of good things about the procedure and the results so I am ready to get on with it.

Belafon Aug 29, 2023 • 6:39:11pm

re: #35 DodgerFan1988

This reply is “Huh?”

Bill, you’re not black

— Benjamin Martinez (@Benswineseller) August 30, 2023

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 29, 2023 • 6:40:24pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I’m younger than you and I’ve had cataract surgery.

While not a return to the highest quality of eyesight of my youth, the IOLs make a big difference.

And as I had strong myopia, the IOLs correct for that so that I can read without glasses, use my computer without glasses, etc.

I need glasses for distant vision, and a different pair for close-up vision (close reading, etc.) But that is not such a big deal.

So tell the ophthalmologist that you want your vision corrected to what you wish it to me, that which you use most.

Decatur Deb Aug 29, 2023 • 6:42:16pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

The results for wife and I were shockingly good. Don’t be surprised if you fly again. After glaucoma and cataract operations, I don’t wear glasses for distance and only dig out readers for the finest print. Did I mention my ophthalmologist is a freaking genius?

The GOP is a Terrorist Organization Aug 29, 2023 • 6:42:20pm

Fucking ridiculous!

How to prevent another “pandemic”.#CovidScam #Nuremberg2 pic.twitter.com/M7U8tNOsRU

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) August 29, 2023

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 29, 2023 • 6:46:35pm

re: #59 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Fucking ridiculous!

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COVID was and is a Darwinian extinction event.

Ok. Clear out the dead weight in the gene pool.

You want to kill yourself have at it. The rest of us will try real hard to not let you take us with you.

William Lewis Aug 29, 2023 • 6:48:05pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

My eyesight had gotten significantly worse over he last 3 years, to the point that I cannot pass the FAA eye exam even with my glasses and I have stopped flying. I have also stopped driving at night.
Saw the ophthamalogist today. He recommended cataract surgery, the sooner the better, in both eyes.
Pre-op evaluation is October 11 with the procedure in two rounds after that.
I kind of wonder if this might be connected to either my radiation treatment for cancer or to covid. It came up very fast, there was no sign of it at my eye exam 3 years ago, then a little, a little more, and a lot. In any case, I hear all kinds of good things about the procedure and the results so I am ready to get on with it.

Do you expect to be able to pass the FAA exam again afterwards?

Decatur Deb Aug 29, 2023 • 6:48:54pm

re: #60 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

COVID was and is a Darwinian extinction event.

Ok. Clear out the dead weight in the gene pool.

You want to kill yourself have at it. The rest of us will try real hard to not let you take us with you.

The anti-vax movement is a left-wing plot to get assholes to off themselves. We’re sneaky that way.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 29, 2023 • 6:49:24pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

My eyesight had gotten significantly worse over he last 3 years, to the point that I cannot pass the FAA eye exam even with my glasses and I have stopped flying. I have also stopped driving at night.
Saw the ophthamalogist today. He recommended cataract surgery, the sooner the better, in both eyes.
Pre-op evaluation is October 11 with the procedure in two rounds after that.
I kind of wonder if this might be connected to either my radiation treatment for cancer or to covid. It came up very fast, there was no sign of it at my eye exam 3 years ago, then a little, a little more, and a lot. In any case, I hear all kinds of good things about the procedure and the results so I am ready to get on with it.

I hope things go well with you. Cataracts are a regrettable symptom of ageing.

Eye Center of Texas (June 14, 2023) has an article on fast-growing cataracts and how to treat them.

eyecenteroftexas.com

“Fast-growing cataracts?” “Aggressive cataracts?” “Fast-developing cataracts?” If you’ve grown accustomed to the prevailing myth that cataracts grow slowly over time, you may find yourself confused when you hear these terms.

It’s true that most cataracts develop at a more sluggish pace, making them easier to diagnose and treat before they grow too harmful. But if you’re wondering, “Can cataracts progress rapidly?” then the answer is, unfortunately, yes. Certain activities or conditions do increase your likelihood of developing intrusive, fast-growing cataracts. However, treatment options are available, such as laser treatment for cataracts and iStent surgery.

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jaunte Aug 29, 2023 • 6:50:25pm

re: #59 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Hilarious.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 29, 2023 • 6:50:34pm

re: #57 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The VA has been tracking slow-growing cataracts with me for some years now. As of yet they have not recommended any changes such as not driving at night or surgery, but take an annual look to see how things are going.

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 6:55:56pm

re: #53 jaunte

None authentic without this mug.

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Buy from me or I’ll have my girlfriend come and give you a lap dance.

William Lewis Aug 29, 2023 • 6:56:30pm

re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The VA has been tracking slow-growing cataracts with me for some years now. As of yet they have not recommended any changes such as not driving at night or surgery, but take an annual look to see how things are going.

No cataract issues with me but the VA does a diabetes related exam annually to check for any damage from that. Nada but it is part of why I’m working so hard on the weight loss/diet as that helps tremendously with the a1c number and keeps me only taking a half a empagliflozin a day rather than needing anything more.

Vision issues are a bit scary to a photographer … O_o

Semper Fi Aug 29, 2023 • 6:57:27pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

My eyesight had gotten significantly worse over he last 3 years, to the point that I cannot pass the FAA eye exam even with my glasses and I have stopped flying. I have also stopped driving at night.
Saw the ophthamalogist today. He recommended cataract surgery, the sooner the better, in both eyes.
Pre-op evaluation is October 11 with the procedure in two rounds after that.
I kind of wonder if this might be connected to either my radiation treatment for cancer or to covid. It came up very fast, there was no sign of it at my eye exam 3 years ago, then a little, a little more, and a lot. In any case, I hear all kinds of good things about the procedure and the results so I am ready to get on with it.

Having had cataract surgery I remember my own fears about it. After experiencing the results I would be thinking, c’mon Oct 11, let’s get this going. The colors are so much more appreciated where before they appeared muddy. I think you’ll do well.

teleskiguy Aug 29, 2023 • 6:58:35pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Me, I tried it enough to know I didn’t like the shit.

Last time I touched the shit (and I touched some lines) was in Las Vegas on my birthday in 2016. I was there for a couple of Umphrey’s McGee shows (!!!). I’m glad I didn’t pay for any of it but I did have to buy a bottle of Bushmills at 6 AM and it cost like a hundred dollars!

It was that run that I made a trip to Trump Hotel and pissed on the building sometime around 1, 2 or 3 in the morning…

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 6:59:06pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

re: #68 Semper Fi

Having had cataract surgery I remember my own fears about it. After experiencing the results I would be thinking, c’mon Oct 11, let’s get this going. The colors are so much more appreciated where before they appeared muddy. I think you’ll do well.

You heard the man, Shiplord…git ‘er done!

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Aug 29, 2023 • 7:00:02pm

re: #61 William Lewis

Do you expect to be able to pass the FAA exam again afterwards?

Yes, should be able to. We shall “see.”

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 7:01:00pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

My mother, before she came up to give me Covid, went to visit the Trump hotel in Las Vegas. She is very judgmental and had nothing nice to say about it. Just a simple lobby with a little bit of bling and no casino…not even a slot machine! She would have given Trump a couple of K otherwise.

A Three Hour Tour Aug 29, 2023 • 7:01:09pm

re: #71 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Yes, should be able to. We shall “see.”

I “see” what you did there.

teleskiguy Aug 29, 2023 • 7:03:52pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

I slept off all that shit after the shows and checked out of my Vegas hotel room and drove straight to the Hoover Dam for the tour. Before my tour started for the first time ever I saw someone wearing a red Make America Great Again hat.

This made up for that sighting. The floor of the observation deck at the Hoover Dam power plant on the Nevada side.

teleskiguy Aug 29, 2023 • 7:04:58pm

re: #72 darthstar

Trump has been denied a gaming license by the Nevada Gaming Commission, based on his reputation.

GlutenFreeJesus Aug 29, 2023 • 7:05:03pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

The movie I really want to see is “Cocaine Sloth.” Imagine the dramatic tension.

There is Cocaine Shark and Cocaine Panther on Tubi.

darthstar Aug 29, 2023 • 7:06:14pm

Mastodon

jaunte Aug 29, 2023 • 7:09:42pm

re: #74 teleskiguy

Hoover Dam has a lot of great deco artwork.

Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 29, 2023 • 7:13:02pm

Semper Fi Aug 29, 2023 • 7:14:33pm

re: #72 darthstar

My mother, before she came up to give me Covid, went to visit the Trump hotel in Las Vegas. She is very judgmental and had nothing nice to say about it. Just a simple lobby with a little bit of bling and no casino…not even a slot machine! She would have given Trump a couple of K otherwise.

Trump Hotel: If he did have slots no-one would win. He’d keep all the bets.
His casinos probably went belly up because no-one could win anything.

Teukka Aug 29, 2023 • 7:20:30pm

I suffered, so you must too…

Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Aug 29, 2023 • 7:24:04pm

re: #64 jaunte

Hilarious.

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jeffreyw Aug 29, 2023 • 7:24:14pm

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teleskiguy Aug 29, 2023 • 7:27:32pm

re: #78 jaunte

I took a picture of the same thing.

GlutenFreeJesus Aug 29, 2023 • 7:31:55pm

re: #59 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE. pic.twitter.com/oCReiNzhuq

— Verrified (@efuseakay) August 30, 2023

teleskiguy Aug 29, 2023 • 7:32:21pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

It was that run that I made a trip to Trump Hotel and pissed on the building sometime around 1, 2 or 3 in the morning…

This was before he was “elected” president, six months prior in fact…

Teukka Aug 29, 2023 • 7:35:28pm

re: #85 GlutenFreeJesus

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— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) August 30, 2023

Vicious Babushka Aug 29, 2023 • 7:44:15pm

re: #84 teleskiguy

I took a picture of the same thing.

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teleskiguy Aug 29, 2023 • 7:44:51pm

re: #88 Vicious Babushka

I suspect that people worship this goddess by tickling her toes.

Golden toes…

TedStriker Aug 29, 2023 • 7:45:45pm

re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Gold Star plates can be vanity plates too. (They can only have five characters.) I should see if I can get a different plate.

“AGT86” might work…

retired cynic Aug 29, 2023 • 7:50:18pm

re: #54 Belafon

I have never done drugs, I don’t smoke, I didn’t have my first alcoholic drink until I was 21, I don’t have any tattoos, and I like math.

Me, too, except math and I don’t get along. I used to pretend to drink and smoke at the School of Music, so I looked a bit more like I belonged. Maybe I would have done all of it if my husband and I had children!

TedStriker Aug 29, 2023 • 7:50:57pm

re: #90 TedStriker

“AGT86” might work…

Or, “MXWLL”

Belafon Aug 29, 2023 • 7:52:04pm

re: #88 Vicious Babushka

bronze plaque of Saint John Nepomuk

🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 29, 2023 • 7:52:19pm

Dead from crashing his bike into a parked car. The band had gotten backed together and was working on an album.

Hearing word that John Kezdy, frontman of seminal Chicago punk band, The Effigies, has sadly passed away.The band’s importance cannot be understated. I had the pleasure of meeting John a few times & was there for his 40th birthday. RIPThe Effigies”Body Bag”9.6.1987 Exit pic.twitter.com/w0K4HtlCJY

— Rik Villanueva (@CadBanesBounty) August 27, 2023

Decatur Deb Aug 29, 2023 • 7:55:11pm

re: #93 Belafon

Verona’s Casa di Giulietta - Notes on Breast and Other Rubbing

wanderingitaly.com

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 29, 2023 • 7:58:25pm

re: #90 TedStriker

“AGT86” might work…

Per one could be 86 and the other 99. 😂

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 29, 2023 • 8:04:07pm

Well, I checked the state DMV site. You can’t make a plate that splits numbers (so no 9TY9 for the new car).

I guess we’re back to “GET”

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 29, 2023 • 8:08:24pm

It’s been a long day, and I’m frazzled, what with filling out two papers at the car dealer and writing a cheque and stopping at the market on the way home for a loaf of bread (and turning a lot of heads as if they had double vision looking at two black Smart cars everywhere we parked).

I’m going to have to stagger off to bed and recover from all that. I’ll probably be back sometime in the middle of the night: You’ve been warned.

teleskiguy Aug 29, 2023 • 8:09:42pm

I worked with a customer today and it was something. He came in with three pairs of skis with our binding on them; Inspection, necessary. Refurbish. Yeah. On some of the stuff. Well, we spent almost two hours together. I have two (4) of his bindings. I’m doing some major repair and replace parts on one (two) of his bindings. He also bought three pairs of our bindings PRE-ORDER. He got the Pro Form deal but he spent nearly two grand today and THREE THREES?!?!? (three threes is a reference to what model binding dude got, the 3, and he bought three of them!).

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TedStriker Aug 29, 2023 • 8:11:04pm

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, I checked the state DMV site. You can’t make a plate that splits numbers (so no 9TY9 for the new car).

I guess we’re back to “GET”

How about “AG(N)T99” for the new Smart and “AG(N)T86” for the old one?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 29, 2023 • 8:11:46pm

re: #90 TedStriker

“AGT86” might work…

That would work. So would AGT99. I’ll have to run those through the DMV.

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TedStriker Aug 29, 2023 • 8:15:06pm

All the Get Smart talk and I’m surprised no one’s posted this:

Get Smart Opening and Closing Credits and Theme Song

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Captain Ron Aug 29, 2023 • 8:16:47pm

Meadows claimed he didn’t know what role lawyers on Jan. 2 Raffensperger call were playing.

1. WH aide testified Meadows introduced Cleta Mitchell to Trump

2. Mitchell cited their longtime “close” relationship

3. There was a call preceding Raff callhttps://t.co/OmLVZSy5sB

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 29, 2023

There were also multiple instances in which Meadows used the word “we” — seemingly lumping himself in with the campaign efforts.

But he now says he was just speaking loosely and that “we” was the campaign.https://t.co/OmLVZSy5sB

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 29, 2023

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mmmirele Aug 29, 2023 • 8:20:00pm

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

All these people talking about their drug experiences, I feel like a prude.

When I was first signing up for the Navy, the recruiter wanted to know how many times I’d used maryjane or other drugs. I said “never.”

He took that as if I was lying to him, trying to shame me or scare me into admitting it (since certain drug use could be waived in the late Seventies).

It just never seemed to be anything I was interested in.

I was downright puritanical about drug use, but I’ll tell you what, when one of my friends gave me a 13 pound “laptop” (it ran on 2 3.5 inch floppy drives and had a modem in it), I was HOOKED. Absolutely hooked. I spent so much time calling up BBSes. Even long distance. In fact, I would have been in serious trouble had I discovered the online world while I was still in law school. I was *that* taken by this “modern technology.”

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retired cynic Aug 29, 2023 • 8:25:29pm

re: #58 Decatur Deb

The results for wife and I were shockingly good. Don’t be surprised if you fly again. After glaucoma and cataract operations, I don’t wear glasses for distance and only dig out readers for the finest print. Did I mention my ophthalmologist is a freaking genius?

That’s great! I had both eyes done in the last 8 years. Was legally blind all my life, horrible astigmatism, wore bifocals from age 7, hard contacts from age 15, and my wonderful ophthalmologist cleared the cataracts and also gave me lens replacements so I need no visual aids at all. Best eyesight of my life. Both surgeries went perfectly. I always recommend it to people who are worried about it. It changed my life.

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 29, 2023 • 8:27:52pm

re: #60 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

COVID was and is a Darwinian extinction event.

Ok. Clear out the dead weight in the gene pool.

You want to kill yourself have at it. The rest of us will try real hard to not let you take us with you.

Except it really wasn’t a Darwinian extinction event; the mortality rate was far too low and the primary victims were the elderly, like me. Yes, it killed others too at a much lower level but it was a warning to us, not the big event. The question is: will the anti-vax mentality persist when the disease is as lethal as plagues of the past or even the 1918 flu, which targeted the young and healthy. Will we now be prepared when the next one visits us? Or will the GOP mentality doom us?

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retired cynic Aug 29, 2023 • 8:46:08pm

The Climate Bill That Keeps On Giving
The Inflation Reduction Act could be mucher bigger than originally anticipated
by Michael Thomas
distilled.earth

If the cost of green energy keeps coming down, companies and industries can start taking more and more advantage of the subsidies. There is no cap on the subsidies, so it is possible that the demand will drive the cost considerably higher than the CBO’s 350B estimate. Maybe over a trillion. All of which is good for the planet, of course!

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gwangung Aug 29, 2023 • 8:58:06pm

re: #107 retired cynic

The Climate Bill That Keeps On Giving
The Inflation Reduction Act could be mucher bigger than originally anticipated
by Michael Thomas
distilled.earth

If the cost of green energy keeps coming down, companies and industries can start taking more and more advantage of the subsidies. There is no cap on the subsidies, so it is possible that the demand will drive the cost considerably higher than the CBO’s 350B estimate. Maybe over a trillion. All of which is good for the planet, of course!

Oh, does this mean the Republicans are going scream more?

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Aug 29, 2023 • 8:58:27pm

Eye stories?

I’ve been chronically short-sighted since my early teens, with significant astigmatism. In the last few years I began to develop cataracts, and I had my first eye done privately - cost about NZ$3500 with insurance picking up 80% of that. I was warned there was about a 10% chance of retinal detachment. Well, I rolled a 1 on that.

Surgery for the detachment was under the public health system - zero cost - and all was well. The recalcitrant layer was spot-welded back in place and the gas bubble disappeared over the next fortnight.

A year or so later, time to do the other eye. Same arrangement. And the roll of the dice this time made it snake eyes. A repeat of the retinal reattachment surgery, but this time it detached a second time. I have my own theory why this happened and there is one surgeon I will not entrust post-op care to again, that’s all I’ll say here. Anyway, second time was the charm.

For the lenses implanted by the cataract surgery, I got the right eye focussed at 30cm for reading, and the left eye to 50cm for computer work. Now I only need glasses for driving, TV, etc. The two different focuses are not really noticeable, and if I’d asked for distance vision I’d spend a lot more time bespectacled.

And looking on the bright side: since retinal reattachment involves draining the liquid from the eye, a lifetime of quite bad floaters disappeared in the process.

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Patricia Kayden Aug 29, 2023 • 9:03:32pm

Nightmare. This could happen if ANY Republican is elected. They are all dangerous.

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retired cynic Aug 29, 2023 • 9:04:51pm

re: #109 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Cool on loss of all those floaters. That would have been a good thing. My bad eye was not projected to come up to 20/20 vision with a new lens. Too much astigmatism. So we dialed it back, and it handles reading and computer work. The good eye made it all the way, so I don’t need glasses for distance work. Since they were always different, the brain doesn’t seem to mind at all, and just switches seamlessly.

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Patricia Kayden Aug 29, 2023 • 9:11:55pm

Mastodon

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Thor Heyerdahl Aug 29, 2023 • 9:24:09pm

re: #31 EstebanTornado1963

Thank you.

I’m at geoffdahl.

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wrenchwench Aug 29, 2023 • 9:32:19pm

Microbats! Scientific American calls them adorable.

Click to Reveal

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jaunte Aug 29, 2023 • 9:32:33pm

@phillewis.bsky.social
A group of self-described “gutter-pagan, mostly queer dirtbags” erased $1.6 million in local medical debt. They celebrated with an unofficial debt burning.

inquirer.com

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jaunte Aug 29, 2023 • 9:34:03pm

@nrauhauser.bsky.social

There’s a group that started doing that during Occupy - RIP Medical Debt.
linkedin.com

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EstebanTornado1963 Aug 29, 2023 • 9:38:26pm

re: #113 Thor Heyerdahl

Thank you.

I’m at geoffdahl.

🙌

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sagehen Aug 29, 2023 • 9:40:20pm

the ending of Justified!!

OMG OMG OMG!!!

So… possibly another season to come.

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Captain Ron Aug 29, 2023 • 9:51:59pm

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov raged against Russian oligarchs who denounced Putin’s invasion and endorsed the proposal by State Duma deputy Andrey Gurulyov to strike Robotyne with tactical nuclear weapons. https://t.co/ygtLcKla31

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 30, 2023

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jaunte Aug 29, 2023 • 10:17:59pm

Mastodon

Beautiful country. Years ago, visiting the Air Force daughter in New Mexico with my wife and our younger three, I detoured up to the crest of Sandia peak and we took a walk along the summit; limestone laid down in an ancient seabed. A man with a hang glider was parked at the edge of the precipice, looking out over the desert cliffs, watching the warm thermals, waiting for his moment. We continued around the bend, and forgot about him until 20 minutes later, hearing a ripping sound overhead, saw him flash by fifty feet above the peak. Some amazing skills.

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BigPapa Aug 29, 2023 • 10:26:33pm

What’s crazy and so frustrating is that Chump, the world’s biggest whiner, made the case that he was king dictator when he was president. Now that he’s not president but merely running, he is still claiming special king dictator status. And we let him get away with it.

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Ming5000 Aug 29, 2023 • 10:35:25pm

re: #11 darthstar

I’m not crying, you are.

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That one got me.
Thanks for posting.

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Sherlock Hound Aug 29, 2023 • 10:39:54pm

re: #109 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Both my retinas detached. It can happen to nearsighted people because the eye is shaped such that the retina can be pulled on.

I had cataracts and elected to keep my nearsightedness as I do not drive and use a screen all the time.

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William Lewis Aug 29, 2023 • 10:44:55pm

Ok, just watched an absolute hoot on Instagram from a mother who must have been an officer in the military:

“This weekend’s safety briefing:
Do not add to the population.
Do not subtract from the population.
Do not end up in the hospital, newspaper or jail.
If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.”

Good thing there weren’t any guests around to wonder why I was cackling like a loon.

My mother’s short form - don’t do anything I wouldn’t do and only half of what I would…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 29, 2023 • 11:40:24pm

Checked NightCafe for gathering my daily free credits, and found an extra 5 credits awarded to me.

It was the “Everybody hurts” award. If one finishes in last place in a competition one gets this award, I guess to sooth the smarting wound.

This is the image that got me last place (number 64 in the ranking) in a “Pink themed” competition:

flowering cherry trees by a pool

Que sera sera…

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 1:32:45am

Example of how Fox News distorts reality: Peter Doocy asked the Press Secretary if President Biden wants to limit Americans to two beers a week. This question was based on a public health advocate suggesting that, based on recent health studies, the US Dept. of Agriculture may change its recommendations as to what a healthy amount of alcohol is to drink, currently set at one drink a day for women and two per day for men. I imagine my boss’s rant this morning that “they” are going to ban ceiling fans is based on a similar Fox News story.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 2:07:31am

In his efforts to get the Fulton County case against him removed to federal court, Mark Meadows lied under oath that he had no idea that the Trump Campaign was seeking to reverse the election results in Georgia and Michigan.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 30, 2023 • 2:13:59am

re: #106 Hecuba’s daughter

The question is: will the anti-vax mentality persist when the disease is as lethal as plagues of the past or even the 1918 flu, which targeted the young and healthy. Will we now be prepared when the next one visits us? Or will the GOP mentality doom us?

I think we all know the answers to those questions. It won’t end well for humanity.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 30, 2023 • 2:32:27am

re: #127 No Malarkey!

In his efforts to get the Fulton County case against him removed to federal court, Mark Meadows lied under oath that he had no idea that the Trump Campaign was seeking to reverse the election results in Georgia and Michigan.

Maybe we will add perjury to these charges.

Like anything would happen. Grrrrr!

Fucking crooks the lot of em. (spit)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 2:42:04am

They’re still trying to kill us here.

Nebraska removes wastewater data as COVID cases start to rise (Lincoln Journal-Star, August 16, 2023)

State officials have removed tracking data for COVID-19 in wastewater just as cases have started to rise.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has removed from its website a page that had provided weekly updates on concentrations of COVID-19 in wastewater from more than a dozen sites across the state.

A spokesman for the state Health Department said the state’s wastewater data was taken down due to President Joe Biden’s ending of the national emergency and public health emergency declarations for COVID-19 in May.

“Data continues to be tracked for that program and is available upon request,” the spokesman wrote in an email Monday.

Laura Strimple, a spokeswoman for Gov. Jim Pillen, wrote in an email Tuesday that the state wastewater page was removed Aug. 4 in consultation with the Governor’s Office. She also cited the end of the federal public health emergency in response to questions about why the page was taken down. Since then, she wrote in an email, Nebraska has successfully phased out many of the measures put into place during the emergency.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Aug 30, 2023 • 2:43:37am

Willis is asking the judge in Trump’s rico and election interference case to fast-track all 19 of the defendants — not just Kenneth Chesebro and powell, who asked for a speedy trial.

Randos:

- surely Trump welcomes his speedy trial as a golden opportunity to be exonerated before the primaries begin and disperse this unwarranted cloud of suspicion hanging over him.

-Have you ever seen anyone work so hard to NOT prove their innocence??

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 2:48:02am

re: #126 No Malarkey!

Example of how Fox News distorts reality: Peter Doocy asked the Press Secretary if President Biden wants to limit Americans to two beers a week.

A “recommendation” or a “guideline” is just a slippery slope to COMPLETE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF OUR LIVES!!!

Remember two years ago when the Green New Deal was gonna come confiscate our cheezeburgers?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 2:53:03am

From a friend in Texas, lives in Dallas but has a beach house in Galveston

“Last Monday we had lunch at Eatcetera, a lesbian-owned/operated G-town eatery. Inside the restaurant are various handicrafts for sale. One object was a U.S. flag painted on an old piece of wood, with colors intentionally faded to match. Written on the flag’s stripes were various subversive ideas and phrases, such as, freedom, peace, we’re all equal, and black lives matter, just to name a few.

While we were eating an old couple sits down at a table near us, has a conversation with a waitress, and doesn’t look happy. They had spotted the subversive flag and took issue with the BLM line - said they couldn’t eat it a place that supported “such bullshit.” Anyway, the owners were quite miffed, and told the couple that ‘It’s 2023, get over it,” thus prompting the older couple to leave.

I told the owners that the way to handle future altercations would be to explain to customers that the flag has something for everyone - if you don’t like the stars & stripes side you can turn it over and find stars & bars with an overlaid NRA logo. I don’t know if they’ll use my suggestion, but we did get two free cookies”

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 2:53:10am

re: #131 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Willis is asking the judge in Trump’s rico and election interference case to fast-track all 19 of the defendants — not just Kenneth Chesebro and powell, who asked for a speedy trial.

Randos:

- surely Trump welcomes his speedy trial as a golden opportunity to be exonerated before the primaries begin and disperse this unwarranted cloud of suspicion hanging over him.

-Have you ever seen anyone work so hard to NOT prove their innocence??

Unless Trump and the others can show that their cases should be severed from Cheese Bro’s case, then the whole shebang should be tried this autumn. I assume, though, that they will find some way to either sever the cases or push the trial date back. I don’t see a good reason for either, other than that trying 19 defendants in one case looks to be a dog damned circus. OTOH, many of the defendants, such as the fake electors, had very limited roles in the conspiracy.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 2:54:33am

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

A “recommendation” or a “guideline” is just a slippery slope to COMPLETE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF OUR LIVES!!!

Remember two years ago when the Green New Deal was gonna come confiscate our cheezeburgers?

At Fox News, it’s just one outrageous outrage after another to keep the audience angry.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 2:58:46am

Canada now issuing travel warnings about visiting the U.S.

Canada has issued a new travel warning to its LGBT citizens planning to visit the United States, warning that some state laws may affect them on their travels — Such warnings are usually reserved for countries such as Uganda, Russia, or Egypthttps://t.co/AfzGHiU8rG

— Alfons López Tena 🦇 (@alfonslopeztena) August 30, 2023

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 30, 2023 • 3:15:34am

That took way way way too long for me to figure out. 4/6

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Shropshire Slasher Aug 30, 2023 • 3:20:03am

Some very rainy upstate NY morning drive time music this morning.

ALEXSUCKS - 6 Pack and Cigarettes (Official Music Video)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 30, 2023 • 3:25:49am

A snippet of The Peanuts, from one of their many TV appearances. Japanese TV was full of music and cabaret shows:

【ザ・ピーナッツ】イチゴ畑のサリーちゃん

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 30, 2023 • 3:28:20am

Blue Sky invite code still available:

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Dave In Austin Aug 30, 2023 • 3:31:39am

Joe’s going to shower Florida with kindness and whatever it needs. Checking in with they Gov every hour…. “What do you need Ron? What can we do for you Ron??”

The response should be interesting. Especially when the President comes to visit.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Aug 30, 2023 • 3:35:10am

re: #123 Sherlock Hound

Both my retinas detached. It can happen to nearsighted people because the eye is shaped such that the retina can be pulled on.

That was exactly my situation. The old eyeball is shaped like the other kind of football. My risk of detachment was clearly much greater than the nominal one in ten.

I’m happy with the final result, much less happy with the stumble after the second repair, and I won’t be trying bungy jumping any time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 3:37:44am

re: #141 Dave In Austin

Joe’s going to shower Florida with kindness and whatever it needs. Checking in with they Gov every hour…. “What do you need Ron? What can we do for you Ron??”

The response should be interesting. Especially when the President comes to visit.

With a case of Bud Light…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 30, 2023 • 3:38:08am

Idalia about to make landfall:

Radar Florida 30 Aug 2023

Idalia briefly peaked as a Cat 4.

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darthstar Aug 30, 2023 • 3:40:31am

re: #141 Dave In Austin

Joe’s going to shower Florida with kindness and whatever it needs. Checking in with they Gov every hour…. “What do you need Ron? What can we do for you Ron??”

The response should be interesting. Especially when the President comes to visit.

Certainly all of that FEMA money will be a welcome shot in the arm to his campaign coffers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 3:42:51am

Heads up in Georgia and South Carolina.

…IDALIA RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES INTO A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE…
…CATASTROPHIC STORM SURGE AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS ARE NEARING THE
FLORIDA BIG BEND REGION…

SUMMARY OF 500 AM EDT…0900 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…29.1N 84.1W
ABOUT 60 MI…95 KM W OF CEDAR KEY FLORIDA
ABOUT 90 MI…145 KM S OF TALLAHASSEE FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…130 MPH…215 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNE OR 25 DEGREES AT 18 MPH…30 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…940 MB…27.76 INCHES

WATCHES AND WARNINGS
——————————
CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:

A Hurricane Warning has been issued for the east coast of the
United States from Altamaha Sound Georgia to Edisto Beach South
Carolina.

A Storm Surge Warning has been issued from St. Catherine’s Sound to
South Santee River.

A Hurricane Watch has been issued from Edisto Beach South Carolina
to South Santee River South Carolina.

A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued from North of Surf City
North Carolina to the North Carolina/Virginia border, and Pamlico
and Albemarle Sounds.

A Storm Surge Watch has been extended northeastward to Ocracoke
Inlet.

The Tropical Storm Warning for the west coast of Florida from
Bonita Beach southward is discontinued.

Hurricane and Tropical Storm Warnings include all the inland areas along the path of Idalia.

5AM EDT Public Advisory (NHC)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 3:48:44am

Hurricane Idalia Discussion Number 15
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL102023
500 AM EDT Wed Aug 30 2023
Idalia continues to undergo rapid intensification. Maximum
flight-level winds were 123 kt, with believable SFMR values of 115
kt. Satellite images show a small eye surrounded by very cold
clouds tops, especially in the western quadrant. The initial wind
speed is set to 115 kt, making Idalia an extremely dangerous
category 4 hurricane.

The hurricane still has a few hours left to intensify before it
makes landfall. The biggest change to the intensity forecast is to
increase the wind speeds over southeastern Georgia and South
Carolina as the rapid motion and track close to the coast is
expected to keep the system near hurricane strength for longer.
Thus a Hurricane Warning has been issued for a portion of those
coasts, and the Hurricane Watch is extended northeastward. After
the hurricane moves offshore, the wind field on the northwestern
side near eastern North Carolina is expected to be enhanced by a
cold front, and the Tropical Storm Watch has been upgraded to a
Tropical Storm Warning in that area. The long-range intensity
forecast is quite uncertain with Idalia taking on some hybrid
characteristics due to a baroclinc trough. No changes were made at
this time, and the forecast remains close to the consensus.

(more)

5AM EDT Hurricane Idalia Forecast Discussion (NHC)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 30, 2023 • 3:48:54am

Someone sacrificing their Cadillac to the storm god, to watch the ocean surge:

Florida walkway sea surge 30 Aug 2023

That’s from a little over an hour and a half ago. The electricity eventually went out so the camera now does not show much detail.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 3:51:44am

National Weather Service Tallahassee radar
radar.weather.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 3:57:35am

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Extreme Wind Warning
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
609 AM EDT Wed Aug 30 2023

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a

* Extreme Wind Warning for…
Western Dixie County in Big Bend Florida…
Southern Taylor County in Big Bend Florida…

* Until 915 AM EDT.

* At 608 AM EDT, National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated
extreme winds, associated with the eyewall of Hurricane Idalia,
were moving onshore 34 miles southwest of Steinhatchee, moving
northeast at 20 mph. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE-
THREATENING SITUATION!

* Locations impacted include…
Steinhatchee, Horseshoe Point, Horseshoe Beach, Tennille, Fish
Creek, Jug Island, Howell Place, Clara, Carbur, Jena, Adams Beach,
Dekle Beach, Jonesboro, Jack Lee Island, Keaton Beach, Bird Island,
Salem, Blue Springs, Athena, and Cedar Island.

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Nojay UK Aug 30, 2023 • 3:57:45am

The BBC is reporting Idalia is becoming a Cat 4 hurricane. Buckle up, Florida folks.

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Patricia Kayden Aug 30, 2023 • 3:59:21am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 3:59:41am

BBC Weather, Perry, Fla.

bbc.com (1:25)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 4:01:11am

re: #152 Patricia Kayden

Mostly Gen Z will show up because they know that the GOP will stop at nothing to insitute a nationwide abortion/contraceptive ban.

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Shropshire Slasher Aug 30, 2023 • 4:04:39am

A rare blue supermoon could raise tides above normal just as Hurricane Idalia takes aim at Florida’s west coast, exacerbating flooding from the storm.
The moon will be closest to the Earth on Wednesday, the same day Idalia is expected to make landfall in Florida. While a supermoon can make for a spectacular backdrop in photos of landmarks around the world, its intensified gravitational pull also makes tides higher.

“I would say the timing is pretty bad for this one,” said Brian Haines, the meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service office in Charleston, South Carolina.

apnews.com

Blue Moon - Grease

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darthstar Aug 30, 2023 • 4:05:09am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Mostly Gen Z will show up because they know that the GOP will stop at nothing to insitute a nationwide abortion/contraceptive ban.

Reminds me of the Van Dalsem quilt:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 30, 2023 • 4:06:56am

Street is now under water. Where the Cadillac went how it it went to wherever… is unknown:

Storm surge Florida 30 Aug 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 4:07:59am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 4:09:00am

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not enough Whop

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 4:11:13am

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish Aug 30, 2023 • 4:11:33am

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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These kinds of lawsuits sound stupid on their face, but truth in advertising is a big subject because companies always try to push the boundaries as far as they can. Like Republicans, if you give them an inch, they take a mile.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 4:12:27am

re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They left out the “per.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 4:13:28am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They left out the “per.:”

Not enough Whop per Whopper?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 4:14:59am

re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not enough Whop per Whopper?

“Where’s the beef?”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 30, 2023 • 4:15:10am

Different cam, showing surge at Horseshoe Beach. Don’t know how high the palms are, but the waves are lapping the lower fronds:

storm surge horseshoe beach 30 Aug 2023

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 4:16:56am

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Different cam, showing surge at Horseshoe Beach. Don’t know how high the palms are, but the waves are lapping the lower fronds:

Help help me , Fronda!!!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 30, 2023 • 4:20:41am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Mostly Gen Z will show up because they know that the GOP will stop at nothing to insitute a nationwide abortion/contraceptive ban.

And many have LBGTQ+ friends. And they see the republican criminals for who they are. And they see the hatred that took place on 1/6. And they see a future that is bleak if they don’t.

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darthstar Aug 30, 2023 • 4:20:55am

Jack Ohman, Tribune Content Agency pic.twitter.com/C9jomb1QYt

— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) August 30, 2023

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Nerdy Fish Aug 30, 2023 • 4:23:45am

This was a weird one.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 802 4/6

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 4:24:18am

re: #167 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And many have LBGTQ+ friends. And they see the republican criminals for who they are. And they see the hatred that took place on 1/6. And they see a future that is bleak if they don’t.

they sense that the gains in personal freedoms and women’s, minority and LGBTQ rights which we have all come to take for granted over past decades are in peril thanks to a vocal, highly active and well-financed minority.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 30, 2023 • 4:24:56am

re: #161 Nerdy Fish

These kinds of lawsuits sound stupid on their face, but truth in advertising is a big subject because companies always try to push the boundaries as far as they can. Like Republicans, if you give them an inch, they take a mile.

I have bad allergies and go thru lots of Kleenex. The box sizes have remained the same but the contents are about a third less at the same price. This is happening in most items I’ve been buying for a long time. Pre-prepared stuffed peppers used to be 6, now are 4 and $2 more expensive. Everything is shrinking in size but not cost.

I hope they win.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 30, 2023 • 4:27:06am

re: #169 Nerdy Fish

Happy to see us are you? 😂😂😂

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Nerdy Fish Aug 30, 2023 • 4:27:41am

re: #167 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And many have LBGTQ+ friends. And they see the republican criminals for who they are. And they see the hatred that took place on 1/6. And they see a future that is bleak if they don’t.

I think this is the big thing. We always talk about how it takes a personal impact to really get through to some people. These young people are seeing their friends cowering in fear behind desks, afraid they’re going to get shot. They’re seeing friends who, formerly proud of who they were, carefully hide every aspect of their personality so that “that one kid” in school doesn’t rat them out to the principal and get their family arrested. They all know a kid in school whose dad is stockpiling guns, ammo, and survival supplies for the coming civil war because he believes that arresting and charging Trump for his crimes is the end of America. The dangers of Republicanism are real for them.

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darthstar Aug 30, 2023 • 4:27:51am

PBs not in their cos-play uniforms finding out.

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 4:29:41am

re: #173 Nerdy Fish

Trump triumphed in 2016 because the GOP got his people out in droves to vote.

Biden triumphed in 2020 because the Democrats saw what happens when they don’t get out droves to vote.

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William Lewis Aug 30, 2023 • 4:34:10am

re: #169 Nerdy Fish

This was a weird one.

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Be sure to check out my #124 ;)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 30, 2023 • 4:34:41am

Severe Studios guy thinks the Caddy floated away.

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Nerdy Fish Aug 30, 2023 • 4:35:50am

re: #176 William Lewis

Be sure to check out my #124 ;)

Haha, nice.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 30, 2023 • 4:39:53am

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

My eyesight had gotten significantly worse over he last 3 years, to the point that I cannot pass the FAA eye exam even with my glasses and I have stopped flying. I have also stopped driving at night.
Saw the ophthamalogist today. He recommended cataract surgery, the sooner the better, in both eyes.
Pre-op evaluation is October 11 with the procedure in two rounds after that.
I kind of wonder if this might be connected to either my radiation treatment for cancer or to covid. It came up very fast, there was no sign of it at my eye exam 3 years ago, then a little, a little more, and a lot. In any case, I hear all kinds of good things about the procedure and the results so I am ready to get on with it.

My wife had her eyes done a few years back. She was amazed at how well things looked after that. She had to go back one time a few months later for a minor “clean” of one eye that still had a little film. But since then she has been able to do some things without even wearing her glasses.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 30, 2023 • 4:46:22am

Whoever built this beach house may have underestimated max wave heights:

storm surge Idalia 30 Aug 2023

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 5:00:02am

re: #12 silverdolphin

I’m fully expecting that some cities will have to turn some office buildings into low cost housing in order to find SOME us for them.

The transition of office space to housing is a slow one, because office buildings aren’t designed with residential purposes in mind. The utilities are designed for office space, including open floor plates, limited water, sewer, and gas lines. It would require rejiggering spaces and utilities throughout the building to allow new residential units to go in.

It’s doable, but it’s a costly move too, where conversion costs run between $100 and $500 a square foot (depending on what office market you’re talking about). CBRE, which is a major office space purveyor, has thoughts on conversions.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 5:02:52am

BREAKING: #HurricaneIdalia has officially made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend as a Category 3 storm, the National Hurricane Center said, with maximum sustained winds of roughly 125 mph and “catastrophic storm surge and damaging winds ongoing” https://t.co/7TEDSe2BEZ pic.twitter.com/4ptcLZRaEU

— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 30, 2023

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Shropshire Slasher Aug 30, 2023 • 5:06:01am

Anyone else getting a lot of password reset requests from stores you do business with online?

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Patricia Kayden Aug 30, 2023 • 5:07:11am

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Shropshire Slasher Aug 30, 2023 • 5:21:04am

Wow, not for the faint of heart.

Russian soldiers ambushed by Ukrainian forces after crossing railroad

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 30, 2023 • 5:22:05am

Beach shelter being covered by storm surge:

Idalia storm surge 30 Aug 2023

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 5:31:39am

I hope the LGF people in FL are okay.

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Florida Panhandler Aug 30, 2023 • 5:39:56am

re: #187 PhillyPretzel ✅

I hope the LGF people in FL are okay.

Blue sky and calm here just west of Panama City Beach.

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Belafon Aug 30, 2023 • 5:40:02am

GMA has a doorbell video of a guy who stole the package a UPS delivery person was carrying right out of her hand as she was walking to the house to deliver to. He was making polite conversation with her and then just grabbed it from her and ran off.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 5:42:41am

Recap of the Meadows testimony yesterday in his motion to remove to federal court.

It did not go well for Meadows, and he’s claiming that he was acting in a federal officer capacity when he engaged in calls to Georgia on behalf of Trump, even though he admits there’s no federal role in states certifying election results, and that the defense view of CoS role is so expansive as to be laughable.

Mark Meadows took the stand in Atlanta yesterday to try and get his Fulton County case removed to federal court. @AnnaBower was in the room. Her dispatch is out now: https://t.co/1yTckndvoA

— Lawfare (@lawfare) August 30, 2023

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Nojay UK Aug 30, 2023 • 5:44:07am

re: #181 lawhawk

The transition of office space to housing is a slow one, because office buildings aren’t designed with residential purposes in mind.

A number of office premises near where I live have been or are being converted into hotels, not housing. There is a big demand for hotel space in my city though. The only housing conversion that I know of locally was an old school building converted into luxury flats but it was a special case, the school was not fit for purpose any more but it’s a historic property and can’t be changed externally.

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Shropshire Slasher Aug 30, 2023 • 5:45:50am

English speaking and well trained, storming the trenches in Ukraine.

Ukrainian storm brigade floods trenches during heavy assault

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William Lewis Aug 30, 2023 • 5:49:01am

re: #191 Nojay UK

A number of office premises near where I live have been or are being converted into hotels, not housing. There is a big demand for hotel space in my city though. The only housing conversion that I know of locally was an old school building converted into luxury flats but it was a special case, the school was not fit for purpose any more but it’s a historic property and can’t be changed externally.

Several old schools in my area have become luxury condos. Serious high rent ones too. Would love to have one on the ground floor of the former grade school near me that has the Gym converted into parking but that’s serious coin.

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Nerdy Fish Aug 30, 2023 • 5:53:17am

re: #190 lawhawk

Recap of the Meadows testimony yesterday in his motion to remove to federal court.

It did not go well for Meadows, and he’s claiming that he was acting in a federal officer capacity when he engaged in calls to Georgia on behalf of Trump, even though he admits there’s no federal role in states certifying election results, and that the defense view of CoS role is so expansive as to be laughable.

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I saw an article on this on Wonkette yesterday. If I remember, the TL;DR was that Meadows might succeed in getting his case removed to federal court, but he completely torpedoed any chance of getting his case dismissed via the Supremacy Clause (as the judge is likely to find that at least some of the acts in question were not covered by his duties of employment) and blew up his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. It seems like his “long shot” ploy was to get the whole case dismissed in federal court as “I was just doing my job,” and that has backfired spectacularly.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 5:54:32am

re: #193 William Lewis

Woolworth building in Lower Manhattan saw upper floors turned into luxury condos. One of the penthouses was listed at $110 million.

So, there’s money to be had in doing conversions, when you can get the money back. Rich people are also buying up real estate in places like this to squirrel money away, while never actually living there. We see that with billionaire’s row in midtown (the supertalls along 57th Street).

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 6:00:49am

re: #194 Nerdy Fish

From the sound of it, the judge is struggling to find just one instance of where Meadows was acting in a federal officer capacity relating to the indicted charges.

If you can’t find one, it’s not going to get removed to federal court. His testimony shoots holes throughout the entire Trump defense and his own defense, so the strategy employed by his counsel was so out there, that most lawyers and observers thought it nuts that he’d be called to testify in the first place.

This is why - the damage done by testimony is far worse than keeping the case in state court.

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Nerdy Fish Aug 30, 2023 • 6:04:25am

re: #196 lawhawk

From the sound of it, the judge is struggling to find just one instance of where Meadows was acting in a federal officer capacity relating to the indicted charges.

If you can’t find one, it’s not going to get removed to federal court. His testimony shoots holes throughout the entire Trump defense and his own defense, so the strategy employed by his counsel was so out there, that most lawyers and observers thought it nuts that he’d be called to testify in the first place.

This is why - the damage done by testimony is far worse than keeping the case in state court.

Right. The judge requested briefing on if the case should still be removed if at least one cause of action could be construed as acting in his official capacity, so I think that’s why the article suggested it was likely that the case might get removed. Either way, though, it looks like Meadows is going to trial. If he gets it removed to federal court, the motion to dismiss most likely fails; the judge appears disinclined to find all of the overt acts fall into his official capacity. If there are no overt acts that can be tied to his official duties, then both the removal and the motion to dismiss fail. And, as the article stated, by testifying, he has now waived his right to Fifth Amendment protection on the stand. He bet the house on this strategy, and he’s going to lose more than just his shirt for it.

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Jay C Aug 30, 2023 • 6:07:48am

re: #195 lawhawk

Woolworth building in Lower Manhattan saw upper floors turned into luxury condos. One of the penthouses was listed at $110 million.

So, there’s money to be had in doing conversions, when you can get the money back. Rich people are also buying up real estate in places like this to squirrel money away, while never actually living there. We see that with billionaire’s row in midtown (the supertalls along 57th Street).

We’re currently in the process of moving (don’t ask!) to just such a place (albeit - thankfully - not in the price range of the Woolworth Building!); a conversion of an old bank building on the edge of the Tribeca neighborhood. It was actually a reasonable buy (as far any Manhattan RE deal can be said to be “reasonable”!) But then, it wasn’t converted as a mega-upmarket/billionaires’-tax-dodge project, just nice apartments. But yeah, while conversion, vs new construction, does save on some building costs, it’s often nearly as complex. But at least you get decently-thick walls and higher ceilings. And FWIW, a usually much-nicer exterior.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Aug 30, 2023 • 6:10:59am

Donald Trump was asked by radio host Glenn Beck if he would use the presidency to jail his political opponents - as he promised to do in 2016.

Asked Beck: “You said in 2016, you know, ‘lock her up.’ And then when you became president, you said, ‘We don’t do that in America.’ That’s just not the right thing to do. That’s what they’re doing. Do you regret not locking her up? And if you’re president again, will you lock people up?”

Said Trump: “Well, I’ll give you an example. Uh, the answer is you have no choice because they’re doing it to us.”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Aug 30, 2023 • 6:13:27am

re: #188 Florida Panhandler

Blue sky and calm here just west of Panama City Beach.

20 minutes of rain and high winds last night in ft laud.
Today is bright and breezy and hot

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 6:22:50am

re: #198 Jay C

SoHo was one of the first places where manufacturing spaces were converted into living spaces - via transition in the 1950s/1960s into artist lofts, and finally into residences, which were affordable at the time (today, not so much).

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 6:26:04am

Rare footage of St Elmo’s Fire as hurricane approaches https://t.co/8PiWzx41aR

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 30, 2023

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jeffreyw Aug 30, 2023 • 6:26:41am

pulled pork

Good morning!

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 6:32:59am

Today’s sentencing of Enrique Tarrio and another PB cancelled due to an unstated “emergency.” My first thought was “the Hurricane isn’t going anywhere near D.C.” Now I’m wondering if Tarrio attempted suicide.

NEW: Proud Boys sentencings cancelled today due to an emergency, more details when we have.

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 30, 2023

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 6:33:54am

re: #204 No Malarkey!

That might be a possibility.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 6:39:09am

LATEST: More than 245,000 customers are without power in Florida as Hurricane Idalia hammers the state.

LIVE UPDATES: https://t.co/AmHS7FbSRG

— ABC News (@ABC) August 30, 2023

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Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 6:40:06am

re: #204 No Malarkey!

Today’s sentencing of Enrique Tarrio and another PB cancelled due to an unstated “emergency.” My first thought was “the Hurricane isn’t going anywhere near D.C.” Now I’m wondering if Tarrio attempted suicide.

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Maybe he peed his pants…🤔

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 6:40:34am

Justice Dept is deferring to court system to explain the delay. Indicating this is not an issue involving the parties

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 30, 2023

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Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 6:41:58am

Why hasn’t this clown been disbarred?

Far-right lawyer Larry Klayman ‘prosecutes’ fake ‘trials’ of the Bidens — and gets ignored

alternet.org

Far-right attorney, conspiracy theorist and Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman, now 72, has a long history of filing frivolous lawsuits against Democrats. These days, he is furiously raging against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, claiming that both of them should be subject to citizens’ arrests.

Klayman’s anti-Bidens fixation is the focus of an article by The Bulwark’s Bill Lueders published on August 30.

Describing Klayman’s so-called “citizens trials” — which aren’t real legal proceedings — Lueders mockingly writes, “President Joe Biden has been tried and convicted on multiple felony charges, along with his son Hunter and brother James. Sentencing was initially slated for August 29, but that has now been pushed back to September 7. These three members of the ‘Biden Crime Family,’ as it is known, were convicted on August 17 after a bench trial in a Citizens’ Court in Boise, Idaho, presided over by Citizens’ Judge Michael Pendleton, of charges returned by a Citizens’ Grand Jury nearly two years earlier.”

Lueders adds, “The prosecutor in the case was Larry Klayman, founder of the groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. The defendants put on no defense, which Klayman took as an admission that their actions — crimes, really — were indefensible.”

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 6:43:26am

re: #206 lawhawk

Send in the PECO emergency team. Tell those Floridians to have cheesesteaks and hoagies ready for them. I know other states will be helping out and it will be appreciated by those who need it.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 6:44:03am

Jan. 6 Rioter Who Repped Himself Sent to Jail After Being Held in Contempt

thedailybeast.com

A Jan. 6 defendant who represented himself in court after being accused of smoking marijuana in a senator’s office during the Capitol attack was held in criminal contempt on Tuesday, with the judge overseeing his trial smacking him with a five-month jail sentence before jury deliberations in the case were even set to begin. Brandon Fellows, 29, has been in custody since June 2021 on a federal felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting, as well as a number of other misdemeanors. As his trial, which began last week, wrapped up on Tuesday, Fellows took the stand. Asked about sitting down in the office that belonged to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Fellows remarked, “I didn’t know it was a senator’s desk. It felt very comfy.” He also insisted that the rioters “had the right to overthrow” the government on Jan. 6. Later, as U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden explained to Fellows that he had forfeited his right to a rebuttal, Fellows replied, “I would expect nothing less from a kangaroo court,” according to NBC News. His contempt sentence was first reported by a Politico journalist. The jury is expected to begin deliberating on Fellows’ charges on Wednesday morning.

Update to this: Judge McFadden held #Jan6 #CapitolRiot defendant Brandon Fellows, who insisted on representing himself, in CRIMINAL CONTEMPT and sentenced him to five months in jail for his conduct during the trial, per docket. He also awaits jury verdict. https://t.co/SBoRioTE6L pic.twitter.com/VfNXCIXyU1

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) August 29, 2023

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 6:46:02am

re: #209 Joe Bacon ✅

Why hasn’t this clown been disbarred?

Far-right lawyer Larry Klayman ‘prosecutes’ fake ‘trials’ of the Bidens — and gets ignored

Far-right attorney, conspiracy theorist and Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman, now 72, has a long history of filing frivolous lawsuits against Democrats. These days, he is furiously raging against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, claiming that both of them should be subject to citizens’ arrests.

Klayman’s anti-Bidens fixation is the focus of an article by The Bulwark’s Bill Lueders published on August 30.

Describing Klayman’s so-called “citizens trials” — which aren’t real legal proceedings — Lueders mockingly writes, “President Joe Biden has been tried and convicted on multiple felony charges, along with his son Hunter and brother James. Sentencing was initially slated for August 29, but that has now been pushed back to September 7. These three members of the ‘Biden Crime Family,’ as it is known, were convicted on August 17 after a bench trial in a Citizens’ Court in Boise, Idaho, presided over by Citizens’ Judge Michael Pendleton, of charges returned by a Citizens’ Grand Jury nearly two years earlier.”

Lueders adds, “The prosecutor in the case was Larry Klayman, founder of the groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. The defendants put on no defense, which Klayman took as an admission that their actions — crimes, really — were indefensible.”

Klayman’s D.C. law license is suspended. Of course this isn’t the practice of law; it’s just rightwing theater.

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Targetpractice Aug 30, 2023 • 6:47:06am

re: #209 Joe Bacon ✅

Why hasn’t this clown been disbarred?

Far-right lawyer Larry Klayman ‘prosecutes’ fake ‘trials’ of the Bidens — and gets ignored

alternet.org

Far-right attorney, conspiracy theorist and Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman, now 72, has a long history of filing frivolous lawsuits against Democrats. These days, he is furiously raging against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, claiming that both of them should be subject to citizens’ arrests.

Klayman’s anti-Bidens fixation is the focus of an article by The Bulwark’s Bill Lueders published on August 30.

Describing Klayman’s so-called “citizens trials” — which aren’t real legal proceedings — Lueders mockingly writes, “President Joe Biden has been tried and convicted on multiple felony charges, along with his son Hunter and brother James. Sentencing was initially slated for August 29, but that has now been pushed back to September 7. These three members of the ‘Biden Crime Family,’ as it is known, were convicted on August 17 after a bench trial in a Citizens’ Court in Boise, Idaho, presided over by Citizens’ Judge Michael Pendleton, of charges returned by a Citizens’ Grand Jury nearly two years earlier.”

Lueders adds, “The prosecutor in the case was Larry Klayman, founder of the groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. The defendants put on no defense, which Klayman took as an admission that their actions — crimes, really — were indefensible.”

Isn’t 72 a little old to be playing make-believe?

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Belafon Aug 30, 2023 • 6:48:52am

re: #213 Targetpractice

Isn’t 72 a little old to be playing make-believe?

Ask Trump.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 6:49:01am

re: #209 Joe Bacon ✅

He’s had his law license suspended in DC last September.

That he appears to be holding himself out as an attorney should subject him to criminal charges, as well as a disbarment - not mere suspension.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 6:50:07am

re: #209 Joe Bacon ✅

…“The prosecutor in the case was Larry Klayman, founder of the groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. The defendants put on no defense, which Klayman took as an admission that their actions — crimes, really — were indefensible.”

During the Moscow show trials, a state-appointed defense attorney simply declared that due to the heinous nature of his client’s crimes, there was no defense he could offer.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 6:52:53am

re: #215 lawhawk

He’s had his law license suspended in DC last September.

That he appears to be holding himself out as an attorney should subject him to criminal charges, as well as a disbarment - not mere suspension.

Klayman also called for the military to “arrest” Biden, IOW, he asked for a military coup, and declared that President Biden is subject to “citizen’s arrest.” This should be reported to the Secret Service as soliciting an attack on the President.

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Dr Lizardo Aug 30, 2023 • 6:56:24am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

During the Moscow show trials, a state-appointed defense attorney simply declared that due to the heinous nature of his client’s crimes, there was no defense he could offer.

“Your Honor, due to my client’s outrageous actions, he must be shot immediately!”

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 6:59:19am

Vulnerable Republicans making a show of supporting contraception as an alternative to abortion.

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Teukka Aug 30, 2023 • 7:01:51am

“The idea that people of color are inferior is a lie.
The idea that Jews are dangerous and all powerful is a lie.
The idea that women are not equal to men is a lie.
An the idea that queer people are a threat to our children is a lie.”

— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) August 29, 2023

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Targetpractice Aug 30, 2023 • 7:01:54am

re: #219 No Malarkey!

Vulnerable Republicans making a show of supporting contraception as an alternative to abortion.

They do realize they’re members of a party where even other “moderates” have screeched that contraceptives are “abortificants” and should be as illegal as the actual medical procedures, yes?

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Targetpractice Aug 30, 2023 • 7:06:25am

*sigh* There are days when downloads feel lightning fast, and then there are days when I feel like I need to get out and push.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 7:09:04am

Even now, GOPers still believe that there was voter fraud in the 2020 election sufficient to overturn the results.

They just don’t see the election fraud perpetrated by Trump and the GOP. They think there was some voter fraud to the extent that it overturns the outcome certified by the GOP Secretary of State and Governor of Georgia. Other states run by GOPers also certified the results, despite Trump claims of voter fraud.

It’s all a sham, and the GOP keeps spewing the lies about the voter fraud that they couldn’t prove exists, while deflecting and distracting from the election fraud they perpetrated and conspired to invalidate votes of millions of Americans.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 7:09:58am

The Ohio GOP is making one last effort to sabotage the referendum on adding abortion rights to the Ohio Constitution. The Ohio ballot board voted to summarize the amendment on the ballot as “always allow an unborn child to be aborted at any stage of pregnancy, regardless of viability, if, in the treating physician’s determination the abortion is necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s life or health.” A suit has been filed to correct the language.

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sizzzzlerz Aug 30, 2023 • 7:13:56am

Just watched this video on one of NASAs most closely held secrets called the “rubber room”. It’s a facility buried deep under the launch pad used to launch the Saturn V rockets, taking men into space and to the moon. The room’s purpose was to act as a shelter for people working on the rocket from the gantry, giving them a place to escape to in the event of a catastrophic explosion. Fortunately, it was never needed and has sat there abandoned for 50 years. As a total space program geek who has sought out everything I could find on it, it came as totally new news to me.

Would it have worked, assuming there was time to get into it? No one will ever know.

NASA’s Most Off Limits Room

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 7:16:13am

The “emergency” which has delayed Tarrio’s sentencing is a Judge called in sick. I’ll baselessly speculate that it could be Covid since cases are spiking.

A spokesperson for the US Marshals Service tells NBC News that US District Court Judge Timothy Kelly is sick today, thus the cancellation of the Proud Boys sentencing.

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 30, 2023

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sagehen Aug 30, 2023 • 7:16:24am

re: #219 No Malarkey!

Vulnerable Republicans making a show of supporting contraception as an alternative to abortion.

Let’s do some math.

There’s approximately 100 million American women of reproductive age. Assume that half of them are sexually active, but preferring to avoid pregnancy. Assume also that oral contraceptives, IUDs, and barrier methods, even when used conscientiously each and every time and always used properly, have a 1% failure rate.

That’s half a million unwanted pregnancies every year, among women who took all reasonable steps to avoid those pregnancies.

Half a million.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 7:20:02am

re: #223 lawhawk

Even now, GOPers still believe that there was voter fraud in the 2020 election sufficient to overturn the results.

This is a necessary precondition so that they can declare such massive voter fraud in 2024 and disqualify enough ballots so that neither candidate receives a majority of EC votes, sending the decision to the House of Representatives.

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steve_davis Aug 30, 2023 • 7:20:44am

re: #179 Eventual Carrion

My wife had her eyes done a few years back. She was amazed at how well things looked after that. She had to go back one time a few months later for a minor “clean” of one eye that still had a little film. But since then she has been able to do some things without even wearing her glasses.

yeah, my dad had terrible vision most of his life. they did cataract surgery and suddenly he was walking around the house without his glasses because he’d just forget he wasn’t wearing them, things were so clear.

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sizzzzlerz Aug 30, 2023 • 7:21:55am

re: #219 No Malarkey!

Vulnerable Republicans making a show of supporting contraception as an alternative to abortion.

Is there a voter in this world, trusting and naive enough, to believe these ‘pugs have actually changed their stripes and won’t immediately go back to their anti-choice hardline stance once they’re re-elected?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 7:23:15am

I went to get a new pair of glasses today (my current pair is from 2015. Between them and a new pair for my daughter, they cost more than the car I am currently driving…

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Eventual Carrion Aug 30, 2023 • 7:23:40am

re: #103 Captain Ron

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And as a campaign, you were not working in an official US government capacity.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 7:25:48am

re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is a necessary precondition so that they can declare such massive voter fraud in 2024 and disqualify enough ballots so that neither candidate receives a majority of EC votes, sending the decision to the House of Representatives.

A big reason some people need to be convicted of felonies and sentenced to prison for the 2020 attempted coup, to provide some deterrence.

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darthstar Aug 30, 2023 • 7:27:15am

Mastodon

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 7:28:24am

re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I went to get a new pair of glasses today (my current pair is from 2015. Between them and a new pair for my daughter, they cost more than the car I am currently driving…

You can blame the eyeglass cartel for that. /half kidding.

There’s actually just a handful of companies that produce all eyewear under multiple labels. Luxottica owns and operates Ray-Ban, Essilor, Persol, Oakley, LensCrafters, OPSM, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglasshut, Eyemed, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, glasses.com, Onesight, and Target Optical.

They control 80% of the market.

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 30, 2023 • 7:28:49am

re: #137 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That took way way way too long for me to figure out. 4/6

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Group: 3,3,3,4

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 7:29:36am

#FAFO - the Peter Navarro edition.

MEHTA: There’s no evidence of any communications between Dr. Navarro/Trump about the Jan. 6 committee subpoena. So when Navarro initially claimed Trump had invoked privilege over the subpoena, it was not accurate.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 30, 2023

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 7:30:52am

re: #235 lawhawk

You can blame the eyeglass cartel for that. /half kidding.

There’s actually just a handful of companies that produce all eyewear under multiple labels. Luxottica owns and operates Ray-Ban, Essilor, Persol, Oakley, LensCrafters, OPSM, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglasshut, Eyemed, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, glasses.com, Onesight, and Target Optical.

They control 80% of the market.

There are ten big opticians that control half the German market, all the “special offers” are just variants and all come out the same: €400-€1000 per pair (mine cost more because I need varifocal)

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William Lewis Aug 30, 2023 • 7:32:09am

re: #225 sizzzzlerz

Just watched this video on one of NASAs most closely held secrets called the “rubber room”. It’s a facility buried deep under the launch pad used to launch the Saturn V rockets, taking men into space and to the moon. The room’s purpose was to act as a shelter for people working on the rocket from the gantry, giving them a place to escape to in the event of a catastrophic explosion. Fortunately, it was never needed and has sat there abandoned for 50 years. As a total space program geek who has sought out everything I could find on it, it came as totally new news to me.

Would it have worked, assuming there was time to get into it? No one will ever know.

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Interesting. Unlike the Russians, at least they considered the possibility. It reminds me of the other probably unlikely successful gadget - the zip line escape from the capsule deck to the ground hopefully far enough away from what would have probably been a small nuke equivalent ;)

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 7:33:23am

It’s a cult. If my fellow Democrats were set on nominating a depraved criminal for President, I would be deeply ashamed of my party.

There was a time when politicians weren’t proud of their mugshots and weren’t making money off of them. There was a time when a mugshot would in fact disqualify a politician from the race.

But not in America, not in 2023. https://t.co/j65hsFqW3E

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 30, 2023

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Belafon Aug 30, 2023 • 7:33:42am

Anyone living in Moore, OK? My wife needs you to go bang on my son’s dorm room door and wake him up.

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mmmirele Aug 30, 2023 • 7:36:07am

I logged on to that bird site to see what was going on with Enrique Tarrio’s sentencing and…it ain’t happenin’ today.

Surprise postponement (until Sept 5) of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in seditious conspiracy case Just filed to @CBSMornings
====> pic.twitter.com/6wmTAiCZr6

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 30, 2023

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Dr Lizardo Aug 30, 2023 • 7:37:09am

re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Try Brille24 (dot) de. That’s where I got mine and saved a bundle.

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William Lewis Aug 30, 2023 • 7:44:23am

re: #241 Belafon

Anyone living in Moore, OK? My wife needs you to go bang on my son’s dorm room door and wake him up.

My GF needed that last year on the first day of class at UT-Knoxville :D

That said, the kid learned something and she was at her first class this fall almost an hour early LOL!!!!

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Belafon Aug 30, 2023 • 7:51:32am

re: #244 William Lewis

My GF needed that last year on the first day of class at UT-Knoxville :D

That said, the kid learned something and she was at her first class this fall almost an hour early LOL!!!!

It’s halfway through his second week.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 7:52:56am

This is a scorcher of an essay by @KatzOnEarth. Doesn’t surprise me at all that the NYT & WaPo refused to run it - it lays bare the mainstream’s complicity in the racist right’s resurgence. https://t.co/aSug1oNTBV

— David Roberts (@drvolts) August 30, 2023

Katz eviscerates the NYT, WaPo, and others that have mainstreamed the bigot Richard Hanania, whose work is featured all around the right wing.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 30, 2023 • 7:55:18am

re: #152 Patricia Kayden

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I hope so.

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Unabogie Aug 30, 2023 • 7:55:20am

re: #234 darthstar

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That tracks with a Covid diagnosis as it has a 5 day isolation baked in.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 30, 2023 • 7:57:45am

re: #161 Nerdy Fish

These kinds of lawsuits sound stupid on their face, but truth in advertising is a big subject because companies always try to push the boundaries as far as they can. Like Republicans, if you give them an inch, they take a mile.

But companies are looking out for us. That’s why we need no regulations, the companies will regulate themselves. Do the right thing, dontcha know.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 7:58:54am

re: #249 Eventual Carrion

But companies are looking out for us. That’s why we need no regulations, the companies will regulate themselves. Do the right thing, dontcha know.

The Invisible Hand of the Free Market will spank the naughty ones (and leave invisible bruises).

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 30, 2023 • 8:02:06am

re: #161 Nerdy Fish

These kinds of lawsuits sound stupid on their face, but truth in advertising is a big subject because companies always try to push the boundaries as far as they can. Like Republicans, if you give them an inch, they take a mile.

I just kind of assume fast food is always going to look bigger and tastier in the commercials and on the menu boards.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 8:02:28am

Rudy continues to find out.

BREAKING: RUBY FREEMAN AND SHAYE MOSS HAVE WON THEIR CASE AGAINST RUDY! Judge Howell has awarded SANCTIONS against Rudy Giuliani. Namely a DEFAULT JUDGMENT. Parties have until 9/20 to confer about a trial date to determine damages! pic.twitter.com/erpFcw3eg8

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 30, 2023

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 8:03:30am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Yay. Rudy gets hit again.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 8:03:51am

re: #251 Eclectic Cyborg

I just kind of assume fast food is always going to look bigger and tastier in the commercials and on the menu boards.

Whoppers are too big for me to eat as they are, since I’ve had bariatric surgery. I order the Whopper Jr.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 30, 2023 • 8:04:50am

re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Invisible Hand of the Free Market will spank the naughty ones (and leave invisible bruises).

Eventually, sometimes.
Jack in a Box shrank into a smaller company after they killed several people in the early 90s, but they’re still in business.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 8:07:08am

re: #253 PhillyPretzel ✅

Yay. Rudy gets hit again.

I imagine his legal bills are getting quite large since he now has both a civil and a criminal trial to prepare for. If he doesn’t end up spending the rest of his life in prison, as he should, he will at least be financially ruined.

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Dr Lizardo Aug 30, 2023 • 8:08:34am

This looks another good biopic, this one from Michael Mann. Ferrari, starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz.

FERRARI - Official Teaser Trailer - In Theaters Christmas

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 8:08:56am

re: #251 Eclectic Cyborg

I just kind of assume fast food is always going to look bigger and tastier in the commercials and on the menu boards.

Which is why the labels on the packaging always read “serving suggestion”.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 8:09:57am

Peter Navarro is also finding out.

Peter Navarro will stand trial on criminal contempt of Congress next week as planned. Judge Amit Mehta ruled this morning that Navarro hadn’t proved Donald Trump actually told him to invoke executive privilege in response to a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee, per @GaryGrumbach

— Daniel Barnes (@dnlbrns) August 30, 2023

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 8:11:15am

re: #255 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Eventually, sometimes.
Jack in a Box shrank into a smaller company after they killed several people in the early 90s, but they’re still in business.

I missed that. I know that they used to belong to Ralston-Purina, yes, the company with the various types of pet chow.

I was convinced at the time the plant just ran one big slurry line and depending on which levers you pulled, it turned out dog chow, cat chow, monkey chow, goat chow, etc, and taco filling.

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Belafon Aug 30, 2023 • 8:15:59am

re: #244 William Lewis

My GF needed that last year on the first day of class at UT-Knoxville :D

That said, the kid learned something and she was at her first class this fall almost an hour early LOL!!!!

Finally got in touch with him: he overslept. He’s lucky that his morning class teacher has most of her stuff online.

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Unabogie Aug 30, 2023 • 8:17:43am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Rudy continues to find out.

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Seriously, fuck that guy. He had the good will of the country and was happily occupying the role of “moderate Republican.”

I wouldn’t have voted for him, to be clear. But I think the country needs a healthy balance of viewpoints. I’m a lefty, but the Left isn’t always right. Ideas need to be challenged.

But that said, he got addicted to good booze and cigars and probably escorts, and broke bad. Really bad. And he deserves to go away for the rest of his life for selling out his country to a bunch of mobsters and traitors.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 8:23:05am

There’s a reason she’s not his trial counsel, but “counsel” for his PAC. She’s really bad at this job, and thinks the sound bites help Trump.

They don’t. They’ll be introduced as evidence in support of earlier trial dates.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 30, 2023

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William Lewis Aug 30, 2023 • 8:24:16am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

This looks another good biopic, this one from Michael Mann. Ferrari, starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz.

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Could be interesting. Enzo was, in his way, as fascinating as a character as Oppenheimer. Now if only I could watch it at a drive in while sitting at a drive in, preferably while sitting in a 2024 Roma ;)

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Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 8:26:26am

re: #230 sizzzzlerz

Is there a voter in this world, trusting and naive enough, to believe these ‘pugs have actually changed their stripes and won’t immediately go back to their anti-choice hardline stance once they’re re-elected?

plenty of them who are brainwashed by the 24/7 GOP Bullshit Machine.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 8:28:08am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

#FAFO Rudy edition.

After asking Giuliani to clarify his positions in a second submission — which he did — Judge Beryl Howell just entered a default judgment against him:https://t.co/qojmY6ZPzd

— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) August 30, 2023

Rudy’s liable for defamation of Georgia election workers Freeman and Moss. Trial date will be scheduled for damages.

He’s also getting sanctioned for failing to comply with discovery demands.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 8:31:55am

Key graf in the Rudy defamation case:

Giuliani’s stipulations hold more holes than Swiss cheese, with his latest stipulation expressly reserving “his arguments that the statements complained of are protected and non-actionable opinion for purposes of appeal[,]” Giuliani Superseding Stip. ¶¶ 5-6, which arguments were previously rejected in this Court’s decision denying defendant’s motion to dismiss, see Freeman v. Giuliani, No. CV 21-3354 (BAH), 2022 WL 16551323, at *8 (D.D.C. Oct. 31, 2022). The reservations in Giuliani’s stipulations make clear his goal to bypass the discovery process and a merits trial—at which his defenses may be fully scrutinized and tested in our judicial system’s time-honored adversarial process—and to delay such a fair reckoning by taking his chances on appeal, based on the abbreviated record he forced on plaintiffs. Yet, just as taking shortcuts to win an election carries risks—even potential criminal liability—bypassing the discovery process carries serious sanctions, no matter what reservations a noncompliant party may try artificially to preserve for appeal.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 8:32:09am

Abortion access is on the ballot in Virginia. Voters better show up, even though it’s an off year election, because the forced birthers will.

The only thing standing between women and their freedom in Virginia and MAGA extremist Glenn Youngkin is Democratic Party control of the state legislature.

Wedge Roe in every race. @vademocrats. @DLCC #RoeRage https://t.co/WmFjFmznFQ

— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) August 30, 2023

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 8:33:16am

re: #267 lawhawk

Key graf in the Rudy defamation case:

That is some quality shade the judge is throwing!

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Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 8:34:19am

re: #267 lawhawk

Key graf in the Rudy defamation case:

Giuliani’s stipulations hold more holes than Swiss cheese,

He’s past Swiss cheese and he’s now at the Fearless Fosdick level when it comes to the holes.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 8:43:55am

#FAFO - election interference edition (sending threatening messages subedition)

Mark Rissi, a 65-year-old from Iowa, pleaded guilty to sending threatening messages to two Arizona officials after the 2020 election.

He was sentenced to 30 months in jail — six months more than requested by the Justice Department. https://t.co/MmVvjTE2Kc

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 30, 2023

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 8:51:03am

This will work out well for Floridians who will be cash-strapped after the hurricane wraps up its damage path through the state.

DeSantis is making it more expensive to rebuild after the hurricane by blocking energy efficiency programs/incentives to rebuild better.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 30, 2023

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 8:52:32am

re: #272 lawhawk

And right after Joe pre-approved for hurricane relief.

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A Cranky One Aug 30, 2023 • 8:54:25am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 30, 2023 • 9:07:42am

re: #204 No Malarkey!

Today’s sentencing of Enrique Tarrio and another PB cancelled due to an unstated “emergency.” My first thought was “the Hurricane isn’t going anywhere near D.C.” Now I’m wondering if Tarrio attempted suicide.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 30, 2023 • 9:08:16am

re: #169 Nerdy Fish

This was a weird one.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 9:11:48am

re: #272 lawhawk

“The Inflation Reduction Act makes Florida eligible for some $350 million in energy efficiency incentives. But Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected the funding and other measures”

Of course not, because Joe Biden keeps putting signs up reminding people where the money came from.

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BeachDem Aug 30, 2023 • 9:12:01am

re: #274 A Cranky One

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 30, 2023 • 9:12:35am

re: #275 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Bomb threat?

Sick judge as established upthread. They don’t seem to have backup like people in other jobs have.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 9:16:00am

re: #278 BeachDem

Or, in the words of Jeff Tiedrich, “I rolled my eyes so hard that I sprained my big toe.”

The same people who took offense at Michelle Obama’s bare arms.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 9:17:53am

re: #273 PhillyPretzel ✅

And right after Joe pre-approved for hurricane relief.

We will soon be hearing stories about how Democratic supporters will be a) given special treatment and b) squandering hurricane aid on rib-eye steaks and shrimps.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 9:19:10am

re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The same people who took offense at Michelle Obama’s bare arms.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 30, 2023 • 9:21:03am

The insurance rep for the company that wrecked my car hasn’t replied to an email from Friday. I’m getting a bad feeling about this. I just emailed again and will follow up with a call this afternoon.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 9:23:52am

re: #275 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Nope. Just judge got sick. Rescheduled to Sept 5.

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darthstar Aug 30, 2023 • 9:26:51am

Elon Mode disables the prompt to keep your hands on the wheel.

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Captain Ron Aug 30, 2023 • 9:27:15am

Alabama GOP State Rep Arrested For Voter Fraud https://t.co/mmwFxumtHX

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) August 30, 2023

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 9:28:41am

re: #286 Captain Ron

Every GOP accusation is a confession and a distraction from their own crime spree.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 9:28:58am

INCOMING…

Rudy Giuliani, who keeps telling courts he’s broke, just got hit with a $132,000 bill from a judge

businessinsider.com

now let’s figure that out…$132,000 divided by $222.68 for a case of Tito’s Vodka = aw shit Rudy means you can’t get 592 cases of brain rotting booze.

so sad…too bad….

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KGxvi Aug 30, 2023 • 9:30:37am

re: #7 mmmirele

I think part of it is also a generational thing. For a lot of boomers in leadership positions, this is the way we have always done things and that’s just all there is to it. It doesn’t matter if employees are more efficient/effective working from home. The leadership is just too conservative/risk adverse/set in their ways to contemplate doing things any other way.

Throw in potential added costs - covering computers and phones that remote employees are using, for example - and they see return to office as the path of least resistance for them, because, again, this is how they’ve always done it.

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Jay C Aug 30, 2023 • 9:33:05am

re: #288 Joe Bacon ✅

INCOMING…

Rudy Giuliani, who keeps telling courts he’s broke, just got hit with a $132,000 bill from a judge

businessinsider.com

now let’s figure that out…$132,000 divided by $222.68 for a case of Tito’s Vodka = aw shit Rudy means you can’t get 592 cases of brain rotting booze.

so sad…too bad….

To judge by Rudy’s general demeanor, he’s already finished them off…
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 9:34:15am

re: #282 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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KGxvi Aug 30, 2023 • 9:34:23am

re: #279 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Sick judge as established upthread. They don’t seem to have backup like people in other jobs have.

The judge’s other hearing (especially on the civil side) are likely being covered by another judge and/or a magistrate. But the attorneys/parties involved have to consent to a different judge hearing the matter. I’m not sure the particular rules governing sentencing because I avoided criminal law practice like the plague, but I suspect it isn’t the sort of thing that anyone wants a substitute for.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Aug 30, 2023 • 9:34:56am

re: #127 No Malarkey!

In his efforts to get the Fulton County case against him removed to federal court, Mark Meadows lied under oath that he had no idea that the Trump Campaign was seeking to reverse the election results in Georgia and Michigan.

“I’m not criminal! I’m just so incompetent that I shouldn’t be employed by anyone to do anything!”

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wrenchwench Aug 30, 2023 • 9:35:04am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 9:37:57am

Rebecca Watson reports on a new study published in Nature on the after effects of Covid-19 for people who had “severe” and “mild” cases.

TL;DV: Don’t get it, keep up with mitigation strategies such as masks and social distancing, especially since there is another surge of cases.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 30, 2023 • 9:39:23am

re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Of course not, because Joe Biden keeps putting signs up reminding people where the money came from.

Plus it has to be used for energy efficiency projects and isn’t a block grant he can funnel to millionaire conservatives.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 30, 2023 • 9:39:48am

re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Aug 30, 2023 • 9:43:10am

re: #181 lawhawk

The transition of office space to housing is a slow one, because office buildings aren’t designed with residential purposes in mind. The utilities are designed for office space, including open floor plates, limited water, sewer, and gas lines. It would require rejiggering spaces and utilities throughout the building to allow new residential units to go in.

It’s doable, but it’s a costly move too, where conversion costs run between $100 and $500 a square foot (depending on what office market you’re talking about). CBRE, which is a major office space purveyor, has thoughts on conversions.

And handing sewage and water in tall buildings offers some particular extra issues. With very not fun consequences if you screw it up. I came across an article once in Philadelphia talking about some of the issues with handling sewage in the Comcast Tower (at that time the tallest building in Philly - now second behind Comcast II).

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 30, 2023 • 9:43:47am

re: #295 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Rebecca Watson reports on a new study published in Nature on the after effects of Covid-19 for people who had “severe” and “mild” cases.

TL;DV: Don’t get it, keep up with mitigation strategies such as masks and social distancing, especially since there is another surge of cases.

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Don’t get it isn’t an option for anyone who’s work involves face to face contact with other people.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 9:46:55am

Trump doesn’t participate in debates, leads pack by 30 points?
Trump isn’t doing campaign stops to degree others are, and is leading pack by 30 points.

Why would he do anything different? He can’t afford to do campaign stops, and he doesn’t need to - he’s leading the field by 30+ points and it doesn’t matter to the GOP base that he’s facing life in prison in multiple criminal cases across multiple jurisdictions.

None of the other candidates has an answer to this other than trying to pander to the GOP base by saying they’d vote for Trump if he’s the nominee, that they’d pardon him if convicted, etc.

GOP delenda est.

As @brittybernstein reported last week, Trump has held just 17 events in the 3 early primary states since joining the race last Nov — DeSantis, who announced nearly six months later, has held 78; Vivek & Haley, who entered in Feb., have held 105 & 88 https://t.co/n4VfqROarK

— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) August 30, 2023

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wrenchwench Aug 30, 2023 • 9:47:05am

Mastodon

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gwangung Aug 30, 2023 • 9:52:23am

re: #298 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And handing sewage and water in tall buildings offers some particular extra issues. With very not fun consequences if you screw it up. I came across an article once in Philadelphia talking about some of the issues with handling sewage in the Comcast Tower (at that time the tallest building in Philly - now second behind Comcast II).

There’s an architect over at Balloon Juice that has gone over these problems. The upshot is that it’s cheaper to knock down 3-7 story office buildings and rebuild. Trying to convert taller buildings is just not doable.

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KGxvi Aug 30, 2023 • 9:55:27am

re: #300 lawhawk

Trump doesn’t participate in debates, leads pack by 30 points?
Trump isn’t doing campaign stops to degree others are, and is leading pack by 30 points.

Why would he do anything different? He can’t afford to do campaign stops, and he doesn’t need to - he’s leading the field by 30+ points and it doesn’t matter to the GOP base that he’s facing life in prison in multiple criminal cases across multiple jurisdictions.

None of the other candidates has an answer to this other than trying to pander to the GOP base by saying they’d vote for Trump if he’s the nominee, that they’d pardon him if convicted, etc.

GOP delenda est.

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this is the first time since 1912 that a former president has run for office again. It is fairly unprecedented, and let’s be honest, Trump is no Teddy Roosevelt - in fact he may be the antithesis of TR.

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 9:55:28am

It’s not just Rudy. @JennaEllisEsq, @BernardKerik and Katherine Friess are all trying to avoid discovery. pic.twitter.com/WPoAOXB5VU

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 30, 2023

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 30, 2023 • 9:56:56am

re: #304 lawhawk

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 9:58:31am

re: #275 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Bomb threat?

Judge is taking a sick day.

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Belafon Aug 30, 2023 • 9:58:46am

re: #305 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Jenna is going to find that talking about Jesus will not keep her out of prison. On the other hand, it will help her make some friends there.

Jenna will be the one that comes out with teardrop tattoos.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:01:04am

re: #289 KGxvi

I think part of it is also a generational thing. For a lot of boomers in leadership positions, this is the way we have always done things and that’s just all there is to it. It doesn’t matter if employees are more efficient/effective working from home. The leadership is just too conservative/risk adverse/set in their ways to contemplate doing things any other way.

Throw in potential added costs - covering computers and phones that remote employees are using, for example - and they see return to office as the path of least resistance for them, because, again, this is how they’ve always done it.

There are, of course, some jobs that probably need to stay centralized in the main office. For instance, I expect an IT support position that is maintaining and issuing company computers to remain staffed. Central location and space for parts. Arguably it could include a sort of “travel servicing” but that is time your techs are spending going to/from computers to work on that can be used to work on computers in a central location. (And if someone brings in a faulty laptop or other equipment you can issue and test that a replacement works - or have them work from a HQ cubicle while a repair or reimaging takes place.)

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goddamnedfrank Aug 30, 2023 • 10:02:17am

bsky.app

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:02:29am

re: #295 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Rebecca Watson reports on a new study published in Nature on the after effects of Covid-19 for people who had “severe” and “mild” cases.

TL;DV: Don’t get it, keep up with mitigation strategies such as masks and social distancing, especially since there is another surge of cases.

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skepchick.org

My next door neighbor got it the other week, it served to remind me to keep a low profile and enjoy the outdoor socializing season while it lasts…

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 10:03:13am

re: #304 lawhawk

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Belafon Aug 30, 2023 • 10:03:34am

re: #308 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

My wife works from home for a medical billing company. Hardware is mailed to her as needed, and software maintenance is done remotely.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:04:50am

re: #300 lawhawk

New post: “Trump Is Taking a Risk by Not Campaigning”

Trump need not take any risks, he is going to win the primary hands down and probably have it all sewed up before the primaries are over.

That is a given.

I don’t see how him campaigning in the GOP primaries is going to help him get more votes in the general election (where he will certainly lose the popular vote as he has done twice already)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:05:27am

re: #303 KGxvi

this is the first time since 1912 that a former president has run for office again. It is fairly unprecedented, and let’s be honest, Trump is no Teddy Roosevelt - in fact he may be the antithesis of TR.

His hero was and is Andrew Jackson.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:08:16am

re: #312 Belafon

My wife works from home for a medical billing company. Hardware is mailed to her as needed, and software maintenance is done remotely.

Which works to some degree. I’ve worked with enough people whose PC knowledge is minimal (or they are afraid of them) that I’d not trust them to switch out a bad hard drive. Or follow a simple set of instructions on how to do it. (Assuming they are decently written.*)

I expect that a hybrid version of it would come into being. Do stuff remotely if requested and can be done. Bring stuff in for other things, etc. etc.

* - Or you get things like this. (A classic.)

MASH: But First Remove the Fuse

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 10:11:32am

re: #315 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

thanks for the laugh.

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Belafon Aug 30, 2023 • 10:14:10am

re: #315 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The machine my wife has is about 4x10x10. It’s designed to allow two monitors, a keyboard, mouse, and a network connection to remote into a server where she does her work. If it goes bad, they just send her a new box.

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Captain Ron Aug 30, 2023 • 10:15:43am

re: #309 goddamnedfrank

A couple of months ago I had a $50,000 emergency plumbing repair. That really put a dent in my plans to buy an EMTB in the next year.

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KGxvi Aug 30, 2023 • 10:16:06am

re: #314 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

His hero was and is Andrew Jackson.

makes sense, Jackson set back the early republic more than just about anyone. Trump wants to set back the modern republic more than just about anyone.

I think I’m in a biography mood, any one have suggestions on which TR biographies are the way to go? I’m not a fan of autobiographies because of the auto part. Also thinking I need a Hemmingway biography because that dude’s story is just fucking nuts.

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wrenchwench Aug 30, 2023 • 10:17:25am

Mastodon

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jaunte Aug 30, 2023 • 10:20:20am

powering down

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 10:20:34am

N.H. AG reviewing whether or not Trump is barred from the primary ballot by the 14th Amendment for being an insurrectionist. This issue is being taken seriously and could be the GOP’s best shot at denying Trump the nomination.

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William Lewis Aug 30, 2023 • 10:23:32am

Rewatching the Nolan Bats…

“I never said thank you!!”

(Turns around)”And you’ll never have too!!”

possibly the single finest live action moment of batman.

There were more than a few better in animation but that was. The. Best. In. Live. Action.

I am so very glad I got to see it.

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goddamnedfrank Aug 30, 2023 • 10:24:01am

re: #321 jaunte

powering down

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jaunte Aug 30, 2023 • 10:28:01am

re: #324 goddamnedfrank

I don’t know; they seem to happen more in children:
epilepsy.com?

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 10:29:55am

re: #322 No Malarkey!

I know PA’s Sec of State would happy to kick DT off the ballot. DT has called him a RINO and a heck of a lot worse.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:30:25am

re: #319 KGxvi

makes sense, Jackson set back the early republic more than just about anyone. Trump wants to set back the modern republic more than just about anyone.

I think I’m in a biography mood, any one have suggestions on which TR biographies are the way to go? I’m not a fan of autobiographies because of the auto part. Also thinking I need a Hemmingway biography because that dude’s story is just fucking nuts.

Edmund Morris’ trilogy I think is currently considered the go-to on TR.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Rex
Colonel Roosevelt

And I think TR’s background and New York political career and offices are something that has to be read about since it establishes an awful lot about him.

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HRH Stanley Sea Aug 30, 2023 • 10:30:40am

It’s freaking bad

Here’s video of the episode McConnell had just now in Covington, KY: pic.twitter.com/bBSAZWX8K6

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) August 30, 2023

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nines09 Aug 30, 2023 • 10:31:32am

re: #328 HRH Stanley Sea

Yeah, but Biden is too old…..

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Florida Panhandler Aug 30, 2023 • 10:31:40am

For those monitoring the current hurricane here is what the Panhandle looked like west of the storm this morning. The surfers were out with no one else allowed in the water. Surfers can obtain a special license from the County for conditions like this. The water line is up about 30ft-40ft from where it usual is.

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William Lewis Aug 30, 2023 • 10:33:56am

JESUS MFCHRIST We got lucky these guys didn’t drop this bird into a bunch of people.

Christ.

These are some real shit birds.

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EstebanTornado1963 Aug 30, 2023 • 10:33:56am

This guy is an idiot

Democrat says court dates clashing with Trump’s campaign schedule is unfair https://t.co/yTVpFBuuHe

— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) August 30, 2023

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Florida Panhandler Aug 30, 2023 • 10:35:28am

re: #332 EstebanTornado1963

This guy is an idiot

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lawhawk Aug 30, 2023 • 10:36:03am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Oh, definitely. Alla that shit. It goes with the mindset.

In my experience, lawyers (and I DO NOT mean to include our pal lawhawk in this!) tend to be the kind of people who get heavily into drugs like cocaine. Not sure what that says about the US legal system.

Me, I tried it enough to know I didn’t like the shit.

Alcohol.

The drug of choice for most lawyers tends to be alcohol. Not my experience that they do other drugs, but drinking is how a lot gets done, and how a lot of lawyers deal with stress.

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jaunte Aug 30, 2023 • 10:37:09am

re: #332 EstebanTornado1963

Sure, let’s allow Trump to game the entire justice system by moving his campaign events around.

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Nerdy Fish Aug 30, 2023 • 10:37:27am

re: #332 EstebanTornado1963

This guy is an idiot

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 10:44:10am

re: #332 EstebanTornado1963

This guy is an idiot

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Captain Ron Aug 30, 2023 • 10:45:16am

BREAKING NEWS: Sen. Mitch McConnell appearing to have another scary episode in the media gaggle in Covington today. Aides had to step in to help him out and repeat questions. He was eventually lead away. We’ll have the full video on @WLWT pic.twitter.com/q9ex5MHxLV

— Hannah Thomas (@HannahPThomas) August 30, 2023

He has lost weight & he looks very, very pale.

— NoraRiversklk (@KcraKarmen) August 30, 2023

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Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 10:45:16am

Oh my somebody hit Matt’s nerve instead of his Twinkee?

CPAC’s Matt and Mercedes Schlapp attack ‘Satan’s publication’ The Daily Beast after new report on sexual battery lawsuit

alternet.org

Less than 48 hours after The Daily Beast published another article on the sexual battery allegations and lawsuit against right-wing lobbyist and CPAC chief Matt Schlapp, his wife Mercedes Schlapp labeled the news organization “Satan’s publication to persecute Christians and their families.”

The Daily Beast’s senior political reporter Roger Sollenberger Monday night published reporting alleging Matt Schlapp “made an offer in March to settle the multimillion-dollar sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against him, but the proposal was rejected, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the matter.”

“Schlapp’s accuser—Republican strategist Carlton Huffman, who filed the lawsuit against Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, in January—turned it down and countered with a substantially higher sum. Schlapp did not accept the counterproposal, the sources said,” Sollenberger wrote. The Schlapp’s publicist denies the settlement offer was made.

Matt Schlapp is the Chairman of the American Conservative Union, the company that organizes the influential Conservative Political Action Conference known as CPAC. In January, a longtime Republican operative who was working as an aide to the Herschel Walker Senate campaign alleged Schlapp had, against his wishes, sexually assaulted him. In video he recorded immediately after the alleged attack, that aide accused Schlapp of “groping,” and “pummeling” his genitals.

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Shropshire Slasher Aug 30, 2023 • 10:46:39am

Yummy, homemade oatmeal raisin cookies.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:48:06am

re: #334 lawhawk

Alcohol.

The drug of choice for most lawyers tends to be alcohol. Not my experience that they do other drugs, but drinking is how a lot gets done, and how a lot of lawyers deal with stress.

A lot of lawyering is brokering and deal-making with other lawers, judges and officials. Such negotiations are often fuelled and oiled by alcoholic beverages.

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jaunte Aug 30, 2023 • 10:48:31am

re: #339 Joe Bacon ✅

So according to Schlapp, his being sued by Republican strategists and operatives means Christians and their families are being persecuted.

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jaunte Aug 30, 2023 • 10:49:32am

re: #341 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That’s what Texas legislators always told the Austin cops who stopped them.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 30, 2023 • 10:50:54am

re: #332 EstebanTornado1963

This guy is an idiot

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A comment says that he’s a Bernie stooge rather than a mainstream Democrat.

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 30, 2023 • 10:51:06am

re: #338 Captain Ron

What Nora said. He’s not healthy at all.

I’m worried he’s gonna collapse in front of the cameras before long.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 30, 2023 • 10:51:43am

re: #340 Shropshire Slasher

Yummy, homemade oatmeal raisin cookies.

The point of making them yourself is to not include raisins, and ideally replace them with chocolate chips.

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No Malarkey! Aug 30, 2023 • 10:52:34am

If Biden did this, every media outlet in the country would be demanding his immediate resignation.

— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) August 30, 2023

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:52:52am

re: #346 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The point of making them yourself is to not include raisins, and ideally replace them with chocolate chips.

I don’t dislike raisin cookies, but chocolate chips win every time

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BlueSpotinAL ✅ Aug 30, 2023 • 10:53:41am

re: #318 Captain Ron

A couple of months ago I had a $50,000 emergency plumbing repair. That really put a dent in my plans to buy an EMTB in the next year.

Had a water line leak fixed a few days ago. Sewer backup yesterday, waiting for the plumber. Water line will cost me a $500 deductible plus whatever extra water bill will be. Maybe a thousand total. Caught the sewer backup in basement toilet before overflow. Not posting a pic. Lysol improved the air considerably.

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retired cynic Aug 30, 2023 • 10:53:42am

re: #346 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The point of making them yourself is to not include raisins, and ideally replace them with chocolate chips.

No, no. Oatmeal raisin is my cookie of choice. Really!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:54:12am

re: #347 No Malarkey!

If Biden did this, every media outlet in the country would be demanding his immediate resignation.

If Biden sneezes twice or has to take some sick time off, they will.

They already have the articles written, they are just waiting for him to show some sort of symptom of something

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BeenHereAwhile Aug 30, 2023 • 10:54:43am

re: #307 Belafon

Jenna will be the one that comes out with teardrop tattoos.

Do unto others!

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retired cynic Aug 30, 2023 • 10:56:05am

re: #347 No Malarkey!

He looks and sounds terrible.

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Patricia Kayden Aug 30, 2023 • 10:58:34am

re: #219 No Malarkey!

Nope. You don’t get to tell a woman what to do with her body. Contraception doesn’t work for all women. Plus, some women can’t take contraceptives for medical reasons. Just mind your dang business!!

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Aug 30, 2023 • 10:58:58am

re: #334 lawhawk

Alcohol.

The drug of choice for most lawyers tends to be alcohol. Not my experience that they do other drugs, but drinking is how a lot gets done, and how a lot of lawyers deal with stress.

At my first firm in the early ’80s (total staff of 100) there was an open-to-all-at-all-times well-stocked bar.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Aug 30, 2023 • 11:01:23am

re: #348 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I don’t dislike raisin cookies, but chocolate chips win every time

I’ll pick them out. Even plain is better than with raisins.

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BeenHereAwhile Aug 30, 2023 • 11:05:05am

re: #314 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

[Trump’s] hero was and is Andrew Jackson.

It is interesting to speculate how Jackson (1767 - 1845) would have dealt with Southern nullification had he been alive in the 1860s.

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BeenHereAwhile Aug 30, 2023 • 11:10:04am

re: #319 KGxvi

makes sense, Jackson set back the early republic more than just about anyone. Trump wants to set back the modern republic more than just about anyone.

I think I’m in a biography mood, any one have suggestions on which TR biographies are the way to go? I’m not a fan of autobiographies because of the auto part. Also thinking I need a Hemmingway biography because that dude’s story is just fucking nuts.

Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story
by Carlos Baker | Jan 1, 1969
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000H9OYAG
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1122020678

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Aug 30, 2023 • 11:31:38am

re: #336 Nerdy Fish

So he should get special treatment as an alleged criminal because he is a political candidate? You really want to set that precedent, that all any criminal has to do to get out of jail free (both figuratively and, potentially, literally) is to say, “I DECLARE CANDIDACY!!!”

They really want to set the precedent that Republicans simply never get charged with crimes.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Aug 30, 2023 • 11:33:40am

re: #357 BeenHereAwhile

It is interesting to speculate how Jackson (1767 - 1845) would have dealt with Southern nullification had he been alive in the 1860s.

Negatively I think. Didn’t he once threaten to hang Calhoun regarding some dispute regarding state nullification of federal law?

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EPR-radar Aug 30, 2023 • 11:59:01am

re: #332 EstebanTornado1963

This guy is the Representative for my district — it’s a pity he’s being an idiot about this.

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