At Last, New Music From Midnight Oil: “Rising Seas”

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Midnight Oil – Rising Seas (Official Video)

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Production Company: Hype Republic
Director: Cameron March
Executive Producer: Macario De Souza
Producers: Michaela Le / Macario De Souza
DOP: Sean Ryan
1st AD: Murray Robertson
1st AC: Nicholas Jackson
2nd AC: Rebecca Wilson
Gaffer: Steve Schofield
Grip: Damian Heckendorf
Production Assistant/Assistant Editor: Jarred Lammiman
Best Boy: Alan Fraser
Wardrobe: Simone Turnbull
HMU: Lisa Fulginiti
Featuring footage courtesy of Greenpeace greenpeace.org.au

Lyrics

Rising Seas
(Written by Jim Moginie)

Every child put down your toys
And come inside to sleep
We have to look you in the eye and say we sold you cheap
Let’s confess we did not act
With serious urgency
So open up the floodgates
To the rising seas

Temperature rising
Climate denying
Fever is gripping
Nobody’s listening
Lustre is fading
Because nobody’s trading
Wall Street is jumping
Still the music keeps pumping

If you can’t decide
Between wrong and right
If you can’t see through
All that you hold true

Queen of the firmament
Lord of all beneath
Masters of the universe
We’re all refugees
And in many countries they adore celebrities
Open up the floodgates
To the rising seas

Dinosaur stories
Reliving past glories
Lusting for gold
F-f-fishing for souls
They said it was coming
We knew it was a-coming

If you lift your game
Put your toys away
Well it looks like rain
On that western plain

Queen of the firmament
Lord of all beneath
Masters of the universe
We’re all refugees
And in many countries they adore celebrities
Open up the floodgates
To the rising seas

#midnightoil #midnightoilband #risingseas

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142 comments
1
Belafon  Oct 28, 2021 • 7:55:03pm

I asked my son to give an explanation to a question someone here asked the other night about why polio and smallpox don’t mutate as much as the flu, and here’s his response:

The flu, coronavirus, and hiv are all viruses that use RNA instead of DNA. All viruses use the host’s cells to reproduce, but those that use DNA have to go through DNA replication’s proofreading steps that don’t exist for reverse transcription from RNA. RNA is also more unstable and prone to many more random changes.

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plansbandc  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:00:25pm

Look at this stunning moth…

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retired cynic  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:04:16pm

re: #2 plansbandc

Wow. Where is that? Do you know what kind it is? I have never seen the like, as my grandmother would say.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:07:29pm

re: #2 plansbandc

Look at this stunning moth…

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WOW! I have Never seen a Green Moth!

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JOE 🥓  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:09:44pm

More Elephant Shit.

Trump-loving sheriff’s big ‘election fraud’ reveal ends with a whimper as no criminal charges filed

Wisconsin election law violations: Racine County sheriff reveals findings | FOX6 News Milwaukee

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jaunte  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:19:22pm

re: #2 plansbandc

Synchlora aerata
en.wikipedia.org

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retired cynic  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:21:21pm

re: #6 jaunte

Thank you!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:22:34pm
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retired cynic  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:30:14pm

A Towering Hammered Steel Lion by Selçuk Yılmaz
thisiscolossal.com

Take my word for it. You need to see this lion! Both the close up and the shot with the sculptor/metal worker.

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jaunte  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:31:26pm

re: #9 retired cynic

Wow!

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retired cynic  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:32:55pm

re: #10 jaunte

I ordinarily want a smaller house, even a tiny house, but part of me wants a house where that could be displayed!

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:33:39pm

re: #1 Belafon

I asked my son to give an explanation to a question someone here asked the other night about why polio and smallpox don’t mutate as much as the flu, and here’s his response:

I was the one who asked the question. Smallpox was a DNA virus, but mumps/polio/measles are all single strand RNA viruses.

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gwangung  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:35:11pm

re: #12 Hecuba’s daughter

I was the one who asked the question. Smallpox was a DNA virus, but mumps/polio/measles are all single strand RNA viruses.

I believe it also depends on whether the virus can cross species; if it infect multiple species, there are then lots of reservoirs for it to hide out it and continue to mutate…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:37:13pm

re: #4 JOE 🥓

WOW! I have Never seen a Green Moth!

It wasn’t ripe.
/

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JOE 🥓  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:44:40pm

re: #14 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

It wasn’t ripe.
/

Neither was this Killer Moth!

dailymotion.com

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Oct 28, 2021 • 8:52:15pm

re: #15 JOE 🥓

Neither was this Killer Moth!

dailymotion.com

Holy multi-generation VHS copy, Batman!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 28, 2021 • 9:16:21pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 28, 2021 • 9:25:09pm
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stpaulbear  Oct 28, 2021 • 9:32:04pm

I early voted for mayor and some school board seats in St. Paul this afternoon. We managed to avoid having any right wing crazies on the ballot, with six of the eight candidates being highly qualified for the job. We voted for four on the ballot.
We could do ranked choice voting for up to six candidates for mayor. Unfortunately, only good candidate is the incumbent mayor. He’s pretty much the certain winner so I only voted for him.
I was the only one in line when I got there but there were quite a few people arriving as I left the building. It’s good to have it taken care of.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2021 • 9:46:39pm

re: #18 Dread Pirate Ron

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Answer’s simple: They don’t want anything that’s in the reconciliation bill. But the stuff in the infrastructure bill goes to some of their donors, so they’re getting all sorts of pressure to make it happen.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2021 • 10:05:22pm

So a $10T bill got carved down to $6T, then $3.5T after all the “hard” infrastructure was put into a separate bill because corporate Dems and “moderate” Repubs insisted they’d support that, and now it’s $1.5T after the leadership went at it with a vengeance in order to appease those same corporate Dems and still they’re opposed to it.

My position remains the same: If there is no reconciliation bill passed, then nothing should pass. Fuck the corporate Dems and fuck this idea that Dems as a whole are supposed to show they can “govern” by “passing something.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 28, 2021 • 10:11:44pm

re: #21 Targetpractice

So a $10T bill got carved down to $6T, then $3.5T after all the “hard” infrastructure was put into a separate bill because corporate Dems and “moderate” Repubs insisted they’d support that, and now it’s $1.5T after the leadership went at it with a vengeance in order to appease those same corporate Dems and still they’re opposed to it.

My position remains the same: If there is no reconciliation bill passed, then nothing should pass. Fuck the corporate Dems and fuck this idea that Dems as a whole are supposed to show they can “govern” by “passing something.”

Well if you want to guarantee that the GOP takes control and never relinquishes it, go ahead and do that. If we want big programs, we need more Democrats in the Senate. The House requires only a bare majority, especially with Nancy in charge. But the Senate doesn’t work that way. Can’t have it all? So let’s go with nothing and lose everything.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2021 • 10:17:18pm

re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter

Well if you want to guarantee that the GOP takes control and never relinquishes it, go ahead and do that. If we want big programs, we need more Democrats in the Senate. The House requires only a bare majority, especially with Nancy in charge. But the Senate doesn’t work that way. Can’t have it all? So let’s go with nothing and lose everything.

We can stand by the progressives and argue that we need more of their numbers in the party to overcome corporate influence or we can side with the corporate minority and argue that if progressives want anything more than table scraps then they need to vote harder.

We tried the latter in 2010.

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Citizen K  Oct 28, 2021 • 10:47:30pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 28, 2021 • 10:57:51pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

We can stand by the progressives and argue that we need more of their numbers in the party to overcome corporate influence or we can side with the corporate minority and argue that if progressives want anything more than table scraps then they need to vote harder.

We tried the latter in 2010.

Please — what happened in 2010 was the Tea Party, a failed website, and Faux News. If the website had operated successfully at the beginning, it is possible that the Democrats would have retained the House. If both bills fail in 2021, the House and the Senate will go red in 2022 and Biden’s presidency is over. The GOP cooperated once — to get the bipartisan infrastructure bill through the Senate. They will never cooperate again on any real legislation and certainly not on a new infrastructure plan.

Hopefully, the pared down BBB will survive and the public will forget the squabbles in getting the legislation through. It was the moderates (with the help of non-Bernie Dems) who selected Biden as the nominee and got us tentative control of the government. To get big packages — you normally need big majorities, not this razor thin margin. To get to this majority, Biden needs to show the public something — and the infrastructure bill is something, even if you don’t think so. The GOP failed to do it when they had complete control — it means something to the voting public if the Dems can get through what the GOP couldn’t. But if we refuse to, the public will have every reason to think the Dems are as worthless as the GOP in governing.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2021 • 11:05:36pm

So the Brexit fallout is now moving from simmer to boil:

Brexit was all about fish - and fish is the altar upon which the nation has been happily sacrificed

It is arguably disappointing that a once-in-a-century pandemic that shut down the entire world for an entire year, will - according to the government’s own analysis - only be half as economically damaging as the decision to leave the European Union, which was inflicted on us by absolutely no one apart from ourselves.

Brexit will shrink the economy by 4 per cent, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, compared to a mere 2 per cent for Covid, though of course it is an either/or. We really do get to enjoy both.

[…]

So it is arguably also disappointing that a British fishing boat has been, in effect, taken prisoner by French authorities, quite possibly for no good reason at all, and there’s nothing we can do about it. No fish, in other words, and no sovereignty either.

[…]

For those who didn’t catch the news: The French enforced their fishing rights, and now the Brits are all up in arms.

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sagehen  Oct 28, 2021 • 11:07:06pm

re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

Please — what happened in 2010 was the Tea Party, a failed website, and Faux News. If the website had operated successfully at the beginning, it is possible that the Democrats would have retained the House. If both bills fail in 2021, the House and the Senate will go red in 2022 and Biden’s presidency is over. The GOP cooperated once — to get the bipartisan infrastructure bill through the Senate. They will never cooperate again on any real legislation and certainly not on a new infrastructure plan.

HEY!! Don’t blame an ACA website that went online in 2013. That was ALWAYS intended to go online in 2013. Maybe that’s part of the reason for 2014, but absolutely not for 2010.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2021 • 11:16:38pm

A while back I was scaremongering about future election effects of an economic downturn, projecting that the Dems would lose control of Congress and such.

Now, we do see a global issue of the pandemic spilling over into many a national blundering around the world.

Brexit is only one problem (though a big one for the UK and its trading partners.) There are supply chain issues around the world.

The world order, so to speak, is starting to make uncomfortable noises, sort of when something breaks in your car’s engine.

So I think we’re in for some big political theater and a great deal of angst going ahead into the 2022 elections, based around the issues of under-employment as well as unemployment. Unemployment figures of course only count those looking for jobs. The social cost of the disheartened who have given up on jobs and careers is not counted.

Herein I see a great problem for the generations after me. Many of them were told to go to college (well, my generation was too but a smaller fraction of us actually went) and that would guarantee them a good job. Well that just hasn’t turned out to be true in many cases.

And for good reason. In the past college graduates were a small minority of the population and were aimed at the professions and other high paying jobs.

The belief that if everybody went to college and got a degree then they’d also get such careers was never founded in reality. Reality is only a sliver of a population sits in that second tier of the social pyramid, the tier that sits right under the top (in old days the nobility, in these days the very rich.)

This is going to be a hard reckoning for American politics. The Democratic party only exists, and has so for the last 80 years or so, for those people who don’t want to be Republicans (which has been more ideologically driven even from the beginning, back in Lincoln’s day.)

So, come 2022, I hope that the good willed are still energetic enough to go vote, because the atavists are always there hoping to go backwards.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 28, 2021 • 11:32:46pm

re: #27 sagehen

HEY!! Don’t blame an ACA website that went online in 2013. That was ALWAYS intended to go online in 2013. Maybe that’s part of the reason for 2014, but absolutely not for 2010.

You are right! My bad! My maxima bad! Maybe part of the reason for 2010 was that the 2009 stimulus package was too small. And too many Democrats did not run on the ACA; it should have been continually promoted instead of allowing its opponents to denigrate it; many of the key provisions didn’t take effect till 2014 and this delay gave the opposition more time to criticize the program.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2021 • 11:34:15pm

re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

Please — what happened in 2010 was the Tea Party, a failed website, and Faux News. If the website had operated successfully at the beginning, it is possible that the Democrats would have retained the House. If both bills fail in 2021, the House and the Senate will go red in 2022 and Biden’s presidency is over. The GOP cooperated once — to get the bipartisan infrastructure bill through the Senate. They will never cooperate again on any real legislation and certainly not on a new infrastructure plan.

Hopefully, the pared down BBB will survive and the public will forget the squabbles in getting the legislation through. It was the moderates (with the help of non-Bernie Dems) who selected Biden as the nominee and got us tentative control of the government. To get big packages — you normally need big majorities, not this razor thin margin. To get to this majority, Biden needs to show the public something — and the infrastructure bill is something, even if you don’t think so. The GOP failed to do it when they had complete control — it means something to the voting public if the Dems can get through what the GOP couldn’t. But if we refuse to, the public will have every reason to think the Dems are as worthless as the GOP in governing.

As already noted, the ACA website didn’t go online until 2013. But the law itself certainly failed to launch in 2010, and that falls squarely upon the corporate Dems who immediately started making noises about how they didn’t really support the effort and how they would have preferred a smaller bill that tinkered around the edges rather than the massive bill that progressives “forced” upon them.

As for infrastructure, I’ve three words for you: “Shovel ready jobs.” You might remember those as all the supposed “hard” infrastructure that corporate Dems insisted would win support in the midterms as part of the Recovery Act. It was supposed to be the Obama admin’s ace in the hole, all these construction projects that Congressional Dems could smile for the cameras as they cut a ribbon or shoveled some dirt, but instead became a massive white elephant that the party (rightly) got thrashed for in the midterms because all the jobs promised never materialized.

And that’s exactly what I see happening next November if we ram through the infrastructure bill over the objections of progressives and allow the BBB to fall flat. Repubs in red states and districts where projects do end up starting will take all the credit for getting that money, and when (or rather if) confronted about their “Nay” vote will insist that they supported money for their district but opposed the bill because of “socialist” spending that Dems wanted. Their Dem opponents will get no credit for the party passing the spending and instead confronted by all the Repub fearmongering over “runaway debt/inflation.” Dems as a whole will find themselves pointed and laughed when all the jobs promised don’t materialize and the bill deemed a “failure.” And all voters will hear about is that the bill drove up inflation, which they’ll see in higher prices at stores and online. And that regulatory red tape that’s holding back projects? Dems will also get blame for that, with the insistence being that if it wasn’t for the party’s “nanny state” regulation, then those projects would be going and those jobs would have been created. So that the final result will actually be a net negative for the party, because all politics are local and the media is not going to give us credit for good intentions.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2021 • 11:47:08pm

re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter

You are right! My bad! My maxima bad! Maybe part of the reason for 2010 was that the 2009 stimulus package was too small. And too many Democrats did not run on the ACA; it should have been continually promoted instead of allowing its opponents to denigrate it; many of the key provisions didn’t take effect till 2014 and this delay gave the opposition more time to criticize the program.

The Recovery Act was too small because corporate Dems demanded Repub buy-in and Repubs absolutely refused to support a bigger bill. And then the already anemic bill was further hurt because most of the spending authorized was heavily weighted towards tax cuts and corporate welfare, most of which were ultimately judged to be ineffective at actually getting the economy rolling again. The portions of the bill that actually helped jobless folks avoid bankruptcy and eviction? Those have been vindicated in the long run because giving people money to pay bills and put food on the table does more to keep the economy going than does giving states heaps of money to spend on projects that might not start for years.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Oct 29, 2021 • 12:02:31am

re: #31 Targetpractice

Those have been vindicated in the long run because giving people money to pay bills and put food on the table does more to keep the economy going than does giving states heaps of money to spend on projects that might not start for years.

Regardless those projects that might not start for years are still desperately needed and a fascist takeover by people who are trying to strip the country for parts on the orders of Putin sure as fuck aren’t going to do them.

The stimulus was about keeping the economy from crashing, the infrastructure projects are for keeping it competitive long term, so we aren’t backward yokels compared to Europe and Asia in 20 years.

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Targetpractice  Oct 29, 2021 • 12:06:08am

re: #32 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Regardless those projects that might not start for years are still desperately needed and a fascist takeover by people who are trying to strip the country for parts on the orders of Putin sure as fuck aren’t going to do them.

The stimulus was about keeping the economy from crashing, the infrastructure projects are for keeping it competitive long term, so we aren’t backward yokels compared to Europe and Asia in 20 years.

Unfortunately, since we killed earmarks years ago, the more likely scenario is that this bill is going to lead to the same sort of chaos that has happened with the Rescue Act (and past COVID relief bills): Large sums of money will be sent either to relevant federal agencies or to the states themselves, with no guarantee that they will be spent properly or that the spending will be effective. Which is how we have a red state using COVID funds to build a fucking prison.

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Targetpractice  Oct 29, 2021 • 12:17:12am

Here’s the problem in a nutshell: The infrastructure bill is being presented and will (if passed) be credited to “Congress.”

The BBB bill currently being gutted and held up? “Democrats.” And when it fails? “Progressives.”

Planning an election around taking credit for something that the media’s already ready to describe as a group effort is a recipe for failure.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 29, 2021 • 1:41:46am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 29, 2021 • 1:52:56am
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Targetpractice  Oct 29, 2021 • 1:53:23am

re: #35 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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They also had the money to pay a lawyer to file the motion saying they’re so poor that they can’t make a 12 hr drive from FL to DC.

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Targetpractice  Oct 29, 2021 • 2:06:43am

And how can you tell that the defendants are white? Because if they were black, the formal response to the motion filed would have been notification that bench warrants had been issued in their names for “failure to appear” and they have 24 hrs to haul their asses up to DC before he tacks on a “contempt” charge.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 29, 2021 • 2:17:59am
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steve_davis  Oct 29, 2021 • 3:17:47am

re: #23 Targetpractice

We can stand by the progressives and argue that we need more of their numbers in the party to overcome corporate influence or we can side with the corporate minority and argue that if progressives want anything more than table scraps then they need to vote harder.

We tried the latter in 2010.

yeah, we’re not getting more progressives. the majority of states are carving out districts in ways that increase “safe” democratic districts in order to vastly increase the number of republican ones through gerrymandering.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2021 • 3:31:47am

re: #8 Dread Pirate Ron

Sadly, she’s far behind the write-in DINO in the polls. Dang!!

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 4:10:15am

re: #4 JOE 🥓

WOW! I have Never seen a Green Moth!

… I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 4:16:53am

re: #35 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Total Bs
At most an overnight drive.
Some “financial burden”

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William Lewis  Oct 29, 2021 • 4:17:40am

Slow nights are dangerous. You get remembering things like that 12 string guitar you were thinking of buying before and realize that if you tweak the budget just a little bit…

Pretty…

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steve_davis  Oct 29, 2021 • 4:50:33am

re: #44 William Lewis

Slow nights are dangerous. You get remembering things like that 12 string guitar you were thinking of buying before and realize that if you tweak the budget just a little bit…

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Pretty…

I want an epiphone 59 “lazarus” but the damned things are now basically the same cost as a Gibson Studio, and they’re only on the used market.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 4:54:58am

7. We are one of seven in the world.

With paid family leave out of the Build Back Better framework released by the White House yesterday, the U.S. remains one of seven countries without paid leave for new moms, Bloomberg reports.

Axios lists the others: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea and Tonga.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 29, 2021 • 4:56:36am

re: #46 Dangerman

7. We are one of seven in the world.

And that is not exactly stellar company we’re keeping there.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 4:58:50am
“Migrant families separated at the border by the Trump administration may be eligible to each receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for the damage inflicted on them by the policy,” the New York Times reports,

“Some families could receive as much as $450,000 for each member who was directly affected.”

i’m all for this while to reinforces that another one of tfg’s brilliant plans, in the end, turns out to be a ‘financial’ loser

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William Lewis  Oct 29, 2021 • 5:02:16am

re: #45 steve_davis

I want an epiphone 59 “lazarus” but the damned things are now basically the same cost as a Gibson Studio, and they’re only on the used market.

< looks up guitar > OOooh! That could tempt me to a Les Paul. Very nice.

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BlueSpotinAL  Oct 29, 2021 • 5:13:29am

re: #37 Targetpractice

They also had the money to pay a lawyer to file the motion saying they’re so poor that they can’t make a 12 hr drive from FL to DC.

Response by Dewey, Cheatham and Howe:
Have you seen the price of gas lately? ////

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 5:22:59am
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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 5:25:54am
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 29, 2021 • 5:32:36am

re: #52 Belafon

For that second tweet - if his “medical condition” truly prevented him from getting the vaccine, the doctors would write him the note without hesitation. Because doctors aren’t in the habit of recommending patients do things that jeopardize their health.

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2021 • 5:47:09am

Good morning everyone…this is great.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 5:48:05am

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Targetpractice  Oct 29, 2021 • 5:55:47am

re: #46 Dangerman

7. We are one of seven in the world.

There’s nearly universal support in the US (including 3/4 of Repubs) in support of paid family leave.

This is a self-inflicted wound and we’ve only ourselves to blame. No amount of “hard” infrastructure spending is going to fix this.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 6:08:23am

electoral-vote.com

Trump acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene may be known for her fanatical loyalty, but she’s not exactly known for her financial acumen. And so, while others (whether Trumpers, or day traders, or speculators) were getting out, she was jumping in. She bought between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of shares when the price was near its peak. It has since dropped to about $60. So, she took a bath. It’s not known exactly how much of a bath, but it could well be into five figures.

What we have, then, is the possibility of TRUTH failing in epic fashion, for want of infrastructure, and it taking a chunk of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s net worth with it. For many Americans, that’s a lotta schadenfreude in one nice, tidy bundle. (Z)

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2021 • 6:08:32am

re: #56 Targetpractice

There’s nearly universal support in the US (including 3/4 of Repubs) in support of paid family leave.

This is a self-inflicted wound and we’ve only ourselves to blame. No amount of “hard” infrastructure spending is going to fix this.

MATA - Make America Tonga Again.

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2021 • 6:22:48am

MAGA Woodpeckers are the worst.

Good morning!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 29, 2021 • 6:35:03am

re: #46 Dangerman

7. We are one of seven in the world.

Capitalism, baby. Think of the poor producers that will have to pay for an unproductive peon.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 29, 2021 • 6:35:45am

re: #59 jeffreyw

Red-bellied woodpecker slander.

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2021 • 6:41:39am

re: #61 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Red-bellied woodpecker slander.

Truth is an absolute defense.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 29, 2021 • 6:53:15am
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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:06:39am

re: #63 Barefoot Grin

I guess we’re back to thinking Jar Jar is the ultimate Sith Lord.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:10:21am

re: #59 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

The green after the storm
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darthstar  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:10:43am

re: #63 Barefoot Grin

To the Meesaverse…and beyond!

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:11:40am

What truly makes Manchin and Sinema Republicans is that they don’t think they have to give up anything.

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JC1  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:15:59am

re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter

You are right! My bad! My maxima bad! Maybe part of the reason for 2010 was that the 2009 stimulus package was too small. And too many Democrats did not run on the ACA; it should have been continually promoted instead of allowing its opponents to denigrate it; many of the key provisions didn’t take effect till 2014 and this delay gave the opposition more time to criticize the program.

The ACA was weak sauce. Sure, better than nothing, but not nearly what it should have been.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:16:02am

re: #67 Belafon

What truly makes Manchin and Sinema Republicans is that they don’t think they have to give up anything.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:16:21am

re: #60 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Capitalism, baby. Think of the poor producers that will have to pay for an unproductive peon.

Iirc it was going to be fed govt subsidized

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steve_davis  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:16:56am

re: #49 William Lewis

< looks up guitar > OOooh! That could tempt me to a Les Paul. Very nice.

yeah, absolutely a stunner, with a one piece neck and correct 50’s wiring and pots. They list new at 899, but of course, they aren’t making any more, so they’re only available used for significant mark-ups.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:21:10am
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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:26:40am
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:28:27am

re: #73 Belafon

That’s what I was saying yesterday. I looked at the agenda provided by the White House, and it looked really fucking big. Like, I understand that there are provisions missing that we really really wanted. I am not underselling that by any means. But I am fully on board with the adage, “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” This is a good bill, given the circumstances. If we can convince those two idjits in the Senate to vote for it, we need to GO FOR IT.

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:29:22am
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darthstar  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:32:22am

re: #73 Belafon

THIS. And when it passes the Republicans will want to get credit for everything that’s in there.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:32:55am

re: #67 Belafon

What truly makes Manchin and Sinema Republicans is that they don’t think they have to give up anything.

If the Democrats had a real majority, Manchin and Sinema would be far more cooperative. But the Democrats don’t — and so we are stuck with them. It was McConnell who poisoned the Senate beyond recovery in 2009 when he made it a requirement that his party members vote for a filibuster to block everything. This transformed our politics and made it impossible for the parties to cooperate on any processes and that was when the Democrats had an overwhelming majority, but not 60 votes. If Kennedy had not died, everything would have been different.

This may be the last time during the Biden presidency that he will be able to accomplish anything through the legislative process.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:37:33am

30 e-mails from McAuliffe & Associates in my junk folder this morning…too much of a good thing, folks…

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A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:38:08am

re: #56 Targetpractice

From what I can understand from listening to congress members is that the leave won’t make it through the reconciliation process because it isn’t a direct government expense. It’s requiring that businesses grant the leave to new parents or people needing time off to care for a sick loved one, or are sick themselves. This is why many things got removed, as part of a process that is just stupid, but it’s what we have to work with.

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:46:31am

I’ll just leave this here for someone who may need it one day.

From a Maine Coon group on FB
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JOE 🥓  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:48:43am

Capitol cop resigns after being accused of aiding MAGA rioter: report

On Friday, POLITICO reported that Michael Riley, the Capitol Police officer facing charges for his alleged role in obstructing the investigation of the January 6 Capitol riot, has resigned from the force.

politico.com

Lock that prick up.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:50:46am

re: #74 Dopamine Fish

That’s what I was saying yesterday. I looked at the agenda provided by the White House, and it looked really fucking big. Like, I understand that there are provisions missing that we really really wanted. I am not underselling that by any means. But I am fully on board with the adage, “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” This is a good bill, given the circumstances. If we can convince those two idjits in the Senate to vote for it, we need to GO FOR IT.

we should all take a moment and consider:

you think biden just figured out it was a 50/50 senate yesterday?
senator, VP, almost 50 years experience in the sausage making business
he knew from the start. duh

so he/they made a ginormous ask; knowing full well
it’ll likely wind up huge rather than ginormous
and he didnt have to lie, cheat or steal from anyone

that is the art of the deal

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A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:53:40am

re: #79 A Mom Anon

Also, we need to be touting all the good things that will make it into the bill. We will NEVER get the same level of things done that LBJ and FDR got done without the majorities they had,and they don’t even have to be that large. Rather than get angry at democrats, we have got to get as many elected as possible. Our system is broken and based on money/lobbying/obscure bullshit and we can’t fix that without getting majorities in office. Our problems lie in large with KStreet and the PAC system that allows money to just be spent to hoard more money. With so much counting on just that, we get fucked over. The PHARMA PAC has commercials all over TV right now saying that allowing the government to negotiate lower drug prices you won’t get the meds you need, the government will control that, not your doctor. Then there’s the one with two women from Canada(yeah sure) who warn Americans that they don’t want the same system Canada has because, like them, they can’t get their cystic fibrosis medicines. That’s a huge issue, information being fed to the public is outright lies and no one bats an eyelash.

Also just saw on the news that Adam Kinzinger isn’t running for office again. So that’s another Republican seat up for grabs.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:55:14am

re: #82 Dangerman

we should all take a moment and consider:

you think biden just figured out it was a 50/50 senate yesterday?
senator, VP, almost 50 years experience in the sausage making business
he knew from the start. duh

so he/they made a ginormous ask; knowing full well
it’ll likely wind up huge rather than ginormous
and he didnt have to lie, cheat or steal from anyone

that is the art of the deal

Conversation similar to as follows:

BIDEN: “Look, I want to get together a big infrastructure bill and fix a bunch of the stuff that’s broken in this country, roads, bridges, broadband, and some social support stuff to make lives easier for middle-class people who work infrastructure jobs. How much do you think we can get?”
PELOSI: “Oh, I don’t know, maybe $5T?”
SCHUMER: “We might be able to get half that through the Senate, with how obstructionist our friends across the aisle are.”
BIDEN: [Brow furrows in thought, then he clears his throat.] “Alright, I’m going to ask for $10T, mostly in new spending.”
SCHUMER: [Audibly gasps.]
PELOSI: “Are you fucking nuts, man?!”
BIDEN: [Gently waving in Pelosi’s direction.] “Calm down, friends. I know the situation Chuck is in here. The only way to get even close to either of those targets is to start big, and I mean B-I-G BIG. It’ll get hacked to pieces, but what survives should be close to what we think we can get. Now, make it so.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:56:15am

re: #83 A Mom Anon

…

Also just saw on the news that Adam Kinzinger isn’t running for office again. So that’s another Republican seat up for grabs.

I believe that’s because Illinois lost a seat and his district vanished as a result (courtesy of gerrymandering of course).

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HRH Stanley Sea  Oct 29, 2021 • 7:59:25am

re: #75 Belafon

Medicaid expansion in red states is HUGE.

As it is now, any state that did not accept the medicaid expansion fucked their constitutes with still too expensive plans.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:01:55am

Marky Mark tries to sweep the shit under the rug…

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:02:04am

re: #84 Dopamine Fish

Conversation similar to as follows:

BIDEN: “Look, I want to get together a big infrastructure bill and fix a bunch of the stuff that’s broken in this country, roads, bridges, broadband, and some social support stuff to make lives easier for middle-class people who work infrastructure jobs. How much do you think we can get?”
PELOSI: “Oh, I don’t know, maybe $5T?”
SCHUMER: “We might be able to get half that through the Senate, with how obstructionist our friends across the aisle are.”
BIDEN: [Brow furrows in thought, then he clears his throat.] “Alright, I’m going to ask for $10T, mostly in new spending.”
SCHUMER: [Audibly gasps.]
PELOSI: “Are you fucking nuts, man?!”
BIDEN: [Gently waving in Pelosi’s direction.] “Calm down, friends. I know the situation Chuck is in here. The only way to get even close to either of those targets is to start big, and I mean B-I-G BIG. It’ll get hacked to pieces, but what survives should be close to what we think we can get. Now, make it so.”

spot on, chris

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:02:24am

Someone in the replies pointed out that this kid has probably already HAD a bunch of vaccine shots at her age.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:11:21am

re: #86 HRH Stanley Sea

That’s going to be what happens in GA. They won’t take the money and do the right stuff with it, instead they’ll blame democrats for the lack of affordable and even more important decent insurance that doesn’t leave you with huge bills and out of pocket expenses.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:14:03am

Sick of these assholes picking on kids

Franklin High School Student Heckled By Parent After Discussing Bullying During School Committee Mee

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No Malarkey!  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:16:17am

Conservative hypocrisy, example # gazillion.

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Sherlock Hound  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:16:44am

re: #89 Eclectic Cyborg

Stock photo companies make bank with photos like these, depicting nervous, crying children and infants getting scary shots from big syringes with scary green chemicals!

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:16:54am

re: #91 JOE 🥓

Sick of these assholes picking on kids

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“So, you’re proving my point.”

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:17:10am

re: #91 JOE 🥓

Sick of these assholes picking on kids

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School bullies usually have shithead parents that bully them. These parents are now interested in their children’s schools for the first time.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:21:39am

re: #95 Punish Domestic Terrorists

School bullies usually have shithead parents that bully them. These parents are now interested in their children’s schools for the first time.

And these jerks see how Trump gets away with it so they believe they can let their inner asshole run unchecked in public.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:35:54am

Quiet around here this morning…

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:39:52am

re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg

Quiet around here this morning…

The ‘mouse isn’t stirring.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:40:16am

Opinion | For American Jews, a Second Trump Term Would Be Catastrophic

Trump’s return would mean a constitutional crisis, a slide into authoritarianism and mob rule in the streets, endangering all of America’s minorities. So why do U.S. Jews seem so bizarrely unconcerned?

Rabbi, I assure you WE ARE CONCERNED!

haaretz.com

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:40:37am

re: #35 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

[Embedded content]

Because they didn’t put up the money to go initially probably, they were funded. FIND THE FUNDERS.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:45:14am

They need to do it RIGHT F’N NOW!

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:52:03am

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:53:16am

re: #101 JOE 🥓

They need to do it RIGHT F’N NOW!

[Embedded content]

These things always take a few days. It’s already mid-day on Friday. They’re probably writing it up, proofing it over the weekend, and will send it on Tuesday.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:53:45am

re: #100 Eventual Carrion

Yep. I truly hope this idiot couple responds to this judge and says this out loud. They aren’t too bright, so maybe they’ll keep being idiots and admit it.

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:53:55am
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A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2021 • 8:59:09am

re: #91 JOE 🥓

They should have called for her removal. Instantly. That should be a policy, interrupting and screaming at people means you go into time out like a tantruming toddler. And your ass gets banned from school meetings permanently.

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:00:04am

This comment over at Balloon Juice cracked me up:

I just got an email from the principal of my child’s school yesterday because the kids are playing Red Light/Green Light on the playground and calling it “Squid Games.” And he is like “I AM NOT SURE WHICH OF YOU IS LETTING YOUR CHILD WATCH THIS, BUT IT IS COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS.” He said it in a more reasonable and principally way, but that is what he said.

balloon-juice.com

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:03:17am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:07:36am

re: #108 Patricia Kayden

I had to attest the same to become a citizen.

And I also had to pledge to take up arms and DEFEND the country if it became necessary.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:10:33am

People like to trash the ADA. I know it depends on the state. Prior to ADA I was unable to get insurance. I live and in NY and can say that the ADA has allowed me to afford insurance and have a healthy life. Things that are not perfect can be fixed, unlike things that don’t exist.

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:12:29am

“Hopefully soon does not necessarily imply that we mean that it necessarily will be soon,” the official said.

That’s up there with ‘actual meta virtual’.

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:16:48am

re: #111 wrenchwench

That’s up there with ‘actual meta virtual’.

They have to write a memo the conservative Supreme Court won’t shoot down again.

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A Cranky One  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:22:32am

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:24:31am

re: #84 Dopamine Fish

Conversation similar to as follows:

BIDEN: “Look, I want to get together a big infrastructure bill and fix a bunch of the stuff that’s broken in this country, roads, bridges, broadband, and some social support stuff to make lives easier for middle-class people who work infrastructure jobs. How much do you think we can get?”
PELOSI: “Oh, I don’t know, maybe $5T?”
SCHUMER: “We might be able to get half that through the Senate, with how obstructionist our friends across the aisle are.”
BIDEN: [Brow furrows in thought, then he clears his throat.] “Alright, I’m going to ask for $10T, mostly in new spending.”
SCHUMER: [Audibly gasps.]
PELOSI: “Are you fucking nuts, man?!”
BIDEN: [Gently waving in Pelosi’s direction.] “Calm down, friends. I know the situation Chuck is in here. The only way to get even close to either of those targets is to start big, and I mean B-I-G BIG. It’ll get hacked to pieces, but what survives should be close to what we think we can get. Now, make it so.”

I don’t see Schumer audibly gasping, he’s been around the block a few times too. So has Pelosi. Maybe, “Nice, but are you sure we shouldn’t start with fifteen?”

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:26:33am
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:27:12am

re: #114 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I don’t see Schumer audibly gasping, he’s been around the block a few times too. Maybe, “Nice, but are you sure we shouldn’t start with fifteen?”

Technically, they both have. No number Biden tossed out is likely to surprise those two seasoned veterans of the Congressional budget wars.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:27:59am

re: #109 Eclectic Cyborg

I had to attest the same to become a citizen.

And I also had to pledge to take up arms and DEFEND the country if it became necessary.

privilege of the white / true born

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A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:29:33am

re: #110 I Would Prefer Not To

Without it, I would cost me 1100 a month for just me. Georgia doesn’t have any great insurance available through ACA unless you pay over 400 a month. I’m glad we have it, even with all the shit I’ve been through over coverage and all kinds of paperwork errors on Ambetter Peach Care’s part. I hope I can switch to something better this time around. I also hope our asshole governor will accept the Medicare expansion that’s in this new bill. I want to relocate primarily because of shitty healthcare here. That’s not because of ACA, it’s because of sadistic fuck weasels who get great healthcare that taxpayers help fund.

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jaunte  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:40:15am

Same as it ever was

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jaunte  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:42:29am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:44:25am

re: #120 jaunte

Those are some wet miserable people right there.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:46:45am

A six year pause after a series of botched executions, then a botched execution. If these people were serious about fast, reliable and emphatic, they would abandon this weird pseudo-clinical ritual and use the guillotine. I have often suggested rigging it with 14 lanyards, one for each member of the jury, as well as the sentencing judge and the lead prosecutor. All 14 would have to be pulled for the blade to fall. The same crew can be provided with towels, mops, buckets, soap, bleach and hazmat suits for the cleanup.

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jaunte  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:47:37am

re: #122 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

That would be a way to quickly get rid of the death penalty.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:48:36am

re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg

I kinda hope Hell has a damp, moldy, sprinkly wing where you can’t light a tiki torch, but that’s all there is all around you, tiki torches and lighters for all eternity.

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:49:32am

re: #120 jaunte

When President Joe Biden joined former Virginia governor-turned-gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at an Arlington rally Tuesday night, his script was so obviously designed to get a rise out of his twice-impeached uniquely unpopular Oval Office predecessor that it seemed unlikely to work.

If GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin is willing to pledge loyalty to Donald Trump in private, “Why not in public,” Biden wondered. “Is there a problem with Trump being here? Is he embarrassed?”

But Trump—whose picture appears directly opposite the word “insecure” in the dictionary—but on Wednesday afternoon, teasing the idea of traveling to the state in a one-line statement. “Thank you, Arlington, see you soon!” Trump wrote.

“Wait, what?!” wondered Youngkin aides. After doing triple backflips to woo Trump’s fringe following without alienating moderate swing voters, the Youngkin campaign hit the panic button.

Politico writes that Youngkin aides were “caught off guard” by the statement. “Trump confidants, meanwhile, were initially coy about whether he was being serious, with staff noting his penchant for mischief-making and trolling by tweet.”

Shortly after Trump’s statement, Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich took a pre-election victory lap. “Donald J. Trump and his MAGA movement will be delivering a major victory to Trump-endorsed businessman @GlennYoungkin,” he wrote. Details of a Trump visit to Virginia, Budowich added, “will be released when appropriate.”

Not helping. But several hair-on-fire hours later, the Youngkin camp managed to clarify that Trump wasn’t actually planning on showing up in the state. Or at least not immediately. Chicken.

dailykos.com

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:50:37am

Good morning all, stopping in with a couple of 1st world problems questions for people I trust:

Upgrade to Windows 11 yes or no?
Upgrade to IOS 15 - yes or no?

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A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:56:25am

re: #119 jaunte

As much as I was raised by total assholes, the one thing they truly did right with me(not my younger siblings, the wingnut rot came after my sister was born when I was 10) was let me read whatever the hell I wanted. I was never once denied a book request. I had all kinds of books about animals,astronomy, geography, science, along with a ton of kid books, Heidi, Black Beauty, Pippi Longstocking, Nancy Drew books, etc.

Whenever someone I care about has a new kid arrive in their lives, I send books and a cuddly stuffed animal. Books are a huge foundation to learning and we have leaned away from that as we’ve “progressed” as humans. I love books. If you hadn’t guessed, lol.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 29, 2021 • 9:56:54am

More than you thought you wanted to know:

The Addams Family Tree vs The Munsters Family Tree


..

129
Shropshire Slasher  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:01:24am

re: #113 A Cranky One

Glory Hole

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:02:46am

re: #126 Thanos

Good morning all, stopping in with a couple of 1st world problems questions for people I trust:

Upgrade to Windows 11 yes or no?
Upgrade to IOS 15 - yes or no?

I’m going to upgrade to 11 when things slow down a bit. Not that I use a whole lot of features of any OS, but I will need to be comfortable with it before those around me are exposed to it.

131
Amory Blaine  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:06:17am

It’s exhausting vascillating between a pissed off Jacobin and a disappointed pragmatist.

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sagehen  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:08:16am

BBC-America is running a Doctor Who marathon leading up to the BRAND NEW EPISODE Sunday night.

The Rosa Parks episode is Sunday morning (late Saturday night) at 2:25 a.m., followed by the India/Pakistan partition episode Demons of the Punjab.

other noteworthy eps: Evil of the Daleks, an animated recreation of a 1967 episode (Jaime!!!) is Saturday morning 8am-11:30. The Mary Shelly/Lord Byron/Frankenstein episode is Sat night 10:35 pm. Blink is Sunday 3:37 pm.

The new episode, 13.1, Halloween Apocalypse, is Sunday afternoon 2:25 pm, and again at 8pm

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The Squire of Logos  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:09:24am

re: #127 A Mom Anon

As much as I was raised by total assholes, the one thing they truly did right with me(not my younger siblings, the wingnut rot came after my sister was born when I was 10) was let me read whatever the hell I wanted. I was never once denied a book request. I had all kinds of books about animals,astronomy, geography, science, along with a ton of kid books, Heidi, Black Beauty, Pippi Longstocking, Nancy Drew books, etc.

Whenever someone I care about has a new kid arrive in their lives, I send books and a cuddly stuffed animal. Books are a huge foundation to learning and we have leaned away from that as we’ve “progressed” as humans. I love books. If you hadn’t guessed, lol.

As a librarian I would love to give this several dozen up-dings!

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:10:17am

re: #132 sagehen

Hmm. I used to be able to obtain the new Doctor Who series on Amazon Prime. Is there another way to stream them?

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:10:50am

re: #127 A Mom Anon

As much as I was raised by total assholes, the one thing they truly did right with me(not my younger siblings, the wingnut rot came after my sister was born when I was 10) was let me read whatever the hell I wanted. I was never once denied a book request. I had all kinds of books about animals,astronomy, geography, science, along with a ton of kid books, Heidi, Black Beauty, Pippi Longstocking, Nancy Drew books, etc.

Whenever someone I care about has a new kid arrive in their lives, I send books and a cuddly stuffed animal. Books are a huge foundation to learning and we have leaned away from that as we’ve “progressed” as humans. I love books. If you hadn’t guessed, lol.

When Mr. w was in high school in the 50s, he was given a list of books that he could NOT submit book reports for, although they were in the school library. He used it as his personal required reading list. (Hemingway, Steinbeck, etc.) He was told not to bother with the advanced placement courses, because he wouldn’t be going to college, because he couldn’t afford the clothes. He took those classes anyway, in addition to the shop classes he had to take. I think the ‘discouraged’ book list helped his education quite a bit.

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:13:19am

re: #133 The Squire of Logos

As a librarian I would love to give this several dozen up-dings!

Now maybe I can remember your actual nic.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:14:11am

…..and it went on for weeks before anybody complained.

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:15:30am

re: #137 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

…..and it went on for weeks before anybody complained.

[Embedded content]

Jesus.

Jesus could do that…

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sagehen  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:18:25am

re: #134 Dopamine Fish

Hmm. I used to be able to obtain the new Doctor Who series on Amazon Prime. Is there another way to stream them?

HBOMax has 12 seasons, from Eccleston through to the most recently aired Jodie Whittaker (and all of Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures). I don’t know if they’ll be getting Season 13.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:21:49am

re: #139 sagehen

HBOMax has 12 seasons, from Eccleston through to the most recently aired Jodie Whittaker (and all of Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures). I don’t know if they’ll be getting Season 13.

OK, so they moved from Amazon to HBO, which sucks because I already have soooooooo many streaming services, but I can keep HBO temporarily to access the Doctor, if they get it.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:22:11am

re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg

Those are some wet miserable people right there.

Of had been raining solidly for the last 10+ hours here in the DMV. I’ve been receiving areal flood warnings on my phone — Montgomery Co., MD.

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Oct 29, 2021 • 10:34:17am

We’re starting to get to the point we need to here:

The realization is dawning, perhaps too late, that the GOP as a party no longer exists but as a puppet show for the true master, Fox News and Rupert Murdoch.

GOP Senators & Reps, all the way down to school boards, all pattern their screaming & fake outrage on what they see on Fox News.

It is destroying America. It may have already.


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Ranked-Choice Voting Has Challenged the Status Quo. Its Popularity Will Be Tested in November. JUNEAU — Alaska’s new election system — with open primaries and ranked voting — has been a model for those in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ...
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