Cory Wong: “Dean Town” [The Paisley Park Session]

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a Vulfpeck classic written by Woody Goss played by Cory and The Wongnotes

recorded live in Paisley Park’s ‘Studio A’ in Chanhassen, Minnesota

CHECK OUT THE ALBUM → fanlink.to
BUY ON BANDCAMP → woooong.com

Cory Wong - guitar / producer
Sonny T - bass
Kevin Gastonguay - organ / keyboard
Petar Janjic - drums
Negah Santos - percussion
Steve Strand - trumpet
Jon Lampley - trumpet
Michael Nelson - trombone / horn arranger
Eddie Barbash - alto sax / clarinet
Kenni Holmen - tenor sax / alto sax / flute
Sam Greenfield - bari sax / bass clarinet
Woody Goss - composer
John Fields - mix / master / engineer
Jake Hartsfield - engineer
Parker Wruck - engineer
Tom Garneau - engineer
Brandon “Duff” Eisenschenk - engineer / tech

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290 comments
1
Belafon  Oct 30, 2021 • 2:50:42pm

Hey libertarians, who are you going to side with:

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retired cynic  Oct 30, 2021 • 2:52:17pm
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Unabogie  Oct 30, 2021 • 2:52:37pm

We all suspected this was the case, but John Eastman was dumb enough to write down a criminal conspiracy. While terrorists assaulted the Capitol after Mike Pence refused to go along with the coup plot, Eastman emailed him and said it was his fault the Capitol was under siege, and if he’d go along with the coup, the mob would be called off. He put it in writing.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Cheechako  Oct 30, 2021 • 2:56:11pm

Repost from last thread,

Here’s the aurora prediction for North America. (Click on the N. America link)

AURORA FORECAST

We have a good shot of seeing the event if the clouds disappear. Unfortunately, up here, the best viewing is usually between 0100 and 0300 AM. And the temp will be about 28 degrees F.

Sunday night is also predicted to be another good night to see the lights.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2021 • 2:57:13pm
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 30, 2021 • 2:57:58pm

Every player is amazing, but I’d call out the drummer in the first and the—what is he playing? Bass clarinet? Because I played a bari sax in my HS band it didn’t look like that—soloist in song 2. It was verging on George Clinton territory. Also love the guitar/bass tribute to the studio and Prince. And Ampeg.

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retired cynic  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:00:23pm

A photo of First Frost from John Scalzi’s blog, Whatever.

And his Dune: A Review
whatever.scalzi.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:08:24pm
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:10:00pm

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

If I was the employee dealing with this incident, I’d be sorely tempted to get on the PA system and say, “Would the parents of the toddler currently throwing a fit on the floor in Aisle X please come and collect their child? Again, the parents of the toddler currently throwing a fit on the floor in Aisle X, please come and collect your child.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:10:46pm

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

These people never think things through.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:12:02pm
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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:12:46pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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Only thing you will find in the Screw York Times is another set of lies about Hunter Biden.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:14:19pm

Now this is just plain cruel to Doggy!

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Cheechako  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:17:23pm

Very clever:

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:18:21pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:22:34pm

re: #15 jaunte

Cue RWNJ whining about how Biden has “weakened America”.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:27:27pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:32:30pm

re: #17 Dread Pirate Ron

And hear come the screams of “One World Government!!”

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:34:17pm

re: #3 Unabogie

I’ll eat my shorts if Eastman or any of the other instigators are held responsible for their incitement of an insurrection. Instead we have a tight Governor race in Virginia with a Trump wannabe gaining ground every day. Huge sigh.

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:34:53pm

Billionaires Form Tax-Free “Sea-Steading” Raft From Multiple Mega-Yachts

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:36:26pm

Billionaire Tax Raft Occupied By Flotilla Of Climate Refugees

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:47:41pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:54:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 3:56:34pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:02:45pm

We’re 30 min into the town’s official Halloween cycle, and 0 takers so far. It’s overcast and unusually cold for us. Looks like Reese’s PB cups for supper.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:04:16pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:06:13pm

re: #9 Dopamine Fish

If I was the employee dealing with this incident, I’d be sorely tempted to get on the PA system and say, “Would the parents of the toddler currently throwing a fit on the floor in Aisle X please come and collect their child? Again, the parents of the toddler currently throwing a fit on the floor in Aisle X, please come and collect your child.”

If I saw him there I’d grab him by the feet drag him through the store and mop the floors.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:07:16pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:07:18pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

If I saw him there I’d grab him by the feet drag him through the store and mop the floors.

Just tell the cops he was selling loosies.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:12:45pm

The campaign of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) submitted a report with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night that lists her as a candidate for Congress in Utah.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:15:30pm
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plansbandc  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:26:08pm

re: #13 JOE 🥓

It’s such a fantastic visual though. My dog would probably like it because he likes clothes. Hates hats, but loves clothes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:26:29pm

this child will turn out just fine

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:32:04pm
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William Lewis  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:32:07pm

Read this thread. Really. It’s a wonderful tale that ties into the current version of Dune, SF and acting and the lives touched therein.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:37:44pm
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:39:33pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:44:39pm
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gwangung  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:45:03pm

re: #35 William Lewis

Read this thread. Really. It’s a wonderful tale that ties into the current version of Dune, SF and acting and the lives touched therein.

I missed her in Farscape, but judging by her twitter feed, she’s as gorgeous a soul as ever (and you’ can do far worse for a crush)….

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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:45:21pm

Hi, I’m baaaack.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:52:19pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 4:53:22pm

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not only is paid family leave an apparently detestable thing in much of America, there are companies who actively guilt their employees for taking earned PTO at all.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:03:25pm

re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes. And there are companies that treat all time taken off by employees as their time and not earned by the employees. That is how they come up with the phrase of “stealing time” from said employer.

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retired cynic  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:06:24pm

re: #40 calochortus

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:08:08pm

re: #40 calochortus

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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:09:34pm

re: #44 retired cynic

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Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:15:00pm

For some reason I was thinking about that wacko who used to post frequent comments here in the bad ol’ days named ‘taxfreekiller’, and suddenly recalled that he used to post links to “NumbersUSA” … which I wasn’t familiar with back then, but now know is one of the nodes in the Tanton white nationalist network. Back then I was trying out some of the same techniques Twitter is still using now, and I gave him a lot of timeouts and warnings because he would get really out there. I may have even suspended him a couple of times and then reinstated when other people pleaded for it, if I recall correctly. Or maybe that was another wacko.

But nowadays a username like that wouldn’t even make it past the front door here.

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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:15:52pm

re: #45 PhillyPretzel

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A Cranky One  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:18:17pm

re: #48 calochortus

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Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:19:02pm

re: #40 calochortus

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:20:46pm

re: #40 calochortus

Hi, I’m baaaack.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:21:51pm

No aurora in the Nebraska Panhandle tonight.

forecast.weather.gov

Maybe the clouds and snow will glow.

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IngisKahn  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:22:34pm

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A Cranky One  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:25:07pm

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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:27:50pm

re: #49 A Cranky One

re: #50 Charles Johnson

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thanks everyone. I’ll keep you posted when I know more.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:28:01pm

re: #54 A Cranky One

Well, that’s not ominous at all.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:30:38pm

re: #54 A Cranky One

That’s some brutally honest placeholder text.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:30:48pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

Remember him… was always a bit off.

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:37:00pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:37:07pm

You know who used to annoy the piss out of me around here? Barrett Brown.

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plansbandc  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:38:44pm

re: #40 calochortus

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:42:57pm
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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:43:07pm

re: #61 plansbandc

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mmmirele  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:45:53pm

Hey folks, this is kind of long but it’s worth a read. It basically gives a background on Glenn Youngkin, the Republican running for VA governor. He’s involved in some, to put it bluntly, weird-ass charismatic crazy.

It’s the Glenn Youngkins of the world who scare the hell out of me. These are the people, who if they came into real power, would have me standing in line at the local gun emporium the next day because these people want to convert all of us to their brand of nationalistic religious crazy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:46:51pm

re: #59 DodgerFan1988

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:48:44pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:49:17pm

re: #40 calochortus

Hi, I’m baaaack.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:51:49pm

well, well, well

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:52:12pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:54:47pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Good to see you back. How were the side effects from your booster shot?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:54:55pm

this thread of unending grievances…he is treated so horribly, yet somehow has access to twitter to air his complaints…
it’s a puzzlement…

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Belafon  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:57:32pm

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 5:58:48pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

this thread of unending grievances…he is treated so horribly, yet somehow has access to twitter to air his complaints…
it’s a puzzlement…

Give the poor guy a break. Put him on a C-130 to Gitmo.

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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:01:29pm

re: #67 Hecuba’s daughter

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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:01:53pm

Our police-sanctioned Trick-or-Treat has expired. Any further arrivals are scofflaws and will get double candy.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:02:52pm

re: #73 Decatur Deb

Eastern State Penitentiary as it is currently (it is open to tours). If he is complaining that is where he should go.
en.wikipedia.org

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sagehen  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:03:25pm

One of my across-the-street neighbors, on the same floor as me, just acquired a brand-new big screen TV.

The street in question is two lanes in each direction, plus a parking lane on each side, plus sidewalks, plus the setback for my building’s driveway and another sidewalk. This apartment must be 150 feet from me. And I can see the picture on their screen.

OMFG, how big must that screen be? And the people sitting in the same room watching, WTF is wrong with them?

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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:03:55pm

re: #75 Decatur Deb

I don’t understand why some areas have “trick or treat night” separate from Halloween when one traditionally trick or treats because it’s Halloween.

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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:04:53pm

re: #77 sagehen

One of my across-the-street neighbors, on the same floor as me, just acquired a brand-new big screen TV.

The street in question is two lanes in each direction, plus a parking lane on each side, plus sidewalks, plus the setback for my building’s driveway and another sidewalk. This apartment must be 150 feet from me. And I can see the picture on their screen.

OMFG, how big must that screen be? And the people sitting in the same room watching, WTF is wrong with them?</blockquote>

They weren’t invited to your house to watch? You should fix that.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:05:08pm

re: #76 PhillyPretzel

Eastern State Penitentiary as it is currently (it is open to tours). If he is complaining that is where he should go.
en.wikipedia.org

Is that the one on the bank of the Delaware, opposite Trenton? Impressive pile.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:05:09pm

re: #78 calochortus

I don’t understand why some areas have “trick or treat night” separate from Halloween when one traditionally trick or treats because it’s Halloween.

Sometimes make more sense to do Halloween not on a school night.

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Dangerman  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:07:02pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, well, well

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But really weak that they bluster and threaten but won’t follow thru and quit. Such courage

And of course they’re all sorts of domineering and macho when no one’s around to record.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:07:13pm

re: #77 sagehen

OMFG, how big must that screen be? And the people sitting in the same room watching, WTF is wrong with them?

“Weird Al” Yankovic: Alapalooza - Frank’s 2000” TV

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:07:13pm

re: #80 Decatur Deb

It is not on the Delaware. It is closer to Broad Street.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:07:18pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Sometimes make more sense to do Halloween not on a school night.

Tomorrow’s not a school night, but it’s Church Night. The preachers have a bone about Halloween anyway. I’ll stay decorated for it just in case.

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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:08:35pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Sometimes make more sense to do Halloween not on a school night.

When we lived in Lancaster, PA, that was my first thought, but over several years I realized that wasn’t it. Trick or treat night was never on Halloween (even if Halloween was on the weekend,) and it was often on school nights. I think they might have been trying to avoid actual witches and devils, or maybe the local governments just enjoyed petty power displays.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:09:39pm
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sagehen  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:10:37pm

Maybe it’s so the parents can trick-or-treat with their kids the night before Halloween (while the in-laws stay at their house handing out candy), then go to a grown-ups-only party on the actual Halloween.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:11:09pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:11:12pm

re: #84 PhillyPretzel

It is not on the Delaware. It is closer to Broad Street.

Different PA slammer then, this was N of Philly, near Langhorne (Sesame Place).

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sagehen  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:11:53pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

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Maybe they heard a rumor of a right-winger threat, and they’re preemptively diverting suspicion.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:12:56pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

We are planning on seeing it on Tue, unless the stripmall parking lot is full of maskless yahoos.

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:17:15pm

Someone got into my twitter account this afternoon, changed the password and locked me out. If I start spamming anything odd, it’s not me.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:17:15pm

re: #90 Decatur Deb

I think that would be Bucks County. Langhorne is good drive from Philly.

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:17:34pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

Saw it at The Chinese this afternoon. Agreed, avoided the pitfalls, stayed very well-paced, and was visually stunning. 2 hours 35 minutes blows by like half that.

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:17:39pm

Odder than usual, anyway.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:20:00pm

Nice tone. Debussy at that.

Cello Strings On A BASS Sound UNBELIEVABLE

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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:20:01pm

re: #94 PhillyPretzel

I think that would be Bucks County. Langhorne is good drive from Philly.

All I know from Bucks County is Andrew Wyeth.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:22:09pm

re: #98 Decatur Deb

I agree that is a very good thing to know about Bucks County. Washington’s Crossing and New Hope, PA make good day trips.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:23:49pm

re: #93 jaunte

Someone got into my twitter account this afternoon, changed the password and locked me out. If I start spamming anything odd, it’s not me.

Yikes.

help.twitter.com

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:24:56pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

Thanks! Their help email says it’ll take a day or two.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:29:37pm

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

Didn’t Manchin vote for the Trump tax cuts? I hope not.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:32:26pm

re: #102 Patricia Kayden

Didn’t Manchin vote for the Trump tax cuts? I hope not.

No, he didn’t.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:39:57pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:49:14pm

‘Nite, all. It was a sucky Halloween, less than a dozen urchins. Heal well, calochortus.

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William Lewis  Oct 30, 2021 • 6:54:30pm

Guitar people - I asked this this morning but there are a few more here now I think. Anyone got any experience with PRS guitars? I’ve got my eye on a PRS SE 245 that would be a slight stretch of the budget but really looks nice. This is the Korean made “Student Edition” but it still seems to get really reviews.

Anyone here?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:01:20pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:03:05pm

WTFITS (In spoilers because reasons)
Looks like Ben Garrison & Jon McNaughton have some competition.

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:05:43pm

re: #108 The Pie Overlord!

Now there’s a waste of art supplies.

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calochortus  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:06:39pm

re: #108 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS (In spoilers because reasons)

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Not just an odd painting. It’s a lousy painting as well.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:08:13pm

re: #108 The Pie Overlord!

You owe me some new eyes. I just gouged mine out.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:09:44pm

re: #108 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS (In spoilers because reasons)

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Truly offensive. What is wrong with these people?

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plansbandc  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:16:50pm

My favorite so far this year…

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:18:25pm

If you have the hubris to rip off Michelangelo in the first place, you really owe him a better job.

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Jay C  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:18:36pm

re: #108 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS (In spoilers because reasons)

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Never thought I’d see “artwork “ that makes Jon McNaughten’s look like museum-quality stuff….

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:28:25pm

re: #78 calochortus

I don’t understand why some areas have “trick or treat night” separate from Halloween when one traditionally trick or treats because it’s Halloween.

Back in PA churches did NOT want kids trick or treating on Sunday nights. the School Board even had a rule precluding it and anytime Halloween fell on a Sunday kids did the T&T on Saturday.

This of course cause consternation with the tiny Jewish community but what the heck the Xtians didn’t care…

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Belafon  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:29:16pm

re: #78 calochortus

I don’t understand why some areas have “trick or treat night” separate from Halloween when one traditionally trick or treats because it’s Halloween.

I think it should be national policy to do trick or treat on the last Saturday of October.

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:29:16pm

re: #3 Unabogie

We all suspected this was the case, but John Eastman was dumb enough to write down a criminal conspiracy. While terrorists assaulted the Capitol after Mike Pence refused to go along with the coup plot, Eastman emailed him and said it was his fault the Capitol was under siege, and if he’d go along with the coup, the mob would be called off. He put it in writing.

talkingpointsmemo.com

A democratic government that refuses to go after those who actively seek to remove and replace it does not deserve to stand. A Constitutional government’s first duty is to defend itself so that the Constitution and the country’s laws can reign supreme. Else, the despotic government that inevitably replaces it will do so by any and all outrageous and violent means necessary.

This is a war we are in and the Democrats in our government don’t even realize it. The Republicans most certainly do.

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:30:16pm

re: #117 Belafon

Imagine the Satanic conspiracy theories that would be spawned by a national policy on Halloween.

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Belafon  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:32:08pm

re: #85 Decatur Deb

Tomorrow’s not a school night, but it’s Church Night. The preachers have a bone about Halloween anyway. I’ll stay decorated for it just in case.

A school night is a night where the next day is a school day. Sunday is a school night; Friday isn’t.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:34:57pm

re: #108 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS (In spoilers because reasons)

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Is that McNaughton?

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:36:31pm

re: #103 Hecuba’s daughter

Okay. Thanks. Good to know.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:37:02pm

re: #112 Hecuba’s daughter

Truly offensive. What is wrong with these people?

Check out Right Wing Watch’s coverage of all the Pulpit Pimps pushing the Big Lie. Oh and don’t forget assholes like Steven Anderson who pray for Biden, Kamala and Nancy to die so Trump will come back in…

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Belafon  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:38:07pm
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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:41:59pm

Day 3 of the new Dyson Pure Humidify+Cool Cryptomic humidifier that Dr suggested for my diabetic eczema. The heat did not help for a couple days but I notice when I wake up itching I set the unit on maximum and it really helps remedy the itching.

Also my previous humidifier left a white film on my tables and desks. The Dyson unit doesn’t do that.

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TedStriker  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:48:59pm

re: #113 plansbandc

My favorite so far this year…

THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!!!

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sagehen  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:51:37pm

re: #113 plansbandc

My favorite so far this year…

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From left to right, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell, Geena Davis.

The guy cut off at the top of the pic… is Tom Hanks.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:52:11pm

re: #108 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS (In spoilers because reasons)
Looks like Ben Garrison & Jon McNaughton have some competition.

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sagehen  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:54:02pm

re: #116 JOE 🥓

Back in PA churches did NOT want kids trick or treating on Sunday nights. the School Board even had a rule precluding it and anytime Halloween fell on a Sunday kids did the T&T on Saturday.

This of course cause consternation with the tiny Jewish community but what the heck the Xtians didn’t care…

I dunno why, T&T is generally after sundown, shouldn’t conflict with the Sabbath.

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A Cranky One  Oct 30, 2021 • 7:58:00pm

re: #125 JOE 🥓

Day 3 of the new Dyson Pure Humidify+Cool Cryptomic humidifier that Dr suggested for my diabetic eczema. The heat did not help for a couple days but I notice when I wake up itching I set the unit on maximum and it really helps remedy the itching.

Also my previous humidifier left a white film on my tables and desks. The Dyson unit doesn’t do that.

A lot of humidifiers specify distilled water, otherwise the minerals in the water create the white film. That can cause blockage of the furnace filter and potentially the furnace. Some recommend special filters or demineralizers to avoid the issue. The ultrasonic units are the worst for this.

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A Cranky One  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:00:03pm

The haunted house is so realistic!

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KingKenrod  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:00:04pm

Racist asshole former guy definitely showed up at the Braves game so everyone could see him do the chop. He even got Melania out of her coffin to do it next to him so he could fake looking like he is still president.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:00:22pm

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:02:48pm

re: #132 KingKenrod

Racist asshole former guy definitely showed up at the Braves game so everyone could see him do the chop. He even got Melania out of her coffin to do it next to him so he could fake looking like he is still president.

Melania giving the fake smile side-eye

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jaunte  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:03:44pm

re: #134 The Pie Overlord!

They’re both so awful.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:09:21pm

Pie’s Fact-O-Meter rates this:
BALD-FACED
PATHOLOGICAL
PANTS ON FIRE

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BeachDem  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:10:20pm

re: #86 calochortus

When we lived in Lancaster, PA, that was my first thought, but over several years I realized that wasn’t it. Trick or treat night was never on Halloween (even if Halloween was on the weekend,) and it was often on school nights. I think they might have been trying to avoid actual witches and devils, or maybe the local governments just enjoyed petty power displays.

Columbus, OH always had a non-Halloween designated trick or treat night. I think it was so the parents could go to parties themselves on 10/31.

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Sherlock Hound  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:11:53pm

re: #77 sagehen

One of my across-the-street neighbors, on the same floor as me, just acquired a brand-new big screen TV.

The street in question is two lanes in each direction, plus a parking lane on each side, plus sidewalks, plus the setback for my building’s driveway and another sidewalk. This apartment must be 150 feet from me. And I can see the picture on their screen.

OMFG, how big must that screen be? And the people sitting in the same room watching, WTF is wrong with them?

See if you can sniff their Bluetooth! I got hearing aids with Bluetooth, and I was hearing everybody’s phones when they walked by me.

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BeachDem  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:18:30pm

re: #77 sagehen

One of my across-the-street neighbors, on the same floor as me, just acquired a brand-new big screen TV.

The street in question is two lanes in each direction, plus a parking lane on each side, plus sidewalks, plus the setback for my building’s driveway and another sidewalk. This apartment must be 150 feet from me. And I can see the picture on their screen.

OMFG, how big must that screen be? And the people sitting in the same room watching, WTF is wrong with them?

My BIL couldn’t get his new 80” tv down the basement steps to his “inner sanctum” so he spent many thousands of dollars having a bulkhead installed that would accommodate it. I suggested instead that he just move his sofa a few inches closer to his old 60-something inch set, but he was not amused.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:25:53pm

re: #136 The Pie Overlord!

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Pie’s Fact-O-Meter rates this:
BALD-FACED
PATHOLOGICAL
PANTS ON FIRE

Its from the Washington Moonie Times so of course it’s 100% bullshit lies!

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:28:47pm

re: #133 The Pie Overlord!

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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So Karen is in the car and she’s screaming that the victim is too close to her…and Karen throws a fit that she’s on Candid Camera…

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EstebanTornado1963  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:40:52pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, well, well

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:43:01pm

re: #137 BeachDem

IIRC, when I was a kid the night for Trick or Treat stuff was the 30th. But around these parts (San Diego) it seems to be the 31st.

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Belafon  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:50:06pm

re: #6 Barefoot Grin

Every player is amazing, but I’d call out the drummer in the first and the—what is he playing? Bass clarinet? Because I played a bari sax in my HS band it didn’t look like that—soloist in song 2. It was verging on George Clinton territory. Also love the guitar/bass tribute to the studio and Prince. And Ampeg.

No. That’s another type of sax. A bass clarinet looks like a really long clarinet but with the neck curved up and then down and the bell pointing up, but the keys are just longer versions of what a clarinet looks like.

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Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2021 • 8:54:15pm

re: #136 The Pie Overlord!

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Pie’s Fact-O-Meter rates this:
BALD-FACED
PATHOLOGICAL
PANTS ON FIRE

Given the attitude we’ve seen from LEO towards Antifa and BLM, I’m totally willing to believe that they thought those groups might try to “blend in” with the crowd. But what they thought and what they can prove remain galaxies apart.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 9:04:34pm

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Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2021 • 9:31:19pm

Well, after tonight, I can claim the title at my hotel of “He Who Remains.” After 4 years at this property, everybody who was here or hired within the first year of my hiring has left. Everybody here now was hired when the new management took over earlier this year.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 30, 2021 • 9:40:41pm

I just watched “Cowboys and Aliens” on Amazon prime. Would have been a great b- movie, but what a large budget waste of time. I guess I’m not the only one on drugs.

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Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2021 • 9:45:10pm

re: #148 I Would Prefer Not To

I just watched “Cowboys and Aliens” on Amazon prime. Would have been a great b- movie, but what a large budget waste of time. I guess I’m not the only one on drugs.

Gee, can you believe it was a project mired in Development Hell since 1996?

//

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 9:48:12pm

re: #149 Targetpractice

Gee, can you believe it was a project mired in Development Hell since 1996?

//

Yes.

We RAZZIE® members were well aware of that MESSTERPIECE being ping ponged around studios in turnaround!

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 30, 2021 • 9:59:42pm

re: #150 JOE 🥓

Yes.

We RAZZIE® members were well aware of that MESSTERPIECE being ping ponged around studios in turnaround!

The clue in Hollywood has always been the number of scriptwriters. More than 4 you have a turkey. 6 or 8 plus is Razzie material.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 10:07:18pm

re: #151 I Would Prefer Not To

The clue in Hollywood has always been the number of scriptwriters. More than 4 you have a turkey. 6 or 8 plus is Razzie material.

Go to 30+ in the Selzerberg Craptaculars!

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JOE 🥓  Oct 30, 2021 • 10:18:49pm

Depressing. And count me in as one of the 1 in 4…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2021 • 11:03:07pm

re: #153 JOE 🥓

Fuck Republicans for this shit.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 30, 2021 • 11:43:26pm

re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg

Fuck Republicans for this shit.

It’s not only Republicans: there are also extremes on the left who support this hatred, particularly those tied to certain pro-Palestinian groups and the BDS movement.

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darthstar  Oct 30, 2021 • 11:51:22pm

Guess who I stepped on on my way back from the show.

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sagehen  Oct 30, 2021 • 11:59:13pm

Is that a hospital bracelet?

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Oct 31, 2021 • 12:12:23am

re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s not only Republicans: there are also extremes on the left who support this hatred, particularly those tied to certain pro-Palestinian groups and the BDS movement.

The dirtbag lefties that can’t differentiate between the actions of the right wing governments of Israel and Jewish people in general, and those that swear up and down if “those damn Jooz would just go back to Europe where they belong”, the Palestinians would be free to set up a delightful socialist workers paradise we all know they *totally* plan to. Yup.

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darthstar  Oct 31, 2021 • 12:19:02am

re: #157 sagehen

Is that a hospital bracelet?

VIP band….Dead &Co Hollywood Bowl

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darthstar  Oct 31, 2021 • 12:23:07am

John Mayer does not suck at the guitar.

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Ferdinand  Oct 31, 2021 • 12:30:25am

Ok l agree with Charles, Dune was amazing (even on a home screen). I haven’t felt like this after seeing a movie since Fellowship of the Ring … primarily relief that they didn’t mess it up! I’ll enjoy the multiple re-watches. Definitely Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation of the source, like Peter Jackson did. It’s a beautiful deep movie that takes its time to breathe and let the world and characters take hold rather than rushing towards plot points.

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Cheechako  Oct 31, 2021 • 12:33:29am

Well darn…fog has rolled in so no aurora viewing tonight. So, off to bed.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 31, 2021 • 12:44:23am

Last night’s aurora.

Details:
The aurora formed a faint line in the in the sky shortly after sunset, visible just below the Big Dipper. As the evening went on, it became brighter and arched higher and higher into the night, eventually splitting in two. This photo shows an end of the split arch as seen from the southwestern tip of Iceland. The rock formation just offshore is all that remains of an extinct volcano eroded by the North Atlantic waves.

Photographer’s website:
chris-mathews-photography.com

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sagehen  Oct 31, 2021 • 12:48:17am

re: #160 darthstar

John Mayer does not suck at the guitar.

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But he was mean to Taylor Swift when they were dating (she was 19 at the time, he was 32), that she wrote a song about what an asshole he is. So fuck him.

Dear John

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 31, 2021 • 1:00:54am

YouTube

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Decatur Deb  Oct 31, 2021 • 1:28:49am

re: #143 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

IIRC, when I was a kid the night for Trick or Treat stuff was the 30th. But around these parts (San Diego) it seems to be the 31st.

Halloween is a Catholic/Anglican holiday. It’s defined by All Saints’ Day (All Hallows’ Day), so it’s Oct 31. The cops don’t move Christmas around.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 31, 2021 • 1:35:05am

re: #166 Decatur Deb

Halloween is a Catholic/Anglican holiday. It’s defined by All Saints’ Day (All Hallows’ Day), so it’s Oct 31. The cops don’t move Christmas around.

The custom here is mostly to go around trick or treating before sundown.

Farmers and ranchers will also bring their children into town (trick or treating when your nearest neighbour is a mile away kind of sucks).

Like other places, if “you’re playing,” you turn on your porch light.

I’m not sure we’re going to get many children later tonight, as the combination of freezing rain, rain, and snow will probably keep people indoors.

As for the aurora, bupkis here because overcast in rain and fog.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 31, 2021 • 1:41:13am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The custom here is mostly to go around trick or treating before sundown.

Farmers and ranchers will also bring their children into town (trick or treating when your nearest neighbour is a mile away kind of sucks).

Like other places, if “you’re playing,” you turn on your porch light.

I’m not sure we’re going to get many children later tonight, as the combination of freezing rain, rain, and snow will probably keep people indoors.

As for the aurora, bupkis here because overcast in rain and fog.

Urban Halloween, like in old Pittsburgh, was all about kids raising a little hell on their own, and evading any cops or curfews that might be in place. It’s my favorite, because it openly embraces the extortion.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 31, 2021 • 1:57:06am

re: #64 mmmirele

Hey folks, this is kind of long but it’s worth a read. It basically gives a background on Glenn Youngkin, the Republican running for VA governor. He’s involved in some, to put it bluntly, weird-ass charismatic crazy.

It’s the Glenn Youngkins of the world who scare the hell out of me. These are the people, who if they came into real power, would have me standing in line at the local gun emporium the next day because these people want to convert all of us to their brand of nationalistic religious crazy.

Regarding the article in the tweet:

Wolf in Fleece Clothing, she notes a couple things.

First, I’m comfortable discussing a politician’s religious views.

I’m not.

Religion forms people morally and serves as the arbiter of conscience.

Moral behaviour is an emergent property of evolution by natural selection. Religion might inform political decisions but it does not inform morals.

Politicians should make their religious affiliations known,

… so we can be sure to not elect someone from the “wrong” religious tradition (especially atheists)

including how their personal faith influences the ways in which they deal with difficult issues - and how they themselves navigate their own disagreements with their faith traditions.

I don’t really care how someone navigates their disagreements with their own faith tradition. As for how they deal with “difficult issues,” their actions tell me a lot more about that than their faith.

There’s a contemporary history of doing this in American politics from John F. Kennedy

He was forced to do that by all the conservatives claiming he had “dual loyalties” as a Catholic

through Jimmy Carter and Mario Cuomo …

Jimmy Carter would be a good man regardless, and Mario Cuomo’s religious faith certainly didn’t inform his behaviour as Governor of New York, almost as if past and present actions are a better tool to judge someone’s behaviour than their faith

to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Same for those two. It’s almost as if “conservative or liberal” matters much more than “religious.”

Politicians who understand moral commitments and the ethical call of their vocations know it is important to address their faith.

So, observing their actions matters much more than their faith.

Religion shouldn’t be a prop to get votes.

Really? Because in this country it always has been. The principal charge against Thomas Jefferson by the Federalist Party in the 1796 campaign was “he’s an atheist, and that’s why you shouldn’t vote for him.” (He wasn’t an atheist, they lied about him.)

It provides an opportunity - and an angle of vision - to reflect on some of the deepest issues with which we struggle.

I do not struggle with moral behaviour.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 31, 2021 • 2:16:52am

I just got one of these bike trunk bags for my bike.

(He has the seat all the way down, the top of the seat is normally just above the bag.)

I wasn’t prepared for how much harder it is to get your leg over the bike with that on the back. Getting my knee over the seat was easy but now I have to get my foot over the top of the bag as well, which is quite difficult. Getting off the bike is even harder and can result in a fall.

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sagehen  Oct 31, 2021 • 2:25:23am

re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t really care how someone navigates their disagreements with their own faith tradition. As for how they deal with “difficult issues,” their actions tell me a lot more about that than their faith.

In the case of Youngkin, he’s never held office. His actions are mostly unknown. So whatever’s known about his creepy cult-y dominionist denomination is probably the best available predictor of his future actions.

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Semper Fi  Oct 31, 2021 • 2:37:04am

re: #170 Dread Pirate Ron

I just got one of these bike trunk bags for my bike.

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(He has the seat all the way down, the top of the seat is normally just above the bag.)

I wasn’t prepared for how much harder it is to get your leg over the bike with that on the back. Getting my knee over the seat was easy but now I have to get my foot over the top of the bag as well, which is quite difficult. Getting off the bike is even harder and can result in a fall.

Instead, try stepping over the bar in front of the seat.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 31, 2021 • 2:46:24am

re: #171 sagehen

In the case of Youngkin, he’s never held office. His actions are mostly unknown. So whatever’s known about his creepy cult-y dominionist denomination is probably the best available predictor of his future actions.

Leaving his church out of it, it is noteworthy that the most important feature to his supporters is the magic R behind his name and not his record.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 31, 2021 • 2:51:02am

Monday the Supreme Court hears two abortion cases: United States v Texas and Whole Women’s Health v Jackson

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2021 • 3:11:05am

re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Monday the Supreme Court hears two abortion cases: United States v Texas and Whole Women’s Health v Jackson

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It’s a hard argument to refute, especially when you consider politicians can stand up on the stump and declare themselves “pro-death penalty” and get all sorts of accolades for such because our society feels killing people out of vengeance is not only moral but in keeping with their selected sky deity’s wishes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 31, 2021 • 3:20:53am

re: #175 Targetpractice

It’s a hard argument to refute, especially when you consider politicians can stand up on the stump and declare themselves “pro-death penalty” and get all sorts of accolades for such because our society feels killing people out of vengeance is not only moral but in keeping with their selected sky deity’s wishes.

Like my state governor, who after the death penalty was repealed here, used his fortune to fund a referendum to reinstate it, and the overwhelmingly-majority Christian populace voted “let’s kill more people.”

That would be the same governor who diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax money to illegally purchase the drugs for that from India (they were intercepted by UPS as an illegal shipment).

Because he has the magic R behind his name, as does the state attorney general, no prosecution for that.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 31, 2021 • 3:24:19am

re: #172 Semper Fi

That would be even harder. I just need to stretch out enough be able to kick somebody in the chest.

/maybe a running jump from behind like a cowboy making a fast getaway.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 31, 2021 • 3:45:00am
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steve_davis  Oct 31, 2021 • 5:15:58am

re: #177 Dread Pirate Ron

That would be even harder. I just need to stretch out enough be able to kick somebody in the chest.

/maybe a running jump from behind like a cowboy making a fast getaway.

try going in over the handlbars. just consider the baggage section the front of the bike now and pedal backwards.

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steve_davis  Oct 31, 2021 • 5:20:30am

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

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discovered several years ago while reading about the french indian wars that scalping was invented by the French as a way for its indian allies to provide proof of the number of british soldiers they’d killed, because they were getting paid by the scalp.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 31, 2021 • 5:24:15am

re: #136 The Pie Overlord!

Were there any non-white peepo at the insurrection?

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steve_davis  Oct 31, 2021 • 5:28:07am

re: #88 sagehen

Maybe it’s so the parents can trick-or-treat with their kids the night before Halloween (while the in-laws stay at their house handing out candy), then go to a grown-ups-only party on the actual Halloween.

I want to know what kind of tricks are being offered at the grown ups party.

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steve_davis  Oct 31, 2021 • 5:52:27am

re: #164 sagehen

LOL! I have absolutely zero problem believing Mayer is a self-absorbed asshole. He is immensely talented though.

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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2021 • 5:59:49am

re: #180 steve_davis

discovered several years ago while reading about the french indian wars that scalping was invented by the French as a way for its indian allies to provide proof of the number of british soldiers they’d killed, because they were getting paid by the scalp.

i think it’s way older than that and lots of cultures did it
europeans way before they got here
and there is history of native americans doing it before the Euros showed up

makes sense that it would develop independently and in many places. if you want a war trophy, especially a gruesome, fear inducing one, showing domination over your defeated enemy’s body, you’re not gonna carry larger body parts back home. they’ll rot, carry diseases, etc. (ok the occasional head). so there’s only a few possibilities…

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:05:54am

re: #184 Dangerman

i think it’s way older than that and lots of cultures did it
europeans way before they got here
and there is history of native americans doing it before the Euros showed up

makes sense that it would develop independently and in many places. if you want a war trophy, especially a gruesome, fear inducing one, showing domination over your defeated enemy’s body, you’re not gonna carry larger body parts back home. they’ll rot, carry diseases, etc. (ok the occasional head). so there’s only a few possibilities…

Heads were to too burdensome to carry back from Korea, so Japanese military leader Hideyoshi demanded that Korean and Chinese noses be brought back as evidence of fighting in the Japanese invasions of Korea in the 1590s.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:19:39am

I’m going to waddle off to bed where it’s warmer.

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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:45:14am
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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:46:46am

Jesus said get your own damn loaves and fishes

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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:49:18am

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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:52:37am

re: #188 Dangerman

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Jesus said get your own damn loaves and fishes

Jesus lives down the street. He and his wife, María, are nice people. We see them at all the school events since our kids are in the same grade.

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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:53:05am

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson problem

Distancing won’t work

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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:54:12am
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The Squire of Logos  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:54:22am

re: #190 Belafon

Jesus lives down the street. He and his wife, María, are nice people. We see them at all the school events since our kids are in the same grade.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:55:37am
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The Squire of Logos  Oct 31, 2021 • 6:57:10am

re: #190 Belafon

Jesus lives down the street. He and his wife, María, are nice people. We see them at all the school events since our kids are in the same grade.

Let’s try that again…

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The Squire of Logos  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:02:52am

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well. It appears another line of inquiry opened by the DOJ.

Mikey Flynn might have some explaining to do.

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sagehen  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:03:14am

re: #180 steve_davis

discovered several years ago while reading about the french indian wars that scalping was invented by the French as a way for its indian allies to provide proof of the number of british soldiers they’d killed, because they were getting paid by the scalp.

Which is a “cleaner” version of the Biblical battlefield reporting… David (not yet King) had to bring Saul foreskins of the Philistines to prove how many he’d killed (this also meant he couldn’t just use the casualties among his own forces as part of his claimed body count, since they obviously didn’t have foreskins)

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:03:42am

Western good morning!

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sagehen  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:05:05am

re: #181 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Were there any non-white peepo at the insurrection?

a handful.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:06:27am

re: #197 sagehen

Which is a “cleaner” version of the Biblical battlefield reporting… David (not yet King) had to bring Saul foreskins of the Philistines to prove how many he’d killed (this also meant he couldn’t just use the casualties among his own forces as part of his claimed body count, since they obviously didn’t have foreskins)

Working for tips!

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:06:29am

re: #198 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Beautiful rose.

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darthstar  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:16:50am

re: #192 Belafon

The largest. Many people are saying it’s the greatest in human history. They didn’t do this for Hillary, or Obama…no.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:21:57am
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:24:52am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

lol.

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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:26:16am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

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My grammer spoke excellent english

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:29:11am

re: #188 Dangerman

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Jesus said get your own damn loaves and fishes

Someone get the eggs.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:30:31am

re: #187 Belafon

THAT’S 70? I am living wrong. She’s gorgeous!

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:30:35am

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You see 4 year old’s do that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:32:10am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:33:07am
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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:47:45am

How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Became Cheer for Republicans

the meta behind this is amazing

everybody knows what it means
everybody knows the R’s and only the R’s embraced it, adopted it

nationally elected officials
displaying it proudly

in less than 10 days

everybody knows this is a dog whistle played through an amp set on 11

everybody

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:53:31am

re: #188 Dangerman

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Jesus said get your own damn loaves and fishes

And these dipshits wonder why people are leaving the churches in droves.

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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:54:08am
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Nojay UK  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:55:26am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

I find that image… disturbing. I don’t think of myself as a grammar Nazi though. Grammar Tamerlane, maybe.

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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:55:36am

When Manhattan announced the mandate, people started trying to bribe pharmacists to give them a card without the shot:

After the city announced its mandate, things picked up. That $500 incentive is pushing people in, too. But nobody is thrilled that they’re being forced to get it… Basically, they come to complain a little and then storm out — or hope that I’ll give them a card without actually giving them a vaccine. That’s happened about five times in the past few weeks. The first person who did this was a man who had a couple of hundreds poking out of the breast pocket of his shirt. He was talking to me, saying, “Oh, I want to get the vaccine,” and then he was pointing at the money. But I didn’t understand because no one has ever asked me that before, and I didn’t think that anyone would. I was absolutely shocked when I realized what he was trying to say. I said absolutely not. After that, some other people came in and hinted at it, offering me money, saying things like, “We’ll take care of you,” or “How much do you want?”…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:56:49am

re: #134 The Pie Overlord!

Melania giving the fake smile side-eye

So hubs and I were discussing this video. I don’t think he gets what that look is conveying. I don’t think that look was “Oh, there he goes again”, which the husband thought it was. I’m more from the “that’s a look if pure contempt/disgust” school of thought, which made me wonder if men and women viewed it differently.

What do you think that look is saying? I’m genuinely curious.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:58:58am

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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2021 • 7:59:03am

re: #211 Dangerman

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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:00:01am

re: #218 Dangerman

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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:00:11am

re: #214 Nojay UK

I find that image… disturbing. I don’t think of myself as a grammar Nazi though. Grammar Tamerlane, maybe.

Hare splitting, I see.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:00:33am

re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Monday the Supreme Court hears two abortion cases: United States v Texas and Whole Women’s Health v Jackson

I agree 100%. As soon as you put any restrictions on it (try to reduce the number of abortions, use as a last measure, only for rape or incest, all that), you’re ceding ground that there is a moral implication. There’s not.

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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:02:48am

re: #216 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So hubs and I were discussing this video. I don’t think he gets what that look is conveying. I don’t think that look was “Oh, there he goes again”, which the husband thought it was. I’m more from the “that’s a look if pure contempt/disgust” school of thought, which made me wonder if men and women viewed it differently.

What do you think that look is saying? I’m genuinely curious.

Yup disgust
Why I gotta be here?
Don’t ever touch me.

And mostly “I damn well better get the money or none of this was worth it”

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:03:40am

re: #213 Belafon

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Give the covidiots an OTH and a boot out the door. No further discussions

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JOE 🥓  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:07:15am

re: #219 Dangerman

A Party Embraces Vulgarity

“F- Joe Biden,” or the slightly less explicitly obscene but no more clever “Let’s go Brandon,” is about much more than political passion or anger. It’s about weaponizing the vulgar dehumanization of our entire democratic - small d - experiment. Joe Biden is not only a person; he is the President of the United States, whether your tinfoil-shrouded conspiracy brain cares to recognize that fact or not. How many times have we heard Republicans sanctimoniously preach about how Democrats don’t “respect” the office of the presidency for such things as President Obama not saluting properly or wearing a tan suit?

steady.substack.com

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:07:48am

re: #216 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So hubs and I were discussing this video. I don’t think he gets what that look is conveying. I don’t think that look was “Oh, there he goes again”, which the husband thought it was. I’m more from the “that’s a look if pure contempt/disgust” school of thought, which made me wonder if men and women viewed it differently.

What do you think that look is saying? I’m genuinely curious.

Contempt and disgust all rolled into one.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:08:04am

re: #216 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So hubs and I were discussing this video. I don’t think he gets what that look is conveying. I don’t think that look was “Oh, there he goes again”, which the husband thought it was. I’m more from the “that’s a look if pure contempt/disgust” school of thought, which made me wonder if men and women viewed it differently.

What do you think that look is saying? I’m genuinely curious.

“I can’t believe he made me sign a prenup that says I HAVE TO PAY if I want to leave him!”

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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:13:42am

re: #207 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

THAT’S 70? I am living wrong. She’s gorgeous!

She might be the first immortal.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:15:51am

Whew. I just finished my weekly laundry and before noon. I also have my backpack packed and sandwich made for Monday. Now I have to gather my stuff for November 2nd Election Day.

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sagehen  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:19:28am

re: #216 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So hubs and I were discussing this video. I don’t think he gets what that look is conveying. I don’t think that look was “Oh, there he goes again”, which the husband thought it was. I’m more from the “that’s a look if pure contempt/disgust” school of thought, which made me wonder if men and women viewed it differently.

What do you think that look is saying? I’m genuinely curious.

That’s the “I didn’t even want to BE here” look.

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A Cranky One  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:21:14am
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The Squire of Logos  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:21:57am

re: #229 sagehen

That’s the “I didn’t even want to BE here” look.

I would not be surprised if money changed hands in order to get her to go to that event. They are both truly awful human beings.

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danarchy  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:23:39am

re: #207 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

THAT’S 70? I am living wrong. She’s gorgeous!

pretty sure she is no stranger to cosmetic surgery

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JOE 🥓  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:26:11am

re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Monday the Supreme Court hears two abortion cases: United States v Texas and Whole Women’s Health v Jackson

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And Monday will be the day when the corrupted court will signal that not only they will kill Roe but they will completely outlaw abortion.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:26:15am

re: #232 danarchy

pretty sure she is no stranger to cosmetic surgery

Skillful cosmetic surgery, in that event.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:30:05am

re: #187 Belafon

re: #207 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The late Gloria Vanderbilt did not look her age.
amazon.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:30:54am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:33:04am
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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:34:52am

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That still doesn’t answer the question of whether the tax cuts should be repealed since it’s still contributing to the debt.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:36:17am

re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Like my state governor, who after the death penalty was repealed here, used his fortune to fund a referendum to reinstate it, and the overwhelmingly-majority Christian populace voted “let’s kill more people.”

That would be the same governor who diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax money to illegally purchase the drugs for that from India (they were intercepted by UPS as an illegal shipment).

Because he has the magic R behind his name, as does the state attorney general, no prosecution for that.

My periodic reminder: It was our governor George Ryan, a Republican Catholic like yours, who took to heart the official Catholic position against the death penalty and suspended executions in our state of Illinois. It wasn’t until the Democrat Pat Quinn that it was completely abolished. Yes — Ryan was a criminal who was sentenced to prison for his much earlier actions while he was secretary of state — but he wasn’t an evil man or a terrible governor, certainly a much better person than almost every Republican in office today.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:37:50am
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jeffreyw  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:40:27am

The older we are, the earlier up late gets.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:43:58am

Over at sorryantivaxxer.com, poster “Old Bat” pens this tribute to the latest inductee to the Dead Antivaxxer Society!

There was a doctor called Edward
Who spent 8 weeks in a hospital bed ward
With a smile or a smirk
He spread lies like a jerk
Until he ended up deadward.

sorryantivaxxer.com

Dr. Edward Vanek, DO, 63, Atwater, CA, Orthopedic Surgeon. Anti-vaxx, dead from COVID.

According to this article Dr. Vanek died from COVID on October 12, 2021 after an eight week battle in the hospital. Dr. Vanek was a respected Orthopedic surgeon in Merced county California. He had his own clinic in Atwater called Advanced Orthopedics. However, he was an anti-vaxxer, which is concerning not just because of the influence he had on his own patients, staff, and social media followers, but also because the City of Atwater made him the medical advisor for their pandemic response. That’s like the fox guarding the hen house (I think I got that old analogy right).

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jeffreyw  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:45:42am

Good morning is relative, our GE french door freezer/fridge shot craps, again. We have no water this morning. First was replaced under warranty, alas not this time.
On the plus side, we have water in jugs put back to drink and flush the toilet, and we have a fridge in the garage and plenty of freezer space with 2 uprights.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:48:14am

re: #243 jeffreyw

I am sorry to hear about your fridge. Here is a link to Consumer Reports.
consumerreports.org

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Citizen K  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:52:06am

It’s low hanging fruit at this point, but we cannot stop calling this shit out. We literally have no alternative because the alternative is to simply let the GOP determine the narrative forever.

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mmmirele  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:53:03am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Leaving his church out of it, it is noteworthy that the most important feature to his supporters is the magic R behind his name and not his record.

I’m not going to say I agreed with the article. I read it more for the information, not for the theologizing, which, considering that the author is a theologian, I expected. What I did not expect was to be reminded of an incident on 9/16/2001 at an Episcopal church I was attending, which, upon reflection, I should have seen as a sign of where things were going.

Basically, I lost my shit when I walked into the church narthex and saw a US flag, folded like a wreath, and hanging from the cross in the narthex. (This was a former processional cross that had been retired to the narthex.) I seriously LOST MY SHIT. The flag got removed after I complained to the pastor, but holy crap. I read the NYTimes back then, I knew a lot of non-Americans had died on 9/11 and this was just hugely offensive to their memory FOR STARTERS. After church, I went over to my boyfriend’s and cried on his shoulder.

Twenty years later, the pastor of that parish moved over to a non-affirming non-Episcopal “Anglican” group because he hates teh ghey. My boyfriend, then a devout Catholic, is now teaching adult Sunday School at an affirming Methodist church. I now describe myself as queer and ace and protest churches on Sundays where I feel like I have the energy. But I should have recognized, five days after 9/11, that the USA was going headlong into a religious nightmare. I didn’t.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:53:15am
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:55:23am

re: #191 Dangerman

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson problem

Distancing won’t work

If they don’t fire Tucker now, they have demonstrated that they are fine with his O’Keefe style “documentary”. And there is no evidence that they truly object to it.

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retired cynic  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:56:19am

re: #216 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m with you.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:57:36am

re: #248 Hecuba’s daughter

If they don’t fire Tucker now, they have demonstrated that they are fine with his O’Keefe style “documentary”. And there is no evidence that they truly object to it.

Just wait. Next Fucker T will double down on the Big Lie shit with Screwpert Murdoch’s blessing.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 31, 2021 • 8:59:01am

re: #216 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I agree with the disgust look. Clearly she was wincing at what DT was doing.

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gocart mozart  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:01:37am

So I read some of the comments to one of the Pope’s Tweets and found this.

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ipsos  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:02:03am

re: #231 The Squire of Logos

Remember when so many of us here were all so certain that the second TFG’s presidency ended, Melania would be filing for divorce?

You guys, for all the speculation, I think she’s probably just as awful as he is, just as grifty, and we can pretend to analyze their marriage as much as we want, but I don’t see any evidence that she’s in any hurry to leave the grift-fest as long as it’s to TFG’s benefit to keep her around.

She is Trump and he is Trump and they are Trump and they are all together - goo goo ga joob.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:02:22am

re: #251 PhillyPretzel

I don’t know how anyone could even let him touch them without vomiting. He’s so creepy and gross.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:08:13am

re: #253 ipsos

She’s just as bad as he is. She knows who he is, what he’s about and how he treats people. And she’s still willingly there with her stupid fake face being fake and ugly. Her son doesn’t have good odds of being raised with love and compassion. I really hope he’s mostly being attended to by people who do possess those traits.

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gocart mozart  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:09:05am

Jerry Remy died last night

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gocart mozart  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:10:15am
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Citizen K  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:11:06am

The power of media narrative once again proving to be nigh-absolute.

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mmmirele  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:11:32am

re: #181 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Were there any non-white peepo at the insurrection?

Yes, I know of one black man, John Sullivan, from Utah who was at the insurrection. He claimed to be a journalist and you probably saw one of his videos. Sullivan was raised in a white Mormon family. He was such a problem within the Utah Black Lives Matter collective that he was officially disavowed.

More info: reuters.com

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JOE 🥓  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:11:33am

re: #252 gocart mozart

So I read some of the comments to one of the Pope’s Tweets and found this.

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Not surprised to see that since a significant number of American Catholics detest Francis and call him a Communist.

Nothing would please me more than seeing Francis sack every last Republican Bishop and replacing them with sane people who won’t march lockstep with the Fascists.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:11:38am

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

So you’re rescinding these required Florida state vaccine mandates for children in schools: Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis, Hepatitis B, Measles-Mumps-Rubella, Polio, Varicella (Chickenpox)? Yikes.

Are they actually rescinding all existing requirements or only preventing a COVID mandate?

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retired cynic  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:11:44am

On the abortion front: this is an excellent opinion piece in WaPo from a couple of days ago. I do not agree with his prescription, that we stay where they were in the 18th century, but I DO agree that we have accepted a right wing framing of the issue that is not correct.

This should be (knock wood) a gifted link.
Opinion: A middle ground on abortion that originalists should embrace
wapo.st

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BeachDem  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:12:14am

re: #255 A Mom Anon

She’s just as bad as he is. She knows who he is, what he’s about and how he treats people. And she’s still willingly there with her stupid fake face being fake and ugly. Her son doesn’t have good odds of being raised with love and compassion. I really hope he’s mostly being attended to by people who do possess those traits.

Yep. I find her equally as repulsive and creepy, so they’re ideally suited for each other.

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gocart mozart  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:12:36am
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JOE 🥓  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:15:22am

Ain’t it a little too early for this?????

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:16:13am

re: #232 danarchy

pretty sure she is no stranger to cosmetic surgery

Or she has the right genes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:16:24am

story thread

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:17:14am

re: #233 JOE 🥓

And Monday will be the day when the corrupted court will signal that not only they will kill Roe but they will completely outlaw abortion.

That I do not believe. They will allow each state to make its own decision.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:17:14am

re: #253 ipsos

Remember when so many of us here were all so certain that the second TFG’s presidency ended, Melania would be filing for divorce?

You guys, for all the speculation, I think she’s probably just as awful as he is, just as grifty, and we can pretend to analyze their marriage as much as we want, but I don’t see any evidence that she’s in any hurry to leave the grift-fest as long as it’s to TFG’s benefit to keep her around.

She is Trump and he is Trump and they are Trump and they are all together - goo goo ga joob.

I am sure that her prenup prohibits her from initiating divorce proceedings, and if TFG decides he doesn’t want her any more she GETS NOTHING.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:21:52am

re: #207 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

THAT’S 70? I am living wrong. She’s gorgeous!

I mean….I’m pretty confident she’s had some work done.

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ipsos  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:24:46am

re: #269 The Pie Overlord!

Could well be. I’m at the point now where I’m sufficiently persuaded that they’re both so hideous that I don’t really care what does or doesn’t happen to her in any theoretical divorce.

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Jay C  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:27:07am

re: #265 JOE 🥓

Ain’t it a little too early for this?????

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Harvest Moon???

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:28:08am

JFC these fecking idjits. Do they actually believe this shit or just splatter it for teh lib pwnz?

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gocart mozart  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:31:28am

This is hilarious. Watch the whole clip.

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retired cynic  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:33:04am
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:35:28am

re: #275 retired cynic

That is a beautiful bowl.

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retired cynic  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:36:44am

re: #276 PhillyPretzel

It just blew my mind, how contemporary, Van Gogh-ish, it feels. Just lovely.

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retired cynic  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:54:40am

I killed the thread! (Not for the first time.)

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mmmirele  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:54:57am

re: #233 JOE 🥓

And Monday will be the day when the corrupted court will signal that not only they will kill Roe but they will completely outlaw abortion.

They can “completely outlaw abortion” but women and girls will still get abortions. And some of us will be driving them to California if need be. Some of us are old enough to remember the shitshow of life before Roe.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2021 • 9:55:12am

re: #278 retired cynic

I killed the thread! (Not for the first time.)

Seems maybe appropriate for Halloween, no?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:03:33am

This is a bit early, but somehow seems appropriate for today.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:05:28am

re: #281 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Thanks. I needed the laugh. :)

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sagehen  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:12:02am

re: #273 The Pie Overlord!

JFC these fecking idjits. Do they actually believe this shit or just splatter it for teh lib pwnz?

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I thought they kept it small because Covid?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:12:04am

This tweet from a couple of weeks ago:

… apparently spawned a bunch of people to not believe it was true.

So yesterday Snopes had to publish this:

Did Failed Constitutional Amendments Include Ban on Divorce, ‘United States of the Earth’?

1948: “The right of citizens to segregate themselves from others.”
TRUE

In May 1948, U.S. Rep. Oren Harris, D-Arkansas, introduced a proposal to amend the Constitution as follows: “The right of any number of citizens to voluntarily segregate themselves from others for any lawful purpose shall not be denied.”

Harris, who opposed racial desegregation, was explicitly responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Shelley vs. Kraemer, which had been published just days earlier. In that opinion, the Court had ruled that racially restrictive covenants — which were relatively common at that time and prohibited homeowners in historically white neighborhoods from selling their houses to non-white buyers — violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

Harris’s proposal languished in the House Judiciary Committee.

Snopes links to this page of a scanned LoC document:

books.google.com

There have been so many proposed amendments. Many of them are bad, some are good, as you can see from that single page also in 1948 the proposal for equal rights of men and women.

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:14:46am
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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:18:55am

Link to get past the paywall

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:23:07am

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Protect Florida jobs, fuck the children. What a slogan.

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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:23:38am

re: #245 Citizen K

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It’s low hanging fruit at this point, but we cannot stop calling this shit out. We literally have no alternative because the alternative is to simply let the GOP determine the narrative forever.

McConnell has like a 38% approval rate.

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Belafon  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:29:13am

How are the GOTV efforts for Virginia?

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The Squire of Logos  Oct 31, 2021 • 10:45:05am

re: #253 ipsos

Remember when so many of us here were all so certain that the second TFG’s presidency ended, Melania would be filing for divorce?

You guys, for all the speculation, I think she’s probably just as awful as he is, just as grifty, and we can pretend to analyze their marriage as much as we want, but I don’t see any evidence that she’s in any hurry to leave the grift-fest as long as it’s to TFG’s benefit to keep her around.

She is Trump and he is Trump and they are Trump and they are all together - goo goo ga joob.

Divorce? Nope. Money? Yep! She’s in it for the long haul and as much money as she can get out of him. That became apparent when the story broke about her renegotiating pre-nup or she wouldn’t leave NYC for the White House.

And yes, they are truly awful. And grifty. And self-centered, and…


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