This subtly creepy, very imaginative short film goes to some unexpected places. Highly worth watching. Reminded me of early Sam Raimi in some ways. (Not gory, but rather disturbing.)
Negative side of a human might win, if it’s not under control.
#ShortFilm #Horror #AwardWinning
Meanwhile, South of the Mason Dixon line, in DC, where the Southern breezes blow…
(Those are cherry blossoms, about a month earlier than whatever passes for normal here. The guy posting the picture is originally from Ontario. )
February in DC. Unsettling. pic.twitter.com/yP3NPqaMuR
— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 21, 2023
Rightwing ‘science deniers’ are now attempting to “debunk” #LongCovid. A Wall Street Journal opinion piece decries “the CDC’s Long-Covid Deception.” It’s yet another example of a ‘disinformationist’ attempting to divide science into political camps https://t.co/H0W8zpD5Q1
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) February 20, 2023
A Nazi parade in Gera, Germany, with lots of Russian flags was greeted with circus clown music. Excellent idea.#Gera #Germanypic.twitter.com/yAPgtJlVDa
— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) February 21, 2023
re: #2 Belafon
Sigh, The Murdoch family really is intent on carjacking the US, stripping it, and selling it for parts.
He’s afraid of Trump and Trump supporters now. https://t.co/M2446y0ruO
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 20, 2023
re: #6 Belafon
My first thought was “What did that poor building ever do to Zeus, or whomever?”
But, yup, Eddie is definitely having a bad, terrible, and not so good day.
Mittens!
Sen. Mitt Romney threw shade at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call for a “national divorce” on Tuesday.
“I think Abraham Lincoln dealt with that kind of insanity.”
Romney also said Greene was just seeking attention with those comments #utpol https://t.co/DGiRjgXVYN— Bryan “As seen in the J6 report” Schott (@SchottHappens) February 21, 2023
Things I’m wondering: if I had hundreds of billions of dollars, would I turn into a really bad person, or hold onto my humanity?
Then I remember I’ll never have hundreds of billions of dollars, so the point is moot.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 21, 2023
You, of course, would use it to solve as many problems in the world that you could. A high complement but well -deserved. Too few like you in this shattered world of ours.
— Abby Dart (@abbydart) February 22, 2023
Thank you, Abby.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 22, 2023
re: #1 ckkatz
And most of us were glad to see him go.
re: #8 ckkatz
Somehow the far right can only speak in overblown, apocalyptic terms. Never is there any moderation in the words chosen or any rational alternative offered. Just effing amazingly consistent.
re: #1 ckkatz
Meanwhile, South of the Mason Dixon line, in DC, where the Southern breezes blow…
(Those are cherry blossoms, about a month earlier than whatever passes for normal here. The guy posting the picture is originally from Ontario. )
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Still recall Chicago’s mild winter in 1982, when plants began to bloom early, late March- first few days in April temperatures were in the 60’s, and then suddenly on April 5 we got 9+ inches of snow, which brought a sudden end to our early spring.
The Boy Scouts of America are a filthy, vile organization. But I do adhere to their slogan day after day: Do A Good Turn Daily.
Help someone out. Make someone smile, Make someone’s day. Hold a door for an elderly man. So on and so forth.
re: #12 Rightwingconspirator
Somehow the far right can only speak in overblown, apocalyptic terms. Never is there any moderation in the words chosen or any rational alternative offered. Just effing amazingly consistent.
Of course not: on the principle that “extreme problems require extreme solutions”; when all you have to offer are extremist and absolutist policies, “apocalyptic” pretty much has to become the default setting…
hi
I’m back from the Sidney VA. It appears I’m going to live over the short term at least.
The VA nurse who is my next-door neighbour retired from the VA, so I had to do a telehealth appointment with a nurse in Grand Junction.
Medical details behind the privacy bar. More stuff piled on.
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re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter
Down toward St Louis we had an epic ice storm, and were without power for about 10 days. Try watering over 100 horses without water pumped from your well (hauled from 15 miles away instead in a 250 gallon tank in the back of your pickup truck when the weather turned warm and all those horses in their sweaty itchy winter underwear wanted a long cool drink). My poor husband never stopped, going nearly around the clock to keep them watered. And dumping the water into tanks and then bucketing it to stalls, and as soon as you watered them they drank everything dry. And horses will colic and die if you don’t keep them hydrated. We were never so glad to see the power come back on! (And all of the stores for miles around were sold out of generators!)
re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter
Still recall Chicago’s mild winter in 1982, when plants began to bloom early, late March- first few days in April temperatures were in the 60’s, and then suddenly on April 5 we got 9+ inches of snow, which brought a sudden end to our early spring.
Weather contrasts like that certainly are memorable.
I remember one April I was sent from Pittsburgh to Ft Drum, New York for some weekend training. At the end of training we had to drive through a blizzard to get to the airport for the flight home. When I got home it was 70 degrees, trees were leafing, flowers were blooming, the sun was shining.
I think that experience killed any thought I had for possibly living in the otherwise extremely beautiful Upstate New York.
My sister and her family lived in Chicago for a couple of years. And apparently, they decided after a few winters, to decamp to warmer spots, like Boston.
I just saw clips of the GA jury forewoman in her interview with NBC News.
I’m guessing it’s allowed, but it was incredibly unwise and foolish for her to do these media appearances. I fear it will help Trump.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
“Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz quickly emerged as the top winner in Tuesday’s record-setting primary election to go on to compete for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court that will decide whether the most consequential state policies will be upended.”
re: #14 teleskiguy
Make someone smile, Make someone’s day.
This is my singular goal when I ski at resorts. I’ll tell jokes, do pushups in the lift lines, do a 360 at the load line (that only works if I’m sitting by myself on the chair), sing “Trigger Happy” by “Weird Al” Yankovic. The lifties love me!
A note to Mr. Johnson:
I read through the thread twice back and saw the discussion back-and-forth regarding blocking adverts and how that impacts content creators.
I use very strict advert and cookie blocking software (which I call paranoiaware), but do pay for the site here.
I am unsure if my subscription has expired or no; if it has, please let me know and I will renew it.
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oh fuck
Here’s why ice storms are so difficult to forecast — Freezing rain, snow expected for Metro Detroit https://t.co/2p4LvBXHup
— ClickOnDetroit (@clickondetroit) February 22, 2023
re: #14 teleskiguy
The Boy Scouts of America are a filthy, vile organization. But I do adhere to their slogan day after day: Do A Good Turn Daily.
Help someone out. Make someone smile, Make someone’s day. Hold a door for an elderly man. So on and so forth.
Memories of how Grandpa Bacon hated the Boy Scouts. He remembered how they were used as strikebreakers during the 1920s.
re: #26 Joe Bacon
Memories of how Grandpa Bacon hated the Boy Scouts. He remembered how they were used as strikebreakers during the 1920s.
Wait, what????
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #24 The Pie Overlord!
oh fuck
It’s the freezing rain part that kicks our butts here in Texas. Stay off of that stuff.
South Korea court recognises same-sex couple rights for first time https://t.co/BvGSqkWpw5
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 21, 2023
A lot of comments from the Right Wing Twitterverse wishing North Korea invade “Woke” South Korea.
re: #31 DodgerFan1988
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A lot of comments from the Right Wing Twitterverse wishing North Korea invade “Woke” South Korea.
North Korea is too busy starving to invade anyone.
‘Poisoned candy’: North Korean state media shuns food aid despite hunger crisis https://t.co/Ss3QiupSRu
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 22, 2023
Legal question: when you live in a neighborhood, is the area on the street in front of your house considered public or your property, in that you can put signs up telling people they can’t park there?
re: #18 ckkatz
Weather contrasts like that certainly are memorable.
I remember one April I was sent from Pittsburgh to Ft Drum, New York for some weekend training. At the end of training we had to drive through a blizzard to get to the airport for the flight home. When I got home it was 70 degrees, trees were leafing, flowers were blooming, the sun was shining.
I think that experience killed any thought I had for possibly living in the otherwise extremely beautiful Upstate New York.
My sister and her family lived in Chicago for a couple of years. And apparently, they decided after a few winters, to decamp to warmer spots, like Boston.
I used to see that shift when I lived in northern NY state (Massena). The family would go to visit my paternal grandparents in western PA near Johnstown for Easter. Foot (or more) of snow still on the ground in Massena. As we worked our way south the snow would thin out and then it’d by in the 50s-60s at my grandparents and outright spring there.
re: #33 Belafon
Legal question: when you live in a neighborhood, is the area on the curb in front of your house considered public or your property, in that you can put signs up telling people they can’t park there?
AFAIK, the curb itself is city property, though if there is space between the curb and the sidewalk, generally that is left to homeowners to tend (e.g. mowing the grass).
re: #33 Belafon
Legal question: when you live in a neighborhood, is the area on the curb in front of your house considered public or your property, in that you can put signs up telling people they can’t park there?
Subject to local regulation. I’ve never heard of control over the street in front of a property.
The key portion of Section 230 is only 26 words long and reads, “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” https://t.co/JPmG7biXtu
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 21, 2023
Referenced article gift link:
re: #35 Dopamine Fish
AFAIK, the curb itself is city property, though if there is space between the curb and the sidewalk, generally that is left to homeowners to tend (e.g. mowing the grass).
The homeowner may tend it (mow the grass) but usually that property “belongs” to the city. The official plat of survey for your property should tell you precisely what belongs to you. Indeed, we once received a notice objecting to our “unauthorized” sapling of an “illegal species” on this property. However, the city did not remove the sapling — just relocated the speed sign that the tree was obstructing (which my husband deliberately planted there — let’s say he was no respecter of speed limits).
re: #98 PhillyPretzel
Oh and I forgot to mention one item: Today is my birthday.
::: Champagne for everyone in the room :::
Congradumalashuns!
re: #33 Belafon
Legal question: when you live in a neighborhood, is the area on the street in front of your house considered public or your property, in that you can put signs up telling people they can’t park there?
My experience growing up in Pittsburgh was that the official law was just a small part of the interaction between people.
If someone put a sign and chair up, I respected it. Mostly because I did not feel like coming back and finding out that I had to choose which of my 4 flat tires I would replace with my one spare.
And if someone suggested that I really shouldn’t park there, I would thank them and move on.
It seemed to me that there were better times to stand up for my ‘rights’, than on a cold snowed-in deserted street in an unfamiliar neighborhood. Choose your battles wisely.
Marjorie Greene: “Intelligence reports show Putin is interested in Georgia. I’m flattered!”
— Captain Obvious (@TheFungi669) February 22, 2023
Experience counts,and we are lucky to have an intelligent, good and decent man for our leader.
— Sharlee McLeod (@moonchildsd) February 22, 2023
President Biden actively defends democracy at home and abroad. He is a president for our lifetimes. He’s honest, brave, kind and hard working. It’s obvious he loves our country. Thank you President Biden!
— ConnieDC (@ConnieDCTrees) February 22, 2023
re: #43 DodgerFan1988
Lady, he didn’t say he was interested in YOU. We know you like the pseudo-muscular dad-bod fuckboys, but…
re: #33 Belafon
Legal question: when you live in a neighborhood, is the area on the street in front of your house considered public or your property, in that you can put signs up telling people they can’t park there?
re: #35 Dopamine Fish
AFAIK, the curb itself is city property, though if there is space between the curb and the sidewalk, generally that is left to homeowners to tend (e.g. mowing the grass).
That’s my understanding around here as well: that strip of grass between the sidewalk and the curb is city property but the homeowner has to keep it up.
That said, people are always putting up contractor signs for whatever work they’re having done and the occasional political sign.
In addition: I’m not sure you can declare your own private public parking space on a public street. The closest I’ve ever seen to that is people in South Philly putting trashcans in front of their house to “claim” their spot. Again, it’s a public street, but I’m guessing moving the trash cans and taking the spot results in a key-based pinstriping on your fender.
MTG thinks Jeff Davis and Alec Stephens were “founding fathers”
Marjorie Taylor Greene believe her “national divorce” proposal is “the vision our founding fathers had for America.” pic.twitter.com/kYsxs33iL8
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) February 22, 2023
re: #47 The Pie Overlord!
MTG thinks Jeff Davis and Alec Stephens were “founding fathers”
She’s from Georgia. She’s probably never forgiven Will Sherman for what he did to her state. Well, guess what, Margarine Two-Vegetables: You keep pushing that envelope, and his ghost is gonna give you a Second Coming. And not the Jesus kind.
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #134 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s possible that no one other than MTG signed on to that bill — it died with the last Congress and my guess is she hasn’t made any attempts to revive it.
H.R.6070 - Kyle H. Rittenhouse Congressional Gold Medal Act (Introduced November 23, 2021, was not assigned to a committee, had no co-sponsors)
She has not introduced a new bill. This one died at the end of the session in 2022.
re: #28 Mattand
Wait, what????
Here’s the definitive book about strikebreakers in the early 20th Century
The early chapters of the book, which make the gender argument most clearly, are the most valuable. Norwood’s stories of the role played by college students and Boy Scouts in early twentieth century strikes are sure to spark interest. His chapter on African-Americans as strikebreakers provides a surprising addition to the complicated historiography regarding the antipathy between blacks and unions. Later chapters, detailing the growth of large-scale professional strikebreaking firms, are derivative and unimpressive. Certainly, the argument that there was an element of joie-de-combat in strikebreaking is plausible-in the same sense that competition among business firms is often expressed in martial terms. One would assume that “manliness” was as much a part of striker violence, though Norwood deals with this phenomenon only indirectly. The element of “manliness” in these conflicts is evident, but gender analysis usually overinterprets the commonsensical. It is more likely that, in both cases,men were trying to control or get jobs. One aspect of strikebreaking culture is an interesting aside, not a key to historical understanding.
Norwood’s treatment of African-Americans is perhaps the most interesting-for, while college students and Boy Scouts quickly faded from the ranks of strikebreakers, blacks increased their presence. Many labor historians have moved into a cultural studies explanation of racism in organized labor. They have largely abandoned any economic explanation of union racism, as well as the old argument that employers used race to “divide and conquer” their work forces. (Though Norwood provides convincing evidence that this was exactly what Ford did to combat the United Auto Workers in 1941.) Instead, they have articulated a theory of the “wages of whiteness” and the cultural construction of race, on often fanciful grounds. Norwood continues in this vein, but with a different twist, arguing that strikebreaking improved both black self-image and white estimation of black courage and ability.
re: #47 The Pie Overlord!
MTG thinks Jeff Davis and Alec Stephens were “founding fathers”
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re: #152 The Pie Overlord!
It should be OK landing at DTW but the ride home from the airport is gonna be a bitch.
You could always divert to Scottsbluff, move here, and have your family take over my town. /s
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
I’m back from the Sidney VA. It appears I’m going to live over the short term at least.
The VA nurse who is my next-door neighbour retired from the VA, so I had to do a telehealth appointment with a nurse in Grand Junction.
Medical details behind the privacy bar. More stuff piled on.
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Ain’t nothing wrong with getting old.
Means you’re still alive.
re: #52 Hecuba’s daughter
The way she described the features of this “separation” it seems more like she wanted a return to the pre-Brown v Board of Education America, where states could control what rights people had based on their race and religion, including voting eligibility, jobs they could hold, restaurants and commercial establishments they could patronize, schools they could attend, drinking fountains they could use, etc. That is the United States she wants.
Yes, that is certainly the direction she and her cronies want us headed.
My personal assumption is that this is only the first step regressing to the US she wants.
More on Boy Scouts being used as strikebreakers and how Unions didn’t take too kindly to them.
How did I not know this? https://t.co/uKMvWdAGfy
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) January 27, 2018
re: #18 ckkatz
Weather contrasts like that certainly are memorable.
I remember one April I was sent from Pittsburgh to Ft Drum, New York for some weekend training. At the end of training we had to drive through a blizzard to get to the airport for the flight home. When I got home it was 70 degrees, trees were leafing, flowers were blooming, the sun was shining.
I think that experience killed any thought I had for possibly living in the otherwise extremely beautiful Upstate New York.
My sister and her family lived in Chicago for a couple of years. And apparently, they decided after a few winters, to decamp to warmer spots, like Boston.
I have two experiences like that. In the Seventies we had an ice storm in central Michigan which wiped out our electricity for six weeks. We were getting water from a windmill in a field near our house.
When I returned from Spain and was transferred to Naval Station Mayport, I went on leave to central Michigan. The temperatures in Spain were near 100°F while in Michigan they were near 0°F. That whipped up a case of pneumonia.
re: #32 The Pie Overlord!
Seinfeld - If the homeless don’t like them, the homeless don’t have to eat them.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
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re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You could always divert to Scottsbluff, move here, and have your family take over my town. /s
Then we will put up an eruv. //lol
It wasn’t a matter of where, but when. Ukraine has had those targets dialed in and were just waiting for the weaponry to do the job.
Wham! The temperature plummeted like a rock (13°F, -11°C), and the sky is whited out with snow. The winter storm has arrived. The Winter Storm Warning ends Thursday morning at 0500. Wind chill watch goes until 0900.
…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING
TO 5 AM MST THURSDAY…
…WIND CHILL WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
THURSDAY MORNING…
* WHAT…Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 8
inches. Localized higher amounts up to 12 inches possible.
Northeast winds gusting as high as 35 mph could produce blowing
and drifting snow. Wind chills as low as 35 below zero.
* WHERE…Portions of panhandle Nebraska and southeast Wyoming.
* WHEN…Winter Storm Warning from 8 PM this evening to 5 AM MST
Thursday. Wind Chill Watch from Wednesday afternoon through
Thursday morning.
* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult. Patchy blowing snow
could significantly reduce visibility. The dangerously cold wind
chills as low as 35 below zero could cause frostbite on exposed
skin in 10 minutes or less.
re: #56 Joe Bacon
More on Boy Scouts being used as strikebreakers and how Unions didn’t take too kindly to them.
Jesus, like it wasn’t bad enough they were homophobes. I have never heard of this before.
Kinda surprised that never came up in 2013 when Philly tried to forced the BSA out of their HQ downtown, given what a big union city Philly is. The BSA had built the HQ on public land and inhabited it rent free for decades. The city eventually told the BSA to leave over their anti gay bullshit but ultimately lost a lawsuit. Philly then had to pony up $1.7 million for legal fees and building improvements to get them out.
To be brutally frank, the locals would have cared more about the strikebreaking than the gay rights issue.
re: #31 DodgerFan1988
A lot of comments from the Right Wing Twitterverse wishing North Korea invade “Woke” South Korea.
A lot of Christians in the thread are saying they’re going to burn in Hell or how oppressed they are by this. That whole thread is a lovely bit of hate.
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wham! The temperature plummeted like a rock (13°F, -11°C), and the sky is whited out with snow. The winter storm has arrived. The Winter Storm Warning ends Thursday morning at 0500. Wind chill watch goes until 0900.
…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING
TO 5 AM MST THURSDAY…
…WIND CHILL WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
THURSDAY MORNING…* WHAT…Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 8
inches. Localized higher amounts up to 12 inches possible.
Northeast winds gusting as high as 35 mph could produce blowing
and drifting snow. Wind chills as low as 35 below zero.* WHERE…Portions of panhandle Nebraska and southeast Wyoming.
* WHEN…Winter Storm Warning from 8 PM this evening to 5 AM MST
Thursday. Wind Chill Watch from Wednesday afternoon through
Thursday morning.* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult. Patchy blowing snow
could significantly reduce visibility. The dangerously cold wind
chills as low as 35 below zero could cause frostbite on exposed
skin in 10 minutes or less.
Ugh.. stay safe.
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
it got cold here too. I went to the local market to pick up something for the grill and when I got back home and came in from the car my wife looked at me rubbing my chest and asked, “Did your nipples get hard? It’s chilly out there.”
And yes, they were. I could have made nipple print cookies if I had he dough rolled out.
Thumb print cookies are one of the things my mother always made for us and also for her grand kids. I just thought with the cool air I could improve on the recipe…
re: #33 Belafon
Legal question: when you live in a neighborhood, is the area on the street in front of your house considered public or your property, in that you can put signs up telling people they can’t park there?
You would need to look at your city ordinances or state laws.
In my village, the city owns all the land between the edges of the side-walks on both sides of the street. Because our streets are dirt, the village keeps any grass from growing on the street side of the side-walk with grading, to prevent it from taking over the streets.
As for parking areas on public streets, the only people who can put up No Parking signs is the city. A resident can request the city put them in, but they can’t put them in themselves.
Areas can also be designated a Handicap Parking space in front of private property. The ADA allows a disabled resident to petition the city to designate a space at the side of the street and install a sign and street markings (on paved streets).
re: #49 Joe Bacon
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re: #54 BeenHereAwhile
Ain’t nothing wrong with getting old.
Means you’re still alive.
The alternative is dying young.
A few answers to comments I saw below this tweet:
1) The US Air Force’s 9th Reconnaissance Wing has 31 Dragon Ladies in service (27x U2-S & 4x TU-2S training version).
2) The US Air Force won’t disclose the maximum flight ceiling… it’s supposedly around 80,000 ft (24,000 m). https://t.co/nsIoV19eOf— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) February 21, 2023
I realize I am probably also describing humans between the age of 45 and 55, which, you know, the dog year calculation does make sense
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) February 22, 2023
LOL, responding to a news report that the Pierce Fire Department is organising a golf tournament to raise money for equipment. They will play with an AR-15.
If you played golf with an AR-15, would you do it like this or like this https://t.co/4enPETeShN pic.twitter.com/GTaK332xlt
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) February 22, 2023
A viral video has racked up millions of views on Twitter, claiming to show a black migrant assault and rob a priest during mass in France.
The incident happened in Georgetown, Guyana, in November 2020, involving a man “of unsound mind” and potentially “under the influence”. pic.twitter.com/zH8hEcMvsO— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) February 21, 2023
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL, responding to a news report that the Pierce Fire Department is organising a golf tournament to raise money for equipment. The prize is an AR-15.
I’d drop trou and drive the ball 300 yards with my swinging dick…then I’d wake up and say, “Who the hell uses a fuckin’ gun for golf?”
Another hoax. (Spoiler - The video is actually of “The Great Ravine in Pinglu County” in China.)
That video is not from Turkey. See: https://t.co/ScuqHLMmhB https://t.co/BqsLyEYjGa
— HoaxEye (@hoaxeye) February 20, 2023
Malcolm X was assassinated 58 yrs ago today. He was 39. As we reflect on if enough has changed since then—see his wisdom on “progress.”
“If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.” pic.twitter.com/KiDdCB1lj6— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) February 21, 2023
Late to the party, as ever.
Personally, I don’t consider it in any way unethical to avoid ads on the web.
As someone who has developed and hosted, with personal funding (i.e. without ads), several more or, mostly, less successful web sites since the mid 90’s, I don’t see it as reasonable to ask me to view stuff that I don’t want to.
That’s why I use the ‘Brave’ web browser, and the laughably named ‘Duck Duck Go’ search engine. I get no ads at all. From anywhere. No ad-blockers, no funny stuff.
Aside: We used to use the ‘pihole’ DNS server to get rid of ads until it would no longer work. (T-Mobile Home Internet)
I would pay the LGF subscription if I were a greater user of the site than I am now (which is pretty minimal).
In the meantime, I’m missing the availablity of Russian brides.
re: #80 ckkatz
Another hoax. (Spoiler - The video is actually of “The Great Ravine in Pinglu County” in China.)
The first clue might have been the Twitter handle “Trollstoy.”
Pure genius pic.twitter.com/1Clby4zax2
— Very Finnish Problems (@VFinnishProbs) February 21, 2023
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m having a tough time imagining how this is gonna work. For one, those golf balls are really small targets. Second, after you shoot it once, it won’t roll so good.
And if you blow it apart, do you have to get all of the pieces in the cup to finish the hole, or just one?
Or maybe I’m thinking about it wrong. Are you supposed to shoot your opponents’ shots out of the sky?
Or, if you are supposed to hit the ball with the gun instead of shooting it, do you hold the barrel and hit it with the stock? Because, if so, which way is that thing pointed? What could possibly go wrong?
Let’s try baseball next!
That’s correct. The Satanic Temple only opens an After School Satan Club (which the press always abbreviates as ASS Club) when a school allows a Good News Club to set up shop, and a parent in the district steps forward to lead the club.
A Lehigh Valley school district is opening its doors to an After School Satan Club. It says its hands are tied by the law (Reddit’s r/Pennsylvania)
“Obviously they’re not going to talk about the scary parts of Satanism,” said Briana Rich, who lives in the district and homeschools her young children because she thinks “public school indoctrinates children.”
“Satanism is a very dark, dark thing,” she said.
The After School Satan Club is open to children ages 5-12, who must have a signed parent permission slip. Students from other local districts can also attend.
Rich said the club might be more appropriate for high school students who can understand complex ideas.
“I think children are very impressionable, I don’t think we should be [shoving] anything down their throats,” she said, adding she doesn’t think it’s appropriate for any religion to be discussed in schools, even though she is a Christian.
Everett said the club will offer activities, such as decorating kindness rocks, creating cards for sick children at local hospitals, and conducting science projects.
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TST doesn’t discuss religion. Those complex ideas she objects to are science experiments, making cards and such for sick children in hospitals, and teaching critical thinking.
Does anyone know why RI Representative Cicilline is resigning from Congress, effective the end of June? We can’t afford to lose any Democrats. Is it just that he feels there isn’t much Democrats can do in the House while the modern GOP has a majority? And that majority will last at least till the end of 2024 (and hopefully no longer)
re: #86 Tahitinho
It would really suck for the golfer if the AR-15 club had a round chambered. That would end the tournament (and his life) really quickly.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I can’t speak from personal experience, but some combat veterans with whom I discussed the issue with many decades ago, said that using an m-16 like a baseball bat on an enemy soldier resulting in breaking the m-16’s stock and rendering the m-16 non-shooting. (It also made the hit person non-functional.)
And of course, it seems to me that swinging it like the first picture points the barrel uncomfortably towards me.
You have been told to celebrate:
Happy Mardi Gras! 🎉🥳 pic.twitter.com/5LIYiDNsBX
— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) February 21, 2023
re: #88 Hecuba’s daughter
Does anyone know why RI Representative Cicilline is resigning from Congress, effective the end of June? We can’t afford to lose any Democrats. Is it just that he feels there isn’t much Democrats can do in the House while the modern GOP has a majority? And that majority will last at least till the end of 2024 (and hopefully no longer)
Rhode Island will organise a special election to replace him. I doubt a Republican would be elected in RI-1.
Serving the people of Rhode Island’s First District has been the honor of my lifetime.
The chance to lead the Rhode Island Foundation was unexpected, but it is an extraordinary opportunity to have an even more direct impact.
My full statement ⤵️https://t.co/gVNOtlTgPk— Congressman David N. Cicilline (@RepCicilline) February 21, 2023
The grand jury woman from Georgia needs to be told to stop talking to people.
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s correct. The Satanic Temple only opens an After School Satan Club (which the press always abbreviates as ASS Club) when a school allows a Good News Club to set up shop, and a parent in the district steps forward to lead the club.
A Lehigh Valley school district is opening its doors to an After School Satan Club. It says its hands are tied by the law (Reddit’s r/Pennsylvania)
(more)
TST doesn’t discuss religion. Those complex ideas she objects to are science experiments, making cards and such for sick children in hospitals, and teaching critical thinking.
And no surprise, threats have been called in and the schools are closed tomorrow. I’m guessing it wasn’t Muslims or Wiccans who called in threats.
HELLERTOWN, Pa. - Saucon Valley School District has confirmed that all schools are closed Wednesday as an investigation into a potential threat continues.
Schools had closed Tuesday evening after a threat was called into the district, according to a post on the district’s Facebook page.
The district will not be transporting students Wednesday.
No details were given about the nature of the threat. The district says law enforcement has been notified.
wfmz.com (WFMZ-TV, Allentown, six hours ago)
Twenty governors are forming a new coalition to support abortion rights
wapo.st (gift link)
Governors supporting abortion rights are forming a new coalition aimed at expanding and protecting access to the procedure, according to details shared with The Health 202.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And no surprise, threats have been called in and the schools are closed tomorrow. I’m guessing it wasn’t Muslims or Wiccans who called in threats.
wfmz.com (WFMZ-TV, Allentown, six hours ago)
I understand the point the group is trying to make, but given that Satan is the symbol of evil, it seems very ill-advised to set up a club in the name of this fictitious being. It’s unfortunate that it couldn’t be done by an official atheist organization such as FFRF, or could it?
Biden’s investment strategy to juice the economy
axios.com
Why it matters: With little chance of getting more stimulus through Congress, the White House sees buy-in from the business community as the best way to juice the reach of President Biden’s infrastructure package, the Inflation Reduction Act and the semiconductor research bill.
re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter
I understand the point the group is trying to make, but given that Satan is the symbol of evil, it seems very ill-advised to set up a club in the name of this fictitious being. It’s unfortunate that it couldn’t be done by an official atheist organization such as FFRF, or could it?
From what I have gathered, their goal isn’t actually to even set up these clubs, or put Satan statues on public grounds. The idea is get people to decide that it would be better for their religious group thing to not be around rather than allowing a Satan club to have the same access.
Well my goodness the Southern Fried Baptists kicked their second largest brainwashing center out of the denomination?
Oh my on what grounds?
Southern Baptist Convention Ousts Second-Largest Church Over Women Pastors
Do note whose church got the heave-ho!
The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted its second-largest congregation. The convention voted Tuesday to oust Saddleback Church, the California high-profile megachurch started by celebrity pastor Rick Warren, because it has women pastors. The controversy began brewing in 2021 when Warren ordained three women pastors, a decision he stood by when he resigned last year. But the Southern Baptist Convention hasn’t budged on its opposition, the Executive Committee voted to approve the recommending ousting, saying that Saddleback “has a faith and practice that does not closely identify with the Convention’s adopted statement of faith, as demonstrated by the church having a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of pastor.” Last year, lead pastor Andy Wood defended his wife’s leadership position in the church and advocated for women in pastor roles. “The church should be a place where both men and women can exercise those spiritual gifts,” Wood said. “My wife has the spiritual gift of teaching and she is really good. People often tell me she’s better than me when it comes to preaching, and I’m really glad to hear that.” The convention also voted to oust five other churches Tuesday, four for the apparent crime of having women pastors--and one for sexual abuse.
If you’re keeping score:
Women Haters 6
Sexual Abusers 1
Info Wars had an ad for the Wagner Group, if you want to know how it’s going.
— Godzilla could fix this (@amcatanzaro) February 21, 2023
Appears to be an attempt to recruit American veterans for Wagner.
On the February 3, 2023 show, JorDan covered the Infowars from the day before in which a segment, or advertisement, played supporting the Wagner Group. (knowledgefight.libsyn.com starting at 29:33)
There’s been a notable uptick in antisemitic content being shared on Twitter in recent weeks, much of it down to accounts that’d previously been suspended for antisemitic posts being reinstated as well as a new trove of accounts joining to post such content. pic.twitter.com/6qUG61O34W
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) February 21, 2023
In the beginning was Charles, then there was rage furby, and now a Charlie has entered the room -
See how long Newsmax or “War Room” makes it without NYT v. Sullivan https://t.co/8ZeLZ1iHSJ
— Charlie J. Johnson (@Charliemagne) February 21, 2023
re: #51 Joe Bacon
Here’s the definitive book about strikebreakers in the early 20th Century
The early chapters of the book, which make the gender argument most clearly, are the most valuable. Norwood’s stories of the role played by college students and Boy Scouts in early twentieth century strikes are sure to spark interest. His chapter on African-Americans as strikebreakers provides a surprising addition to the complicated historiography regarding the antipathy between blacks and unions. Later chapters, detailing the growth of large-scale professional strikebreaking firms, are derivative and unimpressive. Certainly, the argument that there was an element of joie-de-combat in strikebreaking is plausible-in the same sense that competition among business firms is often expressed in martial terms. One would assume that “manliness” was as much a part of striker violence, though Norwood deals with this phenomenon only indirectly. The element of “manliness” in these conflicts is evident, but gender analysis usually overinterprets the commonsensical. It is more likely that, in both cases,men were trying to control or get jobs. One aspect of strikebreaking culture is an interesting aside, not a key to historical understanding.
Norwood’s treatment of African-Americans is perhaps the most interesting-for, while college students and Boy Scouts quickly faded from the ranks of strikebreakers, blacks increased their presence. Many labor historians have moved into a cultural studies explanation of racism in organized labor. They have largely abandoned any economic explanation of union racism, as well as the old argument that employers used race to “divide and conquer” their work forces. (Though Norwood provides convincing evidence that this was exactly what Ford did to combat the United Auto Workers in 1941.) Instead, they have articulated a theory of the “wages of whiteness” and the cultural construction of race, on often fanciful grounds. Norwood continues in this vein, but with a different twist, arguing that strikebreaking improved both black self-image and white estimation of black courage and ability.
Frequent reader and rare poster here. I know there are a multitude of sins in the history of scouts, but I despise when the entirety is tarred by the same brush. My son is a scout, and has spent the last 3 months dragging his football team to help with the revitalization of a trail for the blind in the local area, as well as using the improvements in technology over the past 50 years to make it also accessible for deaf walkers (the high school sign language club now narrates the videos shown for the wildlife in the park).
Honestly, I don’t understand how anyone could equate Boy Scouts with strikebreakers, especially in the early 20th century. My grandfather was one of the original strikers back in Pittsburgh, and he would find the idea of 12 year old strikebreakers hilarious. One 1920 steelworker would pound (at least) 10 scouts into the ground like a tent pole.
Sorry if this is rambling, have had some lovely new beers from Pittsburgh tonight.
Quick video update on RU/UA war:
tl;dr for those who can’t watch: Putinistas keep predicting Russia gonna blow Ukraine out of war with massive new assault. Russia continues to make them look like fools by using untrained conscripts, third-line troops, old equipment, and no tactics. Ukraine possibly months away from opening a massive can of whoop-ass and then shoving it up Vlad’s ass sideways.
What It Looks Like When the Far Right Takes Control of Local Government (Politico, February 21, 2023)
A group of Christian Nationalist Republicans organised to oust the all-Republican city council in West Olive, Michigan (a town on Lake Michigan near Indiana). They ousted all but one, then set about reorganising the city government to make it “Judeo-Christian” (with a notable lack of Judaism).
In their first meeting, the new board members adopted a series of measures that changed things in Ottawa County. They fired the county administrator and replaced him with John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official, Christian missionary, failed congressional candidate and election denier who once suggested women should not have the right to vote. They ran out their corporate counsel. They closed the county’s office of diversity, equity and inclusion. They picked for their new public health officer — pending state approval — a safety manager at an HVAC service company who, during the Covid pandemic, suggested ivermectin and neti-pots instead of social distancing and masks. And they rewrote the county motto.
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The first city council meeting ran more than four hours of Christians saying how they wanted the town governed (that is, as a Christian city).
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What It Looks Like When the Far Right Takes Control of Local Government (Politico, February 21, 2023)
A group of Christian Nationalist Republicans organised to oust the all-Republican city council in West Olive, Michigan (a town on Lake Michigan near Indiana). They ousted all but one, then set about reorganising the city government to make it “Judeo-Christian” (with a notable lack of Judaism).
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The first city council meeting ran more than four hours of Christians saying how they wanted the town governed (that is, as a Christian city).
Wonder if this will go as well as the experimental Libertarian town in NH that ended with bears actually breaking into people’s houses to look for food.
This has been bouncing around for the past day or so. I have not seen msm articles on it.
Moldova’s Prime Minister Recean has stated that he believes Russian Forces are preparing to Capture the International Airport in the Moldavian Capital City of Chișinău in order to transfer additional Troops into the Country. pic.twitter.com/H1BdFhROqL
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 21, 2023
re: #109 Targetpractice
Wonder if this will go as well as the experimental Libertarian town in NH that ended with bears actually breaking into people’s houses to look for food.
It would appear they wish to rule, not govern. All of them are offended by the term “Christian Nationalism,” calling it a smear.
In local politics (I was mistaken, this is the Ottawa County Commission, not the city of West Olive), residents expect their local politicians to deliver the basics of local government. There is a difference between waging a culture war as a rhetorical tool and trying to govern that way.
The county is overwhelmingly Republican, according to the article. Since these douchecanoes were elected, a bunch of people have left the Republican Party to become “independents.” The State Attorney General Dana Nessel is looking into local complaints that the county commission is holding secret meetings and violating the Open Meetings Act. Several people have weighed in on primarying the board in a couple years.
The sole “traditional” Republican who did not get ousted thinks this is a mess, and might leave an opening for Democrats to gain the board, which he characterises as a true disaster (he’ll take the Christian Nationalists over a Democrat).
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re: #109 Targetpractice
Wonder if this will go as well as the experimental Libertarian town in NH that ended with bears actually breaking into people’s houses to look for food.
We can only hope that they end up discrediting themselves instead of burrowing further throughout our nation turning us into a Christofascist regime. Too many Americans are receptive to their toxic ideology.
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It would appear they wish to rule, not govern. All of them are offended by the term “Christian Nationalism,” calling it a smear.
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The sole “traditional” Republican who did not get ousted thinks this is a mess, and might leave an opening for Democrats to gain the board, which he characterises as a true disaster (he’ll take the Christian Nationalists over a Democrat).
That is the terrifying aspect — that too many so-called traditional Republicans are fascist at heart. After all, Barr said he’d vote for Trump if he were the nominee, though he would prefer he weren’t.
Bolivian guerilla leader detained at Cancun nightclub, offers wife as hostage in his place. pic.twitter.com/0MsoNQmuEl
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) August 30, 2022
re: #115 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Saturday morning, heavy snow almost to the coast:
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And heavy rain for the rest of us.
Prior day will see snow perhaps in Monterey.
That mess is going to feed into our current weather to extend the winter storm here (see days two and three of the Weather Prediction Center’s charts).
This may turn out to be the worst winter storm this year for much of the nation.
Storm Summary Number 1 for Major Coast to Coast Winter Storm
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
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Salman Rushdie attacker awarded by Iranian foundation for his ‘brave action’ (Mint, February 21, 2023)
Author Salman Rushie’s attacker was awarded by an Iranian foundation for his act of ‘bravery’ which left the renowned author blinded in one eye. The foundation has also stated that they will award the attacker 1,000 square metres of agricultural land, according to state TV.
The Satanic Verses author was attacked by a 24-year-old Shi’ite Muslim American from New Jersey on the stage of a literary event held near Lake Erie in western New York in August.
“We sincerely thank the brave action of the young American who made Muslims happy by blinding one of Rushdie’s eyes and disabling one of his hands,” said Mohammad Esmail Zarei, secretary of the Foundation to Implement Imam Khomeini’s Fatwas, reported Reuters.
“Rushdie is now no more than living dead and to honour this brave action, about 1,000 square metres of agricultural land will be donated to the person or any of his legal representatives,” Zarei added.
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re: #110 ckkatz
This has been bouncing around for the past day or so. I have not seen msm articles on it.
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The internecine war within the Southern Baptist Convention is intensifying (Associated Press, February 22, 2023)
Southern Baptists oust Saddleback Church over woman pastor
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, the Southern Baptist Convention ousted its second-largest congregation — Saddleback Church, the renowned California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren — for having a woman pastor. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, File)
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted its second-largest congregation — Saddleback Church, the renowned California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren — for having a woman pastor.
The vote by the convention’s Executive Committee culminates growing tension between the nation’s largest Protestant denomination — which officially opposes women as pastors — and a congregation whose story has been one of the biggest church-growth successes of modern times.
The committee cited Saddleback’s having “a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of pastor,” an allusion to Stacie Wood, wife of the current lead pastor of Saddleback, Andy Wood.
But the controversy began in 2021, when Warren ordained three women as pastors, prompting discussions within the denomination about possibly expelling the megachurch.
Warren retired last year after more than 42 years at Saddleback. He made an emotional speech in June 2022 at the Southern Baptists’ annual convention in Anaheim, standing by his ordination of women. He told delegates who debated the issue, “We have to decide if we will treat each other as allies or adversaries.”
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Releasing J6 videos to Tucker Carlson endangers security and truth.
After revelations of Fox talking heads lying/promoting lies about the 2020 election, I do not doubt their intent to lie or even use deepfakes and more to alter the truth in J6 videos.— Anne F. La Lena 🇺🇦 (@DCAnne) February 21, 2023
re: #91 ckkatz
I can’t speak from personal experience, but some combat veterans with whom I discussed the issue with many decades ago, said that using an m-16 like a baseball bat on an enemy soldier resulting in breaking the m-16’s stock and rendering the m-16 non-shooting. (It also made the hit person non-functional.)
And of course, it seems to me that swinging it like the first picture points the barrel uncomfortably towards me.
If, and it never came to it, I were to have needed to use an M-16 in that kind of close combat, have one hand on the barrel where it sticks out from the front sight and one hand on the stock right behind the pistol grip and use it like a Bat’leth in Star Trek.
That said, a knife is better than anything else in that context.
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This may turn out to be the worst winter storm this year for much of the nation.
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900 PM CST Tue Feb 21 2023 (NWS Weather Prediction Center)
It’s my weekend, I have plenty of groceries and I’m not going out in that mess till Friday. We’re predicted to get about 18” total by then & we’re in light track.
(Omny FM, 52:08, audio only, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, “It’s Time to Shut Down FOX News,” regarding Speaker McCarthy turning over so much security footage to Tucker Carlson, and the revelation of the internal E-mails from their own people)
re: #125 William Lewis
It’s my weekend, I have plenty of groceries and I’m not going out in that mess till Friday. We’re predicted to get about 18” total by then & we’re in light track.
We hit Safeway in Sidney after my VA appointment to stock up.
Russia’s GOP heroes are failing them. 😂 pic.twitter.com/zThuFPWbv0
— Vlada Knowlton 🇺🇦 (@VladaKnowlton) February 22, 2023
re: #101 Joe Bacon
Well my goodness the Southern Fried Baptists kicked their second largest brainwashing center out of the denomination?
Oh my on what grounds?
Southern Baptist Convention Ousts Second-Largest Church Over Women Pastors
Do note whose church got the heave-ho!
The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted its second-largest congregation. The convention voted Tuesday to oust Saddleback Church, the California high-profile megachurch started by celebrity pastor Rick Warren, because it has women pastors. The controversy began brewing in 2021 when Warren ordained three women pastors, a decision he stood by when he resigned last year. But the Southern Baptist Convention hasn’t budged on its opposition, the Executive Committee voted to approve the recommending ousting, saying that Saddleback “has a faith and practice that does not closely identify with the Convention’s adopted statement of faith, as demonstrated by the church having a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of pastor.” Last year, lead pastor Andy Wood defended his wife’s leadership position in the church and advocated for women in pastor roles. “The church should be a place where both men and women can exercise those spiritual gifts,” Wood said. “My wife has the spiritual gift of teaching and she is really good. People often tell me she’s better than me when it comes to preaching, and I’m really glad to hear that.” The convention also voted to oust five other churches Tuesday, four for the apparent crime of having women pastors--and one for sexual abuse.
If you’re keeping score:
Women Haters 6
Sexual Abusers 1
Glad someone caught this. Seriously, this is one of the reasons I am completely *done*. (The other is the way Evangelicals across the board think that the LGBTQIA community needs to basically stop hating on Evangelicals. And as I explained, we’re not the ones trying to pass laws making our existence illegal, that’d be Evangelicals.) What the SBC Executive Committee is saying here is that women, ANY WOMAN, is worse than even a predator man who they covered up for. That just says volumes.
And in case y’all missed this:
Feds fine Mormon church for illicitly hiding $32 billion investment fund behind shell companies
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints engaged in the scheme for more than 20 years.
The fine was a measly $5 million, or 0.15625 percent of the $32bn portfolio. Fuck that noise.
I’m extremely cranky this evening because the g-d chairs at work are hurting my back and leg and a transgender friend is having an existential crisis because of the way a chunk of this country is trying to make her existence illegal. Also, I had to leave a blog that I’d been participating in since the late ’00s because some of the Evangelicals there fail to see how the hate between Evangelicals and LGBTQIA people is NOT equal—they are passing laws and want to overturn cases to push us back into the closet and we, we just wish they would stop. We’re not trying to pass laws against their existence, but they refuse to recognize that. Oh yeah, and the lies about Drag Queen Story Hour make me want to scream.
As a result, I’m completely done, but instead of an existential crisis on my part, it’s like “I can’t deal with this right now, my back and leg hurt when I sit in those damned chairs and I come home and collapse after work.”
The only good news is that my mom is getting out of rehab on Friday.
Welcome to NYC, @GovRonDeSantis, a place where we don’t ban books, discriminate against our LGBTQ+ neighbors, use asylum seekers as props, or let the government stand between a woman and health care.
We’re happy to teach you something about values while you’re here. https://t.co/o2CgOt1SES— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) February 20, 2023
re: #129 mmmirele
Rick Warren, other than his position on women in the ministry, is a first-class wingnut. President-elect Barack Obama came under fire from the LGBT+ community and women for Warren’s anti-LGBT+ anti-abortion positions. He endorsed California Proposition 8 to his congregation in his church. Warren also gave the inauguration invocation for Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, who failed to stop revenge killings following the conclusion of civil war there. Warren since 2010 has been on President Kagame’s advisory council, drawing complaints from human rights organisations.
Rick Warren is the author of “The Purpose-Driven Life.” Warren is a young Earth creationist and denies the science of evolution.
He accused the husband of Terri Schaivo of Naziism for withdrawing the feeding tube of his wife. He endorsed the Green family in their case Hobby Lobby v Burwell.
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apparently Mr. Warren has not engaged in enough adultery or child sex trafficking to be considered a true “man of God”. I mean if all he is doing is to deprive sinners of their money, how can he stand before his maker, much less the Church and be judged?
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Dark Brandon dealt a very serious blow to that in the past few weeks, first partnering his efforts with Poland to force Germany’s hand in supplying Leopards to Ukraine, and now appearing in Kyiv without any visible worry of harm coming to him. Couple that with the recent Keystone Kops-style “offensive” Russia just tried to launch and it’s no wonder that even that “WE CAN WEATHER THIS STORM!!!” attitude is starting to fall apart.
Mexico has a relatively newly built highway crossing northern extremes of Baja, highway 2D. Google street images are wonderfully full of geologically fascinating peeks at what the rock cuts have exposed.
But then at around 1km elevation there is a scenic area to turn off… and what the Google imaging vehicle caught was this guy sitting on a bench:
Thing is, there is no vehicle parked there. So either someone dropped him off, or he walked.
This is remarkably hostile geography, similar to San Diego county just a couple of miles to the north. During the day in summer temps are far above 100F. There is no water.
What is he doing there?
Seems like a story to be told.
“THEY THREW BEANS ON HIM” is trending on Twitter over this post.
What is this? Lmao. “They threw beans on him” hahaha pic.twitter.com/033EjT9nk0
— Vinny (@tufts_vince) February 22, 2023
Fox News headlines that go hard: pic.twitter.com/NuCZyQ5Jzw
— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) February 14, 2023
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re: #137 Targetpractice
It really has become impossible to distinguish Faux from supermarket tabloids.
Weekly World News is more believable.
Chupacabras Terrorize Suburban TULSA (Weekly World News, February 7, 2023)
Oklahoma residents are in a panic after reports of strange creatures known as “chupacabras” terrorizing the suburban town of Edmond. Eyewitnesses describe the beasts as having razor-sharp teeth, glowing eyes, and the ability to suck the life out of their prey.
The chupacabras have been spotted attacking local farms, leaving behind a trail of dead livestock. The once peaceful community is now on high alert, with many residents too afraid to leave their homes after dark.
Mrs. Eleanor Smith was one of the first people to spot the creature. “I was outside feeding my cats when I saw this thing. It had fur all over its body, big sharp teeth and glowing red eyes. I knew right away it was a chupacabra!”
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Just in case it’s not clear from the image, the blame attribution is right there in the picture: “Let’s not forget England imposed this war on us.” 🤦🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/VqoB0Fzhym
— Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 (@ChakhoyanAndrew) February 21, 2023
re: #3 ckkatz
A Nazi parade in Gera, Germany, with lots of Russian flags was greeted with circus clown music. Excellent idea.
Remind the Nazis that the title of the piece is The March of the Gladiators and is meant to depict the heroes going off to die for the Emperor.
re: #4 ckkatz
Sigh, The Murdoch family really is intent on carjacking the US, stripping it, and selling it for parts.
That is what late-stage capitalism is about; it is what Mitt Romney was doing with companies for Baine Capital. Regulated Capitalism can create wealth, Free-Market Free-For-All is Capitalism is nothing but amassing wealth.
re: #12 Rightwingconspirator
Somehow the far right can only speak in overblown, apocalyptic terms. Never is there any moderation in the words chosen or any rational alternative offered. Just effing amazingly consistent.
It has turned into an attention-grabbing race to see who can puff up their chests and display the most Conservative Creds.
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is what late-stage capitalism is about; it is what Mitt Romney was doing with companies for Baine Capital. Regulated Capitalism can create wealth, Free-Market Free-For-All is Capitalism is nothing but amassing wealth.
A good reminder of what Mittens really is even if he’s suddenly finding a line he doesn’t want to cross and is actually willing to make a good argument against _that_ line.
I’d like to give him his moment in the sun but I’m reminded of the asshats who are “liberal” Christians until they break away from the ELCA because they don’t hate LGBTQIA+ people. There is a local church, forex, that follows that path. God? Please fuck them up, senseless. I still consider myself christian despite them. But christ on a m*therf*cking crutch, why do those ratfuckers have to make it so hard?
re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter
I understand the point the group is trying to make, but given that Satan is the symbol of evil, it seems very ill-advised to set up a club in the name of this fictitious being. It’s unfortunate that it couldn’t be done by an official atheist organization such as FFRF, or could it?
They are stressing the point that symbols are arbitrary and subjective and the symbol of evil to one religion can be a symbol of good to another.
re: #104 ckkatz
There’s been a notable uptick in antisemitic content being shared on Twitter in recent weeks, much of it down to accounts that’d previously been suspended for antisemitic posts being reinstated as well as a new trove of accounts joining to post such content.
When is El-on going to re-release The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
A number of atheists at YouTube have been attacking exploitation of children by greedy parents on social media.
There are few laws regarding what a parent can do with a child on social media, how many hours they make their child perform for content (and money), &c. Washington State is considering legislation to bring social media sites in line similar to California’s laws regarding child actors (except the children in Washington would not be required to belong to a union).
Religion counter-apologist Emma Thorne takes on some examples of parents exploiting children. She takes a particular shot at Kent Hovind, who exploited a child’s channel for his religion, when her parents are exploiting her for money as well.
The child is already getting abuse, particularly from creepers. (18:49)
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Russia as portrayed by Putinistas is more like a psycho ex-boyfriend: He absolutely refuses to accept that the relationship is over because he doesn’t want it to be over, he obsesses constantly about the “good times” that were had when all you can think about is how he constantly beat you while acting the victim, he frequently asserts his “right” as your boyfriend to butt into your personal decisions, and he threatens to kill you if you ever think about “cheating” on him with another man.
In keeping with this analogy, the Putinistas are said ex-boyfriend’s best buds who’ve been giving you all sorts of shit for breaking up with him, telling you at every opportunity about how your breaking up with him is what triggered his behavior, and then blaming you when he kicks your door in and tries to assault you.
Locked in on the par treadmill. Got a good lab report from the physical. A1C held steady at 5.7, despite being a bit bad over the past 90 days. Will take it. Much better than hitting above 9 - along with a 375 glucose - that necessitated a hospital stay just over a year ago. Hope everyone has/had a great Wednesday!
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Locked in on the par treadmill. Got a good lab report from the physical. A1C held steady at 5.7, despite being a bit bad over the past 90 days. Will take it. Much better than hitting above 9 - along with a 375 glucose - that necessitated a hospital stay just over a year ago. Hope everyone has/had a great Wednesday!
I’m glad to hear your physical came out okay.
My wife and I got flu shots in 2012 at the church; they invited the community hospital to give them. While we were there, one of the nurses asked each person if they wanted a glucose test. My wife said okay, and pegged near 300. The nurse asked her why she wasn’t taking care of her diabetes, and my wife responded she wasn’t aware she had it.
Such screening tests are much easier to do these days; only a few decades ago you’d have to take a blood sample and wait quite some time for a glucose measurement. My wife had the measurement within seconds, and was seeing a doctor about it a couple days later.
re: #86 Tahitinho
I’m having a tough time imagining how this is gonna work. For one, those golf balls are really small targets. Second, after you shoot it once, it won’t roll so good.
And if you blow it apart, do you have to get all of the pieces in the cup to finish the hole, or just one?
Or maybe I’m thinking about it wrong. Are you supposed to shoot your opponents’ shots out of the sky?
Or, if you are supposed to hit the ball with the gun instead of shooting it, do you hold the barrel and hit it with the stock? Because, if so, which way is that thing pointed? What could possibly go wrong?
Let’s try baseball next!
The inevitable news story will not say “Florida man” shot while…
re: #148 Targetpractice
Russia as portrayed by Putinistas is more like a psycho ex-boyfriend: He absolutely refuses to accept that the relationship is over because he doesn’t want it to be over, he obsesses constantly about the “good times” that were had when all you can think about is how he constantly beat you while acting the victim, he frequently asserts his “right” as your boyfriend to butt into your personal decisions, and he threatens to kill you if you ever think about “cheating” on him with another man.
I’ve always thought this too. It’s the political equivalent of domestic abuse with the same characteristics. If you grow up in an abusive environment this behavior makes sense to you.
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It would really suck for the golfer if the AR-15 club had a round chambered. That would end the tournament (and his life) really quickly.
Cart em off and keep playing.
No mulligans!
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— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) February 21, 2023
re: #159 Shropshire Slasher
My daughter introduced me to those guys. She is very much into Cabaret Core.
So all the Putinverstehers over at moonofalabama are discussing the latest posting on (I kid you not) “How the US and UK Sabotaged Peace in Ukraine”
Wow.
What about the notion that Russia sabotaged peace in Ukraine by invading in the first place?
“When I beat my wife, I don’t blame her or her feminist friends for forcing me to do it, I do it because I am a violent, drunken misogynist bastard.”
re: #106 Bossnova1978
Frequent reader and rare poster here. I know there are a multitude of sins in the history of scouts, but I despise when the entirety is tarred by the same brush. My son is a scout, and has spent the last 3 months dragging his football team to help with the revitalization of a trail for the blind in the local area, as well as using the improvements in technology over the past 50 years to make it also accessible for deaf walkers (the high school sign language club now narrates the videos shown for the wildlife in the park).
Honestly, I don’t understand how anyone could equate Boy Scouts with strikebreakers, especially in the early 20th century. My grandfather was one of the original strikers back in Pittsburgh, and he would find the idea of 12 year old strikebreakers hilarious. One 1920 steelworker would pound (at least) 10 scouts into the ground like a tent pole.
Sorry if this is rambling, have had some lovely new beers from Pittsburgh tonight.
that last part reminds me of a story by (I think) Jack London, where he was doing something involving shoveling coal for a bit (I want to say it was steel work) and he realized after he was nearly broken from fifteen minutes of it that he had roughly 10 hours of the shift still to go. Yeah, anyone who was doing steel work then (or likely now) definitely has some core and upper body strength.
re: #109 Targetpractice
Wonder if this will go as well as the experimental Libertarian town in NH that ended with bears actually breaking into people’s houses to look for food.
I expect the town budget to get eaten by legal fees as they do a few things and get sued by residents for human rights or separation of church and state issues. At which point these people get to decide how they are going to go about getting more money.
Which will lead to the town going bankrupt and losing services if these people are also the anti-tax loons I expect they are. Or, they start adding more fees and raising taxes since they have to in order to keep afloat. At which point hopefully enough of their erstwhile supporters decide to toss them out in the next election.
re: #121 Targetpractice
Word on the interwebs is that Vlad’s planning to stage a coup in Moldova, which isn’t surprising if your thinking is that Putin’s regime needs a “win” of some kind to quell the growing unrest at home.
Does he have a plan to annex Belorussia as a backup?
re: #164 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Does he have a plan to annex Belorussia as a backup?
That seems to be an ongoing thing: You see, then Belorussia and Russia can form a “new” state, which means Putin will be exempt from his term limits as President of Russia.
re: #110 ckkatz
This has been bouncing around for the past day or so. I have not seen msm articles on it.
could i assume moldova would not be thrilled about this? might wind up fighting back? that’s all russia needs: more places where its troops are getting their asses kicked by better-trained, home-grown forces.
re: #166 steve_davis
could i assume moldova would not be thrilled about this? might wind up fighting back? that’s all russia needs: more places where its troops are getting their asses kicked by better-trained, home-grown forces.
Moldova has its own little equivalent of the Donbass region: Transnstria, a mostly ethnic Russian-populated strip of land to the east of the River Dniestr which would be happy to be its own Republic or reunite with Russia again, and would have by now had the initial Russian plans to overrun and occupy Ukraine succeeded.
re: #106 Bossnova1978
Frequent reader and rare poster here. I know there are a multitude of sins in the history of scouts, but I despise when the entirety is tarred by the same brush. My son is a scout, and has spent the last 3 months dragging his football team to help with the revitalization of a trail for the blind in the local area, as well as using the improvements in technology over the past 50 years to make it also accessible for deaf walkers (the high school sign language club now narrates the videos shown for the wildlife in the park).
Honestly, I don’t understand how anyone could equate Boy Scouts with strikebreakers, especially in the early 20th century. My grandfather was one of the original strikers back in Pittsburgh, and he would find the idea of 12 year old strikebreakers hilarious. One 1920 steelworker would pound (at least) 10 scouts into the ground like a tent pole.
Sorry if this is rambling, have had some lovely new beers from Pittsburgh tonight.
Child labour laws only came about with force in the XX Century, and are often ignored even today.
California Agricultural Strikes of 1933 (Wikipedia)
Boy Scouts were used as strikebreakers in back-breaking agricultural work.
An Alteration to the Scout Law (Jeff in the Bowtie, a former Boy Scout, who learned about the history of strikebreaking by the Boy Scouts, January 11, 2022)
He goes over each of the Scout Laws and shows why they instil mindless obedience over discernment. Under “A Scout Is Helpful”:
Hey, look! They’re helping! But what are they helping to bring about? Not fair wages or safer conditions for hardworking miners and laborers in their community. Who’s in greater need of help: the mine owner who wants to keep a low overhead, or the powerless men who need to feed their families, don’t want to die because of cut corners, and don’t want to be cast aside when they’re no longer useful?
There is also the problem of the Boy Scouts’s documented rampant cruelty and sexual assaults they covered up, and their discrimination against atheists (as I found out when I was thrown out of the Boy Scouts).
re: #166 steve_davis
could i assume moldova would not be thrilled about this? might wind up fighting back? that’s all russia needs: more places where its troops are getting their asses kicked by better-trained, home-grown forces.
The other thing I half-expect to result from this is that if/when Russia loses the neighbors to the west will be horribly tempted to do the equivalent of an ethnic cleansing or forced deportation of their ethnic Russian citizenry as an attempt to preclude further Russian attempts to “rescue” them.
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“THEY THREW BEANS ON HIM” is trending on Twitter over this post.
three important new songs by Daldo, including the new hit single: “Plastic Fantastic Liver.”
re: #36 wrenchwench
Subject to local regulation. I’ve never heard of control over the street in front of a property.
Municipalities control the roadways on streets, and HOAs may have additional rules on their property. Of course, when you’re in cities like Boston and NYC after snowfalls, everyone tries to claim their spots in front of their homes, even though there’s no rule indicating or allowing such behavior. Most of the time it’s common courtesy to allow folks to park in front of their homes. But municipalities control roadways and who/what can park where and when.
re: #169 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The other thing I half-expect to result from this is that if/when Russia loses the neighbors to the west will be horribly tempted to do the equivalent of an ethnic cleansing or forced deportation of their ethnic Russian citizenry as an attempt to preclude further Russian attempts to “rescue” them.
Maybe, or most of them will realize that even ethnic Russians, like those in Ukraine, tend to be loyal to their country, and that expelling them would just change the rationale to “We have to gain Russian land back for our abused citizens.”
re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So all the Putinverstehers over at moonofalabama are discussing the latest posting on (I kid you not) “How the US and UK Sabotaged Peace in Ukraine”
Wow.
What about the notion that Russia sabotaged peace in Ukraine by invading in the first place?
“When I beat my wife, I don’t blame her or her feminist friends for forcing me to do it, I do it because I am a violent, drunken misogynist bastard.”
The narrative they’re painting is that Zelensky was ready to deal, practically had agreed to the terms, and then BoJo flew in and scuppered the whole thing. And insist that it could only have been that meeting and not personally viewing the Russian atrocities in Bucha because he told a reporter he was still willing to negotiate. Bear in mind that on any other given day, they portray Zelensky as a warmonger who was preparing to use NATO support to engage in the genocide of the ethnic Russian minority.
re: #173 Targetpractice
…Bear in mind that on any other given day, they portray Zelensky as a ZIonist Nazi warmonger who was preparing to use NATO support to engage in the genocide of the ethnic Russian minority.
re: #172 Belafon
Maybe, or most of them will realize that even ethnic Russians, like those in Ukraine, tend to be loyal to their country, and that expelling them would just change the rationale to “We have to gain Russian land back for our abused citizens.”
Which is probably true. But there will be “nationalists” of both the Russian and local ethnic communities that will complicate the situation due to pig-headed bigotry*.
And per further aggression the ethnic issues will simply be an excuse/justification brought up anyways.
* - Honest bigotry. Or simply an excuse to justify exploitation and gaining power.
White nationalist fascist party still fixated on the guy who openly sought insurrection to overthrow the govt after knowing he lost the election.
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) February 22, 2023
re: #176 lawhawk
Interesting to note that Ron DeathSentence is in second place. I said before that if Trump is somehow prevented from running, DeathSentence would be the logical candidate due to his widespread name recognition as a bona fide champion of conservative culture, that is to say, a complete flaming dumpster of a human being.
re: #176 lawhawk
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re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter
I understand the point the group is trying to make, but given that Satan is the symbol of evil, it seems very ill-advised to set up a club in the name of this fictitious being. It’s unfortunate that it couldn’t be done by an official atheist organization such as FFRF, or could it?
The point of TST using Satan is to draw attention (hypocrisy) from Christians.
They never seek to set up such a club unless a Good News Club is first granted access to public school property. Then they only ask for equal time.
TST is similar to Pastafanarianism, which was first proposed at a Kansas State Board of Education meeting where Kansas planned to give “equal time” to Creationism in all public schools. The point is the trolling to show the hypocrisy.
The same goes for TST’s Baphomet statues they seek to erect when someone seeks to put a religious monument like the Ten Commandments on public land. They only seek equal time for their religion.
And as far as TST goes, they pay taxes (unlike any other religion) and file IRS Form 990 every year (unlike churches).
Twitter is a major propaganda platform for Putin today as his “anti-Woke” speech yesterday gets amplified way out of proportion. Little discussion of his responsibility for years of atrocities, his lawless state, etc.
Russian state of union address… valued honored guests get tossed from balcony. /Stephen Colbert.
Alaska state Rep. David Eastman (R) “sparked outrage after asking whether there could be economic benefits from the death of abused children,” the Anchorage Daily News reports.“Eastman said that he had heard an argument, on occasion, that when child abuse is fatal, it could economically benefit a society.”
Said Eastman: “It can be argued, periodically, that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment.”
Aside from you being a pig, if your mom is alive Dave, and on ss/medicare, then your argument applies to her too, dont it?
re: #183 Dangerman
Aside from you being a pig, if your mom is alive Dave, and on ss/medicare, then your argument applies to her too, dont it?
Dan Patrick argued during the Republican economic collapse during the pandemic that older people should be willing to die for the economy (not including Dan Patrick, of course).
Oh boy.
Black History Scholar Ben Shapiro Lectures Ibram X. Kendi About Slavery (Wonkette, today)
We’re entering the last week of Black History Month, and as usual, some of the worst people on the planet couldn’t refrain from annoying us for just four weeks. It’s the shortest month, for God’s sake!
Ben Shapiro pounced on a Presidents’ Day tweet from author Ibram X. Kendi, who you might recall from a banned book list. Kendi wrote, “On #PresidentsDay, it is important to recall that at least twelve US presidents enslaved Black people, eight while in office. Two-thirds of the first 18 presidents collectively enslaved nearly 2,000 Black people. We know what largely built this nation, and it wasn’t freedom.”
That’s an admittedly a bummer to read while you’re buying a mattress, but this is still Black History Month. Besides, an honest account of US history in general should reckon with the fact that the founders of supposedly the world’s greatest democracy owned people. This isn’t somewhat ancient history like how Beyoncé was once in a 1990s girl group called Destiny’s Child. This is a relevant if uncomfortable reality.
Shapiro’s response was small, petty, and racist, so perfectly in character: “It’s also important to remember that many of them built the Constitutional system that allowed for future generations to abolish slavery, and the system that has allowed you to become extraordinarily wealthy and famous grifting about the evils of the country that has given you those things.”
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re: #183 Dangerman
It really seems like these people are in a race to find the worst take ever.
re: #176 lawhawk
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Interesting that they poll “the primary” as if all these people are running whereas only 2 or 3 have declared.
And some definitely won’t.
(And yes I know how it works and why)
re: #183 Dangerman
And of course, Woman’s healthcare is off the table with this dude.
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Let me tell you why it was good you people became slaves…”
re: #33 Belafon
Legal question: when you live in a neighborhood, is the area on the street in front of your house considered public or your property, in that you can put signs up telling people they can’t park there?
Here in my neighborhood the streets are public. As long as your car is registered and your tags are current you can park anywhere on the street that isn’t posted by the borough (some streets you can only park on one side because of street width). Property boundaries for the most part stop at the beginning of the sidewalk. I don’t know if that is just a local, county rule or what.
GASP!
Is Steve Lenin going to be forced to sell his 1.7 million house?
Steve Bannon’s Lawyer Sues Him Over Unpaid Bills
Steve Bannon didn’t pay his attorneys. His representatives initially denied that when The Daily Beast reported on his unpaid bills. Now one of his lawyers is suing him.
After initially scrambling to counter a Daily Beast story that he wasn’t paying his lawyers, the notorious right-wing media personality Steve Bannon has been sued for owing a single New York attorney a whopping $480,487.
On Friday, the Manhattan firm of Davidoff Hutcher & Citron took the rare step of suing its former client over unpaid bills for a mountain of work a lawyer did defending him for two years against Congress, the feds, and a local district attorney.
On top of the half million dollars he allegedly owes, the firm is now asking that a New York judge force Bannon to pay interest—plus the cost of the lawyer who filed this lawsuit.
The firm says it “performed various legal services for [Bannon] in a competent and professional manner” and deserves to get paid for it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Tuesday that it will generally deny asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S. southern border without first seeking protection in a country they passed through, mirroring an attempt by the Trump administration that never took effect because it was blocked in court.The measure, while stopping short of a total ban, imposes severe limitations on asylum for any nationality except Mexicans, who don’t have to travel through a third country to reach the U.S.
The measure is almost certain to face legal challenges. President Donald Trump pursued a similar ban in 2019 but a federal appeals court prevented it from taking effect.
The Biden administration rule proposed Tuesday has to first go through a 30-day public comment period before it can be formally adopted. If adopted it would remain in place for two years.
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U.S. To Limit Asylum To Migrants Who Pass Through A 3rd Nation (Huffington Post)
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why would you want to mimic Trump on anything?
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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U.S. To Limit Asylum To Migrants Who Pass Through A 3rd Nation
It just goes to show you that no administration is perfect. As much good as the Biden Administration has done, there are still clunkers like this.
Discovered while scrolling through Netflix on my Iphone (which I pretty much never do because I have no real desire to watch movies on a 6” screen, anymore than I want to listen to music on a Garmin GPS unit) that Netflix now offers games on a “Netflix gaming app” and that this is free? Man, I’m not sure if it’s a bold move, or desperation, but okay: I have a Netflix solitaire game on my Iphone now.
re: #176 lawhawk
White nationalist fascist party still fixated on the guy who openly sought insurrection to overthrow the govt after knowing he lost the election.
There is no question that DJT will have enough delegates for nomination sewn up long before the primary season is over.
The others are just positioning themselves as VP candidates, Cabinet posts or for 2028.
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The point of TST using Satan is to draw attention (hypocrisy) from Christians.
And to remind us that religious symbolism is subjective and arbitrary and what is sacred to some is evil or profane to others.
re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And to remind us that religious symbolism is subjective and arbitrary and what is sacred to some is evil or profane to others.
Pretty much. If Wiccans tried to start a school club as TST does, they would get the same pushback.
When Louisiana passed religious school vouchers, Muslims applied to the programme. All of a sudden the state legislature was “whoa, we didn’t mean your religion.”
Antisemitic Protestors Chant At Audience Outside First Preview Of PARADE
It is now widely accepted by academics and historical researchers that Frank was innocent.
Jake Wasserman, the Engagement Editor for The Forward, a leading source of news, opinion and culture through a Jewish lens since 1897, shared a video of protestors outside the theatre on Twitter.
— Jake Wasserman (@jacobhwasserman) February 22, 2023
Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia, was murdered by a lynch mob in 1915 after being falsely convicted for the murder of a 13 year-old girl, Mary Phagan.https://t.co/ZfuZHYuecS
— Jake Wasserman (@jacobhwasserman) February 22, 2023
The murder led to the creation of the ADL, and the neo-Nazis in the theater district tonight are perpetuating the very same lies that began Frank’s story to begin with.
— Jake Wasserman (@jacobhwasserman) February 22, 2023
re: #191 Joe Bacon
GASP!
Is Steve Lenin going to be forced to sell his 1.7 million house?
Steve Bannon’s Lawyer Sues Him Over Unpaid Bills
Cannot have much sympathy for any lawyer who does not demand an up-front fee from someone like Bannon.
Climate Doomists can be as bad as denialists when it comes to stopping action:
Michael Mann, director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The New Climate War, has seen many doomist narratives. “One specific claim that is often made is that we’ve caused runaway warming due to the massive release of methane previously frozen in the [Arctic] permafrost, and no reduction in carbon emission can stop it now,” he says. “The scientific evidence doesn’t remotely support such claims.”
re: #191 Joe Bacon
Bannon taking a page out of the Trump playbook to refuse to pay lawyers. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bannon countersued claiming that it wasn’t competent services provided, and they ultimately settle out of court after depositions reveal that the work was competent and that he’s just trying to haggle out of paying what was duly owed.
re: #202 lawhawk
Bannon taking a page out of the Trump playbook to refuse to pay lawyers…/blockquote>
He is also doing it for the sheer enjoyment because he is such a bastard.
re: #199 Joe Bacon
And, antisemites are all over that thread already.
re: #201 Thanos
A recent study published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports found that the idea it was “too late” to change things was the most common form of climate misinformation, and it had become increasingly popular in the past decade, overtaking claims that the science was wrong or that changes to the climate were not caused by humans.
John Cook, who led the study, says that both types of misinformation cause the same outcome. He told Forbes: “Ultimately, the purpose of all climate misinformation is to delay climate action, whether the argument is ‘global warming isn’t happening’ or ‘climate models are unreliable’. The conclusion is always ‘therefore we shouldn’t act on climate change’.”
re: #201 Thanos
Climate Doomists can be as bad as denialists when it comes to stopping action:
Senstionalism sells.
re: #204 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And, antisemites are all over that thread already.
Of course they are and Sleazy E loves to encourage them.
Another reason why I’m glad I got off THE BIRD.
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Rick Warren, other than his position on women in the ministry, is a first-class wingnut. President-elect Barack Obama came under fire from the LGBT+ community and women for Warren’s anti-LGBT+ anti-abortion positions. He endorsed California Proposition 8 to his congregation in his church. Warren also gave the inauguration invocation for Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, who failed to stop revenge killings following the conclusion of civil war there. Warren since 2010 has been on President Kagame’s advisory council, drawing complaints from human rights organisations.
Rick Warren is the author of “The Purpose-Driven Life.” Warren is a young Earth creationist and denies the science of evolution.
He accused the husband of Terri Schaivo of Naziism for withdrawing the feeding tube of his wife. He endorsed the Green family in their case Hobby Lobby v Burwell.
Why yes, and tomorrow, he, Francis Chan and the whackjobs from International House of Prayer Kansas City are supposed to show up in Wilmore, KY, to hold a side event to the “Asbury Revival” tomorrow (Thursday). I could say volumes about all of that, but I need to cook breakfast before I sign on to my work box, so I’ll leave y’all to let your fingers do the walking on this very pumped up (in the way that William Randolph Hearst pumped up Billy Graham) “revival.”
re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Senstionalism sells.
The “we are all doomed anyway, so instead of doing anything let’s PAR - TAY!!!” view is widely being circulated in the social media that today’s “yoots” frequent - I would wager there’s some funding somewhere behind it.
re: #208 mmmirele
Why yes, and tomorrow, he, Francis Chan and the whackjobs from International House of Prayer Kansas City are supposed to show up in Wilmore, KY, to hold a side event to the “Asbury Revival” tomorrow (Thursday). I could say volumes about all of that, but I need to cook breakfast before I sign on to my work box, so I’ll leave y’all to let your fingers do the walking on this very pumped up (in the way that William Randolph Hearst pumped up Billy Graham) “revival.”
I’ve been following the so-called Ashbury Revival news. The townspeople are getting mightily sick of all the evangelicals swarming their town from out-of-state. Trashing the town, triple-parking and blocking the streets, harassing restaurant workers, &c.
re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Senstionalism sells.
Yes, on the money:
The spread of this is helped, Wood says, by social media algorithms. “Fear tends to go more viral than positivity, and so people were just getting inundated,” she says. “They were continually interacting with one or two pieces of negative climate coverage and then that’s all they were [seeing].”
Anybody have a WSJ account so I can read an article? I don’t want to give them my $ but a client asked me a question and I’m obligated to read it and give an assessment.
The Cameras Worked Fine. Their Maker Said They Had Reached Their End of Life.
How long your smart gadgets last isn’t up to you
(queue menacing music)
I love the graphic of the Sketchy Camera. Goes well with the menacing music.
re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’ve been following the so-called Ashbury Revival news. The townspeople are getting mightily sick of all the evangelicals swarming their town from out-of-state. Trashing the town, triple-parking and blocking the streets, harassing restaurant workers, &c.
Oh, this must be the thing that came up on Sunday that my pastor talked about in our pre-service volunteer meeting. I haven’t looked at it at all, but I assume it’s like every other hyper-evangelical “revival” in the last 30 years, where people get all fired up and there’s an explosion of Christian fervor, and then in a month the church attendance is all back to normal and nothing’s actually changed in anybody’s life, but pastors in every other part of the country refer to its “amazing effects” for years.
re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’ve been following the so-called Ashbury Revival news. The townspeople are getting mightily sick of all the evangelicals swarming their town from out-of-state. Trashing the town, triple-parking and blocking the streets, harassing restaurant workers, &c.
Ah they sound like fine outstanding Right Wing Xtians who wear their KKKross on their sleeves.
The Satanic Temple headquarters and the elementary school in Chesapeake, Virginia which conceded and allowed a After School Satan Club have been targeted with bomb threats.
I’m guessing atheists or Hindus didn’t do this.
Salem, Mass. News, yesterday.
UPDATE: Police say bomb threat appears to be hoax
SALEM — The Satanic Temple and the “general area” around it was evacuated into the snow Tuesday morning after a bomb threat was emailed to local media and law enforcement agencies, and, erroneously, the Salem, Oregon, police.
An email received by staff at The Salem News at 8:32 a.m. read: “We placed a bomb in the Satanic Temple in Salem. In the name of Allah we will kill all you satanic degenerates.”
Salem police first learned of the email from Tufts University, where the school’s copying, mail, and undergraduate admissions departments were also included as recipients, according to Salem police Capt. Marc Berube.
“Tufts University forwarded it to us. That’s how we were alerted,” Berube said. “We had two State Police bomb dogs out. They searched the perimeter and the interior of the building — no detection of any bombs. It appears to be a hoax at this time, and we’re going to have our detectives look into the email further.”
The email’s distribution list included several Massachusetts-based news radio and TV stations, as well as police in Wilmington, the State Police Association of Massachusetts, and the police department in Salem, Oregon, which operates through the domain name cityofsalem.net.
Bridge Street, by the Temple headquarters at 64 Bridge and a block in either direction, was shut down about 9:45 a.m. to investigate the claim. About 10 minutes later, the city issued a reverse 911 alert via phone and text “to inform you that we are investigating a bomb threat at the Satanic Temple on Bridge Street.
“We are evacuating the area and Bridge Street is closed at Beacon Street and Osgood Street,” the message read. “Please stay away from this area until further notice.”
At 11:25 a.m., another public alert was issued to say there was no active threat.
“The Satanic Temple and surrounding areas have been searched and cleared from the earlier bomb threat,” it read. “There is no longer any danger in the area, and Bridge Street is open to all traffic.”
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This new JBP track slaps. https://t.co/iXOXPms3CV
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) February 22, 2023
Andrew Tate - the influencer and professed misogynist - is to be held for another 30 days in Romania after a court in Bucharest extended his detention while he is being investigated for alleged sexual assault and exploitation.The former kickboxer, 36, and his brother, Tristan, 34, are being investigated by Diicot, Romania’s organised crime agency.
Two female Romanian suspects, who were arrested at the same time as the Tate brothers, were to be moved to house arrest. All four deny wrongdoing.
Romanian prosecutors, who can apply to detain suspects for up to 180 days during investigations, successfully applied for the detention to be extended by another 30 days after the granting of a similar extension earlier this month.
Romanian court extends Andrew Tate detention by 30 days (The Guardian)
Jezebel, yesterday.
Arkansas Republicans Propose a Monument to Unborn Fetuses
Instead of using their power and platform to do literally anything else to help the people in Arkansas, four Republican state lawmakers have proposed a bill to erect a statue to unborn fetuses on capitol grounds in Little Rock that would memorialize “the lives lost” before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
“As a memorial to the lives lost from 1973 to 2022 due to the decisions of the United States Supreme Court, and as a constant reminder of our duty to protect the life of every innocent human person, no matter how young or old, or how helpless and vulnerable that person may be, it is the intent of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas to enact the Monument to Unborn Children Display Act … and the Monument to Unborn Children Display Fund,” the legislation states.
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DARPA plans to prove a Nuclear powered rocket engine as early as 2027.
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will demonstrate a nuclear-powered rocket engine that will aid long-duration deep space missions and might even power crewed missions to Mars. Under DARPA’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program, the agencies plan on launching a spacecraft powered by a Nuclear Thermal Reactor (NTR) engine in Earth orbit by 2027.
“With the help of this new technology, astronauts could journey to and from deep space faster than ever — a major capability to prepare for crewed missions to Mars,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
Once in orbit, the teams will conduct several experiments with DRACO’s reactor at various power levels. These data will be thoroughly examined by engineers on Earth, before conducting a full-powered test.
I was reading Wonkette’s article on Jimmy Carter, and this quote from him struck me:
“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”
Would that more religious people took that attitude, instead of spending their limited days on earth telling people they’re sinners and trying to throw them in jail for their immoral crimes.
re: #220 Dopamine Fish
I was reading Wonkette’s article on Jimmy Carter, and this quote from him struck me:
Would that more religious people took that attitude, instead of spending their limited days on earth telling people they’re sinners and trying to throw them in jail for their immoral crimes.
Difference between compassion and the desire for power.
Stand by for the frivolous lawsuits from Republican legislatures against The Satanic Temple. Their abortion clinic named after Samuel Alito’s mother is now on-line and active in New Mexico.
Medical personnel assess a woman and provide a prescription for her to pick up medications at a local pharmacy.
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The point of TST using Satan is to draw attention (hypocrisy) from Christians.
They never seek to set up such a club unless a Good News Club is first granted access to public school property. Then they only ask for equal time.
TST is similar to Pastafanarianism, which was first proposed at a Kansas State Board of Education meeting where Kansas planned to give “equal time” to Creationism in all public schools. The point is the trolling to show the hypocrisy.
The same goes for TST’s Baphomet statues they seek to erect when someone seeks to put a religious monument like the Ten Commandments on public land. They only seek equal time for their religion.
And as far as TST goes, they pay taxes (unlike any other religion) and file IRS Form 990 every year (unlike churches).
It would be fine if a Pastafarian tried to make the same point. I am just objecting to Satan who has always represented absolute evil; it’s not as though he was once considered the “good” guy and then was demonized by Christianity.
re: #190 Eventual Carrion
Here in my neighborhood the streets are public. As long as your car is registered and your tags are current you can park anywhere on the street that isn’t posted by the borough (some streets you can only park on one side because of street width). Property boundaries for the most part stop at the beginning of the sidewalk. I don’t know if that is just a local, county rule or what.
There are some neighborhoods in Chicago where you cannot park on the street unless you have a special parking permit which is available for those living in community. The residents can also get a temporary permit for a visitor.
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Cannot have much sympathy for any lawyer who does not demand an up-front fee from someone like Bannon.
Does Bannon have a record of non-payment of fees like Trump?
re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter
It would be fine if a Pastafarian tried to make the same point. I am just objecting to Satan who has always represented absolute evil; it’s not as though he was once considered the “good” guy and then was demonized by Christianity.
That’s the point. Atheists (and members of TST, some of whom are Christians) view Satan as the good guy and the tribal war god of the Old Testament as the bad guy.
Satan brought knowledge. God brought genocide.
The point remains the same: One religion’s good guy is another religion’s bad guy.
Pastafanarians got the same hate from Kansas Republicans when they opposed bringing creationism into public schools. Their point was if one creationist view was brought in, all creationist views had to be brought in. Hindu. Native. Pastafanarian.
Pastafanarians also get pushback when they oppose state laws which allow religious headgear in driver’s license or state ID photographs (hence fighting court cases to allow wearing a colander for their driver’s license). The goal is to both show hypocrisy in favouring one religion in violation of the Constitution.
When this becomes law, children will die as a result. But at least the GOP will have owned the libs.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) February 22, 2023
re: #227 Hecuba’s daughter
Does Bannon have a record of non-payment of fees like Trump?
If he didn’t…well…he does now!
re: #156 Dopamine Fish
It was a bust here, too many options
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re: #222 Crush White Nationalism
Well…it’s the steroids… 🤣
re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter
It would be fine if a Pastafarian tried to make the same point. I am just objecting to Satan who has always represented absolute evil; it’s not as though he was once considered the “good” guy and then was demonized by Christianity.
Have you read “The Deathbird” — Harlan Ellison ?
re: #114 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter
It would be fine if a Pastafarian tried to make the same point. I am just objecting to Satan who has always represented absolute evil; it’s not as though he was once considered the “good” guy and then was demonized by Christianity.
Again, Satan is a symbol. And to others, he is simply a mythical figure and a product of our collective imagination.
re: #227 Hecuba’s daughter
Does Bannon have a record of non-payment of fees like Trump?
He has a criminal record along with his previously existing record of being a bastard
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The alternative is dying young.
A high school buddy of mine maintains a website for our class that includes a memorial page for classmates who’ve passed away. I was looking at it the other day, noting how many people from our class (1973) died in their 30s or 40s and thought how sad that is that people I knew during those years died so young. Even those in their 50s. Of course, now that we’re in our late 60’s and are approaching out 50th reunion, I’d expect to start seeing more names (unless I’m one, of course) and it just reminds me of how precious those years were and how fast they passed.
re: #230 Joe Bacon
If he didn’t…well…he does now!
Must be nice to be so powerful you can get away with just…not paying your bills.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call for a “national divorce” is treasonous and unconstitutional, but it’s also white supremacy. Because ultimately it’s another way for white Republicans to disenfranchise Black voters. https://t.co/HN8zPYYYVb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 22, 2023
I see Elmo hasn’t killed the API yet like he keeps threatening to.
re: #238 sizzzzlerz
A high school buddy of mine maintains a website for our class that includes a memorial page for classmates who’ve passed away. I was looking at it the other day, noting how many people from our class (1973) died in their 30s or 40s and thought how sad that is that people I knew during those years died so young. Even those in their 50s. Of course, now that we’re in our late 60’s and are approaching out 50th reunion, I’d expect to start seeing more names (unless I’m one, of course) and it just reminds me of how precious those years were and how fast they passed.
The same with my high school class (1978). Half are dead.
The end of an era. My first ever loss. 412 day streak broken.
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re: #231 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It was a bust here, too many options
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Not gonna lie, I got it mostly because I assumed they’d do the dumb thing with the double letter, and my assumption proved to be correct. I had at least two other available choices, and one guess left.
I’m 41. Haven’t lost too many classmates yet, but I am starting to see wide variances in overall health. Some of us are still doing pretty good. Others are dealing with chronic health conditions or the fallout of living hard when we were younger or are otherwise not in great shape.
I took care of myself in my 20s and I’m happy to still be in decent shape today. I also have no serious health conditions. At this rate, I’m just thankful for every good day that I get.
“Plan C”. lolz
#ElectionDeniers are still contesting the 2020 results. WTF!#TFG lost the election. He has admitted it. Forget your “Plan C” — #TFG Lost
Trump Supporters Turn to ‘Plan C’ to Reinstate Him After Supreme Court Loss https://t.co/aC27nfxDto— KGC (TheFightToProtectAmericanDemocracyIsDaily) (@cameronkgvi) February 22, 2023
re: #240 Eclectic Cyborg
I see Elmo hasn’t killed the API yet like he keeps threatening to.
Marjorie Taylor Green (and other Republicans) got it from the Libertarian Party, which proposed it last year.
Last night’s speech is why we need National Divorce.
— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) September 2, 2022
Imagine supporting Taiwan’s right to #NationalDivorce but not ours.
— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) September 23, 2022
Pro-lifers, why share a country with those who support the dismemberment of babies in the womb?
Pro-choicers, why share a country with those who would take a woman’s right to abort away?
#NationalDivorce— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) June 24, 2022
Should Libertarians Root for a National Divorce? (Reason, July 25, 2022)
Libertarianism long ago infiltrated the Republican Party. Conservatives don’t come up with ideas on their own, since the only goal of conservatism is power.
re: #238 sizzzzlerz
A high school buddy of mine maintains a website for our class that includes a memorial page for classmates who’ve passed away. I was looking at it the other day, noting how many people from our class (1973) died in their 30s or 40s and thought how sad that is that people I knew during those years died so young. Even those in their 50s. Of course, now that we’re in our late 60’s and are approaching out 50th reunion, I’d expect to start seeing more names (unless I’m one, of course) and it just reminds me of how precious those years were and how fast they passed.
My 50th reunion is coming up in a couple months. Yes it’s a shock to go to the Facebook page and see how many died. The usual suspects are involved along with substance abuse and sadly AIDS and COVID taking out a significant number. 365 of us graduated in 1973 and now there are just around 50 of us left…I’ve never had any desire to go to any reunion because of the bad memories.
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m 38. We lost one classmate late in our senior year, not long before graduation. We apparently lost another classmate to a drug overdose some time between graduation and our 10-year reunion. I don’t particularly keep track of my former classmates, so there may be more gone in the last 11 years that I haven’t heard about. I’m not exactly a picture of fitness and health, but my blood work keeps coming back clean, so hopefully I won’t be on that list any time soon.
re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Pro-lifers, why share a country with those who support the dismemberment of babies in the womb?
Pro-choicers, why share a country with those who would take a woman’s right to abort away?
A bunch of stoned teenagers.
Every Man his Own Republic!
re: #248 Dopamine Fish
I’m 38. We lost one classmate late in our senior year, not long before graduation. We apparently lost another classmate to a drug overdose some time between graduation and our 10-year reunion. I don’t particularly keep track of my former classmates, so there may be more gone in the last 11 years that I haven’t heard about. I’m not exactly a picture of fitness and health, but my blood work keeps coming back clean, so hopefully I won’t be on that list any time soon.
The earliest death in my class was my junior year. Three guys (one a classmate) skipped class one day to go up to the river and drink. They got into a single car accident and all 3 died. The next couple of days at school were pretty somber. I still remember that pretty clearly.
Class of ‘76. One of my best buddies in High School just had a touch-and-go operation for a brain aneurism, glad to hear that he pulled through. He is one of a mere handful of HS alumni that I bother keeping in touch with.
re: #250 sizzzzlerz
The earliest death in my class was my junior year. Three guys (one a classmate) skipped class one day to go up to the river and drink. They got into a single car accident and all 3 died. The next couple of days at school were pretty somber. I still remember that pretty clearly.
The girl who died our senior year died in a late-night single-car accident, when she hit a pothole with a miniature spare tire and it fell apart on her, resulting in her losing control of the car. I was the lucky bastard who had to sit next to her empty chair at graduation, as she was just behind me in grade ranking.
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Pro-lifers, why share a country with those who support the dismemberment of babies in the womb?
Pro-choicers, why share a country with those who would take a woman’s right to abort away?
A bunch of stoned teenagers.
Every Man his Own Republic!
Memories of the 1976 election when Ayn Rand endorsed and campaigned with Ford because she supported the right to an abortion. Ayn Rand also denounced Reagan calling him a tool of the Religious Right.
Oh and she also denounced the Libertarian Party as a bunch of crackpots during an appearance with Phil Donahue.
Now when Ayn AS IN MINE Rand refers to a Party that claims her as their oracle as crackpots…
Due to the potential for strong winds and heavy snow, a BLIZZARD WARNING was issued for the #LACounty and #VenturaCounty mountains from 4 am Friday to 4 pm Saturday. Snow accumulations up to 5 feet and wind gusts in excess of 55 mph are expected. #CAsnow #CAwx pic.twitter.com/wJUzMrqLim
— NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) February 22, 2023
I am shocked! Absolutely shocked!*
This.
“Mike Pompeo’s PAC Spent $42,000 On Books The Day His Memoir Was Published. It Became A Bestseller.”
Oof.https://t.co/Pd41MR1o7S— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) February 22, 2023
*not in the slightest actually
re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Libertarian Party was hammering this all year last year.
You shouldn’t have to remain in an abusive relationship. Choose #NationalDivorce over national tyranny.
— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) September 29, 2022
We’re with @RonPaul in celebrating liberation from tyranny on #SecessionDay. It was the original #NationalDivorce! pic.twitter.com/ZMiUSo4ELY
— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) July 4, 2022
Translation: “If my political party can’t enslave the rest of the country to our will, there will be civil war!”
It speaks volumes that Kathy doesn’t seem to acknowledge peaceful alternatives, like #NationalDivorce.— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) September 6, 2022
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh I remember a couple years ago when it snowed in Pasadena and Glendale just a minor dusting but people were flipping out…Sounds like this coming storm system is gonna be a Lulu!
Michigan: If you don’t need to be out on the road today, stay the hell home.
And if you are on the road in this ice storm, PUT YOUR FUCKING PHONE DOWN, PUT YOUR FUCKING HANDS ON THE FUCKING WHEEL, AND PAY THE FUCK ATTENTION TO THE ROAD.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 22, 2023
Always glass half full with you, ain’t it?
Fine. Lemme get the damn camera. https://t.co/GnN3j75DX8— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 22, 2023
re: #253 Joe Bacon
I had a full-on Randian housemate in Bloomington, Indiana in 1977/78. Brilliant taste in music, but his views on full-on laissez-faire & deregulation were beyond the bend.
Again, if we all came into this world as fully formed adults, ready to be fitted with an educational chip and then sent out to fulfill our potential, then a Randian system would be fine.
As it is, we come into this world dependent, a number of us remain dependent all our lives, and most of us wind up dependent at the end of our lives. I want a society and an economy that reflects that aspect of humanity.
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
One of my surviving high school classmates worships the ground Ayn Rand walks on. Total pot smoking libertarian living in Colorado and he’s a full blown secessionist who has a real man crush on Putin.
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But that would require empathy with those whose circumstances render them dependent on others. Libertarians and modern Republicans (but I repeat myself) don’t have any. “If a man does not work, he shall not eat.”
Just in case you were wondering who pisses on the seat in every public men’s room and throws wet nasty paper towels on the floor instead of putting them into the trash can, it’s this fucking choad. https://t.co/MUrY3quorP
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 22, 2023
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
Soooo, does that mean we’re going to have the performative outrage gang out there recording videos of them unrolling entire rolls of paper towels and throwing them in the garbage “to own the libs?”
Despite all the Russian bluster as Putin insists on violating the New START treaty and tries to dangle nuclear annihilation as a threat to force the West to stop backing Ukraine against genocidal Russian invaders, it turns out that the Russian military is still failing badly. They’re running out of gear, including the stuff they bought from Iran (drones), and their nuclear arsenal might not make it out of the silos properly (test failure).
It’s what happens when Russia is a kleptocracy and corruption is rampant across the board. They can’t hide the fact that despite the nuclear weapons, the country is not a first world power. It has conscripted manpower and lots of ancient gear, but it lacks the means to deliver on the boasts Putin pushes.
re: #257 Joe Bacon
Oh I remember a couple years ago when it snowed in Pasadena and Glendale just a minor dusting but people were flipping out…Sounds like this coming storm system is gonna be a Lulu!
We got off to a good start here on the mid-peninsula. Nasty winds yesterday. Our power was out for just over 12 hours-and we were lucky. There are still a lot of people without power around here. Elsewhere in the Bay Area power outages were spotty with a house, or several affected, but there must have been some really good gusts here to knock out large numbers of customers a few thousand at a time in multiple incidents.
Since the winds involved temperatures dropping into the 40s it cooled the house down rather effectively, but other than that, we’re fine. We have a backup battery for the fridge and another to power a few lights and whatnot. (Jackery batteries. Can recommend.)
Now to reset all the clocks.
re: #260 Joe Bacon
One of my surviving high school classmates worships the ground Ayn Rand walks on. Total pot smoking libertarian living in Colorado and he’s a full blown secessionist who has a real man crush on Putin.
I don’t have enough computing power to calculate the contradictions: Believing that secession is “freedom” but worshipping an authoritarian dictator who will take away your rights in a moments notice; Russian will lock you up for pot possession; Putin (and Ayn Rand) does not believe in “equal rights for all people”, i.e., libertarian creed.
Fucking idiots.
re: #213 Dopamine Fish
Oh, this must be the thing that came up on Sunday that my pastor talked about in our pre-service volunteer meeting. I haven’t looked at it at all, but I assume it’s like every other hyper-evangelical “revival” in the last 30 years, where people get all fired up and there’s an explosion of Christian fervor, and then in a month the church attendance is all back to normal and nothing’s actually changed in anybody’s life, but pastors in every other part of the country refer to its “amazing effects” for years.
In this case, this revival outside Lexington, KY started as a few students praying and holding a “revival” on a college campus square. Then the head of the college promoted it on social media, and the revival exploded, as tens of thousands of people flooded the town, overwhelming the town population.
This thing has been going on for weeks now, with far more revival attendees than townspeople.
At work follies: He’s not dead but…
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re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
He posted that nonsense at 1:15 am. The man is a mess.
Sorry to hear that you’re still going through a mental breakdown and making insane posts in the middle of the night.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 22, 2023
re: #266 Dr. Matt
I don’t have enough computing power to calculate the contradictions: Believing that secession is “freedom” but worshipping an authoritarian dictator who will take away your rights in a moments notice; Russian will lock you up for pot possession; Putin (and Ayn Rand) does not believe in “equal rights for all people”, i.e., libertarian creed.
Fucking idiots.
He continually posts that there is no such thing as global warming along with plenty of racist ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream about the Bell Curve proving white superiority. Oh and he’s also a rabid anti-Semite which he was back in high school. I cut him off when he asked why I wasn’t in Israel where I belong…
re: #247 Joe Bacon
My 50th reunion is coming up in a couple months. Yes it’s a shock to go to the Facebook page and see how many died. The usual suspects are involved along with substance abuse and sadly AIDS and COVID taking out a significant number. 365 of us graduated in 1973 and now there are just around 50 of us left…I’ve never had any desire to go to any reunion because of the bad memories.
Class of 84. I didn’t particularly hate high school, but I have had no desire to go back and reminisce about the all ‘fun’ times and all that bullshit. There were three guys who decided to pick on me sophomore year and with my luck, I’d run into them. Then we’d have to do that dance of “Okay, you guys made my life miserable, but now I’m supposed to be okay with it because ‘We were just kids’ “. No fucking thanks.
According to my brother who knows people in my graduating class, the reunion committee apparently has me listed as “missing” despite the existence of modern search engines and the fact I’ve lived within 8 miles of my childhood home my whole life. So, yeah, I’m good on the reunion thing.
I kept in touch with two people after high school. I’m now down to one because the other guy (who I was best man at his wedding) went full-on feral conservative. I’ve mentioned it before, but 20 years ago, a bunch of us decided to try Dungeons and Dragons again around the time Iraq War 2 started. He and the other guys literally paused the game so they could crack open beers and watch the bombing of Baghdad like it was a fucking football game.
We also had a common friend who came out after high school. Paul declared that “That fa**ot is probably dead from AIDS at this point.” After a few of those sessions, my partner was like “Why are you even hanging out with these guys? They sound terrible.” She was right, of course.
One actual benefit is that Paul and these clowns started to get clued me in as to what Fox News and conservatives were really about, and helped me shed the whole “I’m an independent” delusion I was under.
If you loved high school, that’s great, but man, I just don’t get what the fuss is about.
re: #242 Dr. Matt
Impressive streak. I just turned 100 today after missing 3 days of puzzles due to being on vacation without the laptop on which I wordle. Now that you can register to save and load your stats, any connected computer will do but that wasn’t available then.
re: #267 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In this case, this revival outside Lexington, KY started as a few students praying and holding a “revival” on a college campus square. Then the head of the college promoted it on social media, and the revival exploded, as tens of thousands of people flooded the town, overwhelming the town population.
This thing has been going on for weeks now, with far more revival attendees than townspeople.
The local hookers must be making some serious coin.
re: #271 Mattand
Class of 84. I didn’t particularly hate high school, but I have had no desire to go back and reminisce about the all ‘fun’ times and all that bullshit. There were three guys who decided to pick on me sophomore year and with my luck, I’d run into them. Then we’d have to do that dance of “Okay, you guys made my life miserable, but now I’m supposed to be okay with it because ‘We were just kids’ “. No fucking thanks.
According to my brother who know people in my graduating classy, the reunion committee apparently has me listed as “missing” despite the existence of modern search engines and the fact I’ve lived with in 8 miles of my childhood home my whole life. So, yeah, I’m good on the reunion thing.
I kept in touch with two people after high school. I’m now down to one because the other guy (who I was best man at his wedding) went full-on feral conservative. I’ve mentioned it before, but 20 years ago, a bunch of us decided to try Dungeons and Dragons again around the time Iraq War 2 started. He and the other guys literally paused the game so they could crack open beers and watch the bombing of Baghdad like it was a fucking football game.
We also had a common friend who came out after high school. Paul declared that “That fa**ot is probably dead from AIDS at this point.” After a few of those sessions, my partner was like “Why are you even hanging out with these guys? They sound terrible.” She was right, of course.
One actual benefit is that Paul and these clowns started to get clued me in as to what Fox News and conservatives were really about, and helped me shed the whole “I’m an independent” delusion I was under.
If you loved high school, that’s great, but man, I just don’t get what the fuss is about.
Also class of ‘84, and high school was a nightmare until I made one of my bullies bleed.
re: #272 sizzzzlerz
Impressive streak. I just turned 100 today after missing 3 days of puzzles due to being on vacation without the laptop on which I wordle. Now that you can register to save and load your stats, any connected computer will do but that wasn’t available then.
I was happy to make a 18 day streak as my max. Can’t imagine going over 400!
re: #267 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In this case, this revival outside Lexington, KY started as a few students praying and holding a “revival” on a college campus square. Then the head of the college promoted it on social media, and the revival exploded, as tens of thousands of people flooded the town, overwhelming the town population.
This thing has been going on for weeks now, with far more revival attendees than townspeople.
Yeah, that tracks. That’s typically how these things get started.
High school. Didn’t hate it. Didn’t love it, either. I was popular junior and senior year, was kind of friends with everybody. Graduated early (Jan. 2000) and skied almost every day until graduation. 85 kids in my graduating class, it was supposed to be an even 100 but 15 dropped out. Several of them are dead, a few to gun suicide, a few to drunk driving accidents, even one who died of bacterial meningitis when he was 21. One is battling breast cancer right now.
That FaceSpace stuff, man. A blessing and a curse.
re: #274 Crush White Nationalism
Also class of ‘84, and high school was a nightmare until I made one of my bullies bleed.
I should have done that. I’m not a fighter, but looking back, I should have decked one of them.
re: #271 Mattand
I went to three different high schools in four years. In my senior year, I was not treated very well (because poor, widowed mother from the Vietnam War, ethnic Polish, &c).
Though the school has always known where I was, I’ve never been invited to class reunions. That’s fine with me. Now, if everyone still alive showed, it would be a reunion of nine people.
re: #274 Crush White Nationalism
Also class of ‘84, and high school was a nightmare until I made one of my bullies bleed.
That’s usually what it takes. I beat a kids ass in 5th grade because he wouldn’t leave me alone. Got what he deserved for underestimating the small guy.
re: #263 Dopamine Fish
Soooo, does that mean we’re going to have the performative outrage gang out there recording videos of them unrolling entire rolls of paper towels and throwing them in the garbage “to own the libs?”
again, we measure wealth and prosperity in terms of the amount of resources we consume, not in the quality of life we create with them.
re: #277 teleskiguy
High school. Didn’t hate it. Didn’t love it, either. I was popular junior and senior year, was kind of friends with everybody. Graduated early (Jan. 2000) and skied almost every day until graduation. 85 kids in my graduating class, it was supposed to be an even 100 but 15 dropped out. Several of them are dead, a few to gun suicide, a few to drunk driving accidents, even one who died of bacterial meningitis when he was 21. One is battling breast cancer right now.
That FaceSpace stuff, man. A blessing and a curse.
We lost one classmate senior year to a car accident. I just found out a girl I was friendly with got run over by a car recently. To be honest, if I didn’t catch my cancer when I did, I could have probably been in that group as well.
It always blows me away when I hear about these really small graduating classes. We graduated with, IIRC, 438 people. Two year later when my brother graduated, they were up to 600+. Three years after that (five years after me), my sister’s class was 800+.
The HS system has since added two high schools since my sister graduated. When people tell you NJ is a densely populated state, believe them, LOL.
re: #282 teleskiguy
Now, middle school? That shit fucking sucked.
Only thing that made High School for me is that I only attended half days my senior year and went to the Indiana University extension in the afternoons.
re: #283 Mattand
What really depressed me about my senior year in high school was that my girlfriend was diagnosed with cancer. She died not soon after graduation. I really got down in the dumps.
There’s one song if I hear it just brings back those sad memories every time…even 50 years later it brings back the hurt…
re: #238 sizzzzlerz
A high school buddy of mine maintains a website for our class that includes a memorial page for classmates who’ve passed away. I was looking at it the other day, noting how many people from our class (1973) died in their 30s or 40s and thought how sad that is that people I knew during those years died so young. Even those in their 50s. Of course, now that we’re in our late 60’s and are approaching out 50th reunion, I’d expect to start seeing more names (unless I’m one, of course) and it just reminds me of how precious those years were and how fast they passed.
i have lost two contemporaries - from college.
their deaths were not surprising (long term health related issues) though still surprising when they occurred.
i’ve always been afraid to check in on my high school.
i’ve never been ready to deal with who or how many.
re: #285 Joe Bacon
What really depressed me about my senior year in high school was that my girlfriend was diagnosed with cancer. She died not soon after graduation. I really got down in the dumps.
There’s one song if I hear it just brings back those sad memories every time…even 50 years later it brings back the hurt…
Ugh, sorry to hear that. To have to go through that shit that young… I can’t even conceive of the pain.
The so-called Ashbury Revival is still growing. (Neshoba, Miss. Democrat, yesterday)
A Neshoba County pastor and Asbury Seminary graduate said he was struck by the “simplicity” of the worship and hunger of the participants at an “outpouring of faith” on the campus in Wilmore, Kentucky.
The Rev. Hal Hall, pastor at Sandtown United Methodist Church, attended the revival meeting with his wife after making the eight-and-a-half-hour drive last Sunday evening.
The much-publicized event started on Wednesday, Feb 8, and ran for two weeks, eventually moving off campus to area churches.
“At the completion of a regularly scheduled chapel service on February 8, 2023, at Asbury University, students lingered to pray, worship, and share,” a statement from Asbury University President Dr. Kevin J. Brown said in part.
“They have not stopped and, moreover, have been joined far and wide by hungry men and women across the world who desire to seek the Lord in this space. Since the first day, there have been countless expressions and demonstrations of radical humility, compassion, confession, consecration, and surrender unto the Lord. We are witnessing the Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”
Hall said he was struck by the “hunger” shown by those in attendance.
“You could just sense and feel the presence of God,” he said.
(more, with photographs of the crowds)
re: #276 Dopamine Fish
Yeah, that tracks. That’s typically how these things get started.
There are a couple of seriously big mega-churches in the Lexington area—such a weird mix of liberal blue types surrounded by evangelical Christians. One of my son’s classmates invited him to attend their mega-church and I hesitantly said he could go (he was in 5th grade, iirc). I was prepared to step in if it looked to become a habit, but he didn’t want to go back.
Now that I think about it, we had the same issue with Boy Scouts in Lexington. Initial interest, then “meh.”
I told myself for years that I would not attend my 50th HS reunion in 2015 unless I could walk into it on my hands - ended up not going.
re: #282 teleskiguy
Now, middle school? That shit fucking sucked.
Junior high here, I was a year younger than my classmates (having skipped second grade) and a slow pubertizer.
re: #285 Joe Bacon
What really depressed me about my senior year in high school was that my girlfriend was diagnosed with cancer. She died not soon after graduation. I really got down in the dumps.
There’s one song if I hear it just brings back those sad memories every time…even 50 years later it brings back the hurt…
That’s terribly early to have to deal with something like that - for both of you.
re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Junior high here, I was a year younger than my classmates (having skipped second grade) and a slow pubertizer.
A pubertizer sounds like a really unpleasant medical instrument from the 1920’s.
Florida Democrat files bill criminalizing dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window
According to the bill’s text, drivers would be banned from allowing “a dog to extend its head or any other body part outside a motor vehicle window while the person is operating the motor vehicle on a public roadway.”
Instead, the proposed legislation suggests drivers transport dogs via crate, or have their pets restrained with a harness or pet seat belt. If neither of those options are available, the dog could be them held by a passenger in the car, who is not the driver.
[…]
But besides banning dogs from sticking their heads out of of car windows, the bill addresses multiple measures related to animal welfare, like banning the sales of rabbits before Easter, as well as prohibitions on the use of cosmetic animal testing and the declawing of cats.
Luckily, it’s unlikely this bill will go anywhere. I certainly love the rabbit sale ban, prohibitions on the use of cosmetic animal testing, and prohibitions on cat declawing. But, the criminalizing of dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window is just fucking stupid.
re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Junior high here, I was a year younger than my classmates (having skipped second grade) and a slow pubertizer.
When my mother moved us from Maryland to Michigan, the one-room school where I was enrolled wanted me to skip second grade. (That came from informal home schooling where the curious kid’s questions were always answered and he could read anything he wanted.) My mother said no, arguing that would crimp my social development. (Surprise Mom, that didn’t help. /s)
Meanwhile, my mother and my wife both graduated from high school at age sixteen.
re: #297 Dr. Matt
Florida Democrat files bill criminalizing dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window
Luckily, it’s unlikely this bill will go anywhere. I certainly love the rabbit sale ban, prohibitions on the use of cosmetic animal testing, and prohibitions on cat declawing. But, the criminalizing dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window is just fucking stupid.
Mrs. Fish told me about that this morning. How dumb. We have all this performative outrage shit coming out from FL Republicans, but apparently the Democrats there aren’t all that great either.
re: #297 Dr. Matt
Florida Democrat files bill criminalizing dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window
Luckily, it’s unlikely this bill will go anywhere. I certainly love the rabbit sale ban, prohibitions on the use of cosmetic animal testing, and prohibitions on cat declawing. But, the criminalizing of dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window is just fucking stupid.
Even a cat can get in the way of operating a car. I can see why they want animals restrained.
Class of ‘82. High school was ok. My brother is 3 years older. He was fairly popular so I avoided getting hassled by older students. Then in junior and senior years I was playing guitar and singing in a popular band that played bars, dances, family reunions, you name it. I got pretty good grades, too. The thing is, I was always an anxiety-ridden, insecure wreck, but didn’t show it. If I could go back I’d tell myself to chill out and enjoy, but alas, I was unable to fully do so.
re: #266 Dr. Matt
I don’t have enough computing power to calculate the contradictions: Believing that secession is “freedom” but worshipping an authoritarian dictator who will take away your rights in a moments notice; Russian will lock you up for pot possession; Putin (and Ayn Rand) does not believe in “equal rights for all people”, i.e., libertarian creed.
Fucking idiots.
if they secede, who’s gonna run it?
probably just a different authoritarian dictator who will take away their rights in a moment’s notice.
re: #297 Dr. Matt
Florida Democrat files bill criminalizing dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window
Luckily, it’s unlikely this bill will go anywhere. I certainly love the rabbit sale ban, prohibitions on the use of cosmetic animal testing, and prohibitions on cat declawing. But, the criminalizing of dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window is just fucking stupid.
Until the dog gets its head taken off by a road sign at sixty miles an hour.
re: #298 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
When my mother moved us from Maryland to Michigan, the one-room school where I was enrolled wanted me to skip second grade. (That came from informal home schooling where the curious kid’s questions were always answered and he could read anything he wanted.) My mother said no, arguing that would crimp my social development. (Surprise Mom, that didn’t help. /s)
Meanwhile, my mother and my wife both graduated from high school at age sixteen.
I moved from Illinois to Indiana in the second grade time frame. I was in the gifted and talented program already in first grade, so they decided to advance me to third grade despite misgivings about my social development (same as you). I think being bullied and belittled for being a devout Protestant Christian nerd in a Catholic-dominated area (heavily Polish) did far more damage to me than skipping a grade.
Bogie’d (again) today: streak still intact, though:
Wordle 613 5/6
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I took a (erroneous) hint from a post here, and started off thinking it might be one of the dreaded *IGHT words: at least the answer only had four solutions (AFAICT)…
re: #303 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Until the dog gets its head taken off by a road sign at sixty miles an hour.
Yeah, it’s an epidemic that rivals COVID. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
re: #297 Dr. Matt
Florida Democrat files bill criminalizing dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window
Luckily, it’s unlikely this bill will go anywhere. I certainly love the rabbit sale ban, prohibitions on the use of cosmetic animal testing, and prohibitions on cat declawing. But, the criminalizing of dogs from sticking their heads out of the car window is just fucking stupid.
FWIW, we harness Boo into the back seat and then roll the window down so he can look out. Once we get up to speed, he usually lays down.
NJ tried to pass a mandatory “Secure your pet in the car” law a few years ago. I’m nominally for it, as if you get in an accident, you don’t want 60 lbs of K9 flying all over the cabin and possibly at the window.
Christie was governor, so you can imagine how that was greeted.
re: #303 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Until the dog gets its head taken off by a road sign at sixty miles an hour.
Don’t stick your elbow
Out too far
It might go home
In another car
Burma-Shave
re: #300 Crush White Nationalism
Even a cat can get in the way of operating a car. I can see why they want animals restrained.
The bills explicitly states “a dog to extend its head or any other body part outside a motor vehicle window while the person is operating the motor vehicle on a public roadway”.
As a Florida resident and dog owner for over 35 years, this is bill fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. Hard stop.
re: #300 Crush White Nationalism
Even a cat can get in the way of operating a car. I can see why they want animals restrained.
we take monster to the vet twice a week
mrsdm carries him to the car and lets him roam inside while she’s driving
he’s chill enough - been doing it for years
when its me, he’s in the carrier in the house. i take no chances and i dont care if he’s ‘unhappy’. i take driving seriously.
The potential dangers are numerous:your dog could lean too far and fall out the car. We’ve seen so many cars with the window fully lowered and the dog standing on the door, a terrible and probably fatal accident just waiting to happen.
he could suddenly jump from the car when you’re stopped if you have left the window down. (And while I know that many of you will say you only leave the window down enough for your dog’s head to go out the window, just this afternoon I saw a dog’s head and chest all the way out while the window was completely lowered.) As much as you might trust your dog’s training, do you really want to put it to the test? If you’re at a stop and your dog sees a squirrel, are you 100% positive he will not try to jump from the car?
you could suddenly have to stop (or be hit) and he could fall out of the car.
he could get a bug or other object embedded in his eye. Even the smallest particle becomes a projectile in a moving car and could cause him to lose his eye. I can say this with first-person knowledge. In college, I was driving with the window down when an insect flew in and embedded itself in my left eyeball. I had to have the insect literally cut from my eyeball. I was lucky; other than the pain, my vision wasn’t impacted but things could have ended much differently.
your car could suddenly be sideswiped, crushing your dog between the two cars.
you could lose control of the car and hit an object (or not see an object that’s protruding) with the side of the car where he’s riding unprotected.
Why Your Dog Should Never Ride with His Head out the Car Window (dogtipper.com)
re: #311 Crush White Nationalism
Why Your Dog Should Never Ride with His Head out the Car Window (dogtipper.com)
And a flying pig may kidnap the dog.
re: #302 Dangerman
if they secede, who’s gonna run it?
probably just a different authoritarian dictator who will take away their rights in a moment’s notice.
Yeah, well that’s classic Libertarianism in a nutshell: “every man his own authoritarian dictator “ - kinda the reason why said “philosophy” makes for good mockable troll-blogs, but falls short in real life….
re: #312 Dr. Matt
And a flying pig may kidnap the dog.
You seem to really want to take the risk. A bug in the eye is reason enough not to do it. The dog is experiencing what it’s like to ride a motorcycle without a fairing or helmet.
In the German city of Gera, a far-right group decided to take go for a parade in support of putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The locals decided to turn it into a circus performance, having set up the appropriate musical accompaniment for them. pic.twitter.com/2mNVUIZUmU
— Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) February 22, 2023
Off to lunch with my 60 lb lab in the back seat and window rolled down. Hopefully it doesn’t twist panties here.
NYT publishes anti-mask propaganda.
…note: a real meta-analysis, using only peer reviewed studies about masks and COVID-19 in a pandemic, not masks and assorted diseases not in a pandemic. And there are no “maybe” “could be” arguments presented as science. Real conclusions: https://t.co/FLk4fEtbaV
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) February 22, 2023
re: #316 Dr. Matt
Off to lunch with my 60 lb lab in the back seat and window rolled down. Hopefully it doesn’t twist panties here.
That’s where you crossed the line from being irresponsible to being an ass.
re: #305 Jay C
Bogie’d (again) today: streak still intact, though:
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩I took a (erroneous) hint from a post here, and started off thinking it might be one of the dreaded *IGHT words: at least the answer only had four solutions (AFAICT)…
I failed (x/6) too many possibilities (I have a different arrangement than you). Worse, they apparently changed Wordle and it doesn’t say what the word actually was.
Wordle 613 X/6
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re: #312 Dr. Matt
And a flying pig may kidnap the dog.
I’m in Jersey Devil country. I wish we all we had to worry about was flying pigs.
Fun fact: during the Jersey Devil sighting mass hysteria in January 1909, it was supposedly spotted by a woman in South Philly eating her dog.
Moral of the story: don’t ask the Jersey Devil to pet sit.
“I fully supported the Florida initiative to protect kids and parental rights,” says fmr. Vice President @Mike_Pence. “@Disney stepped into the fray. But [what @GovRonDeSantis] did was beyond the scope of what I, as a limited government Republican, would be prepared to do.” pic.twitter.com/QzFehzYm7f
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) February 22, 2023
re: #321 Dangerman
Thus pissing off both sides.
re: #319 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Did they change it? Not to brag, but I haven’t had a FAILD in a while, and it showed the last time, as I recall. PS: missing ur close-hide tag.
re: #323 Jay C
I fixed the hide tag.
“Article 5” is trending on Twitter, pushed by morans.
World War lll
Article 5
Joe Biden
The State Department
NATO
President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/oTErq4DaMF— אלברט בנימין הווארד (@AlbertHoward888) February 22, 2023
re: #321 Dangerman
someone should tell pence that R voters don’t care much about ‘limited government’ anymore, if they ever did. Now it’s all about using the power of the state to punish their enemies, (real and perceived).
they want to do what they want and use the phrase as cover.
now deSantis isn’t a “limited government conservative” either.
He’s basically a fascist who uses his big government powers to impose his will on everyone else.
Pence himself is a “big government conservative”.
he just focuses on legislating against people he morally disapproves of and hands off of business.
re: #324 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I fixed the hide tag.
“Article 5” is trending on Twitter, pushed by morans.
Wasn’t that one of Putie’s talking points?
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Don’t be lumping those Hindus in with atheists. Their promotion of the idea that women are ‘unclean’ for having periods is deadly.
Also:
The email’s distribution list included several Massachusetts-based news radio and TV stations, as well as police in Wilmington, the State Police Association of Massachusetts, and the police department in Salem, Oregon, which operates through the domain name cityofsalem.net.
I hope the Oregon State Police help nail the culprits.
/not likely
re: #218 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Jezebel, yesterday.
Arkansas Republicans Propose a Monument to Unborn Fetuses
(more)
That would be a Period Piece.
Reset the clock.
Boulder police responding to report of active shooter at Boulder High School. This SHOULDN’T BE NORMAL!! https://t.co/TMpdXY3VOr
— KL Is Upset🌈🌊🏴 (@KellyLaw9) February 22, 2023
re: #298 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
When my mother moved us from Maryland to Michigan, the one-room school where I was enrolled wanted me to skip second grade. (That came from informal home schooling where the curious kid’s questions were always answered and he could read anything he wanted.) My mother said no, arguing that would crimp my social development. (Surprise Mom, that didn’t help. /s)
Meanwhile, my mother and my wife both graduated from high school at age sixteen.
I was up to it academically but I realize in retrospect that I was not emotionally or socially advanced enough. And as for females, I was theoretically interested but practically completely hopeless.
And here we go with the smear job with Charlie Jerk leading the way.
Emily Kohrs, the foreperson on the Trump grand jury in Georgia, really putting the WITCH in Witch Hunt. pic.twitter.com/BghMzoAnOU
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 22, 2023
Up yours, woke moralists. Tyranny is always petty—and petty tyranny will not save the planet. pic.twitter.com/XUjpP31505
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 22, 2023
Our dog rarely extends her head out of the window and I never have it open unless I’m doing under 30mph. She prefers to sit and look out the window from inside the car. She was doing exactly that at a stoplight the other day when the driver of a pickup next to us threw something into the back seat where the dog was. I assume it was a dog treat—so far no ill effects. But it’s another reason to keep the window up.
re: #329 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Bleah.
Periods are great. You have no idea, until you think about it, how much joy there is in getting your period.
/Pill takers possibly exempt
re: #328 wrenchwench
That would be a Period Piece.
i’m not sure that idea has been fully developed yet.
Denver Post
The University of Colorado Boulder police said police are investigating a “report of person with a gun” near the school at 1604 Arapahoe Ave.
Boulder police said they have not found any victims while clearing the school. Multiple other Colorado schools have received various threats today, according to law enforcement, spurring lockdowns and shelter-in-place warnings.
re: #337 Dangerman
i’m not sure that idea has been fully developed yet.
Somebody needs to establish the rights of blastospheres’ inclusion. Here come the feminine hygiene products! (used)
So far, police in Colorado have responded to **reports** of active shooters/incidents at schools in Boulder, Alamosa, Aspen, Canon City & Brighton this morning.
No reports of victims at this time.
As you may conclude, this bears the hallmarks of swatting pranks.— Jeremy Jojola (@jeremyjojola) February 22, 2023
re: #339 Teukka
Like, is he right in the head?
Oh he’s right…so extremely right he falls off the political spectrum…until he winds up in the same basket as Jimmy Dore, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald…
re: #340 wrenchwench
Somebody need to establish the rights of blastospheres’ inclusion. Here come the feminine hygiene products! (used)
You might be joking here, but wasn’t that - in essence - the “thinking” behind the (thankfully now-shelved) mandatory period-reporting bill for girl athletes in Florida?
Or was it just the usual hysterical transphobia?
re: #343 Jay C
You might be joking here, but wasn’t that - in essence - the “thinking” behind the (thankfully now-shelved) mandatory period-reporting bill for girl athletes in Florida?
Or was it just the usual hysterical transphobia?
It’s the transphobia. The period-reporting bill was intended to ensure that boys couldn’t pass as girls in girls’ sports by ensuring that everybody who plays on the female teams has female biology.
re: #336 wrenchwench
Periods are great. You have no idea, until you think about it, how much joy there is in getting your period.
/Pill takers possibly exempt
I remember when I was in high school, reading about some tribe where women on their periods were sent off to seclusion in a specific building. I thought it was horrible, but as I got older (and had a family to deal with) it sounded better and better. They’d take their loom, and would weave and chat with the other women, and only had to cook for themselves. Sounded like a nice break in routine.
re: #343 Jay C
You might be joking here, but wasn’t that - in essence - the “thinking” behind the (thankfully now-shelved) mandatory period-reporting bill for girl athletes in Florida?
Or was it just the usual hysterical transphobia?
There could be multiple causes for authoritarian stupidity. I think in demanding records of periods, they were looking for those not having them, but they probably were on a fishing expedition.
re: #345 calochortus
I remember when I was in high school, reading about some tribe where women on their periods were sent off to seclusion in a specific building. I thought it was horrible, but as I got older (and had a family to deal with) it sounded better and better. They’d take their loom, and would weave and chat with the other women, and only had to cook for themselves. Sounded like a nice break in routine.
It can be done well, and it can be done horribly. Let the women decide.
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re: #320 Mattand
I’m in Jersey Devil country. I wish we all we had to worry about was flying pigs.
Fun fact: during the Jersey Devil sighting mass hysteria in January 1909, it was supposedly spotted by a woman in South Philly eating her dog.
Moral of the story: don’t ask the Jersey Devil to pet sit.
Maybe a grammar issue, but I gotta ask: was it the Jersey Devil who was eating the dog, or the woman in South Philly?
re: #306 Dr. Matt
Yeah, it’s an epidemic that rivals COVID. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Every year, 100,000 dogs are killed by riding in pickup truck beds.
How Many Dogs Die in Car Accidents? (Petpedia)
The total numbers aren’t known, and there aren’t good statistics.
It’s extremely dangerous, and even if they don’t get killed, they are in danger of being seriously injured and even paralyzed.
So, driving your dog in a passenger cabin with a suitable harness is essential. If they must be in the back, they should be in a secured crate.
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re: #344 Dopamine Fish
It’s the transphobia. The period-reporting bill was intended to ensure that boys couldn’t pass as girls in girls’ sports by ensuring that everybody who plays on the female teams has female biology.
And monitoring pregnancies, to try to prevent abortions. See also ICE under Donald Trump trying to do the same thing to migrants in custody.
re: #352 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And monitoring pregnancies, to try to prevent abortions. See also ICE under Donald Trump trying to do the same thing to migrants in custody.
Laying the groundwork for the National Abortion Ban, which will involve registering all pregnant women and monitoring them if they try to go abroad.
I’ll be in Philly a few times this year.
I just found a spot I will definitely visit.
El Chingón is the heart of Philly’s Mexican sandwich scene
re: #353 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Laying the groundwork for the National Abortion Ban, which will involve registering all pregnant women and monitoring them if they try to go abroad.
Also, the issue wasn’t a law. It was the oversight committee for Florida High School Athletics, which was stuffed with DeSantis supporters.
They originally demanded information about onset of periods and regular monitoring from physicians, which they said they would keep. After a nationwide outcry (physicians might need to know that information, but the only thing the athletic organisation needs to know is the physician says the girl is cleared for sports), they tried to back peddle and claim that they never really asked that, it was “voluntary” on the form for girls to give that information to them
I asked up the thread if anybody had a WSJ account and if they could post an article for me. Nobody responded. I assume because nunyas give $ to that Shitole Publication.
You are all my people.
(chest out, beaming with pride, salutes)
re: #356 BigPapa
I asked up the thread if anybody had a WSJ account and if they could post an article for me. Nobody responded. I assume because nunyas give $ to that Shitole Publication.
You are all my people.
(chest out, beaming with pride, salutes)
Grandpa and Grandma hated it. So did Dad. Gore Vidal always referred to it as “That cheery little fascist rag”.
re: #298 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
…
Meanwhile, my mother and my wife both graduated from high school at age sixteen.
My mother did, too, and went on to start college then. It was the depression, and her young age and the fact that her parents were starving themselves to send her made her stop college and get a job to help support the family. She worked (office work) into her 70s. But she didn’t want me to skip grades, and really wanted me to go to college. It meant a lot to her.
A 10-pound dog exerts 300 lbs of force in a 30 mph car accident.
Dogs behave like unsecured children when involved in a low-speed accident. They become missiles. The dog-missile can seriously injure or kill a human.
re: #357 Joe Bacon
Grandpa and Grandma hated it. So did Dad. Gore Vidal always referred to it as “That cheery little fascist rag”.
That man had countless rhetorical flourishes. A literary peacock.
re: #308 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Don’t stick your elbow
Out too far
It might go home
In another car
Burma-Shave
That happened to a guy I know! He didn’t lose his arm, but it took a lot of repair work to get it pulled together!!
I see Trump is heading to East Palestine Ohio to tell those people how bad he has it.
I wonder if anyone will scream at him, letting him know he weakened rail safety.
Or how many of his brain dead cultists will show up.
re: #359 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A 10-pound dog exerts 300 lbs of force in a 30 mph car accident.
Dogs behave like unsecured children when involved in a low-speed accident. They become missiles. The dog-missile can seriously injure or kill a human.
Also, as a cyclist, a sudden bark in the ear can be unsettling.
Welp our flight back to Detroit has been cancelled. It only took about 3 hours texting with Delta to get on another flight on Sunday and now we have 3 more days to spend with our kids in sunny Florida!
re: #364 The Pie Overlord!
Welp our flight back to Detroit has been cancelled. It only took about 3 hours texting with Delta to get on another flight on Sunday and now we have 3 more days to spend with our kids in sunny Florida!
In addition to school moving to e-learning, my garbage company just called to tell me that service has been delayed until Friday. No real surprise there.
re: #363 wrenchwench
Also, as a cyclist, a sudden bark in the ear can be unsettling.
I imagine a dog-missile hitting a cyclist wouldn’t be peachy, either.
Wingnuts are having a field day.
Biden, 80, stumbles on the Air Force One stairs AGAIN https://t.co/Gcr2Ej3k68 @MiceloNoh Ring up when you’re ready - you can see the story is maybe going to become very topica!
— Martin Cohen (@docmartincohen) February 22, 2023
re: #366 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I imagine a dog-missile hitting a cyclist wouldn’t be peachy, either.
When I took Traffic School after an illegal left over double yellow, the instructor went into detail on all the deadly flying objects in cars. Cameras were common.
We are holding a press conference at 11:20am MT at 13th and Arapahoe. Chief Maris Herold and Deputy Chief Stephen Redfearn will speak. We will attempt to livestream
— Boulder Police Dept. (@boulderpolice) February 22, 2023
re: #367 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wingnuts are having a field day.
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Well at least he didn’t have toilet paper stuck to the bottom of his shoe.
re: #271 Mattand
If you loved high school, that’s great, but man, I just don’t get what the fuss is about.
Think of it this way. If you are not headed to college then graduating high school is a probable high point before spending 40-50 years getting ground down by daily life.
re: #30 Belafon
It’s the freezing rain part that kicks our butts here in Texas. Stay off of that stuff.
yup.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Weekly World News is more believable.
Chupacabras Terrorize Suburban TULSA (Weekly World News, February 7, 2023)
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Global warming… Chupacabras are migrating north from South FL.
Soon to be followed by hordes of Burmese pythons.
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