If Sting and Johnny Rotten formed a band with the AL Attorney General—
The Sex Police.
Took my first road trip in years yesterday. A friend of mine was going to go with me but he wasn’t feeling up to it so I made a lone road trip. The lake below is just NW of Jamestown NY. I was heading to Salamanca NY to pick up some smoke and gamble a little in the casino. Was a cold but sunny day, so a nice drive. I lost about $100 at the casino but it was fun playing.
Gov Abbot wants to kill Tiny Frozen Babies, even if they’re not Mexican:
Abbott echoes Trump on Alabama IVF ruling
re: #4 Decatur Deb
Gov Abbot wants to kill Tiny Frozen Babies, even if they’re not Mexican:
Abbott echoes Trump on Alabama IVF ruling
Abbott:
Texas is a pro-life state, and we want to do everything possible that we can to maintain Texas being a pro-life state
—at all temperatures.
re: #4 Decatur Deb
Abbott understands pandering on a cellular level.
Next up: Alabama uses a freezer for the death penalty.
Oh dear, I have confused myself.
re: #8 wrenchwench
Next up: Alabama uses a freezer for the death penalty.
Oh dear, I have confused myself.
“Just drop him in there with the brats.”
re: #10 ckkatz
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Mr. Insurrection Act cannot be allowed to come anywhere near the White House ever again.
Lara Trump stands to inherit a fundraising mess of Trump’s making
Trump is now primed to position his daughter-in-law to use RNC funds to pay his legal fees.
Molly JongFast:
“…perhaps even more meaningfully, Trump “entered the 2024 election year with about 200,000 fewer donors than in the previous presidential campaign four years ago.”
It’s unclear if an RNC takeover will help Trump’s cash flow problems, but if Lara Trump ends up being the co-chair of the RNC, she will inherit a fundraising mess. The RNC needs money. Losing its longtime chair wouldn’t make fundraising easier. Lara Trump will need to make the case to old-school GOP donors that paying Trump’s legal fees will somehow win them back the Senate and the presidency. I’m not convinced that’s going to be an easy sell.
re: #6 jaunte
Abbott understands pandering on a cellular level.
Reminds me of some of yesterday’s comments:
What happens if they are registered as Democrats? What happens when they have been frozen for 18 years?
Which goes back to the probably apocryphal story about when Jimmy Carter, during an early campaign for a State office, found he had lost by over 100 dead people voting in alphabetic order.
Supposedly, he went to the political machine boss and argued that he knew many of the dead folks when they were alive. And that none of them would have voted for his opponent.
True story, the political boss was convicted of voter fraud.
re: #15 Dave In Austin
Oooooooooooooh that’s naaasaaaaassssssstttyyyyyyy!
re: #17 jeffreyw
These dad jokes are really getting bad.
re: #21 PhillyPretzel ✅
These dad jokes are really getting bad.
Apparently, there are also Mom jokes:
“A toddler can do more in one unsupervised minute than most people can do in a day.”
re: #23 ckkatz
That is a proverb, not a joke.
re: #24 PhillyPretzel ✅
That is a proverb, not a joke.
The truth of the observation and the experience behind it certainly add to the charm.
“Is it yelling? Or just very enthusiastic motivational speaking?”
re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅
Shorter TURDLEY:
Republicans are above the law and every Democrat is crooked.
How the hell does he have a job at Georgetown?
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
“Just try stiffing your contractors or banks and let them try to collect while you tie them up in court for years.”
re: #29 jaunte
“Just try stiffing your contractors or banks and let them try to collect while you tie them up in court for years.”
We see his strategy literally every day. Stupid motion after stupid motion. They likely had a file off stupid motions that regular people had to pay a lot of money to reply to. Trump is fucking scum.
And the crackdown extended over into another area - where former hostages, their families have peacefully been congregating asking for the release of hostages. I do not htink this will end well for Bibi.
re: #30 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
We see his strategy literally every day. Stupid motion after stupid motion. They likely had a file off stupid motions that regular people had to pay a lot of money to reply to. Trump is fucking scum.
Yup. He’s hoping to stay out of jail and electable in November. And, if he loses again I’ll bet he has more surprises rivaling the last insurrection attempt.
re: #32 jeffreyw
They look well socialized and well cared for. And your lady certainly knows how to gracefully handle the encounter. Do you know their humans?
I wonder if it is safe for dogs to wander around without their humans. In my suburban neighborhood, there are way too many crazies and cars.
re: #34 Semper Fi
Yup. He’s hoping to stay out of jail and electable in November. And, if he loses again I’ll bet he has more surprises rivaling the last insurrection attempt.
(added “attempt”)
re: #35 ckkatz
They look well socialized and well cared for. And your lady certainly knows how to gracefully handle the encounter. Do you know their humans?
I wonder if it is safe for dogs to wander around without their humans. In my suburban neighborhood, there are way too many crazies and cars.
Mrs J took a couple of our cats to the vet the other day where she met a woman who brought in two G Pyrs. She mentioned seeing a like pair and asked if she lived on our road, but the woman ducked the question. Probably it was the same pair we see here but the woman was ashamed to own up to it. Mrs J would have had better luck asking where are you located before mentioning the dogs in our yard.
Have we reached the phase in the story timeline when MAGA blames the Alabama ruling on liberals?
I’m going to favorite my own post because it’s just a matter of time before this happens.
re: #22 ckkatz
re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅
In addition to being a stupid swipe at the incumbent President (160 years out-of-date), Turley’s BS also seems to miss one important fact: that as far as we know (and tbf, there seems to have been no written record: maybe Jonathan Turley can ghost-write one), Moses Robinette didn’t actively seek a pardon, but some of his friends/acquaintances form the Army took the initiative (via the Guardian)
Three army officers who knew Robinette later petitioned Lincoln to overturn his conviction, writing that the sentence was unduly harsh for “defending himself and cutting with a penknife a teamster much his superior in strength and size, all under the impulse of the excitement of the moment”.
The request went through a West Virginia senator, who described Robinette’s punishment as “a hard sentence on the case as stated”. Then it went to Lincoln’s private secretary, who requested a judicial report and the trial transcripts.
When the letter eventually reached Lincoln, he issued a pardon “for unexecuted part of punishment”. The then president signed it: “A. Lincoln. Sep. 1. 1864.”
Robinette was released from prison and returned to his family in Maryland to resume farming.
Though I’m sure old Mose didn’t carp much about getting a ticket off the rockpile in the Dry Tortugas….
re: #37 jeffreyw
Mrs J took a couple of our cats to the vet the other day where she met a woman who brought in two G Pyrs. She mentioned seeing a like pair and asked if she lived on our road, but the woman ducked the question. Probably it was the same pair we see here but the woman was ashamed to own up to it. Mrs J would have had better luck asking where are you located before mentioning the dogs in our yard.
It sounds like you are doing all that you can. I have seen it take years of a neighborly relationship before one can suggest, without offending too much, how the neighbor might treat their doggos differently.
But that is sad. If the owner is unwilling to accept their responsibility, it is likely that the poor doggos are going to end up with any consequences.
And they look like really nice doggos too. Because they are wandering about, I guess that they are not doing the livestock guardian thing.
re: #38 Dr. Matt
Have we reached the phase when MAGA blames the Alabama ruling on liberals?
I’m going to favorite my own post because it’s just a matter of time before this happens.
I suspect we won’t have long to wait. Lies are what they do best.
Rubin has posted some very good columns recently.
When VP Harris was taking a lot of news media flack for not conforming to their imagination, Rubin was one of those who stepped up in Harris’ defense.
When the media started harping on Biden’s age while ignoring tfg, she was one of those who pointed out the media’s utter hypocrisy.
In her current column, Rubin is pointing out the GOP collusion with Russian Intelligence Information operations -
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WaPo Gift Link: Dim or disloyal? Republicans again ensnared in possible Russian plot.
Are Republicans easy marks or willing participants in Russian anti-Biden operations? That’s a troubling question raised by the Feb. 14 grand jury indictment of a former FBI informant, Alexander Smirnov, on charges of concocting a tale about President Biden’s supposed involvement in his family members’ business dealings.
Allegations by Smirnov — who appears to have ties to Russian intelligence, according to the federal indictment — have formed the backbone of the House Republicans’ laughable attempt to build an impeachment case against the president. They championed him as their star witness. Now the Republicans’ fact-deficient storyline has been shredded.
*snip*
Even more damning, The Post subsequently reported that “Smirnov’s indictment and detention memo suggest the allegations were not only false, but possibly a Russian-inspired smear.”
*snip*
re: #39 Jay C
Note how TURDLEY ignores the shit Trump’s ancestors pulled off!
re: #40 ckkatz
It sounds like you are doing all that you can. I have seen it take years of a neighborly relationship before one can suggest, without offending too much, how the neighbor might treat their doggos differently.
But that is sad. If the owner is unwilling to accept their responsibility, it is likely that the poor doggos are going to end up with any consequences.
And they look like really nice doggos too. Because they are wandering about, I guess that they are not doing the livestock guardian thing.
GPs wander. We had some left on a property we bought, and we just had to keep them in a cage. Otherwise they would just take off. We would find them miles down the road. We were very happy to have them go to their new home. They were gorgeous dogs, but too much of a responsibility for us.
Chief Justice Tom Parker of the Alabama Soo-preme Court has placed a lot of important Republican asses on a very hot griddle. For decades, they placated the fanatic fetus-fondlers in their political base with half-measures and platitudes. Then the U.S. Supremes dropped the Dobbs decision into their laps and, suddenly, there was no place for them to hide any more. And now, while they’re still wrongfooted from that development, here comes Chief Justice Tom ruling that all the little IVF embryos are babies beloved by God, to whose private cellphone number Chief Justice Tom has the number. He and the Almighty got together and decided that all IVF procedures are against the law in Alabama. IVF is a very popular thing. And Republicans are scrambling like…well…eggs over this new issue that they should’ve seen coming, but clearly didn’t.
Charlie Pierce on Friday.
This latest controversy about the new see-through pants that Major League Baseball has handed its players is the greatest sports story of the year. Admittedly, I love any story that plays havoc with baseball’s insufferable self-regard, but I couldn’t love this story more. From ESPN:Because the fabric is lighter, Clark said it’s a “challenge” to have bigger numbers and letters — hence complaints that the back of the jersey looks “amateurish,” according to more than one player. And some say the eggshell color of the pants — the fabric is the same as last year — is creating a see-through vibe. The fit has also come into question. After visiting over a half-dozen spring camps in Arizona, Clark is getting a clearer picture of the complaints. “A lot of the rhetoric is confirmation that the pants are see-through,” Clark said. “It’s been an ongoing conversation where each day has yielded something new that doesn’t seem to make as much sense as you would like it.”
More Charlie Pierce on Friday. Maybe I should watch baseball this year?
I’m not sure how posting a BlueSky post works here. Fingers crossed.
re: #51 retired cynic
I’m not sure how posting a BlueSky post works here. Fingers crossed.
To get it to actually show up, you need to screenshot it; Charles has not implemented Bluesky integration (and, AFAIK, they do not have the equivalent of Xitter/Mastodon where you can get rendering code for the posts from the server).
re: #51 retired cynic
The post shows a bunch of public interest polling on different policy positions, with this text:
Your regular reminder that the median voter holds policy positions closer to Bernie Sanders’ than Nikki Haley’s, on just about every policy issue, & that our society would reflect those if we were anything remotely close to being an actual, functioning republic/democracy
re: #49 Vicious Babushka
Mike Johnson Conducted Seminars Promoting the US as a “Christian Nation”
I remember the Campus Crusade for Christ clods spewing that shit in college, I would vociferously tell them to fuck off with their New Jerusalem ideology.
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember the Campus Crusade for Christ clods spewing that shit in college, I would vociferously tell them to fuck off with their New Jerusalem ideology.
I used to believe the “America was founded as a Christian nation” claptrap. Then I took an actual US History course in high school.
re: #158 ckkatz
More riffs on the picture of Mace and Graham from last night:
Or a bit more directly:
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember the Campus Crusade for Christ clods spewing that shit in college, I would vociferously tell them to fuck off with their New Jerusalem ideology.
Back in the day, I enjoyed arguing theology with assholes who showed up uninvited to “save me”. I was stunned at how few folks who showed up to argue with me about religion had a clue about the gospels or theology in general.
However, my dad (Ph.D in Ministry from Vanderbuild and high decorated vet) asked me to stop doing that. So I did.
But oh, boy, the temptation at times…
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember the Campus Crusade for Christ clods spewing that shit in college, I would vociferously tell them to fuck off with their New Jerusalem ideology.
The CCC sure did push that shit at Pitt in the 70s especially during the 1976 PA Primary when they were all in for Pruneface Reagan.
re: #58 A Cranky One
So Lindsay has started using the same orange makeup as his asshole leader?
Ha.
it’s just the lighting. Someone lightened the picture and both their skin looked normal.
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File Under 6 Degrees of Separation:
Per the below, John Rosatti employed Judge Aileen Cannon’s husband; Rossati is a reported member of the Colombo Crime Family; he was prosecuted and convicted of a felony years ago in the Eastern District of New York by AUSA @AWeissmann_ https://t.co/qQziLBdYXA— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) February 25, 2024
This is getting interesting.
re: #2 Eventual Carrion
Took my first road trip in years yesterday. A friend of mine was going to go with me but he wasn’t feeling up to it so I made a lone road trip. The lake below is just NW of Jamestown NY. I was heading to Salamanca NY to pick up some smoke and gamble a little in the casino. Was a cold but sunny day, so a nice drive. I lost about $100 at the casino but it was fun playing.
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My great-great-grandparents settled in Jamestown, NY, in 1866, when they immigrated from Laubenheim, Germany.
re: #61 ericblair
BurgerFi, huh? Glad I don’t like that place.
I like to think it’s upper right, but it’s really lower right. pic.twitter.com/xhzudesRUh
— Misanthropic Lycanthrope (@UnacceptableOne) February 25, 2024
re: #65 Joe Bacon ✅
He’s baaaaaaaaaaaaacccccckkkk!
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) says Joe Biden is guilty of treason with 140 countries, and it even caused a Fox News host to react by calling it “diabolical.”
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“And at least 14 planets in the federation, including the Romulans and the Kree.”
I found the video on this one to be very sweet.
Imagine, recognizing the humanity of someone in this time and environment.
re: #67 Belafon
“And at least 14 planets in the federation, including the Romulans and the Kree.”
Issa: *laying on his back on his bed, sobbing, on the phone* “AND THEN BIDEN CHEATED ON ME WITH AZERBAIJAN!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!”
re: #55 Nerdy Fish
I used to believe the “America was founded as a Christian nation” claptrap. Then I took an actual US History course in high school.
That will no longer help you in many states…
re: #63 Backwoods Sleuth
My great-great-grandparents settled in Jamestown, NY, in 1866, when they immigrated from Laubenheim, Germany.
I plan on heading back later this spring. Get a non-resident 3 day fishing license and spend the weekend fishing on that lake. I picked up a NY fishing guide book and a book showing all the attractions and boat rental places on Chautauqua lake at the rest stop. The rest stop was where I took the picture of the lake.
re: #63 Backwoods Sleuth
My great-great-grandparents settled in Jamestown, NY, in 1866, when they immigrated from Laubenheim, Germany.
Hey, not far from where I live, it is now incorporated into greater Mainz.
re: #60 Belafon
it’s just the lighting. Someone lightened the picture and both their skin looked normal.
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No, it’s just his kissing his ass so much, some of it is bound to rub off.
Oh wow!
AT&T has announced that it will be providing impacted customers with a $5 bill credit per account as compensation for the network’s major outage across the U.S. on Thursday. The credits will automatically be applied within two bill cycles, it said.
BUT
AT&T said the bill credit offer does not apply to AT&T Business, prepaid, or Cricket customers. A spokesperson for the carrier told CNET that those customers will “have options available to them if they were potentially impacted by the outage.”
re: #47 retired cynic
More Charlie Pierce on Friday. Maybe I should watch baseball this year?
Guess that”ll make cup checks a whole lot easier (and safer)
I think I know why TFG called his wife “Mercedes” the other day. It’s Judge Aileen Cannon’s middle name. The stuff about her husband being a lawyer for a mob boss made my hair stand straight up. And it is LONG.
re: #68 ckkatz
I found the video on this one to be very sweet.
Imagine, recognizing the humanity of someone in this time and environment.
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Mad respect for this woman.
And yes, at 57 years old, I am honored to be on the Swifty train.
Because not being on such days more about you than it does others.— Cathy Beck (@CathyGB66) February 24, 2024
re: #78 Belafon
I agree. That is how a real lady acts.
re: #78 Belafon
Beautiful angel
And yet there are those despicable scumbags who dare trash her no matter what.
Elmo’s hell site is so scummy now that even some of the ADS have community notes on them to point out how deceptive they are.
re: #78 Belafon
Watching the girl struggle to not get too excited and then struggle at the excitement just tears at my heart. I read she has cancer (the evidence would indicate something like that) and that’s why cancer sucks and the idea that there’s a plan just doesn’t make sense.
re: #65 Joe Bacon ✅
Car Thief is playing to his demos in his district in eastern San Diego County. But the reason Car Thief has to become more and more extreme is that demo in question has to be near 100% turnout for him to be re-elected, as that district, following what happened to the rest of SD, will switch from (R) to (D) as its population grows.
Car Thief won is elections in that district not by large margins. He lost in his old district as it flippled to (D). He knows he will eventually lose in his current district, the old Duncan Hunter district, as the population continues to change.
+$114,553.04 = $464,805,336.70 https://t.co/gugrACDTpC
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) February 25, 2024
re: #30 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
We see his strategy literally every day. Stupid motion after stupid motion. They likely had a file off stupid motions that regular people had to pay a lot of money to reply to. Trump is fucking scum.
As is everyone working for him or voting for him.
re: #89 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Imagine the calls he is making right now, begging someone to pay this for him.
re: #93 cat-tikvah
And right around the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
🥃Seven years since we lost this surly kid. Chez Pazienza, seen here in his default mood circa 1987, was my podcast co-host from 2011 until his death in 2017. He was a dad of daughters, a showrunner at CNN and MSNBC, a writer, a musician, and my big brother. 💔 pic.twitter.com/DYbOFOozgF
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) February 25, 2024
Trump’s Stooge is busy today
Judge Cannon’s new orders in Trump docs case make her next move ‘difficult to determine’
Judge Cannon on Sunday issued two new orders in Donald Trump’s criminal case over classified documents in Florida, further mystifying a legal expert about her next move and setting the stage for a Friday hearing.
Trump was indicted in the case by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who accused the former president of stashing away classified documents from the White House and refusing to return them when subpoenaed by federal authorities. Trump has consistently claimed he had a right to keep the documents, and even said he couldn’t be prosecuted because he is immune from prosecution because he deemed the documents “personal” while he was president.
More recently, Smith sought to keep Cannon from making certain witness information public, and Cannon sought information from the parties on that topic.
In one paperless order made public on Sunday, Cannon confirmed that she held a meeting with Trump’s legal team on the issue.
“The court heard argument from counsel on defense theories” in connection with classified information, according to the order. Seven Trump attorneys were listed as in attendance.
“Cannon verifying she held the final CIPA section 4 hearing with Trump’s lawyers on Friday,” national security attorney Bradley Moss said Sunday. “It’s becoming very difficult to determine if she will issue rulings before Friday’s day long scheduling hearing, or if she will issue rulings from the bench that day.”
In a second order, Cannon put Smith on a deadline.
“On or before February 28, 2024, the Special Counsel shall file a Reply in Support of its Motion for Reconsideration,” she wrote.
“Cannon gives Smith until Wednesday to file any further reply regarding the reconsideration motion,” Moss added in a separate post. “Yet another thing that arguably needs to be finalized by Friday’s hearing.”
IT’S JUST A CONSTRUKTIF CRITICISM OF ISRAEL STOP WEAPONIZING ANTISEMITISM PALESTINIANS ARE SEMITES TOO!!! RIVER TO THE SEA!!!!1!!1!!11!!!!!
re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅
Trump’s Stooge is busy today
Judge Cannon’s new orders in Trump docs case make her next move ‘difficult to determine’
Judge Cannon on Sunday issued two new orders in Donald Trump’s criminal case over classified documents in Florida, further mystifying a legal expert about her next move and setting the stage for a Friday hearing.
Trump was indicted in the case by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who accused the former president of stashing away classified documents from the White House and refusing to return them when subpoenaed by federal authorities. Trump has consistently claimed he had a right to keep the documents, and even said he couldn’t be prosecuted because he is immune from prosecution because he deemed the documents “personal” while he was president.
More recently, Smith sought to keep Cannon from making certain witness information public, and Cannon sought information from the parties on that topic.
In one paperless order made public on Sunday, Cannon confirmed that she held a meeting with Trump’s legal team on the issue.
“The court heard argument from counsel on defense theories” in connection with classified information, according to the order. Seven Trump attorneys were listed as in attendance.
“Cannon verifying she held the final CIPA section 4 hearing with Trump’s lawyers on Friday,” national security attorney Bradley Moss said Sunday. “It’s becoming very difficult to determine if she will issue rulings before Friday’s day long scheduling hearing, or if she will issue rulings from the bench that day.”
In a second order, Cannon put Smith on a deadline.
“On or before February 28, 2024, the Special Counsel shall file a Reply in Support of its Motion for Reconsideration,” she wrote.
“Cannon gives Smith until Wednesday to file any further reply regarding the reconsideration motion,” Moss added in a separate post. “Yet another thing that arguably needs to be finalized by Friday’s hearing.”
And when he turns them in on Tuesday she’ll get annoyed at him rushing her, but if he waits until Wednesday, he’ll be waiting too long.
re: #91 jaunte
Already messaged GOP carpetbagger and PA Senate wannabe Dave “I support IVF” McCormick:
Good evening. I am a longtime PA resident and voter. As a religious woman - one whose son-in-law is from a devout Catholic family - I have questions about the role of religion regarding in-vitro fertilization, which you support. Respectfully, can you answer these important questions?
1. Does full human life begin at conception? Yes or no?
2. Are frozen embryos children?
3. Must every gamete/embryo created be implanted?
4. If there is no viable pregnancy that results from implantation is the woman guilty of murder? Is a death certificate required?
5. Catholic doctrine forbids any assisted fertility that uses “extracorporeal conception”. This would include IVF. Are you prepared to ignore Catholic doctrine? What other Christian religious doctrines are negotiable regarding health care?
Religious voters in PA deserve to know where you stand.
Thank you.
Hey, I didn’t specify which religion I am, nor that my son-in-law, unlike his mother and sisters, is a lapsed non-believer now.
re: #62 Eclectic Cyborg
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That awkward moment when you realize he conned YOU, too.
And speaking of the aftermath of yesterday’s primary, here’s the lovely photo my local rag used to highlight their story. Classy, no?
Fuck.
There go the penguins.
Dammit. https://t.co/w0YoH9CVsz— Shannon (@shay3322) February 25, 2024
UPDATE: I got footage of the self-immolation at the Israeli embassy in DC.
The individual, wearing fatigues, introduces himself as “an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide.”
After ignition, he repeatedly yells “Free Palestine.” https://t.co/wk5LGK4Hp2 pic.twitter.com/EX1L8zG8tR— Talia Jane ❤️🔥 (@taliaotg) February 25, 2024
re: #103 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Honest question. Was any of this going on before 10/7? Because I feel if there was genuine concern for the plight of the Palestinians, it wouldn’t all be coming out just because Israel is bombing the shit out of them. The Palestinians have been in a bad situation since the rest of the Arab world effectively abandoned them to their fate.
re: #105 Nerdy Fish
Does it matter? Self immolation is a pretty extreme step. Maybe what we should be asking is what has changed since October 7th?
re: #105 Nerdy Fish
Honest question. Was any of this going on before 10/7? Because I feel if there was genuine concern for the plight of the Palestinians, it wouldn’t all be coming out just because Israel is bombing the shit out of them. The Palestinians have been in a bad situation since the rest of the Arab world effectively abandoned them to their fate.
Iirc, Syrian Military intelligence pioneered modern suicide bombings back in the 1980s via Hezbollah. Among their targets were US, French and Israeli forces in Lebanon. The bombers were very carefully selected and managed. The Syrian operation was successful as they forced out the US and French forces after killing over 300 US and French serviceman.
re: #105 Nerdy Fish
Can’t say for sure, maybe the world tolerates apartheid but not genocide? I think a lot of it is because of the vastly disproportionate response is being broadcast live on social media. I know that personally, due to cultural bias, I never looked much into Israel/Palestine history before this.
re: #100 BeachDem
And speaking of the aftermath of yesterday’s primary, here’s the lovely photo my local rag used to highlight their story. Classy, no?
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Yay, you!
re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg
Drop shipping.
re: #111 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Yes, but were they vaccinated?///
re: #112 Nerdy Fish
Yes, but were they vaccinated?///
Probably, and stupid people are being stupid about it online, but Mr. Mitchell had ALS, so this has been coming for years.
re: #113 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Probably, and stupid people are being stupid about it online, but Mr. Mitchell had ALS, and this has been coming for years.
Coarse jokes at anti-vaxxers’ expense aside, that is terribly sad. 48 and 49 is too young. I’m about to turn 40, and I sure as hell hope I have more than 10 years left.
re: #114 Nerdy Fish
I’m 42. I’m right there with you.
re: #68 ckkatz
I think Dolly could safely hand off the America’s Sweetheart torch to Taylor. What a beautiful person she is. Thanks for that.
re: #108 IngisKahn
I guess down dings mean genocide not so bad?
re: #72 Eventual Carrion
I plan on heading back later this spring. Get a non-resident 3 day fishing license and spend the weekend fishing on that lake. I picked up a NY fishing guide book and a book showing all the attractions and boat rental places on Chautauqua lake at the rest stop. The rest stop was where I took the picture of the lake.
I actually have been to that lake many times when I was a kid in Buffalo (five years there).
re: #72 Eventual Carrion
I plan on heading back later this spring. Get a non-resident 3 day fishing license and spend the weekend fishing on that lake. I picked up a NY fishing guide book and a book showing all the attractions and boat rental places on Chautauqua lake at the rest stop. The rest stop was where I took the picture of the lake.
That is a pretty rest stop. I drive between Pittsburgh and up near Rochester via I-86 now and then as an alternate to my more direct route via various state routes. Takes about the same amount of time and weather is a major factor in the decision since using I-79, I-90, I-86 involves an increased amount of time close to Lake Erie.