Cosmic Jazz for the 21st Century: The Comet Is Coming: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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This amazing group reminds me a little bit of Battles in the way they’re exploring the frontiers of instrumental rock/jazz/whatever, creating a kind of music that draws on the influence of minimalist modern classic composers like Philip Glass or Steve Reich. But The Comet Is Coming adds a heaping helping of Sun Ra to this mix, and more than a little metal.

Watch The Comet Is Coming play “Super Zodiac”, “Summon The Fire” and “Blood Of The Past” at the Tiny Desk.

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Dec. 13, 2019 | Bob Boilen — The Comet is Coming is a force of nature. The British trio’s approach to the Tiny Desk was ferocious. Shabaka Hutchings, aka King Shabaka, blew his sax hard while his effects pedal added reverb, expanding not only his sound but altering the office and making it a little eerier.

The set began with a deep drone from keyboardist Dan Leavers, aka Danalogue. It kicked into full gear when he leaped into the air and, on descent, drummer Max Hallett, aka Betamax, whacked the snare drum, setting off a transformative 19-minute concert.

The Comet is Coming is the kind of instrumental jazz trio that takes music lovers out of their comfort zone and into a musical realm they may never have explored. There’s familiarity in these screechy sax/synth/drum dialogues, with the same kind of fuel that fires up Led Zeppelin or Fugazi, for example. Only here, what The Comet is Coming lacks in words, it makes up for in Shabaka’s reedy lyricism, along with electronic textures from Dan Leavers.

These songs are from the band’s second album, Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery. This is music for adventure, a thrill-ride that may cleanse your musical palette and alter your taste.

SET LIST
“Super Zodiac”
“Summon The Fire”
“Blood Of The Past”

MUSICIANS
King Shabaka: saxophone; Danalogue: synthesizer; Betamax: drums

CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative director: Bob Boilen; Audio engineers: Josh Rogosin, Alex Drewenskus; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Jack Corbett, Maia Stern; Associate producer: Bobby Carter; Executive producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Catie Dull/NPR

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2019 • 5:40:33pm

A healthy dose of nutty.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2019 • 5:45:01pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2019 • 5:45:13pm

Alt-right trolls make life miserable for Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA ‘Culture War’ tour | Daily Kos

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2019 • 5:48:35pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2019 • 5:57:18pm
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jaunte  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:16:29pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:22:02pm

re: #6 jaunte

I’ve learned that Christians, in general, seem to have a poor understanding of what Jesus actually said, and prefer to believe what their pastors and friends tell them instead. Confirmation bias writ large.

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TedStriker  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:22:18pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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All the better to render properly on increasingly high-res, high-PPI phones, tablets, computers, and even TVs.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:23:18pm

re: #8 TedStriker

All the better to render properly on increasingly high-res, high-PPI phones, tablets, and even TVs.

Vector graphics for the win.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:23:21pm

re: #6 jaunte

And fighting dead people like John Dingell isn’t something I’ve ever read about in the Bible but that’s just me.

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teleskiguy  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:24:44pm

It’s a cult.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:26:44pm
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Jay C  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:28:28pm

from last thread:

re: #127 Joe Bacon 🌹

Made my Christmas Dinner RSVP at the Pacific Dining Car in Los Angeles.

Their special price fixe menu is a Ribeye with dauphine potato souflee, carmelized Brussels sprouts and glazed baby carrots.

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Yummy.
Is that the Downtown PDC, or the one in Santa Monica?

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:29:00pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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His family reposting him?

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:29:11pm

Matthew:
21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”
22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times

Richard Branson:

“…Even before the starters arrived he began telling me about how he had asked a number of people for help after his latest bankruptcy and how five of them were unwilling to help,” Branson wrote, although he didn’t identify the five people.

“He told me he was going to spend the rest of his life destroying these five people.”

Branson called the encounter “bizarre” and expressed concerns about Trump’s “vindictive streak,” which he said wouldn’t bode well for a president who should be more concerned with global affairs than personal vendettas.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:32:22pm

re: #15 jaunte

Fun fact, which you may already know: Seven is the Biblical number for completion. Peter was asking, “Lord, should I forgive my brother forever?” Jesus’s reply was along the lines of, “Not just forever, you tool, but literally anything and everything that they may do to you until the end of time.”

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:34:32pm

re: #7 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’ve learned that Christians, in general, seem to have a poor understanding of what Jesus actually said, and prefer to believe what their pastors and friends tell them instead. Confirmation bias writ large.

Very few American Christians could explain the creed much less an orthodox Christology. Expecting them to remember His words is too much! < spit >

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:36:01pm

re: #17 William Lewis

Very few American Christians could explain the creed much less an orthodox Christology. Expecting them to remember His words is too much! < spit >

I spent my teenage years memorizing entire books of the New Testament. The conservative assholes who taught me that skill are going to rue that day, I swear it on my own life.

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:37:07pm

re: #16 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I did not know that, and thank you for letting me know!

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:40:11pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:41:32pm

re: #19 jaunte

I did not know that, and thank you for letting me know!

I’m happy to educate when I can.

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Belafon  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:43:14pm

re: #16 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Fun fact, which you may already know: Seven is the Biblical number for completion. Peter was asking, “Lord, should I forgive my brother forever?” Jesus’s reply was along the lines of, “Not just forever, you tool, but literally anything and everything that they may do to you until the end of time.”

So, mathematically, the ordinal number of the natural numbers is seven, and the ordinal of the reals is 77.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:44:59pm

re: #22 Belafon

So, mathematically, the ordinal number of the natural numbers is seven, and the ordinal of the reals is 77.

An apt summation.

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wrenchwench  Dec 21, 2019 • 6:50:32pm

re: #23 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

An apt summation.

It made me think of ‘Fiver’ in Watership Down.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:09:54pm

Christians.

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Amory Blaine  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:11:33pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

No shit, I zoomed in on the santa emoji

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uriel  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:13:04pm

re: #11 teleskiguy

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:15:37pm

re: #25 Dread Pirate

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Christians.

From Gilead.

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jaunte  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:27:00pm

I’m watching a Russian production on Amazon: “Sophia.”

(Titles: Supported by the Russian Defense Ministry)

It opens with the young Ivan the Terrible being tutored by a bearded clergyman, discussing Rome.

“The Roman Empire fell because it was full of heretics.”
“And the crown of earthly princes was brought to Constantinople..”
“And they called it the second Rome.”
“But Byzantium fell, conquered by the Ottomans. And then your grandfather said
‘Moscow is The Third Rome, and there will be no other.’
It was founded by your grandmother. Sophia.”

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Kilroy was here  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:28:28pm

I laughed so loud I scared the dog..

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Decatur Deb  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:29:04pm

Tonight was our family off-schedule Christmas. We have kids and their families from 3 timezones camped out in the house, our glamping trailer, and a visiting RV. One son who is working temporarily in Boston logged in for tele-celebration.

Didn’t put up a tree or the outside decorations because of surgeries, but we lit a
rosemary plant with LEDs.

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Amory Blaine  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:35:09pm

re: #31 Decatur Deb

I lit a plant today too.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:36:47pm

When he goes down, they go down with him. I’m good with that.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:37:02pm

re: #13 Jay C

from last thread:

Yummy.
Is that the Downtown PDC, or the one in Santa Monica?

Jay, it’s on both of their Christmas menus! But I’ll go to the one Downtown!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:42:17pm

re: #33 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

When he goes down, they go down with him. I’m good with that.

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The Christian Left?

Color me shocked to see them actually do something. But I can rest assured that the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press will continue to ignore them in favor of every right wing Pulpit Pimp they can get the latest GOP talking points from!

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Dread Pirate  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:50:40pm
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Romantic Heretic  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:53:42pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

They always have. What they love is some fever dream of the Confederacy having won the Civil War.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:55:53pm

Ha ha ha.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 21, 2019 • 7:56:32pm

re: #7 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

For such people Christianity isn’t a guideline but rather an excuse.

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Ace Rothstein  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:16:59pm

re: #7 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

85% of Christians have never read the New Testament.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:19:48pm

re: #40 Ace Rothstein

85% of Christians have never read the New Testament.

But they watch Fox News and listen to Hate Radio.

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Ace Rothstein  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:22:43pm

re: #41 Joe Bacon 🌹

And vote Republican.

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CarolJ  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:28:43pm

Sometimes I’m inclined to call the whole regressive tech thing the “Horse and Buggy Coalition”, although Trump would never be so ecologically sound as to use a few horses.
It’s Bannon’s talk about 1930’s ironworks and building as well. Nazi Germany revived its economy by building iron and such-putting men to work laying railway tracks and building tanks. The admiration for that world is that white men would sweat again and use their muscles to dominate everyone else. A man didn’t have to be educated or work with a lot of women or sit in a classroom or at a desk.
I’ts hating modern, efficient technology because electrons-and the multicultural intellectual trust is starting to supplant the carbon extraction industry. It’s Saudi Arabia and Russia hating the fact that they can’t be superpowers now simply because they sit on a lake of oil.

This is also Donald’s-and his white male generation’s rage. We’ve moved on away from the days when a dumb ass like him was considered an oracle just because he was white and had a penis. The people they lorded it over now no longer genuflect to them anymore-so they would rather burn up the world than share it with us, or just be equals.

Back in the 1960’s or so, buying light bulbs was about a monthly thing for us. They would get hot and burn out regularly and needed replacement. It was part of our grocery list and we bought some every month to replace those that we burned out. I remember the 4-packs of 60 watt bulbs wrapped in paper that were a staple in our house.

We would have killed for lightbulbs that lasted at least a couple of months and weren’t a fire hazard if left on too long.

Last year-I got several bulbs last year from the power company. About a dozen or so, and I haven’t changed one since-LEDs by the way, and I still have several bulbs still in those little boxes. By the way, my last flourescent that I got earlier in the decade still worked, but the bottom burned out-the wiring in my place from back in 2000 wasn’t all that compatible. But it lasted about 5-6 years or so and was still lighting up the place when it finally had to be removed to be replaced with an LED.

Christmas lights would routinely start fires, especially if left on overnight accidentally or when the wires frayed. I remember when I was eleven-the last time we had a real tree-when it caught fire due to the C4 bulbs we had. Now the real tree fire hazard isn’t the lights-it’s having them dry out due to lack of water.

Yes, I have an artificial tree. But for a long time I still had to worry about fire due to my incandescents-and them being plugged into the wall. Thanks to LED’s I no longer worry about my Christmas lights catching fire because with my LEDs, a strand of lights now run on 3AA batteries. My tree lights now are USB and I have 5 strands going into a USB strip. The power probably equals a couple of the AA batteries.

When I first got a computer, used-the CRT took up the width of the desk and was so heavy I needed help getting it-and the box for the computer-upstairs. When I tried to add cable upstairs-the breaker box blew.

Now I’m typing on a 19 inch flat LED monitor, and my tv is also a flat screen. Both light in weight and in energy use.

No way am I going back to the heat and heaviness of the past. Donald Trump can just suck it.

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:34:22pm

re: #44 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Little Girl Sings ‘You Are My Sunshine’ To Her Cat As He Passes Away

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I can’t watch. One of my old friends is approaching her time, and I just don’t see my way to it.

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:36:12pm

re: #44 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Little Girl Sings ‘You Are My Sunshine’ To Her Cat As He Passes Away

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I can’t actually force myself to watch it; I can hear and imagine all too clearly. Gotta finish dusting in here…

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stpaulbear  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:43:31pm

re: #44 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I won’t watch it. I had to take my cat to the emergency vet for euthanasia last May. I don’t want to watch someone else’s cat die.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:45:11pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:48:05pm

re: #44 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Little Girl Sings ‘You Are My Sunshine’ To Her Cat As He Passes Away

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I watched it. Made me sad, but also glad that there still is love in this world.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:48:31pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:48:49pm

re: #43 CarolJ

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Dread Pirate  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:54:02pm

re: #51 GlutenFreeJesus

I do miss Jarts, they were a big family thing growing up.

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rhuarc  Dec 21, 2019 • 8:56:42pm

re: #44 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

This one hit me hard tonight. :( My wife and I have lost 2 of our older cats in the last month including 1 this week very unexpectedly due to sudden kidney failure.

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2019 • 9:02:49pm

re: #53 rhuarc

I’m sorry you have lost two of your friends! Have been a crazy cat lady for many decades now. My eldest is who knows how old, as all of mine have been dumps. (If you live in the country and have a reputation for taking in cats, you will find that they mysteriously find you.) So I don’t know how old she is, but she is getting quite frail, so time must be growing short.

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Sherlock Hound  Dec 21, 2019 • 9:07:06pm

re: #43 CarolJ

I have no AC in my apartment. The day I removed my 17” NEC 4Fge monitor, the temperature went down by 5 degrees. I have no incandescent bulbs in my house, and I remember the 100/200/300W 3-way bulbs we had in my family’s house, which were unavailable after the Energy Crisis for some reason.

Even computers are more energy-efficient, the ones I build and buy. Perhaps these people could revive CRT televisions—there are people restoring them as a hobby, and I did fix those for fun and profit while in college.

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rhuarc  Dec 21, 2019 • 9:07:08pm

re: #54 retired cynic

Our oldest is now 17.5 (the other 2 we lost were 15.5) and he went to the vet today for some blood work. He’s still healthy as a horse and possibly pre-diabetic, but the stress of going to the vet could have caused that anomaly. He’ll be re-checked again in a few weeks.

The kind of sad part is that I think our youngest dog actually misses the cat we lost this week. They were kind of buddies. The dog is now trying to be a little friendly with our remaining cat but he isn’t having it! LOL!

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CarolJ  Dec 21, 2019 • 9:44:42pm

The New World of Christmas Lights

The bank of USB lights

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CarolJ  Dec 21, 2019 • 9:47:46pm

re: #55 Sherlock Hound

Sherlock, I remember when I had my old CRT and on hot days wondering if I should turn the whole thing off while huddling inside my airconditioned place. This year there were a few hot days and my 19 inch flat LED monitor wasn’t even a concern.

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Belafon  Dec 21, 2019 • 9:49:24pm

re: #50 Dread Pirate

Led bulbs cost no more than incandescents now.

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sagehen  Dec 21, 2019 • 9:55:26pm

Tonight’s Classic Movie on PBS was “Love Story” (1970)

When Jenny is diagnosed with a terminal illness… the doctor discusses it with her husband Oliver, and they decide not to tell her. At all. For weeks.

1970.

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Sherlock Hound  Dec 21, 2019 • 9:58:00pm

re: #58 CarolJ

Sherlock, I remember when I had my old CRT and on hot days wondering if I should turn the whole thing off while huddling inside my airconditioned place. This year there were a few hot days and my 19 inch flat LED monitor wasn’t even a concern.

I’ve done that more than a few times!

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Targetpractice  Dec 21, 2019 • 10:08:37pm

“Man of the People” thinks its wrong that The Help are not spending as much money every year on electricity and sewage bills, totally clueless on the basic concept of “efficiency” because he’s never had to earn a single dollar in his life.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 21, 2019 • 10:16:08pm

Last time I had cable that clock would have only said “prison porn o’clock” on weekends.

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Targetpractice  Dec 21, 2019 • 10:38:08pm

I’ve tried to be better about not stereotyping Boomers…but I don’t see a lot of my generation being the ones bitching about the demise of the incandescent bulb. But perhaps that’s because we’re so strapped for cash, anything that can make a difference in an electricity bill is welcomed with open arms. Not to mention being able to use one bulb for months or years at a time, instead of needing to change them out every other month and (yes) needing to put “light bulbs” on the shopping list alongside “bread” and “eggs.”

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Belafon  Dec 21, 2019 • 10:42:52pm

re: #64 Targetpractice

I’ve tried to be better about not stereotyping Boomers…but I don’t see a lot of my generation being the ones bitching about the demise of the incandescent bulb. But perhaps that’s because we’re so strapped for cash, anything that can make a difference in an electricity bill is welcomed with open arms. Not to mention being able to use one bulb for months or years at a time, instead of needing to change them out every other month and (yes) needing to put “light bulbs” on the shopping list alongside “bread” and “eggs.”

Most boomers aren’t complaining either as far as a I can tell. It’s Trump and a few others. Trump is just good at making it seem to be a bigger issue than it is.

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Targetpractice  Dec 21, 2019 • 10:48:42pm

re: #65 Belafon

Most boomers aren’t complaining either as far as a I can tell. It’s Trump and a few others. Trump is just good at making it seem to be a bigger issue than it is.

Hell, I really doubt it’s even that. I’d say it’s more likely that the people bitching the loudest in Donny’s ear are lobbyists or their catpaws from energy companies whose profits are being cut into by this whole “energy efficiency” business.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 21, 2019 • 11:35:36pm
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Jay C  Dec 21, 2019 • 11:51:50pm

re: #59 Belafon

Led bulbs cost no more than incandescents now.

True: but when it comes to “triggering the libs” or hippie-punching the “eco-freaks”, no expense is too great to bear…

And I’m typing this as snark, but the sad reality is that there are actually people running the government that really DO think this way.

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uriel  Dec 22, 2019 • 12:04:25am

re: #44 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Little Girl Sings ‘You Are My Sunshine’ To Her Cat As He Passes Away

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Video

Initially, I was with everyone who said they couldn’t watch it. But I forced myself, and-

It’s sweet. Yes, there’s sadness mixed in, but in the end, it’s beautiful in it’s heartfelt sincerity.

I’m actually glad I watched it.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2019 • 12:06:11am

re: #68 Jay C

True: but when it comes to “triggering the libs” or hippie-punching the “eco-freaks”, no expense is too great to bear…

And I’m typing this as snark, but the sad reality is that there are actually people running the government that really DO think this way.

The morons that Trump is appealing to with such “arguments” are the same ones who will waste time and money modifying diesel trucks to belch black smoke in order to “Roll Coal.” They’re deliberately modifying their vehicles in ways that wipe out fuel efficiency and lower any hope of resale value in the future in the name of “stigginit.”

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Dread Pirate  Dec 22, 2019 • 12:09:17am
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Dread Pirate  Dec 22, 2019 • 12:22:55am

The bill includes a ban on transferring Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter jets or components to Turkey over its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system.

It also calls on Trump to implement sanctions on Turkey under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which includes 12 measures targeting the Turkish economy and defense sector.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2019 • 12:45:34am

re: #72 Dread Pirate

Incoming temper tantrum from Erdoğan in 3…..2…..1…..

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Dread Pirate  Dec 22, 2019 • 1:55:12am

That’s certainly a new perspective.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 22, 2019 • 3:20:51am

As we’ve often noticed, “Christmas” music in America is a nostalgic yearning for the childhood of the (early) baby boomers.

Well, here’s an album that comes from 1959. Not in it’s day nostalgic but part of the easy listening genre of it’s day:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐈𝐧𝐜 / 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 / 𝟏𝟔-𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦

The performers are a studio group called “The Guitars”, who backed up many performers in their day. In that group at times was one Tommy Tedesco, a name you may not recognize but whose guitar you’ve heard in a great many TV episodes.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 22, 2019 • 3:22:45am

If you listen to that album, it has some treasures. The performers did more than the thin sounds found in today’s pop. They tried variations on the traditional Christmas tunes that I think work.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 22, 2019 • 3:59:12am

The Amish aren’t complaining about light bulbs. Just sayin’.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 22, 2019 • 4:01:12am

re: #77 Shropshire Slasher

The Amish aren’t complaining about light bulbs. Just sayin’.

Yeah, but they’re still bitching about the end of whale oil lamps.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 22, 2019 • 4:03:55am

re: #78 Dread Pirate

I had a guy working for me that bought a new house from the Amish. He was complaining about how hard it is to wire a house for electricity after it’s been sheet-rocked.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 22, 2019 • 4:24:26am
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Dread Pirate  Dec 22, 2019 • 4:29:04am

I dealt with a Chinese “corporation” back in the 1980s. You can count on china to steal your IP.

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steve_davis  Dec 22, 2019 • 4:33:55am

re: #46 William Lewis

I can’t actually force myself to watch it; I can hear and imagine all too clearly. Gotta finish dusting in here…

that poor cat looks so very sick. I am glad he is getting some hospice care with the child. If I were dying, that wouldn’t be a bad way to go out.

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steve_davis  Dec 22, 2019 • 4:36:54am

re: #56 rhuarc

Our oldest is now 17.5 (the other 2 we lost were 15.5) and he went to the vet today for some blood work. He’s still healthy as a horse and possibly pre-diabetic, but the stress of going to the vet could have caused that anomaly. He’ll be re-checked again in a few weeks.

The kind of sad part is that I think our youngest dog actually misses the cat we lost this week. They were kind of buddies. The dog is now trying to be a little friendly with our remaining cat but he isn’t having it! LOL!

Cats aren’t stupid. He knows the other cat died after getting too friendly with the dog. He won’t make that same mistake!!

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jeffreyw  Dec 22, 2019 • 5:23:43am

Good morning!

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Dec 22, 2019 • 6:25:36am

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2019 • 6:52:04am

re: #70 Targetpractice

The morons that Trump is appealing to with such “arguments” are the same ones who will waste time and money modifying diesel trucks to belch black smoke in order to “Roll Coal.” They’re deliberately modifying their vehicles in ways that wipe out fuel efficiency and lower any hope of resale value in the future in the name of “stigginit.”

When I worked at the Ford helpdesk, the warranty was automatically voided if a vehicle brought in to the dealership for repair was found to be “rolling coal.”

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2019 • 6:52:59am

OK who here thinks that Impeachment will make Trump enormously popular and he will win the electoral and the popular votes in a historic landslide?

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 22, 2019 • 6:56:04am

Someone forgot to set the clock, flashing 12:00.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that threatened to set back the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year.
…

After seeing this first test flight cut short and the space station docking canceled because of an improperly set clock on the capsule, Boeing employees were relieved to get the Starliner back.

apnews.com

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2019 • 7:00:16am

re: #86 The Pie Overlord!

When I worked at the Ford helpdesk, the warranty was automatically voided if a vehicle brought in to the dealership for repair was found to be “rolling coal.”

I’m surprised some goober didn’t threaten to sue Ford or the dealership for “violating their ‘rights’” thereby, because Donald Trump said so, or whatever lame-ass “reasoning” they could come up with….

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 22, 2019 • 7:18:44am

re: #70 Targetpractice

The morons that Trump is appealing to with such “arguments” are the same ones who will waste time and money modifying diesel trucks to belch black smoke in order to “Roll Coal.” They’re deliberately modifying their vehicles in ways that wipe out fuel efficiency and lower any hope of resale value in the future in the name of “stigginit.”

A lot of people, especially in this part of the country, are stuck in the 1950s, when various over-processed, energy-wasting products and practices were the cutting edge of suburban status-seeking. It was also a good way to differentiate oneself from the hard-scrabble farm life that lay in the not-too- distant past.
Not too long ago, a boomer-age Lubbockite BOASTED to me that it was “illegal” (presumably contrary to HOA rules) in her neighborhood to hang clothes out to dry.
I countered that there might be people who see it as an environmentally sound practice, substituting free solar and wind energy for electricity. She thought I was joking.
Another one, a complete stranger, overheard me tell someone I had met my first wife in a laundromat. He interrupted to declare, “Yeah, laundromats. That’s for people who can’t afford a washer and dryer!”
“Oh, is that a big status symbol? A washer and dryer?”
“At least I’ve got one!”
“Congratulations, I do too. Now. But I still have to go to a laundry to get my Savile Row suits cleaned.”
I call this kind of stuff goober materialism, and I believe it is a huge factor in environmental and cultural decline.

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mmmirele  Dec 22, 2019 • 7:42:54am

This is a bizarre story about two missing children, Joshua Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17. Police believe they are in grave danger. They’ve been missing since late September.

Probably the best way to go is chronologically.

On July 11, Lori Vallow’s brother shot and killed her husband, Charles Vallow, here in Chandler, AZ. Lori is the mother of the two children.

fox10phoenix.com

“Months later, Lori Vallow’s brother died,” per this article, but I haven’t found the brother’s name.

On October 19, Tammy Daybell, aged 49, died. Her husband, Chad Daybell, married Lori Vallow a few weeks later. On December 11, police exhumed Tammy Daybell’s body, but there’s been nothing out of that.

In the middle of all this, family members requested a welfare check on the two children on November 26. Daybell and Vallow have been uncooperative.

fox13now.com

Normally, this would be just a weird, weird story with a possible tragic ending, except that Chad Daybell is a niche publisher who puts out books for the Mormon market. He’s particularly known for being the publisher of various books by “visionaries,” like a woman named Julie Rowe, which are viewed skeptically by the Mormon church leadership. (In fact, Rowe was excommunicated earlier this year.) It’s my belief that since his books were so well known in the very Mormon community where he lived that he was able to put off the cops for as long as he has.

Well, now the children are being listed as endangered and I have a very bad feeling about this.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2019 • 7:43:48am

re: #89 Jay C

I’m surprised some goober didn’t threaten to sue Ford or the dealership for “violating their ‘rights’” thereby, because Donald Trump said so, or whatever lame-ass “reasoning” they could come up with….

Any post-production modification (other than exterior work such as a paint job) not performed by a certified technician at an authorized Ford dealership voids the warranty. This is what every coal-roller was told.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:08:03am

Want to believe. He was a 53% unfavorable rating, but it’s SC.

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:18:46am

re: #93 I Would Prefer Not To

Want to believe. He was a 53% unfavorable rating, but it’s SC.

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Me too, though I won’t believe Lindsey Graham is in danger of losing his Senate seat til I hear his concession speech. Or read his letter of resignation.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:23:22am

Last time this similar group broke for trump

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retired cynic  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:25:46am

re: #95 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)

Last time this similar group broke for trump

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I read that last week and posted something incoherent about it. I think it is a very important point.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:26:39am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:32:09am
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:32:44am
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retired cynic  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:33:56am

re: #99 The Pie Overlord!

Upding to you for posting this; burning glowering face to DT for being such a stoopid evil person.

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steve_davis  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:36:03am

re: #90 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

A lot of people, especially in this part of the country, are stuck in the 1950s, when various over-processed, energy-wasting products and practices were the cutting edge of suburban status-seeking. It was also a good way to differentiate oneself from the hard-scrabble farm life that lay in the not-too- distant past.
Not too long ago, a boomer-age Lubbockite BOASTED to me that it was “illegal” (presumably contrary to HOA rules) in her neighborhood to hang clothes out to dry.
I countered that there might be people who see it as an environmentally sound practice, substituting free solar and wind energy for electricity. She thought I was joking.
Another one, a complete stranger, overheard me tell someone I had met my first wife in a laundromat. He interrupted to declare, “Yeah, laundromats. That’s for people who can’t afford a washer and dryer!”
“Oh, is that a big status symbol? A washer and dryer?”
“At least I’ve got one!”
“Congratulations, I do too. Now. But I still have to go to a laundry to get my Savile Row suits cleaned.”
I call this kind of stuff goober materialism, and I believe it is a huge factor in environmental and cultural decline.

In Lubbock, who needs to hang clothes to dry? Just put stuff on a hanger and it will be dry inside of 5 minutes.

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steve_davis  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:37:28am

re: #93 I Would Prefer Not To

Want to believe. He was a 53% unfavorable rating, but it’s SC.

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nah. we’ll reelect him. 5 million people in this state. 4 million of them are morons.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:40:19am

that’s a lot of boil

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:42:52am

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes. And a lot of butter too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:45:06am
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PhillyPretzel  Dec 22, 2019 • 8:49:46am

OT Finally the city has paid me for my Election Day service. The check is usually $125 for the 13 hours I put in on the local election board. This time the check is $175. That is because I went to the training sessions for the new voting machines. For now I will deposit the check into my savings account.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:01:17am

re: #87 The Pie Overlord!

OK who here thinks that Impeachment will make Trump enormously popular and he will win the electoral and the popular votes in a historic landslide?

Sadly that’s what my family believes…

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:06:21am

re: #107 Joe Bacon 🌹

Sadly that’s what my family believes…

Don’t forget, the Trump humpers will say what they want over what they think or believe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:07:13am

re: #90 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

A lot of people, especially in this part of the country, are stuck in the 1950s, when various over-processed, energy-wasting products and practices were the cutting edge of suburban status-seeking.

we measure wealth and prosperity in terms of how many resources we consume…

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:07:16am

Punctuation matters. So when Satanic Zombie Cattle take over the world, you know who to blame.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:09:14am

Trumpers are literally saying Trump didn’t get impeached because/Senate.

This means that Bill Clinton never got impeached.

Which is it?

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:15:47am

re: #110 Teukka

Punctuation matters. So when Satanic Zombie Cattle take over the world, you know who to blame.

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Found something in the picture stash to post as related pic:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:21:23am
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Patricia Kayden  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:21:33am

re: #87 The Pie Overlord!

OK who here thinks that Impeachment will make Trump enormously popular and he will win the electoral and the popular votes in a historic landslide?

Not me. Why would being impeached turn an unpopular bully into anything positive? The majority of Americans wanted to see him impeached and removed so no to your query. The media needs to talk to people like us who are eager to vote him out of office and are ecstatic that he’s finally been impeached. We’re the majority.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:23:00am
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Teukka  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:25:22am

re: #112 Teukka

Found something in the picture stash to post as related pic:

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“Gravkor” is the Swedish word for “crypt”. It is composed of “grav” (grave) and “kor” (chancel), and the latter word has more meanings than just chancel, such as the plural of cow…
Hence, Gravecows…

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:25:56am

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

I like that one. “Chief if Staff.” It may be a typo but a funny one.

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retired cynic  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:26:55am

I thought I knew about the New Madrid Earthquake. Wrong! And combined with the great comet of 1811, no wonder a lot of folks became Earthquake Christians! The NME went on for nearly 2 _months_.

THE NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKES OF 1811-1812
FEBRUARY 7, 2018|IN MISSOURI HISTORY, LIFE|BY RON SOODALTER

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:27:02am

re: #114 Patricia Kayden

Not me. Why would being impeached turn an unpopular bully into anything positive? The majority of Americans wanted to see him impeached and removed so no to your query. The media needs to talk to people like us who are eager to vote him out of office and are ecstatic that he’s finally been impeached. We’re the majority.

Not according to the liars at the Screw York Times who endlessly seek out MAGATS for their What “Real Murkans” are saying pieces…

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makeitstop  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:27:25am

re: #64 Targetpractice

I’ve tried to be better about not stereotyping Boomers…but I don’t see a lot of my generation being the ones bitching about the demise of the incandescent bulb. But perhaps that’s because we’re so strapped for cash, anything that can make a difference in an electricity bill is welcomed with open arms. Not to mention being able to use one bulb for months or years at a time, instead of needing to change them out every other month and (yes) needing to put “light bulbs” on the shopping list alongside “bread” and “eggs.”

I really don’t get the bitching. It’s a goddamn light bulb! Don’t people have better things to worry about?

(Boomer here who loves the LED bulbs because he’s sick of burning his hand turning off a table lamp.)

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:28:33am

re: #120 makeitstop

I really don’t get the bitching. It’s a goddamn light bulb! Don’t people have better things to worry about?

Remember that Fox beats the bulb drum 24/7 to their marks!

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:30:12am

re: #120 makeitstop

I love LED’s too. They are far safer than compact fluorescents.

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:30:25am

The people who have a problem with incandescents must be flushing them down, like 10 or 15 times.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:37:30am

LED’s also have the benefit of being easily dimmable and pretty much any color temp you want.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:41:15am

it is all about the concept government interfering with our Freedom of Choice

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:42:06am

re: #124 BigPapa

Michelle Bachmann (R-Mars) bitched about this when Obama was carrying this out.

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A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:45:07am

re: #126 Eric The Fruit Bat

Michelle Bachmann (R-Mars) bitched about this when Obama was carrying this out.

She knew Obama had a secret agenda. Yes, it was an evil plot to make people who wear orange makeup look orange. Diabolical.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:46:06am

re: #126 Eric The Fruit Bat

Michelle Bachmann (R-Mars) bitched about this when Obama was carrying this out.

What inveterate shitgoblins would be against 3200 Kelvin?

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:47:28am

Can you imagine trying to explain color temp to Big Baby?

This makes you look orange. This doesn’t. Obama was for this. Obama was against this.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:47:59am

re: #124 BigPapa

LED’s also have the benefit of being easily dimmable and pretty much any color temp you want.

re: #126 Eric The Fruit Bat

Michelle Bachmann (R-Mars) bitched about this when Obama was carrying this out.

Only caveat is that the component known as the “reservoir capacitor” in the design needs to be properly sized, which it tends not to be in the cheaper products. Also, keep in mind not all LED bulbs support dimming.
A properly sized reservoir cap in a LED bulb can be recognized by you and your shopping company whipping out your smartphones, turning the camera on and the deflickerer off, and see how much the bulb flickers on the screen. Very little to no flicker indicates a properly sized reservoir cap.
If possible and a dimmable LED bulb, check behavior when dimmed, some have marginally good reservoir caps.

Also, note that mains flicker (which is what you maybe don’t see with the naked eye but can see on a cellphone camera) is a known cause for headache attacks and some forms of epileptic seizures.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:52:14am

Just a reminder of who the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press always goes to get a pulse of how “Real America” feels!

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:53:36am

The guys rolling coal can now start lighting their houses with a charcoal brazier, to own the libs.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:54:26am

Real men don’t worry about carbon monoxide.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:55:16am

re: #133 jaunte

Real men don’t worry about carbon monoxide.

… which is why they don’t remain real men for long …

Too harsh?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 22, 2019 • 9:58:31am

re: #133 jaunte

Real men don’t worry about carbon monoxide.

We need more Darwin Award winners!

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:01:05am

re: #133 jaunte

Real men don’t worry about carbon monoxide.

Carbon Monoxide: it’s a gas!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:02:56am

re: #136 BigPapa

Carbon Monoxide: it’s a gas!

Alfred E. Neuman - “It’s A Gas”

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:03:22am

re: #135 Joe Bacon 🌹

We need more Darwin Award winners!

I would be delighted to encourage any and all forms of hazardous, unhealthy behavior among MAGAts IF I could get them to leave the children out of it.

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Sherlock Hound  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:05:54am

re: #132 jaunte

The guys rolling coal can now start lighting their houses with a charcoal brazier, to own the libs.

As a joke, I want to see three-way bulbs introduced. No, it’s not about THAT use! These were bulbs with two filaments and a special contact and receptacle on the lamp, such that you turned the stem to light one filament, the other filament, or both combined. Hence the term “three-way”.

These bulbs were most commonly rated at 50/100/150 watts. My family had a 100/200/300 watt bulb. It disappeared from the market after the Energy Crisis. I had these bulbs as late as 2000, when I got CFL’s. Three-ways may be the most inefficient bulbs for normal households; halogen bulbs, which I had, were more efficient.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:07:15am

re: #139 Sherlock Hound

If they’re really into wasting energy the simplest way is to just to take the doors off the house.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:09:24am
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Sherlock Hound  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:10:33am

re: #140 jaunte

If they’re really into wasting energy the simplest way is to just to take the doors off the house.

They will have to! Imagine the heat from a few 150W bulbs and several tube TV’s, with your average color TV going at 250W or so!

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:12:01am

re: #137 Joe Bacon 🌹

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Video

Rude! Totally immature. Juvenile.

Love it!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:13:41am

re: #134 Teukka

… which is why they don’t remain real men for long …

Too harsh?

Nope.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:18:18am

re: #139 Sherlock Hound

Recall the 50/200/250? Talk about moronic…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:18:50am

re: #145 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Recall the 50/200/250? Talk about moronic…

Yes, I sure do!

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Teddy's Person  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:19:21am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:20:44am

re: #147 Teddy’s Person

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:21:00am

re: #147 Teddy’s Person

It is either the Great G-d of the porcelain throne or the Great G-d of the 9 iron. /

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:24:25am

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:25:35am

re: #149 PhillyPretzel

It is either the Great G-d of the porcelain throne or the Great G-d of the 9 iron. /

Daniel 11:37-39 comes to mind for some reason…
“He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all. Instead of them, he will honor a god of fortresses; a god unknown to his ancestors he will honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. He will attack the mightiest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them rulers over many people and will distribute the land at a price.”

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plansbandc  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:26:17am

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

That thing looks like something out of a bad fifties sci fi movie.

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Teddy's Person  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:26:23am

re: #147 Teddy’s Person

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The Holy Shrine of Perpetual Emoluments

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:28:15am

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

Driving south from New York, I always get a kick out of southern states posting signs at every bridge “Bridges ice before roadways” or something to that effect. I’m like “duh!”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:33:50am
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Danack  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:34:01am

re: #110 Teukka

Punctuation matters. So when Satanic Zombie Cattle take over the world, you know who to blame.

[Embedded content]

Obligatory XKCD:

xkcd.com

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Teddy's Person  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:34:34am

re: #155 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Maybe the lightbulb just needs some adjustment.

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Ace Rothstein  Dec 22, 2019 • 10:59:44am

re: #128 BigPapa

What inveterate shitgoblins would be against 3200 Kelvin?

Republicans.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2019 • 11:28:59am

re: #139 Sherlock Hound

As a joke, I want to see three-way bulbs introduced. No, it’s not about THAT use! These were bulbs with two filaments and a special contact and receptacle on the lamp, such that you turned the stem to light one filament, the other filament, or both combined. Hence the term “three-way”.

These bulbs were most commonly rated at 50/100/150 watts. My family had a 100/200/300 watt bulb. It disappeared from the market after the Energy Crisis. I had these bulbs as late as 2000, when I got CFL’s. Three-ways may be the most inefficient bulbs for normal households; halogen bulbs, which I had, were more efficient.

I have LED three-ways and I like them!


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