Luca Stricagnoli Plays All the Parts: “Another Day in Paradise”

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Luca Stricagnoli’s hammer-on fingers of doom strike again.

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“Another Day In Paradise” is one of Phil Collins’ most iconic songs…I love it. Here I play my version of it using my two guitars technique (Standard Guitar + 7-string Soprano Guitar).
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233 comments
1
The GOP is a terrorist organization  May 29, 2021 • 6:04:19pm
In a last-minute addition, language was inserted in the bill making it easier to overturn an election, no longer requiring evidence that fraud actually altered an outcome of a race — but rather only that enough ballots were illegally cast that could have made a difference.

Texas Republicans finalize bill that would enact stiff new voting restrictions and make it easier to overturn election results

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No Malarkey!  May 29, 2021 • 6:04:43pm

Repeated from below: Bibi is toast. When does he go to prison?

3
Backwoods_Sleuth  May 29, 2021 • 6:05:52pm
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No Malarkey!  May 29, 2021 • 6:08:06pm

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 6:10:43pm

She calls out to the man on the street
“Sir, can you help me?
It’s cold and I’ve nowhere to sleep
Is there somewhere you can tell me?”
He walks on, doesn’t look back
He pretends he can’t hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there
Oh, think twice, ‘cause it’s another day for you and me in paradise
Oh, think twice, ‘cause it’s another day for you
You and me in paradise

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Charles Johnson  May 29, 2021 • 6:14:01pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 29, 2021 • 6:14:04pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

Repeated from below: Bibi is toast. When does he go to prison?

Odds on him pulling a Trump and refusing to acknowledge the changeover?

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 29, 2021 • 6:14:32pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Damn. That bad, huh?

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 6:14:53pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I made it right up to the titles.

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No Malarkey!  May 29, 2021 • 6:16:05pm

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

Odds on him pulling a Trump and refusing to acknowledge the changeover?

No quite the same; he is only a PM, and he can’t argue the Kenesset vote is a fraud.

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No Malarkey!  May 29, 2021 • 6:19:41pm

re: #5 jaunte

She calls out to the man on the street
“Sir, can you help me?
It’s cold and I’ve nowhere to sleep
Is there somewhere you can tell me?”
He walks on, doesn’t look back
He pretends he can’t hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there
Oh, think twice, ‘cause it’s another day for you and me in paradise
Oh, think twice, ‘cause it’s another day for you
You and me in paradise

Standing in line, marking time waiting for the welfare dime ‘cause they can’t buy a job
The man in a silk suit hurries by as he catches the poor old lady’s eyes
Just for fun he says, “get a job”

12
mmmirele  May 29, 2021 • 6:21:55pm

I went out and picketed the 4 pm service this afternoon.

The lime green cooling towel is a game changer. It was 100 degrees outside but the towel (and the liquids I had in my purse) kept me cool. A cooling hat is supposed to be delivered to me next week. Between the cooling towel and the cooling hat, I should be able to hit Driscoll’s outfit on the hottest of days.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 6:25:43pm

I bet Jesus would absolutely hate car horns.

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mmmirele  May 29, 2021 • 6:27:04pm

re: #13 jaunte

I bet Jesus would absolutely hate car horns.

I probably should pull out the video of me giving that young man a scolding for stalking me on Wednesday and post it.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 6:27:13pm

“Celebrate your love with a brief, careless, effort-free gesture you use to express irritation.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 29, 2021 • 6:29:05pm
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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 6:29:40pm
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Teukka  May 29, 2021 • 6:34:23pm
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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 6:37:13pm

re: #18 Teukka

“Deweyism” the moderate Republican precursor of “RINO.”

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William Lewis  May 29, 2021 • 6:38:47pm

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

Damn. That bad, huh?

Pity. I didn’t have much hope (Zack Snyder after all) but the idea had possibilities I hoped he’d manage to pull off.

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Teukka  May 29, 2021 • 6:44:46pm

re: #18 Teukka

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Me and my habit of trying chilling comments…

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 6:50:55pm

These people are nuts.

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JOE 🥓  May 29, 2021 • 6:51:20pm

Deweyism is to Birchers what Common Core is to MAGATS.

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JOE 🥓  May 29, 2021 • 6:52:06pm

re: #22 jaunte

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These people are nuts.

Why hasn’t she been arrested for sedition?

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Teukka  May 29, 2021 • 6:53:17pm

re: #23 JOE 🥓

Deweyism is to Birchers what Common Core is to MAGATS.

001.98 - Conspiracy Theories

That is all.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 6:54:02pm

re: #24 JOE 🥓

No one considers her a “clear and present danger” yet.

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Jay C  May 29, 2021 • 7:01:50pm

re: #26 jaunte

No one considers her a “clear and present danger” yet.

Only if anyone takes her seriously….

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The GOP is a terrorist organization  May 29, 2021 • 7:12:25pm

re: #27 Jay C

Only if anyone takers her seriously….

Seems fair to say a few “very fine people” took her seriously on January 6th.

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 7:16:52pm

There seems to a lot of people blaming China for “not admitting that there was human-to-human transmission” of COVID-19 early on.

That’s pretty difficult, when you can’t test for the existence of the Virus until you know the Gene Code.

Here’s what we know from the WHOs own timeline. Late December:

In China:

“The mother is sick now!”

“With what?”

“We don’t know, but it looks a lot like SARS!”

We should report this to the WHO!”

Reported to The Who on December 31, 2019.

China reported the gene sequence to the Who on 12 January.

Everybody starts looking for tests to determine if sick people are affected by the new Novel Corona Virus.

14 January

WHO’s technical lead for the response noted in a press briefing there may have been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus (in the 41 confirmed cases), mainly through family members, and that there was a risk of a possible wider outbreak. The lead also said that human-to-human transmission would not be surprising given our experience with SARS, MERS and other respiratory pathogens.

22 January

WHO mission to China issued a statement saying that there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan but more investigation was needed to understand the full extent of transmission.

30 January 2020

The WHO Director-General reconvened the Emergency Committee (EC). This was earlier than the 10-day period and only two days after the first reports of limited human-to-human transmission were reported outside China. This time, the EC reached consensus and advised the Director-General that the outbreak constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The Director-General accepted the recommendation and declared the novel coronavirus outbreak (2019-nCoV) a PHEIC. This is the 6th time WHO has declared a PHEIC since the International Health Regulations (IHR) came into force in 2005.

WHO’s situation report for 30 January reported 7818 total confirmed cases worldwide, with the majority of these in China, and 82 cases reported in 18 countries outside China. WHO gave a risk assessment of very high for China, and high at the global level.

24 February 2020

The WHO-China Joint mission, which included experts from Canada, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Russia, Singapore and the US (CDC, NIH) spent time in Beijing and also travelled to Wuhan and two other cities. They spoke with health officials, scientists and health workers in health facilities (maintaining physical distancing). The report of the joint mission can be found here:

Were the Chinese slow to reveal human-to-human transmission?

Maybe, but only when this first thing reared its lethal head. Maybe the initial reports out of Wuhan were quashed by Beijing, but within days, the existence of a Corona Virus was reported, and twelve days later, they released the genetic sequence (GenSeq) to the world.

They weren’t hiding human-to-human transmission, they assumed it was real and were scared as shit of it and released the GenSeq to get some decent testing and set the stage for the mRNA vaccines that we have today.

But the Drumpf crowd wants to yell “By Jingo! It’s all China’s fault.”

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Dangerman  May 29, 2021 • 7:20:12pm

re: #12 mmmirele

I went out and picketed the 4 pm service this afternoon.

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The lime green cooling towel is a game changer. It was 100 degrees outside but the towel (and the liquids I had in my purse) kept me cool. A cooling hat is supposed to be delivered to me next week. Between the cooling towel and the cooling hat, I should be able to hit Driscoll’s outfit on the hottest of days.

I’ve been looking into a cooling towel and hat for long summer florida runs.

what did you settle on?

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BlueSpotinAL  May 29, 2021 • 7:20:28pm

You know, we should have had our own experts figure it out, and not rely solely on WHO and China. Who was in charge of that utter failure to even try?

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Dopamine Fish  May 29, 2021 • 7:21:44pm

re: #31 BlueSpotinAL

You know, we should have had our own experts figure it out, and not rely solely on WHO and China. Who was in charge of that utter failure to even try?

Gee, it’s almost like the United States CDC had a pandemic preparedness unit who had boots on the ground in China (among many other places), but they were disbanded because TFG wanted to spend less federal money and make himself look like a conservative hero for reducing government waste. I wonder how that worked out for him.

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Dangerman  May 29, 2021 • 7:22:19pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

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she’s a liar.
fin.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 7:25:38pm
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Dopamine Fish  May 29, 2021 • 7:26:28pm

re: #34 jaunte

Oh please oh please oh please…

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 7:26:34pm
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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 7:27:32pm

“…SB7 appears to be in trouble in the Texas House, per House Democratic source who says multiple fatal points of order have been identified

This comes after Sen. Hughes took the perhaps unprecedented step of asking the Senate to suspend rules for the bill that he didn’t intend to take up for several hours after the vote to suspend

As the Texas Senate prepares for a potential all-night debate on Senate Bill 7, the omnibus elections bill, a Texas House Democratic source close to the SB7 fray tells Quorum Report tonight that multiple fatal points of order have been identified on the conference committee report.

That is even after a corrected report was filed after the initial filing of the report earlier in the day.

This news comes after Senate Democrats peppered Lt. Gov. Dan Partrick and Sen. Bryan Hughes with parliamentary inquiries about why the upper chamber is proceeding in a perhaps unprecedented manner.”
quorumreport.com

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wrenchwench  May 29, 2021 • 7:31:01pm
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gocart mozart  May 29, 2021 • 7:34:46pm
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Dopamine Fish  May 29, 2021 • 7:36:09pm

re: #39 gocart mozart

TFW you really just wanna DECK the other guy

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 7:37:39pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2021 • 7:44:17pm

re: #138 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

They report numbers without names. That’s HIPAA. No personally identifiable information. But statistics are still gathered and reported. Jeez, Wolf is a moron.

No, she’s a liar. Please use the correct descriptor for her.

This has been repeatedly explained to her by medical people and lawyers.

She is a conservative, therefore she lies.

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bratwurst  May 29, 2021 • 7:50:45pm
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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 7:51:25pm

re: #37 jaunte

“…SB7 appears to be in trouble in the Texas House, per House Democratic source who says multiple fatal points of order have been identified

This comes after Sen. Hughes took the perhaps unprecedented step of asking the Senate to suspend rules for the bill that he didn’t intend to take up for several hours after the vote to suspend

As the Texas Senate prepares for a potential all-night debate on Senate Bill 7, the omnibus elections bill, a Texas House Democratic source close to the SB7 fray tells Quorum Report tonight that multiple fatal points of order have been identified on the conference committee report.

That is even after a corrected report was filed after the initial filing of the report earlier in the day.

This news comes after Senate Democrats peppered Lt. Gov. Dan Partrick and Sen. Bryan Hughes with parliamentary inquiries about why the upper chamber is proceeding in a perhaps unprecedented manner.”
quorumreport.com

Texas elected R’s are great at bloviating, and awful at actually writing Laws. We have seen this for over two decades. One of the reasons is that they do not hire staff with sufficient chops to understand the nuance of actually writing a Statute.

If the Restriction of Voting Rights Act (or whatever they have disguised it as) doesn’t pass, it will be because of R incompetence and Democratic land mines inserted in the agreed Statute during the reconciliation process that the R’s didn’t catch.

I don’t consider this rat-fucking. I consider this letting the opposition step on its own rake.

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BlueSpotinAL  May 29, 2021 • 7:54:37pm

To follow up, Chinese government officials said there was no evidence of human to human transmission on Jan 14, but anybody with an ounce of scientific background realized that is not same as “no human transmission”. On Jan 20 Chinese officials said it was human to human. You have to keep in mind there were few known cases at the time. Once the sequence was published, and pcr tests developed, that really changed things.

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wrenchwench  May 29, 2021 • 7:55:48pm

re: #44 austin_blue

I don’t consider this rat-fucking. I consider this letting the opposition step on its own rake.

Rat-raking.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 8:02:03pm

Careful placement of rats disguised as cute hedgehogs.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 29, 2021 • 8:02:48pm

2021 Pelicans in Formation

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 29, 2021 • 8:02:49pm

re: #34 jaunte

So when do Texas Republicans finally just throw all the parliamentary rules out the window and decree the law they want?

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 8:02:56pm

re: #45 BlueSpotinAL

To follow up, Chinese government officials said there was no evidence of human to human transmission on Jan 14, but anybody with an ounce of scientific background realized that is not same as “no human transmission”. On Jan 20 Chinese officials said it was human to human. You have to keep in mind there were few known cases at the time. Once the sequence was published, and pcr tests developed, that really changed things.

Exactly. By 20 January, anyone with an ounce of sense knew that if this got loose in the GenPop it was going to be a disaster, and that it may have already been too late.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 8:03:34pm

re: #49 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Dan Patrick is there this week.

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 8:04:56pm

re: #48 So Cal Greek Hippie

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A marvelous bird is the Pelican!
It’s beak holds more than its belly can.

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plansbandc  May 29, 2021 • 8:12:43pm

re: #52 austin_blue

I love Pelicans, but it’s hard to watch them eat other birds. And I know they aren’t afraid to eat a chihuahua.

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Jay C  May 29, 2021 • 8:15:40pm

re: #50 austin_blue

Exactly. By 20 January, anyone with an ounce of sense knew that if this got loose in the GenPop it was going to be a disaster, and that it may have already been too late.

By late January, it was definitely too late. And -as I think has been demonstrated - the virus was already “loose”.

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Belafon  May 29, 2021 • 8:19:21pm
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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 8:19:30pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 29, 2021 • 8:20:37pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

Repeated from below: Bibi is toast. When does he go to prison?

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I won’t believe any of this until Bibi is finally gone, the new PM is in office, and Bibi is convicted and in prison. Then I will believe.

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 8:22:48pm

re: #51 jaunte

Dan Patrick is there this week.

That man can fuck up a wet dream.

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 8:27:05pm

re: #53 plansbandc

I love Pelicans, but it’s hard to watch them eat other birds. And I know they aren’t afraid to eat a chihuahua.

I’m not sure, is this bad or a bonus?

I don’t mean the birds, I mean the little, vicious, shivering, ankle biter.

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plansbandc  May 29, 2021 • 8:29:58pm

re: #59 austin_blue

Stop it. I have a Chiweenie. :D :D

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bratwurst  May 29, 2021 • 8:34:49pm

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retired cynic  May 29, 2021 • 8:38:21pm

re: #61 bratwurst

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 8:42:31pm

re: #60 plansbandc

Stop it. I have a Chiweenie. :D :D

But it’s not a little, vicious, shivering, ankle biter, is it?

It’s a lovely mixed-breed dog that has almost none of the Chihuahua’s more in-bred, insane pathologies.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 29, 2021 • 8:45:59pm

A random anecdote based on 33 people I associate with regularly, only 9% are not vaccinated, the rest are all fully vaccinated. Two are TFGers and the third is just a moron.

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Patricia Kayden  May 29, 2021 • 8:48:46pm
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plansbandc  May 29, 2021 • 8:52:30pm

re: #63 austin_blue

No, he’s really mellow and very sweet.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 8:52:48pm
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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 8:53:40pm
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Citizen K  May 29, 2021 • 8:55:29pm

Don’t look now, but people who really should know better are running interference for one Mr. Ngo again.

It’s funny how often journos will go to bat for each other against criticism or purported violence from the left, but wither and cede to rage, vitriol, and actual confirmed violence from the right. Not to mention how consistently they’re willing to overlook Ngo’s literal goddamn tangible collaboration with Neo-Nazi groups in Portland in order to defend his sorry ass.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 8:55:56pm
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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 8:58:39pm

re: #61 bratwurst

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My dear, sweet, man, I think we are all are shocked, but for you, I have a hope that my voice, screamed out to the Universe, will gives you a roll of the dice that, against all odds, keeps your Mom in the 2%.

My deepest hope for the best of luck with her health and the hope for you to find other sources to help you with *your* health issues while you have to transition to being a provider, if you are capable of doing that.

Please keep us in the loop. If we can network help for you, we are here.

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 8:59:31pm

re: #66 plansbandc

No, he’s really mellow and very sweet.

Thought so.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 9:01:40pm

They know they’re doing wrong, or they wouldn’t have so much armed security to help.

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 9:06:09pm

re: #73 jaunte

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They know they’re doing wrong, or they wouldn’t have so much armed security to help.

Nope, they know the Statute, as written, is a piece of crap and has to be rewritten. They are downstairs, desperately trying to find people who can speak Statute.

The D’s are laughing their asses off right now.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 9:07:10pm

ALEC must not work weekends.

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 9:12:46pm

re: #75 jaunte

ALEC must not work weekends.

Now see, that’s funny because the vast majority of humans don’t have a fucking clue of what ALEC is, even though the money behind it ensures that poor people will never be anything other than poor, and lower middle class people will always be lower middle class people with steadily decreasing buying power.

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Targetpractice  May 29, 2021 • 9:12:54pm

So they’re bending/breaking all the rules they can to get this bill over the finish line, all but assuring that future judicial challenges will succeed when one judge or another points out the state violated its own laws/statutes to make it happen.

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jaunte  May 29, 2021 • 9:19:31pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 29, 2021 • 9:21:17pm

re: #61 bratwurst

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Targetpractice  May 29, 2021 • 9:24:20pm

A bill passed in the dead of night, in almost absolute secrecy, and with more guards than humans in attendance.

Because subtlety is overrated.

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bratwurst  May 29, 2021 • 9:27:58pm

re: #71 austin_blue

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CleverToad  May 29, 2021 • 9:34:20pm

re: #61 bratwurst

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plansbandc  May 29, 2021 • 9:40:43pm

re: #61 bratwurst

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austin_blue  May 29, 2021 • 9:46:01pm

re: #81 bratwurst

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Well, I’m on Team Bratwurst for anything about your health, but I’ve got to say that your beloved team in the Bundesliga set their collective hair on fire for twelve months and got relegated. They lost control over their debt, didn’t they?

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 29, 2021 • 9:48:47pm
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Targetpractice  May 29, 2021 • 9:54:11pm

re: #85 Dread Pirate Ron

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Because then the entire illusion would fall apart. Nobody in their right minds would think that what force(s) that “stole” the election for Biden would leave every other vote on the ballot remain untouched. Or that “fake” ballots would vote for Repubs downticket but Biden at the top.

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Citizen K  May 29, 2021 • 9:56:10pm

re: #77 Targetpractice

So they’re bending/breaking all the rules they can to get this bill over the finish line, all but assuring that future judicial challenges will succeed when one judge or another points out the state violated its own laws/statutes to make it happen.

It’s all banking on the composition of the Texas Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court to eventually rule on their side. Which they very well might, which is the damn problem.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2021 • 9:56:52pm

re: #61 bratwurst

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 29, 2021 • 10:02:20pm
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bratwurst  May 29, 2021 • 10:07:11pm

re: #84 austin_blue

Well, I’m on Team Bratwurst for anything about your health, but I’ve got to say that your beloved team in the Bundesliga set their collective hair on fire for twelve months and got relegated. They lost control over their debt, didn’t they?

The bottom line is that the new stadium was a giant mistake and the cracks in the dam had all been papered over with the meat packing fortune of the chairman…but when his near Trumpian management style collied with the economic impact of the pandemic, it was like a bomb going off.

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Targetpractice  May 29, 2021 • 10:10:11pm

re: #89 Dread Pirate Ron

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At a guess? Those wingnuts who want badly to believe either in “Supply Side Jesus” or “Forced Birth Jesus.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2021 • 10:10:14pm

Creationist Matt Powell Says Evolution Is Racist because African-Americans Exist (Friendly Atheist)

It is incredible how much stupid Powell can pack into a one-minute video.

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Targetpractice  May 29, 2021 • 10:23:33pm

Few things seem to drive Bible-thumpers nuttier than those outside the flock who not only know that what’s being sold is bullshit, but can quote chapter and verse to back up their position.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 29, 2021 • 10:42:36pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2021 • 10:49:14pm

(caution for cartoon vulgarity, 1:10)

SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE ™: FLINTSTONES

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2021 • 11:28:58pm

Only Christians could apply for jail chaplain job in Prince George’s County, federal lawsuit says (Baltimore Sun, May 28, 2021)

COLLEGE PARK — Applicants for a chaplain’s job at a Maryland county jail had to sign a statement affirming that they are Christians, a Muslim man claimed Thursday in a federal lawsuit accusing the county and a contractor of religious discrimination.

Lawyers from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, sued Prince George’s County on behalf of Edrees Bridges, who has been a volunteer chaplain at a county jail in Upper Marlboro since 2018.

(more)

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Targetpractice  May 29, 2021 • 11:45:53pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

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About half of that screed is shit that already happens (ex: schools already require vaccinations), while the other half falls under the “smaller government” umbrella that wingnuts selectively enforce (ex: private businesses refusing service).

The long and short of it is that you’re just like a Jew during the Holocaust…if you’re inconvenienced. Not persecuted, not tortured, not subject to summary execution, but just told that you can’t enter an indoor area without a mask unless you’re willing to provide proof of vaccination.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2021 • 11:50:28pm

Remember rape apologist Paige Patterson, formerly of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary?

The seminary is after him now because he committed the one true crime that can’t be forgiven by Christian conservatives: They allege he stole from them. You’re only supposed to do that to the marks.

Southwestern Accuses Pattersons of Theft, Improper Donor Solicitation (Word & Way)

Three years after trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary fired Paige Patterson as president for mishandling allegations of student rapes, the school in Fort Worth, Texas, alleges Patterson and his wife Dorothy took items from the SWBTS and improperly contacted SWBTS donors to shift funding to the Pattersons’ personal nonprofit.

“The Pattersons have continued to use institutional records for their own personal benefit and to the detriment of the Seminary,” the SWBTS report alleges. “The Pattersons’s actions have caused substantial financial harm to the Seminary.”

and

Additionally, SWBTS alleges the Pattersons took artwork, antique firearms, and taxidermy from a collection donated to the seminary by Perry Bolin. As the school worked with the Bolin family to transfer the collection to a third party, an inventory in 2019-2020 discovered several missing items.

“Through pictures posted to social media, the Seminary learned that at least one of the missing paintings is hanging in the Pattersons’ new home in Parker, Texas,” the report adds. “On multiple occasions, legal counsel for the Seminary has contacted the Pattersons’ legal counsel to request the items be returned. As of the time of this response, the missing items have yet to be returned to the Seminary.”

They have the evidence, they could just call the cops. They won’t do that though, because they don’t want to draw more attention to the abject failure of their moral teachings.

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Targetpractice  May 29, 2021 • 11:54:55pm

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Remember rape apologist Paige Patterson, formerly of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary?

The seminary is after him now because he committed the one true crime that can’t be forgiven by Christian conservatives: They allege he stole from them. You’re only supposed to do that to the marks.

Southwestern Accuses Pattersons of Theft, Improper Donor Solicitation (Word & Way)

and

They have the evidence, they could just call the cops. They won’t do that though, because they don’t want to draw more attention to the abject failure of their moral teachings.

Probably more like they’re worried that if this ever went to court, a lot of dirty laundry they don’t want being aired would be put out on the lawn for all to see.

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ericblair  May 30, 2021 • 12:11:20am

re: #97 Targetpractice

The long and short of it is that you’re just like a Jew during the Holocaust…if you’re inconvenienced. Not persecuted, not tortured, not subject to summary execution, but just told that you can’t enter an indoor area without a mask unless you’re willing to provide proof of vaccination.

And then she GOT CANCELLED. Told she was bad and was punished, by that woke libtard communist organization called…Stetson Hats.

I’m fine with these knuckledraggers living in fear of GETTING CANCELLED, because it’s all they can understand with their stunted moral development. You act like a Nazi, you lose your job and get treated like a pariah. You can’t appeal to some higher idea of fairness and inclusion, because that’s just meaningless noise to them.

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Targetpractice  May 30, 2021 • 12:21:02am

re: #100 ericblair

And then she GOT CANCELLED. Told she was bad and was punished, by that woke libtard communist organization called…Stetson Hats.

I’m fine with these knuckledraggers living in fear of GETTING CANCELLED, because it’s all they can understand with their stunted moral development. You act like a Nazi, you lose your job and get treated like a pariah. You can’t appeal to some higher idea of fairness and inclusion, because that’s just meaningless noise to them.

That’s because all it really is is a stunt, a bit of political theater meant to get her support and sympathy from like-minded asshats who are going to look at yellow Star of David stickers and say “YEAH, SHE’S TOTALLY LIKE A JEW IN THE HOLOCAUST!!!”

If she’d been serious about a 1:1 analogy, she would have custom-ordered a bunch of masks with SoDs on them to wear in public, so that they might show others their plight at being forced to wear a mask in public simply because they refuse to be vaccinated. But complying with the law wouldn’t garner the sort of attention they wanted, and it ultimately would leave them looking like fools as everybody around them slowly gets their jabs and cease to wear masks. So they’ve adopted these stickers instead so that when they’re thrown out of the Starbucks or refused service at Wally World, they can show the people their plight for refusing to abide by the law.

What’s the analogy failure here? That Jews in Nazi Germany that refused to abide by the Nuremberg Laws didn’t just refused a cup of coffee, they were imprisoned or worse. And the sad reality is that none of these asshats are in any danger of ever getting more than a citation and dirty looks for willfully choosing to remain plague rats.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 30, 2021 • 12:44:50am
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ericblair  May 30, 2021 • 12:47:47am

re: #101 Targetpractice

Eh, I think they actually believe all this. To paraphrase the old Borscht Belt joke, their hangnail is more painful and hurtful than you falling down the stairs and breaking your neck. Their mild inconvenience is just as horrible as being marked for annihilation along with all your family and loved ones. If you can’t spare the least amount of empathy for those outside your tribe, then disgusting shit like this makes sense.

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Targetpractice  May 30, 2021 • 12:53:15am

re: #103 ericblair

Eh, I think they actually believe all this. To paraphrase the old Borscht Belt joke, their hangnail is more painful and hurtful than you falling down the stairs and breaking your neck. Their mild inconvenience is just as horrible as being marked for annihilation along with all your family and loved ones. If you can’t spare the least amount of empathy for those outside your tribe, then disgusting shit like this makes sense.

Well yeah, but they don’t want mild inconvenience, which would be continuing to carry and wear masks because they refuse to get vaccinated. What they want is victimhood, something their white privilege does not normally grant them. So they slap these stickers on their shirts and make a big scene of being tossed from a store for refusal to wear a mask, so they can then go around telling all their friends about how much of a “victim” they are for not being able to buy an overpriced coffee from Starbucks because they refuse to wear a mask.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 30, 2021 • 1:04:24am

Pre-seasoned steaks

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Targetpractice  May 30, 2021 • 1:09:21am

re: #105 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Pre-seasoned steaks

Mmmm, garlic-flavored burgers…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2021 • 1:46:43am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Why is Netflix sending me pestering emails reminding me to finish watching “Army of the Dead”? I fucking walked out, virtually. That ought to be a clue.

I recall walking out of the cinema during a French film, The Last Woman starring Gerard Depardieu, I found it unbearably tedious.

My roommate, who stuck it out to the end, tells me I’m lucky, the big dramatic climax is when he castrates himself with an electric carving knife out of desperation over a woman who has been breaking up/making up with him throughout the whole film while alternately belittling his manhood…

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ericblair  May 30, 2021 • 1:51:36am

re: #104 Targetpractice

Well yeah, but they don’t want mild inconvenience, which would be continuing to carry and wear masks because they refuse to get vaccinated. What they want is victimhood, something their white privilege does not normally grant them. So they slap these stickers on their shirts and make a big scene of being tossed from a store for refusal to wear a mask, so they can then go around telling all their friends about how much of a “victim” they are for not being able to buy an overpriced coffee from Starbucks because they refuse to wear a mask.

Their pathological strain of Christianity idolizes victimhood, so they are all victims, of course. This is just showing the world “See, they are out to get us!”

The fact that they have power out of all proportion doesn’t relieve this feeling, and just makes it worse for those not Of The Tribe that they have power over. It’s often pretty miserable being a minority inside a minority, since the bigger minority tends to grant themselves a great deal of license over others to make up for their own persecution, or “persecution.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2021 • 1:57:44am

re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

German Flintstones do not have the cool intro jingle. Wonder why not:

“Feuerstein, lernt die Familie Feuerstein kennen,
sie sind eine zeitgenössische Stenzeitalterfamilie
Aus der Gemeinde Grundgesteinschicht, reissen sie
ein Blatt aus der Geschichte.

Fahren wir mit der Nachbarschaftsfamilie
Durch den Gunst Freds zweier Füssen,
Mit den Flintones, habt ihr eine Jaba-daba-du-Zeit
eine Daba-du Zeit
Ihr habt eine schwule alte Zeit!”

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Targetpractice  May 30, 2021 • 2:06:14am

re: #108 ericblair

Their pathological strain of Christianity idolizes victimhood, so they are all victims, of course. This is just showing the world “See, they are out to get us!”

The fact that they have power out of all proportion doesn’t relieve this feeling, and just makes it worse for those not Of The Tribe that they have power over. It’s often pretty miserable being a minority inside a minority, since the bigger minority tends to grant themselves a great deal of license over others to make up for their own persecution, or “persecution.”

Which is really the root of what’s driving them all batty: They’re used to being the ones who could tell people “You don’t belong here.” Used to going into a diner or a hardware store and knowing that they’re automatically welcome and won’t be turned away because of the way they look or act.

So to find themselves on the other side of the equation, even though it’s totally through a voluntary act rather than inborn qualities they discriminate against everyday without thought, is (to them) no different than being a minority targeted for discrimination.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2021 • 2:32:56am

re: #110 Targetpractice

Which is really the root of what’s driving them all batty: They’re used to being the ones who could tell people “You don’t belong here.”

still that innate fear of a slave uprising

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Targetpractice  May 30, 2021 • 2:43:30am

re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

still that innate fear of a slave uprising

Yep. They always run to the Holocaust when they want to depict themselves as helpless victims of discrimination and hate. But very rarely do you hear them compare the way they’re treated to Jim Crow…except when they also scream “REVERSE RACISM!!!”

The fear that is driving so much of the white freakout in modern America…is that almost instinctual fear that those they view as slaves will one day rise up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2021 • 2:47:17am

re: #112 Targetpractice

Yep. They always run to the Holocaust when they want to depict themselves as helpless victims of discrimination and hate. But very rarely do you hear them compare the way they’re treated to Jim Crow…except when they also scream “REVERSE RACISM!!!”

The fear that is driving so much of the white freakout in modern America…is that almost instinctual fear that those they view as slaves will one day rise up.

Remember good old Enoch “Rivers of Blood” Powell?

“Some day the black man will hold the whip hand in Europe!”

Because they cannot see it any other way.

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Targetpractice  May 30, 2021 • 2:55:54am

re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember good old Enoch “Rivers of Blood” Powell?

“Some day the black man will hold the whip hand in Europe!”

Because they cannot see it any other way.

Ayep. They can say it was about “communism” all they like, but the driving reason for conservative support in the West for South Africa’s apartheid gov’t was deep-seated fear that the black majority would begin a “white genocide” if they were ever allowed to be in charge. And it is part of the reason why Putin enjoys such support in the West due to his various actions and discriminatory laws against racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in Russia.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2021 • 3:00:41am

re: #114 Targetpractice

Ayep. They can say it was about “communism” all they like, but the driving reason for conservative support in the West for South Africa’s apartheid gov’t was deep-seated fear that the black majority would begin a “white genocide” if they were ever allowed to be in charge. And it is part of the reason why Putin enjoys such support in the West due to his various actions and discriminatory laws against racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in Russia.

Putin’s Russia is authoritarian, oligarchic, militaristic, patriarchal, xenophobic and theocratic.

In other words, just they way they want to see America other than the theocracy will be based on Fundamentalist Protestantism rather than Russian Orthodoxy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 3:08:50am
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Targetpractice  May 30, 2021 • 3:09:05am

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Putin’s Russia is authoritarian, oligarchic, militaristic, patriarchal, xenophobic and theocratic.

In other words, just they way they want to see America other than the theocracy will be based on Fundamentalist Protestantism rather than Russian Orthodoxy.

Nine times outta ten, when you hear a wingnut bashing a nation for its theocratic govt, the part they’re leaving out is where they’re totally cool with the theocracy, they just disagree in whose name people should be suffering.

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Dave In Austin  May 30, 2021 • 3:10:32am

2 dead, 20 shot in Miami/Dade…..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 3:30:44am

re: #118 Dave In Austin

2 dead, 20 shot in Miami/Dade…..

Back to the USA’s favourite pasttime.

2 killed and more than 20 wounded in mass shooting at a concert, Miami-Dade police say (Miami Herald, four minutes ago)

Two people were killed and up to 25 people wounded in a mass shooting at a concert early Sunday morning in Northwest Miami-Dade, officials say. One of those injured is in critical condition, according to police.

The shooting started after midnight at a concert at a billiards hall in the 7600 block of Northwest 186th Street, an unincorporated area of the county west of Miami Gardens, Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez said.

Some concert-goers where outside when a white Nissan Pathfinder pulled up, Ramierz said. Three unidentified people stepped out of the SUV with assault rifles and handguns and began shooting into the crowd.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 3:47:46am

VP Harris is getting dragged for a similar tweet to former Pres. Trump about Memorial Day.

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Dangerman  May 30, 2021 • 3:52:38am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 30, 2021 • 3:56:43am

re: #106 Targetpractice

Mmmm, garlic-flavored burgers…

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What about garlic milk? 👀😳

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 30, 2021 • 3:59:56am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Back to the USA’s favourite pasttime.

2 killed and more than 20 wounded in mass shooting at a concert, Miami-Dade police say (Miami Herald, four minutes ago)

(more)

From that sorry:

This is the second major shooting in the Miami area over the Memorial Day weekend. Late Friday into Saturday, one person was killed and six others wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Wynwood area of Miami.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2021 • 4:06:48am

re: #123 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This is the second major shooting in the Miami area over the Memorial Day weekend. Late Friday into Saturday, one person was killed and six others wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Wynwood area of Miami.

Now just imagine a hotly disputed election outcome in 2024 in which the apparent Democratic winner (Biden and/or Harris) of the popular vote is disqualified due to “irregularities” in several GOP states, turning the election over to the state delegations who select The GOP candidate (Trump, Hawley, Cruz, etc…)

Of course, this would all lead to mass protest and popular unrest which will quickly turn violent (because Americans cannot even lose - or even win - a basketball tournament without going violent) and entire urban areas begin to resemble Somalia with trucks full of militiamen out gunning down anything that looks “treasonous” or “terrorist” to them…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 4:11:11am

FOX didn’t waste any time.

Vice President Kamala Harris under fire for ‘disrespectful’ tweet

(caution for auto-play adverts)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 4:16:24am

Fifteen minutes ago, correcting an unforced error.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2021 • 4:25:39am

Memorial Day is the day on which Americans traditionally honor those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms by grilling, getting drunk and/or going to the beach.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 4:32:46am

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Memorial Day is the day on which Americans traditionally honor those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms by grilling, getting drunk and/or going to the beach.

Which is exactly why I am in favour of returning it, like all veterans groups and most Gold Star Families, to May 30.

The date was originally selected by the Grand Army of the Republic, because May 30 was a day which had no significant battles during the Civil War.

It is only on Monday due to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968. That act created Columbus Day as a federal holiday, and made Veteran’s Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Washington’s Birthday Monday holidays.

Outrage returned Veteran’s Day in 1978 to November 11, but the fallen cannot lobby for the same for Memorial Day.

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2021 • 4:33:42am

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Memorial Day is the day on which Americans traditionally honor those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms by grilling, getting drunk and/or going to the beach.

WET T-SHIRT CONTEST FOR FREEDOM! USA!! USA!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 4:34:49am

It was travel industry lobbyists who pushed for the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. It was about money.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 30, 2021 • 4:35:29am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

What exactly was the issue? I’m not watching a Fox video to find out.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 4:37:14am

re: #131 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What exactly was the issue? I’m not watching a Fox video to find out.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 30, 2021 • 4:41:31am

re: #59 austin_blue

I’m not sure, is this bad or a bonus?

I don’t mean the birds, I mean the little, vicious, shivering, ankle biter.

Excuse me. Minnie would like a word.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2021 • 4:43:42am

re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Which is exactly why I am in favour of returning it, like all veterans groups and most Gold Star Families, to May 30.

I am still in favor of it being an automatic long weekend. Americans don’t get enough time off.

Germany manages to give its employees 11-14 paid holidays and a legal minimum of 20 days vacation (although the standard is closer to 27) without wrecking their economy.

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jeffreyw  May 30, 2021 • 4:46:13am

Good morning!

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William Lewis  May 30, 2021 • 4:55:12am

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Memorial Day is the day on which Americans traditionally honor those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms by grilling, getting drunk and/or going to the beach.

Pft. Nov 11 is the better day for remembering those who died. This is a great day to enjoy what those sacrifices bought and this vet thinks that’s just fine.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 30, 2021 • 5:02:07am

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Alrighty then.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 30, 2021 • 5:06:50am

re: #61 bratwurst

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Hope that all goes well and she has a speedy recovery.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 5:07:25am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am still in favor of it being an automatic long weekend. Americans don’t get enough time off.

Germany manages to give its employees 11-14 paid holidays and a legal minimum of 20 days vacation (although the standard is closer to 27) without wrecking their economy.

I’m in favour of more holidays.

Memorial Day has been turned into First Day of Summer Day.

Imagine the Christian outrage if Christmas or Easter were made Monday holidays. (Both religious days are federal holidays.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 5:09:42am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m in favour of more holidays.

Memorial Day has been turned into First Day of Summer Day.

Imagine the Christian outrage if Christmas or Easter were made Monday holidays. (Both religious days are federal holidays.)

Or if we’re going to make religious holidays federal observances anyway, we can add Passover and Eid al-Fitr and make those Monday holidays.

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William Lewis  May 30, 2021 • 5:10:28am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m in favour of more holidays.

Memorial Day has been turned into First Day of Summer Day.

Imagine the Christian outrage if Christmas or Easter were made Monday holidays. (Both religious days are federal holidays.)

Fine by me! Be just like July 4 :)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 5:12:45am

re: #141 William Lewis

Fine by me! Be just like July 4 :)

Later today there will be a Memorial Day remembrance at the village cemetery. (Our town does that on May 30, not Monday.)

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A Mom Anon  May 30, 2021 • 5:13:41am

re: #61 bratwurst

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 5:35:13am

6 Orlando residents stole over $700,000 from churches, FDLE says (Orlando Sentinal)

The lede:

Six Orlando residents worked together to steal over $740,000 from 636 churches and parochial schools nationwide, including 355 in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Part of the problem with church money thefts (there was another in Texas a few days ago where more than $400,000 was embezzled by one employee) is that churches are not held to the standards of charities, therefore it is easy to steal from churches.

Of course, for churches to be held to the standard of charities would mean they would have to open their books to outside auditors. Very few churches are interested in that.

Investigators said the six Romanian citizens operated out of Orlando and traveled to steal over 1,500 donation checks from church mailboxes, sometimes stealing from as many as 85 churches in a day. They then used different pseudonyms to deposit the stolen checks into multiple bank accounts and withdraw the money before banks could flag the charges, according to a release. Their arrest documents were not immediately available.

The group used the money to buy cars, food and clothing and sent large sums to Romania via wire transfers, Plessinger said.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 6:07:26am

It’s Sunday, so my day for looking up weird religious stuff.

Christian Friendly Sex Positions (also known as CFSPs) is a God-honoring, marriage-focused sex education resource for married Christian couples. It includes tastefully-illustrated sex positions, sex tips, and sex stories spouses can use to add a new level of intimacy and adventure to their sex lives!

IMPORTANT: This website does not contain nudity, foul or colorful language, or descriptions of sexual acts that go against Christian values.

This is not a parody site. They do have over 280 “Christian friendly,” culled from Christian apologetics books, Websites, fora, &c.

There are no LGBT+ sex positions.

christianfriendlysexpositions.com

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Belafon  May 30, 2021 • 6:16:09am
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Belafon  May 30, 2021 • 6:16:41am
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Dangerman  May 30, 2021 • 6:20:02am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

FOX didn’t waste any time.

Vice President Kamala Harris under fire for ‘disrespectful’ tweet

(caution for auto-play adverts)

asinine

I might feel the same way too, if this were Memorial day
Which it aint yet

These people are idiots

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Patricia Kayden  May 30, 2021 • 6:20:30am

re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

😂 You made the right decision. I’ve never walked out on a film before (too much of a cheapskate) but should have for “Red Riding Hood”. What a horrid movie!!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 30, 2021 • 6:29:02am

re: #148 Dangerman

asinine

I might feel the same way too, if this were Memorial day
Which it aint yet

These people are idiots

We’re talking about a group of people who thinks everything Kamala Harris SAYS is “disrespectful”.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 6:31:53am

re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg

We’re talking about a group of people who thinks everything Kamala Harris SAYS is “disrespectful”.

Politics is about optics, and she isn’t being dragged solely by Republicans. There are a fair number of Democrats and independents there, and a large cohort of veterans and Gold Star Family members.

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Dangerman  May 30, 2021 • 6:36:38am

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Politics is about optics, and she isn’t being dragged solely by Republicans. There are a fair number of Democrats and independents there, and a large cohort of veterans and Gold Star Family members.

I don’t think she put out that second tweet because of the first one
Just imho

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 30, 2021 • 6:40:21am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I made it 20 minutes in, and decided I probably just wasn’t really in the mood for it. Came back to it a few days later and lasted another 9 minutes. I hear the ghost of Casey Kasem over my shoulder saying, “Ponderous, man, fuckin’ ponderous!”

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2021 • 6:42:51am

re: #153 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I made it 20 minutes in, and decided I probably just wasn’t really in the mood for it. Came back to it a few days later and lasted another 9 minutes. I hear the ghost of Casey Kasem over my shoulder saying, “Ponderous, man, fuckin’ ponderous!”

It wasn’t too bad. It’s a Zack Snyder zombie apocalypse BDM, an outright popcorn flick where you can check in your brain at the box office.

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darthstar  May 30, 2021 • 6:45:20am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 6:45:24am

re: #152 Dangerman

I don’t think she put out that second tweet because of the first one
Just imho

They are separated by a day in time, by which time media outlets were on it and had attempted to call the White House for comment (they did not give any comments).

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Belafon  May 30, 2021 • 6:46:19am

Personally, the only people who the first tweet is disrespectful to are the people who don’t get to enjoy the weekend.

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DodgerFan1988  May 30, 2021 • 6:49:46am
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Dangerman  May 30, 2021 • 6:53:40am
NBC News: “Democrats have the power to change those rules but lack the unanimity it’d require of the 50-member caucus. And when the Senate returns from a weeklong Memorial Day recess, Schumer appears ready to test his members.”

“He promised votes on the Paycheck Fairness Act and a bill to protect voting rights — both have viable paths to a majority vote but not 60 to defeat a filibuster. He said LGBTQ rights and gun legislation may also come up

Are you willing to sit by and let the minority dictate your senate career?

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Belafon  May 30, 2021 • 6:53:45am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 30, 2021 • 6:58:49am

re: #159 Dangerman

Would it be considered a failure of Bidens Admin if the Filibuster isn’t killed?

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Dangerman  May 30, 2021 • 6:59:05am

So the Rs blew their big chance to investigate “Antifa” and the Democrat [sic] Party.

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Dangerman  May 30, 2021 • 7:01:53am

re: #161 Eclectic Cyborg

Would it be considered a failure of Bidens Admin if the Filibuster isn’t killed?

I think its too early to guess

It would depend somewhat on how and why it fails; if it ultimately does

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Renaissance_Man  May 30, 2021 • 7:03:27am

re: #161 Eclectic Cyborg

Would it be considered a failure of Bidens Admin if the Filibuster isn’t killed?

It would be a failure if nothing of substance gets done. Republicans have declared their opposition to democracy and the rule of law. Every day, they rewrite the rules to give cover to their fascism. There is only one party in the US government, and if they do nothing to govern or benefit society because it is somehow more important to negotiate with terrorists, then it is a failure.

Any negotiation with Republicans at this point is negotiating with terrorists.

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mmmirele  May 30, 2021 • 7:04:01am

re: #14 mmmirele

I probably should pull out the video of me giving that young man a scolding for stalking me on Wednesday and post it.

Here’s that video:

From that video, I learned that the name of the handler is “Tabor.”

And this is how I know I’m hitting a BUNNNNCH of nerves:

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Belafon  May 30, 2021 • 7:08:34am

Maybe this guy could be the next pope:

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Belafon  May 30, 2021 • 7:10:01am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 7:13:29am

re: #157 Belafon

Personally, the only people who the first tweet is disrespectful to are the people who don’t get to enjoy the weekend.

Price is right losing horn

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Dangerman  May 30, 2021 • 7:13:41am

Time to change the narrative for Manchin.
He says he’s focused on bipartisanship and that the filibuster is important to achieve that.
The bill for the Jan 6 commission *had* bipartisan support. 35 House Rs and six in the Senate.
When was the last time there was that much ” bipartisanship”?

No. The real truth is that mcconnell is using the filibuster to kill any bipartisan legislation.

Time to take a stand for real bipartisanship and vote to reform the filibuster *somehow*

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2021 • 7:20:13am

I’m off to get ready for the Memorial Day gathering at the village cemetery. Catch y’all later.

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Patricia Kayden  May 30, 2021 • 7:21:18am

re: #146 Belafon

I’ve heard that before. That’s hard to believe since hippos don’t live on land.

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Patricia Kayden  May 30, 2021 • 7:22:10am

re: #159 Dangerman

Manchin and Sinema are.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 30, 2021 • 7:31:44am

re: #159 Dangerman

Are you willing to sit by and let the minority dictate your senate career?

And what can Schumer do? It’s not as though he has the 50 votes (plus Harris) needed to limit the filibuster.

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A Cranky One  May 30, 2021 • 7:40:25am

Dog horror movies

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Hecuba's daughter  May 30, 2021 • 7:42:24am

re: #171 Patricia Kayden

I’ve heard that before. That’s hard to believe since hippos don’t live on land.

Hippos apparently spend 16 hours per day in water — which leaves 8 hours for them to commit mayhem. And the number I’ve seen is 500 deaths per year.

Note that dogs, which are not listed in the graphic, kill far more people (25,000) annually — mainly through rabies.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 30, 2021 • 8:02:04am

re: #135 jeffreyw

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Western good morning!

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Dangerman  May 30, 2021 • 8:09:12am

re: #173 Hecuba’s daughter

And what can Schumer do? It’s not as though he has the 50 votes (plus Harris) needed to limit the filibuster.

Its pointed at manchin sinema et al, not Schumer

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Patricia Kayden  May 30, 2021 • 8:12:02am

re: #165 mmmirele

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Dangerman  May 30, 2021 • 8:16:04am

ROME (AP) — The three suspects in Italy’s cable car disaster that killed 14 people were allowed to leave prison Sunday after a judge indicated that most of the blame fell on just one of them: a service technician who intentionally disabled the car’s emergency brake because it kept locking spontaneously.

Judge Donatella Banci Buonamici said there wasn’t sufficient evidence suggesting the owner of the Mottarone cable car company, Luigi Nerini, or the maintenance chief, Enrico Perocchio, knew that the technician had deactivated the brake on several occasions even before the May 23 disaster.

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JOE 🥓  May 30, 2021 • 8:19:11am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m in favour of more holidays.

Memorial Day has been turned into First Day of Summer Day.

Imagine the Christian outrage if Christmas or Easter were made Monday holidays. (Both religious days are federal holidays.)

I can think of 4 right off the top—Jefferson’s Birthday April 13 and Constitution Day September 17th. Then split President’s day back to Lincoln and Washington’s birthdays.

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PhillyPretzel  May 30, 2021 • 8:20:44am

I have been looking all morning for my small flag and I have not been able to find it. I put it away four years ago and heaven knows where it is.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  May 30, 2021 • 8:24:21am

re: #171 Patricia Kayden

I’ve heard that before. That’s hard to believe since hippos don’t live on land.

They come out of the water at night, and travel remarkable distances to forage.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 30, 2021 • 8:26:13am

So I’m watching Tenet and someone really needs to explain this to me. If it’s not wrapped up in 20 minutes that’s when it’ll end) with anything I can understand… I’m baffled.

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JOE 🥓  May 30, 2021 • 8:30:18am

Russian state television complained over the weekend that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the only American lawmaker who supports Russia’s agenda following former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 30, 2021 • 8:30:54am
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JOE 🥓  May 30, 2021 • 8:34:03am

Sleeping soundly last night until 2AM when a Karen and a Karenette started screaming at the gender reveal party across the street. Police called and Karen went on a racist rampage about how she hates colored people…

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John Hughes  May 30, 2021 • 8:35:25am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Imagine the Christian outrage if Christmas or Easter were made Monday holidays.

Uh, lundi de pâques is a “Monday holiday” in France. One of the very few.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 30, 2021 • 8:37:51am

re: #186 JOE 🥓

Who the hell has a gender reveal party at that hour?

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Belafon  May 30, 2021 • 8:43:16am

re: #183 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So I’m watching Tenet and someone really needs to explain this to me. If it’s not wrapped up in 20 minutes that’s when it’ll end) with anything I can understand… I’m baffled.

Click to Reveal

Pay attention to the “temporal pincer maneuver” concept. That’s basically the whole movie.

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Belafon  May 30, 2021 • 8:44:13am

re: #188 Eclectic Cyborg

Who the hell has a gender reveal party at that hour?

Relatives of Texas Republicans.

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steve_davis  May 30, 2021 • 8:56:05am

re: #153 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I made it 20 minutes in, and decided I probably just wasn’t really in the mood for it. Came back to it a few days later and lasted another 9 minutes. I hear the ghost of Casey Kasem over my shoulder saying, “Ponderous, man, fuckin’ ponderous!”

we still talking about army of the dead? I watched the whole thing. Not bad, really. There were some interesting set pieces that made it kind of cool. The zombies have alphas who are smart (sort of a “I am Legend” idea), and both the “queen” and “king” are pretty bad-assed. Also, there’s a zombie tiger, which of course has a walking dead motif behind it. In other words, yes, it is a collection mostly of stuff from other better stuff, but it’s actually not that terrible once you get into the action-which requires 20 minutes or so of throat-clearing.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 30, 2021 • 8:57:51am

re: #189 Belafon

I’m watching it again.

Click to Reveal

It’s like Inception, Edge of Tomorrow and 12 Monkeys all in one.

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JOE 🥓  May 30, 2021 • 8:58:01am

re: #188 Eclectic Cyborg

Who the hell has a gender reveal party at that hour?

answer—typical assholes…

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 30, 2021 • 8:59:00am
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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2021 • 8:59:27am

re: #183 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So I’m watching Tenet and someone really needs to explain this to me. If it’s not wrapped up in 20 minutes that’s when it’ll end) with anything I can understand… I’m baffled.

Spoiler - major spoiler, as I’mma explain the whole damn film, at least as far as I understand it:

Click to Reveal

The older Protagonist is the mastermind, using pawns to attack backward in time to the Soviet mission, while the younger Protagonist moves forward from the opening scene at the opera raid to when Neil tells him of his destiny. The future version of the Protagonist knew how it would all end, so he’s just putting the pieces on the board for when his younger self gets wind of what Sator is plotting. Neil learned what to do in the future and his job was to guide the Protagonist to save the world and then form the Tenet organization, which, of course, is what leads to saving the world in this closed loop.

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Patricia Kayden  May 30, 2021 • 9:07:00am

re: #186 JOE 🥓

When did gender reveal parties become a thing? Never had them growing up but I guess at 52, I’m an old fogey.

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PhillyPretzel  May 30, 2021 • 9:10:53am

re: #196 Patricia Kayden

I am in the same age group as you and until recently I never heard of them. I think they have been around for a few years possibly 2 or 3 years.

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A Cranky One  May 30, 2021 • 9:16:13am

re: #196 Patricia Kayden

When did gender reveal parties become a thing? Never had them growing up but I guess at 52, I’m an old fogey.

You kids today…;-)

I believe it started once it was possible to identify the gender via sonograms and therefore know before the baby is born. So it’s a relatively recent phenomenon.

Why people make such a big deal about it isn’t clear. A part of me believes it’s a way to say “Hey, my kid will have a penis”, as if that’s a big deal.

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danarchy  May 30, 2021 • 9:19:04am

re: #197 PhillyPretzel

I am in the same age group as you and until recently I never heard of them. I think they have been around for a few years possibly 2 or 3 years.

It’s been more than a decade. They started fairly innocuously with a cake that was either blue or pink when you cut into it, and then it somehow became a competition to see who could have the more outrageous reveal.

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jeffreyw  May 30, 2021 • 9:20:20am

re: #183 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So I’m watching Tenet and someone really needs to explain this to me. If it’s not wrapped up in 20 minutes that’s when it’ll end) with anything I can understand… I’m baffled.

It was an interesting arrow of time thought experiment that became a screen play and then the director lost a drunken dare.

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BeachDem  May 30, 2021 • 9:23:44am

re: #199 danarchy

It’s been more than a decade. They started fairly innocuously with a cake that was either blue or pink when you cut into it, and then it somehow became a competition to see who could have the more outrageous reveal.

Jenna Karvunidis is no stranger to this phenomenon. In fact, many credit her as the “inventor” of the gender party reveal. For her, it was through a cake.

“We had a knife and we cut into it all together and we all saw the pink icing at the same time, and found out that we were having a girl,” Karvunidis says.

npr.org

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PhillyPretzel  May 30, 2021 • 9:25:26am

re: #201 BeachDem

That makes sense. And to do it that way is a lot nicer than some of the other things we have heard and seen.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 30, 2021 • 9:25:28am

re: #199 danarchy

It’s been more than a decade. They started fairly innocuously wit a cake that was either blue or pink when you cut into it, and then it somehow became a competition to see who could have the more outrageous reveal.

Like rich people who are throwing their $10,000, $100,000 or $1,000,000 first birthday party, but everyone, rich or poor, tries to one-up everyone else.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 30, 2021 • 9:36:15am

re: #199 danarchy

It’s been more than a decade. They started fairly innocuously with a cake that was either blue or pink when you cut into it, and then it somehow became a competition to see who could have the more outrageous reveal. highest body count/most property damage

ftfy

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gocart mozart  May 30, 2021 • 9:36:59am
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Patricia Kayden  May 30, 2021 • 9:37:32am

re: #204 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Father killed following deadly gender reveal explosion

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gocart mozart  May 30, 2021 • 9:38:20am

It’s 48 degrees and raining in CT. About to break out my winter coat.

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PhillyPretzel  May 30, 2021 • 9:40:24am

re: #207 gocart mozart

Philly is only a little bit warmer and just as wet.
forecast.weather.gov

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plansbandc  May 30, 2021 • 9:44:29am

This is the noise a Shoebill makes. Holy crap.

It’s the stuff of nightmares.

reddit.com

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2021 • 9:46:38am

re: #209 plansbandc

This is the noise a Shoebill makes. Holy crap.

It’s the stuff of nightmares.

reddit.com

“So anyway, I started blasting.”

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gocart mozart  May 30, 2021 • 9:48:26am

Simon instructs Randy Rainbow on proper Yiddish insults

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PhillyPretzel  May 30, 2021 • 9:49:37am

re: #211 gocart mozart

That is a good one. I have to remember that.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 30, 2021 • 9:57:00am
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Eventual Carrion  May 30, 2021 • 9:59:20am

re: #158 DodgerFan1988

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Hell no, they dropped her off here because they were tired of her shit.

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sagehen  May 30, 2021 • 10:09:20am

re: #180 JOE 🥓

I can think of 4 right off the top—Jefferson’s Birthday April 13 and Constitution Day September 17th. Then split President’s day back to Lincoln and Washington’s birthdays.

why do they have to be presidents?

Hamilton and Franklin deserve to be celebrated.

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PhillyPretzel  May 30, 2021 • 10:10:12am

re: #215 sagehen

Yes. Al and Ben deserve to be honored.

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gocart mozart  May 30, 2021 • 10:22:18am
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gocart mozart  May 30, 2021 • 10:29:57am
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gocart mozart  May 30, 2021 • 10:31:41am

Before you applaud Bibi losing office …

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jaunte  May 30, 2021 • 10:32:01am

re: #218 gocart mozart

Patches on a lawyer’s vest: the legal equivalent of brightly colored poisonous insects.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 30, 2021 • 10:32:07am

re: #219 gocart mozart

Before you applaud Bibi losing office …

Well, fuck.

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PhillyPretzel  May 30, 2021 • 10:33:16am

re: #219 gocart mozart

Israel is going from the frying pan directly into the fire. Oy. What a mess.

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jaunte  May 30, 2021 • 10:38:09am
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gocart mozart  May 30, 2021 • 10:41:00am
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KingKenrod  May 30, 2021 • 10:42:00am

re: #218 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

I think this is the first time I’ve seen her out of a leopard suit. I guess she didn’t want to ruin them with all the patches.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 30, 2021 • 10:47:20am

re: #225 KingKenrod

I think this is the first time I’ve seen her out of a leopard suit. I guess she didn’t want to ruin them with all the patches.

she’s taking biker babe fashion advice from Allen West

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 30, 2021 • 10:53:12am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 30, 2021 • 10:56:01am

re: #219 gocart mozart

Before you applaud Bibi losing office …

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Belafon  May 30, 2021 • 11:04:36am

re: #217 gocart mozart

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 30, 2021 • 11:06:08am
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I Would Prefer Not To  May 30, 2021 • 11:09:50am

Listing on IMDB

The Matrix 4 (2021)
Action | Sci-Fi

The plot is currently unknown.*
Director: Lana Wachowski
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Jessica Henwick

*and will continue to be unknown until the end of the Universe.

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jaunte  May 30, 2021 • 11:10:57am
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jaunte  May 30, 2021 • 11:11:27am

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