Dig that left-handed two-string bass.
MonoNeon - “Invisible” music video (directors cut by Kii Arens)
Album link: https://dywanethomasjr.bandcamp.com/album/supermane
How to troll really cool people who happen to live in British Columbia…talking about vaccinations.
Nickelback fans.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 29, 2021
This got hung in the last thread:
re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
20 bodies were found on a boat floating in the Atlantic, and no one knows who they are or how they died (Business Insider, today)
Authorities in the Turks and Caicos Islands are trying to find out what killed 20 people whose bodies were found on a boat floating near Grand Turk island on Thursday.
Fishermen spotted the boat drifting about a mile off Grand Turk last Thursday morning, and they alerted the marine branch of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, the Associated Press reported.
In a Friday press release, the police said that while the “deaths are unexplained, there is no indication of foul play.”
“Work is now underway to establish their identity, the cause of death and the circumstances that led them to be found in the Turks and Caicos Islands waters,” the press release said.
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The police believe the boat came from outside the Caribbean region, and do not believe the Turks and Caicos were its destination.
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This got hung in the last thread:
20 bodies were found on a boat floating in the Atlantic, and no one knows who they are or how they died (Business Insider, today)
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The police believe the boat came from outside the Caribbean region, and do not believe the Turks and Caicos were its destination.
That’s one of the ways the Black Death got to Europe. “Hey, what happened to everybody? Why all the pustules?” and then the fellow who found them had to call in dead to work.
She’s no longer in the House for a good reason. Don’t give assholes like this oxygen, even if it’s only to stir up both sides bullshit.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 29, 2021
Don’t fear the ancient pathogens. Harvest them and find out if they have any benefits or military uses…what could go wrong?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 29, 2021
Okay. Time to make dinner. I’m obviously entering a snarky phase and taking a few minutes off the internet seems appropriate.
Breaking: Maricopa County announces it will not use any of the voting equipment that has been in the hands of Cyber Ninjas again.
County was required under subpoenas to give most of the $6 million in equipment it leases from Dominion to the Senate for the audit. pic.twitter.com/YdpKoNySpV— Jen Fifield (@JenAFifield) June 28, 2021
My condolences to Toyota’s social media team pic.twitter.com/P60yxmlxpr
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) June 28, 2021
Please by all means keep dragging Toyota for funding the Sedition Caucus, but if you want to change things up a little, there are plenty of other companies in the data. https://t.co/EeTI1Hv7Pz pic.twitter.com/QDCOceEA84
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) June 28, 2021
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
Either the Republican party or Cyber Ninjas should be forced to pay for the cost of replacing the equipment. This is ridiculous.
Yeah, he’ll suit up and join in the civil war as soon as he finishes off that second six-pack. https://t.co/O12HRt0wH9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
Next month, Snowbird Power Systems officially launches into action! Comprised of a 5.3 megawatt cogeneration facility—the only of its kind at a ski resort in North America—it will produce up to 100% of the mountain’s energy.
It also recycles the waste heat created from power production to warm our buildings and water rather than use new energy sources. This allows us to save 62,000 dekatherms of natural gas a year—the equivalent of removing the carbon dioxide emissions from burning over 4 million pounds of coal. Stay tuned for more information on how the facility works, coming soon. #PlayForever
It has taken over twenty years, but Congress is finally holding hearings to limit the impact of the toxic Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) on civil rights. Two bills have been introduced in Congress that would carve back RFRA’s destructive reach—the Equality Act and the Do No Harm Act. Both focus on curtailing the capacity of RFRA to promote discrimination against LGBTQ persons, but the Do No Harm Act further limits the harm that RFRA engenders against the vulnerable, including children.I am sincerely concerned about the false RFRA narrative that has taken over both sides of the debate over the Equality and Do No Harm Acts. The proponents of both acts need to restart their arguments by tapping into the true story behind RFRA. They are making unnecessary concessions by whitewashing RFRA’s history, intent, and effect. Despite its title, RFRA did not “restore” actual case law. Rather, it introduced a license to lawlessness.
The false narrative that former President Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election has been dubbed the “Big Lie.” It was an enormous misrepresentation to the American people that has led millions down a rabbit hole. Many ascribe this falsehood to Trump, given his penchant for lying, but they are missing the big picture. His election Big Lie was built on the evangelization of lawlessness that has been operating against the public good since the Moral Majority gained political power. The righteous push for believers to be above the law was sold to Congress and imposed on the American public by RFRA in 1993 and then, after the Court saved us from RFRA in Boerne v. Flores in 1997, again in 2000.
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The Evangelization of Lawlessness: RFRA Was the First ‘Big Lie’ (Center for Inquiry, more at the link)
Good idea. Do not trust those people under any circumstances. https://t.co/R7dcoeqwNS
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
Josh agrees with Charles (I do too):
Seems clear that Youtube got played here, or perhaps had someone operating on the inside. Do they just reinstate the channel or actually come clean about what happened? https://t.co/qNItMNStke
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 28, 2021
there are no words https://t.co/SKHplyKaN2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
— Guns, Ganders, and Goats (@MENA_Conflict) June 29, 2021
now that’s what i call a lede https://t.co/5f1tfjZ2FR pic.twitter.com/Pa0ZEoE8sx
— matthew. (@iAmTheWarax) June 28, 2021
Absolutely, they really should explain what went so wrong that they would permanently suspend a long-standing, well-respected account for such obviously bogus reasons.
But they’ll never come clean, it’s just not how they do.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
re: #4 darthstar
He can’t be serious with this shit. When she went off the fucking rails, she paid a price politically. It didn’t happen overnight, but her transfer into batshittery didn’t happen overnight either. Georgia Democrats have their flaws to be sure, but being total antisemitic assholes raging over conspiracy theories and taking pride in it? No. There’s the difference, when a Democrat goes off the rails completely like McKinney has they usually aren’t Democrats for a lot longer. She wants attention and she believes what she’s running her mouth about, just, no. I really thought she had gone away. Looking at her Wikipedia page, it seems she is a PhD and is teaching at a Bangladesh university? Ok then….
This world is too weird.
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the movies this kind of thing always ends badly for humanity.
Perhaps that’s a bit callous of me given people died.
But still, mass mysterious deaths are the things of nightmares.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
And Katie Hobbs paid the price.
In Arizona, G.O.P. Lawmakers Strip Power From a Democrat (New York Times)
The State Legislature shifted legal authority from the secretary of state to a Republican attorney general, and enacted election measures it said would stop fraud.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled State Legislature in Arizona voted Thursday to revoke the Democratic secretary of state’s legal authority in election-related lawsuits, handing that power instead to the Republican attorney general.
The move added more discord to the politics of a state already roiled by the widely derided move by Senate Republicans to commission a private firm to recount the vote six months after the November election. And it was the latest in a long series of moves in recent years by Republicans to strip elected Democrats of money and power in states under G.O.P. control.
The measure was part of a grab bag of proposals inserted into major budget legislation, including several actions that appeared to address conspiracy theories alleging manipulated elections that some Republican lawmakers have promoted. One of the items allotted $500,000 for a study of whether social media sites tried to interfere in state elections by promoting Democrats or censoring Republicans.
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re: #11 teleskiguy
That is seriously amazing and awesome. 😎
You’re on pal. #GoBolts https://t.co/jOhA7IB2bE
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 29, 2021
The fluidity of sheep herding
Drone photographer Lior Patel followed a herd of sheep for several months, as the herd was shepherded to its summer pasture. Entrancing and relaxing. pic.twitter.com/2VyAFtwYnZ
— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) June 26, 2021
Follow Lior @LiorPt or on Instagram https://t.co/c85YhxwXH2
— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) June 28, 2021
re: #15 Charles Johnson
Charles, just checking that I did my subscription properly. I got the runaround from PayPal ( I used to have an account w/them long ago) and I was starting to get flustered.
I have to thank our governor for making this possible.I got an unexpected check last week, so thank you Governor Newsom
And thanks to you Charles for maintaining one of the best reads (and music suggestions) on the web.
Apparently, cranes have been known to bring the hurt to gators, which isn’t surprising because they’re predator birds.
Those cranes are absolutely gonna stab the shit out of that lil’ gator once they get off the roadway.
Watching them skewer gophers in Golden Gate Park is a fun family introduction to The Glorious and Cruel World of Nature.— Chris Labarthe (@chris_labarthe) June 29, 2021
re: #25 nicdanger
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re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
This stuff is getting sadder and more dangerous. It only takes a small number of people to do some serious physical harm to others. That’s the thing that really worries me. They want a fair portion of their fellow Americans to die, and would love to make it happen. They hate us, like with every fiber or their being. Because of shit they made up. That has nothing to do with reality. All it takes is a couple of determined “patriots” and lots of people get hurt. Because of shit they made up. I can’t say that last sentence enough.
This man is a sitting member of Congress. How is this okay? @GOPLeader https://t.co/F4F9yxEj9O
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 29, 2021
There was supposed to be a fireworks show on the Detroit River. I logged in to watch online but it got rained out.
“If we don’t stop these kinds of efforts now, what we are going to see is more and more contested elections … in terms of who wins, who loses. We are going to see a further delegitimizing of our democracy,” former President Barack Obama said https://t.co/jYn5XEkLkB
— CNN (@CNN) June 29, 2021
I’ve been paying retail. https://t.co/PwHoU1XvOW
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 29, 2021
When a dog looks like your cranky Aunty Doris
“Is she wearing mustard culottes? With that arse?” pic.twitter.com/CMkwfBrvwI— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) June 29, 2021
Why Does the Yukon Delta Always Look So Trippy?
The Alaskan delta, one of the world’s largest, is a ‘mosaic’ environment best visualized with a psychedelic palette.
atlasobscura.com
4.1 earthquake in Castro Valley. I felt the house wiggle 20 miles away.
????
Oliver Stone’s son is involved with QAnon?
OK. Let’s start setting the stage. I’ve mentioned MICHAEL AQUINO who was a LITERAL Satanic pedophile with hardcore military PSYOPs training.
INTERVIEWING him is another key figure connected to QAnon, Sean Stone, son of Oliver, servant of Putin. https://t.co/i3wH7KmWI2 pic.twitter.com/seacMVxx2M— Jim Stewartson, QAnon Eliminator, #RIPQ 🇺🇸🏴☠️ (@jimstewartson) October 14, 2020
re: #36 Dread Pirate Ron
Felt it too. A couple of seconds of rocking.
re: #38 JOE 🥓
This world is seriously too weird.
lol
Actually although to keep with artistic convention they appear to be in line, battles of this time were unlikely to be fought in a line formation, as evidenced by the mob behind. So your front line characterization isn’t correct as I will endeavor to explain. 1/347
— Clay Hale (@ClayHale7) June 29, 2021
Does Plato count as fascism? The Republic was certainly authoritarian.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) June 28, 2021
re: #42 gocart mozart
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OMG! I had totally forgotten about this show. Cheezy as hell.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And Katie Hobbs paid the price.
In Arizona, G.O.P. Lawmakers Strip Power From a Democrat (New York Times)
The State Legislature shifted legal authority from the secretary of state to a Republican attorney general, and enacted election measures it said would stop fraud.
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expires when her term expires.
crass craven and obvious.
if this is allowed to stand, democracy is effectively dead.
I don’t know what the solution is.
Tropical Storm #Danny Advisory 2A: Danny Makes Landfall Just North of Hilton Head On Pritchards Island South Carolina. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) June 28, 2021
re: #44 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
OMG! I had totally forgotten about this show. Cheezy as hell.
Two more Catholic churches burned down in indigenous communities in western Canada early on Saturday.
The fires at St Ann’s Church and the Chopaka Church began within an hour of each other in British Columbia.
Officers said both buildings were completely destroyed, and they were treating the fires as “suspicious”.
Last Monday two other Catholic churches in the province were destroyed in fires, as Canada marked National Indigenous People’s Day.
re: #44 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
OMG! I had totally forgotten about this show. Cheezy as hell.
I loved it. Stupid as all get out and horrific science but as you said cheesy fun. Great camp value.
Hot spot in Canada: 45.2 °C 113.4 °F Ashcroft, BC
Cold spot in Canada: -0.3 °C 31.5 °F Akulivik Airport, QC
Today is the 107th anniversary of this:
It’s a beautiful day in Sarajevo, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives with his wife Sophie by train. They are about to be driven through Sarajevo, inspecting various military installations along the way. Security for the visit is limited, to not offend the locals. pic.twitter.com/8PZEUWTMiX
— World War I as it happened (1914) (@WarHappened) June 28, 2021
The five day tropical outlook has the tropical wave which has been trucking along in the Atlantic becoming a threat to the Greater Antilles within five days.
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It is 29°C in Whitehorse, Yukon right now, while it’s 20°C here in the Old West.
re: #52 Belafon
Today is the 107th anniversary of this:
The start of the war that would, arguably, not end until November 9, 1989…
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Reporters need to mock the living fuck out of people like this…”Oh, like you’re going to drag your fat ass into battle against the United States, Mr. Patriot? Get the fuck out of my media space.”
Video of the second mudslide to close Interstate 70 this weekend. This was yesterday. I drive that road almost every day.
Today’s moderate and moderate left Democrat is the 1950s’ Eisenhower Repubican.
re: #57 teleskiguy
Update: The highway just fully reopened.
re: #57 teleskiguy
Video of the second mudslide to close Interstate 70 this weekend. This was yesterday. I drive that road almost every day.
😥Closed to non-Facebook members.
However in the interest of helping those out who either never joined or #DeleteFacebook I’ll provide a clip from ABC Denver (2:32) via YouTube.
re: #52 Belafon
Today is the 107th anniversary of this:
There was an Australian absurd headline contest. The winner was
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive: World War 1 Fought By Mistake
re: #48 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Yeah, That’s another one. My oh my, the vehicle looks awfully familiar. :-)
Another cheesy, but fun movie. Beware the Cockroaches hiding in the seat.
And with that, I bid you all a good night.
On this day:
1389: The Ottoman Empire defeats the Kingdom of Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo, opening up the invasion of the Balkans.
1846: The saxophone is patented by Antoine-Joseph “Adolfe” Sax
1919: Treaty of Versailles signed, ending WW1
1960: The Valdivia Earthquake (The Great Chilean Earthquake, Magnitude 9.5)
earthquake.usgs.gov
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, the earthquake was in May not June, so scratch that off the list.
re: #62 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Yeah, That’s another one. My oh my, the vehicle looks awfully familiar. :-)
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Another cheesy, but fun movie. Beware the Cockroaches hiding in the seat.
And with that, I bid you all a good night.
re: #62 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Yeah, That’s another one. My oh my, the vehicle looks awfully familiar. :-)
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Another cheesy, but fun movie. Beware the Cockroaches hiding in the seat.
And with that, I bid you all a good night.
God I loved that movie…shitty acting, bad special effects, thin plot…but self-changing tires.
re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
😥Closed to non-Facebook members.
I’m logged out of FB and it works fine for me.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
Famous Internet cat Maru has a swing in his house. There are two other cats in the house, but he’s the only one who actually climbs on the swing per the videos. I do not know if mugumogu, Maru’s caretaker, actually pushes him on it, but there is video of him sliding down a hill on a sled, several times, so he’d probably be up for it.
re: #44 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The pilot is available on Internet Archives: archive.org
Low quality versions of the episodes can be found on Youtube and Dailymotion.
re: #67 teleskiguy
I’m logged out of FB and it works fine for me.
It sends me straight to the login page.
Another “D” storm before July 1st and another system strengthening before landfall. We just played this song last year… pic.twitter.com/XV4TVB9vgu
— Jim Cantore (@JimCantore) June 28, 2021
Holy stream of Derp, Batman! (0:29)
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! https://t.co/sKOnP30ZiI
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 28, 2021
Chakras can be broken with Skittles.
Much more dumb from Spirit Science, taken apart by Sir Sic (religion counter-apologist, caution for coarse language, 17:51)
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Oops, Clipboard hates me. Fixed link above.
So you would definitely lose without gerrymandering…that’s what you’re saying…
— Matt Burns (@FreezyBurns) June 25, 2021
Too many older white people think that if they can’t define America like they want, then they don’t want America
— Thomas E. Ricks (@tomricks1) June 27, 2021
Same energy… pic.twitter.com/eX1a0gXZhG
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) June 29, 2021
For reference, this is the same language Republicans used for the Benghazi commission. https://t.co/o47jriwAsj
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 28, 2021
re: #75 Ace-o-aces
Interesting that he is having an event that is 60 miles from his district. Hey Dan, what have you done for TX-02?
— Doug Castle (@castle_doug) June 26, 2021
re: #76 JOE 🥓
It’s not just the old.
It never is.
If it was their hate would die out and that is never the case.— Bil (@BilFromTheBarn) June 28, 2021
I had missed these earlier yesterday (the 28th):
John Cole’s Rosie died (he had her put to sleep after a couple months of suffering): balloon-juice.com
As did Tamara’s Bixby: balloon-juice.com
re: #78 Dread Pirate Ron
A very successful model. It succeeded in destroying Hillary’s reputation, even though she proved unflappable during the interminable interrogations. Hopefully Pelosi can destroy the entire Republican Party through her commission.
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s not entirely true. The number of Right Wing asshats in the US is decreasing slowly over time, just slower than “the old people dying off” would cause.
Eventually the hate will die off. It’s whether or not we have a country or world left by them is the issue.
Calling IT because our work system is down and the guys says “Samantha is a really feminine name for a guy”
“Your dad seemed to like my name a lot last night”
He hung up immediately and I’ve been laughing ever since.— Samantha (@itssamanthaaaa_) June 28, 2021
North America continues to become more free.
Mexico: Top court strikes down ban on recreational marijuana use (Deutsche Welle)
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a ban on recreational marijuana use is unconstitutional, nullifying parts of the country’s general health law.
The decision was approved by eight of the court’s 11 judges. Court president Arturo Zaldivar said it “is a historic day for liberties.”
What does the ruling mean?Mexicans who want to smoke marijuana recreationally or grow a number of pot plants for private use will now be able to apply for a permit from the government.
Marijuana users must be adult age and are not allowed to do any risky activities, such as driving, while under the influence. Marijuana use in front of children is also prohibited.
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So all of Canada, and all of Mexico. Close to home, Colorado and South Dakota (though SD is using state tax money to fight the law in state court using a straw sheriff to overturn an overwhelming Yes vote on a referendum in the last election).
Gov. Pete “Reefer Madness” Ricketts still fear-mongers over the issue here.
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Her pinned tweet thread is funny:
My Neighbhour asks how my brother is every time I see her, I don’t have a brother she’s talking about me pre- transition, this has been going on for years so I just make up wild stories and she just eats it up every time
I can’t tell her now, I think she would have a stroke.— Samantha (@itssamanthaaaa_) April 23, 2021
re: #87 Belafon
Her pinned tweet thread is funny:
That is hilarious!
Yes! Drama, intrigue, humor, these are “the days of her lies”
Most people who say “Music used to be better,” are really saying “It felt good being young.”
— Dan Wilson (@DanWilsonMusic) June 28, 2021
re: #89 Belafon
The ragtime threat (Seattle Weekly, October 9, 2006)
A century before Littleton, social critics blamed a popular music form for inciting violence.
BLAMING MUSIC FOR social ills— especially violence—is nothing new. As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to general dissatisfaction with life. Witness this 1914 editorial (quoted in Edward Berlin’s excellent book Ragtime): “Let us take a united stand against the Ragtime Evil as we would against bad literature, and horrors of war or intemperance and other socially destructive evils… . Avaunt with ragtime rot! Let us purge America and the Divine Art of Music from this polluting nuisance.”
Now I don’t know about you, but when I think of ragtime, I think of jaunty piano music. So why were people so scared? Good question.
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Folks don’t just object to more modern music as “stuff they don’t like” or “music was better in my day.” Hip-hop gets compared to “thugs,” Rock-n-Roll launched a decade or more of “Satanic panic” and destroying the morals of our children, we don’t even need to get into the irrational hatred of Disco largely driven by racism and homophobia, &c.
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
An Oklahoma Republican politician ran on an anti-Disco platform saying it was “corrupting our youth” for the state Senate (meaning white girls were mixing with ni*CLANGS and gays).
The most overt example was Twisted Sister, where at concerts they used to hang in effigy Barry White while smashing Disco records.
When a club owner in upstate New York explained to guitarist Jay Jay French “you hung a ni*CLANG, they love that around here,” Dee Snider said they couldn’t be racists because they had a Latino member and a Black former drummer. They immediately changed their act to a simulated electric chair executing an effigy of white Disco singer Andrea True.
When a loudmouthed DJ tried to kill disco, the homophobic and racist implications were impossible to ignore (Timeline. February 15, 2018)
It was black music. It was gay music. And the “disco sucks” movement said, “burn, baby, burn”
(6:18, Andrea True Connection)
Rolling Stone also called out the overt racism and homophobia of the “Disco Sucks” movement.
Kinzinger? Cheney?
— Karen Leavitt is Vaccinated (@kleavitt) June 28, 2021
This is 76 yr old Gwen Levy who was returned to prison for not answering a call from her federal probation officer while in this computer class. They told her lawyer, “because she could have been robbing a bank, [we’re] going to treat her as if she was robbing a bank.” pic.twitter.com/sJvo9I5fVo
— Dyjuan Tatro (@DyjuanTatro) June 27, 2021
New York spends $680 million a yr unjustly imprisoning ppl for technical violations like marijuana use or missing a curfew. 4,000 ppl are currently sitting in prison as a result of this injustice. The legislature has passed #LessIsMoreNY to fix it. Tell @NYGovCuomo to sign it.
— Dyjuan Tatro (@DyjuanTatro) June 28, 2021
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I have this LP.
The Pointer Sisters—“I’m So Excited” (5:36)
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I thought the Pointer Sisters also did a real good cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Hypnotized”.
Mac’s version is pretty good as well IMO. (Pre-Buckingham/Nicks with Bob Welch as lead guitar and vocals. )
There are intel analysts who closely watch the media from countries who are our foes. They’d likely tell you Russia is having a field day with @TuckerCarlson (and others of his ilk). Thanks @JuliaDavisNews for keeping us informed with unclassified - and sickening - reports. https://t.co/JuDK9FsSJO
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) June 29, 2021
re: #5 darthstar
Don’t fear the ancient pathogens. Harvest them and find out if they have any benefits or military uses…what could go wrong?
Just make sure your lab is leak-proof!
re: #32 The Pie Overlord!
“If we don’t stop these kinds of efforts now, what we are going to see is more and more contested elections … in terms of who wins, who loses. We are going to see a further delegitimizing of our democracy,” former President Barack Obama said
We can pretty much take it as a given that almost every GOP-controlled state that votes for the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2024 will have its results contested or disqualified.
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a warning over this in the contested election of Sen. Al Franken.
re: #65 Grunthos the Flatulent
I hung out with a bunch of guys who were big into anything British that had not made it in the USA, including Hawkwind, pre-Dark SIde of the Moon Pink Floyd, Slade, Barclay James Harvest, Lyndisfarne, Gentle Giant, early Genesis, etc…
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There was a warning over this in the contested election of Sen. Al Franken.
I though he had been “neutralized”…
Although Rebecca Black was dragged terribly over the song “Friday” and it was thought she would forever fade into obscurity, it turns out that you can’t keep a decent singer down.
She has a new single out … she’s been recording all this time and has a quiet fan base.
(3:07, “Worth It for the Feeling”)
LINCOLN — They’ve been cursed at, threatened and spat upon, but after 30 years, a group of anti-death penalty activists still holds monthly vigils on the lawn of the Nebraska governor’s residence.The Monday noon vigils began in July 1991 as the state was preparing to resume executions. Efforts were then underway to execute Harold Lamont “Walkin’ Wili” Otey. His execution in 1995 was the first use of the state’s electric chair since mass murderer Charles Starkweather was sent to his death in 1959.
About 25 protesters gathered along the sidewalk Monday, quietly chatting and holding signs that said “There is no Killing in the Name of Justice” and “Why Kill to Show Killing is Wrong?” Among them were four of the original vigil participants, including Fran Kaye, a retired University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor and volunteer at the State Penitentiary who is credited with keeping the silent vigil going.
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Lincoln anti-death penalty vigil marks 30 years; ‘We thought we’d be done with it sooner’ (Omaha World-Herald)
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
An improvement over Friday in any case.
re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Lincoln anti-death penalty vigil marks 30 years; ‘We thought we’d be done with it sooner’ (Omaha World-Herald)
Let’s go spit on the death-penalty protesters before we head down to boycott the Planned Parenthood clinic!!!
X-Files just mentioned the mane of an old song. Now I have an ear worm. It has been 3-4 decades since I heard it last.
re: #110 Dread Pirate Ron
X-Files just mentioned the mane of an old song. Now I have an ear worm. It has been 3-4 decades since I heard it last.
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a British band that had never been near Chicago
wiki:
“Paper Lace sent the song to the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, who greatly disliked it. A member of Daley’s staff is quoted as saying that Paper Lace should “jump in the Chicago River, placing your heads under water three times and surfacing twice. Pray tell us, are you nuts?”
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a British band that had never been near Chicago
but it was a catchy tune.
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
An improvement over Friday in any case.
“Friday” might not have been a terribly good song, but as a teenager Ms. Black started getting worldwide humiliation and a fair number of death threats over the song. (I can’t think of any song so horrible the artist deserves death threats.)
I’m off to bed … it’s getting cold with no heater in the house (11°Commie, or 52°Murican).
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Friday” might not have been a terribly good song, but as a teenager Ms. Black started getting worldwide humiliation and a fair number of death threats over the song. (I can’t think of any song so horrible the artist deserves death threats.)
The Internet is a sick place.
The song was laughably bad and memorable only for being one of the first big viral sensations.
My wife got a cell phone finally and cancelled our land line. She got a 5G phone I got a new battery for my old i-phone 6. We’ll be switching over the internet for the house to 5G in August, take advantage of our Covid vaccine bio-chips. We’ll finally be free of the crappy AT&T wiring in the neighborhood. 25 years of losing my internet/phone line every time it rains or a technician touches the cable working on somebody else’s problem. Luckily most of those 25 years have been drought years, heh.
Tropical Storm Danny has been downgraded to a remnant low. The storm is expected to move across north Georgia and Alabama today.
Pacific Hurricane Enrique has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm as it approaches Cabo San Lucas.
Due to the unusual weather pattern over the western United States, Enrique is expected to make landfall in Baja California Sur near Cabo San Lucas, travel up the peninsula, then turn west over the Pacific Ocean rather than toward Arizona and New Mexico.
re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Titter Egg Glad Hog et the Brood Sticks?
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“I am happy” and the second part is “Bride”.
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The ocean off of San Diego is the graveyard of tropical storms. If they get this far north, the cold water just dissipates them quickly.
That’s why California has never been hit by a tropical storm (at least as long as humans have been here.)
re: #122 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The ocean off of San Diego is the graveyard of tropical storms. If they get this far north, the cold water just dissipates them quickly.
That’s why California has never been hit by a tropical storm (at least as long as humans have been here.)
That is why God gave them earthquakes…
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We will have a slight chance of rain, though. The southerly flow that accompanies the tropical storm will bring mid level moisture to the mountains and a few thunderstorms may develop. On rare occasion such storms can drift west and sprinkle on us a bit.
Puerto Rico to receive nearly $4B in US pandemic funds https://t.co/F7YoU1CElD
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 28, 2021
re: #122 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The ocean off of San Diego is the graveyard of tropical storms. If they get this far north, the cold water just dissipates them quickly.
That’s why California has never been hit by a tropical storm (at least as long as humans have been here.)
List of California Hurricanes (Wikipedia)
Since 1850, seven storms have hit California. Usually California is only hit by the remnants of storms.
1858 San Diego Hurricane, a direct strike from sea which caused considerable damage.
1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm, another direct strike from sea; it had been downgraded from a hurricane as it approached.
The other storms were remnant storms in the Sixties, Seventies, and Nineties (Tropical Storm Nora, which entered California from the Arizona desert was the last ).
When we lived in Ponca City, Oklahoma, we were hit by Hurricane Erin.
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Earthquakes and storms! And now brushfires!!!
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In reading up on why Erin intensified from a tropical depression landfalling in Texas to a hurricane in Oklahoma (several of the dead drowned in their basements when sheltering from tornadoes), it seems the National Weather Service has identified what it calls the “brown ocean effect.” Since 1979, forty-five storms have maintained strength or intensified over land.
The National Hurricane Center says there must be a few things in play over land for this effect: the air over land must be stable similar to that over water, the soil needs to be saturated with water prior to the storm’s arrival, and latent heat in the soil causes sufficient evaporation to maintain or increase the intensity of a tropical storm as if it was over water.
Those conditions existed over Oklahoma for Erin, causing it to rapidly intensify into a hurricane over land. (I was not happy, having only recently arrived from South Carolina and thinking I was done with tropical storms.)
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Earthquakes and storms! And now brushfires!!!
Last year more than 4 million acres (6250 sq. mi.) in California burned. 2021 is already ahead of 2020 in fires reported at this time of year. Higher vigilance has led to less acres burned. Fire locating camera systems have been set up around the state for early detection.
Listening to the fire ground radio just after the collapse of Champlain Towers South. Chilling. “Almost looks like the trade center”. That shook me. And one thing you don’t want to hear in this context is “MCI”, especially repeated over and over…
Viewer/listener caution is strongly fucking advised. Runtime 03:09:32.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
They’ve proven that they can be violent so I wouldn’t say that we won’t have more violence if they don’t get what they want. January 6th showed who they are and what they are capable of.
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Note that the “San Diego hurricane” did not make landfall. Instead, as it was out to sea, the eastern side wind and rain bands is what affected the coast.
AFAIK, no hurricane has made landfall in human records, in California.
So I get an email from google telling me my google take-out is ready. Allegedly I requested it yesterday.
But I did not request it yesterday.
So I’ve had to go through the mess of changing my google password.
I wonder who requested it? No one else has my password.
Anyway, I only keep stuff on google drive that I can share with other people.
Articles on vaccine hesitancy in the Russian Federation.
thelancet.com
bloomberg.com
Results of state resources promoting anti-vaxx, CoViD-“skepticism”, and conspiracy theories… I know the Russian Federation is not the only ones doing this, but I wonder how long it will take for any people in power to realize (and if they realize) that in todays global information society, the results any such actions taken by special services will leak back into the own population, which is a serious risk for issues where lacking significant anchoring in reality causes danger.
You are not alone in the universe but none of the cool aliens want to hang out with you.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 28, 2021
After a man survived a great white shark attack off a beach south of San Francisco, a drone photographer came forward with footage showing a possible great white swimming near the same beach earlier this month. https://t.co/ofxY9QdpPz pic.twitter.com/K2deQHLvfg
— ABC News (@ABC) June 29, 2021
re: #131 Patricia Kayden
They’ve proven that they can be violent so I wouldn’t say that we won’t have more violence if they don’t get what they want. January 6th showed who they are and what they are capable of.
They are not going to repeat the “mistakes” they made last time…
Today’s best joke: 🤣
Q: “Where do all the socks go from the washing machine?”
A: “They are reborn in the kitchen drawer as odd lids that do not fit with anything …”
They’re riding, but not racing
Word is they’re going to slow ride 5-10K after a brief halt at the 0 K line,
Protesting roads/route selection which is felt to have contributed to massive crashes in the last few K’s run to the finish the last two stages
After stopping, the riders set off again and the race continues.
Après avoir mis le pied à terre, le peloton est reparti. #TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/Qwtdevsuf2— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) June 29, 2021
re: #140 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I need one of those little frying pans, that was apparently used for that egg
re: #50 William Lewis
I loved it. Stupid as all get out and horrific science but as you said cheesy fun. Great camp value.
Andy Griffith was such a great actor. His very first role, Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd, is iconic, one of the greatest portrayals in film history. The movie itself is uncannily prophetic.
One critic who had only praise for the movie was François Truffaut; in his Cahiers du cinéma review, he called it “a great and beautiful work whose importance transcends the dimensions of a cinema review”. Filmmaker Spike Lee credited it with inspiring his landmark film Bamboozled.
re: #142 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I need one of those little frying pans, that was apparently used for that egg
Nope. One of these.
And truth be known, If I hadn’t use one, that egg would have been a mess. :-)
re: #24 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The fluidity of sheep herding
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This is so cool, namely because it is one of the only times when “sheperding” is literally what’s going on. Normally it’s just a metaphor.
re: #35 retired cynic
Why Does the Yukon Delta Always Look So Trippy?
The Alaskan delta, one of the world’s largest, is a ‘mosaic’ environment best visualized with a psychedelic palette.
atlasobscura.com
“My god…..it’s full of stars.”
re: #136 Dangerman
Wasn’t it Carl Sagan that speculated that aliens may have long known of us, ‘cept we are in quarantine for obivous reasons?
Tucker claims the NSA is spying on him pic.twitter.com/SZVO3NLaxB
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 29, 2021
pretty sure the nsa doesnt do domestic
so if true, what foreigners has old Tuck been talking to?
then again, didnt he argue in a lawsuit that nobody should believe him and stuff he says on the air?
re: #142 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I need one of those little frying pans, that was apparently used for that egg
i love when they have an egg handle
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Holy stream of Derp, Batman! (0:29)
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I made it through the first few seconds, until he couldn’t figure out what was going on in the McDonald’s. Does he talk in the “other person” voice through most of this? And in other news, I didn’t put the child gate up firmly enough, and Jesse has made it through and is now undoubtedly taking a day out under the semi trailer that is on concrete blocks out in the parking lot. Well, fuck it. Cat, enjoy your wet day ‘cause I’m not fucking wandering out there to sweet-talk you back in.
Milestones reached at coronavirus.jhu.edu: U.S. Covid deaths over the last week dropped below 2k, and below 10k for the last month. The pandemic is far from over.
re: #150 Dangerman
so he tells us the only source for those texts are Tucker’s e-mails…and there is nobody at Fox, say a disgruntled employee or unpaid intern who might want to leak them?
re: #149 steve_davis
it’s weird that I vividly remember Shazam! but don’t really remember this.
Well, it was only fifteen 30-minute episodes that were broadcast mid-Sep to mid-Dec 1976
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Holy stream of Derp, Batman! (0:29)
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Ladies and gentlemen, here is your GOP Presidential nominee for 2028, if he hasn’t o’ded by then.
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Holy stream of Derp, Batman! (0:29)
Jeez, I assume he was just bent over some lines on those bathroom countertops…
re: #150 Dangerman
pretty sure the nsa doesnt do domestic
so if true, what foreigners has old Tuck been talking to?
then again, didnt he argue in a lawsuit that nobody should believe him and stuff he says on the air?
Ahem. LoL.
re: #156 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Well, it was only fifteen 30-minute episodes that were broadcast mid-Sep to mid-Dec 1976
My vague memory of them is that they were bad versions of the already bad TV version of Logan’s Run.
oh so sad: Trump’s July 4th Rally Cancelled
“Plans for former President Donald Trump to return July 4th weekend to the city many credited with lending legitimacy to his 2016 campaign after USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park commissioners reportedly did not sign off on a plan for Trump to hold a rally at the Mobile site,” al.com reports.
“The commissioners were concerned that Trump’s appearance on Saturday ‘was going to be a partisan political event, rather than just a patriotic event planned for that evening.’”
re: #140 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And a Southern Idaho Good Morning to you Lizards.
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Stick all that into a split muffin! Needs cheese.
re: #154 No Malarkey!
Milestones reached at coronavirus.jhu.edu: U.S. Covid deaths over the last week dropped below 2k, and below 10k for the last month. The pandemic is far from over.
depends on who you ask
A new Gallup poll finds that only 29% of Americans say that the Covid-19 pandemic is over in the US, with 57% of Republicans saying it is, 35% of independents, and 4% of Democrats agreeing.
re: #150 Dangerman
pretty sure the nsa doesnt do domestic
so if true, what foreigners has old Tuck been talking to?
then again, didnt he argue in a lawsuit that nobody should believe him and stuff he says on the air?
His/FOX lawyers argued it. I don’t believe he attended.
NSA is allowed to collect transmissions domestically.
re: #163 Dangerman
depends on who you ask
Well, if a majority of Republicans agree, then that’s settled, because WE ARE A REPUBLIC!!!!
re: #162 jeffreyw
Stick all that into a split muffin! Needs cheese.
Didn’t have any muffins OR croissants on hand. :-(
re: #156 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Well, it was only fifteen 30-minute episodes that were broadcast mid-Sep to mid-Dec 1976
ah! See, wiki claims this ran for three seasons. I was like, “wait, I can remember pretty much every Dukes of Hazzard episode, but I have zero memory of this?”
re: #160 William Lewis
My vague memory of them is that they were bad versions of the already bad TV version of Logan’s Run.
See, I vividly remember the bad tv version of Logan’s Run. Some of what I remember but can’t find is because it was embedded in other stuff, like all the cool things that ran in the Banana Splits episodes.
re: #96 Dread Pirate Ron
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My remembrance from the article is she didn’t answer the phone for 3 hours. Pro tip: your own probation, and people are monitoring where you are. Answer the damned phone.
Meanwhile, here in Czech Republic, a manhunt is underway for a nutburger in Prague who shot and killed and office at the Labor Office - and is the prime suspect in an acid attack last week.
A woman died after a shooting in Bělehradská St. in Prague on Tuesday morning. The woman, who is 50, succumbed to her injuries several hours after a man opened fire at an Office of Labour.
Police launched a massive hunt for the man, described as dangerous, with helicopters seen circling parts of the city. The 60-year-old is also suspected of being behind an acid attack on another woman in the Central Bohemia region last week.
The suspect is 66 years old and the ongoing manhunt has closed down part of Prague. BTW, he also booby-trapped an apartment he lived in and damn near killed a police officer who’d come to check it out after last week’s acid attack.
re: #164 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
His/FOX lawyers argued it. I don’t believe he attended.
NSA is allowed to collect transmissions domestically.
Its early/no coffee
Tucker is making serious accusations with no proof and is basing corroboration on a story he allegedly is working on that none of us know about.
Maybe his comms were picked up. We know DOJ collected comms of journos during Obama and Trump presidencies. pic.twitter.com/JQCYuURNpt— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) June 29, 2021
It’s a funny thing to be able to link your cell phone to someone else’s phone so that you can track them in realtime on google maps. Especially when she’s coming to visit you… Not something I’d have believed, oh, say 40 years ago when she and I met. Modern tech/social media has it’s pluses and minuses but right now I’m rather more fond of it than some other times.
Later folks!
Police in Prague have the shooting suspect referenced in my #170 in custody.
re: #174 Dr Lizardo
Video of the arrest, from FB: looks like they arrested him outside a tobacconist. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if he popped in to buy a pack of smokes or something.
re: #175 Dr Lizardo
Video of the arrest, from FB: looks like they arrested him outside a tobacconist. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if he popped in to buy a pack of smokes or something.
He wanted to invite the clerk to come around to his place and make bouncy-bouncy…
newsbusters gimbus really upset that Psaki points out that every Republican voted against additional police funding. Gimbus cleanup on aisle 9! https://t.co/7whxlhk5xE
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 28, 2021
My my Mr. Deep Xtian Faith Mastriano lied about what he did on January 6th!
quelle surprise…
PA state Sen. Doug Mastriano’s staff asked CP to retract our coverage of him at Jan 6 insurrection (we were one of the first), citing he didn’t actually enter the Capitol grounds, and now videos contradict those claims. Via @HuffPost https://t.co/6gYkJU6sLF
— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) June 28, 2021
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I know exactly where that place is, too - it’s on Palackého street; I recognized it immediately. The print shop (AK Repro) next to it, that’s where I’ve had business cards made…some of the best prices in Prague.
re: #178 JOE 🥓
My my Mr. Deep Xtian Faith Mastriano lied about what he did on January 6th!
quelle surprise…
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Sandra Weyer of Pennsylvania reportedly went to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 on a bus organized by GOP state Sen. Doug Mastriano’s campaign
A Pennsylvania woman accused of filming an attack on a New York Times photojournalist inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and screaming at the assailants to spray the photographer with mace was arrested Monday in Mechanicsburg.
Sandra S. Weyer, also known as Sandy Pomeroy Weyer, recorded several men assaulting the photographer, who can be heard screaming in the video, according to an FBI affidavit, which did not name the victim. As the photographer got up, approached her assailants and tried to retrieve her backpack, Weyer allegedly yelled, “Fucking traitor, get the fuck out!” and “Get her out! Mace her!”
re: #177 Belafon
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Cruz posted this and was most wonderfully dragged
Brazen gaslighting. https://t.co/punJWd9gRT
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 28, 2021
In all seriousness, anyone who cares about this person, even a little bit, needs to hold an intervention now. Politics aside, He is in trouble. pic.twitter.com/7tTrCAjhBK
— Southern Sister Resister - Wordsmith #IAmTheStorm (@ResisterSis20) June 28, 2021
Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed this damage in garage
There was nothing unusual about the lobby and pool area at Champlain Towers South condo, which looked clean and well maintained to a commercial pool contractor who visited the building last Tuesday, just 36 hours before half of the building unexpectedly collapsed. Then, he saw the basement-level garage.
“There was standing water all over the parking garage,” the contractor, who asked not to be named, told the Miami Herald. He noted cracking concrete and severely corroded rebar under the pool.
He also took photos, which he shared with the Herald
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re: #167 steve_davis
ah! See, wiki claims this ran for three seasons. I was like, “wait, I can remember pretty much every Dukes of Hazzard episode, but I have zero memory of this?”
I remember the bicentennial minutes from 1976, during which celebrities said something about history for a few seconds.
re: #183 Dangerman
He thought it was waterproofing issues,” the contractor said of the staff member. “I thought to myself, that’s not normal.” He said Jose told him they pumped the pool equipment room so frequently that the building had to replace pump motors every two years, but he never mentioned anything about structural damage or cracks in the concrete above.
Democrats in Congress have recently secured massive amounts of funding for state and local governments, over Republican objections, with a fair amount of that money specifically intended for local police departments that pandemic-strapped cities couldn’t afford.”“So why am I cranky?”
“I’m cranky because Republicans reacted to Psaki with … I don’t quite know how to describe it. Outrage? Disbelief? They’re just incredulous that Democrats could consider their support for directing federal funds to local police departments — and Republican opposition to those efforts — relevant to the question of defunding the police. They aren’t claiming that the money didn’t actually go to the police; they just seem to consider ‘defunding the police’ a sort of metaphysical position that has nothing to do with actual police-department budgets.”
Bloomberg
re: #183 Dangerman
CBS4’s Jim DeFede interviewed William Espinosa, a Champlain maintenance manager from the late 1990s, who said ocean saltwater would make its way into the underground garage — so much that “pumps never could keep up with it.”
Maxwell Marcucci, a representative for the Champlain Towers South condo association, declined to comment Monday on whether the association was aware of the issues the pool contractor noticed.
Mohammad Ehsani, an engineer and concrete restoration expert who invented QuakeWrap technology, a way to reinforce old concrete columns, reviewed the contractor’s photos from the pool equipment room.
“You can see extensive corrosion of the rebars at the bottom of the beam. That is very serious,” Ehsani said, commenting it was the worst damage he had seen documented in the building so far. The equipment room runs along the southern wall of the building — an area that did not collapse.
“If the condition of the beam in the pool guy’s photo is something that was also happening under the building, that is a really major concern,” Ehsani said. In that case, it “absolutely” could have contributed to the collapse.
However, he cautioned against rushing to conclude that all beams in the building showed similar levels of damage to those exposed to chemicals from the pool. The 2018 report that documented “severe” structural damage to concrete in the garage under the pool deck did not include photos of anything nearly as alarming as what the pool contractor documented, Ehsani said.
Looks like the area under the building seems to be focal point of the structural failure. Seems like a critical support column or two might have broken up, which led to a sudden and catastrophic failure in the area directly above it - what we saw in the security camera footage, where the midsection of the building, above the parking garage, collapses first, then gravity brings down the rest of that part of the building beyond the shear wall.
re: #183 Dangerman
I just saw those photos on msnbc. My husband is an apartment building inspector, he has clients he’s worked for since the early 2000s. It’s part time and unpredictable work, but it’s helped us along over the years.
His first response to seeing those photos? “Holy Fucking Shit!!!!” He said he would have left that area immediately and refused to set foot in that building ever again. He also said that level of damage would require a complete vacating of the entire building while the basement ceilings and walls were shored up and made stable enough for the repairs. And that’s only IF the structure was not so far gone that it could be fixed. So yeah.
With sincere thanks to @POTUS and the @WhiteHouse administration, the first delivery of #COVID19 vaccine doses donated by the United States through #COVAX have arrived in Honduras! https://t.co/LAezKqJTDZ @CEPIvaccines @OPSOMS_Honduras @UNICEF pic.twitter.com/HCeUMnQ1G1
— Seth Berkley (@GaviSeth) June 28, 2021
Our chances, outside the scientific community, of drawing any sober, reflective lessons from COVID-19 is about nil at this point. It’s become a hobby horse for everyone to ride, to whatever destination they please.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 28, 2021
In Israel, where Delta is becoming the dominant strain, and vaccinations are in over 80% of the adult population (>60% fully vaccinated total population), there is a rise in cases (today to 308) but without increase in hospitalizations or deaths pic.twitter.com/TPd5BU9kAr
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 28, 2021
“I don’t want to die because of what the government wants,” said one vaccine sceptic who had bought a fake certificate online.https://t.co/dFc27S1iXE
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) June 28, 2021
… Increasingly, frustrated teenagers are searching for ways to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent. Some have found their way to vaxteen.org, a vaccine information site run by Kelly Danielpour, a Los Angeles teenager.The site offers guides to state consent laws, links to clinics, resources on straightforward information about Covid-19 and advice for how teenagers can engage parents.
“Someone will ask me, ‘I need to be able to consent at a vaccine clinic that is open on weekends and that is on my bus route. Can you help?’” said Ms. Danielpour, 18, who will begin her freshman year at Stanford in the fall.
She started the site two years ago, well before Covid. The daughter of a pediatric neurosurgeon and an intellectual property lawyer, she realized that most adolescents know neither the recommended vaccine schedule nor their rights.
“We automatically talk about parents but not about teens as having opinions on this issue,” she said. “I decided I needed to help.” Ms. Danielpour wrangled experts to help her understand vaccination and consent laws, and she recruited teenagers to be “VaxTeen ambassadors.”
“I want teenagers to be able to say to pediatricians, ‘Hey, I have this right,’” added Ms. Danielpour, who gives talks at conferences to physicians and health department officials…
Lambda:
Another variant: Lambda lineage of SARSCoV2 has the potential to become a variant of concern. Infections fueled by this variant have become problematic in Brazil https://t.co/UMBHMphkWU
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 28, 2021
re: #130 Teukka
.@JohnBerman: “CNN has just obtained a letter sent to residents in April of this year. The Champlain Towers South board president wrote, ‘The observable damage such as in the garage has gotten significantly worse since the initial inspection in 2018…’” pic.twitter.com/ZvlA7KPUQm
— The Recount (@therecount) June 29, 2021
re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
An Oklahoma Republican politician ran on an anti-Disco platform saying it was “corrupting our youth” for the state Senate (meaning white girls were mixing with ni*CLANGS and gays).
The most overt example was Twisted Sister, where at concerts they used to hang in effigy Barry White while smashing Disco records.
When a club owner in upstate New York explained to guitarist Jay Jay French “you hung a ni*CLANG, they love that around here,” Dee Snider said they couldn’t be racists because they had a Latino member and a Black former drummer. They immediately changed their act to a simulated electric chair executing an effigy of white Disco singer Andrea True.
When a loudmouthed DJ tried to kill disco, the homophobic and racist implications were impossible to ignore (Timeline. February 15, 2018)
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Rolling Stone also called out the overt racism and homophobia of the “Disco Sucks” movement.
I was at the Disco Demolition at Comiskey Park. I well remember WDAI going from rock to Disco. I lived it.
I love rock and I love disco. Both. Love them.
Steve Dahl wasn’t racist (or he was, but that wasn’t why he hated Disco), he lost his job and hated Disco as a result. When WDAI switched formats, it was like they flipped a switch. 11:59 pm, rock. Midnight, disco. Not sure of the actual time but it was that fast.
I met Steve Dahl once. He was an unexpectedly nice guy. Of course i was a white girl so that could matter, but in all the years I listened to him, not once did I get a whiff of racism (or any other phobia/ism). He wasn’t what is called a shock jock, not like Howard Stern or those who came after Stern.
Some years later another station changed formats and it played I Got The Power by C&C Music Factory for 24 hours straight. I listened for hours and I still like that song.
re: #193 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I was at the Disco Demolition at Comiskey Park. I well remember WDAI going from rock to Disco. I lived it.
I love rock and I love disco. Both. Love them.
Steve Dahl wasn’t racist (or he was, but that wasn’t why he hated Disco), he lost his job and hated Disco as a result. When WDAI switched formats, it was like they flipped a switch. 11:59 pm, rock. Midnight, disco. Not sure of the actual time but it was that fast.
I met Steve Dahl once. He was an unexpectedly nice guy. Of course i was a white girl so that could matter, but in all the years I listened to him, not once did I get a whiff of racism (or any other phobia/ism). He wasn’t what is called a shock jock, not like Howard Stern or those who came after Stern.
Some years later another station changed formats and it played I Got The Power by C&C Music Factory for 24 hours straight. I listened for hours and I still like that song.
I watched part of the Bee Gee’s story, and what people at the park were noticing was that it wasn’t just disco that was being brought, it was R&B. The people showing up with the records were protesting black music.
re: #116 Dread Pirate Ron
My wife got a cell phone finally and cancelled our land line. She got a 5G phone I got a new battery for my old i-phone 6. We’ll be switching over the internet for the house to 5G in August, take advantage of our Covid vaccine bio-chips. We’ll finally be free of the crappy AT&T wiring in the neighborhood. 25 years of losing my internet/phone line every time it rains or a technician touches the cable working on somebody else’s problem. Luckily most of those 25 years have been drought years, heh.
Fun fact: if I get rid of my landline my bill goes up. Go figure. So I keep it permanently off the hook.
re: #139 Teukka
Today’s best joke: 🤣
Q: “Where do all the socks go from the washing machine?”
A: “They are reborn in the kitchen drawer as odd lids that do not fit with anything …”
My brother speculates that missing socks morph into used dryer sheets.
re: #139 Teukka
Today’s best joke: 🤣
Q: “Where do all the socks go from the washing machine?”
A: “They are reborn in the kitchen drawer as odd lids that do not fit with anything …”
re: #196 mmmirele
My brother speculates that missing socks morph into used dryer sheets.
why does everyone assume it’s one less sock?
what if it’s one more…
re: #171 JOE 🥓
Trump’s doctors worried about organ failure after he was hospitalized with COVID-19: report
We already know that asshole was brain dead before Covid put him on the ropes…
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oh yea, that reminds me, I preordered the book (“Nightmare Scenario”) on Audible (got all these credits I gotta use up). Maybe I’ll be able to listen to it at work today.
re: #98 Dread Pirate Ron
There are intel analysts who closely watch the media from countries who are our foes. They’d likely tell you Russia is having a field day with @TuckerCarlson (and others of his ilk). Thanks @JuliaDavisNews for keeping us informed with unclassified - and sickening - reports. https://t.co/JuDK9FsSJO
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) June 29, 2021
Tucker Carlson is doubtless pleased by his support from the Russian Federation. Trump was a big fan of Putin and the Trump base sees nothing wrong in this. Remember, their antipathy is reserved for Democrats and supporters of progressives. They are totally fine with the white oligarchy running Russia. The GOP legislators who spent July 4th in Moscow have shown where their allegiance is.
re: #172 Dangerman
That’s some serious Klein bottle logic going on out of his mouth hole.
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a British band that had never been near Chicago
wiki:
“Paper Lace sent the song to the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, who greatly disliked it. A member of Daley’s staff is quoted as saying that Paper Lace should “jump in the Chicago River, placing your heads under water three times and surfacing twice. Pray tell us, are you nuts?”
Any true Chicagoan would hate it; there is NO east side in Chicago.
re: #201 Hecuba’s daughter
Any true Chicagoan would hate it; there is NO east side in Chicago.
just geographically speaking doesn’t there kind of have to be?
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a British band that had never been near Chicago
wiki:
“Paper Lace sent the song to the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, who greatly disliked it. A member of Daley’s staff is quoted as saying that Paper Lace should “jump in the Chicago River, placing your heads under water three times and surfacing twice. Pray tell us, are you nuts?”
That song played every CENSORED hour in the first half of 1974 when I was at Pitt. EVERYONE couldn’t stand it…When it plays on Sirius XM’s Onederland channel it brings back those awful memories of early 74…gas shortages…inflation…and sitting in Econ classes with professors who idolized Milton Friedman or Murray Rothbard…
My reply got me blocked. If you’re looking for a good pro slavery thread, read Noonan’s.
Noonan is pretending to be an extreme moral relativist to hide his racism and white supremacy.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) June 29, 2021
re: #202 danarchy
just geographically speaking doesn’t there kind of have to be?
i always wondered why East Northport wasn’t just called Eastport
and dont get me started on South East Northport
commas, spaces, dashes, oh my god, where am i?
re: #202 danarchy
just geographically speaking doesn’t there kind of have to be?
east side of Chicago is technically Indiana
I hope no one ever forgets that Chris Christie was the first GOP presidential candidate, and arguably the first mainstream politician, to endorse Trump and having cast his party into the fire he has no business leading its rescue. https://t.co/UX2H99FohM
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 29, 2021
That means Dan Patrick now owes you $5 million!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) June 29, 2021
re: #204 gocart mozart
You are not racist. Your nation is not racist. The Founders weren’t racist. The system isn’t racist.
Preserving this fantasy requires all the tools of Ostrichhood, including blocking contrary argument and the ultimate: fingers in ears.
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
east side of Chicago is technically Indiana
Lake Michigan is the east side. Chicago has a North side, a West side, and a South side. And the Loop. Everything east is basically the lake.
Killer Kristi joins Ironside’s Border Party
Gov. Kristi Noem is deploying 50 S. Dakota National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border in response to Texas Gov. Abbott’s “request for help” with illegal border crossings. pic.twitter.com/oU3zLLPqAp
— Kadia Goba (@kadiagoba) June 29, 2021
re: #205 Dangerman
i always wondered why East Northport wasn’t just called Eastport
and dont get me started on South East Northport
commas, spaces, dashes, oh my god, where am i?
In Mass we have Northborough, Southborough, Westborough, and Middleborough(which is no where near the other boroughs.
And where an Eastborough should be is Marlborough, apparently named after a town in England.
re: #214 danarchy
In Mass we have Northborough, Southborough, Westborough, and Middleborough(which is no where near the other boroughs.
And where an Eastborough should be is Marlborough, apparently named after a town in England.
I used to live in South Gate, California and people would ask South Gate of…WHAT????
And this asshole is glad he lost his job because he participated in the failed coup.
Capitol rioter says he ‘did nothing wrong’ — but still expects to be charged by the FBI with a brand new felony
…because the motherfather was stupid enough to lie to the FBI…
re: #212 Hecuba’s daughter
Lake Michigan is the east side. Chicago has a North side, a West side, and a South side. And the Loop. Everything east is basically the lake.
The city of East Chicago is in Lake County, Indiana.
re: #199 Hecuba’s daughter
They are totally fine with the white oligarchy running Russia. The GOP legislators who spent July 4th in Moscow have shown where their allegiance is.
Oligarchic, autocratic, militaristic, xenophobic, theocratic, homophobic…their ideal for America.
Only difference is that their theocracy would be based on Fundamentalist Protestantism rather than Russian Orthodoxy.
But patriarchal nonetheless.
re: #201 Hecuba’s daughter
Any true Chicagoan would hate it; there is NO east side in Chicago.
The songwriter just assumed that “Every city has an East Side”.
I assume he was simply equating it with London, where the East End is the crime-ridden part of town.
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
east side of Chicago is technically Indiana
And East Gary has since changed its name to Lake Station, Indiana.
I am so honored to be a part of this conversation, lifting up some incredible voices in the LGBTQ+ community from within the administration and from outside https://t.co/BWsgeta6Ab
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) June 29, 2021
re: #202 danarchy
just geographically speaking doesn’t there kind of have to be?
Sure. In the middle of Lake Michigan. 😁
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— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) June 29, 2021
re: #201 Hecuba’s daughter
Any true Chicagoan would hate it; there is NO east side in Chicago.
I suppose one could be a pedant about the quadrants of Chicago, as they are divided into NW, NE (very tiny portion few people live in), SW, and SE.
So, in the SE portion of the city, what is the majority ethnic or racial group?
re: #202 danarchy
just geographically speaking doesn’t there kind of have to be?
It just depends on where you have your origin set.
re: #205 Dangerman
i always wondered why East Northport wasn’t just called Eastport
and dont get me started on South East Northport
commas, spaces, dashes, oh my god, where am i?
In my county we have a Northport on the north side of the North Platte River, but the city on the south side opposite is Bridgeport.
In my town we have North North County Road and South North County Road.
re: #226 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I suppose one could be a pedant about the quadrants of Chicago, as they are divided into NW, NE (very tiny portion few people live in), SW, and SE.
So, in the SE portion of the city, what is the majority ethnic or racial group?
East of Chicago is either Lake Michigan or Indiana. Even the southern suburbs bump against Indiana. There’s no land mass in Illinois east of Chicago.
Races are all over the place based on where you are.
re: #214 danarchy
In Mass we have Northborough, Southborough, Westborough, and Middleborough(which is no where near the other boroughs.
And where an Eastborough should be is Marlborough, apparently named after a town in England.
I did a quick search of MA and see that there is a proper Sussex, Essex, Wessex, and Middlesex, but like England, no Norex. There is a Nosex, but that’s in my house, so….
re: #229 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
East of Chicago is either Lake Michigan or Indiana. Even the southern suburbs bump against Indiana. There’s no land mass in Illinois east of Chicago.
Races are all over the place based on where you are.
My sister used to live in the Ravenswood area. We could shop nearby in German or Polish in butcher shops and traditional goods stores. I mean, if we spoke German or Polish. My wife’s Polish friend drove from Bloomington, IN to Chicago once a month in a day trip to go the Polish market and to get a feel for home.
re: #202 danarchy
just geographically speaking doesn’t there kind of have to be?
Geographically speaking, it’s Lake Michigan.
The DFW area is described as being in North Texas. We’re definitely not near the northern most part of Texas.
That’s what I get for not RTWT before posting.
South Detroit is Canada.
There is, however, Southwest Detroit, and south of Southwest Detroit is Dearborn.
South of Dearborn is Downriver.
re: #230 Barefoot Grin
I did a quick search of MA and see that there is a proper Sussex, Essex, Wessex, and Middlesex, but like England, no Norex. There is a Nosex, but that’s in my house, so….
Connecticut has about 10 ‘Bury’s
re: #234 The Pie Overlord!
That’s what I get for not RTWT before posting.
South Detroit is Canada.
There is, however, Southwest Detroit, and south of Southwest Detroit is Dearborn.
South of Dearborn is Downriver.
I grew up in what used to be called “downstate east-central Illinois.” The “downstate” part was pure condescension.
re: #236 Barefoot Grin
I grew up in what used to be called “downstate east-central Illinois.” The “downstate” part was pure condescension.
Like Upstate New York?
Evangelical Christians are not the only anti-science religious nutjobs.
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef described Israel’s school core curriculum studies of math, science and English as “nonsense” and said pupils should study in yeshivas instead where only religious studies are taught.
Report by @jeremysharon | #Israel https://t.co/tdRTEcqi06— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) June 29, 2021
But why. pic.twitter.com/EinZQxclud
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) June 29, 2021
Well, we have our answer as to why Needi Amin didn’t make the transition over to Parler:
Trump got rejected by Parler after he demanded a ban of his critics: report https://t.co/yCr1fNV9mi
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 29, 2021
“They had floated a proposition that Trump, after he left office, become an active member of Parler, moving much of his social-media activity there from Twitter,” Wolff wrote, adding that the former president was asking for 40 percent of Parler’s gross revenues.
Wolff wrote that another condition of the deal was the conservative-leaning Parler would also ban “anyone who spoke negatively about him,”
“Parler was balking only at this last condition,” with the author stating, “Parler was balking only at this last condition.”
Business Insider also reported, “Trump considered joining Parler under the pseudonym ‘Person X,’ its former CEO, John Matze, said in a court filing in January. Matze, ousted as CEO earlier this year, said that Amazon Web Services (AWS) knew about these plans while it hosted Parler. It terminated its contract with Parler — essentially knocking the site offline — to prevent Trump from having any social media presence, Matze claimed.”
re: #240 The Pie Overlord!
Evangelical Christians are not the only anti-science religious nutjobs.
Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox are a real hindrance to social and political progress.
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He wanted to invite the clerk to come around to his place and make bouncy-bouncy…
I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched. My hovercraft is full of eels. If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me? I am not longer infected.
re: #160 William Lewis
My vague memory of them is that they were bad versions of the already bad TV version of Logan’s Run.
The already bad TV version of Logan’s Run didn’t debut until September 1977.
re: #240 The Pie Overlord!
Evangelical Christians are not the only anti-science religious nutjobs.
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Most orthodox Jews are not anti-science. When in graduate school, I dated a fellow student who was orthodox and who ultimately got his PhD and became a professor of statistics. After we broke up, he met and then married an orthodox woman who was a resident at a nearby hospital. There was a recent article in the NY Times about an orthodox woman, the mother to 10 children, who many years after graduating college, went to a school of osteopathy and recently graduated with a medical degree specializing in pediatrics.
I missed this last week. It’s stuff like this that makes me want to burn late stage capitalism to the ground.
Missed this last week.https://t.co/sPE3bgF1oJ https://t.co/zWMzpe7lEJ
— (((Dee *still a Professional Cat Herder* Holmes))) (@mmmirele) June 29, 2021
re: #247 mmmirele
I missed this last week. It’s stuff like this that makes me want to burn late stage capitalism to the ground.
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She’s just giving a vulture capitalist twist to Gingrich’s (I think it was Newt) idea of having the poor school kids work as janitors.
re: #246 Hecuba’s daughter
Most orthodox Jews are not anti-science. When in graduate school, I dated a fellow student who was orthodox and who ultimately got his PhD and became a professor of statistics. After we broke up, he met and then married an orthodox woman who was a resident at a nearby hospital. There was a recent article in the NY Times about an orthodox woman, the mother to 10 children, who many years after graduating college, went to a school of osteopathy and recently graduated with a medical degree specializing in pediatrics.
That said, our very own The Pie Overlord! is a perfect example of how orthodoxy is totally compatible with science and reason and knowledge (as well as baking)!
So I am once again trying to gain some appreciation for Soccer. I should’ve watched Croatia-Spain last night, 13 goals between the two teams.
Just got through the dead boring first half of Germany-England and still 0:0
*yawn*
re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This match will not make you a fan. The two yesterday might have.
Walmart said Tuesday it will offer a less expensive version of insulin that could better fit into the budgets of millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance or struggle to pay for the lifesaving diabetes drug.
Starting this week, the retailer will sell an exclusive private-label version of analog insulin, ReliOn NovoLog, to adults and children who have a prescription. The drug will be available at its membership-based Sam’s Club in mid-July. The insulin will cost about $73 for a vial or about $86 for a package of prefilled insulin pens.
The insulin is the latest addition to Walmart’s private brand of diabetes products, ReliOn. It already sells a low-price version of insulin for about $25 as part of the line, but that is an older formulation that some doctors and advocates say is not as effective at managing blood sugar swings as newer versions of insulin, called analogs.
With the move, Walmart will bring its longtime focus on “everyday low price” to a drug that is a medical necessity for a growing number of Americans. More than 34 million people in the U.S. — or nearly 11% of the population — have diabetes, and about 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed every year, according to the American Diabetes Association. That percentage is about 14% among Walmart shoppers, said Warren Moore, Walmart’s vice president of health and wellness, on a call.
Instead of lauding Wal-Mart for trying to make things easier for people with diabetes, maybe we should be taking a look at a system that has caused the cost of a vital, inexpensive to product drug to fucking skyrocket. Just a thought.
re: #247 mmmirele
I missed this last week. It’s stuff like this that makes me want to burn late stage capitalism to the ground.
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Please do not get me started about the WeWork Assholes…
re: #248 Teddy’s Person
She’s just giving a vulture capitalist twist to Gingrich’s (I think it was Newt) idea of having the poor school kids work as janitors.
Sure, elementary school kids owning businesses.
No legal issues there at all. No siree.
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re: #253 JOE 🥓
Please do not get me started about the WeWork Assholes…
I’m really shocked that company is still around after their IPO disaster.
re: #249 Hecuba’s daughter
That said, our very own The Pie Overlord! is a perfect example of how orthodoxy is totally compatible with science and reason and knowledge (as well as baking)!
Mayim Bialik, an actress, is Modern Orthodox and has a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. Unlike our Pie, she only has two children.
re: #251 plansbandc
This match will not make you a fan. The two yesterday might have.
I have given up, but I look in every 2 years for the UEFA and World Cup just out of solidarity for my adoptive Vaterland.
Under more normal circumstances I would be down at the village hall watching this on the big screen with the neighbors, but things have not normalized enough for me to trust indoor activities
re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg
Instead of lauding Wal-Mart for trying to make things easier for people with diabetes, maybe we should be taking a look at a system that has caused the cost of a vital, inexpensive to product drug to fucking skyrocket. Just a thought.
We have looked at it, and we keep staring at it. Until we can get Republicans out of the way, there’s not much we can do but hope companies will do something like this.
re: #229 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
East of Chicago is either Lake Michigan or Indiana. Even the southern suburbs bump against Indiana. There’s no land mass in Illinois east of Chicago.
Races are all over the place based on where you are.
There actually are streets in NE Chicago (been there). Northwestern University is in the NE quadrant of Chicago.
The grid centre of Chicago is as the corner of State Street and Madison Avenue. Anything north and east of that corner is the NE quadrant.
Folks tend to think of Chicago as having no northeast section because the land area of NE Chicago is so tiny.
Chicago Grid System (University of Chicago, history of how it was imposed and how it is used today)
Northwestern University at Google Maps, bounded by East Chicago Avenue (to the north), Lakeshore Drive (to the east), East Ontario Street (to the south), and North Fairbanks Court (to the west). North State Street is six blocks west of the university.
re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg
Instead of lauding Wal-Mart for trying to make things easier for people with diabetes, maybe we should be taking a look at a system that has caused the cost of a vital, inexpensive to product drug to fucking skyrocket while a smug prick made millions off of people’s suffering
re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg
Sure, elementary school kids owning businesses.
No legal issues there at all. No siree.
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It’s perfect. The vampire squid needn’t worry about any contractual obligations. /////
re: #204 gocart mozart
My reply got me blocked. If you’re looking for a good pro slavery thread, read Noonan’s.
Nothing racist at all about holding slaves and writing slavery into the Constitution. Is that the Christian Nation part wingnuts always go on about, because slavery is also endorsed in the Bible?
re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg
Sure, elementary school kids owning businesses.
No legal issues there at all. No siree.
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And if they go bankrupt, we sell the children off to adoption agencies to cover the debts…
re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Nothing racist at all about holding slaves and writing slavery into the Constitution. Is that the Christian Nation part wingnuts always go on about, because slavery is also endorsed in the Bible?
What about the 3/5th Clause?
re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And if they go bankrupt, we sell the children off to adoption agencies to cover the debts…
It isn’t like the grownups will take all the money, or anything. More piecework!
re: #167 steve_davis
ah! See, wiki claims this ran for three seasons. I was like, “wait, I can remember pretty much every Dukes of Hazzard episode, but I have zero memory of this?”
The thing about Saturday morning kidvid is that while few episodes of a given series would be produced, the network would rerun those episodes in subsequent years. Things like imdb list only initial airdates, which can make it appear that a series that was broadcast for a full season ran only four months, while Wikipedia lists often rely on the faulty memories of its contributors.
Since my own memories of Saturday morning kidvid is faulty, I can’t say how many times CBS plugged Ark II into their kidvid schedules after the initial series run, but they did do so at least once.
— Olivia Oil (@oliviavester) June 25, 2021
re: #195 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fun fact: if I get rid of my landline my bill goes up. Go figure. So I keep it permanently off the hook.
The only problem with keeping a phone off the hook is telephone systems are run with giant batteries (that’s why they work when the power goes out). If you keep it off the hook, you are putting (an admittedly tiny) load constantly discharging the central office’s battery.
re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg
I know I just posted but on what planet is a vial of insulin cheap at $73 or $85? I have to go to the pharmacy today to pick up 12 pens of Trulicity (not insulin but a protein that is really good in managing my blood sugar). That’s a three month supply and will cost me $75 on my insurance, which I can afford. I cannot afford the going price of $2,200. Nobody can. But what grandma on Medicare can afford $73 or $85?
re: #255 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m really shocked that company is still around after their IPO disaster.
They are STILL around here and they are ABSOLUTE ASSHOLES when they are in your same office building…
re: #271 JOE 🥓
They are STILL around here and they are ABSOLUTE ASSHOLES when they are in your same office building…
Yeah, that honestly doesn’t surprise me at all.
re: #204 gocart mozart
My reply got me blocked. If you’re looking for a good pro slavery thread, read Noonan’s.
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You can try to absolve your ancestors of their racist past and yourself as well, but I’m going to acknowledge it, recognize that the law was and is used as a structure to imprison people of color, and work to dismantle that framework. Tired of your white man racist nonsense.
— (((Dee *still a Professional Cat Herder* Holmes))) (@mmmirele) June 29, 2021
Hmmmmm…
Tucker Carlson is trying to get out in front of a bombshell story that’s about to drop on him and Matt Gaetz having sex with minors.
— Baligubadle (@Baligubadle1) June 29, 2021
re: #240 The Pie Overlord!
Evangelical Christians are not the only anti-science religious nutjobs.
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So if he gets sick, will he see a rabbi instead of a doctor? Or are the goyim supposed to supply every societal need more complex than digging holes and erecting straw huts (including printing Talmud copies)?
re: #274 JOE 🥓
Tucker Carlson is trying to get out in front of a bombshell story that’s about to drop on him and Matt Gaetz having sex with minors.
This whole “The NSA is after me” story smacks of Gaetz’ “there is a massive conspiracy out to get me” when things started closing in on him…
re: #273 mmmirele
I try not to be racist but I have blind spots & am still learning. I can for sure tell you that my Southern ancestors, every one of them, poor, landless, rootless white people, were racist as hell. Including my late father, RIP. My mom told him he had to stop using the N word.
I started to read Hillbilly Elegy and found first part quite interesting. I recall that the Appalachian folks who moved into our neighborhood in the industrial Midwest were an ethnicity unto themselves; even if they were white, distinct from the other WASP or Central/Southern European Catholics who made up the rest of the neighborhood.
And as for “economic anxiety”, I can tell you that even during the Golden Age of the American Working Class, those people were still racist as hell and made no bones about it.
— ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️💙Adlai💙🏳️🌈❤️🔥 (@AdlaisWorld) June 29, 2021
re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What about the 3/5th Clause?
That too. And Natives didn’t count at all.
re: #267 A Three Hour Tour
The thing about Saturday morning kidvid is that while few episodes of a given series would be produced, the network would rerun those episodes in subsequent years. Things like imdb list only initial airdates, which can make it appear that a series that was broadcast for a full season ran only four months, while Wikipedia lists often rely on the faulty memories of its contributors.
Since my own memories of Saturday morning kidvid is faulty, I can’t say how many times CBS plugged Ark II into their kidvid schedules after the initial series run, but they did do so at least once.
I still remember Ark II from its original run; it was unusual in that it took place in a post-apocalyptic world, not the usual Saturday morning kiddie fare. Thundarr the Barbarian was also a post-apocalyptic TV show, though a cartoon, not live-action like Ark II.
re: #270 mmmirele
We’re having trouble affording dude’s insulin, and he got switched to a kind that doesn’t work as well so we wouldn’t have to pay as much.
It’s a huge pile of bullshit.
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was born in southeastern Ohio, right in the edge of Appalachia. Spent a lot of summers and holidays there after we moved to Columbus when I was 5. I ended up back there after my parents threw me out as a teenager, to live with my dad’s parents until I could get on my feet. It was really weird to hear people blaming black folks for their poverty and other things when a lot of them never even saw a person of color anywhere in their lives. Except on tv.
re: #244 teleskiguy
My hovercraft is full of eels
True story: at one of my former employers we were working on an RFP for a new core system. One of the sections was on internationalization, and referred to an alleged article about how a web page sentence was mistranslated as “My hovercraft is full of eels.”
I yelled at the author of that section - take that fucking thing ourt, that’s from a Monty Python skit.
re: #256 mmmirele
She’s also waaaay out there when it comes to vaccines - and not in a good way.
re: #152 Dangerman
i love when they have an egg handle
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I’ve got one close to that size in my set of cast iron skillets.
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Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ... Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
A Water War Is Brewing Between the U.S. And Mexico. Here’s Why A water dispute between the United States and Mexico that goes back decades is turning increasingly urgent in Texas communities that rely on the Rio Grande. Their leaders are now demanding the Mexican government either share water or face ... Cheechako
Harper’s Magazine: Slippery Slope - How Private Equity Shapes a Ski Town …Big Sky stands apart for other reasons. The obvious distinction is the Yellowstone Club, a private resort hidden in the mountains above the community that Justin Farrell, a professor of sociology at Yale and the author of Billionaire Wilderness, ... teleskiguy
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