Even some of his most fervent supporters changed the channel during the former president’s speech last weekend, finding little new content amid his litany of old punchlines and complaints. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
Vaccine explained in 57 seconds:
— micromacrocosmo (@neverseentit) June 24, 2021
He will not go away on his own and the GOP cannot afford to make him leave.
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Hopefully the GOP is in it’s death throes. Can you imagine what could get done if the Democrats didn’t have Manchin and Sinema. WTF IS WRONG WITH THOSE TWO😡
Fox News has effectively admitted to misconduct that includes sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation against victimized employees, and has agreed to pay a million-dollar fine for “a pattern of violating the NYC Human Rights Law,” the Daily Beast reports.
re: #3 marcusgorillius
Hopefully the GOP is in it’s death throes. Can you imagine what could get done if the Democrats didn’t have Manchin and Sinema. WTF IS WRONG WITH THOSE TWO😡
Imagine if the Democrats’ seats in Congress truly reflected their share of votes cast by the electorate and was not distorted by gerrymandering and the disproportionally representative nature of the Senate.
Grim forecast due to climate change. Large portions of the planet will become essentially uninhabitable.
Last week I was in a thread where someone wondered about heat, human survivability/habitability, and climate change. I’ve done some technical work on this specific question, so, quick thread on basics, and what to worry about.
Key term to know: The “wet bulb” temperature.— (((Matthew Lewis))) has some Shoup for you (@mateosfo) June 29, 2021
Nearly 90 minutes in, England has two whole goals against Germany’s none. Not exactly exciting but remotely interesting…
re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Someone flipped the on switch for England.
re: #6 No Malarkey!
Grim forecast due to climate change. Large portions of the planet will become essentially uninhabitable.
Things can only get ugly when this starts to affect food and water supplies at an international level.
re: #5 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When was the last time you heard anything substantive on policy from the GOP. They have NOTHING to offer in any way to help people. The Democrats SHOULD be United to move the country ahead. So so frustrating. They should be governing like the GOP doesnt exist. Talk about wasting an opportunity.
re: #10 marcusgorillius
When was the last time you heard anything substantive on policy from the GOP. They have NOTHING to offer in any way to help people. The Democrats SHOULD be United to move the country ahead. So so frustrating. They should be governing like the GOP doesnt exist. Talk about wasting an opportunity.
We’re Democrats. If the GOP didn’t exist we’d invent it.
Wisconsin county GOP posts Facebook meme attacking critical race theory — and it blows up in their faces
Wisconsin’s Winnebago County Republican Party is coming under fire even from some of its own members after posting a Facebook meme that was intended to mock critical race theory, but that was loaded with racist stereotypes.
Jill Biden, the first lady, will appear on the cover of the August issue of Vogue, continuing a tradition that Anna Wintour, the magazine’s editor, had paused during the Trump presidency. https://t.co/7x5YdqshBk
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2021
re: #10 marcusgorillius
When was the last time you heard anything substantive on policy from the GOP. They have NOTHING to offer in any way to help people. The Democrats SHOULD be United to move the country ahead. So so frustrating. They should be governing like the GOP doesnt exist. Talk about wasting an opportunity.
Case in point.
The Right isn’t interested in solving real problems, so it riles up it’s voters with fake culture wars.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 29, 2021
How do you know Republicans are not a serious governing party and shouldn’t be treated as one?
This. This is how. https://t.co/G8pfaXxBj9— Doug Gordon (@dgordon52) June 29, 2021
Horrors, the VP has a COS who does her job!
Yearning for the good old days of 6 months ago when any crackpot could wander into the Oval Office and rant about insane conspiracy theories?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 29, 2021
re: #12 JOE 🥓
Wisconsin county GOP posts Facebook meme attacking critical race theory — and it blows up in their faces
“We need to ban the teaching of Critical Reich Theory, stop fretting over concentration camps and jackboots trampling occupied countries, and focus instead on the positive aspects of National Socialism: the Autobahns, space technology and all those advances in medical research, especially pediatrics…”
Hey now. Rightie whities all over are freaking out because it’s being correctly pointed out that Republicans are actually defunding the police in the real world. Excellent. More of this, please.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
re: #9 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Things can only get ugly when this starts to affect food and water supplies at an international level.
The billionaires are gonna find out real fast that their greed was a death sentence.
re: #13 jaunte
I need some more Rubberband Man
I was never a big fan of disco, but this was one of the songs from that era that I really liked along with Disco Inferno and If You Leave Me This Way. Good songs are good songs regardless of genre.
Legends aren’t born. They’re made. A prequel to The Sopranos, watch the new trailer for #TheManySaintsOfNewark, in theaters and streaming exclusively on @hbomax* October 1. pic.twitter.com/d2nV6mzIsJ
— Warner Bros. Pictures (@wbpictures) June 29, 2021
re: #20 JOE 🥓
The billionaires are gonna find out real fast that their greed was a death sentence.
“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”
This sucks. 😢
Blackalicious Rapper Gift of Gab Dead at 50 https://t.co/v1YzzFfhgL
— TMZ (@TMZ) June 26, 2021
re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
What’s particularly awesome is that they got James Gandolfinis real life son to play young Tony.
One of my cousins posted on Facebook that “Moslems” are destroying the country from within. I reported it, and FB says it doesn’t violate their hate standards.
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He will not go away on his own and the GOP cannot afford to make him leave.
Perhaps a NY state prosecutor can make him go away. Fingers crossed
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
What’s particularly awesome is that they got James Gandolfinis real life son to play young Tony.
My ex-GF of Italian (non-Mafia-but-definitely-shady-businessmen) descent got me to watch that series and it was terribly well written and performed. Look forward to the prequel)
re: #27 Rightwingconspirator
Perhaps a NY state prosecutor can make him go away. Fingers crossed
Even if that happens, we need to continue to hang him and his failures around the GOP’s neck and not allow them any chance to distance themselves from his shenanigans.
re: #26 No Malarkey!
One of my cousins posted on Facebook that “Moslems” are destroying the country from within. I reported it, and FB says it doesn’t violate their hate standards.
Point out to the idiot that the people destroying the country from within, including the coup participants, are in extremist Christian sects. No members of the cult that’s trying to end our democracy appear to be Muslims.
re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even if that happens, we need to continue to hang him and his failures around the GOP’s neck and not allow them any chance to distance themselves from his shenanigans.
Not hard to do while they are hugging him so tightly.
re: #3 marcusgorillius
Hopefully the GOP is in it’s death throes. Can you imagine what could get done if the Democrats didn’t have Manchin and Sinema. WTF IS WRONG WITH THOSE TWO😡
If we didn’t have those 2, the majority leader would still be McTurtle…
re: #33 JC1
If we didn’t have those 2, the majority leader would still be McTurtle…
They aren’t the only Democratic Senators who want to keep the filibuster. Manchin is their heat shield, because it’s actually advantageous to him politically to take incoming fire from progressives.
Co-sign. Thing is, Schlapp knows he’s being a hypocrite and a liar, but he doesn’t care because he also knows the audience he’s performing for loves it. The more debased and dishonest he is, the more they cheer.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
re: #26 No Malarkey!
One of my cousins posted on Facebook that “Moslems” are destroying the country from within. I reported it, and FB says it doesn’t violate their hate standards.
Marky Mark loves my relatives racist posts.
re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was never a big fan of disco, but this was one of the songs from that era that I really liked along with Disco Inferno and If You Leave Me This Way. Good songs are good songs regardless of genre.
And “Disco Duck.”
re: #35 Charles Johnson
agreed, there are a small batch of Senators that would not like to see it gone…. I think the best idea is to simply modify it to return to its original intent, allowing a passionate minority to debate and delay a vote to ensure that it “gets the attention” they feel it needs. The idea of passing along a note, like a get out of jail free card stating that because we intend to filibuster this bill but we can’t be bothered to show up because we have meetings with dark money donors is what needs to stop. Like all things McConnell touches, he uses the spirit of a piece of government protocol and turns it on itself, corrupting it past all recognition.
keep the filibuster, but make those old dudes sit in the chambers all goddamn day defending it, in person, with actual fucking arguments.
I’m not convinced that Krysten Sinema isn’t a right-wing plant (since she’s “former” Green Party).
LOL! She totally answered the question about Carlson’s delusional narcissistic conspiracy theory, with all the seriousness it deserved. https://t.co/cuvpc8fztw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
re: #39 Barefoot Grin
I’m not convinced that Krysten Sinema isn’t a right-wing plant (since she’s “former” Green Party).
That just suggests that she’s not a clear thinker.
re: #38 piratedan
agreed, there are a small batch of Senators that would not like to see it gone…. I think the best idea is to simply modify it to return to its original intent, allowing a passionate minority to debate and delay a vote to ensure that it “gets the attention” they feel it needs. The idea of passing along a note, like a get out of jail free card stating that because we intend to filibuster this bill but we can’t be bothered to show up because we have meetings with dark money donors is what needs to stop. Like all things McConnell touches, he uses the spirit of a piece of government protocol and turns it on itself, corrupting it past all recognition.
keep the filibuster, but make those old dudes sit in the chambers all goddamn day defending it, in person, with actual fucking arguments.
Lock the doors to the Senate so they can’t sneak out to take a whizz…
re: #26 No Malarkey!
One of my cousins posted on Facebook that “Moslems” are destroying the country from within. I reported it, and FB says it doesn’t violate their hate standards.
Watch how fast they would pull it down if you responded to him “Catholics are destroying the country from within” when it is objectively true they are a criminal paedophile ring.
re: #31 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Looking at the video, I have a bad feeling it’s going to be scrubbed.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And genocidaires. And misogynists. And anti-science (spare me they allow the teaching of evolution or own an observatory).
Right-wing culture is truly at the stage of performative stupidity.
Sort of like an audience of brain-damaged perverts cheering wildly as a monkey in a cage jerks off
It makes them “feel proud that they’re part of a community, something larger than themselves”— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) June 29, 2021
It’s like “Jackass,” only the audience thinks that smacking yourself in the balls with a mallet is akin to “Swan Lake.”
re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Hell, yeah.
pssst…. he’s lying https://t.co/Q45ez6vRCr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
When Tucker Carlson says “the NSA is spying on me!” journalists really don’t have to treat that as a serious claim. The man has a long history of outright lying and white supremacist propaganda. The default assumption should always be that he’s lying.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
re: #48 Charles Johnson
He’s either lying, or he’s a tool of foreign intelligence agencies that got himself caught.
Just waiting for Jen to smack Doocey with this!
Fox News Agrees to $1 Million Fine for Violating Human Rights Law
re: #49 Punish Domestic Terrorists
He’s either lying, or he’s a tool of foreign intelligence agencies that got himself caught.
As much fun as I think it would be for him to get in trouble, I really think he’s just trying to get people to not trust government institutions, especially those that might interfere with Putin.
Walmart is clearly run by control freaks.
Shipping emails make the FedEx tracking number an image rather than text, and that image takes you to WalMart where they expect you to log in.
re: #51 Belafon
As much fun as I think it would be for him to get in trouble, I really think he’s just trying to get people to not trust government institutions, especially those that might interfere with Putin.
Still a tool of the enemy then.
re: #49 Punish Domestic Terrorists
He’s either lying, or he’s a tool
of foreign intelligence agencies that got himself caught.
After Parler’s continual failures and security breaches, Dan Bongino announced today that he is launching his own payment processor and wants you to entrust him with your sensitive financial information.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) June 29, 2021
Grifter gonna grift.
Yeah, I should have changed to it “he’s lying and a tool”..
re: #30 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Point out to the idiot that the people destroying the country from within, including the coup participants, are in extremist Christian sects. No members of the cult that’s trying to end our democracy appear to be Muslims.
Like Catholic priests and Presbyterian ministers from my state.
Launched scrubbed due to a range violation, not the weather.
re: #3 marcusgorillius
Hopefully the GOP is in it’s death throes. Can you imagine what could get done if the Democrats didn’t have Manchin and Sinema. WTF IS WRONG WITH THOSE TWO😡
I’m imagining it, and it isn’t pretty. The republicans have a 52-48 majority in the senate, Mitch McConnell is the majority leader and Biden can’t even get any of his nominees confirmed…
The land was worth millions. A Big Ag corporation sold it to Sonny Perdue’s company for $250,000.
washingtonpost.com
America owes thanks to Trump’s lawyers — even William Barr, by George Conway
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Why it’s so important that UNC trustees give Nikole Hannah-Jones the tenure she deserves
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re: #64 retired cynic
This seems awfully like a blatant bribe.
11. Recap: ADM buys a property for $5.5M; ADM sells it to Perdue for $250k after he’s tapped for Ag Sec; Perdue tells Senate he’ll give it to a trust for someone else; trustee sells it for $12M; trustee gives Perdue the money, even though it belongs to a trust for someone else!
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 29, 2021
re: #58 DodgerFan1988
Can’t wait to see how much the card networks will charge for his latest ‘adventure’…
re: #70 JOE 🥓
Jeffrey, check out the new dishes being served on Amtrak’s western routes!
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re: #69 jaunte
Who knows what ADM got for their money.
Who knows. They’re no strangers to dirty dealings, though.
Oh shit, I think the AC has crapped out. I was warned 2 years ago that the compressor would have to be replaced at some point. BUT WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE NOW????
re: #74 Patricia Kayden
it’s like the personal touch… your money is so important to me that I will take it from you myself; no middle man or other silent partners to get in-between your money and me….
re: #75 The Pie Overlord!
Oh shit, I think the AC has crapped out. I was warned 2 years ago that the compressor would have to be replaced at some point. BUT WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE NOW????
Because it’s working harder than usual?
Re. the train discussion, I always wanted to try and do something like this, maybe next year
dereklow.co
re: #75 The Pie Overlord!
Oh shit, I think the AC has crapped out. I was warned 2 years ago that the compressor would have to be replaced at some point. BUT WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE NOW????
said everyone whose a/c has died
because a/c units dont die in the off season when they’re not being used
;-)
ours died in august
during a florida heat wave
on a friday afternoon
we needed new everything - outside compressor unit, inside air handler.
to their credit, the a/c co did the install right away on Sunday
two more months of payments and we’ll actually own it
re: #70 JOE 🥓
Jeffrey, check out the new dishes being served on Amtrak’s western routes!
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Those are pretty! Not gonna lie though, I’ll never take the train when I could not take a plane, instead.
re: #77 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Because it’s working harder than usual?
My air conditioner got hailed to death last year.
It’s much warmer today here at 25°Commie / 77°Murican.
Hunter Brittain was 17 years old when he died. What we know definitively is that an Arkansas sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him at 3 a.m. last Wednesday. It’s almost a week later, and Brittain’s family still has no straight answers from the Lonoke County sheriff’s office.There is a witness to Brittain’s shooting. Jordan King, 16, told local station KATV that he’d worked with Brittain most of the night to change the transmission on his truck so he could make it to his construction job at 6 a.m. They took the car to Mahoney’s Body Shop, which a family friend owns. Once they’d left the auto shop, Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Michael Davis pulled them over on Arkansas Highway 89.
King claims Brittain’s truck wouldn’t go into park, so Brittain left the vehicle and tried to grab a jug of antifreeze to put behind his truck’s tires so it wouldn’t hit the deputy’s car. This is when Davis allegedly fired his weapon without telling the 17-year-old Brittain to stop or get on the ground.
“They didn’t say one word that I know of. I didn’t hear it and it happened so fast,” King said.
Brittain’s truck was probably a piece of crap, but what he needed was a lift to work. Instead, he was shot down like a dog.
(more)
17-Year-Old Caught In Deadly Crossfire Between Arkansas Sheriff’s Deputy, Jug Of Antifreeze (Wonkette)
re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My air conditioner got hailed to death last year.
It’s much warmer today here at 25°Commie / 77°Murican.
Mine bit the dust on a hot day earlier this year. I had a couple of sweaty days, and took one day off work, but they got it up and running the morning I needed to get back to working from home. I appreciate AC a little more because of the experience.
re: #75 The Pie Overlord!
Oh shit, I think the AC has crapped out. I was warned 2 years ago that the compressor would have to be replaced at some point. BUT WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE NOW????
I had portable AC Units in my main room and they always died after 3 years. The last one died of course in April one week after the extended warranty expired. But there is a plus when you are in a rent controlled apartment in Los Angeles and you’re over 65. Rental agent must provide an air conditioner at no charge to you. So it’s nice to have a new Frigidare unit that cools a lot quicker than the old LG portable!
re: #84 JOE 🥓
Ours is a GE and was only one year old last year. However, it seems that softball-size hail is not covered by the equipment warranty. It was included in our homeowner’s insurance claim though.
I’m surprised that as many hail claims as we’ve made over the last three years our insurance company hasn’t dumped us. (They actually reduced our premiums this year.)
Important read by @JRubinBlogger —“The most authoritarian-inclined Americans tend to be over age 45, live in rural areas and don’t have a college degree. This is the profile of the GOP base, not coincidentally.” https://t.co/2qoFoWIi8g
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) June 29, 2021
NEW: “He told me he’s going to, and I think he will,” Trump said Tuesday of @HerschelWalker, on the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. from @blusestien #gapol https://t.co/b9c8o8tEBL
— Patricia Murphy (@politicalinsidr) June 29, 2021
re: #75 The Pie Overlord!
Oh shit, I think the AC has crapped out. I was warned 2 years ago that the compressor would have to be replaced at some point. BUT WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE NOW????
Condolences.
We are scheduled for a new furnace and A/C unit next week to avoid that very scenario. We signed the contract in late April and this was the first they could get to it, and other than a “yes” to my Are we still on track for that date? question I haven’t heard anything from them, so I’m not betting the farm on it yet.
However, everything is still working OK despite being 30 years old, so I am hopeful.
re: #86 JOE 🥓
Of course there are always outliers like my village, where everyone except two people has college degrees, and both of us (me with my high school education and my neighbour with her eight-grade education) voted for Hillary Clinton.
Living here you get “only uneducated people vote for Democrats.”
re: #79 Dangerman
said everyone whose a/c has died
because a/c units dont die in the off season when they’re not being used
;-)
ours died in august
during a florida heat wave
on a friday afternoon
we needed new everything - outside compressor unit, inside air handler.to their credit, the a/c co did the install right away on Sunday
two more months of payments and we’ll actually own it
I just got 2 brand-new wall-mounted AC’s. Apparently so did a lot of other people in the building; I counted 2 dozen delivery boxes from this particular appliance store down in the lobby.
Building staff is installing them for us, yes I tipped them. And I love these new ACs.
The old ones I was replacing were from when the building was constructed, in the mid-1960’s. These new ones cool much faster, much quieter, and they have a remote control.
I survived the Great Seattle Heat Wave of 2021, with no a/c and a few hours of no power. Do I get a t-shirt? (It was hot, yes; similar to the worst summer days in New Jersey when I was a kid or a bad summer day in Tucson or Oklahoma City, where I lived. The hazy air was the worst. Definite Jersey flashbacks from that.)
re: #88 calochortus
However, everything is still working OK despite being 30 years old, so I am hopeful.
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Domestic AC is all but unheard of in this part of Europe, I am lucky to live in an old farmhouse with 14” walls. They help keep the heat out for the first part of summer but will be heated through by the end of August.
At least it cools off nicely at night here in the countryside.
re: #86 JOE 🥓
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re: #70 JOE 🥓
Jeffrey, check out the new dishes being served on Amtrak’s western routes!
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I think you need to have a sleeper compartment accommodation to get the special dinner service with its own menu. It was that way when I traveled (coach) on the Southwestern back in the end of May between Chicago and Albuquerque.
Coach had access to a cafe car and the food there was stuff the steward could heat quickly for you. Though I will say that the angus beef cheeseburger I got was not bad. The coffee on the Southwestern was also not as good as that on the Pennsylvanian between Philly and Pittsburgh. (Latter was Dunkin Donuts I think.)
re: #65 retired cynic
America owes thanks to Trump’s lawyers — even William Barr, by George Conway
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Thank you for just being the worst AG ever, and not a full blown Nazi, Bill. Now fuck off.
re: #93 Eric The Fruit Bat
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We probably should have taken care of this a couple years ago because I’m assuming this system will outlive our tenure in this house, and possibly us, and should be more energy efficient. The current system was efficient for its day, but is not up to current standards.
re: #65 retired cynic
America owes thanks to Trump’s lawyers — even William Barr, by George Conway
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Kellyanne’s hubby?
re: #92 Ferdinand
I survived the Great Seattle Heat Wave of 2021, with no a/c and a few hours of no power. Do I get a t-shirt? (It was hot, yes; similar to the worst summer days in New Jersey when I was a kid or a bad summer day in Tucson or Oklahoma City, where I lived. The hazy air was the worst. Definite Jersey flashbacks from that.)
Me too (except I cheated and spent Sunday and Monday in my airconditioned office). Got a text that the power was out at my apartment Sunday from 2 until about 4:30. Maybe we’re neighbors.
re: #100 Teddy’s Person
Me too (except I cheated and spent Sunday and Monday in my airconditioned office). Got a text that the power was out at my apartment Sunday from 2 until about 4:30. Maybe we’re neighbors.
Hi neighbor! Technically we cheated too. When the power went out in Renton yesterday about noon we headed out in the car for a long air conditioned drive and about an hour out at Dash Point Beach, where it was about 15 degrees cooler.
re: #101 Ferdinand
Hi neighbor! Technically we cheated too. When the power went out in Renton yesterday about noon we headed out in the car for a long air conditioned drive and about an hour out at Dash Point Beach, where it was about 15 degrees cooler.
The power outages must have been widespread. I’m in Issaquah.
re: #80 jeffreyw
Those are pretty! Not gonna lie though, I’ll never take the train when I could not take a plane, instead.
It’s a trade-off as I found out on my recent trip.
The plane trip from Albuquerque to Philly took about 1/4th the time, but the comfort level was hellish to me for the actual flight time, and I find waiting area seating in airports generally uncomfortable. Plus you get the additional standing about times boarding/unboarding planes, security lines, getting to the airport early, etc. etc.
The rail side had a few multi-hour layovers as well. Lounge in Chicago was an uncomfortable as one in any airport. Layover in Pittsburgh did not count since I met friends and went out and had a drink. Checking and reclaiming baggage for the train trip was much easier. I showed up for the train 20 minutes early and there was no security lines. (Amtrak does reserve the right to do searches and such though - so it could happen.) Train takes quite a bit longer, but you have more personal space (bigger seats, more storage space, and an ability to move about the train, sit in a separate lounge area or observation car (if they have one).
I’d say traveling solo the airplane is probably still the primary. Traveling as a small group I’d give the train greater consideration since it’s much easier to do social stuff on a train than on an airliner. (I have played cards [cribbage] with my brother across the aisle in an airliner much to a stewardess’ amusement.)
re: #91 sagehen
I just got 2 brand-new wall-mounted AC’s. Apparently so did a lot of other people in the building; I counted 2 dozen delivery boxes from this particular appliance store down in the lobby.
Building staff is installing them for us, yes I tipped them. And I love these new ACs.
The old ones I was replacing were from when the building was constructed, in the mid-1960’s. These new ones cool much faster, much quieter, and they have a remote control.
aint you the coolest cat
Republicans love symbols, and hate our freedom.
Meghan McCain Goes Off on Athletes Protesting the American Flag: ‘I Will Die for This’ (Video) (TheWrap via MSN)
We had a window-mounted AC in my parents’ bedroom at a time when they were a rare luxury because my dad worked shiftwork at the steel mill and often needed to sleep during the day.
It was enough to keep the hallway and living room bearable on most days as well.
re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Republicans love symbols, and hate our freedom.
Meghan McCain Goes Off on Athletes Protesting the American Flag: ‘I Will Die for This’ (Video) (TheWrap via MSN)
Right, because never in the history of the Olympics have athletes made political statements or protests.
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re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Republicans love symbols, and hate our freedom.
Someone here left the quote I will never forget about how those who totally fail to understand a what a concept really means (like masculinity, patriotism, religion, etc.) are the ones who cling the most fervently to the arbitrary symbols we have come to attach to them (like guns, flags, crucifixes, etc.)
“Athletes on Team USA represent our country and our values!”
“What about freedom of expression?”
“FUCK YOU! SHUT UP AND PLAY!”
How a bunch of unthinking bioengineers in the name of profit nearly destroyed all life on Earth, with a genetically-modified bacterium, where the natural form is ubiquitous to all plant root systems.
How a Biotech Company Almost Killed The World (With Booze) (Cracked, April 3, 2010)
One researcher at the University of Oregon discovered their disastrous error and loudly shouted it to every scientific body and journal she could find.
The GMO bacteria had already received approval and paperwork to released into the wild.
re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Republicans love symbols, and hate our freedom.
“I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.”
-George Carlin
Others will try to get one of their high-follower demagogue heroes to notice and REALLY get the pile-on going. Who needs that shit? Blocking stops most of it, unless they’re really determined to harass. Muting doesn’t.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2021
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Somebody give that researcher a fucking medal.
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
Somebody give that researcher a fucking medal.
I concur with your assessment of the researchers merit.
The South Dakota National Guard are now soldiers for hire by rightwing billionaires.
NEW: A Tennessee billionaire and high-dollar Republican donor is funding the deployment of South Dakota National Guard troops to the U.S. Mexico border.https://t.co/axqXlMPcyo
— Axios (@axios) June 29, 2021
re: #115 No Malarkey!
The South Dakota National Guard are now soldiers for hire by rightwing billionaires.
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isnt this a bunch of different ways illegal?
NEW: A Tennessee billionaire and high-dollar Republican donor is funding the deployment of South Dakota National Guard troops to the U.S. Mexico border.https://t.co/axqXlMPcyo
— Axios (@axios) June 29, 2021
re: #116 Dangerman
isnt this a bunch of different ways illegal?
It’s just a normal part of fascism having wealthy business people intertwined with the government.
re: #116 Dangerman
isnt this a bunch of different ways illegal?
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Feature, not bug.
How dare black people protest something I don’t agree with. @MeghanMcCain #fakepatriot
— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) June 29, 2021
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How a bunch of unthinking bioengineers in the name of profit nearly destroyed all life on Earth, with a genetically-modified bacterium, where the natural form is ubiquitous to all plant root systems.
How a Biotech Company Almost Killed The World (With Booze) (Cracked, April 3, 2010)
One researcher at the University of Oregon discovered their disastrous error and loudly shouted it to every scientific body and journal she could find.
The GMO bacteria had already received approval and paperwork to released into the wild.
At least we could’ve gotten really drunk while starving to death!
re: #4 Dangerman
Covering up harassment and crimes. Who is being held personally liable? Who gets fired for covering up these actions?
Who did they cover for?
Time to rip the lid off all these misogynistic propagandists.
re: #88 calochortus
Condolences.
We are scheduled for a new furnace and A/C unit next week to avoid that very scenario. We signed the contract in late April and this was the first they could get to it, and other than a “yes” to my Are we still on track for that date? question I haven’t heard anything from them, so I’m not betting the farm on it yet.
However, everything is still working OK despite being 30 years old, so I am hopeful.
Recently got new furnace/air handler/two ton AC, cost me $5,150. Kinda curious what yours will be. The old unit lasted 23 years.
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
Somebody give that researcher a fucking medal.
They may have just bought us time. As technology advances, more and more people are able to engineer life forms, eventually including people who are completely mad. It may be the answer to the Fermi paradox.
re: #115 No Malarkey!
The South Dakota National Guard are now soldiers for hire by rightwing billionaires.
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Yes. This functionally would turn those troops in to soldiers for hire. This is lunacy, but it’s as though no one thought that private entities paying the bill for military deployments within the US would be problematic - or raise all kinds of questions.
Good luck, Andrew Giuliani, you’re going to need it.
Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew, gets zero votes from GOP leaders in bid for New York governor (Business Insider)
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Even “abstain” somehow did better than Andrew Giuliani https://t.co/F5BHQDbpTJ
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 29, 2021
re: #95 Targetpractice
You mean the sort of people who think the best way to gauge a candidate’s suitability for elected office is whether or not they can choke down a corn dog at the county fair are the sort of people who take a dim view of democracy? The hell you say!
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Corn dog libelz. Many corn dogs would make better candidates.
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How a bunch of unthinking bioengineers in the name of profit nearly destroyed all life on Earth, with a genetically-modified bacterium, where the natural form is ubiquitous to all plant root systems.
How a Biotech Company Almost Killed The World (With Booze) (Cracked, April 3, 2010)
One researcher at the University of Oregon discovered their disastrous error and loudly shouted it to every scientific body and journal she could find.
The GMO bacteria had already received approval and paperwork to released into the wild.
It appears that this story is not accurate. Here’s one article that refutes the contentions of the cracked story.
Edited to add link.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Corn dog libelz. Many corn dogs would make better candidates.
Agreed. especially if it’s a Nathans based corn dog
she’s gotta know she’s got the votes
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “amplified her plans to link a bipartisan infrastructure agreement to a second package of Democratic economic priorities, rebuffing an appeal from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to decouple the two bills,” The Hill reports.
“Pelosi said her initial strategy — to withhold a House infrastructure vote until the Senate passes a larger, partisan families plan — remains unchanged.”
Said House Budget Committee chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY): “What the Speaker has said, and I totally agree with her, is that we’re not going to vote on one until the Senate sends us both. That’s not changed.”
re: #103 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Read my comment again. I do not travel on a train. I do not travel on a plane. I ride in a car when Mrs J drives. I have less than 5K miles on my 2014 F-150.
re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Die then.
He wants a sum of $14,000,000,000,000. He’s only a billionaire.
Robert L. Johnson, the founder of BET, is pushing a $14 trillion reparations proposal he says would provide enough to close the giant Black/white wealth gap. https://t.co/8sq9fZZahl
— VICE News (@VICENews) June 29, 2021
re: #115 No Malarkey!
The South Dakota National Guard are now soldiers for hire by rightwing billionaires.
Now they’ll know exactly who to blame when they’re tired, bored and hotter than hell.
To whatever extent that this is legal, I’m going to guess that this is because it simply never occurred to anyone that this is a thing that might have to be made illegal.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 29, 2021
re: #132 jeffreyw
Read my comment again. I do not travel on a train. I do not travel on a plane. I ride in a car when Mrs J drives. I have less than 5K miles on my 2014 F-150.
you’re good with green eggs and ham, right?
re: #129 Hecuba’s daughter
It appears that this story is not accurate. Here’s one article that refutes the contentions of the cracked story.
Edited to add link.
Thanks. There does seem to be some controversy over the claim. But they also cite this:
Another paper, also by Holmes, Ingham and other colleagues, was cited later (after the rebuttal was published), but this paper reviewed the growth of spring wheat in poor, sandy soil that had been inoculated with the SDF20 strain of K. planticola. Not anything resembling grounds for worldwide plant Armageddon.
Because poor sandy soil? I presume the writer has never visited the vast wheat fields in the Nebraska Sandhills (kind of the definition of poor sandy soil).
Last year someone wanted to go all XIX Century here in town for bread baking. They rented an empty lot and planted it in wheat and harvested it and threshed it by hand.
Unless you bring in an unnatural lawn company to lay down an unnatural turf carpet on your lot, your whole yard is poor sandy soil.
re: #137 Dangerman
you’re good with green eggs and ham, right?
Huevos verde? Darn tootin’ I’m down with that!
re: #130 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Agreed. especially if it’s a Nathans based corn dog
Hebrew National for the win.
re: #122 BlueSpotinAL
Recently got new furnace/air handler/two ton AC, cost me $5,150. Kinda curious what yours will be. The old unit lasted 23 years.
Hahahahaha. Yeah. Well this will be a “2 stage” furnace and 4 ton A/C unit (with some addition duct work) for just under $16,000.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He wants a sum of $14,000,000,000,000. He’s only a billionaire.
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I saw that number on an PBS story about the inequality and ways to correct it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/4F5E5s5i7h
— PatsGal67 (@Gal67Pats) June 29, 2021
Can rich GOP donors send South Dakota’s national guard, like anywhere? Can Robert Mercer or the Kochs use them to pull guard duty around their evil residential compounds?
— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) June 29, 2021
UGH! Much as I hate to do it. Need to move the RV from storage to the front of the house so I can start prepping for tomorrows battery install. Probably will also start doing some of the basic repairs & cleaning as well. as well. BBIAW.
re: #5 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Imagine if the Democrats’ seats in Congress truly reflected their share of votes cast by the electorate and was not distorted by gerrymandering and the disproportionally representative nature of the Senate.
The vote in the House in 2020 was 51-48 in favor of the Dems. In a true proportional representation system, they’d have… basically the same majority they have now (53.4% of seats.
In the Senate, given the rotating nature of the seats, Republicans actually got more votes than Democrats 49.3-47. Even if you took the last three cycles and combined them and somehow made the Senate proportional too over those three elections, you’re looking at a 55-45 Dem majority.
So, things would look, more or less like they do now.
re: #147 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
It’s like a hole in space that you pour time into!
dinner, cause mrsdm worked hard today:
broiled turkey burgers
sauteed green beans with melted onions
brazilian cheese breads
re: #150 Dangerman
dinner, cause mrsdm worked hard today:
broiled turkey burgers
sauteed green beans with melted onions
brazilian cheese breads
We did McDonald’s because Mrs. Fish was having anxiety and panic attacks.
Tropical Wave #1 now has a reduced prediction to become a depression, while Tropical Wave #2 behind it has increased.
The track of #1 carries it over the Greater Antilles, while #2 appears to be headed to the Caribbean Sea.
nhc.noaa.gov (Five day tropical outlook)
In the past weeks, together with our allies in @agrandalliance and beyond, postal workers have showed up in a big way in the fight to stop management from slowing down the mail. #SavethePostOffice https://t.co/bJSUnkAdm1
— APWU National (@APWUnational) June 29, 2021
re: #141 calochortus
Hahahahaha. Yeah. Well this will be a “2 stage” furnace and 4 ton A/C unit (with some addition duct work) for just under $16,000.
You’re getting out of it cheaper than we are then. I have no idea how many tons the a/c part of our system being installed in August is though. The gas furnace part will go in the attic.
New - @SpeakerPelosi has invited representatives of the US Capitol Police and DC Metropolitan Police to be guests in the House gallery for the Wednesday vote for the Select Committee on January 6th insurrection, acc to two sources familiar. No word from @GOPLeader
— Jamie Gangel (@jamiegangel) June 29, 2021
re: #102 Teddy’s Person
The power outages must have been widespread. I’m in Issaquah.
Practically neighbors then! We actually moved over here from Bremerton earlier this year. Looking forward to hanging out in Issaquah sometime; we only went through once to check out the hang gliders.
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You’re getting out of it cheaper than we are then. I have no idea how many tons the a/c part of our system being installed in August is though. The gas furnace part will go in the attic.
I thought about you when I posted that. As I recall, your house is “special.”
Trump joins video platform Rumble ahead of Ohio rally (Reuters)
Somehow missed in all the insanity.
Rumble is a Canada-based video hosting site with primary investors Peter Theil and JD Vance.
It experienced rapid growth after wingnuts, conspiracy theorists, Nazis, racists, and other people were rarely but occasionally kicked off other platforms.
It is a hotbed of anti-vaxxers, Deep State horseshyte, stolen election bulkshyte, anti-CRT pro-slavery content, Islamophobic “kill all the Muslims” Christian brotherly love, white genocide Nazi propaganda, pretty much any fascist Republican position.
re: #157 calochortus
I thought about you when I posted that. As I recall, your house is “special.”
One of the first houses built in the town. (Town founded in 1909, house sold to its first owner for $400 in 1914. Finally got indoor plumbing in the Sixties. Finally got rid of the knob-and-tube electrical system a few years ago.)
re: #6 No Malarkey!
Grim forecast due to climate change. Large portions of the planet will become essentially uninhabitable.
Labor capacity losses related to heat stress are projected to double globally by 2050 with a warming climate.
Global warming of more than 6°C (11°F) eliminates all labor capacity in the hottest months in many areas, including the lower Mississippi Valley, and exposes most of the US east of the Rockies to heat stress beyond anything experienced in the world today.
In this scenario, heat stress in NYC exceeds present day Bahrain, and Bahrain heat stress would induce hyperthermia in even sleeping humans
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Only by limiting global warming to less than 3°C (5°F) do we retain labor capacity in all areas in even the hottest months.
re: #161 BeenHereAwhile
Labor capacity losses related to heat stress are projected to double globally by 2050 with a warming climate.
Global warming of more than 6°C (11°F) eliminates all labor capacity in the hottest months in many areas, including the lower Mississippi Valley, and exposes most of the US east of the Rockies to heat stress beyond anything experienced in the world today.
In this scenario, heat stress in NYC exceeds present day Bahrain, and Bahrain heat stress would induce hyperthermia in even sleeping humans
.
Only by limiting global warming to less than 3°C (5°F) do we retain labor capacity in all areas in even the hottest months.
You also have a threshold around +5°C warning that may be detrimental to go past because it has knock-on effects…
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Liberal Redneck - The Benghazi People VS the January 6 Commission pic.twitter.com/k7XQjFcyrE
— Trae Crowder (@traecrowder) June 29, 2021
re: #11 Belafon
We’re Democrats. If the GOP didn’t exist we’d invent it.
The GOP are the Loki of US politics.
re: #164 BeenHereAwhile
The GOP are the Loki of US politics.
Please do not besmirch the name of that ancient Norse deity, even if he is a mischievous bastard…
re: #165 Teukka
Please do not besmirch the name of that ancient Norse deity, even if he is a mischievous bastard…
Compared to Republicans, Loki is Little Lord Fauntleroy.
re: #59 jeffreyw
How do you eat that? — my experience with gumbo/okra dishes is all west African, we eat sauces containing cooked gumbo with rice.
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Trump joins video platform Rumble ahead of Ohio rally (Reuters)
Somehow missed in all the insanity.
Rumble is a Canada-based video hosting site with primary investors Peter Theil and JD Vance.
It experienced rapid growth after wingnuts, conspiracy theorists, Nazis, racists, and other people were rarely but occasionally kicked off other platforms.
It is a hotbed of anti-vaxxers, Deep State horseshyte, stolen election bulkshyte, anti-CRT pro-slavery content, Islamophobic “kill all the Muslims” Christian brotherly love, white genocide Nazi propaganda, pretty much any fascist Republican position.
Rumble reportedly just _officially_ changed their terms of services to ban hate-speech and anti-Semitic content (amongst other things), though they’ve been saying they don’t like that content for a while. Gab is pissed off at Rumble (which I don’t recall hearing about before) because of that.
The Far-Right Twitter Clone Is Mad at the Far-Right YouTube Clone for Signing Up Donald Trump
re: #62 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Launched scrubbed due to a range violation, not the weather.
Damn, just like le tour.
re: #165 Teukka
Please do not besmirch the name of that ancient Norse deity, even if he is a mischievous bastard…
The ancient American equivalent is Coyote.
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