Two of the best shredders in the world face off. Who wins? You do.
Pre-order “Crown”: https://smarturl.it/Eric-Gales-MLG.
Get ready to rumble with Eric Gales and his new single “I Want my Crown” featuring Joe Bonamassa, from the upcoming album, Crown, out everywhere January 28, 2022.#ericgales #joebonamassa
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Cheaters leading racists 8-5 in the sportsball game.
Vehicle flipped, multiple fires take place in Cedar Village:https://t.co/ONWankGVhb
— The State News (@thesnews) October 31, 2021
Imagine if they were black.
Our covid times :-)
Happy #halloween2021 pic.twitter.com/3EjWydJcTG— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 31, 2021
My piece in @NYDailyNews this AM: when a tragic shooting happens on a movie set, even @FoxNews calls for gun safety. But when a city like #NYC tries to implement common sense gun laws, #SCOTUS will have none of it…. @MSNBC @TheSundayShow https://t.co/PNlwPfA2qs
— Jonathan M. Metzl (@JonathanMetzl) October 31, 2021
I know I posted this in the last topic too, but, I just can’t help but look at it again, with just total, utter despondence.
New NBC poll on which party is better on…
D+24 - Climate change
D+12 - Coronavirus
D+10 - Education
D+10 - Abortion
D+5 - Voting rights
D+1 - Election security
R+9 - Immigration
R+18 - Economy
R+21 - National security
R+22 - Crime
R+24 - Inflation
R+27 - Border security— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) October 31, 2021
Again, this feels beyond just ‘Dems suck at messaging’. The sheer absolute disconnect is just horrific, and just seems like the country is on a hyper lurch rightward in a way that can’t be stopped, and the only ones we seem to do well on are the issues where popularity doesn’t seem to fucking matter anyway, because the tiny handful of holdouts are enough to fuck it up anyway.
I just….how the fuck do we change this? How the fuck can we fix this? It seems nigh fucking impossible, because it’s so reliant on a media ecosystem that has absolutely chosen its side, and it’s sure as fuck not us.
the fact that Steve Buscemi dressed up as his own character 🥺🥺 pic.twitter.com/N1iBoKr53D
— alexandrea (@buscemifilm) November 1, 2021
re: #4 Dread Pirate Ron
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Imagine if they were black.
Well, the answer is obvious: BLM infiltrated the protest and started the violence. White people just don’t get violent like this.
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re: #7 Citizen K
I know I posted this in the last topic too, but, I just can’t help but look at it again, with just total, utter despondence.
Again, this feels beyond just ‘Dems suck at messaging’. The sheer absolute disconnect is just horrific, and just seems like the country is on a hyper lurch rightward in a way that can’t be stopped, and the only ones we seem to do well on are the issues where popularity doesn’t seem to fucking matter anyway, because the tiny handful of holdouts are enough to fuck it up anyway.
I just….how the fuck do we change this? How the fuck can we fix this? It seems nigh fucking impossible, because it’s so reliant on a media ecosystem that has absolutely chosen its side, and it’s sure as fuck not us.
The Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine is cranked up to 11 and our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press is endlessly reciting GOP talking points.
re: #7 Citizen K
It’s tough to get a message out when the messengers don’t give a shit about what you have to say and are only too eager to promote what the OTHER GUYS have to say.
re: #7 Citizen K
I know I posted this in the last topic too, but, I just can’t help but look at it again, with just total, utter despondence.
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Again, this feels beyond just ‘Dems suck at messaging’. The sheer absolute disconnect is just horrific, and just seems like the country is on a hyper lurch rightward in a way that can’t be stopped, and the only ones we seem to do well on are the issues where popularity doesn’t seem to fucking matter anyway, because the tiny handful of holdouts are enough to fuck it up anyway.
I just….how the fuck do we change this? How the fuck can we fix this? It seems nigh fucking impossible, because it’s so reliant on a media ecosystem that has absolutely chosen its side, and it’s sure as fuck not us.
Oldie but goodie:
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
Cheaters leading racists 8-5 in the sportsball game.
If there’s no Dodgers and no Yankees, is it really a World Series at all?
re: #196 ckkatz
I understand that there is a whole process/procedure/ceremony for getting absinthe ready to drink.
And from what I have read, once the various powers-that-be concluded that there wasn’t any psycho-active drugs in absinthe beyond alcohol, they okayed its production again. So it is apparently back on the shelves here in these United States.
This is all explained at a chemistry seminar in Birmingham on 7 pm Nov 10, by the guy who did all the research. If you know anybody who will be in the area and interested, message me.
re: #4 Dread Pirate Ron
Imagine if they were black.
One person has the answer (wrong of course):
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN U RASIE A GENERATION OF GODLESS CHILDREN.💯✌🏾
— WerqThatAzzOut🇺🇸🦅💪🏼👙 (@AzzWerq) October 31, 2021
Your children are far more likely to learn uncritical Confederate theory in a Mississippi classroom than critical race theory.
But most white parents have long been fine with that.— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 31, 2021
In honor of Día de los Muertos
You were leaving the temple one day, Llorona
As I passed I saw you
You were leaving the temple one day, Llorona
As I passed I saw you
A beautiful shawl you wore, Llorona
That I believed you to be the Virgin
A beautiful shawl you wore, Llorona
That I believed you to be the Virgin
I know not what flowers hold
Those flowers from the graveyard
I know not what flowers hold
Those flowers from the graveyard
That when the wind moves them, Llorona
It looks as though they weep
That when the wind moves them, Llorona
It looks as though they weep
Two kisses that I carry on my brow, Llorona
They may never leave me
Two kisses that I carry on my brow, Llorona
They may never leave me
The last one from my mother, Llorona
And the first one that I gave you
The last one from my mother, Llorona
And the first one that I gave you
I know not what flowers hold
Those flowers from the graveyard
I know not what flowers hold
Those flowers from the graveyard
That when the wind moves them, Llorona
It looks as though they weep
That when the wind moves them, Llorona
It looks as though they weep
Ay, my Llorona
From the Lily field
Ay, my Llorona
Take me to the river
Cover me with your shawl, Llorona
Because I’ll die from this cold
Cover me with your shawl, Llorona
Because I’ll die from this cold
Ay-ya-ya-ya-ya
Baby Ruth is better than Snickers.
That is all.
Let’s be honest, the problem Dems have with messaging is that they don’t have much of a message. Unless “VOTING REPUBLICAN MAKES YOU A NAZI!!!” is a message.
re: #18 Dread Pirate Ron
Baby Ruth is better than Snickers.
That is all.
Heh, I always thought that it was a Babe Ruth. So I looked it up.
You are completely correct on the naming. Apparently it was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter. Iirc, it was featured in a scene in CaddyShack.
re: #22 ckkatz
Heh, I always thought that it was a Babe Ruth. So I looked it up.
You are completely correct on the naming. Apparently it was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter. Iirc, it was featured in a scene in CaddyShack.
They covered the naming on one of those food history shows. It was named after Babe Ruth. The company owner believed that marketing was how you sold products, and named it after Babe Ruth since he was the biggest name in the US. But Ruth didn’t go along with it, so the candy company president changed the name to Baby Ruth. There were court battles, but since trademark law wasn’t quite settled, the company won on the made up story.
Programming note: I can’t use the “create a page” function in Windows 10 Firefox. All I get is a blank page with no radio buttons.
I just restarted my computer so it isn’t that.
Lemme try with a different browser.
re: #24 Belafon
They covered the naming on one of those food history shows. It was named after Babe Ruth. The company owner believed that marketing was how you sold products, and named it after Babe Ruth since he was the biggest name in the US. But Ruth didn’t go along with it, so the candy company president changed the name to Baby Ruth. There were court battles, but since trademark law wasn’t quite settled, the company won on the made up story.
Quite true. Ruth Cleveland had died of diphtheria at age 12 in 1904, 17 years before the “Kandy Kake” bar was renamed “Baby Ruth,” while George Herman “Babe” Ruth was perhaps the biggest celebrity in the world at the time.
Legendary journalist Cokie Roberts dies at 75 https://t.co/Q5At9tIp4g
re: #27 Dave In Austin
Cokie Roberts died September 17, 2019.
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Further programming notes: I tried uploading a page with Internet Exploder 11, and no joy with that either.
Defeated, I had to use the overtly bloated and promiscuous Microsoft Edge. That did work. I hate Edge and will return to Firefox as soon as I post this comment.
In the meantime, a shameless plug:
Flag Observances for November 2021 (goes to the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs)
re: #28 Hecuba’s daughter
Weird. It just came thru my feed.
re: #31 Dave In Austin
Weird. It just came thru my feed.
One of FB friends, a retired lawyer, has a habit of posting old news. I’ve been caught out on it here a couple of times.
Cokie Roberts’s father was Congressman Hale Boggs (D-Louisiana). He, Alaska Congressman Neil Begich, and two others disappeared in a light plane in Alaska in 1972. With two Congressmen missing, this resulted in one of the largest air-sea searches up to that time, but no sign of them has ever been found. Their flight path took them over Prince William Sound.
re: #31 Dave In Austin
Weird. It just came thru my feed.
Her husband has a book coming out this week and was interviewed by ABC earlier today and spoke about her from what I can tell. That’s probably what popped these up.
Just days until the start of the United Nations climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, here is what passed for good news for Fiji’s small delegation: President Biden hadn’t refused to meet with them.https://t.co/lYFTce4GJh pic.twitter.com/ixw5zILswc
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 1, 2021
Some sanity reigns over the line from me in Wyoming.
Wyoming senators have voted down the last special legislative session bill they had written to counter President Joe Biden’s plans to require COVID-19 vaccinations. https://t.co/PlaUVaW60W
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) October 31, 2021
Breaking news: Members of the U.S. military jury who sentenced a terrorist last week at Guantánamo Bay after hearing graphic details of his torture by the C.I.A. have written a letter condemning his torture and urging clemency. https://t.co/NmRXD5zTPO pic.twitter.com/jBfEMOdsoF
— Carol Rosenberg (@carolrosenberg) October 31, 2021
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s not all good news over there though on vaccines.
Wyoming state senators on Friday voted down the last special legislative session bill they had written to counter President Joe Biden’s plans to require COVID-19 vaccinations, one that would have prohibited discrimination against business customers and others based on their vaccination status.
The special session begun Tuesday in response to the federal plans will continue Monday, however, when senators plan to take up a House bill to bar employers from considering vaccination status in hiring decisions. The measure cleared the House 38-20 on Friday.
The Senate will also consider a bill that would give Gov. Mark Gordon’s office $1 million to fight the Biden administration vaccine requirements for certain federal, health care and other private-sector employees, and prohibit enforcement of the requirements in Wyoming. That bill passed the House 41-14 on Friday.
With no more legislation related to COVID-19 immediately left to consider, the House adjourned until Wednesday.
Gordon announced Friday that Wyoming will join nine other Republican-led states in litigation to fight a vaccine requirement for federal contractors.
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Wyoming Senate kills COVID-19 vaccine discrimination bill (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
Just ate a gummy for the first time in awhile. If I stay awake, I will let you know how it goes. The point of eating it was to kill some physical pain and to just help me escape from the political hellscape and the end of our country.
This is unusually stupid and dishonest even by your standards.
The only way anyone can reach this conclusion is if they are pro-COVID and they believe the biggest threat facing America is an academic methodology for analyzing racial disparities in legal outcomes.— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) October 31, 2021
re: #40 Dread Pirate Ron
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DeSantis fits the bill for what we’ve been saying would eventually happen, that the GQP would find somebody every bit as fascist as Trump but more competent.
re: #41 Targetpractice
DeSantis fits the bill for what we’ve been saying would eventually happen, that the GQP would find somebody every bit as fascist as Trump but more competent.
He’s not more competent though. He can string more than 3 words together without sounding like a a five year old just learning to read, but that doesn’t make him competent. More like Otto from “A Fish Called Wanda”.
re: #42 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
He’s not more competent though. He can string more than 3 words together without sounding like a a five year old just learning to read, but that doesn’t make him competent. More like Otto from “A Fish Called Wanda”.
He’s what the party leadership thought they were going to get with Trump: A meat puppet who will rile up the base and sign whatever is put in front of him.
Should the rich pay more in taxes? We ask New Yorkers on Wall Street https://t.co/Ymhk5AYZuS
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) November 1, 2021
re: #45 Targetpractice
Parody has looped around and become reality.
Indeed.
you have got to be kidding me pic.twitter.com/GOKZUzNJVD
— chas (spooky ghost) (@scabellumpedum) October 31, 2021
Ya know, maybe we should push this observance back to September?
Nebraska Winter Weather Awareness Day will be on Thursday, November 4! Here’s the snowfall totals from last winter. Most parts of the state were well above normal! Find out what to expect this season and reflect on last winter in this packet: https://t.co/qx4p77aHRg#NEwx pic.twitter.com/zDR7ptPNUy
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) October 31, 2021
Thread, eleven tweets.
Traffic stops are by far the most common police encounters with civilians. But the risk to officers has been overstated. The police and the courts presume danger. This has contributed to a series of seemingly avoidable killings across the U.S. https://t.co/Trx5lklSSK
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 31, 2021
Republicans keeping it classy in Arkansas.
Father of Child Molester Josh Duggar Announces Run for Arkansas State Senate (The Friendly Atheist at Patheos)
What do you do when your family’s cash cow has died out because one of your kids molested a bunch of your other kids, and the only reason you’re in the news these days is because that same kid is facing trial on charges of receiving and possessing illicit images of child sexual abuse?
If you’re a Republican, the answer is simple: Run for office.
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re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thread, eleven tweets.
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Like most such matters, it comes back to training and the idea that has been drilled into generations of cops that every person is suspect unless they are cuffed and jammed in the back of a cruiser.
Y’all be saying Twitter isn’t real life. Well explain this. pic.twitter.com/hFbvhGFEXE
— Reesha (@Reesha) November 1, 2021
After Boston’s invocation schedule was declared unconstitutional (it did not allow minority religions to give invocations), front-runner for the mayoral election Michelle Wu has been deposed to appear on Election Day to answer for her discrimination.
Now her lawyers have filed an emergency motion to get her off the hook, because they did not propose an alternative day.
Satanists bedevil Michelle Wu in Boston lawsuit (Boston Herald, October 31, 2021)
Only Christians, Muslims, or Jews were permitted to give invocations, in violation of the Supreme Court case Galloway v Town of Greece. No atheists, Wiccans, Hindus, or others were permitted.
The city’s lawyers said the Election Day request of Wu is for “the sole purpose of harassing and annoying” the likely next mayor of Boston.
For Wu’s part, she tweeted a deadpan “I will be slightly busy on this day.”
The topic should be resolved soon as the coincidentally named District Judge Angel Kelley gave the Satanists until 9 a.m. Friday to show a good reason why this was scheduled for Nov. 2.
Lucien Greaves, the head of TST, said this is all a big misunderstanding, and that this is just a weird coincidence.
“That wasn’t us trying to be smartasses,” Greaves told the Herald, saying any other day should be fine. “I wasn’t really expecting this to be a thing.”
He said the issue is that the city’s not offering a different day, and simply refusing to make Wu available all together. He said Wu, as council president when the Satanists were denied the ability to give an opening prayer at council, is relevant to the suit over that denial. He further asserted that he didn’t think city lawyers — currently in the employ of Acting Mayor Kim Janey, a Wu supporter — should be the ones making the argument for Wu.
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Michelle Wu is currently a city council member and a Democrat, which is a reminder that Christian bigots rule our party as well.
In U.S., Far More Support Than Oppose Separation of Church and State (Pew Research, October 28)
The overwhelming majority of Americans in their survey do not believe that the USA should be declared a Christian Nation (tm).
However, when you look at the breakdown of various questions, they do not understand what separation of church and state mean.
For example, 75% of Republicans and 78% of Democrats believe that schoolteachers should be allowed to lead students in Christian prayer.
71% of Republicans and 77% of Democrats believe the government should stop enforcing separation of church and state.
Christians majority-support putting religious symbols on town logos, while that number is 28% amongst Jews and 19% amongst non-Christians.
4-in10 Black Americans say public school teachers should be allowed to lead Christian prayer in public schools, while that number is 31% amongst white Americans.
More of the survey at the link.
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In U.S., Far More Support Than Oppose Separation of Church and State (Pew Research, October 28)
The overwhelming majority of Americans in their survey do not believe that the USA should be declared a Christian Nation (tm).
However, when you look at the breakdown of various questions, they do not understand what separation of church and state mean.
For example, 75% of Republicans and 78% of Democrats believe that schoolteachers should be allowed to lead students in Christian prayer.
71% of Republicans and 77% of Democrats believe the government should stop enforcing separation of church and state.
Christians majority-support putting religious symbols on town logos, while that number is 28% amongst Jews and 19% amongst non-Christians.
4-in10 Black Americans say public school teachers should be allowed to lead Christian prayer in public schools, while that number is 31% amongst white Americans.
More of the survey at the link.
So often, “separation of church and state” seems to translate to many Americans as “government cannot impose itself upon religion,” but religious influence upon government is a-okay.
re: #54 Targetpractice
So often, “separation of church and state” seems to translate to many Americans as “government cannot impose itself upon religion,” but religious influence upon government is a-okay.
I’m fine with taxing any religious work which is not charitable work (maintaining a church building or buying property doesn’t count) or work which supports a government purpose (working as a proxy for a marriage for example).
re: #54 Targetpractice
It’s noteworthy that Democrats consistently poll by Pew as being the ones who wish to weaken church/state separation over Republicans.
Pew believes that two major Democratic constituencies, Hispanic Catholics and Black Protestants drive those numbers up above the Republicans.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s noteworthy that Democrats consistently poll by Pew as being the ones who wish to weaken church/state separation over Republicans.
Pew believes that two major Democratic constituencies, Hispanic Catholics and Black Protestants drive those numbers up above the Republicans.
It’s a sign of how fucked the GQP are as a party that they can’t understand how much more power they might have if they could bring those groups into their tent. But between the rampant racism in their ranks and their opposition to anything that smacks of “socialism” like helping out your community or promoting the public good, they keep driving those voters over into the Dem tent.
re: #54 Targetpractice
The groups which wish to keep church and state separate the most is of course are atheists and agnostics, at 96%, followed by Jews at 91%.
The only Christian groups which broke 50% are white non-Evangelical Protestants at 57% and all Catholics at 56%.
The poll explains the Democratic Boston city council president’s position on banning minority religions in invocations as detailed in #52, and expected to win the election for mayor on November 2.
Let’s go doughnut! pic.twitter.com/KihVHP3UUg
— Alan! (@o2bnobx) October 31, 2021
The “F-ck your feelings” crowd from the Trump years now seems awfully protective of the feelings of little white kids, now that it’s time to teach people the actual history of this country. Funny how that works.
— 💛🐝⚖️ Kenneth of House Pfizer™💉, 1st of His Name (@Needle_of_Arya) November 1, 2021
Carson v Makin (Goes to Wikipedia)
Many towns in Maine do not have public school districts. As such, in those areas Maine provides funding to send students to private schools.
A group of parents want to use that funding to send children to explicitly Christian schools, which is prohibited by Maine law. A challenge rose to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the Maine law.
That has been appealed to the US Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on December 8.
On one side of the case are parents who want to send their children to explicitly Christian schools which can discriminate and teach one particular religious view. On the other side are Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Humanist Association, and several church organisations which do not believe tax money from everyone should fund explicitly religious education.
If this case is found in favour of the parents, there will be an explosion across the land of people seeking to divert taxes to private Christian schools.
Business Insider thinks this is a story
Video appears to show Melania Trump turning away and rolling her eyes immediately after smiling next to husband Donald Trump at World Series game
This video got deleted from Twitter. You know what to do. pic.twitter.com/5VEKhU5z7y
re: #4 Dread Pirate Ron
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Imagine if they were black.
Fires like that don’t “take place”
Benign, passively
Fires were lit. Deliberately, by someone
Vehicle flipped, multiple fires take place in Cedar Village:https://t.co/ONWankGVhb
— The State News (@thesnews) October 31, 2021
re: #21 Targetpractice
Let’s be honest, the problem Dems have with messaging is that they don’t have much of a message. Unless “VOTING REPUBLICAN MAKES YOU A NAZI!!!” is a message.
It is difficult to distill real and sweeping policies down toa 3 word bumper sticker.
Especially if you want to stick to the truth
re: #43 Targetpractice
He’s what the party leadership thought they were going to get with Trump: A meat puppet who will rile up the base and sign whatever is put in front of him.
Presentable
Somewhat compliant to the string pullers
Sort of knows how/when to keep his mouth shut
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thread, eleven tweets.
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Why Many Police Traffic Stops Turn Deadly
A: The police escalate.
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re: #50 Targetpractice
Like most such matters, it comes back to training and the idea that has been drilled into generations of cops that every person is suspect unless they are cuffed and jammed in the back of a cruiser.
Still even then
re: #59 Dave In Austin
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The devil is not real
Make of that that you will
And Brandon won
The devil cannot endure to be mocked. Neither can the wokes. Make of that what you will and let’s go Brandon.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 31, 2021
Sen, Mitt Romney (R-UT) defended the filibuster in the Washington Post:“Finally, consider a more immediate implication of eliminating the filibuster. There is a reasonable chance that Republicans could win both houses of Congress in the next election cycle and, further, that Donald Trump could be elected president once again in 2024. Have Democrats thought through what it would mean for them for Trump to be entirely unrestrained, with the Democratic minority having no power whatsoever? If Democrats eliminate the filibuster now, they — and the country — may soon regret it very much.”
Shorter: Don’t destroy the filibuster because my party is nuts
Of course ol’ mitt could consider voting with the Democrats more. I mean, if he’s so “concerned”
And finally if the Rs mitt’s warning against take the senate, they can nuke the filibuster themselves. Mitt seems not too bright.
I cannot verify this:
Did Wolf Blitzer really get sent to the wrong city for the UN climate conference, or…? pic.twitter.com/SpKpn44OiA
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) November 1, 2021
If you’re on Faceborg, you can probably find one of these groups named after your state.
“Protect Nebraska Children” is backed by an international hate group (Seeing Red Nebraska)
Meet the conspiracy theorists who want to take over your school board.
Everyone is surely aware of the increasingly unhinged and violent mobs of ill-informed “angry parents” storming school board meetings and losing their shit because someone might tell their kids that the “discovery” of America actually wasn’t that cool or that gay people exist or that priests can also be predators. This is happening nationwide, and Nebraska is no exception. Recently a group called Protect Nebraska Children popped up on Facebook, and, folks, it ain’t pretty. To start with, the group is backed and presumably funded by Family Watch International, a group that is recognized as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the SPLC. When you type the url provided by the group - protectnebraskachildren.org - it redirects to the url “comprehensivesexualityeducation.org”, and if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will see this:
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re: #71 Ming5000
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Edinburgh and Glasgow are 50 miles apart city center to city center. Glasgow’s not that big a place and probably overwhelmed by the attendees, so I’m guessing a lot of the press are in Edinburgh as overflow, more or less.
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My state senator Steve Erdman (R-District 47) is a member of this group, so there’s another reason to file to run against him.
Meanwhile in Great Brexit:
BoJo’s government is getting all huffy over the fishing row with France, giving the French 48 hours to do something, or to not do something. It’s all very muddled. In the old days I guess they’d go to war over fishing, unlikely to happen these days.
However….
Loyalists claim hijacking and petrol bombing of bus in Co Down this morning
Loyalists have claimed the hijacking and petrol bombing was done to coincide with a deadline set by the DUP to resolve issues around the NI protocol.
Of course the DUP (and their allies) are all saying they condemn this… but why did the DUP come out with a hard deadline in the first place? Wouldn’t the party leaders know that their hard-headed stance will stir up their followers? (Answer - of course they do.)
re: #73 ericblair
Edinburgh and Glasgow are 50 miles apart city center to city center. Glasgow’s not that big a place and probably overwhelmed by the attendees, so I’m guessing a lot of the press are in Edinburgh as overflow, more or less.
Thanks. That clears up a lot of things I didn’t know! LGF is a great place to get a deeper understanding of threads of other details in a headline.
Certainly BoJo and the Tories have to realize that anything they try to do against the French and the EU will backfire on them.
Cutting off trade? Suicide.
Raising tariffs? Suicide.
Brits are already on edge about supply problems. Making the stores even emptier is a formula for political disaster.
If only the Labour party had a decent leader instead of one which has his head up some ostrich’s ass then maybe the UK could find a way out of this. But as UK politics currently stand, it seems the seeds of hyper-nationalism are going to be allowed to sprout and bear their bad fruit.
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I know how much you all enjoy scamvangelists talking about their private planes… pic.twitter.com/swiVooOAcB
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) October 30, 2021
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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When I attended the local megachurch, it was at the beginning of the Great Recession. The pastor talked about what a hardship it was that he had to sell the church’s private plane, because he used it for so much of his great philanthropic work, but they would endure this hardship because as long as they kept giving, God would reward them. (Yes, they preached the prosperity gospel, why do you ask?) That was one of the last straws for me.
Alternate caption: Nurse fired for putting patients’ health at risk. https://t.co/aCQ1QRXFcA
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 1, 2021
re: #43 Targetpractice
He’s what the party leadership thought they were going to get with Trump: A meat puppet who will rile up the base and sign whatever is put in front of him.
The Republican strategy since the Trump monster took over the party during the campaign of 2016 was to embrace the crazy and somehow contain it.
This is not how fascism plays out in real life. It gets much worse than this every time.
In economic news, since the Fed has announced it is going to scale back its quantitative easing I expect that interest rates will start nudging upwards. The US Treasury has been borrowing money at extremely low rates, essentially having lenders give the US money.
That will stop.
As interest rates inch up expect a lot of people discovering that their adjustable mortgages and credit card payments go up, and all of a sudden realize how bad of a position they are in.
Rumors of inflation keep getting passed around the internet and news outlets. This is partly because central banks are seeing that they need to raise rates.
All of this will play out over the next couple of years. I expect it to affect our elections.
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will be the headliners of the Super Bowl LVI halftime show in February https://t.co/WFENFpxpYE
— CNN (@CNN) October 3, 2021
Red-Caped Catholic Loons: The Super Bowl’s Halftime Show Will Bring Spiritual Apocalypse And God’s Wrath (Joe My God, October 31, 2021)
Via email from the red-caped Catholic loons
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Shrug. Sounds to me like the best show since The Who did half time.
re: #64 Dangerman
It is difficult to distill real and sweeping policies down toa 3 word bumper sticker.
Especially if you want to stick to the truth
First we have to actually pass those “real and sweeping policies.”
Link to a right wing (Dalrymple is one of the editors) conservative site, not because I agree with much of their articles, but because this story gives us insights to what is happening in the (so-called) intellectual conservative circles:
All history is revisonist. A previously settled view can always be challenged by archeological discovery or by dissenting historians.
[…]Peter Hitchens’ The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion comes from a different tradition. It is the most striking revisionist history of the era that I know. The author is a maverick, who describes himself as a Burkean Conservative and Anglican Christian. His personal journey is from the outer Left—some years spent reporting on the Eastern bloc cured him of that—to the Conservative Party, which he left in disgust. Boris Johnson, in his view, is simply not a Conservative. His best book, I’d say, is The Abolition of Britain. He is warily respected on the liberal Left, less so by the Conservatives. His latest is an all-out attack on the national myth of World War II.
That myth is best phrased by the Prince of Wales, who said in a BBC religious broadcast (22 December 2016) that WW2 was “a battle against intolerance, monstrous extremism, and an inhuman attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.” Other than retrospectively, that claim, as Hitchens says, is almost completely false. The war began and continued on entirely different bases of knowledge, calculation, and national support. Nations do not go to war because they disapprove of intolerance, other people’s intolerance anyway. Britain’s entry was made inevitable by the Polish guarantee of March 1939, a reaction to Munich which must rank among the most foolish and suicidal policies ever made. We could do nothing to protect or save Poland. The Polish guarantee was merely a bluff, which Hitler contemptuously called.
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My feeling is that the nostalgia for isolationism is so strong, even though like all nostalgia our memories are at best partial and possibly false, that in light of Trump, Brexit, etc. there is the urge to look back at the middle of the 20th century and think that WWII was wrong.
Not in the sense of trying to justify Hitler and Nazi Germany (though indeed neo-Nazis do try that), but in the sense that one’s country should just sit out these things, or delay interaction as much as possible.
Yes, all history is revisionist. But I have to wonder what the end game is to some revisions. Purely academic inquiry seems to not be as important as much as casting a new sales pitch for old ideologies.
re: #76 Ming5000
President Biden flew into Edinburgh Airport on Air Force 1 about an hour ago rather than landing at Glasgow Airport or even Prestwick which are much closer to Glasgow city itself.
The supposed Biden-turned-Youngkin voter @jwpetersNYT quoted wrote an article about CRT and race-based admissions for Quillette two months before the 2020 election: https://t.co/qTHxKZb02W https://t.co/GrHh3NBcAD
— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) November 1, 2021
The NYT abandoned their public editor program because they said twitter would keep them honest. Let’s see how that’s going. https://t.co/qz3fWfNf1I
— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) November 1, 2021
re: #86 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Smells like the next book from Mr Hitchens will be full of praise for that “Hitler chap” in the “pity he did X when he was so great at Y” vein.
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re: #89 William Lewis
Not sure they will go all the way to praise the Nazis.
What we are seeing, instead, is the re-emergence of isolationism as a reaction against modernism.
Conservatives, those who like to label themselves as such, are at war with modernity. That is why in the same issue of that magazine is an article by a woman professing she left “Darwin” because of her early life in China. (Said woman is now a pentecostal sort.)
Modernity is too much for some people, because it is an emergent property of our species, as a collective, only brought about by massive population growth made possible because of our tool-making capabilities.
As an individual organism, modernism is foreign to us. We’d rather forage/hunt, run about, mate and fight over the above.
re: #89 William Lewis
Smells like the next book from Mr Hitchens will be full of praise for that “Hitler chap” in the “pity he did X when he was so great at Y” vein.
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Hannibal Lecter was a fine psychiatrist also I hear.
re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Certainly BoJo and the Tories have to realize that anything they try to do against the French and the EU will backfire on them.
Cutting off trade? Suicide.
Raising tariffs? Suicide.Brits are already on edge about supply problems. Making the stores even emptier is a formula for political disaster.
If only the Labour party had a decent leader instead of one which has his head up some ostrich’s ass then maybe the UK could find a way out of this. But as UK politics currently stand, it seems the seeds of hyper-nationalism are going to be allowed to sprout and bear their bad fruit.
I agree with most everything, except for the “political disaster” part. While I’ll easily claim no vast knowledge/understanding of UK politics, AFAICT, the Tories have pretty much gamed the system to maintain near-absolute control over Parliament and the Government: whatever domestic problems arise as a result of Brexit (and there will, I’m sure be a metric -or Imperial- fuckton of them), they will most likely revert to their standard methods of dealing with them, i.e.
1. Blame Somebody Else (i.e. Those Bloody Foreigners)
2. Wave the Union Jack vigorously while promoting point 1.
3. Shrug off any criticism and walk away.
Repeat as needed.
And yes, SOME sort of viable Opposition might mitigate some of the problems, but, sadly, I don’t see that happening any time soon
Six inches of snow on the ground, and it’s still snowing.
The leaves on my elm tree haven’t fallen yet, so it’s very heavily laden.
re: #88 BlueSpotinAL
This shit is so exhausting and hopeless, because there’s simply no way to penetrate it. These journos aren’t receptive to criticism as long as it comes from the left, and in fact double down harder as if the criticism was very proof of their righteousness. And it’s clear the lies, obfuscation, and useful idiocy are working as planned, as all of the GOP’s bullshit lines have been perfectly laundered and the polls reflect that, by how they have massive approval advantages of the economy, immigration, and so much fucking else.
There’s just no piercing through this, no matter how good the ‘message’ is. What the fuck can you do against this kind of fucking bulwark?
The first Sandhills tropical update for November.
There is a disturbance WSW of Cabo Verde with a low chance of development.
The wave that turned into the nor’easterner on the East Coast has moved southeast over the Atlantic, and formed into Subtropical Storm Wanda. Wanda is well-east of Bermuda, and will wander the Atlantic for the next several days. Wanda should become a tropical storm on Tuesday.
LOCATION…34.5N 43.9W
ABOUT 970 MI…1560 KM W OF THE AZORES
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…50 MPH…85 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…SE OR 125 DEGREES AT 7 MPH…11 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…990 MB…29.24 INCHES
re: #95 Jay C
People in the UK are generally right-wing and conservative with a small ‘c’ and tend to vote for parties that think the way they do. That includes traditional Labour voters who are generally xenophobic, racist, sexist and homophobic but they used to vote for the Labour candidate for tribal reasons, they were working-class with dirty jobs in coal mines and shipyards etc. and Tory supporters worked in offices in comfy chairs, shuffling papers.
Those dirty killing jobs are gone now, replaced by automation and resource extinction. The new generation of young people from Labour’s Red Wall constituencies have white-collar jobs in management, a mortgage and kids in a good school and they don’t want Those People moving in next door and depressing property prices, they’re tired of hearing funny-coloured people jabbering away in foreign languages at the supermarket and they are willing to vote for candidates that think like them even if it’s actually against their best interests.
A lot of pro-Brexit voters weren’t really concerned about the EU’s bendy-cucumber rules, they just wanted the Polish plumbers and Estonian care home workers to go back to where they came from. Now that’s happened it’s caused the labour shortage problems you might expect and they can’t accept it’s what they voted for so they have to blame someone else, anyone else. The Other is a convenient scapegoat as always, the Dolchstosslegende is alive and well.
It’s been even higher more recently: Since 6/30/21, the death rate in the reddest tenth is SIX TIMES higher than in the bluest tenth: https://t.co/RXx9N6B7tB pic.twitter.com/t1BJOwNdSX
— Charles Ghoul-ba 👻 (@charles_gaba) October 31, 2021
re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Meanwhile over at the Weather Prediction Center of the NWS, the weather for the Lower 48 can be pretty much summed up as “crap” (that’s a technical term).
Freezing rain will be in the central California mountains, as well as a line from central Washington draping through Idaho, SW Wyoming, most of Colorado and Kansas, and southern Nebraska. Freezing rain will also fall in NE Ohio, NW Penna., and northern NY.
Snow is limited to central Wyoming, the Nebraska Panhandle, northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Tomorrow, the front will have dropped further south, engulfing Colorado in freezing rain. Idaho and Kansas will also continue to be shellacked, while thunderstorms will set up west of Dallas into southern Oklahoma. Freezing rain will cover large parts of the UP, and the northern and western portions of the Lower Peninsula. The same areas of Ohio, Penna., and New York will continue to get freezing rain as well.
And that’s the weather.
📌UK study: ~1 in 4 people who were infected & tested PCR positive for COVID19 did NOT go on to develop IgG antibodies. Particularly if they were asymptomatic & elderly.
Want a sure way to develop antibodies against #SARSCoV2? Get vaccinated💉!
Report: https://t.co/l03exSATVI pic.twitter.com/G5d4mdwgKV— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) October 30, 2021
The @nytimes really just ignoring all of the doctors, nurses, virologists, and immunologists who’ve treated and studied Covid these past 21 months and absolutely CANNOT WAIT to get their 5-11 year olds vaccinated against Covid. There’s a lot of us out here.
— Jillian Carmichael (@ViralCarmichael) October 31, 2021
No one is losing their job due to vaccine mandates. People are losing their job for refusing to vaccinate.
And no, no sympathies. https://t.co/Tr2qWPiTGN— Spandan @ Reclaim the Fight 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈 🇮🇱 (@reclaimthefight) October 31, 2021
re: #86 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Link to a right wing (Dalrymple is one of the editors) conservative site, not because I agree with much of their articles, but because this story gives us insights to what is happening in the (so-called) intellectual conservative circles:
My feeling is that the nostalgia for isolationism is so strong, even though like all nostalgia our memories are at best partial and possibly false, that in light of Trump, Brexit, etc. there is the urge to look back at the middle of the 20th century and think that WWII was wrong.
Not in the sense of trying to justify Hitler and Nazi Germany (though indeed neo-Nazis do try that), but in the sense that one’s country should just sit out these things, or delay interaction as much as possible.
Yes, all history is revisionist. But I have to wonder what the end game is to some revisions. Purely academic inquiry seems to not be as important as much as casting a new sales pitch for old ideologies.
It’s a numbers-filed-off variant of the classic “Lincoln wanted a war” argument that the “Lost Cause” crowd is fond of. If you’ve ever heard a wingnut natter on about how Lincoln provoked the war by refusing to abandon Fort Sumter and that he went to war rather than pursuing diplomacy, then Hitchens’ arguments are nothing new and make even less sense. Attacking the war by saying that it wasn’t about the Holocaust is like saying that the Civil War “wasn’t about slavery,” it’s a way to insist that any noble goals of the war were convenient lies to mask wars of aggression.
A federal judge has denied a motion by 130 Chicago firefighters and other city employees to halt enforcement of the city’s requirement that all its workers report whether they’ve received a COVID vaccination or risk being put on no-pay status. https://t.co/qzVN1HUy9l
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 31, 2021
2 Options to be precise: Get it or get out. https://t.co/afS0O10tCb
— Dan Ryan (@_Dan_Ryan) November 1, 2021
re: #103 Belafon
Well, yay I guess? I live in the reddest House district in the nation.
The last seven day’s case rate per 100,000 in the Panhandle is 380.2. The positivity rate is 12.7% (with all state testing sites shut down weeks ago). The week ending October 10 there were 3,022 tests returned from hospitals and clinics.
Iowa cut extended unemployments benefits in the spring, reasoning that they were disouraging people from working and not needed even during the pandemic.
Now they’re extending unemployment benefits to those who refuse vaccine mandates meant to bring an end to the pandemic https://t.co/uPA1zd9wTz— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 29, 2021
re: #112 Belafon
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So the state of Iowa is going to keep people indefinitely on the dole? Because I hate to break it to them, but the companies who fired their asses are not going to just drop the mandate in a few weeks/months. Nor are many others likely to hire people who refuse to comply with company policy.
Thread, thirteen tweets. Dr. Fengl-Ding notes “natural immunity” suffers from selection bias, since it doesn’t count who died from Covid-19 (and doesn’t take into account so-called long Covid).
⚠️BREAKING—REINFECTION & NATURAL IMMUNITY—new CDC study in hospitalized adults finds: unvaccinated people with prior #COVID19 infection recently were **5 times more likely** to be reinfected / get breakthrough versus people recently fully vaccinated! 🧵 https://t.co/VGmWPmm5lE pic.twitter.com/mlt5fJ3643
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 29, 2021
re: #107 Belafon
No one is losing their job due to vaccine mandates. People with awful judgement are weeding themselves out by refusing to vaccinate because they’d rather die in agony and kill others than disappoint their stupid propaganda-addicted friends.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 1, 2021
re: #114 Targetpractice
So the state of Iowa is going to keep people indefinitely on the dole? Because I hate to break it to them, but the companies who fired their asses are not going to just drop the mandate in a few weeks/months. Nor are many others likely to hire people who refuse to comply with company policy.
That seems like a bass-ackwards way to implement Universal Basic Income.
Assholes.
Many of the crew members were based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, nearly 50 miles away, the newspaper reported. This raised discomfort among members of the camera crew who told production staff that it was unsafe for them to spend “an extra two hours driving to and from Albuquerque on Interstate 25, a rural four-lane highway with a 75-mph speed limit.”
But the publication reports that the crew’s request for hotel rooms was “treated as a joke” within the “Rust” production office.
“So much so that someone on the production staff had ordered custom black long-sleeve T-shirts, with ‘Error 404: Housing Not Found’ and ‘ABQ is an hour away’ printed on them,” the LA Times added, adding that it had seen a photo of the shirts.
It’s time to dust off the holly and press play on Mariah Carey as Halloween draws to a close and people get into the Christmas spirit
We’ll just go ahead and erase Thanksgiving.
Instead of “encouraging” all those soon to be jobless plague rats to take jobs to help ease the “labor crisis,” the GQP are instead encouraging them to sit on their asses and collect welfare until the mandates go away.
re: #119 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Assholes.
That’s called a mild commute in most big cities. My wife’s job was 30 miles away, and it would take her an hour to get to work, and about an hour and a half to get home in the evenings.
\re: #122 Belafon
That’s called a mild commute in most big cities. My wife’s job was 30 miles away, and it would take her an hour to get to work, and about an hour and a half to get home in the evenings.
That’s a choice she made. This crew did not make that choice.
re: #123 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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That’s a choice she made. This crew did not make that choice.
Doubt she was working 14 hr+ shifts, either….
re: #119 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Given that film schedule shooting usually requires 12 or 14 hours of intense work each day for the techs, camera crews etc., adding a long commute to and from hotels is just asking for someone to get killed in a road accident when they fall asleep at the wheel.
When I did some SFX work for a big movie that was just about to start principal shooting (i.e. the A-list principal lead would be on set being paid a million dollars a day to be in front of the camera) we pulled 14 hour-shifts to get things ready [1]. The trades union agreement meant we got limo service from where we were staying to the studios in the morning and back again at night.
[1] There’s a saying in the movie industry — you can tell a director the props/sets/costumes etc. aren’t ready for shooting only once in your career. That’s because you’ll never work in the industry ever again.
And on today’s agenda—the corrupted court will signal an end to Roe.
The questions becomes will they go beyond that and ban all abortions under any circumstances as Opus Dei decreed? After all 5 of those wackos belong to Opus Dei…
Get ready for the tearful, heart-rendering op-eds about the economic devastation that vaccine mandates are causing. People fired from jobs they worked at for years, unable to find good-paying jobs at companies without mandates, with little help from the unfeeling federal government. How can we not feel our hearts break at the plight of such people?!
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re: #127 Targetpractice
Get ready for the tearful, heart-rendering op-eds about the economic devastation that vaccine mandates are causing. People fired from jobs they worked at for years, unable to find good-paying jobs at companies without mandates, with little help from the unfeeling federal government. How can we not feel our hearts break at the plight of such people?!
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Oh that will be on the front page of the Screw York Times for weeks to come.
Respiratory therapist at UCLA was fired for refusing to be vaccinated. He decided to film it on the way out of the hospital while not wearing a mask, bellyaching about “experimental jabs” while threatened with arrest.
The Oppression Olympics of conservatives continues unabated. (2:17)
Security physically forces him out and takes his badge, while he whinges about them “taking his personal property.”
I consider it to be an inefficient cost cut to not pay for accommodations. It really is the equivalent of telling employees to turn off the lights in order to lower the electricity bill.
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Respiratory therapist at UCLA was fired for refusing to be vaccinated. He decided to film it on the way out of the hospital while not wearing a mask, bellyaching about “experimental jabs” while threatened with arrest.
The Oppression Olympics of conservatives continues unabated. (2:17)
Security physically forces him out and takes his badge, while he whinges about them “taking his personal property.”
People who are just as nuts as the sovereign citizens that get zapped with a taser for acting crazy at courthouses are all around us.
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Security physically forces him out and takes his badge, while he whinges about them “taking his personal property.”
…and why again did you say you left your previous employer?
I can think of another: People living in areas where Republican governors are restricting access to vaccines (like here).
Curious why you can’t be vaccinated? As a nurse that does 1:1 vax for high-risk patients, I’ve run across very few situations where people cannot take the Covid vaccine. Induction chemo for bone marrow transplant is the only one I can think of right now
— Nurse Gracie (@nurse_gracie_pi) October 30, 2021
re: #60 Patricia Kayden
The “F-ck your feelings” crowd from the Trump years now seems awfully protective of the feelings of little white kids, now that it’s time to teach people the actual history of this country. Funny how that works.
They are perfectly consistent: their feelings do matter; the feelings of those who don’t share their views don’t matter.
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I can think of another: People living in areas where Republican governors are restricting access to vaccines (like here).
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Another reason—Their Right Wing Pulpit Pimp told them that Jesus has immunized them.
re: #134 Hecuba’s daughter
They are perfectly consistent: their feelings do matter; the feelings of those who don’t share their views don’t matter.
“No Lives Matter”
re: #88 BlueSpotinAL
In which 5 seconds of Google-fu would reveal this so-called independent donating to GOPers consistently, supporting right wing causes, and opposing CRT.
When pointing this out to the good folks at the Times, they predictably got defensive.
They keep amplifying right wing talking points - even when doing so by omission.
re: #108 Targetpractice
It’s a numbers-filed-off variant of the classic “Lincoln wanted a war” argument that the “Lost Cause” crowd is fond of. If you’ve ever heard a wingnut natter on about how Lincoln provoked the war by refusing to abandon Fort Sumter and that he went to war rather than pursuing diplomacy, then Hitchens’ arguments are nothing new and make even less sense. Attacking the war by saying that it wasn’t about the Holocaust is like saying that the Civil War “wasn’t about slavery,” it’s a way to insist that any noble goals of the war were convenient lies to mask wars of aggression.
weeellll… the war in fact WASN’T about the Holocaust. In the 1930’s, when every Jew in Europe was desperately trying to get to the UK or the US, they were accused of being drama queens.who either a) were exaggerating the danger they were in, or b) so what, let them die. It wasn’t until post-war photos and and film made that position untenable the Brits and Americans tried to backdate their concern for the oppressed.
The UK went to war because V2’s were falling on them, and an imminent invasion seemed likely. The US went to war because if the UK fell, we’d be attacked next. (plus Pearl Harbor).
re: #140 sagehen
The UK went to war because V2’s were falling on them, and an imminent invasion seemed likely. The US went to war because if the UK fell, we’d be attacked next. (plus Pearl Harbor).
Ummm, I don’t know whether you’re being sarcastic or not here.
re: #141 Nojay UK
Ummm, I don’t know whether you’re being sarcastic or not here.
Why did the British go to war?
It’s slap on the wrist time for the asshole pilot!
Southwest Airlines investigating claim that pilot said ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ over intercom
“Southwest does not condone Employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job serving our Customers, and one Employee’s individual perspective should not be interpreted as the viewpoint of Southwest and its collective 54,000 Employees,” the statement said.
Sure…
re: #142 Belafon
Why did the British go to war?
Because they had a mutual defence treaty with Poland. When Germany attacked Poland, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany.
re: #139 lawhawk
In which 5 seconds of Google-fu would reveal this so-called independent donating to GOPers consistently, supporting right wing causes, and opposing CRT.
When pointing this out to the good folks at the Times, they predictably got defensive.
They keep amplifying right wing talking points - even when doing so by omission.
Why doesn’t the Screw York Times just come out and endorse Youngkin?
re: #93 Dangerman
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TBF, they rejected healthcare from a white president too. Ask the Clintons how they were treated.
Please stop recording yourselves as you are ‘escorted out’ of your job. You are not a national hero, or a martyr — you are a nutcase who probably has received 15 other vaccines but, for some reason, Facebook told you not to get THIS one.
— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) October 31, 2021
re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Or at the least add it to your linked in profile for future prospective employers.
re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Not only are you a nutcase for getting your medical information from Facebook…your profile will appear on sorryantivaxxer.com too!
re: #143 JOE 🥓
It’s slap on the wrist time for the asshole pilot!
Southwest Airlines investigating claim that pilot said ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ over intercom
“Southwest does not condone Employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job serving our Customers, and one Employee’s individual perspective should not be interpreted as the viewpoint of Southwest and its collective 54,000 Employees,” the statement said.
Sure…
But it keeps happening
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
And more unprofessional Southwest pilots
abcnews.go.com
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Because they had a mutual defence treaty with Poland. When Germany attacked Poland, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany.
And when offered a back channel armistice that would have effectively returned Anglo-German relations to status quo antebellum with the understanding that both sides stayed on their sides of the Channel, Hitler responded as if he’d been insulted and launched the Blitz out of an ego-driven belief that he deserved at least a few of Britain’s colonies in exchange for not hurting them any more.
More Libertarians who don’t understand how vaccines, capitalism, or much of anything works.
When private companies do the will of the Regime, they are proving themselves to be the enemies of liberty and should be resisted.
— Libertarian Party of Connecticut (@LibertarianCT) November 1, 2021
The Libertarians are also retweeting Rep. Thomas Massie, once again proving the old saw about Libertarians being Republicans who like to smoke weed (four tweets):
There is no ethical or rational basis for mandating a vaccine that doesn’t reliably prevent recipients from spreading a disease to others.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 1, 2021
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
More Libertarians who don’t understand how vaccines, capitalism, or much of anything works.
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That’s because they live in their Ayn Randian Laissez Fairyland.
Quietly having breakfast earlier and WHAM!!! against the window behind me
Can you see the smear on the glass?
We get ten or so doves every morning.
At the feeders and around the bird bath.
A red shoulder hawk grabbed one and was having trouble containing it. One the other or both slammed into the window. We didn’t see it happen so I’m guessing.
By the time we got to the window the hawk was just taking off from the grass with the dove secured
The whole thing was way too fast for any action pix.
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Libertarians are also retweeting Rep. Thomas Massie, once again proving the old saw about Libertarians being Republicans who like to smoke weed (four tweets):
Define reliably, Senator, because 100% doesn’t apply to any vaccine if a significant amount of the population refuses to get vaccinated.
re: #145 JOE 🥓
Why doesn’t the Screw York Times just come out and endorse Youngkin?
Because that would screw up the disinformation campaign: “EvenTheLiberalNewYorkTimes sez McAuliffe is toast!”
Frankly, because of the polarization of the electorate, I’m predicting McAuliffe to come within a couple of percent of Northam in 2017. We had the same drama here then, we had the same drama here with the CA recall, and I’m not going to discuss this any further.
re: #157 Dangerman
Quietly having breakfast earlier and WHAM!!! against the window behind me
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Can you see the smear on the glass?
We get ten or so doves every morning.
At the feeders and around the bird bath.A red shoulder hawk grabbed one and was having trouble containing it. One the other or both slammed into the window. We didn’t see it happen so I’m guessing.
By the time we got to the window the hawk was just taking off from the grass with the dove secured
The whole thing was way too fast for any action pix.
The smear looks like something exploded behind the trees and large chunks of earth were being thrown into the air.
re: #159 ericblair
Because that would screw up the disinformation campaign: “EvenTheLiberalNewYorkTimes sez McAuliffe is toast!”
Frankly, because of the polarization of the electorate, I’m predicting McAuliffe to come within a couple of percent of Northam in 2017. We had the same drama here then, we had the same drama here with the CA recall, and I’m not going to discuss this any further.
They pointed out on the news that the first VA governor to break the party-in-power-loses cycle was McAuliffe when he was elected in 2009.
re: #122 Belafon
That’s called a mild commute in most big cities. My wife’s job was 30 miles away, and it would take her an hour to get to work, and about an hour and a half to get home in the evenings.
Ditto
I used to drive 72 miles each way every day. Nearly 1/3 in Miami traffic.
re: #159 ericblair
Because that would screw up the disinformation campaign: “EvenTheLiberalNewYorkTimes sez McAuliffe is toast!”
Frankly, because of the polarization of the electorate, I’m predicting McAuliffe to come within a couple of percent of Northham in 2017. We had the same drama here then, we had the same drama here with the CA recall, and I’m not going to discuss this any further.
The CA recall happened before the Reich wing solidified their CRT culture war attack. Youngkin has presented a far more discreet, polished image to the voting public than Elder.
Mr. -4600 on Celebrity Jeopardy Strikes Again!
COP26: Wolf Blitzer comes under fire as US news anchor tweets climate summit is taking place in Edinburgh rather than Glasgow
re: #156 JOE 🥓
That’s because they live in their Ayn Randian Laissez Fairyland.
The national Libertarian Party is trying to lead a movement of vaccine non-compliance.
In case you haven’t heard, @LPNational is stepping up to lead #MassNonCompliance. Join us and end the mandates! https://t.co/hqqYq8H6pD
— LPVA (@lpva) September 15, 2021
Thousands of visitors were suddenly locked in Shanghai Disneyland after a positive #Covid19 case was found in a woman who traveled from Hangzhou, China.
Nearly 34,000 people underwent testing, which ended close to midnight https://t.co/UeHjcGw2Dv pic.twitter.com/fCsCtV6RwT— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) November 1, 2021
re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The national Libertarian Party is trying to lead a movement of vaccine non-compliance.
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Memories of reading Vonnegut’s Welcome To The Monkey House where Suicide Parlors allow you a last meal catered by Howard Johnson’s.
re: #146 Hecuba’s daughter
TBF, they rejected healthcare from a white president too. Ask the Clintons how they were treated.
True of course
but Obama got it passed
and some people still refuse to use it
re: #168 Dangerman
True of course
but Obama got it passedand some people still refuse to use it
Just go thru the Daily Kos archives and see the diaries of people who refused to sign up for Obamacare even as they were dying. All those white racists on their deathbeds saying they were willing to die for their race…
re: #148 darthstar
Or at the least add it to your linked in profile for future prospective employers.
In fact if you don’t lead off all your interviews with this proud info about you, you’re an unprincipled coward//
LOL
During his speech at the 2021 National Conservatism Conference, Senator Josh Hawley said that men are being drawn to things like pornography and video games because their manhood has been ‘criticized’
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re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
More Libertarians who don’t understand how vaccines, capitalism, or much of anything works.
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So a private company can’t do anything that “the regime” would also want?
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Libertarians are also retweeting Rep. Thomas Massie, once again proving the old saw about Libertarians being Republicans who like to smoke weed (four tweets):
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I might agree with this sentiment.
Good thing this vaccine does
There is no ethical or rational basis for mandating a vaccine that doesn’t reliably prevent recipients from spreading a disease to others.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 1, 2021
re: #170 Dangerman
In fact if you don’t lead off all your interviews with this proud info about you, you’re an unprincipled coward//
You don’t need //.
Like ESPECIALLY if they’re not wearing a costume. Fuck yeah come shake me down for candy. It is treat OR TRICK! Have a fucking awesome night! https://t.co/Ltn1S0p6By
— Master Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King (@commiegirl1) November 1, 2021
re: #174 Belafon
You don’t need //.
I always get em wrong
Forget to use em
Or use em when I shouldnt
It’s not just the New York Times:
“Media Ignore Sharp Decline in New Orleans Drownings in October 2005.”https://t.co/86jGpBetlA
— Steve M. (@nomoremister) November 1, 2021
Not just Facebook. Republican propagandists on all media platforms are killing willfully-ignorant Americans, and causing them to lose their jobs, because they can’t get a simple vaccination for political reasons. Republicans are killing themselves to try to make Biden look bad.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 1, 2021
re: #169 JOE 🥓
All those white racists on their deathbeds saying they were willing to die for their race…
YOUR PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTABLE
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” - George S. Patton, speech to Third Army
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had no idea then-President Donald Trump’s infamous phone call demanding that he “find” votes for him after the election was being recorded, Raffensperger said Sunday.Raffensperger’s staff told him there was a tape of the call after Trump lied about it in a tweet, he told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Trump claimed the call proved that Raffensperger didn’t have “a clue” about election issues. In fact, Raffensperger explained to the president that all claims had been investigated and rejected for lack of evidence.
The recording released to the press became one of most damaging to Trump and his baseless claims of a rigged election. Rather than pushing Raffensperger to seek evidence of possible wrongdoing, Trump directed him to “find” enough votes to transform his defeat into a victory.
Via huffpo
Two rules:
- if you write it down it will be used
- you’re always bring recorded
re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s not just the New York Times:
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But you expect dishonesty from a Murdoch owned publication. In any case, this was not an article in the WSJ news section, it was an opinion piece in a paper known for decades for lies and distortions on their editorial pages.
Thousands of visitors were suddenly locked in Shanghai Disneyland after a positive #Covid19 case was found in a woman who traveled from Hangzhou, China.
Nearly 34,000 people underwent testing, which ended close to midnight https://t.co/UeHjcGw2Dv pic.twitter.com/fCsCtV6RwT— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) November 1, 2021
Damn. Imagine if Disneyworld in Orlando tried something like this. The RWNJs would burn that motherfucker to the ground to get people out of there.
re: #156 JOE 🥓
That’s because they live in their Ayn Randian Laissez Fairyland.
Ayn Randian Laissez Fairyland has always been just another name for white supremacism and nothing to do with an actual “free market”. This is clear upon reading any of her books featuring white shallow cardboard cutouts and her real life where she applauded the theft of land and extermination of Native Americans.
Any time you hear the words “free market” it really means the ability for the entitled class to intimidate and steal with impunity and for white people in America to purposefully and systematically segregate against and diminish brown skinned people.
re: #184 Florida Panhandler
Truth. She was a very virulent racist.
If you’re a 3L wondering if you can practice law, just remember that these are the type of arguments happening in our highest court. You’ll be fine. - CW https://t.co/4wDoIKpT3Y
— Above the Law (@atlblog) November 1, 2021
Kagan: if can do this, as he just said, over any kind of federal law, we would be living in a very different world. until this law came along, no state dreamed of doing this. now if we uphold, any state can effectively nullify any federal constitutional law.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) November 1, 2021
Wife and I just back from getting our booster shots. So far so good.
This is on the way: (just a note that I’m not really made of money. I sell a ton of stuff on Ebay or Reverb to finance the impulse buys). It’s a 1959 Epiphone “Lazarus” Les Paul. I found one of two that MusiciansFriend got restocked with, and I’m pretty certain that before I’d gotten off the phone, the other one was gone as well because they pretty much immediately were “preorder now!” status again.
re: #189 Eventual Carrion
Wife and I just back from getting our booster shots. So far so good.
Ya know, I think this is going to evolve into a yearly thing. And I’m OK with that….
re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The national Libertarian Party is trying to lead a movement of vaccine non-compliance.
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Maybe they can do drunk driving and speed limits next
Edited for fat finger.
re: #192 gwangung
Ya know, I think this is going to evolve into a yearly thing. And I’m OK with that….
Until the last variant is sitting next to polio, I’ll take a yearly booster.
re: #153 Targetpractice
And when offered a back channel armistice that would have effectively returned Anglo-German relations to status quo antebellum with the understanding that both sides stayed on their sides of the Channel, Hitler responded as if he’d been insulted and launched the Blitz out of an ego-driven belief that he deserved at least a few of Britain’s colonies in exchange for not hurting them any more.
funnily enough, even if england and the u.s. had stayed out of the war, Russia would eventually, slowly have ground down the Nazis. The Nazis lost freakin’ millions of soldiers at Leningrad and Stalingrad. Hitler could have fed more divisions into both and it ultimately would have come out the same.
re: #140 sagehen
weeellll… the war in fact WASN’T about the Holocaust. In the 1930’s, when every Jew in Europe was desperately trying to get to the UK or the US, they were accused of being drama queens.who either a) were exaggerating the danger they were in, or b) so what, let them die. It wasn’t until post-war photos and and film made that position untenable the Brits and Americans tried to backdate their concern for the oppressed.
The UK went to war because V2’s were falling on them, and an imminent invasion seemed likely. The US went to war because if the UK fell, we’d be attacked next. (plus Pearl Harbor).
Er, the V-2 wasn’t deployed until September, 1944, just 9 months before the end of the war. The first hit was at 1100 hours on September 8, in Maisons-Alfort, south-east Paris. 6 Dead, 36 injured. The first strike against the UK landed at Chiswick, London 7 hours and 35 minutes later, 3 dead, 7 injured, 7 houses destroyed.
re: #193 Eventual Carrion
Maybe3 they can do drunk driving and speed limits next
I remember when the Young Libertarian Alliance was organizing at Pitt in the 70s and their #1 thing was opposing speed limits on ANY streets.
I’ve seen many cracking pictures of Piccadilly Circus, but I don’t think I’ve seen one quite as stunning as this magnificent 1960s photograph. Beautiful, vibrant and pin-sharp detail. An amazing picture ❤️ pic.twitter.com/8DaE4tYZ7q
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) November 28, 2018
Recent shot of Piccadilly cemetery Circus:
More publicity about the details of #BuildBackBetter is desperately needed, because most of the mainstream media is not helping in this area. It’s as if they didn’t want the public to know.
— Michael Esposito (@meesposito) November 1, 2021
re: #200 jaunte
And, as we’ve discussed here, most people aren’t on Twitter, especially politics Twitter.
re: #158 Belafon
Define reliably, Senator, because 100% doesn’t apply to any vaccine if a significant amount of the population refuses to get vaccinated.
Measles vaccine efficacy — depending on study, etc. — under 95% efficacious
Mumps vaccine efficacy — depending on study, etc. — under 88% efficacious
Pertussis (whooping cough) — 80-90% efficacious
I can go on — Fuck. Those. Assholes.
Word of the day is one we all need: ‘respair’ (16th century): fresh hope; a recovery from despair. #COP26
— Susie Dent 💙 (@susie_dent) November 1, 2021
Barclays CEO Steps Down Amid Pressure Over Epstein Ties (WSJ via MSN)
re: #197 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Er, the V-2 wasn’t deployed until September, 1944, just 9 months before the end of the war. The first hit was at 1100 hours on September 8, in Maisons-Alfort, south-east Paris. 6 Dead, 36 injured. The first strike against the UK landed at Chiswick, London 7 hours and 35 minutes later, 3 dead, 7 injured, 7 houses destroyed.
so what were they flinging in the blitz? was that all from aircraft?
re: #206 sagehen
so what were they flinging in the blitz? was that all from aircraft?
Bombs.
Yes, dropped from airplanes.
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