The GOP’s not-so-clever schemes to end democracy were surprisingly well organized…but that doesn’t make them legal. Fingers crossed for consequences! This is a digital exclusive.
The James Webb telescope has made it to L2. space.com
I wanted to copy the NASA tweet, but I can’t click on it at work.
Woohoo! https://t.co/jHOYqRBsHc
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2022
Being NYC I’m betting the Concierge has a good idea where to acquire an actual Big Gulp of warm piss
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) January 24, 2022
Well Virginia. How do you like your Republican Glenn Younkin now? Glenn removed mask mandates in VA public schools while he sends his kids to private schools that still have a mask mandate.
And now he’s firing people he doesn’t like.
Enjoy your Republicans, Virginia. https://t.co/clfWCT2phV— Heather Ciavotto (@HCiavotto) January 24, 2022
re: #4 Captain Magic
I did not vote for those choads.
However, I have no doubt that the residents of Bumpass, Short Pump, Tightsqueeze, Croaker, Butts, and Lick Skillet are reveling in them.
re: #7 ckkatz
I did not vote for those choads.
However, I have no doubt that the residents of Bumpass, Short Pump, Tightsqueeze, Croaker, Butts, and Lick Skillet are reveling in them.
Heh, I took my child to a birthday party at the Dave and Busters in Short Pump one time. Was not impressed with the pseudo-Tuscan village development it was in.
So, @SusanSarandon is trending on Twitter, so I shot back to her supporters, that they clearly don’t understand what are the primal forces of nature…
I Would Do Anything To End the Labor Shortage (But I Won’t Do That)
*RIP Meat Loaf https://t.co/cfgvixxLnc— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) January 24, 2022
NY Times fawns over Trump’s insurrection “community”
Enabling hate
Eric Boehlert
pressrun.media
It was bad enough when the Times glorified Trump voters. Now they’re celebrating insurrectionists.
re: #10 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Corporate fiduciary responsibility is a very simple machine. Like a virus.
I gave up after 5 tries. I don’t think the winning word exists in the English language. Is it a Klingon word?
— Edwin (@EdMix13) January 24, 2022
Someone please give me the answer.
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re: #8 Barefoot Grin
Heh, I took my child to a birthday party at the Dave and Busters in Short Pump one time. Was not impressed with the pseudo-Tuscan village development it was in.
Hah!
Here’s what a poster said about the naming of “Short Pump”:
What used to be farmlands and a quaint little town a few years ago, is now one of the busiest areas of the Richmond Metropolitan area. This spot on the map got its name in 1853 from the short-handled pump under the porch of the town’s tavern. Not the most creative naming strategy, to be sure, but I guess it’s a good thing they didn’t notice the outhouse out back first.
My favorite is “You wouldn’t know my girlfriend, she’s Canadian” type story about Bumpass:
This community in Louisa County actually got it’s name from the Bumpass Family, prominent citizens in the 1800s. Their name comes from the MUCH more elegant French “bon pas”, meaning “good step.”
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Damn, wordle kicked my ass today.
I was able to figure out it had double letters, but I still lost.
re: #13 gocart mozart
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re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
Damn, wordle kicked my ass today.
I was able to figure out it had double letters, but I still lost.
There’s the clue Gocart needed.
re: #15 ckkatz
Hah!
Here’s what a poster said about the naming of “Short Pump”:
My favorite is “You wouldn’t know my girlfriend, she’s Canadian” type story about Bumpass:
Short Pump is a much better name than White Colony.
This man was forced to give his dog to Humane Society due to lengthy hospital stay. This nurse went to the shelter and adopted his dog. She brings him to visit daily & will return him as soon as the man is released! Be the light in this world, even through the dark times ❤️ pic.twitter.com/hM3ANvBJ6G
— Lydia Cornell (@LydiaCornell) January 23, 2022
re: #15 ckkatz
Hah!
Here’s what a poster said about the naming of “Short Pump”:
My favorite is “You wouldn’t know my girlfriend, she’s Canadian” type story about Bumpass:
I was living in the Center of the Universe at the time. They helped give us Dave Brat.
JUST IN: Donald Trump slams Jan. 6 panel after Ivanka Trump interview request: “They’ll go after children” https://t.co/rkAWnboeM3 pic.twitter.com/zH70rWi1ol
— The Hill (@thehill) January 23, 2022
And those were actually children, not an adult advisor to a failed autocratic President who attempted a coup when we rejected him.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 24, 2022
re: #23 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Ivanka is 40 years old. I mean sure, biologically speaking she is someones child, but demanding a 40 year-old appear before a committee is NOT going after children.
Yeesh.
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re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
Damn, wordle kicked my ass today.
I was able to figure out it had double letters, but I still lost.
NO HINTS PLEASE.
I have to scroll the whole thread before doing mine cuz I don’t trust you guys
— Mark James (@MarkJam92731126) January 23, 2022
re: #1 Belafon
I really love how, 4 centuries after kepler destroyed epicycles, it appears the most advanced telescope out of this world appears to be using one to stay in position!
re: #22 Barefoot Grin
I was living in the Center of the Universe at the time. They helped give us Dave Brat.
I forgot to mention one more:
Keezletown, named for a guy named Keezell.
Yup… they managed to mispell his name with the town they named to honor him.
And if you ever travel the Blue Ridge Parkway, you can stop at the Peaks of Otter rest stop and buy those three letter car stickers. ‘BRP’ for “Blue Ridge Parkway” and “POO” for “Peaks of Otter”.
Welcome to the State of Virginia folks…
re: #27 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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Gee, maybe someone ought to give TFG Donny a little protip:
You don’t want anyone to “go after children”, don’t give them senior advisory positions in your [fucking crooked] White House….
And since when has his “child” status prevented any media outlet from “going after” Hunter Biden?
Firing the people who are too foolish to vaccinate is a much more efficient solution. It also reduces the number of idiots in an organization, which has long-term benefits.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 24, 2022
re: #11 retired cynic
NY Times fawns over Trump’s insurrection “community”
Enabling hate
Eric Boehlert
pressrun.media
Once Republicans win another victory by losing the popular vote and rigging yet another EC victory in 2024, various rags like the NYT will claim they always supported Republicans. After all, only deviants and far left Anti-American types were opposed to the natural order of things where white male Christians were in charge of everything.
Watch for it. It’s coming.
re: #31 Jay C
As was pointed out earlier, his little child is nearing menopause.
I really think Ivanka should still be prosecuted as an adult.
re: #13 gocart mozart
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Corruption so extreme that they’re killing their voters in an attempt to make Biden look bad. I thought I might be being paranoid about their intent to increase COVID numbers until the failed former President crowed about it in one of his insane press releases.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 24, 2022
(Reuters) - In Vermont, lawmakers are considering bills to make it easier to prosecute people who threaten election officials. In Maine, proposed legislation would stiffen penalties for such intimidation. In Washington, state senators voted this month to make threatening election workers a felony.The measures follow a Reuters series of investigative reports documenting a nationwide wave of threats and harassment against election administrators by Donald Trump supporters who embrace the former president’s false voting-fraud claims. Sponsors and supporters of the legislation in all three states cited Reuters reporting as an impetus for proposing tougher enforcement.
Pro-Trump death threats prompt bills in 3 states to protect election workers (Reuters via AOL, which is apparently still a thing)
re: #39 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yet in Florida you can legally run over protesters now. So there’s that.
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I find the idea of chips & curry intriguing
Wonder if I can find a place local that has them
You can only save one. pic.twitter.com/IXAeLGDlIx
— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) January 23, 2022
re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Cheesy chips need bacon. 🥓
re: #5 Teddy’s Person
Hello sweet baby!! These threads need way more Teddy!!
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
Yet in Florida you can legally run over protesters now. So there’s that.
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Sure, but you can also shoot the person trying to run you over. There are several ways that Florida works to kill residents.
re: #45 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
chips & curry FTW
re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
THEY CAN ALL GO, as long as I have CHILI, no tears will be shed!!!!!!!!!
Just spoke to a manager at Elio’s, who confirmed Sarah Palin dined indoors there Saturday. He didn’t know if she showed a vax card but said they comply w/ COVID laws.
“As far as I know…we check everybody… We’re still trying to get to the bottom of it.” https://t.co/3QFXTScV0S— julia reinstein 🚡 (@juliareinstein) January 24, 2022
(My mom thought she was Tina Fey.)
— Shawn McCreesh (@ShawnMcCreesh) January 23, 2022
re: #45 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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The story behind this character is obviously that it requested a square, and is outraged at receiving a diamond, so is throwing it in the trash.
A good summary here: pic.twitter.com/yDKwSomXxo
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 24, 2022
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s the nicest thing a person can think about Sarah Palin.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 24, 2022
re: #4 Captain Magic
Yep. Elections have consequences. I hope Maryland doesn’t make the same mistake.
re: #48 William Lewis
chips & curry FTW
I gained significant weight when I lived in the UK and discovered the chip shop next to my station made a really good chips & curry.
cried today over cheeto’s progress. she’s doing so much better, was shaking a bit today, so gonna contact the vet, but overall, she’s doing amazing https://t.co/rX9xse1qQR pic.twitter.com/dw068ciLC7
— Illegally Smol Cats (@IllegallySmol) January 24, 2022
It would be fun to walk up to Sarah Palin, tell her what a fan you are, ask for a selfie with her, then mention how much you loved her in 30 Rock.
re: #44 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Hello sweet baby!! These threads need way more Teddy!!
About a week before Christmas, Teddy decided he no longer wants to go outside. He had become difficult in the fall. I had to carry him to the door to put on his harness and leash. Once at the door, he’d be all excited about going out. One day, I was getting ready to take him to his swim therapy, and he just refused to let me pick him up. He hid under my desk. He was okay the next day, but after that, no way. He’d always make sure he positioned himself so that I couldn’t pick him up. And when he saw the collar, harness and/or leash, he’d skedaddle.
After a week of failure, I just gave up. He’s fourteen and a half, and he gets to live the life he wants (to be fair, three flights of stairs are hard on his old joints and back). It really didn’t take him long to pick up on pee pad etiquette. So, now I have a cat-like house dog.
— Kevin & Trevor (@WipeHomophobia) January 24, 2022
re: #14 Ming5000
You are so close
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re: #58 Teddy’s Person
t really didn’t take him long to pick up on pee pad etiquette. So, now I have a cat-like house dog.
Ozzie stopped using the litterbox during his last gasps at life - I was pulling turds off his back end before his time had come and I put him on the Rainbow Bridge. For a Persian, getting 18 years of life is quite a feat.
Chip related
The first person to teach the UK about carne asada fries will become a millionaire pic.twitter.com/xXeSRVOL0H
— Joe McReynolds (@McReynoldsJoe) January 24, 2022
re: #23 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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JUST IN: Donald Trump slams Jan. 6 panel after Ivanka Trump interview request: “They’ll go after children” https://t.co/rkAWnboeM3 pic.twitter.com/zH70rWi1ol
— The Hill (@thehill) January 23, 2022
1. you kidnapped children at the border
2. ivanka is not that far from menopause
re: #58 Teddy’s Person
About a week before Christmas, Teddy decided he no longer wants to go outside. He had become difficult in the fall. I had to carry him to the door to put on his harness and leash. Once at the door, he’d be all excited about going out. One day, I was getting ready to take him to his swim therapy, and he just refused to let me pick him up. He hid under my desk. He was okay the next day, but after that, no way. He’d always make sure he positioned himself so that I couldn’t pick him up. And when he saw the collar, harness and/or leash, he’d skedaddle.
After a week of failure, I just gave up. He’s fourteen and a half, and he gets to live the life he wants (to be fair, three flights of stairs are hard on his old joints and back). It really didn’t take him long to pick up on pee pad etiquette. So, now I have a cat-like house dog.
Poor Teddy. I am so sorry.
They have dog sized litter boxes for indoors if you’re interested in that.
At least he’s getting on ok. He’s such a sweetie. Give him a gentle hug for me.
re: #31 Jay C
Gee, maybe someone ought to give TFG Donny a little protip:
You don’t want anyone to “go after children”, don’t give them senior advisory positions in your [fucking crooked] White House….
And since when has his “child” status prevented any media outlet from “going after” Hunter Biden?
who - just for the record - was NOT in joe biden’s campaign
BREAKING: Special grand jury to be seated in probe into whether former President Donald Trump and others broke the law by pressuring Georgia election officials over 2020 election results. https://t.co/lnwi8a3iPi
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 24, 2022
re: #48 William Lewis
chips & curry FTW
a certain kind of ironic provincialism in many comments I see in places like quora when it comes to an understanding of, for instance, biscuits and gravy. The Brits just can’t seem to wrap their heads around the idea that our biscuits (South Carolina) are not their biscuits, and our gravy is not their gravy. This shit is taking 20 years off our lives on average, and has led to us having more dialysis centers than payday lenders, so you know it’s good when we know that and keep eating it. Also grits. Just shut up if you are a northerner and think you understand grits. No you don’t. You smartasses, trying to cook instant grits in your little saucepan, and then bitching “why would anybody eat this?” Have you eaten cheese grits, made by the 90 year-old woman who’s been making them for 150 years in the meat-and-three in one of the ubiquitous brick buildings that’s been standing in every southern town since reconstruction? No? Then you have NOT eaten grits.
re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
yeah, that concept of mushy peas as food needs to be nuked from orbit.
mrsdm will not eat peas
she will ‘tolerate’ le sueur peas
she loves pea soup
loves apples
wont touch apple juice
it’s complicated around here
re: #66 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Poor Teddy. I am so sorry.
They have dog sized litter boxes for indoors if you’re interested in that.
At least he’s getting on ok. He’s such a sweetie. Give him a gentle hug for me.
When I get ready to go out, he acts kind of interested in what I’m doing. But when I pick up the harness or leash to see if he wants to go too, he’s like, nope I’m out!
That’s actually not that shocking
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) January 24, 2022
re: #65 Dangerman
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2. ivanka is not that far from menopause
Ivanka was old enough to choose not to work for you, Donald, but she did anyway.
re: #62 GlutenFreeJesus
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Bear is coocoo for ChuckIt balls.
um…here we call them dogs
re: #72 Teddy’s Person
When I get ready to go out, he acts kind of interested in what I’m doing. But when I pick up the harness or leash to see if he wants to go too, he’s like, nope I’m out!
I feel the same way about going outside in the winter.
re: #55 darthstar
I gained significant weight when I lived in the UK and discovered the chip shop next to my station made a really good chips & curry.
When I was in Germany it was the Jaeger schnitzel, mushroom gravy, fries & salad at the local guesthouse. Yum!
re: #70 steve_davis
a certain kind of ironic provincialism in many comments I see in places like quora when it comes to an understanding of, for instance, biscuits and gravy. The Brits just can’t seem to wrap their heads around the idea that our biscuits (South Carolina) are not their biscuits, and our gravy is not their gravy. This shit is taking 20 years off our lives on average, and has led to us having more dialysis centers than payday lenders, so you know it’s good when we know that and keep eating it. Also grits. Just shut up if you are a northerner and think you understand grits. No you don’t. You smartasses, trying to cook instant grits in your little saucepan, and then bitching “why would anybody eat this?” Have you eaten cheese grits, made by the 90 year-old woman who’s been making them for 150 years in the meat-and-three in one of the ubiquitous brick buildings that’s been standing in every southern town since reconstruction? No? Then you have NOT eaten grits.
and, no, you cant learn everything about grits by watching My Cousin Vinny
I’m not a football fan, but…. all the TV politics people, and all the twitter music people, and the sci-fi fansites, and even my building’s laundry and food delivery discussions, are going on and on about what a uniquely awesome football weekend this just was.
Can someone explain, in brief, why this was good? What happened?
re: #73 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
2) it’s obviously not shocking. We have long known mask mandates reduce infections. Here is another school district and the effect of their mask mandate rules. https://t.co/VM56lqb8Nq
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 24, 2022
re: #68 Dangerman
ah, gmta
As far as I’m concerned, Ivanka can have her hot flashes in a cold cell. It’ll be more comfortable that way anyway.
re: #79 sagehen
I’m not a football fan, but…. all the TV politics people, and all the twitter music people, and the sci-fi fancies, and even my building’s laundry and food delivery discussions, are going on and on about what a uniquely awesome football weekend this just was.
Can someone explain, in brief, why this was good? What happened?
There were four playoff games contested. All were very close (three were won by field goals, the other by one touchdown), one went to overtime. Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers lost.
The Cincinnati Bengals also scored an upset to advance to the AFC Championship (the Bengals have sucked for much of their history).
re: #74 Belafon
Ivanka was old enough to choose not to work for you, Donald, but she did anyway.
there’s no spousal testimony privilege between them, right? //
I was doing my weekly version of Monty Python’s Four Yorkshiremen skit (Luxury!) with my teenage daughters this weekend - we only had two TV stations when I was your age and we could only watch whatever was on that time [more old cranky dad talk] no public broadcast station till my last year in high school [more old cranky dad talk] couldn’t even watch Happy Days because no ABC station in town [more cranky old dad talk] snow everywhere - and got to wondering when broadcast TV really got going.
Found the image above in an eight grade lesson and thought it was fascinating that there were no stations at all in ND, SD, MT, WY, CO, ID, NV, OR, ME, NH, & VT in 1950. Things were much different by 1955.
re: #83 Dangerman
there’s no spousal testimony privilege between them, right? //
I know you’re snarking, but I would not be at all surprise if one of Trump’s cracked lawyers (Ms. Kraken or Mr. Pillow) tries to make a argument that spousal privilege extends to familial privilege.
edited to correct an embarrassing grammar error
re: #79 sagehen
I’m not a football fan, but…. all the TV politics people, and all the twitter music people, and the sci-fi fansites, and even my building’s laundry and food delivery discussions, are going on and on about what a uniquely awesome football weekend this just was.
Can someone explain, in brief, why this was good? What happened?
1) In the last two minutes of 4 games 31 points were scored.
2) Three home teams lost (the idea is that the home team has a huge advantage)
3) Two of the GOAT quarterbacks - Rodgers & Brady - may have played their last games
4) KC vs Buffalo was a competitive dream in that they kept battling back and forth and the Bills were ahead till the last 13 seconds of the game. That one’s more a “gotta appreciate the game” one but in many ways, it was probably the best played playoff game since the 1967 Ice Bowl between Green Bay and Dallas.
Beau brings the heat and gives it to the NY Times.
after all that nonsense the dow erased a 1,000 point loss and closed up 99 !?!
If criminal charges do get levied on Ivanka and Don Jr., I hope the AG who announces them makes it a point to announce that they will be tried as adults despite their father’s claims to the contrary.
re: #89 darthstar
If criminal charges do get levied on Ivanka and Don Jr., I hope the AG who announces them makes it a point to announce that they will be tried as
adultsadult black women despite their father’s claims to the contrary.
When the virus spreads
don’t worry
you know you’ll be fine
anyways, you’re done with it.
When deaths mount
don’t worry
it wasn’t anyone you knew
besides, you’re done with it.
When your empathy is gone
don’t worry
defiance can mask how
you’ve been undone by it.— Plague Poems (@PlaguePoems) January 24, 2022
re: #75 Dangerman
um…here we call them dogs
My dog doesn’t get it. She’ll chase the ball the first time but will watch it roll until it stops and then turn around and maybe or maybe not come back. If I then fetch the ball and throw it again, she just watches it sail on without a thought. Now if the ball looked like a chipmunk and rolled down a hole, I’d won’t be home until she digs two feet down, snapping roots between her jaws, working strategically on different sides of the hole. And then when she finds out it’s a chipmunk shaped ball (no, I don’t know how that would work), she will blow dirt out of her nose and come back up leaving the ball in the hole for me to fetch again.
re: #70 steve_davis
Have you eaten cheese grits, made by the 90 year-old woman who’s been making them for 150 years in the meat-and-three in one of the ubiquitous brick buildings* that’s been standing in every southern town since reconstruction? No? Then you have NOT eaten grits.
*Must be named “Sisters” or variant. I don’t make the rules.
re: #93 Decatur Deb
*Must be named “Sisters” or variant. I don’t make the rules.
Cuddin Elma or some such. Sorry, wrong narrative. I’m thinking of my white great aunts and grandmother in Georgia.
Daughter1 went to a lunch at the place in Anniston, with Miss Alabama. Miz says: “That Shrimp n’ Grits is so good I want to rub it in my hair.”
I think President Biden has had enough
Biden: What a stupid son of a bitch pic.twitter.com/K8H74Vfv8m
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 24, 2022
re: #79 sagehen
I’m not a football fan, but…. all the TV politics people, and all the twitter music people, and the sci-fi fansites, and even my building’s laundry and food delivery discussions, are going on and on about what a uniquely awesome football weekend this just was.
Can someone explain, in brief, why this was good? What happened?
well, let me try to explain, and know going in that I could only watch the first half of one game because it was on FOX and I could only get a 60 minute guest pass on the FOX Sports app, and that I then could only watch the first half of the Chiefs/Bills game, because booster fatigue finally kicked in and I was effectively comatose for 12 hours starting at around 8 in the evening, eastern time. The weekend of football featured four games which were all decided either with a walk-off field goal at the end of regulation, or a walf-off touchodown in overtime. Typically, playoff games aren’t nearly this good, especially before the championship weekend, because you are getting a team that got a first week bye versus a team that may have somehow made it in while going 7-9, depending on just how awful a particular division was. They just typically aren’t compelling games. This year, they were just all fun to watch. Like basketball games at the collegiate level where the teams are all competent, and they’re back and forth affairs. Even tampa bay/los angeles was fun to watch because both sides managed to have crazy things happen that kept interest going.
re: #84 dat_said
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I was doing my weekly version of Monty Python’s Four Yorkshiremen skit (Luxury!) with my teenage daughters this weekend - we only had two TV stations when I was your age and we could only watch whatever was on that time [more old cranky dad talk] no public broadcast station till my last year in high school [more old cranky dad talk] couldn’t even watch Happy Days because no ABC station in town [more cranky old dad talk] snow everywhere - and got to wondering when broadcast TV really got going.
Found the image above in an eight grade lesson and thought it was fascinating that there were no stations at all in ND, SD, MT, WY, CO, ID, NV, OR, ME, NH, & VT in 1950. Things were much different by 1955.
My brother and I performed acrobatic routines in the mid-1950s. We were on network TV about 20 times from Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philly, and NYC. I got to see the big cannon shoot out puffed oats and puffed rice live from back stage surrounded by big black cables. Just such a different time.
“Unlike his predecessor, the president does not look at the stock market as a means by which to judge the economy” — Jen Psaki to Peter Doocy pic.twitter.com/GyTTQTr2BY
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 24, 2022
re: #58 Teddy’s Person
Glory was doing the pee pad/diaper thing toward the end.
She was OK with those, it was the seizures and then the terrible sudden end that were the worst.
Gonna miss her for a very long time.
Biden: What a stupid son of a bitch pic.twitter.com/K8H74Vfv8m
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 24, 2022
re: #85 Teddy’s Person
The landscape of communications changed so much in the1950s.
I suppose much akin to the invention of the telephone.
re: #100 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
My brother and I performed acrobatic routines in the mid-1950s. We were on network TV about 20 times from Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philly, and NYC. I got to see the big cannon shoot out puffed oats and puffed rice live from back stage surrounded by big black cables. Just such a different time.
i thought tv was universal - the same everywhere
growing up on long island, ny, i thought everyone had all the channels and the same programming we had
well, at least now I understand what the “aching joints” side effect from the vaccine means. Always good to have enlightenment. Funnily, it’s just in the shoulders, but it does feel like I overdid a regimen of chin-ups.
Well, now all the right wing jackweasels will be faux whining about Biden’s potty mouth for a week or two. So we have that to look forward to.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2022
re: #107 Charles Johnson
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re: #108 Dangerman
i thought tv was universal - the same everywhere
growing up on long island, ny, i thought everyone had all the channels and the same programming we had
Where I grew up in Detroit we had a Canadian station (CKLW-TV) broadcasting French shows (“Chez Helene”) in the morning to compete with Captain Kangaroo and Woodrow the Woodsman.
re: #110 Charles Johnson
I look forward to all the “I’m a stupid sonovabitch, too!” variations on the Gadsden flag.
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
Glory was doing the pee pad/diaper thing toward the end.
She was OK with those, it was the seizures and then the terrible sudden end that were the worst.
Gonna miss her for a very long time.
Jesse was just asleep in my arms, with a back leg hanging over one of my arms while I lay next to her, snoring with what can best be described as her little toot kazoo, because it sounds like a cross between a tiny trumpet and a kazoo on the intakes. Then I wound up having to sneeze, which kind of killed the mood, and gained me a rather baleful look.
re: #110 Charles Johnson
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Well, now all the right wing jackweasels will be faux whining about Biden’s potty mouth for a week or two. So we have that to look forward to.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2022
oh really, what did he say?
re: #108 Dangerman
i thought tv was universal - the same everywhere
growing up on long island, ny, i thought everyone had all the channels and the same programming we had
Heh. Wasn’t just the ’50s: I grew up in Los Angeles, and was used to a crowded channel lineup (including the “exotic” UHF channels, and the off-numbered ones from San Diego and Santa Barbara): when I moved to Denver in 1978, I was somewhat nonplussed to discover that Television consisted of just five over-the-air stations (the 3 Nets, PBS and a local one). And Cable a rare luxury.
And Denver was the media-market capitol of CO.
Sorry, facts don’t care about your fake feelings.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) January 24, 2022
re: #107 Charles Johnson
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ha ha! oh god. and the funny thing is, right-wingers are now panty-wadded because Biden just sotto voce did to Doocy what Trump would routinely do to people at rallies and press conferences.
You betcha! https://t.co/cfszQR8Ksb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2022
And they’re off!
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2022
— Anu (@TheAnuhart) January 24, 2022
But McCain is not todays Republican so.
Fact check: Doocy never “asks” Biden anything. He regurgitates Fox/GOP talking points and takes up a chair in the WH press room that could be occupied by an actual working journalist. Doocy is not a journalist. “Stupid son of a bitch” could be his job description. https://t.co/U13BPzjOD0
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) January 24, 2022
re: #79 sagehen
I’m not a football fan, but…. all the TV politics people, and all the twitter music people, and the sci-fi fansites, and even my building’s laundry and food delivery discussions, are going on and on about what a uniquely awesome football weekend this just was.
Can someone explain, in brief, why this was good? What happened?
Every game came down to the last play, and it was the playoffs so a lot was at stake.
Maybe all the proud patriotic right wingers will change their twitter names to “Stupid Son of a Bitch” now.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2022
re: #117 Jay C
Heh. Wasn’t just the ’50s: I grew up in Los Angeles, and was used to a crowded channel lineup (including the “exotic” UHF channels, and the off-numbered ones from San Diego and Santa Barbara): when I moved to Denver in 1978, I was somewhat nonplussed to discover that Television consisted of just five over-the-air stations (the 3 Nets, PBS and a local one). And Cable a rare luxury.
And Denver was the media-market capitol of CO.
In Clemson, television was NBC and CBS out of Greenville, and PBS out of Columbia. PBS was VHF and presumably coming from a repeater somewhere because it was okay. ABC was out of Asheville and was like trying to decipher a Rorschach test. They finally had a repeater put in somewhere relatively close, but even in the mid 90’s, I could barely get ABC on my small set with the rabbit ears. I’m guessing if I’d had an antenna running from a chimney, it would have been better.
I remember when people used to hide this sort of thing. Because, ya know, they knew their beliefs were shameful and not generally accepted by the American public.
— 𝓝𝓸𝓶 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓟𝓵𝓾𝓶𝓮 (@_pseudo_name) January 23, 2022
re: #110 Charles Johnson
Unknown: “She used to be great, she’s still very beautiful.”
Trump: “I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married.”
Unknown: “That’s huge news there.”
Trump: “No, no, Nancy. No this was [inaudible] and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn’t get there and she was married. Then all-of-a-sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.”
This is part of the same convo where Trump talked about grabbing women by the pussy.
This Roman blue glass bowl has been unearthed perfectly intact (!) at an archaeological dig in Nijmegen.https://t.co/irihtNTDMN pic.twitter.com/WsAQTWyyyy
— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) January 21, 2022
re: #120 Charles Johnson
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He didn’t say “stupid son of a bitch”, he said “Need to scratch an itch.”
Which I will now put on a bumper sticker and use as my super cool code for every anti-vaxxer I see.
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Sorry, but IMO this is one of those “Famous Joe Biden Gaffe” moments:
Joe has been around DC too long, one would think, to fall for Doocy’s nonsense: he has got to know that the RW media will jump all over even the least misstatement (and, Trump’s BS notwithstanding, get a case of the pearl-clutching Vapors over his “insulting” language) - and the “mainstream” media will eagerly join in the criticism so as not to appear too “partisan”…
He should have known better: what I don’t understand is why the Admin press people even bother to call on Peter Doocy, and don’t just ignore him, shouted BS questions or not….
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2022
re: #125 steve_davis
In Clemson, television was NBC and CBS out of Greenville, and PBS out of Columbia. PBS was VHF and presumably coming from a repeater somewhere because it was okay. ABC was out of Asheville and was like trying to decipher a Rorschach test. They finally had a repeater put in somewhere relatively close, but even in the mid 90’s, I could barely get ABC on my small set with the rabbit ears. I’m guessing if I’d had an antenna running from a chimney, it would have been better.
In Detroit in the late 1960s, we had CBS, NBC, ABC, WTVS (Independent) and CKLW-TV (Canadian.)
re: #131 Jay C
Sorry, but IMO this is one of those “Famous Joe Biden Gaffe” moments:
Joe has been around DC too long, one would think, to fall for Doocy’s nonsense: he has got to know that the RW media will jump all over even the least misstatement (and, Trump’s BS notwithstanding, get a case of the pearl-clutching Vapors over his “insulting” language) - and the “mainstream” media will eagerly join in the criticism so as not to appear too “partisan”…
He should have known better: what I don’t understand is why the Admin press people even bother to call on Peter Doocy, and don’t just ignore him, shouted BS questions or not….
Well, that’s how it’ll be played—he’s so old and out of touch that he doesn’t understand how mics work.
It’s just another fuck your feelings, I can do anything to you but you can’t clap back moment.
And it Wasn’t a hot mic moment either
pic.twitter.com/l3ypN4atYb— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 24, 2022
re: #120 Charles Johnson
Someone had to say what we’ve all been thinking. Peter did this to himself with all the stupid questions meant to thrill an audience brainwashed by Fox News.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 24, 2022
re: #131 Jay C
Sorry, but IMO this is one of those “Famous Joe Biden Gaffe” moments:
Joe has been around DC too long, one would think, to fall for Doocy’s nonsense: he has got to know that the RW media will jump all over even the least misstatement (and, Trump’s BS notwithstanding, get a case of the pearl-clutching Vapors over his “insulting” language) - and the “mainstream” media will eagerly join in the criticism so as not to appear too “partisan”…
He should have known better: what I don’t understand is why the Admin press people even bother to call on Peter Doocy, and don’t just ignore him, shouted BS questions or not….
Perhaps, but who cares. Doocy will never ask a real question, never discuss anything in good faith. I’m tired of my representatives pretending that the other side is even close to acting in good faith. They are not and haven’t been for years. Biden’s best move is going to be calling them out on their BS.
Of course, Trump didn’t say this to a white guy. So that’s different. pic.twitter.com/rHYpWD3Xc3
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 24, 2022
re: #128 Belafon
They don’t seem to care. What’s going to happen when they knock on a Black person’s door like mine? I guess they’re buying into Trump’s nonsense that only White people live in the suburbs. My suburb is majority Black.
Christian nationalism is still thriving — and is a force for returning Trump to power
The Sunday service at the Patriot Church in Lenoir City, Tennessee starts out like a lot of evangelical worship: hands aloft, Bibles in laps, full-throated singing about Jesus.
When Rev. Ken Peters picks up his wireless mic, the service takes a sharp rightward turn.
“Don’t let the mainstream media or the left tell you that we were not a Christian nation,” he intones, prowling the altar in an anti-abortion T-shirt. “You know why there’s churches everywhere and not mosques? Because we’re a Christian nation!”
“Amen,” responds the congregation, with gusto.
The sermon, titled “How Satan Destroys the World,” zigzags between familiar grievances of conservative Christians, such as abortion and transgender people’s rights. But what makes this church different, and others like it across the nation, is its embrace of the secular agenda of the far right. They believe that masks and vaccinations violate religious freedom, that the participants in the Jan. 6 capitol riot were proud patriots, and the Biden administration is evil and illegitimate.
“You know he’s not the most popular president in America,” Peters preaches, still obsessing on election results 14 months later. “How many Biden parades did you see? Yet he beat Trump with 70 million? Give me a break. We know something’s up.”
Christian nationalists believe that America is Christian and Trump is their best hope to keep it that way
If anyone thought that Christian nationalism would decline with President Donald Trump out of power, they were mistaken. Christian nationalists believe, in general, that America is Christian, that the government should keep it that way, and that Trump was —and is— their best hope to accomplish that.This movement of ultra-conservative, politicized churches is apparently on the march, though there are no firm numbers because the congregations are mostly nondenominational. The belief system provides a godly underpinning for right-wing activism in venues like school-board elections, anti-vaccine protests, and the Jan. 6 attack on the capitol.
“This is a spiritual battle. It’s good versus evil,” says congregant Jim Willis, after the service. He’s a 72-year-old retired army colonel and software salesman, who wears on his lapel an American flag inside of a Christian cross. “And, unfortunately, evil has taken charge.”
re: #130 Mike Lamb
He didn’t say “stupid son of a bitch”, he said “Need to scratch an itch.”
Which I will now put on a bumper sticker and use as my super cool code for every anti-vaxxer I see.
im with you
it still brought to mind the woman who threatened the school board in virginia:
“I in no way meant to imply ‘all guns loaded’ as in actual firearms”
re: #137 I Would Prefer Not To
Perhaps, but who cares. Doocy will never ask a real question, never discuss anything in good faith. I’m tired of my representatives pretending that the other side is even close to acting in good faith. They are not and haven’t been for years. Biden’s best move is going to be calling them out on their BS.
they should ask doocy to interview biden for an hour.
then when they sit down biden doesnt take any shit.
The only thing better would have been “sumbitch.”
— *The* Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) January 24, 2022
re: #142 Dangerman
they should ask doocy to interview biden for an hour.
then when they sit down biden doesnt take any shit.
They should do what the Bush Whitehouse used to do when a reporter went off the rails. Suggest (strongly) that maybe Doocey should take a couple of months elsewhere.
re: #84 dat_said
I could go on at page length about all the reasons why TV was so sparse on that 1950 map (it happens to be one of my specialty areas), but:
The coaxial cable that carried network programming was still very limited in 1950. If you weren’t in the northeast or midwest or along parts of the west coast, a TV station had to originate its own programming with whatever local talent and old films were available. It was a heavy load.
The FCC goofed when it made up the original VHF allocation table in the 1940s and didn’t realize how much interference its spacing standards created. There were stations on channel 4 in Boston, NYC and Washington (and still are), but there were also channel 4s in Schenectady and Lancaster PA. They had to pull back from allocating new stations until they could figure out how to rearrange the existing ones, which happened around 1952 in most areas.
As a result, there was a freeze on new TV licenses that went into effect in late 1948 (though it took until 1950 to build out all 108 stations that had already been authorized) and wasn’t lifted until 1952, delayed in part by the Korean War and materials shortages.
When it lifted, there was a boom in new VHF stations and a very brief boom in new UHF stations, too, though most of those early UHF stations failed quickly because nobody had receivers. It took until the early 1960s for the FCC and Congress to figure out there needed to be an all-channel receiver act to mandate inclusion of UHF tuners.
re: #140 Captain Magic
In a just world, these churches would lose their tax free status.
Playing on my iPhone:
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
In a just world, these churches would lose their tax free status.
In a just world, there would be no tax exemptions of any kind - which would include the interest deduction on mortgages.
re: #97 Ming5000
By 6:00 tonight, the RNC will be tweeting out and making ads with Biden’s “great asset” part of the quote and the rest (of course) cut out. I guaran-fucking-tee it.
do not walk this back!
dont send Jen out there in a few hours to say “well, the president wishes he didn’t use those words” or some other kind of waffle.
dont even snark it and say “President Biden regrets the profanity, but stands by his assessment that it was a dumb question.”
the guy’s a hack.
nothing to correct, adjust, amend, or apologize for.
own it.
re: #144 EstebanTornado1963
Let’s see what happens
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stunning attack on the free press. i am literally shaking rn.
— Abigail Marone 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) January 24, 2022
Hawley’s press rep. Does she really think anyone will take this comment as sincere?
re: #144 EstebanTornado1963
Let’s see what happens
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not a ‘gaffe’
not a hot mic moment
he knew what he was doing
Joe Biden Snaps, Calls Reporter ‘Stupid Son of a Bitch’https://t.co/iiq185sDD6
re: #153 sagehen
Hawley’s press rep. Does she really think anyone will take this comment as sincere?
Maybe she should find other work. I hear there are plenty of openings in the food service industry.
Is there video of President Biden calling that stupid son of a bitch Doocy a stupid son of a bitch?
The only thing I’d be upset about is if Biden apologizes.
re: #134 Barefoot Grin
Well, that’s how it’ll be played—he’s so old and out of touch that he doesn’t understand how mics work.
Who do they think he was talking to on the open mic? Of course he knew it was on. And no, it is not going to be “old Joe is senile” because he clearly wasn’t confused. Doocy made an idiotic comment and Joe burned him down.
re: #157 Mike Lamb
The only thing I’d be upset about is if Biden apologizes.
“I’m sorry I said Peter Doocy was a stupid son of a bitch. Clearly, he is an EXTREMELY stupid son of a bitch and I should have been more specific.”
/
re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg
“I’m sorry I said Peter Doocy was a stupid son of a bitch. Clearly, he is an EXTREMELY stupid son of a bitch and I should have been more specific.”
/
ok i’d be fine with that
re: #139 Patricia Kayden
They don’t seem to care. What’s going to happen when they knock on a Black person’s door like mine? I guess they’re buying into Trump’s nonsense that only White people live in the suburbs. My suburb is majority Black.
Dog and/or shotgun.
re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg
“I’m sorry I said Peter Doocy was a stupid son of a bitch. Clearly, he is an EXTREMELY stupid son of a bitch and I should have been more specific.”
/
Ok, sure, he can go the Costanza/Sweater apology route.
re: #146 ipsos
As a result, there was a freeze on new TV licenses that went into effect in late 1948 (though it took until 1950 to build out all 108 stations that had already been authorized) and wasn’t lifted until 1952, delayed in part by the Korean War and materials shortages.
When it lifted, there was a boom in new VHF stations and a very brief boom in new UHF stations, too, though most of those early UHF stations failed quickly because nobody had receivers. It took until the early 1960s for the FCC and Congress to figure out there needed to be an all-channel receiver act to mandate inclusion of UHF tuners.
Betty White’s has been on TV since before the first TV broadcast license was ever issued.
slashfilm.com
In April 1939, RCA introduced television broadcasting as we know it at the New York World’s Fair. Two months earlier, a young Betty White stood in front of TV cameras for one of the first broadcasts ever transmitted on the West coast. According to Jennifer Kelshin Armstrong’s book “When Women Invented Television,” the broadcast took place at the Packard Motor Car Company in Downtown Los Angeles, where Packard distributor Earle C. Anthony had invented KFI radio station in 1922 to transmit between buildings. Now, Packard was putting on a test broadcast that would go down in history, and White was there to star.
When Betty White was awarded with the Guinness World Record for the longest TV career as an entertainer, she spoke with the publication about that first moment in the spotlight. “I wore my high school graduation dress and our Beverly Hills High student body president, Harry Bennett, and I danced the Merry Widow Waltz,” she told Guinness. According to Kelshin Armstrong, White was chosen for the project after performing a song called “Spirit Flower” at her high school graduation. An audience member was an investor in TV, and asked her to be a part of the signal test.
re: #146 ipsos
It never occurred to me that there were stations that the networks could not physically reach.
Out of the whole UHF spectrum there were two channels that were of value to me as a kid in Chicagoland. 32, and 44.
32 eventually became a Fox station, and 44 became ONTV, a broadcast subscription TV service. It’s Telemundo now.
I had a black and white TV that could lock on to ONTV without a decoder when tuned slightly off-channel, but you had to turn the audio all the way up to hear it on the main channel because the audio was moved to sideband and just bled a little to the main channel. Every hour the main channel would announce the station identification, which I’m sure amused my parents when I was watching ONTV porn late at night.
re: #166 sagehen
Betty White’s has been on TV since before the first TV broadcast license was ever issued.
slashfilm.com
Do you know who else was on Television before the first broadcast license?
Berlin Olympics demo.
re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg
“I’m sorry I said Peter Doocy was a stupid son of a bitch. Clearly, he is an EXTREMELY stupid son of a bitch and I should have been more specific.”
/
“I need to apologize to Peter: Peter, I’m sorry you’re a stupid son of a bitch.”
re: #167 Punish Domestic Terrorists
We had the same rig in Detroit with OnTV, using TV channel 20.
re: #153 sagehen
Joe is just calling a spade a “spade.” That do-do always asks the silliest questions and deserves to be called what Joe called him.
re: #154 Dangerman
not a ‘gaffe’
not a hot mic momenthe knew what he was doing
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re: #153 sagehen
You should hear the stuff the narcissistic failed former President who constantly attacked the press, and attempted a coup when we rejected him, said!
It’s amazing that Biden is as patient as he is with that dishonest “reporter.”— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 24, 2022
re: #173 IngisKahn
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re: #171 PhillyPretzel
Joe is just calling a spade a “spade.” That do-do always asks the silliest questions and deserves to be called what Joe called him.
I for one will enjoy all the right wing whines and pearl-clutching over ‘presidential decorum’. It will be to laugh!
Honestly, Biden could say the same thing about MSNBC’s White House gossip correspondent Kristen Welker.
re: #173 IngisKahn
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re: #173 IngisKahn
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re: #172 darthstar
What the hell was Doocy and his Newsmax side-kick saying? Sounded like he asked if Biden was going to declare war on Russia…
Found it…the inflation question: “Do you think inflation is a political liability …in the midterms?” Doocy could be heard asking.
Michael Cohen is a spectator at Michael Avanatti’s fraud trial.
Reporters in the courtroom witnessed a peculiar exchange as Avenatti greeted Cohen by inquiring about his “Donald Trump kneepads.” Cohen addressed Avenatti’s remark outside the federal courthouse, declaring, “[Avenatti’s] shown himself to be the dirtbag everybody expected him to be.” Cohen also claimed he didn’t know what Avenatti meant by the “prison humor” kneepad remark. Avenatti could face 22 years behind bars for wire fraud and identity theft if found guilty at trial.
Avenatti Gives Michael Cohen Bizarre Greeting at His Fraud Trial (The Daily Beast)
re: #161 steve_davis
Who do they think he was talking to on the open mic? Of course he knew it was on. And no, it is not going to be “old Joe is senile” because he clearly wasn’t confused. Doocy made an idiotic comment and Joe burned him down.
Yeah, that’s not how right-wing media works.
This is how you know it’s a cult. Imagine defending Trump as someone who doesn’t use naughty words! https://t.co/OOENp1Nyod
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) January 24, 2022
re: #186 bratwurst
DT cursed at everyone. That is one of the reasons why he made everyone sign NDA’s.
re: #151 Dangerman
do not walk this back!
dont send Jen out there in a few hours to say “well, the president wishes he didn’t use those words” or some other kind of waffle.
dont even snark it and say “President Biden regrets the profanity, but stands by his assessment that it was a dumb question.”
the guy’s a hack.
nothing to correct, adjust, amend, or apologize for.
own it.
I think this is when you use a “prove me wrong” meme.
re: #183 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Michael Cohen is a spectator at Michael Avanatti’s fraud trial.
Avenatti Gives Michael Cohen Bizarre Greeting at His Fraud Trial (The Daily Beast)
Avenatti has always been a piece of shit. I really hated his rise to fame because he happened to be Stormy Daniels’ lawyer. He was a perfect foil for Trump and made Trump come out looking a lot better than a serious lawyer would have.
“Peter, I need to apologize. I’m sorry I called either of your parents a bitch”
re: #188 Teddy’s Person
I think this is when you use a “prove me wrong” meme.
Or maybe just respond by asking if the network has any qualified journalists they can send.
re: #190 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
“Peter, I need to apologize. I’m sorry I called either of your parents a bitch”
His dad’s a total bitch. Just watch five minutes of Fox & Friends.
Trump was an embarrassment and lied a lot to make idiots hate media that accurately reported on him. He also attempted a coup. I wouldn’t bring up the name of the enemy of our democracy if I had foolishly associated with him. pic.twitter.com/g2fwAltkU2
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 24, 2022
And don’t be surprised if Steve Doocy comes out and says President Biden attacked his ‘child.’
re: #146 ipsos
I could go on at page length about all the reasons why TV was so sparse on that 1950 map (it happens to be one of my specialty areas), but:
The coaxial cable that carried network programming was still very limited in 1950. If you weren’t in the northeast or midwest or along parts of the west coast, a TV station had to originate its own programming with whatever local talent and old films were available. It was a heavy load.
Looking back it’s just a marvel on how much change there had to be from 1955 to 1965 when tvs were beginning to be common everyday expectations in a home. No such thing as a satellite yet when all the planning and innovation and investment started.
Closest recent thing is smartphones (iPhone introduced in 2007) but that really was just built on repackaging of an existing communications infrastructure unlike what broadcast TV had to go through.
“They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young,” Neil Young wrote in a letter to his manager and label, “Not both.” Young demands Spotify remove his music over “false information about vaccines” https://t.co/f1u4bDAu1L
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 24, 2022
re: #197 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Spotify won’t cave.
re: #153 sagehen
Oh, yeah, calling him an SOB ranks right up there with putting the press in cages.
Let me know when you care about the first amendment.— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) January 25, 2022
re: #197 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Now we just need about a dozen other artists to follow suit…
re: #198 Captain Magic
Spotify won’t cave.
They will if other big rock legends like Springsteen, Bono/U2, or pop acts like Bruno Mars, Shakira, etc. start doing the same.
re: #153 sagehen
Oh, yeah, calling him an SOB ranks right up there with putting the press in cages.
Let me know when you care about the first amendment.— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) January 25, 2022
@StevieVanZandt Are you going to join Neil Young boycott of @Spotify for allowing their music to be streamed while they allow @joerogan to run rampant?
— Captain Magic (@ericfruitbat) January 25, 2022
Pete…they have…and you are.
.@JesseBWatters: “I think the president’s right — you are a stupid SOB!”@pdoocy: “Yea, nobody has fact-checked him yet and said it’s not true.” pic.twitter.com/lwZ2Wj06Gs
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 24, 2022
re: #186 bratwurst
— Diletta, Boosted Suburban Curmudgeon (@lividddh) January 24, 2022
re: #204 Captain Magic
Ping David Crosby - he’s pretty responsive on Twitter.
re: #112 Captain Magic
Where I grew up in Detroit we had a Canadian station (CKLW-TV) broadcasting French shows (“Chez Helene”) in the morning to compete with Captain Kangaroo and Woodrow the Woodsman.
Channel 9! I remember “Jingles the Jester” and “Wayne & Shuster Comedy Hour.” Wayne & Shuster were the precursors of South Park’s Canadian duo “Terrence & Philip” but W&S never did fart jokes.
re: #208 darthstar
Ping David Crosby - he’s pretty responsive on Twitter.
Trouble is, Crosby is at odds with Young, isn’t he?
re: #173 IngisKahn
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re: #211 ipsos
Trouble is, Crosby is at odds with Young, isn’t he?
Yes, there is that. But I suspect he agrees with Neil on this.
re: #210 darthstar
Agreed - it’s only another 8 or 9 weeks away.
“vested” is a big fucking deal and nothing to just toss aside.
re: #139 Patricia Kayden
They don’t seem to care. What’s going to happen when they knock on a Black person’s door like mine? I guess they’re buying into Trump’s nonsense that only White people live in the suburbs. My suburb is majority Black.
I live in a suburb that is 67% Black and the white people are mostly Jews.
re: #209 The Pie Overlord!
I don’t remember those shows you mentioned, but I have no doubt they weren’t broadcast.
re: #209 The Pie Overlord!
Channel 9! I remember “Jingles the Jester” and “Wayne & Shuster Comedy Hour.” Wayne & Shuster were the precursors of South Park’s Canadian duo “Terrence & Philip” but W&S never did fart jokes.
You can find videos of Wayne & Shuster in YouTube.
I watched their CBC specials back in the 70s when I lived in far northern New York state. References to the “Unholy Goalie”* are an in-joke with my brother.
* - W&S doing Faust.
re: #173 IngisKahn
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re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter
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And it’s important to note that the DA has said she’s investigating not just Trump but anyone else involved in these efforts to overturn Georgia’s valid election results. https://t.co/B1Fh9Phz79
— David Darmofal (@david_darmofal) January 24, 2022
re: #216 Captain Magic
If you really want to go with local kid shows from Philly, we had Gene London, Chief Halftown, Sally Starr and quite a few others. We also had the late Fred Rogers (Fred was from Pittsburgh so that is not local for Philly).
re: #195 dat_said
Looking back it’s just a marvel on how much change there had to be from 1955 to 1965 when tvs were beginning to be common everyday expectations in a home. No such thing as a satellite yet when all the planning and innovation and investment started.
Closest recent thing is smartphones (iPhone introduced in 2007) but that really was just built on repackaging of an existing communications infrastructure unlike what broadcast TV had to go through.
It’s amazing to think that the first time any human could see the Pacific and Atlantic coasts at the same time wasn’t until 1951, when the coax cable was completed across the country. Edward R. Murrow did the first live split-screen that year on See It Now, showing the Golden Gate and one of the NYC bridges at once, and it must have been completely mind blowing…
…and from there it was just 18 years to live TV from the surface of the moon. (Which my grandfather watched… and he was born a year before the Weight Brothers flew.)
re: #206 darthstar
Pete…they have…and you are.
The real lie in that Chyron is “Fox Reporter”.
Fox is not news. It is not a news organization. It is a fear-porn propaganda operation and should be treated as such. It does operate on any sound journalistic foundation. It operates to promote white male entitlement, generate white male grievances at the direct expense of every other demographic, and promote continued white male supremacy.
Fox should immediately be kicked out of the press pool. Let them stew in their own self-pity and howls of “free press.” They are not a free press operating on any notion of good faith. They are a pure propaganda organization owned by a foreign crank and have no right to be anywhere in the White House. Let another of the plethora of right wing outlets in the press pool expose how stupid they are instead and kick out Fox News.
Jerry Falwell Jr. blames his Trump endorsement for his shocking downfall
Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. blamed his endorsement of Donald Trump for his downfall in a new interview with Gabriel Sherman of Vanity Fair.
The Netherlands has 56 airplanes that can handle these:
**AGM-154B (anti-armor)[edit]
The warhead for the AGM-154B is the BLU-108/B from the Air Force’s Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW) program. The JSOW B was to carry six BLU-108/B submunitions. Each submunition releases four projectiles (total of 24 per weapon) that use infrared sensors to detect targets. When a submunition detects that it is aligned with a target, it fires, creating an explosively formed penetrator capable of defeating vehicle armor. This program concluded development but the Navy decided not to procure the weapon.**
Since the shoot-down of Air Malaysia Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine, killing 193 Dutch citizens, the Dutch have had a hard-on for the Russians and I wouldn’t be surprised if they would love to get a kick into the gut of the Russian bear. Each plane (40 F-16 and 16 F-35) can carry four of these little tank killers. They have a stand-off range of 40 miles. The Russians have nothing to stop them, and if you start sending a shitpot of caskets with Russian flags on top of them back to the Rodinya, the home team is going to notice.
#MeanwhileInCanada pic.twitter.com/bVWtyilHXp
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) January 24, 2022
re: #196 Teddy’s Person
Eeek,
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re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
“vested” is a big fucking deal and nothing to just toss aside.
The bubble burst during my first IT job. When I left, my vested stock was worth -43,000 dollars compared to its strike price. My current ESPP needs to be bumped up a bit…even at 15% off I’m only getting a couple shares a month.
re: #225 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Jerry Falwell Jr. blames his Trump endorsement for his shocking downfall
Everything Trump touches does a threesome with the pool boy.
Trump calls the press the enemy of the people; mocks disabled reporters and Gold Star families; incites violence against journalists; cages infants; foments an insurrection & kills 870K Americans
MAGA: 🤷🏼♂️
Biden accurately calls @pdoocy a stupid son of a bitch
MAGA: Civility!— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈 (@AmoneyResists) January 25, 2022
re: #225 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Jerry Falwell Jr. blames his Trump endorsement for his shocking downfall
I think posing for a pic drunk with a young woman who wasn’t your wife with your pubic hair showing contributed a bit there, Jerry.
Well Regulated Militia keepin us safe in the stores. https://t.co/aoczhQalxu
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 25, 2022
Maybe this explains the crypto crash. Or maybe crypto was just stupid. pic.twitter.com/zJgjzcbidM
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) January 25, 2022
re: #227 austin_blue
The warhead for the AGM-154B is the BLU-108/B from the Air Force’s Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW) program. The JSOW B was to carry six BLU-108/B submunitions. Each submunition releases four projectiles (total of 24 per weapon) that use infrared sensors to detect targets. When a submunition detects that it is aligned with a target, it fires, creating an explosively formed penetrator capable of defeating vehicle armor. This program concluded development but the Navy decided not to procure the weapon.**
And that, kiddies, is one reason the Defense budget is bigger than the GDP of some countries.
Isn’t saving and replaying my memories just called remembering https://t.co/xHd2Duru2C
— supply in a chainstack (@jesseltaylor) January 25, 2022
This 👏♥️👍 pic.twitter.com/qYSbKpMEnv
— Dogs, b/c people suck (@dogsoverhumans3) January 24, 2022
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re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
I hope it’s bluetooth compatible. Write an app to hack people’s brain implants and you could be rich.
This sounds pretty stupid to me.
Wisconsin Republicans pass bill allowing some high school students to bring a gun to campushttps://t.co/23OyJhPeXp
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 24, 2022
re: #229 IngisKahn
Eeek,
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re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
If I download my memories and personality to someone’s neural link, it’s going to turn out to be the Betamax of the genre.
re: #241 Dread Pirate Ron
This sounds pretty stupid to me.
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It’s been mentioned before. As I said then, the governor will veto it and they don’t have the votes to override. The bill is just performance art to get campaign money from the stupid.
re: #238 William Lewis
Saw a post about something like that called ‘Angel shot’ posted in a women’s room at a bar. Bartender knows to call police for an ‘Angel shot on the rocks’ or just an Uber for an Angel shot neat.
re: #244 Decatur Deb
If I download my memories and personality to someone’s neural link, it’s going to turn out to be the Betamax of the genre.
No more getting asked what you’re thinking and being able to say ‘nothing.’
re: #173 IngisKahn
Do not give up being vested. It’ll pay out hugely when the time comes.
re: #173 IngisKahn
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Year 7 starts with a song.
While Ricky spent the nite in the nest box during the cold snap because it was to cold to hunt. Tonight I heard actual love songs being softly warbled out by the nest box. Then the camera alarmed. He’s starting to lure her in. Owl romance in the Motts. pic.twitter.com/LIf2MB3ZUL— Dave’s Hiding Out till Jan. (@DaveoutofAustin) January 25, 2022
re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg
When the Republicans and the morons over at Fox “News” come out of the woodwork to cry about Biden calling Doocy a stupid SOB just show them this Trump compilation pic.twitter.com/0aTtYamUjw
— Wu-Tang Is For The Children (@WUTangKids) January 24, 2022
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
We’re a long, long, way from that kind of tech, if it’s ever possible.
re: #248 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Do not give up being vested. It’ll pay out hugely when the time comes.
True, this. When Pfizer left Ann Arbor my wife’s job went with it but upper management ensured that she was able to add positions of responsibility for more than a year as the on-site staff dwindled, until she vested in the retirement. At times it seemed like she was in charge of everything non-scientific 😂
Seriously a big deal for us in retirement
re: #240 darthstar
I hope it’s bluetooth compatible. Write an app to hack people’s brain implants and you could be rich.
SAT results will never be the same…
THE SEQUEL WE DIDN’T ASK FOR 😮😭https://t.co/VwadXeMIiz
— KAMALA NATION (@KamalaNation) January 25, 2022
“…It has also been found in the U.S., according to Sinclair Broadcasting’s Seattle station, KOMO News, which reported the Washington State Health Department has confirmed two cases of BA.2 were “found earlier this month.”
“It’s too early to tell if we are going to see more cases of this variant,” WA health department spokesperson Shelby Anderson told the outlet. “So far, fewer than 100 confirmed BA.2 cases in the U.S. have been reported.”
At least three cases have been found at Houston’s Methodist Hospital, where genomic sequencing is more robust than elsewhere.
The U.S. does not yet identify BA.2 as its own sublineage, while the the World Health Organization now does.
One anonymous Biden administration official, however, told the Washington Post on Monday that “there is concern about the omicron BA.2 variant.” Because of the increase in cases overseas, the person said the U.S. is gearing up and “paying close attention to the BA.2 variant.”
morons
It’s not science.
It’s politics, with a large dose of pseudo-religion. https://t.co/nm9HRsfcA5— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 23, 2022
📷 @l_pezz pic.twitter.com/YREsyk7Npw
— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) January 24, 2022
Here are the lighthouses of Europe.
The map is even better than it might seem at first glance: the colors are the real colors, the patterns are the real patterns, and the size of the dots is the distance at which each light is visible. https://t.co/y7QzV1v7GF pic.twitter.com/9Zbh4Da62B— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 24, 2022
And here are all the lighthouses in the world. (Sadly, not animated) https://t.co/dfM60toG1p pic.twitter.com/gfwXXmF6PS
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 24, 2022
The data is from @openstreetmap, which is like a Wikipedia for maps, so if you see any lights missing you can add them. https://t.co/SDemlOhCI5
It is also a data source for other amazing map projects, like my all time favorite 👇 https://t.co/wHOEBigQSC— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 25, 2022
Solidarity!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/7cFlTrNRCt— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 25, 2022
Fun fact: over 40% of white Harvard students are either legacy admits, athletes, or children of major donors. https://t.co/qNCy9LSqrd
— Angelo Guisado (@VoltaireLaFlare) January 24, 2022
— William Bean (@wbeans) January 25, 2022
— Captain Hook (@DuanePatrickHil) January 25, 2022
I’m looking forward to the Stand With Doocy t-shirts.
So, guess he’s not listening to any of his attorneys, huh? Probably would be a good time to stay silent.
— Kristen 💙🇺🇸💙 (@GreenKristenL) January 24, 2022
Welcome to the First Amendment, honeychild. You were too busy sucking up to the Second to notice it. https://t.co/VrO1SQy6RR
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) January 25, 2022
If this was 1939, Tucker Carlson would be the Gruppenführer of his local German-American Bund. https://t.co/SMtM5i2g71
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 25, 2022
re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Oooh, gorgeous bowl! Miraculous preservation — can’t read the linked German article, but will have to look for details on how it survived.
If a modern company wanted to copy that Roman design, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
re: #269 CleverToad
Oooh, gorgeous bowl! Miraculous preservation — can’t read the linked German article, but will have to look for details on how it survived.
If a modern company wanted to copy that Roman design, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
try this link:
arkeonews.net
re: #88 Dangerman
after all that nonsense the dow erased a 1,000 point loss and closed up 99 !?!
Dead cat bounce?
re: #261 jaunte
Those stupid sons of bitches need to stick together.
re: #264 Dread Pirate Ron
Quotes are fun, huh?https://t.co/UPGLJZAaL5
— Hopeoverfear2 (@Hopeoverfear2) January 25, 2022
re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth
We’re not a fascist nation, so the schools should not be indoctrinating children into any religion. Conservatives wouldn’t tolerate this, but most were just fascists wearing a mask that fell away during the Trump disaster.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 25, 2022
re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg
Unknown: “She used to be great, she’s still very beautiful.”
Trump: “I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married.”
Unknown: “That’s huge news there.”
Trump: “No, no, Nancy. No this was [inaudible] and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn’t get there and she was married. Then all-of-a-sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.”
This is part of the same convo where Trump talked about grabbing women by the pussy.
Calling a “journalist” an SOB? Who would have ever thought
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Best of April 2024 Nothing new here but these are a look back at the a few good images from the past month. Despite the weather, I was quite pleased with several of them. These were taken with older lenses (made from the ...
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Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ... Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
