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Judge just tossed Scari Lake’s lawsuit. Merry Christmas!
A judge not only just rejected Kari Lake’s attempt to overturn the results of her election — he invited sanctions motions as well.
Welcome to the finding out phase, Kari Lake. You loser. pic.twitter.com/36dkc85KET— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) December 24, 2022
re: #209 CleverToad
It’s almost noon on Christmas Evesday —- the holiday officially starts with church at 7:30 for carols and candles, then home to open presents tonight. We always opened our presents on the Eve — my mom said it was because that’s what Norvegians do, but I think the family tradition probably started because her dad worked for the Anaconda Copper smelter in Great Falls, MT and he got off at midnight. Wottheheck, it means I don’t get up early on Christmas morning.
But I ain’t half-ready for the festivities yet, so I better sign off till Monday.
We’re at 44 degrees here in the Denver metro, highs in the 50’s & lows in the 20’s for the next few days, so our cold snap done snapped. Will have to go outside in a bit and see what damage got done.Happy rest of Hanukkah to the Lizards celebrating
Blessed Christmas for the Christian Lizards
A gripeful Festivus for the ones so inclined
Happy time off for those what get any. Wincing sympathy for those who don’t.
Good times with family and friends for those who have the chance this year. An extra hug for the too many of us dealing with gaps in the circle, with sharp new losses and aching old ones in these dark days of the year. Wishing you comfort and sunlight as the days start to lengthen, connections to keep you afloat.
See you all on the other side of spiral ham and pumpkin pie and pecan pie and eggnog cheesecake! Well, on Monday, anyway, whether or not the baking turns out.
Have a safe and happy holiday.
Here two hundred miles north, it’s a lot colder at 16°F.
There’s a fight a-brewin’
Ronna McDaniel says Kari Lake’s loss is her own fault, because she said “if you’re a McCain voter, get the hell out of my rallies. Then the McCain voters said, ‘Yeah? I’m not gonna vote for you.” pic.twitter.com/DByn7MHvhn
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) December 23, 2022
What you’re looking at is the final, lonely steps of *this* Jurassic horseshoe crab preserved at the bottom of a Jurassic lagoon roughly 150 million years ago.
I first saw this specimen in 2008, whilst I was at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. pic.twitter.com/ujkNKLaBsC— Dr Dean Lomax (@Dean_R_Lomax) December 21, 2022
re: #1 BigPapa
Judge just tossed Scari Lake’s lawsuit. Merry Christmas!
And (yet another) one of the reasons he did so (outside of probably just wanting to dispose of this bullshit before the holiday) is buried in the body of the NYT article: to wit:
Mr. Parikh and others involved in Ms. Lake’s case have ties to Mike Lindell, the pillow manufacturer who is a central figure among election conspiracy theorists. Mr. Lindell has said he was helping to finance Ms. Lake’s legal challenge, and his own lawyer, Kurt Olsen, has led Ms. Lake’s legal team.
Mike Lindell: the Kiss of Death (smothered by a MyPillow??) for election-deniers everywhere.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) December 24, 2022
Not yet officially confirmed, but it does appear that Central Park broke the record for its largest daily temperature drop yesterday. The temperature fell from 58° F in the morning to 9° F shortly before midnight - a difference of 49° F.
— New York Metro Weather (@nymetrowx) December 24, 2022
re: #6 Jay C
I would have been shocked if Lindell didn’t have his stinky mittens involved with Lake. Another L for Team Sedition.
Tonight I do my first falafel in an air fryer.
I mayyyy be in trouble lol
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) December 24, 2022
re: #171 Mattand
I’m glad you’re doing okay and wish you and the missus nothing but the best this Xmas and New Year’s.
The town you live in and your piece-of-shit neighbors, specifically the church next door?
Not so much.
Fuck everyone of them. I get so goddamned angry when I read this. They are literally putting your lives in danger, if not outright trying to kill you. I have a specific wish for the church itself, but I’m trying not to commit things like that to writing.
Please stay safe.
Thanks. As for the neighbours behind me, they just came home a little bit ago. They just brought us twenty gallons of water in coolers, and a bag of bottled water, unprompted. Apparently one of them saw me harvesting snow for water and brought it to us.
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That is good news. I hope you get your water back soon.
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thanks. As for the neighbours behind me, they just came home a little bit ago. They just brought us twenty gallons of water in coolers, and a bag of bottled water, unprompted. Apparently one of them saw me harvesting snow for water and brought it to us.
Okay, I’ll put away my misanthropy for a few minutes, if I have, to, LOL.
I’m glad at least some of your neighbors aren’t total psychos.
Hang in there and may your Xmas shitter never be full.
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
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Human memory is garbage, some lizard said yesterday. I have been rummaging around in my much-disturbed pile…
I’ve been going through a few concerts of the smol desk, and landed on that of Tower of Power. When I was a kid, I saw them at the Shrine Auditorium, LA. My parents had bought me tickets for my birthday (15th??) to see whoever it was they opened for. I had gotten far enough to remember it was not more music, it was comedy. Then I saw your posting. That’s it! Cheech and Chong. Yes, my parents were weird.
re: #5 William Lewis
I stepped in a dead upside down horseshoe crab in the surf in Delaware years ago. If you ever wanted to see a human attempt to walk on water…. They are amazing. You can find them in south Jersey and all over Delaware beaches spring and early summer. I would see a few live each year.
Then the mating season…
Horseshoe Crabs, Shorebirds and the Delaware Bay
Fucking orcs.
Three days after the first Russian bombs struck Ukraine, Andrii Kuprash, the head of a village north of Kyiv, walked into a forest near his home and began to dig.
WARNING: Readers may find some details in this story distressing
He didn’t stop until he had carved out a shallow pit, big enough for a man like him. It was his just-in-case, a place to lie low if he needed.
He covered it with branches and went back home.
A week later, Kuprash got a call around 8am from an unknown number. A man speaking Russian asked if he was the village head.
Something was amiss.
“No, you’ve got the wrong number,” Kuprash lied.
Kuprash grabbed some camping kit and his warmest coat and headed for his hole in the woods.
Kuprash — and others The Associated Press (AP) spoke with — had been quietly warned that they were targets for advancing Russian forces.
Word went round in circles of influential Ukrainians: “Don’t sleep in your own home. Get rid of your phone. Get out of Ukraine.”
The hunt was on.
‘We will find you:’ How Russia used torture and threats to hunt down influential Ukrainians
Breaking extremely local news: The percolator is now making coffee (finally).
Ahhhh, Karma.
Lauren Boeberts restaurant is being replaced by a Mexican restaurant!! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/5ofdp5QROK
— J (@NooooNazis) December 23, 2022
Will the Repugs really be dumb enough to choose some evil batshit type, like Lindell, for the chair, or will they have enough sense to choose an evil semi-competent type like Ronna?
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
“Tapatios: We Know How To Fully Cook Our Pork”
re: #9 nines09
Him so smart it hurts.
Great publicity. Might be worth 5 months in prison if it sells him a few hundred thousand albums.
Kari Lake’s dumbass lawsuit to overturn her election loss was thrown out today, and the judge recommended sanctions.
This is the finding out phase of fucking around. Getting so incredibly sick of Republicans trying to sue their way into office.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 24, 2022
Correction: the judge didn’t “recommend” sanctions; he gave the defendants a deadline to file for sanctions.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 24, 2022
Lake says she’s going to appeal, of course, because the grift must go on.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 24, 2022
The grift goes on
The grift goes on
Clowns keep pounding bullshit to the brain
La de da de de
La de da de da— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 24, 2022
re: #25 Charles Johnson
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Thanks for Chering. That should get the days old cat-who-ate-your-new-shoes worm out of my ear.
re: #24 JC1
“And here’s the warehouse we jacked…”
George Santos ran a giant con job getting elected as Congressman.
Democrats are getting blamed for not vetting him thoroughly.
No.
Republicans ran a fraud as a candidate.
REPUBLICANS are responsible.— Rob Lowy (@rob_lowy912) December 24, 2022
re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Breaking extremely local news: The percolator is now making coffee (finally).
i think i can, i think i can….
re: #28 Belafon
Agree that Republicans are primarily to blame. But NY Democrats aren’t innocent, either; they clearly failed to do even a cursory job of researching this guy.
re: #28 Belafon
the whole system is weak and ineffective
there’s no pre-election screening process
apparently it’s not wholly illegal to fabricate a resume, tell lies about your past, or your future intentions, etc, as long as you qualify under the constitution*, and don’t lie on campaign finance filings
*25 years old, 7 years citizen, resident of the state etc in this case
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Agree that Republicans are primarily to blame. But NY Democrats aren’t innocent, either; they clearly failed to do even a cursory job of researching this guy.
It’s my understanding that the democrats were screaming about the guy being a fraud as far back as the summer, and the liberal media just wasn’t interested.
re: #31 Dangerman
the whole system is weak and ineffective
there’s no pre-election screening processapparently it’s not wholly illegal to fabricate a resume, tell lies about your past, or your future intentions, etc, as long as you qualify under the constitution*, and don’t lie on campaign finance filings
*25 years old, 7 years citizen, resident of the state etc in this case
One of the penalties of an electorate converting to a “Go team! Win at any cost” strategy where actual character and qualifications are now longer the large factor they should be. Quite like the large gaps there often are between justice and legality.
LOL
Played Cards Against Humanity with the family. My sister-in-law picked this card and gasped. She didn’t choose my answer as the funniest and I lost to my brother-in-law. pic.twitter.com/tp4C8Py9zU
— M. Night Shyamalan ⌛ (@MNightShyamalan) December 24, 2022
Breaking Ercot is failing AGAIN as Texas asks feds for permission to poison our air to stay warm! By the way, I voted for Beto! https://t.co/Q3am9NdUB2
— Sara Spector (@Miriam2626) December 24, 2022
And still this… pic.twitter.com/FHnymm8EvJ
— Kathy Jones-Hospod (@JonesHospodTX) December 24, 2022
re: #32 JC1
the NYT was busy selling the bogus crime narrative, regardless of the veracity, to place their thumb on the scale… naturally they’re all over it now that the deed is done, but scandal grabs more clicks than actual reporting it seems.
Granted, there’e the issue that any inanimate object that had an R in parens beside it would have garnered just as many votes it appears.
re: #32 JC1
It’s my understanding that the democrats were screaming about the guy being a fraud as far back as the summer, and the liberal media just wasn’t interested.
After Santos bombshell, politicos have one question: Where was the oppo? - City & State New York
I don’t really understand NY state politics, but I’m reading that Hochul is making some potentially disastrous choices for the judiciary (?). Like, is she trying to appeal to the imaginary “centrist”?
re: #39 Charles Johnson
After Santos bombshell, politicos have one question: Where was the oppo? - City & State New York
another point
this was not the first time he ran - he lost the last time
but i have no idea what his story was then or how much it changed between then and now
re: #43 A Cranky One
My brother sent me a photo of his tree.
He’s the most normal of our siblings.
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cause of the cat, right?
re: #36 piratedan
the NYT was busy selling the bogus crime narrative, regardless of the veracity, to place their thumb on the scale… naturally they’re all over it now that the deed is done, but scandal grabs more clicks than actual reporting it seems.
Granted, there’e the issue that any inanimate object that had an R in parens beside it would have garnered just as many votes it appears.
Dems shot themselves in the foot by electing Adams, who kept amplifying the crime BS.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Agree that Republicans are primarily to blame. But NY Democrats aren’t innocent, either; they clearly failed to do even a cursory job of researching this guy.
The Democratic candidate and the party said they tried to get the news out, but all New York media outlets were focused on the gubernatorial election. The news media was not interested, even in his district.
They might have tried something like buying attack advertising, but I don’t know what their campaign budget was and that district is one of the most expensive markets in the country.
re: #45 Dangerman
Yup. He’s an artist, does sculpture, drawings, and painting but mainly photography these days.
When they moved into their townhouse they called the police to come by for a visit. Showed them all the life-size sculptures he’s made. Had problems in the past from neighbors reporting them for carrying bodies in and out.
I’ve mentioned my drummer is a pro, and he answered a search for a drummer a while back. They have an agent and get paid fairly and play marinas and higher end bars and private parties and are booked heavily in Maryland and Delaware, DC, Baltimore over the summer.
We spoke and we will check dates and I will start talking to the 2 places left that I would play local.
I’m sure he’ll give this up for the Moose and the local drunks….
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Holiday things I wish were real: “The Night Before Christmas”, as read by Samuel L. Jackson:
And I heard that bitch say,
As he rode out of sight.
Merry Christmas to all
And a goddamned good night!
re: #41 Barefoot Grin
I don’t really understand NY state politics, but I’m reading that Hochul is making some potentially disastrous choices for the judiciary (?). Like, is she trying to appeal to the imaginary “centrist”?
here’s an article by a website I’m not familiar with, about her probable appointee and who the alternatives were:
boltsmag.org
Hochul’s choice was constrained to a list of seven names selected by the state’s Commission on Judicial Nomination, a body made up in large part of appointees of Cuomo and DiFiore that created controversy for excluding some prominent liberal jurists and candidates of color.
Still, the list presented a clear ideological choice for Hochul. Three of the jurists on the list, including LaSalle, had a record closer to that of the court’s current conservative bloc. Three others were endorsed by the progressive coalition, The Court NY Deserves, as the likeliest to counterbalance the right-leaning bloc.
re: #51 sagehen
There’s also this further down in the article:
LaSalle has also received strong support from Hispanic and Latino lawyers’ bar associations in New York.
re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
Holiday things I wish were real: “The Night Before Christmas”, as read by Samuel L. Jackson:
And I heard that bitch say,
As he rode out of sight.
Merry Christmas to all
And a goddamned good night!
needs a motherfucker in there somewhere
A perennial issue with NY politics… the NYC vs upstate divide is a slightly milder version of red state/blue state polarization. The NYC mayor and NYS gov almost always hate each other, even when they’re in the same party. Especially over issues of mass transit funding — the federal government gives the state a bloc grant that the governor almost always wants to spend mostly on upstate cities’ bus systems, and the subway gets short-changed again and again. Because the state legislature tilts upstate (Hochul is from Buffalo).
re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth
I almost down dinged your post because there was no motherfucker in there. Be careful.
U.S. deep freeze leaves more than 800,000 without power, thousands of flights canceled
Dec 24 (Reuters) - An arctic blast that gripped much of the United States on Saturday left more than 800,000 without power, at least 16 dead from weather-related car crashes and thousands stranded due to flight cancellations.
Plummeting temperatures were expected to bring the coldest Christmas Eve on record, and energy systems across the country were strained by rising demand for heat and storm-related damage to transmission lines.
The latest outage numbers are a sharp drop from the 1.8 million U.S. homes and businesses left without power as of early Saturday morning, according to tracking site poweroutage.us.
Many electric companies continued to ask customers to conserve energy by not running large appliances and turning off unneeded lights.
(more at Reuters)
re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth
needs a motherfucker in there somewhere
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew the motherfucker just must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called their asses by name;
meanwhile in Kentucky
GREAT NEWS: Crews worked tirelessly to clear the I-71 mess that impacted hundreds of drivers since Thursday, and now the NB traffic is (partially) moving again. Drivers are still urged to avoid the area, given dangerous conditions. @WCPO https://t.co/985BLmaLfM
— Valerie Lyons (@VLyonsTV) December 24, 2022
Activists try to cut the ring road of Madrid on Christmas eve (video, 0:29, Reddit’s r/Facepalm)
Activists of “Futuro Vegetal” (Vegetal Future) jumped to Madrid’s M-30 ring road near the Méndez Álvaro exit, making a traffic jam in the process, the group said on Twitter “We are not gonna stop until the Spanish State stops funding the meat industry. We are sorry for the inconvinences caused, but our lives’ depend on it”
The activists glued their hands to the concrete while the Police arrived, 6 of them have been arrested on the act and brought to the Moratalaz police station with no previous criminal record, they are accussed of public disturbances and coercion. 2 photographers have also been fined for not wearing reflectant vests and for invading the road without security measures, Spain is expected to have 18 million car trips on this journey.
re: #37 darthstar
First time rolling out pie crust on the new marble countertop…did not suck.
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Update on the pie…lard, flour, salt - pumpkin ginger, cinnamon, clove, allspice, eggs, sugar, evaporated milk.
and after that huge multi-vehicle wreck yesterday on the Ohio Turnpike
ALERT UPDATE: #OHTPK crews have reopened the WB lanes @ MP 106.0 (Sandusky Co). EB lanes remain closed and traffic will continue to be diverted off at Exit-91 (SR 53/Sandusky), delays expected.
— Ohio Turnpike (@OhioTurnpike) December 24, 2022
Fun Part 1 today—right eye lasered…
Fun Part 2 today—coming home from Pasadena with rerouted and detoured busses which are not listed on the Metro phone app.
what a fun way to spend Christmas Eve!
consolation—friend gave me a 6 pack of Faygo Diet RedPop. Just opened can #1…NIRVANA
re: #46 JC1
Dems shot themselves in the foot by electing Adams, who kept amplifying the crime BS.
That self-inflicted wound may fester yet: but it probably didn’t have much effect on the last election, since NYC elects its Mayors in off-years (2021 for Adams).
That said, I’ll opine (as a citizen and voter) that, even by the low-expectation standards of NYC Mayors, Adams has been somewhat underwhelming. I realize the stereotype of “dumb ex-cop who went into politics” may be a tad harsh - I don’t know Eric personally, obviously - but hopefully his influence (like so many other of his predecessors) will be minimal….
Wingers over at Daily Wire are mad at President Biden (that’s not new) over his Christmas address (the War on Christmas isn’t new either).
President Joe Biden delivered the White House’s Christmas address Thursday evening and failed to mention Jesus by name or say Christ while doing so.
“How silently, how silently, the wondrous Gift is given,” Biden began. “There is a certain stillness at the center of the Christmas story. A silent night when all the world goes quiet and all the glamour, all the noise, everything that divides us, everything that pits us against one another, everything — everything that seems so important but really isn’t, this all fades away in stillness of the winter’s evening.”
Biden then referred to Jesus Christ as “a child Christians believe to be the son of God,” but failed to actually mention his name.
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They are mad because President Biden is correct. Christians believe Jesus to be the son of God. Muslims believe him to be an important prophet. Jews, Hindus, atheists, &c. do not believe the person existed at all (at least not in the way characterised in the Gospels).
re: #68 Jay C
Adams is bad but things could be far worse if the guy anointed by the Press Corpse had been elected mayor…Andrew Yang…
re: #64 A Cranky One
I want a new lamp but Mrs Cranky doesn’t like my choices.
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I like the 2nd one.
On the first… I’m with Mrs Cranky.
re: #70 Joe Bacon
Adams is bad but things could be far worse if the guy anointed by the Press Corpse had been elected mayor…Andrew Yang…
Yang hadn’t been so much “anointed” by the local Press, as much as simply lionized as the Latest Newest Thing in City politics (and frankly, his backstory is a little more interesting than the typical lawyer-on-the-make tale common for local politicos) - but his consistent record of Electoral Fail has kinda taken the bloom off that particular rose…
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Is Ed Wood playing the piano?
May the Dread Lord Chthulu bless and keep you for the holiday……feast.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) December 24, 2022
re: #81 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Maybe the reason why some folks find “Merry Christmas” offensive is because they are from a different religion like Judaism. And Happy Hanukkah to all. :)
re: #81 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
“Axial tilt is the reason for the season.”
If she finds that offensive we should be teaching science more.
re: #51 sagehen
here’s an article by a website I’m not familiar with, about her probable appointee and who the alternatives were:
boltsmag.org
That’s interesting. I had heard none of that.
Apropos of absolutely nothing regarding Christmas or Hanukah…
A couple of days ago there was mention of various dialects.
I have been meaning for a while to post some information on how some foundational US dialects derive from various English regional dialects. I found it interesting anyway.
The information is from the course notes for the Lecture Series “English in America - A Linguistic History” given by by Dr. Natalie Schilling, Associate Professor of Linguistics,
Georgetown University. It is published by The Great Course Company.
For those super interested. I suspect that the course may available through inter-library loan. It is likely available through subscription to Audible or Wondrium. It can also be purchased directly from Great Courses. Although in that case you might consider waiting until it is on sale.
Tidewater Southern Accent -
The first English-speaking settlement in America was Jamestown, in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Most of the early English-speaking settlers in the Tidewater region came from southern and southwestern England. They were Cavaliers, Royalists who left England as a result of the English Civil War that unseated their king. They were gentrified, conservative, and oriented toward England despite their distance.
Also traveling along with the Cavaliers were people of a very different social class: indentured servants who received passage to the New World in exchange for a period of servitude on the wealthy Cavaliers’ extensive farmlands.
About 40,000 Cavaliers and servants arrived in the first three-quarters of the 17th century, and their ways of life, and ways of talking, were to have persistent founder effects on Southern culture and on the Southern dialect.
The New England Accent -
Another key early settlement area was New England. In 1620, the Mayflower brought Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock, and shortly thereafter, in 1623, the colony of Cape Ann was founded. This colony included people from southwestern England, too, just like Jamestown to the south. But the Cape Ann colony never really took off, and its influence was quickly eclipsed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded in 1628.
The overwhelming majority of people who made up this settlement came from southeast England, particularly East Anglia, the area on the southeast coast directly above London. They were mostly
Puritans fleeing England for religions reasons. And while they might not have been quite as aristocratic as the Virginia settlers, they were pretty high in status and were typically well educated or skilled craftspeople. These were the original Yankees, moralistic and tenacious.
Around 20,000 Puritans poured into New England between 1629 and 1641—not nearly as numerous as the Cavaliers, but nonetheless highly influential in their dialect region. They worked hard, and they prospered, and spread throughout New England into Connecticut and what would later become New Hampshire. Again, they were mostly from southeastern England—so still Southern English, like in Tidewater Virginia, but from a different part of the South, with some slightly different speechways.
Realized I hadn’t fried my budget enough, so I dropped a franklin on 5 rolls of Kodak Gold 120 & 5 rolls of XP2 Super 120. Gotta keep the MF cameras fed ;)
Yes, film is expensive, but it has made a fair comeback - the Kodak Gold has only recently become available as 120 roll film and it plays well with classic cameras.
We’re only going to see more “Taliban ban women from” headlines. Republicans are taking notes.
Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs (Lethbridge, Alberta News, today)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban government in Afghanistan on Saturday ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups to suspend employing women.
The order came in a letter from Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammed Hanif, which said that any NGO found not complying with the order will have their operating license revoked in Afghanistan.
The contents of the letter were confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday by ministry spokesman, Abdul Rahman Habib.
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re: #86 ckkatz
Apropos of absolutely nothing regarding Christmas or Hanukah…
A couple of days ago there was mention of various dialects.
I have been meaning for a while to post some information on how some foundational US dialects derive from various English regional dialects. I found it interesting anyway.
The information is from the course notes for the Lecture Series “English in America - A Linguistic History” given by by Dr. Natalie Schilling, Associate Professor of Linguistics,
Georgetown University. It is published by The Great Course Company.For those super interested. I suspect that the course may available through inter-library loan. It is likely available through subscription to Audible or Wondrium. It can also be purchased directly from Great Courses. Although in that case you might consider waiting until it is on sale.
Tidewater Southern Accent -
The first English-speaking settlement in America was Jamestown, in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Most of the early English-speaking settlers in the Tidewater region came from southern and southwestern England. They were Cavaliers, Royalists who left England as a result of the English Civil War that unseated their king. They were gentrified, conservative, and oriented toward England despite their distance.
Also traveling along with the Cavaliers were people of a very different social class: indentured servants who received passage to the New World in exchange for a period of servitude on the wealthy Cavaliers’ extensive farmlands.
About 40,000 Cavaliers and servants arrived in the first three-quarters of the 17th century, and their ways of life, and ways of talking, were to have persistent founder effects on Southern culture and on the Southern dialect.
The New England Accent -
Another key early settlement area was New England. In 1620, the Mayflower brought Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock, and shortly thereafter, in 1623, the colony of Cape Ann was founded. This colony included people from southwestern England, too, just like Jamestown to the south. But the Cape Ann colony never really took off, and its influence was quickly eclipsed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded in 1628.
The overwhelming majority of people who made up this settlement came from southeast England, particularly East Anglia, the area on the southeast coast directly above London. They were mostly
Puritans fleeing England for religions reasons. And while they might not have been quite as aristocratic as the Virginia settlers, they were pretty high in status and were typically well educated or skilled craftspeople. These were the original Yankees, moralistic and tenacious.Around 20,000 Puritans poured into New England between 1629 and 1641—not nearly as numerous as the Cavaliers, but nonetheless highly influential in their dialect region. They worked hard, and they prospered, and spread throughout New England into Connecticut and what would later become New Hampshire. Again, they were mostly from southeastern England—so still Southern English, like in Tidewater Virginia, but from a different part of the South, with some slightly different speechways.
Thank you. I love this stuff. An English lit professor told us in college that Chicago and Brooklyn have more in common than Chicago and Champaign (downstate). Basically it amounted to an argument that the Euro-American people who first grew Chicago’s population migrated from the northeast along the great lakes, whereas in my hometown, they mostly came up from Kentucky through southern Indiana. I found that true personally but simplistic. My father’s father’s family came from MA in the 1630s through New Haven, then northern Ohio, then on to northern Illinois (about 40 miles south of Cook county). His mother’s side came from Germany to Kentucky in late 1700s then on to western Illinois.
Anyway, the place names in New Hampshire (and of course all over New England) do indeed often come from places in southern England—at least to the extent I’ve done my “research” on it. We do have a Derry and Londonderry as distinct neighboring towns.
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— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) December 24, 2022
re: #89 Barefoot Grin
One line of my ancestors were Quakers in New England. A 3rd great grandfather was such, his daughter was raised in that but married outside of it. But she taught her daughter to write and encouraged her to be educated so my great grandmother actually got 12 years of schooling, much more than common for women in those times. She then clearly taught my mother how to write, as their handwriting (Ggm, gm, and my mother) are all very very similar.
Also it is that line of ancestors which likely led me to be so academically minded.
Culture is inherited, and strands of culture get woven down through centuries.
Statement | Qatar Expresses Deep Concern, Disappointment over Decision to Suspend Study of Girls, Women in Afghanistan’s Universities#MOFAQatar pic.twitter.com/pE65ghWLbu
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Qatar (@MofaQatar_EN) December 21, 2022
re: #89 Barefoot Grin
Thank you. I love this stuff. An English lit professor told us in college that Chicago and Brooklyn have more in common than Chicago and Champaign (downstate). Basically it amounted to an argument that the Euro-American people who first grew Chicago’s population migrated from the northeast along the great lakes, whereas in my hometown, they mostly came up from Kentucky through southern Indiana. I found that true personally but simplistic. My father’s father’s family came from MA in the 1630s through New Haven, then northern Ohio, then on to northern Illinois (about 40 miles south of Cook county). His mother’s side came from Germany to Kentucky in late 1700s then on to western Illinois.
Anyway, the place names in New Hampshire (and of course all over New England) do indeed often come from places in southern England—at least to the extent I’ve done my “research” on it. We do have a Derry and Londonderry as distinct neighboring towns.
You are most welcome. I agree, I find this stuff fascinating as well.
Here is another paragraph from the lecture notes:
New England wasn’t completely monolithic, and early on, cultural and linguistic differences developed between eastern and western New England. Geography and ways of making a living played a big role. People who settled in western New England became focused on the land, on farming, while those who settled in the east were oriented to the sea, toward fishing and whaling. Or if they were wealthier people living in what would soon become the urban center of New England, Boston, they oriented toward England, especially toward London, its political and cultural center
The course identifies 3 different dialect pathways as the population migrated westward. The third pathway is “Midland accent” which originated from Philadelphia and the Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania. And yes, the boundary between the Northern and Midlands accents bisects Illinois.
I grew up in Pittsburgh which has its own dialect “Yinzer”. But is also surrounded by the Midlands accent.
When I was in the Army I spent an inordinate amount of time in Arkansas, Oklahoma and North Texas. I was fascinated to realize that those regions also speak a variation of the Midland accent.
re: #91 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One line of my ancestors were Quakers in New England. A 3rd great grandfather was such, his daughter was raised in that but married outside of it. But she taught her daughter to write and encouraged her to be educated so my great grandmother actually got 12 years of schooling, much more than common for women in those times. She then clearly taught my mother how to write, as their handwriting (Ggm, gm, and my mother) is all very very similar.
Also it is that line of ancestors which likely led me to be so academically minded.
Culture is inherited, and strands of culture get woven down through centuries.
Absolutely. My grandparents met in the WWI years at the University of Illinois—he to be a farm manager and she to be a teacher. He managed a couple of large farms for rich people before becoming a professor of agriculture at UI. In 1987 I graduated with highest honors and my grandmother, then 98, demanded that I read my honors thesis in anthropology to her. My Georgia grandfather (mother’s father) never went to college but instead worked his father’s farm so that he could send his younger siblings to college.
LOL, former President of the United States of America, everyone!
“SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT Presidential Election SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT …” pic.twitter.com/IDTuOW24QH— Michael James @mpjames@glasgow.social (@alephnaught) December 24, 2022
I feel sorry for his future cell mates.
— Frank B (@frnakcb74) December 24, 2022
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You know your laws are insanely oppressive when even fucking QATAR is calling you out for being too strict.
re: #93 ckkatz
My mother’s family did the up-from-Kentucky-to-southern-Illinois route, some passing through southern Indiana on the way. My father’s side came the same way, but made a detour through the Flint Hills of Kansas before coming back to southern Illinois. My husband’s mother was of more recent Swedish import, and his father came the Pennsylvania-Ohio-all-the-way-to-Kansas City. It has been quite interesting exploring on ancestry.com how the various lines came here to the Midwest from landings along southern New England to North Carolina, and then on west.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
You know your laws are insanely oppressive when even fucking QATAR is calling you out for being too strict.
It’s ultimately destructive to your culture since you waste 50% of the minds you are given right off the bat.
I guess unless your goal is to simply remain a patriarchal tribal structure as long as you can.
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
I presume she’s objecting to so-called protestors actually violating the law, and the Department of Justice pursuing it. It’s more Nationalist Christianity (Nat-C).
Eleven Defendants Indicted for Obstructing a Reproductive Health Services Facility in Tennessee (October 5, 2022, Department of Justice)
A federal indictment unsealed today charges 11 individuals with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Coleman Boyd, Caroline Davis, Paul Vaughn, Dennis Green, Eva Edl, Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow and Paul Place were indicted for federal offenses in connection with an alleged reproductive health care clinic blockade in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, on March 5, 2021. Gallagher, Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Boyd, Davis, Vaughn and Dennis Green were charged with a civil rights conspiracy. All 11 defendants were charged with a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) offense.
The indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges that Gallagher, Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Boyd, Davis, Vaughn and Green engaged in a conspiracy to prevent the clinic from providing, and patients from receiving, reproductive health services. According to the indictment, as part of the conspiracy, Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Boyd, Davis and Green traveled to Tennessee from other states to participate in a clinic blockade that was organized by Gallagher, Idoni and others.
(more on the conspiracy to break the law at the link)
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
You know your laws are insanely oppressive when even fucking QATAR is calling you out for being too strict.
Qatar is feeling the pinch, because they hosted the Taliban leadership and the US/Taliban talks. Not sure if they are feeling betrayed, or are just squealing ahead of being accused, but they are definitely trying to get out ahead of it.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
You know your laws are insanely oppressive when even fucking QATAR is calling you out for being too strict.
Several Muslim nations have, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
Every Muslim nation is a signatory on the UN plan to secure education for all by 2030.
The very first word of the Qur’an is “Read.”
re: #97 retired cynic
My mother’s family did the up-from-Kentucky-to-southern-Illinois route, some passing through southern Indiana on the way. My father’s side came the same way, but made a detour through the Flint Hills of Kansas before coming back to southern Illinois. My husband’s mother was of more recent Swedish import, and his father came the Pennsylvania-Ohio-all-the-way-to-Kansas City. It has been quite interesting exploring on ancestry.com how the various lines came here to the Midwest from landings along southern New England to North Carolina, and then on west.
My paternal grandfather’s side did so often as a mix of agriculture and religion. The one who landed in what is now Cambridge, MA in 1634 followed a preacher named Hooker to found New Haven, then many of his descendants were also ministers/farmers who moved with flocks through northern Ohio to northern Illinois.
Tomorrow’s Wordle has an overwhelming compulsion to say, “Ho Ho Ho.”
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No excuses candidate for the wooden spoon.
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Temperatures here are in the low 20s. Celsius.
re: #103 Grunthos the Flatulent
Temperatures here are in the low 20s. Celsius.
We’re still in a warming trend. We’re up to -2°C / 29°F.
re: #95 Alephnaught
“SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT Presidential Election SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT …”
TFG: The Vogon guard of all dishonorably booted former presidents
re: #97 retired cynic
My mother’s family did the up-from-Kentucky-to-southern-Illinois route, some passing through southern Indiana on the way. My father’s side came the same way, but made a detour through the Flint Hills of Kansas before coming back to southern Illinois. My husband’s mother was of more recent Swedish import, and his father came the Pennsylvania-Ohio-all-the-way-to-Kansas City. It has been quite interesting exploring on ancestry.com how the various lines came here to the Midwest from landings along southern New England to North Carolina, and then on west.
An extended family from Kentucky named Bowman moved to Fairfax County Virginia around 1900. They became very successful farmers and also set up a distillery to make their agricultural products more easily transportable. There are several local roads named after them.
A friend whose maiden name is Bowman (grew up just outside of Detroit) lived for many years in the vicinity. She wondered about the name, but never had a chance to research it.
Earlier this year I looked up where in Kentucky the Bowman family of Fairfax County originated and mentioned it to her. It turns out she has lots of Bowman relatives in the same general area. I suspect that her part of the family was part of the great southern migration to Detroit to work in the auto plants there.
This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show. pic.twitter.com/h0RL9tVQqg
— Mark Woodley (@MarkWoodleyTV) December 22, 2022
re: #87 William Lewis
Realized I hadn’t fried my budget enough, so I dropped a franklin on 5 rolls of Kodak Gold 120 & 5 rolls of XP2 Super 120. Gotta keep the MF cameras fed ;)
Yes, film is expensive, but it has made a fair comeback - the Kodak Gold has only recently become available as 120 roll film and it plays well with classic cameras.
Dad shot hundreds of Kodachrome/Ektachrome slides during his lifetime starting when he worked as a speciality welder at the Charleston Navy Base during World War 2. He took a bunch of pictures of Admiral Rickover and Congressman Mendell Rivers during the war. Lots of pictures of places we visited and a couple of Presidents Truman, Kennedy and Johnson. The last I heard anything of the slides was when my sister found them after Dad passed and it looked like there was water damage from a leak in the cellar where they were kept in the old Kodak slide boxes. A lot of the slides faded in color.
Damn if I had only known…I would have give anything to preserve those slides of Rickover, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson…
re: #108 ckkatz
An old family here where I live along the Illinois River about an hour north of St Louis is called Bowman. They farmed along the river for generations, as my husband’s family did. Old country folks, with a heart of gold. They took in 100 of our horses during the great flood of 1993. They had a pasture they said they wanted eaten down to the ground so they could rip it and replant with a better grass. We accomplished that for them, rather quickly. Unfortunately the mares also ate a good chunk of their board fence, which we rebuilt for them after we got the horses moved on to other temporary homes.
re: #110 Joe Bacon
With current technology, those could have been digitized and restored.
re: #112 retired cynic
With current technology, those could have been digitized and restored.
I got an Epsom scanner and scanned all my father’s slides 5-6 years back. My mother did some editing and it looks like she tossed some of the earliest ones from when my father was in the Navy. There were supposedly a lot of photos of ships alongside the carrier he was on doing underway refueling. A few of those would have been nice, and I presume there would have been some of the carrier’s flight deck and aircraft as well.
re: #114 wrenchwench
Is there a department in the DoD that would receive things like that? There are probably private citizens who collect WWII memorabilia who would pay, too, but I don’t know how to locate them.
re: #114 wrenchwench
I have a bunch of prints from a WWII Army photographer. I don’t know what to do with them. Rolls of developed film, too.
The scanner I had did photos, but also had holders for negatives as well to allow them to be scanned. Presumably the software had a way to handle them.
The thing I noticed was that getting the slides clean could be a chore, and I periodically cleaned the scanner glass as well. Wasn’t a perfect job, but I did eventually get through them all.
And that was 2 1/2 long file boxes with about 50 full slide carousels on them. Which had essentially been moldering there for 20+ years. And I wasn’t sure where the slide projector even was. Once I was done I ended up disposing of them, but my brother got a flash drive with copies of them all. From there I went on to scanning all the loose photos and stuff from some water damaged scrap books.
re: #115 retired cynic
Is there a department in the DoD that would receive things like that? There are probably private citizens who collect WWII memorabilia who would pay, too, but I don’t know how to locate them.
A bro-in-law mentioned a museum in Texas—I have notes somewhere. He wants to see them first.
re: #116 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I have one carousel of slides I took in Jan. 1977. I don’t want to touch it.
To brain damaged Repugs, record high Fentanyl seizures are somehow evidence of poor or non-existent enforcement. By Repug pidgin logic, we should therefore stop all enforcement, seizures will drop to zero and Repugs will consider the problem solved.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) December 24, 2022
re: #119 wrenchwench
I have one carousel of slides I took in Jan. 1977. I don’t want to touch it.
There are probably professional services that will do scan/preservation work. No idea how expensive it would be. And if those are valuable to you it also has to be someone you’d trust not to damage them or handle them in a shoddy manner.
re: #121 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
There are probably professional services that will do scan/preservation work. No idea how expensive it would be. And if those are valuable to you it also has to be someone you’d trust not to damage them or handle them in a shoddy manner.
Tourist shots, no value. The next big trip I did, I took no camera, just bought postcards and kept a journal. That I would like to find.
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I thought these glibertarian right-wingers believed that people are responsible for themselves?
Why are not the drug users held accountable? Why is MTG shifting the blame onto others?
And is not drug production and sale an example of capitalism, the very system which we worship?
re: #123 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I thought these glibertarian right-wingers believed that people are responsible for themselves?
Why are not the drug users held accountable? Why is MTG shifting the blame onto others?
And is not drug production and sale an example of capitalism, the very system which we worship?
The GOP has to have something to rage about, fentanyl poisoning our (white) children being the latest in that very long line. They’ve been on this since the “Hallowe’en Skittles” scare. As soon as they can find a new outrage to galvanise their voters they will move on.
re: #123 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
How’s the beach?
— Helen Kennedy 🌻 (@HelenKennedy) December 24, 2022
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been vacationing in Costa Rica during one of the most consequential legislative weeks of the year (Business Insider)
She’s still there. All the things in the House she’s been railing about like the budget, she couldn’t be arsed to be there.
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
I do not approve of this. Make it go away. It is wrong.
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Nonetheless, the congresswoman has continued to cast votes while out of the country.
She filed a letter with the Clerk of the House of Representatives on Monday stating that she was “unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency,” and designated Republican Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama to cast votes on her behalf.
US winter storm: Stranded Native Americans burn clothes for warmth (BBC, yesterday)
Native American tribal leaders in South Dakota are appealing for urgent help as snowed-in communities run out of vital supplies amid a winter storm.
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been buried in more than 30in (76cm) of snow, but powerful winds have stacked snow drifts 12ft (3.6m) high.
“We’re fighting a losing battle,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out told BBC News.
South Dakota’s governor said she was deploying the National Guard.
Anna Halverson, who represents the Pass Creek District on the reservation, told the Darsha Dodge Rapid City Journal: “We’re in a really extreme emergency down here.
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re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
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I have officially joined the 200K club! 😎
Shoutout to PhillyPretzel for pushing me over the line. 💪🏼
Now, where’s my toaster?
The nice toaster.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lying sac-o-shit gonna lie.
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
You are very welcome and Congrats. :)
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
Congradumalashuns!
I just went past 300,000 and did not notice, so I don’t know who put me over the top.
Instead of a toaster, I’ll take a case of water.
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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Also, by now the drugs are not made in China but in Mexico, though many important ingredients do come cheaply to Mexico from China. Also, the vast majority of fentanyl is smuggled through customs checkpoints.
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Congradumalashuns!
I just went past 300,000 and did not notice, so I don’t know who put me over the top.
Instead of a toaster, I’ll take a case of water.
Your LGF karma is currently at 302,955*, so just a guess that you went over the round no. quite a while ago….
I did notice that you are approaching your 70,000th comment, though: hope it’s a good one… 😉
*and every point well-deserved, to be sure.
Eisenhowers’ White House Christmas card to family and close friends, with kiss and thumbprint: pic.twitter.com/SjsndHwuZq
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 25, 2022
For all of you lizards who celebrate it, merry Christmas!
May your holiday be warm and pleasant, and remember - it’s milk and cookies by the tree for Santa and shoes by the air duct for John McClane, not the other way around. ;)
BTW: Charles: did you post the Secret Santa recipients?
Or did the list not fly down the chimney yet?
This is too easy and kind of cheap, but anyway: pic.twitter.com/3T25pnvCH1
— Helen Kennedy 🌻 (@HelenKennedy) December 25, 2022
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I presume she’s objecting to so-called protestors actually violating the law, and the Department of Justice pursuing it. It’s more Nationalist Christianity (Nat-C).
Eleven Defendants Indicted for Obstructing a Reproductive Health Services Facility in Tennessee (October 5, 2022, Department of Justice)
(more on the conspiracy to break the law at the link)
These people believe they have the right to obstruct clinic entrances and assault/batter women (via touching and grabbing) as they attempt to enter. This is not “peaceful praying” by no definition I am aware of. But it’s typical of these whiners.
re: #137 (((Archangel1)))
For all of you lizards who celebrate it, merry Christmas!
May your holiday be warm and pleasant, and remember - it’s milk and cookies by the tree for Santa and shoes by the air duct for John McClane, not the other way around. ;)[Embedded content]
My brother and I had the usual “Is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas movie?” discussion (yes) and then talked about Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi Plaza. We couldn’t remember if he fell from the roof or a window. (I looked it up. It was a window.) And I told him about the Advent calendar where every day Gruber falls closer to the bottom of the Nakatomi Plaza building. I expected him to frown but he laughed uproariously.
Needz moar shivs.
Far Right Turns on ‘Faker’ & ‘Liar’ Marjorie Taylor Greene (Daily Beast, today)
The far right is out to destroy one of their own.
Over the past week, far-right pundits have begun lining up to take shots at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as the congresswoman reportedly vacationed in Costa Rica.
As for why fellow extremists are upset? That’s three-fold—and it involves Greene’s vocal support for Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House, her public spat with onetime friend Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), and the finalization of her divorce.
“MTG wants to protect McCarthy from being removed if he is elected Speaker,” Jan 6th organizer Ali Alexander wrote on Telegram, seething over Greene. “There is something so odd about what is going on between McCarthy and MTG. I’ve only ever once before seen anything like it. It may be time for me to intervene.”
The “Stop the Steal” leader—once an ally of Greene’s—subsequently returned to Telegram to tear into the Georgia Republican, who he referred to as a “trailer park hoodrat,” for “attacking” Boebert earlier this week after the Colorado congresswoman ignited a public feud with Greene.
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re: #138 Jay C
BTW: Charles: did you post the Secret Santa recipients?
Or did the list not fly down the chimney yet?
Not yet, I was planning to do it tomorrow. I have four secret santa subs to give away.
HAPPY HANUKKAH! 7th LIGHT.
Happy #Hanukkah 7th Light #Hanukkah2022 #Chanukah #ChagSameach pic.twitter.com/2qSzRUwJzy
— Liddle Pecan Pie 🌻🌈🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) December 25, 2022
re: #135 Jay C
Your LGF karma is currently at 302,955*, so just a guess that you went over the round no. quite a while ago….
I did notice that you are approaching your 70,000th comment, though: hope it’s a good one… 😉*and every point well-deserved, to be sure.
I have a bunch of brain-dead comment here.
I’ll try to make my 70,000th comment profound.
Hellish holidays, Cheeto!
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) December 25, 2022
I’m not sure if it was here I saw this or not but here it is for those who may not have seen it. His others are cute too.
Brazilian crisis averted. Sorry about Florida though.
President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) not only decided not to hand over the presidential sash to the president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), on January 1st, but also intends to be out of the country on that date.
Bolsonaro told friends that he will spend some time at the Mar-a-Lago condominium in Palm Beach, Florida. Former President Donald Trump owns the property, which is home to a luxury resort, also owned by Trump’s companies. He and Bolsonaro had dinner there in March 2020, during an official visit by the Brazilian president to the then American president, at the beginning of the covid 19 pandemic.
(translated from Portuguese, more at the link, Universo Online, today. UOL is part of Folha de São Paulo, Brazil’s largest newspaper.)
Bolsonaro decide não passar faixa a Lula e viajará para resort de Trump
How a Black-Jewish Historian Crafts a Hanukkah Meal
Michael Twitty tells the intertwined stories of the African and Jewish diasporas through fried Hanukkah treats.
atlasobscura.com
Including recipes for Louisiana Latkes and Spring Rolls.
re: #139 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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Would someone please ask if His Ass-Holeyness used the pole when he engaged in the Festivus Airing Of Grievances?
re: #146 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Even the Grinch thinks Trump is an irredeemable, hate filled asshole.
re: #150 Joe Bacon
Would someone please ask if His Ass-Holeyness used the pole when he engaged in the Festivus Airing Of Grievances?
I believe he threatened to shove it up Desantis’ ass.
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re: #103 Grunthos the Flatulent
Tomorrow’s Wordle has an overwhelming compulsion to say, “Ho Ho Ho.”
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Temperatures here are in the low 20s. Celsius.
Beginning of summer for you! But I have always been fond of this part of December since the days are now getting longer for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere.
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory Just Captured Ominous Signals About the Planet’s Health Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory just captured an ominous sign about the pace of global warming. Atmospheric levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide aren’t just on their way to yet another record high this year - they’re rising faster than ever, ... Cheechako
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Trump’s “Stolen Election” Lie Based on Evidence From Pervy Bathroom Cam-Spy OK, this really takes the cake. If you have relatives that still cling to the “election was stolen, dadgum, I jes’ KNOW IT … This should be a slight remedy to the stubborn madness Thanks to online anonymity, the ...
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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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The Good Liars at The Libertarian Convention [VIDEO] The Good Liars visit the Libertarian Convention in Washington DC. They interview presidential candidates, talk to someone who thinks people should be allowed to own nuclear weapons, and Starchild. SUPPORT US: http://Herohero.co/thegoodliars SEE THE GOOD LIARS LIVE!NASHVILLE, TN JUNE ... teleskiguy
Ranked-Choice Voting Has Challenged the Status Quo. Its Popularity Will Be Tested in November. JUNEAU — Alaska’s new election system — with open primaries and ranked voting — has been a model for those in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ... Cheechako
