Scary Pockets | Free Fallin’ | Tom Petty | Funk Cover Ft. David Simmons, Jr.

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A funk cover of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” by Scary Pockets & David Simmons, Jr.

MUSICIAN CREDITS
Lead vocal: David Simmons, Jr.
Drums: RJ Kelly
Bass: Travis Carlton
Organ & Synth: Peter Adams
Wurlitzer & Synth: Jack Conte
Guitar: Ryan Lerman

AUDIO CREDITS
Recording Engineer: Caleb Parker
Mixing/Mastering: Craig Polasko
Additional Production: Likeminds

VIDEO CREDITS
Director: Dom Fera
DP: Ricky Chavez
Camera Operators: Jenny Baumert, Isaac Park, Chad Carlstone, Charlie Weinmann
Editor: Adam Kritzberg

Recorded Live at EastWest Studios in Los Angeles, CA.

#ScaryPockets #Funk #tompetty #freefallin #davidsimmonsjr

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1
Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 24, 2023 • 4:52:23pm

speaking of free fallin’

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Dr. Matt  Jul 24, 2023 • 4:52:56pm

An entire political party obsessed over Hunter’s dick pics.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 24, 2023 • 4:53:46pm

How many times can I be CLed in the same day?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:01:18pm

re: #2 Dr. Matt

And they deserve it too.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:01:50pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:08:26pm

Well, that’s disturbing.

A Christian woman in a gym was approached by a Christian man so he could preach at her, telling her God doesn’t love everyone; there are some people he hates. She wants him to go away, he won’t. (0:59, Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake)

Well, That’s Disturbing

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:08:34pm

re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To

How many times can I be CLed in the same day?

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I have no intention of joining anything else until this settles down and the winner (for now) for Twitter replacement has been selected. Conversing here, FB, and rarely posting a comment on Musk’s Twitter is more than enough for me.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:11:01pm

I’m just wondering how long 𝕏 , a character found on a standard table of characters (at least for Mac), is going to be recognized as a possible trademark for Musk.

Does he not know that it’s just part of a font on Macs?

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Teukka  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:12:49pm

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m just wondering how long 𝕏 , a character found on a standard table of characters (at least for Mac), is going to be recognized as a possible trademark for Musk.

Does he not know that it’s just part of a font on Macs?

It’s Blackboard Bold, and is a Unicode block (mathematical symbols): en.wikipedia.org

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:13:05pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:13:09pm

re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To

How many times can I be CLed in the same day?

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Charles Johnson  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:13:24pm

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m just wondering how long 𝕏 , a character found on a standard table of characters (at least for Mac), is going to be recognized as a possible trademark for Musk.

Does he not know that it’s just part of a font on Macs?

The Microsoft issue is going to be worse - apparently they have a trademark on ‘X’ that may cover some of the same usages as Twitter/X.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Musk didn’t even do a cursory trademark search. Just figured if somebody already owned it he’d just buy them out.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:15:13pm

You know, XBOX and all that entails.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:16:33pm

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m just wondering how long 𝕏 , a character found on a standard table of characters (at least for Mac), is going to be recognized as a possible trademark for Musk.

Does he not know that it’s just part of a font on Macs?

Twitter’s new ‘X’ logo looks suspiciously like a generic Unicode symbol (Business Insider)
Twitter on Monday rolled out its new logo and brand: 𝕏.
𝕏 is a generic Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”
The new logo is also nearly identical to the lowercase “x” in the Monotype font “Special Alphabet 4.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:17:58pm

bsky.app

I think Bluesky has a lot of potential, but it’s certainly not ready for prime time yet.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:18:46pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

The Microsoft issue is going to be worse - apparently they have a trademark on ‘X’ that may cover some of the same usages as Twitter/X.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Musk didn’t even do a cursory trademark search. Just figured if somebody already owned it he’d just buy them out.

I. LOVE. IT. Fight. Fight. Fight!

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Captain Ron  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:19:00pm
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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:20:58pm

re: #16 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I. LOVE. IT. Fight. Fight. Fight!

Musk and Zuck in a cage match and in walks Bill Gates with a freakin’ flame thrower.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:22:48pm

re: #11 Barefoot Grin

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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:22:57pm

re: #10 DodgerFan1988

One has to wonder how Fox’s ‘pro slavery’ approach is going to impact advertisers with brand image concerns.

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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:24:33pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:25:13pm

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The character is also encoded in HTML since March 2001

(ampersand) (pound) x1D54F;

𝕏

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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:25:15pm

Mastodon

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:25:32pm

re: #10 DodgerFan1988

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:26:49pm

re: #18 darthstar

Musk and Zuck in a cage match and in walks Bill Gates with a freakin’ flame thrower.

Homer Simpson and Bill Gates buy out

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:26:58pm

Also, the new verb/noun “Xeet” has no standard pronunciation in English (or probably any language).

English is particularly bad about “x” because sometimes it is used instead of “ks” and sometimes instead of “z”.

And even worse, modern Greek pronunciation of χ sounds like the English word “he”, so “Xeet” sounds like “heet” aka “heat”.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:27:27pm

Lacking any other guidance, I’m just going with the Greek.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:27:39pm

re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fixed HTML

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:29:22pm

re: #19 I Would Prefer Not To

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:30:21pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

The Microsoft issue is going to be worse - apparently they have a trademark on ‘X’ that may cover some of the same usages as Twitter/X.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Musk didn’t even do a cursory trademark search. Just figured if somebody already owned it he’d just buy them out.

Supposedly, microsoft owns X in relation to XBox, but Meta owns X in relation to social media sites.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:31:24pm

re: #18 darthstar

Musk and Zuck in a cage match and in walks Bill Gates with a freakin’ flame thrower.

Like Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in a Hollywood! Yeah, baby!

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:32:08pm

re: #29 Barefoot Grin

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:32:44pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She should have reported him for harassment.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:32:55pm

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Also, the new verb/noun “Xeet” has no standard pronunciation in English (or probably any language).

English is particularly bad about “x” because sometimes it is used instead of “ks” and sometimes instead of “z”.

And even worse, modern Greek pronunciation of χ sounds like the English word “he”, so “Xeet” sounds like “heet” aka “heat”.

I’d go with “double-crossed.”

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:33:38pm

No one will top this:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:33:43pm

re: #31 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Like Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in a Hollywood! Yeah, baby!

“The hippies are not okay!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:34:14pm

re: #33 Patricia Kayden

She should have reported him for harassment.

One wag wrote: Matthew 19:8 - if you have a problem with what I’m doing, gouge your own eyes out and get fucked (paraphrased)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:39:14pm

Product review:

Herr’s brand Ghost Pepper Potato Chips are hardly spicy at all. They seem to have more vinegar than ghost peppers.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:39:21pm

Mastodon

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:42:37pm

re: #32 I Would Prefer Not To

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:43:24pm

Apologists never seem to grasp the meaning of things:

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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:47:36pm

re: #35 Belafon

No one will top this:

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Ouch…

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:51:02pm

re: #42 darthstar

Ouch…

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I don’t want to like Elmo, but even I can hear him saying in his squeaky voice, “Fuck that guy!” when he looks at a picture of Musk.

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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:54:17pm

Jesus, Charles…my audible notifications haven’t stopped booping since you boosted that. Are you sure you want to move to BlueSky? Your masto-following is pretty fuckin’ active.

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:54:34pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:56:36pm

re: #45 Belafon

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Perhaps Microsoft can sell the X trademark to musk for one billion dollars?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 5:57:47pm

Nothing escapes the notice of a religious fruitcake. They can never be satisfied, so you should not try.

Oppenheimer’s use of sacred text in sex scene angers Hindu right wing in India (July 24, 2023)

Shorter me: Fuque your blasphemy laws.

“Members of BJP government say use of Bhagavad Gita is ‘attack on Hinduism’ and call for scene to be deleted”

And your holy book.

Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer has prompted outrage among the Hindu right wing in India, who have alleged that a sex scene featuring a sacred text has offended religious sentiments.

The blockbuster tells the story of Robert Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atomic bomb and includes a sex scene in which the tortured physicist, played by Cillian Murphy, reads the Bhagavad Gita to his lover Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh.

The words he reads aloud, which he translates from Sanskrit, are those of the god Krishna - “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” - a quote the real Oppenheimer recalled after the first detonation of the atomic bomb he had invented. Oppenheimer taught himself Sanskrit and during his life, he spoke of drawing from the Hindu text.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:03:41pm

re: #44 darthstar

Jesus, Charles…my audible notifications haven’t stopped booping since you boosted that. Are you sure you want to move to BlueSky? Your masto-following is pretty fuckin’ active.

I’m not moving to Bluesky - working on an extension that allows cross-posting in either direction, in fact.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:04:13pm

Mastodon

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Markm1960  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:05:04pm

re: #10 DodgerFan1988

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I’m surprised (not really) that none of these chuckle heads don’t bring up Robert Smalls and how he used his skills learned learned as a slave to escape slavery.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:07:33pm

re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Apologists never seem to grasp the meaning of things:

They do grasp the meaning. They lie about things. Lying for Jesus is built into the religion from its very foundation.

Atheist dogma: I don’t believe you.

That is the sum of atheist dogma.

Apologists also try to tie Richard Dawkins as some sort of spokesperson for atheism. Religious people also try to make atheism into a religion (therefore it must have leaders). Richard Dawkins speaks for himself.

On his own scale (1-7) of how likely he believes any god exists, he ranks himself as 6 (not very likely). He does not preclude the possibility.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:07:39pm

re: #50 Markm1960

I’m surprised (not really) that none of these chuckle heads don’t bring up Robert Smalls and how he used his skills learned learned as a slave to escape slavery.

Why would you escape from something that gave you skills?

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Captain Ron  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:08:36pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:09:31pm

Link: sherrilyn.substack.com

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:21:32pm

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:24:49pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:30:51pm

This morning when I signed on to Bluesky one of the first things I saw was a post about two neo-Nazi accounts that just popped up among the new users. I don’t even want to type these fuckers’ names, but they’re infamous.

Both of the accounts were shut down within minutes. They do seem to be taking this shit seriously.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:34:20pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

Where’s Chucky these days?

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Charles Johnson  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:36:30pm

re: #58 Dave In Austin

He’s on Twitter. And he’s suing ClearView AI, his former pal, because that’s how he does.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:37:48pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

This morning when I signed on to Bluesky one of the first things I saw was a post about two neo-Nazi accounts that just popped up among the new users. I don’t even want to type these fuckers’ names, but they’re infamous.

Both of the accounts were shut down within minutes. They do seem to be taking this shit seriously.

A very good use of the invite system would be to ban the accounts that provided their codes as well.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:39:21pm

re: #60 goddamnedfrank

A very good use of the invite system would be to ban the accounts that provided their codes as well.

Like, to my mind, that’s actually the entire point of such a system, to use it like manufacturing lot numbers in an FDA recall.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:41:45pm

re: #60 goddamnedfrank

A very good use of the invite system would be to ban the accounts that provided their codes as well.

The Bluesky server does keep track of invite trees, or so I’ve been told. Seems like it could get pretty tricky, though, since codes are now being sold at places like eBay.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:41:52pm

So this took one day from Abbott saying see you in Court.

It’s like the Biden admin is prepared or something

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Charles Johnson  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:43:18pm

I don’t think there’s any way for Bluesky to track whether a code was sold or actually given to a trusted person.

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jaunte  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:44:01pm

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:44:33pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

The Bluesky server does keep track of invite trees, or so I’ve been told. Seems like it could get pretty tricky, though, since codes are now being sold at places like eBay.

I’m OK with people getting burned for selling invite codes when they wind up with Nazis.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:44:34pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

The Bluesky server does keep track of invite trees, or so I’ve been told. Seems like it could get pretty tricky, though, since codes are now being sold at places like eBay.

That’s even more reason to ban them tbh. If people don’t care about the community enough to vet their invitees they should be shown the door.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:47:04pm

re: #54 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m afraid Ms. Ifill seeks a utopia that is not easily achieved.

Referring back to my concept of capitalism being an extractive industry like a coal mine, regardless of what Twitter’s board BM (Bowel Movement Before Musk) thought of “corporate citizenship” or other such nice Madison Avenue terms, all corporations are amoral. They only care about money. The more money they can mine, the better.

In Elno, they found an incredible goldmine of dumb. They would have been stupid not to take several times what Twitter was worth.

I’m not sure how you can write a law that makes a corporation care about democracy.

One thing’s for sure: Citizens United (thanks for that ACLU) has got to go. Large margins of people in both the Republican and Democratic Parties think that the decision was a bad one.

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retired cynic  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:47:35pm

apod.nasa.gov

With image and lots of links.

The Antikythera Mechanism
Explanation: It does what? No one knew that 2,000 years ago, the technology existed to build such a device. The Antikythera mechanism, pictured, is now widely regarded as the first computer. Found at the bottom of the sea aboard a decaying Greek ship, its complexity prompted decades of study, and even today some of its functions likely remain unknown. X-ray images of the device, however, have confirmed that a main function of its numerous clock-like wheels and gears is to create a portable, hand-cranked, Earth-centered, orrery of the sky, predicting future star and planet locations as well as lunar and solar eclipses. The corroded core of the Antikythera mechanism’s largest gear is featured, spanning about 13 centimeters, while the entire mechanism was 33 centimeters high, making it similar in size to a large book. Recently, modern computer modeling of missing components is allowing for the creation of a more complete replica of this surprising ancient machine.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 24, 2023 • 6:47:57pm

re: #56 DodgerFan1988

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Fox has no bottom.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:14:07pm
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sizzzzlerz  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:18:23pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, that’s disturbing.

A Christian woman in a gym was approached by a Christian man so he could preach at her, telling her God doesn’t love everyone; there are some people he hates. She wants him to go away, he won’t. (0:59, Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake)

Well, That’s Disturbing

What a stupid, fucking conversation! Arguing over who’s sky fairy is the bestest.

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Captain Ron  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:20:24pm

re: #72 sizzzzlerz

What a stupid, fucking conversation! Arguing over who’s sky fairy is the bestest.

Isn’t tribalism the whole point of religion?

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EPR-radar  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:20:56pm

re: #70 No Malarkey!

Fox has no bottom.

I have long predicted the hard right (and there is no other kind of right winger in US politics) would return to its ancestral cesspit of overt antisemitism.

But I am surprised at how quickly this is being done.

If Republicans still bothered with writing down the party platform, we really would be just a few years from “There was no Holocaust, and it’s a shame Hitler didn’t get them all.” as an official plank in the party platform.

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:22:56pm

Just what I’m seeing. I project genuine mental distress, talk about hardships in my life that are fucking with my head, and wlewisiii calls me a snowflake.

Yeah, I’ll probably be commenting here less.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:29:33pm

re: #73 Captain Ron

Isn’t tribalism the whole point of religion?

For religion used to control people, yes, but religion is also good for not having to face your own mortality. Knowing you’re going to cease to exist is a heavy concept.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:29:36pm

“Not a” &c &c &c. (WSB-TV, Atlanta)

MARIETTA, Ga. — An 83-year-old Marietta man who is a former pastor has been arrested in the cold case murder of an 8-year-old girl in Pennsylvania.

Gretchen Harrington was attending Bible summer camp in 1975 in Marple Township when she vanished while walking from her home to one of the camp’s two locations.

Skeletal remains were found at a state park in Edgemont Township on Oct. 14. The coroner determined she died of blunt impacts to the head, which he classified as a homicide.

At the time, the Bible camp was housed in two churches, including the one where Gretchen’s father was a pastor, Reformed Presbyterian Church.

David Zandstra was the reverend at the other church, Trinity Church Chapel Christian Reform Church in Marple Township.

On the day she disappeared, Aug. 15, Gretchen was supposed to start her day at Trinity and then go to the Reformed church with the other campers later that day.

Zandstra was one of the people responsible for driving the children to the other church, which he did either in a white and blue Volkswagen bus or a green Rambler station wagon.

When Gretchen didn’t arrive at Trinity, her father called Zandstra, who told him Gretchen never arrived. Zandstra called the police to report that she was missing.

A witness told police that she saw Gretchen the morning she vanished talking to someone in either a green station wagon or a two-tone Cadillac. Zandstra denied seeing the victim the day she was abducted, but did describe her clothing in detail, investigators said.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:33:50pm

re: #72 sizzzzlerz

What a stupid, fucking conversation! Arguing over who’s sky fairy is the bestest.

Part of that was he was offended by a woman exercising in a public gym. Not Christian modesty, ya know.

We’ll just forget about the part of Matthew where Jesus (tm), paraphrasing, says in big bold type, “If your lust causes you to stumble, gouge out your own eye with a rusty grapefruit spoon.”

The way I understand that passage, she could be exercising naked and if he’s lusting after her, it’s his fault not hers.

Also he says he was called to her by God (and not her big -ah- tracts of land).

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:37:09pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

Click to Reveal

I know from harsh first hand experience the trauma of a parent slowly passing, in my moms’ case from a long dementia run. Like you with your father I was very close to my mom
I was simultaneously diagnosed with a rare cancer and had a lot of work and home stress too. Happily my cancer is gone for now
Many times I felt depressed and anguish and i fight it even today because guess what, a whole new set of issues arose 😑
I could see from your posts you were going through some of the same things I was and some of the same feeling and I salute you for sharing your feelings and I hope it helps to do so
I always appreciate your posts, sir
I use dogs, spirituality, exercise expression here, and music as antidotes to my depressive tendencies

Garden fresh vegetables and a store bought yam
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:38:48pm

re: #76 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

For religion used to control people, yes, but religion is also good for not having to face your own mortality. Knowing you’re going to cease to exist is a heavy concept.

I’d rather not cease to exist today, and would like to think that even though I’ve outlived all the men in my family I have at least a couple weeks left in me.

That said, it never bothered me that I didn’t exist before I was born so it doesn’t bother me that I won’t after I die. To quote the old joke, I’d rather die peacefully in my sleep, not screaming like all the passengers in Grandfather’s car.

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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:39:42pm

re: #58 Dave In Austin

Where’s Chucky these days?

Shitting on the floor of X I suppose.

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austin_blue  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:41:19pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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Fire and Rain, baby, fire and rain.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:42:38pm

Tonight’s dinner: Honey-marinated whiskey chicken with Sonora peppers, pressure-cooked with barley. Vegetable was sugar snap-peas in the pod.

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jeffreyw  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:43:21pm

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calochortus  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:45:04pm

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’d rather not cease to exist today, and would like to think that even though I’ve outlived all the men in my family I have at least a couple weeks left in me.

That said, it never bothered me that I didn’t exist before I was born so it doesn’t bother me that I won’t after I die. To quote the old joke, I’d rather die peacefully in my sleep, not screaming like all the passengers in Grandfather’s car.

Spoken like a good atheist. Me too. I gave it all serious thought a couple years ago when I had the proverbial health scare. I would greatly prefer to be alive, but when I’m dead, I just won’t be here. That will be hard on my friends and family, and I would prefer not to put them through pain, but I won’t know about it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:49:52pm

re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same article:

Investigators determined Zandstra now lives in Marietta and interviewed him. When he was confronted, he admitted to seeing Gretchen walking along the road on the day of her disappearance. He also admitted to driving the green station wagon and offering her a ride.

Zandstra claimed that he drove her to a wooded area and asked her to take her clothes off. When she wouldn’t, he punched her in the head. He said he thought she was dead, dumped her body and left the area.

Also the last paragraph:

Investigators said at one point, Zandstra lived in Plano, Texas. Anyone who may know anything else about his activities or believe they may be a victim is asked to call the Pennsylvania State Police.

The article points out that a childhood friend at the time wrote in her diary she’d been sexually groped by the pastor. The police in Pennsylvania and Marietta believe there are other child victims.

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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:50:00pm

Why I fucking love my fellow Deadheads…who else would do this?

Combined a couple of Youtube versions of this show, and replaced the soundtracks with the Europe 72 CD versions. Had to stretch each track by 2/1000 but I think it’s not bad. Happy New Year!

Grateful Dead 4 17 72 Tivoli Concert…with sound from Europe 72 CD

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darthstar  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:53:39pm

Had to stretch each track by 2/1000…who the fuck calculates that?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 7:58:06pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

Just what I’m seeing. I project genuine mental distress, talk about hardships in my life that are fucking with my head, and wlewisiii calls me a snowflake.

Yeah, I’ll probably be commenting here less.

It’s understandable when someone is distraught they reach out to others. You’ve been under terrible stress.

Talking with others who are sympathetic can be helpful even if they can’t do very much through the Intertubz.

From what I’ve seen here nearly everyone has been compassionate to your plight and only wish well for you. I hope that outweighs the callous “snowflake” comment.

I’m pretty sure everyone here wants what’s best for everyone else.

Besides, you have 227,446 karma points as of this post. How will you get Mr. Johnson’s famous pineapple ski wax from the catalogue if you don’t get the requisite points? /s

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austin_blue  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:00:51pm

re: #79 So Cal Greek Hippie

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Cast iron is a boss for cooking isn’t it? I’ve got two dozen pieces of Le Crueset and
it has served us for over 25 years.

Proper cookware.

And I’m off to bed. If you want to watch the Women’s World Cup, don’t count on Fox, They have a very limited broadcast schedule focused on the US Team.

If you want too see other games, check out Telemundo, which is available over the air in most major metro areas for free.

We don’t have cable because we refuse to pay for it. It’s theft.

Night all. Sweet dreams.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:06:17pm

I need a laugh…

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BeachDem  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:12:33pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:15:47pm

Four hours ago, New York Times:

Obama Family Chef Dies While Paddleboarding on Martha’s Vineyard

“Tafari Campbell was a sous chef at the White House during the Obama administration and stayed on with the family when they moved to private life.”

A personal chef to the Obama family died over the weekend after he was seen struggling in the water while paddleboarding near the former first family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard, the Massachusetts State Police said on Monday.

The body of the chef, Tafari Campbell, 45, of Dumfries, Va., who was visiting the Vineyard, was found just before 10 a.m. Monday about 100 feet from shore in Edgartown Great Pond in water about eight feet deep by the Massachusetts Environmental Police. It had deployed sonar from a boat during an hourslong search that began Sunday night and involved several law enforcement agencies.

Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were not home at the time of the accident, the state police said. An investigation into the death of Mr. Campbell, who had worked as a sous chef when the Obamas were in the White House and stayed on with them afterward, is being conducted by the state police and the Edgartown Police Department.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:17:54pm

They’re gonna do it. They are going to impeach Joe.

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:18:09pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:19:31pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

I know you’re going through hell, bro and I’m sorry.

Losing my dad would fucking wreck me too especially as I have almost no relationship with my mother (seriously, I probably won’t even cry or be emotional when she passes).

My dad on the other hand is the only parent who actually respects me and treats me like a fucking adult.

Life is unfair as shit sometimes, there’s no escaping it.

Appreciate what your dad gave you, find a cool ass way to pay tribute to him after he’s gone and above all live your life being the man he knows you can be.

I realize you’re taking it from every direction right now but I promise you, you can do this. 💪🏼

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(((Archangel1)))  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:23:58pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:25:37pm

re: #92 BeachDem

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:26:19pm

His wife and his parishioners stood up for his good character. His lawyer asked for five years probation on the sole wire fraud charge. The court said “nope, eighteen months in prison, pay back the church, and pay back the insurance company that covered part of the loss.”

Church’s executive pastor gets 18-month prison sentence for stealing $130,000 to pay gambling debts (Associated Press, five days ago)

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire executive pastor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing about $130,000 from his church to pay off gambling debts and make purchases.

Gregory Neal, of Barrington, 45, was sentenced in federal court Wednesday and ordered to pay back the Journey Baptist Church and the insurance company that covered a portion of the losses.

He pleaded guilty in April to one count of wire fraud.

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:32:30pm

“Oppenheimer” lives up to the hype. Go see it. On the biggest screen you can. See it in IMAX if you can. One of the most tremendous films made in the 21st century.

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retired cynic  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:34:46pm

re: #100 teleskiguy

I believe you; I just don’t think I could stand it. I’m a wuss.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:37:29pm

More traditional Christian pastor crimes up in Canada (CBC, July 21, 2023)

Former Alberta pastor sentenced to 5 years for sexual exploitation, making child pornography

A 56-year-old man who was a pastor in the east-central Alberta town of Vegreville from 2016 until 2020 will spend five years in prison after pleading guilty Friday morning to sexual offences.

Court of King’s Bench Justice Kevin Feth accepted a joint sentencing submission from the Crown and defence and sentenced Brad Dahr to four years in prison for sexual exploitation and one year for making child pornography.

According to an agreed statement of facts, the pastor ran a mental health outreach program for young adults and asked a teenage member of the church’s congregation in 2017 to co-preach a sermon series with him.

The teen confided in him about her mental health struggles and came to depend on him for help.

The pair exchanged more than 190,000 phone messages, which were not sexual, but in early 2020, Dahr began to think the two of them were attracted to each other. They started exchanging sexual messages and Dahr suggested they switch between messaging platforms to avoid being discovered.

Dahr had sex with the girl, whose identity is protected by a court-ordered publication ban, and they exchanged intimate photos and videos of themselves. Sometimes Dahr made requests for what he wanted to see in her videos.

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BeachDem  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:38:10pm

re: #98 teleskiguy

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:46:56pm

Election Day: Canada

The seat in the byelection is a Conservative hold. It is a long time Conservative stronghold.

UPDATED: The CBC Decision Desk projects that Conservative Shuvaloy Majumdar will win the federal byelection in Calgary Heritage.

Majumdar, a long-time Conservative staffer, will represent the riding once held by former prime minister Stephen Harper.

The seat has been vacant since December when then-MP Bob Benzen resigned and left political life.

Benzen was first elected in 2017 in a byelection following the resignation of former prime minister Stephen Harper. Benzen resigned and vacated the seat late last year, citing a desire to return to private business and family life.

Calgary Heritage has tradtionally been a safe seat for the Conservative Party, having been taken by the Tories by comfortable margins each of the four times it has been contested since 2015 — three times by Benzen and once by Harper.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:50:11pm

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Republican-speak is infecting Canada’s Conservative Party.

Shuvaloy Majumdar is a longtime Conservative staffer who has worked at Harper & Associates, the former prime minister Harper’s consulting firm, since 2016. Prior to that, he worked in foreign affairs in the Harper government. He won the party’s nomination in March.

In various videos posted to his YouTube channel, Majumdar advocated for changes to Canada’s energy policies, admonished what he referred to as a “woke wave of tyranny” in the country, and promised his party would work to reduce the cost of living.

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Cheechako  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:52:19pm

Big problems are ‘a-coming:

Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin

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retired cynic  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:53:36pm

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Of all the stupid political language, the worst must be conservative stealing the word “woke”” ( which means something positive in its original form) and twisting it to mean just the opposite.

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A Cranky One  Jul 24, 2023 • 8:56:17pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:01:32pm

re: #106 Cheechako

Big problems are ‘a-coming:

Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin

Extractive capitalism, mining money from school districts.

Then there’s this ass-covering lie:

But a Google spokesman said the death dates have an important purpose: Chromebook laptops receive regular software updates — including for security — and older devices often cannot support the upgrades.

“These updates depend on many device-specific non-Google hardware and software providers that work with Google to provide the highest level of security and stability support,” said Peter Du, communications manager for ChromeOS. “For this reason, older Chrome devices cannot receive updates indefinitely to enable new OS and browser features.”

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Google: Don’t Be Evil.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:03:48pm

re: #107 retired cynic

Of all the stupid political language, the worst must be conservative stealing the word “woke”” ( which means something positive in its original form) and twisting it to mean just the opposite.

To conservatives, being woke to injustice is bad. They perpetrate injustice, so they would naturally be opposed to it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:09:54pm

The wire fraud charge for a pastor up there is an outlier of course.

WMIX-AM/FM, Mount Vernon, Illinois, July 20, 2023. The other guy is a Seventh-Day Adventist, this guy is a Pentecostal.

Former Patoka pastor sentenced to 30 years in child porn ring case

FAYETTE COUNTY — A former youth pastor of a Patoka church pleaded guilty Thursday in Fayette County Court to five of ten felony charges stemming from his involvement in a child pornography ring in Vandalia.

Ferrell Kissiar, a former assistant pastor at the Pentecostal Church in Patoka was sentenced to a total of 30 years in prison after various consecutive sentences were handed down in the plea agreement. He was given credit for 871 days served in the Fayette County Jail, will have to register for life as a sexual predator and was ordered to have no contact with the victims.

The Attorney General’s Office charged Kissiar with 3 counts of Disseminating Child Pornography, 2 counts of Possessing Child Pornography, 1 count of Reproducing Child Pornography, 1 count of Indecent Solicitation of an Adult and 1 count of Conspiracy to commit Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse.

He was arrested in 2021 along with a Vandalia husband and wife, Amber and Andrew Wehrle in connection with the pornography ring and abuse charges. Amber Wehrle was sentenced earlier this year to 13 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to charges in her case, while her husband was sentenced to 26 years in prison for his guilty plea.

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Captain Ron  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:13:05pm
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retired cynic  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:13:38pm

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Whoa. I was born in Mt Vernon, and moved back after college to teach music in several tiny village schools. None of them could afford a full music teacher, even back in the 70s, and so they split me between them.

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Captain Ron  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:16:31pm
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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:22:03pm

re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m afraid Ms. Ifill seeks a utopia that is not easily achieved.

Referring back to my concept of capitalism being an extractive industry like a coal mine, regardless of what Twitter’s board BM (Bowel Movement Before Musk) thought of “corporate citizenship” or other such nice Madison Avenue terms, all corporations are amoral. They only care about money. The more money they can mine, the better.

In Elno, they found an incredible goldmine of dumb. They would have been stupid not to take several times what Twitter was worth.

I’m not sure how you can write a law that makes a corporation care about democracy.

One thing’s for sure: Citizens United (thanks for that ACLU) has got to go. Large margins of people in both the Republican and Democratic Parties think that the decision was a bad one.

There are ways for companies to incorporate so that they can care about more than money. B-corps are an example. As are public benefit corporations

I expect these to be much more common in the coming decades, as we shift from shareholder capitalism of Friedman, Reagan and the Third Way Democrats to stakeholder . capitalism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:26:02pm

re: #112 Captain Ron

If you did that, how could conservatives (aside from church) start to instil the necessary idea that in conservatism, there’s a hierarchy of “betters and lessers,” and the poor are “lessers?” How will children learn to know their place if they aren’t forced indoctrinated taught their worth to their betters?

Even better, we can go with Newt Gingrich’s idea and make the children from poor families clean up the lunch room to further reinforce the idea that they are “lessers.”

In case it’s needed: /s

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:30:42pm

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Extractive capitalism, mining money from school districts.

Then there’s this ass-covering lie:

(more)

Google: Don’t Be Evil.

Jeez. Apple got in trouble dealing with replacing dying batteries. But they did not kill the device. This rent-seeking behavior of Google needs a good court case.

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William Lewis  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:30:46pm

re: #106 Cheechako

Big problems are ‘a-coming:

Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin

Paywalled.

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:36:58pm

Ammon Bundy ordered to pay over $50 million in hospital defamation case

Good to hear.

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:39:59pm

re: #103 BeachDem

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:41:37pm

re: #119 silverdolphin

This will surely bankrupt him if it’s enforced. Ammon Bundy doesn’t have $50 million.

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:42:38pm

re: #121 teleskiguy

This will surely bankrupt him if it’s enforced. Ammon Bundy doesn’t have $50 million.

Could not happen to a more deserving person. Good for the jury. i’m expecting it to be reduced on apeal but it will still be significant.

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Captain Ron  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:43:55pm
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Belafon  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:48:34pm

re: #94 Joe Bacon ✅

They’re gonna do it. They are going to impeach Joe.

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McCarthy is so desperate, he’s just making up stuff.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:52:32pm

Una denuncia internacional acusa por primera vez al Opus Dei ante el Vaticano por su “doctrina mesiánica” secreta (El Diario, Madrid, July 8, 2023, in Spanish)

Translated:

Opus Dei “is united by a doctrine that is transmitted in a ‘messianic’ way and is led by a charismatic figure who considers himself the possessor of the Absolute Truth.” This is one of the ‘pearls’ of the international complaint that a large group of former members of the Order have presented to the Nunciature in Spain (and, later, sent to the Departments of Clergy and Doctrine of the Faith, and to more than 600 bishops around the world), and in which they demand “the suppression of Opus Dei” and its “refoundation”.

Francisco Ferro, victim of Opus Dei pedophilia: “For 34 years they have covered up my sexual abuse”

The complaint, forwarded by Religión Digital and to which eldiario.es has had access, also contains a memory card with more than 700 attached documents, including “46 books and documents” that, the body of the letter indicates, “part of the members of Opus Dei knew about and that were hidden from the Holy See” and that, they affirm, “the true norms by which Opus Dei was governed and is governed.” Something truly relevant at this moment in which the Holy See has to define the new statutes of the Order after the Pope intervened with the Prelature and it convened an extraordinary congress, the results of which are not known either.

The lawsuit is presented as an “International Complaint against Opus Dei for Regulatory Fraud against the Holy See and the Members themselves.” In it, it is argued that the statutes of the Work are a kind of “institutional fraud” before the Holy See, “a simple legal reference.” The lawsuit assures that the statute deposited in the Vatican is not the one that really governs the operation of the Order, and that most of its members are not even aware of it: “Before membership in Opus Dei, they were not informed de facto as long as they could. The Statutes were not translated, nor were they ever told to the members of Opus Dei”.

(more, in Spanish. Mechanically translated, because that’s easier than me typing all that out, then corrected because Google Translate is crap.)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 24, 2023 • 9:58:49pm

re: #119 silverdolphin

Ammon Bundy ordered to pay over $50 million in hospital defamation case

Good to hear.

“Please, do not give rich and powerful people false justification to destroy my life,” Bundy wrote. “Please do not sanction a war that may end in innocent blood and require others to bring justice upon those who are responsible for shedding it.”

FUCK YOU, BUNDY!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:00:19pm

re: #126 Joe Bacon ✅

“Please, do not give rich and powerful people false justification to destroy my life,” Bundy wrote. “Please do not sanction a war that may end in innocent blood and require others to bring justice upon those who are responsible for shedding it.”

FUCK YOU, BUNDY!

Libertarian enters the “Find Out” portion of today’s game of “Who Fuqued Around?”

Seize daddy’s welfare ranch.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:00:56pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:02:53pm

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Translate bots have been around for at least a decade.

They can’t get it right. Even between Spanish and English direct translation ofttimes doesn’t come out the way it should (which is why I had to go back and clean up the translation after I used Google for that).

I sincerely doubt that AI Large Language Models are going to do any better.

In the meantime, I hope the Holy See puts the hammer down on Opus Dei. The fraud case alleges Opus Dei perpetrated a fraud against the Holy See itself and against new members.

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Captain Ron  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:13:40pm
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No Malarkey!  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:36:48pm

re: #94 Joe Bacon ✅

They’re gonna do it. They are going to impeach Joe.

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I doubt they have the votes to impeach the President for nothing, which is what they’ve got. There are a number of GOP congressman representing districts that voted for Joe Biden who will be trying to get reelected next year.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:38:35pm

My last open tab that has the bluebird on it, and its Sarah Cooper lip synching some douche, thought not Trump this time (I don’t know who it is).

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No Malarkey!  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:43:29pm

Former pastor arrested for 1975 murder of an eight year old girl.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:46:23pm

I had to go digging for this because of paywalls. The article popped up on the other side of the country, because the case, while affecting a small number of parents, is important.

Michigan Supreme Court sets parenting rights test in certain gay couple custody disputes (Walla Walla, Wash. Union-Bulletin, reporting from the Detroit News, five hours ago)

TL;DR, two women living together in Kalamazoo decided to have a child together; one became pregnant through IVF. This was before Obergefell v Hodges extended marital rights to same-sex couples.

Fast forward, they are split. The biological mother has full custody of the child, because Michigan custody law says you can establish parenthood through marriage, genetics, or adoption papers. Genetics of course doesn’t exist in this case, and marriage and adoption were illegal at the time.

The district court and then the appellate court rejected the woman’s claim to shared parenting, even though she is willing to pay child support and wants to parent. Both courts say she does not meet the standards of the state child custody law.

The state Supreme Court overruled the district court in a limited way: If she can prove that, but for the unconstitutional bar against marriage or adoption she would have done one of those two things (or both), then the court should grant partial custody and visitation to her as well.

The two dissenting justices argued (both conservatives) that the courts shouldn’t be extending the reach of laws, and that this issue should be addressed by the Michigan Legislature.

The issue only affects a small number of parents and children, but it is a crack this case fell through.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:48:17pm

re: #132 No Malarkey!

My last open tab that has the bluebird on it, and its Sarah Cooper lip synching some douche, thought not Trump this time (I don’t know who it is).

The douche in question is Piers Morgan.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:48:18pm

For late night viewing here’s an episode of DuMont’s Calvacade Of Stars with Jackie Gleason.

Cavalcade of Stars (Oct. 26, 1951, DuMont Network)

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:50:23pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:52:10pm

re: #136 Joe Bacon ✅

For late night viewing here’s an episode of DuMont’s Calvacade Of Stars with Jackie Gleason.

Sponsored by the National Association of Retail Drugists.

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:53:50pm

re: #131 No Malarkey!

I doubt they have the votes to impeach the President for nothing, which is what they’ve got. There are a number of GOP congressman representing districts that voted for Joe Biden who will be trying to get reelected next year.

Biden’s popularity will go up if they try this. And those GOP from purple districts (19 of them) are going to be a problem, as noted by NM.

It will be a blood bath if the Democrats get a chance to cross examine.

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:55:00pm

Why is the United States so uniquely violent compared to other first world counties?

GUNS

Boy oh boy do we have some fucking GUNS in this country! So easy to get!

There are more guns in circulation in the United States than human beings.

WE’RE #1! WE’RE #1!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:55:55pm

re: #136 Joe Bacon ✅

In 1954, Alan B. Dumont built what was then a state-of-the-art television production centre: The DuMont TeleCenter in New York City.

That building is now the home of FOX News Channel. (They tried to change the name of the building after Rupert Murdoch first acquired DuMont’s assets, but New York’s Historic Society prohibited the change of name for the building.)

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 10:57:52pm

It’s hard to be hopeful about anything. The dipshits seem to always win. See the film “Oppenheimer.”

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No Malarkey!  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:01:18pm

re: #142 teleskiguy

It’s hard to be hopeful about anything. The dipshits seem to always win. See the film “Oppenheimer.”

Not always. See the 2020 election, and everything President Biden and the Democratic Congress accomplished. Meanwhile, it looks more and more like Trump is going to finally face justice for some of his many crimes.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:02:50pm

re: #139 silverdolphin

Biden’s popularity will go up if they try this. And those GOP from purple districts (19 of them) are going to be a problem, as noted by NM.

It will be a blood bath if the Democrats get a chance to cross examine.

If McCarthy can’t even get the votes to expunge Trump’s impeachments, he definitely isn’t going to get the votes to impeach President Biden over nothing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:03:15pm

re: #140 teleskiguy

Why is the United States so uniquely violent compared to other first world counties?

GUNS

Boy oh boy do we have some fucking GUNS in this country! So easy to get!

There are more guns in circulation in the United States than human beings.

WE’RE #1! WE’RE #1!

Well, we’re #141 (tied with Yemen, that’s from the most safe). According to the UN, the US Virgin Islands is the most unsafe territory on the planet (#195).

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:03:31pm

re: #140 teleskiguy

Why is the United States so uniquely violent compared to other first world counties?

GUNS

Boy oh boy do we have some fucking GUNS in this country! So easy to get!

There are more guns in circulation in the United States than human beings.

WE’RE #1! WE’RE #1!

I’ve got two rifles and a shotgun. They’re in Colorado Springs in a safe in a garage right now, including hundreds of rounds and shells. I put all that shit there years ago because of my occasional suicide ideation. They’re still there. I’m thinking of selling.

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:07:08pm

re: #146 teleskiguy

I’m thinking of selling.

And also I’m NOT thinking of selling. I might need my rifles for civil unrest.

Fucked up thought processes. And yet reasonable in this fucking day and age.

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:11:23pm

re: #142 teleskiguy

It’s hard to be hopeful about anything. The dipshits seem to always win. See the film “Oppenheimer.”

Yep, But Strauss ended his career with his opposition of Openheimer. Eisenhower made sure of that. And JFK rehabilitated Oppenheimer with the Fermi award. (Oppenheimer was not too smart, though, in having an extra-marital affair. That always makes security clearances tricky due to blackmail aspects.)

And, Our President, Joe Biden and his administration made it official in 2022, stating that the investigation of Oppenheimer was improperly held. And giving him his clearance back.

“”The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”“

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:13:27pm

The fact that the hard right and the hard left EXPECT Twitter to just “be normal” is an alarming thing to me. There are multitude *dudes* getting in on it right now but it’s a mess. A lot of men are going through existential crises right now. The whole fucking thing is silly.

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:13:34pm

re: #143 No Malarkey!

Not always. See the 2020 election, and everything President Biden and the Democratic Congress accomplished. Meanwhile, it looks more and more like Trump is going to finally face justice for some of his many crimes.

The dipshits ALWAYS win early (the Crown, the South, the Axis) because the eventual winners do not understand for a while that a war is ongoing. But when they do realize, they always win. Why? Because they make wiser decisions, mostly not based on hierarchical approaches.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:13:56pm

Julie Roys, yesterday. Hindus gang-raping Christian women for fun (but no profit), with the complicity of state governments and police in India.

In 1972, the course of the Vietnam war was changed by the horrifying photo of a naked girl burned in a napalm attack. Searing Americans’ collective conscience, the picture of 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc revealed the immorality of the war. Now, a viral video of Christian Kuki women being paraded naked in public, groped, gang-raped by Hindu men, has seared the Indian and even the global conscience.

A day after video of the event went viral, the chief justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, demanded that the central government act, saying the Supreme Court would otherwise take matters into its hands.

The central and the state government in Manipur have failed to deal with the ethnic strife and carnage in Manipur, which has targeted the Kuki population with the complicity of the police. But wherever minority Christians have been attacked, in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and other states, local police have allowed Hindu extremist mobs to attack hapless Christians without consequences. Indian authorities can no longer deny the reality that the Manipur attack, while an example of barbaric ethnic cleansing, is also religiously motivated.

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Opinion: Abuse of Christian Women in Manipur Tells Tragic Story of the New India

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teleskiguy  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:16:40pm

Oppenheimer is a great film! See it in IMAX if you can. If not go see it anyways at your local movie theater. It is a magnificent film!

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:19:27pm

re: #144 No Malarkey!

If McCarthy can’t even get the votes to expunge Trump’s impeachments, he definitely isn’t going to get the votes to impeach President Biden over nothing.

I do not think they will actually have a vote. They will have another dog and pony show to “investigate” Biden for possible impeachment. This way they can rag it out for months as the different committees investigate.

The only question I have is whether these hearings will be piublic or not. I expect not so that the GOp will not be embarrassed.

But will they take it into an actual impeachment? I expect that the purple-district GOP represetativrs will be forced to agree at that point or they will be primaried.

And then they will lose.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:23:52pm

re: #153 silverdolphin

I do not think they will actually have a vote. They will have another dog and pony show to “investigate” Biden for possible impeachment. This way they can rag it out for months as the different committees investigate.

The only question I have is whether these hearings will be piublic or not. I expect not so that the GOp will not be embarrassed.

But will they take it into an actual impeachment? I expect that the purple-district GOP represetativrs will be forced to agree at that point or they will be primaried.

And then they will lose.

Good; if the GOP runs fascists in purple districts, they will definitely lose control of the House in 2024, which I expect to happen anyway. I firmly believe that McCarthy will not be able to round up 218 votes to impeach President Biden based on nothing but hot air.

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Captain Ron  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:25:29pm

The hole in the back wall that formed about 18 hours ago has rebuilt itself and the lava pool is back near the top of the cinder cone. Things change so fast one can miss lots of events.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:32:58pm

re: #154 No Malarkey!

Good; if the GOP runs fascists in purple districts, they will definitely lose control of the House in 2024, which I expect to happen anyway. I firmly believe that McCarthy will not be able to round up 218 votes to impeach President Biden based on nothing but hot air.

But if they don’t hold public hearings, they don’t get their clips to put on wingnut media, and the regular media to hold a magic balance fairy horserace between President Biden and former President alleged Crime Boss.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:35:23pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:36:14pm

re: #154 No Malarkey!

Good; if the GOP runs fascists in purple districts, they will definitely lose control of the House in 2024, which I expect to happen anyway. I firmly believe that McCarthy will not be able to round up 218 votes to impeach President Biden based on nothing but hot air.

I agree they will not have the votes. McCarthy was careful to say it rose to an impeachment inquiry. Inquiry. Not impeachment. Trump’s first impeachment lasted from September to December. If the GOP does similar or longer, they hope to damage Biden going into the primary season - the first Democratic primary in SC is the first week of Feb.

It will not work. They will just embarass themselves and see the House flip to the Dems.Just a quick look at the closest races etc. yileds about 20 that could easily change. And that does not count new maps in Alabama, Louisiana, etc. And over 230 seats in the House for Democrats.

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:38:23pm

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

But if they don’t hold public hearings, they don’t get their clips to put on wingnut media, and the regular media to hold a magic balance fairy horserace between President Biden and former President alleged Crime Boss.

Good point. I expect the hearings will be as disastrous as their weaponization ones. It will drive even more independents to the Democratic side. Especially in comparison with the evidence from the (at least) 4 trials of Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:41:19pm

Rep. Gosar cranks up his fascism to twelve. I hope Arizona voters can yeet this guy out of Congress.

Rolling Stone, July 24, 2023

Paul Gosar’s Newsletter Features Website That Calls for Readers to ‘Stand up for Hitler’: Report

A Sunday newsletter from the office of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Az.) featured a link to an antisemitic website known for promoting conspiracies ranging from QAnon to Holocaust denial, according to a report from the progressive nonprofit Media Matters For America.

The newsletter included a link to USSA News, which boasts the tagline “do not let this happen to our country ☭.” Despite Gosar condemning antisemitism in the bulletin, USSA is rampant with antisemitic language, conspiracy theories about Jewish people, and reposted or re-promoted content from Neo-Nazi blogs.

Rep. Gosar’s office did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment.

According to MMFA’s review of USSA’s recent articles, posts include the promotion of a “documentary” claiming that the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was not actually an extermination camp. “This Documentary exposes lies. I am up for that. Any Lie must be exposed,” the author (writing under the pseudonym “Constitutional Nobody”) wrote. Another article, published Friday by Constitutional Nobody, advised the reader to “watch out for so-called ‘pro-White’ online activists who are trashing [Adolf] Hitler’s legacy, or just giving Hitler lip service.”

“Stand up for Hitler,” the writer added.

Earlier this month, USSA published a piece lauding the Nazi dictator for doing “everything in his power” to prevent the destruction of the white race.

Several pieces published on USSA feature links to known white supremacist and Neo-Nazi websites, including the Renegade Tribune. One article was little more than a reposted article from the antisemitic blog Unz Review.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:44:36pm

All conservatives lie. Even in an apology, they must lie. (2:00)

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silverdolphin  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:47:23pm

Ex-Deputy AG Richard Donoghue interviewed by special counsel: report

He took friggin notes of Trump obviously buying into the insurrection plans. This will destroy Trump in court, IMHO. He will not be able to claim ignorance.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2023 • 11:48:20pm

Agence France-Presse, today

Europe, US heatwaves ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change

Paris (AFP) - Blistering heat that has baked swathes of North America and Europe this month would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, researchers said Tuesday, as intense temperatures spark health alerts and stoke ferocious wildfires.

With tens of million people affected in the northern hemisphere and July on track to be the hottest month globally since records began, experts warn that worse is to come unless we reduce planet-heating emissions.

Severe heatwaves have gripped southern Europe, parts of the United States, Mexico and China this month, with temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius.

In the new rapid analysis of the scorching temperatures, scientists from the World Weather Attribution group found that the heatwaves in parts of Europe and North America would have been almost impossible without climate change.

Temperatures in China were made 50 times more likely by global warming, they found.

“The role of climate change is absolutely overwhelming,” said climate scientist Friederike Otto, of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London.

Intense temperatures have swept much of the southwest and southern United States — including in Phoenix, Arizona, which suffered a record-breaking three straight weeks of highs above 43C.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2023 • 12:07:36am

Czech media is also reporting, with some bemusement, that Elmo is having some issues with his “X” rebranding of Twitter.

See, Musk made a rookie mistake in not researching this. All things considered, he should’ve just done a few tweaks to the design, and then he’d end up with this - which, and let’s be honest here - would be better reflective of the brand:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 12:19:00am

All conservatives must lie. Precisely zero people believe this, Miss Walsh. (Oh wait, gender does matter to you?)

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 12:29:16am

re: #163 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Agence France-Presse, today

Europe, US heatwaves ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change

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We need to cut red tape to allow the construction of new infrastructure, including nuclear power plants and energy transmission lines and public transportation, all of which we make too expensive or downright impossible to build.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 12:30:14am

So, a little tidbit of Black American history I didn’t know much of. I was aware that whites did not address Black Americans with honorifics such as Miss (I was led astray to an article about this at Wikipedia when I was riffing on Matt Walsh) in public, but not aware that extended to formal settings such as court.

A Civil Rights worker named Mary Hamilton in Gadsden, Ala. was arrested during a Civil Rights protest.

When she appeared in court, she refused to answer any questions on the stand until she was addressed with honorifics in the same manner as white witnesses in the trial, in her case “Miss Hamilton.” She was held in contempt of court, then jailed when she refused to pay the fine.

That led in 1964 to the landmark Supreme Court case Hamilton v Alabama, in which the Court ruled that addressing African-Americans by their first names in formal contexts when white Americans were addressed with honorifics was a form of racial discrimination.

The court handed down a summary judgement without hearing oral arguments. They ruled that this case was a natural extension of the 1963 case Johnson v Virginia, where the court ruled unanimously that courtrooms cannot be segregated.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 12:38:51am

re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

All conservatives must lie. Precisely zero people believe this, Miss Walsh. (Oh wait, gender does matter to you?)

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We do, however, have really good climate records which can tell us what temperatures were likely to exist based on the climate evidence.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 12:53:44am

No libs were owned, Miss Walsh.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:02:45am
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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:04:03am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:21:24am

A very popular fashion YouTuber got an obituary in People, partly due to the reason for her death (I’m sure the antivaxxers are already on looking for a vaccine connexion).

She died of an “epileptic event.” She was twenty-two and was a student at Kennesaw State University.

YouTuber Annabelle Ham Dead at 22 After ‘Epileptic Event’: ‘Gone on to the Gates of Heaven’ (People, July 18, 2023)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:23:58am

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:25:16am

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:32:47am

re: #168 No Malarkey!

We do, however, have really good climate records which can tell us what temperatures were likely to exist based on the climate evidence.

However, the Representative Ilhan did make a misstatement.

Many people mistake long term climate reconstructions with our recorded temperature/precip records.

They are by nature different things.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:33:30am

re: #155 Captain Ron

Lots of lava. Lots and lots of lava.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:39:13am

Other companies getting in on humiliating Elno.

Mastodon

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William Lewis  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:45:34am

re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Don’t trust Signal. It’s backdoored by LEO. At this point in time, if you’re really paranoid, only TOR is (probably) secure if you use good passwords and maintain good security hygiene.

Remember the Cyber version of The Moscow Rules: The Cyber Moscow Rules: Trust no one. Trust no device.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:46:53am

This is a stunner in the garden. It stands out from yards away.

El Desparado daylily

Spilled Wine is one of my favorites. Blooms every year and plent of them.

Spilled Wine daylily

This one is different. This is the first time it has bloomed in 3 years. But it seems happy now.

Dark Dubbonet daylily
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:52:02am

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Four hours ago, New York Times:

Obama Family Chef Dies While Paddleboarding on Martha’s Vineyard

was he vaccinated?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:52:50am

re: #178 William Lewis

Don’t trust Signal. It’s backdoored by LEO. At this point in time, if you’re really paranoid, only TOR is (probably) secure if you use good passwords and maintain good security hygiene.

Remember the Cyber version of The Moscow Rules: The Cyber Moscow Rules: Trust no one. Trust no device.

I have a bidet installed under my password book, my password hygiene is good. /s

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:55:20am

re: #112 Captain Ron

Just.
Give.
Kids.
Free.
Lunch.

No income verification, no paperwork, no payment systems, no “lunch debt.” Just feed every kid in public school.

To the Run Government Like a Business crowd, education is just another business expense to be minimized or eliminated wherever possible. And Free Government Stuff is an Abomination unto the Lord, who never fed anyone for free.

To the Run Society for the Benefit of Human Beings crowd, school lunches are another opportunity to teach children about nutrition, table manners and social interaction.

And it is simply cheaper to feed everyone than to go through the paperwork of means-testing all of them

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:04:36am

Electronic Frontier Foundation, July 23, 2023

Court Rejects Efforts to Identify Anonymous Webhost

In a victory for online expression, a U.S. District Court judge has quashed a subpoena aimed at revealing the identity of an anonymous person who simply hosted a website.

The background facts tell a too-familiar tale in the age of social media: a New Jersey man was fired from his job after an anti-fascist Twitter account suggested he was involved with a white supremacist organization. He and several others targeted by the Twitter account responded by suing everyone they claimed were even vaguely connected to the doxxing, including Torch Antifa, a network of antifascist activists. Those conspiracy claims were dismissed, but he nevertheless issued a subpoena to Cloudflare seeking the identity of a web host whose only relation to the case was that they had previously hosted Torch Antifa’s website.

EFF moved to quash the subpoena on behalf of that host, explaining that the proposed order violated Doe’s First Amendment rights to anonymity and free association, as well as their privacy interests. A legitimately harmed person can, in some instances, pierce a Doe’s anonymity. But they must show why it is justified, especially when the Doe is a third-party to the lawsuit. Given that the conspiracy charge was dismissed, there was no way the Plaintiff could meet that standard.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:17:25am

re: #179 silverdolphin

I went out to take photographs of my poor plain ol’ day lilies today after I hung the laundry out so I could upload them for your disapproval. /s

It was so hot it looked like the flowers melted off the stems.

There are new buds so maybe later.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:26:03am

Apparently this shirt is for kids🤢 (Reddit’s r/NotHowGirlsWork)

It has real Nick Adams vibes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:40:24am

re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

What kind of sick fuck would buy that for a child?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:49:06am

re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What kind of sick fuck would buy that for a child?

According to the commentary, someone looked up the company named on the tag. The company only makes custom shirts for people.

Apparently the shirt was made by a girl’s mother. (ugh)

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:49:12am

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Extractive capitalism, mining money from school districts.

Then there’s this ass-covering lie:

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Google: Don’t Be Evil.

Upgrades that can’t be supported in part due to the fact that software development stopped caring about storage and memory needs. So more bells and whistles get added and software and upgrades bloat in size and their demands for computer resources. And within a few years an older architecture simply can’t keep up.

Forty years ago programs had to strive to efficiently use the limited memory and storage available. Which led to programming practices appropriate to those needs. Moore’s Law pretty much killed that. And quickly programmer time became the big expense compared to the cost of the memory and chips. Which, unfortunately in my opinion, led to a lot of development caring a lot less about program efficiency and how it went about using resources.

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TarHellion  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:52:31am

Much better today. Birbie-liciously better

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:01:13am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Apparently the Hooter|s shirt was made by a girl’s mother. (ugh)

“I dropped out of High School, and so will my daughter!”

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:07:37am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:10:02am

Common Dreams, Twitter links now broken on their site, July 25, 2023

‘Remove All of Them’: House GOP Adds Dozens More Poison Pills to Spending Bill

Nearly 260 advocacy groups on Monday warned that House Republicans have not halted their efforts to push through as many restrictions on government spending as possible in the federal budget bill, adding dozens more “poison pill” riders to the legislation ahead of the upcoming August recess.

The Clean Budget Coalition, which includes watchdog groups such as Public Citizen and the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (CSS), reported that 74 new poison pills have been added to spending bills since advocates first sounded the alarm about the practice just one week ago.

At least 291 poison pill riders, which ban certain types of spending by the federal government, have now been introduced in budgetary legislation, which is expected to be the subject of the latest spending fight this fall—just months after Republicans slashed nutritional assistance and education spending in the debt ceiling deal.

“All of these measures must be removed,” said CSS on Monday.

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The new poison pill riders include ones that would roll back decades of progress in securing rights for marginalized people in the U.S., including LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, those targeted by right-wing extremist or white supremacist groups, and people most impacted by air pollution.

The same-sex marriage rider would allow opponents of marriage equality to receive federal funding even if they discriminate against same-sex couples, while the pride flag rider would forbid LGBTQ+ pride flags from being flown over federal buildings.

The H-2A visas rider would block the Labor Department from enforcing a rule that strengthens protections and wage calculations for foreign workers—potentially taking away an estimated $38 million wage increase from farmworkers.

(more at the link)

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:11:13am

Another day, another par.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:19:07am

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m not sure how this is going to work in the US Senate. The Appropriations Committee has banished so-called poison pill amendments, because neither party wants a bruising showdown on a government shutdown weeks before the General Election.

As Politico put it, this was accomplished through an “unlikely partnership” between Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). They call it a return to “old-school appropriations work.” They went through seven bills in four weeks, almost all of them unanimously without poison-pills.

Both men said their caucuses will “hold their noses for bills they consider imperfect, but good enough.”

The EPA appropriations bill, notorious for poison-pill amendments, passed the committee 31-0.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:24:51am

Here’s the absolute best take on the insanity that is the Twitter -> X “rebrand” effort. TechCrunch: Here’s why Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to X is good, actually (trust me, read it. It’s very short and to the point.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:25:01am

Rachel Maddow on a YouTube short (I have no idea how to embed those here), on Stormy Daniels new reality TV show, and learning a new word from it.

youtube.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:25:52am

re: #196 Nerdy Fish

LOL

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:28:21am

re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LOL

I admit, the headline actually got me for a second, and I clicked on it just to see what the actual fuck it could possibly mean. It was worth the 10 seconds or so.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:42:18am

re: #196 Nerdy Fish

Here’s the absolute best take on the insanity that is the Twitter -> X “rebrand” effort. TechCrunch: Here’s why Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to X is good, actually (trust me, read it. It’s very short and to the point.)

Perfectly succinct.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:43:17am

Mini-documentary on the largest Christian militia (or so they claim) in the USA (9:57)

Meet Joe, Joe is Afraid of Muslims and Atheists | FD Bites

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:44:43am

re: #126 Joe Bacon ✅

“Please, do not give rich and powerful people false justification to destroy my life,” Bundy wrote. “Please do not sanction a war that may end in innocent blood and require others to bring justice upon those who are responsible for shedding it.”

FUCK YOU, BUNDY!

asshat
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:45:04am

re: #132 No Malarkey!

My last open tab that has the bluebird on it, and its Sarah Cooper lip synching some douche, thought not Trump this time (I don’t know who it is).

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I’m betting Piers Morgan or Russell Brand.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:53:22am

re: #203 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m betting Piers Morgan or Russell Brand.

It’s Piers Morgan.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:00:56am

re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Joe is afraid of dentists. Sorry for the cheap shot but these White Nationalists are some ugly mofos.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:01:24am

They’re not going to listen to you, Mr. Corley. Jamie Corley was both a US House and US Senate GOP secretary.

Politico, July 25, 2023

“It might seem like a contradiction for those who oppose abortion, but it’s the only way to avoid a disastrous political dead-end.” (In other words, to save our party stop stomping on women’s rights)

Soon, women in states that have placed restrictions on abortion may find it easy to just order abortion pills by mail. And a Supreme Court ruling a few months ago allowing the abortion drug mifepristone to remain legal and on the market for the foreseeable future means a national ban is unlikely.

These developments are a political gift to Republicans. They should take it that way and refrain from pushing for new restrictions on medication abortions.

For Republicans who oppose abortion, this might seem like a contradiction: If abortion is bad, then shouldn’t we push to restrict the use of abortion pills? But doing that will steer Republicans straight into a political dead-end that could backfire spectacularly. Here’s why.

In 2017, when many of the current abortion trigger laws were starting to take shape in conservative states across the country, medication abortions accounted for only 39 percent of abortions. The vast majority of abortions were done in a clinic by a physician. Today, just a few years later, the majority of abortions in the U.S. are self-induced through medication and facilitated at home. For a myriad of reasons, including the rapid rise of telemedicine during the pandemic and the ability to receive medication through the mail, the proportion of abortions induced through medication continues to rise rapidly.

This presents a conundrum for anti-abortion advocates. For the past five decades, the anti-abortion movement’s strategy has been dependent on a scapegoat: Planned Parenthood. Politically, this has allowed anti-abortion messaging to focus on prosecuting what’s depicted as a predatory system of abortion providers while painting women as victims of it. While working to overturn Roe, the anti-abortion coalition worked state-by-state to chip away access to in-person abortion. That’s why we see so many states with onerous laws requiring 72-hour waiting periods and multiple in-person clinic visits before an abortion procedure can be performed. The punishment for performing a procedure usually targets providers, often referred to pejoratively as “abortionists,” who can face felony charges, prison time and loss of their medical license. Women seeking abortions are portrayed as innocent, lost, in crisis and easy targets of pro-abortion institutions.

But that strategy has become much less effective now that abortion medication, which can be taken privately at home, is the primary way to terminate a pregnancy. The problem facing abortion opponents is three-fold: Abortion pills can be discretely mailed; the “provider” is easy to conceal and almost impossible to prosecute; and in some states a woman can be subject to punishment for self-inducing her own abortion.

But that strategy has become much less effective now that abortion medication, which can be taken privately at home, is the primary way to terminate a pregnancy. The problem facing abortion opponents is three-fold: Abortion pills can be discretely mailed; the “provider” is easy to conceal and almost impossible to prosecute; and in some states a woman can be subject to punishment for self-inducing her own abortion.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:11:38am

re: #205 Patricia Kayden

Joe is afraid of dentists. Sorry for the cheap shot but these White Nationalists are some ugly mofos.

And the biggest scardy cat babies on the planet. I bet they jump at their own shadows.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:15:04am

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I went out to take photographs of my poor plain ol’ day lilies today after I hung the laundry out so I could upload them for your disapproval. /s

It was so hot it looked like the flowers melted off the stems.

There are new buds so maybe later.

Too much heat can really do a daylily in. They become more like half-a-day-lily. I have some right on the street facing west next to asphalt. On hot days, I learned that I had to give them a little extra water early in the day to keep them happy. And mulching helped a lot. (but a hot sunny day in the Pacific NW probably does not compare to a hot day in Nebraska ;-) The dallies at my brother’s house in Houston lasted about a week this year and then decided to just give up and build for next year.

Just to keep things in perspective, I had a horrible outbreak of hemerocallis gall midge last year, one of the only insects that can ruin daylilies. Almost all the buds of my early daylilies were infested. I had to pull off and destroy over 1000 rotting buds to keep the infestation from gaining root for future years. And I found an organic insecticide that seems to have helped. No problems this year.

So last year would have produced a lot fewer great photos. Good luck with the remaining buds.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:26:11am

If you would like to read about President Biden’s dog Commander. Links to the NY Post.

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President Biden’s nearly two-year-old German shepherd Commander bit seven people in a four-month period after former first dog Major was ousted from the White House over similar aggressive behavior, according to internal Secret Service communications reviewed by The Post.

The shocking spate of incidents involving Commander — none of them previously known — mirror attacks involving Major, who the White House says was given to family friends after biting many Secret Service members in 2021.

In the most serious documented incident involving Commander, the White House physician’s office on Nov. 3, 2022, referred a bitten Secret Service uniformed officer to a local hospital for treatment after the dog clamped down on their arm and thigh, according to emails released under the Freedom of Information Act to conservative legal group Judicial Watch.

Records show Commander broke the skin of a different Secret Service member’s hand and arm weeks later after the president unleashed him outside the White House following a family movie night — and the following month, Commander bit the back of a security technician at Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home.
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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:26:16am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:35:53am

This morning in the tropics.

In the North Atlantic, Tropical Storm Don is no more. It has been absorbed into a larger low headed to Europe.

Disturbance One has formed very near the Windward Islands at about 12° North latitude. It is expected to move into the Caribbean Sea, with a 10% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone within two days.

Of more concern is Disturbance Two. It has formed at roughly the latitude of the tip of Florida well east of The Bahamas. The predicted track carries it into North Florida, Georgia, or South Carolina, with a 20% chance of development within seven days.

Atlantic 7-Day Graphical Tropical Outlook (National Hurricane Center)

In the Eastern and Central Pacific, no tropical cyclones are expected in the next seven days.

In the Western Pacific, Super Typhoon Doksuri’s eye is very close to Luzon. Wave heights are fifty-two feet, which are probably battering the Philippine Islands. The storm is currently at 125 knots (231 km/h). The prognostication hasn’t changed: The storm will slide between Luzon and Taiwan. It appears to be at its maximum strength: The mountains of Luzon and Taiwan will interfere with the storm’s structure. As it approaches the South China coast well east of Hong Kong near 2100Z on August 26, the windspeed should be down to 90 knots (166 km/h). Afterwards it should drive inland and flood the major river valley which feeds Shanghai before being downgraded to a tropical depression outside Beijing. (The cone of uncertainty carries the storm as far north as the Beijing suburbs.)

Super Typhoon Doksuri Projected Track (Joint Typhoon Warning Center)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:58:28am

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:00:19am

re: #13 Charles Johnson

You know, XBOX and all that entails.

Musk’s wrecked the company’s IP capabilities to brand itself thanks to sheer dumbfuckery.

He rolled out a haphazard switchover that didn’t even completely rebrand within his product. He didn’t do any IP search to confirm he could do what he wanted, and others hold the IP (trademarks, branding, copyright), and you can be sure that they’re not going to give those up without Musk paying a fortune for a half-baked idea that wont address the fact that the company he overpaid for is hemorrhaging money and is never going to be trusted as a micropayment site.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:00:59am

re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That Christian up there is openly saying they want to kill Muslims and atheists.

Outside of his cosplay military outfit, I imagine he could be some person walking down the street past me (but I’m not supposed to be fearful of Christians according to some).

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ipsos  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:03:02am

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In 1954, Alan B. Dumont built what was then a state-of-the-art television production centre: The DuMont TeleCenter in New York City.

That building is now the home of FOX News Channel. (They tried to change the name of the building after Rupert Murdoch first acquired DuMont’s assets, but New York’s Historic Society prohibited the change of name for the building.)

Not so, actually. Fox News is on Sixth Ave, in a modern skyscraper just a block south of 30 Rock.

The old DuMont Telecentre is and has always been home to New York’s channel 5, which was WABD in the DuMont days (Allan B’s initials), then WNEW-TV under Metromedia and now WNYW under Fox. The only news that comes out of that building is the local Fox 5 news, which is actually pretty decent, considering.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:16:06am

re: #94 Joe Bacon ✅

They’re gonna do it. They are going to impeach Joe.

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No way. McCarthy just blathering as usual to distract from their failures in getting credible testimony in the Hunter Biden “laptop” case.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:17:07am

re: #214 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That Christian up there is openly saying they want to kill Muslims and atheists.

These people define their Christianity in terms of who they want to kill.

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:25:42am

McCarthy was floating impeachment? I’m shocked. Shocked.

Given that Trump’s about to be indicted again, this is a distraction to cover for Trump’s next indictment on federal felonies.

GOP has nothing on the Bidens except the perpetual butthurt engine. They have distraction, deflections, obfuscations, and lies.

None of them can say Trump is innocent on any of the charges against him. Rather, they’re pretty uniformly claiming that prosecutors should have gone after Biden instead.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:27:34am

re: #215 ipsos

Not so, actually. Fox News is on Sixth Ave, in a modern skyscraper just a block south of 30 Rock.

The old DuMont Telecentre is and has always been home to New York’s channel 5, which was WABD in the DuMont days (Allan B’s initials), then WNEW-TV under Metromedia and now WNYW under Fox. The only news that comes out of that building is the local Fox 5 news, which is actually pretty decent, considering.

WNYW-TV is directly owned by FOX, part of their purchase of the old DuMont/Metromedia stations.

In addition, DuMont’s former headquarters, the DuMont Telecenter in Manhattan, eventually became the current Fox Television Center.

Fox Broadcasting Company

That blockquote I just posted is old information. When FOX built the office building on the Avenue of the Americas, they moved first their office space and then their studios there. The New York Post and Dow Jones are also located in the new building. I can’t seem to find who is in the DuMont Telecenter now.

DUMONT ALTERING OLD OPERA HOUSE; Converts E. 67th St. Building Into Television Center— Deal on 92d Street (New York Times, August 1, 1951)

Du Mont Television network announced yesterday that it had started converting the old Central Opera House at 205 East Sixtyseventh Street into a new television center, following purchase of that property to provide a number of large video studios.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:35:35am

re: #219 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m mistaken again. It’s hard to track who owns which property in Manhattan.

The constructors and owners of the building on Avenue of the Americas is not FOX, it’s a company named Ivanhoe Cambridge. FOX leases about half of the space in that building.

They just signed a new twenty-year lease, which pumped some life into the Manhattan office space real estate market.

Fox, News Corp stay put in Midtown (The Real Deal - Real Estate News), January 4, 2023.

The Murdochs are sticking to Midtown.

Fox Corporation and News Corporation, the pillars of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, have opted to renew their deals to occupy their respective headquarters at Ivanhoe Cambridge’s 1211 Sixth Avenue.

The 20-year deals represent a boon for the 45-story tower, where the two companies’ combined 1.1 million square feet account for more than half of the rentable space, the Wall Street Journal reported. They’re also a shot in the arm for the Manhattan office market, which has seen both leasing activity and prospecting plummet.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:36:11am

re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Mini-documentary on the largest Christian militia (or so they claim) in the USA (9:57)

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If you watch the whole video, you find out there is an atheist community in Houston that has Sunday morning meetings bearing some resemblance to church services, to give atheists a sense of community that they lose when they leave their family’s faith.

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:37:47am

This would be scary:

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:42:12am

Since Dobbs, a growing percentage of Americans are opposed to any government regulation of abortion, even after viability, whether its due to mistrust of government, or growing awareness of the reasons women have late term abortions. This is a growing antigovernment movement that is going to bite the Republicans in the ass pretty hard, and there isn’t much they can do about it, since the forced birth movement is the backbone of the GOP. Republicans can’t move towards choice without alienating the most committed members of their party, who turn out to vote in primaries, make the phone calls and do the door-to-door politicking.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:43:16am

re: #222 Belafon

This would be scary:

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antivaxxers are going to jump all over that, without any evidence she is vaccinated or the cause of her blood clots.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:44:20am

re: #221 No Malarkey!

If you watch the whole video, you find out there is an atheist community in Houston that has Sunday morning meetings bearing some resemblance to church services, to give atheists a sense of community that they lose when they leave their family’s faith.

I did watch the whole video. One thing the atheist community isn’t doing is cosplaying military.

People are social critters, and churches are good at providing sociability for their members and prospects. When your whole life is built around that and you become a disbeliever, congregations and families will shun you. That is very difficult to deal with on top of losing faith.

One thing the Intertubz has done is allowed marginalised communities like disabled people or atheists to find each other (ofttimes within the same town) so they can get together.

Plus churches don’t have patents on community sing-alongs or potlucks. /s

It was a long time before I ever knew of another atheist (most hide that for very good reason in this country). It was the Internet that showed me I’m not alone. I even know other atheists in my tiny village now (but they’ve asked me not to out them because they fear backlash as well).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:44:55am

re: #222 Belafon

This would be scary:

Cue the anti-vaxxers in three …

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:50:09am

re: #225 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

People are social critters, and churches are good at providing sociability for their members and prospects. When your whole life is built around that and you become a disbeliever, congregations and families will shun you. That is very difficult to deal with on top of losing faith.

One social/religious issue facing Germany is that Muslims are more likely to turn to their religious leaders for family counseling and and personal advice in day-to-day matters than their Cristian counterparts.

Thing is, most of these Imams are not trained or even raised in Germany; they have been sent to Germany by religious groups sponsoring them from abroad.

Which means they have little experience in how life is structured here, on what is accepted and what is acceptable in society, school, work, marriage, family, etc.

They wind up giving advice that might be fine in Turkey or Syria, but not in Modern Europe.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:50:59am

re: #218 lawhawk

McCarthy was floating impeachment? I’m shocked. Shocked.

Given that Trump’s about to be indicted again, this is a distraction to cover for Trump’s next indictment on federal felonies.

GOP has nothing on the Bidens except the perpetual butthurt engine. They have distraction, deflections, obfuscations, and lies.

None of them can say Trump is innocent on any of the charges against him. Rather, they’re pretty uniformly claiming that prosecutors should have gone after Biden instead.

It galls them that their guy-who they won’t denounce - is such a flagrant criminal, and they can’t find anything to stick to biden. Because there isn’t anything

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:53:55am

re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Thing is, most of these Imams are not trained or even raised in Germany; they have been sent to Germany by religious groups sponsoring them from abroad.
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So, like Mormons or Evangelicals? /s

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:59:07am

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So, like Mormons or Evangelicals? /s

we are not talking about missionaires, we are talking about your standard everyday Imams and religious leaders whom people seek out for advice on personal and family issues.

Germany does not have any system in place to educate its own native-born Muslim theologians as it does with its own Catholic and Lutheran priests and ministers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:09:33am

re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

we are not talking about missionaires, we are talking about your standard everyday Imams and religious leaders whom people seek out for advice on personal and family issues.

Germany does not have any system in place to educate its own native-born Muslim theologians as it does with its own Catholic and Lutheran priests and ministers.

A good number of churches recommend the same here: You turn to your pastor or priest for counselling rather than a trained professional.

One thing that does do is it allows the congregation to cover up abuse and crime.

Over in Utah, obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr. Jennifer Gunter noted that the University of Utah OB/GYN department (a state-run university) offered “premarital exams” (virginity checks) on the state dime.

Why does the Dept. of OB/GYN at the University of Utah offer a premarital exam for women? (her blog, September 9, 2019, scary read)

I just ran “pre-marital exam” through Google. The University of Utah Health Department’s explanation and offer of such exams are still done now (presented as making sure a woman is “ready for sex,” also a scary read). It is the top result.

What Is a “Premarital Exam?” (University of Utah, state tax dollars at work pushing a religious agenda and conservative ideas about sexual education)

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:12:45am

re: #223 No Malarkey!

Since Dobbs, a growing percentage of Americans are opposed to any government regulation of abortion, even after viability, whether its due to mistrust of government, or growing awareness of the reasons women have late term abortions. This is a growing antigovernment movement that is going to bite the Republicans in the ass pretty hard, and there isn’t much they can do about it, since the forced birth movement is the backbone of the GOP. Republicans can’t move towards choice without alienating the most committed members of their party, who turn out to vote in primaries, make the phone calls and do the door-to-door politicking.

Wow, the numbers for Democrats went from 48% in favor of an amendment that restricted post-viability to 70% favoring no restrictions. And every demographic showed the same trend. More people want an amendment with no gvernment intrusion at all than one that limited abortions after a specific time. There might be hope.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:13:26am

re: #232 silverdolphin

Wow, the numbers for Democrats went from 48% in favor of an amendment that restricted post-viability to 70% favoring no restrictions. And every demographic showed the same trend. More people want an amendment with no gvernment intrusion at all than one that limited abortions after a specific time. There might be hope.

That just needs to translate to votes.

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BigPapa  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:14:39am

Mastodon

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:14:40am

re: #221 No Malarkey!

If you watch the whole video, you find out there is an atheist community in Houston that has Sunday morning meetings bearing some resemblance to church services, to give atheists a sense of community that they lose when they leave their family’s faith.

Which I have contemplated setting up here. For those of us who don’t go to church, don’t go to parties, and refuse to associate with our coworkers, there aren’t any real places to socialize.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:18:12am

Dr. Jennifer Gunter was driven to research how Utah tax dollars are used for virginity tests by a Reddit post in the subreddit r/Relationship_Advice.

She was sceptical, but she went looking, and found the horror that is the Utah OB/GYN profession, where religion, government, and medicine have all been mixed into a toxic stew of barbarism for women.

[UPDATE]: My (22f) fiance (25m) want his father to check my hymen tomorrow night before I get married. (four years ago)

As the poster relayed it, Dad gets to look while she’s in the stirrups so the doc can point out her hymen. (Yes, the state-run university still does that now.)

There are hundreds of comments about the barbarism of Christianity in that thread; she eventually told future step-dad she wasn’t going to do that and he accused her of lying about being a virgin. The family was adamant. She dumped her fiancé after he slapped her for disrespect of his father.

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jeffreyw  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:19:58am

Good morning!

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:20:20am

re: #233 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That just needs to translate to votes.

And it has been ever since Dobbs became law. This combined with the GOP ticket being topped by an indicted, if not convicted, felony defendant*, gives me hope for a massive blue tsunami next year.

*People thinking that a conviction will get Trump out of the race should think again. If he’s convicted of these felonies, the only way Trump stays out of prison is by winning the presidency back.

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mmmirele  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:22:51am

re: #122 silverdolphin

Could not happen to a more deserving person. Good for the jury. i’m expecting it to be reduced on apeal but it will still be significant.

Considering that this was the result of a default judgment (Bundy and his buddy Diego Rodriguez have never appeared in court in this civil case) and the jury trial was only for damages, that’s going to be tough. Hard to say this judgment is excessive when you didn’t even bother to show up to contest the original case.

Personally, I hope the hospital takes Bundy and Rodriguez for everything they’ve got, and that they start the process for seizing property and bank accounts immediately.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:23:47am

Leopard tank hit by a Lancet-3.

Russian tank engulfs in flames after direct hit by Ukrainian missiles near Zaporizhzhia

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:25:10am

re: #236 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Dr. Jennifer Gunter was driven to research how Utah tax dollars are used for virginity tests by a Reddit post in the subreddit r/Relationship_Advice.

She was sceptical, but she went looking, and found the horror that is the Utah OB/GYN profession, where religion, government, and medicine have all been mixed into a toxic stew of barbarism for women.

[UPDATE]: My (22f) fiance (25m) want his father to check my hymen tomorrow night before I get married. (four years ago)

As the poster relayed it, Dad gets to look while she’s in the stirrups so the doc can point out her hymen. (Yes, the state-run university still does that now.)

There are hundreds of comments about the barbarism of Christianity in that thread; she eventually told future step-dad she wasn’t going to do that and he accused her of lying about being a virgin. The family was adamant. She dumped her fiancé.

Smart move by her. If her fiancé was willing to go long with his family’s demand that his dad inspect her vagina, there is no limit to the degradation she would be subjected to as his wife.

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:25:52am

NBC is trying to make know nothing extremist Vivik Ramaswamy happen.

He wants to end the FBI and eliminate all kinds of federal agencies and departments.

You know - defunding law enforcement.

He’s another regressive extremist who wants to make it easier for billionaires to exploit everyone else.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:26:47am

re: #218 lawhawk

It’s not even a distraction. No one cares. It is DOA in the Senate and a waste of tax payer $$$. But this is what you get when you vote Republican.

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:27:40am

Former pastor arrested in the 1975 murder of a young girl.

On Monday, authorities said a man who had been the pastor of one of the camp’s host churches has been arrested and charged with Harrington’s murder.

The Delaware County District Attorney’s Office said David Zandstra, 83, recently confessed after he was confronted with new evidence, including a witness’ allegations that the former pastor groped her and may have tried to kidnap another local girl.

The witness, who had a diary, had written that Zandstra had tried to twice kidnap the girl before she disappeared and was murdered.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:28:13am

re: #239 mmmirele

Considering that this was the result of a default judgment (Bundy and his buddy Diego Rodriguez have never appeared in court in this civil case) and the jury trial was only for damages, that’s going to be tough. Hard to say this judgment is excessive when you didn’t even bother to show up to contest the original case.

Personally, I hope the hospital takes Bundy and Rodriguez for everything they’ve got, and that they start the process for seizing property and bank accounts immediately.

I would think that Bundy is the kind of guy who would have all his money in crypto, or gold. I also wonder if he plans on holing up in his ranch, threatening to shoot anyone who tries to evict him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:29:18am

re: #231 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A good number of churches recommend the same here: You turn to your pastor or priest for counselling rather than a trained professional.

That all made sense back in the days when trained professionals were not common much less widely accessible to most of the public.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:30:23am

re: #244 lawhawk

Former pastor arrested in the 1975 murder of a young girl.

The witness, who had a diary, had written that Zandstra had tried to twice kidnap the girl before she disappeared and was murdered.

He pretty much got away with it, having been caught this late in life. I hope he had a lot of stress over those years, fearing being caught.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:30:46am

re: #223 No Malarkey!

Since Dobbs, a growing percentage of Americans are opposed to any government regulation of abortion

I like the notion that Conservatives are being bitten in the butt by their doctrinal point that “Any Form of Government Regulation is Evil!”

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:31:34am

re: #242 lawhawk

NBC is trying to make know nothing extremist Vivik Ramaswamy happen.

He wants to end the FBI and eliminate all kinds of federal agencies and departments.

You know - defunding law enforcement.

He’s another regressive extremist who wants to make it easier for billionaires to exploit everyone else.

Pence is doing so badly, he has fallen into fourth place behind this guy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:32:32am

re: #236 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[UPDATE]: My (22f) fiance (25m) want his father to check my hymen tomorrow night before I get married. (four years ago)

As the poster relayed it, Dad gets to look while she’s in the stirrups so the doc can point out her hymen. (Yes, the state-run university still does that now.)

Lady Di had to do that before she was allowed to marry Charles

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:33:31am

re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Lady Di had to do that before she was allowed to marry Charles

That right there should have told her to run away from the Windsors as fast as she could.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:35:07am

re: #251 No Malarkey!

That right there should have told her to run away from the Windsors as fast as she could.

The main reason Charles could not marry Camilla, the love of his life, in the first place is that she could not pass the hymen test.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:36:26am

Lisa doesn’t exist. She’s an AI generated character that reads the news.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:36:36am

re: #236 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This was her original post to r/Relationship_Advice:

My (22f) fiance (25m) want his father to check my hymen tomorrow night before I get married. (four years ago)

My fiance proposed to me about 8 months ago. We decided on having a relatively small wedding which is in two days. Everything was going great. He seems absolutely perfect and we are very much in love.

I am a virgin and so is he, he wanted to save it for marriage and I wasn’t fussed so I agreed to saving it. He has told me earlier that in his family the father checks the virginity of the bride the night before the wedding. I laughed this off as it seriously sounds like a massive joke. No turns out he was dead serious. He wants me, the night before to open my legs up in a small ceremony type thing so his dad can check me while him, his brothers and uncle can watch so that they know I am still ‘pure’.

I told him fat chance I am going to do that and he was begging to me to go through with it and how important it is for him. He said he knew it was slightly embarrassing for me but his mom did and it will prove how much I love him and that I have nothing to hide anyway as I am still a virgin. I left and he was crying, it was very dramatic tbh.

(more)

She received over thirteen thousand comments on the barbarism of Christian sexual assault.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:37:29am

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Also, the new verb/noun “Xeet” has no standard pronunciation in English (or probably any language).

English is particularly bad about “x” because sometimes it is used instead of “ks” and sometimes instead of “z”.

And even worse, modern Greek pronunciation of χ sounds like the English word “he”, so “Xeet” sounds like “heet” aka “heat”.

Chinese pronunciation of the X (Shi) and this sure looks like Shitter to me: Xitter.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:38:35am

re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The main reason Charles could not marry Camilla, the love of his life, in the first place is that she could not pass the hymen test.

Not to mention that she was married to someone else. Charles isn’t a very sympathetic figure, but it did suck for him that his family forced him into a marriage with a girl he had little in common with, and good for him that he was finally able to marry his life long love.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:44:55am

re: #245 No Malarkey!

I would think that Bundy is the kind of guy who would have all his money in crypto, or gold. I also wonder if he plans on holing up in his ranch, threatening to shoot anyone who tries to evict him.

When they took over Mahler Wildlife Refuge, one of the loud objections was someone didn’t plunk a Hellfire missile into the building they occupied. On top of that, the rancher and his son who were convicted of arson after confessing to the crime said they didn’t want the wingnut libertarians’ “assistance.”

The whole thing was an anti-government protest.

I wonder if they still have all the dildos that Wonkette bought for them from the bankruptcy tax sale of a Kansas sex toy shop, and the drum of lube donated to them by the guy who owns “Cards Against Humanity?” They could sell those for money.

The other thing that could be done is blockade all the entrances to his property and lay siege to starve them out. That was also suggested at Mahler even though those guys were coming and going in John Jay (town) and intimidating county residents with weapons.

This time send in the FBI and ATF to barricade them in. Forget all the whinging from conservatives and libertarians about Waco (especially since we now know David Koresh set the fires on his orders and they didn’t occur from the tear gas cannisters: That was yet another conservative lie).

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:50:21am

Another day, another par.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:54:48am

Geraniums.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:55:31am

It’s nearly 0800. The sun has been up for a couple of hours. It’s way past my bedtime.

The day is already starting to heat up out there. I will go to bed and dream of all the Lotto riches I won’t win.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:55:36am

Stop eating our hostas!

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:58:17am
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:05:01am

I saw the “Breaking News” on NHK World that China’s Foreign Minister, Qin Gang, who has been missing* for a month, has been replaced by veteran bureaucrat Wang Yi. There’s never transparency into personnel moves among China’s elite leaders, so speculation is rampant.

*A commenter under an article by the Financial Times said cleverly: “missing, with Chinese characteristics.”

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Thanos  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:07:21am

Anyone else now addicted to cotton candy grapes and sharp cheddar?

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Targetpractice  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:09:24am

re: #236 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Dr. Jennifer Gunter was driven to research how Utah tax dollars are used for virginity tests by a Reddit post in the subreddit r/Relationship_Advice.

She was sceptical, but she went looking, and found the horror that is the Utah OB/GYN profession, where religion, government, and medicine have all been mixed into a toxic stew of barbarism for women.

[UPDATE]: My (22f) fiance (25m) want his father to check my hymen tomorrow night before I get married. (four years ago)

As the poster relayed it, Dad gets to look while she’s in the stirrups so the doc can point out her hymen. (Yes, the state-run university still does that now.)

There are hundreds of comments about the barbarism of Christianity in that thread; she eventually told future step-dad she wasn’t going to do that and he accused her of lying about being a virgin. The family was adamant. She dumped her fiancé.

Yeah, I thought I’d heard this one on r/Slash the other day. Especially the bit at the end:

I went and talked to him this morning I told him that his father is not going to look at me and he needs to respect that. He was adamant that it needs to happen and accused me about lying about my virginity. I was trying to be calm and rational but he was not having it and just became more and more angry. I told him if he really loved me he would stand by me on this and tell his father no to which he slapped me and said he didnt need to prove anything.

This reads two ways to me, both detrimental to any relationship that they might have had had she been willing to submit to this family “tradition” just to marry this asshat. The first is that he’s saying he doesn’t have to prove his love to her, which is already poisonous thinking before they’re even officially hitched because it says when push comes to shove this asshole will bend to pressure from those he seeks approval of even at the cost of his marriage.

The other way to look at it is even worse, that this fucker is so insecure in his own manhood that he is allowing his father and male relatives to drip poison in his ear about the honesty of his fiance and allowing them to sow doubt in his mind. What happens when one of them gets ticked off at her at some future date and starts telling him that she’s sleeping around behind his back? Is he going to start slapping her around for being “unfaithful”?

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Thanos  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:09:25am

U.S., European heat waves ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, new study finds

The life-threatening heat waves that have baked U.S. cities and inflamed European wildfires in recent weeks would be “virtually impossible” without the influence of human-caused climate change, a team of international researchers said Tuesday. Global warming, they said, also made China’s recent record-setting heat wave 50 times more likely.

Soaring temperatures are punishing the Northern Hemisphere this summer. In the U.S., more than 2,000 high temperature records have been broken in the past 30 days, according to federal data. In Southern Europe, an observatory in Palermo, Sicily, which has kept temperature records on the Mediterranean coast since 1791, hit 117 degrees Fahrenheit, Monday, shattering its previous recorded high. And in China, a small northwest town recently recorded the hottest temperature in the country’s history.

July is likely to be the hottest month on Earth since records have been kept.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:09:37am

re: #242 lawhawk

NBC is trying to make know nothing extremist Vivik Ramaswamy happen.

He wants to end the FBI and eliminate all kinds of federal agencies and departments.

You know - defunding law enforcement.

He’s another regressive extremist who wants to make it easier for billionaires to exploit everyone else.

Does Vivek Ramaswamy’s Hinduism really matter to GOP voters?

Nope. Not if he’s the eventual Republican nominee.

Would a significant portion of the GOP base refuse to vote out of principle because they could not support a non-Christian from their own party?

Absolutely not.

Forget what any of these conservative Christians are saying right now against Ramaswamy’s Hinduism because they’ll eventually come around if he’s the candidate. They’ll all find justifications for supporting him, just as they’ve done in every recent presidential election. Ultimately, for white evangelicals, both Trump and Ramaswamy fall under the label of “Not exactly one of us, but he’ll give us what we want, so we’re fine with him.”

How could that happen despite all those public proclamations about the need to have a Christian Nation? Because Christian Nationalists don’t actually give a damn about theology. They just want to use their power to hurt everyone they hate. As long as politicians talk about how great Jesus is, and how this nation owes everything to the Bible, and how they support Judeo-Christian “morality,” it doesn’t matter what they actually believe about God. Polytheism will always take a back seat to politics.

Republican candidates and their voters don’t have to be united under Christ as long as they’re united under cruelty.

friendlyatheist.com

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Targetpractice  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:10:15am

re: #262 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Stop eating our hostas!

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Looks like you’ve got a trio of dine and dashers on your lawn.

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danarchy  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:11:51am

re: #255 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This was her original post to r/Relationship_Advice:

My (22f) fiance (25m) want his father to check my hymen tomorrow night before I get married. (four years ago)

(more)

She received over thirteen thousand comments on the barbarism of Christian sexual assault.

Am I missing the part where the original poster said it was a christian thing? I read both posts and don’t see anything about a religion mentioned. Could it be? sure. Could as easily be muslim, or just cultural.

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:14:55am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:17:00am

re: #265 Thanos

Anyone else now addicted to cotton candy grapes and sharp cheddar?

…walks over to shopping list

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:17:41am

LOL this is one hell of a PSA. Kudos to Terry Crews.

Lead from Behind - The Camacho Cut | Official Red, White, And Blue Band [HD]

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sagehen  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:21:05am

re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The main reason Charles could not marry Camilla, the love of his life, in the first place is that she could not pass the hymen test.

And by the time of their divorce, and Andrew/Sarah’s divorce, Elizabeth came to realize this was a seriously outdated rule that led to nothing good.

Which is why William and Kate were allowed to live together, as a normal modern sexually active couple, for about 10 years before they got engaged. And Harry married a divorcee.

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Thanos  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:21:36am

re: #272 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

…walks over to shopping list

It’s also good to mix in some real sour grapes too… sweet, savory, sour… rinse, repeat.

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dat_said  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:26:41am

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum secures spot in first GOP presidential primary debate

Obligatory: Who?

He becomes the seventh candidate to qualify for the event, which is scheduled to take place in Milwaukee on August 23rd.

Apparently, the donate $1 and I’ll send you a $20 gift card scheme worked as designed.

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Thanos  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:29:09am

Arkansas Man Sentenced for Assaulting Law Enforcement During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

WASHINGTON - An Arkansas man was sentenced today on a felony charge for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.

Peter Francis Stager, 44, of Conway, Arkansas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras to 52 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon on Feb. 16, 2023. In addition to the prison term, Judge Contreras ordered 36 months of supervised release and restitution of $2,000.

According to court documents, on Jan. 6, 2021, Stager was part of a large, armed mob that attacked police officers at the Lower West Terrace entrance of the U.S. Capitol building. At 4:27 p.m., police officers had been defending the archway opening to a corridor leading from the Lower West Terrace to the interior of the Capitol building for nearly two hours, advancing and retreating as rioters fought their way into the entrance. At this time, Stager was positioned toward the bottom of a set of steps that led to the archway, carrying a flagpole with an American flag affixed.

Stager watched as co-defendants attacked the police line and dragged a police officer, facedown and headfirst, out of the line and into the crowd of rioters. Once the others had dragged the officer into the crowd, Stager raised the flagpole that he was carrying and beat the downed police officer, striking him at least three times.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:32:36am

re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Lady Di had to do that before she was allowed to marry Charles

Nope. Her uncle announced to the world that she was a virgin (how would he know?), but there’s no evidence of any “test.”

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:33:07am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:33:40am

Many Christians are ‘almost in despair’ over what Trump has done to their faith: evangelical leader

Russel Moore former head of the Southern Fried Baptists allegedly has buyer’s remorse.

semafor.com

Not if they’re right wing Xtians who slobber over the ground Trump walks on.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:33:57am

re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The main reason Charles could not marry Camilla, the love of his life, in the first place is that she could not pass the hymen test.

Because she had been divorced, and the church of which he would become the head forbade remarriage of divorced persons.

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sagehen  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:41:14am

re: #280 Joe Bacon ✅

Many Christians are ‘almost in despair’ over what Trump has done to their faith: evangelical leader

Define “many”. Is it triple digits?

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:45:54am

re: #280 Joe Bacon ✅

Many Christians are ‘almost in despair’ over what Trump has done to their faith: evangelical leader

Russel Moore former head of the Southern Fried Baptists allegedly has buyer’s remorse.

semafor.com

Not if they’re right wing Xtians who slobber over the ground Trump walks on.

they should have at least been done with him back at “grab ‘em”

at this stage, it’s still ‘almost’

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William Lewis  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:46:36am

Couple of test images before I wander off to bed.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:47:16am

The right is now openly defending slavery and the holocaust. Many of us in the past sarcastically claimed it was only a matter of time before they did. Apparently that time is July 2023. The GQP does not deserve to hold any office.

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austin_blue  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:51:58am

re: #240 Shropshire Slasher

Leopard tank hit by a Lancet-3.

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Video

Lancet-3 is a Russian drone. The Leopard is a German tank transferred to the Ukes.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:58:53am
“What if our world isn’t the only one where existence is absurd?” It’s a fair question, and this new Apple TV+ is brave enough to ask.

Based on viral sensation Nathan W. Pyle’s best-selling graphic novel, Strange Planet is described as a “hilarious and perceptive look at a distant world not unlike our own. Set in a whimsical world of cotton candy pinks and purples, relatable blue beings explore the absurdity of everyday human traditions.”

Lending their voices to these curious creatures are Tunde Adebimpe (The Girlfriend Experience), Demi Adejuyigbe (The Amber Ruffin Show), Lori Tan Chinn (Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens), Danny Pudi (Community) and Hannah Einbinder (Hacks).

Strange Planet — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

tvline.com

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:07:07am

Lebron James’ 18-year-old son had cardiac arrest yesterday while practicing at USC. He’s in stable condition. Predictably, the red hat anti-vax maniacs are in unstable condition blaming Lebron for being a vaccine advocate.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:09:15am

re: #288 Ace Rothstein

Lebron James’ 18-year-old son had cardiac arrest yesterday while practicing at USC. He’s in stable condition. Predictably, the red hat anti-vax maniacs are in unstable condition blaming Lebron for being a vaccine advocate.

They desperately want to pretend to be smart, something their kook friends who died of covid can’t do, but as survivors, they can claim that the vaccines weren’t needed as long as they don’t care about other people at all.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:10:32am

A fool and his money.

Regretful Fox News viewer says he was hoodwinked by ‘negligent’ network’s gold coin investment ads

He bought $174,000 of gold coins based on Fox ads. He’s lost $70,000 in value so far.

In an interview with The Washington Post, disabled retiree Terry White explained that he invested his money in the gold-coin venture Lear Capitol without realizing that the firm charged a 33 percent commission for transactions.

White expressed disappointment with Fox News, which he believed “wouldn’t take a commercial like that unless it was legitimate.”

White’s wife, Jeanne, was more critical and called Fox News “negligent” for airing gold coin ads that bilk viewers.

rawstory.com

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:10:51am

re: #283 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

they should have at least been done with him back at “grab ‘em”

at this stage, it’s still ‘almost’

Sorry, Moore. Buyer’s remorse only applies for a few days after purchase, not 6 years. At this point, you bought it, it’s yours.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:14:16am

re: #278 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Nope. Her uncle announced to the world that she was a virgin (how would he know?), but there’s no evidence of any “test.”

You mean, he didn’t check the sheets the morning after the wedding night to look for blood? How very uncivilized.

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:22:31am

Yikes. 👀

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:24:53am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:25:36am

Ginni Thomas ‘may have crossed the line’ into criminality with fake electors plot: former federal prosecutor

Ginni Thomas has long been scrutinized for messages she sent to lawmakers calling for a new slate of electors to falsely claim Donald Trump had beaten Joe Biden in states in which the Republican had lost.

Newsweek previously reported that Thomas is alleged to have sent emails to dozens of Arizona election officials and lawmakers claiming it was their “constitutional duty” to install a “clean slate of electors” who would be willing to declare Trump the winner in the Grand Canyon State in 2020.

She is said to have allegedly told the lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and falsely claimed the responsibility to choose electors was “yours and yours alone.”

newsweek.com

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:27:17am
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Dave In Austin  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:27:56am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:28:44am

re: #297 Dave In Austin

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:29:50am

re: #290 Joe Bacon ✅

A fool and his money.

In an interview with The Washington Post, disabled retiree Terry White explained that he invested his money in the gold-coin venture Lear Capitol without realizing that the firm charged a 33 percent commission for transactions.

a mere 33%? pfft.
musk and his X micropayments: ‘hold my beer’

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:30:20am

Godless heathen has completely hoodwinked Evangelicals, mostly because he’s spewing prosperity gospel that is unrelated to the actual Gospels.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:33:58am

re: #290 Joe Bacon ✅

A fool and his money.

Regretful Fox News viewer says he was hoodwinked by ‘negligent’ network’s gold coin investment ads

He bought $174,000 of gold coins based on Fox ads. He’s lost $70,000 in value so far.

In an interview with The Washington Post, disabled retiree Terry White explained that he invested his money in the gold-coin venture Lear Capitol without realizing that the firm charged a 33 percent commission for transactions.

White expressed disappointment with Fox News, which he believed “wouldn’t take a commercial like that unless it was legitimate.”

White’s wife, Jeanne, was more critical and called Fox News “negligent” for airing gold coin ads that bilk viewers.

rawstory.com

Have they made the connection that Fox News reporting is as false as the commercials Fox News runs?

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:34:25am

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Four hours ago, New York Times:

Obama Family Chef Dies While Paddleboarding on Martha’s Vineyard

“Tafari Campbell was a sous chef at the White House during the Obama administration and stayed on with the family when they moved to private life.”

(more)

That brings Hilary’s count - up to 48?

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Dave In Austin  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:35:31am

re: #300 lawhawk

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Godless heathen has completely hoodwinked Evangelicals, mostly because he’s spewing prosperity gospel that is unrelated to the actual Gospels.

Half of these. Loons think he’s either the second coming or the anti-Christ.

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retired cynic  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:35:48am

re: #297 Dave In Austin

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:36:26am

re: #301 No Malarkey!

Have they made the connection that Fox News reporting is as false as the commercials Fox News runs?

nope.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:39:58am

re: #295 Joe Bacon ✅

Ginni Thomas ‘may have crossed the line’ into criminality with fake electors plot: former federal prosecutor

Ginni Thomas has long been scrutinized for messages she sent to lawmakers calling for a new slate of electors to falsely claim Donald Trump had beaten Joe Biden in states in which the Republican had lost.

Newsweek previously reported that Thomas is alleged to have sent emails to dozens of Arizona election officials and lawmakers claiming it was their “constitutional duty” to install a “clean slate of electors” who would be willing to declare Trump the winner in the Grand Canyon State in 2020.

She is said to have allegedly told the lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and falsely claimed the responsibility to choose electors was “yours and yours alone.”

newsweek.com

I would think there would have to be more than just her sending emails to rise to the level of criminal activity. I’m sure there were lots of Republicans calling, texting and emailing their representatives urging them to reverse the “stolen” election, which is protected first amendment speech.

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CleverToad  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:40:01am

re: #297 Dave In Austin

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:41:04am

re: #297 Dave In Austin

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dat_said  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:43:18am

re: #282 sagehen

Many Christians are ‘almost in despair’ over what Trump has done to their faith: evangelical leader

Define “many”. Is it triple digits?

re: #300 lawhawk

Godless heathen has completely hoodwinked Evangelicals, mostly because he’s spewing prosperity gospel that is unrelated to the actual Gospels.

Looks like “many” is maybe 1 in 8.

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:44:55am
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Jay C  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:49:03am

re: #295 Joe Bacon ✅

Ginni Thomas ‘may have crossed the line’ into criminality with fake electors plot: former federal prosecutor

Ginni Thomas has long been scrutinized for messages she sent to lawmakers calling for a new slate of electors to falsely claim Donald Trump had beaten Joe Biden in states in which the Republican had lost.

Newsweek previously reported that Thomas is alleged to have sent emails to dozens of Arizona election officials and lawmakers claiming it was their “constitutional duty” to install a “clean slate of electors” who would be willing to declare Trump the winner in the Grand Canyon State in 2020.

She is said to have allegedly told the lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and falsely claimed the responsibility to choose electors was “yours and yours alone.”

newsweek.com

[NOTE: usual IANAL disclaimer]
OK: not that I’m defending Ginni Thomas in the least (and IMO, an orange jumpsuit with numbers on it would suit her perfectly as a fashion statement), but SRSLY: does this shit rise to any actual, prosecutable level of criminality? You, I, or any of us could send blustering emails to State election officials gibbering about their “constitutional duty” or whatever, but barring, say, any actual *threats* (i.e., “vote in a Trump slate, or your job will be in jeopardy”, or “vote in a Trump slate or your house will be firebombed” or something), where’s the “crime”??*

*OK, to a GOP AZ state official, an email from Virginia Thomas is probably going to carry a tad more weight than one from Jane Q. Public, but they still have the option to ignore it. Did they?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:49:24am

re: #290 Joe Bacon ✅

White expressed disappointment with Fox News, which he believed “wouldn’t take a commercial like that unless it was legitimate.”

J Jonah Jameson Laugh - Spiderman

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:57:25am

re: #228 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

It galls them that their guy-who they won’t denounce - is such a flagrant criminal, and they can’t find anything to stick to biden. Because there isn’t anything

They didn’t have anything against Hillary either but they Benghazi’ed her for years to damage her reputation; and misrepresented (with the help of the MSM) the private email server. The GOP excels at attacking a person’s character based on lies and deception. They are focused on finding the right mix to destroy Biden.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:59:06am

re: #297 Dave In Austin

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:00:23am

re: #311 Jay C

[NOTE: usual IANAL disclaimer]
OK: not that I’m defending Ginni Thomas in the least (and IMO, an orange jumpsuit with numbers on it would suit her perfectly as a fashion statement), but SRSLY: does this shit rise to any actual, prosecutable level of criminality? You, I, or any of us could send blustering emails to State election officials gibbering about their “constitutional duty” or whatever, but barring, say, any actual *threats* (i.e., “vote in a Trump slate, or your job will be in jeopardy”, or “vote in a Trump slate or your house will be firebombed” or something), where’s the “crime”??*

*OK, to a GOP AZ state official, an email from Virginia Thomas is probably going to carry a tad more weight than one from Jane Q. Public, but they still have the option to ignore it. Did they?

as usual, so much we dont know..

did any of them respond?
if so what did they say to her
did she respond to those responses.

ie was it more than just ‘voicing a strong opinion’ and was there in fact ‘interaction’?

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:01:09am

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Extractive capitalism, mining money from school districts.

Then there’s this ass-covering lie:

But a Google spokesman said the death dates have an important purpose: Chromebook laptops receive regular software updates — including for security — and older devices often cannot support the upgrades.

“These updates depend on many device-specific non-Google hardware and software providers that work with Google to provide the highest level of security and stability support,” said Peter Du, communications manager for ChromeOS. “For this reason, older Chrome devices cannot receive updates indefinitely to enable new OS and browser features.”

(more)

Google: Don’t Be Evil.

MAC does the same thing.

FWIW, I have a ~2011 Black Mac Book I can’t OS upgrade, past Snow Leopard, can’t upgrade any web browsers, and despite my best and numerous attempts by myself and a local MAC guru, am unable to install Linux.

So I replaced it with a $200 2015 refurbished MacBook Air.

In thinking ahead for a replacement, IIUC, the latest MacBooks go into brick mode unless the *original* owner is able to reset them to factory default before resale. To the best of my knowledge, there is no cracking the brick back to a functioning laptop.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:02:27am

re: #313 Hecuba’s daughter

They didn’t have anything against Hillary either but they Benghazi’ed her for years to damage her reputation; and misrepresented (with the help of the MSM) the private email server. The GOP excels at attacking a person’s character based on lies and deception. They are focused on finding the right mix to destroy Biden.

you are 100% correct.

i was speaking only in the context of impeaching a president

still, it’s my opinion that none of this will stick to biden politically, have any affect on 2024, or his longer term legacy.

it’s clearly nonsense.

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:02:54am

Another 4, but it’s a beauty. Double whiff, greens on the bottom..

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:04:36am
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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:10:26am

re: #245 No Malarkey!

I would think that Bundy is the kind of guy who would have all his money in crypto, or gold. I also wonder if he plans on holing up in his ranch, threatening to shoot anyone who tries to evict him.

Alex Jones was ordered to pay over a billion dollars and he’s still out there promoting his lies. These judgements mean nothing unless they are actually executed and these criminals are reduced to poverty.

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gocart mozart  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:12:54am

Good discussion about far right extremism and the authoritarian mind, w/ David Neiwert.

The Age of Insurrection w/ David Neiwert | MR Live

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:14:06am

re: #318 wrenchwench

Another 4, but it’s a beauty. Double whiff, greens on the bottom..

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Spoiler:

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My whiffs were

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STRIP

There are a few in the fridge….

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Dave In Austin  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:14:11am

re: #308 wrenchwench

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:14:11am

re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Lady Di had to do that before she was allowed to marry Charles

That seems very bizarre, given the past history of the rulers of England. Edward VIII married a divorcee.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:14:30am

UPS reaches deal with Teamsters union to avoid massive strike

businessinsider.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:16:22am

re: #297 Dave In Austin

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Jay C  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:17:19am

re: #324 Hecuba’s daughter

That seems very bizarre, given the past history of the rulers of England. Edward VIII married a divorcee.

Yes, but he had to accept a demotion to be able to do it….

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:20:20am

re: #327 Jay C

Yes, but he had to accept a demotion to be able to do it….

And he wasn’t a Windsor. And he started his own church to get around the catholic pope. He could do whatever the fuck he wanted.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:20:38am

re: #259 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Another day, another par.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:21:03am

re: #314 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:22:51am

re: #328 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

And he wasn’t a Windsor. And he started his own church to get around the catholic pope. He could do whatever the fuck he wanted.

You’re thinking of Henry VIII.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:24:39am

re: #331 Vicious Babushka

You’re thinking of Henry VIII.

Correct. I saw the VIII and cooked in Henry. My bad.

ETA - telling A king who he cannot marry is a bad idea. Telling the crown prince is a entirely crown thing.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:25:12am

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m mistaken again. It’s hard to track who owns which property in Manhattan.

The constructors and owners of the building on Avenue of the Americas is not FOX, it’s a company named Ivanhoe Cambridge. FOX leases about half of the space in that building.

They just signed a new twenty-year lease, which pumped some life into the Manhattan office space real estate market.

Fox, News Corp stay put in Midtown (The Real Deal - Real Estate News), January 4, 2023.

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Shit. I was hoping they’d be broadcasting from Tucker’s basement.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:26:14am

re: #280 Joe Bacon ✅

Many Christians are ‘almost in despair’ over what Trump has done to their faith: evangelical leader

Many leopard-eat-your-face party supporters are “almost in despair” that their faces got eaten off: Leopard spokesperson

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:26:36am

re: #281 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Because she had been divorced, and the church of which he would become the head forbade remarriage of divorced persons.

and such laws are written in stone

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:28:29am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:29:19am
A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine finds evidence that Republican-leaning counties in Ohio and Florida have had significantly higher Covid-19 death rates than Democratic-leaning counties.

…after vaccines were available to all adults, the excess death rate among Republican voters began to increase relative to the excess death rate among Democratic voters; in the fall of 2021

…Between March 2020 and December 2021, excess death rates were about 15% higher for Republican voters compared with Democratic voters

…After April 1, 2021, when all adults were eligible for vaccines in Florida and Ohio, this gap widened to about a 43% difference

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:30:08am

re: #324 Hecuba’s daughter

That seems very bizarre, given the past history of the rulers of England. Edward VIII married a divorcee.

Only after abdicating

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:30:43am
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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:30:43am
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BigPapa  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:32:00am

Seriously, the next MFer that says in a scholarly Dad Tone ‘the cloud is just somebody else’s computer’ I’m going to cut a bich.

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jeffreyw  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:32:28am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:37:05am

re: #341 BigPapa

Seriously, the next MFer that says in a scholarly Dad Tone ‘the cloud is just somebody else’s computer’ I’m going to cut a bich.

WTF is the cloud then? I am aware in principle of such a thing but have never made direct use of it and do not know the details..

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:44:59am

re: #297 Dave In Austin

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:46:34am

re: #301 No Malarkey!

Have they made the connection that Fox News reporting is as false as the commercials Fox News runs?

Could be worse for him. They could have gotten him into crypto.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:48:50am

Daughter has just booked (more or less) parallel showings of Barbie and Oppenheimer in Frankfurt tomorrow (original soundtrack). She will have an hour or so to kill before her film starts but they will both end at around the same time.

I do not own a fedora or I would wear one.

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IngisKahn  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:50:23am

re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

WTF is the cloud then? I am aware of such a thing but have never made direct use of it.

It’s just somebody else’s computer.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:51:37am

re: #279 lawhawk

Congratulations, Florida. Your children will have no ability to complete in a global job market.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:52:15am

re: #347 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Daughter has just booked (more or less) parallel showings of Barbie and Oppenheimer in Frankfurt tomorrow (original soundtrack). She will have an hour or so to kill before her film starts but they will both end at around the same time.

I do not own a fedora or I would wear one.

IIRC, you said your daughter was going to see Ghost in concert. If she did go, how did she like it?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:53:36am

re: #350 Dr Lizardo

IIRC, you said your daughter was going to see Ghost in concert. If she did go, how did she like it?

Both daughters loved it. They saw them separately, one in Strasbourg, one in Lille.

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Thanos  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:54:51am

re: #297 Dave In Austin

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:54:54am

re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Both daughters loved it. They saw them separately, one in Strasbourg, one in Lille.

Cool. Ghost is fantastic live.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:56:19am

re: #293 Teukka

What is that telling us?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:56:20am

re: #353 Dr Lizardo

Cool. Ghost is fantastic live.

What do you need to get into a Ghost concert?

-A Ticketty-Boo!!!

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Semper Fi  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:59:25am

re: #284 William Lewis

Couple of test images before I wander off to bed.

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#1 The white wall robs attention from the (Caddy/Olds?) car.
#2 I like shots like this showing more cloud detail.
#3 Would be nice to filter the sky but not the barn.
#4 One of my favorites showing greater detail in the trees. My eye is drawn toward the barn and even the old gate points the way.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:59:34am

re: #297 Dave In Austin

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:01:00am
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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:04:20am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:06:29am

re: #311 Jay C

[NOTE: usual IANAL disclaimer]
OK: not that I’m defending Ginni Thomas in the least (and IMO, an orange jumpsuit with numbers on it would suit her perfectly as a fashion statement), but SRSLY: does this shit rise to any actual, prosecutable level of criminality? You, I, or any of us could send blustering emails to State election officials gibbering about their “constitutional duty” or whatever, but barring, say, any actual *threats* (i.e., “vote in a Trump slate, or your job will be in jeopardy”, or “vote in a Trump slate or your house will be firebombed” or something), where’s the “crime”??*

*OK, to a GOP AZ state official, an email from Virginia Thomas is probably going to carry a tad more weight than one from Jane Q. Public, but they still have the option to ignore it. Did they?

It depends. Was she in contact with trump and his merry band of misfits at the time? If so, is think that’s conspiracy.

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BigPapa  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:06:51am

re: #348 IngisKahn

It’s just somebody else’s computer.

(draws katana)

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BigPapa  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:10:04am

re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

WTF is the cloud then? I am aware in principle of such a thing but have never made direct use of it and do not know the details..

It is somebody else’s computer. But it’s in an instance on a server. Typically a BFS: Big F’ing Server. Somewhere hardened with backup power. And your instance is copied so if something Very Bad happens to the BFS you should keep running. And you pay for this.

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TedStriker  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:12:40am

re: #290 Joe Bacon ✅

A fool and his money.

Regretful Fox News viewer says he was hoodwinked by ‘negligent’ network’s gold coin investment ads

He bought $174,000 of gold coins based on Fox ads. He’s lost $70,000 in value so far.

In an interview with The Washington Post, disabled retiree Terry White explained that he invested his money in the gold-coin venture Lear Capitol without realizing that the firm charged a 33 percent commission for transactions.

White expressed disappointment with Fox News, which he believed “wouldn’t take a commercial like that unless it was legitimate.”

White’s wife, Jeanne, was more critical and called Fox News “negligent” for airing gold coin ads that bilk viewers.

rawstory.com

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Nojay UK  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:13:34am

re: #348 IngisKahn

It’s just somebody else’s computer.

The obligatory XKCD strip: “There’s a lot of cacheing”.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:20:28am

re: #324 Hecuba’s daughter

That seems very bizarre, given the past history of the rulers of England. Edward VIII married a divorcee.

And had to abdicate the throne before he could do it.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:21:02am

re: #360 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It depends. Was she in contact with trump and his merry band of misfits at the time? If so, is think that’s conspiracy.

Yes. a scotus wife has all the rights of any private citizen
No. A scotus wife oughtnt to behave in certain ways even if Its “legal”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:26:26am

re: #344 goddamnedfrank

UjAzWjNJRlRaNHg0aWtibCtlcW1JQT09OjohIgKDN6j3XvE85/uAsrdE

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:26:32am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:26:54am

re: #366 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Yes. a scotus wife has all the rights of any private citizen
No. A scotus wife oughtnt to behave in certain ways even if Its “legal”

Judges are expected to recuse themselves in cases of a clear conflict of interest. And for Judge Thomas, that now inolves almost anything to do with the 2020 election

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:28:50am

I’m doing my psychologically safe workplace and inclusivity training.
They say people should be their authentic selves at work to avoid burnout, unless they’re bigots, in which case they need to keep their thoughts to themselves and behave respectfully toward others.

Won’t anyone think of the upset burned-out bigots?
/

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:33:14am

re: #365 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

And had to abdicate the throne before he could do it.

True. But the political establishment objected to him and used his relationship with her as an excuse to get rid of someone who was not fit to be king.

thehistorypress.co.uk. :

There was a far more serious aspect to the new King’s lack of prudence. Though Britain was slowly recovering from the Depression of the early 1930s, the economy and society remained fragile. In Europe, the rise of the dictators - Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy - posed a growing threat to peace and to Britain’s imperial position. Despite this, Edward made little effort to hide his sympathy with right-wing authoritarianism. ‘I see we are to have a Fascist King, are we?’ one Labour MP told Prime Minister Baldwin.

Within a month of Edward’s accession in 1936, Britain’s three senior mandarins - Warren Fisher (head of the Home Civil Service), Maurice Hankey (Cabinet Secretary) and Robert Vansittart (Foreign Office Permanent Secretary) - met to discuss disquiet about the new monarch’s handling of confidential State papers: acts of Parliament, notes of confidential diplomatic discussions, drafts of treaties, details of naval and military organisation.

Secret files were left openly on display for any visitor to Edward’s Fort Belvedere weekend retreat to see. Among those socialising with the King were Italian and German diplomats. He was sharing highly sensitive documents with Mrs Simpson, discussing their contents with her. Interception by the intelligence services revealed the French and Swiss Embassies in London were reporting to their governments on her influence over the King. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Vansittart said, believed she was ‘in the pocket’ of the German Ambassador. The security implications were obvious.

His handling of secret documents was very Trumpish.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:33:33am

FYI someone sent me an invite this morning so I’m now on BlueSky.

Still don’t like the fact that Jack is involved in the project at all, and their draconian IP terms mean I won’t be posting any photos or work there that I actually care about (though between rampant NFT adverse possession and AI scraping, digesting and regurgitating everyone’s shit I highly recommend going back to working almost exclusively in film capture, hybrid workflow, and then keeping all your good stuff buried in a secret vault inside a monster filled dungeon for post apocalyptic adventurers to find.)

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piratedan  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:34:02am

re: #360 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

in her “day job”, she’s a conduit linking separate RW entities. So using her advocacy, she’s part of the logistical train that pulled J6 together, linking like minded groups, tying cash to ground fodder, to arranging transport, setting up places to stay (and who knows what else) and being a spouse of a SCOTUS justice lends it legitimacy…. you can’t make a career out of your marital connections and then just wave it all away when you’re a conduit for squaring away assistance for hotel accommodations for J6 rioters.

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jeffreyw  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:37:09am

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:38:01am

re: #370 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Won’t anyone think of the upset burned-out bigots?
/

Nah. Fuck ‘em.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:39:38am

re: #375 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Nah. Fuck ‘em.

It’s a pretty good place to work. I only know of one guy that may be upset by the training if he’s still around. Supporting a union attracts the right kind of people.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:40:45am

re: #369 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Judges are expected to recuse themselves in cases of a clear conflict of interest. And for Judge Thomas, that now inolves almost anything to do with the 2020 election

Of course
Judges behavior is way different
There should be strong ethics
Enforced.
Still wouldn’t affect the spouse (imo)

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BigPapa  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:42:45am

re: #372 goddamnedfrank

I gotchu.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:43:15am

Here’s some good news. Hopefully, Hollywood is taking notice and rethinking their plans to keep drowning us in sequels and reboots.

This weekend’s box office is currently the fourth-biggest movie weekend in history. The other three? Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Armed with nothing more than a man in a fedora and a woman in pink, Barbie, a brand that doesn’t necessarily scream “great material for a movie,” and Oppenheimer, a three-hour drama without an interlocking franchise to call its own, defied the conventional wisdom of the last decade. More than 200,000 people bought tickets to sit in the movies for six hours, which is very uncommon.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:45:04am

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:48:21am

re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s some good news. Hopefully, Hollywood is taking notice and rethinking their plans to keep drowning us in sequels and reboots.

This weekend’s box office is currently the fourth-biggest movie weekend in history. The other three? Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Armed with nothing more than a man in a fedora and a woman in pink, Barbie, a brand that doesn’t necessarily scream “great material for a movie,” and Oppenheimer, a three-hour drama without an interlocking franchise to call its own, defied the conventional wisdom of the last decade. More than 200,000 people bought tickets to sit in the movies for six hours, which is very uncommon.

All it took was two of the best directors currently working, Gerwig and Nolan.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:48:47am

re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s some good news. Hopefully, Hollywood is taking notice and rethinking their plans to keep drowning us in sequels and reboots.

This weekend’s box office is currently the fourth-biggest movie weekend in history. The other three? Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Armed with nothing more than a man in a fedora and a woman in pink, Barbie, a brand that doesn’t necessarily scream “great material for a movie,” and Oppenheimer, a three-hour drama without an interlocking franchise to call its own, defied the conventional wisdom of the last decade. More than 200,000 people bought tickets to sit in the movies for six hours, which is very uncommon.

Over 200,000 people actually did Barbenheimer!! I’m planning on seeing them separately.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:50:22am

re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg

I agree. I hope that these box office returns are indicative of audiences wanting originality - something new.

That being said, I saw Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and even though that’s obviously from a well-known IP, it was a very well-done and original film. There’s one more installment coming sometime next year (Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse) and I’ll be there to see how it all wraps up.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:54:16am

re: #380 Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

More than 60 total changes and improvements to the National Master Agreement — more than any other time in Teamsters history — and zero concessions from the rank-and-file.

my bold..that is really a BFD

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:54:58am

re: #383 Dr Lizardo

I agree. I hope that these box office returns are indicative of audiences wanting originality - something new.

That being said, I saw Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and even though that’s obviously from a well-known IP, it was a very well-done and original film. There’s one more installment coming sometime next year (Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse) and I’ll be there to see how it all wraps up.

But wouldn’t it be better if Barbie fought Spider-Man for the atomic bomb, using Harley Quinn moves?
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