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“Can I get a can opener…oh, and a toaster…oh, and silverware…oh, and plates…oh, and…”
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re: #2 Targetpractice
“Can I get a can opener…oh, and a toaster…oh, and silverware…oh, and plates…oh, and…”
*sigggggggh*
“Sir, this is a hotel, not a fuckin’ Golden Corral. If you want dinner service, I suggest you look elsewhere.”
re: #3 Nerdy Fish
“Sir, this is a hotel, not a fuckin’ Golden Corral. If you want dinner service, I suggest you look elsewhere.”
Was more a case of “Sir, do you just want me to put together a full dish set for you?” See, when we were Marriott, all the dishes were kept in the room and the only time people came by to the desk was to ask for an extra set of plates or some utensil that we didn’t stock.
But under the new owners, they force us to not only store all the dishes downstairs, but housekeepers have to retrieve any loaned out and bring them down to be washed by hand. A large part of this is because we’re technically supposed to be charging people a fee to essentially rent dishes and pans, BUT our (soon-to-be-ex) GM insists we just keep handing them out without question or charge. I asked her once about the images showing prices and asked if we were supposed to actually be charging guests, but she just told me “I’ll ask corporate” and never gave me an answer.
The scale of the abnormality is so staggering, that it can actually become numbing. It’s all too easy to fall into reflexive habits, to treat this as a normal campaign, where both sides embrace the rule of law, where both sides are dedicated to a debate based on facts and the peaceful transfer of power. But, that is not what’s happening this election year.”— George Stephanopoulos, opening This Week on ABC News.
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I’ve seen a local crow being chased by two little birds.
the tape lets you know that’s the permanent cat bucket pic.twitter.com/EJJ9Qpx06J
— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) April 28, 2024
re: #10 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Awwww!!
Rewatching The Untouchables. Still can not believe just how unlawful the Feds were in order to bring down Capone (I mean, he threw Nitti off the top of a building). Sure, most of the film is fantasy but they got him. Even as he was falling asleep in Court.
Sometimes I wonder how these times will be portrayed 50 years from now. Will we have a story where the good guys are the DAs who bring down Trump, even if the narrative makes lots of changes?
Or will the narrative be how terribly the First King of America was being treated by the Deep State and how he had to take over to protect the country?
Are we making a mistake bringing a knife to a gunfight? Is the franchise enough to win?
Sometimes I just do not know what is the best way to protect the rule of law, especially with a Supreme Court that is doing little to protect us, a Media working to undercut democracy, and foreign adversaries having free reign over spouting lies for Trump.
Still. I still believe that Biden is exactly who we need at the moment and that in the end, he will manufacture a win, by generating an election machine and groundgame that will energize the people even as our enemies try to hurt America. But it may be way too close for those of us in our declining years ;-) We do not have time to recover from the Horrendous Times if Trump wins.
re: #12 silverdolphin
That’s a fictionalized account. For example, Frank Nitti wasn’t thrown off the roof of a building. He shot himself - and not until 1943, a decade after the events of The Untouchables took place. The film is entertaining, but it plays fast and loose with the facts, though not as egregiously as Braveheart did.
re: #12 silverdolphin
The movie is just as fictionalized as the Robert Stack TV series was.
My wife has been listening to Paula Poundstone’s podcast, and because of that, she has volunteered with the group Paula promotes to get Democrats elected this fall. It’s her first action beyond voting. I think Democrats are taking this election seriously.
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— Shannon (@shay3322) April 28, 2024
re: #15 Belafon
My wife has been listening to Paula Poundstone’s podcast, and because of that, she has volunteered with the group Paula promotes to get Democrats elected this fall. It’s her first action beyond voting. I think Democrats are taking this election seriously.
Paula Poundstone is great.
re: #8 Patricia Kayden
Ginni Thomas knows nobody will touch her because she and her corrupted other are above the law.
re: #13 Dr Lizardo
That’s a fictionalized account. For example, Frank Nitti wasn’t thrown off the roof of a building. He shot himself - and not until 1943, a decade after the events of The Untouchables took place. The film is entertaining, but it plays fast and loose with the facts, though not as egregiously as Braveheart did.
Oh, I know which is why I talked about the narrative and fantasy. It is outlandiously plotted by a master director. More metaphor but it does get some basic facts right in its on target - Capone goes down, even if the courtroom is completely made up.
How will today be portrayed 50 years on by a master director? That is knida my worry.
re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅
The movie is just as fictionalized as the Robert Stack TV series was.
As I said. “Sure, most of the film is fantasy but they got him.” I was speculating what the fantasy narrative for today’s fight against Trump would be. Based on which side wins.
Like how would the fantasy of The Untouchables have gone if Capone had won and gone on to become Governor of Illinois? Ness would likely not be the hero.
re: #16 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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re: #18 Joe Bacon ✅
Ginni Thomas knows nobody will touch her because she and her corrupted other are above the law.
I just want to see him being put in the position of having to recuse himself from her case.
re: #19 silverdolphin
Oh, I know which is why I talked about the narrative and fantasy. It is outlandiously plotted by a master director. More metaphor but it does get some basic facts right in its on target - Capone goes down, even if the courtroom is completely made up.
How will today be portrayed 50 years on by a master director? That is knida my worry.
The set piece everyone remembers in The Untouchables is the shootout at the train station, particularly the baby carriage bouncing down the stairs. I’m 100% convinced De Palma created that entire scene as a direct homage to Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and it’s done perfectly.
re: #25 darthstar
Pulling his 30 days of “Extra Duty” after a failed urinalysis
re: #24 darthstar
I just want to see him being put in the position of having to recuse himself from her case.
Imagine if he didn’t and got away with it?
re: #26 Dr Lizardo
The set piece everyone remembers in The Untouchables is the shootout at the train station, particularly the baby carriage bouncing down the stairs. I’m 100% convinced De Palma created that entire scene as a direct homage to Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and it’s done perfectly.
THat is a classic. De Palma also used a lot of deep focus, wide angle shots One is with Costner and Sean Connery in the church talking about guns and knives. This scene could never be show in panand scan because it ould have cut off the tops of heads, etc.
Does PETA know anything about humans, at all?
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We literally grew up wanting to eat dinosaurs pic.twitter.com/BkHYJhKjkW
— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) April 29, 2024
re: #24 darthstar
I just want to see him being put in the position of having to recuse himself from her case.
He will never recuse because he has been bought and paid for.
re: #22 darthstar
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re: #32 Joe Bacon ✅
He will never recuse because he has been bought and paid for.
Except he already did recuse once, in John Eastman’s appeal. That’s what makes him not recusing now such a flagrant insult to reason.
re: #34 goddamnedfrank
Except he already did recuse once, in John Eastman’s appeal. That’s what makes him not recusing now such a flagrant insult to reason.
I’m sure that Leonard Leo ordered him to do it. Knowing him he probably demanded and got another wonderful gift from his Texas Sugar Daddy.
re: #17 wrenchwench
Paula Poundstone is great.
I only remember one Paula Poundstone line, talking about being a grownup looking bak at your childhood… “remember when there was a time you didn’t want to take a nap!?!”
re: #12 silverdolphin
The Untouchables was well after Brian De Palma was interesting to me. Also, fuck David Mamet. “”DEI is garbage. It’s fascist totalitarianism.”“
I know it’s late, but, in case folks weren’t aware of it, The Midnight Special has its own YouTube channel:
The initial 1972 “pilot” (which also doubled as a GOTV effort for that year’s elections) is absolutely loaded, with John Denver hosting and starring him, Cass Elliott, Linda Ronstadt, the Isley Brothers (shortly before the expanded official 3+3 lineup), War, the Everly Brothers, Harry Chapin, Helen Reddy, and more:
Finally finished watching all of Lucifer. A couple of miscellaneous thoughts.
I love their tight use of continuity. Something happens in an episode, it isn’t forgotten, even seasons later.
The mix of comedy and drama was near perfect for my tastes. Exquisite writing even in the weaker seasons.
Guns are realistic. Wounds hurt. Leave scars, physical and psychological.
Last, whoever paid to have “Welcome to the Black Parade” in _that_ episode needs a raise, a bonus & an award. The onion cutting ninjas hit high gear at the first notes of that song as they had already reminded me that even when living hurts, you still run at it with a battle cry.
Another day, another 50/50 down the drain.
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re: #43 Nerdy Fish
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I saw this auto playing on the corner of my screen, and I was like wtf is that! The cute pup doesn’t even look like a fox!
Workers at a Virginia wildlife center are going out of their way to outfox an orphaned newborn red fox in their care — by dressing up as her mom.
A video shared on the Richmond Wildlife Center’s Facebook page on Tuesday showed Executive Director Melissa Stanley wearing a large furry fox mask — complete with a moving toothy mouth — and rubber gloves while feeding the hungry youngster from a syringe.
The tiny kit — the term for a juvenile red fox — is seen enthusiastically suckling milk as she is perched atop a large stuffed animal fox that is also supposed to resemble her mother.
The Biden administration is reinstating federal protections for LGBTQ+ people seeking health care. Conservatives oppose the rules prohibiting discrimination, contending they would force providers to provide services against their religious belief. https://t.co/wXNHSk6rmW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 27, 2024
adopting a cat is so crazy bc one day they’re homeless in the rain and a year later your life is like this
IG the_shags2021 pic.twitter.com/88ZrdwEUt8— derek guy (@dieworkwear) April 25, 2024
re: #49 Belafon
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It should not be controversial that “deeply held personal religious beliefs” are not a valid reason to discriminate against people. Being religious does not give you the right to infringe on other people’s rights.
re: #25 darthstar
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If I were designing a star ship, I think red carpets in the bridge would be one of my last choices. You’ve got to look at those things day after day. Maybe something a bit more neutral to the eye.
re: #49 Belafon
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If it does go against their beliefs, maybe they shouldn’t have chosen that particular specialty to go into.
Noted academic discusses his latest book, on misinformation:
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Well enough, I suppose.
But I think back to the post I made a couple of days ago, linking the presentation of Art Robinson’s son’s presentation to an Oregon Republican group. He’s running to fill his father’s OR legislature desk.
It was, as expected, completely a misinformation campaign.
But guess what - that’s what the audience wanted to hear.
It’s not just confirmation bias (contra the above professor discusses.)
The anti-evolutionists, the anti-science types so common in the US, want lies to be told.
It’s not just a passive act of willfully engaging in one’s own biases.
The religious right are conducting a war.
They know they are in a battle to control society.
I’ve been noticing on YouTube lately a decidedly focused campaign to misinform in regards to climate change and actions surrounding mitigating against climate change.
The stories are not new. The lies are not new. They just get repackaged and focused.
No scholarly discussion, such as in the video above, is going to help in that regard.
re: #49 Belafon
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Imagine if a major brand (Wal-Mart, Kroger, 7-11, etc) that sells food products announced that as of tomorrow, their cashiers would be permitted to pick and choose what they will sell customers based upon the cashier’s religious beliefs. Muslim cashiers could refuse to ring up that bottle of wine, while they and their Jewish coworkers could reject any pork products brought to the till, and any complaints are met with “We respect the religious views of our employees!” You would be able to hear the screams of outrage from the far-right from Mars.
re: #55 Targetpractice
But see, the part you’re missing is that those religions are wrong, and evangelical Protestant Christianity is the law of the land and the One True Religion, so they should be allowed to do the discriminating while others are not. This is the fallacy that it’s taken me so long to accept: They don’t care that their stance is hypocritical when viewed through an objective lens. To them, it’s not hypocritical, because they’re right.
re: #43 Nerdy Fish
Put this in the wrong thread.
Bah. Should have had the beagle. Dur.
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re: #56 Nerdy Fish
But see, the part you’re missing is that those religions are wrong, and evangelical Protestant Christianity is the law of the land and the One True Religion, so they should be allowed to do the discriminating while others are not. This is the fallacy that it’s taken me so long to accept: They don’t care that their stance is hypocritical when viewed through an objective lens. To them, it’s not hypocritical, because they’re right.
Exactly. They’re right, you’re wrong, and that you don’t see that simply shows how long you’ve strayed from the rest of the flock. That they have twisted what they are comfortable with into what is “right” doesn’t matter, what matters is they’re the ones with power and you don’t have any.
re: #49 Belafon
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I had to change my Pharmacy (CVS) because the pharmacist refused to fill my HRT scripts for almost 3 months using the excuse that my Depo-Estradiol was “back ordered”. She was also stonewalling filling BC scripts as well. Her reason was that filling those scripts would , you guessed it, “violate her deeply held religious beliefs”. CVS finally got rid of her because she was costing them $$$ in lost sales. Her replacement said she would have been gone sooner but for the fact Idaho passed a law “protecting” pharmacists from being disciplined/fired for NOT filling scripts due to again, their “deeply held religious beliefs”.
Interesting New Yorker article Grey Lady vs Grey tribe, or that libertarian tech bro animus towards traditional media.
Did you ever notice how many of these people want to be highly influential but remain Anonymous?
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re: #62 Randall Gross
Interesting New Yorker article Grey Lady vs Grey tribe, or that libertarian tech bro animus towards traditional media.
Did you ever notice how many of these people want to be highly influential but remain Anonymous?
Well, yeah. Because when they inevitably do things that are immensely unpopular, they don’t want people to know where to direct the pitchforks and torches.
Well off to the salt mine. Those veggies aren’t going to slice themselves. L8R Lizards.
re: #24 darthstar
Justice Thomas: Why would I do that? I’m paid to be here.
re: #39 Lancelot Link Returns!
The Untouchables was well after Brian De Palma was interesting to me. Also, fuck David Mamet. “”DEI is garbage. It’s not my type fascist totalitarianism.”“
Because people arfing about ‘totalitarianism’ victimizing them are usually just unhappy their power is being affected.
re: #52 steve_davis
If I were designing a star ship, I think red carpets in the bridge would be one of my last choices. You’ve got to look at those things day after day. Maybe something a bit more neutral to the eye.
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Where’s Cricket, String? Where the pup at? https://t.co/h7zEZcQn6J
— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 29, 2024
Update on the Mass grave thread on X earlier:
GeoConfirmed ISR-PAL. GeoConfirmed Investigation ‘Mass graves’ - Final.
It has come to our attention that our previous investigation thread did not achieve the desired outcome. For this reason, we have conducted further research and wish to clarify some important points:… pic.twitter.com/USvNYMmbzg— GeoConfirmed (@GeoConfirmed) April 29, 2024
re: #55 Targetpractice
Imagine if a major brand (Wal-Mart, Kroger, 7-11, etc) that sells food products announced that as of tomorrow, their cashiers would be permitted to pick and choose what they will sell customers based upon the cashier’s religious beliefs. Muslim cashiers could refuse to ring up that bottle of wine, while they and their Jewish coworkers could reject any pork products brought to the till, and any complaints are met with “We respect the religious views of our employees!” You would be able to hear the screams of outrage from the far-right from Mars.
I stopped at a small gas station in backcountry UT over 30 years ago and purchased a Mountain Dew. While I was there, the clerk received a very strong lecture how they shouldn’t even have that stuff stocked. At the time, I presumed the lecturer was a local Mormon elder.
re: #73 gocart mozart
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Via Josh Gerstein:
JUST IN: Supreme Court denies release to former Trump aide Peter Navarro, serving sentence for contempt of Congress. Chief Justice Roberts previously denied the request. Now, court has without noted dissent.
— @GottaLaff (@gottalaff.bsky.social) 2024-04-29T13:38:22.326Z
re: #75 dat_said
I stopped at a small gas station in backcountry UT over 30 years ago and purchased a Mountain Dew. While I was there, the clerk received a very strong lecture how they shouldn’t even have that stuff stocked. At the time, I presumed the lecturer was a local Mormon elder.
Mountain Dew is a no-no because it has caffeine in it. Memories of 60 years ago when my aunt Viv was in Salt Lake City hiring people for Blum’s in Northern California. She went into an AAA office and was getting travel plans for Colorado when she made the fatal mistake of lighting a cigarette. A Mormon yanked it out of her mouth and scolded her…
Robert Kagan really takes the Conservatives to the meat grinder in this piece.
Fisker Ocean Totaled After Tiny Door Ding Souring EV DreamThe damage adjuster initially estimated that it would cost $910 to fix, but he also admitted that, in reality, it would be much higher as he was unfamiliar with the vehicle. He had no idea how right he would end up being.
Those two damaged components proved insurmountable due to a lack of available parts, according to Wanner. She also notes that Fisker itself hasn’t been really helpful during this process. “[I] Still haven’t even received a title from Fisker. Getting any answers or help from them is impossible,” she says.
Just over 30 days after the accident, the insurance company cut her a check for $53,303. Still, that payout has far from made Wanner whole.
“We lost over $20,000 investing in this startup EV and I cannot say goodbye fast enough,” Joe told a group of Fisker Ocean fans on Facebook. “The delivery delays, mismanagement of paperwork, reporting issues, and getting case numbers that disappear into thin air, the mysterious warning lights and maddening warning sounds, being trapped inside the vehicle, an unreliable outdated navigation system, one cheaply made barely operational key fob… This vehicle fell very, very short of our expectations and well below my high standards. I hope Henrik Fisker loses every dime he has and I wish the rest of you the best of luck.”
re: #78 Joe Bacon ✅
Mountain Dew is a no-no because it has caffeine in it. Memories of 60 years ago when my aunt Viv was in Salt Lake City hiring people for Blum’s in Northern California. She went into an AAA office and was getting travel plans for Colorado when she made the fatal mistake of lighting a cigarette. A Mormon yanked it out of her mouth and scolded her…
I had to check - there’s really no proscription against caffeine. It’s hot drinks. Some *cough* well-meaning folks have extended that to all caffeine products.
The court won’t hear Musk’s appeal of his old misleading the financial markets on social media case. Feels like a relic of a different age.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) 2024-04-29T13:42:42.645Z
re: #81 dat_said
I had to check - there’s really no proscription against caffeine. It’s hot drinks.
That’s even weirder. The line between religions and cults is extremely fuzzy.
re: #84 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
That’s even weirder. The line between religions and cults is extremely fuzzy.
There isn’t any line, they’re all cults. Some cults are more acceptable to society at large, that’s all.
GOP fake elector tapped for RNC position
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re: #84 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
That’s even weirder. The line between religions and cults is extremely fuzzy.
These days we tend to reserve “cult” status for groups in which a charismatic leader exercises absolute control over the lives of their followers, demanding they hand over all of their income, perform sexual favors for the leader and even kill themselves.
2 episodes into Chapelwaite, and I hate every fucking person in the town. they’re all a collection of hayseeds and bigots. I hope they’re all dead by the end of the series. the problem is that this makes it really oppressive to watch. For instance, the oldest daughter is absolutely gorgeous, in a south sea islands kind of way, so I’m having a hard time understanding how every boy in town between 12 and 18 isn’t in love with her and falling over themselves for it, regardless of what the reputation of Captain Boone’s ancestors is. There needs to be someone other than a governess—who has her own ulterior motives for befriending the family—to make this believable to me. The father offers to hire 50 men in a town that is just clearly in dire need of industry, and he gets shut out because there’s a feeling his ancestors may have been responsible for some sickness? Nah. Can’t buy that. The final irritation is that once again, it’s a show in which someone is shown shaving who would end up cutting their own throats if they actually shaved in that manner. Is there not one person in Hollywood that can be hired as a technical advisor for shaving scenes? “No, you’re doing that backwards. That will kill you.” Nope.
re: #84 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
That’s even weirder. The line between religions and cults is extremely fuzzy.
I was taught that a religion is happy to show you their book, and discuss their beliefs in as much detail as you’re willing to listen to.
A cult has secret levels and plans and membership and lots of special “knowledge” they don’t want to share and hope you don’t find out about.
re: #87 No Malarkey!
These days we tend to reserve “cult” status for groups in which a charismatic leader exercises absolute control over the lives of their followers, demanding they hand over all of their income, perform sexual favors for the leader and even kill themselves.
That converts a lot of cults to religions. Only the most extreme wouldn’t qualify.
re: #80 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Early adopting new tech motor vehicles and expecting an experience comparable to “like any other car I’ve ever owned”, is not paying attention.
No Trump court today - Passover holiday break. Trial resumes tomorrow. We can expect Merchan’s contempt of court ruling any time now too. And given that he violated gag order and could face criminal sanction for the violation, he may have violated the gag orders in his other criminal cases too - which require him not to violate any criminal laws as a predicate of being allowed out on bail.
It’s too much to ask that he have his bail revoked, because he’s held to a completely different standard from any other defendant who repeatedly and systematically violates the terms of his conditional release while on trial. Any other defendant who violates their bail terms would see bail revoked and be remanded to jail pending the outcome of trial.
Trump should face the consequences of his criminality to the fullest extent of the law. He has no right to avoid those consequences merely because he’s running for a political office (which itself is entirely to block the criminal consequences of his repeated criminal conduct during his first stint in the WH).
re: #91 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
That converts a lot of cults to religions. Only the most extreme wouldn’t qualify.
That is just how we use language today. You say “cult,” I think Branch Davidians and Jonestown. Is Scientology a cult? I don’t know, but they seem pretty creepy to me.
re: #92 Dangerman
My folks bought an Eagle Premier in the first year it was out. The car was a lemon from the outset. It had drivetrain issues. Transmission issues. Electronics issues. You name it, it was a mess. It was literally the worst car on the market at the time.
It was a POS.
And we don’t buy first year models or revised models issued in first year as a result - let the kinks get removed during first production run, and benefit from improvements made.
re: #93 lawhawk
No Trump court today - Passover holiday break. Trial resumes tomorrow. We can expect Merchan’s contempt of court ruling any time now too. And given that he violated gag order and could face criminal sanction for the violation, he may have violated the gag orders in his other criminal cases too - which require him not to violate any criminal laws as a predicate of being allowed out on bail.
It’s too much to ask that he have his bail revoked, because he’s held to a completely different standard from any other defendant who repeatedly and systematically violates the terms of his conditional release while on trial. Any other defendant who violates their bail terms would see bail revoked and be remanded to jail pending the outcome of trial.
Trump should face the consequences of his criminality to the fullest extent of the law. He has no right to avoid those consequences merely because he’s running for a political office (which itself is entirely to block the criminal consequences of his repeated criminal conduct during his first stint in the WH).
It seems like Trump is hoping to get a few hours in a cell for contempt so that he can fundraise off of it.
re: #96 No Malarkey!
It seems like Trump is hoping to get a few hours in a cell for contempt so that he can fundraise off of it.
And his Pulpit Pimp Posse will proclaim him to be a martyr for Jesus.
What did Sulu find in Captain Kirk’s lavatory? The captain’s log!!!
re: #98 Shropshire Slasher
Tuvok found that in Captain Janeway’s lavatory too!
Campus activists are not representative of young voters in general, most of whom aren’t in college. Voters under 30 have very similar concerns as older voters do. Inflation and healthcare are their top two issues, and climate change, Israel/Palestine and student debt don’t rate very high as salient issues.
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Why didn’t the toilet paper cross the road? It got stuck in the crack!
⚡️ Military intelligence: Over 18,000 Russian troops of Southern Military District have deserted.
Soldiers of Russia’s Southern Military District, whose units are deployed in Ukraine, are deserting their posts in increasing numbers, HUR said on April 29.https://t.co/OouJn3pzlB— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 29, 2024
re: #40 TedStriker
I know it’s late, but, in case folks weren’t aware of it, The Midnight Special has its own YouTube channel:
The initial 1972 “pilot” (which also doubled as a GOTV effort for that year’s elections) is absolutely loaded, with John Denver hosting and starring him, Cass Elliott, Linda Ronstadt, the Isley Brothers (shortly before the expanded official 3+3 lineup), War, the Everly Brothers, Harry Chapin, Helen Reddy, and more:
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re: #94 No Malarkey!
That is just how we use language today. You say “cult,” I think Branch Davidians and Jonestown. Is Scientology a cult? I don’t know, but they seem pretty creepy to me.
How about the Latter Day Saints? Church or cult?
I can’t figure it out, looks like nice artwork to me.
A quaint New Hampshire town is being torn apart over a series of colorful LGBTQ-themed murals that an openly anti-gay state senator claims carry “demonic hidden messages.”
The murals were installed last August by a nonprofit aiming to “beautify blighted properties” in a neighborhood of otherwise picturesque former mill town Littleton.
“It’s beautiful art,” Kelly Flanders previously told NPR of the images she now sees out her window instead of boarded-up windows.
Some Nazi apologia for a Monday morning
More than we realize! Check this out! pic.twitter.com/SYH89znidg
— The Rubber Banned Man (@BannedMan1776) April 25, 2024
re: #100 No Malarkey!
Campus activists are not representative of young voters in general, most of whom aren’t in college. Voters under 30 have very similar concerns as older voters do. Inflation and healthcare are their top two issues, and climate change, Israel/Palestine and student debt don’t rate very high as salient issues.
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“Young households haven’t seen wealth growth like this since the Federal Reserve first started tracking this data in 1989
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re: #106 gocart mozart
“The Rubber Banned Man”????
May Philippe Wynne rise from his grave and butt-bongo that fool.
re: #54 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
But I think back to the post I made a couple of days ago, linking the presentation of Art Robinson’s son’s presentation to an Oregon Republican group. He’s running to fill his father’s OR legislature desk.
It was, as expected, completely a misinformation campaign.
But guess what - that’s what the audience wanted to hear.
I had to see. It was yesterday. But the father was not ‘term limited’, strictly speaking. Voters passed a measure saying if you miss 10 legislative sessions without an excuse, you cannot serve again. It was upheld in court. That’s why the son is running. He sounds like he’s running against the Democrat. The primary is May 21. We shall see.
You’re right, they are arguing against science with bulkshit.
re: #52 steve_davis
If I were designing a star ship, I think red carpets in the bridge would be one of my last choices. You’ve got to look at those things day after day. Maybe something a bit more neutral to the eye.
They were not designing a star ship, they were designing a TV set…
re: #106 gocart mozart
Some Nazi apologia for a Monday morning
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Elon only allows Nazis to spread Holocaust denial because he’s a free speech absolutist. Except for when he’s suing people for defamation. And when he’s banning a kid for posting his jet fuel consumption. And when he’s banning journalists for talking about him banning a kid.
Anyway, it’s definitely NOT that he sympathizes with the Nazis he’s constantly replying to with comments like “you speak the truth!”
re: #29 darthstar
Just for the record, there are rabbits that develop horny growths on their heads. They are caused by a virus similar to HPV.
(Check out the link——-they have an image of an engraving from 1789.)
re: #100 No Malarkey!
Campus activists are not representative of young voters in general, most of whom aren’t in college. Voters under 30 have very similar concerns as older voters do. Inflation and healthcare are their top two issues, and climate change, Israel/Palestine and student debt don’t rate very high as salient issues.
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Yeah, that was the case over 40 years ago—the average person didn’t give a shit about apartheid. But we still went out and protested anyway.
re: #116 KerFuFFler
No surprise that rabbits are horny.
re: #105 Shropshire Slasher
I can’t figure it out, looks like nice artwork to me.
It doesn’t matter what it is, it shows “demonic” LGBTQIA people in a good light, so of course it has to come down. That guy is an asshat.
re: #117 mmmirele
Yeah, that was the case over 40 years ago—the average person didn’t give a shit about apartheid. But we still went out and protested anyway.
And Vietnam?
re: #94 No Malarkey!
That is just how we use language today. You say “cult,” I think Branch Davidians and Jonestown. Is Scientology a cult? I don’t know, but they seem pretty creepy to me.
Well, the local org sent a bunch of people out to protest in front of my house once. Dunno about you but that’s some pretty cult-like behavior.
re: #118 A Cranky One
No surprise that rabbits are horny.
thanks for saving me the trouble
and i pat myself on the back for reading ahead first
re: #112 jeffreyw
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re: #94 No Malarkey!
That is just how we use language today. You say “cult,” I think Branch Davidians and Jonestown. Is Scientology a cult? I don’t know, but they seem pretty creepy to me.
Yes, Scientology is a cult, even by most definitions that I find overly-restrictive. They cut people off from their families and use them as slave labor.
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And Vietnam?
I think more people cared about Vietnam because it was front and center on the news every day. How many Viet Cong died, how many of our boys died.
And I just opened up my personal email and at the very top is an invitation to do a Spark Hire interview (basically me recording a bunch of answers to questions). I have to get it done before 11:55 PM MST on Wednesday. So yay for me?
re: #43 Nerdy Fish
Another day, another 50/50 down the drain.
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re: #90 sagehen
Religion: The dude we’re worshiping is dead (Jesus, Mohammad, etc)
Cult: The dude we’re worshiping is still alive (Jim Jones, Trump, etc)
re: #104 Nojay UK
They are all cults per dictionary definition, and until the New Age dangerous outbreak, the term wasn’t especially negative. Catholic theologians use the word to describe a particular devotion within an orthodox structure i.e. “the cult of Mary”, “the cult of St Anthony”.
re: #123 wrenchwench
If it cannot be pedaled up a hill, it’s an electric motorcycle.
“Bike” covers them all. YMMV
Tether Buys $200M Majority Stake in Brain-Computer Interface Company Blackrock Neurotech
A crypto company is not who I want buying up a BCI tech. Bad enough Musk has tainted the field with his Neuralink.
re: #129 Shropshire Slasher
That’s a mule-jack or a white-tail jack. Antelopes don’t have racks like that.
re: #104 Nojay UK
How about the Latter Day Saints? Church or cult?
I believe the LDS has purged itself of cult like attributes and most people would consider it a religion. The FLDS, however, which engages in child rape, I would consider to be a cult.
re: #129 Shropshire Slasher
As a lark people have manufactured fake jackalopes and sold them at souvenir shops for decades. I heard an interesting podcast about this a few years ago.
BTW, I have learned about so much really cool stuff on the “99% invisible” podcasts over the years. Definitely recommend!
re: #138 dharmamark
It took me a few seconds before I caught it. I rather see Joe.2.
re: #106 gocart mozart
Some Nazi apologia for a Monday morning
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re: #137 jeffreyw
I decided to break out the emergency stash.
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Did it come with the personal sized tabasco or did you just have that on hand? I had one of those tiny bottles for a while and carried it in my purse just in case I encountered dangerously bland food.
re: #142 KerFuFFler
Did it come with the personal sized tabasco or did you just have that on hand? I had one of those tiny bottles for a while and carried it in my purse just in case I encountered dangerously bland food.
Those were included in every MRE, and generally recognized as the best thing to happen to army chow in decades.
re: #142 KerFuFFler
We had an SGM Rojas on our staff when the mini-bottles were introduced. He wore one wired to his dog tag chain.
A cat hopped into an Amazon return box was accidentally shipped from Utah and California, and survived a week without food or water!
(Stolen from someone who had also stolen it, so no attribution)
Consider yourself schooled 😉
• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.”
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar — fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.
re: #137 jeffreyw
I decided to break out the emergency stash.
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re: #146 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Thanks. Being an English major I found it funny as heck. And I am trying to keep it clean.
re: #137 jeffreyw
I keep both A and B MRE sets in case we do the San Andreas Twist N Shout.
re: #142 KerFuFFler
Did it come with the personal sized tabasco or did you just have that on hand? I had one of those tiny bottles for a while and carried it in my purse just in case I encountered dangerously bland food.
That came with the meal. Also crackers, peanut butter, a vanilla shake mix, and an accessory pack with salt, pepper, sugar, coffee, toilet paper, and various bags for mixing drinks. Several youtubers do MRE reviews, US and foreign made. Also emergency rations from all eras post civil war. Airman’s lifeboat rations from WWll, e.g. I have years of experience with VN era c-rats and the first types of dehydrated meals. LRRP rations, or “lurps” - foreunners pf today’s MREs so I have an interest in these sorts of things.
re: #150 Joe Bacon ✅
I keep both A and B MRE sets in case we do the San Andreas Twist N Shout.
I always take one when we go camping or on a long trip. If it comes back unopened, that was a good trip.
re: #150 Joe Bacon ✅
I keep both A and B MRE sets in case we do the San Andreas Twist N Shout.
That was our thinking, New Madrid and tornados. I need to turn ours over. Mrs jeffreyw gets the ravioli tonight.
re: #137 jeffreyw
I decided to break out the emergency stash.
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re: #138 dharmamark
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Saw this on a truck today. They think they’re so clever.
my car’s got one of these:
the disney dopey challenge
me and Klys
2019
No news from the Trump trial this morning??
re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg
Passover recess.
re: #145 No Malarkey!
A cat hopped into an Amazon return box was accidentally shipped from Utah and California, and survived a week without food or water!
re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg
You are welcome. ::: munching on matzahs :::
re: #167 coin operated
Meal, Ready to Eat.
Three lies for the price of one!
Meals Rejected by Everyone.
re: #153 jeffreyw
That was our thinking, New Madrid and tornados. I need to turn ours over. Mrs jeffreyw gets the ravioli tonight.
The main fault I have with MRE’s is their high carb count. I often have just the main dish and don’t do the drink, dessert, crackers or sweets.
As I recover from my second total shoulder replacement surgery, I have a few notes for folks.
You are going to be wearing a special sling for at least 6 weeks. For for a while after that, you’ll still being using one arm until the recently replaced shoulder heals and you build up strength on that side again (go to PT faithfully and do the exercises!)
There are a surprising number of challenges with not being able to use one arm. For instance, putting on/taking off a jacket/coat. I discovered some youtube videos from folks with only one arm showing how they accomplished certain tasks. Learned some helpful techniques from watching those videos.
Here is one thing I mention to the medical folks that they acknowledge but downplay:
You can’t pull up pants; you’ll need help for a while with that.
Yes, yes, people tell me “just wear elastic waist pants”. Guess what? I know, I’ve tried. But if you have the old man belly, you can’t get both sides of the pants pulled up properly. The universe is grateful that I didn’t inadvertently flash multitudes.
Please don’t take this as a criticism of the shoulder replacements. I’m no longer suffering from the severe osteoarthritis pain I’ve endured for years, and have now replaced both shoulders, knowing from experience what was involved..
I’m also lucky that my DPT is an extremely intelligent young woman who can answer al my questions, explain what I can and can’t do during each stage of the process. I’m not easy to impress, especially by medical professionals, but she manages to impress me.
Well, except when she laughed at me for claiming to be a fashionista. Rude. ;-)
French actor Gérard Depardieu has been taken into police custody in Paris to face questioning, his lawyer told CNN Monday.The 75-year-old presented himself at a police station in Paris on Monday morning, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV, and is being questioned over accusations of sexual assault by two women alleged to have taken place on film sets.
Depardieu has previously been placed under formal investigation for alleged rape and sexual assault after a number of women filed complaints against him. The French actor had previously denied these accusations against him.
re: #102 (((Archangel1)))
Always taking this stuff with many grains of salt. Whether pro Russian or Ukrainian. I’m also hearing Ukraine has been retreating from some frontlines.
German far-right coup plot trial to begin
The first of three trials linked to a far-right coup plot begins in Germany on Monday, with the defendants accused of preparing to commit high treason and belonging to a terrorist organization.
All the suspects, part of the so-called “Reichsbürger” movement, were allegedly plotting to overthrow the German government. The Reichsbürger, or “citizens of the Reich,” reject Germany’s post-war state, claiming it was installed and controlled by the Allied powers who won World War II.
Police uncovered the suspected plot in a series of nationwide raids on December 7, 2022. Some 25 people were arrested and are now in detention awaiting the upcoming trials. More than 380 firearms were confiscated, along with almost 150,000 pieces of ammunition.
The alleged military arm of this group is to face court in Stuttgart on April 29. The nine defendants are represented by 22 lawyers, while more than 300 witnesses have been named, including 270 police officers.
re: #103 wrenchwench
Did you see John Denver juggling? He’s good!
His juggling bit was hilarious.
“You’re not laughing now!”“
Lawyers for Hunter Biden are telling Fox News to correct the record on bribery allegations made by a discredited FBI informant or face a defamation lawsuit, CNN reports.
hilarious if he made more money off of Fox News than any of his supposed “schemes” in Ukraine or China.
re: #178 GlutenFreeJesus
MRE Meals
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re: #174 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
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It would be nice, if we could smack down coup attempts this easily. Though admittedly, there were _many_ more people and many more separate groups, in our coup attempt, either through violence, lawfare, or constitutional jihad.
re: #180 aatharuv
It would be nice, if we could smack down coup attempts this easily. Though admittedly, there were _many_ more people and many more separate groups, in our coup attempt, either through violence, lawfare, or constitutional jihad.
Germany has a seriousness in some areas. So far as I know, it is also where ANTIFA started. The one that exists in the real world, not the one in MAGA brains.
re: #182 Joe Bacon ✅
There is no way I can shake them out of their delusions.
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Forcing gay fascists to pretend to be straight may have had some consequences.
If you’re running interference for your war criminal buddies out of fear that they’ll do even more war crimes after they are indicted for having committed war crimes then you my friend are in a co-dependent abusive relationship.
The US and its allies are concerned that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials just as the country is getting closer to a cease-fire agreement with Hamas, potentially jeopardizing a deal, people familiar with the matter said.
The worry is that Israel would back out of a truce if the ICC proceeds with the warrants, according to two of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations. Group of Seven nations have begun a quiet diplomatic effort to convey that message to the Hague-based court, the people said.
— Edwin Mix (@EdMix13) April 29, 2024
— Jean-Michel Connard 좆됐어 (@torriangray) April 29, 2024
I worked as a telecom engineer for 35 years. Chances are you’ve used some services I designed/implemented.
My grandparents had a rental phone from AT&T that they paid for over decades. But somehow, the phone disappeared from the estate. No idea what happened to it. ;-)
Just inherited a phone from Mrs Cranky’s mom’s estate. This is a genuine antique.
I’ll do some minor fixes and it will join my collection.
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