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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:11:48pm

More than twenty minutes and no comments? Did I run off everyone in the last thread?

Top proponent and propagator of Trump’s Big Lie wants to be Michigan Attorney General (Eclectablog)

Michigan Republicans, Republican-Fail — July 16, 2021 at 11:59 am
Top proponent and propagator of Trump’s Big Lie wants to be Michigan Attorney General
by Barb Byrum

The headline in the Detroit News on July 15th read “Michigan election critic says he’s running for attorney general.” Matthew DePerno is no mere election critic. He is one of the lawyers responsible for propagating the Big Lie and is suing Antrim County in an effort to overturn the election results in Michigan.

Two weeks ago, the Republican-led Michigan Senate Oversight Committee put out a report indicating that there was no systematic fraud with regard to the November 2020 General election. They went further, however, to recommend that the Attorney General investigate those who have exploited the concern around the November election for personal gain. Attorney General Dana Nessel recently said that she would be conducting an investigation but did not specifically call any one person or organization out.

I submit that Matthew DePerno must be one of the people who would be at the center of any such investigation, as he opened a legal defense fund and has been encouraging his followers to contribute all in the name of promoting these baseless election conspiracies. Perhaps he thinks that by running for Attorney General, AG Nessel will be less likely to investigate him.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:12:45pm
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mmmirele  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:16:49pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:18:28pm

Bringing up from downstairs:

re: #203 Rightwingconspirator

I just can’t believe that we are at new case numbers that match the peak of last Summer. Large protests, July 4th, etc. Nobody vaccinated.

Pretty clear evidence the Delta variant is a real motherfucker.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:20:09pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. And the ones coming after are likely to be worse. Yay.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:22:56pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

Bringing up from downstairs:

Pretty clear evidence the Delta variant is a real motherfucker.

Some vaccinated people are still getting the sickest they’ve ever been, but not hospital-sick, and unvaccinated Trumpers are rubbing up on each other. It sucks that hospital workers are going to have to watch these people die.

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jaunte  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:23:34pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

Bringing up from downstairs:

Pretty clear evidence the Delta variant is a real motherfucker.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:26:35pm

Warning to Colorado and Florida residents, as Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves imitates his spirit animal Fled Cruz:

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sagehen  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:29:48pm

Fun fact about Olympic skateboarders… their hair and tattoos and piercings make Dennis Rodman look sedate.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:36:54pm

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Warning to Colorado and Florida residents, as Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves imitates his spirit animal Fled Cruz:

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I’m looking so forward to voting this asshole out.

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:41:23pm

re: #3 mmmirele

I’m rather impressed at where he’s confronting Tucker.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:41:41pm

re: #6 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I actually just recovered from a virus but I’m pretty sure it was just a summer cold. I never had a fever and my blood oxygen levels remained normal throughout. I did have a mild cough and felt like ass the first few days though.

Another reason Covid might be spreading faster than this time last year: Most states are fully open. Live events and festivals are happening again, etc.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:41:53pm
Once upon a time, the main danger associated with bicycling had nothing to do with being hit by a car.

Instead, some late-19th-century doctors warned that — especially for women — using the newfangled contraption could lead to a terrifying medical condition: bicycle face.

“”the unconscious effort to MAINTAIN one’s balance tends to produce a wearied and exhausted ‘bicycle face’”“

“Over-exertion, the upright position on the wheel, and the unconscious effort to maintain one’s balance tend to produce a wearied and exhausted ‘bicycle face,’” noted the Literary Digest in 1895. It went on to describe the condition: “usually flushed, but sometimes pale, often with lips more or less drawn, and the beginning of dark shadows under the eyes, and always with an expression of weariness.” Elsewhere, others said the condition was “characterized by a hard, clenched jaw and bulging eyes.”

It’s hard to find the very first mention of this “condition,” but in an 1897 article in London’s National Review, British doctor A. Shadwell claimed to have first coined the phrase a few years earlier. He went on at length about the dangers of bicycling, especially for women, describing how “cycling as a fashionable craze has been attempted by people unfit for any exertion.”

(more, Vox, March 24, 2015)

Now we have “menopause face” which has just about every female OB/GYN on the planet dragging the male not OB/GYN who made the assertion on Twitter.

“Bicycle face”: a 19th-century health problem made up to scare women away from biking

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:44:12pm

re: #3 mmmirele

What does Tucker say right before the guy says “I don’t care, man”?

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JOE 🥓  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:46:17pm
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JOE 🥓  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:46:57pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:48:01pm

re: #16 JOE 🥓

But non-religious people are supposed to respect this ideology.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:50:45pm

re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

But non-religious people are supposed to respect this ideology.

See also:

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:53:51pm

re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s e-bike face, a constant ear-to-ear grin.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:55:53pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

Add in more potent variants to open everything and it’s almost a guarantee of more death and sickness. I know a lot of people are hurting and needing income and some kind of normal, but we’re looking at more shutdowns. I’m just scared we won’t do that until we’re looking at another million or so dead. This is going to get worse before but gets better. I hope I am completely, totally and in every way wrong about all of this, I truly do.

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jaunte  Jul 24, 2021 • 6:57:46pm

Jon Batiste Performing Blackbird - 09 FEB 2016

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JOE 🥓  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:05:09pm

I hope they pay a visit to a lot of TexASS Republicans!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:05:50pm

re: #7 jaunte

I see we here in San Diego County are colored red.

Local data does show an increases in cases. The testing-positive data has jumped up considerably.

However, we are now over 80% 12+ with at least one dose, and almost 70% fully vaccinated.

This may be why hospitalizations are only up slightly:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:07:09pm

Also, deaths have yet to move up:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:09:39pm
For some conservatives, using racial slurs or whining about how it’s not fair that Black people can use the n-word and they can’t is simply not enough. They need, for whatever reason, to also have sports teams with racial slurs for names, and they need it desperately.

So desperately, in fact, that two prominent conservative sites actually tried to make the case that it would be more woke for the newly-minted Cleveland Guardians to stay the Cleveland Indians.

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That would be

Breitbart

(and you’ll be surprised to find out he’s still dead), and the National Review.

Right-Wing Sites Say It’s Actually More Woke To Keep Racist Baseball Team Names (Wonkette)

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JOE 🥓  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:14:35pm

Pulpit Pimp hell bent on killing his flock and grabbing the estates.

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:15:40pm

I just realized another problem I am going to have learning Spanish is what it would be like if most of English consisted of trying to hear the different between present and present.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:16:26pm

So the judicial reversal of the deSantis policy on cruise ships has been reversed.

It will not end well for innocent people on the cruise ships. Cruise ships have been sickening passengers for decades; this will likely not harm their industry in the long run. Let’s see though what SCOTUS says about this.

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:18:48pm

I was skimming through the languages on Duolingo and told my dad “You could get on Duolingo and learn Vietnamese.” A few seconds later he asked me what the app was, so I helped him download it, pick the language, and showed him how to do the first lesson.

I dont know if he will do it but it was kind of neat to have him show even a little interest.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:19:40pm

re: #27 Belafon

I just realized another problem I am going to have learning Spanish is what it would be like if most of English consisted of trying to hear the different between present and present.

It is what it is.

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:22:09pm

re: #28 Hecuba’s daughter

Republicans: OK, judges, we need you to help us legally kill people.

Judges: ok.

Republicans: Our base is dying.

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:24:16pm

re: #30 Barefoot Grin

It is what it is.

Hearing envio vs envió will take a lot of practice.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:25:22pm
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JOE 🥓  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:29:15pm
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Dangerman  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:32:12pm
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Dangerman  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:32:57pm
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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:33:35pm
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Dangerman  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:34:12pm
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sagehen  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:38:12pm

re: #27 Belafon

I just realized another problem I am going to have learning Spanish is what it would be like if most of English consisted of trying to hear the different between present and present.

Or affect/affect/effect/effect…

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:40:44pm

re: #20 A Mom Anon

Add in more potent variants to open everything and it’s almost a guarantee of more death and sickness. I know a lot of people are hurting and needing income and some kind of normal, but we’re looking at more shutdowns. I’m just scared we won’t do that until we’re looking at another million or so dead. This is going to get worse before but gets better. I hope I am completely, totally and in every way wrong about all of this, I truly do.

Yeah, that’s very true. Myself, I took a 65% drop in income and still haven’t recovered from that. What I’m making now is going almost entirely to rent and food, with disposable income reduced to pretty much nada. In the process now of saving up for a new pair of glasses.

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sagehen  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:41:05pm

re: #36 Dangerman

Trump has been speaking for more than 90 minutes now. He’s currently goading his audience into booing the US women’s soccer team.

I guess he and they will be bummed we just beat New Zealand 6-1.

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Dangerman  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:43:09pm
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jaunte  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:44:52pm
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Dangerman  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:48:15pm

re: #41 sagehen

I guess he and they will be bummed we just beat New Zealand 6-1.

and

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BeachDem  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:48:24pm

re: #3 mmmirele

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Livingston Saturday Night—Rancho Deluxe

10 - Livingston Saturday Night

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:55:37pm

re: #33 Dave In Austin

Let the FDA authorize the vaccines under normal approval and that will eliminate most of the issues related to vaccine mandates.

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sagehen  Jul 24, 2021 • 7:58:28pm

re: #44 Dangerman

and

Is that the squad that was cheering “Dr Biden, clap-clap-clap”?

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JOE 🥓  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:12:48pm

Take a close look at picture 593. Is that a certain floor pooper?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:13:58pm

Only 17 states reported today and California only posted data from 7 counties.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:15:06pm

re: #48 JOE 🥓

Take a close look at picture 593. Is that a certain floor pooper?

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Nope.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:20:29pm

re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron

“Several states scaled back their reporting of COVID-19 statistics this month just as cases across the country started to skyrocket, depriving the public of real-time information on outbreaks, cases, hospitalizations and deaths in their communities.”

Only 17 states reported today and California only posted data from 7 counties.

Illinois seems to have stopped reporting in real time on weekends; but there have been daily reports on weekdays.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:23:18pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:29:29pm

PROJECTING. LIKE. IMAX. IN. OUTER. SPACE.

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plansbandc  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:29:59pm

re: #22 JOE 🥓

Vinegaroons. They’re harmless. They shoot a slightly more acidic vinegar solution.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:38:57pm

Why do they portray cannabis as the cause of schizophrenia rather than self-medication as a result of schizophrenia?

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sagehen  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:43:00pm

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:47:00pm

re: #34 JOE 🥓

Cartoon in Playboy many years ago: Two guys are watching a couple of cops haul away Col. Sanders. One says to the other, “Well, I guess they found out what the eleven secret herbs and spices were.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:47:56pm

re: #55 Dread Pirate Ron

Why do they portray cannabis as the cause of schizophrenia rather than self-medication as a result of schizophrenia?

Reefer Madness.

If cannabis was the cause of schizophrenia, where were all the cases in the XIX and early XX Centuries before it was made illegal?

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:48:32pm

re: #42 Dangerman

This is how he is a master manipulator. We accuse him of bringing fascism and he accuses us of bringing communism. And people not paying attention have their excuse to ignore it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:49:53pm

re: #48 JOE 🥓

Take a close look at picture 593. Is that a certain floor pooper?

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No, there’s a slight resemblance but CCJ is pudgier than that dude.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 8:59:44pm

re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I see we here in San Diego County are colored red.

Local data does show an increases in cases. The testing-positive data has jumped up considerably.

However, we are now over 80% 12+ with at least one dose, and almost 70% fully vaccinated.

This may be why hospitalizations are only up slightly:

Here in the Panhandle (tm), there are only four people in hospital. However, serious cases are transported either to Denver or Omaha, because we don’t have the ability to treat those here.

The number of infections are starting to rise again, though they are much lower than the peak in the summer. I suppose that will change, especially after Sturgis kicks off in August.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:01:10pm

re: #59 Belafon

This is how he is a master manipulator. We accuse him of bringing fascism and he accuses us of bringing communism. And people not paying attention have their excuse to ignore it.

Conservatives have accused Democrats of creeping socialism and communism since the 1890s. This is nothing new.

What is new is the Republican party objectively sliding into fascism.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:09:45pm

Our county is 80% with one dose and 75% fully vaccinated but our case numbers have increased 6 fold. in the last two weeks.

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:14:26pm

This is kind of cool: they honored my old band director in Abilene. He was a really good band director. The band had 465 students in 1988 when I graduated with the school itself having a little over 2200 students. And it wasn’t just size, we had over a dozen first chair all state members in the three years I was there.

reporternews.com

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:24:15pm

Nice catch, bro. (not jealous)

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SerialUpDinger  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:24:52pm

I miss black & white film (maybe not the smell) - rolling film into a canister, taking pictures and then developing. The excitement building as the image came into focus but then there was the cleanup afterward. Working your way thru Lightroom presets for black & white is often tedious as you switch between over processed and perhaps interesting. This image is of a manzanita with its bark peeling (something it does every year before the plant goes dormant until the rains).

Manzanita - Peeling Bark
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JOE 🥓  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:35:26pm

Captain Clorox is now trying to scam Canadians…& he sorta messed up with taking his show to the UK…

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:41:13pm

re: #20 A Mom Anon

Add in more potent variants to open everything and it’s almost a guarantee of more death and sickness. I know a lot of people are hurting and needing income and some kind of normal, but we’re looking at more shutdowns. I’m just scared we won’t do that until we’re looking at another million or so dead. This is going to get worse before but gets better. I hope I am completely, totally and in every way wrong about all of this, I truly do.

Being more contagious is an advantage to a virus, being more deadly not so much. For one thing, it causes people to take precautions (and half the population is vaccinated, thus pretty much out of its “reach”), and for another it reduces its hosts’ ability to spread it — by incapacitating and/or killing killing them before they can go out and spread it.

The ideal virus is the one that infects everyone and has few or no symptoms. So a more contagious, asymptomatic covid would push out the delta variant and all its nastier cousins.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:42:15pm

re: #67 JOE 🥓

Captain Clorox is now trying to scam Canadians…& he sorta messed up with taking his show to the UK…

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Watch him claim First Nations heritage.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:43:25pm

The wife of a Proud Boy in jail calls it a “social justice movement”, and OMG that lawyer’s outfit hurts my eyes! Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola’s spouse claims Capitol riot was a ‘social justice movement’

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:46:00pm

re: #68 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Being more contagious is an advantage to a virus, being more deadly not so much. For one thing, it causes people to take precautions (and half the population is vaccinated, thus pretty much out of its “reach”), and for another it reduces its hosts’ ability to spread it — by incapacitating and/or killing killing them before they can go out and spread it.

The ideal virus is the one that infects everyone and has few or no symptoms. So a more contagious, asymptomatic covid would push out the delta variant and all its nastier cousins.

It could ultimately evolve to become like the coronaviruses that cause the common cold, though with less symptoms (if any at all).

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:52:34pm

Ha, ha, ha, The Little Old Lady From Pasadena.

YouTube

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 9:58:26pm
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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 10:00:07pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 24, 2021 • 10:00:50pm

re: #68 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Being more contagious is an advantage to a virus, being more deadly not so much. For one thing, it causes people to take precautions (and half the population is vaccinated, thus pretty much out of its “reach”), and for another it reduces its hosts’ ability to spread it — by incapacitating and/or killing killing them before they can go out and spread it.

The ideal virus is the one that infects everyone and has few or no symptoms. So a more contagious, asymptomatic covid would push out the delta variant and all its nastier cousins.

This virus is not sufficiently deadly that it affects its ability to spread. And if a virus can spread to other species, as this can, it has no reason for it to become less deadly among humans.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 10:05:14pm

re: #74 Belafon

I like things put into a plain english perspective.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 24, 2021 • 10:09:42pm

re: #76 Dread Pirate Ron

I love the idea of referring to morons as “socket fuckers”.

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Jul 24, 2021 • 10:24:40pm

re: #55 Dread Pirate Ron

To be fair, while cannabis doesn’t cause schizophrenia, it apparently makes it worse (I have known people for whom this was true)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 10:34:38pm

I’ve known only one schizophrenic, and that was since 3rd grade. He was always off but some weed mellowed him. I can’t say if it made him worse overall, but he was a progressively worsening case.

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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 10:55:23pm
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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 10:57:18pm
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Belafon  Jul 24, 2021 • 11:02:09pm

If we can keep Democrats in office, we can start making meaningful changes:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 11:11:13pm

It’s too easy to say “that guy’s an atheist” and elect a Nazi-leaning replacement, because he’s a good Christian.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 11:16:27pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 11:24:13pm

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s too easy to say “that guy’s an atheist” and elect a Nazi-leaning replacement, because he’s a good Christian.

I guarantee that will be the attack line against me if I run for the state legislature against my state senator.

He can’t attack me over my record on my village board, because it’s just fine. He can’t attack me over military service, because both of us were in the military. He can’t attack me over party affiliation, because Unicameral elections are nominally non-partisan.

Sen. Hunt had to fight off the accusation of “she’s an atheist so she’d be a bad politician” from her Democratic primary challenger.

Since the regional newspaper outed me during the 2018 election, that’s public knowledge if I choose to run for the Unicameral. He would be foolish not to use it against me.

If another Democrat chooses to run I will throw my support behind that person, because I feel as though I would be sunk and the district remain in Republican hands otherwise.

I believe I could rebut his positions on things like a “consumption tax” and other positions, but on religion the old political saw applies: If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 24, 2021 • 11:27:47pm
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austin_blue  Jul 24, 2021 • 11:29:29pm

re: #79 Dread Pirate Ron

I’ve known only one schizophrenic, and that was since 3rd grade. He was always off but some weed mellowed him. I can’t say if it made him worse overall, but he was a progressively worsening case.

While I was in New Orleans after the ‘86 oil crash, I worked as a day manager at a friend’s restaurant. He hired a friend of his’s little brother who was 16 and in the process of developing disorganized (hebephrenic) schizophrenia.

No paranoia. No violence. No voices. Just an advancing disconnect with the doors of reality. He was from a Lebanese Christian family, by definition a mixed race genome, a tremendously handsome kid, a state-ranked cross-country runner, and a really smart kid. But he just started to slip the leash.

This was, again, 1986, and his older brother was just starting a career as a radiation oncologist, and pharmacology had just gotten comfortable with lithium salts as treatment for bipolar disorder. They had nothing for early onset schizophrenia, where nascent symptoms were obvious.

Sometimes I would find him sitting, smiling, looking at a wall. Often he would show no symptoms for days and then he could not get to work for days. I did what I could, which was mostly useless. I had nothing for him.

In mid-‘87 I get picked up by an oil consulting company running real-time down-hole data integration tools designed to keep things from blowing up. They mostly worked.

I have wondered what happened to Dr. Paul Mansour’s little brother. He was a sweet kid with a genetic mix of crap in his brain. I hope he is well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 11:31:58pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 24, 2021 • 11:38:46pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 12:03:03am

Many cranberries sacrificed their lives to create the juice for my rum drink.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 25, 2021 • 12:05:57am

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Many cola-nuts died to provide the mixer for my rum and coke.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 25, 2021 • 12:16:24am

SF antivaxers, pretty thin crowd.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 12:26:36am

NHC is going to send a NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft to investigate the Mississippi subtropical wave which is sitting one hundred miles off the coast of Florida, later today.

The wave is drifting west toward the Florida coast. Areas from about Vero Beach to the Georgia state line are in the area predicted the storm will move.

Five Day Tropical Graphical Outlook

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 12:27:30am

re: #94 Dread Pirate Ron

SF antivaxers, pretty thin crowd.

Really respecting the property rights of the owner there.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 12:29:23am

re: #94 Dread Pirate Ron

SF antivaxers, pretty thin crowd.

It is the bar owners religious right to prohibit unvaccinated people.

I really want to see a business owner use a bullshyte Religious Freedom Restoration Act argument.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 1:17:20am

According to the Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Tropical Storm Nepartak (threatening Honshu) is falling apart. However, once it crosses Honshu, they expect rapid redevelopment over the Sea of Japan, which is unusually warm.

Elsewhere, Tropical Storm In-Fa is coming ashore in China in the next day or so, almost directly over Shanghai.

Otherwise, the tropics are quiet.

metoc.navy.mil

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 1:28:04am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

An exception to that “quiet”: The JTWC is tracking Invest 98E, currently in the National Hurricane Center’s area of responsibility, approximately 1,650 nautical miles east southeast of Honolulu. They predict the chance of development into a tropical cyclone is high. At this time they are not issuing numbered warnings (that is the National Hurricane Center’s responsibility).

Sea-surface temperatures favour development, as does wind shear (less than five knots). Maximum sustained winds are 25 knots.

People in Hawai’i should keep an eye on this storm.

Central Pacific Hurricane Center Five-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook (chance of formation of a tropical cyclone, 70%)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 1:39:07am

Weather closer to home, the National Weather Service is predicting a break in the monsoonal weather pattern, leading to temperatures in excess of 100°F in the Nebraska Panhandle Monday (yay, I still have no air conditioning).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 1:45:25am

I’ve run everyone off with my fascinating weather reporting, so I guess my work here is done.

Lemme go drink some more dead cranberries and distilled dead sugar cane.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 1:54:24am

On the discussion of Sarah Brand’s new Vevo video “Red Dress,” she put up a home performance of the song before the video was made, back on November 23, 2020. It is just her on acoustic guitar with no special video effects (3:10).

As Robyn Pennacchia noted over at Wonkette, she loves this song as Ms. Brand performs it, from the days of YouTube where people were truly proud of putting awful performances up on the Internet.

Sarah Brand - Red Dress (Original)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:02:46am

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is criminal that Ms. Brand only has 168 subscribers to her YouTube channel. Folks here with YouTube accounts could help her out.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:09:57am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

YouTube’s recommendations in the sidebar for Sarah Brand to me (presumably musicians of great talent, equal draw, or similar music ability):

Aretha Franklin
The Motels
Sam Smith
Christiano Ronaldo
Chicago

Commentator on “Red Dress”:

She has so much confidence, I’m beginning to wonder if she’s the one in tune and it’s the rest of us that’s tone deaf.

I’m genuinely impressed - her belief in herself is fantastic.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:12:21am

Tap tap, is this thing on?

Microphone Tap and Feedback Squeal

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:23:37am

re: #5 A Mom Anon

Yep. And the ones coming after are likely to be worse. Yay.

Wait until we hit the Omega variant: 100% fatal and transmissible on sight…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:31:04am

re: #56 sagehen

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace

Trump is not the scion of a family that can trace its lineage back to Charles the Conqueror. And neither was he buggered in boarding school.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:37:48am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is criminal that Ms. Brand only has 168 subscribers to her YouTube channel. Folks here with YouTube accounts could help her out.

again, it is a really good song, I would like to hear a version from a better singer.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:43:06am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is criminal that Ms. Brand only has 168 subscribers to her YouTube channel. Folks here with YouTube accounts could help her out.

I have a policy with social media channels, I don’t “like” and I don’t subscribe to anything, even if I like it in real life.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:46:23am

Let’s see, since this is Sunday, what depressing crap are religious people putting up about atheists on YouTube? (That always seems to flood in on Saturday night.)

Religion YouTube on Sunday is generally depressing.

A Christian flat-earther who thought it was a great idea to harass a city worker over religious faith (he dragged out of him he was an atheist then started ranting about that), He was marking underground lines for a digging project, the Christian harrasser put it on-line for other Christians to cheer his “witnessing” to a “lost soul.” Harassing people who are literally a captive audience (the city worker couldn’t just walk off the job) is a frequent tactic of missionaries and evangelists.

Old Steve Harvey clip bashing atheists as immoral and untrustworthy, on CNN (with no pushback from the hosts, and a couple agreeing with him).

Atheists are really fake. (Christian apologist)

NDE: I was an atheist until I died twice! (Christian. By the way, you didn’t die. Why is it Christians never have NDE experiences of Allah or Saraswati? Oh right, all of that is cultural.)

Christians approach two minor children on the street, thinking this is a good idea to put on YouTube, to talk about how “homosexuality, satanic music, and atheism” are evil. (If I see Christians trying to accost children, I will interpose myself between the Christians and the children, to protect the children from being accosted.) They have a whole bunch of positive comments from Christians talking about how they are saving them from homosexuality, atheism, and ultimately Hell, and they should harass other people’s children minding their own business more often.

Atheism is unreasonable. (Four Christians including wingnut Nephilim Free expounding on this for more than two hours). Atheism is not a position to reason into or out of, it is a lack-of-belief. Nephie knows this; it’s been explained to him a thousand times. At this point they have to lie about others to try to get converts.

“Do atheists lie about the truth, the science of Jesus Christ?” (Apologist says “yes.” Jesus is not a “science” and atheism is not a truth claim, therefore you are lying about others sir. Perhaps you should read that holy book I’ve read several times; it has much to say about lying.)

Christian atheists (this is a claim by conservative churches that more progressive and open churches are really atheists in disguise, trying to mislead people to Satan. If you’re an Episcopalian or a Methodist, your are actually a Christian Atheist. The concept has been applied by churches for centuries. In this country it was notably applied to both abolitionist churches to defend slavery, and Christian Socialists to defend capitalism.)

Are atheists triggered by the Black National Anthem? (Black christian apologist, answer no. But they are fine lying about us as well.)

“They all pretend to be good and positive, it’s all an act.” (Atheists are lying to you, we’re really secretly evil according to a Christian apologist.)

Atheist hears the audible voice of God. (Muslim apologist. Sure dude.)

Responding to the worldview of atheism. (Christian apologist, lying as atheism is a worldview in the same manner bald is a hair colour.)

The truth will set you free (Young Earth Creationist apologist going after a Catholic Priest and other so-called “Christian atheists.”)

God is the Big Bang (Christian apologist arguing God is an explosion, apparently)

Science disproves evolution (Christian apologist, let me introduce you to SARS-CoV-2)

I don’t believe (a Muslim apologist telling an atheist in Hyde Park he must be a liar then).

Can evolution and Christianity co-exist? (Christian evangelical, takes an hour to get around to “no.” That’s right, the Bible is in direct opposition to science. According to the apologist, you should throw out science because the Bible can’t be wrong.)

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:48:22am

The recent flooding in China is nuts.

66 Reservoirs Discharging; Cities Severe Flooding | Many Dams Burst

Yikes.

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sagehen  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:48:55am

re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump is not the scion of a family that can trace its lineage back to Charles the Conqueror. And neither was he buggered in boarding school.

Are you sure about that? His parents sent him away to military school when he was about 9…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 2:55:17am

re: #112 sagehen

Are you sure about that? His parents sent him away to military school when he was about 9…

aha…that explains a lot of this character.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:08:37am

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Can evolution and Christianity co-exist? (Christian evangelical, takes an hour to get around to “no.” That’s right, the Bible is in direct opposition to science. According to the apologist, you should throw out science because the Bible can’t be wrong.)

If you insist on being a Biblical literalist, then you have to reject science, history and even logic itself as the Bible contradicts itself in numerous places.

Which just shows how pointless it is to try to discuss such matters wit these people.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:21:57am

re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Can evolution and Christianity co-exist? (Christian evangelical, takes an hour to get around to “no.” That’s right, the Bible is in direct opposition to science. According to the apologist, you should throw out science because the Bible can’t be wrong.)

If you insist on being a Biblical literalist, then you have to reject science, history and even logic itself as the Bible contradicts itself in numerous places.

Which just shows how pointless it is to try to discuss such matters wit these people.

The poor city worker in that clip didn’t have any choice. I watched the whole thing, the poor guy is just trying to do his job. After asking the Christian witness to just leave him alone, the guy even followed him down the street to continue preaching to him. They love captive audiences, which is why so many want prayer in schools (including so-called “Christian Atheists”). The Christian was proud of his harassment.

There is a video by Jaclyn Glenn on a street experiment where she and several others try to raise money for a children’s hospital. When doing it as atheists, they get all sorts of cursing from people on the street and suggestions they are just there to rob people, they would never give money to a charity. When they try the next day imitating the United Methodist Church, they get lots of donations.

Of note, when they were pitching for donations as atheists, they did get one donation from an atheist which was larger than all the Christian donations the next day.

In the small but growing atheist parenting groups (how to navigate a nation which hates you and tries to snatch your children away), so-called “stranger danger” lessons include ensuring your children are safe from Christian apologists, because you never know which stranger might harass your children (or worse).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:41:01am

More videos within the last day:

Atheists are evil (Baha’i apologist)

Millennials are leaving Christianity (evangelical apologist who notes the many secular and religious polls showing Millennials are the lowest generation of Christians in the history of the USA, and how Christians should respond by mandating religion in all government spaces including schools to poach your children)

Wokeism is atheism (Republican apologist)

Harassment! (Muslim apologist in Hyde Park who calls not accepting your assertions “harassment.”)

The splendid beauty of nature means God is real and good. (Let me introduce you to the heat wave in the Pacific northwest, where God is killing hundreds with his goodness.)

The facts of Gehenna (Catholic apologist)

EU top court bans wearing hijabs at work (Atheist Republic siding with the Muslims in the case, arguing that their religious freedom has been violated)

False teacher of the week: Aron Ra (Christian apologist who says he should be removed from public life. You interpret what “removed” means.)

How much space should we allow outsiders? (Outsider here means atheist. Hindu apologist.)

Is it permissible to eat beef in Hinduism? (Muslim apologist explaining why Hindus are getting their religion wrong. According to him, beef eating is fine for Hindus.)

Individual rights and Covid-19 (Canadian Libertarian argues Canada has no right to shutter churches or any other venue because it interferes with religious rights and freedom to die from Covid-19 and take as many people with you as you can).

Atheists exposed as evil (Hindu apologist in India)

Jordon Peterson: Freedom to be you (as long as you’re Christian)

Funny dog video shorts (a whole slew of them; the poster is deliberately misusing YouTube’s tagging system, a violation of YouTube’s rules)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:41:12am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I raised my kids to be Christian Atheists, I explained to them about who that guy was on all the crosses in that he was a fellow who came along and said we should love each other but the people in charge (the Romans and Pharisees) found that so threatening to their grip on power based on fear that they had him crucified.

I explain how people always feared that the sun might go away and never come back, and so the Solstice and the return of the sun was a big deal. Then I explained that how people feared that we would become more evil and wicked and all die from it, but the birth of Jesus was a symbol of hope that we could learn to love each other and survive.

As for Easter, I told them that Jesus probably didn’t die on the cross, they took him down after only nine hours when the process usually took anything from three days to a week, and he snuck away later, but the symbol of him “rising from the dead” meant that we need not fear death.

I think it worked for most of them.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:45:04am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is criminal that Ms. Brand only has 168 subscribers to her YouTube channel. Folks here with YouTube accounts could help her out.

She is absolutely horrible and I managed to last about 15 seconds before I had to shut that down. Why are you asking people to subscribe to her channel? In the name of self-preservation, why?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:47:26am

re: #118 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

She is absolutely horrible and I managed to last about 15 seconds before I had to shut that down. Why are you asking people to subscribe to her channel? In the name of self-preservation, why?

I’m perverse that way. /s

I love the “Red Dress” video. The production (which she led) is top-notch. The song’s lyrics are good.

A positive argument for autotune, for all the folks who hate it because it’s “not real.”

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Dave In Austin  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:47:36am

re: #118 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

“A place between the notes……” One has to work at that if ya think about it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:48:16am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m perverse that way. /s

I love the “Red Dress” video. The production (which she led) is top-notch. The song’s lyrics are good.

A positive argument for autotune, for all the folks who hate it because it’s “not real.”

It is a great video if you turn the sound down

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:54:33am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is a great video if you turn the sound down

It is hard to believe that she could intentionally sing so badly if she is a good singer. That said, Jean Stapleton did so in “All in the Family” and she was actually a good singer outside of that show.

Considering what the lyrics address, I think her singing adds to the video, not subtracts from it.

My first wife was an opera singer. She was superb at singing (she is the singer on my long-playing, short-selling record album). Good singing doesn’t equal good person.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:56:50am

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My first wife was an opera singer. She was superb at singing (she is the singer on my long-playing, short-selling record album). Good singing doesn’t equal good person.

Opera singers do not make good marriage partners, it is just part and parcel of the profession and the lifestyle. I was told that by a female opera singer I met in Frankfurt.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 25, 2021 • 3:59:39am

Now, now, I went to the range with my daughter just last week. Of course, she’s 38 and an Air Force veteran.

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Nojay UK  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:01:28am

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is hard to believe that she could intentionally sing so badly if she is a good singer. That said, Jean Stapleton did so in “All in the Family” and she was actually a good singer outside of that show.

There was a British comedian, Les Dawson who could play the piano really badly which, I have been told by other piano players, is actually quite difficult.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:04:57am

Whoever has bird duty in the village was late this morning. We’re well past nautical twilight and they only just switched on the birds for the day.

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:08:02am

re: #124 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

a cactus

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:09:04am

re: #125 Nojay UK

There was a British comedian, Les Dawson who could play the piano really badly which, I have been told by other piano players, is actually quite difficult.

I have no trouble at all
don’t even have to practice

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:09:33am

re: #124 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Now, now, I went to the range with my daughter just last week. Of course, she’s 38 and an Air Force veteran.

Is that Michele Fiore without the bottle-blonde hair? Never trust a one-L Michelle.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:11:12am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Opera singers do not make good marriage partners, it is just part and parcel of the profession and the lifestyle. I was told that by a female opera singer I met in Frankfurt.

It doesn’t help when you find out after you’re married they are a wingnut religious person either. That was the part which sunk our marriage.

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steve_davis  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:14:05am

re: #30 Barefoot Grin

It is what it is.

you mean it is what it was.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:14:26am

re: #66 SerialUpDinger

I miss using Panatomic-X (ASA 25) and Rodinal developer.

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John Hughes  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:15:35am

re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This may be why hospitalizations are only up slightly:

Access Denied

What?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:15:58am

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It doesn’t help when you find out after you’re married they are a wingnut religious person either. That was the part which sunk our marriage.

There was a young woman in Tucson I was ready to marry who then went over to the Baptists.

I was bummed at the time, but from what I have heard about her since (gone full-on literalist fundamentalist), I guess I really dodged a bullet.

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:21:30am
Arizona GOP Audit Director Barred From Recount After Sharing Data Supporting Trump Loss

right up there with “testing”

if there’s no negative news there’s no negative news

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William Lewis  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:23:44am

re: #132 Eric The Fruit Bat

I miss using Panatomic-X (ASA 25) and Rodinal developer.

Plus-X at EI400 with Diafine developer for 35mm or 120.
Tri-X at EI400 with D-76 undiluted for sheet film.

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steve_davis  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:24:06am

re: #55 Dread Pirate Ron

[Embedded content]

Why do they portray cannabis as the cause of schizophrenia rather than self-medication as a result of schizophrenia?

because presumably the people didn’t have full-blown schizophrenia until they smoked enormous amounts of marijuana? Like anything, don’t smoke enormous amounts of it and you should be fine.

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:24:29am

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It doesn’t help when you find out after you’re married they are a wingnut religious person either. That was the part which sunk our marriage.

article the morning at huffpo/us news…marriages in trouble over vaccinations

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:27:08am

re: #124 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Now, now, I went to the range with my daughter just last week. Of course, she’s 38 and an Air Force veteran.

Coincidentally, I was just reading about Nazi general Helmuth Weidling, who was in command in Berlin during the final battle in 1945.

In the middle of the Battle of Berlin, the leader of the Hitler Youth, Artur Axmann, visited Weidling’s headquarters and told him that the youngsters of the Hitler Youth were ready to fight and were even now manning the roads in the 56th rear. Weidling was so enraged that for a moment he became almost inarticulate. He told Axmann, “You cannot sacrifice these children for a cause that is already lost. I will not use them and I demand that the order sending these children into battle be rescinded”.

Weidling was a full-on war criminal (convicted of deliberately spreading typhus among Soviet civilians) but even he thought arming children was an evil practice.

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steve_davis  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:29:19am

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Reefer Madness.

If cannabis was the cause of schizophrenia, where were all the cases in the XIX and early XX Centuries before it was made illegal?

re: #132 Eric The Fruit Bat

I miss using Panatomic-X (ASA 25) and Rodinal developer.

You still sort of can. the Nik collection of photographic apps has a pretty damned good black and white one that allows you to see what your photos would look like with a nice variety of old film stocks.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:30:31am

re: #138 Dangerman

article the morning at huffpo/us news…marriages in trouble over vaccinations

If your partner is willing to kill you over conspiracy theories, it is probably safer to leave that person for your own safety.

Given the constant winging from Republican politicians of the “scandalous” divorce rate, I can see them using this to make divorce harder if they can.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:31:42am

re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

found that so threatening to their grip on power based on fear that they had him crucified.

A one-hit wonder about crucifixion (and batshit-crazy video):

Army of Lovers - Crucified (Official Music Video)

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:34:35am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Opera singers do not make good marriage partners, it is just part and parcel of the profession and the lifestyle.

I had a personal trainer who also worked as a concierge at one of the big Chicago Hotels when a particular opera signer came into town - her ‘one sheet’ (demands) was crazy, he told me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:37:42am

re: #142 Eric The Fruit Bat

A one-hit wonder about crucifixion (and batshit-crazy video):

How did you find this? It is brilliantly bad.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:40:33am

re: #142 Eric The Fruit Bat

After the video ends, YouTube recommends a-ha and Roberta Flack, similarly famous musicians.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:41:59am

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How did you find this? It is brilliantly bad.

Just the luck of the draw - it was on one video music TV service at the time back in the early 90s and I remember the video being totally cray-cray.

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John Hughes  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:47:15am

re: #124 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

What do I see?
I see people with no taste.
Not a single interesting gun in the collection.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2021 • 4:50:16am

The sun is about to come up; that is my cue to head off to bed.

I’ll catch y’all another time. Stay safe.

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:02:05am

re: #3 mmmirele

I wonder if it’s going to become a thing with them rightio talking heads? J. Random Public walking up to them and verbally and peacefully give them a piece of their mind?

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:24:30am

So, serial killer Rodney Alcala (The Dating Game killer) has died. Yet, there’s still plenty of photos he took of women who may, or may not, have been his victims.

To date, there are many that still remain unidentified: abcnews.go.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:26:23am

re: #139 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Coincidentally, I was just reading about Nazi general Helmuth Weidling, who was in command in Berlin during the final battle in 1945.

Weidling was a full-on war criminal (convicted of deliberately spreading typhus among Soviet civilians) but even he thought arming German children before they were military age was an evil practice.

I think he just saw it as a waste of resources.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:27:16am

re: #142 Eric The Fruit Bat

A one-hit wonder about crucifixion (and batshit-crazy video):

Yes, one member of the band was the Queen of Sweden’s official hairdresser

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:31:05am

re: #143 Eric The Fruit Bat

I had a personal trainer who also worked as a concierge at one of the big Chicago Hotels when a particular opera signer came into town - her ‘one sheet’ (demands) was crazy, he told me.

I watched a few seasons of Mozart in the Jungle with an Ex-GF and one of the themes there is that if you wish to devote yourself to a career in Classical Music, you have to be prepared to give up any other stable situations in your life, like a home or a relationship.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:31:29am

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How did you find this? It is brilliantly bad.

I recall it being a big hit around 1990

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:40:45am

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Ming5000  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:42:50am

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I believe Angostura are merely milked for the bitters that partly constituted my Manhattan. Yum

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:48:42am

re: #138 Dangerman

article the morning at huffpo/us news…marriages in trouble over vaccinations

my ex-GF refuses to vaccinate and that is one major reason she is my ex

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:51:17am
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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:51:28am

#FloridaMen #FloridaWomen, who the fuck else?

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:55:48am

Just saw this on reddit, too good not to steal:

Q: How do you tell the difference between a vaccinated and unvaccinated person?
A: Ask them who won the election…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:58:19am

re: #160 Teukka

Just saw this on reddit, too good not to steal:

Q: How do you tell the difference between a vaccinated and unvaccinated person?
A: Ask them who won the election…

Fits my ex-GF to a tee…

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2021 • 5:59:33am
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:01:00am

re: #162 Belafon

Please excuse me for saying this but he got what he deserved.

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jeffreyw  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:01:02am

Good morning!

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:03:43am

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:19:49am
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:23:04am

re: #166 Teukka

I tried to read it and it locked up on me. I believe you that quite a few perhaps many people were paid money maybe a lot of money to spread these lies about vaccines and COVID-19.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:23:43am

re: #19 Dread Pirate Ron

There’s e-bike face, a constant ear-to-ear grin.

From the discussions here they sound like fun, and something I’d consider to get back to being more active along that route.* However, for where I live now the two main limitations are where I would park it when not using it, plus the fact that a lot of the secondary roads around here lack shoulders, have some blind spots, and have way too many cars racing 40-50mph down them.

* - Was biking/walking on a daily basis when living in Philly, but medical stuff five years ago pretty much stopped the biking part for a while and I never quite got back into it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:24:02am

re: #167 PhillyPretzel

I tried to read it and it locked up on me. I believe you that quite a few perhaps many people were paid money maybe a lot of money to spread these lies about vaccines and COVID-19.

Taking advantage of the fact that people are gullible to base their views on Covid on what the hear from social media influencers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:25:09am

re: #168 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

From the discussions here they sound like fun, and something I’d consider to get back to being more active along that route.* However, for where I live now the two main limitations are where I would park it when not using it, plus the fact that a lot of the secondary roads around here lack shoulders, have some blind spots, and have way too many cars racing 40-50mph down them.

I know how much cyclists are despised by a lot of drivers, I can imagine that it is exponentially worse for e-bikers.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:26:00am

re: #22 JOE 🥓

I hope they pay a visit to a lot of TexASS Republicans!

The acid shooting is why they are also known as “vinegaroons”.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:27:45am

re: #29 Belafon

I was skimming through the languages on Duolingo and told my dad “You could get on Duolingo and learn Vietnamese.” A few seconds later he asked me what the app was, so I helped him download it, pick the language, and showed him how to do the first lesson.

I dont know if he will do it but it was kind of neat to have him show even a little interest.

If he’s a vet from the right war maybe he wants to learn a bit of it in order to scare the crap out of his buddies.
//

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Ming5000  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:31:33am

re: #166 Teukka

Great read. I hope the US authorities take up this kind of scheme.

“If you want to manipulate public opinion, especially for young people, you don’t go to TV” says French YouTuber Léo Grasset.

“Just spend the same money on TikTok creators, YouTube creators. The whole ecosystem is perfectly built for maximum efficiency of disinformation right now.”

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:35:03am

Today’s electoral-vote.com

R.H. in Middleton, MA, writes: I have a simple way to get the Trumpsters to flock to get themselves vaccinated. Produce a special version just for them, which consists of the normal vaccine with one part per million added of hydroxychloroquine and one part per million added of bleach. You market it as “Donald Trump’s Homeopathic Covid Prevention and Treatment.” You get him to agree to the use of his name by charging $50 or $100 per shot “with all proceeds going to my efforts to investigate and overturn the fraudulent election of 2020” (i.e., to his Save America PAC). If we can get Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Anthony Fauci to denounce it as a dangerous fraud, we’re home free. Every one of the Trumpsters will be vaccinated by Labor Day.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:36:49am

re: #174 Dangerman

Something like that would work for those who believe in DT.

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:37:45am

re: #172 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If he’s a vet from the right war maybe he wants to learn a bit of it in order to scare the crap out of his buddies.
//

He is a Vietnam vet. Texas has the largest concentration of former Vietnamese in the US, and the language is the third most common spoken in the state. Pre-Covid, the laundry he went to was run by a Vietnamese man, and he and Dad became friends. I think he would visit if my mom could ever handle the trip.

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Ming5000  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:40:58am

re: #176 Belafon

Duolingo gets good reviews. It is free with ads. You can pay if you want to avoid ads.
Being able to try it out for free sounds good.

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:41:40am

re: #174 Dangerman

Today’s electoral-vote.com

Also

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:42:36am

re: #177 Ming5000

Duolingo gets good reviews. It is free with ads. You can pay if you want to avoid ads.
Being able to try it out for free sounds good.

The ads should be in the target language

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:43:23am

re: #178 Dangerman

Also

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This ^^^^
So true.
Alas, I have only one upding to give.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:46:22am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

YouTube’s recommendations in the sidebar for Sarah Brand to me (presumably musicians of great talent, equal draw, or similar music ability):

Aretha Franklin
The Motels
Sam Smith
Christiano Ronaldo
Chicago

Commentator on “Red Dress”:

Ah… “So sure of herself.” is not necessarily a positive in my book. I know way too many people who are complete and utterly irredeemable assholes for precisely that reason.

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Ming5000  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:46:27am

Sometimes I worry that I am too active in politics, that I am too stressed, and distracted from “normal” life. I do not see a way to ignore the threat, however.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:47:50am

re: #174 Dangerman

I have a simple way to get the Trumpsters to flock to get themselves vaccinated

Not all Trumpers are anti-vax. My brother and his wife are Trumpers and both vaccinated (probably because of their age (65+) and the fact that my brother is ex-military, and also realized that since Trump was pushing Operation Warp Speed.)

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:47:50am

re: #177 Ming5000

Duolingo gets good reviews. It is free with ads. You can pay if you want to avoid ads.
Being able to try it out for free sounds good.

I’ve been using it for Spanish, along with Pimsleur when I drive. I have learned quite a bit. The Spanish one is huge. One son is using it to learn some Arabic, another son is learning French, and my last is learning Japanese.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:52:25am

re: #180 Teukka

This ^^^^
So true.
Alas, I have only one upding to give.

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Ming5000  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:53:11am

Another proof of bipartisanship:

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Chrysicat  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:53:39am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:54:32am

re: #139 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Coincidentally, I was just reading about Nazi general Helmuth Weidling, who was in command in Berlin during the final battle in 1945.

Weidling was a full-on war criminal (convicted of deliberately spreading typhus among Soviet civilians) but even he thought arming children was an evil practice.

Or he possibly thought that arming and sending German children into battle was essentially “grinding the seed corn” of Germany. Hitler, of course, was all for that since he wanted to “punish” Germany for losing the war.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:54:40am

re: #182 Ming5000

I told her, “I’m not any angrier than you should be.”

I think a nation sliding into fascism and a monstrous political party weaponizing a pandemic and celebrating racism merit it.

I believe humanity is worth ferocity.

I see the The Great GOP Electoral Coup of 2024 as a done deal unless we get out and get highly proactive to stop it.

All the GOTV in the world will not help if we have multiple GOP state legislatures ready to simply disqualify any results they disagree with.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:55:31am

re: #186 Ming5000

Now if she adds Peter Meijer, who replaced Justin Amash (and also voted for impeachment #2) and maybe add Joe Walsh (!?), things could get interesting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:55:51am

re: #188 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Or he possibly thought that arming and sending German children into battle was essentially “grinding the seed corn” of Germany. Hitler, of course, was all for that since he wanted to “punish” Germany for losing the war.

Yes, I cannot see how anyone in Germany can call themselves a Neo-Nazi and patriot at the same time, Hitler made it clear in his Last Will and Testament that Germany deserved to be eradicated for failing to live up to his ideology.

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:58:26am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, I cannot see how anyone can call themselves a Neo-Nazi and patriot at the same time, Hitler made it clear in his Last Will and Testament that Germany deserved to be eradicated for failing to live up to his ideology.

I’ve considered that possibility to and fro for the GQP & Co…

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steve_davis  Jul 25, 2021 • 6:58:42am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Weather closer to home, the National Weather Service is predicting a break in the monsoonal weather pattern, leading to temperatures in excess of 100°F in the Nebraska Panhandle Monday (yay, I still have no air conditioning).

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goddamn….sunday you’re getting taken out by a three-legged brain with a bart simpson hair style.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:01:50am

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I know how much cyclists are despised by a lot of drivers, I can imagine that it is exponentially worse for e-bikers.

If they take long enough to identify the distance as they try to race past.

As a bicyclist (and pedestrian) I seriously try to take them into account when encountering them using (or crossing) the roads. Plenty of clearance, and slowing down if there is oncoming traffic and no safe way to give them space.

Of course, the real way to enrage the drivers on a bike is to fully act like the vehicle you legally are and use the whole lane. I did that a few times when living in Virginia and the local bike trail *was* essentially on a local road for a stretch. And since it was a 15mph limit there I was usually doing (if not exceeding since it was a mild downhill slope) the speed limit.

I got yelled at by drivers when they eventually (and illegally) passed me more than once there. I was also in my early-20s and thus unimpressed by their vehicular bravado.

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Ming5000  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:02:29am

re: #190 Eric The Fruit Bat

Now if she adds Peter Meijer, who replaced Justin Amash (and also voted for impeachment #2) and maybe add Joe Walsh (!?), things could get interesting.

I am sure Chris Cillizza is already banging away at his keyboard: “Pelosi bends to GOP demands for BIPARTISONSHIP! WIN FOR GOP!”

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steve_davis  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:05:19am

re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I raised my kids to be Christian Atheists, I explained to them about who that guy was on all the crosses in that he was a fellow who came along and said we should love each other but the people in charge (the Romans and Pharisees) found that so threatening to their grip on power based on fear that they had him crucified.

I explain how people always feared that the sun might go away and never come back, and so the Solstice and the return of the sun was a big deal. Then I explained that how people feared that we would become more evil and wicked and all die from it, but the birth of Jesus was a symbol of hope that we could learn to love each other and survive.

As for Easter, I told them that Jesus probably didn’t die on the cross, they took him down after only nine hours when the process usually took anything from three days to a week, and he snuck away later, but the symbol of him “rising from the dead” meant that we need not fear death.

I think it worked for most of them.

Jesus was decidedly dead on the cross. He was scourged with a barbed whip, which would flat-out kill most people at that stage. He had a centurion pierce him with a spear, out of mercy, so that he would die more quickly. Dozens of people witnessed his return after his burial. Either they were all mad members of a cult, or Christ was something well beyond a carnival barker running Oz from behind a curtain.

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mmmirele  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:05:50am

re: #26 JOE 🥓

Pulpit Pimp hell bent on killing his flock and grabbing the estates.

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And since I’m awake, and since it’s more than two hours before the 9 am service, and since it’s ONLY 75 degrees outside, I’m going protesting at Mark Driscoll’s circus of “Where’s Jesus?”

Christianity Today has been running a podcast about the fall of Mars Hill, Driscoll’s former church in Seattle. While the podcast has gotten praise, the guy doing the podcast, Mike Cosper, has been criticized for not wanting to talk to Stephanie Drury, an outsider in Seattle, who, like me, was concerned about what was happening in Seattle. She’d help start a counseling group for people who left/were tossed under the bus.

The producer of the podcast won’t talk to her because he sees her as hostile and vulgar and he doesn’t want to elevate voices with that much vitriol. I’ve also not been listening to the podcast, because it’s Christianity Today, which is at the center of the Evangelical Industrial Complex. Apparently the most recent episode included a lot of discussion about misogyny at Mars Hill with Driscoll, and a lot of “heh, heh, heh, yeah, we noticed it but heh, heh, heh.”

Anyway, here’s Stephanie on the subject:

I wrote a long string of tweets about how I was not interested in being interviewed for the podcast and copied Mike Cosper on it. (The “she” in this is Stephanie Drury.)

Oh, and in answer to a question a friend of mine posted in our chat: “Does that Driscoll guy have anything to do with Hillsong?” Me: “Only in the sense that they’re damned Evangelicals.”

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:10:10am

This guy and his girlfriend have a massive social media presence through which he has built a multi-million dollar “natural health” empire while promoting anti-vaccine disinformation.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:14:30am
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Belafon  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:19:11am

What has happened to HappyWarrior?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:20:14am

re: #196 steve_davis

Jesus was decidedly dead on the cross. He was scourged with a barbed whip, which would flat-out kill most people at that stage. He had a centurion pierce him with a spear, out of mercy, so that he would die more quickly. Dozens of people witnessed his return after his burial. Either they were all mad members of a cult, or Christ was something well beyond a carnival barker running Oz from behind a curtain.

The bit that puts me off is the mere 9 hours on the cross. And the fact that the guards most likely did not want to spend any more time waiting around for him to die; if he did not respond to a poke in the ribs, he was dead enough for them…

And again, the whole story in itself can be seen as an allegory of him overcoming death rather than a literal tale of the dead awakening.

I believe that if you are dead, you are dead by definition and cannot “come back”. If you appear to come back, it means you were not completely dead in the first place. We know enough now about long people can appear dead without being dead.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:21:57am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The bit that puts me off is the mere 9 hours on the cross. And the fact that the guards most likely did not want to spend any more time waiting around for him to die; if he did not respond to a poke in the ribs, he was dead enough for them…

And again, the whole story in itself can be seen as an allegory of him overcoming death rather than a literal tale of the dead awakening.

I believe that if you are dead, you are dead by definition and cannot “come back”. If you appear to come back, it means you were not completely dead in the first place. We know enough now about long people can appear dead without being dead.

If you’re mostly dead than a miracle worker can probably make a pill to fix that condition.

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Nojay UK  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:23:02am

re: #196 steve_davis

Jesus was decidedly dead on the cross. He was scourged with a barbed whip, which would flat-out kill most people at that stage. He had a centurion pierce him with a spear, out of mercy, so that he would die more quickly. Dozens of people witnessed his return after his burial. Either they were all mad members of a cult, or Christ was something well beyond a carnival barker running Oz from behind a curtain.

Two out of the four Apostolic Gospels considered definitive today (after fifteen hundred years of rewrites, editing and outright fabrication) don’t mention the Passion at all. The first written-down description of what supposedly happened at Calvary ca. 33AD was about two hundred years after the event, created by cultists from stories and verbal histories passed down from cultist to cultist, embellished and altered generation after generation for their own purposes.

I’d go with the “mad cultist” option myself.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:23:33am

re: #202 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If you’re mostly dead than a miracle worker can probably make a pill to fix that condition.

“If your Resurrection lasts more than 40 days, consult a Physician or Doctor of the Church”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:28:55am

re: #202 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If you’re mostly dead than a miracle worker can probably make a pill to fix that condition.

he wasn’t dead, he was just resting…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:31:25am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

he wasn’t dead, he was just resting…

Does that gospel end with the writer asking if people want to go back to his place?
//

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:33:11am

re: #206 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Does that gospel end with the writer asking if people want to go back to his place?
//

pining for his home in the fjords

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:48:32am

Got up early to take a live class on the Peloton - 60 minute classic rock ride. Good fun but I’m still sweating bullets 15 minutes after I got off the bike…and the dogs are ready for their walk.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:49:56am

re: #200 Belafon

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:50:02am

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Let’s see, since this is Sunday, what depressing crap are religious people putting up about atheists on YouTube? (That always seems to flood in on Saturday night.)

….

God is the Big Bang (Christian apologist arguing God is an explosion, apparently)

In the 1970’s I briefly attended a Torah study program, which was led by a man who was an Orthodox Jew and a professor of physics at U of I. He explained that at one time the conventional view of the universe held by physicists was the steady state view: the universe always was as is. This was in conflict with the rabbinical view. But the emergence of the Big Bang Theory was exciting because it was consistent with the Torah’s story of the creation of the universe —- something appeared out of nothing. That may have also been the point the Christian apologist was making: not that G-d was an explosion but that was method of bringing everything into existence.

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:54:24am

currently on WBGO, newark, NJ (isnt the internet grand)

and wasnt cole porter brilliant?

YouTube

the lyrics are effing brilliant, every single time:

Ev’rybody
Chic or shoddy,
Ev’rybody loves to dance
Since that big dance,
Infra-dig dance
Called the “can-can” captivated France.
Why does it kill ev’ry care?
Why is it done ev’rywhere?

There is no trick to a can-can,
It is so simple to do,
When you once kick to a can-can,
‘Twill be so easy for you.
If a lady in Iran can,
If a shady African can,
If a Jap with a slap of her fan can,
Baby, you can can-can too.
If an English Dapper Dan can,
If an Irish Callahan can,
If an Afghan in Afghanistan can (Or: If in Cannes ev’ry tan courtesan can)
Baby, you can can-can too.

If in Deauville ev’ry swell can
It is so simple to do,
If Debussy and Ravel can,
‘Twill be so easy for you.
If the Louvre custodian can,
If the Guard Republican can,
If Van Gogh and Matisse and C?zanne can,
Baby, you can can-can too.
If a chief in the Sudan can,
If the hefty Aga Khan can,
If the camels in his caravan can,
Baby, you can can-can too.

Takes no art to do a can-can,
It is so simple to do,
When you start to do a can-can,
‘Twill be so easy for you.
If a slow Mohammedan can,
If a kilted Scottish clan can,
If in Wagner a Valkyrian can,
Baby, you can can-can too.
If a lass in Michigan can,
If an ass in Astrakhan can,
If a bass in the Saskatchewan can,
Baby, you can can-can too.

If the waltz king Johann Strauss can,
It is so simple to do,
If his gals in Fledermaus can,
‘Twill be so easy for you.
Lovely Duse in Milan can,
Lucien Guitry and R?jane can,
Sarah Bernhardt upon a divan can,
Baby, you can can-can too.
If a holy Hindu man can,
If a gangly Anglican can,
If in Lesbos, a pure Lesbian can,
Baby, you can can-can too.

If an ape gargantuan can,
It is so simple to do,
If a clumsy pelican can,
‘Twill be so easy for you.
If a dachshund in Berlin can,
If a tomcat in Pekin can,
If a crowded sardine in a tin can,
Baby, you can can-can too.
If a rhino with a crash can,
If a hippo with a splash can,
If an elm and an oak and an ash can,
Baby, you can can-can too.

oh and yeah “oh crap a thesaurus” is still funny too

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:56:54am

I really hope a bunch of Republicans start parroting this, but most of them probably can understand what a router does just by the definition of the word…not that that will stop some of them.

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mmmirele  Jul 25, 2021 • 7:57:15am

re: #203 Nojay UK

Two out of the four Apostolic Gospels considered definitive today (after fifteen hundred years of rewrites, editing and outright fabrication) don’t mention the Passion at all. The first written-down description of what supposedly happened at Calvary ca. 33AD was about two hundred years after the event, created by cultists from stories and verbal histories passed down from cultist to cultist, embellished and altered generation after generation for their own purposes.

I’d go with the “mad cultist” option myself.

I’m just going to dispute with you on dates. We only have complete written gospels from more than 200 years after the event. However, we have non-canonical letters and other documents from much earlier that quote from the documents, even if we don’t have the gospels themselves. Reputable (i.e., non-Evangelical scholars who don’t have to swear to the Bible’s inerrancy) scholars put the date for Mark at 70 CE, Matthew and Luke 80 to 85 CE and John around 100 CE. What is certain is that none of these people ever met Jesus.

I’d also note that the earliest Christian writings are the seven genuine letters of Paul, with either 1 Thessalonians or Galatians being the first Christian document we have. If 1 Thessalonians is the first document, it dates to about 50-52 CE (so ~2 decades of the crucifixion) and it mentions the things Paul and his recipients were concerned about. Paul wrote them to reassure them that their family and friends who died would be raised up first when Jesus returns and then they would be raised to be with Jesus. (It’s also got Paul’s obsession with sexual sins.)

So why yes, the first followers of Jesus really honestly thought that Jesus was going to return Real Soon Now and well, nope. We’re still here, 2000 years later. Some of the later canonical writings have some sly drops in them indicating that the time to the end might be a *bit* longer than a few months or a few years. But it is clear that part of the earliest preaching was that Jesus was crucified, God raised him from the dead and that Jesus was coming back shortly.

Just to give you an idea of where 200 years puts you documentwise…that’s after Tertullian, who wrote a raft of Christian documents and died circa 220. And there were others before him—all men. The first actual document that may actually incorporate writing by a woman is the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, which includes some first person commentary by Perpetua herself before she was martyred in 203. As a woman, I find the lack of female voices in Christianity EXTREMELY ANNOYING.

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:01:39am

re: #194 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If they take long enough to identify the distance as they try to race past.

As a bicyclist (and pedestrian) I seriously try to take them into account when encountering them using (or crossing) the roads. Plenty of clearance, and slowing down if there is oncoming traffic and no safe way to give them space.

Of course, the real way to enrage the drivers on a bike is to fully act like the vehicle you legally are and use the whole lane. I did that a few times when living in Virginia and the local bike trail *was* essentially on a local road for a stretch. And since it was a 15mph limit there I was usually doing (if not exceeding since it was a mild downhill slope) the speed limit.

I got yelled at by drivers when they eventually (and illegally) passed me more than once there. I was also in my early-20s and thus unimpressed by their vehicular bravado.

Over the years I’ve been passed or lane encroached countless times on a legal 90+mph motorcycle. supposed to be a fully participating equivalent. NOT.
-obeying the speed limit on a multi lane often a car won’t fully move into the left
-going 10 over on a one lane I was passed on the right shoulder!
-I’ve been flashed, honked, “tailgated” for not speeding fast enough in the right lane of a 3 lane.
And on and on

-

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JOE 🥓  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:01:43am

re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Well when it came to my boy his mother who works for Pulpit Pimping Trinity Broadcasting programmed him via Xtian homeschooling to be a soldier for Jay-Zuss. And she instilled in him that his father was nothing but a gold American Express card who had to pay the bills. She made sure with the good Republican Xtian Orange County judge that I had no visitation rights. And so off he went to Iraq to fight “Sand N-Words” for Jesus.

Sure would have been nice if they had not said I would not be welcome at the funeral.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than seeing Xtianity declining and so-called churches closing all over the country.

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:03:06am

For those of you who live in California - go to this website, enter your info, wait for the text message, click the link, save the QR code to your phone, and voila, you have your vaccine passport.

myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:05:20am

Pelosi is going to tell McCarthy to suck Kinzinger’s balls.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:06:07am

re: #213 mmmirele

For me, at least, it’s pretty obvious that Jesus’ followers believed in an imminent eschatology. That was 2,000 years ago.

They’ve been waiting ever since.

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:06:21am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

he wasn’t dead, he was just resting…

Every thread on the internet devolves to
Hitler
Or M. Python.

Ok sometimes to pineapple pizza

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:11:51am

Figures that we’d have Y. pestis added into the ‘21 mix…

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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:15:44am
In his continuing search for non-existent voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump is now suggesting it can be found “in the routers”

The obvious reactions are wild, and expected

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Jay C  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:23:44am

re: #220 Teukka

Figures that we’d have Y. pestis added into the ‘21 mix…

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While that caution about climate change affecting the possible spread of bubonic plague (i.e. the range of the wild animals it is usually vectored in) is certainly valid, an isolated death from bubonic, while tragic, of course, is not that unusual. IIRC, there are about a dozen cases of bubonic in the US every year, and one or two deaths - almost always in the Mountain West.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:26:04am

re: #138 Dangerman

article the morning at huffpo/us news…marriages in trouble over vaccinations

There needs to be a class action against Facebook, YouTube, etc. Seriously.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:26:59am
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Dangerman  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:28:36am

cult is right

‘Sellout’: Ron DeSantis Accused of Taking ‘Bribe’ by Conservatives After Promoting Vaccine

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JOE 🥓  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:29:27am

How low will they go?

Lower than this!

Devin Nunes: Deep state may use ‘computer generated graphics’ to fake Joe Biden speeches

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:30:10am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

he wasn’t dead, he was just resting…

Pining for the fjords

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:31:30am

re: #226 JOE 🥓

How low will they go?

Lower than this!

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Haven’t you learn’t by now that whenever you ask the question “there’s no way they’ll stoop lower than this, right?”, the next day, they do…

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JOE 🥓  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:33:42am
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:33:50am

re: #220 Teukka

Figures that we’d have Y. pestis added into the ‘21 mix…

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The good news is, there are vaccines, and the disease itself is treatable with antibiotics. Not to mention that the bubonic version is transmitted by fleas, not person-to-person.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:36:55am

Also, western good morning!

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:38:20am

re: #230 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

The good news is, there are vaccines, and the disease itself is treatable with antibiotics. Not to mention that the bubonic version is transmitted by fleas, not person-to-person.

The worrying news is that it is treatable with antibiotics, which raises the spectre of antibiotics resistant strains of it. Another is if we get an outbreak large enough to warrant lockdowns and similar measures, we know already what happened with CoViD…

Sorry to be such a blackpilled doomer…

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:38:43am

re: #231 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Those flowers are very pretty. What are they?

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:41:06am

re: #229 JOE 🥓

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:41:23am

re: #233 PhillyPretzel

Those flowers are very pretty. What are they?

They’re a kind of poppy, I’m not sure of the exact name.

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:41:49am

re: #226 JOE 🥓

How low will they go?

Lower than this!

[Embedded content]

The sooner Devin is charged with sedition and run out of Congress the better.

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:42:26am

re: #232 Teukka

It’s a bad thing it’s treatable by antibiotics because it’s a good thing it’s treatable by antibiotics?

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:42:51am

re: #229 JOE 🥓

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Teukka  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:43:19am

re: #237 Belafon

It’s a bad thing it’s treatable by antibiotics because it’s a good thing it’s treatable by antibiotics?

It’s a good thing for the time being, but if we don’t play our cards right, it may turn out to be a wee bit of a curse, ‘sall…

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:45:24am

re: #232 Teukka

The worrying news is that it is treatable with antibiotics, which raises the spectre of antibiotics resistant strains of it. Another is if we get an outbreak large enough to warrant lockdowns and similar measures, we know already what happened with CoViD…

Sorry to be such a blackpilled doomer…

There’s no way on God’s green earth that deniers can dismiss BUBONIC PLAGUE as “just another flu.” (To say nothing of pneumonic.) Also, since there are no asymptomatic carriers (that I know of), it can’t spread silently. So yes, there could be a problem, but I would expect it to remain pretty localized.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:47:45am

re: #238 Punish Domestic Terrorists

“You dug your graves, now lie in them.”

On which friendly and cheerful note, I have real world stuff to do. Later!

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:50:39am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:51:44am

Nice to see a President say this.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:55:46am

re: #222 Jay C

While that caution about climate change affecting the possible spread of bubonic plague (i.e. the range of the wild animals it is usually vectored in) is certainly valid, an isolated death from bubonic, while tragic, of course, is not that unusual. IIRC, there are about a dozen cases of bubonic in the US every year, and one or two deaths - almost always in the Mountain West.

the bubonic plague is just another leftist Jewish plot to undermine the economy and blame it on the GOP.

/

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BigPapa  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:56:47am

The swivel eyed loon ranted about routers 11 times in 36 seconds. I have a warehouse full of old routers awaiting the dumpster. Should I send them to Mar a Whacko?

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:58:04am

re: #242 Punish Domestic Terrorists

TBF to McCarthy (he doesn’t deserve it, lying scumbag that he is), 2 of those he nominated to the committee did not support overturning the election. Pelosi even approved one that did, possibly because Nehls seemed like someone who might have taken his role seriously.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 25, 2021 • 8:58:39am

Good Morning folks. Off to the Large Retail Plant store to refresh the heatwave-wrecked catio plants. Sunday Brunch will be Dutch Baby pancake with sauteed apple and peach topping, seared ham, and mimosas. Stepping it up a bit just for fun today.

248
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:01:18am

re: #243 Punish Domestic Terrorists

My dad used to say, “all you want, as a middle-class person, is just to have a little bit of breathing room.”

People with “breathing room” are not going to be willing to accept whatever poorly paid job they can find with minimal benefits and lousy working conditions.

In other words, they are a threat to our entire economic system, which is based on working people into the ground.

249
Rightwingconspirator  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:03:01am

re: #245 BigPapa

The swivel eyed loon ranted about routers 11 times in 36 seconds. I have a warehouse full of old routers awaiting the dumpster. Should I send them to Mar a Whacko?

Send them to Cyber Ninja. The rest will take care of itself.

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cat-tikvah  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:03:06am

re: #241 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Or as the Simpsons funeral service advertised, “Dig your own grave and SAVE”

251
Jay C  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:07:33am

re: #245 BigPapa

The swivel eyed loon ranted about routers 11 times in 36 seconds. I have a warehouse full of old routers awaiting the dumpster. Should I send them to Mar a Whacko?

Sure: they can hire a crack of team of “independent” hackers to go through them to find “proof” that the election was stolen!

Just be sure to get the freight paid beforehand….

252
BigPapa  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:08:16am

re: #249 Rightwingconspirator

Remember when he said he’s good with the cyber?

Come and Take It
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Jay C  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:10:12am

re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

the bubonic plague is just another leftist Jewish plot to undermine the economy and blame it on the GOP.

/

Yes, of course: though they have updated their Sinister Plots to reflect improvements in technology: instead of just poisoning wells, they manipulate prairie-dog DNA with the Rothschild Space Laser!

254
The Pie Overlord!  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:14:32am

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

On the discussion of Sarah Brand’s new Vevo video “Red Dress,” she put up a home performance of the song before the video was made, back on November 23, 2020. It is just her on acoustic guitar with no special video effects (3:10).

As Robyn Pennacchia noted over at Wonkette, she loves this song as Ms. Brand performs it, from the days of YouTube where people were truly proud of putting awful performances up on the Internet.

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Where is “autotune” when you really need it?

255
danarchy  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:21:18am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m perverse that way. /s

I love the “Red Dress” video. The production (which she led) is top-notch. The song’s lyrics are good.

A positive argument for autotune, for all the folks who hate it because it’s “not real.”

Or it is an argument for song writers who can’t sing to stick to song writing and let someone else do the singing.

256
JOE 🥓  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:23:50am

Adam Kinzinger has accepted Nancy’s nomination to sit on the 1/6 Committee.

257
Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:25:04am

re: #254 The Pie Overlord!

re: #255 danarchy

Could be an example of “anti-singing”…..best exemplified back in the ’70s by Johnny Rotten.

Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:28:35am

re: #240 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

There’s no way on God’s green earth that deniers can dismiss BUBONIC PLAGUE as “just another flu.” (To say nothing of pneumonic.) Also, since there are no asymptomatic carriers (that I know of), it can’t spread silently. So yes, there could be a problem, but I would expect it to remain pretty localized.

I’m sure that they would claim that examining them for buboes would be a HIPAA violation.
///

259
JOE 🥓  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:29:36am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

Memories of December 1977 when my pals and I went to see the Sex Pistols first USA appearance at the old Homestead Theater in Homestead PA. Theater was packed. TV stations were outside—remember this was before cable news. Malcolm McLaren appeared on stage in a fur coat with a couple Penthouse Pets in bikinis.

And yes there was a lot of “audience participation”…

260
Dr Lizardo  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:32:16am

re: #259 JOE 🥓

Memories of December 1977 when my pals and I went to see the Sex Pistols first USA appearance at the old Homestead Theater in Homestead PA. Theater was packed. TV stations were outside—remember this was before cable news. Malcolm McLaren appeared on stage in a fur coat with a couple Penthouse Pets in bikinis.

And yes there was a lot of “audience participation”…

First time I heard “God Save the Queen” (thanks to a childhood friend of mine back in ‘77), it was absolutely electrifying. It was something lightyears different than anything I’d ever heard. Even as a little kid, that rawness came through for me….and I loved it.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:35:19am
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BigPapa  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:35:53am
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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:39:04am

re: #246 Hecuba’s daughter

TBF to McCarthy (he doesn’t deserve it, lying scumbag that he is), 2 of those he nominated to the committee did not support overturning the election. Pelosi even approved one that did, possibly because Nehls seemed like someone who might have taken his role seriously.

McCarthy planned to pull them all along unless Pelosi let the poo hurlers make a circus out of the committee.

264
So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:45:34am

re: #216 darthstar

Thanks just did this and forwarded to friends and family

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sagehen  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:49:32am

re: #245 BigPapa

The swivel eyed loon ranted about routers 11 times in 36 seconds. I have a warehouse full of old routers awaiting the dumpster. Should I send them to Mar a Whacko?

Only if you can send them “postage due”.

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:50:16am

re: #162 Belafon

You can’t always get what you want… but you just might find… you get what you need.

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lawhawk  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:53:46am

re: #246 Hecuba’s daughter

McCarthy and the GOP wanted actual saboteurs and treasonweasel complicit nutjobs on the commission to thwart the mission of uncovering the truth about 1/6.

You’d think that those fuckers would want to investigate it to reveal that antifa and BLM were behind it, but they all know those claims were always bullshit and the only people involved in 1/6 were GOPers from Trump on down. No one else.

And they can’t abide by it, because they were complicit, adjacent, or ambivalent about the insurrection to overthrow the govt to keep Trump in power. These fucking fascists were intent on stealing an actual election by invalidating it by any means necessary. There were actually doing what they baselessly accused Democrats of doing.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:55:05am
EXCLUSIVE: After returning from the Cannes launch of his film Flag Day, Sean Penn has drawn a line in the sand, one that challenges Hollywood leadership to go further in imposing vaccination requirements for everyone on a film or TV set.

In a move that likely will reverberate across an industry still trying to deal with Covid, Penn is refusing to return to work on Gaslit — the UCP-produced Starz limited series he stars in with Julia Roberts — until everyone on the production has been vaccinated for the virus. With the highly contagious Delta variant raging enough that Los Angeles has re-imposed indoor mask wearing and cases among the unvaccinated are spiking again at alarming levels across the country, Penn has insisted to the production that the vaccinatipn of everyone must be mandatory. Through his organization, CORE, Penn has offered to facilitate the vaccination effort, free of charge.

Sean Penn Line In Sand: Won’t Return To Watergate Series ‘Gaslit’ Unless All Cast & Crew Get Mandatory Covid Vaccinations (Deadline)

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:57:04am

re: #266 lawhawk

You can’t always get what you want… but you just might find… you get what you need.

The problem is that he may have also infected innocent parties: unvaccinated who cannot get the vaccine or vaccinated who get a breakthrough infection. He brought his suffering on himself — let’s hope that if he survives, he does a full mea culpa and works overtime to persuade others that they need the vaccine.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:57:18am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 25, 2021 • 9:58:37am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 25, 2021 • 10:00:01am
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Nojay UK  Jul 25, 2021 • 10:01:04am

re: #245 BigPapa

The swivel eyed loon ranted about routers 11 times in 36 seconds. I have a warehouse full of old routers awaiting the dumpster. Should I send them to Mar a Whacko?

Time to put them up on Ebay with a comment about how they came from an Arizona State election operation or similar (“thought to” and other weasel-word phrases left to your discretion).

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BeachDem  Jul 25, 2021 • 10:11:40am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Oh, Marianne, delusional, as always. FIFY

What we love about @ninaturner is that she’s loyal to no one but the people she serves herself.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 25, 2021 • 10:36:15am

re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth

There is still power at the Pie Palace which is unusual because we are always the ones on this block whose power goes out first & comes back on last.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 25, 2021 • 12:03:56pm

re: #226 JOE 🥓

Devin Nunes and Intelligence is a paradox/toxic.

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SerialUpDinger  Jul 25, 2021 • 12:05:25pm

re: #235 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

matilija poppies?


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