Joey Alexander: “When You Wish Upon a Star”

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Joey Alexander - Piano
Larry Grenadier - Upright Bass

Directed and Edited by Yasunari Rowan
Recorded, Mixed, Mastered by Christopher Allen
SEAR SOUND

Leigh Harline (music) and Ned Washington (lyrics)

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do

Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true

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395 comments
1
austin_blue  Aug 24, 2021 • 8:54:34pm

Jeebus, how old is he? Sixteen? It’s a great jazz riff on the original.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:02:14pm

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Marvin Gaye - (I’m Afraid) the Masquerade is Over [1961]



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Belafon  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:04:14pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

Go see the video of him trying to stand for the first time after getting sick:

facebook.com

He was in a coma for over ten days and incubated for 47. Someone in the twitter replies pointed out that he’s at a hospital where he can learn to swallow again.

The full feed: m.facebook.com

In July, he has a picture up of being 56 and in shape, and in August his wife posted on of him lying chest down in the ICU.

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austin_blue  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:15:04pm

And off to bed.I need to get up early, as my most recent Annual Physical showed that there may be an elevated risk in my Prostrate Gland health requiring a blood draw.

I want to thank Detective Andy Sipowicz for the spelling/pronunciation aid on the Gland.

I am just *so* fucking excited.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:15:53pm

My wife has the old Sunbeam waffle iron out since this is International Waffle Day.

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:17:49pm

“Librul media”

Aug 16: “The Taliban have taken over Kabul! Biden abandoned all those people! It’s going to be a slaughter worse than the Fall of Saigon!”

Aug 20: “Okay, well even though people aren’t being executed in the streets, tens of thousands of Afghan citizens have been left to the mercy of the Taliban! All those women who are about to be forced into sexual slavery! The men who’ll be executed for liberal ideas! Biden has presided over the worst foreign policy blunder in American history!”

Aug 24: “WHY ARE WE NOT EVACUATING THE AMERICANS FIRST?!”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:18:19pm

re: #4 austin_blue

And off to bed.I need to get up early, as my most recent Annual Physical showed that there may be an elevated risk in my Prostrate Gland health requiring a blood draw.

I want to thank Detective Andy Sipowicz for the spelling/pronunciation aid on the Gland.

I am just *so* fucking excited.

Just got through that. Radiation. It sucked but I still think it was better than the surgery. We will have to monitor it but my PSA is down to 2.2 from 10.8 in May.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:20:56pm

re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife has the old Sunbeam waffle iron out since this is International Waffle Day.

Memories of Aunt Vivian making sourdough waffles drizzled with her boysenberry syrup!

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William Lewis  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:24:29pm

re: #8 JOE 🥓

Memories of Aunt Vivian making sourdough waffles drizzled with her boysenberry syrup!

Dude! That _description_ fried my diet for the day! :)

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:30:45pm

An example of the people we’re told not to treat with scorn but to instead try to empathize with:

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JOE 🥓  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:30:54pm

re: #9 William Lewis

Dude! That _description_ fried my diet for the day! :)

Aunt Viv lived in San Francisco for 40 years right by the Cable Car main route and she worked at Blum’s Coffee Shops. She knew their secret sourdough pancake/waffles and boysenberry syrup recipes.

I could have had them for breakfast, lunch AND dinner they were that good.

Oh and she also knew how to make Blum’s famous Coffee Crunch cake.

Valerie Gordon also knows how to make those classic cakes!

Bringing Back Cakes of Dessert Past

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:33:01pm

Thread

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:35:18pm

And then there was this, with cream of mushroom soup no less. I have mentioned before that my first wife loved mushroom soup recipes. I tried to convince her that mushrooms were related to athlete’s foot, both being fungi, but she was not dissuaded.

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:38:29pm

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

And then there was this, with cream of mushroom soup no less. I have mentioned before that my first wife loved mushroom soup recipes. I tried to convince her that mushrooms were related to athlete’s foot, both being fungi, but she was not dissuaded.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:40:19pm

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

And then there was this, with cream of mushroom soup no less. I have mentioned before that my first wife loved mushroom soup recipes. I tried to convince her that mushrooms were related to athlete’s foot, both being fungi, but she was not dissuaded.

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Aunt Vivian hated Campbell’s Mushroom Soup. She made hers from scratch with beef stock.

Sure didn’t taste like Campbell’s!

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William Lewis  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:42:37pm

That’s a gross recipe but it doesn’t have to be that bad.

My great aunt used to make Chicken and Rice with a cup (uncooked) rice, one can of mushroom soup, two cans of cream of celery & three cans of milk. Mix and spoon over the cut up chicken. Bake at 350 till it falls from the bone (usually ~2 hours). Excellent Sunday evening dinner. I still make it, occasionally with a layer of tater tots.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:51:28pm

re: #10 Targetpractice

An example of the people we’re told not to treat with scorn but to instead try to empathize with:

Molly Jong-Fast: We are a country with a serious mental health issue

No Molly, it is not mental health. That is a smear against people with legitimate mental health issues.

Conservatives seek out this sort of information to support their religious belief.

Unless you want to go to “religion is a mental disorder” (even as a moderately strong atheist I don’t go there), then I agree (since conservatives seem to always project), “conservatism is a mental disorder.”

This is wilful behaviour, not mental illness.

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:52:07pm

re: #16 William Lewis

That’s a gross recipe but it doesn’t have to be that bad.

My great aunt used to make Chicken and Rice with a cup (uncooked) rice, one can of mushroom soup, two cans of cream of celery & three cans of milk. Mix and spoon over the cut up chicken. Bake at 350 till it falls from the bone (usually ~2 hours). Excellent Sunday evening dinner. I still make it, occasionally with a layer of tater tots.

Our household does a bit of a variation on that. We put frozen chicken breasts in a pan and cover with 3-4 cans of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup and bake covered (either lid or aluminum foil) for an hour at 350. Then in the last 15-30 minutes, we make some rice either on the stove or in the rice cooker, then when the chicken’s done we plate it next to rice with the soup ladled over like a gravy.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 24, 2021 • 9:57:03pm

This is close to the cream of mushroom soup Aunt Vivian made.

But she used beef instead of chicken stock

Cream of Mushroom Soup

INGREDIENTS
4 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon oil
2 onions diced
4 cloves garlic minced
1 1/2 pounds (750 g) fresh brown mushrooms sliced
4 teaspoons chopped thyme divided
1/2 cup Marsala wine (any dry red or white wine)
6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
4 cups low sodium chicken broth or stock
1-2 teaspoons salt adjust to taste
1/2-1 teaspoons black cracked pepper adjust to taste
2 beef bouillon cubes, crumbled
1 cup heavy cream or half and half (sub with evaporated milk)
Chopped fresh parsley and thyme to serve
INSTRUCTIONS
Heat butter and oil in a large pot over medium-high heat until melted. Sauté onion for 2 to 3 minutes until softened. Cook garlic until fragrant, about 1 minute.

Add mushrooms and 2 teaspoons thyme, cook for 5 minutes. Pour in wine and allow to cook for 3 minutes.

Sprinkle mushrooms with flour, mix well and cook for 2 minutes. Add stock, mix again and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low-medium heat, season with salt, pepper and crumbled bouillon cubes.

Cover and allow to simmer for 10-15 minutes, while occasionally stirring, until thickened.
Reduce heat to low, stir in cream or half and half. Allow to gently simmer (do not boil). Adjust salt and pepper to your taste.

Mix in parsley and remaining thyme. Serve warm.

NUTRITION
Calories: 271kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 35mg | Sodium: 583mg | Potassium: 699mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 550IU | Vitamin C: 7.6mg | Calcium: 91mg | Iron: 1.6mg

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:03:19pm

These are amazing figures, possible because of maximum deck loading (ie no seats). During the fall of Saigon in 1975, 70 VNAF aircraft reached Thailand with 2000 people aboard but 30 of the fleeing aircraft were single-seat F-5 fighters. One of them, nevertheless, had 3 people aboard. Another, a C-130, flew to the Philippines.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:12:57pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:15:32pm

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

That’s obscene.

I had Nutella sandwiches made with waffles (I ate the remaining one with maple syrup).

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Belafon  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:16:34pm

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They’ll lick them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:19:14pm
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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:23:24pm

re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Molly Jong-Fast: We are a country with a serious mental health issue

No Molly, it is not mental health. That is a smear against people with legitimate mental health issues.

Conservatives seek out this sort of information to support their religious belief.

Unless you want to go to “religion is a mental disorder” (even as a moderately strong atheist I don’t go there), then I agree (since conservatives seem to always project), “conservatism is a mental disorder.”

This is wilful behaviour, not mental illness.

I’ve opined in the past that I’ve had difficulty in recent decades telling the difference between religious fanaticism and mental illness and in this case I’d reiterate that position. It’s hard to tell whether she has made a willful choice to ignore objective reality in favor of a fantasy of political persecution and victimhood or whether she has lost grip on objective reality to such a degree that she can’t be sure that what she’s being told is truth or fiction. It’s possible that she’s a totally gullible idiot who’s been taken in by a con artist who is using her (and millions like her) to serve their own ends, but it’s just as possible that she truly believes the words she’s reading and thinks there’s a vast conspiracy to cram persons like her into concentration camps as part of some grand sinister plan.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:23:31pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:26:43pm

re: #25 Targetpractice

This bullshyte concentration camp thing is rewarmed over Obama conspiracies, complete with the Wal*Mart.

She sought that information out, or less-likely someone knew she was gullible and would swallow that pack of lies.

Gullible does not equal mentally ill or religious, and conservatives have been opposed to public education for hundreds of years for a very good reason.

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:30:53pm

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This bullshyte concentration camp thing is rewarmed over Obama conspiracies, complete with the Wal*Mart.

She sought that information out, or less-likely someone knew she was gullible and would swallow that pack of lies.

Gullible does not equal mentally ill or religious, and conservatives have been opposed to public education for hundreds of years for a very good reason.

Fair point, I’m mostly convinced that the bulk of these anti-vaxxers by this point are the sort of gullible fools who get snookered by “get rich quick” schemes or spend fortunes on “super foods” that end up being scientifically debunked (if not already) by the time they realize that sitting on their ass scarfing exotic fruits and chugging beet juice isn’t making them healthier. P.T. Barnum would make a fortune several times over fleecing these fools.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:34:32pm

re: #10 Targetpractice

An example of the people we’re told not to treat with scorn but to instead try to empathize with:

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She got all of that from her right wing church, Hate Radio, Jesus TV and right wing webpages.

Just like one of my nephews who INSISTED that he and several of his fellow soldiers STOPPED Obama from invading Texas during Jade Helm.

He also INSISTED that Obama set up fake Walmarts in Texas that were going to be concentration camps for Christians.

And yep. He’s gotten into the Pulpit Pimping business with his Right Wing Church.

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:35:00pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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“How long before he can see again”? Jaclyn, blindness has only been associated with COVID cases so severe that the victim was on a ventilator. If hubby has suddenly gone blind, then his ass should be in the local ER, not sitting at home while you query the internet for why he suddenly went blind after he starting taking horse paste.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:37:13pm

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:37:17pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“When he’s in heaven dear. When he’s in heaven.”

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retired cynic  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:38:12pm

re: #30 Targetpractice

I HAVE to think that was sarcasm. No two people could be that dumb: him to take it and go blind and not say go to the doc, and her not to freak out and take him.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:38:23pm

Criswell Bacon predicts there will soon be another Darwin Award Winner!

jsonline.com

Sen. Andre Jacque of De Pere, Wisconsin, was being intubated as he struggles with the virus. Being intubated is often seen as the last-ditch effort to save someone as their oxygen levels crash.

The 40-year-old Jacque was diagnosed with the virus earlier this month and has been hospitalized for at least a week. He claimed in an interview with the paper last week that he was “largely asymptomatic” and really only felt fatigued.

“In recent months, Jacque has been one of most outspoken lawmakers against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and has authored legislation that would bar government officials or business owners from requiring Wisconsinites be vaccinated against COVID-19 or show proof of vaccination to access services,” said the report.

And the Senator’s brother has choice words for the thoughts and prayers clique!

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:40:38pm

re: #25 Targetpractice

I’ve opined in the past that I’ve had difficulty in recent decades telling the difference between religious fanaticism and mental illness and in this case I’d reiterate that position. It’s hard to tell whether she has made a willful choice to ignore objective reality in favor of a fantasy of political persecution and victimhood or whether she has lost grip on objective reality to such a degree that she can’t be sure that what she’s being told is truth or fiction. It’s possible that she’s a totally gullible idiot who’s been taken in by a con artist who is using her (and millions like her) to serve their own ends, but it’s just as possible that she truly believes the words she’s reading and thinks there’s a vast conspiracy to cram persons like her into concentration camps as part of some grand sinister plan.

And we need to add old fashioned brainwashing to the list. It’s only now that we’re seeing a lot of it in the population, and it’s not so easy for the rest of us to understand that brainwashed people are not entirely responsible for their beliefs, but it’s another part of that devil’s brew.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:41:50pm

And now the latest from Crackhead Mike!

The case isn’t going very well for Lindell, however, law.com reported Tuesday. Last week, the judge refused a motion to dismiss the trial, so Lindell’s legal team is trying something different. They’re attempting to bypass the trial altogether and go straight to the appeal.

This evening, Lindell’s lawyers filed documents asking that their argument that Dominion was acting as the government in 2020 be taken to the appellee court. The problem is that they haven’t even had the trial and gotten a ruling to appeal. Dominion contracts with some local governments, but that doesn’t mean that they are the government.

And Captain Underpants gets in the act…

“My Pillow attorneys, including Alan Dershowitz and Supreme Court veteran Nathan Lewin, argue they believe the appeals court will rule in their favor and find ‘Dominion’s complaint did not satisfy the most stringent actual malice requirement under New York Times v. Sullivan, which applies to a government actor operating in the context of a large public debate,’” said the report.

law.com

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JOE 🥓  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:44:33pm

re: #33 retired cynic

I HAVE to think that was sarcasm. No two people could be that dumb: him to take it and go blind and not say go to the doc, and her not to freak out and take him.

If you listen to callers I deal with at work…THEY ARE THAT FUCKING DUMB!

You would be shocked to hear the spike in calls we’ve gotten where people demanding Medicare cover the cost of Ivermectin.

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:44:41pm

See, this is why the rest of the world has such a low opinion of Americans. We have so many vaccine doses available to us that we are not only discussing booster shots when we haven’t even finished vaccinating our entire population, but we’re also throwing away tens of thousands of vials because state governments sit on them until they expire.

And yet, millions of our own citizens are rejecting something that is being given away for free and is proven to prevent severe illness and death in favor of quack science about lupus medications and horse paste. Americans are injuring or killing themselves out of nothing but pure spite. What’s worse, every one of them who either poisons themself or waits until they’re gasping for air to head to the hospital are imperiling people who followed the rules and took precautions by gobbling up limited medical resources.

FFS, where’s that damned meteor of death I was promised back in 2012?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:47:01pm
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JOE 🥓  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:47:22pm

re: #38 Targetpractice

My friends in France tell me people laugh at the Antivaxers they see from America.

They made the fatal mistake of thinking that Americans would stop being stupid after Trump lost…but they see we’re continually engaging in even more unchecked stupidity.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:50:42pm

re: #31 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:55:10pm
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 24, 2021 • 10:57:56pm

re: #40 JOE 🥓

My friends in France tell me people laugh at the Antivaxers they see from America.

They made the fatal mistake of thinking that Americans would stop being stupid after Trump lost…but they see we’re continually engaging in even more unchecked stupidity.

The pot is speaking to the kettle. France has no shortage of antivaxxers, but they have a government that’s cracking down hard on the unvaccinated.

Probably not something we can do uniformly here, because of states’ rights.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:02:17pm

Reading her thread, she’s right.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:03:44pm

Governor Ricketts trying to commit genocide on Nebraska’s most populous county.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:05:00pm

More genocide

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Nyet  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:08:30pm

re: #456 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Oh, ok. I didn’t realize (from your earlier tweet) that you were using anything later than the immediate postwar period.

I only posted my article on HD. There are several other articles by other contributors. The documents I supplied are in the book as well, fully transcribed, as well as the two memoirs mentioned earlier.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:08:44pm

More genocide

Mayor Stothert (R) is a former nurse. She was reëlected primarily from a sympathy vote when in the last few days of the election campaign her husband shot himself to death. Out of respect, the Democratic candidate suspended his campaign for a few days. She did not.

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:13:12pm

re: #37 JOE 🥓

If you listen to callers I deal with at work…THEY ARE THAT FUCKING DUMB!

You would be shocked to hear the spike in calls we’ve gotten where people demanding Medicare cover the cost of Ivermectin.

So I’ve been meaning to share a run-in with a COVID “truther” the other day at work but haven’t gotten around to it. The subject in question was a guy from our sister property who was down here for “familiarization” with ours in the event our GM needs to frantically call his GM for somebody to cover the desk in the event we’re all on vacation or dead.

This is a guy who looks like he might be in his early or mid 20s (then again so do I and I’m 37). And if it hadn’t been for the staff cook-out to see off our director of sales, my interaction with him would have been limited to a quick show around the lobby before I went home to crash on my bed. But I was there for the free food and ended up talking with him before I left about COVID and the company policy on allowing us to go without masks if we’re vaccinated.

And in the small group discussion that commenced, he proceeded to opine in that way that says “I’ve read a lot on the internet”:

- COVID is actually a “super flu” virus that was created in a Chinese lab

- The Chinese lab violated CDC protocols (*facepalm*) by not creating the vaccine when they created the virus

- All the vaccines are really just boosted flu shots, which you can avoid if you don’t normally have problems with the flu

- The only reason the government’s pushing the vaccines is to make up for their mistake in not better monitoring the Chinese lab

But since my colleagues were nodding along to this and I’m fairly sure I won’t see this guy ever again, I just decided that discretion was the better part of valor and went home to sleep. Six months ago, I might have tried to correct the record if only for the people I work with rather than thinking I could change his mind. Now? Fuck it, I’ll let natural selection take its course.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:15:09pm

The difference with a Democratic mayor in Lincoln vs. a Republican mayor on Omaha.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:22:04pm

More on the reason conservatives want to weaken education.

“At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic there was too much uncertainty and confusion regarding the best measures to protect oneself against the coronavirus,” said study author Vladimira Cavojova of the Centre for Social and Psychological Sciences at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

“Scientists became the center of attention and we hypothesized that people who understand the workings of science better would be better able to navigate the sea of conflicting information and resist pseudoscientific and unfounded beliefs.”

In the study, which was conducted about a week after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Slovakia, 783 participants were asked to indicate how much they agreed with various coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, such as “SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) is a biological weapon created to eliminate the overcrowded human population” and “COVID-19 (coronavirus) is only a fabrication, it is an ordinary flu which pharmaceutical companies rebranded to increase the sales of drugs.”

The participants also completed a test of scientific reasoning in which they were asked to respond to six true or false statements, including “The researchers want to find out how to increase natality. They ask for statistical information and see that there are more children born in cities that have more hospitals. This finding implies that building new hospitals will increase the birth rate of the population.”

(more)

People who believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories tend to struggle with scientific reasoning, study finds (PsyPost, Februaray 25, 2021)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:34:54pm

Lemme guess: “Constitutional” sheriff.

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:44:19pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lemme guess: “Constitutional” sheriff.

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“We believe that’s your private information. Now, I’m gonna need your ID, immigration papers, and at least three notarized documents proving you are legally in this country.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:50:40pm

re: #49 Targetpractice

You can still push back against this information with your co-workers, now that the propagandist left.

You could even bring it up, “so you know that guy who was here, talking about X? I checked, it’s all bullshyte.”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:51:47pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:54:21pm

Down goes another school on the altar of conservative religion.

Papillion kindergarten class quarantining because of COVID (Omaha World-Herald, Papillion [accent on the second syllable] is a suburb of Omaha)

A principal of a Papillion elementary school informed parents Monday that students in a kindergarten class at the school would need to quarantine because of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the class.

Matt Hilderbrand, the principal of Patriot Elementary near 96th Street and Schram Road, sent an email to parents noting that the Sarpy/Cass Health Department “has recommended that students in Mrs. O’Leary’s Kindergarten class remain at home the rest of the week and monitor for symptoms. This was done out of an abundance of caution as there were multiple confirmed cases as of (Monday).”

Hilderbrand added, “We are navigating this at the school level and want to ensure we are working together to address the health and academic needs of the students in our building.”

Hilderbrand’s note went out just 30 minutes after the start of the Papillion La Vista school board meeting at which the board decided masks will remain optional in the district’s schools — for now.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 24, 2021 • 11:55:30pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 12:05:31am

Punishing liberal-leaning teachers. This meme has been frequently posted by liberals. Elkhorn is in Douglas County and borders the west edge of Omaha.

Elkhorn school teacher placed on leave for Klan mask meme (Omaha World-Herald)

Hit dogs holler. Hopefully the investigation will see the teacher returned.

An Elkhorn Public Schools teacher has been placed on administrative leave following a Facebook post that compared anti-maskers and Klansmen.

The district confirmed Tuesday that the post showed the hood of a Ku Klux Klan outfit and a medical face mask and posed the question: “Isn’t it strange they can breathe in this (the KKK mask) but not this (the medical mask)?”

The teacher’s name has not been released.

Kara Perchal, district spokeswoman, said the district was made aware of the post Tuesday morning. The teacher has been placed on leave while the issue is investigated, she said in a statement.

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Targetpractice  Aug 25, 2021 • 12:05:34am

re: #55 Dread Pirate Ron

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I suppose it would depend upon the taste. If it is close enough to the taste of normal butter that I can’t tell the difference, then I probably wouldn’t have an issue with it. But if there’s a detectable difference in the taste that I find unpleasant, then the answer is probably “No.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 12:49:35am

re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife has the old Sunbeam waffle iron out since this is International Waffle Day.

The One Day on which the Waffle Light is Slave to Me!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 12:56:06am

re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s obscene.

I had Nutella sandwiches made with waffles (I ate the remaining one with maple syrup).

“We can’t make waffles, we’re out of Nutella!”

- a real-life quote from my daughter

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 12:58:04am

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This bullshyte concentration camp thing is rewarmed over Obama conspiracies, complete with the Wal*Mart.

She sought that information out, or less-likely someone knew she was gullible and would swallow that pack of lies.

Gullible does not equal mentally ill or religious, and conservatives have been opposed to public education for hundreds of years for a very good reason.

Remember the fun that the Russian trolls had getting us to chase Obama bogeymen over the Jade Helm military exercises?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 1:01:18am

Letter responding to various morans in the Omaha World-Herald Public Pulse (letters column); let’s see if they print it.

omaha.com (original letters column to which I am responding)

Cheryl Bartek wrote in her August 20 letter “Lack of a Credible Exit Plan in Afghanistan Is Appalling.” There is no mention of all the troops withdrawn by the previous administration, leaving our position untenable. No mention that when a war is lost, you don’t get to dictate the terms to the winner.

The original objective laid out by President George W. Bush was to degrade Afghanistan’s ability to support terrorist training camps (successful) and capture or kill Osama bin Laden (abandoned by him).

Afghanistan is known as the Graveyard of Empires for a good reason.

There is no case where we could stay for whatever reason and not have our forces and allies attacked again, with a political message to the whole world “we don’t keep our agreements.” I don’t particularly like Donald Trump, but he was the President at the time, his Secretary of State met directly with the Taliban to get their people released from prison (including their current leader) in exchange for us being able to withdraw without being attacked, then they withdrew most of our troops before Joe Biden was inaugurated. That is the deal our government made. President Biden is executing the deal as those negotiations require.

Ms. Barb Yllescas-Vorthmann writes she is a Gold Star Mother of a fallen officer. I am the Gold Star Son of a fallen Navy Chief from the Vietnam War.

This war was unwinnable beyond the goals set originally but abandoned by President George W. Bush. Just as in Vietnam, you cannot bomb your way to a democracy, and I am openly offended by all the comparisons to the fall of Saigon. Absolutely no people were evacuated after South Vietnam fell; we continue to evacuate people from Afghanistan now, more than a week after the government fell, far more than we evacuated from Saigon. The military equipment left behind they cannot use. Anything of value was already removed or destroyed; even if removing it was a consideration by the Trump Administration, there was no way to do so from that landlocked country through nations which did not want us crossing their borders with our military. They will not use anything against us; they can’t reach us. The women and girls are resisting now.

I find it noteworthy so many argue “why aren’t we evacuating X number of people” and in the same sentence “not in my backyard though.” Iran has the world’s biggest urban refugee camp of Afghans. We are not even close, yet plenty want to close the borders entirely to them.

Katharine Hunter asks why we can’t maintain a base there, like we do in South Korea. It turns out South Korea wants us there. It would be very difficult to maintain a base in a landlocked country which is hostile to us. As for drones, we don’t need to base them there, and Afghanistan is within striking range of carrier aircraft if necessary.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 1:03:40am

Part of being President is taking responsibility even for things that your predecessor(s) have left you stuck with.

It also means not blaming the Chinese, the liberal press or the Deep State when you fail miserably, and not blaming Dominion Voting Systems when you lose an election.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 25, 2021 • 1:03:54am

All is not well north of the border:

Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests

Protests against old growth logging in the South Vancouver Island region of British Columbia escalated through later 2020 and into 2021. These events, many coalescing around the Fairy Creek watershed, represent a critical moment in BC’s recurring history of conflict related to ecological values and the forest industry, recalling The War in the Woods and the Clayoquot Protests of the early 1990s.

Like any contagious disease, MAGAtry can easily cross the border.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 1:06:23am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“We can’t make waffles, we’re out of Nutella!”

- a real-life quote from my daughter

It will be a while before we run out; my wife bought a 6# food service tub of Nutella.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 1:08:37am

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It will be a while before we run out; my wife bought a 6# food service tub of Nutella.

There was a time when that would not have lasted a week around my kids. I was about to start buying it in individual-serving packets and doling it out that way.

They have since pretty much outgrown it.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 25, 2021 • 1:14:26am

The French RIOTED over a Nutella shortage a few years ago.

Nutella ‘Riots’ Spread Across French Supermarkets

Ok, it wasn’t much of a riot as such things go, but still….

“They are like animals. A woman had her hair pulled, an elderly lady took a box on her head, another had a bloody hand,” one customer told French media.

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

re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember the fun that the Russian trolls had getting us to chase Obama bogeymen over the Jade Helm military exercises?

Including the actual murder of soldiers during the exercise.

Greg Abbott, never seeing a conspiracy theory on which he can’t waste Texas tax money, also activated the Texas National Guard to monitor the exercise.

Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories arose at the same time as Wal*Mart FEMA camp conspiracy theories, and were immediately linked.

All of that arose from the exercise map published by the US Army, which conservative screechers like Alex Jones insisted were really plans to disarm people (a perennial favourite all my life amongst conservatives), impose martial law, &c.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 1:19:24am

re: #68 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

The French RIOTED over a Nutella shortage a few years ago.

Nutella ‘Riots’ Spread Across French Supermarkets

Ok, it wasn’t much of a riot as such things go, but still….

I can understand a riot over a Nutella shortage.

We can’t get it here (which is why my wife bought it from a restaurant supply in a 6# tub). One dose of Nutella after I arrived in Spain and I was hooked.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 1:33:34am

They tried a quaint campaign in which you could have custom printed labels for your Nutella jars. I even thought it would be good for each kid to have their own jar so there’d be no fighting over it.

Problem was, people started requesting labels like “Ground N****s” and other disgusting or scatological themes so they had to suspend it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 2:07:19am

So since most of Afghanistan’s opium /heroin goes to Europe, I would assume that the USA has little interest in interdicting it…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:10:34am

re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So since most of Afghanistan’s opium /heroin goes to Europe, I would assume that the USA has little interest in interdicting it…

Something that always works to undermine illegal drug trafficking is to implement something which is legal (Colorado—maryjane regulation, &c).

Opiate medications were not originally synthesised, they were derived from opium poppies. The problem here is capitalism; it is cheaper to synthesise medications like codeine.

It might be in the interests of nations to subsidise (gasp) drug companies to purchase and process legitimately-grown opium poppies from Afghan growers (giving them a legal outlet to earn money).

Opium poppy laws here are already hosed from conflicting laws. In the United States, it is legal to grow opium poppies for flower gardens, but illegal to possess opium straw (since opium tea can be made from it). You can’t sell the straw or opium (the DEA takes a very dim view of that), and those laws apply to foreigners as well (Afghans can’t sell here either).

Our town has a massive opium poppy garden planted by a Vietnam veteran in honour of WW1.

That seems to be a solution (though I admit I don’t know if it would work). All the interdiction in the world isn’t going to stop opium poppy production though.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:19:36am

re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

All the interdiction in the world isn’t going to stop opium poppy production though.

And although the Taliban will insist that they are anti-drug, they are not going to cut off such a lucrative source of foreign currency.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:21:58am

re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They tried a quaint campaign in which you could have custom printed labels for your Nutella jars. I even thought it would be good for each kid to have their own jar so there’d be no fighting over it.

Problem was, people started requesting labels like “Ground N****s” and other disgusting or scatological themes so they had to suspend it.

I suppose if they’d hired screeners (moderators), they could have eliminated the problem. That would be a real soul-sucking job though.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:23:12am

re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I suppose if they’d hired screeners (moderators), they could have eliminated the problem. That would be a real soul-sucking job though.

exactly, they tried publishing a list of “unacceptable” labels but people are too perversely creative to be stopped by something like that…

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Ming5000  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:37:37am

From downthread. Story about the costs being incurred by covid patients.
I have not come across one of these stories before. Seems like this information is another datapoint to those who are “vax hesitant”>

re: #66 Dread Pirate Ron

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:42:48am

So, this tee crossed my path…

And I’ve gotten embroiled in a heated discussion with some Swedish-speaking ammosexual in the forum in which it was posted, who thinks guns solve all problems, with a (distinctly?) Swedish twist, better psychiatric assessments and lockups…
:sighs:
Let’s see if he fails basic tactical training lesson “don’t let yourself be goaded or tempted into exposing yourself unnecessarily”…
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:43:26am

re: #77 Ming5000

From downthread. Story about the costs being incurred by covid patients.
I have not come across one of these stories before. Seems like this information is another datapoint to those who are “vax hesitant”

Those who aren’t deterred by the possibility of death aren’t really going to be convinced of the bills (hoax, won’t happen to me, &c).

Employers laying down the law (vaccine or hit the road) might be more convincing, because that directly hits them in the wallet from their own actions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:08:19am

re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Those who aren’t deterred by the possibility of death aren’t really going to be convinced of the bills (hoax, won’t happen to me, &c).

Employers laying down the law (vaccine or hit the road) might be more convincing, because that directly hits them in the wallet from their own actions.

As would insurers who mandate vaccination or no coverage of Covid-related treatment.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:14:09am

re: #4 austin_blue

And off to bed.I need to get up early, as my most recent Annual Physical showed that there may be an elevated risk in my Prostrate Gland health requiring a blood draw.

I want to thank Detective Andy Sipowicz for the spelling/pronunciation aid on the Gland.

I am just *so* fucking excited.

Don’t take it lying down…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:15:32am

Protestant gland?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:17:09am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Protestant gland?

That would be divided into ten thousand different glands, all asserting they are the true gland.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:21:58am

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That would be divided into ten thousand different glands, all asserting they are the true gland.

The Church or En-gland!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:22:31am

Since we don’t have 5G service here, I’m upset that vaccine makers didn’t invent a rotary dial vaccine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:24:04am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Since we don’t have 5G service here, I’m upset that vaccine makers didn’t invent a rotary dial vaccine.

for the Phone Modema vaccine?

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:25:11am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Since we don’t have 5G service here, I’m upset that vaccine makers didn’t invent a rotary dial vaccine.

Random side tangent: My grandmother leased a rotary phone from her phone company. When she died in 2005, my sister and mother tried to acquire the phone from the company, since it was basically an antique (and kind of collectible). The phone company refused, and demanded the return of the phone.

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

More of “let’s not interview any of the veterans who are freakin’ ecstatic that we’re done with this now.” This seems to be the variant of the Iowa diner interviews.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:26:32am

Alabama poison control center reports that calls re Ivermectin are triple (21) the pre-covid rate.
wdhn.com

Last night the local news interviewed the manager of our Tractor Supply store, who is pleading with randos not to buy it—she can’t maintain supplies for her long-term equine customers. Still looking for link.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:27:06am

re: #87 Dopamine Fish

Random side tangent: My grandmother leased a rotary phone from her phone company. When she died in 2005, my sister and mother tried to acquire the phone from the company, since it was basically an antique (and kind of collectible). The phone company refused, and demanded the return of the phone.

Too straightforward in your approach; you should’ve just claimed that it was lost/stolen/damaged/accidentally thrown out a window at a passing truck, etc…

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:29:15am

Damn, China’s just getting relentlessly hammered with extreme weather….

Flooding in Xi’an’s Lantian County: 13th Dynasty Capital Hit by Worst Flooding in 86 Years

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jeffreyw  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:31:13am

Good morning!

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:33:25am

re: #87 Dopamine Fish

Random side tangent: My grandmother leased a rotary phone from her phone company. When she died in 2005, my sister and mother tried to acquire the phone from the company, since it was basically an antique (and kind of collectible). The phone company refused, and demanded the return of the phone.

“oops got thrown out by the cleaning crew. Sorry. How much do we owe you?”

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steve_davis  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:34:36am

re: #59 Targetpractice

I suppose it would depend upon the taste. If it is close enough to the taste of normal butter that I can’t tell the difference, then I probably wouldn’t have an issue with it. But if there’s a detectable difference in the taste that I find unpleasant, then the answer is probably “No.”

we’re already eating bug cake. there is some percentage of cake flour that is allowed to be composed of the various critters that fall into stuff while it’s being produced.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:47:23am

re: #94 steve_davis

we’re already eating bug cake. there is some percentage of cake flour that is allowed to be composed of the various critters that fall into stuff while it’s being produced.

Probably true of all/most manufactured food. Peanut butter fer shure.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:48:32am

Morning Lizards. Let the fun and games commence.

///

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:48:53am

re: #95 Decatur Deb

Probably true of all/most manufactured food. Peanut butter fer shure.

and rat feces

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:50:48am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and rat feces

Eliminating all squicky from food would starve x people worldwide. “X” might be very high.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:51:19am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

well, soon you can get a rotary dial cellphone….

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

Nice touch with the external antenna - should actually be better than just about every phone on the market in marginal areas. Price is a little high, tho; but since is such a bespoke device (and it has a physical mic cutoff switch), it’ll be great for the paranoids.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:52:08am

re: #98 Decatur Deb

Eliminating all squicky from food would starve x people worldwide. “X” might be very high.

That’s true of any industrial process. The very reason quality control exists is because random stuff happens whenever you take something to scale, and QC at least gives you a chance to catch some of the random stuff and redo it before it’s too late.

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steve_davis  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:55:29am

re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I can understand a riot over a Nutella shortage.

We can’t get it here (which is why my wife bought it from a restaurant supply in a 6# tub). One dose of Nutella after I arrived in Spain and I was hooked.

f-ing Ingles carries Nutella. No idea why. My only theory is that there is a huge German immigrant presence up the road (Walhalla) with its own Oktoberfest every year, and maybe that has led to a regional level understanding of the joys of Nutella.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:55:31am

re: #100 Dopamine Fish

That’s true of any industrial process. The very reason quality control exists is because random stuff happens whenever you take something to scale, and QC at least gives you a chance to catch some of the random stuff and redo it before it’s too late.

Uncle was a fire inspector at plants in the 1950’s. He didn’t eat much hamburger.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:56:20am

re: #102 Decatur Deb

Uncle was a fire inspector at plants in the 1950’s. He didn’t eat much hamburger.

My dad worked at Kraft Foods for over 30 years in their environmental department, mostly dealing with waste water treatment facilities. I know what goes into Oscar Meyer hot dogs.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:57:02am

re: #101 steve_davis

f-ing Ingles carries Nutella. No idea why. My only theory is that there is a huge German immigrant presence up the road (Walhalla) with its own Oktoberfest every year, and maybe that has led to a regional level understanding of the joys of Nutella.

Our kids got hooked in Italy. It was hard to satisfy them when we came back to Alabama.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 25, 2021 • 4:59:24am

This sounds promising for those of us that got the J & J poke. Now when can I get mine?

Johnson & Johnson booster shot prompts large increase in immune response, company says

“People who received a booster six to eight months after their initial J&J shots saw antibodies increase nine-fold higher than 28 days after the first shot, Johnson & Johnson said.”

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:01:20am

re: #102 Decatur Deb

Uncle was a fire inspector at plants in the 1950’s. He didn’t eat much hamburger.

Worked at an Armour meat plant for awhile. Most of it didn’t bother me but I will NEVER eat at a White Castle. That line squicked me.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:04:36am

Yesterday I took down our voter registration table at the food court of the local community college. In two days, none of the mail-in forms or League of Women Voters handouts were taken. In the half-hour it took to set up/tear down, I got commitments from 7 passing students. Passive approaches don’t work in that environment. We need new methods for the CV-19 world.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:06:38am

re: #106 William Lewis

Worked at an Armour meat plant for awhile. Most of it didn’t bother me but I will NEVER eat at a White Castle. That line squicked me.

Until 1985, Jack in the Box wasowned by Ralston Purina Corporation. I can imagine they had a single line with different levers to pull to add ingredients for Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Goat Chow, Monkey Chow and Taco Filling…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:09:51am

re: #99 Eric The Fruit Bat

Huh. That external antenna might actually be enough to hit the Viero tower four blocks away.

AT&T and T-Mobile’s coverage maps as posted here a couple days ago look like our state’s Covid-19 reporting map (a big blank).

I don’t have a SIM card though. My TracFone flip phone has the SIM card built in and is not removable.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:10:18am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Given the way most Americans treat their pets, that was probably a higher quality food line than Armour’s was … O_o

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:11:00am

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Huh. That external antenna might actually be enough to hit the Viero tower four blocks away.

AT&T and T-Mobile’s coverage maps as posted here a couple days ago look like our state’s Covid-19 reporting map (a big blank).

I don’t have a SIM card though. My TracFone flip phone has the SIM card built in and is not removable.

$.99 for a removable one from TracFone.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:14:50am

re: #111 William Lewis

$.99 for a removable one from TracFone.

Really? Perhaps I should look at their Website (I have a free plastic flip phone when they banned 2G from their service and I had to upgrade).

Can you just get the SIM card and put it in the rotary cell phone?

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:16:41am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Really? Perhaps I should look at their Website (I have a free plastic flip phone when they banned 2G from their service and I had to upgrade).

Can you just get the SIM card and put it in the rotary cell phone?

Should be able to. Then just buy your usual minutes. I set my son’s cell phone up that way before his trip last week.

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Nojay UK  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:17:11am

re: #105 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

“Large company’s press flacks say large company’s product is wonderful. Look! Numbers! Percentages! Woohoo!”

This is why double-blind independent trials were invented.

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BlueSpotinAL  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:17:30am

re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You can still push back against this information with your co-workers, now that the propagandist left.

You could even bring it up, “so you know that guy who was here, talking about X? I checked, it’s all bullshyte.”

Or, “that poor guy believes everything he reads on the internet”

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:20:21am

re: #102 Decatur Deb

Uncle was a fire inspector at plants in the 1950’s. He didn’t eat much hamburger.

re: #103 Dopamine Fish

My dad worked at Kraft Foods for over 30 years in their environmental department, mostly dealing with waste water treatment facilities. I know what goes into Oscar Meyer hot dogs.

re: #106 William Lewis

Worked at an Armour meat plant for awhile. Most of it didn’t bother me but I will NEVER eat at a White Castle. That line squicked me.

This is why I buy all my red meat and poultry from the kosher butcher. And Hebrew National are my only hot dogs.

I’m not kosher, I’ll bring that ground beef home and make cheeseburgers with it. But still. I also, when possible, aim for grass-fed beef and free-range chicken.

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:20:48am

re: #78 Teukka

So, this tee crossed my path…

[Embedded content]

And I’ve gotten embroiled in a heated discussion with some Swedish-speaking ammosexual in the forum in which it was posted, who thinks guns solve all problems, with a (distinctly?) Swedish twist, better psychiatric assessments and lockups…
:sighs:
Let’s see if he fails basic tactical training lesson “don’t let yourself be goaded or tempted into exposing yourself unnecessarily”…

Ayup, the guy flunked in EPIC fashion, and I told him so. Now to see whether he has a public meltdown in the forum…

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:22:40am

re: #116 sagehen

This is why I buy all my red meat and poultry from the kosher butcher. And Hebrew National are my only hot dogs.

I’m not kosher, I’ll bring that ground beef home and make cheeseburgers with it. But still. I also, when possible, aim for grass-fed beef and free-range chicken.

Don’t have a kosher place here but I do go to the best butcher I can afford. I keep meaning to try Hebrew National - I should put them on my list for payday groceries.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:24:47am

Today in Christian nationalism:

Jason Rapert set for contempt hearing in 10 Commandments lawsuit (Arkansas Times)

Federal Judge Kristine Baker has set a hearing Sept. 8 for Sen. Jason Rapert (R-District 35) to show cause why he should not be held in contempt of court for refusing to provide information to opposing lawyers in the lawsuit over the 10 Commandments monument on the state Capitol grounds.

Several plaintiffs sued Secretary of State John Thurston, who oversees the Capitol grounds, in 2018 over the monument, a tablet bearing a version of the 10 Commandments. Rapert led the legislative effort in 2015 to make a place for the installation on Capitol grounds and the plaintiffs contend it amounts to an establishment of religion by the state. A similar monument was successfully challenged in Oklahoma, by the Satanic Temple, which has intervened in the Arkansas case. It says if the 10 Commandments may be memorialized on the Capitol grounds, it should be allowed to place a satanic statue on the grounds.

(The Satanic Temple is not a party to the suit, they filed a brief. Parties include the ACLU, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and several Christians and atheists in their own capacity. All the suits were rolled up into one class-action.)

The case has dragged along, partly because of the pandemic and partly because of resistance by parties to providing information. Rapert has refused to provide information about the source of the bill he introduced to pave the way for the monument, claiming legislative privilege. He has also refused to provide information about the private organization that raised money for the installation. Plaintiffs believe this material would illustrate the religious roots of the project.

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Jesse Lee Peterson is often characterised as low in intelligence due to his speech patterns. That is not the case. He was born with a cleft palette which was not corrected by surgery until age six. As such, his speech development was affected and he has not been able to overcome that difficulty.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:25:36am

re: #113 William Lewis

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This phone won’t be shipping until near the end of the year due to supply chain issues. Instead of using 4 bars for signal strength, it has 10 LED’s on the side that will show signal strength.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:25:40am

re: #118 William Lewis

Don’t have a kosher place here but I do go to the best butcher I can afford. I keep meaning to try Hebrew National - I should put them on my list for payday groceries.

we had a local fellow in Gary, Indiana who served Vienna sausages on a poppy seed roll.

really spoiled my palate for cheap hot dogs

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:27:13am

re: #116 sagehen

This is why I buy all my red meat and poultry from the kosher butcher. And Hebrew National are my only hot dogs.

I’m not kosher, I’ll bring that ground beef home and make cheeseburgers with it. But still. I also, when possible, aim for grass-fed beef and free-range chicken.

You know that whole brining turkey/chickens to make it moist and tender?

That’s part and parcel of the koshering process. Kosher birds are widely seen as more moist than other birds on the market. So, if you don’t have the time to brine your turkey, a Kosher one will do quite nicely.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:27:29am

re: #114 Nojay UK

“Large company’s press flacks say large company’s product is wonderful. Look! Numbers! Percentages! Woohoo!”

This is why double-blind independent trials were invented.

Which is why I’ll wait for the CDC approval of the booster. Like I said in my post. “It looks promising”.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:27:51am

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

we had a local fellow in Gary, Indiana who served Vienna sausages on a poppy seed roll.

really spoiled my palate for cheap hot dogs

My wife really offended our Swiss friend when we were in Germany describing how bratwurst is sold here: In patties.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:29:15am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Today in Christian nationalism:

Jason Rapert set for contempt hearing in 10 Commandments lawsuit (Arkansas Times)

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Jesse Lee Peterson is often characterised as low in intelligence due to his speech patterns. That is not the case. He was born with a cleft palette which was not corrected by surgery until age six. As such, his speech development was affected and he has not been able to overcome that difficulty.

I had to bite my tongue almost a year ago, one of my friends was bitterly complaining that Trump fanatics were being called “Christian nationalists”, and I was thinking in the back of my head, “But you are, though… If the shoe fits…”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:30:42am

re: #120 Eric The Fruit Bat

This phone won’t be shipping until near the end of the year due to supply chain issues. Instead of using 4 bars for signal strength, it has 10 LED’s on the side that will show signal strength.

Damn. I want a rotary-dial cell phone.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:33:25am

Looks like OnlyFans will continue to be a haven for sexually explicit content, thanks to some unnamed contributor(s):

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:36:57am

re: #125 Dopamine Fish

I had to bite my tongue almost a year ago, one of my friends was bitterly complaining that Trump fanatics were being called “Christian nationalists”, and I was thinking in the back of my head, “But you are, though… If the shoe fits…”

There’s not a hell of a lot of difference between them and former Representative Steve King of Iowa on his censure over his White Nationalist statements on the House floor.

He later compared his censure to the suffering of Jesus, because apparently Nancy Pelosi had him nailed to a cross then soldiers stabbed him in the side with a spear, oh wait, he’s a deluded nut.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:37:12am

Good morning everyone…I’ll be a bit scarce for the next few days as I’ve got to fly down to the desert and help the folks…but I just saw this delicious nugget over at dKos.

Wohl & Burkman get fined $5million by the FCC

The FCC just proposed the largest robocalling fine in the history of robocalling. Released on Tuesday, the proposal calls for right-wing fraudsters and racist robocall creators Jacob Wohl and John Burkman to pay a $5,134,500 fine for “apparently making 1,141 unlawful robocalls to wireless phones without prior express consent in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).” The proposal points out that besides being the largest fine for robocalling ever proposed by the FCC, “It is also the first action where the FCC was not required to warn robocallers before robocall violations could be counted toward a proposed fine, per Congress’s recent amendment of the TCPA.”

$4500 fine per phone call adds up fast.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:37:37am

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Damn. I want a rotary-dial cell phone.

It’s not cheap at $390, and you will have some assembly to do as it’s a kit, which makes it bypass the pesky FCC testing/certification. It uses a full-size SIM, which are getting as rare as hen’s teeth given virtually all current production phones now use nano-SIMs.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:38:33am

re: #130 Eric The Fruit Bat

It’s not cheap at $390, and you will have some assembly to do as it’s a kit, which makes it bypass the pesky FCC testing/certification. It uses a full-size SIM, which are getting as rare as hen’s teeth given virtually all current production phones now use nano-SIMs.

Yes, but you can get an adapter to fit said nano-SIM into a full-size SIM slot. I used to have one when I got a new SIM for an older iPhone.

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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:38:45am

Good morning folks!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:42:22am

re: #127 Dopamine Fish

Looks like OnlyFans will continue to be a haven for sexually explicit content, thanks to some unnamed contributor(s):

Suspended doesn’t mean revoked, and a lot of people in that thread are calling out the difference.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:42:44am

Hey…I’m just the messenger.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:44:06am

re: #116 sagehen

This is why I buy all my red meat and poultry from the kosher butcher. And Hebrew National are my only hot dogs.

I’m not kosher, I’ll bring that ground beef home and make cheeseburgers with it. But still. I also, when possible, aim for grass-fed beef and free-range chicken.

My meat grinder arrived yesterday and I plan on making my own ground meats here in the near future. Beef, pork and yes, buffalo/Bison is readily available in my area.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:44:21am

re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Suspended doesn’t mean revoked, and a lot of people in that thread are calling out the difference.

That’s a fair point. My guess is that it’s “suspended” in case the contingency assurances they mention fall through, in which case it would be un-suspended.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:45:02am

re: #116 sagehen

This is why I buy all my red meat and poultry from the kosher butcher. And Hebrew National are my only hot dogs.

I’m not kosher, I’ll bring that ground beef home and make cheeseburgers with it. But still. I also, when possible, aim for grass-fed beef and free-range chicken.

They Answer to a Higher Authority.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:45:28am

re: #116 sagehen

This is why I buy all my red meat and poultry from the kosher butcher. And Hebrew National are my only hot dogs.

I’m not kosher, I’ll bring that ground beef home and make cheeseburgers with it. But still. I also, when possible, aim for grass-fed beef and free-range chicken.

Man, I miss those Hebrew Nationals.

Nothing like that in my neck of the woods. Only hot dogs made from “chicken”.

“Chicken”
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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:46:05am

the story is our a/c motor burned out
2nd time in 5 years
fortunately 5 days before the 5 year warranty is up
so around 650 vs 2k+

what looked like a freon leak outside was frozen condensate on the pipes melting…

the likely cause of the motor failures is the ducts werent evaluated / sized / replaced with the unit in 2016.

we’re guessing they are now over 20 years old and the pics from the visual inspection didnt look good

then we’re adding in mrsdm’s lung issues and yeah, it’s time

so maybe we’ll get the motor today and the house cooled off.
then we’re looking at replacing all the ducts and adding UV light in the air handler as well.

small house / full day job
oh joy.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:47:07am

re: #130 Eric The Fruit Bat

It’s not cheap at $390, and you will have some assembly to do as it’s a kit, which makes it bypass the pesky FCC testing/certification. It uses a full-size SIM, which are getting as rare as hen’s teeth given virtually all current production phones now use nano-SIMs.

Tracfone sim I got for my son included adaptors for all the various sizes from full to down to nano.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:48:52am

re: #140 William Lewis

Tracfone sim I got for my son included adaptors for all the various sizes from full to down to nano.

Yeah, I know that; was just commenting on how rare it is for today’s phones to be using full-size SIMs…

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:51:37am

re: #120 Eric The Fruit Bat

This phone won’t be shipping until near the end of the year due to supply chain issues. Instead of using 4 bars for signal strength, it has 10 LED’s on the side that will show signal strength.

Yeah, I saw that. Personally I prefer having a computer in my pocket that can double as an “ok” phone or camera rather than this but I think it’s a neat project and I’d almost be tempted to buy one for the S&G of it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:55:05am

re: #136 Dopamine Fish

That’s a fair point. My guess is that it’s “suspended” in case the contingency assurances they mention fall through, in which case it would be un-suspended.

There are a whole lot of disrespectful people to those complaining about the whiplash, telling them to get “real jobs” and such, or that what the content creators do isn’t “work” (YouTubers get the same, without the misogyny usually).

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:56:12am

re: #142 William Lewis

I’d almost be tempted to buy one for the S&G of it.

I’d buy one for emergencies as my signal strength here, even with T-Mobile’s LTE signal doesn’t reach that far, and when I lose internet I lose my femtocell at the residence it’s very hit-and-miss on my iPhone, showing at best one bar.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 5:59:39am

re: #132 (((Archangel1)))

Good morning folks!

LOL

Candace Owens hit with $20m lawsuit for calling fellow pundit a strip club ‘madame’ (The Independent)

The suit comes from former congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik

Conservative pundit Candace Owens is facing a $20m defamation lawsuit which claims she smeared a fellow right-wing commentator with false allegations of drug use, fraud and working as a strip club “madame”.

Kimberly Klacik, a former Republican congressional candidate and regular on conservative news programmes, accused Ms Owens of sharing an insulting string of allegations in an Instagram video seen by thousands that she claims amounted to “character assassination,” part of a long-running feud between the two.

“Baseless character assassination has no place in political dialogue,” Ms Klacik’s attorney, Jacob S Frankel, told Law & Crime (further details at the link). “The defendant chose to use her huge social media platform to attack a respected Baltimore political figure; we are using the proper forum - the power of the courts - to respond.”

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:00:46am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:04:39am

re: #146 lawhawk

Rich Lowry going to retract that call for an apology to Gov. DeSantis yet?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:10:45am

re: #146 lawhawk

Lots of people in that thread where when facts bump up against their conservative religious belief, they have to throw out the fact rather than admit their faith is wrong.

Simple bleatings like “fake news” (one of the chants of their faith), to providing misleading charts or graphs.

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:12:12am

re: #135 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

My meat grinder arrived yesterday and I plan on making my own ground meats here in the near future. Beef, pork and yes, buffalo/Bison is readily available in my area.

Do you live in moose-land? I know there’s lots of deer-hunters in that part of the world.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:13:14am

re: #116 sagehen

re: #137 Decatur Deb

I have not eaten hot dogs in a great many years, and not bought any in even longer. But when I did buy them I’d look for kosher products like Hebrew National, in the hopes that the processing was cleaner.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:15:21am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Correction, Jesse Lee Peterson’s cleft palette was not corrected until he was sixteen, not six.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:17:30am

A reminder Liz Cheney and Adam Kitzinger are not “reasonable conservatives.”

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:20:36am

re: #15 JOE 🥓

Aunt Vivian hated Campbell’s Mushroom Soup. She made hers from scratch with beef stock.

Sure didn’t taste like Campbell’s!

Probably was lacking the 850 mg of sodium per serving

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:22:20am

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I understand the anus gives you the most bang for the buck, guys.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:23:29am

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

And then there was this, with cream of mushroom soup no less. I have mentioned before that my first wife loved mushroom soup recipes. I tried to convince her that mushrooms were related to athlete’s foot, both being fungi, but she was not dissuaded.

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How stoned were people in the ‘60’s that they got that kind of munchies in the ‘70’s?

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:25:13am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:25:43am

It doesn’t take much to skew the numbers. With eight violent crimes in 2019, Boys Town topped the state at 13.82 per 1,000 people, which is a misleading stat because it only had a 2019 population of 579.

They missed Angora’s one murder, kidnapping, and car arson in a town with a population of one. Per capita Angora is by far the most violent town in this state.

The list only has bigger cities.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:27:58am

re: #155 The Pie Overlord!

How stoned were people in the ‘60’s that they got that kind of munchies in the ‘70’s?

My ex-wife refused to eat mushrooms. She’d say, “I’m not eating fungus. Phooey.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:35:43am

Sydney is taking their lockdown orders seriously, and the cries of Christian persecution are already audible here.

Each churchgoer in this church was fined AUS$1,000 for attending a crowded church.

Police have ordered Blacktown church, Christ Embassy Sydney, to shut down following an illegal gathering of 60 worshippers. Nearby businesses have reported as many as 3 services over the past week. The latest attracting an angry reaction from the local mayor.

More details: 7news.com.au

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Churchgoers at Blacktown church Christ Embassy Sydney fined after COVID-19 breach | 7NEWS

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:35:52am

re: #158 Dr Lizardo

My ex-wife refused to eat mushrooms. She’d say, “I’m not eating fungus. Phooey.”

Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:38:05am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen.

+1

Now get out. —————>
;-)

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:38:31am

The police department that killed Breonna Taylor.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:40:33am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen.

Upfist for the pun.

Everyone else here is jealous they didn’t think of it first.

The dish would certainly be more intriguing with “interesting” mushrooms.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:41:21am

re: #149 sagehen

Do you live in moose-land? I know there’s lots of deer-hunters in that part of the world.

Not really. There are some in the area but I don’t know anyone who has actually hunted them. Tags are as rare as hens teeth and expensive as hell. Idaho also considers them to be “once in a life time” trophy animal.

Information about hunting moose in Idaho

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:42:50am

re: #163 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Upfist for the pun.

Everyone else here is jealous they didn’t think of it first.

The dish would certainly be more intriguing with “interesting” mushrooms.

I think there’s a fungible concept to work with.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:43:09am

re: #163 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Upfist for the pun.

Everyone else here is jealous they didn’t think of it first.

The dish would certainly be more intriguing with “interesting” mushrooms.

Don’t know where I stole it—maybe The Muppets.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:43:24am

re: #164 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

Not really. There are some in the area but I don’t know anyone who has actually hunted them. Tags are as rare as hens teeth and expensive as hell. Idaho also considers them to be “once in a life time” trophy animal.

Information about hunting moose in Idaho

We have moose in northeast Nebraska, but hunting them is banned.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:43:29am

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A reminder Liz Cheney and Adam Kitzinger are not “reasonable conservatives.”

They are not full blown fascists, unlike the rest of the GQP caucus. I never imagined before 2016 that one day a major US political party would go fascist, but here we are.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:44:33am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We have moose in northeast Nebraska, but hunting them is banned.

I did not know moose are that far south.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:45:27am

re: #165 lawhawk

I think there’s a fungible concept to work with.

There’s a morel to that story

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:45:33am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen.

Speaking of truffles, I understand that the Nic Cage movie, Pig, is very good. I’ll have to see that when I have the time. It’s been getting very strongly positive reviews.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:46:40am

No one predicted this, except every liberal. It went against conservative faith, so they could not accept facts.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:48:58am
Wall Street Journal: “Erik Prince, the American defense contractor, said he is offering people seats on a chartered plane out of Kabul for $6,500 per person.”

Didn’t take long

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:50:21am

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yes, people will also talk about the hundreds of murders in Chicago without comparing them to the size of the city.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:52:19am

re: #65 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

All is not well north of the border:

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Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests

Like any contagious disease, MAGAtry can easily cross the border.

In case you want to know what a “thin blue line” patch looks like on the other side of the Northern Border:

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:52:24am

re: #158 Dr Lizardo

My ex-wife refused to eat mushrooms. She’d say, “I’m not eating fungus. Phooey.”

Last time I bought a package of mushrooms, I for some unexplained reason, seemed to have also found a box of tempura mix and a can of Italian seasoned breadcrumbs in the cabinet. And the deep fryer that was just sitting there not being used. Said mushrooms didn’t last very long for some strange reason. :-)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:52:37am

re: #169 No Malarkey!

I did not know moose are that far south.

Also here, apparently.

A wandering moose is roaming western Nebraska in the tracks of newcomer mountain lions, elk and bighorn sheep.

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission officials say a moose has been spotted numerous times by residents in the North Platte River valley in the Panhandle.

Confirmed sightings suggest that the moose has been in the region for several weeks and was last reported in Morrill County.

Moose are rarely seen in Nebraska. Wildlife biologists suspect the recent arrival came from Wyoming. Unlike breeding populations of cougars, elk and bighorns established in recent decades, Nebraska has no wild moose herds.

Occasionally, a wayward Minnesota moose will be seen in northeast Nebraska.

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This is rare: Moose spotted several times in Nebraska Panhandle (Omaha World-Herald, April 8, 2015)

LINCOLN - The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is monitoring the movement of a bull moose through northeastern Nebraska.

A moose was observed Oct. 4 near Dixon, which is 12 miles north of Wayne in Dixon County. This follows one report of a moose sighting Sept. 26 south of Platte Center in Platte County and another in recent days of a moose near Wayne in Wayne County.

The Commission urges the public to keep a safe distance from any moose, and especially not approach it. Even if moose appear to be docile, they have been known to become aggressive.

“Commission staff will periodically monitor the movement of the moose as it explores rural areas of northeastern Nebraska,” said Karie Decker, the Commission’s interim wildlife division administrator. “It is expected that if the moose, as with most wildlife, encounters a more urban area, it will pass through to more rural environments.”

Commission monitoring movement of moose in northeastern Nebraska (Nebraskaland Magazine)

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:52:48am

re: #173 Dangerman

Didn’t take long

Biden should charge a $7500 fine for every person that gets charged for a seat out.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:54:01am

Mike Lindell, not content to be an international laughingstock from his “cyber symposium” debacle, doubles down on the stupid and attempts to appeal the decision to allow Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against him to proceed:

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:54:45am

re: #175 The Pie Overlord!

In case you want to know what a “thin blue line” patch looks like on the other side of the Northern Border:

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It’s good when they tag themselves.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:54:51am

re: #174 Belafon

Yes, people will also talk about the hundreds of murders in Chicago without comparing them to the size of the city.

That doesn’t help make their point

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:55:04am

I love this about the nine centrist Democrats who wanted to show they were tough and got squat out of their tactics:

“I don’t consider them concessions,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said of the demands granted to the centrists.

“The fact that they’re gonna end up supporting what they said they wouldn’t without actually getting what they wanted, I think sets them up for failure in negotiations in the future,” she added.

politico.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:57:08am

re: #173 Dangerman

Didn’t take long

Hillary Clinton didn’t charge anything. Pretty much tells you what you need to know about grift.

People will pay Erik Prince the money though, as there are people who have it and are desperate.

I just love the humanist concern for desperate people by squeezing them for whatever they’ll pay.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:57:28am

re: #182 Belafon

About that whole thing:

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:58:52am

re: #118 William Lewis

Don’t have a kosher place here but I do go to the best butcher I can afford. I keep meaning to try Hebrew National - I should put them on my list for payday groceries.

Jack’s Kosher Beef Sausage is like a million steps above Hebrew National.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:59:13am

re: #179 Dopamine Fish

Mike Lindell, not content to be an international laughingstock from his “cyber symposium” debacle, doubles down on the stupid and attempts to appeal the decision to allow Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against him to proceed:

I’m fine with him bankrupting himself. That way he won’t have any money when it comes time to meet the ICU over Covid-19.

It turns out I have no patience for these douchecanoes.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 6:59:54am
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:00:34am
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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:01:10am

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hillary Clinton didn’t charge anything. Pretty much tells you what you need to know about grift.

People will pay Erik Prince the money though, as there are people who have it and are desperate.

I just love the humanist concern for desperate people by squeezing them for whatever they’ll pay.

From a filthy rich guy

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:01:49am
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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:03:06am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen.

;)

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:03:25am

re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m fine with him bankrupting himself. That way he won’t have any money when it comes time to meet the ICU over Covid-19.

It turns out I have no patience for these douchecanoes.

The TL;DR of the thread is that appealing this kind of decision is basically frowned upon, rarely granted, and mostly serves just to antagonize the court and make you look like a petty jackass in front of the judge. Which is accurate; Lindell is, in fact, a petty jackass. I’m happy to watch him beclown himself repeatedly.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:04:00am
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sagehen  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:04:16am

re: #175 The Pie Overlord!

In case you want to know what a “thin blue line” patch looks like on the other side of the Northern Border:

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um… don’t Canadian law enforcement dress like Dudley Do-Right?

Shouldn’t it be a “thin red line”?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:05:27am

Just got an alert from NBC stating that OnlyFans is reversing is decision on allowing sexually explicit material.

OnlyFans reverses decision to ban sexually explicit content after backlash

Probably late to post, but…

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:05:42am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen.

If you don’t hear this in Princess Vespa’s voice, I don’t know what’s wrong with you.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:11:39am

The trash truck just drove off the alley and got stuck in my backyard.

After several minutes of digging my yard up, they got free.

I suppose I could put a claim in to the village but it’s probably easier to fix it myself. We’re not talking an irrigated lawn here, just sparse prairie grasses and numerous Russian thistle (Old West tumbleweeds). Basically I just have to fill in the trench he dug in my yard with the truck.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:11:53am

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife really offended our Swiss friend when we were in Germany describing how bratwurst is sold here: In patties.

Germans pulled out a Mettwurst , which looks like a Jimmy Dean sausage roll for breakfast and were shocked that wanted to fry it with the eggs.

Heck, they were shocked at me wanting to fry anything for breakfast, they might serve a hard-boiled egg and some toast, but the rest of a proper German breakfast is served at room temperature.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:12:12am

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Damn. I want a rotary-dial cell phone.

I think someone has an app for that

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:13:45am

re: #197 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The trash truck just drove off the alley and got stuck in my backyard.

After several minutes of digging my yard up, they got free.

I suppose I could put a claim in to the village but it’s probably easier to fix it myself. We’re not talking an irrigated lawn here, just sparse prairie grasses and numerous Russian thistle (Old West tumbleweeds). Basically I just have to fill in the trench he dug in my yard with the truck.

I remember having to make several yard repairs at my grandmother’s house, as her property was adjacent to a narrow alley and was also the only open space along said alley, resulting in vehicles just kinda meandering into her yard space at random.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:14:02am

re: #171 Dr Lizardo

Speaking of truffles, I understand that the Nic Cage movie, Pig, is very good. I’ll have to see that when I have the time. It’s been getting very strongly positive reviews.

There’s also a documentary about four Italian truffle hunters, their relationships with family, and more importantly with their dogs.

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:15:01am

re: #197 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The trash truck just drove off the alley and got stuck in my backyard.

After several minutes of digging my yard up, they got free.

I suppose I could put a claim in to the village but it’s probably easier to fix it myself. We’re not talking an irrigated lawn here, just sparse prairie grasses and numerous Russian thistle (Old West tumbleweeds). Basically I just have to fill in the trench he dug in my yard with the truck.

how deep is the trench? Is it half a grave? Is there somebody in town you’re looking to get rid of?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:15:41am

re: #192 Dopamine Fish

Waiting for sanctions against lawyers for filing these time-wasters. That would end this crap right away. IANAL but I understand that a lawyer is supposed to advise a client on the merits of a case, the likelihood of success, and when appropriate the reasons it shouldn’t be pursued.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:19:10am

re: #169 No Malarkey!

I did not know moose are that far south.

probably on vacation

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:22:15am

re: #202 sagehen

how deep is the trench? Is it half a grave? Is there somebody in town you’re looking to get rid of?

LOL. No, just a deep set of tire tracks.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:22:36am

re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

probably on vacation

Checking out Carhenge.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:24:27am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen.

That was very Savoy of you…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:26:54am

re: #201 Barefoot Grin

There’s also a documentary about four Italian truffle hunters, their relationships with family, and more importantly with their dogs.

I hope he is out of the rut of having to take any role offered to him and can do things with some quality

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:35:04am

The Texas Attorney General’s office has concluded, without signatures to the document, that Ken Paxton has done nothing wrong: dailykos.com.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:35:18am

Man Photographed as Baby on ‘Nevermind’ Cover Sues Nirvana, Alleging Child Pornography (Variety)

The album cover depicts Elden underwater in a swimming pool as a then-infant with his genitalia exposed. The image has generally been understood as a statement on capitalism, as it includes the digital imposition of a dollar bill on a fishhook that the baby appears to be enthusiastically swimming toward. Non-sexualized nude photos of infants are generally not considered child pornography under law.

However, Robert Y. Lewis, Elden’s lawyer, offers an unusual interpretation of the image to argue that it crosses the line into child porn, writing that the inclusion of currency in the shot makes the baby appear “like a sex worker.”

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He is suing each member of the band and those who produced the album for $150,000.

What was a constant, in the past as now, is that Elden has said he was never compensated for the photo beyond the $200 his parents were paid for it on the day of the shoot. In previous interviews, he’s said he tried to get in touch with Grohl and Novoselic, on a friendly basis, but never got a reply. A possibly new contention in the lawsuit is that Elden’s parents never even signed paperwork allowing any use of the image.

“Neither Spencer nor his legal guardians ever signed a release authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him,” reads the suit.

The filing references some famous, or infamous, moments in rock album art history: “The concept and creation of this image replicated previous controversial campaigns used to promote music with sexually explicit material depicting a child or outright child pornography, including the album covers for Scorpion’s ‘Virgin Killer,’ Blind Faith’s ‘Blind Faith’ and Van Halen’s ‘Balance.’”

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:37:28am

re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I hope he is out of the rut of having to take any role offered to him and can do things with some quality

Never.

7 years of unpaid taxes, during his most famous big star days… plus penalties and interest… he’ll be doing whatever work he can get until he’s physically unable to continue.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:37:38am

I see nothing in Nevermind that is at all sexually explicit in nature, but I guess his lawyers advised him to try that angle.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:37:49am

re: #209 Belafon

The Texas Attorney General’s office has concluded, without signatures to the document, that Ken Paxton has done nothing wrong: dailykos.com.

So he cleared himself. Is he a police department?

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:40:11am
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sagehen  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:40:40am

Pentagon evacuation press conf:

88,000 people so far. Yesterday, a plane departed Kabul every 39 minutes.

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:41:37am

re: #188 Belafon

As with most things relating to Israel, the media gets things wrong, amplifies inaccuracies and omissions.

Yes, Israel had a fast adoption of getting doses out, but that has slowed significantly. It now has lower vaccination rate than many other countries that started off more slowly. Case rates are comparable to other locations with similar vaccination rates.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:41:49am

re: #214 Belafon

So now that Trump is done with them, they are just Central Asian Mexicans…

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:42:57am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:43:03am

re: #214 Belafon

He’s used that “best and brightest” remark before to smear Mexico.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:43:11am

re: #215 sagehen

Pentagon evacuation press conf:

88,000 people so far. Yesterday, a plane departed Kabul every 39 minutes.

Under Trump it would have been 90,000 and a plane leaving every 36 minutes…and the Taliban would have paid for it!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:43:12am
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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:44:12am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So apparently, the answer to the age-old question, “Is the Pope Catholic?”, is, at the current moment, “No.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:44:44am

Republican courage on display in Ohio yesterday

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:44:55am

re: #92 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:45:00am

re: #222 Dopamine Fish

So apparently, the answer to the age-old question, “Is the Pope Catholic?” is, at the current moment, “No.”

Need to go set a bear trap in my bathroom…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:46:10am

re: #222 Dopamine Fish

So apparently, the answer to the age-old question, “Is the Pope Catholic?”, is, at the current moment, “No.”

Well, for this sedevacantist anyway, which I believe the Catholic Church defines as “heretic.”

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:46:48am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sounds like the Pope needs to make some changes at this place.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:47:31am
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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:47:38am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The papal election was rigged. Cyber Ninjas are going to audit it as soon as they recover from Covid.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:47:59am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:52:06am

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

Again, part of being President is taking responsibility, even for things heaped on you by your predecessor(s)

Just as part of being President is not blaming your catastrophic failures on the Chinese, the Liberal Press or the Deep State, and not blaming Dominion Voting Systems when you lose an election.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:54:08am

The latest dead anti-vaxxer on fuckedantivaxxers.com is a healthcare professional who worked with Covid patients. He blamed illegal immigrants before he died.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:55:47am

re: #226 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, for this sedevacantist anyway, which I believe the Catholic Church defines as “heretic.”

And I learned a new word today. Thanks!

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b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:57:11am

Ahh, good times.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:57:22am

Igor Vovkovinskiy, tallest man in US, dies at 38 (Omaha World-Herald, top article this morning)

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States, has died in Minnesota. He was 38.

His family said the Ukrainian-born Vovkovinskiy died of heart disease on Friday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His mother, Svetlana Vovkovinska, an ICU nurse at Mayo, initially posted about his death on Facebook.

Vovkovinskiy came to the Mayo Clinic in 1989 as a child seeking treatment. A tumor pressing against his pituitary gland caused it to secrete abnormal levels of growth hormone. He grew to become the tallest man in the U.S. at 7 feet, 8.33 inches and ended up staying in Rochester.

His older brother, Oleh Ladan of Brooklyn Park, told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that Vovkovinskiy was a celebrity when he arrived from Ukraine because of his size and the flickering Cold War of the late 1980s. But Ladan said Vovkovinskiy “would have rather lived a normal life than be known.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:57:35am

re: #232 No Malarkey!

The latest dead anti-vaxxer on fuckedantivaxxers.com is a healthcare professional who worked with Covid patients. He blamed illegal immigrants before he died.

because personal responsibility

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steve_davis  Aug 25, 2021 • 7:59:55am

re: #118 William Lewis

Don’t have a kosher place here but I do go to the best butcher I can afford. I keep meaning to try Hebrew National - I should put them on my list for payday groceries.

yeah, it’s why I stopped eating hot dogs. I realized I was eating parts of the pig that he was probably embarrassed to talk about with anyone other than his proctologist.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:00:57am

Thread of six tweets.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:01:19am

re: #237 steve_davis

yeah, it’s why I stopped eating hot dogs. I realized I was eating parts of the pig that he was probably embarrassed to talk about with anyone other than his proctologist.

The only time I eat them is roasted on a stick over an open fire when camping

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steve_davis  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:01:36am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Today in Christian nationalism:

Jason Rapert set for contempt hearing in 10 Commandments lawsuit (Arkansas Times)

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Jesse Lee Peterson is often characterised as low in intelligence due to his speech patterns. That is not the case. He was born with a cleft palette which was not corrected by surgery until age six. As such, his speech development was affected and he has not been able to overcome that difficulty.

there is no logical reason why someone born with a cleft palette cannot also be an idiot. Maybe God thought, “This kid is gonna be an idiot. Better give him a cleft palette so he has a ready excuse for that.”

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:04:27am

Things are about to get very interesting on vaccination mandate front. People are going to see businesses protecting their interests by insisting their workers get vaccinated because it reduces their exposure to economic disruptions and harms.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:05:24am

re: #241 lawhawk

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Things are about to get very interesting on vaccination mandate front. People are going to see businesses protecting their interests by insisting their workers get vaccinated because it reduces their exposure to economic disruptions and harms.

God Bless the Invisible Hand!

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:05:34am

re: #241 lawhawk

Things are about to get very interesting on vaccination mandate front. People are going to see businesses protecting their interests by insisting their workers get vaccinated because it reduces their exposure to economic disruptions and harms.

My company charges higher premiums for smokers, so I can see this happening.

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John Hughes  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:07:34am

re: #141 Eric The Fruit Bat

Yeah, I know that; was just commenting on how rare it is for today’s phones to be using full-size SIMs…

By “full size” do you mean micro-sims or just shoving the whole credit-card sized thing into the phone?

My first cell phone used a full sized SIM. I cannot remember what year that was.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:07:52am

re: #232 No Malarkey!

The latest dead anti-vaxxer on fuckedantivaxxers.com is a healthcare professional who worked with Covid patients. He blamed illegal immigrants before he died.

That guy’s Facebook page is a Dumpster fire of derp.

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Jay C  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:07:55am

re: #241 lawhawk

Things are about to get very interesting on vaccination mandate front. People are going to see businesses protecting their interests by insisting their workers get vaccinated because it reduces their exposure to economic disruptions and harms.

And no doubt see a huge uptick in suits against such mandates - probably on grounds of “discrimination”. And probably “religious discrimination” as the main theme (“I trust Jesus for protection, not the CDC”, etc)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:09:16am

re: #240 steve_davis

there is no logical reason why someone born with a cleft palette cannot also be an idiot. Maybe God thought, “This kid is gonna be an idiot. Better give him a cleft palette so he has a ready excuse for that.”

That’s true, but he usually gets dragged as an idiot for his speech patterns, which he really has no control over.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:09:54am

re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That was very Savoy of you…

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra “Stompin’ at the Savoy”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:10:03am

re: #246 Jay C

And no doubt see a huge uptick in suits against such mandates - probably on grounds of “discrimination”. And probably “religious discrimination” as the main theme (“I trust Jesus for protection, not the CDC”, etc)

Sorry, spectral evidence is not allowed in my courtroom.—Judge

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:14:59am

re: #249 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sorry, spectral evidence is not allowed in my courtroom.—Judge

“We’re going to wait ten minutes for God to walk through the door. After that, we shall consider him absent and proceed accordingly.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:15:56am

re: #233 Dopamine Fish

And I learned a new word today. Thanks!

Sedevacantism (from sede vacante, or a see with no bishop) argues there has been no valid Pope since Pius XII in 1958 (for most sedevacantists). They argue the principal document of the Second Vatican Council is heretical.

Others pick other years and popes.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:16:23am

re: #222 Dopamine Fish

So apparently, the answer to the age-old question, “Is the Pope Catholic?” is, at the current moment, “No.”

Of course not. Right wing Catholics repeatedly accuse Pope Francis of being a Communist.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:17:31am

re: #252 JOE 🥓

Of course not. Right wing Catholics repeatedly accuse Pope Francis of being a Communist.

I think they’re saying he’s not a Catholic because he’s a Jesuit.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:21:20am

re: #251 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sedevacantism (from sede vacante, or a see with no bishop) argues there has been no valid Pope since Pius XII in 1958 (for most sedevacantists). They argue the principal document of the Second Vatican Council is heretical.

Others pick other years and popes.

“The Pope’s are infallible, unless I don’t agree with them.”

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EstebanTornado1963  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:22:05am

re: #241 lawhawk

While reading that tweet came across this

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:23:58am

oh

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:24:59am

*snerk*

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:25:10am

re: #250 Belafon

“We’re going to wait ten minutes for God to walk through the door. After that, we shall consider him absent and proceed accordingly.”

“So help me, me.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:25:19am
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JOE 🥓  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:27:19am

re: #229 No Malarkey!

The papal election was rigged. Cyber Ninjas are going to audit it as soon as they recover from Covid.

Remember that the Koch Brothers tried to buy the throne for Dolan.

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John Hughes  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:28:08am

re: #188 Belafon

Our World in Data has them on 59% (of the population). Started strong, then lagged.

2021-08-24 totally vaccinated France/Israel/USA
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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:28:29am

re: #247 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s true, but he usually gets dragged as an idiot for his speech patterns, which he really has no control over.

kinda sorta-ish the argument last week about abbott

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:29:32am
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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:29:36am

re: #257 The Pie Overlord!

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:30:02am

re: #253 Belafon

I think they’re saying he’s not a Catholic because he’s a Jesuit.

thats the way i read it but both work for me

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:30:32am

re: #241 lawhawk

Things are about to get very interesting on vaccination mandate front. People are going to see businesses protecting their interests by insisting their workers get vaccinated because it reduces their exposure to economic disruptions and harms.

We’re about to see which conservative anti-vaxxers really do believe the nonsense around the vaccines, and which ones were simply conducting performative defiance. Hitting someone in the wallet really fleshes out who the true believers are.

Surely if you believe that the vaccines are poison or other nonsense, you would pay $200 a month to avoid it (though that might cut into your sheep dip budget).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:32:29am

Extremely local news: I just got a call from the village. They will be replacing all the reverse osmosis units in town with new ones from Culligan in October. The parts for the EcoWater units are becoming hard to get, and the units are obsolete.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:32:32am

re: #241 lawhawk

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Things are about to get very interesting on vaccination mandate front. People are going to see businesses protecting their interests by insisting their workers get vaccinated because it reduces their exposure to economic disruptions and harms.

Those corporate beancounters got to make a profit for the stockholders!

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gocart mozart  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:34:32am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Jesse Lee Peterson is often characterized as low in intelligence due to his speech patterns. That is not the case. He was born with a cleft palette which was not corrected by surgery until age six. As such, his speech development was affected and he has not been able to overcome that difficulty.

He should be characterized as low in intelligence for the very stupid opinions and beliefs he holds and because of his very limited ability to think logically and clearly.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:35:08am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

Vice-President Harris has more empathy than Meghan McCain could ever muster.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:35:09am
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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:36:15am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

They REALLY want an excuse to impeach Biden. It must be burning them SO badly that Trump was impeached twice, and Biden is going to sail through without a scratch.

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TedStriker  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:36:39am

re: #196 Belafon

If you don’t hear this in Princess Vespa’s voice, I don’t know what’s wrong with you.

“She’s a bass!”

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:37:05am

re: #257 The Pie Overlord!

*snerk*

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oh i agree with this 100%

so it’s a good thing none of the vaxes are either experimental or produced by any government!

interesting aside:
in 2020 there were scads of research studies on and about aspirin.

is aspirin still ‘experimental’?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:37:36am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

This makes it harder to start future Wars HUH!!!
(Good God, y’all) What are they good for? Absolutely nothing - say it again…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:38:34am

re: #264 lawhawk

That would be this guy last week.

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:38:38am

ℹ️ QALIBAN NEWS SPIN TACTIC DETECTED ⚠️
Some less than reputable news sources will carefully omit details from a news story, so that while they still are technically telling the truth, they’re not the whole truth, in order to entirely change the perception of a news piece.
In this case, it was Delta Airlines charging refusenik employees $200 per month, which on closer scrutiny turns out to be Delta Airlines passing the cost of their health care insurers raising the premiums.
A healthcare insurer passing on the cost for increased expenditures for CoViD care is much less inflammatory and sexy than spinning the news as “Woke airline penalizes free thinkers”…
Like, an ICU bed costs like 40,000 to 50,000 SEK ($4k-$5k) per diem here in Sweden, and that’s the base cost, excluding any extras such as ventilators, single-use items etc. The average care period for someone who has to visit lé ICU is on the order of weeks, especially if you have your liberties violated by a vent tube. To that comes the cost for aftercare for sequelae which is known to be in the order of a year at least for CoViD (ICU cases almost invariably end up with sequelae), not to mention the many “long haulers” (you have something like 2 times the dead that turn out to be longies). So, for US conditions and counting with a hospital overhead of 60%, that’s 64,000 to 80,000 SEK ($6k4-$8k) per diem. Just for the bed. Ventilator costs extra. As do single-use items. So if a single patient average stay in the ICU for CoViD is 21 days, that’s $105k (1,050,000 SEK) just for the ICU bed…
And when it’s clear that being a refusenik greatly increses the chance for said refusenik to incur the health insurance company such costs, of course they’re gonna pass it on to the refusenik.
And yeah, if you were unable to read between the lines, here in Sweden, hospitals to a large extent do care at cost… That is, no profit, just what they spend and a little margin in the single-digit percentages.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:38:52am

re: #263 The Pie Overlord!

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because previous administrations ‘lied’ the current one has to be?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:40:01am

re: #274 Dangerman

You beat me by just over a minute. ::p

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:40:05am

re: #266 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’re about to see which conservative anti-vaxxers really do believe the nonsense around the vaccines, and which ones were simply conducting performative defiance. Hitting someone in the wallet really fleshes out who the true believers are.

Surely if you believe that the vaccines are poison or other nonsense, you would pay $200 a month to avoid it (though that might cut into your sheep dip budget).

i wonder who’s paying for ivermectin out of their hsa accounts

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JOE 🥓  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:41:28am

re: #253 Belafon

I think they’re saying he’s not a Catholic because he’s a Jesuit.

They consider Jesuits to be Communists.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:42:16am

re: #272 Dopamine Fish

They REALLY want an excuse to impeach Biden. It must be burning them SO badly that Trump was impeached twice, and Biden is going to sail through without a scratch.

they really wanted an excuse to arrest him but he never broke the law.

(yes i know impeachment / whatever the senate says it is…)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:42:43am

re: #263 The Pie Overlord!

Gee, if only Politico had some way to simply count the number of people coming in, or maybe sending a reporter to Kabul to count the number of people leaving, or maybe even rely on a source other than the government if they are sceptical.

I suppose that would actually require work rather than laundering GOP talking points.

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:45:32am

re: #277 Teukka

N.B.: I’m not accusing NYDN of said tactic, just that the usual suspects are spinning this “Woke Delta takes $200 a month from free-thinking employees exercising their rights!”…

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JOE 🥓  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:48:24am

re: #280 Dangerman

i wonder who’s paying for ivermectin out of their hsa accounts

There are plenty of libertarians doing that.

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EstebanTornado1963  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:49:17am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:54:24am

I’m going to struggle off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:56:03am

re: #253 Belafon

I think they’re saying he’s not a Catholic because he’s a Jesuit.

That breakaway parish recognized no one and nothing since John XIII.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:56:05am

re: #277 Teukka

Time to boycott Delta Airlines!!!

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 25, 2021 • 8:56:18am

re: #197 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The trash truck just drove off the alley and got stuck in my backyard.

After several minutes of digging my yard up, they got free.

I suppose I could put a claim in to the village but it’s probably easier to fix it myself. We’re not talking an irrigated lawn here, just sparse prairie grasses and numerous Russian thistle (Old West tumbleweeds). Basically I just have to fill in the trench he dug in my yard with the truck.

They owe you one for when you have something awkward or large to get rid of.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:00:49am

re: #280 Dangerman

i wonder who’s paying for ivermectin out of their hsa accounts

I dunno about others, but my HSA/FSA accounts got digital receipts of things I bought with the card, and would flag things that looked questionable and let me know that they needed additional info and may not cover it. I doubt an HSA or FSA administrator is going to look kindly on shopping for people medicine at Tractor Supply.

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John Hughes  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:03:16am

re: #261 John Hughes

Weird, both 91-DIVOC and OWD show that 5.45 million Israelis have been fully vaccinated (so 91-DIVOC is getting the right data from OWD) but 91-DIVOC says that’s 59% of the population and OWD says it’s 63%.

Google gives pop of 8,655,535 (UN estimate, mid 2020) so OWD seems right at about 62-63%

But…

The Israeli government says that at the start of 2021 the population was 9,291,000 residents, so 91-DIVOC is right at about 58-59%

OWD seem to be using an incorrect figure for the population, which means it’s overestimating the percentage of the Israeli population that’s vaccinated.

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:03:45am

re: #267 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Extremely local news: I just got a call from the village. They will be replacing all the reverse osmosis units in town with new ones from Culligan in October. The parts for the EcoWater units are becoming hard to get, and the units are obsolete.

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:03:51am

Jesus Fucking Christ, these fucking lunatics (not the serfs, the d00ds implied in their tweet)…

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jeffreyw  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:04:02am

Just had a pleasant tech support session with Synology over a syncing failure I’ve been experiencing since a recent update. Problem solved, the tech was patient with my questions and knowledgeable. Kudos!

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:05:00am

re: #294 Teukka

Jesus Fucking Christ, these fucking lunatics (not the serfs, the d00ds implied in their tweet)…

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JOE 🥓  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:05:56am

Ahhhhhh it feels soooooooo goooooood!

House panel investigating Jan. 6 Capitol attack, seeks records from agencies on insurrection, Trump in first request for information

The committee made its first request for information to the National Archives, four Cabinet departments, the FBI and other agencies. It is seeking “communications within and among the White House and Executive Branch agencies during the leadup to January 6th and on that day” as well as “attempts to place politically loyal personnel in senior positions across government after the election.”

washingtonpost.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:08:03am
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JOE 🥓  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:08:36am

re: #296 Teukka

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I’ve had it with those assholes. They want the dirt nap that bad and I’ve given up on them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:09:22am

re: #297 JOE 🥓

more in the thread

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:09:48am

Have there been any Liberal radio hosts or media personalities that have died recently from Covid?

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:11:51am

thehill.com
TheHill Minnesota mosque bombing convict asks judge to acknowledge transgen…
The individual convicted of charges relating to the bombing of a mosque in Minnesota wants the judge in the case to legally acknowledge her transgender identity.

Over/under she got a promise from some Qaliban outfit to have legal expenses paid if she helps try to shade groups the Qaliban hate?

Also, it’s going to be a bad, bad news cycle, isn’t it.

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:12:50am

re: #301 Eclectic Cyborg

Have there been any Liberal radio hosts or media personalities that have died recently from Covid?

Liberal radio hosts? That’s an already near-extinct breed of human. /

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:13:10am

re: #299 JOE 🥓

I’ve had it with those assholes. They want the dirt nap that bad and I’ve given up on them.

I’ve had it too. I’m stepping aside, will only act to protect the lives and healths of myself and those under my protection.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:13:57am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Until 1985, Jack in the Box wasowned by Ralston Purina Corporation. I can imagine they had a single line with different levers to pull to add ingredients for Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Goat Chow, Monkey Chow and Taco Filling…

Couldn’t beat a greasy Jack in the Box super taco or two at 2 am tho’.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:15:37am

re: #296 Teukka

“It’s not genocide, it’s just The Rez.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:17:06am

!!!

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:18:35am

re: #294 Teukka

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:24:25am

re: #290 Rightwingconspirator

They owe you one for when you have something awkward or large to get rid of.

Like a body…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:25:50am

re: #299 JOE 🥓

I’ve had it with those assholes. They want the dirt nap that bad and I’ve given up on them.

again, the only concern is all the people they are going to take with them on their way to the hospital and/or morgue…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:26:52am

re: #305 Eventual Carrion

Couldn’t beat a greasy Jack in the Box super taco or two at 2 am tho’.

We even had a song that a bandmate wrote “My Baby Wants a Taco, I Know She Do!” dedicated to that very delicacy…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:27:29am

re: #308 Teukka

Pre-Emptive Genocide is the Best Genocide, innit?

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:30:05am

re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Pre-Emptive Genocide is the Best Genocide, innit?

Except pre-emptive genocide is full genocide under international and US law… Well, maybe not US, but you get the picture… It ain’t gonna end well if they do more than this level of talk…

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:31:38am

re: #267 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Extremely local news: I just got a call from the village. They will be replacing all the reverse osmosis units in town with new ones from Culligan in October. The parts for the EcoWater units are becoming hard to get, and the units are obsolete.

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that you no longer had anything to do with the town water system anymore. If that is so, why are they calling you about the upgrade?

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:33:16am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:34:50am

No people for this launch

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ipsos  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:38:29am

It might just be something getting lost in translation between Sweden and here, but I’m not a fan of the term “refusenik” to describe people who won’t take the vaccine. The word has a very specific meaning for me, describing the Soviet Jews who were denied permission to emigrate in the 1970s and 1980s.

I spent a lot of my time in synagogue youth group involved in advocacy for those refuseniks (and a lot more time in youth group chasing girls who had no interest in me, but that’s another story), and some of the advocacy actually worked.

(Also I found out later on that my college girlfriend, now spouse of 25 years, had been at the same big rally for Soviet Jews in DC in 1987 that I attended.)

Anyway, I see “refusenik” and I think of the Soviet Jews fighting a good fight, not the anti-vaxx morons fighting against reality and science and health.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:40:09am

I am filled with utter disgust and seething rage at these self-victimizing fuckers who liken refusing a life-saving vaccine which is freely available to everyone, to the systemic mass murder of millions of innocent people based on conditions of ancestry they had no control over.

THESE DUMBASS ANTISEMITES DENY THE HOLOCAUST BY TRIVIALIZING ITS HORROR WHEN THEY CO-OPT IT FOR THEMSELVES.

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:41:47am

re: #317 ipsos

It might just be something getting lost in translation between Sweden and here, but I’m not a fan of the term “refusenik” to describe people who won’t take the vaccine. The word has a very specific meaning for me, describing the Soviet Jews who were denied permission to emigrate in the 1970s and 1980s.

I spent a lot of my time in synagogue youth group involved in advocacy for those refuseniks (and a lot more time in youth group chasing girls who had no interest in me, but that’s another story), and some of the advocacy actually worked.

(Also I found out later on that my college girlfriend, now spouse of 25 years, had been at the same big rally for Soviet Jews in DC in 1987 that I attended.)

Anyway, I see “refusenik” and I think of the Soviet Jews fighting a good fight, not the anti-vaxx morons fighting against reality and science and health.

So noted. Just so fed up with them and their ever-changing labels they give themselves…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:42:35am

re: #315 The Pie Overlord!

forcing people to live with the consequences of their “free” choices = “dehumanizing”

Hm…

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ipsos  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:42:40am

re: #319 Teukka

So noted. Just so fed up with them and their ever-changing labels they give themselves…

As are we all!

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:42:44am

re: #318 The Pie Overlord!

I am filled with utter disgust and seething rage at these self-victimizing fuckers who liken refusing a life-saving vaccine which is freely available to everyone, to the systemic mass murder of millions of innocent people based on conditions of ancestry they had no control over.

THESE DUMBASS ANTISEMITES DENY THE HOLOCAUST BY TRIVIALIZING ITS HORROR WHEN THEY CO-OPT IT FOR THEMSELVES.

Except in this case, it may be a tactic to try to drum up support and accomplices for a “pre-emptive genocide.” I would watch anyone using such language closely and document it.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:43:09am
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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:43:13am

re: #185 The Pie Overlord!

I’ll see if I can find them. Thank you for telling me of them!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:46:31am
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darthstar  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:48:30am

Feels weird, so upside down is appropriate.

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plansbandc  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:48:42am

re: #122 lawhawk

Hebrew National hotdogs are the best.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:52:18am

re: #327 plansbandc

Hebrew National hotdogs are the best.

Hebrew Nationalist?

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:54:33am

re: #324 William Lewis

Ouch, nearest place on their store locator is St Paul, Mn. Perhaps when I come back from my vacation in Memphis I can stop there before heading home…

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:55:18am

my comment:

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:57:12am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 9:59:31am

They just want it to look bad for Biden, they couldn’t care less for the Afghanis or even the Americans that might be stuck there…

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:00:16am

In COVID-related news out of Europe, something of a setback in France, at least in the Department of Yvelines:

leparisien.fr (it’s in French, so you can use a translator bot)

The court found the Health Pass to be discriminatory as people without it were prohibited from entering shopping centers and therefore, purchasing basic necessities such as food. The court also rejected the argument that people could have their foodstuffs delivered or use curbside pickup. The court also ruled that the Health Pass was an infringement on freedom of movement.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:00:19am

Thread:

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b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:03:21am

re: #331 Belafon

The press have been a disgrace on the Afghanistan withdrawal, their ignored war is ending and they hate it.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:03:22am

re: #113 William Lewis

I meant to ask you how is trip is going/went. Hope he’s having fun and doing well.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:05:50am

re: #331 Belafon

[Embedded content]It’s really one of the most irresponsible cases of the press committing itself to a narrative and refusing to be budged by any subsequent developments that I’ve ever seen:

one of the most, ok

four years of trump coverage is certainly another

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:08:19am

re: #337 Dangerman

one of the most, ok

four years of trump coverage is certainly another

Turns out “what the shit did our crazy President do or say today” is such a lucrative business model, the media literally doesn’t know how to fill that void. So they’re resorting to steaming hot shit takes and counting on the outrage to drive traffic and revenue.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:08:49am

re: #334 Belafon

Thread:

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What’s Next for the Taliban?

Sometime soon, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan will reach its conclusion, and Afghanistan will be 100% the Taliban’s show. So, what’s the prognosis for them? On the whole, pretty grim, it would seem.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:10:04am

re: #317 ipsos

It might just be something getting lost in translation between Sweden and here, but I’m not a fan of the term “refusenik” to describe people who won’t take the vaccine. The word has a very specific meaning for me, describing the Soviet Jews who were denied permission to emigrate in the 1970s and 1980s.

I spent a lot of my time in synagogue youth group involved in advocacy for those refuseniks (and a lot more time in youth group chasing girls who had no interest in me, but that’s another story), and some of the advocacy actually worked.

(Also I found out later on that my college girlfriend, now spouse of 25 years, had been at the same big rally for Soviet Jews in DC in 1987 that I attended.)

Anyway, I see “refusenik” and I think of the Soviet Jews fighting a good fight, not the anti-vaxx morons fighting against reality and science and health.

I was involved in the same demonstrations in the 70s back when Scoop Jackson was the big supporter in the Senate.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:10:22am

re: #334 Belafon

Thread:

The rapid collapse just looks bad, it’s like seeing your ex in a new relationship a few days after you leave her…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:11:09am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:11:39am

re: #338 Dopamine Fish

Turns out “what the shit did our crazy President do or say today” is such a lucrative business model, the media literally doesn’t know how to fill that void. So they’re resorting to steaming hot shit takes and counting on the outrage to drive traffic and revenue.

Having a Reality TV Star as President was terrific for ratings

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:12:58am
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teleskiguy  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:13:27am

The striking thing about the poor saps in fuckedantivaxxer.com is the ages of those listed. 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s. No one truly old.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:13:28am
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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:16:57am

Prominent lawyer to January 6 terrorists and staunch anti-vaxxer John Pierce is on a ventilator now.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:17:05am

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

They just got the government they’ve spent decades fighting for; why would they want to come here?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:17:18am

Gas prices are a major factor for rural populations, it is what drove the Yellow Vests out onto the streets in France a few years back…and of course, it is a matter of RW doctrine that gas prices are going up somehow because Biden killed the Keystone Pipeline or something…

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:17:32am

re: #341 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The rapid collapse just looks bad, it’s like seeing your ex in a new relationship a few days after you leave her…

- a relationship that you know started before you split up
- and is not ‘true love’* or likely to last

*which can forgive a lot

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:17:37am

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

Biden should offer to build a wall along the US-Afghan border.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:18:13am

re: #244 John Hughes

By “full size” do you mean micro-sims or just shoving the whole credit-card sized thing into the phone?

The original SIM form factor that you knocked out from the credit-card size beastie.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:19:15am

re: #350 Dangerman

- a relationship that you know started before you split up
- and is not ‘true love’* or likely to last

*which can forgive a lot

I once found my ex-wife on a dating site - and noted that she had joined six months before we split up…

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:21:18am

re: #348 jaunte

They just got the government they’ve spent decades fighting for; why would they want to come here?

The same reason huge numbers of islamist terrorists embedded themselves into caravans in Mexico in 2018; to scare white people into voting Republican.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:21:55am

re: #353 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I once found my ex-wife on a dating site - and noted that she had joined six months before we split up…

a relationship is not gonna last if it’s based on people who cheat

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:22:48am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:24:22am
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jaunte  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:24:32am

re: #354 No Malarkey!

Having an audience that wolfs down whatever agita ragout they whip up has made these GOP chefs sloppy.

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:24:48am

This entire thread…

My comment:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:25:36am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:27:04am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:30:03am

heh

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:31:43am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:33:06am
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DesertDenizen  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:34:55am

re: #353 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My ex wife moved her now husband in days after I moved out.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:37:34am

re: #363 jaunte

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alas if only “private” was a defense we’d all use it

should have gone with a hint at exec priv …

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:40:47am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:40:53am
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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:44:16am

Well it finally touched us. My wife’s Brother is now in the ER with an O2 of 76. Him and his crazy making spouse are on the Sheep Dip cure and now he may get the vent. Plus he’s diabetic.

If you are in Missouri, Stay away from any LEO’s there. They are ALL infected.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:45:44am

re: #369 Dave In Austin

Well it finally touched us. My wife’s Brother is now in the ER with an O2 of 76. Him and his crazy making spouse are on the Sheep Dip cure and now he may get the vent. Plus he’s diabetic.

I’m sorry to hear that.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:47:37am

re: #370 Dopamine Fish

Thx, I’m angry more for Gail than anything. She’s as pissed as I am.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:47:53am

North suburbs of Chicago. One of the bigger healthcare systems has changed one of their hospitals back to COVID-only (they did this last year too). The difference this time? They are FULL. 173 beds.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:48:07am

re: #369 Dave In Austin

Well it finally touched us. My wife’s Brother is now in the ER with an O2 of 76. Him and his crazy making spouse are on the Sheep Dip cure and now he may get the vent. Plus he’s diabetic.

If you are in Missouri, Stay away from any LEO’s there. They are ALL infected.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:49:10am

Again we’re conducting “medical” experiments on prisoners?

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:49:26am

re: #371 Dave In Austin

Thx, I’m angry more for Gail than anything. She’s as pissed as I am.

I can well understand that anger. It’s so stupid. There is no rhyme or reason behind any of this besides, “I don’t want to be told what to do.”

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:49:38am
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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:49:50am

re: #373 No Malarkey!

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:50:38am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

I just wrote a big twitter thread on this. Cuomo’s number was 12,000 lower because he omitted covid deaths outside of certain identifiable hospital settings. If you died at home or in a hospice of covid, your death didn’t count in his metrics.

A lie is still a lie.

The total death toll in NY is over 55,000, which is pretty much what worldometers and JHU were already showing.

This is a different lie from what DeSantis and other GOPers are doing, which also includes withholding all data altogether.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:50:49am

re: #375 Dopamine Fish

I can well understand that anger. It’s so stupid. There is no rhyme or reason behind any of this besides, “I don’t want to be told what to do.”

Q-Ball Trump Supporters…….

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:51:43am

re: #372 GlutenFreeJesus

North suburbs of Chicago. One of the bigger healthcare systems has changed one of their hospitals back to COVID-only (they did this last year too). The difference this time? They are FULL. 173 beds.

I read a story on news.yahoo.com that children are apologizing to their unvaccinated parents in the hospital for going to school and getting them infected with Covid. It’s heartbreaking.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:52:51am

re: #369 Dave In Austin

Well it finally touched us. My wife’s Brother is now in the ER with an O2 of 76. Him and his crazy making spouse are on the Sheep Dip cure and now he may get the vent. Plus he’s diabetic.

If you are in Missouri, Stay away from any LEO’s there. They are ALL infected.

You know, you would think all the anti-vax forums and message boards would have identified real doctors willing to prescribe all of these “cure/treatments” by now. It’s not like ivermectin in human doses does not exist. I mean if you can find an ER doctor selling ‘opt-out’ letters, you have to have more than a few folks with prescription pads more than willing to fill requests for a reasonable fee

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BeachDem  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:53:05am

re: #360 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

[Embedded content]

Some other notable names:

— Tom Van Flein, chief of staff for Rep. Paul Gosar

Previously Sarah Palin’s attorney. Just for some history:

themudflats.net

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:53:14am

re: #379 Dave In Austin

Q-Ball Trump Supporters…….

I’m starting to believe that worshipping the god-emperor is less of a cause and more of a symptom of the problem, to be honest. While they are very highly correlated, a lot of the “Trump is my personal idol” shit literally just comes down to, “Trump does whatever he wants and says, ‘Fuck you,’ to the rules.” They loved it every time he blatantly broke a law and dared someone to do something about it. It’s what they secretly long for - the power to literally do whatever they want with no consequences.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 25, 2021 • 10:58:02am

Fucking insurance companies, fuckity fuck fuck:

1) husband got a letter saying that the WellStar hospital system will no longer take my husbands Medicare plan because their deal with United Health Care is ending in October. Because WellStar is run by greedy shits that want more money and will force UHC to raise rates by 50 percent.

2) meanwhile, I just got another bill from my GI doctor for 550 dollars for the procedures and removal of polyps back in May. This was settled and zeroed out, I thought. Now I have a bill here saying I only paid them 175 dollars which is bullshit. I never paid them a payment of 175 dollars. I paid them 509 dollars a week before the procedures at their insistence and I can’t get anyone to tell me where the fuck the 509 dollars was applied.

I am so fucking sick of this shit. Every single step of me getting treatment for my GI issues has had me having to fight for either treatment or payments. And now my husband has to change all his doctors, his short acting insulin won’t be covered and the other meds are going to cost more. How is this helping anyone be healthier? Fucking Damn It.

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DesertDenizen  Aug 25, 2021 • 11:05:10am

re: #374 jaunte

Isn’t that a violation of the Nuremberg Codes? Asking for a friend.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2021 • 11:06:06am

re: #385 DesertDenizen

Yes.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 11:07:34am

re: #369 Dave In Austin

Well it finally touched us. My wife’s Brother is now in the ER with an O2 of 76. Him and his crazy making spouse are on the Sheep Dip cure and now he may get the vent. Plus he’s diabetic.

If you are in Missouri, Stay away from any LEO’s there. They are ALL infected.

First, good thoughts of course

Second how long after getting sick do you have to wait for your o2sats to drop under 80?

First time we went to natl Jewish in Denver they put mrsdm on o2 cause she walked in at 90

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 11:08:44am

re: #374 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Again we’re conducting “medical” experiments on prisoners?

These are not experiments.
They know it doesn’t work

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2021 • 11:12:01am

re: #383 Dopamine Fish

I’m starting to believe that worshipping the god-emperor is less of a cause and more of a symptom of the problem, to be honest. While they are very highly correlated, a lot of the “Trump is my personal idol” shit literally just comes down to, “Trump does whatever he wants and says, ‘Fuck you,’ to the rules.” They loved it every time he blatantly broke a law and dared someone to do something about it. It’s what they secretly long for - the power to literally do whatever they want with no consequences.

Virus says: yer on

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gocart mozart  Aug 25, 2021 • 11:36:57am

re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is completely illegal and my lawyers will make short work of it
[Subpoenas are completely legal, you are full of shit, and your lawyers will tell you to comply.]
These ugly communists want to go full Stalin and Gestapo as they flail about to distract from the failures of the dementia patient they got as president who even Obama called a ‘f*** up.’ Be cautious!
[insert jerking hand motion mimicking masturbation]

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 25, 2021 • 11:46:28am

re: #338 Dopamine Fish

Turns out “what the shit did our crazy President do or say today” is such a lucrative business model, the media literally doesn’t know how to fill that void. So they’re resorting to steaming hot shit takes and counting on the outrage to drive traffic and revenue.

The media trained me well before 2016 that most of them were not worth paying attention to at all. Trivial coverage with no attempt at nuance or context since it was all essentially click-bait style headlines and coverage.

Piled onto that was an obvious bias to chase the dollar and “access” which meant they’d simply parrot lies or allow them to be made unchallenged.

So I was offered fluff coverage or misinformation in exchange for my time. No thank you.

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John Hughes  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:30:14pm

re: #331 Belafon

getting the impression these people are going to be legitimately heartbroken if we’re actually able to effect an exit of personnel without the need to dump a dozen battalions in to turn kabul into fallujah

Fallujah, pop 275,128.
Kabul, pop 4.6 million.

One of these is not like the other.

What, exactly, do they think will happen to a “dozen battalions” of US troops in city of 4.6 million increasingly hostile people?

(A battalion is somewhere between 300 and 1000 troops, so we’re talking about dumping between 36,000 and 120,000 troops into an environment with 4.6 million increasingly hostile people).

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John Hughes  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:37:15pm

re: #341 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The rapid collapse just looks bad, it’s like seeing your ex in a new relationship a few days after you leave her…

Yeah, when you leave her by spending months in a Doha luxury hotel sucking up to her ex

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John Hughes  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:39:53pm

re: #352 Eric The Fruit Bat

The original SIM form factor that you knocked out from the credit-card size beastie.

Ah, ok, micro-sim, not “full-size”

Kids of today, get off my lawn…

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John Hughes  Aug 25, 2021 • 3:42:18pm

re: #355 Dangerman

a relationship is not gonna last if it’s based on people who cheat

Zow, you’ve got it.

Let’s blame the afghani army for collapsing after we’ve negotiated their abandonnent with the Taliban.


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