Bruno Major and Stories: A Gorgeous Acoustic Re-Arrangement of “My Funny Valentine”

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I knew I was going to have to post this within the first few bars. An excellent version of a jazz standard that’s been covered by everybody (and I do mean everybody), but can still sound brand new in the right hands.

A stripped-down, acoustic cover of “My Funny Valentine” by stories and Bruno Major.
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Vocals & Guitar: Bruno Major
Guitar: Ryan Lerman
Guitar: David Levita
Piano: William Gramling
Bass: Anna Butterss

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Recording Engineer: Caleb Parker
Mixing/Mastering: Justin Glasco
DP: Dijon Herron
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Produced By Ryan Lerman
Recorded Live at Scary Pockets HQ in Highland Park, CA

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359 comments
1
JC1  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:09:51pm

New thread already? Nice.

2
darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:12:25pm

re: #1 JC1

New thread already? Nice.

Smells a bit like the old thread, which is still quite fresh.

3
No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:12:32pm
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darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:13:52pm

re: #3 No Malarkey!

Just block their geographic point of origin from the backbone and Russia is back in the 1980s.

5
Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:14:42pm

Sometimes the urge hits and it’s new thread time again.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:17:58pm

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:20:08pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:20:58pm
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:23:45pm

re: #7 No Malarkey!

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Wait. How do they not know about trucker bombs?

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:25:44pm

This is great…please read it.

Do Russia’s nukes actually work?

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:26:06pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:26:31pm
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Citizen K  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:26:50pm

re: #9 Barefoot Grin

Wait. How do they not know about trucker bombs?

I’ve had questions about how many of them are legit truckers, so…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:27:15pm

re: #10 darthstar

Could be. But Russia really only needs 1 to work. Unfortunately.

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Kilroy was here  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:29:12pm

Sen. Manchin launches new push for ‘all of the above’ energy bill

Administration officials are weighing which policies boosting domestic energy production could help win support from Sen. Joe Manchin III (d-w.va.) for climate legislation

washingtonpost.com

Can you say “Coal”

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Kilroy was here  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:30:40pm

re: #7 No Malarkey!

Well when you talk out of your ass maybe it is covered/

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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:37:48pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:44:19pm

This is some black hole of bullshit.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:45:15pm

re: #18 The Pie Overlord!

This is some black hole of bullshit.

Hannity wouldn’t know a good lawsuit if it bit him in the ass. After all, his own bosses claimed, in open court, that no reasonable viewer would take his comments as factual reporting.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:45:41pm

re: #15 Kilroy was here

Sen. Manchin launches new push for ‘all of the above’ energy bill

Administration officials are weighing which policies boosting domestic energy production could help win support from Sen. Joe Manchin III (d-w.va.) for climate legislation

washingtonpost.com

Can you say “Coal”

Coal could be used in the production of solar panels. :)

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:47:39pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:47:53pm

re: #10 darthstar

This is great…please read it.

Do Russia’s nukes actually work?

Ummmm. Maybe not so great. This idea taken to its natural result means we can afford to escalate against another nuclear power. Say, tomorrow. Going out on a limb to just say that’s a terrible idea.

It seems obvious that in times of tension, a nation that is paying the money for tritium can crackdown and make a bunch of warheads viable. It takes few to ruin a world.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:48:31pm
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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:53:35pm

re: #22 Rightwingconspirator

Ummmm. Maybe not so great. This idea taken to its natural result means we can afford to escalate against another nuclear power. Say, tomorrow. Going out on a limb to just say that’s a terrible idea.

It seems obvious that in times of tension, a nation that is paying the money for tritium can crackdown and make a bunch of warheads viable. It takes few to ruin a world.

Putin doesn’t know if his nukes work, and the only people who could tell him are the ones who would’ve been siphoning off the tritium gas to fill their pockets.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:00:34pm

Go blow it out your ass, Marge.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:02:18pm

re: #24 No Malarkey!

Putin doesn’t know if his nukes work, and the only people who could tell him are the ones who would’ve been siphoning off the tritium gas to fill their pockets.

I think the point is, that Putin has to tread carefully so that NATO doesn’t intervene in Ukraine, because there is an excellent chance that nuclear scabbard he has been rattling is empty. So, he probably can’t risk using chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine. Plus there is a good chance those don’t work either.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:04:10pm

re: #22 Rightwingconspirator

Ummmm. Maybe not so great. This idea taken to its natural result means we can afford to escalate against another nuclear power. Say, tomorrow. Going out on a limb to just say that’s a terrible idea.

It seems obvious that in times of tension, a nation that is paying the money for tritium can crackdown and make a bunch of warheads viable. It takes few to ruin a world.

As I said in the last thread in reply to a tweet: Even when Ukraine wins, it loses?

This was not a call to arms, it’s about being realistic with what Russia is capable of. What it does mean is that we can ramp up support of Ukraine.

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Kilroy was here  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:08:03pm

re: #25 The Pie Overlord!

Go blow it out your ass, Marge.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:24:51pm

My company made me study and pass Security+ training. Personally, I found it a waste of time, and I don’t really feel any more enriched because of it, but I do have questions for anyone who might do networking. If I wanted to play around with setting up my own network system using open source software - I have found that there’s an open source RADIUS server among other things - where would I find information on how to do this? Like, I know nothing about Linux network administration, but I would like to know how to set up LDAP and all the stuff you would need to do it properly. Some of it’s a bit over the top, but I would eventually like to be able to VPN into my home network (I know I will have to acquire a static IP for that at some point).

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sagehen  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:28:51pm

re: #19 Dopamine Fish

Hannity wouldn’t know a good lawsuit if it bit him in the ass. After all, his own bosses claimed, in open court, that no reasonable viewer would take his comments as factual reporting.

no nono, that was Tucker.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:29:47pm

re: #30 sagehen

no nono, that was Tucker.

Ohhh, right, the Tucker Carlson defense. I sit corrected. I’m sure, though, that Faux News wouldn’t hesitate to pull the same trigger with Hannity if they were facing the music.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:30:29pm

re: #29 Belafon

You can use a dynamic DNS service like noip.com.
The best way to proceed is to set up Linux on a spare machine and run KVM virtualization. Then run copies of Linux with your applications.
You will spin up a new VM for whatever app you are trying out.
This is a very general outline. When I want to try something, I look it up on a search engine like the rest of us do, and follow the instructions.

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mmmirele  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:32:10pm

re: #22 Rightwingconspirator

Ummmm. Maybe not so great. This idea taken to its natural result means we can afford to escalate against another nuclear power. Say, tomorrow. Going out on a limb to just say that’s a terrible idea.

It seems obvious that in times of tension, a nation that is paying the money for tritium can crackdown and make a bunch of warheads viable. It takes few to ruin a world.

I agree, but for a different reason. Even if Russia’s nukes have been properly serviced WRT replacement of the tritium gas, there’s the question of all the other moving parts of what it takes to get a (for example) ICBM off the ground. Suppose the rocketry is sub-par, hasn’t been kept up? What about the mechanics? What about the fuel? You’re probably thinking that I’m thinking Russia’s nukes may be defective. Well, yeah, but they may be not defective *enough*, and a (God forbid) field nuke sent to strike some place along the Russian-Ukraine border might go off course and hit, say, Kursk in Russia, because its navigation system was crap. Or its rockets didn’t turn off or, well, smarter people than me can think of reasons.

My point is that a poorly kept up nuclear arsenal is, if anything, MORE dangerous because of the very real possibility that something could go terribly wrong in ways we don’t know if there’s ever an attempt to use them. And my hope is that they never get used.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:37:43pm

Random good news:

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:37:46pm

This is something a shithole country would need.

New high-tech weapon detectors in three Niagara Falls city schools (ABC-7 Buffalo)

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:37:56pm

This some motherfucking black hole of batshit crazy

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:48:13pm

re: #35 Punish Domestic Terrorists

This is something a shithole country would need.

New high-tech weapon detectors in three Niagara Falls city schools (ABC-7 Buffalo)

Detecting weapons on the kids? Or the parents? Are they being deployed at public meetings?
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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:50:08pm

Ukraine needs A LOT OF WEAPONS to fight the biggest war in Europe since WWII.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:51:33pm
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retired cynic  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:54:10pm

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

snork!

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:54:29pm
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retired cynic  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:58:12pm

re: #41 BlueSpotinAL

snork in All Caps!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:03:16pm
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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:04:58pm
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Sherlock Hound  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:34:28pm

re: #40 retired cynic

snork!

“PLEASE END THESE HEARINGS BEFORE I HIT…”
[Fade to black]
“THANK YOU”
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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:49:09pm

re: #38 No Malarkey!

From what I’ve read, the current contract for javelins is for 2500 units this year. And reportedly, the max production capability is about 6500 per year. I suspect that the stinger production is even more limited.

On the other hand, I knew a guy who fought in the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. (Joe Bacon also mentioned him.)

The guy said that the entire assistance the US govt provided to the brigade was the loan of a ‘BAR’. Which the embassy eventually sent a staffer to reclaim.

I don’t remember any particulars, but do seem to remember that being in the Lincoln Brigade disqualified him from serving in the US armed forces during WW2.

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:53:15pm
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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:59:57pm

re: #38 No Malarkey!

Ukraine needs A LOT OF WEAPONS to fight the biggest war in Europe since WWII.

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And we have Rand Paul holding up aid to Ukraine.

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:01:02pm

For the lizard cycling crew:

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JC1  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:23:51pm

Got it in 3 today.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 279 3/6

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:53:19pm

re: #38 No Malarkey!

Ukraine needs A LOT OF WEAPONS to fight the biggest war in Europe since WWII.

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At least enough to deal with these:
“Russia’s land-based capabilities include more than 13,000 tanks, just under 6,000 artillery pieces and close to 20,000 armoured vehicles”
nationalworld.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:53:33pm

re: #21 No Malarkey!

The Nebraska Democratic Party considers Jeff Fortenberry’s seat (R-NE1) as a potential pickup.

The Nebraska Republican Party has already distanced themselves from him.

Fortenberry saying he is appealing the case means he probably won’t resign his seat (and there is nothing in the Constitution preventing him from retaining his seat even if he’s sitting in jail).

I imagine the state GOP would like to see him resign and go away, but no conservative willingly gives up power.

We’ll have to see how many screams of “witch hunt” appear in our Conservative Controlled Press here tomorrow.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:54:22pm

I’m not going to stay here tonight.

Tomorrow morning I have to go into the Valley of the Unvaccinated Shadow of Death (Wyoming).

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:55:16pm

The Ukrainians recently made a short propaganda video about how badly the Russian Army has fared in Ukraine.

Youtube Video

They set it to this 1990 Russian song about the Russian Army in Afghanistan:

Youtube Video

The English translation of the lyrics (pardon the expletives):

Help

Too bad help didn’t come,
No reinforcements were sent.
There are only two of us left,
You and I were fucked.

All the rest are dead
And the ammunition will run out soon,
But we keep the position,
We fight bravely.

The gun is dead - everything is fucked up,
there is nothing left to fight back with.
Well, let’s smoke, brother fighter,
We can’t escape death.

Too bad help didn’t come,
No reinforcements were sent.
Business as usual,
You and I were fucked.

(By the way, I understand that the singer, Boris Grebenshchikov has come out in support of Ukraine.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:56:47pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:58:16pm

My senator, who I want to oust:

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:59:58pm

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Standing silent actually counts in a filibuster?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:00:49pm

So, there is a possibility I will be homeless next Friday.
If anyone recalls, back at the end of January the management decided I need to pay 60% more per month in rent.
I of course submitted my 60-day notice to vacate..
Well for the last 2-3 weeks I’ve been trying to lock down a new abode. Since most dec3ent places are getting snapped up pretty quickly, I’ve basically been a day late again and again. Finally found a place that was available and not a complete pile of crap.
After submitting an application I learned that in 2019 an eviction action was submitted to the courts against “me”. After a week of digging up old billing records and believing we may have generated enough documentation on my financial stability a check of public records apparently turned up a second eviction action against “me” in 2020.
A person or persons with the same first and last name as me was evicted from two residences I never lived at. Well, I had lived at the 2019 apartment complex, back in 2005-2008. Having moved out 11 years before the eviction.
So the property management company’s underwriters won’t approve me leasing the property I was interested in. Despite multiple documents show I lived at my present address when these evictions were filed.
Well, there is little chance I can find another place, and get an application approved in the next seven days. Tomorrow I will attempt to get my current landlords to approve me to rent month-to-month for at least the next month. Which will of course cost me 198% of what my base rent has been for the last year.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:03:15pm

re: #57 jaunte

Standing silent actually counts in a filibuster?

Here it apparently does.

One wag noted “the lesser Steve never sounded better.”

Steve Erdman’s proposal to go farther than Kansas did and abolish the state income tax and most property taxes went down in flames yesterday.

In their places he proposed a “totally not-sales tax” which he calls a consumption tax. (That is the framing the Heartland Institute, a pack of rabid libertarians, suggests be used when proposing their model bill.)

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:05:39pm

re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Ouch!

That sucks!

Identity theft or a different real person with a different Social Security#/DoB/etc?

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William Lewis  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:05:55pm

re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

So, there is a possibility I will be homeless next Friday.
If anyone recalls, back at the end of January the management decided I need to pay 60% more per month in rent.
I of course submitted my 60-day notice to vacate..
Well for the last 2-3 weeks I’ve been trying to lock down a new abode. Since most dec3ent places are getting snapped up pretty quickly, I’ve basically been a day late again and again. Finally found a place that was available and not a complete pile of crap.
After submitting an application I learned that in 2019 an eviction action was submitted to the courts against “me”. After a week of digging up old billing records and believing we may have generated enough documentation on my financial stability a check of public records apparently turned up a second eviction action against “me” in 2020.
A person or persons with the same first and last name as me was evicted from two residences I never lived at. Well, I had lived at the 2019 apartment complex, back in 2005-2008. Having moved out 11 years before the eviction.
So the property management company’s underwriters won’t approve me leasing the property I was interested in. Despite multiple documents show I lived at my present address when these evictions were filed.
Well, there is little chance I can find another place, and get an application approved in the next seven days. Tomorrow I will attempt to get my current landlords to approve me to rent month-to-month for at least the next month. Which will of course cost me 198% of what my base rent has been for the last year.

Get to your nearest VA office and ask for a HUDVASH voucher. It’s a program explicitly designed to prevent vet homelessness. I’ve been on it for a couple of years and am slowly working my way up and off of it. It’s a good program.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:06:51pm

re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Can you sue the property management company’s underwriters to prove you are who you say you are?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:07:02pm

re: #57 jaunte

I hope you get this sorted out quickly.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:07:39pm

re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I assume you mean FormerDirtDart.

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William Lewis  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:13:54pm

Old image of mine found while looking for something else. Hot summer afternoon taken with my old Zeiss 6x9 folder

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Captain Ron  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:14:51pm

The CGI in the new Halo TV series is impressive.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:14:51pm

re: #65 William Lewis

Brings to mind an Edward Hopper scene.

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Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:19:34pm

re: #66 Dread Pirate Ron

The CGI in the new Halo TV series is impressive.

I found the episode entertaining and the idea of the series overall worth at least watching for a few episodes…but it’s not Halo.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:20:29pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:26:15pm

re: #61 William Lewis

Get to your nearest VA office and ask for a HUDVASH voucher. It’s a program explicitly designed to prevent vet homelessness. I’ve been on it for a couple of years and am slowly working my way up and off of it. It’s a good program.

I don’t really have a financial problem. I doubt I would even qualify. I have enough in the bank to pay couple years of rent without any income coming in. And that doesn’t even include my investment holdings.
It’s that the underwriters view me as an unacceptable risk due to “my” eviction history.
And given the current market practices this is likely to keep coming up. It would likely take me weeks/months to collect documentation proving someone else was evicted since they are simply basing it on my first and last name.
Add to this my presently unemployed brother is living with me.

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William Lewis  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:31:04pm

re: #70 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I don’t really have a financial problem. I doubt I would even qualify. I have enough in the bank to pay couple years of rent without any income coming in. And that doesn’t even include my investment holdings.
It’s that the underwriters view me as an unacceptable risk due to “my” eviction history.
And given the current market practices this is likely to keep coming up. It would likely take me weeks/months to collect documentation proving someone else was evicted since they are simply basing it on my first and last name.
Add to this my presently unemployed brother is living with me.

VA may be able to help with that too. Nothing lost in asking.

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wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:33:53pm

re: #70 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

You could make the person they think you are qualify, while you work on being you.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:40:02pm

I predicted this piece of Russian disinformation would show up on Tucker Carlson. To be fair, its like predicting the sun will rise in the east in the morning.

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:44:11pm
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Captain Ron  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:46:08pm
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Ming5000  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:05:31pm

re: #10 darthstar

This is great…please read it.

Do Russia’s nukes actually work?

Very interesting.

In an army where even the MRE’s have been sold on the black market so the ones in the field expired in 2015 and the APC tires are going flat because they’re cheap knockoffs that weren’t maintained properly, is it possible to believe that this service has actually been done?

This article, plus the logistics thread from the last thread, plus the TIRES! thread…. there is so much to pick apart about Russia’s economy, kleptocracy, and military doctrine…

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:09:07pm

re: #10 darthstar

This is great…please read it.

Do Russia’s nukes actually work?

Why is this even a thing? Who cares? This is a “maybe because of all this uninformed conjecture” thing that I wouldn’t bet on. I’m not willing to take this risk. Even if there’s some truth to this speculation, just 1 working is 1 too many.

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Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:14:42pm

re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron

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This is a good thread following my own thinking:

tl;dr: Bragg is putting his political career (and future ambitions) over the conclusions of people who were already working the case before he took office. He wants a slam dunk case that he can ride to higher office, they are telling him that there’s no way to guarantee a win against somebody with as much clout as Trump, so Bragg is pulling the plug to avoid the embarrassment to his career of a very public loss.

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JC1  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:18:46pm

re: #78 Targetpractice

This is a good thread following my own thinking:

tl;dr: Bragg is putting his political career (and future ambitions) over the conclusions of people who were already working the case before he took office. He wants a slam dunk case that he can ride to higher office, they are telling him that there’s no way to guarantee a win against somebody with as much clout as Trump, so Bragg is pulling the plug to avoid the embarrassment to his career of a very public loss.

Is he really stupid enough to think that he has a future in the democratic party if he punts on going after Trump? What a coward. NYC has really outdone themselves between Bragg and Adams.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:22:45pm

re: #77 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Why is this even a thing? Who cares? This is a “maybe because of all this uninformed conjecture” thing that I wouldn’t bet on. I’m not willing to take this risk. Even if there’s some truth to this speculation, just 1 working is 1 too many.

I totally agree. Rampant speculation by someone who has no concrete knowledge should not be informing our decisions. Our government has made so many misjudgments over the years, including overestimating the capacity of the Russian military in combat against other forces. But we do know that they have no hesitation in committing war crimes to kill civilians; they may not be able to win in a fair battle — but following rules in any type of contest (sports, economics, warfare) has never been part of their playbook.

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Ming5000  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:22:52pm

re: #65 William Lewis

Old image of mine found while looking for something else. Hot summer afternoon taken with my old Zeiss 6x9 folder

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Nice picture. I can feel the hot air and hear the insects. Reminds me of Pennsylvania in late July.

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Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:25:19pm

re: #79 JC1

Is he really stupid enough to think that he has a future in the democratic party if he punts on going after Trump? What a coward. NYC has really outdone themselves between Bragg and Adams.

He’s also got a very thin resume with little experience arguing criminal cases and virtually none at the state level. He’s probably figuring that by the time he’s either up for reelection or runs for higher office, Trump will be dead, in prison on federal charges, or otherwise disgraced.

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JC1  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:29:49pm

re: #82 Targetpractice

He’s also got a very thin resume with little experience arguing criminal cases and virtually none at the state level. He’s probably figuring that by the time he’s either up for reelection or runs for higher office, Trump will be dead, in prison on federal charges, or otherwise disgraced.

He doesn’t have to take lead. He can let someone with more experience run the trial.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:31:44pm

On another note, although I know that Tritium acts as a yield booster, the lack of it is, to the best of my knowledge, not going to cause the Lithium Deuteride core to not undergo fusion if it’s surrounded by several mini fission explosions.

Even if it does there’s still that smaller fission part of the process that kicks it off. Yeah it’s not going to be a full 50-200KT explosion but it can still “scrape the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro.”

Best case scenario is none of the nuclear portions trigger for whatever reason and then each warhead is fucking dirty bomb. The mess from a dirty bomb isn’t “cleaner” than full blown fallout either.

So I’m getting tired of the attitude I keep sensing whenever this is brought up: “well maybe we can just jump in the war and rely on all these maybes and what-ifs to not destroy the world.”

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Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:39:31pm

re: #83 JC1

He doesn’t have to take lead. He can let someone with more experience run the trial.

He’s the DA, the decision to move forward (and thus the success/failure) rests with him. And what he probably sees is not the question of whether or not Donald Trump deserves to go to jail, it’s whether or not he’s ready to potentially tie years of his career to a case that might ultimately end up crashing and burning at the finish line.

He’s not thinking of where this case is gonna be in a few months, he’s thinking about the possibility that Trump is gonna drag this out until next fall, possibly even into 2024. With his office getting all sorts of hate mail and negative press for choosing to push forward with a criminal case against a presidential candidate/nominee.

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TedStriker  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:41:37pm

re: #84 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

On another note, although I know that Tritium acts as a yield booster, the lack of it is, to the best of my knowledge, not going to cause the Lithium Deuteride core to not undergo fusion if it’s surrounded by several mini fission explosions.

Even if it does there’s still that smaller fission part of the process that kicks it off. Yeah it’s not going to be a full 50-200KT explosion but it can still “scrape the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro.”

Best case scenario is none of the nuclear portions trigger for whatever reason and then each warhead is fucking dirty bomb. The mess from a dirty bomb isn’t “cleaner” than full blown fallout either.

So I’m getting tired of the attitude I keep sensing whenever this is brought up: “well maybe we can just jump in the war and rely on all these maybes and what-ifs to not destroy the world.”

Youtube Video

I can definitely dig some Spies Like Us quotes…

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:44:15pm

re: #86 TedStriker

Yeah I screwed up it was “suck the paint off”. It’s been awhile since I’ve had cable TV and Spies Like Us is one of those movies that I keep thinking I have on DVD or BluRay but then realize I don’t.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:45:25pm

re: #48 Belafon

And we have Rand Paul holding up aid to Ukraine.

All they have to do is launch that investigation into Hunter and they can have their nukes back.

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gwangung  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:50:45pm

re: #85 Targetpractice

He’s the DA, the decision to move forward (and thus the success/failure) rests with him. And what he probably sees is not the question of whether or not Donald Trump deserves to go to jail, it’s whether or not he’s ready to potentially tie years of his career to a case that might ultimately end up crashing and burning at the finish line.

He’s not thinking of where this case is gonna be in a few months, he’s thinking about the possibility that Trump is gonna drag this out until next fall, possibly even into 2024. With his office getting all sorts of hate mail and negative press for choosing to push forward with a criminal case against a presidential candidate/nominee.

Does he think that his future opponents won’t pick up on this?

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Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:54:35pm

re: #89 gwangung

Does he think that his future opponents won’t pick up on this?

He’ll probably blame Vance.

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Teukka  Mar 25, 2022 • 12:26:53am

And now for something completely different:

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 12:37:54am

re: #91 Teukka

That second clip would really make for some great propaganda - but alas, I think the average North Korean would see that and think, “What the actual fuck is going on?!”

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Teukka  Mar 25, 2022 • 12:40:01am

JFC…

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Teukka  Mar 25, 2022 • 12:40:35am

… and the poor sods thought they’d be met as liberators:

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 12:43:19am
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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 12:48:02am

re: #94 Teukka

… and the poor sods thought they’d be met as liberators:

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These are the people their commanders continue to insist will surrender and accept occupation once Zelensky and his cohorts are captured/executed.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 12:50:32am

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

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Mein Gott, the FT has taken a break from telling us about the plight of the uber-rich to tell us about the plight of Russian oligarchs who might have to go without The Help.

My field of fucks is barren.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 25, 2022 • 12:53:18am

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

Youtube Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 1:07:09am

re: #97 Targetpractice

Mein Gott, the FT has taken a break from telling us about the plight of the uber-rich to tell us about the plight of Russian oligarchs who might have to go without The Help.

“There but for the Grace of God, go you or I!”

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 1:17:14am

re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“There but for the Grace of God, go you or I!”

The only thing I can think of to top this bullshittery was the batshittery I saw the day after the announcement that rubles could not be used to buy foreign currency, when I went looking for info on the Twitter machines and found a cryptobro at the top of the “Trending” pile absolutely convinced that Russia was ushering in the creation of a “oil/gold-backed ruble” that was finally break the hold of fiat currency.

I about busted something laughing so hard.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 1:19:17am

re: #100 Targetpractice

Because no two things say “trust in currency” more than crypto+Russia.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 25, 2022 • 1:28:03am

re: #100 Targetpractice

Gold backed currency in the 21st century. Magical thinking at it’s best.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 1:32:53am

re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because two things that say “trust in currency” are crypto+Russia.

Just type “petro ruble” or some variation of such into the Twitter search and you’re bombarded by these nutters who are convinced Vlad is holding all the cards by demanding the West pay for Russian oil/gas in rubles. That this is going to magically upend the entire world economy in his favor.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 25, 2022 • 1:34:57am

Again, for the slow people in back.

If you gathered every ounce of gold ever mined in the history of the world it would be worth 16 trillion dollars.

Even in this hypothetical maximum scenario which is impossible, it’s not even enough to back the US Dollar, no less multiple countries or the entire world.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 1:48:21am

re: #104 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Again, for the slow people in back.

If you gathered every ounce of gold ever mined in the history of the world it would be worth 16 trillion dollars.

Even in this hypothetical maximum scenario which is impossible, it’s not even enough to back the US Dollar, no less multiple countries or the entire world.

People do not like the notion of Fiat Currency. They want the value of their currency to be determined by something objective. I can understand that to an extent. Governments, to whom we are supposed to entrust the stability of our currencies, are often all too self-serving and unreliable.

But why this makes some formulae encrypted on banks of computers run by anonymous groups of hackers more trustworthy I am not sure.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:05:55am

I’ve noticed over the years that goldbuggery tends to fall into two camps: The already-wealthy who are hoping to one day be monstrously-wealthy when a government brings back the gold standard….and the those who have little money to invest who are conned by the already-rich into believing that a few gold coins are gonna cover the costs of their retirement years.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:22:18am

Things in the deep:

Youtube Video

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:28:53am

re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People do not like the notion of Fiat Currency. They want the value of their currency to be determined by something objective. I can understand that to an extent. Governments, to whom we are supposed to entrust the stability of our currencies, are often all too self-serving and unreliable.

But why this makes some formulae encrypted on banks of computers run by anonymous groups of hackers more trustworthy I am not sure.

“Something objective” doesn’t exist. Nothing has an intrinsic value. The value of everything is fiat to some degree. Having a currency based on the GDP is far better than on some arbitrary thing currently viewed by some as “valuable”. It also makes economics into an actual zero-sum game when more of whatever that valuable thing is cannot be obtained to match economic growth.

The very idea that Fiat currency is bad is just libertarian ‘government is always bad’ nonsense. The alternative is always worse unless there’s serious incompetence involved.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:32:41am

Music for the wee hours of the morning:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:41:07am

More audiophile porn:

Youtube Video


The Alsyvox speakers are the latest big thing in planar transducers. They’ve been around for a few years under another name but the product was relaunched under a new company name when the inventor moved out from under his former business partner.

Would love to have a pair but the price… (*cough*)…

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:43:11am

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What is that saying, that we know more about Mars, Mercury, Venus and the Moon then we know about the ocean depths? Maybe there’s an argument to be made that perhaps some kind of innate thalassophobia in humans is why we haven’t explored as much of the oceans as we have of the planets around us.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:53:38am

re: #111 Dr Lizardo

What is that saying, that we know more about Mars, Mercury, Venus and the Moon then we know about the ocean depths? Maybe there’s an argument to be made that perhaps some kind of innate thalassophobia in humans is why we haven’t explored as much of the oceans as we have of the planets around us.

It is also technically less of a challenge to build vessels to withstand the radiation and vacuum of space than it is to withstand the enormous pressures of the deep oceans.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:53:45am

re: #20 Belafon

Coal could be used in the production of solar panels. :)

Coalar Panels.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:57:41am
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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:58:51am

40% precise isn’t very precise for a precision missile, but they’re still doing a shit-ton of damage.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:03:02am

Wow…take that, Matlock…this guy signed a multi-page confession right at his desk without even reading it.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:08:32am

This could have hit someone in the head and hurt them.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:17:23am

We fired our guns and the Russians kept a comin’
There wasn’t as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began a runnin’
Back to mother Russia and with their heads a hangin’ low.

Okay…I should go back to sleep before I wordle.

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:20:12am

re: #34 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Random good news:

You’ll notice evolution has designed babies so they never go through the birth canal with the noses we will later grow into….that probably only ever happened once before women’s bodies collectively said, “nu-uh.”

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:22:05am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:25:09am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:27:45am

re: #117 darthstar

This could have hit someone in the head and hurt them.

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Couldn’t that thing still go boom? I’m not knowledge about this stuff… At all.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:28:48am

re: #121 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Hey, if Judge Jackson gets approved and that fucker resigns a week later, I’m all for it…I don’t care what the reason. Let Biden bring the court back to a 5-4 balance and Chief Justice Roberts becomes a meaningful swing vote.

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Nojay UK  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:30:28am

Re: strategic Russian nuclear weapons — one of the new Borei SSBNs volley-fired four Bulava missiles in about thirty seconds in a test a few years back. The video of the test launch is on Youtube. The Russians claimed all four missiles hit their targets several thousand kilometres away, no proof of course.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:30:41am

re: #122 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Couldn’t that thing still go boom? I’m not knowledge about this stuff… At all.

Yes…don’t back into its nose with your tractor…Ukrainians could disarm it but I suspect where it is they’ll just blow it up.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:33:32am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:43:47am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:45:07am
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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:46:37am

How to read a windsock.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 3:49:33am

re: #127 Dr Lizardo

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Forced relocations to open up the lands for “true Russians,” who will vote 90%+ for the city and the surrounding regions to “rejoin” Russia.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:02:09am

re: #115 darthstar

40% precise isn’t very precise for a precision missile, but they’re still doing a shit-ton of damage.

Mrs. Fish made the same point. Although I wonder how much of that damage is being done by conventional, non-precision weapons that the Russians are just lobbing about willy-nilly.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:02:26am

Also, a bit of a slow start to the morning, but we’re getting there.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:03:49am

Oh no. No, no, no, this sounds bad. And by “bad” I mean, “the stupid is so strong with this one, it’s going to make my brain physically ache.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:08:34am

re: #129 darthstar

How to read a windsock.

Incredibly useful. I have a windsock visible up at the top of the hill where there is a model aircraft launching site.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:15:48am

re: #121 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Why would he resign/retire though? There’s no way he’d ever get kicked out. Wouldn’t 67 senators need to vote to impeach him or whatever? His seat is safe for the foreseeable future. Republicans would never give up a seat like that. Ever.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:17:21am

re: #131 Dopamine Fish

Mrs. Fish made the same point. Although I wonder how much of that damage is being done by conventional, non-precision weapons that the Russians are just lobbing about willy-nilly.

Well, in Russia, they consider them to be 100% accurate as they were aiming at Ukraine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:17:41am

re: #135 GlutenFreeJesus

Why would he resign/retire though? There’s no way he’d ever get kicked out. Wouldn’t 67 senators need to vote to impeach him or whatever? His seat is safe for the foreseeable future. Republicans would never give up a seat like that. Ever.

There would have to be literal blood on his hands to get the GOP to come up with 17 votes against him.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:19:06am

Bad night of insomnia. Probably a result of starting Turbo Tax last evening and being reminded that the United States has the worst, most complicated tax system in the history of humanity. And there are complications that make this year more difficult than last year. Hoping that I can find a way to download certain information directly into Turbo Tax. Sigh. At least it’s not mid-April.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:24:11am

re: #138 Hecuba’s daughter

Had a round of that on Sunday: probably a delayed-action result of being exposed to someone who tested positive after I played a gig at his hotel/restaurant opening party on Friday.

I found out the next day and tested negative to my great relief, as did the rest of the staff at the hotel.

But just to be safe, I took all the gig money outside, disinfected it and hung it up to dry.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:27:40am

re: #135 GlutenFreeJesus

Why would he resign/retire though? There’s no way he’d ever get kicked out. Wouldn’t 67 senators need to vote to impeach him or whatever? His seat is safe for the foreseeable future. Republicans would never give up a seat like that. Ever.

Perhaps if Roberts puts pressure on him? I agree with you…mostly. But this is pretty bad so I am not sure of anything at the moment.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:29:14am

re: #140 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Perhaps if Roberts puts pressure on him? I agree with you…mostly. But this is pretty bad so I am not sure of anything at the moment.

Someone needs to ask McConnell on camera if Thomas should resign just to watch his throat waddle as he chokes on the thought of Biden replacing him.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:31:07am

re: #140 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Perhaps if Roberts puts pressure on him? I agree with you…mostly. But this is pretty bad so I am not sure of anything at the moment.

Like Thomas cares about Roberts??? I don’t think so. The GOP will stand fully behind him, no matter what (well — unless he announced he was supporting Roe).

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Nojay UK  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:39:40am

re: #136 darthstar

Well, in Russia, they consider them to be 100% accurate as they were aiming at Ukraine.

The Western militaries have moved mostly to precision-guided missiles and munitions with targetting capabilities that seem like sci-fi from the POV of even a couple of decades ago. There is pressure on the manufacturers to ensure high reliability of such weapons if they are used and adding another 9 to the percentage chance of proper functioning, from say 90% to 99% doesn’t actually boost the per-unit cost that much.

The Russians have some missile systems like that but not many — there was an attack on a military base in the east of Ukraine by a supposedly hypersonic missile air-launched from within Russia proper a few days back and that seemed to work as advertised. Instead the Russians (and the Ukranians too) are relying mostly on unguided rockets, tanks and artillery, classical 20th-century “throw enough metal and some will hit the target” military technology. Fire off a lot of basic rockets and artillery shells and some of them will not do the bang! thing when they impact the ground somewhere near their target, leaving them to appear on Tiktok videos or Facebook. We don’t see the 90% or more of them which do actually do the bang! thing as they were supposed to, just the holes they make.

This older technology has a downside, it requires a lot of logistics to move hundreds of thousands of tonnes of dumb munitions through a battlefield area to the pointy end where they get used up. This is expensive in both monetary terms as well as transportation and manpower terms.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:44:22am

re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There would have to be literal blood on his hands to get the GOP to come up with 17 votes against him.

I don’t think you’d get 17 votes even then. Trump was right; he, or any Republican official, could murder someone in broad daylight on 5th Avenue in New York, and the party would still support them.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:46:18am

re: #143 Nojay UK

Our Javelins have a 90% effective rate based on confirmed tank/vehicle hits vs launches. Russia’s precision munitions appear to be missing their target or failing in other ways six out of ten times.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:48:54am

re: #144 Dopamine Fish

I don’t think you’d get 17 votes even then. Trump was right; he, or any Republican official, could murder someone in broad daylight on 5th Avenue in New York, and the party would still support them.

Cheney, while VP, shot a friend and the friend apologized, so this GOP policy predates Trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:51:20am

re: #146 Hecuba’s daughter

Cheney, while VP, shot a friend and the friend apologized, so this GOP policy predates Trump.

“Heck, I voted for the Shoot-You-in-the-Face Party!!!”

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2022 • 4:57:02am

re: #78 Targetpractice

This is a good thread following my own thinking:

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tl;dr: Bragg is putting his political career (and future ambitions) over the conclusions of people who were already working the case before he took office. He wants a slam dunk case that he can ride to higher office, they are telling him that there’s no way to guarantee a win against somebody with as much clout as Trump, so Bragg is pulling the plug to avoid the embarrassment to his career of a very public loss.

And that’s despite his campaign pledge to pursue the tough cases and to spend more time on tough cases rather than get people for ticky tack charges. He lied. He folded like a cheap suit, and he ignored the prosecutors putting together the case against Trump.

It reeks.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:01:53am
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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:03:49am

I like stories like these, and I learned a new word, “flautist” although I read it as flatulence at first.

In 2008, Patricia Burmicky moved to New York City from Venezuela with a dream of becoming a photographer.

She took classes at the International Center of Photography and within a few years opened her own school, PhotoUno in Midtown.

“Being an immigrant, coming here and making my dreams of being a teacher and photographer, I wanted to inspire young girls through images,” Burmicky, who is Venezuelan and Slovenian, told The Post.

In 2020, she started “The Woman I Will Become.” She photographed New York City women who inspired her with their tenacity and ability to make it in their chosen fields.

“I started taking pictures of women who had incredible stories,” she said, adding that her images have a “dreamy look with lots of layers” and take up to eight hours to produce as she photographs and Photoshops each layer.

The series includes a Japanese pianist who played Carnegie Hall, a sustainable fashionista from Uganda and a soprano from a small town in Indiana. She refers to them only by their first names, because, she said “it is less formal.”

In addition, she launched a photo contest in Venezuela for female photographers to capture the same. As International Women’s Month comes to a close, Burmicky is sharing her work and the result of the contest, both of which will be on display at Blue Gallery in Midtown through March 25.

nypost.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:07:02am

re: #149 darthstar

People are asking where the Ukrainian tank brigades are holding up, as they have yet to engage in large numbers. But they still have the Damocles sword of Belarus falling on them around Lviv and need to keep their large armored units in reserve to maintain open supply routes from the west.

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Nojay UK  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:11:28am

re: #146 Hecuba’s daughter

Cheney, while VP, shot a friend and the friend apologized, so this GOP policy predates Trump.

There’s a bit more to that story than meets the eye — the shooting party was walking up grouse, advancing in line abreast with no-one supposed to get in front of the others for safety reasons. The person that was shot broke that rule and got in front of the line as VP Cheney fired at a grouse that broke cover. It was in fact his fault he got shot and VP Cheney was in fact blameless in that regard.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:16:22am

re: #152 Nojay UK

There’s a bit more to that story than meets the eye — the shooting party was walking up grouse, advancing in line abreast with no-one supposed to get in front of the others for safety reasons. The person that was shot broke that rule and got in front of the line as VP Cheney fired at a grouse that broke cover. It was in fact his fault he got shot and VP Cheney was in fact blameless in that regard.

You mean Cheney changed membership to the “Only-Shoot-You-in-the-Face-if -You’re-Really-Asking-for-it” Party?

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:17:27am

re: #152 Nojay UK

There’s a bit more to that story than meets the eye — the shooting party was walking up grouse, advancing in line abreast with no-one supposed to get in front of the others for safety reasons. The person that was shot broke that rule and got in front of the line as VP Cheney fired at a grouse that broke cover. It was in fact his fault he got shot and VP Cheney was in fact blameless in that regard.

That may have been the story they concocted before they notified the police. There was a delay before authorities were notified.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:18:26am

re: #154 Hecuba’s daughter

That may have been the story they concocted before they notified the police. There was a delay before authorities were notified.

So Cheney could sober up from the “one, repeat one beer” that he admitted to having?

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:34:55am

re: #50 JC1

Got it in 3 today.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:36:38am

We had some leftover cuban bread.
So cuban bread pudding

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:36:58am

re: #150 Shropshire Slasher

I like stories like these, and I learned a new word, “flautist” although I read it as flatulence at first.

nypost.com

James Galway was once asked by Johnny Carson if the word is “flautist” or “flutist.” Galway responded “flutist: P-H-L-O-O-T-I-S-T.”

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:46:13am

re: #124 Nojay UK

Re: strategic Russian nuclear weapons — one of the new Borei SSBNs volley-fired four Bulava missiles in about thirty seconds in a test a few years back. The video of the test launch is on Youtube. The Russians claimed all four missiles hit their targets several thousand kilometres away, no proof of course.

They placed the targets after the missiles hit.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:48:45am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:50:29am

re: #160 Dave In Austin

Talk about the guy next door who is a monster. Look at that guy. Jeez.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:59:01am
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jeffreyw  Mar 25, 2022 • 5:59:19am

sammich pr0n

Good morning!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:00:39am

re: #162 lawhawk

GOLD!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:04:06am

Gotcha! (Juanita Jean’s)

They note both Mark Meadows and his wife are under investigation by North Carolina for in-person voter fraud, due to the trailer they rented and never lived in.

Juanita Jean says it’s impossible for his wife to live in that trailer due to her big hair. She couldn’t get in.

My guess on Rep. Fortenberry is he’s not going to resign his House seat. Even if he goes to jail, he can still draw his House salary. Our state party is sure hoping he doesn’t resign, so they can tie that jail around his neck. NE-1 seems to be a flippable seat (it was close last time, though there is more extreme gerrymandering now).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:06:51am

re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Her Hair Was Too Big for my Trailer”: Now there’s a country song in the makin’ if there ever was…

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:12:41am

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

James Galway was once asked by Johnny Carson if the word is “flautist” or “flutist.” Galway responded “flutist: P-H-L-O-O-T-I-S-T.”

I once asked an Hawaiian whether it was pronounced “Hawaii” or “Havaii”.
He said “Havaii”
I said thank you
he said you’re velcome

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:12:50am

Being a GOPer means never having to resign or take responsibility for the crimes they engage in.

It’s infuriating that prosecutors aren’t issuing indictments against Trumpworld figures at any level (state, fed), and that even the contempt referrals are being slow-rolled by the DOJ.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:12:52am

I saw this posted by a doctor at sorryantivaxxer.com

As an inpatient hospital doctor who has cared for covid patients since the start, here is a just a sample list of things I wish I could just hand out to families on a pamphlet:

Vaccinated or not, I’ll treat your loved one the same. You have my word on that. Just wish you had received the vaccine, I likely wouldn’t have met either of you.

No, we won’t be giving your loved one ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. Yes, I have heard of them. Yes, I think for myself. You have no idea what those meds actually do, but I, as your doctor, do, and they are not indicated.

You are welcome to refuse remdesivir, happy to oblige. Yes, I agree that it does carry a risk of kidney failure. As does taking ibuprofen, that antibiotic for your uti, your blood pressure medication, your uncontrolled diabetes…

No, ventilators don’t kill people. They are used to try and prolong the imminent death that would have occurred had they not existed. Yes, patients often get worse while on the vent. This is because their covid is worse. Literally everything we are doing is trying to stop covid from killing your loved one.

No, I don’t make money on every patient I intubate. No, I don’t make money on every covid admission. Still no, I don’t make money putting covid as the cause of death of your loved one. I’ve gotten so used to having to put covid 19 on death certificates that I get morbidly excited when the cause of death is literally anything else. Rest assured, if I did make covid money, I’d put it towards the therapy needed for my significant ptsd for > 2 years as covid deaths never get easier.

Yes, I am your doctor. Yes I am female and not a nurse. No, the “real” male doctor won’t also be seeing you.*

*Not covid specific, but part of my dream everyday pamphlet and extra annoying given the above.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:12:57am
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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:14:23am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Her Hair Was Too Big for my Trailer”: Now there’s a country song in the makin’ if there ever was…

we used to call it a can a day habit

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:17:39am

The rare (for me) 1st word fail. Still pulled through!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:18:30am

re: #160 Dave In Austin

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:32:24am

I tried to make this point yesterday.

electoral-vote.com nailed it

The Washington Post’s Henry Olsen, a conservative columnist, opposes the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson. That part is not surprising. What is surprising is that he spoke the quiet part (which everyone knows) out loud. He said the Supreme Court is a political football that often overrules the executive and legislative branches. In effect, it is a mini-legislature, so he wants it to be populated by people who agree with his worldview. Jackson doesn’t make the cut, so she should be rejected. He’s completely right about how it works and everyone knows it, but nobody else dares to say this in public. The jackass-ery of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wasn’t on display during the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh because Cruz expected to Kavanaugh to rule the way Cruz wants him to rule. That’s all there is. The rest is all make believe.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:34:42am

re: #161 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Talk about the guy next door who is a monster. Look at that guy. Jeez.

He kind of looks like Alan Tudyk.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:35:33am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:36:43am

re: #94 Teukka

… and the poor sods thought they’d be met as liberators:

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I have a vast and growing anger, triggered by those scenes, when I look at all the damage and think about how long it will take to return it all to its prewar status.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:47:01am

re: #177 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I have a vast and growing anger, triggered by those scenes, when I look at all the damage and think about how long it will take to return it all to its prewar status.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:52:54am

It will surprise the people seeing commercial after commercial for The Secrets of Dumbledore to hear that J.K. Rowling has been cancelled.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:59:31am

Going back to sleep for 90 minutes was the right thing to do.
Wordle 279 4/6
Yesterday’s:

Click to Reveal
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Belafon  Mar 25, 2022 • 6:59:37am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:01:28am

re: #181 Belafon

This is a serious problem; Ukraine and Russia are both big grain exporters.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:09:08am

re: #163 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:11:09am

In case you were worrying, Jackson won’t need a single GOP vote.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:18:03am

re: #181 Belafon

One of the poor nations he’s destabilizing is Russia.

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Kilroy was here  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:18:43am

Youtube Video

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:31:07am

World stuff, keep scrolling.

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:32:28am

re: #138 Hecuba’s daughter

Bad night of insomnia. Probably a result of starting Turbo Tax last evening and being reminded that the United States has the worst, most complicated tax system in the history of humanity. And there are complications that make this year more difficult than last year. Hoping that I can find a way to download certain information directly into Turbo Tax. Sigh. At least it’s not mid-April.

at some point, I almost started lending money through lending tree (I think that’s the name), until somebody pointed out that all those 25 dollar investments you are making across the board have to be treated with their own paperwork, because they’re separate loans. and i don’t think turbotax would be all that helpful.

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lizardofid  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:32:56am

re: #182 No Malarkey!

This is a serious problem; Ukraine and Russia are both big grain exporters.

With out looking again, I think it’s about a quarter of the world supply. We really need to be doing what we can to make sure we pick up supply, as best we can. We can’t replace anywhere near all of it, but every few percentage points will mean a reduction in suffering somewhere. For starters, in my opinion we need to replace subsidies ethanol corn, with something to get food in bellies. It’s too late to get ahead of it, but not too late to help.

Oh, good morning.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:35:30am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:40:42am

Does it make me a bad person that I find this news disappointing? It ensures the reversal of Roe, among other bad things coming.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:42:51am

Watching a clip from MSNBC about Ginni Thomas. She’s crazy. My wild guess is that they are going to try and sweep this under the rug by saying she had a “episode” and is seeking help. Clarence will never resign over this.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:42:52am

Now we know what toppings Joe likes on pizza (NOT PINEAPPLE)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:43:27am

re: #181 Belafon

Biden White House wrestling with how to keep Ukraine crisis from causing a spike in global hunger and political unrest.

How about we start putting basic human needs ahead of letting the world economy and society be dictated by the principle of maximizing Corporate profits?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:43:57am

re: #192 I Would Prefer Not To

Watching a clip from MSNBC about Ginni Thomas. She’s crazy. My wild guess is that they are going to try and sweep this under the rug by saying she had a “episode” and is seeking help. Clarence will never resign over this.

He will never resign, period.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:44:55am

re: #184 No Malarkey!

In case you were worrying, Jackson won’t need a single GOP vote.

Then she probably won’t get one, thus allowing the GOP to remind us how “partisan” this process was…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:46:25am

re: #189 lizardofid

With out looking again, I think it’s about a quarter of the world supply. We really need to be doing what we can to make sure we pick up supply, as best we can. We can’t replace anywhere near all of it, but every few percentage points will mean a reduction in suffering somewhere. For starters, in my opinion we need to replace subsidies ethanol corn, with something to get food in bellies. It’s too late to get ahead of it, but not too late to help.

Oh, good morning.

60% of what we produce goes into animal feed.

Reduce that percentage and you can easily make up the balance.

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John Hughes  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:46:49am

re: #46 ckkatz

I don’t remember any particulars, but do seem to remember that being in the Lincoln Brigade disqualified him from serving in the US armed forces during WW2.

Premature anti- fascist.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:47:26am

re: #184 No Malarkey!

In case you were worrying, Jackson won’t need a single GOP vote.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:50:16am

re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

60% of what we produce goes into animal feed.

Reduce that percentage and you can easily make up the balance.

According to the article, there is more than enough grain in storage to make up the shortfall this year. But prices are going up, which could plunge more people into extreme poverty.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:50:37am

From CNN, Texas State AG and accused felon Ken Paxton continues to be a dick:

For eight years, a school district in Texas has celebrated its LGBTQIA+ students, staff and families through a Pride Week. But this year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the activities are breaking state law.

In a Tuesday letter to the Austin Independent School District’s superintendent, Paxton, a Republican, wrote, “The Texas Legislature has made it clear that when it comes to sex education, parents — not school districts — are in charge.”
Pride Week is an opportunity for schools to show students and their families that they are committed to creating a safe and inclusive space for all, according to the district. During the week, schools are given a guide of suggested activities to foster that support.
“We aren’t worried about Paxton’s letter,” Austin ISD spokesperson Eddie Villa told CNN. “Pride Week and sex education are different. Celebrating diversity and acceptance is completely legal.”
Paxton argued in his letter the district’s “curriculum and lesson plans deal head-on with sexual orientation and gender identity — topics that unmistakably constitute ‘human sexuality instruction’ governed by state law” — and said Texas law requires parental consent in writing before students are taught about human sexuality.

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:50:42am

re: #175 Belafon

He kind of looks like Alan Tudyk.

i was actually thinking you could put him in any military uniform amongst western powers, and he looks right at home. A lot of the Russian generals tend to look like thick-necked greasers who work pulling cases of Bud off the truck onto a dolly. (Nothing wrong with that job, just tends in my experience to be filled with fellows who are taking advantage of the 20% off employee discount).

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John Hughes  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:52:14am

re: #46 ckkatz

From what I’ve read, the current contract for javelins is for 2500 units this year. And reportedly, the max production capability is about 6500 per year.

Hence the need for anglo-swedish NLAWs, and possibly soon French MMPs.

Damn, but Thalès and MBDA are going to be making a lot of money for this. Great for my pension.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:52:44am

re: #200 No Malarkey!

According to the article, there is more than enough grain in storage to make up the shortfall this year. But prices are going up, which could plunge more people into extreme poverty.

Because food is seen as a commodity first and as a basic human need second.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:53:23am

re: #201 Dopamine Fish

This equating of gender identity and sexuality is all part of a coordinated attack intended to push Christian morality on society, by banning things that are “indecent” for children (according to them - parents’ actual feelings be damned). If you’re wondering if they’re actually that stupid to conflate gender issues with sex, they’re not; it’s being done intentionally, to conflate the issues together in the minds of their rabid base, so that they are justified in demonizing LGBTQ people and issues and rights.

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Varek Raith  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:54:16am

Good morning.
I now have a full set of teeth!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:54:49am

re: #162 lawhawk

Russia has never paid Spain back over the gold transferred to the Soviet Union to protect it from seizure by Francoists during the Spanish Civil War.

At the time, Spain was considered to have the fourth-largest physical gold reserves in the world.

en.wikipedia.org

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:55:29am

re: #205 Dopamine Fish

Remember: To them, homosexuality is evil, and God does not create Evil. So homosexuals, who cannot procreate, must then spread by recruiting, and what better potential disciples of Satan than innocent, helpless children?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:56:12am

re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Russia has never paid Spain back over the gold transferred to the Soviet Union to protect it from seizure by Francoists during the Spanish Civil War.

At the time, Spain was considered to have the fourth-largest physical gold reserves in the world.

en.wikipedia.org

So basically, all that was left of them raiding the Americas for centuries…

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lizardofid  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:57:21am

re: #200 No Malarkey!

According to the article, there is more than enough grain in storage to make up the shortfall this year. But prices are going up, which could plunge more people into extreme poverty.

Yep. But the thing about that in storage is, that was the last harvest. The rub will be in the next one. Another real hitch in the system is that the record prices have made buyers hesitant to commit. This will put farmers in a bind, and prevent some planting.

Local prices shot up roughly 30% to nearly $12 a bushel, about the highest Ehmke could recall in 45 years of farming near the western Kansas town of Healy.

Instead of reaping a windfall, Ehmke found a commodities market turned upside down. He and his wife Louise told Reuters they couldn’t sell a nickel of their upcoming summer wheat harvest for future delivery. Futures prices for corn and wheat had rocketed so abruptly that many along the complex chain of grain handling - local farm cooperatives, grain elevators, flour millers and exporters - stopped buying for fear they couldn’t resell at a profit.

reuters.com

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2022 • 7:59:20am

re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Russia has never paid Spain back over the gold transferred to the Soviet Union to protect it from seizure by Francoists during the Spanish Civil War.

At the time, Spain was considered to have the fourth-largest physical gold reserves in the world.

en.wikipedia.org

I wonder (maybe Wiki mentions this) if some of that gold still has markings on it indicating it got turned into bullion in South America. I’m assuming Spain probably had gold that had been sitting in its vaults since the 1500’s.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:00:39am

re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So basically, all that was left of them raiding the Americas for centuries…

Historians estimate only 0.01% of the gold was from that time (eighteen ingots). All the rest was acquired during WW1.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:03:05am

re: #211 steve_davis

I wonder (maybe Wiki mentions this) if some of that gold still has markings on it indicating it got turned into bullion in South America. I’m assuming Spain probably had gold that had been sitting in its vaults since the 1500’s.

Historians say what happened with all the Spanish gold was the Soviet Union melted it down. Pravda and Radio Moscow said that they used it to pay Spain’s foreign debts, but gave no proof. Documentation shows they used it to fund Communist Party activities in other countries, particularly France.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:03:53am

re: #193 The Pie Overlord!

Now we know what toppings Joe likes on pizza (NOT PINEAPPLE)

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Also, he doesn’t eat pizza with a knife and fork.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:05:01am

Looks like Beijing is worried about getting sanctioned if they try to help their buddy in the Kremlin….

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:07:31am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Her Hair Was Too Big for my Trailer”: Now there’s a country song in the makin’ if there ever was…

Her hair was too big for my trailer,
She couldn’t get in my truck.
I had to leave her at the bar,
For a woman who didn’t get stuck.

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lizardofid  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:07:54am

re: #211 steve_davis

I wonder (maybe Wiki mentions this) if some of that gold still has markings on it indicating it got turned into bullion in South America. I’m assuming Spain probably had gold that had been sitting in its vaults since the 1500’s.

Might check the hold on this little beauty.

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Jay C  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:08:38am

re: #193 The Pie Overlord!

Now we know what toppings Joe likes on pizza (NOT PINEAPPLE)

Do we?
That linked piece to ABC News had a lot of info about President Biden’s diplomatic efforts, but little about the pizza question.
Another shortcoming of journalism…

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Varek Raith  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:10:54am

re: #214 Dr Lizardo

Also, he doesn’t eat pizza with a knife and fork.

Thank Zod.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:11:06am

It looks like Russia is giving up on its maximalist goals, and is going to focus on the Donbass.

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HypnoToad  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:11:26am

A HypnoToad speculation.

Given the following:

Trump, Manafort, and others prior connections to and attempted manipulation of Ukraine with regards to the US election.

The impeachment that resulted from that.

The slow-rolling of investigation and prosecutions over both the Republican election fuckery and the Jan. 6th insurrection attempt.

The well anticipated Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the surprising and effective (with CIA training aid) resistance to it, along with the abysmal performance of the Russian armed forces.

The astoundingly rapid and coordinated worldwide response to that invasion with both effective sanctions and significant military support for Ukraine.

Therefore: Could this be a very deep set-up by many western democracies to take care of both the long-term antagonism from Russia towards them, and to identify and clean out many of the right wing allies recruited in both their countries and the US to try and subvert those democracies and turn them towards authoritarianism/fascism? IOW. Did Trumpism’s near success scare much of the world into a coordinated plan of action to preserve the United States as the main force of democratic stability?

If so, and I’d like to be optimistic about humanity’s competence here, I would expect to see the pace of indictments, prosecutions, and the like to very rapidly increase as soon as the Ukrainian war is resolved. Right now, our political enemies are still exposing themselves/taking sides.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:13:44am

re: #220 No Malarkey!

It looks like Russia is giving up on its maximalist goals, and is going to focus on the Donbass.

Heh - that’s what I said yesterday Putin should do if he were to refocus his strategic objectives and not succumb to delusions of grandeur.

Jeez, I’d better be more careful. Maybe Putin’s lurking here…..

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Varek Raith  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:14:32am

Their ‘plan’ was to bum rush Kyiv and ‘win’.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:17:32am

re: #223 Varek Raith

Their ‘plan’ was to bum rush Kyiv and ‘win’.

Yeah, that was the original plan and it failed miserably. Now they’re refocusing on the Donetsk Basin area in an attempt to save face and not look like total schmucks (too late for that, though).

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:18:08am

re: #222 Dr Lizardo

Heh - that’s what I said yesterday Putin should do if he were to refocus his strategic objectives and not succumb to delusions of grandeur.

Jeez, I’d better be more careful. Maybe Putin’s lurking here…..

It doesn’t take a strategic genius to figure out at this point that Russia had bitten off way more than it can chew. Its amazing they ever thought they could take all of Ukraine in the first place.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:20:24am

re: #225 No Malarkey!

It doesn’t take a strategic genius to figure out at this point that Russia had bitten off way more than it can chew. Its amazing they ever thought they could take all of Ukraine in the first place.

“Seemed like a good idea at the time.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:20:38am

re: #221 HypnoToad

I will say it again: without Covid, Trump most likely would have kept the Presidency.

He still would have lost the popular vote, but it would have been closer, enough to embolden enough GOP state election officials to throw it his way or allow it to be thrown.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:22:43am

re: #223 Varek Raith

Their ‘plan’ was to bum rush Kyiv and ‘win’.

I assumed it would be to decapitate Ukraine, take out command communications, transportation and power grids, rendering it unable to offer any sort of organized resistance, at which point the “lay down your arms and prevent useless bloodshed” argument would have had more teeth than it does now.

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HypnoToad  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:23:40am

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

Agreed. I was thinking that most of what I’d speculated on might have been put into action after Biden had won.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:24:21am

re: #221 HypnoToad

A HypnoToad speculation.

Given the following:

Trump, Manafort, and others prior connections to and attempted manipulation of Ukraine with regards to the US election.

The impeachment that resulted from that.

The slow-rolling of investigation and prosecutions over both the Republican election fuckery and the Jan. 6th insurrection attempt.

The well anticipated Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the surprising and effective (with CIA training aid) resistance to it, along with the abysmal performance of the Russian armed forces.

The astoundingly rapid and coordinated worldwide response to that invasion with both effective sanctions and significant military support for Ukraine.

Therefore: Could this be a very deep set-up by many western democracies to take care of both the long-term antagonism from Russia towards them, and to identify and clean out many of the right wing allies recruited in both their countries and the US to try and subvert those democracies and turn them towards authoritarianism/fascism? IOW. Did Trumpism’s near success scare much of the world into a coordinated plan of action to preserve the United States as the main force of democratic stability?

If so, and I’d like to be optimistic about humanity’s competence here, I would expect to see the pace of indictments, prosecutions, and the like to very rapidly increase as soon as the Ukrainian war is resolved. Right now, our political enemies are still exposing themselves/taking sides.

No. It wasn’t coordinated. Most people and countries thought Putin wouldn’t be dumb enough to invade.

But countries do need to take advantage of the opportunity this gives.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:29:38am

re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Then she probably won’t get one, thus allowing the GOP to remind us how “partisan” this process was…

And they will forever be on the wrong side of history. Looking forward to Cory Booker reminding them of that before their vote.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:31:17am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:31:39am

re: #229 HypnoToad

Agreed. I was thinking that most of what I’d speculated on might have been put into action after Biden had won.

On the other hand, there was a whole lot of turnout (especially in minority communities) to vote against Trump, Covid-19 or no. Hence also flipping both of Georgia’s Senate seats.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:32:22am

re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

How about we start putting basic human needs ahead of letting the world economy and society be dictated by the principle of maximizing Corporate profits?

This right here!!!

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mmmirele  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:32:45am

re: #193 The Pie Overlord!

Now we know what toppings Joe likes on pizza (NOT PINEAPPLE)

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You know, I don’t agree with everything Biden does, but he is a super-personable guy and such a change from TFG. I can’t see TFG sitting down and just accepting what’s put in front of him.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:33:06am

Ugh. I just said, “Happy Friday,” on this conference call, and the first thing that popped into my mind was the line from the odious windbag Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, “Live, from New York, it’s Open Line Friday!!!”

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:34:08am

Nice shots.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:35:30am

re: #231 darthstar

And they will forever be on the wrong side of history. Looking forward to Cory Booker reminding them of that before their vote.

Which is why I think Collins will vote yes. She’ll want to burnish her bipartisan and pro-choice credentials after voting for the Justices who are going to reverse Roe in a few weeks.

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Jay C  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:36:22am

re: #225 No Malarkey!

It doesn’t take a strategic genius to figure out at this point that Russia had bitten off way more than it can chew. Its amazing they ever thought they could take all of Ukraine in the first place.

Strategic blundering, yes: but what seems to me to have been the least-predictable scenario in the Russian invasion is the awful tactical shortcomings their military have shown. Yeah, it’s likely the fearsome reputation of Russian arms had been amplified for the usual - mainly political - reasons (by both sides), but their actual performance in Ukraine has been - to put it mildly- suboptimal.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:36:30am

Damn…now I want pizza.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:37:35am

re: #236 Dopamine Fish

Ugh. I just said, “Happy Friday,” on this conference call, and the first thing that popped into my mind was the line from the odious windbag Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, “Live, from New York, it’s Open Line Friday!!!”

I believe he’s still dead.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:38:19am

re: #240 darthstar

Damn…now I want pizza.

sunday night
after tomorrow’s 26.2 mile training run

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rhuarc  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:39:06am

So unless this was spontaneous from multiple people it looks like the talking point the Republicans are going with in regards to traitor Ginni Thomas is that it’s her 1st Amendment rights to send those texts and because of that we should just ignore them. Anybody else seeing that in the sewers of the right wing today?

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:40:15am

re: #232 Dopamine Fish

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Teddy's Person  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:40:26am

re: #190 Belafon

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Crap, I’ve been having some of these symptoms the past couple of days but chalked it up to stress, which wreaks havoc on my gastrointestinal system. Luckily, I have some tests.

Thanks Joe!!!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:41:02am

re: #243 rhuarc

So unless this was spontaneous from multiple people it looks like the talking point the Republicans are going with in regards to traitor Ginni Thomas is that it’s her 1st Amendment rights to send those texts and because of that we should just ignore them. Anybody else seeing that in the sewers of the right wing today?

“Performance art.” “No sane person can be expected to take it seriously.”

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:41:08am

re: #243 rhuarc

So unless this was spontaneous from multiple people it looks like the talking point the Republicans are going with in regards to traitor Ginni Thomas is that it’s her 1st Amendment rights to send those texts and because of that we should just ignore them. Anybody else seeing that in the sewers of the right wing today?

First Amendment right, yes. Ignore them, no. Actions have consequences. I do think that Clarence Thomas should, if he had a proper conscience, resign the bench - but he will never do that in a million years. That fucker will probably die in the middle of a hearing, and Republicans will demand a seance to ascertain his vote on the issue.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:46:10am

re: #240 darthstar

Damn…now I want pizza.

Have a couple of slices on me.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:48:05am

re: #232 Dopamine Fish

To Tracey:
Do you think their plan involved 40 mile long supply lines and convoys getting stuck in situ and getting attacked from all sides?

Do you think their plan involved pissing off Ukrainians to the point that grandmas and grandpas are getting out molotov cocktails and their farm tractors to seize abandoned tanks and gear?

Do you think their plan involved abandoning 100s of otherwise functional tanks, trucks, and specialized mechanized vehicles?

If you think the answer to any of those is yes, you’re not only dumber than a bag of hammers, but you’re not worth ever engaging with … ever. You are not a serious person.

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mmmirele  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:48:33am

Well, someone at the Washington Post is saying the quiet part out loud, and no it’s not what you think.

Buried in the explosive news that Virginia Thomas aggressively advocated for Donald Trump’s coup attempt is a choice revelation: The spouse of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas texted with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about Jesus Christ’s otherworldly role in delivering the election to Trump.

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Meadows texted to Ginni Thomas that the “King of Kings” would ultimately “triumph” in the quest to overturn the election, which Meadows characterized as “a fight of good versus evil.” Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, replied: “Thank you!! Needed that!”

This sparked serious consternation on Morning Joe, with host Joe Scarborough delivering an emotional diatribe about it. “Think about the sickness of this,” Scarborough said Friday. “He summons the name of Jesus Christ for his help in overturning American democracy!”

wapo.st — gift link

I’m just going to point out that after the election and before January 6, there was so.much.belief among some Christians (mostly Evangelical) that God was going to step in and make sure Trump remained in office. Some of you may remember that I protested Sunday services at a church in the next city over because the pastor was babbling on YT that God was going to fix this stuff. Well, it turned out to be a false prophecy. And this wasn’t just one guy at one church. It was *everywhere* for two months. Then January 6 came and most of these “profits” got scared straight (or were told to get that crap out of their mouths). There are still a few remaining that continue to babble this nonsense.

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Varek Raith  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:50:27am

*Posts propaganda video of transport ship being unloaded*
Next day
*Ship blows up*
Surprised Pikachu face.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:51:51am

Maggie has a brilliant insight to share.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:52:41am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Maggie has a brilliant insight to share.

Wow. From the Ric Romero School of the Blindingly Obvious.

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Varek Raith  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:54:55am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Maggie has a brilliant insight to share.

I laughed.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:55:03am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Maggie has a brilliant insight to share.

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But if Maggie actually practiced journalism, she’d not be invited to the fancy parties.

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Jay C  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:55:14am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Maggie has a brilliant insight to share.

Yeah: trenchant journalistic insight there:

“Trump will either run again, or he won’t- and if he does, he’ll either win or lose”

Someone alert the Pulitzer committee….
//

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Dragonomics  Mar 25, 2022 • 8:59:18am

Either a thing will happen or it won’t. Prove me wrong.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:03:38am

re: #257 Dragonomics

Either a thing will happen or it won’t. Prove me wrong.

If its a quantum event, it both is and isn’t happening as long as you don’t observe it./

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:04:18am

re: #251 Varek Raith

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:09:30am

re: #230 Belafon

No. It wasn’t coordinated. Most people and countries thought Putin wouldn’t be dumb enough to invade.

But countries do need to take advantage of the opportunity this gives.

Most countries thought that the Putin military would easily take over Ukraine; it is Zelenskyy who inspired his nation to fight and stop this invasion. There were certainly questions as to whether the Russian occupation would succeed after Russia installed its puppet government, but few anticipated the incompetence it has displayed to date during this phase of the struggle.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:09:41am

re: #258 No Malarkey!

Schrodinger’s Journalism.

NYT simultaneous reports on it, but minimizes its importance to the point of burying the story so few if ever read the details. Was it ever really reported?

The Times would say yes - we covered it.
Everyone else would be like - nope, you buried the importance of story and moved on to other things because it disrupted the narrative that the Times has cultivated about such things.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:13:19am

re: #243 rhuarc

So unless this was spontaneous from multiple people it looks like the talking point the Republicans are going with in regards to traitor Ginni Thomas is that it’s her 1st Amendment rights to send those texts and because of that we should just ignore them. Anybody else seeing that in the sewers of the right wing today?

- unless those texts start butting up against conspiracy
- and WTF was Meadows, as COS doing responding to her in his official capacity?
- and who else was she communicating (or coordinating) with - in the admin or outside
- did Clarence Thomas know this? and if so, there’s that pesky oath he took
- not to mention conflict of interest becomes much more serious

it’s way more than ‘muh first amendment right’

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Teukka  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:13:34am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:15:59am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Maggie has a brilliant insight to share.

That reads like some bullshit TFG himself would say.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:21:41am

re: #250 mmmirele

This sparked serious consternation on Morning Joe, with host Joe Scarborough delivering an emotional diatribe about it. “Think about the sickness of this,” Scarborough said Friday. “He summons the name of Jesus Christ for his help in overturning American democracy!”

Scarborough really hasn’t paid attention to the last 2,000 years.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:22:06am

New bon mot from Beau about possible Ukrainian military victory.

Here’s an old-fashioned link to youtube video because so many of us can’t see the embeds anyway.

Youtube Video

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:27:34am

re: #266 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I think Putin might take things in a nasty direction if it started to look like Ukraine would win.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:31:18am
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Teukka  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:31:50am
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A Cranky One  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:34:39am

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Varek Raith  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:38:25am

re: #270 A Cranky One

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I’d rather walk on real fire.

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danarchy  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:42:17am

re: #266 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

New bon mot from Beau about possible Ukrainian military victory.

Here’s an old-fashioned link to youtube video because so many of us can’t see the embeds anyway.

[Embedded content]

Video

Could someone explain the appeal of “Beau” to me? He doesn’t seem to have any particularly special insights and doesn’t deliver them in an entertaining way. I can never make it very far into his videos. If you are going to go through the trouble of creating a character it should at least be fun to watch.

Generally if I am going to dedicate my time to watching a youtube video it is either imparting some sort of special expertise or it is entertaining, hopefully both. If I wanted to listen to a random schmoe’s opinion, I could just stop and chat with a neighbor.

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danarchy  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:43:28am

re: #270 A Cranky One

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I think an actual firewalk would be less painful.

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lizardofid  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:44:27am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bypassing the hookah completely. Bold move.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:48:16am

Elon Musk Takes Poll on Whether Twitter Respects Free Speech - And Warns Result Will Have Consequence

He makes a car the largely appeals to the Left and Progressives, but personally appeals to the maga/Ayn Rand/Rand Paul mouth breathers.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:49:23am

re: #272 danarchy

Beau is meant to look like the kind of guy you would expect to be a Republican. He’s probably lost that edge being liked by so many on the left, but his shtick is to get you to listen to him because he looks like you (in the sense of he’s not a hippy/whatever-you-hate).

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 9:49:43am

re: #251 Varek Raith

*Posts propaganda video of transport ship being unloaded*
Next day
*Ship blows up*
Surprised Pikachu face.

Judging from the secondary explosions that ship hadn’t been emptied of ordnance quite yet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:02:29am

sigh…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:03:44am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:06:03am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:07:05am

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ever thought of moving out Kentucky?

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Teukka  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:07:26am

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:07:57am

re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

So, there is a possibility I will be homeless next Friday.
If anyone recalls, back at the end of January the management decided I need to pay 60% more per month in rent.
I of course submitted my 60-day notice to vacate..
…
…
Well, there is little chance I can find another place, and get an application approved in the next seven days. Tomorrow I will attempt to get my current landlords to approve me to rent month-to-month for at least the next month. Which will of course cost me 198% of what my base rent has been for the last year.

Improved news. Approval to go month-to-month obtained.
Also secured copies of rental payment ledgers going back to Oct 2019. From two different payment systems. I count myself lucky to have that. This place has changed management companies at least four times since I moved in six years ago, and I believe it is now under it’s third ownership in that period

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:08:09am

re: #270 A Cranky One

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Doesn’t that violate laws concerning crimes against humanity?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:09:37am

re: #281 Eclectic Cyborg

Ever thought of moving out Kentucky?

nope

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JC1  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:10:25am

re: #161 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Talk about the guy next door who is a monster. Look at that guy. Jeez.

Kind of looks like the actor from Terminator 2.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:12:24am

re: #281 Eclectic Cyborg

Ever thought of moving out Kentucky?

If we all go running for safe states, then there’s no way to help those stuck in Texas, Kentucky, Florida, etc.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:15:50am

re: #232 Dopamine Fish

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Take pity on Mike, he’s never quite been the same since Maxine Waters ripped out his heart while screaming “KALI MA!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:16:42am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:19:35am

re: #287 Belafon

If we all go running for safe states, then there’s no way to help those stuck in Texas, Kentucky, Florida, etc.

I am in a Deep red state myself. I get it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:20:38am
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JC1  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:22:24am

re: #275 Dr. Matt

Elon Musk Takes Poll on Whether Twitter Respects Free Speech - And Warns Result Will Have Consequence

He makes a car the largely appeals to the Left and Progressives, but personally appeals to the maga/Ayn Rand/Rand Paul mouth breathers.

Hey now, shots fired. I like Musk, and I don’t think I’m any of those things. He says some stupid shit, but on balance he’s made the world a much better place.

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JC1  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:23:46am

Can Congress defund SCOTUS? That would only take 50+VP votes.

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(((Archangel1)))  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:25:59am

I know it’ll never happen but a guy can dream..

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:25:59am

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

Several of the country’s most respected legal scholars say that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas must immediately recuse himself from any cases relating to the 2020 election and its aftermath, now that it has been revealed that his wife, Virginia Thomas, colluded extensively with a top White House adviser about overturning Joe Biden’s defeat of then President Donald Trump,” the New Yorker reports.

not Jonathan turley of course

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:27:15am

re: #292 JC1

Hey now, shots fired. I like Musk, and I don’t think I’m any of those things. He says some stupid shit, but on balance he’s made the world a much better place.

Musk’s proof that an asshole with money can do some good, even if it’s just by happenstance.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:28:37am
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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:28:37am

Ginni Thomas Accuses Critics of Ignoring Her Thirty Years of Service as Supreme Court Justice

The new yorker (borowitz)

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EstebanTornado1963  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:28:54am

Musk has my money already, but he needs to STFU.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:30:42am
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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:31:14am

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told CBS News that Justice Clarence Thomas should consider “voluntarily appearing” before January 6 Committee to resolve questions around his wife’s text messages with Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:33:14am
A Russian brigade commander has been killed deliberately by his own troops after his unit suffered many losses in Ukraine, Sky News reports.

Said a western official: “That just gives an insight into perhaps some of the morale challenges that Russian forces are having.”

Soon there’s gonna be a question whether Russians or Ukrainians are killing more russians

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:34:02am

re: #248 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Have a couple of slices on me.

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(hmmm….uncertain how you managed to cook that on what is clearly my pizza stone, now sitting on my oven top. I mean….honestly, that is really uncanny!)

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:34:40am
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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:35:11am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Conspiracy and possible n insurrection are not “political activism”

And even if activism is all she was doing it doesn’t change his conflict of interest problems

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Varek Raith  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:36:12am

re: #304 Dopamine Fish

Lmao.

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:37:51am

re: #272 danarchy

Could someone explain the appeal of “Beau” to me? He doesn’t seem to have any particularly special insights and doesn’t deliver them in an entertaining way. I can never make it very far into his videos. If you are going to go through the trouble of creating a character it should at least be fun to watch.

Generally if I am going to dedicate my time to watching a youtube video it is either imparting some sort of special expertise or it is entertaining, hopefully both. If I wanted to listen to a random schmoe’s opinion, I could just stop and chat with a neighbor.

or…in my case…because you know me from LGF and you treat it as a kind of pity fuck for my benefit :-)

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:38:34am

re: #304 Dopamine Fish

Courts don’t look kindly on misrepresenting the law or inventing the law out of whole cloth because it doesn’t actually exist.

Trump’s idiot lawyers took the latter route. There’s no federal law about this. There’s a state law, and it isn’t applicable here. Why isn’t it applicable?

Because the law has a two year statute of limitations, and Trump brought this suit more than 2 years after the actions.

This is worse than a dumpster fire.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:38:45am

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:38:50am

I view Musk as the 21st century Henry Ford, in the sense that both men have massive egos that have led them to succeed in fields that were viewed as either the realm of the rich or unprofitable, but also led to a lot of bad ideas that are ultimately going to define their legacies in very negative ways.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:40:08am

re: #308 lawhawk

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Teddy's Person  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:41:12am

So the package I was bitching about a couple of days ago will finally be delivered today.

The private company (OSM WORLDWIDE) had the package from 3/16 to 3/23 where it went from Colorado to Illinois to Las Vegas and finally arrived at the USPS in Reno. I fail to see that value added here.

The USPS processed and delivered the package from Reno to Issaquah WA in TWO days.

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retired cynic  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:42:11am

This Cat ‘Singing’ Along To A Blues Song Is The Most Adorable Thing You’ll See Today
digg.com

Maybe not the MOST adorable, but it is cute.

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Teukka  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:45:24am
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DodgerFan1988  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:46:12am
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Jay C  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:47:03am

re: #301 Dangerman

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told CBS News that Justice Clarence Thomas should consider “voluntarily appearing” before January 6 Committee to resolve questions around his wife’s text messages with Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

I hope Sen. Blumenthal isn’t intending to hold his breath - or indeed, engage in any activity - whose timeframe is dependent on Mr. Justice Thomas appearing anywhere outside his home/office/(?Hospital)/fundraisers in the foreseeable future.

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Citizen K  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:48:43am

This is about where I’m at with things right now. Yes, Dem leaders and officials do need to carry their weight far as making noise far as certain outrages and awful things foisted on us by Republicans. I think again, the problem is…in may cases, they are already doing just that. We saw some of that where people were lamenting the lack of pushback from committee on the Judge Jackson hearing, not too long before the pushback started to come, both in committee and publicly.

The problem, once again, comes to two things: party cohesion (or lack thereof) and megaphones. Between ideological consolidation and laser focus on denying Dem wins, Republicans have a cohesive strategy at all levels that Dems don’t have. You can see the fractures in real time, whereas the GOP can essentially present as an unmoving monolith and be rewarded for it.

At the same time, this is reflected in media response at all levels toward the GOP and Dems too. Almost everything ends up framed somehow as ‘GOP brilliance’ or ‘Dem incompetence’. The GOP has a massive insular media structure that magnifies and reinforces the topdown narrative that allows GOP leaders to just say things a few times and suddenly it’s disseminated at all levels, TV, social media, etc. But it’s not just conservative media, but ‘normal’ media, which consistently gives the GOP the benefit of the doubt at all times and frames things as ‘Dems in Disarray’ by default, and not for lack of trying from Dems trying to push back. Even if a few articles allowing the Dem message to be heard go through, it’s usually drowned by stories driving the ‘narrative’ that so subsume previous stories and hard news that they’re essentially buried. And unlike the GOP, we don’t really have a partisan media structure. We’ve tried, too (Remember Air America?), and for various reasons, it just never laid an effective foundation the same way Rush and Rush-likes did, much less the Fox News monolith. And even many of the activists we have making noise almost immediately default to ‘Dems are supermassive failures for not stopping GOP malfeasance’ instead of ‘GOP are monsters and we need to fight their evil’.

This idea that ‘we can’t change Republican minds, so we must attack Dem fecklessness instead’ does so precious little to actually motivate Dem leaders into action, and usually just ends up sending signals to all sides that ‘See, see, everyone hates the Dems so they’re in the wrong forever!!’ and makes it even less likely for them to adopt lines of attack or policies actually being pushed for, because they get savaged for not doing things, then savaged for not doing things enough even when the actual tangible votes aren’t there to do thing even with full party unity. And I’m just kinda frustrated and strung out at the utter victory of the Green Lantern Theory at strangling Dem enthusiasm for anything but attacking Dems.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:50:39am

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

Man, Hunter Biden is kicking Ginny’s ass in the mentions department.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:51:37am

re: #303 steve_davis

(hmmm….uncertain how you managed to cook that on what is clearly my pizza stone, now sitting on my oven top. I mean….honestly, that is really uncanny!)

LoL. That stone is the one our own Pie Overlord! suggested to me if I remember correctly.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:52:04am

I’m no big fan of the guy, but I do consider Musk to (for the most part) be one of the more tolerable stupidly rich folks in this country.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:52:06am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Caterpillar feasting on opium poppy.

And then he became Roald Dahl and wrote a story about a boy and a giant peach.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:53:05am

re: #316 Jay C

I hope Sen. Blumenthal isn’t intending to hold his breath - or indeed, engage in any activity - whose timeframe is dependent on Mr. Justice Thomas appearing anywhere outside his home/office/(?Hospital)/fundraisers in the foreseeable future.

Nah
He was just making g the point

Otoh

They can subpoena her. No protection or separation of powers nonsense.
And he couldnt stop it.

No one could
They’ve all already claimed she’s just a private citizen

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Mike Lamb  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:53:38am

re: #232 Dopamine Fish

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Holy shit…that is duuuuuuuumb.

(Aside from the fact that the intelligence agencies, at least, probably do have a copy of the plan (or portions of it)).

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retired cynic  Mar 25, 2022 • 10:59:54am

I think I sent an image of this guy before, but in case you missed it!

Amazing Underwater Photographs Capture the World’s Only Known Pink Manta Ray
thisiscolossal.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:04:12am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:05:32am

re: #323 Mike Lamb

Holy shit…that is duuuuuuuumb.

(Aside from the fact that the intelligence agencies, at least, probably do have a copy of the plan (or portions of it)).

Yeah, it’s not like this is a cartoon and there’s a big red folder that says THE PLAN on it sitting right out in the open.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:08:22am

Do you know what’s going on in Mariupol? Go to your waterfront, look at your shoes, see how murders can happen again. And you are hesitant to impose sanctions” — Zelensky appealed to the Prime Minister of Hungary and mentioned the memorial “Shoes on the Danube River”, dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:11:42am
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William Lewis  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:11:44am

Sometimes I look at my guitar and get depressed… O_O

Youtube Video

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:11:48am

re: #326 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, it’s not like this is a cartoon and there’s a big red folder that says THE PLAN on it sitting right out in the open.

Isn’t Mike Tracey a RW fascist? At one time he was a member of TYT (which has its own issues) but he left them years ago and aligned himself with the authoritarian right.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:13:06am
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JC1  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:14:19am

re: #296 Targetpractice

Musk’s proof that an asshole with money can do some good, even if it’s just by happenstance.

A lot of assholes with money out there. How many started anything remotely as influential as SpaceX and Tesla? Howard Hughes? Anyone else even close?

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JC1  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:16:23am

re: #310 Targetpractice

I view Musk as the 21st century Henry Ford, in the sense that both men have massive egos that have led them to succeed in fields that were viewed as either the realm of the rich or unprofitable, but also led to a lot of bad ideas that are ultimately going to define their legacies in very negative ways.

Ford was just a business guy. Musk is actually a pretty good engineer. He’s more Howard Hughes than a Ford or Rockefeller.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:16:34am

re: #331 jaunte

Russian retconning of their invasion plans is going as well as expected.

Of course, Tracey thinks this is entirely the plan all along - that losing 10-30% of their fighting force in mere weeks is the strategy they intended all along.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:18:07am

He planned this, obvs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:18:51am

re: #331 jaunte

[Embedded content]

it’s like when the cat falls off the kitchen counter, hits the floor, and gives you the look that says “I planned it that way.”

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ericblair  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:18:55am

re: #331 jaunte

Russia had never intended to capture Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities, the generals said - these are not setbacks in other words, it’s all part of the plan. And the plan was to distract Ukrainian forces while Russia/ Donetsk/ Luhansk made territorial gains in the east.

This is the I Meant To Do That part of the script. Toss the majority of your whole conventional combat forces in a meat grinder to “distract” Ukraine from the easiest part of the mission. Great idea, boss.

We’ll see if they’re really going to try to pull back to the Donbass. A proper retreat is not an easy thing to pull off, actually, without turning it into a disastrous rout. A lot of Russian forces are in no position to retreat without exposing themselves to pretty nasty harassment.

ETA: oh yeah, the beans, bullets, and gas problems just don’t go away when you decide to turn tail.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:22:50am

Russia’s explanation for why it’s shifting its focus east….

Youtube Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:24:13am

Also: see any major league stadium.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:24:35am

I hope the women get them first.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:25:24am

When something hinky was going on in the Trump White House, it’s a sure bet that Jared had his smarmy little fingers in the pie.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:25:35am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:26:10am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:26:45am

re: #342 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:27:59am

re: #340 jaunte

I hope the women get them first.

“Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. Should we stone her, in accordance with the Law of Moses?”

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BeachDem  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:30:16am

re: #331 jaunte

[Embedded content]


it’s all part of the plan

Your conscience awakes and you see your mistakes
And you wish someone would buy your confessions
The days miss their mark, and the night gets so dark
And some kind of message comes through to you
Some kind of message shoots through
And it says to you

Love when you can
Cry when you have to
Be who you must
That’s a part of the plan

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:30:35am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:31:08am

re: #299 EstebanTornado1963

Musk has my money already, but he needs to STFU.

Yep. “Howard Hughes of the twenty-first century” is not entirely a compliment, though Hughes remains a revered figure in the aerospace world. Musk can do the same if he doesn’t screw the pooch any further with irrelevant crazy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:33:01am

re: #347 jaunte

Oh shit. That’s pretty big.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:33:39am

re: #349 Eclectic Cyborg

The self-purging army.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:38:52am

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

Its important to Roberts to maintain the appearance of propriety as he helps end American democracy.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:40:30am

re: #347 jaunte
Non-paywalled

Russian commander deliberately killed by his own demoralised troops, Western officials claim

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:42:14am

re: #348 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Yep. “Howard Hughes of the twenty-first century” is not entirely a compliment, though Hughes remains a revered figure in the aerospace world. Musk can do the same if he doesn’t screw the pooch any further with irrelevant crazy.

I thought Musk hired engineers to do the design and work; that he himself was not really involved in any aspect of the development, except perhaps to say he wanted a vehicle that did a, b and c. Hughes actually designed aircraft. If so, then Musk is more of a Ford, as Targetpractice said.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:44:44am
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Jay C  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:48:57am

re: #347 jaunte

Interesting pair of diaries I found over at Daily Kos:

1. Why the Russian Army Sucks
2. Why The Russian Army Still Sucks

If these pieces are in any way, it would go a long towards explaining the Russian military’s extraordinarily unimpressive performance in Ukraine.

TL;DR version: most forces in Putin’s Russia suck because they are designed that way: the real “force” is in the “state security” organizations: the “regular” Army/Navy are secondary, and are most-often used a scapegoats for systemic flaws…

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2022 • 11:56:13am

re: #334 lawhawk

Russian retconning of their invasion plans is going as well as expected.

Of course, Tracey thinks this is entirely the plan all along - that losing 10-30% of their fighting force in mere weeks is the strategy they intended all along.

Like Trump, Putin plays eleventy dimensional chess. Someday we will see that getting the Russian army and economy destroyed, uniting NATO and creating such deep hatred in Ukraine for Mother Russia that they will never be reconciled were all master moves in his grand strategy for world domination.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 25, 2022 • 12:35:41pm

re: #205 Dopamine Fish

This equating of gender identity and sexuality is all part of a coordinated attack intended to push Christian morality on society, by banning things that are “indecent” for children (according to them - parents’ actual feelings be damned). If you’re wondering if they’re actually that stupid to conflate gender issues with sex, they’re not; it’s being done intentionally, to conflate the issues together in the minds of their rabid base, so that they are justified in demonizing LGBTQ people and issues and rights.

And trying it all to pedophilia. Because “it’s all about the children” no matter how damaging it may be to children.

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John Hughes  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:37:37pm

re: #214 Dr Lizardo

Also, he doesn’t eat pizza with a knife and fork.

Of course not, he’s Irish, not Italian.

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John Hughes  Mar 25, 2022 • 2:51:04pm

re: #239 Jay C

what seems to me to have been the least-predictable scenario in the Russian invasion is the awful tactical logistical shortcomings their military have shown.


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