Herbie Hancock Solo: “Maiden Voyage” (At Madeleine Albright’s Funeral)

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Jazz musician and songwriter Herbie Hancock performed his song “Maiden Voyage” on April 27 at the funeral of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Hancock performed his 1965 classic between tributes to Albright from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Albright’s daughters, Anne, Alice and Katharine. Albright died in March at the age of 84 after a battle with cancer.

The first woman to serve as secretary of state, Albright was also a child of Czech refugees who fled from a Nazi invasion. She used her experience growing up in communist Yugoslavia and fleeing to the U.S. to inform her work on world affairs, becoming a staunch defender of democracy and human rights.

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1
PhillyPretzel  Apr 27, 2022 • 4:45:37pm

A very fitting tribute to a trailblazer of a woman.

2
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 27, 2022 • 4:47:10pm

re: #187 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

While what you wrote is true (that California public 2-year schools provide the equivalent of the first 2 years in a university), it’s not always practical.

It’s been many a year since I went to college, but in physics the first year was the standard Halliday and Resnick classical physics textbook classes. But the second year was the modern physics series (three quarters) using the Resnick modern physics text.

At least the community colleges I am familiar with around these parts do not offer such a second year physics series.

So while one can definitely start a science program in a community college here in California, I suspect that for many their undergrad stint will turn out to be a 5-year program.

This though is the problem for all highly technical majors these days. Too much to learn in too little time. But if one suggests that B.S. degrees ought to be five years there ensues outrage, not the least from the funders (e.g., the gov’t.)

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2022 • 4:51:26pm

Canadian stand off.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 27, 2022 • 4:56:30pm

found this little blast from the past tonight:

Youtube Video

so young!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 27, 2022 • 4:57:47pm

re: #3 darthstar

Canadian stand off.

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but so very polite

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2022 • 4:59:15pm

Want to see someone who would put $44 billion to good use?

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:00:40pm

re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It took me five years to get my BSCS in 1987. No thanks to an undiagnosed learning disability and what turned out to be autism.

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nines09  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:02:10pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

Freebo (bass player) was a kick in the pants back in the day. He was born in the coal region in Mahanoy City Pa and was very influential in Philly. I remember he wore black Chuck Taylors like all the hip kids in the day. Someone told me he baby sat for some couple and Bonnie was with him way back when.
In the Wayback Machine.

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ckkatz  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:02:19pm

re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Some years back I was visiting Abington, Virginia. It is not far from the Virginia-North Carolina border at the Southern bottom of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

It is also not far from the Appalachian Mountains of Western Virginia, Southern West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Isolated, hardscrabble places where there isn’t much of anything.

Preparing for a four-year college degree was not in most of these kids future.

Spent some time talking with some folks who were working very hard to develop the local community colleges to fill in gaps from the sub-standard high school curriculum and provide training to help kids without much else have a chance to face the world with some level of hope for the future.

I hope their dream comes true.

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nines09  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:03:05pm

re: #3 darthstar

Chuck has no idea what he’s up against…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:08:08pm

re: #3 darthstar

I’ll put my money down on the Goose.

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nines09  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:09:23pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

found this little blast from the past tonight:

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Video

so young!

Bonnie is sitting on John Hammonds’ lap. He’s an incredible talent and did some wonderful things with Tom Waits.
Tom Waits wrote this.
John Hammond nailed it.
He released this album quite a number of years ago. Grab it. Play it.

Youtube Video

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ckkatz  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:16:59pm

re: #8 nines09

Drove past Mahanoy City on I-81 one night about 15 years ago. It was pretty much pitch black. Didn’t look like there was much left around there.

I was on my way up to Syracuse to spend a few days checking out the Revolutionary War sites along the Mohawk River.

I also stopped at Cortland, NY because a ladyfriend had family from that area, and wanted to me to send her some pictures on what it was like. I took a few pictures of downtown and brought them to her with a postcard of Cortland from the 1950’s. Not much appeared to have changed.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:22:56pm

re: #6 darthstar

Want to see someone who would put $44 billion to good use?

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Bezos ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott, who may be the wealthiest woman alive, is also putting her wealth to good purpose.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:25:55pm
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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:41:38pm

re: #12 nines09

Bonnie is sitting on John Hammonds’ lap. He’s an incredible talent and did some wonderful things with Tom Waits.
Tom Waits wrote this.
John Hammond nailed it.
He released this album quite a number of years ago. Grab it. Play it.

[Embedded content]

Video

Hammond’s Wiki:

he is the only person who ever had both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix in his band at the same time, if only for five days in the 1960s, when Hammond played The Gaslight Cafe in New York City.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:45:14pm
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nines09  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:45:59pm

re: #13 ckkatz

Coal region died a slow and painful death. When I first came here it was much more vibrant with clubs and restaurants and business and jobs. In fact I laid my 350 CC crotch rocket scooter down at 65 MPH on what was called the horseshoe curve by locals on PA 61 coming out of Shamokin right after I moved here.
Lost some skin. Tore both shoes off. Did not die.
Limped and had weeping wounds for a few weeks…
I went there to a club there to drink a few beers and check out the scenery.
New and all.
What a ride.
I was standing in the middle of RT 61 checking my fingers for breaks as a family in one of those late 60’s huge station wagons stopped behind me. I was a cartoon character. Stunned. Asked pop to pick up my other shoe. Shoved me in the wagon with 5 or 6 kids with eyes like saucers and took me to the hospital. State Police came just as they came in and slammed a woman on the gurney next to me. They cracked her 4-5 times with the paddles and she lifted into the air and fell back down unresponsive. Died in front of me.
Someone asked me if I hit my head. I did have a helmet, law at that time.
I said I hit every other part of my body, why not?
Seeing the sheet pulled over her made me not feel so bad.
Actually, I’m good.
And we played at a large nightclub that had Go Go Girls on each side of the stage after we formed our band later I think that year. It was jumping in spots. Wide open. Crazy. Fun.
As the jobs and money left it devolved into no mans land. Some has come back, but it took a total beating. It went right wing crazy about 10-15 years ago. Still has a mine or two working and the culm mountains are slowly being consumed by the culm burning plants up on I-81.
Courtland is a town I passed through many times. That is right on the magical snow line north of Bingo. Elevation starts there and doesn’t come down until Onondaga.
NYSU Cortland was looked at by my daughter.
It’s a closet. Kids shoved 3-4 in rooms made for 2.
No.
No.
No.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:58:26pm

Shit, I just checked my iMac tracking page and now the delivery is next Tuesday. I’m having a real bummer, man.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2022 • 5:59:03pm
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nines09  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:00:55pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

A watched pot never boils.
Tracking can be off by 2-3 days sometimes.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:07:58pm

Societies under extreme stress reach back for the metaphysical.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:08:11pm

imac

must have

imac

why imac not here?

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:08:46pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

Shit, I just checked my iMac tracking page and now the delivery is next Tuesday. I’m having a real bummer, man.

Watched pots never boil.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:09:53pm

I’m wondering how painful the process of migrating from El Capitan to the very latest macOS Monterey is going to be. I’m going to be doing a lot of setting up and reconfiguring.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:10:22pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

Shit, I just checked my iMac tracking page and now the delivery is next Tuesday. I’m having a real bummer, man.

They’re managing your expectations. You’ll be thrilled when it shows up sort of on time.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:12:23pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

This is why I still like brick-and-mortar stores. Walk out with the new gear/toy. Silly small thing but UPS just lost my new cocktail shaker. Can’t make a good whiskey sour without it.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:14:09pm

re: #27 Rightwingconspirator

This is why I still like brick-and-mortar stores. Walk out with the new gear/toy. Silly small thing but UPS just lost my new cocktail shaker. Can’t make a good whiskey sour without it.

I know, I wanted to do that but the Apple Store is back-ordered until June on this model.

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nines09  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:16:04pm

re: #27 Rightwingconspirator

This is why I still like brick-and-mortar stores. Walk out with the new gear/toy. Silly small thing but UPS just lost my new cocktail shaker. Can’t make a good whiskey sour without it.

You never saved a glass mayonnaise jar?….////

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Decatur Deb  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:17:29pm

Good News: Russia will resume oil delivery to Europe.
Bad News: The oil is on fire.

Mystery fires at sensitive facilities compound Russia’s war challenge

sandiegouniontribune.com

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retired cynic  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:21:23pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

I’m wondering how painful the process of migrating from El Capitan to the very latest macOS Monterey is going to be. I’m going to be doing a lot of setting up and reconfiguring.

I don’t think it will be painful at all.

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retired cynic  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:26:24pm

re: #31 retired cynic

My worst issues were replacing my 32 bit apps with some 64 bit substitutes.

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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:27:32pm

re: #22 Decatur Deb

Societies under extreme stress reach back for the metaphysical.

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Makes me think of the three swords in the Harry Dresden series …

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retired cynic  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:27:46pm

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:28:28pm

It’s always about the money. Yet another false moral panic pays off for the GOP

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:29:34pm

The more things change, the more they stay the same…

Youtube Video

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:30:15pm

re: #29 nines09

You never saved a glass mayonnaise jar?….////

I guess the idea we wore out a shaker was an unintentional reveal lol. The old one was lost in the move.

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A Cranky One  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:31:27pm

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Decatur Deb  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:31:49pm

re: #33 William Lewis

Makes me think of the three swords in the Harry Dresden series …

Reminds me of the statue of St Michael in front of our Airborne barracks in Italy.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:31:51pm

Next let’s negotiate about releasing Brittney Griner, in exchange for Tucker Carlson.

41
prairiefire  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:37:03pm

I love this man.

42
retired cynic  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:49:23pm

Smart lizard!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:53:56pm

This may not be for the squeamish

Click to Reveal


Have an urge to get a cup of coffee using my Army Safety Center mug

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2022 • 6:57:32pm
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A Cranky One  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:04:14pm

re: #42 retired cynic

Smart lizard!

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Waiter, there is a fly in my soup. Oh, and an iguana in my guacamole…

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:04:55pm
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CleverToad  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:05:40pm

re: #44 Patricia Kayden

Yep, $800 for hubby and I, $400 for grown kid filing on his own
Plus 10 hours per week of free preschool.
I like our Dems in charge

From the Denver Post:
Gov. Jared Polis signed into law Monday a bill that establishes 10 hours of universal preschool per week at no cost to parents and a new department that will oversee that and other child development programs in the state.

Moreover, supporters say, HB22-1295 creates a single clearinghouse for family services offered by the state. It’s a centerpiece accomplishment for Colorado Democrats and Polis, a Democrat seeking re-election in November, and comes on the heels of the state establishing free, universal kindergarten in 2019. Both programs were campaign promises by Polis.

The new preschool program covers 10 hours per week per child the year before they begin kindergarten, with some families qualifying for additional hours. The program begins in fall 2023. Backers say it will save families an average of $4,300 a year.

“Not only are we saving families money, but we are also saving families time with this one-stop shop not only to access universal pre-K, but all of the early childhood programs that our state has to offer to ensure that our children are not just growing but thriving,” state Rep. Emily Sirota, D-Denver and a sponsor of the bill said at the signing ceremony.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:06:33pm
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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:14:18pm
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Belafon  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:17:06pm

I want a Spider-man check:

Actually, he’s been doing a whole lot of Oscar worthy films, with Spider-man being a break in that, so he’s probably a bit burned out.

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:23:57pm

Good AL evening!

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:29:31pm

Lawsuit.

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mmmirele  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:33:06pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

Shit, I just checked my iMac tracking page and now the delivery is next Tuesday. I’m having a real bummer, man.

Two weeks ago on Tuesday, I ordered a new cellphone after 1 pm ET, thinking it would show up on Thursday, when I’d have more time to deal with it. It showed up on Wednesday and sat on my (fenced) patio overnight.

54
Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:35:26pm

weird front suspension.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:36:49pm

A Fedex truck just dropped off a package and I haven’t ordered anything. Checking…well….it’s addressed to one Charles Johnson…hummmm. No big deal, I’ll send it back in a couple of days.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:41:27pm
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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:44:34pm
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mmmirele  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:46:51pm

re: #50 Belafon

I want a Spider-man check:

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Actually, he’s been doing a whole lot of Oscar worthy films, with Spider-man being a break in that, so he’s probably a bit burned out.

He just finished the series “Under the Banner of Heaven,” which premieres tomorrow on Hulu. The book is by Jon Krakauer, and uses as its centerpiece the truly grisly murders of a mother and her baby in 1984. In it, Krakauer delves deep into the history of the church formerly known as Mormon and it is not pleasant reading. Many followers of the church formerly known as Mormon expressed negative opinions about the book when it was published in 2003. I have heard hints that similar negative opinions have been expressed about the series.

Oh, another thing…the reason Jon Krakauer, who previously wrote about mountaineering, happened upon the strangeness at the fringes of the Utah Mormon culture was because he was driving around in the Arizona Strip (area between the Utah border and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon). It’s a pretty desolate area but he was looking for some good hiking spots. In his search, he happened into Colorado City, AZ, which back in the late ’90s was completely settled by the FLDS. And the FLDS had the God Squad in pickup trucks, and at least one of those pickup trucks menaced Krakauer until he left town. And then he wanted to know all about these people who were menacing him.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:47:21pm

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:52:55pm

SEC needs to bitch slap this troll.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:55:27pm
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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:56:56pm

Season 42 of Survivor? They must count them in dog years or something.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2022 • 7:59:11pm

re: #61 darthstar

Pro-tip: don’t try to google dick sword fights…that’s a video I won’t be sharing anywhere, anytime soon. Time to flush my browsing history too. Jesus.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:00:44pm

re: #63 darthstar

Pro-tip: don’t try to google dick sword fights…that’s a video I won’t be sharing anywhere, anytime soon. Time to flush my browsing history too. Jesus.

Thank you, Brave, for making that easy.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:09:46pm

Honestly, I thought I had my phone on vibrate…

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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:11:08pm

Well, one day using Windows 11.

It’s windows. Uglier, to be sure, but still just windows. I will admit that WSL2 with X11 built in works better than under Windows 10 and can handle my Medley Lisp build well.

Ordered an Intel based WIFI card for my laptop that, if I am correct, will be compatible with FreeBSD 13 though at only 802.11n as that seems to be where they’re at right now. Shrug. That’s survivable. None wasn’t :)

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:20:17pm

OMG

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mmmirele  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:23:19pm

re: #57 Dread Pirate Ron

WRT MTG saying “Satan’s controlling the church,” I am so not surprised. A significant chunk of Evangelical Protestants believe the Catholic church is a cult. And there are a lot of religious groups on their “cult” list. To be clear, their definition of “cult” is “someone who doesn’t agree with my beliefs,” and then it can get less or more well-defined. Reminds me of how former rep Michele Bachman was a member of a Wisconsin Synod (Lutheran) church, before her pastor asked her not to come. WELS believes the papacy is the antichrist and they still hold to this belief even today. And because I believe in footnoting outrageous statements to ensure they’re true, here’s their statement.

wels.net

All that said, this is yet another reason why we have to work work work for 2022. Because if these Evangelicals come into real power, they will try to make life hard for those of us who do not hold to their particular beliefs. I HOPE I am wrong. I don’t want to be right. I don’t want to have to seriously think about decamping to another state or country.

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ckkatz  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:31:04pm

re: #67 The Pie Overlord!

Looks like the black pickup at 28sec backed into the white car behind him.

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retired cynic  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:38:05pm
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ckkatz  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:42:53pm

For folks interested in hearing what an analyst thinks about the Russia-Ukraine war right now; And who have 40 minutes; I found this a good listen.

warontherocks.com

tl;dr (?listen?)
Among the points he makes:

1. Because of the way they structured their active forces, the Russian are badly hurting for infantry. In order to field the large number of battalions that they did, they did not place their active duty forces as infantry.

For example, their Infantry Fighting vehicles are supposed to have 8 men in them. 3 men form the crew. The other 5 are an infantry section that dismounts whenever they need infantry stuff done.

Instead, the cut down on the dismount section in order to field the same number of vehicles. Down to 3 or even 0.

This is one reason why the vehicles just sit there when ambushed. The infantry sections that are supposed to get out and chase after the ambushers do not exist.

2. Putin is trying to avoid declaring the invasion a war because it would change the legal and policy construct of the war. And result in having the Russian extreme nationalists demand a maximalist victory.

3. After the current offensive, the professional Russian Army is probably a spent force. That is, unlikely to be able to successfully carry out any more major missions.

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KingKenrod  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:54:25pm

I would pay a shitload of money to see Trump get pelted with pineapples.

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retired cynic  Apr 27, 2022 • 8:55:53pm

re: #72 KingKenrod

Tomatoes! Even if they wouldn’t draw a bruise. Mess in his hair, on his face, let the orange wipe off with the juice. Delightful.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 27, 2022 • 9:05:19pm

re: #72 KingKenrod

I’d pay more to see him pelted with durians…

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ckkatz  Apr 27, 2022 • 9:07:49pm

re: #72 KingKenrod

tfg’s comical, self pitying whining about being in danger from tomatoes and pineapples keeps bringing to mind a song about real dangers faced by real people, Billie Holliday’s Strange Fruit.

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ckkatz  Apr 27, 2022 • 9:12:06pm

re: #74 Egregious Philbin

I’d pay more to see him pelted with durians…

(I make no claims that any of the below is true, but…)

Death By Fruit | When Durian Really Does Kill People
yearofthedurian.com

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ckkatz  Apr 27, 2022 • 9:17:06pm

It’s also a bad idea to stand under a jack fruit tree in season.

Man dies after jackfruit fell on his head
keralakaumudi.com

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ckkatz  Apr 27, 2022 • 9:26:33pm

We are starting to see some information on Russian hacking. For example, Microsoft just released a report on Russian hacking:

At least six different Kremlin-linked hacking groups have conducted nearly 240 cyber operations against Ukrainian targets, Microsoft said Wednesday, in data reveal a broader scope of alleged Russian cyberattacks during the war on Ukraine than previously documented.
*snip*
“If observers see this cyber-offensive as a series of isolated events, its scale and strategic significance get lost in the conventional violence unfolding in Ukraine,” Cattler and Black wrote in Foreign Affairs this month. “But a full accounting of the cyber-operations reveals the proactive and persistent use of cyberattacks to support Russian military objectives.”
Officials from the White House, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have worked closely with Ukrainian counterparts to try to defend against Russian hacking and gain insights into Russian capabilities that might be used against the US.

Russian hacking in Ukraine has been extensive and intertwined with military operations, Microsoft says
cnn.com

Microsoft Report
query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com

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Targetpractice  Apr 27, 2022 • 9:29:27pm

re: #71 ckkatz

For folks interested in hearing what an analyst thinks about the Russia-Ukraine war right now; And who have 40 minutes; I found this a good listen.

warontherocks.com

tl;dr (?listen?)
Among the points he makes:

1. Because of the way they structured their active forces, the Russian are badly hurting for infantry. In order to field the large number of battalions that they did, they did not place their active duty forces as infantry.

For example, their Infantry Fighting vehicles are supposed to have 8 men in them. 3 men form the crew. The other 5 are an infantry section that dismounts whenever they need infantry stuff done.

Instead, the cut down on the dismount section in order to field the same number of vehicles. Down to 3 or even 0.

This is one reason why the vehicles just sit there when ambushed. The infantry sections that are supposed to get out and chase after the ambushers do not exist.

2. Putin is trying to avoid declaring the invasion a war because it would change the legal and policy construct of the war. And result in having the Russian extreme nationalists demand a maximalist victory.

3. After the current offensive, the professional Russian Army is probably a spent force. That is, unlikely to be able to successfully carry out any more major missions.

You can tell that that reality is beginning to sink in to the pro-Putin asshats, as they’ve stopped suggesting we force Ukraine’s surrender to “avoid further bloodshed” and started arguing we force Ukraine to accept Russia’s terms to “avoid further bloodshed.”

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Targetpractice  Apr 27, 2022 • 9:35:34pm

File under #ETTD :

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun told investors on Wednesday that he regrets striking a deal with Donald Trump to build the former president’s Air Force One plane, saying that the company “probably” shouldn’t have agreed upon the terms.

“Air Force One I’m just going to call a very unique moment, a very unique negotiation, a very unique set of risks that Boeing probably shouldn’t have taken,” Calhoun said on a call with analysts. “But we are where we are, and we’re going to deliver great airplanes,” Calhoun said, shortly after Boeing reported a loss for the first quarter of 2022.”

“And we’re going to recognize the costs associated with it,” he added.

tl;dr, Boeing is losing billions on the contract because they let TFG con them into a fixed-cost contract, which allowed him to boast that he was “saving” the country money when really he was just forcing Boeing to assume any cost overruns.

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ckkatz  Apr 27, 2022 • 9:42:47pm

This is the lady whose tweets about Russian military use of dolphins and Beluga whales, I posted yesterday. She is apparently very interested in this area.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 27, 2022 • 9:46:49pm

re: #42 retired cynic

Smart lizard!

If you did not watch your breakfast plate closely at a resort in Malaysia I stayed at in 2011 the monkeys would come out of the tree and steal your food.

the infamous Toast Monkey of Redang

Picture was taken at our bungalow which was a few hundred yards from the breakfast area.

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A Cranky One  Apr 27, 2022 • 10:19:14pm

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2022 • 10:23:45pm

re: #66 William Lewis

Well, one day using Windows 11.

It’s windows. Uglier, to be sure, but still just windows. I will admit that WSL2 with X11 built in works better than under Windows 10 and can handle my Medley Lisp build well.

Ordered an Intel based WIFI card for my laptop that, if I am correct, will be compatible with FreeBSD 13 though at only 802.11n as that seems to be where they’re at right now. Shrug. That’s survivable. None wasn’t :)

I immediately move the taskbar icons back to the left on every Windows 11 I come across, and get thanks from people. It’s buried in the taskbar settings.

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2022 • 10:26:32pm

re: #74 Egregious Philbin

I’d pay more to see him pelted with durians…

Target seems to be selling some things to throw at him.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 27, 2022 • 10:27:46pm

Wordle! Not a complete success

My third 3 in a row!

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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2022 • 10:33:14pm

Oh good, classic shell (which puts the start menu back to something sane, like XP’s) still works on 11. MUCH better than that big waste of space in the center of the screen,

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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2022 • 10:35:29pm

re: #84 Belafon

I immediately move the taskbar icons back to the left on every Windows 11 I come across, and get thanks from people. It’s buried in the taskbar settings.

Yeah, took a bit to find that and turning off widgets and some of the other foolishness.

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A Cranky One  Apr 27, 2022 • 10:41:13pm

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Targetpractice  Apr 27, 2022 • 10:54:03pm
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sagehen  Apr 27, 2022 • 11:11:32pm

re: #90 Targetpractice

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um…. can’t imagine the UK is going to lose any sleep over a shortage of Bud. Not sure they’d even call that a shortage of beer.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 27, 2022 • 11:29:06pm

re: #90 Targetpractice

Exactly LOL

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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2022 • 11:35:36pm

Even the middle of nowhere taverns around here have something better than Bud. Even Miller. Not much better but at least it’s union made.

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2022 • 11:38:46pm

re: #93 William Lewis

Even the middle of nowhere taverns around here have something better than Bud. Even Miller. Not much better but at least it’s union made.

My cousin comes down from Canada and wants to drink Coors. Fuck if I know.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 27, 2022 • 11:42:56pm

re: #94 Dread Pirate Ron

My cousin comes down from Canada and wants to drink Coors. Fuck if I know.

When I was old enough to actually understand the plot of the original Smokey and the Bandit, my question was “All this for Coors? Really?”

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Captain Ron  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:08:50am

One more cool day and hopefully it’ll be t-shirt weather until Thanksgiving.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:30:49am

re: #15 Charles Johnson

It probably doesn’t have the fart or cocaine implications in German.

Same people who market a brand of dog food called BARF
Same people who market a brand of breath fresheners called “Smellis”
Same people who market a reusable packaging envelope named “Comebag”
and my favorite, a chocolate/vitamin powder drink mix called “Schovit”

Some people call Germans humorless but they crack me up nearly every day.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:32:53am

re: #18 nines09

Courtland is a town I passed through many times. That is right on the magical snow line north of Bingo. Elevation starts there and doesn’t come down until Onondaga.
NYSU Cortland was looked at by my daughter.
It’s a closet. Kids shoved 3-4 in rooms made for 2.
No.
No.
No.

I visited Courtland long ago in the early 70’s when my brother lived there working for a tech company. What impressed me was that nobody locked their doors, heck, they even left the keys in the car and the garage door up.

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:33:02am

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

Same people who market a brand of dog food called BARF
Same people who market a brand of breath fresheners called “Smellis”
Same people who market a reusable packaging envelope named “Comebag”
and my favorite, a chocolate/vitamin powder drink mix called “Schovit”

Some people call Germans humorless but they crack me up nearly every day.

“It’s German humor, it’s no laughing matter.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:38:28am

re: #57 Dread Pirate Ron

Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on linking Catholic Church leaders to ‘the Devil’ in new rant

She is gonna get in trouble with the Party for Saying Those Things Out Loud. Of course they’re all going to hell but:

Catholics are to be tolerated because they are anti-abortion and anti-contraception.
Jews are to be tolerated because we need a resurgent Israel to fulfill the End-Times Prophecies.
Even Mormons have big families and are socially conservative (but are still Satanic)

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:39:10am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:39:58am

re: #65 darthstar

Honestly, I thought I had my phone on vibrate…

send him the onion article about the PP abortionplex

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:41:28am

re: #99 Targetpractice

“It’s German humor, it’s no laughing matter.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:43:14am

re: #80 Targetpractice

File under #ETTD :

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tl;dr, Boeing is losing billions on the contract because they let TFG con them into a fixed-cost contract, which allowed him to boast that he was “saving” the country money when really he was just forcing Boeing to assume any cost overruns.

Boeing is a semi-government entity, it will get the money back out of another cost-plus contract.

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2022 • 12:52:30am

Time to head to bed, so G’Nite to all!

I leave you with some bad, not so good, but on topic, Dad jokes:

I was at the Olympics and saw a man carrying a long pole, so I asked him “Are you a Pole Vaulter?”
He responded “No, I’m German, but how did you know my name was Walter?”

And of course:

“I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It’s Hans free.”

I have no doubt that Germans also have jokes about Americans. But have been far too courteous to mention them. Which reminds me, I need to ask my cousin who lives in Hamburg for any good jokes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 1:02:34am

re: #105 ckkatz

Time to head to bed, so G’Nite to all!

I leave you with some bad, not so good, but on topic, Dad jokes:

I was at the Olympics and saw a man carrying a long pole, so I asked him “Are you a Pole Vaulter?”
He responded “No, I’m German, but how did you know my name was Walter?”

And of course:

“I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It’s Hans free.”

I have no doubt that Germans also have jokes about Americans. But have been far too courteous to mention them. Which reminds me, I need to ask my cousin who lives in Hamburg for any good jokes.

My favorite German joke involves a fellow who goes to the doctor about a suspected leather allergy and explains: “Whenever I fall asleep with my shoes on, I always wake up with such a terrible headache!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 1:03:43am

My British Brother-in-Law saw chestnuts growing in Germany and asked if the Germans ever played conkers.

“Only with other nations!” I replied.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 1:55:21am

Translation: “The military leadership of the Russian Federation at times underestimates the losses of the occupiers in the war in Ukraine. Interception from the SBU of the conversation of the Russian military: “Boys doh * ya poebashilo ours, piz * ets doh * ya… Officially one thing, and I’ll tell you: 25,900 dead. This, fuck, in 2 months… ” he tells his friend.”

And meanwhile, this wannabe Captain Jack Sparrow got his yacht seized in Fiji, LOL:

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2022 • 2:14:36am

re: #108 Dr Lizardo

Translation: “The military leadership of the Russian Federation at times underestimates the losses of the occupiers in the war in Ukraine. Interception from the SBU of the conversation of the Russian military: “Boys doh * ya poebashilo ours, piz * ets doh * ya… Officially one thing, and I’ll tell you: 25,900 dead. This, fuck, in 2 months… ” he tells his friend.”

I’ve found myself more than once trying to imagine what the response here in the US would be if we’d lost tens of thousands of troops in just a matter of weeks in Iraq, had made no significant progress to occupy more than a few small towns, and the WH then announced that our only interest was in seizing the oil fields and we were content with allowing Saddam to remain in power.

Then I realized that such a reality never could have existed, largely because the moment it became apparent we were losing the war, Cheney would have begun thinking up ways to get us out “with dignity.”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 2:20:43am

re: #109 Targetpractice

I’ve found myself more than once trying to imagine what the response here in the US would be if we’d lost tens of thousands of troops in just a matter of weeks in Iraq, had made no significant progress to occupy more than a few small towns, and the WH then announced that our only interest was in seizing the oil fields and we were content with allowing Saddam to remain in power.

Then I realized that such a reality never could have existed, largely because the moment it became apparent we were losing the war, Cheney would have begun thinking up ways to get us out “with dignity.”

I personally wonder if anyone in Putin’s clique has the cojones to tell him the truth about KIA/MIA/wounded and disabled troops, etc. OTOH, maybe he does know the reality of the situation and he simply doesn’t care - he’s in that “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” mindset. He might well believe (and I actually think he does believe) that this is truly one of those “to be or not to be” moments for Russia, an outright existential matter and that if Russia loses the war for Ukraine, then Russia itself will cease to exist.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 2:32:37am

re: #110 Dr Lizardo

I personally wonder if anyone in Putin’s clique has the cojones to tell him the truth about KIA/MIA/wounded and disabled troops, etc. OTOH, maybe he does know the reality of the situation and he simply doesn’t care - he’s in that “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” mindset. He might well believe (and I actually think he does believe) that this is truly one of those “to be or not to be” moments for Russia, an outright existential matter and that if Russia loses the war for Ukraine, then Russia itself will cease to exist.

Or he will cease to exist. Of course, in Putin’s mind, he and Russia are basically the same thing.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 2:34:59am

re: #111 No Malarkey!

Or he will cease to exist. Of course, in Putin’s mind, he and Russia are basically the same thing.

That’s what lies at the bottom of it; he’s conflated his own personal existence with that of Russia itself. “L’etat c’est moi”, as was once said centuries ago.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 2:41:07am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 2:44:17am

re: #110 Dr Lizardo

He might well believe (and I actually think he does believe) that this is truly one of those “to be or not to be” moments for Russia, an outright existential matter and that if Russia loses the war for Ukraine, then Russia itself will cease to exist.

Not necessarily a matter of existence, but I think he believes that their future fortunes as a nation hinge on it. As it is, Russia will be a pariah state for some time until after Putin is gone and they have shown some signs that they are ready to rejoin the community of nations.

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2022 • 2:45:46am

re: #110 Dr Lizardo

I personally wonder if anyone in Putin’s clique has the cojones to tell him the truth about KIA/MIA/wounded and disabled troops, etc. OTOH, maybe he does know the reality of the situation and he simply doesn’t care - he’s in that “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” mindset. He might well believe (and I actually think he does believe) that this is truly one of those “to be or not to be” moments for Russia, an outright existential matter and that if Russia loses the war for Ukraine, then Russia itself will cease to exist.

Read an editorial earlier that I’ll have to track down, but the gist of it was that what is motivating Putin is also the same force motivating the MAGAts here in the US: Trying to play for time. Not in the sense of trying to remain in power a little longer or trying to set the grounds for dismantling democracy (those are means to an end), but more of trying to hold back the cultural transformation that is occurring that they don’t agree with. Putin and the men he surrounds himself with are Old Guard, who came of age during the Cold War in an environment where the only way Russia could continue as a country was to constantly show the world its might while also remaining “Russian.”

To such men, the changes they see and the younger generation coming of age today are threatening to that world view. People who grew up post-Cold War, who now suggest that Russia should be more open with the world and more willing to participate in world affairs, are a threat to the worldview that the Old Guard has devoted their lives to maintaining by any means. So they respond in the only way they can: Work to isolate not just Russia but her people so that they have no choice but to reject the outside world. They wage wars that lead to sanctions that hurt the nation’s economy, they engage in war crimes that stir revulsion and demands for justice, and they constantly destroy any international good will with bad faith negotiations and bombastic rhetoric that in no way reflects reality.

And through all this, they tell the people “Look, they’ll never accept you, they hate you and want to destroy you, any who say otherwise are fools who should be rejected.” Yeah, Putin may not survive the year, he may be gone from power if not this mortal plane, but the damage he is doing will rest with Russia for years if not decades to come.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 2:50:55am

re: #115 Targetpractice

Read an editorial earlier that I’ll have to track down, but the gist of it was that what is motivating Putin is also the same force motivating the MAGAts here in the US: Trying to play for time.

I think he is also trying to gloss over the damage done to Russia’s economy by Covid along with rampant corruption and mismanagement by blaming it all on Western sanctions.

The oligarch class has been a parasite on the people’s backs for decades now, and their run-down health care system was in no condition to deal with Covid in any effective way. I suspect that case numbers and fatalities have been much higher than reported.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:00:26am

Good thread on why the theory that Russia could still fully mobilize and win the war isn’t credible.

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:00:52am

re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think he is also trying to gloss over the damage done to Russia’s economy by Covid and rampant corruption and mismanagement by blaming it all on Western sanctions.

The oligarch class has been a parasite on the people’s backs for decades now, and their run-down health care system was in no condition to deal with Covid in any effective way. I suspect that case numbers and fatalities have been much higher than reported.

Which plays into the whole narrative that Russia is great, Russia is powerful, and any who disparage Russia’s greatness and power are disparaging Russia herself. Indications are that Sputnik was a flop as a vaccine, at least the early versions of it were, and that even if had been effective Russia’s industrial output simply could not match the number of doses necessary to immunize a significant portion of the population. But the alternative would have been depending upon the West, upon getting permission to produce Western vaccines or even seeking vaccine doses from the West. So they chose instead to push their vaccine as equal to if not superior to anything in the West, while making up all sorts of excuses for why only limited supplies were available for those “in need.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:03:31am

re: #118 Targetpractice

Indications are that Sputnik was a flop as a vaccine, at least the early versions of it were, and that even if had been effective Russia’s industrial output simply could not match the number of doses necessary to immunize a significant portion of the population.

And the Russian people, also susceptible to all the anti-vax disinformation agitprop filtering in from the West, were incredibly hesitant to accept it even where it was available.

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:09:15am

re: #117 No Malarkey!

Good thread on why the theory that Russia could still fully mobilize and win the war isn’t credible.

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Too many in the West grew up with Western propaganda that portrayed the USSR and now Russia as a nation constantly preparing for war. Men constantly training in anticipation of being called up to fight, factories running night and day to build weapons, and their leaders waiting for a sign of weakness to strike. So much of it produced in the immediate years of WWII when the West had to wrap their heads around how the USSR had gone from getting their asses kicked for literal months to kicking in the gates of Berlin in under 4 years.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:11:31am

re: #120 Targetpractice

Too many in the West grew up with Western propaganda that portrayed the USSR and now Russia as a nation constantly preparing for war.

Yet we ignored how they got their asses handed to them in Afghanistan and fought to a bloody stalemate in Chechnya.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:15:52am

re: #117 No Malarkey!

A defeat in Ukraine is going to engender a profound cultural trauma in Russian society. We have to be prepared for that, because those kind of traumas can easily go sideways; look at what festered in Germany after its defeat in WWI - and of course, what that ultimately led to.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:20:47am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:24:37am

re: #122 Dr Lizardo

A defeat in Ukraine is going to engender a profound cultural trauma in Russian society. We have to be prepared for that, because those kind of traumas can easily go sideways; look at what festered in Germany after its defeat in WWI - and of course, what that ultimately led to.

Can Putin stay in power if Russia loses? Saddam did after being routed in Kuwait. And if Putin does fall, what happens in Russia then? Is there civil war? Does some other strong man seize power and restore order? We can only watch and wait.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:25:39am

re: #120 Targetpractice

Too many in the West grew up with Western propaganda that portrayed the USSR and now Russia as a nation constantly preparing for war. Men constantly training in anticipation of being called up to fight, factories running night and day to build weapons, and their leaders waiting for a sign of weakness to strike. So much of it produced in the immediate years of WWII when the West had to wrap their heads around how the USSR had gone from getting their asses kicked for literal months to kicking in the gates of Berlin in under 4 years.

A western trope in the Cold War years held that the USSR had two distinct production bases. One produced volume shit for civilian home consumption. The other, the “good” industry, produced great stuff for the military, the space program, and foreign hard-currency export. Their civilian shoes were supposedly crap, their combat boots were durable. Turns out a lot of their defense stuff might be crap, too.

I’m still watching the markets for their 1960s Helios and Jupiter lenses.

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TarHellion  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:26:58am

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That’s more like it! There really weren’t too many options for guess number 3.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:27:48am

re: #124 No Malarkey!

Can Putin stay in power if Russia loses? Saddam did after being routed in Kuwait. And if Putin does fall, what happens in Russia then? Is there civil war? Does some other strong man seize power and restore order? We can only watch and wait.

If they don’t generate home-grown constitutional reforms, we just go around this circle again in a decade or two.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:29:24am

re: #124 No Malarkey!

Can Putin stay in power if Russia loses? Saddam did after being routed in Kuwait. And if Putin does fall, what happens in Russia then? Is there civil war? Does some other strong man seize power and restore order? We can only watch and wait.

Maybe that crazy Chechen - Kadyrov - is playing the long game. He waits patiently in his little fiefdom, then when it all goes to hell, proclaims himself as Caliph and his mighty TikTok army sallies forth to conquer…..something, I guess 😄

By the way, on the subject of the Chechens, a Chechen zikr is really something to behold….

Youtube Video

It’s like a mosh pit for Allah.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:34:56am

re: #125 Decatur Deb

A western trope in the Cold War years held that the USSR had two distinct production bases. One produced volume shit for civilian home consumption. The other, the “good” industry, produced great stuff for the military, space program, and foreign hard-currency export. Their civilian shoes were supposedly crap, their combat boots were durable. Turns out a lot of their defense stuff might be crap, too.

I’m still watching the markets for their 1960s Helios and Jupiter lenses.

Soviet-era military wristwatches were hit-and-miss in quality control terms, but when they brought their A-game, those things could probably take a direct hit from a city-buster nuke and still function.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:37:56am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

Soviet-era military wristwatches were hit-and-miss in quality control terms, but when they brought their A-game, those things could probably take a direct hit from a city-buster nuke and still function.

I’ve still got a wind-up “Amphibios” dive watch I bought in Turkey during Display Determination ‘89. It’s my travel watch because it’s so easy to swap time zones.

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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:39:56am

re: #125 Decatur Deb

I’m still watching the markets for their 1960s Helios and Jupiter lenses.

The older the better and, preferably, the stuff based on materials stolen, er, repairations from Zeiss, is the best. There was a folding camera - 12 6x6 shots on 120 film - called the Iskra that had an amazing 75mm normal lens. The rumor was it used the last of the glass from Zeiss that would have gone into their Super Ikonta cameras when the war ended.

Similarly the materials for their Contax clones called Kiev 2 ~ 5 were better than their Leica clones because they were using actual Zeiss machinery to make them. There is a slight difference between Zeiss and Leica in the base length of their lenes, a matter of a millimeter or two, but all the lenses for Leica are made to the Zeiss standard. If you know what you’re doing you can reshim a cheap FSU dud and get a great lens for your Leica. I have a friend who is a US Navy optical engineer who does that especially with Jupiter 3 50/1.5 lenses.

Watching things like that kept me from being so certain that the Soviets were ever the big terror that they were supposed to be.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:46:23am

re: #131 William Lewis

Same thing happened in the motorcycle world. They built the Ural on machinery and designs liberated from BMW. An American company in the 80s imported them, tore them down, and rebuilt them to blueprint. (Still in business, on checking.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:54:02am

Speaking of war and propaganda:

Youtube Video

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“Satan” = enemies of the UK.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:03:23am
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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:14:32am
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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:15:49am

re: #134 darthstar

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Long and short of it: Russians are being bled dry with the knowledge that short of some massive change in their fortunes, they’re gonna be an exhausted force facing fresh Ukrainian reserves in the summer.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:18:37am

Thought to myself, “Self, there’s no possible way that could actually be it.” Narrator: That actually was it.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:19:33am

Attention whore getting what he wanted most out of this deal…attention.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:20:18am

re: #138 darthstar

Attention whore getting what he wanted most out of this deal…attention.

Part of me wonders if the whole thing was a quick insider-trading-like pump-and-dump. I’m not putting anything past this gigantic douchecanoe.

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RoJo Must Go!  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:23:17am

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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:23:45am
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steve_davis  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:24:59am

re: #12 nines09

Bonnie is sitting on John Hammonds’ lap. He’s an incredible talent and did some wonderful things with Tom Waits.
Tom Waits wrote this.
John Hammond nailed it.
He released this album quite a number of years ago. Grab it. Play it.

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listening to the first cut off that. okay, this could be all right.

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gocart mozart  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:27:26am

re: #82 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Youtube Video

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:36:55am

re: #141 William Lewis

Honestly, in the bottom photo there, Putin really looks like he’s trying his utmost to restrain his bowel from unleashing a tsunami of brown.

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dat_said  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:38:17am

re: #95 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

When I was old enough to actually understand the plot of the original Smokey and the Bandit, my question was “All this for Coors? Really?”

Decades ago, when I was on a Boy Scout backpacking trip in the Bighorn Mts of WY, I got the short straw and had to ride back with one of the adult leaders The leader insisted on stopping at a liquor store to stock up on Coors before we left WY because they didn’t sell it in ND. I still remember helping him stack cases in his pickup camper thinking that the 100 degree temps on the ride home will do wonders for the beer..

One of my childhood neighbors did the same thing with Olympia when they came back from WA.

My dad was content with Old Mil.

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Ming5000  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:40:43am

The ultra-wealthy are so far ahead of the game. Can we ever get this shit under control?

Another, under the radar. oligarch. Not a billionaire (maybe he is) but has over $100 million in assets. Interesting thread.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:41:12am

re: #3 darthstar

I’ll take that goose every time. Canadian geese are nasty mofos when it comes to protecting their brood (and even just roaming).

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:42:58am

re: #138 darthstar

So, Twitter stock dropped, Tesla stock dropped, and what’s Musk’s endgame here as his comments violate agreements?

Yeah, trying to scoop up more stock at a cheaper price. Tesla stock. Where there’s actual value.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:46:00am

re: #145 dat_said

Decades ago, when I was on a Boy Scout backpacking trip in the Bighorn Mts of WY, I got the short straw and had to ride back with one of the adult leaders The leader insisted on stopping at a liquor store to stock up on Coors before we left WY because they didn’t sell it in ND. I still remember helping him stack cases in his pickup camper thinking that the 100 degree temps on the ride home will do wonders for the beer..

One of my childhood neighbors did the same thing with Olympia when they came back from WA.

My dad was content with Old Mil.

IIRC, the bit back then was that Coors was not pasteurized, thus the company would not ship it more than a certain distance. Every time one of our Army C-12s made an administrative run to that part of the country, it came back full.

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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:49:45am

re: #145 dat_said

Decades ago, when I was on a Boy Scout backpacking trip in the Bighorn Mts of WY, I got the short straw and had to ride back with one of the adult leaders The leader insisted on stopping at a liquor store to stock up on Coors before we left WY because they didn’t sell it in ND. I still remember helping him stack cases in his pickup camper thinking that the 100 degree temps on the ride home will do wonders for the beer..

One of my childhood neighbors did the same thing with Olympia when they came back from WA.

My dad was content with Old Mil.

My hometown area had two breweries - Walters & Leinekugels. Point was reasonably close. My preference was for Leinies but most stuck to Walter’s because it was cheaper and lower hopped.

The “fancy” beer we had around in those days was Stroh’s from Detroit.

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:57:34am

re: #125 Decatur Deb

A western trope in the Cold War years held that the USSR had two distinct production bases. One produced volume shit for civilian home consumption. The other, the “good” industry, produced great stuff for the military, the space program, and foreign hard-currency export. Their civilian shoes were supposedly crap, their combat boots were durable. Turns out a lot of their defense stuff might be crap, too.

I’m still watching the markets for their 1960s Helios and Jupiter lenses.

It can be done. Look at North Korea. But it requires absolute control by the state, and Russia doesn’t actually have that.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:01:08am
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steve_davis  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:03:16am

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

Yet we ignored how they got their asses handed to them in Afghanistan and fought to a bloody stalemate in Chechnya.

and also that most of their success against the Germans came using equipment that we were supplying them. they didn’t even have radios in their tanks until we supplied them. and always in desperate need of trucks.

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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:12:07am

re: #153 steve_davis

and also that most of their success against the Germans came using equipment that we were supplying them. they didn’t even have radios in their tanks until we supplied them. and always in desperate need of trucks.

Eh, they would have defeated the Germans in the end though it would have taken longer and losses would have been even higher. The Germans simply did not have the resources to build enough to win in the end and lost the war on Sept 1, 1939. The only question was how long till they ran out of weapons and men.

(See Tooze “The Wages of Destruction”)

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:19:57am

re: #154 William Lewis

Eh, they would have defeated the Germans in the end though it would have taken longer and losses would have been even higher. The Germans simply did not have the resources to build enough to win in the end and lost the war on Sept 1, 1939. The only question was how long till they ran out of weapons and men.

(See Tooze “The Wages of Destruction”)

Don’t get me started on Ft. Sumter…

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:27:41am

re: #148 lawhawk

So, Twitter stock dropped, Tesla stock dropped, and what’s Musk’s endgame here as his comments violate agreements?

Yeah, trying to scoop up more stock at a cheaper price. Tesla stock. Where there’s actual value.

IMHO TSLA is still very much overvalued. Musk should be diversifying at these levels, not buying up more. He can just have the board grant him millions of more options; doesn’t need to buy on the open market.

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:30:16am

re: #151 Belafon

It can be done. Look at North Korea. But it requires absolute control by the state, and Russia doesn’t actually have that.

Yeah, after the mid 80s it became a lot easier to pilfer state funds. Prior to that, outright theft was more difficult, and most of the corruption was simply the elite having access to state resources that were not available to the commonors.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:31:39am

re: #145 dat_said

Decades ago, when I was on a Boy Scout backpacking trip in the Bighorn Mts of WY, I got the short straw and had to ride back with one of the adult leaders The leader insisted on stopping at a liquor store to stock up on Coors before we left WY because they didn’t sell it in ND. I still remember helping him stack cases in his pickup camper thinking that the 100 degree temps on the ride home will do wonders for the beer..

One of my childhood neighbors did the same thing with Olympia when they came back from WA.

My dad was content with Old Mil.

I remember having Olympia when a friend and I went to PNW after graduation. I thought it tasted a bit like Puget Sound.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:32:28am

re: #124 No Malarkey!

Can Putin stay in power if Russia loses? Saddam did after being routed in Kuwait. And if Putin does fall, what happens in Russia then? Is there civil war? Does some other strong man seize power and restore order? We can only watch and wait.

I don’t see anybody or any movement that can challenge Putin even if he loses, it just means that he will have to become more authoritarian and dictatorial in his methods in order to maintain control.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:38:31am
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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:38:40am

re: #160 Barefoot Grin

I remember having Olympia when a friend and I went to PNW after graduation. I thought it tasted a bit like Puget Sound.

You haven’t lived until you have had the swill of Natty Boh.

I was a Milwaukee’s Best Ice guy.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:44:05am

My father would buy Piel’s long necks, blech.
Fond memories of Matt’s beer balls at the lake.

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jeffreyw  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:45:05am

Beef on Rice w Hot Giardiniera

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:48:11am

re: #132 Decatur Deb

Same thing happened in the motorcycle world. They built the Ural on machinery and designs liberated from BMW. An American company in the 80s imported them, tore them down, and rebuilt them to blueprint. (Still in business, on checking.)

Lada Niva 4x4s are popular in Western Europe: cheap, reliable and nearly indestructible.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:53:03am

re: #153 steve_davis

and also that most of their success against the Germans came using equipment that we were supplying them. they didn’t even have radios in their tanks until we supplied them. and always in desperate need of trucks.

Let us not downplay their tactical and most of all strategic accomplishments in defeating Germany: the Red Army had German high command totally snookered as to their capabilities and intentions at Stalingrad and later in Byelorussia, although radios, trucks and railroad rolling stock (1,000 locomotives and 7,000 rail cars) we provided also really helped their communications and logistics, allowing them to advance across all of Poland clear to the Oder in one massive surge in 1944.

And sending all that heavy machinery allowed them to concentrate their heavy industry on turning out tanks and artillery in numbers enough to totally swamp the Germans.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:58:53am

re: #162 DodgerFan1988

Add Catholics to the long list of those considered “suspect” at best by our Evangelical Christian wanna-be overlords. The list will continue to grow as the need for scapegoats is required by an utterly corrupt, completely racist and sexist Evangelical Christian theocracy.

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:59:43am

re: #162 DodgerFan1988

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:02:14am

re: #168 Florida Panhandler

Add Catholics to the long list of those considered “suspect” at best by our Evangelical Christian wanna-be overlords. The list will continue to grow as the need for scapegoats is required by an utterly corrupt, completely racist and sexist Evangelical Christian theocracy.

As I mentioned earlier:

Catholics are tolerated because they are anti-abortion (added points for being anti- contraception as well)

Mormons are tolerated for similar reasons: big families and “traditional” family values

Jews are tolerated only because they need a resurgent Israel in order to bring Jeebus back to toss all those unbelievers (including, Catholics, Mormons and Jews) into the Lake of Fire.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:03:06am

Heh

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:04:29am

re: #171 lawhawk

If we start forgiving student loans, where does it end? Bailing out giant wealthy banks??? Subsidizing the coal mining industry???

Saving Wall Street from collapse with a half a trillion in bailout money?

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:08:46am
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:11:55am

re: #163 Shropshire Slasher

You haven’t lived until you have had the swill of Natty Boh.

I was a Milwaukee’s Best Ice guy.

I hadn’t heard of it. In high school we’d occasionally drink Stoh’s because that’s what the bar that sold to minors would sell us. Pretty rancid stuff. My college friends drank Schmidt’s because it was super cheap. I couldn’t handle it—so bad and it made me feel instantly hung over. Yuck.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:12:26am

re: #173 Dopamine Fish

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:13:08am

re: #77 ckkatz

It’s also a bad idea to stand under a jack fruit tree in season.

Man dies after jackfruit fell on his head
keralakaumudi.com

Black walnut pods are a menace also. Had a tree in the backyard of a place I lived. Those things fall from way up and are hard, about the size of a baseball. Didn’t want to get nailed by one of those either. One hit the back deck one time when the cat and I were sitting out there and the cat about came out of its skin. She leapt about 5 feet in the air and ran off for cover.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:13:56am

re: #175 lawhawk

They’re giving free access to any teen across the country, not just a NYC resident.

What else do you expect from rootless (((Cosmopolitans)))?

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:16:13am

re: #86 Hecuba’s daughter

Wordle! Not a complete success

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:16:57am

re: #174 Barefoot Grin

I hadn’t heard of it. In high school we’d occasionally drink Stoh’s because that’s what the bar that sold to minors would sell us. Pretty rancid stuff. My college friends drank Schmidt’s because it was super cheap. I couldn’t handle it—so bad and it made me feel instantly hung over. Yuck.

Worst beer hangover I ever had was from Molson’s Canadian Ale. Have not touched the stuff since.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:17:06am

re: #173 Dopamine Fish

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As if these books are ‘banned’ everywhere nationwide.
And the library is somehow doing, I don’t know what.
I can’t follow this inane logic

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:18:49am

re: #180 Dangerman

As if these books are ‘banned’ everywhere nationwide.
And the library is somehow doing, I don’t know what.
I can’t follow this inane logic

The books are banned locally in an attempt to keep the out of young people’s hands (and minds)

Kudos to anyone who can short-circuit that stupidity.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:19:21am

re: #176 Eventual Carrion

Black walnut pods are a menace also. Had a tree in the backyard of a place I lived. Those things fall from way up and are hard, about the size of a baseball. Didn’t want to get nailed by one of those either. One hit the back deck one time when the cat and I were sitting out there and the cat about came out of its skin. She leapt about 5 feet in the air and ran off for cover.

One falling from a 70’ tree broke the screen in my first iPad.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:19:43am

re: #77 ckkatz

It’s also a bad idea to stand under a jack fruit tree in season.

Man dies after jackfruit fell on his head
keralakaumudi.com

Don’t sit under the jack fruit tree with anyone.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:20:10am

re: #183 Dangerman

Don’t sit under the jack fruit tree with anyone.

offed by Jack

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Mattand  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:22:12am

Hey, all.

Is this timeline over yet? Is it safe to come out?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:22:43am

re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And the Russian people, also susceptible to all the anti-vax disinformation agitprop filtering in from the West, were incredibly hesitant to accept it even where it was available.

I would think that the Russian people have good cause to not trust the government, agitprop or not. I don’t think we were necessarily doing the disinformation there.

Also, they were using the Sputnik vaccine which wasn’t terribly effective.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:23:54am

re: #185 Mattand

Hey, all.

Is this timeline over yet? Is it safe to come out?

No, back into your nuclear bunker until we’ve finished sawing Florida off from the rest of the United States.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:24:28am

re: #183 Dangerman

I’ve been in a jackfruit grove and a durian grove. They are big and nasty, looks like watermelons growing off a tree. The durian is hard and spiky. Most people hate the taste, but I just love it….mmm

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:25:36am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The books are banned locally in an attempt to keep the out of young people’s hands (and minds)

Kudos to anyone who can short-circuit that stupidity.

I know the story
Its still stupid
A kid wants a book there’s the next school district over that didn’t ‘ban’ the book
Or the next county or over the state line
Yeah depending on age and resourcefulness
Sure brooklyn makes it easier

But its like masks and vaxxes in reverse. Its not a 100% universal ban

We banned a book in our town in kansas. How dare Brooklyn anyplace else allow access to it

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:26:57am

re: #185 Mattand

Hey, all.

Is this timeline over yet? Is it safe to come out?

Not till the boss gets his shipment

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:28:09am

Drip, drip, drip…

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:28:35am

Hey I feel like utter parboiled shit this morning. I have all the symptoms of a bad cold/flu and I’m sitting here looking at the iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test, Self-Test At Home Results In 15 Mins

I’m fully vaxxed & boosted, so why do I feel so sick? Is it just a regular flu (I had the seasonal flu shot)?

Not too sick to Wordle, but I am off my game. Should have gotten this in 3.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:28:52am

re: #188 Egregious Philbin

I’ve been in a jackfruit grove and a durian grove. They are big and nasty, looks like watermelons growing off a tree. The durian is hard and spiky. Most people hate the taste, but I just love it….mmm

Low hanging durian - the trees are pretty tall
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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:29:19am

re: #187 Dopamine Fish

No, back into your nuclear bunker until we’ve finished sawing Florida off from the rest of the United States.

…….

In a new report released Wednesday, CBS MoneyWatch declared Florida the “least affordable place to live in the U.S.”

realtor.com had previously named Miami the least affordable city, with rent prices as expensive as they are in San Francisco or Los Angeles. The site also shared that February 2022 was the seventh month in a row that rent growth for 0-2 bedroom apartments across the country reached double digits.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:30:17am

re: #194 Dangerman

I saw another article that said that Tampa is the fastest growing housing market in the United States. All the right-wing dipshits are moving to Florida because freedumbs.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:32:31am

re: #195 Dopamine Fish

I saw another article that said that Tampa is the fastest growing housing market in the United States. All the right-wing dipshits are moving to Florida because freedumbs.

Further down same article

According to the same report, Orlando and Tampa, and Jacksonville also reported some of the fastest-growing rents in the country over the last year, with an average growth rate of 22.5%.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:35:18am

New favorite acount…

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Mattand  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:37:28am

re: #195 Dopamine Fish

I saw another article that said that Tampa is the fastest growing housing market in the United States. All the right-wing dipshits are moving to Florida because freedumbs.

I know a fair amount of people who’ve moved to FL over the last few years.

The one that I feel the worst about is my former neighbor, who is so left leaning he makes most people here look like a garden variety MAGAt (big on the whole “Bernie Sanders only loses because CLINTON CHEATED bullshit).

He and his wife moved there to be closer to the grandkids like three months before COVID hit. Not sure what part of FL he’s in, but I’m sure every waking hour for him is mental anguish beyond compare.

He does have dual citizenship since he was born in Toronto, so I would not be shocked if they haven’t fled there at this point.

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:37:54am

re: #191 darthstar

Drip, drip, drip…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:38:00am

re: #176 Eventual Carrion

Black walnut pods are a menace also. Had a tree in the backyard of a place I lived. Those things fall from way up and are hard, about the size of a baseball. Didn’t want to get nailed by one of those either. One hit the back deck one time when the cat and I were sitting out there and the cat about came out of its skin. She leapt about 5 feet in the air and ran off for cover.

We have a lot of those on our property and the one next to us. Every couple of years those bad boys have a bumper crop and drop from the sky like grenades.

A few years ago, the neighbor folk had a new tin or aluminum or whatever it is roof put on their house and then the bumper crop hit. It must have sounded like the house was being bombed. And, the glass patio table they had in the yard got smashed. By black walnuts.

They chopped that bad boy down not too long after that.

The one in our backyard isn’t big enough to do damage yet and the three along the side of the house are far enough away to not do much of anything but make a massive clean up effort.

After years of the hubs cleaning up after them, he hurt his back a couple years back and couldn’t do it. (I always made him keep a couple of wheelbarrows full of them so the critters had food throughout the winter.) That year the animals took care of every last one of them. He was like, well, shit. Had I known! Now we just let the critters eat well until they are all gone.

They are supposed to taste really good…but it is a process…like “to get to the nut, run over them with your car” and that’s before doing any preparation to the nut. I thought, yeah? No.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:40:07am

re: #191 darthstar

Drip, drip, drip…

Let me tell you what our boys (who do not include me) are doing over there.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:41:03am

re: #193 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

What does a durian taste like?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:41:50am

re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What does a durian taste like?

Chicken.

*ducks and runs for the door*

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Dave In Austin  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:48:06am

Applaud this young man.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:50:42am

re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What does a durian taste like?

re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Chicken.

*ducks and runs for the door*

Using my Google-Fu, I’ve come to the conclusion that it the taste is much, much, much better than the olfactory sensation… Let this video here be a hint:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:53:43am

re: #186 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I would think that the Russian people have good cause to not trust the government, agitprop or not. I don’t think we were necessarily doing the disinformation there.

Also, they were using the Sputnik vaccine which wasn’t terribly effective.

Don’t forget where a lot of the anti-vax disinformation originated…

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Dave In Austin  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:53:47am
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:53:48am

re: #205 Teukka

Using my Google-Fu, I’ve come to the conclusion that it the taste is much, much, much better than the olfactory sensation… Let this video here be a hint:

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That’s hilarious.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:54:53am

re: #189 Dangerman

00% universal ban

We banned a book in our town in kansas. How dare Brooklyn anyplace else allow access to it

Book banning is 90% grandstsanding and virtue signaling. This is just some counter-signaling.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:56:04am

re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What does a durian taste like?

We called it breadfruit when I was a foreign exchange student in Fiji in 1980. It was very bitter (to me)…texture of uncooked eggplant inside, only a bit more fibrous.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:56:18am

For awhile the most popular book in my middle school was a contraband copy of The Happy Hooker.

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dell*nix  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:56:24am

re: #205 Teukka

I agree with the dog. Never could get past the smell to taste it. Thais have been known to fight over them and kill each other.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:57:28am

re: #207 Dave In Austin

The Russian conscripts are bantha fodder. Putin doesn’t care how many die. We care more about how they treat their own than they do.

Putin launched an imperialist war to occupy sovereign Ukraine. We care more than Putin does how many die, on either side.

Ukrainians are dying to protect their homes. These Russian conscripts are dying because some imperialist fascist autocrat decided that Ukraine doesn’t deserve to exist.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:57:35am

re: #210 darthstar

We called it breadfruit when I was a foreign exchange student in Fiji in 1980. It was very bitter (to me)…texture of uncooked eggplant inside, only a bit more fibrous.

Isn’t that the plant that led to the Mutiny on the Bounty?

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:57:45am

re: #208 Barefoot Grin

That’s hilarious.

Then it hits you… Poor doggo :’(

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:58:24am

re: #210 darthstar

We called it breadfruit when I was a foreign exchange student in Fiji in 1980. It was very bitter (to me)…texture of uncooked eggplant inside, only a bit more fibrous.

If it’s the same thing, breadfruit was a major part of the cargo of HMS Bounty, shifting the cultivar from one British colony to another. Could explain the mutiny.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:59:32am

re: #213 lawhawk

Putin launched an imperialist war to occupy sovereign Ukraine.

And that is what I don’t get: if he had attempted a limited war to simply occupy (or “liberate”) Donetsk and Lukansk, he might have pulled it off with only a handful of sanctions and a lot fewer losses of men and materiel.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:00:24am

re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What does a durian taste like?

opened up durian

The edible part is the pulp around the seeds. It has a very creamy consistency*. The taste is fairly mild and slightly sweet. The smell is what most people object to. I have heard it described as “rancid onion”, “sewage”, rotting sweat socks”, etc. As I was eating one fresh off the tree the smell seemed rather mild and not that objectionable.

The part about it that my brother and I both dislike about it is that, similar to raw onion, the taste sits on your taste buds and everything you eat for the next day or so has this durian aftertaste.

* - I think one of the reasons the fruit appeals to so many is that the dairy/pudding consistency is not something you can easily get where there is no refrigeration since milk will rapidly spoil.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:00:33am

re: #216 Decatur Deb

If it’s the same thing, breadfruit was a major part of the cargo of HMS Bounty, shifting the cultivar from one British colony to another. Could explain the mutiny.

Oh, my bad…it isn’t the same thing.
versus.com

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:00:46am

I’ve seen reports of how Russian soldiers are eating among the bodies of their fellow countrymen who died. They’re numb to the violence and death and misery that they’re causing, because they have no other choice. What are they going to do? Get shot by their officers? Or other Russians far away shooting at them for disobeying orders to kill Ukrainians?

The whole thing is a shit-show for Russia, and Putin and his apologists continue to spin this as somehow being Ukraine’s fault, or NATO’s fault, when it is all on Putin.

Putin launched an invasion to end Ukraine as a sovereign nation, and never expected the pushback he got. He thought Trump did enough to wreck the EU/NATO alliances/partnerships. He thought wrong, and Ukraine is in a better position to withstand Russia than a few weeks ago. NATO is more aligned than it’s been in years. EU is more aligned than it’s been in years - and everyone recognizes that Russia remains the primary threat to Europe, even as its military force and tactics show it to be a paper tiger except in the unending ability to kill civilians in huge numbers.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:01:29am

re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And that is what I don’t get: if he had attempted a limited war to simply occupy (or “liberate”) Donetsk and Lukansk, he might have pulled it off with only a handful of sanctions and a lot fewer losses of men and materiel.

That was why I was very skeptical that he would launch an all out invasion because it just didn’t make any sense. But it seems clear that Putin lives in a fantasy world of his own creation.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:01:35am

I blew it big time today. Forgot to use a correct letter in 2 tries. My god. 666

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:01:57am

re: #210 darthstar

We called it breadfruit when I was a foreign exchange student in Fiji in 1980. It was very bitter (to me)…texture of uncooked eggplant inside, only a bit more fibrous.

That sounds like jackfruit rather than durian.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:03:34am

re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

To me, it tastes like a creamy vanilla custard, with over ripe green onions in it. A bit of a shock when you first taste it. A bit sulfur-y, but with lots of complex flavor. Of course, a fresh one is better, but hard to find in the states. Some Asian food stores carry them whole and frozen, or with just the inside, frozen. There are a few places near me that make smoothies from them. But…it smells, and the smell lingers. I wouldn’t bring one into an office.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:04:03am

re: #221 No Malarkey!

That was why I was very skeptical that he would launch an all out invasion because it just didn’t make any sense. But it seems clear that Putin lives in a fantasy world of his own creation.

I was trying to analyze what sort of Long Game he was playing, but it seems to have eluded the best thinkers in the world, and basically anybody else anywhere.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:05:46am

re: #223 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Breadfruit is different from Jackfruit. Jackfruit is full of orange seed casings inside, you eat those, and it tastes vaguely like Juicy Fruit bubble gum.

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mmmirele  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:06:54am

re: #95 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

When I was old enough to actually understand the plot of the original Smokey and the Bandit, my question was “All this for Coors? Really?”

As someone who lived in Texas during that period, yes, people were STUPID about Coors.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:07:40am

IU-Bloomington has a corpse flower in its greenhouse. It was there the last year of my graduate studies, but didn’t bloom until 2016. It’s quite an event, I hear.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:07:55am

re: #227 mmmirele

As someone who lived in Texas during that period, yes, people were STUPID about Coors.

Likewise in the Midwest, it was seen as Nectar of the Gods

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:08:24am

re: #135 darthstar

TV towers are depressingly easy to drop. There are usually three guy anchors around each tower. They’re exposed. You just have to hit the guy anchors on one side of the three. A 2000 foot tower will be at 0 feet in very short order.

Once fallen, they won’t be back up quickly. Those structures are erected by highly-specialized engineers and crews. In the West, and in Russia, there aren’t many. If this happened to a Ukrainian TV tower, there MIGHT be European engineers and tower crews eager to be involved with reconstruction. In Russia’s case, we need to say the Russian for “Sucks to be you!” Slava Ukraini!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:09:37am

re: #224 Egregious Philbin

To me, it tastes like a creamy vanilla custard, with over ripe green onions in it. A bit of a shock when you first taste it. A bit sulfur-y, but with lots of complex flavor. Of course, a fresh one is better, but hard to find in the states. Some Asian food stores carry them whole and frozen, or with just the inside, frozen. There are a few places near me that make smoothies from them. But…it smells, and the smell lingers. I wouldn’t bring one into an office.

I have a picture of a hotel sign that expressly bans durian, mangosteens, and a few other fruits from being brought in. Durian due to the smell. Mangosteen due to the staining possible as you peel their outer coats, and the others I think because they are usually carried in bunches and thus might include insects.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:09:38am
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gocart mozart  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:09:50am

The last time I did this, she blocked me. Now that I have a new account, let’s see if Alessandra Mussolini blocks me again.

Happy anniversary on your grandfather’s special day

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:12:05am

re: #221 No Malarkey!

That was why I was very skeptical that he would launch an all out invasion because it just didn’t make any sense. But it seems clear that Putin lives in a fantasy world of his own creation.

He thought that there were a lot more collaborators than there were. FSB wasted billions cultivating them. It worked in some instances: the reason Kherson fell in the first day or 2 of the war is that the mayor and the guy in charge of the regional defense were bought by the FSB.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:12:08am

re: #232 darthstar

A large group of Israeli soldiers has arrived in Ukraine and is now fighting against the Russian Army.

I can’t wait to see how the Putinversteher over at moonofalabama (who go on at length about the “Fascist Ukrainian State”) are gonna deal with this…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:12:30am

re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Likewise in the Midwest, it was seen as Nectar of the Gods

It’s quite the indication of what beer was like in the USA in the 70s and 80s before the microbrew revolution spread and started a better appreciation of beer.

It’s also a reason you see Budweiser and the other mass producers flailing around from this fad variant to that fad variant as they chase market share in a smaller pie.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:13:30am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:14:07am

re: #234 JC1

He thought that there were a lot more collaborators than there were. FSB wasted billions cultivating them. It worked in some instances: the reason Kherson fell in the first day or 2 of the war is that the mayor and the guy in charge of the regional defense were bought by the FSB.

That is also what I thought: that the Fifth Column would cripple Ukrainian communications, transportation and energy networks, at the outset, rendering them incapable of offering any organized resistance.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:14:10am

re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I can’t wait to see how the Putinversteher over at moonofalabama (who go on at length about the “Fascist Ukrainian State”) are gonna deal with this…

As part of the self-beclowning yesterday, Mrs. Fish’s dad also apparently came out as pro-Putin and pro-Russia. She seemed surprised, until I told her that many prominent Republicans are also pro-Russia, and the excuses they make as to why. When I mentioned that many of them went to Moscow for the Fourth of July a few years back, she just rolled her eyes and groaned.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:15:21am

re: #236 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

It’s quite the indication of what beer was like in the USA in the 70s and 80s before the microbrew revolution spread and started a better appreciation of beer.

It’s also a reason you see Budweiser and the other mass producers flailing around from this fad variant to that fad variant as they chase market share in a smaller pie.

It’s amazing to think that Sierra Nevada was considered a breakthrough beer many years ago.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:15:25am

re: #232 darthstar

Why would Israelis fight for the Nazis?//

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:16:35am

re: #237 darthstar

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:16:45am

re: #241 No Malarkey!

Why would Israelis fight for the Nazis?//

Because they are all Zionist-Fascist-Soros-Capitalist Puppets.

///

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:17:25am
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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:17:57am

re: #232 darthstar

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The Jews are fighting alongside the Nazis!

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:18:44am

re: #244 Teukka

Deported.

No. That’s ethnic cleansing. These fuckers are engaging in war crimes to depopulate Ukraine to claim possession/sovereignty over a nation that is wholly independent of Russia.

Fuck Russia and Fuck Putin.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:18:53am

re: #169 Belafon

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Can tell she has never read a bible. If she did she would know that what she is saying is totally ass backwards to what their christian bible Jesus says. Hell even the old testament speaks of helping the poor and refugees.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:20:29am

re: #246 lawhawk

Deported.

No. That’s ethnic cleansing. These fuckers are engaging in war crimes to depopulate Ukraine to claim possession/sovereignty over a nation that is wholly independent of Russia.

Fuck Russia and Fuck Putin.

Given the statements of 🇿 propagandists and leaders, given that so many children have been moved, I would call it well inside the definition of genocide by means of CPPCG Article 2(e) violation.

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wrenchwench  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:24:10am

Gotta go

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There I went.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:24:26am

re: #232 darthstar

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:25:50am

re: #250 No Malarkey!

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I mean, I like the quote they put up, but it sounds like it’s not reflective of the entire article.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:27:37am

re: #251 Belafon

I mean, I like the quote they put up, but it sounds like it’s not reflective of the entire article.

I haven’t read it; I will.

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gocart mozart  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:29:40am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:33:28am

re: #205 Teukka

Using my Google-Fu, I’ve come to the conclusion that it the taste is much, much, much better than the olfactory sensation… Let this video here be a hint:

That’s the same with Jackfruit. I’ve seen that used for pulled “pork” and it’s supposed to be good. Not sure how good something can be when it smells so bad. That’s not something I could get around, myself.

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dat_said  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:33:53am

A brief conversation here a few days ago had me reminiscing about some of the live music I was able to see. I just came across an “Inventory of First Avenue Band Files” at the Minnesota Historical Society website. I have now spent the last half hour scanning for old memories. There were definitely some great weeks. I saw Robyn Hitchcock on Monday, Sinead O’Conner on Tuesday and Yo La Tengo on Friday in one April 1988 week and less than a month later I saw Billy Bragg and Tracy Chapman in the same week and it continues like that for me. There are a lot of bands too that I haven’t thought about in quite a while - Woodentops, Flesh for Lulu, UK Chameleons (as opposed to the Minneapolis Chameleons for which Yanni played), …

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:34:14am

re: #211 Barefoot Grin

For awhile the most popular book in my middle school was a contraband copy of The Happy Hooker.

In the Catholic school I was in during middle school we had the book The Cross and the Switchblade. It had some pretty graphic descriptions of violence and some sex stuff. Seemed to be fine with the nun librarian. Guess maybe “The Cross” part of the title and the conversion message of the book made it alright.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:34:18am

re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Don’t forget where a lot of the anti-vax disinformation originated…

True. But that was meant for us.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:34:51am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

I understand the argument that foreign actors simply feed the Kremlin propaganda line that this is all being “unnecessarily prolonged” by foreign interlopers, but there is a long tradition (i.e., Kościuszko, Lafayette, von Steuben) of foreigners intervening in wars of independence.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:36:01am

re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

True. But that was meant for us.

Like with gas warfare, sometimes the wind blows the wrong way…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:36:05am

re: #138 darthstar

Attention whore getting what he wanted most out of this deal…attention.

Yup. He’s not going to go through with it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:38:42am

re: #260 GlutenFreeJesus

Yup. He’s not going to go through with it.

It will be worth the millions in publicity

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:43:45am

re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It will be worth the millions in publicity

I wonder how many lefties he’ll turn away from Tesla cars in the process. When you’re selling expensive products to the masses, not all publicity is good publicity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:44:28am

re: #262 JC1

I wonder how many lefties he’ll turn away from Tesla cars in the process. When you’re selling expensive products to the masses, not all publicity is good publicity.

Never underestimate how low you can go and still get away with it…

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:45:27am

re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I understand the argument that foreign actors simply feed the Kremlin propaganda line that this is all being “unnecessarily prolonged” by foreign interlopers, but there is a long tradition (i.e., Kościuszko, Lafayette, von Steuben) of foreigners intervening in wars of independence.

And not for nothing, the Russians are relying on foreign troops too - mercenaries like the Wagner Group.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:45:52am

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Like with gas warfare, sometimes the wind blows the wrong way…

And tracers work both ways

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:46:42am

re: #264 lawhawk

And not for nothing, the Russians are relying on foreign troops too - mercenaries like the Wagner Group.

I thought that despite their name, Wagener Group was essentially all Russian.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:47:47am

re: #266 JC1

The group is Russian, but those fighting as mercenaries may not all be Russians. They’re Chechens, Belarusians, etc.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:48:24am
Gross domestic product unexpectedly declined at a 1.4% annualized pace in the first quarter, marking an abrupt reversal for an economy coming off its best performance since 1984, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

The negative growth rate missed even the subdued Dow Jones estimate of a 1% gain for the quarter. GDP measures the output of goods and services in the U.S. for the three-month period.

A plethora of factors conspired to weigh against growth during the first three months of 2022, which fell off a cliff following the 6.9% gain to close out last year.

“In retrospect, this could be seen as a pivotal report,” said Simona Mocuta, chief economist at State Street Global Advisors. “It reminds us of the reality that growth has been great, but things are changing and they won’t be that great going forward.”

cnbc.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:48:26am

re: #218 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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The edible part is the pulp around the seeds. It has a very creamy consistency*. The taste is fairly mild and slightly sweet. The smell is what most people object to. I have heard it described as “rancid onion”, “sewage”, rotting sweat socks”, etc. As I was eating one fresh off the tree the smell seemed rather mild and not that objectionable.

The part about it that my brother and I both dislike about it is that, similar to raw onion, the taste sits on your taste buds and everything you eat for the next day or so has this durian aftertaste.

* - I think one of the reasons the fruit appeals to so many is that the dairy/pudding consistency is not something you can easily get where there is no refrigeration since milk will rapidly spoil.

ICK. Grow a… What’s it called…cheromoya (an apple like fruit that is like custard inside). It’s not supposed to smell bad.

I don’t know how people eat things that smell bad. I’d hurl (literally, unfortunately, as I have in the past) and that would be that.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:51:33am

Biden will be speaking on Ukraine in five minutes (time already pushed back once)
c-span.org

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jeffreyw  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:57:47am

re: #200 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We have a lot of those on our property and the one next to us. Every couple of years those bad boys have a bumper crop and drop from the sky like grenades.

A few years ago, the neighbor folk had a new tin or aluminum or whatever it is roof put on their house and then the bumper crop hit. It must have sounded like the house was being bombed. And, the glass patio table they had in the yard got smashed. By black walnuts.

They chopped that bad boy down not too long after that.

The one in our backyard isn’t big enough to do damage yet and the three along the side of the house are far enough away to not do much of anything but make a massive clean up effort.

After years of the hubs cleaning up after them, he hurt his back a couple years back and couldn’t do it. (I always made him keep a couple of wheelbarrows full of them so the critters had food throughout the winter.) That year the animals took care of every last one of them. He was like, well, shit. Had I known! Now we just let the critters eat well until they are all gone.

They are supposed to taste really good…but it is a process…like “to get to the nut, run over them with your car” and that’s before doing any preparation to the nut. I thought, yeah? No.

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:58:06am

Biden requests $33 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, around 20 billion of that in new military aid. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in Putin’s next meeting with his inner circle.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:00:59am

re: #272 JC1

Biden requests $33 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, around 20 billion of that in new military aid. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in Putin’s next meeting with his inner circle.

Wow, that is huge!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:01:29am

re: #271 jeffreyw

Yeah. Like that minus the power assist.

What do you do with them? Do you prepare them to eat?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:01:42am

re: #271 jeffreyw

Black walnut trees (when large enough) are quite valuable on the market.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:02:03am

re: #272 JC1

Biden requests $33 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, around 20 billion of that in new military aid. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in Putin’s next meeting with his inner circle.

The Republicans?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:03:24am

re: #274 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Yeah. Like that minus the power assist.

What do you do with them? Do you prepare them to eat?

Make ink with the shells.

Youtube Video

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:05:56am

re: #275 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Black walnut trees (when large enough) are quite valuable on the market.

I can get rid of the smaller one in the back yard but the three huge ones require city approval, which wouldn’t happen (and for which I’m not too inclined. My neighbor would cut every tree on the block down. She doesn’t like them. She’s afraid they’ll fall in her house. She’s completely de-treed her entire back yard.)

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:06:10am

re: #276 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The Republicans?

In fairness, aside from that uber fringe, the GOP has been solidly behind Ukraine in this. The new land lease act passed the Senate unanimously and was sponsored by the saner senator from TX.
Even the Moscow 4th of July gang has fallen in line.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:08:27am

re: #262 JC1

I wonder how many lefties he’ll turn away from Tesla cars in the process. When you’re selling expensive products to the masses, not all publicity is good publicity.

He turned me away like a year ago. I’ve had my M3 since 2018. Honestly, it’s the best car I’ve ever had, but seeing the kind of BS the company has been trying to pull has really soured me. I’ve never owned a pick-up before, but that Rivian R1T looks really great.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:10:34am

re: #277 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Make ink with the shells.

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Video

The squirrels would gather up the black walnut pods, break them open to get to the nuts. Then take them in to the rafters of our garage and break them open and eat them. We always had walnut shells falling from the rafters all over the garage floor.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:12:31am

This should have been done in 3, darn it.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:15:37am

re: #272 JC1

Yep; just saw this now.

Russia’s annual military budget is $65 billion. And from where I’m sitting, they’re sure as hell not getting their dollar’s worth, not by a damn sight.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:18:39am

President Biden speaking live now:

Youtube Video

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:18:44am

re: #279 JC1

In fairness, aside from that uber fringe, the GOP has been solidly behind Ukraine in this. The new land lease act passed the Senate unanimously and was sponsored by the saner senator from TX.
Even the Moscow 4th of July gang has fallen in line.

When it comes to padding the bottom line of all those big time Republican-donating defense contractors, only the most fringe will not toe the GOP line.

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:19:24am

re: #280 GlutenFreeJesus

He turned me away like a year ago. I’ve had my M3 since 2018. Honestly, it’s the best car I’ve ever had, but seeing the kind of BS the company has been trying to pull has really soured me. I’ve never owned a pick-up before, but that Rivian R1T looks really great.

I’ll still probably get the Tesla truck. But yeah, as much as I like Elon, he needs to get a grip.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:20:56am

re: #277 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Make ink with the shells.

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That guy was hysterical.

Why make walnut ink? Don’t they sell Bic’s where he lives? 😂

And what about the walnuts? Did he throw them out?? That seems wasteful after all that work. I’d want a snack!

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jeffreyw  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:21:26am

re: #275 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Black walnut trees (when large enough) are quite valuable on the market.

Some years ago I used to hike all around an area where my grandfather had a farm. Very hilly ground and hardscrabble farming. I often walked by a huge walnut tree, biggest I had ever seen. One day it was gone.

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steve_davis  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:21:48am

having an uncomfortable moment with the landlord, who is absolutely determined I am going to renew the lease 4 months before the old lease runs. I’ve now had to point her to the clause (twice!) that indicates I have a 60 days-out option to renew, so she can take her “oh well, we may have to rent it to someone else” text messages and shove it.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:21:59am

re: #283 Dr Lizardo

Yep; just saw this now.

Russia’s annual military budget is $65 billion. And from where I’m sitting, they’re sure as hell not getting their dollar’s worth, not by a damn sight.

The Russian offensive does seem to be gaining some territory; we’ll see if they can support it for long or if they get overextended.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:23:56am

re: #290 No Malarkey!

The Russian offensive does seem to be gaining some territory; we’ll see if they can support it for long or if they get overextended.

As much as I would like to, I am still hesitant to write the Russians off entirely.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:24:46am

re: #290 No Malarkey!

Is this actual territory, or is it the roads that they traveled on, and the moment they go off road, they turn out to be deep in enemy territory taking hits from all sides?

Because I think it’s the latter. They may control thin corridors within those shaded areas, not all of the territory.

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:27:06am

re: #292 lawhawk

Is this actual territory, or is it the roads that they traveled on, and the moment they go off road, they turn out to be deep in enemy territory taking hits from all sides?

Because I think it’s the latter. They may control thin corridors within those shaded areas, not all of the territory.

Apparently a few small villages. Nothing major. I Imagine that once enough artillery and other heavy weapons arrive and are deployed, we’ll see a Ukrainian counter attack.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:27:07am

re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As much as I would like to, I am still hesitant to write the Russians off entirely.

They undoubtedly have the capacity to kill a lot of people and destroy a lot of property.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:27:35am

re: #290 No Malarkey!

The Russian offensive does seem to be gaining some territory; we’ll see if they can support it for long or if they get overextended.

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The Russians seems to be taking small villages for the most part; better strategy for the Ukrainians right now is to fall back a bit and not simply contest every square meter to the last man and above all, avoid being encircled by enemy forces. Build up troops and materiel, identify the Russians weakest point, then launch a counteroffensive this summer. In the meantime, continually harass Russia’s supply lines and neutralize high-value targets whenever and wherever possible.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:28:30am

re: #294 No Malarkey!

They undoubtedly have the capacity to kill a lot of people and destroy a lot of property.

And they will continue at that unabated regardless of how militarily successful they are.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:29:11am

re: #295 Dr Lizardo

The Russians seems to be taking small villages for the most part; better strategy for the Ukrainians right now is to fall back a bit and not simply contest every square meter to the last man and above all, avoid being encircled by enemy forces. Build up troops and materiel, identify the Russians weakest point, then launch a counteroffensive this summer. In the meantime, continually harass Russia’s supply lines and neutralize high-value targets whenever and wherever possible.

I agree. The tankies are excited about an inevitable Ukrainian collapse they are expecting though.

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Mike Lamb  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:29:49am

re: #54 Dread Pirate Ron

weird front suspension.

It’s a fork built by a now-defunct company called Trust. People raved about them. The design allowed the axle of the front wheel to move on both x and y axes. Allowed the shock to soak up a lot of bumps more easily and with less overall travel.

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Mike Lamb  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:31:15am

re: #90 Targetpractice

[Embedded content]

AB Inbev owns a LOT of different beers. A strike would likely impact much more than just Budweiser, Bud Light, etc.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:32:08am

re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As much as I would like to, I am still hesitant to write the Russians off entirely.

Unfortunately they have an unlimited number of bodies to churn out, unlike Ukraine. No doubt their stockpiles of munitions are large as well. Ukraine won’t go silently, that’s for sure.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:37:45am

re: #297 No Malarkey!

I agree. The tankies are excited about an inevitable Ukrainian collapse they are expecting though.

Though I won’t write Russia off entirely, I do believe that the Ukrainians can launch and sustain a successful counteroffensive and drive the Russians out of the country.

And the tears of impotent rage from the tankies will be delicious indeed; their unhinged howls of “OMG American imperialism!!” will be music to my ears.

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:37:58am

re: #297 No Malarkey!

I agree. The tankies are excited about an inevitable Ukrainian collapse they are expecting though.

Ukraine is in a much stronger position than they were 2 months ago; Russia is in a much weaker position. Those trends are not going to reverse anytime soon.

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gocart mozart  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:38:41am

Youtube Video

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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:40:18am

re: #300 GlutenFreeJesus

Unfortunately they have an unlimited number of bodies to churn out, unlike Ukraine. No doubt their stockpiles of munitions are large as well. Ukraine won’t go silently, that’s for sure.

Although they have 4x the population, at some point the people will say enough is enough. Further, they don’t have equipment for all those bodies. Sending more bodies into a meat grinder won’t get them much.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:40:33am

re: #303 gocart mozart

another band paying tribute to Velvet Underground right from the opening chords…

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:43:37am

re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think he is also trying to gloss over the damage done to Russia’s economy by Covid along with rampant corruption and mismanagement by blaming it all on Western sanctions.

The oligarch class has been a parasite on the people’s backs for decades now, and their run-down health care system was in no condition to deal with Covid in any effective way. I suspect that case numbers and fatalities have been much higher than reported.

Much of what I read claimed that the cases and deaths were triple what was officially reported. And their vaccine, unlike that of China, was never given WHO EUA, probably because of a serious inconsistency in the quality of their manufacturing process.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:43:59am

The entire population of Transnistria is just a hair bigger than Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:46:58am

re: #306 Hecuba’s daughter

Much of what I read claimed that the cases and deaths were triple what was officially reported. And their vaccine, unlike that of China, was never given WHO EUA, probably because of a serious inconsistency in the quality of their manufacturing process.

From what I hear talking to Russians here in Ostrava (who are talking to their peeps back home), they reckon Russia’s actual COVID death toll is somewhere around the one million mark.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:50:50am

re: #307 Dr Lizardo

The entire population of Transnistria is just a hair bigger than Albuquerque, New Mexico.

What is the GOP position on Transnistrian Conversion Therapy?

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steve_davis  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:51:20am

This is very weird. I realized my lease actually expires end of July rather than August, so I thought, Okay I’ll go ahead and renew, because I’m close enough to where signing a month earlier than I have to is not that big of a deal. But what I was signing was apparently just some kind of one page decision to renew, but not the actual lease. So I called the property manager, who is like, “yeah, you’ll get a lease, and try to sign that by the middle of May,” which would be almost 60 days out. So why the fuck didn’t they just indicate to me in all their rigamarole that all they wanted was me to sign what I guess is a pretty non-binding document that I plan to renew, in the first damned place instead of having me writing them a “two fellas gonna come down from Detroit with some rusty pliers” letter indicating I was really tired of getting pestered? It’s just not a terribly professional crew. I think I actually just signed a document that claims I’m going to rent something in 2018, because they’ve just never changed the boilerplate. Pretty sure that would not hold up in court.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:53:21am

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

Yet we ignored how they got their asses handed to them in Afghanistan and fought to a bloody stalemate in Chechnya.

TBF, every empire loses in Afghanistan. We won the battle but ultimately lost the war.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:54:30am

re: #16 wrenchwench

Hammond’s Wiki:

he is the only person who ever had both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix in his band at the same time, if only for five days in the 1960s, when Hammond played The Gaslight Cafe in New York City.

In 1974, Columbia Records A&R and Producer John Hammond’ called Phil Walden and asked if Capricorn Records would record an album for his son, as a favor to help boost his son’s career.

Phil liked doing special projects, and “Can’t Beat The Kid’ was released to moderate sales in 1975.

Having followed both father and sons’ careers for years, it was neat being on the scene at the time.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:55:54am

re: #309 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What is the GOP position on Transnistrian Conversion Therapy?

Well, let’s ask Madison Cawthorn:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show “Sweet Transvestite”

*with apologies to Tim Curry

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:03:40am

re: #311 Hecuba’s daughter

TBF, every empire loses in Afghanistan. We won the battle but ultimately lost the war.

It’s just a matter of the degree of ass-whoopin’ one receives.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:04:14am
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Teukka  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:06:32am
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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:07:24am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

I haven’t read it; I will.

[Embedded content]

We are all Ukranian
ми всі українці
(my vsi ukrayintsi)

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:08:00am

re: #316 Teukka

LOL, they’ve gone full Jim Jones. You never go full Jim Jones.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:08:03am

re: #148 lawhawk

So, Twitter stock dropped, Tesla stock dropped, and what’s Musk’s endgame here as his comments violate agreements?

Yeah, trying to scoop up more stock at a cheaper price. Tesla stock. Where there’s actual value.

The Trump playbook — you can say whatever you please, do whatever you please, and just get away with it because everyone is too intimidated or doesn’t have the wealth to take a stand. Or in Twitter’s case, too many shareholders want the money he’s offered.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:15:52am

re: #316 Teukka

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A Mom Anon  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:16:23am

I need all the good vibes right now. The bank was notified of husbands death and shut down the savings account that was in his name only. I’m at the bank now hoping to get at least the actual banking switched to me. I’ll let you know what happens. Virtual hugs needed badly.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:17:14am

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Crews at a construction site near the Delaware River are finding artifacts potentially dating back to William Penn. This site was the edge of the Delaware River before Columbus Boulevard was built. And archeologists have discovered a shipyard that’s hundreds of years old.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:17:50am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

{{{A Mom Anon}}}

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gocart mozart  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:18:57am

Youtube Video

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:18:59am

We’re packing out now for a two-day stay at a nearby campground. The event is a LWV voter registration drive at the regional blues festival, featuring local hero Mamma Thornton’s work (Hound Dog). Taking the trailer lets us register during the day and hang at the outdoor concert during the evening. It all means loading the usual camper life support stuff and the registration tables, canopy, and League banners/etc.

en.wikipedia.org

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:19:36am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

I need all the good vibes right now. The bank was notified of husbands death and shut down the savings account that was in his name only. I’m at the bank now hoping to get at least the actual banking switched to me. I’ll let you know what happens. Virtual hugs needed badly.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:20:51am
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CleverToad  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:21:51am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

I need all the good vibes right now. The bank was notified of husbands death and shut down the savings account that was in his name only. I’m at the bank now hoping to get at least the actual banking switched to me. I’ll let you know what happens. Virtual hugs needed badly.

{{{MomA}}}
all the hugs we can send

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:22:55am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:22:57am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

I need all the good vibes right now. The bank was notified of husbands death and shut down the savings account that was in his name only. I’m at the bank now hoping to get at least the actual banking switched to me. I’ll let you know what happens. Virtual hugs needed badly.

I sadly suspect you’re going to need a death certificate.

And you probably want to get a number of them since as you find any more non-joint accounts or someplace where you need to prove he is gone and you are the person inheriting/controlling now they will ask for one.

My brother went through this in spades trying to close out my mother’s estate.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:25:45am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

I need all the good vibes right now. The bank was notified of husbands death and shut down the savings account that was in his name only. I’m at the bank now hoping to get at least the actual banking switched to me. I’ll let you know what happens. Virtual hugs needed badly.

{{{{{MOM}}}}}

Now would be a good time for me to put my own personal bank account into the trust that we created last year.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:26:34am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:27:13am

re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As much as I would like to, I am still hesitant to write the Russians off entirely.

I will not. They have nukes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:28:11am
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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:28:21am

re: #330 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

A few thoughts:

Having the death certificate is one part. The other part is having the authority to make decisions on estates.

Where there are bank accounts that are listed as POD or beneficiaries with rights of survivorship or joint tenants - the death certificate is sufficient proof to shift control. Where no beneficiaries are identified, then you’d have to wait until the estate is administered/executed with a will or letters of administration serving as primary documents that indicate who has ability to settle the affairs.

Assuming there is beneficiary or surviving tenant information, this should be pretty straight forward at the bank and other financial institutions.

Contacting credit card accounts and switching things around takes time. Having an established credit card or accounts in your own name is definitely helpful, especially at times like this.

Also, check for things that are auto-paid.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:28:36am

re: #333 Eclectic Cyborg

I will not. They have nukes.

And Putin does not have to worry about a hostile press, public protests or low approval ratings…

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Jay C  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:29:31am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

{{{Mom Anon}}}
Good vibes duly dispatched.

And what FFL said @ #330. Official Death Certificates will probably be needed for a number of things: AFAICR, duplicates are easy to order at the time of issuance, but harder to get afterwards.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:30:45am

re: #330 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I just picked up 10 copies from the funeral home and got the notice from the bank on the way home. So at least I have that in order

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:32:08am

re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And Putin does not have to worry about a hostile press, public protests or low approval ratings…

He has to worry about open windows. Gravity is a harsh mistress.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:33:46am

re: #195 Dopamine Fish

I saw another article that said that Tampa is the fastest growing housing market in the United States. All the right-wing dipshits are moving to Florida because freedumbs.

Most of those I know who moved there wanted to escape from northern winters; living near beaches was an added bonus.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:34:09am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:34:31am

re: #339 Decatur Deb

He has to worry about open windows. Gravity is a harsh mistress.

This is true, but I do not see any personality or faction in position to assume power if Putin were to be removed.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:37:26am

My personal rules on financial stuff:

1. always provide beneficiary information (this governs so if no will is provided, you direct where the money goes - that person gets with proof of death).
2. have accounts in your name solely or as the primary card holder. this is just good credit building, but it also helps in unfortunate situations like someone passing away. We’ve heard from friends who died from covid who had to clean up a huge mess of financial stuff when nothing was in their name and everything was in the now deceased spouse - having to create accounts now when you have ability is better than doing so while grieving for the loss of someone close to you
3. wills are useful, especially if you’ve got a varied financial picture, have real estate, and want to direct money to specific people/charities, etc.
4. trusts can be useful
5. take advantage of 529s
6. take advantage of 401ks (and company matches to their maximum limits).
7. periodically check your credit histories for errors
8. rotate through your credit cards periodically to make sure that companies don’t reduce your credit because of non-usage.
9. keep a credit card as an emergency reserve
10. try to pay off credit cards at end of every month (avoid keeping balances where possible).
11. pay off highest interest rate items first (typically credit cards, then car loans, education loans, and mortgages).
12. run the numbers if considering refinancing or consolidating debt - it may not always make sense…
13. talk with someone you trust if you don’t trust yourself on the numbers to sense check if you’re making a good financial decision.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:38:01am

re: #342 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is true, but I do not see any personality or faction in position to assume power if Putin were to be removed.

It would be a good old-fashioned Kremlin hootnanny. A power struggle played out not only behind the scenes, but in the public eye as well.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:38:28am

re: #316 Teukka

[Embedded content]

When I read comments like these from Dugin and the RT woman about going to Russia in order to go to Heaven, I think about Timothy Snyder’s comments of the politics of the past: there is no future to authoritarians. When a populace has it drilled into their heads that the world has stolen their birthright to greatness with endless repetition about that greatness (that never existed) but offering no solutions to a better future, it creates a broad sense of fatalism. That’s pretty damn dangerous in current circumstances.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:40:55am

Learning from alternate history:

Youtube Video


..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:41:10am
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:42:03am

re: #213 lawhawk

The Russian conscripts are bantha fodder. Putin doesn’t care how many die. We care more about how they treat their own than they do.

Putin launched an imperialist war to occupy sovereign Ukraine. We care more than Putin does how many die, on either side.

Ukrainians are dying to protect their homes. These Russian conscripts are dying because some imperialist fascist autocrat decided that Ukraine doesn’t deserve to exist.

Since Vietnam, the only reason we can get away with ill-conceived wars is that it’s not Americans dying, it’s those elsewhere who perish, often in staggering numbers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:42:32am

thread

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sagehen  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:42:50am

re: #339 Decatur Deb

He has to worry about open windows. Gravity is a harsh mistress.

None of the pics we’ve seen of him in meetings were in rooms with windows. Perhaps they’re all in the basement?

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prairiefire  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:43:10am

re: #343 lawhawk

529s got our gal her Masters, no loans, with help from a grandpa.
Amazing returns, really.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:43:23am

re: #345 Barefoot Grin

When I read comments like these from Dugin and the RT woman about going to Russia in order to go to Heaven, I think about Timothy Snyder’s comments of the politics of the past: there is no future to authoritarians. When a populace has it drilled into their heads that the world has stolen their birthright to greatness with endless repetition about that greatness (that never existed) but offering no solutions to a better future, it creates a broad sense of fatalism. That’s pretty damn dangerous in current circumstances.

If Russia were to be clearly and unambiguously chased out of Ukraine with their tail between their legs, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there were a wave of suicides among the Russian elite that are closely connected to Putin. We saw the same thing during late April and early May of 1945 as the Third Reich imploded.

en.wikipedia.org.

Defeat was too much for them to psychologically deal with. I’d somewhat expect a similar reaction in this case.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:44:33am

re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:48:20am
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DodgerFan1988  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:52:13am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:54:49am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:56:18am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

JFC, it’s that whole “Are we the baddies?” sketch in real life.

Youtube Video

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:57:40am

re: #262 JC1

I wonder how many lefties he’ll turn away from Tesla cars in the process. When you’re selling expensive products to the masses, not all publicity is good publicity.

So this may have been a marketing ploy to get Republicans to buy his products? Currently other electric vehicles are more affordable for the average person, though none have the range of the Teslas.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:59:14am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:03:40am
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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:08:10am

re: #359 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s overestimating the intelligence of Republicans. Tell them their beliefs are nonsense, and they just dig in deeper.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:08:41am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:08:47am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:09:38am
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Dopamine Fish  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:10:59am
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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:11:05am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:11:53am

re: #364 Backwoods_Sleuth

If I ever become an actor, Marshall Law will be my professional name.

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Captain Ron  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:12:30am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:14:40am

Jurassic World Dominion trailer dropped:

Youtube Video

The most obvious problem with this narrative device is that it would simply be outright impossible for us humans to coexist with dinosaurs (regardless of whether or not they’re genetically engineered) - it would be a literal existential threat to our species and we’d use every military resource available, friend and foe working together, to wipe them out in short order.

It would be the second extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:17:30am

re: #368 Dread Pirate Ron

Bigoted far-right group demands sanctions for fellow-far-right-bigot. It’s nice when terrible people turn on each other.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:17:32am
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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:19:59am

re: #358 Hecuba’s daughter

So this may have been a marketing ploy to get Republicans to buy his products? Currently other electric vehicles are more affordable for the average person, though none have the range of the Teslas.

Probably.

Last night my RWNJ father inquired about using Twitter. Directly from the fox news reporting/pushing.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:28:15am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

Given. {{{}}}

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:30:05am
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A Cranky One  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:30:20am

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:32:55am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

{{{A Mom Anon}}}

Wishing you well…Thinking of you and your son.

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gocart mozart  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:37:36am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:42:24am
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A Cranky One  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:44:13am

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:44:49am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:51:57am

re: #380 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Nah, it’s just the dumbest and meanest third or so of white people. Because, let’s face it. If you’re white and you’re still as dumb as a box of rocks after a thousand years of privilege and dominance, it is probably time for you to step aside.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:58:10am

Another student athlete suicide. People are putting too much pressure on their kids.

Lauren Bernett, James Madison University Softball Star, Dies At Age 20 (Huffington Post via MSN)

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:59:52am

re: #381 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Nah, it’s just the dumbest and meanest third or so of white people. Because, let’s face it. If you’re white and you’re still as dumb as a box of rocks after a thousand years of privilege and dominance, it is probably time for you to step aside.

When white nationalists say “white people” they mean “white nationalists,” but are trying to drag the rest of us down to their level so they feel like they have a lot more support than they actually have. If every white nationalist dropped dead today, this white guy would smile.

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A Cranky One  Apr 28, 2022 • 11:01:07am

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