The Bob Cesca Podcast: Dangerous Fruit

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Dangerous Fruit — [Explicit Language] David is out sick today, so it’s Bob and Jody on the show. Bob on Mary Trump’s podcast. Trump was worried about dangerous fruit at his rallies. Red Hats are hacking voting systems. Trump found in contempt. The economy receded by 1.4%. The housing market and rents are too damn high. What Fauci really said about COVID. Tennessee bill will make it okay for teachers to deliberately misgender students. Deutsche Bank whistleblower found dead. Another Republican downplays rape. With Jody Hamilton, music by Yona Marie and DRES_, and more!

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:15:40pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:18:15pm
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Amory Blaine  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:19:57pm

It’s not just Latinos and younger voters. Democrats are slipping among Black voters too.

Far less noted was that Biden’s approval rating among Black adults stood at a mere 67%. That was down 20 points, from 87% at the beginning of his presidency, which was fairly in line with the percentage of Black voters who backed him in 2020.

Marginalized populations will only be further brutalized if these numbers hold.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:24:50pm

re: #3 Amory Blaine

It’s not just Latinos and younger voters. Democrats are slipping among Black voters too.

Marginalized populations will only be further brutalized if these numbers hold.

They are frustrated with the messiness of democracy and want someone who will take control. Or something. I don’t know. But it bodes not well.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:25:37pm

Elon Musk To Buy Country Music for $89 Billion. “Time to Fix It.”

In a groundbreaking development for one of America’s most long-standing cultural institutions, billionaire entrepreneur, inventor, and investor Elon Musk is purchasing country music for $89 billion in hopes of returning the genre to its past greatness.

The deal will include all of country music’s dedicated major and independent labels, all major radio stations, the Grand Ole Opry and all of its satellite properties, the Country Music Hall of Fame, the annual CMA and ACM Awards, as well as the rights to the defunct Kenny Rogers Roasters fast food chicken franchise.

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Citizen K  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:26:11pm

re: #2 Patricia Kayden

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That’s still just such a horribly brutal and depressing chart.

re: #3 Amory Blaine

It’s not just Latinos and younger voters. Democrats are slipping among Black voters too.

Marginalized populations will only be further brutalized if these numbers hold.

The media has basically won the narrative war wholesale, it seems like. Everyone simply just fucking despises the Dems because “They do everything wrong!!” And thus everyone runs into the strong arms of Daddy GOP, either consciously or tacitly, because fuck everything.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:27:20pm

I’m not happy about it either, but I’ve been disappointed many times before and it helps to be prepared.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:27:45pm

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:29:44pm

Opinion: The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election

[This is an opinion piece to CNN by 9th Circuit Court judge who was selected by GHWB and is a Republican. It lays out the GOP plan to steal the 2024 election based on what they’ve learned from 2020.]

cnn.com

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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:36:56pm
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:40:00pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Very crazy. To be honest I fear for the USA as it is now. DT and company opened up a can of worms and those folks are still pushing the idea that the election was stolen.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:45:30pm

reposting because it fits better here

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:48:50pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:50:46pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:50:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:51:33pm
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:51:41pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

Why am I not surprised?

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:54:01pm

re: #11 PhillyPretzel

Very crazy. To be honest I fear for the USA as it is now. DT and company opened up a can of worms and those folks are still pushing the idea that the election was stolen.

If Republicans win in 2024 it will get very bad not only for American women and minorities, but for most of the EU as well as US support drops in favor of backing Putin outright.

The end result is America might be facing its first brain drain pretty soon. A lot of younger people with significant degrees will go after opportunities not only in the EU where civil rights and social programs will still have some weight, but also for China as the mindset sinks in that authoritarian regimes are here to stay, might as well pick the one that pays you the most to keep your nose down and not rock the boat.

All of the minorities in America who think voting Republican (or not voting at all) will automatically include them in the coming autocracy are going to be very sad about their choice.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:55:05pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s exactly what it is. Moron is trying to draw some attention away from Elon Musk.

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Captain Ron  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:55:43pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 3:57:40pm

Wow, that was strange. My Mac Pro suddenly started refusing to do screen repaints when closing windows or similar actions. I managed to find the restart menu option and it started up fine - except the Bluetooth mouse refused to be recognized! I plugged and unplugged the charging cable several times and it wouldn’t wake up.

So I used key commands to open System Prefs, looked in the Network tab and there was no network IP info! I had to go to Advanced mode and renew the DHCP lease and then everything connected up to the cable modem.

Then I opened the Mouse tab, and it showed the wireless mouse as if it was working — but it wasn’t! So with that tab open I plugged in the USB charging cable, waited a second, then unplugged it - and this time it paired with the Mac at last.

This goddamned thing is haunted.

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Captain Ron  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:01:51pm
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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:06:22pm

So the new Metric single dropped today:

Youtube Video

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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:11:45pm
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:13:17pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

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Wait, all this time he’s been a Dem asset?

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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:13:41pm
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Amory Blaine  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:15:36pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

Quick, call Laura Logan!
//

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:20:47pm

re: #18 Florida Panhandler

If Republicans win in 2024 it will get very bad not only for American women and minorities, but for most of the EU as well as US support drops in favor of backing Putin outright.

The end result is America might be facing its first brain drain pretty soon. A lot of younger people with significant degrees will go after opportunities not only in the EU where civil rights and social programs will still have some weight, but also for China as the mindset sinks in that authoritarian regimes are here to stay, might as well pick the one that pays you the most to keep your nose down and not rock the boat.

All of the minorities in America who think voting Republican (or not voting at all) will automatically include them in the coming autocracy are going to be very sad about their choice.

Anyone who thinks 2025 with Republicans in control will be like 2017 with Republicans isn’t paying attention.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:22:37pm

Daily Fail but who knows

EXCLUSIVE: ‘I would like to see a naked body beneath my hands.’ GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn is caught on video with male scheduler’s hand on his crotch as new ethics complaint claims the congressman gave him thousands of dollars in loans and gifts,

google.com

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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:27:09pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

I knew as soon as I saw this photo it wasn’t just a random person’s shot. It’s beautifully composed.

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Mattand  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:28:03pm

re: #27 Amory Blaine

Quick, call Laura Logan!
//

This is the deepest of deep pulls and I am here for it.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:30:49pm

re: #29 Amory Blaine

Doesn’t skuttlebutt say he’s impotent?

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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:32:44pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

I knew as soon as I saw this photo it wasn’t just a random person’s shot. It’s beautifully composed.

His vision was amazing; pulling beauty out of everything…

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Mattand  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:33:07pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

I knew as soon as I saw this photo it wasn’t just a random person’s shot. It’s beautifully composed.

Since you’re around, I’m gonna do a slight tangent:

A while back I had mentioned that LGF, among other sites, was prone to crashing on my iPad. Never had an issue on my iPhone or MacBook Pro. LGF in particular would get pretty hairy if the comment threads went pretty deep.

Well, I may have figured out what was going on: the iPad was running into a good ol’ variation of “Not enough scratch disk space”. Its storage is 32GB and I had maybe 3-4GB available.

I did a backup and nuked the thing from orbit. I currently have 20GB free and LGF is running great, even on a post with 200+ comments.

Moral of the story: you can never have enough hard drive space. Apologies if I cause you to do any unnecessary troubleshooting.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:33:57pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

That man taught us all how to compose. The younger among us take having a camera at hand for granted. But back in his day, it was a serious time, effort, and expense to take a picture. Then to be that good at it?

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:39:02pm

re: #35 Rightwingconspirator

That man taught us all how to compose. The younger among us take having a camera at hand for granted. But back in his day, it was a serious time, effort, and expense to take a picture. Then to be that good at it?

There is a fundamental problem in digital photography—digits. Adams controlled every step of his creation, from choosing the lens to printing (or at least approving) every archival print. We can’t do that now because the final visual product is seriously altered by the technology at the viewer’s end. The image you see on your screen is not the image I see on my screen. The only ways I’ve found around that are impossibly expensive.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:41:38pm

And this is what we will get if Republicans run Congress.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:43:57pm

“Rape is a difficult issue, but…”

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:44:12pm

re: #37 Patricia Kayden

And this is what we will get if Republicans run Congress.

In the course of the next three years’ elections Americans will decide whether they want to be Americans or not. Many will do that by staying home.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:45:10pm

Dare I Hope?

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:46:09pm

re: #37 Patricia Kayden

And this is what we will get if Republicans run Congress.

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Need to update that GOP Rape Chart

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:47:26pm

re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg

That’s exactly what it is. Moron is trying to draw some attention away from Elon Musk.

Didn’t work

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:47:49pm

re: #36 Decatur Deb

That’s true. And back in the day one did lean on the guys at the lab to process consistently. Or maybe yourself. Print consistently? Dodge and burn consistently? It is an art in itself. A beautifully analog art.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:48:16pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:48:17pm

re: #40 A Mom Anon

Dare I Hope?

{{{{{{{{{{MOM}}}}}}}}}}

We love you. Hang in there.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:49:49pm

re: #40 A Mom Anon

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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:50:23pm

re: #35 Rightwingconspirator

That man taught us all how to compose. The younger among us take having a camera at hand for granted. But back in his day, it was a serious time, effort, and expense to take a picture. Then to be that good at it?

My favorite image is his is not a well-known one, but this portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe and Orville Cox is glorious:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:51:20pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:51:37pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

Sounds like my current but ancient iMac. Every now and then something will go wrong. Certain applications can cause problems, I think. VLC is one of them. If I don’t close that application after I’ve watched something and just let it sit there over-night, I’ve noticed a couple of times CPU overloading.

Preview is a noted memory-hog and can crash from time to time, too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:53:04pm
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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:53:21pm

re: #36 Decatur Deb

There is a fundamental problem in digital photography—digits. Adams controlled every step of his creation, from choosing the lens to printing (or at least approving) every archival print. We can’t do that now because the final visual product is seriously altered by the technology at the viewer’s end. The image you see on your screen is not the image I see on my screen. The only ways I’ve found around that are impossibly expensive.

And yet, with the joy that he played with everything in new in photography (he jumped on the contax and later polariod early) I’d bet he’d be on the bleeding edge trying to find the way to do it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:54:01pm

re: #40 A Mom Anon

Dare I Hope?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 4:54:40pm
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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:00:42pm

Not sure what happened but the fonts here just went totally fugly after a reboot. I’m sure this is Windog related and it’s annoying.

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Captain Ron  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:10:36pm
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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:15:28pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m Home
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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:19:35pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:19:50pm

So, I am totally sick, like bad sick, just not with COVID. So I did this.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:20:41pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:21:32pm

re: #58 The Pie Overlord!

A cold/flu type thing?

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mmmirele  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:22:43pm

I dunno if you all saw this yesterday, but private investor Bill Hwang, who inflated his portfolio from $1.5 billion to $35 billion in less than a year, and then caused a crash in some stocks was indicted on racketeering, securities fraud, market manipulation and wire fraud. He used swaps to increase his positions which gave him the ability to buy securities without taking equitable ownership and having to report that ownership to the SEC after it topped 5 percent.

Anyway, this is the DoJ press release, which, for a press release, is pretty darned detailed.

justice.gov

Here’s the indictment: justice.gov

Now, I wouldn’t normally care about some billionaire getting caught trying to play the market. However, this is different. It came out today that Bill Hwang was the moneybags behind the late evangelist and complete sleazeball Ravi Zacharias’ lawsuit against Lori Anne Thompson. Basically Hwang agreed to do whatever it took to crush Thompson, which turned out to be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of legal fees. Four months after Zacharias died in 2020 (and Mike Pence spoke at his funeral), evidence came out that Zacharias had abused women masseuses (e.g. he would provide his own happy ending). Since then, it’s become clear that Zacharias had lied about being righteous and moral and all that. One of the things his organization had to do was apologize to Lori Anne Thompson. However, Thompson is still under a gag order from this agreement, as Zacharias’ widow refuses to rescind it, even though her husband was a serial creep. And now we know that this rich guy, who was proud of being a Christian, was the bagman for Ravi Zacharias. He wasn’t indicted for that, however.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:23:49pm

re: #58 The Pie Overlord!

Sorry to hear. Hope you feel better soon. Your baking is still on point though. That bread looks delicious!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:24:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:28:36pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:33:09pm

Youtube Video

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:38:29pm

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Elmer fudd

Eta, and he’s saying:

Have any of you giwls evew had an expewience wike this?”

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BigPapa  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:42:05pm

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

Me when Little MsPapa rubs me noggin. The accuracy.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:44:28pm

The Justice Department is suing Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chair, for almost $3 million in penalties related to his alleged failure to file reports disclosing more than 20 bank accounts he controlled in foreign countries, including Cyprus, the United Kingdom and St. Vincent and the Grenadines,” Politico reports.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:45:33pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:46:56pm

Wow, this means a lot to me.

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:50:07pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:51:38pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

The real problem is using red lettering on a blue background. How did the printer let her order this?

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A Cranky One  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:54:38pm

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:55:40pm

re: #38 Amory Blaine

“Rape is a difficult issue, but…”

“Murder is a difficult issue, but…

…”if it’s a liberal pushing liberal causes, murder away.”

This stuff is easy.

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EPR-radar  Apr 28, 2022 • 5:55:45pm

re: #37 Patricia Kayden

On the other hand, that fetus might grow up to be a GoddamnRepublican.

As always, the fetus is irrelevant. Assume it is fully human, and then ask if a full human being has the right to obtain bodily sustenance from another person. The answer to that question is no, and so the “pro-life” case fails, dismally.

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jaunte  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:00:46pm

re: #72 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The real problem is using red lettering on a blue background. How did the printer let her order this?

I can’t tell you how many times a client asked for something to be printed in red to ‘stand out’, despite my advice on contrast.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:02:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:05:00pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:05:42pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:06:32pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:06:42pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:09:01pm

re: #76 jaunte

I can’t tell you how many times a client asked for something to be printed in red to ‘stand out’, despite my advice on contrast.

When I was doing roleplaying games more I took an interest in a particular game where you played knights in an fantastical King Arthur background. Which led me to pay further attention to heraldry* since you got to design your own shield. The basics include some rules regarding color use. I summed them up to another player as “Use colors as if you wanted to be sure that another person can clearly see what your design is from 20’ feet away.” You basically used white/yellow (metals) and contrasted it against red/blue/green/black (colors) or vice-versa. You didn’t put metal on metal or color on color.

* - Heraldry has all sorts of extra little bits, but it centers around the shield. And my fraternity had a coat-of-arms and a nice heraldic description that described it including the heraldic names for the colors and features of the shield and surrounding devices.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:14:29pm

re: #72 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The real problem is using red lettering on a blue background. How did the printer let her order this?

Doubt somehow that she used a union shop.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:16:49pm
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retired cynic  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:16:53pm

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Mattand  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:17:15pm

re: #76 jaunte

I can’t tell you how many times a client asked for something to be printed in red to ‘stand out’, despite my advice on contrast.

Testify. I’m fully in the “Well, I’ve been in the graphics biz for nearly three decades now, but by all means, please tell me how making your company name smaller than the phone number makes sense” phase of my career.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:18:52pm

re: #84 Charles Johnson

“Polyphallic” is probably the word you meant. Easy mistake.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:23:42pm

Polyphallic wind chime from Pompeii. And that concludes Classics 301 for today.

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jaunte  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:25:11pm

re: #88 Decatur Deb

Festa di Salsicce

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CleverToad  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:26:56pm

re: #40 A Mom Anon

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:28:45pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:29:44pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:31:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:35:08pm

Cryptic? Who, me?

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:36:56pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

“Hey, Abyss, thanks for asking about me! I look into you a lot, too!”
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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:37:49pm

re: #85 retired cynic

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:45:20pm

Monster, tough day

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:45:45pm

re: #93 Charles Johnson

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 28, 2022 • 6:55:15pm

re: #97 Dangerman

That expression on his face…

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:19:43pm

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:31:40pm

re: #92 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

From the replies:

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Amory Blaine  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:38:14pm

Bell Ambulance recruits high schoolers, $16/hr training

The number of people applying for EMT jobs at Bell Ambulance is at a 10-year low. The company is recruiting high school students to fill the gap.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:43:39pm

No Giants game tonight, so I channel surfed and landed on Weekend at Bernies…holy shit what an awful movie. Makes Tom Hanks’ Bachelor Party (5 years earlier in 1984) look like a Merchant Ivory production by comparison…

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A Cranky One  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:52:02pm

re: #103 darthstar

Basking in my ignorance of either movie.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2022 • 7:53:55pm

re: #103 darthstar

No Giants game tonight, so I channel surfed and landed on Weekend at Bernies…holy shit what an awful movie. Makes Tom Hanks’ Bachelor Party (5 years earlier in 1984) look like a Merchant Ivory production by comparison…

I gave up - we’re watching an episode or two of Waiting for God…fucking hilarious.

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:00:40pm

Anne has done a good job of collecting Tweets about the LibsofTikTok mess, and the calling people child molesters just because needs to be regarded in the same way as “when did you stop beating your wife.”

balloon-juice.com

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:27:03pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So, will this DHS disinfo czar have the power to arrest, torture, and execute anyone who persists with the unapproved line? If not, we are still a long way from Orwell.

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jaunte  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:30:31pm

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Tucker’s still in charge of the Two Minute Hate.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:34:25pm
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sagehen  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:37:25pm

Republican or Not - SNL

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jaunte  Apr 28, 2022 • 8:55:12pm
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JC1  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:15:10pm

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:18:19pm

re: #88 Decatur Deb

Polyphallic wind chime from Pompeii. And that concludes Classics 301 for today.
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Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling (1972)

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:31:02pm

BREAKING!
Unnamed Republican sources have released video purporting to show Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-Crimea) buggering an American bald eagle in the middle of the Washington Mall. District of Columbia animal protection authorities are investigating.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:35:28pm
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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:50:51pm

Wednesday night Rachel Maddow, who has written a book on the oil industry noted something about the Russian petroleum sector.

In order to have enough income, Russia has to export a lot of oil and natural gas.

While it, can in theory, sell both to many nations in the world, it also has to deliver product to the buyer.

Russia apparently has very little of the shipping or road transport needed to move oil or natural gas. Certainly not enough to move the amounts it needs to sell.

Additionally, almost all it’s pipeline capacity points to Europe. (There is some capacity that goes to Turkey.)

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:53:55pm

This may explain a few things. And predict others:

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:55:14pm

It’s all just history repeating:

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2022 • 9:56:18pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:33:10pm

Wordling!

And Grunthos prediction held for me. My first 2 in awhile

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wrenchwench  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:41:45pm

re: #121 Hecuba’s daughter

Wordling!

And Grunthos prediction held for me. My first 2 in awhile

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I can’t look for an hour and a half, but I can upding any time.

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:46:55pm

I hadapparently missed that the US was not only supplying Ukraine with towed howitzers and fire-finder radar, but also the M270 MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) systems.

First fielded in 1983, they were originally designed to fire area effect cluster munitions against enemy artillery systems and other spread out targets. (Nicknamed by the Brits as the “Grid Square Removal System”.) Later, guided rockets with conventional HE (High Explosive) warheads were added with an extended the range to 70km. (Nicknamed the “70 kilometer sniper rifle”.) (Range is expected to soon be upgraded150km.)

Tactically, the original plan was to use the MLRS systems individually. They would hide, come out to shoot, then immediately withdraw to a different location to reload. (Aka “Shoot and scoot”.)

The MLRS production line appears to have shut down in 2003 with 1300 built. I remember when they first started being deployed. :(

They are used by a lot of other countries, particularly in NATO. And many of the countries have developed their own modifications and ammunition. So, besides the current stockpiles of ammunition, I understand that there are currently open MLRS ammunition production lines.

M142 HIMARS та M270 MLRS - multiple rocket launchers, very much awaited in Ukraine
mezha.media

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2022 • 10:56:03pm

For our lizards in the more northerly climes:

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 28, 2022 • 11:06:13pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

“Asshole on Asshole Crime”

A lot of popcorn is being sold for this.

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2022 • 11:47:34pm

Well, some assholes just decided to make my life and the lives of my coworkers more miserable tomorrow:

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2022 • 11:49:40pm
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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2022 • 11:52:12pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

Well, some assholes just decided to make my life and the lives of my coworkers more miserable tomorrow:

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 28, 2022 • 11:57:29pm

re: #127 ckkatz

My friends that were in the Air Force in the 90s referred to F-16s as lawn darts.

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2022 • 11:59:53pm

re: #128 ckkatz

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Targetpractice  Apr 29, 2022 • 12:10:38am

re: #129 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

My friends that were in the Air Force in the 90s referred to F-16s as lawn darts.

The early model F-16s had…issues. The prototype had done a wheels-up landing at Carswell AFB during testing, then the early models suffered numerous engine-out crashes which made them unrecoverable, leading a lot of pilots to punch out and the fighter to smash into the ground nose-first.

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ckkatz  Apr 29, 2022 • 12:20:00am

re: #130 Targetpractice

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ckkatz  Apr 29, 2022 • 12:31:10am

re: #129 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

My friends that were in the Air Force in the 90s referred to F-16s as lawn darts.

I’ve always heard them referred to informally by their pilots and ground crew as “Vipers”. Which led to Army folks like me repeating the old joke about the “Viper is coming”.

Summary:

Guy finds note on his door, “The Viper is coming next week”. He starts worrying that this might be a threat. As the times comes closer he gets more notices that the “Viper is coming”. Which stresses out the guy further.

Eventually, the appointed time comes, he hears a pounding on his door. With great trepidation, he opens the door. And sees nothing.

Then he looks down and sees this little old guy. Who looks up and says “I’m the vindow viper. Which vindows need cleaning.”

The joke worked better in an Eastern European community, before cell phones. :/

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 29, 2022 • 12:45:25am

re: #133 ckkatz

I’ve always heard them referred to informally by their pilots and ground crew as “Vipers”. Which led to Army folks like me repeating the old joke about the “Viper is coming”.

Summary:

Guy finds note on his door, “The Viper is coming next week”. He starts worrying that this might be a threat. As the times comes closer he gets more notices that the “Viper is coming”. Which stresses out the guy further.

Eventually, the appointed time comes, he hears a pounding on his door. With great trepidation, he opens the door. And sees nothing.

Then he looks down and sees this little old guy. Who looks up and says “I’m the vindow viper. Which vindows need cleaning.”

The joke worked better in an Eastern European community, before cell phones. :/

This was mainly by people who worked in F-15C and F-15E ground crews. The lawn dart thing came from the Fly-by-wire controls that if they failed, it became a giant lawn dart.

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ckkatz  Apr 29, 2022 • 12:55:31am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 1:01:52am

re: #5 Amory Blaine

Elon Musk To Buy Country Music for $89 Billion. “Time to Fix It.”

Will that include Bakersfield Country and Alt-Country?

If so, I am selling my banjo and learning to program a sampler…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 1:04:22am

re: #9 Barefoot Grin

Opinion: The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election

[This is an opinion piece to CNN by 9th Circuit Court judge who was selected by GHWB and is a Republican. It lays out the GOP plan to steal the 2024 election based on what they’ve learned from 2020.]

cnn.com

That plan is already approved and is being implemented as we speak.

They only lost in 2020 because of a record turnout for Biden and a handful of Republican state election officials who still retained some shreds of decency and honesty in their dealings.

Biden is not likely to see the same numbers in 2024 and all those state officials have been replaced by obedient party hacks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 1:14:26am

re: #70 Charles Johnson

One of the weirdest things about being in the blogging scene from the beginning has been seeing the worst, most dishonest, most bigoted con artists claw their way to the top of the right wing pyramid of grift, helped by an overly credulous media.

A vicious cycle has turned into a Death Spiral.

With the rise of digital media, print and broadcast media had to find ways to cut costs. Hiring an intern to mine the Internet for trending stories was a lot cheaper than paying for investigative reporting.

Then we got people like Drudge, Breitbart and Bannon, who figured out that if you float a story long enough out on the Internet, it will get picked up by the MSM and treated as if it actually had some merit since #TrendingOnTwitter is now a news item in and of itself.

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Targetpractice  Apr 29, 2022 • 1:29:19am

re: #132 ckkatz

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 29, 2022 • 3:40:52am

Morning Lizardim.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 3:43:33am

re: #140 Dopamine Fish

Morning Lizardim.

Progress is made by those who find out but still survive

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 29, 2022 • 3:44:20am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Progress is made by those who find out but still survive

They forgot Step 3: Document the finding out and make observations.

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Targetpractice  Apr 29, 2022 • 3:44:23am

ONE! Singular sensation! Every little step she takesssss….re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Progress is made by those who find out but still survive

“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 29, 2022 • 3:46:37am

I missed the 2, but because of my zeal in trying vowels. Easy 3.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 314 3/6

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🟨⬛🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 3:51:24am

re: #142 Dopamine Fish

They forgot Step 3: Document the finding out and make observations.

you have to be alive to do that…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:01:08am

Afternoon here — the day is clear and it’s freezing. Wordled in two this time.

Internet still slow, but at least it’s here.

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William Lewis  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:11:28am

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William Lewis  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:15:34am

May this piss in Rand Paul’s Wheaties…

The House has passed a bill allowing the Biden administration to lend or lease weapons to Ukraine and other eastern European countries, sending the bill to the president’s desk.

The House on Thursday approved the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 by 417-10, after the Senate passed it by unanimous consent earlier this month. The lend-lease bill allows the president to lend or lease defense equipment to Ukraine for fiscal year 2022 and 2023, and also slashes bureaucratic red tape to make sure equipment is delivered quickly. The legislation is named for the revival of a World War II era program that helped supply allies in the fight against Nazi Germany.

“We have heard clearly from Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: Ukraine desperately needs more military aid to sustain its fight for sovereignty and defend its civilian population,” said Rep. John Katko, one of the bill’s cosponsors. “I cosponsored this bill and was proud to support it on the House floor because it will expand our nation’s ability to expeditiously deliver additional defense articles to the government of Ukraine as they fight back against Vladimir Putin’s barbaric and unlawful invasion. This is a necessary step to protect the future of Ukraine and the safety of its people.”


Congress passes bill letting U.S. lend weapons systems to Ukraine

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:16:14am

Poland’s really stepping up….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:19:10am

re: #148 William Lewis

May this piss in Rand Paul’s Wheaties…


Congress passes bill letting U.S. lend weapons systems to Ukraine

This is being reported as Biden reactivating a “law that led to US involvement in WW2”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:21:03am

re: #148 William Lewis

Uncle Sam’s Weapons Bazaar - better known as the “Arsenal of Democracy” - is officially open for business.

I’m glad to see this went through both the Senate and House pretty much unanimously (aside from a handful of “nay” votes from the GOPs Putin Caucus).

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William Lewis  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:25:22am

re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is being reported as Biden reactivating a “law that prompted US involvement in WW2”

As I saw it said yesterday, Pearl Harbor prompted US involvement in a war we’d already been fighting long before Lend Lease.

For that matter tell the USS Ruben James that “lend lease” prompted the U-552’s torpedo…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:29:03am

re: #152 William Lewis

As I saw it said yesterday, Pearl Harbor prompted US involvement in a war we’d already been fighting long before Lend Lease.

For that matter tell the USS Ruben James that “lend lease” prompted the U-552’s torpedo…

The point is that they wanna be able to blame WW3 on Biden and Scholz.

Just like they want to blame the entire war on Zelensky and his Zionist Nazi marionettes.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:33:03am

re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is being reported as Biden reactivating a “law that led to US involvement in WW2”

IIRC our involvement in WWII was a Very Good Thing, even if it did kill my father.

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William Lewis  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:34:07am

re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The point is that they wanna be able to blame WW3 on Biden and Scholz.

Just like they want to blame the entire war on Zelensky and his Zionist Nazi marionettes.

Understood. The Putin Caucus and the Treason Caucus both just leave me spitting tacks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:37:46am

re: #154 Decatur Deb

IIRC our involvement in WWII was a Very Good Thing, even if it did kill my father.

My dad was flat-footed, married with kids and had a job rolling steel plate, that kept him out of WW2. For that, two of his brothers served, but came back alive.

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sagehen  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:38:44am

re: #154 Decatur Deb

IIRC our involvement in WWII was a Very Good Thing, even if it did kill my father.

WWII cost us 3% of our troops, a handful of civilians, an amount of money we got back within 3-5 years after the war ended, and some temporary consumer inconvenience.

Everybody else paid a hell of a lot more.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:39:52am

re: #155 William Lewis

Understood. The Putin Caucus and the Treason Caucus both just leave me spitting tacks.

Funny thing is to see the Horseshoe Leftists also making common cause with the GOP RW. The leftists see Putin as the enemy of Capitalism and Globalism, so everything he does is heroic, and anyone who opposes him is evil.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:40:33am

re: #157 sagehen

WWII cost us 3% of our troops, a handful of civilians, an amount of money we got back within 3-5 years after the war ended, and some temporary consumer inconvenience.

Everybody else paid a hell of a lot more.

It gave us a Military-Industrial Complex that still rides on our back to this day.

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TarHellion  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:42:26am

Wordle 314 4/6

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🟨⬜🟩🟨🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Tried a different word for the opener. Botched guess 3. But a win is a win.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:44:42am

re: #119 Belafon

It’s all just history repeating:

Remember, it’s only “Muslim savages” that cut off people’s heads according to our right wing sources here in the US.

Oops.

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William Lewis  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:45:45am

re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My dad was flat-footed, married with kids and had a job rolling steel plate, that kept him out of WW2. For that, two of his brothers served, but came back alive.

My Grandfather worked in a meat packing plant and grew navy beans for military rations. He also had 5 kids at home on that farm so he was never drafted but he certainly served. His older half brother was a veteran of the Western Front of the “Great War”.

Others in my family made ammo at the Presto plant converted from pressure cookers to 30-06. My ex wife’s family

My ex-wife’s dad was on PT boats doing Uboat patrol off Virginia and his older brother was Infantry in Europe.

The 20th century is still being fought today.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:46:34am

re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It gave us a Military-Industrial Complex that still rides on our back to this day.

The plains Cheyenne maintained a military-industrial complex that dwarfs ours. It’s that kind of planet.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:54:47am

re: #162 William Lewis

The 20th century is still being fought today.

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Yep - we’re still dealing with the repercussions of the First World War to this very day.

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William Lewis  Apr 29, 2022 • 4:58:10am

re: #164 Dr Lizardo

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Yep - we’re still dealing with the repercussions of the First World War to this very day.

I taught my son that there was only one World War. It started 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo and ended on 9 November 1989 in Berlin.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:00:49am

re: #165 William Lewis

I taught my son that there was only one World War. It started 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo and ended on 9 November 1989 in Berlin.

I also talk about the 75 Years’ War…re: #163 Decatur Deb

The plains Cheyenne maintained a military-industrial complex that dwarfs ours. It’s that kind of planet.

Did they have the world’s largest military budget?

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:02:34am

re: #36 Decatur Deb

I think my current view on photography is encapsulated in this scene in the Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Youtube Video

That’s always stuck with me as a photographer who does landscapes for a lark - and has gone to national parks to experience nature and tried to get “the shot”.

Sometimes, it’s the photos that you don’t take that stick with you forever, because the framed shot will never do it justice. I know folks have told me that I’ve got a great eye for composition, but I always question the technical details, because I always find issues with focus or contrast in those shots.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:04:08am

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

I also talk about the 75 Years’ War…

Did they have the world’s largest military budget?

They dedicated proportionally far more energy and waking hours to warfare and readiness.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:04:37am

No skill, total luck.

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William Lewis  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:05:14am

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

I also talk about the 75 Years’ War…

Did they have the world’s largest military budget?

Arguably the highest percentage of their nation’s GDP in history.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:06:19am

re: #121 Hecuba’s daughter

Wordling!

And Grunthos prediction held for me. My first 2 in awhile

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Was a 3/6 for me today.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:08:25am

re: #165 William Lewis

I taught my son that there was only one World War. It started 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo and ended on 9 November 1989 in Berlin.

Maybe it didn’t really end on 9 November 1989; perhaps what we’re seeing now in Ukraine is simply the end of a 33-year long ceasefire.

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jeffreyw  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:08:39am

Grape Jelly for Breakfast

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:09:59am

re: #172 Dr Lizardo

Maybe it didn’t really end on 9 November 1989; perhaps what we’re seeing now in Ukraine is simply the end of a 33-year long ceasefire.

We are starting to see the rise of a divided Europe again like we had before 1989: it will be some time before Russia is ready to rejoin the community of nations.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:12:34am

re: #170 William Lewis

Arguably the highest percentage of their nation’s GDP in history.

That is true, but did they have a monopoly-based industrial system producing weapons of mass destruction?

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William Lewis  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:13:51am

re: #172 Dr Lizardo

Maybe it didn’t really end on 9 November 1989; perhaps what we’re seeing now in Ukraine is simply the end of a 33-year long ceasefire.

I can see that argument. Really, the current mess can be put in the lap of the Vienna Congress of 1814-15 which set in motion the post Napoleon revanchism that bit the world on the ass in 1914.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:14:09am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We are starting to see the rise of a divided Europe again like we had before 1989: it will be some time before Russia is ready to rejoin the community of nations.

I’m 52 and I wonder if I’ll see that in my lifetime or will Russia just become an isolationist pariah state, North Korea writ large, for the next century or so.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:15:41am

I go to bed late, you get Tomorrow’s Wordle early. I didn’t enjoy this one even a bit.

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No idea what par is going to be.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:18:36am

re: #177 Dr Lizardo

I’m 52 and I wonder if I’ll see that in my lifetime or will Russia just become an isolationist pariah state, North Korea writ large, for the next century or so.

At least until Putin has been replaced and Russia is ready to accept and recognize international treaties and borders.

Putin’s claims about Ukraine were really chilling: he is making it clear that he seeks to re-establish the former Russian Empire within its old borders, which would include Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltics and even Poland.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:21:20am

re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Putin’s claims about Ukraine were really chilling: he is making it clear that he seeks to re-establish the former Russian Empire within its old borders, which would include Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltics and even Poland.

And that right there is why he has to be stopped.

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:22:04am
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Ming5000  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:25:40am
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William Lewis  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:26:15am

re: #181 lawhawk

I would love for some regulatory agency to find a reason to oppose the purchase if for no other reason than his smug mug.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:27:42am

Read the whole thing, rather riveting.

As night fell that first evening, gunfights broke out around the government quarter. Guards inside the compound shut the lights and brought bulletproof vests and assault rifles for Zelensky and about a dozen of his aides. Only a few of them knew how to handle the weapons. One was Oleksiy Arestovych, a veteran of Ukraine’s military intelligence service. “It was an absolute madhouse,” he told me. “Automatics for everyone.” Russian troops, he says, made two attempts to storm the compound. Zelensky later told me that his wife and children were still there at the time.

time.com

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:29:23am

re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is true, but did they have a monopoly-based industrial system producing weapons of mass destruction?

They did the best they could with what they had. The Neolithic was still in business in 1961.

Gardens of War: Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age

A great capture of the first scholarly expedition into the region of the Dani people of New Guinea in 1961, with full color photography, ethnographic study, and a host of important scholars involved. Includes photos by Michael Rockefeller prior to his death. How interesting to witness a “stone age” war between tribes (their words, not mine) alongside sweet potato farming, funerals and rituals, and daily infrastructure building.

goodreads.com

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:30:31am

re: #182 Ming5000

A-10s would be useful for a short amount of time before they are all blown out of the sky by Russian AA systems. Only with near complete air supremacy could they operate in today’s environment against a near peer enemy.

BTW, news article today about how the A-10 fleet is slowly becoming history via managed negligence.

defensenews.com

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:34:58am

re: #183 William Lewis

I would love for some regulatory agency to find a reason to oppose the purchase if for no other reason than his smug mug.

Even it the sale doesn’t go through, I think it will be like getting back together after a breakup, the relationship isn’t quite the same.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:39:17am

re: #182 Ming5000

A-10: The War Thagomizer

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:39:52am

re: #186 Florida Panhandler

A-10s would be useful for a short amount of time before they are all blown out of the sky by Russian AA systems. Only with near complete air supremacy could they operate in today’s environment against a near peer enemy.

Sort of like with the Stukas in WW2?

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Dave In Austin  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:41:41am

GMorning Fellow Skinks and Geckos…

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:43:32am

re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Sort of like with the Stukas in WW2?

They worked well, while the Germans had air superiority from my understanding.

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:51:35am

Air supremacy… we keep using that term.

Does it mean that Russia owns the skies? Does it mean that skies are contested, and that SAMs are able to knock everything out of the sky? Does it mean that SAMs are knocked down, and Ukrainian forces can fly at will? Does it mean that there are areas where there’s contested airspace and other spots that are free fire zone for Ukrainian forces?

Right now, it appears that Russia doesn’t have air supremacy. They can’t fly uncontested anywhere. Ukrainian forces have air supremacy in places, but limit their exposures the closer they get to Russian lines.

I’ve long thought that USAF has never known what to do with the Warthogs. They’ve wanted to retire them for decades. They’re not glamorous like the F-16s, which was their earlier intent - despite fact that the A-10 was designed to be a tank killer and built the entire airframe around a gun designed to do just that. They want to retire the airframe and keep pushing that way, despite clear evidence that the plane has capabilities that none others have. Is it survivable on a modern battlefield? Do modern manpads have ability to take down A-10s? Yes. It’s a possibility, but if we can take out columns of tanks in exchange for a A-10, then you’ve not only blunted the Russian offense, but you may also eliminate the SAM systems too.

Fly the A-10 in conjunction with equivalent to Wild Weasels (anti-SAM aircraft), and you improve survivability.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:52:21am

LOL (the typo)

Woman who suffered 11 miscarriages during decade-long infertility struggle becomes a mom of 12 - after giving birth to four kids, fostering two more, and adopting six who all suffer from fecal alcohol spectrum disorder

dailymail.co.uk

They fixed it in the actual article.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:52:49am

Is that you Mr. Leach?

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JC1  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:54:23am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Funny thing is to see the Horseshoe Leftists also making common cause with the GOP RW. The leftists see Putin as the enemy of Capitalism and Globalism, so everything he does is heroic, and anyone who opposes him is evil.

At least the lefties in Congress voted for this. All 10 nay votes were from the GOP. Squad votes yes.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 5:54:38am
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Ming5000  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:03:54am
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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:05:40am

There’s a reason that the Russians are increasingly relying on long range artillery and MLRS systems, instead of air delivered missiles, precision munitions, etc.

The Russian precision guided munitions aren’t that good, they’ve run out of them in the battlefield (and logistics are FUBAR), and they have lots of artillery that can kill indiscriminately and that’s part of Russian doctrine to soften up enemy defenses. They can’t fly over Ukrainian airspace without taking heavy losses, so artillery is their play.

With the US and other EU/NATO countries delivering artillery to Ukraine, the battle now becomes counter battery fire - and whoever has the longer range artillery can take out their opposing number.

US/EU/NATO artillery being delivered may have longer range than the Russian systems in theater, which gives Ukraine an advantage in gaining ground.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:05:45am

re: #195 JC1

At least the lefties in Congress voted for this. All 10 nay votes were from the GOP. Squad votes yes.

What about all the ones who went to visit Russia over 4th of July?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:07:31am
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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:08:39am
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darthstar  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:09:22am

re: #113 JC1

It looked familiar to me..

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:11:21am

*facepalm*

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No Malarkey!  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:13:25am
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darthstar  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:14:44am

re: #203 lawhawk

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*facepalm*

A little turbulance at altitude and we’d have six months of speculation about who took down the plane.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:17:24am

re: #203 lawhawk

LOL those asshats really tried to bring unexploded ordnance on an airplane?

Hook ‘em and book ‘em. Seriously, throw their asses in the slammer. Stupid needs to have consequences.

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:18:11am

re: #205 darthstar

I have more questions as to where/how they acquired this in the first place.

All around Israel there are places marked off limits due to landmines and explosives, due to battles that were fought there. Did they go into one of those areas and grabbed a piece of history that could have ended their history? That’s my guess.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:18:54am

re: #204 No Malarkey!

Abortion will be illegal in half the country after the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade in a few weeks. If that doesn’t wake up voters to the threat from the fascist right, I don’t know what will.

It won’t and that’s the scary part…

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:19:05am

re: #206 Dr Lizardo

They were ultimately allowed to board flight to go home… I agree that they should have been given a slow boat back to the States. Or one-way ticket, never to fly again as being put on a no-fly list.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:24:12am

re: #209 lawhawk

They were ultimately allowed to board flight to go home… I agree that they should have been given a slow boat back to the States. Or one-way ticket, never to fly again as being put on a no-fly list.

WTF?!?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:25:22am

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

It won’t and that’s the scary part…

I’m hoping you are wrong. We don’t really have a context to judge, because the Supreme Court has never taken a constitutional right away from Americans before. This will be something that the MSM can’t ignore.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:25:29am

re: #209 lawhawk

They were ultimately allowed to board flight to go home… I agree that they should have been given a slow boat back to the States. Or one-way ticket, never to fly again as being put on a no-fly list.

The Israeli authorities were certainly a lot nicer to them than I would’ve been. And like you suggested, perhaps they wandered into an off-limits area and discovered it, then said to themselves, “Hey, what a unique souvenir this would make!!”

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:26:01am

re: #207 lawhawk

I have more questions as to where/how they acquired this in the first place.

All around Israel there are places marked off limits due to landmines and explosives, due to battles that were fought there. Did they go into one of those areas and grabbed a piece of history that could have ended their history? That’s my guess.

Sort of thing kids might bring to a street market in Jenin.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:27:24am

re: #212 Dr Lizardo

The Israeli authorities were certainly a lot nicer to them than I would’ve been. And like you suggested, perhaps they wandered into an off-limits area and discovered it, then said to themselves, “Hey, what a unique souvenir this would make!!”

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They are very lucky that they didn’t get themselves killed, and that they aren’t sitting in an Israeli jail. Can you imagine if they had been Arab instead of white?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:27:55am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

I’m hoping you are wrong. We don’t really have a context to judge, because the Supreme Court has never taken a constitutional right away from Americans before. This will be something that the MSM can’t ignore.

Not ignore, but somehow rationalize and present as “just one side of the argument”

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darthstar  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:28:09am

re: #207 lawhawk

Probably some enterprising person offering ‘war zone’ tours off the books.

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darthstar  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:29:21am

Should have had it in two. Knew the vowel and where the two consonants had to go. Chose the less common word first.
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:29:31am

Looks like Putin’s pity parade won’t have any foreign dignitaries this time.

♫♪All by myself
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steve_davis  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:31:47am

my resident obligate carnivore has zero interest in cranberry muffins. by the way, has it occurred to anybody on the paleo diet that the foods we ate 10,000 years ago typically led to us dying in our mid-30’s? People were eating maggots they found under rotting trees, and it wasn’t because they wouldn’t have eaten cap’n crunch if it were available.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:31:50am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

Looks like Putin’s pity parade won’t have an foreign dignitaries this time.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:31:59am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

Looks like Putin’s pity parade won’t have an foreign dignitaries this time.

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Conversely, Indonesia has invited Putin to the G20 summit next November. I wonder if it will be the G20 minus a dozen or so members.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:33:31am

re: #221 Barefoot Grin

Conversely, Indonesia has invited Putin to the G20 summit next November. I wonder if it will be the G20 minus a dozen or so members.

They would be a good time for the ICC to arrest him. One can dream.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:34:00am

re: #221 Barefoot Grin

Conversely, Indonesia has invited Putin to the G20 summit next November. I wonder if it will be the G20 minus a dozen or so members.

Good question - who knows, maybe Putin won’t even attend. It depends on how things are looking on the battlefield at that point.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:34:16am

re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not ignore, but somehow rationalize and present as “just one side of the argument”

It won’t be a mere argument anymore. All of the abortion clinics in half of the country will be closed this summer.

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darthstar  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:35:19am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

Looks like Putin’s pity parade won’t have an foreign dignitaries this time.

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So everyone with a conscience on the planet RSVP’d “No fucking way.” I don’t see how that would stop some Republicans from going.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:36:17am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

Looks like Putin’s pity parade won’t have any foreign dignitaries this time.

♫♪All by myself
Don’t wanna be
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Anymore♬♩

You would think they would want to show off their mighty coalition of Cubans, Syrians and Belorusians.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:38:48am

re: #224 No Malarkey!

It won’t be a mere argument anymore. All of the abortion clinics in half of the country will be closed this summer.

“…but there is still the other half!”

That is the state that we have come to: don’t expect our media to take a stand or simply tell the truth of what has happened.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:38:57am

re: #226 No Malarkey!

You would think they would want to show off their mighty coalition of Cubans, Syrians and Belorusians.

I’m guessing the Chinese and Indians sent their regrets, so Putin said “Fine, I don’t even want you to come!”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:44:12am

re: #228 No Malarkey!

I’m guessing the Chinese and Indians sent their regrets, so Putin said “Fine, I don’t even want you to come!”

I’m actually sort of surprised China declined. So much for “brotherly solidarity”.

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darthstar  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:45:25am

re: #226 No Malarkey!

You would think they would want to show off their mighty coalition of Cubans, Syrians and Belorusians.

It’s such a cold war relic, the military missile parade. They should have ceremonial bread lines to honor the return to isolationism.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:45:56am

re: #229 Dr Lizardo

I’m actually sort of surprised China declined. So much for “brotherly solidarity”.

Not surprised at all. They do not need solidarity with Putin, they just need him to acquiesce to any invasions they might consider in the near-to-distant future.

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:52:03am

re: #216 darthstar

Probably some enterprising person offering ‘war zone’ tours off the books.

Not even necessary.

Regular tours go into the Golan Heights daily. There are these cordoned off areas all over the place, including near monuments and overlooks.

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:53:24am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:58:27am

re: #232 lawhawk

Not even necessary.

Regular tours go into the Golan Heights daily. There are these cordoned off areas all over the place, including near monuments and overlooks.

There’s an area in southern Bohemia that’s still cordoned off; there’s still a pretty significant amount of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines buried there and no one knows exactly where they’re buried. It’s not a big area, to be sure, but I was quite surprised the first time I saw it (of course, it’s all clearly posted with signs warning about mines).

There’s also a part of Ostrava near the city center that was the site of a pitched battle between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht in 1945 and the ruins of a small bunker are still visible above ground. But there’s definitely a small section of that overall area where entry is prohibited because of unexploded ordnance.

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Teukka  Apr 29, 2022 • 6:58:34am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

Looks like Putin’s pity parade won’t have any foreign dignitaries this time.

♫♪All by myself
Don’t wanna be
All by myself
Anymore♬♩

A. Preparing to showing off something you don’t want dignitaries of the foreign persuasion to see too close.
B. Acting out butthurt over being hated world wide, and not having many frens.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:01:55am

Heh, looks like Russia backed down a bit, averting a potential technical default:

Russia made what appeared to be a late u-turn to avoid a default on Friday, as it made a number of already-overdue international debt payments in dollars despite previously vowing they would only be paid in roubles.

Whether the money would make it to the United States and other Western countries that sanctioned Russia was still not clear, but it represented another major twist in the game of financial chicken that has developed about a possible default.

Russia’s finance ministry said it had managed to pay $564.8 million on a 2022 Eurobond and $84.4 million on a 2042 bond in dollars - the currency specified on the bonds.

reuters.com

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:02:58am

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sagehen  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:08:57am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

This will be something that the MSM can’t ignore.

Oh, please. Just watch them.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:12:31am

re: #229 Dr Lizardo

I’m actually sort of surprised China declined. So much for “brotherly solidarity”.

I’m not. Their money comes from the West. Russia is just a tool.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:14:16am

re: #237 The Pie Overlord!

GRRR

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There are also quite a few with the last 4 letters, I was thinking of at least 3 off the top of my head. This one could be tough if you didn’t eliminate the right combos.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:15:29am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:16:46am

re: #240 Dopamine Fish

I got lucky

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:17:32am

I’m feeling a liddle better this morning (thanks for asking!) but I am still congested and feel generally like crap. Probably just a generic flu/cold (but WTF I had my seasonal flu shot!). My little grandson had the sniffles when they visited for Passover so that is probably where I got it but hey! At least it is not COVID!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:18:20am

re: #237 The Pie Overlord!

Looks like I got pretty lucky today.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:21:01am

re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

The guy with the last name that means blond is worried that the right of straight white Christian bullies to insult those they don’t like is being eroded.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:22:11am

re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

Any of that a threat to rights?

Not to THEIR rights, which are all that matters. Their right to live their hateful, bigoted lives without being made to feel uncomfortable is the only right that exists in their minds.

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Jay C  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:22:12am

re: #243 The Pie Overlord!

I’m feeling a liddle better this morning (thanks for asking!) but I am still congested and feel generally like crap. Probably just a generic flu/cold (but WTF I had my seasonal flu shot!). My little grandson had the sniffles when they visited for Passover so that is probably where I got it but hey! At least it is not COVID!

Hope you feel better soon. I’ve been stricken with a bad cold/cough (not COVID, thankfully!) for two weeks now - also, despite that flu shot.

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Targetpractice  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:26:15am

re: #192 lawhawk

Air supremacy… we keep using that term.

Does it mean that Russia owns the skies? Does it mean that skies are contested, and that SAMs are able to knock everything out of the sky? Does it mean that SAMs are knocked down, and Ukrainian forces can fly at will? Does it mean that there are areas where there’s contested airspace and other spots that are free fire zone for Ukrainian forces?

Right now, it appears that Russia doesn’t have air supremacy. They can’t fly uncontested anywhere. Ukrainian forces have air supremacy in places, but limit their exposures the closer they get to Russian lines.

I’ve long thought that USAF has never known what to do with the Warthogs. They’ve wanted to retire them for decades. They’re not glamorous like the F-16s, which was their earlier intent - despite fact that the A-10 was designed to be a tank killer and built the entire airframe around a gun designed to do just that. They want to retire the airframe and keep pushing that way, despite clear evidence that the plane has capabilities that none others have. Is it survivable on a modern battlefield? Do modern manpads have ability to take down A-10s? Yes. It’s a possibility, but if we can take out columns of tanks in exchange for a A-10, then you’ve not only blunted the Russian offense, but you may also eliminate the SAM systems too.

Fly the A-10 in conjunction with equivalent to Wild Weasels (anti-SAM aircraft), and you improve survivability.

The A-10 is still flying for the same reason the M1 Abrams remains despite several efforts by the Army to introduce newer tanks: Congress refuses to allow them to be retired. Not only did they buy into the idea of the A-10 as invincible “tank buster” after the Gulf War, but like the Abrams there’s corporate interests who keep making money off extending the life of the damned things. Meanwhile, in the real world, the A-10 is a modern-day Stuka in that it would quickly be massacred if the USAF ever found itself operating them in contested airspace.

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:34:06am

re: #248 Targetpractice

I’d counter that the A-10 is survivable in the modern battlefield until proven differently. Same as the Abrams. With upgrades, the tank is undisputed champ on the battlefield.

The problem is that the Army needs a main battle tank that doesn’t have the weight penalty that the Abrams has.

The cost to extend life on the A-10 or Abrams is a fraction of the replacement with an entirely new airframe or tank.

Nexgen tank? 3 person crew, autoloader, which lowers the turret profile, crew protection improved, improved gun, improved long distance weapon/anti-tank weapon standoff capabilities. All at a lower weight than the current M1A2.

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:34:59am

Manafort is getting hit with a civil suit because Trump pardoned the criminal fucker to cover up Trump’s tracks.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:36:11am

re: #249 lawhawk

I’d counter that the A-10 is survivable in the modern battlefield until proven differently. Same as the Abrams. With upgrades, the tank is undisputed champ on the battlefield.

The problem is that the Army needs a main battle tank that doesn’t have the weight penalty that the Abrams has.

The cost to extend life on the A-10 or Abrams is a fraction of the replacement with an entirely new airframe or tank.

Nexgen tank? 3 person crew, autoloader, which lowers the turret profile, crew protection improved, improved gun, improved long distance weapon/anti-tank weapon standoff capabilities. All at a lower weight than the current M1A2.

Nextgen tank? 0-person crew. If a Tesla can find a path through New York, a tank can make its own path through a battlezone. And fewer letters home.

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nines09  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:38:10am

Looks like the panic over Doug Mastriano is setting in. Why just the other day he was a proud God fearing law abiding gun humping 100% religious fascist who loved him some Trump Hump. That was OK.
Now? Uh oh.
The Republicans in Pennsylvania are below vile.

Doug Mastriano is leading the Pa. primary for governor and Republicans are trying to stop him
Lou Barletta is another surgically altered piece of shit.

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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:41:43am

re: #251 Decatur Deb

There’s talk of having an unmanned forward capable battlefield -where command vehicles are heavily armored, but scout and tank vehicles are all unmanned.

Color me skeptical.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:41:49am

US Chemical Safety Board just dropped a new video, their investigation of an incident in Illinois back in 2019.

Youtube Video

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:41:50am

re: #252 nines09

Like Frankenstein trying to stop the monster after it had gotten out.

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mmmirele  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:43:33am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

I’m hoping you are wrong. We don’t really have a context to judge, because the Supreme Court has never taken a constitutional right away from Americans before. This will be something that the MSM can’t ignore.

Nope, they’ll ignore it, even though there are millions of us still alive (I’m not THAT old) who remember when abortion was illegal in most states and really only available in a couple of states. Nor do I think people will get it through their heads even if birth control is made illegal (by reversing Griswold).

That said, this is not January 21, 1973 (day before Roe). The situation is VERY different today in some key ways. Back then, there weren’t pill-based abortions. Today, a significant percentage of abortions are pill-based. Activists in other countries who are experienced with getting abortion pills into the hands of women in countries where abortion is extremely restricted or illegal have a LOT of experience to share. But we’re going to the place I said we’d go to years and years ago…where mifepristone and miseprolol were going to be offered by drug dealers and you hoped to God what you were getting was the real thing. Because not everyone is really on the Internet, nor do they really know where to look. That said, the worldwide reach of the Internet is going to make it difficult to stop information about abortions from reaching the people who need it.

So yeah, we’re going back to some bad times, even though the situation, when illegal, is in some ways better because the processes are easier and unlikely to kill or maim women. This is NOT GOOD. We are going to see women thrown into jail for abortion. It’s ugly as hell.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:48:04am

re: #253 lawhawk

There’s talk of having an unmanned forward capable battlefield -where command vehicles are heavily armored, but scout and tank vehicles are all unmanned.

Color me skeptical.

The Loyal Wingman concept is even easier to do on the ground.
newatlas.com
airforce-technology.com

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:48:06am

re: #253 lawhawk

There’s talk of having an unmanned forward capable battlefield -where command vehicles are heavily armored, but scout and tank vehicles are all unmanned.

Color me skeptical.

I think it will happen, but it completely shifts the war towards who has the most resources, and will ultimately lead to really large scale destruction, even without nukes.

On the other hand, if science fiction is correct, it will also lead to mechs.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:50:33am

re: #256 mmmirele

Nope, they’ll ignore it, even though there are millions of us still alive (I’m not THAT old) who remember when abortion was illegal in most states and really only available in a couple of states. Nor do I think people will get it through their heads even if birth control is made illegal (by reversing Griswold).

That said, this is not January 21, 1973 (day before Roe). The situation is VERY different today in some key ways. Back then, there weren’t pill-based abortions. Today, a significant percentage of abortions are pill-based. Activists in other countries who are experienced with getting abortion pills into the hands of women in countries where abortion is extremely restricted or illegal have a LOT of experience to share. But we’re going to the place I said we’d go to years and years ago…where mifepristone and miseprolol were going to be offered by drug dealers and you hoped to God what you were getting was the real thing. Because not everyone is really on the Internet, nor do they really know where to look. That said, the worldwide reach of the Internet is going to make it difficult to stop information about abortions from reaching the people who need it.

So yeah, we’re going back to some bad times, even though the situation, when illegal, is in some ways better because the processes are easier and unlikely to kill or maim women. This is NOT GOOD. We are going to see women thrown into jail for abortion. It’s ugly as hell.

Abortion will look a lot like the late 1800s, back before medical equipment was used to perform them, but when the Christians decided they needed to control women more. Medicinal abortion was the way it was done for basically since humans realized it could be done that way.

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Targetpractice  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:51:40am

re: #249 lawhawk

I’d counter that the A-10 is survivable in the modern battlefield until proven differently. Same as the Abrams. With upgrades, the tank is undisputed champ on the battlefield.

The problem is that the Army needs a main battle tank that doesn’t have the weight penalty that the Abrams has.

The cost to extend life on the A-10 or Abrams is a fraction of the replacement with an entirely new airframe or tank.

Nexgen tank? 3 person crew, autoloader, which lowers the turret profile, crew protection improved, improved gun, improved long distance weapon/anti-tank weapon standoff capabilities. All at a lower weight than the current M1A2.

There’s no need for a new airframe to replace the A-10, at least not a need to design something from scratch. If the desire is for a gun-armed Close-Air Support plane (which the A-10 started life as), then there’s plenty of aircraft out there that can fit the bill. And if the job is busting tanks, then anything that can carry a Hellfire missile can do the job. Hell, a Predator could do the same job, loiter longer, and not risk a pilot if shot down by hostile AA.

As for the M1, the sucker is a fuel-hungry monster totally unsuited for the wars we’ve found ourselves fighting in the past two decades. They were meant to fight rows of Soviet tanks trundling across the Fulda Gap, not creep through cramped crowded streets so as to provide easy targets for IEDs and RPGs. At the same time, money that would have gone into designing modern replacements has been cut while money to continue upgrading and rebuilding M1s always finds ready support. Probably helps that the only factory capable of doing such is also a major employer in a key Congressional district…

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 7:55:42am

re: #260 Targetpractice

…Probably helps that the only factory capable of doing such is also a major employer in a key Congressional district…

The commander of Lima was the instructor for one of our Defense Acquisition classes—totally into his stuff, and the best classroom teacher I’ve ever had.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:12:50am

It’s all literally going to happen again.

yahoo.com

Manhattan DA Trump investigation wrapping up, no arrest. No trial. No nothing.

The crimes happened all in plain sight. Just like 1/6 and still no important operatives have faced any legal consequences, just the pathetic minions. It is all going to happen again soon, but this time with a plan and vengeance in mind.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:16:43am

re: #262 Florida Panhandler

It’s all literally going to happen again.

yahoo.com

Manhattan DA Trump investigation wrapping up, no arrest. No trial. No nothing.

The crimes happened all in plain sight. Just like 1/6 and still no important operatives have faced any legal consequences, just the pathetic minions. It is all going to happen again soon, but this time with a plan and vengeance in mind.

Too soon to put our heads in the oven. There’s a lot going on.

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steve_davis  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:19:07am

re: #234 Dr Lizardo

There’s an area in southern Bohemia that’s still cordoned off; there’s still a pretty significant amount of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines buried there and no one knows exactly where they’re buried. It’s not a big area, to be sure, but I was quite surprised the first time I saw it (of course, it’s all clearly posted with signs warning about mines).

There’s also a part of Ostrava near the city center that was the site of a pitched battle between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht in 1945 and the ruins of a small bunker are still visible above ground. But there’s definitely a small section of that overall area where entry is prohibited because of unexploded ordnance.

fuck, there are areas in france that are uninhabitable since wwi. there’s just a shit ton of unexploded ordinance and tons and tons of toxic waste in the ground. there are places where they were using dead bodies to help support trench walls. hard to imagine that as being particularly good for future farming. i wonder if the swamp leading into Mordor, with bodies still beneath the waters, ready to drag down the unwary, is Tolkien’s thoughts on the Battle of the Somme.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:20:14am

re: #264 steve_davis

fuck, there are areas in france that are uninhabitable since wwi. there’s just a shit ton of unexploded ordinance and tons and tons of toxic waste in the ground. there are places where they were using dead bodies to help support trench walls. hard to imagine that as being particularly good for future farming. i wonder if the swamp leading into Mordor, with bodies still beneath the waters, ready to drag down the unwary, is Tolkien’s thoughts on the Battle of the Somme.

It is, in fact.

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Jay C  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:21:09am

My 100th Wordle!

Wordle 314 2/6

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But only my 3rd two-shot.
So far 97/100.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:25:59am
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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:26:22am
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Jay C  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:26:29am

re: #264 steve_davis

i wonder if the swamp leading into Mordor, with bodies still beneath the waters, ready to drag down the unwary, is Tolkien’s thoughts on the Battle of the Somme.

Definitely: a young JRRT fought on the Somme front: to distract himself while in the trenches, he started formulating the mythos that he would later develop into the Middle-Earth Legendarium.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:27:40am

re: #266 Jay C

My 100th Wordle!

Wordle 314 2/6

🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

But only my 3rd two-shot.
So far 97/100.

I call (my 3rd, as well)

Wordle 314 2/6

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:28:29am

I wish her series had run longer than it did.

First Footage of Hayley Atwell’s Captain Carter in Doctor Strange 2 Released (The Direct)

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nines09  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:32:16am

re: #255 Eclectic Cyborg

Like Frankenstein trying to stop the monster after it had gotten out.

They spent their entire careers laying the foundation for this, eagerly celebrating every POS who gots votes. Now that it may hurt their chances, regardless of the harm and injury they caused others, they care.
About themselves.
They do not care about anyone but the frenzied mouths who repeat their lies.

Wall Street $$ is big behind Oz here.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:39:28am

re: #271 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I wish her series had run longer than it did.

First Footage of Hayley Atwell’s Captain Carter in Doctor Strange 2 Released (The Direct)

More proof that What If? wasn’t “if”.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:44:09am

re: #273 Belafon

More proof that What If? wasn’t “if”.

No such thing as “what if” in a multiverse where all possible choices occur.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:44:19am

re: #271 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I wish her series had run longer than it did.

First Footage of Hayley Atwell’s Captain Carter in Doctor Strange 2 Released (The Direct)

I am really, really excited for this movie, but I wonder if it is going to need to be 3 hours to fit everything in, and I’m hoping that, if it needs to be, that it is 3 hours rather than it should have been three hours.

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dharmamark  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:44:19am

re: #268 lawhawk

We saw that happen in real time. “It’ll be gone by Easter…”

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:44:34am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

I’m hoping you are wrong. We don’t really have a context to judge, because the Supreme Court has never taken a constitutional right away from Americans before. This will be something that the MSM can’t ignore.

The Roberts Court, by slowly dismantling the VRA, has effectively stripped the right to vote from many citizens. So, yes, this Court has taken a constitutional right away from Americans.

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CleverToad  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:49:50am

re: #185 Decatur Deb

They did the best they could with what they had. The Neolithic was still in business in 1961.

Gardens of War: Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age

goodreads.com

“Though doubtless now our shrewd machines can blow the world to smithereens
more tidily and so on,
Let’s give our ancestors their due — their ways were coarse, their weapons few,
But ah, how wondrously they slew, with what they had to go on…”

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No Malarkey!  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:50:02am

Wow.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:52:46am

re: #243 The Pie Overlord!

I’m feeling a liddle better this morning (thanks for asking!) but I am still congested and feel generally like crap. Probably just a generic flu/cold (but WTF I had my seasonal flu shot!). My little grandson had the sniffles when they visited for Passover so that is probably where I got it but hey! At least it is not COVID!

This year’s flu shot was ineffective.

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nines09  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:54:09am

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Targetpractice  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:54:46am

re: #279 No Malarkey!

Wow.

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Life comes at you fast.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:55:52am

re: #282 Targetpractice

Life comes at you fast.

And then, not at all.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:57:04am

I’m a big fan of the MCU, but as there gets to be more and more movies and TV shows that are all interlinked, I find it harder and harder to stay on top of what’s going on.

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JC1  Apr 29, 2022 • 8:58:28am

re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m a big fan of the MCU, but as there gets to be more and more movies and TV shows that are all interlinked, I find it harder and harder to stay on top of what’s going on.

So far I’ve been pretty bored with Moon Knight.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:00:37am

re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m a big fan of the MCU, but as there gets to be more and more movies and TV shows that are all interlinked, I find it harder and harder to stay on top of what’s going on.

Supposedly, you don’t need to know the TV shows to watch the movies, there will just be things that you will miss if you don’t see them. Like with Captain Carter, I think they will probably explain that in the multiverse anything is possible, but you won’t have her backstory and especially her interaction with her version of Steve.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:02:44am

re: #285 JC1

So far I’ve been pretty bored with Moon Knight.

Haven’t gotten to that one yet. Was waiting for all the eps to be available.

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wrenchwench  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:03:25am

re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m a big fan of the MCU, but as there gets to be more and more movies and TV shows that are all interlinked, I find it harder and harder to stay on top of what’s going on.

IF you are able to stay on top of what’s going on, you’ll never get to the bottom of it.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:03:52am

You know that story about the Secret Service guy that stopped one assassination attempt on JFK but was framed by the FBI to keep that information from getting out? If you looked, he is a black man. It made me think of Isiah Bradley and the “Red, White, and Black” Marvel series.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:08:42am

re: #134 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

There is a set of Lawn Darts (Jarts) dating to the 60s/early 70s in the trunk of my car.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:09:02am

re: #278 CleverToad

“Though doubtless now our shrewd machines can blow the world to smithereens
more tidily and so on,
Let’s give our ancestors their due — their ways were coarse, their weapons few,
But ah, how wondrously they slew, with what they had to go on…”

Very good, very apt.

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wrenchwench  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:10:31am

I didn’t get to the bottom, and I didn’t stay on top.

Click to Reveal

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nines09  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:10:42am

re: #290 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

There is a set of Lawn Darts (Jarts) dating to the 60s/early 70s in the trunk of my car.

Get a couple of friends, go to a park, set them up and they ask passerby if they want to be a goalie. All we really need is a goalie…

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CleverToad  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:17:54am

re: #291 Decatur Deb

Very good, very apt.

Phyllis McGinley, The Conquerors. Won’t swear I had it exactly right, just one of many poems knocking about in my memory.

blueridgejournal.com

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darthstar  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:20:36am

Cocktails!!

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:27:52am

re: #290 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

There is a set of Lawn Darts (Jarts) dating to the 60s/early 70s in the trunk of my car.

Back when I had a house, I found a bunch of letters, a tiny little bit of ancient weed in a sandwich bag, and a set of Jarts in the suspended ceiling. I left the Jarts for the next owner.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:33:30am

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:36:40am

re: #297 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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An equivalent last panel would be to have the Democrat move left.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:36:41am

A little Bondo, fresh coat of paint, and it’ll buff right out….

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:43:57am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:46:05am

re: #219 steve_davis

my resident obligate carnivore has zero interest in cranberry muffins. by the way, has it occurred to anybody on the paleo diet that the foods we ate 10,000 years ago typically led to us dying in our mid-30’s? People were eating maggots they found under rotting trees, and it wasn’t because they wouldn’t have eaten cap’n crunch if it were available.

That is one of the more interesting ways to look at that. You can also look at how a hunter-gatherer diet is more varied and balanced than a straight agricultural diet and thus settling down to farm was a bad thing too. (Though I think a mixed farming-herding thing will see you through. And there is the whole “what can we due to survive winter/drought/crop failure” challenge.)

Overall, I see it as two things.
(1) Average age of death statistics are driven lower by the high child mortality rates and women being killed by child birth.
(2) Warranty on human body expires at 40. And up to that time, and afterwards, there are a lot of rolls of the dice for an event that can kill you pre-modern medicine and treatment. [Broken limb, scrape getting infected, bacterial infection, etc. etc.]

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:47:15am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:48:09am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:49:29am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:52:26am

re: #304 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 9:59:08am
Today sees German industrialists Rammstein dropping their new record Zeit. Now, the band have also released a video for the track “Angst,” which you can watch below.

It makes sense that the “Angst” — fear in German — video is so scary, as the track is definitely one of the more metallic on the album. The song’s “Schwarze Mann” references a catch-and-run children’s game in Germany (thanks, Genius), and its video definitely plays on that game’s name by depicting the fear, insanity, and homogenous nature of White America.

Check out “Angst” below: Zeit is available now on all streaming platforms. Meanwhile, fans can catch Rammstein at one of their upcoming tour dates

Youtube Video

Rammstein does it again. I’m not a huge fan of industrial metal, but I’ll make an exception for Rammstein; their video for “Deutschland” was probably one of the all-time greatest music videos I’ve ever seen.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:03:51am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hero to Prisoner 0 was probably not the career path he thought he was getting.

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jaunte  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:04:30am
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jaunte  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:04:56am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:06:37am

sigh

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:07:08am

Facebook parent company Meta has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 and it shows that this year alone, the company’s virtual reality-focused department has lost $2.96 billion so far. This continues a trend of operating heavily in the red, with the same division having lost nearly $20 billion since 2020.

Facebook / Meta reported revenue of $117 billion across all divisions last year, so it’s not like they don’t have insanely deep pockets, but nevertheless Zuck seems prepared to throw a shit ton of money at his wannabe virtual world.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:10:16am

re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg

Facebook parent company Meta has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 and it shows that this year alone, the company’s virtual reality-focused department has lost $2.96 billion so far. This continues a trend of operating heavily in the red, with the same division having lost nearly $20 billion since 2020.

Facebook / Meta reported revenue of $117 billion across all divisions last year, so it’s not like they don’t have insanely deep pockets, but nevertheless Zuck seems prepared to throw a shit ton of money at his wannabe virtual world.

Kind of like throwing a lot of money at getting rockets into space.

We really seem to have lost site in this country that R&D doesn’t make money. It can take a lot of failures to get something right.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:11:23am

O_o

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Captain Ron  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:12:04am
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Dangerman  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:12:35am

re: #312 Belafon

Kind of like throwing a lot of money at getting rockets into space.

We really seem to have lost site in this country that R&D doesn’t make money. It can take a lot of failures to get something right.

also why if the twitter deal goes through it doesn’t have to make any money

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:15:37am

re: #306 Dr Lizardo

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Rammstein does it again. I’m not a huge fan of industrial metal, but I’ll make an exception for Rammstein; their video for “Deutschland” was probably one of the all-time greatest music videos I’ve ever seen.

That was wonderfully disturbing, thank you!

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Captain Ron  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:16:25am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:16:45am

It’s being reported in Czech media that Czech PM Petr Fiala will be headed to the White House to visit President Biden later this year. 👍

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:17:26am
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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:17:36am
Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker was today jailed for two years and six months for flouting the terms of his bankruptcy by hiding £2.5million worth of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts.

The former world number one tennis player was led to the cells at Southwark Crown Court in London as his girlfriend Lilian De Carvalho Monteiro blew him a kiss, after he was blasted by a judge for showing no remorse.

Becker, 54, was declared bankrupt in June 2017, owing creditors almost £50million over an unpaid loan of more than £3million on his estate in Mallorca, Spain. The BBC pundit transferred around £390,000 from his business account to others, including those of his ex-wife Barbara Becker and estranged wife Sharlely ‘Lilly’ Becker.

dailymail.co.uk

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:22:05am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

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sigh

The legislator responding to this idiot is also an idiot for failing to explain to the moron that ectopic pregnancies are invariably fatal to the woman who has one.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:22:50am

re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

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Let’s see if we can do the same to Alex Jones.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:25:36am

re: #309 jaunte

Politico just admitted the shitheads in the White House Press Corps think they work for the infotainment industry.

Why do you think the Press contributed so significantly to getting Trump nominated and elected in the first place? He was ratings gold: a 24/7 live White House scandal/crime/family drama that kicked off each day with a series of rambling, disjointed Tweets, then moved on to some manic rally or gaffe-filled public event…why would anybody want to end that?

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Dave In Austin  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:25:38am
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jaunte  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:27:05am

re: #323 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Like Elon Musk, they must imagine some other world they can escape to when he fucks this one up irretrievably.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:27:12am

re: #324 Dave In Austin

Not sure I want to know…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:29:13am

re: #326 Eclectic Cyborg

Not sure I want to know…

Some manipulated sea creature of the kind once put on display as a “mermaid”.

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John Hughes  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:29:20am

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

So, will this DHS disinfo czar have the power to arrest, torture, and execute anyone who persists with the unapproved line?

and if not why not?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:30:42am

re: #234 Dr Lizardo

There’s an area in southern Bohemia that’s still cordoned off; there’s still a pretty significant amount of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines buried there and no one knows exactly where they’re buried. It’s not a big area, to be sure, but I was quite surprised the first time I saw it (of course, it’s all clearly posted with signs warning about mines).

There’s also a part of Ostrava near the city center that was the site of a pitched battle between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht in 1945 and the ruins of a small bunker are still visible above ground. But there’s definitely a small section of that overall area where entry is prohibited because of unexploded ordnance.

All over along the roads north and west of Verdun
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lawhawk  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:35:30am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good. It’s never going to get any easier being a seditious fucker who tried to end democracy in the US. You’re getting off lightly.

Name names. I want to see more than just other Oathkeepers getting nailed for their seditious conspiracy though. Stone. Meadows. Trump. That’s where this leads, and the DOJ better be on top of this.

They’ve gotten this aspect of the 1/6 prosecutions done well, even as they’ve underprosecuted others who were involved in storming the Capitol - lesser charges/sentences than they otherwise should have received.

But 1/6 didn’t start or stop with the Oathkeepers - they were working with GOPers in the WH and Congress to end democracy. This is where we have to go next.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:39:28am

re: #260 Targetpractice

Part of these programs being drawn out and further contracts being made for constructing some (even when not needing them) is so that the country maintains the capacity to build tanks if they need to.

Shut down that line and a lot of very hard to replace technical experience goes elsewhere for employment where it probably cannot be recalled.

Historically you see something similar with the UK capability to build warships. Plenty of yards and capability around 1900. Starts to erode going into WW1 as the capital ships get bigger and the places that have the facilities to build them are fewer. Post WW1 and Washington Naval Treaty followed by Great Depression and the UK shipbuilding capability goes way down since a lot of builders close shop or consolidate. And also the Royal Navy is simply not building many warships. (And the foreign markets for warships dries up post-WW1 due to treaties, lack of secondary nations doing dreadnought races like South America, and leftover WW1 ships for sale as the various navies downsize.)

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:42:52am

re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg

Facebook parent company Meta has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 and it shows that this year alone, the company’s virtual reality-focused department has lost $2.96 billion so far. This continues a trend of operating heavily in the red, with the same division having lost nearly $20 billion since 2020.

Facebook / Meta reported revenue of $117 billion across all divisions last year, so it’s not like they don’t have insanely deep pockets, but nevertheless Zuck seems prepared to throw a shit ton of money at his wannabe virtual world.

Their VR division is meant to lose money. They’re trying with pretty good success to take over the VR market.

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John Hughes  Apr 29, 2022 • 10:44:10am

re: #249 lawhawk

All at a lower weight than the current M1A2.

all new tank projects start with “lower weight”. They rarely finish like that.

(ps — are you suggesting that the US army buys the Leclerc ?)

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 29, 2022 • 11:05:39am

re: #290 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

There is a set of Lawn Darts (Jarts) dating to the 60s/early 70s in the trunk of my car.

Outlaw!

(dad has 2 sets in his pole barn)

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Semper Fi  Apr 29, 2022 • 12:16:19pm

re: #243 The Pie Overlord!

I’m feeling a liddle better this morning (thanks for asking!) but I am still congested and feel generally like crap. Probably just a generic flu/cold (but WTF I had my seasonal flu shot!). My little grandson had the sniffles when they visited for Passover so that is probably where I got it but hey! At least it is not COVID!

A heavy pollen season will make me feel that way and we’re in it now,

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 29, 2022 • 12:42:25pm

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

Looks like Putin’s pity parade won’t have any foreign dignitaries this time.

[Embedded content]

♫♪All by myself
Don’t wanna be
All by myself
Anymore♬♩

It’s self canceling: No foreign leader could retain their dignity if they took part in this.


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