Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump claiming to be the most persecuted individual in American history after last week’s bombshell hearing of the January 6 committee embarrassed him by airing never-before-seen outtakes of his speech from the day after the insurrection.
ICYMI: After setting ultra-endurance record, Army Zephyr drone keeps flying, whether it wants to or not… https://t.co/MgqqiXh3Ge (by @andreweversden1) pic.twitter.com/MvqMjVEttF
— Breaking Defense (@BreakingDefense) July 25, 2022
Too windy to land.
I wasn’t sure if this was a joke, so I looked it up and it is legit according to WE.https://t.co/gtRc6uBke2
— Gocart Mozart (@EdMix13) July 26, 2022
The fact that a preacher had a million dollars of jewelry on him tells you everything. #atheist #atheism #greed https://t.co/0poosdvVrp
— 🏳️🌈 Bub 🐈 (@Bubotomy) July 25, 2022
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Hillary was always right.https://t.co/HEISHLMlBy
— 🌊Lori 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 (@coalsmom) July 26, 2022
brutal hippo attack caught on camera pic.twitter.com/0Tuh5LIr30
— animals going goblin mode (@mischiefanimals) July 25, 2022
In 1944 at the height of WW2 & under the conservative Govmnt of Winston Churchill in the UK a woman named Helen Duncan was tried for Witchcraft in the last Witchcraft trial in the Western world
Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (née MacFarlane, 25 November 1897 - 6 December 1956) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 for fraudulent claims.
One of those cases where the gut feeling turns out to be right. A poll in Austria found that most vaccinated Austrians believe Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine, while the unvaccinated mostly blame the US and NATO. https://t.co/YSWEdGMo0v pic.twitter.com/vCw1E3iZ41
— Tadeusz Giczan (@TadeuszGiczan) July 25, 2022
One thing about the Free Staters—you can’t offend them. They have a religious certainty that they are correct in their Mises-inspired beliefs. They can only be identified and defeated at the ballot box.
Thread, five tweets.
going to challenge biden in the primary based solely on his inadequate response to the choco taco cancellation.
america needs a president who can put our chocolate needs first.— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 25, 2022
You’re a moron.
If protecting national interests is the top priority of your politics, you will be considered a nationalist and that is very bad because reasons. And if you are also a Christian then *boom* Christian Nationalist very bad no good person who hates democracy.
— Johnny Christian Bishop (@Johnnybeesknees) July 26, 2022
Watching The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms on Amazon. I’ve been on an atomic monster binge lately and finished The Monster that Challenged the World last week. Very generally, the earlier efforts in this genre are much better than the later ones. 20,000 Fathoms, made in 1953, has some wobbly science and poor geography but it features a good cast and some excellent rampaging dinosaur action by Ray Harryhausen.
Though made in 1957, by which time exploitative cheapies were taking over the market, The Monster that Challenged the World also holds up pretty well. I almost didn’t go ahead with it because of its silly misrepresentations of the Salton Sea, where the action takes place. At one point, for example, events are said to be happening at a depth of 350 feet. The Salton Sea is 43 feet deep at its maximum today and has not been more than 60 feet deep at any point in its history. The film also shows moderate surf along the shoreline, which you don’t have on a 6 mile wide lake 200 miles inland. Still, I persisted and it turned out to be pretty good, with Tim Holt in a rare non-western appearance and some fine work by Irish actress Audrey Dalton (who is still with us btw).
The monster is especially good, with a very scary full size critter confronting the humans without photo tricks or miniatures.
Marge is still digging in (late this afternoon)
I am being attacked by the godless left because I said I’m a proud Christian Nationalist.
These evil people are even calling me a Nazi because I proudly love my country and my God.
The left has shown us exactly who they are.
They hate America, they hate God, and they hate us.— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 25, 2022
Michigan medical students walk out of ceremony to protest anti-abortion keynote speaker https://t.co/sj9KaInI5H
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) July 26, 2022
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Spoken exactly like Christians in America and Germany in the 1930s.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 26, 2022
I assume most of you have seen this, though maybe not recently:
re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Maynard G Krebs and myself believe the best double feature of all times was The Monster that Devoured Cleveland and Son of the Monster that Devoured Cleveland.
re: #20 dat_said
Maynard G Krebs and myself believe the best double feature of all times was The Monster that Devoured Cleveland and Son of the Monster that Devoured Cleveland.
Dad Monster didn’t finish the job? ///
re: #16 Belafon
She sounds very much like this guy
Gerald L. K. Smith (Wikipedia)
He went from being the leader of the Share our Wealth campaign after Louisiana Gov. Huey Long was assassinated, turned that campaign into fascism, then founded the Christian National Crusade.
re: #20 dat_said
Maynard G Krebs and myself believe the best double feature of all times was The Monster that Devoured Cleveland and Son of the Monster that Devoured Cleveland.
I’m old enough to have pretty definite memories of Maynard and his friend Dobie Gillis.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
His sidekick and de facto best friend was American television’s first beatnik, Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver), who became the series’ breakout character. An enthusiastic fan of jazz music (with a strong distaste for the music of Lawrence Welk), Maynard plays the bongos, collects tinfoil and petrified frogs, and steers clear of romance, authority figures, and work (yelping “Work?!” every time he hears the word). Always speaking with the vernacular and slang of the beatniks and jazz musicians he admired, Maynard punctuates his sentences with the word “like” and has a tendency towards malapropisms.
This girl went on to become an award-winning adult artist. I can see why.
This is a pencil drawing by 16-year-old artist Shania McDonagh! 😮 pic.twitter.com/pwzJzPMM9N
— Curiosity (@Sciencenature14) July 25, 2022
Vaccinated people primarily blame Russia for war in Ukraine, unvaccinated tend to blame US, NATO, Ukraine, EU, poll of Austrians shows.
These shouldn’t correlate. One doesn’t cause the other.
But they share a cause: a transnational identity politics united in rejection of facts. https://t.co/rpIv8Fj14o— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) July 25, 2022
re: #25 jaunte
I think I know what the politics of the people who blame the US is.
We should probably keep an eye on Austrian fascists.
re: #25 jaunte
Ooo boy, I’m already having to explain the “weird statistics” to people on a certail place on the religio-political spectrum, that it is a survey that was designed to find out whose misinformation people who weren’t vaccinated were listening to as basis for their decision to not vaccinate. So, which country/-ies propaganda outlets, covert and overt, apart from having fostered antivaxx, anti-vaxx-mandate, and vaccine hesitancy, has also consistently blamed Ukraina, NATO and the United States for the invasion of Ukraine, as well as run with propaganda directed against Ukraine and the West for years prior to the invasion?
It’s basically a statistical smoking gun…
Also, I can’t wait for other universities doing replication studies, with further refinements, e.g.anti-mask vs. vaxx status anti-mask vs. who’s to blame for the invasion, etc.
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There are no flag observances in August (unless there’s a half-mast notice).
Since my “thing” is flag etiquette, I’m working on an article for some of the other flags covered by US law presently or in the past (all legally-adopted flags may be flown in their proper settings), such as service banners (Gold Star and Blue Star banners) and civil ensigns (a civil ensign is a merchant flag—the USA has had several unofficial ones and one official one).
On service ensigns, probably the most famous in the world is the United Kingdom’s Red Ensign (its flag for merchant shipping and adopted by a number of nations defaced with their arms as their nation’s flag). Two Canadian provinces also use a defaced Red Ensign as the provincial flag (Ontario and Manitoba).
On the issue of Canadian vexillology, Canada and her provinces’ flags have a rich and varied history. Since I love digging into vexillology, Canada’s flag history is another subject I want to tee up for the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs for August. (Interestingly in my hunting, I’ve found there are a number of small “c” conservatives in Canada who feel the current national flag was illegally adopted, and the former Red Ensign defaced with the Arms of Canada is the “true” flag.)
I can also dig into the flag histories of other countries if anyone is interested here.
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There are no flag observances in August (unless there’s a half-mast notice).
Since my “thing” is flag etiquette, I’m working on an article for some of the other flags covered by US law presently or in the past (all legally-adopted flags may be flown in their proper settings), such as service banners (Gold Star and Blue Star banners) and civil ensigns (a civil ensign is a merchant flag—the USA has had several unofficial ones and one official one).
On service ensigns, probably the most famous in the world is the United Kingdom’s Red Ensign (its flag for merchant shipping and adopted by a number of nations defaced with their arms as their nation’s flag). Two Canadian provinces also use a defaced Red Ensign as the provincial flag (Ontario and Manitoba).
On the issue of Canadian vexillology, Canada and her provinces’ flags have a rich and varied history. Since I love digging into vexillology, Canada’s flag history is another subject I want to tee up for the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs for August. (Interestingly in my hunting, I’ve found there are a number of small “c” conservatives in Canada who feel the current national flag was illegally adopted, and the former Red Ensign defaced with the Arms of Canada is the “true” flag.)
I can also dig into the flag histories of other countries if anyone is interested here.
I would enjoy that.
My own interest in less than usual flags is the Guidon. In the modern army they exist for all units, but they started as cavalry flags. This one, that I own a modern copy of, is from the middle of the ACW - the 35 stars representing the states of the union after West Virginia but before Nevada and keeping the stars of the confederacy in place. It is a mirror to our situation today, I think.
Directly into my veins
I’m going out on a limb. I think #45 has been indicted.
— Tim Hogan 浩勤 (@TimInHonolulu) July 26, 2022
Well this is interesting. This appears to be a group of pro-Russia fascist protesters carrying a Russian flag and a Russian orthodox (?) flag on their way to an abortion protest in … Indianapolis. https://t.co/jiNpUssV1u
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) July 26, 2022
Well, FUCK! Satanic Panic seems to be trending, probably linked to the “grooming” and monkeypox shit…
Not only did satanic panic hurt real child sexual trauma survivors by confusing the issue, it led to intrusive and violating unscientific exams of children to “discover”/”prove” abuse.There was a whole defense witness industry built around testing children for “anal winking.” https://t.co/jtM2jRqitD
— Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyderPHL) July 25, 2022
Twitter Search: twitter.com
re: #34 EstebanTornado1963
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re: #35 Teukka
The “Orthodox” flag is the Flag of the Orthodox Army from the Battle of Kulikovo
Image: File:Flag_of_Orthodox_Army_%28Battle_of_Kulikovo%29.jpg
That battle was fought between the Golden Horde and various Russian principalities, and was won by the Russians. That battle ended the advance of the Golden Horde, leading eventually to the independence of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the eventual founding of the Russian state.
They are also wearing the St. Georges orange-and-black military ribbons co-opted by Putin supporters.
re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter
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My niece and her family are having a terrible time with their Budget rental car. They flew to Denver today, rented a car from Budget, got to their Airbnb , and then the car died on them. Two and half hours after their initial call for assistance, Budget, after first promising to send a tow, called back they couldn’t send anyone out till tomorrow morning.
I wonder if these problems are arising due to the widespread understaffing among so many businesses. Or does this reflect standard Budget operating procedures?
re: #33 William Lewis
Guidons have a very long history, going back to heraldic flags. Heraldic flags or banners date back to ancient times, to denote the presence of the person whom the banner represents.
In American military heraldry, the guidon in the XIX Century represented both the unit and its commander. It was considered a great dishonour for the guidon to fall into enemy hands (which is why Virginia is so keen to recover the 28th Virginia Infantry banner from Minnesota captured at the Battle of Gettysburg).
In modern times, most military units are represented by a guidon. In formations, the guidon provides a point to which members of the formation can visually adjust their marching so lines and columns remain neat.
Heraldic banners used for a sovereign or president are normally called “standards” rather than guidon or banner.
Some heraldic colleges also designate the size of the guidon or banner based on the bearer’s rank, such as Lord Lyon of Scotland.
Heraldic guidons, banners, and unit symbols in the US Military are controlled by the Air Force Office of Heraldry, which was designated for that role by the War Department. When the Army Air Corps became the Air Force, they inherited that duty. Every military unit in the USA must submit a new or changed patch, badge, or guidon for approval by the Air Force Office of Heraldry.
If I dug into this stuff enough, I could write a book about vexillology on guidons, banners, pennants, and pennons, which would be incredibly boring for most people.
re: #40 JC1
I’m proud of my 3/6 on this one.
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re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter
My niece and her family are having a terrible time with their Budget rental car. They flew to Denver today, rented a car from Budget, got to their Airbnb , and then the car died on them. Two and half hours after their initial call for assistance, Budget, after first promising to send a tow, called back they couldn’t send anyone out till tomorrow morning.
I wonder if these problems are arising due to the widespread understaffing among so many businesses. Or does this reflect standard Budget operating procedures?
When we got our rental car after we rearranged the front of our Smart with an elk, Enterprise had trouble with detailing a driver to come out and pick us up. There seems to be a shortage of employees across the rental car industry.
When we returned the car, we had to park it on the street because their parking lot was full of cars waiting to be moved for service.
re: #44 Hecuba’s daughter
Wah wah wah …
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I could have done better on geography porn.
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Unless you have an extensive knowledge of lewd words, Lewdle will be a tough one for you.
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Sounds like they’re currently one seat shy of a filibuster-proof majority, which could easily be remedied by a red-wave election in 2022. But still surprising that a state like Nebraska didn’t have a pre-existing trigger law on the books.https://t.co/oDVByGtDPx https://t.co/wsb4njtK6y pic.twitter.com/N4fV12kMjO
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) July 25, 2022
Here in Czech Republic, we’ve got a major forest fire in the northeast of the country. Friend of mine told me she could smell the smoke from it in her hometown of Olomouc, which is about 340 km (about 210 miles) away, even though it’s raining.
Thankfully, it is raining, which will help firefighters.
A massive forest fire has been raging in Czech Switzerland for the third day, and several houses have already been affected. Almost all of Hřensko was evacuated. On Tuesday, July 26, after 7 a.m., approximately 150 firefighters from several regions were on the scene, and special equipment from the Rescue Department also arrived to help.
The national park has been burning since Sunday, July 24. Due to the scale and difficult-to-access terrain, the fire department declared a special level of fire alarm, i.e. the highest. Dozens of units from the region and further afield, planes, army and police helicopters intervene on site daily. The situation is not improving, rather the opposite.
Source, in Czech: decinsky.denik.cz
This is the affected area, and yeah, it’s pretty difficult terrain for firefighters: en.wikipedia.org
re: #49 Dr Lizardo
Just talked to a former student of mine who lives in Poděbrady (about 150 km or 90 miles away from the source of the fire) and she told me there’s a slight smoke haze everywhere in town like a thin fog.
In the category of “You’re full of shyte”
@JoeBiden and @TheDemocrats Spend #Millions in Unconstitutional Program to Push #Atheism in Foreign Countries…..
Because that’s what #Americans expect their #TaxDollars to be funding… Y’know, instead of pesky bridges, roads, infrastructure?#WTF?https://t.co/57EAfifElm— Johnny (@johnnywrenn) July 26, 2022
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“What’s wrong with Christian Nationalism?” is not unlike the “ALL lives matter” argument.
Firefighters at the scene of the forest fire in Bohemian Switzerland are now saying the fire is basically out of control, and the Minister of the Interior is requesting assistance from Slovakia and Germany.
We have been advised not to bathe in the throughs between the moles built into the banks of the Rhine, they are full of algae and have gone toxic.
Meanwhile ships are running at half-loads because the main channel is too shallow.
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She sounds very much like this guy
Gerald L. K. Smith (Wikipedia)
He went from being the leader of the Share our Wealth campaign after Louisiana Gov. Huey Long was assassinated, turned that campaign into fascism, then founded the Christian National Crusade.
he was part of Rachel’s lead story last night, clips of him compared to MTG, then quotes from his anti-Semitic campaign consultant (the guy from GAB)…
So Smith was a Christian Nationalist but also promoted a form of Socialism.
Nationalism plus Socialism
Wonder how that might work out if someone tried it…maybe give it a catchy abbreviated name.
re: #21 Sherlock Hound
Dad Monster didn’t finish the job? ///
Son of the Monster who ate Cleveland went on to eat Cincinnati but died of heartburn after the chili.
The Sandhills Tropical Update.
The Atlantic is quiet.
In the eastern Pacific, there are two tropical waves. Disturbance #1 is south of Baja California, and has is predicted to only have a 10% chance of development into a tropical system within five days.
Disturbance #2 is of more concern. It is 400 miles south of Acapulco, and the National Hurricane Center gives it a 100% chance of developing into a tropical system within two days. Tropical storm watches or warnings are expected later today.
Both storms are moving west-by-north. It is too early to tell if either system will move toward northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
Eastern North Pacific 5-Day Graphical Tropical Outlook (National Hurricane Center)
So, after almost breaking my back trying to lift my bike (60 lbs without the battery) onto the hitch rack on my SUV the few times I tried it, I bought the ramp to roll the bike up onto the rack. Just my luck in the month since I bought the rack the ramp went up 25% to $100, but my back will thank me.
re: #55 sagehen
he was part of Rachel’s lead story last night, clips of him compared to MTG, then quotes from his anti-Semitic campaign consultant (the guy from GAB)…
There’s a reason Rachel Maddow is an atheist.
re: #55 sagehen
he was part of Rachel’s lead story last night, clips of him compared to MTG, then quotes from his anti-Semitic campaign consultant (the guy from GAB)…
The folks wearing the “Blacks for Trump” tee-shirts have on them a Website 2020.com which goes to Shopify. Shopify shows the page as unavailable.
re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter
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I’m reassured he’s being protected by someone more trustworthy than the Secret Service.
Took some calls this morning with man’s best co-worker. pic.twitter.com/dmkE5WhuvX
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 25, 2022
Any more news on how the lost Secret Service were somehow miraculously “found” again as soon the threat of a criminal investigation loomed?
They’re not all this stupid, but enough of them are.
BREAKING: A MAGA insurrectionist who called the FBI to clear his name and admitted he stormed the Capitol was ARRESTED.
Whoops!— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) July 25, 2022
May sleep reclaim me soon.
re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Any more news on how the lost Secret Service were somehow miraculously “found” again as soon the threat of a criminal investigation loomed?
They were found? When did that happen? I didn’t see anything about that. Link?
re: #67 darthstar
They’re not all this stupid, but enough of them are.
Eh. I’d go 50-50 at best. More like 70-30 that yes, they are that stupid.
re: #68 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They were found? When did that happen? I didn’t see anything about that. Link?
from the Independent
Deleted text messages from Jan 6 found on 10 Secret Service staff phones, report says
friend & i are trying to find the most freezing cold take of all time.
currently this one is the frontrunner.
cc @OldTakesExposed pic.twitter.com/9aNnhsDOJc— megan BRAUNY FOREVER brown (@thatgirlondeck) July 25, 2022
re: #68 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They were found? When did that happen? I didn’t see anything about that. Link?
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
from the Independent
Deleted text messages from Jan 6 found on 10 Secret Service staff phones, report says
Well, would you look at that! No wonder we couldn’t find the texts! The phone had been turned off. Sheesh. Sorry about that.
— vídeos pra ver cagando (@videosvecagando) July 25, 2022
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
from the Independent
Deleted text messages from Jan 6 found on 10 Secret Service staff phones, report says
they didn’t find the texts; they found metadata proving there used to be texts.
re: #74 sagehen
they didn’t find the texts; they found metadata proving there used to be texts.
they were stolen by migrants
Gotta love a good Japanese translation.
Sorry…the #MarsAttack is cutely funny though. pic.twitter.com/L68t9TkIE0
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) July 26, 2022
“…when I’m calling you-ou-ou-ou-ou!” (*head explodes*)
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So Smith was a Christian Nationalist but also promoted a form of Socialism.
Nationalism plus Socialism
Wonder how that might work out if someone tried it…maybe give it a catchy abbreviated name.
Trump Republicans are not against Socialism. In a purely political show, DeSantis just last week redirected $450 Covid checks to Floridians marketed as “relief” and directly attributed to his “leadership”. Absolutely no protests were heard from typical Republican pundits decrying “Socialism” by the Florida Government.
This is a sign of things to come when they take control and use their version of Socialism to gain political control and placate the masses as permanent Republican corruption and cronyism becomes entrenched. Welfare and other government assistance in the US is not going away, it will be publicly rebranded as Republican leadership in action and directed towards “soldiers” and “warriors” of the Republican Party.
Those bastards!
It’s a sad day for people who enjoy eating ice cream in taco form.
Klondike has discounted its iconic Choco Taco — a waffle cone shaped like a tortilla, filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with various chocolate goodies and nuts.
The ice cream giant responded to a disappointed Twitter user who heard the social media rumors that the item would be laid to rest.
“Unfortunately, the Choco Taco has been discontinued in both 1ct and 4ct packs,” Klondike confirmed Monday.
“A necessary but unfortunate part of this process is that we sometimes must discontinue products, even a beloved item like Choco Taco,” they told another unhappy fan in a separate tweet.
“We know this may be very disappointing, and hope you’ll try our other delicious frozen treats,” it offered, linking to Klondike’s website.
re: #79 Shropshire Slasher
Those bastards!
there is a reason for a cone or cup shape: ice cream melts.
tacos are messy enough with non-melting fillings, but ice cream?
re: #78 Florida Panhandler
socialism for white people in the form of farm subsidies, Medicare, defense spending, etc, is fine, just not welfare or other social programs for “those people”.
re: #79 Shropshire Slasher
Those bastards!
Now I want a choco taco like nobody’s business. Immediate phase out or do we still have time?
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
there is a reason for a cone or cup shape: ice cream melts.
tacos are messy enough with non-melting fillings, but ice cream?
Choco tacos don’t melt, even in extreme heat, because they don’t last that long.
Yeah that is manslaughter.
Wisconsin Senate Democratic Minority Leader Janet Bewley was involved in a fatal car crash on Friday that left a mother from Pennsylvania and her young daughter dead.
The accident occurred when Bewley, 70, pulled out of the Maslowski beach parking lot in Ashland and into the path of a car driven by Alyssa Ortman, 27, according to the Ashland Police Department.
When Ortman’s car collided with Bewley’s at 12.30pm on Friday, it spun across Highway 2 and was hit by another vehicle.
Ortman’s 5-year-old daughter, Khali, was pronounced dead at the scene. Ortman was transported to a nearby hospital where she later died, according to police.
Mere hours after the crash, in a previously scheduled interview, Bewley told a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel intern she had undergone cataract eye surgery the day before.
Told you. British Trump heading for a very British January 6th moment https://t.co/nqqH4NQjIt
— NeilMackay (@NeilMackay) July 26, 2022
re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Marge is still digging in (late this afternoon)
Hey Margie, you are not America. We hate you and your ilk, not America.
Story of the federal gun tracing center which by law is prohibited from using computers to trace America’s hundreds of millions of guns.
“a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. On purpose.” https://t.co/nQGyK0YIHH
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 26, 2022
There are aspects of “America as a Christian Nation” that I can support: an America that feeds the poor, shelters the homeless and offers asylum to fugitives.
An America where wealth is not the determining factor in society.
An America that is not afraid to drive the moneylenders out of the temple.
Then there is the Christian Nationalist view of America as in returning to an Old Testament Patriarchy, slavery and all. It is no coincidence that so many of those MAGA fellows look like a cross between a Biblical patriarch, a Confederate colonel and a member of ZZ Top.
re: #88 No Malarkey!
Story of the federal gun tracing center which by law is prohibited from using computers to trace America’s hundreds of millions of guns.
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re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
Serial fabulist, narcissist, bully—yep, checks out.
re: #91 Barefoot Grin
Serial fabulist, narcissist, bully—yep, checks out.
He really thinks he can continue to get his way by simply stamping his feet and holding his breath…
Adam Kinzinger is on CNN right now. We hate his voting, but damn he’s refreshing in his directness. He doesn’t hem and haw.
For Lizards who are lovers of unsolved mysteries, looks like another long-unsolved mystery might well have been solved.
A researcher in the case of the Somerton Man says he has solved the decades-old mystery, identifying the figure as a Melbourne-born electrical engineer.
Adelaide University researcher Derek Abbott believes the unknown man found slumped and lifeless at Adelaide’s Somerton Beach on December 1, 1948, was Carl “Charles” Webb, a 43-year-old engineer and instrument maker.
The case has long baffled detectives and amateur sleuths, and is regarded as one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries because of strange clues linked to it, including a suspected code and a book of Persian poems.
The only mystery apparently remaining is how he died (suicide or homicide), and if his presumed identity is officially confirmed, why he went to Adelaide.
re: #40 JC1
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Right wing extremists are hateful people who deny rights to minorities, women, and LGBTQ+. They are so hateful, that they would deny their own families same rights.
Thompson attending his son’s SSM? Hypocrisy? Absolutely. Not that he cares one whit. https://t.co/7InKbltPHa— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) July 26, 2022
Texans will wake up this morning to this simple message:
If Texas can ban abortion and endanger lives, California can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives.
If @GovAbbott truly wants to protect the right to life, he should follow California’s lead. https://t.co/KnK3uKlQep— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 22, 2022
Trump: death penalty for central park 5 was necessary.
CP5 - we’re innocent, and we just got exonerated for all the charges.
Trump: still deserve death penalty.
CP5+1: turns out that there was a sixth guy who was accused, and took a separate plea deal. Well, he too got exonerated on all the charges as his conviction was overturned. Police seriously fucked up the case, and prosecutors didn’t cover themselves in glory either. They wanted a quick conviction, and cut corners and ignored the facts and evidence.
Trump would have been fine with killing innocents - especially because they were persons of color.
re: #99 Dangerman
It is at best pointless to conflate the two issues.
And I won’t even mention the boilerplate RW “Guns are in the Constitution, abortion isn’t” argument.
The point here is that WOMEN are also endowed with a right to make choices about their own bodies, and that right is being trampled over (and women are being put into mortal danger) by a narrow-minded, Fundamentalist view of abortion that is mentioned neither in the Bible nor the Constitution.
In this morning’s covid update, most of the state of Kentucky is red again, about 8 Kentuckians a day are dying of Covid, and the test positivity rate is back up over 19%. Jefferson County may require masks when the kids go back to school in a couple of weeks.
Axios reports the book includes this account of President Donald Trump’s disastrous press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018:
“Fiona Hill, the senior Russia expert on the National Security Council, who was sitting one row in front of me, later told me that she considered doing something, anything — including faking a heart attack — to disrupt the proceedings and get Trump to stop talking.”
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is at best pointless to conflate the two issues.
And I won’t even mention the boilerplate RW “Guns are in the Constitution, abortion isn’t” argument.
The point here is that WOMEN are also endowed with a right to make choices about their own bodies, and that right is being trampled over (and women are being put into mortal danger) by a narrow-minded, Fundamentalist view of abortion that is mentioned neither in the Bible nor the Constitution.
Its not really about the two specific issues, but about the ability to sue strangers
While the law might have some effect on gun traffic, the real purpose is to force the Supreme Court to twist itself into knots. The six conservative justices no doubt want to allow the Texas law to stand, but don’t want the California law to stand. By carefully crafting the California law to be as close to the Texas law as possible, albeit about different material, it will be very hard for the justices to say, for example, allowing citizens to sue people they don’t even know is fine in Texas but not fine in California. If they throw caution to the winds and do it anyway, it’s going to drive the Court’s approval even lower, something Newsom probably doesn’t mind.
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re: #103 Dangerman
“Fiona Hill, the senior Russia expert on the National Security Council, who was sitting one row in front of me, later told me that she considered doing something, anything — including faking a heart attack — to disrupt the proceedings and get Trump to stop talking.”
make like a dragonfly?
re: #104 Dangerman
Its not really about the two specific issues, but about the ability to sue strangers
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This is true, and the “guns are in the constitution but abortion is not” argument will not really serve them.
Brutal, but artistic.
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Senate Republicans stole two Supreme Court seats from Democratic Presidents.
Then express fake outrage when the legitimacy of the Court’s extreme majority is questioned.
Get lost.— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) July 25, 2022
I truly believe that many don’t understand just how often Speaker Pelosi has willingly, and even cheerfully, taken the hits from both the left *and* the right to protect her caucus. Not to mention that she fundraises for the DCCC at something like twice the level of any Dem.😇
— Alexandra🍸 (@nycbubbles) July 2, 2022
New: Gab was key to the Tree of Life synagogue massacre. The site’s owner is a raging anti-Semite. The GOP nominee for PA gov, @dougmastriano, paid Gab $5k for “campaign consulting.” Now every new account on Gab automatically follows Mastriano. https://t.co/61HpDvA7Zs
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) July 15, 2022
Mere hours after a white supremacist massacred 11 worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018, Andrew Torba, CEO and founder of the social media site Gab, gloated about all the web traffic his platform was receiving.”
“We have been getting 1 million hits an hour all day,” Torba wrote via Gab’s Twitter account. Gab had drawn national scrutiny immediately after the bloodshed in Pittsburgh because the killer, Robert Bowers, was a prolific and verified user of the site. He’d posted neo-Nazi propaganda and calls for violence against Jewish people, whom he called the “children of Satan.”
“In a healthy multiracial democracy, Torba would be politically radioactive. In the United States in 2022, though, he is a paid campaign consultant for the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania.” .
re: #110 Dangerman
If the Democrats can’t use this kind of stuff to torpedo Mastriano’s campaign straight to the bottom of the ocean, we are doomed.
GOP are actively courting goddamned Nazis, KKKers, and white supremacists because that’s the GOP base. GOP policies are straight out of the Christian fascist playbook, and their SCOTUS picks advance that agenda with impunity.
We keep seeing GOPers openly engaging with the bigot brigade, and Fox incites and engages and enrages the GOP base to focus their anger and ire against the other - people who question the racist misogynist bigoted GOP and their policies.
Meanwhile, we keep seeing the GOP engaging in the very kind of cancel culture woke bulkshit they claim liberals are doing. They’re the ones trying to silence critics, engaging in “grooming” and enabling rapists. They are the ones removing control over women’s bodies by denying women who were raped autonomy and agency over their bodies in all cases. They’re the ones who are going to be slashing health care options for women, because doctors will flee states where women’s reproductive health options are limited by insane know-nothing laws that equate birth control with abortion, that deny women access to care that can save their lives during pregnancy, all while these same states refuse to count a fetus as a person until born alive (for insurance purposes, for dependent tax benefits, etc.).
These fuckers are not going to stop there. They’re a hateful bunch of bigots and seek to deny others their rights.
re: #108 Belafon
And they’ll fucking do it again if given the chance.
re: #44 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
And they’ll fucking do it again if given the chance.
It was a legal coup
which is what they are aiming for in 2024: all within the letter of the law and where they do have to bend the law, they will blow up enough smoke so that nobody can determine what happened until it is too late.
re: #114 Colère Tueur de Lapin
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Details of the health care bill the Democrats are trying to get passed in the Senate before the August recess. It’s worth doing, even though its a disappointment compared to the ambitious agenda Biden originally had for Build Back Better.
I believe the term ‘hot August nights’ is about to apply to a lot of Republicans across the country.
BREAKING: Wapo has a copy of the DoJ subpoenas for two AZ lawmakers and they include a demand for Amy communications with any member of congress, any member of the executive branch, any rep or agent of trump or his campaign, or 12 specific boosters. https://t.co/PlkddU4bBL
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) July 26, 2022
re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter
My niece and her family are having a terrible time with their Budget rental car. They flew to Denver today, rented a car from Budget, got to their Airbnb , and then the car died on them. Two and half hours after their initial call for assistance, Budget, after first promising to send a tow, called back they couldn’t send anyone out till tomorrow morning.
I wonder if these problems are arising due to the widespread understaffing among so many businesses. Or does this reflect standard Budget operating procedures?
Understaffing plus putting marginal cars into service because the rental car companies got rid of vast fleets of cars at the beginning of COVID and are now competing with consumers to replace them.
Republican Jesus at a trump rally pic.twitter.com/zT3AbKsaWu
— Politically Sensitive (@gopjail) July 26, 2022
re: #119 mmmirele
Understaffing plus putting marginal cars into service because the rental car companies got rid of vast fleets of cars at the beginning of COVID and are now competing with consumers to replace them.
GODDAMN YOU, JOE BIDEN!!!
re: #123 Dr. Matt
Especially if he was jumping up and down about returning with the Heavenly Hosts and tossing unbelievers into the Lake of Fire.
re: #123 Dr. Matt
They would likely kill Historical Jesus him by lynching if they thought they could get away with it.
re: #126 Florida Panhandler
Conservatives would likely kill Historical Jesus by lynching if they thought they could get away with it.
Guy who failed security clearances and lied on clearance forms multiple times and has father in law override the rejection, profits from his role. Finds out that he has cancer while visiting a luxury goods factory, covers up.
Yeah, that sounds about right.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) July 26, 2022
re: #126 Florida Panhandler
They would likely kill Historical Jesus him by lynching if they thought they could get away with it.
That’s a lot less nasty than crucifixion. Would post-lynching Christians wear noose necklaces?
re: #128 lawhawk
We always got to wait for the book to come out to find out the important stuff.
Poor Prof. Ioannidis apparently got his fee-fees hurt after discovering that his eminence as the most published scientist in the world doesn’t protect him from criticism on social media and @bmj_latest rapid responses when he turns #COVID19 crank. https://t.co/HkSxPR0msY pic.twitter.com/Y9dYqLeGpI
— David Gorski, MD, PhD (@gorskon) July 26, 2022
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: My Huis Clos nightmare would be to be stuck in a small room with Ivanka and Jared and have to listen to them talk for eternity.
re: #128 lawhawk
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if he just dropped off the radar, would we have even noticed?
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On his way to opening a Louis Vuitton factory, Jared finds out he has thyroid cancer and covers it up. https://t.co/maO5mO9SMj
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) July 26, 2022
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So after all of the hysterical blaming, the leak most likely came from conservatives.
No wonder we haven’t heard a thing about it since. https://t.co/GplddGSl0w— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) July 26, 2022
Bless her heart
Lauren Boebert’s ex-campaign manager choked up on Steve Bannon’s show because “elections matter.”
She said that Tina Peters’ loss in the GOP primary “is symbiotic [sic] of what has happened in our entire nation.” pic.twitter.com/QfnIYo0W22— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) July 26, 2022
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wah wah wah …
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re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
All the right wing caterwauling insisting that a liberal leaked Alito’s draft, and that whoever was responsible should be booted from the court, has gone quiet.
Why?
Because everyone’s recognizing that it was likely Thomas, Alito, or Roberts who leaked, and they should be removed.
Outside the ballroom, Pence’s former chief of staff and close adviser @marctshort told me Pence will offer a “forward looking vision for conservatism.”
Short declined to comment to me on his recent grand jury appearance in the January 6 investigation.— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) July 26, 2022
Pence, 63, refers to his “fellow young Americans” in his speech to high school and college-age conservatives in DC. pic.twitter.com/SLRtl4Taga
— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) July 26, 2022
While some Republicans (Trump occasionally included) hesitated to embrace Dobbs, Pence proudly declares that “We sent Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history.”
In contrast to Trump, Pence is placing abortion at center of his new agenda: “We save the babies, we’ll save America.”— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) July 26, 2022
Pence also mentions the “divisive election” and the “tragic day at our nation’s Capitol,” his only hint at January 6 in the speech — doing so in the same breath as citing “the Democratic administration” and the pandemic as other ills facing the country right now.
— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) July 26, 2022
Although spokesperson told reporters ahead of time that Pence would take “15-20 minutes of open Q&A from the nearly 500 college students,” he is only taking two questions.
Some laughter in the room after announcer says the second question will be the last.— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) July 26, 2022
Interesting description from the website:
“The most robust defense of the Trump record of anyone who served in the administration, So Help Me God also chronicles President Trump’s severing of their relationship on January 6, 2021, when Pence kept his oath to the Constitution.” https://t.co/1lds5EQlm1— Zack Stanton (@zackstanton) July 26, 2022
A grass fire apparently sparked by a mower swept across an open field to a suburban Dallas subdivision on Monday, damaging as many as 20 homes. No injuries were immediately reported. https://t.co/kIRLhpVnDI pic.twitter.com/ly3XD7CtdA
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 26, 2022
God tested Mike Pence on January 6. All he had to do was help Trump steal the election and he’d have a clear road to the nomination in the future. But he passed the test, did his duty, and now can look forward to finishing 7th in Iowa.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 26, 2022
He ignored his oath of office when he covered up Trump crimes. That he refused to participate in shredding the Constitution on 1/6 is the bare minimum his job required. He should be more than willing to testify under oath, but he’s a craven coward.
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) July 26, 2022
All of them are with their book deals. Pence did the bare minimum his job required, and then keeps covering up Trump crimes because he puts party over nation, like every other GOPer that knows all of them are engaged in criminal conspiracies to end democracy and the Trump crime spree.
re: #83 Dopamine Fish
My starting strategy paid dividends today.
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If Pence can sell a memoir to the public this fall, he should be made to testify under oath right now about January 6.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) July 26, 2022
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re: #85 Shropshire Slasher
Yeah that is manslaughter.
Maybe 20 years ago, when I was driving along a frontage road, a driver pulled out of a parking lot directly into my vehicle. Slow motion accident and no one was injured, except my car which was totaled.
Yes, I did lose my last 2 cars to accidents; the second one was my fault.
somebody is in trouble
Butler County fatal crash 127: Standard for responding agencies to put helicopter landing cones near the scene for patient transport. I asked someone with Milford Twp. Fire who put the cones out (under the wires) and he said, “I’m not going to talk about that.” @WCPO pic.twitter.com/JvvEPVGbS7
— Jay Warren (@JayWarrenWCPO) July 26, 2022
Milford Twp. fatal crash update: @BCSOalerts holding the scene on 127 for the arrival of the FAA @FAANews. The cones pictured were placed to direct medical helo where to land. However, it appears they were placed under high powered electrical lines @wcpo pic.twitter.com/mY82JBneMO
— Jay Warren (@JayWarrenWCPO) July 26, 2022
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well shit. Looks like a bit of wind might have helped the fire move faster over the very dry grasses.
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
Medical helicopter crashes at accident scene involving 2 pickup trucks in Butler County.
1 dead, 3 injured in the pickup crash. 3 flight crew members were taken to the hospital for evaluation. @chelseasicknews has been on the scene all morning. https://t.co/yzsiNJ7waq pic.twitter.com/eEgXOYeRvs— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) July 26, 2022
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I’m sitting in a hospital waiting room (I’m the driver for a friend’s procedure), woman across from me is wearing a “Count Every Legal Vote” shirt and keeps pulling down her mask to cough.
I’m thinking about spraying her with the hand sanitizer container.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 26, 2022
The city of #StLouis is experiencing extreme #flooding this morning as 7-11” of rain fell across the city overnight. Numerous water rescues occurred last night and roadways remain closed. This train station is under 3 FEET of water. #MOwx pic.twitter.com/ITWsquNB1Q
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) July 26, 2022
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
I assume said woman in the waiting room is the sole arbiter of which votes are legal and which are not?
re: #111 No Malarkey!
If the Democrats can’t use this kind of stuff to torpedo Mastriano’s campaign straight to the bottom of the ocean, we are doomed.
A lot of conservative Catholics are fine with this sort of thing. They just don’t talk about it. Similar to how they are “fine” with a lot of the dog whistle racist rhetoric, undeserving poor, etc. etc.
County I live in is quite religious and mainly Catholic. Also noting that the Catholic diocese is also combining parishes and essentially shrinking. Citing lack of priests, but I also think their membership is also aging out as well and the tithes are not coming in like they used to.
This logboat was carved, using stone axes and fire, from a giant oak trunk around 4,500 years ago. It measures over 14 m long by 1 m wide. The so-called Lurgan canoe was discovered in 1901, in a Co. Galway bog in Ireland. https://t.co/PDOX3JGpcc pic.twitter.com/6z4ervOA6F
— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) July 26, 2022
re: #111 No Malarkey!
If the Democrats can’t
use this kind of stuff to torpedo Mastriano’s campaign straight to the bottom of the oceanconvince white voters to stop acting like white voters, we are doomed.
It doesn’t matter how much Democrats do if whites won’t hear them.
re: #161 Belafon
It doesn’t matter how much Democrats do if whites won’t hear them.
Hate is deafening
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Hate is deafening
And the media is compromised and biased.
So, in his own way, dominionist Pence may be a bigger threat to America than Trump.
re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth
Over 4000 years old, the Lurgan canoe was discovered in 1901 by Patrick Coen as he worked in a Co. Galway bog that had once been a shallow lake. It is carved from a giant oak trunk and measures over 14 m (45ft) long by 1 m wide. The boat is easily the largest artefact on display at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street and its arrival there involved quite a journey.
It took nearly a month to transport the canoe from Lurgan bog to Milltown railway station, from whence it was brought to Tuam. Here it rested for four days where ‘nearly all in the town paid it a visit of inspection, the great majority taking away chips of it as souvenirs’ (Tuam Herald, January 25, 1902). When finally it arrived in Dublin, the boat was pulled through the streets on specially-linked, horse-drawn carts and its eventual arrival at the front gates of the National Museum can be seen below.
lots more photos
re: #164 Teukka
You mean when people feel respected and don’t have to worry as much about their needs they tend to be healthier overall?
Crazy!
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re: #167 Eclectic Cyborg
You mean when people feel respected and don’t have to worry as much about their needs they tend to be healthier overall?
Crazy!
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IKR? //
re: #164 Teukka
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Step 1: Make white people poorer than their parents.
Step 2: Blame non-white people.
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
Medical helicopter crashed responding to fatal accident in Butler County, sheriff says
A CareFlight representative released a statement to FOX19 NOW that described the incident as “a hard landing.”
“Early this morning, a CareFlight helicopter operated by Air Methods Corp. responding to a vehicle accident in Butler County contacted wires and experienced a hard landing. The patient was not on board the aircraft, and the three crew were able to safely exit the aircraft. The crew has been taken to a hospital for a medical evaluation. “
“Hard Landing:”
Russian Duma introduces a bill to confiscate the assets of all Ukrainian citizens in Russia. pic.twitter.com/bDAo3joOqI
— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) July 26, 2022
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I can also dig into the flag histories of other countries if anyone is interested here.
You know us; we’re interested in everything.
A derbid planthopper does its best butterfly impression. Ecuador. pic.twitter.com/MYX41SMknS
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) July 26, 2022
PSA: The reason to oppose vouchers is because they hurt public schools, not because you’re openly racist👇🏽 https://t.co/jiDjNS5X7J
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) July 26, 2022
For those who want to pretend they don’t know what “inner city” means: https://t.co/hBouziyD8r https://t.co/2VTaQV7rFt
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) July 26, 2022
I watched our school district’s safety brief live stream last night. Part of the plan is to have Stop the Bleed kits in every other room & teach children how to treat their friends’ gunshot wounds. This is at KISD in central Texas. Oh! And they got a dog that sniffs for weapons
— Erin Griffin (@ErinGri7) July 26, 2022
Oh and I forgot this tidbit: The cops are doing active shooter drills where they’ve asked teenagers to volunteer to be the shooter. The intent is to get the cops desensitized and teach them to not second guess shooting kids
— Erin Griffin (@ErinGri7) July 26, 2022
At least Texas cops won’t be so sensitive next time.
The Dung and the Reckless
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 26, 2022
re: #176 jaunte
At least Texas cops won’t be so sensitive next time.
I could easily be mistaken, but on a long video in the hall, at the shield end, one of the 400 has gathered a pile of gas cans tucked around the corner, and people are struggling with gas masks, then somebody says, ‘There are victims in there? Forget it.’ Things get shoved deeper into the corner.
re: #171 Teukka
Since Putin (and presumably the Duma by association) considers all of Ukraine part of Russia doesn’t that mean that Russia has essentially claimed every piece of private property in Ukraine not already owned by Russian citizens?
re: #177 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
“What’s brown and sounds like a bell?”
“Dung!”
(Monty Python)
re: #175 jaunte
I’m sure Abbott and friends are working out a whole array of “solutions” that mainly consist of funneling Texas taxpayer money to friends and cronies who will provide all sort s of equipment or services that will not do a thing and simply gather dust in a closet somewhere or quickly be rendered broken and unusable.
And, of course, there will be plenty of thoughts and prayers available.
“It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share with you the passing of our beloved Tony this morning. Tony was a beautiful soul – kind, compassionate, funny and humble,” reads a statement from the late Tony Dow’s team. https://t.co/nsOUNgAajc
— Variety (@Variety) July 26, 2022
re: #179 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Since Putin (and presumably the Duma by association) considers all of Ukraine part of Russia doesn’t that mean that Russia has essentially claimed every piece of private property in Ukraine not already owned by Russian citizens?
Those considerations are irrelevant, they are just out to cook up some superficial legal justification for confiscating them some property
sometimes. the human pretends my body is a set of bongos. they don’t have much rhythm. but it makes them very happy
— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) July 26, 2022
Works on certain kitties, also.
re: #179 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Since Putin (and presumably the Duma by association) considers all of Ukraine part of Russia doesn’t that mean that Russia has essentially claimed every piece of private property in Ukraine not already owned by Russian citizens?
Yep.
We ALL agree: prices at the pump are too high. We see oil companies posting record profits and inflating prices, even as the cost of crude oil drops.
Democrats put up a plan to lower your costs and stop gas price gouging — but 203 House Republicans said NO. Vote them out! -NP— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) July 26, 2022
Ronna McDaniel is asked if Trump and Pence endorsing opposing candidates all over the country is dividing the party: “You know, I don’t focus on that. I know the Republican Party is completely united.” pic.twitter.com/wjSWgvFnhA
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 26, 2022
re: #175 jaunte
Part of the plan is to have Stop the Bleed kits in every other room
Isn’t sheltering in place the immediate response to a shooting?
I guess kids just have to hope they’re in the right room when they get shot. SMDH
[see also FFL’s comment in #181
re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
A more accurate cover. pic.twitter.com/RT2bT5GNug
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) July 26, 2022
I’ll never leave this website pic.twitter.com/a91KcTzBPa
— SchoolBondWolfie (@BondWolfie) July 26, 2022
— SchoolBondWolfie (@BondWolfie) July 26, 2022
Ok. Now I feel bad 😆🤣😂😹😆 pic.twitter.com/EPpRnaYZXL
— SchoolBondWolfie (@BondWolfie) July 26, 2022
Judge hands down a 63 month sentence to an insurrectionist, tying for longest sentence imposed so far.
BREAKING: Mark Ponder gets 63 months in federal prison, three months over what DOJ requested.
He’s now tied with Robert Scott Palmer for the longest Jan. 6 sentence. pic.twitter.com/84wtrTxUUV— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 26, 2022
re: #171 Teukka
I’m not surprised; they need all the money they can get their grubby, blood-stained hands on because despite the boosterism coming from the Kremlin and their stooges, the Russian economy is imploding.
The first detailed academic paper Ive seen about the impact of economic sanctions on the Russian economy. Summarized in one word—‘crippling’. Cuts through alot of the BS that is out there about oil sales and the value of the ruble. https://t.co/QUdNCksx2Y
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) July 26, 2022
Final summation shows why the long-war scenario is so difficult for Russia if sanctions are maintained. No path out of ‘economic oblivion’ pic.twitter.com/zOGLacmad2
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) July 26, 2022
re: #189 GlutenFreeJesus
Pence needs to recall how perilously close he came to shouting “Father Why hast thou forsaken me?” last January 6th.
As the Grift Turns
What is the name of this daytime drama? pic.twitter.com/gtTVRkRAYd
— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) July 25, 2022
Bankston goes back to the 24% of people who do not believe Neil and Scarlett. 75 million ppl.
“We would submit to you that a fair measure of the level of harm that was done to Neil’s reputation in all this, is $1 for every one of those people. $1, for the 75 million people.”— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) July 26, 2022
Outside of courtroom, Jones blames everyone but himself. Says he doesn’t even have $1 mil. I ask about the $8 mil in crypto he got. Jones says he spent it all. His lawyer comes over to tell him to stop talking. Story from @MichaelEHayden & @MeganSquire0 https://t.co/JlP9Aub2iM
— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) July 26, 2022
Story by me and @G_nobes is now live. We’ll be updating it throughout the day. https://t.co/Qe5cA1YiMk
— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) July 26, 2022
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
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ok, then on which candidates?
Ronna McDaniel is asked if Trump and Pence endorsing opposing candidates all over the country is dividing the party: “You know, I don’t focus on that. I know the Republican Party is completely united.” pic.twitter.com/wjSWgvFnhA
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 26, 2022
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
All My Schoolchildren
I also came up with a band name: Swindler and the Blow Sniff
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.”
John Hume 1937 - 2020
David Trimble 1944 - 2022 pic.twitter.com/7GGCWGKtVU— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 25, 2022
For any of my friends unfamiliar with the role that Trimble, Hume and others played in the Good Friday agreement, which has delivered a lasting peace in Northern Ireland, this piece from the time is an insightful read: https://t.co/eZdlnX0zJ1
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 25, 2022
Trimble died yesterday
re: #185 Teukka
Yep.
Which is essentially legalizing the looting being carried out by Russian troops. I wonder if the law will backdate things to the date of the beginning of the “special operation”.
re: #191 No Malarkey!
I can’t help but wonder if there’s a bit of racism creeping into that sentencing. Harshest sentence going to black guy while others who did the same crime got lesser sentences…
re: #194 Teddy’s Person
The Dung and the Feckless
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
He needs to use a water bottle on the feral conservative in the wild, like you do with a cat.
re: #192 Dr Lizardo
I’m not surprised; they need all the money they can get their grubby, blood-stained hands on because despite the boosterism coming from the Kremlin and their stooges, the Russian economy is imploding.
Thus the Russians shutting off the natural gas flowing west in an attempt to make the western Europe countries (especially Germany) blink at the threat to their own economies and pressure Ukraine to settle for a loss of territory. Or possibly split up the unity that they did not expect to happen as a result of the invasion.
re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth
We extend deepest condolences on the passing of Lord David Trimble, an architect of the historic Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, which brought stability and hope to Northern Ireland. Our thoughts are with his family and the people of Northern Ireland.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) July 26, 2022
re: #194 Teddy’s Person
Is the theme song a polka variant titled “I Don’t Want Her. You Can Have Her. She’s Too Old for Me.”?
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lie for trump, get jobs at cnn AND abc news out of the racket. what a nice scam. your liberal media. https://t.co/H4a7ud3pvi
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 26, 2022
sometimes a hug is all you need pic.twitter.com/Sanhr5qcSw
— theworldofdog (@theworldofdog) July 26, 2022
re: #208 BeenHereAwhile
If not a Vincent Black Lightning 1952, how about a Vincent in a Norton Featherbed frame?
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9/11 Families Release Ad Exposing Trump For Hosting Saudi Golf Tournament https://t.co/6ZZpxxCbsB https://t.co/gyImVu3R2D
— Breaking News USA (@breakingnewsusa) July 26, 2022
as an old school alex jones watcher its still odd to me that sandy hook is what gets so many upset at him when he literally pushed every crackpot idea about 9/11 and thats what made him
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 26, 2022
re: #194 Teddy’s Person
F Troop
What is the name of this daytime drama? pic.twitter.com/gtTVRkRAYd
— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) July 25, 2022
re: #205 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Thus the Russians shutting off the natural gas flowing west in an attempt to make the western Europe countries (especially Germany) blink at the threat to their own economies and pressure Ukraine to settle for a loss of territory. Or possibly split up the unity that they did not expect to happen as a result of the invasion.
It doesn’t seem to be working. For instance, the Czech PM announced today that our gas reserves are now filled to 80% capacity. I believe that Germany is at about that same level. That’s enough to see us through this winter, even if we get a cold winter.
If that was Putin’s ace in the hole, well….seems like he’s played a bad hand.
When you’re at a job interview and they ask you what special skills you can bring to the role.
📹: https://t.co/0h61gbHGOY pic.twitter.com/XqeCK0yXdq— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) July 26, 2022
Thank you for your retweets and likes. It means that the time spent getting the dog drunk and gluing the Pringles on was not wasted.
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) July 26, 2022
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yikes.
This is why prairie fires are so scary here, especially if there is a wet season the year before.
Last year’s prairie fire which started in Banner County near the Wyoming line got within eight miles of my house. We had water bombers from the US Forest Service and the Coast Guard, and fire departments from as far as three hundred miles away from four states trying to put it out.
That fire was started by a pickup truck dragging a chain over a cattle guard, causing a spark.
re: #216 Dr Lizardo
It doesn’t seem to be working. For instance, the Czech PM announced today that our gas reserves are now filled to 80% capacity. I believe that Germany is at about that same level. That’s enough to see us through this winter, even if we get a cold winter.
If that was Putin’s ace in the hole, well….seems like he’s played a bad hand.
The war is causing a lot of economic damage due to Ukraine not being able to export grain and other products. Not sure what is Putinista agitation and what are accurate concerns about stuff in Europe. In part I am reacting to some Europeans* saying stuff in a discord channel I am a member of.
* - Varied mix of Germans, English, Welsh, Spanish, French-Irish and Norwegians.
‘Copy link to tweet’ has been relocated to the top option on the pop-up.
well now I have to go stare at all my pictures of cheetah paws https://t.co/rA63zdVBaL
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) July 26, 2022
Had to go dig up pics of the upside down hyena loaf because they are so adorable pic.twitter.com/swW20fsOgZ
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) July 26, 2022
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam went Townshend* last night as they closed out their European leg of the tour:
*No classic Strats were harmed in the making of this video
re: #219 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The war is causing a lot of economic damage due to Ukraine not being able to export grain and other products. Not sure what is Putinista agitation and what are accurate concerns about stuff in Europe. In part I am reacting to some Europeans* saying stuff in a discord channel I am a member of.
* - Varied mix of Germans, English, Welsh, Spanish, French-Irish and Norwegians.
Of course the Russo-Ukrainian War is causing problems. But as far as I’m concerned, this is the time to suck it up and hold the course. A little blood and iron (to borrow a phrase from Otto von Bismarck).
That presentation shows good evidence that the ongoing sanctions are having an impact and the longer those sanctions stay in place, the closer Russia will get to (as the paper put it) economic oblivion. They’ll be on their knees for a generation after this and Putin will be remembered not as a modern-day Peter the Great, but rather as a sawdust Tsar who brought his nation to ruin in a fit of imperial folly.
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just right out in the open with that racism, and proud of it.
re: #161 Belafon
It doesn’t matter how much Democrats do if whites won’t hear them.
For the first time in awhile, the Monday night group got together in person for dining. Everyone basically agrees with our overall outlook here. However, I did get into a disagreement with one of the women: she thought that Trump voters were just misled, I argued that they supported him because they were as racist as he was. She quoted from South Pacific the lyrics about having to be carefully taught to hate. Probably true — but it doesn’t matter; that’s what we are facing now (and through most of our history), a white population that objects to minorities having equal rights.
re: #221 Dr. Matt
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam went Townshend* last night as they closed out their European leg of the tour:
*No classic Strats were harmed in the making of this video
This version was recorded in Germany:
re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter
For the first time in awhile, the Monday night group got together in person for dining. Everyone basically agrees with our overall outlook here. However, I did get into a disagreement with one of the women: she thought that Trump voters were just misled, I argued that they supported him because they were as racist as he was. She quoted from South Pacific the lyrics about having to be carefully taught to hate. Probably true — but it doesn’t matter; that’s what we are facing now (and through most of our history), a white population that objects to minorities having equal rights.
People may have to be taught to hate, but people have more than enough information now to make their own choices as adults to continue to hate or to change.
You shouldn’t have to prove your disability to anyone ❤️ I get the same on a daily basis, I have an invisible physical disability and the amount of stares I get when I’m out in public on crutches is horrible!
— Amy (@amyadams_slt) July 25, 2022
re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter
For the first time in awhile, the Monday night group got together in person for dining. Everyone basically agrees with our overall outlook here. However, I did get into a disagreement with one of the women: she thought that Trump voters were just misled, I argued that they supported him because they were as racist as he was. She quoted from South Pacific the lyrics about having to be carefully taught to hate. Probably true — but it doesn’t matter; that’s what we are facing now (and through most of our history), a white population that objects to minorities having equal rights.
some of the country maybe could claim that in ‘16
no one sentient could claim it in ‘20
re: #228 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I only get annoyed at the people who don’t have some kind of tag on their car.
re: #230 Belafon
I only get annoyed at the people who don’t have some kind of tag on their car.
Same. I try to be considerate of people who maybe haven’t had time to take care of it yet, but usually a good indicator is if they park like a douchecanoe (wow, I haven’t used that word in a while).
re: #202 lawhawk
I can’t help but wonder if there’s a bit of racism creeping into that sentencing. Harshest sentence going to black guy while others who did the same crime got lesser sentences…
I don’t think so. Judge Chutkan has expressed concern that insurrectionists are getting off too lightly, and she also gave a 63 month sentence to a white guy.
re: #231 Dopamine Fish
Same. I try to be considerate of people who maybe haven’t had time to take care of it yet, but usually a good indicator is if they park like a douchecanoe (wow, I haven’t used that word in a while).
The f150, no tags, that goes from 20 to 0 in the length of the parking space, and the guy jumps out and runs into the store.
re: #232 No Malarkey!
I don’t think so. Judge Chutkan has expressed concern that insurrectionists are getting off too lightly, and she also gave a 63 month sentence to a white guy.
Judge Tanya Chutkan btw. pic.twitter.com/S1tl18ZCVK
— 🌺🌼🌺 Bodak Red 🌼🌷🌼💐 (@AFarray) July 26, 2022
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So Smith was a Christian Nationalist but also promoted a form of Socialism.
Nationalism plus Socialism
Wonder how that might work out if someone tried it…maybe give it a catchy abbreviated name.
Well, Nationalist Christians can be abbreviated as Nat-Cees, so there is that…
re: #233 Belafon
The f150, no tags, that goes from 20 to 0 in the length of the parking space, and the guy jumps out and runs into the store.
Or parks halfway over the line into the “no parking” area between handicapped spaces, oftentimes at some catawampus angle (funny, spell check actually recognized the word).
Where did the pandemic begin?
Was it from nature or a lab?
Since the start, this fundamental question has gone unanswered.
Until now.
Out in @ScienceMagazine: SARS-CoV-2 emerged into humans via the live animal trade at the Huanan Seafood Market.https://t.co/hnl9j3E6j6— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) July 26, 2022
re: #237 lawhawk
Climate change kills off all the seafood. Problem solved. //
Looks like Viktor Orbán has got some fallout from his recent Hitlerian rant:
‼️PM Viktor Orbán’s long-time adviser, Zsuzsa Hegedüs resigns, telling his boss in a letter that “I don’t know how you didn’t notice that you were turning your earlier anti-migrant and anti-Europeanism into a pure Nazi speech worthy of Goebbels”. @hvg_hu:https://t.co/lsUYhQW7nB pic.twitter.com/eCqZge4XDO
— Szabolcs Panyi (@panyiszabolcs) July 26, 2022
re: #237 lawhawk
Regarding SARS-Cov-2, it seems a 3rd dose of even an older vaccine helps against the current BA.5 variant:
John Fetterman is on his A game, and I am LOVING it.
Dude, you’re literally from Jersey. I bet you don’t even know how to pump your own gas. https://t.co/Vm1xKK1Gdy
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) July 26, 2022
“Mitchell delivered the song’s conclusion — ‘I really don’t know life at all’ — not in bewilderment or wistful regret but with amused surrender and a glint of delight. Why waste time trying to pin down the unknowable?” Fabulous, @marymacTV. https://t.co/x3OcsKkTYG
— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) July 26, 2022
re: #240 Dr Lizardo
Looks like Viktor Orbán has got some fallout from his recent Hitlerian rant:
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re: #228 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Outside of our local area, we’ll occasionally get nasty looks or comments when I park the Smart in a handicap space.
Somehow the haters can’t seem to equate “small car” and “handicapped wife who uses a cane.”
I also caught shit once at the Commissary at FE Warren AFB from someone in uniform. My wife was worn out from walking around the Commissary, so I walked to the car to drive it to the front of the store. Incoming asshole demanding to know why I’d parked in a handicap space and had a handicap placard when I could obviously walk.
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
I saw that on PBS Newshour last night. I thought Judy Woodruff was going to cry, but she just clutched her hand to her heart.
A FB friend posted the following:
Trump said this to a lot of people, and although it’s not necessary to prove criminal intent, it ought to suffice along with everything else. This is from page 128 of @JonLemire’s new book. pic.twitter.com/aoHshoZi7V
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) July 26, 2022
What I find surprising about this take is that Trump clearly believed that Biden was the biggest threat to his reelection; after all, that was the entire rationale for his extortion attempt against Zelenskyy. What persuaded him that he could not, in fact, lose to Biden? Was it just his overwhelming narcissism? Or was he persuaded by disinformation from the Russians or Federalist Society thugs like John Eastman and our Shiplord Kirel’s cousin Cleta Mitchell?
If you’re ever tempted to think of mittens Romney as courageous or a stand up guy, stop. https://t.co/i05USow4TT
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) July 26, 2022
re: #242 Dopamine Fish
John Fetterman is on his A game, and I am LOVING it.
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re: #194 Teddy’s Person
@MysterySolvent
What is the name of this daytime drama?As the Grift Turns
“Springtime For Hitler”
re: #245 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Outside of our local area, we’ll occasionally get nasty looks or comments when I park the Smart in a handicap space.
Somehow the haters can’t seem to equate “small car” and “handicapped wife who uses a cane.”
I also caught shit once at the Commissary at FE Warren AFB from someone in uniform. My wife was worn out from walking around the Commissary, so I walked to the car to drive it to the front of the store. Incoming asshole demanding to know why I’d parked in a handicap space and had a handicap placard when I could obviously walk.
My wife can walk pretty well for short distances, and if she has on jeans or long pants you don’t see her prosthetic right leg. We have never had anyone question us parking in the handicap spots (we do have a placard). If someone did give us shit I would invite them to let my wife take off her leg and beat them about the head and shoulders with it.
If you want a sneak peak of Mike Pence’s autobiography, read the label on a jar of mayonnaise that was used to make potato salad for a funeral pic.twitter.com/VPbP2YDh1I
— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) July 26, 2022
re: #233 Belafon
The f150, no tags, that goes from 20 to 0 in the length of the parking space, and the guy jumps out and runs into the store.
Down here those people don’t even use the parking spaces
They park in the no parking/ fire zone by the store entrance
“I only need one thing…”
re: #242 Dopamine Fish
John Fetterman is on his A game, and I am LOVING it.
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While walking with a friend and my sister yesterday, the talk turned as it often does to politics. My friend felt that unless Fetterman starts appearing on the campaign trail to be with real voters, Oz will win; my sister’s counterpoint was the fable of our Cook County Board President John Stroger who was struck down by a major stroke in the last few weeks of the primary campaign but his staff said that he would recover. My sister worked at the City Colleges and the message there was that everyone needed to vote for Stroger. He won the primary but the severity of his condition (he may have been brain dead at the time) was concealed from the public for several months; he then “withdrew” and his son took his place on the ballot. Nepotism and machine politics at its finest.
Because of Texas’ abortion ban, doctors could not terminate Elizabeth Weller’s failing pregnancy until she developed a severe infection. She eventually brought her “foul” discharge to the hospital to prove that the infection was starting to kill her. https://t.co/JP4cKD8R8v pic.twitter.com/oyTfXYgfBb
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 26, 2022
This woman was tortured. There is no other word for it. She was tortured for miscarrying a wanted pregnancy. She will carry this trauma for the rest of her life. https://t.co/Dbeh4TdqhN
— Jessica Winter (@winterjessica) July 26, 2022
re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
Brought to you by the people who call themselves “Pro-life”.
re: #237 lawhawk
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That’s the source of the virus.
The pandemic began when the health emergencies weren’t taken seriously
- You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.
- when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done
- It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows
re: #240 Dr Lizardo
Looks like Viktor Orbán has got some fallout from his recent Hitlerian rant:
A Trump advisor would’ve stayed on and written a book deploring it later.
Isn’t it crazy how Beto is traveling all over the state talking to Texans but Ted Cruz, who we actually pay a salary to, is busy grifting in other states and headlining the #QOP comedy tour.
— Nowak (@Wahrheit2020) July 26, 2022
A special needs girl in Texas whose mental capacity is the age of 6 years old, was raped inside her HS in Nov. 2021.
The school district said she gave consent by walking down the hallway with the boy. So he got 3 days suspension & a grand jury decided not to press charges.— dara faye (@darafaye) July 26, 2022
re: #260 No Malarkey!
A Trump advisor would’ve stayed on and written a book deploring it later.
Hungary probably doesn’t offer those riches to administration officials who retire from the government.
re: #263 Eclectic Cyborg
WTAF.
Sadly, there are religio-political circles where the mentally disabled are sexually fair game…
Another tidbit of local history. There is a story behind this grave. Yes, I actually went and found it.
You probably noticed that the name on the tombstone doesn’t match. That may be explained here.
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“I don’t really see what Ginny Thomas brings to the to the public awareness that we’re not already familiar with”
That’s what testimony is for ya knobhead
If you’re ever tempted to think of mittens Romney as courageous or a stand up guy, stop. https://t.co/i05USow4TT
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) July 26, 2022
re: #262 Teukka
Sounds like the 1998 episode “Damaged” from L&O; the only difference being that apparently this girl said “No”. In any case, another disgraceful action from the not-great state of Texas.
re: #230 Belafon
I only get annoyed at the people who don’t have some kind of tag on their car.
Yesterday I went to the store and there was a car parked across TWO DISABLED SPACES.
re: #262 Teukka
Chaser:
NOW I’m adding that this is not the first time @AlvinISD has mishandled allegations of rape of a special needs female student on school grounds.
In fact, the last time they also claimed that the student consented when she did not. https://t.co/WyPbEFMTkV— dara faye (@darafaye) July 26, 2022
Walmart’s market value dropped by $36 billion after shares sank by 10 percent on Tuesday morning — a day after the retail giant’s prediction that profits would fall as surging prices for food and fuel prompted customers to cut back on discretionary purchases.The $361 billion retailer saw its share price fall from $132 to $121 as the market opened on Tuesday, with it’s market value dropping to $325 billion as shares are still down by more than 7.7 percent after a small rebound by the afternoon.
Just one day prior, Walmart, a bellwether for the retail sector that caters to cost-conscious shoppers, said its full-year profit would decline 11 to 13 percent, compared to the one percent fall it previously forecasted.
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Neil Saunders, managing director of retail at GlobalData, called the warning a ‘cause for concern’ for Walmart that highlighted the pressure on retailers across the board.
‘As the country’s largest retailer, Walmart is a bellwether for the entire sector,’ he said.
‘Its downgrading of second quarter and full fiscal guidance is a cause for concern and highlights the pressure that all retailers are currently under.’
re: #269 The Pie Overlord!
Yesterday I went to the store and there was a car parked across TWO DISABLED SPACES.
That’s ironclad proof they were ‘handicapped’
re: #202 lawhawk
I can’t help but wonder if there’s a bit of racism creeping into that sentencing. Harshest sentence going to black guy while others who did the same crime got lesser sentences…
Of course that occurred to me as well.
About Ponder:
1) Sentence tied with another Capitol invader.
2) He ended up with a judge who gives harsher sentences.
3) He beat a Capitol policeman with a metal pole.
re: #229 Dangerman
some of the country maybe could claim that in ‘16
no one sentient could claim it in ‘20
What I am seeing from the 3-4 people who I know voted for Trump in 2016 and half of whom I suspect voted for Trump in 2020 is pretty much silence. They don’t wish to discuss politics at all beyond some minor carping about this or that particular sub-issue.*
For most of them I expect they will pull solid GOP ticket in 2022 and 2024 in any case. They have thoroughly convinced themselves that the Democrats are the root of all evil and only voting for Republicans is the only solution. Willful ignorance or secret approval of the nastiness coming from the various GOP officials and candidates pretty much amounts to the same thing.
* - One linked to a recent Dilbert with the new “gender identified” character and made some snarky remark about the modern workplace. Along with a group of echo chamber “me too” comments. Using Dilbert as confirmation is pretty much a monstrous strawman.
re: #233 Belafon
The f150, no tags, that goes from 20 to 0 in the length of the parking space, and the guy jumps out and runs into the store.
Seen that. Plus once one with the jacked up suspension that almost requires a stepladder to get in and out of.
re: #254 Dangerman
Down here those people don’t even use the parking spaces
They park in the no parking/ fire zone by the store entrance
“I only need one thing…”
Ah, the special snowflake parking.
I’ve seen Wegmans with a specific parking lane for picking up ordered groceries. (And have also gone into the store when a specific car is there and that car is still there when I came out 20 minutes later.)
I’ve also seen cars with no driver parked there. Implying misuse, or maybe someone gone into the store to see what the delay is.
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