And Now… “Cocaine Bear” (Official Trailer)

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Move over Sharknado, and make room for Cocaine Bear.

Clearly destined to be the movie of the year.

In cinemas soon.

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Cocaine Bear
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kristofer Hivju, Kahyun Kim, Christian Convery, Brooklynn Prince, Scott Seiss
Directed by: Elizabeth Banks
Screenplay by: Jimmy Warden
Producers: Phil Lord & Chris Miller, Aditya Sood, Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman, Brian Duffield
Executive Producer: Robin Fisichella

Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow … and blood.

Cocaine Bear stars Keri Russell (The Americans), Emmy winner Margo Martindale (The Americans), Emmy winner Ray Liotta (The Many Saints of Newark), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones), Kahyun Kim (American Gods), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project) and newcomer Scott Seiss.

Directed by Elizabeth Banks (Charlie’s Angels, Pitch Perfect 2) from a screenplay by Jimmy Warden (The Babysitter: Killer Queen), Cocaine Bear is produced by Oscar® winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. The Machines) and Aditya Sood (The Martian) for Lord Miller, by Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman (Pitch Perfect franchise) for Brownstone Productions, and by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous). Robin Fisichella (Ma) will executive produce.

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jaunte  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:35:58pm

Christine McVie, RIP.

Over & Over (2015 Remaster)

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:38:30pm

From downstairs:

re: #281 (((Archangel1)))

Bwahahahahaha!

That’s not an option. Cochise WILL certify the results. It’s just a matter of how much legal pressure has to be applied in order to get the result.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:39:43pm

Because their policies are hatred for minorities and love for the mega rich.

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EPR-radar  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:48:28pm

re: #3 Patricia Kayden

Because their policies are hatred for minorities and love for the mega rich.

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Small correction — the only “policy” the GOP has is shoveling public funds to the already rich.

GOP bigotry etc., for its establishment, is just a tool — if they could get more votes for tax cuts for the rich by dropping the bigots than by keeping them, they would do it instantly.

That’s the fault line in the GOP — Trump and his Trumpist loons and kooks are the true-believing bigots who want their hate to be the only policy the GOP has.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:48:45pm

He must be trolling

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:53:20pm

From downstairs.

re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter

As I said downstairs, if this holds, it is very bad. This case disenfranchises their voters. But if it worked, the next time the strategy would be used to disenfranchise “those people”. They don’t want Democrats to have a chance to win in a purple (or red state) and they will engage in any dishonest ploy to stop these votes from being included, as Trump repeated tried to do in the 2020 election.

The democrats are suing so republican voters are not being disenfranchised. Hobbs is leading that lawsuit.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:54:21pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:55:43pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:55:46pm

I can’t wait for the nature documentary: Cocaine Bear vs. Sharknado

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:57:47pm

This guy is in “Cocaine Bear” so it will be good.

Scott Seiss Retail TikTok Compilation FULL

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:00:56pm

“We have such good luck in nature.” LOL!

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:07:06pm

As a teacher I have a duty to warn you that the period between Thanksgiving and Winter Break is lethal for the elderly and pets.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:08:58pm

re: #289 Jay C

Why would this “work”?
Maybe I’m missing something here, but AFAIK, the Cochise County vote totals - the ones these idiots seem so hellbent reluctant to certify - would give the victory (and the House seat) to the Republican. I can sorta understand these fascists trying to disenfranchise opposition votes, but it seems a Special Kind Of Stupid to blank votes for your own side….
😳

It’s the same as the Social Security fight, or even Jim Crow. They know it will hurt their side, but they know it will hurt the other side worse. If the only thing you care about is power, then sacrificing some of your own to suppress more of the other is a winning strategy.

See also demonising LGBT+ people. Sure there are some Republican LGBT+ voters who will get murdered, but more LGBT+ people are Democrats or independents.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:12:49pm

Aww, Ray Liotta. One of his last roles, a quite funny cosmic goof.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:13:22pm

Oh I smell a RAZZIE® contender!!!!!

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:15:17pm
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jaunte  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:19:50pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:22:59pm

re: #17 jaunte

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:23:15pm
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JC1  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:24:21pm

Cocaine Bear. Some say that that’s one of Lindsay Graham’s affectionate nicknames.

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:25:48pm

Dang, I missed it.

Karma: 268,269

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:27:22pm

Another odd Kentucky-based movie is “American Animals” about some bored college kids who tried to fence original Audubon books that they stole from their Transylvania University library in Lexington in 2004.

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:27:25pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:28:08pm

re: #23 gocart mozart

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She’s fucking twisting him around her pudgy fingers.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:29:11pm
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jaunte  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:29:14pm

re: #23 gocart mozart

Dangerously pathetic.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:30:12pm

re: #23 gocart mozart

If she said “Kiss It” his only confusion would be her boot or her ass.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:32:44pm

Thought experiment about Christmas and people who don’t participate.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:33:49pm
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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:35:17pm

I like the quote, but the account doesn’t seem to exist:

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:37:22pm

Remember how, not four weeks ago, the Republicans and their presstitutes were all loudly declaring that the US was in a recession?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:37:32pm

re: #28 The Pie Overlord!

Thought experiment about Christmas and people who don’t participate.

That was an eye-opening thread. Thank you.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:38:49pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:40:48pm
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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:44:41pm
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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:45:52pm

Thread -

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:49:53pm

re: #35 gocart mozart

I sat there and I listened to his words
As they flapped around my head like little birds
Had he gone plumb ‘round the bend
Or could I just not comprehend

Austin Lounge Lizards - “Old Blevins”

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:52:34pm
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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:56:48pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:57:12pm

re: #36 ckkatz

Thread -

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Thank you. My long loathing of Frum for his involvement in the Bush administration means that I reflexively ignore him even though I know he’s not the same person and his views have changed somewhat. All good stuff to consider concerning E. Lon’s troubling connections with China and daliances with authoritarians.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:02:50pm

Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba and one of China’s richest people, had long been assumed to be under some kind of house arrest for criticizing Xi and his regulatory policies in China (with good reason as we have seen with others likd Ai Wei Wei). Jack Ma had somehow made it to Tokyo and was spotted going into exclusive clubs in Ginza; he has had a long friendship with Japanese entrepreneur Son Masayoshi and Son may be helping him. But apparently Ma has made several trips to the US from Japan as well.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:05:41pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:09:43pm
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mmmirele  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:11:13pm

Doug Ducey is out as governor in January, but he’s not going quietly.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:11:20pm

re: #40 Barefoot Grin

Thank you. My long loathing of Frum for his involvement in the Bush administration means that I reflexively ignore him even though I know he’s not the same person and his views have changed somewhat. All good stuff to consider concerning E. Lon’s troubling connections with China and daliances with authoritarians.

Thank you! I am glad that you found the posts useful.

Understanding your concerns and views regarding Frum, I try and be careful with what I post. And, if I see another tweeter who posts along the same lines, I try to go with that. So, please feel free to let me know when I over do it. (I was actually concerned this time around.)

I continue to agree with you on his policy views.

I do think that he does put truth and democracy over party politics. And I think that he is very much against the culture wars and divisiveness coming from his former colleagues.

I suspect that his speaking truth here means he is not likely to ever get invited back into the Republican party corridors of power.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:17:43pm

A Zambian, against all odds, was able to attend Medical School in Moscow. Taking a part time job as a courier, he was arrested for drug possession and sent to prison for 9 years. Then he disappeared.

Eventually, it was reported that he had been killed in Ukraine while serving with the Wagner mercenary firm.
(Thread)

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:19:20pm
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austin_blue  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:22:25pm

re: #43 Barefoot Grin

Cocaine Sow would have been appropriate. Not alpha, (Yes, bears are boars and sows).

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jaunte  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:23:26pm

30 to 50 feral cocaine hogs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:31:02pm
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garzooma  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:35:47pm

From Mastodon:

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:38:32pm

re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Captain Ron  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:41:13pm

My wife begged me to sharpen the knives. First use she cuts her thumb. This is why I procrastinate and leave them dull for as long as I can.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:46:22pm
In an extremely rare move, the Democratic-led state Assembly is preparing to vote against seating the Republican winner of an Assembly race in Brooklyn, Lester Chang, because he may not have moved into the borough one year prior to the election as required by law,” NY1 reports.

This makes no sense

Vetting them after they win

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:48:33pm

I check once a day. @teleskiguy is still suspended. If that account gets “amnesty” from the wannabe Lex Luthor then I’ll fuccken post…

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austin_blue  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:50:47pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

My wife begged me to sharpen the knives. First use she cuts her thumb. This is why I procrastinate and leave them dull for as long as I can.

I’m of two minds on this one. A dull knife cut takes longer to heal (ragged edges), but a sharp knife makes any mistake more likely to cause a cut, but it will heal faster (clean edges).

But, I’ve made a choice.

I keep all my knives as sharp as I can. First, it saves a lot of work time in the kitchen. Second, it makes me more careful.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:50:48pm

re: #54 Dangerman

This makes no sense

Vetting them after they win

I agree with you.

This has been a very weird election cycle. Oz, Walker, and now Chang. I wonder how many others were missed.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:52:10pm

Knives must be sharp to work effectively.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:53:43pm

I’ve worked with a lot of knives in my day. A sharp knife (or three) is a must when field dressing big game.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:54:42pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

My wife begged me to sharpen the knives. First use she cuts her thumb. This is why I procrastinate and leave them dull for as long as I can.

I have been very fortunate with knives and have not yet sliced myself.

However, I also have seriously been thinking about taking one of the local cooking courses on how to use knives. I also have a chainmail glove and try to only cut up/chop stuff when I am guaranteed to not be distracted.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:55:38pm

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:56:26pm

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:58:44pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

My wife begged me to sharpen the knives. First use she cuts her thumb. This is why I procrastinate and leave them dull for as long as I can.

Keeping things consistent is easier to deal with than fluctuating circumstances. Dull all the time is no good. Sharp all the time is the only way to go, unless you have enough knives and enough discipline to have two sets: the good ones and the bad ones.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:01:16pm

re: #58 teleskiguy

Knives must be sharp to work effectively.

I remember the first field-craft class I got on axes when I joined the Boy Scouts.

The very first lesson was to keep the axes sharp. Because it would take less effort to do the required work. And one therefore had more control over them. They were also less likely to bounce off the log when being swung.

The instructor also made a claim about there being less bruising on any resultant wound, helping healing. I’m still not convinced about that. But, also have not ever in the ensuing 55 years had any interest in testing that theory.

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austin_blue  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:01:20pm

re: #57 ckkatz

I agree with you.

This has been a very weird election cycle. Oz, Walker, and now Chang. I wonder how many others were missed.

I’m old enough to remember when Shrub chose RoboHeart as his running mate while he was running Halliburton and living in Dallas which should have prohibited him from running with Shrub.

This required RoboHeart to deny his Texas Residency and claim Wyoming as his home (despite the fact that Halliburton had its national HQ in Big D and Texas had no income tax and RoboHeart took a huge haircut for changing his state-of-residence). He took one for the team, and we got Iraq 2.

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retired cynic  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:02:38pm

re: #62 Dangerman

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austin_blue  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:03:05pm

re: #60 ckkatz

I have been very fortunate with knives and have not yet sliced myself.

However, I also have seriously been thinking about taking one of the local cooking courses on how to use knives. I also have a chainmail glove and try to only cut up/chop stuff when I am guaranteed to not be distracted.

Every butcher uses mail gloves.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:03:45pm

re: #56 austin_blue

I’m of two minds on this one. A dull knife cut takes longer to heal (ragged edges), but a sharp knife makes any mistake more likely to cause a cut, but it will heal faster (clean edges).

But, I’ve made a choice.

I keep all my knives as sharp as I can. First, it saves a lot of work time in the kitchen. Second, it makes me more careful.

I stay away from knives. Safer that way.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:04:17pm

I liked Twitter. It was me screaming into the void and sometimes people listened. @teleskiguy had all sorts of “blue checks” in the “Following” list. Pro skiers, comedians, journalists, musicians, scientists, poets, the Governor of Colorado…

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:06:30pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

I liked Twitter. It was me screaming into the void and sometimes people listened. @teleskiguy had all sorts of “blue checks” in the “Following” list. Pro skiers, comedians, journalists, musicians, scientists, poets, the Governor of Colorado…

I went there and looked at the bollards today.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:09:10pm

re: #70 wrenchwench

I went there and looked at the bollards today.

Ah yes, those noble obstructionists…

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:11:23pm

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austin_blue  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:11:59pm

re: #61 Dangerman

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I understand your desire for 50’s ad agency kitsch, but anyone who wanted to sell a personal watercraft, and given a choice between a “boatercycle” and “jetski”. is going to go with #2 every fucking time.

In the early 60’s, Ski-Doos were marketed as “Petrol-powered Snow Scooters” in Canada. They didn’t sell worth a lick originally in the US until they changed the name.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:15:22pm

re: #73 austin_blue

Ski-Doo™, a Bombardier brand…

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austin_blue  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:15:27pm

re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I stay away from knives. Safer that way.

What, you just go all Gallagher when staring down an onion for spaghetti sauce?

That’ll show that tuber!

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:18:11pm

re: #75 austin_blue

Don’t Slay That Potato

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austin_blue  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:25:47pm

re: #76 ckkatz

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I’ve always found that clip disturbingly disturbing.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:25:57pm

Quick question for the many cooks here.

I have some stew meat that I plan to make into “Beef Tips and Gravy” in my pressure cooker.

I know little about making various gravies. In the interest of shortening the learning cycle and helping ensure that the result is edible (don’t ask…) Any suggestions on how to make the gravy?

(Potatoes are unlikely to be slain in this scenario.)

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austin_blue  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:34:53pm

re: #78 ckkatz

Quick question for the many cooks here.

I have some stew meat that I plan to make into “Beef Tips and Gravy” in my pressure cooker.

I know little about making various gravies. In the interest of shortening the learning cycle and helping ensure that the result is edible (don’t ask…) Any suggestions on how to make the gravy?

Use beef that has a fair amount of fat on it, coat in flour and slow fry in a dutch oven with a neutral oil or butter at a low temperature to render the fat out of the beef. Remove the beef to a plate. Add a little more butter/oil, an equal amount of flour, add water and whisk like crazy under moderate heat. You are basically making a thin roux (gravy), the basis of all Cajun cooking. The gravy can be cooked down to remove liquid and darken it for a real roux.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:35:56pm

Things happening around the Democratic Party -

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jaunte  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:41:04pm
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austin_blue  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:42:37pm

And good night all, sweet scaly dreams!

May your day tomorrow be as good as the best of your yesterdays.

Oh, high of 84º yesterday, 56º today. Texas weather.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:50:50pm

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jaunte  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:05:42pm
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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:24:04pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:24:33pm
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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:26:38pm

For me, that’s a nope…

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Captain Ron  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:27:48pm

re: #87 ckkatz

Have they even been tested on animals?

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retired cynic  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:28:37pm

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not really sure how much good that is going to do anyone, but I am sure corn farmers will be eager for it.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:32:39pm

re: #88 Captain Ron

Well, sort of…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:38:29pm

re: #89 retired cynic

Not really sure how much good that is going to do anyone, but I am sure corn farmers will be eager for it.

It will also help oil companies trying to stave off adoption of electric cars.

That was the same reason our state governor misused state lotto funds to buy ethanol blenders for gas stations in California (after California announced their plan to phase out gasoline car sales), and in Nebraska for new gas station builds.

The Nebraska Lotto funds the state Environmental Trust. That fund is only supposed to be used for state conservation projects (and every county in the state has benefited from grants by the state lotto).

The ethanol blender grants were handed out at the same time grants were rejected for recycling plants across the state. State Senator John McCollister (R) sought information on how the ethanol pump grants were approved as “conservation” and the Friends of the Nebraska Environmental Trust has sued in state court to stop the purchases.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:40:47pm

Well, I’ll probably get a formal invitation to this, as I did for Gov. Ricketts and for the second term of Gov. Heineman.

I presume I won’t be going.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:42:46pm

re: #90 ckkatz

This discussion reminded me of this photoshop:

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:44:53pm

re: #87 ckkatz

For me, that’s a nope…

Uh no thanks, I’ll pass on the brain chips and stick with…Fritos…

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:47:14pm

re: #87 ckkatz

I would eventually like a math coprocessor, but not from him.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:50:15pm

And probably unrelated to the above chip story…

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:50:32pm

Chip in my brain? You got to be kidding. Everything that is electronic can be hacked. No. Never.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:51:00pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:51:20pm

For comparison, we have twelve female state senators out of forty-nine total.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:54:37pm

The google doodle today (thursday in NY) is dedicated to Jerry Lawson. Mr. Lawson an African american was one of the first video game developers. Of course the link is playable and you can edit the (rather crude by today’s standards) games.

I had no idea who Lawson was until about three minutes ago. go google.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:56:11pm
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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:07:34pm

Thread on Chinese surveillance and control of the population:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:09:57pm

re: #101 ckkatz

LOL Conservative governance in a nutshell.

Also LOL in the comments.

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EstebanTornado1963  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:14:33pm

38% of America is beyond saving

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:15:15pm

3 for Friday’s wordle

Click to Reveal

Wordle 530 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

once again — I used the first word that came to mind, and totally overlooked a valid alternative — and rewarded with success.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:18:23pm

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LOL Conservative governance in a nutshell.

Also LOL in the comments.

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That shameless lying and gaslighting matches that of the GOP.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:19:05pm

Combat Geeks!

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:21:08pm
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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:22:02pm

I would suspect that this includes the North Sea gas fields..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:22:21pm

Thread, ten tweets, an international study conducted in the Republic of Ireland.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:22:37pm
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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:23:37pm

re: #107 ckkatz

Combat Geeks!

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The nice thing is this means the US is actually thinking about the next war, and not just the last one.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:33:27pm

re: #112 Belafon

The nice thing is this means the US is actually thinking about the next war, and not just the last one.

Yes!

Additionally it may have helped the Ukrainians successfully fend off the Russian attacks. I had been wondering why the vaunted Russian cyber attacks had fizzled so badly. I had assumed that a lot was simply due to wartime censorship. And possibly some redundancy in the infrastructure. But, after reading about fiascos created by the Russians for the past 20 years, it is fascinating (and relieving) to see how professional we are.

Also interesting are the comments in the article about how important it was to be trusted by the Ukrainians in order to help defend their most sensitive systems. Not many countries would be trusted to be honest brokers.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:42:18pm

ROC - Russian Orthodox Church

Most countries have been shedding their State run Church as they democratize. Putin has been going all in with it.

Also, most of the US founding fathers served in the French and Indian War. And were well aware of the conflicts associated with a French State Religion of Catholicism and an English State Religion of the Anglican Church. This experience played a major role in the US Constitution’s Freedom of Religion clause. Plus the hope that the US could convince the French Canadians to align with the US. (And it worked until the US was driven out of Canada by perfectly timed British Reinforcements.)

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:43:26pm

Note - The link in the tweet is _not_ working. Here is another link:

FTX Was Not Regulated: John Reed Stark

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:45:40pm

re: #115 ckkatz

Keep getting this message: “This video is private.”

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:49:28pm

re: #116 I Would Prefer Not To

Keep getting this message: “This video is private.”

I gave up after the first one.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:54:10pm

re: #116 I Would Prefer Not To

re: #117 wrenchwench

Ouch! I’m sorry. I had watched it earlier today and it had worked.

Here is another copy of the same video. It’s working for me right now. Let me know if it works for you.

FTX Was Not Regulated: John Reed Stark

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:56:17pm

re: #118 ckkatz

It’s working, thanks.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:57:50pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:58:51pm

re: #118 ckkatz

It’s working.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:02:21pm

re: #119 wrenchwench

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Great!

Stark yells more than I would like, but I guess that is just part of the game on these shows. But in his yelling, he makes what I believe to be important points.

Among them, that none of this stuff is regulated and none of it can be trusted to be honest.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:04:17pm

.

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retired cynic  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:05:42pm

re: #118 ckkatz

I’m on that guy’s side, but I have never seen a more aggressive gish gallop! LOL!

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:06:00pm
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Nyet  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:06:01pm

re: #114 ckkatz

The Orthodox Church in Ukraine has two factions: one that is Ukraine-aligned, and a Moscow-backed faction that’s basically a division of the FSB (as is ROC generally in Russia). Some details.

Troy is clueless. It’s not “the Orthodox Church”, it’s two different churches. The Ukrainian church formally under the Moscow Patriarchate has actually distanced itself from Moscow, even though they cannot sever the ties on their own for purely religious reasons (they would become schismatics and thus “not a true church”, if they did this; that’s why the Patriarch Bartholomew’s tomos was so important - you don’t get to simply create your own Orthodox church, there’s a hierarchy). The notion that it’s a “division of the FSB” is based on nothing.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:12:19pm

re: #126 Nyet

Troy is clueless. It’s not “the Orthodox Church”, it’s two different churches. The Moscow Patriarchate church has actually distanced itself from Moscow, even though they cannot sever the ties on their own for purely religious reasons (they would become schismatics and thus “not a true church”, if they did this; that’s why the Patriarch Bartholomew’s tomos was so important - you don’t get to simply create your own Orthodox church, there’s a hierarchy). The notion that it’s a “division of the FSB” is based on nothing.

What are your thoughts on the underlying Kyiv Independent article?

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:13:08pm

re: #122 ckkatz

Great!

Stark yells more than I would like, but I guess that is just part of the game on these shows. But in his yelling, he makes what I believe to be important points.

Among them, that none of this stuff is regulated and none of it can be trusted to be honest.

Regulating money is an important part of government power. I took a peak into that world in early days of the modern Tea Party and their hatred of the Federal Reserve. And love for the Gold Standard.

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Nyet  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:15:34pm

re: #127 ckkatz

Seems like straight reporting to me.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:16:30pm

re: #97 I Would Prefer Not To

Chip in my brain? You got to be kidding. Everything that is electronic can be hacked. No. Never.

I’ve seen Ghost in the Shell. That’s a big “nope” from me.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:18:39pm

re: #128 wrenchwench

Regulating money is an important part of government power. I took a peak into that world in early days of the modern Tea Party and their hatred of the Federal Reserve. And love for the Gold Standard.

Yes!

As I understand it, regulation and the transparency it provides is a major positive factor in why the world uses the US system.

Some historians have traced the worship of the gold standard all the way back to opposing FDR’s New Deal.

And, of course, there are those who want to take control of the financial systems away from the government. Presumably because they could get a lot of power and money by controlling those systems.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:19:52pm

Wholly crap, there are a bunch of brainwashed morans in this thread.

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ckkatz  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:22:21pm

re: #129 Nyet

Seems like straight reporting to me.

Appreciate your insight!

I certainly lack the up close and personal familiarity with the region, culture, institutions, etc. that you can bring.

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Nyet  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:25:56pm

Kyiv Independent seems like an OK news outlet in general.

What one should beware of is Kyiv Post.

kyivpost.com

In other words, despite what the international media may say, according to German law, and Israeli and American law for that matter, Demjanjuk was never found guilty of any crime. His long nightmare is finally over. At long last he can now rest in peace.

kyivpost.com

[Demjanjuk] will be buried a survivor of Soviet and German persecution, an innocent and free man who loved life and whose path was not guided by his free will but by the strength God provided him to survive his journey home. His positive, caring nature and practical influence will be deeply missed and fondly remembered by all who came to personally know him.”

kyivpost.com

I do consider him a martyr. He was a victim of German cruelty, Russian perjury, American irresponsibility at the very least and possibly criminality, and the immorality of the Jewish-Holocaust industry. Certainly he has gone to a better place where the judge is not beholden to anyone, where therefore justice is even-handed, and Demjanjuk should be rewarded for his egregious suffering.

I am proud to have known him.

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Nyet  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:30:21pm

re: #133 ckkatz

People like Troy often take true elements and weave them into something that is not warranted by the original information. For example, the ROC is certainly cozy with the FSB; it is, after all, a Russian power structure. That does not necessarily transfer onto the Ukrainian church, despite the umbilical cord tying them. From the first days of the war the UOC-MP was officially on the Ukrainian side. Which is not to say that particular priests of the UOC-MP are not troublesome (as the searches have confirmed, albeit it had been known before them), but there’s a world of difference between pro-Russian inertia here and there and the whole church being a division of the FSB.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:30:37pm

re: #118 ckkatz

Ouch! I’m sorry. I had watched it earlier today and it had worked.

Here is another copy of the same video. It’s working for me right now. Let me know if it works for you.

[Embedded content]

Video

works. thanks

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:46:07pm

It’s almost time for my next Wordle, so I gotta post my last one again before it disappears forever. I’ll never see one like this again.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 529 2/6*

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:50:29pm

The image is followed by a thread of text relating the same information. Trolls are once again increasing on Twitter trying to trigger seizures in people with epilepsy for LOLs or to drive them off Twitter.

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Moe Avattar  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:50:47pm

re: #87 ckkatz

The President’s Analyst - The Phone Company

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:51:21pm

Ain’t it peculiar that every time I read about a kiddie fiddler, it’s always the ones who scream the loudest about “grooming” or “adrenochrome” or “OMG TEH DRAG QUEENS ARE READING TO OUR KIDS!!”….

QANON LEADER PHIL Godlewski accidentally outed himself as an alleged child predator after filing a defamation lawsuit against a local paper that exposed old court records to public scrutiny, according to a report from The Daily Beast. Despite Godlewski and QAnon’s obsessive fixation with pedophile cabals running the government, it seems in this case the call is coming from inside the house.

In 2010, Godlewski was charged as a result of his relationship with a 15-year-old girl, identified in records as “B.D.” According to police records and testimony from the victim, Godlewski began a sexual relationship with the girl in 2008, when Godlewski was 25 and working as a high school basketball coach near Scranton, Pennsylvania. B.D. reportedly stopped cooperating with law enforcement after Godlewski threatened suicide, and Godlewski ultimately pleaded guilty to charges of “corruption of a minor,” and served three months of house arrest.

By 2021, Godlewski had established himself as a major figure within the QAnon world, and was raking in cash hawking multi-level marketing schemes to his hundreds of thousands of followers. Godlewski reportedly purchased a $1.7 mansion using the funds this year.

After the Scranton Times-Tribune published a profile of Godlewski in 2021, Godlewski sued the paper, accusing B.D’s mother of fabricating the allegations in a financial ploy and calling the victim a “conniving” fraud. The accusations prompted B.D., now an adult, and her family to further cooperate with the Times-Tribune’s response to the suit. This cooperation, as the Daily Beast reported, has exposed further details of Godlewski’s misconduct.

rollingstone.com

Like the old adage goes, the thief shouts “Catch the thief!” louder than everyone else.

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Nyet  Nov 30, 2022 • 11:59:28pm

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

These folks sometimes think that doing that to girls is a very different thing than doing it to boys. The now dead Tesak, a neo-Nazi “gay pedo hunter”, more or less openly stated this as his philosophy.

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ckkatz  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:03:29am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:03:32am

re: #141 Nyet

These folks sometimes think that doing that to girls is a very different thing than doing it to boys. The now dead Tesak, a neo-Nazi “gay pedo hunter”, more or less openly stated this as his philosophy.

Aren’t there doubts about his death being ruled a suicide? To be honest, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he took his own life - but likewise, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he was bumped off.

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ckkatz  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:08:43am

Database breaking down?

I wouldn’t think that twitter has the staff to deliberately break the links.

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Nyet  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:16:16am

re: #143 Dr Lizardo

Aren’t there doubts about his death being ruled a suicide? To be honest, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he took his own life - but likewise, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he was bumped off.

Yeah, no idea. Certainly a strange death.

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ericblair  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:17:56am

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Sorry to inform you, but your algorithm’s recommendations are shit.

Twitter ads for me were always weird, probably because I never post, but have gotten weirder. I got a whole sequence of travel ads for Chinese hick towns in the middle of nowhere, and also bizarre philosophical statements from randos.

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ckkatz  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:22:08am

WTF?!?

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ckkatz  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:34:27am

Well, I’m off to bed. G’Nite all!

And for the Dad joke -

I had a dream the ocean was filled with orange soda.
It was a Fanta Sea.

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Captain Ron  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:35:49am

re: #146 ericblair

Twitter ads for me were always weird, probably because I never post, but have gotten weirder. I got a whole sequence of travel ads for Chinese hick towns in the middle of nowhere, and also bizarre philosophical statements from randos.

I never saw ad posts in somebody’s post timeline until yesterday hopefully adblock will have an update.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:40:29am

2022 has been quite the year for bringing resolutions to long-unsolved mysteries:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:41:02am

Who is this idiot?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 12:53:14am

re: #147 ckkatz

WTF?!?

This has been a thing for a long time.

Internet wages war on controversial ‘Peace on Earth’ family portrait (Photography Magazine, December 16, 2015)

Hannah Hawkes Photography has come under fire after sharing an image from a recent family portrait session. The photo, seen below, displays a mother and, presumably, her two daughters with green duct tape covering their mouths and a smiling father holding a framed ‘Peace on Earth’ sign while what is presumed to be the couple’s son raises his fist on the side.

For those unaware of the issue people had with the photo, social justice seekers across the web were disgusted, even ‘revolt[ed],’ that the family portrait depicted the females of the family as a patriarchal insult that women shouldn’t have a voice - or if they are to have one, it should be silent for the greater good of the men/boys in the family.

While it’s not clear where the criticism of the image started, or who it was first pointed out by, it didn’t take long for the image to spread across social media. Within a day, Facebook had removed the image, the Hannah Hawkes Photography Facebook fan page was deleted and hundreds of people had shared the photo - and their thoughts - across the web.

(more at the link)

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2022 • 1:07:23am

re: #137 wrenchwench

It’s almost time for my next Wordle, so I gotta post my last one again before it disappears forever. I’ll never see one like this again.

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Mine today is just a regular 4/6

Click to Reveal

Wordle 530 4/6

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 1:19:43am

re: #3 Patricia Kayden

The major problem with all these post-disappointment post-mortems is that they elide the real reason why Republicans lose elections: their policies are resoundingly unpopular.

the xenophobic, screw-the-poor, tax-breaks-for-the-rich policies go over fine, but tampering with abortion was a Bridge Too Far

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 1:20:32am

Well, the new day started a couple hours ago here in Mythical Time, so let’s see what Wordle has in store.

Wordle 530 X/6

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Fail, let’s go failing, failing away.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 1:23:32am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 1:53:54am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 2:02:00am

Naturopath who sold fake vaccine cards gets nearly 3 years (Associated Press, November 30, 2022)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A naturopathic doctor who sold fake COVID-19 immunization treatments and fraudulent vaccination cards during the height of the coronavirus pandemic was sentenced in California on Tuesday to nearly three years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

Juli A. Mazi pleaded guilty last April in federal court in San Francisco to one count of wire fraud and one count of false statements related to health care matters.

During Tuesday’s hearing, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer handed down a sentence of 33 months, according to Joshua Stueve, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mazi, of Napa, did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email seeking comment. She was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on or before January 6, 2023.

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sagehen  Dec 1, 2022 • 2:41:06am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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they did this more than a year and a half ago; I guess they’ve run out of the submissions from then.

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TarHellion  Dec 1, 2022 • 2:55:26am

Gimme a par and scamper away to the next one. Now in the drive to and from the office in the dark phase. Happy December!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 530 4/6*

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 3:07:19am

re: #159 sagehen

they did this more than a year and a half ago; I guess they’ve run out of the submissions from then.

I am not on T or I would suggest #OrangeJuliusRosenberg

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 3:12:54am

After a long string of twodles and threedles, today, normalcy has been restored.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 530 4/6

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 1, 2022 • 3:16:27am

3 for me.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 3:29:25am

In which Stephen Miller is, predictably, a dumbass. (Spoilers, Mike: Stephen’s not that stupid. He undoubtedly knows how gay couples work. He’s just trolling for assholes.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 3:30:15am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am not on T or I would suggest #OrangeJuliusRosenberg

I like OrangeCaligula, TraitorTot, and FloridaMan.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 3:32:55am

re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

SippyCupCaligula was one of my recent favorites, and of course, the old school TangerineWankmaggot always appealed to me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:04:37am

Mike Dunford: Stephen doesn’t get biology.

He also doesn’t get XIX Century technology.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:05:39am

re: #166 Dopamine Fish

SippyCupCaligula was one of my recent favorites, and of course, the old school TangerineWankmaggot always appealed to me.

I reserve SippyCup for SE Cupp.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:08:37am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Mike Dunford: Stephen doesn’t get biology.

He also doesn’t get XIX Century technology.

I’m also trying to think, wasn’t Stephen Miller one of the assholes who said that adopted kids aren’t really your kids?

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sagehen  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:12:04am

don’t know if it was him, but whoever it was… it didn’t land well with Chief Justice John Roberts, whose children are adopted.

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:14:21am
Trump has been taken aback by the backlash and maintained that the controversy over his Mar-a-Lago dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and the rapper Ye, who has been vocally spouting antisemitic conspiracy theories, would blow over.”

It’s no big deal
What did I do wrong
It’s never my fault

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:15:27am

re: #171 Dangerman

It’s no big deal
What did I do wrong
It’s never my fault

I mean, he’s not wrong. The furor will die down eventually. It’s not going to do any lasting damage to his chances at re-attaining the presidency. Mostly because any idiot dumb enough to vote for him is going to vote for him even if he literally goes out and shoots someone in the streets of West Palm Beach.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:16:28am

re: #169 Dopamine Fish

I’m also trying to think, wasn’t Stephen Miller one of the assholes who said that adopted kids aren’t really your kids?

I don’t know. I don’t have the DOD “Asshole playing card deck.” It’s hard to keep my wingnuts straight without one.

There are a whole lot of people in that thread on the “kids need a mommy and daddy” (ignoring all of us who did not have that), claims (all religious) that marriage is between a man and a woman (never mind what the Bible says about it, nor the Catholic Church’s rites for same-sex marriage in the first thousand years or so of Christianity).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:20:47am

Marco Rubio Lashes Out Against Passage of Same-Sex Marriage Bill After His Attempt to Create Special Religious Rights Fails (New Civil Rights Movement, November 30, 2022)

Wholly shyte, I really don’t care what LGBT+ people do or don’t do with their relationships: It has absolutely no effect on my marriage. (Though to be fair, a metric fuquetonne of Christians do not believe I am married either, despite the paper from Colorado saying I am, because it wasn’t blessed by some religious group.)

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) lashed out with a Bible verse Wednesday morning, after the Senate passed legislation protecting same-sex and interracial marriage, while rejecting his attempt to infuse special religious rights through an amendment that even some Republicans refused to support.

The Respect for Marriage Act, which passed in a 61-36 vote Tuesday evening, will return to the House for a final vote before heading to President Joe Biden, who promised to sign it into law. Not included in the bill the Senate passed is Senator Rubio’s amendment, which he claimed was necessary despite the clear religious protections included in the legislation.

The bill goes to great lengths to state it will have no impact on current religious liberty protections. Section 6 is actually titled, “No Impact on Religious Liberty and Conscience.”

It states: “Nothing in this Act, or any amendment made by this Act, shall be construed to diminish or abrogate a religious liberty or conscience protection otherwise available to an individual or organization under the Constitution of the United States or Federal law.”

It goes even further.

(more at the link)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:22:28am

Here’s Sen. Marco Rubio’s Biblical Marriage (tm):

Biblical Marriage
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:22:56am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t know. I don’t have the DOD “Asshole playing card deck.” It’s hard to keep my wingnuts straight without one.

There are a whole lot of people in that thread on the “kids need a mommy and daddy” (ignoring all of us who did not have that), claims (all religious) that marriage is between a man and a woman (never mind what the Bible says about it, nor the Catholic Church’s rites for same-sex marriage in the first thousand years or so of Christianity).

Religious claims are, or should be, beside the point. I know what you’re going to say in response to this, but in my opinion, Dominionism is strictly antithetical to the message of the Gospel. The way I read the book, Jesus did not preach a message that tells Christians to implement His guidelines for life by means of state power, or force. We don’t have to be a Christian nation to receive God’s blessing, we just have to be good people and show people Christians aren’t assholes. (At which we are definitely failing, but I mildly digress.) All this bickering about “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” misses the mark; the Church is allowed to care, or not, about the gender identity of marriage. The State is strictly not.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:29:27am

re: #176 Dopamine Fish

Religious claims are, or should be, beside the point. I know what you’re going to say in response to this, but in my opinion, Dominionism is strictly antithetical to the message of the Gospel. The way I read the book, Jesus did not preach a message that tells Christians to implement His guidelines for life by means of state power, or force. We don’t have to be a Christian nation to receive God’s blessing, we just have to be good people and show people Christians aren’t assholes. (At which we are definitely failing, but I mildly digress.) All this bickering about “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” misses the mark; the Church is allowed to care, or not, about the gender identity of marriage. The State is strictly not.

I’m not going to say anything to it. I don’t get to decide who is a real Christian.

Sen. Rubio is sure getting dragged on his tweet about this though.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 4:34:18am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One could read the quote from Psalms as Sen. Rubio calling his supporters “simple.”

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:01:21am

re: #29 Charles Johnson

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:05:55am
Herschel Walker, facing new controversy, insists, ‘I’m a resident of Georgia’”

— Fox News

phew!

glad that’s settled.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:09:32am

re: #164 Dopamine Fish

In which Stephen Miller is, predictably, a dumbass. (Spoilers, Mike: Stephen’s not that stupid. He undoubtedly knows how gay couples work. He’s just trolling for assholes.)

It’s called science Stephen. You should read up on it.

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:17:46am

re: #176 Dopamine Fish

Religious claims are, or should be, beside the point. I know what you’re going to say in response to this, but in my opinion, Dominionism is strictly antithetical to the message of the Gospel. The way I read the book, Jesus did not preach a message that tells Christians to implement His guidelines for life by means of state power, or force. We don’t have to be a Christian nation to receive God’s blessing, we just have to be good people and show people Christians aren’t assholes. (At which we are definitely failing, but I mildly digress.) All this bickering about “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” misses the mark; the Church is allowed to care, or not, about the gender identity of marriage. The State is strictly not.

down in one.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:33:28am

By the way, on Nick Adams (Alpha Male TM), the man who came up with the idea of “alpha males” by studying wolves in zoos is one Kevin MacDonald.

Aside from his published studies and book being debunked, MacDonald is a virulent antisemite and frequent darling of American Nazis.

In 1983, with a study published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, Kevin MacDonald of the University of Connecticut examined the importance of group stability in the development of wolf pups. MacDonald wanted to know more about how individual behavioral characteristics in wol pups changed over time as they integrated into pack society, and to what extent those changes were affected by endogenous processes or environmental factors. His research was conducted on a litter born in May 1977 at the University of Connecticut, and which consisted of seven males and one female. (The parents were obtained from a zoo.) Two of the males died within weeks of birth, and the female was removed, leaving five subjects for the experiments MacDonald conducted.

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The Importance of the Pack in Wolf Pup Development (Wolfology, 2002)

MacDonald headed to graduate school at the University of Connecticut, earning a master’s in biology in 1977, at the age of 33. In 1981, he received his Ph.D. in biobehavioral sciences from the same university. While in Connecticut, MacDonald studied the behavior of wolves, particularly wolf-cub interaction. MacDonald’s academic career was sailing nicely along and he joined the psychology faculty at California State University, Long Beach, (CSULB) where he won a Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Award in 1995. But MacDonald’s anti-war experiences haunted him, and he later told New Times LA journalist Tony Ortega that he had come to realize that that was when his fixation on Jews developed. Noticing that many of his fellow activists in the 1960s were Jewish, MacDonald developed his first inkling that Jews are compelled to challenge traditional American and Western ideals. He came to the conclusion that Jews take over political and cultural movements and front them with unsuspecting, token gentiles — just the way MacDonald felt that he was treated while protesting the Vietnam War.

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Kevin MacDonald (Hatewatch at the Southern Poverty Law Center)

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:34:35am

re: #183 lawhawk

Appeals court rejects Biden bid to restore student loan relief plan.

It’s the Fifth Circuit. We expected this.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:36:34am

Ugh. Judicial review is a fine concept, but a single federal judge should not be able to singlehandedly halt the operation of the entire federal government just because they say so. Now, I understand; the problem here is that activist judges are using extraordinary remedies (injunctions) where they aren’t called for under the circumstances. But the fact is, they have the power to unilaterally decide that an injunction is proper, and no one can check them on it except Alito’s Calvinball Court. That feels wrong. I don’t know what the right answer is, but something has to change.

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:38:33am
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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:41:44am

Cant we just give him an honorary Senate card?
he will be happy. He can tell all those who are important to him for the moment that he is in the Senate, they will believe him, and everyone is a winner.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:42:30am

re: #172 Dopamine Fish

…any idiot dumb enough to vote for [DT] is going to vote for him even if he literally goes out and shoots someone in the streets of West Palm Beach.

If he shoots a pregnant woman and her dog, they will out explaining how this person (and her pet and embryo) were such an imminent threat to the safety and well-being of the USA that he should be awarded with a Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic deed.

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:43:12am

re: #186 Dopamine Fish

Ugh. Judicial review is a fine concept, but a single federal judge should not be able to singlehandedly halt the operation of the entire federal government just because they say so. Now, I understand; the problem here is that activist judges are using extraordinary remedies (injunctions) where they aren’t called for under the circumstances. But the fact is, they have the power to unilaterally decide that an injunction is proper, and no one can check them on it except Alito’s Calvinball Court. That feels wrong. I don’t know what the right answer is, but something has to change.

Some on SCOTUS actually want to limit forum shopping so that you can’t just go to the friendly judge willing to grant every requested relief no matter what statutes or caselaw states are allowed.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:44:09am

re: #190 lawhawk

Some on SCOTUS actually want to limit forum shopping so that you can’t just go to the friendly judge willing to grant every requested relief no matter what statutes or caselaw states are allowed.

I think that’s the most important thing. Ostensibly, a judge is supposed to decide if their court is the appropriate forum for the case, but these judges invent excuses to hear their pet causes (see, e.g., Judge Loose Cannon and the special master).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:44:14am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul. The decree of the LORD is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple.

“And the GOP are the ultimate arbiters of how to implement the Law of the LORD!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:48:17am

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

More on Prof. MacDonald (he’s still employed in the California university system): He’s the guy who testified as an expert witness on behalf of notorious Holocaust denier David Irving’s libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books, claiming she defamed him (Irving lost).

He sent a shock through evolutionary psychology academia. Across the USA, he was condemned for trying to tie antisemitism to evolutionary strategies for survival. Somehow all these academics who’d praised his work in evolutionary psychology in the past missed his magnum opus three-volume book where he expounded on the idea that Jews, who are a minority in every society, developed an evolutionary strategy of working together to subvert, undermine, and conquer every society which allows them to freely practice their religion. One argument he makes in that series is that societies should adopt punitive tax strategies against Jews to prevent them from taking over a nation’s economic system.

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Jay C  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:49:38am

re: #190 lawhawk

Some on SCOTUS actually want to limit forum shopping so that you can’t just go to the friendly judge willing to grant every requested relief no matter what statutes or caselaw states are allowed.

Enough of them to actually (possibly) do anything about it?

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garzooma  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:50:01am

re: #166 Dopamine Fish

SippyCupCaligula was one of my recent favorites, and of course, the old school TangerineWankmaggot always appealed to me.

BenedictDonald

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:50:54am

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One argument he makes in that series is that societies should adopt punitive tax strategies against Jews to prevent them from taking over a nation’s economic system.

A temporary fix, but not the Final Solution…

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 5:51:03am

I’d forgotten about this

The 1924 law that Neal used to acquire the returns also allows the chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, currently Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) to have them. So, one option for Neal would be to hand over his prize to the Senator, who would then have 2 years to work with them, as opposed to 4 weeks. We’ll see what Neal decides, and whether a copy of the returns somehow finds its way into the hands of Maggie Haberman at The New York Times. (Z)

Link

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:02:42am

re: #172 Dopamine Fish

I mean, he’s not wrong. The furor will die down eventually. It’s not going to do any lasting damage to his chances at re-attaining the presidency. Mostly because any idiot dumb enough to vote for him is going to vote for him even if he literally goes out and shoots someone in the streets of West Palm Beach.

Since it’s a cult, it doesn’t really matter. He may win the primary (IF he runs which I’m betting he won’t), but he’ll never win the general. Not now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:09:35am

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

A temporary fix, but not the Final Solution…

The California state university system passed three resolutions affirming his right to academic freedom and refusing to remove his tenure from the university system. He continues to teach to this day on evolutionary psychology, though he was removed from teaching a class on child development.

California’s university system continues to coddle an open Nazi. He was exposed as a member of the American Third Position Party (fascists), praised Aders Brevik (though he noted the revulsion of killing children might set back the white nationalist cause), founded The Occidental Review (a Holocaust-denying magazine which praises white supremacy), and promotes a constitutional amendment dubbed the Pace Amendment which would repeal Amendments 14 and 15.

Yet California won’t fire him, citing academic freedom.

That proposed amendment reads:

“No person shall be a citizen of the United States unless he is a non-Hispanic white of the European race, in whom there is no ascertainable trace of Negro blood, nor more than one-eighth Mongolian, Asian, Asia Minor, Middle Eastern, Semitic, Near Eastern, American Indian, Malay or other non-European or non-white blood, provided that Hispanic whites, defined as anyone with an Hispanic ancestor, may be citizens if, in addition to meeting the aforesaid ascertainable trace and percentage tests, they are in appearance indistinguishable from Americans whose ancestral home is in the British Isles or Northwestern Europe. Only citizens shall have the right and privilege to reside permanently in the United States.”

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jeffreyw  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:14:41am

Breakfast Pr0n

Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:20:45am

On the issue of Wolf Guy still working for the State of California, WTF? Even my right-wing state immediately fires open Nazis when they are found in the state government or university system.

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mmmirele  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:23:41am

Heckuva thing to wake up to, seriously.

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Belafon  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:24:05am
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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:24:08am

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sagehen  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:24:52am

re: #199 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yet California won’t fire him, citing academic freedom.

Devil’s advocate here, but… would it be proper to revoke tenure “just because” a prof’s research and publications are repulsive? How is that different than what DeSantis is trying to do to University of Florida professors?

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:34:44am

re: #205 sagehen

Devil’s advocate here, but… would it be proper to revoke tenure “just because” a prof’s research and publications are repulsive? How is that different than what DeSantis is trying to do to University of Florida professors?

I think the problem is that the professor is an antisemite outside of his professional capacity, and that his research appears to have been misled by his personal beliefs. The latter, especially, seems like it could be grounds for revoking tenure. Researchers who don’t do proper research shouldn’t be in positions to continue to do improper research.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:43:02am

Libertarian free speech guy Elon Musk has restored virulent antisemite and open Nazi Jared Taylor of American Renaissance to Twitter.

As of yet he has not posted a tweet.

Twitter account of Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor (Southern Poverty Law Center)

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Jay C  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:43:56am

re: #205 sagehen

Devil’s advocate here, but… would it be proper to revoke tenure “just because” a prof’s research and publications are repulsive? How is that different than what DeSantis is trying to do to University of Florida professors?

This.
Disgusting as Prof. McDonald’s views/politics/proposals might be, it’s still an unpleasantly slippery slope to get started on to make them the main(sole?) reason to fire him. It’s unfortunately reminiscent of ‘60s-era attempts to boot academics for “teaching Communism/Marxism” - I.e., fostering any critique of American ideology or policy.
The U of C system survived even though there were the occasional Marxists on the faculty- it’ll survive a Kevin McDonald.

That said, though, this asshole should be called out (repeatedly and vigorously) over his racist and antisemitic BS. Academic Tenure should be a shield against unwarranted firing: not an immunity from criticism.

ETA: what DF said @ #206

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:45:25am
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Florida Panhandler  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:45:52am

re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Libertarian free speech guy Elon Musk has restored virulent antisemite and open Nazi Jared Taylor of American Renaissance to Twitter.

As of yet he has not posted a tweet.

Twitter account of Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor (Southern Poverty Law Center)

It’s been about 9 months since I cancelled my Cybertruck and 6 months since I got my deposit back. It’s been about a month since I deleted my Twitter account.

Feels great. There are plenty of options besides stuff from the MyTeslaGuy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:48:38am

re: #205 sagehen

Devil’s advocate here, but… would it be proper to revoke tenure “just because” a prof’s research and publications are repulsive? How is that different than what DeSantis is trying to do to University of Florida professors?

Wolf Guy explicitly calls for genocide of all Jews, hiding behind academic freedom to do it. He promotes removing the rights of African-Americans with his so-called Pace Amendment. He is an open Nazi.

He is condemned across the entire field of evolutionary psychology by trying to tie it to antisemitism. Yet California gives him cover under academic freedom, while Nebraska fires Nazis.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:52:41am

There is no “slippery slope” regarding Prof. MacDonald.

He advocates for genocide, which is a crime with universal jurisdiction. Advocating for genocide is a crime in US law. California’s university system not only employs, but defends, a criminal.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:54:47am

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

More on Prof. MacDonald (he’s still employed in the California university system): He’s the guy who testified as an expert witness on behalf of notorious Holocaust denier David Irving’s libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books, claiming she defamed him (Irving lost).

He sent a shock through evolutionary psychology academia. Across the USA, he was condemned for trying to tie antisemitism to evolutionary strategies for survival. Somehow all these academics who’d praised his work in evolutionary psychology in the past missed his magnum opus three-volume book where he expounded on the idea that Jews, who are a minority in every society, developed an evolutionary strategy of working together to subvert, undermine, and conquer every society which allows them to freely practice their religion. One argument he makes in that series is that societies should adopt punitive tax strategies against Jews to prevent them from taking over a nation’s economic system.

This doesn’t surprise me.

MacDonald might well be a very good and learned researcher in evolutionary psychology. And he stepped out of his bailiwick and went into the cloud-cuckoo world for some reason. (Personal convictions outside of academic knowledge, in order to get attention and money, etc. etc.)

That other academics in evolutionary psychology missed his massive anti-Semitic screed also doesn’t surprise me.* Until someone else brings it to their attention they probably concentrate their reading time on professional works in the field itself and not of in the margins. (I am presuming that this opus was not published within the field, or mentioned in the professional journals, but instead cropped up well outside that area.

* - Based in part from viewing the periodicals and such that my brother reads, when he has time to read stuff outside of the time he spends grading papers, tests, and dealing with undergraduate students.

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Mattand  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:56:53am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m a big fan of Colbert and what not, but Jesus Fucking Christ, just say “Trump”. People are into this reverse-Beetlejuice bullshit where if you don’t say his name three times, Trump disappears.

Until Trump finally has that massive charred steak-and-Diet Coke induced heart attack, he’s not fucking going anywhere. People refusing to name him aren’t going to change that.

Also worth noting that when Colbert had him on the Late Show back when Trump started running in 2015/16 or whatever, Colbert inexplicably went easy on him. Stephen had Trump corned and visibly squirming about the birther bullshit and then inexplicably let him off the hook.

So, yeah, enough with the “He Who Shall Not Be Named” childishness.

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:58:04am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 6:59:11am

re: #210 Florida Panhandler

the MyTeslaGuy.

Now there’s a great nickname for Elon.

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Skip Intro  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:01:40am

re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hard to fire a guy who retired in 2014.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:01:44am

re: #215 lawhawk

Yeah, sounds like Sam is admitting to fiduciary negligence.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:04:10am

re: #216 Dr Lizardo

Now there’s a great nickname for Elon.

It’s one of my favorites.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:06:02am

Activist suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst at work painting “votes for women” on the front of the Women’s Social Defence League in Bow Road, October 11, 1912

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:07:42am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

At a minimum. His lawyers must be on the phone with their lawyers at this point.

It’s another showing of just how much media builds up these CEOs as lords of us all because they’re filthy rich, and it turns out that they’re incompetent know nothings who manage to get where they are because all too frequently they fail up, instead of down and out.

Same with Trump. Same with Mush.

Some of these businesses succeed despite incompetence and micromanaging at the top. Others are taken down by micromanaging incompetents at the top. FTE is both.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:10:17am

Mrs. Fish picked up fried chicken, mac and cheese, and mashed potatoes from the Kwik Trip in town yesterday for dinner. Now that we actually have flour in the house, I decided to use the leftover mashed potatoes to make potato cakes. I just finished whipping up the batter; that’s back in the fridge to cool, then after my morning meeting, I fry.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:12:17am

In local weather, the high today will be in the mid fifties and sunny. That should melt all our snow. Tomorrow the high will be in the mid twenties with fifty mph winds.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:14:01am

Bingo:

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:16:09am

More crypto exchanges announce layoffs as the reckoning is starting:

Kraken lays off 30% of staff… on top of layoffs throughout the industry.

I’ve got a tulip to sell ya!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:16:33am

re: #217 Skip Intro

Hard to fire a guy who retired in 2014.

According to Wikipedia, that fount of all human ken, he is still employed by California State University.

en.wikipedia.org

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:20:25am

re: #226 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wonder if he has like a Professor Emeritus role or something similar.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:20:54am

re: #214 Mattand

I think Steven Cobert is trying to mock him for comedic purposes. “Trump” doesn’t get the same laughs as “Agolf Twittler,” plus it mimics his own denigration of others, with a bonus of sticking a pin in his inflated ego.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:23:33am

re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if he has like a Professor Emeritus role or something similar.

Reading more closely, it does say he is retired. The university disassociated themselves with his work after he retired.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:25:55am

re: #198 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Since it’s a cult, it doesn’t really matter. He may win the primary (IF he runs which I’m betting he won’t), but he’ll never win the general. Not now.

He will certainly lose the popular vote (again) but that does not mean he will not triumph in the electoral system…

But the midterms really helped put a damper on that, and I don’t think that his plan to simply have enough election results disqualified to throw the selection to the State Committees will pan out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:29:03am

re: #199 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[Mac Donald’s] proposed amendment reads:

“No person shall be a citizen of the United States unless he is a non-Hispanic white of the European race, in whom there is no ascertainable trace of Negro blood, nor more than one-eighth Mongolian, Asian, Asia Minor, Middle Eastern, Semitic, Near Eastern, American Indian, Malay or other non-European or non-white blood, provided that Hispanic whites, defined as anyone with an Hispanic ancestor, may be citizens if, in addition to meeting the aforesaid ascertainable trace and percentage tests, they are in appearance indistinguishable from Americans whose ancestral home is in the British Isles or Northwestern Europe. Only citizens shall have the right and privilege to reside permanently in the United States.”

I betcha he could boil that down to 14 Words…

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:33:02am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Mike Dunford: Stephen doesn’t get biology.

He also doesn’t get XIX Century technology.

Well what do you expect from Count Fuckula? After all he’s just sleeping in his KKKoffin during the day!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:34:12am

Felt a quake a couple of minutes ago….

… and here it is:

earthquake.usgs.gov

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austin_blue  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:36:06am

re: #97 I Would Prefer Not To

Chip in my brain? You got to be kidding. Everything that is electronic can be hacked. No. Never.

This is the plot to an old movie called The President’s Analyst where Ma Bell wanted to put a phone chip in everyone’s head at birth (Or Did They?!?!)

imdb.com

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:38:07am

re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“No person shall be a citizen of the United States unless he is a non-Hispanic white of the European race, in whom there is no ascertainable trace of Negro blood, nor more than one-eighth Mongolian, Asian, Asia Minor, Middle Eastern, Semitic, Near Eastern, American Indian, Malay or other non-European or non-white blood, provided that Hispanic whites, defined as anyone with an Hispanic ancestor, may be citizens if, in addition to meeting the aforesaid ascertainable trace and percentage tests, they are in appearance indistinguishable from Americans whose ancestral home is in the British Isles or Northwestern Europe. Only citizens shall have the right and privilege to reside permanently in the United States.”

I betcha he could boil that down to 14 Words…

Oh well he caught me in that net of his…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:39:03am

re: #235 Joe Bacon

Hell, I’m white as fuck and I’m not even sure *I* would qualify under those guidelines.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:40:46am

re: #226 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

According to Wikipedia, that fount of all human ken, he is still employed by California State University.

en.wikipedia.org

Wow. What an absolute asshole. I can’t believe he was protected for so long at Cal State.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:41:07am

re: #226 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

According to Wikipedia, that fount of all human ken, he is still employed by California State University.

en.wikipedia.org

Looking at the Wikipedia information and assuming that it is reasonably accurate.
1. The wolf pack psychology stuff looks to have mainly been his PhD thesis. Which makes one wonder if his post-doc research and work went immediately towards developing the various anti-Semitic theories. And whether this stuff suddenly became more open once he achieved tenure.

2. He seems to have had some success keeping his personal theories out of his teaching*, at least according to UC. You’d expect that he’d been espousing that sort of thing in lectures some students would have picked up on it and mentioned it in evaluations.

3. I get the impression that his personal beliefs have been deeply behind the drive of his research and essentially trying to build some sort of “scientific” justification for them. Makes me wonder if he went into the field similar to how some YEC geologists* (or biochemists like Michael Behe) have turned up thinking they can disprove the current science from within.

* - If one can keep the personal and professional stuff separate enough I don’t think a university has a lot of grounds to complain. There can be consequences like the department or university explicitly stating that they disagree with the person’s statements.

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:41:34am

re: #221 lawhawk

At a minimum. His lawyers must be on the phone with their lawyers at this point.

It’s another showing of just how much media builds up these CEOs as lords of us all because they’re filthy rich, and it turns out that they’re incompetent know nothings who manage to get where they are because all too frequently they fail up, instead of down and out.

Same with Trump. Same with Mush.

Some of these businesses succeed despite incompetence and micromanaging at the top. Others are taken down by micromanaging incompetents at the top. FTE is both.

when your lawyer’s lawyers need lawyers

eta - too many apostrophes

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:42:29am

re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He will certainly lose the popular vote (again) but that does not mean he will not triumph in the electoral system…

But the midterms really helped put a damper on that, and I don’t think that his plan to simply have enough election results disqualified to throw the selection to the State Committees will pan out.

I am not seeing that. Not this time around.

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Jay C  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:42:29am

re: #236 Eclectic Cyborg

Hell, I’m white as fuck and I’m not even sure *I* would qualify under those guidelines.

It would depend on your “appearance indistinguishable”….

I’d add an “LOL”, but it really isn’t that funny….

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:42:36am

I hate Wordle.

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:44:38am

re: #236 Eclectic Cyborg

Hell, I’m white as fuck and I’m not even sure *I* would qualify under those guidelines.

Most people are going to get tripped up on that racial purity bulkshit, as anyone who follows white supremacists hoping to tout their 23 and me scores can attest to (when it turns out that they’ve got all kinds of ethnicities identified.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:46:18am

Wow. My shot-in-the-dark third guess was a good one.

Wordle 530 4/6

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:46:30am

Herschel Walker Ex Comes Forward: He Attacked Me in a Rage

A former longtime girlfriend of Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker has come forward to detail a violent episode with the football star, who she believes is “unstable” and has “little to no control” over his mental state when he is not in treatment.

The woman, Dallas resident Cheryl Parsa, described an intimate and tumultuous five-year relationship with Walker in the 2000s, beginning shortly after his divorce and continuing for a year after the publication of his 2008 memoir about his struggle with dissociative identity disorder (DID), once known as multiple personality disorder.

Parsa, who has composed a book-length manuscript about her relationship with Walker, says she is speaking out because she is disturbed by Walker’s behavior on the campaign trail, which she claims exhibits telltale flare-ups of the disorder she tried to help him manage for half a decade.

thedailybeast.com

Doesn’t matter to my Georgia relatives because they made it clear they want nothing more than giving McConnell another rubber stamp.

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:49:18am

today is one of those days where there’s a lot over at the front page of politicalwire.com

just review the front page headlines - should take about 30 seconds

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Belafon  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:51:33am

One of the other people who helped stop the club shooter is U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas James. An Army and a Navy guy were there and stopped the shooter? How woke is the military? ////////////////////////////////

balloon-juice.com

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:53:22am

Right-wing pastor and Oasis Granger founder Lucas Miles appeared on the propaganda network Real America’s Voice on Wednesday and proclaimed that students are infiltrating religious institutions of higher education to join the clergy and brainwash Christians into atheism.

Sure. Tell us another story, Pulpit Pimp!

alternet.org

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Belafon  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:54:49am

re: #248 Joe Bacon

Right-wing pastor and Oasis Granger founder Lucas Miles appeared on the propaganda network Real America’s Voice on Wednesday and proclaimed that students are infiltrating religious institutions of higher education to join the clergy and brainwash Christians into atheism.

Sure. Tell us another story, Pulpit Pimp!

alternet.org

Religious Colleges and Universities should not allow students in to protect Christians!

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 7:57:31am

Oh my Talky Tina in a lot of Trouble now!

Former deputy to election conspiracist Tina Peters pleads guilty — and agrees to testify for prosecution

A former deputy to indicted Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony and misdemeanor charge and agreed to testify against Peters in her upcoming election security trial.

rawstory.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:03:23am

re: #236 Eclectic Cyborg

Hell, I’m white as fuck and I’m not even sure *I* would qualify under those guidelines.

yes, my ancestry is central/eastern European…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:05:55am

re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

yes, my ancestry is central/eastern European…

Same here.

I’m off to bed. Need moar sleep.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:06:27am

The oldest documented Chinese restaurant in the US is in…Butte, Montana.

Pekin Noodle Parlor, the oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States, is unassuming, its flickering neon sign above the door a feeble indicator of its cultural significance. A narrow flight of stairs leads up to the vintage interiors of the Parlor, whose distinctive orange booths (with matching orange curtains) are individual cubicles offering a truly intimate meal. When the food arrives, it is rolled into the booths in trolleys.

An active Chinatown bustled in Butte in the late 19th century, with Chinese immigrants pouring in, many of them lured by the promise of the Gold Rush. In 1911, Hum Yow and Tam Kwong Yee opened the Pekin Noodle Parlor to feed this growing community. The Tam family has owned and operated the Parlor ever since. It’s currently run by Danny Wong (whose Chinese name is Ding Kuen Tam), who bought it from his great-uncle in the 1950s.

atlasobscura.com

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:14:50am

Well when you endlessly push Antivax lies and boast that you don’t need to get the vaccine ‘cause you done got yourself Jay-Zuss…

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:16:02am

Closing arguments in Trump Org tax fraud trial underway.

If you want to know why Jim Jordan’s busy trying to flood the zone with nonsense about all the investigations he’ll be launching, this is why. He’s trying to distract from Trumpworld crimes.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:18:26am

re: #254 Joe Bacon

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:21:40am

series of tweets by Professor Brittney Cooper, RE: Walker.

“When I see the walking stereotype of Black male mediocrity that is Herschel Walker, I am reminded that a significant swath of white folks need this to be who Black people are, who Black men are. Violent, idiotic, brute, immoral, deadbeats.”

“The GOP’s support for Herschel Walker’s candidacy is designed as a continual insult and assault on all who strive to be Black and excellent, or hell, just Black and decent.”

“The GOP had spent decades locking up dudes like Herschel, and propagating a narrative that this is who brothers are. (Herschel is. But he isn’t who all Black men are.) Now they want to givehim a senate seat.”

“This dude is a walking talking Sambo on one hand, and Bigger Thomason the other. Herschel Walker is the walking embodiment of their whitesupremacist projections of Black masculinity and I think voters in GA should do everything legal to make sure he doesn’t win.”

No link, sorry

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:21:52am

re: #256 Dr. Matt

Cubic has covid? And Polyester’s asking for people’s thoughts and prayers?

That’s too funny, if it wasn’t so fucking pathetic.

Right wingers are getting sicker and dying from covid at higher rates than everyone else. It’s well documented, but these fuckers are literally dying to pwn the libs.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:23:15am

And it will take one season of this format before people to start complaining and demand it expands to 16, then 32, etc., etc.,

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:23:25am

All the facepalms.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:27:39am

re: #258 lawhawk

Cubic has covid? And Polyester’s asking for people’s thoughts and prayers?

That’s too funny, if it wasn’t so fucking pathetic.

Right wingers are getting sicker and dying from covid at higher rates than everyone else. It’s well documented, but these fuckers are literally dying to pwn the libs.

I’ll gladly deliver this card to her hospital room:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:27:52am

re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg

“Conservative men are more successful, classier, they pick up a bill, they open a door. So girls, dump your liberal boyfriend now.”

And then expect you to pay it back in sexual favors…

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Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:28:58am

re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg

“Conservative men are more successful, classier, they pick up a bill, they open a door. “

Do they do all that before or after they grab you by the p*ssy?

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:29:11am
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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:29:26am

re: #256 Dr. Matt

Hmmm Diamond coughing endlessly and said she lost her voice yet Silk wasn’t wearing a mask…Maybe they’ll both earn Herman Cain Awards…😈

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:29:51am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:31:22am

re: #263 Dr. Matt

“Conservative men are more successful, classier, they pick up a bill, they open a door. “

Do they do all that before or after they grab you by the p*ssy?

Depends on if they can afford the abortion or not.

/

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Jay C  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:31:32am

re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg

“Conservative men are more successful, classier, they pick up a bill, they open a door. So girls, dump your liberal boyfriend now.”

Of course, the downside to dating these Paragons Of Manhood is that they’ll endlessly bend your ear blathering trite right-wing talking-points, but, hey! That “bill” has to be paid somehow….
(Or as Wendell notes @ #262….)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:32:29am

re: #268 Jay C

They will also have stringent requirements on how the girl should look/act/dress/etc.

These are control freaks of the highest order.

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:32:55am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg

“Conservative men are more successful, classier, they pick up a bill, they open a door. So girls, dump your liberal boyfriend now.”

And then expect you to pay it back in sexual favors…

yup
the quid part waiting for the pro quo

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:35:58am

re: #206 Dopamine Fish

I think the problem is that the professor is an antisemite outside of his professional capacity, and that his research appears to have been misled by his personal beliefs. The latter, especially, seems like it could be grounds for revoking tenure. Researchers who don’t do proper research shouldn’t be in positions to continue to do improper research.

Arthur Butz is a Nazi who teaches at Northwestern University and is a long-time professor. The big difference between him and Prof. MacDonald is that he is in engineering and I don’t believe there is any evidence that his obscene views have impacted his academic research or instruction.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:36:37am

Freeze Peach, y’all.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:37:49am

re: #272 The Pie Overlord!

Who is Dean Baker?

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:41:03am

re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg

“Conservative men are more successful, classier, they pick up a bill, they open a door

hmmm, you sure about that?

re: #273 Eclectic Cyborg

Who is Dean Baker?

Dean was one of the first economists to detect the Housing bubble in 2008. So quite naturally Sleazy E canned him.

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:42:13am

re: #272 The Pie Overlord!

Freeze Peach, y’all.

i realize everybody cant leave twitter
or wants to
or is ready to

none of this should be a surprise or a secret anymore.
twitter is ruled by one man.
plus a dose of random/chaos due to all the firings.
there’s no logic, or consistency or lack of hypocrisy (sound familiar) or direction.

it’s calvinball twitter

so by sticking around, you’re letting them/it him do this to you

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:43:49am

re: #275 Dangerman

Get off the bird.

if you really need a taste of the bird be like me and get a lunch from the incredible Honey’s Kettle!

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:45:46am

re: #232 Joe Bacon

Well what do you expect from Count Fuckula? After all he’s just sleeping in his KKKoffin during the day!

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It’s a different right-wing Stephen Miller.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:47:17am

Rare moment of honesty from Newt.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:47:37am

re: #277 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s a different right-wing Stephen Miller.

When I see “Steven Miller” I just can’t help myself. I got to let Count Fuckula out of the coffin!

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:49:04am

This is utterly tragic and horrific. I have no words.

V2M4d1FaeDJxZFhKWmZyRlp3SHFZWkE0TkdoOUs1UzZ5V1VtUE5qL3IzVGlWdGhacm8wa0M2VEVjYlhrNGZ4TXIvRDd5engzdzh1bXZ4R21TSHR1MXc9PTo6SBS8cddIsdVY/15CJACxsg==

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:52:28am

This is the message the Republicans need:

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:53:17am

This has to be the granddaddy of all “dead mall” videos. Shot on VHS in 1999 at the Mohawk Mall in Schenectady, NY, which was somewhat notable for a 1986 incident, where a man dressed as Santa Claus had a heart attack and dropped dead in front of a crowd of children.

Mohawk Mall - Schenectady, New York - March 1, 1999

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:53:34am
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nines09  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:56:37am

re: #150 Dr Lizardo

Growing up in Philly I was 6 years old when his body was found. My mother was shook by that. It just tore her up thinking a child could go missing and nobody knows anything. That his body could be found and no one recognises it. Anywhere.
As if he never was.

His photo was in every post office, nailed to telephone poles, and mailed with bills to households.
The photos shown then looked a lot like me.

Philly police expect to announce ‘significant update’ on notorious 1957 ‘boy in the box’ homicide case
The young boy’s body was found in a cardboard box along then-rural Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:56:56am

Police in Alabama have been met with outrage after arresting an elderly woman for her failure to pay a trash bill.

Martha Louis Menefield, 82, was jailed Sunday before being released on bond, Mike Reynolds, the chief of the Valley Police Department, said in a press release this week. Residents reacted to news of Menefield’s arrest by calling police “shameful” and “heartless” in comments on the city’s official Facebook page. Reynolds said city authorities had attempted to contact Menefield numerous times over her failure to pay her trash bill for three months and when that didn’t work, she was given a notice to appear in court. But after she failed to appear, authorities issued a warrant. “While our officers can use their discretionary judgment on certain matters, the enforcement of an arrest warrant issued by the court and signed by a magistrate, is not one of them,” Reynolds wrote, adding that Menefield “was treated respectfully” by officers.

thedailybeast.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:57:39am

re: #282 Dr Lizardo

A man dressed as Santa Claus had a heart attack and dropped dead in front of a crowd of children.

I’m honestly surprised this doesn’t happen more often.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:58:58am

re: #284 nines09

I did a little bit of a rabbit hole dive on that case, and I’ll be interested to see who this most unfortunate boy was. His body was found malnourished and with clear signs of physical abuse.

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2022 • 8:59:16am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:00:21am

re: #286 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m honestly surprised this doesn’t happen more often.

Same here, as morbid as that may sound.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:02:50am

re: #287 Dr Lizardo

I did a little bit of a rabbit hole dive on that case, and I’ll be interested to see who this most unfortunate boy was. His body was found malnourished and with clear signs of physical abuse.

If a member of your family doesn’t want to do ancestry……well

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danarchy  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:04:22am

re: #285 Joe Bacon

Police in Alabama have been met with outrage after arresting an elderly woman for her failure to pay a trash bill.

Maybe the outrage should be directed at the DA or judge who signed the warrant. Do we really want police overuling them?

Also, maybe trying to ghost the legal system isn’t the best decision, regardless of your age.

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Belafon  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:05:55am

re: #282 Dr Lizardo

This has to be the granddaddy of all “dead mall” videos. Shot on VHS in 1999 at the Mohawk Mall in Schenectady, NY, which was somewhat notable for a 1986 incident, where a man dressed as Santa Claus had a heart attack and dropped dead in front of a crowd of children.

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I went to that mall a couple of times to watch movies while I was stationed at Ballston Spa for nuke training. It had a great carousel by the theater.

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:07:52am

re: #285 Joe Bacon

Underlying article - she had 22 suspensions of service and revocations of service since 2006. What made this particular time different, requiring her arrest?

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:11:03am

re: #292 Belafon

I went to that mall a couple of times to watch movies while I was stationed at Ballston Spa for nuke training. It had a great carousel by the theater.

From what I saw, it was torn down in 2000. From the look of it, the place had to have been dying out for quite some time prior to its demolition.

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danarchy  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:11:16am

re: #284 nines09

Growing up in Philly I was 6 years old when his body was found. My mother was shook by that. It just tore her up thinking a child could go missing and nobody knows anything. That his body could be found and no one recognises it. Anywhere.
As if he never was.

His photo was in every post office, nailed to telephone poles, and mailed with bills to households.
The photos shown then looked a lot like me.

Philly police expect to announce ‘significant update’ on notorious 1957 ‘boy in the box’ homicide case
The young boy’s body was found in a cardboard box along then-rural Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase.

I am surprised police departments aren’t rushing to set up their own genetic geneology departments. So far all of these high profile cases have been outsorced to companies like Parabon Nano labs or a handful of others. For a tool that is completely changing the face of policing, you’d think they would want it in house.

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:11:46am
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danarchy  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:13:00am

re: #293 lawhawk

Underlying article - she had 22 suspensions of service and revocations of service since 2006. What made this particular time different, requiring her arrest?

Probably that she ignored a summons more than not paying the trash bill.

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Belafon  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:13:22am

re: #294 Dr Lizardo

From what I saw, it was torn down in 2000. From the look of it, the place had to have been dying out for quite some time prior to its demolition.

I meant to mention I was there in 1993. I was in the Navy, so I didn’t have the money or much of a need to go shopping, so I didn’t really go through the rest of the mall.

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Belafon  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:14:02am

re: #295 danarchy

I am surprised police departments aren’t rushing to set up their own genetic geneology departments. So far all of these high profile cases have been outsorced to companies like Parabon Nano labs or a handful of others. For a tool that is completely changing the face of policing, you’d think they would want it in house.

They’d have to process all of the rape kits if they did.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:14:21am

re: #280 The Pie Overlord!

This is utterly tragic and horrific. I have no words.

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I’ve always been terrified being near the edge on either a ship or a mountain path. One second distraction and results can be catastrophic.

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gwangung  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:17:33am

re: #295 danarchy

I am surprised police departments aren’t rushing to set up their own genetic geneology departments. So far all of these high profile cases have been outsorced to companies like Parabon Nano labs or a handful of others. For a tool that is completely changing the face of policing, you’d think they would want it in house.

On the other hand, if the labs are as half-assed as most police investigations are, this may be a blessing in disguise.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:17:43am

re: #284 nines09

Growing up in Philly I was 6 years old when his body was found. My mother was shook by that. It just tore her up thinking a child could go missing and nobody knows anything. That his body could be found and no one recognises it. Anywhere.
As if he never was.

His photo was in every post office, nailed to telephone poles, and mailed with bills to households.
The photos shown then looked a lot like me.

Philly police expect to announce ‘significant update’ on notorious 1957 ‘boy in the box’ homicide case
The young boy’s body was found in a cardboard box along then-rural Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase.

It is possible that the boy was killed elsewhere and then transported to Philadelphia. But we will know soon.

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dat_said  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:17:55am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

And it will take one season of this format before people to start complaining and demand it expands to 16, then 32, etc., etc.,

History of the FCS (used to be Division 1-AA until 2006) college football playoffs:
• 1978 - 4 teams
• 1981 - 8 teams
• 1982 - 12 teams
• 1986 - 16 teams
• 2010 - 20 teams
• 2013 - 24 teams

My alma mater, NDSU, has won 9 of the last 11 (starting in 2011) and are in the playoffs again this year. Some chance they might lose to Montana this weekend but there’s a good chance they’ll win to get into the final 8 and the semis to play rival South Dakota State in the finals. NDSU lost by a field goal or less to SDSU and Arizona this year - so, a down year for the Mighty Bison, the Thundering Herd.

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:18:08am

Lots of left leaning accounts getting suspended due to mass reporting by bots.

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retired cynic  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:18:46am

re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter

I’ve always been terrified being near the edge on either a ship or a mountain path. One second distraction and results can be catastrophic.

That has been my only real phobia. I am so very sorry for her family, and for your daughter. (to VB)

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:21:08am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:21:11am

re: #304 darthstar

Lots of left leaning accounts getting suspended due to mass reporting by bots.

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Maybe. Not sure I am sold on that yet.

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JC1  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:24:12am

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Ethanol from corn mandates are stupid government corruption at its worst.

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:24:16am

re: #307 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Maybe. Not sure I am sold on that yet.

Things I used to actively follow for variety (the Grateful Dead, Surfing) are less prominent on my TL now. I get a lot of Russian side reporting on Ukraine and the Ukraine accounts I frequent I have to actively search. I think the site is getting buggy.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:25:46am
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Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:26:20am

re: #281 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

This is the message the Republicans need:

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Make sure the Turning Point USA Gen-Z Nazis sees that tweet.

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darthstar  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:26:23am
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Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:29:23am

re: #311 Dr. Matt

Make sure the Turning Point USA Gen-Z Nazis sees that tweet.

What’s so depressing for me is seeing a large Turning Pointless chapter in my home town high school…

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Belafon  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:31:01am

re: #309 darthstar

Things I used to actively follow for variety (the Grateful Dead, Surfing) are less prominent on my TL now. I get a lot of Russian side reporting on Ukraine and the Ukraine accounts I frequent I have to actively search. I think the site is getting buggy.

They’ve also decided that people will get recommendations for things that you didn’t care about because you didn’t follow the people who recommended them.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:32:24am

re: #313 Joe Bacon

What’s so depressing for me is seeing a large Turning Pointless chapter in my home town high school…

Your high school (and community) appears to have had serious problems for decades, given how many in your class have died prematurely. This is just another sign of the despair in your former community.

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:33:40am

re: #314 Belafon

And they’ll serve up stale right wing crapulists (fabulists are too kind a term for these fuckers) because someone I know follows them. So, I get Ronna, Marsha, Ted, Marjorie, etc.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:34:46am
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darthstar  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:36:02am
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No Malarkey!  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:37:45am

Authentic sov cit gibberish

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:38:31am

re: #319 No Malarkey!

Please proceed, dipshit.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:39:46am

re: #310 No Malarkey!

Ye: He had great solutions to problems

//

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Jay C  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:40:32am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

Please proceed, dipshit.

Can’t judges overrule claims for a pro se “defense” - if only to forestall the inevitable appeal(s)??

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:40:51am

re: #321 Eventual Carrion

Ye: He had great solutions to problems

//

Ye: You might even say the FINAL solution —
Jones: Alright, alright, I think that’s enough now, we get the point. MOVING ON!

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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:48:34am

re: #319 No Malarkey!

Jesus Christ…. these fuckers really don’t get how any of this works, and will keep finding themselves in deep trouble with law enforcement.

But GOPers will continue to court them, because of course they will.

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A Cranky One  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:49:03am
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lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:49:31am

re: #322 Jay C

Can’t judges overrule claims for a pro se “defense” - if only to forestall the inevitable appeal(s)??

They can. They may assign counsel that the defendant can then ignore, but it helps forestalls inadequate counsel defenses on appeal.

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A Cranky One  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:52:12am

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:52:45am

re: #326 lawhawk

They can. They may assign counsel that the defendant can then ignore, but it helps forestalls inadequate counsel defenses on appeal.

I was under the impression that a pro se litigant was not allowed to make a defense of ineffective assistance of counsel on appeal; that it was waived upon advisement of what it means to proceed pro se. I am obviously not a lawyer, so I defer to your expertise, and I suppose that’s more of a half-question than a factual statement.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:54:50am

That’s a change from the usual routine where the neighbors say they had no idea.

Philadelphia Man Known by Neighbors for ‘Completely Unhinged’ Behavior Accused of Cutting Off Wife’s Head (Law & Crime)

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ckkatz  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:55:34am

re: #79 austin_blue

Thanks!

I guess that I will need to roux the day. Or at least the beef tips.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:55:58am

re: #309 darthstar

Things I used to actively follow for variety (the Grateful Dead, Surfing) are less prominent on my TL now. I get a lot of Russian side reporting on Ukraine and the Ukraine accounts I frequent I have to actively search. I think the site is getting buggy.

Or, consider what you are looking at…e.g., Russia (which elon supports) reporting on Ukraine (which elon does not support). that doesn’t sound buggy to me, that sounds intentional.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:56:15am

re: #318 darthstar

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Right-wing authoritarian free speech clearly means not being criticized for the evil things they say.

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:56:33am

re: #310 No Malarkey!

‘especially’

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ericblair  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:56:35am

re: #326 lawhawk

They can. They may assign counsel that the defendant can then ignore, but it helps forestalls inadequate counsel defenses on appeal.

IANAL, but I would assume that philosophically there is a need to make sure that the defense doesn’t get forced to be represented by a tool of the prosecution. In authoritarian countries like Russia or China, your “defense” attorney can be forced on you and is just taking orders from the government on what to do with you, as is the prosecution and judge. So I’d imagine things would have to go off the rails quite a bit before you’re assigned counsel against your wishes.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:58:33am

re: #333 Dangerman

‘especially’

[Embedded content]

He’s been hanging out with Candice Owens, another Hitler fan.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:58:47am

re: #263 Dr. Matt

“Conservative men are more successful, classier, they pick up a bill, they open a door. “

Do they do all that before or after they grab you by the p*ssy?

They move on you like a bitch, because that’s how Conservative Men roll!

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Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:59:02am

re: #333 Dangerman

‘especially’

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 9:59:45am

re: #317 No Malarkey!

SIGH.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:00:24am

re: #329 Crush White Nationalism

That’s a change from the usual routine where the neighbors say they had no idea.

Philadelphia Man Known by Neighbors for ‘Completely Unhinged’ Behavior Accused of Cutting Off Wife’s Head (Law & Crime)

Yeah…usually, the neighbors are all like, “He was such a great neighbor. Very helpful, sorta quiet, but nice guy.”

You don’t hear, “That guy was totally batshit crazy!” too often.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:00:47am

re: #278 No Malarkey!

Rare moment of honesty from Newt.

Newt is near retirement and ready to position himself as an “Elder Statesman”.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:01:45am

re: #339 Dr Lizardo

Yeah…usually, the neighbors are all like, “He was such a great neighbor. Very helpful, sorta quiet, but nice guy.”

You don’t hear, “That guy was totally batshit crazy!” too often.

If I ever lose my shit and go on a killing spree, you will.

/

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nines09  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:02:46am

re: #302 Hecuba’s daughter

In those days there was quite a few people/families who had moved to Philly for the jobs. From just about every place you could think of. And Philly had a much larger population. Streets were packed. Philly was actually a city of mills. You can Google neighborhoods and see the huge factories/mills everywhere to this day. And that’s after half of them were torched.
When they tore down some of them bodies/remains were found.
We played stickball, and every group of kids had a bamboo pole with a coffee can fastened, holes in the bottom.
It was used to fish the balls out of the sewers when they went down. You could go up on roofs and find dozens of balls in varying stages of decomposition.
One day a buddy of mine was fishing out a ball and found a human skull.
Never a dull moment.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:03:28am

re: #319 No Malarkey!

I thought sov. cit. documents needed a bloody thumbprint to make the special magic happen.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:03:54am

re: #340 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Newt is near retirement and ready to position himself as an “Elder Statesman”.

He’s well past when he should have retired. Newt’s 79.
He’ll be misinforming people until the day he dies.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:04:17am

re: #343 Colère Tueur de Lapin

I thought sov. cit. documents needed a bloody thumbprint to make the special magic happen.

I think that’s contracts with Satan.

346
ckkatz  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:07:55am

re: #263 Dr. Matt

347
ericblair  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:09:36am

boo, hoo hoo haa haa HAA HAA

348
Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:10:56am

re: #345 Crush White Nationalism

I think that’s contracts with Satan.

Failing to see the difference. Or, is the red ink meant to signify it was signed in blood. I get very confused about the special words and symbols.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:10:56am

re: #344 Crush White Nationalism

He’s well past when he should have retired. Newt’s 79.
He’ll be misinforming people until the day he dies.

Christine McVie was 79. Wrong one got taken from us.

350
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:11:42am

re: #347 ericblair

Good fucking riddance.

351
Belafon  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:12:25am

re: #347 ericblair

boo, hoo hoo haa haa HAA HAA

What do we know about the other four?

352
A Cranky One  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:13:34am

353
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:14:02am

re: #310 No Malarkey!

video:

354
Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:15:17am

re: #347 ericblair

boo, hoo hoo haa haa HAA HAA

Awwwww. Mr. Both Sides Do It got pink slipped…well that calls for a celebration!

Ah time for a Langer’s #19!

355
Florida Panhandler  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:17:11am

re: #353 Backwoods_Sleuth

video:

Doesn’t this turd have a couple hundred $$$ million in restitution to pay out to his dead child abuse victims? How can even pay to have the lights on in his fake-newsroom set sewage dump?

356
Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:18:14am

re: #354 Joe Bacon

Awwwww. Mr. Both Sides Do It got pink slipped…well that calls for a celebration!

Ah time for a Langer’s #19!

[Embedded content]

catch it before it slips off the plate!!!

357
Hecuba's daughter  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:18:42am

re: #355 Florida Panhandler

Doesn’t this turd have a couple hundred $$$ million in restitution to pay out to his dead child abuse victims? How can even pay to have the lights on in his fake-newsroom set sewage dump?

Might be years before any money gets distributed. Too many evil people have large platforms to disseminate their vile lies.

358
I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:19:12am

re: #353 Backwoods_Sleuth

video:

Can’t watch the clip. Kanye is a mentally ill fucker and should be in a hospital where he can get treatment. Not giving him any attention.

359
Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:19:35am

Meanwhile at the House Silly Party Conclave…

Lauren Boebert elected to Republican House leadership position

You heard it right folks! Klannie Oakley is now elected to the House Republican Policy Committee

americanindependent.com

360
Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:20:08am

re: #356 Dangerman

catch it before it slips off the plate!!!

Going right in my mouth! 😉

361
I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:20:53am

re: #359 Joe Bacon

Meanwhile at the House Silly Party Conclave…

Lauren Boebert elected to Republican House leadership position

You heard it right folks! Klannie Oakley is now elected to the House Republican Policy Committee

americanindependent.com

I may have picked the wrong time to quit comedy.

362
DodgerFan1988  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:23:30am
363
lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:23:40am

re: #361 I Would Prefer Not To

Policy committee.

Hunter’s laptop.
End democracy in America.
Profit!

364
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:24:20am

re: #359 Joe Bacon

Upding for Klannie Oakley.

365
Belafon  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:25:52am

re: #359 Joe Bacon

Meanwhile at the House Silly Party Conclave…

Lauren Boebert elected to Republican House leadership position

You heard it right folks! Klannie Oakley is now elected to the House Republican Policy Committee

americanindependent.com

Watching the first debt ceiling fight is going to be fun if you’re a country that doesn’t have anything riding on America’s credit-worthiness.

366
Jebediah, RBG  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:26:10am

re: #137 wrenchwench

It’s almost time for my next Wordle, so I gotta post my last one again before it disappears forever. I’ll never see one like this again.

[Embedded content]

Woooo!

367
wrenchwench  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:28:14am

re: #366 Jebediah, RBG

Woooo!

I went to sleep after starting the next one, now I gotta go finish it.

368
Sherlock Hound  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:32:26am

re: #364 Eclectic Cyborg

Upding for Klannie Oakley.

What shall she do at the next Klonklave, er, conclave?
///

369
I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:33:07am

re: #365 Belafon

Watching the first debt ceiling fight is going to be fun if you’re a country that doesn’t have anything riding on America’s credit-worthiness.

Beau did a interesting take on Republicans for this upcoming term. The republicans are not in array. There may be a few of them that are in swing districts and can’t afford to lose votes over this. All the Democrats and a few republicans are enough to pass a CR.

this will not stop them from investigating hunter and fauci, but I think it is less likely that we have a govt shutdown. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare. Also, Joe Biden is NOT going to cave about social security and medicare.

370
Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:35:39am

re: #363 lawhawk

Policy committee.

Hunter’s laptop.
End democracy in America.
Profit!

Discriminate against LGBTQ+, Brown People, and Educated People

371
Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:40:50am

re: #359 Joe Bacon

Meanwhile at the House Silly Party Conclave…

Lauren Boebert elected to Republican House leadership position

You heard it right folks! Klannie Oakley is now elected to the House Republican Policy Committee

americanindependent.com

372
ckkatz  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:41:34am

re: #295 danarchy

Then they can finally catch the Phantom of Heilbronn Serial Killer!

The murderer dubbed the Phantom of Heilbronn had been baffling German investigators for two years. The criminal was a rarity, a female serial killer, and a very busy one: police had linked DNA evidence from 40 crimes — including the infamous homicide of a policewoman in the southern German town of Heilbronn — to the same woman.

Police had found her DNA on items ranging from a cookie to a heroin syringe to a stolen car. They had put a $400,000 reward on her head. Profilers from around Europe were called in to help hunt her down. The police even consulted diviners and fortune-tellers in hopes of discovering her identity. The papers declared the case “the most mysterious serial crime of the past century.”

Time - Phantom Serial Killer of Heilbronn

Wiki - Phantom of Heilbronn

373
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:42:03am

re: #371 Dr. Matt

374
Joe Bacon  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:44:25am

If you think Klannie Oakley in House GOP leadership is off the rails…wait for this…

‘Fire them all’: Mike Lindell’s ‘vision’ as RNC chair is to ax all lawyers over the 2020 election

During an interview on Thursday, radio host John Fredericks asked the Trump-supporting pillow monger what “vision” he would bring to the Republican Party if he successfully unseats Chair Ronna McDaniel.

“Immediately — this wouldn’t be a long-term thing — immediately, I would check out the lawyers and probably fire them all,” Lindell replied. “Get all new lawyers in and all new legal advisers because they don’t know what they’re doing, and that’s a fact.”

The pillow executive complained that he had “spent tens of millions of dollars on lawyers and people to investigate our election systems.”

rawstory.com

375
GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:44:35am

re: #362 DodgerFan1988

I guess I’m too insignificant. I’m insulting Eloon on a daily basis and have yet to be banned. Oh well. The show must go on.

376
lawhawk  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:45:40am
377
BigPapa  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:46:32am

Klannie Oakley rolls off the tongue a lot easier than Mountain Howler Monkey Barbie.

I went to Saddle Road to watch the lava with Wife Unit and Mum. It was a mad house. We took pics but honestly the best pics are on the Tony Snark Experience app. Just search for Saddle Road.

378
wrenchwench  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:46:38am

re: #374 Joe Bacon

If you think Klannie Oakley in House GOP leadership is off the rails…wait for this…

‘Fire them all’: Mike Lindell’s ‘vision’ as RNC chair is to ax all lawyers over the 2020 election

During an interview on Thursday, radio host John Fredericks asked the Trump-supporting pillow monger what “vision” he would bring to the Republican Party if he successfully unseats Chair Ronna McDaniel.

“Immediately — this wouldn’t be a long-term thing — immediately, I would check out the lawyers and probably fire them all,” Lindell replied. “Get all new lawyers in and all new legal advisers because they don’t know what they’re doing, and that’s a fact.”

The pillow executive complained that he had “spent tens of millions of dollars on lawyers and people to investigate our election systems.”

rawstory.com

He’s fallen off his pillow—but he’s not woke!

379
Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:48:48am

re: #374 Joe Bacon

…

The pillow executive complained that he had “spent tens of millions of dollars on lawyers and people to investigate our election systems.”

rawstory.com

and???

ps - i love that he is always referred to as something with “pillow” because otherwise no one has a clue who he is

380
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:49:49am

re: #372 ckkatz

And there was no serial killer after all:

The cotton swabs used by many state police departments were found to have been contaminated before shipping. It was found that the contaminated swabs all came from the same factory, which employs several Eastern European women who fit the type the DNA was assumed to match. The Bavarian police obtained their swabs from a different factory, which explains why no DNA of the supposed Phantom was ever found in Bavaria, although that state is close to many of the crime scenes where this DNA was found.

381
Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:49:51am

WOW. It only gets worse for this strange mentality damaged asshole:

“Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
~Kanye

382
Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:50:35am

re: #376 lawhawk

because it’s their job
and their term isnt up yet
should they be paid for not working?

383
Captain Ron  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:51:30am
384
Dangerman  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:51:35am

re: #381 Dr. Matt

WOW. It only gets worse for this strange mentality damaged asshole:

“Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
~Kanye

again, ‘especially’

385
Dr. Matt  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:55:07am

Kim Kardashian should immediately file for a restraining order. Kanye is a fucking wreck.

386
Dr Lizardo  Dec 1, 2022 • 10:57:11am

re: #381 Dr. Matt

What’s that dark joke? “Hitler’s greatest achievement, the one that stands above all others, is that he killed Hitler.”

387
Sherlock Hound  Dec 1, 2022 • 11:21:58am

re: #386 Dr Lizardo

What’s that dark joke? “Hitler’s greatest achievement, the one that stands above all others, is that he killed Hitler.”

Whenever there’s a murder-suicide in the news, I always wonder why there are no suicide-murders?
///

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 1, 2022 • 11:40:32am

re: #387 Sherlock Hound

Whenever there’s a murder-suicide in the news, I always wonder why there are no suicide-murders?
///

Suicide-murder is possible using bombs or deadly traps that get someone after the suicide.


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