!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - "This Is Pop 2" - Little Green Footballs

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - “This Is Pop 2”

MusicJune 2023 • Views: 15,737

Just a few days ago someone asked me, “So what the heck is this ‘pop’ thing, anyway?”

Now, at last, I feel like I have a solid answer.

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - This Is Pop 2
chkchkchk.net

If ur dream is to shoot a video in a cemetery, sometimes u just have to do it before u end up there in the ground. Was it cold? Yes. Was it fun? Totally. Did we have to break out when we got locked in when the cemetery closed? Also yes, true story. Another one shot by our drummer @chriseganiii

Taken from the album ‘Let It Be Blue’, out now via Warp Records
→ chkchkchk.ffm.to

Catch !!! on tour in 2022:
→ chkchkchk.net

Tour Dates
Dec 08 - Fauna Primavera Festival - Santiago, Chile
Dec 10 - Music Wins Festival - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dec 14 - SLO Brew The Rock - San Luis Obispo, CA
Dec 15 - Lodge Room - Los Angeles, CA
Dec 16 - Soho Restaurant and Music Club - Santa Barbara, CA
Dec 17 - Felton Music Hall - Felton, CA

*THIS IS POP 2 LYRICS*
Pop, this is pop
This is pop, yeah, this is pop

This is pop and it goes in your ears
All that matters is u like it there
This is pop and there’s no defense
It’s silly, it’s stupid, it’s just pretend
It comes in waves, it’s got nothin to say
And if u ask me, it’s better that way
This is pop, it’s so fucking good
This is pop and it’s understood
That there’s nothin to understand
I don’t understand
Anyone who says the can
I don’t understand, do u understand?
This is pop and it feels like summer
This is pop and it’s better off dumber
This is pop and it comes in waves
This is pop, it’s got nothin to say
Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up louder
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme all the power
Pop, this is pop
This is pop, yeah, this is pop

This is pop, not a simple answer
This is pop, it’s a total disaster
Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up louder
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme all your power
Put the needle back, I wanna hear it again
Again, again, again, i wanna hear it again
I wanna sing along to someone else’s song
I wanna sing along and get all the words wrong
There’s nothin to understand
I don’t understand anyone who says they can
I don’t understand, do u understand?

They say it’s false
They say that it’s plastic
It’s got it’s faults
But i look past it
Why would i give it up
When it makes me so ecstatic?
This is pop and it feels like summer
This is pop and it tastes like sugar
This is pop and there’s no defense
It’s silly, it’s stupid, it’s just pretend
This is pop and it comes in waves
This is pop, it’s got nothin to say
Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, turn it up louder
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme all the power
I don’t understand, do u understand?
This is pop
This is pop
This is pop

#ChkChkChk #ThisIsPop2 #LetItBeBlue #WarpRecords

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288 comments

darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 4:11:30pm

Your ‘close call’ of the day…not sure why Russia was bombing Russia…

Mastodon

William Lewis Jun 24, 2023 • 4:13:10pm

From Downstairs:
re: #202 HypnoToad

Rare bird sighting for piston engine enthusiasts. About ten minutes ago I saw what appeared to be a Lockheed constellation fly overhead—the thrum of four large engines attracted my notice. Laverne, California, about 3,000 ft. AGL, on a northwest heading. Pretty sure it wasn’t a B-24, the verticals at the ends of the horizontal stab were too small, and I thought I caught a glimpse of the center VS. Serendipitous!

Was it this one?

There are only two airworthy Constellations in the world. This one, the Breitling Super-Constellation, is based in Basel Switzerland.
The other one belongs to the Historical Aircraft Association and is based in Australia. Of course, either one could reach any point in the world in about 48 hours. The Australian aircraft is painted in red and white Qantas colors and has wingtip fuel tanks while the Swiss one does not.

I know most think of the Constellation as the prettier bird, but I always preferred the DC-6 and there are still a number of them working in the world:

That’s my idea of beautiful.

gocart mozart Jun 24, 2023 • 4:13:48pm

“The company skipped the very crucial step of sending five lower-class people to the bottom of the ocean to make sure it was safe enough for the wealthy,” said Otto Scofield, a member of the Marine Technology Society. https://t.co/9R0nIy0MpM pic.twitter.com/O0qcugXgqA

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 22, 2023

nines09 Jun 24, 2023 • 4:14:57pm

Nice.
And I know the absolute best rock and roll live cut in history.

ymmv.

Gots ta go ya kno

oh carol…rolling stones live…get yer ya yas out…wmv

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 4:17:00pm

Citrus Caligula is speaking before Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama, er, the “Faith & FreeDUMB KKKoaltion.

And a couple relatives are there snorting up every lie that he farts out…

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 4:25:49pm

Mastodon

darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 4:26:34pm

Mastodon

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 4:29:01pm

re: #214 jaunte

Here’s my wall fish — I didn’t make it, though. Bought it in Guyana, it’s a mahogany Arapaima one of the largest fresh water fish in the world.

It’s hanging over my salt water aquarium.

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 4:32:16pm

Mastodon

nines09 Jun 24, 2023 • 4:33:50pm

I lied. Back. To say. This.

John Prine - Long Monday (Official Lyric Video)

steve_davis Jun 24, 2023 • 4:34:37pm

Meanwhile, Paris is currently curled up next to my shoulder, touching me gently with her feet and looking soulfully at me. Earlier, I asked “do you want your hair done?” And she wandered over for grooming with the cat brush, flipping herself on the other side when I made a little twirly gesture at her. Godamnit, I do not want to have to spend vet money just because cats tend to fall in love with me.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 4:36:12pm

Kitty wanted fresh milk!

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 4:40:56pm

re: #11 steve_davis

Meanwhile, Paris is currently curled up next to my shoulder, touching me gently with her feet and looking soulfully at me. Earlier, I asked “do you want your hair done?” And she wandered over for grooming with the cat brush, flipping herself on the other side when I made a little twirly gesture at her. Godamnit, I do not want to have to spend vet money just because cats tend to fall in love with me.

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Cats are the best. They know.

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 4:42:39pm

re: #11 steve_davis

Meanwhile, Paris is currently curled up next to my shoulder, touching me gently with her feet and looking soulfully at me. Earlier, I asked “do you want your hair done?” And she wandered over for grooming with the cat brush, flipping herself on the other side when I made a little twirly gesture at her. Godamnit, I do not want to have to spend vet money just because cats tend to fall in love with me.

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When you name them, feed them, brush them, the next strategy you need is keeping her singular. With an open door policy, Paris will either have friends, or kittens, or both.

HypnoToad Jun 24, 2023 • 4:55:45pm

re: #2 William Lewis

I suppose it’s possible. The sun was high and behind it, not too far from the flight path, but I’m certain that I saw twin verticals at the ends of the Horizontal stab as it moved further away. The DC-6 fuselage is closer in shape to what I saw, although from underneath the Connie’s sexy curved profile isn’t visible. When I came out to Southern California in 1958, age four and a half, it was on a DC-6. All I really remember is…LOUD.

William Lewis Jun 24, 2023 • 5:00:15pm

re: #15 HypnoToad

I suppose it’s possible. The sun was high and behind it, not too far from the flight path, but I’m certain that I saw twin verticals at the ends of the Horizontal stab as it moved further away. The DC-6 fuselage is closer in shape to what I saw, although from underneath the Connie’s sexy curved profile isn’t visible. When I came out to Southern California in 1958, age four and a half, it was on a DC-6. All I really remember is…LOUD.

Oh, I’m sure you saw a Constellation from what you said, I just like Douglas planes better, that’s all :D

HypnoToad Jun 24, 2023 • 5:02:59pm

re: #16 William Lewis

My first ever airplane flight (just before the long DC-6 ride) was on a North Central airlines DC-3 into Chicago.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Jun 24, 2023 • 5:03:16pm

re: #2 William Lewis

From Downstairs:
re: #202 HypnoToad

Rare bird sighting for piston engine enthusiasts. About ten minutes ago I saw what appeared to be a Lockheed constellation fly overhead—the thrum of four large engines attracted my notice. Laverne, California, about 3,000 ft. AGL, on a northwest heading. Pretty sure it wasn’t a B-24, the verticals at the ends of the horizontal stab were too small, and I thought I caught a glimpse of the center VS. Serendipitous!

I know most think of the Constellation as the prettier bird, but I always preferred the DC-6 and there are still a number of them working in the world:

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That’s my idea of beautiful.

I also prefer the DC-6 partly for its nearly unmatched operating economics, which is the big reason so many have survived (DC-6 census at Old Props). I crossed the Pacific, from Yokota Japan to Travis AFB California, on a DC-6. Had stops at Wake Island and Honolulu. Took 29 hours because we had to change an engine at Wake.

HypnoToad Jun 24, 2023 • 5:11:58pm

re: #18 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

It took me nearly that long to travel from Istanbul to Los Angeles in 2006 in modern jets. However, that included an hour out return to Istanbul due to a popped oil hose in #2 (A-340), a wait while a replacement plane was prepped, a layover in New York, and arriving at LAX at one in the morning.

Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2023 • 5:12:53pm

re: #17 HypnoToad

My first ever airplane flight (just before the long DC-6 ride) was on a North Central airlines DC-3 into Chicago.

Heh! I’m such a young’un. My first flight was on a first-gen 737.

Jay C Jun 24, 2023 • 5:18:26pm

re: #20 Nerdy Fish

Heh! I’m such a young’un. My first flight was on a first-gen 737.

Now I feel like a contemporary of the Wright Brothers: my first flight was on a DC-6, but I most vividly recall my second and third: I accompanied my father on a business trip to San Francisco (from L.A.): we flew up on a DC-7, but came back on the then-new DC-8 jet. Travel of the future!!!

Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2023 • 5:19:55pm

re: #21 Jay C

My favorite flight was a transatlantic flight to Dubai, which was on an Airbus A380. That was a fun plane to fly on.

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 5:28:49pm

Steve Winwood Carlos Santana - Why Can’t We Live Together.avi

gocart mozart Jun 24, 2023 • 5:31:12pm

The best commercial in all of history pic.twitter.com/zo5pMYdbrL

— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) June 24, 2023

darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 5:43:03pm

re: #11 steve_davis

Merle’s warmer than the cat. But not by much. They take turns here.

A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jun 24, 2023 • 5:49:37pm

I remember a little about the flight (commercial airline) from Ohio to California when I was about three. I’m not sure it was my first, since we were returning, but I don’t remember how we travelled to Ohio. Prop plane, if memory serves — they gave me chewing gum for pressure changes.

Belafon Jun 24, 2023 • 5:50:35pm

Shohei Ohtani’s 25th HR off Kyle Freeland and in the replay the cameras cut away from Kyle as he says “How the FUCK did you hit that” pic.twitter.com/iQYELqLYAV

— Three raccoons in a trench coat (@MissLea_Jay) June 24, 2023

darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 5:52:00pm

darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 5:53:01pm

Mastodon

Charles Johnson Jun 24, 2023 • 5:54:25pm

Mastodon

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 5:56:45pm

re: #29 darthstar

Wait, you’re going to let a guy who attempted a coup off scott free?

If Right Wing Xtians get their way, yeah probably will happen…

retired cynic Jun 24, 2023 • 5:57:26pm

re: #2 William Lewis

From Downstairs:
re: #202 HypnoToad
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That’s my idea of beautiful.

My uncle was a tool designer on those. They were gorgeous.

Eclectic Cyborg Jun 24, 2023 • 5:59:03pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

Yep. And they’re coming for Obergefell next.

SerialUpDinger Jun 24, 2023 • 6:01:03pm

re: #284 SerialUpDinger

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Our son made this in his art class - all made from plant matter in our back yard.

Wall Fish

teleskiguy Jun 24, 2023 • 6:02:14pm

re: #24 gocart mozart

Looked it up, they closed permanently at the end of April. :(

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 6:02:34pm

Trump is being indicted for you; buy gold!

Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2023 • 6:06:56pm

re: #36 jaunte

Trump is being indicted for you; buy gold!

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He really IS right wing Jesus. Now he’s being crucified for their sins.

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 6:07:23pm

Trump: Clinton put them in his socks. I put mine in boxes outside of The White House…

Jack Smith’s team continues to add admission evidence to their list.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 6:08:40pm

re: #36 jaunte

Trump is being indicted for you; buy gold!

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Knowing Turdo those “coins” are just gold painted.

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 6:09:37pm

re: #39 Joe Bacon ✅

Finest gold-tint aluminum!

Belafon Jun 24, 2023 • 6:12:22pm

beige.party

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 6:14:17pm

Charles Johnson Jun 24, 2023 • 6:20:46pm

Mastodon

Charles Johnson Jun 24, 2023 • 6:29:11pm

Mastodon

Charles Johnson Jun 24, 2023 • 6:33:01pm

Jay C Jun 24, 2023 • 6:37:11pm

re: #39 Joe Bacon ✅

Knowing Turdo those “coins” are just gold painted.

Well, that coin in that ad does appear to be a genuine “American Eagle” bullion coin (or at least a picture of one): even assuming that any pitch relating to Donald Trump isn’t just a fraudulent scam/grift from the get-go, the smallest of those coins (they all have the same design) is the “$5” piece: 1/10 oz. of gold, which seems to retail for about $250 or so.
So maybe a “qualifying order” of multiple thousands of dollars (presumably as some sort of campaign contribution [??]) might justify their giving the ~~sucker~~ valued donor a cheap-ish token as a “thank-you”.
Maybe, but it’s Trump, so scam is more likely….

GlutenFreeJesus Jun 24, 2023 • 6:41:04pm

I love tubi. 😂😂😂

nines09 Jun 24, 2023 • 6:46:50pm

Down the block.
jfc the songs.
These guys….
My my my
Just imagine this tune being “released” or whatever they call it today…
jfc…

Needle And Spoon - Savoy Brown

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 6:49:09pm

re: #47 GlutenFreeJesus

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (1990) - Trailer

Charles Johnson Jun 24, 2023 • 6:52:16pm

Here’s the page where you can make yourself awful.

streamberry.tv

GlutenFreeJesus Jun 24, 2023 • 6:52:21pm

re: #49 jaunte

This stuff is hilarious.

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 6:53:24pm

re: #51 GlutenFreeJesus

Either they had no idea what the word ‘prepubescent’ meant or they were creepier than anyone realized.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 6:58:14pm

re: #52 jaunte

Either they had no idea what the word ‘prepubescent’ meant or they were creepier than anyone realized.

Trust me. It’s Troma and they KNEW what that word meant.

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 7:04:13pm

Mastodon

Charles Johnson Jun 24, 2023 • 7:04:31pm

April being smarter than people think | Parks and Recreation

darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 7:08:08pm

re: #34 SerialUpDinger

My wall fish

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 7:11:50pm

Pecan trunk, stained and waxed

Ceci n’est pas un poisson.

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 7:14:51pm

re: #57 jaunte

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Ceci n’est pas un poisson.

Pecan trunk, stained and waxed

Nutty fishy.

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 7:15:41pm

spinner

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 7:15:53pm

re: #58 🔧-wench

Flip side:

Da, da

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 7:16:39pm

re: #60 jaunte

Flip side:

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Translation device?!?!?

Charles Johnson Jun 24, 2023 • 7:21:58pm

That new Ren video about suicide. It’s incredibly powerful and has a positive message, but I’m very hesitant about posting it.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Jun 24, 2023 • 7:23:42pm

Actually June 11

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 7:25:52pm

Today’s earworm:

Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway

I Would Prefer Not To Jun 24, 2023 • 7:26:57pm

jeffreyw Jun 24, 2023 • 7:27:09pm

Mastodon

Moe Avattar Jun 24, 2023 • 7:29:17pm

re: #47 GlutenFreeJesus

Oddly enough, i follow the directors of both movies on Facebook.

jeffreyw Jun 24, 2023 • 7:46:33pm

Mastodon

jeffreyw Jun 24, 2023 • 7:50:07pm

Mastodon

Belafon Jun 24, 2023 • 8:02:54pm

We are having my Rex sent over the bridge. He had gotten weak, stopped eating. He would have been 15 in August, which is ancient for a chiweenie.

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 8:04:09pm

re: #69 jeffreyw

You boosted:

Mastodon

My cats. in NM:

Schrader and Presta gazing upon New Mexico

Nerdy Fish Jun 24, 2023 • 8:04:31pm

re: #70 Belafon

We are having my Rex sent over the bridge. He had gotten weak, stopped eating. He would have been 15 in August, which is ancient for a chiweenie.

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I’m sorry to hear that.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 8:04:56pm

re: #70 Belafon

Sending a hug!

wrenchwench Jun 24, 2023 • 8:07:01pm

re: #70 Belafon

{{{Rex and family}}}

Jay C Jun 24, 2023 • 8:14:06pm

re: #70 Belafon

So sorry. 😢

Hecuba's daughter Jun 24, 2023 • 8:15:09pm

re: #70 Belafon

We are having my Rex sent over the bridge. He had gotten weak, stopped eating. He would have been 15 in August, which is ancient for a chiweenie.

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My sympathy to you and your family. It is always painful to see them go.

CleverToad Jun 24, 2023 • 8:17:27pm

re: #70 Belafon

We are having my Rex sent over the bridge. He had gotten weak, stopped eating. He would have been 15 in August, which is ancient for a chiweenie.

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{{{Belafon & Rex & family}}}
Lots of love, lots of memories

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2023 • 8:27:08pm

The Book of Revelations was Used by Who?? #shorts

Reading comments on twitter today, about Russia, and one sees the same thing again. This time it is Putin is cleansing the land of the wicked with the blessing of God.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 8:31:14pm

Damn…they may have found his remains…

Human remains found in California mountain area where actor Julian Sands went missing

cbsnews.com

😪

🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Jun 24, 2023 • 8:37:51pm

re: #79 Joe Bacon ✅

Damn…they may have found his remains…

Human remains found in California mountain area where actor Julian Sands went missing

cbsnews.com

😪

I see there that Adam Rich died from fentanyl. He had the typical life of a child actor.

cbsnews.com

teleskiguy Jun 24, 2023 • 8:40:18pm

Who do they think makes his HGH pic.twitter.com/MwLWoYDgsE

— eve6 (@Eve6) June 25, 2023

teleskiguy Jun 24, 2023 • 8:42:07pm

Kennedy boys were famous for fucking and sucking.

— Elon Musk Blows Goats | teleskiguy@mastodon.social (@ballfootski) June 25, 2023

sagehen Jun 24, 2023 • 8:42:26pm

For people watching Walking Dead: Dead City here is the location for Maggie and Negan’s first NYC problem.

Originally opened in 1837 (it’s changed ownership and location a few times since then), it’s widely considered to be the first “fine dining” restaurant in the U.S.

en.wikipedia.org

retired cynic Jun 24, 2023 • 8:42:47pm

re: #70 Belafon

I am truly sorry. They leave us too soon.

🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Jun 24, 2023 • 8:47:03pm

re: #83 sagehen

For people watching Walking Dead: Dead City here is the location for Maggie and Negan’s first NYC problem.

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Originally opened in 1837 (it’s changed ownership and location a few times since then), it’s widely considered to be the first “fine dining” restaurant in the U.S.

en.wikipedia.org

I gave up on Walking Dead long ago, pre-pandemic, because back then I thought all the stupidity was unrealistic, but am watching this one because Lauren Cohan has such a large role.

ckkatz Jun 24, 2023 • 8:49:04pm

Saw this article on the Constellation -

First flight of Constellation ‘Bataan’

After eight years of restoration Lockheed C-121A Constellation N422NA (c/n 2605) made its first flight on 21 June 2023. The Connie is named ‘Bataan’, which dates from the time that the propliner was flown as USAF 48-613 and was used as a VC-121A personal transport by General Douglas MacArthur. He flew ‘Bataan’ during the days that he was the Supreme Commander Allied Powers during the Korean War.

The restoration by Fighter Rebuilders in Chino (CA) was carried out for Lewis Air Legends of San Antonio (TX). The owner Rod Lewis acquired ownership in April 2015. He bought the Connie from the Planes of Fame (POF) Air Museum in Chino (CA) with the idea of bringing the plane into the warbird circuit. After a temporary fix, N422NA was flown from the POF storage in Valle (AZ) to Chino in January 2016. Then the actual restoration was taken up.

As USAF 48-613 the C-121A was taken on charge in January 1949, and became one of the 4-engined transport taking part in the Berlin Airlift. Conversion into VC-121A, as mentioned before, took place in 1950. It served as a VIP plane until 1965 when it was withdrawn from use. But not for long as it became NASA N422NA and served in the Apollo space program until 1969. The plane was then flown to the US Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker but it obviously did not fit in the collection. And so N422NA ‘Bataan’ was sold to the Planes of Fame Museum in May 1993.

First flight of Constellation ‘Bataan’

By the way -

The Constellation was designed in 1939 by Lockheed Aircraft Company as a high speed, transcontinental passenger aircraft for Howard Hughes’ TWA (Trans World Airlines). The first aircraft flew in 1943, but WW11 meant all aircraft production was used by the US Army Air Force for transport purposes. There were a number of variants and a total of 856 were built.

One variant was the Super Constellation which first flew in 1951. A total of 579 were built of which QANTAS took 16.

*snip*

Connie is now the only flying L-1049 Super Constellation in the world. Until recently, the other was the Breitling Super Constellation in Switzerland. Amazingly both aircraft were built next to each other in the factory. Connie is #4176 and Breitling Constellation is #4177. An L-1649A Super Star (the last model of the Constellation line) is currently in the USA being restored to flight by the Lufthansa Museum.

Lockheed C-121C Super Constellation

ckkatz Jun 24, 2023 • 8:51:39pm

re: #70 Belafon

So very sorry. Wishing you and family the very best. And that when you are ready, you will enjoy so many great memories of Rex.

jaunte Jun 24, 2023 • 8:57:58pm

re: #83 sagehen

“At various times, there were Delmonico’s at ten locations.”

One of the first franchises?

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 24, 2023 • 9:08:30pm

re: #81 teleskiguy

I thought Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr would be hanging out with Roger Stone!

Belafon Jun 24, 2023 • 9:12:44pm

Thanks everyone. In the span of two days I had great news with my oldest getting his PhD and then the sadness of letting my doggy go.

austin_blue Jun 24, 2023 • 9:24:45pm

re: #90 Belafon

Thanks everyone. In the span of two days I had great news with my oldest getting his PhD and then the sadness of letting my doggy go.

So sorry, my man, it’s always tough but he’s given you clues for a while and it’s time.

You are doing the right thing at the right time. The dog knows it, you know it, time to cut strings and have a long hard cry.

HypnoToad Jun 24, 2023 • 9:25:36pm

re: #86 ckkatz

Thanks!! I was beginning to think my aircraft recognition skills were failing.

darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 9:27:50pm

Mastodon

teleskiguy Jun 24, 2023 • 9:28:04pm

re: #90 Belafon

I’ve had to do this with three dogs and two cats, and I will have to do it again with a dog (beautiful german shepherd Daisy Mae just turned 4).

LGF folks are well versed in pet ownership. Good place to get human support for the end of our pets’ lives.

teleskiguy Jun 24, 2023 • 9:34:13pm

Here’s a song about a Frog by the “Peaches” dudes…

Froggie

darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 9:48:57pm

Did some catching up with Aswad tonight…I know, it’s a Toots & Maytals song - but I like this version.

Aswad - 54-46 Was My Number

Belafon Jun 24, 2023 • 9:50:04pm

Just thinking about Facebook running a Mastodon instance, and if they out a lot of resources behind it, it really could thwart the model. My biggest complaint with the model is the whole issue of having to copy a link from a different server to mine just so that I can like it. That goes away if everyone decides to be on one server.

austin_blue Jun 24, 2023 • 9:54:02pm

I’m still confused. The best field commander in Russia (Prigozhin), who controls the only professional fighting unit is leaving for Byelorusk because he called out Puitin.

Who’s fighting the Ukraine war tomorrow?

The poor fuckwits in Donetsk and Luhansk?

Putin got stabbed in the kidneys the last two days and is bleeding out. The Russian Federation may very well fracture in the next week with various warlords/crime bosses/Oligarchs fighting for the spoils.

Or Puti-Poot could stop the bleeding and cobble something together that could save his ass.

Fun Seven Days!

Belafon Jun 24, 2023 • 10:01:31pm

re: #94 teleskiguy

I’ve had to do this with three dogs and two cats, and I will have to do it again with a dog (beautiful german shepherd Daisy Mae just turned 4).

LGF folks are well versed in pet ownership. Good place to get human support for the end of our pets’ lives.

He was my third. The hard thing with him was that he was my middle son’s dog. The only “good” thing about his passing now is that we’d been expecting it, we just didn’t know exactly when. The other two were quite sudden.

Edited because he was a great dog. There’s just not quite the right word for describing what I feel having to make this decision.

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BeenHereAwhile Jun 24, 2023 • 10:05:54pm

re: #90 Belafon

Thanks everyone. In the span of two days I had great news with my oldest getting his PhD and then the sadness of letting my doggy go.

In our marriage, we’ve had German Shepherds, a bloodhound, a pit bull rescue, and other assorted rescue dogs. Our practice is to eventually get another dog (my wife will say I found a dog and ask me what do I think).

Since I have had dog companionship since I was in diapers, another dog is always good.

We currently have two, one getting short in tooth and grey on the muzzle.

Our inclination has been to get another and pass the love on.

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retired cynic Jun 24, 2023 • 10:08:31pm

re: #100 BeenHereAwhile

I’m not sure about my life with my cats. I have had probably over 100 cats over my lifetime, and probably 40 dogs (not to mention all the horses). Losing one is never easy, but I think I need them to be me.

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austin_blue Jun 24, 2023 • 10:25:58pm

I moved to Austin in 1989. I had been working for an international oil exploration services company that had me traveling all over the world, mostly for exploration sites. Fun, also dangerous. In September, 1988, I crunched two discs tearing down a rig information gathering system.

Surgery in August ‘89 (a successful lumbar laminectomy) followed two weeks later by the pilot’s high G surgery asshole replacement.

My dad had it. I had it. Most military pilots flying high performance jets had it. It’s called “Having the Baby” when you get the enema and evacuate your bowels.

It is nowhere near the pain that birthing women experience, but we like to fool ourselves because men think they can understand and handle pain. Men are complete failures when it comes to pain.

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austin_blue Jun 24, 2023 • 10:33:43pm

Goddam, later than hell! Night all, be sweet, be kind. Take care of yourselves first, then help others.

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ckkatz Jun 24, 2023 • 10:35:09pm

The scale of Russian human and material losses over the 16 months meant that we were always likely to see a regime more reliant on nuclear weapons for security. This will probably compound that trend. https://t.co/ORFJKNYWC3

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) June 24, 2023

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ckkatz Jun 24, 2023 • 10:40:19pm

🚨CNN reports Justice Alito’s Rome trip, following his decision overturning Roe v. Wade, was funded by Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative – a group that supported the Roe overturn. @RawStory https://t.co/gn9wLt7SPj

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) June 24, 2023

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ckkatz Jun 24, 2023 • 10:47:18pm

impeccable timeline synergy this morning pic.twitter.com/04bxwzA32o

— Brandon Carter (@brandonetc) June 24, 2023

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Teukka Jun 24, 2023 • 10:58:42pm

On the Titan sub:

🔴 Titan Sub Tragedy - What Went Wrong? | [OFFICE HOURS] Podcast 112

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Belafon Jun 24, 2023 • 11:14:53pm

I know I need to go to sleep, and I can feel that I should go to sleep, but I don’t want to go to sleep. I want this ache to continue even though it hurts.

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ckkatz Jun 24, 2023 • 11:16:50pm

Because the Twitter API is FUBAR -

Julia Ioffe
More proof that you can only get good quality coups from the Coup region of France. Everything else is a shabby knock-off.

George Conway
I think you are putsching things a little too far here, Julia

Robert A George
Well, we know that it’s only a matter of time before Putin appoints a new Defen-estration Minister.

George Conway
Some serious window shade here

Robert A George
Can only imagine the pane Putin’s lieutenants must be going through right now.

Steve Bainbridge
Stop it.

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ckkatz Jun 24, 2023 • 11:17:35pm

re: #108 Belafon

I know I need to go to sleep, and I can feel that I should go to sleep, but I don’t want to go to sleep. I want this ache to continue even though it hurts.

{{{Belafon}}}

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darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 11:23:45pm

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 24, 2023 • 11:27:24pm

re: #97 Belafon

I have yet to make a Mastodon account.

First off, the servers with the cool kids won’t let me make an account.

Secondly, I still am put off by not having a Fediverse-wide username coordination.

Thirdly, I’ve yet to see why it will succeed in the long run. Unless a private entity thinks they can turn something into a profitable venture, why would a company put millions of dollars into making a Mastodon instance?

And it’s that latter issue which Meta is thinking of addressing, of course.

Facebook as it exists is clunky to use to quickly make and add to threads.

Instagram is Meta’s hot product but it’s about posting an image for comments. And right now my Facebook timeline is increasingly “friends” who post images at Instagram and then Facebook just timeline-manifests them on my Facebook feed.

If Meta can make a Mastodon instance with 100 million users it will take over the Fediverse.

Problems for many of us, though, are:
1) it’s still Meta (Facebook) and they are no more a moral high ground than Twitter;
2) if a Meta Mastodon system uses one’s Facebook username, then anonymity goes out the window.
3) If Meta Mastodon allows anonymity, then that decreases the ability of Meta to leverage Facebook and Instagram accounts to make Meta Mastodon instantaneously the dominant Mastodon instantiation.

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William Lewis Jun 24, 2023 • 11:32:33pm

re: #109 ckkatz

Because the Twitter API is FUBAR -

Julia Ioffe
More proof that you can only get good quality coups from the Coup region of France. Everything else is a shabby knock-off.

George Conway
I think you are putsching things a little too far here, Julia

Robert A George
Well, we know that it’s only a matter of time before Putin appoints a new Defen-estration Minister.

George Conway
Some serious window shade here

Robert A George
Can only imagine the pane Putin’s lieutenants must be going through right now.

Steve Bainbridge
Stop it.

They be throwing a bit of shade, aren’t they?

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darthstar Jun 24, 2023 • 11:42:56pm

re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m on mastodon.online. There are dozens of servers…it doesn’t matter which you get on. you click on ‘Federated’ and you get the firehose of toots from everywhere. Follow hashtags you are interested in to start, and befriend/follow people who aren’t idiots, and after a short time you’ll feel like you’re in a pretty cool community of people. Also, I highly recommend #SilentSunday as a hashtag to follow. It’ll flood your TL weekly, but with images from around the globe.

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Belafon Jun 24, 2023 • 11:48:42pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz Jun 24, 2023 • 11:48:44pm

We, the paranoid and bad-faith actors of the organized right, have done everything we can to whip as many Americans as possible into a variety of panics, and now it’s on you, libs, to figure out how to talk them down. https://t.co/buMnlZXOiT

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) June 24, 2023

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Belafon Jun 24, 2023 • 11:50:14pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy Jun 24, 2023 • 11:56:42pm

re: #108 Belafon

Maybe a song?

Mastodon

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ericblair Jun 24, 2023 • 11:57:20pm

re: #98 austin_blue

I’m still confused. The best field commander in Russia (Prigozhin), who controls the only professional fighting unit is leaving for Byelorusk because he called out Puitin.

Who’s fighting the Ukraine war tomorrow?

The poor fuckwits in Donetsk and Luhansk?

Putin got stabbed in the kidneys the last two days and is bleeding out. The Russian Federation may very well fracture in the next week with various warlords/crime bosses/Oligarchs fighting for the spoils.

Wagner wasn’t contributing to defense very much: it’s not their thing, but they are/were in occupied Ukraine obviously. “Loyal” forces are supposed to be incorporated into the Russian forces, but that’s been a shitshow already.

Normie Russians are convinced this is some sort of maskirovka fake conflict. The ones who just listen to government propaganda of course never heard of any tension between the armed forces and Wagner, so this completely came out of nowhere. According to them this was supposed to cover for Putin signing new edicts to allow people to be arrested without charge for a month, or something like that.

You can try telling them that Putin wouldn’t have any problem with passing any new edits whatever the situation, and this fake conflict actually resulted in military targets being blown up in Russia, with Wagner shooting down multiple Russian helicopters and killing their pilots. They just shrug.

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Belafon Jun 25, 2023 • 12:02:33am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 12:56:15am

Yesterday’s event in Russia seems to have some folks there rattled:

“This is a serious blow to the authority of the country, and to the authority of the president… So this is a very bad symptom” - Russian propagandists allow themselves to be critical towards Putin. pic.twitter.com/s7p6PGDFvX

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 25, 2023

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No Malarkey! Jun 25, 2023 • 2:48:31am

re: #5 Joe Bacon ✅

Citrus Caligula is speaking before Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama, er, the “Faith & FreeDUMB KKKoaltion.

And a couple relatives are there snorting up every lie that he farts out…

Even Trump felt the pressure to endorse national abortion restrictions. Which is great for the Democrats; we win a referendum on whether there should be a national abortion ban.

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No Malarkey! Jun 25, 2023 • 2:57:48am

re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. And they’re coming for Obergefell next.

If Trump regains power, someone like Kacsmaryk will be his next Supreme Court nominee, so, goodbye to Obergefell, Lawrence and even Griswold; there will be no right to privacy.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 3:08:51am

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No Malarkey! Jun 25, 2023 • 3:11:34am

re: #98 austin_blue

I’m still confused. The best field commander in Russia (Prigozhin), who controls the only professional fighting unit is leaving for Byelorusk because he called out Puitin.

Who’s fighting the Ukraine war tomorrow?

The poor fuckwits in Donetsk and Luhansk?

Putin got stabbed in the kidneys the last two days and is bleeding out. The Russian Federation may very well fracture in the next week with various warlords/crime bosses/Oligarchs fighting for the spoils.

Or Puti-Poot could stop the bleeding and cobble something together that could save his ass.

Fun Seven Days!

I can only guess, but my speculation is that Prigozhin cast around for support among the oligarchs/mafia bosses of Russia, found none, and realised that holding Moscow no more makes him Tsar than it did Napoleon. So I think Putin is good for now; we’ll see what happens if the Russian position in Ukraine collapses as I hope it will soon.

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Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 3:24:48am

re: #125 No Malarkey!

Putin’s good for now, but this little adventure of Prigohzin’s has shown everyone his regime is more fragile than it appears.

Czech military and political analysts have concluded that yesterday’s events have shown the world that the Tsar has no clothes.

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Barefoot Grin Jun 25, 2023 • 3:27:39am

re: #126 Dr Lizardo

Putin’s good for now, but this little adventure of Prigohzin’s has shown everyone his regime is more fragile than it appears.

Czech military and political analysts have concluded that yesterday’s events have shown the world that the Tsar has no clothes.

I saw a former RF defense minister on CNN this morning say that as long as Putin has security services on his side then individual oligarchs stay afraid of him. But….

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No Malarkey! Jun 25, 2023 • 3:28:44am

re: #126 Dr Lizardo

Putin’s good for now, but this little adventure of Prigohzin’s has shown everyone his regime is more fragile than it appears.

Czech military and political analysts have concluded that yesterday’s events have shown the world that the Tsar has no clothes.

It may be that the one thing that Putin has going for him is that he has made damn sure that there is no alternative to him; remove Putin and what you have left is utter chaos.

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William Lewis Jun 25, 2023 • 3:29:09am

re: #126 Dr Lizardo

Putin’s good for now, but this little adventure of Prigohzin’s has shown everyone his regime is more fragile than it appears.

Czech military and political analysts have concluded that yesterday’s events have shown the world that the Tsar has no clothes.

The answer to yesterday’s question is pretty obviously 1905 ;)

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Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 3:31:35am

re: #128 No Malarkey!

It may be that the one thing that Putin has going for him is that he has made damn sure that there is no alternative to him; remove Putin and what you have left is utter chaos.

If Putin were to be removed right now, by death natural or unnatural, Russia would likely implode into chaos as the various factions all make a mad dash for power.

Yeah, it’d get messy really quick.

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Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 3:32:20am

re: #127 Barefoot Grin

I saw a former RF defense minister on CNN this morning say that as long as Putin has security services on his side then individual oligarchs stay afraid of him. But….

But…how much longer will Putin have those services on his side? Not to mention the Russian military establishment.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 25, 2023 • 3:34:19am

re: #130 Dr Lizardo

If Putin were to be removed right now, by death natural or unnatural, Russia would likely implode into chaos as the various factions all make a mad dash for power.

Yeah, it’d get messy really quick.

And everybody knows it - most especially the Russians themselves, people like Prigozhin. That may well be part of the reason he backed down in the end. The thing is, if they could figure out how to build up a popular opposition figure and keep him safe, an attempt like this could well succeed. Putin’s gonna be watching over his shoulder for a while.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 25, 2023 • 3:35:39am

Today is shaping up to be a good day so far. Let’s hope it holds.

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No Malarkey! Jun 25, 2023 • 3:38:35am

re: #132 Nerdy Fish

And everybody knows it - most especially the Russians themselves, people like Prigozhin. That may well be part of the reason he backed down in the end. The thing is, if they could figure out how to build up a popular opposition figure and keep him safe, an attempt like this could well succeed. Putin’s gonna be watching over his shoulder for a while.

And that is why Navalny is in prison. Anyone who looks like a threat to Putin quickly gets neutralized.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 3:41:51am

re: #81 teleskiguy

Right-whingers really like to see shirtless men.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 25, 2023 • 3:42:53am

For some reason, BBC Archives decided to upload this clip, from 42 years ago:

1981: Booking Your Space in a Nuclear Bunker | Classic BBC Clips | BBC Archive

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Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 3:43:00am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

And that is why Navalny is in prison. Anyone who looks like a threat to Putin quickly gets neutralized.

Indeed. And I wonder how long Prighozin will last in his Belarus idyll? Putin doesn’t strike me as “Mr. Forgiveness”.

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No Malarkey! Jun 25, 2023 • 3:46:05am

re: #137 Dr Lizardo

Indeed. And I wonder how long Prighozin will last in his Belarus idyll? Putin doesn’t strike me as “Mr. Forgiveness”.

He better avoid windows and tea service the rest of his life, however long that may be.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 25, 2023 • 3:47:25am

re: #137 Dr Lizardo

Indeed. And I wonder how long Prighozin will last in his Belarus idyll? Putin doesn’t strike me as “Mr. Forgiveness”.

However, he is pragmatic. As long as Prigozhin and his mercenaries are providing valuable services in Ukraine, he’ll probably be okay. If it should ever come to pass that Wagner PMC is no longer effective in their role as Putin’s primary attack dog, though, he will probably need to hire a taste tester and get a ground floor flat.

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William Lewis Jun 25, 2023 • 3:47:27am

re: #137 Dr Lizardo

Indeed. And I wonder how long Prighozin will last in his Belarus idyll? Putin doesn’t strike me as “Mr. Forgiveness”.

Depends on how good his food taster & cup bearer are as I expect he’ll stay far away from any open windows.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 3:48:16am

It’s nice to have quiet weather for a change. Moony (clear) and 50°F / 10°Commie. The temperature will be in the upper seventies today, with only a slight chance of thunderstorms for my trip to Cheyenne later. (Then tomorrow I can finally get this tooth fixed.)

In today’s non-sequitur of apologetics, this one comes up a lot in real life. It is unfortunate pastors take advantage of their parishioners and arm them with bad arguments intentionally, so when the argument gets disassembled they go running back to the same church about the “mean atheists.” That is by design, to stop rational thinking about the question and keep the amateur apologist in the fold.

So this poor woman goes after a Christopher Hitchens quote. Hitchens was a lot of things (most notably a war-mongering neo-con ass) but his observations about bad arguments were such that he even has a logical razor named after him.

So the rebuttal she presents to this observation is a motte-and-bailey fallacy. No one denies faith exists, so she can’t argue against that at all. Instead she’ll strawman a position he didn’t take.

(I’ve had evangelists make this argument in person.)

Even if her unspoken position is correct (a god exists and it’s my particular version of a god), her answer doesn’t support that conclusion. No person’s faith in anything can ever be evidence for their audience.

I’m not on Twitter, but I know what would happen if I did respond: She would block me rather than evaluate in good faith [I did that on purpose] the illogic of her statement and quit using it. Apologists don’t give up their bad arguments because they aren’t arguing in good faith [I did that on purpose too], they are looking for someone who can’t evaluate the apologetic presented.

Saying faith doesn’t exist because there’s no “evidence” is like saying sight doesn’t exist because you can’t see. The world is far fuller and rich with mystery and it doesn’t present itself on a platter for your lazy appetite. You must hunt. #huntress #faith #atheism https://t.co/oGlsBhiaqT

— Shireen Qudosi (@ShireenQudosi) June 25, 2023

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Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 3:50:03am

re: #138 No Malarkey!

re: #139 Nerdy Fish

I suspect Prigozhin will last until his abortive mutiny yesterday is largely no longer the talk of the town. Once that fades from the headlines, then he’d better be damn careful because he’s a marked man.

Have him cool his heels in Minsk for, let’s say, two or three years…then have him bumped off.

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William Lewis Jun 25, 2023 • 3:53:59am

Ok, this one is bad enough to have to share it:

Why would a pig dressed in black never get killed?

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Nerdy Fish Jun 25, 2023 • 3:54:26am

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

At the end of the day, faith is just that: Faith. If it could be proven, it would no longer be faith. My belief in the supernatural is supported by nothing but personal experience.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 25, 2023 • 3:54:33am

re: #143 William Lewis

Ok, this one is bad enough to have to share it:

Why would a pig dressed in black never get killed?

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*WHACK!*

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 4:10:25am

re: #143 William Lewis

::P

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 4:10:34am

re: #143 William Lewis

re: #145 Nerdy Fish

*WHACK!*

Bay me to it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 4:13:36am

re: #136 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

For some reason, BBC Archives decided to upload this clip, from 42 years ago:

The early version of a libertarian bug-out shelter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 4:17:37am

Big Tent, a weekly round-up political blog. Today Brian Buetler, in discussing the recently imploded submersible, has an essay on what he calls Wrecker Libertarianism.

Titans of Industry

Let’s talk about a term I just invented in my head called Wrecker Libertarianism. Then let’s talk about how to make it toxic so that we don’t have to put up with it all the goddamn time.

(more)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 4:18:14am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The early version of a libertarian bug-out shelter.

Loved the past and the reporter was interviewing the head of the investment group and she wouldn’t say “yeah, we’ll shoot people that shouldn’t be there,”.

The the local villager then saying 100,000 people are going to overrun your ass.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 4:21:31am

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

Minsk meat

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Jun 25, 2023 • 4:25:27am

re: #144 Nerdy Fish

At the end of the day, faith is just that: Faith. If it could be proven, it would no longer be faith. My belief in the supernatural is supported by nothing but personal experience.

Faith is belief without proof. “Belief in.”

If you’re looking for objective proof, that’s “belief that”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Jun 25, 2023 • 4:28:40am

President Vladimir Putin looked into the abyss Saturday and blinked. After vowing revenge for what he called an ‘armed mutiny,’ he settled for a compromise.”
…
this day will be remembered as part of the unraveling of Russia as a great power — which will be Putin’s true legacy.”

Link

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 4:38:00am

re: #46 Jay C

Well, that coin in that ad does appear to be a genuine “American Eagle” bullion coin (or at least a picture of one): even assuming that any pitch relating to Donald Trump isn’t just a fraudulent scam/grift from the get-go, the smallest of those coins (they all have the same design) is the “$5” piece: 1/10 oz. of gold, which seems to retail for about $250 or so.
So maybe a “qualifying order” of multiple thousands of dollars (presumably as some sort of campaign contribution [??]) might justify their giving the ~~sucker~~ valued donor a cheap-ish token as a “thank-you”.
Maybe, but it’s Trump, so scam is more likely….

1980 Libertarian Party VP candidate David Koch (that guy) did the same thing as a campaign stunt, except in support of the Libertarian Party’s “sound money” plank he gave out privately-minted “gold dimes” to large campaign donors.

Those dimes today are actually worth something beyond the inclusion of gold as collector items.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 4:42:09am

re: #47 GlutenFreeJesus

Fortunately it’s available at YouTube for free, so I’ll watch it later.

(Trailer, 1:10)

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell 1990 Trailer

(Film, recorded on a VCR and uploaded, 1:49:58, like NSFW because this is Troma)

USA Up All Night ‘A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell’

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 4:46:04am

re: #153 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

President Vladimir Putin looked into the abyss Saturday and blinked. After vowing revenge for what he called an ‘armed mutiny,’ he settled for a compromise.”

he didn’t just blink, he flinched

this does not look good on Mr Rides bare-back, bare-chested hunting bears with his bare hands

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 5:13:12am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Minsk meat

This is criminally under-upvoted.

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Vicious Babushka Jun 25, 2023 • 5:15:33am

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TarHellion Jun 25, 2023 • 5:17:52am

re: #133 Nerdy Fish

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TarHellion Jun 25, 2023 • 5:18:27am

re: #158 Vicious Babushka

Pies for everyone!!! Way to go!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 5:20:35am

A few haters in the replies (0:15)

No one fights for their child like a mother. See this very personal story, Sunday at 10pm on @KETV pic.twitter.com/nohrwdJwEx

— Julie Cornell (@jcornellKETV) June 22, 2023

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TarHellion Jun 25, 2023 • 5:24:43am

re: #136 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This guy approves.

Vault-Tec has great plans for you!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 5:33:03am

Still pretty quiet in the tropical Atlantic. Tropical Storm Cindy is still trucking northwest well away from the island chains and continuing to weaken. Bret is gone, though high seas and strong winds continue across the southern Caribbean Sea as the remnants of the storm wind down.

In the tropical eastern Pacific, things are getting livelier.

Eastern North Pacific 7-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook

Disturbance One is well-south of Mexico and is forecast to become a tropical cyclone within five days (80%).

Disturbance Two hasn’t formed yet, but an area of low pressure is expected to develop and has a 50% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in seven days.

Neither Pacific system is predicted to be a threat to land.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 5:41:12am

Scientific American, four days ago

El Niño May Break a Record and Reshape Weather around the Globe

Seven years ago an exceptionally strong El Niño took hold in the Pacific Ocean, triggering a cascade of damaging changes to the world’s weather. Indonesia was plunged into a deep drought that fueled exceptional wildfires, while heavy rains inundated villages and farmers’ fields in parts of the Horn of Africa. The event also helped make 2016 the planet’s hottest year on record.

Now El Niño is back. The odds are decent that this one will be another strong event, raising concerns of extreme weather in the coming months. And a strong El Niño is very likely to set another global heat record.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 5:54:03am

Republican state senator John Cavanaugh (R)

The state has not shown a compelling interest in inserting itself between families and doctors because there isn’t one. https://t.co/re9udl4HsM

— Senator John Cavanaugh (@JohnCavanaughNE) June 24, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 6:10:46am

#Baptist
(WAPT-TV, Jackson, Miss., June 22, 2023)

Husband and wife hospitalized after hotel shooting in McComb

He posted a photograph of himself and his wife on Facebork along with their three children two days before, saying he might not be perfect but he’s a family man.

Both he and his wife are in the hospital. The children are in the custody of family services; they were not injured.

He is the pastor of Bright Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church. He frequently posts on Faceborg, most often about personal growth, for example:

“People with small minds will keep you locked up into what can fit into their heads. The God I serve doesn’t have a limit, and I’m staying faithful because I know my cup shall run over.”

And the week prior to that, Danny posted on his wife’s birthday calling her “my queen” and “the woman that I love and owe my life to.”

He shot his wife and himself at the Hampton Inn (the same place he took the selfie of his family two days prior).

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jeffreyw Jun 25, 2023 • 6:14:43am

Sammich Pr0n

Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 6:16:50am

re: #167 jeffreyw

That sandwich looks good.

My breakfast of champions this morning is Campbell’s double-noodle chicken soup with ground Carolina reaper peppers.

169

Ming5000 Jun 25, 2023 • 6:18:54am

re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I have been promised steak and eggs this morning. Left over meat and onion bread from last night.

170

Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Jun 25, 2023 • 6:24:26am

An oldie

171

7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jun 25, 2023 • 6:33:11am

re: #169 Ming5000

I have been promised steak and eggs this morning. Left over meat and onion bread from last night.

About to put two burgers on the grill.

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wrenchwench Jun 25, 2023 • 6:34:34am

re: #158 Vicious Babushka

Scored the rare eagle!

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I got the extremely common 4.

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Vicious Babushka Jun 25, 2023 • 6:44:05am

Trump: Whatever documents a President decides to take with him, he has the absolute right to take them. He has the absolute right to keep them or he can give them back.. that’s the law pic.twitter.com/WaezsyQMUu

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 25, 2023

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 6:46:43am

re: #173 Vicious Babushka

::: eye roll :::
He will never learn. He does not have absolute power over anything.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 6:48:17am

re: #173 Vicious Babushka

Trump: Whatever documents a President decides to take with him, he has the absolute right to take them. He has the absolute right to keep them or he can give them back.. that’s the law

What does the actual law say?

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I Would Prefer Not To Jun 25, 2023 • 6:48:45am

re: #174 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: eye roll :::
He will never learn. He does not have absolute power over anything.

I guess he’s hoping the jury will agree. I don’t think they will, but he doesn’t have much else to argue.

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No Malarkey! Jun 25, 2023 • 6:51:21am

re: #176 I Would Prefer Not To

I guess he’s hoping the jury will agree. I don’t think they will, but he doesn’t have much else to argue.

I was going to say the judge won’t let him argue that, but then I remembered the presiding judge is Aileen Cannon.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 6:53:18am

re: #177 No Malarkey!

And Jack Smith does not tolerate any b&ll sh*t.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 6:53:24am

re: #167 jeffreyw

Good morning!

I really hated how much this song was overplayed back in the day, so I’ll put it here. (4:31)

Toto - Africa

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No Malarkey! Jun 25, 2023 • 6:55:40am

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

What does the actual law say?

It says presidential records belong to the United States; Trump is only allowed to take his personal records. Tom Fitton fed Trump a false interpretation of the Judicial Watch v. NARA case, which held that no-one had standing to force NARA to seek custody of personal records of President Clinton.

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jeffreyw Jun 25, 2023 • 6:57:59am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I really hated how much this song was overplayed back in the day, so I’ll put it here. (4:31)

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Thanks?

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Targetpractice Jun 25, 2023 • 6:58:56am

re: #180 No Malarkey!

It says presidential records belong to the United States; Trump is only allowed to take his personal records. Tom Fitton fed Trump a false interpretation of the Judicial Watch v. NARA case, which held that no-one had standing to force NARA to seek custody of personal records of President Clinton.

Which Trump twisted in his mind into declaring that any document that came across his desk during his 4 years in office automatically became “his” and thus the NARA cannot request it back.

183

Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 7:00:28am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Weezer - Africa (starring Weird Al Yankovic)

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Jay C Jun 25, 2023 • 7:02:51am

re: #174 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: eye roll :::
He will never learn. He does not have absolute power over anything.

And who is going to tell him that? Not to his face, of course: that would be useless, but in any kind of public statement? And by someone who actually KNOWS what the regulations are?
This “I AM the Law!!” attitude is (AFAIK) utter bullshit, yet I have yet to see much, if any, public pushback.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Jun 25, 2023 • 7:03:25am

re: #173 Vicious Babushka

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Trump: Whatever documents a President decides to take with him, he has the absolute right to take them. He has the absolute right to keep them or he can give them back.. that’s the law

point to it
cause no, it isnt.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Jun 25, 2023 • 7:03:42am

re: #176 I Would Prefer Not To

I guess he’s hoping the jury will agree. I don’t think they will, but he doesn’t have much else to argue.

the jury will never hear this

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Jun 25, 2023 • 7:05:06am

i just poured litter into the cat box

then i smoothed it out with the scooper.

mrsdm said “now it’s a japanese garden”

i am ded

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Targetpractice Jun 25, 2023 • 7:06:12am

re: #186 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

the jury will never hear this

They’ll hear a variation of it, as his lawyers seem convinced that their best defense is arguing that the PRA only applies to documents of certain classification levels or contents, and that all other documents can be considered “personal” and thus his to keep as long as he likes.

Oh, and they also think that “WE NEEDED MORE TIME!” is also a viable part to that defense.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America) Jun 25, 2023 • 7:06:50am

re: #184 Jay C

And who is going to tell him that? Not to his face, of course: that would be useless, but in any kind of public statement? And by someone who actually KNOWS what the regulations are?
This “I AM the Law!!” attitude is (AFAIK) utter bullshit, yet I have yet to see much, if any, public pushback.

Allan Sherman - The Streets of Miami

He smiled and said, “Stranger,
For me that goes double
‘Cause west of the Fontainebleau
I am the law”

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Jay C Jun 25, 2023 • 7:09:03am

re: #189 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Allan Sherman - The Streets of Miami

Worth an upding for the Allan Sherman ref…..
(Always is)

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wrenchwench Jun 25, 2023 • 7:10:48am

re: #184 Jay C

And who is going to tell him that? Not to his face, of course: that would be useless, but in any kind of public statement? And by someone who actually KNOWS what the regulations are?
This “I AM the Law!!” attitude is (AFAIK) utter bullshit, yet I have yet to see much, if any, public pushback.

Here’s some pushback.

Mastodon

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A Cranky One Jun 25, 2023 • 7:16:24am

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jun 25, 2023 • 7:23:37am

re: #172 🔧-wench

I got the extremely common 4.

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Bogey. Boo hoo.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 7:24:10am

I wake up and the first thing I see is this…

EXCLUSIVE: Girl, 12, who shot her father before killing herself in botched murder pact with friend after they ‘plotted to kill their families and pets then run away together’ is pictured for the first time posing with guns alongside her armed dad

dailymail.co.uk

Not a way to start the day.

Hot Wheels feeds the Tree of Liberty more blood. Hope he’s happy about that.

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Ace Rothstein Jun 25, 2023 • 7:24:49am

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

What does the actual law say?

That agency records are agency records, and personal records are personal records. There is no way in hell that any of Danger Yam’s lawyers while he was unfortunately in the White House told him that it was okay for him to take war plans with Iran to his shithole in Florida as a souvenir.

196

Dave In Austin Jun 25, 2023 • 7:25:01am

Wall fish…

(Also the Official State fish of Texas)

197

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 7:28:50am

As if we didn’t know that already, Maggie…

A slight change in the small print in Donald Trump’s online disclosures reveals an increase in the money contributors have been donating to help him win the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination is being shifted to help to pay his legal bills.

According to a report from the New York Times, the diversion of funds raises questions about the cash crunch the former president is facing with multiple indictments at the state and federal level with more expected to come.

As the Times’ Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher wrote, the “diversion” of campaign cash to his Save America PAC — which is helping to pay his legal bills among other expenses — was done with little fanfare.

The report states, “When Mr. Trump kicked off his 2024 campaign in November, for every dollar raised online, 99 cents went to his campaign, and a penny went to Save America,” before adding, “But internet archival records show that sometime in February or March, he adjusted that split. Now his campaign’s share has been reduced to 90 percent of donations, and 10 percent goes to Save America.”

According to the report, that has meant that approximately $1.5 million was skimmed off to help with his legal woes that could have been used to boost his election prospects.

alternet.org

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jun 25, 2023 • 7:29:03am

Happy Sunday, all!

199

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 7:30:30am

re: #181 jeffreyw

Thanks?

You’re welcome?

200

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 7:33:46am

Something happy!

She’s still with us and having a happy 98th Birthday today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JUNE LOCKHART! 🥳

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 7:36:21am

re: #197 Joe Bacon ✅

How is sharing any amount of his campaign fundraising with a PAC legal?

202

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Jun 25, 2023 • 7:40:08am

It’s happened again.
NTSB: Airline worker ‘ingested into’ plane engine at Texas airport

National Transportation Safety Board says Delta Air Lines flight 1111 was taxiing to its gate around 10:25 p.m. Friday night when an airline ground crew member somehow went into the plane’s engine.

This was unusual in that the plane was moving when the victim somehow got in front of the engine. Photos show a tarp over one engine and a Hazmat crew (not EMTs) from an environmental cleanup company arriving in a green truck. Later on, mechanics will open the engine and check for damage and further evidence. They will apparently just bag whatever they find and turn it over to the medical examiner.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 7:40:21am

re: #195 Ace Rothstein

That agency records are agency records, and personal records are personal records. There is no way in hell that any of Danger Yam’s lawyers while he was unfortunately in the White House told him that it was okay for him to take war plans with Iran to his shithole in Florida as a souvenir.

I added “Danger Yam” to my stable of insults when I read Lindy Li using it to describe Agolf Twittler.

204

Eclectic Cyborg Jun 25, 2023 • 7:41:39am

re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How is sharing any amount of his campaign fundraising with a PAC legal?

It’s probably not, but Trump gives no shits about breaking the law.

He won’t stop unless he starts facing serious consequences for his actions.

205

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 7:41:41am

Murdoch is trying to help Alito get away with his SCOTUS corruption

Murdoch tried to help Trump get away with his Big Lie

He tried to help the Tories get away with Brexit

Now he’s trying to help DeSantis get away with fascism

Murdoch is one of the most dangerous people alive

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) June 25, 2023

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Jay C Jun 25, 2023 • 7:41:49am

re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How is sharing any amount of his campaign fundraising with a PAC legal?

Personally, I don’t know: but I’m sure John Roberts would be able to explain it all to us…..

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A Cranky One Jun 25, 2023 • 7:41:57am

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 25, 2023 • 7:43:48am

re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

It’s happened again.
NTSB: Airline worker ‘ingested into’ plane engine at Texas airport

This was unusual in that the plane was moving when the victim somehow got in front of the engine. Photos show a tarp over one engine and a Hazmat crew (not EMTs) from an environmental cleanup company arriving in a green truck. Later on, mechanics will open the engine and check for damage and further evidence. They will apparently just bag whatever they find and turn it over to the medical examiner.

I wonder if this was some fool who thought he had more time than he did to get out of the planes way?

209

TarHellion Jun 25, 2023 • 7:44:10am

re: #200 Joe Bacon ✅

Will always remember her from Lost in Space and Lassie. Her first (uncredited) role was a 1938 version of A Christmas Carol.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 7:55:21am

re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

National Transportation Safety Board says Delta Air Lines flight 1111 was taxiing to its gate around 10:25 p.m. Friday night when an airline ground crew member somehow went into the plane’s engine.

Wow, talk about “ground crew”.

211

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 7:56:51am

Yippee. I got all of my Sunday chores done before 11:00 AM.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 7:59:18am

re: #211 PhillyPretzel ✅

Yippee. I got all of my Sunday chores done before 11:00 AM.

I went swimming this morning, the only exercise that one can get in at these temperatures. Supposed to moderate by next week, though.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 7:59:59am

re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Wow, talk about “ground crew”.

::P

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TarHellion Jun 25, 2023 • 8:00:04am

re: #211 PhillyPretzel ✅

Go ahead and jump up and down with your arms raised at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 8:02:24am

The Right doesn’t know how to NOT sexualize everything.
The Right perpetually projects their own perversion into EVERYTHING!!!

— Kal-el (@Kalel7224) June 25, 2023

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 8:02:55am

re: #214 TarHellion

Nah. I will stay at home. SEPTA is running on a Sunday schedule and that means there will be a bus coming in an hour. It would take the rest of the day to get down to the Art Museum.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Jun 25, 2023 • 8:06:19am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Repug perverts feel no shame about sexualizing M&Ms so two people actually making contact is an obvious orgy to them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 8:06:26am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wait, can you explain why this is bad?

Because we are heartless sick fucks without a drop of human compassion.

219

A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jun 25, 2023 • 8:08:56am

This popped up on youtube today, and I found it fun and curious for all sorts of reasons:

Hasidic ad || A feudal lord’s EVIL decree (against Doritos)

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William Lewis Jun 25, 2023 • 8:12:00am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I really hated how much this song was overplayed back in the day, so I’ll put it here. (4:31)

[Embedded content]

< evil grin >

Weezer - Africa (starring Weird Al Yankovic)

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TarHellion Jun 25, 2023 • 8:13:00am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So guessing the right really freaked out about Brezhnev

Gimme some sugar, Erich baby!

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 25, 2023 • 8:13:21am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 8:13:36am

Heads up (8:12)

The Biggest Storms Of The Summer So Far Are Coming…

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William Lewis Jun 25, 2023 • 8:14:21am

re: #183 Dr Lizardo

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Hah! You thought of it too.

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Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 8:15:14am

For your weekend viewing pleasure, a British adventure film from 1980 - ffolkes (aka North Sea Hijack). Starring Roger Moore, Anthony Perkins, James Mason and Lea Brodie. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.

Terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them | Roger Moore | Full Movies

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Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 8:15:59am

re: #224 William Lewis

Hah! You thought of it too.

It’s a good cover.

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TarHellion Jun 25, 2023 • 8:16:54am

re: #225 Dr Lizardo

Ahh, yes, Roger Moore’s effort to do something other than James Bond.

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Dr Lizardo Jun 25, 2023 • 8:18:58am

re: #227 TarHellion

Ahh, yes, Roger Moore’s effort to do something other than James Bond.

It’s not a bad film, actually. Perkins was solid, as always and James Mason had a nice role.

229

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 8:21:06am

re: #223 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Here is what is going to happen in the Delaware Valley:
weather.gov

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TarHellion Jun 25, 2023 • 8:21:41am

re: #228 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, it’s good. Like another film mentioned recently - Looker - this one played on a steady rotation in the early 1980s on HBO.

231

darthstar Jun 25, 2023 • 8:28:34am

Got bucked off a few times but still managed to make bogey on the thing.
Slow mini-crossword today - 3:05

Yesterday’s Russian bullshit sucked all of the oxygen out of the room and I didn’t get my normal Ukraine updates…still have to wait for that story to fade…of course it doesn’t help that I keep thinking about it….

Mastodon

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jeffreyw Jun 25, 2023 • 8:29:24am

re: #207 A Cranky One

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No Malarkey! Jun 25, 2023 • 8:37:30am

re: #231 darthstar

Got bucked off a few times but still managed to make bogey on the thing.
Slow mini-crossword today - 3:05

Yesterday’s Russian bullshit sucked all of the oxygen out of the room and I didn’t get my normal Ukraine updates…still have to wait for that story to fade…of course it doesn’t help that I keep thinking about it….

[Embedded content]

Since Kadyrov’s crew are only good for killing civilians, I’m guessing the answer will be no to the partisan activity.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 25, 2023 • 8:38:40am

I’m off for a nap. Drive later to Wyoming. Catch y’all later.

235

Barefoot Grin Jun 25, 2023 • 8:41:29am

re: #233 No Malarkey!

Since Kadyrov’s crew are only good for killing civilians, I’m guessing the answer will be no to the partisan activity.

It’ll be interesting to see what will happen to warlord Kadyrov’s fief if Putin gets the push (or putsch).

236

Vicious Babushka Jun 25, 2023 • 8:42:55am

re: #219 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

This popped up on youtube today, and I found it fun and curious for all sorts of reasons:

[Embedded content]

Video

This is my all time favorite:

YES HDTV - Chassidic commercial

237

jeffreyw Jun 25, 2023 • 8:43:28am

Mastodon

238

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 8:45:28am

re: #237 jeffreyw

but no mention of pineapple…

239

Belafon Jun 25, 2023 • 8:46:24am

In the last 24 hours, we have Lance Armstrong lecturing people about sports fairness, Meghan McCain lecturing people about nepotism, GOP lecturing people about law and order, white evangelical leaders praising/worshiping Trump…we live in a world where many lack mirrors.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) June 25, 2023

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Jun 25, 2023 • 8:46:45am

Holy shit! This video of Wisconsin State Rep. Chuck Wichgers arguing against access to contraception is INSANE!
Honestly, if you told me it was parody, I would believe you.
Only it’s not. It’s real.pic.twitter.com/KprXy8fZef

— Jo🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) June 25, 2023

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Ace Rothstein Jun 25, 2023 • 8:48:32am

re: #240 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Right. Because no one in human history ever cheated on their spouses until the pill came along.

242

Barefoot Grin Jun 25, 2023 • 8:49:06am

Looks like storms this evening with a break for an hour or two between 6-8am tomorrow and then constant rain through Saturday. I guess we don’t need to worry about a drought in the near future.

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Eventual Carrion Jun 25, 2023 • 8:49:55am

re: #133 Nerdy Fish

Today is shaping up to be a good day so far. Let’s hope it holds.

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jeffreyw Jun 25, 2023 • 8:51:29am

Mastodon

245

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 8:51:32am

re: #241 Ace Rothstein

Right. Because no one in human history ever cheated on their spouses until the pill came along.

“Mom, I’m dating our neighbor!”

-“He could be your father.”

“Age is not an issue here, mom!”

-“That’s not what I’m talking about, dear!”

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Belafon Jun 25, 2023 • 8:58:32am

re: #241 Ace Rothstein

Right. Because no one in human history ever cheated on their spouses until the pill came along.

That’s why the old Testament doesn’t contain a test for adultery. /sarc

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Unabogie Jun 25, 2023 • 8:58:59am

re: #240 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

[Embedded content]

These fuckers always like to claim they are against Big Government, but holy hell do they want to insert themselves into the sex lives of everyone around them.

Hey buddy, just fuck all the way off and leave other people to make their own decisions about their own bodies. It’s none of your goddamn business.

(This guy, not you Kirel)

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Ace Rothstein Jun 25, 2023 • 9:00:23am

re: #240 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I guaran-damn-tee you this guy has paid for multiple abortions.

249

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 9:03:15am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wait, can you explain why this is bad?

ANSWER—It’s not just bad. It’s eeeeeeeeeevvvviiiiilllllleeee because Democrats are doing it.

250

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 9:06:26am

re: #240 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Chucky is a Radical Xtian Republican.

That means he’s got a mistress on the side and when she has one of them OOPSIES he makes sure she can get an abortion.

And then he goes right back on the No Abortion, No Contraception No Siree ‘cause life’s too precious can’t you see?

And when some strange fruit is hanging from a tree?

Well..Chucky like a true radical Xtian ignores that…

251

DodgerFan1988 Jun 25, 2023 • 9:09:22am

A KY Woman visiting El Paso, TX, shot and killed her latino Uber driver because she saw road signs for Juarez and believed she was being kidnapped to Mexico.

El Paso is 7 miles from Juarez.

Ignorance, racism, and free access to guns are lethal.https://t.co/fpBJxE1Qxc

— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) June 25, 2023

Conservatives will donate to her defense fund.

252

BeenHereAwhile Jun 25, 2023 • 9:10:08am

re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

It’s happened again.
NTSB: Airline worker ‘ingested into’ plane engine at Texas airport

This was unusual in that the plane was moving when the victim somehow got in front of the engine. Photos show a tarp over one engine and a Hazmat crew (not EMTs) from an environmental cleanup company arriving in a green truck. Later on, mechanics will open the engine and check for damage and further evidence. They will apparently just bag whatever they find and turn it over to the medical examiner.

Extraction crew members tend to have a macabre sense of humor.

253

Belafon Jun 25, 2023 • 9:10:22am

re: #250 Joe Bacon ✅

Chucky is a Radical Xtian Republican.

That means he’s got a mistress on the side and when she has one of them OOPSIES he makes sure she can get an abortion.

And then he goes right back on the No Abortion, No Contraception No Siree ‘cause life’s too precious can’t you see?

And when some strange fruit is hanging from a tree?

Well..Chucky like a true radical Xtian ignores that…

INAAIYAR (It’s not an abortion if you’re a Republican)

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Ace Rothstein Jun 25, 2023 • 9:11:03am

re: #251 DodgerFan1988

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Conservatives will donate to her defense fund.

She’ll be a guest speaker at next year’s convention.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 9:11:45am

re: #240 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Yes. STDs didn’t exist before contraception. Except for the rampant syphilis. Chocolate is actually quite good for you, excess sugar in chocolate is questionable. Etc. I give it six out of five yikes.

256

jeffreyw Jun 25, 2023 • 9:14:26am

YouTube

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 9:15:48am

Nancy Mace: ‘Obscene’ Democrats support a man who ‘lied’ and ‘betrayed his oath of office’

Guess who that is…

alternet.org

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) called Democrats “shameful” because they continue to support Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) after Republicans censured him.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News (WHERE ELSE?), Mace recalled how Democrats protested by chanting “shame” on the House floor after Schiff was censured for his role in the Russia election interference investigation.

Don’t forget folks that our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press repeatedly says that Nancy Mace is a “Moderate Republican”!

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 9:26:41am

Yeah…get over the Jew jokes…and whine about being discriminated against because you’re white…

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 9:28:26am

This is the same fool who wanted North Korea to nuke Gawdless San Francisco and Hollywood for blaspheming The Big G.

Anne Graham Lotz is pretty confident that “in the next five years, we may be seeing the return of Jesus”: “I have had that strong compulsion that I am in the last generation.” pic.twitter.com/kNbanRVoxa

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 23, 2023

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 25, 2023 • 9:32:00am

re: #259 Joe Bacon ✅

“I am in the last generation”

200 years from now people will still be saying this (although Climate Change might mean they’ll be telling the truth).

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 25, 2023 • 9:37:22am

This is what Christian nationalism sounds like. https://t.co/7zXJfOcyQj pic.twitter.com/2qh8zL6T05

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 23, 2023

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Florida Panhandler Jun 25, 2023 • 9:42:06am

re: #261 Joe Bacon ✅

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Ralph Reed can’t get cancer soon enough.

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Vicious Babushka Jun 25, 2023 • 9:42:31am

re: #259 Joe Bacon ✅

This is the same fool who wanted North Korea to nuke Gawdless San Francisco and Hollywood for blaspheming The Big G.

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Take the name of “Israel” out of your mouth. It wasn’t created just so all the Jews could die for not accepting Jesus.

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Hecuba's daughter Jun 25, 2023 • 9:45:35am

re: #153 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

President Vladimir Putin looked into the abyss Saturday and blinked. After vowing revenge for what he called an ‘armed mutiny,’ he settled for a compromise.”
…
this day will be remembered as part of the unraveling of Russia as a great power — which will be Putin’s true legacy.”
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He didn’t really blink; the only thing Prigozhin got was a temporary extension to his life and nothing else. Putin can arrange Prigozhin’s demise at his leisure — and sooner rather than later. In a week, no one will be talking about this.

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Sherlock Hound Jun 25, 2023 • 9:47:54am

re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I read one account of an earlier ingestion. The ME reported, “Due to the condition of the body, it was not possible to provide a toxicology report.”

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Belafon Jun 25, 2023 • 9:48:41am

re: #258 Joe Bacon ✅

Yeah…get over the Jew jokes…and whine about being discriminated against because you’re white…

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“If you ignore the jokes about raping babies, you’d see that he’s right about pedophiles being under attack.”

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Belafon Jun 25, 2023 • 9:49:35am

re: #259 Joe Bacon ✅

“May”

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Hecuba's daughter Jun 25, 2023 • 9:56:21am

re: #172 🔧-wench

I got the extremely common 4.

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4 for me too.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 9:58:54am

re: #248 Ace Rothstein

I guaran-damn-tee you this guy has paid for multiple abortions.

And he has prayed to God for forgiveness and been forgiven each time because God is merciful and understanding of the needs of cis white men.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 10:02:16am

re: #264 Hecuba’s daughter

He didn’t really blink; the only thing Prigozhin got was a temporary extension to his life and nothing else. Putin can arrange Prigozhin’s demise at his leisure — and sooner rather than later. In a week, no one will be talking about this.

I see it otherwise: what sort of leader lets the head of an armed rebellion against him escape unpunished?

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Unabogie Jun 25, 2023 • 10:02:55am

re: #262 Florida Panhandler

Ralph Reed can’t get cancer soon enough.

This is a horrible thing to say. You’re basically wishing that good and honest cancer doctors would have to spend extended time with Ralph. There are far more fitting ends such as getting ingested into a jet engine (see above)

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Jun 25, 2023 • 10:07:19am

re: #270 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I see it otherwise: what sort of leader lets the head of an armed rebellion against him escape unpunished?

Andrew Johnson. We’ve been paying for it ever since.

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Romantic Heretic Jun 25, 2023 • 10:07:59am

re: #251 DodgerFan1988

The Tree of Liberty etc.

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A Cranky One Jun 25, 2023 • 10:09:33am

Learning Python…

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austin_blue Jun 25, 2023 • 10:12:16am

re: #232 jeffreyw

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Fucking caltrops.

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TarHellion Jun 25, 2023 • 10:15:03am

re: #259 Joe Bacon ✅

Wish a sinkhole would open up and swallow her and her fellow grifter, hatemonger brother Franklin.

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Barefoot Grin Jun 25, 2023 • 10:20:42am

I can’t be the only one thinking “Alito released a ‘prebuttal’ to the propublica story through a friendly venue for political reasons; has he ever done something like this before?”

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darthstar Jun 25, 2023 • 10:22:13am

Mastodon

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jeffreyw Jun 25, 2023 • 10:28:04am

Breakfast for Lunch

Deep Fried Eggs

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darthstar Jun 25, 2023 • 10:32:36am

re: #279 jeffreyw

Just made poached eggs on toasted coastal loaf from a local bakery. It was good.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Jun 25, 2023 • 10:33:03am

re: #251 DodgerFan1988

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Conservatives will donate to her defense fund.

Maybe not. This is the shooter, Phoebe Copas:

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darthstar Jun 25, 2023 • 10:35:11am

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

Maybe not. This is the shooter, Phoebe Copas:

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She’s got that “I really fucked up” look on her face. And now Kentucky has one less asshole.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 10:35:20am

re: #280 darthstar

Just made poached eggs on toasted coastal loaf from a local bakery. It was good.

Coastal loaf? Overeducated liberal elitist bread?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 25, 2023 • 10:35:54am

re: #282 darthstar

She’s got that “I really fucked up” look on her face. And now Kentucky has one less asshole.

really shoulda paid attention in Geography class

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darthstar Jun 25, 2023 • 10:36:43am

re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

overeducated liberal elitist bread?

Yes, it’s like a football sized semi-sourdough loaf. Made croutons for Caesar salad out of part of it, gave half the loaf to the neighbors. Still have enough for more croutons or good bread crumbs after it dries.

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retired cynic Jun 25, 2023 • 10:37:54am

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

hi

It’s nice to have quiet weather for a change. Moony (clear) and 50°F / 10°Commie. The temperature will be in the upper seventies today, with only a slight chance of thunderstorms for my trip to Cheyenne later. (Then tomorrow I can finally get this tooth fixed.)

In today’s non-sequitur of apologetics, this one comes up a lot in real life. It is unfortunate pastors take advantage of their parishioners and arm them with bad arguments intentionally, so when the argument gets disassembled they go running back to the same church about the “mean atheists.” That is by design, to stop rational thinking about the question and keep the amateur apologist in the fold.

So this poor woman goes after a Christopher Hitchens quote. Hitchens was a lot of things (most notably a war-mongering neo-con ass) but his observations about bad arguments were such that he even has a logical razor named after him.

So the rebuttal she presents to this observation is a motte-and-bailey fallacy. No one denies faith exists, so she can’t argue against that at all. Instead she’ll strawman a position he didn’t take.

(I’ve had evangelists make this argument in person.)

Even if her unspoken position is correct (a god exists and it’s my particular version of a god), her answer doesn’t support that conclusion. No person’s faith in anything can ever be evidence for their audience.

I’m not on Twitter, but I know what would happen if I did respond: She would block me rather than evaluate in good faith [I did that on purpose] the illogic of her statement and quit using it. Apologists don’t give up their bad arguments because they aren’t arguing in good faith [I did that on purpose too], they are looking for someone who can’t evaluate the apologetic presented.

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So I made that simple argument (he doesn’t say faith doesn’t exist) for you. And all of the other responses were similar. No one found it convincing. She doesn’t have enough followers!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Jun 25, 2023 • 10:39:01am

re: #251 DodgerFan1988

I thought this was an excellent comment, completely consistent with my impressions of El Paso:

Horrifying but not surprising. I fly in/out of ELP all the time. The ppl I meet all over the US who talk to me about El Paso and the border have been fed such fear and lies that they picture it like some Mad Max hellscape. El Paso ranks in top safest cities >500K pop. in US

— lex Maria (@spudsforever) June 25, 2023

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wrenchwench Jun 25, 2023 • 10:53:24am

re: #287 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I thought this was an excellent comment, completely consistent with my impressions of El Paso:

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The off ramps that go to Juarez also have small signs that say ‘no guns’. It’s not legal to take a gun from the US to Mexico.

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