brian wilson was just 19 in his car, when “surfer girl” came to him.
it’s his first ever composition, inspired by “when you wish upon a star” by dion and the belmonts.
he turned that sweet tune into a beach vibe, creating a beach boys’ classic.
i heard drew taubenfeld cover it on pedal steel at a ‘jam’ hosted by ryan lerman. i thought ‘this is good content.’ -vulfmon
Surfer Girl /// Vulfmon and Drew Taubenfeld
If you were wondering why trump ordered the house republicans to shut down the government and kick children and infants off assistance and not pay our troops - here’s why: https://t.co/RLFzHK0a3G
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) September 29, 2023
Dion and the Belmonts made some good horror movie music.
re: #3 jaunte
Dion and the Belmonts made some good horror movie music.
I wish it wasn’t permanently Disney-associated in my head. I grew up too close to Disneyland.
re: #1 Belafon
Move the trial up due to impending budget cuts. Also, Democrats can unseat McCarthy with a handful of cooperating Republicans (there are 18 of them in strong Biden districts), and if McCarthy tries to go scorched earth to protect Trump those people will balk. And Speaker Jeffries will get shit done…turning the GOP ‘majority’ into a silent one…and if those 18 Republicans realize they can change to “Independent Republicans” and likely get reelected, then caucusing with the Democrats (in exchange for a few earmarks for their districts…this is America after all) would be an attractive option.
My wife went to Anihiam for a business convention next week and found herself at a bloody Trump rally at the same hotel.
re: #7 Dave In Austin
My wife went to Anihiam for a business convention next week and found herself at a bloody Trump rally at the same hotel.
My profoundest sympathies.
re: #7 Dave In Austin
My wife went to Anihiam for a business convention next week and found herself at a bloody Trump rally at the same hotel.
I hope the hotel reimbursed her for the trouble.
“Killing Eve” might be the horniest mainstream TV series ever. It’s awesome.
re: #7 Dave In Austin
My wife went to Anihiam for a business convention next week and found herself at a bloody Trump rally at the same hotel.
We were visiting my mother in Palm Springs a while back and we went to lunch in Palm Desert on El Paseo and there was a Trump car parade…horns honking, flags flying, for about 15-20 minutes. Then I saw one of the Trump jeeps park near where we sat at the restaurant. They jumped out, rolled up the flags quickly, and stuffed them under the seats of the car. Then they casually came to the same restaurant to eat some quality Italian food and not look like knuckle dragging fucklechucks.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
“Killing Eve” might be the horniest mainstream TV series ever. It’s awesome.
Alexa: “Based on your order history, another season of Killing Eve is starting…”
Tomorrow’s Wordle is gonna piss off more than a few people, I reckon.
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I thought I hadn’t done particularly well until the girls’ results came in.
SibData: 4,5,6,6,X
The one who missed plays on hard mode. She is reconsidering that choice now.
Watching the Korean spaghetti-western-empire-resistance Song of the Bandits on Netflix. I have a crush on the girl assassin.
re: #267 Unabogie
Bmaz over at Emptywheel is saying the fact that Fani Willis got the first conspirator to flip with a probation deal is just proof that it’s all “penny ante bullshit”
Scott Hall participated in a break in of our voting machines in furtherance of a plot to overthrow the government.
“Penny ante?”
Scott has flipped and received probation - should I be next to avoid mandatory 5 years?
(what Fani Willis has his co-defendants thinking)
US urges Serbia to withdraw troops from Kosovo border as tensions rise https://t.co/QpXsg3EUQ9
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) September 29, 2023
FAUX once again goes off the deep end.
‘Erroneous’ Fox News report claimed Arizona gov ‘mysteriously disappeared.’ She was in DC for a meeting
On Thursday, September 28, Fox News reported that Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee would be serving as acting governor because of the “mysterious disappearance of Gov. Katie Hobbs.”
But according to Arizona Central, Fox News’ report — which had been headlined “Arizona governor mysteriously steps down for one day” — was “erroneous.” And there was no “mysterious disappearance.”
Hobbs, Arizona Central reports, was in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, September 27 “for a meeting about border issues with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas following a week-long visit to Taiwan, an important Arizona trade ally.”
Arizona Central notes that Hobbs “flew back to Arizona” on September 28 to “meet with President Joe Biden.”
Eighty-two years ago, Nazis murdered 34,000 Jews at Babyn Yar. Soviets buried this history, which today Putin’s government manipulates to provide cover for Russia’s abuses in Ukraine. The U.S. is committed to justice for Holocaust survivors and accountability for atrocities.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) September 29, 2023
re: #18 Nerdy Fish
1389 over and over and over and over…
re: #20 Belafon
Babi Yar by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Translated by Ben Okopnik
No monument stands over Babi Yar.
A steep cliff only, like the rudest headstone.
I am afraid.
Today, I am as old
As the entire Jewish race itself.
I see myself an ancient Israelite.
I wander o’er the roads of ancient Egypt
And here, upon the cross, I perish, tortured
And even now, I bear the marks of nails.
It seems to me that Dreyfus is myself.
The Philistines betrayed me - and now judge.
I’m in a cage. Surrounded and trapped,
I’m persecuted, spat on, slandered, and
The dainty dollies in their Brussels frills
Squeal, as they stab umbrellas at my face.
I see myself a boy in Belostok
Blood spills, and runs upon the floors,
The chiefs of bar and pub rage unimpeded
And reek of vodka and of onion, half and half.
I’m thrown back by a boot, I have no strength left,
In vain I beg the rabble of pogrom,
To jeers of “Kill the Jews, and save our Russia!”
My mother’s being beaten by a clerk.
O, Russia of my heart, I know that you
Are international, by inner nature.
But often those whose hands are steeped in filth
Abused your purest name, in name of hatred.
I know the kindness of my native land.
How vile, that without the slightest quiver
The antisemites have proclaimed themselves
The “Union of the Russian People!”
It seems to me that I am Anna Frank,
Transparent, as the thinnest branch in April,
And I’m in love, and have no need of phrases,
But only that we gaze into each other’s eyes.
How little one can see, or even sense!
Leaves are forbidden, so is sky,
But much is still allowed - very gently
In darkened rooms each other to embrace.
-“They come!”
-“No, fear not - those are sounds
Of spring itself. She’s coming soon.
Quickly, your lips!”
-“They break the door!”
-“No, river ice is breaking…”
Wild grasses rustle over Babi Yar,
The trees look sternly, as if passing judgement.
Here, silently, all screams, and, hat in hand,
I feel my hair changing shade to gray.
And I myself, like one long soundless scream
Above the thousands of thousands interred,
I’m every old man executed here,
As I am every child murdered here.
No fiber of my body will forget this.
May “Internationale” thunder and ring
When, for all time, is buried and forgotten
The last of antisemites on this earth.
There is no Jewish blood that’s blood of mine,
But, hated with a passion that’s corrosive
Am I by antisemites like a Jew.
And that is why I call myself a Russian!
re: #6 darthstar
Move the trial up due to impending budget cuts. Also, Democrats can unseat McCarthy with a handful of cooperating Republicans (there are 18 of them in strong Biden districts), and if McCarthy tries to go scorched earth to protect Trump those people will balk. And Speaker Jeffries will get shit done…turning the GOP ‘majority’ into a silent one…and if those 18 Republicans realize they can change to “Independent Republicans” and likely get reelected, then caucusing with the Democrats (in exchange for a few earmarks for their districts…this is America after all) would be an attractive option.
That is the question, would they get reelected?
They’d likely get primaried from the right
Granted we’re talking not dark red districts…
re: #24 Dangerman
That is the question, would they get reelected?
They’d likely get primaried from the right
Granted we’re talking not dark red districts…
Top Democrats are calling on centrist House Republicans to team up with them to keep the government open after GOP hardliners tanked their party’s short-term funding bill,” NBC News reports.
“That would require breaking with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which even the most moderate Republicans are reluctant to do.”
If you go to the link, it says
Please note that the true name of this location has not been disclosed to prevent theft, vandalism, and arson. Abandoned buildings are vulnerable and I do not want my work contributing to their decline.
…but if you looked at the link, you saw the true name of the location. It’s the factory where Mr. w went on a field trip when he was in school in the 50s. We collected some of their wares. I eat off them every day. They’ve outlived their factory.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced its intention to start regulating tests developed in laboratories — closing the “Theranos loophole” that has allowed inaccurate tests to slip through the cracks.Lawmakers came close last year to passing a bill that would have given the FDA this authority, but it was ultimately rejected by Republicans who sympathized with the labs in academic medical centers and hospitals that opposed the provision. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said at the time that if the bill failed, the agency would take matters into its own hands.
The proposed rule fulfills that promise, adding lab diagnostics to the list of devices that fall under FDA enforcement — a move that patient groups and non-lab test makers support, and that laboratories are likely to dispute. When the FDA started regulating medical devices in 1976, lab-developed tests were simple and offered mostly to local patient populations. The agency generally allowed labs to use these tests without submitting proof of their efficacy.
Stat, September 29, 2023
re: #25 Dangerman
From your article:
“That would require breaking with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which even the most moderate Republicans are reluctant to do.”
R uber alles.
Babi Yar Memorial Park, Denver
Denver 101: A city park’s historic meaning tragically echoes today
magazine.du.edu
re: #25 Dangerman
God forbid they would put country over party just once.
I hate to link Musk but this is a great video.
💙💛Best Video Ever!
This is a great reminder that we all need to be patient and believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine!
🙏Please share far and wide!
Please note: While the wording makes sense in English it’s important to point out that some of the Ukrainian words in the video… pic.twitter.com/UJNvuke53H— Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) September 29, 2023
re: #13 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿
Tomorrow’s Wordle is gonna piss off more than a few people, I reckon.
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Always enjoy your commentary — since it gives an early warning about what we will be facing here. Hope you will be posting again on a regular basis.
Re: hard mode. There was an article I read last year (don’t recall where) that objected strongly to hard mode because it restricts the the ability to find letters: for example, if you are missing one letter but there are 4 options, you cannot burn a single word to determine which of the 4 is the solution — instead you have to try each one separately. You might be lucky to get it in one — or maybe not
San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2023
The gruesome discovery spoke to a ghastly crime.
On the afternoon of July 20, someone using a waterfront trail in Alameda spotted a large garbage bag wrapped in duct tape that smelled as if it was full of dead fish from the bay. When responding officers looked inside, they found the dismembered remains of a young woman whose head, hands and feet had been removed.
Investigators would extract a pair of DNA profiles from the duct tape on the bag. One belonged to Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner, a young mother and spoken-word poet who had just graduated from a San Francisco law school. The other, police now say, belonged to her killer — her boyfriend and onetime law school classmate Joseph Carl Roberts, suspected of using an electric saw to try to obscure his victim’s identity.
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Just listened to that Surfer Girl on the pedal steel. Can think of a couple of pedal steel moments that stand out (like seeing KDTU at Bonnaroo in 2004) but the one that stands out was a Teal Leaf Green / ALO show at the Independent in San Francisco where they did a ‘tweener set’ with both bands and billed it as a third act: Guitarmageddon. One guy on the pedal steel (can’t remember who) was off the hook as they played a few classic rock songs, the crowning jewel of which was about a 9 minute version of Fat Bottom Girls to end the set. Still feel that song when I think about it.
re: #16 BeenHereAwhile
Scott has flipped and received probation - should I be next to avoid mandatory 5 years?
(what Fani Willis has his co-defendants thinking)
Scott Hall was sentenced to five years probation
Gets a $5,000 fine
200 hours of community service
Can’t participate in any “polling activities” while on probation
Must write a letter of apology to Georgia citizens
Must testify honestly in any future proceedings in the case
Under GA statutes Hall’s co-defendants face if convicted, mandatory 5 years before being eligible for probation, reduction of sentence, or pardon.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In weakening Title IX enforcement, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promoted this guy as a victim of sex discrimination at Savannah University.
ABC’s “Nightline” had him on. USA Today let him write an op-ed about how men are lied about by women all the time in sexual assault or harassment cases.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
how ghastly! how typical of that horror
re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The NightCafe voters did not appreciate my submission to No-Theme Thursday:
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re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
Wordle talk. YHBW.
I said this in our SibChat earlier:
“Hard mode” is fake difficulty - it stops you from being smart, and it also stops you from making dumb mistakes.
“Stops you being smart” - as you said, no way to eliminate multiple choices.
“Stops dumb mistakes” - we’ve all done it: missed a known letter from a subsequent guess. Hard mode protects you from yourself.
Mastodon links will go Link Only if you correct them. Mastodon is cool and all but it also fucks up its own shit if you edit it.
re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The NightCafe voters did not appreciate my submission to No-Theme Thursday:
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That’s the best AI art I’ve seen yet. Well played.
re: #44 teleskiguy
Mom…can you take me up to the ridge so I can ski down?
Again? I’ve taken you for five laps already and I’m getting low on fuel.
re: #47 darthstar
Not how it went down but HOLY SHIT would’ve been wholly cool if that was the real story.
Say it isn’t so! Trump’s stunt at the gun store may have been a violation of his bond.
re: #49 darthstar
It won’t matter. Fuckface is more or less above the law right now.
re: #51 wrenchwench
She’s prematurely gray like I am.
She became a grey hair in her 30s raising me and my sister. I showed her this picture a while back and she was astonished at how *white* her hair was.
How to See the ‘Ring of Fire’ Annular Solar Eclipse of October 14 (Phil Plait in Scientific American, September 29, 2023)
Importantly, Professor Plait notes that the eclipse glasses you used for the last one in 2017 you should not use now, as the screening can fade in the plastic. You should also not wear welder’s glasses or a welder’s helmet.
All of North America will see at least a partial eclipse (technically, an annular eclipse is also a partial eclipse). The path is shown at EclipseWise.
re: #44 teleskiguy
This pic just KILLS me. That was a weird day. Mom crashed her snowmobile once and it took a half hour to extract her and get everyone back together. She ended up riding with me as a passenger the last 10 miles.
re: #55 teleskiguy
This pic just KILLS me. That was a weird day. Mom crashed her snowmobile once and it took a half hour to extract her and get everyone back together. She ended up riding with me as a passenger the last 10 miles.
Your mother is tougher than I am.
re: #42 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿
Wordle talk. YHBW.
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The member of my group who took 5 Friday said that it was because she overlooked a letter that she had. I’ve done that too. My standard strategy involves 2 starting words — and that would be outlawed by hard mode.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Your mother is tougher than I am.
Those Sunlight snowmobile tours in recent years have done A LOT to strengthen the bonds between me and my parents.
What happened the winter after this picture and all the descriptions… WAS MUCH WORSE. I’ll leave it at that for now. Everyone survived and no one had to go to the hospital. It was SO MUCH WORSE and *scared* me pretty good.
re: #41 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
It’s fetching as it is, but my recommendations:
1) use Stable Inpainting 2.0 to get rid of the faux signature line;
2) then use Image to Image on the corrected version from (1) above. Try using SDXL as the version of SD to use, but keep Noise Weight low, around 20% to start.
One never knows what these ML algorithms will throw out, but the above is what I do if I want to see if I can improve an image.
re: #58 teleskiguy
What happened the winter after this picture and all the descriptions… WAS MUCH WORSE. I’ll leave it at that for now. Everyone survived and no one had to go to the hospital. It was SO MUCH WORSE and *scared* me pretty good.
This was the scariest thing I’d ever seen, just made my blood cold. I’m behind on a snowmobile and a convoy of us fuckers on snowmobiles is about to go up a steep switchback. I’m two snowmobiles behind my parents - Dad piloting and Mom on the backseat (think motorcyccles). Well, Dad fucked up and he rolled over the snowmobile on a steep sharp curve on the uphill.
I saw the whole thing. My blood ran cold. I got up there with my machine as soon as I could, got off and dug my Dad out (he was upside down). My machine went backwards and stopped after it flipped over when it hit a tree.
That was the last time I went snowmobiling with Mom and Dad.
No pictures because there was trauma along the way.
re: #60 teleskiguy
Mom and I talk about this trip every so often. It was dangerous and weird and everyone walked away. Talk about that shit!
On that image Elno posted of him toting a .50 cal rifle, he once posted a picture of his nightstand with a movie prop pistol claiming it was real.
Since he’s a conservative, there’s a very real possibility he’s lying about the rifle as well.
So I’m working on this bike, and I need to take the cranks off, because they and everything behind them are filthy. I don’t have a crank bolt wrench. I didn’t like the one I saw at a bike shop, then the other 3 bike shops had none. Thrift stores rarely had socket sets, and yard sales rarely had metric. Today, an ‘estate sale’ (house and garage contents) had a bin half full of sockets, with a few drivers, etc. I gave up looking, and the guy working the sale asked me what I was after. I told him, and he put the bin under better light, and started rummaging. I went to look around in the house. I was in the last room, and the garage guy came in with the size I was looking for, and the little set it came out of and said $3 for all. I got it home and dumped it the rest of the way out, cleaned the case, stuck all the sockets in it (just missing the driver-adapter for the little ones). Then I went to the bike, and found out I could unscrew the fucking crank bolts with my fingers.
My friend bought this bike at the local bike coop, and I’m overhauling it for her. There has been a lot of loose stuff. Truing the rear wheel was an adventure. It was true, but not round, and of course not true after I rounded it. My built in bias is being reinforced: never trust another bike mechanic.
The White House, today
President Biden starts by acknowledging the death of Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), then speaks about the remarkable life of Gen. Mark A. Milley.
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Haven’t seen a lot of postings about Feinstein.
All those clamoring for her resignation can now be quiet.
National Military Family Association, yesterday
What Can You Expect from the Veterans Administration in a Shutdown?
With shutdown looming, many military families are asking about what they can expect from the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Veterans Administration (VA). While we don’t yet have guidance from DoD, here’s what we know from VA.
The good news is that most VA operations will continue without interruption if there is a shutdown. That’s because health care through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and mandatory benefit payments to veterans are funded through an advance appropriation. Still other programs will be “excepted” from the shutdown and will continue to operate
(more at the link, including what will continue and what will halt).
I’m off to watch the cinematic masterpiece my wife picked for tonight:
“Jurassic Shark” (R, 2014)
It was the lowest-rated movie on IMDB after pushing out Kirk Cameron’s “Saving Christmas” in 2014. It was pushed to second-place in September 2015.
Jurassic Shark (IMDB, an hour and a half I’m sure I’ll never get back)
Plot: When an oil company unwittingly unleashes a prehistoric shark from its icy prison, the Jurassic killer maroons a group of thieves and beautiful young female college students on an abandoned island.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This, by the way, is the first of a trilogy of movies. I can’t wait.
Did you know that m.2 SSDs can operate as high as 70C and still be considered to be working normally?
You know a movie’s bad when the adverts are the best part.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m off to watch the cinematic masterpiece my wife picked for tonight:
“Jurassic Shark” (R, 2014)
It was the lowest-rated movie on IMDB after pushing out Kirk Cameron’s “Saving Christmas” in 2014. It was pushed to second-place in September 2015.
Jurassic Shark (IMDB, an hour and a half I’m sure I’ll never get back)
Plot: When an oil company unwittingly unleashes a prehistoric shark from its icy prison, the Jurassic killer maroons a group of thieves and beautiful young female college students on an abandoned island.
Good Zod, that sounds like something Mike and the bots would have savaged the hell out of back in the day.
re: #72 Belafon
Did you know that m.2 SSDs can operate as high as 70C and still be considered to be working normally?
I had an Nvidia card that was completely functional at 85C. There was nothing wrong with it.
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Haven’t seen a lot of postings about Feinstein.
All those clamoring for her resignation can now be quiet.
The same people still complained about RBG not retiring—after she was interred. They still do, and will complain about Feinstein as well.
re: #74 Targetpractice
Good Zod, that sounds like something Mike and the bots would have savaged the hell out of back in the day.
I was right. That’s an hour and a half I’ll never get back.
Great Scott, that was bad. It makes “Plan 9 from Outer Space” seem like a good movie.
The lawyer who crafted Texas’s infamous Senate Bill 8 (the so-called abortion bounty hunter bill) is now in court seeking to get abortion aid funds to turn over all data on every single person they’ve helped seek an abortion since 2021.
This includes the city and state where each patient lived, the names of the abortion providers, and the identities of nearly every person who helped the patients access abortion care.
Earlier this month, Jonathan Mitchell — himself not a Texan but based in Washington state — served requests to nine Texas abortion funds and one Texas doctor. The brazen attempt to acquire sensitive information about abortion patients and the funds that assist them is a disturbing turn in the ongoing legal battle over Texas’s six-week abortion ban.
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Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court (The Intercept, September 29, 2023)
“The lawyer behind Texas’s bounty hunter abortion ban is retaliating against people who get abortions and those who help them.”
re: #76 Sherlock Hound
The same people still complained about RBG not retiring—after she was interred. They still do, and will complain about Feinstein as well.
Yup. Already come across them on Xitter. Whining about her not retiring … even though she’s dead.
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Sounds like he wants a HIPAA lawsuit.
re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Sounds like he wants a HIPAA lawsuit.
Sounds like he wants to get it in front of the US Supreme Court.
Reihenweise Unfälle in Musks Gigafabrik - und die Politik unternimmt nichts (Stern, in German, September 28, 2023)
The article details Elon Musk’s terrible safety record in his German factory. 247 ambulance calls the first year, furnace injuries, acid burns, amputations.
“The car manufacturer Tesla in Germany was considered a success story: an exciting global company in the Brandenburg province. But Stern research shows how politicians have handed themselves over to Elon Musk’s company. It even accepts serious violations of occupational safety and environmental regulations.”
re: #79 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yup. Already come across them on Xitter. Whining about her not retiring … even though she’s dead.
The silver lining is that because SCOTUS dropped the frog into a pot of boiling water by reversing Roe v. Wade, the frog has jumped, whereas if Roberts’ strategy of slowly eroding Roe away had been followed, voters would still be sitting there, blissfully unaware, voting Republicans into power.
re: #79 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yup. Already come across them on Xitter. Whining about her not retiring … even though she’s dead.
They’re all over BlueSky, arguing she was busy honouring the Confederacy.
This particular article in San Francisco Bay View (a Black news oriented newspaper) shows the photograph of a man named Richard Bradley cutting down the Confederate flag from the flagpole in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 15, 1984 is cited as evidence.
It’s true: As San Francisco mayor, Dianne Feinstein did repeatedly fly a Confederate flag in front of City Hall (April 2, 2019)
re: #83 No Malarkey!
The silver lining is that because SCOTUS dropped the frog into a pot of boiling water by reversing Roe v. Wade, the frog has jumped, whereas if Roberts’ strategy of slowly eroding Roe away had been followed, voters would still be sitting there, blissfully unaware, voting Republicans into power.
Referring to RBG here, not Feinstein, who will seamlessly be replaced by another Democrat.
Law & Crime also reported on the issue of the Confederate flag in San Francisco (February 27, 2018)
California’s senior Senator Dianne Feinstein once fought and and pushed for the prosecution of black activists who opposed her repeated efforts to fly the Confederate flag at San Francisco City Hall.
In the aftermath of Feinstein’s humiliation at the hands of progressive activists who denied her the endorsement of the California Democratic Party over the weekend, progressives are taking note of this key detail from Feinstein’s political past.
In 1984, Feinstein was the mayor of San Francisco-a job she inherited in 1978 after the dual assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. She was elected to this position in 1979 and again in 1983.
Also in 1984, was the Democratic National Convention. Heavy media speculation suggested Feinstein was in the running for Walter Mondale’s vice-presidential pick. Feinstein wanted this job badly and made moves to increase her visibility and highlight her moderate brand of politics.
One such move quickly presented itself: punching to her left.
Early in the year, Feinstein okayed the flying of the “Stained Banner”-also known as the Confederate battle flag-at City Hall as part of a “historic display.”
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Bloomberg out here with a new hot take for capitalists (in this case airlines, by pushing a particular drug)
Weight-Loss Drugs Estimated to Save Airlines Millions (September 29, 2023, paywalled)
Airlines and planemakers obsess about reducing jet-fuel consumption by constantly finding new ways to reduce aircraft weight. They may have new allies in Ozempic and other similar slimming medications.
United Airlines Holdings Inc. would save $80 million a year if the average passenger weight falls by 10 pounds, Sheila Kahyaoglu, a Jefferies Financial analyst, estimated in a report Friday. Her work was part of a broader Jefferies analysis of public enthusiasm for the drug and potential beneficiaries of its use.
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re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Then the airlines will really love Mounjaro as it’s more effective:
re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Then the airlines will really love Mounjaro as it’s more effective:
The list price of Mounjaro is about $1,023 per fill, which is equal to a month’s supply or four injector pens, according to Eli Lilly.
Pass that on to airline ticket buyers. /s
Remains of the Russian SU-35S downed in Tokmak area yesterday. It was allegedly hit by Russian air defence. pic.twitter.com/gbNhdH921J
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) September 30, 2023
Russian air defense takes out Russian plane, again. Fratricide is a real problem, and implementing a proper Identify-Friend-or-Foe solution that is secure and can’t be spoofed requires a lot of investment and coordination. Russia evidently doesn’t have that.
re: #90 ericblair
We call that “blue-on-blue”. I guess the Russians can call it “red-on-red” in Russian.
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It’s approaching 4am in Mythical Time Zone, so I’m going to skip off to bed. (I’m not going to skip; I’d probably break my ankle).
Like the European Ryder Cup team, everything is coming up Birbie! Fair warning: This could be an interesting one.
As for the Ryder Cup, the Europeans won one of the matches this morning 9 & 7 - an utter butt-kicking and the largest margin of victory ever in Ryder Cup competition.
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We found Moderna booster at the local Walmart yesterday. I woke up with a stiff shoulder, nothing else wrong.
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I’m off to watch the cinematic masterpiece my wife picked for tonight:
“Jurassic Shark” (R, 2014)
It was the lowest-rated movie on IMDB after pushing out Kirk Cameron’s “Saving Christmas” in 2014. It was pushed to second-place in September 2015.
Jurassic Shark (IMDB, an hour and a half I’m sure I’ll never get back)
Plot: When an oil company unwittingly unleashes a prehistoric shark from its icy prison, the Jurassic killer maroons a group of thieves and beautiful young female college students on an abandoned island.
Sharks don’t go after “ugly”
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This, by the way, is the first of a trilogy of movies. I can’t wait.
I sort of know the feeling.
Mrsdm controls what we watch.
To be fair, I ceded that onerous responsibility long ago
Now former President Trump and the Republicans are making bears starve! Those bastards! I hope someone tells the bears.
A looming government shutdown threatens to claw its way into a crowd-pleasing Alaska tradition: Fat Bear Week.
Alaska’s most-watched popularity contest, Fat Bear Week involves residents picking their favorite fat brown bear who’s been stocking up for winter by noshing on salmon in Katmai National Park & Preserve.
Viewers of the bears online vote in tournament-style brackets for those they want to advance to the next round until a champion is crowned in the weeklong contest.
More than 1 million votes were cast last year.
Problem is, national park employees count and release those votes — and a shutdown won’t allow them to do so because it would trigger a ban on using the park’s official social media accounts for as long as the government is closed.
Watched the first three episodes of Gen V on Amazon. A spinoff from The Boys, it’s setting is a takeoff on the X-Men and the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.
Jaz Sinclair is terrific as the lead character, as are Lizze Broadway and London Thor. Also featured is Patrick Schwarzenegger. Yes, the son of The Terminator and Maria Shriver.
If you’ve seen The Boys, you will know what to expect: Biting satire, over-the-top violence, male anatomy, and a truly kickass soundtrack.
re: #21 jaunte
1389 over and over and over and over…
That was the Serbian equivalent of the Alamo story.
According to legend, Serbian Prince Lazar had a vision from the Prophet Elijah that he could go out and win the battle against the Turks and enjoy an earthly empire which would someday fall, or lose gloriously and win a heavenly emprie that would endure forever…
re: #38 Joe Bacon ✅
Stewpid Peters openly calling for overthrowing the government and ending all elections.
Again, it has all been downhill since we expanded the political franchise beyond landowning white males.
re: #55 teleskiguy
This pic just KILLS me. That was a weird day. Mom crashed her snowmobile once and it took a half hour to extract her and get everyone back together. She ended up riding with me as a passenger the last 10 miles.
At least you got her out before the ice weasels came…
re: #97 Shropshire Slasher
Fun facts about Missing Persons lead singer Dale Bozzio: She worked with Frank Zappa and appeared on the cover of Hustler twice.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I was right. That’s an hour and a half I’ll never get back.
Great Scott, that was bad. It makes “Plan 9 from Outer Space” seem like a good movie.
Plan 9 is one of those rare gems that falls into the “so-bad-it’s-good” category.
Others are just irredeemably bad.
Off to another medieval market with my daughter.
But not in costume, even though I would get a reduced entry free. Last time I went as a barefoot beggar and managed to pick up a nasty erysepialis infection in my leg through a cut or crack in my foot.
Virulent skin diseases. How authentically medieval
It is healing but I am still on antibiotics from it. I will just go sit down and watch the jousting. It is very authentic, they use bamboo poles with a section of spaghetti that shatters on contact.
raw spaghetti of course
Sir Lasagnecelot
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Off to another medieval market with my daughter.
But not in costume, even though I would get a reduced entry free. Last time I went as a barefoot beggar and managed to pick up a nasty erysepialis infection in my leg through a cut or crack in my foot.
Virulent skin diseases. How authentically medieval
It is healing but I am still on antibiotics from it. I will just go sit down and watch the jousting. It is very authentic, they use bamboo poles with a section of spaghetti that shatters on contact.
raw spaghetti of course
Sir Lasagnecelot
Emergency Room Nurse: “Second one today. At least it isn’t rotinni>”
So, I had my first ‘interview’ (I put it in quotes because it was more a talk to see if I was interested, they haven’t seen my CV, so they’re going off of personal interaction and my time at FDA) with Intertek. Pretty sure it’s just can they come back to me with an offer I will accept. Next week to hear the response my requirements and then a couple of weeks and meet with the next level up boss lady. Basically, they want my mentoring abilities for junior staff and my knowledge of FDA’s needs. Will only need 35% of time as billable hours, so that’s a positive. Perequisites seem pretty decent, the looming shutdown of unknowable time puts an interesting delay if I decide to take the job. I’m pretty excited.
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The lawyer who crafted Texas’s infamous Senate Bill 8 (the so-called abortion bounty hunter bill) is now in court seeking to get abortion aid funds to turn over all data on every single person they’ve helped seek an abortion since 2021.
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Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court (The Intercept, September 29, 2023)
“The lawyer behind Texas’s bounty hunter abortion ban is retaliating against people who get abortions and those who help them.”
Six Radical Xtians on the corrupted Supreme Court are OK with this.
re: #27 wrenchwench
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New old stock!
Guess come Monday it’s time to tap into the rainy day fund since it looks like this latest Republican shutdown is gonna go for quite a while.
Josh’s take at Talking Points Memo:
As of today we are seeing more and more reporting that House Freedom Caucus hardliners may actually force a vote on Kevin McCarthy’s speakership and drive him from office. Like, not the, “we might do this!!!” we’ve heard more or less constantly for the last nine months but, “hey, this might actually happen.” One report said insiders don’t think McCarthy will last past December. While I’m skeptical, I certainly wouldn’t rule it out. But let’s remind ourselves that this isn’t a relationship coming apart at the seams or a system going haywire. It’s a system — that of the post-2010 House GOP caucus — working exactly as intended.
The relationship between the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) and a nominally mainstream Republican Speaker is necessary and symbiotic. They not only both need each other; they couldn’t be what they are without the other. We had this with John Boehner and we have it with Kevin McCarthy. The only thing that made Paul Ryan’s tenure slightly different was that his time as Speaker coincided almost entirely with Trump’s presidency, which changed the dynamic.
In practice the HFC — made up of four dozen or so members — controls the great majority of the Republican caucus. They will do what the HFC wants, albeit with various levels of whining. But a member of the HFC could never actually become Speaker. They’d be too toxic nationally, too unpresentable for the main stage. Far more importantly, they could never assemble the votes to pass any of their legislation. They’d fail at it infinitely worse than McCarthy has. They’d be saddled with the fact that they are, in fact, the problem. Not Boehner, not McCarthy, not this or that Deep State RINO behind the tree. Them.
McCarthy meanwhile could never actually remain plausible both in official D.C. and press circles and with GOP partisans nationwide without his HFC partners. It’s the drama of purportedly being stretched to the limits on the rack of HFC demands that allows him to keep one hand in each place simultaneously. “I’m trying to be the adult in the room,” you might imagine him telling the insiders of polite D.C., “but what would you have me do???”
The two sides couldn’t exist without the other. I sometimes imagine that only an anthropologist from a foreign country speaking a different language could ever persuasively explain the intricacies of this quite functional framework to most of official Washington. They give little evidence of really grasping it.
To illustrate the dynamic let’s assume Matt Gaetz actually forces McCarthy’s ouster. What then? We’re seeing chatter that members of HFC and members of the “Main Street” group are looking for a so-called “unity candidate” to replace McCarthy and thus make his ouster possible. Think how preposterous this is: The real and only beef with McCarthy is that he has not delivered the goods for House hardliners. In fact, he has dedicated his whole Speakership to delivering their goods. (Again, this is a functional system, working as intended.) He has done so to the point where the House is now entirely incapable of functioning — not only incapable of negotiating with the Senate and White House but incapable of figuring out what it might want to negotiate. He has greenlit their impeachment inquiry which rolled into a ditch on its first day out and he has increasingly endangered the couple dozen Republicans sitting in non-single party seats. McCarthy already is the unity candidate. There’s no unity possibility between the HFC and Republicans not sitting in single party districts. They want diametrically opposed things.
Of course, the choreographed jostling can occasionally get out of hand leading to a change of power. Boehner was never booted. He decided to leave on his own. Maybe Gaetz, based on his own ferality, will force the matter. Perhaps our foreign anthropologist would explain to us that the hardliners must, every few years, run a skewer up through the gut of a Speaker and roast them alive over a fire just to keep people thinking the whole thing is real. Who knows?
In other words, maybe they really will oust Kevin McCarthy. But he can only be replaced by another Kevin McCarthy. That’s the system. And like most stable systems, that’s how they perpetuate themselves.
Yikes.
U.S.
Illinois semitruck crash causes”multiple fatalities,” ammonia leak evacuation for residents
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 / 8:32 AM / CBS/APA semitruck carrying anhydrous ammonia overturned in Illinois, causing “multiple fatalities,” Illinois State Police confirmed to CBS News on Saturday. The leak prompted an evacuation of area residents, police said.
The accident, which involved “multiple” vehicles, happened about a half-mile east of Teutopolis on U.S. Highway 40 on Friday at about 9:25 p.m., police said.
Due to the plume from the ammonia leak, an evacuation was ordered within an approximate one-mile radius of the crash, including northeastern parts of Teutopolis, police said.
“At this time, there are multiple fatalities,” the statement said. The number of deaths was not immediately disclosed.
I am tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.
re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
I am tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.
Just wait until her movie drops on 13 October. It’s gonna be wall-to-wall Taylor Swift.
re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
I am tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.
If she keeps inspiring her fans to register to vote and her message to them that Republicans can’t be trusted in government sinks in, then I’m willing to put up with another year of her popularity and advocacy.
Next year T. Swift will be dating a player from the WNBA.
Who’s your papa!
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re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
No you’re not… you’re the one bringing her up here…lol!
re: #122 darthstar
If she keeps inspiring her fans to register to vote and her message to them that Republicans can’t be trusted in government sinks in, then I’m willing to put up with another year of her popularity and advocacy.
That’s why he’s tired of hearing about her.
“It is theater.” Fox News guests admit the Biden impeachment inquiry is simply designed to distract from Trump’s upcoming trials. (Video: Fox News) pic.twitter.com/wDuKij5vtE
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) September 29, 2023
Breaking: Watch Republican witnesses admit this impeachment trial is a sham. pic.twitter.com/oOAPR44CYX
— Biden’s Wins (@BidensWins) September 28, 2023
re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
I am tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.
Wall-to-wall coverage on the Daily Mail?
re: #50 wrenchwench
My hometown.
It’s rapidly becoming an American city. Empty downtown after dark and not that safe.
I thought of several possibilities. I picked the most ridiculous one.
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re: #130 Romantic Heretic
My hometown.
It’s rapidly becoming an American city. Empty downtown after dark and not that safe.
I mean no disrespect, but most American cities aren’t that bad. I can imagine Toronto has had its places of, shall we say, seedy repute for quite some time, like most major cities in the world.
re: #127 Belafon
That’s why he’s tired of hearing about her.
He’s trolling. The comment about dating a WNBA woman is gross. We don’t care, but obviously he’s continuing his in his bigotry.
re: #135 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
He’s trolling. The comment about dating a WNBA woman is gross. We don’t care, but obviously he’s continuing his in his bigotry.
My bigotry or yours?
re: #98 Dangerman
Sharks don’t go after “ugly”
OMG: “Jurassic Shark”!!!
I watched that once while surfing Hulu’s free “Horror” bin just because it looked so bad. And I was right. INHO, it really straddles the line between “so bad it’s good” and just “bad”. And then falls down on the “just bad” side….
NPR was talking about the upcoming shutdown and explicitly said that McCarthy had to choose between funding government or appeasing the hardliners and he chose the latter.
re: #123 Shropshire Slasher
And your point is?
The orange turd is really just asking to be put in a jail cell.
In his filing today, Jack Smith states that Trump “either purchased a gun in violation of the law and his conditions of release” when he claimed that he purchased a Glock in MI, “or seeks to benefit from his supporters’ mistaken belief that he did.” 👀 pic.twitter.com/5jwwpSqwgD
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 30, 2023
re: #138 Belafon
NPR was talking about the upcoming shutdown and explicitly said that McCarthy had to choose between funding government or appeasing the hardliners and he chose the latter.
What’s worse, according to the TPM article posted above, the House Freedom Caucus only has 44 members That means that the bulk of the so-called moderates and centrists are also choosing to support the hardliners through passivity.
re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Then the airlines will really love Mounjaro as it’s more effective:
Ms. Cyborg takes Mounjaro to manage her diabetes, but she has also lost 50lbs since going on it and is back to a weight she hadn’t seen since her 20s.
re: #141 Barefoot Grin
What’s worse, according to the TPM article posted above, the House Freedom Caucus only has 44 members That means that the bulk of the so-called moderates and centrists are also choosing to support the hardliners through passivity.
There are 11 people burning down all of our libraries.
re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
I am tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.
Oh come on now, shake it off.
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re: #123 Shropshire Slasher
Next year T. Swift will be dating a player from the WNBA.
The song will be glorious.
re: #141 Barefoot Grin
What’s worse, according to the TPM article posted above, the House Freedom Caucus only has 44 members That means that the bulk of the so-called moderates and centrists are also choosing to support the hardliners through passivity.
I think the key word here is “so-called”. Yeah, the HFC may only have 44 card-carriers, but it’s likely a lot of those other 178 (80% of the House GOP caucus), are either in agreement with the aims of the nutbars, or -at best - indifferent to their shenanigans: they just don’t want to embarrass themselves by too close an association (or stir up the slavering MAGA mob by opposing them too vigorously).
re: #111 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
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re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
Taylor Swift’s music is far from my cup of tea, but I have sincere respect for how she’s managed to own her own masters and out-fuck the music industry at its own game.
re: #148 Jay C
I think the majority of the House Republicans agree with the Freedumb Caucus on at least one of their pet causes (anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion, anti-Black people, anti-immigrant, etc.), but not necessarily all. They are also politically savvy enough to know that associating with nutbars like Margarine Tater-Greens and Matt “Gaspedal” Gaetz is not the way to get those policies implemented.
Here, Brandon Tenold takes a look at The Meteor Man - arguably, the first Black superhero film, featuring a predominantly Black cast, and written, directed and starring Robert Townsend.
The film didn’t exactly do well. But Brandon’s take is his usual snarky one. That being said, it had a solid cast and doesn’t seem like too bad a film. Better than Jurassic Shark, to be sure.
re: #154 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Same for me. She’s talented AF and the real deal. She’s got moxie.
re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
I am tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.
I’m lukewarm about her music, but I adore that she’s overt about being pro-choice, pro-gay rights, anti-Trump, appalled at the current Supreme Court, registering voters, and she gave everybody on her tour (some 500 people in a crew that has 90 trucks worth of equipment and busloads of other staffers) bonuses of $100,000 each.
Until 2017 her politics were strictly “decline to state”, but when white supremacists tried to make her their princess she was motivated to go public with how liberal and woke she actually is.
re: #111 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
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re: #114 Joe Bacon ✅
Six Radical Xtians on the corrupted Supreme Court are OK with this.
I think that this would be a bridge too far for them. I cannot imagine Roberts or Gorsuch supporting this HIPAA violation.
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
I think that this would be a bridge too far for them. I cannot imagine Roberts or Gorsuch supporting this HIPAA violation.
I have no confidence in a totally corrupted court.
re: #131 Nerdy Fish
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Like the European Ryder Cup team, everything is coming up Birbie! Fair warning: This could be an interesting one.
As for the Ryder Cup, the Europeans won one of the matches this morning 9 & 7 - an utter butt-kicking and the largest margin of victory ever in Ryder Cup competition.
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re: #123 Shropshire Slasher
Next year T. Swift will be dating a player from the WNBA.
It’s rare that someone can sexist, racist, and homophobic all in one fell swoop.
Hmmmm…Fox News gonna cover this?????
Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office under scrutiny for spending: ‘Clear and convincing evidence’ of misconduct
A whistleblower has accused Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office of misconduct.
Rogers-based attorney Tom Mars sent a letter to state Sen. Jimmy Hickey (R-Texarkana) offering testimony from the whistleblower and documents to show the governor’s office improperly altered and withheld public records related to its spending, reported News from the States.
“The letter says Mars’ client ‘can provide clear and convincing evidence’ that Sanders’ office altered and withheld documents that Little Rock attorney and blogger Matt Campbell of the Blue Hog Report requested in recent weeks,” the website reported. “Campbell has been scrutinizing and reporting Sanders’ use of the Arkansas State Police airplane for in-state travel as well as her office’s spending habits and purchase of the lectern from an out-of-state events company with a state-issued credit card.”
Hickey asked the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee on Wednesday to investigate the purchase of a $19,000 lectern and the retroactive shielding of government records after Sander signed new exemptions for the Freedom of Information Act.
The whistleblower accused the governor’s communications director Alexa Henning of altering a FOIA-accessible document to change the meaning and directed state officials not to share the original with the blogger and also withheld other documents that showed Amazon purchases by Sanders’ office.
Sanders’ staff also removed portions of FOIA-accessible email threads and directed an attorney who oversaw FOIA responses for the state to alter the contents of a flash drive for the governor’s office.
Just waiting for her to follow in Daddy’s footsteps and let killers out of jail…
Gee what is Christopher Rufo up to now?
No enemies to the right’: DeSantis ally hosts debate hedging white nationalism
You won’t find this in the New York Times and gee I wonder why?
Christopher Rufo’s Twitter space discussed conservatives cooperating with extremists ‘to destroy the power of the left’
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who is a close ally of Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, hosted a social media debate in which one participant argued that conservatives should cooperate with a hypothetical white nationalist dictator “in order to destroy the power of the left”.
Rufo, a Manhattan Institute fellow who has been a hugely influential figure in DeSantis’ culture war policies in Florida, did not disagree with the sentiments. Instead he commended speakers for their “thoughtful points” and presenting the discussion as a model for engagement with “the dissident right”.
Rufo is a high-profile conservative activist who in books, columns, media appearances and a Substack newsletter has encouraged conservatives to oppose “wokeness”. He has been credited with mobilizing conservatives against communities of color, first with a distorted version of critical race theory; then by linking LGBTQ-inclusive education practices to pedophilic “grooming”.
Rufo hosted the debate on X, the social media network formerly known as Twitter.
Participating in the debate was Charles Haywood, a former shampoo magnate who the Guardian previously reported is a would-be “warlord” who founded a secretive, men-only fraternal society, the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR).
The debate concerned Haywood’s promotion of a strategy he calls “no enemies to the right”, which urges people on the right to avoid any public criticism of others in their camp, including extremists.
Early in the Rufo-hosted discussion last Tuesday, Haywood raised the hypothetical possibility early in the discussion: “Let’s say a real white nationalist arose who had real political power … and therefore [could] be of assistance against the left.”
Responding to the hypothetical, Haywood said: “I think that the answer is that you should cooperate with that person in order to destroy the power of the left.”
Later in the broadcast, Haywood responded to concerns about rightwing authoritarianism by saying: “When we’re talking about people like Franco or Pinochet or even Salazar … they did kill people. They killed people justly, they killed people unjustly, and that’s just a historical fact.”
“But,” Haywood added, “they saved a lot more people than they killed.”
You know who Haywood wants to kill first. Hint—a 4 letter word that starts with…”J”…
OMG — made a mistake but hope I cancelled fast enough.
Cleaning out my AOL account which had 28,000 unread emails in New Mail as of yesterday morning. Got it down to about 11,000 today — and got suckered in by one that included a link to unsubscribe. Clicked on it and then realized —- not a good idea. So cancelled out. Hope it wasn’t too late.
re: #177 Joe Bacon ✅
Gee what is Christopher Rufo up to now?
No enemies to the right’: DeSantis ally hosts debate hedging white nationalism
Christopher Rufo’s Twitter space discussed conservatives cooperating with extremists ‘to destroy the power of the left’
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who is a close ally of Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, hosted a social media debate in which one participant argued that conservatives should cooperate with a hypothetical white nationalist dictator “in order to destroy the power of the left”.
Rufo, a Manhattan Institute fellow who has been a hugely influential figure in DeSantis’ culture war policies in Florida, did not disagree with the sentiments. Instead he commended speakers for their “thoughtful points” and presenting the discussion as a model for engagement with “the dissident right”.
Rufo is a high-profile conservative activist who in books, columns, media appearances and a Substack newsletter has encouraged conservatives to oppose “wokeness”. He has been credited with mobilizing conservatives against communities of color, first with a distorted version of critical race theory; then by linking LGBTQ-inclusive education practices to pedophilic “grooming”.
Rufo hosted the debate on X, the social media network formerly known as Twitter.
Participating in the debate was Charles Haywood, a former shampoo magnate who the Guardian previously reported is a would-be “warlord” who founded a secretive, men-only fraternal society, the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR).
The debate concerned Haywood’s promotion of a strategy he calls “no enemies to the right”, which urges people on the right to avoid any public criticism of others in their camp, including extremists.
Early in the Rufo-hosted discussion last Tuesday, Haywood raised the hypothetical possibility early in the discussion: “Let’s say a real white nationalist arose who had real political power … and therefore [could] be of assistance against the left.”
Responding to the hypothetical, Haywood said: “I think that the answer is that you should cooperate with that person in order to destroy the power of the left.”
Later in the broadcast, Haywood responded to concerns about rightwing authoritarianism by saying: “When we’re talking about people like Franco or Pinochet or even Salazar … they did kill people. They killed people justly, they killed people unjustly, and that’s just a historical fact.”
“But,” Haywood added, “they saved a lot more people than they killed.”
You know who Haywood wants to kill first. Hint—a 4 letter word that starts with…”J”…
Isn’t Rufo now in charge of Florida’s formerly-functioning New College
I wonder how the students feel about the school leadership hanging out with Nazis in his free time?
re: #179 Unabogie
Isn’t Rufo now in charge of Florida’s formerly-functioning New College
I wonder how the students feel about the school leadership hanging out with Nazis in his free time?
Why yes ilDuce’s sidekick is running, er, ruining Florida’s New College.
He’s gladly admitting every third rate jock to that college he can get his hands on.
re: #180 Joe Bacon ✅
Why yes ilDuce’s sidekick is running, er, ruining Florida’s New College.
He’s gladly admitting every third rate jock to that college he can get his hands on.
Yep - because he can’t get any regular students; they all abandoned ship when he turned it into his model college for conservative groupthink.
re: #157 BigPapa
Same for me. She’s talented AF and the real deal. She’s got moxie.
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re: #181 Nerdy Fish
Yep - because he can’t get any regular students; they all abandoned ship when he turned it into his model college for conservative groupthink.
My impression was that some couldn’t depart because they did not have the resources to move out of state.
re: #176 lizardofid
She looks like a pleasant Melania.
re: #184 Hecuba’s daughter
My impression was that some couldn’t depart because they did not have the resources to move out of state.
Yes, alas, “all” was somewhat hyperbolic.
re: #186 Nerdy Fish
Yes, alas, “all” was somewhat hyperbolic.
Very sad for those students who are forced to stay and be indoctrinated by 3rd rate academics who were hired to spew propaganda. Those without financial resources cannot flee to a more hospitable out-of-state environment.
re: #189 Hecuba’s daughter
Very sad for those students who are forced to stay and be indoctrinated by 3rd rate academics who were hired to spew propaganda. Those without financial resources cannot flee to a more hospitable out-of-state environment.
Which is why it’s important that we keep fighting to bring good things and Democratic values to red states. Like those poor students, there are good people in red states who are unable to leave for a myriad of reasons. We cannot simply abandon them to their fate as acceptable losses.
re: #143 Belafon
There are 11 people burning down all of our libraries.
And one asshole blocking all our military promotions.
re: #38 Joe Bacon ✅
Stewpid Peters openly calling for overthrowing the government and ending all elections.
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Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
§2384. Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
§2385. Advocating overthrow of Government
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The lawyer who crafted Texas’s infamous Senate Bill 8 (the so-called abortion bounty hunter bill) is now in court seeking to get abortion aid funds to turn over all data on every single person they’ve helped seek an abortion since 2021.
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Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court (The Intercept, September 29, 2023)
“The lawyer behind Texas’s bounty hunter abortion ban is retaliating against people who get abortions and those who help them.”
“Come arrest me, bro, I gave to the Lilith Fund.” FUCK THEM.
It takes a hell of a lot of nerve for an immigrant from South Africa, like Elon Musk, to go to the U.S. southern border and tell other immigrants who are simply seeking a better way of life to get the fuck out of HIS country. Agree? pic.twitter.com/tqHcHrlJuL
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) September 29, 2023
I replied to bmaz about how stealing election machine source code is, in fact, all of our concerns and he deleted my response. So I replied again and I’ll save it here.
Huh, I responded pretty clearly to this by explaining how stealing the Dominion machine images puts our entire election integrity at grave risk, and that I am an American with an interest in free and fair elections, but it seems to have been deleted. Perhaps I need to throw more racist “Kemosabe” references into my replies?
I’m not long for that website.
re: #196 Unabogie
I replied to bmaz about how stealing election machine source code is, in fact, all of our concerns and he deleted my response. So I replied again and I’ll save it here.
I’m not long for that website.
He’s that condescending lawyer who has a god complex on Daily Kos right?
re: #198 EstebanTornado1963
He’s that condescending lawyer who has a god complex on Daily Kos right?
I think I encountered him in the comment threads at Balloon-Juice years ago.
re: #159 sagehen
I’m lukewarm about her music, but I adore that she’s overt about being pro-choice, pro-gay rights, anti-Trump, appalled at the current Supreme Court, registering voters, and she gave everybody on her tour (some 500 people in a crew that has 90 trucks worth of equipment and busloads of other staffers) bonuses of $100,000 each.
Until 2017 her politics were strictly “decline to state”, but when white supremacists tried to make her their princess she was motivated to go public with how liberal and woke she actually is.
Her father told her not to do what she has done and she basically said, “NOPE” and went right out there and started registering people to vote. Most of her stuff is not for me, but I like “Love Story” (Taylor’s Version) and “Shake It Off.”
re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg
They’ve finally figured out a way to try and blame the shutdown on Democrats:
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Or, how to attempt to cripple the USA in order to suck Putin’s ass. How Republicans these days keep from getting Russian dysentery never ceases to amaze me.
re: #196 Unabogie
I replied to bmaz about how stealing election machine source code is, in fact, all of our concerns and he deleted my response. So I replied again and I’ll save it here.
I’m not long for that website.
I haven’t checked in for awhile. Not because of bmaz; just burned out, I guess.
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