Horror Short Film: “How to Make a Ghost”

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I have a few small criticisms about the editing (those long sequences of blank red screens need to be much shorter), but this is still one of the greatest short noir horror films in recent memory, loaded with disturbing and unsettling details, twists and turns.

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On Halloween night in a small town, a boy accepts a dare from his friends to hide in the back seat of an empty car and frighten the driver when they return. But what starts as a seemingly harmless prank turns into a night from hell.

“How To Make A Ghost” by Jared Hogan

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“How To Make A Ghost” Credits:
Cast -
Damian Young - Man
Samuel Goergen - Boy
Jordan Duffy - Boy 2
Jayden Fontaine - Boy 3

Gas Station Background - Sara Kopkin
Trick or Treater - Wyatt Switzer
Trick or Treater - Sophia Galvis
Trick or Treater - Benjamin White
Stranger - Cantey Hammond
Stranger - Dakota Brock
Stuntman - Patrick Chu

Crew -
Producer - Brian Tetsuro Ivie
Producer - Gregory Daniel King

Executive Producer - Jon Muedder
Executive Producer - Thom Blackburn
Head of Production - Michelle Wheeler
Production Coordinator - Michael Wine

Director - Jared Hogan
Producer - Henry Reed
Production Manager - Allah Samson
1st AD - Al G Sillah
2nd AD - Alberto Cantu
Key PA - Nandi Dawson
Set PA - Jarren Mapp
Set PA - Tye Ashton Forbes
Set PA - Joshua “Jody” Lynch
Set PA - Ronnald “Ron” Baskin
Truck PA - Ed Austin

Cinematographer - Dustin Lane
1st Camera Assistant - James Teninty
2nd Camera Assistant / Loader - Lia Guzman
Utility - Kelsey Ianuzzi
Gaffer - Haley Manning
Gaffer - Ben Wallace
Key Grip - Bryan Tan
Best Grip - Isaac McCord
Swing - Harrison Shook
BTS Photo - Nicole Hernandez

Sound Mixer - Joe Batiste
Boom Op - Winston Johnson

Art Director - Lauren Adams Jones
Leadperson - Grace Brass
Animal Wrangler - Greg Aldridge
Costume Designer - Janie Driggers
SPFX Makeup - Becky Watson

Casting Director - Jordan Brown
Child Labor Coordinator - Dan Murray
Location Manager - JT Calloway

Postproduction Supervisor - Bree Doehring
Editor - Jared Hogan
Visual Effects - Foreign Xchange
Supervising Sound Editor - Matt Yocum
Sound Effects Editor - Kai Paquin
Re-Recording Mixer - Matt Yocum
Colorist - Jacob McKee

Original Music by Michael A. Muller
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Michael A. Muller at Elyria Sound, Los Angeles
Trumpet - Luis Cardenas Casillas
Mezzo-Soprano - Lisa McGee
Tuba - Bradley Moller
Contrabass - Sam Pankey
Percussion - Jeff Olson
Cello - Dylan Rieck

Additional Songs

“Gospod Vocarisja Prokimen”
Metropolitan Choir of the Russian Cathedral in Paris
2007, Public Domain

“Mnogoletie”
Metropolitan Choir of the Russian Cathedral in Paris
2007, Public Domain

“Tebe Poem”
Russian Patriarchate Choir of Moscow
2005, Public Domain

“Trezvon”
Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery Choir
2005, Public Domain

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262 comments
1
retired cynic  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:21:21pm

“The RNC should immediately put an end to any further primary debates so we can train our fire on Crooked Joe Biden and quit wasting time and money that could be going to evicting Biden from the White House,” LaCivita said in a statement following the second debate.

What do you mean “we,” Advisor Boy?

If any of the other Republican candidates had the political savvy god gave a goat, they’d hang this arrogance around the Trump campaign’s neck with every donor from here to the Koch family’s backyard. This is a fundraising bonanza just lying there in front of them all, and laid upon the RNC’s doorstep. If there ever was a chance for the party to flex back against Fulton County (Ga.) Inmate No. P01135809, this is the most golden of golden opportunities. I think there’s less chance of this happening than there is of my climbing Everest on rollerblades, by the way, but stranger things have happened. Not many, but some.

If the GOP Was Ever Going to Flex on Trump, This Is the Time
The latest from Team Trump gives them all the ammo they need. But don’t count on it.
esquire.com
Charlie Pierce

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Dangerman  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:22:45pm
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Dangerman  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:24:48pm
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Dangerman  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:30:10pm

Sure is a two-faced little weevil

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:30:20pm

re: #50 Joe Bacon ✅

Put $2 in the pot and didn’t get a single number…

I got five white balls! (Each on a different line.)

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:30:23pm

Trump wants to fire Alina Habba and hire this lawyer, but he can’t afford her.

Schmigadoon! — Bells and Whistles (Full Song) | Apple TV+

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:32:19pm

re: #2 Dangerman

uh to the clown who is dumb enough to ask why everyone who goes to college supports Biden…Back when I was at Pitt in the mid 70s the College Republicans and Young Americans For Freedom were larger groups than the College Young Democrats…

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Dangerman  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:32:56pm
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Dangerman  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:33:42pm

re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I got five white balls! (Each on a different line.)

Have you seen a doctor? (Too easy)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:34:01pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:36:32pm

re: #8 Dangerman

The amount of pushback from centrist hot takes against the media might have an effect.

Every time one of these navel-gazing view-from-nowhere types both-sides an issue, or blames Democrats for Republican screw-ups, they get a deluge of commentary pointing out that whatever the hell they’re reporting on isn’t what’s happening.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:42:49pm

We just had a really close lightning strike. Like it caused the display on the cable box to fully light up close.

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BigPapa  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:44:16pm

re: #12 Belafon

We just had a really close lightning strike. Like it caused the display on the cable box to fully light up close.

The whole neighborhood is connected. How many times I’ve had to troubleshoot audio/video stuff and it ended up being a ground through the incoming cable box.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:49:23pm

Awwwwww.

Ron DeSantis faces new ‘cash crunch’ as donors dry up

nbcnews.com

Ron DeSantis’ long slide continues.

The Florida governor, once seen as the top rival to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP primaries, is in fifth place in New Hampshire, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday. He hasn’t visited the state, which holds the country’s second contest, in more than a month.

A Washington Post/Monmouth University survey of South Carolina voters this month found him in only slightly better stead — fourth place — trailing Trump and a pair of home-state candidates, former Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott.

He held a fundraiser this week for his leadership PAC and campaign in oil-rich Midland, Texas, which featured several former Trump donors. He continues fundraising in Texas on Thursday.

“His campaign needs a kick in the ass,” a DeSantis ally said. “It’s dead in the water.”

DeSantis’ poor poll showing in South Carolina and New Hampshire — where he not only trails Trump but is now stuck in the pack with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — comes after allies had hoped his performance in the first GOP primary debate last month would arrest a summer swoon. It also comes as his campaign and super PAC have focused attention on Iowa, which holds its caucuses at the start of the primary season on Jan. 15.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:50:57pm

re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The amount of pushback from centrist hot takes against the media might have an effect.

Every time one of these navel-gazing view-from-nowhere types both-sides an issue, or blames Democrats for Republican screw-ups, they get a deluge of commentary pointing out that whatever the hell they’re reporting on isn’t what’s happening.

That won’t stop the brain-dead DC Press Corpse from their insatiable lust for Republicans.

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sagehen  Oct 4, 2023 • 8:59:14pm

re: #7 Joe Bacon ✅

uh to the clown who is dumb enough to ask why everyone who goes to college supports Biden…Back when I was at Pitt in the mid 70s the College Republicans and Young Americans For Freedom were larger groups than the College Young Democrats…

In the late 70s at Claremont, the College Republicans were a large and active organization. Henry Olsen was 2iC of the Reaganaut faction (a well financed faction, due to Lee Atwater and his cadre). I led the Rockefeller Republican faction. I lost interest in Republican Party activities when the Reaganauts pulled some voter suppression shenanigans leading up to the chapter meeting and leadership elections.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 4, 2023 • 9:11:57pm

x.com

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2023 • 9:15:00pm

re: #17 Joe Bacon ✅

The Klan needs to protest for his removal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 4, 2023 • 9:23:52pm

Quelle surprise.

The Christian polling outfit PRRI notes the more religiously observant (Christian) you are, the more likely you are to reject climate science.

The Faith Factor in Climate Change: How Religion Impacts American Attitudes on Climate and Environmental Policy (October 4, 2023)

As the planet’s temperature continues to rise, producing more severe weather events and threatening our future well-being, many religious leaders have in recent years taken clear stances about the dangers that climate change poses. Pope Francis has made climate care an important part of his papacy by establishing a World Day of Prayer each September for the care of creation, and calling on governments to enact more regulations against the emission of fossil fuels and individuals to adopt more sustainable lifestyles. Ecumenical organizations in the United States, such as the National Council of Churches, have long spoken out for environmental causes, linking such concerns to the Christian doctrine of stewardship for the earth. The National Association of Evangelicals issued a sweeping report in 2022 that also called on its followers to address climate change, noting a “biblical basis” to “worship God by caring for creation.” Major Jewish and Muslim religious groups and their leaders have also called for environmental activism based on religious teachings.

While the scientific consensus is clear that human activities, particularly through carbon emissions, are the main culprit of climate change, political views differ with respect to the causes of climate change, its political importance, and how to address it. Moreover, religious views on climate change are far from monolithic.

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Their survey looks into different categories: Political party, age group, sources of news, religious views, &c.

Notably, while a large percentage of people are deniers of human-caused climate change, they are the minority in every generation except the Silent Generation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 4, 2023 • 9:32:38pm

If Powerball tickets worked like Word Search puzzles, where you can circle the winning numbers horizontally or diagonally, I would have won a million dollars tonight.

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sagehen  Oct 4, 2023 • 9:34:28pm

re: #20 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If Powerball tickets worked like Word Search puzzles, where you can circle the winning numbers horizontally or diagonally, I would have won a million dollars tonight.

BINGO!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 4, 2023 • 9:39:11pm

Over at the Sky of Blue, a fourth scientist snagged one of my invite codes, a physicist who is working in the field of neuroscience.

The others are a neuroscientist and two astrophysicists.

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BigPapa  Oct 4, 2023 • 9:49:16pm

Watters is technically an asshole troll doll.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 4, 2023 • 10:15:50pm

Journalist Vishal P. Singh on BlueSky a few minutes ago:

Vishal P. Singh 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) @vpsreports.bsky.social * 7m

Full circle.

Chaya Raichik, Andy Ngô, Elon Musk, and Christina Pushaw started a harassment campaign against me for reporting how a Libs of TikTok commentator wrote “lynch them all” targeting Los Angeles Unified School District. In response to her post about me: her follower says: “lynch them all.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 4, 2023 • 10:27:55pm

re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Memories of how Andy Ngo, Tony Moon and their proud baby thugs triggered riots here in Koreatown over a lie about a massage parlor. And I will never forget how the LAPD sided with the thugs and went after LGBTQ counterprotestors and their allies.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 4, 2023 • 10:51:53pm

re: #25 Joe Bacon ✅

Memories of how Andy Ngo, Tony Moon and their proud baby thugs triggered riots here in Koreatown over a lie about a massage parlor. And I will never forget how the LAPD sided with the thugs and went after LGBTQ counterprotestors and their allies.

Reading about that in the press was a WTF moment. Your police department seems to have a lot of fascist-curious cops.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 4, 2023 • 10:53:10pm

Getting time for bed here. I’m still worn out after my five-minute village board meeting and still recovering from my RSV and CoVid-19 vaccines (man everything hurts).

(3:52)

Semisonic - Closing Time (Official Video)

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2023 • 10:53:15pm

Very disturbing. A FB friend — someone I don’t know IRL but a friend of a good friend of mine — has been posting hostile remarks about immigrants who entered here “illegally”.

She posted an article from something called smartnews.com that claimed that transnational gangs of illegal immigrants from South America were committing burglaries of upscale homes in various communities. She wants to ship the immigrants that Abbott and DeSantis sent north back to their own countries. She is very anti-Trump and definitely not a Republican, but this is one area where her views are in accord with standard GOP policy.

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retired cynic  Oct 4, 2023 • 10:53:15pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It was a hot topic here, back in the day. Sickening. Harkens back to Rodney King.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 4, 2023 • 11:02:15pm

According to the writer of “Closing Time,” he says the song is a metaphor for childbirth, which he hid in plain sight.

He notes anytime someone in a band is having a baby, the rest of the bandmates will cringe because they know a song about the baby is coming next.

In a live performance at Harvard (where he graduated), he explains the song (and another one he wrote) about how the song is about babies and not bars, line-by-line.

(9:49)

Closing Time - Dan Wilson, w/ Funny Story at College Reunion

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 4, 2023 • 11:20:09pm


These people have no souls.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 4, 2023 • 11:55:16pm

re: #7 Joe Bacon ✅

uh to the clown who is dumb enough to ask why everyone who goes to college supports Biden…Back when I was at Pitt in the mid 70s the College Republicans and Young Americans For Freedom were larger groups than the College Young Democrats…

Yes, and all the Business majors were Republicans and the Campus Crusaders for Christ were knocking on doors all up and down the dormitory halls.

But it is a standard RW talking point that universities are leftist woke indoctrination centers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 12:03:11am

re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Quelle surprise.

The Christian polling outfit PRRI notes the more religiously observant (Christian) you are, the more likely you are to reject climate science.

Again, if you are a strict BIblical literalist, then you have to reject not only science and history but logic itself, as the Bible contradicts itself in several places.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 5, 2023 • 12:35:58am

re: #28 Hecuba’s daughter

One of my good good, very liberal, anti-Trump Black friends suggested that shooting was an option to stop illegal immigrants from “invading” the US. I was shocked — especially since she knows I’m an immigrant. Seems like the “caravans of migrants” fairytale appears to be working on all sides of the political spectrum.

I told her that hiring more Border agents and immigration judges is the answer since we’ll always attract poorer migrants to this country. That can’t be stopped.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 12:44:47am

re: #35 Patricia Kayden

We need comprehensive and humane immigration policies and procedures.

But there are too many interests who do not want to see that: they depend on a pool of cheap, easily exploited laborers who are too terrified of being deported to report the abuses perptrated against them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 12:46:17am

re: #34 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Again, if you are a strict BIblical literalist, then you have to reject not only science and history but logic itself, as the Bible contradicts itself in several places.

There’s also the way the voting public perceives the two political parties (Democrats as feminine, Republicans as masculine). This was noted in a peer-reviewed paper in 2010 in Springer.

(Nebraskans have complete access to all scientific papers because the state pays for it for us. For everyone else this paper is $40 to see other than the abstract.)

Masculine Republicans and Feminine Democrats: Gender and Americans’ Explicit and Implicit Images of the Political Parties (Published in Political Behavior and listed in Springer August 1, 2010)

Abstract:

During the past three decades Americans have come to view the parties increasingly in gendered terms of masculinity and femininity. Utilizing three decades of American National Election Studies data and the results of a cognitive reaction-time experiment, this paper demonstrates empirically that these connections between party images and gender stereotypes have been forged at the explicit level of the traits that Americans associate with each party, and also at the implicit level of unconscious cognitive connections between gender and party stereotypes. These connections between the parties and masculinity and femininity have important implications for citizens’ political cognition and for the study of American political behavior.

The paper opens (behind paywall, $40):

Over the past 40 years American society has experienced huge and controversial shifts in women’s rights and in men’s and women’s roles. Over this period the two major political parties have presented substantially different gender images to the public: they have polarized on women’s rights and abortion, female candidates have become both more common and more likely to be Democrats, a gender gap has become a regular feature of electoral politics, and Republican presidential candidates from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush have had considerable success framing themselves as the stronger, more manly candidate. This paper demonstrates empirically that amid these developments Americans’ images of the political parties have taken on gendered characteristics, so that Democrats are understood as the more feminine party and Republicans as the more masculine.

These gendered elements of citizen’s images of the parties have been forged, I show, both at an explicit level, in the traits that Americans associate with each party, and also at an implicit level, in a set of unconscious cognitive connections between gender stereotypes and the parties. This suggests that party images and gender images are not simply parallel stereotypes with shared content but rather reflect both conscious associations and unconscious cognitive connections between the two domains. Party is, of course, a centrally-important frame of reference that people use to make sense of politics; my findings suggest that even when gender is not explicitly in play, citizens’ ideas about masculinity and femininity may nevertheless shape political evaluations more broadly than we might otherwise expect.

While the elite side of these developments has received considerable scholarly attention, we know relatively little about how individual citizens have reacted to these shifts in the parties’ public images. A partial exception is work that asks whether gender issues have precipitated a partisan realignment. Several scholars have shown that since 1980 the parties have polarized at the elite level on abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, and other issues of women’s equality and roles (Wolbrecht 2000; Freeman 1987; Costain 1991), and Greg Adams demonstrates that this elite polarization on abortion, coupled with clear signals from the parties on the issue, has spawned mass-level partisan realignment (1997).

(more at the link)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 1:09:38am

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

As an aside, Nebraskans really don’t like admitting just how socialistic our state is. Most state residents know the state pays for everyone to freely access scientific papers, as many as they want, from a library, school, or home, but don’t equate taxes (from each according to his ability) to access for everyone (to each according to his need).

When a Republican suggests taking away something like this from the public though, they tend to get ousted in the next election.

Just for giggles, I keep track of epilepsy drug information through nebraskaaccess.nebraska.gov (the state’s free scientific paperwork site).

That gives me access to stuff like this:

“Current status of epilepsy treatment and efficacy of standard phenobarbital therapy in rural areas of Northern China.“—International Journal of Neuroscience, August 2017

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 1:11:07am

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And yet the current GOP frontrunner is a big-city, mincing fancy-boy who wears makeup, heels and a girdle.

Wow. Such “manliness”. 😄

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 1:18:28am

re: #39 Dr Lizardo

And yet the current GOP frontrunner is a big-city, draft-dodging, mincing fancy-boy who wears makeup, heels and a girdle.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 1:24:48am

re: #39 Dr Lizardo

And yet the current GOP frontrunner is a big-city, mincing fancy-boy who wears makeup, heels and a girdle.

Wow. Such “manliness”. 😄

The paper talks about voter perception of the two parties but not their candidates.

Before the Civil Rights Era, both parties were a mix of liberals and conservatives (and neither was particularly good on race or gender). After the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts passed, sorting began between the parties. That went on steroids with the election of Ronald Reagan, as the GOP drove out all its social liberals and the Dems’ social conservatives found themselves increasingly marginalised.

In his paper he also shows how this perception caused many more women to become Democratic politicians rather than Republican ones.

Today Democrats are seen by the average voter (whether it’s true or not) as more empathetic, inclusive, peaceable, socially-aware (such as voting rights, women’s healthcare rights, feeding children and the poor): Things associated with the American ideal of “feminity.” Meanwhile Republicans are seen (whether it’s true or not) as tough-on-crime, tough on immigration, aggressive war policies and support for the military, libertarian ideals of self-sufficiency, &c., seen as more masculine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 1:30:38am

I think the majority of Americans believe that people should be free to choose and express their sexual orientation and that it is not predetermined by genetics or society, not just a matter of “either/or” but rather a scale.

And most of us are advanced enough to understand that whatever consenting adults do on their own time at their own expense is their own business falls under the heading “the pursuit of happiness” and should not be regulated or restricted by government.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 1:37:54am

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think the majority of Americans believe that people should be free to choose and express their sexual orientation and that it not predetermined by genetics or society, not just a matter of “either/or” but rather a scale.

And most of us are advanced enough to understand that whatever consenting adults do on their own time at their own expense is their own business falls under the heading “the pursuit of happiness” and should not be regulated or restricted by government.

I do too.

That said, there is another difference between the broad groups “social liberal and social conservative.” The social conservative (unless he’s really a hard ass) can see his non-conforming neighbour (gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, name something) and think “we’ll he’s a nice guy; he’s one of the good ones” and never thinks beyond to “maybe there’s other good ones too.” He can see his neighbour struggling to feed his children and will do something to help them, never thinking “maybe we should do this with all children.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 1:42:43am

re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I do too.

That said, there is another difference between the broad groups “social liberal and social conservative.” The social conservative (unless he’s really a hard ass) can see his non-conforming neighbour (gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, name something) and think “we’ll he’s a nice guy; he’s one of the good ones” and never thinks beyond to “maybe there’s other good ones too.”

…as long as they do not see their non-conforming neighbors as a threat to their own families and marriages and society.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 2:31:27am

I knew there had to be an Internet Law (tm) for the concept “only Democrats have agency.”

It turns out there is: Murc’s Law (Goes to Urban Dictionary)

I think I’ll get that on a coffee mug so I can use it at my next village board meeting. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 2:44:11am

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Another example of Merc’s Law promoted by the media is that Pennsylvania Democrats elevated Doug Mastriano over a well-liked Rockefeller Republican primary candidate. The media was all over that, even though all Democrats did was create some snappy adverts emphasising Mastriano’s extremism. Pennsylvania Republicans voted for him in the primary election, not Democrats.

Alicublog, July 19, 2022

MURC’S LAW STRIKES AGAIN.

“Democrats boosted a MAGA longshot…” You might get the impression from the headline on that Politico story that Pennsylvania has an open primary system and Democrats snuck into the voting booths to nominate the comically extremist Mastriano instead of a heavily-favored Rockefeller Republican opponent. But no, actual Republicans nominated the asshole themselves.

What Democrats did is run ads accurately describing the extremism of Mastriano and other candidates before the primaries, and Republicans did the rest:

Democratic ads also targeted Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who was running in the GOP gubernatorial primary. The ads warned that Mastriano wants to ban abortion, “lead the fight to audit the 2020 election” and is closely aligned with Trump. “If Mastriano wins, it’s a win for what Donald Trump stands for. Is that what we want in Pennsylvania?” stated an ad, which was paid for by the campaign of Josh Shapiro, gubernatorial Democratic candidate and the state’s attorney general.

Mastriano won his primary.

The ads may have been mischievous, but this wave of stories imputes that if any of the far-right candidates nominated by Republican voters win, it’ll be the Democrats’ fault for letting them know how far-right they are. Similarly, if in debate the Democratic candidate baits the Republican into saying “I want to kill trans people,” that too will be the Democrats’ fault for leading him on.

The idea that only Democrats have agency is turning into a super-precedent that absolves Republicans of all their crimes, on the grounds that Democrats are the unseen hand behind them. For example: Do Republicans increasingly endorse vigilante justice? It’s because Democrats support Defund the Police! (Not really.) Are draconian forced-birth laws predictably leading to nightmare scenarios? It’s the pro-choicers’ fault for predicting such results, thereby “muddying the waters.” When it comes to prestige media — increasingly a fancier mirror for rightwing propaganda and press-agentry — Democrats literally can’t win.

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TarHellion  Oct 5, 2023 • 2:45:06am

A bit more trouble than it should have been. But par is OK.

Awaiting the big cooldown that is supposed to take effect on Saturday. Highs go from the 80s down to the mid 60s. Will certainly feel more like fall.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:22:45am

Finally, Adult rain. Almost 1.5” so far.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:26:45am

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I knew there had to be an Internet Law (tm) for the concept “only Democrats have agency.”

It turns out there is: Murc’s Law (Goes to Urban Dictionary)

I think I’ll get that on a coffee mug so I can use it at my next village board meeting. /s

Ok. But who’s Murc? Really needs a well known asshat’s name associated with or to this.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:30:55am

re: #47 TarHellion

A bit more trouble than it should have been. But par is OK.

Awaiting the big cooldown that is supposed to take effect on Saturday. Highs go from the 80s down to the mid 60s. Will certainly feel more like fall.

I lucked out on my 1 in 3 options for the birb.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:33:03am

Love this poem.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:45:57am

re: #49 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Ok. But who’s Murc? Really needs a well known asshat’s name associated with or to this.

Murc is a commentator at Lawyers, Guns, and Money

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:47:30am

Today is a day. But at least I have this.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:47:49am

Some throwback Thursday drive time music.

Eddie Rabbitt - Drivin’ My Life Away (1980 HD 720p)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:48:15am

I’m usually wary of randos who have huge followings and followed me. I rarely follow back. But this person’s timeline cracked me up. I had to think about a couple of them and there’s a couple I don’t get (which I’m chiding myself over because I’m sure there they’re funny and I’m stupid). Anyway, FWIW.

Edit: Fucking autocorrect.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:49:12am

re: #53 Nerdy Fish

Today is a day. But at least I have this.

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HOW DID YOU DO THAT???

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:52:27am

re: #56 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

HOW DID YOU DO THAT???

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:56:22am

Amanda Marcotte at Salon on December 2, 2022 called out another example of the press employing Murc’s Law.

Uh, Politico? Biden didn’t make Marjorie Taylor Greene “the face of the GOP” — Republicans did

“The widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics.” This is famously known as “Murc’s Law,” named after a commenter at the blog Lawyers, Guns, and Money who noticed years ago the habitual assumption among the punditry that Republican misbehavior can only be caused by Democrats. Do Republicans reject climate science? Must be because Democrats failed to persuade them! Did Republicans pass unpopular tax cuts for the rich? Must be that Democrats didn’t do enough to guide them to better choices! Do Republicans keep voting for lunatics and fascists? It must be the fault of Democrats for being mean to them! Even Donald Trump’s election was widely blamed on Democrats — who voted against him, to be clear — on the bizarre grounds that Barack Obama should have rolled over and just let Mitt Romney win in 2012.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 5, 2023 • 3:56:33am

Some local news.

A man has been accused of stalking a woman in New York via his small airplane, flying out of an airport in nearby Vermont, police said.

Michael Arnold, 65, was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday in Bennington, Vermont. He was arrested Tuesday as he was driving into the William H. Morse State Airport in town. Police said his single-engine Cessna 180 was at the airport and he had been flying from there.

Arnold, of Manchester, New Hampshire, had been served with a temporary order of protection from a court in Saratoga, New York, in May. A specific condition of that order was that he “cease and desist from flying any and all aircraft while the order remains in effect,” Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette said in a news release.

Police had been notified by the FBI in Albany that New York authorities had been investigating Arnold on suspicion of stalking the woman in Schuylerville, for several years, Doucette said. Schuylerville is about 30 miles away from the Bennington airport.

nbcboston.com

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:01:11am

re: #59 Shropshire Slasher

That’s a mighty expensive way to stalk someone.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:05:13am

Lindsay Graham (R-So. Car.) and Jim Risch (R-ID) have introduced a bill to force Christian nationalist education in every school in the land.

S. Res. 380—A resolution designating the week of October 1, 2023, through October 7, 2023, as “Religious Education Week” to celebrate religious education in the United States.

The goal is to force public schools to spend a week on “religious education” (teaching Christianity).

The Freedom from Religion Foundation is running a letter-writing campaign to push back against the bill. It is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

ffrf.quorum.us

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:08:58am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The bill enforces the lie a person must be religious (Christian) to be moral, and it’s the Senate’s duty to enforce those religious morals on every child in the land and take up time from actual education.

Resolved, That the Senate—

(1) affirms the importance of religious education in the civic and moral development of the people of the United States;

(2) celebrates the schools and organizations that are engaged in religious instruction of the children of the United States to aid those children in intellectual, ethical, moral, and civic development;

(3) calls on each of the 50 States, each territory of the United States, and the District of Columbia to accommodate individuals who wish to be released from public school attendance to attend religious classes; and

(4) designates the week of October 1, 2023, through October 7, 2023, as “Religious Education Week”.

Complete text: congress.gov

Wingnuts who are co-sponsors:

Mr. Graham (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mrs. Blackburn, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Daines, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Hawley, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Lankford, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Risch, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Young)

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:11:36am

re: #2 Dangerman

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“Education is a terrible thing!”

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:12:16am

Looking forward to getting my face melted off again!

Five decades into their illustrious career, Metallica hasn’t lost a step.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group stopped by East Rutherford, NJ’s MetLife Stadium for a pair of concerts on Friday, Aug. 4 and Sunday, Aug. 6 as part of their ‘M72 Tour.’

As you may have expected, they didn’t disappoint.

Ryan Murphy, the New York Post’s resident Metallibanger, attended both shows and said the band “played everything you’d want to hear with no repeats over the two nights.”

“Even though they’re promoting their new record,” he continued, “they played all the fan favorites.”

For Murphy that included “Creeping Death,” “Seek and Destroy” and “Master of Puppets” on night one.

Night two’s standout tracks were “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” “One” and “Enter Sandman,” which many New Yorkers may recall was Yankees closer Mariano Rivera’s menacing entrance song over the course of his storied career.

Two songs truly stood out though. All Murphy could say about “Whiplash” and “Ride The Lightning” were “wow.”

nypost.com

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jeffreyw  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:16:06am

chicken fettuccini

Good morning!

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:22:04am

re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Over at the Sky of Blue, a fourth scientist snagged one of my invite codes, a physicist who is working in the field of neuroscience.

The others are a neuroscientist and two astrophysicists.

No one has picked up the one I put there this time (submitted 2 previously that had gotten picked up). I have gotten another since putting that last one on the science list. If anyone needs one, I have extra.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:23:50am

re: #66 Eventual Carrion

No one has picked up the one I put there this time (submitted 2 previously that had gotten picked up). I have gotten another since putting that last one on the science list. If anyone needs one, I have extra.

The person who runs the list says sometimes the codes simply get missed, since she has to manually encode them into the list herself.

She recommends resubmitting a code if no one picks it up within a couple weeks.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:27:24am

re: #47 TarHellion

The big cool down isn’t supposed to come until Sunday in the DMV.

Birb here.
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:43:46am

Tropical Storm Warning posted for the waters off Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

forecast.weather.gov

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:46:55am

re: #39 Dr Lizardo

And yet the current GOP frontrunner is a big-city, mincing fancy-boy who wears makeup, heels and a girdle.

Wow. Such “manliness”. 😄

Fancy Lad

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 4:47:38am

I put it up on Bluesky earlier, but my faithful old tower PC finally breathed her last. I got up to power it up for work this morning, and all the lights were on as normal, but hitting the power button resulted in nothing happening; it died peacefully in its sleep. It’s a minor expense compared to the coming apocalypse of replacing the air conditioner and (most likely) the furnace, but another financial stress is something we can ill afford.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:16:05am

re: #50 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I lucked out on my 1 in 3 options for the birb.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:17:55am

re: #55 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m usually wary of randos who have huge followings and followed me. I rarely follow back. But this person’s timeline cracked me up. I had to think about a couple of them and there’s a couple I don’t get (which I’m chiding myself over because I’m sure there they’re funny and I’m stupid). Anyway, FWIW.

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Edit: Fucking autocorrect.

That person just followed me a few days back. I followed them back also. Looks harmless enough.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:19:00am

re: #71 Nerdy Fish

I put it up on Bluesky earlier, but my faithful old tower PC finally breathed her last. I got up to power it up for work this morning, and all the lights were on as normal, but hitting the power button resulted in nothing happening; it died peacefully in its sleep. It’s a minor expense compared to the coming apocalypse of replacing the air conditioner and (most likely) the furnace, but another financial stress is something we can ill afford.

My wife’s tower PC did the same a couple years ago. It was the internal power supply which ralphed (much cheaper to replace than a whole PC).

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:21:05am

re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife’s tower PC did the same a couple years ago. It was the internal power supply which ralphed (much cheaper to replace than a whole PC).

That’s more than likely the case here, but the componentry in this case is 7 years old and would be dying soon. I might as well rip off the Band-Aid and replace the whole machine.

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Jay C  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:21:53am

re: #60 Dr Lizardo

That’s a mighty expensive way to stalk someone.

And rather obvious as well…

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:25:11am

re: #64 Shropshire Slasher

Preview:

METALLICA - FULL CONCERT NIGHT 1@MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, NJ 8/4/23

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:25:55am

re: #76 Jay C

And rather obvious as well…

“Why is that little plane always circling my house?”

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:28:32am

re: #78 Dr Lizardo

A couple of the younger females on our staff used to innocently sunbathe on the roof during lunch hour. Ft Rucker Novosel, Army helicopter training base.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:32:58am

re: #79 Decatur Deb

A couple of the younger females on our staff used to innocently sunbathe on the roof during lunch hour. Ft Rucker Novosel, Army helicopter training base.

LOL I’ll bet you all got used to sound of helicopters hovering overhead.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:38:59am
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Bear has been all out of sorts the past week or so. More so than usual. And he hasn’t uri ate in the past 24 hours which is not good. Calling the vet and hopefully taking him in asap. As soon as they open. It’s such a stressful thing for him too. Not sure what happened to him with his original dad, but he hates the vet with fury. Definitely has to be muzzled and sedated. But now in his condition, unsure of the sedation. It doesn’t help that he has pretty severe hip dysplasia and arthritis too. He’s been struggling just to stand lately. More than usual. I’m having to pick up his rear so he can gain footing. But more concerning is what’s going on internally. Depending on what they find, this may be his last day. Was hoping to make it to his 11th bday in a few weeks, but if it’s his time, it’s his time. I just hope the 4 years he’s been with me were what he’s deserved. I will be back eventually. Hug your furry monsters tight!

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:40:41am

re: #81 GlutenFreeJesus

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:41:41am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:45:04am

re: #78 Dr Lizardo

“Why is that little plane always circling my house?”

I ask that a lot about a biplane here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:46:56am

re: #81 GlutenFreeJesus

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:47:20am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I ask that a lot about a biplane here.

Dawn Patrol
imdb.com

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Thanos  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:49:35am

Eurythmics - Would I Lie To You?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:51:13am

I’m off to bed.

It was in the nineties here a couple days ago.

…FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING…

* WHAT…Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 24 degrees possible.

* WHERE…Box Butte County, Scotts Bluff County, Banner County,
Morrill County, Kimball County, Cheyenne County and Southern
Sioux County.

* WHEN…From late Friday night through Saturday morning.

* IMPACTS…Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other
sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor
plumbing.

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Thanos  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:55:37am

One of the joys of Thursday morn: Epoch TV blowing money with ads trying to educate me about the “transgender problem” in our schools. Them wasting their dough on me is fine, the problem is that others who aren’t LGBTQ+ allies are getting the same fear mongering.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:56:27am

re: #81 GlutenFreeJesus

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:57:34am

re: #89 Thanos

One of the joys of Thursday morn: Epoch TV blowing money with ads trying to educate me about the “transgender problem” in our schools. Them wasting their dough on me is fine, the problem is that others who aren’t LGBTQ+ allies are getting the same fear mongering.

Is Epoch TV the Epoch Times/Falun Gong mouthpiece?

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 5:58:12am

Back later.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:01:57am

re: #91 Decatur Deb

Is Epoch TV the Epoch Times/Falun Gong mouthpiece?

I believe so

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Thanos  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:04:33am

re: #91 Decatur Deb

Is Epoch TV the Epoch Times/Falun Gong mouthpiece?

Exactly — welded to the hip with the Maga machine.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:05:08am

The man can force Republicans to do anything. (Raw Story, October 4, 2023)

GOP candidate says he smeared ‘fecal matter’ on daycare center because of Obama: report

A Republican candidate for New Jersey Assembly has admitted to being convicted in a criminal incident where he smeared “fecal matter” on the door of a daycare facility he was feuding with in 2009, reported the New Jersey Globe on Wednesday — and that he did it partly because he was angry about Barack Obama having been elected president.

“Joseph Viso pled guilty to criminal mischief charges after a dispute with the owner of Children’s Studio, whose building was adjacent to an electrical company he owned at the time. He was fined $250,” reported David Wildstein. Viso, who previously served under Gov. Chris Christie and was convicted in the Bridgegate scandal, only for that conviction to be reversed later. “‘Those people harassed my men every day,’ Viso told the New Jersey Globe. ‘They had cars ticketed every time my men parked on a side street.’”

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:11:26am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I ask that a lot about a biplane here.

Are you near a cornfield?

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:12:38am

re: #86 Decatur Deb

Dawn Patrol
imdb.com

North by Northwest

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:13:04am

Our cynical Governor is coming after Alabama libraries. She’s an ex-schoolteacher.

Gov. Ivey requests changes to Alabama library rules; $6.6 million state money ‘contingent’ on policies
al.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:13:32am

re: #96 Dangerman

Are you near a cornfield?

The town is surrounded by cornfields and cattle ranches.

I once was driving on a rural road and a biplane passed over the road so low it almost hit our car.

I’m off to bed. I need to study up for tonight’s freeze.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:23:25am

re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The man can force Republicans to do anything. (Raw Story, October 4, 2023)

GOP candidate says he smeared ‘fecal matter’ on daycare center because of Obama: report

(more)

The Party of Responsibility is also the Party Without Agency.
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darthstar  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:28:21am

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The town is surrounded by cornfields and cattle ranches.

I once was driving on a rural road and a biplane passed over the road so low it almost hit our car.

I’m off to bed. I need to study up for tonight’s freeze.

Used to see crop dusters regularly when driving back up to my parent’s house on weekends when I was in college.

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nines09  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:39:16am

Last night. Phil’s/Marlins Wild Card game. Stott walk up song A-O-K, fans sing it. Bases loaded. Phil’s sweep with a win. Slams a Grand Slam. Moments that make baseball. Phil’s won 7-1 will face Atlanta.
Daughter was there. They blew the roof off.
This is how it sounds with no yapping announcers.
Sweet.

instagram.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:40:31am

re: #102 nines09

Let’s hope they can keep it up.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:43:25am

re: #101 darthstar

Used to see crop dusters regularly when driving back up to my parent’s house on weekends when I was in college.

I’d see them occasionally in Illinois, but I think they’re much more common in Anymouse’s part of the ag world.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:47:01am

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Philippe looks like a bad little boy. Those Lizards in New England should keep an eye on the sky and the weather maps.
weather.gov

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:47:54am

re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The man can force Republicans to do anything. (Raw Story, October 4, 2023)

GOP candidate says he smeared ‘fecal matter’ on daycare center because of Obama: report

(more)

The end result of the Koch mainstreaming Ayn Rand’s sociopathic selfishness into every nook and cranny of American society.

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:51:13am

And those dying earlier are more likely to vote for the people who don’t actually value their life - GOPers. The same GOPers who don’t want people taking vaccines (which they’ll do on the down low because they don’t want to get sick or die themselves), restrict access to public health, and want to gut the safety net.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:56:27am

re: #103 PhillyPretzel ✅

Let’s hope they can keep it up.

That’s what Representative Boebert said.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:57:40am

re: #68 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

The big cool down isn’t supposed to come until Sunday in the DMV.

Birb here.
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:57:58am

re: #108 Decatur Deb

That’s what Representative Boebert said.

Give this guy a hand!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:58:28am

re: #108 Decatur Deb

We both know you are taking that statement out of context.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 5, 2023 • 6:59:33am

re: #71 Nerdy Fish

I put it up on Bluesky earlier, but my faithful old tower PC finally breathed her last. I got up to power it up for work this morning, and all the lights were on as normal, but hitting the power button resulted in nothing happening; it died peacefully in its sleep. It’s a minor expense compared to the coming apocalypse of replacing the air conditioner and (most likely) the furnace, but another financial stress is something we can ill afford.

The last time that happened with my ancient machine, it was the power supply, not the computer.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:01:11am

re: #111 PhillyPretzel ✅

We both know you are taking that statement out of context.

So low and slow even a Pirates batter could nail it.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:03:07am

More news from Florida’s notorious center of senior debauchery.

Villages man, 77, faces hard time for stockpile of illegal ED drugs in retirement community: feds

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Nojay UK  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:04:12am

A treason case is being sentenced in the British courts today, one of those weird stories that gets weirder the more you learn about it. Chail, an English-born Sikh was apprehended at Windsor Castle with a crossbow and claimed he was intending to kill the Queen. He said he was a Sith Lord among other things. He ended up in Broadmoor Mental Hospital for evaluation but was adjudged fit to stand trial.

“His lifelong interest in Star Wars took on different meaning,” the judge says.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:04:55am

re: #114 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I think hard time was the whole point.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:05:11am

re: #115 Nojay UK

A very different meaning.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:07:11am

re: #114 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

More news from Florida’s notorious center of senior debauchery.

Villages man, 77, faces hard time for stockpile of illegal ED drugs in retirement community: feds

Which would be like finding large stashes of Adderall in a frat house.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:09:09am

re: #116 Decatur Deb

Thwack

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:11:08am

re: #110 Barefoot Grin

Give this guy a hand!

At least we know that is one job she is qualified for

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:18:24am

Man known for wearing ‘White Lives Matter More’ shirt arrested for hurling racist threats

Police have arrested 63-year-old Gerald Knorr following an incident in a grocery store in Fargo, North Dakota, reportedThe Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.

Local resident Amina Haji tells the newspaper that her interactions with Knorr immediately went downhill upon encountering him at the grocery store this Tuesday when he was with his dog.

According to Haji, the dog began barking at her sister, who is afraid of dogs, and the man began threatening her.

“The N-word was flying around, calling me all sorts of, like, ‘Oh, you’re terrorists, you don’t belong here, get out of my store, we don’t want you here,’” said Haji. “And then that’s when he started to say, ‘I’ll have my dog bite your face off.’”

According to the report, Knorr then went around threatening other people in the store, and Aldi employees summoned the police. Both he and his dog have been arrested, and are being held at the Cass County Jail and the Fargo Pound, respectively.

“This was Knorr and his dog’s second brush with police following a Sunday altercation with another family and their dog named Blue in a parking lot near the 13th Avenue Walmart,” said the report. “Jessie Davis, Blue’s owner, said after both dogs met each other, ‘he just started stabbing our dog,’ Davis said. Blue died as a result.”

Knorr, who was seen wearing a “White Lives Matter More” shirt immediately after the stabbing, claimed that he stabbed Blue, who was off leash at the time, in self-defense, which an eyewitness supported.

inforum.com

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Dave In Austin  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:18:25am
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:19:51am

re: #122 Dave In Austin

Well done.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:21:22am

So, Lizards who are Star Wars fans….as we know, Ray Stevenson passed away. So what to do with his Ahsoka character? Write him out? Recast the character?

The folks behind Star Wars shouldn’t be afraid to recast characters, IMHO. In the case of the Baylan Skoll character, personally, I’d cast Liev Schrieber in the role. He’s about the same age as Ray Stevenson and I think he has sufficient gravitas to pull off the character.

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jeffreyw  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:22:54am

Mastodon

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:24:23am

re: #121 Joe Bacon ✅

Sort of unfortunate to see a dog get killed due to the erstwhile “owner” or “master” neglecting to have the animal on a lead and under control. In dog terms the person is acting as a pack leader and should have the dog’s welfare in mind when handling it.

When my brother was losing chickens to a neighbor’s dog running amok he did not blame the dog since it was doing what a dog does. He was angry at the owner for not having the dog properly controlled. Said owner by the second (and then third) incident was also flaunting orders from the local magistrate that the dog be kept in a run or other restrained on a permanent basis.

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:27:12am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

Agreed - but that’s been the problem with Disney for a while - they refuse to recast everyone from Luke to Leia to other characters like Skoll or Tarkin, despite fact that they’re older or have since died.

It’s hurting the presentation, because it gets in the way of telling the story. And frankly, I’d prefer that they stop trying to fill in every bit between the trilogies, and tell something entirely new - like follow Finn or Poe or Rey and stop trying to link every last bit to Skywalker/Palpatine.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:27:54am

re: #126 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Sort of unfortunate to see a dog get killed due to the erstwhile “owner” or “master” neglecting to have the animal on a lead and under control. In dog terms the person is acting as a pack leader and should have the dog’s welfare in mind when handling it.

Yes, I hate it, but if your off-leash dog attacks my dog and you don’t react immediately I’m going to kick the hell out of your dog.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:30:36am

re: #127 lawhawk

Agreed - but that’s been the problem with Disney for a while - they refuse to recast everyone from Luke to Leia to other characters like Skoll or Tarkin, despite fact that they’re older or have since died.

It’s hurting the presentation, because it gets in the way of telling the story. And frankly, I’d prefer that they stop trying to fill in every bit between the trilogies, and tell something entirely new - like follow Finn or Poe or Rey and stop trying to link every last bit to Skywalker/Palpatine.

Yeah, I’d like to see some fresh story arcs from the Star Wars universe that don’t involve Palpatine, or the Skywalker family, etc. Let’s see something new.

As far as recasting goes, I recall a lot of fans suggesting Sebastian Stan if there’s some need for an appearance by a young Luke Skywalker.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:31:42am
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BigPapa  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:32:00am

FB is non-stop stupid. I got borked for ‘bullying’ replying to an antivaxxer ‘LOL OK Weirdo.’

The day before I got borked for ‘Inciting Violence’ responding to a group post ‘Is Thom Yorke overrated?’ My response is ‘There will be no Radiohead disrespect or I will cut a bich.’

Continuing the stupidity from last November when I got borked for posting graphic violence by posting the album cover of RATM’s first with the infamous photo of the monk self-immolating in protest to the Vietnam War.

And my favorite: responding to some fashy post with the words from Aushwitz’s gate, Arbeit Macht Frei, I got borked but I forget the reason.

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mmmirele  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:34:15am

re: #127 lawhawk

Agreed - but that’s been the problem with Disney for a while - they refuse to recast everyone from Luke to Leia to other characters like Skoll or Tarkin, despite fact that they’re older or have since died.

It’s hurting the presentation, because it gets in the way of telling the story. And frankly, I’d prefer that they stop trying to fill in every bit between the trilogies, and tell something entirely new - like follow Finn or Poe or Rey and stop trying to link every last bit to Skywalker/Palpatine.

That’s kind of why I lost interest in the whole Star Wars universe—because it seemed to me like so much of the wars and fighting were caused by a very small group of people, many related by blood. Tell different stories!

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gocart mozart  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:38:41am
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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:42:40am

re: #132 mmmirele

That’s kind of why I lost interest in the whole Star Wars universe—because it seemed to me like so much of the wars and fighting were caused by a very small group of people, many related by blood. Tell different stories!

It’s why fanbois revolted against Last Jedi - it was trying to split away from the old stories, and come up with something new, and Rise of Skywalker was the reversion to type, which lost me.

Trillions of lives lost in genocidal conflict, and it’s all due to a Hatfields/McCoys infighting with magic/midichlorians. Make no mistake - but these conflicts were genocidal. Whether it’s the Jedi Purge, Order 66, or Tarkin and the Empire blowing up entire planets, we’re talking about genocide (or democide). Not one bit of the movie/tv universe seems to want to delve into any of that. The closest they get is Sabine having offscreen feelings about watching Mandalore surface get wiped with orbital bombardments.

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:44:50am

re: #133 gocart mozart

House GOP rules prohibit anyone facing indictment on felony charges from being Speaker. So there’s that - unless the GOP wants to ignore that rule and again show that they are a bunch of lawless fascists who don’t care about the rule of law or the Constitution to elevate a criminal to the 3d in line to the WH.

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:52:50am

So Gaetz got pissed that McCarthy was c-blocking his attempt to get in Cassidy Hutchinson’s pants? Guess Gaetz decided to move up to the big leagues from high schoolers and found that his ground game sucked.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:54:04am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, I’d like to see some fresh story arcs from the Star Wars universe that don’t involve Palpatine, or the Skywalker family, etc. Let’s see something new.

As far as recasting goes, I recall a lot of fans suggesting Sebastian Stan if there’s some need for an appearance by a young Luke Skywalker.

That was part of what was great about Andor; not a single Jedi or Sith Lord in sight.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:55:47am

re: #132 mmmirele

That’s kind of why I lost interest in the whole Star Wars universe—because it seemed to me like so much of the wars and fighting were caused by a very small group of people, many related by blood. Tell different stories!

Yes; more stories like Andor!

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:56:06am

re: #137 lawhawk

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So Gaetz got pissed that McCarthy was c-blocking his attempt to get in Cassidy Hutchinson’s pants? Guess Gaetz decided to move up to the big leagues from high schoolers and found that his ground game sucked.

They know who and what Gaetz is, but they keep him around for the usefulness of pointing at him and saying, ‘I’m not that bad.’

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:57:28am

re: #135 lawhawk

Oh yeah, there’s a lot of genocidal actions in the Star Wars universe (both canon and legends) but that’s only seen in the cinematic part of the stories. In Episode VII, Starkiller Base obliterating the Hosnian Prime system - that time the First Order went the Galactic Empire one better and wiped out multiple planets with one shot. Or the Xyston-class ISDs from Episode IX, with a Death Star-style superlaser capable of destroying an entire planet. In non-canon, I can recall the Sun Crusher, which had the potential to completely wipe out a star system.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 7:58:51am

re: #138 No Malarkey!

re: #139 No Malarkey!

I’d love to see more media like Andor. Amazingly well-written and perfectly cast.

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:04:07am

re: #140 wrenchwench

They know who and what Gaetz is, but they keep him around for the usefulness of pointing at him and saying, ‘I’m not that bad.’

and why they keep santos, right now
they need the vote

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:05:00am

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

I’d love to see more media like Andor. Amazingly well-written and perfectly cast.

I haven’t seen Andor, but my one criticism is that we know where that ends up and there’s all kinds of plot armor given to Cassian between the start of that show and where we know when and how it ends.

That’s my biggest gripe with all the shows across all the extended universes that fill in bits between movies and series, etc.

We know where the characters end up. The enjoyment comes from not always knowing what’ll happen to characters along the way.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:05:02am

re: #143 Dangerman

and why they keep santos, right now
they need the vote

Time to Clean House.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:06:31am

re: #145 wrenchwench

Probably why the MAGA’s moved to oust Nancy Pelosi from her current office. They know she can do the job.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:07:49am
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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:08:13am

Birbie. Wordle 838 3/6*

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Equal numbers of the 3 colors.
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🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

New goal: each color on its own line. Whiff, all yellow, then of course green.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:10:09am

The boom being lowered on the Trump Organization.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:11:34am

Love it!

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:13:29am

re: #149 No Malarkey!

The boom being lowered on the Trump Organization.

I can only presume that an incoherent, all-caps, rage-fueled shitstorm is about to be unleashed on Trump’s bargain-basement Twitter knockoff.

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:13:35am

re: #146 PhillyPretzel ✅

Probably why the MAGA’s moved to oust Nancy Pelosi from her current office. They know she can do the job.

dont nkow if i read it here or elsewhere
the reason (they say) is the office is for the former speaker and now Kev is the former speaker

this is probably true

even so, they sure did it in a nasty way, knowing she was out of town

and could have said this up front
in keeping with tradition and the courtesy afforded by your predecessors, or whatever, at your earliest convenience…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:14:34am

re: #150 No Malarkey!

Death by a thousand cuts. Letitia James is cutting him to shreds.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:15:45am

So NPR has somebody on this AM who refers to the Republican Party as a cult. Who? Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. One step at a time.

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Nojay UK  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:21:46am

Chail, the crossbow-wielding Sith Lord wannabee has been sentenced to 9 years incarceration with another five years on licence after his sentence is complete. It’s a hybrid sentence, he’ll be held at Broadmoor Mental Hospital until he’s deemed fit to go to prison proper. The Treason Act 1842, as amended which led to one of the three charges he faced was last used in a case back in the 1980s.

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Teukka  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:21:52am

re: #153 PhillyPretzel ✅

Death by a thousand cuts. Letitia James is cutting him to shreds.

Death by a thousand paper cuts even…

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:22:26am

note the date

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:26:34am
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No Malarkey!  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:28:16am
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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:29:04am

re: #158 lawhawk

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The scary thing is, I could see this developing into a cycle. Speaker passes a CR to kick the government budget can down the road. Freedumb Caucus gets mad and puts up a motion to vacate. The Speaker, being a good Republican drone, refuses to talk to the Democrats, and so gets booted. House Republicans fart around for weeks until they finally arrive at a new Speaker, at which point they need a new CR just to make enough time to argue over the shit they’re going to try to sneak through in the budget. Rinse and repeat.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:33:46am

Well regulated militia in action.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:34:14am

re: #149 No Malarkey!

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:39:14am

re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife’s tower PC did the same a couple years ago. It was the internal power supply which ralphed (much cheaper to replace than a whole PC).

Same with my wife’s tower, replaced power supply & all was well.

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nines09  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:39:33am

re: #102 nines09

That song Stott walks up to.

Tai Verdes - AOK (Lyric Video)

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:39:50am

Engoron’s going to need to step up that gag order and enforcement action when Trump steps in it again.

Sanction Trump’s lawyers. Hold Trump in contempt and order him back to the court to get personally dressed down in open court for violating the gag rules. And then have him have to pay fine for violating the gag order.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:42:03am

re: #165 lawhawk

Engoron’s going to need to step up that gag order and enforcement action when Trump steps in it again.

Sanction Trump’s lawyers. Hold Trump in contempt and order him back to the court to get personally dressed down in open court for violating the gag rules. And then have him have to pay fine for violating the gag order.

A fine does nothing to wealthy criminals. It calls for a punishment that is just as bad for the wealthy as for the poor. Lock him up.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:42:33am

re: #165 lawhawk

Personally I would like him thrown into the general population at Rikers.

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Charmingly Persistent  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:47:16am

re: #71 Nerdy Fish

I put it up on Bluesky earlier, but my faithful old tower PC finally breathed her last. I got up to power it up for work this morning, and all the lights were on as normal, but hitting the power button resulted in nothing happening; it died peacefully in its sleep. It’s a minor expense compared to the coming apocalypse of replacing the air conditioner and (most likely) the furnace, but another financial stress is something we can ill afford.

I missed your ascension. In case anyone else did: dopefishblog

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:47:25am

re: #167 PhillyPretzel ✅

Personally I would like him thrown into the general population at Rikers.

We’d see immediate improvement in the living conditions at Rikers and all the right wingers who think that prisoners should have their rights removed, will suddenly insist on prison reform and bail reform and all kinds of criminal justice reform because Trump’s being held to the same exact standards.

Aw, who am I kidding, the GOP wont want anything to change except for their own fascist criminal buddies.

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A Cranky One  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:49:12am

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:56:51am

re: #151 Dr Lizardo

I can only presume that an incoherent, all-caps, rage-fueled shitstorm is about to be unleashed on Trump’s bargain-basement Twitter knockoff.

And I bet they will *lie* in some of the submitted documents in a vain attempt to hide money and assets. And that there will already be documents supplied from other sources showing that they are submitting false information.

And this will lead to a few more charges and some foolish lawyers getting sanctioned.

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Charmingly Persistent  Oct 5, 2023 • 8:57:26am

re: #168 Charmingly Persistent

I missed your ascension. In case anyone else did: dopefishblog

Wait, is that not you? I don’t recognize any of your followers, but it has your profile image

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:00:36am

re: #172 Charmingly Persistent

Wait, is that not you? I don’t recognize any of your followers, but it has your profile image

That is not me.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:02:55am

Spotted (“night sky”) petunias.

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Charmingly Persistent  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:05:21am

re: #173 Nerdy Fish

That is not me.

Oh my God! Someone stole your avatar? That’s … something. Should I report an imposter?

Or is that avatar called a dopefish and it is just a coincidence?

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:06:19am
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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:10:02am

re: #175 Charmingly Persistent

Oh my God! Someone stole your avatar? That’s … something. Should I report an imposter?

Or is that avatar called a dopefish and it is just a coincidence?

The avatar is a dopefish, and I know I am certainly not the only one running around with that name, though I am generally associated with that identifier in many places.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:13:21am

Now, if someone adopts my avatar and persona and starts doing nefarious things targeting people I personally know, as if to impersonate me specifically… THAT would be worth knowing.

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Charmingly Persistent  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:14:39am

re: #177 Nerdy Fish

The avatar is a dopefish, and I know I am certainly not the only one running around with that name, though I am generally associated with that identifier in many places.

That’s a relief. So what is your handle (if you want people to follow you)?

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:15:21am

re: #178 Nerdy Fish

Now, if someone adopts my avatar and persona and starts doing nefarious things targeting people I personally know, as if to impersonate me specifically… THAT would be worth knowing.

Are you on Bluesky? Do you want to be?

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bsky-social-pfd7p-tbniy

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:15:34am

re: #175 Charmingly Persistent

Oh my God! Someone stole your avatar? That’s … something. Should I report an imposter?

Or is that avatar called a dopefish and it is just a coincidence?

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:15:40am

re: #149 No Malarkey!

The boom being lowered on the Trump Organization.

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Good. Burn it down.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:16:25am

re: #150 No Malarkey!

Love it!

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I hope they find Russians coming out of the woodwork.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:16:49am

re: #179 Charmingly Persistent

That’s a relief. So what is your handle (if you want people to follow you)?

re: #180 wrenchwench

I am already on Bluesky; to address the question above, I am @thedopefishlives.bsky.social: bsky.app

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dat_said  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:17:03am

Meanwhile, happening at one of the GOP’s minor league farm teams:

InForum: Minnesota law school disputes North Dakota lawmaker’s claims about enrollment


He’s at the lying skill level of Santos yet somehow remains stuck on the farm team. Must have trouble with the curve ball. Oh, and yes he’s got the homophobic credentials to make the big leagues as long as he doesn’t blow out his, uh, shoulder.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:17:15am

re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And yet the current GOP frontrunner is a big-city, draft-dodging, mincing fancy-boy who wears makeup, heels and a girdle.

Draft-dodging is what my generation did to avoid the destruction of the Vietnam War. I would never criticize Trump for that — but for his absolute contempt for those who served and were injured, imprisoned, or killed while fighting for our nation. When he disparaged McCain in 2015 and the GOP base shrugged it off, that revealed something very sick in the party. These people are willing to fight, kill, and die for Trump but not our nation. They are forces for destruction who are leading us to the end of democracy and toward authoritarianism if they are not stopped.

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Jay C  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:20:16am

re: #176 lawhawk

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Corn may be off-base here: according to the NYT piece on Nancy Marks’ plea:

Ms. Marks had been one of Mr. Santos’s closest confidantes, working with him from the beginning of his 2020 campaign through his ultimate election in 2022, and earning nearly $240,000, including reimbursements. There is no indication that Ms. Marks intends to cooperate with prosecutors.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:20:50am

re: #184 Nerdy Fish

I am already on Bluesky; to address the question above, I am @thedopefishlives.bsky.social: bsky.app

And we already follow each other. I couldn’t find you on my list. I might have to unfollow a couple dozen.

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BigPapa  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:22:06am

re: #23 BigPapa

Watters is technically an asshole troll doll.

I think this was an indelicate comment. I retract it.

Watters is technically and asshole troll bimbo.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:26:03am

re: #47 TarHellion

A bit more trouble than it should have been. But par is OK.

Awaiting the big cooldown that is supposed to take effect on Saturday. Highs go from the 80s down to the mid 60s. Will certainly feel more like fall.

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Par for me too. Hint below!

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Group:3,4,5,6
The person who solved in 3 admits it was a lucky guess. The 6 got caught in the potential death spiral searching for the first letter — saved herself by burning word 5 to find the first letter. For me, I realized the problem at 2 and my word 3 was able to eliminate most of the potential possibilities.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:26:17am

re: #121 Joe Bacon ✅

According to the report, Knorr then went around threatening other people in the store, and Aldi employees summoned the police. Both he and his dog have been arrested, and are being held at the Cass County Jail and the Fargo Pound, respectively.

I’m glad they clarified that.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:27:24am

re: #176 lawhawk

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This may cost him many $199.99 items in his expenditures disclosures.

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piratedan  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:27:30am

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Murc is a commentator at Lawyers, Guns, and Money

it’s kind of similar to something they have over at Balloon Juice, Cleeks Law -
GOP policy is to be against whatever Democrats want, updated daily.

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BigPapa  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:29:04am

Chump has the best FOFace. He’s turning into a black hole of sniveling grievance and petulance. I’m enjoying every second of it. Shoot that shit into my veins.

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:30:24am

re: #126 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Sort of unfortunate to see a dog get killed due to the erstwhile “owner” or “master” neglecting to have the animal on a lead and under control. In dog terms the person is acting as a pack leader and should have the dog’s welfare in mind when handling it.

When my brother was losing chickens to a neighbor’s dog running amok he did not blame the dog since it was doing what a dog does. He was angry at the owner for not having the dog properly controlled. Said owner by the second (and then third) incident was also flaunting orders from the local magistrate that the dog be kept in a run or other restrained on a permanent basis.

In the countryside where I was raised, there were 3 chicken farmers within a couple of miles.

The usual practice with a pet dog that killed chickens was shoot the dog or fasten a dead chicken in a sack under the dog’s neck, and let the dog run around like that for several days to a week. After the dead chicken treatment, the dogs left chickens alone.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:35:41am
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:35:46am

re: #50 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I lucked out on my 1 in 3 options for the birb.

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There are 5 possible words — but several might be eliminated by earlier guesses

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Captain Ron  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:36:42am

meh, it’s going to be hot today, it’s 9:30 and already 76.

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BigPapa  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:40:13am

Does anybody else note the cosmic carnal clownfuckery that is the House voting to oust the Blown Speaker of the House and then moving to oust the shitgoblin congress critter that invoked that very Motion to Vacate? You cannot make this shit up.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:41:35am

re: #196 Backwoods Sleuth

Why in the fuck does anyone need a lectern that costs $19000??

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:42:37am

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Amanda Marcotte at Salon on December 2, 2022 called out another example of the press employing Murc’s Law.

Uh, Politico? Biden didn’t make Marjorie Taylor Greene “the face of the GOP” — Republicans did

Why are there so many misogynists/racists/fascists? Because leftist Democrats drove them to it

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:44:37am

re: #199 BigPapa

Does anybody else note the cosmic carnal clownfuckery that is the House voting to oust the Blown Speaker of the House and then moving to oust the shitgoblin congress critter that invoked that very Motion to Vacate? You cannot make this shit up.

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BigPapa  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:46:57am

re: #202 Eclectic Cyborg

Chef’s Kiss

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:47:00am

Republicans, you have been warned.

The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers.

The challenge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary federal agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current “anti-government” investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek.

newsweek.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:51:43am

re: #186 Hecuba’s daughter

Draft-dodging is what my generation did to avoid the destruction of the Vietnam War.

But you never bragged about facing the dangers of the 1980’s club dating scene, either…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:52:45am

re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg

Why in the fuck does anyone need a lectern that costs $19000??

We had this discussion:

One fit for a Carthagenian general

A Hannibal Lectern

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TarHellion  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:54:38am

Back in 2007, McHenry was being a dipshyte to Speaker Pelosi regarding the utilization of a plane. Plane travel for the Speaker was put in place after 9/11 at the request of the Bush administration and was utilized by Speaker Hastert. Skip ahead toward the final seconds to see former Rep. Barney Frank’s perfect take on the “controversy.”

Bart Gordon, Patrick McHenry & Barney Frank - Pelosi’s Plane

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b.d.  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:54:40am

re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg

Why in the fuck does anyone need a lectern that costs $19000??

Need someplace to give your speech on fiscal responsibility?

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BigPapa  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:55:22am

Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:56:47am

Trump’s shit has hit the fan:

(Click on document to see full PDF)

iapps.courts.state.ny.us

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:57:51am
On the night of Oct. 5-6, 1923, Edwin Hubble made a photographic plate on which he found three objects he determined to be novae in Andromeda. But after reviewing a sufficient chronology of data, he realized one of them was in fact a Cepheid variable star, so he changed its label from “N” to “VAR!” He used an exclamation point for a very good reason; the wealth of knowledge that preceded him allowed him to translate his single observation into a reset of the scale of the Universe, and he knew it right away

“VAR!” 100 years ago tonight [last night] , Edwin Hubble found a star that revealed the vastness of the Universe (DKOS)

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KGxvi  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:58:43am

re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We need comprehensive and humane immigration policies and procedures.

But there are too many interests who do not want to see that: they depend on a pool of cheap, easily exploited laborers who are too terrified of being deported to report the abuses perptrated against them.

it is a moral failure that it takes years for anyone to legal immigrate to the US and damn near a decade to become a citizen. It should not take more than a year to legally immigrate, and it shouldn’t take more than 5 to become a citizen. Then again, I’m about as close to an old fashioned open borders libertarian type that you’ll find on immigration, so…

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KingKenrod  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:58:52am

Are bluesky embeds possible here?

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2023 • 9:59:39am

Big News! I can now drink from a cup. First time since 1-2-23. I still need to pay attention and be careful, but I don’t need a straw.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:00:09am

re: #214 wrenchwench

Yay. I am happy for you.

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:00:34am

re: #213 KingKenrod

Are bluesky embeds possible here?

That is my greatest need, at this point.

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BigPapa  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:02:05am

Chump getting away with so much is the epitome of white privilege. He’s the king of it.

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KGxvi  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:02:15am

re: #202 Eclectic Cyborg

funny bit about that photo that probably wasn’t intended, but the big dude in front with the mohawk and tatoos, I believe is currently known as Tyrus and has a regular slot on Fox News. I think he recently lost the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship, so maybe he has some free time to be Speaker of the House.

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:03:00am

Map of the adopted AL congressional districts, which should give blacks opportunities to send 2 representatives to Congress.

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KGxvi  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:05:29am

re: #219 lawhawk

Marc Elias is doing yeoman’s work on voting rights litigation. His firm may end up being primarily responsible for swinging the House majority in their quest to get fair district maps.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:06:25am

re: #219 lawhawk

Map of the adopted AL congressional districts, which should give blacks opportunities to send 2 representatives to Congress.

[Embedded content]

That map actually looks pretty decent, as opposed to some of the horribly gerrymandered maps out there.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:07:41am

re: #220 KGxvi

Marc Elias is doing yeoman’s work on voting rights litigation. His firm may end up being primarily responsible for swinging the House majority in their quest to get fair district maps.

(Ahem) Alabama League of Women Voters, among others.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:08:57am

re: #213 KingKenrod

Are bluesky embeds possible here?

Not at the moment. Charles was working on it last I heard.

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KGxvi  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:13:37am

re: #222 Decatur Deb

(Ahem) Alabama League of Women Voters, among others.

I didn’t mean to discredit anyone’s efforts. Elias’s firm has been litigating cases across the country, and mostly winning. It’s a team effort to be sure, but his firm has definitely been at the front of the charge.

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ericblair  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:17:12am

re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We had this discussion:

One fit for a Carthagenian general

A Hannibal Lectern

Well, a lectern “costs” $19k when you illegally alter the invoice.

I am very spectacularly sure that this is not a little one-off expense fudge, and Huckabee’s administration is trying its damndest to hide her travel expenses, so I’m guessing they’ll be a gold mine there if and when the courts pry it out of her. Maybe a literal gold mine, who knows.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:17:46am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lindsay Graham (R-So. Car.) and Jim Risch (R-ID) have introduced a bill to force Christian nationalist education in every school in the land.

S. Res. 380—A resolution designating the week of October 1, 2023, through October 7, 2023, as “Religious Education Week” to celebrate religious education in the United States.

The goal is to force public schools to spend a week on “religious education” (teaching Christianity).

The Freedom from Religion Foundation is running a letter-writing campaign to push back against the bill. It is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

ffrf.quorum.us

Paging The Church of Satan.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:18:11am

re: #210 BeenHereAwhile

Trump’s shit has hit the fan:

(Click on document to see full PDF)

iapps.courts.state.ny.us

You know, I’m kinda waiting for the news to drop that his ex-wife’s grave has been dug up, now the coffin is missing and Trump has fled the country. No way that thing just has her ashes in it: it’s holding either the most important secret docs - so the Feds can’t find them - or it’s hiding a bunch of cash and/or negotiables like diamonds and such for him to go on the lam.

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:18:25am

re: #186 Hecuba’s daughter

Draft-dodging is what my generation did to avoid the destruction of the Vietnam War. I would never criticize Trump for that — but for his absolute contempt for those who served and were injured, imprisoned, or killed while fighting for our nation. When he disparaged McCain in 2015 and the GOP base shrugged it off, that revealed something very sick in the party. These people are willing to fight, kill, and die for Trump but not our nation. They are forces for destruction who are leading us to the end of democracy and toward authoritarianism if they are not stopped.

That contempt stretches back even further. If you remember, back in 2004, John Kerry’s service record was besmirched by the ‘pugs. This included his serving on the Swift boats along with the medals he earned there on. All the impugning was revealed to be a total fabrication.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:21:47am

re: #226 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Paging The Church of Satan.

Watch the fireworks when Muslims want to get in on this.

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Jay C  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:23:07am

re: #227 Dr Lizardo

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:23:51am

re: #227 Dr Lizardo

That reminds me…

A jury trial is underway in Pennsylvania for a man accused of trying to kill his wife by rigging a tripwire at the top of a staircase in the couple’s home.

Prosecutors are alleging William Joseph Dankesreiter Jr., 63, intended for his wife, Laura, to fall to her death and collect on a $300,000 life insurance policy, according to a report in PennLive.

Fortunately, she managed to catch herself before tumbling down the wooden staircase, initially thinking her near-fall was caused by a loose piece of carpeting.

However, upon closer inspection, Laura Dankesreiter said she spotted a pair of metal eye hooks installed on either side of the doorway with a piece of fishing line stretched tightly between them about 3 inches above the carpet.

According to court filings, Laura Dankesreiter told investigators she tripped on something on her way down to the basement of her Derry Township home to retrieve something for breakfast from the freezer in October 2020.

nypost.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:25:27am

re: #227 Dr Lizardo

You know, I’m kinda waiting for the news to drop that his ex-wife’s grave has been dug up, now the coffin is missing and Trump has fled the country. No way that thing just has her ashes in it: it’s holding either the most important secret docs - so the Feds can’t find them - or it’s hiding a bunch of cash and/or negotiables like diamonds and such for him to go on the lam.

I can think of no other explanation for her grave being where it is.

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:26:12am

For all the right wing photo edits out there, and the Jon Naughton revisionist history imagery, this one is where Trump truly belongs:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:26:12am

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

Watch the fireworks when Muslims want to get in on this.

and Wiccans
and Mormons
and Buddhists
and Zoroastrians
and Pastafarians, etc…

235
Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:26:53am

re: #231 Shropshire Slasher

JFC.

I doubt he would have gotten the insurance payout even if she did die because the police would probably have figured out what happened pretty quick.

Still, seems like a really dumb way of trying to off someone.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:28:08am

re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I can think of no other explanation for her grave being where it is.

Weren’t there supposed to be some kind of tax benefits associated with property used as a cemetery?

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:28:38am

re: #231 Shropshire Slasher

Damn, that’s wild. That’s some seriously old school “bump off the wife” shenanigans, like something out of a Raymond Chandler novel. It’s like the plot of some film noir.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:29:12am

re: #236 Hecuba’s daughter

Weren’t there supposed to be some kind of tax benefits associated with property used as a cemetery?

No, nothing like that at all. He needs a place that nobody can raid without a serious warrant that any judge would be highly hesitant to issue

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:30:30am

re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg

JFC.

I doubt he would have gotten the insurance payout even if she did die because the police would probably have figured out what happened pretty quick.

Still, seems like a really dumb way of trying to off someone.

But if she had died, he would have removed the tripwire before contacting the police. So potentially would have gotten away with it.

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:30:41am

re: #212 KGxvi

it is a moral failure that it takes years for anyone to legal immigrate to the US and damn near a decade to become a citizen. It should not take more than a year to legally immigrate, and it shouldn’t take more than 5 to become a citizen. Then again, I’m about as close to an old fashioned open borders libertarian type that you’ll find on immigration, so…

Its also a failure that we let people in to wait for disposition of their status and not give them the ability to support themselves

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:30:58am

re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

No, nothing like that at all. He needs a place that nobody can raid without a serious warrant that any judge would be highly hesitant to issue

Judges are usually very hesitant to exhume bodies in general unless there’s some damn good reason to do so, such as murder being suspected or a need to re-examine the remains or collect a DNA sample.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:31:02am

re: #237 Dr Lizardo

Damn, that’s wild. That’s some seriously old school “bump off the wife” shenanigans, like something out of a Raymond Chandler novel. It’s like the plot of some film noir.

Wadded up at the bottom of the stairs like Ivanka.

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William Lewis  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:33:54am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

So, Lizards who are Star Wars fans….as we know, Ray Stevenson passed away. So what to do with his Ahsoka character? Write him out? Recast the character?

The folks behind Star Wars shouldn’t be afraid to recast characters, IMHO. In the case of the Baylan Skoll character, personally, I’d cast Liev Schrieber in the role. He’s about the same age as Ray Stevenson and I think he has sufficient gravitas to pull off the character.

1) Recast. There’s a lot left in that character’s arc to explore.
2) There better be a second season for her to get back to the main galaxy and tussle with Thrawn.
3) A good hint that there will be is Disney called this a “Season Finale” like in The Mandolorian but unlike Kenobi which was just a “Finale”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:36:44am

re: #241 Dr Lizardo

Judges are usually very hesitant to exhume bodies in general unless there’s some damn good reason to do so, such as murder being suspected or a need to re-examine the remains or collect a DNA sample.

and he is fucking ghoulish enough to know that

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:38:54am

re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and Wiccans
and Mormons
and Buddhists
and Zoroastrians
and Pastafarians, etc…

And don’t forget the First Church Of Shatnerology! 🤣

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:39:40am
247
Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:41:03am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:41:12am

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:44:06am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:44:32am

re: #243 William Lewis

I agree there needs to be a second season. You can even tie it in to the sequel trilogy.

Thrawn comes back and takes command of the Imperial Remnant. They attack Coruscant, successfully, forcing the New Republic to flee for Hosnian Prime. Thrawn and the Imperial Remnant experience several successes, but are only stopped when the forces of the New Republic rally. Ahsoka Tano returns, and in a climactic battle, the Imperial Remnant is defeated when Thrawn is finally killed in battle - though the battle costs Ahsoka her life. What’s left of the Imperial Remnant receives a signal to withdraw to the Unknown Regions - where of course, it ultimately becomes the First Order.

You’d have to resolve the storylines of other characters.

Skoll (recast) finds and is destroyed by Abeloth (The Mother). Shin Hati turns, and takes the side of the New Republic, though after the climactic battle, she disappears - maybe to find out what happened to her old Master on Peridia and I’d leave her ultimate fate unresolved. Don’t know about Sabine or Ezra.

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lawhawk  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:45:08am

re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth

All of these fuckers are out of money and can’t pay the lawyers who are their only hope of avoiding prison or massive judgments against them.

Rudy. Trump. Lindell.

And if it’s happening to them, you can bet it’s happening to the rest of the seditious treasonweasel coconspirators.

All the gofundmes and fundraising and efforts to shift campaign funds to legal defense funds isn’t helping. They’re blowing through the legal bills, and racking up bills they can’t afford.

*grabs popcorn*

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Dangerman  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:47:09am

Another view: “Republicans want to take hostages and shoot them when they don’t get their way. Democrats are resisting the hostage taking. The two parties just can’t seem to work together.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:47:25am

re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth

Criswell Bacon predicted that Crackhead Mike was going to wind up doing the Navin Johnson thing.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:48:06am

Mastodon

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BigPapa  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:48:31am

re: #239 Hecuba’s daughter

But if she had died, he would have removed the tripwire before contacting the police. So potentially would have gotten away with it.

I surmise the police would have figured it out. The tripwire would need to be attached by something, and if it’s an old house the wood would be shaded by age. Any ‘new’ screws/nails would leave a fresh mark, especially after inserting then removing.

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nines09  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:52:06am

re: #254 Backwoods Sleuth

Dead Bird Shit needs to blow the fuck up. I just wish the big hitters would pull out. Fuck Musk.
Fascist pig.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2023 • 10:55:15am

re: #224 KGxvi

I didn’t mean to discredit anyone’s efforts. Elias’s firm has been litigating cases across the country, and mostly winning. It’s a team effort to be sure, but his firm has definitely been at the front of the charge.

Yeah, we’re among others like the ACLU who bought him lunch.

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calochortus  Oct 5, 2023 • 11:02:40am

re: #255 BigPapa

I surmise the police would have figured it out. The tripwire would need to be attached by something, and if it’s an old house the wood would be shaded by age. Any ‘new’ screws/nails would leave a fresh mark, especially after inserting then removing.

So he should have used those removable 3M strips to anchor the tripwire?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 5, 2023 • 11:04:28am

re: #258 calochortus

So he should have used those removable 3M strips to anchor the tripwire?

Alien tape. I just saw an ad for it on MSNBC, and it looks like it would get the job done leaving no marks, and you can reuse it later for other tasks or another murder.

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lizardofid  Oct 5, 2023 • 11:10:10am

re: #259 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Alien tape. I just saw an ad for it on MSNBC, and it looks like it would get the job done leaving no marks, and you can reuse it later for other tasks or another murder.

Advertised in The Frugal Assassin.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 5, 2023 • 12:11:12pm

re: #195 BeenHereAwhile

In the countryside where I was raised, there were 3 chicken farmers within a couple of miles.

The usual practice with a pet dog that killed chickens was shoot the dog or fasten a dead chicken in a sack under the dog’s neck, and let the dog run around like that for several days to a week. After the dead chicken treatment, the dogs left chickens alone.

This dog’s owner tried to deny it was his dog that did it. Even when a county deputy found the dog in my brother’s driveway with a dead chicken in its mouth. My brother was actually slightly surprised the deputy did not grab the dog and shoot it himself.

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 5, 2023 • 12:20:45pm

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