A Disturbing Short Film From Curry Barker: WARNINGS

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When Sean (Curry Barker) finds a mysterious note on his car, he questions where it came from, and why strange things are beginning to happen…

From the Mind of Curry Barker, director of the award-winning horror short - The Chair.

Writer/Director: Curry Barker
Producer: Cooper Tomlinson
Director of Photography: Riley Barker

Cast:
Haley Fitzgerald
Curry Barker
Cooper Tomlinson
Riley Barker
Malcolm Kelner

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Charles Johnson  Oct 7, 2023 • 6:32:20pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2023 • 6:33:47pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Paws-ta la vista, baby.

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qubit2020  Oct 7, 2023 • 6:39:08pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Stolen!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 7, 2023 • 6:47:10pm

One of the most notorious TV shows of the medium’s first half-century is getting a second life — after its first one ended almost as soon as it began.

Producer George Schlatter is releasing the two completed episodes of Turn-On, a 1969 sketch comedy show that saw only one of those two air — and get pulled from one ABC affiliate within 10 minutes of its debut, something that hadn’t happened before and hasn’t since. The two episodes will be available Oct. 9 on YouTube via Clown Jewels, a channel dedicated to vintage comedy.

Laugh-In creator George Schlatter and Digby Wolfe, a writer on the show, created Turn-On, whose hook was that it was the first “computerized” TV show. Filmed rather than taped in front of an audience, the show featured a rapid-fire series of sketches on a blank white set, brief bits of animation and, for the time, a number of risqué subjects and lines.

It premiered on Feb. 5, 1969, on ABC in place of the network’s primetime soap Peyton Place — and by the first commercial break, the network’s affiliate in Cleveland had pulled the show. After seeing the show, some other affiliates in later time zones declined to air it at all, effectively killing it on night one.

“Turn-On may have been one of my proudest moments,” Schlatter said on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in 2019. “The network wanted to do a show, so I said I could do one show, and I would do whatever I want. We came on the air with Turn-On, and the guy in Cleveland wanted them to keep [Peyton Place] on. … When he found out we were coming on the air with Turn-On, he called all the stations and told them all to say they couldn’t air the show. … We were canceled all across the country one station at a time. But it was a wonderful experience — all the things we did in Turn-On are now commonplace.”

Schlatter also said he had to agree not to air Turn-On anywhere else in order to be paid. Pirated copies exist online, however, so the producer chose to team with Clown Jewels — a division of comedy record label 800 Pound Gorilla Media — for an official release. The two episodes will feature new introductions from Schlatter, who will tell the story of the show’s creation and the context in which it was released.

A teaser for the episodes is below.

Turn-On | Teaser Trailer

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2023 • 6:50:50pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 7, 2023 • 6:51:46pm

A good friend texted me a couple minutes ago that his great niece has been called up and is on base awaiting orders but has gone silent. My SIL doesn’t know the status of their family in Israel. A good friend who travels there at least once a year to visit her children and grandchildren said that so far they are all fine. Another friend has a daughter who lives in Israel but she happened to be visiting them in Chicago; she is still planning to return on her flight on Thursday but everything will depend on the situation at the time. She was a non-combat medic in the army and is not eligible to be called up for service.

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:05:53pm

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:06:27pm

So is the reason for the delay in response to the attack is that the extreme factions in the Netanyahu administration transferred divisions from the southern border to the West Bank to protect all the additional settlements they were building?

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austin_blue  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:06:39pm

re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter

A good friend texted me a couple minutes ago that his great niece has been called up and is on base awaiting orders but has gone silent. My SIL doesn’t know the status of their family in Israel. A good friend who travels there at least once a year to visit her children and grandchildren said that so far they are all fine. Another friend has a daughter who lives in Israel but she happened to be visiting them in Chicago; she is still planning to return on her flight on Thursday but everything will depend on the situation at the time. She was a non-combat medic in the army and is not eligible to be called up for service.

From what I’ve read, the affected area from the Hamas attacks is within 20-30 miles of Gaza. The rest of Israel is seeing some random bombing attacks but nothing like what is happening in the near environs of Gaza.

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Jay C  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:10:01pm

re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter

So is the reason for the delay in response to the attack is that the extreme factions in the Netanyahu administration transferred divisions from the southern border to the West Bank to protect all the additional settlements they were building?

Most likely entirely true: but I’m sure no one there will ever admit it, and will likely shout down any discussion of the issue at high volume and extreme outrage….

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austin_blue  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:14:49pm

re: #9 austin_blue

From what I’ve read, the affected area from the Hamas attacks is within 20-30 miles of Gaza. The rest of Israel is seeing some random bombing attacks but nothing like what is happening in the near environs of Gaza.

This is not the 1973 Yom Kippur war when Egypt, Jordan, and Syria attacked Israel on a High Holy Day.

This is a regional attack that was planned and executed within Gaza that Israeli Intelligence Agencies completely failed to detect.

A complete whiff.

Head’s are going to roll.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:20:29pm

re: #11 austin_blue

Indeed they will.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:24:39pm

re: #11 austin_blue

This not the 1973 Yom Kippur war when Egypt, Jordan, and Syria attacked Israel on a High Holy Day.

This is a regional attack that was planned and executed within Gaza that Israeli Intelligence Agencies completely failed to detect.

A complete whiff.

Head’s are going to roll.

Any possibility that someone in the administration received the equivalent of the “Bin Ladin determined to strike in US” and rejected it with the same type of contempt that Bush displayed with the original warning? I find it difficult to believe that Netanyahu himself would be so reckless — but perhaps other officials in the government?

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teleskiguy  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:24:43pm

Lizard Deadheads…

Mastodon

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Belafon  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:30:49pm

re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter

Any possibility that someone in the administration received the equivalent of the “Bin Ladin determined to strike in US” and rejected it with the same type of contempt that Bush displayed with the original warning? I find it difficult to believe that Netanyahu himself would be so reckless — but perhaps other officials in the government?

I read something earlier that Netanyahu’s cabinet told the military, who was warning him that his actions weakening the government would embolden outside groups, in effect to go to hell.

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Belafon  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:32:27pm

I got an email from CNN about the footprints, and those footprints and what we know about the people who made it to Hawaii make me wonder when we as a species developed complicated enough language to be able to communicate complex tasks and solutions.

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Belafon  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:34:26pm

re: #16 Belafon

OK, the estimate of 1000-1200 AD for settling in Hawaii means that wasn’t super long ago in terms of species evolution, but that doesn’t change the original question.

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Captain Ron  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:34:42pm

Ah, it’s Fleet Week, that’s probably why jets were flying and it was probably F-18s then.

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austin_blue  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:37:49pm

re: #11 austin_blue

This is not the 1973 Yom Kippur war when Egypt, Jordan, and Syria attacked Israel on a High Holy Day.

This is a regional attack that was planned and executed within Gaza that Israeli Intelligence Agencies completely failed to detect.

A complete whiff.

Head’s are going to roll.

My Da was serving as a staff officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon when in 1973 the Yom Kippur war broke out.

He was immediately detached to MCAS Beaufort where jumped into an F-4 which had it’s roundels and “Marines”scraped off, and with a RIO, took off for an aircraft carrier in the mid-atlantic that was serving as a gas station and refueled. Then flew to Lajes AFB where he landed and Israeli pilots jumped into the F-4s and took off to replace the Israeli losses at the beginning of the war, which were heavy because the Arabs had recently acquired short range antiaircraft missiles (MANPADS) which surprised the Israelis.

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:41:22pm

re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter

I read elsewhere that the IDF warned Nuttinbutyahoo about moving the troops leaving the south open to attack and Bibi accusing the IDF of working with the left or some such wingnut-type response. Adam Silverman over at Balloon Juice has some excellent information about this attack from his perspective on all things military/political. He basically predicted this attack back in July as it would be militarily advantageous to attack at that time due to the movement to troops to the north/settlements.

Hell, I’m not Jewish nor live in Israel but every time I heard the Israeli government brag about Iron Dome protecting their country I couldn’t help but think “You’re being tested, the big one is coming”. Every time they thwarted an attack they gave Hamas more info on the system. Hamas eventually figured out what they would need to overwhelm the system and here we are today.

That this was ignored shows the hubris of those who thought they had this under control and now they are paying for it.

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Belafon  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:44:59pm

re: #17 Belafon

OK, the estimate of 1000-1200 AD for settling in Hawaii means that wasn’t super long ago in terms of species evolution, but that doesn’t change the original question.

So, in my quest, I found out that Hawaiians came from the French Polynesian islands. So I went google mapping, and, if you tour for food trucks, I found one for you, called Roulotte Oumati, located on the island of Nuku Hiva:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:45:36pm

re: #16 Belafon

1) sex;
2) food.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:46:08pm

Jake Tapper was just interviewing James Clapper, who said years ago when he was in the government, he toured Gaza and West Bank borders and was very impressed with the operation, but he had no knowledge of current functionality. It is increasingly clear that there has been serious degradation of this security at the Gaza border — and the earlier accusations that Israel diverted its attention from this border for its current focus on the West Bank seems to have real merit.

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austin_blue  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:46:36pm

re: #20 Odie Hugh Manatee

I read elsewhere that the IDF warned Nuttinbutyahoo about moving the troops leaving the south open to attack and Bibi accusing thethe IDF of working with the left or some such wingnut-type response. Adam Silverman over at Balloon Juice has some excellent information about this attack from his perspective on all things military/political. He basically predicted this attack back in July as it would be militarily advantageous to attack at that time due to the movement to troops to the north/settlements.

Hell, I’m not Jewish nor live in Israel but every time I heard the Israeli government brag about Iron Dome protecting their country I couldn’t help but think “You’re being tested, the big one is coming”. Every time they thwarted an attack they gave Hamas more info on the system. Hamas eventually figured out what they would need to overwhelm the system and here we are today.

That this was ignored shows the hubris of those who thought they had this under control and now they are paying for it.

“Our enemies will never be able to adapt to our defenses because they never have in the past.”

Say the guys who are losing their jobs this coming week.

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William Lewis  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:47:45pm

re: #19 austin_blue

My Da was serving as a staff officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon when in 1973 the Yom Kippur war broke out.

He was immediately detached to MCAS Beaufort where jumped into an F-4 which had it’s roundels and “Marines”scraped off, and with a RIO, took off for an aircraft carrier in the mid-atlantic that was serving as a gas station and refueled. Then flew to Lajes AFB where he landed and Israeli pilots jumped into the F-4s and took off to replace the Israeli losses at the beginning of the war, which were heavy because the Arabs had recently acquired short range antiaircraft missiles (MANPADS) which surprised the Israelis.

The C-5s flew in M-60 Pattons to replace tank losses too. One of the biggest shocks to both the IDF & the US Army came shortly there after when the IDF discovered how insanely flammable US hydraulic fluid used in the turrets was. Small hits survivable in earlier tanks caused burned out wrecks and bad burn casualties. After the war there was a crash program to replace it with a less flammable fluid. Eventually it would also lead to the US Army finally (after I was out of the active military) adopting fire retardant uniforms for tank crew.

There were other serious flaws in the M-60 that the Israelis dealt with (the M-73 & M-85 machine guns and the cupola we used on it) but nothing as bad as the hydraulic fluid.

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:55:31pm

The missus said we should put a master bedroom on the roof. Then we went up for a sunset glass of Korbel (it’s five minutes away) bubbly to acknowledge our new place, and she won the argument before it started.

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austin_blue  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:58:08pm

re: #25 William Lewis

The C-5s flew in M-60 Pattons to replace tank losses too. One of the biggest shocks to both the IDF & the US Army came shortly there after when the IDF discovered how insanely flammable US hydraulic fluid used in the turrets was. Small hits survivable in earlier tanks caused burned out wrecks and bad burn casualties. After the war there was a crash program to replace it with a less flammable fluid. Eventually it would also lead to the US Army finally (after I was out of the active military) adopting fire retardant uniforms for tank crew.

There were other serious flaws in the M-60 that the Israelis dealt with (the M-73 & M-85 machine guns and the cupola we used on it) but nothing as bad as the hydraulic fluid.

Indeed they did, two at a time (the C-5s). The M-60s were always problematic, weren’t they? Good on the board, but kinda sucky in the field.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 7, 2023 • 7:58:31pm

Analysis | Netanyahu’s Recklessness Has Brought War Upon Israel

Hamas, a ‘small’ terror organization exposed the nakedness of Israel, a regional superpower. While the failure is first and foremost that of the Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet security service, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to wash his hands of this travesty

haaretz.com

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austin_blue  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:28:50pm

Sleep time for me.

Night all.

The Israeli government has much to answer for, which is going to see a lot of changes, especially in the Intelligence and Security services.

This attack was an absolutely unprecedented fuckup for them.

A 9/11 level of fuckup. Which, being much smaller than the US, they cannot afford.

My deepest sympathies for the dead and injured and their families, on both sides.

What a stupid conflict.

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:33:56pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:39:21pm
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wrenchwench  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:39:27pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:39:28pm

I, for one, am all for returning New York City back to its original grandeur.

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Captain Ron  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:43:11pm

Reporters on a Gaza roof when building nearby goes poof.

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Captain Ron  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:48:03pm

Visibility is low due to smoke.

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:48:55pm

To be honest, it’s always Gumbo Season.

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Belafon  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:54:12pm

re: #36 darthstar

To be honest, it’s always Gumbo Season.

[Embedded content]

Yes, but a gumbo latte just doesn’t sound very good.

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Belafon  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:57:25pm

The lowest powerball number tonight, other than the powerball itself, was 47.

47 54 57 60 65 PB 19

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:57:56pm

re: #36 darthstar

To be honest, it’s always Gumbo Season.

[Embedded content]

And it’s always Gumby season, too! 😉

Gumby - Moon Trip

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:58:32pm

re: #38 Belafon

The lowest powerball number tonight, other than the powerball itself, was 47.

47 54 57 60 65 PB 19

Fogot to play…did I win?

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 8:59:20pm

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:00:28pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:01:37pm

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William Lewis  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:06:29pm

re: #27 austin_blue

Indeed they did, two at a time (the C-5s). The M-60s were always problematic, weren’t they? Good on the board, but kinda sucky in the field.

They had their advantages too, especially on the defensive (excellent cross country maneuverability, their height helped in hull down and their fire-control systems were superior to that of the soviets) but they had lots of issues as well. Many thanks to the McNamara DOD and their “genius” ideas.

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:07:03pm

From October 2…

Today is the birthday of Groucho Marx.
I always enjoyed the following story.

Groucho Marx suffered from severe insomnia.
When he couldn’t sleep, Groucho would call his Beverly Hills neighbor, Alice Cooper, and ask him to come over and join him.
Alice would bring over a six-pack of beer and Groucho and he would drink beer and watch old movies on TV until Groucho nodded off.

Submitted by WH pal, Eric Soto.

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Belafon  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:14:39pm

re: #42 darthstar

I asked my son, who moved to Brooklyn in June, to be on the lookout for one. He suspects, if they are real, to show up in Manhattan rather than where he lives.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:15:33pm

re: #38 Belafon

The lowest powerball number tonight, other than the powerball itself, was 47.

47 54 57 60 65 PB 19

Nobody hit the jackpot.

Monday’s draw estimate at $1.55 Billion

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Targetpractice  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:27:28pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅

Analysis | Netanyahu’s Recklessness Has Brought War Upon Israel

Hamas, a ‘small’ terror organization exposed the nakedness of Israel, a regional superpower. While the failure is first and foremost that of the Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet security service, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to wash his hands of this travesty

haaretz.com

Says increasingly nervous man for the seventh time this year.////

Seriously, which is more likely: Bibi being held to account for totally mishandling the nation’s defense…or pulling the same bit seen used by conservatives across the globe of attacking anyone calling him on his shit for “politicizing” the events that “nobody saw coming” and that there will be a full accounting of all the failures “later”?

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:29:08pm

re: #47 Joe Bacon ✅

Nobody hit the jackpot.

Monday’s draw estimate at $1.55 Billion

[Embedded content]

I’ll play for Monday. If I win, I’ll take the annual installment plan. A person could live on 50 million a year after taxes for the next 26 years.

Probably have a little extra to do some good in their local community as well.

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William Lewis  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:30:06pm

re: #48 Targetpractice

Says increasingly nervous man for the seventh time this year.////

Seriously, which is more likely: Bibi being held to account for totally mishandling the nation’s defense…or pulling the same bit seen used by conservatives across the globe of attacking anyone calling him on his shit for “politicizing” the events that “nobody saw coming” and that there will be a full accounting of all the failures “later”?

Just like the insanely incompetent Dubya got re-elected.

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Targetpractice  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:30:19pm

re: #44 William Lewis

They had their advantages too, especially on the defensive (excellent cross country maneuverability, their height helped in hull down and their fire-control systems were superior to that of the soviets) but they had lots of issues as well. Many thanks to the McNamara DOD and their “genius” ideas.

Always “cheaper” to just keep slapping mods on the same chassis and incrementing the number.

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Targetpractice  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:36:56pm

re: #50 William Lewis

Just like the insanely incompetent Dubya got re-elected.

Bibi will probably do much the same: Claim that the warnings were “vague” and thus there nothing actionable, that they get such warnings so many times a day that there’s no way they could have jumped on every one of them, and that anybody who is criticizing them for their inaction “has an agenda.”

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JC1  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:42:57pm

re: #16 Belafon

I got an email from CNN about the footprints, and those footprints and what we know about the people who made it to Hawaii make me wonder when we as a species developed complicated enough language to be able to communicate complex tasks and solutions.

We had spoken language for as long as we’ve been this species. So at least 200k+ years.

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JC1  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:48:05pm

Proud of this 3/6 WAG

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teleskiguy  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:50:49pm

bsky.app

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William Lewis  Oct 7, 2023 • 9:59:13pm

re: #53 JC1

We had spoken language for as long as we’ve been this species. So at least 200k+ years.

I’m personally quite sure we’ve had spoken language at least since H. antecessor. I used to think earlier but a recent paper showed that H. erectus had a Broca’s area similar to that of Chimpanzees so that presents very strong evidence against spoken language.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 7, 2023 • 10:01:27pm

Has the America First (Russia vs. Ukraine) crowd chimed in about Hamas vs. Israel yet? Sorry. I’ve been busy today.

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Captain Ron  Oct 7, 2023 • 10:03:12pm

re: #57 GlutenFreeJesus

Has the America First (Russia vs. Ukraine) crowd chimed in about Hamas vs. Israel yet? Sorry. I’ve been busy today.

Yes

Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former leader, called today for a civil war in the US, as he said a civil war would be the only thing that could stop “America’s manic passion for sparking conflicts everywhere on the planet”.

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Captain Ron  Oct 7, 2023 • 10:04:40pm

It’s Biden’s fault.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 7, 2023 • 10:04:50pm

re: #55 teleskiguy

bsky.app

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We live in a nation where children are routinely slaughtered by guns — by accident or by deliberate action, where mass shooters invade schools or places of worship or supermarkets or theaters or…. And thanks to the NRA and their Republican co-conspirators, little is done to stop these killings. Hamas and similar groups do not care about their targets and evil they inflict — but the same is true here. And we seem incapable of stopping it.

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teleskiguy  Oct 7, 2023 • 10:15:02pm

The greatest rock ‘n’ roll song out there about Depression…

Misunderstood

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teleskiguy  Oct 7, 2023 • 11:31:03pm

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teleskiguy  Oct 7, 2023 • 11:43:44pm

Inca Roads (Live)

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teleskiguy  Oct 7, 2023 • 11:58:24pm

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 8, 2023 • 12:00:24am
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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Oct 8, 2023 • 1:33:23am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 8, 2023 • 1:50:22am

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

One of the most notorious TV shows of the medium’s first half-century is getting a second life — after its first one ended almost as soon as it began.

“Wha’ Happened?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 8, 2023 • 1:52:59am

re: #11 austin_blue

This is not the 1973 Yom Kippur war when Egypt, Jordan, and Syria attacked Israel on a High Holy Day.

“Hamas was provoked into this war by the Zionist Nazis!!!”

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William Lewis  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:03:56am

A university homecoming, a high school homecoming and we have 2 wedding parties in house. Nope no rooms at 4 am for someone just wandering in off the street with no planning ahead. Try the next town down the interstate dude.

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Targetpractice  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:14:21am

re: #69 William Lewis

A university homecoming, a high school homecoming and we have 2 wedding parties in house. Nope no rooms at 4 am for someone just wandering in off the street with no planning ahead. Try the next town down the interstate dude.

I’m still totally lost what’s happening this weekend. Two nights of total sell-out, both nights the bulk were one-night stays as though there was some event that people just came to sleep off before heading home the next day. The last major event down at the Oceanfront came and went last weekend, so I can only guess that we just got hit by a perfect storm of smaller events that wiped out all the local lodging at once.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:40:41am

Here’s the headline. You tell us the name of the furry little news outlet:

Israel War: Hamas surprise attack spotlights Biden team’s failures. Here’s what comes next

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:46:12am

re: #71 Decatur Deb

Gotta be the N.Y. Times.

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William Lewis  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:51:38am

re: #71 Decatur Deb

Here’s the headline. You tell us the name of the furry little news outlet:

Israel War: Hamas surprise attack spotlights Biden team’s failures. Here’s what comes next

I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t the latest Faux chasing attempt by CNN …

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Decatur Deb  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:51:48am

re: #72 Dr Lizardo

foxnews.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:52:53am

Biden funded this attack using money he funneled through Hunter’s Laptop.

Why does he hate Israel, God and America?

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Decatur Deb  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:53:32am

That was your Sunday morning “gimee”.

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William Lewis  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:57:57am

re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Biden funded this attack using money he funneled through Hunter’s Laptop.

Why does he hate Israel, God and America?

I’m just waiting for the Saudi’s to use this as an excuse to jack the price of oil again since it’s getting low enough to bring down inflation in the US. They gotta help Puppet Trump as much as they can!

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Targetpractice  Oct 8, 2023 • 3:03:42am

re: #71 Decatur Deb

Here’s the headline. You tell us the name of the furry little news outlet:

Israel War: Hamas surprise attack spotlights Biden team’s failures. Here’s what comes next

Meanwhile, news services in Israel itself are calling out Bibi for causing chaos in the government, pulling over 2 battalions worth of soldiers from the south to shore up forces in the West Bank settlements, and responding to warnings from the IDF by accusing them of working with the opposition to damage his government.

But it’s Faux, so of course they gotta spin this as all being Biden’s fault because not a single event happens around the globe independent of US influence or lack thereof.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 8, 2023 • 3:04:43am

re: #77 William Lewis

I’m just waiting for the Saudi’s to use this as an excuse to jack the price of oil again since it’s getting low enough to bring down inflation in the US. They gotta help Puppet Trump as much as they can!

I thought this had to do with throwing a monkey wrench into any Saudi/Irani reconciliation

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 8, 2023 • 3:09:41am

re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Biden funded this attack using money he funneled through Hunter’s Laptop.

Why does he hate Israel, God and America?

“WHY DID HUNTER BIDEN’S SCHLONG DO THIS?!”

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 8, 2023 • 3:57:08am
The Israeli military says it is evacuating civilians from towns adjacent to the border with the Gaza Strip at this stage.

The towns include Nahal Oz, Erez, Nir Am, Mefalsim, Kfar Aza, Gevim, Or Haner, Ibim, Netiv Ha’asara, Yad Mordechai, Karmia, Zikim, Kerem Shalom, Kissufim, Holit, Sufa, Nirim, Nir Oz, Ein Hashlosha, Nir Yitzhak, Be’eri, Magen, Re’im, Sa’ad and Alumim.

“Further evacuations will be carried out according to the assessment of the situation,” the IDF says.

“Our mission for the upcoming 24 hours is to evacuate all residents living around Gaza,” military spokesman Daniel Hagari tells reporters.

He says the evacuation could be carried out only after a proper “scan of the territory” to ensure that no terrorists were present.

“There are tens of thousands of combat soldiers in the area. We’ll reach each and every community till we kill every terrorist in Israel,” Hagari says.

timesofisrael.com

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:06:30am

re: #16 Belafon

I got an email from CNN about the footprints, and those footprints and what we know about the people who made it to Hawaii make me wonder when we as a species developed complicated enough language to be able to communicate complex tasks and solutions.

We’re still working on that with many people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:13:36am

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

The Israeli military says it is evacuating civilians from towns adjacent to the border with the Gaza Strip at this stage.

The Israelis have the option of relocating. Where are civilians on the Gaza Strip supposed to go? They are basically living in an Israeli internment camp.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:14:08am

re: #82 Eventual Carrion

We’re still working on that with many people.

We use language to communicate basic needs, threats and moral outrage.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:15:25am

re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And boob jokes.

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Teukka  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:26:32am

re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Israelis have the option of relocating. Where are civilians on the Gaza Strip supposed to go? They are basically living in an Israeli internment camp.

From what I’ve gleaned from various sources, suggested locations within Gaza that are safe(ish(?)), or exit.
Question is whether Hamas will abuse those locations, or prevent people from going there.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:37:29am

re: #54 JC1

Proud of this 3/6 WAG

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:41:20am

re: #43 darthstar

Should have saved it for next month.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:44:02am

re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We use language to communicate basic needs, threats and moral outrage.

Just a series of [grunts] and [squeals] can do that :-)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:45:52am

re: #89 Eventual Carrion

Just a series of [Fox] and [OAN] reports can do that

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William Lewis  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:53:15am

re: #89 Eventual Carrion

Just a series of [grunts] and [squeals] can do that :-)

One theory is that early Hominin used forms of humming for that.
(yes, seriously)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:58:56am

re: #54 JC1

Ended up with two guesses in my mind, and as usual, picked the wrong one.
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Eventual Carrion  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:06:07am

re: #91 William Lewis

One theory is that early Hominin used forms of humming for that.
(yes, seriously)

Hmmmm

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Thanos  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:07:52am

Some still recall the St Louis Lambs with ire:
riverfronttimes.com

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Axolotl  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:10:22am

re: #89 Eventual Carrion

Just a series of [grunts] and [squeals] can do that :-)

I guess it depends on how soon our anatomy existed in its current form. If people had vocal cords 200,000 years ago some of them were talking.

The ability to speak provided advantages and those that had the ability to do so passed their anatomy along to their offspring.

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darthstar  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:18:00am

re: #95 Axolotl

I guess it depends on how soon our anatomy existed in its current form. If people had vocal cords 200,000 years ago some of them were talking.

The ability to speak provided advantages and those that had the ability to do so passed their anatomy along to their offspring.

‘Til Tuesday - Voices Carry

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Targetpractice  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:21:25am

re: #91 William Lewis

One theory is that early Hominin used forms of humming for that.
(yes, seriously)

Family Guy - for the longest time

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:21:47am
The estimated death toll from the Hamas assault on Israeli border communities jumps sharply this afternoon from 300 this morning to some 600.

A spokesperson for the ZAKA, a volunteer group that handles dead bodies and human remains after terror attacks, tells Hebrew media that more than 600 Israelis have been killed.

The bodies are found as Israeli forces continue to battle with Hamas gunmen, clearing them out of communities along the border.

timesofisrael.com

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Thanos  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:21:53am

re: #96 darthstar

The Romantics - Talking in Your Sleep

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:23:34am

Talk Talk - Talk Talk (Alternative Video)

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Axolotl  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:27:08am

re: #99 Thanos

YouTube

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Axolotl  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:27:36am

re: #100 Florida Panhandler

Damn beat me to it!!!

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darthstar  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:31:00am

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:35:43am

re: #96 darthstar

Love that song.

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Teukka  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:45:53am

re: #98 Dr Lizardo

timesofisrael.com

Is that including the 250 they apparently found at the peace rave site?

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TarHellion  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:50:19am

re: #92 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Also came up on the short end of the 50/50.

But at least better than University of Miami head coach Mario Cristobal. All the U had to do was take a knee to run out the clock. Instead, Miami ran the ball and fumbled it back to Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets then scored a TD in just 24 seconds to win.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 8, 2023 • 5:53:50am

re: #105 Teukka

Is that including the 250 they apparently found at the peace rave site?

I think so.

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Teukka  Oct 8, 2023 • 6:05:09am

I need to rest now. KTHXBAI.

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Teukka  Oct 8, 2023 • 6:13:47am
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Teukka  Oct 8, 2023 • 6:18:46am
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wrenchwench  Oct 8, 2023 • 6:28:38am

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steve_davis  Oct 8, 2023 • 6:35:16am

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

I think so.

well, there is definitely nothing like enhancing people’s goodwill towards you by killing 250 of the ones who are presumably in your corner at a peace rave.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 6:36:25am

re: #111 wrenchwench

55th 4. Wordle 841 4/6*

You’re doing much better that I. 205 4s.

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wrenchwench  Oct 8, 2023 • 6:43:24am

re: #113 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

You’re doing much better that I. 205 4s.

Hard to judge from one number. My 55 4s are out of 130 games. I lost them all a couple of times.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:00:56am

re: #87 Eventual Carrion

Took me all the way to 5/6

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:08:20am

re: #66 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:22:56am

Birdie here with monster 2nd word

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jeffreyw  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:23:38am

Homer is well pleased with his dog, Gabe.

Good morning!

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A Cranky One  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:32:30am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:33:24am

‘You don’t have any evidence’: NBC host confronts Nikki Haley for blaming Biden for Hamas attack

Nikki Haley and Kristen Welker clash after Hamas attacks

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:37:22am

re: #120 Joe Bacon ✅

NBC will drop her like a hot potato.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:41:09am

re: #120 Joe Bacon ✅

‘You don’t have any evidence’: NBC host confronts Nikki Haley for blaming Biden for Hamas attack

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A Cranky One  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:41:36am

openculture.com

Interesting video about guitars

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darthstar  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:42:51am

re: #120 Joe Bacon ✅

‘You don’t have any evidence’: NBC host confronts Nikki Haley for blaming Biden for Hamas attack

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“You don’t have any evidence” - those five words should be the first thing out of any reporter’s mouth when talking to Republicans trying to blame President Biden for whatever grief they are addressing.

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lizardofid  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:47:54am

re: #99 Thanos

re: #100 Florida Panhandler

Apologies. The title triggered some memories.

The Music Machine - Talk Talk (1966)

Oh, good morning!

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:51:29am

For your weekend viewing pleasure, today’s feature is a 1981 made-for-TV film, Dark Night of the Scarecrow. Starring Larry Drake, Charles Durning and Tonya Crowe. Teleplay by J.D. Feigelson and directed by Frank De Felitta. Originally broadcast on CBS on 24 October, 1981.

New Castle After Dark presents Dark Night of the Scarecrow

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wrenchwench  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:56:12am

Mastodon

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:59:08am
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Dangerman  Oct 8, 2023 • 7:59:41am

But why didn’t Dems vote for McC?

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:01:03am

re: #124 darthstar

“You don’t have any evidence” - those five words should be the first thing out of any reporter’s mouth when talking to Republicans trying to blame President Biden for whatever grief they are addressing.

The Conservative mindset has always been that you can make manifest anything as long as you believe it. If you believe that Biden is responsible for Hamas making the decisions to plan and execute a war against Israel, then that is now fact. No evidence is ever necessary, just belief.

The same as the Conservative mindset that a pure “free market” Capitalism is better than a mixed economy. Just the same as as the Conservative mindset that the universe is 6000 years old. Just the same as the Conservative mindset that vaccines and 5g, a guy dressed in red with horns with a pitchfork and Lizard people are things to be worried about.

What is not to be worried about are reality- things that are proven in real life….- sexual predator Christians, noxious poison gases from tailpipes, 13,5 billion year old objects and radiation , etc. these are things that have mountains of evidence and established as fact.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:19:47am
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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:22:53am

re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:25:23am

re: #132 Backwoods Sleuth

It just takes a little bit of typing to look at the front pages of some major newspapers and news agencies.

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darthstar  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:26:23am

boom

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darthstar  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:29:59am

Gonna need a House Speaker for some of this stuff…

Mastodon

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lizardofid  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:32:16am

re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:36:57am

re: #134 darthstar

boom

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I find “immobilized” a bit of an understatement in this instance

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:47:48am

re: #132 Backwoods Sleuth

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Just to keep everyone on their toes, this Hamas thing is exactly the Mad Max style world our new edgelord and MAGA overlords desire…. Except they want to be the ones with the heavy weapons and possibility to take hostages and slaves.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:51:07am
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wrenchwench  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:51:55am

They’re taking a class from Homer and Gabe.

Mastodon

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 8, 2023 • 8:58:59am

re: #139 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:04:02am

Overheard at a boozer watching football last night:

“We should take the $6 billion we just gave Iran and use it to shore up Medicare.”

Progress, sort of?

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:05:16am

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:06:49am

However, the same group I overheard was also against “giving money” to Ukraine.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:09:35am

The thing about the Iran money is that it is being used to shore up medical care—in Iran. It’s parked in Qatar and can only be used for various humanitarian programs.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:10:34am

re: #142 Ace Rothstein

Overheard at a boozer watching football last night:

“We should take the $6 billion we just gave Iran and use it to shore up Medicare.”

Progress, sort of?

Senior moment.

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darthstar  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:14:18am

re: #137 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I find “immobilized” a bit of an understatement in this instance

My response was, “That’s not going to buff out.”

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sagehen  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:14:58am

re: #144 Ace Rothstein

However, the same group I overheard was also against “giving money” to Ukraine.

Have we actually given any actual “money” to Ukraine?

Or do we pull stuff out of our stockpiles and buy stuff from American manufacturers, make an accounting note what column to tally the cost, and then ship it to the Ukes?

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:16:11am

re: #148 sagehen

Have we actually given any actual “money” to Ukraine?

No.

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ericblair  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:22:35am

Mastodon

I’m not sure how much unilateral funding and transfer authority Biden has, but at some not too distant point it will have to go to Congress to add more. The only problem with that is that the House is currently non-functional due to a GOP civil war.

Now a lot of the gooper congresscritters who figured they were just blocking funding for Ukraine and the blahs and poors are now going to be blocking funding for Israel until they get their shit together.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:26:39am

re: #148 sagehen

Have we actually given any actual “money” to Ukraine?

Or do we pull stuff out of our stockpiles and buy stuff from American manufacturers, make an accounting note what column to tally the cost, and then ship it to the Ukes?

re: #149 Ace Rothstein

No.

Ummm…
Yes, a lot
cfr.org.

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danarchy  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:29:48am

re: #148 sagehen

Have we actually given any actual “money” to Ukraine?

Or do we pull stuff out of our stockpiles and buy stuff from American manufacturers, make an accounting note what column to tally the cost, and then ship it to the Ukes?

Some, as of June we had sent almost 20 billion dollars to help the government continue to pay salaries and pensions. Not sure if the number has changed since then.

state.gov.

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darthstar  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:34:16am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:36:59am

re: #139 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Does anyone actually believe Nancy Mace when she says she doesn’t know what Gym Neighbors did at Ohio State?

Nancy Mace should just come out and say that whatever Gym did there is acceptable because he’s a Republican.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:42:44am

re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:42:55am

re: #138 Florida Panhandler

Just to keep everyone on their toes, this Hamas thing is exactly the Mad Max style world our new edgelord and MAGA overlords desire…. Except they want to be the ones with the heavy weapons and possibility to take hostages and slaves.

They were promoting “Civil War” and “2nd Amendment Solution” to the homeless encampments, migrant invasion, and the flash robs.

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sagehen  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:43:22am

re: #150 ericblair

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I’m not sure how much unilateral funding and transfer authority Biden has, but at some not too distant point it will have to go to Congress to add more. The only problem with that is that the House is currently non-functional due to a GOP civil war.

Now a lot of the gooper congresscritters who figured they were just blocking funding for Ukraine and the blahs and poors are now going to be blocking funding for Israel until they get their shit together.

I’m not sure which Generals hold responsibility for planning and carrying out whatever our forces do in that region… or how many of those generalships are currently held by temporary fill-ins who don’t have all the authority to plan ahead and set strategy… but somebody needs to slap Tubervillle across the face. Repeatedly.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:43:39am

‘Alice in Wonderland politics’: How GOP went from ‘disciplined machine to dysfunctional malaise’

In a Sunday, October 8 report from The Guardian, Washington DC Bureau Chief David Smith points to the Republican party’s regression over the last 13 years — going from lawmakers “effective at wielding power and pushing through laws relating to everything from foreign wars and domestic surveillance programmes to Medicare and the No Child Left Behind schools policy,” to lawmakers at the center of “chaos.”

Referring to U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) recent ouster as House Speaker, Smith notes that, at one point, “he had an advantage: with Democrats in control of the House, Republicans had reason to bury their differences and unite in opposition to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But last year’s midterm elections sowed the seeds of his downfall.”

He writes, “Republicans emerged with a much thinner majority than opinion polls had predicted. In January it took McCarthy 15 rounds of voting to be elected speaker after cutting a deal with the far right, including a rule change that would let any member of the House to seek his removal. Nine rocky months later, after averting a government shutdown with Democratic help, he became the first speaker in history to be ditched.”

Smith adds, “It seems likely to get worse before it gets better,” noting, “A long, divisive struggle could ensue while Democrats remain united, making a mockery of the temptingly alliterative headline ‘Dems in disarray’. Now the roles have been reversed. Even Trump wondered aloud: ‘Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves?’

“I’ll be really candid,” Smith notes U.S. Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) told CNN in an interview. “I think if we had stayed together in the meeting last night, I think you would have seen fists thrown. And I’m not being dramatic when I say that. There is a lot of raw emotion right now.”

Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, Larry Jacobs said, “We now see [that] the kind of authoritarian populism that talks about taking control, bringing order and strongman rule is an utter fiction. We are in some very weird Alice in Wonderland politics here. The problems created by the fanatics in the Republican party have created a disorder that they are claiming they can solve.”

Although some House members blame U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) — who pushed the motion to oust McCarthy — is to blame for the party’s current dysfunction, Democratic strategist and ex-Breitbart News spokesperson Kurt Bardella insisted, “Matt Gaetz isn’t the cause. He’s a symptom of the complete radicalisation of not only the Republican party a the conservative rightwing media sphere in general. Their deliberate decision to amplify the most extreme voices and give them a platform and give them a microphone and give them an audience every single night of the most ardent Republican primary voters to watch it, absorb it, paved the way for the chaos that has engulfed the entire Republican party right now.”

Regarding the party’s “downfall,” Smith notes:

Congressmen Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan smile out from the cover of Young Guns, their co-authored 2010 book about the next generation of conservatives. ‘This isn’t your grandfather’s Republican party,’ said publicity material at the time.

Thirteen years later, the trio is neither young nor the future. Cantor (‘the leader’) became Republican leader in the House of Representatives but lost his seat to a nascent rightwing populism. Ryan (‘the thinker’) became speaker but retired early to escape a toxic political relationship with President Donald Trump. And this week McCarthy (‘the strategist’) was ousted by some of the extremists he helped elect to Congress but could not tame.

The men’s careers chart the Republican party’s journey from disciplined machine to dysfunctional malaise.

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), according to Smith, said, “All three of them were chased out. Speaker Boehner, Speaker Ryan and now Speaker McCarthy have all learned the same lesson: you cannot allow the hard right to run the House, or the country.”

theguardian.com

Note that this is in the UK Guardian. You’ll never see an article such as this in the New York Times or The Washington Post.

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cat-tikvah  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:44:19am

re: #154 Joe Bacon ✅

Does anyone actually believe Nancy Mace when she says she doesn’t know what Gym Neighbors did at Ohio State?

Nancy Mace should just come out and say that whatever Gym did there is acceptable because he’s a Republican.

Well, it was so long ago, too, youthful indiscretion…who among us….?
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:49:17am

re: #148 sagehen

Have we actually given any actual “money” to Ukraine?

Or do we pull stuff out of our stockpiles and buy stuff from American manufacturers, make an accounting note what column to tally the cost, and then ship it to the Ukes?

I don’t know. I thought it worked a bit like a military Marshall Plan. Give them money and they buy from us with it. Same thing?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:50:31am

NBC host nails Matt Gaetz for ousting Speaker: ‘You’re completely incapable of helping Israel’

NBC host calls out Matt Gaetz after attack on Israel

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ericblair  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:52:11am

re: #157 sagehen

I’m not sure which Generals hold responsibility for planning and carrying out whatever our forces do in that region… or how many of those generalships are currently held by temporary fill-ins who don’t have all the authority to plan ahead and set strategy… but somebody needs to slap Tubervillle across the face. Repeatedly.

Yes, and my read is that the acting commanders and the military in general don’t know what authority the acting commanders are legally allowed to wield, because this insane idiotic situation has never happened before. So this mindless obstructionism and total leadership failure has consequences that the GOP idiots didn’t predict because the primary rule in politics is that Shit will Happen.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:53:45am

re: #162 ericblair

Yes, and my read is that the acting commanders and the military in general don’t know what authority the acting commanders are legally allowed to wield, because this insane idiotic situation has never happened before. So this mindless obstructionism and total leadership failure has consequences that the GOP idiots didn’t predict because the primary rule in politics is that Shit will Happen.

Every fucking Republican in the Senate is responsible for paralyzing the military.

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Unabogie  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:56:01am

re: #161 Joe Bacon ✅

NBC host nails Matt Gaetz for ousting Speaker: ‘You’re completely incapable of helping Israel’

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The Democrats have had gadflies like Alan Grayson and Carol Moseley Braun - people who captured the Id of the party but turned out to be cranks or corrupted - but they are never elevated in the party. Matt Gaetz is a guy who paid to fuck underage girls and is universally hated in his own caucus, and yet here he is, gaining power and prestige, and possibly failing upward to higher office.

We are not OK.

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cat-tikvah  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:56:26am

re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅

Excerpt - I screamed this into the GOP void in 2017 as they capitulated and fell in line, enabling the monster because, well, they were getting what they wanted and what was the harm, ya know?

“That was the inflection point,” Setmayer said. “It was political expediency instead of standing up for what was right. If enough people had stood up to Donald Trump they could have beaten him back. But they didn’t, and they let it get away from them. They mistakenly thought they could control him and it was a case of a political Frankenstein’s monster.”

Riddle I made up seeing this unfold, and knowing some history (especially Jewish history):
Q: What’s history’s version of “hold my beer”?
A: “We can control him.”

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jaunte  Oct 8, 2023 • 9:59:18am

re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅

A sure sign of GOP disfunction that they regarded McCarthy as ‘the strategist’.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:00:52am

Mastodon

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A Three Hour Tour  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:04:25am

re: #166 jaunte

A sure sign of GOP disfunction that they regarded McCarthy as ‘the strategist’.

The “Young Guns” created their own reality.

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:12:55am

re: #168 A Three Hour Tour

The “Young Guns” created their own reality.

“Creating own reality” for these Libertarians usually means jacking shit up then running away quickly or simply being removed from the consequences. Often by failing upward. Very typical Libertarian mindset.

The ideology cannot fail. Except when it does and it’s all forgotten and forgiven because white power was enabled along the way.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:12:58am

Mastodon

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retired cynic  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:14:29am

re: #170 Backwoods Sleuth

JFC!

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Decatur Deb  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:21:40am

re: #162 ericblair

Yes, and my read is that the acting commanders and the military in general don’t know what authority the acting commanders are legally allowed to wield, because this insane idiotic situation has never happened before. So this mindless obstructionism and total leadership failure has consequences that the GOP idiots didn’t predict because the primary rule in politics is that Shit will Happen.

The problem isn’t that serious, because the services’ Chiefs of Staff are actually doing a peacetime role. The chain of command alters in case of a real deployment, with authority flowing from the Commander in Chief (President) directly to the designated combat theatre commanders.

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lizardofid  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:22:22am

re: #170 Backwoods Sleuth

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Related. Rachel Maddow’s book, “Prequel”, available next week, was previewed this morning.

Rachel Maddow on “Prequel” and fascism in America

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:28:59am

re: #145 Barefoot Grin

The thing about the Iran money is that it is being used to shore up medical care—in Iran. It’s parked in Qatar and can only be used for various humanitarian programs.

“Money is fungible” JD Vance

Anyone fro his neck of the woods knows that dependent child benefits can be used to buy booze

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jaunte  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:30:25am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Money is fungible” JD Vance

Famously opposed to energy from petroleum.

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rhuarc  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:30:35am

re: #170 Backwoods Sleuth

Ever since Trump was elected my belief is that this country is already finished and the only thing that hasn’t happened is all of the dead people to signify the death of the country. Republicans are continually moving that needle forward and prepping their cult for that. The sad part is that nobody is talking about it or trying to do anything about it. Democrats are afraid to call it out. The media has no interest in it because it wouldn’t be good for business. And Republicans, of course, don’t want to alienate their base by calling it out.

It’s long past time trying to mince words. Rip the bandaid off and tell it like it is. Ignore the screeching from Republicans. The loudest are beyond help and literally need to be deprogrammed my medical professionals. Who in the media will finally be brave enough to do it?

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HRH Stanley Sea  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:34:29am
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ericblair  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:37:10am
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retired cynic  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:38:02am

re: #173 lizardofid

Related. Rachel Maddow’s book Prequel, available next week, was previewed this morning.

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Video

Her “Ultra” series scared the soup out of me!

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:43:23am

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Decatur Deb  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:45:30am

re: #180 Nerdy Fish

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jaunte  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:50:56am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:52:26am

re: #182 jaunte

That is beautiful.

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darthstar  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:53:03am

agora.echelon.pl

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Decatur Deb  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:54:05am

re: #182 jaunte

Classical.

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:54:19am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:54:57am

re: #180 Nerdy Fish

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CleverToad  Oct 8, 2023 • 10:58:27am

re: #180 Nerdy Fish

Personal stuff below the fold.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:01:40pm

re: #110 Teukka

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So this is how it starts. Ok I gfuess

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 8, 2023 • 2:38:22pm

re: #172 Decatur Deb

The problem isn’t that serious, because the services’ Chiefs of Staff are actually doing a peacetime role. The chain of command alters in case of a real deployment, with authority flowing from the Commander in Chief (President) directly to the designated combat theatre commanders.

This is itself is a stark reality of another Trump Presidency threat as whatever brain worms he decides are real and what are not will mean global level destruction or not.

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austin_blue  Oct 8, 2023 • 4:53:39pm

re: #180 Nerdy Fish

Personal stuff below the fold.

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Hang in there Bubba. We’re pulling for you. All good thoughts toward you!


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