Like pigeons fighting over a French Fry in the parking lot of a restaurant owned by a much bigger pigeon.
Seth takes a closer look at Trump returning to court for the civil fraud trial that could wipe out his business empire less than a day after his struggling rivals for the GOP nomination gathered for a mostly meaningless debate.
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Short comment section downstairs.
Shot I took with phone from the back porch earlier tonight.
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‘I was the media’s darling’: Mike Lindell tells Lara Trump about his downfall
No you weren’t, Crackhead Mike!
Lindell began the discussion with the story of his drug addiction in the 1990s and early 2000s, which he ultimately managed to overcome as he was growing his pillow company with religion and his own drug dealers “cutting him off.”
“You’ve been at the bottom, Mike, and you’ve been at the top, and I’ll tell you, I feel like when people rise up and they’re at the top, you know, top of their game, and they’re outspoken in a way that maybe the mainstream media doesn’t like, that maybe folks on the left don’t like, Hollywood doesn’t like, you become a target and they try to basically ruin you … at what point though do you think you became a target to the left?”
“The first one was, I was the media’s darling around the country before 2016 … I was the American Dream on steroids, right?” said Lindell. “And I went out, this is on August 15th of 2016, I got invited by our great real president, Donald Trump, to come out and see him at Trump Tower,” at which point Lindell knew, despite never having voted before, that Trump was “going to be awesome” — only to receive backlash when he did a press release praising Trump.
Roger Stone failed to pay $2M in taxes: no indictment. Rudy Giuliani CURRENTLY owes over $500K in back taxes and is also an “addict that lives an extravagant lifestyle”. Where’s his indictment? Hunter has paid what he owed. This is vindictive and selective prosecution. https://t.co/B6izrM74JI
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) December 8, 2023
Christian Nationalism is not only a danger to our Country, it’s a danger to Christianity itself. Our film will be coming to theaters In February. Watch the trailer here.pic.twitter.com/LJmu1nILNy
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) December 7, 2023
This was the tweet that got me blocked by the tetchy gals at “Moms for Liberty” (now doing business as “Moms for Variety.”) pic.twitter.com/orVakp09n1
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) December 4, 2023
It sucks when you have no choice but to agree with them
I can’t believe I’m saying this but I agree with Kevin McCarthy https://t.co/gbgZbN7lZ5
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) December 8, 2023
Dec. 7, 2023 — No one planning holiday gatherings or travel wants to hear this, but the rise of a new COVID-19 variant, JN.1, is concerning experts, who say it may threaten those good times.
The good news is recent research suggests the 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine appears to work against this newest variant. But so few people have gotten the latest vaccine — less than 16% of U.S. adults — that some experts suggest it’s time for the CDC to urge the public who haven’t it to do so now, so the antibodies can kick in before the festivities.
webmd.com
What happens in Austria and the Netherlands doesn’t stay in Austria and the Netherlands.
Unprecedented rise in wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels Here’s the rundown.
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It’s not just, Europe, of course. This variant is taking off in Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and other places.
re: #13 Dangerman
It sucks when you have no choice but to agree with them
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…So why are you still a Republican then, Qevin? What have they ever done for you?
11 long slow miserable years.
Count em
Former California police chief, Alan Hostetter, who brought a hatchet to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for his role in the siege. During his sentencing hearing Thursday, he spewed conspiracy theories, @MacFarlaneNews reports. pic.twitter.com/WecdElKrVm
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 8, 2023
It amazes me that these people can have glimpses of the truth, can be so close to figuring it out - and then they just walk right back off the damn cliff with the rest of the lemmings. I just don’t get it.
This is Texas AG Ken Paxton saying he’ll throw a woman’s doctors in prison for life if they perform a *court-granted* abortion on a *nonviable* pregnancy that risks causing her permanent infertility and death.
Still think the GOP is pro-life? https://t.co/k3L3AZEsAg— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) December 8, 2023
Note the original date
“Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, husband of a Moms For Liberty cofounder, accused of sexual battery by alleged menage a trois lover”
And by DISGUSTED you mean “Ghislaine, hold my beer”. pic.twitter.com/nBfpZnXEfD— Greta (@GretaGrace20) November 30, 2023
re: #19 Dangerman
It’s a non-viable fetus. Just like you’re a non-viable adult.
— Verrified (@efuseakay) December 8, 2023
re: #19 Dangerman
Who will rid us of this turbulent felon?
You never know what people are going to hand in at gun buyback events. At a recent buyback in east San Jose, residents turned in an Uzi and a rocket-launcher. Story: https://t.co/lbhzkXBtbM
— KRON4 News (@kron4news) December 8, 2023
Just had a shocking and depressing encounter with my scale.
Serious adjustments happen tomorrow.
Whoever’s playing Tom Brady for the Patriots isn’t doing a very good job.
re: #28 Dangerman
Just had a shocking and depressing encounter with my scale.
Serious adjustments happen tomorrow.
Just get a new one.
re: #30 wrenchwench
Just get a new one.
Yeah…fuck that scale. I want a scale that tells me what I want to see.
re: #28 Dangerman
Just had a shocking and depressing encounter with my scale.
Serious adjustments happen tomorrow.
I’ve discovered that I can lose 2 pounds just by moving my scale a couple inches!
Fuck scales. I have not owned a scale (except for a kitchen scale) in this century.
Last week I mentioned my Bernie-loving friend who asserted that the problem with voting for the lesser of two evils is that the choice is still evil. I finally asked him last night what does that mean — that one shouldn’t vote? No, he admitted, you still vote for the “lesser of 2 evils” because it is lesser. Was relieved to hear that.
I must weigh myself every day to check for fluid retention. Finally bought a medical balance scale which retains the previous days weight. Tells me instantly if my weight has increased/decreased from the previous day and is extremely accurate unlike digital scales.
But for some odd reason I cuss alot when near it.
re: #36 Hecuba’s daughter
Last week I mentioned my Bernie-loving friend who asserted that the problem with voting for the lesser of two evils is that the choice is still evil. I finally asked him last night what does that mean — that one shouldn’t vote? No, he admitted, you still vote for the “lesser of 2 evils” because it is lesser. Was relieved to hear that.
Unless Cthulhu is running.
re: #14 jaunte
What good times? Canada, which imposed strong masking and distancing requirements in 2020, has had more deaths in 2023 than in 2020 after lowering required protections.
So much for the “Masks and distancing don’t work” ninnies and feebs.
If you aren’t masking in crowded spaces and getting regular boosters against this constantly mutating virus, you deserve to be a statistic.
BREAKING UPDATE: Woman charged with pouring gasoline, trying to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta birth home, according to police.
Here’s what we know: https://t.co/4jdq6B3r8l pic.twitter.com/x7JpHQNAzK— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) December 8, 2023
re: #34 Patricia Kayden
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Seen on NextDoor:
To my neighbors, I don’t mean to be a Grinch, however…. to those of you who are placing Christmas lights/decorations in your yards, please avoid using anything with Red or Blue flashing lights all together!!
Every time I come around the corner, I think it’s the police. I have to break hard, toss my whiskey & coke out the window, fasten my seat belt, throw my phone on the floor, turn my radio down, extinguish my joint, and push the gun under the seat, all while trying to drive. It’s just too much drama, even for Christmas. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
re: #44 DodgerFan1988
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I would be surprised, but…Karens. Don’t ever leave us, you wonderful meme! We need your completely unselfconscious righteousness.
re: #8 No Malarkey!
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Hunter’s lawyers are gonna have a field day with this at trial. Getting up before a jury and telling them that the alleged crimes occurred when their client was dealing with substance abuse, that he has since cleaned up and paid what he owed, and that the federal case was only brought against him after political pressure was brought on the prosecution.
re: #50 goddamnedfrank
The baby appears to have an extra handless left arm. Mom only appears to have 11 toes, Though two may be significantly deformed.
re: #19 Dangerman
Dude, as bleak as my prognostications are about these people, I’m completely nonplussed. All I’ve got left is that this is the show his audience wants.
TL:DR - There is no middle anymore. The center is today a mirage.
From 1994 to 2017, Pew Research asked a set of questions that had either a liberal or conservative answer (ie “Poor people have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return”). It then aggregated all the responses, filtered by whether the respondents said they were Democrats or Republicans.
Here is the data for likely voters:
In 1994, the majority of people were in the middle. There were liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats. Substantial overlap of the two parties in the middle. The medians of the two parties were quite close. Essentially two populations with overlapping views of the world. Running to the middle made sense, since this was where most American voters were.
Since 2014, this has changed. The medians of the two parties began to separate. By 2017, the overlap in the middle was almost gone. Over 60% of Democrats are now as liberal as the most liberal 15% in 1994 (the pink box). 50% of Republicans were so far to the right side that they could see no overlap at all in their political positions with and Democrats.
No one can win today by running to the middle because there is really nothing there, for either party. Almost all the Democrats are more liberal than the “Left” in 1994. Christie will find no purchase there because there are few Republicans there anymore. Phillips is having similar problems because few Democrats are in the middle.
The “Left” made sense in 1994 because only 15% of Democrats held those positions. They were far from the mainstream. Those were almost always the authoritarian Left. Authoritarian behavior is not really Left or Right. It is a human behavior found throughout human communities.
The authoritarian Right wants a monarch. The authoritarian Left wants a Committee of Public Safety. What matters most to them is who is at the top, running everything, not how to successfully solve the complex problems of the world.
You can easily determine whether someone is too authoritarian because of how they deal with complex problems, ones that require nuance. Both the authoritarian Left and Right see the complex world as a set of binary choices (“For Palestine or for Israel.” “For an invasion of the US by immigrants or for border security.”). They have no room for nuance.
Which is one reason they always do stupid things because the world is too complex to reduce things to binary choices without taking real risks (We know what the result was in reducing the most complex analog device ever made by humanity up to that time to a question of “would O-rings move quickly or not in cold weather?”)
Nature always wins and an inability to understand that nuance means that too much authoritarian behavior can doom a community.
The authoritarian, hierarchical Right makes stupid decisions all the time but because it has taken over the GOP, there is no real solution. Those that are unable to deal with a complex world are in control. They make the real world a series of binary choices which will doom them to eventually fail. Just as the South did. Just as the Axis did.
The opposite thing has happened with the Democrats. The authoritarian, hierarchical Left of 1994 has been overrun with modern Democrats who CAN see complexity in the world and refuse to reduce things to binary choices. Those that can deal better with a complex world are in control.
So, one party has seen the authoritarian Right take over the party from the ‘middle’. The other has seen the ‘middle’ take over the positions of the authoritarian Left. Today, the progressives in the government are pretty much part of the mainstream instead of being outside. But the moderates of the GOP have pretty much been run out of the party.
The media, however, is still acting like America is as it was in 1994, not realizing that virtually all Democrats today would have been labeled as Leftists by that old timey world view. The MSM keep acting like the majority of Democrats are in the middle.
So the media keeps believing the authoritative Left describes ALL the liberals and progressives. It did in 1994 but now, not so much. The liberals of today are the mainstream of the Democratic party. Able to deal with the complexities of the world.
And that is why we will win. Because Nature always wins. The side that is organized to deal with that fact will succeed better. Such as the North. Such as the Allies.
re: #50 goddamnedfrank
Lovecraftian horror
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Well even though Blondie *only* has eleven toes, that “baby” IS disturbing… as are whatever those creatures in the basket at lower left. And there’s what looks like a dead kitten on the woodpile.
re: #57 Jay C
Well even though Blondie *only* has eleven toes, that “baby” IS disturbing… as are whatever those creatures in the basket at lower left. And there’s what looks like a dead kitten on the woodpile.
Well, that does seem to confirm Lovecraftian Horror.
Although I must confess I find most of those things, well, cute.
Again, I’m a Lovecraftian and Gaiman fan, so, ptui.
Night all, sweet scaly dreams.
I expect Friday to be a frank sharing of opinions as to whether the Israeli slaughter of women and children in Gaza justifies the Hamas slaughter of October 7th of women and children in areas adjacent to Gaza.
So it goes.
re: #36 Hecuba’s daughter
Last week I mentioned my Bernie-loving friend who asserted that the problem with voting for the lesser of two evils is that the choice is still evil. I finally asked him last night what does that mean — that one shouldn’t vote? No, he admitted, you still vote for the “lesser of 2 evils” because it is lesser. Was relieved to hear that.
“Voting isn’t marriage, it’s public transport. You’re not waiting for “the one” who’s absolutely perfect: you’re getting the bus, and if there isn’t one to your destination, you don’t not travel- you take the one going closest.”
Went to the Modern Meiji exhibition at The Asia Society in NYC a few weeks back and this embroidered (EMBROIDERED!!!) screen haunts me. It’s about 6’ tall and it’s silk embroidery (over 250 shades of thread!!) on undyed silk. I thought it was a painting until I was close enough to see the threads.
re: #56 silverdolphin
The big shift really began between 1994 and 2004 in those charts and you don’t have to spend too long figuring out why: The GQP totally lost their minds and it’s been downhill ever since. The “Contract with America,” endless Clinton “investigations,” the beginning of the tradition of Repub Congresses trying to use federal shutdown to force budget cuts, the Clinton impeachment, Bush v. Gore, and the cultural shift post-9/11 that treated anything less than absolute devotion to Dubya as tantamount to treason.
The battlelines only got more defined when the Dems committed the greatest political crime in the eyes of old white guys everywhere: They elected a black man to the White House not once but twice.
re: #54 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
The baby appears to have an extra handless left arm. Mom only appears to have 11 toes, Though two may be significantly deformed.
re: #57 Jay C
Well even though Blondie *only* has eleven toes, that “baby” IS disturbing… as are whatever those creatures in the basket at lower left. And there’s what looks like a dead kitten on the woodpile.
All of that is definitely something but I’m actually more interested in how the cabin wall shows outdoors on the far side of the window, making it as the poster said just a cabin themed wall. Because AI is totally absent of any intent, understanding or point of view it churned out a purely decorative, nonsensical architectural folly that at first glance serves the purpose of creating an idealized rustic setting but in reality is just a weird little Potemkin wall propping up this rustic façade of domestic retvrn themed nostalgia.
re: #63 jaunte
OMG!
What a fabulous piece of art/craftsmanship!
Though I would think that if I had that screen in my bedroom, “relaxation” wouldn’t be the feeling it engendered: seasickness, maybe….
Heh.
PensionDanmark, one of Denmark’s largest pension funds, said on Wednesday it had decided to sell its holdings in Tesla (TSLA.O) over the U.S. auto company’s refusal to enter into agreements with labour unions.
The decision is part of a growing Nordic movement to force Tesla to sign collective bargaining agreements with Swedish mechanics, who have been on strike since October.
Labour unions in Norway and Denmark this week said they would start blocking transit shipments of Tesla cars meant for the Swedish market.
re: #14 jaunte
This is why I’m glad I got my damn booster last month.
When an organ’s biological age was greater than a person’s actual age, there was a 20% to 50% higher risk of mortality & organ-specific diseases. Accelerated heart aging correlated w/ a 250% increased risk of heart failure. Accelerated brain aging was a marker for Alzeheimer’s pic.twitter.com/6WgJJa7crv
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) December 7, 2023
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
Fuck scales. I have not owned a scale (except for a kitchen scale) in this century.
Hunh. When my brother moves, I guess the scale I’ve been weighing myself on for the last 22+ years is going away. I guess he’ll take it with him. Who knows?
re: #50 goddamnedfrank
That a Stable Diffusion image is thought of as some sort of ideal existence is perhaps even more troubling than the nitwitted patriarchy.
re: #50 goddamnedfrank
That guy is the typical Xitter loony, e.g.,
Headed on @Timcast tomorrow morning.
Gonna be discussing biblical prophecy, current events, Trump, Musk, and more with @DonnieDarkened and @DrutangReborn.
Should be live around 10am EST/7am PST.
Gonna be an interesting show… see you there. 😏🤙 https://t.co/qRKjhhoSj5 pic.twitter.com/sm2TL3eE2T— SOVEREIGN BRAH 🇺🇸🏛️⚡️ (@sovereignbrah) December 8, 2023
re: #63 jaunte
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This is one of those works of art they’d have to pry me away from. Because I’d like to get very close to it (see the stitching), look at the back, ask about conservation techniques, and so on. It’s *gorgeous*.
ETA: Silk is hell to work with. I’ve never tried rayon (used in Brazilian embroidery) but I’ve heard it is similarly difficult.
Anyone want to go in on this with me? pic.twitter.com/7b4OpoKYhR
— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) December 8, 2023
Okay so I was just talking to God, and basically God said He already had a Moses, He doesn’t need another Moses, He never heard of Mike Johnson and honestly, He’s pretty much done with Republicans using His name to lie and steal.
Also, God really likes Taylor Swift.— Jane of the North (@JaneotN) December 8, 2023
Great. My furnace has gone out. It refuses to ignite, just hums for a bit before kicking out. It’s supposed to only get down to 32 overnight and we’re currently at 40 outside, and around 63-64 inside. I wonder how low it will get inside by morning.
re: #77 A Three Hour Tour
Great. My furnace has gone out. It refuses to ignite, just hums for a bit before kicking out. It’s supposed to only get down to 32 overnight and we’re currently at 40 outside, and around 63-64 inside. I wonder how low it will get inside by morning.
Yikes. Hope you can get it repaired tomorrow!
mine always breaks in winter. Twice I had to suffer 2-3 days to get heat back. It is 28 years old. I hope to replace it in 3-4 years.
re: #77 A Three Hour Tour
Great. My furnace has gone out. It refuses to ignite, just hums for a bit before kicking out. It’s supposed to only get down to 32 overnight and we’re currently at 40 outside, and around 63-64 inside. I wonder how low it will get inside by morning.
Okay, that was weird. I turned the furnace off at the thermostat about a half hour ago, and then on a whim turned it back on a couple of minutes ago on the off-chance that something would happen. The fan immediately kicked in and the furnace ignited like it should have.
Hopefully, it will continue behaving itself over the weekend.
A couple of weeks ago I posted YouTube links to a few episodes of the Danish National S.O. production of The Babylon Hotel.
They’ve uploaded three more chapters:
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Each chapter is interspersed with the musical productions, a couple of which I’ve also posted. But it may be best to listen to them in production order, and DRSO has a playlist with the story and music numbers, here started at the opening music selection:
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You should be able to follow the playlist from the Youtube recommended video links at the end. DRSO has not made the playlist public yet, though, and only half the videos have been made public so far. Therefor, there will be more to come.
The animations are using generative AI tools, which is pretty obvious.
What I find interesting is that this is clearly an attempt to make art out of non-art (the AI images.)
The musical selections do more to set the mood into the middle of the 20th century.
The animation narrative is also a bit strange, also an attempt to see if a computer can generate a real story that has value to the reader/listener.
Part of me thinks this is just Dadaism redux. The story may be meaningful, but we’ll need to see the rest of series before I can draw any conclusions.
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
I’ve discovered that I can lose 2 pounds just by moving my scale a couple inches!
Holding on to several helium balloons is also said to help
re: #39 Joe Bacon ✅
Nobody wants to get wished into the cornfield.
re: #66 goddamnedfrank
All of that is definitely something but I’m actually more interested in how the cabin wall shows outdoors on the far side of the window, making it as the poster said just a cabin themed wall. Because AI is totally absent of any intent, understanding or point of view it churned out a purely decorative, nonsensical architectural folly that at first glance serves the purpose of creating an idealized rustic setting but in reality is just a weird little Potemkin wall propping up this rustic façade of domestic retvrn themed nostalgia.
Sure. There’s a whole world model that needs to be invoked if you want something realistic: a human family grouping (with all those necessary definitions) is associated with a home, which often is a house, which consists of a structure with walls, a roof, doors and windows which is located outside but encloses a certain average amount of space, and all sorts of relative positioning and acceptable materials, and on and on. If you don’t have a sufficient world model, the AI just does weird shit like this based on what views it aggregates from its sources.
Also, there seems to be a dragon in the background. It looks like a juvenile, so shouldn’t be a problem if you’re at least level 15 and have some fire resistance.
re: #66 goddamnedfrank
All of that is definitely something but I’m actually more interested in how the cabin wall shows outdoors on the far side of the window, making it as the poster said just a cabin themed wall. Because AI is totally absent of any intent, understanding or point of view it churned out a purely decorative, nonsensical architectural folly that at first glance serves the purpose of creating an idealized rustic setting but in reality is just a weird little Potemkin wall propping up this rustic façade of domestic retvrn themed nostalgia.
Our local Kebab shop always puts up crudely photoshopped Turkish calendars featuring such implausible scenes of idyllic cabins, waterfalls and horses situated on pristine mountain riversides all with conflicting lighting and shadow effects.
The owner has been there for 20 years and not invested a penny in the decor, I assume he is saving it up to build his own retirement idyll. I don’t complain, it is reasonbly good and right cheap and generally open when all the other restaurants are closed.
re: #67 Jay C
OMG!
What a fabulous piece of art/craftsmanship!Though I would think that if I had that screen in my bedroom, “relaxation” wouldn’t be the feeling it engendered: seasickness, maybe….
It is something more for a special meditation/conference room
Early bedtime because I have a grandaughter to babysit tomorrow. But before I go to bed, I wanted to clarify what I wrote in #56. First, I apologize for not being clearer that, IMHO, there is a difference between the Left and the authoritarian Left. The latter is a minority that the media seems to like but does not represent most of those that have been fighting for so long.. The former is why I have any hope for humanity.
If I offended anyone, I am truly sorry. I was trying to write about the triumph of the progressive side of our political system but my imprecise use of some words may have given the wrong impression.
Second, I should have been clearer - most Democrats now support policy positions that only the most liberal on the Left held in 1994. I was not trying to use the Left as a perjoritative. I was trying to say that they won the battle of ideas. I just did a poor job of making that clear, I am afraid.
The Progressives and those on the Left in 1994 have moved almost all the democrats that vote to their position. The Progessive caucus is now the largest caucus in the House. They ignored the cries of the small number of authoritarian Left and are getting things done. They are winning the battle of ideas and I believe will continue to find much success in the coming decades. (I frankly think that is why Pew stopped doing the polling. The Democrats had moved so far to the liberal side that an entirely new set of questions would have to be used to spread out the curve.And those on the Left will continue to try and pull Democrats along with them.)
If humanity becomes better, if it survives, it wll be due to the ideas of those on the Left. And the hard battles they have fought. And continue to fight. I am glad there are few Democratic voters left in the middle. The fact that the most liberal policies of the 90s are now held by the majority of Democrats shows that the Left is winning I expect they will continue to fight and convince more over the coming decades.
Hope I did not offend with this missive ;-)
Have a good night.
re: #92 silverdolphin
I’ll asset that surveys done, like that one from Pew, are inherently skewed. And the surveys themselves become drivers for even more skewness.
The constant attempt to use terms from the days of the French Revolution, e.g., “right wing”, fails to accommodate cultural specifics.
It is my long-standing belief that what we are seeing has more to do with the death-of-god problem than any particular policy position, or any political party.
Hence the current Speaker of the House being so theocratic.
He and his ilk believe they can legislate some god into existence.
It’s all a folly, and unfortunately when enough of the population follow this folly we all will suffer.
Pew, and Gallup and similar organizations, are so afraid to include in their surveys tests of knowledge. It’s just easier to label people and to use hot-button words, than to see if the people being queried really understand the questions.
What is so “left wing” about basic human rights, human decency and an economic system that benefits workers, consumers and borrowers equally as well as employers, sellers and lenders?
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
Fuck scales. I have not owned a scale (except for a kitchen scale) in this century.
This is the way.
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What is so “left wing” about basic human rights, human decency and an economic system that benefits workers, consumers and borrowers equally as well as employers, sellers and lenders?
Well, the US right is explicitly opposed to all of these things.
So it was real.
“South Korea is the largest supplier of shells to Ukraine, after the United States” Washington Post.
The publication notes that the country delivered more shells than the entire European Union, and did it in just 41 days. more than three hundred thousand 155mm… pic.twitter.com/CiOBTWdXY8— ハク Mason (@mason_8718) December 7, 2023
The US government persuaded South Korea to donate a stockpile of US-provided munitions to Ukraine. It would be nice now if European nations got off their asses and the GOP stopped being tools of Russia.
re: #52 Patricia Kayden
The Texas Historical Commission removed books on slavery from plantation site gift shops. An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.
Even books on how slaves were well treated, fed, clothed and given the opportunity to learn useful life skills?
re: #99 No Malarkey!
Former Congressman Tom Suozzi has been tapped to run for the seat vacated by George Santos.
It was Suozzi’s seat before it was “Santos“‘s, so he’s got a pretty good chance.
re: #101 Nerdy Fish
It was Suozzi’s seat before it was “Santos“‘s, so he’s got a pretty good chance.
And people know what to expect from anyone bearing the GOP label.
re: #37 A Cranky One
I must weigh myself every day to check for fluid retention. Finally bought a medical balance scale which retains the previous days weight. Tells me instantly if my weight has increased/decreased from the previous day and is extremely accurate unlike digital scales.
But for some odd reason I cuss alot when near it.
I’m convinced mines a damned liar.
Curiously so is the one at Publix
re: #102 Nerdy Fish
If only I could make birbies like this in real life.
Gotta head to DMV today to renew my driver’s license. Walk-ins can come at Noon. Hopefully will be able to get out by sundown.
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re: #106 TarHellion
If only I could make birbies like this in real life.
Gotta head to DMV today to renew my driver’s license. Walk-ins can come at Noon. Hopefully will be able to get out by sundown.
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Walk-ins at noon? That’s awful, especially for a place with long wait times like the DMV. Our DMV takes walk-ins at any time; when I renewed my license in October, I was there for something like 1.5 hours, which was really not bad for the DMV. I hope you’re feeling well and have a good weekend.
re: #108 Nerdy Fish
Walk-ins at noon? That’s awful, especially for a place with long wait times like the DMV. Our DMV takes walk-ins at any time; when I renewed my license in October, I was there for something like 1.5 hours, which was really not bad for the DMV. I hope you’re feeling well and have a good weekend.
I have to get in some time soon to get my new driver’s license, they all have to be replaced with biometric photos by the end of next year.
Germans don’t have to renew their driver’s license, mine dates from 1988 and the photo is embarrassing, I look like Dwight Schrute from The Office
re: #108 Nerdy Fish
The DMV does appointments in the morning, but you have to book one about 3 months in advance. Thought I could just get my renewal online like last time, only to realize I have to go in this time around. Hopefully it won’t be too bad.
And, yes, doing much better! A great weekend to you as well!
re: #106 TarHellion
If only I could make birbies like this in real life.
Gotta head to DMV today to renew my driver’s license. Walk-ins can come at Noon. Hopefully will be able to get out by sundown.
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re: #111 Shropshire Slasher
That is my fear today. If it’s anything like the license tag office - where the line often goes outside the door - yikes! Thankfully, I’ve been able to do my tag renewals online for the past several years. NC finally adopted a sensible system where you pay your city and county car taxes through the state at the time of inspection and renewal.
re: #105 Dangerman
I’m convinced mines a damned liar.
Curiously so is the one at Publix
It could be localized gravitational anomalies. I’ve heard stories.
re: #113 ericblair
It could be localized gravitational anomalies. I’ve heard stories.
I remember the first time I went to visit my (future) in-laws in Scotland and stepped on to their bathroom scale. It read “13”. Then I realized it was an old British scale that measured in stones (14 lbs.)
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember the first time I went to visit my (future) in-laws in Scotland and stepped on to their bathroom scale. It read “13”. Then I realized it was an old British scale that measured in stones (14 lbs.)
It was a dual-purpose scale for weighing people and bags of potatoes.
The stone still lingers on in grocery stores here in the UK. Large bags of potatoes are sold in 3.5kg units, a bit over 7lbs or half a stone.
I would get anxiety after eating the whole bag of sour patch kids.
Does Eating Sour Candy Really Relieve Anxiety?
Just like the age-old sensory zap of snapping a rubber band on the wrist to deter anxiety, chewing sour candies is a distraction technique. It shifts the brain’s attention from sensations of fear, anxiety, and overwhelm to the vivid, assertive flavor in the mouth.“Panic ensues when our amygdala triggers the flight or fight response. One way to dampen our amygdala’s response and mitigate panic is by turning our attention to the present moment through our senses: taste, smell, touch, sight, and hearing,” Toya Roberson-Moore, MD, associate medical director and psychiatrist at Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center, told Health.
She continued, “Sour candy shifts our attention quickly to the sense of taste, intensely, which in turn dampens our amygdala (the feeling part of the brain) and gives us better access to our frontal cerebral cortex (the thinking part of our brain).”
The result? The thinking part of our brain sends the message to the feeling part that we are not in actual danger.
re: #115 Nojay UK
It was a dual-purpose scale for weighing people and bags of potatoes.
The stone still lingers on in grocery stores here in the UK. Large bags of potatoes are sold in 3.5kg units, a bit over 7lbs or half a stone.
I assume that butchers use them to weigh kidneys…
re: #81 A Three Hour Tour
I’d still get it looked at - sounds like one of a couple of things might be happening - a loose connection, an igniter, or the thermocouple is going.
If it’s an oil system, it could be that the pigtail is clogged, and the system shuts down b/c of pressure.
Not a good day, too many options. All green, too.
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re: #106 TarHellion
If only I could make birbies like this in real life.
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Happy Friday all….
Was this a suicide or murder and why? pic.twitter.com/R2vq7oKfck
— Out of Context Human Race (@NoContextHumans) December 7, 2023
re: #81 A Three Hour Tour
Okay, that was weird. I turned the furnace off at the thermostat about a half hour ago, and then on a whim turned it back on a couple of minutes ago on the off-chance that something would happen. The fan immediately kicked in and the furnace ignited like it should have.
Hopefully, it will continue behaving itself over the weekend.
Some types of furnace will shut down if they detect reduced air flow through the furnace. Check your furnace filters and replace if questionable.
The US added 199k jobs in November, with growth coming in above expectations. pic.twitter.com/vp1Vjf2rtp
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) December 8, 2023
But please, do tell us how the economy sucks.
Do things cost more? Yes. You can point to higher demand for items. You can point to higher wages. But you can also point to higher gas prices. That is despite the fact that oil prices have come down, and energy companies are raking in billions in profits from the spread between the price per barrel and the cost at the pump.
Gas prices should be significantly lower than they are, but for oil companies continuing to keep them artificially high.
And that high gas price at the pump ripples across the economy.
re: #31 darthstar
Yeah…fuck that scale. I want a scale that tells me what I want to see.
Fox Scales!
re: #124 A Cranky One
Some types of furnace will shut down if they detect reduced air flow through the furnace. Check your furnace filters and replace if questionable.
Our furnace did that about a year ago…called the local electrician…some young guy comes out, looks at the one blinking light on it for a few seconds, disconnects one small air tube, blows in it, plugs it back in, and it was fixed. Negative pressure valve was blocked by dust. The inside of the panel has a table on it with all the morse code signals the little light blinking sends.
They come up to me with tears in their eyes and say, “Sir, sir! You have to run!”
re: #128 darthstar
Putin announces 2024 presidential run at behest of soldiers
“We cannot let the others’ sacrifice be in vain!!!”
re: #125 lawhawk
You can also point to companies price gouging.
This is a surprise.
Linda Blackford: New study shows Kentucky is the gayest state in the U.S., with 10.5% of our population identifying as LGBTQ. It’s something for the virulent homophobes in elected office to consider the next time they launch an attack. https://t.co/emACFbjmzo ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) December 8, 2023
re: #125 lawhawk
And that high gas price at the pump ripples across the economy.
And especially for people in rural areas who need to drive more and have no other alternative transportation, and for whom gasoline is a major part of their budget.
re: #132 No Malarkey!
Linda Blackford: New study shows Kentucky is the gayest state in the U.S., with 10.5% of our population identifying as LGBTQ.
New motto: The Rainbowgrass State!
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And especially for people in rural areas who need to drive more and have no other alternative transportation, and for whom gasoline is a major part of their budget.
I don’t know what the price should be, but it’s dropped to $2.77/gallon in Frankfort, and I expect it to continue to drop.
re: #132 No Malarkey!
Although the District of Columbia is not a state it has a higher rate of LGBTQ individuals that KY.
re: #132 No Malarkey!
This is a surprise.
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I had always heard-and to be clear, this has been used in virulently negative ways, but in more positive ways recently- that Lexington KY had the second highest per capita city for homosexuals. Have heard this going back some thirty years.
Bet you can’t guess what city was always first in these stories.
But, Lexington passed a Fairness Ordinance and has had an openly Gay Mayor. It has really worked to make this area as welcoming and accepting as possible.
Sigh…
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And now for the lates from the Florida 3-Way Follies!
Folks, They Found the Tape
Annals of the Florida GOP’s Top Threesoming Power Couple
We have a new development in the case of the Zieglers, the power couple from the Superfreak faction of the Florida GOP. Initial reports noted that Christian Ziegler claimed he had videotaped the sexual encounter which his unnamed accuser later alleged was rape. He said he taped it; deleted it; then finally uploaded it to Google Drive. A kind of odd chain of events. But that was his story. The first reports said police hadn’t been able to find it.
Now they’ve found it…
So all of my end of the year stuff is almost done - I have all prescriptions refilled or on the way since my out of pocket max got topped early this year when they replaced my stent the hard way, might as well get all the free drugs that I can…
Medicare plan selected.
Most xmas shopping done, however my wife and I are still torn between new recliners or new computers as our “big gifts” this year.
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And especially for people in rural areas who need to drive more and have no other alternative transportation, and for whom gasoline is a major part of their budget.
Rural area gas pumps also face little competition to keep their prices down.
re: #142 Belafon
Rural area gas pumps also face little competition to keep their prices down.
Not like you can just drive across the street…
re: #145 A Cranky One
According to the GOP, our cities are burning at the hands of BLM and Antifa and our borders are besieged by caravans. Meanwhile, our bathrooms are under attack from LGBTQs and our schools being undermined are by CRT and Evolution.
Meanwhile American Manhood is under assault from Feminism and Wokeism and American Sports are underassault by trans athletes.
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
New motto: The Rainbowgrass State!
Putting the KY in KY!
(Why no one has made that joke before…)
re: #149 Sherlock Hound
Putting the KY in KY!
(Why no one has made that joke before…)
I am annoyed that you came up with it before I could…
re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have to get in some time soon to get my new driver’s license, they all have to be replaced with biometric photos by the end of next year.
Germans don’t have to renew their driver’s license, mine dates from 1988 and the photo is embarrassing, I look like Dwight Schrute from The Office
I just had to go get a new photo when I renewed my DL a month or so ago. Last pic was taken quite a while ago, when I still looked young. Now I have my old visage on my DL. sigh
re: #150 Patricia Kayden
Thank you, President Biden!’
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Here’s why that’s bad news for Biden and Democrats.
I just took a look at the weather that the Delaware Valley is supposed to get this weekend and it is not pretty.
Since this is what we are supposed to get I am charging up my batteries.
I remember when Trump would crow about anemic economic growth as the best there ever was.
Biden’s economic record is far stronger in every aspect - job growth, wage growth, and unemployment rates.
GDP growth has been over 3% under Biden, 3 times what is was under Trump and better than any of the last 3 Republican Presidents. 7/ pic.twitter.com/mCBvxkuX0H
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) December 8, 2023
re: #155 lawhawk
Experience matters. Joe knows what he is doing.
re: #153 lawhawk
Here’s why that’s bad news for Biden and Democrats.
Inflationis going to go up even more.
More lazy Mexicans will cross the border to get our jobs.
Blacks will think they deserve to be treated as equals.
Women will want the jobs that belong to men.
re: #153 lawhawk
Here’s why that’s bad news for Biden and Democrats.
It is bad news for employers, they have to offer more attractive wages and benefits. And those cut into executive bonuses.
re: #158 darthstar
A GMA chyron this morning said that billionaires are earning it more through inheritance than entrepreneurship.
It’s a beagle!
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re: #141 Randall Gross
So all of my end of the year stuff is almost done - I have all prescriptions refilled or on the way since my out of pocket max got topped early this year when they replaced my stent the hard way, might as well get all the free drugs that I can…
Medicare plan selected.
Most xmas shopping done, however my wife and I are still torn between new recliners or new computers as our “big gifts” this year.
If you have Ocean State Joblots near you they have really good crazy deals on their recliners.
Norman Lear sure got some of his inspiration for american TV shows from other shows.
today’s electoral-vote i think has an interesting assessment as to where his genius was
re: #31 darthstar
Yeah…fuck that scale. I want a scale that tells me what I want to see.
What’s a scale?
SCOOP: The Texas Historical Commission removed books on slavery from plantation site gift shops.
An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise. My latest for @TexasMonthly.
1/https://t.co/2lYE9pBY57— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) December 7, 2023
So, yesterday some anti-Semitic extremist decided to fire shotgun shell at/towards Temple Israel, in Albany. I attended this shul for a number of years while I lived in Albany.
This particular extremist claims he was set off by events in the Middle East. If not then, it would be something else.
Fuck Trump and the domestic terrorists he inspired to act on their violent fantasies. Fuck the GOP and their decision to support gun sales over supermajority of Americans who want reasonable gun regulation and a safer America.
re: #164 Dangerman
Normal Lear sure got some of his inspiration for american TV shows from other shows.
today’s electoral-vote i think has an interesting assessment as to where his genius was
Love the last line:
In any case, there never has been, and there presumably never will be, someone who was better at producing thoughtful TV entertainment that engaged seriously with the issues of the day. Thank goodness Norman Lear did not “stifle” himself.
re: #98 JC1
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The wordler who lives in Philadelphia also mentioned a huge increase in prices for groceries over the last couple weeks. Anyone here notice a similar increase?
USA figures out once more where the real money is: Scripted light drama and procedurals
Blue Skies Ahead: USA Network Bringing Back Breezy Dramas As It Reenters Original Scripted Series Space
re: #170 Hecuba’s daughter
Not a wordle fan but I have seen prices go up. For me it is not too bad. Then again it is the holiday season and everybody is looking for a better bottom line.
re: #172 PhillyPretzel ✅
Not a wordle fan but I have seen prices go up. For me it is not too bad. Then again it is the holiday season and everybody is looking for a better bottom line.
I am so gld to have discounter like Aldi and Lidl. I keep an eeye out for specials and/or bulk family-size items and save 15-30% over what I would pay in the supermarkets, where I only go to find the handful of items taht my discounters don’t carry, like ginger beer for my Moscow mules. Or Kyiv kickers. Or Azov asses…
re: #160 Belafon
A GMA chyron this morning said that billionaires are earning it more through inheritance than entrepreneurship.
or divorce settlements (e.g., MacKenzie Bezos, Melinda Gates).
re: #164 Dangerman
Normal Lear sure got some of his inspiration for american TV shows from other shows.
today’s electoral-vote i think has an interesting assessment as to where his genius was
I was watching one of the legacy channels showing 50’s westerns and I saw episodes of The Deputy with Henry Fonda. Norman Lear was the show’s producer and head writer.
re: #160 Belafon
A GMA chyron this morning said that billionaires are earning it more through inheritance than entrepreneurship.
It was pointed out that if DJT had just invested his inheritance in a stock market fund, he would be worth more than he is today, but for that he would just be another rich New York jerk and not the most infamous bloviator and womanizer on the planet.
re: #169 BeachDem
Love the last line:
In any case, there never has been, and there presumably never will be, someone who was better at producing thoughtful TV entertainment that engaged seriously with the issues of the day. Thank goodness Norman Lear did not “stifle” himself.
and because every time Norman Lear is mentioned, we must repeat that he flew 52 combat missions in WWII and received the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters.
re: #164 Dangerman
Normal Lear sure got some of his inspiration for american TV shows from other shows.
From British TV series: Archie Bunker is the Americanized Alf Garnett from ‘Til Death Do Us Part and Sanford and Son is Steptoe and Son relocated from London’s East End to East LA.
re: #178 sagehen
Yes. A lot of people seem to forget that one.
re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In fairness, there are many differences between American and British humor. It takes more to adapt a series than simply swapping the actors and location.
re: #164 Dangerman
Normal Lear sure got some of his inspiration for american TV shows from other shows.
today’s electoral-vote i think has an interesting assessment as to where his genius was
Two episodes that still bring me to tears - the attempted rape of Edith Bunker on her 50th birthday and Maude finding out she is pregnant at 47. TV at its best.
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
In fairness, there are many differences between American and British humor. It takes more to adapt a series than simply swapping the actors and location.
But of course: although the pilot of the American Office was a nearly gag-for-gag reproduction of the original, the series developed along entirely different lines.
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
In fairness, there are many differences between American and British humor. It takes more to adapt a series than simply swapping the actors and location.
All one has to do is look at The Office to see the difference. The main character went from being an absolute horror to a bumbling but likeable buffoon.
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
In fairness, there are many differences between American and British humor. It takes more to adapt a series than simply swapping the actors and location.
I’ve been watching Ghosts, and the network recently started airing Ghosts UK that it was adapted from. Significant differences.
Dana Milbank for the win:
Meet the Biden impeachment managers: Larry, Moe and Curly
They have become the Three Stooges of the House’s Biden investigations: Jim, Jason and James, stepping on rakes and getting hit by falling flowerpots as they try to make a case for their predetermined outcome of impeaching the president. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is Moe, thundering and blundering in his repeated failures to prove Biden’s “weaponization” of the government. Jason Smith, the in-over-his-head chairman of Ways and Means, is Larry, brainlessly reciting whatever script is in front of him. And Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is Curly, perpetually getting a pie in the face when the “evidence” he produces is immediately debunked.
…Their act is so weak that these stooges have already gone into reruns. Last week, Jordan’s “weaponization” panel held a hearing on supposed censorship at Twitter — the same topic of a hearing he had in March, with two of the same witnesses. This week, Smith’s committee had a hearing with the same two IRS “whistleblowers” who already testified about the Hunter Biden case before that panel, as well as before the Oversight Committee, earlier this year.
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re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But of course, although the pilot of the American Office was a nearly gag-for-gag adaptation of the original, the series developed along entirely different lines.
CBS has been airing the British version of Ghost, and even in the first episode, it’s interesting to see how the characters and plot have been adjusted for American TV.
And the British have adapted American stories: en.m.wikipedia.org. Golden Girls was created here and then adapted in the UK.
re: #184 Belafon
For the Dolly Parton fan in your life, even if it’s just you:
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re: #161 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
It’s a beagle!
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NEW: A Kentucky woman who is 8 weeks pregnant has filed a class action lawsuit asking a judge for emergency relief to terminate her pregnancy.
She is the 2nd woman this week (other is in Texas) nationwide to ask a judge to intervene on her behalf to get an abortion.— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) December 8, 2023
re: #171 Randall Gross
USA figures out once more where the real money is: Scripted light drama and procedurals
Blue Skies Ahead: USA Network Bringing Back Breezy Dramas As It Reenters Original Scripted Series Space
Interesting article for me in that I’m currently binging the 8th season of Suits, a series I’d never heard of when it was on USA. Like AMC, with Mad Men, and Fx, with Justified and Sons of Anarchy, these not-quite prime cable channels do have the capability of creating some excellent programming that is as competitive, if not sometimes better, than HBO and the other premium networks. It really is dependent upon who is in charge and how fat is their wallet.
With Christmas coming up, I have this in my wish list if anyone had a question about what I wanted (Santa are you listening?).
re: #186 sagehen
I’ve been watching Ghosts, and the network recently started airing Ghosts UK that it was adapted from. Significant differences.
Saw the UK one before watching the US one. I prefer the US one, but enjoy them both.
re: #188 Belafon
CBS has been airing the British version of Ghost, and even in the first episode, it’s interesting to see how the characters and plot have been adjusted for American TV.
And the British have adapted American stories: en.m.wikipedia.org. Golden Girls was created here and then adapted in the UK.
Mrs. Jay and I love (the US version version of ) Ghosts, and were somewhat surprised to find, once we saw the the UK version, that Ghosts is one of those rare re-makes where the American version is NOT a second-rate knockoff of the British original. That said, we still like the domestic version better - once we got over our annoyance with Utkarsh Ambudkar’s character*; he seemed a weak link in the cast at first, but we’ve warmed up to him since.
*Nothing to do with the fact he’s named “Jay”
I’d think that they’d have a countdown to going live.
A BBC News presenter has apologized after flipping the middle finger live on air on Wednesday. Maryam Moshiri, the chief presenter at the British network, said she was “joking around a bit with the team” when she stuck up her middle finger just as the broadcast went to air.
A clip of Moshiri making the gesture was shared by several people on social media, with one video getting more than 700,000 views. The clip shows the countdown to the broadcast and Moshiri at the anchor desk. She quickly makes the gesture and then goes into delivering the first headline about former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
BBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri apologizes after flipping the middle finger live on air (CBS)
re: #197 sizzzzlerz
Interesting article for me in that I’m currently binging the 8th season of Suits, a series I’d never heard of when it was on USA. Like AMC, with Mad Men, and Fx, with Justified and Sons of Anarchy, these not-quite prime cable channels do have the capability of creating some excellent programming that is as competitive, if not sometimes better, than HBO and the other premium networks. It really is dependent upon who is in charge and how fat is their wallet.
Another oldie, from TNT, that I’d never heard of until a few years ago—Men of a Certain Age, with Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula. One of my favorites.
re: #187 BeachDem
Dana Milbank for the win:
Meet the Biden impeachment managers: Larry, Moe and CurlyThey have become the Three Stooges of the House’s Biden investigations: Jim, Jason and James, stepping on rakes and getting hit by falling flowerpots as they try to make a case for their predetermined outcome of impeaching the president. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is Moe, thundering and blundering in his repeated failures to prove Biden’s “weaponization” of the government. Jason Smith, the in-over-his-head chairman of Ways and Means, is Larry, brainlessly reciting whatever script is in front of him. And Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is Curly, perpetually getting a pie in the face when the “evidence” he produces is immediately debunked.
…Their act is so weak that these stooges have already gone into reruns. Last week, Jordan’s “weaponization” panel held a hearing on supposed censorship at Twitter — the same topic of a hearing he had in March, with two of the same witnesses. This week, Smith’s committee had a hearing with the same two IRS “whistleblowers” who already testified about the Hunter Biden case before that panel, as well as before the Oversight Committee, earlier this year.Gift link
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Don’t forget Speaker Shemp who “has the votes” to authorize an impeachment inquiry…nevermind that Senators Curly Joe and Joe will kill it in the Senate…
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re: #168 lawhawk
This particular extremist claims he was set off by events in the Middle East. If not then, it would be something else.
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If you can’t control your damm self you shouldnt be allowed to have guns
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
In fairness, there are many differences between American and British humor. It takes more to adapt a series than simply swapping the actors and location.
After All In The Family and Sanford & Son hit the Nielsen ratings jackpot a bunch of other producers tried to do the same with other British shows.
Irwin Allen even tried to develop an American version of Doctor Who with Burgess Meredith proposed as The Doctor but CBS turned it down.
re: #200 Jay C
Mrs. Jay and I love (the US version version of ) Ghosts, and were somewhat surprised to find, once we saw the the UK version, that Ghosts is one of those rare re-makes where the American version is NOT a second-rate knockoff of the British original. That said, we still like the domestic version better - once we got over our annoyance with Utkarsh Ambudkar’s character*; he seemed a weak link in the cast at first, but we’ve warmed up to him since.
*Nothing to do with the fact he’s named “Jay”
The American character is much better than the corresponding British character, who is more like a buffoon.
re: #198 Eventual Carrion
With Christmas coming up, I have this in my wish list if anyone had a question about what I wanted (Santa are you listening?).
Back in the 60s, the Beatles were recording what became the Let It Be album. The primary technology they had at the time were 4 track recorders that were the size of a small desk. On one song, Lennon (I think) needed some tracks so they wouldn’t have to prematurely mix tracks together to make room, wanting to leave it to the final mixing to make further adjustments. They were able to beg/borrow/steal an 8-track unit, which was absolutely state-of-the art then. These things were rare and insanely expensive. I mention this only because the unit you want has similar capability with much greater capacity, fidelity, and is all digital for $400. Technological advancements like this just blow me away at times.
re: #207 Joe Bacon ✅
They also floated the idea of doing an American QI but that show is so quintisentially British and lives so much from British wit and charm that it would damn near impossible to work out a successful American version.
re: #200 Jay C
Yeah, he was the weak part of the show for us as well, and yet seems slightly less annoying than the British version.
Job Opening for an “Influencer” Director at McDonald’s
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Can I get uhhhhhhhhhh…. growth-minded Social Media and Influencer Marketing Director to lead McDonald’s social strategy? We’re looking for someone to lead one of the most influential corporate social presence. This will make you very popular anywhere you go, but also means you will get to read 675 comments about the snack wraps every single day. Some fans will also remind you daily about the McPizza, and we have nothing but respect for these legends. Don’t forget all the DMs asking to get *fReE fOoD pLeAsE*.
An interesting, to me anyway, opening paragraph on the job description. They did forget to mention the potential death threats if some right-wing Q-conspiracy pops up about Grimace and Hamburgler conspiring, er, collaborating with Comet Ping Pong pizzeria on recipes.
re: #207 Joe Bacon ✅
After All In The Family and Sanford & Son hit the Nielsen ratings jackpot a bunch of other producers tried to do the same with other British shows.
Irwin Allen even tried to develop an American version of Doctor Who with Burgess Meredith proposed as The Doctor but CBS turned it down.
Here’s a Wiki post from an alternate universe where he did play the Doctor.
doctor-who-american.fandom.com
re: #209 sizzzzlerz
Back in the 60s, the Beatles were recording what became the Let It Be album. The primary technology they had at the time were 4 track recorders that were the size of a small desk. On one song, Lennon (I think) needed some tracks so they wouldn’t have to prematurely mix tracks together to make room, wanting to leave it to the final mixing to make further adjustments. They were able to beg/borrow/steal an 8-track unit, which was absolutely state-of-the art then. These things were rare and insanely expensive. I mention this only because the unit you want has similar capability with much greater capacity, fidelity, and is all digital for $400. Technological advancements like this just blow me away at times.
The whole point of backing musicians like The Wrecking Crew was that studio time was so very expensive that recording was left to experienced professionals who could nail it on the first take.
re: #209 sizzzzlerz
Back in the 60s, the Beatles were recording what became the Let It Be album. The primary technology they had at the time were 4 track recorders that were the size of a small desk. On one song, Lennon (I think) needed some tracks so they wouldn’t have to prematurely mix tracks together to make room, wanting to leave it to the final mixing to make further adjustments. They were able to beg/borrow/steal an 8-track unit, which was absolutely state-of-the art then. These things were rare and insanely expensive. I mention this only because the unit you want has similar capability with much greater capacity, fidelity, and is all digital for $400. Technological advancements like this just blow me away at times.
There is a community of musicians who covet the sound of many of the Beatles tracks. Helped a few rebuild/build various devices and console sections for use in recreating that sound.
Moose Allain
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re: #219 wrenchwench
Great idea. Now all we have to do is convince the R’s this is a good thing for the USA and the world. Yeah, right. /
re: #122 Dave In Austin
Happy Friday all….
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Murder. Blood/exit wound appears to be on the right side of the head. Given where the blood is on the wall, the victim would have needed to be facing the mirror at the time she was shot. Body is in the wrong position and the gun is in the wrong hand.
For a suicide, she would have needed to shoot with her left hand and the body likely falls to the right.
re: #221 Joe Bacon ✅
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“So let me get this straight” is a terrible phrase that 99% of the time is followed by a person talking about their own misunderstanding of a subject, often intentionally. This one was in the 1%.
re: #221 Joe Bacon ✅
Trump should be allowed to say whatever he wants without consequence, but those who call him out should be taken to court…
re: #222 PhillyPretzel ✅
Great idea. Now all we have to do is convince the R’s this is a good thing for the USA and the world. Yeah, right. /
Oregon has some Public Utility Districts that could skip the politics and just do the right thing because it won’t cost them anything.
re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump should be allowed to say whatever he wants without consequence, but those who call him out whould be taken to court…
They keep telling us they’re fascist scum. I believe them.
re: #227 wrenchwench
Oregon has some Public Utility Districts that could skip the politics and just do the right thing because it won’t cost them anything.
One of the private electric utilities just got slammed in court for responsibility for a huge fire caused by their wires. With those goodies, they can reduce risk enough to reduce insurance, while providing better service because they won’t have to cut off power every time the wind kicks up.
re: #230 Eventual Carrion
I wish buying alcohol built your credit.
It does if you take out a loan for it and pay the loan on time.
People who have to finance their drinking habit just have a poor record when it comes to paying bills.
I forgot one: a criminal investigation is ongoing in New Mexico, toohttps://t.co/fPTQkis0YN
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) December 6, 2023
re: #233 Captain Ron
Poor guy’s name is far too close to the name of a fascist drunk.
re: #223 Mike Lamb
Murder. Blood/exit wound appears to be on the right side of the head. Given where the blood is on the wall, the victim would have needed to be facing the mirror at the time she was shot. Body is in the wrong position and the gun is in the wrong hand.
For a suicide, she would have needed to shoot with her left hand and the body likely falls to the right.
Also, she’s likely left handed based on the arrangement of stuff on her desk. Gun is in the right hand.
re: #233 Captain Ron
This is good to hear. Let’s see what else happens.
re: #222 PhillyPretzel ✅
Great idea. Now all we have to do is convince the R’s this is a good thing for the USA and the world. Yeah, right. /
They have it almost ready for republicans.
“This is as close to a ‘no brainer’ as we can get,” said Andrew Dillon, the CEO of Energy Networks Australia, which teamed up with the Alternative Energy Association and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre to urge the regulators to come to the party.
Fact Checking…
The GOP is doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin, and Putin is thanking them for it.
That is the state of the GOP right now.
Fact Check Completed.— The Fact Checker (@MonitorFake) December 8, 2023
re: #239 Vicious Babushka
Yum. They look great.
re: #239 Vicious Babushka
After looking at the picture I need to check my blood sugar.
re: #162 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Noice. And damn you for that CA weather
/s
re: #223 Mike Lamb
re: #223 Mike Lamb
Murder. Blood/exit wound appears to be on the right side of the head. Given where the blood is on the wall, the victim would have needed to be facing the mirror at the time she was shot. Body is in the wrong position and the gun is in the wrong hand.
For a suicide, she would have needed to shoot with her left hand and the body likely falls to the right.
Also, she’s got a lit cigarette still in her hand. Why light it then shoot yourself?
re: #241 A Cranky One
After looking at the picture I need to check my blood sugar.
Mine’s at about 70, but I have food in front of me, so that’s fine.
re: #129 A Cranky One
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Texas has a weird anti-gambling bent. I wonder how much of it is fueled by casinos operating in Oklahoma and Lake Charles.
The largest casino in the world is right over the Oklahoma border from Texas; a quick drive from Dallas.
From there;
Later that night, troopers found a 19-year-old woman stuck in the razor wire having a miscarriage, the trooper’s email said.
The trooper’s email called the razor wire an “inhumane trap” that should be removed because it “forces people to cross in other areas that are deeper and not as safe for people carrying kids and bags.“I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane. We need to operate it correctly in the eyes of God,” the trooper wrote in the email. “We need to recognize that these are people who are made in the image of God and need to be treated as such.”
Ayala disputed the medic’s account of two of those incidents during Thursday’s meeting.
He said the 19-year-old woman was not having a miscarriage, but instead was having abdominal pain when she was found stuck in the concertina wire, Ayala said. A sonogram taken later at a clinic showed the woman had a healthy 12-week-old fetus, Ayala said.
I’m surprise they didn’t arrest her for endangering a fetus by getting stuck in their concertina wire.
re: #246 cat-tikvah
Also, she’s got a lit cigarette still in her hand. Why light it then shoot yourself?
Why is the gun in her right hand? What’s up with the plug?
Looks at all the positioning on the table….. Does that play into it?
re: #250 wrenchwench
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I’m surprise they didn’t arrest her for endangering a fetus by getting stuck in their concertina wire.
“We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing” seems to be a common theme with Republicans.
re: #249 JC1
Texas has a weird anti-gambling bent. I wonder how much of it is fueled by casinos operating in Oklahoma and Lake Charles.
The largest casino in the world is right over the Oklahoma border from Texas; a quick drive from Dallas.
Nobody cares about that or tries to shut them down or prosecute people from using the roads to get there.
But make the casino a family planning clinic..
re: #250 wrenchwench
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I’m surprise they didn’t arrest her for endangering a fetus by getting stuck in their concertina wire.
“No systemic” doing a lot of work there
European race scholar has a Hot Take
re: #249 JC1
Texas has a weird anti-gambling bent. I wonder how much of it is fueled by casinos operating in Oklahoma and Lake Charles.
The largest casino in the world is right over the Oklahoma border from Texas; a quick drive from Dallas.
Prediction: casino gambling will be legal in Texas (in some places) within two years. Why? Because Sheldon Adelson’s widow just bought a controlling interest in the Dallas Mavericks, and she wants to develop a new sports/casino complex in Dallas.
re: #253 Dangerman
Nobody cares about that or tries to shut them down or prosecute people from using the roads to get there.
But make the casino a family planning clinic..
Our right-wing idiots have been using authoritarianism to hold their awful subculture together. At this point, they can’t be reasonable people. It’s just not an option for them. They’ll go after the casinos eventually.
Watch the woman behind her.
Anti-marijuana advocate:
The voters detonated a marijuana bomb on Ohio families. Voters were fooled.
One marijuana edible induces psychotic behavior.
Two hits of marijuana can make you psychotic too. @HeartlandSignal.pic.twitter.com/nR89DoeLNb— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) December 8, 2023
re: #258 Dave In Austin
People ‘not their kind’ enjoying legal marijuana induces psychotic behavior in conservatives.
re: #259 jaunte
People ‘not their kind’
enjoying legal marijuanainduces psychotic behavior in conservatives.
FTFY
re: #249 JC1
Texas has a weird anti-gambling bent. I wonder how much of it is fueled by casinos operating in Oklahoma and Lake Charles.
The largest casino in the world is right over the Oklahoma border from Texas; a quick drive from Dallas.
The only thing keeping Oklahoma from being anti-gambling is that a large portion of the land is controlled by Native Americans.
re: #261 Belafon
The only thing keeping Oklahoma from being anti-gambling is that a large portion of the land is controlled by Native Americans.
Which I’m guessing is a part of the resentment of Texans.
re: #262 wrenchwench
Which I’m guessing is a part of the resentment of Texans.
There’s a huge religious element to the rejection of gambling here in Texas, which extends through a lot of the South.
WaPo ping: In reference to something that was mentioned earlier a small group of voters will have more power in the 2024 Elections. Currently this article is on the front page below the banner.
re: #239 Vicious Babushka
TEMP-TA-TION!!!!!!!!!!!
re: #264 PhillyPretzel ✅
WaPo ping: In reference to something that was mentioned earlier a small group of voters will have more power in the 2024 Elections.
A tiny segment of voters will wield outsize power in the 2024 presidential race
The electoral college system empowers a sliver of the U.S. population in a diminishing number of battleground states. And the majority may not even prevail.
” How is it that Dems are actually doing something good for America” seems to be a theme in this thread.
The brainwashing is amazing.
Legislation To Ban Hedge Funds From Owning Homes Introduced
A bicameral bill that would force hedge funds out of the single-family home market has been introduced.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) introduced the End Hedge Fund Control of American… pic.twitter.com/Cxce0kWNv4— floridanow1 (@floridanow1) December 8, 2023
re: #268 wrenchwench
I don’t do Mastodon.
Too hard to use.
re: #269 Backwoods Sleuth
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This entire this is going to be overturned on 14th Amendment grounds anyway provided Biden wins. If Trump wins, Day One will be too big a calamity for humanity that no one will even care anymore.
re: #271 Dave In Austin
I don’t do Mastodon.
Too hard to use.
Sorry. It’s an owl sitting on a (heater?) fan, blowing its ‘skirts’ up.
re: #275 Vicious Babushka
Why am I not surprised?
Damnit Janet
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I called the robot checkout a motherfucker yesterday, and a human assistant instantly materialised behind me wanting to help. This could be the cheat code I need to fix my life
re: #274 wrenchwench
Sorry. It’s an owl sitting on a (heater?) fan, blowing its ‘skirts’ up.
I’ve see that. That’s an Eurasian Owl. Russians keep them as pets.
re: #277 jeffreyw
Damnit Janet
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@damnitjanet.bsky.socialI called the robot checkout a motherfucker yesterday, and a human assistant instantly materialised behind me wanting to help. This could be the cheat code I need to fix my life
re: #278 Dave In Austin
I’ve see that. That’s an Eurasian Owl. Russians keep them as pets.
After seeing your frens going after their baths, I could see them wanting that next step.
re: #280 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
For right now I use my favorite cashier in my local Acme. And when she is not there I make sure the head cashier sees my right wrist brace (and of need be my scar) and she will open one lane for those who are accustomed to a cashier ringing up the order.
re: #282 PhillyPretzel ✅
For right now I use my favorite cashier in my local Acme. And when she is not there I make sure the head cashier sees my right wrist brace (and of need be my scar) and she will open one lane for those who are accustomed to a cashier ringing up the order.
Are you a coyote buying anvils?
re: #282 PhillyPretzel ✅
For right now I use my favorite cashier in my local Acme. And when she is not there I make sure the head cashier sees my right wrist brace (and of need be my scar) and she will open one lane for those who are accustomed to a cashier ringing up the order.
Choice is important. There’s one cashier at Safeway whose line is always the shortest. I used to think it was because she’s so fast. Nope. She’s crabby. She’s the manager of the store. The self-checkout line stays long when she opens her register.
We are so fucked, episode #309874
re: #283 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I will try to answer in a civilized manner. Acme has been in Philly for many years and is a very well respected chain. The store I go to is 3 blocks from my house.
re: #122 Dave In Austin
spoiler tag, please
family history
re: #131 Belafon
You can also point to companies price gouging.
I think where a lot of us notice it is at the grocery store. Have seen articles proving that much of it is unjustified hikes from the manufacturers and retailers, but knowing who to blame doesn’t help at the checkout stand.
I’m an old retiree with a car (most of the time) and more than one store option in reasonable distance. I can take the time to shop two or three stores for the best coupons and loss-leaders each week. A lot of people don’t have that luxury.
re: #137 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
I had always heard-and to be clear, this has been used in virulently negative ways, but in more positive ways recently- that Lexington KY had the second highest per capita city for homosexuals. Have heard this going back some thirty years.
Bet you can’t guess what city was always first in these stories.
But, Lexington passed a Fairness Ordinance and has had an openly Gay Mayor. It has really worked to make this area as welcoming and accepting as possible.
Cool. Out here, “Denver - Queen City of the West” is a long-standing meme. We have a married gay Governor now, so that’s progress.
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